Cheating, on the software level, with Gamesharks and any in game memory editor, had been a serious problem with online game play on the Dreamcast in the past (it still is, actually, but who the hell still uses their dreamcast is beyond me). Good example, research player killing in the "no player killing allowed or even possible" game Phantasy Star Online.
Mabye your morals prevent you from viewing more practical applications, medical and otherwise.
I suppose one of the major religions still disallows the use of protective measures during sex, and that obviously means they're pro population control with AIDS and other STD's floating arround. I suppose the ability to grow new organs to save lives would be anti-death and result in less people going to hell for their statistics...
It's funny, I own a bunch of the Teflon coated Dockers (whatever the new marketing campaign calls them). I find myself wishing that shirts were made with the same process. If I could have spill proof shirts, I'd be all set, I'd just need one shirt and one pair of pants a month.
It is funny, though, to intentionally spill water/soda on your pants arround unsuspecting coworkers. The look on their face is priceless.
That situation, IMHO, would require new licenses, unless 3COM's ownership was limited to majority stock holder ("controlling") and not full ownership of property. IANAL, but, the law is absurd in any contract a lawyer is allowed to change it.
You would be transfering a legal entity, thus making your 500 person company a part of a larger corporation, any agreement your 500 person company has is just as valid as it was before, since it still technically exists. For example, the company I work for has one prefered company name and three aliases from aquired companies which are still used in some cases by vendors. All are valid legally speaking.
Bluelight is part of K-Mart, K-Mart owns the licences for bluelight's computers, K-Mart can't sell the rights to those licenses when it sells Bluelight.
On top of that, any cable company will let you demand to do a self install, and just drop off the cable modem or ship it UPS.
The worst case scenerio is that you set it up before he gets there and go "I used to have it in my old apartment/house/whatever, it's already setup. Just plug it in and I'll sign your service order". No human cable technician is going to turn down getting out of doing work.
Makes me wonder how old the submitter was to where he couldn't just say "No, thanks, I'll install it myself".
You can repgrogram alot of the computer system in the car yourself, you just have to figure out how. Propritary solutions (such as Ford's and GM's) are harder to break, ISO 9141/SAE J1962 interfaces (as used in most European and Asian cars) are basically RS-232 with diffrent voltage levels, and allow communications for accessing information about the vehicle (OBD-II). Most of these interfaces also reuse the 2 "Propritary" pinouts to provide a second RS-232 interface to the programmable parts of the system, such as the ECU/ECM and ABS subsystems. As far as Ford/GM, they use fucked up pulse width modulation crap to transmit data.
The diffrence between ISO 9141/SAE J1962 and RS-232 is that ISO/SAE protocols use +12V and 0V instead of +10V and -10V (if you know how RS-232 works this will make sense).
I'm hacking my car (literally), to find out what extent these things have control of it. It's neat, once you figure out how to build a ISO 9141 to SAE J1962 adapter (I've got all the specifications now..).
Note that if you use ISO/SAE papers to do this crap, you then can't talk about it due to the licensing agreement. I don't use ISO/SAE materials, so fuckem. Someday I'll have all the stuff documented publicly.
So, no, an X-box is not a car. If Honda/Acura tries to tell me I can't do this, I will nicely tell them to fuck off. They aren't protecting media with their car. They aren't copy controlling anything. etc.
You know, I see more morons driving Dodges and Ford's with that shit (including "type-r" and "vtec" stickers, beleive it or not) on their cars than I see with asian car drivers. The most extreme asian car in my area has a "Honda" sticker on the front windshield, hardly over the wall, but there's a guy with a POS cavialer that has racing stripes / coffee can / etc. Mabye it's regional.
Oh, I drive a Acura RSX, and while it does have some work done under the hood, it looks exactally the way it did when it left the dealer on the outside.:)
Those laws actually go all the way back to the days of party lines and automated systems tying them up, and some telemarketers are trying to get rid of them.
Really, it's for anyone with more than 4 years paid experience (or 2 years with a 4 year degree). Most sysadmins seem to think that they can skip college and not have to work $7-12 an hour shit linux admin jobs for a few years. *shrug*, some people just don't understand the working world.
