Has anyone ever bought a full price sofa from DFS who used to be Northern Upholstery?
Their commercials are pretty much the same as you describe... All year round they're having a 50-75% off sale, and this is absolutely, positively the last chance to get these sofas and chairs at the bargain prices.
It's a point that a lot of comedians have used to get a laugh in the area.
Abandonware is $PERCENT1 "we own that?", $PERCENT2 "who cares? Just don't email us for support!" and $PERCENT3 "I hope we can sue someone for distributing this crap! We don't care about it, all my Dad (predecessor) bought was the name, do we own the code too?".
If you want to download these games, go ahead. If someone knocks on your door demanding payment for something they aren't selling and didn't write, can you tell the rest of the Abandonware users so that we can have some kind of genuine legal perspective on 20 year old games that these companies can't prove we didn't buy and stand no chance of monetising?
Thanks for an interesting answer rather than some of the others I've had on this topic.
Low UIDs typically denote high IQ, and here was another example. Either that or you get wiser as you get older.
negative survival value, given sufficient time, breed themselves out
This is a foodstuff we're talking about, who says we're not giving ourselves at negative survival value with these actions? But I digest (no, I digress, but everyone loves a comic aside).
I have no idea how this thing will play out, I guess nobody would be able to say "I told you so". Making people question every aspect of interference with the ecosystem and food chain without hinderance from lobbyists and enablement by politicians is the only way that this process can be done safely, IMO.
We have made some utterly n00b mistakes with drugs, let's try really hard not to do it with the whole planet.
And sometimes I have a nice Guinness and post about stuff that I should probably research before commenting on things I deem important.
My Sharp Aquos does have a USB port that takes a FAT (patent troll) formatted device to record live TV.
Problem is that it only works on OTA TV.
We don't watch the 5 channels that come over analogue, nor the (fucktifiknow) DVB channels that it can show; we have cable.
Recording cable is the grail, isn't it? Then transcoding it to Pirate Bay format so people can download it without commercials rather than waiting a month until it is shown again and hitting the mute button for 2/5ths of the runtime.
So, am I wrong in thinking that when pollen hits a stamen that particular stamen stops collecting pollen?
If a plant considers itself fertilised does it not close up and try to seed? Does it know that it has been duped by something infertile attaching to all the right receptors on the flower?
If the birds are eating the seeds from sterile fruit and crapping them out like nature dictates then the areas and routes that they frequent will have fewer viable young plants in them and the weaker ones will survive where they would have failed before due to competition, no?
I'm always open to new information, and not ashamed to admit I have something wrong.
Most of them were done over time, through breeding programs.
Important because
Recently, it has been possible to speed up the process using more direct methods.
If insects or the wind are spreading sterile (because their payload is copyrighted or whatever) seed/pollen around the world, we're gonna be SOL when it comes to plants that will survive to feed the one or two pockets of our species that survives the next ice age.
Put more money into getting off this rock and into environments where this kind of technology won't kill the homeworld and is actually vital to survival, not just for catering to overpopulation and bad political decisions about farming.
It's not quite as nice as that.
They won't come after you necessarily, but they know that any bees (or other insects) that try to pollenate your crops (so you don't have to buy off them next year) will be unsuccessful as their GM plants are sterile.
Blowing sterile pollen and seeds around the globe will kill off wild species in time, including desirable mutations, and the only thing that will grow is the rapidly diminishing supply of human created life that doesn't support the same ecosystem that we have adjusted to on this planet.
PLEASE! Only use this stuff in a firewalled environment (as in a few miles of space, Mars or the moon spring to mind) before you bring it home to a place where you can't fix any accidental mistakes in time for our species to survive.
Most of the fears of GM foods are unreasonable and just bizarre if you've passed 6th grade science class. You won't get alien genes from eating them. The risk of allergic reaction is about the same as with any new crop variant. They won't turn you into some kind of science fantasy monster.
[citation needed]
Or proof would do. I think you may be right, but I've got a few decades of life that I'd like to enjoy and the say so of a few guys who can't even tell me how to get rid of my cold doesn't really inspire me.
