I'm sure glad I trust my private information to AT&T... whoops
I'm sure glad I'm no longer an AT&T customer in any direct way at all anymore. The last money I ever gave them was via a Cingular wireless phone, but now my phone dollars go another direct competitor wireless carrier, still evil, but substantially less so, but at least definitely not AT&T. My Internet dollars go to an independent ISP who in turn gets their bandwidth thru a backbone provider who is a brutal enemy of AT&T.
... a bunch of cheesy video commercials of some viking dudes complaining about loss of their former jobs, but now glad that they won a battle-of-the-bands.
The Treo is not really a phone... It's a PDA with a phone built in as one of it's various features. Too big, too bulky, too expensive. I've used a Treo 650 and a 700w for business trips, nice PDAs but way more than I like to carry around on a regular basis.
Add to that list, the ability to record your calls to a removable 2GB flash memory card. When this becomes ubiquitous then all those customer service reps and salespeople you speak with over cell phones might stop being such pathological liars when speaking to you over the phone becuae you can then play their own words right back to them.
(and recording your own phone calls is perfectly legal in most states, it certainly is in mine)
A few phone makes/models are starting to be made that do this, but for some reason all the US national carriers are refusing to offer such phones unless they can cripple the hell out of the advanced features.
Ever catch one of your old favorites replaying on TV? They're crap. What we watched was crap then, and what kids watch nowadays is crap as well. It's just that we were kids and couldn't tell it was crap, so we developed fond memories of it.
No way man.... the likes of Johnny Quest, HR Pufnstuf(*) and Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, Fat Albert, Jetsons, Josie & the Pussycats, Speed Buggy and ScoobyDoo, etc. (and don't forget the king of animation, the original Pink Panther), still beats the stuffings out of rubbish like Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues, Tutenstein, Kenny the Shark and Lazytown(**) anyday.
(*) This show terrified me as a toddler in the extreme early 1970's, but I eventually got over my deep-seated fear of big-headed large stuffed dragon/dinosaur characters by age 4 when this show finally went off the air, but that fear was revived much later in life by that big purple Barney monster.
(**) Something about this show is truly disturbing.
If the moderation of the above four comments is any indication, Slashdot is populated by the same demographic which watches Saturday morning cartoons.
Nope. Rather, Slashdot is populated mostly by the same demographic who grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons many, many years ago before they all turned into lame crap.
I have an original box set of the Time-Life vinyl 33rpm LP records and glossy photobook from the first moon landing, copyright 1969 and printed/pressed in 1970. I wonder if Time publishing still has stored in their archives the 2nd-generation copies of the source materials they got directly from NASA. That would still be pretty close to the originals.
Last I heard, US Cellular still insists on a warrant or court order before handing over its records. Their market is mostly only the midwest and great plains states though.
If Mattel could swing a licensing deal with Disney/Pixar to make a complete "Cars" collectors set as HotWheels models, such a set would probably be quite a marketing hit. Heck, I might even buy a set myself.
I saw the movie just last weekend, and the Route 66 nostagia really got to me. I was also surprised to see that Hollywood is still capable of putting out a movie (of any kind) that can still capture your heart and make you feel good, like the classics of yesteryear's golden age of movies used to be able to do long ago, without having to resort to gratuitous sex, mindless violence, and shock-value storylines. This movie was good clean entertainment that made me feel like a kid again... a rarity among the usual crap we've grown to expect coming from Hollywierd.
...to do to reel in some insane profits for the 2006 holiday season is to make these following models:
1) Red sports car that looks like kinda like a curvy blend of a Corvette, a GT-40, and a Viper. 2) Blue Porsche 911. 3) Blue Hudson Hornet. 4) Rusty old, hoodless 1955 Chevy tow truck. 5) Blue Roadrunner SuperBird. 6) Green Buick Regal.
And an assortment of other vehicles from you-know-what-movie.
Not according to the OEM XP Pro EULA that came with my machine I'm on right now. The EULA clearly states that it is valid only for the single computer "the hardware" it was sold with, and is not transferrable to any other pile of hardware.
The point is: you never "purchase" the software. When you paid for the software license (either as a built-in cost of the machine, or bought it separately) you only bought the right to use the software *UNDER THEIR TERMS* which they dictate to you. Bear in mind that you always retain the possible choice to not use their software at all... which is getting to be an increasingly better choice every new day.
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If you buy a machine with an OEM copy of XP Pro on it, and then re-install with a corporate XP Pro cdrom, you've technically committed a software license violation unless you also bought a corporate "volume license" to cover it (yep, you actually have to pay for XP Pro twice in this scenario to stay legal) plus used your specific corporate installation key code that was assigned to your company when you bought the volume license. Otherwise you must use your original OEM licensed copy of XP install (or recovery) media and your original installation code from the sticker on the machine plus go thru all the hassles of product re-activation to remain legal. Yes this is a load of crap to have to go thru, but when you clicked thru that OEM Windows EULA, you voluntarily agreed to be bound under such nefarious terms.
I hope that tons of XP PCs get shut off all at once so that it will create a very big outcry. Then there would be no time more ripe for all the Linux evangelists to preach loudly and gain converts.
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I'm sure glad I trust my private information to AT&T... whoops
I'm sure glad I'm no longer an AT&T customer in any direct way at all anymore. The last money I ever gave them was via a Cingular wireless phone, but now my phone dollars go another direct competitor wireless carrier, still evil, but substantially less so, but at least definitely not AT&T. My Internet dollars go to an independent ISP who in turn gets their bandwidth thru a backbone provider who is a brutal enemy of AT&T.
