* have a fault that you could not have known about when you purchased them
* do not do the job that you were led to believe they would do
* do not match a sample you were shown
* are not as they were described.
They may not be able to stop the sale of the products like the ACCC can, but they allow you to return the product if it doesn't do what a reasonable person would have expected.
And another thing:
Don't believe everything you read
"No refunds" signs are illegal. If you buy a faulty product and you weren't aware of the fault at the time of the sale, you can usually return it to the store and expect either:
* a repair
* a replacement or
* a refund.
Of course, if you deliberately go out to buy crippled CDs so you can return them as a protest, you're fucked if they call you on it.
Why would they look different? It's not like robots need to recognise each other by looks, or need a creative outlet or some shit. The Arnie likeness was probably the only model they can that fits the Terminator endoskeleton and passes as a human. Ever seen facial reconstructions from skulls of people that have been dead for 5000 years?
There's also the limitations of the time travel technology - they can only send back living tissue, which is why they're naked when they arrive in the past, and why they have to put the metal Terminators into skin (not that a bare droid running around in the 80's wouldn't attract unwanted attention).
Of course, that brings us to the T-1000: how the fuck did HE make it back in time, considering "guns have chemicals, moving parts, but it can form solid METAL shapes." If he were a metal that could time travel, he could of just make some metal clothing rather than end up starkers like the others.
The fact that you you have a short attention span doesn't mean we're experts in space travel. If it really were "old hat" it wouldn't cost the thick end of a billion to do it, wouldn't take months of dicking around to prepare, and wouldn't blow up on the way back down.
Tooling about in space, even if it's in LEO, is valuable training for future, more ambitious missions, and preserves the knowledge and money streams. If we stopped after the moon landing, and didn't bother going back until we had anti-grav or warp drive, we wouldn't have learned about space-fungus or any of the other shit we need to know when the funky tech breaks and we're back to floating around in a tin can. Do you want to die stranded in deep space because your warp reactor broke and your selfish species never bothered to learn to survive without it?
How would they sell it? There's no copyright, everyone can just makes copies for free. There's little incentive to keep the source closed in this case - you might as well let it go and let other people fix your bugs, since your only revenue stream is support services.
Nothing's free dude. VIA processors have the computational power of a crooked slide rule - you'd need at least a dozen of them to equal your current capacity.
Why do people chase a little white ball around 10km of grass? Because it's fun. Because it's a challenge. If you want to walk out of the pro shop, drop your ball straight into the 18th hole and call it a day, go for it. Leave the rest of us can enjoy our pointless persuits in peace.
Regular driving exams, say every three to five years: great idea.
PITA, not to mention a greater health risk than unsafe drivers. Have you seen the ferral creatures that inhabit the local RTA (DMV, or your regional equivalent)?
Graduated licensing programs: great idea.
Mandatory driver training: great idea.
Three days over 6 months to get a motorcycle license in Oz (NSW), after you have completed the road rules test, which you may take at your leisure.
Day 1, you are required to demonstrate you are able to ride a bike before you're given your L's (Learner plates/license). 3-6 months later, you're back for another two days worth of obstacle avoidance, emercengy breaking and general "how not to get dead" theory and practise. Gruesome video footage of people who fuck it up is optional. You are then tested on your emergency skills, plus a standard road ride, before being issued a Provisional license. This allows you to do upto 80km/h, upto 0.02BAC (one standard drink), and three whole points. You get to wallow in your lameness for a year or three - if you fuck up, you're off the road. If you don't, you get an unrestricted license. By this time, you have real experience under your belt, are now 20+ years old(er:) and theoretically, less likely to go nuts - you've been weened into your freedom.
A Bluetooth headset would make a terrible home-phone add-on; I expect my cordless phone at home to at least function throughout the main floor of my house, if not into the yard, basement, etc. With a Bluetooth headset, I wouldn't be able to move more than a few paces from the wired phone line.
WRONG! Classic case of the second system effect.
Your cordless phone ALREADY extends your phone's range into the yard - YOU DON'T NEED BT TO DO IT ALSO.
