You also have to think about the reliability vs distance in America vs europe. I can buy say a Geo Metro in the UK and it would be fine, at city speeds (Probably no more then 35-55), and with no further then what i would be driving it, say around London, it would be a dependable automobile. But take that car to the US and drive from say Palmdale Ca to somewhere in Orange county every day (Aprx 120 mi), I bet that the little Geo metro dosent last a year.
Yes but what they dont know is i have the last laugh, i dont use thier tools so i get a very very through understanding of the software (be it sendmail etc...) which makes me more valuable then the average point and click guy:) Use your gui wrappers, ill be laughing all the way to the bank:)
Then you need to check your power and buy a APC or something, there should be no reason your equipment should be burning out so quickly, unleess you abuse it, dont perform proper maintainance, or there is some outside influence causing these burnouts. I still have a 8086 that runs fine, as well as numerous 286's+, commodores, a trs-80 and other odds and ends. Anyone need a 320K ISA memory card?
No kidding, when my freind had his cable modem installed, the instalation tech uncapped it FOR US after talking to us and figureing out that we wernt your average users. It would realy suck to have the FBI beating down your door because your providor broke your service contract.
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I would think that an identification code embedded in hardware is going to be cracked, and in short order.
Hardware is enormusly dificult to crack, look at the ASIC on DBS cards for example, reverse engineering software is one thing, anyone with a afternoon and a hex editor can do that. Getting a electron microscope out and figuring out how the circuits work on a eeprom substrate is an entirely different matter.
What happens to Charlie consumer when he finds that his version of Word no longer works because some cracker has a hold of his unique
identifier?
How about this, what happens to Charlie consumer when he wants to upgrade his system and move all of his software from one to another, you guessed it, he cant, its tied to the first machine for good, fork up another say $2000+ dollers to upgrade all of your software.
Just let MS run with the ball
Isnt that what got us into this mess in the first place?
In addition, I think it would die in Anitrust. Just wait until those computers start being returned, because they won't play nice with my operating system of choice, and watch Intel turn on a dime.
Isnt that how it should be? Vote with your $$$ just dont buy one and it will die a horible horible death, more importantly inform as many people as you can about it.
i wouldnt mind 12" disks, i think the optimum would be something large to hold large amounts of data and something small (not as small as a quarter, mabey the size of minidiscs or mini cd-r's) to carry around and transport data. The 6cm format has never been one of my favorites, too large to stuff in a shirt pocket, but to small to hold all the nfo i want to archive.
sounds like my expierance but just the opisit, i wanted to buy a home theater a few years back, and i couldnt get anyone to help me. It was kind of strange since they work on commision, all that i can think of is that i didnt look like a big enough commision for them to bother with, i was just out of high school at the time. Anyhow i finally gave up after about 45 min, i took my money to best buy, and ive never been back to circuit city again.
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I think we have our first movie paradox here, because in the post above it clearly states that movie computers are not windows, apples etc... :)
Whats even spookeyer is seeing my freinds 4 yr old fragin his father in quake.
i think the first thing that pops into everyones mind is Basic Instinct :)
Umm you allready are, hell my 4600lb modded ford lightning can turn the 1/4 in 12.92. 4600lbs vs 2450 lb at 90+ mph. 1/4 mile 13.24 sec at 90 mph
How many times have you crashed a slot car :)
Dont forget about Sonics, In and Outs, Braums, Hardes/Carl's Jr, white castle, and the host of others that arnt on the west coast.
Thats the problem, if your in LA 65 mph is about as fast as you go in the SLOW lane, you doing close to 90mph in the fast lane.
You also have to think about the reliability vs distance in America vs europe. I can buy say a Geo Metro in the UK and it would be fine, at city speeds (Probably no more then 35-55), and with no further then what i would be driving it, say around London, it would be a dependable automobile. But take that car to the US and drive from say Palmdale Ca to somewhere in Orange county every day (Aprx 120 mi), I bet that the little Geo metro dosent last a year.
Yes but what they dont know is i have the last laugh, i dont use thier tools so i get a very very through understanding of the software (be it sendmail etc...) which makes me more valuable then the average point and click guy :) Use your gui wrappers, ill be laughing all the way to the bank :)
Well since hes going to shit a brick durring the flight i doubt he will be spending much time in the bathroom.
Then you need to check your power and buy a APC or something, there should be no reason your equipment should be burning out so quickly, unleess you abuse it, dont perform proper maintainance, or there is some outside influence causing these burnouts. I still have a 8086 that runs fine, as well as numerous 286's+, commodores, a trs-80 and other odds and ends. Anyone need a 320K ISA memory card?
No kidding, when my freind had his cable modem installed, the instalation tech uncapped it FOR US after talking to us and figureing out that we wernt your average users. It would realy suck to have the FBI beating down your door because your providor broke your service contract.
I would think that an identification code embedded in hardware is going to be cracked, and in short order.
Hardware is enormusly dificult to crack, look at the ASIC on DBS cards for example, reverse engineering software is one thing, anyone with a afternoon and a hex editor can do that. Getting a electron microscope out and figuring out how the circuits work on a eeprom substrate is an entirely different matter.
What happens to Charlie consumer when he finds that his version of Word no longer works because some cracker has a hold of his unique identifier?
How about this, what happens to Charlie consumer when he wants to upgrade his system and move all of his software from one to another, you guessed it, he cant, its tied to the first machine for good, fork up another say $2000+ dollers to upgrade all of your software.
Just let MS run with the ball
Isnt that what got us into this mess in the first place?
In addition, I think it would die in Anitrust. Just wait until those computers start being returned, because they won't play nice with my operating system of choice, and watch Intel turn on a dime.
Isnt that how it should be? Vote with your $$$ just dont buy one and it will die a horible horible death, more importantly inform as many people as you can about it.
The dialog has no mention of the applet running with more privledges then other Java apples, and no link or button for 'help' or 'more info'. Awful.
Mmmmmm.... tasty java apples, keeps you awake and good for you to boot ;)
Look at how far we have come in just a few short years, "herding cats" is not as imposible as we once thought it was :)
Oh i was talking about blanks, i can see the *IAA charging $50 for 26.5GB of crap + 5 megs of what you really wanted for these things.
having a 3 cm wide CD that holds 1 GB of data
Sounds like a gamcube disc, wonder if they can be compatable :)
If they can get them down to 5 a pop, it wont really make any difference, even if you filled a duffle bag, what do you have, about 5 bucks
i wouldnt mind 12" disks, i think the optimum would be something large to hold large amounts of data and something small (not as small as a quarter, mabey the size of minidiscs or mini cd-r's) to carry around and transport data. The 6cm format has never been one of my favorites, too large to stuff in a shirt pocket, but to small to hold all the nfo i want to archive.
Please insert $2 for the next five minuts please. :)
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Yeah but what i want to know is why Natalie Portmans search hits spiked 2 days ago over Kirsten Dunst :)
I think they got it backwards though, i thought a kernel with embeded AI should have been named HAL and call everyone else Dave :)
Sorry, one thing that will never change is that plug and play will allways be plug and pray :)
sounds like my expierance but just the opisit, i wanted to buy a home theater a few years back, and i couldnt get anyone to help me. It was kind of strange since they work on commision, all that i can think of is that i didnt look like a big enough commision for them to bother with, i was just out of high school at the time. Anyhow i finally gave up after about 45 min, i took my money to best buy, and ive never been back to circuit city again.