the power supply mods I can make sense of... but personally, I'd ignore the analogue side and just hook the digital sound output straight into the digital input of my system pre-amp... and I'd make sure I'd gotten a DVD player with a DVI output and not a crummy scart one...
you can spread a cluster across multiple sites to gain safety from a single disaster like a fire or plane crash or some twat putting his JCB blade through the power cable (happened to me, was 2 days before the power came back up, he'd hit a 14,000 volt main cable, ruined his day permanently)... try doing that with a single mainframe...
If I ran a shop... and had my range of products on sale and some rival firm came into my store and started putting up adverts for their products inside my store, then I'd be pretty pissed and could get them for trespass... with a website, it's the same thing...
Why do we have laws about how businesses can compete with each other? Why shouldn't I sue my competitors because their prices are lower than mine? They're playing pretty hard with me, I can tell you.
hey tosspot... you and your competitors are not abusing a monopoly position in the market... the rules change completely when you are deemed to hold a monopoly on the market.
One good thing about AMD CPUs... I can select AMD and it will be transparent to me as a user.
ahhh, but it isn't, thanks to Intel, any code that has been compiled with the Intel compiler will automatically default to crappier routines if detects it's not on a genuine Intel CPU...
Wow, you keep twelve applications up while you're playing a game?
yes, this is Linux we're talking about here... not ms-windows, where it's obligatory to shut everything else down prior to starting up a game... just in case...
It has always been their policy to issue as narrowly worded a decision as can decide the case before them. It's not "theese days", it's the full history of the court.
precisely... because it's not their job to make the law... just to be the final arbiter on how the law as it stands actually should be interpreted.
Seriously. It sounds like they are saying that this is a FIRST or something. Isn't Internet Explorer the LAST browser to support RSS feeds?
yes, but for the vast majority of Windows users out there, RSS will be something new for them, they've never used any other browser, so they won't know that it really isn't...
They're well late for the RSS party, but Microsoft are claiming that it's only just starting now
That's making many advertisers nervous, though they insist they work with subcontractors and often don't know about any adware use until they get a complaint.
"There's plausible deniability at each tier," said Chris King, product marketing manager at anti-spyware vendor Blue Coat Systems Inc.
to put it politely... bollocks... they subcontract it, they are responsible for it... they can't fob off the responsibility to the subcontractors... they are responsible for making sure that their subcontractors do it legally and ethically...
Honestly, this is just an idea that isn't ready yet. Flash is too slow to write right now. The life is decent. Reads work well.
reads are fine... I've got a 1 Gig SD card installed in my Tungsten E... great for listening to music and reading books from, also works well keeping streetmaps for my GPS software in, just copy it into ram when needed... highly amusing when you consider that a Sinclair Microdrive is basically the same size and only held 80 Kilobytes... and that was considered big for it's day... my QL still works and the microdrive tapes are still going strong...
The movie is SO bad.. but it does have the cooolest monster I've seen in movie.
The movie is so bad it's brilliant... the leading lady, Cindy Hopkins, loses her clothing in almost every scene... but I'm sure Mel Brooks got the idea for "Robin Hood, Men In Tights" from seeing Prince Precious and his merry band of outlaws
jump ship to an OS that doesn't require crap like this... the solution is staring you in the face...
How much longer are people gonna take crap like this from Microsoft and the never ending rigmarole of having to waste cpu cycles constantly scanning items as they are read in and out of the disk???
It's just unbelievable the sheer crap you guys will put up with... I personally dumped Microsoft back in 2000 and haven't regretted it one single bit...
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and there we have the killer phrase... the last sentence of the final paragraph quoted... the one that makes it impossible for gpl applications to use the technology... and what's the bets they'll use similar language in the license to use their RSS extensions???
2) Move jobs overseas to exploit cheap 3rd-world labor
it's not the cheap labour that matters... it's the fact that they have very poor health & safety laws and their environmental protection laws also lack teeth... this means that you can ruthlessly exploit the workforce by having them work in hazardous conditions whilst also leaving a stinking mess behind... when the mess gets to messy, just shift to somewhere else... look at the ship dismantling industry... it's all but vanished in western nations as the ship owners merely send the defunct ships to the beaches of India to be dismantled. They don't have to protect the workers or worry about disposing of any asbestos... cos the laws are non-existent for protecting the workers or the environment.
Big corporations do not care about their workers or the countries they've abandoned... they blackmail western nations into providing massive subsidies in order to keep their plant there or build one there... I mean, look at the current stink over the tax kickbacks that Dell are getting for having a plant in Orlando...
if you want to scare yourself, go read "A Clockwork Orange"... now that's starting to come true... what with "happy slapping" and other random acts against the person... and the police basically don't appear care if you're burgled, they just give you a crime number to use with the insurers. heaven help you if you disturb them in the act of burgling your home and try to apprehend them... if you so much as touch them, they'll have you in court on assault charges... amazing how these crims know all their "rights"...
