Actually, if I were in their shoes, I would not do the same. I would make my product more attractive to my most profitable demographic: the teenager. The average teenager wants to listen to "kewl" music, to instant message, and to talk to their friends on their new mobile phone.
So make the music CD computer compatible. Embrace the new technology, rather than stifle it. Make the kids want to spend the $15 or whatever it is on a new CD, rather than download the CD from kazaa - make it worth their while to do so. Add value to the tracks.
How do they do this, you ask? Here's a few suggestions:
When you put the CD in the computer, send the user to a website where they can download their own instant messenger logos and mobile phone ringtones;
Add extra stuff into the sleeve - maybe a voucher to send away for a poster, or to send away to get a free ringtone or logo for the mobile phone or similar;
Add extras to the CD, like filmclips, (cheesy) games, pictures, multimedia so the mp3s they download are not the whole content of the CD.
Rather than trying to "protect our artists' IP", the record companies should be trying to attract the buyers back that they are losing to p2p.
Rather than shipping deliberately broken CDs, they should be shipping CDs that are enhanced not just in name, but in content, so downloading mp3s and a CD cover is not enough to have the whole experience.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I don't think you can sell more product by alienating your customers. You sell more by having a good product at the right price.
So use transformer oil, like used in big power transformers. Or something similar. There must be plenty of chemicals out there with high levels of thermal conductivity but are fairly inert.
We use isopropyl alcohol here at work to clean our circuit boards, and one day one of my colleagues accidentally powered up his board while it was still in the bath being washed. It powered up fine, with no difference to being in open air. The conclusion is that there are liquids that can be used for this purpose, without risk of frying the device.
Of course, you are assuming that all the machines are identical; ie, the four-processor machine has 4 CPUs identical to the single processor machine. This may not be the case. I'd assume the numbers are only really meaningful as comparisons between kernel versions within a single machine class.
I'm not sure what prompts him to change the major version number.
I think it's when something major changes (glibc, gcc etc) (duh!). Like for 8.1->9.0, it was a change from gcc 2.95.3 to 3.x. There's no real hard and fast rule, AFAIK.
Universal standards would work in a perfect world, but you would need an authoritative government implementing them.
You mean like http, ftp, smtp, nntp?
Anything involving more complex layout stuff, embedded objects, complicated tables etc is almost certain to cause some degree of problems when importing from word.
I would have said that anything involving more complex layout stuff shouldn't be done using word (or OO), period. If you have to do complex layout, then either use a dtp program, or do it by hand in some markup language.
...any Australian who's tried to get decent broadband will tell you
For me, you can drop the word 'decent' from that sentence: I can't get broadband at all. I'm on crappy 33.6k dial-up: can't get cable (cable doesn't go past my house), can't get adsl (exchange isn't enabled), and can't afford either satellite or isdn. What's more, the wife doesn't want to move (at least, not for those reasons...), and I'm too cheap to buy a 56k modem for a small increase in speed, only for it to become obsolete when I can get broadband (hoping...).
When daugthter or other person installs it again just repeat procedure.
Problems:
Daughter can't live without MSN messenger (ever tried telling a 14yo she can't chat with her friends??).
Daughter has her own computer (as with all geek households, we have > 1 PC per person).
All of said daughter's friends use MSN, so if she were to try jabber or similar, she wouldn't have anyone to chat to (not much point in chatting to self...).
Of course, once MS starts charging for use of MSN messenger, then she will be either putting a very strong case to her friends for jabber, or she'll be not IM'ing at all.
Can I hexedit the binary to avoid agreeing to the license and use my rights granted by copyright law?
IANAL either, but what if you changed the license, before agreeing to it? To something like, "I am allowed to do whatever I want with this software, including reverse-engineer it, retrieve the Palladium codes, make unlimited copies of it for sale" - whatever you want. If the EULA is enforceable, then your new agreement is surely enforceable, no?
Gnome's look and feel might well be better, but it's no good having three monitors if gnome won't see the 2nd and 3rd. Also, gnome breaks X's network awareness - I can't run galeon on my remote terminal at the same time as galeon is running under the same username on my main machine. Gnu Network Object Model Environment (or whatever) my arse.
