A quick search on google for "Falun Gong movement" turn up a bunch of stories about the followers in the US trying to sue the Chines gov. Now, the hard part, finding an e-mail that actually works in a spam, assuming you also can figure out which ones are sent from someone in china. Not just bounced thourgh one of their open relays. But I would like to see all those open realy admins get F***ed. They are the root of all evil...as far as that goes.
You say you've hear it a few times...I sold computers for a while. Most people think windows is office. Alot of people who really shouldn't buy a computer do, some for their kids some to keep up with the Jonses next door. Thing is, if they had the cash a salesman will take it, no problem taking money. I once had someone come in wanting a computer to host a web site, and was going to hook the new computer up over a phone line. I told him to get a biz grade DSL, he said no, but I still took the cash. Flip side is if you know whats what you get real good quick service. Of course there are the people that think they know more than they do...two guys came in insisting that a monitor freq of 70 vs. 75 hz(or some little difference) made some actual difference for normal users. Made me laugh
I really like it, the whole pda and a phone together, and because I usually find the buttons on a regular phone small the bigger size of the smartphone is a plus for me. But the type of internet conection on it STINKS. the interface is slow both in layout/usablity and in the speed it carries out commands. It took me 15 minutes to send a few AIM messages, and I couldn't even figure out how to use a custom message. But I find the always on feature of this phone very very interesting. Why shouldn't it be always on...if I have a digital signal when I'm not sending data I really don't use any bandwith, its just a matter of making the system leave a digital path open. I could actually leave AIM on then so people could message me and always have it get straight to me.
You seem to have never called windows tech support. There is no such thing, unless you buy a boxed verson of windows...which I have never knowen to occur. Usually people get it on new computers...MS doesn't support that OEM version of the OS, the manufacture does. So the manufacture does support the whole system, and if they do something dumb like cover up the start button, it's their problem to support it. Now if you're talking about after purchase software doing something dumb like that...well its the problem of the company that made that software to support it. In either case the company that did it would be supporting it, so they SHOULD be able to support it just fine. But in any case I still don't see that kind of thing happening. But I could see MS using the stance of, if its not all MS software we have no control over what happens, crashes failures loss of time/data not our fault its got non MS software.
/. has posted the content of a site, when it was just text. The owner of the content bitched and/. had to take it down from the article. I'm too lazy to look it up but I know it happened this year. Any way as others have said it causes more trouble than it solves.
Even in milwaukee where you are required to shovel within 24 hrs...there are still places with to much snow for a segway, look at it, it has almost no ground clearance. The tires a large enough that tall bumbs, think like speed bumb, may not be a problem. But snow or tall grass, even with rock hard dirt, would be a problem. I would counter your thought of a bike on ice...the way the segway works with gyros(I think, never looked at tech specs of it) it might behave better on ice than a bike...it also has a much lower center of gravity, which would also help on ice. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it would be really usable on ice, but I bet it would be better than a traditional bike.
There is already a bt ear bud/mic for cell phones, just make it stereo and your all set. Which won't be too far off as you say, just need the $$$ to come down. But a real question for those that know about bluetooth, do all these devices actually work together, if I have say a bt harddrive and bt ear piece, how do I get the mp3 from the HD to my ear...OK lets make it reasonable and say I have another device for controling and display, a fancy watch or PDA with bt. Will all these devices automatically talk and work with each other? I assume they can talk, in my example they all use bluetooth.
an analogy: with wired eithernet and tcp/ip, a linux box doesn't automatically work with a windows box. BUT I can install samba on the linux box and they will work together. Bad comparison I know, but the point is. With these blue tooth devices, with the exception of the PDA, I can't just install software to make them work together. The BT ear bud/mic for cell phones I have seen requires its transmitter that plugs into the phone, its included but can my built in BT in my mp3 player send to the phone earbud?
If true best buy did break the law.
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Assuming what you said is true, then best buy did break the law. Its called "bait and switch" and that is illegal. Of course the hard part is proving that they intentionally showed the lower price to get people to come and spend more than that. Its more detailed than that, but the point is its illegal(I think in the US). It happend to me with a mail order place, had a duron w/ main board combo advertised in a magazine. I called them, 2 days after getting the mag, and they said the sale was over. and that by the time the magazine gets to peoples hands the sale is usually over...I said the words "sounds like bait and switch, thats illegal" 15 minutes later my stuff was ordered and on the way.
