There are really only a few functions a TV + DVR would need to perform in the context of having a computer, so couldn't the OS be really, really tiny? If it records, plays back, pauses, saves, deletes and schedules, that ought to about do it, right? Why all the extra junk, or is there any extra junk? (I assumed that there was probably a LOT of extra junk on that OS)
Just print the section below, and drop a quarter on it. Wherever it lands, voila! That's the answer. Could this be any easier? Maybe a 1x1 matrix test would be.
You can't see lasers until they've either hit you or not hit you. You can see rocks coming, that's the best part! We just need softer rocks, maybe yellow soft rocks. Maybe we could name them based on the sound they make, like Boff or Nerf or something like that. Yeah, Nerf! That's the ticket! oh wait... DOH!
We all know what should happen here: the government finally goes "ah ha!" and eliminates censorship on tv, because hey, you can change the channel or turn it off (which you can't do when your kids are at school around their friends anyways, so you've already got all the control you need). All of a sudden, shows will be titled "F*** you!" and the whole show will be 60 minutes of the f-word as fast as possible, set to Flight of the Bumblebee. That would be the greatest day of my life!
In Soviet Russia, IE chooses you! oh wait, that's here. It's like an election with one name on the ballot; you can get another ballot if you want, but they don't have any in the building... you have to go to some obscure floor (the 13th floor,perhaps?) in the library to get the full ballot.
You mean a benefactor like... STARBUCKS??? I am certain that they have at least considered sponsoring this guy under the table, just because of the publicity he's getting for them.
You can already jump from machine to machine using Remote Desktop... Not EXACTLY what the article's talking about, but you can achieve the same effect by being able to control "your" machine from any other. However, the technology is still lagging in terms of response time and cross-platform compatibility. If Remote Desktop ran from any browser, and somehow went really, really fast, that would be pretty close.
My guess is your job isn't to be a raunchy DJ. Howard's JOB is to do that. And yet he is fined for it. If you're a computer scientist and you make fart jokes, it might be considered inappropriate at work. However, construction workers that want to hear fart jokes can tune in Howard. If your office wants to censor you listening to Howard, technically they probably can. The government can NOT, however, and should NOT, because 18 million people (about) enjoy listening to the show in various public (and allowed private) places. If you think for one minute that your kid is being warped by Howard, turn it off, or better yet, get real, because your kid has heard 10 times worse at school every day since kindergarden.
I personally find non-reimbursement incredibly insulting, but let's not forget that the employer must be aware that these are deductible business expenses. At the very least, they should be willing to accept that they are getting the money back from your business expenses. There's nothing worse than an employer telling you to get certified or to fly to see client xyz but refusing to pay for the flight or training. I have had to contend with that on a number of occasions, and it's only with small companies. Any fortune.5k company will not only reimburse you, but force you to use the process. They don't want any audit screwing up their investors' opinions!
I have used macs since they came out, and I never saw a virus on a "happy mac" (Mac Classic or earlier). You used to see SE/30's and such running file / print servers for years and years,with no probs. They're like tiny mainframes, but with a sweet GUI. And yes, I still have one, yes it still works, including the original mac carrying case!
The fashion industry has been dealing with this forever, and I predict similar trends will appear in music (closing fast), and then computers. By the time you buy something that's 'in fashion' at a traditional store, the designers have already released the next season's line. There is absolutely no way to stay 100% current, unless you are a designer yourself, and even then, your wardrobe will always be off by about 3 seasons.
Agreed, but the point is that the delivery system has nothing to do with the fact that people decided to share illegal content. People use client-server to share legal and illegal content all the time, and no one cares, it's just the idea that you can't "shut it down" with p2p that scares people, i think.
Kazaa makes it easy to download and view songs, but no one says you have to or are allowed to download copyrighted material with it. I have a number of friends who distribute their bands' music with Kazaa freely, because it boosts their fanbase, and because radio is corrupt. If you want to download a Metallica song, we all know that those songs are on CD's you can buy at stores, and we all know you're not supposed to "steal" things. It's just like stealing a term paper... if you just want to read it, I don't really see a problem, but if you're going to distribute said term paper, that's your own dumb fault, not the fault of the tool of distribution.
