My aunt and uncle lived in San Jose for a while back in the mid-to-late 80s. I remember one time when we went to McDonalds and you could fax them your order, then go pick it up. Amazing for 1987!
Baseball is not meant to be a perfect game
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You have human umpires just as you have human players. For umpire assistance, I'd take some form of instant replay (like in the NFL) over this system.
Major League Baseball has told umpires previously to call more strikes (pitches on the black or even an inch or two off) including calling the high strike (from the belt to the letters or bottom of the armpit). This speeds up the game and forces batters to swing at these pitches, since it will be called a strike.
Let the games be decided on who hits the ball where, who catches it, and who scores runs, not on balls and strikes called by the umpire.
Now the story makes it seem like their discovery was innocuous enough. But how many times do computer repair people snoop around where they should not? Yes, the person had vile, disgusting, and illegal content on his computer. But why did the repair person find this material? If I send a computer in for repair, I am not giving access for someone to look through all my personal s***.
In a corporate environment, the computer is not owned by the employee, but by the company. Personal files shouldn't be stored on corporate property, especially kiddie crap or whatever.
The poster could as well have said "I won't bother to try it until it can play MP3's, Ogg Vorbis, DivX's and VCD's".
Well it can play MP3s with the newly released Home Media Option, which includes remote-scheduling with a web browser, image slideshows, and mp3 streaming off of your desktop (multiple OS clients coming soon).
Actually I was reading about this the other day. The first Bible translation to be copyrighted was either the American Standard Version (ASV) or the Revised Standard Version (RSV) around the turn of the 19th-20th century. The reason given was so that someone couldn't come along afterwards, change some verses they didn't agree with, and republish the work in the public domain with the same title, appearing to be just another copy of the origional work.
Where do companies get off thinking that they can be judge, jury, and executioner ?
Easy... they provide a product. You aren't required to buy it! The way to stop this is litigation or government investigation, or vote with your wallet (don't buy it!).
I wonder what Visa will do when you dispute a $100 charge on your credit card.
Serial Ports: How else are you supposed to hook up a dumb terminal to your computer. USB?
Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
What about Cisco Wireless APs that have serial terminals? How do you configure an AP when it can't get an IP? Regardless, USB Serial adaptors work just fine for these tasks. I say go USB!!
What kind of business model is that? I mean, people buy games and then the wouldn't buy it after that. The only way it could survive is if it was a 'software-as-a-service' model, where you'd pay $5 or $10 a month to participate in the game.
I've had the same problem at our university with the ThinkPad A22m model. We've replaced over 40% of them, and most of them have experienced symptoms similar to ones mentioned on these related sites, mainly that the battery will display 75% or so, and then magically drop to 5%. We have contacted IBM about this, and their solution was to (a) give us different laptops, while charging us an enormous fee for getting out of our lease, or (b) sell us batteries at a slightly discounted rate.
We have been buying batteries to replace when students' laptops get below 19 Watt-hours left of life, or if the battery does the fail. Some of these batteries have only been used for 300-400 charge cycles. Failures should come this quickly!
If the tech isn't working, then you wouldn't think the company would be held responsible. What about a signed waiver form when doing off-the-clock jobs? Maybe that's hard to do on messages boards...
I work for a university, and we provide Internet service, so that makes us somewhat of an ISP. We are members of the IBM ThinkPad University program, and cannot support every laptop or desktop that students bring with them. There are simply too many applications and hardware configurations.
When talking to students, many of our techs offer to help off the clock, and they usually even get paid more than at the help desk. They can use their knowledge and help people, even though the official university can't support everything and everyone. I think even though techs are not officially representing the university in this work, they give the impression that there are people who work for the university (usually other students in this case) who care about students getting problems fixed.
The New Orleans Police Department uses a system that holds 1 million records and is in imminent danger of meltdown, city officials said. Backup copies of most records exist on paper, but a crash could erase key data.
My question is if they want to prevent a crash, why are they looking into Windows?
OF COURSE.. Those 9% are pirating our software... If we don't allow them to sell NO OS products we reduce pirating...
Despite the fact that some of these users might already have a legitimately purchased copy of Windows (which could have been bundled with the old desktop that I just tossed). This is clearly the Microsoft tax. I hope there is some legislation stopping this.
