Can someone explain to me why someone would use use two backwards apostraphes at the beginning, and two double-quotes at the end of a quotation ``like this""?
"I guess it's a matter of how hard you make it," Allchin replied. "We have to work on our reputation for security in the marketplace."
And if they released the source code, the security community would realise the full extent of the security problems. "We can't release the source, everyone would laugh at us!"
If you're going to be pedantic, then so am I! Just because it's compiled with GCC, that doesn't make it part of the GNU project. Using a GPL'd compiler does not make the compiled output GPL'd. Hah, I out-pedant thee! A pox on thy inferior pedantry!
they're still willing to pay for advertising because most people watch TV programs live rather than record them.
PVR's are changing that. I cringe when I have to watch an advert at a friend's house or my mum's, because I rarely watch live TV at home any more. I get home, watch Stargate, then Futurama, then maybe Friends or Buffy, skipping the commercials in all of them. It's all recorded by my Sky+ box straight from the digital satellite feed. I'm paying UKP10 a month for the recording feature, so I'm half way to the target that Kellner gives (plus I pay the regular sub for the channels).
The court order is thrus illegal and should be overrulled as it makes SonicBlue liable for that!
should is a big word - it has to be declared illegal by the appeal panel. Laws are all just theory, you have to get a judge to apply the law for it to actually work. Hopefully they will, though, if SonicBlue have a good lawyer.
I imported six years worth of email which was an 800MB Outlook PST file and have some folders with over 6,000 messages.
It can read.pst files, then? This poster seems to be having problems. Being able to do this would be essential for me to switch, and Evolution could be the "killer app" that propels me into using Linux more than Windows on my home box.
I don't want to watch TV. Can't you make it a tax on new TVs or something?
You only pay it if you have a TV decoder. You could have a DVD player on your PC, or a dedicated unit with DVD or VCR player and a screen, and pay no licence fee. You'll get constantly hassled by the licencing authority, though, because mose people without a licence are actually watching TV. I know a couple of people who don't have any TV at all, and they are always getting letters and people calling to check.
Keeping the operating system with the PC is not just a great benefit - it is a legal requirement.
This looks like legal advice to me. It also looks like a lie - they are saying that it is illegal to delete Windows and install GNU/Linux. Is that something that can be taken to court? Anyone have a few spare millions to do it with - or is it something that can be reported to the state and left for them to handle? These people are lying to schools, which are state institutions after all.
No, it's because Americans don't care about anything outside of America, of course! (And I'm safe from flamebate mods, 'cos nobody moderates around here either! Ha ha ha ha haaaaa!)
"We are pleased that the Japanese courts, like their U.S. counterparts, have found that it is illegal to create and operate networks that facilitate copyright infringement regardless of whether the copyrighted material is stored on that network,"
So that makes creating the Internet illegal in japan, I suppose, or running an email server.
I was at the ACCU Conference that Herb mentions in his speech, and at the end of the first day there was a special last-minute session scheduled with Herb and Stan, called "Revelation on the road to redmond". It was quite interesting, and when Herb introduced the man who had implemented partial specialisation in Visual C++, there was a tremendous round of applause! And this was not a conference full of Microsoft flunkies, far from it.
The upshot is, MS have an internal build of MSVC that will compile Loki. It should be available around the end of this year.
If the problem is too much traffic, well, then limit the traffic.
If I were in charge of doing this, I would be inclined to implement some kind of adaptive throttling, so the more you downloaded over the last week, the slower your downloads run. So, if you are a low-volume user that needs to get a big file, it comes down quickly. If you run a Gnutella server, a Freenet server, and soak up the rest with a bit of spidering, then your connection slows down to a crawl. I would introduce a higher-usage rate that doesn't slow down as much. These slowdown rates would be adjustable on a quarterly basis with three months notice of the throttle change.
