They cover that in TFA. The make it swim upstream against the bloodflow, so if it loses power it drifts back to the original entry point for extraction. Even the most sophisticated motor can break down, and then what?
"It is indeed something we're concerned about," Friend said. That's why the scientists plan to swim the robot against the current of the blood, so if it loses power it will return to the point of entry."
Or they could really Fantastic Voyage it and have it go for the tear ducts in the eye and come out in a tear.
You can copy the media as much as you want. You just can't distribute it, especially to someone without a license. The media is just that - a physical disc. Without a valid license to use it, it is simply just a nice shiny object.
I work at a university where we have a camus wide agreement with Microsoft. When I want to install Office or XP, I download the images from a central server and burn the CDs myself. MS doesn't care how may copies of the media we make, because we are all valid license holders. We are not allowed, however, to give said media to anyone off campus who doesn't fall under the agreement.
Actually, Bill Gates doesn't like DRM too much. Recently at a bloggers conference in Redmond, he had this to say.
Gates didn't get into what could replace DRM, but he did give some reasonably candid insights suggesting that he thinks DRM is as lame as the rest of us.
Gates said that no one is satisfied with the current state of DRM, which "causes too much pain for legitmate buyers" while trying to distinguish between legal and illegal uses. He says no one has done it right, yet. There are "huge problems" with DRM, he says, and "we need more flexible models, such as the ability to "buy an artist out for life" (not sure what he means). He also criticized DRM schemes that try to install intelligence in each copy so that it is device specific.
His short term advice: "People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then."
Technically, you don't need an official CD (or DVD) to have a valid installation. Microsoft is more interested in your license than they are the media you installed from. If they asked me about the CD I installed from, I'd have to tell them - "It's an Imation CD-R, with XP SP2+rollups" written in black Sharpie on it - we get our licenses and media separately. But then again, it is a corporate volume-license key version that doesn't require activation, so I wouldn't need to talk to MS in the first place...
If I find an open printer with out an admin password set, I generally will go in and keep changing the language to Portuguese or German on the control panel. It is mostly harmless, and points out the fact that someone can go in and easily change their settings. Some control panels even let you display a custom message. On those I have it read "CHANGE YOUR ADMIN PASSWORD NOW!" or "I AM NOT SECURE!"
"If someone can tell who you voted for, your vote is completely worthless and should not be counted at all."
So when the votes are tallied, if they can figure out who you voted for, it isn't counted. Isn't that kind of the opposite of the situation in Florida and Ohio in the last elections? Do you only count those votes that you can't determine who they voted for?? Which candidate gets the indeterminate votes?? This sounds like a brilliant system - I'm sure Katherine Harris would support it...
Congratulations! It took just a little over half an hour for Microsoft to get mentioned in a subject that has completely zero to do with them... God how I love Slashdot! Now if someone would just mention Nazis...
I would support it if it wasn't anything but politics and a dream. The Cold War is over, we don't need this - it was never designed to work. It was designed to scare the hell out of the the Russians. Ronald Reagan claimed he would have it working and it has limped on since then.
With the world view of the US now, if somehow we DID have a working model, what do you think the geniuses in the administration would do if they could attack other countries, and know we could knock down a retaliation?? Not use it?? That would pave the way for using nukes in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc.
I'm not patriotic enough to label you 'stupid', but is that really the scenario you want??
I agree. But it sucks to program in, and sucks even worse to debug. Any modern database blows it away. I still say I retain my funny, all points considered.
Yeah, if only ANY of the "Star Wars" anti-missle devices could ever come close to hitting the targets, it may justify the billions the US has spent on them.
Holy cripes, I had forgotten about Shadowrun...I think I am going to dig out my old Sega when I get home and play it!!
A sequel to this would be very welcome, but only if the did the gameplay in the same style.
