Isn't this the normal thing with companies nowadays? The say one thing in their marketing and demos and then when production comes they change the specs.
Several months ago I had to buy a system from a store because the old system was dying but that system was preload with Vista and the application was running on it wasn't Vista compatible yet so I had to buy XP. I wanted a system preload with XP but they don't have that because MS was strong arming the hardware vendors to preload Vista and sent a ugly compliant to hardware manufacture and store. I wish that more hardware manufactures would allow the customers to buy the OS they wish on the system they want.
I think in jolly ole England those Maximum Clearance" sign are marked "Max. Headroom".
How many times have truck drivers, in England they are called lorry drivers, ignore all of those signs. Here are some image of what happens if someone ignores those signs:
http://www.dhsdiecast.com/content/gallery/index.cfm?gallery_photo_id=3770http://www.dhsdiecast.com/content/gallery/index.cfm?gallery_photo_id=228
There are many others you can search the internet for.
I know there are many other villages in Europe that are in the similar condition in which the roads are too narrow for anything except a Morris Mini or smaller.
I remember all of these companies what I was in college. SCO used to be a good company when they made Xenix and other Unix flavor OS for the x86 platform and they where really located near Santa Cruz, CA (they where located in Scotts Valley, CA which is on the highway going to Santa Cruz). How far have they gone from that era.
I have worked on used or worked the companies on this first 100 list. Prime, Apple, Wyse, Datacube, Convergent, Pyramid, Tek, ATT (the 3Bxxx stuff), Gene and few more I don't remember but I was at a spin off/start up in college at that time I was a developer and QA person so I had to test these devices with our software that we developed.
So many of these companies have merged out of existence or gone out of business. Ahh the good old days.
I hope this will stop the stupid lawsuits for suing for same name for different products or services. These lawsuits are just waste of people resources and court time so more legitimate lawsuits get delayed. Most of the time these lawsuits the person with the most money and resources win but this ruling proves there is some sanity in the justice system.
I don't see a break in spam. They are changing the vector but I still get a ton of spam hitting my mail servers. I think they are think other methods of flooding our mail servers with more junk to overwhelm the spam filters.
Just like Yahoo they bent over for the local government. I used to work for a large international corporation and to do business in some countries you need to agree to some rules they have and it is for the international lawyers to hash out the details since some major ideas like womens rights, child labor, etc can be written agreement for that country but it is the details that are hard to get at like who is a child (ie. under 16 years old or 18 years old?). We cannot go to another country to "mock" their laws also like the of that kid call Michael Fay who 1994 "tagged" cars in Singapore which is a punishable crime.... boy I wish we had a law like that here to rid of all that spray paint junk on the walls here.
http://www.gadling.com/2007/11/13/remember-michael-fey-does-caning-sound-familiar/.
Nevertheless human rights are universal so we should respect human rights first and foremost and then take each countries laws into account next.
I have an friend that works for NASA as an astronaut and considering all of the training and all of the prep work for just one mission I think some partying is on order here. It takes about three years from inception to completion for each of those launches so all of that hard work needs some form of relief but going overboard is this issue also.
For those developers who successfully release a production product knows how much work that can be and some partying is on order. This is a the same for system/network administrators who have done a successful installation or migration we should be able have an beer or some other libation.
I'm not against flying cars. I used to be an pilot in the Air Force so I think "personal flying vehicles" is a great thing. However it is not the flying cars I worry about since they are not the issue I'm want to bring up but the irresponsible behavior of bad people will abuse this device for. Like all devices of our creation (ie computers and the internet, etc.) bad people (ie kiddie porn, spammers, phisher, etc.) will abuse this. But since September 11, 2001 we have seen what a couple of idiots could do with several flying objects to something so I worry about the abuse factor. I know the FAA and NASA have created the "highway in the sky" network where computers and other navigational devices will guide people through the air and avoid collisions without input from the owner or operator. However like the people on the Darwin Award List, some "enterprising" people will attempt bypass this safety features on the flying cars do bad things with these flying cars. I worry about flying cars with enough bad people will make September 11, 2001 look like a day in the park. Again the flying car is a great thing but our current society is not "mature" enough to use these vehicles responsibly.
I don't want to be a "party pooper" but we, as an human civilization, need to wake up and stop being assholes to each other so people could trust us with something so powerful.
