Not quite... the determining factor in this case was "authorization" of the copying, eg by advertising it. So if you put a sign up saying "Free Music" then you are authorizing, and thus distributing. If you had the same setup but with no sign, and people just wandered in and copied, then it is legal.
GM brags that the Hy-Wire has this dinky 1-foot crush zone on the front of the "skateboard." Go to the IIHS web site and look at their crunched cars -- for the cars rated "Good", the whole freakin front end of the car is a crush zone, and the whole passenger compartment from frame through A-pillars to roof is a safety cage that resists entry of stuff from the crush zone. This skateboard car with "skinnable" superstructure is an engineering joke because yes, people crash into things and you want them to be able to "take the hit."
You might want to do some research into the ways cars are designed. Specifically, the difference between "unit body" and "body-on-frame" design. The Hy-Wire, with it's skateboard, is essentially the latter. Body on frame designs make crumple zones less important.
I have an Athlon 1700. I *know* that it's actually 1.47GHz, but who really cares? It's what the product is called.
It's well documented that megahertz is not a reliable indication of processor performance between processor architectures. It's really only useful for differentiating all Pentium 4's from each other, and all Athlon's from each other.
In that case, calling it an "Athlon 1700" is just as useful as calling it a "Pentium 4 2.8GHz". It's really only a model number.
CNet's "review" shows the following as a boxscore for mozilla.
CNET rating: 7
The good: Fast; stable; free; includes full-featured e-mail client.
The bad: Incompatible with some sites built for Internet Explorer; chat client doesn't work with the big commercial IM systems, including ICQ, Yahoo IM, AOL IM, and Windows Messenger.
The bottom line: Until Netscape 7 comes out, Mozilla is the best free alternative to Microsoft IE. And it's faster, to boot.
Y'know, when the only bad things they can say about your browser is 1)it is standards-compliant; and 2)no, IRC does not work with AIM
then I think you've done a pretty damn good job. Congratulations!
I don't like the idea of having one big clunky device that does everything.
I'd much rater have a bunch of small, single purpose devices that can talk to each other, using Bluetooth or something similar.
That way you have your phone, which is just a phone, as simple as possible. Then you have your PDA, which can connect to the web and share contacts by talking to the phone. Then you have your MP3 player as another device. Then the MP3 player, phone and PDA can all play sound through your one wireless headset.
Hopefully now that bluetooth is finally almost here, this sort of thing can become a reality.
The lowest priced PowerMac model is $1599 (US, no display). That's with the single-800 MHz processor.
The *top of the line* model with the dual-GHz is $2999.
I know that this article is specifically about the dual-GHz model, but don't give the impression that PowerMacs start at $3k. They're not all that expensive.
Ahhh the ICON's. Those things were great. There were several variations of the ICON. The ICON I's were huge things with a built in montitor/keyboard/trackball/cpu all in one unit. The ICON II's and III's had more in common with the original iMac's: CPU and monitor in one unit, and the keyboard/trackball a separate piece. Those things used 386 processors.
I actually really liked the trackballs on those systems, it was really easy to move the ball around with your hand and press the Action button with your thumb.
And anyone remember Offshore Fishing? That game was great.
I'm running a webserver in my bedroom as well. I solved the noise problem by running my webserver on a Power Mac G4 Cube. Of course they don't make them anymore, which is really too bad. It is completely silent while running. With OS X, it's got apache, so it fits the server bill just fine.
My PC is too loud: I only turn it on when I need to use it, and I always turn it off at night.
MS didn't just block Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, and all its other browser competitors. It also blocked its own version of Internet Explorer for Pocket PC 2002. That is the brand-new version of the Pocket PC operating system which it just released last month. The lack of internal co-ordination at Microsoft on this is stunning... I thought they were a better organized company than this. Read the story here
Yeah, it is marketing. But the "Titanium" PowerBook G4 actually IS titanium. Every other "titanium" product is just the name.
