or just about any auto manufacturer sue the various car magazines for printing their obviously surrepticiously obtained photos of new models?
I think any company that sues is doing more harm than good. Why hurt those that love your products and are eager for some insider information? Companies might win a trade secret battle only to lose a public relations war.
I would get a refund. I live in Calgary and I would guess that all the EB Games locations are sold out. I happened to be in BestBuy maybe a week ago and they had a small supply of 360s available, so why waste your time?
What is the point of a pre-ordering if you can pick up a console at another store well in advance of your pre-order arriving?
This my thinking exactly. What are radio stations paying for if the end consumer has to pay again for the same material?
Moreover, I don't think a 64 Kb/s stream from Sirius or XM qualifies as a "high quality recording". From what I've heard it's better than AM radio but worse than FM when it comes to audio quality.
Despite the failure of similar bills, Diaz de la Portilla believes SB492 provides the means to protect children. 'Left to their own devices, children often do not realize the harm they are causing themselves through the exposure to graphic sexual and violent content found in many of today's video games'.
I think what he's looking for is this mythical creature called a parent . Replace "graphic sexual and violent content" with "playing in the street" and you see the logic he's using. Where are the parents?
I have a feeling it will be available later today or tomorrow, just like you mentioned. I just checked again and there was an additional update to iTunes 6.0.2 that wasn't there an hour ago so it looks like the updates are being spread through today and maybe tomorrow.
Quote: 12:25 PM - "We've got a new release of Mac OS X Tiger... 10.4.4... you can download it today, it's got all these new widgets."
What is Steve talking about that 10.4.4 will be available? I just tried software update and there was an update for Quicktime but nothing for 10.4.4. Perhaps it will be available later today. *shrug*
We knew there would be a new PowerBook, sorry MacBook, but I am surprised that no accouncement was made as to an Intel powered Mac Mini. There were strong rumors before the show that it would be announced. Guess not.
was I was able to buy an Xbox at launch vs. the 360. I am beginning to think it was a good thing though with scratched discs, blown out power supplies and over heating issues. Not that I think Sony's Blu-Ray strategy is going to work for them either. I am certain we're not going to see the PS3 this spring in either Japan or America as inevitable delays will push everything back to a fall or winter release.
I am willing to grant that this is a pretty cool mod, if you want to call it that and an excellent example of ingenuity and resourcefulness. However, I still feel that the overall attempt is nothing more than a fix for a flawed product, a flaw that Microsoft needs to address and fix. I don't expect to buy a game console only to have to purchase an external cooling unit to make it function as originally intended.
I don't understand why this project was undertaken to begin with. Ok, the Xbox 360 gets hot and the power supply can overhead we understand that. If the original Xbox power supply and unit are overheating it's the job of Microsoft to fix the problem.
I am not trying to troll, but my socks aren't going to be knocked off when someone has to modify their console to operate as originally intended...
When you install 10.4.3 (I mistakenly said 10.4.4) it lists Dashboard improvements among the changes and if you check Activity Monitor the amount of memory for each widget drops by a lot. I just wondered if the fellow installed 10.4.3 that's all, I didn't expect the third degree.
What I meant was several people had problems with Dashboard widgets taking up huge amounts of memory in 10.4.2 that was fixed in 10.4.3 and that he was probably aware.
I've had my share of pranks, some planned others spontaneous. Sometimes it's the little pranks that derive the most pleasure:
In high school I wrote a Turbo Pascal program to generate a tone from the PC speaker. I couldn't get the tone to play long enough and ended up with an annoying "chirp" sound that I eventually debugged. My friend came along and criticized my work and the annoying sound then had a brilliant idea. He took my "chirp" program and modified it to run as a TSR (terminate and stay ready) under DOS (that's all we had back then) and loaded it on all the computer lab computers. Imagine a computer lab full of computers randomly generating a semi-quiet "chirp" sound with no identifable way of turning it off. Eventually it drove the computer science teacher nuts and he just went around the room and disconnected the PC speakers.
