$1.6 million [...] on efforts to influence the U.S. government. [...] Microsoft has been unable to comment.
Wow, don't you love having a corrupt, completely unaccountable and evil entity altering and influencing your government and law makers?
You think the US government would decline contributions from any and all companies who have had their questionable business behaviour legally challenged.
Kinda makes sense, no? A lot like convicts being unable to cast a vote.
With reference to this story and also this story about this company, I would like to challenge BT's and KPMG's assertions that I am violating their rights by linking to them. Come onguys!
Hahah! How much more ridiculous can things like this become?
I have a deep-seated problem with buying a single thing which has many, normally discrete, functions. Why?
They tend to do everything they do pretty badly. For example: Nokia 5550 (Phone and MP3 player. MP3 player sucks, and phone sucks too), midi/mini HIFI systems (sound generally sucks compared to a nice seperates system), Webmin (sucks compared to a set of targetted, specific config tools), etc etc etc.
You get the idea.
Also, in my humble experience, I've found a worrying number of 'combined' gadgets such as this to fail in single areas -- and be almost impossible to fix due to their advanced miniturisation.
So... Nice gadget, but I'll stick with discrete tools -- my Sony Vaio C1, Nokia 7110 and Handspring Visor Edge do their specific jobs excellently.
In order to get Linux running on your PS2, you must boot the system using the PS2 Linux DVD. During boot, after all the copy-protection stuff is taken care of, the system lays down the Runtime Environment. This is basically a layer that hides access to the SPU2 (Sound Processing Unit), the input/output processor, the hard drive, the CD/DVD-ROM system, the controllers, memory cards, USB, i.Link and other peripherals.
I doubt it'll be long before there's a work-around. Placing such limitations on a piece of hardware or software never works.
See: CSS, DVD regioning, Windows XP Product Activation, PS2 Copy Protection, eBook encryption, et al.
When will big business learn? If something is secured in a paranoid way, it will be overcome to a degree. The prize is too big.
I'd be surprised a movie with such a horribly bad title actually turns out to be a decent production. It kinda tarnishes the whole thing from the beginning.
I bet the 'queuers' are happy right now.
"Hey bill, according to this, the film we're queuing for doesn't suck!"
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It's extremely good that they're being so careful and sensitive with other planets/their moons. The worst thing we could do is pollute everywhere, limiting our options when we finally give up raping this planet.
I just wish mankind could be this careful with its native planet.
the radius of an atom is not something which is very precisely defined due to quantum mechanics
Indeed. What I was trying (unsuccessfully I must admit) to communicate is that relating something to the size of an atom is like measuring my head with an elastic ruler, for the reasons you give.
Many physicists now argue we cannot experience these extra dimensions directly because they became rolled up more tightly than the width of a single atom during the Big Bang.
Wow, how scientific.
There's more information about the Pierre Auger Project here.
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So I win.
About the current bandwidth problems
Still, it doesn't change that the GB(A|C) should never have been released with such a poor screen.
You think the US government would decline contributions from any and all companies who have had their questionable business behaviour legally challenged.
Kinda makes sense, no? A lot like convicts being unable to cast a vote.
How silly to deploy a less-than-perfect protocol so widely with no real diversity in its implentations, and indeed no built-in security.
Oh, wait...
Hahah! How much more ridiculous can things like this become?
They tend to do everything they do pretty badly. For example: Nokia 5550 (Phone and MP3 player. MP3 player sucks, and phone sucks too), midi/mini HIFI systems (sound generally sucks compared to a nice seperates system), Webmin (sucks compared to a set of targetted, specific config tools), etc etc etc.
You get the idea.
Also, in my humble experience, I've found a worrying number of 'combined' gadgets such as this to fail in single areas -- and be almost impossible to fix due to their advanced miniturisation.
So... Nice gadget, but I'll stick with discrete tools -- my Sony Vaio C1, Nokia 7110 and Handspring Visor Edge do their specific jobs excellently.
Here is some pretty good commentry by the register.
See: CSS, DVD regioning, Windows XP Product Activation, PS2 Copy Protection, eBook encryption, et al.
When will big business learn? If something is secured in a paranoid way, it will be overcome to a degree. The prize is too big.
We should be told!
I bet the 'queuers' are happy right now.
"Hey bill, according to this, the film we're queuing for doesn't suck!"
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"We live in a backwards universe where John Lennon is shot dead, yet Barry Manilow continues to make fucking records." -- Bill Hicks
I just wish mankind could be this careful with its native planet.
(mod me as you will...)
There's more information about the Pierre Auger Project here.
Those dumb dot-com's have done a lot more damage than you might think, especially when it comes to financing new infrastructure (i.e. broadband).
One thing is certain, though. Once broadband reaches a certain penetration, the internet will become a lot more interesting, not to mention dangerous.
Just think of all them massively open boxen!
Please?
Decompress at will.