BTW - if you liked the hacking part of Shadowrun, there is a game called Decker that is almost identical to that portion of the game out for the PC. Check it out - http://www.caro.net/dsi/decker/
I second this. Played Wasteland in the 80s and instantly loved Fallout when it was released. Fallout 2 was good also, but Fallout Tactics was basically only combat and none of the RPG elements that made it fun to begin with. I don't think I even made it past the first 5 scenarios...
Also on my list:
Blood 3
System Shock 3
Thief 4
No One Lives Forever 3
Starcraft 2
Rise of Nations 2
Shadow Warrior 2 (You want to wash wang or watch Wang wash wang?)
Any updated version of Wing Commander
That's like saying all cars are equal, or all food is equal, or all operating systems are equal. You can judge different types of art for different merits. I wouldn't compare say, a Van Gogh painting and a Frank Miller comic with the same criteria, but they are certainly both art, and certainly both good (in my opinion). But nearly impossible to judge the two on the exact same criteria.
To me, good art is anything that causes some type of reaction within you - good, bad, disgusted, ecstatic, etc.. Bad art to me is something you experience and then quickly forget about, without really forming any opinions...
"Switching is overrated, you stick with what works for you."
Shhh, don't tell that to Mr. Jobs - he is building their current strategy on just the opposite.
On a side note, I have installed half a dozen laptop drives in Mac laptops myself, and yes, the $100 ones. I told one professor where I work that I would do it for half the price she was quoted at the Apple store, and the drive was 20GB bigger to boot. She foolishly called the Apple store and asked them what she should do. Guess what they told her? Not only that it would "void every warranty she currently had" but that "there is no way a third market drive would even work in your Mac" - both blatant bald faced lies. I told her if it didn't work, I would pay for the new drive myself at the Apple store. To this day her Powerbook is still chugging away with the drive "that would never even work" in her Mac - and for half of what they would have charged. You are right - never trust a commision-based salesperson for an honest answer... If you ever want to see a salesperson squirm, ask them to get all the claims in writing that they just told you verbally.
But if you read the original post, he isn't a geeky early adapter. He specifically wanted to switch platforms because "Macs Just Work" - and was told the same by the fine commision-based salespeople at the Apple store. He thought there may be issuses with software, and voiced those issues to the Apple people, who told him it would "Just Work" under emmulation until the real solution came out. It would be much different if he was already a Machead, and was just looking to upgrade to a shiny new machine. But that isn't the case... True, if he had wanted true 100% convenience, he should have bought a new PC. But do you think Apple is going to tell him that?
"Must buy new shiny Intel Mac Pro. Must run software buggy on original PPC, can't use old, functioning, reliable, PowerMac, because... it's OLD!!"
Are you that illiterate, Coward, or just being deliberately stupid?? His "old PowerMac" IS AN OLD PC - as in "IBM Compatible" PC..as in runs Windows, not any version of MacOS - old, X or otherwise...
It's morons like you that frustrate people new to the Mac world... Sure PCs break, but at least you don't have to deal with smug, self-righteous pricks when it happens..
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They cover that in TFA. The make it swim upstream against the bloodflow, so if it loses power it drifts back to the original entry point for extraction.
Even the most sophisticated motor can break down, and then what?
"It is indeed something we're concerned about," Friend said. That's why the scientists plan to swim the robot against the current of the blood, so if it loses power it will return to the point of entry."
Or they could really Fantastic Voyage it and have it go for the tear ducts in the eye and come out in a tear.
You can copy the media as much as you want. You just can't distribute it, especially to someone without a license. The media is just that - a physical disc. Without a valid license to use it, it is simply just a nice shiny object.
I work at a university where we have a camus wide agreement with Microsoft. When I want to install Office or XP, I download the images from a central server and burn the CDs myself. MS doesn't care how may copies of the media we make, because we are all valid license holders. We are not allowed, however, to give said media to anyone off campus who doesn't fall under the agreement.
I'm sure artists would support this and label shake in fear from it.
