Problem is, we don't know what exactly its composition is do we? I mean, if its solid Iron, it's gonna be a lot harder to "gravelize" than if its made from something weaker... Also, the force of impact will be higher with Iron or similar (less is burnt up on reentry) so it's more of a threat...
Ever tried playing a old arcade game on a 1ghz+ processor? Even with MOSLOW running in a (emulated, not dualbooted) system, they *can* run so fast as to be unplayable... Oh, and i *DON'T* want to have to reboot my machine just to be able to play a DOS only/Win 98 Only/Linux Only/Win NT only game thanx...
Knuth "The Art of programming" not "The Trade of programming". Perl scripts that are (& produce) ascii art. Obfuscated code. That is most definatly more art than a pile of bricks (see: Tate Modern)...
Ummm Wolfenstein was actually not an origional idea... It was a combination of Return to Castle Wolfenstein I & II and a *REALLY OLD* First-person Fantasy Shooter (I forget the name & can't find it y googling, but it had only one weapon, which you charged up to different strengths before firing by holding down the fire key)... *REALLY WISH* I could remember the name of that game:(
Um... from memory doesn't FreeCiv have multiplayer hotseat? That actually works? I have distinct memories of playing against myself once... where as multiplayer in Civ 2 *SUCKED*
Which was a copy of a board game (imho the best strategy board game ever) in the first place - and given some of the appauling boardgame-pc crossovers that have been done, I have my doubts about Civ being as popular today is it is were it not for Sid's guiding hand... As an aside, anyone know if there's a working OSS version of Colonization (much better than Civ I, and a lot of the later "new features" in civ 2/3 city management hail from here) around? I've found a couple in pre-beta, but nothing that is actually playable:(
Because the recorders transmit on the way down, so losing them on impact is no big... With craft that survive re-entry you have to find them - or worse, they find you (anyone fancy something the size of even a small satellite landing on their car? No? Thought not...)
Yea... Extra Virgin is best... Works as well (if not better than) wd40 + it makes your computer smell of mediterranian summers:D I've done this quite a few times (the GPU fan on my Gforce4 MX keeps going on me)...
Since they got an abbreviation - Didn't you know? All the following are law agencies: FBI CIA NSA RIAA MPAA MIT CIT MS SCO NRA OPEC & my personal favourite: BLT - gotta love teh taste of bacon in the morning!
It's taken the government more than 50 years to come to that conclusion on drugs, and they're still not there yet - I'm not holding my breath for the *aa/gov't to start supporting users and hitting suppliers any time soon...
I will pay for music downloaded illegally, when the record labels give me personal POBoxes for each artist so I can send them the money directly. I would not have used the CD's, so there's no manufacturing costs on my copy. I wouldn't listen to the MTV ad or the other blurb, so theres no advert costs - in fact, no expense to the record company at all besides the artists fees. I'll pay them direct ty. (Also, hopefully this way I can ensure Lennon's share of royalties for stuff like revolver would go to his kids, and not Yoko Ono - or indeed, M Jackson (He bought out a lot of the beatles copyright ages ago didn't he?))
IANAL But, simple, afaik (most) judges don't know much about computers. REFUSE to allow them to play the song in your possession in court (because to do so would either require them to have use of your hardware without permission or them to give u a license to publicly play the music), then give them two printouts - one of the raw (Wav or whatever, uncompressed) audio, and one of the mp3... Guess which is the smaller stack? "Your honour, the prosecution are claiming that these two are one and the same - as you can see, they are not..." Also, smudging is accedental - MP3 is deliberate sampling and removal of frequency information... not the same thing.
Britney? She's far to independant for Bin Laden - Try The Cheeky Girls... I can just imagine the effect it would have on any US Soldiers that did manage to find him - ipod on, soundsystem on, volume up "AAAARGH!!!! C'mon guys, lets get outta here - tell the Major this cave was empty! QUICK!" (sound of rapidly fading footsteps)
If it's legal to waive your legal rights via a TOS I'm SOOOO Writing myself some crummy app tomorrow - TOS to include "We reserve the right to at any time withold any of your rights, entitlements and privilages whatsoever, and to remove at our convenience any of your assets. Further to this, we reserve the right to select your living arrangements, job and marital status as we see fit (especially at 3:34 am on a monday) Addendium - Should we wish you are legally obliged to comply with any orders we give you"... Now I've just gotta get Bush and to use it... >:) mwhahah! >:)
Nice points - I'm adding them to my list of "Cunning legal defences to f**k the system" - including, but not limited to "MP3 is lossy compression - my copies are not copies but derivative works" - I can't be held responsible until the person who *ripped* the movie/mp3 is found and prosecuted (otherwise, how are we to know that he wasn't licenced to produce a derivative?)
