... drivers for memory sticks? Ok, so the Play Station doesn't have them, but Sony put them in almost everything else. Vaio + Linux + Memory sticks...?
"I've been looking at those damn things ever since they appeared over the horizon. I can't quite make out what they are. Hang on, there's a label on 'em, it got my name and says 'Sense'. Hey everybody, I've come to my senses!"
Please list the actions of the United States for which "retaliation" by murdering 5000 innocent civilians is justifiable.
Nothing, of course.
But this is the problem. To our minds, we are innocent. We have completely failed to understand other cultures and their values. In their minds, they are the victims, and have completely failed to understand our culture and values. We've trodden on their toes, and they're stamping back. Belligerence and jingoism (by all parties) is not the answer.
Tony Blair will only support the USA for as long as it suits him. He bends over backwards in the slightest breeze of public opinion.
During the height of the foot and mouth disease, T.B. allowed his policy to slaughtering animals to be influenced by a 9 year old child that appeared on TV pleading with him not to kill his sheep. Now, either that 9 year old child is brighter than Phony Tony, or public opinion matters more than his own conviction.
I am really intrigued by their "prepare of jihad" statement. Honestly I don't think that they quite understand that this is in no way linked to any such "holy war". Maybe the language barrier is really a problem.
Its a jihad because it is non-muslims attacking muslim state. This entitles them (under Islamic law) to make it a religious affair, irrespective of the opponents intentions.
AOL, ATT and Comcast were falling over themselves today in attempts to buy the ailing @home. However, it is believed that talks have fallen through. Evidence of this was leaked by a disgruntled employee who had a copy the 'training tape' made when Comcast called:
@home: "Hello, can I have your at home account name please?"
comcast: "Er, actually I work for Comcast and I would like to buy your company, and I need to speak to your CEO about a deal"
@home: "Oh, can I have your primary email address then please?"
comcast: "No, you don't understand, I called earlier and left a message for your CEO to call me back."
@home: "Ok, I see the problem then. Could you unplug your cable modem for 30 seconds please?"
comcast: "What? No, I need to speak..."
@home: "I'm sorry that won't be possible, nobody here has telephones. You need to unplug your cable modem."
@comcast: "You don't understand, if I don't speak to your CEO, you could lose your job."
@home: "I'm sorry, my SEE-EE-OH doesn't have a telephone. Could you reboot your PC now please?"
@comcast: "Oh for heavens sake, you'll be the first against the wall"
@home: "Oh there's a problem with your wall, we'll send a technician round then. Thank you for calling @home."
Later on, the disgruntled employee complained about @home's recruitment policy. "At the interview, they said all I needed to be able to do was to pick up the phone and to speak English. Technical ability was never a requirement. They never did trust me - I was never allowed to see the secret document that showed how to transfer calls to people that fix problems. What is a cable modem anyway?"
Personally, I have a couple of problems with my Marantz RC5000 (aka Pronto.)
1. As others have mentioned - toggles, and knowing the state that a device is in. Power on/off being the classic problem. Some devices support power on codes and power off codes, so you _can_ have one button that turns everything on, and another that turns them all off, but finding those codes can be 'challenging'. All too often though, you have to toggle them - and hope that all devices are in the same state to begin with, and hope that all devices see the request to invert their state.
2. (my biggest gripe) Being a couch potato, my fingers know where the major buttons are on my normal remotes without looking at them. I can flip channels, change volume, play, stop, fast forward, reverse, and even navigate my way through teletext (when I was back in the UK, oh how I miss teletext now that I'm in the USA) without _having_ to look at the remote. The pronto has 7 physicals buttons, which are easily found without looking at the remote. The rest are programmed but require the user to examine the display to find them. Look at your remotes, and I bet you can find far more than 7 buttons on them that don't require you to look at the remote. Consequently, to change channel, I now have to press it to turn it on/turn the light on. Either find the page with the numbers on it or the page with the dedicated channel on it. Find the button(s), point the remote at the TV/cable box/video then press it. Doesn't sound like much, but its an awful lot easier with the device's original remote.
I caughed up the cash for it for a number of reasons. I hated the array of remotes I needed to arm myself with, and could see a way out of the mess; Also the idea of tuning a device to work how I liked appeals to my programmer's nature that inspires me to make my PC behave how I like it to. Sad to say, the only time I use it now is when I can't find the crappy all-in-one remote that I got with Comcast (don't get me started on them).
Now, what I would really like, is a cross between my Pronto's display for infrequently used options and a 'full feature' remote that has distinct buttons for power, numbers, volume, channel switching, mute, video controls, menu page switching and a couple of others, just for good measure. That would convince me to spend the readdies. Or does such a device exist now, and I completely missing out?
Do I sound lazy? Maybe, but I'm prepared to put my money where my mouth is. Less than a year ago, I paid £250 ($350) for it. If its not against/. rules, I'll sell it to the first person who'll pay $50 + postage from the USA.
Slashdot Mirror
Its not just a full moon, its also a blue moon (2nd full moon inside a calendar month). The first blue moon on Halloween since 1955.
Slashdotted already.... could that possibly mean that there is life outside of the USA?
... drivers for memory sticks? Ok, so the Play Station doesn't have them, but Sony put them in almost everything else. Vaio + Linux + Memory sticks...?
I wonder if this episode is gonna get pirated...
I already have a single point of failure on the Internet. It's Comcast (my ISP). And no, I don't like it because it fails regularly.
