Yes, there is an Americanised version. I found this out when I recieved blank looks after mentioning the award for the most gratuitous use of the word 'Fuck' in a serious screenplay during a conversation about the book. Most changes are apparently minor (chemist -> drug store, road -> street etc.) but they had to censor the word 'fuck' so it was replaced with the word 'Belgium' and a paragraph on why Belgium was so offensive was inserted. While Americanising the work of a great British writer is sacrilage, that addition was amusing.
So it looks like the Mandrake way takes less time to type, and is therefore easier:-P
Debian is superior in some ways, but for now I'm sticking with Mandrake and if you're going to shout the virtues of Debian I'd say you're best off sticking to things that Mandrake doesn't do in nearly the exact same way.
I don't think you're wrong, but as always there is the other side to that argument.
Assume you're one of those four who the PHB has to choose from in an office where the other 3 have a typical crewcut, suit and tie. You, on the other hand are wearing a smart, designer, open collar shirt with some nice plain trousers, spiked hair and a designer jacket. Who looks better there? The corporate drones or the person who really considers his appearance?
That's exactly what I said in the grandparent post: if you change the browser agent to MSIE you will get through without the error message but the site won't work.
Depends how you look at I guess. I don't see this case as forcing them to 'open up', IMO it's only forcing them not to go out of their way to break things that otherwise worked. Maybe they should be forced to open their interface, but they haven't yet and this case doesn't appear to change things.
On the subject of forcing them to do things, this may not even set a precident. It could simply be classed as defamation since they tried to discredit a competitor's product when it did infact work fine.
No, that's a different thing entirely. Windows Update uses ActiveX controls to work out what you need and those are only compatible with IE, as I'm sure you know. There's no legal precident saying they must rewrite code if another browser doesn't support it.
What they did to Opera was deliberately send broken code in order to make it appear that the browser was faulty. The code sent to IE worked fine in Opera but MS went out of their way to alter that code when sending it to Opera. If you went to MSN using a IE5 browser agent string in Opera it would've worked fine. If you went to Windows Update using that same browser agent string in Mozilla you wouldn't get an error but I very much doubt that the site would work.
I actually find that quote very short sighted. While there is plenty to be said for being a manufacturer rather than an innovator, it does not mean that the innovator's days are numbered. They both need to exist - only innovators would mean everything would be too expensive and something better would always be just around the corner.
Only manufacturers would be just as bad. What exactly do Dell intend to do if everyone does stop innovating? Eventually everyone has a printer which is at the limit of the existing technology. Since it is not (according to that quote) profitable to research more printers Dell's printer business will dry up leaving them with just the odd repair or replacement to go on. Their PC business would go the same way if people stopped coming up with faster and better CPUs, graphics cards etc.
While collectively Akamai is near impervious, there's probably a 'weak link' in there somewhere. I would guess that the servers which direct you to the local cache were the target - they deal only with requests and routing so they wouldn't need anything like the bandwidth that the actual media caching servers have, and if the media servers are up but the routing servers are down then the system is essentailly dead.
Kinda like the time they DDoSed some of the DNS roots - if they'd got a few more of them it could've pretty much taken out the entire web without actually needing to attempt the near impossible task of offlining all of the millions(?) of normal site servers out there.
I don't know if there's really any point putting extra infrastructure in place for use once or twice a year though. Here in the UK the networks are reliable all year round, but they routinely crash completely under the load at 12:00 on January 1st. I wouldn't want to have the cost of equipment for that one day passed down to my bill when the rest of the year it works fine.
They may consume more energy, but with a decent network of nuclear power stations (I'm being realistic here, 'renewable' energy is wayyyyy off yet) there would be less overall pollution:-)
I think I speak for the majority of my country when I say "Napster, go cram your overpriced, lossy, DRMed WMAs that don't play on my iPod and cost more than a CD up your ass."
I've yet to find an online store that has half of the bands I listen to available anyway. They have their CDs in Virgin Megastore, so it's not like I'm listening to anything that's totally obscure.
You can do that already in the UK, from Sainsbury's at least.
Just go to their online shopping page, hit 'recipes and ideas' and you are presented with "Healthy Eating", "Main Courses", "Midweek Meals", "Spring Recipes" and "Top Offers". Each link takes you to a page with about 10-20 dishes on, and clicking on a dish gives calories, cost, how many people it serves, ingredients and instructions. If you want to buy it you just click 'Add to basket' and it adds the appropriate quantities of each ingredient.
We've only ever had delivery from Sainsbury's, but I must say the fruit and veg has always been just as good as I would expect to get. The substitution, however, is a different story - I have a feeling that it may be done automagically based on the store's stock database rather than leaving it up to staff, because alot of the replacements I've recieved seem to be matched by a computer rather than a human. I know you can send them back, but it's not possible to go without something like soap after they've replaced it with conditioner from the same brand rather than soap from another brand >:-(
The other problem I've seen is that they don't do deliveries from all stores AFAICS so even though I'm close-ish to a very large store that has almost everything in stock, deliveries come from a smaller store resulting in many substitutions.
