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...and you don't think someone at uwaterloo is trying to make a point about this policy by posting a link to a 400MB file on/.?
[MSPs] are particularly angry that the US has the power to demand the extradition of British citizens to face trial in America but that the US government has not signed a reciprocal deal allowing the British government similar extradition rights.
I bought a (locked) Cingular phone on ebay that was supposed to be unlocked. Called Cingular, and they gave me the code to unlock it. Took 5 minutes. So maybe YOU don't give out unlock codes, but didn't the parent post say something aout getting the right person on the phone? Worked for me, but then I got someone in customer support that wasn't a jobsworth.
Surprised there is so little quality statistical software that will run natively on Linux. I know there's R and PSPP, but I'd really like to see SPSS or even Statistica on Linux.
I just bought one of these, and it works well on windows. But it's not a certified Bluetooth device. It uses the chipset, but in a proprietary way, so they can only talk to their own transmitter. However, I contacted their (quite good) tech support and received this reply:...the device will detect as a A2DP-compatible bluetooth device and will pair with devices that support this standard. If you don't have such a device then the wireless USB transmitter that comes with it is required. No driver is needed for Windows because it configures using generic USB audio drivers that are built into Windows. Now we've done no testing under, Linux but if Linux also has generic USB audio drivers then it should work.
I fiddled with it for a while, and did get an a2dp device recognised, but still haven't managed to get it to work. Anyone else get these to work on Linux, post a howto would you?
I know I'm karma whoring: List of artists on Nettwerk. Notice how they list their artists twice for first and last names....
A
Abigail Washburn , Alpha , Autour De Lucie , Avia , Avril Lavigne , Amy Correia , Andy Hunter , Adrienne Pierce
B
Barenaked Ladies , The Be Good Tanyas , Billy Talent , Brand New , BT , Butterfly Boucher ,
C
Shelley Campbell , Margaret Cho , Coralie Clement , The Clumsy Lovers , Conjure One , Amy Correia , Chantal Kreviazuk
D
David Mead , Delerium , The Devlins , Dieselboy , The Divine Comedy , DJ Colette ,
E
Susan Enan , Erin McKeown ,
F
Fear of Music , Neil Finn , The Finn Brothers , Foghorn Stringband , The Format ,
G
Gabriel & Dresden , Gob , Goldspot , Guster , Griffin House ,
H
Hem , Hackensaw Boys , The Hermit , Griffin House , Andy Hunter ,
I
Ina , Ivy ,
J
Jars of Clay , Junior Jack , John Mann , Josh Rouse ,
K
Kinky , Kirsty Hawkshaw , Chantal Kreviazuk , Kristian Leontiou , Karin Strom ,
L
Kristian Leontiou , Lester , Lhasa , Toby Lightman ,
M
Margaret Cho , Matt Wertz , Melissa McClelland , Tara MacLean , John Mann , MC Lars , Erin McKeown , Sarah McLachlan , Tom McRae , Mediaeval Baebes , Men Women & Children , Martina Sorbara ,
N
Neil Finn , Nathan , Noel Sanger ,
O
Oh Susanna , Old Crow Medicine Show ,
P
Pezz (early Billy Talent) , Panurge , The Perishers , Adrienne Pierce , Po' Girl , Paul van Dyk ,
R
Robert Post , Josh Rouse , Ron Sexsmith ,
S
Shelley Campbell , Susan Enan , Sarah McLachlan , Sander Kleinenberg , State Radio , The Submarines , Noel Sanger , Ron Sexsmith , Sixpence None The Richer , Martina Sorbara , Stereophonics , Karin Strom , Swollen Members ,
T
The Be Good Tanyas , The Clumsy Lovers , The Devlins , The Divine Comedy , The Finn Brothers , The Format , The Hermit , Toby Lightman , Tara MacLean , Tom McRae , The Perishers , The Submarines , Tiesto , Trespassers William , Treble Charger , The Weepies ,
V
Paul van Dyk
W
The Weepies
This artist is on a Nettwerk Label (US, Canada or UK)
This artists is managed by Nettwerk Management
Yes, this is bad, but I wonder why no-one really seems to care that Craig Venter used his own sperm for Celera's attempt on the human genome.
