Most people have typos with regular keyboards. I doubt anyone is going to have the dexterity to not hit those letter keys while meaning to just use the numeric part of the keypad.
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...use NT 4.0. Most of the original security issues with it had to do with the way it was programmed rather than the OS.
I hope you'll think of me when you forget to pack part of your laptop and are stuck in the airport with a non-functioning computer. I'll be the one laughing my ass off.
Yeah, and you're going to go through the trouble of taking it apart and then putting it back together again every time you use your laptop instead of just closing it up and putting it away.
Just because you can detach the keyboard doesn't mean it magically becomes a desktop computer. You still can't do things like slap in a Radeon 9800 Pro, the keyboard is still small, you still have to plug in a mouse, etc.
Canada has lots of oppressive laws. Radio broadcasts are constantly censored. The only rweason it's leagal is because piracy is already TAXED on every sale of CD-Rs in Canada.
Before the Supreme Court overruled it, the Ninth Circuit had
held that, like other non-negotiated terms in contracts of adhesion, forum
selection clauses in cruise line tickets are not enforceable. Shute v.
Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc., 899 F.2d 377, 388 (9th Cir.
1990). The U. S. Supreme Court disagreed. Shute, 499 U.S. 585.
Extending the "reasonableness" analysis, the Court held that, at
least in the cruise line business, there are two reasons why a non-negotiated
forum selection clause may be reasonable. 1. "[b]ecause a cruise ship
typically carries passengers from many locales, it is not unlikely that a
mishap on a cruise could subject the cruise line to litigation in several
different fora...." 2. A forum selection clause would save the parties
and the courts time and money by eliminating venue motions and would benefit
passengers by reduced fares "reflecting the savings that the cruise line
enjoys by limiting the fora in which it may be sued."
So there you have it. In order to save everyone time and money, the cruise
ship companies get away with it. I'm sure there are other examples with
other types of tickets.
Just curious, how do people that sell tickets to events get away with putting disclaimers on the back of tickets? How were you supposed to read and agree to that BEFORE you purchased the ticket?
Yahoo Mail does a superb job of catching spam and scanning for viruses. They also use SSL (optionally) for logging in. If they would just add PGP/GPG to their Mail Plus service, hell, I'd buy it!
I've learned to take CNets^H^H^H^HSlashdot's news with a grain of salt, since many times they just seem to editorialize stories and add in useless comments etc.
To be in business 7 years^H^H^H^H^H^H^H after the VA Linux fiasco is a great accomplishment though, and my congratulations go out to them.
If I sold something for $25,000 that only cost me $25 to produce, you could argue that it's perfectly acceptable free-trade economics. Supply and demand. Fine. Now, if someone steals $250 of my product (in total cost to me), is it really fair to sue the thief for a quarter of a million? I'm not denying it's theft, just the scope.
Lexus-Nexus has value because they have information people want desperately. However, their operation is a lot less advanced than say, Google. If you expect me to believe those Lexus Nexus searches really cost them that much, then Google would have been bankrupted their first day.
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TDMA, which is used in the GSM standard, does represent the majority of US cellular networks. CDMA is used primarily by Verizon. AT&T, T-mobile, Cingular, etc. don't use CDMA.
The answer to all three questions you posed is directly affected by the technology chosen. "My coverage stinks! Why don't they add more cell sites?!" The answer could be that the cell sites are already overloaded due to limitations in the GSM standard. Then again, maybe it's just the bean counters trying to find the sweet spot between getting just enough calls through without you getting so fustrated that you cancel your service. We consumers don't know why they don't add more coverage, but that doesn't negate the fact that the Europeans painted themselves into a corner by mandating GSM.
I know people that have CDs and still download the MP3 version off of Kazaa. Why? It's because they have no clue how to convert a CD to MP3. None whatsoever. It's these people who I assume would be apt to buying "downloadable" music. These are the same people who also don't know there is an audible difference in quality between CDs and MP3s. Can't fault them for not picking up the difference on their stock car unit with the cassette adapter and their home stereo system purchased at Walmart for $99. It's these people that are going to kill off the last (and only) good audio format left: CDs.
Get educated. CDMA is much more advanced than the TDMA technology that's in the GSM standard. Besides, you want GSM? Get T-Mobile. You see how easy that is when you have a choice?
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Most people have typos with regular keyboards. I doubt anyone is going to have the dexterity to not hit those letter keys while meaning to just use the numeric part of the keypad.
