They also blocked SWETSHOP, SW3TSH0P, NIKESUX (but not other companies - I tried IBMSUX and it went through). Apparently criticizing about their use of child labor hits a little too close to home, they're turning down a sale just so all 3 people who might read the back of your shoe don't see nike and sweatshop together.
maybe it's different where you live, but in my state you have to sue in the same town where a company does business. this is because the court has to be able to serve the documents, and can only do that in it's own jurisdiction.
Rebates suck. How come thy just can't lower the price??
because this would cost the company more money. It's much cheaper to offer a $20 rebate than to discount the price by $20. The company offering the rebate counts on only a certain percentage of people buying the product to send in the rebate form, and of those many will be incomplete/incorrect. Furthermore, they get to use that money for the 8 weeks or so it takes to refund it to you.
I wonder how Dell customers who buy desktop computers will like it when they change their motherboards (and therefor, the BIOS in it won't be Dell branded anymore). If this isn't a blatant attempt to rip off customers, then what is it ?
Have you ever tried to upgrade the motherboard in a Dell? You can't use their power supply on another motherboard (or vise versa) - even though the PS will plug into another MoBo, it is wired completely different, and the connectors for power, reset and LEDs are proprietary, so you'll have to solder your own to the little circuit board the switches and LEDs are on.
They've made it so it's not worth the trouble to upgrade; they want you to buy a new Dell. Or likewise, if the PS goes and you need a new one, you can't pick up a cheap ATX PS, you have to get it from them.
Why is that illegal? I've never seen a law that stated one had to register software they purchased. I almost never register my software.
I look at registering software like sending in the warrantee cards that come with electronic products. I'll do it if it seems that there is some benefit to me (i.e. notifications of updates not otherwise available on the web, etc.). Otherwise it seems that it's just a ploy so companies can keep huge databases full of buying habits or so they can put you on mailing lists.
he could be mocking specific police officers and their families for all we know.
Even if he was it sounds like the worst he could have done was slander the police dep't and/or officers. AFAIK that's not a crime people are arrested for (sued maybe).
Free Advice has a page on libel and slander, and no where does it mention that someone can be arrested.
Where did you get that from? It sounds like (according to the link) he grabbed the source and some pics from the legit site to make a parody on his own site.
Sorta like W tried (and failed) to take down gwbush.com for calling him a crackhead. My guess is the salem police dep't is going to face a huge lawsuit from this guy if his only 'crime' was to make fun on the police.
If someone cracked their web site, you could bet Hawaiian Airlines would be all over them with lawyers, FBI, etc. It's nice that the courts ruled in favor of the pilot, but I'd like to see some charges filed for illegally breaking into this guy's site.
With a bunch of single processor boxes (merely with more RAM and a faster CPU) you can just reuse the same motherboards which means you can buy them en masse and not be at a loss. With a small number of multiprocessor boxes you aren't moving the mobos out in volume which means you can't order large numbers of them.
All the new G4s use the same motherboards - the G4 chip (or chips) sit on a daughter card. You can swap the single out for a dual without any modifications. Here's a site that demonstrates this.
The first apple newton I bought (the 120 in '93 I think) could do much of what you're descibing. It could save handwritten notes as they were drawn - without the OCR conversion.
It was much smaller than what you are suggesting, though. It sounds like you want something the size of a sheet of paper - and now you're talking about lugging something around that's as big as a laptop but with almost none of the functionality. That was part of the Newton's problem. It was much bigger than a Palm - to big to fit in your pocket, but didn't have the utility of a laptop to make it worth lugging around.
actually, lead can be turned into gold by bombarding it with protons - the same way heavier unstable elements are made, problem is the process is much more expensive than gold itself.
Those have been up for almost a year. Does anyone know where to get the Q4 iso? I've checked several of the ftp links from linuxppc.com, all seem to be the 2000 release that's been around for a while.
I think what's going to happen with computers is that the owners will eventually be required to insure their computers are secure - much like with other possessions.
Since everyone is throwing around analogies, if you have, say, a trampoline in your yard, it must be secured so that a child cannot simply walk up to it and get on. It is called an attractive nuisance, and if someone is injured on it you would be sued by the kid's parents. Same with a computer. If you put up a web server you must secure it or expect that someone is going to crack it.
I personally don't care less what your intentions are in the dead of night jiggling my door handle, I'm going to shoot you first and ask questions later. Don't do it.
ahh yes, shooting fixes everything. actually you are the one who would end up in jail if you shot someone for jiggling your door handle
If the puffer fish contained all the human genes, then by and large, the puffer fish would seem awfully human. But it doesn't. Its even got extra stuff, like gills and chemicals that are cardiotoxic
Actually the human embryo does have gills during a portion of development. If I remember my cell bio correctly, only about 1% of genes in the human genome are expressed at any one time, and most are never expressed.