It's hard to say "topple MS" when you have an economic entity almost as big (bigger?) than MS itself that makes money off of it.
yes, it's a massive industry fixing borked computers and providing virus/spyware removal tools... IT departments don't want to replace Windows with Linux because then they'd have to slim down and lose some jobs...
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The one thing I don't want is a "stealth" golf ball... I lose enough of them anyway...
patents and codecs my dear chap... patents and codecs...
the power supply mods I can make sense of... but personally, I'd ignore the analogue side and just hook the digital sound output straight into the digital input of my system pre-amp... and I'd make sure I'd gotten a DVD player with a DVI output and not a crummy scart one...
you can spread a cluster across multiple sites to gain safety from a single disaster like a fire or plane crash or some twat putting his JCB blade through the power cable (happened to me, was 2 days before the power came back up, he'd hit a 14,000 volt main cable, ruined his day permanently)... try doing that with a single mainframe...
If I ran a shop... and had my range of products on sale and some rival firm came into my store and started putting up adverts for their products inside my store, then I'd be pretty pissed and could get them for trespass... with a website, it's the same thing...
there was a popup??? not in my browser...
hey tosspot... you and your competitors are not abusing a monopoly position in the market... the rules change completely when you are deemed to hold a monopoly on the market.
ahhh, but it isn't, thanks to Intel, any code that has been compiled with the Intel compiler will automatically default to crappier routines if detects it's not on a genuine Intel CPU...
from earlier up in the comments
yes, this is Linux we're talking about here... not ms-windows, where it's obligatory to shut everything else down prior to starting up a game... just in case...
precisely... because it's not their job to make the law... just to be the final arbiter on how the law as it stands actually should be interpreted.
yes, but for the vast majority of Windows users out there, RSS will be something new for them, they've never used any other browser, so they won't know that it really isn't...
They're well late for the RSS party, but Microsoft are claiming that it's only just starting now
oh come on... it wasn't that bloody funny... I was half expecting to get hit with at least one flamebait mod...
to put it politely... bollocks... they subcontract it, they are responsible for it... they can't fob off the responsibility to the subcontractors... they are responsible for making sure that their subcontractors do it legally and ethically...
reads are fine... I've got a 1 Gig SD card installed in my Tungsten E... great for listening to music and reading books from, also works well keeping streetmaps for my GPS software in, just copy it into ram when needed... highly amusing when you consider that a Sinclair Microdrive is basically the same size and only held 80 Kilobytes... and that was considered big for it's day... my QL still works and the microdrive tapes are still going strong...
the only people who might possibly run into the write limit would be Gentoo users...
The movie is so bad it's brilliant... the leading lady, Cindy Hopkins, loses her clothing in almost every scene... but I'm sure Mel Brooks got the idea for "Robin Hood, Men In Tights" from seeing Prince Precious and his merry band of outlaws
That's me!!! and I can knit...
How much longer are people gonna take crap like this from Microsoft and the never ending rigmarole of having to waste cpu cycles constantly scanning items as they are read in and out of the disk???
It's just unbelievable the sheer crap you guys will put up with... I personally dumped Microsoft back in 2000 and haven't regretted it one single bit...
and there we have the killer phrase... the last sentence of the final paragraph quoted... the one that makes it impossible for gpl applications to use the technology... and what's the bets they'll use similar language in the license to use their RSS extensions???
it's not the cheap labour that matters... it's the fact that they have very poor health & safety laws and their environmental protection laws also lack teeth... this means that you can ruthlessly exploit the workforce by having them work in hazardous conditions whilst also leaving a stinking mess behind... when the mess gets to messy, just shift to somewhere else... look at the ship dismantling industry... it's all but vanished in western nations as the ship owners merely send the defunct ships to the beaches of India to be dismantled. They don't have to protect the workers or worry about disposing of any asbestos... cos the laws are non-existent for protecting the workers or the environment.
Big corporations do not care about their workers or the countries they've abandoned... they blackmail western nations into providing massive subsidies in order to keep their plant there or build one there... I mean, look at the current stink over the tax kickbacks that Dell are getting for having a plant in Orlando...
if you want to scare yourself, go read "A Clockwork Orange"... now that's starting to come true... what with "happy slapping" and other random acts against the person... and the police basically don't appear care if you're burgled, they just give you a crime number to use with the insurers. heaven help you if you disturb them in the act of burgling your home and try to apprehend them... if you so much as touch them, they'll have you in court on assault charges... amazing how these crims know all their "rights"...
that one on the cover looks just like Michael Jackson...
yes, it's a massive industry fixing borked computers and providing virus/spyware removal tools... IT departments don't want to replace Windows with Linux because then they'd have to slim down and lose some jobs...
sadly, I've blown my mod points for today... otherwise, I'd have modded you up
XP on DS then???