I stupidly bought the Sanyo 5150 (insert obligatory Eddie van Halen riff here), the precursor to this new phone.
The 5150 has Windows 98-2000-only (does not work on XP) software to allow you to upload images to the phone that act as walpaper or caller id - and no software for any other platform.
So, pray, what do i need to do to hook up the phone to my computer to put in those picts? That's $39.
Oh, did you want to sych up your contacts too? Thats a separate $29. Great. That's $70 just to use the functionality of the phone on top of the price of the phone.
And now, i have two serial connectors for my phone.. just what i always wanted.
And on top of it all - they STILL DON'T HAVE A FSCKING CAR KIT - even though there are menu selections in the phone's menus for car kit options. Ha.
For those that weren't knowing...These Sanyos were J-phone phones that came out in 2000(with a camera on the back. The lens was on one side of the battery release clip, the button, on the other side of the battery release clip) in Japan, but we can't seem to get any of those car kits imported.
I've grown weary of this phone...I use my phone in the car - and without a car kit - i'm forced to have wires all over the place.
Everyone else (besides Sprint) is going with more standard phones - Nokia, S/E, Moto. Everyone else is also going with more "standard" standards... GSM, GPRS, and Bluetooth.
I don't understand why Sprint can't cajole the major makers to make CDMA.... it leaves us that really want great service in the US stuck with "weird" phones.
Have they solved the short lifespan of the organic light emitting compounds, particularly in the blues? I notice that the photo in the article didn't have a lot of rich, deep blue hues. Was that on purpose?
probably... they still seem to have a major problem with blue... according to kodak.
>Check back with me in a month, gsfprez, and we can talk about whether or not this story has legs.:-)
while it may have legs or not - that doesn't change the fact that it is, in fact, rumor - and not solid facts coming from the 1 Infinite Loop Compound.
Therefore, it doesn't change the fact that the/. report that "Apple: MacOS X to Get Journaling FS" is not an accurate way to announce this news.
"Apple: Mac OS X rumored to get a JFS in 10.2.2" - which is what your report is - would be far more acurate, and acceptable of a title.
It also doesn't help to involve yourself with someone who is only slightly more accurate than Ryan Meader. While nothing is as bad as MacOS Rumors - which is only slightly less accurate than CrazyAppleRumors, you might do well to re-examine the useless Ryan Meader-esque drivvel Think Secret has given us in the past...
- the amazing iPad - which was such an amazingly horrid case of egg-face that they've deleted every possible history of it on their site
- G5s since may of 1999(http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/0599.html )
- Mac OS Lite on a Palm-like device since june of 1999 (http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/0699.ht ml)
I could go on... but i think that my basic point is that if you're going to lecture people on sexual harassment, you don't have Bill Clinton co-write the material with you - it diminishes your credibility, regardless.
i do give marks to eWeek for their news on the Mac - its fairly unbiased compared to other tech news outlets like c|net - and i do note that the actual article at your website does clarify clearly that this is, indeed, rumor, and not Apple Computer making an announcement.
so - while it seemed like a slam on you and eWeek, it was more of a slam on/. and Nick dePlume. My apologies for not being more clear.
The military has, in fact, begun what is called "Joint Technical Architecture/Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment" - do a google on JTA or DIICOE, and you'll find it is in everything.. not yet in aircraft - but in just about everything else.
there are only two operating systems allowed in JTA - Windows and Solaris. And the latter one was because they had no way around all the folks with Solaris boxen....
So - i'm sure you're asking "wait - what VERSION of Windows?" Ha. That's the funny thing. NT 4.0 is the latest supported Windows - actually.. my data is a bit dated, so i'm sure they're all the way up to W2k by now.
But bear in mind - when we would ask questions like "what version" they would say something nonsesical like "WNT 4.0" - but they'd not specify Service Pack, or what other softwre was included with that.... so it was really a meaningless stance that they took (i think the navy calls their initiative Navy 2000 or something..)
