This will be great, the RIAA/MPAA won't be able to track our downloads and thus their whole business model of suing poor individuals who happened to download a few songs will collapse!
1) they give you a run-around trying to find it. They actually list quite a few laptops that run with linux but they don't currently sell any of them, and the one that is reviewed in the msnbc article isn't on the list (yet?). 2) Unless you're looking through business computers, you don't even see the linux option. 3) It costs $1200 and only has 1.2 ghz **Celeron**. Come on, who are they kidding? 4) They don't even give you the option for the OS if you select "Configure and Buy" (the only way to purchase it online), they lock you in to XP. What a bunch of bogus crap. You probably have to call if you actually want it.
Until the day comes when you can go into any big name brand computer sales website and choose your version of Linux OR Windows, you don't have to worry about just anybody buying this HP "Linux" laptop. Too much hassel. That's probably why you don't see M$ complaining.
Basically, by the time they've finished implementing all of it, the bugs will have done it in and you'll be a fool not to have the upgrade, else your box be owned in under 5 minutes (assuming continuation of the current trends).
The IOC joins the ranks of the RIAA and MPAA. How long before we have ads during the olympics showing us how sharing our experiences at the events hurts the guy who's only livelyhood is hurt because of how you've shared it?
That was my first reaction upon seeing it. Unless you're just messing around, trying to find out what exactly it would take to repair it without reinstalling everything. Sounds like the cabbie that drove 10 miles out of the way to get you to your destination. Ring up the bill anyway possible.
As I sit here at my aunt's house, I am currently logged in via the friendly neighborhood linksys 802.11b router (BEFW11S4) complete with it's default settings. I've been enjoying internet access all week and I thought I'd check to see if they at least changed the factory default settings and low and behold I logged right in. It's good to know I can remove my mac address before I leave (just in case).
MS Programmer assigned to fix the XP SP2 update briefs boss: programmer: Boss, I beleive we've found the problem. boss: Good news, SP2 no longer crashes 3 out of 5 computers? programmer: We've managed to fix that, it now crashes 5 out of 5 computers. boss: Good work!
I corporation is supposed to have a soul, or a conscience, it's created at the startup of the business and it's usually called a mission statement or something to that degree, which comes directly from the person who created it. The idea is that the business will take on the soul/emotions/id/conscience of the creator. The only problem is the business usually outlives the creator, and when that happens it either dies, is taken over by somebody else who, in the long run, redefines these values, or it goes public (if it hasn't done any of these already).
Let's say Mr. Joe starts up Mr. Joe's coffee shop. His mission statement is that, "Every customer deserves a delicious, hot cup of coffee in their hand and a nice warm smile on their face." So he forms his business, everything goes all fine and dandy and business booms. Everybody loves it because Mr. Joe takes everything personal and handles all problems personally, feeling that it is his responsability to live up to his mission.
Suddenly all that changes when his business goes public, people buy up his shares, probably even remove him as ceo/president, and redifine his business in their own view.
Let's say, just for argument, that this didn't even happen. Let's say that all the investors decided he was actually doing everything perfectly (which is rare) and let him keep his job, keep his rules and his dreams, and everything goes on just fine.
One day the board has to vote on whether or not they should do anything within their power to keep the customer happy (even though that mission statement says they have to) or start taking loses and it's their fault, they know it. Well if they take the loss, they'll all feel it, they have to cut salaries. But if they turn down customers, now they get to keep their profits and it's nobody's fault! The customer doesn't know if it's just a mean employee, or just the wrong chain. Even if it did come all the way back to haunt them and let's say a lawsuit was filed due to this decision.
Suppose the company lost. Who takes a hit? Everybody including the employee of the month. But those board members still kept their salaries! And the best part is they didn't even go to court. Nobody blamed them, they blamed the entire business.
It's like that freak-show man who lays on a bed of nails, the more there are, the less pressure each nail has to push through you. The more people that share responsability, the harder it is to assign blame, and you get enough and the blame sort of disolves into thin air, it's rather amazing!
Of course, you think that would actually fit in one lane?
I hope marketing doesn't get ahold of this.
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The last thing we need is for them to learn how to attract MORE attention to their displays and ads. They would be able to survey people without even asking them any questions, just watch their eyes as they walk by.
