Outsourced Government, how very colonial. Seriously though a war on porn? Who decides what is offensive? Oh, wait, thats right we're a democracy.
As we push each industry out we reduce the influence we have on them. What would US copyright and patent laws do without some form of localized content creation?
a little used application named iPhoto also stores this information; provided you have a GPS enabled camera (I don't) I was looking at exposure information from my EOS 300D and low and behold I saw an unpopulated field for lat/long/gps. If I had my GPS with me at the time of the photo I guess I could have entered this data by hand. But certainly Microsoft will claim this 'innovation' was theirs, much like Gore invented the internet.
I would be curious to know if anyone with a 911 enhanced cell phone with a camera has checked to see if they are recording their location? Big brother indeed.
I recently read an article where a music company equated sold media (CDR and DVDR) to theft because the number of media sold was greater then the sales of published CDs DVDs for the same time period. I suppose you can call me paranoid and you can call this speculation, but I don't use my DVD burner to copy movies and equating it in such a manner will ultimately limit our access to technology that *could* be used to do so.
call me paranoid, I do not think that these 'leaks' are unintentional, I think the mpaa might be releasing them in this fashion just to prove there is a problem, has anyone noticed the quality of the 'pirated prerelease' versions lately?
Anyone using the linux/ppc openfirmware bootloader is using a nice little forth program, makes dual or more booting a piece of cake. A while back someone turned an openfirmware equipped Mac into a pong machine.
http://members.aol.com/plforth/ofpong
I've added this to my openfirmware boot target and can boot right into pong:)
A email I just fired off, this was the last straw....
Recently I had a rather unpleasant experience with your service. I attempted to purchase an item from Ebay using the click through link provided; having forgotten my previous account I filled out all information required to open a new account including the Credit card that I wished to use; Apparently your procedure for error checking isn't as good as it should be, I was presented with a page that looked to be authorize/continue, I clicked it and the purchase went through, not using the new info, but using the old; So my checking account was overdrawn by several hundred dollars and I DID NOT AUTHORIZE the use of my bankcard; after this and reading about abiwords account being robbed with your *wonderful* service I choose to bank different.
Until they start acting like a REAL bank I will not use them, for folks that only use them, well my business will go elsewhere:)
I'm using Apples card right now, cause its so nice having it inside the case where I can't break it (bust an antenna off an orinoco and say DOH). Range is ok. But for extreme range I also have a Cisco 350, if you dig around the driver frontend you will find that you can crank it up to 100 mw (orinoco/apple are 30) and I have found that in most cases range/speed are better than an orinico with the desktop extender.
They should have ordered the plane as a
shell and retrofitted it themselves;
in the same situation I am sure they
would do the same thing...
They should have known better.
Short but sweet:
With TCI@Home I had 1mbit up 4 mbit down
With ATT@Home I had 128 kb up 4 mbit down
With ATTBI I have 128 kb up and 1.5 mbit down.
1.5 MB down isn't that bad, but given that I had
more, its missed; What I would like is something a little more usable on the upstream speed; even though 1.5 mbit is 37% of what I had I would love to have more than
a one way street.
This is so true;
My wife works in Marketing for a large non
micro$oft company (not HP, not IBM);
I work for a storage company doing support
for the machines she markets.....
A few weeks back she sent me a suspicious
file with a.scr.exe extension asking me if
I could open it as one of her friends had sent it
to her claiming that it was a great screen saver and that they thought she would love it.
I chuckled with glee as she had tried to open it;
but her mail client/computer had not allowed
its true intent to be realized, had she been
running outcook a call would have been placed to her support organization and her machine would have been down....
One of my friends does NT/2K support and
when asked about this he simply replys:
When looking for a job I didn't look for an operating system that was easy to use/support, I looked for a system that would keep me gainfully employed...
Is it any wonder that those that support this operating system tout its advantages?
It is certainly paying their bills (or Bill)
Troll on, salt in woulds is a good thing and I
applaud the pothole analogy, potholes are
a sign of poorly thought out/constructed
roads, have you seen the autobahn?
Great, just more leverage on those that refuse
to run that damned OS; pitting accountants
vs. teachers. (mac isn't free, linux is free, but if you don't have to pay for microsoft why not use it?)
Microsoft is a perfect example of what happens when a corp. gets too big, they're
doing nothing 'wrong' but the scale of what they can do puts everyone else out of their league.... Usually this is when the Government is supposed to protect us, don't look that way today.
Looks like microsoft might succeed where Standard Oil, Bell Telephone and IBM failed.
Like many other @Home customers, I was fat dumb and happy until about 3 weeks ago, when I received
my cable modem it was rated at 1 mbit up, 3 down
all was good until they decided to 'servers'
by limiting upstream to 128 kbs, on top of that
if you have a backgroup upload running, and it gets limited, your downstream is limited as well
the official response is that it improves the
service for 99% of the users....
take my advice, do not use them any longer
then you have to, they invented this game, if you pay them, they will win.
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Pulling funding from SCO will just make them act much like a cornered animal. Those SCO/Linux licenses might just become a collectors piece.
Outsourced Government, how very colonial. Seriously though a war on porn? Who decides what is offensive? Oh, wait, thats right we're a democracy.
As we push each industry out we reduce the influence we have on them. What would US copyright and patent laws do without some form of localized content creation?
Pop up some popcorn, this one will be a show.
I found a $up3r 733T method to get my game on without
:)
buying pepsi products.
