lemans pit stops usually involves replacing tires, break system (disks, pads, etc.), sometimes even the pilot is replaced. no need to rush when you have 20-16 hours to catch up with the other cars.
yeah, like the soviets really gave a flying fuck for patents... most of their IT industry was created by unashemedly copying american designs from IBM, DEC and intel. to the point that their clones were pin compatible with intel 8080s...
assuming you're talking about the PS2 (without the extra 'P'), it's an aging console that'll see less and less new releases from now on, and since it never had an official distribution channel here, there's very few (usually european) games in portuguese for it. when you find one, it's in the dialact spoken in portugal, wich is quite diferent (and funny to hear/read) than the one we speak. and it's present only in subtitles, not on the sound track.
now, i've read about this zeebo on brasilian news sites some 6 months ago when tec-toy first anounced it. the idea is to sell it along with 3G internet access, so it's not hard to imagine that they'll be selling it with subsidies on cell phone stores, where it'll have no competition to divide the attention of would be buyers (moms and dads looking for a nice gift to their kids).
also, tectoy have a somewhat strong channel to distribute this stuff through chain stores like casas bahia, carrefour, extra, ponto frio, etc. all of them still sell tectoy's licensed mega-drive clones and DVD player/karaoke machines.
and yes, you read that right. in case you didn't, i'm going to shout it: MEGA-DRIVE/GENESIS. it's still being manufactured and you can still buy one new in several places here, bundled with a shitload of games. tectoy kept it alive even after sega itself gave up on consoles.
then a chinese company with semi-slave labor will keep churning 3 bladed razors with a reasonable margin, since their costs are small. tesco and gillete will go out of business and i won't miss them, because i don't buy razors anyway.
facial hair FTW!!!
"Here's a little story for you: An Apple Store employee had a party in her apartment. A couple weeks later her place was cleared out to the tune of about $5,000 worth of electronics, including her new Mac. Days later, a friend sees that she's online and alerts the Mac's rightful owner. Since she was running Leopard with Back to My Mac, owner-girl logged in remotely and activated Photo Booth via the screen-share function. And what do you know, it turned out that the thieves were some "friends" who were at the party a few weeks back. She took the photos to the cops and -- voila -- busted! The thieves, Edmon Shahikian, 23, and Ian Frias, 20, both of the Bronx, have been charged with second-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. Go go crafty nerdy girl!"
it was not dial-up era though... seems the little hard drive in my brain has some bad sectors already...
if someone steals your phone, it's still yours. even if it's out of your reach, you still have authority over it, so the police would be legally allowed to track it if you consent to it. any lawyer or paralegal here to correct me if i'm wrong ?
I remember some years ago a story about a stolen mac that had a remote management software that phoned home everytime the notebook connected to the internet. as soon as the thieve dialed up (it was still on the dial-up age), the owner logged in to his mac and used the iSight camera to snap a picture of the individual. this was not considered an invasion because the mac was his to begin with. IIRC, the police used the picture to identify and arrest the thieve. the mac was located and returned.
how does the market work for tangible, physical products ? it's based on the assumption that after i buy something, the manufacturer loses all control over the good. i can resell, rent, loan, give it away, etc.
now why doesn't this work for music and video ? because they want _control _ ? well, FUCK control. think on profits, damn it !!!
work like that: ANYONE can resell ANY music or movie they wan't, as long as they buy it beforehand.
set up a music wholeseller. this service will only work with online stores and sell licenses for the content. so, i set up my online store and connect to them, everytime one of my visitors click on "buy", my system contacts the distributor, transfer a few cents and get a digital receipt, this will prove that the content i just re-sold was sold legaly. i collect the money from my costumer and keep the diference.
i'll have to keep comprehensive logs of everything that was downloaded from my site, and it'll be required that the downloads match the number of digital receipts i have on file.
this would establish the same relationship for abstract products (i.e. digital contents) that exists for real products. in other worlds, to be able to resell a pen, i must first buy a pen from a wholeseller, have the pen delivered to me, then i can resell and deliver it to my costumer. only in the digital version, instead of buying i'll just buy a license for the content over the wire.
this system would allow pretty much anyone to resell any digital content. artists and studios would receive their share, the public would have easy and convenient access to whatever it is and there would be competition on the market to keep proces down.