Remember the Amendment 25 of the Constitution succession rules will make Dick Cheney President if we impeach Bush first.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am1
If the worst "evil" twin in this administration is Cheney then they need to remove Cheney first before we remove Bush. However this will be mute in a year since the elections will be done by then we have a new President-elect. However I would like to be a witness to a full impeachment, conviction and sentencing of a sitting President and Vice President for what they have done.
Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton where impeached but got acquitted by the Senate and Nixon resigned before he got beyond the impeachment hearings.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/impeach.html
The best quote here is "Out from the frying pan into the fire" if we inpeach Bush first.
I don't want Apple to take the development resources from either company. IMHO Adobe and Apple should in a "friendly" competition of each other products so they can each develop a better product. Monopolies stink.
Since they are in orbit and the orbital period is about 93 minutes they only have about 40 minutes "night". Why is night not evenly split between "night" and "day" is because of the when you are in orbit the extra altitude keeps you out of earth's shadow for a about 10 minutes. This is similar to if you are on top of the mountain you will notice the ground below get darker before you do and if you are in a nearly 200 miles above the surface of the earth that extra sunlight time more that a few minutes.
Since the solar panels are linked together to make power together the only way is to bypass the tear. However they need to look at what happen up close to find out where to bypass it and being this close their is a remote chance of getting the capacitor affect where even you are insulated but the equipment that carries you, the remote arm, is not so you will feel the electrical force going through you. Ouch!
This similar to getting infected by other "diseases" this way.
Go to an house of ill repute.
Find anyone there to have coitus with you. Ensure you don't use any form of protection.
Tada! You get infected by some form of VD.
Cobalt salted (aka Neutron Bomb). Gee, killing all of the people on the surface of the earth and leaving the equipment undamaged is such a wonderful thing... for the insane mind.
Diversification is good for everyone in apartment. My mom owns an apartment and we don't limit which company they use as long they don't charge us, the owner, the installation cost since it is not every unit that wants it and we don't use it so is it fair that the tenant pay for it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't this happen before I was reading this on/. ? If my memory is correct that someone bought online a hard drive and got shrink-wrapped box of newspapers from BestBuy. I think this person who got this was from the Sacramento, CA area but I forgot the details since this happened a few years back so if someone has the time to look for the story they can search for it.
I'm not crazy about BestBuy online business or some of their retail stores but they do carry stuff that other retail stores don't carry which is the only reason I go there.
I had these morons DDOS my network several times so if some could "eliminate" these people and their botnets I'm welcome to it. I think the Russian mafia got an good idea http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/2157244 but wee need to get the botnet also. We are just a non-profit research organization so we don't make any money so trying to ransom us is like trying to get blood from a rock (turnips have proteins in it and if someone has the time can convert it to blood).
Like the movie "Sum of All Fears" in which the terrorist get a nuclear bomb and detonate it in the US and the US finds out the plutonium used in the bomb came from the US. This is case is not using the device against ourselves but against the innocent.
Like anything we make we need to make sure that the criminals, be it an individual or an entire country, doesn't get a hold of it and use it for evil purposes. However we should "ban" devices or ways since this will punish the innocent also since most people use the device or way for legitimate purposes. This method of banning the device or way is no worst than Burma(Myanmar) is banning them from speaking their minds against a dictatorship.
We on the west coast, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area, doesn't have that type of service yet from Verizon. It is interesting that with all of the high tech companies here we don't have faster and more reliable consumer network. I know that ATT has U-verse and I'm looking into it since they say it is fiber to your door which they did install a fiber port at my home's demark box.
Being brain damaged and infertile due to lead poisoning will lead your civilization to win the Darwin Award. Remember lead in glass could only be afforded by the "upper class" so these where the people that "Darwin" themselves out of existence and it goes to show that money and power doesn't stop you from being a Darwin Award Winner.
Where do you see in the article that this was a laptop? The article always says "PC" so it appears to be a desktop or workstation.
A better question how in the world did he steal this large set up. I seen one of these things for mid-scale ID production from my former workplace and it is not small so he must of had some help and a very large truck or SUV to steal it.
You sound like Rodney King "Can we all get along".
This sounds like a good idea but each company or platform has it own set of code which is unique but the ideas and methods of how to secure all of these OS aren't.
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Isn't this the normal thing with companies nowadays? The say one thing in their marketing and demos and then when production comes they change the specs.
