Is that there is nowhere to flee too. If you want a country with electricity, medical resources, and lack of local warfare then you're stuck with the vast majority of these crappy treaties.
I never played RTS games, really. Last one I bought was Warcraft (one) however I'm currently in the beta for war3 (Officially, not the warezed version) and was actually finding it fairly enjoyable as many of the things that annoyed me about most RTS games were reduced. I was planning on buying the final.
Now, not a chance. Nor will I buy Diablo 3, or -anything- developed by Blizzard or any other game by a Vivendi subsidary.
Let the two companies fight out their patents between each other. Likely most will be invalidated, as I'm sure the basic one that TiVo was awarded recently will be. After they're done fighting M$ will either buy up the winner (at a lower cost than now) or sic their own legal team on the patents. I'd make a comment on the obvious nature of patents getting approved, but that would be redundant to dozens of other stories posted over the years. In the PVR market there's only going to be two main players. The mains will be one who kiss content producers ass, and the first one to please the consumer. Microsoft is setup to be the first, and TiVo is making sure they are not the second.
I currently own a TiVo, and simply would stop watching commercial TV altogether without some such device, but their recent business activity has stopped me from upgrading my stand alone to a DirecTiVo. I still think SonicBlue should release the software for their boxes open source and make money off the boxes, they're a seriously bottom contender in the market, and free help on the software (it needs it) combined with some penetration would help.
First sQuick , a mac program of some sort.
First Squick as a sound
The alt.sex.bondage definition.
The far more interesting alt.tasteless definition. Note this quotes a message from a year prior, but which is unavailable.
Unfortunately no. It turns out most planets are Jovian
You mean that we've seen. Hubble is limited, and is only catching the larger planets, which will pretty much limit it to the Jovians, and most of those much larger than our own. It's likely that we wouldn't see Earth with Hubble from the distance Hubble is currently finding planets. That hardly means Earth doesn't exist.
The thing I wonder most about is what kind of a life is he living now? Chess isn't easy to make a profession of and it must be nearly impossible if you don't want people to know who you are. So does he program computers by day and trounce chess masters at night, or what?
The BBC article points out he made 5mil in 1992. Figure half lost to taxes and you'd still get $10k per month in interest alone. Quite a livable sum. Bobby Fischer isn't doing anything he doesn't want to be doing.
And that's exactly why. So if one of your linux systems breaks, and you're unavailable.. who does your company call?
Lets see, article claims a $300k/yr cost just for licensing. Start replacing your NT admins with Linux admins as you replace the OS, PLUS you get two admins for that licensing cost.
Sure, it puts the NT admins out, but thats what you get for being an unskilled worker in a skilled position.
Just because a server goes down doesn't mean it's the OS'es fault...
If the service goes down, then no it is not the fault of the OS. However anytime the OS itself crashes it is. Even if you can determine the root cause was an application.
However, from the article it they had three NT servers: Internet/mail, Print service, and shared disk (File service). Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but with the exception of Email isn't the rest all part of the base NT? These services going down are again a problem with NT, even if the machine itself doesn't reboot.
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It speaks volumes of the tolerance of Americans that the 20th century only produced ONE unabomber, and ONE Timothy McVeigh.
There was more, much more. They just kept going back 7 days days days days...
The spehere was broken during the whole Oaklahoma incident.
It's even worse: Skylarov is a poor weapon against the DMCA.
The civil case has been dropped, so all that remains is the criminal half. Double Jeopardy restrictions make it very likley that any ruling in his favor will stick (no, not guaranteed, but very very likely)
Sure, we'll get some case law on the circuit level but that won't amount to squat. He'll get released on some minor grounds probably linked to the fact that he did the work in a foreign country and doesn't even own the copyright. Meaningless in the big scheme of things, so release him now even if he can't go home. Save everybody the headache
It's not in the article, and it's not in the word document (which states: Windows XP provides the ability for Microsoft to receive crash dump data on specific drivers (i.e. when a user receives a blue screen, we upload that information for further analysis). )
Apparently the only way to know this is to install XP.
I'm sorry I'm not 3l33t3 d00d downloading warez versions of XP. I'm certainly not following the beta process of an OS I have absolutely no intention of installing even when it's final. So, stick your ego....
The big thing is that they will be uploading crash dumps.
This is just another method to determine what things are installed on your computer. They couldn't get away with HD scan uploads, so now they upload what's installed on your computer - but only when it crashes. On windows, that's more than early enough, my win2k box crashed twice today.
Do you have StarOffice installed? Well that's why you crashed.
Sony? I doubt it, why? Because the CD they provided WON'T damage your gear, only the one you make.
I don't doubt it in the slightest. If these CD's are not clearly marked then there is no reason that I shouldn't feel able to make use of my fair-use rights. Which include a single backup. Since I always play the backup, and not the original, I'll be hit by this 'protection' and my speakers will be damaged through no fault of my own.
