Maybe you know a lot of AOL users... wouldn't brag about that:)
Most people use MSN Messenger as it comes with their machine (in fact it's difficult to switch off unless you know how to find the option... a newbie has no chance).
Half of them are downloaded from other websites without crediting the authors... someone even ripped off some tones and images my wife did in her spare time. The site that nicked them wasn't interested in paying or even linking to the source, and promptly sold it to half a donzen more.
Anyone with a PC can install a poly ringtone by downloading it for free from the original source and uploading it to the phone via bluetooth or email. For free. No idea why anyone would pay for it.
It's legal in russia. You do the transaction in russia, in rubles. They've paid a license... the RIAA has absolutely *nothing* to say about this as they aren't involved.
When will americans learn that their own screwed up system does not apply in the rest of the world?
Star Trek has *always* been a mirror of US politics... even TOS had it (klingons/federation = russians/americans). TNG (ooh look we made peace with the rus..err..klingons). The films (the last one was about a terrorist leader with a big WMD).
Enterprise got a bit blatant with the unprovoked attack on earth that wiped out half of the US and the subsequent hunt for the cuplrits, but it's just following a pattern that's always been there.
In the latest episode broadcast here they just disappeared off into somewhere they can't get out of where ships loot each other for spare parts. Sound familiar?
btw. do *not* buy HP printers. Their drivers suck. Their XP driver for their Photosmart network printers is 50MB - for a network printer??? And it has spyware... calls home every couple of minutes.
Their OSX driver is a mess - the printer supports Rendezvous but refuses to autoconfigure, so it's a frustrating process of having a printer automatically recognized by the OS which then doesn't work unless you install another 50MB of crap and manually set it up.
I got a brand new printer with no Win2003 support so I couldn't attach it to the print server. The manufacturer has said they will *never* support anything other than XP with this printer...
All modern distributions come with the drivers compiled as modules. You simply never need to recompile your kernel if you don't need to.
Linux is *far* better at recognising new hardware than Windows - it just does it.. doesn't make a fuss, doesn't put up a stupid error box for a driver CD that probably didn't come with the hardware or if it did I lost it 6 months ago. Doesn't detect another 15 printer ports (what is it with Windows and printer ports? I have a machine that detects about 4 of them on every reboot.. it's so tedious to clear tham out every time). It also doesn't require a driver for the CPU - WTF is going on with that?
I dunno... I tried it for 6 months on and off before working out that my card had hardware mixing if you passed the driver the right voodoo.
alsa couldn't set the volume on it though.
dmix is a bit of a joke really... the documentation conflicts wildly about what you're supposed to use, and if you do get it to work it'll suddenly stop about 15 minutes later with no errors at all.
'Also' makes no difference to the meaning (and your rewrite also contains the problem phrase). I had to read it twice as the most obvious meaning isn't the correct one this time.
It would probably have been better as 'other BSD distributions and GNU/Linux' as that's harder to misread. Can't think of anything clearer without bringing the grammar nazis out.
Lighen up... RMS describing Linux as a BSD distribution would be quite funny actually.
Half the posters on here are so right wing they'll be invading poland any day now...
Fox 'news' is a good laugh (we can get a feed in the UK) but not something I'd recommend spending too much time listening to.. Some of the parodies of it are really funny though:)
if(!ptr) is 'if not pointer' - which makes perfect sense to any programmer and anyone who has even a passing knowledge of boolean logic.
I've seen the '== true' and '== false' things around and really hate them as they're not nearly as legible.. Worse is '!= false' and '!= true' - you have to actually stop an think what that means as it's a double negative.
..and do you know Amazon are using a real clearing house? Are you sure your ISP isn't capturing all your traffic and grepping for numbers? When you put money in the bank are you *really* sure the cashier is putting the money in and not pocketing it?
FFS you have to trust at some point. Observing reduces the scope for fraud (also a reason why the cash tills are always out in the open and viewable by several members of staff simultaneously)... it doesn't remove it, but you have then done the best you can.