When I made my first computer, I had a hard time seating my video card. I never realized that I had not done it properly until some time afterwards. I finally found out that the reason why windows kept rebooting was due to the fact that every time the monitor moved, it would unseat my video card just enough to make the system freak out and reboot or just give me a blue screen (yes, the video cord was stretched as far as it could go.)
You can always tell when a show has a cult following by the availability of websites like these. Especially when their products are probably better made than those on the show:
"Our ZAT holsters is quality crafted by a well known "webgear" manufacturer using ballistic nylon and heavy grade nylon strapping. Double stitched at all stress points and made to last! Now you won't have to walk about "unarmed" at conventions which don't allow realistic weapons or airsoft.
Going along the lines of the earlier slashdot story (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/0 6/12172 43&mode=thread&tid=146&tid=188&tid=192&tid=99) I wish my college prof threw out the books for class and asked us to use stuff like this, it has everything the books had in it, and it covers it so much better.
yea, i do beleive it does use java, I had to install it in firebird for my online classes. Also thought it would be interesting to point out that federal locations, i.e. the captial, white house, etc. is blurred out!
The USGS has this really cool thing they call the 'national map' (http://nationalmap.usgs.gov/nmjump.html) that will display all sorts of information down to the street level and it allows you to download and print the maps you display along with the information. But enough of that, go check it out for yourself, enjoy!
For a more direct link: http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm
Start building the computers into household objects. We've seen cases turned into all sorts of things, but can you turn that lamp sitting around in the actic into a computer?
I can finally redeem my family name McDonald with our long history of making fatty, thin-patty hamburgers for dinner for generations? After all, where do you think a man with the last name Kroc got the name and the great hamburgers?
I thought the original problem with P2P in universities was the high bandwidth consumption. So why how does this fix the problem? Discourage them? I'm sure most of them will just look harder.
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This will be great, the RIAA/MPAA won't be able to track our downloads and thus their whole business model of suing poor individuals who happened to download a few songs will collapse!
Sounds about right, installation won't even be finished.
1) they give you a run-around trying to find it. They actually list quite a few laptops that run with linux but they don't currently sell any of them, and the one that is reviewed in the msnbc article isn't on the list (yet?).
2) Unless you're looking through business computers, you don't even see the linux option.
3) It costs $1200 and only has 1.2 ghz **Celeron**. Come on, who are they kidding?
4) They don't even give you the option for the OS if you select "Configure and Buy" (the only way to purchase it online), they lock you in to XP. What a bunch of bogus crap. You probably have to call if you actually want it.
Until the day comes when you can go into any big name brand computer sales website and choose your version of Linux OR Windows, you don't have to worry about just anybody buying this HP "Linux" laptop. Too much hassel. That's probably why you don't see M$ complaining.
Basically, by the time they've finished implementing all of it, the bugs will have done it in and you'll be a fool not to have the upgrade, else your box be owned in under 5 minutes (assuming continuation of the current trends).
The IOC joins the ranks of the RIAA and MPAA. How long before we have ads during the olympics showing us how sharing our experiences at the events hurts the guy who's only livelyhood is hurt because of how you've shared it?
That was my first reaction upon seeing it. Unless you're just messing around, trying to find out what exactly it would take to repair it without reinstalling everything. Sounds like the cabbie that drove 10 miles out of the way to get you to your destination. Ring up the bill anyway possible.
As I sit here at my aunt's house, I am currently logged in via the friendly neighborhood linksys 802.11b router (BEFW11S4) complete with it's default settings. I've been enjoying internet access all week and I thought I'd check to see if they at least changed the factory default settings and low and behold I logged right in. It's good to know I can remove my mac address before I leave (just in case).
That's why I don't use JPEG, instead I use JPG!
MS Programmer assigned to fix the XP SP2 update briefs boss:
programmer: Boss, I beleive we've found the problem.
boss: Good news, SP2 no longer crashes 3 out of 5 computers?
programmer: We've managed to fix that, it now crashes 5 out of 5 computers.
boss: Good work!
I corporation is supposed to have a soul, or a conscience, it's created at the startup of the business and it's usually called a mission statement or something to that degree, which comes directly from the person who created it. The idea is that the business will take on the soul/emotions/id/conscience of the creator. The only problem is the business usually outlives the creator, and when that happens it either dies, is taken over by somebody else who, in the long run, redefines these values, or it goes public (if it hasn't done any of these already).
