A nephew of mine likes Harley Davidsons. According to him their was a time when you bought a new one that you where lucky if you could drive it out of the shop. That doesn't seem to have killed of the brand or lost it any fans, in fact bikes from that era are collector items.
If people forgive youre mistakes it means you have succeeded in what every company wants. Brand-loyalty. Lucasarts had it for a long time. Sure they made a couple of stinkers, afterlife, but by and large most gamers where willing to trust them. Hell any lucasarts adventure I will buy without even reading the back of the box. This kind of loyalty is very important since it allows a company to make mistakes/try new things and not be immidialty killed of for it.
If at as a competitor you are wondering how the hell a company gets away with it ask youreself what you youreself have done to win youre customers loyalty. Perhaps it is the small things that allow you to get away with the big things. Surely I can not be only one who thinks that Apple charging for point upgrades makes MS constant upgrade or be obsolete cycle seem mild in comparison.
Any psychologist majors around who can explain this behaviour?
I didn't think about. That is the way an article on the register explained it. It was something like you had to link the two together with a password. So the computer/telephone/host detects a new pheriphal/client and asks you to enter a password before allowing it to continue.
Anyway here is a link http://80211b.weblogger.com/2002/08/01 wich explains it just as unclearly.
Or whatever it goes like. Other good example, Morrowind. The new expansion pack is PC only. All the mods and stuff? PC only. All my favorite games are like this. Recently Mafia had a great mod. Turn all the fake car names into the real ones. Like to see this done on a console.
As for the original posters claim that the hardware is coming closer to the PC, dream on.
How much memory does an X-box have? 64mb. My vid card has twice that. Yeah so my pc is a lot more expensive then a console. A porsche is a lot more expensive then a trabant. You get what you pay for.
And for every game that needs a patch there are the great patches that add to the life of a game. Grand Prix Legends wich was constantly upgraded to support newer vid cards. Halflife wich got a increase in its polygon count for the monsters. Free levels for Tomb Raider, eat that console owner:)
As for playing in the living room. I don't know how most other people play but for FPS and racing games I need a desk like setup. I guess this is a matter of preference.
mmm, ain't these things called laptops? Seriously I had a dell something or other for sometime and a long commute time. So I watched anime fansubs in the train. Worked perfectly except I kept burning my penis:p
Oh and for those posters who want to watch in their living room and ain't allowed to put their computer there, laptops come with tv-outs nowadays. Granted picture quality may suck.
Isn't including DivX support in hardware a bit tricky? Not only do they keep changing but isn't the legal state a bit to unclear for a hardware company to mess around with? Sure they have to pay a royalty for DVD but that is simple. Sign the check and you are in the clear.
From the german article not anytime soon. The line is running from the city to, TADA, the airport!
If anything this thing will make airtravel therefore easier by getting people to and from the airport faster.
I recently had to go to london from amsterdam and checked out the three different methods. Boat, train (via channel-tunnel) and plane. Plane beat the other by a few hours. Mostly because of the number of transfers(?) and the inevitable waiting time this entails, required in the other two.
I am not sure but I think the password required for pairing is a security function. With unprotected bluetooth every device in radio range can and will receive the input/output. This makes the open Wireless Lan look like a very small matter indeed. Yes bluetooth has a small range but is often used in places where people are close together, restaurants - public transport, and radio waves have the odd habit off traveling far further then advertised when you do NOT want it.
So MS has done a security measure that is part of the bluetooth spec. Why it should be incompatible with Apples implementation I have no idea. Maybe apple has done its side wrong or has not yet implemented this.
Even if MS has done it on purpose, wich I doubt, is that really illegal or that bad? If I produce an addon for a PS2 then you can't really complain if it doesn't work with an X-box even if the connectors look the same.
I know I am obnoxious no need to tell me. I would however like to know wich of my statements is false?
