Silly person, thanks to the Act, the copyright extension will be extended to 500+ years by then. Content produced in the last 50 years will never enter the public domain.
But they didn't know if he bought it from them or not. Many POS manufactures don't deal directly with the general public. They go through 3rd party dealers. My company doesn't buy our 2 line displays from the mfg directly, but they do support us since the display is ours.
I could understand if it was something indepth or complex, but just to say go download the manual doesn't take a whole lot of support time.
Let's hope they will offer more than just PayPal as their subscription service
And if you look at your own link, you would see that/. takes credit cards directly now. They have for the past week or so. It's bad enough that people don't follow the links to the articles, now they are posting links in messages that they don't read. Shesh.
All you do is send hex commands with the string you want to be displayed to the serial port. Nothing more. The "support" you refer to was probably telling him where the user manual were located.
In 2001, 89% of all statistics are made up on the spot. This is up 45% from 2000.
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Several times I've gone in with an obviously abused tool, and replaced it without a problem. Once, my father took in a 3/8 ratchet that had most of the gear teeth stripped. While the clerk was ringing up the replacement, he just asked how big of a pry bar he was using. It was only a 3 ft pipe. I don't see the abuse.:)
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Please don't compare the high school A/V club with Best Buy. We have standards you know.
Maybe I am misunderstanding them, but I took it to mean that their was connections on the front to handle a total of 640 Gbps from the connections on the front of the machine and 2x that many on the back.
Over simplified, I was thinking of a switch that has 2 ports on the back and one on the front. If they are all 100 Mbps, then you have 200 Mbps on the back and 100 Mbps on the front.
First, let me disclaim that I have never worked with multiprocessor systems, but this is/., so that usually means I'm an expert in the field.
I would imagine that the processors are specifically made for this application, and not some off-the-shelf processor. Also, It much easier to design/build a 5104 processor machine then a 1 million processor machine. Economy of scale doesn't apply here.
So the computer I bought last year at a computer show that didn't have any OS installed was illegal?
If you re-read what the original poster said, (s)he said "It is perfectly legal to deinstall the pre-installed operating system and replace it prior.... This being/., I think the assumtion is that Linux/FreeBSD/etc could be the "replacing" OS.
Most versions of ping can vary the size of the ping request, so I really can't comment on the amount of data being transmitted, but you are making a fatal assumption. You assume that you wait for a reply before sending another ping request. If you ping flood someone, the requestes are fired off immediately after another. The version I have quick access to has this to say in the ping man page:
-f Flood ping: Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one hundred times per second, whichever is more. For every ECHO_REQUEST sent a period (.) is printed, while for every ECHO_REPLY received a backspace is printed. This provides a rapid display of how many packets are being dropped. Only root may use this option. This can be very hard on a network and should be used with caution.
So your figure of 10/second could be increased 10X.
The backlash is going to happen when John Q. Public and Joe Sixpack have to fork several hundred dollars per TV that they want to watch Friends or Survivor on. They are going to have to buy a converter to recieve the digital broadcast and convert it down to something that their current TV/VCR can record. And for this couple of hundred dollars, they will get crisp, clear reception in all it's digital glory...none of which their TV will use since it was designed for plain ol' analog signals.
Of course, we can upgrade all of our TVs to HD/DVI/whatever for an even greater expense. But then the studios can still control what we see/when we see it...or we can just record it at "off-air" quality, defeating the purpose entirely of spending 1000 bucks for a DTV.
That is when I think the backlash is going to happen. It hasn't happen yet because everything so far hasn't affected the mainstream public. Many people still don't have DVDs, so region encoding doesn't play a roll. Many people are quite happy with just a plain CD player. They don't want to rip every CD with super duper bit rate quadraphonic sound. They just want to watch the nightly news. But when they can't since everything has gone digital and it's gonna cost them money for something that they have always been able to do for the longest time, that is when it will happen.
Personally, I am anxiously awaiting 2006. I think it is going to be funny when they throw the switch to turn off the analog signal and hundreds of thousands of TVs will instantly become worthless/obsolete.