Oh, and FWIW IAAGS (I Am a Genome Scientist)
(That link above is a coralised link to this NYT article).
When I look at the molecular biological paradoxes inherent in the evolution of the bacterial cilia into a flagellum, I think evolutionary biology involves more faith than belief in a god, even if that god is a "flying spaghetti monster".
Hmmm....But here's one you all miss. I can't drive - never got around to learning and I've so far never lived in a country where the auto industry killed the public transport systems. Now, I don't expect to be able to jump in a car and have it "just work" for me. Haven't a clue how to even start the thing, let alone anything else. Oil change, carburetor, clutch: all obscure arcane technical terms to me. I'll get around to learning some day, but that's the point. Most people have no intention of ever learning anything about computers but still expect to be able to use them, often for some vague purpose they've heard about on Oprah, and them blame the computers/geeks when they don't understand something, can't do something, try to do something but actually do something else...etc. And to top it all, many of those people are resolutely proud of their lack of ability.
I agree that the informative page 2 What it all means of this article is symptomatic of the problem: "Excell - this helps to run programs on your PC" WTF?
We have PATRIOT, PIRATE, Next up is the PARROT act, Preventing American Recording Rights from Obvious Theft, only cos I can't think of anything for GOLDDUBLOONSMEHEARTIES as an acronym. Really, who comes up with the names for these things?
Probably because they are well aware of Trademark law, and realize that they would lose the case since cars are in an entirely different market from webbrowsers and email clients?
I agree, Real is horrible if you use their SW. So, use RealAlternative or get Realplayer via the BBC, they seem to have done a deal with Real to package less of the crapware with it.
Or Xine will play Real with the win32 codecs installed. Some info here.
Go back further than that: Morph was a claymation character on a BBC kids TV show in the late 70s.
"In the beginning there was modelling clay. And from the clay came forth Morph
a 6" high terracotta person with the ability to 'morph' into inumerable forms but who
mostly stayed true to his original human-like form. Morph lived in a wooden artbox
on the desk of tv artist and presenter Tony Hart and originally appeared in Tony's
BBC art series Take Hart..."
If the rest of the public sees us as a bunch of file-sharing, website DoSing, ignorant hippies...
This is a valid point. Maybe it's about time we mentioned the fact that (as M$ and the mainstream press are so proud to point out) that 95% of PC users use some form of Windows, that perhaps 95% of filesharing, website DoSing, ignorant...... are Windows users. As well as 100% of all those stupid dorks that are responsible for spreading viruses/worms/trojans/chain mails about little kids with cancer that only want to go to Disneyland. So, the natural thing to do is call your critter and have them censure M$. Gonna happen? We need a spinmeister extraordinaire.
...if I can sue the person who let out the code because it will increase the time I have to spend securing my system You'll probably get more cash suing the perpetrator of the security holes in the system in the first place. I hear they have a lot of money(TM).
I think the real reason so much emphasis goes on expensive geewizz technological solutions to problems that already have perfectly tenable non-technlogical solutions, and often at the expense of those latter solutions, is that it's a lot easier for the people in charge of those decisons to skim a few million off the top of an overinflated program budget than it is to grab it out of the paycheques of police(wo)men. This explains all the cash spent on cameras/biometrics etc. - who cares if they work as advertised it's only marketing to put cash in the pockets of the people making the decisions to deploy...oh and by the way let's cut traditional policing.
My favourite was trying to find some kind of internet access in Thailand that didn't suck (I failed) - one company I called that advertised unlimited accounts (in Thailand that still refers to time not bandwidth because that is very limited) had "Unlimited, yes, 20 hr/month" 56k dialup and couldn't understand why I didn't want it...
How about moving his website over to MyCrowSoft.com,or MikeRowsOft.com. How about MaiKuroSofutto.co.jp? Wonder if he still has dibs on.org,.net,.ca....?
