If you want to use a registered domain, go ahead and sign up with someone like dyndns.org...there's nothing stopping you. Comcast already gives you a static IP, but they give it to you via DHCP to keep configuration hassles down to a minimum.
I wish people would just give up this idea that there is a free market. THERE IS NO FREE MARKET, not as long as all parties are not fully aware of all the facts and especially as long as cable companies get special protection from the government.
Where I live, the only option for high speed access is cable (DSL isn't here yet), which cripples the "free market" illusion even more.
Does the Xbox have the same region nonsense built-in like Sony's products, or can you actually play games from around the world without having to add mod chips? I was all for getting a PS2 until reading about this; now there is just a bad taste in my mouth.
This is similar to those CDROM-based services I used to use for writing reports in college. The "premium documents" are articles from various journals, magazines and other publications that simply aren't available on the web. In fact, I can see a lot of libraries and schools subscribing to this.
To answer your question, the authors whose documents will become available have already been paid by their respective publishers.
So who's going to be the first one to realize that it's really the full version that's crippled by a couple of registry entries, develops a crack and posts the results to the web?
This sort of reminds me of Apple's OS X.1 "update" CD that was really the full version.
Be, Inc. has an open and shut antitrust suit with Microsoft. The only thing that kept BeOS from being pre-loaded onto dual-boot systems of mainstream OEMs was exclusivity contracts that MS had with those OEMs. In the context of a monopoly, such contracts are illegal because they only serve to kill off new competitors.
What did you do to your setup so that you can't tape something and watch another? I'm guessing your cable runs into your cable box, then outputs to your VCR then TV?
While that lets you tape PPV's and premium channels, you lose the ability to watch and tape two different shows. Do what I do:
1. Cable splits to VCR and cable box. 2. VCR and cable box output to an AV switchbox which goes into your TV's RCA/S-video inputs. 3. Cable box also outputs into your VCR's RCA inputs (channel L on most VCR's). 4. Optional - 75 ohm cable from VCR to TV's Antenna-in.
Note that the line from the cable box to the VCR would go into your VCR's RCA inputs...of course your cable box must have RCA outputs for that to work, but most have them nowadays. So now, you can watch unscrambled channels and record unscrambled/scrambled channels. However, if you want to watch a scrambled channel, you're still stuck...but that's a limit of cable boxes.
Yeah, let's drive the klan into the underground and no one will know what devious things they're up to. Al-KKKaida anyone? Speech must be kept free and open if only to "keep you friends close and your enemies closer."
I would kill for built-in PDF conversion in Word at our office. You can open up the exact same DOC file on different computers and the pagination will be different, which is a pain if you need to send corrections (hardcopy only) of anything to a client. It all has to do with printer settings and templates and whatnot, but it is no excuse when something as consistent as PDF exists.
"by Anonymous Coward on 3:01 18th January, 2002 (Score:0) (#2860730)
sooo much more practical to have 11,000 rows!!!!! right! hahahaha!"
Try not being ignorant before opening your mouth. Go ahead and explain how I can do my job better without you knowing exactly what I'm up to. I thought so...now shut up.
There was an episode of ST:TNG where the Enterprise picked up a vessel floating in space with people in suspended animation. When asked about television, one of the crew members explained that people eventually lost interest in television and it died out...now we know how it began to do so.
The information could be put into a database later...but it makes much more sense and is more practical (in my case) to have the data in a spreadsheet. The numbers need to be worked and looked at intensely and a spreadsheet is the most productive way to do it.
/me raises his hand. Last year I would have agreed with you, however. When you start getting into spreadsheets with over 11,000 rows and a dozen or so fields in each row and the need to analyze all that data, one starts to appreciate having something faster than a Pentium I 200.
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If you want to use a registered domain, go ahead and sign up with someone like dyndns.org...there's nothing stopping you. Comcast already gives you a static IP, but they give it to you via DHCP to keep configuration hassles down to a minimum.
I wish people would just give up this idea that there is a free market. THERE IS NO FREE MARKET, not as long as all parties are not fully aware of all the facts and especially as long as cable companies get special protection from the government.
Where I live, the only option for high speed access is cable (DSL isn't here yet), which cripples the "free market" illusion even more.
Documents should be retained for the amount of time it takes to walk from your desk to the paper shredder.
