The urinal knows nothing... The janitor on the other hand, sitting in his room behind his desk filled with rows of video monitors, VCR's and 'flush' buttons...
Sony obtained from you the money you payed when buying the system. They only obtained that money by promising to give to you in return for said money a system you can use to play video games online, and that you can also use to run the "Other OS".
Now that they've obtained that money, it turns out you can only have one or the other, but not both at the same time. At the time of buying this was not made sufficiently clear.
Apparently you *haven't* looked through all the links in TFA... Otherwise, you would have read in the Wikipedia article that "Despite its size and density, the patch is not visible from satellite photography." because "Most of the debris consists of small plastic particles suspended at or just below the water surface, making it impossible to detect by aircraft or satellite images."
Don't know whats worse; a burning sensation from the ray with no visible injuries afterwards, or a burning sensation from the red hot tinfoil suit with years of skingrafts afterwards... (Ever put something metal in the microwave? I for one wouldn't like to see those effects anywhere near my skin)
"Thanks to a 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display that's 79% brighter...." Good thing they put this warning on the website, although they make it sound like a glossy display is actually a good thing... (Perhaps it is a good thing for people wanting to spend $1099 on an Apple designed make-up mirror?)
Here in.nl we have something called an 'antwoordnummer' (answer number) which is the mail equivalent of a toll-free number. It's basically a PO-box where you can send mail to without postage, as the recipient pays for the mail.
There have been numerous projects here to collect those cd's, and mailing them back to AOL/Compuserve using their 'antwoordnummer' - Thereby making them pay (by weight) for receiving them back:) There have been variations on the theme, eg first shredding the cd's so they can't send them out again; or as token of appreciation, sending them a complimentary brick included in the package (saving them the trouble of replacing the windows where the brick would otherwise have been thrown through;)
Someone should come up with a law making this kind of stupidity illegal (so companies (in this case Apple) can countersue) I think a proper punishment should be weekly (or daily, depending on the stupid act) lectures in common sense. Ofcourse guns can kill, ofcourse coffee is hot, offcourse a microwave is not for drying small pets... *DUHHHH*
I think they should call this law The Darwin Act:)
That's true only for CD(r)'s... In case of DVD's however, the datalayer is in the middle of the disc, between two clear layers of equal thickness. So damaging the datalayer of a DVD is equally easy (or difficult) from both sides of the disc. This is true for both dual- as singlelayer discs.
This will cost spammers money. So even if the law is overturned, the outcome is good.
And how exactly do you think these spammers are going to try to balance their budget? (A small hint: I think it will have something to do with e-mail...)
QEMM... that's been a while ago... I remember having a 386SX machine with an onboard VGA card, but no VGA monitor (A CGA ISA card and a CGA monitor at the time) I don't exactly know how I managed to do it, but I once succeeded in adding the unused VGA card's memory to my conventional memory. (The videomemory range began directly above the 640K conventional) After that I've never seen another PC having 'only' 715KB conventional memory available:D
As soon as you hit the power switch, the fans stops. But the CPU also stops. As soon as the CPU stops working it will also stop generating heat. So even though the cooling fan has stopped it won't be getting any hotter, it wil just cool down slower. This might actually be even better for the CPU, as cooling it down too fast may cause extra stress in the material of the die and its mounting on the CPU package.
Laundry instructions on an RFID tag would be a bad idea. Or actually, a washing machine basing it's program on RFID readouts would be a Bad Idea. Or actually, any automatic readout which happens without any manual interference (like swiping a card through a reader or putting your finger on a fingerprint reader) would be a Bad Idea...
Just imagine: You put your new expensive shirts (RFID: 30C, no prewash) in the machine, but forget the box from last night's pizza (RFID: bake at 200C for 15 minutes) in the trashcan beside the machine...
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for the invite(s :P) people!
Unfortunately...
"Oops... you need a Google profile to use this feature.
Google Profiles is not available for your organization."
Doesn't seem to work with my Google Apps account... :((((
If someone could spare an invite...
me at aedens dot net
thanks! :)
The urinal knows nothing...
The janitor on the other hand, sitting in his room behind his desk filled with rows of video monitors, VCR's and 'flush' buttons...
Sony obtained from you the money you payed when buying the system.
They only obtained that money by promising to give to you in return for said money a system you can use to play video games online, and that you can also use to run the "Other OS".
Now that they've obtained that money, it turns out you can only have one or the other, but not both at the same time. At the time of buying this was not made sufficiently clear.
So did he resist?
