There are more than enough money grubbing a-holes at New Line to make up for him.
They took the risk of Jackson making three LOTR movies (not just two movies that Peter Jackson thought he had a chance to sell) - the rest of Hollywood turned him down.
LOTR x 3 are a huge success, New Line reaps the reward (in spades.)
Where's the problem with that?
Lesson to Hollywood: Stop churning out the formulaic shite and take a few risks!
ATAPI support isn't quite there yet. If you have a good burn, it works great. If you have a glitch (e.g. with CD-RW media), the drive tends to be locked in some kind of retry loop, and you have to reboot or even power off to clear it. I didn't strike these problems using SCSI emulation. It's no biggy - the more I break, the more data gets fed back to the developers.:-)
Unlike the Australian Government and the press, at least Slashdot doesn't refer to it a Free Trade Agreement.
Who are they trying to kid??!! It's only "free" if you ignore the exceptions and conditions of the deal!
It's like saying that Microsoft provides "free" software - except you have to pay for it, and provided you accept
the End User License Agreement...
Unfortunately, the media is concentrating on sugar being left out of the deal - it wouldn't surprise me if this is a
cunning ploy to divert attention from the even less desirable aspects of the "agreement" - like the DMCA provisions.
It doesn't matter who you vote for in this year's election - just don't vote for more of the same...
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How long did it take you to solve?
No time at all - you already provided the answer...:-)
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The computation is simply there to consume time, so that it takes longer to send a message.
You mean Outlook, don't you? (Not Outlook Express - obviously, that's too quick for this cunning plan...)
Agreed. So long as there are websites that "require" Internet Explorer - and can't be spoofed via the User Agent override extensions - Mozilla won't be the killer application it should be. The users at work who have tried Mozilla *love* the tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking and image server filtering features - but the still "need" IE for those sites that have sloppy/MS-centric JavaScript etc.
When Mozilla is defacto standards compliant as well as official standards compliant, it will kick butt instead of just "it's great, but..."
The Install CD must be for the occasional sysadmin who needs a bib to protect his shirt from drool.
I have the DVD-ROM version, you insensitive clod!:-)
Actually, I have both CD and DVD media; I'd like to use the latter (no need to swap CDs in the middle of the installation), but I was foiled:
The Sun DVD drives we have at work don't support booting from DVD media without a firmware patch - potentially an interesting Catch-22 situation... (Usually you'll have either a Solaris CD and/or a Sun pre-installed image on the hard disk, but that should have been picked up before shipping the drives.)
The DVD boots into "drool mode" - I have not found a way to bypass this and jump to the equivalent of CD 1 yet.
I tried to "drool" my way through it in case they have improved the installation with Solaris 9 - no such luck.
At this point, I cut my losses and went back to the traditional CD1 installation. >:-|
If you know how to boot the DVD into CD1 mode, please let me (and others) know in a reply to this thread - thanks!
The thing about binary packages that I got fed up with were having to download another 30MB package to fix something trivial e.g. file permissions.
With Gentoo where source tarballs are used, you can usually get away with downloading a patch (handled automatically by the portage system.) The accumulated distfiles are also very handy for keeping up-to-date with releases, particularly since I also have Solaris boxes to maintain - having to trawl through the project websites is time consuming.
It still isn't perfect - I think that the kernel packages would be better handled by downloading the x.0 tarball and adding the x.1, x.2, x.3 etc. patches on top, but at least the x.y-{pre,rc}z
releases are applied as patches.
Owning slaves may seem cheap, but bear in mind that there was a Total Cost of Ownership.
Ah, but Microsoft slave labour (*cough* MCSE *cough*) claims to have a lower TCO than
Open Source slave labour, even though the latter usually don't even get paid for their work!;-)
... why release virus signatures instead of just changing the entire underlying security system in the operating system?
Fixing the problem instead of just treating the symptoms would be commercial suicide - why do you think drug companies spend so much money marketing "cold and flu" tablets instead of producing effective vaccines?
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So use roll of plastic like they use for the in-car cameras in Formula 1 etc. When the exposed section gets dirty, you just wind it off to the waste spool and clean plastic takes its place. Unlike tear-offs, there's only one layer of plastic which minimises light loss. If you had a method to clean the plastic, you could use a continous loop rather than a fixed-length spool.
Alarms going off has become so prevalent in our society that most people ignore them. When was the last time you saw someone concerned about a car alarm going off?
It depends on the alarm. Anything that sounds like an alarm (or a cellphone) will get ignored. A more cunning alarm would shout "Fire!", "Rape!", "Help! I'm being kidnapped" or "Free beer!"
The speed of the card doesn't matter as all cards have one or more "clock tracks" with 0-1-0-1 sequences to make the data readable.
That's one solution; a self-clocking data track would also work.
From the Magnetic Stripe Glossary:
Self-clocking:
That property of biphase which permits encoded magnetic stripes to be read at different speeds;
the Ones frequency is always twice the Zeros frequency, and the read circuit need only sync on
a string of known Zeros to begin reading at any speed.
Bingo. If you ever visit the summit of Mt. Wellington in Hobart (Tasmania, Australia), they have a sign warning drivers that their keyless entry may not work due to the proximity of the tranmission tower. I didn't have any problems with my hired Toyota Camry, but YMMV.:-) The sign also mentioned something about an override switch, probably for the ignition security system.
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McJunkFood; MSJunkSoftware.
There are more than enough money grubbing a-holes at New Line to make up for him.
They took the risk of Jackson making three LOTR movies (not just two movies that Peter Jackson
thought he had a chance to sell) - the rest of Hollywood turned him down.
LOTR x 3 are a huge success, New Line reaps the reward (in spades.)
Where's the problem with that?
Lesson to Hollywood: Stop churning out the formulaic shite and take a few risks!
ATAPI support isn't quite there yet. If you have a good burn, it works great. If you have a glitch (e.g. with CD-RW media), the drive tends to be locked in some kind of retry loop, and you have to reboot or even power off to clear it. I didn't strike these problems using SCSI emulation. It's no biggy - the more I break, the more data gets fed back to the developers. :-)
Unlike the Australian Government and the press, at least Slashdot doesn't refer to it a Free Trade Agreement.
Who are they trying to kid??!! It's only "free" if you ignore the exceptions and conditions of the deal!
It's like saying that Microsoft provides "free" software - except you have to pay for it, and provided you accept
the End User License Agreement...
Unfortunately, the media is concentrating on sugar being left out of the deal - it wouldn't surprise me if this is a
cunning ploy to divert attention from the even less desirable aspects of the "agreement" - like the DMCA provisions.
It doesn't matter who you vote for in this year's election - just don't vote for more of the same...
How long did it take you to solve?
:-)
No time at all - you already provided the answer...
The computation is simply there to consume time, so that it takes longer to send a message.
You mean Outlook, don't you? (Not Outlook Express - obviously, that's too quick for this cunning plan...)
Race To The Bottom
Mmmm.... Curry....
Agreed. So long as there are websites that "require" Internet Explorer - and can't be spoofed via the User Agent override extensions - Mozilla won't be the killer application it should be. The users at work who have tried Mozilla *love* the tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking and image server filtering features - but the still "need" IE for those sites that have sloppy/MS-centric JavaScript etc.
When Mozilla is defacto standards compliant as well as official standards compliant, it will kick butt instead of just "it's great, but..."
I have the DVD-ROM version, you insensitive clod!
Actually, I have both CD and DVD media; I'd like to use the latter (no need to swap CDs in the middle of the installation), but I was foiled:
At this point, I cut my losses and went back to the traditional CD1 installation. >:-|
If you know how to boot the DVD into CD1 mode, please let me (and others) know in a reply to this thread - thanks!
The thing about binary packages that I got fed up with were having to download another 30MB package to fix something trivial e.g. file permissions.
With Gentoo where source tarballs are used, you can usually get away with downloading a patch (handled automatically by the portage system.) The accumulated distfiles are also very handy for keeping up-to-date with releases, particularly since I also have Solaris boxes to maintain - having to trawl through the project websites is time consuming.
It still isn't perfect - I think that the kernel packages would be better handled by downloading the x.0 tarball and adding the x.1, x.2, x.3 etc. patches on top, but at least the x.y-{pre,rc}z releases are applied as patches.
Owning slaves may seem cheap, but bear in mind that there was a Total Cost of Ownership.
;-)
Ah, but Microsoft slave labour (*cough* MCSE *cough*) claims to have a lower TCO than
Open Source slave labour, even though the latter usually don't even get paid for their work!
... why release virus signatures instead of just changing the entire underlying security system in the operating system?
Fixing the problem instead of just treating the symptoms would be commercial suicide - why do you think drug companies spend so much money marketing "cold and flu" tablets instead of producing effective vaccines?
So use roll of plastic like they use for the in-car cameras in Formula 1 etc. When the exposed section gets dirty, you just wind it off to the waste spool and clean plastic takes its place. Unlike tear-offs, there's only one layer of plastic which minimises light loss. If you had a method to clean the plastic, you could use a continous loop rather than a fixed-length spool.
but wouldn't it be great to have the brakes applied if you lose attention for that one split second.
Only if the dumbass sitting on your tail also has radar braking...
Alarms going off has become so prevalent in our society that most people ignore them. When was the last time you saw someone concerned about a car alarm going off?
It depends on the alarm. Anything that sounds like an alarm (or a cellphone) will get ignored. A more cunning alarm would shout "Fire!", "Rape!", "Help! I'm being kidnapped" or "Free beer!"
Four people that each share it with four people and so on...
:-)
Then it's a chain letter - aren't they illegal too?
How about just implanting the ringer, so they don't bother the rest of us?
"Can I borrow your phone for a sec.? Thanks, now bend over."
Why that? What can you do with Photoshop that you can't do with the Gimp?
Prevent forgery of bank notes?
That's another one of those irregular verbs, isn't it?
I'm defending my rights, you're being uncooperative, he's obviously guilty.
Given that Intel's "announcement" is trying to conceal the truth of their AMD64 clone, shouldn't it be LYING TO REST?
Did anyone else read this as "Deaf!!!"? Maybe it's because my eyes are still ringing from all of those CAPS.
The speed of the card doesn't matter as all cards have one or more "clock tracks" with 0-1-0-1 sequences to make the data readable.
That's one solution; a self-clocking data track would also work.
From the Magnetic Stripe Glossary:
Self-clocking:
That property of biphase which permits encoded magnetic stripes to be read at different speeds;
the Ones frequency is always twice the Zeros frequency, and the read circuit need only sync on
a string of known Zeros to begin reading at any speed.
I'm waiting for the follow up article: "The Slashdotting that hit without warning."
To paraphrase Bernard from "Yes Minister", It's one of those irregular verbs:
I spend strategically, you lobby, he bribes.
Bingo. If you ever visit the summit of Mt. Wellington in Hobart (Tasmania, Australia), they have a sign warning drivers that their keyless entry may not work due to the proximity of the tranmission tower. I didn't have any problems with my hired Toyota Camry, but YMMV. :-) The sign also mentioned something about an override switch, probably for the ignition security system.