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My aunt and uncle lived in San Jose for a while back in the mid-to-late 80s. I remember one time when we went to McDonalds and you could fax them your order, then go pick it up. Amazing for 1987!
no, they're aliens, along with the postal workers
You have human umpires just as you have human players. For umpire assistance, I'd take some form of instant replay (like in the NFL) over this system.
Major League Baseball has told umpires previously to call more strikes (pitches on the black or even an inch or two off) including calling the high strike (from the belt to the letters or bottom of the armpit). This speeds up the game and forces batters to swing at these pitches, since it will be called a strike.
Let the games be decided on who hits the ball where, who catches it, and who scores runs, not on balls and strikes called by the umpire.
In a corporate environment, the computer is not owned by the employee, but by the company. Personal files shouldn't be stored on corporate property, especially kiddie crap or whatever.
Well it can play MP3s with the newly released Home Media Option, which includes remote-scheduling with a web browser, image slideshows, and mp3 streaming off of your desktop (multiple OS clients coming soon).
Slashdot gets new domain name...
slashdot.go.com
Actually I was reading about this the other day. The first Bible translation to be copyrighted was either the American Standard Version (ASV) or the Revised Standard Version (RSV) around the turn of the 19th-20th century. The reason given was so that someone couldn't come along afterwards, change some verses they didn't agree with, and republish the work in the public domain with the same title, appearing to be just another copy of the origional work.
Take a look at the Mandrake 9.1 Features Page and you will find a snazzy screenshot of K3B which would probably suit your needs. It looks pretty slick!
Micro brew maybe? I'd say Budwiser is a macro brew.
Easy... they provide a product. You aren't required to buy it! The way to stop this is litigation or government investigation, or vote with your wallet (don't buy it!).
Good point. Better to have Visa battle them.
Global Warning?? No...
It's SLASHDOTTING!!!
What about the LCD? At that temp, would it boil the liquid crystal? Would that turn it into a gas crystal display?
Serously, that was a joke.
Floppy disks tend to stop working when dropped. They aren't durable and reliable. And don't talk about those ugly floppy cases.
CDs don't get demagnitized. CDs don't have multiple pieces that break off and get jammed in the CD drive.
You can run DFT from a bootable CD with floppy emulation. We've been doing it for over a year.
ahh so that's what they meant by 'stack overflow' errors...
Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
What about Cisco Wireless APs that have serial terminals? How do you configure an AP when it can't get an IP? Regardless, USB Serial adaptors work just fine for these tasks. I say go USB!!
Infinite Games?
What kind of business model is that? I mean, people buy games and then the wouldn't buy it after that. The only way it could survive is if it was a 'software-as-a-service' model, where you'd pay $5 or $10 a month to participate in the game.
I've had the same problem at our university with the ThinkPad A22m model. We've replaced over 40% of them, and most of them have experienced symptoms similar to ones mentioned on these related sites, mainly that the battery will display 75% or so, and then magically drop to 5%. We have contacted IBM about this, and their solution was to (a) give us different laptops, while charging us an enormous fee for getting out of our lease, or (b) sell us batteries at a slightly discounted rate.
We have been buying batteries to replace when students' laptops get below 19 Watt-hours left of life, or if the battery does the fail. Some of these batteries have only been used for 300-400 charge cycles. Failures should come this quickly!
If the tech isn't working, then you wouldn't think the company would be held responsible. What about a signed waiver form when doing off-the-clock jobs? Maybe that's hard to do on messages boards...
I work for a university, and we provide Internet service, so that makes us somewhat of an ISP. We are members of the IBM ThinkPad University program, and cannot support every laptop or desktop that students bring with them. There are simply too many applications and hardware configurations.
When talking to students, many of our techs offer to help off the clock, and they usually even get paid more than at the help desk. They can use their knowledge and help people, even though the official university can't support everything and everyone. I think even though techs are not officially representing the university in this work, they give the impression that there are people who work for the university (usually other students in this case) who care about students getting problems fixed.
ISPs want good PR, not bad, right?
Hey, I just got that error today for the first time (running 2.4.19). I replaced a ink cartridge, and it said my printer was on fire. Odd. :-)
At my university, we use Blackboard.
With woody (or potato) you can install less and more at the same time! apt-get install more less Well... more or less
My question is if they want to prevent a crash, why are they looking into Windows?
What color would you like your blue screen today?
Despite the fact that some of these users might already have a legitimately purchased copy of Windows (which could have been bundled with the old desktop that I just tossed). This is clearly the Microsoft tax. I hope there is some legislation stopping this.