The system is good enough to use, but not perfect. If it is a problem to get to the store then it's a useful backup, but it isn't really my first choice.
I just thought the same thing, and after a little Googling it appears that Red Bull has considerably less caffeine than strong coffee. The article claims 400mg per 591ml cup which means 0.7mg per ml. Red Bull has 0.3mg per ml, less than half the amount.
This is 2004, a terabyte really isn't a stupid amount anymore. It's massive overkill for email, but as has been said already that's their whole marketing angle.
I'm currently planning to replace my hard drives and I'm looking for at least 500GB - I do some video work any my current 240GB is not anything like enough even for the small amount I do.
Samsung already use them in their phones (E700, E710, E715 and maybe others) so I would hope that they've fixed it - my brother isn't going to be happy if the outer screen on his phone fades away in a year or two.
Yes, but Windows (OS) and windows (glass things) are spelled the same yet MS is allowed to copyright Windows since it is a completely different concept although it is based on the shape and function of the original objects.
Google is based on the number googol due to the enormous amount of data they search, it seems to me almost identical to windows/Windows - hasn't MS set a precident here that should protect Google?
You'll probably be interested in this page from distributed.net - it has all kinds of statistics that basically say it takes a long time (years) and a lot of computers to break quite feasible encryption right now.
For fuck's sake guys, we're supposed to be helping him. I know exactly what he means - paper is impractical due to the lack of editing, copying, sorting etc capability. A PDA is not great to type on since you can't do anything long on a touchscreen and folding keyboards (generally) suck. A laptop is too heavy, too expensive and absolute overkill for this task. He thought that maybe a community of geeks would know something that had the advantages of digital without the problems mentioned in the devices above - just because you or he hadn't heard of the solution doesn't mean it's impossible. While you sat there complaining that he tried to take advantage of our wide and diverse collective knowledge, someone else actually came out with the perfect solution, and it isn't a laptop OR a PDA.
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There must be a fair amount of profit above the cost price in these pills, or they sell way more than I would imagine - if you look at the front page featured part of eBay (which costs something like 50GBP to be listed in) it is comprised mainly of 'Buy it Now' dutch listings with 500 bottles of pills for around 10 pounds each. There are sellers who hold 20 or more front page listings at a time, selling only pills. If you can afford to repeatedly invest 1000GBP as well as the cost on the products themselves you'd have to be fairly confident in making a considerable amount more than that.
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Yes, there is an Americanised version. I found this out when I recieved blank looks after mentioning the award for the most gratuitous use of the word 'Fuck' in a serious screenplay during a conversation about the book. Most changes are apparently minor (chemist -> drug store, road -> street etc.) but they had to censor the word 'fuck' so it was replaced with the word 'Belgium' and a paragraph on why Belgium was so offensive was inserted. While Americanising the work of a great British writer is sacrilage, that addition was amusing.
Use the torrents - lots of geeks on expensive synchronous connections are waiting to donate bandwidth to you :-)
Debian is superior in some ways, but for now I'm sticking with Mandrake and if you're going to shout the virtues of Debian I'd say you're best off sticking to things that Mandrake doesn't do in nearly the exact same way.
There is, however, the unfortunately increased risk of 'looking like a complete ass' syndrome.
I don't think you're wrong, but as always there is the other side to that argument.
Assume you're one of those four who the PHB has to choose from in an office where the other 3 have a typical crewcut, suit and tie. You, on the other hand are wearing a smart, designer, open collar shirt with some nice plain trousers, spiked hair and a designer jacket. Who looks better there? The corporate drones or the person who really considers his appearance?
That's exactly what I said in the grandparent post: if you change the browser agent to MSIE you will get through without the error message but the site won't work.
Depends how you look at I guess. I don't see this case as forcing them to 'open up', IMO it's only forcing them not to go out of their way to break things that otherwise worked. Maybe they should be forced to open their interface, but they haven't yet and this case doesn't appear to change things. On the subject of forcing them to do things, this may not even set a precident. It could simply be classed as defamation since they tried to discredit a competitor's product when it did infact work fine.
No, that's a different thing entirely. Windows Update uses ActiveX controls to work out what you need and those are only compatible with IE, as I'm sure you know. There's no legal precident saying they must rewrite code if another browser doesn't support it.
What they did to Opera was deliberately send broken code in order to make it appear that the browser was faulty. The code sent to IE worked fine in Opera but MS went out of their way to alter that code when sending it to Opera. If you went to MSN using a IE5 browser agent string in Opera it would've worked fine. If you went to Windows Update using that same browser agent string in Mozilla you wouldn't get an error but I very much doubt that the site would work.
I actually find that quote very short sighted. While there is plenty to be said for being a manufacturer rather than an innovator, it does not mean that the innovator's days are numbered. They both need to exist - only innovators would mean everything would be too expensive and something better would always be just around the corner.
Only manufacturers would be just as bad. What exactly do Dell intend to do if everyone does stop innovating? Eventually everyone has a printer which is at the limit of the existing technology. Since it is not (according to that quote) profitable to research more printers Dell's printer business will dry up leaving them with just the odd repair or replacement to go on. Their PC business would go the same way if people stopped coming up with faster and better CPUs, graphics cards etc.
