Yes! Then we can have these white areas on the maps again and we can all be explorers, finding new exciting places to visit. If there is a white space on a map, it indicates that there is a potential target anyway.
The key here I guess is the contract and the opportunity for someone to make big $$$ (or £££ in this case). Do they have to deliver? Not necessarily, just present something half-assed after x years and it will be written off as a loss.
Bought an IBM R50e laptop a few years ago and wanted to try for just the hell of it to return the XP license that is glued to the bottom of the laptop. Microsoft customer support offered their warmest apologies and said that the next time I should buy an laptop without a pre-installed OS. Right. Called IBM. According to their customer support I would have to return the whole laptop as the license is tied to this physical machine and the only way to get rid of the license it to get rid of the machine. Brilliant.
Intel has drivers (IPW2200, others also) and firmware for Fedora and they work out of the box (has at least for me) but I know that there has been some problems for people getting them installed correctly.
PPS: and if Mr. Orrock, the writer of the article, thinks that the global demise of the human species is a good idea, I invite him to act locally. Very locally.
There is a finnish "philosopher" called Linkola who thinks that on earth there should be only 200-300 million people, living in small tribes and trading with each other only what they need.
The bugs not caught by the QA is caught by the customers and hopefully are reported back to the company as a bug which is either resolved and patch is issued or a workaround is made ("it's just a feature") and it gets put on a fix list and it gets fixed in.. X years?
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Yes! Then we can have these white areas on the maps again and we can all be explorers, finding new exciting places to visit. If there is a white space on a map, it indicates that there is a potential target anyway.
The key here I guess is the contract and the opportunity for someone to make big $$$ (or £££ in this case). Do they have to deliver? Not necessarily, just present something half-assed after x years and it will be written off as a loss.
Not to mention those who are falsely accused. How do they check the stories?
Apparently my E70 has a longer battery life than the iPhone :)
Lets remember Tommi Kyyräs comments on playing cd's: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050922-5339 .html
Would you update a system (production if you will) for cosmetic updates? What about security updates?
Bash said it best http://bash.org/?4753 :)
Bought an IBM R50e laptop a few years ago and wanted to try for just the hell of it to return the XP license that is glued to the bottom of the laptop. Microsoft customer support offered their warmest apologies and said that the next time I should buy an laptop without a pre-installed OS. Right. Called IBM. According to their customer support I would have to return the whole laptop as the license is tied to this physical machine and the only way to get rid of the license it to get rid of the machine. Brilliant.
1) Human intelligence
2) Slashdot editors
(sorry, had to)
Intel has drivers (IPW2200, others also) and firmware for Fedora and they work out of the box (has at least for me) but I know that there has been some problems for people getting them installed correctly.
What? They're not starving enough yet to justify the piracy comments?
When do we start to see spam in Wikipedia? I guess that will be the final blow for "everyone-can-edit-it".
So how many plasma tv:s do you have now?
How does it handle identical twins?
Reading the subject I thought they were going to clean up the environment.. Well, so long as we don't get hit with any asteroids everything is fine.
If you watch the movies from the university website of the robot in motion it brings you a creepy feeling of watching an SG replicator coming to life.
I know where Reykjavik is and I'm not from Iceland but where is this mythical Reychavik?
You could install NoScript addon... Great utility :)
...you can see the small green alien with antennas picking his nose staring at the camera.
PPS: and if Mr. Orrock, the writer of the article, thinks that the global demise of the human species is a good idea, I invite him to act locally. Very locally.
There is a finnish "philosopher" called Linkola who thinks that on earth there should be only 200-300 million people, living in small tribes and trading with each other only what they need.
A three frame video!
The bugs not caught by the QA is caught by the customers and hopefully are reported back to the company as a bug which is either resolved and patch is issued or a workaround is made ("it's just a feature") and it gets put on a fix list and it gets fixed in .. X years?
Couldn't they have picked a better name? Everytime I hear/see YouTube I think of tubgirl :(
Someone understood that?
..how do we fit these on the sharks?