Speaking of Amiga, when the hell is Corel going to release the long-promised upgrade to Amiga WordPerfect? The last version released was version 4.1. (Not counting the phantom bundle deal Amiga Inc. had with Corel for Linux Wordperfect 8.)
Alas, I've commented here so I can't mod, but I'd hook you up with -1 grumpy right about now.
The mod system is irrational. Learn to enjoy its zen-like enlightenment. Striving to make sense of it will only give you grief, headaches, and sudden bloody diarrhea. (OK, maybe not that last one.)
Wonder how much it would cost to remove and recover the metals in unused cables, and would it be offset by the sale of the metal?
Not nearly, if you factor in the cost of downtime caused by careless cable removal disrupting active cable in place. Beyond simple laziness, that's probably the reason I've seen the most for "It's not hurting anything, so just leave it in place."
Our raised-floor facility across the hall from my office had 20 years worth of accumulated mainframe cabling, network cabling of three different Ethernet generations, and power cabling from 400 volt to 12vdc. And that's just the copper. Never mind three different kinds of fiber, 2 types of conduit, grounding cables (for the mainframe) complete with large ground planes glued to the subfloor, and several hundred serial cables (you know, DB-25 at each end).
It's a miracle we had any uptime at all during the period when the system shop was removing all the dead copper.
Also, 4 bombs hitting approximately the same place a few seconds apart doesn't have the same concentrated overpressure of the equivalent amount of HE sitting in one compact pile and detonated at once.
Never mind the fact that the explosion forces from bombs falling from several hundred feet have a significant downward vector that tends to drive some of the overpressure downward rather than outward. Downward becomes upward after the shockwave rebounds off the ground. Hence, a lot of the explosive force comes right back upward, not outward like a static explosive charge might have. (That's the reason for 1,000 pounds of iron in those 2,000 pound bombs: carry the lateral explosive force more effectively in the form of high-speed projectiles.)
misread the title of the story as "Removing Software Completely" and get enthused about a new technique to comprehensively uninstall crappy software from Windows?
You may commence the usual/. geek-bigot joke answers: "fdisk", "install (linux|bsd|beos)", etc.
Wait, so you're saying you want really expensive piece-of-crap printers??
Yes. No. Damn.
I'm hoping that I can find the ONE non-piece-of-crap printer in the entire universe and buy it, secure in the knowledge that I'm not lowering my family jewels into the open vise of their expendables pricing policy. It's all I can hope for, but I suspect there is a tiny niche market for those contrarian manufacturers who chose to compete on quality. I hope.
Now printer companies will be honest in their product pricing models. No more low-ball piece-of-crap printers and highway-robbery refills cartridges. A little competition in the expendables market will be awesome. Let quality and price drive the market, not consumer lock-in.
Does anyone know if Lexmark has any legal recourse beyond this ruling? Can they appeal somewhere? Or is this the done deal?
Given the current state of the mobile art...
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Maybe folks who listen to stuff besides music? Like, news? I mean, downloading current events P2P still leaves you at least a few minutes behind the "breaking events".
Damn, I can't tell if I'm being serious or sarcastic. I hate when that happens.
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You can also take a no-BS stance and do the following:
1. Tell the truth. 2. Stay out of other people's business. 3. Do the right thing.
4. Keep your resume tight, because in many "business" settings there are two types: victims and victimizers. Guess which one you're setting up to be.
At some point uncompromizing integrity will be completely incompatible with your management/leadership/PHB, and at that point you'll be invidually surplus and right-sized out the door with a craptacular "recommendation" and as little severance as they can get away with.
In the long haul, the upright and just person will triumph. Only problem is that in management, the long haul counts for bupkis. Next quarter, next management performance review, next project deadline.
So, just be ready to keep migrating until you can either stumble onto a non-evil environment, or until you can accumulate enough mojo in one place to create a non-evil environment.
The information contained in this notification is accurate as of the time of compilation and, under penalty of perjury, I certify that I am authorized to act on behalf of Diebold.
>snip<
Very truly yours,
Ralph E. Jocke
Sounds vaguely like something Bart Simpson would use over the phone to Moe's Tavern. I wonder if he has a partner named Strappe? "Jocke Strappe and Associates" would be a great name for a law firm.
No, I didn't have anything to add, I just wanted to mock the lawyer's name.
In fact, I'm happy that they essentially screwed the record companies out of millions for this pathetic attempt at copy protection.