Throwing some burnt matches and water into a crucible made of all the trace elements in your body and bubbling hydrogen through it won't lead to life, will it? Yet it somehow did.
Long term is long, to rip on a meme.
The terrible thing is that I actually think that research like this is vital to the survival of our race. Getting us into space and relying on this is the only way we're going to avoid killing this planet and dying along with it. I guess I'm playing devil's advocate. Better protection for our ONLY environment and more funding for off world expeditions would give us places to try this stuff without danger to every human being alive if it somehow does manage to create a problem.
I run Arch with Enlightenment. Yes, I do have GTK installed and a few other Gnome dependencies, but I don't have to look at the Gnome interface.
I also have Android.
Ekiga runs fine behind my NAT system, I know this because a friend of mine called me from his iDevice the day we heard that MSFT was buying Skype. However, my Windows friend can't make his SIP work.
I don't know which SIP client I like best on Arch. Twinkle, Linphone or Ekiga. I do know that between Linphone, SIPDroid and CSipSimple on my Android I'll stick with CSipSimple. It's compatible and integrates well.
The problem with old cars is that our (UK) government is paying a premium for scrapping them.
We have an imported Eunos Roadster (aka Mk1 Mazda MX-5/Miata). It cost us ~£1,000 and is a lovely little car. Clean and tidy, fairly rust free and problem free running gear and engine.
Our government would give us more than the car is worth (with inflation) to keep it for a year and them scrap it against the price of a new car with no soul, no history, a black box, better brakes, more efficient engine and proper crash test safety.
Do not want! I want to be able to drive this dangerous expensive to run little piece of history and love it. I understand what they want, but I want my kids to be able to buy cars like this too.
Also take it as given that if you're on holiday in Greece the music you're listening to there has a lifespan of six weeks and the longevity of the CD doesn't figure.
Rip the thing to your hard drive if you want to have a copy of the latest Euro-pop to give your nephew/neice in a couple of months to keep them ahead of the curve and make them sound cool by having it before everyone else has it.
But FGS, once your holiday drinkfest is over you won't ever want to hear that squeaky trash again.
My Gawker account was compromised too.
Oh dear, I had to wait until they got the system back up and change my password.
My PSN account has been compromised.
Oh dear. I had to wait a couple of weeks for them to bring their service up again.
In both cases the password change was done in seconds. I went to the web page, entered my old password, clicked the "Password Hasher" icon next to the "new Password" box, clicked "Bump" and entered my passphrase. Click OK. Completely new 26 character UPPER/lower/1234/!"£$ as easy as that. And I don't have to remember it, I just had to have it to hand when I typed it into my PS3.
If having to change a password is a "great inconvenience" then maybe you're doing something wrong? Are you using the password in multiple places? You're on Slashdot, you should know better.
Password hasher, a little paper address book, KeePass, SecureLogin/OperaWand all go to make life easy when it comes to long random secure passwords that you don't have to remember and that take a couple of clicks to recreate or update.
I've reset my password to PSN and my PS3 hasn't been connected to the power supply for two weeks or more.
The really fucked up thing is that they sent me an email that sent me to a page that would send me instructions to resent my password.
The email had a link in it that was valid for four hours.
It took 12 hours for the email to arrive.
I'm considering not bothering to turn my PS3 back on at all. If I'd have had CC details lodged with them I'd have kicked the shit out of it and put it on youtube already.
skype-2.2.0.25-1 Arch Linux, x86/64, running the 32bit version.
I installed Win7 on a box the other day and installed Skype whilst messing around.
I have to say, with all possible honesty, I much prefer the Linux version to the Windows one. Ads? Extras? The Web2.0rrhea interface that makes me want to run it from a CLI instead?
Personal preference, I know, but the program makes voice, text and video calls to other Skype users. I need no more from it.
It doesn't use a standard widget set, so it completely ignores your system colors
I managed to get it to run Qt following my GTK style.
Sound doesn't work half the time unless you, like, kill -9 all other processes that have ever played a sound in the history of your login session, uninstall and reinstall the Skype client, and wave a dead chicken over/dev/dsp before every calling session
Nope. Once you've turned the mic on and done an alsactl store ;/etc/rc.d/alsa restart it should Just Work. WFM.