My favorite prank also occured during high school and it involved a short wave radio my mother gave me for my birthday. It had a microphone and small amplifier suitable for a small room, but the sound was tinny and horrible. My friend's dad commented that the sound was atrocious and it made people sound like were talking at the drive thru. *Ding!* We bundled the radio and ourselves and drove to the local Burger King and hid the the radio and ourselves behind the drive thru menu board. We chose Burger King because there were some nice sized bushes obscuring either side of the menu board, otherwise this prank would not have been possible. After several false starts, we found our stride and eventually were able to confuse enough customers and enough orders to the breaking point. The jig was up when my friend (on the microphone) managed to confuse both the drive thru operator and drive thru customer to the point that both were screaming at each other. The customer got out of his truck and kicked the drive thru sign in frustration. The restaurant manager came running out and discovered us hiding behind the sign. I almost couldn't make a run for it as I was laughing so hard and tears were running down my face so I couldn't see. Ah, such juvenile pursuits.
One regular prank we liked to pull was swapping napkins from the Taco Time dispenser and moving them to the dispensers at a near by McDonalds. The napkins are indentical in size and fit perfectly. It's hilarious to see the expressions on customer's faces as they go to grab a napkin from the dispenser and see "Taco Time" in huge letters on the napkins, then pull out a handful in disgust as they realize it's a prank only to discover that we've filled the entire dispenser from top to bottom with stolen Taco Time napkins.
I know I going to hell for the prank I played on some very nice Mormons a few years ago. I came home from work to discover a message on my answering machine for "Kirby" (not my name) and if I received the informative video I requested. I deleted it without a second's thought only to hear the phone ring with a call from, you guessed it, the same Mormon fellow asking for "Kirby" again. Feeling mischievious I said, "Yes, Kirby speaking". The pleasant fellow on the line then went into his spiel and asked when would it be a good time to call on me to learn more about his faith. He asked for an address and while I was tempted to offer a friend's address I simply left the incorrect address he had as the "correct" one. He then asked what time he could come around. I was insistent that being an "early riser" that he should come as early as possible, "Six o'clock in the morning" I said. After a palpable pause I heard his hesitant voice reply, "That's...that's a bit early, but ok". I retired to bed that evening already feeling the flames of Hell nipping my covers. The next morning I rose and went to work without a second's thought to the fact that the very nice Mormon fellow was knocking incessantly on someone's door at six in the morning. He called back that afternoon and left another message to the effect that he was, "Sorry about the mixup" or somesuch. My room mate got the message before I did and tol
Friend of mine sent me a link to some topless video of whatever movie star he thought was hot. Being only mildly retarded but not completely so I fired up Firefox and disabled Javascript before I opened the link. I was asked by Firefox if I wanted to open or save a file called "xxxxxx.wmf" and I canceled the operation at that point.
I wouldn't have much confidence either in a French controlled military grade GPS system when the most critical design concern is the size and location of the "surrender" button on the portable GPS units. And the "backup system" is an extendable white flag on the antenna.
and terrorists. What, exactly, could a terrorist do with GPS technology? They don't have access to cruise missiles or ICBMs. I can understand degrading GPS signals when facing a standing army equally equipped, but I just don't see how even marginally accurate GPS could help a terrorist.
If a terrorist wanted to find the locations of water facilities, nuclear power generating plants or other critical infrastructure they would need to find it by other means before GPS would be useful (if GPS would be useful at all).
About the only way GPS would help a terrorist is to save him the $5 locals want to charge for directions to Staples Center in Los Angeles when you're already across the street from it (don't ask).
Honestly, though. The only scenario that occurs to me where GPS might be critical to a terrorist attempt would be a proximity based bomb using GPS technology to identify the proximity to a target.
Anyone have other ideas (and keep your eyes peeled for Staples Center)?
On the other hand, CANSPAM has "worked" for me in one respect in that a lot of the sexually explicit spam I used to get is now identified in the subject field as SEXUALLY EXPLICIT (as required by the law). Other than making it incredibly easy to filter out people like me are still receiving this shit so the spam level is the same.