I notice that no one else has picked up on this. Who was the first customer for this "copy protection" product? BMG, I believe. Anyways, I wonder if maybe SunnComm will be too busy defending itself from the folks to whom they sold this product to pick on some grad student who had the temerity to point out that this awesome padlock was made out of styrofoam.
projectile mental diarrhea. It's a horrible mess to clean up.
"We're gonna sue!" is becoming some type of corporate spinal reflex. The words fly out of the festering gobs of corporate mouthpieces and overpaid execs before the (alleged) brain even gets a chance at "Whoops, bad idea." SunnComm is damned lucky that investors are dimmer than they could be; otherwise, the company would have lost much more than 1/3 of its capitalization. (How much contrarian/bottom-feeder buying activity shored up the price? Ya gotta wonder.)
i hope this was sarcasm since most modern missiles use laser to target these days...
<military-pedantic> I'm not sure which "most missiles" you're referring to. If you're speaking in-context and on-topic, you're talking about surface-to-air antiaircraft missiles, and I'm not aware of any laser-guided ones in any world inventory. Most missiles in this class are guided by infrared detection or radar guidance (external, from a radar emitter on the ground, or internal, from an on-board radar set.) </military-pedantic>
However, this does open up another avenue for attacking aircraft: modifying guidance systems from laser-guidance air-to-surface bombs to detect the beam-aircraft intersection and guide a missile up for that. In fact, given the apparent ultralight (low-radar-return) design and probable lack of significant heat sources on aircraft like this, this may be the only way to guide a missile up to kill it. (Other than eyeballs and ballistics, and for that you might as well shoot it with dumb bullets or flak shells.)
As well as contingency recovery. Lawyers can work for a big cut of the projected payday "when" they win, rather than cash on the barrelhead.
Danger, Danger, Will Slashdotter, IANAL!
Still, this type of thing is not unheard of, right? The question becomes "What lawyer is crack-headed enough to believe that this case might actually pay off?" That makes me doubt the viability of that option in this case. So, yup, maybe the suckers ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h investors will have to foot the legal bills in advance, unless SunComm has some type of hidden financial backer. <tinfoil beany on>
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Speaking of Amiga, when the hell is Corel going to release the long-promised upgrade to Amiga WordPerfect? The last version released was version 4.1. (Not counting the phantom bundle deal Amiga Inc. had with Corel for Linux Wordperfect 8.)
The last time I used OpenServer, it was CDE. However, it's been a while. (2000? 2001? My memory is vague on this.)
I imagine by now they've gone with something else, with corresponding differences in licenses.
As to which X server back then, I don't recall. XF86 now, I'm sure.
The mod system is irrational. Learn to enjoy its zen-like enlightenment. Striving to make sense of it will only give you grief, headaches, and sudden bloody diarrhea. (OK, maybe not that last one.)
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The Simpsons knows everything.
Not nearly, if you factor in the cost of downtime caused by careless cable removal disrupting active cable in place. Beyond simple laziness, that's probably the reason I've seen the most for "It's not hurting anything, so just leave it in place."
Our raised-floor facility across the hall from my office had 20 years worth of accumulated mainframe cabling, network cabling of three different Ethernet generations, and power cabling from 400 volt to 12vdc. And that's just the copper. Never mind three different kinds of fiber, 2 types of conduit, grounding cables (for the mainframe) complete with large ground planes glued to the subfloor, and several hundred serial cables (you know, DB-25 at each end).
It's a miracle we had any uptime at all during the period when the system shop was removing all the dead copper.
Hey, you insensitive clod,....
Damn, I just realized I don't know how to say "fluent in Sanskrit" in Sanskrit. Another fine "insensitive clod" joke ruined.
2000 lb HE bombs contain only 945 lbs. H-6 or Tritonal explosive. Most of the weight is...steel, for fragmentation.
Also, 4 bombs hitting approximately the same place a few seconds apart doesn't have the same concentrated overpressure of the equivalent amount of HE sitting in one compact pile and detonated at once.
Never mind the fact that the explosion forces from bombs falling from several hundred feet have a significant downward vector that tends to drive some of the overpressure downward rather than outward. Downward becomes upward after the shockwave rebounds off the ground. Hence, a lot of the explosive force comes right back upward, not outward like a static explosive charge might have. (That's the reason for 1,000 pounds of iron in those 2,000 pound bombs: carry the lateral explosive force more effectively in the form of high-speed projectiles.)