BT is used to get rid of the wires, there is NO requirement to extend the range! A corded phone typically has a range of 1-2m, maybe upto 3-5m. That's all BT has to compete with. When I'm at the office, I don't expect to be able to go grab a coffee while on the phone to a user, but I would like to be able to wander over to the other side of the room to get a manual without knocking shit off the desk with the cord, and then not have to deal with 5m of phone cord all over the place when I hang up.
Wireless doesn't automatically imply long range. BT = short range. If you want long range, use another system, and be prepared to recharge the fucker every 70 minutes.
As long as they're not prosecuting PLEASANT INCEST CASES
It probably has something to do with this:
Detective Sergent Gary Fraser: This case is the worst case that I have been involved in - involving incestuous behaviour - very extremely tragic where the father targeted his biological daughters and there's actually been children fathered by the biological father.
Which kind of elevates it from "eh, freaks" status to "CASTRATE THE BASTARD" (and that's just the Detective's use of "Double Plus Ungood" grammar, let alone the 'father').
'disposable condom'
IIRC, they used to be reusable. And also really thick... I guess back then the only 'suitable' material was plain old rubber..?
OMG, you're right! At one event per 36 hours, it's practically a fucking Omega Particle!
Someone call Starfleet! *KILL IT! *KILL IT!
(*read: start a new government agency dedicated to the analysis and monitoring of this tool-of-terrorists; fund a few dozen fact-finding junkets, c/o the taxpayer; draft an array of pointless laws regarding Bi research, don't forget to call the religious end-of-world nutters for their valuable insight; end up hiring a PR agency to divert attention away from the fact that you've accomplished bugger all, were wrong all along, and now have a $30mil mansion on the harbour).
Because MySQL tables are stored as files, it is easy to do a backup. To get a consistent backup, do a LOCK TABLES on the relevant tables followed by FLUSH TABLES for the tables. [deleted page specs] You only need a read lock; this allows other threads to continue to query the tables while you are making a copy of the files in the database directory. The FLUSH TABLE is needed to ensure that the all active index pages is written to disk before you start the backup.
That you must lock the tables to back up while they are being backed up is a bad thing. The requirement to do a FLUSH TABLES, although less egregious, is still a little suspect. I do not recall having to flush indexes in Sybase, Oracle, or PostgreSQL before doing a full database backup.
This is a FILE LEVEL backup - you have to flush the daemon's write cache back to disk.
While MySQL allows you to simply block updates temporarily, PostgreSQL says you must SHUT THE DATABASE DOWN COMPLETELY (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=backup-file.html) to do a FILE-LEVEL backup.
For many more those benifits are problems, and FAR outweigh the (OEM) cost of the OS. MOST people are not geeks, and don't give a shit about things that are important to geeks.
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Quoth the Office of Fair Trading:
They may not be able to stop the sale of the products like the ACCC can, but they allow you to return the product if it doesn't do what a reasonable person would have expected.
And another thing:
Of course, if you deliberately go out to buy crippled CDs so you can return them as a protest, you're fucked if they call you on it.
# man hdparm
I have a static 64 IP subnet and run mail, web, dns, etc. over a dialup connection. It's no speed demon but works well for personal purposes.
owned.
"requires Quicktime"
Nope, sorry. I'm not installing that shite player that fucks everything up and takes everything over.
Sweet. I can't, so gimme your ex-computer(s).
Eh, the ones in the future-flashes were bare metal.
Why would they look different? It's not like robots need to recognise each other by looks, or need a creative outlet or some shit. The Arnie likeness was probably the only model they can that fits the Terminator endoskeleton and passes as a human. Ever seen facial reconstructions from skulls of people that have been dead for 5000 years?
There's also the limitations of the time travel technology - they can only send back living tissue, which is why they're naked when they arrive in the past, and why they have to put the metal Terminators into skin (not that a bare droid running around in the 80's wouldn't attract unwanted attention).
Of course, that brings us to the T-1000: how the fuck did HE make it back in time, considering "guns have chemicals, moving parts, but it can form solid METAL shapes." If he were a metal that could time travel, he could of just make some metal clothing rather than end up starkers like the others.
The fact that you you have a short attention span doesn't mean we're experts in space travel. If it really were "old hat" it wouldn't cost the thick end of a billion to do it, wouldn't take months of dicking around to prepare, and wouldn't blow up on the way back down.
