Does Lynx support https? I didn't think it did, in which case how can he be making a donation? Unless of course the Tsunami website allows unsecure donations which I doubt.
Maybe he was actually hacking, or certainly up to no good?
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority:
* Knight or Dame Grand Cross (GBE)
* Knight or Dame Commander (KBE or DBE)
* Commander (CBE)
* Officer (OBE)
* Member (MBE)
Only the two highest ranks are knightly (at which point you can call yourself sir).
A TV motoring show in the UK (5th Gear, I think it's called) did a test where a Smart was remotely driven head on into a concrete wall at 70 mph. The roll cage hardly deformed to the point where the doors would still open ok. Naturally such rapid decelaration would probably still kill you at that speed, but it just goes to show how strong the roll cage is and safe you'd be at a lower speed collision.
caveat - IANAL, but I'm reasonably clued up on consumer law
In the UK, the 1979 Sale of Goods Act says that items must be of 'Fit for Purpose' & 'Of Merchantable Quality' (ie it does what it's meant to without breaking). Your contract is with the shop not the end manufacturer, so you are entitled to walk into wherever you purchased it and demand a replacement or your money back. You needn't get fobbed off with claims such as 'take it up with the manufacturer' as your contract's with the shop. Kryponite can't even put a time limit on it as a lock that's opened using a biro's clearly not 'Fit for Purpose'. Any shop that doesn't comply can be reported to the trading standards authority who take a very dim view of people not complying to said act!
Yes, but it's in a separate product called (no awards for originality) Sybase Replication Server. It was one of the first repservers on the market and is very full featured.
I'm guesing that Sybase's marketing plan is the usual release the main product for free, get people hooked, and charge them for everything else so I think you'll have to pay for it.
MS, Sybase & Ashton Tate jointly developed the core engine up until the mid nineties at which point there was (I believe) a very acrimonious split due to some licensing argument. That was at version 4.2 and so the SQL syntax remains common between the two. Since then I'm sure there's been a certain amount of divergence (and then some!), but it theory porting should be easyish (famous last words).
I used to be a Sybase DBA and still dable with it a bit. It's a very nice db, and at one time was a real contender against Oracle. It still has a very strong footing in the Financial sector as it was deemed to be faster than Oracle. In todays world of cheap hardware and spare cpu cycles I don't think that's quite as important.
The first Animatronic figures, called A-4s, could turn and open their mouths to be synchronized with music. The next phase, called A-100s, had more real-life movement and were used in Pirates of the Caribbean and "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" at Disneyland,...
I get the economics, and I get the "I wanna cool gadget to show off" type feeling. I just question the fact that Burton (who are generally known for making great boarding gear) seem to be getting more and more corporate each year. Hardly the same spirit that Jake Burton used when he founded the company.
Yep, rechargeable batteries really don't like the cold. They usually have some operating parameters in the handbook and 0 degrees C is usually about the minimum (if they say less, they're lying). I have a digital Ixus which I love for taking snaps of mates, but things got so bad I'd I took to keeping the battery in my inside pocket where it's warm. Just reinsert the battery when needed!
$1000US - Geez I'd rather get a new deck and/or a seasons lift pass for that kinda cash. Burton may still make some great gear, but you gotta question whether they're going just a little bit too corporate for my liking!
I bought one of these and (in the UK) it worked about 75% of the time. The really annoying thing was it sometimes missed the indicator to start recording after the adverts had finished and so missed part of/rest of the show. This made it next to useless in my book, and so I returned it and got my cash back on the grounds that it didn't work as advertised.
I think to manufacture a device that skips all adds without screwing up is next to impossible (which is the reason why all VCR's don't include the feature).
I know someone who works at Pogo, and I've seen a pre-production version of it, but didn't really get a chance to play with it. AFAIK, web browsing goes through the Pogo servers to the outside world which does a lot of graphic clipping/compression to simulate 56K over a GPRS type link. Whether this holds true in the real world has yet to be seen.
All in all it looks a very cool device, and it'll be interesting to see how the big boys respond to it.
No - AFAIK the entire interface is based around Flash, so unbundling it isn't a possibility. The device has an embedded mini-browser and flash interpreter built in.
Assume for the moment that the terrorists are really clever (which is entirely possible).
What's to stop them loading a hard drive with all sorts of false plans, deliberately use low grade 40bit encryption, and handing it over to a couple nosy reporters under dubious circumstances?
I seem to remember Canary Wharf (London's tallest building with 100+ floors) doing something like this in the early 90's. They were having trouble selling some of the space so organised the office lights to blink on and off in patterns as a giant advert!
Nah, the more cynical among us would say that he delayed it so that everyone would buy 2 copies - the VHS one when it first came out, and the DVD one for the better quality footage and extras.
