My dad brought home an Apple ][ c for us (me) when I was in kindergarten. I took to it like a (insert metaphor here). Thanks, Dad!
(My mom still hasn't stored a recipe on any computer that's ever been in her house....are they still using that as a reason for families to buy computers?)
One would assume that if it cost money under this new scheme to RECEIVE email, then it would cost money to SEND email. Bye-bye spam problem. Isn't this what some people have been proposing for years anyway?
I'd almost prefer that to what Google has done with gmail. I emailed myself a zip file containing 6 other zip files, one of which had an.exe windows installer. Gmail refused to process the email due to that embedded.exe. It made me wonder how far down the virus checker digs. If I create a zip file containing an.exe and then zip it again 100 times, will Google still catch it?
The answer is left as an exercise for the reader.:)
Nah. Corporations are meant to die, just like the persons they're considered to be. When the goods they sell aren't in demand anymore, what'll they do, try to break into the samsung/hynix et al. marketplace? Nah.
Good luck trying to DRM that copy of 1984. How do you manage digital rights for an analog real-life book? I guess this is one reason to avoid the adoption of e-books.
As others have posted already, I think this is a perfectly fine method for enforcing loan/rental periods.
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My dad brought home an Apple ][ c for us (me) when I was in kindergarten. I took to it like a (insert metaphor here). Thanks, Dad!
(My mom still hasn't stored a recipe on any computer that's ever been in her house....are they still using that as a reason for families to buy computers?)
[pleasant, off-topic atta-boy to those using generic bracketed statements]
Well, duh. You've got a dt in the numerator and a dt in the denominator. That cancels to equal one. Simple algebra. :)
"The genuine spell-control says: "spell tester" looks French."
Thanks babel-fish!
I was hoping this would be a story about 'posses' going out and about hunting down and PKing known gold farmers.
Darn.
If this happens I predict an increase of web surfing at work and at public libraries.
One would assume that if it cost money under this new scheme to RECEIVE email, then it would cost money to SEND email. Bye-bye spam problem. Isn't this what some people have been proposing for years anyway?
The GMail server is down (as of 14:10 EDT 2006/02/02). You know what that means!
SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If any game "suits" are listening, listen good:
I will never buy a game or console that REQUIRES me to have an internet connection to play.
Facility. My best time was 1:40-something. I was fucking PUMPED the first time I beat 2:05.
Ah, freshman year, good times....
I mod this dude (-5, Addicted to Civ4).
:)
Not that I'm against Civ4, I'm addicted to it myself, but just cause Leonard Nimoy says it doesn't mean he said it first.
Sir, you should be modded funny posthaste.
/. comment, and if she's your wife, she soon won't be. ;)
And watch out for your geek wife and her "ancient flaws." If she's a geek she will see your
"These folks never pretended to be Great Scientists."
I smell a Civ4 junkie....
"Good God, man! Didn't you read the article?"
:)
You must be new here.
sorry!
I'd almost prefer that to what Google has done with gmail. I emailed myself a zip file containing 6 other zip files, one of which had an .exe windows installer. Gmail refused to process the email due to that embedded .exe. It made me wonder how far down the virus checker digs. If I create a zip file containing an .exe and then zip it again 100 times, will Google still catch it?
:)
The answer is left as an exercise for the reader.
Nah. Corporations are meant to die, just like the persons they're considered to be. When the goods they sell aren't in demand anymore, what'll they do, try to break into the samsung/hynix et al. marketplace? Nah.
;)
I say again, NAH!
First: "Just 5 years ago that amount of storage capacity was SciFi movie stuff of the future."
:)
And then: "I do not believe for a minute that NV memory drives will ever replace mag drives."
Looks like someone prefers to be surprised.
Best first post ever.
:)
Unless it's a dupe, of course.
no, just retro -- keeping the chestnut alive.
"my vcr still blinks 12:00 though, even in 2012..."
I have no mod points, but that's damned funny!
It really is quite beatiful. It's a shame that "nerds" don't think this "matters."
Why does Taco have such shitty computers????
Damn those Big Content bastards and their lust for power and money.
Good call on the phrase 'Big Content.' Who coined that one?
Good luck trying to DRM that copy of 1984. How do you manage digital rights for an analog real-life book? I guess this is one reason to avoid the adoption of e-books.
As others have posted already, I think this is a perfectly fine method for enforcing loan/rental periods.
OMG, you cracked Apple's business model!!!1