While collectively Akamai is near impervious, there's probably a 'weak link' in there somewhere. I would guess that the servers which direct you to the local cache were the target - they deal only with requests and routing so they wouldn't need anything like the bandwidth that the actual media caching servers have, and if the media servers are up but the routing servers are down then the system is essentailly dead.
Kinda like the time they DDoSed some of the DNS roots - if they'd got a few more of them it could've pretty much taken out the entire web without actually needing to attempt the near impossible task of offlining all of the millions(?) of normal site servers out there.
I don't know if there's really any point putting extra infrastructure in place for use once or twice a year though. Here in the UK the networks are reliable all year round, but they routinely crash completely under the load at 12:00 on January 1st. I wouldn't want to have the cost of equipment for that one day passed down to my bill when the rest of the year it works fine.
They may consume more energy, but with a decent network of nuclear power stations (I'm being realistic here, 'renewable' energy is wayyyyy off yet) there would be less overall pollution :-)
Shame you posted as AC, you'd have just made my friends list otherwise.
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I think I may just make a 'motivational poster' out of that
1.09GBP = 1.95USD
I think I speak for the majority of my country when I say "Napster, go cram your overpriced, lossy, DRMed WMAs that don't play on my iPod and cost more than a CD up your ass."
I've yet to find an online store that has half of the bands I listen to available anyway. They have their CDs in Virgin Megastore, so it's not like I'm listening to anything that's totally obscure.
You can do that already in the UK, from Sainsbury's at least.
Just go to their online shopping page, hit 'recipes and ideas' and you are presented with "Healthy Eating", "Main Courses", "Midweek Meals", "Spring Recipes" and "Top Offers". Each link takes you to a page with about 10-20 dishes on, and clicking on a dish gives calories, cost, how many people it serves, ingredients and instructions. If you want to buy it you just click 'Add to basket' and it adds the appropriate quantities of each ingredient.
We've only ever had delivery from Sainsbury's, but I must say the fruit and veg has always been just as good as I would expect to get. The substitution, however, is a different story - I have a feeling that it may be done automagically based on the store's stock database rather than leaving it up to staff, because alot of the replacements I've recieved seem to be matched by a computer rather than a human. I know you can send them back, but it's not possible to go without something like soap after they've replaced it with conditioner from the same brand rather than soap from another brand >:-(
The other problem I've seen is that they don't do deliveries from all stores AFAICS so even though I'm close-ish to a very large store that has almost everything in stock, deliveries come from a smaller store resulting in many substitutions.
The system is good enough to use, but not perfect. If it is a problem to get to the store then it's a useful backup, but it isn't really my first choice.
Yeah but that's business, not spam.
I just thought the same thing, and after a little Googling it appears that Red Bull has considerably less caffeine than strong coffee. The article claims 400mg per 591ml cup which means 0.7mg per ml. Red Bull has 0.3mg per ml, less than half the amount.
This is 2004, a terabyte really isn't a stupid amount anymore. It's massive overkill for email, but as has been said already that's their whole marketing angle. I'm currently planning to replace my hard drives and I'm looking for at least 500GB - I do some video work any my current 240GB is not anything like enough even for the small amount I do.
Samsung already use them in their phones (E700, E710, E715 and maybe others) so I would hope that they've fixed it - my brother isn't going to be happy if the outer screen on his phone fades away in a year or two.
Don't you mean Freedomese?
Yes, but Windows (OS) and windows (glass things) are spelled the same yet MS is allowed to copyright Windows since it is a completely different concept although it is based on the shape and function of the original objects.
Google is based on the number googol due to the enormous amount of data they search, it seems to me almost identical to windows/Windows - hasn't MS set a precident here that should protect Google?
You'll probably be interested in this page from distributed.net - it has all kinds of statistics that basically say it takes a long time (years) and a lot of computers to break quite feasible encryption right now.
For fuck's sake guys, we're supposed to be helping him. I know exactly what he means - paper is impractical due to the lack of editing, copying, sorting etc capability. A PDA is not great to type on since you can't do anything long on a touchscreen and folding keyboards (generally) suck. A laptop is too heavy, too expensive and absolute overkill for this task. He thought that maybe a community of geeks would know something that had the advantages of digital without the problems mentioned in the devices above - just because you or he hadn't heard of the solution doesn't mean it's impossible. While you sat there complaining that he tried to take advantage of our wide and diverse collective knowledge, someone else actually came out with the perfect solution, and it isn't a laptop OR a PDA.
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There must be a fair amount of profit above the cost price in these pills, or they sell way more than I would imagine - if you look at the front page featured part of eBay (which costs something like 50GBP to be listed in) it is comprised mainly of 'Buy it Now' dutch listings with 500 bottles of pills for around 10 pounds each. There are sellers who hold 20 or more front page listings at a time, selling only pills. If you can afford to repeatedly invest 1000GBP as well as the cost on the products themselves you'd have to be fairly confident in making a considerable amount more than that.