Just trying to get the facts straight... The guy admitted first posting it on his wall, then posting the screen grab on the Find April site, pretending it was from someone else
Sadly, sites on the internet set up by distressed people searching or grieving for their loved ones seem to attract this kind of attention. To me, this crosses the boundary into criminal behavior. He is the most offensive kind of lowlife and deserves his 3 months in jail.
Actually I did RTFA both here and on DPReview. And same for the Nikon. It only works as a phone if you are happy to do all your phoning on skype. Which I'm not.
I'm an OEM. I paid for each and every copy of windows that I sell onto the purchaser. Don't I own the desktop? - shouldn't I be able to put MY advertising on it?
I'm a PC purchaser. I paid for Windows as part of the price of my PC. Am I allowed to put anything I want on the desktop? Suppose I sell the PC onto someone else - like my sister. Do I own the desktop? Am I allowed to put extra icons on it for my sister's benefit? Am I allowed to take off the ones that are just advertising?
The dealer is like the OEM. Microsoft is saying to OEMs that they can't put their icons on the desktop. That's like forbidding the car dealer form putting their advertising on the back window, the number plate etc, but they have to live with 4 foot stickers plastered on the door saying 'Ford' or whatever.
I don't see why the default desktop should be seen as an advertising medium at all. I mean - I've already shelled out good money for the OS, why should I have to be advertised to as well?
If I buy a new car, I can live with a badge on the front and back telling people what kind of car it is, but I don't expect to have the doors and the roof emblazened with the complay logo and the phone number for the service department
When I first heard of the tivo, I was impressed, but a little confused. Why does the box have to dial up a server (thus requiring more hw and tying up your phone) to get TV listing information when that information comes for free in the top line of the TV picture in the form of teletext data????
This ethernet hack is impressive, but more impressive would be to hack the Tivo OS to read the teletext TV listings instead.
$5.00 per gallon? Well, here in the UK we're ALREADY PAYING MORE THAN THAT.
Standard pump prices here are around 85 pence per litre of unleaded petrol, which equates to about 3.90 per gallon, or about $5.73 per gallon in US currency.
I'm with you on this one. Steep learning curves are good, where the curve is amount learned against time.
However, people don't get it. Their logic goes like this:
Steep hill == hard work to get up it, therefore steep learning curve == hard stuff to learn.
Bear in mind that graphs and curves are scary unfamiliar concepts to most people, which is ironic because they are the ones who are first to use such unmeaningful pseudo scientific phrases as 'push the envelope' and 'leverage the knowledge gradient'
I used to work in a bank with watercooled IBM mainframes. One day there was a catastrophic system failure which turned out to be caused by a plumber working in the mens washrooms. No prizes for guessing which stopcock he turned off by mistake...
I believe that once this anomaly was discovered (1950s?) the mayor or Berwick made a speach declaring peace. "The people of Russia can now sleep safe in their beds", he said. Or something like that...
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Hmmm. Most of the planks I've seen are oblong and therefore nothing to do with pi. They're also reasonably big, otherwise they'd be sticks, not planks.
If we're going to be wearing an electrical device, why not try to power it from our own bodies? I'm sure I saw some research into this a while ago. Can't remember the details, but if the technology becomes small enough, and low powered enough, it should be possible.
Hmm, I may be wrong, but I thought the Farenheit scale was based around the mercury thermometer. Isn't Zero degrees F the freezing point of mercury or something?
Plus as a Brit my brain works in a kind of half-metric half-imperial scale. If it's cold I'll say 'it's minus 2 today' whereas if it's hot, I'll say 'it's almost 80 today'. Try and figure that on out!
I drink pints of beer but put litres of petrol in my car, though I think of how fuel efficient it is in terms of miles per gallon. Note that the miles are the same as in the US, but the pints and gallons are bigger!
There's a different grammar between US and real English. 'You have' and 'You've got' are equivalent in real English, whereas Americans turn up their nose at it, which is a bit ironic considering the amount of language butchering that goes on in the USofA.. 'momentarily' and 'alternate' spring to mind
If virus were a Latin word (which I'm not sure it is), then the plural would most likely be 'viri'
However, it sounds a lot more clever and exotic if you put an extra i at the end. I mean there's few enough words that end in one i, but two makes it truly exotic, so whoever came up with the word must be the cleverest person ever.
