Why can't you use a Windows boot floppy and the "Create bootable CD" feature in Adaptec EZ cd creator to make a bootable CD with DOS on it? I did this and dropped the win98 directory from the install CD onto a bootable CD. Poof, no more floppy.
I thought Nascar was far cooler back in the day when they still used real cars, albeit heavily modified. That "Monte Carlo" you see on the track has nothing to do with a Monte Carlo from a showroom. Cars at your local dealer used to truly be inspired and pushed by the racing divisions, but now the racing is just a big oval marketing ploy. I fondly remember watching a modified showroom floor Monte Carlo painted blue with a 43 on top winning some races against other modified models that you could see on your way to school in the morning.
That's one reason I really got into Superbike Racing. The bikes you see are finely tuned versions of the bikes you buy. It's neat that way.
When I took my EE labs, it was amazing how many people just didn't get it. Then again, the professors insisted on teaching Ohm's Law with calculus instead of algebra, which makes it harder to grasp the basic concepts at work.
Ye gods, I hope not. Microsoft doesn't need to buy any help to make Windows less stable.
Or perhaps this would be a double negative, and the new combined Windows would never crash again?
BTW, I can take a fresh install of Win98 with nothing else installed and have it run for months if I don't touch it. That really isn't my definition of "stable", however.:-)
The difference is that there are no 3rd party manufacturers who want to build those parts. Other than lack of profitability, there is nothing stopping them from building compatible replacements.
News Flash: If Lexmark pulls this off, you can bet that $40 that HP will be in line next, doing the very same thing. You won't avoid getting screwed that easily.
This thing would be worse than useless in a city war. If you think that it could navigate rubble strewn streets, collapsed building debris, and intentional barricades then you are sorely wrong. This thing will suck in the open, but it will be a deathtrap in town.
Technically, a Jeep is a Chrysler too. Jeep still has their own cadre of crack smoking engineers, however. Likewise, Hummer is pretty distinct from GM in the engineering dept, except for that aberration known as the H2. That thing is the placenta of Hummers, since it only popped out because of the H1 Hummer.
IIRC, there is a variant of the hummer set up for ambulance duty, whether it was produced or not I don't know. However, it had a flat bed that would be capable of handling the nodules and would certainly be a better chassis than a *snicker* quad-cab chevy...
Probably a dumb idea, but I thought the EFF could use something this to reach a lot of unaware computer users who don't know the plight we face from the DMCA and the **AAs. advertising in the background or virtual newspapers in a free world like this would be a great way to teach people what the EFF is all about.
And remember, I started off admitting this was a dumb idea.:-)
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Jeez, 2 posters that I actually agree with in 1 thread. I think I need to go lie down.:-)
Unfortunately, the government here will under no circumstances take responsibility for the present situation. Right after the attack I was scoffed at for suggesting that this just might have been our fault, and that chasing terrorists was just treating the syptoms and not the cause. In all the media hoopla since then, not ONCE have I see US foriegn policies questioned. Not once.
If you stick your nose in other people's business long enough, it will get bloodied. Ours got broken, but we still haven't learned our lesson...
Correct. And I'd wager that the actions of the MPA were started in motion by the MPAA portion of it's membership. I'd also bet that's the source of a sizable chunk of the MPA's operating revenues.
No one talks about the wonderful source of income piracy provides for criminal enterprises, which will persist so long as it is black market, which it will have to be because distributing music on the honor system will not work except in limited cases. The predominant attitude it why pay for it if you can get it for free
The **AAs are causing the professional piracy problem themselves. The fact that people will buy pirated CDs and DVDs should tell you that people will pay for content if they perceive it as a value. The **AAs are simply so overpriced that people would rather buy from organized pirates or get the content for free from the net.
If people got a good value ($ and no DRM), they would still buy from Hollywood and the RIAA.
I have no sympathy for industries that make their own problems.
The reason I still buy DVD's isn't so much to get the movie itself - though that's always nice - but to get all the extra stuff that comes with the DVD. The deleted scenes, cinematic trailers, "making-of" documentaries, and the all-important commentaries over the movie all add a great deal of value to the DVD, as well as whatever book or document I get with the DVD.