About checking the web for peoples opions about how non-oem OSs run on the machine. I know many people know about linux-laptop.net, that site helped me many-O-times. One thing to be aware of is that the companies often sell basically the same machine under several different numbers, even in the same country. I found one toshiba, selling in the US under 4 different numbers!! of course 1/2 where 2 different versions of windows...but that didn't matter...I just installed linux anyway.
but win XP only supports at most 2 proc. an above post does talk about 2k datacenter which does support 32 proc. So i'm not sure if your just out of it, dumb, or trolling. So I'm sure your math is off, you need to price data center, which is not possible because you can't just buy datacenter the only way to get it is with a big computer, and then you get into the debate of how much of the price is the OS and how much the hardware/support cost...either way your math is off.
hey there is alot of talk here about it beating java...however that could be done...I guess I should have gone to that.NET release I was signed up for. At least then I could have some idea whats going on. As far as I know the only people who have any idea what this is, is developers...I know a few who use Visual studio 6 on daily basis, but I haven't talked to them. My question is what can this frame work/platform do that can't be done now?
It is that bug again...I didn't notice at home, but at work on windows box this page is about 5x the width it should be...is this the same bug thats been cropping up all over the place??? Hey what can be done to fix this error???
the site you link to says min req. are like 233mhz. Which would be a pentium level proc. You saying it runs on 133Mhz 486, is either major wow your good or lying. I will assuming you not, nothing I can do if you are, so how do you optimize mpg123 that much? Without all the extra junk, web admin and everything, I couldn't get mpg123 to run on its own at better than 1/8 quality. That was on a 100mhz 486, and as we all know 100mhz/133mhz >> ~.40
Sorry to blast on you, or respond at all if you're trolling. But your saying that.net is compile once run anywhere....I have not seen anything that did not exist under a different name before. Infact all i've seen is a renamed msn mesanger, and a pop up thing above the time in XP that tells me I have mail in a hotmail account. Of course that popup thing does say.net. BUT what of these, or any other things couldn't or didn't exist before the name.NET??? Sorry if i'm ignorant, but hey provide some links, pictures of applications, names of applications. If that is not possible then MS has not beaten sun anywhere, as you say.
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First, I do remember when arcades where the only good place to play, but they never charged me just to enter the place...the only charge was usage. Its like cars, buy it or lease it, not buy it and pay for each mile. When do you see game makers actually charging less for a game because they can make it up in the playing of it. And even if they did, and I really don't think I'm totally alone in this viewpoint...look at DIVX. Pay less upfront and pay per use, it failed quickly. If they are going to charge per use online, give the game away for FREE. Shoot, when I buy my truck and pay it off, ford doesn't charge me for each mile I put on it.
First of all, about those posts that say its not fair that the users that only use so many megs a month should have to pay for heavy users. Thats bul****t, those users with such little bandwith should^H^H^H^H^H^H are using dialup...they would notice almost no difference, outside of connection time/drops which isn't a problem with a decent ISP. And if you say it is a problem you just need too look harder, if you can't find a good one, start one you'll make a fortune if your the only good shop in town.
I have a better idea just contact those doing ***GB month transfers. And ask them to lower bandwith usage...and if they don't just change their contract to a $/MB system. I mean I sometimes transfer alot but I know its less than a 1GB/day on average...which for what is supposed to be broadband is not that much.
If I get some letter from TW saying they are charging me more I'm going to bitch like there is no tommorow....IF everybody does that they'd have to listen. If they don't theyll have to rename it something other than broadband:)
And when all that fails, because I know it will, considaring how shitty its getting in the US, less freedom, pay-per-use everything. I'll have to resort to a few really big harddrives to prevent haveing to download anything more than once. And setting up a big caching server. And disabling all ads. That will really help all those websites trying to survive on ad money. I really don't mind ads, at least non popup/under type ones. I often click on the ads in slashdot. Now with broadband popups/unders are minor annoyance, just a few clicks a day to close, but If i'm being charged per MB screw all ads, I can't aford it. Ads will have to die. That and lynx will become my browser of choice.
Another source of revenue. Make It so you can charge people to play on your online servers. Making videogames a pay per use item...Sorry to say that, I don't know EAs plans, but if people have to pay any amount however small its too much. Don't take this wrong, I know it hasn't happend yet, I'm just tired of how much our society is becoming a pay-per-use society. I know this heading off topic but it does apply to the parent and the use of what the entire article is about.
