I've run X on a 386/20 with 4MB ram. It takes about five minutes to start and can't run a window manager, but it actually ended up working fairly well for running remote X apps.
I've had problems with this in the past. If I actually remember to turn my phone off when I enter a theatre, I forget to turn it back on when I leave. I've had fairly serious things happen, such as my friend trying to call me when his brother died because he needed help moving the body. I eventually just set my phone to beep once. What is slashdot's opinion on this? It's set to beep fairly loudly, but it's a quick, short beep. By the time you notice it, it's already over, so I don't think it's in the same league as a phone blaring "Hey Ya" for 45 seconds while someone searches for the button to make it stop.
I'd like to see an option for a "quiet zone signal", which would be a small transmitter put in places like movie theatres, etc, and phones could be equipped with an option to go into silent mode when the signal is present. It would be dirt-cheap to implement from the theatre's end.. it could probably be done for less than $100. The only problem is that everyone would need a new phone. Of course, the way people go through phones these days, if they started implementing this now, most people would have it on their phones in a couple years.
I really think that 99% of people that have their phones start ringing in a movie are embarrassed, and not just trying to piss everyone off - they just forgot to turn the phone off. This way, people could just have this setting enabled on their phone and not have to worry about it.
Rochester needs to make up the $150 million they spent on a boat that managed to run for three months before going bankrupt and getting impounded because they couldn't pay their gas bill.
Makes it harder to fire me for sitting here reading/. all day than simply clicking the delete key in the HRMS software.
I found it a lot easier to walk down to the office to get my paycheck than spending several hours over the course of a week dealing with the IT people just to be able to log in to the HRMS system.
The nice thing about having the paper check is I gave it to an actual person at the bank, so they could tell that the information on the check was just spelled wrong. I have no idea what an automated system would have done with my money.
I'll eventually go to direct deposit once I know that they can actually produce a sheet of paper on time.
I pay premium because the majority of my time during the day (and probably a large portion of the people here) is spent at the computer. I'd rather not spend most of that time being pissed off at the computer, like I was when I used Windows.
Considering I use the thing for at least 8 hours a day on average, it certainly makes sense to me to pay a little bit more to have the best.
By itself, it doesn't seem like a scam, any more than any other franchise business (Subway, McDonalds, etc.) It's just the particular way they conduct business.
Some time ago, the Thai finance minister was trapped in his BMW because the Windows CE-powered car computer crashed. He would have died from heatstroke if some passerby didn't smash the window.
Well, you have to consider the alternative to Bush. Can you imagine the U.S. reaction to terrorism under Kerry? Kerry is completely anti-military (look at his voting record, if nothing else).
In that case, you also might want to look at their military service records.
I doubt this would be very effective. I'm sure that spammers are probably all familiar with this trick by now, and just s/+.*@//g their spam list. I have postfix set up with an alternate domain, where everything goes to my primary email address.
So, the email address I give to slashdot would be slashdot@whatever.com, etc. It all gets forwarded to another email address, and my email client has a rule that moves all email to the alternate domain to a separate mailbox.
Yeah, I personally think this whole thing is stupid. McDonalds pays to put an ad on TV at 6pm and 7pm, they don't get any sort of discount because I already saw the ad at 6.
The fact is that just because it's the same person viewing the ad twice - the fact is they still saw the ad twice.
If it's worthless to see an ad more than once, why do they still advertise Coca-Cola? I'm already aware of its existence.
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I've run X on a 386/20 with 4MB ram. It takes about five minutes to start and can't run a window manager, but it actually ended up working fairly well for running remote X apps.
In Soviet Russia, government implant chip in you!
Er... Wait a minute.
My main problem is that I just don't make/take a lot of phone calls, maybe two a week. I can barely even remember to keep the battery charged.
I've had problems with this in the past. If I actually remember to turn my phone off when I enter a theatre, I forget to turn it back on when I leave. I've had fairly serious things happen, such as my friend trying to call me when his brother died because he needed help moving the body. I eventually just set my phone to beep once. What is slashdot's opinion on this? It's set to beep fairly loudly, but it's a quick, short beep. By the time you notice it, it's already over, so I don't think it's in the same league as a phone blaring "Hey Ya" for 45 seconds while someone searches for the button to make it stop.
