"I seem to recall reading a SciAm article once upon a time that mentioned that, since we've all had to grow filters against advertisements, the single best way for a company to sell products consists of recommendations between friends. So sure, it make perfect sense that the RIAA would sacrifice the single most effective form of advertising - since in this case, it mostly ends up negative."
Haven't the MPAA tried to get mobile phones banned from cinemas because the punters were texting their mates and telling them not to bother seeing the movie cos it sucks??? All that carefully crafted hype was failing cos the public had a means of getting the truth out that bypassed the controlled media... Also weren't they doing their level best to stop indie reviews being posted on websites which contradicted their own carefull hype.
Me... I just photograph the classroom whiteboard with my Zire 71... and jot some comments into the comment field for that photo. Have a tape recorder running as well.
So what about that license for your copy of ms-windows then... you only own the media that the program comes on... not the program itself. And I think you'll find that's pretty much a standard for most ms-windows software packages...
Yet another way to feel inadequate... insufficient horsepower to make the framerate cap...
anyway... what the heck... this 850MHz Duron box runs SuSE 8.2 perfectly well... s'pose I'll have to save up for a big box just to play the new games on...
OK chaps and chapesses... here was a perfect opportunity to make a break from the tyranny of the QWERTY layout... it has been demonstrated time and time again that the qwerty layout was only devised to slow down typists so that manual tripewriters wouldn't jam their keys so often... so why on earth is having a qwerty key layout seen as an advantage??? especially in a format this small... You can't touch type with those keys... and if you can then you must have miniature hands... typing with that thing WILL be hunt and peck with a "stylus" so having an alphabetical layout would make far more sense. Plus you wouldn't have to have a special "azerty" layout for the French market either when you came to put it there...
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OOPSey... wrong thread...
Qwerty keyboard... ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
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OK chaps and chapesses... here was a perfect opportunity to make a break from the tyranny of the QWERTY layout... it has been demonstrated time and time again that the qwerty layout was only devised to slow down typists so that manual tripewriters wouldn't jam their keys so often... so why on earth is having a qwerty key layout seen as an advantage??? especially in a format this small... You can't touch type with those keys... and if you can then you must have miniature hands... typing with that thing WILL be hunt and peck with a "stylus" so having an alphabetical layout would make far more sense. Plus you wouldn't have to have a special azerty layout for the French market either when you came to put it there...
You may have gathered here that I hate the perpetuation of the "Victorian" QWERTY layout into this modern age...
What I want to know is how come the mirrors are going down in other countries...
Can slashdot handle the flack if someone from outside the US posts the contents of the memos themselves??? would the EFF back slashdot up if slashdot refuse to take the posts down???
Perhaps you could explain to the class just why you believe Smoothwall to be violating the GPL. Oh and by the way, they don't treat their users like dirt. If this were so there would be lots of complaints in the mailing list. There aren't... so there. Yar boo sucks... run away and hide behind that AC like a true troll.
Always time your software switches for AFTER the main sales period... while you've got plenty of time to get things right afterwards... anyone who does it before is asking for trouble...
don't these people know about Murphy's Law... or do they think it just applies to engineering hardware...
yeah... just you try and get everybody to hold that pose real still while you slide the camera over for the next exposure...
and as for patent pending on their do-hickey... just wtf is so innovative here??? the Victorians were doing this two viewpoint with single camera. I seem to remember seeing a sliding camera tripod bracket long ago back in the sixties as well...
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well i never... I've got this and didn't even know it... so that's what that little key map was for that fell out of the mobo box.
lurking inside this old P100 smoothwall firewall/router I'm using in this network. COuldn't be bothered to remove it when I installed smoothwall... so technically it's still in use but actually it only gets powered up.
I've also got a working Sinclair QL that I drag out for kicks, and an old Intellivision games console that we play football on cos it's got just about the best controllers for playing football you can get. the old eight way soft keyboard and the edge contacts for passing and shooting.
the current "NT kernel" as shipped in XP pro and win 2k3 is not POSIX compliant anymore... that went out long ago... to claim POSIX compliance for current MS OSes as shipped is bull... you have to install the following package to gain POSIX compliance...
Interix 2.2 aka Windows Services For Unix 3.0. The one that turned out to have lots of BSD lurking in it... and for which MS bought a license from SCO...
The Interix technology provides a UNIX environment that runs on top the Windows kernel, enabling UNIX application and scripts to run natively on the Windows platform alongside Windows applications. With this capability, you can continue to get value out of your UNIX scripts and applications-simply reuse them on Windows.
Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 also includes more than 300 UNIX utilities and tools that behave exactly as they would on UNIX systems, plus a software development kit (SDK) that supports over 1900 UNIX APIs and migration tools such as make, rcs, yacc, lex, cc, c89, nm, strip, gbd, as well as the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers.
well of course it does... it's just BSD rebadged...:)
and anyway... what they claimed as POSIX compliance for good ole NT was rather limited in what you actually do with it in programming terms...
POSIX applications only launch other POSIX applications. They can not launch DOS, OS/2, Win16 or Win32 applications.
POSIX applications can not call any Win32 APIs. They do not have any access to DDE, OLE, memory mapped files, named pipes, windows sockets and other Win32 features. POSIX applications can not implicitly or explicitly load a Win32 DLL. POSIX applications do not have access to any networking APIs such as pipes or sockets. They are not network aware, but they can access files over the network. POSIX applications do not have any source level debugger support. You cannot use Windbg or the Microsoft Visual C++ debugger to debug POSIX applications on Windows NT.
