Well, for most issues, reps have a stance (or have had a stance bought for them:) So a canned response is probably a normal thing, as chances are the canned response will at some point cover the statement of the mail/e-mail.
When I contacted a senator about his vote on the ban on nuclear arms testing, I got a huge response detailing his view on nuclear arms, testing, etc...
Then again, a while ago if you send an e-mail to president@whitehouse.gov, and inclosed an address, you'd get a letter via post. My e-mail was basically "I heard if you send an e-mail with an address you will get a letter". I got something saying about thanks for the support, blah blah blah...
Even worse... I e-mailed them to ask them what the diff was between several similar sounding products. I quickly got a response.
And then I got 1 e-mail everyday from the damn marketting department. Too bad a good company is being dragged around my marketting on steroids.
Though from what I hear about the quality of the X-10, you would probably get some serious eye-strain from the images produced...kinda like living in a world of stereograms!
Over the last 10 years or so, I've seen tons of this lowend VR stuff try to pop-up and fizzle right away. The PowerGlove is about the only glove device - IIRC this is due to some patent that VPL has on "using a glove device for input".
And there have been tons of 3d glasses that have come and gone - I've even got a video card in my machine that has a special hookup for 3d glasses and of course you can't find any.
So, is there any chance of this stuff ever making it onto the shelves of Best Buy or CompUSA?
I suppose there could have been a serial interface as well, but the main way of hooking it up, as was shown in the Byte magazine article was via the parallel port.
And if I remember right, it didn't use metal in the fingers, but some sort of resistive ink that would change the amount of electricity based on the bend.
That, and you plug your miniDV camera into the i.Link (ie firewire) port and you create an instant DVD of Juniors Little League game that you can then send off to the techno-grandparents.
Okay...the latest tripe gets shipped to Blockbuster, Best Buy, etc...
They put it on the shelves right in alphabetical order where it should be. Do you really think the consumers will care if it says "Compact Disc Digital Audio" on it? As long as it's in a jewel case the size of a CD, it won't matter.
I'm looking at Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" right now. Nowhere on the outside, which you would see in the store, does it say anything about it being a CD. I see it in 4 places as soon as I open the case, but I also see this shiny metal disc which I assume is the CD, even if it didn't say so:)
Yeah...it would be a way to sue them if they marked them as such, but it's not gonna hurt them if they don't.
I hate to lose any of my freedoms on the net, and I think it's wrong for Uni's to limit internet access in your dorm room on your personal computer
While I wouldn't like it either and would not want to do it if I was told to at work, you are fogetting that the bandwidth, infrastructure, etc... is the university's, not yours. It is in place to assist with your academic goals, not your conquest of mp3 collecting or iso trading.
You're not paying for the access in your room the same way you are for it at home. Sure, you may have technology fees, but that goes for a whole lot more - servers, wiring classrooms, bandwidth, support, etc...
Then again, the college I work at has a $40 technology fee which goes for the above and more, and we have a $95 athletic fee...for a school that thinkgs itself on the bleeding edge of technology in the classroom.
I agree with that, but from the flip side, the professor should be able to turn the access off and go about teaching, not spend all of the time policing the class, which then hurts the class for the other students.
Also, it is a bit different between lab classes and lecture classes...usually the lab classes are students working on something or another with the instructor there to provide help or guidance.
Not all professors using a room may feel the same about computer usage. So in between classes should the PC's be moved in and out? Or if the classroom just has ports for a student to plug a notebook in, then that is not even an option.
As for point 3, that is what it is talking about - a flip of a switch, just not a physical one.
I don't think there are tons of schools that have surplus space and can both have rooms just for classes that need puters AND schedule all the classes without there being some overlap.
As for item 4 - sounds like you went to a shitty school.
Despite this state of affairs, the CEO of Yorkshire Water awarded himself something like 450,000 pounds (about $800,000) bonus, on top of a hefty pay-rise. Employees were lucky, if they got more than insults from those affected by the drought.
This is one thing the recent airline-aid package hit on the head. There was a clause in there for any airline accepting the aid that the executives whose pay is above $300,000 are barred from raises for two years. From what I hear, Delta is doing everything they can to keep as many people on and get through this as best as possible for both the company and the employees.
Sadly, I know way too many people who work for Delta and one or two probably won't before too long:(
I think part of the deal of getting the Corporate edition is that you have to prove to MS that you are keeping a close eye on those CD's.
We have the Microsoft Campus Agreement, which is similar - you get the media and a serial, but you don't need to register. We can not dupe those CD's and they are kept under lock and key.