It's time to switch to Mandrake they are at the Linux 9.0 One entire playing level beter than RedHat, Slackware and all other Debian (has only Linux 3.0) !!!!...
Well, ha... I'm running Windows 98, so I'm like 91 levels above Mandrake....
SO, uh, WINDOWS USERS CANT COUNT EITHER? THINK OF THE CHILDREN, DON'T USE MICROSOFT!
Several people I know use SMS as a rapid means of communicating, including myself. I have a requirement that one of the major instant messenging services is supported by my phone as well.
I may switch to a T-Mobile Sidekick just for this reason. It's easier than T9 text input.
Just because it's not mainstream, dosen't mean it's not useful or a good thing. 70% of my cellular charges result from data-based services.
You could watch a laser pulse without interrupting the flow of the laser.
Mr. Science Science Project:
Take laser pointer pen. Take cardboard paper towel roll.
Cut hole in top cardboard paper towel roll, so the roll is still intact and you can see the inside.
Shine laser through paper towel roll, look through hole, see wonderful beam shining through.
Flash laser pen for fun, notice you can see it shut off and turn on... beat head into wall. Notice how the paper towel roll wasn't even really needed, but I wanted to involve scissors. Use scissors to cut wrists.
Binary with lasers, you say? Worthless, because it can be unknowlingly intercepted in transit.
I did NOT SAY Firewire 2.0, I said *Firewire*. No USB 2.0 implimentation I have ever seen can match Firewire's throughput. End of story. People use whats better, not what claims to be better. If they didn't, everyone would run Windows for everything.:)
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stop spanking it using the laptop, you might burn your penis.
Hopefully you learned how to replace stripped gears and replace clutch cables. :)
It's mostly because Matrox sticks very closely to published specifications (VESA 2/3, OpenGL, etc).
Cheating, on the software level, with Gamesharks and any in game memory editor, had been a serious problem with online game play on the Dreamcast in the past (it still is, actually, but who the hell still uses their dreamcast is beyond me). Good example, research player killing in the "no player killing allowed or even possible" game Phantasy Star Online.
Mabye your morals prevent you from viewing more practical applications, medical and otherwise.
I suppose one of the major religions still disallows the use of protective measures during sex, and that obviously means they're pro population control with AIDS and other STD's floating arround. I suppose the ability to grow new organs to save lives would be anti-death and result in less people going to hell for their statistics...
What kind of moron signs a cellular service contract for more than a year, is what I want to know. :)
It's funny, I own a bunch of the Teflon coated Dockers (whatever the new marketing campaign calls them). I find myself wishing that shirts were made with the same process. If I could have spill proof shirts, I'd be all set, I'd just need one shirt and one pair of pants a month.
It is funny, though, to intentionally spill water/soda on your pants arround unsuspecting coworkers. The look on their face is priceless.
That situation, IMHO, would require new licenses, unless 3COM's ownership was limited to majority stock holder ("controlling") and not full ownership of property. IANAL, but, the law is absurd in any contract a lawyer is allowed to change it.
You would be transfering a legal entity, thus making your 500 person company a part of a larger corporation, any agreement your 500 person company has is just as valid as it was before, since it still technically exists. For example, the company I work for has one prefered company name and three aliases from aquired companies which are still used in some cases by vendors. All are valid legally speaking.
Bluelight is part of K-Mart, K-Mart owns the licences for bluelight's computers, K-Mart can't sell the rights to those licenses when it sells Bluelight.
Yeah.
On top of that, any cable company will let you demand to do a self install, and just drop off the cable modem or ship it UPS.
The worst case scenerio is that you set it up before he gets there and go "I used to have it in my old apartment/house/whatever, it's already setup. Just plug it in and I'll sign your service order". No human cable technician is going to turn down getting out of doing work.
Makes me wonder how old the submitter was to where he couldn't just say "No, thanks, I'll install it myself".
This is -1 at the moment, and everything, but the pages really do say not to link from slashdot.
Search for "articles.linuxguru.net" on google, then have it show its cached version.
Now, there may not be legal grounds, but uh, come on guys.
I have "Troll" moderations coming up +5 automatically. In my eyes, you have been modded up. Don't die! nooo!
I bet he was playing DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION.
