Hell, my kid got on the computer for the first time last year (at 3 months old.) He took a screenshot, opened up Word, pasted the screenshot into the document, typed up a storm, and then saved it before shutting down the computer. All this in about 45 seconds.
I'm still waiting for the day I look away for a minute and find out he's got Gentoo installed.
Hopefully since this is OS-independent they will support it for a little longer. IBM has this awful habit of making these proprietary pieces of hardware and then stopping support for them as soon as MS releases a new OS.
I just tried setting up a TP with Windows XP, no more drivers for that internal modem! Had a SmartCard reader for another TP. No support past Windows 98! That cool mouse with an integrated trackpoint? No you'll have to stop using it in Windows 2000!
I'm still a fan of their hardware though.
And why buy a book when you can read the W3C recommendations/specifications for HTML/XHTML and CSS that are (imo) very understandable and easy to read?
I'm a regular reader of the recommendations themselves, but it's a bit like comparing a dictionary and a writing class. Sites like ALA, or books like this, show you how to use the basic building blocks you can learn about from W3C. That said, anybody who calls themself a "web designer" (and I do not) should have spent hours and hours reading those TRs.
I'm from Vancouver, and I don't know anyone who says "eh" except for a guy from Nova Scotia. I think it's mostly an eastern Canadian thing.
But with their big population, eastern Canada tends to dominate people's ideas about Canada, just like in America.
I read an interview with Ben Affleck in The Georgia Straight a couple of months back. IIRC he called the movie "dogshit." When the star of a movie says that, you gotta know that nobody liked it.
Firefox profiles are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Firefox\... The problem is that changes in most of the Documents and Settings\username folder is copied to the domain server and back upon logging in and logging off. If a user jumps around machines a lot, this can cause copying entire profiles over the network. The Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings directory is exempt, and is intended for things such as Internet cache, which don't need to remain consistent across multiple machines.
Looks like bug 147344 suits, especially comment 11. Might be best if there were a specific bug though, since this would be fairly simple to implement, with a big payoff.
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Yes, of course. My own disaster planning... I must be missing out on something there. Perhaps because I'm not an American? I don't know, but the only disaster planning I do involves wondering how I'm going to explain my latest eBay purchase to my wife.
I'm not about to argue with your source, but this section of the US Code seems to include "any destructive device." They go on to describe a destructive device as "any weapon...which will...expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant, and which has any barrel with a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter."
Sounds like a potato gun to me...
since their image-laden page (complete with.GIF text!) took about 40 seconds to load, I figure they'll be/. fodder in no time. So here's the text from the product page:
Tempra Technology and Crown Cork & Seal present
the first real self-cooling can.
There's finally a real, working, practical self-cooling can. The Instant Cool Can (I.C. Can) is a 100% safe and environmentally-friendly self-chilling process that cools using brilliantly simple water evaporation. In fact, it's proven to lower beverage temperature by a minimum 30F (16.7C) in just three minutes.
Ingenious.
The I.C Can(TM) is the result of the solid partnership of Tempra Technology and Crown Cork & Seal, who are currently discussing commercialization and marketing of this self-chilling can to top beverage companies. Imagine: an icy cold beverage without refrigerated vending machines or bulky ice chests.
The world's first self-chilling can is finally here! It works. It's safe. And it's development is nearing completion now through the partnership of Tempra Technology and Crown Cork & Seal.
The advanced design utilizes the latest breakthroughs in thermal, insulating and vacuum heat pump technology. The self-contained I.C. Can(TM) is the approximate size of a 500 mL beverage can. This includes the beverage container itself, and the integral self-chilling device.
Proprietary engineering creates a temperature drop proven to reduce the I.C. Can's(TM) contents by a minimum of 30 Fahrenheit (16.7 C) in just minutes. When activated, the all natural desiccant contained within a vacuum draws the heat from the beverage through the evaporator into an insulated heat-sink container. It is this patented vacuum-power which lowers the temperature so dramatically and quickly, leaving the beverage inside cool and refreshing.
And it's safe! I.C. Can's(TM) innovative design is 100% safe and environ- mentally-friendly; easy to operate, store and transport. The self-contained I.C. Can(TM) uses no carbon dioxide, CFC, HFC, or any other compressed gases and is totally non-toxic, without risk of gas or vapor escape.
As Tempra Technology and Crown Cork & Seal continue to finalize development of the self-chilling I.C. Can(TM) for mass production, we'll also innovate new cutting-edge technologies for other applications in the beverage industry.
To learn more about the exciting - and very real - I.C. Can(TM), call 1-877-TEMPRA-1.
Actually the Vikings were the first Europeans in North America, forming a settlement in Newfoundland 500 years before that "Columbus" fellow. Plus there's some talk of Irish monks, but I don't know if anything's ever come of that.
Better late than never?
I am, as I type, working on a P3 at 550 MHz, no fan on the CPU, and just an average sized heatsink. As long as you're not playing games or overclocking, the older processors just don't get that hot.
The piracy thing is something they're dealing with right now on the Mac hardware. As for the hardware issues, you're totally right; if they ported to x86 they would likely have a very rigid hardware compatibility list, much as Windows NT did.
