Yes! You're right! Talking about your feelings, beliefs and life is _pointless_. People should just shut up and get on with their lives. We only have friends for their entertainment value, and they should learn not to actually communicate about anything about themselves.
The hospital my father works in uses these to control access to data entry in the neonatal ward. The nurses would otherwise be typing in passwords about 300 times a day, as the computers lock whenever someone isn't standing at them. It means that the tracking data for who entered what data is always correct and that time isn't taken up typing in passwords all the time.
I'm not sure how easy they are to fool, but in the hospital, where people wouldn't be at the terminals unless they were a recognised user anyway, they're perfect.
Can't remember the details I'm afraid. I'm fairly sure it defaulted to generic SVGA, as I had it working, just not at my TFT's default resolution, which meant everything looked a tad odd (and a bit oversized).
In a bid to try Linux out, I downloaded a few Live CDs. Not one of them recognised my ATI graphics card.
If they can't even manage to recognise my, extremely common, graphics card then I don't think I fancy wasting much time trying to get everything else working.
I will happily visit websites that have ads around the edges (I reserve adblock for use on blinking flashing things). I occasionally see cool things in Googles adwords. But I will not put up with ads mixed into my content.
Personally I'd rather that they provide headlines and then a link to the main text on their site (which would have adverts). Having ads intermingled with my actual content is just a step too invasive for me.
The _name_ was bought out by another company. There is no relationship between the current Napster and the original pirate-enabler.
Napster are making a profit by making deals with movie companies. Those deals will undoubtably be just as free as the deals they made with music companies - i.e. not very free at all.
Napster don't get to choose whether there is DRM on the movies. Thinking they have any control over this is hopelessly naive.
There isn't going to be a sudden switchover from person-driven cars to AI driven ones. Instead you'll see the steady accretion of functionality that covers one situation after another, until there's nothing left for the 'driver' to do.
I don't think anyone is saying we should _enforce_ synonyms - but offering them as an option, so that you could type "Mac" and be asked if you meant "As in 'Big', 'Apple', or other?" and choose whether you wants to fit in or not.
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Aaah, they come from God.
Sorry, don't believe in God.
Can you please point to one? Or tell me how they come into being? Or what causes them?
Well, any company that gets taken to court and loses on something they're insured over will have their rates raised significantly.
And you'd hope that the company wouldn't be insured against people deliberately breaking the law either.
In other news, companies should not be allowed to use GPL code unless all of their code is GPL'd.
Yes! You're right! Talking about your feelings, beliefs and life is _pointless_. People should just shut up and get on with their lives. We only have friends for their entertainment value, and they should learn not to actually communicate about anything about themselves.
My supply of open-source software doesn't seem to be drying up.
Or my supply of MP3s.
The problem being that _no_ major publishers are making their work available without DRM.
If they were, the others would follow, but none of them are moving in that direction.
Nope, they really use scanners. And they have three different fingers they can use. And the scanners seem to survive just fine.
The hospital my father works in uses these to control access to data entry in the neonatal ward. The nurses would otherwise be typing in passwords about 300 times a day, as the computers lock whenever someone isn't standing at them. It means that the tracking data for who entered what data is always correct and that time isn't taken up typing in passwords all the time.
I'm not sure how easy they are to fool, but in the hospital, where people wouldn't be at the terminals unless they were a recognised user anyway, they're perfect.
Legally speaking, you don't own that file. You merely have a license to run it.
Can't remember the details I'm afraid. I'm fairly sure it defaulted to generic SVGA, as I had it working, just not at my TFT's default resolution, which meant everything looked a tad odd (and a bit oversized).
In a bid to try Linux out, I downloaded a few Live CDs. Not one of them recognised my ATI graphics card.
If they can't even manage to recognise my, extremely common, graphics card then I don't think I fancy wasting much time trying to get everything else working.
I've used it. It works well. For PC and Mac and Palm.
I meant 'my content' in the same way as I'd say "My walk to work" or "my view" - not ownership, but participation.
No, it is my _choice_ to receive it without ads.
I will happily visit websites that have ads around the edges (I reserve adblock for use on blinking flashing things). I occasionally see cool things in Googles adwords. But I will not put up with ads mixed into my content.
Personally I'd rather that they provide headlines and then a link to the main text on their site (which would have adverts). Having ads intermingled with my actual content is just a step too invasive for me.
'sold out'???
The _name_ was bought out by another company. There is no relationship between the current Napster and the original pirate-enabler.
Napster are making a profit by making deals with movie companies. Those deals will undoubtably be just as free as the deals they made with music companies - i.e. not very free at all.
Napster don't get to choose whether there is DRM on the movies. Thinking they have any control over this is hopelessly naive.
Not in the EU it's not...
I wonder how accepting people will be of people who override the safety features in their car...
There isn't going to be a sudden switchover from person-driven cars to AI driven ones. Instead you'll see the steady accretion of functionality that covers one situation after another, until there's nothing left for the 'driver' to do.
Sadly, you only get a boost when file sizes are quite large - otherwise you end up spending more time connecting to peers than you do downloading.
There's always localised caching, usenet style, but I'm not convinced that this would work well for web pages which are updated on a frequent basis.
And then they brought in queues - where paid users got served faster than unpaid users.
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Then don't usethe OO bits of the language. Very few languages _force_ you to make everything an object - you can usually fall back on procedural code.
I don't think anyone is saying we should _enforce_ synonyms - but offering them as an option, so that you could type "Mac" and be asked if you meant "As in 'Big', 'Apple', or other?" and choose whether you wants to fit in or not.
Exactly!
Only with more functionality.