Uh... i'm clanking on one here... and while the frame and support is aluminum, it seems to me to be COVERED WITH PLASTIC across the big-ass lighted part....
sorry...but i once spoke with a military doctor when getting a mandated physical, and while waiting for some paperwork i asked "hey doc, how many folks in here aren't really sick or hyochondriacs?(sp?)"
without hesitating, skipping a beat, or even thinking about the answer, he said. "85%. Minimum. I have some people in here every single week for the same sniffles that they had last week. The worst part is that they take up all the time slots so actual sick people (and I don't include people with sniffles to be actually sick, sorry), can rarely get in".
(okay, that was a paraphrase, not a quote)
but i wonder.. if military members are abusers of free unlimited healthcare, allah forbid what would 300 million non-military folks would do to our medical system if anyone could see a doctor at any time, for any reason, with all services free...
geeesh.. we could end up like Canada... and it take 3 years for minor surgeries.
oh wait.. they don't have 300 million people... so i guess it would be a lot worse. (taxpayer provided healthcare doesn't scale linearly any better than mass transit)
You know, I wonder...why don't Americans who have to PAY (gasp) for health care just sneak over Canadian and Mexican borders to get free heathcare in those countries like they do to the US? i wonder.....
you all laughed and mocked and rolled your eyes at Kahleefornya when we voted to remove a "time tested and experienced" governor, and put in a low-quality, summer blockbuster actor that likes to grope hot chicks. Esp you stuck up, pompus, arrogant assholes on the east coast and in the beltway.
now, we've got a state government about to drop a significant portion of its proprietary software contracts, wants to move us closer to using smart, cheap technologies, and is most likely going to move toward ink-voting and away from e-voting that's going to balance its budget with a vast majority of its legislature full of tax and spend communists. (not Democrats.. normal Democrats are nothing like the freak Marxists we have out here)
and when you compare it to where we were headed - who's laughing now?
I for one welcome our astroturfing overlords from Utah.
(btw: wtf is in the water out there? SCO, Orrin Hatch, etc.)
i welcome them because be it on Groklaw or on/., they still got jack shit in the "what is true" department.
in fact - bring it on so that you can trial ballon every ounce of bullcrap here first, before putting it out in the press, so we can prep for it and practice beating it down here.
Baystar Capital Announces Repurchase Transaction With the SCO Group, Inc. Has Not Closed Friday July 23, 1:56 pm ET (note, 2 hours after previous SCO announcement)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BayStar Capital today announced that, despite a prior announcement by The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) to the contrary, the transactions contemplated by the Stock Repurchase Agreement by and between BayStar and SCO, dated as of May 31, 2004, have not closed due to an unresolved dispute between the parties. BayStar intends to file an action requesting a declaratory judgment with respect to its rights under the Stock Repurchase Agreement. Until a final determination is made by the court, BayStar maintains its position as a Series A-1 Preferred stockholder of SCO. ____
why can't we buy and use "PC" Video cards? What is it that makes vendors have to build EPROMs differently (Different?) for the Mac vs. Windows machines for the exact same card otherwise?
I just want to know when we're finally going to go nuclear (nuculer?) with the back and forth patent infringment suits - because that's when the shits really gonna hit the fan.
we are well down the Mutually Assured Destruction by Patent Attorneys road...
pray that we end up like the other "Cold War" without a salvo of planet destroying weapons being launched at each other.
so, you're saying that kids of Iran, Iraq (two years ago), Afghanistan (3 years ago) Syria, and the like all have a right to privacy? What color is the sky on your planet earth?
I'm thinking that a lot of those girls would put a right to their genitals way up on their give a shit list over a right to privacy.
Unicef, UN, and Amnisty International can all bite me with their anti-American spew...
Where's the UN on the Sudan? Rwanda? Where's AI on the mass graves of Iraq and the torture of olympic athletes of Iraq? Where's Unicef on female genital mutilation?
yeah... their still counting their money in the Food for Oil^h^h^h Palaces(tm) program they had with Saddam to be bothered with problems of the world.
Blame the US for everything and save yourself the trouble of working hard.
>Technical people foisted this abomination on us. Bad people with a big brother political agenda, IMO.
