mods have some common sense,the parent post is meant to be FUNNY,not INSIGHTFUL,one would think we live in the dark ages if something like the parent was modded insightful.
actually according to the wiki India is around 3,287,2632km,whereas the US is around 9,629,091km,which is around thricfe the size of India.whereas China is around 9,640,8212km.which is only slightly larger than the US.
and you believe the riaa very genorously compensates the artists ?.look its this way,the riaa and the govt come up with ridiculous lawas and *aa sue ridicolously in an attempt to scare ppl.but this causes loss of respect for the riaa/govt in the people's eyes.once that happens in their eyes,they see it as justified to buy from another source(allofmp3).buyiung all ofmp3 is not pirating.try as you would to justify.people simply dont see it as stealing,its more in the lines of "the riaa screws me,im doin what i feel is right".if only the riaa made a justifiable bussiness model,then even if ppl continue allopfmp3 you can call it pirating.not otherwise.but i doubt that would happen,if the riaa got a justifiable bussiness model,then there would be the occasional pirate,they are inevitable,but out of every 10 allofmp3 users,im willing to bet alteast a minimum of 6 or 7 will come back to normal buying from supermarkets,amazon or whatever other way.
"the market" wil decide something right if they have any idea of what they are actually taking a desicion about.most people(non-geeks),moms,dads,lawyers,doctors and ppl in professions that are not related to electronics or the pc industry have a not so broad idea of how pcs work.they buy what the salesman and their friends say is new and good.period.if you stop buying from dell,none else is going to,in the end you will be the only one who hasnt bought it.if there are alternative thats fine,but sometimes there are not.then you have no choice.that is the reason coorporations need regulation.to make sure the ignorant and those without choice are not absued.
maybe noone just tried,id like to point out that croteam that came up with serious sam was a garage developer,but they came up with an fps that was fun since doom.
Interestingly, the BDR-101A neither burns nor reads CD media of any type. So if you still need CD burning or reading capability, you'll need an additional drive.
as usual no one has bothered to check the facts. the drive does not burn cds at all.
im considering having lasik done.i have diplopia(not the binocular type),alongwith short sightedness.could you tell me your experience,how is your sight now ?is it 100% normal ?
for the very same reason many other privacy violations go unnoticed.people dont care,/. does,but not many are americans,out of the 300million mayne some thousands or more visit here,out of the rest another 100000 may care,but the absoloute majority do not.you know,its like if anyone objects,the mpaa shouts in a big voice "everyone,this man supports piracy!.tie em to the stake".to most its not even an issue,and very few actually understand what piracy means and what their rights are,most are too obsessed with themselves or some other junk to actually consider about *boring* things like rights and stuff.
that's because main stream is still "windows".walk into a showroom and 90% of the time,when you say "i want a pc" and they'll stick you with a windows one.doexist(do most salesmen themselves,know of linux/mac) ?.they dont!.remember,these are the same people that believed that the pentium processor would make browsing faster,heck,i have a friend who bought a bigger hdd because the games ran slowly on his system.when salesmen dont care and dont inform,how do you expect an uninformed crowd to take a proper desicion ? if mac had support for all windows games,if linux had the same user friendliness and driver support as windows,or the looks of mac,you will see many users porting. for now though,to the masses,linux is something thats complicated,mac is something that works,but has limited games support.and until the above changes,you can expect windows dominating the market.
under win XP, if packets are lost during the reading or writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility mode rendering a CD/DVD writer unusable. In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results in physical hardware failure (Most commonly in multiformat CD/DVD writer drives). A sure sign of this step down occurring is that the burn speeds will get slower and slower. Starforce, on a regular basis, triggers this silent step down. Until it reaches the latter stages most people do not even realise it is happening.
Moreover, the Starforce drivers, installed on your system, grant ring 0 to any code under the ring 3. any virus or trojan can get OS privileges and totally control your system. Since win 2000, security and stability got enhanced by separating those privileges, but with the Starforce drivers, the old system holes and instabilities are back.
there is something called SAR(specific absorption ratio.it is a way to measure the amount of energy that is absorbed by the body when u use the cell.in ths us i think it should be less than 1.5Watts/KG and EU/asia require it to be less than 2Watts/KG.http://www.bemi.se/founder/clips/cellula rSAR.html is a site which has some SAR values,google for sar values of other phones,thats the reason you find some phones disrupting electronics more than others.from what i know(IANA expert in this field),a bluetooth wireless should be good for you.if any experts can elaborate on the subject further,please do so.i am most curious about this topic,or at the very least,send me an email regarding this topic,if you have any good valid information on it.tnx.