Acronyms: The result of after eating alphabet soup and then throwing up.
Several months ago I had to buy a system from a store because the old system was dying but that system was preload with Vista and the application was running on it wasn't Vista compatible yet so I had to buy XP. I wanted a system preload with XP but they don't have that because MS was strong arming the hardware vendors to preload Vista and sent a ugly compliant to hardware manufacture and store. I wish that more hardware manufactures would allow the customers to buy the OS they wish on the system they want.
I think in jolly ole England those Maximum Clearance" sign are marked "Max. Headroom". How many times have truck drivers, in England they are called lorry drivers, ignore all of those signs. Here are some image of what happens if someone ignores those signs: http://www.dhsdiecast.com/content/gallery/index.cfm?gallery_photo_id=3770 http://www.dhsdiecast.com/content/gallery/index.cfm?gallery_photo_id=228 There are many others you can search the internet for. I know there are many other villages in Europe that are in the similar condition in which the roads are too narrow for anything except a Morris Mini or smaller.
I remember all of these companies what I was in college. SCO used to be a good company when they made Xenix and other Unix flavor OS for the x86 platform and they where really located near Santa Cruz, CA (they where located in Scotts Valley, CA which is on the highway going to Santa Cruz). How far have they gone from that era. I have worked on used or worked the companies on this first 100 list. Prime, Apple, Wyse, Datacube, Convergent, Pyramid, Tek, ATT (the 3Bxxx stuff), Gene and few more I don't remember but I was at a spin off/start up in college at that time I was a developer and QA person so I had to test these devices with our software that we developed. So many of these companies have merged out of existence or gone out of business. Ahh the good old days.
I hope this will stop the stupid lawsuits for suing for same name for different products or services. These lawsuits are just waste of people resources and court time so more legitimate lawsuits get delayed. Most of the time these lawsuits the person with the most money and resources win but this ruling proves there is some sanity in the justice system.
I don't see a break in spam. They are changing the vector but I still get a ton of spam hitting my mail servers. I think they are think other methods of flooding our mail servers with more junk to overwhelm the spam filters.
Similar to "Kool-Aid" in Jonestown Guyana or Heaven's Gate in San Diego, CA?
Just like Yahoo they bent over for the local government. I used to work for a large international corporation and to do business in some countries you need to agree to some rules they have and it is for the international lawyers to hash out the details since some major ideas like womens rights, child labor, etc can be written agreement for that country but it is the details that are hard to get at like who is a child (ie. under 16 years old or 18 years old?). We cannot go to another country to "mock" their laws also like the of that kid call Michael Fay who 1994 "tagged" cars in Singapore which is a punishable crime.... boy I wish we had a law like that here to rid of all that spray paint junk on the walls here. http://www.gadling.com/2007/11/13/remember-michael-fey-does-caning-sound-familiar/. Nevertheless human rights are universal so we should respect human rights first and foremost and then take each countries laws into account next.
I have an friend that works for NASA as an astronaut and considering all of the training and all of the prep work for just one mission I think some partying is on order here. It takes about three years from inception to completion for each of those launches so all of that hard work needs some form of relief but going overboard is this issue also. For those developers who successfully release a production product knows how much work that can be and some partying is on order. This is a the same for system/network administrators who have done a successful installation or migration we should be able have an beer or some other libation.
I'm not against flying cars. I used to be an pilot in the Air Force so I think "personal flying vehicles" is a great thing. However it is not the flying cars I worry about since they are not the issue I'm want to bring up but the irresponsible behavior of bad people will abuse this device for. Like all devices of our creation (ie computers and the internet, etc.) bad people (ie kiddie porn, spammers, phisher, etc.) will abuse this. But since September 11, 2001 we have seen what a couple of idiots could do with several flying objects to something so I worry about the abuse factor. I know the FAA and NASA have created the "highway in the sky" network where computers and other navigational devices will guide people through the air and avoid collisions without input from the owner or operator. However like the people on the Darwin Award List, some "enterprising" people will attempt bypass this safety features on the flying cars do bad things with these flying cars. I worry about flying cars with enough bad people will make September 11, 2001 look like a day in the park. Again the flying car is a great thing but our current society is not "mature" enough to use these vehicles responsibly. I don't want to be a "party pooper" but we, as an human civilization, need to wake up and stop being assholes to each other so people could trust us with something so powerful.
