I'm like the above poster who got/gets them via dumpster diving, i.e., for free. Geez, the support folks at work had an entire cubicle filled with Model Ms that were going to be pitched in the trash. They let me take as many as I could carry. Which was a lot. All I gotta do now is hope there'll always be a PS2 port available or an adapter and I'm set for life as far as keyboards go. Those suckers last forever. Heck, the one I'm using right now is over 17 years old and still going strong.
``It's the law that the telco provide your phone with power, meaning even in a power outage, you can use your phone (dial 911, etc.).''
In theory, yes. But how many people have a phone that doesn't require a power supply wart plugged into AC for it to work. It's nigh upon impossible to even find a phone that doesn't require AC to operate any more. Of course, I suppose one could stick a UPS on their kitchen counter to keep the phone alive. (Yah, right. The missus would just love that.) I've hung on to an '80s-era cheapo Radio Shack phone that'll work when plugged into the phone jack. Just for cases when we have an extended power outage.
Windows was buggy? Heh heh. How about was buggy, is buggy, and always will be buggy.
You just sit there, Varun, your gaze fixed on your monitor while the pretty XP eye candy lulls you into thinking that your using a high quality piece of software. The rest of the planet is abandoning your favorite product in favor of something that does work (and works damn well at just about everything that I've thrown at it -- and that's a lot). Windows is suitable as a platform for running Firefox (never IE!) and playing a few games. And that's it.
Oh yes, we all hate Microsoft because we're jealous of it's success, of Bill Gates' fortune, or whatever. Uh huh. Right. Sorry to burst your little bubble there, but we hate it because they waste our money and, most of all, our time. It's been a stain on the computing industry for the better part of two decades.
``Considering the fact that everyone who knows how to write two bits of code dreams of hitting windows with a virus.''
Interesting that in going on thirty years of coding, I've never once dreamt of writing a virus. Guess I'm a freak or something.
``In Linux, you have to recompile a kernel if you want to so much as change your modem!''
Yes, that's true. But only if you're an idiot. I haven't recompiled a kernel in several years (modules are quite nice that way) and even then, it was never to do something like changing my modem. I have no idea where you got this idea, but whoever told you this was spouting crap. To quote Wolfgang Pauli:
``This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.''
I won't even attempt to address your jingoistic comments about the EU and your infantile attempt to explain business motives. And I've made a mental note to never visit ``CoolTechZone'' again. (``Ultimate Source'' my eye.)
``... let someone develop the market then take it over by any means.''
When I first saw this article I thought ``Well, perhaps, I'll be getting less spam with a Cyrillic character set than I've been getting.'' But more and more I'm thinking I'll be getting the same as before, if not more. The difference will be that someone else on the transmitting end will be getting paid for sending it.
``I agreed totally with your assessment up to the point where you said "carry a weapon".
Yah, that was pretty wierd. Wonder how you'd get in out of the U.S. let alone into your destination country.
Actually, if you need an armed escort, a few of the countries in Africa will arrange to provide you with one. At least that was the case when my sister was over there a few years ago assisting a classmate on a project to track rhinos (by collecting their, um, ah, droppings). The govt. provided an escort complete with AK47s to ward off poachers.
What part of the concept of ``cult'' do they not understand. If they wanted lots of hits it wouldn't been very ``cultish'' now would it? They were hoping that their viewership would have number like, say, Star Trek?
Sorry if I seem to be struggling with the problem they claim to be having over putting up content that is decidedly less than mainstream and then complaining that the number of viewers isn't what they hoped. (If it pleases the court, i'm going to plead lack of caffiene.)
I would like to read about how they are going to construct a chip that rewrites the laws of physics and makes those L-band signals available inside buildings. The GPS signal bounces off most buildings like crazy rendering the position solution almost useless. It's not a matter of signal strength. It's a matter of the reflected signals messing up the pseudoranges so badly that your position solution is worthless. If I'm going to rely on a GPS chip in a cell phone to guide rescuers to me, I better have a good life insurance policy because all they're going to get is an gross approximation of my location. It could be off by blocks in a large city. Last time I checked (and it's been a number of years since I worked in that field), automotive uses of GPS in urban environments had to employ various sensors to provide dead reckoning in between the sporadic GPS reception that was available in the city. How they'd get accurate position from a cellphone in that environment is what I'd be interested in knowing. (Don't know about you but I don't plan on wearing a bunch of additional hardware just to help a cellphone figure out where it is.)
