I just wanted to let you know that by using the McDonald's coffee case as an example, you were refuting your argument, since your example was, in actuality, a situation where there was a harm caused by willful negligence.
Before you talk about the McDonald's coffee case, go learn the facts of the case. It was a perfect example of the tort system FINALLY bringing relief to a corporation that was knowingly engaging in dangerous behaviour.
Well, the Republican party is always saying how states shouldn't have the right to legalize medical marajuana. And how women shouldn't have the right to choose. And how terminally ill patients shouldn't have the right to die.
So I guess you're referring to the democrats when you talk about less government control over my life?
I hate to spoil your cynicism, but this really doesn't make sense. A/V connectors are already standardized, that's not the problem. The problem is that the back of my receiver looks like this.
Surely I'm not the only person who thinks that current A/V setups have become close to unmanageable due to this mix of rca, xlr, coax and toslink audio, component, s-video and rca video.
I'd pay a whole hell of a lot of money for a proper fix to this mess, and surely I'm not the only one.
Forty dollars is a bass drum pedal. It's virtually nothing compared to the expenses involved with making and recording music, even at an amateur or semi-professional level.
Most of the semi-serious musicians I know have well over ten thousands dollars of equipement and software, many of the more dedicated ones I know are probably in the hundred-thousand dollar neighborhood.
Starving musicians are starving for a reason... because every single dime they earn goes towards doing something that might move their musical career forward.
All base utilities are implemented in C or sh, but there's no reason they wouldn't include a port which uses perl. In fact there are tons of ports which use perl, and they just pull in perl as an installation requirement.
Dropping perl from the base distribution was an incredibly good decision as it made it easier to keep perl up to date, while also making it easier for people working in embedded systems to keep perl out of the system. If you don't think the 60 megs which is perl matters, look at the costs incurred when you're using flash storage media, 60 megs can easily become a $50 or $100 per unit difference in cost.
This thing is lovely, it's very cute, but I don't see how it's even in the same market as the PB12.
I could see carrying one of these around as a spare laptop, y'know, in case shit. But I can't imagine that many people would want to use a 10" laptop on a regular basis.
Cool product, but dear god slashdot, you've outdumbed yourselves.
My DVD player has firewire output, it just has some sort of encryption on it. My TV only has component ins, and I don't have a matching receiver, so they're useless to me, but firewire for A/V use exists and is available for sale at your local stereo shop.
There are a lot of issues with using the TV Guide Channel format, namely that TV Guide has a patent on identifying a show by channel and time. They also have a patent on identifying a program in a grid by changing the color of items in a grid square.
I forget all of the insanity precisely, but long, long ago I worked for tv gateway, whose sole purpose seems to be to prevent tv guide from ramrodding the cable industry as hard as they used to.
Microsoft is a Big Evil Corp(tm), but honestly, you don't get much more "evil" than TV Guide, at least going by slashdot definitions of evil.
Okay, then substitute the aforementioned situation with 'found myself driving a pregnant girl with a craving for mexican food', or 'suddenly felt too ill to drive and needed a hotel'.
All are real scenarios that I've been in, and used GPS NAV to solve in the most expeditious possible fashion, while driving either my japanese or my german car.
Yeah, maps are the coolest. The other day I had car trouble, so I opened up my map and clicked on emergency/auto service and I got the names of the ten closest auto repair shops, and I called them and found one that was open, had a new alternator for my car in stock, and was able to do the repair for me that night.
Oh wait, no, that was a GPS navigation system I was using, not a map.
I have a GPS V, and it can indeed do that. You can enter every house as a waypoint in advance, and then plan the route accordingly. Though if you wanted, you could also just enter every single address along the way, really wouldn't be that bad.
This is very true... I was playing at partypoker last night, and i played consecutively in 5-1, 10-1 and 30-3 NL Hold'em tourneys.
The 5-1 was very easy to survive in... I played my best cards, usually taking the money of somebody who was representing the cards that were in my hand, and didn't start playing speculatively until it was down to 3 people, 2 of whom were chronic bluffers. I won that one.
