Unless the systems were well locked down, it's not like any old Joe in the company couldn't run keyfinder.exe on their machine, then did who knows with the key. I'm actually surprised that we haven't heard more about corporate CD-Keys getting out in the wild.
The obvious solution to that for someone who doesn't want to see the ads but still wants to load your page is have their computer download your ad but not display it. This actually makes things worse for you, as this will cost you more bandwidth for no benefit.
Which civil liberties have you personally lost as a result of Bush's regime? Be specific.
Restricted freedom of travel (been to an airport recently?). Free speech zones. Right to a fair and speedy trial. Tapping of communications with no oversight. The whole Real ID thing. Ditto for New Orleans.
my goodness what's with all of the strangely low amounts of intelligence here today? All of these posts seem to be implying that if a phone is not held against ones ear then it shouldnt recieve calls. OF COURSE sleep mode isnt off, otherwise THE PHONE WOULD NOT ANSWER CALLS!
Admittidly in this case it is easy to see the people were just ignorant of the phone's basic operation and, perhaps, international data should be opt-in. but to say this is due to bad UI design from apple is INSANE. If the iPhone sat in your pocket in sleep mode and DIDNT have a function to auto get emails, that would be bad design.
Then what's the point of even having that sleep/wake button in the first place? How is it any different from just leaving the phone on and waiting for the powersave mode to turn the screen off, like what you would do with any other phone if you wanted to still recieve calls and check your email? Pressing a button to go into sleep implies that the device is going to go into a different state - a sleep mode and not do those things. When my computer is in a sleep mode, it doesn't recieve IM or VOIP calls, and it stops checking my email. Why should the iPhone be any different? Face it, the interface is non-intuitive, stop doing the Apple fanboy thing and blaming the user.
Many other phones have a light that blinks to show that it's still active. I'm pretty sure that this would have come up sometime in the design, and Apple, in their quest for minimal interfaces decided to omit this light. I'd call it more form over function than defective by design, myself.
This will probably be based on some security or safety concern, which may even be imaginary.
From the looks of things, if private insurance doesn't beat them to it - they will be for road fees/road tax/congestion charge purposes. Besides being able to track every vehicle, I seriously doubt they'll lower the fuel tax either.
Why not just dip the platters in a some corrosive? I'm sure even some like drano might do the trickk.
Harddrives platters are commonly coated with DLC (diamond like coating). The Drano is not going to get through that to the metal. The DLC is also why the parent poster had no luck with sandpaper, as the DLC is likely harder than the grit. (the purpose of the DLC is to protect the platters from accidental contact with the heads - it's tough stuff)
However, your idea could work if the chemical was particularly corrosive - just compromise the DLC somewhere (use a file or something) then let the chemistry do its thing.
I think that's counter intuitive. The way it should be is move fingers apart = zoom in. Move fingers together = zoom out. Think of it this way, when I put two fingers on two points of the map and drag them, I'm telling the system where I want those two points on the map on the screen. If I put a finger on two opposing corners of a building and drag those corners to the edge of the screen, I want the building to fill the screen (hence zoom in). The same system can also be used to intuitively rotate the map.
I would think that it would be cheaper and easier just to take two standard drives and RAID them for the same effect rather than to build some two servo monstrousity.
The reflective caps are about eliminating the light that would otherwise be emitted from the bulb and go straight up into the night sky. Since half of the light from a bare bulb is going to travel up where it is useless, redirecting this light downwards can save a lot of energy and help darken the sky.
I always thought a good way to check would be to time some repeated direct reads from the hard disk (no cache). On real hardware, these operations will be slow because you have to wait for the physical hard disk to do its thing. On a virtual system, these operations would go fast (atleast after the first read), because often the host OS will have the virtualized disk image in its cache.
The iTunes services are tough to get rid of, and seem to get reenabled randomly by iTunes. My solution is to simply don't let that Apple crap touch my computer.
It's the mouths that are Firefox's biggest problem as many of them do not have enough technical familiarity to understand that 20 tabs of youtube videos, 3 of animated weather channels, and 1 tab of kittencannon is going to use a little memory.
