Can you sell back cars after you've modded them? Moreover, can you get another card, copy your garage, sell your copied cars to yourself, and THEN sell it back to Sony? I remember something like that working in GT1 and GT2
How did you install Windows XP or any other motherboard utility for that matter? I doubt you Ghosted it... good luck getting Ghost to run with that spiffy little RAM drive of yours.
For that matter, a system without a CD-ROM drive isn't very useful unless you dedicate the machine to one game, and don't mind jumping through hurdles to install the next one, but at that point, it's really not a system with no moving parts is it?
I guess it's all a moot point. Your power button still moves.
Because when their old one breaks down, it's generally cheaper to buy a new one than to repair it. If non-RFID players are no longer available, you're screwed.
Quiz your students at the end of the lecture over what they just learned. At that point, it doesn't matter how or when the student downloads the lecture because ultimately, the student's grade depends on their daily attendance.
But requiring class attendance defeats the point of a podcast, doesn't it? The student pays the university to take your course and has, in essense, paid you to create the podcast and has purchased the right to download it. Why does it matter if the student is physically present? The student may live 40 miles away; with gas approaching $3 a gallon in many places sometimes attending the lecture physically is infeasible. You provide the video and email support outside of class, and your job is done. If the student cannot get by on the podcast alone, he'll come to class on his own or fail the course. Really, what control do you have over that process?
It's hardly irrational. My hate for Maxtor is statistical, if you consider that I work with predominantly Dell desktops, and they're almost exclusively Maxtor. Even with Maxtor drives outside of Dell in another company, you see the same shitty failures with them (including the external OneTouch drives). Given that I've seen a Maxtor hard drive in just about every reasonable setting they can expected to be used in, I'd hardly call my distaste for them irrational. Yes, hard drives fail, but they usually fail well beyond the manufacturer's warranty. With a good hard drive, you don't need the warranty.
And if they didn't offer an advanced RMA I'd take my business elsewhere. In my home PC, I've replaced a Maxtor hard drive twice in 4 years while the Western Digital is still puttering right along.
So your Maxtor hard drive failed. Welcome to the club. I have 400 Dell computers in a building where Maxtor hard drive failures are almost a daily occurrance. Erupting in flames isn't something I've encountered, but I'm not really surprised. Furthermore, judging by the photo offered in your link, the difference between an exploding battery and a fried chip are drastic.
So a chip on your drive fried and smoldered a bit. Big deal. I owned an AMD Thunderbird (RIP) that finally got so hot that it fused to the motherboard and MELTED the thermal compound to the cooling fan. I'm not talking discoloration; I mean Arctic Silver charred black on the bottom of a copper plate. I had throw the whole thing away. I've also seen the remnants of a cockroach that managed to crawl into a chassis and chew through a sound card component, which electrocuted the cockroach and let the remains smolder through the card below it. In both cases, there was a lot of smoke (a lot more than yours, I'm afraid), but I'd hardly compare it to a lithium explosion.
Hmm... so "intentionally wiping" the hard disk is a no-no if you're being sued. OK, plan B - if I ever have to surrender my hard drive, I won't intentionally format it. Rather, I'll accidentally trip on the stairs and drop it on my way out. When I picked it up, I accidentally dropped it in the pool. And then I accidentally dropped it under my car tire and ran it over - repeatedly. Then dragged it a couple miles on the freeway. Good luck copying that one guys
Or just give them a different hard drive.
from sugarcane, corn or wood -- as a less polluting alternative to fossil fuels.
It's less polluting until you realize that fossil fuel is still a requirement to produce sugarcane, corn, or wood. Unless you're harvesting with oxen and plows, the production of biodiesel still uses the oil you're purportedly saving.
I can't say I disagree, but how does one identify a Muslim without the person telling you outright? At that point, you must either resort to hearsay or routine surveillance of anyone who "looks" Muslim, or enters a mosque. Yet not all Muslims are good Muslims, just as all Christians aren't good Christians. It's racial profiling at its finest.
Your ideas are intriguing, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Your strategy of tough love, while seemingly not fair to most, seems amazingly effective to me. We need more parents like you.
It seems wholly ironic that Jack Thompson is yet again trying to censor free speech in the state of Florida. You'd think that after the controversy made 2 Live Crew go double platinum, he'd realize that banning media actually encourages sales. He overlooks the fact that if parents were actually parents, the children that shouldn't have violent media won't have violent media.
To expand upon that, I think the saying goes "Please do not feed the trolls." Terrorists are the trolls of the world - if you just ignore them eventually they'll give up.