Not only are research costs low, but there is a skilled work force to conduct the trials.
Umm, so essentially their skill is they're sick and need drugs? Talk about a back handed compliment. Well, Rahim, you have just the skills we're looking for, Leprosy.
Safari has been the default web browser since, what, OS 10.3? Any new Mac users, and that includes myself, running 10.3 or better would never have bothered to download IE for the Mac as Safari is an excellent browser in it's own right. Yes, of course there are still Mac users running OS 9 to OS 10.x and if they can live with an old version of the OS they can certainly live without updates to IE.
The question I have is was the development of Safari sort of self fulfilling? That is, Apple started Safari because they believed that MS would abandon IE (due to the end of the contractual period that required them to produce Office and IE for the Mac) and did MS abandon IE because Apple started Safari?
In case any links to these important documents get slashdotted let me help:
Declaration of Independence:
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
Constitution of the United States:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,
Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent,
I haven't felt as horrified about a TV show's premise since the WB's Superstar from a couple of years ago. On the rare moment when I did watch I literally looked at the TV through my fingers in a pathetic attempt to appease my conscience. Oh it was funny, even hilarious, but I felt bad the entire time watching otherwise good people used as comedic cannon fodder. I stopped watching after the second episode when I had friends walk out of the room in disgust.
Something tells me though that all is not as it appears with this new show and it may end up being a hoax on the viewer when we find out that the astronauts are really actors playing a part. Who knows?
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or just about any auto manufacturer sue the various car magazines for printing their obviously surrepticiously obtained photos of new models?
I think any company that sues is doing more harm than good. Why hurt those that love your products and are eager for some insider information? Companies might win a trade secret battle only to lose a public relations war.
I would get a refund. I live in Calgary and I would guess that all the EB Games locations are sold out. I happened to be in BestBuy maybe a week ago and they had a small supply of 360s available, so why waste your time?
What is the point of a pre-ordering if you can pick up a console at another store well in advance of your pre-order arriving?
This my thinking exactly. What are radio stations paying for if the end consumer has to pay again for the same material?
Moreover, I don't think a 64 Kb/s stream from Sirius or XM qualifies as a "high quality recording". From what I've heard it's better than AM radio but worse than FM when it comes to audio quality.
From TFA:
Despite the failure of similar bills, Diaz de la Portilla believes SB492 provides the means to protect children. 'Left to their own devices, children often do not realize the harm they are causing themselves through the exposure to graphic sexual and violent content found in many of today's video games'.
I think what he's looking for is this mythical creature called a parent . Replace "graphic sexual and violent content" with "playing in the street" and you see the logic he's using. Where are the parents?
I have a feeling it will be available later today or tomorrow, just like you mentioned. I just checked again and there was an additional update to iTunes 6.0.2 that wasn't there an hour ago so it looks like the updates are being spread through today and maybe tomorrow.
Quote: ... 10.4.4 ... you can download it today, it's got all these new widgets."
12:25 PM - "We've got a new release of Mac OS X Tiger
What is Steve talking about that 10.4.4 will be available? I just tried software update and there was an update for Quicktime but nothing for 10.4.4. Perhaps it will be available later today. *shrug*
We knew there would be a new PowerBook, sorry MacBook, but I am surprised that no accouncement was made as to an Intel powered Mac Mini. There were strong rumors before the show that it would be announced. Guess not.
was I was able to buy an Xbox at launch vs. the 360. I am beginning to think it was a good thing though with scratched discs, blown out power supplies and over heating issues. Not that I think Sony's Blu-Ray strategy is going to work for them either. I am certain we're not going to see the PS3 this spring in either Japan or America as inevitable delays will push everything back to a fall or winter release.
Just me 2 cents.
I am willing to grant that this is a pretty cool mod, if you want to call it that and an excellent example of ingenuity and resourcefulness. However, I still feel that the overall attempt is nothing more than a fix for a flawed product, a flaw that Microsoft needs to address and fix. I don't expect to buy a game console only to have to purchase an external cooling unit to make it function as originally intended.