The thing is, people with technical familiarity have tried doing this kind of thing in browesers like Opera, Safari, and even IE for comparison purposes, and found that Firefox really *is* a memory hog.
Look at the picture in the article. 1300 envelopes actually isn't that big. You could put them in a medium sized box and I'm sure no one would notice if you tossed an old box into the trash.
If mankind ever makes it to Mars in the flesh, I hope they bring one back and give it a medal or something. Maybe mount a plaque at the point where it 'died' on Mars as well.
At this rate, it's more likely that one of the rovers will end up filming the landing for us to watch.
Well, if you want to play the equilivent game, why don't you show me the iPod that has features like:
*Support for other formats (Vorbis, WMA). *FM Radio *Line in/Microphone recording capability. *Support for music stores other than iTunes *Changeable batteries *Gapless playback *UMS, no special software needed
Maybe you don't care about those things, but there are people out there that do, and we're not all "chumps". And there are good non-Apple MP3 players out there, try expanding your horizons a bit.
That's a crappy analogy, as most people who buy a new car know that it's going to fetch less on the used market. I'm sure most everyone who bought an iPhone also realized that at some point the price was going to come down, but I'm guessing they didn't think it would drop $200 in 6 weeks.
It's more like this: You buy a new car for $30,000, then six weeks after you buy it the manufacturer discounts the price of the car down 33% to $20,000. Oh yeah, and if you apply the 30% rule, you're slightly used 6 week old car is now worth $14,000 instead of the $21,000 it once was. I'm guessing you would feel a bit screwed too.
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Unless the systems were well locked down, it's not like any old Joe in the company couldn't run keyfinder.exe on their machine, then did who knows with the key. I'm actually surprised that we haven't heard more about corporate CD-Keys getting out in the wild.
The obvious solution to that for someone who doesn't want to see the ads but still wants to load your page is have their computer download your ad but not display it. This actually makes things worse for you, as this will cost you more bandwidth for no benefit.
Which civil liberties have you personally lost as a result of Bush's regime? Be specific.
Restricted freedom of travel (been to an airport recently?). Free speech zones. Right to a fair and speedy trial. Tapping of communications with no oversight. The whole Real ID thing. Ditto for New Orleans.
my goodness what's with all of the strangely low amounts of intelligence here today? All of these posts seem to be implying that if a phone is not held against ones ear then it shouldnt recieve calls. OF COURSE sleep mode isnt off, otherwise THE PHONE WOULD NOT ANSWER CALLS!
Admittidly in this case it is easy to see the people were just ignorant of the phone's basic operation and, perhaps, international data should be opt-in. but to say this is due to bad UI design from apple is INSANE. If the iPhone sat in your pocket in sleep mode and DIDNT have a function to auto get emails, that would be bad design.
Then what's the point of even having that sleep/wake button in the first place? How is it any different from just leaving the phone on and waiting for the powersave mode to turn the screen off, like what you would do with any other phone if you wanted to still recieve calls and check your email? Pressing a button to go into sleep implies that the device is going to go into a different state - a sleep mode and not do those things. When my computer is in a sleep mode, it doesn't recieve IM or VOIP calls, and it stops checking my email. Why should the iPhone be any different? Face it, the interface is non-intuitive, stop doing the Apple fanboy thing and blaming the user.
That works for the large iPods. Others are soldered into place.
Many other phones have a light that blinks to show that it's still active. I'm pretty sure that this would have come up sometime in the design, and Apple, in their quest for minimal interfaces decided to omit this light. I'd call it more form over function than defective by design, myself.
Really? I know a lot of people without cable. Most of them have satellite though.
I do know two other people who don't watch TV. I expect it to become more and more common as the quality of TV declines and the price goes up.
This will probably be based on some security or safety concern, which may even be imaginary.
From the looks of things, if private insurance doesn't beat them to it - they will be for road fees/road tax/congestion charge purposes. Besides being able to track every vehicle, I seriously doubt they'll lower the fuel tax either.
So, you think it's also ok for a company like AMD to outright lie about it too?
