I walked up to one once that had "OUT OF ORDER" stickers on it and was displaying the desktop (!). From what I could see, it may even have been Windows 95 (!!) -- couldn't tell if it was NT 4. However, it was still up, not locked or crashed: when you pressed the keys at the sides of the screen (not the keypad), you got the standard [DING] sound.
On the plus side, they seem to work much faster and more smoothly than the old machines with the one LCD display for operation and another for the card transaction handling.
Do you think the new system will not be similarly at the mercy of some general's fiat? Only that the general will perhaps be Chinese (regardless of how tasty his chicken may be)?
The question is, who would you rather be at the mercy of? The US or China? Think hard.
...(especially when that sniffing is misspelled "most civilised counties", and directly contributes to marketing-droid number inflation), how about lookingitup?
More power to the plaintiffs. Maybe next we can get it so monitors can stop being labeled ridiculous things like "19 inches (18 inches viewable)". Who cares what the size across the glass envelope is -- I wanna know how big my screen is, dammit!
Is this not possible? It would sure beat having to manually cruft together a dependency file yourself (and change it when you upgrade/patch something).
This is Very Old News And I Submitted It Long Ago
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Actually, all the stories here are posted by users. Try submitting the story yourself before complaining. Thanks!
Well, I did submit the story -- that same day (Aug 20).
By sending this out late on Friday evening (in the US), and routing the videos through freecache, I'd say it's a valiant attempt. But having several multi-meg videos coming out of Australia just overwhelms, I guess. Check back tomorrow, I s'pose.
Finally, the Precogs in Minority Report can spookily yap on the phone to one another between dreams. "Yer crazy! The killer had on a white shirt. Ecru, my ass."
But what about the time your little girls (who have big, dewey, imploring eyes and cute little hair-bows they made themselves out of old gift ribbons) asked you: "Daaaady? How come the pirates hate us so much? We wuuuuv them!"? Don't you remember? You almost cried. Right there in front of them, and God, and everyone. But you didn't. You were strong for them. You kept it in. Then you replied: "I don't know, honey. But don't worry. With the help of the kind, gentle people at the RIAA, we'll turn them around yet. Just you wait." "Key! Thanks, daaaady!" they chirped, and scampered off, unaware of the evil pirates lurking all around them. Some might go to school with them. Some might be in their own classes. Some might -- poor little girls! -- even be friends with them. Oh, the betrayal they'll know in their sweet lives. But that was not for now. And, with any luck, the benevolent leaders at the RIAA, with a little help from plucky "little guys" like you, might -- just might -- change the world before then.
For those of you reading along, check this guy's info. Giant troll. If that's not enough to convince you, look at the home page: "http://slashdot.org/~trollback/".
Seems to me that this article is saying the labels themselves (Warner, Interscope, Atlantic, et al) do in fact see the value in letting P2P run wild. It seems only the RIAA, which is supposed to be representing the interests of the labels, has decided on a different course!
Is this a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand (and both feet, internal organs, skin...) is doing? (Like congresscritters doing something contrary to what the people they represent want?) Or is it a case of good cop(s)/bad cop? ("Let the RIAA get all the ugly publicity doing our dirty work for us while we go about our business?")
Anyway, I'm rather interested to find out if the RIAA finally changes its tune when Hillary Rosen steps down at year's end. Maybe she's just a dragon lady who needs to go away and quit bothering everyone.
Still, can't hurt if it ekes out a little more visibility for the idea of PVRs in the first place. I just wish we'd stop naming things with TLAs. Overseas, apparently, ATMs are known as Autobanks. Or Bankomats. I like those names a lot better than Ay Tee Em. So, PVRs should be...ummmm...ok, so I'm no naming genius. That's why I'm in technology rather than marketing. (Any suggestions?)
Remember when IBM was The Man? Not as in "You The Man", but as in "You've sold out to The Man, man!" The Evil Empire? Big, corporate, bad guys? Now, they love Linux, they don't snoop on employees, they fight SCO-style crap, and so on? When did they get all nice-nice?
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I walked up to one once that had "OUT OF ORDER" stickers on it and was displaying the desktop (!). From what I could see, it may even have been Windows 95 (!!) -- couldn't tell if it was NT 4. However, it was still up, not locked or crashed: when you pressed the keys at the sides of the screen (not the keypad), you got the standard [DING] sound.
On the plus side, they seem to work much faster and more smoothly than the old machines with the one LCD display for operation and another for the card transaction handling.
Do you think the new system will not be similarly at the mercy of some general's fiat? Only that the general will perhaps be Chinese (regardless of how tasty his chicken may be)?
The question is, who would you rather be at the mercy of? The US or China? Think hard.
