According to Babelfish: It was once sweet rabbit. The rabbit had a large carrot. It was a special carrot: if you ate a piece of it, then she regenerated within fewer minutes again. The rabbit hid it in its earth hole. But a beautiful daily, when the rabbit came back to its hole, was it away. The rabbit frightened and began a hole to dig. It dug and dug to it on a large cave pushed. The carrot is because of the other end of the cave. But there was also an orange, petrified cow with wings.
So why should I have to reboot when I install something like Nero?
You don't. Unless you're running Win9x, Nero works without rebooting, as do a zillion games and software that wants to reboot. Only times I have to reboot is if I install display drivers or OS updates, hopefully Longhorn fixes this as the display system is supposedly able to die and restart without the computer crashing.
If you are saying that falling stock prices is punishment enough then you need to remember stock owner != company, the price of an individual stock has no meaning whatsoever to a company. If you mean "voting with your wallet" we have to remember that in a completely unregulated and free market, customers wouldn't even hear about privacy breaches. But I agree with you that it shouldn't be regulated, I think it should be criminalised. Security can be 100%, if social engineering is a problem, design around it. If a security system can be compromised by calling a secretary and telling a few lies, then it isn't a very good system in the first place.:)
Do you really think corporations would care about the private information they store if they could lose them without consequence? I'm not a communist, but there is no doubt in my mind that if corporations would be allowed free reign, we'd lose even the rest of our freedom. And why do you think 100% security is impossible? If you make a program that's designed properly and is programmed properly, then it should be quite possible. The reason programs are riddled with security holes is because it's cheaper to patch them instead of making a solid piece of software.
When the tech to make it the size of an eraser head exists, why not make two speakers, put them inside your ears and stream audio from a external player through WLAN or some other wireless tech?
Wow, you're right, it works! I even came up with a way to automate it, just install rails on the sides of your head and put the object on them, with the help of a electric motor zooming in and out can be as easy as breathing! It gets a bit difficult when you want to zoom at an object far away though, when I installed longer rails I wasn't able to turn my head any more! But I think I have it sorted out now by using a tripod to support my head. Now I just need to file for a patent, now where did I put that form again...
Wonder how long till someone develops bionic eyes? I've been itching to ditch these failing organic meatballs called eyes for something better. High-def bionic eyes with zoom and night-vision would be pretty cool, not to mention the possibility of using them as a way to overlay information on top of stuff you see. Getting spyware could be quite annoying though, and if law enforcement had a way of remotely disabling them would suck, but maybe one could avoid that by running OS software on them.:)
Just out of curiosity, where are you keeping your petabyte-sized porn collection ATM? Because if I had a petabyte of data on 116 508 DVDs I would be very interested in moving it to a smaller amount of discs.
I don't see how HVDs are worse than CDs, losing your CD has exactly the same effect: everything on the disc is lost. The amount of data doesn't matter, you still would have to mirror the data on multiple copies for redundancy, even with CDs. This way it at least will (hopefully) be cheaper.
VLC (VideoLan Client) is a video player. Using it to play music would be silly. That said, let Winamp die already, and join the rest of us here in the 21st century. And yes, one can play an entire folder of music with one right-click on the folder itself.
A method and system for cooling down a device with gases from it's environment. The cooling is done by a novel application of a long piece of material consisting of intertwined fibres. This material is attached to the device by a novel application of fastening techniques covered by other patents. The other end of the material is then fastened to a point high enough to cause the device to stay stationary at a certain height. This results in a novel, non-obvious flow of gas around the device resulting in a interaction that cools down the device.
I recommend against fixing your Xbox360 crashes in this way, you open yourself up for litigation.
The first sentence sounds like an acknowledgement that selling software and software copyrights are dying, and that we're moving to a business model where the software is free, but we pay for extra services; e.g. the online component of a computer game.
The second sentence on the other hand, sounds like a Microsoft dream come true, with everyone buying their software, and paying for the extra services as well.
I don't think RFID chips are that small yet, injecting one into your bloodstream would be quite fatal. And subdermal implants would have a visible bump on your skin.
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The reason Germany didn't "pop back up" is because the war had devastated it. It's hard to do anything with patents alone. And "proper ownership" doesn't really sound like something you can talk about when IP is the subject.
That varies, in Sweden they have 25%. Even though VAT has a logical explanation for it's name, it sounds to the uninitiated (me:) like a tax that supposedly adds value. If the government is going to rip me off, I want them to call it what it is.
While it's true that blackbox voting machines make it easier to rig elections, it doesn't matter if someone is determined to falsify the voting results. Even with purely paper-based voting, they could use the age-old technique of deception and falsify the results and documents. Maybe even put all "wrong" votes in a box and throw them in an incinerator, and make new ones with the right vote on them. Any "conspiracy theorists" could be silenced by force or public ridicule. It's suprisingly easy when you think about it.
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According to Babelfish:
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It was once sweet rabbit. The rabbit had a large carrot. It was a special carrot: if you ate a piece of it, then she regenerated within fewer minutes again. The rabbit hid it in its earth hole. But a beautiful daily, when the rabbit came back to its hole, was it away. The rabbit frightened and began a hole to dig. It dug and dug to it on a large cave pushed. The carrot is because of the other end of the cave. But there was also an orange, petrified cow with wings.
