Would this really be enforceable? AFAIK, no legal precedent has been set regarding the EULA's where this provision is. Maybe this will provide a good test case with lots of money on both sides.
Nope. Car manufacturers are in the business of selling parts. Give away the razor, sell the blades.
Actually, most car manufacturers make money from the more popular vehicles that they are able to sell at high prices - recently, SUV's; also fairly recently, minivans. The cheaper cars are mostly there just to promote brand loyalty.
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Note that it is designed by Porsche Design GmbH, not the car company. This is a company founded by the car company's founder's grandson, and appears to have no connection, other than the name.
If I got that notebook, I'd just install Linux on it, so I might as well get a tiBook and put Linux ppc on it instead, since it looks nicer.
Could you imagine a teacher trying to teach Linux to students? Even my school's "technoligy director" didn't even know how to manage our school's Windows network. (he called the outsourcer any time anything more than minor came up, and also had code red undetected for quite a few months, before I found it)
I wonder if anyone's brought a lawsuit against slashdot(or their parent company, OSDN) for effectively destroying their servers.
That'd be like a store suing a newspaper for giving them some good press and swamping them with customers. Though/. giving sites a few hours' notice would be a good thing IMHO.
Granted, THG seems to be able to withstand the weight of a/.ing, but for those unlucky souls using shared hosting accounts, or limited bandwidth accounts -- karma whores are a savior, both to us and to them.
I've been looking for a solid Power Supply review for a few days now. Thanks Tom.
That's very informative information. I always wanted to know that you were looking for a solid Power Supply review.
Geez, that's incredibly dishonest and disrespectful thing to do. Sure, you made sure that we knew it was from the article, but did you ever notice the copyright disclaimer at the bottom of their pages? They aren't making money if we read the article from another source.
I can almost understand this when a site is slashdotted, but that rarely happens to THG.
Any person that read the parent post and decided not to go to Tom's Hardware web site as a result, please do so anyways. They're surviving on advertising revenue.
They tackle the tough design choices and what hardware to pick and end up with a web server designed to serve daily changing content with lots of images, movies, active forums and millions of page views every month.
Yeah, but how about millions of page views per day?
Yes, I was rather disappointed by that segment. What the author should have mentioned is that in addition to allowing pirating, mod chips allow software such as Linux that was not originally intended to run on it work.
I like this section: I copied hundreds of Web Favorites from the Mac onto a Zip disk, then into the Favorites folder on the PC. Internet Explorer has an Import/Export Wizard that you can use to import Netscape bookmarks, but I found it faster to do it this way.
To copy Web Favorites:
1. Connect the Zip drive to your Macintosh, and insert a Zip disk with plenty of room.
2. On the Mac, start Internet Explorer. From the Window menu, click Favorites.
3. Press COMMAND+A (open apple symbol+A) to select them all, and drag them to copy them onto your Zip disk.
4. Connect the Zip drive to your PC, and insert the disk on which you just saved your Favorites.
5. On the PC, click Start, then My Computer, and then double-click Local Disk (C:). Open the Documents and Settings folder, then the folder with your user account name, and then your Favorites folder.
6. On the Zip disk, press CTRL+A to select all the files, and then drag them into the Favorites folder. They'll all be there the next time you open Favorites in Internet Explorer.
Now, wait just a minute. Since when did doing select all in Internet Explorer's bookmarks copy my Netscape ones as well?
Well, at least Microsoft was honest about the "freelance writer" part - well, maybe the writer was an employee, but there's a very good chance that she was a contractor.
If this school is like the others that I'm familiar with, payment of fees do not entitle the student access to the computer network. I suppose it's possible that a school might have an "Internet access fee" line item on their annual bill, but I've never seen one. Instead, access to the computer network is a privilege that can be revoked at any time for, essentially, any reason.
Actually, my school (Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI) has a $70 per semester fee for accessing the 'net from the dorms - otherwise the jacks are turned off. They even prohibit roommates from buying a hub and sharing the connection - you have to each pay. Of course, with a NAT-enabled wireless AP, they'd never know.
However, he probably was required to sign some kind of contract when he signed up for the service, maybe even in his housing contract somewhere, so the point is probably moot.
I remember watching a video with a guy doing this in my high school freshman physical science class four years ago. Not exactly new. Still very cool though./me makes a note to himself to check current sodium prices on ebay.
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That could be true - another reason not to go for the bluelight specials with licensed software. ;-)
Would this really be enforceable? AFAIK, no legal precedent has been set regarding the EULA's where this provision is. Maybe this will provide a good test case with lots of money on both sides.
Nope. Car manufacturers are in the business of selling parts. Give away the razor, sell the blades.
Actually, most car manufacturers make money from the more popular vehicles that they are able to sell at high prices - recently, SUV's; also fairly recently, minivans. The cheaper cars are mostly there just to promote brand loyalty.
How about this:
:-)
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There, a nice spinny altimeter.
... they beat the pants off of any x86 compatable laptop in battery life.
Does your powerbook get 14 hours of battery life? My Fujitsu Lifebook P-series does (Crusoe chip).
slashdot is pathetic.
Then why are you here?
Note that it is designed by Porsche Design GmbH, not the car company. This is a company founded by the car company's founder's grandson, and appears to have no connection, other than the name.