Actually, Bill Gates doesn't like DRM too much. Recently at a bloggers conference in Redmond, he had this to say.
n -the-future-of-drm/
Gates didn't get into what could replace DRM, but he did give some reasonably candid insights suggesting that he thinks DRM is as lame as the rest of us. Gates said that no one is satisfied with the current state of DRM, which "causes too much pain for legitmate buyers" while trying to distinguish between legal and illegal uses. He says no one has done it right, yet. There are "huge problems" with DRM, he says, and "we need more flexible models, such as the ability to "buy an artist out for life" (not sure what he means). He also criticized DRM schemes that try to install intelligence in each copy so that it is device specific.
His short term advice: "People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/14/bill-gates-o
Technically, you don't need an official CD (or DVD) to have a valid installation. Microsoft is more interested in your license than they are the media you installed from. If they asked me about the CD I installed from, I'd have to tell them - "It's an Imation CD-R, with XP SP2+rollups" written in black Sharpie on it - we get our licenses and media separately. But then again, it is a corporate volume-license key version that doesn't require activation, so I wouldn't need to talk to MS in the first place...
"Death Blow: Where someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are, but for different reasons altogether."
http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheLittleKicks.htm
If I find an open printer with out an admin password set, I generally will go in and keep changing the language to Portuguese or German on the control panel. It is mostly harmless, and points out the fact that someone can go in and easily change their settings. Some control panels even let you display a custom message. On those I have it read "CHANGE YOUR ADMIN PASSWORD NOW!" or "I AM NOT SECURE!"
"If someone can tell who you voted for, your vote is completely worthless and should not be counted at all."
So when the votes are tallied, if they can figure out who you voted for, it isn't counted. Isn't that kind of the opposite of the situation in Florida and Ohio in the last elections? Do you only count those votes that you can't determine who they voted for?? Which candidate gets the indeterminate votes?? This sounds like a brilliant system - I'm sure Katherine Harris would support it...
Congratulations! It took just a little over half an hour for Microsoft to get mentioned in a subject that has completely zero to do with them... God how I love Slashdot! Now if someone would just mention Nazis...
I would support it if it wasn't anything but politics and a dream. The Cold War is over, we don't need this - it was never designed to work. It was designed to scare the hell out of the the Russians. Ronald Reagan claimed he would have it working and it has limped on since then.
With the world view of the US now, if somehow we DID have a working model, what do you think the geniuses in the administration would do if they could attack other countries, and know we could knock down a retaliation?? Not use it?? That would pave the way for using nukes in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc.
I'm not patriotic enough to label you 'stupid', but is that really the scenario you want??
No, I meant more like these-
. stm - Missle defence shield test failsl /main666433.shtml - Missle defense fails againi le_defence_system_test_fails -Second U.S. anti-missile defence system test fails
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4097267
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/12/nationa
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair09232006.html - Star Wars Goes Online...Crashes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/824828.stm - Test failur fuels skepticism
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2924 - US missile defence test dodges decoys
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/N5/long4_5.5w.html - Missile Defense System Test Fails
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Second_U.S._anti-miss
I agree. But it sucks to program in, and sucks even worse to debug. Any modern database blows it away. I still say I retain my funny, all points considered.
Yeah, if only ANY of the "Star Wars" anti-missle devices could ever come close to hitting the targets, it may justify the billions the US has spent on them.
"So hating one of the major political parties involved in that election makes him neutral?"
Hey, it works for Bill O'Reilly!
Holy cripes, I had forgotten about Shadowrun...I think I am going to dig out my old Sega when I get home and play it!!
A sequel to this would be very welcome, but only if the did the gameplay in the same style.
BTW - if you liked the hacking part of Shadowrun, there is a game called Decker that is almost identical to that portion of the game out for the PC. Check it out - http://www.caro.net/dsi/decker/
Cheers!
You need to download the official patch for System Shock 2:
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/systemshock2/
You'll need the file shkpatch.exe, it fixes issues with Windows XP.
