All the products eventually vanished off of the market. MiniStor went bankrupt in 1995, Aerial (SP?) i think folded a bit after it, and maxtor I think just gave up on it.
It's worth noting that these efforts haven't vanished completely. Today, you can get PCMCIA 1.8" drives in 2g and larger capacities from Toshiba, and IBM has an even smaller drive, the MicroDrive available at approximately one inch for one gigabyte.
My question is how reliable these drives will be when they jump in capacity so drastically.
The key difference is that the levy isn't that bad (a few cents per CD) and copying for personal use (i.e. to physically give a copy of a music CD to a friend) is legal. It's a tradeoff
When did copying music for friends become legal? I believe you're mistaken.
One-shot piracy is merely overlooked, because it means you're usually attacking someone who's a customer and who isn't making a significant impact on your bottom line.
You say you are going to stop using Borland because you don't like the whip hand that you live under and yet you're migrating to Microsoft? Hello?
Would that I could.
The application in question needs to be used by many artists who use Maya, and many programmers who use CodeWarrior for Playstation 2 and Game Cube, and Visual Studio.NET for XBox.
The above necessitate that it be a Windows application. To the best of my knowledge, there are no free rapid GUI development tools for Windows which produce native apps and support anything beyond basic buttons and sliders.
Your job doesn't just include doing the tasks at hand.
As an engineer of any variety, your job also includes spending a double-digit percentage of your time learning and keeping up to date. If your employer won't do that on company time, do it at home, and start looking for an employer who's got a longer-term plan for you.
It's very, very rare to interview an older programmer and find that his knowledge is up to date. If it is, I've preferred to hire him over the younger guy in a heartbeat, because he'll generally be more reliable and be learning-oriented enough to bring the rest of the staff a few steps farther forward.
The Xentex Voyager doesn't make all that much sense to me.
It has two 1024x768 displays, rotated sideways in software. Both the rotation and the screen spanning impact speed severely. The result is a1536x1024 display with a fat black bar down the middle. That's a lower effective resolution than the 1600x1200 UXGA models available at less than half its price.
Ignore them until they sue. They likely won't follow through if it's just a single copy they're talking about here.
If they do follow through, it's going to be an expensive disappointment for them, and you've got grounds to counter-sue.
Regardless, everyone's gotten a taste of Borland's business ethics from your article now. On top of that, if you do buy Borland's software, I'll also advise you all that Borland's C++ Builder comes node-locked now, and if you call them up, they're even more prohibitive about one user installing in multiple locations for his own use than Microsoft are with Visual Studio.NET.
In this case, I'm making an earnest effort to convert the dialog code we were using away from Builder. Away from Builder and to Visual C++ so that we can prevent new licneses until Borland stops being ugly.
Before trashing the things or getting overly clever, first hunt around a bit. Many different DSL providers use the same hardware, and you may be able to skip a startup fee while still opting out of a contract if you can find another provider who uses them.
If these models have a password for remote configuration, it would also be a good idea to try and land that for yourselves before the ISP goes tits up for good. Band together to bribe a techie. I'm sure one of their support dudes who's about to be out of work anyway could be bought if you round up a couple hundred bucks.:)
If you look at the WHOIS, dowethics.com is allegedly owned by somebody in Bhopal, India, the very same location where Dow's Union Carbide subsidiary was responsible for killing thousands in an escelation of multiple chemical plant disasters through the 70s and 80s.
And there you have, in a nutshell, the primary reason NOT to subscribe to, or otherwise support, Slashdot.
Give 'im a break. I'm sure with the upcoming holiday, the new wife and all, this is about the last thing CmdrTaco wants to think about on a Sunday morning.:)
I'm curious how this works -- it was my understanding that a website is only responsible for statements made by visitors if they have an active filtering or censorship policy in place.
Prodigy and similar have been sued for statements made in their forums because they have a censoring policy, whereas sites like Slashdot have refused to alter or remove user comments, and so no cases have been brought to trial as they are (effectively) common carriers -- they're responsible for conveying information, not the information itself.
Is my understanding of this clear? If so, why would any online forum elect to take on the kind of liability that active censorship introduces? Wouldn't it be better to let the responsibility rest solely with the users?
In an economy like this one, anything extra is pretty rare. The original poster's insult wasn't exactly one of the worst either... I lie not: One of my California ex-dot-com-now-McDonald's-working buddies just got two McDonald's coupon books for his bonus.
Great. He said he'll "save 'em for St. Patrick's day and see what the green shake tastes like from the other side of the counter."
You know -- there are things you could do to that CEO's neck that'd make him move in much the same way...
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Nobody's ever gotten all "porned" up and gotten behind the wheel of a car and killed someone else.
THAT AIN'T THE PARKING BRAKE! AUUUUUUUUUGH!!!!
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There are quite a few of these mini hard drive cases available. Be careful if you're buying a USB2.0 one, however.
There are a few cheaper models which don't come with a power adapter, expecting to be powered off the USB bus. The thing is, they report their peak load demand to the system's USB power manager, which is the hard drive spinup wattage. This is higher than most USB power busses can deliver, and the result is a current over limit warning and the inability to use the drive.
The fun comes in, because several of these use nonstandard power jacks (and in at least one case, the model hasn't an external power jack at all). You'll be left modifying the case yourself, trying to find the nonstandard power adapter, or trying to find one of the cheaper USB 2.0 cards without limit protection.
Ralsky, who is one of the biggest senders of unsolicited bulk e-mail in the world, says anti-spammers have been harassing him for the past year. Lately, said Ralsky, anti-spammers started flooding him by snail mail with coupons, brochures and ads. "I just toss them right into the wastebasket," he said. "It doesn't bother me."