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Part of the problem might be that the Canadian distributor of the X-Box refuses to sell to anyone except Future Shop. When all orders are going to the same store, the number is less surprising.
It's not like no other store in Canada wants them: I work at a computer store where we have access to a large college market. However they're still intent on selling only to the F-Shop.
Probably not, because it seems to be following a roman numeral pattern. 4 in roman numerals is not IIII, it's IV. How that's going to be integrated into the logo, I have no idea.
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He's referring to the historical fact that Microsoft licensing agreements used to make it necessary to pay for a Windows license, whether or not you bought Windows.
On a Mac, they say "here's what you get," which of course includes the OS. It's not like you can remove it and get a refund. However there's a difference between the hardware company that bundles an OS with its hardware and some random OS vendor that forces you to pay for their OS even though they have no connection to the hardware of your system whatsoever.
"Intel's forthcoming 0.13-micron Pentium 4 chip, code-named Northwood, is expected to be about 116 millimeters square, much smaller than current 0.18-micron chips' 217 millimeters square."
It's a perfectly fair comparison: Pentium 4 is 116 mm square on 0.13 technology, Clawhammer is 105 mm square.
Sure the difference isn't that great, but it's the simple fact that the P4 is a 7th generation, 32-bit only chip, while Clawhammer is 8th generation, with 32- and 64-bit capability. And it's STILL smaller.
This is pretty funny: Clippy's web site, located on MS's Office XP site. They've even got Clippy's resume up:) Interesting marketing strategy: promote new version by making fun of previous feature.
Besides all the other missing stuff that's been pointed out in this thread, you also neglected to buy a pair of speakers to go with that sound card. (The iMac comes with some nice Harmon/Kardons).
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Not quite... the determining factor in this case was "authorization" of the copying, eg by advertising it. So if you put a sign up saying "Free Music" then you are authorizing, and thus distributing. If you had the same setup but with no sign, and people just wandered in and copied, then it is legal.
You might want to do some research into the ways cars are designed. Specifically, the difference between "unit body" and "body-on-frame" design. The Hy-Wire, with it's skateboard, is essentially the latter. Body on frame designs make crumple zones less important.
Maybe if you read your own link (bugzilla bug 28568, copy link and paste in address bar) you would notice that this is fixed in 1.2a, but you have to use a hidden pref to enable it:
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true)
So next time, try READING instead of posting a useless flame about your favorite bug.
I have an Athlon 1700. I *know* that it's actually 1.47GHz, but who really cares? It's what the product is called.
It's well documented that megahertz is not a reliable indication of processor performance between processor architectures. It's really only useful for differentiating all Pentium 4's from each other, and all Athlon's from each other.
In that case, calling it an "Athlon 1700" is just as useful as calling it a "Pentium 4 2.8GHz". It's really only a model number.
When you want to plug an iPod into a windows PC, it's not just the iPod that needs support.
Most likely the PC needs a FireWire port. That's gotta be installed in a PCI slot and configured with drivers. Does Apple want to support that? No.
Then there's gotta be software that syncs with the iPod that's gotta work without causing any Windows conflicts. Does Apple want to support those? No.
It's much more of a headache than it's worth.
shows the following as a boxscore for mozilla.
CNET rating: 7
The good: Fast; stable; free; includes full-featured e-mail client.
The bad: Incompatible with some sites built for Internet Explorer; chat client doesn't work with the big commercial IM systems, including ICQ, Yahoo IM, AOL IM, and Windows Messenger.
The bottom line: Until Netscape 7 comes out, Mozilla is the best free alternative to Microsoft IE. And it's faster, to boot.
Y'know, when the only bad things they can say about your browser is
1)it is standards-compliant; and
2)no, IRC does not work with AIM
then I think you've done a pretty damn good job. Congratulations!
I've never really liked case statements in C or any other language. It doesn't make the code any shorter and introduces bugs like this one.