What you want to look for is what is called a daisy wheel printer. These old beasts used to be common back in the dark old days when dot matrix printers were the norm - they were commonly called "letter quality" printers. IBM made quite a few, which were mostly used in offices and such.
You're probably a couple of years too late to find one in a dumpster, though - most of the dumpster material these days is 486s and even (gasp!) pentiums.
A VT220 would be cool, however I cant find one ata cheap enough price.
I know where you're coming from - an old PeeCee running telix does exactly the same job (and more!!), but is much cheaper and easier to get hold of. It just doesn't have the retro amber screen look of a genuine VT220, though.
Well, first off. I use my 486 as a great monitor stand, punch out the front panel and I even have a "shelf".
I use my old 486 as a printer stand. Doubles as a print server...
Voice recognition also blows - I'd rather type. I type faster than speak to the computer and have it understand me. This tech is still a pat pat"That's nice dear" technology. I just can't take it seriously. I'm sure people who can't type find it useful, but I don't really.
Amen to that. Voice recognition is overrated, AFAIK. Sure, it'd be nice and all, but typing isn't that great a deal.
And why the hell are floppies still used, someone, please kill the floppy - the usb "keychain" is a great replacement, especially with regards to price per mb now.
A friend of mine who is considering buying a new PC was aghast when I told him not to bother with a floppy drive. He insists they are useful, often for booting DOS to rescue a b0rken windows install. Of course, I would just use this to fix a b0rken windows install (is that a redundant statement??).
It's a shame that the post of yours in the whole thread that is the clearest outline of your position is so far down the thread. Until I read this one, i wasn't really sure where you were standing, but this puts your position in a clear place.
Debian always managed to make it a no-brainer install. Why can't every other friggin' distro manage it?
That's one of the major improvements made by Patrick Volkerding in Slackware 8.1 as opposed to 8.0 - Gnucash either compiled natively or was included as part of the distro. I could never get it installed on slack 8.0, but slack 8.1 was a breeze.
GnuCash is a really good package - a bit of overkill for personal finance, but it really works for me being an electronics engineer -> double entry accounting just "makes sense" if you think of money as electrons...
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Get the net ready Virginia, I think we've caught one!
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That misses the potholes you don't run over directly with your wheels.
Well, Duh - you don't have to fix the ones you don't run over...
When computers are in as widespread use as they are in our society today, rivaling even vehicles in their numbers, people should be forced to prove at least some BASIC competancies.
I agree. That way they will at least be able to recover from this:
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Actually, if I were in their shoes, I would not do the same. I would make my product more attractive to my most profitable demographic: the teenager. The average teenager wants to listen to "kewl" music, to instant message, and to talk to their friends on their new mobile phone.
So make the music CD computer compatible. Embrace the new technology, rather than stifle it. Make the kids want to spend the $15 or whatever it is on a new CD, rather than download the CD from kazaa - make it worth their while to do so. Add value to the tracks.
How do they do this, you ask? Here's a few suggestions:
Rather than trying to "protect our artists' IP", the record companies should be trying to attract the buyers back that they are losing to p2p.
Rather than shipping deliberately broken CDs, they should be shipping CDs that are enhanced not just in name, but in content, so downloading mp3s and a CD cover is not enough to have the whole experience.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I don't think you can sell more product by alienating your customers. You sell more by having a good product at the right price.
But they could post the Samba numbers, then say that win2k3 server was x.xx% worse than that...
Because the bath where we used to clean the boards was on the bench - he forgot he still had it in the bath is all.
So use transformer oil, like used in big power transformers. Or something similar. There must be plenty of chemicals out there with high levels of thermal conductivity but are fairly inert.
We use isopropyl alcohol here at work to clean our circuit boards, and one day one of my colleagues accidentally powered up his board while it was still in the bath being washed. It powered up fine, with no difference to being in open air. The conclusion is that there are liquids that can be used for this purpose, without risk of frying the device.
Sure do; Sony has one for about $799.
Of course, you are assuming that all the machines are identical; ie, the four-processor machine has 4 CPUs identical to the single processor machine. This may not be the case. I'd assume the numbers are only really meaningful as comparisons between kernel versions within a single machine class.