There's a lot of this kind of crap in language. Sometimes it works in reverse. How often have you heard of 3 things being back-to-back? That's just plain stupid. 3 things can be consecutive, ie. one after another, but they can't really be back-to-back.
Good point. Still, why do we have to know how something works to make it useful? I mean, no-one knows how the human brain works but we all use that..
There is also a lot of traditional software out there, being used every day, that no-one understands how it works, because it was badly documented (if at all) and/or the people that wrote it have died/forgotten how it works. Early Mac stuff springs to mind.
What's the difference between computer-evolved obfusticated code and human generated obfusticated code? We've got plenty of the latter around.
This is indicative of the simplistic attitude that many people have about the Northern Irish situation. Let's try to put a few things straight...
1. Not all Northern Irish people want to be part of the Irish Republic. In fact a MAJORITY are from the Unionist tradition that are more 'British' than most English people, are vehemently proud of being Ulstermen; would hit you if you called them English, and would shoot you if you forced them to join the Republic.
2. If the UK government simply pulled out of Northern Ireland and handed political control over to the Republic, the Unionists would be bombing Belfast, London instead of the IRA (and add Dublin to the list), and would hold a grudge about the Damned Betrayal, probably for centuries.
3. Despite the fact that the two opposing sides have a racial hatred of each other, the vast majority of ordinary people just want to be allowed to live normal lives in peace.
4. 'We don't want you here get out' sounds horribly like what just caused the war in the Balkans. Do you think this is a good thing?
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You wouldn't catch him jaywalking. He doesn't even get out of his golf cart on the putting green
He admitted to being the "someone else". Can't imagine he'd be in jail right now if he wasn't
Actually the 'someone else' was in fact the same guy.
Just trying to get the facts straight...
The guy admitted first posting it on his wall, then posting the screen grab on the Find April site, pretending it was from someone else
Sadly, sites on the internet set up by distressed people searching or grieving for their loved ones seem to attract this kind of attention.
To me, this crosses the boundary into criminal behavior. He is the most offensive kind of lowlife and deserves his 3 months in jail.
Actually I did RTFA both here and on DPReview. And same for the Nikon.
It only works as a phone if you are happy to do all your phoning on skype.
Which I'm not.
So, you still need a phone for phoning, but now you get to play angry birds on your camera?
Can't they just keep the phone?
It's mine and I'll wash it as fast as I like
> just because they happen to own it.
err - do they actually own it?
I'm an OEM. I paid for each and every copy of windows that I sell onto the purchaser. Don't I own the desktop? - shouldn't I be able to put MY advertising on it?
I'm a PC purchaser. I paid for Windows as part of the price of my PC. Am I allowed to put anything I want on the desktop? Suppose I sell the PC onto someone else - like my sister. Do I own the desktop? Am I allowed to put extra icons on it for my sister's benefit? Am I allowed to take off the ones that are just advertising?
... so what's the difference?
A-ha you fell into my trap!
The dealer is like the OEM. Microsoft is saying to OEMs that they can't put their icons on the desktop. That's like forbidding the car dealer form putting their advertising on the back window, the number plate etc, but they have to live with 4 foot stickers plastered on the door saying 'Ford' or whatever.
I don't see why the default desktop should be seen as an advertising medium at all. I mean - I've already shelled out good money for the OS, why should I have to be advertised to as well?
If I buy a new car, I can live with a badge on the front and back telling people what kind of car it is, but I don't expect to have the doors and the roof emblazened with the complay logo and the phone number for the service department
When I first heard of the tivo, I was impressed, but a little confused. Why does the box have to dial up a server (thus requiring more hw and tying up your phone) to get TV listing information when that information comes for free in the top line of the TV picture in the form of teletext data????
This ethernet hack is impressive, but more impressive would be to hack the Tivo OS to read the teletext TV listings instead.
Interesting. Why in that case is 4 the luckiest number there is in Hong Kong? Not sarcasm - just curious
Thanks, Anonymous Coward, I'll have the Gin and Tonic ;-)
$5.00 per gallon? Well, here in the UK we're ALREADY PAYING MORE THAN THAT.