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...and you don't think someone at uwaterloo is trying to make a point about this policy by posting a link to a 400MB file on /.?
[MSPs] are particularly angry that the US has the power to demand the extradition of British citizens to face trial in America but that the US government has not signed a reciprocal deal allowing the British government similar extradition rights.
I bought a (locked) Cingular phone on ebay that was supposed to be unlocked. Called Cingular, and they gave me the code to unlock it. Took 5 minutes. So maybe YOU don't give out unlock codes, but didn't the parent post say something aout getting the right person on the phone? Worked for me, but then I got someone in customer support that wasn't a jobsworth.
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
Perhaps this seems like a good time to drum up some publicity in time for the movie release?
I hope the courts give them a good slap for wasting everyone's time.
Surprised there is so little quality statistical software that will run natively on Linux. I know there's R and PSPP, but I'd really like to see SPSS or even Statistica on Linux.
I just bought one of these, and it works well on windows. But it's not a certified Bluetooth device. It uses the chipset, but in a proprietary way, so they can only talk to their own transmitter. ...the device will detect as a A2DP-compatible bluetooth
However, I contacted their (quite good) tech support and received this reply:
device and will pair with devices that support this standard. If you
don't have such a device then the wireless USB transmitter that comes
with it is required. No driver is needed for Windows because it
configures using generic USB audio drivers that are built into Windows. Now
we've done no testing under, Linux but if Linux also has generic USB
audio drivers then it should work.
I fiddled with it for a while, and did get an a2dp device recognised, but still haven't managed to get it to work.
Anyone else get these to work on Linux, post a howto would you?
A
Abigail Washburn , Alpha , Autour De Lucie , Avia , Avril Lavigne , Amy Correia , Andy Hunter , Adrienne Pierce
B
Barenaked Ladies , The Be Good Tanyas , Billy Talent , Brand New , BT , Butterfly Boucher ,
C
Shelley Campbell , Margaret Cho , Coralie Clement , The Clumsy Lovers , Conjure One , Amy Correia , Chantal Kreviazuk
D
David Mead , Delerium , The Devlins , Dieselboy , The Divine Comedy , DJ Colette ,
E
Susan Enan , Erin McKeown ,
F
Fear of Music , Neil Finn , The Finn Brothers , Foghorn Stringband , The Format ,
G
Gabriel & Dresden , Gob , Goldspot , Guster , Griffin House ,
H
Hem , Hackensaw Boys , The Hermit , Griffin House , Andy Hunter ,
I
Ina , Ivy ,
J
Jars of Clay , Junior Jack , John Mann , Josh Rouse ,
K
Kinky , Kirsty Hawkshaw , Chantal Kreviazuk , Kristian Leontiou , Karin Strom ,
L
Kristian Leontiou , Lester , Lhasa , Toby Lightman ,
M
Margaret Cho , Matt Wertz , Melissa McClelland , Tara MacLean , John Mann , MC Lars , Erin McKeown , Sarah McLachlan , Tom McRae , Mediaeval Baebes , Men Women & Children , Martina Sorbara ,
N
Neil Finn , Nathan , Noel Sanger ,
O
Oh Susanna , Old Crow Medicine Show ,
P
Pezz (early Billy Talent) , Panurge , The Perishers , Adrienne Pierce , Po' Girl , Paul van Dyk ,
R
Robert Post , Josh Rouse , Ron Sexsmith ,
S
Shelley Campbell , Susan Enan , Sarah McLachlan , Sander Kleinenberg , State Radio , The Submarines , Noel Sanger , Ron Sexsmith , Sixpence None The Richer , Martina Sorbara , Stereophonics , Karin Strom , Swollen Members ,
T
The Be Good Tanyas , The Clumsy Lovers , The Devlins , The Divine Comedy , The Finn Brothers , The Format , The Hermit , Toby Lightman , Tara MacLean , Tom McRae , The Perishers , The Submarines , Tiesto , Trespassers William , Treble Charger , The Weepies ,
V
Paul van Dyk
W
The Weepies
This artist is on a Nettwerk Label (US, Canada or UK) This artists is managed by Nettwerk Management
Yes, this is bad, but I wonder why no-one really seems to care that Craig Venter used his own sperm for Celera's attempt on the human genome. Oh, and FWIW IAAGS (I Am a Genome Scientist) (That link above is a coralised link to this NYT article).
