Playing frisbee with a DVD isn't much more dangerous than playing with a CD (I mean frisbee;) ), but building a building without fire codes could kill people, driving at 150MPH can run over people and making drugs with a chemistry set can be dangerous and it is often considered illegal (at the least) to offer someone something to injest unless it conforms to FDA regulations (except in the case of jams, baking, etc....), etc..... The problem with the DCMA and related legislations and copyright protection schemes is that they are not put place in to protect people from physical harm, they are put in place to protec (cough) the artist (cough) and the media conglomerates from losing out on their investment in intellectual property. What the legislation is designed to do is instill a broad-reaching set of regulations that limit the amount of abuse and therefore the amount of litigation, fining and investigation the stakeholders need to do to protect their investments and IP. Unfortunately, it infringes on our rights to fair use.
Now, if they'd let us make backup copies and leave the originals in their cases, we'd be talking..... It will eventually happen, it's unfortunate that it is technology that forces it due to widespread use of copying techniques (and the "declining" sales due to this piracy), not consumer need.
4,900,000 copies of Microsoft Windows software have potential memory leaking issues and are being kept on the marketplace. The Windows software from one manufacturer can possibly lead to system corruption, lockups and comprimised security of stored documents & personal information. The affected releases are: Longhorn (beta), all versions of XP, 2000, ME, 98SE, 98, 95OSR2, 95A, NT Workstation 4.0 & 3.X, Windows 3.x & Windows for Workgroups 3.x. All upgrade versions of the software is also affected. Windows versions below 3.0 are not affected. As a result, Microsoft has created a test which allows users to test for faulty software: If it says "Microsoft" on statup, it's defective. Microsoft officials insisted that the memory leaks were "features" intended to inform the user after approximately 300 lockups or the next release of the software (whichever comes first), the user should upgrade to the latest release.
A. We checked everything, except for the fonts (which are difficult to identicalify -- yes, I just made up a new word), copied stylesheets over, new installs, etc... it's been doing it for the past 3 or so revisions of Mozilla.
B. Check out the website, you'll see what I mean. Click on "products" and try to select a chassis size. Onwindows. the cascading sheet appears, in Linux, it is overlapped by the flash, and it's VERY difficult to get to the next level.
C. How did you know I was from Canada?:)
Has anyone noticed differences between the HTML engines in Mozilla? Using Mozilla/Firefox on a Linux distro, there are certain style sheets that do not display correctly (mostly hidden behind a graphic or otherwise), but seem to work fine under Mozilla/Firefox in Windows. An example is www.aicipc.com.
I had a customer once who hot-glued his fan onto his CPU. Hilarious! The strands of hot-glue inside the case.....the burnt glue on the CPU.....the gobs of re-melted glue ont eh AGP port..... the list goes on.
What happens to existing customers who have had the same number for 10 years and enjoyed 10 years of bliss? (or as much bliss as one can expect owning a device with which you be reached anywhere)
From day one, I could not understand how this was possible. I have not read this book, but it seems that every time something major like this happens, something just smacks me as being wrong. AOL does not make money. It didn't at the time, and it probably never will. Sun can not realistically make money. Apple clung on for dear life and will eventually falter -- iTunes can only hold out for so long. IBM got out of HW, look where they are. Novell embraced Linux and where are they? Doing much better than a few years ago. MS investing in Corel? Look where that is now.
Isn't there someone out there who would actually think of consulting with intimately aware industry experts (us, for lack of a better idiom) before believing the hype on balance sheets that list 95% goodwill as an asset?
Maybe I'm being too cocky in believing I'm better than the "experts", but I seem to be right more often than not.
Ah...... slashdotted. Anyone got a mirror?
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Hmmm..... the Slashdot effect seems to affect only interesting sites related to open software or information regarding abuses by commercial software vendors or stock pumpers.... coincidence?
No, they're not.
If you aren't ordering CPUs in the thousands (or at least hundreds), you will be getting retail CPUs.
OEM CPUs from most brokers cost about 10-12% less than retail, and have no fans (even the "crappy" ones that come retail with the CPUs - though they're no worse than the boxed Intel fans).
It's the principle of it. Good shot in the arm for AMD.
As far as all of you bashing AMDs chipsets and processor quality, aside from the fact you're probably not able to fully substantiate your claims.... you're again missing the point. If there was no AMD, a 3.06 GHz CPU would prob still be $1000, like things were 6 years ago (price for bleeding edge CPUs, not 3.06GHz 3 years ago).