While I agree with what you are saying, several of my DVD's have DRM on some of the special features that are accessible on a PC. It wants to phone home and get a authorization key before it will allow access. Needless to say, I've never viewed the protected content.:-)
Hollywood and the RIAA need to realize that piracy hinges on percieved value of having a genuine article, and that value is ruined by DRM in any form. After all, the extra content on my DVDs might as well not be there at all.
I buy plenty of CD's from non-RIAA artists. In fact, I'm happier to do that because I know the artist actually gets the money, not a RIAA leech.
If CD's were a reasonable price, I think the piracy would all but vanish. The concept that you can buy a movie on DVD for less than you can buy its soundtrack on CD says a lot about music pricing practices of the RIAA cartel.
But did you apply to all the various State supported universities and colleges in your state? You note that you *did* get into the satelite campus. My point is not that every student can get into every school, but rather that there are a host of different schools and i would be surprised were a qualified student unable to enter any of them.
There is only one state school in my state that was credible in my chosen field, the one where my aptitudes are.
If your State U was full up, I would hazard that the reason was because there were more students *from the state* who wanted to go than there were places... which is not a good thing, but is not the fault of foreign enrollment.
My state U is the one I ended up working for, where the enrollment breakdown was completely off WRT the state population. That tells me there may have been more students from the state who wanted to go, but those slots were filled by exchange students first.:-)
Yes, but foreign students are not eligible for those loans. My point was not that US nationals did not pay (they do!) but that they were not "footing the bill" for foreign nationals.
Yup. And my point was it's no longer money concerns keeping citizens out of college, it's a lack of open slots in the programs. And the exchange students paid apprx $10k a year more than the state students. That difference is equaled out when you consider the tax contribution of the extended family and community of the state student for many many years. I was the first generation to go, but you can bet that my parents, grandparents, and community helped fund the school with taxes for years.
Ah, and here we do differ. I believe that the role of education is not merely to provide job training, but to develop human understanding too. Graduate school, in particular, is usually ill suited for job-preparation. Yet I do believe it is an important thing that tax dollars should support.
I'd say that is _a_ role, not _the_ role of our wonderful U's. But you need to make sure that people have the basics they need to survive first: food, shelter, etc.. These are provided by the job training aspect, and without those none of the higher functions matter. I guarantee that someone freezing to death would burn books of great literature for heat, for example.
But here we enter into personal opinions, and heaven forbid I should try to proseltize my own views...
I thought that's what Slashdot is for?:-) Truly, voice your views and opinions. This is a friendly (and interesting!) debate, after all. Yes?
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Why can't you use a Windows boot floppy and the "Create bootable CD" feature in Adaptec EZ cd creator to make a bootable CD with DOS on it? I did this and dropped the win98 directory from the install CD onto a bootable CD. Poof, no more floppy.
It works for me.
Last time I checked, a 33% failure rate was worse than a 20% failure rate. :-)
It does seem like the floppies got cheap and inexpensive at the same time.
The turnover goes down when there is no wait. Empty seats don't up the bodycount, you know.
That's one reason I really got into Superbike Racing. The bikes you see are finely tuned versions of the bikes you buy. It's neat that way.
When I took my EE labs, it was amazing how many people just didn't get it. Then again, the professors insisted on teaching Ohm's Law with calculus instead of algebra, which makes it harder to grasp the basic concepts at work.
Ye gods, I hope not. Microsoft doesn't need to buy any help to make Windows less stable.
Or perhaps this would be a double negative, and the new combined Windows would never crash again?
BTW, I can take a fresh install of Win98 with nothing else installed and have it run for months if I don't touch it. That really isn't my definition of "stable", however. :-)
The difference is that there are no 3rd party manufacturers who want to build those parts. Other than lack of profitability, there is nothing stopping them from building compatible replacements.
News Flash: If Lexmark pulls this off, you can bet that $40 that HP will be in line next, doing the very same thing. You won't avoid getting screwed that easily.
This thing would be worse than useless in a city war. If you think that it could navigate rubble strewn streets, collapsed building debris, and intentional barricades then you are sorely wrong. This thing will suck in the open, but it will be a deathtrap in town.
Have you ever seen the episode with the Canyonero SUV? It's pretty much like that.
