BIOS=Basic Input Output System
If you tag a bunch of O/S stuff in there, suddenly you're getting to be a lot less basic... so maybe it would be an IIOS (Integrated Input Output System) or AIOS (Advanced Input Output System).
However: There were days when machines had no hard-drive and came with 2 floppy drives and a build-in GWBasic (we had these in Elementary). If we're talking very basic OS, with maybe the option to mount into a greater OS, it wouldn't be bad. Integrating a complete and functional OS into future BIOS is not a good idea. But really, an OS comes on a hard-drive... if you fry something, you can format the drive, or replace it. Frying a BIOS OS would be a lot worse.
At home, I use mozilla. I also don't visit many sites that use popups, so usually I avoid the blocking features - as I've noticed that sometimes they block sitse I don't want blocked.
Of course, I also throw in deny rules for doubleclick and co on my routering/proxying machine
Except I'm Canadian. I pay a rather nice premium on all the recordable media I buy, and they want me to pay more. I don't pirate music either.
All things considered, I'm paying the RIAA for copying music, ergo any song I download and burn should be considered paid for.
Oh, and for the record, once again:
piracy != theft
Theft=larceny
The owner is deprived of nothing tangible. There are still just as many CD's on the shelves as there were yesterday. And if all goes well, there will be plenty of crap CD's left on the shelves as people continue to revolt on the monopolism, scare, and crush tactics of the RIAA and their brethren
Sorry son, the RIAA won the court case... I'm afraid we'll have to take your hall pass, your beer cap, and all your boxes of Macaroni and Cheese.
Meanwhile, they will probably be kicked out of the University and possibly blacklisted at others.
<sarcasm>
Yup... ruin a few college kids lives, the RIAA is really going to win a lot in this legal battle.</sarcasm>
Even with IE, I've not yet found sites that aren't a match for rapid-slapping the ol' ALT+F4. If it gets really bad, turn off you ethernet connection for a short moment (2k/XP), and then nuke the popups.
Of course, they're still annoying as all hell, but they can be dealt with.
Does this mean that, after signing up for the list, one must still wait 3 months or so before one can expect to be off all the telemarker's lists?
How much of a problem is this in the US anyways, I'm in Canada, and I don't often get phone-spam. It might be a bit more annoying for those that are home during the workday, but even on my odd-days-off I can't say I get these type of calls a whole lot.
Would you really want a car that "hides the damage" though. I mean, it would be fine for minor dents, etc... but in the case of major damage it could be a safety risk. I remember last time I was in an accident (rear-ended), the insurance company paid for repairs, but I found a lot of hidden problems afterwords that I'm sure were related to the accident but not overly visible, thus not fixed. One of these included damage the metal brackets linking the bumper and tow-bars onto the frame of the car... which resulted in my bumper coming partly off next time I hooked up something to tow, not good.
Do you really want a bunch of damaged metal and loose welds hiding under a "seemingly" clean plastic coating?
Not that it should have to do this were MS not being slimey again, but:
Have an option in opera where it can download lists of "tained" stylesheet sites, have opera identify itself as MSIE for those sites.
Depends on where you live. I just moved to quaint little town where the most high-tech store is a "Radio Shack," which sells items at twice the price of the 'Shack where I came from. There are places where it's worse than this too.
I might not shop at Walmark online, but I'm still inclined to use certain stores online for specialty items (digital cameras) that aren't easily available at local retailers. Other stores such as amazon/chapters/etc will also still continue to do business as usual.
p.s. I'm Canadian so we've being paying tax for awhile, even for ebay auctions from major merchants (which is annoying when items are used)
The plasma I was think about for a few years ahead when it becomes more common and drops in price... that or I win the lottery. Even so, over $10000 is a bit steep for just a TV.
Note that I don't have a family or a lot of people to enjoy it with - otherwise it might be different - I'm happy with my new 27" and will just have to suffer through pan&scan or black bars.
Serial Ports: How else are you supposed to hook up a dumb terminal to your computer. USB? Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
Got a cable/ADSL modem at home? Notice that thing on the back... seems to be a serial port plug. A lot of routers/etc use a web-based or telnet interface now too, but there's added security in having it as an onboard port
Actually - not trolling - I never realized how much content was clipped out. That's a damn good site of examples though, much appreciated.
