Yeah and PDA and programmable cell phones would never sell.
Not that he doesn't have a particular bias, but he's probably right in that these devices are not going to be laptops like most people think of them. Instead they're more like special-purpose hardware for special-purpose software, something like the PDA you mention only marketed as a laptop. That's not to say these won't have a place, because I do think they could very well serve the purpose for which they're being manufactured.
Yup you're right there. Another interesting part of the article: "The new J-Com shares had a starting price of 672,000 yen, but after the misplaced order they fell to the day's trading limit of 572,000 yen each. After Mizuho Securities Co. bought back the shares, they rose to the maximum allowable single day gain of 700,000 yen."
If you had been able to get any at 572k yen you would have made a 128,000 yen/share profit, not bad!
That I thought of when I read this was 'Winmodem'... another example of a hardware/software mesh that never should have existed. Anyone else think that?
US: I could help a bit. I could host it for a while. EU: *gives distrusting look* US: Host it for a while... a while... Share the load... the load... EU: Get away!! US: I don't want to keep it! I just want to help! UN: See! See! He wants it for himself! US: Shut up you! Go away! Get out of here! EU: No, US. It's you.
They could be celebrating the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit! Or the first PC by Hewlett Packard! Maybe the birth of Marilyn Manson! Lots of possibilities... or maybe, just maybe... it has no meaning.
Is it better just to fight the good fight? Not if you are a poor fighter. In the legal arena, these rulings stick and we get the precedents in favor of RIAA/MPAA/Sony/etc. If the EFF has such a poor track record, maybe they should stick to lobbying and let the ACLU or state governments (like Texas and others) do the suing. It doesn't do us a whole lot of good if our battles are lost because the representation is poor, but it can do us harm.
Such blasphemy! No cure at all is better than Satan's cure!!
Recently a successful vaccine for cervical cancer was developed, but guess which radical fundamentalist population group was against it because they thought that vaccinating teenage girls against cervical cancer would promote promiscuity? These types are just insane...
I think you are correct on that point. They are probably totaling all of those 'estimates' of damages that the company would like to see gained back in a civil suit but would never ever actually get nor substantiate.
So I guess all that extra money we started paying for gas after the 'war for oil' started is going to recruit new terrorists since so many were killed or captured?
Or maybe what you meant to say was 'fund rich capitalists'.
There are many components that can overheat when subjected to poor ventilation and excessive heat (which is not always the product of the component itself but those next to it/on top of it/below it). What you see is exactly what this guy sees, random crashing and freezing up. There is also the possibility he got a lemon since it doesn't sound like this problem plagues the other thousands of users out there.
It sounds like this one guy (is this the same one we heard about days ago?) just doesn't know how to properly ventilate electronics in the first place. Is he sticking it in some closed-off cabinet sitting between a cable box and a receiver or something?
And 'fixing it with string'? Sounds more like 'fixing it by allowing it to get some AIR'...
Morover it's kind of amusing how they are using a socialist government program to try and keep people in their socialist system which is losing workers.
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Not that he doesn't have a particular bias, but he's probably right in that these devices are not going to be laptops like most people think of them. Instead they're more like special-purpose hardware for special-purpose software, something like the PDA you mention only marketed as a laptop. That's not to say these won't have a place, because I do think they could very well serve the purpose for which they're being manufactured.
"The new J-Com shares had a starting price of 672,000 yen, but after the misplaced order they fell to the day's trading limit of 572,000 yen each. After Mizuho Securities Co. bought back the shares, they rose to the maximum allowable single day gain of 700,000 yen."
If you had been able to get any at 572k yen you would have made a 128,000 yen/share profit, not bad!
That I thought of when I read this was 'Winmodem'... another example of a hardware/software mesh that never should have existed. Anyone else think that?
He installed Windows and it still worked.
Good one. I was thinking along the exact same lines but I couldn't quite execute the joke... kudos.
US: I could help a bit. I could host it for a while.
EU: *gives distrusting look*
US: Host it for a while... a while... Share the load... the load...
EU: Get away!!
US: I don't want to keep it! I just want to help!
UN: See! See! He wants it for himself!
US: Shut up you! Go away! Get out of here!
EU: No, US. It's you.
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They could be celebrating the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit! Or the first PC by Hewlett Packard! Maybe the birth of Marilyn Manson! Lots of possibilities... or maybe, just maybe... it has no meaning.
Is it better just to fight the good fight? Not if you are a poor fighter. In the legal arena, these rulings stick and we get the precedents in favor of RIAA/MPAA/Sony/etc. If the EFF has such a poor track record, maybe they should stick to lobbying and let the ACLU or state governments (like Texas and others) do the suing. It doesn't do us a whole lot of good if our battles are lost because the representation is poor, but it can do us harm.
Not true, some of us know about Bollywood.
It's actually specific to the state itself. Different states categorize their crimes differently.
Recently a successful vaccine for cervical cancer was developed, but guess which radical fundamentalist population group was against it because they thought that vaccinating teenage girls against cervical cancer would promote promiscuity? These types are just insane...
I think you are correct on that point. They are probably totaling all of those 'estimates' of damages that the company would like to see gained back in a civil suit but would never ever actually get nor substantiate.
If I give you my credit card number will you write it down for me?
Hey man I'm a tech junkie, got any stuff? Stuff that matters?
...is to legalize cybercrime.
Or maybe what you meant to say was 'fund rich capitalists'.
Before they try porting Gentoo to it.
And they want to open something in OpenOffice.
There are many components that can overheat when subjected to poor ventilation and excessive heat (which is not always the product of the component itself but those next to it/on top of it/below it). What you see is exactly what this guy sees, random crashing and freezing up. There is also the possibility he got a lemon since it doesn't sound like this problem plagues the other thousands of users out there.
Ah but it only stays 'free' until you get that real job. Then you will pay for it twice over in taxes.
And 'fixing it with string'? Sounds more like 'fixing it by allowing it to get some AIR'...
Hey I have all of that in the rural United States only we are not deluded that a several-month waiting list to see a doctor is the 'best healthcare'.
Don't take it personal though, eh?
Morover it's kind of amusing how they are using a socialist government program to try and keep people in their socialist system which is losing workers.