Heaven forfend you should have Pulse installed on a system where you want to run Skype...
Not felt the need to start doing voodoo to my machine yet. One of the reasons I love my Arch Linux, they don't add crap like that.
Even getting Skype to install typically means tracking down different versions of various libraries than what shipped with your distro, and then the first time you do a dist-upgrade it's broken again
Your problems seem to be with your distro and/or your DE. Mind you, I've probably put more effort into my system than most people care to.
I do hope Skype wipes the chat history at their end before the transfer goes through. I'd hate to think that MSFT had access to all my "private" conversations over the last 10 years plus.
My Mother does. OpenSUSE 11.4 to be precise. Upgraded 11.2 > 11.3 and now the latest.
She hit 60 recently. She went out to Asda (Walmart) and bought herself a lovely little webcam so she can video chat when my Sister's baby arrives.
I know lot of silver surfers who use Skype that wouldn't know the difference if you installed Linux for them and it would be a lot less hassle than dealing with all those stupid chain trojans they send round the church congregation.
You realise that my train of thought brought about by that post just made me lose The Game, right?
I'd have hit that with a +1, just because I know I'll have the rhyme in my mind with every post of yours I read.
It means "about"or "roughly" as in "4.9 is about half of 10".
4.9 is ~50% of 10
Sarcasm doesn't need a mark, it just needs a larger percentage of North America to read more and be educated, and to see jokes instead of potential lawsuits.
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Has anyone ever bought a full price sofa from DFS who used to be Northern Upholstery?
... All year round they're having a 50-75% off sale, and this is absolutely, positively the last chance to get these sofas and chairs at the bargain prices.
Their commercials are pretty much the same as you describe
It's a point that a lot of comedians have used to get a laugh in the area.
Abandonware is $PERCENT1 "we own that?", $PERCENT2 "who cares? Just don't email us for support!" and $PERCENT3 "I hope we can sue someone for distributing this crap! We don't care about it, all my Dad (predecessor) bought was the name, do we own the code too?".
If you want to download these games, go ahead. If someone knocks on your door demanding payment for something they aren't selling and didn't write, can you tell the rest of the Abandonware users so that we can have some kind of genuine legal perspective on 20 year old games that these companies can't prove we didn't buy and stand no chance of monetising?
Low UIDs typically denote high IQ, and here was another example. Either that or you get wiser as you get older.
negative survival value, given sufficient time, breed themselves out
This is a foodstuff we're talking about, who says we're not giving ourselves at negative survival value with these actions? But I digest (no, I digress, but everyone loves a comic aside).
I have no idea how this thing will play out, I guess nobody would be able to say "I told you so". Making people question every aspect of interference with the ecosystem and food chain without hinderance from lobbyists and enablement by politicians is the only way that this process can be done safely, IMO.
We have made some utterly n00b mistakes with drugs, let's try really hard not to do it with the whole planet.
And sometimes I have a nice Guinness and post about stuff that I should probably research before commenting on things I deem important.
My Sharp Aquos does have a USB port that takes a FAT (patent troll) formatted device to record live TV.
Problem is that it only works on OTA TV.
We don't watch the 5 channels that come over analogue, nor the (fucktifiknow) DVB channels that it can show; we have cable.
Recording cable is the grail, isn't it? Then transcoding it to Pirate Bay format so people can download it without commercials rather than waiting a month until it is shown again and hitting the mute button for 2/5ths of the runtime.
So, am I wrong in thinking that when pollen hits a stamen that particular stamen stops collecting pollen?
If a plant considers itself fertilised does it not close up and try to seed? Does it know that it has been duped by something infertile attaching to all the right receptors on the flower?
If the birds are eating the seeds from sterile fruit and crapping them out like nature dictates then the areas and routes that they frequent will have fewer viable young plants in them and the weaker ones will survive where they would have failed before due to competition, no?
I'm always open to new information, and not ashamed to admit I have something wrong.
Most of them were done over time, through breeding programs.
Important because
Recently, it has been possible to speed up the process using more direct methods.
