Umm - your better off sueing them, trust me. The rolled FAX method is likely to get your own ass on the line- and thats the last thing you want. Take them to court, and take their money off of them for each violation!
That eMac hardly compares- Geforce 2mx? 128 Mb Ram - unthinkable, must be 512Mb minimum. Yes they are bluetooth and airport ready, and I know better than to try to compare G4 clock speeds with Athlon clock speeds, but I still dont think it is an option.
I must admit to not wanting to part with my monitor- any think I bought would have to be compatible(power macs?) - as it is a 21 inch SGI monitor.
I will admit to taking an interest in the Macs of late- but I am still put off by the price tags. Ebay searches show that Mac users are not easily parted, andstill turn out more expensive than the PC I built.
At least they have the choice - fantastic. As long as those choice inter-operate and do not impose closed loop restrictions on the users future choices. If I choose to use emacs, and switch to VI, all my text documents are compatible. The same may not be said for the future of MS word. I once was an Emacs user, but for some reason I switched to vi. I like them both, and sometimes switch for the hell of it- why? because I can.
I suppose the ironic hypocritical thing is I only use one browser on any platform I use - and that is Mozilla...
Its official... Argg - I knew it all the time... Tellytubbies are Microsoft minions... They are out to convert our kids!! Borg with fur? You dont call having a tv in your belly and a phallic ariel on your head implants? "Eh Oh- ooh ill be asskim il 8 ed"..
thats it - I am convinced - I have decided that on my sites traffic limiter- to redirect to a page mimicking the BSOD or Guru Meditation (i have not really used Macs enough to know the equivalent).
Linux Kernel panics are usually fairly boring - with justa few console messages... Though I always found the expression "Core Dumped" a little amusing.. Sheesh I get bored sometimes...
You mean like now...
If only apple were to sell a lower end (£600) system running OS-X, they could make all the difference. Being a coder - I wouldnt have been all that interested in macs before OS X. I know I can build a S-Hot Dogs B*l*X pc for under £600 + monitor. My last one included an Athlon 2200+, Cooler master case, Cooler master fan, extra case fans, 350w PSU, 40Gb Hdd(a little low I know), CD-RW, DVD, Geforce 4-TI 4600, SB Audigy, 512Mb Corsair PC2700, PCI 10/100 Lan, Abit motherboard. It did not include a floppy(I have not including floppies in systems I built for myself for some time now).
If I could buy a Mac capable of running OS X for less than £600 (sterling) - I would buy it tomorrow.
Nicely said brookharty - in fact I would consider the other CD's with many optional apps a bonus!
You do not even have to install a GUI if you dont use it... Linux can be as minimal as you need it.. Browser? If you really want you can have 7 or so- or none at all..
However most of windows is not optional. you must have a GUI, a browser etc- otherwise you have to go right back to dos - in which case using a recent linux kernel would give you more functionaly and safety. As for bonuses microsoft gives you the doctor evil feeding-you-to-sharks-with-lasers brand, keeping you in the lock in, charging you big time, having a premium for office apps that may include nasty DRM tech, and so on.
To me the very basics is a console with a TCP/IP stack, text editor and pine..
I think that would leave sheep... As in real ones.. Just about every body has commit some minor felony -and will probably continue to. Even Flanders would have done something wrong to a small degree in the American judicial system. And I do specifically mean the American system.
Nice - I have been looking for something like that- in the UK there are distributers in Scotland - though I am not sure about pricing. Expect to see an artical on Orion robots on them once I get my grubby hands on it...
Okay- for A start I never buy pirate software. If I am gonna copy it, I would just copy it off my mates. Number two the cracks are made by freaks who enjoy that sorta thing for the sake of it. To some people- being up until three am hacking a peice of software is supreme art and relaxation - I know - I used to be one. I didnt expect any payment, and I would quite happily give my results- although I might keep the best ones for myself as a matter of pride.
As copyright control technology becomes more sophisticated the small guys drop off and its left to big operations to do it, who would charge for it, and fund those terrorist organisations.
But to me its all academic - as I neither copy or buy software anymore. I use linux and free software, and only buy software I can succesfully run in wine or on PS2.
Which is why I will only buy Japanese vehicals. Let ford and GM drown in their own oil-polluted, dirty money filth with GWB and all of their counter parts.