win-win situation. and piracy would end simply because it'd be unneccessary and obsolete,
radios today are pretty straight forward to replace. 2 shills on the sides, pull it off, unplug the (standard) cables, plug the new one, slide it into the dash.
easy for the passenger to do while someone else is driving. remember, atlantis has a crew of 7. a couple of guys will be flying the ship, the spacewalkers will have to worry only about the repairs.
you completelly ignore how a client talks to a RDBMS. here's how it works:
it works just like a web server (*). no, really.
a client connects to a tcp/ip port, sends a bunch of SQL satements and reads the answer.
if you know the protocol, you can interface with oracle, mySQL, sybase, whatever without touching oracle's code, which means oracle's license is irrelevant if all you want is to build a client app.
* this is a gross oversimplification, i know. sorry. but it was better than use a car metaphor, right ?
leopard doesn't have compatibility with "classic" mac OS anymore, neither did tiger for intel boxes, but previous versions on powerPC did. basicaly it would load an entire copy of macOS 9 on a virtual machine and run classic apps there.
microsoft bought virtual PC probably out of envy for the success of VMWare. i say this because nobody there seems to have the vision neccessary to put it to good use. just develop something new, fast, secure and _INCOMPATIBLE_. port virtual PC for it and release as a bundle: new windows, virtual PC and a complete copy of XP to run as "classic windows". give people option to also use VMWare or virtual box as virtualisation environment (to keep people from crying foul) and get done with it.
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answering your question, any time quentin tarantino makes a movie.
here's how on wondows 2000/XP:
open regedt32 and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
then add a binary entry called Scancode Map with a value of 00000000 00000000 03000000 3A001D00 1D003A00 00000000
done.
on linux, KDE4 already have an option to swap ctrl and caps on the keyboard configuration.
many glass cutters are made of steel. hell, my swiss army knife can scratch most glasses...
lemans pit stops usually involves replacing tires, break system (disks, pads, etc.), sometimes even the pilot is replaced. no need to rush when you have 20-16 hours to catch up with the other cars.
it used to. back in 1979...
by 1985 all those problems were ironed out.
good luck beating john "the duke" wayne in public...
yeah, like the soviets really gave a flying fuck for patents... most of their IT industry was created by unashemedly copying american designs from IBM, DEC and intel. to the point that their clones were pin compatible with intel 8080s...
Were did you get a G1 around here ? didn't know the local cell phone operators were selling it...
assuming you're talking about the PS2 (without the extra 'P'), it's an aging console that'll see less and less new releases from now on, and since it never had an official distribution channel here, there's very few (usually european) games in portuguese for it. when you find one, it's in the dialact spoken in portugal, wich is quite diferent (and funny to hear/read) than the one we speak. and it's present only in subtitles, not on the sound track.
now, i've read about this zeebo on brasilian news sites some 6 months ago when tec-toy first anounced it. the idea is to sell it along with 3G internet access, so it's not hard to imagine that they'll be selling it with subsidies on cell phone stores, where it'll have no competition to divide the attention of would be buyers (moms and dads looking for a nice gift to their kids).
also, tectoy have a somewhat strong channel to distribute this stuff through chain stores like casas bahia, carrefour, extra, ponto frio, etc. all of them still sell tectoy's licensed mega-drive clones and DVD player/karaoke machines.
and yes, you read that right. in case you didn't, i'm going to shout it: MEGA-DRIVE/GENESIS. it's still being manufactured and you can still buy one new in several places here, bundled with a shitload of games. tectoy kept it alive even after sega itself gave up on consoles.
then a chinese company with semi-slave labor will keep churning 3 bladed razors with a reasonable margin, since their costs are small. tesco and gillete will go out of business and i won't miss them, because i don't buy razors anyway. facial hair FTW!!!
here it is from engadget:
"Here's a little story for you: An Apple Store employee had a party in her apartment. A couple weeks later her place was cleared out to the tune of about $5,000 worth of electronics, including her new Mac. Days later, a friend sees that she's online and alerts the Mac's rightful owner. Since she was running Leopard with Back to My Mac, owner-girl logged in remotely and activated Photo Booth via the screen-share function. And what do you know, it turned out that the thieves were some "friends" who were at the party a few weeks back. She took the photos to the cops and -- voila -- busted! The thieves, Edmon Shahikian, 23, and Ian Frias, 20, both of the Bronx, have been charged with second-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. Go go crafty nerdy girl!"
it was not dial-up era though... seems the little hard drive in my brain has some bad sectors already...
if someone steals your phone, it's still yours. even if it's out of your reach, you still have authority over it, so the police would be legally allowed to track it if you consent to it. any lawyer or paralegal here to correct me if i'm wrong ?
