Do we know what direction to point these telescopes in? Presumably we have to point towards the big bang, otherwise we'll see the expanding edge of the universe (which will be closer than 13.3 billion light years)?
Oh for ALLah's sake! I can't believe the waY OUR governments spy on us. Any AraB, AS Ever, is a suspect. This is going too fAR Even for Bush. It won't BE LONG before they'll be trawling slashdot looking for hidden messages. I certainly won't be moving TO the US any time soon.
If you're running a Panther Beta, you'll see the 10.3.1 update in software updates. DON'T INSTALL IT. The kernel extensions it installs aren't compatible with the Beta kernel and your machine won't boot.
Go to your local book shop and read chapter 4 of Naomi Klein's No Logo; in it she describes the myriad ways in which corporations have infiltrated schools. In that context, this is a very logical next step.
I dreamt about Liberace last night... is he the Gayman Sandman?
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This one arguement against gun control, make them illegal and only criminals will have guns.
Not sure about your analogy...
I'd guess (without any stats) that more people are killed by legal guns than illegal guns. So, I'd be happy for guns to be illegal. Fortunately, they are where I live.
Also - this patent is to paper over a flaw in technology; gun control is to paper over a flaw in Man.
GP will be renamed PCI-X. In order to distinguish between the two, the PCI-X spec will be designated "PCI-X High Speed" while the AGP spec will be designated "PCI-X Full Speed"
No, no, no, you're just spreading FUD. AGP and PCI-X will both be renamed to USB-2.
We do not want DRM. It's wrong. Full stop. I'm a Mac user too, and generally like Apple, but just because it's Apple and has a cuddly name ("FairPlay") doesn't mean it's ok. I'm disappointed in all the glowing reviews, we should be battling this not accepting it and saying "kudos to Apple for only fisting us gently".
No no, I wasn't being funny... I meant, once an editor has realised that something is a dupe, they change the category, at which point it drops off the slashdot page of anyone who's filtering dupes.
It's great to hear that the world-wide media industry is getting more and more efficient over time.
Absolutely! With all those different channels offering differnt viewpoints in the news I was getting confused!
With only a few large players in the industry, billing can be consolidated and redundancy of equipment and programming can be minimized, saving globs of cash.
Yes! Naturally, the large players won't pocket the savings, they'll pass it on to us!
In the end, this is sure this will bring higher quality service and programming at significantly lower prices!
Yes! Those with the most power and the least competition always deliver the best products! That's why I use Windows XP!
Alas, the savings and increase in quality will happen only over an extended period of time. And with inflation and government regulations, we customers might perceive lower quality and higher prices. But no... it'll be much better than it would've been... just look how radio has improved in the past 20 years!
I bought the new Placebo album the other day (on Virgin Records). It had a "copy control" sticker on the front. There's no Compact Disc logo on it anywhere.
On the back is a blurb saying the disc is designed to play on CD players, DVD players, PCs and Macs. What it doesn't say is that in order to play it on a computer you're supposed to use the software on the disc (hmm... totally future-proof). Furthermore, it autoruns an installer to install the software.
We verified that we couldn't play the disc on a Windows 98 PC using standard audio players. We didn't install the software on the CD, for obvious reasons.
On OS X we were able to play it and rip it using iTunes. On Linux (on a same model thinkpad as the Win98 PC) we were also able to play and rip it.
The shop I bought it from was a small indie, and I notice that in the bigger shops the album doesn't have any copy-control information on it. It's possible that the indie sold me a promo, in which case perhaps they're trying to stop MP3s leaking before the album comes out, or it may be that the retail album is a regular CD (or copy-protected but not so labelled).
Excellent! Digital distribution should save the movie industry and the cinemas a bundle, which I'm sure can only result in cheaper cinema tickets... er, right?
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Do we know what direction to point these telescopes in? Presumably we have to point towards the big bang, otherwise we'll see the expanding edge of the universe (which will be closer than 13.3 billion light years)?
They can't fold now! I heard they were really close to finishing the BSD port of Duke Nuke 'Em Forever!
Yes... here at work we refer to Perl code as "write-only".
Ok... so if you made discs out of all the books in the Library of Congress... how many Libraries of Congress could you store?
Oh for ALLah's sake! I can't believe the waY OUR governments spy on us. Any AraB, AS Ever, is a suspect. This is going too fAR Even for Bush. It won't BE LONG before they'll be trawling slashdot looking for hidden messages. I certainly won't be moving TO the US any time soon.