Of course, I have a key and a CD burner:) but no interest!
And the corporate edition has already made its way around Usenet.
I'm trying to remember what their site and coverage was like for the Gulf War.
Did they even have a site then? That was 1991. About the only coverage they had was the shots from the head of the Patriot missles, the shots of fire over Tel Aviv(?), and Wolf Blitzer.
Now that would be an achievment. If you found a hole in Linux/BSD and found one in Windows (no biggie), then try for either platform. And have that platform try for either platform. Nimda, from what I understand, took a step in this direction in that it went out with e-mail and http.
About the only worry I have about worms is all the impact on the network as a whole and the PITA my job is whenever one gets out.
From reading the snippet hear, it sounds like they put a whole bunch of pieces together into a box, and shipped it, after adding on a new admin tool.
Since (I'm guessing) the admin tool probably just modifies the config files, I fail to see how that could possibly be a GPL violation.
There is mention of a modified kernel, but without further info, I will take that to mean almost anything from radically modified code to a loadable module, which could be on both spectrums - details? Without, it is just the normal/. hearsay.
So, they slapped together a box and shipped it out without mentioning Linux or GNU. Does the GPL say anything about this? If they have not made any mods are they still required by the GPL to have the same offer?
What if they had embedded a minimal Linux setup in an EPROM? Seems it'll be a pain to use Linux in an embedded device if you have to keep provided source media even if you didn't change any GPL'ed code and just added your own programs.
until it gets decrypted. But lets suppose I'm somewhat dim and don't encrypt this. What would Carnivore think of
-------
Tonight I was listening to Sting and
Los Lobos. Sting's song from The Soul Cages,
Angels Will Fall is not as good as his anti-
Nuke stuff from the 80s, but it is still better than Blue
Midnight by Los Lobos.
--------
so..am I just some idiot stuck in the 80s, or was the message the first word of each sentence - Tonight Los Angels Muke Midnight.
Hell...does Carnivore even do anything other than english?
Prohibit encryption - I'm sure a law against strong encryption would make terrorists/criminals think twice about using it. Perhaps if we had a law against hijacking and murder then the WTC event could have been avoided.
Oh wait, by definition, criminals don't care about the law.
Ban flag burning? WTF would that do? Sure, I've never burnt a flag, and probably never will, but this is nothing but someone pushing their agenda and using this tragedy as an excuse.
Libraries and monitered internet access - this is about the only one I can see being semi-useful. However, what is to say that the ID card I present to use a computer is real? And gee...SSL and a web based mail server and you have no idea what is being sent.
I really don't mind hightened security in airports and the searching of my carry-ons. I am paying for the convienence of flying instead of driving. I understand the saftey reasons involve and that by prventing someone from carrying a weapon on, a change could be made.
But implementing measures that ciminals will bypass anyway is another matter.
As for the boss removing flags on a desk - whose company is it??? When it's your company you can call the shots. Don't like it - work elsewhere.
Uh...isn't the idea of an ISO to be able to obtain the image of a CD-ROM (650MB) so you can burn the CD yourself?
So why on earth would you want them small? Yeah...there are like 5 CD's worth there to burn, but what you seem to be suggesting is that you have to burn 500 10MB CD's or something???
As for the "you wrote big software, you must burn it for me" argument, what about the time to process the cd's, to perform the actual burn, the equipment needed to do so? There is probably a reason that people charge $20...it's isn't free.
Find a friend with high-speed access, learn to use reget or something, or buy the CD's from someplace selling them.
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Well, for most issues, reps have a stance (or have had a stance bought for them :) So a canned response is probably a normal thing, as chances are the canned response will at some point cover the statement of the mail/e-mail.
When I contacted a senator about his vote on the ban on nuclear arms testing, I got a huge response detailing his view on nuclear arms, testing, etc...
Then again, a while ago if you send an e-mail to president@whitehouse.gov, and inclosed an address, you'd get a letter via post. My e-mail was basically "I heard if you send an e-mail with an address you will get a letter". I got something saying about thanks for the support, blah blah blah...
Even worse ... I e-mailed them to ask them what the diff was between several similar sounding products. I quickly got a response.
And then I got 1 e-mail everyday from the damn marketting department. Too bad a good company is being dragged around my marketting on steroids.
Though from what I hear about the quality of the X-10, you would probably get some serious eye-strain from the images produced...kinda like living in a world of stereograms!
Okay...not to be confused with Yahoo Serious Movies. Everytime I've seen mention of him, it was always as Yahoo Serious, not Yahoo.