I remember some years ago a story about a stolen mac that had a remote management software that phoned home everytime the notebook connected to the internet. as soon as the thieve dialed up (it was still on the dial-up age), the owner logged in to his mac and used the iSight camera to snap a picture of the individual. this was not considered an invasion because the mac was his to begin with. IIRC, the police used the picture to identify and arrest the thieve. the mac was located and returned.
how does the market work for tangible, physical products ? it's based on the assumption that after i buy something, the manufacturer loses all control over the good. i can resell, rent, loan, give it away, etc.
now why doesn't this work for music and video ? because they want _control _ ? well, FUCK control. think on profits, damn it !!!
work like that: ANYONE can resell ANY music or movie they wan't, as long as they buy it beforehand.
set up a music wholeseller. this service will only work with online stores and sell licenses for the content. so, i set up my online store and connect to them, everytime one of my visitors click on "buy", my system contacts the distributor, transfer a few cents and get a digital receipt, this will prove that the content i just re-sold was sold legaly. i collect the money from my costumer and keep the diference.
i'll have to keep comprehensive logs of everything that was downloaded from my site, and it'll be required that the downloads match the number of digital receipts i have on file.
this would establish the same relationship for abstract products (i.e. digital contents) that exists for real products. in other worlds, to be able to resell a pen, i must first buy a pen from a wholeseller, have the pen delivered to me, then i can resell and deliver it to my costumer. only in the digital version, instead of buying i'll just buy a license for the content over the wire.
this system would allow pretty much anyone to resell any digital content. artists and studios would receive their share, the public would have easy and convenient access to whatever it is and there would be competition on the market to keep proces down.
win-win situation. and piracy would end simply because it'd be unneccessary and obsolete,
radios today are pretty straight forward to replace. 2 shills on the sides, pull it off, unplug the (standard) cables, plug the new one, slide it into the dash.
easy for the passenger to do while someone else is driving. remember, atlantis has a crew of 7. a couple of guys will be flying the ship, the spacewalkers will have to worry only about the repairs.
as you wish...
it'd be like a car maker changing the tires supplier from firestone to goodyear because firestone refused to change the thread pattern.
downstream we have many, many distros now adays.
so, if this eglibc becomes the default, it'll end up being the default in pretty much all debian based distros like ubuntu, mepis, xandros, etc.
a repeat of the whole xfree86/x.org thing ?
quoting lazarus long:
"Anything free is worth what you pay for it."
you completelly ignore how a client talks to a RDBMS. here's how it works:
it works just like a web server (*). no, really.
a client connects to a tcp/ip port, sends a bunch of SQL satements and reads the answer.
if you know the protocol, you can interface with oracle, mySQL, sybase, whatever without touching oracle's code, which means oracle's license is irrelevant if all you want is to build a client app.
* this is a gross oversimplification, i know. sorry. but it was better than use a car metaphor, right ?
taking a hint from fark's book:
you, sir, owe me a new keyboard.
if you _DIDN'T_ hate your users, your sysadmin credentials would have been revoked a looong time ago.
not only it's right to hate your users, it's pretty much a requirement.
you drink water ??? why ? It'll wash the caffeine away ! stop it!!! dihydrogen oxide is _DANGEROUS_ man !!!
a marketing major or MBA course. that's what makes them think it'll be more dificult.
karma whores weren't bad enough...
mod parent "+1 wrath of khan reference"
two words: virtual machine.
leopard doesn't have compatibility with "classic" mac OS anymore, neither did tiger for intel boxes, but previous versions on powerPC did. basicaly it would load an entire copy of macOS 9 on a virtual machine and run classic apps there.
microsoft bought virtual PC probably out of envy for the success of VMWare. i say this because nobody there seems to have the vision neccessary to put it to good use. just develop something new, fast, secure and _INCOMPATIBLE_. port virtual PC for it and release as a bundle: new windows, virtual PC and a complete copy of XP to run as "classic windows". give people option to also use VMWare or virtual box as virtualisation environment (to keep people from crying foul) and get done with it.