Right now Apple's cash cow is their hardware. And until the majority of apps are re-written to be native OS X code (a.k.a. Cocoa), as opposed to "optimized MacOS Classic code" (a.k.a. Carbon), you won't see any public push from Apple to get OS X running on Intel
I think you're wrong there (not about hardware being their cash cow). It is because they are dependent on the hardware, that they need to move away from Motorola/IBM. Right now Apple is getting $3K for 500 Mhz machines, what could they get for GHz or dual Ghz if they could use P3s or Athlons?
the OS media will include a BIOS lock that prevents the OS media from being installed on a non-Dell system
I'm just guessing from what I see at work, but it seems that a big part of piracy occurs in the workplace. We have all Dell machines (most companies probably buy from all machines from the same vendor), but only one copy of office 2000, windows 2000, etc. and install them on every machine with the same CD-key.
Instead, it will be on a label affixed to the outside of the system chassis. The COA label should not be removed from the chassis -- the label will tear into small pieces if there is an attempt to remove it and it will become unusable.
Shhh. No one tell them that you can write the numbers down - or better yet keep them in a text file called 'COA numbers' on one of the servers.
Agreed. This will happen as long as people let companies get away with it.
Peg Graham of New York installed AOL's latest software on her laptop weeks after its initial release in October with disastrous results: Her computer crashed. In vain, her laptop manufacturer urged her to reinstall her entire Windows operating system -- she did three times -- before she finally paid a local repair shop $145 to fix it.
What does she do next? Switch to a different ISP? Sue AOL for the repair costs? Nope
...she returned to an earlier version of AOL's software she considers less risky.
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Or render it unfit for circulation?
Or are coins exempt from this?
It's always highly suspicious when people are fighting for some supposed victims, and you NEVER GET TO HEAR from the "victims" themselves
/. to tell us their side of the story.
Yeah, it's weird that these workers don't have internet access, why aren't they posting on
They also blocked SWETSHOP, SW3TSH0P, NIKESUX (but not other companies - I tried IBMSUX and it went through). Apparently criticizing about their use of child labor hits a little too close to home, they're turning down a sale just so all 3 people who might read the back of your shoe don't see nike and sweatshop together.
sue in Small Claims Court
maybe it's different where you live, but in my state you have to sue in the same town where a company does business. this is because the court has to be able to serve the documents, and can only do that in it's own jurisdiction.
Rebates suck. How come thy just can't lower the price??
because this would cost the company more money. It's much cheaper to offer a $20 rebate than to discount the price by $20. The company offering the rebate counts on only a certain percentage of people buying the product to send in the rebate form, and of those many will be incomplete/incorrect. Furthermore, they get to use that money for the 8 weeks or so it takes to refund it to you.
256Mbit = 128Meg Byte
Are you using the same calculator as the guy who said the chip is 18" by 18"?
I wonder how Dell customers who buy desktop computers will like it when they change their motherboards (and therefor, the BIOS in it won't be Dell branded anymore). If this isn't a blatant attempt to rip off customers, then what is it ?
Have you ever tried to upgrade the motherboard in a Dell? You can't use their power supply on another motherboard (or vise versa) - even though the PS will plug into another MoBo, it is wired completely different, and the connectors for power, reset and LEDs are proprietary, so you'll have to solder your own to the little circuit board the switches and LEDs are on.
They've made it so it's not worth the trouble to upgrade; they want you to buy a new Dell. Or likewise, if the PS goes and you need a new one, you can't pick up a cheap ATX PS, you have to get it from them.
Why is that illegal? I've never seen a law that stated one had to register software they purchased. I almost never register my software.
I look at registering software like sending in the warrantee cards that come with electronic products. I'll do it if it seems that there is some benefit to me (i.e. notifications of updates not otherwise available on the web, etc.). Otherwise it seems that it's just a ploy so companies can keep huge databases full of buying habits or so they can put you on mailing lists.
he could be mocking specific police officers and their families for all we know.
Even if he was it sounds like the worst he could have done was slander the police dep't and/or officers. AFAIK that's not a crime people are arrested for (sued maybe). Free Advice has a page on libel and slander, and no where does it mention that someone can be arrested.
Where did you get that from? It sounds like (according to the link) he grabbed the source and some pics from the legit site to make a parody on his own site.
Sorta like W tried (and failed) to take down gwbush.com for calling him a crackhead. My guess is the salem police dep't is going to face a huge lawsuit from this guy if his only 'crime' was to make fun on the police.