"When will you guys in marketing learn? Over here in R&D we've known for aaages that the only way to sell products is by locking them down with so much copy-protection they're unusable!"
Couldn't agree more... My friend did a similar thing, but he moved the mp3's to cd? WTF? Usefull if you have a mp3cd player but you still have the scratched disk problem - I *may* move other data to DVD soon (unless I can save the cash for a new 1.2Tb raid:) ) but my mp3's are staying on my hard drive - it's just too hard to sort through disks to find songs you want, and if you want a decent shuffle across your collection, hd is the only way to go...
Don't need to DoS the keyspace in its entirety - just release a program that *can* given enough time crack all keys (umm, try for(counter(2^256)) { key++} should do...), and they *have* to revoke all keys because they have no idea which ones have been cracked yet, but all potentially could be...
It has alcohol? You call 5% Alcohol??? I'll stick with Guiness or (when I can get it) London Pride, thanx... Drinking (or trying to) Fosters and Bud as a young man nearly put me off beer for life:S Horrible taste, and I could get drunk quicker on tap water... One thing I will say for "light" beers is that they do make good snakebite 'n blacks... about the only thing you can use them for imho.
Ahh, you poor fool - it is working, i mean, only just today the BBC Carried a story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4436223. stm) about how 92% of the downloaders in the uk (around 8 million) are illegal - and the BPI (our equivalent of the RIAA) has manage to break them by taking ummm... (including the cases they're trying to get info on) 123 people to court... Wow... I mean, 1 in approx 60300 chance of getting caught and sued... that's good odds, sure to scare me off... *not*
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Trouble is, the most likely gravelizer would be nuclear... so we get a nice dusting of radioactive fallout :(
Problem is, we don't know what exactly its composition is do we? I mean, if its solid Iron, it's gonna be a lot harder to "gravelize" than if its made from something weaker... Also, the force of impact will be higher with Iron or similar (less is burnt up on reentry) so it's more of a threat...
Nope :( (fyi, Rise of the Triad was based on the Duke Nukem "Build" Engine... One of the first if irc)
Ever tried playing a old arcade game on a 1ghz+ processor? Even with MOSLOW running in a (emulated, not dualbooted) system, they *can* run so fast as to be unplayable... Oh, and i *DON'T* want to have to reboot my machine just to be able to play a DOS only/Win 98 Only/Linux Only/Win NT only game thanx...
Knuth "The Art of programming" not "The Trade of programming". Perl scripts that are (& produce) ascii art. Obfuscated code. That is most definatly more art than a pile of bricks (see: Tate Modern)...
Ummm Wolfenstein was actually not an origional idea... It was a combination of Return to Castle Wolfenstein I & II and a *REALLY OLD* First-person Fantasy Shooter (I forget the name & can't find it y googling, but it had only one weapon, which you charged up to different strengths before firing by holding down the fire key)... *REALLY WISH* I could remember the name of that game :(
Um... from memory doesn't FreeCiv have multiplayer hotseat? That actually works? I have distinct memories of playing against myself once... where as multiplayer in Civ 2 *SUCKED*
Which was a copy of a board game (imho the best strategy board game ever) in the first place - and given some of the appauling boardgame-pc crossovers that have been done, I have my doubts about Civ being as popular today is it is were it not for Sid's guiding hand... As an aside, anyone know if there's a working OSS version of Colonization (much better than Civ I, and a lot of the later "new features" in civ 2/3 city management hail from here) around? I've found a couple in pre-beta, but nothing that is actually playable :(
Because the recorders transmit on the way down, so losing them on impact is no big... With craft that survive re-entry you have to find them - or worse, they find you (anyone fancy something the size of even a small satellite landing on their car? No? Thought not...)
Umm... they're talking about unmanned craft dude...
Yea... Extra Virgin is best... Works as well (if not better than) wd40 + it makes your computer smell of mediterranian summers :D I've done this quite a few times (the GPU fan on my Gforce4 MX keeps going on me)...
