Well, with my current job I have to do 100km/day too... That adds up, especially because I was dumb enought to buy a sports car six years ago. (When prices were still acceptable and I only had to do 60km/day) With the fuel efficiency of about 25MPG my car has, it hurts... badly... (I manage to get it up to 27.6MPG by driving like a grampa)
so you've never considered trading it in for something more fuel efficient then??? or getting a job closer to home, or moving closer to your existing job...
ahh, so you're one of those pretentious gits who HAVE to ostentatiously show off their Macs/PCs in public while having a coffee and hogging the table while doing so and probably only having the one coffee for the whole morning...
deity I hate it when trying to get a coffee in any place that has free wifi... it's usually heaving with people who're browsing and have long since finished their drinks/food. As far as I'm concerned, you lose your entitlement to seatspace when you finish your drink and whatever food you purchased.
I'm sure the coffee shops also agree here... Free wifi gets people in, but they're not buying very much and other customers can't find anywhere to sit, so they're walking out rather that waiting for seats.
Can I replace my monitor with a direct optical link?
yes, when you've implemented hardware based DRM to protect the channel for the movie... wouldn't want you snooping on those bits now would we... you might be making a copy of the protected content...
Laws like this are passed to encourage private enterprise to make significant investments in infrastructure and are at the foundation of the free enterprise system.
I see the first few comments suggesting a switch to Linux or Macintosh. At least where I work, in the educational sector, that's impossible. The time spent retraining faculty and staff alone would outweigh the security benefits, especially when you consider all the specialized software floating around that hasn't been ported (curse you, Department of Education).
Use VMware on Linux then... buy one copy of Workstation to do the image creation and maintenance and have the other boxes run the images using VMware Player... save the data to a separate networked directory and then the data's safe... if an image gets infected, just copy across from a read only master copy. Then again, just copy across first thing in the day as a matter of course... This is NOT Rocket Science...
Vista Home basic will NOT have the aeroglass desktop OR the HDCP media playback... so any current "budget"machine on the market is compatible... It's a marketing "scam"... Any truly Vista capable machine will have to have a much higher spec than currently on offer in the home end of the market.
OMG! Like the emotionally stunted Slashdot Fanboys (pictured below) have totally discovered Cute Overload. W00t!
Since they're all l33t hax0rs, who are smarter than all of us combined, we should relinquish the comments and let them debate:
1. Why Microsoft sux!
2. Why you are so lame for not encoding your music to Ogg Vorbis. What a luser! You probably listen to Brittany anyway, so what's the point.
3. Why Jerry Taylor is, like, a total dick.
4. How you should delete Windoze and install FC5. It's like totally easy to use.
5. Some endlessly stupid circular argument that got started because one of their egos is as delicate as a butterfly fart.
So everyone put away their My Little Pony dolls and pop an Anime disc in your DVD, because the comments sections are going to be worthless until the Slashdot Effect passes.
Then again, if you're really nice and bat your eyelashes, you can probably convince one of these guys to fix your WiFi connection. (You, like, totally should be running WPA2 security. *snort* *snort*)
And for every Fanboy that buys a t-shirt, we'll set you up on your first date. LOL!
As it is, Windows is the only choice a lot of people have.
no, windows is the only choice people are permitted to see... try looking in a PC magazine for PCs with Linux pre-installed... I'll be surprised... visit a high street shop... all the machines will be windows... with a very tiny section (if you're lucky) for those "overpriced" macs... John and Jane Public have to go out of their way to find boxes with Linux pre-installed on them. The major OEMs don't exactly go out of their way to let you know you can get anything other than windows...
well stone the crows... the format was effectively dead, in that it required you to have a PSP... whereas you could go out and purchase a portable DVD player that took your existing disks for a fraction of the cost of a PSP... the only people who were in the market for UMD then were those few PSP owners who were stupid, or else didn't have an existing DVD player and TV to watch them on...
RFID tag, meet my portable zapper... you should consider it your duty to zap each and every RFID tag you encounter... activists should be hacking up portable EMP devices to wipe whole supermarkets in a single pulse... just imagine the chaos at the tills...
when people get forcibly tagged, use an EMP device to wipe whole stadia full of people at once... imagine the chaos at the checkpoints... and the hassle involved in getting those "victims" re-tagged...
The difference is that in the US we vote on many more offices. My ballot generally includes some forty or fifty choices. It's easy enough to mark such a ballot with a pencil, but it gets difficult to count them, so some automation is useful. Further, a well-designed touch screen user interface is accessible to people with vision and motor skill deficiencies that would exclude them from voting with a paper ballot. Finally, a well-designed touch screen UI is less error-prone.
so you've never heard of having a different voting slip for each actual office position then... and putting the marked slips in the correct boxes makes things easier at the counting places as well... sheesh, you Yanks don't half make things difficult for yourselves...
