Oracle has been touting Linux as their preferred platform for some time now. I did expect the Sun acquisition to flip that back, but apparently it hasn't.
Should have done your homework before you went out and bought it, or at least asked about it.
The original, japanese run had the full set of PS2 hardware built-in, and didn't so much emulate as switch systems. Then came a nice series for US and EU, that has software emulation. That emulation is not perfect, but pretty good; and we still play ps2 games from time to time.
Only about the time the slims were starting to get mentioned, iirc, did the PS2 emulation also vanish. Do your homework and have a look on ebay for the right model, then sell your newer one. I seem to recall Wikipedia having a quite exhaustive list of all the models.
Mechanical seven league boots, eh ? Hopefully users realise that unless some basic precautions are taken, using the boots results in having one's feet twenty-one miles apart causing unacceptable groin strain.
Of course there's always something that the protective measure won't protect you from. The point of them is to protect you within the specified limits. Nobody ever claimed that a hard hat is going to miraculously save you from a 20-ton container to the noggin.
Nobody else around the world bothered to call it the War on Terror, though. The rest of the world tries to deal with them without inane propaganda or trying to involve the whole planet.
You are assuming joe shareholder has a lot to say. The average small shareholder's power is limited to selling his stock if he doesn't agree with what the company is doing, and if enough of them do that, a signal is sent and maybe noticed.
The coming of a ruthless new CEO, selected and agreed upon by the other moneywhores on the board, will be heralded as 'increasing shareholder value', and the stock that does get sold off because of it, will be picked up quickly by those who smell the money aroma surrounding the new CEO - and that demand may well *rise* stock prices already.
It could probably go both ways, but a true penalty for bad CEOs would be a pretty good thing regardless - shame that "personal responsibility" has become a taboo concept.
Ahh, but you see, security is layers. Even if the TSA doesn't stop many lunatics, every one they *do* stop is one less lunatic that the passengers have to stop.
He's a gubment official, paid with your taxes. At that level, you also don't have actual working hours - you continue until the job's done. What time of day, and in what physical location he watches porn, changes nothing about the fact that your tax money is paying for it, nor can he 'steal time from his employer', as long as he does his job adequately.
The fact that he's a member of the party proposing the filter is, of course, a rather juicy bit. In my local politics, though, "member of the party that suggests X" is not necessarily synonymous with "person who supports X".
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You do love to point out obvious non-issues, don't you ?
Keep rebelling against the system, minion. You amuse me.
From that /icle's FA: "This turned the aluminium nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation."
:-)
Still, I have to admit that it ocurred to me, also
"Search and Destory", eh ? I guess Slashdot is running that, too.
Ooo, new ID, troll ? Other one got too low karma for your crap to get noticed anymore ?
From your criteria, it sounds like botnets have beaten everyone to it by several years.
> Nothing is 100% IBM compatible
Especially not IBM, in my experience.
Oracle has been touting Linux as their preferred platform for some time now. I did expect the Sun acquisition to flip that back, but apparently it hasn't.
In this world, you can apparently be forced to license anything, as anything at all is apparently patentable.
Should have done your homework before you went out and bought it, or at least asked about it.
The original, japanese run had the full set of PS2 hardware built-in, and didn't so much emulate as switch systems. Then came a nice series for US and EU, that has software emulation. That emulation is not perfect, but pretty good; and we still play ps2 games from time to time.
Only about the time the slims were starting to get mentioned, iirc, did the PS2 emulation also vanish. Do your homework and have a look on ebay for the right model, then sell your newer one. I seem to recall Wikipedia having a quite exhaustive list of all the models.
Mechanical seven league boots, eh ? Hopefully users realise that unless some basic precautions are taken, using the boots results in having one's feet twenty-one miles apart causing unacceptable groin strain.
Warning: heating element may be hot.
Of course there's always something that the protective measure won't protect you from. The point of them is to protect you within the specified limits. Nobody ever claimed that a hard hat is going to miraculously save you from a 20-ton container to the noggin.
Nobody else around the world bothered to call it the War on Terror, though. The rest of the world tries to deal with them without inane propaganda or trying to involve the whole planet.
> But terrorists are made, not born
That's fundie creationists for you.
Can't we just aim Bruce Schneier at them, then ?
Time for them to go silent, then ?
A power tool afficionado, is she ?
You are assuming joe shareholder has a lot to say. The average small shareholder's power is limited to selling his stock if he doesn't agree with what the company is doing, and if enough of them do that, a signal is sent and maybe noticed.
The coming of a ruthless new CEO, selected and agreed upon by the other moneywhores on the board, will be heralded as 'increasing shareholder value', and the stock that does get sold off because of it, will be picked up quickly by those who smell the money aroma surrounding the new CEO - and that demand may well *rise* stock prices already.
It could probably go both ways, but a true penalty for bad CEOs would be a pretty good thing regardless - shame that "personal responsibility" has become a taboo concept.
Could've been a couple of consonants worse.
And welcome to Slashdot, newly awakened meatblob.
Well, the chinese *are* pretty fond of those.
Ahh, but you see, security is layers. Even if the TSA doesn't stop many lunatics, every one they *do* stop is one less lunatic that the passengers have to stop.
*cough*
Don't worry, it'll also make sure they entrench themselves even more in the international NGO sector - after all, even open source can't beat free.
Between This and the US, I'd more expect something along the lines of "off the continent".
Yeah, we'll all listen to you, and in a month you'll be whining that the special Big Mac sauce used to taste much better.
He's a gubment official, paid with your taxes. At that level, you also don't have actual working hours - you continue until the job's done. What time of day, and in what physical location he watches porn, changes nothing about the fact that your tax money is paying for it, nor can he 'steal time from his employer', as long as he does his job adequately.
The fact that he's a member of the party proposing the filter is, of course, a rather juicy bit. In my local politics, though, "member of the party that suggests X" is not necessarily synonymous with "person who supports X".