- the pretty obvious (eg we "allow" other firms icons !) - what they have been *forced* to do under US and EU antitrust rulings (eg interoperability and equal deals to OEMs).
In the BBC story Home Secretary John Reid said: "This is largely driven by a rise in the numbers of young people carrying expensive goods, such as mobile phones and MP3 players" ie a lot wider scope than the Slashdot headline !
(But of course putting the word "iPod" in the title immediately makes the headline sexier:-)
> when the economy is global, what is happening in the US is happening everywhere.
Not true: some things trickle though, but us old-worldies still have a few tricks up our sleeves. If we do not like what is happening to the US side of the interweb, we just repoint/filter our DNS servers and cut you off:-)
Did you read the Wikipedia article ? It *was* completed in 1993, but lack of maintenence caused problems and is expected to be re-operational by 2008/2010.
> Not only is this a dupe it's pure FUD. > > From TFA "banned unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing in Spain" authorised sharing is still allowed.
Also TFA states that the punishment is only "reimburse rights holders for losses", the value of which may be stretched, but it is clearly not *punitive*.
OK: but do you know the equation that is required ?: eg we know the mass of the disk drive, and if we assume a drop onto a concrete floor, then can we calculate the height that the drive has to be dropped from to suffer a 350G deceleration ? I honestly have no idea: would it be more like 3" or 10' ?
One thing I noticed is that one of the photos shows the sticker on the drive and it includes a warning that the warranty is voided if the drive experiences greater than 350 Gs !! Can this drive really survice a 340 Gs impact ? I am not a scientist nor a mathematician but that sounds like a hell of a shock.
Can any Slashdotter convert 350 Gs to real world units (eg dropped 5m onto concrete) ?
> that has a 5-year warranty, and it only cost me about $6 more than the 3-year warranty version with identical specs
I assume that the extra $6 is just the insurance on the replacement cost: some drives will be chucked before 3 years, or passed on to someone without the proof of purchase and a lot will reach the 5 years. The replacement few that fail and the owners successfully claim will be covered by all those extra $6's.
So rememeber folks: a longer guarentee does not *necessarily* mean a better product: just that the costs are covered !
Sorry Andy, but my new Sharp Aquos TV has *2* reset buttons: I forget the labels they are given but they are something like "User Reset" and "System Reset". They are the type of button that you need a pen to push them in.
Unfortunatly I have yet to be able to find out exactly what each button does, nor what symptons may be cured be pressing them. I suspect the System Reset will restore to factory settings and loose my channel setup etc, but as the TV has behaved so far I have pressed neither.
> but if they know Google ranks search results by popularity
Of course Google try to keep their Page Rank system secret, but I am not sure that "popularity" comes into it. Also how would they measure it ?
> Also, businesses willing to pay for advertising (not including spam) are usually legitimate.
I think it not the willingness to pay that is measured, but the assumation that if a respected firm *takes* the advert then it is somehow more legitimate.
> I don't like being forced to watch copyright warnings, stupid "don't steal" commercials
To me this is spot on, and one thing that may drive me away from buying DVDs. I have bought loads of legit DVDs, have downloaded non, and have bought no pirate copies. Yet I sit down to my favourtite film and get bombarded with these messages. Whilst viewing my legit DVD on my standard DVD player. And skipping is disabled. WTF.
> Body weight of person in seat must be +/- 10 pounds last use
Do you live in the UK ? Every 1st April BMW run a spoof advert in the UK newspapers: I always rememember one, maybe 15 years ago, that advertised their new security system that did just that. But it also allowed for weight variations due to meal times, seasonal adjustment (heavy clothing etc)...
I would not say that: people comment flatly that nVidia are not supported by open source drivers: I am saying that limited functionality *is* supported by open source drivers. To me and my needs it is an important difference: to overs maybe not.
> Why do you bother having an nVidia card at all? What exactly does your nVidia card do for you that a 15-year-old Trident VGA card, or failing that a newer Matrox card, would not?