Here in California... the Democrat party and the ACLU FOISTED this up our collective asses. There was not a single Republican in charge of even the smallest dog pound out here when not 5 minutes after the 2000 vote, every Democrat went screaming into the streets - "We must have e-voting or else the poor minorities will get disenfranchised!"
and thus it happened - and they bought Diebold.
It is NOT a Republican conspiracy - as much as some would like to believe it.
Disneyland builds/built a lot of their computer control equipment in house. My dad made a lot of it, including "Mickey's Match" - the original computer-based fireworks launch system that was programmable.
Before that, a man named Mickey (i'm not making this up, the guy's name was Mickey) physcially ran around and attempted (pretty well, from what i hear) and manually lit the fireworks to coincide with the music. Eventually, he started using electrically fired squibs. My dad's system allowed folks to pre-program sequences to launch with electrically fired squibs that would be in time with the music.
Since you didn't run to Fry's in the mid 80's to pick up a Pentium III to run Star Tours ride control (actually, Star Tours runs on a 486 for its ride control, with one redundant computer for each simulator), a ton of the hardware for ride control, gate counters, etc. have all be built by hand by the Disneyland Sound department and WED. Many of the rides at Disneyland have my dad's name on the circuit boards in them.
Just about every system, even to this day - are Z80 based. Its simple, its cheap, and they are bulletproof.
Some of the Disneyland items he's made...
- Invented/installed the fireflys in Pirates of the Carribean
- Came up with putting the green-eyed rats at the end of Pirates as you go up back to ground level. We have a bunch of them at home and put them in windows and under the Christmas tree
- Invented the light flicker-ers that have been used at Dland for almost 30 years to make plain lightbulbs in opaque houseings look like they are flame
- Real-time population counter for Disneyland. Even went to the president's office and installed the LED display on his desk (prior to the popularization of "computer networks")
- Completed the transition of all of Disneyland's audio and attraction control tapes to solid-state ROMs for playback. They used to have rooms FULL of huge tape bins with 1" wide magtapes that would spool into a big 1" x 40" x 20" bins and be one big long lopp track - literally. This took a long time becuase back in the early 90's when they did it, they needed to send out the tapes to special subcontractors that could digitize it.
Its neet to see Disneyland, and how its starting to come back a bit after the 90's trashing by Eisner (ptooey!) now that he's been emasculated a bit. Things are getting better, and he's still making all kinds of neat stuff.
I need to get to Disneyland more often now.. i haven' been in years.. and i used to go 3 times a month when i was a kid.
If the VARs want to keep their relationship with Apple - they need to bring something to the table - and Apple is quick to prop up those who help them out.
Reselling brand name computers is the next record store - you dont need em - and if VARs want to stay in business, they're going to have to change - they're going to have to bring something to the table. Because there's nothing interesting about SELLING Macs.
Providing ACTUAL service is interesting... being a go between between me and Dell or me and Apple is NOT
Its obvious and clear WHY Apple wants to bring the sales back in - it makes them the more money - because they don't have to split it with a middleman. (duh)
Hell, Dell doesn't even HAVE stores to give customers a hand. I'm googleing for the outcry why Dell won't let Fry's or CompUSA or Joes Stripmall Computer Hut sell their hardware... but i'm not finding it.
Why should Apple be behind the 8-ball when Dell has 100% proved that you need nothing but a klunky website to sell computers. And it doesn't have to be a good website at that.
Apple is more than fair with those that bring SOMETHING to the table.
if you go to any Southern California Apple Store and ask about in or out of warranty repairs, they'll all hand you a card to TechRoom, who will also be there every wednesday showing you how to run your small/medium businesses and higher education insititutions with Apple hardware. That's value - that's something that is unique.
VARs - wanna keep hocking Macs? Wanna stay in business? DO something new or unique - and Apple will beat a path to your door. If all you do is resell machines that I can get from store.apple.com - you're going to be toast - and for good reason.
if you think the US will gladly let anyone build a world-wide targeting system that anyone (North Korea, China, Iran, etc) can use at will, then you're dellusional.
You don't know the whole story. I guarantee it.
Besides - who's going to be able to build a guaranteed system? If you think the Euros can, then you're just fooling yourself further.
It would be cool if there was a way to send this script off to crunch the iTunes library, searching thru all the subfolders, so that it will fix all the files there... even if that means it would modify non-DRMd AAC files (such as those created by ripping CD's you own).
