Over the years I've noticed a trend: If you use Microsoft development tools, you end up having problems with backwards compatibility.
I recently came across an old CDR with a bunch of games. Most of them seemed to work, whether coded for DOS, Win 3.1 or 95. Except the old Microsoft games. They crashed hard when I tried to run them in current versions of Windows. I assume becasue MS used undocumented hooks to optimise for the then current Windows.
I bought an old Dell laptop for my wife; after a while she discovered the left caps key didn't appear to work. The simplest way to decide if this was a hardware or software problem was to boot with a live Linux CD...
No, but it could very well be the only one that has a constitution saying that the flow of power goes people ---> states ---> federal government and not the other way around.
Actually, I doubt any country in the world has a constitution "the other way around". EVERY democracy gives power to the people over the government. Half the world at least. I can say that Australia, a federation of states, certainly does.
Do a Usenet search on the phrase. Though usually dated 1981 or thereabouts, the first time it appears on the record is August 1992 (in a Mac newsgroup). Never has anyone cited the circumstances, the place and exact date, he's suposed to have said this.
A very OLD kind of movie. Before TV, there were lots of movie serials, eg "Perils of Pauline" (1914). Star Wars itself uses many elements of the 1936 "Flash Gordon" series. More recently, Richard Lester made an adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" in two films: "The Three Musketeers" (1073) and "The Four Musketeers" (1974), in much the same production method as LOTR.
These bots could be greatly limited with proper tweaking of liability laws.
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of known spammers in the US. (See the ROKSO list, eg.) Barely a handful are ever prosecuted. One or two have been sentenced, trumpeted here as a victory against spammers, but really showing that being caught and punished for deliberate spamming is a very rare event. Considering that, what could a "negligent" spammer get?
ISPs can easily detect and cut off spam spewing robots. They have the right to do so in their TOS, but are just too complacent or perhaps concerned they'd have to deal with hundreds of clueless users complaining about it.
why does anyone need extra software to break things into individual tracks
Surely there is an operator pressing the buttons, watching the levels. Do they want to include soundchecks, other crap between songs (some fans would, I suppose, but most not.) Dividing the soundtrack into tracks seems one of the more trivial parts of the process. After all, it's unlikely the software can identify the name of the song, etc. (Even if there was a playlist, often bands diverge from that, skip songs or do encores.)
But yes, "Linux" is a trademark, owned by Linus Torvalds. While you can use a trademark in an editorial way, as in "Linuxsucks", when you're a competitor using it in a commercial campaign I think you might be in trouble, unless you are a billion dollar corporation and can piss on the law at will.
Same in Hong Kong when I visited 18 months ago. There's a whole building on Hennessy Rd dedicated to selling pirated CDs and DVDs. They get raided every so often
Slight exaggeration. You're talking about 298 Hennessy Rd. This is a three-floor computer mall with hundreds of shops. At any time maybe 20 of these are selling bootleg software. But most sell hardware and media. There actually several selling legit software. Back in the 90s, bootelgging must have been more profitable, software was sold by the floppy at HK$20/disc (about US$2.50). When CDs came in, they were about HK$50. But as CDRs and burners became commodities, the price went down, to about HK$10 per CDR. Then there was a crackdown, and lots of shops lost their stock. Now they mostly are fairly fly by night, having lists of software you order and they burn to demand, for HK$30-40. Thus they reduce having any stock on hand as evidence. I sort of miss the old days, the bootleg vendors were quite knowledgable about their goods and would discuss the pros and cons of Excel vs Lotus, for instance. These days the front men just collect money and have no idea what they're selling.
Most people on/. would argue that the value of OEM windows is also less than zero. Not a problem, since this negative-value software is trivially removed. Win-win.
On a purely financial basis, it's sensible to buy Windows and throw it away. What burns people is that they're enriching Bill Gates with their purchase, even if they delete his software and never use it, and entrenching his monopoly. And the OEMs can state there is no demand for anything else; a vicious circle. It could get more vicious when "Trusted Computing" makes it harder and harder for non-MS OSs to use the hardware at all. With 100% of their sales Windows installed, the OEMs don't care if their hardware supports any other OS.