Yahoo Serious Film Festival - I recognize those words but that sentance makes no sense.
I know when I was a 14 year old boy (and frankly, listening to music every bit as insipid as n'suck) I used a computer to play CDs.
Gee...when I was 14, CD players in computer were not even imagined (from an end-user point of view) - then again, the CD was only two years old.
Damn...makes me feel old.
Over the last 10 years or so, I've seen tons of this lowend VR stuff try to pop-up and fizzle right away. The PowerGlove is about the only glove device - IIRC this is due to some patent that VPL has on "using a glove device for input".
And there have been tons of 3d glasses that have come and gone - I've even got a video card in my machine that has a special hookup for 3d glasses and of course you can't find any.
So, is there any chance of this stuff ever making it onto the shelves of Best Buy or CompUSA?
I suppose there could have been a serial interface as well, but the main way of hooking it up, as was shown in the Byte magazine article was via the parallel port.
And if I remember right, it didn't use metal in the fingers, but some sort of resistive ink that would change the amount of electricity based on the bend.
That, and you plug your miniDV camera into the i.Link (ie firewire) port and you create an instant DVD of Juniors Little League game that you can then send off to the techno-grandparents.
I would guess that is because of consumer stupidity. Look at the DVD cases. The disk is the same as size as a CD, yet they come in those huge cases.
Why?
From what I remember it was because consumers are too dumb to tell the difference between a DVD and a CD.
Okay...the latest tripe gets shipped to Blockbuster, Best Buy, etc...
:)
They put it on the shelves right in alphabetical order where it should be. Do you really think the consumers will care if it says "Compact Disc Digital Audio" on it? As long as it's in a jewel case the size of a CD, it won't matter.
I'm looking at Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" right now. Nowhere on the outside, which you would see in the store, does it say anything about it being a CD. I see it in 4 places as soon as I open the case, but I also see this shiny metal disc which I assume is the CD, even if it didn't say so
Yeah...it would be a way to sue them if they marked them as such, but it's not gonna hurt them if they don't.
I hate to lose any of my freedoms on the net, and I think it's wrong for Uni's to limit internet access in your dorm room on your personal computer
While I wouldn't like it either and would not want to do it if I was told to at work, you are fogetting that the bandwidth, infrastructure, etc... is the university's, not yours. It is in place to assist with your academic goals, not your conquest of mp3 collecting or iso trading.
You're not paying for the access in your room the same way you are for it at home. Sure, you may have technology fees, but that goes for a whole lot more - servers, wiring classrooms, bandwidth, support, etc...
Then again, the college I work at has a $40 technology fee which goes for the above and more, and we have a $95 athletic fee...for a school that thinkgs itself on the bleeding edge of technology in the classroom.
Go figure.
I agree with that, but from the flip side, the professor should be able to turn the access off and go about teaching, not spend all of the time policing the class, which then hurts the class for the other students.
Also, it is a bit different between lab classes and lecture classes...usually the lab classes are students working on something or another with the instructor there to provide help or guidance.
Not all professors using a room may feel the same about computer usage. So in between classes should the PC's be moved in and out? Or if the classroom just has ports for a student to plug a notebook in, then that is not even an option.
As for point 3, that is what it is talking about - a flip of a switch, just not a physical one.
I don't think there are tons of schools that have surplus space and can both have rooms just for classes that need puters AND schedule all the classes without there being some overlap.
As for item 4 - sounds like you went to a shitty school.
Despite this state of affairs, the CEO of Yorkshire Water awarded himself something like 450,000 pounds (about $800,000) bonus, on top of a hefty pay-rise. Employees were lucky, if they got more than insults from those affected by the drought.
:(
This is one thing the recent airline-aid package hit on the head. There was a clause in there for any airline accepting the aid that the executives whose pay is above $300,000 are barred from raises for two years. From what I hear, Delta is doing everything they can to keep as many people on and get through this as best as possible for both the company and the employees.
Sadly, I know way too many people who work for Delta and one or two probably won't before too long
Laws should spring forth from society and not be sent down from above
I agree, however society can't really afford a couple of senators...a company can...therefore the laws will benefit them, not you and me.
I know the order varies, but I though that you had to go through each scene twice - once in mirror image, before you got to the dragon.
And I've played the cd-rom version a bunch of times, so you'd think in one of those times I'd have seen it.
IIRC, the arcade version usually had that scene as the second scene right after you crossed the bridge.
I think part of the deal of getting the Corporate edition is that you have to prove to MS that you are keeping a close eye on those CD's.
