"Whatever, you do your thing, I'll do mine. Y'know. Whatever. You're the stupid one. Think you're gonna live forever? Nope. Someone'll kill ya. Someone'll kill ya with a knife. Sorry, that's just the way it is."
Go find them anywhere in the lawbooks. It means nothing.
Compact Disc is a form factor and a storage medium.
Making discs that dont work is a bad business strategy, but hardly illegal.
Hell, even if you got a day in court, here's their defense: "Your Honor, we submit that the Plantiff's CD player is a cheap piece of shit". Judgement for the defense.
Older versions of Gameshark wont work on newer versions of the PS2, so go sue them too.
DVD's have been released that crash/wont play on certain DVD players. So go sue them while your at it.
First round of Dreamcast discs had problems, I remember Sonic Adventures crashing for me on release day. Sue Sega.
You can't. The recourse in all scenarios is to take it back to the place of purchase and get a refund/replacement. If you insist on buying at a store with no/poor refund policy, then that's your problem.
do they think they can pull off a profit from providing support services
Yes, they have the experience and cred in the industry to do just that, unlike Red Hat who were (are) viewed as an upstart by many CTOs.
One thing holding back the adoption of Sun (and it was true in my office when we started looking to replace HP-9000 MPE based systems) is uncertainty as to the future of the OS. If we drop a boatload of cash into a bunch of Solaris boxes, and MSFT buys up and dissolves Sun tomorrow, then what?
Hell forget the hardware, what happens to our all our apps that we've tightly integrated into Solaris? Do we port all that stuff yet again to another unix?
With the source, that worry is gone. This is why Linux is succeeding, and because of Linux and the various free BSD's, folks who write checks are nervous about proprietary Unixes. Thing is, they want the support and expertise of a company like Sun, but they see the value in the openness of systems like Linux.
This is a very smart move on Sun's part, it'll push a lot of folks onto their side of the fence, and they should net a metric assload in support contracts and hardware sales.
I play games all the time, my wife has no problem with it. She knew when we met that I was into collecting and playing video games. Just like I knew she was into collecting shoes.
Of course I never say "I'm not going to your sisters wedding with you, I'm waiting for a Black Dragon to spawn so I can get more experience points!"
But I sit in my room playing whatever game I'm into, she sits in the living room watching reruns of shitty sitcoms. We meet in the bedroom. It's win-win.
You're just married to a bitch. It really is that simple.
Just remind her that plenty of guys prefer to get drunk and beat their wives in their downtime. She may see it different then.
"There was a problem with the gas cap, $120 please" - leading her to assume they'd replaced/repaired it.
Or did they actually explain "There's a sensor that monitors the proper pressure in the gas tank, if it gets low that light comes on because it may be leaking. It was only getting low because you didnt twist the cap on tight enough."
I have a mitsubishi shitbox and have done the same thing. I know better, and when I see the light I take the cap off and put it back on tightly. I wouldnt expect everyone to know better. A bright red light on your dashboard that says "Check Engine" freaks people out with visions of being stranded on some dark street or desolate country road at 3 AM.
Besides, the point is, she paid 120 bucks a pop when the local garage probably wouldn't have charged her ANYTHING because they'd want her to come back.
People joke about the small-time crooked mechanic, but it's the big dealership chains that really stick it to you.
Got some slick, nobody's fool sysadmin you need to get past?
Well, cook up a portscan that will look like a giant, spinning Mr Goatse, or some racial slurs, etc..
Boss walks past, geek gets fired, replaced by bosses moron nephew who is more than happy to give you the keys to the server when you call and identify yourself as the Hamburglar.
I went into a KFC about a decade ago - at the height of the California Raisin's meteoric rise to fame, and KFC was giving away Raisin dolls. Guess that must have been more than 10 years.
Anyways, just as I got to the counter, some lady stormed in. She opened her bucket of chicken, and pointed to disgusting black globs of rubbery crap. It was really vile looking. The guy behind the counter said that some of the kids had been melting the Raisins in the deep fryer, apologized and gave her a refund.
