I used to play that game a lot! Vice City is great for driver education. It doesn't have that 30 minute thing, but so long as the police aren't after you, you must be doing fine right?
Did the hordes of people who wanted to buy bare computers but couldn't find any, and had a Windows license forced down their throats, get their money back yet ?
You and your friend there should start up a case, then. News flash -- ordinary people don't want a computer that starts up with the informative message, "PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK."
Sarcasm aside, most geeks (like me, and perhaps you) that don't want to buy Windows know enough about computers to put one together from parts. Or at least know a fellow geek who will do so for free or cheap.
Okay, see, fiwst, you take the CDs. And then, you take the bwead. Then, um, you put the CDs.. no you put the bwead.. on the CDs. This is what I call.. **Decemberween voice** The Toastinewator! Um, okay. What were we talking about again? Ohhhh. Awight. Then you take the **Decemberween voice** Toastinetawor. And you put it in.. umm.. the toaster. And then you get toast. Awight! And that's the end of today's pwogwam!
Join us next time when Stwong Bad uses a computer teevee to make 42 glasses of melonade!
Make sure to count the number of voters, not the number of people.
Assuming turnout rates similar to 1996/1997.. I don't have US figures for 2000, but Canada's dropped 6% from 1997 to 2000.
Canadian voters: 32,207,113 * 0.67 = 21,578,766 US voters: 270,000,000 * 0.488 = 131,760,000
Only 6 times as many voters! =) I like our voting system, it's simple and pretty much foolproof. It might take a little more organizing, but I don't see why it wouldn't scale further. The votes are hand counted at each local polling station, I believe. Results are sent by computer to Elections Canada.
I don't think the model designations are meaningless.. even if they change the design, the purpose and market of the iMac remains the same. An entry level Mac, with everything nice for home users, basically.
The eMac is geared toward education (hence the 'e') users. It's like the old iMac design because CRTs (as well as the whole design) are more kid-proof, and, I suppose, harder to steal.
Car makers redesign the look of their cars all the time. I don't think I need to give an example, since you see it all the time, but the same concept applies. A car model keeps the same name and purpose/market, but changes its appearance.
I'm not a big fan of all-in-one computers, personally (except for notebooks like my iBook of course =)). If something breaks, typically the entire machine has to be serviced, leaving you without a computer if your monitor fails, for example. Of course, most people don't have an extra monitor or whatever and it's the same thing to them. It's a good idea for some people, and not for others.
Me, I have a 4U rackmount case and a 17" CRT for my desktop.. I like the industrial look =). I love my iBook too, though!
Well come on, you didn't even include any token on-topic stuff in your message! If you try something like that, you are taking a gamble that the right moderator is going to come across it and mark it "Funny" instead of "Offtopic."
And on that note, I feel that the continuing technologization of our society, as evidenced by this new "Color Sidekick", is turning us into the Borg. Sure, now it has pretty colors, but just you wait, one day it will only be available in Drone Green! And by that time we'll be locked in an upgrade cycle by the nanobots, and it'll be too late. Yeah. So watch out.
I don't know of any library in Canada that charges rental fees for A/V items.. why would the library have to pay royalties? They don't pay them for books, and book stores don't complain about libraries (publically, anyway).
The only charges here are for late or lost items. I'm sorry for you chaps!
The selection at libraries tends to be smaller than that of rental places, however they have more of the classics. See Waterloo Public Library's collection for an example.
You have to pay to borrow items from your library???
That's not how it works in North America..
BTW, I haven't seen AotC, and I don't have any plans to do so. I like the original trilogy, but someone dragged me to Episode I and that was quite enough garbage for me, thanks.
may you all show NASA what teams of dedicated engineers can do if given an environment in which... well, an environment in which dedicated engineers can do what dedicated engineers have always done in such an environment.
At the risk of coming off as a low-down thief (aren't we all...), why on earth would anyone do this? If you have access to a store and you're looking to load items in your pockets, I see no incentive when you can get any item you want, as many as you want, FOR FREE with a quick grab or using one of the dozens of shoplifting techniques now available.
There are, as I see it, some advantages to buying the item (directly support producers, etc.), but what's the incentive to buy this unless the customer is so clueless that they do not even know about shoplifting?
