I hear you. You might consider buying a weather radio. They have an instant on alert mode that would listen for a severe weather alert signal being broadcast by NOAA and instantly come on so you can hear the alert. Perfect for people who liven in Tornado Alley. They aren't terribly expensive (though unfortunately they do cost some money you probably didn't plan to spend) at around $20-30. RadioShack. Amazon.
I agree it's a shame DTV doesn't have the ability to gracefully degrade rather than be an all-or-nothing deal...
What's with the trend of calling technical info "porn"? A while ago on Wired, there was an article on "nanotech porn". It really reinforces the stereotype that tech guys are all a bunch of creepy bearded child molesters, whacking off to photoshopped images of Catherine Janeway in their mom's basement.
Again you make claims about his personality that you can't back up. He may have done things in the past (which are well documented) but people change. Gates wasn't exactly a fun person to be with in board meetings (so says a few books about MS days gone by) and could be quite a dick.
I don't know what either of them are like today and I don't know either BG or SJ. Do you? Did Steve kick your dog and Bill buy you ice cream?
2400? I'd have loved 2400 as my first! My first modem was 300 baud and you could move glaciers faster than that. I didn't have it very long as it was already old when I got it (hand me down). My second modem was 1200 and it developed a problem where it would overheat and lock up. I discovered putting it in the freezer for a while would make it useable for about 30 minutes before doing it again. I remember logging into Medusa (I forget what college ran it, somewhere in upstate NY) and poking around and learning how to get around a VAX server. Soon after that I got a ZOOM 2400 modem. It was great and lasted me until I could finally afford a 14.4k which seemed like a Ferrari. Hell if I had to count all the money I spent on modems over the years...
As for registering shareware I have a ton of registered shareware. Most of the early iD software and Apogee games, PKZip, Plugins for Windows 3.1 (which was a great extension to the Program Manager that allowed you to have folders within folders), Paint Shop Pro (before it turned to bloat and Corel bought it), WinZip, all sorts of stuff. I would often order from shareware catalogs (printed catalogs mailed out every month or two). I recently found a few of those when I was back at my parent's for Christmas.
Floppy trading, BBSs with FIDONet and CD-ROMS of software and CompuServ were the way games and apps were traded back then. Seems like the stone age now.
Back when I worked at a bank my company did the same thing, stored in the vault in a safe deposit box. It was good also because there was a paper trail to get into the vault and a few people that had to sign off on it. The company did a lot of bone headed things but that wasn't one of them.
I love Linux as much as the next Slashdotter. Hell I've been in on this stuff longer than most folks here. However I still don't see all these promises of the Android phone going anywhere other than being popular with the tech crowd and early adopters. This looks like more of the same...
Kutaragi will end up being laid off from Sony and start working for Fox News. Had the Iraq war gone differently he'd probably have replaced Baghdad Bob.
That's a great idea until you realize that you also need to create 1980's writers for Indiana Jones. I mean really... have you seen the past 15 years of stuff that passed George Lucas' desk?
Read the EFF's defense. They say that the rules are different when the trademark is being used in (1) a non-commercial manner or (2) in a case of fair use. They go on to say this falls under both categories.
The difference between IBM and most other companies, even Oracle+Sun, is that they are a [i]solutions provider[/i]. IBMs bread and butter is not just selling hardware and software but being capable of offering services nobody else can. Hell if you walked in one day and fired your entire accounting division and all your managers they could even run your business for you (yes they even have financial consulting services).
One of the overlooked things that makes this make sense to me is the proximity. Sun and Oracle are ~20 minutes down the 101 from each other. IBM is HQ'd in the east coast.
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I assume you mean update the drive's flash ROM. BIOS isn't going to do much of anything for you as far as ability to read old vs. new discs go.
That's the irony. While his magical force discs are all in fine condition his magical force drive gave up the ghost years ago.
Woosh? More like "went to plaid" on that one.
Oh man please don't even joke about that. I want more keen but I'm scared of what anyone but Tom Hall would do with him.
Yeah because NOBODY gets their news from television. Nope it's all just Oprah and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
I hear you. You might consider buying a weather radio. They have an instant on alert mode that would listen for a severe weather alert signal being broadcast by NOAA and instantly come on so you can hear the alert. Perfect for people who liven in Tornado Alley. They aren't terribly expensive (though unfortunately they do cost some money you probably didn't plan to spend) at around $20-30. RadioShack. Amazon.
