And how in the world does the name eVic imply 20GB of storage? Is it something in another language (like vic means 20), or was the poster meaning that the eVic was supposed to compete with the iPod based on similarities in the way they are capitalized and the lengths of the name?
Does anyone feel that this is just publicizing what every GOOD developer has been saying for the last 10-15 years?
Or more: "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers" - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, "Oath of Fealty"
Put in context, it quite clearly indicates to me at least that they only care about uploading and downloading of movies. Of course, it doesn't mean that the rest of the terms of service aren't also very restrictive and perhaps the "unlimited" in the name is misleading.
I think it clearly says "This is how we're going to structure an incredibly misleading add compaign". It's an attempt to sell an 'unlimited' service with a contract giving them the right to restrict said service in pretty much any way they want. Nothing more, nothing less.
A sweat soaked Steve Ballmer announced that many stores that sell Windows will also be opening car washes to compete with this most recent threat from Linux.
LaForge gets some wise but unwanted advice from Scotty.
Scotty: Do ye mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now, and they want it their way. But the secret is to give only what they need, not what they want!
LaForge: Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: And how long would it really take?
LaForge: An hour!
Scotty: Oh, ye didn't tell him how long it would really take, did ye?
LaForge: Well, of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie, ye've got a lot to learn if ye want people to think of ye as a miracle worker!
--Relics
Show a non-geek firefox (no, not the movie, they'll never forgive you)
So far every person I have shown firefox to has installed it and started to use it, even my cousin's kids. The older one even thinks that Linux is cool, which came as a bit of a shock to me;)
Canadians only have those rights that Parliament chooses to allow Canadians to have. Those rights are in law, as opposed to the US where the constitution prohibits Congress from interfering with rights.
Bwahahahahahahaha! We've done a fair bit better protecting those rights then the americans have. Though many examples could be used here I'll leave it at one: 'Patriot act'
Canada has no constitutional prohibitions on Parliament modifying, abridging, or abolishing those rights at any time. Canadian courts have ruled that Parliament has the authority to pass unconstitutional laws.
'Patriot act'. So much for those constituitional protections
Canada has warrantless searches and summary judgements.
'Patriot act'
Remember that the US Bill of Rights ends at the border. You do have rights in Canada, but they are different than the rights in the US. They are more explicitly spelled out and less strictly shielded than in the US.
Bush is temporary. The nice thing about term limits is that, at worst, the USA will suffer for eight years. This is already better than suffering for decades under monarchs or dictators. The larger problem is educating voters why they should vote for someone else.
True about the shrub, but what will you do when he's gone and his atrocious legislation is left behing?
The "War on Terror" and the PATRIOT act go hand-in-hand. Only due to this arbitrary declaration of war are the rules of society
Reeaallyy.. And just when was that declaration, eh? Only a fool would believe that the Patriot act is going to go anywhere anytime soon - or that there aren't a large number of individuals who aren't upset at that thought. Vile vile crap but it has about as much to do with a 'war on terror' as invading Iraq.
Regardless, I still feel comfortable that I can say pretty much anything without fear of persecution. I can still travel anywhere across
'Free speech zones'
state lines. Libraries are still open to the public. There are no roving
Seizure of lending records
bands of gunmen in my neighborhood. Etc. People
Soldiers (with unloaded weapons - lol - that trip to dc, via regan national, still cracks me up) in your streets, airports & public spaces
who live in fear are themselves to blame; don't blame the government for this (reserve the blame for things like overtaxation and pork projects).
True, true - I blame the incredibly stupid american people (or was that pets? same difference) who sit on their (incredibly obese btw) asses and take such abuses. Not that we're doing such a great job here, but at least we're trying.
You know, one can always fork the project and design a good interface.
Someone mod this up, please. That is the whole point (and strength) of Open Source. Anyone who thinks they can do better is welcome to modify it any way they like. You don't need permission from whomever is currently directing development.
Given 1)forking isn't nec a big deal (think film gimp) and 2)no one has bothered to do one for the purpose of 'fixing' the UI that maybe we could assume 3)this issue, despite the noise made about it, really isn't an issue.
mmm - I rather like the ssh server, but the term's a little clunky. I do have a linux box on the desk too so there's always a putty window open and find it jsut nicer/easier to ssh back to the windows box if need be. Between that, and mounting the windows partitions on the linux box I almost never use a win32 terminal
Mmmm every windows install (personall) I do gets some cygwin luvin' pretty quick. It's not there for regular use of unix apps (my desk at home has a drake 10 box and a win2k box on it - synergy is a great peice of software) but for occasional bits and pieces. Like having a ssh server, X11 server, grep, cal, joe etc.
Or, to take an example from a 'real' sport - Dr Ron Karnough who won the 200im at div NCAA's the year he graduated with a an MD (Orthoscopic sugery). Sure there's lots of 'smart jocks' but how many of them have performed at a world top10 level, in a loy 'paying' sport with in & out of season drug testing to boot, through the process of obtaining an MD?
Oh - and I do have a baseball tie in, for those patient enough to read the whole article
What makes people think that Hotmail, Yahoo, and other free-mail providers don't intentionally or accidentally archive, parse, or otherwise "invade" their users' privacy to some degree?
Well perusing the MSN EULA, which one is required to agree to before activating a hotmail account:
6. MATERIALS YOU POST OR PROVIDE; COMMUNICATIONS MONITORING
For materials you post or otherwise provide to Microsoft related to the MSN Web Sites (a "Submission"), you grant Microsoft permission to (1) use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your Submission, each in connection with the MSN Web Sites, and (2) sublicense these rights, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Microsoft will not pay you for your Submission. Microsoft may remove your Submission at any time. For each Submission, you represent that you have all rights necessary for you to make the grants in this section. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Microsoft may monitor your e-mail, or other electronic communications and may disclose such information in the event it has a good faith reason to believe it is necessary for purposes of ensuring your compliance with this Agreement, and protecting the rights, property, and interests of the Microsoft Parties or any customer of a Microsoft Party.