I think your totally ignoring the point of this topic...the idea is central password managment in a realistic manner...of course there are sercurity risks in doing this. BUT how would one do it in the most secure way possible?
Actually I just don't give a crap about spelling, at least at/. As someone elso pointed out, in reference to my other posts, I care little about my spelling or grammer. Of course most of my posting is done between 11pm and 1am, so that doesn't help. However my website, all written in vi, has zero spelling or grammer errors, and also passes W3cert, unlike redhat.com! Perhaps if my spelling/grammer bothers you that much you should mark me as a Foe. Not sure how that works but I think my posts get hidden from you or something. Although dispite my lack of english perfection I like to think once and a while I come up with a point worth sharing...so take it or leave it.
what country is the cheatexams.com site in...must not be the US, cuz they use the time unit of "20 minutes hours" 1/2 way down main page. I usually avoid sites with such poor gramer, I suspect they are 1)an illeterate scamer 2)a forign scammer 3)forign busness that has little idea what they are actually selling. any one of those 3 spells trouble.
Actually my printer I want to use is an apple stylwriter, wich is apple serial, kind of like a PS/2 connector only a little different. I've also seen these adaptors which barly work with linux, but you still need a good print driver to send, its just over a different cable. What I ended up doing is buying a USB printer for $60US works OK.
Actually this is not the only CeBIT gadget to get talked about more than once...I'm too lazy to look for that articles now...but hey this is/. if you want new news look somewhere else.
I agree with this from a different standpoint. I used to sell computers well known best buy/compusa size company. Out of the 6-7 computer salesmen there, none of them knew anything about macs. As we where clearing out CRT imacs, as the LCD imacs were coming out. I personally sold the entire stock. Its a joke, macs do kick ass, but most salesmen ignore them. One reason for that is the salesmen are techies, who use PCs, and windows for that matter. Salesmen by the way, don't know anything, ignore them accept to have them check stock for you. I quit that job, couldn't handle slinging the crap that store wanted me to.
Sorry, but my story got rejected. From an employee close to apple, there are no plans to release an apple PIM product at any time in the future. I also had alot of news about the new imac before it came out but this is/. we only post old news. 2002-01-12 06:31:31 News from inside apple (articles,apple) (rejected)
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A quick search on google for "Falun Gong movement" turn up a bunch of stories about the followers in the US trying to sue the Chines gov. Now, the hard part, finding an e-mail that actually works in a spam, assuming you also can figure out which ones are sent from someone in china. Not just bounced thourgh one of their open relays. But I would like to see all those open realy admins get F***ed. They are the root of all evil...as far as that goes.
You say you've hear it a few times...I sold computers for a while. Most people think windows is office. Alot of people who really shouldn't buy a computer do, some for their kids some to keep up with the Jonses next door. Thing is, if they had the cash a salesman will take it, no problem taking money. I once had someone come in wanting a computer to host a web site, and was going to hook the new computer up over a phone line. I told him to get a biz grade DSL, he said no, but I still took the cash. Flip side is if you know whats what you get real good quick service. Of course there are the people that think they know more than they do...two guys came in insisting that a monitor freq of 70 vs. 75 hz(or some little difference) made some actual difference for normal users. Made me laugh
I really like it, the whole pda and a phone together, and because I usually find the buttons on a regular phone small the bigger size of the smartphone is a plus for me. But the type of internet conection on it STINKS. the interface is slow both in layout/usablity and in the speed it carries out commands. It took me 15 minutes to send a few AIM messages, and I couldn't even figure out how to use a custom message. But I find the always on feature of this phone very very interesting. Why shouldn't it be always on...if I have a digital signal when I'm not sending data I really don't use any bandwith, its just a matter of making the system leave a digital path open. I could actually leave AIM on then so people could message me and always have it get straight to me.
You seem to have never called windows tech support. There is no such thing, unless you buy a boxed verson of windows...which I have never knowen to occur. Usually people get it on new computers...MS doesn't support that OEM version of the OS, the manufacture does. So the manufacture does support the whole system, and if they do something dumb like cover up the start button, it's their problem to support it. Now if you're talking about after purchase software doing something dumb like that...well its the problem of the company that made that software to support it. In either case the company that did it would be supporting it, so they SHOULD be able to support it just fine.
But in any case I still don't see that kind of thing happening. But I could see MS using the stance of, if its not all MS software we have no control over what happens, crashes failures loss of time/data not our fault its got non MS software.
