Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that comparing an Apple customer's perception of Apple support with a Dell customer's perception of Dell support is hardly an accurate picture - the Dell customer has no particular love for the company.
This is true indeed. I don't know if it's grounds to exclude Apple from such a survey, but the poster did have a point...
I've seen photos of this same mod done to both 10Krpm SCSI drives and 5400rpm Deskstars, so I would imagine there *are* people out there that would be sufficiently stupid to butcher a 15Krpm drive in that manner.
As for the cheapshot, I'm not even going to gratify that with a response.
If the impact did not set off the airbags, then it would not have been classified as an impact by the airbag controller, and 5 seconds after the other car hit her, the data would have been overwritten with new data. (No collision, remember, so we keep on recording.)
So in situations like these, this functionality does precisely fuck all.
Requires Macromedia Flash Player 6 on the little demo page. Too bad I removed FLASH due to it's abuse by web advertisers. I hope Macromedia will put out a player that can be set by default to not play flash. HINT HINT! I'm not going to install it to watch a demo and remove it for the rest of my browsing. Is a play button too much to ask?
Two quick questions:
(1) If you knew you didn't have the plugin installed, why did you bother clicking through? The demo was clearly described as being Flash.
(2) What the fuck good would a Flash plugin be that, by default, doesn't play Flash? Does your web browser, by default, not render HTML?! (I'm sure there's a Netscape joke in there somewhere, but I'm generally not one to make cheap shots.)
If you're so worried about ads, do yourself a favor and install Guidescope. It's a little proxy that sits in your system tray, bound to port 8000 of (only) your localhost interface, and you tell IE that localhost:8000 is your proxy for HTTP content. It then replaces known ads with a gray box the same size as the ad, so it won't break the layout of pages. (Optionally you can have it nuke them altogether.) It can optionally block some or all cookies, too.
They did NO such thing, they did NOT I REPEAT NOT ! Shut down ANY web sites. They could have but they actually DIDNT.
What they did do, was CHANGE the content in question REMOTLEY.
Buddy, the net result is the same -- the content is removed from the Internet.
Whether that's by deleting the virtual host in IIS metabase, or 'killall httpd', or FTPing in and blowing away the content, the net result is that people can no longer view the site in question.
I mean, really... the mechanics of how it occurred are totally moot. The site was taken down one way or the other, which was WAY out of their [the Italians'] jurisdiction. Period.
Copper? Pshaw!
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My friend and I wondered how they screwed this one up and traced the wires to a display table and behind a closed stairwell door. We looked at each other and said "Nooo". We popped into a neighboring stairwell as everyone fought for the elevators. We went down one floor then popped over to the stairwell that we saw the wires going down. Sure enough, they had run the wires down the open portion of the stairs so they were hanging by their own weight for a distance of about 22 floors (the hotel has 18 number floors, about 4 lettered floors like A, B, C, D, a mezzanine floor, and lobby floor). I'm not sure what the stress would be introduced by a cable hanging by its own weight for that kind of distance, but I bet the center copper core couldn't bear it and broke inside.
I was on security detail during H2K2, and I was one of about 6 people that installed that cable on Thursday evening. That was the B stairwell. (Us security types referred to it as the 'booger' stairwell. Don't ask.)
It's a good thing you chose to stay away from that stairwell -- we caught a group walking down that stairwell fiddling with the cable and they were promptly detained then removed from the conference for good.
The cable was not copper, but rather Corning 24-strand multimode (62.5/125) fiber cable. Due to an installation snafu, about 50 feet from the end of the run several strands got broken when the cable became pinched. However, we only needed two strands to make the whole shebang work, and we found two properly-working ones (yellow-black and white-black, IIRC) fairly quickly by the guys at the top of the staircase shining an LED flashlight into the connectors while we looked into them at the bottom of the run.
The cable was fairly well supported with cable ties (snug, but not crushing) at several points along the way down.
At no point was link on that run lost, so I know it wasn't the fault of the cable.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling now. I hope you enjoyed H2K2 as much as I did... it was a blast!
It seems like the perfect fit. As you already own an Accord, the Civic Hybrid will have the Honda quality, reliability, and fit-and-finish you already know and appreciate, and is very easy on the environment. Plus, it's much more useful than maximum-100-miles-between-8-hour-charges pure-electric vehicles.
I bet the prize money is from Billy G. himself. $200,000 to have some of the smartest minds in the industry TRYING to break your unit's security so you can do it better next time? Positively cheap...
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Buy this book. The author knows what he's talking about.
I did, and it opened my eyes. Speeding laws are mainly enforced as a revenue stream -- make that a cash cow.
Ask yourself the question, why not??
You should have kept reading...
Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that comparing an Apple customer's perception of Apple support with a Dell customer's perception of Dell support is hardly an accurate picture - the Dell customer has no particular love for the company.
This is true indeed. I don't know if it's grounds to exclude Apple from such a survey, but the poster did have a point...
And frankly the end of the speech, which predicts that THE LONE GUNMEN ARE DEAD...
*sigh*
Goats Is currently at Comicon putting out a second book.
;)
Hah! You want me to click a link labelled "Goats"? Not bloody likely.
As for the cheapshot, I'm not even going to gratify that with a response.
Take a really nice (and expensive) 15Krpm SCSI hard drive, and do this to it.
Fucking morons.
Charles Darwin would be proud to see his theory working well! Uncle Ben would be proud, too, to see how technologically advanced rice has become.
