Then you go to the store and tell them you didn't get a reciept. You give them the credit card you used for making the purchase and they can print for you a new reciept. I know for a fact that Best Buy can do this. I would be surprised if the Apple Store was incapable of doing the same thing.
These fees you say the telcos "hide" with fancy names are a result of government regulation. The government didn't mandate that the phone companies charge a certain amount of money for you to have the luxury of taking your phone number with you to another provider, but I'll bet its on your phone bill anyway. The actual amount is debatable, but it costs the phone companies money to abide by this regulation.
Then explain this to me. Why does my wife keep asking me, "What are you thinking?" Of the 13,678,454 times she has asked me this the answer is always the same - "nothing". The answer is as predictable as the earth's path around the sun, but yet she continues to keep asking.
If she could read my mind she wouldn't need to ask.
I can confirm that this will work. I recently set up my Mac Mini so that I can take it with me without having to bring along a keyboard, mouse, or monitor. I just plug in the ethernet cable and power cord and I can control it from my Windows laptop via VNC. The only problem is you are limited to two display resolutions. You might be able to force it into recognizing different resolutions using SwitchResX or having some kind of VGA adapter connected.
That's not the story I heard. The story I heard was that Apple was working on a project that they had codenamed "Sagan" (or maybe "Carl Sagan"). Anyway, Carl Sagan found out about it and didn't like it so he sued Apple to quit using his name. So they did. They changed the project's code name to "BHA" which stood for "Butt Headed Astronomer". And that supposedly is the story behind the Sosumi audio file.
Your story makes more sense, but I think the one I heard is more funny.:) Anyone know the definitive truth?
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Tivo and Netfix announced a deal the day before I bought my Tivo. Perhaps this is why Apple might be interested in Tivo?
I just went to the Drudge Report before coming over to Slashdot and seeing this article. For the first time in a long time I was greeted with an annoying pop-up (on Drudge Report). The pop-up window didn't look like any I've seen before. It didn't look like a browser window like most pop-ups or pop-unders appear in. I'm using Firefox on Windows XP and pop-up blocking is enabled.
If you don't like being infected with the GPL, you're perfectly free to reinvent the wheel and rewrite whatever GPLed code you were thinking of using. Or contact the author and cut a deal.
If GPLed code were truely "free", this wouldn't be necessary.
You people who demanded cell phone number portability started this precedent. This is exactly what I was alluding to when I posted this and this. The second post better explains my point.
I don't know if the bag necessarilly protects me from muggers/thieves, but my 17" HP Pavilion fits beautifully in the free bag I got at the Embedded Systems Conference several years ago in Chicago. It has "Digital DNA from Motorola" and "Embedded Systems Conference Spring" screen printed on the bag.
The conferences have really gone downhill since the one where I got this bag. The next conference I went to they gave out cheap backpacks. The conference after that they gave out folders. I hear now that they are down to handing out plain manilla folders, or just a CD ROM with all the content on it. We need some more irrational exuberance in the stock market so Motorola can afford to hand out the fancy bags again.
Actually, if you need a cough suppressant, you should try getting cough syrup with codiene. Codiene is a Level II narcotic, but you can get the cough syrup with codiene from a pharmacist without a prescription. However, many pharmacies won't carry it (fear of robberies) and you have to sign some paper to get it. It is up to the pharmacist's discretion whether or not you can get it without a prescription. According to one of my wife's professors, codiene is the best cough supressant available. I wish I had known all this a couple years ago when I was suffering with bronchitis...
Disclaimer: My student pharmacist wife is at work right now and is not able to check my facts.
All around, pretty good advice, but you might be wrong about what dehydrates you. According to Dr. Dean Edel just about any beverage will hydrate you as long as it isn't alcoholic. I heard this on one of his radio segments a long time back. He was citing some study that was recently published at the time. I don't remember any of the details, except that caffienated beverages were specifically identified as not deyhdrating.
Personally I've recently taken a liking to the sugar free crystal light I can get at Sam's Club or Walmart. I am enjoying the "Pink Lemonade" flavor as I type this. I am talking about the stuff sweetened with sucralose (Splenda) and not the headache inducing Nutrasweet. So far I have only seen this stuff in 4-packs of 16 oz. bottles. My goal is to displace my beloved high-carb Mt. Dew in my diet with something that will let me lose weight.
I had Doug Jacobson for CprE 211 when I was at Iowa State. Does he stare at the ceiling even when he isn't teaching? It was annoying. I found myself always looking up at the ceiling trying to find what he was staring at. I am not exaggerating this. He spent a good 50% of his time in class staring at the ceiling either to his left or right.
Depending on what exactly they are trying to do, there may be no overhead because of byte order (not bit). The PowerPC can be put in to little endian mode. I'm pretty sure this is what VirtualPC does. Microsoft claims the G5 doesn't support this, but they are lying.
You're missing my point. Portable e-mail addresses probably wasn't the best example because it isn't directly comparable. Portable IP addresses would be a better analogy. And don't tell me this isn't necessary because of DNS. We have DNS in the telecom world too, it's called a phone book.
You don't own your phone number, the phone company does. Why should your current phone company be forced to give their number to their competitor? Why would I want to take my land-line number with me to a wireless provider anyway? So the telemarketers can still get a hold of me?
Anyway, what I'm upset about is being forced to pay $5 PER MONTH just so other people can switch providers and keep their number. Why does another person's convenience have to come at my expense? The fees should be absorbed ENTIRELY by the people wanting to take advantage of this. This is just fucking stupid.
All number portability means to me is another $5 charge on my land-line phone bill. Thank you FCC. This number portability is just plain stupid. How long before people start demanding that their e-mail addresses be portable when they change ISPs?
We don't need and shouldn't want a Do-Not-Spam registry. It should be a Do-Spam list. Spammers will only be able to spam people who put their name on the list. This way I don't have to publish my e-mail address to spammers who don't yet have it telling them not to spam me. Punishment for spamming people not on the list will be the death penalty.
WTF??? I post fact and get moderated as flamebait?
Here are the facts: 1) Two former co-workers of mine got shit-canned last year. 2) They were worthless. 3) They should have never been hired in the first place. 4) Over a year after they left we are still finding issues with the stuff they produced. 5) Did I mention they got hired making around $10k more than me? Over two years later my salary still hasn't caught up to what they were hired in at. And, no, they did not have any more experience than me.
The funny thing is when they were "laid off" (they were salaried), we also "laid off" all of our contract employees, including the ones that took early retirement, but were kept on as contractors. Immediately after the "layoff" all of the contractors were brought back, including the ones that retired. Only the two worthless salaried employees didn't return.
I know of at least two "high tech" jobs that were "lost" in 2002 was because the employees were completely worthless. Some of the jobs lost were because companies were trimming the fat. Some of you who lost your job did so because you were worthless and should have never been hired in the first place.
The point of any company is to make money. If Red Hat is not making money from you, why should they care if you switch to another flavor of Linux from another vendor who also doesn't make money off of you?
World Wide Web implies that the patent only applies to using the hypertext transfer protocol.
World Wide Web != Internet
I haven't read the claims of this patent, but the company I work for could may be in violation of this patent. We make industrial controllers and have a configuration utility that can download the settings from one controller and upload it to another controller.
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My wife prefers that my pointer not dangle.
Then you go to the store and tell them you didn't get a reciept. You give them the credit card you used for making the purchase and they can print for you a new reciept. I know for a fact that Best Buy can do this. I would be surprised if the Apple Store was incapable of doing the same thing.
He is trying to write in a style such that even democrats can understand him.
These fees you say the telcos "hide" with fancy names are a result of government regulation. The government didn't mandate that the phone companies charge a certain amount of money for you to have the luxury of taking your phone number with you to another provider, but I'll bet its on your phone bill anyway. The actual amount is debatable, but it costs the phone companies money to abide by this regulation.
I followed the link using firefox on Linux and all I get is some broken plugin page. Can someone set up a bittorrent for this?
Then explain this to me. Why does my wife keep asking me, "What are you thinking?" Of the 13,678,454 times she has asked me this the answer is always the same - "nothing". The answer is as predictable as the earth's path around the sun, but yet she continues to keep asking.
If she could read my mind she wouldn't need to ask.
I can confirm that this will work. I recently set up my Mac Mini so that I can take it with me without having to bring along a keyboard, mouse, or monitor. I just plug in the ethernet cable and power cord and I can control it from my Windows laptop via VNC. The only problem is you are limited to two display resolutions. You might be able to force it into recognizing different resolutions using SwitchResX or having some kind of VGA adapter connected.
That's not the story I heard. The story I heard was that Apple was working on a project that they had codenamed "Sagan" (or maybe "Carl Sagan"). Anyway, Carl Sagan found out about it and didn't like it so he sued Apple to quit using his name. So they did. They changed the project's code name to "BHA" which stood for "Butt Headed Astronomer". And that supposedly is the story behind the Sosumi audio file.
:) Anyone know the definitive truth?
Your story makes more sense, but I think the one I heard is more funny.
Tivo and Netfix announced a deal the day before I bought my Tivo. Perhaps this is why Apple might be interested in Tivo?
I just went to the Drudge Report before coming over to Slashdot and seeing this article. For the first time in a long time I was greeted with an annoying pop-up (on Drudge Report). The pop-up window didn't look like any I've seen before. It didn't look like a browser window like most pop-ups or pop-unders appear in. I'm using Firefox on Windows XP and pop-up blocking is enabled.