Here's a nice discussion debunking the watchmaker/flagellin arguement
Hmmm....But here's one you all miss. I can't drive - never got around to learning and I've so far never lived in a country where the auto industry killed the public transport systems. Now, I don't expect to be able to jump in a car and have it "just work" for me. Haven't a clue how to even start the thing, let alone anything else. Oil change, carburetor, clutch: all obscure arcane technical terms to me. I'll get around to learning some day, but that's the point. Most people have no intention of ever learning anything about computers but still expect to be able to use them, often for some vague purpose they've heard about on Oprah, and them blame the computers/geeks when they don't understand something, can't do something, try to do something but actually do something else...etc. And to top it all, many of those people are resolutely proud of their lack of ability. I agree that the informative page 2 What it all means of this article is symptomatic of the problem: "Excell - this helps to run programs on your PC" WTF?
We have PATRIOT, PIRATE, Next up is the PARROT act, Preventing American Recording Rights from Obvious Theft, only cos I can't think of anything for GOLDDUBLOONSMEHEARTIES as an acronym.
Really, who comes up with the names for these things?
Probably a lot of prior art.
Or Xine will play Real with the win32 codecs installed. Some info here.
I'd just like to add Glenn"Miserable Failure" Beck
;-)
Have a nice day
You forgot No spelchekker.
"In the beginning there was modelling clay. And from the clay came forth Morph a 6" high terracotta person with the ability to 'morph' into inumerable forms but who mostly stayed true to his original human-like form. Morph lived in a wooden artbox on the desk of tv artist and presenter Tony Hart and originally appeared in Tony's BBC art series Take Hart..."
...but can I get my CD as a half double decaffeinated half-caf, with a twist of lemon?
I think we should just settle down and refer to it as the Intel USB 2 Really Fast (TM) processor. That'll clear things up.
This is a valid point. Maybe it's about time we mentioned the fact that (as M$ and the mainstream press are so proud to point out) that 95% of PC users use some form of Windows, that perhaps 95% of filesharing, website DoSing, ignorant ... ... are Windows users. As well as 100% of all those stupid dorks that are responsible for spreading viruses/worms/trojans/chain mails about little kids with cancer that only want to go to Disneyland. So, the natural thing to do is call your critter and have them censure M$. Gonna happen? We need a spinmeister extraordinaire.
More appropriate: "XP: Kill Bill Vol. 2"
...if I can sue the person who let out the code because it will increase the time I have to spend securing my system
You'll probably get more cash suing the perpetrator of the security holes in the system in the first place. I hear they have a lot of money(TM).
I think the real reason so much emphasis goes on expensive geewizz technological solutions to problems that already have perfectly tenable non-technlogical solutions, and often at the expense of those latter solutions, is that it's a lot easier for the people in charge of those decisons to skim a few million off the top of an overinflated program budget than it is to grab it out of the paycheques of police(wo)men.
This explains all the cash spent on cameras/biometrics etc. - who cares if they work as advertised it's only marketing to put cash in the pockets of the people making the decisions to deploy...oh and by the way let's cut traditional policing.
My favourite was trying to find some kind of internet access in Thailand that didn't suck (I failed) - one company I called that advertised unlimited accounts (in Thailand that still refers to time not bandwidth because that is very limited) had "Unlimited, yes, 20 hr/month" 56k dialup and couldn't understand why I didn't want it...
How about moving his website over to MyCrowSoft.com,or MikeRowsOft.com. How about MaiKuroSofutto.co.jp? Wonder if he still has dibs on .org, .net, .ca....?
No no no, This is obviously the dark matter we've been hearing about for years.