86 hours of that game would kill anyone.
You can repgrogram alot of the computer system in the car yourself, you just have to figure out how. Propritary solutions (such as Ford's and GM's) are harder to break, ISO 9141/SAE J1962 interfaces (as used in most European and Asian cars) are basically RS-232 with diffrent voltage levels, and allow communications for accessing information about the vehicle (OBD-II). Most of these interfaces also reuse the 2 "Propritary" pinouts to provide a second RS-232 interface to the programmable parts of the system, such as the ECU/ECM and ABS subsystems. As far as Ford/GM, they use fucked up pulse width modulation crap to transmit data.
The diffrence between ISO 9141/SAE J1962 and RS-232 is that ISO/SAE protocols use +12V and 0V instead of +10V and -10V (if you know how RS-232 works this will make sense).
I'm hacking my car (literally), to find out what extent these things have control of it. It's neat, once you figure out how to build a ISO 9141 to SAE J1962 adapter (I've got all the specifications now..).
Note that if you use ISO/SAE papers to do this crap, you then can't talk about it due to the licensing agreement. I don't use ISO/SAE materials, so fuckem. Someday I'll have all the stuff documented publicly.
So, no, an X-box is not a car. If Honda/Acura tries to tell me I can't do this, I will nicely tell them to fuck off. They aren't protecting media with their car. They aren't copy controlling anything. etc.
You know, I see more morons driving Dodges and Ford's with that shit (including "type-r" and "vtec" stickers, beleive it or not) on their cars than I see with asian car drivers. The most extreme asian car in my area has a "Honda" sticker on the front windshield, hardly over the wall, but there's a guy with a POS cavialer that has racing stripes / coffee can / etc. Mabye it's regional.
:)
Oh, I drive a Acura RSX, and while it does have some work done under the hood, it looks exactally the way it did when it left the dealer on the outside.
Those laws actually go all the way back to the days of party lines and automated systems tying them up, and some telemarketers are trying to get rid of them.
Not that I really want them to.
*shrug*
Really, it's for anyone with more than 4 years paid experience (or 2 years with a 4 year degree). Most sysadmins seem to think that they can skip college and not have to work $7-12 an hour shit linux admin jobs for a few years. *shrug*, some people just don't understand the working world.
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It's time to switch to Mandrake they are at the Linux 9.0 One entire playing level beter than RedHat, Slackware and all other Debian (has only Linux 3.0) !!!!
Well, ha... I'm running Windows 98, so I'm like 91 levels above Mandrake.
SO, uh, WINDOWS USERS CANT COUNT EITHER? THINK OF THE CHILDREN, DON'T USE MICROSOFT!
You're so wrong.
Several people I know use SMS as a rapid means of communicating, including myself. I have a requirement that one of the major instant messenging services is supported by my phone as well.
I may switch to a T-Mobile Sidekick just for this reason. It's easier than T9 text input.
Just because it's not mainstream, dosen't mean it's not useful or a good thing. 70% of my cellular charges result from data-based services.
People who use the word "puter" come off as uneducated twits.
You could watch a laser pulse without interrupting the flow of the laser.
.. beat head into wall. Notice how the paper towel roll wasn't even really needed, but I wanted to involve scissors. Use scissors to cut wrists.
Mr. Science Science Project:
Take laser pointer pen.
Take cardboard paper towel roll.
Cut hole in top cardboard paper towel roll, so the roll is still intact and you can see the inside.
Shine laser through paper towel roll, look through hole, see wonderful beam shining through.
Flash laser pen for fun, notice you can see it shut off and turn on.
Binary with lasers, you say? Worthless, because it can be unknowlingly intercepted in transit.
In 10.2 my screenshots come out as tiff's, but I'd be happy to see them come out as PDF's...
I did NOT SAY Firewire 2.0, I said *Firewire*. No USB 2.0 implimentation I have ever seen can match Firewire's throughput. End of story. People use whats better, not what claims to be better. If they didn't, everyone would run Windows for everything. :)
My TiBook, my new Gateway Laptop, my Desktop, and my digital camera equipment.
Anything else?
FireWire am > USB 2.0.
It would at least give you a starting point, mabye some names, and mabye even a place.