I would like to think I can be a contributer to putting pressure on the oil based economy to evolve-or-die. To be honest, the whole American and British economy needs this kind of pressure (they are very deeply tied together with shared roots as deep as their tightly closed pockets).
One reason I have so much respect for the Japanese economy is they have continually evolved, yeah okay - it took a nuking to kickstart it, but they have not lost their vigour, and with South Korea and China rapidly upping their own pace, I can only see the US and UK being eventually left in the cold technologically, scientifically and economically.
With that in mind, I know where I will be living in 10 years time - it wont be the US or this crummy little Island I am stuck on now... Take me to Neo-Tokyo baby...
Well I certainly like your VR artical - and will be waiting patiently for your vehical. I wander if you can get the papers to drive it on the roads?
Anyone ever seen the book which shows you how to build your own car and race it- where you build a car sneakily named the "Lo-Cost" (a parody of lotus methinks)?
I do not want to buy or invest in a petrol engine car- too big, too expensive, too much proprietory junk, and I really dont want to contribute a incontinent mans feacal matter to the oil industry.
Until then I will stick with public transport and a bicycle - though note to visiters of London - before you lock your bike to anything - pull it - make sure it does not easily give or move, those theives will take a whole fence just to get the bike here. My worst record is having a bike nicked in under 24 hours.
Its funny you say that. Although in the cities everyone is wired, I know people who live out in the moors on Bodmin. All their power is from two windmills and a genny. They actually have two power lines through the house (I love this) - one is for 240vAC, the other 12vDC. Its a very old house mind - and there is not another house for about a mile.
Equally I know one guy, a robot builder,hobbyist engineer and just generally geeky who lives in an adapted fitted out double decker bus on his own land (acres of it) in Cornwall. He also runs of Gennys, a small windfarm, solar panels. He already ended up in the local paper after extracting a binliner full of hydrogen and igniting it - the local villages all heard it. The guy also happens to live around the corner from the Eden Project.
Anyway - living in built up London- I still must have backup power - as it does have its bad periods. And I dunno about a car - but I will be investing in fuel cell based UPS for my servers.
So why arent they angling to sell them here in europe. London- I am sure that the government could be talked into giving 100% discount(if they dont already) on congestion charges, and other tax breaks for small form factor fuel cell based cars.
It would make London that much more bearable...
So why arent there damn clever people combining the two technology groups outputs, and creating low power devices with high-yield batteries?
Oh yeah- its that damn pesky IP/Patent business....
Small advances - Sharp does their Chip On Glass, Kodak Their Oled displays and Toshiba their fuel cell laptops, meanwhile because of IP law and business interests - the technologies are never fully combined.
I love Open cores. I have my day job, and outside of that I will be happy to contribute what I can for free- be it code, hardware design etc...
Why? Because I will directly benefit from someone else doing the same.
Ummm- Arent regular batteries MUCH more dangerous exposed to naked flames than methanol. Methanol burns, and gives of relatively harmless substances. L/Ion, NI-Cad, and non-rechargable Batteries tend to explode, revealing some fairly nasty corrosive substances and toxic fumes.
Even so, they then have so little to loose they may as well try and rush the hijacker anyway. I mean, they have more to gain by killing him fighting than dieing slowly in their seats.
I also beleive that all cabin crews should be armed, and trained to use them.
Still, I love that seminar idea...
Good god - If I only had mod points now... I would give them by the bag...
This is possibly one of the best things I have heard said in slashdot in a long time.
However, one drawback is that it might kill the holywood tradition of bystander apathy while the hero does everything. I mean, if the whole cabin rushes the terrorists, and most likely takes them down, then no one person can be hero.
I think I would certainly be ready to rush a hijacker. At least trip the bugger and stop his head with the lapto... Oops sorry - got a bit violent there... Hehe..
To furthar that and maintain the balance - I think the real figure of deaths in Nagasaki was closer to 120,000.
One word- Nanking. In China, more 300,000 people were butchered, tortured, raped to death, in a system of ethnic cleansing only rivaled by the NAZIs.
But it still does not justify the nuke, it just made Americans and Chinese feel better.
The Japanese and Chinese have been having a go at each other for centuries. Although, that said, no more vehemently than the English and the French, or the Spanish.
Unfortunatley when lead by a lune, men can be conditioned into savage beasts. Lets not forget Americans in Vietnam were not known for their restraint.
