I worked at the CD rental organisation in Enschede, the Netherlands for a few years. People can borrow CD's there, and also DVDs and CD-ROMs. We have a system where we keep track of the scratches and dirt on CD's. Every CD has a 'scratch card' on which the scratches are indicated using special markers with colors you can't buy in the store. In this way, the person that last borrowed the CD can be held responsible for new scratches. If the scratches are bad he/she is fined. If they destroy a CD totally they are fined for the costs of a new copy (we can bay them cheaper than normal consumers because we buy them from the import directly). This system works quite well, provided that you inform new users about it first. For more info see www.cd-uitleen.nl (all in Dutch I'm afraid).
Cool. This brings to mind the Linux watch IBM made some time ago. Does anyone know what's become of that? Is it still in development or was it just a showpiece?
At work I have a dual boot machine with Windows2000 and Linux (SW 7.1). Although I have OpenOffice installed, this is for many documents still not good enough - formulas and pictures are handled differently from formulas and pictures in Word. The problem is that in many cases OpenOffice treats formulas and pictures 'better' than Word (it does what is expected of it, and handles captions a lot better than Word (which doesn't handle those at all actually)), but because everyone uses Word these days a document made in OpenOffice should look the same in Word as I made it in OpenOffice. Therefore at work I have to use Windows. At home it's mainly the games that keep me booting Windows now and then. For some websites I also have to use IE, unfortunately.
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Like with cars, they could enforce that every computer program sold must comply with certain requirements. For instance, it would be really cool if every computer program sold in the EU must come with a manual that describes every file format it uses in detail so the data generated with that program can in principle be read and used by other programs with no big problems.
I'd love to see the 'click to focus' work only if you click in the title bar, so you can work in a window that is partially covered by other windows. I find that very handy but in MS Windows this is not possible because if you click anywhere in a window it always pops up. Not even TweakUI can change that.
What I find more important is: is it as configurable as fvwm2? The Microsoft Windows interface has some nasty habits you can't change; hopefully they make it more configurable in the future.
I agree. About the digitization: everyone knows that the documents will be hard to read after ten years because 'standards' move quickly in the digital world...
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Does anyone know what exactly happens during an EMP that destroys electronic equipment? Is it just heated to destruction or has it soemthing to do with the electrons in the semiconductors that get all messed up?
How about writing on the box what's inside. With actual letters. Then you won't have to unpack your computer first. You know, the computer in the box that's labeled 89 001234XBH
I got one such a message as an SMS. It was more civilized ('I like you' instead of 'I wanna get laid') and I was very disappointed to find out it was spam.
How far into the future is the Genescope from Michael Cordy's books, a device that, among other things, can show a real life image of someone constructed from his/her DNA?
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I worked at the CD rental organisation in Enschede, the Netherlands for a few years. People can borrow CD's there, and also DVDs and CD-ROMs. We have a system where we keep track of the scratches and dirt on CD's. Every CD has a 'scratch card' on which the scratches are indicated using special markers with colors you can't buy in the store. In this way, the person that last borrowed the CD can be held responsible for new scratches. If the scratches are bad he/she is fined. If they destroy a CD totally they are fined for the costs of a new copy (we can bay them cheaper than normal consumers because we buy them from the import directly). This system works quite well, provided that you inform new users about it first. For more info see www.cd-uitleen.nl (all in Dutch I'm afraid).
One floppy should be enough for everybody.
Cool. This brings to mind the Linux watch IBM made some time ago. Does anyone know what's become of that? Is it still in development or was it just a showpiece?
That is really cool, a 320x240 pixel screen! I can simulate my C-64 on it! Who could have dreamt that up in the '80s...
At work I have a dual boot machine with Windows2000 and Linux (SW 7.1). Although I have OpenOffice installed, this is for many documents still not good enough - formulas and pictures are handled differently from formulas and pictures in Word. The problem is that in many cases OpenOffice treats formulas and pictures 'better' than Word (it does what is expected of it, and handles captions a lot better than Word (which doesn't handle those at all actually)), but because everyone uses Word these days a document made in OpenOffice should look the same in Word as I made it in OpenOffice. Therefore at work I have to use Windows. At home it's mainly the games that keep me booting Windows now and then. For some websites I also have to use IE, unfortunately.
Why is this a flamebait? I laughed my head off!
Stick the letters on with sticky tape. If you want to change the layout you can easily pull them off.
Like with cars, they could enforce that every computer program sold must comply with certain requirements. For instance, it would be really cool if every computer program sold in the EU must come with a manual that describes every file format it uses in detail so the data generated with that program can in principle be read and used by other programs with no big problems.
I'd love to see the 'click to focus' work only if you click in the title bar, so you can work in a window that is partially covered by other windows. I find that very handy but in MS Windows this is not possible because if you click anywhere in a window it always pops up. Not even TweakUI can change that.
What I find more important is: is it as configurable as fvwm2? The Microsoft Windows interface has some nasty habits you can't change; hopefully they make it more configurable in the future.
I agree. About the digitization: everyone knows that the documents will be hard to read after ten years because 'standards' move quickly in the digital world...
Does anyone know what exactly happens during an EMP that destroys electronic equipment? Is it just heated to destruction or has it soemthing to do with the electrons in the semiconductors that get all messed up?
Better than sex huh?
I guess they trust on Palladium to make sure that XML-files can only be read and written using MS software.
Lapburner would be a better term for many notebooks :-)
O no! Now I must see that movie again... :-)
I was a little surprised myself. I expected to get modded down Redundant, but Offtopic and Troll were surprising.
a Beowulf cluster of these!
Sorry...
How about writing on the box what's inside. With actual letters. Then you won't have to unpack your computer first. You know, the computer in the box that's labeled 89 001234XBH
Of course it's not open source; the last thing they want is users making changes to this program. Then it would be of no use to them.
Now we know what those people saw in Alaska! (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/ 17/1219240&mode=flat&tid=134)
I got one such a message as an SMS. It was more civilized ('I like you' instead of 'I wanna get laid') and I was very disappointed to find out it was spam.
How far into the future is the Genescope from Michael Cordy's books, a device that, among other things, can show a real life image of someone constructed from his/her DNA?
Someone with a modified delta flyer has the time of his life now.
Isn't creating cross-platform applications illegal by Microsoft law?