My workmate hid his laptop in the oven when he was going away for a weekender. There had been a bout of burglaries in the neighbourhood and so he was a little bit paranoid.
You know where this is going...
He came back after the trip and thought he'd make himself a pizza. So he pre-heated the oven to 400F. After the smoke cleared, he took the laptop out and threw it out in the snow and left it there for a good while for it to cool down.
The top of the lid was mostly melted away and had fused with the bottom half. He had to crack it open. Surprisingly the LCD worked, the machine booted up. It still works to this date. Unfortunately Compaq didn't think it was good enough to advertise the ruggedness of his machine and so they turned down his offer.
Not true of CIBC. My girlfriend uses CIBC and we've not been able to connect *once* to their on-line banking system from home, using Mozilla (which is what I use). Doing it from work and using IE is not an ideal solution. I've complained about this but received nothing back.
I bank with Royal Bank and their system has been great. No fancy java or ActiveX rubbish, just plain HTML.
She's now switching to Royal Bank. Vote with your money.
ICANN *must* be brought under government oversight, immidiately. They're essentially running a dictatorship, doing things how they want, not disclosing information, not allowing their own to see their inner workings, and eliminating the public voice.
So? Nothing a little carpet bombing campaign won't solve.
For that matter, HP 's argument might be that it's hard to sale your product, loaded with Windows, when you have vocal employees talking about security and usabiltiy problems.
Microsoft doesn't seem to have a problem with one of its own doing the same.
This has been my shopping habit until now: 1. AMG Music Guide for finding out bands that I might like. 2. AudioGalaxy to see if I actually do like them. 3. HMV online to buy it. 4. Repeat, lather, rinse.
Now that these blood-suckers have taken out no.2 I have no way of actually test driving music before I buy it. Using this method I've bought over 100 CDs in the last 6 months alone. And they dare accuse me of being a pirate.
Until they offer a similar service, for free, I guess I'll just have to stop buying music.
I hope that other people will now also vote with their dollars.
Speaking of 64-bit processors, I suspect that the more portable UNIX core of Mac OS X will allow Apple to support a 64-bit machine at the consumer level before Windows can.
You can run Shake on x86 to your heart's content, as long as you run it on Linux.
But after mid-2003 it will be biting the dust as well along with the IRIX version. Yes, Steve is very genorous.
I know of a few long format productions that had geared their pipelines towards using Shake as their comping tool. When the time comes to deploy, they can no longer get licenses and what we're left with are some seriously pissed off people out there.
Effectively, Steve didn't just kill Shake, but the entire client base as well. Good job.
What they doing, in both this case and deCode (which I assume you're alluding to) is allowing big corporations to pour millions of dollars into the economy for something that's readily available and sustainable non-polluting natural resources.
For a nation that's built its whole economy of fish and seeing the fish stocks plummet, this can only be a Good Thing(tm).
At least they're not opening up large wildlife refuges for oil-drilling.
And how exactly will this work?
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"The plug-in captures a live example of the site for evidence as well as other basic information about the site."
...along with a list of every single piece of software installed on your machine. I'm not sure whether this would be a complete master-stroke on their behalf or the most moronic thing ever.
I don't think I'd like anything living on my machine sending data to F.A.S.T.
Mark my words, the Winblows platform will be emulating this behavior within their usual UI 5 year lag.
Surprisingly, it only took Apple around 14 years to emulate this behaviour from RiscOS.
It wasn't quite as pretty. Just name a directory with a '!' as the first character. Make sure you had some standard names in there (like "!Run") and everything was good. The directory held all the application files needed and you just double-clicked on the directory and the application would run.
And this was all there, along with anti-aliased fonts, in 1987 folks.
And to be blunt, it wouldn't be a a single problem for Microsoft to emulate this behaviour. It only requires a bit of modification to Explorer along with some standard file naming. But true to fashion, they're likely going to fall back on using CLSIDs and other registry horrors to accomplish this.
