I'd like to know where I can get a really tiny 40GB hard drive for under $40 dollars. Please post a link.
From Toshiba, if you are prepared to purchase in the same quantity as Apple.
The number to call for sales of this quantity is listed at the bottom of the page, but if you only want a few thouands you'll have to go through one of the listed wholesalers, which will drive the price up a bit I'm afraid.
Also please note that you can aquire iPod drives somewhat cheaper if you select the drive for the base model iPod ($300), as opposed the most expensive model ($500, but with the addtion of remote, dock and case which alone add a pretty penny to the overall price) as your post implies.
This page asks the user to register for the service for a free 6 month trial. Now, granted this looks like an ad. It should, it is intended to be informative and easy enough to understand. At this point, the user can register or click "No Thanks".
We did this not to be evil, we did this to make sure that any non-techy person (part of our target audience) would have ample opportunity to opt in or out of the free 6 month trial of the Parental Control feature.
I know this feature might be misunderstood . . .
No, I understand it perfectly. This is what we would call, in the technical jargon, an "ad." That would be why it looks like one, although those in the scam. ..er, advertising industry like to call it by its secret code name, "opportunity."
What's more the link to the ad is coded into the router, what we call "your product."
The fact that there is a previously undocumented way of turning this "opportunity offer" off does not in any way take away from the fact that it is an ad.
It's rooted in the way that Microsoft percieves end users as children. It started with "My Computer," Bob and Clippy and then the Playschool interface.
It isn't just a daft naming convention, it's a very deliberate condescension.
I don't think they're going to stop until they've turn the PC into a dangly thing hanging over our cribs.
Microsoft was not found guilty of having a monopoly. There is no law against having a monopoly. They were found guilty of abusing monopoly powers.
Essentially they are convicted extortionists.
The very fact that they were able to levy such extortianate practices against other major companies such as IBM, Hitachi and Dell is sufficient proof that such monopoly powers existed.
The Hitachi/BeOS case is particualrly interesting. Hitachi actually preloaded an alternative OS on their retail machines but Microsoft made it a condition of obtaining OEM Windows licenses that they weren't allowed to even tell their customers it was there or provide them with a boot loader.
This is the sort of illegal business practice they were convicted of, not merely selling a lot of software.
Dear Dude, parent is talking about minimum memory spec required to run.
I can run text mode in 4mb of memory. Lots of room left over for all sorts of buffers without ever swapping to disk. Even DOS never got so bloated that the minimum memory spec was 64mb.
What on earth requires 64mb of memory for text mode?
NO 3rd party software should ever have the right to maniuplate the content on an internet site
And what do you think a browser does?
HTML and the web are not desktop publishing and were never intended to be. The entire "web experience" is in the hands of the user, by design.
One might also point out that it's the presence of advertising that has "destroyed" the internet in the minds of many. Once upon a time it was the ads that were counter to what the purpose of the internet was.
It wasn't invented to be a giant virtual Jiffy-Mart.
Yes, but the power of dark overcomes it. Something about introverts being really square, or something. I'm not sure, I was pretty stoned the day they talked about that stuff.
And if I may segue from an earlier post this is another reason to stick to ASCII/Unicode. grep is great. grep is good. grep (and his buddies sed, awk and Perl) moved text searching from the realm of the "potential" to the fully realized, lo these many years ago.
It's only the commercial interests that feel the need for new text format and new text tools for that format.
Fuck 'em. Don't let 'em do it. Only buy ebooks in the existing open standard, just like you wouldn't buy a dead tree book that required special patent glasses and a Capt. Midnight secrect decoder ring.
You are thinking in terms of relatively modern terms metaphors of Biblical stories. You get the metaphor incorrect as well. It is reserved for betrayal, not necessarily the betrayal of the innocent. Blood money.
I was thinking merely in the historical terms. The Pharisees didn't simply make up the whole thing on the spot as an ad hoc plan to kill Jesus. They offered a fairly standard informant's fee, just as they would for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a pickpocket they wanted to put a stop to.
