But wouldn't that mean that the computer was already on (i.e. in sleep mode where it still checks to see if it should be awake)?
As you say, there can be multiple levels or qualities of "on" a device can be in, many of which can give no outward sign unless you're directly monitoring the power usage. One of these levels may keep a very low level process coded in the firmware watching the system clock and can trigger a startup at a specific time of a process that can perform the scheduled task, such as either starting up the system or just playing a CD.
I can't find the option under Mac OS X 10.2 on my Blue & White G3 hardware to start up and shut down at specific times, but it does have the option to restart the system automatically when power is restored after it had been lost.
As long as one switch is on and there is power, any others can be switched on or off. Losing power doesn't necessarily turn a switch off. Devices that are always on in some way are increasingly common.
For those of you who prefer not to have a maximized browser window and find you can't scroll left on this story's linked site, know that it is a problem with the interaction of the stylesheet setting the width of the content after the middle of the browser window was determined for centering with HTML, which isn't revised. In this particular case, if your window is less than 780 pixels wide, some content will be clipped off the left side of the window and inaccessible (can't scroll there).
I've modified my userContent.css client-side stylesheet to include center { text-align: left ! important } as well as *[align] { text-align: left ! important } (as it also triggered by other tags) until such time as the sites using this style cease to exist (or a version of Mozilla comes out that doesn't suffer from this problem and can either be installed under Redhat 6.2 or my workplace upgrades me to Redhat 9).
I know I'm off-topic, but I'm trying to be informative. Sites using the stylesheet properties width and position need to address everything and not expect HTML-based presentation like <center> to do the right thing anymore in browsers that support CSS.
The trackball is actually fully directional. When used as a scrollwheel, the direction you spin it is treated as motion in one of 4 (or 8) directions. It can also be used to control the mouse pointer, but that disables the use of the optical mouse base as a mouse.
I've thought about getting one, but I'm waiting until it can be used as two independent mice (and driver independent). I'd think it would be good for gaming if you could control motion with the mouse and aiming/head movement with the trackball simultaneously, independently, and accurately. Be able to run any direction and fire at any other (within reason for your avatar's abilities). Running in an arc instead of predictable straight lines while still able to maintain your aim on the target.
I've also thought about a GUI that could handle two pointers usefully. For example, instead of grabbing the edge of a window to resize it, the user could just grab two points anywhere on the window and adjust/move it that way. It would free the user from the implicit paperweight model in current GUIs.
Ok, a note here before you loons all get too excited; if you take any two stocks, bring up the comparision chart, and start moving around the start date, you can pretty much make it look like what you want.
Simplified version for those who still don't know what they're looking at:
"Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... A-y-y-y!" -- Disco Stu
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Austin must also pay a $2,000 fine and is barred for three years from using a computer without approval.
Excuse me, but didn't the Supreme Court say that such penalties were unconstitutional, coincidentally just days after Mitnick's similar restrictions ended?
I saw it on Ripley's Believe It Or Not that there is a type of t-shirt that does not allow odor to pass through it. ThinkGeek should think about using those:)
Just don't ever take it off in public. Or without first putting on a gas mask.
We really need to find better cause celebres rather than letting rights owners pick the fights.
Unfortunately they are the only ones with standing.
But why oh why don't the rulings limit themselves to the facts of the case? Why isn't it just that selling modchips in the furtherance of ones own piracy is illegal?
Isn't there a motion the defense could have made to sever the two charges into separate trials? The first charge is clearly prejudicial upon the second. That he sold pirated CD-ROMs should be irrelevant to the legality of selling modchips and the issues should have to be examined separately.
You know damn well that the software/music industries don't care about people that make backups of what they own....
Stop trying to distort/distract/cloud the issue.
Seems to me it it is the software/music industries that are distoring/distracting/clouding the issue by diverting attention only to illegal copying thereby painting all copying with the illegality brush. As such, raising the point that not all copying is illegal is appropriate and justifies the vending of these products.
A minority non-infringing use can still be substantial.
that's why it's not illegal to make backups of stuff you own.
But a backup is useless if not functional. And since the tools to make the backup functional are not forthcoming, then it is permissible to make the device in which they are to be used interoperable with them to make them functional.
MOST people only use them to circumvent copy protection and play copied games.
What's wrong with playing copied games you've paid for? Anyone with kids and pets (particularly dogs) knows that game CDs (and movie DVDs) aren't durable enough and you not only need a backup, you need to be able to replace the backup yourself. Even if the vendor provided two copies in each package, you need to be able to make another backup if one of those goes bad, and have that backup be functional.