This case doesn't have terribly much to do with online freedom of criticism
People here seem to have terrible problems with actually reading the articles before posting. Quoth the article:
The court said that consumers not only have a right to express their dissatisfaction with products or services -- including on Internet sites -- but also to read what others have to say.
Second, when the original framers of the Constitution wrote the copyright clause, 28 years was a lifetime
No it wasn't. Thomas Jefferson lived to the ripe old age of 83. George Washington died of throad infection at the age of 67. What skews the "average life expectancy" statistics is infant mortality which was much higher in the olden days. That's why it's called "average".
I recommend that you, and others, buy this fabulous little book. There you will learn about this fallacy and more. Astrology is also debunked, which is a good thing.
It gladdens my heart to see feminists pop out of their double-standard woodwork. I do belive their reaction to IVF was one of: "Now women can eliminate men from the planet."
I used to work at a company that made extensive use of ye olde RS/6000 boxes (AIX! Yay! Not). Now these things were pretty big (in recent terms) and allowed for almost infinite expansion in terms of storage. IBM, being a helpful lot, made sure that they came with all the fans you needed, for full expansion, pre-installed.
So each Friday we bought some six-packs of beer and put it in the (empty) drive bays. Came out wonderfully chilled at the end of the workday.
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My workmate hid his laptop in the oven when he was going away for a weekender. There had been a bout of burglaries in the neighbourhood and so he was a little bit paranoid.
You know where this is going...
He came back after the trip and thought he'd make himself a pizza. So he pre-heated the oven to 400F. After the smoke cleared, he took the laptop out and threw it out in the snow and left it there for a good while for it to cool down.
The top of the lid was mostly melted away and had fused with the bottom half. He had to crack it open. Surprisingly the LCD worked, the machine booted up. It still works to this date. Unfortunately Compaq didn't think it was good enough to advertise the ruggedness of his machine and so they turned down his offer.
Anyone remember that Simpson episode where they "remade" Cape Fear. Cape Feare?
First few times that Sideshow Bob stepped on the rakes was plenty funny. The next ten wasn't so. But the final fifteen or so were simply hysterical.
Give Rob a few hours. He'll get there.
The X-Serve Cluster Node is a dual process system...
And which processes does it run? I'd run cron and init, myself.
... because their website just collapsed under the collective weight of /.
It's revenge. Revenge for Japan getting all the cool toys years before we do.
They read your reply and now it's been postponed for two months (Feb 22).
If we start a cascade, maybe they won't see it until we've got "Return of the King" on DVD.
It should be interesting to hear what the "legitimate uses" sited by these people are.
You forgot the most important buyer of them all: Adobe.
The FBI, the district attorneys and the police depearment are exempt [17 U.S.C. 1201(e)] so that's not such a big deal, abeit an interesting twist.
Not true of CIBC. My girlfriend uses CIBC and we've not been able to connect *once* to their on-line banking system from home, using Mozilla (which is what I use). Doing it from work and using IE is not an ideal solution. I've complained about this but received nothing back.
I bank with Royal Bank and their system has been great. No fancy java or ActiveX rubbish, just plain HTML.
She's now switching to Royal Bank. Vote with your money.
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ICANN *must* be brought under government oversight, immidiately. They're essentially running a dictatorship, doing things how they want, not disclosing information, not allowing their own to see their inner workings, and eliminating the public voice.
So? Nothing a little carpet bombing campaign won't solve.
What right does MS have in preventing people from selling after-market mods .. ? Where did this right come from? When? Why?
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Didn't you read the EULA? They only licensed the console to you. You don't really own it, you see
For that matter, HP 's argument might be that it's hard to sale your product, loaded with Windows, when you have vocal employees talking about security and usabiltiy problems.
Microsoft doesn't seem to have a problem with one of its own doing the same.
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That didn't take long.
Fear the Slashdot Effect(tm) !
The power belongs to a few, not to "the people". The rules are made by a few, and enforced by a few. Did you ever vote for your company's next CEO?
Did anyone vote for the current president?