He then asked me what my order was, like the oblivious idiot he was. I asked them when they change their oil, he said "never, we just add to it when it gets low".
Yucky. Though it probably would have been cool to watch those Raisins melt.
It would seem to me if your exhaust smells like anything then your fuel is impure and your engine is horribly inefficient - that stuff is supposed to be burned, not atomized out of your tailpipe.
If only the human body were that inefficient. Then the slob in the office next to me would smell like tacos and 7-layer burritos, and not rancid feces.
If every gas-powered vehicle - and hell, my diesel burning furnace - ran on diesel tomorrow, would it even be feasible to produce that much biodiesel?
I mean I remember refining some vegetable oil to fire up the science teachers Golf as an expirement in high school. Pretty neat, but we used gallons of vegetable oil to wind up with a couple litres of fuel.
It seems to me we could clearcut every old growth and rainforest on earth, and still not have enough landmass to produce enough of this fuel.
I've also heard it's proponents spewing absolute bullshit. I believe it was Darryl Hannah (or some other washed-up 70s pinup) I saw on TV spouting off about her biodiesel powered car.
When she claimed it produced "no toxic emissions" I scoffed, when she said it produced no carbon dioxide, I just switched the channel.
You're still burning hydrocarbons, after all. Just not ones that have been in the ground a million years.
I don't pretend to have studied it, I have no idea how much oil an acre of corn/soy yields in a season. It doesn't seem feasible to me, else the farming lobby, who have the political and economic clout to CRUSH OPEC, would have done so by now.
How much does this guys 41 cents/gallon really cost if you dont get the oil for free?
Frankly, it makes sense.. They have nothing to save up for.
Myself, I'm forgoing release-date video games for $5 bargain-bin titles, gadgets and upgrades because I'm trying to build up for a down payment on a 10 acre lot out in the sticks on which I'd like to build a home.
If I lived in Japan, where the idea of owning a chunk of land would be out of the question, and the best I could dream for would be a rented apartment, then I'd probably piss my disposable income away on gadgets too.
Frankly, I don't envy their 4G phones. I pity their overall living conditions. I'm not a city/crowd person.
Not all direct marketing is spam, of course they want to get rid of the idiots who hurt their industry.
Circuit City emails me flyers all the time, because I've bought stuff online from them. That's direct marketing - but it's not spam. I also reasonably believe that if I opted out, they'd stop sending it.
... has the not surprising statistic that 90% of home users DONT GIVE A FLYING FUCK if the family PC (which they consider no more than an expensive Nintendo/source of free music) is hacked.
I built a PC last year with a 1.8ghz celeron, and recently replaced it with a 3.06 I got on the cheap. The performance increase is more than noticable, even though I'd need to reinstall XP to enable HT.
I didn't want to have to tear apart my box, reinstall my OS and all its files, etc, etc.. I just popped out the old CPU and heatsink, and popped in the new one.
It was always my plan to do so, the money I saved going with the 1.8 celery short-term went to a DVD burner and a gig of quality RAM.
Socket 478 stuff is going cheap now and DDR has come way down, I have some other machines I plan to upgrade, even though the performance in many cases wont be that significant, it's cheap enough to be worth it to "max out" the machines.
No, just that windows *is* much easier to develop for.
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They may have maps, but not in a format that's ready to import into a computer and start cracking.
I work writing and installig public safety software (dispatching, police/fire/ems records, etc). Mapping is a big thing these days, especially for rural communities that are sprawled out over a huge area, yet have finite resources.
911 call from lot 12, rural route 15 - whos closest, Jeb or Clem? Or a fire engine pulls up to a fire, there's a hydrant next door, and one 6 houses up. Which one to use? Look at the map which gives the known flow rates for each - if the one six houses up can supply 10 times more water, that's what you want. Sex offenders can't live within a mile of a school or church.. Thematically mapping incidents by reporting district or beat, etc, etc, etc...
