The more likely outcome would be that the RIAA would put a levy on Internet connections to compensate for the piracy that must take place over these connections. Very simular to the levy they have placed on "music" CD-Rs.
And like music CD-Rs, just because you pay the tax doesn't give you the right to make copies of copyrighted music. It would still be illegal to share and download copyrighted files.
Have you ever gone into Control Panel and tried just that? By disabling that service, it breaks all kinds of stuff that has little to do with remote calls. If you want Windows to function at all, you must have the service running. It doesn't matter if the computer is hooked up to a network, or is completely isolated.
" The correlation between posted highway speed limits and the death rate is much more often negative than positive. The reasons are probably twofold: (1) nobody pays that much attention to highway speed limits anyway; and (2) higher limits on the Interstates encourage the diversion of traffic from slower but far-more-dangerous secondary roads."
I suppose it has nothing to do with the fact that today's cars are a heck of a lot safer than the cars of 25 years ago? Perhaps a more meaningful number to look at would be the number of crashes per hundred-million vehicle miles traveled. That would seem to be a much more meaningful statistic to me.
The problem is that ATX power supplies keep power flowing the AGP card and (on some) the PCI bus, amonst other things. The only way to be sure there is no power flowing is to unplug the thing. Though with any decent ATX power supply you can utilize the switch on the back.
Yeah, and when that happens I make a judgement as to whether the computer's opinion is right. Sometimes I change it, other times I go on and leave it. It's a total judgement call whether it can be worded better or not, and the computer does a half-assed job at best.
It's really sad though when I see the people that will do anything to get rid of those squiggly lines - those are the people who also tend to turn out badly worded, confusing papers.
On the other hand, what if you want to hook up a floppy? I don't use my floppy much either, but it's like the jumper cables in my car. I don't need them very much either, but when I need them - I really need them.
The adult industry has it all figured out. Despite the fact that I (and many others) can get all the free pr0n I could ever want on the internet - the porn industry is STILL raking in tons of cash. Now that's a business model!
But why is it racist? I don't see any reason why blacks, hispanics, or anyone else would have any more problems communicating by dots and dashes than a white person.
Now the SAT I can understand how someone could word the questions in a way, or give examples that whites can more easily relate to - which would make it a racist test.
But morse code is pretty straightforward - basically memorization of the roman alphebet in code, and the ability to use that code it communicate. It may be that blacks and hispanics do poorly on it, but does that fact alone make it a racist test?
Backups wouldn't be that hard. I would just put a hard disk in the cradle for the devices, so every time you charge the batteries up, the data is mirrored to the charger/cradle's drive.
Security is another problem though, if one of these gets lost with sensitive data on it (and it will happen), it could be very nasty.
Anyone who frequently visits a used CD store also notices these kind of trends. When a crappy album comes out (one good song), a lot of people buy it, and within a few weeks you see piles of them accumulating at the used CD store as people realize that the album blows and try to get something out of it. The better albums that come out tend to not show up as much. When an artist releases a good album, you usually have to either get lucky (usually means getting a hold of a used promo), or wait a good long time to find a used copy.
I got the same TDK disks at Target for $12 and no rebate. That's about as cheap as I have seen them. And no, I don't play the stupid rebates game, so I don't count those.
I have found that 95% of the music in MP3 Limbo I just don't listen to, because I'm too busy listening to the good stuff. You just have to let go, and start deleting. However, I do end up keeping it around for other people who do like that kind of music.
I do buy CDs of the good stuff. It depends on how much the CD is, and since I'm a cheapskate I don't like paying to import stuff, or buy it new+shipping or new+tax unless I really really really like it. Most of the CDs I buy are used anyway, so the RIAA doesn't see a dime from my purchase.
I must admit that some of the CDs I buy are influenced by how hard it is to find a good rip on the internet. Some of the more obscure stuff is just so hard that forking out some money is easier than spending time searching and downloading.
Finally, I think some of the best techno/trance mixes come from live broadcasts from radio stations in Europe. People record and encode these, and as far as I know there is no other way to get at these other than the bootleg.mp3 copies. If I could purchase an official CD for many of these, I would.
I think the point is that cassettes are more expensive to make - they are a lot more complicated, have moving parts, and take longer to make (you have to dub the music to the cassette, while the CD is stamped instantly), and are made in smaller quantities. Yet they still cost *less* than CDs! Hence one reason we all believe the mark ups on CDs must be huge if they can sell the same music on a $9.99 cassette and still make a profit.