And besides, you shouldn't penalize those that use something for legal purposes even if most people use it for illegal purposes. The sins of the many should not outweigh the rights of the innocents.
The only reason I'd buy any of this is so that I could make replicas and/or virtual models. I would never want to risk further degradation of the originals. Having backups of physical items is just as important (perhaps moreso) than having backups of data.
Whatever happened to that device you could buy that could recharge any consumer alkaline battery? Did Rayovac buy the patent and proprietize it to their Renewal batteries, or was it bunk?
Why does our world increasing sound like a combination of "Logan's Run", "1984", and "Brazil"?
With this amount of individual cases, eventually the RIAA will have to pursue infringers in the manner depicted in "THX 1138". Anyone have the net worth of the RIAA to calculate how much they can afford to spend per trader to sue?
What am I thinking. I'm sure they've run those numbers themselves. That's why the damages they're suing for are so high: they need those high damage awards/settlements to fund the next wave of civil suits.
Meanwhile they sell their own licenses to copy in the form of the "presumed guilty" surcharges on Music CD-Rs. Pennies per CD over the normal cost of a blank data CD-R. Perhaps file trading should switch to a model where users choose their songs from an on-line catalogue of titles which are purchased by the company, burned on Music CD-Rs, and mailed to the user. Get sued? You already paid the RIAA for every copy by using Music CD-Rs.
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How about "Maxx Lame"? Or is that also covered by his "but not limited to" plan to annex? Because I may just raise my own Maxx Claim.
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Were they all platinum-colored cases (what they call "beige" today), or does it include the Blue & White G3?
"I think because all the nuclear DNA is human," Doerflinger said, "we'd consider this an organism of the human species."
I think because all the ROM code is extracted from a Macintosh, we'd consider a PC running this emulator a system of the Macintosh platform.
But wouldn't that mean that the computer was already on (i.e. in sleep mode where it still checks to see if it should be awake)?
As you say, there can be multiple levels or qualities of "on" a device can be in, many of which can give no outward sign unless you're directly monitoring the power usage. One of these levels may keep a very low level process coded in the firmware watching the system clock and can trigger a startup at a specific time of a process that can perform the scheduled task, such as either starting up the system or just playing a CD.
I can't find the option under Mac OS X 10.2 on my Blue & White G3 hardware to start up and shut down at specific times, but it does have the option to restart the system automatically when power is restored after it had been lost.
As long as one switch is on and there is power, any others can be switched on or off. Losing power doesn't necessarily turn a switch off. Devices that are always on in some way are increasingly common.
For those of you who prefer not to have a maximized browser window and find you can't scroll left on this story's linked site, know that it is a problem with the interaction of the stylesheet setting the width of the content after the middle of the browser window was determined for centering with HTML, which isn't revised. In this particular case, if your window is less than 780 pixels wide, some content will be clipped off the left side of the window and inaccessible (can't scroll there).
I've modified my userContent.css client-side stylesheet to include center { text-align: left ! important } as well as *[align] { text-align: left ! important } (as it also triggered by other tags) until such time as the sites using this style cease to exist (or a version of Mozilla comes out that doesn't suffer from this problem and can either be installed under Redhat 6.2 or my workplace upgrades me to Redhat 9).
I know I'm off-topic, but I'm trying to be informative. Sites using the stylesheet properties width and position need to address everything and not expect HTML-based presentation like <center> to do the right thing anymore in browsers that support CSS.
[Whose] computer can turn on all by itself?
Steve Jobs' computer can. Apple ran a commercial once where an (old) iMac was used as a multimedia-playing alarm clock.
Correction: [I]Children of the Stones[/I] is region 0.
...bite my shiny plastic peanut.
So how does reallyfuckingsucks.com feel about themselves?
I've seen 4-way and 8-way trackballs in mice available. I've seen some models available at .
The trackball is actually fully directional. When used as a scrollwheel, the direction you spin it is treated as motion in one of 4 (or 8) directions. It can also be used to control the mouse pointer, but that disables the use of the optical mouse base as a mouse.
I've thought about getting one, but I'm waiting until it can be used as two independent mice (and driver independent). I'd think it would be good for gaming if you could control motion with the mouse and aiming/head movement with the trackball simultaneously, independently, and accurately. Be able to run any direction and fire at any other (within reason for your avatar's abilities). Running in an arc instead of predictable straight lines while still able to maintain your aim on the target.
I've also thought about a GUI that could handle two pointers usefully. For example, instead of grabbing the edge of a window to resize it, the user could just grab two points anywhere on the window and adjust/move it that way. It would free the user from the implicit paperweight model in current GUIs.
