Perhaps a Hillary Clinton type character will walk around telling the warriors on the battleship that the rest of what remains of humanity questions Adama's leadership and they don't support the effort.
I thought Hillary was going to play the part of the Imperious Leader?
If anything, I think it was her "I want to be tough even though I'm really insecure" attitude that I liked. Erin Gray just seemed like little more than a stone cold bitch to me.
Sounds to me like the only thing good about this show is Edward James Olmos. Everything else is the usual ratings-fodder crap. "But, without lots of breasts, nobody will watch it!" Monty Python was right about television programme planners.
Okay, so the licensing is based on "pre-formatted" storage devices. Then they list a bunch of patents which cover VFAT long file names. But if you've pre-formatted an empty memory card, then there aren't any long file names on it, and you aren't violating the patents. It seems to me that in the case of empty media, this is a sneaky way for Microsoft to charge royalties for something that it doesn't have an active patent for.
On the other hand, media pre-formatted in FAT with long file names definitely falls under this. If there were a chance that someone would come out with, say, read-only MP3 media cards, then they would definitely be covered by the patents.
Is there something I've missed here? I mean, my digital cameras don't even use long file names to store the pictures on the card, so how can Microsoft even claim that those patents apply?
The 8.3 file name is the only thing about the file system format that they lifted from CP/M. QDOS (the operating system that Microsoft bought out to become PC-DOS and later MS-DOS) had CP/M-86 compatible OS calls, and because of the way CP/M did things, the 8.3 file names followed naturally. Everything else about the MS-DOS FAT file system is completely different from CP/M. CP/M didn't even know how many bytes were in the last sector of a file, and required a control-Z at the end of text files.
My guess would be that HP might own patents on this and not Microsoft.
Then you guess wrong. HP may have come up with a way to do it, but not the specific VFAT implementation. The patent isn't about long vs short file names in general, it's about a specific way of doing it. For all I know, HP just went the easy way out and stuck a database somewhere with the long filenames. VFAT was able to keep them in the directory data itself.
Not quite as bad, but I recently bought a SCSI to Firewire interface. The OS X software that came with it was entirely useless, and it turns out that it was completely unnecessary. But one thing I noticed about it was that in one of the.plist files, instead of "IOsomethingDeviceFamily", it had "IOsomethingDeviceFamiry". Um, yeah.
Lithium-Ion batteries can have their life shortened to a year through a bad charging algorithm. In particular, keeping them mostly plugged in and charging, with a couple of hours of sleep in between, followed by topping off the battery again, is bad.
My G3 Firewire Powerbook ('Pismo' model) went through its original battery in about 13 months, thanks to running OS X 10.0 on it. Partly because of the charging algorithm, and partly because 10.0 didn't turn everything off during sleep (I could tell that 10.0 sleep used up my battery faster than 9.1 sleep.) A second Apple battery went bad in a similar amount of time.
Current practice on 10.2/10.3 is to only start charging again after they've lost about 5% or so from being topped off.
Did anyone else think the "3D" part of this was complete BS on a level that would have made Barnum proud? It seemed to me that the whole point of this match was to show off the stupid display screen.
I got to see a bit of the fourth round on ESPN during lunch (without being in audio range, and it wasn't closed captioned either) and it was amusing how much it really was like watching paint dry without the commentary, and it was also amusing how dorky Kasparov looked with the goggles on.
And this isn't an issue of Chess vs Go, either. Lee Chang Ho would have looked just as dorky if he was the one wearing those goggles.
I thought this was going to be a 100MBit/s network? I mean, it is fiber, but "100 times regular broadband speeds" would tend to indicate 100MBit. I wouldn't be surprised if it cost you a lot to get that upgraded to 1GBit.
I can get a DS3 (45 Mbits/sec) for about $20,000 per month right now.
Sure, which includes all sorts of deluxe luxuries like the equipment used for the link, big money to the telco for the link itself, IP address blocks, and of course, the 24 hour full-bandwidth uptime guarantees. Oh, and don't forget the extreme profits simply because anyone who can afford that much is probably a business who needs it bad enough to pay that much.
And that also considers that your 45MBits is going up to the internet at large. Just because the last link is 100MBit doesn't mean you're going to get that speed to everywhere. I have 6Mbit DSL, and usually can't get an individual connection faster than about 3-4 Mbits. But I have heard of someone with 100MBit FTTH (FTTA?) in Japan being able to suck 45MBits from the USA with enough connections. In any case, I sure wouldn't mind getting 100MBits to anyone elsewhere in the city.
I'm happy with my 640k/256k DSL at $50.
What if you could get 10MBits both ways for that same $50? Right now, SBC customers who live close enough to a Central Office or Remote Terminal can get 6M/384K ADSL for $180/month. So I see 10 megs for $50 as very plausible. Plus, this network will support telephone and digital TV (presumably via digitized multicast streams), which will increase the potential customer base, and help pay for the build-out.