Remember... MIcrosoft only got NT POSIX compliant so they could get the damn thing sold into Government establishments to fulfill an existing condition. Once they'd got that in, by bundling MS Office, they were then able to start locking up government documents in proprietary formats to prevent further competition from other OSes outside who could also get in by being POSIX compliant... but couldn't get in now because they couldn't handle MS file formats...
But if all you want is a cheap and easy box for a non-technical person to run Word and Excel and Internet Explorer on, you can get a workable Dell (Dimension 2400, Celeron 2.2GHz, 40GB HD, 128MB RAM)
wow... that's ridiculously over specc'd for just running Word, Excel and IE... An 850MHz Duron would be just as good and mucho cheaper... That's what I'm running KDE3.1 on this SuSE 8.2 box right now... and it runs very well... and it'll run even better in some ten days time when it gets upgraded for free to SuSE 9:) That's what I
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like about Linux... it just keeps getting better on the same hardware.
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Haven't the MPAA tried to get mobile phones banned from cinemas because the punters were texting their mates and telling them not to bother seeing the movie cos it sucks??? All that carefully crafted hype was failing cos the public had a means of getting the truth out that bypassed the controlled media... Also weren't they doing their level best to stop indie reviews being posted on websites which contradicted their own carefull hype.
That's why they're waiting a couple of years till release to allow the hardware to catch up... :)
Just the normal chatter from compromised windows machines would stiff it out... all those 16k packages coming on port 135...
Have you got a native Mac OSX version of MS Word then???
Me... I just photograph the classroom whiteboard with my Zire 71... and jot some comments into the comment field for that photo. Have a tape recorder running as well.
So what about that license for your copy of ms-windows then... you only own the media that the program comes on... not the program itself. And I think you'll find that's pretty much a standard for most ms-windows software packages...
Yet another way to feel inadequate... insufficient horsepower to make the framerate cap...
anyway... what the heck... this 850MHz Duron box runs SuSE 8.2 perfectly well... s'pose I'll have to save up for a big box just to play the new games on...
This thread is _not_ the place for it... go and "Ask Slashdot"...
You only require "Microsofty"...
That'll get you modded down 100% of the time... a real surefire way of guaranteeing it...
OK chaps and chapesses... here was a perfect opportunity to make a break from the tyranny of the QWERTY layout... it has been demonstrated time and time again that the qwerty layout was only devised to slow down typists so that manual tripewriters wouldn't jam their keys so often... so why on earth is having a qwerty key layout seen as an advantage??? especially in a format this small... You can't touch type with those keys... and if you can then you must have miniature hands... typing with that thing WILL be hunt and peck with a "stylus" so having an alphabetical layout would make far more sense. Plus you wouldn't have to have a special "azerty" layout for the French market either when you came to put it there...
OOPSey... wrong thread...
You may have gathered here that I hate the perpetuation of the "Victorian" QWERTY layout into this modern age...
Oh... and they don't require our "compulsory" Microsoft Passport to access the service...
Can slashdot handle the flack if someone from outside the US posts the contents of the memos themselves??? would the EFF back slashdot up if slashdot refuse to take the posts down???
Perhaps you could explain to the class just why you believe Smoothwall to be violating the GPL. Oh and by the way, they don't treat their users like dirt. If this were so there would be lots of complaints in the mailing list. There aren't... so there. Yar boo sucks... run away and hide behind that AC like a true troll.
don't these people know about Murphy's Law... or do they think it just applies to engineering hardware...
how long before someone comes up with a technological gizmo or patch that sets those three bits to 000 before passing them along to the recorder???
If you want the fancy features, then get the commercial version and enjoy the support.
why waste your own time re-inventing the wheel when it's already been done.
Please look before you leap...
The machine was based on the M68008, the lowest price representative of the Motorola's 68000 32-bit microprocessors' family
I've still got mine
and as for patent pending on their do-hickey... just wtf is so innovative here??? the Victorians were doing this two viewpoint with single camera. I seem to remember seeing a sliding camera tripod bracket long ago back in the sixties as well...
well i never... I've got this and didn't even know it... so that's what that little key map was for that fell out of the mobo box.
COuldn't be bothered to remove it when I installed smoothwall... so technically it's still in use but actually it only gets powered up.
I've also got a working Sinclair QL that I drag out for kicks, and an old Intellivision games console that we play football on cos it's got just about the best controllers for playing football you can get. the old eight way soft keyboard and the edge contacts for passing and shooting.
Interix 2.2 aka Windows Services For Unix 3.0. The one that turned out to have lots of BSD lurking in it... and for which MS bought a license from SCO...
Some links for those who don't believe me.:
The POSIX subsystem included with Windows NT and Windows 2000 is not included with Windows XP Professional.
Windows Services for UNIX 3.0
well of course it does... it's just BSD rebadged... :)
and anyway... what they claimed as POSIX compliance for good ole NT was rather limited in what you actually do with it in programming terms...
This article discusses the limitations of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) applications on Windows NT.
Remember... MIcrosoft only got NT POSIX compliant so they could get the damn thing sold into Government establishments to fulfill an existing condition. Once they'd got that in, by bundling MS Office, they were then able to start locking up government documents in proprietary formats to prevent further competition from other OSes outside who could also get in by being POSIX compliant... but couldn't get in now because they couldn't handle MS file formats...
wow... that's ridiculously over specc'd for just running Word, Excel and IE... :) That's what I
An 850MHz Duron would be just as good and mucho cheaper... That's what I'm running KDE3.1 on this SuSE 8.2 box right now... and it runs very well... and it'll run even better in some ten days time when it gets upgraded for free to SuSE 9
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like about Linux... it just keeps getting better on the same hardware.