:) but no interest!
We have the Microsoft Campus Agreement, which is similar - you get the media and a serial, but you don't need to register. We can not dupe those CD's and they are kept under lock and key.
Of course, I have a key and a CD burner
And the corporate edition has already made its way around Usenet.
I'm trying to remember what their site and coverage was like for the Gulf War.
Did they even have a site then? That was 1991. About the only coverage they had was the shots from the head of the Patriot missles, the shots of fire over Tel Aviv(?), and Wolf Blitzer.
I seem to remember that one of the scenes in Dragons Lair was some flaming ropes or chains that you had to swing across a pit of fire with.
Does anyone else remember this scene?
I have the PC-CDROM version, which states that it has all of the original arcade game, however lacking this scene, that would look to be a lie.
DVD version have that scene?
Condoleezza Rice - SHE, not he. Duh.
:)
AP has a slightly more informative article which points to production problems, and the LA Times has a story noting that production hasn't yet begun.
:)
Yeah...I'd say that production not beginning yet is a problem
Now that would be an achievment. If you found a hole in Linux/BSD and found one in Windows (no biggie), then try for either platform. And have that platform try for either platform. Nimda, from what I understand, took a step in this direction in that it went out with e-mail and http.
About the only worry I have about worms is all the impact on the network as a whole and the PITA my job is whenever one gets out.
From reading the snippet hear, it sounds like they put a whole bunch of pieces together into a box, and shipped it, after adding on a new admin tool.
/. hearsay.
Since (I'm guessing) the admin tool probably just modifies the config files, I fail to see how that could possibly be a GPL violation.
There is mention of a modified kernel, but without further info, I will take that to mean almost anything from radically modified code to a loadable module, which could be on both spectrums - details? Without, it is just the normal
So, they slapped together a box and shipped it out without mentioning Linux or GNU. Does the GPL say anything about this? If they have not made any mods are they still required by the GPL to have the same offer?
What if they had embedded a minimal Linux setup in an EPROM? Seems it'll be a pain to use Linux in an embedded device if you have to keep provided source media even if you didn't change any GPL'ed code and just added your own programs.
Okay...take this. If I'm a hypothetical terrorist, and I'm sending/getting e-mail about the above scenario. Now, if I'm smart, it'll look like
K Ljfls
asdfASEAJfakjaSKjdkljaAJK>jflkjasADFjASDJKFjakl sdjfAAKSjkaljtlkrutaileACJieAJaJAIOEAIUEIUaLFKJas
until it gets decrypted. But lets suppose I'm somewhat dim and don't encrypt this. What would Carnivore think of
-------
Tonight I was listening to Sting and
Los Lobos. Sting's song from The Soul Cages,
Angels Will Fall is not as good as his anti-
Nuke stuff from the 80s, but it is still better than Blue
Midnight by Los Lobos.
--------
so..am I just some idiot stuck in the 80s, or was the message the first word of each sentence - Tonight Los Angels Muke Midnight.
Hell...does Carnivore even do anything other than english?
Prohibit encryption - I'm sure a law against strong encryption would make terrorists/criminals think twice about using it. Perhaps if we had a law against hijacking and murder then the WTC event could have been avoided.
Oh wait, by definition, criminals don't care about the law.
Ban flag burning? WTF would that do? Sure, I've never burnt a flag, and probably never will, but this is nothing but someone pushing their agenda and using this tragedy as an excuse.
Libraries and monitered internet access - this is about the only one I can see being semi-useful. However, what is to say that the ID card I present to use a computer is real? And gee...SSL and a web based mail server and you have no idea what is being sent.
I really don't mind hightened security in airports and the searching of my carry-ons. I am paying for the convienence of flying instead of driving. I understand the saftey reasons involve and that by prventing someone from carrying a weapon on, a change could be made.
But implementing measures that ciminals will bypass anyway is another matter.
As for the boss removing flags on a desk - whose company is it??? When it's your company you can call the shots. Don't like it - work elsewhere.
Uh...isn't the idea of an ISO to be able to obtain the image of a CD-ROM (650MB) so you can burn the CD yourself?
So why on earth would you want them small? Yeah...there are like 5 CD's worth there to burn, but what you seem to be suggesting is that you have to burn 500 10MB CD's or something???
As for the "you wrote big software, you must burn it for me" argument, what about the time to process the cd's, to perform the actual burn, the equipment needed to do so? There is probably a reason that people charge $20...it's isn't free.
Find a friend with high-speed access, learn to use reget or something, or buy the CD's from someplace selling them.