If insects or the wind are spreading sterile (because their payload is copyrighted or whatever) seed/pollen around the world, we're gonna be SOL when it comes to plants that will survive to feed the one or two pockets of our species that survives the next ice age.
Put more money into getting off this rock and into environments where this kind of technology won't kill the homeworld and is actually vital to survival, not just for catering to overpopulation and bad political decisions about farming.
It's not quite as nice as that.
They won't come after you necessarily, but they know that any bees (or other insects) that try to pollenate your crops (so you don't have to buy off them next year) will be unsuccessful as their GM plants are sterile.
Blowing sterile pollen and seeds around the globe will kill off wild species in time, including desirable mutations, and the only thing that will grow is the rapidly diminishing supply of human created life that doesn't support the same ecosystem that we have adjusted to on this planet.
PLEASE! Only use this stuff in a firewalled environment (as in a few miles of space, Mars or the moon spring to mind) before you bring it home to a place where you can't fix any accidental mistakes in time for our species to survive.
Most of the fears of GM foods are unreasonable and just bizarre if you've passed 6th grade science class. You won't get alien genes from eating them. The risk of allergic reaction is about the same as with any new crop variant. They won't turn you into some kind of science fantasy monster.
[citation needed]
Or proof would do. I think you may be right, but I've got a few decades of life that I'd like to enjoy and the say so of a few guys who can't even tell me how to get rid of my cold doesn't really inspire me.
Throwing some burnt matches and water into a crucible made of all the trace elements in your body and bubbling hydrogen through it won't lead to life, will it? Yet it somehow did.
Long term is long, to rip on a meme.
The terrible thing is that I actually think that research like this is vital to the survival of our race. Getting us into space and relying on this is the only way we're going to avoid killing this planet and dying along with it. I guess I'm playing devil's advocate. Better protection for our ONLY environment and more funding for off world expeditions would give us places to try this stuff without danger to every human being alive if it somehow does manage to create a problem.
Execution of stock brokers would be a feature, not a bug.
There. FTFY.
Yeah, my bad.
Droidwall requires root too.
In case people are filtering ACs.
You mean like installing Droidwall does?
It's in the market and on XDA-Devs.
If you root you can use AdFree too.
I run Arch with Enlightenment. Yes, I do have GTK installed and a few other Gnome dependencies, but I don't have to look at the Gnome interface.
I also have Android.
Ekiga runs fine behind my NAT system, I know this because a friend of mine called me from his iDevice the day we heard that MSFT was buying Skype. However, my Windows friend can't make his SIP work.
I don't know which SIP client I like best on Arch. Twinkle, Linphone or Ekiga. I do know that between Linphone, SIPDroid and CSipSimple on my Android I'll stick with CSipSimple. It's compatible and integrates well.
The problem with old cars is that our (UK) government is paying a premium for scrapping them.
We have an imported Eunos Roadster (aka Mk1 Mazda MX-5/Miata). It cost us ~£1,000 and is a lovely little car. Clean and tidy, fairly rust free and problem free running gear and engine.
Our government would give us more than the car is worth (with inflation) to keep it for a year and them scrap it against the price of a new car with no soul, no history, a black box, better brakes, more efficient engine and proper crash test safety.
Do not want! I want to be able to drive this dangerous expensive to run little piece of history and love it. I understand what they want, but I want my kids to be able to buy cars like this too.
scripts that look for "2.6" in the result of "uname -r"
Those scripts are already broken.
Also take it as given that if you're on holiday in Greece the music you're listening to there has a lifespan of six weeks and the longevity of the CD doesn't figure.
Rip the thing to your hard drive if you want to have a copy of the latest Euro-pop to give your nephew/neice in a couple of months to keep them ahead of the curve and make them sound cool by having it before everyone else has it.
But FGS, once your holiday drinkfest is over you won't ever want to hear that squeaky trash again.
My Gawker account was compromised too.
Oh dear, I had to wait until they got the system back up and change my password.
My PSN account has been compromised.
Oh dear. I had to wait a couple of weeks for them to bring their service up again.