Let's say Mr. Joe starts up Mr. Joe's coffee shop. His mission statement is that, "Every customer deserves a delicious, hot cup of coffee in their hand and a nice warm smile on their face." So he forms his business, everything goes all fine and dandy and business booms. Everybody loves it because Mr. Joe takes everything personal and handles all problems personally, feeling that it is his responsability to live up to his mission.
Suddenly all that changes when his business goes public, people buy up his shares, probably even remove him as ceo/president, and redifine his business in their own view.
Let's say, just for argument, that this didn't even happen. Let's say that all the investors decided he was actually doing everything perfectly (which is rare) and let him keep his job, keep his rules and his dreams, and everything goes on just fine.
One day the board has to vote on whether or not they should do anything within their power to keep the customer happy (even though that mission statement says they have to) or start taking loses and it's their fault, they know it. Well if they take the loss, they'll all feel it, they have to cut salaries. But if they turn down customers, now they get to keep their profits and it's nobody's fault! The customer doesn't know if it's just a mean employee, or just the wrong chain. Even if it did come all the way back to haunt them and let's say a lawsuit was filed due to this decision.
Suppose the company lost. Who takes a hit? Everybody including the employee of the month. But those board members still kept their salaries! And the best part is they didn't even go to court. Nobody blamed them, they blamed the entire business.
It's like that freak-show man who lays on a bed of nails, the more there are, the less pressure each nail has to push through you. The more people that share responsability, the harder it is to assign blame, and you get enough and the blame sort of disolves into thin air, it's rather amazing!
Of course, you think that would actually fit in one lane?
The last thing we need is for them to learn how to attract MORE attention to their displays and ads. They would be able to survey people without even asking them any questions, just watch their eyes as they walk by.
When I made my first computer, I had a hard time seating my video card. I never realized that I had not done it properly until some time afterwards. I finally found out that the reason why windows kept rebooting was due to the fact that every time the monitor moved, it would unseat my video card just enough to make the system freak out and reboot or just give me a blue screen (yes, the video cord was stretched as far as it could go.)
You can always tell when a show has a cult following by the availability of websites like these. Especially when their products are probably better made than those on the show:
"Our ZAT holsters is quality crafted by a well known "webgear" manufacturer using ballistic nylon and heavy grade nylon strapping. Double stitched at all stress points and made to last! Now you won't have to walk about "unarmed" at conventions which don't allow realistic weapons or airsoft.
They'll just ask him to sign a contract to replace Alex? It's insane enough that it sounds like the ingenious workings of a producer.
Well of course, that's their business model:
1. Form an association representing a form of media
2. Claim the internet is cutting into your profit margin
3. ??????
4. Profit!
Going along the lines of the earlier slashdot story0 6/12172 43&mode=thread&tid=146&tid=188&tid=192&tid=99)
(http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/
I wish my college prof threw out the books for class and asked us to use stuff like this, it has everything the books had in it, and it covers it so much better.
of course was the first thing I did. came up with the following:
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EID: f:1658889542 - 1041:1041:10004:1059
HC: 71d61b14
Is that they lose the connection every time a large ship passes through.
>They like it, but it's too expensive.
That's funny, that was my opinion on *all* of their laptops.
yea, i do beleive it does use java, I had to install it in firebird for my online classes. Also thought it would be interesting to point out that federal locations, i.e. the captial, white house, etc. is blurred out!
The USGS has this really cool thing they call the 'national map' (http://nationalmap.usgs.gov/nmjump.html) that will display all sorts of information down to the street level and it allows you to download and print the maps you display along with the information. But enough of that, go check it out for yourself, enjoy!
For a more direct link: http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm
Start building the computers into household objects. We've seen cases turned into all sorts of things, but can you turn that lamp sitting around in the actic into a computer?
I can finally redeem my family name McDonald with our long history of making fatty, thin-patty hamburgers for dinner for generations? After all, where do you think a man with the last name Kroc got the name and the great hamburgers?
I thought the original problem with P2P in universities was the high bandwidth consumption. So why how does this fix the problem? Discourage them? I'm sure most of them will just look harder.