"Computers are going nowhere" should probably be synonymous with "computers aren't going anywhere" (which I believe is what Cliff intended), but they have very different connotations.
A lot of times stores (esp. department stores) don't keep their registers updated with the floor prices. So if you aren't careful, you may not notice that the sweater you grabbed because it was 50% off is actually being rung up as if it were 30% off.
Of course, if you notice it, they are happy to give you the right price. The Tower situation is absurd and unprofessional, but, as you say, what can you do.
I think the idea is that almost always, the company can count on being able to ship within 30 days. The few times when they're wrong, they pay a nominal fee ($2 or something) to refund the customer's credit card. So businesses that regularly precharge are ones to whom the immediate availability of capital is more beneficial than a few extra dollars would be. It's not surprising that this practice is more common in smaller Internet stores that are looking for growth than in larger, established businesses.
This is one of my new favorite ACs, I should say. How many of us have been saved when some kind soul has posted the story though the site may have been slashdotted? Thank you, sir or ma'am.
Gee, wouldn't that be illegally using their monopoly to muscle out third party developers? Why, if the OS had a PS viewer built in, nobody would every buy one! Businesses would go bankrupt!
Haha, that is what I like to see. Some common sense once in a while.
Some other transgressions: the Mac OS has forced the Apple menu on its users for nearly 20 years. Why can't I have a 3rd party menu? And sure people could download an alternative to GNOME terminal, but realistically who will exert the effort? And why don't I have a choice of who provides me with a tea timer in KDE?
If they charged the credit cards, they're screwed.
Opposite situation: buyer misinterprets the true features of the product and purchases it for more than he would have spent had he been informed. Sure, the store may have a return policy, but I don't believe it is required to. I have definitely bought new products "as is" (RAM, e.g.). AFAIK, Best Buy doesn't require its customers to give it a product-back guarantee or anything, so assuming the customers didn't decide out of the goodness of their hearts (or to beat out competing customers?) to give the store some kind of warranty, I don't see how Best Buy has a leg to stand on.
Lesson to retailers: precharging is evil. Don't do it. And if you do, be prepared to deal with it when you fuck up.
Hey, restricted speech is restricted speech. The real problems I have with banning false advertising relate to how it can be defined and its implications for individuals. Basically, most advertising is misleading, so not only is it hard to distinguish truly "false" advertisements from just tricky ones, but having laws about it encourages consumers to have more faith in advertisements than is really warranted, IMO. Also, where do you draw the line between false advertising and normal lying? Suppose I'm selling my car in a classified ad. Now I can't claim that it goes 500mph. But if I'm talking to my neighbor and he asks how fast my car goes, I can tell him 500mph. And what if he's interested in buying it?
Basically, it is impossible to legislate when lying "should" be illegal. I would rather have people be forced to be more skeptical, than limit speech.
That sounds awesome. In my college days I always embedded latex in my xfig diagrams. I don't know if I'd necessarily want to go any less abstract than that (which isn't saying much, I know) under most circumstances, but it's cool that it's there, I suppose.
Reminds me of the maps for the 3D network game for the Mac that Ambrosia made...Avara, I think? The maps were vector graphics, where different shapes meant different things and text inside the shapes was code. Very cool idea. I think there's still a lot of potential in the idea that source code doesn't necessarily need to be a simple linear text file.
So someone made some shitty Windows mp3 player that does something stupid and in general mucks up ones system. This is news? Why do they need so many mp3 players, anyways? You collection of Beastie Boys and Beck can only be played one at a time, anyway.
If you don't need Windows for work or whatever, I would recommend a better operating system. If you would all install Linux you could stop worrying about stupid problems like spyware, and focus on things that matter, like getting your video card configured.
What is the difference between postscript and DPS? Any reason why DPS can't be integrated into X? The only effects of a DPDF renderer in OS X that I've seen are being able to view.pdf's without Acrobat and having vector-based widgets.
Yeah, I know. The thing is, I tend to patch my Linux kernels rather than download whole new ones, so I can't recompile, say, the new NVdriver module for Linux 2.4.10 (since I don't have a 2.4.10 source tree anymore).
The only good solution I've thought of (but yet to implement) is to use checkinstall (which I already do) to make binary packages of GLX modules, which I save. Then it's just a matter of a removepkg, installpkg, modprobe and I'm in business.
Still don't see that waiving any of BB's rights as stated in the disclaimer. It opens them to "false advertising" charges, but those have always seemed pretty anti-free speech to me. Anyone know if false advertising laws have been tested?
Postscript has the best reproduction accuracy for the file size. Assuming it has any kind of figures or equations, the only other reasonable alternatives are dvi and pdf. I've never seen dvi files rendered in a decent amount of time, and pdf is too fat, esp. for a paper linked to by slashdot.:)
Not to mention that a PDF would be 10x the size. I have no idea why Mac and Windows OS's are so baffled by postscript...half the printer drivers have to deal with it already, why not just bundle a damn interpreter with the OS and have a minimal frontend on it for screen viewing?
Well, in my experience, I'm usually rebooting trying to get some driver to work (recent example is PPP when I got my DSL...I don't like to have unused modules lying around...no, I don't have a good reason). So, lots of kernel recompiles and mucking about before I figure it out, and it ends up being irritating to have to use virtual terminals instead of xterms.
the day i get a virus on my cell phone or pda is the day i throw said cell phone or pda into the windshield of whatever SUV it was that beamed it to me accidently whilst turning around to hit their children.
You will turn around to hit their children? Or the SUV owner will? Whose children, the virus's or the PDA's? Or the SUV's? Or yours?
The day I get a virus in my body is the day I will hurl myself out the window and onto whoever it was who sneezed on me.