1: There ARE more web servers out there running Apache than anything else. So, why is it that there is an unbalanced proportion of these boxes remaining intact and and with 99% (sic) uptime than the Windows boxes?
2: Apache runs properly with fewer system resources, hardware and preventative maintenance than Windows. Set & forget, to a great extent.
3: One of the main reasons that many corporate/commercial servers are still running IIS is because of the ease of use in integrating MS SQL and specific data export services from what the desktop is running: Windows. If from your average net admin's perspective, they could easliy and definitively state to their bosses that they could run a given database server on Apache for X dollars instead of on MS for XXX dollars, they would do it. It is difficult for the admins on two fronts: a) persuading their employers that a free product could possibly outrun what the so called market leader has provided, and b) if something goes wrong, fewer heads will roll if they're using MS instead of a "free", "open-source" product that, in the eyes of their employers was a gamble to start with.
Maybe the multi-format date conventions are part of a Microsoft plot to..... RULE THE WORLD!!!! HA HA HA!!!!...
Seriously... why "can't people use ISO date format"? Does it serve any purpose other than a) aggravate and b) useful for proprietary & old data entry applications. Does anyone know exactly where other formats are required/suggested/preffered?
This reminds me of an old points programme (emphasis on the "mme") that paid people to surf with ads on their machines..... Now: My poll question: What is more acceptable: Ads a) on top or below your surfing/working window or b) to the left or right? My vote is for the right side, as we normally read from left to right, and the ads are discarded by (my) brain as superflouous. Comments? Opinions?
BTW, I only ask this and entertain the notion because like it or not, ads are going to be a part of the hotspot experience.... why not do it right from the beginning?
We have a problem here. How do we stop the spammers from distributing unwanted spam? We can't. If they're running their operations from outside industrialized and regulated countries, there is virutually no legal recourse. My favorite solution is to have all websites pertaining to porn be labelled with an.XXX suffix. Problem? Unenforcable.
Now, the same problem exists with panhandlers. They are a societal ill that hinders commerce, encourages substance and welfare abuse, yet bylaws and law enforcement are impotent against the panhandlers themselves.
So: As my suggestion to local city council goes: if you can't fine the panhandlers (what are you going to do, take their "panhandled" money away?), fine the people patronizing the panhandlers!
Some big issues here that have to be worked out... liberty of speech comes to mind, but somehow make it illegal or a fineable offense to support unsolicited spam or pornography by way of spam. If the market dries up, so do the merchants. If the demand drops, so does the supply.
That's all we need: two closed source, proprietary standards getting more powerful. On the upside, only one proprietary player/codec to download. Only one proprietary player/codec for us to develop & release. Only one organizatino to rally against when they abuse their power. Also, I wonder how this would affect the standard use of Real? Would streaming video & audio suddenly becoe available in some future form of iPod?
Wow! I hope they can port the Apple II to the internet in the same way. This might be the begining of a legacy movement to get older systems no only running but on the WWW in one working format or another. Even if it's just an FTP login or telnet prompt --- Way cool....!!!!
I'm quite surprised they're being quite so upfront about this. Kudos to them... On the other hand, I believe it to be a part of the healing process to convince the general public that they are, in fact taking the Columbia disaster extremely seriously, and want to show progress in the inspection and faliure-cathing procedures that obviously did not work for Columbia.
It was, however, just a matter of time before a Columbia-type disaster occured. The suttle program has a remarkable safety record, Challenger and Columbia no matter.
Google cache of interesting essay on similar subject.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:mmj9bjFJqFoJ:w ww.fastforwardproject.org/tech/index.php%3Ftech%3D phone%26sub%3Dessay+western+union+see+no+use+in+th is+telephone&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Right.
The hardware model is never indefinitely sustainable. However, if they can get their foot in the door right now, the can become the next NBC/ABC, rather than being a television manufacturer.
Hence the use of "wants" to make money on the music. Though GE and Westinghouse oare huge companies, the real money (unless you're in Cali, or the next Enron) is in distribution and wholesaleing.
Slashdot Mirror
No one, anywhere, anytime should be running mission-critical systems on a Microsoft OS. Ever. If a life depended on it, it's doubly so. Period.