I think it's when something major changes (glibc, gcc etc) (duh!). Like for 8.1->9.0, it was a change from gcc 2.95.3 to 3.x. There's no real hard and fast rule, AFAIK.
Universal standards would work in a perfect world, but you would need an authoritative government implementing them. You mean like http, ftp, smtp, nntp?
Except that Bill Gates himself said that people upgrading to get bugs fixed are "stupid"... Go figure.
I would have said that anything involving more complex layout stuff shouldn't be done using word (or OO), period. If you have to do complex layout, then either use a dtp program, or do it by hand in some markup language.
For me, you can drop the word 'decent' from that sentence: I can't get broadband at all. I'm on crappy 33.6k dial-up: can't get cable (cable doesn't go past my house), can't get adsl (exchange isn't enabled), and can't afford either satellite or isdn. What's more, the wife doesn't want to move (at least, not for those reasons...), and I'm too cheap to buy a 56k modem for a small increase in speed, only for it to become obsolete when I can get broadband (hoping...).
Problems:
- Daughter can't live without MSN messenger (ever tried telling a 14yo she can't chat with her friends??).
- Daughter has her own computer (as with all geek households, we have > 1 PC per person).
- All of said daughter's friends use MSN, so if she were to try jabber or similar, she wouldn't have anyone to chat to (not much point in chatting to self...).
Of course, once MS starts charging for use of MSN messenger, then she will be either putting a very strong case to her friends for jabber, or she'll be not IM'ing at all.IANAL either, but what if you changed the license, before agreeing to it? To something like, "I am allowed to do whatever I want with this software, including reverse-engineer it, retrieve the Palladium codes, make unlimited copies of it for sale" - whatever you want. If the EULA is enforceable, then your new agreement is surely enforceable, no?
Gnome's look and feel might well be better, but it's no good having three monitors if gnome won't see the 2nd and 3rd. Also, gnome breaks X's network awareness - I can't run galeon on my remote terminal at the same time as galeon is running under the same username on my main machine. Gnu Network Object Model Environment (or whatever) my arse.
What you want to look for is what is called a daisy wheel printer. These old beasts used to be common back in the dark old days when dot matrix printers were the norm - they were commonly called "letter quality" printers. IBM made quite a few, which were mostly used in offices and such.
You're probably a couple of years too late to find one in a dumpster, though - most of the dumpster material these days is 486s and even (gasp!) pentiums.
I know where you're coming from - an old PeeCee running telix does exactly the same job (and more!!), but is much cheaper and easier to get hold of. It just doesn't have the retro amber screen look of a genuine VT220, though.
And that's a bad thing, how?
I use my old 486 as a printer stand. Doubles as a print server...
Voice recognition also blows - I'd rather type. I type faster than speak to the computer and have it understand me. This tech is still a pat pat"That's nice dear" technology. I just can't take it seriously. I'm sure people who can't type find it useful, but I don't really.
Amen to that. Voice recognition is overrated, AFAIK. Sure, it'd be nice and all, but typing isn't that great a deal.
And why the hell are floppies still used, someone, please kill the floppy - the usb "keychain" is a great replacement, especially with regards to price per mb now.
A friend of mine who is considering buying a new PC was aghast when I told him not to bother with a floppy drive. He insists they are useful, often for booting DOS to rescue a b0rken windows install. Of course, I would just use this to fix a b0rken windows install (is that a redundant statement??).
It's a shame that the post of yours in the whole thread that is the clearest outline of your position is so far down the thread. Until I read this one, i wasn't really sure where you were standing, but this puts your position in a clear place.
That's one of the major improvements made by Patrick Volkerding in Slackware 8.1 as opposed to 8.0 - Gnucash either compiled natively or was included as part of the distro. I could never get it installed on slack 8.0, but slack 8.1 was a breeze.
GnuCash is a really good package - a bit of overkill for personal finance, but it really works for me being an electronics engineer -> double entry accounting just "makes sense" if you think of money as electrons...
Get the net ready Virginia, I think we've caught one!
Well, Duh - you don't have to fix the ones you don't run over...
I agree. That way they will at least be able to recover from this:
Yes but they don't use it in the states, so it can't be that important, apparently.
I liked Matthew Broderick changing the number of sick days he'd had in Ferris Bueller's Day Off...