Cell phones seem to go through phases. Remember when everyone was amazed at how small Japan's cell phones were, and so the US/European companies tried to catch up with that? Right now in Japan I can't find a cell phone smaller than the Razr. They've got ridiculous amounts of features and the things are huge by comparison to US cell phones.
I'm currently stationed overseas, and I got into a car accident while on leave in the States. The other party decided to sue for damages (I love living in America) and my insurance company played the "he's overseas serving the country, are you honestly going to force him to come back to deal with this?" card, the judge agreed, and delayed the trial until my tour's up, which at the time was more than two years.
My wife has been getting calls on her cell phone (she's still in the states) that go like this:
It's honestly that fast from the way she puts it - they just ask if I'm there, and upon getting that answer they just hang up. Never say who they are, never leave a number, nothing. Been going on for at least a few months now.
She was completely confused by why anyone would do this, as was I, until I remembered the lawsuit. So they might not be collectors, but they're still just as annoying.
A suggestion to keep the system at default settings would be Deep Freeze. If someone manages to fuck up the system a reboot will take care of it quickly.
The ipod mini, so great they discontinued it within 2 years...
Because they were introducing the nano, which competed directly against the mini. Not a good idea. It was WILDLY successful, if you look at the sales figures. (The nano is even moreso, it sold a million in a week)
How long do you expect that to last? Is there anything in the architecture of OS X or Linux that prevents a user who is authorised to install software from installing spyware?
"Broken Windows" philosophy. Windows users tolerate crapware because they're used to it (the windows in the neighborhood are broken, so what's one or two more?) - Mac users do not because the neighborhood HAS no broken windows. Someone tried to release a program with spyware for the Mac a while back. (LimeWire, I believe.) It didn't get very far. There was a HUGE outcry against the company.
As far as architecture goes, I know I always start to question it when a password box comes up asking for admin privileges to install software. I know I'd REALLY question it if I didn't even have an installer running at the time (that I knew of).
Mac users (and Linux too) have the benefit of obscurity as well; no one wants to put forth the amount of effort necessary to do the nefarious things spyware does on a totally different platform that only has about 10% of the market.
more likely to revert to Open Firwmare I would have thought
Apple's not going to OF. They state this in their developer documentation. The most likely solution is EFI. That may, in fact, be part of why they decided to go with Intel.
And people are in the habit of doing this, too! Just the other day I expected to download a PDF, and instead it...
Oh wait, they're not, and just because you CAN do this, doesn't mean anyone DOES. Status bar checking works just fine to determine file type in 99.99% of cases.
Is there a way to configure the kernel, or does it exist an app, so it'll automatically kill a running program with a specified name when memory usage goes up to such and such?
Why in the hell would you ever want to do this automatically?
"Oh hey, that's a cool link, I'll just add it to my stack of 11 tabs - FF is great, I can really keep my web browsing state organi... HEY WHERE THE FUCK DID MY PAGES GO?"
LGPL says that you can link to it dynamically, not statically. If you link to glibc statically you are including GPL code IN your program and thus need to release the full source.
GPL code can't be linked to statically or dynamically without having this problem. That's the difference.
"In a heirarchy every employee will rise to his level of incompetence". The Peter Principle Psst... that's the Dilbert Principle, which is based off the real Peter Principle.
To answer your question. No the woman is not to blame. She committed no crime. The person committing the rape her did. While putting yourself in danger my be unwise it is not a crime. Rape and breaking into someone's system is.
You, er, didn't answer his question. At all. You answered a totally different one: "Is she to blame for being raped?" No. Amazing.
However, it certainly wasn't smart either, which is what he was asking. Congratulations.
This would work, but the reason that companies that don't comply with the GPL don't do this is that it takes much more work than just "s/phpAdsNew/AdStats/g" and whatnot.
They'd have to WORK for it. And even that patch to allow all the functions of the program to be accessible by API would be a huge plus.