Given such boilerplate as 'standard' I'm sure google could do all kinds of nifty automated things with your textstream while managing to be at least relatively 'not evil'
I would suggest that anyone carrying extra batteries for a personal device, put them into the change cup.
When I fly I carry all kinds of change, several AA's, tokens, pens & what not. To get around having to haul all this stuff out for inspection all the time (esp for connecting flights) I usually carry a ziplock bag or two and stuff anything that might remotely go into the change box. One item, no fussing & my pockets are lighter.
Re:Six Thousand Years!!.....
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Maybe I'm wrong, I have only the review to go on, but it sounds similar in style (and maybe concept) to Poul Anderson's "The Boat Of A Million Years"
Well like perlin noise can offer more interesting 'random' results I think one can put the related: modifier to good antiboredom use. I know I've wasted a fair bit of time with this
All you really want is decent note taking right? Instead of a $3,000 POS, get a decent PalmOS PDA and a Stoaway folding keyboard.
I've been using my zaurus 5500 with a stowaway irda kb for a while. The driver is reasonably stable and unobtrusive. The combination works _very_ well for on-the-go text entry. I certainly wish I'd had something similar when I was in school a decade ago.
Sometimes I think our entire legal system is a functional parody.
Which makes it a creative work and copywritable! Come to think of it that piece of legal fiction they call a TOS is pretty much the only original 'work' on the entire damned site
Plus a component system that makes activeX objects look, well, let's just say I can't think of an apropriate adjective for polite company.
Object pascal is very clean OO/procedural language that remains extreamly self consistant and is small enough to learn quickly. If I were building windows GUIs or DB frontends or pretty much anything focused largely on an event handler model my first choice would be delphi.
Slashdot Mirror
Once again google, if not memory, to the rescue: http://www.google.ca/search?q=vic20
Or more: "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers" - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, "Oath of Fealty"
I think it clearly says "This is how we're going to structure an incredibly misleading add compaign". It's an attempt to sell an 'unlimited' service with a contract giving them the right to restrict said service in pretty much any way they want. Nothing more, nothing less.
Are you sure it was car washes and not photohuts?
LaForge gets some wise but unwanted advice from Scotty. Scotty: Do ye mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now, and they want it their way. But the secret is to give only what they need, not what they want! LaForge: Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour. Scotty: And how long would it really take? LaForge: An hour! Scotty: Oh, ye didn't tell him how long it would really take, did ye? LaForge: Well, of course I did. Scotty: Oh, laddie, ye've got a lot to learn if ye want people to think of ye as a miracle worker! --Relics
I bet your rovers aren't even made of transparent aluminium either.
And I'm sure this person prob doesn't think twice about a little wardriving or what have you.
You're pretty new around here eh?
True north strong and free
now was that Duke Nukem Forever or Did Not Finish?
Given 1)forking isn't nec a big deal (think film gimp) and 2)no one has bothered to do one for the purpose of 'fixing' the UI that maybe we could assume 3)this issue, despite the noise made about it, really isn't an issue.
Put up or shut up - welcome to OSS.
mmm - I rather like the ssh server, but the term's a little clunky. I do have a linux box on the desk too so there's always a putty window open and find it jsut nicer/easier to ssh back to the windows box if need be. Between that, and mounting the windows partitions on the linux box I almost never use a win32 terminal
Mmmm every windows install (personall) I do gets some cygwin luvin' pretty quick. It's not there for regular use of unix apps (my desk at home has a drake 10 box and a win2k box on it - synergy is a great peice of software) but for occasional bits and pieces. Like having a ssh server, X11 server, grep, cal, joe etc.
Actually a good friend of mine happened to marry a Ukranian. He's Persian though and they both just got citizenship. Very cool couple.
Or, to take an example from a 'real' sport - Dr Ron Karnough who won the 200im at div NCAA's the year he graduated with a an MD (Orthoscopic sugery). Sure there's lots of 'smart jocks' but how many of them have performed at a world top10 level, in a loy 'paying' sport with in & out of season drug testing to boot, through the process of obtaining an MD? Oh - and I do have a baseball tie in, for those patient enough to read the whole article
Well... takes you to school anyway.
That's true north, strong and free to you yank ;)
When I fly I carry all kinds of change, several AA's, tokens, pens & what not. To get around having to haul all this stuff out for inspection all the time (esp for connecting flights) I usually carry a ziplock bag or two and stuff anything that might remotely go into the change box. One item, no fussing & my pockets are lighter.
Maybe I'm wrong, I have only the review to go on, but it sounds similar in style (and maybe concept) to Poul Anderson's "The Boat Of A Million Years"
Well like perlin noise can offer more interesting 'random' results I think one can put the related: modifier to good antiboredom use. I know I've wasted a fair bit of time with this
I've been using my zaurus 5500 with a stowaway irda kb for a while. The driver is reasonably stable and unobtrusive. The combination works _very_ well for on-the-go text entry. I certainly wish I'd had something similar when I was in school a decade ago.
Plus a component system that makes activeX objects look, well, let's just say I can't think of an apropriate adjective for polite company. Object pascal is very clean OO/procedural language that remains extreamly self consistant and is small enough to learn quickly. If I were building windows GUIs or DB frontends or pretty much anything focused largely on an event handler model my first choice would be delphi.