You know, client/server apps can distribute stuff illegally too! Heck, why not outlaw stores and banks, because people can steal things from them! They're effectively encouraging you to take the money from the vault!
A good story probably isn't rewriting LOTR, Star Wars, Tron,or what have you like mad libs. However, those can be really funny if you know what you're doing!
Maybe Dell can work out a deal where anyone can sell their machines with any o/s preloaded as a ghosted image, provided you send them the CD and you're liable if the image is crap... that would be sweet! Then we could all compete with our favorite o/s's and with wal-mart (to some tiny degree)
Well, that's a pretty legitimate complaint, especially if you work in a secure building. You can't just be coming in and out with a portable hard drive and copying mechanism every day if you have secret clearance and work on DOD stuff, so it makes sense that other companies would follow suit. Besides, it's not like CD players, tape players, mp3 cd players, radios, live365.com, etc. don't exist! Just like checking your guns before entering a saloon makes sense, so does this. Sure, you might not use it, but if you did, people would sue.
If someone wanted to really cause problems, they'd modify that thing to use port 80 to spread itself, and disguise the packets as/. traffic. What admin would notice if it was a virus, or just some new story on/.?
They probably figured, "we can charge a ton for our cert's forever, because no one is going to take the time to write a book." OOPS! I hope other people follow suit and finally we will be rid of the "if you're not certified, you can't have learned it" business principle.
I fail to see how the p4 is the weapon. Guns don't kill people, personal computers do??? WTF? Of course, you can write software on it that calculates some damned thing that has to do with blowing stuff up, but you can just as easily get a thousand used p3's and do it anyways. I don't think a P4 provides some special abilities... does it? Maybe if you throw the chip at someone, because it's so big, it might hurt them.
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There are really only a few functions a TV + DVR would need to perform in the context of having a computer, so couldn't the OS be really, really tiny? If it records, plays back, pauses, saves, deletes and schedules, that ought to about do it, right? Why all the extra junk, or is there any extra junk? (I assumed that there was probably a LOT of extra junk on that OS)
Just print the section below, and drop a quarter on it. Wherever it lands, voila! That's the answer. Could this be any easier?
Maybe a 1x1 matrix test would be.
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You can't see lasers until they've either hit you or not hit you. You can see rocks coming, that's the best part! We just need softer rocks, maybe yellow soft rocks. Maybe we could name them based on the sound they make, like Boff or Nerf or something like that. Yeah, Nerf! That's the ticket!
oh wait... DOH!
We all know what should happen here: the government finally goes "ah ha!" and eliminates censorship on tv, because hey, you can change the channel or turn it off (which you can't do when your kids are at school around their friends anyways, so you've already got all the control you need). All of a sudden, shows will be titled "F*** you!" and the whole show will be 60 minutes of the f-word as fast as possible, set to Flight of the Bumblebee. That would be the greatest day of my life!
I got a BA in college, that's for Bustin' Ass, and that's how I GTD.
"After that, you can change your name from Kickin' Wing to Kickin' Ass! I would!" -- Joe Dirt
In Soviet Russia, IE chooses you!
oh wait, that's here. It's like an election with one name on the ballot; you can get another ballot if you want, but they don't have any in the building... you have to go to some obscure floor (the 13th floor,perhaps?) in the library to get the full ballot.
You mean a benefactor like... STARBUCKS??? I am certain that they have at least considered sponsoring this guy under the table, just because of the publicity he's getting for them.
You can already jump from machine to machine using Remote Desktop... Not EXACTLY what the article's talking about, but you can achieve the same effect by being able to control "your" machine from any other. However, the technology is still lagging in terms of response time and cross-platform compatibility. If Remote Desktop ran from any browser, and somehow went really, really fast, that would be pretty close.
My guess is your job isn't to be a raunchy DJ. Howard's JOB is to do that. And yet he is fined for it. If you're a computer scientist and you make fart jokes, it might be considered inappropriate at work. However, construction workers that want to hear fart jokes can tune in Howard. If your office wants to censor you listening to Howard, technically they probably can. The government can NOT, however, and should NOT, because 18 million people (about) enjoy listening to the show in various public (and allowed private) places. If you think for one minute that your kid is being warped by Howard, turn it off, or better yet, get real, because your kid has heard 10 times worse at school every day since kindergarden.
