From what I understand, they were primarily used in divorce cases where the wife would tell the court she was forced to perform fellatio/anal intercourse (which were technically illegal) in order to get a better ruling in her favor.
Don't you think it's a better statement about courts/judges/juries breaking the law and accepting hearsay testimony than selectively enforced laws. Or is medical science that good to prove that one ever performed oral sex on only that particular male?
so you might as well fire up the Hype Engine early
How about some customer relations engine then? Like giving a good discount to people who are stranded without a computer they want and are willing to preorder and wait?
It's like holding an author responsible for not having his book released on tape, cd, 8-track, iTMS, Rhapsody, in Braille, and seventeen other languages.
Actually, it's legal for blind people to create audio copies of books and distribute them on peer-to-peer. There was an article about that on slashdot a while ago.
By getting an order to take down the original site of Odeon Cinemas until it is accessible as required by law. And get really picky about missing ALT tags. This will teach them how not to be litigious and nasty. Although I am not sure how blind people are going to watch movies anyway:-)
Watch your 16 year old daughter take a shower and you will be in jail faster than you can say "pervert". You can only invade children's privacy to the extent that they can not take care of themselves according to their age and individual ability.
Uh.. Cable modems are connected to TV cable, so your ISP might be eager to solve this problem for you. Movies may be stored or at least cached by a server in a local cable box and never hit the Internet or count against your transfer limits.
Plenty of people like the PocketPC because it has an interface superior to the Palm, and the OS is less buggy
This could go either way. Why should programs I close on PPC just hang around in the background until I run out of memory and kill them through Start/Settings/System/Memory/Running Programs?
But mostly both Palm and PPC suck, especially when it comes to developing software. Sun 3 with a 68K processor, 8MB of ram and 100MB hard drive was a usable development machine with a standard C++ compiler - exceptions and all, on-"device" debugger, an easy to use UI toolkit (XView) and lots more. For todays 400Mhz XScale PDAs with 256MB RAM, I would settle for an equivalent functionality from remote. But no, we get crippled compilers (CE), ridiculous heap sizes (Palm) and tedious UI programming (both, although.Net is making a dent).
If spam is a living organism and we want to control it, it's not enough to have a filter that passively nibbles at what swims nearby. Write something that invades spammer's servers, makes charges with all of their credit card numbers and then e-mails a final "spam" with an outlook express-based viral copy of itself before formatting the hard drive. Let it adapt to that!
Anonymous e-mail to SMS gateways are just inviting abuse. Make people register for an account to use such things. The account can be free, but with verified contact info. And let SMS recepient charger sender $1 if he/she doesn't like the message.
If it wasn't so dominant, Palm would just get 200Mhz processors with 68K instruction sets, we would continue to use very mature CodeWarrior development tools and all existing applications would run blazing fast.
Instead, we now have software 68K emulation on top of ARM, on a PDA(!). How good can it be for performance and battery life? And mixing ARM and 68K code in the same application is a real pain because of different byte order, among other things.
Oh well, say you want to be insanely rich. There is 0% chance you will get there with extra 10 bucks per month in the bank. If you spend the money on lottery tickets, there is a tiny, but > 0 chance you will hit an 100M jackpot or a smaller, but still nice prize. If the thought keeps you more happy, why the hell not?
Yes you can get better odds in the casino. But state lottery money is supposed to go towards nice things like education. If you can verify it really does go there in your state (instead of say, funding highway cops), why not donate money and amuse yourself at the same time?
do you also bitch that you had to buy a VCR to watch video tapes
Definitely yes, if I already have ability to compile my own VCR using free instructions on Internet and some a*holes tell me it's illegal and I have to pay money for the one they approve. And don't tell me I have to reactivate the VCR if I want to use it with a new TV.
Lots of people, including me, using Netscape 3.x or 4.x back in the days, went and downloaded IE overnight, through home dialup connections. At that time it was a better choice. It didn't crash as much as NS. It supported more powerful scripting. MS Java VM was faster. Outlook Express supported IMAP more cleanly. Frontpage Express worked with forms.
Now I moved to Safari at home and Opera at work. But apparently for most people on PC side new browsers are not attractive enough to download over their new cable connections. Maybe if you only go to well-known sites like CNN (or slashdot) and friend's home pages, adware and trojan hourses are not an issue. At least not until the last IIS-hijacking worm, which apparently did have an effect on market share. It's pr0n and wa13z search results that are really loaded.
What I don't understand is how people tolerate all the pop-ups/unders/overs, DHTML animations and unstoppable background sounds. Or on the OE side, worms that activate by simply viewing the message.
Or get freebies, for that matter. No wonder the software industry is struggling, except for the company that manages to get its stuff bundled with new computers. I think retail stores like Fry's should be horrified and offer free computer literacy seminars where they show how to install a new program from the CD and how some are better or cheaper even though there is a bundled app in windows. Show how IE drowns in popups and tries to dial international phone# while Opera just displays the page normally.