If paying for it is really that bad, move in w/ a couple geeks and spread the cost of the connection between you. ... "Stop making so much noise screwing, I'm concentrating on debugging the linux kernel up here!"
Um, he said move in with a couple of GEEKS. They probably wouldn't get laid that often since they too are busy debugging the kernel.:)
While I do think that this is sneaky of VeriSign and Co, I don't think that it would classify as mail fraud. How are they "defrauding" you? Never did they say that they were associated with your current registrar. They give you the service that you paid for, domain (re)registration. The service that they are "advertising" is legal & not a scam. The card clearly has Verisign on one of the pages. I can't read the fine print at the bottom of the form, but I can see Verisign mentioned in several places.
Maybe there is a case for the FTC or your state's AG office for deceptive practices, but not mail fraud.
Your're right. I appologize for asking a subjective question in this fourm. I never should have assumed that there might be someone out there that actually appreciates ICANN and everything they have done. I should have stated,
"I know from my own emperical investigation that almost all of the ICANN board of directors are dicks."
I was unclear why Karl was suing the coperation that he directed and I didn't even thing that he directed it...then several people clarified that he was on the board of directors and not THE director.
Yeah yeah yeah, I know you were trolling. Real trolls don't hide behind the vail of an AC though.
and list who exactly all the players are? I thought that most of the ICANN board were to be hated, with the exception of the elected members. Is Karl Auerbach a good guy or the bad guy here? It wasn't clear since he is the Director suing his organization...or is Director in the sense of "Board of Directors" instead of the singular leader, such as a President or CEO?
Well, I'm sure that the content providers would say that you are only purchasing a "licence" to view the video or listen to the CD. If you don't agree to the terms of the "license", then don't purchase it.
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Silly person, thanks to the Act, the copyright extension will be extended to 500+ years by then. Content produced in the last 50 years will never enter the public domain.
It's time to change your .sig
Can you please explain the reference to the condoms and baby oil...I must be missing something.
But they didn't know if he bought it from them or not. Many POS manufactures don't deal directly with the general public. They go through 3rd party dealers. My company doesn't buy our 2 line displays from the mfg directly, but they do support us since the display is ours.
I could understand if it was something indepth or complex, but just to say go download the manual doesn't take a whole lot of support time.
Let's hope they will offer more than just PayPal as their subscription service
/. takes credit cards directly now. They have for the past week or so. It's bad enough that people don't follow the links to the articles, now they are posting links in messages that they don't read. Shesh.
And if you look at your own link, you would see that
All you do is send hex commands with the string you want to be displayed to the serial port. Nothing more. The "support" you refer to was probably telling him where the user manual were located.
Ok...and your point is? The year isn't complete so I can't make up a statistic for this year. :)
In 2001, 89% of all statistics are made up on the spot. This is up 45% from 2000.
Several times I've gone in with an obviously abused tool, and replaced it without a problem. Once, my father took in a 3/8 ratchet that had most of the gear teeth stripped. While the clerk was ringing up the replacement, he just asked how big of a pry bar he was using. It was only a 3 ft pipe. I don't see the abuse. :)
Please don't compare the high school A/V club with Best Buy. We have standards you know.
Maybe I am misunderstanding them, but I took it to mean that their was connections on the front to handle a total of 640 Gbps from the connections on the front of the machine and 2x that many on the back.
Over simplified, I was thinking of a switch that has 2 ports on the back and one on the front. If they are all 100 Mbps, then you have 200 Mbps on the back and 100 Mbps on the front.
First, let me disclaim that I have never worked with multiprocessor systems, but this is /., so that usually means I'm an expert in the field.
I would imagine that the processors are specifically made for this application, and not some off-the-shelf processor. Also, It much easier to design/build a 5104 processor machine then a 1 million processor machine. Economy of scale doesn't apply here.
So the computer I bought last year at a computer show that didn't have any OS installed was illegal?
/., I think the assumtion is that Linux/FreeBSD/etc could be the "replacing" OS.
