I don't understand this. Does it mean that sometimes my card will be charged, and sometimes not? If I buy just one MP3 (or whatever) online, could I be the unlucky Joe who pays for 9 other people too?
No. Music and other "intellectual property" is NOT subject to free market forces because it is NOT a commodity product. Nothing else can be substituted for a particular track by a particular artist.
This is only available through one distributor, who controls the wholesale price. You can choose which retailer you buy from, but these have limited pricing flexibility as the discount only comes off their margin.
It's like that already. Anyone with a curious nature and the ability to use a search engine can work out how to obtain, or perform multiple installs of, Windows XP for zilch.
Only those don't really understand computers actually have to pay for the upgrade, because they can't work out how to get round WPA. In the old days people shared their Win98 CDs and licence codes among friends and neighbours, which was "egalitarian", I suppose, if rather naughty.
Proceeds from the venture will be used to support solid waste management in the area.
Given the temperatures on Everest, I expect Sir Edmund Hillary's poo is still up there and perfectly intact. Perhaps they could use the "solid waste" to construct traditional cairns as a memorial to those mountaineers that died trying to reach the summit, but that no-one really liked?
Provided TurboTax doesn't check for it, this would clear it, yes. I've done fdisk/mbr a few times when certain Linux distros have refused to uninstall gracefully (I know, I know).
There's a Linux-based boot floppy which purports to change any user's password (including Administrator) on any Windows NT/2000/XP box. I can report that it works perfectly on XP. if Administrator has been renamed, no problem: it picks up the account with a SID of 500 and suggests that might be the one you're after. All good clean fun. You can get the floppy disk image from here.
I suppose the moral is to remove all floppy and CD drives from your corporate PCs. Disabling floppy boot in the BIOS will keep the haX0rs out for about 20 seconds, as this is how long it takes to flip open the case and short out JP1 to reset the BIOS password. If they have to bring their own floppy drive it slows them down a bit more, plus it's rather obvious.
Because it was believed that the Japanese would fight to the last man, as had happened on Iwo Jima and elsewhere. American (and Japanese) casualties could have been truly appalling in a conventional invasion.
IIRC, one of the targets - I think it was Nagasaki - was only bombed because of heavy cloud cover over the original target. In this respect its inhabitants were particularly unlucky.
My surname is Cantwell, which is an Irish corruption of Comte de Ville, which is French. Quite a common name in the US, apparently, due to the number of Irish immigrants.
My first name, I regret to say, was taken from a member of the 1966 World Cup-winning team because my father is obsessed by football (that's "soccer" to you 'merkins).
We seem to suffer from a surfeit of fat Army types and bad-ass bikers with moustaches. Even worse, we now get that tart Lisa Rogers instead of the thinking geek's crumpet Cathy Rogers who has buggered off over the pond:-(
I preferred Netscape to IE, even 4.0 which crashed constantly, but Mozilla has really made Netscape unnecessary for anyone who wants an alternative browser.
My only concern is that AOLTW continues to pay their development team - contrary to what some people think, Mozilla isn't all coded by like-minded geeks scattered throughout the Internet; a hell of a lot of it was bashed out by salaried Netscape employees. But if AOL want Gecko, I guess they'll have to keep coughing up.
The main aim of this is not to raise money. It is to discourage people from driving into central London. All the funds raised have to go into improving public transport (basically buses, as the Tube is at or near capacity) by law.
What is sad is that, while everyone agrees Something Must Be Done About Traffic, it is seen as a huge political gamble for Ken Livingstone, the London Mayor, whom all the political parties hate (he was even kicked out of the Labour Party and stood as an independent candidate). He's got the nerve to at least try and sort out the problem, and whatever his politics, I admire him for that.
It's a small country. The UK has roughly 1/5 the population of the US, most of them in England, but a miniscule land area. We have built bigger roads, but then people just take the opportunity to live further and further away from work. There are 3 million more cars on the road since 1997 and average commuting distances have done something like treble over the last 20 years. We are already well over capacity as far as cars are concerned.