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I get the following error message when I try and access https:-
Alert!: This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs.
This is the same version of lynx that's listed above - 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
Does Lynx support https? I didn't think it did, in which case how can he be making a donation? Unless of course the Tsunami website allows unsecure donations which I doubt.
Maybe he was actually hacking, or certainly up to no good?
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority:
* Knight or Dame Grand Cross (GBE)
* Knight or Dame Commander (KBE or DBE)
* Commander (CBE)
* Officer (OBE)
* Member (MBE)
Only the two highest ranks are knightly (at which point you can call yourself sir).
See the full wikipedia entry here
A TV motoring show in the UK (5th Gear, I think it's called) did a test where a Smart was remotely driven head on into a concrete wall at 70 mph. The roll cage hardly deformed to the point where the doors would still open ok. Naturally such rapid decelaration would probably still kill you at that speed, but it just goes to show how strong the roll cage is and safe you'd be at a lower speed collision.
caveat - IANAL, but I'm reasonably clued up on consumer law
In the UK, the 1979 Sale of Goods Act says that items must be of 'Fit for Purpose' & 'Of Merchantable Quality' (ie it does what it's meant to without breaking). Your contract is with the shop not the end manufacturer, so you are entitled to walk into wherever you purchased it and demand a replacement or your money back. You needn't get fobbed off with claims such as 'take it up with the manufacturer' as your contract's with the shop. Kryponite can't even put a time limit on it as a lock that's opened using a biro's clearly not 'Fit for Purpose'. Any shop that doesn't comply can be reported to the trading standards authority who take a very dim view of people not complying to said act!
Yes, but it's in a separate product called (no awards for originality) Sybase Replication Server. It was one of the first repservers on the market and is very full featured.
I'm guesing that Sybase's marketing plan is the usual release the main product for free, get people hooked, and charge them for everything else so I think you'll have to pay for it.
MS, Sybase & Ashton Tate jointly developed the core engine up until the mid nineties at which point there was (I believe) a very acrimonious split due to some licensing argument. That was at version 4.2 and so the SQL syntax remains common between the two. Since then I'm sure there's been a certain amount of divergence (and then some!), but it theory porting should be easyish (famous last words).
I used to be a Sybase DBA and still dable with it a bit. It's a very nice db, and at one time was a real contender against Oracle. It still has a very strong footing in the Financial sector as it was deemed to be faster than Oracle. In todays world of cheap hardware and spare cpu cycles I don't think that's quite as important.
Apart from all that, nice troll attempt. Now stop pretending to be something that you're not, you pathetic little man.
I think the correct phrase is 'bugger off, you wanker', but then only a brit would understand that.
The first Animatronic figures, called A-4s, could turn and open their mouths to be synchronized with music. The next phase, called A-100s, had more real-life movement and were used in Pirates of the Caribbean and "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" at Disneyland, ...
What happens when they get to the T1000 then!
I get the economics, and I get the "I wanna cool gadget to show off" type feeling. I just question the fact that Burton (who are generally known for making great boarding gear) seem to be getting more and more corporate each year. Hardly the same spirit that Jake Burton used when he founded the company.
I just find it a bit sad, that's all.
Yep, rechargeable batteries really don't like the cold. They usually have some operating parameters in the handbook and 0 degrees C is usually about the minimum (if they say less, they're lying). I have a digital Ixus which I love for taking snaps of mates, but things got so bad I'd I took to keeping the battery in my inside pocket where it's warm. Just reinsert the battery when needed!
$1000US - Geez I'd rather get a new deck and/or a seasons lift pass for that kinda cash. Burton may still make some great gear, but you gotta question whether they're going just a little bit too corporate for my liking!
I think to manufacture a device that skips all adds without screwing up is next to impossible (which is the reason why all VCR's don't include the feature).
Err, how can they claim ownership rights to GPL'd code? They may be planning some changes, but I can't see thats one of them.
As someone else pointed out, you should keep regular backups just in case the carpet's pulled out from under you (it's good practice anyway).
All in all it looks a very cool device, and it'll be interesting to see how the big boys respond to it.
No - AFAIK the entire interface is based around Flash, so unbundling it isn't a possibility. The device has an embedded mini-browser and flash interpreter built in.
What's to stop them loading a hard drive with all sorts of false plans, deliberately use low grade 40bit encryption, and handing it over to a couple nosy reporters under dubious circumstances?
I seem to remember Canary Wharf (London's tallest building with 100+ floors) doing something like this in the early 90's. They were having trouble selling some of the space so organised the office lights to blink on and off in patterns as a giant advert!
shouldn't that be break ?
2 copies = twice the revenue