They have black coffee too, but only sugarless. I think the milk with sugar one is quite nice though, doesnt taste like coffee, tastes more like warm coco-pop milk;) and incase you are wondering, yes, that is different to warm chocolate milkshake.
I gave up trying to get PC Anywhere running (and staying running) on an XP box. It was being used to remotely control and retrieve videos from a machine in another country, due PCA dying at least once every 12 hrs in XP I currently have a linux box killing power to the XP box every night to restart PCA.
PCA has always worked well prior to XP, could this be an attempt at killing off PCA or just a coincidence..
this might be why SpamAssassin adds on 'spam points' for messages ending in numbers. I have been using spam assassin for a few months now, and so far it hasnt let a single spam mail through to my normal mailbox - it did dump 1 legitimate mail into my spambox - but that was a mass-mailed html-only thing that I didnt really care about anyway.
This explains why just about everyone at my uni gets spam then:)
but, sending it to a bunch of students? they dont really expect to get any money from us do they?
I was wondering if there were any portable ogg/vorbis players the other day too. Unfortunalty I found nothing useful except this article which mentions that the HipZip player mentions a company which is responsible for Ogg Vorbis.. And, something about this Dadio OS
First thing I checked was 'what kind of mouse does it come with'. One of these aparently. What is it mac people have against mouse buttons? I remember thinking macs were silly for only having single button mice ages ago but I thought that had all changed now. I was looking at the pics on that page for ages trying to see how many buttons it had, none from what I could see..but the text explains its not a mouse, its just one big optical-motion-tracking-button.
Of course, I guess you could always just buy a new mouse:)
Wouldn't the people who sell their programs (for whom I cant think of a name for at this time of night) to TV broadcasting companies not like this little bit of technology very much? Would they be able to sue if a TV station used it to modify, although only very slighty, the program which they were meant to air?
For the viewer there would probably be no noticeable difference unless you closely examined the whole unedited program all the way through beforehand.. but for the big companies selling their shows it seems like it could be another chance to sue someone and get some extra spending money.
Demos of XP?
Is this a fully functional version of XP which will upgrade your machine from win9X/2K/whatever to XP and work for 14 days then force you to buy it? or is it just the equivalent of a pretty shockwave animation.
If it is the former, wouldnt it trick a few people into paying for XP when they dont actually need it? just because the messages say "buy me or lose your work" ?
People will learn from trying to use these machines though, I was never told anything about using computers apart from dir shows you whats in a directory, cd changes the directory, and anything that ends in.bat,.exe or.com runs when you type its name. Anything else I found out was from playing around.
Sure, not everyone will feel like its safe to just play around, but alot of people will and these ones will probably be able to pass knowledge onto their friends/family.
People learn more from trying things and remembering mistakes they have made, so giving away free machines (running linux or whatever) would probably make a big difference to this digital divide thing.
That page seems to be slashdotted, so I cant see the specs of the machine.. but 1.4GHz and 256Meg ram? thats quicker than normal. I have a 1.4GHz Athlon, which is what I guess it is, and I do lots of playing with recompiling/fixing/recomiling stuff. Normal usage (to me) would mean checking your email, writing letters/stuff with some bloated wordprocessor and maybe playing quake or something:). A machine about half the speed and RAM should do... A 1Ghz AMD Duron should bring the price down a little..
nah, if we made contact with _them_ we might be able to talk them out of firing random comet like objects towards us before they actually get it right and hit us.
Selling a combo unit like this could also get people who are not really bothered about DVDs to at least buy DVDs sometimes. I cant see myself getting a DVD player anytime soon (like many other people) because I dont watch that many videos, and when I do VHS is ok - its not like I have a great TV/sound setup that will take advantage of the better video/sound quality. But, I was planning on getting a gamecube to play with, so if theres nothing to lose by getting one of these instead of a gamecube, and its not too much more expensive, then I probably will. This means that if I rent a video and like it enough to buy it then I would probably get it on DVD because I can now play them on my deformed gamecube.
Its also very shiney, which has to be good...