Probably a combination of ignorance and lazyness: I am not a PC h/w expert, but I bought a new Mobo, realised it only supported AGPx8 which my old video card did not: the cheapeast nVidia card was Eur30 or 45 ? (I have forgotten) (and I think this was the cheapest of any video card in my local computer shop). And I read that nVidia had good Linux support (all be it closed source). I tried the nv driver and it worked fine, so I did not bother with the closed-source drivers. I agree : it was probably not the best/cheapest choice.
> Maybe you don't NEED 3D, sure you can live without it, but if you don't think it's useful, then you're being silly.
Please do not try to tell me what I want. I would not tell you what you want. I think choice is what we all want, and a bit of respect for other peoples wishes.
> We live in a 3D world, it's silly to restrict our computers to 2 dimensional graphics.
The world is 3D, but my monitor is 2D. Most webpages are 2D. My email/newsgroups/Slashdot are 2D. My documents are 2D....
> 3D is useful in everything from CAD to mapping to gaming, or simply displaying fancy graphics
None of which I, and many others, need/want.
> (give up on the elitism, eye candy matters)
Personal opinion: respect mine, for I respect yours. My point is about choice.
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> I don't care what he does until something happens.
By which time it is too late. Thanks.
All I can see on the list are;
- the pretty obvious (eg we "allow" other firms icons !)
- what they have been *forced* to do under US and EU antitrust rulings (eg interoperability and equal deals to OEMs).
Or am I missing something ?
In the BBC story Home Secretary John Reid said: "This is largely driven by a rise in the numbers of young people carrying expensive goods, such as mobile phones and MP3 players" ie a lot wider scope than the Slashdot headline !
:-)
(But of course putting the word "iPod" in the title immediately makes the headline sexier
Similar quote I heard was "Men never grow up - their toys just get bigger".
(I'm guessing it wasn't a bloke.)
Cool robot, but does it run HURD ?
Just curious...
> I guess this means that there are a lot of ubuntu users out there who are vunerable right now... how long for the patch?
According to here Ubuntu is already patch, and the fix is 6 months old.
> when the economy is global, what is happening in the US is happening everywhere.
:-)
Not true: some things trickle though, but us old-worldies still have a few tricks up our sleeves. If we do not like what is happening to the US side of the interweb, we just repoint/filter our DNS servers and cut you off
> "rm -- filename" would have worked; it makes rm not parse the filename in any way whatsoever.
IIRC the "--" is not an command specific feature, but is a feature of the bash shell (and probably others).
Did you read the Wikipedia article ? It *was* completed in 1993, but lack of maintenence caused problems and is expected to be re-operational by 2008/2010.
> What's so bad about that?...
It was an attempt at a Monty Python reference (Four Yorkshiremen).
Ebay...Ebay...I can only *dream* of the *luxury* of getting my machines on Ebay... I have to get all my computers from dumpster diving.
> Not only is this a dupe it's pure FUD.
>
> From TFA "banned unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing in Spain" authorised sharing is still allowed.
Also TFA states that the punishment is only "reimburse rights holders for losses", the value of which may be stretched, but it is clearly not *punitive*.
I do not use/follow Desktop Environments, but I thought I read that both Gnome and KDE are/will be using D-BUS (KDE in 4.0 ?)
> I have to say I agree with the low threat level. All the virus does is propogate and collect email addresses, and only on yahoo.
Also it seems to only apply to *the latest version* of their *beta* service.
And I assume (hope) that Yahoo have fixed the bug, and as soon as users refresh their web page they will get the fixed version ?
OK: but do you know the equation that is required ?: eg we know the mass of the disk drive, and if we assume a drop onto a concrete floor, then can we calculate the height that the drive has to be dropped from to suffer a 350G deceleration ? I honestly have no idea: would it be more like 3" or 10' ?
Thanks for any pointers !
One thing I noticed is that one of the photos shows the sticker on the drive and it includes a warning that the warranty is voided if the drive experiences greater than 350 Gs !! Can this drive really survice a 340 Gs impact ? I am not a scientist nor a mathematician but that sounds like a hell of a shock.
Can any Slashdotter convert 350 Gs to real world units (eg dropped 5m onto concrete) ?