...use NT 4.0. Most of the original security issues with it had to do with the way it was programmed rather than the OS.
I hope you'll think of me when you forget to pack part of your laptop and are stuck in the airport with a non-functioning computer. I'll be the one laughing my ass off.
Yeah, and you're going to go through the trouble of taking it apart and then putting it back together again every time you use your laptop instead of just closing it up and putting it away.
Just because you can detach the keyboard doesn't mean it magically becomes a desktop computer. You still can't do things like slap in a Radeon 9800 Pro, the keyboard is still small, you still have to plug in a mouse, etc.
That doesn't stop them from forcing the artists to sign an agreement that states they can't work with another publisher for X years, etc.
Right. And eveyone knows that it's impossible to abuse such a system... Like selling food stamps for 60 cents on the dollar to buy drugs.
Canada has lots of oppressive laws. Radio broadcasts are constantly censored. The only rweason it's leagal is because piracy is already TAXED on every sale of CD-Rs in Canada.
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So there you have it. In order to save everyone time and money, the cruise ship companies get away with it. I'm sure there are other examples with other types of tickets.
Just curious, how do people that sell tickets to events get away with putting disclaimers on the back of tickets? How were you supposed to read and agree to that BEFORE you purchased the ticket?
Yahoo Mail does a superb job of catching spam and scanning for viruses. They also use SSL (optionally) for logging in. If they would just add PGP/GPG to their Mail Plus service, hell, I'd buy it!
That's why Disney called their non-"Engineer" engineers, "Imagineers."
I've learned to take CNets^H^H^H^HSlashdot's news with a grain of salt, since many times they just seem to editorialize stories and add in useless comments etc. To be in business 7 years^H^H^H^H^H^H^H after the VA Linux fiasco is a great accomplishment though, and my congratulations go out to them.
Why no Slashdot articles about the GP32 and all the development efforts on that system?
It's the other way around.
...not merely both false and slanderous, but contradictory...
Slander is spoken. Libel is written. He's guilty of libel.
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J. Jonah Jameson
If I sold something for $25,000 that only cost me $25 to produce, you could argue that it's perfectly acceptable free-trade economics. Supply and demand. Fine. Now, if someone steals $250 of my product (in total cost to me), is it really fair to sue the thief for a quarter of a million? I'm not denying it's theft, just the scope.
Lexus-Nexus has value because they have information people want desperately. However, their operation is a lot less advanced than say, Google. If you expect me to believe those Lexus Nexus searches really cost them that much, then Google would have been bankrupted their first day.
No, that's England, Jr. Canada is America, Jr.
The DOE promised that they'd have a solution for waste instead of stockpiling it at the reactors. Still years after the deadline and nothing yet.
There is no reason that certain claims cannot be proven or disproven.
Okay, prove a miracle was indeed a miracle and not some kind of misunderstanding or natural phenomenon. Any miracle at all.
Yes, and own bush-babies, and give out my Christian Name to voice recognizing computers, and compete with cosmonauts from the Soviet Union, and make interstellar calls on Bell Telephone, etc.
TDMA, which is used in the GSM standard, does represent the majority of US cellular networks. CDMA is used primarily by Verizon. AT&T, T-mobile, Cingular, etc. don't use CDMA.
The answer to all three questions you posed is directly affected by the technology chosen. "My coverage stinks! Why don't they add more cell sites?!" The answer could be that the cell sites are already overloaded due to limitations in the GSM standard. Then again, maybe it's just the bean counters trying to find the sweet spot between getting just enough calls through without you getting so fustrated that you cancel your service. We consumers don't know why they don't add more coverage, but that doesn't negate the fact that the Europeans painted themselves into a corner by mandating GSM.
I know people that have CDs and still download the MP3 version off of Kazaa. Why? It's because they have no clue how to convert a CD to MP3. None whatsoever. It's these people who I assume would be apt to buying "downloadable" music. These are the same people who also don't know there is an audible difference in quality between CDs and MP3s. Can't fault them for not picking up the difference on their stock car unit with the cassette adapter and their home stereo system purchased at Walmart for $99. It's these people that are going to kill off the last (and only) good audio format left: CDs.
Get educated. CDMA is much more advanced than the TDMA technology that's in the GSM standard. Besides, you want GSM? Get T-Mobile. You see how easy that is when you have a choice?