I would imagine (IANA NASA Engineer) that the fact that circuit breakers may produce a spark when going off is a risky thing to have in a highly O2 concentrated area.
If a circuit breaker goes out in vacum, there's no harm done.
I installed iTunes on my WinXP machine at work, and some co-workers did too. Rendezvous works like a charm, and all I can say are good things for iTunes...
Except it doesn't work with a proxy! I tried to go to the apple store with the iTunes software and no luck. There's no way to configure a proxy.
Or maybe is that my crapy SysAdmin uses MS ISA and has the proxy authentication set for NTLM auth only.
Yggdrasil was not only my first linux distro, but the first one I could get on CD, which at the time, was the fastest way you could get info.
I even think I have my old CD around.
.NET vs. J2EE presentation...
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This is a very interesting presentation (in.PDF, with notes) comparing.NET and J2EE.
Take it with a grain of salt (considering the source), but I find most of the things there to be true.
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.NET isn't only for enterprise solutions. You can build a single command line app in.NET, or a GUI, or a single ASP page..NET vs. Java seems more appropiate to me.
(I know because I love Java, but I'm stuck with.NET right now)
If you try to buy a d220 microtower, there's no option available yet with Mandrake Linux. If they're going to do a press release, isn't it better to have the actual product first?
I know it was meant to be funny, but thinking about it a little, if they spend 1/10 of the efforts they do on FUDing Linux and bashing Sun, we may be spam-free in a couple of years. (Not to mention that's 1/10 less to worry about for Linux and Sun):)
Probably no one will read this because its old news, but...
The technology cannot be hacked by programmers who would want to view the disc longer because the mechanism which closes the viewing window is chemical and has nothing to do with computer technology.
Two things: who cares about the orignal disc? 'Programmers' (now every programmer is also a cracker, according to MSNBC) will just copy it to a new non-degrading media. And of course, there will be real 'hackers' that will figure out the chemical reaction and a way to prevent it.
The technology used is called Lexan, and probably holds a patent, which can be viewed and figured out. When the article says recycled does that mean it will degrade? or does it mean it can be returned to factory to 'reset' the coating? it it's the latter, then we'll probably figure it out on our own sonner or later.
Who really benefits from this schema? not rental stores, which usually depend on late fees and impulse-rental that comes when returning the video. Probably only the distribution houses. Which brings another point. I assume this process adds a cost to the manufacturing and packaging of the DVD, yet the final price will have to be lower than a normal one (I'd guess between 5-10 dollars). So that means that the real profit comes from normal DVDs for the higher margin in the sale. Then, if they just lowered the prices for normal DVDs, they'd still make more money and not pollute the environment with useless DVDs.
I totally agree. Here in Mexico, sales of Sony's DVD players were close to nill, because you could find a noname player at the same price or cheaper and multiregional.
I think it was so bad that now every store has Sony DVD players with multiregion. I don't know if the store hacks them to be multiregion or if Sony is secretly sending them that way, but that's the only way they could sell dvd players here.
Boomzilla continues: Barcodes were first developed in the railroad business to keep track of which cars went with which engine.....check out the excellent FAQ created by Russ Adams and an article from the BBC.
Just one click away from the FAQ is the Bar Code History Page which tells a very different story. Modern bar code began in 1948, from a project to automatically read product information for groceries store. The railroad system was implemented in 1967, but For many reasons, the system simply did not work and was abandoned in the late 1970's.
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I will still hold my money for when an MP3 player comes out that supports Linux as a desktop OS. Meaning, that it has a native application for linux.
I could care less for an MP3 player that I need to recompile my kernel, fetch some obscure CLI app, and basically treat it as a USB drive.
I would imagine (IANA NASA Engineer) that the fact that circuit breakers may produce a spark when going off is a risky thing to have in a highly O2 concentrated area.
If a circuit breaker goes out in vacum, there's no harm done.
Unless I'm missing something, that phrase doesn't contain any 's' letters.
I'm just glad we didn't receive the tones for:
-"I have evaded a martian anti-air missile"
-"I have crushed an innocent martian on hitting the ground"
-"I can't do that, dave"
If you go to the order site, and preorder MandrakeMove, you can see that it's a 128MB Key.
That, and the $59.99 price makes it very wortwhile.