The reason for this is - i have 300+ songs that i have Hymned.... i found them by searching in iTnues for "Protected AAC files" - dropping those into a folder, unprotecting them, burning the purchased tracks to a DVD-R for safe keeping, deleting all protected files from iTunes, then dropping in all the unprotected files.
So now, i have no simple way of going thru my whole library picking out the previously protected now unprotected file.
Any ideas (pudge) on how to modify this script such that it would work in this fashion?
plus - what happened to that 1 line perl (you guys just fscking revel in that type of thing, don't you?) script that did the same thing? Could that be hacked to do a search and repair of the iTunes Music Library.
after looking at that script - it appears that it would be easy to make the modification - because it appears that it simply says "not broken" if the files was... not broken.
I know that on my Mac - if i slap in an additional identical HD to the one that shipped with it...
1. i go to Disk Utility (standard issue with OS X) 2. select the two blank drives (with the mouse, clicking on them) 3. click "RAID 1" or "RAID 0" 4. repartition them with a GUI (not required)
then the RAID is mounted automatically on the desktop, ready for use. period. end of issue.
that's basically 4 steps - none of which require any "understanding" beyond your average emailer's brainpower. (i'm not including the "Are you sure?" dialogs - those don't count as steps)
its things like this test that bake my brain... and why Mac users are rabidly so asshole when it comes to stuff like this.
All this geek speek about a few kbps difference between the various choices out there - but when it comes down to it - its a motherfscker to try to set it up in windows and, unfortunately, Linux, which takes the cake for scoring highest on the "WTF Does That Mean?"-o-meter for disk partitioning.
And the PROBLEM with all the difficulties in setup of such a... setup... is that that many people would would bennifit from such technology will NEVER USE IT because its inaccessable to them.
How useful is that? its not.
Its a classic GSFPREZ Axiom On system Performance...
"A Mac Plus will always outperform a Pentium 100 when the Pentium is experiencing an IRQ conflict between the video card and the modem card"
while i KNOW that IRQ issues are of the past - the idea that a superfast desktop comptuer that is difficult to get functioning is no gawddamned use - and by definition is an anchor compared to a Model-T Macintosh... at least the Model T moves, whereas anchors don't.
all the speed and power in the world is useless to those who are more interesed in DOING work with their computer, than WORKING ON the computer to get it functional.
My RAID on my G5 may be slower than yours - but it took me about 2 minutes - total, including the installation of the 2nd card drive but most importantly...
(Mitch Hedberg =+5) this thing is useful, motherfscker!(/mitch)
Here in California - it was the Democrats and the ACLU that bitched and moned and cried and threw a temper tantrum that we WEREN'T getting electronic voting systems - and went so far to say that the problem was that not having EVoting in the poorer areas would disenfranchise the minority voters because they have more errors when using paper punch cards than non-minorities (whites?) Don't ask me - it was their fucking racist concept, not mine.
so its really comical that all the lefties in here are bitching about this... most of the right-wing here in California was bitching about the cost and the innacuracies of the EVoting systems that were puched on us BY.... Kevin Shelley - the DEMOCRAT Secretary of state just a year ago.
Jumpin jeebus... there are people out there other than Christians, pro-lifers, and the Bush family that are trying to "steal" your vote.. and out here, on the west cost of the US - its the liberals and their shiesters for hire, the ACLU who are the lead PROponents of evoting.
so - if we've got a consipracy on our hands - you - please you fucking explain it to me how Florida can be one way, and California the other with respect to the supporters of EVoting...
oh - maybe its just that all the politicians are crooks and cheats? Nah.. that couldn't be it.
vote Libertarian - live life like you code your software - free, as in libre, free as in speech, free as in government under my heal, and not the other way around
>I do wish they would include the bluetooth module in all machines.
In classified environments (SCIF) areas, you can't have any devices with RF I/O (mostly, its the output that gets security's panties in a wad). Its just not allowed.
Now, if they would make the BT modules as user-friendly to install as the Airport cards, then they'd having something there.
As it is, since you can't order the 17" powerbook without BT, it is already precluded from bsing used in some situations where it would be very welcome in the classified arena.
Of course - i'm not sure they're aware that Minix isn't exactly Solaris-level UNIX that Linux is approaching rapidly...
