SGI actually manufactures things(or at least they DID up till recently) so "patent troll" doesn't quite fit. Just because one company sues another over IP rights doesn't mean one of them is a patent troll.
Please tell me how you'll "never fall behind with Debian".
Do they have some magical way of updating a burnt CD/DVD that we are all unaware of? If not, then there's likely no difference from what you are talking about and simply updating your system via "yum" or the like.
Either way, neither is correct. The original word is "kouchie". Musical Youth Group changed the lyrics to keep the drug references to a minimum for kids.
I think that's why they were concentrating on the Linux aspect of the company. Someone stated that if they tried to concentrate on IRIX then if they went under there would be zero chance for hardware support but if they went the open source route they would open up the game for both IRIX and Linux since anything could be ported. Besides, didn't they declare the end of the road for IRIX in December?
Call me a dreamer, but I keep hoping some day these guys will arise from the ashes of HP/Compaq and Intel.
Damn, don't remind me. I bought a DEC Alpha about 6 months before Compaq trashed them. I kept hoping they'd do something with it but as history shows us that's not going to happen. At least I've had my SGI's longer than 6 months though they're all Indigo2's and Octane's.
I find it hilarious that they say that drain cleaner is sulfuric acid when it's typically sodium hydroxide. I've never once seen sulfuric acid drain cleaner that I am aware of and I'm pretty hip to each chemical's tell-tale smell if it has one.
That's very true. I have seen some systems that use protection as you describe though why they bother with that rather than importing a PGP(or the like) signed license key emailed to the admin, I have no idea. PGP's a LOT harder to crack than a piece of hardware attached to my 'puter.
There ya go then, it's confirmed. I don't bring much new software into my collection via CDROM so I only see it maybe twice a year. I could only remember that when I put in my DVDR's it would ask if I wanted it to play the mp3's etc. and was pretty sure it did the same for autorun.
You're talking "high end medical imaging software", something in the 10's or 100's of thousands of dollars, versus a DVD, something that's bought and sold for under $20. One sells a few thousand copies in its lifetime, if it's lucky, the other sells millions in a year. Not the same thing, IMNSHO. And the reason they use dongles on your software is because they can get away with it since they don't have quite the same threat of piracy; I mean not everyone is going to have medical imaging hardware in their living room next to their flatscreen TV, ya know.
Though to be fair, you haven't seen a real dongle until you get into other lines of work like cable television where the dongle they sell you IS the server and you can't add memory without calling tech support and getting them to adjust your key. Seriously, the software/hardware sells for over $300k and it's little more than a Linux box.
As stupid as Windows is(I'm not a fanboy by any means), most of the semi-smart users will simply turn autorun off and that solves that dilemma. And last I recall, it will ask you the first time you insert a disk if you want Windows to autorun it.
I haven't seen a lot of children in the families of our supposed upper class. They tend to have one or two kids at most.
A friend of mine pointed out once that it's the smart thing to do to help decrease the world's population, however she also added, but only the smart people are doing it.
All hail Bob, and his evil alterego, whose name is spelled backwards, Bob! That's right, Bob is his own anti-Bob!
Hail Eris!!
All Hail Discordia!!!
Emperor Norton for President!!!!
As a somewhat sad and OT sidenote, if you aren't already aware, Robert Anton Wilson is dying and had been destitute, unable to pay his next month's rent. I know that others have helped out but I'm sure that no one is going to turn down any donations. You can find out more info on places like BoingBoing and the like.
I KNOW that Tom couldn't do it. 3 years ago I asked "him" if he could make it so that one could arrange their closest friends so you wouldn't have to search for them if you had a lot of friends. "Nope that's impossible" was the response. And today everyone enjoys the Top 8/24 that Tom said was impossible. He's a dork...a rich one but a complete and utter dork.
Not such a bad concept if one considers that a couple years ago there was an article about how PowerPoint makes you stupid and they had proof: there was apparently a lot of information in a presentation on the subject of how the Space Shuttle could have one of its tiles broken and that could cause a major malfunction. No one understood it because the presentation distracted from the information at hand and so the Shuttle was launched without this being taken into account.
I was wondering how we might correct such a thing since if you accidentally released the mouse button before you had the correct item selected you would give someone the wrong mod(as opposed to the previous way of having to select it and then press a button to confirm it). Anyone know if there's a good way around this?
Holy crap!! "It was designed to have a colossal period of 2^19937 1 (the creators of the algorithm proved this property). In practice, there is little reason to use larger ones, as most applications do not require 2^19937 unique combinations."
To put that in decimal: 4.3154247973881626480552355163379e+6001. That's quite a number. I think that dwarfs "astronomical".
...most of my faves are pre-2000:
1. R-Type
2. Elevator Action
3. Oddworld: Abe's Odessey
4. Nightmare Before Christmas
5. Monster Rancher 2
R-Type just kills me cause even with all the cheats turned on, it took me forever to finish the damn game, only 13 years after I started playing it..heh.
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SGI actually manufactures things(or at least they DID up till recently) so "patent troll" doesn't quite fit. Just because one company sues another over IP rights doesn't mean one of them is a patent troll.