You missed completely what I was implying about Bill too.:)
In point of fact, if you review carefully, you'll find that was much the point of my original post.:)
The press has a responsibility to report responsibly. They generally fail miserably. But the reader has a responsibility to read responsibly as well and do his/her own thinking.
Your first post to me would not have engendered the response I gave to the first poster. You claimed bullshit on the article on the grounds that your own thought process set off the bullshit alarms based on its content.
As it happens I think you have good instincts in that regard. Keep it up. But use it as an indication that you have to find other sources on the subject. They're out there, just a bit harder to track down than a copy of the Post.
(And don't get me going on the Post or we'll be here all week. Blech.)
I made no claim. To do so without solid review of the work would be foolish.
And if I'm going to begin critcising the popular press for how they report science we're going to be here a long, loooooooooong time.
It is important, however, to distinguish between how the press reports science and the science itself. Criticism of such reporting is a valid task for the scientist and one often overlooked, but one should not fall into the trap of believing that if one has critcised the reporting that one has critcised the work.
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I'd like to know where I can get a really tiny 40GB hard drive for under $40 dollars. Please post a link.
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From Toshiba, if you are prepared to purchase in the same quantity as Apple.
The number to call for sales of this quantity is listed at the bottom of the page, but if you only want a few thouands you'll have to go through one of the listed wholesalers, which will drive the price up a bit I'm afraid.
http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=/81820000
Also please note that you can aquire iPod drives somewhat cheaper if you select the drive for the base model iPod ($300), as opposed the most expensive model ($500, but with the addtion of remote, dock and case which alone add a pretty penny to the overall price) as your post implies.
KFG
This page asks the user to register for
.er, advertising industry like to call it by its secret code name, "opportunity."
the service for a free 6 month trial. Now, granted this looks like an
ad. It should, it is intended to be informative and easy enough to
understand. At this point, the user can register or click "No Thanks".
We did this not to be evil, we did this to make sure that any
non-techy person (part of our target audience) would have ample
opportunity to opt in or out of the free 6 month trial of the Parental
Control feature.
I know this feature might be misunderstood . . .
No, I understand it perfectly. This is what we would call, in the technical jargon, an "ad." That would be why it looks like one, although those in the scam. .
What's more the link to the ad is coded into the router, what we call "your product."
The fact that there is a previously undocumented way of turning this "opportunity offer" off does not in any way take away from the fact that it is an ad.
Bad dog. No chew toy for you tonight.
KFG
No one. It's part of the long term planning to force upgrades.
Still running 98? Want to stop the Messenger Service pop-ups?
Step right this way, have we got an upgrade license for you!
KFG
Should we blaim the person who wrote ping if it is used in some sort of denial of service attack?
No, but they're allowed to feel quilt over it on their own if they so desire.
http://www.nobel.no/index.html
KFG
. . .ride my bike outside without having to endure constant sales pitches, without having huge logos and brand names all over the place.
Actually, this is a pretty good description of the appearance of most of the bike riders I see these days.
KFG
Former registry content will now be distributed across directories into a new file type)
Maybe they should call them "initialization" files and give them the extentsion ".ini".
The only problem would be getting people to accept such bold new technology, but I think it has merit.
KFG
It's rooted in the way that Microsoft percieves end users as children. It started with "My Computer," Bob and Clippy and then the Playschool interface.
It isn't just a daft naming convention, it's a very deliberate condescension.
I don't think they're going to stop until they've turn the PC into a dangly thing hanging over our cribs.
KFG
Britney Spears is a happy meal ...
And word on the street is that she's been "super sized."
KFG
Congratulations Sir, your application for employment with the EPA has been accepted.
KFG
Oh I don't know. Stan Lee seemed to figure it out pretty well.
Just because you can't make a hot sports car doesn't mean you don't know what one looks like and can't draw one.
I call troll. Not a very good one either.
KFG
That is correct. That would be why all my HTML encoded ebooks would be in ASCII format. :)
Rinse and repeat for XML, TeX, et al.
KFG
Microsoft was not found guilty of having a monopoly. There is no law against having a monopoly. They were found guilty of abusing monopoly powers.
Essentially they are convicted extortionists.
