Didn't we have instant "off" capabilities back in the day of the 8086? Does anyone else miss the ability to push the power button and have their computer turn off now? With most modern BIOS's ignoring user settings for instant off, it really has to make me wonder about some of these new fangled "innovations".
I have a Tandy TRS-80 model III and it is kind of weird to just push the button and have it go off.
But you know what? I don't miss it. Why? I don't need it anymore. I don't turn off my computer that much, and when I do, I am not in a hurry to do so. My uptime is currently at 41 days. But maybe if I had instant on, I wouldn't have to leave my machine on. But it is so nice to be able to log in from pretty much anywhere at any time.
For laptops it would be a different story, but instant on would be a better feature. (but if you had instant on, you'd probably have instant off too)
"programmers have to start thinking of the disk as a sequential device rather than a random access device."
I think we'd all be better off when solid state, non-mechanical disks become commonplace.
I believe that sometime in the future, we'll look back on our spinning disks and chuckle. I think we will eventually get to near-infinite storage, and sequential will be the way to go. There won't be any erasing necessary, you will just write to the next available space, move the pointer to it, and move on. Why did we come up with erasing data anyway? or compression? It was to save space. What if you didn't have to save space because there was no limit on it? Some technology will come along that will offer us near-infinite storage space, and we won't have to worry about random access, erasing data, space management, etc. We'll get there, I just hope it is within my lifetime.
Will Cafepress allow you to put copyrighted material on a shirt, even if you're planning to be the only one buying it? They seem pretty strict on that point when uploading images.
Technically, yes you can put copyrighted material on a shirt. (anything you create is copyrighted):-) Oh... you mean you put unauthorized copyrighted stuff on a shirt? I think you probably can, but you shouldn't because it is illegal.
I have never done it, but I am guessing that they will. They can't really check everything you put on a shirt, so that is why they clearly state that you must not do it, to cover their asses. I thought I did a search on there and found a shirt with Homer on it. I am sure Fox didn't authorize that one. If you make the store, upload the image, buy the product, then delete the store after you get it, I am guessing you could do it. For that matter, you could buy tshirt transfer paper for your printer, and print out whatever copyrighted image you want, and put that on a shirt.
Out of curiousity, I searced cafepress for goatse. There were about 10 different stores. One even had a Teddy Bear with the pic on it. Nice. Then there was the WWGD? shirt (What Would Goatse Do?)
What's wrong with a plain white T-shirt with the slashdot logo and "News for Nerds, stuff that matters" on the back?
They used to have one, I got it. Has "Slashdot" with "news for nerds, stuff that matters" under it in small print. That is on the center of the front of the shirt, and on the back is a barcode, and under it, it reads "anonymous coward". I got mine through thinkgeek a few years ago, but I guess they abandoned that design. I got it because it was simple.
I don't like to do it that way myself, and my personal preference might be that that practice had never started. But help me understand why this is "horrible"? The end user wants to get his work done as efficiently as possible - not make the most efficient use of computing resources. If [paste into Word] is quick and efficient for end users in your org (and it is for most I am aware of) who are you to tell them their practice is wrong?
Because you can attach the images to the bug report. We use ClearQuest, you can attach whatever you want. Why not just attach the jpgs? Why add (1) the overhead of Word, and (2) the requirement that whoever wants to look at a screenshot have a word processor installed? It is a waste of resources and more importantly it doesn't make sense.
A JPG will still be a JPG in 5 years, who knows what the hell the Word doc format will be.
Why havn't any of the 'Linux contributors' - aka the people who have code in the kernel stepped up and sued SCO over defimation?
SCO has, in effect, called the 'team' that developed the Linux kernel thieves.
Why hasn't any of the 'team' stepped up to the plate and sued?
Oh, you know those kernel developer types. They are probably off on their yachts in the south of France sipping Cristal and snorting coke off of a stripper's ass.
Personally, I think that companies claiming the rights of citizens can't be a good thing - after all, when did you hear of human rights abuses against corporations?
I swear, if Darl keeps yappin, you just might see some...
If you need Windows to run legacy apps, why not do it in stages. In your case, upgrade your boxes from 98 to XP - but don't do the MSOffice route. Use Openoffice.org (assuming it will work for you since you were going to do a full linux switch anyway) and other open source software when applicable. (Mozilla Firebird instead of IE, etc.)