No need to apologize :)
(My second comment crossed your reply)
Reading it back I realize my comment was also a little more blunt than intended.
Well, you literally said "....it should be easy to get satellite images.
Anyone care to provide them?"
So no reason to be surprised several people quote the Wikipedia article explaning no such images exist, including a reason as to why they don't exist.
Apparently you *haven't* looked through all the links in TFA...
Otherwise, you would have read in the Wikipedia article that "Despite its size and density, the patch is not visible from satellite photography." because "Most of the debris consists of small plastic particles suspended at or just below the water surface, making it impossible to detect by aircraft or satellite images."
Who said anything about Windows 2000?? :))
It's going to be a Chicago datacenter... so you and your Windows 2000 are actually 5 years *ahead*
Don't know whats worse; a burning sensation from the ray with no visible injuries afterwards, or a burning sensation from the red hot tinfoil suit with years of skingrafts afterwards...
(Ever put something metal in the microwave? I for one wouldn't like to see those effects anywhere near my skin)
"Thanks to a 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display that's 79% brighter...."
Good thing they put this warning on the website, although they make it sound like a glossy display is actually a good thing...
(Perhaps it is a good thing for people wanting to spend $1099 on an Apple designed make-up mirror?)
No it doesn't :)
It does, ironically, return with Yahoo Asia as first hit
Just put all the AC's on the B Ark
I dunno, you should ask them :)
I've never even been there
(.nl==the Netherlands, which is in Western Europe)
Here in .nl we have something called an 'antwoordnummer' (answer number) which is the mail equivalent of a toll-free number.
:) ;)
It's basically a PO-box where you can send mail to without postage, as the recipient pays for the mail.
There have been numerous projects here to collect those cd's, and mailing them back to AOL/Compuserve using their 'antwoordnummer' - Thereby making them pay (by weight) for receiving them back
There have been variations on the theme, eg first shredding the cd's so they can't send them out again; or as token of appreciation, sending them a complimentary brick included in the package (saving them the trouble of replacing the windows where the brick would otherwise have been thrown through
Someone should come up with a law making this kind of stupidity illegal (so companies (in this case Apple) can countersue)
:)
I think a proper punishment should be weekly (or daily, depending on the stupid act) lectures in common sense.
Ofcourse guns can kill, ofcourse coffee is hot, offcourse a microwave is not for drying small pets... *DUHHHH*
I think they should call this law The Darwin Act
That's true only for CD(r)'s...
In case of DVD's however, the datalayer is in the middle of the disc, between two clear layers of equal thickness. So damaging the datalayer of a DVD is equally easy (or difficult) from both sides of the disc.
This is true for both dual- as singlelayer discs.
Wouldn't have mattered... I did manage to open my mail client and even send out a mail about this...
I have NEVER had a virus, trojan, spyware, etc.
How can you tell, if you don't run an up-to-date virusscanner?
Just who do you think came up with mouse gestures?
:-)
Not Opera, that's for sure
I remember using software which gave me mouse gestures in Windows about 9 years ago, not too long after the first release of Windows 95.
According to their site, Opera released their first Windows browser (version 2.1) in 1996.
I'd think you need a very skilled specialist to screw up a company the way they're doing right now...
And how exactly do you think these spammers are going to try to balance their budget?
(A small hint: I think it will have something to do with e-mail...)
QEMM... that's been a while ago... :D
I remember having a 386SX machine with an onboard VGA card, but no VGA monitor (A CGA ISA card and a CGA monitor at the time)
I don't exactly know how I managed to do it, but I once succeeded in adding the unused VGA card's memory to my conventional memory. (The videomemory range began directly above the 640K conventional)
After that I've never seen another PC having 'only' 715KB conventional memory available
As soon as you hit the power switch, the fans stops. But the CPU also stops. As soon as the CPU stops working it will also stop generating heat. So even though the cooling fan has stopped it won't be getting any hotter, it wil just cool down slower.
This might actually be even better for the CPU, as cooling it down too fast may cause extra stress in the material of the die and its mounting on the CPU package.
Laundry instructions on an RFID tag would be a bad idea. Or actually, a washing machine basing it's program on RFID readouts would be a Bad Idea. Or actually, any automatic readout which happens without any manual interference (like swiping a card through a reader or putting your finger on a fingerprint reader) would be a Bad Idea...
Just imagine: You put your new expensive shirts (RFID: 30C, no prewash) in the machine, but forget the box from last night's pizza (RFID: bake at 200C for 15 minutes) in the trashcan beside the machine...