Where the idea that the go-cart of Linux 0.1 - which borrowed the ideas of 4 wheels, axles, steering wheel and brakes from Ford cars - is the same thing as stealing Fords from the lot remains to be still explained by AdTI.
test 1 - nothing seems to happen - no autostart, no dialog... no nothing.
test 2 - "idisk" mounts, but it brings up the new dialog.
test 3 - help viewer launched and remote disk "idisk" mounted. Then it sat there. If there would have been folder actions accosicated with this share - i'm sure i would have been boned.
test 4 - terminal launches, and attempts to connect to a remote site - appears that if it were a malicious site, it would have worked.
i have nothing from insanity installed, and i've changed no options in Safari other than to enable tabbing.
>They will do 24 bits in no time and you will see them in laptops PDA's cameras and cell phones sooner than you think. for more info on LEP/OLED displays try these...
We've all been hearing this since 1999.
just because something keeps being repeated, it doesn't make it true
we've seen a single Kodak camera screen... and not much else.
call me when i can go buy a 19" screen at Best Buy.
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Uh... i'm clanking on one here... and while the frame and support is aluminum, it seems to me to be COVERED WITH PLASTIC across the big-ass lighted part....
.but i once spoke with a military doctor when getting a mandated physical, and while waiting for some paperwork i asked "hey doc, how many folks in here aren't really sick or hyochondriacs?(sp?)"
sorry..
without hesitating, skipping a beat, or even thinking about the answer, he said. "85%. Minimum. I have some people in here every single week for the same sniffles that they had last week. The worst part is that they take up all the time slots so actual sick people (and I don't include people with sniffles to be actually sick, sorry), can rarely get in".
(okay, that was a paraphrase, not a quote)
but i wonder.. if military members are abusers of free unlimited healthcare, allah forbid what would 300 million non-military folks would do to our medical system if anyone could see a doctor at any time, for any reason, with all services free...
geeesh.. we could end up like Canada... and it take 3 years for minor surgeries.
oh wait.. they don't have 300 million people... so i guess it would be a lot worse. (taxpayer provided healthcare doesn't scale linearly any better than mass transit)
You know, I wonder...why don't Americans who have to PAY (gasp) for health care just sneak over Canadian and Mexican borders to get free heathcare in those countries like they do to the US? i wonder.....
Notice who they got to compare Linux and SVRX (and AIX and Sequent) code against each other?
A REAL LIFE MIT scientist... and not just any fictitious MIT scientist.... but Dr. Randall Davis, Director of Research for CSAIL.
i read that and said to myself... wholly fscking shit... THAT is funny.
you all laughed and mocked and rolled your eyes at Kahleefornya when we voted to remove a "time tested and experienced" governor, and put in a low-quality, summer blockbuster actor that likes to grope hot chicks. Esp you stuck up, pompus, arrogant assholes on the east coast and in the beltway.
now, we've got a state government about to drop a significant portion of its proprietary software contracts, wants to move us closer to using smart, cheap technologies, and is most likely going to move toward ink-voting and away from e-voting that's going to balance its budget with a vast majority of its legislature full of tax and spend communists. (not Democrats.. normal Democrats are nothing like the freak Marxists we have out here)
and when you compare it to where we were headed - who's laughing now?
I for one welcome our astroturfing overlords from Utah.
/., they still got jack shit in the "what is true" department.
(btw: wtf is in the water out there? SCO, Orrin Hatch, etc.)
i welcome them because be it on Groklaw or on
in fact - bring it on so that you can trial ballon every ounce of bullcrap here first, before putting it out in the press, so we can prep for it and practice beating it down here.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040723/sff025_1.html
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BayStar Capital today announced that, despite a prior announcement by The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) to the contrary, the transactions contemplated by the Stock Repurchase Agreement by and between BayStar and SCO, dated as of May 31, 2004, have not closed due to an unresolved dispute between the parties. BayStar intends to file an action requesting a declaratory judgment with respect to its rights under the Stock Repurchase Agreement. Until a final determination is made by the court, BayStar maintains its position as a Series A-1 Preferred stockholder of SCO.