*sigh*...
SapDB seems to be something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I'm glad you see fit to unleash it on your clients...
This is ludacris
What on earth does a rapper have to do with UNIX domain disputes?
/me takes a bow :)
I had to buy a phone for there - the GSM phone I had here runs at 1800, not 1900 as it seems to be all over the planet.
On the contrary -- GSM1900 is only used in North America and Chile. GSM900 and GSM1800 are used everywhere else.
And that "chip" is a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card.
CDMA, btw, was invented by the president of Qualcomm
At no time did Hedy Lamarr hold a position at Qualcomm...
Note that they're not making money from banner ads, but from classified ads.
I'm sorry, I'm not at liberty to divulge the actual nature of the ads themselves, since they're classifi*WHACK*
Ow! That really hurt! I mean, no, really, who throws a shoe?!
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If the impact did not set off the airbags, then it would not have been classified as an impact by the airbag controller, and 5 seconds after the other car hit her, the data would have been overwritten with new data. (No collision, remember, so we keep on recording.)
So in situations like these, this functionality does precisely fuck all.
They would already be playing out-of-sync because of download delays
:D
Not with my connection.
What's the problem with the plugin tossing a little "click here to play" button on the page instead of just starting the animation?
The problem is with clicking three play buttons on a page I'd like to see that has several SWFs on it, then watching them play out of sync.
Requires Macromedia Flash Player 6
on the little demo page. Too bad I removed FLASH due to it's abuse by web advertisers. I hope Macromedia will put out a player that can be set by default to not play flash. HINT HINT! I'm not going to install it to watch a demo and remove it for the rest of my browsing. Is a play button too much to ask?
Two quick questions:
(1) If you knew you didn't have the plugin installed, why did you bother clicking through? The demo was clearly described as being Flash.
(2) What the fuck good would a Flash plugin be that, by default, doesn't play Flash? Does your web browser, by default, not render HTML?! (I'm sure there's a Netscape joke in there somewhere, but I'm generally not one to make cheap shots.)
If you're so worried about ads, do yourself a favor and install Guidescope. It's a little proxy that sits in your system tray, bound to port 8000 of (only) your localhost interface, and you tell IE that localhost:8000 is your proxy for HTTP content. It then replaces known ads with a gray box the same size as the ad, so it won't break the layout of pages. (Optionally you can have it nuke them altogether.) It can optionally block some or all cookies, too.
They did NO such thing, they did NOT I REPEAT NOT ! Shut down ANY web sites. They could have but they actually DIDNT.
What they did do, was CHANGE the content in question REMOTLEY.
Buddy, the net result is the same -- the content is removed from the Internet.
Whether that's by deleting the virtual host in IIS metabase, or 'killall httpd', or FTPing in and blowing away the content, the net result is that people can no longer view the site in question.
I mean, really... the mechanics of how it occurred are totally moot. The site was taken down one way or the other, which was WAY out of their [the Italians'] jurisdiction. Period.
The URL is too long to paste here.
Whoo, what a long link!
My friend and I wondered how they screwed this one up and traced the wires to a display table and behind a closed stairwell door. We looked at each other and said "Nooo". We popped into a neighboring stairwell as everyone fought for the elevators. We went down one floor then popped over to the stairwell that we saw the wires going down. Sure enough, they had run the wires down the open portion of the stairs so they were hanging by their own weight for a distance of about 22 floors (the hotel has 18 number floors, about 4 lettered floors like A, B, C, D, a mezzanine floor, and lobby floor). I'm not sure what the stress would be introduced by a cable hanging by its own weight for that kind of distance, but I bet the center copper core couldn't bear it and broke inside.
I was on security detail during H2K2, and I was one of about 6 people that installed that cable on Thursday evening. That was the B stairwell. (Us security types referred to it as the 'booger' stairwell. Don't ask.)
It's a good thing you chose to stay away from that stairwell -- we caught a group walking down that stairwell fiddling with the cable and they were promptly detained then removed from the conference for good.
The cable was not copper, but rather Corning 24-strand multimode (62.5/125) fiber cable. Due to an installation snafu, about 50 feet from the end of the run several strands got broken when the cable became pinched. However, we only needed two strands to make the whole shebang work, and we found two properly-working ones (yellow-black and white-black, IIRC) fairly quickly by the guys at the top of the staircase shining an LED flashlight into the connectors while we looked into them at the bottom of the run.
The cable was fairly well supported with cable ties (snug, but not crushing) at several points along the way down.
At no point was link on that run lost, so I know it wasn't the fault of the cable.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling now. I hope you enjoyed H2K2 as much as I did... it was a blast!
withoutaclocksignal,howcanyoutellwhenoneinstructio nstopsandanotherbegins?
By the spaces inserted randomly by Slashcode.
(Sorry, but it's true!)
That's what you get when you let your FTP client save the password to your provider's FTP server. Tsk tsk...
It seems like the perfect fit. As you already own an Accord, the Civic Hybrid will have the Honda quality, reliability, and fit-and-finish you already know and appreciate, and is very easy on the environment. Plus, it's much more useful than maximum-100-miles-between-8-hour-charges pure-electric vehicles.
Malda, we need to be able to mod absolute gems like this up to at least 10.
Good work. I'm still drying off my eyes!
I bet the prize money is from Billy G. himself. $200,000 to have some of the smartest minds in the industry TRYING to break your unit's security so you can do it better next time? Positively cheap...