I agree with your post, except that you very conveniently have assumed that all customers are infact *AWARE* of the drm and whatever other crap is thrown at them, yes they vote with their wallets, hats fine. but they wont.if they did, then sony media should be bankrupt by now. the general public is not technologically aware,neither are they even interested, if it plays, hats enough for them. most of us who visit/. are geeks, we understand how these work, general populace dosent.it's ultimately about money, but to get the money from their customers, they need power. people will buy this junk, there are people who want to test out products at first, then there are the pissing contest types who have to buy it because some of their friend's friend purchased it, then we have the average people who will upgrade when their set goes kaput, which it inevitably will. they too will have no choice except this junk.i seriously doubt it(drm) would go away, unless it stops average people from watching their movies, they wont bother.sad,but true.ofcourse,if they really mess up the drm like sony did, it might go away, but I think they've learned their lesson. the water's just starting to get hot, it yet has to boil, which it will soon.
i agree with you,point i was trying to make was that,in physical Counterfeits,at some point,the currency note will fail the test,might miss a hologram,or might not have a watermark properly,etc.but in digital Counterfeits,u can never make out the difference,assuming the hacker has concealed his entry.
completely offtopic,but im asking out of curiosity.assuming all our money is made digital,then would'nt it lose its value ?,as in,anyone can "create" money,by hacking into back sites or something,since there is no physical money to backup this virtual money(a situation we already face),then wont it lose its value,and this system would give us the oppurtunity for massive fruad,as we all know,digital manipulations cannot be tracked,unlike manipulations to physical paper.
nothing inaccurate about this,generally they give out estimates which they are *SURE* the rover will perform under almost ANY conditions which might possibly be found in the are they plan to run the rover.this way,assuming the rover does fail after the estimated period,it wont be the engineer's problem.if they do however,give an estimate like an year or so,assuming that the tyres and other things would hold that long,and they don't.someone's gonna get a kick in the butt.
Read the above posts. as a particularly insightful poster pointed out, the three laws cannot be practically implemented, for the very simple reason that human society is based upon RELATIVE values and NOT absolute values, which are what the so called "laws" are. For that simple reason, there never were, neither will be robots which can follow the laws. Fine, some genius from mit or some place might write a 10million line algorithm, that supposedly "decides" if a certain action, being done by the robot is right or not. But even the said algorithm cannot replace educated people, something that took nature millions of years, will not be produced within a century or even 2.in my view, we will have robots, we have too many trigger happy politicians/military types to not have that. not only the US, but the rest of the world as well, but they will be flawed, just like the existing system.
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just to point out,ron paul voted FOR regulating the internet.
ironic when a supposedly "illegal" site has more honesty in it's dealings than the so called "legal" sites.
mods have some common sense,the parent post is meant to be FUNNY,not INSIGHTFUL,one would think we live in the dark ages if something like the parent was modded insightful.
how can such a decoy os be setup ?
mods , mode me insightful ?
actually according to the wiki India is around 3,287,2632km,whereas the US is around 9,629,091km,which is around thricfe the size of India.whereas China is around 9,640,8212km.which is only slightly larger than the US.
and you believe the riaa very genorously compensates the artists ?.look its this way,the riaa and the govt come up with ridiculous lawas and *aa sue ridicolously in an attempt to scare ppl.but this causes loss of respect for the riaa/govt in the people's eyes.once that happens in their eyes,they see it as justified to buy from another source(allofmp3).buyiung all ofmp3 is not pirating.try as you would to justify.people simply dont see it as stealing,its more in the lines of "the riaa screws me,im doin what i feel is right".if only the riaa made a justifiable bussiness model,then even if ppl continue allopfmp3 you can call it pirating.not otherwise.but i doubt that would happen,if the riaa got a justifiable bussiness model,then there would be the occasional pirate,they are inevitable,but out of every 10 allofmp3 users,im willing to bet alteast a minimum of 6 or 7 will come back to normal buying from supermarkets,amazon or whatever other way.
"the market" wil decide something right if they have any idea of what they are actually taking a desicion about.most people(non-geeks),moms,dads,lawyers,doctors and ppl in professions that are not related to electronics or the pc industry have a not so broad idea of how pcs work.they buy what the salesman and their friends say is new and good.period.if you stop buying from dell,none else is going to,in the end you will be the only one who hasnt bought it.if there are alternative thats fine,but sometimes there are not.then you have no choice.that is the reason coorporations need regulation.to make sure the ignorant and those without choice are not absued.
maybe noone just tried,id like to point out that croteam that came up with serious sam was a garage developer,but they came up with an fps that was fun since doom.
good luck to you!
not necessarily,there are many ppl who have genuine copies whose keys refuse to validate online.i tell you frome experience!
