the difference is in the store, you can actually see the product, pick the box up and read the blurb on it, try it out if it's been set up, and generally play around with it... on tha intarweb, you can't do any of these. It's as bad as mail order, you have to take the page at face value and can't actively check it out without having to order the damned thing. The problem currently facing stores is that savvy web customers are going into stores, checking the items out and then going off and finding it as cheap as possible on the web. It isn't fair on the stores at all.
The Sony CD rootkit business has just made it into my daily paper... but right back on page 18 with a mere 5 column inches... The tagline is "Recall for millions of Virus CDs"... and the first para reads "Sony has been forced to recall millions of CDs after it emerged they can wreck home computers".
bollox. I WAS running it on a machine with SSE3 instructions. I DID follow all the speed up instructions (find and delete those kernel extensions) and yet OSX 86 was painfully slow in comparison to the Ubuntu Linux that was also installed on the exact same hardware. I know it is painfully slow, cos I actually went out and tried it. Personally, I do not believe your tale at all.
and if I've got to have a specific video chip in order to run OSX 86 at an acceptable speed, then those with that stripped down laptop are sh1t out of luck... OSX is the last thing they want... Steve Jobs was purely offering this so that he could get the publicity, appear to be altruistic and get all the Apple "Fanboys" bitching about Linux "Zealots" refusing a "free" offering.
osx 86 crawled like a sloth on this 3GHz machine... what makes you even deign to think that it can be made to run acceptably on any $100 laptop??? other than blind fanboy devotion. Face it. OSX is a fashion statement... anyway, those who can only just afford this $100 machine will find it very hard to afford any OSX software... I was horrified by the prices when I wandered through my local Apple store the other day...
wow, stop being such a patronising pessimist... people like you probably believe everyone in Vietnam still lives in a hut in the jungle... now fsck off back to the basement in your mom's trailer...
you forget this is an NHS lab... mistakes are their forte... witness the ridiculous number of misdiagnoses in breast and cervical cancer tests. After all, the pay is crap (you wouldn't catch me wasting my degree in one of those crappy slots) and the labs are paid by the test, so the staff are under pressure to get tests through... just like the US patent office in a way: underpaid, and overworked and with no time to spend actually reviewing the case. I tend to favour the Occam's Razor approach here... it is far, far more likely that the original test result was wrong
half of the tax revenue generating population dead
That's the only thing that wakes governments up... a major threat to the revenue stream...
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and probably a few other King novels will long be remembered as American classics, and as for all of the crappy books, well, nobody was forced to buy them
yeah, but I did regret buying them, and they wouldn't give me my money back, so I had to find some other poor sap to take them off my hands (flogged a box of them to a secondhand book store...) Meanwhile, SK was laughing all the way too AND from the bank...
I found during my limited free trial, that it didn't know certain artists at all... and they were fairly major for the genre that I was trying to set up as a "station". Might be something to do with the label they were on?
the problem with iRate, is that you keep ending up with short samples of some artists as they only put up 30 second samplers up and the iRate engine finds them. It gets annoying as though the music is good, you have to actively purge your list and rate them down
At this time we are only licensed to offer Pandora music services to residents of the United States. Audio streaming regulations differ from country to country, and we are working on acquiring the proper licenses so we can legally offer Pandora outside of the United States. We require your zip code to confirm that you are a resident of the United States.
it means that though I can sample for free, I can't create an account unless I lie about where I am.
IBM may have run into the same problems with the Cell that they did with the PowerPC 970- the chip breaks some fundamental assumptions GCC makes, and to add the best optimization possible it would necessary to modify the compiler more drastically than the GCC leads would allow (to keep GCC completely platform-agnostic).
who the heck says they have to keep the GCC they distribute with the software development kit platform agnostic??? what a stupid concept. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the GCC leads... they can't stop you from modifying GCC for your own uses such as creating a platform specific development kit... they just don't have to accept back any modifications you have made. All you have to do if you do distribute it externally like they are here, is to make sure either the full source code to your version of GCC is included, or you provide it upon request.
We invented, we govern it. Simple. If they want to
create their own version and write the bridges, they
can go ahead, but it was our tax dollars (DARPA) that
developed it in the first place.
I've got news for you... America isn't the internet anymore... the vast majority is no longer on US soil. So we can pick our ball up and go home, leaving you with your pathetic little walled garden... it would be nice for us, and should cut down on all that spam coming out of Florida as well...
Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act it is already an offence not to hand over encryption keys to the police when requested to do so.
surely they have to prove you are using encryption first... suspicion isn't good enough otherwise you could be in the bizarre situation of getting banged up for failing to hand over the keys when there aren't any in the first place... also, the best way to hide something is to hide it in plain sight... that idiot who got banged up recently only got banged up because he was incapable of remembering the code phrases by heart and had a list on him... and the daftest thing about the list was that it had both the code words and the meanings on it... all he had to do was to have two completely separate lists that have no apparent relation to each other and have the sense never to have both in the same place
as long as the media barons keep thinking in terms of segmenting the market for the "content" into regions, then people will get upset because America or whoever, is getting to see it now or has already seen it, but joe public in Australia/UK or whatever, has to wait until the "official" release date for them...