The immature thing to do here would be to take that as a challenge, or a suggestion that you're just not trying hard enough, or that you're not yet doing your part. But thankfully, we're all adults here, right?
I regularly burn at 40x on dirt cheap (10p UK =~ 15c) cds. No coasters, no burn-proof stripes, work perfectly in a DVD player (SVCD), dvd-rom or cd-rom. Takes about 3 minutes.
There's something wrong with your setup to be getting coasters at 12x.
Which drive, media and software do you use? I've yet to find a match where one in ten discs don't have errors, regardless of the combination.
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Sorry. Mod this way the hell down.
It's worth noting that these efforts haven't vanished completely. Today, you can get PCMCIA 1.8" drives in 2g and larger capacities from Toshiba, and IBM has an even smaller drive, the MicroDrive available at approximately one inch for one gigabyte.
My question is how reliable these drives will be when they jump in capacity so drastically.
When did copying music for friends become legal? I believe you're mistaken.
One-shot piracy is merely overlooked, because it means you're usually attacking someone who's a customer and who isn't making a significant impact on your bottom line.
We'd be so much better off if people would focus less on the delivery and more on the message.
If you've only seen the photos and seen the press coverage, there's one alternate view in JWZ's journal.
Would that I could.
The application in question needs to be used by many artists who use Maya, and many programmers who use CodeWarrior for Playstation 2 and Game Cube, and Visual Studio.NET for XBox.
The above necessitate that it be a Windows application. To the best of my knowledge, there are no free rapid GUI development tools for Windows which produce native apps and support anything beyond basic buttons and sliders.
As an engineer of any variety, your job also includes spending a double-digit percentage of your time learning and keeping up to date. If your employer won't do that on company time, do it at home, and start looking for an employer who's got a longer-term plan for you.
It's very, very rare to interview an older programmer and find that his knowledge is up to date. If it is, I've preferred to hire him over the younger guy in a heartbeat, because he'll generally be more reliable and be learning-oriented enough to bring the rest of the staff a few steps farther forward.
If any doubt that programmers have a sense of humor, before reading this article I had to tell it to accept all cookies. :)
It has two 1024x768 displays, rotated sideways in software. Both the rotation and the screen spanning impact speed severely. The result is a1536x1024 display with a fat black bar down the middle. That's a lower effective resolution than the 1600x1200 UXGA models available at less than half its price.
If they do follow through, it's going to be an expensive disappointment for them, and you've got grounds to counter-sue.
Regardless, everyone's gotten a taste of Borland's business ethics from your article now. On top of that, if you do buy Borland's software, I'll also advise you all that Borland's C++ Builder comes node-locked now, and if you call them up, they're even more prohibitive about one user installing in multiple locations for his own use than Microsoft are with Visual Studio.NET.
In this case, I'm making an earnest effort to convert the dialog code we were using away from Builder. Away from Builder and to Visual C++ so that we can prevent new licneses until Borland stops being ugly.
If these models have a password for remote configuration, it would also be a good idea to try and land that for yourselves before the ISP goes tits up for good. Band together to bribe a techie. I'm sure one of their support dudes who's about to be out of work anyway could be bought if you round up a couple hundred bucks. :)
If you look at the WHOIS, dowethics.com is allegedly owned by somebody in Bhopal, India, the very same location where Dow's Union Carbide subsidiary was responsible for killing thousands in an escelation of multiple chemical plant disasters through the 70s and 80s.
I browse with ads turned off, so I can't claim to be a "paying" customer. Even so, I'll join in the whipping after the holiday season. :)
For now, I'm happier with this than I am with having them shut off new content over the weekends and holidays like many other commercial sites.
Doubtless, the finest that VMLinux shares can provide!
Give 'im a break. I'm sure with the upcoming holiday, the new wife and all, this is about the last thing CmdrTaco wants to think about on a Sunday morning. :)
At present, the article's links are pointing back at Slashdot itself. The full page with the links pointing correctly are here.
Why is this interesting?
I'm curious how this works -- it was my understanding that a website is only responsible for statements made by visitors if they have an active filtering or censorship policy in place.
Prodigy and similar have been sued for statements made in their forums because they have a censoring policy, whereas sites like Slashdot have refused to alter or remove user comments, and so no cases have been brought to trial as they are (effectively) common carriers -- they're responsible for conveying information, not the information itself.
Is my understanding of this clear? If so, why would any online forum elect to take on the kind of liability that active censorship introduces? Wouldn't it be better to let the responsibility rest solely with the users?
More specifically, if you're into RSS (and if you're a geek, you are) - check out the Homeland Security Feed.
Great. He said he'll "save 'em for St. Patrick's day and see what the green shake tastes like from the other side of the counter."
You know -- there are things you could do to that CEO's neck that'd make him move in much the same way...
THAT AIN'T THE PARKING BRAKE! AUUUUUUUUUGH!!!!
There are a few cheaper models which don't come with a power adapter, expecting to be powered off the USB bus. The thing is, they report their peak load demand to the system's USB power manager, which is the hard drive spinup wattage. This is higher than most USB power busses can deliver, and the result is a current over limit warning and the inability to use the drive.
The fun comes in, because several of these use nonstandard power jacks (and in at least one case, the model hasn't an external power jack at all). You'll be left modifying the case yourself, trying to find the nonstandard power adapter, or trying to find one of the cheaper USB 2.0 cards without limit protection.
The immature thing to do here would be to take that as a challenge, or a suggestion that you're just not trying hard enough , or that you're not yet doing your part. But thankfully, we're all adults here, right?
And I hope it KEEPS getting covered until we can see some photos of his junkmail dumpster! :D