To many corporate people, it would be just as hard to migrate the Office software as it would the OS. MSOffice is so ingrained in the corporate culture it is pathetic. I have to send my status report to my manager in a Word doc. Everything is stored in freaking Word docs around here. Want to show some people some pictures? Put them all in a Word doc, that way you can email one huge.doc file. I once complained to a guy because he was attaching screenshots to a bug report like this. I explained "do you realize that for someone to see these, they would have to use MSWord. They are just images". His response? "Everyone here has Word installed, that isn't a problem."
As for the others, you won't see IE go away as long as MS is the OS. Hell, our internal website won't work with Opera, the browser I use. I am actually surprised that my boss lets me run it. Gotta conform and everything.
Our department gets its MSWord licenses from Corporate, so it doesn't cost our department anything. That is what the managers are most concerned with, their budgets. As long as it doesn't cost them anything out of their budget, who cares? If we all have to upgrade to OfficeXP (which we are doing) from Office2K, then Corporate will take care of it.
It doesn't matter how compatable it is, if it looks like Office, acts like Office, is better than Office, or is 100% free. If it ain't MSOffice, a lot of places won't use it. Companies sign deals for their OS/Office licenses, so many times you can't split up the OS/Office software. Oh, and you have to upgrade every 3 or 4 years.
So while I appreciate your idea, in companies where MS has them by the short hairs, it doesn't fly. It is also one of those things that makes me yearn for a better economy, so I can quit this cubicle wasteland and go work for a small company again. The "corporate atmosphere" is slowly killing me. It is killing everyone else too, they just don't realize it.
Kee-rist, sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays.
Just make sure you get the right ATA. Could be unwise to piss off the higher-ups at the American Taekwondo Association:)
Yeah, they might come over to your house and break all your plywood! Of couse, you'd have to lend them the use of your stereo so they could play their "Mortal Combat" remix while they did it.
Well, duh... As a dutchman it's also not possible for me to relocate to the USA. Unless I prove that there's no way my skills can be found in the States.
If you know how to spell, use proper English, and can recognize that two stories are duplicates, you could probably be the editor of some tech news blog.
He he. Seriously, this game is what is going to finally make me upgrade my current vido card (ATI AIW-Pro-32) As you can tell, it has been a while since I have upgraded...
Would it not be possible for large ISPs to lauch similar suits as class-action? Imagine AOL suing spammers on behalf of all subscribers in Washington, with any judgement distributed among the receivers (minus whatever fees come off a class-action suit).
You'd have people signing up for AOL, just to get the spam.
Yeah, what we really need is to REWARD people for joining AOL.
Holy crap, I think my sarcasm meter just caught fire....
of course, it would have helped even more to have had a decent story rather than a load of pseudo-philosophical crap strung together by fight scenes
The story was there, they just didn't give you time to digest it. The pseudo-philosophical crap WASN'T strung out, that is what made the movie seem like just a bunch of action sequences. They crammed all the story into one small portion of the movie (the Architect). During the first movie, you got parts of the story as you went along. Where they screwed up with the second was not developing the plot throughout the movie. There was no suspense. But I have faith that the third one will round the trilogy out nicely, and when watched all together, they will fit. At least I hope that will happen.
A common misperception. The RIAA would love for you to believe that they are not making a profit. By talking about how much money they are losing, and how much the public is stealing from them, they like to present the image that they are not making a profit. But I guarantee you that they are making TONS of money. In this weak market, and with their Jurassic business model, they might be making less money than they have in the past, but you can rest assured that they aren't starving. ESPECIALLY since the RIAA doesn't actually DO anything. It is an association that collects money from all its members when they do the work.
If the music industry fails, it certainly won't be because of lack of interest. If anything, people listen to music much more today than they have in the past due to advances in technology.
Let's not miss the point. I don't think the RIAA knew she (or even that it was a 'she') was 12; it was sent to the household where the ISP account is registered.
And here I thought that lawsuits shouldn't be dropped out of airplanes like propaganda flyers. Hell, why don't they just send out notices to everyone they won't be suing, it would be less paperwork.
It may or may not have been this girl who downloaded the music, this point is moot. The parents are responsible as they most likely set up the account.
To the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars? That is some pretty big punishment if you ask me.
Yeah, I recognize this story as RID (My new term - Reactionary Incendiary Demonization) towards the RIAA, but if anyone ever deserved it, it was them. I'll bet the little girl has a wooden leg too.
