I think for now, many companies are perfectly ok with air cooling solutions. Besides, it's much safer to have air-conditioning and fans than some liquid flowing.
If some companies can make fridges that do not leak coolant. I'm pretty sure IBM can make mainframes that do not leak their coolant either.
Commodore, There are just too many variables to consider. That Mac OS dates back from 2002. Its hardware specs could even be older than 2002. Your friend (or his family) could have accidentally damaged it, poured coffee into it, or whatever...
Personally, I still have a Windows laptop that runs Windows Me. It can play youtube videos, yes (sort of), but it can't update itself -- it can't update its Internet Explorer (It hasn't been able to for a couple of years). And it can't do a number of things that most computer users would now take for granted. It's basically just a piece of crap that I reserve for family members when they come and visit.
And while I agree that your parent post should have never been modded down into -1 flamebait status, I think you're expecting too much from a machine that was just given to you for free after it stopped working properly in the first place.
Time for another Slashdot Pop Quiz. Which of the following is most true?
Great. You must be a journalist or something. Only journalists and political consultants design surveys that tell us more about the person who devised the questions than the people who are supposed to answer them.
a) Regular people are willing to regularly attend hearings on the local, state or federal level;
Last I checked, my local city hall didn't need 100,000 regular people showing up for an hearing. It only needs a handful of regular people who are really interested in those things.
b) Regular people have a budget to attend and cover those hearings;
Budgets? Regular people may not cover far away events (bloggers on vacation excepted), but they'll cover local events. All they need is a tuna sandwich and plenty of time on their hand, like if they were retired, married, studying, independently wealthy, busy bodies, unemployed, or just really-really motivated. Again, out of a population of 100,000 regular people, all we need is a good dozen or so of regular people who attend regular city hearings and who blog about them. And at least in my area, those people exist, and they cover the political arena far more comprehensively and in far more details than any of the local news outlets.
c) Regular people have an extensive network of contacts in local, state, or federal governments with whom they've developed relationships that facilitate ferreting out new stories, ongoing consent to both on and off-record quoting, and cross-checking facts; or
Sure, it's called "The Wisdom of Crowds". Most people won't have such an extensive network of close connections, but if the crowd is big enough -- you will always find someone with such an extensive network interested in covering the story on his blog.
d) Regular people watch American Idol.
Sure, let's say most regular people did watch American Idol, you'd still be left with enough regular people to go down to the local city hall to report on the news there. And as to the cross-checking, yes, the system is not perfect, but that's also done on blogs. People who post comments cross-check bloggers. Bloggers cross-check each other. And even bloggers cross-check the stories from the traditional news outlets.
If not, I guess we'll have to sit back and wait for that traffic accident, meteor landing in your backyard, or other one-off event to occur for you to play Regular Guy Reporter.
Why even wait? Twitter, facebook, the mobile blogger, the CHP real-time 911 transcript, the reverse 911 calling bot, the Amber system, the Tsunami warning system, the US geological/meteorological web sites, and a number of other web sites can always get you this kind of information much faster and quicker than any professional reporter would. Then all you have to do is just drive, ride, or walk over there.
90% success rate? That's all! I have a 95% success rate at detecting lies personally (no fancy equipment necessary, I just look at the guy and then I know).
Actually, they seem to think the Crown owns the copyright. Does this mean it's the British Queen who owns all of it? If it is, then may be it could be a new source of income for her.
Don't worry, making it too easy to color every message in red is just an artifact of the Lotus Notes horrible UI. Thankfully, other email systems don't have that problem, so I don't think anyone is going to want to steal/use (or even see the value in) that sloppy patented workaround.
In any case, kudos to IBM Korea for speaking up on this issue. As an American, I'm just as annoyed by IBM's Lotus Notes user interface. I'm just sad that IBM's management sees this as an isolated cultural issue, and not as a more general usability problem with its 1980's-inspired user interface.
Selling a T-Shirt with McDonalds name on it and selling advertising with McDonalds name on it.
You must be somewhere in Europe. In the US, you're allowed to mention your competitors by name in your advertisements (as long as you're not impersonating them). What you're not allowed to do however is to list yourself in the white pages under your competitor's registered name (and yes, I am indeed mixing apples and oranges by using this analogy, I just couldn't think of a better one).
And let's assume that a competitor does try to impersonate you, or does try to add confusion when people search specifically for your mark, you would probably both sue your competitor in question and try to sue (or at least stop) the publisher of the white pages. That being said, I understand why they're just suing google in this case (it's going to be a lot easier to just focus on google, so that others can join in on the fight).
PS: I'm not a lawyer, I've just seen lawyers played by actors on TV.
The smart ass here was the one who said he was going to "tackle" him. He could have said "detain you" or even "make a citizen's arrest" (although, the legality of that detention or arrest would still have been debatable, but at least those words would have been a lot less threatening), but "tackle" you? Come on, give me a break. That's such the wrong word to use for someone who's currently waiting in line, going about his business, and who's not about to leave anytime soon anyway.
Can't it be assumed by virtue of the ads being placed on the site to begin with that the owner wishes they be shown?