I still find it sad in owning a nwe 27" TV and having only 3/4 of the vertical picture area used. Of course, one day maybe I'll be able to afford that widescreen *plasma* screen I saw a few weeks back.
Maybe that's just how many incoming connections there were? It doesn't state that this was the possible limit, just that it's a high number he reached.
I know what TGP references for content, but what does that particular abbreviation stand for? Looking it up in google brings a lot of content links, but no definitions.
Other than the fact that you'd need a good wireless connection for this...
A few idiots drive headlong into semi's, off embankments, etc...
Video phones catch their last few moments
Phone video is captured on tape, whatever
There is thereafter a very good visible deterrent. Yes, somebody will still do it, but I'm guess that some people would think twice about chatting on the videophone whilst driving after seeing a few ads of their predecessors being crushed in a metal tin can.
One question, why widescreen? How many people actually have a widescreen TV?
I just bought a nice new TV, and rented a few DVD's, those little black boxes at the top and bottom make it seem like I'm watching them on my old, smaller TV.
Just a personal rant, but I'd prefer to see less moving towards the widescreen format, which most home-viewers don't have.
someday we might have the CPU mounted at the bottom of our case, and have a cool lava-lamp looking effect running up the side wall
This indeed does sound like quite and awesome idea for a case mod. The only problem I see is that on my lava lamp... the glass itself gets hot - so what's the actual internal temperature of the lamp fluid (does it draw off enough heat or just retain it?)
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BIOS=Basic Input Output System
If you tag a bunch of O/S stuff in there, suddenly you're getting to be a lot less basic... so maybe it would be an IIOS (Integrated Input Output System) or AIOS (Advanced Input Output System).
However: There were days when machines had no hard-drive and came with 2 floppy drives and a build-in GWBasic (we had these in Elementary). If we're talking very basic OS, with maybe the option to mount into a greater OS, it wouldn't be bad. Integrating a complete and functional OS into future BIOS is not a good idea. But really, an OS comes on a hard-drive... if you fry something, you can format the drive, or replace it. Frying a BIOS OS would be a lot worse.
At home, I use mozilla. I also don't visit many sites that use popups, so usually I avoid the blocking features - as I've noticed that sometimes they block sitse I don't want blocked.
Of course, I also throw in deny rules for doubleclick and co on my routering/proxying machine
Except I'm Canadian. I pay a rather nice premium on all the recordable media I buy, and they want me to pay more. I don't pirate music either.
All things considered, I'm paying the RIAA for copying music, ergo any song I download and burn should be considered paid for.
Oh, and for the record, once again:
piracy != theft
Theft=larceny
The owner is deprived of nothing tangible. There are still just as many CD's on the shelves as there were yesterday. And if all goes well, there will be plenty of crap CD's left on the shelves as people continue to revolt on the monopolism, scare, and crush tactics of the RIAA and their brethren
Sorry son, the RIAA won the court case... I'm afraid we'll have to take your hall pass, your beer cap, and all your boxes of Macaroni and Cheese.
Meanwhile, they will probably be kicked out of the University and possibly blacklisted at others.
<sarcasm> Yup... ruin a few college kids lives, the RIAA is really going to win a lot in this legal battle.</sarcasm>
Even with IE, I've not yet found sites that aren't a match for rapid-slapping the ol' ALT+F4. If it gets really bad, turn off you ethernet connection for a short moment (2k/XP), and then nuke the popups.
Of course, they're still annoying as all hell, but they can be dealt with.
Er, in the spirit of an interesting article I read earlier... why not just mark his email address as the return for a post on said newsgroup?
Does this mean that, after signing up for the list, one must still wait 3 months or so before one can expect to be off all the telemarker's lists?
How much of a problem is this in the US anyways, I'm in Canada, and I don't often get phone-spam. It might be a bit more annoying for those that are home during the workday, but even on my odd-days-off I can't say I get these type of calls a whole lot.
That doesn't make sense. We drive on both sides of the road, just different directions per the lane.
It might be noted that the squirrels are smart enough to be checking that they don't end up squashed, but I'm not sure they know the right-side-rule.