;
;
;
;
;
So instead of doing
switch {
case 1:
break;
case 2:
;
break;
case 3:
break;
}
do this:
if (case 1) {
} else if (case 2) {
} else if (case 3) {
}
Pretty simple, huh? It even takes up fewer lines!!
Monorail....Monorail....Monorail!!!!!!!!!!!!!n o-.........DOH!!
Mo
I don't like the idea of having one big clunky device that does everything.
I'd much rater have a bunch of small, single purpose devices that can talk to each other, using Bluetooth or something similar.
That way you have your phone, which is just a phone, as simple as possible. Then you have your PDA, which can connect to the web and share contacts by talking to the phone. Then you have your MP3 player as another device. Then the MP3 player, phone and PDA can all play sound through your one wireless headset.
Hopefully now that bluetooth is finally almost here, this sort of thing can become a reality.
The lowest priced PowerMac model is $1599 (US, no display). That's with the single-800 MHz processor.
The *top of the line* model with the dual-GHz is $2999.
I know that this article is specifically about the dual-GHz model, but don't give the impression that PowerMacs start at $3k. They're not all that expensive.
Ahhh the ICON's. Those things were great. There were several variations of the ICON. The ICON I's were huge things with a built in montitor/keyboard/trackball/cpu all in one unit. The ICON II's and III's had more in common with the original iMac's: CPU and monitor in one unit, and the keyboard/trackball a separate piece. Those things used 386 processors.
I actually really liked the trackballs on those systems, it was really easy to move the ball around with your hand and press the Action button with your thumb.
And anyone remember Offshore Fishing? That game was great.
All Apple products use standard PC ram (desktop or laptop, as the case may be). So just go out and buy some ram from anybody. It will work.
My PC is too loud: I only turn it on when I need to use it, and I always turn it off at night.
MS didn't just block Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, and all its other browser competitors. It also blocked its own version of Internet Explorer for Pocket PC 2002. That is the brand-new version of the Pocket PC operating system which it just released last month. The lack of internal co-ordination at Microsoft on this is stunning... I thought they were a better organized company than this. Read the story here
I dunno, it would appear to me that Patel did actually say that.
Yeah, it is marketing. But the "Titanium" PowerBook G4 actually IS titanium. Every other "titanium" product is just the name.
It's not like no other store in Canada wants them: I work at a computer store where we have access to a large college market. However they're still intent on selling only to the F-Shop.
Probably not, because it seems to be following a roman numeral pattern. 4 in roman numerals is not IIII, it's IV. How that's going to be integrated into the logo, I have no idea.
On a Mac, they say "here's what you get," which of course includes the OS. It's not like you can remove it and get a refund. However there's a difference between the hardware company that bundles an OS with its hardware and some random OS vendor that forces you to pay for their OS even though they have no connection to the hardware of your system whatsoever.
I quote from the arcticle:
"Intel's forthcoming 0.13-micron Pentium 4 chip, code-named Northwood, is expected to be about 116 millimeters square, much smaller than current 0.18-micron chips' 217 millimeters square."
It's a perfectly fair comparison: Pentium 4 is 116 mm square on 0.13 technology, Clawhammer is 105 mm square.
Sure the difference isn't that great, but it's the simple fact that the P4 is a 7th generation, 32-bit only chip, while Clawhammer is 8th generation, with 32- and 64-bit capability. And it's STILL smaller.
Hmm that must be why the site is linked to from Microsoft's official Office page.
This is pretty funny: Clippy's web site, located on MS's Office XP site. They've even got Clippy's resume up :) Interesting marketing strategy: promote new version by making fun of previous feature.
I guess we're assuming it's some POS on-board model.
Last time I checked, Windows didn't come with a DVD player or a CD burning application either.
Besides all the other missing stuff that's been pointed out in this thread, you also neglected to buy a pair of speakers to go with that sound card. (The iMac comes with some nice Harmon/Kardons).