well over this side of the pond we're going to get a real test of our internet's ability to handle streaming video... the Beeb have decided to stream world cup matches live... soon see how well the various ISPs perform under load...
I never tried the equivalent on Windows, but I doubt it can be done in less than 200 mouse clicks.
and how many re-boots...
Re:Why not lock, instead of unlock?
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Just Let Me Play!
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in real life, ammo is precious... I only ever had a full load-out of 120 rounds for my rifle when going on patrol (6 mags of 20). If we got in a firefight, fire discipline was vital... single, aimed shots. We could not rely on there being a re-supply while out on patrol.
the biggest mistake was in leaving the encrypted message words as they were and not segregating it into four letter groups and leaving the decoder to recover the words back afterwards. It allowed him to geuss that one of the words was a placename... if they'd been four letter groups then he'd have been stuffed. All he would have had then was the short three letter "signature" giving him just "MOR" from the key
Yes, it's called Jury Nullification. The problem is I doubt any jury of 12 average americans will be smart enough to do anything useful.
it would have to get in front of a jury in the first place... the entire methodology of RIAA/MPAA lawsuits is to drag it out and make it expensive so that the other party surrenders before it gets to a jury... they know full well that any jury would throw it right out...
Mind you, jury selection could be fun... could you ever get 12 people selected who weren't guilty of the "crime" themselves?
I have recently had to settle with my creditors for the sum of $1 million... could you please send some money to down_to_my_last_BMW.guy@spam.city.com I promise I will not do it again, and with the grace of God, your donation and kindness will set me on the true path
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I can read this and I am using Opera 8.54 on Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS... I suggest you get your act together...
Yahoo acted under the letter of the law. They are not to blame for this, rather the government of China is.
ah yes, the "I was only following orders" defence... Yahoo! ARE to blam for meekly complying with the Chinese. They should have told the Chinese EXACTLY where to get off... but then again, in this day and age, it seems that money comes before principles
well, they could always make a school project out of it to develop their own songs and step routines... multi-disciplinary cross-over... get more functionality out of it, plus the kids could get a skill for life rather than just using pre-prepared pap and having no learning experience
it would be highly ironic for stuff labelled as "Plays For Sure" to also have the DRM warning on them stating that you may not be able to play it on all devices... no doubt, Microsoft would push this as a desireable feature in that to use "Plays For Sure" you would have to seek out a "Plays For Sure" logo'd device...
Actually, right from the beginning, Philips has made a stand that these copy protected CD's are never sold with the 'CD-Compact Disc' label on it, since they do not comply with the Red Book standard Sony and Philips published back in 1982.
Ah, but they get around this by showing the CD "Text" logo... when they print it on the disk, it, to all intents and purposes, looks just like a normal CD logo, but you have to look very closely to see it's really the CD text one... so these disks have a CD logo on them, but they're not audio CDs, they're "text" CDs...
I'm a Grandpa using Linux... so it's ready for me and I'm ready for it...
Re:Dapper is good, but it's not there yet.
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It's not ready for grandma to use,
whoah... let's kill this "It's not ready for grandma to use" meme... I'm a grandparent and I have absolutely NO problems with Linux at all... If Grandma can follow a recipe in a recipe book, or follow a set of knitting instructions (and I'm pretty sure very few of you could), then she's perfectly capable of following the instructions for doing easyubuntu or automatix... although looking at Arnieboy's thread for automatix... even I'm confused... trying to work out where to start with it
and the easy ubuntu page of instructions, while simple, fail to mention that you have to copy and paste each line at a time into a terminal... durr... come on guys... switch on... some people require very explicit step by step instructions to do this...
mind you, recipe books assume a lot of basic knowledge and so do knitting patterns...
I didn't even need to do that... After my latest update of breezy yesterday (which updated update manager...:) ), I launched the update manager again from the menu, entered my password, and it told me there was a new version of ubuntu available... all I had to do was click on the upgrade button and follow the prompts... never once had to launch a terminal and use the command prompt...
When the scientists overlaid their gravity image with airborne radar images of the ground beneath the ice, they found the mascon perfectly centered inside a circular ridge some 300 miles wide -- a crater easily large enough to hold the state of Ohio.