/. has posted the content of a site, when it was just text. The owner of the content bitched and /. had to take it down from the article. I'm too lazy to look it up but I know it happened this year. Any way as others have said it causes more trouble than it solves.
Even in milwaukee where you are required to shovel within 24 hrs...there are still places with to much snow for a segway, look at it, it has almost no ground clearance. The tires a large enough that tall bumbs, think like speed bumb, may not be a problem. But snow or tall grass, even with rock hard dirt, would be a problem.
I would counter your thought of a bike on ice...the way the segway works with gyros(I think, never looked at tech specs of it) it might behave better on ice than a bike...it also has a much lower center of gravity, which would also help on ice. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it would be really usable on ice, but I bet it would be better than a traditional bike.
There is already a bt ear bud/mic for cell phones, just make it stereo and your all set. Which won't be too far off as you say, just need the $$$ to come down. But a real question for those that know about bluetooth, do all these devices actually work together, if I have say a bt harddrive and bt ear piece, how do I get the mp3 from the HD to my ear...OK lets make it reasonable and say I have another device for controling and display, a fancy watch or PDA with bt. Will all these devices automatically talk and work with each other? I assume they can talk, in my example they all use bluetooth.
an analogy: with wired eithernet and tcp/ip, a linux box doesn't automatically work with a windows box. BUT I can install samba on the linux box and they will work together. Bad comparison I know, but the point is. With these blue tooth devices, with the exception of the PDA, I can't just install software to make them work together. The BT ear bud/mic for cell phones I have seen requires its transmitter that plugs into the phone, its included but can my built in BT in my mp3 player send to the phone earbud?
Assuming what you said is true, then best buy did break the law. Its called "bait and switch" and that is illegal. Of course the hard part is proving that they intentionally showed the lower price to get people to come and spend more than that. Its more detailed than that, but the point is its illegal(I think in the US). It happend to me with a mail order place, had a duron w/ main board combo advertised in a magazine. I called them, 2 days after getting the mag, and they said the sale was over. and that by the time the magazine gets to peoples hands the sale is usually over...I said the words "sounds like bait and switch, thats illegal" 15 minutes later my stuff was ordered and on the way.
About checking the web for peoples opions about how non-oem OSs run on the machine. I know many people know about linux-laptop.net, that site helped me many-O-times. One thing to be aware of is that the companies often sell basically the same machine under several different numbers, even in the same country. I found one toshiba, selling in the US under 4 different numbers!! of course 1/2 where 2 different versions of windows...but that didn't matter...I just installed linux anyway.
but win XP only supports at most 2 proc. an above post does talk about 2k datacenter which does support 32 proc. So i'm not sure if your just out of it, dumb, or trolling. So I'm sure your math is off, you need to price data center, which is not possible because you can't just buy datacenter the only way to get it is with a big computer, and then you get into the debate of how much of the price is the OS and how much the hardware/support cost...either way your math is off.
hey there is alot of talk here about it beating java...however that could be done...I guess I should have gone to that .NET release I was signed up for. At least then I could have some idea whats going on. As far as I know the only people who have any idea what this is, is developers...I know a few who use Visual studio 6 on daily basis, but I haven't talked to them. My question is what can this frame work/platform do that can't be done now?
It is that bug again...I didn't notice at home, but at work on windows box this page is about 5x the width it should be...is this the same bug thats been cropping up all over the place??? Hey what can be done to fix this error???
the site you link to says min req. are like 233mhz. Which would be a pentium level proc. You saying it runs on 133Mhz 486, is either major wow your good or lying. I will assuming you not, nothing I can do if you are, so how do you optimize mpg123 that much? Without all the extra junk, web admin and everything, I couldn't get mpg123 to run on its own at better than 1/8 quality. That was on a 100mhz 486, and as we all know 100mhz/133mhz >> ~.40
Sorry to blast on you, or respond at all if you're trolling. But your saying that .net is compile once run anywhere....I have not seen anything that did not exist under a different name before. Infact all i've seen is a renamed msn mesanger, and a pop up thing above the time in XP that tells me I have mail in a hotmail account. Of course that popup thing does say .net. BUT what of these, or any other things couldn't or didn't exist before the name .NET??? Sorry if i'm ignorant, but hey provide some links, pictures of applications, names of applications. If that is not possible then MS has not beaten sun anywhere, as you say.