Would easily expand into a class action suit, and considering the cost of many audiophiles system it won't be one that's cheaper for Sony to settle out of court.
"It initiates a reaction that makes you instantly turn towards that sound,"
Many offices I've worked at already have problems with phones being left on desks, ringing and annoying others. Imagine how much worse it would be with everybody in the cube farm having an instinctive reaction to turn and look at -every-single-ring-. I'll buy a sledgehammer to deal with the problem.
What I want to know is, why does my palm really need to be faster?
Playing MP3's
Voice recognition... "Dial Adobe lawyer" (hold Palm up to phone as it sends dialing tones)
Third party encryption on the Nokia phones.
Personally I think organizers are fine, but I really hate that my palm just does organizing. Granted, I'm not willing to hook up a fusion reactor to power the thing more than an evening, but I only get about 2 weeks out of the batteries on my current Palm, which is pretty old, while others get over a month on the same batteries. Bringing a new Palm down to two weeks is fine by me.
Primary Harddrive
Ethernet card
CDROM Drive
Graphics adaptor
CPU
Harddrive
SCSI controller
IDE controller
RAM
Changing any of these items will result in you needing to call up Microsoft and beg for a new key. Of course, the people answering those calls will be behind a 1-900 number and only available from 11am to 1pm (excluding an hour long lunch) PST.
I'm not sure about others, but in the last month I have upgraded my system drive, graphics card and ethernet adaptor at three different sittings. While I could probably convince them that this was a legitimate upgrade path, what happens when I do it all at the same time?
Truely worst case is when you buy a whole machine in parts, so it doesn't come with windows, and then 'recycle' your old machine into an alternate OS. Now you will need to buy Windows for the new machine -anyways-, so you may as well keep the old machine running Windows also. Yet another way to discourage Linux/BSD/etc usage.
You can increase the Live TV buffer of TiVo, however it still gets reset anytime you change the channel - which isn't so bad because channel surfing generally goes out the window when you have a PTV system.
It is the official PARTY platform. Nader will -NOT- be president, everybody agrees. The PARTY is trying to get 5% to qualify for more of the public dole.
It's the PARTY I don't want coming anywhere near politics ever again. Nader, while completely baseless in all his financial claims, at least isn't stupid enough to pen his name to tripe like 100% tax rates
You should vote for the person you WANT to win, not for the person you believe WILL win.
Voting is a method best used to minimize damage. Its harder to manage with only two choices, but you shouldn't waste your vote on who you WANT to win if that person has no CHANCE to win. Instead, vote for the person out of the pool of possible winners that will cause the least damage.
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Is that there is nowhere to flee too. If you want a country with electricity, medical resources, and lack of local warfare then you're stuck with the vast majority of these crappy treaties.
I never played RTS games, really. Last one I bought was Warcraft (one) however I'm currently in the beta for war3 (Officially, not the warezed version) and was actually finding it fairly enjoyable as many of the things that annoyed me about most RTS games were reduced. I was planning on buying the final.
Now, not a chance. Nor will I buy Diablo 3, or -anything- developed by Blizzard or any other game by a Vivendi subsidary.
How did they know a "party hack" wasn't standing by as all the Oregon voters used mail in votes?
Same issue really.
Let the two companies fight out their patents between each other. Likely most will be invalidated, as I'm sure the basic one that TiVo was awarded recently will be. After they're done fighting M$ will either buy up the winner (at a lower cost than now) or sic their own legal team on the patents. I'd make a comment on the obvious nature of patents getting approved, but that would be redundant to dozens of other stories posted over the years. In the PVR market there's only going to be two main players. The mains will be one who kiss content producers ass, and the first one to please the consumer. Microsoft is setup to be the first, and TiVo is making sure they are not the second.
I currently own a TiVo, and simply would stop watching commercial TV altogether without some such device, but their recent business activity has stopped me from upgrading my stand alone to a DirecTiVo. I still think SonicBlue should release the software for their boxes open source and make money off the boxes, they're a seriously bottom contender in the market, and free help on the software (it needs it) combined with some penetration would help.
First sQuick , a mac program of some sort.
First Squick as a sound
The alt.sex.bondage definition.
The far more interesting alt.tasteless definition. Note this quotes a message from a year prior, but which is unavailable.
Unfortunately no. It turns out most planets are Jovian
You mean that we've seen. Hubble is limited, and is only catching the larger planets, which will pretty much limit it to the Jovians, and most of those much larger than our own. It's likely that we wouldn't see Earth with Hubble from the distance Hubble is currently finding planets. That hardly means Earth doesn't exist.
Star Trek: Deus Ex Machina
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Deus Ex Machine: Enterprise
Personally, I'm torn
The thing I wonder most about is what kind of a life is he living now? Chess isn't easy to make a profession of and it must be nearly impossible if you don't want people to know who you are. So does he program computers by day and trounce chess masters at night, or what?