If the judge grants the motion then SCO effectively has no case and the whole thing is over.
Surely this is never, ever the case? Can't SCO just counter in some way to drag the thing on and on?
If you're running a Panther Beta, you'll see the 10.3.1 update in software updates. DON'T INSTALL IT. The kernel extensions it installs aren't compatible with the Beta kernel and your machine won't boot.
Apparently lots of phone owners are leaving Bluetooth switched on, meaning that anyone within range can send a short message.
Hmm... could this be used to set up an ad-hoc local network, e.g. in a cinema? Can you get a remote bluetooth phone to forward a message to another?
Go to your local book shop and read chapter 4 of Naomi Klein's No Logo; in it she describes the myriad ways in which corporations have infiltrated schools. In that context, this is a very logical next step.
I dreamt about Liberace last night... is he the Gayman Sandman?
This one arguement against gun control, make them illegal and only criminals will have guns.
Not sure about your analogy...
I'd guess (without any stats) that more people are killed by legal guns than illegal guns. So, I'd be happy for guns to be illegal. Fortunately, they are where I live.
Also - this patent is to paper over a flaw in technology; gun control is to paper over a flaw in Man.
How about ++c++ ?
GP will be renamed PCI-X. In order to distinguish between the two, the PCI-X spec will be designated "PCI-X High Speed" while the AGP spec will be designated "PCI-X Full Speed"
No, no, no, you're just spreading FUD. AGP and PCI-X will both be renamed to USB-2.
Wait... I can split my Perl onto lines?
I suggest you make India your home.
What is this internet of which you speak? Does it have an AOL keyword?
We do not want DRM.
It's wrong.
Full stop.
I'm a Mac user too, and generally like Apple, but just because it's Apple and has a cuddly name ("FairPlay") doesn't mean it's ok.
I'm disappointed in all the glowing reviews, we should be battling this not accepting it and saying "kudos to Apple for only fisting us gently".
Sick of the USA? Move to Europe! Then when it gets as bad in Europe as it is in the US, we can all move to liberal China.
No no, I wasn't being funny... I meant, once an editor has realised that something is a dupe, they change the category, at which point it drops off the slashdot page of anyone who's filtering dupes.
How about a "dupe" category on slashdot? That way the editors could mark stories as dupes and users could filter the category.
It's great to hear that the world-wide media industry is getting more and more efficient over time.
Absolutely! With all those different channels offering differnt viewpoints in the news I was getting confused!
With only a few large players in the industry, billing can be consolidated and redundancy of equipment and programming can be minimized, saving globs of cash.
Yes! Naturally, the large players won't pocket the savings, they'll pass it on to us!
In the end, this is sure this will bring higher quality service and programming at significantly lower prices!
Yes! Those with the most power and the least competition always deliver the best products! That's why I use Windows XP!
Alas, the savings and increase in quality will happen only over an extended period of time. And with inflation and government regulations, we customers might perceive lower quality and higher prices. But no... it'll be much better than it would've been... just look how radio has improved in the past 20 years!
*POP* ok now I know you were being sarcastic too.
I bought the new Placebo album the other day (on Virgin Records). It had a "copy control" sticker on the front. There's no Compact Disc logo on it anywhere.
On the back is a blurb saying the disc is designed to play on CD players, DVD players, PCs and Macs. What it doesn't say is that in order to play it on a computer you're supposed to use the software on the disc (hmm... totally future-proof). Furthermore, it autoruns an installer to install the software.
We verified that we couldn't play the disc on a Windows 98 PC using standard audio players. We didn't install the software on the CD, for obvious reasons.
On OS X we were able to play it and rip it using iTunes. On Linux (on a same model thinkpad as the Win98 PC) we were also able to play and rip it.
The shop I bought it from was a small indie, and I notice that in the bigger shops the album doesn't have any copy-control information on it. It's possible that the indie sold me a promo, in which case perhaps they're trying to stop MP3s leaking before the album comes out, or it may be that the retail album is a regular CD (or copy-protected but not so labelled).
attempts to write a programming language for quantum computers, if and when they appear
Just don't observe them and they will appear!
Excellent! Digital distribution should save the movie industry and the cinemas a bundle, which I'm sure can only result in cheaper cinema tickets... er, right?