I agree it's a shame DTV doesn't have the ability to gracefully degrade rather than be an all-or-nothing deal...
What's with the trend of calling technical info "porn"? A while ago on Wired, there was an article on "nanotech porn". It really reinforces the stereotype that tech guys are all a bunch of creepy bearded child molesters, whacking off to photoshopped images of Catherine Janeway in their mom's basement.
That's hot.
If the space toilet doesn't work or they don't bring enough deodorant I know exactly what it's going to be like...
Again you make claims about his personality that you can't back up. He may have done things in the past (which are well documented) but people change. Gates wasn't exactly a fun person to be with in board meetings (so says a few books about MS days gone by) and could be quite a dick.
I don't know what either of them are like today and I don't know either BG or SJ. Do you? Did Steve kick your dog and Bill buy you ice cream?
You aren't sure about that? But you are of your own opinion? I guess I'm not sure about that.
2400? I'd have loved 2400 as my first! My first modem was 300 baud and you could move glaciers faster than that. I didn't have it very long as it was already old when I got it (hand me down). My second modem was 1200 and it developed a problem where it would overheat and lock up. I discovered putting it in the freezer for a while would make it useable for about 30 minutes before doing it again. I remember logging into Medusa (I forget what college ran it, somewhere in upstate NY) and poking around and learning how to get around a VAX server. Soon after that I got a ZOOM 2400 modem. It was great and lasted me until I could finally afford a 14.4k which seemed like a Ferrari. Hell if I had to count all the money I spent on modems over the years...
As for registering shareware I have a ton of registered shareware. Most of the early iD software and Apogee games, PKZip, Plugins for Windows 3.1 (which was a great extension to the Program Manager that allowed you to have folders within folders), Paint Shop Pro (before it turned to bloat and Corel bought it), WinZip, all sorts of stuff. I would often order from shareware catalogs (printed catalogs mailed out every month or two). I recently found a few of those when I was back at my parent's for Christmas.
Floppy trading, BBSs with FIDONet and CD-ROMS of software and CompuServ were the way games and apps were traded back then. Seems like the stone age now.
Back when I worked at a bank my company did the same thing, stored in the vault in a safe deposit box. It was good also because there was a paper trail to get into the vault and a few people that had to sign off on it. The company did a lot of bone headed things but that wasn't one of them.
FACE PALM.
Schwarzenegger [i]is[/i] in T4. Well a CGI form of him is briefly there anyway.
MySQL is killing itself from the inside like a flan in the cupboard. Oracle hasn't even gotten its hands on it yet.
I love Linux as much as the next Slashdotter. Hell I've been in on this stuff longer than most folks here. However I still don't see all these promises of the Android phone going anywhere other than being popular with the tech crowd and early adopters. This looks like more of the same...
Next thing you know these robots Mom's will be driving them to and from the matches in Prius's.
Yeah that's what I figured. No biggy, I don't use IE anyway other than for occasional web testing.
Not being a fan of DRM I've so far avoided installing WGA on my system. Can I install IE8 without installing WGA or does it force it on you?
Kutaragi will end up being laid off from Sony and start working for Fox News. Had the Iraq war gone differently he'd probably have replaced Baghdad Bob.
That's a great idea until you realize that you also need to create 1980's writers for Indiana Jones. I mean really... have you seen the past 15 years of stuff that passed George Lucas' desk?
Read the EFF's defense. They say that the rules are different when the trademark is being used in (1) a non-commercial manner or (2) in a case of fair use. They go on to say this falls under both categories.
The difference between IBM and most other companies, even Oracle+Sun, is that they are a [i]solutions provider[/i]. IBMs bread and butter is not just selling hardware and software but being capable of offering services nobody else can. Hell if you walked in one day and fired your entire accounting division and all your managers they could even run your business for you (yes they even have financial consulting services).
One of the overlooked things that makes this make sense to me is the proximity. Sun and Oracle are ~20 minutes down the 101 from each other. IBM is HQ'd in the east coast.
I'd guess those MBA's also think the DMCA is going to save them.