If I got that notebook, I'd just install Linux on it, so I might as well get a tiBook and put Linux ppc on it instead, since it looks nicer.
Could you imagine a teacher trying to teach Linux to students? Even my school's "technoligy director" didn't even know how to manage our school's Windows network. (he called the outsourcer any time anything more than minor came up, and also had code red undetected for quite a few months, before I found it)
Rochester said that the technique, called reversible data hiding, could be used in situations that require proof that an image has not been altered.
I've had that technique for years. It's called a checksum.
I wonder if anyone's brought a lawsuit against slashdot(or their parent company, OSDN) for effectively destroying their servers.
/. giving sites a few hours' notice would be a good thing IMHO.
That'd be like a store suing a newspaper for giving them some good press and swamping them with customers. Though
Hey, I've had one of those for years! /me unplugs mouse, picks it up, and throws it across the room.
Now, I just need to find a lawyer to help me patent this thing...
Granted, THG seems to be able to withstand the weight of a /.ing, but for those unlucky souls using shared hosting accounts, or limited bandwidth accounts -- karma whores are a savior, both to us and to them.
Then post as an AC.
I wonder what kind of framerates UT would get on this thing. Of course, they would have to use software rendering, but it'd still be dang fast.
I've been looking for a solid Power Supply review for a few days now. Thanks Tom.
That's very informative information. I always wanted to know that you were looking for a solid Power Supply review.
Geez, that's incredibly dishonest and disrespectful thing to do. Sure, you made sure that we knew it was from the article, but did you ever notice the copyright disclaimer at the bottom of their pages? They aren't making money if we read the article from another source.
I can almost understand this when a site is slashdotted, but that rarely happens to THG.
Any person that read the parent post and decided not to go to Tom's Hardware web site as a result, please do so anyways. They're surviving on advertising revenue.
Mirroring support... I can imagine the pranks already...
Unsuspecting boss: Eeeeek! My computer just got a virus! Fix it!
Me: Sure... [types a command]... all fixed.
Boss: That was amazing! What would I ever do without you?
Me: About that raise I was asking about...
They tackle the tough design choices and what hardware to pick and end up with a web server designed to serve daily changing content with lots of images, movies, active forums and millions of page views every month.
Yeah, but how about millions of page views per day?
Yes, I was rather disappointed by that segment. What the author should have mentioned is that in addition to allowing pirating, mod chips allow software such as Linux that was not originally intended to run on it work.
And yes, I realize that LucasFilm did not produce The Matrix.
After he achieves that, he'll start working on making all production assistants robotic.
He'd better be careful going that far, however - if he's not careful, he'll make himself obselete?
No more movies like The Matrix - too much slandering of the computers!
Another case in which the government tries to continue to display the illusion that the country is still run by the citizens...
I like this section:
I copied hundreds of Web Favorites from the Mac onto a Zip disk, then into the Favorites folder on the PC. Internet Explorer has an Import/Export Wizard that you can use to import Netscape bookmarks, but I found it faster to do it this way.
To copy Web Favorites:
1. Connect the Zip drive to your Macintosh, and insert a Zip disk with plenty of room.
2. On the Mac, start Internet Explorer. From the Window menu, click Favorites.
3. Press COMMAND+A (open apple symbol+A) to select them all, and drag them to copy them onto your Zip disk.
4. Connect the Zip drive to your PC, and insert the disk on which you just saved your Favorites.
5. On the PC, click Start, then My Computer, and then double-click Local Disk (C:). Open the Documents and Settings folder, then the folder with your user account name, and then your Favorites folder.
6. On the Zip disk, press CTRL+A to select all the files, and then drag them into the Favorites folder. They'll all be there the next time you open Favorites in Internet Explorer.
Now, wait just a minute. Since when did doing select all in Internet Explorer's bookmarks copy my Netscape ones as well?
Well, at least Microsoft was honest about the "freelance writer" part - well, maybe the writer was an employee, but there's a very good chance that she was a contractor.
Definitelly would make beowulf clusters interesting for compilation as well as hard core numerics (no joke intendend).
Actually, you wouldn't need a Beowulf cluster at all - just a bunch of networked machines.
The machines don't have to be identical or be running the exact same GCC version
Well, to some extent they probably do. If you're running GCC 3.2 on one, you wouldn't be able to run 3.0 on another because of binary incompatibility.
If this school is like the others that I'm familiar with, payment of fees do not entitle the student access to the computer network. I suppose it's possible that a school might have an "Internet access fee" line item on their annual bill, but I've never seen one. Instead, access to the computer network is a privilege that can be revoked at any time for, essentially, any reason.
Actually, my school (Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI) has a $70 per semester fee for accessing the 'net from the dorms - otherwise the jacks are turned off. They even prohibit roommates from buying a hub and sharing the connection - you have to each pay. Of course, with a NAT-enabled wireless AP, they'd never know.
However, he probably was required to sign some kind of contract when he signed up for the service, maybe even in his housing contract somewhere, so the point is probably moot.
I remember watching a video with a guy doing this in my high school freshman physical science class four years ago. Not exactly new. Still very cool though. /me makes a note to himself to check current sodium prices on ebay.