Does the Xbox have the same region nonsense built-in like Sony's products, or can you actually play games from around the world without having to add mod chips? I was all for getting a PS2 until reading about this; now there is just a bad taste in my mouth.
The number of replies to this thread that deal with making soap from fat asses: 2. One of which I made earlier.
Your own fat ass: It's for much more than just soap now, it can save your life!
This is similar to those CDROM-based services I used to use for writing reports in college. The "premium documents" are articles from various journals, magazines and other publications that simply aren't available on the web. In fact, I can see a lot of libraries and schools subscribing to this.
To answer your question, the authors whose documents will become available have already been paid by their respective publishers.
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So who's going to be the first one to realize that it's really the full version that's crippled by a couple of registry entries, develops a crack and posts the results to the web?
This sort of reminds me of Apple's OS X.1 "update" CD that was really the full version.
You can't sue someone because you're lazy. MSN could blanket the world with CD's too.
Be, Inc. has an open and shut antitrust suit with Microsoft. The only thing that kept BeOS from being pre-loaded onto dual-boot systems of mainstream OEMs was exclusivity contracts that MS had with those OEMs. In the context of a monopoly, such contracts are illegal because they only serve to kill off new competitors.
What did you do to your setup so that you can't tape something and watch another? I'm guessing your cable runs into your cable box, then outputs to your VCR then TV?
While that lets you tape PPV's and premium channels, you lose the ability to watch and tape two different shows. Do what I do:
1. Cable splits to VCR and cable box. 2. VCR and cable box output to an AV switchbox which goes into your TV's RCA/S-video inputs. 3. Cable box also outputs into your VCR's RCA inputs (channel L on most VCR's). 4. Optional - 75 ohm cable from VCR to TV's Antenna-in.
Note that the line from the cable box to the VCR would go into your VCR's RCA inputs...of course your cable box must have RCA outputs for that to work, but most have them nowadays. So now, you can watch unscrambled channels and record unscrambled/scrambled channels. However, if you want to watch a scrambled channel, you're still stuck...but that's a limit of cable boxes.
I thought Comsucks was for Comcast's new "high speed" cable modem service.
Yeah, let's drive the klan into the underground and no one will know what devious things they're up to. Al-KKKaida anyone? Speech must be kept free and open if only to "keep you friends close and your enemies closer."
"Remember, they have 3COM backing them, and 3COM still makes one helluva network card."
Two points:
Palm was spun off from 3Com over a year or so ago. It is a completely separate company.
Even if they were still the same company, I doubt the quality of the 3C905B NIC would have any impact on Palm sales.
It is a good analogy...he was talking about groups that are/were holding the reigns of power.
I don't know. Let's thaw him out and ask.
Hey, is that why iMesh won't start for me? I opted not to install Cydoor.
I would kill for built-in PDF conversion in Word at our office. You can open up the exact same DOC file on different computers and the pagination will be different, which is a pain if you need to send corrections (hardcopy only) of anything to a client. It all has to do with printer settings and templates and whatnot, but it is no excuse when something as consistent as PDF exists.
"by Anonymous Coward on 3:01 18th January, 2002 (Score:0) (#2860730)
sooo much more practical to have 11,000 rows!!!!! right! hahahaha!"
Try not being ignorant before opening your mouth. Go ahead and explain how I can do my job better without you knowing exactly what I'm up to. I thought so...now shut up.
There was an episode of ST:TNG where the Enterprise picked up a vessel floating in space with people in suspended animation. When asked about television, one of the crew members explained that people eventually lost interest in television and it died out...now we know how it began to do so.
The information could be put into a database later...but it makes much more sense and is more practical (in my case) to have the data in a spreadsheet. The numbers need to be worked and looked at intensely and a spreadsheet is the most productive way to do it.
/me raises his hand. Last year I would have agreed with you, however. When you start getting into spreadsheets with over 11,000 rows and a dozen or so fields in each row and the need to analyze all that data, one starts to appreciate having something faster than a Pentium I 200.
I think all of that stuff is automated, so there wouldn't be any real paperwork involved.
Don't forget to put the CD's on your credit card. This will give you two advantages:
1. You'll be able to buy more CD's than you could with cash.
2. If the situation arises, you can dispute the charges since you were sold defective merchandise.