That phrase, "in a data store" seems to be the innovation that qualified for the patent. The sudo command lets a process run as root, but requires the root logon to do so.
What the hell are you talking about? The whole point of sudo is that it lets you run with root priviliges without the password.
I don't know if you have them where you are, but the cure for what ails you is a wonderful place called Micro Center.
It's a place about half the size of a Best Buy, filled with nothing but computer stuff. And most importantly, it's reasonably priced. The flash reader you were talking about? A USB 8-in-1 reader is $10 there, every day of the week. Needed a 50' CAT5 once for a friend... $40 at CompUSA, instead I drove 5 miles to MC and got it for $8. Lots of times they'll have crazy half price stuff like UPSes. They also take 15% off all open box merchandise, and are honest about it! There is lots of stuff with rebates, too, for those inclined.
It's a great place, I wish they were more widespread.
Hate to say it, but not honoring some rebates is the only way they can continue to offer them. Those draconian policies are there for a reason. It keeps the money around to give to those of us who are meticulous about rebate submissions.
maybe even a less invasive phone-home spying scheme
Seriously, take off your tinfoil hat and shut the fuck up. If you can't see that TiVo aggregates data for your benefit, then you just tell them not to do it.
The privacy policy is exceedingly clear about this. Please come back with you have read it.
Of the things you list MythTV can do, the only thing I can't do on my TiVo(s) is play games (and that is if you ignore the lame tic-tac-toe that comes with JavaHMO).
On top of all this, MythTV is free free. I'm not sure what would ever convince me to switch to TiVO or a similarly-limited product.
A house? A wife? Kids? Things that take up time you can spend on hacking to get the thing to work?
I'm not saying the above do not apply to you, but they do for some.
My TiVo just works. I have three of them, and have for several years, and it's never crashed ONCE. I screw around with computers enough at work; when I want to watch TV, I just want to watch TV.
Please refer to the section of the license that says Microsoft can access the system and its data.
Insightful? Full of shit is more like it. IMHO.
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You are correct, there is no law. In fact, a year or so ago, a movie (Bruce Almighty) used a real phone number. Comedy insued for the owner of the phone number.
I had LASIK over 2 years ago. I had some astigmatism with slight myopia in my right eye, and severe astigmatism with slight hyperopia in my left. I'll tell you about my doctor choice first.
One alternative I had was a chain (TLC). The disadvantages of that were that the particular laser they wanted to use (LadarVision) was an hour and a half drive away, and also that since my one eye was in the most severe category of astigmatism (more than 3 diopters), I would have to pay $500 if I ever needed a touch up. Cost here was $1900/eye.
I chose a doctor who is affiliated with a very large university here in town, which made me feel better. He has the only LadarVision in town, and touch-ups are free, regardless of starting condition. Cost here was $1600/eye. No reason not to choose this guy.
The surgery itself is quick and relatively painless. The doctor doesn't really have to do much with the LadarVision, because it tracks and compensates for your eye movement, regardless of how much you move. Including up-to-the-minute tests, anesthesia, and the surgery itself, I was in and out within an hour.
The recovery can be rather uncomfortable. It feels like you have a bunch of sand in your eye. I took a shot of NyQuil and woke up an hour later pretty miserable. Another shot of NyQuil put me out for about 4 more hours, and when I awoke, I could barely feel that anything had happened. I spent the evening playing Playstation through my bug-like eye shields.
You'll hear it said, and it's true -- the most amazing part is when you wake up the next day and look at the alarm clock. It's incredible. I drove myself in for the check up the next morning. I was playing hockey 48 hours after my surgery.
I was constantly evaluated for a year afterward, and my left eye with the severe astigmatism had crept to the point where I wanted to look into getting a touch-up. I would have been happy without it, but happier if it could have gotten better. I had it done, and there has been measureable improvement since then.
I started out 20/200 before the surgery. I now sit between 20/20 and 20/40, depending on the time. I sit at a computer probably 50+ hours a week and need no enhancement to do so. There were absolutely no problems to speak of throughout the entire process, and I am happy with the result. Well worth the $3200 (actually less than that because of my Flexible Spending Account). I had a great experience and would recomment it to anyone that can find the right doctor. For reference, my doctor is David Castellano at Stoneridge Opthamology, in Columbus, OH.
From what little I do know, your comment seems right on. Thanks for the insightful reply. My favorite part:
If you want to know what your boss thinks about the industry, read Gartner. If you want to know about what's really happening, read the Usenet group that deals with the specific technology you're interested in.
This would be my/. signature if you had said it in fewer characters.
I started a new job recently, and they seem to live and die by these fucking Gartner reports. I hadn't heard of them up until recently. Can someone tell me what the deal is?