Remember the Amendment 25 of the Constitution succession rules will make Dick Cheney President if we impeach Bush first. http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am1 If the worst "evil" twin in this administration is Cheney then they need to remove Cheney first before we remove Bush. However this will be mute in a year since the elections will be done by then we have a new President-elect. However I would like to be a witness to a full impeachment, conviction and sentencing of a sitting President and Vice President for what they have done. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton where impeached but got acquitted by the Senate and Nixon resigned before he got beyond the impeachment hearings. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/impeach.html The best quote here is "Out from the frying pan into the fire" if we inpeach Bush first.
I don't want Apple to take the development resources from either company. IMHO Adobe and Apple should in a "friendly" competition of each other products so they can each develop a better product. Monopolies stink.
Since they are in orbit and the orbital period is about 93 minutes they only have about 40 minutes "night". Why is night not evenly split between "night" and "day" is because of the when you are in orbit the extra altitude keeps you out of earth's shadow for a about 10 minutes. This is similar to if you are on top of the mountain you will notice the ground below get darker before you do and if you are in a nearly 200 miles above the surface of the earth that extra sunlight time more that a few minutes. Since the solar panels are linked together to make power together the only way is to bypass the tear. However they need to look at what happen up close to find out where to bypass it and being this close their is a remote chance of getting the capacitor affect where even you are insulated but the equipment that carries you, the remote arm, is not so you will feel the electrical force going through you. Ouch!
This similar to getting infected by other "diseases" this way. Go to an house of ill repute. Find anyone there to have coitus with you. Ensure you don't use any form of protection. Tada! You get infected by some form of VD.
If you go to those "special" sites then you can get infected, both the computer and you.
Cobalt salted (aka Neutron Bomb). Gee, killing all of the people on the surface of the earth and leaving the equipment undamaged is such a wonderful thing... for the insane mind.
Diversification is good for everyone in apartment. My mom owns an apartment and we don't limit which company they use as long they don't charge us, the owner, the installation cost since it is not every unit that wants it and we don't use it so is it fair that the tenant pay for it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't this happen before I was reading this on /. ? If my memory is correct that someone bought online a hard drive and got shrink-wrapped box of newspapers from BestBuy. I think this person who got this was from the Sacramento, CA area but I forgot the details since this happened a few years back so if someone has the time to look for the story they can search for it.
I'm not crazy about BestBuy online business or some of their retail stores but they do carry stuff that other retail stores don't carry which is the only reason I go there.
I had these morons DDOS my network several times so if some could "eliminate" these people and their botnets I'm welcome to it. I think the Russian mafia got an good idea http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/2157244 but wee need to get the botnet also. We are just a non-profit research organization so we don't make any money so trying to ransom us is like trying to get blood from a rock (turnips have proteins in it and if someone has the time can convert it to blood).
Like the movie "Sum of All Fears" in which the terrorist get a nuclear bomb and detonate it in the US and the US finds out the plutonium used in the bomb came from the US. This is case is not using the device against ourselves but against the innocent. Like anything we make we need to make sure that the criminals, be it an individual or an entire country, doesn't get a hold of it and use it for evil purposes. However we should "ban" devices or ways since this will punish the innocent also since most people use the device or way for legitimate purposes. This method of banning the device or way is no worst than Burma(Myanmar) is banning them from speaking their minds against a dictatorship.
We on the west coast, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area, doesn't have that type of service yet from Verizon. It is interesting that with all of the high tech companies here we don't have faster and more reliable consumer network. I know that ATT has U-verse and I'm looking into it since they say it is fiber to your door which they did install a fiber port at my home's demark box.
Being brain damaged and infertile due to lead poisoning will lead your civilization to win the Darwin Award. Remember lead in glass could only be afforded by the "upper class" so these where the people that "Darwin" themselves out of existence and it goes to show that money and power doesn't stop you from being a Darwin Award Winner.
Where do you see in the article that this was a laptop? The article always says "PC" so it appears to be a desktop or workstation. A better question how in the world did he steal this large set up. I seen one of these things for mid-scale ID production from my former workplace and it is not small so he must of had some help and a very large truck or SUV to steal it.
You sound like Rodney King "Can we all get along". This sounds like a good idea but each company or platform has it own set of code which is unique but the ideas and methods of how to secure all of these OS aren't.