Baystar Capital Announces Repurchase Transaction With the SCO Group, Inc. Has Not Closed
Friday July 23, 1:56 pm ET (note, 2 hours after previous SCO announcement)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23
____
Wow.
of Global Patenuclear War.
i wish for the good old days... now, it looks like i'll have to become a lawyer if i want to make it anywhere in this world.
why can't we buy and use "PC" Video cards? What is it that makes vendors have to build EPROMs differently (Different?) for the Mac vs. Windows machines for the exact same card otherwise?
It reduces our choices and makes $100 cost $400.
already said what i thought was going to happen..
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=107700&ci
I just want to know when we're finally going to go nuclear (nuculer?) with the back and forth patent infringment suits - because that's when the shits really gonna hit the fan.
we are well down the Mutually Assured Destruction by Patent Attorneys road...
pray that we end up like the other "Cold War" without a salvo of planet destroying weapons being launched at each other.
so, you're saying that kids of Iran, Iraq (two years ago), Afghanistan (3 years ago) Syria, and the like all have a right to privacy? What color is the sky on your planet earth?
I'm thinking that a lot of those girls would put a right to their genitals way up on their give a shit list over a right to privacy.
Unicef, UN, and Amnisty International can all bite me with their anti-American spew...
Where's the UN on the Sudan? Rwanda?
Where's AI on the mass graves of Iraq and the torture of olympic athletes of Iraq?
Where's Unicef on female genital mutilation?
yeah... their still counting their money in the Food for Oil^h^h^h Palaces(tm) program they had with Saddam to be bothered with problems of the world.
Blame the US for everything and save yourself the trouble of working hard.
>Technical people foisted this abomination on us. Bad people with a big brother political agenda, IMO.
Here in California... the Democrat party and the ACLU FOISTED this up our collective asses. There was not a single Republican in charge of even the smallest dog pound out here when not 5 minutes after the 2000 vote, every Democrat went screaming into the streets - "We must have e-voting or else the poor minorities will get disenfranchised!"
and thus it happened - and they bought Diebold.
It is NOT a Republican conspiracy - as much as some would like to believe it.
and don't even get me on how useless your vote is in California.
i'm lucky.
My dad has been a hero of mine for 32 years. I know lots of guys who had shitty dads.. but not me.
mine's not perfect - but pretty cool none the less.
He was very into make sure me and my brother were technologically inclined.. from the ColecoVision to the C64 when it first came out....
ever since then, we've both entered technology fields and have done pretty well... i attribute it all to my dad.
Disneyland builds/built a lot of their computer control equipment in house. My dad made a lot of it, including "Mickey's Match" - the original computer-based fireworks launch system that was programmable.
Before that, a man named Mickey (i'm not making this up, the guy's name was Mickey) physcially ran around and attempted (pretty well, from what i hear) and manually lit the fireworks to coincide with the music. Eventually, he started using electrically fired squibs. My dad's system allowed folks to pre-program sequences to launch with electrically fired squibs that would be in time with the music.
Since you didn't run to Fry's in the mid 80's to pick up a Pentium III to run Star Tours ride control (actually, Star Tours runs on a 486 for its ride control, with one redundant computer for each simulator), a ton of the hardware for ride control, gate counters, etc. have all be built by hand by the Disneyland Sound department and WED.
Many of the rides at Disneyland have my dad's name on the circuit boards in them.
Just about every system, even to this day - are Z80 based. Its simple, its cheap, and they are bulletproof.
Some of the Disneyland items he's made...
- Invented/installed the fireflys in Pirates of the Carribean
- Came up with putting the green-eyed rats at the end of Pirates as you go up back to ground level. We have a bunch of them at home and put them in windows and under the Christmas tree
- Invented the light flicker-ers that have been used at Dland for almost 30 years to make plain lightbulbs in opaque houseings look like they are flame
- Real-time population counter for Disneyland. Even went to the president's office and installed the LED display on his desk (prior to the popularization of "computer networks")
- Completed the transition of all of Disneyland's audio and attraction control tapes to solid-state ROMs for playback. They used to have rooms FULL of huge tape bins with 1" wide magtapes that would spool into a big 1" x 40" x 20" bins and be one big long lopp track - literally. This took a long time becuase back in the early 90's when they did it, they needed to send out the tapes to special subcontractors that could digitize it.
Its neet to see Disneyland, and how its starting to come back a bit after the 90's trashing by Eisner (ptooey!) now that he's been emasculated a bit. Things are getting better, and he's still making all kinds of neat stuff.
