>...then it would mean that the attempt to buy a standard failed, thanks to the pressure put on ISO by the states that participate, which ultimately stemmed from organizations in those states who saw what was happening and protested.
...and that those people need to be sure to look both ways before crossing the street for the next few months...
The IBM 240X is very compact, (no internal CD-ROM) is fast enough (barely) to play divx video files, has USB, up to 128 Megs ram, and with the extended battery, will run longer than many current laptops. Add a wifi card and you have pretty much everything you need.
> Some of today's higher end laptops have easily removable Hard Drives (some multiple drives). It shouldn't take more than a minute or two to replace a functional secondary HD for Customs, and have the other drive tucked into your bag.
Don't take the real drive into the airport at all. Ship it to your destination. I like the idea of the secondary drive. You could still play Solitaire in-flight.
> Though, they'll probably protest the phillips driver you'll have to carry to accomplish this, because you know that is a dangerous weapon.
I think it's ok if it's less than three inches long...
> Some of today's higher end laptops have easily removable Hard Drives (some multiple drives). It shouldn't take more than a minute or two to replace a functional secondary HD for Customs, and have the other drive tucked into your bag.
Don't take the real drive into the airport at all. Ship it to your destination. I like the idea of the secondary drive. You could still play Solitaire in-flight.
> Though, they'll probably protest the phillips driver you'll have to carry to accomplish this, because you know that is a dangerous weapon.
I think it's ok if it's less than three inches long...
Ron
I've put sensitive data on my camera card, and put it back in the camera. But now that this technique is in the article, border guards will be looking for that. Gee, thanks, Bruce.
There's a much easier, lower tech solution -- upload your data to a server on the internet, (how and using what service I'll leave as an exercise for the student) and wipe it off your laptop. Cross the border, and download your stuff on the other side. The advantage of this is that the border guards have no solution -- no amount of analysis, decryption, or intimidation will find content that isn't there.
Don't forget to keep a couple of Page 3 photos so they have something minor to find. This is especially cool for porn searches in Heathrow. "It's from your own NEWSPAPER, monkey boy!"
Ashton Kutcher. I never did like the tv show, but watching Kutcher bumble through MIT-inspired contraptions might be entertaining, in a "so bad it's good" fashion.
>Umm, the movie is about a man who makes weapon systems, and finds out they're being horribly misused. He then stops selling them, at a huge loss to his personal wealth. Not exactly fascist propaganda there.
That puzzled me too. Perhaps when he said "I saw it" he meant the trailer.
Seems like this makes it easier to block them. Build a rule "no connections on port 25 from 134.17.X.X". In fact, I think I'm going to set that up this afternoon.
> As a record store owner, My business faces ruin.
This same article was posted to Slashdot Aug 2005 and Nov 2006. The style and phrasing reminds me of those email forwards I'm always getting from clueless relatives. (Nobody writes like that in real life.)
> I am British (and not the parent poster), and I always thought using "loose" instead of "lose" was an American thing. Similarly, "rediculous" instead of "ridiculous". These aren't correct in American English either then?
No, they're not. I blame public schools. (I think they're called private schools over there for some inexplicable reason.)
> Now we just need to persuade you guys to put the "u" in colour, and to pronounce the "h" in "herbs"...
I don't think so. "'erbs" are what's in my sandwich. "Herb" is the sweaty guy across the street who sits on his step in his undershirt. And the "u" in "colour" is there to signify country of origin, as in "the colour of magic".
I don't see this as the downfall of Windows -- Let's not forget they still have over 90% of the desktop marketplace, and XP users aren't dumping their OS for Linux in huge numbers. (Note, I said "XP", not "Vista".)
I think what we're actually seeing is the downfall of the Windows business model -- expensive OS with free support and updates. This worked well when Windows was on the steep part of the development curve, and everyone needed the next version, but with XP Windows became "good enough" and that by itself can cause a huge drop in sales, even though the installed base is still high.