Who here really understands what Vietnam was all about and what Americans were even doing there in the first place?
Well its not exactly skirmishes, but all of the Arabs speak different languages...
I am not sure that camo khaki tents are that far from buffalo hide tippies - just a hell of a lot cheaper.
I would say that the modern day Americans did almost eradicate the Native indians and their culture - but I wouldnt say we were that far different in warmongering, to be honest I would see the modern european descended american culture as worse - tehcnologically advance yes, well balanced - no. Europeans were always in skirmishes and pitch battles, they just went furthar afield to do it.
I think you are missing the point. Tony and about five other people in Britain are supporters of the war - okay I am exaggerating but theres more than 70% of the population who do not support Georgie's war. Including me. I personally think he was just waiting for this opportunity. Lets not forget where George came from anyway - texan sheriff with alcohol abuse problems... Shoot drunkenly first ask questions later. To be honest the UN is the only thing to have kept him from attacked the middle east randomly anyway.
After all - a republican government is one that really beleives the best way is "Fuck everyone else as long as we are on top....". I dont think its all that different from Saddam, considering the state of the florida vote. I wont easily forget how Bush came to power... I beleive Hitler used similar methods and cheated his way to power to...
opacs cannot compare with launching search terms on the text of the book. From what I have seen, opacs only covers a few keywords of the book. If the whole text is there, you could search that, not unlike searching web sites. You could use regexps or searches a little like google (without violating recent patents) - using biblio refs as a guide to the rating of books.
Hmmm.. I think that the most useful thing here would be an ability to download the books to a palm so I could read it there - while using the computer screen for programming, debugging etc...
Considering you can also sit down anywhere and read a book on the palm(I am currently reading the Art Of War), it makes very good sense. However with a system like this, they would probably want to protect their commenrce and design some kind of ebook DRM with expiry, so you cant just leave it on your palm, or beam it to someone else, or even hang on to the book indefinately by faking the date in your palm (a la old shareware hacks).
Not that I advocate DRM at all- but for this commercial model to work they will need it in some way.
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Umm - your better off sueing them, trust me. The rolled FAX method is likely to get your own ass on the line- and thats the last thing you want. Take them to court, and take their money off of them for each violation!
That eMac hardly compares- Geforce 2mx? 128 Mb Ram - unthinkable, must be 512Mb minimum. Yes they are bluetooth and airport ready, and I know better than to try to compare G4 clock speeds with Athlon clock speeds, but I still dont think it is an option.
I must admit to not wanting to part with my monitor- any think I bought would have to be compatible(power macs?) - as it is a 21 inch SGI monitor.
I will admit to taking an interest in the Macs of late- but I am still put off by the price tags. Ebay searches show that Mac users are not easily parted, andstill turn out more expensive than the PC I built.
At least they have the choice - fantastic. As long as those choice inter-operate and do not impose closed loop restrictions on the users future choices. If I choose to use emacs, and switch to VI, all my text documents are compatible. The same may not be said for the future of MS word. I once was an Emacs user, but for some reason I switched to vi. I like them both, and sometimes switch for the hell of it- why? because I can.
I suppose the ironic hypocritical thing is I only use one browser on any platform I use - and that is Mozilla...
Its official... Argg - I knew it all the time... Tellytubbies are Microsoft minions... They are out to convert our kids!! Borg with fur? You dont call having a tv in your belly and a phallic ariel on your head implants? "Eh Oh- ooh ill be asskim il 8 ed"..
thats it - I am convinced - I have decided that on my sites traffic limiter- to redirect to a page mimicking the BSOD or Guru Meditation (i have not really used Macs enough to know the equivalent).
Linux Kernel panics are usually fairly boring - with justa few console messages... Though I always found the expression "Core Dumped" a little amusing.. Sheesh I get bored sometimes...
You mean like now...
If only apple were to sell a lower end (£600) system running OS-X, they could make all the difference. Being a coder - I wouldnt have been all that interested in macs before OS X. I know I can build a S-Hot Dogs B*l*X pc for under £600 + monitor. My last one included an Athlon 2200+, Cooler master case, Cooler master fan, extra case fans, 350w PSU, 40Gb Hdd(a little low I know), CD-RW, DVD, Geforce 4-TI 4600, SB Audigy, 512Mb Corsair PC2700, PCI 10/100 Lan, Abit motherboard. It did not include a floppy(I have not including floppies in systems I built for myself for some time now).