On my last coding job in my contract it stated that, until the finished code is handed over to them, it was mine, mine, mine!
And rightly so since I'm the one that brought the idea for the project to the company.
Ok, a note here before you loons all get too excited; if you take any two stocks, bring up the comparision chart, and start moving around the start date, you can pretty much make it look like what you want.
Simplified version for those who still don't know what they're looking at:
"Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... A-y-y-y!" -- Disco Stu
Arrgh! It's lose, not loose! Losers!
At least someone's been reading my signature.
Excuse me, but didn't the Supreme Court say that such penalties were unconstitutional, coincidentally just days after Mitnick's similar restrictions ended?
I saw it on Ripley's Believe It Or Not that there is a type of t-shirt that does not allow odor to pass through it. ThinkGeek should think about using those :)
Just don't ever take it off in public. Or without first putting on a gas mask.
We really need to find better cause celebres rather than letting rights owners pick the fights.
Unfortunately they are the only ones with standing.
But why oh why don't the rulings limit themselves to the facts of the case? Why isn't it just that selling modchips in the furtherance of ones own piracy is illegal?
Isn't there a motion the defense could have made to sever the two charges into separate trials? The first charge is clearly prejudicial upon the second. That he sold pirated CD-ROMs should be irrelevant to the legality of selling modchips and the issues should have to be examined separately.
You know damn well that the software/music industries don't care about people that make backups of what they own....
Stop trying to distort/distract/cloud the issue.
Seems to me it it is the software/music industries that are distoring/distracting/clouding the issue by diverting attention only to illegal copying thereby painting all copying with the illegality brush. As such, raising the point that not all copying is illegal is appropriate and justifies the vending of these products.
A minority non-infringing use can still be substantial.
that's why it's not illegal to make backups of stuff you own.
But a backup is useless if not functional. And since the tools to make the backup functional are not forthcoming, then it is permissible to make the device in which they are to be used interoperable with them to make them functional.
MOST people only use them to circumvent copy protection and play copied games.
What's wrong with playing copied games you've paid for? Anyone with kids and pets (particularly dogs) knows that game CDs (and movie DVDs) aren't durable enough and you not only need a backup, you need to be able to replace the backup yourself. Even if the vendor provided two copies in each package, you need to be able to make another backup if one of those goes bad, and have that backup be functional.
And besides, you shouldn't penalize those that use something for legal purposes even if most people use it for illegal purposes. The sins of the many should not outweigh the rights of the innocents.
Except he farts helium, not hydrogen. D'oh! Well, that's fark for you.
"Scientists create titanium nose. Now can smell it when Dominar Rygel XVI farts"
You can't spell "nanosensor" without "nose".
The only reason I'd buy any of this is so that I could make replicas and/or virtual models. I would never want to risk further degradation of the originals. Having backups of physical items is just as important (perhaps moreso) than having backups of data.
What is the point of having money and not spending it?
Uh, so you don't have to work and can live solely off the interest? Just a theory.
I used the Renewal rechargable alkaline
Whatever happened to that device you could buy that could recharge any consumer alkaline battery? Did Rayovac buy the patent and proprietize it to their Renewal batteries, or was it bunk?
Yes, I know B7 is available on VHS. I want it on DVD though (I may preorder the region 2 release from). IMDb said Children of the Stones was unavailable in all formats, but apparently is already out in region 2.
Why does our world increasing sound like a combination of "Logan's Run", "1984", and "Brazil"?
With this amount of individual cases, eventually the RIAA will have to pursue infringers in the manner depicted in "THX 1138". Anyone have the net worth of the RIAA to calculate how much they can afford to spend per trader to sue?
What am I thinking. I'm sure they've run those numbers themselves. That's why the damages they're suing for are so high: they need those high damage awards/settlements to fund the next wave of civil suits.
Meanwhile they sell their own licenses to copy in the form of the "presumed guilty" surcharges on Music CD-Rs. Pennies per CD over the normal cost of a blank data CD-R. Perhaps file trading should switch to a model where users choose their songs from an on-line catalogue of titles which are purchased by the company, burned on Music CD-Rs, and mailed to the user. Get sued? You already paid the RIAA for every copy by using Music CD-Rs.
From the front page of his website www.maxxpayne.com All material* copyright MaxxPayne.com
All Rights Reserved
*Including but not limited to the names Maxx Payne, Max Payne, Maxx Pain, Max Pain, Maximum Payne, Maximus Paynimus, Paxx Mayne, Lucifer Payne, and Payne Killer
How about "Maxx Lame"? Or is that also covered by his "but not limited to" plan to annex? Because I may just raise my own Maxx Claim.