I had to reload XP on a system the other day and had the issue of having to call in the activation because it wouldn't activate over the internet. I had to explain that yes this install was not being installed on more than one PC etc and finally they gave me the unlock code. So what happens in the future? Who knows!
Wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style someday
You dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going I'm going your way
Two drifters off to see the world
Theres such a lot of world to see
Were after the same rainbows end
Waiting round the band
My huckleberry friend, Moon Rover
And me
The point is the/. crowd hates big businesses. So they hate the record labels, RIAA and whatever company stole the photo. In the end they don't really care what happened as long it was the fault of the business.
What did I say? I just said I was browsing local people who had "dating" in their profile on myspace and I remembered her face from Match.com. I didn't even really engage her as far as the whole starting a dating conversation goes. I guess she was startled that myspace and match.com aren't as anonymous as they thought. I even was contacted by someone on match once who worked for the same organization as myself and she said she recognized me from work. We met for lunch but she wasn't interested and was acting strangely alternating between acting nice and ignoring me / being pissy. I broke off contact with her because I didn't want to deal with someone who couldn't make up their mind about whether they had an interest in me or not. Once I started blowing her off, she was being all nice to me again. I guess she couldn't stand the thought of herself being rejected. But she was no longer my problem.
My first go-around trying online dating I met someone on the free site OKCupid.com. It is interesting because they have over 3000 questions you can answer and your matches are based on your answers and the answers that you'd like to get from the other person. And then filtered by your requirements (25 to 30, slim-average, non-smoker) etc. I've also met three girls off of match, two of which I dated. That's more frustrating because of what was mentioned earlier, the majority of people on match are not paid members. So you're left to try to google their name and see if you can find a myspace page or something for them if you suspect they are not a paid member. Though honestly, I never got a response from anyone that way. One girl actually removed her pictures off of myspace after I had found her profile just while browsing myspace and recognized the picture from Match.
The sales figures from Microsoft may be misleading. Companies buy computers in bulk all the time and regardless of what OS is installed, they wipe it and put on their own image. I knew a company that used NT4 for 3 or 4 years after Windows 2000 came out. All the PCs they got from Dell had Windows 2000 license stickers on them. The other day I was looking at Dell Inspiron laptops and they had one that if you ordered it with XP instead of vista home premium, they charged you $129 extra even though all the hardware specs were the same.
I work for a company in an industry that is subject to regulation by a federal agency and we have a policy that e-mail is not retained in backups after deletion for more than 21 days. And they are very strict about that. It is company policy and it has been signed off by the legal department. I'm guessing for legal reasons if a discovery is done they can say "this is our policy and it has been in effect for x years"
This way we know exactly what senators are voting for and can hold their feet to the fire come election time. br
Well it might end those smear ads like "Congressmen Jones voted *AGAINST* a bill to feed starving children in America." When really that was a rider on a bill that would dump billions into misc. pork projects.
Only a few months ago I could have sworn that slashdot had a story that Blu-Ray was failing. I specifically remember market research showing that people easily understood what "HD DVD" meant just by the name, but "Blu-Ray" doesn't immediately give any indication as to what it is. Also I remember hearing companies (I think Paramount was one of them) dropping Blu-Ray support.
Moissanite is distinguishable (other than the hardness) by the fact that it has more fire than a diamond. So technically we already have a prettier crystal, but of course don't let her find out that it isn't the real thing!
So could this legislation potentially prohibit the distribution of complete Linux distros? Since tools like netcat and nmap are part of the base installs of most Linux systems. I work at a Fortune 500 company and we use Wireshark for diagnosing and monitoring network issues. I'm sure many UK companies do the same.
Or the other one.. Expiring ink. The company I worked for used to buy ink in bulk to save money. When we started using some of those cartridges, we found out they had "Expired" and the software would refuse to let you print unless you changed the system date back to a time before the expiration date.
What if they did this... They allow you to enter your password and do like Compaq did to replicate the function of the IBM PC BIOS in the 80s. They had two engineering teams, one had access to the BIOS and one didn't and the team could ask them questions but they weren't allowed to reveal anything that wasn't asked. Then when done, the defendant is allowed to make any backups of data that they need and the rest is destroyed. There could be strict guidelines as to what kinds of questions could be asked and what could be revealed. Only things pertinent to the case. Then the team of investigators would sign something like an NDA that they weren't allowed to divulge anything not specifically asked about in the case, and if for some reason such information was to be divulged, it would be inadmissible against the person especially since the original data has been destroyed.
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I had to reload XP on a system the other day and had the issue of having to call in the activation because it wouldn't activate over the internet. I had to explain that yes this install was not being installed on more than one PC etc and finally they gave me the unlock code. So what happens in the future? Who knows!
Wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style someday
You dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going I'm going your way
Two drifters off to see the world
Theres such a lot of world to see
Were after the same rainbows end
Waiting round the band
My huckleberry friend, Moon Rover
And me
The point is the /. crowd hates big businesses. So they hate the record labels, RIAA and whatever company stole the photo. In the end they don't really care what happened as long it was the fault of the business.