You must be new to this planet. <g>
I installed iTunes on my WinXP machine at work, and some co-workers did too. Rendezvous works like a charm, and all I can say are good things for iTunes...
Except it doesn't work with a proxy! I tried to go to the apple store with the iTunes software and no luck. There's no way to configure a proxy.
Or maybe is that my crapy SysAdmin uses MS ISA and has the proxy authentication set for NTLM auth only.
That's the only gripe I have about iTunes.
That's true, but if you start buying hundreds of XBoxen for creating a big cluster, you hurt MS economies because they loose money on every box sold.
:)
That's one way to crush MS into the ground...
And two equal jokes at the exact same time, and with the same score... wow... first redundant stories, now reduntant posts...
this is becomming reduntant
Take a look at this and look at the bottom, the second to last link in the 'See Also' section, and then look at the 'last updated' date.
;)
Interesting, isn't it?
Yggdrasil was not only my first linux distro, but the first one I could get on CD, which at the time, was the fastest way you could get info.
I even think I have my old CD around.
This is a very interesting presentation (in .PDF, with notes) comparing .NET and J2EE.
Take it with a grain of salt (considering the source), but I find most of the things there to be true.
.NET isn't only for enterprise solutions. You can build a single command line app in .NET, or a GUI, or a single ASP page. .NET vs. Java seems more appropiate to me.
.NET right now)
(I know because I love Java, but I'm stuck with
Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is SUS? Google gives too many unrelated answers.
Diamond, it turns out, is a geek's best friend.
Yes, that's the only way geeks can get a date...
Not only popularized, but I'm pretty sure they're also patenting the process, and then sue SCO for another patent infringement.
Because anyone else using MSN outside of the U.S. must be a terrorist, and MS does not support terrorists...
Probably too dificult (legally speaking) to do a contest truly for the internet (i.e., globally), but it sucks nevertheless.
Probably redundant, but this is another scheme at getting U.S. addresses for junk mailing and many other evil marketing stuff.
If you try to buy a d220 microtower, there's no option available yet with Mandrake Linux. If they're going to do a press release, isn't it better to have the actual product first?
And you effectively gave the recipe for spammer wannabes to do the same thing pro spammers do. :)
j/k. I wondered how they did it. Now I know.
I know it was meant to be funny, but thinking about it a little, if they spend 1/10 of the efforts they do on FUDing Linux and bashing Sun, we may be spam-free in a couple of years. (Not to mention that's 1/10 less to worry about for Linux and Sun) :)
Probably no one will read this because its old news, but...
The technology cannot be hacked by programmers who would want to view the disc longer because the mechanism which closes the viewing window is chemical and has nothing to do with computer technology.
Two things: who cares about the orignal disc? 'Programmers' (now every programmer is also a cracker, according to MSNBC) will just copy it to a new non-degrading media. And of course, there will be real 'hackers' that will figure out the chemical reaction and a way to prevent it.
The technology used is called Lexan, and probably holds a patent, which can be viewed and figured out. When the article says recycled does that mean it will degrade? or does it mean it can be returned to factory to 'reset' the coating? it it's the latter, then we'll probably figure it out on our own sonner or later.
Who really benefits from this schema? not rental stores, which usually depend on late fees and impulse-rental that comes when returning the video. Probably only the distribution houses. Which brings another point. I assume this process adds a cost to the manufacturing and packaging of the DVD, yet the final price will have to be lower than a normal one (I'd guess between 5-10 dollars). So that means that the real profit comes from normal DVDs for the higher margin in the sale. Then, if they just lowered the prices for normal DVDs, they'd still make more money and not pollute the environment with useless DVDs.
Just some thoughts for now.
I totally agree. Here in Mexico, sales of Sony's DVD players were close to nill, because you could find a noname player at the same price or cheaper and multiregional.
I think it was so bad that now every store has Sony DVD players with multiregion. I don't know if the store hacks them to be multiregion or if Sony is secretly sending them that way, but that's the only way they could sell dvd players here.
Just one click away from the FAQ is the Bar Code History Page which tells a very different story. Modern bar code began in 1948, from a project to automatically read product information for groceries store. The railroad system was implemented in 1967, but For many reasons, the system simply did not work and was abandoned in the late 1970's.
Get the facts straight.
Probably the one with the 99 Agent Smiths?
Although if I were the producer, I'd never put the best effects on the trailer. Let them come to the movie and be amazed.
But... IANAP