Tooling about in space, even if it's in LEO, is valuable training for future, more ambitious missions, and preserves the knowledge and money streams. If we stopped after the moon landing, and didn't bother going back until we had anti-grav or warp drive, we wouldn't have learned about space-fungus or any of the other shit we need to know when the funky tech breaks and we're back to floating around in a tin can. Do you want to die stranded in deep space because your warp reactor broke and your selfish species never bothered to learn to survive without it?
Wow, they're right! I'm completely spam free now!
How would they sell it? There's no copyright, everyone can just makes copies for free. There's little incentive to keep the source closed in this case - you might as well let it go and let other people fix your bugs, since your only revenue stream is support services.
Nothing's free dude. VIA processors have the computational power of a crooked slide rule - you'd need at least a dozen of them to equal your current capacity.
Why do people chase a little white ball around 10km of grass? Because it's fun. Because it's a challenge. If you want to walk out of the pro shop, drop your ball straight into the 18th hole and call it a day, go for it. Leave the rest of us can enjoy our pointless persuits in peace.
Three days over 6 months to get a motorcycle license in Oz (NSW), after you have completed the road rules test, which you may take at your leisure.
Day 1, you are required to demonstrate you are able to ride a bike before you're given your L's (Learner plates/license). 3-6 months later, you're back for another two days worth of obstacle avoidance, emercengy breaking and general "how not to get dead" theory and practise. Gruesome video footage of people who fuck it up is optional. You are then tested on your emergency skills, plus a standard road ride, before being issued a Provisional license. This allows you to do upto 80km/h, upto 0.02BAC (one standard drink), and three whole points. You get to wallow in your lameness for a year or three - if you fuck up, you're off the road. If you don't, you get an unrestricted license. By this time, you have real experience under your belt, are now 20+ years old(er
If you're not paying attention like you're supposed to, it's only fair that your car kill you before you kill me.
Your cordless phone ALREADY extends your phone's range into the yard - YOU DON'T NEED BT TO DO IT ALSO.
BT is used to get rid of the wires, there is NO requirement to extend the range! A corded phone typically has a range of 1-2m, maybe upto 3-5m. That's all BT has to compete with. When I'm at the office, I don't expect to be able to go grab a coffee while on the phone to a user, but I would like to be able to wander over to the other side of the room to get a manual without knocking shit off the desk with the cord, and then not have to deal with 5m of phone cord all over the place when I hang up.
Wireless doesn't automatically imply long range. BT = short range. If you want long range, use another system, and be prepared to recharge the fucker every 70 minutes.
Which kind of elevates it from "eh, freaks" status to "CASTRATE THE BASTARD" (and that's just the Detective's use of "Double Plus Ungood" grammar, let alone the 'father').
IIRC, they used to be reusable. And also really thick... I guess back then the only 'suitable' material was plain old rubber..?
OMG, you're right! At one event per 36 hours, it's practically a fucking Omega Particle!
Someone call Starfleet! *KILL IT! *KILL IT!
(*read: start a new government agency dedicated to the analysis and monitoring of this tool-of-terrorists; fund a few dozen fact-finding junkets, c/o the taxpayer; draft an array of pointless laws regarding Bi research, don't forget to call the religious end-of-world nutters for their valuable insight; end up hiring a PR agency to divert attention away from the fact that you've accomplished bugger all, were wrong all along, and now have a $30mil mansion on the harbour).
I thought that thing Agent Smith put in Neo's gut looked suspiciously like a vacuum tube...
This is a FILE LEVEL backup - you have to flush the daemon's write cache back to disk.
While MySQL allows you to simply block updates temporarily, PostgreSQL says you must SHUT THE DATABASE DOWN COMPLETELY (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=
5-10% ???
Seems to me that anyone arguing the merits of Dvorak would make better use of their time advocating voice dictation instead.
Too bad Terminate owns both of them :)
For many more those benifits are problems, and FAR outweigh the (OEM) cost of the OS. MOST people are not geeks, and don't give a shit about things that are important to geeks.
If I'm going to pay for music/video downloads, it had better be _real_ cheap, and/or losslessly compressed and/or redownloadable in case of loss.
That'd be peak output, ie. when your CPU is at 100% that's what it's using.
So stop running shite like SETI/RC5, and it'll stay cool(er).