The 10-1 was fairly easy to survive, though I had to engage in some risky semi-bluffs to get my stacks up. The players were a little better, but they were still playing a lot of junk, even when it was ten handed. I won this one too.
The 30-3 one proved that sometimes bluffs work. I lost about T1000 on a strong hand that got beat by an unlikely draw by a chronic bluffer (who went broke on a bluff shortly thereafter), but was left with such short stacks that I couldn't overcome the 50/100 blinds, and I finished fifth, but I'm not sure that I deserved it... I think that 6 or 7 of the players at that table were better than me.
Some of the T40s do indeed have gigabit ethernet, though I doubt you'll have gigabit in the dorms or on the afs servers anytime soon (assuming of course that they still have the afs servers... I may have just dated myself).
Or you can do what I did, and just buy a USB->serial adapter. They're cheap and plentiful, and let's face facts... USB ports are much more useful than serial ports for 99% of the purchasers.
Well, speaking as a dealer who carries Panasonic Toughbooks, I must concur that they're excellent, high-quality laptops but you pay for the quality. A Toughbook 28 with a p3-800, 256MB, 30GB HD and 12.1" screen will run you somewhere between $4500 and $5000.
Also, Virtual PC is funky. Things mostly work, but my VirtualPC has some quirks that I don't have on my real PCs. It could just be windows brokenness, but it's hard to pin down the blame when windows acts weird in an emulated environment.
i've got a dual 1.0 and virtual pc runs like a dog in it... it works, but it's really only good enough for veryifying something, i wouldn't want to work in it all day. On my PB12, it varies between slothlike slowness and uselessness, depending on what you want to do, and whether or not the processor speed is reduced at the moment.
An intel notebook is a much better choice if the job basically consists of doing things on intel.
Well, this isn't a 2048 character bug, so it's probably different. This one seems to be about 1367 characters.
If OS X was truly open source, we'd probably be patching our machines right now, instead of impotently discussing this on slashdot.
I'm running 10.2.6 as well, and I was unable to bypass the password field, though it did lock up, leaving me to stare at the homo rainbow of death until i ssh'ed in and killed the hung process.
Not particularly. Administrative users in os x don't have privleges, they just can sudo to do things, so after breaking the screensaver, you'd still need to know the logged-in user's password to do anything to a privileged area.
There already are regulations on most every aspect of golf club and ball design, and the USGA is doing an excellent job of protecting the purity of the game. Golf courses are in no way becoming obsolete.
The biggest improvement to golf in recent years has been that all the top professional golfers now spend a fair amount of time in the gym, and with coaches. $5 golf balls and $500 clubs do not a good golfer make.
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I just wanted to let you know that by using the McDonald's coffee case as an example, you were refuting your argument, since your example was, in actuality, a situation where there was a harm caused by willful negligence.
Before you talk about the McDonald's coffee case, go learn the facts of the case. It was a perfect example of the tort system FINALLY bringing relief to a corporation that was knowingly engaging in dangerous behaviour.
So I guess you're referring to the democrats when you talk about less government control over my life?
Surely I'm not the only person who thinks that current A/V setups have become close to unmanageable due to this mix of rca, xlr, coax and toslink audio, component, s-video and rca video.
I'd pay a whole hell of a lot of money for a proper fix to this mess, and surely I'm not the only one.
Hey now, there's a tax on the export of genuine MeFi cliches.
Most of the semi-serious musicians I know have well over ten thousands dollars of equipement and software, many of the more dedicated ones I know are probably in the hundred-thousand dollar neighborhood.
Starving musicians are starving for a reason... because every single dime they earn goes towards doing something that might move their musical career forward.
Dropping perl from the base distribution was an incredibly good decision as it made it easier to keep perl up to date, while also making it easier for people working in embedded systems to keep perl out of the system. If you don't think the 60 megs which is perl matters, look at the costs incurred when you're using flash storage media, 60 megs can easily become a $50 or $100 per unit difference in cost.
I could see carrying one of these around as a spare laptop, y'know, in case shit. But I can't imagine that many people would want to use a 10" laptop on a regular basis.
Cool product, but dear god slashdot, you've outdumbed yourselves.