If someone cracked their web site, you could bet Hawaiian Airlines would be all over them with lawyers, FBI, etc. It's nice that the courts ruled in favor of the pilot, but I'd like to see some charges filed for illegally breaking into this guy's site.
With a bunch of single processor boxes (merely with more RAM and a faster CPU) you can just reuse the same motherboards which means you can buy them en masse and not be at a loss. With a small number of multiprocessor boxes you aren't moving the mobos out in volume which means you can't order large numbers of them.
All the new G4s use the same motherboards - the G4 chip (or chips) sit on a daughter card. You can swap the single out for a dual without any modifications. Here's a site that demonstrates this.
The first apple newton I bought (the 120 in '93 I think) could do much of what you're descibing. It could save handwritten notes as they were drawn - without the OCR conversion.
It was much smaller than what you are suggesting, though. It sounds like you want something the size of a sheet of paper - and now you're talking about lugging something around that's as big as a laptop but with almost none of the functionality. That was part of the Newton's problem. It was much bigger than a Palm - to big to fit in your pocket, but didn't have the utility of a laptop to make it worth lugging around.
...will they be able to turn lead into gold? :]
actually, lead can be turned into gold by bombarding it with protons - the same way heavier unstable elements are made, problem is the process is much more expensive than gold itself.
Those have been up for almost a year. Does anyone know where to get the Q4 iso? I've checked several of the ftp links from linuxppc.com, all seem to be the 2000 release that's been around for a while.
There was this story, where OldManMurray was claiming to sue ID for unauthorized use of their image in QuakeIII Arena.
I think what's going to happen with computers is that the owners will eventually be required to insure their computers are secure - much like with other possessions.
Since everyone is throwing around analogies, if you have, say, a trampoline in your yard, it must be secured so that a child cannot simply walk up to it and get on. It is called an attractive nuisance, and if someone is injured on it you would be sued by the kid's parents. Same with a computer. If you put up a web server you must secure it or expect that someone is going to crack it.
I personally don't care less what your intentions are in the dead of night jiggling my door handle, I'm going to shoot you first and ask questions later. Don't do it.
ahh yes, shooting fixes everything. actually you are the one who would end up in jail if you shot someone for jiggling your door handle
On to Yahoo! and Lycos he goes, enters the search "black bear". Guess how many porn sites he got back?
i did a black bear search on yahoo and lycos...didn't get a single porn site (at least not on the first page of 20 or so sites).
If the puffer fish contained all the human genes, then by and large, the puffer fish would seem awfully human. But it doesn't. Its even got extra stuff, like gills and chemicals that are cardiotoxic
Actually the human embryo does have gills during a portion of development. If I remember my cell bio correctly, only about 1% of genes in the human genome are expressed at any one time, and most are never expressed.
Bush did very well in his life and he's gone a lot further than you have
let's see...he's a coke head, been arrested for DWI (and lied about being sober for 14 years)...yeah, that's probably a lot further than I'd go.
it has a 100 kb/sec 900 Mhz radio .
as in 900 MHz cordless phone - not processor.
Right now Apple's cash cow is their hardware. And until the majority of apps are re-written to be native OS X code (a.k.a. Cocoa), as opposed to "optimized MacOS Classic code" (a.k.a. Carbon), you won't see any public push from Apple to get OS X running on Intel
I think you're wrong there (not about hardware being their cash cow). It is because they are dependent on the hardware, that they need to move away from Motorola/IBM. Right now Apple is getting $3K for 500 Mhz machines, what could they get for GHz or dual Ghz if they could use P3s or Athlons?
the OS media will include a BIOS lock that prevents the OS media from being installed on a non-Dell system
I'm just guessing from what I see at work, but it seems that a big part of piracy occurs in the workplace. We have all Dell machines (most companies probably buy from all machines from the same vendor), but only one copy of office 2000, windows 2000, etc. and install them on every machine with the same CD-key.
Instead, it will be on a label affixed to the outside of the system chassis. The COA label should not be removed from the chassis -- the label will tear into small pieces if there is an attempt to remove it and it will become unusable.
Shhh. No one tell them that you can write the numbers down - or better yet keep them in a text file called 'COA numbers' on one of the servers.
Agreed. This will happen as long as people let companies get away with it.
...she returned to an earlier version of AOL's software she considers less risky.
Peg Graham of New York installed AOL's latest software on her laptop weeks after its initial release in October with disastrous results: Her computer crashed. In vain, her laptop manufacturer urged her to reinstall her entire Windows operating system -- she did three times -- before she finally paid a local repair shop $145 to fix it.
What does she do next? Switch to a different ISP? Sue AOL for the repair costs?
Nope
It's tough to feel sorry for these people.