I'd be a bit careful about #1 and #3 there... ether vapors are flammable (right?) and whatever you use to flush out the air better be safe to use with flammable gasses.
They worked perfectly... until a day or two later. If you had read far enough, he says that he eventually found out that nobody had yet successfully windowed a drive with 40GB platters.
If they find this guy, he'll be in serious trouble.
Ah, but this is where the open source model falls flat. Open source software doesn't have the kind of funding it takes to put a $250,000 bounty on finding whoever did this!
I've been trying to migrate from my old K6-2 Linux server box to 10.3, and one of the things the Linux box is running is Sendmail. 10.3 now uses Postfix, which is fine except that I already have a working Sendmail config which I simply want to copy over.
For whatever reason, Sendmail won't compile in 10.3/XCode, and it gives repeated warning messages about varargs.h being deprecated and please use stdargs.h instead. My solution was simple: compile it under 10.2.
Meanwhile, I'm waiting for Fink to be properly supported under 10.3 before I Pantherize my other Macs.
The one feature that the Proteon switcher seems to be unique in -- if the XP one supports this, I've forgotten & can't check at the moment -- is that it allows switcher functionality other than just putting the selected app in the foreground: you can hide, quit, minimize, etc.
But it's functionality that was already in 10.2 in that if you held down the command key while cmd-tabbing, press 'Q' to quit an app. I haven't tried it myself, but apparently the show/hide commands from the application menu work as well.
Or maybe keep the 1024x768 and make them smaller. I can't help but wonder what would be the response to something between the size of a PDA and a laptop/tablet unit. A sort of "super PDA". The Newton's size may have been a problem for some, but you could still hold it in one hand and write with the other.
Just try writing on a tablet PC with one hand while holding the damn thing in the other. You can't do it. You'll be searching for a table in no time, and probably have to sit down too, because there's no table high enough to use while standing. And if you try holding it with your elbow, it's at the wrong angle for writing. Clipboards work because they're light enough that they don't require much leverage to hold with a grip.
You need something that fits in the palm of your hand, and that means six inches wide at the most.
I agree. When I need to use Windows, I prefer to use W2K because it sucks the least. Even with the recent vulnerabilities which require you to install SP2, the RPC patch, and disable Windows Messenger, it still sucks the least. And it's also free of the Big Brother activiation scheme of XP.
About the only real problem I have with W2K is making a bootable HPFS volume > 2 gigs. The installer wants to format a FAT volume (max size 2 gigs) and update it after the install is complete. In order to make a large, bootable HPFS volume, you need to install once on a different drive, format the desired drive as a D:, then start all over with the desired drive rewired as a C: drive.
Anyhow, asking Apple to support 98/ME is like asking them to write a new program to run on MacOS 9.x, or even 8.x. The fact that many of their "current" programs (iLife) have had a 9.x version is simply because they're old enough to have started in the 9.x days. But you're still not going to find iTunes 4.1 for 9.x, just as you're not going to find it for 98/ME.
It also says "not for consumption". It's possible that this is for liability reasons. 1) "We're not responsible for people getting sick from eating this plant" 2) "We're not responsible for this plant getting out in the wild".
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I thought Hillary was going to play the part of the Imperious Leader?
If anything, I think it was her "I want to be tough even though I'm really insecure" attitude that I liked. Erin Gray just seemed like little more than a stone cold bitch to me.
Sounds to me like the only thing good about this show is Edward James Olmos. Everything else is the usual ratings-fodder crap. "But, without lots of breasts, nobody will watch it!" Monty Python was right about television programme planners.
On the other hand, media pre-formatted in FAT with long file names definitely falls under this. If there were a chance that someone would come out with, say, read-only MP3 media cards, then they would definitely be covered by the patents.
Is there something I've missed here? I mean, my digital cameras don't even use long file names to store the pictures on the card, so how can Microsoft even claim that those patents apply?
The 8.3 file name is the only thing about the file system format that they lifted from CP/M. QDOS (the operating system that Microsoft bought out to become PC-DOS and later MS-DOS) had CP/M-86 compatible OS calls, and because of the way CP/M did things, the 8.3 file names followed naturally. Everything else about the MS-DOS FAT file system is completely different from CP/M. CP/M didn't even know how many bytes were in the last sector of a file, and required a control-Z at the end of text files.
Then you guess wrong. HP may have come up with a way to do it, but not the specific VFAT implementation. The patent isn't about long vs short file names in general, it's about a specific way of doing it. For all I know, HP just went the easy way out and stuck a database somewhere with the long filenames. VFAT was able to keep them in the directory data itself.
I have lived in the US a little over 30 years now, and am thoroughly Americanised in the usage of English.
But not in its spelling, apparently.