Also to install System Shock under XP you'll need to add
"-lgntforce" to the setup instruction e.g. -- if that doesn't work try it with "-ntforce"
d:\setup.exe -lgntforce (or d:\setup.exe -ntforce)
If you are getting lockups or having problems getting it to run, try these additional steps:
Add the line "safe_texture_manager", without quotes to the Shock.cfg file.
Start System Shock 2 and while still on the main menu, goto Task Manager.
Right-click on the Shock2.exe application and goto Set Affinity. Uncheck everything except for CPU 0.
Then go here - http://shtup.home.att.net/files/shtup_beta5.zip - and downlaod the graphics upgrade package which will increase polygon counts on models to make things look better.
Good luck, and enjoy!
I second this. Played Wasteland in the 80s and instantly loved Fallout when it was released. Fallout 2 was good also, but Fallout Tactics was basically only combat and none of the RPG elements that made it fun to begin with. I don't think I even made it past the first 5 scenarios...
Also on my list:
Blood 3
System Shock 3
Thief 4
No One Lives Forever 3
Starcraft 2
Rise of Nations 2
Shadow Warrior 2 (You want to wash wang or watch Wang wash wang?)
Any updated version of Wing Commander
That's like saying all cars are equal, or all food is equal, or all operating systems are equal. You can judge different types of art for different merits. I wouldn't compare say, a Van Gogh painting and a Frank Miller comic with the same criteria, but they are certainly both art, and certainly both good (in my opinion). But nearly impossible to judge the two on the exact same criteria.
To me, good art is anything that causes some type of reaction within you - good, bad, disgusted, ecstatic, etc.. Bad art to me is something you experience and then quickly forget about, without really forming any opinions...
Please, like they don't know already....
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I hear Men In Black is one of their favorite downloads...
http://www.torrentz.com/005f30771f39b8722749dfce0
"Switching is overrated, you stick with what works for you."
Shhh, don't tell that to Mr. Jobs - he is building their current strategy on just the opposite.
On a side note, I have installed half a dozen laptop drives in Mac laptops myself, and yes, the $100 ones. I told one professor where I work that I would do it for half the price she was quoted at the Apple store, and the drive was 20GB bigger to boot. She foolishly called the Apple store and asked them what she should do. Guess what they told her? Not only that it would "void every warranty she currently had" but that "there is no way a third market drive would even work in your Mac" - both blatant bald faced lies. I told her if it didn't work, I would pay for the new drive myself at the Apple store. To this day her Powerbook is still chugging away with the drive "that would never even work" in her Mac - and for half of what they would have charged. You are right - never trust a commision-based salesperson for an honest answer... If you ever want to see a salesperson squirm, ask them to get all the claims in writing that they just told you verbally.
But if you read the original post, he isn't a geeky early adapter. He specifically wanted to switch platforms because "Macs Just Work" - and was told the same by the fine commision-based salespeople at the Apple store. He thought there may be issuses with software, and voiced those issues to the Apple people, who told him it would "Just Work" under emmulation until the real solution came out. It would be much different if he was already a Machead, and was just looking to upgrade to a shiny new machine. But that isn't the case... True, if he had wanted true 100% convenience, he should have bought a new PC. But do you think Apple is going to tell him that?
Exactly. If you look at the latest polls, only about 1/3 of the US population agrees with Bush on anything...
"Must buy new shiny Intel Mac Pro. Must run software buggy on original PPC, can't use old, functioning, reliable, PowerMac, because... it's OLD!!"
Are you that illiterate, Coward, or just being deliberately stupid?? His "old PowerMac" IS AN OLD PC - as in "IBM Compatible" PC..as in runs Windows, not any version of MacOS - old, X or otherwise...
It's morons like you that frustrate people new to the Mac world... Sure PCs break, but at least you don't have to deal with smug, self-righteous pricks when it happens..
And this works for all Apple problems equally -
To sum up, you only have you to blame of {insert Appple problem here}
And you thought the Linux "RTFM" crowd was tough...
plus that cool all black ship that flies into the sun...