If you don't like being infected with the GPL, you're perfectly free to reinvent the wheel and rewrite whatever GPLed code you were thinking of using. Or contact the author and cut a deal.
If GPLed code were truely "free", this wouldn't be necessary.
You people who demanded cell phone number portability started this precedent. This is exactly what I was alluding to when I posted this and this. The second post better explains my point.
I don't know if the bag necessarilly protects me from muggers/thieves, but my 17" HP Pavilion fits beautifully in the free bag I got at the Embedded Systems Conference several years ago in Chicago. It has "Digital DNA from Motorola" and "Embedded Systems Conference Spring" screen printed on the bag.
The conferences have really gone downhill since the one where I got this bag. The next conference I went to they gave out cheap backpacks. The conference after that they gave out folders. I hear now that they are down to handing out plain manilla folders, or just a CD ROM with all the content on it. We need some more irrational exuberance in the stock market so Motorola can afford to hand out the fancy bags again.
Actually, if you need a cough suppressant, you should try getting cough syrup with codiene. Codiene is a Level II narcotic, but you can get the cough syrup with codiene from a pharmacist without a prescription. However, many pharmacies won't carry it (fear of robberies) and you have to sign some paper to get it. It is up to the pharmacist's discretion whether or not you can get it without a prescription. According to one of my wife's professors, codiene is the best cough supressant available. I wish I had known all this a couple years ago when I was suffering with bronchitis...
Disclaimer: My student pharmacist wife is at work right now and is not able to check my facts.
Personally I've recently taken a liking to the sugar free crystal light I can get at Sam's Club or Walmart. I am enjoying the "Pink Lemonade" flavor as I type this. I am talking about the stuff sweetened with sucralose (Splenda) and not the headache inducing Nutrasweet. So far I have only seen this stuff in 4-packs of 16 oz. bottles. My goal is to displace my beloved high-carb Mt. Dew in my diet with something that will let me lose weight.
I had Doug Jacobson for CprE 211 when I was at Iowa State. Does he stare at the ceiling even when he isn't teaching? It was annoying. I found myself always looking up at the ceiling trying to find what he was staring at. I am not exaggerating this. He spent a good 50% of his time in class staring at the ceiling either to his left or right.
Depending on what exactly they are trying to do, there may be no overhead because of byte order (not bit). The PowerPC can be put in to little endian mode. I'm pretty sure this is what VirtualPC does. Microsoft claims the G5 doesn't support this, but they are lying.
Love may be chemistry, but sex is all physics.
You don't own your phone number, the phone company does. Why should your current phone company be forced to give their number to their competitor? Why would I want to take my land-line number with me to a wireless provider anyway? So the telemarketers can still get a hold of me?
Anyway, what I'm upset about is being forced to pay $5 PER MONTH just so other people can switch providers and keep their number. Why does another person's convenience have to come at my expense? The fees should be absorbed ENTIRELY by the people wanting to take advantage of this. This is just fucking stupid.
All number portability means to me is another $5 charge on my land-line phone bill. Thank you FCC. This number portability is just plain stupid. How long before people start demanding that their e-mail addresses be portable when they change ISPs?
We don't need and shouldn't want a Do-Not-Spam registry. It should be a Do-Spam list. Spammers will only be able to spam people who put their name on the list. This way I don't have to publish my e-mail address to spammers who don't yet have it telling them not to spam me. Punishment for spamming people not on the list will be the death penalty.
Here are the facts:
1) Two former co-workers of mine got shit-canned last year.
2) They were worthless.
3) They should have never been hired in the first place.
4) Over a year after they left we are still finding issues with the stuff they produced.
5) Did I mention they got hired making around $10k more than me? Over two years later my salary still hasn't caught up to what they were hired in at. And, no, they did not have any more experience than me.
The funny thing is when they were "laid off" (they were salaried), we also "laid off" all of our contract employees, including the ones that took early retirement, but were kept on as contractors. Immediately after the "layoff" all of the contractors were brought back, including the ones that retired. Only the two worthless salaried employees didn't return.
I know of at least two "high tech" jobs that were "lost" in 2002 was because the employees were completely worthless. Some of the jobs lost were because companies were trimming the fat. Some of you who lost your job did so because you were worthless and should have never been hired in the first place.
The point of any company is to make money. If Red Hat is not making money from you, why should they care if you switch to another flavor of Linux from another vendor who also doesn't make money off of you?
World Wide Web != Internet
I haven't read the claims of this patent, but the company I work for could may be in violation of this patent. We make industrial controllers and have a configuration utility that can download the settings from one controller and upload it to another controller.