You may commence the usual /. geek-bigot joke answers: "fdisk", "install (linux|bsd|beos)", etc.
Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
Technically, 65 radio-years.
But what's that in dog-star years?
Lisa: Superliminal?
Smash: I'll show you. (opens window) Hey you! Join the navy!
Carl: Uh, yea, alright.
Lenny: I'm in!
The Simpsons knows everything.
Yes. No. Damn.
I'm hoping that I can find the ONE non-piece-of-crap printer in the entire universe and buy it, secure in the knowledge that I'm not lowering my family jewels into the open vise of their expendables pricing policy. It's all I can hope for, but I suspect there is a tiny niche market for those contrarian manufacturers who chose to compete on quality. I hope.
Does anyone know if Lexmark has any legal recourse beyond this ruling? Can they appeal somewhere? Or is this the done deal?
Damn, I can't tell if I'm being serious or sarcastic. I hate when that happens.
As any Compaq (former) employee will unhappily attest to.
Whaddaya mean, I don't learn anything? I just learned that I don't learn anything while I'm surfing, while I was surfing. So there!
And I, for one, welcome our AOL overlords.
1. Tell the truth. 2. Stay out of other people's business. 3. Do the right thing.
4. Keep your resume tight, because in many "business" settings there are two types: victims and victimizers. Guess which one you're setting up to be.
At some point uncompromizing integrity will be completely incompatible with your management/leadership/PHB, and at that point you'll be invidually surplus and right-sized out the door with a craptacular "recommendation" and as little severance as they can get away with.
In the long haul, the upright and just person will triumph. Only problem is that in management, the long haul counts for bupkis. Next quarter, next management performance review, next project deadline.
So, just be ready to keep migrating until you can either stumble onto a non-evil environment, or until you can accumulate enough mojo in one place to create a non-evil environment.
Selective like a hoe. Only come after you if they think you've got the money.
>snip<
Very truly yours,
Ralph E. Jocke
Sounds vaguely like something Bart Simpson would use over the phone to Moe's Tavern. I wonder if he has a partner named Strappe? "Jocke Strappe and Associates" would be a great name for a law firm.
No, I didn't have anything to add, I just wanted to mock the lawyer's name.
I notice that no one else has picked up on this. Who was the first customer for this "copy protection" product? BMG, I believe. Anyways, I wonder if maybe SunnComm will be too busy defending itself from the folks to whom they sold this product to pick on some grad student who had the temerity to point out that this awesome padlock was made out of styrofoam.
"We're gonna sue!" is becoming some type of corporate spinal reflex. The words fly out of the festering gobs of corporate mouthpieces and overpaid execs before the (alleged) brain even gets a chance at "Whoops, bad idea." SunnComm is damned lucky that investors are dimmer than they could be; otherwise, the company would have lost much more than 1/3 of its capitalization. (How much contrarian/bottom-feeder buying activity shored up the price? Ya gotta wonder.)
<military-pedantic>
I'm not sure which "most missiles" you're referring to. If you're speaking in-context and on-topic, you're talking about surface-to-air antiaircraft missiles, and I'm not aware of any laser-guided ones in any world inventory. Most missiles in this class are guided by infrared detection or radar guidance (external, from a radar emitter on the ground, or internal, from an on-board radar set.)
</military-pedantic>
However, this does open up another avenue for attacking aircraft: modifying guidance systems from laser-guidance air-to-surface bombs to detect the beam-aircraft intersection and guide a missile up for that. In fact, given the apparent ultralight (low-radar-return) design and probable lack of significant heat sources on aircraft like this, this may be the only way to guide a missile up to kill it. (Other than eyeballs and ballistics, and for that you might as well shoot it with dumb bullets or flak shells.)
As well as contingency recovery. Lawyers can work for a big cut of the projected payday "when" they win, rather than cash on the barrelhead.
Danger, Danger, Will Slashdotter, IANAL!
Still, this type of thing is not unheard of, right? The question becomes "What lawyer is crack-headed enough to believe that this case might actually pay off?" That makes me doubt the viability of that option in this case. So, yup, maybe the suckers ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h investors will have to foot the legal bills in advance, unless SunComm has some type of hidden financial backer. <tinfoil beany on>
And the RIAA will try to find some Martians to sue. Bet on it.