If nobody takes ownership of the DVD and projector, they'll have a really hard time procecuting anyone for any serious breach of the law. Not to mention risking a riot. Maybe they'll seize the DVD and projector, maybe they'll take the generator.
In the end it will take alot of effort and they won't have much to show for it.
Just your DVD player, your projector, and your generator...
I'd prefer that BC, Washington, and Oregon just split off into our own little Pacific Northwest paradise, and let the rest rot in hell, though.
Let's take Northern California too, I think their sick of those southern bastards stealing all their water. Oh, and you get way more snow in Seattle than we do in Vancouver!
At least if there's a duplicate posting in the next few hours, we have an excuse to 'please click that 'Bugs' link on the left hand menu and submit reports'
I can see it now: "There seems to be a bug causing old stories to reappear on the homepage..."
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Well, it hasn't been marked WONTFIX or INVALID yet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1224
Hell, my kid got on the computer for the first time last year (at 3 months old.) He took a screenshot, opened up Word, pasted the screenshot into the document, typed up a storm, and then saved it before shutting down the computer. All this in about 45 seconds.
I'm still waiting for the day I look away for a minute and find out he's got Gentoo installed.
Wonder why no-one told me...
You have a 6-digit user ID. Only people with 4-digits or less are allowed to know!
Hopefully since this is OS-independent they will support it for a little longer. IBM has this awful habit of making these proprietary pieces of hardware and then stopping support for them as soon as MS releases a new OS.
I just tried setting up a TP with Windows XP, no more drivers for that internal modem! Had a SmartCard reader for another TP. No support past Windows 98! That cool mouse with an integrated trackpoint? No you'll have to stop using it in Windows 2000!
I'm still a fan of their hardware though.
And why buy a book when you can read the W3C recommendations/specifications for HTML/XHTML and CSS that are (imo) very understandable and easy to read?
I'm a regular reader of the recommendations themselves, but it's a bit like comparing a dictionary and a writing class. Sites like ALA, or books like this, show you how to use the basic building blocks you can learn about from W3C. That said, anybody who calls themself a "web designer" (and I do not) should have spent hours and hours reading those TRs.
I'm from Vancouver, and I don't know anyone who says "eh" except for a guy from Nova Scotia. I think it's mostly an eastern Canadian thing. But with their big population, eastern Canada tends to dominate people's ideas about Canada, just like in America.
I read an interview with Ben Affleck in The Georgia Straight a couple of months back. IIRC he called the movie "dogshit." When the star of a movie says that, you gotta know that nobody liked it.
Firefox profiles are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Firefox\... The problem is that changes in most of the Documents and Settings\username folder is copied to the domain server and back upon logging in and logging off. If a user jumps around machines a lot, this can cause copying entire profiles over the network. The Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings directory is exempt, and is intended for things such as Internet cache, which don't need to remain consistent across multiple machines.
Looks like bug 147344 suits, especially comment 11. Might be best if there were a specific bug though, since this would be fairly simple to implement, with a big payoff.
...the 'printable' version of the article.
...compare to your own disaster planning...
Yes, of course. My own disaster planning...
I must be missing out on something there. Perhaps because I'm not an American? I don't know, but the only disaster planning I do involves wondering how I'm going to explain my latest eBay purchase to my wife.
I'm not about to argue with your source, but this section of the US Code seems to include "any destructive device." They go on to describe a destructive device as "any weapon...which will...expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant, and which has any barrel with a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter."
Sounds like a potato gun to me...
I don't know if lucky's the right word for not having a face but still being alive.
A story on /. that doesn't require you to RTFA! I think the headline on this site contained almost as much information as the linked stories did.
I'm Canadian, and pronounce route the British way, unless I'm talking about a network router. That I say the American way. Strange...
Actually the Vikings were the first Europeans in North America, forming a settlement in Newfoundland 500 years before that "Columbus" fellow. Plus there's some talk of Irish monks, but I don't know if anything's ever come of that.
Wow, and you can buy it for a whole quarter at Amazon. Not bad!
Yeah, but I'm waiting for the DVD. You know, so I can see it "the way it was meant to be seen."
Better late than never?
I am, as I type, working on a P3 at 550 MHz, no fan on the CPU, and just an average sized heatsink. As long as you're not playing games or overclocking, the older processors just don't get that hot.
When it was made, that wouldn't have been a problem...modem technology was rather scarce at the time...
Actually the current system was put in place in 1997, replacing the old system from the 1970's
Trapping passwords would be likely impossible without patching msgina.dll
Am I the only one who thinks dirty thoughts every time I come across that DLL?
The piracy thing is something they're dealing with right now on the Mac hardware. As for the hardware issues, you're totally right; if they ported to x86 they would likely have a very rigid hardware compatibility list, much as Windows NT did.
And 20 years later you post to
I'd prefer that BC, Washington, and Oregon just split off into our own little Pacific Northwest paradise, and let the rest rot in hell, though.
Let's take Northern California too, I think their sick of those southern bastards stealing all their water. Oh, and you get way more snow in Seattle than we do in Vancouver!
At least if there's a duplicate posting in the next few hours, we have an excuse to 'please click that 'Bugs' link on the left hand menu and submit reports'
I can see it now: "There seems to be a bug causing old stories to reappear on the homepage..."