Interestingly, the BDR-101A neither burns nor reads CD media of any type. So if you still need CD burning or reading capability, you'll need an additional drive.
as usual no one has bothered to check the facts.
the drive does not burn cds at all.
im considering having lasik done.i have diplopia(not the binocular type),alongwith short sightedness.could you tell me your experience,how is your sight now ?is it 100% normal ?
for the very same reason many other privacy violations go unnoticed.people dont care,/. does,but not many are americans,out of the 300million mayne some thousands or more visit here,out of the rest another 100000 may care,but the absoloute majority do not.you know,its like if anyone objects,the mpaa shouts in a big voice "everyone,this man supports piracy!.tie em to the stake".to most its not even an issue,and very few actually understand what piracy means and what their rights are,most are too obsessed with themselves or some other junk to actually consider about *boring* things like rights and stuff.
that's because main stream is still "windows".walk into a showroom and 90% of the time,when you say "i want a pc" and they'll stick you with a windows one.doexist(do most salesmen themselves,know of linux/mac) ?.they dont!.remember,these are the same people that believed that the pentium processor would make browsing faster,heck,i have a friend who bought a bigger hdd because the games ran slowly on his system.when salesmen dont care and dont inform,how do you expect an uninformed crowd to take a proper desicion ?
if mac had support for all windows games,if linux had the same user friendliness and driver support as windows,or the looks of mac,you will see many users porting.
for now though,to the masses,linux is something thats complicated,mac is something that works,but has limited games support.and until the above changes,you can expect windows dominating the market.
MOD PARENT DOWN,obviously clueless and has no idea of what he/she is talking about.
under win XP, if packets are lost during the reading or writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility mode rendering a CD/DVD writer unusable. In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results in physical hardware failure (Most commonly in multiformat CD/DVD writer drives). A sure sign of this step down occurring is that the burn speeds will get slower and slower. Starforce, on a regular basis, triggers this silent step down. Until it reaches the latter stages most people do not even realise it is happening. Moreover, the Starforce drivers, installed on your system, grant ring 0 to any code under the ring 3. any virus or trojan can get OS privileges and totally control your system. Since win 2000, security and stability got enhanced by separating those privileges, but with the Starforce drivers, the old system holes and instabilities are back.
there is something called SAR(specific absorption ratio.it is a way to measure the amount of energy that is absorbed by the body when u use the cell.in ths us i think it should be less than 1.5Watts/KG and EU/asia require it to be less than 2Watts/KG.http://www.bemi.se/founder/clips/cellula rSAR.html is a site which has some SAR values,google for sar values of other phones,thats the reason you find some phones disrupting electronics more than others.from what i know(IANA expert in this field),a bluetooth wireless should be good for you.if any experts can elaborate on the subject further,please do so.i am most curious about this topic,or at the very least,send me an email regarding this topic,if you have any good valid information on it.tnx.
I agree with your post, except that you very conveniently have assumed that all customers are infact *AWARE* of the drm and whatever other crap is thrown at them, yes they vote with their wallets, hats fine. but they wont.if they did, then sony media should be bankrupt by now. the general public is not technologically aware,neither are they even interested, if it plays, hats enough for them. most of us who visit /. are geeks, we understand how these work, general populace dosent.it's ultimately about money, but to get the money from their customers, they need power. people will buy this junk, there are people who want to test out products at first, then there are the pissing contest types who have to buy it because some of their friend's friend purchased it, then we have the average people who will upgrade when their set goes kaput, which it inevitably will. they too will have no choice except this junk.i seriously doubt it(drm) would go away, unless it stops average people from watching their movies, they wont bother.sad,but true.ofcourse,if they really mess up the drm like sony did, it might go away, but I think they've learned their lesson. the water's just starting to get hot, it yet has to boil, which it will soon.
i agree with you,point i was trying to make was that,in physical Counterfeits,at some point,the currency note will fail the test,might miss a hologram,or might not have a watermark properly,etc.but in digital Counterfeits,u can never make out the difference,assuming the hacker has concealed his entry.
completely offtopic,but im asking out of curiosity.assuming all our money is made digital,then would'nt it lose its value ?,as in,anyone can "create" money,by hacking into back sites or something,since there is no physical money to backup this virtual money(a situation we already face),then wont it lose its value,and this system would give us the oppurtunity for massive fruad,as we all know,digital manipulations cannot be tracked,unlike manipulations to physical paper.
ok,someone posted approximately the same thing i did,hadnt read that,so sorry for repeating the other poster.
nothing inaccurate about this,generally they give out estimates which they are *SURE* the rover will perform under almost ANY conditions which might possibly be found in the are they plan to run the rover.this way,assuming the rover does fail after the estimated period,it wont be the engineer's problem.if they do however,give an estimate like an year or so,assuming that the tyres and other things would hold that long,and they don't.someone's gonna get a kick in the butt.
Read the above posts. as a particularly insightful poster pointed out, the three laws cannot be practically implemented, for the very simple reason that human society is based upon RELATIVE values and NOT absolute values, which are what the so called "laws" are. For that simple reason, there never were, neither will be robots which can follow the laws. Fine, some genius from mit or some place might write a 10million line algorithm, that supposedly "decides" if a certain action, being done by the robot is right or not. But even the said algorithm cannot replace educated people, something that took nature millions of years, will not be produced within a century or even 2.in my view, we will have robots, we have too many trigger happy politicians/military types to not have that. not only the US, but the rest of the world as well, but they will be flawed, just like the existing system.