Playing frisbee with a DVD isn't much more dangerous than playing with a CD (I mean frisbee ;) ), but building a building without fire codes could kill people, driving at 150MPH can run over people and making drugs with a chemistry set can be dangerous and it is often considered illegal (at the least) to offer someone something to injest unless it conforms to FDA regulations (except in the case of jams, baking, etc....), etc..... The problem with the DCMA and related legislations and copyright protection schemes is that they are not put place in to protect people from physical harm, they are put in place to protec (cough) the artist (cough) and the media conglomerates from losing out on their investment in intellectual property. What the legislation is designed to do is instill a broad-reaching set of regulations that limit the amount of abuse and therefore the amount of litigation, fining and investigation the stakeholders need to do to protect their investments and IP. Unfortunately, it infringes on our rights to fair use.
Now, if they'd let us make backup copies and leave the originals in their cases, we'd be talking..... It will eventually happen, it's unfortunate that it is technology that forces it due to widespread use of copying techniques (and the "declining" sales due to this piracy), not consumer need.
4,900,000 copies of Microsoft Windows software have potential memory leaking issues and are being kept on the marketplace. The Windows software from one manufacturer can possibly lead to system corruption, lockups and comprimised security of stored documents & personal information. The affected releases are: Longhorn (beta), all versions of XP, 2000, ME, 98SE, 98, 95OSR2, 95A, NT Workstation 4.0 & 3.X, Windows 3.x & Windows for Workgroups 3.x. All upgrade versions of the software is also affected. Windows versions below 3.0 are not affected. As a result, Microsoft has created a test which allows users to test for faulty software: If it says "Microsoft" on statup, it's defective. Microsoft officials insisted that the memory leaks were "features" intended to inform the user after approximately 300 lockups or the next release of the software (whichever comes first), the user should upgrade to the latest release.
A. We checked everything, except for the fonts (which are difficult to identicalify -- yes, I just made up a new word), copied stylesheets over, new installs, etc... it's been doing it for the past 3 or so revisions of Mozilla. B. Check out the website, you'll see what I mean. Click on "products" and try to select a chassis size. Onwindows. the cascading sheet appears, in Linux, it is overlapped by the flash, and it's VERY difficult to get to the next level. C. How did you know I was from Canada? :)
Has anyone noticed differences between the HTML engines in Mozilla? Using Mozilla/Firefox on a Linux distro, there are certain style sheets that do not display correctly (mostly hidden behind a graphic or otherwise), but seem to work fine under Mozilla/Firefox in Windows. An example is www.aicipc.com.
I had a customer once who hot-glued his fan onto his CPU. Hilarious! The strands of hot-glue inside the case.....the burnt glue on the CPU.....the gobs of re-melted glue ont eh AGP port..... the list goes on.
What happens to existing customers who have had the same number for 10 years and enjoyed 10 years of bliss? (or as much bliss as one can expect owning a device with which you be reached anywhere)
From day one, I could not understand how this was possible. I have not read this book, but it seems that every time something major like this happens, something just smacks me as being wrong. AOL does not make money. It didn't at the time, and it probably never will. Sun can not realistically make money. Apple clung on for dear life and will eventually falter -- iTunes can only hold out for so long. IBM got out of HW, look where they are. Novell embraced Linux and where are they? Doing much better than a few years ago. MS investing in Corel? Look where that is now.
Isn't there someone out there who would actually think of consulting with intimately aware industry experts (us, for lack of a better idiom) before believing the hype on balance sheets that list 95% goodwill as an asset?
Maybe I'm being too cocky in believing I'm better than the "experts", but I seem to be right more often than not.
Hmmm..... the Slashdot effect seems to affect only interesting sites related to open software or information regarding abuses by commercial software vendors or stock pumpers.... coincidence?
No, they're not. If you aren't ordering CPUs in the thousands (or at least hundreds), you will be getting retail CPUs. OEM CPUs from most brokers cost about 10-12% less than retail, and have no fans (even the "crappy" ones that come retail with the CPUs - though they're no worse than the boxed Intel fans).
Only 1.04%, actually. :(
It's the principle of it. Good shot in the arm for AMD.
As far as all of you bashing AMDs chipsets and processor quality, aside from the fact you're probably not able to fully substantiate your claims.... you're again missing the point. If there was no AMD, a 3.06 GHz CPU would prob still be $1000, like things were 6 years ago (price for bleeding edge CPUs, not 3.06GHz 3 years ago).
I think you've missed the point.