In any case - beyond the fact that they are locking out all competition to MS, here's the comical part... or maybe no so comical, depending upon your point of view.
NSA has outright BANNED XP... for good reason, obviously... between DRM, Product Activation and whatnot... oh, and the untold data that is collected to "give you a better user experience" - NSA has said forget it.. no way, no how are you going to do XP, military. They were dragged mid-lasts year into W2k - but i think that was mostly because the number of GSA folk selling NT 4.0 licenses have gone to 1 approved. ha.
In any case, all manner of weapon system, mission critical systems, etc are running Windows. As time passes, and more and more systems are a) going to have to be upgraded to run under XP b) contractors are going to have to install illegal copies of W2k and NT 4 (not going to happen) c).....
its the C that was don't know about. NSA is insistent that no one run XP. Great - so, when i go to buy some new machines next year, and they still haven't approved XP, where exactly am i going to get all these W2k licenses? The ones we have for our current machines are all tied to the BIOSes of our current machines - so i can't just move those over...
Sometime next year, this is all going to come to a head - someone is going to have to cave - and it will be the Military.. they will cave and give up mass amounts of data to Microsoft....
and you'll start seeing weapon systems, mission critical systems that are going to have to go thru the fun of product activation - which means if you have a guy, say in AFGANISTAN who had to field replace a computer, but migrated over the hard drive - he's going to have to call microsoft to ensure that his field intelligence systems are properly connected to the internet (right) or get on the phone with MS to get an activation code.
the military is going to have to come up with a solution soon - or else that boat that had to be dragged back to shore will be nothing compared to a system that wants to be product activated after a rapair/replacement in the field.... and it just stops working.
Military folk do not have the option - not at the working level.. so the idea that this may not happen because a couple of airplanes don't run Windows is naive - in fact MOST everything, from satellite control to security control systems to lots of "evil" little programs are all based on Windows. Do not be fooled - almost every non-airplane system in the military has solitare.exe preinstalled.
and the PHGs (pointy-haired Generals) who make these decisions in apparent vacuums have and will continue to mandate things like what operating system you should be running on your new systems - all in the name of "interoperability"... and not leaving it up to the engineers to decide what will be the BEST way to do it, not just the one that gives screen shots that they are used to seeing.
i recently asked my new admin (at a new job) if i could bring in my iBook and use it.
"No. No personal machines on the network."
"Oh, any reason? Other than just policy?"
"Well, they are mostly concerned with viruses and stuff, we can't control your personal computer's virus protection. But its mostly a policy thing."
"Oh, its okay, its an iBook - running Mac OS X."
"There are plenty of viruses out there for the Mac and Linux too, not just windows."
"Really? Name one virus on Mac and the ssh hole doesn't count."
Its been 3 days now. He's started calling me at home late at night, breathing heavy... mumbling something about burning down the building and his stapler...
two straight days of articles bemoaning the fact that "global warming" is causing an ice age in the next 10 years and ice blocks to rain in Spain today.
Since wtf did WARMING cause all sorts of problems with ice? Maybe it would be better called "global warming leading into a sudden ice age?"
Peripheral Deivce Maker A: "But FireWire is a proprietary standard....and as we all know, Apple is all about proprietary standards and high-priced hardware.. not about interoperability.
And now, finally, here in 1996, Apple computer is about to reap what they sew because they are on the verge of goin... (shut up.. i'm talking).... going out of business... Beleagured App... (what do you want?)
Oh... i was in a coma? What year is it? 2002!? Jobs came back!!!? Macs now use the same memory, hard drives, PCI slots, VGA monitors and USB devices that are in PC's?
And most PCs now have USB and Firewire built in? Oh.
shit."
i think that many peripheral device manufacturers still don't get the fscking clue... that's why they went along with Intel and USB 2.0 - and now, there's a bunch of cables and hubs and devices that just confound "Your Mom" when she wants to buy something in the store... the plugs look the same, but now, this will be a 3rd standard on the same plug - so it will be even MORE confusing to "your mom" as to what cable can go where.
