I realise that a relatively large proportion are employed in the IT field, but that does not automatically make them professional/business users. Particularly it depends on the hardware concerned. If a sysadmin makes a decision on buying a new server for work, that certainly makes him a business/professional customer. If later that day he goes home and orders some hardware for a new HTPC / gaming rig he is, in that context, considered a private home-user. Whether and when he hangs ot on Slashdot is completely irrelevant.
Are you really trying to say that if you make purchasing decisions for a business, that you shouldnt use your power of decision making for private purposes? LOL Really?
No, I was referring to the hardware. If you have decision-making powers over an IT-budget at work, you shouldn't be taking private factors into consideration. I was thinkin more this guy.
And BTW, even if you do pay for it yourself, it often isn't perfectly legal to channel your purchase through your company's IT budget, as there are probably a lot of tax deducted rebates along the line which you don't fulfill.
What the heck? This may somehow shake your current view of the world, but most people here are "normal home users". No matter what their technical knowledge is, no matter how many PCs they have, no matter what OS they use, anybody who isn't purchasing hardware exclusively for their profession is classed as a home user.
Do you meet the requirements for dealing with business customers? Are you employed to make decisions on hardware purchases (and if you do it obviously shouldn't be used privately)? Do you own your own business? Can the computers be depreciated on your tax? If not, you're a normal run-of-the-mill home user.
He was likely bluffing. DirectTV uses NDS Videoguard, which AFAIK to this day remains unbroken. There are other networks out there that can be broken, and many of them require buying a "Common-Interface" card (basically a PCI-PCMCIA adapter) and a decrytion module.
How the hell does the "dish" (the reflective metal piece) on a parabolic offset-antenna affect the way it recieves frequencies? As long as the wavelength isn't physically out of range, there shouldn't be a difference surely. (How does a single reflective barrier resonate anyway?)
Nowadays at least, I would say that we are at a point at which incrased resolution and more polygons cease to drop jaws. By that logic any corny CG animation would be jaw-dropping.
What does have the potential to impress however is the artistic presentation and the animation. FF X-2 had about the same model deatail as X, but they must have put a hell of an effort into their motion-capturing, because the character's natural movement was very impressive.
This is one of the stupidist proposals I've read ever, especially coming from a science author.
The technical reasons why this is unfeasable were analyzed in the astrobill post.
But apart from that, what would be the reason for doing so? The ISS is designed to be an orbiting space laboratory. The main interest in going up there is that t is a weightless environment. Apart from that, it doesn't really matter where it is.
The idea as using it as a laboratory for moon samples is just as pointless. It would be much easier to do it on the surface of the moon, rather than launching small samples to an orbiting space station, not to mention simply having an unmanned sample return (which would require much less fuel and be easier to analyse in earth-based labs. Having said that there's bugger all of any interest to find on the moon.
Also this is a relatively conservative concept. The Cargolifter was supposed to be able to lift 160 tonnes. If Ariships were to catch on again, we would probably see more efforts to scale it up a little.
I fail to see how Skype is better for the job. With SIP you can choose between a number of hardware manufactures, have a large selection of software clients with a load of features, and a lot more VoIP gateways to choose from, almost all of which are cheaper than Skype.
Skype as a whole might be "easier" to just install and use, but that's not something that OSS fans are usually deterred by.
Depending on where you live and your local laws, this could be a bad idea. At least try and wait a few days to see what happens on the cancellation problems, unless it's really imprtant to get it one by a certain date. Because you have entered a cotract for a service, and depending on the conditions you might still owe them money. So you could end up with a bill for the subscription plus extra charges for delaying the payment etc.
Well no, that's obviously a different situation as you are no longer in the posession of the vehicle. When a car's stolen you have to report it as so, so that they can pull back the vehicle registration.
I was referring to the people using the WiFi. Maybe the owner might want to make it easy for visitors to his home to access the net, or allow neighbours to use it should they have problems with their connection. Just because there is a chance someone out there might abuse the opportunity, doesn't mean to say that he can assume they will.
In modern day usage, the term "media" is mostly used as a singular noun, to refer to mass communications industry. It's a collective noun, confer "the people".
Oh, and the correct pluralisation of "customer" doesn't have an apostrophe.
I'd say it's more like renting out cars, selling guns or knives. You cannot assume malicious intent in everyone just because there's a few idiots out there.
You miss the point completely. They called it an "abstract risk of abuse" and that it didn't require him by law to lock down the network. So the pretty much said it wasn't negligence (which is pretty much common sense, if you look up the definition)
By law you are required to know who is in control of your car, their name, adress etc. This was ruled not to be the case for open wireless.
It would help to show that a different computer was using the network in such a situation. With a WiFi network, it's as simple as having the router send a record via email.
Why should the opertor of the network be forced to enforce the law? They should cooperate with law enforcement officers, help them when possible and implement guidelines, but policing the network is not something I would like to trust a private company wit.
We have public officials in charge of airport security and police on private roads, why should Internet traffic be different?
The Bank Notes thing is just rediculous. I mean, of all the things to do when making a convincing forgery of a currency, I don't think printing to a deskjet is one of them. Boneheads.
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I realise that a relatively large proportion are employed in the IT field, but that does not automatically make them professional/business users. Particularly it depends on the hardware concerned. If a sysadmin makes a decision on buying a new server for work, that certainly makes him a business/professional customer. If later that day he goes home and orders some hardware for a new HTPC / gaming rig he is, in that context, considered a private home-user.
Whether and when he hangs ot on Slashdot is completely irrelevant.