In both cases the password change was done in seconds. I went to the web page, entered my old password, clicked the "Password Hasher" icon next to the "new Password" box, clicked "Bump" and entered my passphrase. Click OK. Completely new 26 character UPPER/lower/1234/!"£$ as easy as that. And I don't have to remember it, I just had to have it to hand when I typed it into my PS3.
If having to change a password is a "great inconvenience" then maybe you're doing something wrong? Are you using the password in multiple places? You're on Slashdot, you should know better.
Password hasher, a little paper address book, KeePass, SecureLogin/OperaWand all go to make life easy when it comes to long random secure passwords that you don't have to remember and that take a couple of clicks to recreate or update.
I've reset my password to PSN and my PS3 hasn't been connected to the power supply for two weeks or more.
The really fucked up thing is that they sent me an email that sent me to a page that would send me instructions to resent my password.
The email had a link in it that was valid for four hours.
It took 12 hours for the email to arrive.
I'm considering not bothering to turn my PS3 back on at all. If I'd have had CC details lodged with them I'd have kicked the shit out of it and put it on youtube already.
sonysucks.com is owned by Sony it seems.
sonyfuckups.com and sonyisshit.com seem free though. seppuku.com is being squatted, but for sale.
Ripe for abuse, they are.
Is it me with my UK keyboard, or did he program out "&" so that I can't test a fork bomb?
How do you know when your friend has bought an iPhone?
He'll tell you.
Same with all Apple gear, it seems.
Don't take this as a troll; I just wish I had enough money to buy Apple gear.
skype-2.2.0.25-1 Arch Linux, x86/64, running the 32bit version.
I installed Win7 on a box the other day and installed Skype whilst messing around.
I have to say, with all possible honesty, I much prefer the Linux version to the Windows one. Ads? Extras? The Web2.0rrhea interface that makes me want to run it from a CLI instead?
Personal preference, I know, but the program makes voice, text and video calls to other Skype users. I need no more from it.
It doesn't use a standard widget set, so it completely ignores your system colors
I managed to get it to run Qt following my GTK style.
Sound doesn't work half the time unless you, like, kill -9 all other processes that have ever played a sound in the history of your login session, uninstall and reinstall the Skype client, and wave a dead chicken over /dev/dsp before every calling session
Nope. Once you've turned the mic on and done an alsactl store ; /etc/rc.d/alsa restart it should Just Work. WFM.
Heaven forfend you should have Pulse installed on a system where you want to run Skype...
Not felt the need to start doing voodoo to my machine yet. One of the reasons I love my Arch Linux, they don't add crap like that.
Even getting Skype to install typically means tracking down different versions of various libraries than what shipped with your distro, and then the first time you do a dist-upgrade it's broken again
# pacman -Rsn skype
checking dependencies...
Remove (5): skype-2.2.0.25-1 lib32-qt-4.7.3-1 lib32-libxv-1.0.6-1
lib32-libmng-1.0.10-5 lib32-libxss-1.2.1-1
Total Removed Size: 79.86 MB
Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
Your problems seem to be with your distro and/or your DE. Mind you, I've probably put more effort into my system than most people care to.
I do hope Skype wipes the chat history at their end before the transfer goes through. I'd hate to think that MSFT had access to all my "private" conversations over the last 10 years plus.
My Mother does. OpenSUSE 11.4 to be precise. Upgraded 11.2 > 11.3 and now the latest.
She hit 60 recently. She went out to Asda (Walmart) and bought herself a lovely little webcam so she can video chat when my Sister's baby arrives.
I know lot of silver surfers who use Skype that wouldn't know the difference if you installed Linux for them and it would be a lot less hassle than dealing with all those stupid chain trojans they send round the church congregation.
You realise that my train of thought brought about by that post just made me lose The Game, right?
I'd have hit that with a +1, just because I know I'll have the rhyme in my mind with every post of yours I read.
~ denotes a 'snarky' comment
No, it doesn't.
It means "about"or "roughly" as in "4.9 is about half of 10".
4.9 is ~50% of 10
Sarcasm doesn't need a mark, it just needs a larger percentage of North America to read more and be educated, and to see jokes instead of potential lawsuits.