USB 2.0 has no purpose - other than to save face for Intel and to give Apple a cold shoulder for their perfectly good FireWire.
its under the trash can next to the 2nd Amendment... just sniff for the stench of a dead corpse - because Democrats have been trying to bury that amendment for years too.
I always said - you don't like guns.. you don't like cigaretts.. fine.. but someday, they'll take away a right you DO care about - then it will be too late to complain...
some people find that its their perrogative to hand out rights to you.. and they'll take them back whenever they see fit. I didn't vote for them. Did you?
Where are some mirrors for users to d/l Mandrake 9.0 ISO's?
Before you troll me - i'm asking a question as if i was a Windows administrator, wanting to know what your grass is like. Imagine that i just left my latest MSCE class, and don't know anything about linuxiso.org (none of the new iso's for mandrake or rh are there).
So - if you could help - instead of flame - me so that I could get on the bandwagon - it would be much appreciated.
If i wanted to get screamed at for being a "newbie", i'd get on a irc #warez channel.
(i didn't just leave a Monkey class.. and i'm not a windows user. but i AM interested in seeing if i can migrate my future Windows users at my future company to Linux if they refuse to use a Mac)
How in the name of Lando Calrissian does it matter 1 tinker's cuss what Gateway says on a webpage when every single box they ship comes with the single greatest (worst?) DRM software yet produced (Windows RentMe)?
That's like Ford saying that the single greatest threat to the planet is the SUV as 500,000 more SUV's leave Detroit.
Gateway - that has put themseves at the 100% behest of Microsoft - has no business talking about the rights of consumers when its actions speak much louder by saying "You are a pirate. Take the ring out of your ear and call Microsoft after you upgrade your ethernet card."
if the pattern output is much larger than the diameter of the laser beam at the POS system.. and it looks like that is the point, and you put your film in lieu of the token, all you'd get would be a dark or light spot at the sensor.. because the laser wouldn't spread properly - it would just go right thru the film at some dimished value.
if you were to build a practical (read: a forged credit guitar pick to by a hard drive at Fry's) forgery, you'd have to come up with a way to force the ultra-thin laser beam to spread into that pattern...
what would you do? Bring a lens with you to spread the laser evenly over the film?
i can't think of an obvious way to make a practical forgery - but i'm not saying it can't be done. But your notion of using film is bogus.
(in all caps, stupid/. filter) Kuni : Naaaaatthing! Absolutely naaaaaaathing! stoooooooopad !!!! You're so stoooooopad!!!!! (/Weird Al UHF reference)
Why is he reinventing the wheel?
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QuickTime Streaming Server and Quicktime Brodcaster are already OSS solutions for Cringley. He could save even more money.
If he really wants to make it a download - then even as a MPEG-4 instead of the/. fav - Sorenson - there's not reason why it can't be viewed on ANY operating system if they work on software to decode what's being streamed by the open source streamers - and since it would be QuickTime - it could be watched the second it stared downloading.
what does this all mean...?
Apple needs to get off their ass and make QuickTime player for Linux and BSD unix - or just OSS the fscking player and charge for the Pro player.
Damnit Apple - you are always so close - yet so far.. you have drawn in tens of thousands of linux geeks with Darwin and a real Unix operating system, and you don't realize what its buying you? The alternative when Microsoft really starts to screw people with rentalware is going to be Apple - and if you have the love of the OSS community - you'll have the love of all...
oh well, at least you aren't installing DRM in your products - so i'll keep buying.
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No - you're just not explaining to them like a human.
"You know, Grandma, how i used to send you pictures on the internet that i made with my camera? Well, i won't be able to do that any more unless i pay someone some money to make sure that it can't be stolen..."