The doctrine of first sale doesn't apply just to copyright.. it applies to everything. You can only sell something once.. then it's not yours anymore..
The problem is the assumption that science has everything figured out, and anything that does not conform to our view of the universe must be nonsense.
This shows your ignorance of the scientific method. Science is all about change. Even though many things are accepted as true, if you ask a scientist for a real definition of what is true, it will most likely include some wording to the effect of "according to all the data we have now". The anti-science people love to take this and say "See! They don't even admit that what they know is true!"
Nobody who is scientifically minded will have a closed mind, they are always looking to refine what they know. But you can't take something with ZERO proof and blame them for not believing in it. It is nonsense, until it is proven otherwise.
You can't prove something scientifically if scientific tools to measure it don't exist.
How convenient...
So disregard scientific tools, and prove something's existence within a reasonable doubt using the scientific METHOD. Or do the methods not apply either?
Hey, at least they know to refer to it as a "trojan horse". Unlike the head of IT here at work who sends out emails to everyone warning them of the "internet virus worm".
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I have a Tandy TRS-80 model III and it is kind of weird to just push the button and have it go off.
But you know what? I don't miss it. Why? I don't need it anymore. I don't turn off my computer that much, and when I do, I am not in a hurry to do so. My uptime is currently at 41 days. But maybe if I had instant on, I wouldn't have to leave my machine on. But it is so nice to be able to log in from pretty much anywhere at any time.
For laptops it would be a different story, but instant on would be a better feature. (but if you had instant on, you'd probably have instant off too)
I believe that sometime in the future, we'll look back on our spinning disks and chuckle. I think we will eventually get to near-infinite storage, and sequential will be the way to go. There won't be any erasing necessary, you will just write to the next available space, move the pointer to it, and move on. Why did we come up with erasing data anyway? or compression? It was to save space. What if you didn't have to save space because there was no limit on it? Some technology will come along that will offer us near-infinite storage space, and we won't have to worry about random access, erasing data, space management, etc. We'll get there, I just hope it is within my lifetime.
Technically, yes you can put copyrighted material on a shirt. (anything you create is copyrighted) :-) Oh... you mean you put unauthorized copyrighted stuff on a shirt? I think you probably can, but you shouldn't because it is illegal.
I have never done it, but I am guessing that they will. They can't really check everything you put on a shirt, so that is why they clearly state that you must not do it, to cover their asses. I thought I did a search on there and found a shirt with Homer on it. I am sure Fox didn't authorize that one. If you make the store, upload the image, buy the product, then delete the store after you get it, I am guessing you could do it. For that matter, you could buy tshirt transfer paper for your printer, and print out whatever copyrighted image you want, and put that on a shirt.
Out of curiousity, I searced cafepress for goatse. There were about 10 different stores. One even had a Teddy Bear with the pic on it. Nice. Then there was the WWGD? shirt (What Would Goatse Do?)
Words this kid will never hear: "Baby, you make me hotter than a Poisser plasma reaction."
They used to have one, I got it. Has "Slashdot" with "news for nerds, stuff that matters" under it in small print. That is on the center of the front of the shirt, and on the back is a barcode, and under it, it reads "anonymous coward". I got mine through thinkgeek a few years ago, but I guess they abandoned that design. I got it because it was simple.
Hey, go to cafepress.com and make your own.
Because you can attach the images to the bug report. We use ClearQuest, you can attach whatever you want. Why not just attach the jpgs? Why add (1) the overhead of Word, and (2) the requirement that whoever wants to look at a screenshot have a word processor installed? It is a waste of resources and more importantly it doesn't make sense.
A JPG will still be a JPG in 5 years, who knows what the hell the Word doc format will be.
Oh, you know those kernel developer types. They are probably off on their yachts in the south of France sipping Cristal and snorting coke off of a stripper's ass.
I swear, if Darl keeps yappin, you just might see some...
To many corporate people, it would be just as hard to migrate the Office software as it would the OS. MSOffice is so ingrained in the corporate culture it is pathetic. I have to send my status report to my manager in a Word doc. Everything is stored in freaking Word docs around here. Want to show some people some pictures? Put them all in a Word doc, that way you can email one huge .doc file. I once complained to a guy because he was attaching screenshots to a bug report like this. I explained "do you realize that for someone to see these, they would have to use MSWord. They are just images". His response? "Everyone here has Word installed, that isn't a problem."