Not quite as bad, but I recently bought a SCSI to Firewire interface. The OS X software that came with it was entirely useless, and it turns out that it was completely unnecessary. But one thing I noticed about it was that in one of the .plist files, instead of "IOsomethingDeviceFamily", it had "IOsomethingDeviceFamiry". Um, yeah.
As for the "genius bar", that doesn't help much when the nearest Apple Store is a three- to five-hour drive away.
My G3 Firewire Powerbook ('Pismo' model) went through its original battery in about 13 months, thanks to running OS X 10.0 on it. Partly because of the charging algorithm, and partly because 10.0 didn't turn everything off during sleep (I could tell that 10.0 sleep used up my battery faster than 9.1 sleep.) A second Apple battery went bad in a similar amount of time.
Current practice on 10.2/10.3 is to only start charging again after they've lost about 5% or so from being topped off.
Why not? They already have the iBrator.
I got to see a bit of the fourth round on ESPN during lunch (without being in audio range, and it wasn't closed captioned either) and it was amusing how much it really was like watching paint dry without the commentary, and it was also amusing how dorky Kasparov looked with the goggles on.
And this isn't an issue of Chess vs Go, either. Lee Chang Ho would have looked just as dorky if he was the one wearing those goggles.
I thought this was going to be a 100MBit/s network? I mean, it is fiber, but "100 times regular broadband speeds" would tend to indicate 100MBit. I wouldn't be surprised if it cost you a lot to get that upgraded to 1GBit.
I can get a DS3 (45 Mbits/sec) for about $20,000 per month right now.
Sure, which includes all sorts of deluxe luxuries like the equipment used for the link, big money to the telco for the link itself, IP address blocks, and of course, the 24 hour full-bandwidth uptime guarantees. Oh, and don't forget the extreme profits simply because anyone who can afford that much is probably a business who needs it bad enough to pay that much.
And that also considers that your 45MBits is going up to the internet at large. Just because the last link is 100MBit doesn't mean you're going to get that speed to everywhere. I have 6Mbit DSL, and usually can't get an individual connection faster than about 3-4 Mbits. But I have heard of someone with 100MBit FTTH (FTTA?) in Japan being able to suck 45MBits from the USA with enough connections. In any case, I sure wouldn't mind getting 100MBits to anyone elsewhere in the city.
I'm happy with my 640k/256k DSL at $50.
What if you could get 10MBits both ways for that same $50? Right now, SBC customers who live close enough to a Central Office or Remote Terminal can get 6M/384K ADSL for $180/month. So I see 10 megs for $50 as very plausible. Plus, this network will support telephone and digital TV (presumably via digitized multicast streams), which will increase the potential customer base, and help pay for the build-out.
I'd be a bit careful about #1 and #3 there... ether vapors are flammable (right?) and whatever you use to flush out the air better be safe to use with flammable gasses.
They worked perfectly... until a day or two later. If you had read far enough, he says that he eventually found out that nobody had yet successfully windowed a drive with 40GB platters.
I just "Switched" from Linux to OS X. So where do I line up for the money?
Ah, but this is where the open source model falls flat. Open source software doesn't have the kind of funding it takes to put a $250,000 bounty on finding whoever did this!
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For whatever reason, Sendmail won't compile in 10.3/XCode, and it gives repeated warning messages about varargs.h being deprecated and please use stdargs.h instead. My solution was simple: compile it under 10.2.
Meanwhile, I'm waiting for Fink to be properly supported under 10.3 before I Pantherize my other Macs.
"Computer!"
"Shut down!"
"Yes!"
But it's functionality that was already in 10.2 in that if you held down the command key while cmd-tabbing, press 'Q' to quit an app. I haven't tried it myself, but apparently the show/hide commands from the application menu work as well.
Just try writing on a tablet PC with one hand while holding the damn thing in the other. You can't do it. You'll be searching for a table in no time, and probably have to sit down too, because there's no table high enough to use while standing. And if you try holding it with your elbow, it's at the wrong angle for writing. Clipboards work because they're light enough that they don't require much leverage to hold with a grip.
You need something that fits in the palm of your hand, and that means six inches wide at the most.
About the only real problem I have with W2K is making a bootable HPFS volume > 2 gigs. The installer wants to format a FAT volume (max size 2 gigs) and update it after the install is complete. In order to make a large, bootable HPFS volume, you need to install once on a different drive, format the desired drive as a D:, then start all over with the desired drive rewired as a C: drive.
Anyhow, asking Apple to support 98/ME is like asking them to write a new program to run on MacOS 9.x, or even 8.x. The fact that many of their "current" programs (iLife) have had a 9.x version is simply because they're old enough to have started in the 9.x days. But you're still not going to find iTunes 4.1 for 9.x, just as you're not going to find it for 98/ME.
I hope this helps.
Here's a link I found that shows hibiscus is considered a noxious weed by the U.S. government and three states.
From what I've heard about hotmail, even if you hadn't posted the address on slashdot (or anywhere), you'd probably still be getting 200 a day.