So you admit that you have spent money on a Microsoft product, rather than a competing product.
MS' objective is not to make a profit in this market; it is to drive their competitors out of the market. The price of the Xbox is only constrained by a desire to avoid accusations of dumping.
You went to McDonald's for lunch...did they record your license plate and/or VIN?
Just so you yanks don't feel left out: this is happening in England as well. Our glorious government has developed the Automatic Numberplate Recognition System, which will log every journey that a subject makes. This information will be retained for two years. I expect the retention time to be increased in about two years. Fortunatly I don't have to worry since I have nothing to hide!
In addition to the other comments, the use of flash breaks the ability to scroll the page with the mouse wheel. If the mouse pointer happens over a flash object, the object steals the button press message for itself, and the web browser doesn't scroll.
I saw an episode of this yesterday. They haven't let the contestants near the window yet because a moth is loose in the studio and they don't want to risk it interposing itself between a contestant and the image of the earth.
The purpose of non-US was to bypass certain laws that prevented the export of cryptographic software from the United States.
Since those laws were nullified after the release of Debian 3.0 (Woody), the repository no longer serves a useful purpose and is now empty.
The non-US section has nothing to do with patents. Debian's patent policy is quite simple: all patents are ignored, except when they are being actively enforced against the creators/distributors/users of Free software; whereupon the patented software is removed from Debian entirely.
Hardware keyloggers can get anything you type. But it would be a poorly run Internet cafe indeed that allowed its users to run untrusted code off random devices, let alone boot a whole different OS from them.
Fair enough.;) But please _do_ file a bug report so that it can be tracked down and fixed. I certainly haven't noticed the problem on any of the machines I have used. The only problem I have is that the applications menu can take a few seconds to appear the first time it's opened.
Holding down the Shift key stopped AutoRun and prevented the software from being installed. Halderman wrote about the software, and the "infamous Shift key attack," in an academic paper and posted it online. Within 24 hours, SunnComm was threatening a $10 million lawsuit, and vowing to refer Halderman to authorities for allegedly committing a felony under the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.
By the next day, the company had backed down in the face of public outrage. Looking back, Halderman says, "The whole experience was a whirlwind.... The response was way bigger than (anything I'd) expected."
Hmm... so if I wget an mp3 file I am downloading it, but if I run mpg123 on the half-completed file, it is magically converted to a 'streaming' operation?
Nice hack with the spoken email BTW. I'm still wating for festival, or even Microsoft's TTS software to sound half as good as Apple's PlainTalk voices did back on System 7 in 1994.:)
Erm, I am perfectly capable of watching the video; it plays just fine in Totem; but only because I have an i386 system. I was merely pointing out out one reason why "just use w32codecs" is not an acceptable solution for many users.
But since you mention it... you compare a content provider's decision to use HTML (an open standard which anyone may implement, and which even degrades gracefully to text, and so is usable on platforms without a web browser) with a decision to use Windows Media Video (a proprietry video codec that is only available on a single platform). Then you say,
"If you're unable to get what you want out of content, thats your fault, not the content producers fault."
Content provider can just as easily make their content available in an open format, one which anyone can implement. Their content will then be viewable on any conceivable platform. So why are content providers so determined to turn away the fraction of their potential customers that don't run Windows?
Starting and stopping services is done by/etc/init.d/service [start|stop].
ls/etc/rc?.d/S*... what a pain!
If you don't want to use one of the interfaces mentioned by other posters, you can most easily disable a service by removing it. apt-get remove ntp-server for example.
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So tell us, who do you know still running AT&T System V?
So you admit that you have spent money on a Microsoft product, rather than a competing product.
MS' objective is not to make a profit in this market; it is to drive their competitors out of the market. The price of the Xbox is only constrained by a desire to avoid accusations of dumping.
Who is holding the gun to your head? ;)
You are assuming the purpose of the Xbox division is to make money.
Every Xbox purchased means a Playstation or Gamecube unpurchased. Every Xbox game played means a Playstation or Gamecube game unplayed...
I was poking around on my new AMD64 machine the other day, and I ran dmidecode. Can anyone explain this?
Microsoft even solved this one years ago: WEFT.
In addition to the other comments, the use of flash breaks the ability to scroll the page with the mouse wheel. If the mouse pointer happens over a flash object, the object steals the button press message for itself, and the web browser doesn't scroll.
I saw an episode of this yesterday. They haven't let the contestants near the window yet because a moth is loose in the studio and they don't want to risk it interposing itself between a contestant and the image of the earth.
Ask John Dvorak how to get on the ladder.
The purpose of non-US was to bypass certain laws that prevented the export of cryptographic software from the United States.
Since those laws were nullified after the release of Debian 3.0 (Woody), the repository no longer serves a useful purpose and is now empty.
The non-US section has nothing to do with patents. Debian's patent policy is quite simple: all patents are ignored, except when they are being actively enforced against the creators/distributors/users of Free software; whereupon the patented software is removed from Debian entirely.
Hardware keyloggers can get anything you type. But it would be a poorly run Internet cafe indeed that allowed its users to run untrusted code off random devices, let alone boot a whole different OS from them.
Fair enough. ;) But please _do_ file a bug report so that it can be tracked down and fixed. I certainly haven't noticed the problem on any of the machines I have used. The only problem I have is that the applications menu can take a few seconds to appear the first time it's opened.
Filed a bug report?
Source: Wired News: Music Man Cracks DRM Schemes, 7th December 2005.
Hmm... so if I wget an mp3 file I am downloading it, but if I run mpg123 on the half-completed file, it is magically converted to a 'streaming' operation?
:)
Nice hack with the spoken email BTW. I'm still wating for festival, or even Microsoft's TTS software to sound half as good as Apple's PlainTalk voices did back on System 7 in 1994.
I don't see the difference between 'streamed' and 'downloaded'... ;)
Bind 9 is fine.
Do women give up the right to complain when they marry the men who abuse them?
Do homosexuals give up the right to complain about discriminations when they 'choose' to be gay?
Do the persecuted give up their right to complain if they don't convert to a different religion?
Would you say that Rosa Parks gave up the right to complain when she refused to give up her seat for a white person?
But since you mention it... you compare a content provider's decision to use HTML (an open standard which anyone may implement, and which even degrades gracefully to text, and so is usable on platforms without a web browser) with a decision to use Windows Media Video (a proprietry video codec that is only available on a single platform). Then you say,Content provider can just as easily make their content available in an open format, one which anyone can implement. Their content will then be viewable on any conceivable platform. So why are content providers so determined to turn away the fraction of their potential customers that don't run Windows?
Maybe he isn't using i386.
Starting and stopping services is done by /etc/init.d/service [start|stop].
/etc/rc?.d/S*... what a pain!
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If you don't want to use one of the interfaces mentioned by other posters, you can most easily disable a service by removing it. apt-get remove ntp-server for example.
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe =off&c2coff=1&q=site%3Abugs.debian.org+%2Fusr%2Flo cal+autopackage&btnG=Search gets no hits. Then again, perhaps I'm doing something wrong, as even http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe =off&c2coff=1&q=site%3Abugs.debian.org+%2Fusr%2Flo cal+&btnG=Search only yeilds one hit.
How can you correctly map between the name of the autopackage, and the local package manager's name for a package?
Forty million illiterate assholes who run up my data transfer bills by transcluding the images from my site on their shitty circle jerk home pages.