A small correction - DLC stands for diamond like carbon, not diamond like coating.
Why not just dip the platters in a some corrosive? I'm sure even some like drano might do the trickk.
Harddrives platters are commonly coated with DLC (diamond like coating). The Drano is not going to get through that to the metal. The DLC is also why the parent poster had no luck with sandpaper, as the DLC is likely harder than the grit. (the purpose of the DLC is to protect the platters from accidental contact with the heads - it's tough stuff)
However, your idea could work if the chemical was particularly corrosive - just compromise the DLC somewhere (use a file or something) then let the chemistry do its thing.
I think that's counter intuitive. The way it should be is move fingers apart = zoom in. Move fingers together = zoom out. Think of it this way, when I put two fingers on two points of the map and drag them, I'm telling the system where I want those two points on the map on the screen. If I put a finger on two opposing corners of a building and drag those corners to the edge of the screen, I want the building to fill the screen (hence zoom in). The same system can also be used to intuitively rotate the map.
I would think that it would be cheaper and easier just to take two standard drives and RAID them for the same effect rather than to build some two servo monstrousity.
The reflective caps are about eliminating the light that would otherwise be emitted from the bulb and go straight up into the night sky. Since half of the light from a bare bulb is going to travel up where it is useless, redirecting this light downwards can save a lot of energy and help darken the sky.
I always thought a good way to check would be to time some repeated direct reads from the hard disk (no cache). On real hardware, these operations will be slow because you have to wait for the physical hard disk to do its thing. On a virtual system, these operations would go fast (atleast after the first read), because often the host OS will have the virtualized disk image in its cache.
Wait a sec, I didn't realize there was a 36 bit version! I'll finally be able to play music on my "Non Existent Computer"!
Yeah, I'm still trying to get iTunes going on that old DEC!
The iTunes services are tough to get rid of, and seem to get reenabled randomly by iTunes. My solution is to simply don't let that Apple crap touch my computer.
We all know Slashdot isn't for reading TFAs.....so if it isn't the comments and it isn't the articles, then it must be because of CowboyNeal.
Wow, you really are new here.
It's the mouths that are Firefox's biggest problem as many of them do not have enough technical familiarity to understand that 20 tabs of youtube videos, 3 of animated weather channels, and 1 tab of kittencannon is going to use a little memory.
The thing is, people with technical familiarity have tried doing this kind of thing in browesers like Opera, Safari, and even IE for comparison purposes, and found that Firefox really *is* a memory hog.
Look at the picture in the article. 1300 envelopes actually isn't that big. You could put them in a medium sized box and I'm sure no one would notice if you tossed an old box into the trash.
If mankind ever makes it to Mars in the flesh, I hope they bring one back and give it a medal or something.
Maybe mount a plaque at the point where it 'died' on Mars as well.
At this rate, it's more likely that one of the rovers will end up filming the landing for us to watch.
It's pointless to put a military aircraft in the air *not* fully armed, except maybe for training.
How so? It's much less dangerous and cheaper to do so, and if the enemy can't tell the dummies from the real nukes, it can be just as effective.
Well, if you want to play the equilivent game, why don't you show me the iPod that has features like:
*Support for other formats (Vorbis, WMA).
*FM Radio
*Line in/Microphone recording capability.
*Support for music stores other than iTunes
*Changeable batteries
*Gapless playback
*UMS, no special software needed
Maybe you don't care about those things, but there are people out there that do, and we're not all "chumps". And there are good non-Apple MP3 players out there, try expanding your horizons a bit.
That's a crappy analogy, as most people who buy a new car know that it's going to fetch less on the used market. I'm sure most everyone who bought an iPhone also realized that at some point the price was going to come down, but I'm guessing they didn't think it would drop $200 in 6 weeks.
It's more like this: You buy a new car for $30,000, then six weeks after you buy it the manufacturer discounts the price of the car down 33% to $20,000. Oh yeah, and if you apply the 30% rule, you're slightly used 6 week old car is now worth $14,000 instead of the $21,000 it once was. I'm guessing you would feel a bit screwed too.
It may not have been intentional, but he actually did beg the question.