... a bunch of cheesy video commercials of some viking dudes complaining about loss of their former jobs, but now glad that they won a battle-of-the-bands.
How are they keeping their eye AT Ernesto?
Maybe not NASA, but certainly NOAA really can literally keep their eye AT a TS/hurricane by flying around and thru it in one of their P-3 Orions.
The Treo is not really a phone... It's a PDA with a phone built in as one of it's various features. Too big, too bulky, too expensive. I've used a Treo 650 and a 700w for business trips, nice PDAs but way more than I like to carry around on a regular basis.
Add to that list, the ability to record your calls to a removable 2GB flash memory card. When this becomes ubiquitous then all those customer service reps and salespeople you speak with over cell phones might stop being such pathological liars when speaking to you over the phone becuae you can then play their own words right back to them.
(and recording your own phone calls is perfectly legal in most states, it certainly is in mine)
A few phone makes/models are starting to be made that do this, but for some reason all the US national carriers are refusing to offer such phones unless they can cripple the hell out of the advanced features.
The most famous flying car of them all. ;-)
Ever catch one of your old favorites replaying on TV?
They're crap. What we watched was crap then, and what kids watch nowadays is crap as well.
It's just that we were kids and couldn't tell it was crap, so we developed fond memories of it.
No way man.... the likes of Johnny Quest, HR Pufnstuf(*) and Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, Fat Albert, Jetsons, Josie & the Pussycats, Speed Buggy and ScoobyDoo, etc. (and don't forget the king of animation, the original Pink Panther), still beats the stuffings out of rubbish like Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues, Tutenstein, Kenny the Shark and Lazytown(**) anyday.
(*) This show terrified me as a toddler in the extreme early 1970's, but I eventually got over my deep-seated fear of big-headed large stuffed dragon/dinosaur characters by age 4 when this show finally went off the air, but that fear was revived much later in life by that big purple Barney monster.
(**) Something about this show is truly disturbing.
If the moderation of the above four comments is any indication, Slashdot is populated by the same demographic which watches Saturday morning cartoons.
Nope. Rather, Slashdot is populated mostly by the same demographic who grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons many, many years ago before they all turned into lame crap.
...yarrrrrrrrrrrrd!
Buried loot in the yarrrrrrrd!
Don't forget the venerable HP3000 "Classic" machines like the Series 68 and 70 machines.
I have an original box set of the Time-Life vinyl 33rpm LP records and glossy photobook from the first moon landing, copyright 1969 and printed/pressed in 1970. I wonder if Time publishing still has stored in their archives the 2nd-generation copies of the source materials they got directly from NASA. That would still be pretty close to the originals.
I wish that Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination" would get made into a big dollar movie. That story is one of the all-time greats.
Last I heard, US Cellular still insists on a warrant or court order before handing over its records. Their market is mostly only the midwest and great plains states though.
...I was actually kinda serious.
If Mattel could swing a licensing deal with Disney/Pixar to make a complete "Cars" collectors set as HotWheels models, such a set would probably be quite a marketing hit. Heck, I might even buy a set myself.
I saw the movie just last weekend, and the Route 66 nostagia really got to me. I was also surprised to see that Hollywood is still capable of putting out a movie (of any kind) that can still capture your heart and make you feel good, like the classics of yesteryear's golden age of movies used to be able to do long ago, without having to resort to gratuitous sex, mindless violence, and shock-value storylines. This movie was good clean entertainment that made me feel like a kid again... a rarity among the usual crap we've grown to expect coming from Hollywierd.
...to do to reel in some insane profits for the 2006 holiday season is to make these following models:
1) Red sports car that looks like kinda like a curvy blend of a Corvette, a GT-40, and a Viper.
2) Blue Porsche 911.
3) Blue Hudson Hornet.
4) Rusty old, hoodless 1955 Chevy tow truck.
5) Blue Roadrunner SuperBird.
6) Green Buick Regal.
And an assortment of other vehicles from you-know-what-movie.
Better put eyes on their windshields too.
... eat old people's medicine for fuel?
... to find such high quality pr0n as this.
Not according to the OEM XP Pro EULA that came with my machine I'm on right now. The EULA clearly states that it is valid only for the single computer "the hardware" it was sold with, and is not transferrable to any other pile of hardware.
The point is: you never "purchase" the software. When you paid for the software license (either as a built-in cost of the machine, or bought it separately) you only bought the right to use the software *UNDER THEIR TERMS* which they dictate to you. Bear in mind that you always retain the possible choice to not use their software at all... which is getting to be an increasingly better choice every new day.
If you buy a machine with an OEM copy of XP Pro on it, and then re-install with a corporate XP Pro cdrom, you've technically committed a software license violation unless you also bought a corporate "volume license" to cover it (yep, you actually have to pay for XP Pro twice in this scenario to stay legal) plus used your specific corporate installation key code that was assigned to your company when you bought the volume license. Otherwise you must use your original OEM licensed copy of XP install (or recovery) media and your original installation code from the sticker on the machine plus go thru all the hassles of product re-activation to remain legal. Yes this is a load of crap to have to go thru, but when you clicked thru that OEM Windows EULA, you voluntarily agreed to be bound under such nefarious terms.
I hope that tons of XP PCs get shut off all at once so that it will create a very big outcry. Then there would be no time more ripe for all the Linux evangelists to preach loudly and gain converts.
...which of those two cartoons easily allows you to save a copy, and which one does not? Or did anyone miss that?
No one can compromise an OS that hasn't even been released yet.
Exactly... just like this one.
...this is very informative.