2) I've walked the fields of Lockerbie the morning after finding and marking bodies
don't talk to me about terrorism mate... I've been living with it on a daily basis and been a victim of it... What I can't stand though is being lied to by our leaders and dragged into an illegal conflict on false pretences. It blows our entire moral case OUT OF THE WATER... the Ends DO NOT justify the Means, ever, period.
Guantanamo and "Extraordinary Rendition" are an abhorrence and they really, really don't do our public image any good at all.
This is old news. A memo from July 2002 discovered by the Times (of London) last year shows that the desicion to go to war was already taken back then.
SO??? this memo still needs to be brought to the attention of as many people as possible... for some weird reason the entire existence of these memos is being ignored widely.
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so you've never considered trading it in for something more fuel efficient then??? or getting a job closer to home, or moving closer to your existing job...
deity I hate it when trying to get a coffee in any place that has free wifi... it's usually heaving with people who're browsing and have long since finished their drinks/food. As far as I'm concerned, you lose your entitlement to seatspace when you finish your drink and whatever food you purchased.
I'm sure the coffee shops also agree here... Free wifi gets people in, but they're not buying very much and other customers can't find anywhere to sit, so they're walking out rather that waiting for seats.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install windows-base windows-desktop
sudo shutdown -r now
could explain why their patches take so long to come out... prolly making sure they break things in Linux...
it's also a Beaver, not a Rat...
is it his real office? could it be a spare one kept just as it is ready for photoshoots and interviews?
yes, when you've implemented hardware based DRM to protect the channel for the movie... wouldn't want you snooping on those bits now would we... you might be making a copy of the protected content...
wow... you said that with such a straight face...
Use VMware on Linux then... buy one copy of Workstation to do the image creation and maintenance and have the other boxes run the images using VMware Player... save the data to a separate networked directory and then the data's safe... if an image gets infected, just copy across from a read only master copy. Then again, just copy across first thing in the day as a matter of course... This is NOT Rocket Science...
Vista Home basic will NOT have the aeroglass desktop OR the HDCP media playback... so any current "budget"machine on the market is compatible... It's a marketing "scam"... Any truly Vista capable machine will have to have a much higher spec than currently on offer in the home end of the market.
no, windows is the only choice people are permitted to see... try looking in a PC magazine for PCs with Linux pre-installed... I'll be surprised... visit a high street shop... all the machines will be windows... with a very tiny section (if you're lucky) for those "overpriced" macs... John and Jane Public have to go out of their way to find boxes with Linux pre-installed on them. The major OEMs don't exactly go out of their way to let you know you can get anything other than windows...
dunno, but all the wintrolls who claim their machines never get infected/trojanned might vanish...
so how do you uninstall it if it's part of the ubuntu-base metapackage then???
well stone the crows... the format was effectively dead, in that it required you to have a PSP... whereas you could go out and purchase a portable DVD player that took your existing disks for a fraction of the cost of a PSP... the only people who were in the market for UMD then were those few PSP owners who were stupid, or else didn't have an existing DVD player and TV to watch them on...
I'd have told him to get the FBI involved... then he'd really have looked foolish...
this will be one that all users must have. The WGA check will not apply.
RFID tag, meet my portable zapper... you should consider it your duty to zap each and every RFID tag you encounter... activists should be hacking up portable EMP devices to wipe whole supermarkets in a single pulse... just imagine the chaos at the tills...
when people get forcibly tagged, use an EMP device to wipe whole stadia full of people at once... imagine the chaos at the checkpoints... and the hassle involved in getting those "victims" re-tagged...
will it be a forced update that you cannot refuse?
Yggdrasil only gave out free CDs to those who had actually contributed parts of the software on the disc... everybody else had to pay.
so you've never heard of having a different voting slip for each actual office position then... and putting the marked slips in the correct boxes makes things easier at the counting places as well... sheesh, you Yanks don't half make things difficult for yourselves...
woo hoo... at last... something that has processors left over after allocating one to every task running on this Kubuntu box... ;)
1) I've been blown up and shot at by the IRA
2) I've walked the fields of Lockerbie the morning after finding and marking bodies
don't talk to me about terrorism mate... I've been living with it on a daily basis and been a victim of it... What I can't stand though is being lied to by our leaders and dragged into an illegal conflict on false pretences. It blows our entire moral case OUT OF THE WATER... the Ends DO NOT justify the Means, ever, period.
Guantanamo and "Extraordinary Rendition" are an abhorrence and they really, really don't do our public image any good at all.
SO??? this memo still needs to be brought to the attention of as many people as possible... for some weird reason the entire existence of these memos is being ignored widely.