Are you really trying to say that if you make purchasing decisions for a business, that you shouldnt use your power of decision making for private purposes? LOL Really?
No, I was referring to the hardware. If you have decision-making powers over an IT-budget at work, you shouldn't be taking private factors into consideration. I was thinkin more this guy.
And BTW, even if you do pay for it yourself, it often isn't perfectly legal to channel your purchase through your company's IT budget, as there are probably a lot of tax deducted rebates along the line which you don't fulfill.
What the heck? This may somehow shake your current view of the world, but most people here are "normal home users". No matter what their technical knowledge is, no matter how many PCs they have, no matter what OS they use, anybody who isn't purchasing hardware exclusively for their profession is classed as a home user.
Do you meet the requirements for dealing with business customers? Are you employed to make decisions on hardware purchases (and if you do it obviously shouldn't be used privately)? Do you own your own business? Can the computers be depreciated on your tax? If not, you're a normal run-of-the-mill home user.
The PS3 uses one cell processor, which has 8 SPEs, one of which has been dctivated so it only uses 7.
Burglars seldom come at daytime. Better get the Magnetron from that old microwave oven.
He was likely bluffing. DirectTV uses NDS Videoguard, which AFAIK to this day remains unbroken. There are other networks out there that can be broken, and many of them require buying a "Common-Interface" card (basically a PCI-PCMCIA adapter) and a decrytion module.
How the hell does the "dish" (the reflective metal piece) on a parabolic offset-antenna affect the way it recieves frequencies? As long as the wavelength isn't physically out of range, there shouldn't be a difference surely. (How does a single reflective barrier resonate anyway?)
Nowadays at least, I would say that we are at a point at which incrased resolution and more polygons cease to drop jaws. By that logic any corny CG animation would be jaw-dropping.
What does have the potential to impress however is the artistic presentation and the animation. FF X-2 had about the same model deatail as X, but they must have put a hell of an effort into their motion-capturing, because the character's natural movement was very impressive.
This is one of the stupidist proposals I've read ever, especially coming from a science author.
The technical reasons why this is unfeasable were analyzed in the astrobill post.
But apart from that, what would be the reason for doing so? The ISS is designed to be an orbiting space laboratory. The main interest in going up there is that t is a weightless environment. Apart from that, it doesn't really matter where it is.
The idea as using it as a laboratory for moon samples is just as pointless. It would be much easier to do it on the surface of the moon, rather than launching small samples to an orbiting space station, not to mention simply having an unmanned sample return (which would require much less fuel and be easier to analyse in earth-based labs.
Having said that there's bugger all of any interest to find on the moon.
Why not just get a decent battery charger and batteries?
Seriously, is it much trouble to swap a set of two AAs once for every twenty or so hours of gameplay?
There's definately somethig at the bottom end. And Unless they can completely surprise me, it looks like a nunchuck connection behind a plastic cover.
This could be true as here in Europe I can't remember going into a store and seeing it not stocked for at least about a year.
They do if they have ferromagnetic implants. Ouch!
Interestingly, this was announced on the 170th birthday of Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Also this is a relatively conservative concept. The Cargolifter was supposed to be able to lift 160 tonnes.
If Ariships were to catch on again, we would probably see more efforts to scale it up a little.
I fail to see how Skype is better for the job. With SIP you can choose between a number of hardware manufactures, have a large selection of software clients with a load of features, and a lot more VoIP gateways to choose from, almost all of which are cheaper than Skype.
Skype as a whole might be "easier" to just install and use, but that's not something that OSS fans are usually deterred by.
Depending on where you live and your local laws, this could be a bad idea. At least try and wait a few days to see what happens on the cancellation problems, unless it's really imprtant to get it one by a certain date.
Because you have entered a cotract for a service, and depending on the conditions you might still owe them money. So you could end up with a bill for the subscription plus extra charges for delaying the payment etc.
Well no, that's obviously a different situation as you are no longer in the posession of the vehicle. When a car's stolen you have to report it as so, so that they can pull back the vehicle registration.
I was referring to the people using the WiFi. Maybe the owner might want to make it easy for visitors to his home to access the net, or allow neighbours to use it should they have problems with their connection. Just because there is a chance someone out there might abuse the opportunity, doesn't mean to say that he can assume they will.
In modern day usage, the term "media" is mostly used as a singular noun, to refer to mass communications industry. It's a collective noun, confer "the people".
Oh, and the correct pluralisation of "customer" doesn't have an apostrophe.
I'd say it's more like renting out cars, selling guns or knives. You cannot assume malicious intent in everyone just because there's a few idiots out there.
You miss the point completely. They called it an "abstract risk of abuse" and that it didn't require him by law to lock down the network.
So the pretty much said it wasn't negligence (which is pretty much common sense, if you look up the definition)
By law you are required to know who is in control of your car, their name, adress etc. This was ruled not to be the case for open wireless.
It would help to show that a different computer was using the network in such a situation. With a WiFi network, it's as simple as having the router send a record via email.
Why should the opertor of the network be forced to enforce the law? They should cooperate with law enforcement officers, help them when possible and implement guidelines, but policing the network is not something I would like to trust a private company wit.
We have public officials in charge of airport security and police on private roads, why should Internet traffic be different?
They do sell regular ol laptops. They sold them all the time. Now they're selling smaller ones as well, and will continue to do so.
The Bank Notes thing is just rediculous. I mean, of all the things to do when making a convincing forgery of a currency, I don't think printing to a deskjet is one of them. Boneheads.