7-11
grab a big gulp cup (or two if you want to double your chances)
fill it with a Coke product and pay for it.
much better then tipping pepsi in the store.....
a gateway crime for sure, whats next? unscrewing the caps
and leaving with em?
as far as applying GPS location via metadata.
a little used application named iPhoto also stores this information; provided you have a GPS enabled camera (I don't) I was looking at exposure information from my EOS 300D and low and behold I saw an unpopulated field for lat/long/gps. If I had my GPS with me at the time of the photo I guess I could have entered this data by hand. But certainly Microsoft will claim this 'innovation' was theirs, much like Gore invented the internet.
I would be curious to know if anyone with a 911 enhanced cell phone with a camera has checked to see if they are recording their location? Big brother indeed.
I think a patent on patents that take universally accepted ideas and innovations is due, think of the revenue.
I'll sue.
I'll sue.
ATI 9600
:)
17" display
1 GB ram
PowerPC
Sonica AC3 DTS
Full size keyboard
30 lbs less
empty pocketbook
Definitely laptop hardware.
MC Hawking that is.......
http://www.mchawking.com
I recently read an article where a music company equated sold media (CDR and DVDR) to theft because the number of media sold was greater then the sales of published CDs DVDs for the same time period. I suppose you can call me paranoid and you can call this speculation, but I don't use my DVD burner to copy movies and equating it in such a manner will ultimately limit our access to technology that *could* be used to do so.
again call me paranoid but.......
Just cause I'm paranoid;
doesn't mean they're not out to get me
call me paranoid, I do not think that these 'leaks' are
unintentional, I think the mpaa might be releasing them
in this fashion just to prove there is a problem, has anyone noticed the quality of the 'pirated prerelease' versions lately?
Anyone using the linux/ppc openfirmware bootloader is using a nice little forth program, makes dual or more booting a piece of cake. A while back someone turned an openfirmware equipped Mac into a pong machine.
:)
http://members.aol.com/plforth/ofpong
I've added this to my openfirmware boot target and can boot right into pong
A email I just fired off, this was the last straw....
:)
Recently I had a rather unpleasant experience with your service. I attempted to purchase an item from Ebay using the click through link provided; having forgotten my previous account I filled out all information required to open a new account including the Credit card that I wished to use; Apparently your procedure for error checking isn't as good as it should be, I was presented with a page that looked to be authorize/continue, I clicked it and the purchase went through, not using the new info, but using the old; So my checking account was overdrawn by several hundred dollars and I DID NOT AUTHORIZE the use of my bankcard; after this and reading about abiwords account being robbed with your *wonderful* service I choose to bank different.
Until they start acting like a REAL bank I will not use them, for folks that only use them, well my business will go elsewhere
I'm using Apples card right now, cause its so
nice having it inside the case where I can't
break it (bust an antenna off an orinoco and say DOH). Range is ok. But for extreme range
I also have a Cisco 350, if you dig around the
driver frontend you will find that you can crank
it up to 100 mw (orinoco/apple are 30) and I
have found that in most cases range/speed are better than an orinico with the desktop extender.
This is rich, alternate stories and shorts are
out, parodies are in.
Will Lucas allow the entry of StarBallz, the parody he tried so hard to destroy?
Its his right to do this I suppose, but fans are
not a guaranteed commodity and this one has just about had enough of this.
They should have ordered the plane as a
shell and retrofitted it themselves;
in the same situation I am sure they
would do the same thing...
They should have known better.
jmho
Short but sweet:
With TCI@Home I had 1mbit up 4 mbit down
With ATT@Home I had 128 kb up 4 mbit down
With ATTBI I have 128 kb up and 1.5 mbit down.
1.5 MB down isn't that bad, but given that I had
more, its missed; What I would like is something a little more usable on the upstream speed; even though 1.5 mbit is 37% of what I had I would love to have more than
a one way street.
jmho
This is so true;
.scr.exe extension asking me if
My wife works in Marketing for a large non
micro$oft company (not HP, not IBM);
I work for a storage company doing support
for the machines she markets.....
A few weeks back she sent me a suspicious
file with a
I could open it as one of her friends had sent it
to her claiming that it was a great screen saver and that they thought she would love it.
I chuckled with glee as she had tried to open it;
but her mail client/computer had not allowed
its true intent to be realized, had she been
running outcook a call would have been placed to her support organization and her machine would have been down....
One of my friends does NT/2K support and
when asked about this he simply replys:
When looking for a job I didn't look for an operating system that was easy to use/support, I looked for a system that would keep me gainfully employed...
Is it any wonder that those that support this operating system tout its advantages?
It is certainly paying their bills (or Bill)
Troll on, salt in woulds is a good thing and I
applaud the pothole analogy, potholes are
a sign of poorly thought out/constructed
roads, have you seen the autobahn?
I wonder if the 20380 in project 20380
just happens to also be the zip code for
Washington DC?
This so called stealth boat is also equipped
with yakhont 'first strike' missiles....
Great, just more leverage on those that refuse
to run that damned OS; pitting accountants
vs. teachers. (mac isn't free, linux is free, but if you don't have to pay for microsoft why not use it?)
Microsoft is a perfect example of what happens when a corp. gets too big, they're
doing nothing 'wrong' but the scale of what they can do puts everyone else out of their league.... Usually this is when the Government is supposed to protect us, don't look that way today.
Looks like microsoft might succeed where Standard Oil, Bell Telephone and IBM failed.
Like many other @Home customers, I was fat dumb and happy until about 3 weeks ago, when I received my cable modem it was rated at 1 mbit up, 3 down all was good until they decided to 'servers' by limiting upstream to 128 kbs, on top of that if you have a backgroup upload running, and it gets limited, your downstream is limited as well the official response is that it improves the service for 99% of the users.... take my advice, do not use them any longer then you have to, they invented this game, if you pay them, they will win.