"Mom, i used to send you DVD's full of video that we'd make of the new baby... we'd use our video camera and iMovie and then use iDVD and make those for you? Well, now that Apple is gone because they tried to survive the legal assaults on them for iMovie 3 - i have a Windows computer now since computers that could copy DVD's without protection were made illegal - and the DVD's i burn in that machine won't work in your Microsoft Media Center/HDTV setup unless i pay a license fee to Microsoft..."
"Aunt Mary, why are you calling me that your computer won't start up? Did you pay your computer-use bill to Microsoft this month? You did? Well.. hm.... Oh - i see, you installed a new hard drive because the old one went bad, and the 800 number has had you on hold for an hour?...."
"The new Michael Bolton CD won't play in your old CD walkman i got you a few years ago, cousin Sally. you're going to have to buy a new CD player that only plays only the new CDs. No, i know you're not a studio artist, so they won't sound any better.. but you're going to just have to keep 2 players around until next year unless you pay to migrate your old CD's to the new protected format..."
"I know, dad, you like to record Matlock when its on during the day - but unless you pay $5 a month for the right to record the show, you're just going to have to come up with something else..."
give them real examples of what's going to happen - then point out to them that its already happened with their new Windows computer at home.
Did you know that you've already given Microsoft the right to access your computer and modify your system without letting you know? And that they may pick and choose which software you can run on it?
this isn't hard - you fscking nerds just don't can't explain shimple shit.
Intel and Microsoft, between Windows Media Center and the forthcoming Palladium might as well just tack on "if you don't want all this crap, please see www.apple.com" at the end of each ad.
While i've been telling my Windows colleagues that this was coming - none of them believed.
And now - bonus - XP.5 and Intel both, in the same week - prove me right.
God.. its good to buy from the "most dangerous company to Intellectual Property today"
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there is another reason that one would 100% stay away from Microsoft.... regardless of how fscking good their hammers may or may not be... MS legally reserves the right to access and modify your system after W2k SP1.
Period.
Due to the changes in the ELUAs - and MS's propensity to demand more rights to YOUR system when they distribute "bug fixes" - the LLC that we are starting will not, under any circumstances, run MS server software - and after looking at the XP EULA and more recently, the latest w2k service pack EULAs, the lawyers recommend us not ever install the latest SPs. They state that for us to provide what we state - we cannot have anyone in the company running anything better than W2k stock.
Period.
this is because we are starting a security firm - the prvacy of our networks, our data, and our client's data means we must be able to prove the privacy state of our customer's data - while, at the same time, we're making it available to our customers over the internet.
Systems desiring to "call the mothership" and send back to them God knows what, and the mothership sending us God knows what without our consent will not do. So, to make our lives simpler, we're going to stay with Linux, and Unix (including Mac OS X) servers, mostly Mac clients, and for the few folks who just can't survive - we'll let them run Windows up to 2k.
This is what we are going to do.
There are many reasons to NOT use Microsoft software - esp. their OS's - other than simple hatred. If i ever had an application for tons of servers - they would HAVE to be Microsoft Windows 2000 and later free.
in fact, i have incorrect data because i and my wife were being stalked - and the WHOIS database is where he thought i lived. He went looking for us at the old address.
and what's the worst part of all - to have ANY level of security from a whois search that could give sickos and perverts your address is by getting a P.O. Box.. from the USPS!
Imagine, the key to internet privacy is the Postal Service. Now that's just great.
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I stupidly bought the Sanyo 5150 (insert obligatory Eddie van Halen riff here), the precursor to this new phone.
The 5150 has Windows 98-2000-only (does not work on XP) software to allow you to upload images to the phone that act as walpaper or caller id - and no software for any other platform.
So, pray, what do i need to do to hook up the phone to my computer to put in those picts? That's $39.
Oh, did you want to sych up your contacts too? Thats a separate $29. Great. That's $70 just to use the functionality of the phone on top of the price of the phone.
And now, i have two serial connectors for my phone.. just what i always wanted.
And on top of it all - they STILL DON'T HAVE A FSCKING CAR KIT - even though there are menu selections in the phone's menus for car kit options. Ha.