If you re-read what the original poster said, (s)he said "It is perfectly legal to deinstall the pre-installed operating system and replace it prior.... This being
Most versions of ping can vary the size of the ping request, so I really can't comment on the amount of data being transmitted, but you are making a fatal assumption. You assume that you wait for a reply before sending another ping request. If you ping flood someone, the requestes are fired off immediately after another. The version I have quick access to has this to say in the ping man page:
-f Flood ping: Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one hundred times per second, whichever is more. For every ECHO_REQUEST sent a period (.) is printed, while for every ECHO_REPLY received a backspace is printed. This provides a rapid display of how many packets are being dropped. Only root may use this option. This can be very hard on a network and should be used with caution.
So your figure of 10/second could be increased 10X.
The backlash is going to happen when John Q. Public and Joe Sixpack have to fork several hundred dollars per TV that they want to watch Friends or Survivor on. They are going to have to buy a converter to recieve the digital broadcast and convert it down to something that their current TV/VCR can record. And for this couple of hundred dollars, they will get crisp, clear reception in all it's digital glory...none of which their TV will use since it was designed for plain ol' analog signals.
/whatever for an even greater expense. But then the studios can still control what we see/when we see it...or we can just record it at "off-air" quality, defeating the purpose entirely of spending 1000 bucks for a DTV.
Of course, we can upgrade all of our TVs to HD/DVI
That is when I think the backlash is going to happen. It hasn't happen yet because everything so far hasn't affected the mainstream public. Many people still don't have DVDs, so region encoding doesn't play a roll. Many people are quite happy with just a plain CD player. They don't want to rip every CD with super duper bit rate quadraphonic sound. They just want to watch the nightly news. But when they can't since everything has gone digital and it's gonna cost them money for something that they have always been able to do for the longest time, that is when it will happen.
Personally, I am anxiously awaiting 2006. I think it is going to be funny when they throw the switch to turn off the analog signal and hundreds of thousands of TVs will instantly become worthless/obsolete.
Until ads.yahoo.com becomes ooqaooqa.yahoo.com
If paying for it is really that bad, move in w/ a couple geeks and spread the cost of the connection between you.
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"Stop making so much noise screwing, I'm concentrating on debugging the linux kernel up here!"
Um, he said move in with a couple of GEEKS. They probably wouldn't get laid that often since they too are busy debugging the kernel.
"But really officer, I'm just, um, ah, archiving it. Yeah, that's it, I'm archiving it just in case my friend's copy gets destroyed somehow."
Yeah...harass a federal judge. You, my friend, are an idiot.
While I do think that this is sneaky of VeriSign and Co, I don't think that it would classify as mail fraud. How are they "defrauding" you? Never did they say that they were associated with your current registrar. They give you the service that you paid for, domain (re)registration. The service that they are "advertising" is legal & not a scam. The card clearly has Verisign on one of the pages. I can't read the fine print at the bottom of the form, but I can see Verisign mentioned in several places.
Maybe there is a case for the FTC or your state's AG office for deceptive practices, but not mail fraud.
Just a guess:
"I'm sorry you're having problems"
"Our computers are reliable"
"we rarely recieve customer complaints"
Wrong generation. My parent's watched Matlock. I watch Law & Order.
Your're right. I appologize for asking a subjective question in this fourm. I never should have assumed that there might be someone out there that actually appreciates ICANN and everything they have done. I should have stated,
"I know from my own emperical investigation that almost all of the ICANN board of directors are dicks."
I was unclear why Karl was suing the coperation that he directed and I didn't even thing that he directed it...then several people clarified that he was on the board of directors and not THE director.
Yeah yeah yeah, I know you were trolling. Real trolls don't hide behind the vail of an AC though.
and list who exactly all the players are? I thought that most of the ICANN board were to be hated, with the exception of the elected members. Is Karl Auerbach a good guy or the bad guy here? It wasn't clear since he is the Director suing his organization...or is Director in the sense of "Board of Directors" instead of the singular leader, such as a President or CEO?
Well, I'm sure that the content providers would say that you are only purchasing a "licence" to view the video or listen to the CD. If you don't agree to the terms of the "license", then don't purchase it.