You got the All-In-Wonder, the Mobo/CPU/memory, case, local disk, NAS, software, and program listings for $150? Please, enlighten us with a link to your hardware vendor.
If you've been subscribed to Maxim for that long, you must not have been paying attention. The pics are great, but the articles pretty much repeat themselves year after year. I used to read it cover to cover for the first couple years, then it just got repetitive.
Let's hope they have done sufficient testing on the drivers. A couple years ago, I purchased an All-In-Wonder Radeon. I nearly slit my throat trying to get it to work with my fancy new-at-the-time Soyo motherboard.
that means your WiFi should have a DHCP server that hands out 10.x.x.x (unroutable) addresses to anybody who wants to get one to get them on board.
There might be a technical detail I'm missing here, but is it strictly necessary to assign private IP addresses? I know it would be prudent, but not really a must, unless I'm missing something.
I laughed when I saw his "Spam subject of the day" section on the updates. My friends and I have a not-quite-daily SSLOTD (Spam Subject Line Of The Day) that we send out. For a long time, most of the subjects fit this pattern:
(verb) her (noun) with your (adjective) (noun)
Hint: the nouns refer to naughty bits. You can figure out the rest.:)
I'm so fucking sick and tired of people saying that things are ugly compared to the iPod. Yes, the iPod looks pretty decent, but who cares? I don't look, I listen! If you want to talk about size and ease-of-use, those are factors, but so are features and price. Not everyone needs a "good looking" mp3 player to validate themselves.
Not to mention the fact that this unit isn't even ugly. I think it looks pretty damn nice, and probably will cost about as much as an iPod with FAR fewer features.
Yeah, but when you played it on the C64, you had to use a joystick, which came with two buttons...
You had a two button joystick for your C64? I certainly didn't. I used the old-school Atari 2600 joysticks, then the ahead-of-it's-time Epyx 500XJ. Oh yeah. I still remember the model number.
Is your copy of VMWare a legally purchased one? If not, did you test that to make sure that it wasn't trojaned to mask the trojans in everything else you download?:-)
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God, what is it about the English language that makes it so hard for some people to understand?
Perhaps the fact that some people don't say precisely what they mean, and then expect people to infer? Just a guess...
You call it "restrictive" that you have to pay for something rather than being able to steal it easily? Interesting.
I think the prepay cards available everywhere are great.
"va" is the first person imperative (command) form of "ir".
That phrase, "in a data store" seems to be the innovation that qualified for the patent. The sudo command lets a process run as root, but requires the root logon to do so.
What the hell are you talking about? The whole point of sudo is that it lets you run with root priviliges without the password.
Someone please mod this overrated.
Because the $10 discount may not be enough to tempt people to buy the product. You have to be able to show the lowest price in order to entice people.
I don't know if you have them where you are, but the cure for what ails you is a wonderful place called Micro Center.
It's a place about half the size of a Best Buy, filled with nothing but computer stuff. And most importantly, it's reasonably priced. The flash reader you were talking about? A USB 8-in-1 reader is $10 there, every day of the week. Needed a 50' CAT5 once for a friend... $40 at CompUSA, instead I drove 5 miles to MC and got it for $8. Lots of times they'll have crazy half price stuff like UPSes. They also take 15% off all open box merchandise, and are honest about it! There is lots of stuff with rebates, too, for those inclined.
It's a great place, I wish they were more widespread.
Hate to say it, but not honoring some rebates is the only way they can continue to offer them. Those draconian policies are there for a reason. It keeps the money around to give to those of us who are meticulous about rebate submissions.
Not powerful enough. Give me egreplaw any day of the week.
maybe even a less invasive phone-home spying scheme
Seriously, take off your tinfoil hat and shut the fuck up. If you can't see that TiVo aggregates data for your benefit, then you just tell them not to do it.
The privacy policy is exceedingly clear about this. Please come back with you have read it.
http://www.tivo.com/5.11.3.asp
Did Java save sun ?
It certainly saved them from having to come up with new buzzwords to tack onto completely unrelated technologies.
Of the things you list MythTV can do, the only thing I can't do on my TiVo(s) is play games (and that is if you ignore the lame tic-tac-toe that comes with JavaHMO).
On top of all this, MythTV is free free. I'm not sure what would ever convince me to switch to TiVO or a similarly-limited product.
A house? A wife? Kids? Things that take up time you can spend on hacking to get the thing to work?
I'm not saying the above do not apply to you, but they do for some.
My TiVo just works. I have three of them, and have for several years, and it's never crashed ONCE. I screw around with computers enough at work; when I want to watch TV, I just want to watch TV.