I don't understand why this project was undertaken to begin with. Ok, the Xbox 360 gets hot and the power supply can overhead we understand that. If the original Xbox power supply and unit are overheating it's the job of Microsoft to fix the problem.
I am not trying to troll, but my socks aren't going to be knocked off when someone has to modify their console to operate as originally intended...
When you install 10.4.3 (I mistakenly said 10.4.4) it lists Dashboard improvements among the changes and if you check Activity Monitor the amount of memory for each widget drops by a lot. I just wondered if the fellow installed 10.4.3 that's all, I didn't expect the third degree.
What I meant was several people had problems with Dashboard widgets taking up huge amounts of memory in 10.4.2 that was fixed in 10.4.3 and that he was probably aware.
I had, and so have several others, a similar problem with my Mac Mini until I upgraded to OS 10.4.4., but you probably already knew that.
I've had my share of pranks, some planned others spontaneous. Sometimes it's the little pranks that derive the most pleasure:
In high school I wrote a Turbo Pascal program to generate a tone from the PC speaker. I couldn't get the tone to play long enough and ended up with an annoying "chirp" sound that I eventually debugged. My friend came along and criticized my work and the annoying sound then had a brilliant idea. He took my "chirp" program and modified it to run as a TSR (terminate and stay ready) under DOS (that's all we had back then) and loaded it on all the computer lab computers. Imagine a computer lab full of computers randomly generating a semi-quiet "chirp" sound with no identifable way of turning it off. Eventually it drove the computer science teacher nuts and he just went around the room and disconnected the PC speakers.
My favorite prank also occured during high school and it involved a short wave radio my mother gave me for my birthday. It had a microphone and small amplifier suitable for a small room, but the sound was tinny and horrible. My friend's dad commented that the sound was atrocious and it made people sound like were talking at the drive thru. *Ding!* We bundled the radio and ourselves and drove to the local Burger King and hid the the radio and ourselves behind the drive thru menu board. We chose Burger King because there were some nice sized bushes obscuring either side of the menu board, otherwise this prank would not have been possible. After several false starts, we found our stride and eventually were able to confuse enough customers and enough orders to the breaking point. The jig was up when my friend (on the microphone) managed to confuse both the drive thru operator and drive thru customer to the point that both were screaming at each other. The customer got out of his truck and kicked the drive thru sign in frustration. The restaurant manager came running out and discovered us hiding behind the sign. I almost couldn't make a run for it as I was laughing so hard and tears were running down my face so I couldn't see. Ah, such juvenile pursuits.
One regular prank we liked to pull was swapping napkins from the Taco Time dispenser and moving them to the dispensers at a near by McDonalds. The napkins are indentical in size and fit perfectly. It's hilarious to see the expressions on customer's faces as they go to grab a napkin from the dispenser and see "Taco Time" in huge letters on the napkins, then pull out a handful in disgust as they realize it's a prank only to discover that we've filled the entire dispenser from top to bottom with stolen Taco Time napkins.
I know I going to hell for the prank I played on some very nice Mormons a few years ago. I came home from work to discover a message on my answering machine for "Kirby" (not my name) and if I received the informative video I requested. I deleted it without a second's thought only to hear the phone ring with a call from, you guessed it, the same Mormon fellow asking for "Kirby" again. Feeling mischievious I said, "Yes, Kirby speaking". The pleasant fellow on the line then went into his spiel and asked when would it be a good time to call on me to learn more about his faith. He asked for an address and while I was tempted to offer a friend's address I simply left the incorrect address he had as the "correct" one. He then asked what time he could come around. I was insistent that being an "early riser" that he should come as early as possible, "Six o'clock in the morning" I said. After a palpable pause I heard his hesitant voice reply, "That's...that's a bit early, but ok". I retired to bed that evening already feeling the flames of Hell nipping my covers. The next morning I rose and went to work without a second's thought to the fact that the very nice Mormon fellow was knocking incessantly on someone's door at six in the morning. He called back that afternoon and left another message to the effect that he was, "Sorry about the mixup" or somesuch. My room mate got the message before I did and tol
Friend of mine sent me a link to some topless video of whatever movie star he thought was hot. Being only mildly retarded but not completely so I fired up Firefox and disabled Javascript before I opened the link. I was asked by Firefox if I wanted to open or save a file called "xxxxxx.wmf" and I canceled the operation at that point.