...that makes it a bit difficult to aim at the horizon (of your own planet).
Use this and get truly large distances.
...(especially when that sniffing is misspelled "most civilised counties", and directly contributes to marketing-droid number inflation), how about looking it up?
More power to the plaintiffs. Maybe next we can get it so monitors can stop being labeled ridiculous things like "19 inches (18 inches viewable)". Who cares what the size across the glass envelope is -- I wanna know how big my screen is, dammit!
Is this not possible? It would sure beat having to manually cruft together a dependency file yourself (and change it when you upgrade/patch something).
"Thanks!", indeed.
...how far down Google's search results people will go once they do this to their blogs.
And how soon the ones who like doing this can start.
And how soon after that Google's preferences page will include an "allow scrambled words" checkbox.
Rolodex.
By sending this out late on Friday evening (in the US), and routing the videos through freecache, I'd say it's a valiant attempt. But having several multi-meg videos coming out of Australia just overwhelms, I guess. Check back tomorrow, I s'pose.
In case you haven't seen it yet, they have low-end machines that are comparable, already running Linux, for about $200.
IANAFETG (I Am Not A Fry's Employee, Thank Goodness)
"And stop calling them 'gals'. Cowgirls are called gals. [...] Don't ruin it by conjuring up images of Dale Evans, all right?"
--Good Morning, Vietnam
...is running IIS 9.0 on Windows 2007 LIIN[1] Edition. [1] LIIN = Linux Is Illegal Now.
Finally, the Precogs in Minority Report can spookily yap on the phone to one another between dreams. "Yer crazy! The killer had on a white shirt. Ecru, my ass."
...they'd create a service that sends you to the page you wanted when you mistype the name. Instead, they're out for a fast buck that annoys us. Feh.
But what about the time your little girls (who have big, dewey, imploring eyes and cute little hair-bows they made themselves out of old gift ribbons) asked you: "Daaaady? How come the pirates hate us so much? We wuuuuv them!"? Don't you remember? You almost cried. Right there in front of them, and God, and everyone. But you didn't. You were strong for them. You kept it in. Then you replied: "I don't know, honey. But don't worry. With the help of the kind, gentle people at the RIAA, we'll turn them around yet. Just you wait." "Key! Thanks, daaaady!" they chirped, and scampered off, unaware of the evil pirates lurking all around them. Some might go to school with them. Some might be in their own classes. Some might -- poor little girls! -- even be friends with them. Oh, the betrayal they'll know in their sweet lives. But that was not for now. And, with any luck, the benevolent leaders at the RIAA, with a little help from plucky "little guys" like you, might -- just might -- change the world before then.
For those of you reading along, check this guy's info. Giant troll. If that's not enough to convince you, look at the home page: "http://slashdot.org/~trollback/".
I didn't know bees wings are hairy. I might have known bees' wings are, though. </nazi type=apostrophe>
Seems to me that this article is saying the labels themselves (Warner, Interscope, Atlantic, et al) do in fact see the value in letting P2P run wild. It seems only the RIAA, which is supposed to be representing the interests of the labels, has decided on a different course!
Is this a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand (and both feet, internal organs, skin...) is doing? (Like congresscritters doing something contrary to what the people they represent want?) Or is it a case of good cop(s)/bad cop? ("Let the RIAA get all the ugly publicity doing our dirty work for us while we go about our business?")
Anyway, I'm rather interested to find out if the RIAA finally changes its tune when Hillary Rosen steps down at year's end. Maybe she's just a dragon lady who needs to go away and quit bothering everyone.
...less Alyson Hannigan nude scenes? Bite your tongue!
My old 8-bit Atari (1200XL, not that anyone asked) could "boot" (no DOS) in about two seconds.
Nokia...a PVR? Buh?
Yup, seems like a stretch.
Still, can't hurt if it ekes out a little more visibility for the idea of PVRs in the first place. I just wish we'd stop naming things with TLAs. Overseas, apparently, ATMs are known as Autobanks. Or Bankomats. I like those names a lot better than Ay Tee Em. So, PVRs should be...ummmm...ok, so I'm no naming genius. That's why I'm in technology rather than marketing. (Any suggestions?)
Even without reading the article, I was able to come up with that premise...Slashdotters are falling down on the job!
That is all.
Remember when IBM was The Man? Not as in "You The Man", but as in "You've sold out to The Man, man!" The Evil Empire? Big, corporate, bad guys? Now, they love Linux, they don't snoop on employees, they fight SCO-style crap, and so on? When did they get all nice-nice?
On the other hand, they do have a course titled "Pronunciation 17A: There's no 'cue'". So they are helping society that much, at least.