Standard pump prices here are around 85 pence per litre of unleaded petrol, which equates to about 3.90 per gallon, or about $5.73 per gallon in US currency.
How much do you pay?
I'm with you on this one. Steep learning curves are good, where the curve is amount learned against time.
However, people don't get it. Their logic goes like this:
Steep hill == hard work to get up it, therefore steep learning curve == hard stuff to learn.
Bear in mind that graphs and curves are scary unfamiliar concepts to most people, which is ironic because they are the ones who are first to use such unmeaningful pseudo scientific phrases as 'push the envelope' and 'leverage the knowledge gradient'
Ugh!
I used to work in a bank with watercooled IBM mainframes. One day there was a catastrophic system failure which turned out to be caused by a plumber working in the mens washrooms. No prizes for guessing which stopcock he turned off by mistake...
I believe that once this anomaly was discovered (1950s?) the mayor or Berwick made a speach declaring peace. "The people of Russia can now sleep safe in their beds", he said. Or something like that...
Hmmm. Most of the planks I've seen are oblong and therefore nothing to do with pi. They're also reasonably big, otherwise they'd be sticks, not planks.
Perhaps you meant Planck? or perhaps I'm wrong.
sorry. couldn't resist.
If we're going to be wearing an electrical device, why not try to power it from our own bodies? I'm sure I saw some research into this a while ago. Can't remember the details, but if the technology becomes small enough, and low powered enough, it should be possible.
Hmm, I may be wrong, but I thought the Farenheit scale was based around the mercury thermometer. Isn't Zero degrees F the freezing point of mercury or something?
Plus as a Brit my brain works in a kind of half-metric half-imperial scale. If it's cold I'll say 'it's minus 2 today' whereas if it's hot, I'll say 'it's almost 80 today'. Try and figure that on out!
I drink pints of beer but put litres of petrol in my car, though I think of how fuel efficient it is in terms of miles per gallon. Note that the miles are the same as in the US, but the pints and gallons are bigger!
There's a different grammar between US and real English. 'You have' and 'You've got' are equivalent in real English, whereas Americans turn up their nose at it, which is a bit ironic considering the amount of language butchering that goes on in the USofA.. 'momentarily' and 'alternate' spring to mind
It's a case of someone thinking they were clever.
If virus were a Latin word (which I'm not sure it is), then the plural would most likely be 'viri'
However, it sounds a lot more clever and exotic if you put an extra i at the end. I mean there's few enough words that end in one i, but two makes it truly exotic, so whoever came up with the word must be the cleverest person ever.
There's a lot of this kind of crap in language. Sometimes it works in reverse. How often have you heard of 3 things being back-to-back? That's just plain stupid. 3 things can be consecutive, ie. one after another, but they can't really be back-to-back.
Good point. Still, why do we have to know how something works to make it useful? I mean, no-one knows how the human brain works but we all use that..
There is also a lot of traditional software out there, being used every day, that no-one understands how it works, because it was badly documented (if at all) and/or the people that wrote it have died/forgotten how it works. Early Mac stuff springs to mind.
What's the difference between computer-evolved obfusticated code and human generated obfusticated code? We've got plenty of the latter around.
Grow up, AC.
Is your 'principle' that everything MS does is BAD?
This is indicative of the simplistic attitude that many people have about the Northern Irish situation. Let's try to put a few things straight...
1. Not all Northern Irish people want to be part of the Irish Republic. In fact a MAJORITY are from the Unionist tradition that are more 'British' than most English people, are vehemently proud of being Ulstermen; would hit you if you called them English, and would shoot you if you forced them to join the Republic.
2. If the UK government simply pulled out of Northern Ireland and handed political control over to the Republic, the Unionists would be bombing Belfast, London instead of the IRA (and add Dublin to the list), and would hold a grudge about the Damned Betrayal, probably for centuries.
3. Despite the fact that the two opposing sides have a racial hatred of each other, the vast majority of ordinary people just want to be allowed to live normal lives in peace.
4. 'We don't want you here get out' sounds horribly like what just caused the war in the Balkans. Do you think this is a good thing?
5. There are no easy answers.