I personally find non-reimbursement incredibly insulting, but let's not forget that the employer must be aware that these are deductible business expenses. At the very least, they should be willing to accept that they are getting the money back from your business expenses. There's nothing worse than an employer telling you to get certified or to fly to see client xyz but refusing to pay for the flight or training. I have had to contend with that on a number of occasions, and it's only with small companies. Any fortune .5k company will not only reimburse you, but force you to use the process. They don't want any audit screwing up their investors' opinions!
I have used macs since they came out, and I never saw a virus on a "happy mac" (Mac Classic or earlier). You used to see SE/30's and such running file / print servers for years and years,with no probs. They're like tiny mainframes, but with a sweet GUI. And yes, I still have one, yes it still works, including the original mac carrying case!
Spring 2005 - Summer 2004 = 3 seasons.
The fashion industry has been dealing with this forever, and I predict similar trends will appear in music (closing fast), and then computers. By the time you buy something that's 'in fashion' at a traditional store, the designers have already released the next season's line. There is absolutely no way to stay 100% current, unless you are a designer yourself, and even then, your wardrobe will always be off by about 3 seasons.
Agreed, but the point is that the delivery system has nothing to do with the fact that people decided to share illegal content. People use client-server to share legal and illegal content all the time, and no one cares, it's just the idea that you can't "shut it down" with p2p that scares people, i think.
Kazaa makes it easy to download and view songs, but no one says you have to or are allowed to download copyrighted material with it. I have a number of friends who distribute their bands' music with Kazaa freely, because it boosts their fanbase, and because radio is corrupt. If you want to download a Metallica song, we all know that those songs are on CD's you can buy at stores, and we all know you're not supposed to "steal" things. It's just like stealing a term paper... if you just want to read it, I don't really see a problem, but if you're going to distribute said term paper, that's your own dumb fault, not the fault of the tool of distribution.
You know, client/server apps can distribute stuff illegally too! Heck, why not outlaw stores and banks, because people can steal things from them! They're effectively encouraging you to take the money from the vault!
ARGH!
A good story probably isn't rewriting LOTR, Star Wars, Tron,or what have you like mad libs. However, those can be really funny if you know what you're doing!
Maybe Dell can work out a deal where anyone can sell their machines with any o/s preloaded as a ghosted image, provided you send them the CD and you're liable if the image is crap... that would be sweet! Then we could all compete with our favorite o/s's and with wal-mart (to some tiny degree)
Install something else besides XP!
ha ha!
Well, that's a pretty legitimate complaint, especially if you work in a secure building. You can't just be coming in and out with a portable hard drive and copying mechanism every day if you have secret clearance and work on DOD stuff, so it makes sense that other companies would follow suit. Besides, it's not like CD players, tape players, mp3 cd players, radios, live365.com, etc. don't exist! Just like checking your guns before entering a saloon makes sense, so does this. Sure, you might not use it, but if you did, people would sue.
If someone wanted to really cause problems, they'd modify that thing to use port 80 to spread itself, and disguise the packets as /. traffic. What admin would notice if it was a virus, or just some new story on /.?
D'OH!
They probably figured, "we can charge a ton for our cert's forever, because no one is going to take the time to write a book." OOPS! I hope other people follow suit and finally we will be rid of the "if you're not certified, you can't have learned it" business principle.
Does anyone know of a chart regarding current DB providers and their respective UML adoption level? (i.e. "db2 supports it, xyzDB doesn't)
I fail to see how the p4 is the weapon. Guns don't kill people, personal computers do??? WTF?
Of course, you can write software on it that calculates some damned thing that has to do with blowing stuff up, but you can just as easily get a thousand used p3's and do it anyways. I don't think a P4 provides some special abilities... does it?
Maybe if you throw the chip at someone, because it's so big, it might hurt them.
Some genius was inventing indentation by use of the > symbol. Little did he know that we'd all be surfing greater-than "waves" for the next millenium and a half.
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