Most have paper maps that are 50 years old, and a stack of addendum paper maps. These are useless for my purpose, and you can't just sit there with a ruler and try and convert the various lots into lats/longs - it's not accurate enough. You need to the precise lat/long for 102 Main St to pinmap it, and whether decidegrees or HMS, a slight difference in the least significant digit puts the pin in the next county.
You'd be surprised how innacurate the older maps are. The courts are still clogged with suits over who owns this fence/tree/driveway because the old maps were so arbitrarily drawn.
Creating a good set of geolocation data really means a small army of guys with expensive GPS equipment pounding pavement, walking down the center of the roads as the computer plots it, walking to the vertices of the various polygons (school districts, beats, etc) while the GPS creates the data.
It's expensive and time consuming. Most smaller counties/cities dont have the budget for it. There's been a boom in it lately, I'm getting tons and tons of "homegrown" gps data from municipalites (of which the resulting maps look like dogshit, please if you're a city IS guy - contract it out, you aren't up to the task). Alot of depts are spending their cut of the Homesec dollars on this type of thing.
Anyhow, they dont exist for free - at least not at the level of detail that I need.
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Look to the wisdom of Carl:
"Whatever, you do your thing, I'll do mine. Y'know. Whatever. You're the stupid one. Think you're gonna live forever? Nope. Someone'll kill ya. Someone'll kill ya with a knife. Sorry, that's just the way it is."
-Carl, ATHF
Redbook, bluebook, orangebook, plaidbook.
Go find them anywhere in the lawbooks. It means nothing.
Compact Disc is a form factor and a storage medium.
Making discs that dont work is a bad business strategy, but hardly illegal.
Hell, even if you got a day in court, here's their defense: "Your Honor, we submit that the Plantiff's CD player is a cheap piece of shit". Judgement for the defense.
Older versions of Gameshark wont work on newer versions of the PS2, so go sue them too.
DVD's have been released that crash/wont play on certain DVD players. So go sue them while your at it.
First round of Dreamcast discs had problems, I remember Sonic Adventures crashing for me on release day. Sue Sega.
You can't. The recourse in all scenarios is to take it back to the place of purchase and get a refund/replacement. If you insist on buying at a store with no/poor refund policy, then that's your problem.
do they think they can pull off a profit from providing support services
Yes, they have the experience and cred in the industry to do just that, unlike Red Hat who were (are) viewed as an upstart by many CTOs.
One thing holding back the adoption of Sun (and it was true in my office when we started looking to replace HP-9000 MPE based systems) is uncertainty as to the future of the OS. If we drop a boatload of cash into a bunch of Solaris boxes, and MSFT buys up and dissolves Sun tomorrow, then what?
Hell forget the hardware, what happens to our all our apps that we've tightly integrated into Solaris? Do we port all that stuff yet again to another unix?
With the source, that worry is gone. This is why Linux is succeeding, and because of Linux and the various free BSD's, folks who write checks are nervous about proprietary Unixes. Thing is, they want the support and expertise of a company like Sun, but they see the value in the openness of systems like Linux.
This is a very smart move on Sun's part, it'll push a lot of folks onto their side of the fence, and they should net a metric assload in support contracts and hardware sales.
I play games all the time, my wife has no problem with it. She knew when we met that I was into collecting and playing video games. Just like I knew she was into collecting shoes.
Of course I never say "I'm not going to your sisters wedding with you, I'm waiting for a Black Dragon to spawn so I can get more experience points!"
But I sit in my room playing whatever game I'm into, she sits in the living room watching reruns of shitty sitcoms. We meet in the bedroom. It's win-win.
You're just married to a bitch. It really is that simple.
Just remind her that plenty of guys prefer to get drunk and beat their wives in their downtime. She may see it different then.
Well, what did the dealership tell the girl?
"There was a problem with the gas cap, $120 please" - leading her to assume they'd replaced/repaired it.
Or did they actually explain "There's a sensor that monitors the proper pressure in the gas tank, if it gets low that light comes on because it may be leaking. It was only getting low because you didnt twist the cap on tight enough."