The reference to USB was that windows 95 and for that matter NT4 never supported it. You can buy a third party product that works quite well but that is of little help to most people. I did not claim that this is a bad thing to do by MicroSoft. Just that I have encountered an awful lot of people who just didn't seem to get that 95/NT does not support USB no not even MicroSoft USB products. If I remember correctly this was in fact mentioned on the box. Something like supported systems 98/2K.
Oh and to be really obnoxious, cut out the lame "M$" crap especially when you are defending them.
Well who would have thought eh? If only they had included somekind of warning on the box eh? Like "MICROSOFT" product.
Seriously. You go buy a product you should always make sure that it works on the OS of youre choice. In youre defence mouses have always been kinda safe since all the new developments happened on the mouse while the interface to the computer has stayed more or less the same (compared to other comp components). Still it makes you sound like those ********** who complain that they couldn't get their new USB mouse to work on the Pentium/W95 machines. Duh!
Classic case of RTFB (Read The Fucking Box) syndrome.
BTW bluetooth is well known for not working well in integration. The real question should perhaps be, has MS or Apple broken the spec so that the two can not talk to each other?
Aren't the people from the Electronic Freedom Foundation the ones to ask? They should love this kind of stuff.
PLEASE PLEASE ignore advice that the email you got is probably not from a real lawyer. They are probably right but it is only a matter of time before you do, seek advice NOW. The disclaimer you got up at the moment is just plain wrong. If you are going to fight a million dollar industry you need legal backing.
Fair use of copyrighted material is a hotbed. Anyone remember that fuss with publishing documents by the scientology church? In email it could really get weird. If I forward a mail to abuse@isp.com am I infringing the copyright?
Anyway I am serious about getting help. You are taking on people who happily send porn to childeren, make claims that would have them in court if they printed them on paper and ride on the back of everyone else to make their profits.
I like the fact that you draw in tv-shows. I ask you to consider the BBC. No-ads yet high quality tv. Of course they got to get the money somewhere. So people, all people who want to own a tv need a license to own one. This of course costs a certain fee and from this fee the station is paid.
In holland we had a sort of a cross of this system. Limited ads on tv, only between programs, and a license fee. Recently this licensee fee was dropped as it was realised that the collection was to expensive and it is instead collected through taxes since it is considered that everyone will watch tv or listen to radio no matter how little.
So youre point is wrong, without ads no ad sponsored tv, their are other ways. Maybe their should be other ways to run websites as well. I am not saying that these would work or that ads are all bad just that there are other choices.
Youre second point about forcing people to watch ads sounds highly dubious to me. How do you propose to do this? Chain people to their chairs during the commercial breaks? Make the page only available after answering a question about the popup ad?
In the real world advertisers have learned, had to learn to accept that people have no interst in watching their stuff. They get around it buy trying to make the ad as intresting as possible. Some companies are very good at this. On the web for some reason this has not happened. Only tv-ads I seen that equal the kind of crap that popups and banners are where parodies.
The web is no different from the real world, if people don't want to watch youre ad you got to make it attractive to watch, you can't force them.
What many people don't seem to realize is that this is the RIAA, and the MPAA job. It is like asking a crack dealer to accept that crack is bad for youre health. But that is what he is therefore. These trade organisations where created by the industry to fight these kind of battles so the the music businesses themselves can go on with day to day business. If you look at the different companies then you will see that all of them seem to be trying their own little thing to follow the trends.
Don't forget that most music companies are giants. While to us a year may seem an awful long time to a multinational it takes that long to decide on the brand of coffee machines installed in the cafeteria. You can imagine how long it will take them to come up with a complete revamp of their business model. If you don't believe me try finding an example where a industry has changed their way of doing business in less then a decade. About the only one I can come up with is that "Prepay" on mobile phones. And this was a bloody long development wich went from prepaid cards for phoneboots to now Prepay for landlines.
Why do you ask a linux guru to map network drives on a windows machine? He doesn't have any co-workers who know windows? It is called teamplay. The linux guy does linux, the windows guy does windows. Sometimes they will need to talk to help setup projects that require the two to work together.
