For a computer, and in the past when DVD readers weren't 30, having a whole CD on a single CD is such a big deal that as long as the quality was acceptable-to-good, people would use it.
I've read that three times, and even put it through babelfish - no dice - I still have no idea what it means.
You have 36 hours to pull sitefinder or we will bring in the Mallard Ducks.
Or they'll send the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees?
Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons.
What will happen when VeriSign doesn't do anything tomorrow? Is this just another "scare tactic"?
They get bought out wholesale by SCO? Whoa! What time is it? Man, that was a scary dream. You've come to this site by mistake. Please deposit $699 to continue. Thank you.
That page has Media Player Classic which plays Realplayer, Quicktime etc. I still prefer ZoomPlayer from www.inmatrix.com for 99% of other things though.
"We'll ignore the fact that on the same day, Gates donated $168 million to fund malaria research" I dont have malaria, and I dont plan on having it. I do plan on ripping music to my pc. guess which bit of news I care more about
The enlarged screenshot is actually here, for anyone interested.
Enlarged? I'd probably think it was enlarged if I was browsing using my phone. Just how small does something have to be for it to enlarge to that size?
Oh, wait.. we're geeks. Small is good... remember the mantra, small is good... it's how you use it that counts..;-)
I work in a large, predominately MS, corp. I'd say that a good 80% of our boxes are running some variant of Windows - obviously there are the mainframes, and a fair few Solaris/legacy boxes dotted around. The PHBs here view php as something "geeky" that isn't suited for business. I'm sure they'd lap it up in a second if it were called MS Visual php Studio, however.
What problems have people had in trying to migrate their applications to php, and how did you overcome them? How would you sell php to your boss? Bearing in mind most of our applications aren't simple database-driven (and I used that word hesitantly!) ones like Slashdot - hint: banking and insurance sector.
Of course Canada is immune from the RIAA. I'm pretty sure Taiwan is immune from the UK Data Protection Act, and that half of Saudi Arabia's laws aren't valid in Australia.
Can I mod the headline down, whilst keeping the story up?;)
I mean, 733Mhz processor, GeForce 2/3 graphics, the technology is getting rather long in the tooth by today's standards.
Long in the tooth? Linux isn't the only reason to have an Xbox (gentoo installable in one or two mouseclicks on a modded xbox btw). I know it's karma suicide to praise Microsoft on slashdot;) but your used machine from eBay isn't going to have half the quality TV output that the Xbox has. Xbox is one of the greatest things a shoddy company like Microsoft has ever produced. It means that the modded xbox I have sitting in my living room now plays xbox, psx, amiga, snes, megadrive and arcade games. It's hooked up to the LAN so I can listen to my mp3 collection or listen to shoutcast streams. I can stream videos from the LAN, or simply play them from the huge hard drive I now have installed. I can stick a CF memory card into my computer in the other room and we can all view the pictures taken earlier that day on a big screen TV.
All accessible from the couch via the xbox's dvd remote control.
When I bought my 2nd phone a few years ago all I did was walk into my local newsagent, pick up the bulky box, take it to the counter, and hand over some cash.
Pretty much untracable to me. Of course, these days I'm on a contract (gotta love that international roaming;) so my details are probably lining the walls of my local fraudster's house.
Whether or not this was an ethical thing to do, I couldn't find the number of someone who'd been harrassing me in any of my logs or emails. I took a chance and checked out the whois info for one of their domains. I now have their home phone number, home address, and email address for when their next bout of stalking occurs and something needs to be done.....
he fact that ATI and Valve are both dual promoting the 9800/9900 and HL2 is a rather disturbing precedent that's being made here. The fact that the Nvidia HL2 benchmarks are so low compared to other DX9 benchmarks suggests that ATI and Valve are doing a little more together then cross-promoting
You mean like the splash screens and "best viewed with nVidia" graphics (or whatever it was) at the start of UT2003?