If I could buy a Mac capable of running OS X for less than £600 (sterling) - I would buy it tomorrow.
Nicely said brookharty - in fact I would consider the other CD's with many optional apps a bonus!
You do not even have to install a GUI if you dont use it... Linux can be as minimal as you need it.. Browser? If you really want you can have 7 or so- or none at all..
However most of windows is not optional. you must have a GUI, a browser etc- otherwise you have to go right back to dos - in which case using a recent linux kernel would give you more functionaly and safety.
As for bonuses microsoft gives you the doctor evil feeding-you-to-sharks-with-lasers brand, keeping you in the lock in, charging you big time, having a premium for office apps that may include nasty DRM tech, and so on.
To me the very basics is a console with a TCP/IP stack, text editor and pine..
I think that would leave sheep... As in real ones.. Just about every body has commit some minor felony -and will probably continue to. Even Flanders would have done something wrong to a small degree in the American judicial system. And I do specifically mean the American system.
Nice - I have been looking for something like that- in the UK there are distributers in Scotland - though I am not sure about pricing. Expect to see an artical on Orion robots on them once I get my grubby hands on it...
Okay- for A start I never buy pirate software. If I am gonna copy it, I would just copy it off my mates. Number two the cracks are made by freaks who enjoy that sorta thing for the sake of it. To some people- being up until three am hacking a peice of software is supreme art and relaxation - I know - I used to be one. I didnt expect any payment, and I would quite happily give my results- although I might keep the best ones for myself as a matter of pride.
As copyright control technology becomes more sophisticated the small guys drop off and its left to big operations to do it, who would charge for it, and fund those terrorist organisations.
But to me its all academic - as I neither copy or buy software anymore. I use linux and free software, and only buy software I can succesfully run in wine or on PS2.
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Lets not forget wearing stupid stained dressing gowns...
Which is why I will only buy Japanese vehicals. Let ford and GM drown in their own oil-polluted, dirty money filth with GWB and all of their counter parts.
I would like to think I can be a contributer to putting pressure on the oil based economy to evolve-or-die. To be honest, the whole American and British economy needs this kind of pressure (they are very deeply tied together with shared roots as deep as their tightly closed pockets).
One reason I have so much respect for the Japanese economy is they have continually evolved, yeah okay - it took a nuking to kickstart it, but they have not lost their vigour, and with South Korea and China rapidly upping their own pace, I can only see the US and UK being eventually left in the cold technologically, scientifically and economically.
With that in mind, I know where I will be living in 10 years time - it wont be the US or this crummy little Island I am stuck on now... Take me to Neo-Tokyo baby...
Well I certainly like your VR artical - and will be waiting patiently for your vehical. I wander if you can get the papers to drive it on the roads?
Anyone ever seen the book which shows you how to build your own car and race it- where you build a car sneakily named the "Lo-Cost" (a parody of lotus methinks)?
I do not want to buy or invest in a petrol engine car- too big, too expensive, too much proprietory junk, and I really dont want to contribute a incontinent mans feacal matter to the oil industry.
Until then I will stick with public transport and a bicycle - though note to visiters of London - before you lock your bike to anything - pull it - make sure it does not easily give or move, those theives will take a whole fence just to get the bike here. My worst record is having a bike nicked in under 24 hours.
Its funny you say that. Although in the cities everyone is wired, I know people who live out in the moors on Bodmin. All their power is from two windmills and a genny. They actually have two power lines through the house (I love this) - one is for 240vAC, the other 12vDC. Its a very old house mind - and there is not another house for about a mile.
Equally I know one guy, a robot builder,hobbyist engineer and just generally geeky who lives in an adapted fitted out double decker bus on his own land (acres of it) in Cornwall. He also runs of Gennys, a small windfarm, solar panels. He already ended up in the local paper after extracting a binliner full of hydrogen and igniting it - the local villages all heard it. The guy also happens to live around the corner from the Eden Project.
Anyway - living in built up London- I still must have backup power - as it does have its bad periods. And I dunno about a car - but I will be investing in fuel cell based UPS for my servers.