It was looking good until they got to the bit about Office, which isn't a part of WinXP and weakens the credibility of the rest of the case. Another hint that this wasn't written by someone really au fait with the situation is the bit about MS products being displayed before those of third party competitors, which was essentially fixed in SP1.
I tend to agree with Steve Jobs, who said (and I paraphrase freely) that he doesn't begrudge MS's success or condemn their business practices; he just thinks they make really dismal products. I would add "and sell them for a silly price with no discount for home users".
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Is it possible that chip manufacturers feel they have to deliver new products in accordance with ML but not exceed it? Apparently Intel have had 8GHz P4s running (cooled by liquid nitrogen, but you had to do this to get fairly modest overclocks not so long ago).
I fully expect this to get modded down, but I still think chip manufacturers are deliberately drip-feeding us incremental speeds to maximise profits. There's not much evidence of a paradigm shift on the horizon; Hammer is an important step but it's still a similar manufacturing process. As a (probably flawed) analogy, if processing power became as important to national security as aircraft manufacture in WWII, look how fast progress could be made!
If Man can build the unsinkable Titanic, surely he can build unbreakable encryption? Oh, wait...
Before historical pedants point it out, yes I do know that Titanic was only every claimed to be "practically" unsinkable. But that would spoil the joke.
Listen up, chip manufacturers: why not release new chips when you have a MEANINGFUL speed increase (twice as fast as the last one would be nice). All these insignificant clock increases, and the number of reviews dedicated to them, are boring. It's getting like the automobile industry in the 1950s - the 1955 model is the 1954 model with 5 extra cubic inches and another 2lbs of chrome.
I used to have NTL cable until I moved to a rural area, where ISDN is the best technology available:-(
It worked great, but NTL were a nightmare company to deal with. If you have NTL you just pray nothing ever breaks and you never need to change anything - it's almost impossible to get them to talk to you unless you send everything by snail mail, recorded delivery to Barclay Knapp. The telephone call centre is almost non-existent these days.
Well, my company has an 8MBit leased pipe and we don't pay per MB, so they're not bothered about personal use provided it doesn't interfere with work.
What does annoy me is the filtering technology they use, which blocks the nasty stuff but also blocks quite a lot of relatively innocent but funny stuff like b3ta.com (which claims to be "safe for work") - even from the on-site cybercafe which is there for use during breaks!
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50 Fahrenheit (10 C). Californians shiver uncontrollably. Canadians plant gardens.
35 Fahrenheit (1.6 C). Italian Cars won't start. Canadians drive with the windows down
32 Fahrenheit (0 C). American water freezes. Canadian water gets thicker.
0 Fahrenheit (-17.9 C). New York City landlords finally turn on the heat. Canadians have the last cookout of the season.
-60 Fahrenheit (-51 C). Mt.St. Helens freezes. Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door.
-100 Fahrenheit (-73 C). Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Canadians pull down their ear flaps.
-173 Fahrenheit (-114 C). Ethyl alcohol Freezes. Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg.
-460 Fahrenheit (-273 C). Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops. Canadians start saying "cold, eh?"
-500 Fahrenheit (-295 C). Hell freezes over. Canadians are annoyed because their Saabs take a second try to start.
Damn! I misread this as a "pr0n interface" so I wasted $$$ on an iMac :-(
The jocks will be building ASDIC and depth charges. Prepare to experience the true meaning of "ping".
Now we have the facts to say, "Dude, that's so 2001".
I don't understand this. Does it mean that sometimes my card will be charged, and sometimes not? If I buy just one MP3 (or whatever) online, could I be the unlucky Joe who pays for 9 other people too?
Cmdr Taco, please call off your tiff with Hemos and start talking to him again ;-)
This is only available through one distributor, who controls the wholesale price. You can choose which retailer you buy from, but these have limited pricing flexibility as the discount only comes off their margin.