The BBC article points out he made 5mil in 1992. Figure half lost to taxes and you'd still get $10k per month in interest alone. Quite a livable sum. Bobby Fischer isn't doing anything he doesn't want to be doing.
And that's exactly why. So if one of your linux systems breaks, and you're unavailable.. who does your company call?
Lets see, article claims a $300k/yr cost just for licensing. Start replacing your NT admins with Linux admins as you replace the OS, PLUS you get two admins for that licensing cost.
Sure, it puts the NT admins out, but thats what you get for being an unskilled worker in a skilled position.
Just because a server goes down doesn't mean it's the OS'es fault...
If the service goes down, then no it is not the fault of the OS. However anytime the OS itself crashes it is. Even if you can determine the root cause was an application.
However, from the article it they had three NT servers: Internet/mail, Print service, and shared disk (File service). Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but with the exception of Email isn't the rest all part of the base NT? These services going down are again a problem with NT, even if the machine itself doesn't reboot.
It speaks volumes of the tolerance of Americans that the 20th century only produced ONE unabomber, and ONE Timothy McVeigh.
There was more, much more. They just kept going back 7 days days days days...
The spehere was broken during the whole Oaklahoma incident.
The civil case has been dropped, so all that remains is the criminal half. Double Jeopardy restrictions make it very likley that any ruling in his favor will stick (no, not guaranteed, but very very likely)
Sure, we'll get some case law on the circuit level but that won't amount to squat. He'll get released on some minor grounds probably linked to the fact that he did the work in a foreign country and doesn't even own the copyright. Meaningless in the big scheme of things, so release him now even if he can't go home. Save everybody the headache
It's not in the article, and it's not in the word document (which states: Windows XP provides the ability for Microsoft to receive crash dump data on specific drivers (i.e. when a user receives a blue screen, we upload that information for further analysis). )
Apparently the only way to know this is to install XP.
I'm sorry I'm not 3l33t3 d00d downloading warez versions of XP. I'm certainly not following the beta process of an OS I have absolutely no intention of installing even when it's final. So, stick your ego ....
This is just another method to determine what things are installed on your computer. They couldn't get away with HD scan uploads, so now they upload what's installed on your computer - but only when it crashes. On windows, that's more than early enough, my win2k box crashed twice today.
Do you have StarOffice installed? Well that's why you crashed.
I don't doubt it in the slightest. If these CD's are not clearly marked then there is no reason that I shouldn't feel able to make use of my fair-use rights. Which include a single backup. Since I always play the backup, and not the original, I'll be hit by this 'protection' and my speakers will be damaged through no fault of my own.
Would easily expand into a class action suit, and considering the cost of many audiophiles system it won't be one that's cheaper for Sony to settle out of court.
Many offices I've worked at already have problems with phones being left on desks, ringing and annoying others. Imagine how much worse it would be with everybody in the cube farm having an instinctive reaction to turn and look at -every-single-ring-. I'll buy a sledgehammer to deal with the problem.
Playing MP3's
Voice recognition... "Dial Adobe lawyer" (hold Palm up to phone as it sends dialing tones)
Third party encryption on the Nokia phones.
Personally I think organizers are fine, but I really hate that my palm just does organizing. Granted, I'm not willing to hook up a fusion reactor to power the thing more than an evening, but I only get about 2 weeks out of the batteries on my current Palm, which is pretty old, while others get over a month on the same batteries. Bringing a new Palm down to two weeks is fine by me.
Ethernet card
CDROM Drive
Graphics adaptor
CPU
Harddrive
SCSI controller
IDE controller
RAM
Changing any of these items will result in you needing to call up Microsoft and beg for a new key. Of course, the people answering those calls will be behind a 1-900 number and only available from 11am to 1pm (excluding an hour long lunch) PST.
I'm not sure about others, but in the last month I have upgraded my system drive, graphics card and ethernet adaptor at three different sittings. While I could probably convince them that this was a legitimate upgrade path, what happens when I do it all at the same time?
Truely worst case is when you buy a whole machine in parts, so it doesn't come with windows, and then 'recycle' your old machine into an alternate OS. Now you will need to buy Windows for the new machine -anyways-, so you may as well keep the old machine running Windows also. Yet another way to discourage Linux/BSD/etc usage.
You can increase the Live TV buffer of TiVo, however it still gets reset anytime you change the channel - which isn't so bad because channel surfing generally goes out the window when you have a PTV system.
It's the PARTY I don't want coming anywhere near politics ever again. Nader, while completely baseless in all his financial claims, at least isn't stupid enough to pen his name to tripe like 100% tax rates
Voting is a method best used to minimize damage. Its harder to manage with only two choices, but you shouldn't waste your vote on who you WANT to win if that person has no CHANCE to win. Instead, vote for the person out of the pool of possible winners that will cause the least damage.
You can download Redhat, or better yet Debian. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable