There is no problems...even with a Progress engine failure there are several backups, one of which is the Service Module engines that can be fired after the Progress is undocked.
I stand corrected.
I primarily meant it was available to the public without pay as opposed to cable/directv.
Oh and if you are in some foreign country then I could care less if you are not getting American shows "broadcast" to you...get your own shows.:)
It obvious that many of you have missed the most important aspect of the study...though they try to link P2P and anti-social activities, the most important result is that Canadian youth are quite evil. We must protect our shores and our borders and not let these anit-social soon-to-be-convicts in. Wasn't Canada once a penal colony (hehe...I said penal)...oh wait, that was Australia...close enough.
Burt Rutan...Are you referring to the angry old man that hates NASA? By the way, he hasn't even made it into orbit yet so I would count on him and his Virgin sugar daddy to accomplish it any sooner.
Seems like Yahoo is buying into the awesome "Do No Evil" policy that Google has adopted.
Mind you I'm being sarcastic here... Google's policy is a total smoke screen, and Yahoo is simply showing us exactly what Google will do to us eventually...scary thing is that Yahoo likely stores less info on us than Google, yet they are willing to bend over backwards to a murderous regime....hmm, I think I feel a little "regime change" is in order...hehe
or lemmings or whatever you want to call it. Geez, can we stop with the Google love fest.
Ever since Goolge had its IPO, I can't seem to trust this company. Personally, I will never sign up for any Google product....though I do use the search engine. I hate the fact that they want/have so much control over various services... their practice of "Do no evil" is dying...I personally believe they are trying to assimilate us all!
and, umm, yes, that's exactly what the US is doing in IRAQ...we are shooting kids. Interesting enough these are the same "kids" that happen to be carrying rocket launchers and firearms and strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up people. Yes, these same poor "kids" are being oppressed....darn I feel so bad.
The only thing this new Windows software will do is limit what you can do on a computer. How much sense does that make?!?!? It has so much DRM restrictions in it that I doubt I'll be able to even open a text file containing a work of Shakespeare without having to pay a fee to the million monkeys who used their typewriters to write it.:)
I don't care if I get a zero ( or negative ) for this post but I just have thing to say:
GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY the hell are we, as consumers, always getting raped by these stupid freaking companies? From the idiots who came up with region flags for DVDs to the idiots that want to force us to buy multiple versions of a CD because one version is meant for a computer, another is meant for the cd player and yet a third version is meant for a stereo. And the idiots who implement all sorts of stupid copy protection that they know won't work and only manages to slow down playback or dimishes our fair use rights!
Why do we always have to suffer!??!!? And why are we always just taking it?!?! Unfortunately Micro$oft is not the only problem...any hardware manufacturers that implement similar things in their products are making me Grrrr too.
I used an Absoft Pro Fortran compiler (stop laughing, Fortran is not all bad) that did some pathetic "optimization" as well...though not related to which CPU was inside. For my case I was doing dynamic memory allocation and deallocation and for some reason my code would always look up my computer because my memory would run low. I did a quick test where I simply wrote a loop that took an array of 10,000 ints and repeatedly allocated and deallocated this array - so I was not increasing the array size.
Well, this crashed the computer just as my code did...I then traced the memory malloc and free calls and found that the Absoft compiler was never actually deallocating code at all. It was simply creating new code but not explicitly deallocating the old even though I forcibly told it to do so. After finally getting a response from Absoft, they told me this is a default "feature" of their compiler and that to make it actually do the deallocation you have to set some stupid flag.
Are you kidding me?!?!?! Why the hell would the default feature of a compiler be not to do something explicitly requested in a code?!?!? I have a feeling things like this are rampant in the commercial codes because no one knows about them except the company...so they can they say their compiler runs faster than some other because they skip some operations to make it look like they are faster.
k, genius...I did mention that I thought the Flag Burning Amendment was in the House which is a part of Congress so at least I was close.
I'm simply pointing out that we have lost a lot of rights right now and this government, though a democracy/republic, feels like more of a dictatorship or is at least heading that way...so my sarcasm was to say let's just get it over with and get rid of all checks and balances because they are obviously not working in the first place.
Given how many recent poor decisions have come from this "Supreme" Court (and I use the term supreme sarcasticly), I'd wish they'd all go.
How many right have we recently had trampled??? Emminent (spelling) domain extended to be used by PRIVATE companies, Grokster being found liable for what others do. Not to mention the other recent bills being passed around in the House or wherever they it is...I'm referring to the Banning of the Burning of the American Flag.
How many rights have lost in the last two weeks? This is really scary, so pardon me if I'm not upset about losing such an "esteemed" justice...geez, good riddance, better if they all left.
Alright, I've eaten some beans and I'm gassy...flame away!!!
One aspect of the recent tragedy was that those astronauts died on nothing more than a glorified taxi run. Their mission contributed nothing to science, it had no scientific reason to take place
You better get your facts straight. STS-107 was not a taxi run, it did not even go to the International Space Station (I'm assuming that's what you mean by Taxi Run). It was primarily a scientific mission...hence the SpaceHab onboard and the countless experiments that were done and that have been recovered and saved.... So just because you are bitter, don't make up stuff when you try to bring NASA down.
I realize that the wording of the ruling almost gives an out to anyone who makes software because it would seem they just need to say "Don't use this for bad" and they are home free....but either way this
sends a bad precedent and is quite scary in my pessimistic view.
Not sure if this was said yet...so many posts already.
Doesn't this make Web Browsers illegal now?
- since I can download media from through them, and the P2P programs are no different than a glorified web browser with a different interface.
Stupid idiots...I can't believe that the Supreme Court could be bought...there is not other explanation for this stupidity.
that's what you get for falling into the Google trap!!!
"Yay, I get a gig of email space (that I will never freaking use except when sending porn to myself) but I'm willing to sacrifice a little privacy to have Google read my email and send me directed advertising....I trust them. Google is good. Google won't hurt me"
Why is it that tech companies are the biggest idiots when it actually comes to technology??!?!
The only way to prevent anyone from coping your stuff is to make hardware or software look for some flag/mark/etc and then act on it accordingly.
With software, that is easily hacked or the stream can be routed through something that can copy the
stream and not be blocked by a flag.
With hardware, someone can fix that too (though harder than software hack) but sometimes it too can be easily killed (like the example someone gave about using a marker on a CD).
SO, why do tech companies think they can implement copy protection...there is absolutely no way unless you force everyone to use a particular piece of software or use a particular piece of hardware that check for these flags/etc. I mean, if I have an old CD player, then it won't know about any flags so it will play it as normal...unless they've changed the CDs such that they don't even play on my old player.
Look at the Broadcast flag issue that was recently overturned...they wanted to implement a broadcast flag on hardware (especially video playback cards) so if you wanted to not have to follow the broadcast flag then you needed the older hardware that was immune to it.
geez...RIAA/MPAA are idiots.
I'm hoping she doesn't follow... those two need to get a damn hotel room and get their frustrations out once and for all, instead of flirting continuously on-air...geez
Here's also hoping that the new show is actually is actually any good...the last few months of The ScreenSavers/Attack of the Crappy Show have had about 3 minutes of actual computer related stuff covered in them. Thanks to all of the geniuses at G4...good job on getting rid of Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton, they obviously were too good so you replaced them with the obviously "better" (NOT!) younger hosts that did nothing but waste my hour!
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There is no problems...even with a Progress engine failure there are several backups, one of which is the Service Module engines that can be fired after the Progress is undocked.
I stand corrected. I primarily meant it was available to the public without pay as opposed to cable/directv. Oh and if you are in some foreign country then I could care less if you are not getting American shows "broadcast" to you...get your own shows. :)
Er..."Lost" is on PUBLIC television ... tune to ABC on Wednesdays (8pm CST)
It obvious that many of you have missed the most important aspect of the study...though they try to link P2P and anti-social activities, the most important result is that Canadian youth are quite evil. We must protect our shores and our borders and not let these anit-social soon-to-be-convicts in. Wasn't Canada once a penal colony (hehe...I said penal)...oh wait, that was Australia...close enough.
Burt Rutan...Are you referring to the angry old man that hates NASA? By the way, he hasn't even made it into orbit yet so I would count on him and his Virgin sugar daddy to accomplish it any sooner.
Mind you I'm being sarcastic here ... Google's policy is a total smoke screen, and Yahoo is simply showing us exactly what Google will do to us eventually...scary thing is that Yahoo likely stores less info on us than Google, yet they are willing to bend over backwards to a murderous regime....hmm, I think I feel a little "regime change" is in order...hehe
Yay for our Right to Privacy!!! (again, sarcasm)
You knew it was comming...The post should have gotten a redundant rating. I can't wait to moderate it in the future.
Ever since Goolge had its IPO, I can't seem to trust this company. Personally, I will never sign up for any Google product....though I do use the search engine. I hate the fact that they want/have so much control over various services ... their practice of "Do no evil" is dying...I personally believe they are trying to assimilate us all!
and, umm, yes, that's exactly what the US is doing in IRAQ...we are shooting kids. Interesting enough these are the same "kids" that happen to be carrying rocket launchers and firearms and strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up people. Yes, these same poor "kids" are being oppressed....darn I feel so bad.
What?!? What part of "US Supreme Court vs Grokster" did you miss?
P2P and even the internet has already lost here in the US...even this converation/forum is probably illegal by now.
The only thing this new Windows software will do is limit what you can do on a computer. How much sense does that make?!?!? It has so much DRM restrictions in it that I doubt I'll be able to even open a text file containing a work of Shakespeare without having to pay a fee to the million monkeys who used their typewriters to write it. :)
good point....I'm so glad that we at least have one good alternative - LINUX!
GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY the hell are we, as consumers, always getting raped by these stupid freaking companies? From the idiots who came up with region flags for DVDs to the idiots that want to force us to buy multiple versions of a CD because one version is meant for a computer, another is meant for the cd player and yet a third version is meant for a stereo. And the idiots who implement all sorts of stupid copy protection that they know won't work and only manages to slow down playback or dimishes our fair use rights!
Why do we always have to suffer!??!!? And why are we always just taking it?!?! Unfortunately Micro$oft is not the only problem...any hardware manufacturers that implement similar things in their products are making me Grrrr too.
I just had to Grrrr...sorry.
Are you kidding me?!?!?! Why the hell would the default feature of a compiler be not to do something explicitly requested in a code?!?!? I have a feeling things like this are rampant in the commercial codes because no one knows about them except the company...so they can they say their compiler runs faster than some other because they skip some operations to make it look like they are faster.
That's why I recommend we all go GNU...
Once you go GNU, it will be better for you.
I'm simply pointing out that we have lost a lot of rights right now and this government, though a democracy/republic, feels like more of a dictatorship or is at least heading that way...so my sarcasm was to say let's just get it over with and get rid of all checks and balances because they are obviously not working in the first place.
ball is in your court, oh great one.
How many right have we recently had trampled??? Emminent (spelling) domain extended to be used by PRIVATE companies, Grokster being found liable for what others do. Not to mention the other recent bills being passed around in the House or wherever they it is...I'm referring to the Banning of the Burning of the American Flag.
How many rights have lost in the last two weeks? This is really scary, so pardon me if I'm not upset about losing such an "esteemed" justice...geez, good riddance, better if they all left.
Alright, I've eaten some beans and I'm gassy...flame away!!!
You better get your facts straight. STS-107 was not a taxi run, it did not even go to the International Space Station (I'm assuming that's what you mean by Taxi Run). It was primarily a scientific mission...hence the SpaceHab onboard and the countless experiments that were done and that have been recovered and saved.... So just because you are bitter, don't make up stuff when you try to bring NASA down.
Done and done!!! SCORE!!
Thanks for the idea....muhahaha!!
I realize that the wording of the ruling almost gives an out to anyone who makes software because it would seem they just need to say "Don't use this for bad" and they are home free....but either way this sends a bad precedent and is quite scary in my pessimistic view.
Doesn't this make Web Browsers illegal now? - since I can download media from through them, and the P2P programs are no different than a glorified web browser with a different interface.
Stupid idiots...I can't believe that the Supreme Court could be bought...there is not other explanation for this stupidity.
I get an "offtopic" score?...come on, read the previous post...you'll see the humor. Damn you!
"Yay, I get a gig of email space (that I will never freaking use except when sending porn to myself) but I'm willing to sacrifice a little privacy to have Google read my email and send me directed advertising....I trust them. Google is good. Google won't hurt me"
ouch...is that a stabbing pain I feel in my back?
SUCKERS!!!!!
Is that company even still out there?
hehe...flame away
The only way to prevent anyone from coping your stuff is to make hardware or software look for some flag/mark/etc and then act on it accordingly.
With software, that is easily hacked or the stream can be routed through something that can copy the stream and not be blocked by a flag.
With hardware, someone can fix that too (though harder than software hack) but sometimes it too can be easily killed (like the example someone gave about using a marker on a CD).
SO, why do tech companies think they can implement copy protection...there is absolutely no way unless you force everyone to use a particular piece of software or use a particular piece of hardware that check for these flags/etc. I mean, if I have an old CD player, then it won't know about any flags so it will play it as normal...unless they've changed the CDs such that they don't even play on my old player.
Look at the Broadcast flag issue that was recently overturned...they wanted to implement a broadcast flag on hardware (especially video playback cards) so if you wanted to not have to follow the broadcast flag then you needed the older hardware that was immune to it. geez...RIAA/MPAA are idiots.
Here's also hoping that the new show is actually is actually any good...the last few months of The ScreenSavers/Attack of the Crappy Show have had about 3 minutes of actual computer related stuff covered in them. Thanks to all of the geniuses at G4...good job on getting rid of Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton, they obviously were too good so you replaced them with the obviously "better" (NOT!) younger hosts that did nothing but waste my hour!