Now if it was possible to show how to buy and download legal mp3s and VCD images, people just might get wheened off "free" stuff and move to "high quality, reasonable price" stuff. Or at least the best free stuff available.
So you overclocked a CPU by 25%. Because it's not the only part in your computer, your system runs 10% faster. So what?
I understand overclocking 8088 from 4.77 to 8MHz to speed up compiles. Or projects like hymn that remove artificialy imposed limitations which really hinder users. But what is achived here that can not be better done with a dual processor, perhaps a nice G5?
At least if you want a good computer rather than just doing it once out of curiosity. Every time I tried, I ended with mysterious lockups, resets and random failures to boot when powered on. I have a suspition that various components do not implement standards precisely and some combinations are more reliable than others, for example a video card might have problems with a particular motherboard. In this case, big PC makers would have a chance to discover the problems and substitute components. For home made PC - good luck finding which part to exchange and getting the store to believe you didn't damage it yourself.
Do you really want to archive on the media that is bulky, gets damaged if you touch it, rots after a few years, has no reliable error correction and doesn't store names of your songs? I would rather archive my stuff on an iPod. It's unlikely to die at exact same time as my hard drive and is cheaper per song than audio CD-Rs.
If the local citizens aren't involved it won't go away anyway. This is part of what the second amendment helps with. Gun ownership deters crime.
Are you saying I should be required to learn how to kill people in order to feel safe walking on the street? I think I would rather let trained professionals kill criminals when necessary.
Besides, while bank robbers already have guns, muggers and agressive beggers generally don't. If everyone just walks around with weapons, some will inevitibly get stollen. Do you really want me to shoot a homeless guy knocking on my car window because his face looks crazy and I have to assume he is armed?
I can not put one in my iPod. And if I don't lose or scratch it on the way home, I get to manually enter each track title.
They should offer a) 128Kbps CBR MP3 downloads over their wireless connection and b) business card-sized mini-CDs with a copy of the above. Sure both record companies and audiophiles will riot, but that's what 99% of customers want and use. Whoever wants to make money selling music better take notice.
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From what I understand, they were primarily used in divorce cases where the wife would tell the court she was forced to perform fellatio/anal intercourse (which were technically illegal) in order to get a better ruling in her favor.
Don't you think it's a better statement about courts/judges/juries breaking the law and accepting hearsay testimony than selectively enforced laws. Or is medical science that good to prove that one ever performed oral sex on only that particular male?
either that or buy Sun and do it right
Yeah, Sun is very successful competing for performance and selling their stuff these days. Are you kidding or did you take a time machine from 1990?
so you might as well fire up the Hype Engine early
How about some customer relations engine then? Like giving a good discount to people who are stranded without a computer they want and are willing to preorder and wait?
It's like holding an author responsible for not having his book released on tape, cd, 8-track, iTMS, Rhapsody, in Braille, and seventeen other languages.
Actually, it's legal for blind people to create audio copies of books and distribute them on peer-to-peer. There was an article about that on slashdot a while ago.
By getting an order to take down the original site of Odeon Cinemas until it is accessible as required by law. And get really picky about missing ALT tags. This will teach them how not to be litigious and nasty. Although I am not sure how blind people are going to watch movies anyway :-)
Watch your 16 year old daughter take a shower and you will be in jail faster than you can say "pervert". You can only invade children's privacy to the extent that they can not take care of themselves according to their age and individual ability.
Uh.. Cable modems are connected to TV cable, so your ISP might be eager to solve this problem for you. Movies may be stored or at least cached by a server in a local cable box and never hit the Internet or count against your transfer limits.
Hey, Vostok is "East" in Russian. We might take objection to Bush and the weapons of microbial destruction he spreads when he wipes out.
Plenty of people like the PocketPC because it has an interface superior to the Palm, and the OS is less buggy
.Net is making a dent).
This could go either way. Why should programs I close on PPC just hang around in the background until I run out of memory and kill them through Start/Settings/System/Memory/Running Programs?
But mostly both Palm and PPC suck, especially when it comes to developing software. Sun 3 with a 68K processor, 8MB of ram and 100MB hard drive was a usable development machine with a standard C++ compiler - exceptions and all, on-"device" debugger, an easy to use UI toolkit (XView) and lots more. For todays 400Mhz XScale PDAs with 256MB RAM, I would settle for an equivalent functionality from remote. But no, we get crippled compilers (CE), ridiculous heap sizes (Palm) and tedious UI programming (both, although
If spam is a living organism and we want to control it, it's not enough to have a filter that passively nibbles at what swims nearby. Write something that invades spammer's servers, makes charges with all of their credit card numbers and then e-mails a final "spam" with an outlook express-based viral copy of itself before formatting the hard drive. Let it adapt to that!