On a telephone it's also called the "pound key"
Also, don't forget these optional code snippets... if (site_name =~ m/microsoft\.com/) { $page =~ s/msdn\.gif/goatse\.gif/gis; $page =~ s/windows/winblows/gis; $page =~ s/(\w*)\ gates/satan/gis; }
Would you really want a car that "hides the damage" though. I mean, it would be fine for minor dents, etc... but in the case of major damage it could be a safety risk. I remember last time I was in an accident (rear-ended), the insurance company paid for repairs, but I found a lot of hidden problems afterwords that I'm sure were related to the accident but not overly visible, thus not fixed. One of these included damage the metal brackets linking the bumper and tow-bars onto the frame of the car... which resulted in my bumper coming partly off next time I hooked up something to tow, not good.
Do you really want a bunch of damaged metal and loose welds hiding under a "seemingly" clean plastic coating?
We've already grown humans with assess attached to the top of their necks. Currently they were last seem working in RIAA adminstration...
Not that it should have to do this were MS not being slimey again, but:
Have an option in opera where it can download lists of "tained" stylesheet sites, have opera identify itself as MSIE for those sites.
Depends on where you live. I just moved to quaint little town where the most high-tech store is a "Radio Shack," which sells items at twice the price of the 'Shack where I came from. There are places where it's worse than this too.
I might not shop at Walmark online, but I'm still inclined to use certain stores online for specialty items (digital cameras) that aren't easily available at local retailers. Other stores such as amazon/chapters/etc will also still continue to do business as usual.
p.s. I'm Canadian so we've being paying tax for awhile, even for ebay auctions from major merchants (which is annoying when items are used)
I have a Linksys modem, though I've seen others like this. Maybe it's a Canadian thing...
The plasma I was think about for a few years ahead when it becomes more common and drops in price... that or I win the lottery. Even so, over $10000 is a bit steep for just a TV.
Note that I don't have a family or a lot of people to enjoy it with - otherwise it might be different - I'm happy with my new 27" and will just have to suffer through pan&scan or black bars.
Serial Ports: How else are you supposed to hook up a dumb terminal to your computer. USB?
Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
Got a cable/ADSL modem at home? Notice that thing on the back... seems to be a serial port plug. A lot of routers/etc use a web-based or telnet interface now too, but there's added security in having it as an onboard port
You sue somebody who has a large amount of money. You both pay for lawyers, but yours are cheap and few while his are expensive and many.
You might win, but odds are against you... and then you end up eating the court costs.
Why do you think large corps throw idiotic copyright/patent/etc violations against the smallest targets first? Easy win...
Actually - not trolling - I never realized how much content was clipped out. That's a damn good site of examples though, much appreciated.
I still find it sad in owning a nwe 27" TV and having only 3/4 of the vertical picture area used. Of course, one day maybe I'll be able to afford that widescreen *plasma* screen I saw a few weeks back.
Maybe that's just how many incoming connections there were? It doesn't state that this was the possible limit, just that it's a high number he reached.
I know what TGP references for content, but what does that particular abbreviation stand for? Looking it up in google brings a lot of content links, but no definitions.
You can highlight it (a big plug)
You can tag/mark important pages
You can read the paper and the screen (fullscreen) at the same time without switching TTY's
You can have multiple pages open at ones (if looseleaf) and sometimes switching between is easier as well
You can take then with you when not at a PC
If you're in the loo and run out of TP... well...
Other than the fact that you'd need a good wireless connection for this...
A few idiots drive headlong into semi's, off embankments, etc...
Video phones catch their last few moments
Phone video is captured on tape, whatever
There is thereafter a very good visible deterrent. Yes, somebody will still do it, but I'm guess that some people would think twice about chatting on the videophone whilst driving after seeing a few ads of their predecessors being crushed in a metal tin can.
One question, why widescreen? How many people actually have a widescreen TV?
I just bought a nice new TV, and rented a few DVD's, those little black boxes at the top and bottom make it seem like I'm watching them on my old, smaller TV.
Just a personal rant, but I'd prefer to see less moving towards the widescreen format, which most home-viewers don't have.
someday we might have the CPU mounted at the bottom of our case, and have a cool lava-lamp looking effect running up the side wall
This indeed does sound like quite and awesome idea for a case mod. The only problem I see is that on my lava lamp... the glass itself gets hot - so what's the actual internal temperature of the lamp fluid (does it draw off enough heat or just retain it?)