I need to get to Disneyland more often now.. i haven' been in years.. and i used to go 3 times a month when i was a kid.
he helped himself closer to godhood by having 7 children, actually.
don't believe me? Read the books yourself.
Fuel cells, holographic memory cubes (1 inch cubed please), OLED monitors for your laptop/desktop...
/. stories over the last 5 years.
they are all fscking vaporware - and they comprise at least 1% of all
i vote on a ban against all these stories until the story is....
"(insert technology) deivces arrive at Best Buy"
If the VARs want to keep their relationship with Apple - they need to bring something to the table - and Apple is quick to prop up those who help them out.
Reselling brand name computers is the next record store - you dont need em - and if VARs want to stay in business, they're going to have to change - they're going to have to bring something to the table. Because there's nothing interesting about SELLING Macs.
Providing ACTUAL service is interesting... being a go between between me and Dell or me and Apple is NOT
Its obvious and clear WHY Apple wants to bring the sales back in - it makes them the more money - because they don't have to split it with a middleman. (duh)
Hell, Dell doesn't even HAVE stores to give customers a hand. I'm googleing for the outcry why Dell won't let Fry's or CompUSA or Joes Stripmall Computer Hut sell their hardware... but i'm not finding it.
Why should Apple be behind the 8-ball when Dell has 100% proved that you need nothing but a klunky website to sell computers. And it doesn't have to be a good website at that.
Apple is more than fair with those that bring SOMETHING to the table.
if you go to any Southern California Apple Store and ask about in or out of warranty repairs, they'll all hand you a card to TechRoom, who will also be there every wednesday showing you how to run your small/medium businesses and higher education insititutions with Apple hardware. That's value - that's something that is unique.
VARs - wanna keep hocking Macs? Wanna stay in business? DO something new or unique - and Apple will beat a path to your door. If all you do is resell machines that I can get from store.apple.com - you're going to be toast - and for good reason.
if you think the US will gladly let anyone build a world-wide targeting system that anyone (North Korea, China, Iran, etc) can use at will, then you're dellusional.
You don't know the whole story. I guarantee it.
Besides - who's going to be able to build a guaranteed system? If you think the Euros can, then you're just fooling yourself further.
It would be cool if there was a way to send this script off to crunch the iTunes library, searching thru all the subfolders, so that it will fix all the files there... even if that means it would modify non-DRMd AAC files (such as those created by ripping CD's you own).
... not broken.
The reason for this is - i have 300+ songs that i have Hymned.... i found them by searching in iTnues for "Protected AAC files" - dropping those into a folder, unprotecting them, burning the purchased tracks to a DVD-R for safe keeping, deleting all protected files from iTunes, then dropping in all the unprotected files.
So now, i have no simple way of going thru my whole library picking out the previously protected now unprotected file.
Any ideas (pudge) on how to modify this script such that it would work in this fashion?
plus - what happened to that 1 line perl (you guys just fscking revel in that type of thing, don't you?) script that did the same thing? Could that be hacked to do a search and repair of the iTunes Music Library.
after looking at that script - it appears that it would be easy to make the modification - because it appears that it simply says "not broken" if the files was
I'd code it - but i'm not a coder...
I know that on my Mac - if i slap in an additional identical HD to the one that shipped with it...
... setup... is that that many people would would bennifit from such technology will NEVER USE IT because its inaccessable to them.
1. i go to Disk Utility (standard issue with OS X)
2. select the two blank drives (with the mouse, clicking on them)
3. click "RAID 1" or "RAID 0"
4. repartition them with a GUI (not required)
then the RAID is mounted automatically on the desktop, ready for use. period. end of issue.
that's basically 4 steps - none of which require any "understanding" beyond your average emailer's brainpower. (i'm not including the "Are you sure?" dialogs - those don't count as steps)
its things like this test that bake my brain... and why Mac users are rabidly so asshole when it comes to stuff like this.
All this geek speek about a few kbps difference between the various choices out there - but when it comes down to it - its a motherfscker to try to set it up in windows and, unfortunately, Linux, which takes the cake for scoring highest on the "WTF Does That Mean?"-o-meter for disk partitioning.
And the PROBLEM with all the difficulties in setup of such a
How useful is that? its not.