I have a mitsubishi shitbox and have done the same thing. I know better, and when I see the light I take the cap off and put it back on tightly. I wouldnt expect everyone to know better. A bright red light on your dashboard that says "Check Engine" freaks people out with visions of being stranded on some dark street or desolate country road at 3 AM.
Besides, the point is, she paid 120 bucks a pop when the local garage probably wouldn't have charged her ANYTHING because they'd want her to come back.
People joke about the small-time crooked mechanic, but it's the big dealership chains that really stick it to you.
Got some slick, nobody's fool sysadmin you need to get past?
Well, cook up a portscan that will look like a giant, spinning Mr Goatse, or some racial slurs, etc..
Boss walks past, geek gets fired, replaced by bosses moron nephew who is more than happy to give you the keys to the server when you call and identify yourself as the Hamburglar.
No, it was a KFC in Ontario. KFC chicken is actually good there, btw, (being a chain formerly Scott's Chicken Villa)
Down here in the states it's greasy shit. But theres always Popeyes.
Sounds like the Time Cube.
But then, you stupid ignorant mind-traitors cant understand time cube having been manipulated by your word god.
I went into a KFC about a decade ago - at the height of the California Raisin's meteoric rise to fame, and KFC was giving away Raisin dolls. Guess that must have been more than 10 years.
Anyways, just as I got to the counter, some lady stormed in. She opened her bucket of chicken, and pointed to disgusting black globs of rubbery crap. It was really vile looking. The guy behind the counter said that some of the kids had been melting the Raisins in the deep fryer, apologized and gave her a refund.
He then asked me what my order was, like the oblivious idiot he was. I asked them when they change their oil, he said "never, we just add to it when it gets low".
Yucky. Though it probably would have been cool to watch those Raisins melt.
Depends where you are, and if there are recycling plants nearby. In areas where there are, they pay a few cents a gallon to come and get your old oil.
Now, I wouldnt be the one to go and try and take it for free. Do you remember Homer's run-in with ACME Grease and Shovel?
It would seem to me if your exhaust smells like anything then your fuel is impure and your engine is horribly inefficient - that stuff is supposed to be burned, not atomized out of your tailpipe.
If only the human body were that inefficient. Then the slob in the office next to me would smell like tacos and 7-layer burritos, and not rancid feces.
If every gas-powered vehicle - and hell, my diesel burning furnace - ran on diesel tomorrow, would it even be feasible to produce that much biodiesel?
I mean I remember refining some vegetable oil to fire up the science teachers Golf as an expirement in high school. Pretty neat, but we used gallons of vegetable oil to wind up with a couple litres of fuel.
It seems to me we could clearcut every old growth and rainforest on earth, and still not have enough landmass to produce enough of this fuel.
I've also heard it's proponents spewing absolute bullshit. I believe it was Darryl Hannah (or some other washed-up 70s pinup) I saw on TV spouting off about her biodiesel powered car.
When she claimed it produced "no toxic emissions" I scoffed, when she said it produced no carbon dioxide, I just switched the channel.
You're still burning hydrocarbons, after all. Just not ones that have been in the ground a million years.
I don't pretend to have studied it, I have no idea how much oil an acre of corn/soy yields in a season. It doesn't seem feasible to me, else the farming lobby, who have the political and economic clout to CRUSH OPEC, would have done so by now.
How much does this guys 41 cents/gallon really cost if you dont get the oil for free?
Frankly, it makes sense.. They have nothing to save up for.
Myself, I'm forgoing release-date video games for $5 bargain-bin titles, gadgets and upgrades because I'm trying to build up for a down payment on a 10 acre lot out in the sticks on which I'd like to build a home.
If I lived in Japan, where the idea of owning a chunk of land would be out of the question, and the best I could dream for would be a rented apartment, then I'd probably piss my disposable income away on gadgets too.
Frankly, I don't envy their 4G phones. I pity their overall living conditions. I'm not a city/crowd person.
I wouldnt pay for flaming hardware.
Unless it was a barbeque or cutting torch (something that should be flaming).
