Everyone in the world will be given a unique number. It will be your username on AOL and your username on every website. Anyone caught referring to each other by name, or trying to pretend to be another number, will be deleted.
Should be a lot of fun... At least we'll be able to make sure nobody starts playing DVDs on Linux machines, or buys a cheap printer cartridge...
A popular system here in the UK was EDOS (Electronic Distribution of Software) - I remember the tapes having a skull/crossbones on them, and a handwritten label...
I started off on an Amstrad CPC, which finally gave up in 1997, when it got smashed by a stupid relative. I then moved to a PC and dual booted between RH5/6/7/8 and Win 95/98/NT/2000 before finally getting pissed off with things never quite working right... saved up, bought a Mac, and now I'm the most sorted computer user I know...
I can do everything I want, and not worry about people doing things their own way, cause I can finally handle it all.. well, apart from Office documents, as I refuse to buy it... but OpenOffice/Aqua will be my friend there.
Exactly that...
XML is mostly just a buzzword, used by middle-managers in meetings...
Tech wise, it's fairly useful I spose, though I do wonder how much of it's adoption is out of usefulness and how much is from buzzword-manager-hype.
At the end of the day, it's just tags -- though I'm being told they said that about HTML in it's day.
I use Outlook in the Office with Mozilla and at home use Mozilla and Safari both with Mail.app -- when you install Mozilla, just do a browser only installation, then it will use your existing mail client.
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Everyone in the world will be given a unique number. It will be your username on AOL and your username on every website. Anyone caught referring to each other by name, or trying to pretend to be another number, will be deleted.
Should be a lot of fun... At least we'll be able to make sure nobody starts playing DVDs on Linux machines, or buys a cheap printer cartridge...
Bags me number 0000000000000001 please.
They're still on sale in 2003... they're great, nothing will ever replace them in the cool stakes.
That Lexmark are using DMCA against a company that sells chips that allow third-party cartridges to be used...
This just adds to a list of reasons why I will never, ever, own a printer again...
How is that hip-bag working out for you? :)
Duron 1000 would make such a good name for an evil droid.
... also, someone's bound to point out that the IBM 970 is going to be a whole lot faster, and we Mac users will once again triumph! Wuh hah hah!
or is that Opteron, one HUGE processor? Ceramic though... which makes a change.
Damnit.
/me goes to download Duke Nukem Forever Beta
Well they sure got me...
Apple bought www.appleuniversal.com this week...whois
This might just be a coincidence, but I came back to this topic, only to find that http://images.slashdot.org/banner/vmwa0002en.gif?1 050573093126 is being shown as the ad.
They're watching us!
I too remember this...
A popular system here in the UK was EDOS (Electronic Distribution of Software) - I remember the tapes having a skull/crossbones on them, and a handwritten label...
Mmmm.
I'm very much the same...
I started off on an Amstrad CPC, which finally gave up in 1997, when it got smashed by a stupid relative. I then moved to a PC and dual booted between RH5/6/7/8 and Win 95/98/NT/2000 before finally getting pissed off with things never quite working right... saved up, bought a Mac, and now I'm the most sorted computer user I know...
I can do everything I want, and not worry about people doing things their own way, cause I can finally handle it all.. well, apart from Office documents, as I refuse to buy it... but OpenOffice/Aqua will be my friend there.
"I EVOLVE... but I don't REVOLVE
I suppose what you're saying is you don't want another Chris Evans on your hands...
Have you tried VDMS for sound?
Works pretty well if I remember correctly.
I'm running OS X as well...
XML is technically very useful, it's easily parsed, but it's an awfully hyped technology.
Exactly that... XML is mostly just a buzzword, used by middle-managers in meetings... Tech wise, it's fairly useful I spose, though I do wonder how much of it's adoption is out of usefulness and how much is from buzzword-manager-hype. At the end of the day, it's just tags -- though I'm being told they said that about HTML in it's day.
It looks pretty cool...
I'm going to find a price for Cisco ATA 186s and Cisco 7960s.
What's the encryption like on VOIP? Would something like PGP be possible?
...Windows *and* Mac OS X... If I remember correctly, works on Linux too.
I use Outlook in the Office with Mozilla and at home use Mozilla and Safari both with Mail.app -- when you install Mozilla, just do a browser only installation, then it will use your existing mail client.
HTH
I think it just means we've got a significant amount of gullible twats in this country... maybe as a whole we're generally naive.
I'd like to go around Legoland with Sean Connery and then go for a lovely lamb lunch in the middle of Windsor. Who is the best lord?
Is it? Am I the only person who says 'Sequel' for SQL? I heard a guy say 'Squil' once, that was really odd.
... if you hadn't had the support of Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600, Off the Hook, Freedom Downtime, etc?
Does that really matter? Johansen was 15 when he wrote DeCSS...