My guess is no chance, as Microsoft in no way has advertised the XBox's hard drive as a standard PC hard drive. Did you also expect that the Pentium chip they put in the thing would also be a standard chip you could slap in a standard PC board? Or that it came with a standard network card? Besides, in the USA - where the corporations own the government, it would seem that you are already on shaky ground just for taking the thing apart in the first place.
I don't even think you'd have a case if you bought some OEM computer and found out that the drive was keyed to work only in that brand of computer. Heck, I know IBM had some seriously propriety stuff going on with the PS/2's (hard drives that had a special connector and controller card that would only work on a card that went on IBM's own MCA bus). I know people didn't like it because it stunk, but I never heard of anyone suing over it.
From what I have seen, if it has the CD logo it is always a standard CD without copy protection on it. If it does not, it may have copy protection (most often it doesn't, it seems that it gets omitted quite a bit).
Also, the case may be a replacement case if you bought the CD used. Best place to check is the CD itself followed by the back cover then the liner notes.
That's not true. You can only go up to 32GB in Windows 2000 with FAT32. I had an old 40GB drive (actual size=38GB) that I tried to format and it wouldn't let me use FAT32. I ended up making a Windows 95b boot disk and formatting it that way. I think you can go up to about 60GB that way, any more and you'll need a tool like Partition Magic.
On the other hand, I have better things to do than try to figure out how to put a 2nd hard drive and a new video card in a crappy OEM case that was clearly never meant to be upgraded.
My primary computer ran Windows 95 until about a year ago, then I built a new computer and threw Windows 2000 on it. I have one other old computer that still runs Windows 95, which has actually reached the 49.71 day uptime limit and crashed. The problem with Windows 95 is stuff just doesn't run on it anymore because it lacks the integrated IE and other junk. And no working USB support.
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The more likely outcome would be that the RIAA would put a levy on Internet connections to compensate for the piracy that must take place over these connections. Very simular to the levy they have placed on "music" CD-Rs.
And like music CD-Rs, just because you pay the tax doesn't give you the right to make copies of copyrighted music. It would still be illegal to share and download copyrighted files.
Have you ever gone into Control Panel and tried just that? By disabling that service, it breaks all kinds of stuff that has little to do with remote calls. If you want Windows to function at all, you must have the service running. It doesn't matter if the computer is hooked up to a network, or is completely isolated.
" The correlation between posted highway speed limits and the death rate is much more often negative than positive. The reasons are probably twofold: (1) nobody pays that much attention to highway speed limits anyway; and (2) higher limits on the Interstates encourage the diversion of traffic from slower but far-more-dangerous secondary roads."
I suppose it has nothing to do with the fact that today's cars are a heck of a lot safer than the cars of 25 years ago? Perhaps a more meaningful number to look at would be the number of crashes per hundred-million vehicle miles traveled. That would seem to be a much more meaningful statistic to me.
Before you know it, the iMacs will have grown a floppy disk drive too!
The problem is that ATX power supplies keep power flowing the AGP card and (on some) the PCI bus, amonst other things. The only way to be sure there is no power flowing is to unplug the thing. Though with any decent ATX power supply you can utilize the switch on the back.
I don't know about you, but my password is the same one that's on my luggage.
They do, but it seems 1/2 the time I want to use the floppy, it's a bootable one...
Yeah, and when that happens I make a judgement as to whether the computer's opinion is right. Sometimes I change it, other times I go on and leave it. It's a total judgement call whether it can be worded better or not, and the computer does a half-assed job at best.
It's really sad though when I see the people that will do anything to get rid of those squiggly lines - those are the people who also tend to turn out badly worded, confusing papers.
On the other hand, what if you want to hook up a floppy? I don't use my floppy much either, but it's like the jumper cables in my car. I don't need them very much either, but when I need them - I really need them.
The adult industry has it all figured out. Despite the fact that I (and many others) can get all the free pr0n I could ever want on the internet - the porn industry is STILL raking in tons of cash. Now that's a business model!
But why is it racist? I don't see any reason why blacks, hispanics, or anyone else would have any more problems communicating by dots and dashes than a white person.
Now the SAT I can understand how someone could word the questions in a way, or give examples that whites can more easily relate to - which would make it a racist test.
But morse code is pretty straightforward - basically memorization of the roman alphebet in code, and the ability to use that code it communicate. It may be that blacks and hispanics do poorly on it, but does that fact alone make it a racist test?