Not quite. This is a "multimedia CD" whatever that means. Papers here (including the Sunday Times) have been including exclusive music CDs in certain editions for ages. I believe the Guardian's Sunday paper - The Observer tends to include audio CDs quite a lot these days.
That is one of the problems of the information age is the fluidity of data. Perhaps it should be a requirement that any and all emails relating to business matters must be stored off site by another company (not affiliated with the company storing the backups) or the government?
That's the thing, though, isn't it. Who watches the watchers?
Without meaning to write some paranoid flamebait here, what's to stop Microsoft, or any other company told to produce electronic evidence, simply handing over false information.
In this case, they've pruned 37 weeks of related emails from their employees' computers and their mail servers, so what's to stop them doctoring the emails recovered from backups?
I guess there would be a possible problem if an employee had printouts or had forwarded certain emails to another address for whatever reason. Then again, what motivation would that employee have for exposing the cover up?
I don't know how things work in the USA corp envioronment, but would something along the lines of monthly backups duplicated, sealed, and dated, only to be opened in the event of litigation, help in these cases at all? This would both protect the legitimate accuser and the wrongly accused... or perhaps it's not that big a deal, and tampering isn't a logistically attractive proposition.
If I installed something like Mandrake or Suse on my mum's PC, configured a web browser, an email application, and some general office tools, there's no question that it'd take her about a day to figure out where all the buttons are and how to use it to surf the web, write a letter, send emails. I know this because it took her a similar amount of time to figure out 98, XP, and OSX which she uses at work.
There's no question about the usability or linux in that regard IMHO. For simple office, and 90% of home user tasks, linux is perfectly "ready for the desktop" and has been for some time.
Where I feel linux falls down, however, is the intermediate user - the user who wants to transfer their home movies from their DV camera, edit them, and author a DVDR; a user who'd like to use their TV card to timeshift TV shows; the budding composers who want to hook up their keyboards and play with synchronisers and audio manipulators. That's where people (myself, and the majority of people I know who are very competant windows/osx users) who want to migrate to a linux solution run into difficulties which simply aren't present on Windows or OSX.
Then you move past the intermediate user to the full-on geek, who can do pretty much anything with linux with a couple of mega-fast keystrokes - that's when linux shines;)
So can we stop these usability studies, please. It's already usable for the majority of home users. The next step is winning over the intermediate Windows users.
MS patches have, and continue to be, available for download as standalone installers. You can burn them to CD, DVD, write them onto a CF card.. whatever.
Sad, and rather telling that this nonsense got modded as anything other than flamebait.
What's wrong with good old pencil and paper? No issues with 'chads', with electronic tampering, with software backdoors etc. Works fine here in the UK. Yes, I know there are more voters in the US, but surely the relationship or voters to overseers is linear?
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Just think - you'll have a second shot at all the lovely ladiez who didn't seem that impressed with the paltry 180MB capacity of your jeans pocket...
I've read that three times, and even put it through babelfish - no dice - I still have no idea what it means.
Yeah, because Mac hardware is well known for being able to run countless operating systems.. no wait ;)
Now my BIOS is going to email me this file in order for my advice...
Or they'll send the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees?
Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons.
I don't know what's more worrying; that the page doesn't validate or that someone actually tested it.
They get bought out wholesale by SCO?
Whoa! What time is it? Man, that was a scary dream.
You've come to this site by mistake. Please deposit $699 to continue. Thank you.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
That page has Media Player Classic which plays Realplayer, Quicktime etc. I still prefer ZoomPlayer from www.inmatrix.com for 99% of other things though.
Weird. It plays fine here in full screen at 1600x1200 on an Athlon 2400XP with 1GB. XP Pro sp1.
I dont have malaria, and I dont plan on having it. I do plan on ripping music to my pc. guess which bit of news I care more about
What a completely cuntish thing to say.
Enlarged? I'd probably think it was enlarged if I was browsing using my phone. Just how small does something have to be for it to enlarge to that size?