As for the others, you won't see IE go away as long as MS is the OS. Hell, our internal website won't work with Opera, the browser I use. I am actually surprised that my boss lets me run it. Gotta conform and everything.
Our department gets its MSWord licenses from Corporate, so it doesn't cost our department anything. That is what the managers are most concerned with, their budgets. As long as it doesn't cost them anything out of their budget, who cares? If we all have to upgrade to OfficeXP (which we are doing) from Office2K, then Corporate will take care of it.
It doesn't matter how compatable it is, if it looks like Office, acts like Office, is better than Office, or is 100% free. If it ain't MSOffice, a lot of places won't use it. Companies sign deals for their OS/Office licenses, so many times you can't split up the OS/Office software. Oh, and you have to upgrade every 3 or 4 years.
So while I appreciate your idea, in companies where MS has them by the short hairs, it doesn't fly. It is also one of those things that makes me yearn for a better economy, so I can quit this cubicle wasteland and go work for a small company again. The "corporate atmosphere" is slowly killing me. It is killing everyone else too, they just don't realize it.
Kee-rist, sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays.
Yeah, they might come over to your house and break all your plywood! Of couse, you'd have to lend them the use of your stereo so they could play their "Mortal Combat" remix while they did it.
If you know how to spell, use proper English, and can recognize that two stories are duplicates, you could probably be the editor of some tech news blog.
He he. Seriously, this game is what is going to finally make me upgrade my current vido card (ATI AIW-Pro-32) As you can tell, it has been a while since I have upgraded...
Yeah, what we really need is to REWARD people for joining AOL.
Holy crap, I think my sarcasm meter just caught fire....
The story was there, they just didn't give you time to digest it. The pseudo-philosophical crap WASN'T strung out, that is what made the movie seem like just a bunch of action sequences. They crammed all the story into one small portion of the movie (the Architect). During the first movie, you got parts of the story as you went along. Where they screwed up with the second was not developing the plot throughout the movie. There was no suspense. But I have faith that the third one will round the trilogy out nicely, and when watched all together, they will fit. At least I hope that will happen.
6- PROFIT!
A common misperception. The RIAA would love for you to believe that they are not making a profit. By talking about how much money they are losing, and how much the public is stealing from them, they like to present the image that they are not making a profit. But I guarantee you that they are making TONS of money. In this weak market, and with their Jurassic business model, they might be making less money than they have in the past, but you can rest assured that they aren't starving. ESPECIALLY since the RIAA doesn't actually DO anything. It is an association that collects money from all its members when they do the work.
If the music industry fails, it certainly won't be because of lack of interest. If anything, people listen to music much more today than they have in the past due to advances in technology.
That would look great on a T-shirt , don'tcha think?
And here I thought that lawsuits shouldn't be dropped out of airplanes like propaganda flyers. Hell, why don't they just send out notices to everyone they won't be suing, it would be less paperwork.
It may or may not have been this girl who downloaded the music, this point is moot. The parents are responsible as they most likely set up the account.
To the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars? That is some pretty big punishment if you ask me.
Yeah, I recognize this story as RID (My new term - Reactionary Incendiary Demonization) towards the RIAA, but if anyone ever deserved it, it was them. I'll bet the little girl has a wooden leg too.
(if you don't get it, search Slashdot for it)
Cheaper (price) isn't always the biggest benefit either. However, I think it is safe to say that Windows will never be "more free" than Linux.
What about prostitutes?
Wouldn't they need a working TCP/IP stack for that?
If there is such a thing as the antichrist, and he does show up, it won't matter much if you believe in him or not.
This shows your ignorance of the scientific method. Science is all about change. Even though many things are accepted as true, if you ask a scientist for a real definition of what is true, it will most likely include some wording to the effect of "according to all the data we have now". The anti-science people love to take this and say "See! They don't even admit that what they know is true!"
Nobody who is scientifically minded will have a closed mind, they are always looking to refine what they know. But you can't take something with ZERO proof and blame them for not believing in it. It is nonsense, until it is proven otherwise.
How convenient...
So disregard scientific tools, and prove something's existence within a reasonable doubt using the scientific METHOD. Or do the methods not apply either?
Scientists - 1,000,001
I can't prove something doesn't exist, but you should be able to prove something does exist.
Hey, at least they know to refer to it as a "trojan horse". Unlike the head of IT here at work who sends out emails to everyone warning them of the "internet virus worm".