This has been my shopping habit until now:
1. AMG Music Guide for finding out bands that I might like.
2. AudioGalaxy to see if I actually do like them.
3. HMV online to buy it.
4. Repeat, lather, rinse.
Now that these blood-suckers have taken out no.2 I have no way of actually test driving music before I buy it. Using this method I've bought over 100 CDs in the last 6 months alone. And they dare accuse me of being a pirate.
Until they offer a similar service, for free, I guess I'll just have to stop buying music.
I hope that other people will now also vote with their dollars.
Tell that to Jon Johansen. Maybe it'll save his day.
Besides the humor value, interesting in that we're creating another species with qualities that suit humans but unsuitable for life on its own.
I agree. Breeding animals to suit human whim is totally wrong.
Speaking of 64-bit processors, I suspect that the more portable UNIX core of Mac OS X will allow Apple to support a 64-bit machine at the consumer level before Windows can.
Really?
You can run Shake on x86 to your heart's content, as long as you run it on Linux.
But after mid-2003 it will be biting the dust as well along with the IRIX version. Yes, Steve is very genorous.
I know of a few long format productions that had geared their pipelines towards using Shake as their comping tool. When the time comes to deploy, they can no longer get licenses and what we're left with are some seriously pissed off people out there.
Effectively, Steve didn't just kill Shake, but the entire client base as well. Good job.
What they doing, in both this case and deCode (which I assume you're alluding to) is allowing big corporations to pour millions of dollars into the economy for something that's readily available and sustainable non-polluting natural resources.
For a nation that's built its whole economy of fish and seeing the fish stocks plummet, this can only be a Good Thing(tm).
At least they're not opening up large wildlife refuges for oil-drilling.
"The plug-in captures a live example of the site for evidence as well as other basic information about the site."
...along with a list of every single piece of software installed on your machine. I'm not sure whether this would be a complete master-stroke on their behalf or the most moronic thing ever.
I don't think I'd like anything living on my machine sending data to F.A.S.T.
Mark my words, the Winblows platform will be emulating this behavior within their usual UI 5 year lag.
Surprisingly, it only took Apple around 14 years to emulate this behaviour from RiscOS.
It wasn't quite as pretty. Just name a directory with a '!' as the first character. Make sure you had some standard names in there (like "!Run") and everything was good. The directory held all the application files needed and you just double-clicked on the directory and the application would run.
And this was all there, along with anti-aliased fonts, in 1987 folks.
And to be blunt, it wouldn't be a a single problem for Microsoft to emulate this behaviour. It only requires a bit of modification to Explorer along with some standard file naming. But true to fashion, they're likely going to fall back on using CLSIDs and other registry horrors to accomplish this.
This case doesn't have terribly much to do with online freedom of criticism
People here seem to have terrible problems with actually reading the articles before posting. Quoth the article:
The court said that consumers not only have a right to express their dissatisfaction with products or services -- including on Internet sites -- but also to read what others have to say.
Is that clear enough?
Second, when the original framers of the Constitution wrote the copyright clause, 28 years was a lifetime
No it wasn't. Thomas Jefferson lived to the ripe old age of 83. George Washington died of throad infection at the age of 67. What skews the "average life expectancy" statistics is infant mortality which was much higher in the olden days. That's why it's called "average".
I recommend that you, and others, buy this fabulous little book. There you will learn about this fallacy and more. Astrology is also debunked, which is a good thing.
It gladdens my heart to see feminists pop out of their double-standard woodwork. I do belive their reaction to IVF was one of: "Now women can eliminate men from the planet."
I used to work at a company that made extensive use of ye olde RS/6000 boxes (AIX! Yay! Not). Now these things were pretty big (in recent terms) and allowed for almost infinite expansion in terms of storage. IBM, being a helpful lot, made sure that they came with all the fans you needed, for full expansion, pre-installed.
So each Friday we bought some six-packs of beer and put it in the (empty) drive bays. Came out wonderfully chilled at the end of the workday.
No refrigerator modding required.