Backups wouldn't be that hard. I would just put a hard disk in the cradle for the devices, so every time you charge the batteries up, the data is mirrored to the charger/cradle's drive.
Security is another problem though, if one of these gets lost with sensitive data on it (and it will happen), it could be very nasty.
USB2.0 could take as little as 6 seconds, assuming everything can keep up with 60MB/s (faster than many hard drives!).
Anyone who frequently visits a used CD store also notices these kind of trends. When a crappy album comes out (one good song), a lot of people buy it, and within a few weeks you see piles of them accumulating at the used CD store as people realize that the album blows and try to get something out of it. The better albums that come out tend to not show up as much. When an artist releases a good album, you usually have to either get lucky (usually means getting a hold of a used promo), or wait a good long time to find a used copy.
I got the same TDK disks at Target for $12 and no rebate. That's about as cheap as I have seen them. And no, I don't play the stupid rebates game, so I don't count those.
I have found that 95% of the music in MP3 Limbo I just don't listen to, because I'm too busy listening to the good stuff. You just have to let go, and start deleting. However, I do end up keeping it around for other people who do like that kind of music.
.mp3 copies. If I could purchase an official CD for many of these, I would.
I do buy CDs of the good stuff. It depends on how much the CD is, and since I'm a cheapskate I don't like paying to import stuff, or buy it new+shipping or new+tax unless I really really really like it. Most of the CDs I buy are used anyway, so the RIAA doesn't see a dime from my purchase.
I must admit that some of the CDs I buy are influenced by how hard it is to find a good rip on the internet. Some of the more obscure stuff is just so hard that forking out some money is easier than spending time searching and downloading.
Finally, I think some of the best techno/trance mixes come from live broadcasts from radio stations in Europe. People record and encode these, and as far as I know there is no other way to get at these other than the bootleg
Yeah, but where are you going to get old, unpatched and nonupdated, Windows 3.1 code that still lurks in the heart of Windows XP?
I think the point is that cassettes are more expensive to make - they are a lot more complicated, have moving parts, and take longer to make (you have to dub the music to the cassette, while the CD is stamped instantly), and are made in smaller quantities. Yet they still cost *less* than CDs! Hence one reason we all believe the mark ups on CDs must be huge if they can sell the same music on a $9.99 cassette and still make a profit.
My guess is no chance, as Microsoft in no way has advertised the XBox's hard drive as a standard PC hard drive. Did you also expect that the Pentium chip they put in the thing would also be a standard chip you could slap in a standard PC board? Or that it came with a standard network card? Besides, in the USA - where the corporations own the government, it would seem that you are already on shaky ground just for taking the thing apart in the first place.
I don't even think you'd have a case if you bought some OEM computer and found out that the drive was keyed to work only in that brand of computer. Heck, I know IBM had some seriously propriety stuff going on with the PS/2's (hard drives that had a special connector and controller card that would only work on a card that went on IBM's own MCA bus). I know people didn't like it because it stunk, but I never heard of anyone suing over it.
From what I have seen, if it has the CD logo it is always a standard CD without copy protection on it. If it does not, it may have copy protection (most often it doesn't, it seems that it gets omitted quite a bit).
Also, the case may be a replacement case if you bought the CD used. Best place to check is the CD itself followed by the back cover then the liner notes.
That's not true. You can only go up to 32GB in Windows 2000 with FAT32. I had an old 40GB drive (actual size=38GB) that I tried to format and it wouldn't let me use FAT32. I ended up making a Windows 95b boot disk and formatting it that way. I think you can go up to about 60GB that way, any more and you'll need a tool like Partition Magic.
On the other hand, I have better things to do than try to figure out how to put a 2nd hard drive and a new video card in a crappy OEM case that was clearly never meant to be upgraded.
On the other hand, few things are easier than getting Knoppix running on just about any computer that supports bootable CDs.
My primary computer ran Windows 95 until about a year ago, then I built a new computer and threw Windows 2000 on it. I have one other old computer that still runs Windows 95, which has actually reached the 49.71 day uptime limit and crashed. The problem with Windows 95 is stuff just doesn't run on it anymore because it lacks the integrated IE and other junk. And no working USB support.
I would of just done:
mv resume.txt resume.doc
I don't have MSWord handy to check, but my guess is that it will open that just fine, and the recruiter would be none the wiser.