I think what Microsoft needs is to shift their business model to a more Novell - like or Red Hat - like model, where the OS is relatively cheap and support is pricy. But this is probably too much of a paradigm shift for the company, so what I *expect* them to do is try to shift to a model where you *rent* the OS in a pay-for-use scheme. I don't expect this to fly with a significant part of the marketplace, but I fully expect M$ to try it.
If I were going to predict the future, I'd see M$ as eventually being in dire financial straits, while at the same time maintaining a 90%+ installed base of older products.
> But, seriously, you expect "normal" people to look at the back of thier computer, look at the ports, recognise that there is a S-video port, realise that thier TV also has this port, and connect the dots.
Heavens no. No more than I'd expect them to look on the back of a set-top box, find an s-video, hdmi or dvi port, and connect the dots.
So, since these huge frickin'... er... death beams... exit via the poles, wouldn't most of the planets in our galaxy be relatively safe from irradiation? It seems that the galactic black hole would rotate on the same plane as the rest of the galaxy. So to us it'd be like those giant search lights they point to the sky at Wal-Mart openings.
I wonder if you could accomplish the same thing with micro black holes. That'd be a hell of a weapon, although it'd give new meaning to "Back blast area clear!"
Perhaps what Blockbuster needs to do is provide a free application that runs on any computer that interfaces with their infrastructure, so you could rent and view video without buying a set-top box. I mean, the box is usually a loss-leader anyway -- the money is in rentals over the long term. So why bother inventing a new box?
What Blockbuster's differentiation could be is to provide a player that plays well full screen with 5.1 or 7.1 sound (*not* in a browser) and plugs-into popular media center software like well, M$ Media Center, and with a published SDK so others could integrate it into MythTV and the like. Make the player as ubiquitous as possible and make money on the rentals.
At very least, they should be looking at integrating with an existing set-top -- tivo for instance -- instead of trying to create yet another box.
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Pirates will really want this.
> Psh... backups? I restore my data from a parallel universe, where I didn't get hit by a virus in the first place.
K dkd that, but kt turns out they use a slkghtly dkfferent alphabet kn that unkverse.
Before or after?
> Whee!
The dog loves it when I do that. We call it Rat Surprise.
The IBM 240X is very compact, (no internal CD-ROM) is fast enough (barely) to play divx video files, has USB, up to 128 Megs ram, and with the extended battery, will run longer than many current laptops. Add a wifi card and you have pretty much everything you need.
Aw rats. Here's the article formatted properly:
> Some of today's higher end laptops have easily removable Hard Drives (some multiple drives). It shouldn't take more than a minute or two to replace a functional secondary HD for Customs, and have the other drive tucked into your bag.
Don't take the real drive into the airport at all. Ship it to your destination. I like the idea of the secondary drive. You could still play Solitaire in-flight.
> Though, they'll probably protest the phillips driver you'll have to carry to accomplish this, because you know that is a dangerous weapon.
I think it's ok if it's less than three inches long...
Ron
> Some of today's higher end laptops have easily removable Hard Drives (some multiple drives). It shouldn't take more than a minute or two to replace a functional secondary HD for Customs, and have the other drive tucked into your bag. Don't take the real drive into the airport at all. Ship it to your destination. I like the idea of the secondary drive. You could still play Solitaire in-flight. > Though, they'll probably protest the phillips driver you'll have to carry to accomplish this, because you know that is a dangerous weapon. I think it's ok if it's less than three inches long... Ron
I've put sensitive data on my camera card, and put it back in the camera. But now that this technique is in the article, border guards will be looking for that. Gee, thanks, Bruce.
There's a much easier, lower tech solution -- upload your data to a server on the internet, (how and using what service I'll leave as an exercise for the student) and wipe it off your laptop. Cross the border, and download your stuff on the other side. The advantage of this is that the border guards have no solution -- no amount of analysis, decryption, or intimidation will find content that isn't there.
Don't forget to keep a couple of Page 3 photos so they have something minor to find. This is especially cool for porn searches in Heathrow. "It's from your own NEWSPAPER, monkey boy!"
