Chrisd! Have I got a story for YOU!
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I have a MSI motherboard (845 Ultra max) that has a Promise 133 lite controller on it(IIRC). I don't actually use the RAID functions tho, I use them as extra IDE channels.
I have two 40 gig WD HDs that were originally purchased for RAID, but I've not had a wild hair enough to use them. So I've got an E: and an F: drive and occasionally back up the E to the F. So, in summary, I have RAID capabillities, but choose not to use it, because 7200 RPM on one drive is fast enough for me.
I know, what a shitty story. I feel like the videocam/train guy.
You will note that I didn't clamor for Clinton or Gore to be President. I don't think that either Democrat or Republican equals a good choice, since they are the same party with hands in different cookie jars.
When voting is fair, media coverage is balanced for all canidates, marketing is replaced by actual issues, and conflict of interests are non-existent, I might stop complaining.
Until then, I'll wonder what that white powder is on Bush's nose. And how people are guilty until proven a terrorist. And when I can stop fearing my own Government, Inc.(TM) And wtf inspires people to vote Republican/Democrat when all the choices are sh!t.
Bush is in the White House, so probably no law will get passed. If it does, it will be 400 pages long, and allow the FBI to come to your house, take your computer and dump it in Anwar. Then, a few months later, Bush will send a "Reclamation Team" to go and 'dig it up'. "Look! We found oil! Since we're already here, might as well 'dig that up' too.
If you're Republican, and are offended by my comment or mod it down, it proves you have a small weiner.
The troubles only begin when "The Robot" does 'The Robot', grabs his metal codpiece and then dangles a child over a balcony!!!
"It's going to be the laff-a-minute smash of the summer!" - Siskel "A wacky madcap romp through your heart!" - Ebert "Two thumbs up...my butt!" - Gene Shalit
"If I feel a little bit crummy or a little bit down...my fallback strategy is shopping," Cathy Denison said.
But she doesn't have a problem with neuromarketing -- or any other subconscious probing.
"I think if they can find a way to help us find a way into that magic little feeling that shopping can give you -- if you do it right and you get the right thing and you don't spend too much money, hats off to them. Thank you. I think it's a service."
...And don't spend too much money?? Jesuit Monk, does she think that cigarettes are good for her too?
Since she doesn't have a problem with neuromarketing -- or any other subconscious probing, one could guess that she is quite an easy lay. Go for it/.ers! Most likely she'll overlook your pizza stained sweatpants, as long as you keep repeating, "Geek is Chic...Geek is Chic..."
It's sheepeople like these that are making world domination easy. Make sure you wear a condom when you handily take her womanhood.
I may be going off on a tangent here, but if information is gathered in an illegal way, that doesn't stop others from using it. Linda Tripp's recorded telephone conversations with Monica Lewinski were made without Monica's knowledge, yet were used as a basis for investigation of the President, Bill Clinton.
It seems that the law is still unclear (or I am), since if the same were done by police without a warrant, it would be inadmissible (pre PAT-RIOT act).
Perhaps that's why we have the DMCA in the first place: D.ammit! M.onica C.an't A.nswer.
Is this copyright infringement? It is not, because copyright only protects the expression of an idea, and not the idea itself. Consequently, a retransmission of the ideas, facts, or even conjectures (which are not themselves copyrightable elements) in the retransmitter's own words does not constitute a copyright infringement, and is itself as protected by copyright as the original posting. From a legal standpoint, this is the preferred method for information to propagate across the net. quoted from here
I'm not sure that you could even put a price 'in your own words'. Perhaps a script to change the 'offending' price into words, such as, "Thirteen dollars and twenty-seven cents". But that is plain dumb.
A price can't be copyrighted, any more than I could copyright "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890". If this weren't true, I could have just copyrighted all the letters in the Alphabet, and Walmart and Best Buy would be fighting over who owns the copyright on '$9.95'.
I'm not sure where the DMCA comes in to the original complaint, as reading a price or marketing blurb is hardly 'reverse engineering' or 'breaking copy protection'. If these companies encrypted their prices prior to publication, it would be easier to track who has access to them, and we would then be talking DMCA.
If anything is wrong here, it's the fact that there are leaks in the companies. Perhaps if they were paid to keep their mouths shut, the employees wouldn't talk. Or still would. There is something to messing with your company, especially when you're just a cogwheel out of zillions and can be replaced or removed without notice. Maybe a rush of power comes over these people, or they have just watched 'Office Space' 32 times. But I digress.
There was a issue similar to this going on here in Minnesota, when big grocery store chains got into a sue-fight over the 'theft' of prices that had yet to be released.
To sum all this up, as long as fatwallet is 'reviewing' prices and service, I can't see how they can be liable.