And in the mean time, as I won't be able to play Half-Life any more, I'd better get out my ZX81 until the computer industry recovers from this 20-year setback.
when I tried to email the list administrators, with an individual email to each but cc:d to abuse@yahoo.com, all but one of the emails were refused thus: We are unable to process the message from <xxxxx@xxxxx.co.uk> to <xxxxx-owner@yahoogroups.com>.
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So I tried removing the cc:, and that didn't work either. It seems that once you've emailed the owner of a group, Yahoo looks out for emails to other group owners, and blocks them. So I had to post to the lists instead, with an explanation and apology for posting to the group. Does that suck, or what?
He was stating that if anyone installed this software without his permission, on his hardware, then the manufacturer of the spyware would be liable for disabling the anti-spyware he had already installed.
I disagree entirely, for exactly the same reasons as for DeCSS. It may be possible to commit a crime using this software, and it may even be difficult in some jurisdictions to find uses that are not illegal. But that shouldn't make the creation of the software illegal.
Sorry to be unclear, I meant that I am talking theoretically. I don't own a company, PHB was a reference to the Pointy Haired Boss character in Dilbert.
Lets get away from the company scenario - if I want to load this software onto my own laptop, so that if someone uses it without my permission I can find out who and why, then that is surely my right.
I find it hard to believe that so many/.ers think that writing certain kinds of software should be inherently illegal.
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Can someone explain to me why someone would use use two backwards apostraphes at the beginning, and two double-quotes at the end of a quotation ``like this""?
If you're going to be pedantic, then so am I! Just because it's compiled with GCC, that doesn't make it part of the GNU project. Using a GPL'd compiler does not make the compiled output GPL'd. Hah, I out-pedant thee! A pox on thy inferior pedantry!
So it doesn't need batteries, then, and boots instantly? Cool!
Come on, pal, make a shorter link!
and say something like "I believe Microsoft Windows is the only major operating system that streamlines the user experience in this way".
I know the site is not /.ed but does anyone have a mirror, or an alternate source, for this article? My company's internet filter is blocking me.
Good (dead) old Acorn made some of the best hardware and software of the era. Try a RiscStaion and run RiscOS on it.
No, it's because Americans don't care about anything outside of America, of course! (And I'm safe from flamebate mods, 'cos nobody moderates around here either! Ha ha ha ha haaaaa!)
I was at the ACCU Conference that Herb mentions in his speech, and at the end of the first day there was a special last-minute session scheduled with Herb and Stan, called "Revelation on the road to redmond". It was quite interesting, and when Herb introduced the man who had implemented partial specialisation in Visual C++, there was a tremendous round of applause! And this was not a conference full of Microsoft flunkies, far from it.
The upshot is, MS have an internal build of MSVC that will compile Loki. It should be available around the end of this year.
Here's a similar idea being used by a UK ISP.
And in the mean time, as I won't be able to play Half-Life any more, I'd better get out my ZX81 until the computer industry recovers from this 20-year setback.
Done. Thanks, I couldn't find that anywhere in the Yahoo account details screens.
when I tried to email the list administrators, with an individual email to each but cc:d to abuse@yahoo.com, all but one of the emails were refused thus:
We are unable to process the message from <xxxxx@xxxxx.co.uk>
to <xxxxx-owner@yahoogroups.com>.
You may not cross-post a message to moderators of multiple groups
simultaneously. Your message to the moderator of the xxxxx
group was not delivered.
For further assistance, please email support@yahoogroups.com
or visit http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/
So I tried removing the cc:, and that didn't work either. It seems that once you've emailed the owner of a group, Yahoo looks out for emails to other group owners, and blocks them. So I had to post to the lists instead, with an explanation and apology for posting to the group. Does that suck, or what?
Sorry to be unclear, I meant that I am talking theoretically. I don't own a company, PHB was a reference to the Pointy Haired Boss character in Dilbert.
/.ers think that writing certain kinds of software should be inherently illegal.
Lets get away from the company scenario - if I want to load this software onto my own laptop, so that if someone uses it without my permission I can find out who and why, then that is surely my right.
I find it hard to believe that so many