The way I interpret this, I had better go download some boybands immediately before the risk of getting caught increases. Doesn't that defeat the point?
> Any site I hit that says something asinine like "best viewed with Internet Explorer gets an email from me explaining why I will never bother to use their site
Have you ever gotten a positive response? (if any)
Did your e-mail messages ever work? Has anybody gotten rid of their "IE only" sites? Just curious
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Sony Ericsson announces the end of their shortlived advertising campaign. The new T68i, a mobile phone that can double as a digital camera had been advertised in a truely unconventional manner. Paid Actors pretended to be tourists who would ask unsuspecting passersby if they would take photos of the couple to expose them to their new product. Unfortunatly for Sony Ericsson, a higher than expected number of the passersby were camera thieves.
In a related story, How did Sony rack up $2,000,000 in phone sex charges?
Unless I'm missing something, Windows XP won't let you burn files without a prompt to confirm the burn. Why would I want to confirm if the disk is re-writable? In that respect, Floppies have the advantage.
TechTV was formerly ZDTV, which to me implies it is still owned by Ziff Davis. Does anybody know if this possible bankruptsy would have an impact on the TechTV channel?
So what's the difference between modding a PS2 and modding a car?
If I pulled the engine from my Ford Ranger and replaced it with a Chevy 350, aren't I likewise depriving Ford Motor Company of future engine part sales? This is setting a bad precident.
Sounds like a memory problem to me. a while back on slashdot there was a great article about purposely using bad memory chips on Linux. I think the intent was to grab all the big "useless" memory chips from the trash at work and use them in the author's personal computer minus a meg or two of bad memory. I appologize for not being able to find that article for you.
I've been hearing a lot of people say "clip pin 23 to your IDE cable" to prevent writing.
Would it be difficult for a company to come up with a "plug between" adapter between the harddrive and the IDE cable? maybe it would have a jumper on it that you could remove, or better yet, plug in an extension cable with a switch onto the jumper location so you wouldn't have to open the case every time a change is made. If there was enough of a demand, these could be manufactured cheaper than IDE cables.
I think it could be a much cheaper solution to the folks that don't need top of the line. Then again, Mounting the filesystem "read only" would be even easier.
> Giving away IP which has value (and if you think it doesn't, then why do you want to look at it in the first place?
The big three do this all the time with cars. Is there a difference? In both cases, companies are building goodwill with potential customers. Great point though.
... The cost of the VHS equipment. I guess you'd call the tape room an equivilent of a server farm. - Lots of very expensive VHS recorders simultaneously creating copies of a master tape. (I'm assuming) it just wouldn't pay to make one copy at a time with VHS equipment.
> 8' (as opposed to 10') ceilings, poor placement of windows leading to no cross-ventilation, cutting down all the trees around a lot to ease construction but destroying the shade, the death of the porch.
I don't agree Firstly, 8 foot versus 10 foot ceilings. Ten foot ceilings ARE NOT common with older houses. I wish I could remember how many times I've hit my head on a low doorway or a shallow basement. If your statement is correct - That there are fewer 10 foot ceilings, have you considered it may be due to the cost? One small 10x10 room has 4 walls - 4x10x(10-8) = 80 square feet of additional wall material - and that's a damn small room.
Cross ventilation does little good when the ambient air is so humid you close all the windows anyway. Besides, How did the invention of air conditioners have an influence on the placement of windows?
Although I would prefer to have a few, cutting down trees is not necessarily a bad idea. Tree roots can cause thousands of dollars of damage with sidewalks, underground piping, and basement walls. Likewise, How does house cutting down trees during the construction phase relate to the invention of air conditioning?
I'd love to see something like this with a cell phone on a PCMCIA card. Maybe it would have a headset & boom microphone I'd wear while the computer clips to my belt.
Then again, with Linux hitting the cell phone market, who would need the PCMCIA part? Maybe my dream computer really isn't that far away.
As cool as this is, I think I'd have more use for a portable phone/Internet than an expensive portable movie player. I'll give them credit though. They realize the hassle involved in syncing up your devices - elimating the problem by only having one device.
> I mean, if I murder someone with a frozen banana, it's still murder, you don't need a law saying "you are not allowed to murder someone with a frozen banana"
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Sure would make for an awesome cell phone tower!
The way I interpret this,
I had better go download some boybands immediately before the risk of getting caught increases. Doesn't that defeat the point?
> On the second day of January, Microsoft had generated more operating system revenue than the Linux community (will for the entire year).
The Microsoft crowd must have been too hung over on January 1st.
If this thing is really 300 feet wide, that implies that somewhere there's a pair of aircraft hangar doors more than 300 feet wide.
Surely there's not many hangars capable of hiding this kind of beast (unless it somehow folds up like Optimus Prime)
Until I see pics, Call me a skeptic
> Any site I hit that says something asinine like "best viewed with Internet Explorer gets an email from me explaining why I will never bother to use their site
Have you ever gotten a positive response?
(if any)
Did your e-mail messages ever work?
Has anybody gotten rid of their "IE only" sites?