I also always check the bills and match against receipts - have caught at least one place trying to double charge before now. It's really bad news for the store when that happens... the CC companies will remove their right to take CC if they are seen to do that too often (seen it happen.. it's not pretty).
They're not wireless - at least not the ones I've seen anyway (just after launch a friend managed to pull the wire too far on one and it sprung back, taking the carefully laid out display with it... Broke it, too).
If they were I *definately* wouldn't use one without some proof the encryption was damned good.
I currently don't because the design of the machines is total crap - there's no privacy when you type in your pin so everyone around can see what it is... which ends up being *less* secure than signatures. There's also the small matter of the shift in liability - if someone gets your PIN and spends money *you* are liable not the CC company or retailer any more.
Yes a lot of places stil print the full CC number - even large stores (although it's getting fewer than it used to be). Of course they don't print the expiry or CVE so you're still relatively safe.
I generally don't shop in such places (I usually make a point of complaining when it happens. If enough people do that the stores can - and do - change).
I've *never* seen the waiter disappear with my card. I wouldn't allow them to if they tried.
Maybe it's different in the US.. there's probably some kind of law about it here (lots of laws dealing with credit cards here.. far too many for some - it's still not unusual to find that they're not accepted - eg. my favourite eatery is cash/cheque only).
In any good restaraunt this does not happen. You are invited to follow the waiter to the till whereupon he swipes the card and invites you to sign for it.
I'm not sure I'd want to eat at a place where the waiters were allowed to disappear with credit cards for several minutes - they should be in view at all times.
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Maybe you know a lot of AOL users... wouldn't brag about that :)
Most people use MSN Messenger as it comes with their machine (in fact it's difficult to switch off unless you know how to find the option... a newbie has no chance).
Half of them are downloaded from other websites without crediting the authors... someone even ripped off some tones and images my wife did in her spare time. The site that nicked them wasn't interested in paying or even linking to the source, and promptly sold it to half a donzen more.
Anyone with a PC can install a poly ringtone by downloading it for free from the original source and
uploading it to the phone via bluetooth or email. For free. No idea why anyone would pay for it.
*sigh* here we go again.
It's legal in russia. You do the transaction in russia, in rubles. They've paid a license... the RIAA has absolutely *nothing* to say about this as they aren't involved.
When will americans learn that their own screwed up system does not apply in the rest of the world?
Star Trek has *always* been a mirror of US politics... even TOS had it (klingons/federation = russians/americans). TNG (ooh look we made peace with the rus..err..klingons). The films (the last one was about a terrorist leader with a big WMD).
Enterprise got a bit blatant with the unprovoked attack on earth that wiped out half of the US and the subsequent hunt for the cuplrits, but it's just following a pattern that's always been there.
It seems to be all voyager reject stories anyway.
In the latest episode broadcast here they just disappeared off into somewhere they can't get out of where ships loot each other for spare parts. Sound familiar?
TBH it isn't worth saving.
btw. do *not* buy HP printers. Their drivers suck. Their XP driver for their Photosmart network printers is 50MB - for a network printer??? And it has spyware... calls home every couple of minutes.
Their OSX driver is a mess - the printer supports Rendezvous but refuses to autoconfigure, so it's a frustrating process of having a printer automatically recognized by the OS which then doesn't work unless you install another 50MB of crap and manually set it up.
The BT8x8 is fine... I've been using it (on and off) for around 3 years... sounds like your card has issues.
I got a brand new printer with no Win2003 support so I couldn't attach it to the print server. The manufacturer has said they will *never* support anything other than XP with this printer...
Works in Linux out of the box...
All modern distributions come with the drivers compiled as modules. You simply never need to recompile your kernel if you don't need to.