So why arent they angling to sell them here in europe. London- I am sure that the government could be talked into giving 100% discount(if they dont already) on congestion charges, and other tax breaks for small form factor fuel cell based cars.
It would make London that much more bearable...
Dude- do you have a website? Photos? Would you share your design?
This sounds like it rules.
So why arent there damn clever people combining the two technology groups outputs, and creating low power devices with high-yield batteries?
Oh yeah- its that damn pesky IP/Patent business....
Small advances - Sharp does their Chip On Glass, Kodak Their Oled displays and Toshiba their fuel cell laptops, meanwhile because of IP law and business interests - the technologies are never fully combined.
I love Open cores. I have my day job, and outside of that I will be happy to contribute what I can for free- be it code, hardware design etc...
Why? Because I will directly benefit from someone else doing the same.
Ummm- Arent regular batteries MUCH more dangerous exposed to naked flames than methanol. Methanol burns, and gives of relatively harmless substances. L/Ion, NI-Cad, and non-rechargable Batteries tend to explode, revealing some fairly nasty corrosive substances and toxic fumes.
Even so, they then have so little to loose they may as well try and rush the hijacker anyway. I mean, they have more to gain by killing him fighting than dieing slowly in their seats.
I also beleive that all cabin crews should be armed, and trained to use them.
Still, I love that seminar idea...
Good god - If I only had mod points now... I would give them by the bag...
This is possibly one of the best things I have heard said in slashdot in a long time.
However, one drawback is that it might kill the holywood tradition of bystander apathy while the hero does everything. I mean, if the whole cabin rushes the terrorists, and most likely takes them down, then no one person can be hero.
I think I would certainly be ready to rush a hijacker. At least trip the bugger and stop his head with the lapto... Oops sorry - got a bit violent there... Hehe..
To furthar that and maintain the balance - I think the real figure of deaths in Nagasaki was closer to 120,000.
One word- Nanking. In China, more 300,000 people were butchered, tortured, raped to death, in a system of ethnic cleansing only rivaled by the NAZIs.
But it still does not justify the nuke, it just made Americans and Chinese feel better.
The Japanese and Chinese have been having a go at each other for centuries. Although, that said, no more vehemently than the English and the French, or the Spanish.
Unfortunatley when lead by a lune, men can be conditioned into savage beasts. Lets not forget Americans in Vietnam were not known for their restraint.
Who here really understands what Vietnam was all about and what Americans were even doing there in the first place?
Well its not exactly skirmishes, but all of the Arabs speak different languages...
I am not sure that camo khaki tents are that far from buffalo hide tippies - just a hell of a lot cheaper.
I would say that the modern day Americans did almost eradicate the Native indians and their culture - but I wouldnt say we were that far different in warmongering, to be honest I would see the modern european descended american culture as worse - tehcnologically advance yes, well balanced - no. Europeans were always in skirmishes and pitch battles, they just went furthar afield to do it.
I think you are missing the point. Tony and about five other people in Britain are supporters of the war - okay I am exaggerating but theres more than 70% of the population who do not support Georgie's war. Including me. I personally think he was just waiting for this opportunity. Lets not forget where George came from anyway - texan sheriff with alcohol abuse problems... Shoot drunkenly first ask questions later. To be honest the UN is the only thing to have kept him from attacked the middle east randomly anyway.
After all - a republican government is one that really beleives the best way is "Fuck everyone else as long as we are on top....". I dont think its all that different from Saddam, considering the state of the florida vote. I wont easily forget how Bush came to power... I beleive Hitler used similar methods and cheated his way to power to...
opacs cannot compare with launching search terms on the text of the book. From what I have seen, opacs only covers a few keywords of the book. If the whole text is there, you could search that, not unlike searching web sites. You could use regexps or searches a little like google (without violating recent patents) - using biblio refs as a guide to the rating of books.
Hmmm.. I think that the most useful thing here would be an ability to download the books to a palm so I could read it there - while using the computer screen for programming, debugging etc...
Considering you can also sit down anywhere and read a book on the palm(I am currently reading the Art Of War), it makes very good sense. However with a system like this, they would probably want to protect their commenrce and design some kind of ebook DRM with expiry, so you cant just leave it on your palm, or beam it to someone else, or even hang on to the book indefinately by faking the date in your palm (a la old shareware hacks).
Not that I advocate DRM at all- but for this commercial model to work they will need it in some way.