For those that weren't knowing...These Sanyos were J-phone phones that came out in 2000(with a camera on the back. The lens was on one side of the battery release clip, the button, on the other side of the battery release clip) in Japan, but we can't seem to get any of those car kits imported.
I've grown weary of this phone...I use my phone in the car - and without a car kit - i'm forced to have wires all over the place.
Everyone else (besides Sprint) is going with more standard phones - Nokia, S/E, Moto. Everyone else is also going with more "standard" standards... GSM, GPRS, and Bluetooth.
I don't understand why Sprint can't cajole the major makers to make CDMA.... it leaves us that really want great service in the US stuck with "weird" phones.
>>Do you really think Microsoft cares or reads ./ ?
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uh...yes?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/004
Have they solved the short lifespan of the organic light emitting compounds, particularly in the blues? I notice that the photo in the article didn't have a lot of rich, deep blue hues. Was that on purpose?
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probably... they still seem to have a major problem with blue... according to kodak.
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/researchDevelopme
>Check back with me in a month, gsfprez, and we can talk about whether or not this story has legs. :-)
/. report that "Apple: MacOS X to Get Journaling FS" is not an accurate way to announce this news.
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/. and Nick dePlume. My apologies for not being more clear.
while it may have legs or not - that doesn't change the fact that it is, in fact, rumor - and not solid facts coming from the 1 Infinite Loop Compound.
Therefore, it doesn't change the fact that the
"Apple: Mac OS X rumored to get a JFS in 10.2.2" - which is what your report is - would be far more acurate, and acceptable of a title.
It also doesn't help to involve yourself with someone who is only slightly more accurate than Ryan Meader. While nothing is as bad as MacOS Rumors - which is only slightly less accurate than CrazyAppleRumors, you might do well to re-examine the useless Ryan Meader-esque drivvel Think Secret has given us in the past...
- the amazing iPad - which was such an amazingly horrid case of egg-face that they've deleted every possible history of it on their site
- G5s since may of 1999(http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/0599.htm
- Mac OS Lite on a Palm-like device since june of 1999
(http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/0699.h
I could go on... but i think that my basic point is that if you're going to lecture people on sexual harassment, you don't have Bill Clinton co-write the material with you - it diminishes your credibility, regardless.
i do give marks to eWeek for their news on the Mac - its fairly unbiased compared to other tech news outlets like c|net - and i do note that the actual article at your website does clarify clearly that this is, indeed, rumor, and not Apple Computer making an announcement.
so - while it seemed like a slam on you and eWeek, it was more of a slam on
i wish it would have been explained that way...
the writer of the eWeek article is Nick De Plumme (or something) - he's the guy from ThinkSecret....
hardly a "journalistic" website.
The military has, in fact, begun what is called "Joint Technical Architecture/Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment" - do a google on JTA or DIICOE, and you'll find it is in everything.. not yet in aircraft - but in just about everything else.
there are only two operating systems allowed in JTA - Windows and Solaris. And the latter one was because they had no way around all the folks with Solaris boxen....
So - i'm sure you're asking "wait - what VERSION of Windows?" Ha. That's the funny thing. NT 4.0 is the latest supported Windows - actually.. my data is a bit dated, so i'm sure they're all the way up to W2k by now.
But bear in mind - when we would ask questions like "what version" they would say something nonsesical like "WNT 4.0" - but they'd not specify Service Pack, or what other softwre was included with that.... so it was really a meaningless stance that they took (i think the navy calls their initiative Navy 2000 or something..)
In any case - beyond the fact that they are locking out all competition to MS, here's the comical part... or maybe no so comical, depending upon your point of view.
NSA has outright BANNED XP... for good reason, obviously... between DRM, Product Activation and whatnot... oh, and the untold data that is collected to "give you a better user experience" - NSA has said forget it.. no way, no how are you going to do XP, military. They were dragged mid-lasts year into W2k - but i think that was mostly because the number of GSA folk selling NT 4.0 licenses have gone to 1 approved. ha.