May lower class people use it to get broadband at the place they rent.
Lower class? I didn't realize I was in the presence of nobility, m'lord.
Why not just say proletariat? Then I can call you bourgeoisie. But I'm not by any stretch left of center so I'll leave it be.
What did I say? I just said I was browsing local people who had "dating" in their profile on myspace and I remembered her face from Match.com. I didn't even really engage her as far as the whole starting a dating conversation goes. I guess she was startled that myspace and match.com aren't as anonymous as they thought. I even was contacted by someone on match once who worked for the same organization as myself and she said she recognized me from work. We met for lunch but she wasn't interested and was acting strangely alternating between acting nice and ignoring me / being pissy. I broke off contact with her because I didn't want to deal with someone who couldn't make up their mind about whether they had an interest in me or not. Once I started blowing her off, she was being all nice to me again. I guess she couldn't stand the thought of herself being rejected. But she was no longer my problem.
Well there's always the Che poster hanging at an Obama office. Story
My first go-around trying online dating I met someone on the free site OKCupid.com. It is interesting because they have over 3000 questions you can answer and your matches are based on your answers and the answers that you'd like to get from the other person. And then filtered by your requirements (25 to 30, slim-average, non-smoker) etc. I've also met three girls off of match, two of which I dated. That's more frustrating because of what was mentioned earlier, the majority of people on match are not paid members. So you're left to try to google their name and see if you can find a myspace page or something for them if you suspect they are not a paid member. Though honestly, I never got a response from anyone that way. One girl actually removed her pictures off of myspace after I had found her profile just while browsing myspace and recognized the picture from Match.
I wonder if they are going to discuss how Mars' ice caps are melting too?
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
The sales figures from Microsoft may be misleading. Companies buy computers in bulk all the time and regardless of what OS is installed, they wipe it and put on their own image. I knew a company that used NT4 for 3 or 4 years after Windows 2000 came out. All the PCs they got from Dell had Windows 2000 license stickers on them. The other day I was looking at Dell Inspiron laptops and they had one that if you ordered it with XP instead of vista home premium, they charged you $129 extra even though all the hardware specs were the same.
So was this different than the CS6400?
I work for a company in an industry that is subject to regulation by a federal agency and we have a policy that e-mail is not retained in backups after deletion for more than 21 days. And they are very strict about that. It is company policy and it has been signed off by the legal department. I'm guessing for legal reasons if a discovery is done they can say "this is our policy and it has been in effect for x years"
This way we know exactly what senators are voting for and can hold their feet to the fire come election time.
br Well it might end those smear ads like "Congressmen Jones voted *AGAINST* a bill to feed starving children in America." When really that was a rider on a bill that would dump billions into misc. pork projects.
The TRS-80 MC-10. Basically a Color Computer Lite. It was nearly impossible to type on using the standard way of typing.
Only a few months ago I could have sworn that slashdot had a story that Blu-Ray was failing. I specifically remember market research showing that people easily understood what "HD DVD" meant just by the name, but "Blu-Ray" doesn't immediately give any indication as to what it is. Also I remember hearing companies (I think Paramount was one of them) dropping Blu-Ray support.
Moissanite is distinguishable (other than the hardness) by the fact that it has more fire than a diamond. So technically we already have a prettier crystal, but of course don't let her find out that it isn't the real thing!
So could this legislation potentially prohibit the distribution of complete Linux distros? Since tools like netcat and nmap are part of the base installs of most Linux systems. I work at a Fortune 500 company and we use Wireshark for diagnosing and monitoring network issues. I'm sure many UK companies do the same.
Yes! I loved netscape 3! Netscape 4 made me switch to IE!
Bah! Third party? You're just as bad as the rest of them. I'm voting fourth party!
You should have written a small program that started with void main()
So when is the Open Source community going to invent a printer that runs off of store-bought food coloring mixed with water?
Or the other one.. Expiring ink. The company I worked for used to buy ink in bulk to save money. When we started using some of those cartridges, we found out they had "Expired" and the software would refuse to let you print unless you changed the system date back to a time before the expiration date.
Or you could just pump in Nitrogen gas or CO2 to fill the empty space so it can't ignite.
What if they did this... They allow you to enter your password and do like Compaq did to replicate the function of the IBM PC BIOS in the 80s. They had two engineering teams, one had access to the BIOS and one didn't and the team could ask them questions but they weren't allowed to reveal anything that wasn't asked. Then when done, the defendant is allowed to make any backups of data that they need and the rest is destroyed. There could be strict guidelines as to what kinds of questions could be asked and what could be revealed. Only things pertinent to the case. Then the team of investigators would sign something like an NDA that they weren't allowed to divulge anything not specifically asked about in the case, and if for some reason such information was to be divulged, it would be inadmissible against the person especially since the original data has been destroyed.
I think back then before virtual domains and such you'd need 18,000 IP Addresses to go with your 18,000 domain names.
I had that as well back in the early 90's I think. It was accurate to the millimeter.