What processor do they use in the iPod? (Not that the m-iPod would use the same one.) Putting the hard drive under direct control of that chip rather than a jelly bean controller seems like nickle-diming but that's life in consumer electronics for you...
Makes me wonder what kind of fanboi he'd be if alive today. (This is where someone can mention Norman Spinrad's book The Iron Dream with Hitler as a sci-fi writer. [review by Ursula K. Le Guin])
I don't know if you can blame Win98 for resource leaks of applications. (I'd class those as unshippable or at least critical bugs--a standard that I apply to my own software. No excuse for it.)
Win98 has a number of problems, but many of those are design flaws/limitations. It's like saying that a Yugo is a lousy sportscar. For the current applications that have been running for years, it's a stable platform. It won't run the latest and greatest as well, but neither will my Explorer-85.
Definitely. With many/most/all of the copy-protection schemes, they violate the specs required to call something a Compact Disc. (Philips was making noises about about that. Any recent news?) If it isn't clearly marked as copy-protected, and that it isn't a Compact Disc, then it should be returnable as mis-labeled junk.
"Hi, I'd like to return this because it's not a music CD."
He was a very theatrical orator.
While his gestures seem overdone these days, he was using a particular acting style of the day which used specific gestures to convey emotions.
It's kind to scary to carefully watch Metropolis as the android incites the crowd to violence. See those gestures? Look familar? 1925 Perhaps Hitler copied Metropolis if he was a skiffy fan?
It would be like someone claiming they had independently decided in 1972 that bell-bottom jeans were a good idea.
Strictly speaking, bell-bottoms had been and gone by '72. By then, fashion had moved on to other variations on the theme like flares, elephant pants, etc. As well as the dreaded polyester plaids. By 72, original bell-bottoms would have been somewhat retro.
For proper vacation photos, you need more people/objects to run through all the combinations and permutations: "Here's me. Here's Susan. Here's the dog. Here's me and Susan. Here's me and the dog..."
It's amazing what a simple script can do with Microsoft's own ActiveX for XMLHTTP and ADODB and moderate permissions. (A favourite was to pull down an exe from a site and save it over wmplayer.) That hole might be patched, but Microsoft thinks nothing of throwing its own signed ActiveX on machines without giving them a proper security audit.
Umm, you'd better define freebies. Over here, that just included a few distros of Linux, and a whole bunch of excellent utilities even on the Windows side.
Unfortunately, I doubt that there's a simple rule to seperate the genuinely free (or request donation) from the "Free.. but we sold our souls to evilware. Yours too -- surprise!" crowd.
(I was putting together a submission for Slashdot, but never got around to it, and now I can't find my notes. Argh!)
Some might think that tossing the Internet (5 whole laptops!) would be a violation of some sort of nanny Prime Directive and bad for them.
Sadly, they're already in a bad way with the common problems of marginalized indigenous cultures shoved off their land: alcohol, suicide, solvent abuse, etc. I doubt five computers and Internet could make things any worse!
The word they created, in their Tupi language, translates as "where you can put words, documents and knowledge".
And lose them too, fsck, fsck! *sigh* I had some good points and links. I'll go complete my morning coffevolution and if I find them, I'll submit it.
It tough times, the abuse desk is one of the first to be cut by short-sighted "logic": It doesn't generate any profit, and when they cut (spammy) customers, it creates a loss.
And what's worse, they only seem to have 13 of my posts on file!
The posting-bots are only half of it. I'm sure that they keep a large enough stable of minimum use puppet IDs such that some of them always have mod points. (Remember the BBS program Pyroto Mountain? Slashdot reminds me of that sometimes.)
The other day, I noticed a new article had over 50 posts, and all but 10 had been modded down to -1. This must be a real pain for the slashdot crew.
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I'm tempted to get a bunch of 8 pin dip uControllers and keep them in a jar labelled "Whatever".
What processor do they use in the iPod? (Not that the m-iPod would use the same one.) Putting the hard drive under direct control of that chip rather than a jelly bean controller seems like nickle-diming but that's life in consumer electronics for you...
Hmm, well ShellEx is coming up on my todo list. (And perhaps vice-versa, narf!)
Is there a reason that you can't write your own shell extensions for that?
Is this the shipping version of the review of the service pack beta, or just a RC version?
Makes me wonder what kind of fanboi he'd be if alive today. (This is where someone can mention Norman Spinrad's book The Iron Dream with Hitler as a sci-fi writer. [review by Ursula K. Le Guin])
Win98 has a number of problems, but many of those are design flaws/limitations. It's like saying that a Yugo is a lousy sportscar. For the current applications that have been running for years, it's a stable platform. It won't run the latest and greatest as well, but neither will my Explorer-85.
What's currently broken in Win98 that needs fixing?
"Hi, I'd like to return this because it's not a music CD."
It's kind to scary to carefully watch Metropolis as the android incites the crowd to violence. See those gestures? Look familar? 1925 Perhaps Hitler copied Metropolis if he was a skiffy fan?
Why don't the politicians pass a law to really throw the book at bank-robbers who double-park during the robbery?
No, that would be the improper vacation photos.
For proper vacation photos, you need more people/objects to run through all the combinations and permutations: "Here's me. Here's Susan. Here's the dog. Here's me and Susan. Here's me and the dog..."
Ooooh! Mars Omnimax?
It's amazing what a simple script can do with Microsoft's own ActiveX for XMLHTTP and ADODB and moderate permissions. (A favourite was to pull down an exe from a site and save it over wmplayer.) That hole might be patched, but Microsoft thinks nothing of throwing its own signed ActiveX on machines without giving them a proper security audit.
Umm, you'd better define freebies. Over here, that just included a few distros of Linux, and a whole bunch of excellent utilities even on the Windows side.
Unfortunately, I doubt that there's a simple rule to seperate the genuinely free (or request donation) from the "Free .. but we sold our souls to evilware. Yours too -- surprise!" crowd.
I read "Personal time between spouses" as the breaktime between Wife 1.0 and 2.0.
Only if you freedom-kiss your SigOther.
Scientists say champagne taste is all in the bubbles Ah hell, here's a whole pile of Google links Cheers!
And once Darl hears about this, he'll sue them because the manure they spread on the fields contains lines of SCO. "Even the comments are the same!"
(I was putting together a submission for Slashdot, but never got around to it, and now I can't find my notes. Argh!)
Some might think that tossing the Internet (5 whole laptops!) would be a violation of some sort of nanny Prime Directive and bad for them.
Sadly, they're already in a bad way with the common problems of marginalized indigenous cultures shoved off their land: alcohol, suicide, solvent abuse, etc. I doubt five computers and Internet could make things any worse!
And lose them too, fsck, fsck! *sigh* I had some good points and links. I'll go complete my morning coffevolution and if I find them, I'll submit it.It tough times, the abuse desk is one of the first to be cut by short-sighted "logic": It doesn't generate any profit, and when they cut (spammy) customers, it creates a loss.
The posting-bots are only half of it. I'm sure that they keep a large enough stable of minimum use puppet IDs such that some of them always have mod points. (Remember the BBS program Pyroto Mountain? Slashdot reminds me of that sometimes.)
The other day, I noticed a new article had over 50 posts, and all but 10 had been modded down to -1. This must be a real pain for the slashdot crew.
If this is a plagiarized post, then nuke-mod him. Still, a plagiarized about identity thief is mildly funny, and certainly ironic.