In any case, all manner of weapon system, mission critical systems, etc are running Windows. As time passes, and more and more systems are a) going to have to be upgraded to run under XP b) contractors are going to have to install illegal copies of W2k and NT 4 (not going to happen) c).....
its the C that was don't know about. NSA is insistent that no one run XP. Great - so, when i go to buy some new machines next year, and they still haven't approved XP, where exactly am i going to get all these W2k licenses? The ones we have for our current machines are all tied to the BIOSes of our current machines - so i can't just move those over...
Sometime next year, this is all going to come to a head - someone is going to have to cave - and it will be the Military.. they will cave and give up mass amounts of data to Microsoft....
and you'll start seeing weapon systems, mission critical systems that are going to have to go thru the fun of product activation - which means if you have a guy, say in AFGANISTAN who had to field replace a computer, but migrated over the hard drive - he's going to have to call microsoft to ensure that his field intelligence systems are properly connected to the internet (right) or get on the phone with MS to get an activation code.
the military is going to have to come up with a solution soon - or else that boat that had to be dragged back to shore will be nothing compared to a system that wants to be product activated after a rapair/replacement in the field.... and it just stops working.
Military folk do not have the option - not at the working level.. so the idea that this may not happen because a couple of airplanes don't run Windows is naive - in fact MOST everything, from satellite control to security control systems to lots of "evil" little programs are all based on Windows. Do not be fooled - almost every non-airplane system in the military has solitare.exe preinstalled.
and the PHGs (pointy-haired Generals) who make these decisions in apparent vacuums have and will continue to mandate things like what operating system you should be running on your new systems - all in the name of "interoperability"... and not leaving it up to the engineers to decide what will be the BEST way to do it, not just the one that gives screen shots that they are used to seeing.
i recently asked my new admin (at a new job) if i could bring in my iBook and use it.
"No. No personal machines on the network."
"Oh, any reason? Other than just policy?"
"Well, they are mostly concerned with viruses and stuff, we can't control your personal computer's virus protection. But its mostly a policy thing."
"Oh, its okay, its an iBook - running Mac OS X."
"There are plenty of viruses out there for the Mac and Linux too, not just windows."
"Really? Name one virus on Mac and the ssh hole doesn't count."
Its been 3 days now. He's started calling me at home late at night, breathing heavy... mumbling something about burning down the building and his stapler...
I'm looking, but i can't tell if this is the guy that overemphasises the words "CROSSFIRE" at the end of each left-right debate on CNN.
Just curious.
two straight days of articles bemoaning the fact that "global warming" is causing an ice age in the next 10 years and ice blocks to rain in Spain today.
Since wtf did WARMING cause all sorts of problems with ice? Maybe it would be better called "global warming leading into a sudden ice age?"
Peripheral Deivce Maker A: "But FireWire is a proprietary standard....and as we all know, Apple is all about proprietary standards and high-priced hardware.. not about interoperability.
And now, finally, here in 1996, Apple computer is about to reap what they sew because they are on the verge of goin... (shut up.. i'm talking).... going out of business... Beleagured App... (what do you want?)
Oh... i was in a coma? What year is it? 2002!? Jobs came back!!!? Macs now use the same memory, hard drives, PCI slots, VGA monitors and USB devices that are in PC's?
And most PCs now have USB and Firewire built in? Oh.
shit."
i think that many peripheral device manufacturers still don't get the fscking clue... that's why they went along with Intel and USB 2.0 - and now, there's a bunch of cables and hubs and devices that just confound "Your Mom" when she wants to buy something in the store... the plugs look the same, but now, this will be a 3rd standard on the same plug - so it will be even MORE confusing to "your mom" as to what cable can go where.
USB 2.0 has no purpose - other than to save face for Intel and to give Apple a cold shoulder for their perfectly good FireWire.