Please refer to the section of the license that says Microsoft can access the system and its data.
Insightful? Full of shit is more like it. IMHO.
You are correct, there is no law. In fact, a year or so ago, a movie (Bruce Almighty) used a real phone number. Comedy insued for the owner of the phone number.
Linky here
I had LASIK over 2 years ago. I had some astigmatism with slight myopia in my right eye, and severe astigmatism with slight hyperopia in my left. I'll tell you about my doctor choice first.
One alternative I had was a chain (TLC). The disadvantages of that were that the particular laser they wanted to use (LadarVision) was an hour and a half drive away, and also that since my one eye was in the most severe category of astigmatism (more than 3 diopters), I would have to pay $500 if I ever needed a touch up. Cost here was $1900/eye.
I chose a doctor who is affiliated with a very large university here in town, which made me feel better. He has the only LadarVision in town, and touch-ups are free, regardless of starting condition. Cost here was $1600/eye. No reason not to choose this guy.
The surgery itself is quick and relatively painless. The doctor doesn't really have to do much with the LadarVision, because it tracks and compensates for your eye movement, regardless of how much you move. Including up-to-the-minute tests, anesthesia, and the surgery itself, I was in and out within an hour.
The recovery can be rather uncomfortable. It feels like you have a bunch of sand in your eye. I took a shot of NyQuil and woke up an hour later pretty miserable. Another shot of NyQuil put me out for about 4 more hours, and when I awoke, I could barely feel that anything had happened. I spent the evening playing Playstation through my bug-like eye shields.
You'll hear it said, and it's true -- the most amazing part is when you wake up the next day and look at the alarm clock. It's incredible. I drove myself in for the check up the next morning. I was playing hockey 48 hours after my surgery.
I was constantly evaluated for a year afterward, and my left eye with the severe astigmatism had crept to the point where I wanted to look into getting a touch-up. I would have been happy without it, but happier if it could have gotten better. I had it done, and there has been measureable improvement since then.
I started out 20/200 before the surgery. I now sit between 20/20 and 20/40, depending on the time. I sit at a computer probably 50+ hours a week and need no enhancement to do so. There were absolutely no problems to speak of throughout the entire process, and I am happy with the result. Well worth the $3200 (actually less than that because of my Flexible Spending Account). I had a great experience and would recomment it to anyone that can find the right doctor. For reference, my doctor is David Castellano at Stoneridge Opthamology, in Columbus, OH.
From what little I do know, your comment seems right on. Thanks for the insightful reply. My favorite part:
/. signature if you had said it in fewer characters.
If you want to know what your boss thinks about the industry, read Gartner. If you want to know about what's really happening, read the Usenet group that deals with the specific technology you're interested in.
This would be my
I started a new job recently, and they seem to live and die by these fucking Gartner reports. I hadn't heard of them up until recently. Can someone tell me what the deal is?
You got the All-In-Wonder, the Mobo/CPU/memory, case, local disk, NAS, software, and program listings for $150? Please, enlighten us with a link to your hardware vendor.
If you've been subscribed to Maxim for that long, you must not have been paying attention. The pics are great, but the articles pretty much repeat themselves year after year. I used to read it cover to cover for the first couple years, then it just got repetitive.
Let's hope they have done sufficient testing on the drivers. A couple years ago, I purchased an All-In-Wonder Radeon. I nearly slit my throat trying to get it to work with my fancy new-at-the-time Soyo motherboard.
that means your WiFi should have a DHCP server that hands out 10.x.x.x (unroutable) addresses to anybody who wants to get one to get them on board.
There might be a technical detail I'm missing here, but is it strictly necessary to assign private IP addresses? I know it would be prudent, but not really a must, unless I'm missing something.
I'm so fucking sick and tired of people saying that things are ugly compared to the iPod. Yes, the iPod looks pretty decent, but who cares? I don't look, I listen! If you want to talk about size and ease-of-use, those are factors, but so are features and price. Not everyone needs a "good looking" mp3 player to validate themselves.
Not to mention the fact that this unit isn't even ugly. I think it looks pretty damn nice, and probably will cost about as much as an iPod with FAR fewer features.
Try to go to the website linked in the story. See if you can get the webserver to respond. That's what it means. :-)
Yeah, but when you played it on the C64, you had to use a joystick, which came with two buttons...
You had a two button joystick for your C64? I certainly didn't. I used the old-school Atari 2600 joysticks, then the ahead-of-it's-time Epyx 500XJ. Oh yeah. I still remember the model number.
Is your copy of VMWare a legally purchased one? If not, did you test that to make sure that it wasn't trojaned to mask the trojans in everything else you download? :-)