Oh, wait.. we're geeks. Small is good... remember the mantra, small is good... it's how you use it that counts.. ;-)
What problems have people had in trying to migrate their applications to php, and how did you overcome them? How would you sell php to your boss? Bearing in mind most of our applications aren't simple database-driven (and I used that word hesitantly!) ones like Slashdot - hint: banking and insurance sector.
Can I mod the headline down, whilst keeping the story up? ;)
Long in the tooth? Linux isn't the only reason to have an Xbox (gentoo installable in one or two mouseclicks on a modded xbox btw). I know it's karma suicide to praise Microsoft on slashdot ;) but your used machine from eBay isn't going to have half the quality TV output that the Xbox has. Xbox is one of the greatest things a shoddy company like Microsoft has ever produced. It means that the modded xbox I have sitting in my living room now plays xbox, psx, amiga, snes, megadrive and arcade games. It's hooked up to the LAN so I can listen to my mp3 collection or listen to shoutcast streams. I can stream videos from the LAN, or simply play them from the huge hard drive I now have installed. I can stick a CF memory card into my computer in the other room and we can all view the pictures taken earlier that day on a big screen TV.
All accessible from the couch via the xbox's dvd remote control.
No, but it does include your Amazon account number... posted in a story about hacking too ;)
Pretty much untracable to me. Of course, these days I'm on a contract (gotta love that international roaming ;) so my details are probably lining the walls of my local fraudster's house.
Whether or not this was an ethical thing to do, I couldn't find the number of someone who'd been harrassing me in any of my logs or emails. I took a chance and checked out the whois info for one of their domains. I now have their home phone number, home address, and email address for when their next bout of stalking occurs and something needs to be done.....
You mean like the splash screens and "best viewed with nVidia" graphics (or whatever it was) at the start of UT2003?
Not quite. This is a "multimedia CD" whatever that means. Papers here (including the Sunday Times) have been including exclusive music CDs in certain editions for ages. I believe the Guardian's Sunday paper - The Observer tends to include audio CDs quite a lot these days.
That's the thing, though, isn't it. Who watches the watchers?
In this case, they've pruned 37 weeks of related emails from their employees' computers and their mail servers, so what's to stop them doctoring the emails recovered from backups?
I guess there would be a possible problem if an employee had printouts or had forwarded certain emails to another address for whatever reason. Then again, what motivation would that employee have for exposing the cover up?
I don't know how things work in the USA corp envioronment, but would something along the lines of monthly backups duplicated, sealed, and dated, only to be opened in the event of litigation, help in these cases at all? This would both protect the legitimate accuser and the wrongly accused... or perhaps it's not that big a deal, and tampering isn't a logistically attractive proposition.
Now where's my tin-foil hat.
There's no question about the usability or linux in that regard IMHO. For simple office, and 90% of home user tasks, linux is perfectly "ready for the desktop" and has been for some time.
Where I feel linux falls down, however, is the intermediate user - the user who wants to transfer their home movies from their DV camera, edit them, and author a DVDR; a user who'd like to use their TV card to timeshift TV shows; the budding composers who want to hook up their keyboards and play with synchronisers and audio manipulators. That's where people (myself, and the majority of people I know who are very competant windows/osx users) who want to migrate to a linux solution run into difficulties which simply aren't present on Windows or OSX.
Then you move past the intermediate user to the full-on geek, who can do pretty much anything with linux with a couple of mega-fast keystrokes - that's when linux shines ;)
So can we stop these usability studies, please. It's already usable for the majority of home users. The next step is winning over the intermediate Windows users.
And as for gaming.... ;)
MS patches have, and continue to be, available for download as standalone installers. You can burn them to CD, DVD, write them onto a CF card.. whatever.
Sad, and rather telling that this nonsense got modded as anything other than flamebait.
As subject: typo
This is where I have to type something to get round some kind of lameness filter in the slashdot code
What's wrong with good old pencil and paper? No issues with 'chads', with electronic tampering, with software backdoors etc. Works fine here in the UK. Yes, I know there are more voters in the US, but surely the relationship or voters to overseers is linear?