The Microsoft browser also works with jpg's and animated gifs:) - at least im guessing it does on the J5, because it does on the Z5 (which is slightly older)
I cant see people getting rid of snail-mail in the near future, he said that for packages and things there is UPS or FedEx or whoever.. what stops antrax being 'delivered' via any of them? All physical deliveries would need to be stopped to make sure. Noone will consider abandoning snail-mail until teleportation devices are created:) but of course, even then someone could attach antrax to an email - and how many times would you end up with a half CPU half fly turning up at upgrade time?
Yes, that little thing that always got installed (I dont know if it still does). In Windows 95, the Online Services folder was always there, on your desktop to "help" you choose an ISP that microsoft liked.. later on, in windows 98, there was an option in the installer to choose whether or not the Online Services thing got installed... It didnt matter if you ticked it or not it was there anyway. So, even if Microsoft did add an easy to use/understand method of changing what opens what would it make any difference? They could add that feature, but then just as easily add some code to revert back to the microsoft program which can load those files once a week.
"Copyright is concerned with COPYING work. It does not apply if someone else independently (usually defined as "was not exposed to your work") recreates the thing in question."
But if you go to their website and read their thing about inadvertently breaching the copyright laws, then could they say that you were exposed to their work (if they wanted to)? because you knew that you may be breaking copyright laws.
If so, then your comment would only be applicable to the people who didnt read it, as most slashdot readers will have either seen the Magnus-Opus site or the copy posted in the comment from another user.
Well, now that gtk and gnome are around, X apps are starting to look more "coherent" to me. This is probably the same for the KDE side of things, but I have never used it.
The fact that there is more than one popular GUI toolkit available means there are still going to be strange looking apps out there, but it is definitely getting better than the "everyone designing their own GUI using Xt" days..
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well, yes. You would hope that people at least tried to read the page before making comments.
They have black coffee too, but only sugarless. ;)
I think the milk with sugar one is quite nice though, doesnt taste like coffee, tastes more like warm coco-pop milk
and incase you are wondering, yes, that is different to warm chocolate milkshake.
residing on?
Does that mean that anyone running a program which is shared from an XP machine is breaking the agreement?
I gave up trying to get PC Anywhere running (and staying running) on an XP box. It was being used to remotely control and retrieve videos from a machine in another country, due PCA dying at least once every 12 hrs in XP I currently have a linux box killing power to the XP box every night to restart PCA.
PCA has always worked well prior to XP, could this be an attempt at killing off PCA or just a coincidence..
this might be why SpamAssassin adds on 'spam points' for messages ending in numbers. I have been using spam assassin for a few months now, and so far it hasnt let a single spam mail through to my normal mailbox - it did dump 1 legitimate mail into my spambox - but that was a mass-mailed html-only thing that I didnt really care about anyway.
This explains why just about everyone at my uni gets spam then :)
but, sending it to a bunch of students? they dont really expect to get any money from us do they?
I was wondering if there were any portable ogg/vorbis players the other day too. Unfortunalty I found nothing useful except this article which mentions that the HipZip player mentions a company which is responsible for Ogg Vorbis.. And, something about this Dadio OS
First thing I checked was 'what kind of mouse does it come with'. One of these aparently. What is it mac people have against mouse buttons? I remember thinking macs were silly for only having single button mice ages ago but I thought that had all changed now. I was looking at the pics on that page for ages trying to see how many buttons it had, none from what I could see..but the text explains its not a mouse, its just one big optical-motion-tracking-button. :)
Of course, I guess you could always just buy a new mouse
Wouldn't the people who sell their programs (for whom I cant think of a name for at this time of night) to TV broadcasting companies not like this little bit of technology very much? Would they be able to sue if a TV station used it to modify, although only very slighty, the program which they were meant to air?
For the viewer there would probably be no noticeable difference unless you closely examined the whole unedited program all the way through beforehand.. but for the big companies selling their shows it seems like it could be another chance to sue someone and get some extra spending money.
Who said anything about small?
For more information on the watch and other Bristol uni wearable stuff look at http://wearables.cs.bris.ac.uk
Demos of XP?