Heh, heh... There was a thread on one of the Yahoo finance forums that mentioned that the third-party company had been recently advertising for folks with Windows 2000 systems experience, etc.
No date was mentioned on the forum regarding when those ads were seen (or how old they might have been at the time) but I wonder if they haven't canned the dolt who was responsible for systems management and aren't trying to find a replacement. (I already pity the poor slob that comes into take over after this snafu. But just a little bit.)
``... OS X, which will soon be the primary x86 alternative to Windows XP not only because of OS X's dedicated and outspoken user base but because of its slick looks and ease of use.''
What makes OS X on an Intel-based Mac more attractive than on a Power-based Mac? Is the slick OS X user interface somehow made more slick by running on an Intel processor?
Apple has said (if memory serves) that OS X will only run on an Apple-manufactured Intel-based system which I'd expect to cost considerably more than a garden variety PC. So those who didn't switch to OS X on Power due to cost of the proprietary Apple hardware will suddenly open up their wallets and spring for the more expensive alternative because it's running on Intel's chip?
Sounds to me like some anti-Linux writers grasping for a straw.
I heard about this on the local Chicago news last night (06/17). It was one of the first stories reported. Heck they were doing promos for the 10PM news all evening long that mentioned the breach. For it to take the lead over the daily reporting of Chicago city government corruption was quite surprising. I jumped onto the normal sites where I would have expected to get more information about this incident (including/.) and found no mention of this story. Anywhere. There were, though, stories about telepresence and terraforming to be found here. So I guess this story should have had a science fiction component to get onto/. earlier. If only Theo de Raadt had ranted about it...
I knew that. I used to spend quite a bit of time at UofC years ago. Ran many a time on their old dirt indoor track (they used to hold indoor marathon's on that beast) as well as in their 'new' fieldhouse (well it was new in the later '70s). Spent many a summer at the productions of the Court Theatre when it was held outdoors on campus. One of my favorite bars in the world is Jimmy's (God rest his soul), dive that it is. A couple of friends have taken advanced degrees from there. As a result, even though I never was enrolled there, I'm familiar with The Maroon.
I suggest you rent a copy of some old Loony Toons. Maybe you'll get the humor in "The Maroon". Then again, maybe you won't.
I want a couple of handfuls of these to use in my home system. These aren't all that big so making a one or more RAIDsets would be nice, especially come backup time. Added plus: No spinning drives or the auxiliary fans to keep them cooled == nice quiet system.
``then in a small box a contract or whatever saying 'if you press ok you agree with...'''
Oh, yes. The popular view window that Windows love using that allows you to look at a 1,200 line file three lines at a time. Everyone, and I mean everyone, just loves that. After encountering one of those, does anyone actually spend time wondering why people merely click through without reading the effing EULA? Not that a resizable window would cause everyone to thoroughly read the legalese but it would at least make it possible.
Luckily, the masochistic of us will have discovered that the contents of that 3-line window can be copied onto the clipboard so you can paste it into something that makes reading it easier. (That doesn't work, of course, when you're installing Windows -- "Uh, paste it where?" -- but for 3rd party software it should be standard procedure.) Just ignore that BS about shutting down all other programs while installing the software. I mean, if the installer can't work properly because you have a copy of Notepad running... they're trying to hide something from you.
I have never seen the nightly cleaning staff use separate containers or trash bags for the contents of our "recycling" trash cans. It all goes into the same place. I've watched them do it. They stroll into my office and empty both cans into the same trash barrel. Boy, didn't I feel stupid for complying with the instructions in the memo that said we had to make sure we removed stables from paper before tossing it into the recycling can.
Management makes a big deal about being so "green" and promoting recycling but it's all lip service. I suspect that when they got the bill from the janitorial service for the cost of their people having to empty the trash in two different ways, the practice stopped. The company cafeteria is the only place where any effort is made to actually recycle.
``...watch me file this document in the recycle bin...oh, i mean trash.''
If you're working at a company that's given you a separate container in which you put your recycling, try the following experiment: Next time you're working late, watch and see what the cleaning people do with the contents of your recycling can and your trash can.
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You actually paid for yours?