Score one for Firefox.
I wouldn't have much confidence either in a French controlled military grade GPS system when the most critical design concern is the size and location of the "surrender" button on the portable GPS units. And the "backup system" is an extendable white flag on the antenna.
and terrorists. What, exactly, could a terrorist do with GPS technology? They don't have access to cruise missiles or ICBMs. I can understand degrading GPS signals when facing a standing army equally equipped, but I just don't see how even marginally accurate GPS could help a terrorist.
If a terrorist wanted to find the locations of water facilities, nuclear power generating plants or other critical infrastructure they would need to find it by other means before GPS would be useful (if GPS would be useful at all).
About the only way GPS would help a terrorist is to save him the $5 locals want to charge for directions to Staples Center in Los Angeles when you're already across the street from it (don't ask).
Honestly, though. The only scenario that occurs to me where GPS might be critical to a terrorist attempt would be a proximity based bomb using GPS technology to identify the proximity to a target.
Anyone have other ideas (and keep your eyes peeled for Staples Center)?
Their sole job is to convert from analog to digital. Equally, what about devices like DVD recorders, transferring home movies to DVD, LP to CD, etc.
Seems the "analog hole" is about to get ripped a new one.
an email to everyone letting them know.
On the other hand, CANSPAM has "worked" for me in one respect in that a lot of the sexually explicit spam I used to get is now identified in the subject field as SEXUALLY EXPLICIT (as required by the law). Other than making it incredibly easy to filter out people like me are still receiving this shit so the spam level is the same.
Whatever.
Not only are research costs low, but there is a skilled work force to conduct the trials.
Umm, so essentially their skill is they're sick and need drugs? Talk about a back handed compliment. Well, Rahim, you have just the skills we're looking for, Leprosy.
Safari has been the default web browser since, what, OS 10.3? Any new Mac users, and that includes myself, running 10.3 or better would never have bothered to download IE for the Mac as Safari is an excellent browser in it's own right. Yes, of course there are still Mac users running OS 9 to OS 10.x and if they can live with an old version of the OS they can certainly live without updates to IE.
The question I have is was the development of Safari sort of self fulfilling? That is, Apple started Safari because they believed that MS would abandon IE (due to the end of the contractual period that required them to produce Office and IE for the Mac) and did MS abandon IE because Apple started Safari?
if you use Safari Enhancer to alter the user agent setting to "Firefox" or something similar the page displays fine.
Not that it matters as I have moved to Firefox as my default browser. I like Safari but I want the Flashblock and AdBlock plugins for Firefox.
In case any links to these important documents get slashdotted let me help:
Declaration of Independence:
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
Constitution of the United States:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,
Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent,
I hope everyone found these helpful.
given your mistaken premise for the test, I'd say the chimps passed.
I haven't felt as horrified about a TV show's premise since the WB's Superstar from a couple of years ago. On the rare moment when I did watch I literally looked at the TV through my fingers in a pathetic attempt to appease my conscience. Oh it was funny, even hilarious, but I felt bad the entire time watching otherwise good people used as comedic cannon fodder. I stopped watching after the second episode when I had friends walk out of the room in disgust.
Something tells me though that all is not as it appears with this new show and it may end up being a hoax on the viewer when we find out that the astronauts are really actors playing a part. Who knows?
I love Dashboard and use the Google Maps widget all the time. Of course, having a Dashboard layer to me defeats the purpose of the widgets, so I altered the Dashboard preferences to enable widgets on the desktop.
I have never used Konfabulator but from the looks of the things Dashboard looks like a Konfabulator ripoff. Are the widgets interchangeable?