If I am a cab driver in Finland and play a CD of music of my own composition, I would still be required to pay. They assume that *ALL* music is owned or otherwise *protected* by them.
More proof that the RIAA is ripping off artists. When Napster was required to remove all songs under RIAA copyright, the RIAA was supposed to provide a list. They couldn't. IIRC, they just insisted that Napster should somehow *know* which ones were and which ones weren't.
Perhaps this will be used as an argument for DRM, Hollings Style!
Great. Now we're going to have a bunch of blind kids swinging at people until they fall off the edge of the earth and punch a hole through the curtain the moon is painted on.
I run Chimera at work and Phoenix at home, and I have never been happier with two browsers! Tabbed browsing at home and work that uses the same commands? Rules. Speed? way over Mozilla and IE.
Now if I could just download OS X for x86.
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Thank you - I have been saying that for a long time, you have just said it better.:)
I say that to people and they look at me like I'm the guy who microwaves a burrito for 30 seconds and drums his fingers while growling, "Damnit! Hurry up!" There is no reason we shouldn't be closer to that than we are now; bloated code will hog a processor no matter what the speed. We could probably have near instant results with what we've got right now - if the programs weren't so big Bertha.
I'm starting to think that Bill is compensating for something.
It is a front for the construction of his EVIL Space Fortress! When the lasers are raining hot, burning death upon us all, YOU will be sorry you used Paypal to buy that anime video!
Niven is one of my personal favorites - you can't go wrong with the Ringworld books, or the Smoke Ring books(a world consisting of a gas torus around a white dwarf star, giant trees and humans evolved to live on them. Tech from when they first arrived is highly prized and guarded. Great stuff!) Pretty much all his books are good, I have noticed a battle of the haves and have-nots theme reappearing here and there.
Clarke is great and has put out alot of '2 hour' books, finish them on a long car ride - if you can stand your wife's/gf's driving;)
Asimov is wonderful and has written something about everything. Clarke and Asimov I found while buying cheapy sci fi books at garage sales and thrift stores. I will *always* buy anthologies - they never fail to provide a story that amazes me, and authors that I've never heard of writing incredible stories. I'll post some when I find my books...
What are the chances of that? The emerging attitude is that you don't 'own' the stuff you buy, you just have a licence to use it. (See X-box)
The argument will be for leaving the tags operational so returns and exchanges will not require a reciept and can be tracked back to the factory. Circuit City is aready holding on to the list of things you buy there; having a chip tell them that it is the original and hasn't been switched, will be one of the many 'features' that retailers will go ape over. Inventory control, and customer profiling/databases will be others.
It's just like taxes and herpes. Once you get it, you can't get rid of it.
Every device on the net? Privacy, saftey, cost, and what the hell? Why do I need a toaster connected to the net? I just want to make some frickin' toast. If something is smart enough to be net connected, it is smart enough to be hacked. Ordinary devices could be the new invasion of privacy. And damnit! Toasters are going to be cheaper without tech, than with.
My presence is for me to decide. I don't want anyone to know right where I am unless I tell them or they are with me. The first anyone who insists on knowing my wherebouts 24/7 (who's not my wife;) will learn a lesson in the wherebouts of my fist.
Smart tags wont be on price tags, they'll be built in to products. Again, I don't want little tattletales broadcasting every thing I have to anyone with a hig gain scanner. Theives will move from the store to your home. Expect that they will be illegal to remove by anyone, too.
TV will move to a pay per show model. Product placement will be rampant, as well as the commercials (you'll get those for free, of course. ) Expect shows to be shorter, and drawn out over longer periods. Reality Based shows will most likely thrive, since many of the things they will do on TV won't be allowed in RL. Invasiveness is the key.
Talking to my computer will still be hampered by bloated code, legislation, monopolies, and chewing with my mouth full.
All this will be driven by companies who want you to consume more and more. Durabillity will be replaced by a throwaway society - recycling will most likely be increased, since raw materials will become scarcer, and the number of people will continue to balloon.
As I didn't have my back issues to look at, that 'stat' was from memory. It may have been Electronic Gaming Monthly, I got to take some of the 'obsolete' issues home.
Ten years and the memory is getting bad; I'll have to get a new compact flash card for my head.;)
The 'Slashdot' has fired a plasma charge at the port nacelle! The feedback pulse has overloaded the antimatter injectors! We've got to jettison the core!
(Data, On the Bridge)
Captain, I believe if we fire a controlled burst of tachyon radiation at the bridge of the 'Slashdot', Cmdr Taco will forget that he has attacked us. That should give us enough time to reroute the power from the impulse engines to the warp core containment field. If I can run a holodeck carrier beam with the tachyon radiation, I believe I can create a 'virtual wormhole', and give us an hour before Cmdr Taco will repost this story. I mean, uh, attack us again.