You put the fries in the basket then lower it slowly into the oil. Dumping them in is going to make a splash - duh.
The only cooking tip I know is to always put bacon into a cold pan (no grease/pam) and then apply heat. It wont stick and will provide its own grease.
Not all direct marketing is spam, of course they want to get rid of the idiots who hurt their industry.
Circuit City emails me flyers all the time, because I've bought stuff online from them. That's direct marketing - but it's not spam. I also reasonably believe that if I opted out, they'd stop sending it.
... has the not surprising statistic that 90% of home users DONT GIVE A FLYING FUCK if the family PC (which they consider no more than an expensive Nintendo/source of free music) is hacked.
I built a PC last year with a 1.8ghz celeron, and recently replaced it with a 3.06 I got on the cheap. The performance increase is more than noticable, even though I'd need to reinstall XP to enable HT.
I didn't want to have to tear apart my box, reinstall my OS and all its files, etc, etc.. I just popped out the old CPU and heatsink, and popped in the new one.
It was always my plan to do so, the money I saved going with the 1.8 celery short-term went to a DVD burner and a gig of quality RAM.
Socket 478 stuff is going cheap now and DDR has come way down, I have some other machines I plan to upgrade, even though the performance in many cases wont be that significant, it's cheap enough to be worth it to "max out" the machines.
Slackware's a great distro for the hacker set to pull a custom machine together with.
I use it all the time, generally just to get a base linux system on a box, and then customize from there.
I was waiting for a stupid comment about the glaciers' "constitutional right to privacy".
Yours will do, though.
No, just that windows *is* much easier to develop for.
They may have maps, but not in a format that's ready to import into a computer and start cracking.
I work writing and installig public safety software (dispatching, police/fire/ems records, etc). Mapping is a big thing these days, especially for rural communities that are sprawled out over a huge area, yet have finite resources.
911 call from lot 12, rural route 15 - whos closest, Jeb or Clem? Or a fire engine pulls up to a fire, there's a hydrant next door, and one 6 houses up. Which one to use? Look at the map which gives the known flow rates for each - if the one six houses up can supply 10 times more water, that's what you want. Sex offenders can't live within a mile of a school or church.. Thematically mapping incidents by reporting district or beat, etc, etc, etc...
Most have paper maps that are 50 years old, and a stack of addendum paper maps. These are useless for my purpose, and you can't just sit there with a ruler and try and convert the various lots into lats/longs - it's not accurate enough. You need to the precise lat/long for 102 Main St to pinmap it, and whether decidegrees or HMS, a slight difference in the least significant digit puts the pin in the next county.
You'd be surprised how innacurate the older maps are. The courts are still clogged with suits over who owns this fence/tree/driveway because the old maps were so arbitrarily drawn.
Creating a good set of geolocation data really means a small army of guys with expensive GPS equipment pounding pavement, walking down the center of the roads as the computer plots it, walking to the vertices of the various polygons (school districts, beats, etc) while the GPS creates the data.
It's expensive and time consuming. Most smaller counties/cities dont have the budget for it. There's been a boom in it lately, I'm getting tons and tons of "homegrown" gps data from municipalites (of which the resulting maps look like dogshit, please if you're a city IS guy - contract it out, you aren't up to the task). Alot of depts are spending their cut of the Homesec dollars on this type of thing.
Anyhow, they dont exist for free - at least not at the level of detail that I need.
It's right in there next to the 'seperation' clause and the right to fully automatic assault rifles with armor-piercing cyanide-tipped ammunition.
To say linux server sales are up 27% means little if the volume is low.
If I sold one last year, and three this year then I can talk about 300% growth, but that number is meaningless.
Yeah, linux is gaining ground, but has a long way to go.
It was SUPPOSED to be your computer, VCR (VCD player), etc...
Creatives 3DO Blaster could be stuck in your PC to allow it to play 3DO games - with video out..
The mythical all-in-one set-top box. It wound up being a very expensive console with very poor games.
Hell, go back even further to the Coleco Adam, Amiga CDTV, etc..
It's been tried - and failed - a million times.