Toothpaste? I've heard of reoiling C or G PU fans with olive oil before, but thats a new one to me...
Since they got an abbreviation - Didn't you know?
All the following are law agencies: FBI CIA NSA RIAA MPAA MIT CIT MS SCO NRA OPEC & my personal favourite: BLT - gotta love teh taste of bacon in the morning!
It's taken the government more than 50 years to come to that conclusion on drugs, and they're still not there yet - I'm not holding my breath for the *aa/gov't to start supporting users and hitting suppliers any time soon...
I will pay for music downloaded illegally, when the record labels give me personal POBoxes for each artist so I can send them the money directly. I would not have used the CD's, so there's no manufacturing costs on my copy. I wouldn't listen to the MTV ad or the other blurb, so theres no advert costs - in fact, no expense to the record company at all besides the artists fees. I'll pay them direct ty. (Also, hopefully this way I can ensure Lennon's share of royalties for stuff like revolver would go to his kids, and not Yoko Ono - or indeed, M Jackson (He bought out a lot of the beatles copyright ages ago didn't he?))
IANAL But, simple, afaik (most) judges don't know much about computers. REFUSE to allow them to play the song in your possession in court (because to do so would either require them to have use of your hardware without permission or them to give u a license to publicly play the music), then give them two printouts - one of the raw (Wav or whatever, uncompressed) audio, and one of the mp3... Guess which is the smaller stack? "Your honour, the prosecution are claiming that these two are one and the same - as you can see, they are not..." Also, smudging is accedental - MP3 is deliberate sampling and removal of frequency information... not the same thing.
Britney? She's far to independant for Bin Laden - Try The Cheeky Girls... I can just imagine the effect it would have on any US Soldiers that did manage to find him - ipod on, soundsystem on, volume up "AAAARGH!!!! C'mon guys, lets get outta here - tell the Major this cave was empty! QUICK!" (sound of rapidly fading footsteps)
If it's legal to waive your legal rights via a TOS I'm SOOOO Writing myself some crummy app tomorrow - TOS to include "We reserve the right to at any time withold any of your rights, entitlements and privilages whatsoever, and to remove at our convenience any of your assets. Further to this, we reserve the right to select your living arrangements, job and marital status as we see fit (especially at 3:34 am on a monday) Addendium - Should we wish you are legally obliged to comply with any orders we give you"... Now I've just gotta get Bush and to use it... >:) mwhahah! >:)
Nice points - I'm adding them to my list of "Cunning legal defences to f**k the system" - including, but not limited to "MP3 is lossy compression - my copies are not copies but derivative works" - I can't be held responsible until the person who *ripped* the movie/mp3 is found and prosecuted (otherwise, how are we to know that he wasn't licenced to produce a derivative?)
"When will you guys in marketing learn? Over here in R&D we've known for aaages that the only way to sell products is by locking them down with so much copy-protection they're unusable!"
Couldn't agree more... My friend did a similar thing, but he moved the mp3's to cd? WTF? Usefull if you have a mp3cd player but you still have the scratched disk problem - I *may* move other data to DVD soon (unless I can save the cash for a new 1.2Tb raid :) ) but my mp3's are staying on my hard drive - it's just too hard to sort through disks to find songs you want, and if you want a decent shuffle across your collection, hd is the only way to go...
Don't need to DoS the keyspace in its entirety - just release a program that *can* given enough time crack all keys (umm, try for(counter(2^256)) { key++} should do...), and they *have* to revoke all keys because they have no idea which ones have been cracked yet, but all potentially could be...
It has alcohol? You call 5% Alcohol??? I'll stick with Guiness or (when I can get it) London Pride, thanx... Drinking (or trying to) Fosters and Bud as a young man nearly put me off beer for life :S Horrible taste, and I could get drunk quicker on tap water... One thing I will say for "light" beers is that they do make good snakebite 'n blacks... about the only thing you can use them for imho.
Best. Humorous/sarcastic. Post. Ever.
I tip my hat to you...
Ahh, you poor fool - it is working, i mean, only just today the BBC Carried a story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4436223. stm) about how 92% of the downloaders in the uk (around 8 million) are illegal - and the BPI (our equivalent of the RIAA) has manage to break them by taking ummm... (including the cases they're trying to get info on) 123 people to court... Wow... I mean, 1 in approx 60300 chance of getting caught and sued... that's good odds, sure to scare me off... *not*