Actually it isn't... once we have the tech to get to the asteroids and farm them, the materials suddenly go from 'rare' to 'abundant', and the price drops faster than the space shuttle on reentry...
This is precisely why DeBeers are so keen to differentiate between 'real' (ie. they dug them out of the ground and make a fortune out of) and 'fake' (manufactured, potentially dirt cheap) diamonds - even though you need an electron microscope to actually tell the difference.
Not that one. There was a story where someone had written threatening court action and the ISP had sent them name, address, telephone number, etc. completely without even involving a lawyer.
That couldn't actually happen in the UK - such action would be completely illegal and would involve heavy fines for the ISP involved.
Wasn't there a story the other week where US ISPs were giving away the details under the vaguest threat of a court order?
I much prefer the british way - the ISP will only divulge details when the court order is granted. Judges are there to make damn sure there's enough evidence for this to happen.
I tried the ipod desktop client once in a store. It sucked (It actually crashed when I was using it). They really don't need to try very hard to beat that.
Same price as I paid for my 20GB Thompson for a quarter of the storage (they're trying to compete at the ipod price points too!). Doesn't play MP3, plays WMA (which I have currently exactly zero use for).
If fact I can't see a good reason to buy this at all, except it looks prettier than an ipod and is smaller.
I'd use it to run the package manager. I can do everything else via ssh into a darwin box (which is damn slow... have to nohup it and log out as it crawls even compared to my P800... people say the CPU is fast so it must mean darwin is horribly inneficient).
Unfortunately the package tool is GUI only so I have to kick the guy who owns the box to do the final package for me - as he's busy it can take a week or so and isn't really much help to people who actually want a working binary...
This would let me fire up OSX and build the package myself, so I could release the mac binaries on the same day.
The rub is $170 (£99) for OSX, on top of the emulator price. They need to sort out a bundling deal.
bzzt... that fallacy was dumped ages ago: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/27/benc hmarks _demolish_apple_speed_boasts/
The G4 is approximately the same as a P4 1GHZ. The Athlon64 I'm typing on at the moment is about 3-5 times that speed, so if I emulated a G4 I'd hope I can get a hell of a lot better than that, unless the emulator sucks donkey balls.
If it can be reasonably ascertained that you knew it was stolen you can be prosecuted for receiving stolen goods, *not* theft.
If you buy from some dodgy bloke at 4am you probably would get prosecuted... if you bought it from a second hand shop you would probably lose your item and the money you paid for it (you'd have to try to sue the shop owner for the money back if it was enough) but the law wouldn't have anything to say otherwise.
Pity it doesn't come with OSX... AFAIK currently you need to buy a mac to have a license to use that (the 'upgrade' costs £99 or about $170.... can't find any pricing on a new copy, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's double/triple that).
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I call bullshit.
Ever tried to compile a JDK 1.3 program in JDK 1.4? The last place I worked for actually gave up trying to port it, because there were so many differences (it didn't help that the IDE we were using was JDK 1.3 only so we were reduced to command line, which had a big effect).
So instead of a hard to reproduce signature (well mine is) there's an easy to remember 4 digit number that the criminal can watch you type in just before stealing your wallet (stores almost universally don't have adequate security on their keypads).
Thankfully it doesn't seem to be switched on in the UK yet - I've never been asked for a PIN... refusing to type it in while surrounded by shoppers could cause a scene (either give me a secure way to type it in and prove it's secure, or you aint getting it).
I have specced these out - I need a mac for cross platform development (ssh into a machine on the other side of the world will get you so far but the package manager needs a GUI).
A G5 laptop is err.. sorry they don't exist in this country... OK a G4 Laptop then. I just bought an AMD64 laptop (15.4" widescreen display, 512MB ram, wireless, DVDRW, etc.) for £800.
The equivalent G4 laptop is £1,749 from the apple store - more than twice as expensive. And the G4 is only 32bit - in fact in some reviews it lost out to the 386... really not worth the extra.
They liked to live on the edge of annoying the establishment... they were the ones that broke the story of the statue of saddam hussen falling being a put-up job for the assembled press (there were only about half a dozen people there, there rest were reporters/press).
It's not surprising the US want to censor them... surprising they have the guts to do it so publicly though.
My worst case was a new machine recently. Installed XP, installed SP2 (both off an MSDN CD w/o using net connection) then went looking for the wireless drivers for my card.
Within 10 minutes I had spyware on the system. No idea where they came from - IE just installed them... no popups or anything.
When I finally got ad-aware on and had a look around it had installed itself in such a way that even cleaning it completely it came back again.
I reformatted and the next time the *first* thing I downloaded was firefox.
Slashdot Mirror
..or get jumped by Thargoids...
Uhh... don't bother clicking, it's just the microsoft home page.
I'd value that at $0 to me, and a few million to bill gates.
Actually it isn't... once we have the tech to get to the asteroids and farm them, the materials suddenly go from 'rare' to 'abundant', and the price drops faster than the space shuttle on reentry...
This is precisely why DeBeers are so keen to differentiate between 'real' (ie. they dug them out of the ground and make a fortune out of) and 'fake' (manufactured, potentially dirt cheap) diamonds - even though you need an electron microscope to actually tell the difference.
Not that one. There was a story where someone had written threatening court action and the ISP had sent them name, address, telephone number, etc. completely without even involving a lawyer.
That couldn't actually happen in the UK - such action would be completely illegal and would involve heavy fines for the ISP involved.
Wasn't there a story the other week where US ISPs were giving away the details under the vaguest threat of a court order?