What you seem to suggest is that everyone should be an expert on everything. Great if you can find these but I wouldn't hold my breath. Instead in most work enviroments that is why you have this thing called "working together". Sales helps the tech guys making their demostation. Tech support sales with the details they need.
If this guru's job was to configure unices and you asked him to map drives on windows machines then you where using his skills wrong. Now go back to management class and this time stay awake.
I know for a fact that Matrox does (for G450 at least) even have a utitlity not unlike that for windows. You can do the same things. Also the windowsmanager I used seemed a lot more inclined to not do stupid things, like popup every confirmation window in the center meaning it is cut in half across the monitors. (I use enlightenment.)
Also what the orginal story seems to forget that it is not neccasary to have special cards to have dual monitors. I had it under 98 with two pci vid cards. Not as nice perhaps but pretty cool for the time. It should still be possible to do this with 1 agp and 1 pci although it may not be possible if the main card is a built in since these tend to presume you either want them or an external card.
I also seem dimly to recall that I had this config with linux but I might be confusing that with my other matrox.
Whatever you do don't trust anyone involved with actually selling you the car, dealer, mechanic or manufacturar. A recent BBC watchdog program had a story on new volkswagens wich can be easily openend with a special tool. (It opens all the electric windows making access for theft from the car extremely easy. without the mess of having to break a window) They weren't to clear on the details of the tool, prob not to give anyone ideas, but they demonstrated it and several dealers said they knew about it on hidden camera.
The point is that the official line is that nothing was wrong with the cars and that they had no information on it. Car manufacturars are well known for lying about their products. There are laws concerning roadsafety, but anti-theft is a wasteland.
As for the post this is commented to. The other methods draw attentention. If they have youre code then to the rest of the world, and for that matter youre security system they look like the owners. Even dutch police agents are suspicious about a car with a broken window driving around.
The real problem is perhaps that original poster seems to think that he has a "right" to be on a certain irc channel/server. He does not. Running a channel/server/channel website/ftp/fserve is a hassel. For every nice user you seem to meet a thousand assholes.
Some domains seem to contain more assholes then others. AOL users are clueless, braindead and stupid. No not really, but the ones who keep asking stupid questions in caps in bad english and don't listen to answers are. The silent ones you never notice.
For some reason a lot of the newbies seem to presume that noone in the channel has anything better to do then hold their hands. What they seem to forget is that they are not alone.
A well operated channel has rules to make life bearable. No color, no requests, no away messages whatever. If people then pull tricks to evade these rules there is really only 1 workable solutation. Domain wide ban.
The solution perhaps would be to create somekind of authenticated irc version. I believe MS is working on something like that. Personally I rather live with banning a few domains.
Is there any other way to operate a channel? So far the discussion doesn't seem to have listed one.
The analogy is I think fundamentally flawed. It is more like peeping. Did reuters go to extra ordinary lengths to peep in on data that the plaintive could reasonably have expected to remain hidden?
People walking by in the street can not be charged with peeping if they see you walking naked in youre house. Not even if they have to turn their heads to do it. Simply claiming that since you are doing it in youre own house you are supposed to have privacy is not valid. You have to draw the curtains for the expectancy of privacy to be granted.
Now the question is, did they have the curtains drawn. I personally think not. It will be intressting to see what the law has to say about it.
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You second patent would be easily circumvented. Just put the locomotive behind the freight.
That is really the problem here. Where patents used to be almost complete inventions, with a working touchable product behind them. (So for instance the patent for the black-and-decker workmate involves technical drawing showing you how to build one.) Modern patents seem little more then concepts. (Yeah like maybe if I made somekind of raised surface with bits you can build things on).
Sadly this seems obvious to all normal people. Problem is of course that normal people have little to do with this. Judges are famous for some pretty idiotic descions, in lower courts. And jury's must be specially selected for their unpredicatablity. Simpler to cough up the license fee then risk biting the dust and still having to pay the license fee, youre own attorny fee, the courts time, and the oponents legal fee, while all the time you can't run youre small business effectively.