Its a classic GSFPREZ Axiom On system Performance...
"A Mac Plus will always outperform a Pentium 100 when the Pentium is experiencing an IRQ conflict between the video card and the modem card"
while i KNOW that IRQ issues are of the past - the idea that a superfast desktop comptuer that is difficult to get functioning is no gawddamned use - and by definition is an anchor compared to a Model-T Macintosh... at least the Model T moves, whereas anchors don't.
all the speed and power in the world is useless to those who are more interesed in DOING work with their computer, than WORKING ON the computer to get it functional.
My RAID on my G5 may be slower than yours - but it took me about 2 minutes - total, including the installation of the 2nd card drive but most importantly...
(Mitch Hedberg =+5) this thing is useful, motherfscker!(/mitch)
laugh, its funny.
Here in California - it was the Democrats and the ACLU that bitched and moned and cried and threw a temper tantrum that we WEREN'T getting electronic voting systems - and went so far to say that the problem was that not having EVoting in the poorer areas would disenfranchise the minority voters because they have more errors when using paper punch cards than non-minorities (whites?) Don't ask me - it was their fucking racist concept, not mine.
so its really comical that all the lefties in here are bitching about this... most of the right-wing here in California was bitching about the cost and the innacuracies of the EVoting systems that were puched on us BY.... Kevin Shelley - the DEMOCRAT Secretary of state just a year ago.
Jumpin jeebus... there are people out there other than Christians, pro-lifers, and the Bush family that are trying to "steal" your vote.. and out here, on the west cost of the US - its the liberals and their shiesters for hire, the ACLU who are the lead PROponents of evoting.
so - if we've got a consipracy on our hands - you - please you fucking explain it to me how Florida can be one way, and California the other with respect to the supporters of EVoting...
oh - maybe its just that all the politicians are crooks and cheats? Nah.. that couldn't be it.
vote Libertarian - live life like you code your software - free, as in libre, free as in speech, free as in government under my heal, and not the other way around
>I do wish they would include the bluetooth module in all machines.
In classified environments (SCIF) areas, you can't have any devices with RF I/O (mostly, its the output that gets security's panties in a wad). Its just not allowed.
Now, if they would make the BT modules as user-friendly to install as the Airport cards, then they'd having something there.
As it is, since you can't order the 17" powerbook without BT, it is already precluded from bsing used in some situations where it would be very welcome in the classified arena.
http://www.adti.net/samizdat/open.contradictions.h tml references an ESR quote from Cathedral.
Of course - i'm not sure they're aware that Minix isn't exactly Solaris-level UNIX that Linux is approaching rapidly...
Where the idea that the go-cart of Linux 0.1 - which borrowed the ideas of 4 wheels, axles, steering wheel and brakes from Ford cars - is the same thing as stealing Fords from the lot remains to be still explained by AdTI.
this exploit is not fixed.
test 1 - nothing seems to happen - no autostart, no dialog... no nothing.
test 2 - "idisk" mounts, but it brings up the new dialog.
test 3 - help viewer launched and remote disk "idisk" mounted. Then it sat there. If there would have been folder actions accosicated with this share - i'm sure i would have been boned.
test 4 - terminal launches, and attempts to connect to a remote site - appears that if it were a malicious site, it would have worked.
i have nothing from insanity installed, and i've changed no options in Safari other than to enable tabbing.
damnit.
VNC, dude... VNC.
;-P
I'll help you set it up next week if you like.
>They will do 24 bits in no time and you will see them in laptops PDA's cameras and cell phones sooner than you think.
for more info on LEP/OLED displays try these...
We've all been hearing this since 1999.
just because something keeps being repeated, it doesn't make it true
we've seen a single Kodak camera screen... and not much else.
call me when i can go buy a 19" screen at Best Buy.
>I thought that they would do their first X-Prize-class flight quietly, then announce the next day that they were going for the prize officially.
This is not an X-Prize flight. That would require 3 people and the approriate mass-simulating-cargo aboard.
I'm assuming this is a 1-man flight in order to reduce the number of charred human remains should something go horribly wrong.
That's very prudent. I am a complete fan of the methods they've used on this project. They have a very good balance of safety and huevos.
They make smart decisions, but they are not petrified little girls like NASA and the Republican Party to go out on a limb and do the deed.