I'm like the above poster who got/gets them via dumpster diving, i.e., for free. Geez, the support folks at work had an entire cubicle filled with Model Ms that were going to be pitched in the trash. They let me take as many as I could carry. Which was a lot. All I gotta do now is hope there'll always be a PS2 port available or an adapter and I'm set for life as far as keyboards go. Those suckers last forever. Heck, the one I'm using right now is over 17 years old and still going strong.
In theory, yes. But how many people have a phone that doesn't require a power supply wart plugged into AC for it to work. It's nigh upon impossible to even find a phone that doesn't require AC to operate any more. Of course, I suppose one could stick a UPS on their kitchen counter to keep the phone alive. (Yah, right. The missus would just love that.) I've hung on to an '80s-era cheapo Radio Shack phone that'll work when plugged into the phone jack. Just for cases when we have an extended power outage.
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Windows was buggy? Heh heh. How about was buggy, is buggy, and always will be buggy.
You just sit there, Varun, your gaze fixed on your monitor while the pretty XP eye candy lulls you into thinking that your using a high quality piece of software. The rest of the planet is abandoning your favorite product in favor of something that does work (and works damn well at just about everything that I've thrown at it -- and that's a lot). Windows is suitable as a platform for running Firefox (never IE!) and playing a few games. And that's it.
Oh yes, we all hate Microsoft because we're jealous of it's success, of Bill Gates' fortune, or whatever. Uh huh. Right. Sorry to burst your little bubble there, but we hate it because they waste our money and, most of all, our time. It's been a stain on the computing industry for the better part of two decades.
Interesting that in going on thirty years of coding, I've never once dreamt of writing a virus. Guess I'm a freak or something.
Yes, that's true. But only if you're an idiot. I haven't recompiled a kernel in several years (modules are quite nice that way) and even then, it was never to do something like changing my modem. I have no idea where you got this idea, but whoever told you this was spouting crap. To quote Wolfgang Pauli:
I won't even attempt to address your jingoistic comments about the EU and your infantile attempt to explain business motives. And I've made a mental note to never visit ``CoolTechZone'' again. (``Ultimate Source'' my eye.)
Have a nice day and call us when you get a clue.
Yes!
(I find it's a .sig that ferrets out old-timers. I'll bet I just found another one. :-D )
When I first saw this article I thought ``Well, perhaps, I'll be getting less spam with a Cyrillic character set than I've been getting.'' But more and more I'm thinking I'll be getting the same as before, if not more. The difference will be that someone else on the transmitting end will be getting paid for sending it.
Yah, that was pretty wierd. Wonder how you'd get in out of the U.S. let alone into your destination country.
Actually, if you need an armed escort, a few of the countries in Africa will arrange to provide you with one. At least that was the case when my sister was over there a few years ago assisting a classmate on a project to track rhinos (by collecting their, um, ah, droppings). The govt. provided an escort complete with AK47s to ward off poachers.
What part of the concept of ``cult'' do they not understand. If they wanted lots of hits it wouldn't been very ``cultish'' now would it? They were hoping that their viewership would have number like, say, Star Trek?
Sorry if I seem to be struggling with the problem they claim to be having over putting up content that is decidedly less than mainstream and then complaining that the number of viewers isn't what they hoped. (If it pleases the court, i'm going to plead lack of caffiene.)
They have a job opening for a software developer that sounds like it was Chip's old job.
Here's hoping they have a hell of a time finding the right candidate.
A mispelled word in a TV ad. If memory serves it was a Toyota car ad.
I'm thinking it was done deliberately. Now that I've seen one, I'll actually watch the commercials to see if I can spot other typos.
I was getting all excited when I interpretted UAV as Urban Assualt Vehicle. That I could use.
Link please?
I would like to read about how they are going to construct a chip that rewrites the laws of physics and makes those L-band signals available inside buildings. The GPS signal bounces off most buildings like crazy rendering the position solution almost useless. It's not a matter of signal strength. It's a matter of the reflected signals messing up the pseudoranges so badly that your position solution is worthless. If I'm going to rely on a GPS chip in a cell phone to guide rescuers to me, I better have a good life insurance policy because all they're going to get is an gross approximation of my location. It could be off by blocks in a large city. Last time I checked (and it's been a number of years since I worked in that field), automotive uses of GPS in urban environments had to employ various sensors to provide dead reckoning in between the sporadic GPS reception that was available in the city. How they'd get accurate position from a cellphone in that environment is what I'd be interested in knowing. (Don't know about you but I don't plan on wearing a bunch of additional hardware just to help a cellphone figure out where it is.)