The first trip I did in Asia, I didn't even bring a camera. I bought a very cheap watch (you do need to catch trains, ferries, etc); that was it. The next trip I did bring a small camera and a shortwave radio; on a long trip in the boondocks it's nice to stay in touch with the BBC World Service. It was a bit disconcerting to be on an isolated beach in Thailand hearing about the Tiananmen Massacre live, though. The more stuff you take, the more you're a prisoner of it. Taking photos instead of experiencing it live -- when you can buy a postcard of the same sight, only professionally shot. Why on earth would you want a laptop? -- you'll never be able to forget it while you're travelling; you can never relax, and there is an excellent chance it will get broken or stolen. It'll weigh you down much more than its weight. Get a $2 notebook and a biro. Don't take an MP3 player. Talk to people on the train/bus. You can catch up on your tunes when you get back to commuting. Take apack of cards and play Solitaire, or invite a companion to play.
It's only now, when so many companies have sprung-up to supply useless crap, that the economy would collapse if it stopped all at once.
Not "just now". What use were the pyramids? It's been suggested that they were in part a make-work program, (the workers were paid, not slaves, despite the movies). In any case, art and/or religion have absorbed much of our surplus "production" (i.e. after supplying basic food and shelter) since the Stone Age. And that's not mentioning warfare, the greatest method of using up production; even more so now.
you want to play in India, you play by their rules. You can argue that India is doing the black, but Google is just playing by the rules.
What do you mean by "rules"? If you RTFA, it seems Google is coperating above and beyond the extent required by law. The police are congratulating them for not making them do any paperwork before handing over the IPs and other identifying details of anyone who posts anything deemed "offensive". No doubt Googel is coverd by its terms of sevice and such. But that's not the point.
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I recently came across an old CDR with a bunch of games. Most of them seemed to work, whether coded for DOS, Win 3.1 or 95. Except the old Microsoft games. They crashed hard when I tried to run them in current versions of Windows. I assume becasue MS used undocumented hooks to optimise for the then current Windows.
I bought an old Dell laptop for my wife; after a while she discovered the left caps key didn't appear to work. The simplest way to decide if this was a hardware or software problem was to boot with a live Linux CD...
Actually, I doubt any country in the world has a constitution "the other way around". EVERY democracy gives power to the people over the government. Half the world at least. I can say that Australia, a federation of states, certainly does.
The US is hardly unique in having a federal system. That's no real excuse.
Do a Usenet search on the phrase. Though usually dated 1981 or thereabouts, the first time it appears on the record is August 1992 (in a Mac newsgroup). Never has anyone cited the circumstances, the place and exact date, he's suposed to have said this.
A very OLD kind of movie. Before TV, there were lots of movie serials, eg "Perils of Pauline" (1914). Star Wars itself uses many elements of the 1936 "Flash Gordon" series. More recently, Richard Lester made an adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" in two films: "The Three Musketeers" (1073) and "The Four Musketeers" (1974), in much the same production method as LOTR.
A typo. See http://www.mimzy.com/. It's spelled right in TFA.
Well, the ROKSO list includes "131 Spam Operations as at 3/23/07", more thna half American. Not all active 24/7 of course.
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of known spammers in the US. (See the ROKSO list, eg.) Barely a handful are ever prosecuted. One or two have been sentenced, trumpeted here as a victory against spammers, but really showing that being caught and punished for deliberate spamming is a very rare event. Considering that, what could a "negligent" spammer get?
ISPs can easily detect and cut off spam spewing robots. They have the right to do so in their TOS, but are just too complacent or perhaps concerned they'd have to deal with hundreds of clueless users complaining about it.
Surely there is an operator pressing the buttons, watching the levels. Do they want to include soundchecks, other crap between songs (some fans would, I suppose, but most not.) Dividing the soundtrack into tracks seems one of the more trivial parts of the process. After all, it's unlikely the software can identify the name of the song, etc. (Even if there was a playlist, often bands diverge from that, skip songs or do encores.)