The very fact that they were able to levy such extortianate practices against other major companies such as IBM, Hitachi and Dell is sufficient proof that such monopoly powers existed.
The Hitachi/BeOS case is particualrly interesting. Hitachi actually preloaded an alternative OS on their retail machines but Microsoft made it a condition of obtaining OEM Windows licenses that they weren't allowed to even tell their customers it was there or provide them with a boot loader.
This is the sort of illegal business practice they were convicted of, not merely selling a lot of software.
KFG
Dear Dude, parent is talking about minimum memory spec required to run.
I can run text mode in 4mb of memory. Lots of room left over for all sorts of buffers without ever swapping to disk. Even DOS never got so bloated that the minimum memory spec was 64mb.
What on earth requires 64mb of memory for text mode?
I am as equally perplexed as parent.
KFG
NO 3rd party software should ever have the right to maniuplate the content on an internet site
And what do you think a browser does?
HTML and the web are not desktop publishing and were never intended to be. The entire "web experience" is in the hands of the user, by design.
One might also point out that it's the presence of advertising that has "destroyed" the internet in the minds of many. Once upon a time it was the ads that were counter to what the purpose of the internet was.
It wasn't invented to be a giant virtual Jiffy-Mart.
KFG
Communicades travel at the speed of light..
Yes, but the power of dark overcomes it. Something about introverts being really square, or something. I'm not sure, I was pretty stoned the day they talked about that stuff.
KFG
And if I may segue from an earlier post this is another reason to stick to ASCII/Unicode. grep is great. grep is good. grep (and his buddies sed, awk and Perl) moved text searching from the realm of the "potential" to the fully realized, lo these many years ago.
It's only the commercial interests that feel the need for new text format and new text tools for that format.
Fuck 'em. Don't let 'em do it. Only buy ebooks in the existing open standard, just like you wouldn't buy a dead tree book that required special patent glasses and a Capt. Midnight secrect decoder ring.
KFG
That's why my personal ebook museum is all in ASCII. The text is recoverable if you can recover the 1s and 0s in any way whatsoever.
Some people can even read the stuff directly from the printed binary, but that's a bit much for me. I'd transliterate back into text.
No need to choose and implement any new standard, we've already got a beaut for English and Unicode is coming along.
KFG
You are thinking in terms of relatively modern terms metaphors of Biblical stories. You get the metaphor incorrect as well. It is reserved for betrayal, not necessarily the betrayal of the innocent. Blood money.
:)
I was thinking merely in the historical terms. The Pharisees didn't simply make up the whole thing on the spot as an ad hoc plan to kill Jesus. They offered a fairly standard informant's fee, just as they would for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a pickpocket they wanted to put a stop to.
You missed completely what I was implying about Bill too.
KFG
on the other side of the record?
KFG
What if life really was like a box of chocolates?
Sunbathing would be really, really gross.
KFG
What if life really was like a box of chocolates?
Sunbathing would be really, really gross.
KFG
Exactly. I believe the $250K figure was derived by adjusting 30 pieces of silver for inflation.
KFG
I think they're going to pay it in used computers valued as new and Windows seat licenses.
If you want actual CDs you'll have pay retail though.
KFG
In point of fact, if you review carefully, you'll find that was much the point of my original post. :)
The press has a responsibility to report responsibly. They generally fail miserably. But the reader has a responsibility to read responsibly as well and do his/her own thinking.
Your first post to me would not have engendered the response I gave to the first poster. You claimed bullshit on the article on the grounds that your own thought process set off the bullshit alarms based on its content.
As it happens I think you have good instincts in that regard. Keep it up. But use it as an indication that you have to find other sources on the subject. They're out there, just a bit harder to track down than a copy of the Post.
(And don't get me going on the Post or we'll be here all week. Blech.)
KFG
I made no claim. To do so without solid review of the work would be foolish.
And if I'm going to begin critcising the popular press for how they report science we're going to be here a long, loooooooooong time.
It is important, however, to distinguish between how the press reports science and the science itself. Criticism of such reporting is a valid task for the scientist and one often overlooked, but one should not fall into the trap of believing that if one has critcised the reporting that one has critcised the work.
They are two logically seperate issues.
KFG