/me has already pulled down all of what's been screened in America for Rome, but episode 1 has only just shown in the UK... and the bl00dy BBC were one of the producers as well, but you yanks got to see it first.
It would seriously harm advertising industry, if spam would be banned. No responsible jugde would allow this to happen.
how so??? I don't get spam from reputable companies anyway... all my spam comes from some tossers in Florida trying to get me to buy Medz, or replica watches, or get a degree for no work... no reputable businesses there.
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the difference is in the store, you can actually see the product, pick the box up and read the blurb on it, try it out if it's been set up, and generally play around with it... on tha intarweb, you can't do any of these. It's as bad as mail order, you have to take the page at face value and can't actively check it out without having to order the damned thing. The problem currently facing stores is that savvy web customers are going into stores, checking the items out and then going off and finding it as cheap as possible on the web. It isn't fair on the stores at all.
The Sony CD rootkit business has just made it into my daily paper... but right back on page 18 with a mere 5 column inches... The tagline is "Recall for millions of Virus CDs"... and the first para reads "Sony has been forced to recall millions of CDs after it emerged they can wreck home computers".
and if I've got to have a specific video chip in order to run OSX 86 at an acceptable speed, then those with that stripped down laptop are sh1t out of luck... OSX is the last thing they want... Steve Jobs was purely offering this so that he could get the publicity, appear to be altruistic and get all the Apple "Fanboys" bitching about Linux "Zealots" refusing a "free" offering.
"... about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
osx 86 crawled like a sloth on this 3GHz machine... what makes you even deign to think that it can be made to run acceptably on any $100 laptop??? other than blind fanboy devotion. Face it. OSX is a fashion statement... anyway, those who can only just afford this $100 machine will find it very hard to afford any OSX software... I was horrified by the prices when I wandered through my local Apple store the other day...
wow, stop being such a patronising pessimist... people like you probably believe everyone in Vietnam still lives in a hut in the jungle... now fsck off back to the basement in your mom's trailer...
you forget this is an NHS lab... mistakes are their forte... witness the ridiculous number of misdiagnoses in breast and cervical cancer tests. After all, the pay is crap (you wouldn't catch me wasting my degree in one of those crappy slots) and the labs are paid by the test, so the staff are under pressure to get tests through... just like the US patent office in a way: underpaid, and overworked and with no time to spend actually reviewing the case. I tend to favour the Occam's Razor approach here... it is far, far more likely that the original test result was wrong
wasn't pop-up free though... but thanks :)
That's the only thing that wakes governments up... a major threat to the revenue stream...
yeah, but I did regret buying them, and they wouldn't give me my money back, so I had to find some other poor sap to take them off my hands (flogged a box of them to a secondhand book store...) Meanwhile, SK was laughing all the way too AND from the bank...
wtf's this C.E. crap??? please, A.D. is the correct form. Anything else is pandering to the PC brigade
I found during my limited free trial, that it didn't know certain artists at all... and they were fairly major for the genre that I was trying to set up as a "station". Might be something to do with the label they were on?
the problem with iRate, is that you keep ending up with short samples of some artists as they only put up 30 second samplers up and the iRate engine finds them. It gets annoying as though the music is good, you have to actively purge your list and rate them down
" Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things)." you were saying???
who the heck says they have to keep the GCC they distribute with the software development kit platform agnostic??? what a stupid concept. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the GCC leads... they can't stop you from modifying GCC for your own uses such as creating a platform specific development kit... they just don't have to accept back any modifications you have made. All you have to do if you do distribute it externally like they are here, is to make sure either the full source code to your version of GCC is included, or you provide it upon request.
you're going through a proxy filter at work... that's removing the crap before it gets to your machine...
my sweet spot pricewise for a graphics card is $30... not a penny more...
carefull, there are male slashdotters who pass that check...
I've got news for you... America isn't the internet anymore... the vast majority is no longer on US soil. So we can pick our ball up and go home, leaving you with your pathetic little walled garden... it would be nice for us, and should cut down on all that spam coming out of Florida as well...
surely they have to prove you are using encryption first... suspicion isn't good enough otherwise you could be in the bizarre situation of getting banged up for failing to hand over the keys when there aren't any in the first place... also, the best way to hide something is to hide it in plain sight... that idiot who got banged up recently only got banged up because he was incapable of remembering the code phrases by heart and had a list on him... and the daftest thing about the list was that it had both the code words and the meanings on it... all he had to do was to have two completely separate lists that have no apparent relation to each other and have the sense never to have both in the same place
/me has already pulled down all of what's been screened in America for Rome, but episode 1 has only just shown in the UK... and the bl00dy BBC were one of the producers as well, but you yanks got to see it first.
how so??? I don't get spam from reputable companies anyway... all my spam comes from some tossers in Florida trying to get me to buy Medz, or replica watches, or get a degree for no work... no reputable businesses there.
so if you can come up with another way to make it they can swivel... ;)
intuitive my arse... dragging disk icons to the trash to eject them??? I, and no doubt many others, would expect that to erase them