Well, the 1000 doesn't have a hard drive:) Just the 3000 (and again, you could take apart the 3000 and replace the microdrive with a 2gb CF card instead)
The Zaurus SL-C1000/3000 has USB host. The 3000 is identical to the 1000 except it has a 4gb microdrive internal (which you could replace with a regular flash card and make it run a bit faster)
You can also use Secure Audio Path to disable digital output on audio cards. By using this feature, content owners can disable digital output by setting a parameter in licenses for their music. If this parameter is set, Secure Audio Path forces the sound card to disable its digital output capability when playing packaged music. Users can listen to decrypted music, but they cannot make copies.
Cute. So if I have a sound system that happens to use the coax or optical out from my system, I'm screwed. Basically, any advances in audio technology are nullified because you don't want me to be able to copy it, and I'll have to switch modes just to listen to your audio. Fuck you.
You have to disassemble the entire thing to get at the hard drives on iBooks and Powerbooks. It's a horrendous pain in the ass, and of course voids your warranty and all that fun stuff.
Why oh why are you still using Appletalk? Maybe you mean AFP, which is actually an improvement over SMB by leaps and bounds, but if you're actually running Appletalk then SMB would be an improvement just because it uses TCP/IP.
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Or you could try it yourself.
You know, like, click the box, then restart, and look in task manager and see if qttask.exe is still running.
But then you'd have to take a break from your complaining, I suppose.
Cell phones seem to go through phases. Remember when everyone was amazed at how small Japan's cell phones were, and so the US/European companies tried to catch up with that? Right now in Japan I can't find a cell phone smaller than the Razr. They've got ridiculous amounts of features and the things are huge by comparison to US cell phones.
So it'll probably bounce back.
They're not necessarily bill collectors.
I'm currently stationed overseas, and I got into a car accident while on leave in the States. The other party decided to sue for damages (I love living in America) and my insurance company played the "he's overseas serving the country, are you honestly going to force him to come back to deal with this?" card, the judge agreed, and delayed the trial until my tour's up, which at the time was more than two years.
My wife has been getting calls on her cell phone (she's still in the states) that go like this:
"Is binarytoaster there?" "...No, he's overseas." *click*
It's honestly that fast from the way she puts it - they just ask if I'm there, and upon getting that answer they just hang up. Never say who they are, never leave a number, nothing. Been going on for at least a few months now.
She was completely confused by why anyone would do this, as was I, until I remembered the lawsuit. So they might not be collectors, but they're still just as annoying.
A suggestion to keep the system at default settings would be Deep Freeze. If someone manages to fuck up the system a reboot will take care of it quickly.
With a bi more tweaking to the code, the mouse could possibly be made into a linear, perhaps even 2D...
So what you're saying is right now it scans in 3D? Holy shit, and he called it "ghetto"...
The ipod mini, so great they discontinued it within 2 years...
Because they were introducing the nano, which competed directly against the mini. Not a good idea. It was WILDLY successful, if you look at the sales figures. (The nano is even moreso, it sold a million in a week)
Well I haven't seen any company claim credit for it, so...
So 37signals isn't a company? Rails was extracted from Basecamp and open-sourced.
So, all the arguments about RoR being untested are untrue as well because 37s is making quite enough money off products built on Rails.
How long do you expect that to last? Is there anything in the architecture of OS X or Linux that prevents a user who is authorised to install software from installing spyware?
"Broken Windows" philosophy. Windows users tolerate crapware because they're used to it (the windows in the neighborhood are broken, so what's one or two more?) - Mac users do not because the neighborhood HAS no broken windows. Someone tried to release a program with spyware for the Mac a while back. (LimeWire, I believe.) It didn't get very far. There was a HUGE outcry against the company.
As far as architecture goes, I know I always start to question it when a password box comes up asking for admin privileges to install software. I know I'd REALLY question it if I didn't even have an installer running at the time (that I knew of).