Only those don't really understand computers actually have to pay for the upgrade, because they can't work out how to get round WPA. In the old days people shared their Win98 CDs and licence codes among friends and neighbours, which was "egalitarian", I suppose, if rather naughty.
Given the temperatures on Everest, I expect Sir Edmund Hillary's poo is still up there and perfectly intact. Perhaps they could use the "solid waste" to construct traditional cairns as a memorial to those mountaineers that died trying to reach the summit, but that no-one really liked?
Provided TurboTax doesn't check for it, this would clear it, yes. I've done fdisk /mbr a few times when certain Linux distros have refused to uninstall gracefully (I know, I know).
So does Mozilla flip you the bird when you type http://www.microsoft.com/ie?
I suppose the moral is to remove all floppy and CD drives from your corporate PCs. Disabling floppy boot in the BIOS will keep the haX0rs out for about 20 seconds, as this is how long it takes to flip open the case and short out JP1 to reset the BIOS password. If they have to bring their own floppy drive it slows them down a bit more, plus it's rather obvious.
IIRC, one of the targets - I think it was Nagasaki - was only bombed because of heavy cloud cover over the original target. In this respect its inhabitants were particularly unlucky.
My first name, I regret to say, was taken from a member of the 1966 World Cup-winning team because my father is obsessed by football (that's "soccer" to you 'merkins).
We seem to suffer from a surfeit of fat Army types and bad-ass bikers with moustaches. Even worse, we now get that tart Lisa Rogers instead of the thinking geek's crumpet Cathy Rogers who has buggered off over the pond :-(
My only concern is that AOLTW continues to pay their development team - contrary to what some people think, Mozilla isn't all coded by like-minded geeks scattered throughout the Internet; a hell of a lot of it was bashed out by salaried Netscape employees. But if AOL want Gecko, I guess they'll have to keep coughing up.
What is sad is that, while everyone agrees Something Must Be Done About Traffic, it is seen as a huge political gamble for Ken Livingstone, the London Mayor, whom all the political parties hate (he was even kicked out of the Labour Party and stood as an independent candidate). He's got the nerve to at least try and sort out the problem, and whatever his politics, I admire him for that.
It's a small country. The UK has roughly 1/5 the population of the US, most of them in England, but a miniscule land area. We have built bigger roads, but then people just take the opportunity to live further and further away from work. There are 3 million more cars on the road since 1997 and average commuting distances have done something like treble over the last 20 years. We are already well over capacity as far as cars are concerned.
I tend to agree with Steve Jobs, who said (and I paraphrase freely) that he doesn't begrudge MS's success or condemn their business practices; he just thinks they make really dismal products. I would add "and sell them for a silly price with no discount for home users".
I fully expect this to get modded down, but I still think chip manufacturers are deliberately drip-feeding us incremental speeds to maximise profits. There's not much evidence of a paradigm shift on the horizon; Hammer is an important step but it's still a similar manufacturing process. As a (probably flawed) analogy, if processing power became as important to national security as aircraft manufacture in WWII, look how fast progress could be made!
Before historical pedants point it out, yes I do know that Titanic was only every claimed to be "practically" unsinkable. But that would spoil the joke.
Listen up, chip manufacturers: why not release new chips when you have a MEANINGFUL speed increase (twice as fast as the last one would be nice). All these insignificant clock increases, and the number of reviews dedicated to them, are boring. It's getting like the automobile industry in the 1950s - the 1955 model is the 1954 model with 5 extra cubic inches and another 2lbs of chrome.
It worked great, but NTL were a nightmare company to deal with. If you have NTL you just pray nothing ever breaks and you never need to change anything - it's almost impossible to get them to talk to you unless you send everything by snail mail, recorded delivery to Barclay Knapp. The telephone call centre is almost non-existent these days.
What does annoy me is the filtering technology they use, which blocks the nasty stuff but also blocks quite a lot of relatively innocent but funny stuff like b3ta.com (which claims to be "safe for work") - even from the on-site cybercafe which is there for use during breaks!