Technically, a Jeep is a Chrysler too. Jeep still has their own cadre of crack smoking engineers, however. Likewise, Hummer is pretty distinct from GM in the engineering dept, except for that aberration known as the H2. That thing is the placenta of Hummers, since it only popped out because of the H1 Hummer.
Sorry, I forgot to put this title on my post.
IIRC, there is a variant of the hummer set up for ambulance duty, whether it was produced or not I don't know. However, it had a flat bed that would be capable of handling the nodules and would certainly be a better chassis than a *snicker* quad-cab chevy...
And remember, I started off admitting this was a dumb idea. :-)
Unfortunately, the government here will under no circumstances take responsibility for the present situation. Right after the attack I was scoffed at for suggesting that this just might have been our fault, and that chasing terrorists was just treating the syptoms and not the cause. In all the media hoopla since then, not ONCE have I see US foriegn policies questioned. Not once.
If you stick your nose in other people's business long enough, it will get bloodied. Ours got broken, but we still haven't learned our lesson...
And you've got one of my favorite sigs, too. That's it, I'm adding you to my friends list. :-)
Seriously, you're right. This is one of those "give them an inch and they'll take a mile" situations. I don't want to give them that first inch...
So his mind is like the bible then?
Ack... Was I trolled? Can someone help get this fishhook out of my lip?
Peace. :)
I think I'd start looking for MPAA (or MPA) payola before I dismissed lightly the idea that the prosecutor was bought.
Just a hunch.
Organized criminals truly are stealing revenue from the **AA, in the form of competition. [/sarcasm] LOL
How about a Norwegian lawyer who got a large donation from the MPAA just because he was a prosecutor for the state?
Noone said a MPAA lackey^W lawyer had to be American.
The **AAs are causing the professional piracy problem themselves. The fact that people will buy pirated CDs and DVDs should tell you that people will pay for content if they perceive it as a value. The **AAs are simply so overpriced that people would rather buy from organized pirates or get the content for free from the net.
If people got a good value ($ and no DRM), they would still buy from Hollywood and the RIAA.
I have no sympathy for industries that make their own problems.
While I agree with what you are saying, several of my DVD's have DRM on some of the special features that are accessible on a PC. It wants to phone home and get a authorization key before it will allow access. Needless to say, I've never viewed the protected content. :-)
Hollywood and the RIAA need to realize that piracy hinges on percieved value of having a genuine article, and that value is ruined by DRM in any form. After all, the extra content on my DVDs might as well not be there at all.
If CD's were a reasonable price, I think the piracy would all but vanish. The concept that you can buy a movie on DVD for less than you can buy its soundtrack on CD says a lot about music pricing practices of the RIAA cartel.
There is only one state school in my state that was credible in my chosen field, the one where my aptitudes are.
If your State U was full up, I would hazard that the reason was because there were more students *from the state* who wanted to go than there were places... which is not a good thing, but is not the fault of foreign enrollment.
My state U is the one I ended up working for, where the enrollment breakdown was completely off WRT the state population. That tells me there may have been more students from the state who wanted to go, but those slots were filled by exchange students first. :-)
Yes, but foreign students are not eligible for those loans. My point was not that US nationals did not pay (they do!) but that they were not "footing the bill" for foreign nationals.
Yup. And my point was it's no longer money concerns keeping citizens out of college, it's a lack of open slots in the programs. And the exchange students paid apprx $10k a year more than the state students. That difference is equaled out when you consider the tax contribution of the extended family and community of the state student for many many years. I was the first generation to go, but you can bet that my parents, grandparents, and community helped fund the school with taxes for years.
Ah, and here we do differ. I believe that the role of education is not merely to provide job training, but to develop human understanding too. Graduate school, in particular, is usually ill suited for job-preparation. Yet I do believe it is an important thing that tax dollars should support.
I'd say that is _a_ role, not _the_ role of our wonderful U's. But you need to make sure that people have the basics they need to survive first: food, shelter, etc.. These are provided by the job training aspect, and without those none of the higher functions matter. I guarantee that someone freezing to death would burn books of great literature for heat, for example.
But here we enter into personal opinions, and heaven forbid I should try to proseltize my own views...
I thought that's what Slashdot is for? :-) Truly, voice your views and opinions. This is a friendly (and interesting!) debate, after all. Yes?