But considering their methods, if one of the defandents manages to win, couldn't PanIP be sued for racketeering?
Not for one thing or the other, but this isn't Joe Smo against the Mighty MicroSoft. This is United States of America against Microsoft. I think you will find that it has money and lawyers coming out of its ears.
The real problem as in the Iraq example given is not so much the two mentioned parties but the ones at the sideline who have reasons to maintain the status quo. In Iraq's case the europian nations we have made themselves totally depended on oil from the region and want to get the hugely productive orders for rearming/rebuilding Iraq.
In the case of MicroSoft there is of course the politicians that MS bought who don't want to see their meal ticket cut.(You don't think it is a conicedence that with the change in administation the trial lost a lot of steam?)
Of course those people who want to DRM computers also have a very clear intrest in keeping MicroSoft in control. Imagine trying to introduce crippled computing if you could just switch to mac/freebsd/linux/unix/beos/amiga cause all the standards are open and you will just have to get used to a slightly different icon on the Start menu but you can still access the fileserver, read youre docs, communicate with the mailserver.
Samba is doing the right thing. So it has troubles working with the latest version of MS until they figure out what MicroSoft has changed this time. So? How many production setups do you know that change immidiatly to the latest version of MS anyway?
As a side note. Isn't there somekind of open source version of NFS for windows? Problem solved. (nah of course not since that would involve installing software on every windows client rather than on the one linux server) Ah well keep up the good work samba.
I don't know about australia but in holland there is almost always a way to appeal, even often a way to appeal the appeal. It wastes time but it also ensure fairness. As in you can't be denied youre day in court cause the judge has a bad day.
Judges can't just make up judgements they like. They can only rule on cases brought before them. This is a good thing.
So why is it still a nice thing, for australians? Well it has been ruled that the none of the actions that where alleged where in fact illegal. This is even better then if he had found the accussed innocent. You can't be innocent or guilty of an action if that action is not illegal. Just as you will never have to defend youreselve in court for breathing with intent, no one in australia has to fear being found guilty of reporting a spammer since doing so is not a crime.
So while no ruling has been made on the legality of spam, this was not the case brought before the judge and so he could make a judgement upon it, he has ruled it legal to blacklist spammers. So from now on in australia, unless a higher court rules otherwise, it is 100% legal to report spam to 3rd party even if this results in eventuall damages to the spammer due to their spam being stopped.
Nice going australia. Lets hope it holds up in appeal courts.
What you expect accuracy on slashdot? A headline like, "Worlds smallest water cooled system except for that laptop that is commercially available and prob some other systems we can't quite remember or wich the maker never posted since he didn't think it was anything special" doesn't quite have the same feel to it.
Condensation happens when the temperatures differ. So when warm air moist air touches a cold surface. The water in this setup is WARMER then the air around it. Why? Cause airflow itself, or at least the relativly low airflow created by small fans like this can not cool below ambient temperature. And since the water itself will be warmed up by the cpu it will typically be a few degrees higher then the air, so no condensation.
There are setups where they cool the water and then of course condensation is a real problem. Same if you use peltiers.
The only way you could with watercooling create temps lower then ambient is if you use evaperation. This is not the case here and I am not sure that anyone has ever tried it. Try it by wetting you hand and holding it in front of a fan, this will be a lot cooler then youre dry hand.
If you don't believe me on the condensation put something like a mirror in front of a fan and put it at max. No way condensation should form. (presuming reasonable normal conditions there are always exceptions).
Please note that you can achieve lower then ambient with just airflow without evaporation, I believe it is called vortex cooling or something. But this requires the kinda flow you get out of an airpump.
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If people forgive youre mistakes it means you have succeeded in what every company wants. Brand-loyalty. Lucasarts had it for a long time. Sure they made a couple of stinkers, afterlife, but by and large most gamers where willing to trust them. Hell any lucasarts adventure I will buy without even reading the back of the box. This kind of loyalty is very important since it allows a company to make mistakes/try new things and not be immidialty killed of for it.