My DVD player has firewire output, it just has some sort of encryption on it. My TV only has component ins, and I don't have a matching receiver, so they're useless to me, but firewire for A/V use exists and is available for sale at your local stereo shop.
I forget all of the insanity precisely, but long, long ago I worked for tv gateway, whose sole purpose seems to be to prevent tv guide from ramrodding the cable industry as hard as they used to.
Microsoft is a Big Evil Corp(tm), but honestly, you don't get much more "evil" than TV Guide, at least going by slashdot definitions of evil.
All are real scenarios that I've been in, and used GPS NAV to solve in the most expeditious possible fashion, while driving either my japanese or my german car.
Oh wait, no, that was a GPS navigation system I was using, not a map.
I have a GPS V, and it can indeed do that. You can enter every house as a waypoint in advance, and then plan the route accordingly. Though if you wanted, you could also just enter every single address along the way, really wouldn't be that bad.
This is very true... I was playing at partypoker last night, and i played consecutively in 5-1, 10-1 and 30-3 NL Hold'em tourneys. The 5-1 was very easy to survive in... I played my best cards, usually taking the money of somebody who was representing the cards that were in my hand, and didn't start playing speculatively until it was down to 3 people, 2 of whom were chronic bluffers. I won that one. The 10-1 was fairly easy to survive, though I had to engage in some risky semi-bluffs to get my stacks up. The players were a little better, but they were still playing a lot of junk, even when it was ten handed. I won this one too. The 30-3 one proved that sometimes bluffs work. I lost about T1000 on a strong hand that got beat by an unlikely draw by a chronic bluffer (who went broke on a bluff shortly thereafter), but was left with such short stacks that I couldn't overcome the 50/100 blinds, and I finished fifth, but I'm not sure that I deserved it... I think that 6 or 7 of the players at that table were better than me.
And I'll be there to check out the Borgata's poker room during first weekend in August. Please feel free to take my money.
Some of the T40s do indeed have gigabit ethernet, though I doubt you'll have gigabit in the dorms or on the afs servers anytime soon (assuming of course that they still have the afs servers... I may have just dated myself).
Or you can do what I did, and just buy a USB->serial adapter. They're cheap and plentiful, and let's face facts... USB ports are much more useful than serial ports for 99% of the purchasers.
Well, speaking as a dealer who carries Panasonic Toughbooks, I must concur that they're excellent, high-quality laptops but you pay for the quality. A Toughbook 28 with a p3-800, 256MB, 30GB HD and 12.1" screen will run you somewhere between $4500 and $5000.
Or just pay retail. They're not expensive or overpriced machines, so there's really no need to jump through hoops to get a few points off the price.
Also, Virtual PC is funky. Things mostly work, but my VirtualPC has some quirks that I don't have on my real PCs. It could just be windows brokenness, but it's hard to pin down the blame when windows acts weird in an emulated environment.
i've got a dual 1.0 and virtual pc runs like a dog in it... it works, but it's really only good enough for veryifying something, i wouldn't want to work in it all day. On my PB12, it varies between slothlike slowness and uselessness, depending on what you want to do, and whether or not the processor speed is reduced at the moment. An intel notebook is a much better choice if the job basically consists of doing things on intel.
Well, this isn't a 2048 character bug, so it's probably different. This one seems to be about 1367 characters. If OS X was truly open source, we'd probably be patching our machines right now, instead of impotently discussing this on slashdot.
I'm running 10.2.6 as well, and I was unable to bypass the password field, though it did lock up, leaving me to stare at the homo rainbow of death until i ssh'ed in and killed the hung process.
Not particularly. Administrative users in os x don't have privleges, they just can sudo to do things, so after breaking the screensaver, you'd still need to know the logged-in user's password to do anything to a privileged area.
There already are regulations on most every aspect of golf club and ball design, and the USGA is doing an excellent job of protecting the purity of the game. Golf courses are in no way becoming obsolete. The biggest improvement to golf in recent years has been that all the top professional golfers now spend a fair amount of time in the gym, and with coaches. $5 golf balls and $500 clubs do not a good golfer make.