Heh, heh... There was a thread on one of the Yahoo finance forums that mentioned that the third-party company had been recently advertising for folks with Windows 2000 systems experience, etc.
No date was mentioned on the forum regarding when those ads were seen (or how old they might have been at the time) but I wonder if they haven't canned the dolt who was responsible for systems management and aren't trying to find a replacement. (I already pity the poor slob that comes into take over after this snafu. But just a little bit.)
What makes OS X on an Intel-based Mac more attractive than on a Power-based Mac? Is the slick OS X user interface somehow made more slick by running on an Intel processor?
Apple has said (if memory serves) that OS X will only run on an Apple-manufactured Intel-based system which I'd expect to cost considerably more than a garden variety PC. So those who didn't switch to OS X on Power due to cost of the proprietary Apple hardware will suddenly open up their wallets and spring for the more expensive alternative because it's running on Intel's chip?
Sounds to me like some anti-Linux writers grasping for a straw.
I heard about this on the local Chicago news last night (06/17). It was one of the first stories reported. Heck they were doing promos for the 10PM news all evening long that mentioned the breach. For it to take the lead over the daily reporting of Chicago city government corruption was quite surprising. I jumped onto the normal sites where I would have expected to get more information about this incident (including /.) and found no mention of this story. Anywhere. There were, though, stories about telepresence and terraforming to be found here. So I guess this story should have had a science fiction component to get onto /. earlier. If only Theo de Raadt had ranted about it...
They must have forgotten about the XML-related patent that Microsoft received. It's hard to make something more proprietary than when you patent it.
Lighten up.
I knew that. I used to spend quite a bit of time at UofC years ago. Ran many a time on their old dirt indoor track (they used to hold indoor marathon's on that beast) as well as in their 'new' fieldhouse (well it was new in the later '70s). Spent many a summer at the productions of the Court Theatre when it was held outdoors on campus. One of my favorite bars in the world is Jimmy's (God rest his soul), dive that it is. A couple of friends have taken advanced degrees from there. As a result, even though I never was enrolled there, I'm familiar with The Maroon.
I suggest you rent a copy of some old Loony Toons. Maybe you'll get the humor in "The Maroon". Then again, maybe you won't.
Probably from the era when PCs had ``fixed'' disc drives, right?
[cringe] I work with people who still call it DASD.
Can't beat the parallelism, though. Not yet, anyway.
I want a couple of handfuls of these to use in my home system. These aren't all that big so making a one or more RAIDsets would be nice, especially come backup time. Added plus: No spinning drives or the auxiliary fans to keep them cooled == nice quiet system.
Oh, yes. The popular view window that Windows love using that allows you to look at a 1,200 line file three lines at a time. Everyone, and I mean everyone, just loves that. After encountering one of those, does anyone actually spend time wondering why people merely click through without reading the effing EULA? Not that a resizable window would cause everyone to thoroughly read the legalese but it would at least make it possible.
Luckily, the masochistic of us will have discovered that the contents of that 3-line window can be copied onto the clipboard so you can paste it into something that makes reading it easier. (That doesn't work, of course, when you're installing Windows -- "Uh, paste it where?" -- but for 3rd party software it should be standard procedure.) Just ignore that BS about shutting down all other programs while installing the software. I mean, if the installer can't work properly because you have a copy of Notepad running... they're trying to hide something from you.
Disturbing? No.
Predictable? Yep.
I have never seen the nightly cleaning staff use separate containers or trash bags for the contents of our "recycling" trash cans. It all goes into the same place. I've watched them do it. They stroll into my office and empty both cans into the same trash barrel. Boy, didn't I feel stupid for complying with the instructions in the memo that said we had to make sure we removed stables from paper before tossing it into the recycling can.
Management makes a big deal about being so "green" and promoting recycling but it's all lip service. I suspect that when they got the bill from the janitorial service for the cost of their people having to empty the trash in two different ways, the practice stopped. The company cafeteria is the only place where any effort is made to actually recycle.
But, like I said: way off-topic. :-)
If you're working at a company that's given you a separate container in which you put your recycling, try the following experiment: Next time you're working late, watch and see what the cleaning people do with the contents of your recycling can and your trash can.
It's why you should avoid using Windows.