Orange petrified cow with wings, indeed.
So why should I have to reboot when I install something like Nero?
You don't. Unless you're running Win9x, Nero works without rebooting, as do a zillion games and software that wants to reboot. Only times I have to reboot is if I install display drivers or OS updates, hopefully Longhorn fixes this as the display system is supposedly able to die and restart without the computer crashing.
Or maybe he meant Santa Claus?
John Titor, is that you?
If you are saying that falling stock prices is punishment enough then you need to remember stock owner != company, the price of an individual stock has no meaning whatsoever to a company. If you mean "voting with your wallet" we have to remember that in a completely unregulated and free market, customers wouldn't even hear about privacy breaches. But I agree with you that it shouldn't be regulated, I think it should be criminalised. Security can be 100%, if social engineering is a problem, design around it. If a security system can be compromised by calling a secretary and telling a few lies, then it isn't a very good system in the first place. :)
Do you really think corporations would care about the private information they store if they could lose them without consequence? I'm not a communist, but there is no doubt in my mind that if corporations would be allowed free reign, we'd lose even the rest of our freedom. And why do you think 100% security is impossible? If you make a program that's designed properly and is programmed properly, then it should be quite possible. The reason programs are riddled with security holes is because it's cheaper to patch them instead of making a solid piece of software.
When the tech to make it the size of an eraser head exists, why not make two speakers, put them inside your ears and stream audio from a external player through WLAN or some other wireless tech?
Hey, your user number is the same as my bank account number you insensitive clod!
Wow, you're right, it works! I even came up with a way to automate it, just install rails on the sides of your head and put the object on them, with the help of a electric motor zooming in and out can be as easy as breathing! It gets a bit difficult when you want to zoom at an object far away though, when I installed longer rails I wasn't able to turn my head any more! But I think I have it sorted out now by using a tripod to support my head. Now I just need to file for a patent, now where did I put that form again...
Yeah but does it run linux?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
In Soviet Russia, hand grabs you!
Hey, I'm a bionic man you insensitive clod!
Wonder how long till someone develops bionic eyes? I've been itching to ditch these failing organic meatballs called eyes for something better. High-def bionic eyes with zoom and night-vision would be pretty cool, not to mention the possibility of using them as a way to overlay information on top of stuff you see. Getting spyware could be quite annoying though, and if law enforcement had a way of remotely disabling them would suck, but maybe one could avoid that by running OS software on them. :)
Just out of curiosity, where are you keeping your petabyte-sized porn collection ATM? Because if I had a petabyte of data on 116 508 DVDs I would be very interested in moving it to a smaller amount of discs.
I don't see how HVDs are worse than CDs, losing your CD has exactly the same effect: everything on the disc is lost. The amount of data doesn't matter, you still would have to mirror the data on multiple copies for redundancy, even with CDs. This way it at least will (hopefully) be cheaper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobukazu_Takemura
VLC (VideoLan Client) is a video player. Using it to play music would be silly. That said, let Winamp die already, and join the rest of us here in the 21st century. And yes, one can play an entire folder of music with one right-click on the folder itself.
Sorry, a quick google search turned this up:
United States Patent: 5,960,411
A method and system for cooling down a device with gases from it's environment. The cooling is done by a novel application of a long piece of material consisting of intertwined fibres. This material is attached to the device by a novel application of fastening techniques covered by other patents. The other end of the material is then fastened to a point high enough to cause the device to stay stationary at a certain height. This results in a novel, non-obvious flow of gas around the device resulting in a interaction that cools down the device.
I recommend against fixing your Xbox360 crashes in this way, you open yourself up for litigation.
Wow! So if it used to cost 1$ it now costs -9$ to -49$? I would like 10 million units please, send the money to Mr. B.Admath!
The first sentence sounds like an acknowledgement that selling software and software copyrights are dying, and that we're moving to a business model where the software is free, but we pay for extra services; e.g. the online component of a computer game.
The second sentence on the other hand, sounds like a Microsoft dream come true, with everyone buying their software, and paying for the extra services as well.
I think it's a big difference.
I was responding to operagost's post.
I don't think RFID chips are that small yet, injecting one into your bloodstream would be quite fatal. And subdermal implants would have a visible bump on your skin.
When did donating eggs and lying become a crime?
The reason Germany didn't "pop back up" is because the war had devastated it. It's hard to do anything with patents alone. And "proper ownership" doesn't really sound like something you can talk about when IP is the subject.
That varies, in Sweden they have 25%. Even though VAT has a logical explanation for it's name, it sounds to the uninitiated (me :) like a tax that supposedly adds value. If the government is going to rip me off, I want them to call it what it is.
While it's true that blackbox voting machines make it easier to rig elections, it doesn't matter if someone is determined to falsify the voting results. Even with purely paper-based voting, they could use the age-old technique of deception and falsify the results and documents. Maybe even put all "wrong" votes in a box and throw them in an incinerator, and make new ones with the right vote on them. Any "conspiracy theorists" could be silenced by force or public ridicule. It's suprisingly easy when you think about it.
Ok, I misremembered the name. Still an awful name though. :)