"Hi."
"Hi."
"What u doin?"
"Nothin U?"
"Nothin bored"
"Me too"
Ashton Kutcher. I never did like the tv show, but watching Kutcher bumble through MIT-inspired contraptions might be entertaining, in a "so bad it's good" fashion.
>Umm, the movie is about a man who makes weapon systems, and finds out they're being horribly misused. He then stops selling them, at a huge loss to his personal wealth. Not exactly fascist propaganda there.
That puzzled me too. Perhaps when he said "I saw it" he meant the trailer.
>It isn't set in WWII but [...]
Surely you mean Viet Nam.
Seems like this makes it easier to block them. Build a rule "no connections on port 25 from 134.17.X.X". In fact, I think I'm going to set that up this afternoon.
> As a record store owner, My business faces ruin.
This same article was posted to Slashdot Aug 2005 and Nov 2006. The style and phrasing reminds me of those email forwards I'm always getting from clueless relatives. (Nobody writes like that in real life.)
Obvious fake. Try harder next time.
The used CD market is looking a lot more attractive now, innit?
> I am British (and not the parent poster), and I always thought using "loose" instead of "lose" was an American thing. Similarly, "rediculous" instead of "ridiculous". These aren't correct in American English either then?
No, they're not. I blame public schools. (I think they're called private schools over there for some inexplicable reason.)
> Now we just need to persuade you guys to put the "u" in colour, and to pronounce the "h" in "herbs"...
I don't think so. "'erbs" are what's in my sandwich. "Herb" is the sweaty guy across the street who sits on his step in his undershirt. And the "u" in "colour" is there to signify country of origin, as in "the colour of magic".
there's always the possibility that you really are an idiot.
I don't see this as the downfall of Windows -- Let's not forget they still have over 90% of the desktop marketplace, and XP users aren't dumping their OS for Linux in huge numbers. (Note, I said "XP", not "Vista".)
I think what we're actually seeing is the downfall of the Windows business model -- expensive OS with free support and updates. This worked well when Windows was on the steep part of the development curve, and everyone needed the next version, but with XP Windows became "good enough" and that by itself can cause a huge drop in sales, even though the installed base is still high.
I think what Microsoft needs is to shift their business model to a more Novell - like or Red Hat - like model, where the OS is relatively cheap and support is pricy. But this is probably too much of a paradigm shift for the company, so what I *expect* them to do is try to shift to a model where you *rent* the OS in a pay-for-use scheme. I don't expect this to fly with a significant part of the marketplace, but I fully expect M$ to try it.
If I were going to predict the future, I'd see M$ as eventually being in dire financial straits, while at the same time maintaining a 90%+ installed base of older products.
Heavens no. No more than I'd expect them to look on the back of a set-top box, find an s-video, hdmi or dvi port, and connect the dots.
Maybe the product really is doomed.
So, since these huge frickin' ... er... death beams ... exit via the poles, wouldn't most of the planets in our galaxy be relatively safe from irradiation? It seems that the galactic black hole would rotate on the same plane as the rest of the galaxy. So to us it'd be like those giant search lights they point to the sky at Wal-Mart openings.
I wonder if you could accomplish the same thing with micro black holes. That'd be a hell of a weapon, although it'd give new meaning to "Back blast area clear!"
Perhaps what Blockbuster needs to do is provide a free application that runs on any computer that interfaces with their infrastructure, so you could rent and view video without buying a set-top box. I mean, the box is usually a loss-leader anyway -- the money is in rentals over the long term. So why bother inventing a new box?
What Blockbuster's differentiation could be is to provide a player that plays well full screen with 5.1 or 7.1 sound (*not* in a browser) and plugs-into popular media center software like well, M$ Media Center, and with a published SDK so others could integrate it into MythTV and the like. Make the player as ubiquitous as possible and make money on the rentals.
At very least, they should be looking at integrating with an existing set-top -- tivo for instance -- instead of trying to create yet another box.