If at as a competitor you are wondering how the hell a company gets away with it ask youreself what you youreself have done to win youre customers loyalty. Perhaps it is the small things that allow you to get away with the big things. Surely I can not be only one who thinks that Apple charging for point upgrades makes MS constant upgrade or be obsolete cycle seem mild in comparison.
Any psychologist majors around who can explain this behaviour?
Anyway here is a link http://80211b.weblogger.com/2002/08/01 wich explains it just as unclearly.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Or whatever it goes like. Other good example, Morrowind. The new expansion pack is PC only. All the mods and stuff? PC only. All my favorite games are like this. Recently Mafia had a great mod. Turn all the fake car names into the real ones. Like to see this done on a console.
As for the original posters claim that the hardware is coming closer to the PC, dream on. How much memory does an X-box have? 64mb. My vid card has twice that. Yeah so my pc is a lot more expensive then a console. A porsche is a lot more expensive then a trabant. You get what you pay for.
And for every game that needs a patch there are the great patches that add to the life of a game. Grand Prix Legends wich was constantly upgraded to support newer vid cards. Halflife wich got a increase in its polygon count for the monsters. Free levels for Tomb Raider, eat that console owner :)
As for playing in the living room. I don't know how most other people play but for FPS and racing games I need a desk like setup. I guess this is a matter of preference.
Oh and for those posters who want to watch in their living room and ain't allowed to put their computer there, laptops come with tv-outs nowadays. Granted picture quality may suck.
Isn't including DivX support in hardware a bit tricky? Not only do they keep changing but isn't the legal state a bit to unclear for a hardware company to mess around with? Sure they have to pay a royalty for DVD but that is simple. Sign the check and you are in the clear.
If anything this thing will make airtravel therefore easier by getting people to and from the airport faster.
I recently had to go to london from amsterdam and checked out the three different methods. Boat, train (via channel-tunnel) and plane. Plane beat the other by a few hours. Mostly because of the number of transfers(?) and the inevitable waiting time this entails, required in the other two.
So MS has done a security measure that is part of the bluetooth spec. Why it should be incompatible with Apples implementation I have no idea. Maybe apple has done its side wrong or has not yet implemented this.
Even if MS has done it on purpose, wich I doubt, is that really illegal or that bad? If I produce an addon for a PS2 then you can't really complain if it doesn't work with an X-box even if the connectors look the same.
The reference to USB was that windows 95 and for that matter NT4 never supported it. You can buy a third party product that works quite well but that is of little help to most people. I did not claim that this is a bad thing to do by MicroSoft. Just that I have encountered an awful lot of people who just didn't seem to get that 95/NT does not support USB no not even MicroSoft USB products. If I remember correctly this was in fact mentioned on the box. Something like supported systems 98/2K.
Oh and to be really obnoxious, cut out the lame "M$" crap especially when you are defending them.
Seriously. You go buy a product you should always make sure that it works on the OS of youre choice. In youre defence mouses have always been kinda safe since all the new developments happened on the mouse while the interface to the computer has stayed more or less the same (compared to other comp components). Still it makes you sound like those ********** who complain that they couldn't get their new USB mouse to work on the Pentium/W95 machines. Duh!
Classic case of RTFB (Read The Fucking Box) syndrome.
BTW bluetooth is well known for not working well in integration. The real question should perhaps be, has MS or Apple broken the spec so that the two can not talk to each other?
Aren't the people from the Electronic Freedom Foundation the ones to ask? They should love this kind of stuff.
PLEASE PLEASE ignore advice that the email you got is probably not from a real lawyer. They are probably right but it is only a matter of time before you do, seek advice NOW. The disclaimer you got up at the moment is just plain wrong. If you are going to fight a million dollar industry you need legal backing.