First, I do remember when arcades where the only good place to play, but they never charged me just to enter the place...the only charge was usage. Its like cars, buy it or lease it, not buy it and pay for each mile. When do you see game makers actually charging less for a game because they can make it up in the playing of it. And even if they did, and I really don't think I'm totally alone in this viewpoint...look at DIVX. Pay less upfront and pay per use, it failed quickly. If they are going to charge per use online, give the game away for FREE. Shoot, when I buy my truck and pay it off, ford doesn't charge me for each mile I put on it.
First of all, about those posts that say its not fair that the users that only use so many megs a month should have to pay for heavy users. Thats bul****t, those users with such little bandwith should^H^H^H^H^H^H are using dialup...they would notice almost no difference, outside of connection time/drops which isn't a problem with a decent ISP. And if you say it is a problem you just need too look harder, if you can't find a good one, start one you'll make a fortune if your the only good shop in town.
I have a better idea just contact those doing ***GB month transfers. And ask them to lower bandwith usage...and if they don't just change their contract to a $/MB system. I mean I sometimes transfer alot but I know its less than a 1GB/day on average...which for what is supposed to be broadband is not that much.
If I get some letter from TW saying they are charging me more I'm going to bitch like there is no tommorow....IF everybody does that they'd have to listen. If they don't theyll have to rename it something other than broadband:)
And when all that fails, because I know it will, considaring how shitty its getting in the US, less freedom, pay-per-use everything. I'll have to resort to a few really big harddrives to prevent haveing to download anything more than once. And setting up a big caching server. And disabling all ads. That will really help all those websites trying to survive on ad money. I really don't mind ads, at least non popup/under type ones. I often click on the ads in slashdot. Now with broadband popups/unders are minor annoyance, just a few clicks a day to close, but If i'm being charged per MB screw all ads, I can't aford it. Ads will have to die. That and lynx will become my browser of choice.
Another source of revenue. Make It so you can charge people to play on your online servers. Making videogames a pay per use item...Sorry to say that, I don't know EAs plans, but if people have to pay any amount however small its too much. Don't take this wrong, I know it hasn't happend yet, I'm just tired of how much our society is becoming a pay-per-use society.
I know this heading off topic but it does apply to the parent and the use of what the entire article is about.
I think your totally ignoring the point of this topic...the idea is central password managment in a realistic manner...of course there are sercurity risks in doing this. BUT how would one do it in the most secure way possible?
Actually I just don't give a crap about spelling, at least at /. As someone elso pointed out, in reference to my other posts, I care little about my spelling or grammer. Of course most of my posting is done between 11pm and 1am, so that doesn't help. However my website, all written in vi, has zero spelling or grammer errors, and also passes W3cert, unlike redhat.com! Perhaps if my spelling/grammer bothers you that much you should mark me as a Foe. Not sure how that works but I think my posts get hidden from you or something. Although dispite my lack of english perfection I like to think once and a while I come up with a point worth sharing...so take it or leave it.
just point an ftp at the new site...its all open in one of the directories is a passwd file!!!
what country is the cheatexams.com site in...must not be the US, cuz they use the time unit of "20 minutes hours" 1/2 way down main page. I usually avoid sites with such poor gramer, I suspect they are 1)an illeterate scamer 2)a forign scammer 3)forign busness that has little idea what they are actually selling. any one of those 3 spells trouble.
Actually my printer I want to use is an apple stylwriter, wich is apple serial, kind of like a PS/2 connector only a little different. I've also seen these adaptors which barly work with linux, but you still need a good print driver to send, its just over a different cable. What I ended up doing is buying a USB printer for $60US works OK.
Actually this is not the only CeBIT gadget to get talked about more than once...I'm too lazy to look for that articles now...but hey this is /. if you want new news look somewhere else.
I agree with this from a different standpoint. I used to sell computers well known best buy/compusa size company. Out of the 6-7 computer salesmen there, none of them knew anything about macs. As we where clearing out CRT imacs, as the LCD imacs were coming out. I personally sold the entire stock. Its a joke, macs do kick ass, but most salesmen ignore them. One reason for that is the salesmen are techies, who use PCs, and windows for that matter. Salesmen by the way, don't know anything, ignore them accept to have them check stock for you. I quit that job, couldn't handle slinging the crap that store wanted me to.
Sorry, but my story got rejected. From an employee close to apple, there are no plans to release an apple PIM product at any time in the future. I also had alot of news about the new imac before it came out but this is /. we only post old news. 2002-01-12 06:31:31 News from inside apple (articles,apple) (rejected)