Mac users (and Linux too) have the benefit of obscurity as well; no one wants to put forth the amount of effort necessary to do the nefarious things spyware does on a totally different platform that only has about 10% of the market.
more likely to revert to Open Firwmare I would have thought
Apple's not going to OF. They state this in their developer documentation. The most likely solution is EFI. That may, in fact, be part of why they decided to go with Intel.
It is these two exact projects which spurned the creation of Apple's "Dashboard" product available in Tiger.
ObPedantry: "spurred", not "spurned", as "spurned" has a much different meaning.
And people are in the habit of doing this, too! Just the other day I expected to download a PDF, and instead it...
Oh wait, they're not, and just because you CAN do this, doesn't mean anyone DOES. Status bar checking works just fine to determine file type in 99.99% of cases.
Is there a way to configure the kernel, or does it exist an app, so it'll automatically kill a running program with a specified name when memory usage goes up to such and such?
Why in the hell would you ever want to do this automatically?
"Oh hey, that's a cool link, I'll just add it to my stack of 11 tabs - FF is great, I can really keep my web browsing state organi... HEY WHERE THE FUCK DID MY PAGES GO?"
Yeah. Smart.
The Sidewinder firewall software has this capability. It's pretty worthless, to be honest.
LGPL says that you can link to it dynamically, not statically. If you link to glibc statically you are including GPL code IN your program and thus need to release the full source.
GPL code can't be linked to statically or dynamically without having this problem. That's the difference.
It's the other way around.
The driver can't see the %, so the OS runs FOO% and the bootloader interprets that as FOO.
"In a heirarchy every employee will rise to his level of incompetence". The Peter Principle
Psst... that's the Dilbert Principle, which is based off the real Peter Principle.
To answer your question. No the woman is not to blame. She committed no crime. The person committing the rape her did. While putting yourself in danger my be unwise it is not a crime. Rape and breaking into someone's system is.
You, er, didn't answer his question. At all. You answered a totally different one: "Is she to blame for being raped?" No. Amazing.
However, it certainly wasn't smart either, which is what he was asking. Congratulations.
In the same vein, why must everyone say "IT'S NOT PIRACY/THEFT IT'S COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT"? We all fucking know. Tell it to someone who cares.
This would work, but the reason that companies that don't comply with the GPL don't do this is that it takes much more work than just "s/phpAdsNew/AdStats/g" and whatnot.
They'd have to WORK for it. And even that patch to allow all the functions of the program to be accessible by API would be a huge plus.
Well, the 1000 doesn't have a hard drive :) Just the 3000 (and again, you could take apart the 3000 and replace the microdrive with a 2gb CF card instead)
:)
But the support factor is a limiter, yes.
The Zaurus SL-C1000/3000 has USB host. The 3000 is identical to the 1000 except it has a 4gb microdrive internal (which you could replace with a regular flash card and make it run a bit faster)
It also, in fact, runs Linux, unlike any Palm.
From the linked page:
You can also use Secure Audio Path to disable digital output on audio cards. By using this feature, content owners can disable digital output by setting a parameter in licenses for their music. If this parameter is set, Secure Audio Path forces the sound card to disable its digital output capability when playing packaged music. Users can listen to decrypted music, but they cannot make copies.
Cute. So if I have a sound system that happens to use the coax or optical out from my system, I'm screwed. Basically, any advances in audio technology are nullified because you don't want me to be able to copy it, and I'll have to switch modes just to listen to your audio. Fuck you.
The form is actually the only reason I bother to read the comments on spam-related stories, honestly. :)
You have to disassemble the entire thing to get at the hard drives on iBooks and Powerbooks. It's a horrendous pain in the ass, and of course voids your warranty and all that fun stuff.
Why oh why are you still using Appletalk? Maybe you mean AFP, which is actually an improvement over SMB by leaps and bounds, but if you're actually running Appletalk then SMB would be an improvement just because it uses TCP/IP.