This device with a 5GB of data can hold up to 37 hours of MPEG-4 moving images.
This is a hoax. There is no such thing as a "moving image." Such a thing would be as much an absurdity as a carriage which moves under its own power, or heavier-than-air flight, and is the stuff of science fiction.
No, this is still accurate. Major PITA, since the GLX X module needs to be the same version as the kernel module, so even though you can install different kernel modules for different versions of your kernel, you are limited to one GLX module at a time. So every time you reboot to a different kernel you need to recompile the GLX module.:(
I don't think Washington would have been likely to have said that. Jefferson yes (before he became president and became our first dictator), but Washington wasn't into that whole enlightenment thing.
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Dude, programming is not a profession. Indeed, Computer Science is real science. Why else do you think you wear a lab coat and goggles?
"Computers are going nowhere" should probably be synonymous with "computers aren't going anywhere" (which I believe is what Cliff intended), but they have very different connotations.
Of course, if you notice it, they are happy to give you the right price. The Tower situation is absurd and unprofessional, but, as you say, what can you do.
I think the idea is that almost always, the company can count on being able to ship within 30 days. The few times when they're wrong, they pay a nominal fee ($2 or something) to refund the customer's credit card. So businesses that regularly precharge are ones to whom the immediate availability of capital is more beneficial than a few extra dollars would be. It's not surprising that this practice is more common in smaller Internet stores that are looking for growth than in larger, established businesses.
This is one of my new favorite ACs, I should say. How many of us have been saved when some kind soul has posted the story though the site may have been slashdotted? Thank you, sir or ma'am.
Haha, that is what I like to see. Some common sense once in a while.
Some other transgressions: the Mac OS has forced the Apple menu on its users for nearly 20 years. Why can't I have a 3rd party menu? And sure people could download an alternative to GNOME terminal, but realistically who will exert the effort? And why don't I have a choice of who provides me with a tea timer in KDE?
Opposite situation: buyer misinterprets the true features of the product and purchases it for more than he would have spent had he been informed. Sure, the store may have a return policy, but I don't believe it is required to. I have definitely bought new products "as is" (RAM, e.g.). AFAIK, Best Buy doesn't require its customers to give it a product-back guarantee or anything, so assuming the customers didn't decide out of the goodness of their hearts (or to beat out competing customers?) to give the store some kind of warranty, I don't see how Best Buy has a leg to stand on.
Lesson to retailers: precharging is evil. Don't do it. And if you do, be prepared to deal with it when you fuck up.
Basically, it is impossible to legislate when lying "should" be illegal. I would rather have people be forced to be more skeptical, than limit speech.
Reminds me of the maps for the 3D network game for the Mac that Ambrosia made...Avara, I think? The maps were vector graphics, where different shapes meant different things and text inside the shapes was code. Very cool idea. I think there's still a lot of potential in the idea that source code doesn't necessarily need to be a simple linear text file.
If you don't need Windows for work or whatever, I would recommend a better operating system. If you would all install Linux you could stop worrying about stupid problems like spyware, and focus on things that matter, like getting your video card configured.
NM, here is this project that seems to be just that. Apparently Display Ghostscript is dead, but DPS lives on. Still don't see what the big whoop is.
What is the difference between postscript and DPS? Any reason why DPS can't be integrated into X? The only effects of a DPDF renderer in OS X that I've seen are being able to view .pdf's without Acrobat and having vector-based widgets.
The only good solution I've thought of (but yet to implement) is to use checkinstall (which I already do) to make binary packages of GLX modules, which I save. Then it's just a matter of a removepkg, installpkg, modprobe and I'm in business.
Still don't see that waiving any of BB's rights as stated in the disclaimer. It opens them to "false advertising" charges, but those have always seemed pretty anti-free speech to me. Anyone know if false advertising laws have been tested?
Postscript has the best reproduction accuracy for the file size. Assuming it has any kind of figures or equations, the only other reasonable alternatives are dvi and pdf. I've never seen dvi files rendered in a decent amount of time, and pdf is too fat, esp. for a paper linked to by slashdot. :)
Not to mention that a PDF would be 10x the size. I have no idea why Mac and Windows OS's are so baffled by postscript...half the printer drivers have to deal with it already, why not just bundle a damn interpreter with the OS and have a minimal frontend on it for screen viewing?
Aren't parasites more "biological organisms" than viruses are? I mean, viruses aren't even really alive.
In the words of Homer Simpson, I'll take the crab juice.
Well, in my experience, I'm usually rebooting trying to get some driver to work (recent example is PPP when I got my DSL...I don't like to have unused modules lying around...no, I don't have a good reason). So, lots of kernel recompiles and mucking about before I figure it out, and it ends up being irritating to have to use virtual terminals instead of xterms.
You will turn around to hit their children? Or the SUV owner will? Whose children, the virus's or the PDA's? Or the SUV's? Or yours?
The day I get a virus in my body is the day I will hurl myself out the window and onto whoever it was who sneezed on me.
This is a hoax. There is no such thing as a "moving image." Such a thing would be as much an absurdity as a carriage which moves under its own power, or heavier-than-air flight, and is the stuff of science fiction.
No, this is still accurate. Major PITA, since the GLX X module needs to be the same version as the kernel module, so even though you can install different kernel modules for different versions of your kernel, you are limited to one GLX module at a time. So every time you reboot to a different kernel you need to recompile the GLX module. :(
I assume this was followed by a round of high fives.
I don't think Washington would have been likely to have said that. Jefferson yes (before he became president and became our first dictator), but Washington wasn't into that whole enlightenment thing.
I thought it was a command line program...