I'd like to see an option for a "quiet zone signal", which would be a small transmitter put in places like movie theatres, etc, and phones could be equipped with an option to go into silent mode when the signal is present. It would be dirt-cheap to implement from the theatre's end.. it could probably be done for less than $100. The only problem is that everyone would need a new phone. Of course, the way people go through phones these days, if they started implementing this now, most people would have it on their phones in a couple years.
I really think that 99% of people that have their phones start ringing in a movie are embarrassed, and not just trying to piss everyone off - they just forgot to turn the phone off. This way, people could just have this setting enabled on their phone and not have to worry about it.
Seriously though, the only reason I haven't installed YDL is because it doesn't support Airport Extreme. Any news on this?
Well, there is that absolutely horrible "Imaging for Windows" thing they used to throw in with Windows.
Rochester needs to make up the $150 million they spent on a boat that managed to run for three months before going bankrupt and getting impounded because they couldn't pay their gas bill.
www.allofmp3.com does it just fine. :)
Makes it harder to fire me for sitting here reading /. all day than simply clicking the delete key in the HRMS software.
I found it a lot easier to walk down to the office to get my paycheck than spending several hours over the course of a week dealing with the IT people just to be able to log in to the HRMS system.
The nice thing about having the paper check is I gave it to an actual person at the bank, so they could tell that the information on the check was just spelled wrong. I have no idea what an automated system would have done with my money.
I'll eventually go to direct deposit once I know that they can actually produce a sheet of paper on time.
There's a HRMS from PeopleSoft at work to handle payroll, the thing doesn't work as it is, and this certainly isn't going to help.
It's a good thing I still demand my paychecks printed on a piece of paper in an envelope I can carry to the bank myself.
Removing the cookies seemed to fix it for me.
If this is so, then the Sony Playstation 2 would also be illegal since its binaries are in ELF format, right?
The Gentoo MacOS developers are busy polishing the
knobs
How are they ever going to finish it if they're spending all day polishing their knobs?
I pay premium because the majority of my time during the day (and probably a large portion of the people here) is spent at the computer. I'd rather not spend most of that time being pissed off at the computer, like I was when I used Windows.
Considering I use the thing for at least 8 hours a day on average, it certainly makes sense to me to pay a little bit more to have the best.
By itself, it doesn't seem like a scam, any more than any other franchise business (Subway, McDonalds, etc.) It's just the particular way they conduct business.
Some time ago, the Thai finance minister was trapped in his BMW because the Windows CE-powered car computer crashed. He would have died from heatstroke if some passerby didn't smash the window.
Well, you have to consider the alternative to Bush. Can you imagine the U.S. reaction to terrorism under Kerry? Kerry is completely anti-military (look at his voting record, if nothing else).
In that case, you also might want to look at their military service records.
It's not Commodore, it's just the name.
It's like if I started calling my garage Digital Equipment Corporation and started selling pet rocks, it doesn't have anything to do with a VAX.
There is an "Al's Hot Food and Wigs" in Rochester, NY.
Also a "Roger's Clocks and Pianos"
If the Smart Fortwo wasn't the equivalent of $12000 USD, I'd consider it.
Yes, you would.
How are you going to use the data? For anything that can be displayed on a cellphone, having 14.4Mbps isn't going to be any better than 9600bps.
I doubt this would be very effective. I'm sure that spammers are probably all familiar with this trick by now, and just s/+.*@//g their spam list. I have postfix set up with an alternate domain, where everything goes to my primary email address.
So, the email address I give to slashdot would be slashdot@whatever.com, etc. It all gets forwarded to another email address, and my email client has a rule that moves all email to the alternate domain to a separate mailbox.
Blocking mail from your bank is generally not the wisest thing you can do.
Yeah, I personally think this whole thing is stupid. McDonalds pays to put an ad on TV at 6pm and 7pm, they don't get any sort of discount because I already saw the ad at 6.
The fact is that just because it's the same person viewing the ad twice - the fact is they still saw the ad twice.
If it's worthless to see an ad more than once, why do they still advertise Coca-Cola? I'm already aware of its existence.
Because cable isn't an over-the-air broadcast and is thus not subject to FCC indecency law.