Fair use of copyrighted material is a hotbed. Anyone remember that fuss with publishing documents by the scientology church? In email it could really get weird. If I forward a mail to abuse@isp.com am I infringing the copyright?
Anyway I am serious about getting help. You are taking on people who happily send porn to childeren, make claims that would have them in court if they printed them on paper and ride on the back of everyone else to make their profits.
Most geeks already have problems just washing their clothes. No thanks.
sssssshhhh you damn bastard. Geez if any girl read this you have just ruined the lines of thousands of teenage boys to get their gf's to have sex.
In holland we had a sort of a cross of this system. Limited ads on tv, only between programs, and a license fee. Recently this licensee fee was dropped as it was realised that the collection was to expensive and it is instead collected through taxes since it is considered that everyone will watch tv or listen to radio no matter how little.
So youre point is wrong, without ads no ad sponsored tv, their are other ways. Maybe their should be other ways to run websites as well. I am not saying that these would work or that ads are all bad just that there are other choices.
Youre second point about forcing people to watch ads sounds highly dubious to me. How do you propose to do this? Chain people to their chairs during the commercial breaks? Make the page only available after answering a question about the popup ad?
In the real world advertisers have learned, had to learn to accept that people have no interst in watching their stuff. They get around it buy trying to make the ad as intresting as possible. Some companies are very good at this. On the web for some reason this has not happened. Only tv-ads I seen that equal the kind of crap that popups and banners are where parodies.
The web is no different from the real world, if people don't want to watch youre ad you got to make it attractive to watch, you can't force them.
Don't forget that most music companies are giants. While to us a year may seem an awful long time to a multinational it takes that long to decide on the brand of coffee machines installed in the cafeteria. You can imagine how long it will take them to come up with a complete revamp of their business model. If you don't believe me try finding an example where a industry has changed their way of doing business in less then a decade. About the only one I can come up with is that "Prepay" on mobile phones. And this was a bloody long development wich went from prepaid cards for phoneboots to now Prepay for landlines.
What you seem to suggest is that everyone should be an expert on everything. Great if you can find these but I wouldn't hold my breath. Instead in most work enviroments that is why you have this thing called "working together". Sales helps the tech guys making their demostation. Tech support sales with the details they need.
If this guru's job was to configure unices and you asked him to map drives on windows machines then you where using his skills wrong. Now go back to management class and this time stay awake.
Also what the orginal story seems to forget that it is not neccasary to have special cards to have dual monitors. I had it under 98 with two pci vid cards. Not as nice perhaps but pretty cool for the time. It should still be possible to do this with 1 agp and 1 pci although it may not be possible if the main card is a built in since these tend to presume you either want them or an external card.
I also seem dimly to recall that I had this config with linux but I might be confusing that with my other matrox.
The point is that the official line is that nothing was wrong with the cars and that they had no information on it. Car manufacturars are well known for lying about their products. There are laws concerning roadsafety, but anti-theft is a wasteland.
As for the post this is commented to. The other methods draw attentention. If they have youre code then to the rest of the world, and for that matter youre security system they look like the owners. Even dutch police agents are suspicious about a car with a broken window driving around.
Some domains seem to contain more assholes then others. AOL users are clueless, braindead and stupid. No not really, but the ones who keep asking stupid questions in caps in bad english and don't listen to answers are. The silent ones you never notice.
For some reason a lot of the newbies seem to presume that noone in the channel has anything better to do then hold their hands. What they seem to forget is that they are not alone.
A well operated channel has rules to make life bearable. No color, no requests, no away messages whatever. If people then pull tricks to evade these rules there is really only 1 workable solutation. Domain wide ban.
The solution perhaps would be to create somekind of authenticated irc version. I believe MS is working on something like that. Personally I rather live with banning a few domains.
Is there any other way to operate a channel? So far the discussion doesn't seem to have listed one.
People walking by in the street can not be charged with peeping if they see you walking naked in youre house. Not even if they have to turn their heads to do it. Simply claiming that since you are doing it in youre own house you are supposed to have privacy is not valid. You have to draw the curtains for the expectancy of privacy to be granted.