(Captain)
Make it so. (To engineering) Jordi, you have an hour. Number One, in my ready room.
I worked at a CompUsa back when P60s were just appearing, Doom was out and I still couldn't afford a computer.
The Sierra chick came in and was showing me some stuff they were working on - a little rendered (Actual Game Screens!) movie about a game called Outpost. It was supposed to be the end-all of simulation/strategy/resource management games. It looked really cool, and the Sierra chick told me about all the things you were going to be able to do in it.
A couple of years passed, and Outpost finally came out. PC Gamer reamed it a new one, and so did this guy. All the features I heard and looked forward to were gone. In their place, a sterile, unfun, buggy pile.
Outpost 2 came out to much better reviews, and there was talk of Outpost 3, but as all the links to it are dead, I believe that this may go in the 'Unfinished Adventures' catagory.
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I have two 40 gig WD HDs that were originally purchased for RAID, but I've not had a wild hair enough to use them. So I've got an E: and an F: drive and occasionally back up the E to the F. So, in summary, I have RAID capabillities, but choose not to use it, because 7200 RPM on one drive is fast enough for me.
I know, what a shitty story. I feel like the videocam/train guy.
The speed of their computer is not too important, Beos runs great on a P200.
There is a pile of software on BeBits (see my present sig), and it is easy to install.
It has a UNIX-esqe command line with many similar commands.
The Personal edition can be installed as a file on Windows and requires just 500 some megs.
Lots of hints and info on the BeOS Tip Server.
The GUI is easy and fast, and there is lots of new driver support.
It will have an OS version rather soon, with options of binary compatabilliy (openBeos) or intergrated with a linux kernal (Blue Eyed OS).
Just some stream of consciousness ideas here.
When voting is fair, media coverage is balanced for all canidates, marketing is replaced by actual issues, and conflict of interests are non-existent, I might stop complaining.
Until then, I'll wonder what that white powder is on Bush's nose. And how people are guilty until proven a terrorist. And when I can stop fearing my own Government, Inc.(TM) And wtf inspires people to vote Republican/Democrat when all the choices are sh!t.
How long till someone is shouting, "People is Soylent Green!!! People is Soylent Green!"
If you're Republican, and are offended by my comment or mod it down, it proves you have a small weiner.
Don't say I didn't warn you...
Good Artists, make sure you steal the Good Stuff.
I require about 12 pages of overly detailed story before I can make the informed decision of whether to put this on my model train.
You take pictures of cameras. Everyone sleeps with hairy women.
I call No-backs!
"It's going to be the laff-a-minute smash of the summer!" - Siskel
"A wacky madcap romp through your heart!" - Ebert
"Two thumbs up...my butt!" - Gene Shalit
I got in the MRI and they showed me a picture of the Hammer, but my boner told them what they needed to know.
But she doesn't have a problem with neuromarketing -- or any other subconscious probing.
"I think if they can find a way to help us find a way into that magic little feeling that shopping can give you -- if you do it right and you get the right thing and you don't spend too much money, hats off to them. Thank you. I think it's a service."
Since she doesn't have a problem with neuromarketing -- or any other subconscious probing, one could guess that she is quite an easy lay. Go for it /.ers! Most likely she'll overlook your pizza stained sweatpants, as long as you keep repeating, "Geek is Chic...Geek is Chic..."
It's sheepeople like these that are making world domination easy. Make sure you wear a condom when you handily take her womanhood.
It seems that the law is still unclear (or I am), since if the same were done by police without a warrant, it would be inadmissible (pre PAT-RIOT act).
Perhaps that's why we have the DMCA in the first place: D.ammit! M.onica C.an't A.nswer.
I'm not sure that you could even put a price 'in your own words'. Perhaps a script to change the 'offending' price into words, such as, "Thirteen dollars and twenty-seven cents". But that is plain dumb.
A price can't be copyrighted, any more than I could copyright "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890". If this weren't true, I could have just copyrighted all the letters in the Alphabet, and Walmart and Best Buy would be fighting over who owns the copyright on '$9.95'.
I'm not sure where the DMCA comes in to the original complaint, as reading a price or marketing blurb is hardly 'reverse engineering' or 'breaking copy protection'. If these companies encrypted their prices prior to publication, it would be easier to track who has access to them, and we would then be talking DMCA.
If anything is wrong here, it's the fact that there are leaks in the companies. Perhaps if they were paid to keep their mouths shut, the employees wouldn't talk. Or still would. There is something to messing with your company, especially when you're just a cogwheel out of zillions and can be replaced or removed without notice. Maybe a rush of power comes over these people, or they have just watched 'Office Space' 32 times. But I digress.