Just curious
Oct 31, 12:56 ET
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
Sony Ericsson announces the end of their shortlived advertising campaign. The new T68i, a mobile phone that can double as a digital camera had been advertised in a truely unconventional manner. Paid Actors pretended to be tourists who would ask unsuspecting passersby if they would take photos of the couple to expose them to their new product. Unfortunatly for Sony Ericsson, a higher than expected number of the passersby were camera thieves.
In a related story,
How did Sony rack up $2,000,000 in phone sex charges?
> ... a universally accepted, cross-platform, dirt-cheap, pocket-sized, rewritable storage medium? Beats me.
Thank God for Fortran!
Unless I'm missing something, Windows XP won't let you burn files without a prompt to confirm the burn.
Why would I want to confirm if the disk is re-writable? In that respect, Floppies have the advantage.
TechTV was formerly ZDTV, which to me implies it is still owned by Ziff Davis.
Does anybody know if this possible bankruptsy would have an impact on the TechTV channel?
could be a great weapon once they figure out how to attach the big friggin' laser to it's head.
So what's the difference between modding a PS2 and modding a car?
If I pulled the engine from my Ford Ranger and replaced it with a Chevy 350, aren't I likewise depriving Ford Motor Company of future engine part sales? This is setting a bad precident.
> My computer's longest uptime is 12 hours.
Sounds like a memory problem to me.
a while back on slashdot there was a great article about purposely using bad memory chips on Linux. I think the intent was to grab all the big "useless" memory chips from the trash at work and use them in the author's personal computer minus a meg or two of bad memory. I appologize for not being able to find that article for you.
On a related note,
Take a look at this:
http://badmem.sourceforge.net/slashdot.html
and also, have a peek at this.
http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html
> Sledghammer scales to 8 processors.
;-)
8 AMD processors?
I'd have to swap out my 500 Watt power supply for something that plugs into my oven's outlet.
I've been hearing a lot of people say "clip pin 23 to your IDE cable" to prevent writing.
Would it be difficult for a company to come up with a "plug between" adapter between the harddrive and the IDE cable? maybe it would have a jumper on it that you could remove, or better yet, plug in an extension cable with a switch onto the jumper location so you wouldn't have to open the case every time a change is made. If there was enough of a demand, these could be manufactured cheaper than IDE cables.
I think it could be a much cheaper solution to the folks that don't need top of the line. Then again, Mounting the filesystem "read only" would be even easier.
> Giving away IP which has value (and if you think it doesn't, then why do you want to look at it in the first place?
The big three do this all the time with cars. Is there a difference? In both cases, companies are building goodwill with potential customers. Great point though.
... The cost of the VHS equipment.
I guess you'd call the tape room an equivilent of a server farm. - Lots of very expensive VHS recorders simultaneously creating copies of a master tape. (I'm assuming) it just wouldn't pay to make one copy at a time with VHS equipment.
> it's nowhere near a necessity and if humans would tolerate a little discomfort, the Earth might be in much better shape.
Obviously you don't work in the server room.
> 8' (as opposed to 10') ceilings, poor placement of windows leading to no cross-ventilation, cutting down all the trees around a lot to ease construction but destroying the shade, the death of the porch.
I don't agree
Firstly, 8 foot versus 10 foot ceilings. Ten foot ceilings ARE NOT common with older houses. I wish I could remember how many times I've hit my head on a low doorway or a shallow basement.
If your statement is correct - That there are fewer 10 foot ceilings, have you considered it may be due to the cost? One small 10x10 room has 4 walls - 4x10x(10-8) = 80 square feet of additional wall material - and that's a damn small room.
Cross ventilation does little good when the ambient air is so humid you close all the windows anyway. Besides, How did the invention of air conditioners have an influence on the placement of windows?
Although I would prefer to have a few, cutting down trees is not necessarily a bad idea. Tree roots can cause thousands of dollars of damage with sidewalks, underground piping, and basement walls.
Likewise, How does house cutting down trees during the construction phase relate to the invention of air conditioning?
> Weave this bad boy into a full body suit, mount micro cameras throughout, project the image seen behind.
;-)
No way man!
Mine is gonna show 6-Pack Abs.
> MY SECOND TYAN THUNDER K7 BLEW UP! so edrugtrader is down. if you are down with tyan, F U 2.
Thanks for the warning..... I was seriously considering getting that mobo. Did the heat kill it?
Any advice for getting a dual AMD board?
> He was the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems
I would have expected him to be like the Oracle guys.
Wouldn't a national ID database need lots of expensive Sun servers running Oracle?
I'd love to see something like this with a
cell phone on a PCMCIA card.
Maybe it would have a headset & boom microphone I'd wear while the computer clips to my belt.
Then again, with Linux hitting the cell phone market, who would need the PCMCIA part? Maybe my dream computer really isn't that far away.
As cool as this is, I think I'd have more use for a portable phone/Internet than an expensive portable movie player. I'll give them credit though. They realize the hassle involved in syncing up your devices - elimating the problem by only having one device.
> I mean, if I murder someone with a frozen banana, it's still murder, you don't need a law saying "you are not allowed to murder someone with a frozen banana"
If the bananna is mushy, you must aquit!
> Then why is a new law needed?
Because it makes the Politicians feel good about themselves. (not to mention it draws away attention from the economy)
> If some kids kicks agains the wall of a building and it collapses, who's to blame?
That's easy - It's the parents.