Slashdot Mirror
And the beeb page giving feeds (ostensibly so IT managers can block them at work)
enjoy...
well over this side of the pond we're going to get a real test of our internet's ability to handle streaming video... the Beeb have decided to stream world cup matches live... soon see how well the various ISPs perform under load...
unfortunately they don't allow this method from the UK...
I strongly suspect they leaked that key themselves to quickly get an installed base that they could clobber later when they pulled the key with SP1
but it works perfectly using WINE on Linux... :)
madness... lose one drive, lose all the data
and how many re-boots...
in real life, ammo is precious... I only ever had a full load-out of 120 rounds for my rifle when going on patrol (6 mags of 20). If we got in a firefight, fire discipline was vital... single, aimed shots. We could not rely on there being a re-supply while out on patrol.
heck, Linus even had to patch the kernel so that a virus would run...
the biggest mistake was in leaving the encrypted message words as they were and not segregating it into four letter groups and leaving the decoder to recover the words back afterwards. It allowed him to geuss that one of the words was a placename... if they'd been four letter groups then he'd have been stuffed. All he would have had then was the short three letter "signature" giving him just "MOR" from the key
it would have to get in front of a jury in the first place... the entire methodology of RIAA/MPAA lawsuits is to drag it out and make it expensive so that the other party surrenders before it gets to a jury... they know full well that any jury would throw it right out...
Mind you, jury selection could be fun... could you ever get 12 people selected who weren't guilty of the "crime" themselves?
and it would be a dream outcome for Microsoft... to get Linux outlawed...
cool, you're "My Pr0n" directory is 20 Gigs!!! let's ftp that off there then...
I have recently had to settle with my creditors for the sum of $1 million... could you please send some money to down_to_my_last_BMW.guy@spam.city.com I promise I will not do it again, and with the grace of God, your donation and kindness will set me on the true path
I can read this and I am using Opera 8.54 on Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS... I suggest you get your act together...
ah yes, the "I was only following orders" defence... Yahoo! ARE to blam for meekly complying with the Chinese. They should have told the Chinese EXACTLY where to get off... but then again, in this day and age, it seems that money comes before principles
saves everyone the hassle of creating an account with lulu just to download... :)
well, they could always make a school project out of it to develop their own songs and step routines... multi-disciplinary cross-over... get more functionality out of it, plus the kids could get a skill for life rather than just using pre-prepared pap and having no learning experience
it would be highly ironic for stuff labelled as "Plays For Sure" to also have the DRM warning on them stating that you may not be able to play it on all devices... no doubt, Microsoft would push this as a desireable feature in that to use "Plays For Sure" you would have to seek out a "Plays For Sure" logo'd device...
Ah, but they get around this by showing the CD "Text" logo... when they print it on the disk, it, to all intents and purposes, looks just like a normal CD logo, but you have to look very closely to see it's really the CD text one... so these disks have a CD logo on them, but they're not audio CDs, they're "text" CDs...
"isn't that like the Da Vinci Code???"
I think it makes a good thriller title... "The Poincare Conjecture"
I'm a Grandpa using Linux... so it's ready for me and I'm ready for it...
whoah... let's kill this "It's not ready for grandma to use" meme... I'm a grandparent and I have absolutely NO problems with Linux at all... If Grandma can follow a recipe in a recipe book, or follow a set of knitting instructions (and I'm pretty sure very few of you could), then she's perfectly capable of following the instructions for doing easyubuntu or automatix... although looking at Arnieboy's thread for automatix... even I'm confused... trying to work out where to start with it
and the easy ubuntu page of instructions, while simple, fail to mention that you have to copy and paste each line at a time into a terminal... durr... come on guys... switch on... some people require very explicit step by step instructions to do this...
mind you, recipe books assume a lot of basic knowledge and so do knitting patterns...
I didn't even need to do that... After my latest update of breezy yesterday (which updated update manager... :) ), I launched the update manager again from the menu, entered my password, and it told me there was a new version of ubuntu available... all I had to do was click on the upgrade button and follow the prompts... never once had to launch a terminal and use the command prompt...