If given a choice between showing an ad and making money, I'm pretty sure the owner of a site would prefer to make money. For instance, when Amazon finally finds out that I block all the ads advertising the kindle, the blinking gold coffer, baby products (yes, I did buy a baby product once as a gift), kitchen appliances, etc. then may be -- it will be able to make more money advertising things that I actually want.
To sum it up, the law firm has been DDOS:ed, the lead lawyer have received threats, as has the head of Sweden's anti-piracy board...
Yes, but TPB wasn't behind those actions/threats, and has actually pleaded publicly to have them stop, that's why I find it disconcerting and out of character that they'd suggest such a childish way to pay the fine. I didn't actually read the article, are the defendants really the ones who suggested this action? Or was this suggested by the "friends" of TPB instead?
My boss all-but-laughed when I asked for a raise...
Isn't this what your boss is supposed to do when you ask for a raise? Laugh in your face. Check your employee handbook. I'm pretty sure it's written in there just under the clause "You shall not share your salary information with anyone within the company." Below that it should read: "If one of your underlings asks for a raise, make sure to laugh at them and look at them like if they were totally nuts."
Most free proxy servers get blacklisted. Eventually, you just have to pay for a reliable shell account in your target country. It's a hassle, if nothing else. And no, I don't need to do this for Hulu, but I know some that are doing it to get BBC content and British TV from the US.
How does a forensic expert deal with a system like mine?
He will pray to god your ego is big enough that you will have bragged about all your exploits and countermeasures on slashdot under your actual username. Then, he will show your written words to some backwater judge, and say "See, it's all premeditated, you should lock this guy away, and throw away the key". But I'm just speculating here, obviously.
Don't forget email. If you're not careful, and don't use web mail, many of your email messages will be lost or mis-sorted out of view within the inboxes of your friends.
Actually, the copying of the hard drive is supposed to happen on the premises of the defendant's counsel at a preagreed date and time (and it can not be removed from the premises of the counsel by the plaintiff's expert). So there is nothing preventing the defendant's counsel from hiring an expert himself, or just going down somewhere, and get an image of the hard drive taken by a trusted third party before it's copied by the opposing side.
Also that's not the way you prevent teenage alienation and male depression. For some gamers, paintball is going to be the only physical sport and the only (real-life) social interaction they're ever going to have/enjoy with one and other. It would seem the German government should try to foster and sponsor such activities -- not try to ban them.
It's still there. If you don't see it, it's because your access has been revoked. And if you're talking about not seeing its effect anymore, then it's because some of us (mostly me) are just too lazy to do it.
No, if you live in the projects, and the government happens to be your landlord, then yes you're supposed to call the ACLU. But if your landlord is a private individual/organization, then call NewYorkCountryLawyer.
Believe it or not, Frank Herbert didn't come up with the concept. He just borrowed the concept from existing technology, and just made the worms a whole lot bigger.
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If some companies can make fridges that do not leak coolant. I'm pretty sure IBM can make mainframes that do not leak their coolant either.
Commodore, There are just too many variables to consider. That Mac OS dates back from 2002. Its hardware specs could even be older than 2002. Your friend (or his family) could have accidentally damaged it, poured coffee into it, or whatever...
Personally, I still have a Windows laptop that runs Windows Me. It can play youtube videos, yes (sort of), but it can't update itself -- it can't update its Internet Explorer (It hasn't been able to for a couple of years). And it can't do a number of things that most computer users would now take for granted. It's basically just a piece of crap that I reserve for family members when they come and visit.
And while I agree that your parent post should have never been modded down into -1 flamebait status, I think you're expecting too much from a machine that was just given to you for free after it stopped working properly in the first place.
Great. You must be a journalist or something. Only journalists and political consultants design surveys that tell us more about the person who devised the questions than the people who are supposed to answer them.
Last I checked, my local city hall didn't need 100,000 regular people showing up for an hearing. It only needs a handful of regular people who are really interested in those things.
Budgets? Regular people may not cover far away events (bloggers on vacation excepted), but they'll cover local events. All they need is a tuna sandwich and plenty of time on their hand, like if they were retired, married, studying, independently wealthy, busy bodies, unemployed, or just really-really motivated. Again, out of a population of 100,000 regular people, all we need is a good dozen or so of regular people who attend regular city hearings and who blog about them. And at least in my area, those people exist, and they cover the political arena far more comprehensively and in far more details than any of the local news outlets.
Sure, it's called "The Wisdom of Crowds". Most people won't have such an extensive network of close connections, but if the crowd is big enough -- you will always find someone with such an extensive network interested in covering the story on his blog.
Sure, let's say most regular people did watch American Idol, you'd still be left with enough regular people to go down to the local city hall to report on the news there. And as to the cross-checking, yes, the system is not perfect, but that's also done on blogs. People who post comments cross-check bloggers. Bloggers cross-check each other. And even bloggers cross-check the stories from the traditional news outlets.
Why even wait? Twitter, facebook, the mobile blogger, the CHP real-time 911 transcript, the reverse 911 calling bot, the Amber system, the Tsunami warning system, the US geological/meteorological web sites, and a number of other web sites can always get you this kind of information much faster and quicker than any professional reporter would. Then all you have to do is just drive, ride, or walk over there.