Is this a fully functional version of XP which will upgrade your machine from win9X/2K/whatever to XP and work for 14 days then force you to buy it? or is it just the equivalent of a pretty shockwave animation.
If it is the former, wouldnt it trick a few people into paying for XP when they dont actually need it? just because the messages say "buy me or lose your work" ?
People will learn from trying to use these machines though, I was never told anything about using computers apart from dir shows you whats in a directory, cd changes the directory, and anything that ends in .bat, .exe or .com runs when you type its name. Anything else I found out was from playing around.
Sure, not everyone will feel like its safe to just play around, but alot of people will and these ones will probably be able to pass knowledge onto their friends/family.
People learn more from trying things and remembering mistakes they have made, so giving away free machines (running linux or whatever) would probably make a big difference to this digital divide thing.
That page seems to be slashdotted, so I cant see the specs of the machine.. but 1.4GHz and 256Meg ram? thats quicker than normal. I have a 1.4GHz Athlon, which is what I guess it is, and I do lots of playing with recompiling/fixing/recomiling stuff. Normal usage (to me) would mean checking your email, writing letters/stuff with some bloated wordprocessor and maybe playing quake or something :). A machine about half the speed and RAM should do... A 1Ghz AMD Duron should bring the price down a little..
nah, if we made contact with _them_ we might be able to talk them out of firing random comet like objects towards us before they actually get it right and hit us.
Selling a combo unit like this could also get people who are not really bothered about DVDs to at least buy DVDs sometimes. I cant see myself getting a DVD player anytime soon (like many other people) because I dont watch that many videos, and when I do VHS is ok - its not like I have a great TV/sound setup that will take advantage of the better video/sound quality. But, I was planning on getting a gamecube to play with, so if theres nothing to lose by getting one of these instead of a gamecube, and its not too much more expensive, then I probably will. This means that if I rent a video and like it enough to buy it then I would probably get it on DVD because I can now play them on my deformed gamecube.
Its also very shiney, which has to be good...
The Microsoft browser also works with jpg's and animated gifs :) - at least im guessing it does on the J5, because it does on the Z5 (which is slightly older)
How is a dual AMD Athlon machine Intel hardware? It's Intel architechture, but since when were Intel building AMD CPU's?
I cant see people getting rid of snail-mail in the near future, he said that for packages and things there is UPS or FedEx or whoever.. what stops antrax being 'delivered' via any of them? All physical deliveries would need to be stopped to make sure. Noone will consider abandoning snail-mail until teleportation devices are created :) but of course, even then someone could attach antrax to an email - and how many times would you end up with a half CPU half fly turning up at upgrade time?
Actually, its closer to $15,000. Im sure theres lots of currency converters out there that would tell you that
Yes, that little thing that always got installed (I dont know if it still does). In Windows 95, the Online Services folder was always there, on your desktop to "help" you choose an ISP that microsoft liked.. later on, in windows 98, there was an option in the installer to choose whether or not the Online Services thing got installed... It didnt matter if you ticked it or not it was there anyway. So, even if Microsoft did add an easy to use/understand method of changing what opens what would it make any difference? They could add that feature, but then just as easily add some code to revert back to the microsoft program which can load those files once a week.
Of course they would have a use for them, being able to browse porn sites more discreetly for one thing.
"Copyright is concerned with COPYING work. It does not apply if someone else independently (usually defined as "was not exposed to your work") recreates the thing in question."
But if you go to their website and read their thing about inadvertently breaching the copyright laws, then could they say that you were exposed to their work (if they wanted to)? because you knew that you may be breaking copyright laws.
If so, then your comment would only be applicable to the people who didnt read it, as most slashdot readers will have either seen the Magnus-Opus site or the copy posted in the comment from another user.
Well, now that gtk and gnome are around, X apps are starting to look more "coherent" to me. This is probably the same for the KDE side of things, but I have never used it.
The fact that there is more than one popular GUI toolkit available means there are still going to be strange looking apps out there, but it is definitely getting better than the "everyone designing their own GUI using Xt" days..