Right, but even Cable and DSL IP addresses inevitably get reassigned to other users if you get knocked offline for a while (say, to fix your zombied PC's, or to replace your router). Two personal anecdotes to this are when I moved - my cable modem and router were disconnected for a few days, and when I came back the IP had been reassigned. In another case, we had a major storm blow through and knock out power for a day - when I came back online, my IP had been reassigned yet again. Had my former IP addresses been blacklisted by any of these schemes, the next poor sucker that got it wouldn't be able to send any email, legitimate or otherwise. Blocking a wh0red mail server is one thing, but if you start blocking consumer IP's the system inevitably collapses on itself.
There are a number of problems with that. The first is that IP addresses change all the time. All the spammer would have to do is change the host of his spam server, and then some other poor sap trying to send legitimate business emails gets hosed with a dirty IP. Take that a step further to the botnet concept, where one can assume a considerable number of people on the botnet are less-than-savvy computer users that frequently connect to a dial-up connection. Upon sending out spam, your scheme would blacklist their IP so that no one would receive any mail from them, yet when their computer disconnects from the network, it returns a few days later to wreak havoc on the world. Even if you assumed the IP was relatively static (as with a broadband connection), your scheme would still unfairly penalize that user if they ever got their computer fixed, or better, formatted it completely, and when the next poor sucker that hops online gets your recycled, dirty IP, he can't send out email to anyone.
You also fail to consider that a centrally administered database is prone to failure and wide open to attack. Blue Security had such a database this year, and got dDOS'ed by a spiteful spammer hellbent on knocking it offline. While a locally administered database would get around this, you still have to deal with the problems mentioned above.
You would provide that link as a reference to the consumer to come back to the current state later.
ie, a link given to the user as "mypage.php?state=15" would allow the user to return the page at state 15 whenever they wish
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I just did it a couple days ago. It's up to 70 now; I can't imagine how high the number will be by 2008.
I don't know. Did the OP submit a bug or did he just bitch about it on Slashdot?
How long before we can download it on Bittorrent?
Yeah, it's not done in Frontpage either, and it actually works in a browser that isn't IE.
Decreased music sales has nothing at all to do with the music sucking and the CD prices increasing, right? Just checking
Can you sell back cars after you've modded them? Moreover, can you get another card, copy your garage, sell your copied cars to yourself, and THEN sell it back to Sony? I remember something like that working in GT1 and GT2
How did you install Windows XP or any other motherboard utility for that matter? I doubt you Ghosted it... good luck getting Ghost to run with that spiffy little RAM drive of yours.
For that matter, a system without a CD-ROM drive isn't very useful unless you dedicate the machine to one game, and don't mind jumping through hurdles to install the next one, but at that point, it's really not a system with no moving parts is it?
I guess it's all a moot point. Your power button still moves.
Because when their old one breaks down, it's generally cheaper to buy a new one than to repair it. If non-RFID players are no longer available, you're screwed.
Or that 85% of the iPod case is protected from shrapnel and the like. That 15% is from when a piece nails the screen or the controls.
What if I don't know how to make my site compliant with ADA, and cannot afford to make it so?
Quiz your students at the end of the lecture over what they just learned. At that point, it doesn't matter how or when the student downloads the lecture because ultimately, the student's grade depends on their daily attendance. But requiring class attendance defeats the point of a podcast, doesn't it? The student pays the university to take your course and has, in essense, paid you to create the podcast and has purchased the right to download it. Why does it matter if the student is physically present? The student may live 40 miles away; with gas approaching $3 a gallon in many places sometimes attending the lecture physically is infeasible. You provide the video and email support outside of class, and your job is done. If the student cannot get by on the podcast alone, he'll come to class on his own or fail the course. Really, what control do you have over that process?
Now they have usernames for people that don't have Google accounts to go with the omnipresent cookie.
It's hardly irrational. My hate for Maxtor is statistical, if you consider that I work with predominantly Dell desktops, and they're almost exclusively Maxtor. Even with Maxtor drives outside of Dell in another company, you see the same shitty failures with them (including the external OneTouch drives). Given that I've seen a Maxtor hard drive in just about every reasonable setting they can expected to be used in, I'd hardly call my distaste for them irrational. Yes, hard drives fail, but they usually fail well beyond the manufacturer's warranty. With a good hard drive, you don't need the warranty.
And if they didn't offer an advanced RMA I'd take my business elsewhere. In my home PC, I've replaced a Maxtor hard drive twice in 4 years while the Western Digital is still puttering right along.