90% success rate? That's all! I have a 95% success rate at detecting lies personally (no fancy equipment necessary, I just look at the guy and then I know).
Actually, they seem to think the Crown owns the copyright. Does this mean it's the British Queen who owns all of it? If it is, then may be it could be a new source of income for her.
Don't worry, making it too easy to color every message in red is just an artifact of the Lotus Notes horrible UI. Thankfully, other email systems don't have that problem, so I don't think anyone is going to want to steal/use (or even see the value in) that sloppy patented workaround.
In any case, kudos to IBM Korea for speaking up on this issue. As an American, I'm just as annoyed by IBM's Lotus Notes user interface. I'm just sad that IBM's management sees this as an isolated cultural issue, and not as a more general usability problem with its 1980's-inspired user interface.
You must be somewhere in Europe. In the US, you're allowed to mention your competitors by name in your advertisements (as long as you're not impersonating them). What you're not allowed to do however is to list yourself in the white pages under your competitor's registered name (and yes, I am indeed mixing apples and oranges by using this analogy, I just couldn't think of a better one).
And let's assume that a competitor does try to impersonate you, or does try to add confusion when people search specifically for your mark, you would probably both sue your competitor in question and try to sue (or at least stop) the publisher of the white pages. That being said, I understand why they're just suing google in this case (it's going to be a lot easier to just focus on google, so that others can join in on the fight).
PS: I'm not a lawyer, I've just seen lawyers played by actors on TV.
I'd move to Iraq if I were you. I'll bet it has better American satellite coverage than Europe.
The smart ass here was the one who said he was going to "tackle" him. He could have said "detain you" or even "make a citizen's arrest" (although, the legality of that detention or arrest would still have been debatable, but at least those words would have been a lot less threatening), but "tackle" you? Come on, give me a break. That's such the wrong word to use for someone who's currently waiting in line, going about his business, and who's not about to leave anytime soon anyway.
He looks like a douchebag? Thankfully, no one on slashdot looks like a douchebag or behaves like a douchebag.
What are the health risks of having one's brain scanned repeatedly? I understand it's not X-ray technology, I'm just wondering if there are risks.
That's right. The people disconnected will have to go check-in with their unemployment office in person. Everyone else will do it online.
If given a choice between showing an ad and making money, I'm pretty sure the owner of a site would prefer to make money. For instance, when Amazon finally finds out that I block all the ads advertising the kindle, the blinking gold coffer, baby products (yes, I did buy a baby product once as a gift), kitchen appliances, etc. then may be -- it will be able to make more money advertising things that I actually want.
Yes, but TPB wasn't behind those actions/threats, and has actually pleaded publicly to have them stop, that's why I find it disconcerting and out of character that they'd suggest such a childish way to pay the fine. I didn't actually read the article, are the defendants really the ones who suggested this action? Or was this suggested by the "friends" of TPB instead?
Isn't this what your boss is supposed to do when you ask for a raise? Laugh in your face. Check your employee handbook. I'm pretty sure it's written in there just under the clause "You shall not share your salary information with anyone within the company." Below that it should read: "If one of your underlings asks for a raise, make sure to laugh at them and look at them like if they were totally nuts."
Most free proxy servers get blacklisted. Eventually, you just have to pay for a reliable shell account in your target country. It's a hassle, if nothing else. And no, I don't need to do this for Hulu, but I know some that are doing it to get BBC content and British TV from the US.
He will pray to god your ego is big enough that you will have bragged about all your exploits and countermeasures on slashdot under your actual username. Then, he will show your written words to some backwater judge, and say "See, it's all premeditated, you should lock this guy away, and throw away the key". But I'm just speculating here, obviously.
Don't forget email. If you're not careful, and don't use web mail, many of your email messages will be lost or mis-sorted out of view within the inboxes of your friends.
Actually, the copying of the hard drive is supposed to happen on the premises of the defendant's counsel at a preagreed date and time (and it can not be removed from the premises of the counsel by the plaintiff's expert). So there is nothing preventing the defendant's counsel from hiring an expert himself, or just going down somewhere, and get an image of the hard drive taken by a trusted third party before it's copied by the opposing side.
Also that's not the way you prevent teenage alienation and male depression. For some gamers, paintball is going to be the only physical sport and the only (real-life) social interaction they're ever going to have/enjoy with one and other. It would seem the German government should try to foster and sponsor such activities -- not try to ban them.
This makes way too much sense.
It's still there. If you don't see it, it's because your access has been revoked. And if you're talking about not seeing its effect anymore, then it's because some of us (mostly me) are just too lazy to do it.
No, if you live in the projects, and the government happens to be your landlord, then yes you're supposed to call the ACLU. But if your landlord is a private individual/organization, then call NewYorkCountryLawyer.
Believe it or not, Frank Herbert didn't come up with the concept. He just borrowed the concept from existing technology, and just made the worms a whole lot bigger.
I never refuse. I cross it off. I sign. And I ask that they initial the change.