I guess that the easiest implimentation of this would be to have an OS that uses OpenGL or something to draw the basic user interface..
Soooo.. i guess Apple is closer to being ready for this than other OSes thanks to QuartzGL?
its under the trash can next to the 2nd Amendment... just sniff for the stench of a dead corpse - because Democrats have been trying to bury that amendment for years too.
I always said - you don't like guns.. you don't like cigaretts.. fine.. but someday, they'll take away a right you DO care about - then it will be too late to complain...
some people find that its their perrogative to hand out rights to you.. and they'll take them back whenever they see fit. I didn't vote for them. Did you?
Where are some mirrors for users to d/l Mandrake 9.0 ISO's?
Before you troll me - i'm asking a question as if i was a Windows administrator, wanting to know what your grass is like. Imagine that i just left my latest MSCE class, and don't know anything about linuxiso.org (none of the new iso's for mandrake or rh are there).
So - if you could help - instead of flame - me so that I could get on the bandwagon - it would be much appreciated.
If i wanted to get screamed at for being a "newbie", i'd get on a irc #warez channel.
(i didn't just leave a Monkey class.. and i'm not a windows user. but i AM interested in seeing if i can migrate my future Windows users at my future company to Linux if they refuse to use a Mac)
How in the name of Lando Calrissian does it matter 1 tinker's cuss what Gateway says on a webpage when every single box they ship comes with the single greatest (worst?) DRM software yet produced (Windows RentMe)?
That's like Ford saying that the single greatest threat to the planet is the SUV as 500,000 more SUV's leave Detroit.
Gateway - that has put themseves at the 100% behest of Microsoft - has no business talking about the rights of consumers when its actions speak much louder by saying "You are a pirate. Take the ring out of your ear and call Microsoft after you upgrade your ethernet card."
Give me a fscking break.
if the pattern output is much larger than the diameter of the laser beam at the POS system.. and it looks like that is the point, and you put your film in lieu of the token, all you'd get would be a dark or light spot at the sensor.. because the laser wouldn't spread properly - it would just go right thru the film at some dimished value.
if you were to build a practical (read: a forged credit guitar pick to by a hard drive at Fry's) forgery, you'd have to come up with a way to force the ultra-thin laser beam to spread into that pattern...
what would you do? Bring a lens with you to spread the laser evenly over the film?
i can't think of an obvious way to make a practical forgery - but i'm not saying it can't be done. But your notion of using film is bogus.
actually, i have 3.
there are 50 or so of em lying around at home, making my wife mad.
so explain again why guitar picks are news?
(my apologies to westsky in advance)
it doesn't burn itself up too..
http://macnn.com/news.php?id=16490
THAT is the ultimate DVD burner - burns a DVD, burns a CD, burns itself up too.
(in all caps, stupid /. filter)
Kuni : Naaaaatthing! Absolutely naaaaaaathing! stoooooooopad !!!! You're so stoooooopad!!!!!
(/Weird Al UHF reference)
QuickTime Streaming Server and Quicktime Brodcaster are already OSS solutions for Cringley. He could save even more money.
/. fav - Sorenson - there's not reason why it can't be viewed on ANY operating system if they work on software to decode what's being streamed by the open source streamers - and since it would be QuickTime - it could be watched the second it stared downloading.
If he really wants to make it a download - then even as a MPEG-4 instead of the
what does this all mean...?
Apple needs to get off their ass and make QuickTime player for Linux and BSD unix - or just OSS the fscking player and charge for the Pro player.
Damnit Apple - you are always so close - yet so far.. you have drawn in tens of thousands of linux geeks with Darwin and a real Unix operating system, and you don't realize what its buying you? The alternative when Microsoft really starts to screw people with rentalware is going to be Apple - and if you have the love of the OSS community - you'll have the love of all...
oh well, at least you aren't installing DRM in your products - so i'll keep buying.
No - you're just not explaining to them like a human.