So your Maxtor hard drive failed. Welcome to the club. I have 400 Dell computers in a building where Maxtor hard drive failures are almost a daily occurrance. Erupting in flames isn't something I've encountered, but I'm not really surprised. Furthermore, judging by the photo offered in your link, the difference between an exploding battery and a fried chip are drastic.
So a chip on your drive fried and smoldered a bit. Big deal. I owned an AMD Thunderbird (RIP) that finally got so hot that it fused to the motherboard and MELTED the thermal compound to the cooling fan. I'm not talking discoloration; I mean Arctic Silver charred black on the bottom of a copper plate. I had throw the whole thing away. I've also seen the remnants of a cockroach that managed to crawl into a chassis and chew through a sound card component, which electrocuted the cockroach and let the remains smolder through the card below it. In both cases, there was a lot of smoke (a lot more than yours, I'm afraid), but I'd hardly compare it to a lithium explosion.
Hmm... so "intentionally wiping" the hard disk is a no-no if you're being sued. OK, plan B - if I ever have to surrender my hard drive, I won't intentionally format it. Rather, I'll accidentally trip on the stairs and drop it on my way out. When I picked it up, I accidentally dropped it in the pool. And then I accidentally dropped it under my car tire and ran it over - repeatedly. Then dragged it a couple miles on the freeway. Good luck copying that one guys Or just give them a different hard drive.
from sugarcane, corn or wood -- as a less polluting alternative to fossil fuels.
It's less polluting until you realize that fossil fuel is still a requirement to produce sugarcane, corn, or wood. Unless you're harvesting with oxen and plows, the production of biodiesel still uses the oil you're purportedly saving.
And thank us for all the fish? Surely goldfish don't eat themselves.
"Looming threat" to you. Godsend to the rest of us. Sink or swim, dudes
I can't say I disagree, but how does one identify a Muslim without the person telling you outright? At that point, you must either resort to hearsay or routine surveillance of anyone who "looks" Muslim, or enters a mosque. Yet not all Muslims are good Muslims, just as all Christians aren't good Christians. It's racial profiling at its finest.
Your ideas are intriguing, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Your strategy of tough love, while seemingly not fair to most, seems amazingly effective to me. We need more parents like you.
It seems wholly ironic that Jack Thompson is yet again trying to censor free speech in the state of Florida. You'd think that after the controversy made 2 Live Crew go double platinum, he'd realize that banning media actually encourages sales. He overlooks the fact that if parents were actually parents, the children that shouldn't have violent media won't have violent media.
To expand upon that, I think the saying goes "Please do not feed the trolls." Terrorists are the trolls of the world - if you just ignore them eventually they'll give up.
Right, but even Cable and DSL IP addresses inevitably get reassigned to other users if you get knocked offline for a while (say, to fix your zombied PC's, or to replace your router). Two personal anecdotes to this are when I moved - my cable modem and router were disconnected for a few days, and when I came back the IP had been reassigned. In another case, we had a major storm blow through and knock out power for a day - when I came back online, my IP had been reassigned yet again. Had my former IP addresses been blacklisted by any of these schemes, the next poor sucker that got it wouldn't be able to send any email, legitimate or otherwise. Blocking a wh0red mail server is one thing, but if you start blocking consumer IP's the system inevitably collapses on itself.
There are a number of problems with that. The first is that IP addresses change all the time. All the spammer would have to do is change the host of his spam server, and then some other poor sap trying to send legitimate business emails gets hosed with a dirty IP. Take that a step further to the botnet concept, where one can assume a considerable number of people on the botnet are less-than-savvy computer users that frequently connect to a dial-up connection. Upon sending out spam, your scheme would blacklist their IP so that no one would receive any mail from them, yet when their computer disconnects from the network, it returns a few days later to wreak havoc on the world. Even if you assumed the IP was relatively static (as with a broadband connection), your scheme would still unfairly penalize that user if they ever got their computer fixed, or better, formatted it completely, and when the next poor sucker that hops online gets your recycled, dirty IP, he can't send out email to anyone.
You also fail to consider that a centrally administered database is prone to failure and wide open to attack. Blue Security had such a database this year, and got dDOS'ed by a spiteful spammer hellbent on knocking it offline. While a locally administered database would get around this, you still have to deal with the problems mentioned above.
You would provide that link as a reference to the consumer to come back to the current state later. ie, a link given to the user as "mypage.php?state=15" would allow the user to return the page at state 15 whenever they wish