Maybe so but if you're trying to imply that was Bill Gates who said that, sorry to tell you it's an urban myth.
Please tell me how you'll "never fall behind with Debian".
Do they have some magical way of updating a burnt CD/DVD that we are all unaware of? If not, then there's likely no difference from what you are talking about and simply updating your system via "yum" or the like.
Either way, neither is correct. The original word is "kouchie". Musical Youth Group changed the lyrics to keep the drug references to a minimum for kids.
I think that's why they were concentrating on the Linux aspect of the company. Someone stated that if they tried to concentrate on IRIX then if they went under there would be zero chance for hardware support but if they went the open source route they would open up the game for both IRIX and Linux since anything could be ported. Besides, didn't they declare the end of the road for IRIX in December?
Call me a dreamer, but I keep hoping some day these guys will arise from the ashes of HP/Compaq and Intel.
Damn, don't remind me. I bought a DEC Alpha about 6 months before Compaq trashed them. I kept hoping they'd do something with it but as history shows us that's not going to happen. At least I've had my SGI's longer than 6 months though they're all Indigo2's and Octane's.
I find it hilarious that they say that drain cleaner is sulfuric acid when it's typically sodium hydroxide. I've never once seen sulfuric acid drain cleaner that I am aware of and I'm pretty hip to each chemical's tell-tale smell if it has one.
That's very true. I have seen some systems that use protection as you describe though why they bother with that rather than importing a PGP(or the like) signed license key emailed to the admin, I have no idea. PGP's a LOT harder to crack than a piece of hardware attached to my 'puter.
Not only that, if you think about it, the million dollar piece of equipment necessary to use the software IS the dongle.
There ya go then, it's confirmed. I don't bring much new software into my collection via CDROM so I only see it maybe twice a year. I could only remember that when I put in my DVDR's it would ask if I wanted it to play the mp3's etc. and was pretty sure it did the same for autorun.
You're talking "high end medical imaging software", something in the 10's or 100's of thousands of dollars, versus a DVD, something that's bought and sold for under $20. One sells a few thousand copies in its lifetime, if it's lucky, the other sells millions in a year. Not the same thing, IMNSHO. And the reason they use dongles on your software is because they can get away with it since they don't have quite the same threat of piracy; I mean not everyone is going to have medical imaging hardware in their living room next to their flatscreen TV, ya know.
Though to be fair, you haven't seen a real dongle until you get into other lines of work like cable television where the dongle they sell you IS the server and you can't add memory without calling tech support and getting them to adjust your key. Seriously, the software/hardware sells for over $300k and it's little more than a Linux box.
"If Windows wasn't so brain dead, this wouldn't even be a problem."
The same could be said of Apple in this situation, don't you think.
As stupid as Windows is(I'm not a fanboy by any means), most of the semi-smart users will simply turn autorun off and that solves that dilemma. And last I recall, it will ask you the first time you insert a disk if you want Windows to autorun it.
Hey, the Windows machine was wearing a tight skirt and coming onto me. I got horny, what did you expect me to do?
I haven't seen a lot of children in the families of our supposed upper class. They tend to have one or two kids at most.
A friend of mine pointed out once that it's the smart thing to do to help decrease the world's population, however she also added, but only the smart people are doing it.
The smart, beautiful and creative ones?
All hail Bob, and his evil alterego, whose name is spelled backwards, Bob! That's right, Bob is his own anti-Bob!
Hail Eris!!
All Hail Discordia!!!
Emperor Norton for President!!!!
As a somewhat sad and OT sidenote, if you aren't already aware, Robert Anton Wilson is dying and had been destitute, unable to pay his next month's rent. I know that others have helped out but I'm sure that no one is going to turn down any donations. You can find out more info on places like BoingBoing and the like.
Wish I still had mod points, I'd mod you +eleventy-one hilare!
I KNOW that Tom couldn't do it. 3 years ago I asked "him" if he could make it so that one could arrange their closest friends so you wouldn't have to search for them if you had a lot of friends. "Nope that's impossible" was the response. And today everyone enjoys the Top 8/24 that Tom said was impossible. He's a dork...a rich one but a complete and utter dork.
Not such a bad concept if one considers that a couple years ago there was an article about how PowerPoint makes you stupid and they had proof: there was apparently a lot of information in a presentation on the subject of how the Space Shuttle could have one of its tiles broken and that could cause a major malfunction. No one understood it because the presentation distracted from the information at hand and so the Shuttle was launched without this being taken into account.
I was wondering how we might correct such a thing since if you accidentally released the mouse button before you had the correct item selected you would give someone the wrong mod(as opposed to the previous way of having to select it and then press a button to confirm it). Anyone know if there's a good way around this?
A good start
What's the difference between a dead dog and a dead lawyer in the street?
There are skid marks in front of the dog.
To put that in decimal: 4.3154247973881626480552355163379e+6001. That's quite a number. I think that dwarfs "astronomical".
...most of my faves are pre-2000: 1. R-Type 2. Elevator Action 3. Oddworld: Abe's Odessey 4. Nightmare Before Christmas 5. Monster Rancher 2 R-Type just kills me cause even with all the cheats turned on, it took me forever to finish the damn game, only 13 years after I started playing it..heh.