Now the question is, did they have the curtains drawn. I personally think not. It will be intressting to see what the law has to say about it.
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That is really the problem here. Where patents used to be almost complete inventions, with a working touchable product behind them. (So for instance the patent for the black-and-decker workmate involves technical drawing showing you how to build one.) Modern patents seem little more then concepts. (Yeah like maybe if I made somekind of raised surface with bits you can build things on).
Sadly this seems obvious to all normal people. Problem is of course that normal people have little to do with this. Judges are famous for some pretty idiotic descions, in lower courts. And jury's must be specially selected for their unpredicatablity. Simpler to cough up the license fee then risk biting the dust and still having to pay the license fee, youre own attorny fee, the courts time, and the oponents legal fee, while all the time you can't run youre small business effectively.
But considering their methods, if one of the defandents manages to win, couldn't PanIP be sued for racketeering?
The real problem as in the Iraq example given is not so much the two mentioned parties but the ones at the sideline who have reasons to maintain the status quo. In Iraq's case the europian nations we have made themselves totally depended on oil from the region and want to get the hugely productive orders for rearming/rebuilding Iraq.
In the case of MicroSoft there is of course the politicians that MS bought who don't want to see their meal ticket cut.(You don't think it is a conicedence that with the change in administation the trial lost a lot of steam?)
Of course those people who want to DRM computers also have a very clear intrest in keeping MicroSoft in control. Imagine trying to introduce crippled computing if you could just switch to mac/freebsd/linux/unix/beos/amiga cause all the standards are open and you will just have to get used to a slightly different icon on the Start menu but you can still access the fileserver, read youre docs, communicate with the mailserver.
Samba is doing the right thing. So it has troubles working with the latest version of MS until they figure out what MicroSoft has changed this time. So? How many production setups do you know that change immidiatly to the latest version of MS anyway?
As a side note. Isn't there somekind of open source version of NFS for windows? Problem solved. (nah of course not since that would involve installing software on every windows client rather than on the one linux server) Ah well keep up the good work samba.
I don't know about australia but in holland there is almost always a way to appeal, even often a way to appeal the appeal. It wastes time but it also ensure fairness. As in you can't be denied youre day in court cause the judge has a bad day.
Judges can't just make up judgements they like. They can only rule on cases brought before them. This is a good thing.
So why is it still a nice thing, for australians? Well it has been ruled that the none of the actions that where alleged where in fact illegal. This is even better then if he had found the accussed innocent. You can't be innocent or guilty of an action if that action is not illegal. Just as you will never have to defend youreselve in court for breathing with intent, no one in australia has to fear being found guilty of reporting a spammer since doing so is not a crime.
So while no ruling has been made on the legality of spam, this was not the case brought before the judge and so he could make a judgement upon it, he has ruled it legal to blacklist spammers. So from now on in australia, unless a higher court rules otherwise, it is 100% legal to report spam to 3rd party even if this results in eventuall damages to the spammer due to their spam being stopped.
Nice going australia. Lets hope it holds up in appeal courts.
What you expect accuracy on slashdot? A headline like, "Worlds smallest water cooled system except for that laptop that is commercially available and prob some other systems we can't quite remember or wich the maker never posted since he didn't think it was anything special" doesn't quite have the same feel to it.
There are setups where they cool the water and then of course condensation is a real problem. Same if you use peltiers.
The only way you could with watercooling create temps lower then ambient is if you use evaperation. This is not the case here and I am not sure that anyone has ever tried it. Try it by wetting you hand and holding it in front of a fan, this will be a lot cooler then youre dry hand.
If you don't believe me on the condensation put something like a mirror in front of a fan and put it at max. No way condensation should form. (presuming reasonable normal conditions there are always exceptions).
Please note that you can achieve lower then ambient with just airflow without evaporation, I believe it is called vortex cooling or something. But this requires the kinda flow you get out of an airpump.