Anonymous e-mail to SMS gateways are just inviting abuse. Make people register for an account to use such things. The account can be free, but with verified contact info. And let SMS recepient charger sender $1 if he/she doesn't like the message.
I am sure SCO and Microsoft products are suddenly well-advertised after slashdotters read your post.
If it wasn't so dominant, Palm would just get 200Mhz processors with 68K instruction sets, we would continue to use very mature CodeWarrior development tools and all existing applications would run blazing fast.
Instead, we now have software 68K emulation on top of ARM, on a PDA(!). How good can it be for performance and battery life? And mixing ARM and 68K code in the same application is a real pain because of different byte order, among other things.
Oh well, say you want to be insanely rich. There is 0% chance you will get there with extra 10 bucks per month in the bank. If you spend the money on lottery tickets, there is a tiny, but > 0 chance you will hit an 100M jackpot or a smaller, but still nice prize. If the thought keeps you more happy, why the hell not?
Yes you can get better odds in the casino. But state lottery money is supposed to go towards nice things like education. If you can verify it really does go there in your state (instead of say, funding highway cops), why not donate money and amuse yourself at the same time?
do you also bitch that you had to buy a VCR to watch video tapes
Definitely yes, if I already have ability to compile my own VCR using free instructions on Internet and some a*holes tell me it's illegal and I have to pay money for the one they approve. And don't tell me I have to reactivate the VCR if I want to use it with a new TV.
Lots of people, including me, using Netscape 3.x or 4.x back in the days, went and downloaded IE overnight, through home dialup connections. At that time it was a better choice. It didn't crash as much as NS. It supported more powerful scripting. MS Java VM was faster. Outlook Express supported IMAP more cleanly. Frontpage Express worked with forms.
Now I moved to Safari at home and Opera at work. But apparently for most people on PC side new browsers are not attractive enough to download over their new cable connections. Maybe if you only go to well-known sites like CNN (or slashdot) and friend's home pages, adware and trojan hourses are not an issue. At least not until the last IIS-hijacking worm, which apparently did have an effect on market share. It's pr0n and wa13z search results that are really loaded.
What I don't understand is how people tolerate all the pop-ups/unders/overs, DHTML animations and unstoppable background sounds. Or on the OE side, worms that activate by simply viewing the message.
Netscape 7 is old, has too many plugins and is no longer actively supported by vendor. Why not Firefox or Opera?
Or get freebies, for that matter. No wonder the software industry is struggling, except for the company that manages to get its stuff bundled with new computers. I think retail stores like Fry's should be horrified and offer free computer literacy seminars where they show how to install a new program from the CD and how some are better or cheaper even though there is a bundled app in windows. Show how IE drowns in popups and tries to dial international phone# while Opera just displays the page normally.
Now if it was possible to show how to buy and download legal mp3s and VCD images, people just might get wheened off "free" stuff and move to "high quality, reasonable price" stuff. Or at least the best free stuff available.
So you overclocked a CPU by 25%. Because it's not the only part in your computer, your system runs 10% faster. So what?
I understand overclocking 8088 from 4.77 to 8MHz to speed up compiles. Or projects like hymn that remove artificialy imposed limitations which really hinder users. But what is achived here that can not be better done with a dual processor, perhaps a nice G5?
I am paying $1.62 for a grande.
At least if you want a good computer rather than just doing it once out of curiosity. Every time I tried, I ended with mysterious lockups, resets and random failures to boot when powered on. I have a suspition that various components do not implement standards precisely and some combinations are more reliable than others, for example a video card might have problems with a particular motherboard. In this case, big PC makers would have a chance to discover the problems and substitute components. For home made PC - good luck finding which part to exchange and getting the store to believe you didn't damage it yourself.
Do you really want to archive on the media that is bulky, gets damaged if you touch it, rots after a few years, has no reliable error correction and doesn't store names of your songs? I would rather archive my stuff on an iPod. It's unlikely to die at exact same time as my hard drive and is cheaper per song than audio CD-Rs.
If the local citizens aren't involved it won't go away anyway. This is part of what the second amendment helps with. Gun ownership deters crime.
Are you saying I should be required to learn how to kill people in order to feel safe walking on the street? I think I would rather let trained professionals kill criminals when necessary.
Besides, while bank robbers already have guns, muggers and agressive beggers generally don't. If everyone just walks around with weapons, some will inevitibly get stollen. Do you really want me to shoot a homeless guy knocking on my car window because his face looks crazy and I have to assume he is armed?
I can not put one in my iPod. And if I don't lose or scratch it on the way home, I get to manually enter each track title.
They should offer a) 128Kbps CBR MP3 downloads over their wireless connection and b) business card-sized mini-CDs with a copy of the above. Sure both record companies and audiophiles will riot, but that's what 99% of customers want and use. Whoever wants to make money selling music better take notice.
And in this way, a low-income, high-crime area will have an excellent, local source of funding for their police? Talk about vicious circles!