> that has a 5-year warranty, and it only cost me about $6 more than the 3-year warranty version with identical specs
I assume that the extra $6 is just the insurance on the replacement cost: some drives will be chucked before 3 years, or passed on to someone without the proof of purchase and a lot will reach the 5 years. The replacement few that fail and the owners successfully claim will be covered by all those extra $6's.
So rememeber folks: a longer guarentee does not *necessarily* mean a better product: just that the costs are covered !
Sorry Andy, but my new Sharp Aquos TV has *2* reset buttons: I forget the labels they are given but they are something like "User Reset" and "System Reset". They are the type of button that you need a pen to push them in.
Unfortunatly I have yet to be able to find out exactly what each button does, nor what symptons may be cured be pressing them. I suspect the System Reset will restore to factory settings and loose my channel setup etc, but as the TV has behaved so far I have pressed neither.
> What I called "popularity" is basically how many other web sites there are that link to a particular page.
OK: I forgot about that measure: I was thinking you meant "popularity" as in, for example, the number of hits the site gets.
> but if they know Google ranks search results by popularity
Of course Google try to keep their Page Rank system secret, but I am not sure that "popularity" comes into it. Also how would they measure it ?
> Also, businesses willing to pay for advertising (not including spam) are usually legitimate.
I think it not the willingness to pay that is measured, but the assumation that if a respected firm *takes* the advert then it is somehow more legitimate.
> I don't like being forced to watch copyright warnings, stupid "don't steal" commercials
To me this is spot on, and one thing that may drive me away from buying DVDs. I have bought loads of legit DVDs, have downloaded non, and have bought no pirate copies. Yet I sit down to my favourtite film and get bombarded with these messages. Whilst viewing my legit DVD on my standard DVD player. And skipping is disabled. WTF.
> Consumers making copies of legitimate films that they bought is legally protected fair use.
Depends where you live: I understand that in the US and in Germany this is true, but in the UK copying is *not* consider fair use.
> Body weight of person in seat must be +/- 10 pounds last use
Do you live in the UK ? Every 1st April BMW run a spoof advert in the UK newspapers: I always rememember one, maybe 15 years ago, that advertised their new security system that did just that. But it also allowed for weight variations due to meal times, seasonal adjustment (heavy clothing etc)...
You are correct, but I never said I got a good deal !!! (see my other reply (if this link works !) http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=184565&thresho ld=1&commentsort=3&mode=thread&pid=15240860#152436 50)
> You're splitting hairs.
I would not say that: people comment flatly that nVidia are not supported by open source drivers: I am saying that limited functionality *is* supported by open source drivers. To me and my needs it is an important difference: to overs maybe not.
> Why do you bother having an nVidia card at all? What exactly does your nVidia card do for you that a 15-year-old Trident VGA card, or failing that a newer Matrox card, would not?
Probably a combination of ignorance and lazyness: I am not a PC h/w expert, but I bought a new Mobo, realised it only supported AGPx8 which my old video card did not: the cheapeast nVidia card was Eur30 or 45 ? (I have forgotten) (and I think this was the cheapest of any video card in my local computer shop). And I read that nVidia had good Linux support (all be it closed source). I tried the nv driver and it worked fine, so I did not bother with the closed-source drivers.
I agree : it was probably not the best/cheapest choice.
> Maybe you don't NEED 3D, sure you can live without it, but if you don't think it's useful, then you're being silly.
Please do not try to tell me what I want. I would not tell you what you want. I think choice is what we all want, and a bit of respect for other peoples wishes.
> We live in a 3D world, it's silly to restrict our computers to 2 dimensional graphics.
The world is 3D, but my monitor is 2D. Most webpages are 2D. My email/newsgroups/Slashdot are 2D. My documents are 2D....
> 3D is useful in everything from CAD to mapping to gaming, or simply displaying fancy graphics
None of which I, and many others, need/want.
> (give up on the elitism, eye candy matters)
Personal opinion: respect mine, for I respect yours. My point is about choice.
> And yes, Linux needs 3D, even if you don't.
Ditto.