There was a issue similar to this going on here in Minnesota, when big grocery store chains got into a sue-fight over the 'theft' of prices that had yet to be released.
To sum all this up, as long as fatwallet is 'reviewing' prices and service, I can't see how they can be liable.
More proof that the RIAA is ripping off artists. When Napster was required to remove all songs under RIAA copyright, the RIAA was supposed to provide a list. They couldn't. IIRC, they just insisted that Napster should somehow *know* which ones were and which ones weren't.
Perhaps this will be used as an argument for DRM, Hollings Style!
Damn you Video Games! Damn you to hell!
Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick.....
Now if I could just download OS X for x86.
I say that to people and they look at me like I'm the guy who microwaves a burrito for 30 seconds and drums his fingers while growling, "Damnit! Hurry up!" There is no reason we shouldn't be closer to that than we are now; bloated code will hog a processor no matter what the speed. We could probably have near instant results with what we've got right now - if the programs weren't so big Bertha.
I'm starting to think that Bill is compensating for something.
It is a front for the construction of his EVIL Space Fortress! When the lasers are raining hot, burning death upon us all, YOU will be sorry you used Paypal to buy that anime video!
Niven is one of my personal favorites - you can't go wrong with the Ringworld books, or the Smoke Ring books(a world consisting of a gas torus around a white dwarf star, giant trees and humans evolved to live on them. Tech from when they first arrived is highly prized and guarded. Great stuff!) Pretty much all his books are good, I have noticed a battle of the haves and have-nots theme reappearing here and there.
Clarke is great and has put out alot of '2 hour' books, finish them on a long car ride - if you can stand your wife's/gf's driving ;)
Asimov is wonderful and has written something about everything. Clarke and Asimov I found while buying cheapy sci fi books at garage sales and thrift stores. I will *always* buy anthologies - they never fail to provide a story that amazes me, and authors that I've never heard of writing incredible stories. I'll post some when I find my books...
The argument will be for leaving the tags operational so returns and exchanges will not require a reciept and can be tracked back to the factory. Circuit City is aready holding on to the list of things you buy there; having a chip tell them that it is the original and hasn't been switched, will be one of the many 'features' that retailers will go ape over. Inventory control, and customer profiling/databases will be others.
It's just like taxes and herpes. Once you get it, you can't get rid of it.
My presence is for me to decide. I don't want anyone to know right where I am unless I tell them or they are with me. The first anyone who insists on knowing my wherebouts 24/7 (who's not my wife ;) will learn a lesson in the wherebouts of my fist.
Smart tags wont be on price tags, they'll be built in to products. Again, I don't want little tattletales broadcasting every thing I have to anyone with a hig gain scanner. Theives will move from the store to your home. Expect that they will be illegal to remove by anyone, too.
TV will move to a pay per show model. Product placement will be rampant, as well as the commercials (you'll get those for free, of course. ) Expect shows to be shorter, and drawn out over longer periods. Reality Based shows will most likely thrive, since many of the things they will do on TV won't be allowed in RL. Invasiveness is the key.
Talking to my computer will still be hampered by bloated code, legislation, monopolies, and chewing with my mouth full.
All this will be driven by companies who want you to consume more and more. Durabillity will be replaced by a throwaway society - recycling will most likely be increased, since raw materials will become scarcer, and the number of people will continue to balloon.
See you there!
Ten years and the memory is getting bad; I'll have to get a new compact flash card for my head. ;)
(Data, On the Bridge)
Captain, I believe if we fire a controlled burst of tachyon radiation at the bridge of the 'Slashdot', Cmdr Taco will forget that he has attacked us. That should give us enough time to reroute the power from the impulse engines to the warp core containment field. If I can run a holodeck carrier beam with the tachyon radiation, I believe I can create a 'virtual wormhole', and give us an hour before Cmdr Taco will repost this story. I mean, uh, attack us again.
(Captain)
Make it so. (To engineering) Jordi, you have an hour. Number One, in my ready room.
(Number One)
Someone turn off that damn alarm!
The Sierra chick came in and was showing me some stuff they were working on - a little rendered (Actual Game Screens!) movie about a game called Outpost. It was supposed to be the end-all of simulation/strategy/resource management games. It looked really cool, and the Sierra chick told me about all the things you were going to be able to do in it.
A couple of years passed, and Outpost finally came out. PC Gamer reamed it a new one, and so did this guy. All the features I heard and looked forward to were gone. In their place, a sterile, unfun, buggy pile.
Outpost 2 came out to much better reviews, and there was talk of Outpost 3, but as all the links to it are dead, I believe that this may go in the 'Unfinished Adventures' catagory.