"I've been looking at those damn things ever since they appeared over the horizon. I can't quite make out what they are. Hang on, there's a label on 'em, it got my name and says 'Sense'. Hey everybody, I've come to my senses!"
...for forcing Micro$oft to fix their security blunders.
"No, that's not security hole. We've got a monopoly that needs abusing before we have to fix that."
Perhaps that should read
Please list the actions of the United States for which "retaliation" by murdering 5000 innocent civilians is justifiable.
Nothing, of course.
But this is the problem. To our minds, we are innocent. We have completely failed to understand other cultures and their values. In their minds, they are the victims, and have completely failed to understand our culture and values. We've trodden on their toes, and they're stamping back. Belligerence and jingoism (by all parties) is not the answer.
Tony Blair will only support the USA for as long as it suits him. He bends over backwards in the slightest breeze of public opinion.
During the height of the foot and mouth disease, T.B. allowed his policy to slaughtering animals to be influenced by a 9 year old child that appeared on TV pleading with him not to kill his sheep. Now, either that 9 year old child is brighter than Phony Tony, or public opinion matters more than his own conviction.
I am really intrigued by their "prepare of jihad" statement. Honestly I don't think that they quite understand that this is in no way linked to any such "holy war". Maybe the language barrier is really a problem.
Its a jihad because it is non-muslims attacking muslim state. This entitles them (under Islamic law) to make it a religious affair, irrespective of the opponents intentions.
Trust me, she's not.
Does this fingerprint recognition system prevent anyone from opening the case, taking the disk out and installing it in another laptop/PC somewhere?
AOL, ATT and Comcast were falling over themselves today in attempts to buy the ailing @home. However, it is believed that talks have fallen through. Evidence of this was leaked by a disgruntled employee who had a copy the 'training tape' made when Comcast called:
@home: "Hello, can I have your at home account name please?"
comcast: "Er, actually I work for Comcast and I would like to buy your company, and I need to speak to your CEO about a deal"
@home: "Oh, can I have your primary email address then please?"
comcast: "No, you don't understand, I called earlier and left a message for your CEO to call me back."
@home: "Ok, I see the problem then. Could you unplug your cable modem for 30 seconds please?"
comcast: "What? No, I need to speak..."
@home: "I'm sorry that won't be possible, nobody here has telephones. You need to unplug your cable modem."
@comcast: "You don't understand, if I don't speak to your CEO, you could lose your job."
@home: "I'm sorry, my SEE-EE-OH doesn't have a telephone. Could you reboot your PC now please?"
@comcast: "Oh for heavens sake, you'll be the first against the wall"
@home: "Oh there's a problem with your wall, we'll send a technician round then. Thank you for calling @home."
Later on, the disgruntled employee complained about @home's recruitment policy. "At the interview, they said all I needed to be able to do was to pick up the phone and to speak English. Technical ability was never a requirement. They never did trust me - I was never allowed to see the secret document that showed how to transfer calls to people that fix problems. What is a cable modem anyway?"
I'm okay with the ads on Zdnet and C|net
So am I. But am I the only one that clicks on M$ adverts in the hope that they have to pay more if a user clicks on the ad?
Personally, I have a couple of problems with my Marantz RC5000 (aka Pronto.)
1. As others have mentioned - toggles, and knowing the state that a device is in. Power on/off being the classic problem. Some devices support power on codes and power off codes, so you _can_ have one button that turns everything on, and another that turns them all off, but finding those codes can be 'challenging'. All too often though, you have to toggle them - and hope that all devices are in the same state to begin with, and hope that all devices see the request to invert their state.
2. (my biggest gripe) Being a couch potato, my fingers know where the major buttons are on my normal remotes without looking at them. I can flip channels, change volume, play, stop, fast forward, reverse, and even navigate my way through teletext (when I was back in the UK, oh how I miss teletext now that I'm in the USA) without _having_ to look at the remote. The pronto has 7 physicals buttons, which are easily found without looking at the remote. The rest are programmed but require the user to examine the display to find them. Look at your remotes, and I bet you can find far more than 7 buttons on them that don't require you to look at the remote. Consequently, to change channel, I now have to press it to turn it on/turn the light on. Either find the page with the numbers on it or the page with the dedicated channel on it. Find the button(s), point the remote at the TV/cable box/video then press it. Doesn't sound like much, but its an awful lot easier with the device's original remote.
I caughed up the cash for it for a number of reasons. I hated the array of remotes I needed to arm myself with, and could see a way out of the mess; Also the idea of tuning a device to work how I liked appeals to my programmer's nature that inspires me to make my PC behave how I like it to. Sad to say, the only time I use it now is when I can't find the crappy all-in-one remote that I got with Comcast (don't get me started on them).
Now, what I would really like, is a cross between my Pronto's display for infrequently used options and a 'full feature' remote that has distinct buttons for power, numbers, volume, channel switching, mute, video controls, menu page switching and a couple of others, just for good measure. That would convince me to spend the readdies. Or does such a device exist now, and I completely missing out?
Do I sound lazy? Maybe, but I'm prepared to put my money where my mouth is. Less than a year ago, I paid £250 ($350) for it. If its not against
... who has the most to lose in a hacking war, terrorists or the USA?
If Americans observed 'lobbying' anywhere else in the world, it would be labelled corruption and undemocratic.
Don't boycott Battlebots - watch it, and boycott those companies that advertise on it. And tell those companies that you're doing so too.