1: There ARE more web servers out there running Apache than anything else. So, why is it that there is an unbalanced proportion of these boxes remaining intact and and with 99% (sic) uptime than the Windows boxes?
2: Apache runs properly with fewer system resources, hardware and preventative maintenance than Windows. Set & forget, to a great extent.
3: One of the main reasons that many corporate/commercial servers are still running IIS is because of the ease of use in integrating MS SQL and specific data export services from what the desktop is running: Windows. If from your average net admin's perspective, they could easliy and definitively state to their bosses that they could run a given database server on Apache for X dollars instead of on MS for XXX dollars, they would do it. It is difficult for the admins on two fronts: a) persuading their employers that a free product could possibly outrun what the so called market leader has provided, and b) if something goes wrong, fewer heads will roll if they're using MS instead of a "free", "open-source" product that, in the eyes of their employers was a gamble to start with.
This will all change VERY soon.
It's all a mind game....
Maybe the multi-format date conventions are part of a Microsoft plot to..... RULE THE WORLD!!!! HA HA HA!!!!... Seriously... why "can't people use ISO date format"? Does it serve any purpose other than a) aggravate and b) useful for proprietary & old data entry applications. Does anyone know exactly where other formats are required/suggested/preffered?
This reminds me of an old points programme (emphasis on the "mme") that paid people to surf with ads on their machines..... Now: My poll question: What is more acceptable: Ads a) on top or below your surfing/working window or b) to the left or right? My vote is for the right side, as we normally read from left to right, and the ads are discarded by (my) brain as superflouous. Comments? Opinions?
BTW, I only ask this and entertain the notion because like it or not, ads are going to be a part of the hotspot experience.... why not do it right from the beginning?
We have a problem here. How do we stop the spammers from distributing unwanted spam? We can't. If they're running their operations from outside industrialized and regulated countries, there is virutually no legal recourse. My favorite solution is to have all websites pertaining to porn be labelled with an .XXX suffix. Problem? Unenforcable.
Now, the same problem exists with panhandlers. They are a societal ill that hinders commerce, encourages substance and welfare abuse, yet bylaws and law enforcement are impotent against the panhandlers themselves.
So: As my suggestion to local city council goes: if you can't fine the panhandlers (what are you going to do, take their "panhandled" money away?), fine the people patronizing the panhandlers!
Some big issues here that have to be worked out... liberty of speech comes to mind, but somehow make it illegal or a fineable offense to support unsolicited spam or pornography by way of spam. If the market dries up, so do the merchants. If the demand drops, so does the supply.
Hmmmm.... I wonder if they could do the same thing for that other operating system everyone seems to use.... Oh yeah! Windows.
That's all we need: two closed source, proprietary standards getting more powerful. On the upside, only one proprietary player/codec to download. Only one proprietary player/codec for us to develop & release. Only one organizatino to rally against when they abuse their power. Also, I wonder how this would affect the standard use of Real? Would streaming video & audio suddenly becoe available in some future form of iPod?
Wow! I hope they can port the Apple II to the internet in the same way. This might be the begining of a legacy movement to get older systems no only running but on the WWW in one working format or another. Even if it's just an FTP login or telnet prompt --- Way cool....!!!!
I don't know what the official count is, but as far as flights and missions, two out of (insert figure here) yields a figure much much lower than 40%.
I'm quite surprised they're being quite so upfront about this. Kudos to them... On the other hand, I believe it to be a part of the healing process to convince the general public that they are, in fact taking the Columbia disaster extremely seriously, and want to show progress in the inspection and faliure-cathing procedures that obviously did not work for Columbia.
It was, however, just a matter of time before a Columbia-type disaster occured. The suttle program has a remarkable safety record, Challenger and Columbia no matter.
Google cache of interesting essay on similar subject. http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:mmj9bjFJqFoJ:w ww.fastforwardproject.org/tech/index.php%3Ftech%3D phone%26sub%3Dessay+western+union+see+no+use+in+th is+telephone&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
You could buy the CD, download an MP3 from a site and play it. You own a legal copy, you're not technically stealing.
Right. The hardware model is never indefinitely sustainable. However, if they can get their foot in the door right now, the can become the next NBC/ABC, rather than being a television manufacturer.
Hence the use of "wants" to make money on the music. Though GE and Westinghouse oare huge companies, the real money (unless you're in Cali, or the next Enron) is in distribution and wholesaleing.