I much prefer the british way - the ISP will only divulge details when the court order is granted. Judges are there to make damn sure there's enough evidence for this to happen.
What, you mean like This one?
It does...
http://www.virgindigital.com/
I tried the ipod desktop client once in a store. It sucked (It actually crashed when I was using it). They really don't need to try very hard to beat that.
btw. virgin doesn't really do consumer electronics in the UK... it does a lot of other stuff though...
h ow
http://www.virgin.com/uk/atoz/default.asp?all=s
'Virgin Brides' - where do I sign up?
All rail in the UK seems determined to be as crap as possible.
They recently shut down the local lines for 3 months while the 'upgraded' it. Then they put the fares up to pay for the 'upgrade'.
The trains are still as late as ever, and the 'upgrade' seemed to consist of a bunch of blokes shoveling gravel around - nothing else has changed.
The trains still cost half the price of the busses though so I still use them...
There's no mention of this on the UK sites, so I guess it's US only.
The UK market is much smaller, and is dominated by cheap clones - in fact most people have 128MB MP3 players.
Same price as I paid for my 20GB Thompson for a quarter of the storage (they're trying to compete at the ipod price points too!). Doesn't play MP3, plays WMA (which I have currently exactly zero use for).
If fact I can't see a good reason to buy this at all, except it looks prettier than an ipod and is smaller.
You added an extra 'the' to that sentence...
I'd use it to run the package manager. I can do everything else via ssh into a darwin box (which is damn slow... have to nohup it and log out as it crawls even compared to my P800... people say the CPU is fast so it must mean darwin is horribly inneficient).
Unfortunately the package tool is GUI only so I have to kick the guy who owns the box to do the final package for me - as he's busy it can take a week or so and isn't really much help to people who actually want a working binary...
This would let me fire up OSX and build the package myself, so I could release the mac binaries on the same day.
The rub is $170 (£99) for OSX, on top of the emulator price. They need to sort out a bundling deal.
bzzt... that fallacy was dumped ages ago:c hmarks _demolish_apple_speed_boasts/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/27/ben
The G4 is approximately the same as a P4 1GHZ. The Athlon64 I'm typing on at the moment is about 3-5 times that speed, so if I emulated a G4 I'd hope I can get a hell of a lot better than that, unless the emulator sucks donkey balls.
That's not stealing either.
If it can be reasonably ascertained that you knew it was stolen you can be prosecuted for receiving stolen goods, *not* theft.
If you buy from some dodgy bloke at 4am you probably would get prosecuted... if you bought it from a second hand shop you would probably lose your item and the money you paid for it (you'd have to try to sue the shop owner for the money back if it was enough) but the law wouldn't have anything to say otherwise.
This is *exactly* what I need.
Pity it doesn't come with OSX... AFAIK currently you need to buy a mac to have a license to use that (the 'upgrade' costs £99 or about $170.... can't find any pricing on a new copy, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's double/triple that).
I call bullshit.
Ever tried to compile a JDK 1.3 program in JDK 1.4? The last place I worked for actually gave up trying to port it, because there were so many differences (it didn't help that the IDE we were using was JDK 1.3 only so we were reduced to command line, which had a big effect).
So instead of a hard to reproduce signature (well mine is) there's an easy to remember 4 digit number that the criminal can watch you type in just before stealing your wallet (stores almost universally don't have adequate security on their keypads).
Thankfully it doesn't seem to be switched on in the UK yet - I've never been asked for a PIN... refusing to type it in while surrounded by shoppers could cause a scene (either give me a secure way to type it in and prove it's secure, or you aint getting it).
I have specced these out - I need a mac for cross platform development (ssh into a machine on the other side of the world will get you so far but the package manager needs a GUI).
A G5 laptop is err.. sorry they don't exist in this country... OK a G4 Laptop then. I just bought an AMD64 laptop (15.4" widescreen display, 512MB ram, wireless, DVDRW, etc.) for £800.
The equivalent G4 laptop is £1,749 from the apple store - more than twice as expensive. And the G4 is only 32bit - in fact in some reviews it lost out to the 386... really not worth the extra.
There's absolutely loads of it around... especially as people are starting to use more generated websites (like slashdot for example).
If you search for *.rdf maybe you won't find as much... a lot of it is *.rss, *.xml and other things.
Also, google doesn't index them.
In the UK some phone companies already do this as part of their basic service.
You go to the WAP screen, select 'food','pizza' and you get a list of all the pizza places nearby.
I've used it for taxis, ATMs, etc. it's really handy.
Kind of an independent news site.
They liked to live on the edge of annoying the establishment... they were the ones that broke the story of the statue of saddam hussen falling being a put-up job for the assembled press (there were only about half a dozen people there, there rest were reporters/press).
It's not surprising the US want to censor them... surprising they have the guts to do it so publicly though.
My worst case was a new machine recently. Installed XP, installed SP2 (both off an MSDN CD w/o using net connection) then went looking for the wireless drivers for my card.
Within 10 minutes I had spyware on the system. No idea where they came from - IE just installed them... no popups or anything.
When I finally got ad-aware on and had a look around it had installed itself in such a way that even cleaning it completely it came back again.
I reformatted and the next time the *first* thing I downloaded was firefox.
I've never seen a site that does though.
It's one of those laws that's completely unenforcable (IIRC web caches are also illegal under this law).
If they actually started to enforce it I'd probably have to close my website as it won't work without cookies.
He's probably patented those ideas.... be careful!