Linux is *far* better at recognising new hardware than Windows - it just does it.. doesn't make a fuss, doesn't put up a stupid error box for a driver CD that probably didn't come with the hardware or if it did I lost it 6 months ago. Doesn't detect another 15 printer ports (what is it with Windows and printer ports? I have a machine that detects about 4 of them on every reboot.. it's so tedious to clear tham out every time). It also doesn't require a driver for the CPU - WTF is going on with that?
I dunno... I tried it for 6 months on and off before working out that my card had hardware mixing if you passed the driver the right voodoo.
alsa couldn't set the volume on it though.
dmix is a bit of a joke really... the documentation conflicts wildly about what you're supposed to use, and if you do get it to work it'll suddenly stop about 15 minutes later with no errors at all.
'Also' makes no difference to the meaning (and your rewrite also contains the problem phrase). I had to read it twice as the most obvious meaning isn't the correct one this time.
It would probably have been better as 'other BSD distributions and GNU/Linux' as that's harder to misread. Can't think of anything clearer without bringing the grammar nazis out.
Lighen up... RMS describing Linux as a BSD distribution would be quite funny actually.
Troll? Moderators who don't know what smileys are?
Ah yes. This is slashdot.
Bet they're on crack too...
Didn't know Linux was a BSD distribution....
It'll be the number of a flat in Islington.
Playboy has *articles*?
Wow. Didn't know that.
What about 'unclefucker' hell, 'auntiefucker', 'distandrelationofsomeoneimetinthepubfucker'
Slashdot? Left?
:)
Half the posters on here are so right wing they'll be invading poland any day now...
Fox 'news' is a good laugh (we can get a feed in the UK) but not something I'd recommend spending too much time listening to.. Some of the parodies of it are really funny though
How will one run 50 times faster than the other? All you did was swap the variable names around.
Indeed.. the example is totally backward.
if(!ptr) is 'if not pointer' - which makes perfect sense to any programmer and anyone who has even a passing knowledge of boolean logic.
I've seen the '== true' and '== false' things around and really hate them as they're not nearly as legible.. Worse is '!= false' and '!= true' - you have to actually stop an think what that means as it's a double negative.
..and do you know Amazon are using a real clearing house? Are you sure your ISP isn't capturing all your traffic and grepping for numbers? When you put money in the bank are you *really* sure the cashier is putting the money in and not pocketing it?
FFS you have to trust at some point. Observing reduces the scope for fraud (also a reason why the cash tills are always out in the open and viewable by several members of staff simultaneously)... it doesn't remove it, but you have then done the best you can.
I also always check the bills and match against receipts - have caught at least one place trying to double charge before now. It's really bad news for the store when that happens... the CC companies will remove their right to take CC if they are seen to do that too often (seen it happen.. it's not pretty).
They're not wireless - at least not the ones I've seen anyway (just after launch a friend managed to pull the wire too far on one and it sprung back, taking the carefully laid out display with it... Broke it, too).
If they were I *definately* wouldn't use one without some proof the encryption was damned good.
I currently don't because the design of the machines is total crap - there's no privacy when you type in your pin so everyone around can see what it is... which ends up being *less* secure than signatures. There's also the small matter of the shift in liability - if someone gets your PIN and spends money *you* are liable not the CC company or retailer any more.
Yes a lot of places stil print the full CC number - even large stores (although it's getting fewer than it used to be). Of course they don't print the expiry or CVE so you're still relatively safe.
I generally don't shop in such places (I usually make a point of complaining when it happens. If enough people do that the stores can - and do - change).
I've *never* seen the waiter disappear with my card. I wouldn't allow them to if they tried.
Maybe it's different in the US.. there's probably some kind of law about it here (lots of laws dealing with credit cards here.. far too many for some - it's still not unusual to find that they're not accepted - eg. my favourite eatery is cash/cheque only).
In any good restaraunt this does not happen. You are invited to follow the waiter to the till whereupon he swipes the card and invites you to sign for it.
I'm not sure I'd want to eat at a place where the waiters were allowed to disappear with credit cards for several minutes - they should be in view at all times.
That's cool but it's the wrong company...
Try This one