Probably because they only knew their IP numbers.
How many mistakes in that sentence?
1) © is the Copyright symbol (clue: it begins with "C"), ® means "Registered" trademark.
2)Trademark is not copyright.
3)You can't "copyright" a single word.
But yes, "Linux" is a trademark, owned by Linus Torvalds. While you can use a trademark in an editorial way, as in "Linuxsucks", when you're a competitor using it in a commercial campaign I think you might be in trouble, unless you are a billion dollar corporation and can piss on the law at will.
Sophus Lie died in 1899. So not "last" century. TFA said "19th-century Norwegian mathematician ...".
Y2K? PEBCAK?
Slight exaggeration. You're talking about 298 Hennessy Rd. This is a three-floor computer mall with hundreds of shops. At any time maybe 20 of these are selling bootleg software. But most sell hardware and media. There actually several selling legit software. Back in the 90s, bootelgging must have been more profitable, software was sold by the floppy at HK$20/disc (about US$2.50). When CDs came in, they were about HK$50. But as CDRs and burners became commodities, the price went down, to about HK$10 per CDR. Then there was a crackdown, and lots of shops lost their stock. Now they mostly are fairly fly by night, having lists of software you order and they burn to demand, for HK$30-40. Thus they reduce having any stock on hand as evidence. I sort of miss the old days, the bootleg vendors were quite knowledgable about their goods and would discuss the pros and cons of Excel vs Lotus, for instance. These days the front men just collect money and have no idea what they're selling.
On a purely financial basis, it's sensible to buy Windows and throw it away. What burns people is that they're enriching Bill Gates with their purchase, even if they delete his software and never use it, and entrenching his monopoly. And the OEMs can state there is no demand for anything else; a vicious circle. It could get more vicious when "Trusted Computing" makes it harder and harder for non-MS OSs to use the hardware at all. With 100% of their sales Windows installed, the OEMs don't care if their hardware supports any other OS.
"you're gone" [you are]
At best, ambiguous. Anyway, please insult me again. That'll really prove your point.
The first trip I did in Asia, I didn't even bring a camera. I bought a very cheap watch (you do need to catch trains, ferries, etc); that was it. The next trip I did bring a small camera and a shortwave radio; on a long trip in the boondocks it's nice to stay in touch with the BBC World Service. It was a bit disconcerting to be on an isolated beach in Thailand hearing about the Tiananmen Massacre live, though. The more stuff you take, the more you're a prisoner of it. Taking photos instead of experiencing it live -- when you can buy a postcard of the same sight, only professionally shot. Why on earth would you want a laptop? -- you'll never be able to forget it while you're travelling; you can never relax, and there is an excellent chance it will get broken or stolen. It'll weigh you down much more than its weight. Get a $2 notebook and a biro. Don't take an MP3 player. Talk to people on the train/bus. You can catch up on your tunes when you get back to commuting. Take apack of cards and play Solitaire, or invite a companion to play.
Your highlighting and elisions indicate what you intended to say. The original text does not.
>>You stated the modern economy was unique.
>No, I certainly didn't.
"It's only now"
You stated the modern economy was unique. By denying any comparisons with the past as irrelevant, you just have a circular argument.
Not "just now". What use were the pyramids? It's been suggested that they were in part a make-work program, (the workers were paid, not slaves, despite the movies). In any case, art and/or religion have absorbed much of our surplus "production" (i.e. after supplying basic food and shelter) since the Stone Age. And that's not mentioning warfare, the greatest method of using up production; even more so now.
But they don't state the limitations.
So if the speed was capped, it would be not out of line. But they're pulling the plug for going over a limit that they won't state.
What do you mean by "rules"? If you RTFA, it seems Google is coperating above and beyond the extent required by law. The police are congratulating them for not making them do any paperwork before handing over the IPs and other identifying details of anyone who posts anything deemed "offensive". No doubt Googel is coverd by its terms of sevice and such. But that's not the point.