I cropped up a wallpaperable version of the image that you can get here (9821 byte PNG). It looks nice on a black desktop.. sure puts things in perspective!
RTFA, people. The proposal is to install these cameras along the perimiter of sensitive facilities like power plants, etc. If the camera sees a change from one snapshot to the next, the images get checked by Barney Fife wannabes.
It has nothing to do with watching you in your house, or in your neighbourhood. It has nothing to do with people watching random cameras. I agree that it opens the door wider for 1984ish stuff, but it's not going nearly that far. These are hardly even 'public' places, they are places that the public should not be!
A DOS attack on this system would be interesting. What if a bunch of people coordinated to sneak toward the cameras at a whole bunch of different sites, then run away?
Wireless networks are broadcast-based, obviously; they work like a hub, not a switch. That means someone with an antenna can listen to everyone's packets, whereas with a switched network a "wire-splice" attacker only gets the packets belonging to a single client.
besides not having to splice a wire or find an unused network drop to get in
That is the inherent vulnerability. Someone can have "wired equivalent" access to your network from possibly miles away using a good antenna, so physical security is irrelevant. Compounding this problem is the fact that wireless networks are expected to have clients connecting and disconnecting all the time, from different places, whereas in most wired networks the client base is fairly stable (and easily policed).
Slashdot Mirror
Oooh shiny!
I used to play that game a lot! Vice City is great for driver education. It doesn't have that 30 minute thing, but so long as the police aren't after you, you must be doing fine right?
Did the hordes of people who wanted to buy bare computers but couldn't find any, and had a Windows license forced down their throats, get their money back yet ?
You and your friend there should start up a case, then. News flash -- ordinary people don't want a computer that starts up with the informative message, "PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK."
Sarcasm aside, most geeks (like me, and perhaps you) that don't want to buy Windows know enough about computers to put one together from parts. Or at least know a fellow geek who will do so for free or cheap.
**Homestar Runner voice**
Okay, see, fiwst, you take the CDs. And then, you take the bwead. Then, um, you put the CDs.. no you put the bwead.. on the CDs. This is what I call.. **Decemberween voice** The Toastinewator!
Um, okay. What were we talking about again? Ohhhh. Awight. Then you take the **Decemberween voice** Toastinetawor. And you put it in.. umm.. the toaster. And then you get toast. Awight! And that's the end of today's pwogwam!
Join us next time when Stwong Bad uses a computer teevee to make 42 glasses of melonade!
Make sure to count the number of voters, not the number of people.
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Assuming turnout rates similar to 1996/1997.. I don't have US figures for 2000, but Canada's dropped 6% from 1997 to 2000.
Canadian voters: 32,207,113 * 0.67 = 21,578,766
US voters: 270,000,000 * 0.488 = 131,760,000
Only 6 times as many voters! =)
I like our voting system, it's simple and pretty much foolproof. It might take a little more organizing, but I don't see why it wouldn't scale further. The votes are hand counted at each local polling station, I believe. Results are sent by computer to Elections Canada.
Sources:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/m
http://www.elections.ca/c
http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?secti
I don't think the model designations are meaningless.. even if they change the design, the purpose and market of the iMac remains the same. An entry level Mac, with everything nice for home users, basically.
The eMac is geared toward education (hence the 'e') users. It's like the old iMac design because CRTs (as well as the whole design) are more kid-proof, and, I suppose, harder to steal.
Car makers redesign the look of their cars all the time. I don't think I need to give an example, since you see it all the time, but the same concept applies. A car model keeps the same name and purpose/market, but changes its appearance.
I'm not a big fan of all-in-one computers, personally (except for notebooks like my iBook of course =)). If something breaks, typically the entire machine has to be serviced, leaving you without a computer if your monitor fails, for example. Of course, most people don't have an extra monitor or whatever and it's the same thing to them. It's a good idea for some people, and not for others.
Me, I have a 4U rackmount case and a 17" CRT for my desktop.. I like the industrial look =). I love my iBook too, though!
Apple should take note of this. The use of lcd screens in their imac would resolve the following issues...
Maybe you should take a look at the iMac website again. It's been well over a year since the redesign.
Perhaps you're thinking of the eMac?
Well come on, you didn't even include any token on-topic stuff in your message! If you try something like that, you are taking a gamble that the right moderator is going to come across it and mark it "Funny" instead of "Offtopic."
And on that note, I feel that the continuing technologization of our society, as evidenced by this new "Color Sidekick", is turning us into the Borg. Sure, now it has pretty colors, but just you wait, one day it will only be available in Drone Green! And by that time we'll be locked in an upgrade cycle by the nanobots, and it'll be too late. Yeah. So watch out.
Color Sidekick for Slashdot, with random red preview banners for all!
(Side note: even if I see a problem with this story, I am not going to email anyone called "daddypants", thank you very much)
I don't know of any library in Canada that charges rental fees for A/V items.. why would the library have to pay royalties? They don't pay them for books, and book stores don't complain about libraries (publically, anyway).
The only charges here are for late or lost items. I'm sorry for you chaps!
The selection at libraries tends to be smaller than that of rental places, however they have more of the classics. See Waterloo Public Library's collection for an example.
You have to pay to borrow items from your library???
That's not how it works in North America..
BTW, I haven't seen AotC, and I don't have any plans to do so. I like the original trilogy, but someone dragged me to Episode I and that was quite enough garbage for me, thanks.
I think the most interesting part of the comment is the following:
... young and free (as in speech)
Linux is like a tango
Apple is like getting fucked up the ass by your cell mate.
Freedom or comfort, it's your choice.
Sure sounds comfortable, yessirree!
may you all show NASA what teams of dedicated engineers can do if given an environment in which... well, an environment in which dedicated engineers can do what dedicated engineers have always done in such an environment.
Ow! You just broke my head!
At the risk of coming off as a low-down thief (aren't we all...), why on earth would anyone do this? If you have access to a store and you're looking to load items in your pockets, I see no incentive when you can get any item you want, as many as you want, FOR FREE with a quick grab or using one of the dozens of shoplifting techniques now available.
There are, as I see it, some advantages to buying the item (directly support producers, etc.), but what's the incentive to buy this unless the customer is so clueless that they do not even know about shoplifting?
Don't forget the summary post.
...
And the post that says "Don't forget the summary post."
And the post that says "And the post that says "Don't forget the summary post.""
Thanks for the mirror, it was mighty fast =)
I cropped up a wallpaperable version of the image that you can get here (9821 byte PNG). It looks nice on a black desktop.. sure puts things in perspective!
Probably 100 kilograms of 8086 PCs
So, including the cases and drives, that works out to about.. two of them? =)
Amerificans have a habit of doing that, I'm afraid.
RTFA, people. The proposal is to install these cameras along the perimiter of sensitive facilities like power plants, etc. If the camera sees a change from one snapshot to the next, the images get checked by Barney Fife wannabes.
It has nothing to do with watching you in your house, or in your neighbourhood. It has nothing to do with people watching random cameras. I agree that it opens the door wider for 1984ish stuff, but it's not going nearly that far. These are hardly even 'public' places, they are places that the public should not be!
A DOS attack on this system would be interesting. What if a bunch of people coordinated to sneak toward the cameras at a whole bunch of different sites, then run away?
No, they'll still need black glasses. Just for a different reason than they originally conceived.
Andrew Carlssin, good to hear from you!
Well, good thing your aunt has a Mac. AppleCare seems to be the service you really want to see..
AppleCare products
And then Strong Mad comes in on his bass and he's like doo doo doo doo doo doo doooo!
And then The Cheat comes in on his keyboard and he's like boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop!
And then I come in with And the dragon comes in the NIIIIIIIGGGGHTTTT!!!
Replying to myself to add another point:
Wireless networks are broadcast-based, obviously; they work like a hub, not a switch. That means someone with an antenna can listen to everyone's packets, whereas with a switched network a "wire-splice" attacker only gets the packets belonging to a single client.
besides not having to splice a wire or find an unused network drop to get in
That is the inherent vulnerability. Someone can have "wired equivalent" access to your network from possibly miles away using a good antenna, so physical security is irrelevant. Compounding this problem is the fact that wireless networks are expected to have clients connecting and disconnecting all the time, from different places, whereas in most wired networks the client base is fairly stable (and easily policed).