"You know, Grandma, how i used to send you pictures on the internet that i made with my camera? Well, i won't be able to do that any more unless i pay someone some money to make sure that it can't be stolen..."
"Mom, i used to send you DVD's full of video that we'd make of the new baby... we'd use our video camera and iMovie and then use iDVD and make those for you? Well, now that Apple is gone because they tried to survive the legal assaults on them for iMovie 3 - i have a Windows computer now since computers that could copy DVD's without protection were made illegal - and the DVD's i burn in that machine won't work in your Microsoft Media Center/HDTV setup unless i pay a license fee to Microsoft..."
"Aunt Mary, why are you calling me that your computer won't start up? Did you pay your computer-use bill to Microsoft this month? You did? Well.. hm.... Oh - i see, you installed a new hard drive because the old one went bad, and the 800 number has had you on hold for an hour?...."
"The new Michael Bolton CD won't play in your old CD walkman i got you a few years ago, cousin Sally. you're going to have to buy a new CD player that only plays only the new CDs. No, i know you're not a studio artist, so they won't sound any better.. but you're going to just have to keep 2 players around until next year unless you pay to migrate your old CD's to the new protected format..."
"I know, dad, you like to record Matlock when its on during the day - but unless you pay $5 a month for the right to record the show, you're just going to have to come up with something else..."
give them real examples of what's going to happen - then point out to them that its already happened with their new Windows computer at home.
Did you know that you've already given Microsoft the right to access your computer and modify your system without letting you know? And that they may pick and choose which software you can run on it?
this isn't hard - you fscking nerds just don't can't explain shimple shit.
I almost forgot - so long Connectix. :-(...
No more Virtual PC - well, not any Virtual PC's which require Le Grange.
Unless they come up with some way to emulate a valid key that changes with each install.
I don't know - how is Connectix going to deal with this? Can they?
Intel and Microsoft, between Windows Media Center and the forthcoming Palladium might as well just tack on "if you don't want all this crap, please see www.apple.com" at the end of each ad.
While i've been telling my Windows colleagues that this was coming - none of them believed.
And now - bonus - XP.5 and Intel both, in the same week - prove me right.
God.. its good to buy from the "most dangerous company to Intellectual Property today"
there is another reason that one would 100% stay away from Microsoft.... regardless of how fscking good their hammers may or may not be... MS legally reserves the right to access and modify your system after W2k SP1.
Period.
Due to the changes in the ELUAs - and MS's propensity to demand more rights to YOUR system when they distribute "bug fixes" - the LLC that we are starting will not, under any circumstances, run MS server software - and after looking at the XP EULA and more recently, the latest w2k service pack EULAs, the lawyers recommend us not ever install the latest SPs. They state that for us to provide what we state - we cannot have anyone in the company running anything better than W2k stock.
Period.
this is because we are starting a security firm - the prvacy of our networks, our data, and our client's data means we must be able to prove the privacy state of our customer's data - while, at the same time, we're making it available to our customers over the internet.
Systems desiring to "call the mothership" and send back to them God knows what, and the mothership sending us God knows what without our consent will not do. So, to make our lives simpler, we're going to stay with Linux, and Unix (including Mac OS X) servers, mostly Mac clients, and for the few folks who just can't survive - we'll let them run Windows up to 2k.
This is what we are going to do.
There are many reasons to NOT use Microsoft software - esp. their OS's - other than simple hatred. If i ever had an application for tons of servers - they would HAVE to be Microsoft Windows 2000 and later free.
what law is it breaking to have incorrect data?
in fact, i have incorrect data because i and my wife were being stalked - and the WHOIS database is where he thought i lived. He went looking for us at the old address.
and what's the worst part of all - to have ANY level of security from a whois search that could give sickos and perverts your address is by getting a P.O. Box.. from the USPS!
Imagine, the key to internet privacy is the Postal Service. Now that's just great.
that's about halfa how many times (beleagured) Apple "will go out of business any day now".