I can't even afford a knife right now, let alone the phone call.
I just noticed that on the web page of most of their other knives, such as the SwissChamp, you can click on a feature and see a picture of a tool in use. The multi-purpose hook is shown being used to open a pull-top can that looks far easier to open with your finger.
I've been meaning to ask a random group of people this for a long time: What's the hook on the back of many SA knives for? I can't imagine a use for it.
Is this the hook listed in Victorinox features lists as the "multi-purpose hook (parcel carrier)"?
I read an article months ago--I think it was ZDNet, but I can't find it--about employers spying on their employees by taking advantage of built-in microphones in the computers that most people don't know are there.
Anyone know where that story is? It's not all that informative, but it'd legitimize my mentioning it. I vaguely remember a sexual harrassment suit attached to the story, but I could be making that up.
(Wherever I read the story, I remember that it warned people that "if your hard drive is making noises and you're not touching the machine, your boss is probably spying on you." I can't remember if I actually wrote an angry letter or not...)
Others have also probably mentioned spy-by-screenshot software, which regularly sends screenshots of employee computers to a central spy computer, which displays miniatures of all the monitors on the boss's screen. I don't have a citation for that one, either...:)
Am I right in assuming that this move officially declares all Amiga technology outside of Gateway's labs officially obsolete? Those that held on to the absolute latest models in the hopes that the technology they already own would be extended have just officially had their last hopes dashed, no? No Amiga software or hardware will be of any use with whatever they come up with, right?
Yeah, the Amiga *used* to be about a better way, but now that we have no idea what "way" is supposed to be better, how the hell can we support it?
I'm still curious how Gateway hopes to capitalize off its investment in Amiga technology, because it sure sounds like they just threw it all in the back room and are starting from scratch. (For this reason alone, I'm not against continuing to report Amiga news on/., though I deeply sympathize with everyone's frustrations.)
Now we *really* need a Linux port of Deluxe Galaga...
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I can't even afford a knife right now, let alone the phone call.
I just noticed that on the web page of most of their other knives, such as the SwissChamp, you can click on a feature and see a picture of a tool in use. The multi-purpose hook is shown being used to open a pull-top can that looks far easier to open with your finger.
I've been meaning to ask a random group of people this for a long time: What's the hook on the back of many SA knives for? I can't imagine a use for it.
Is this the hook listed in Victorinox features lists as the "multi-purpose hook (parcel carrier)"?
Does anyone use this for anything interesting?
No kidding? Wow, I really walked into that one.
I've seen the screenshot one in a more serious context, though.
Thanks for the catch, VA...
I read an article months ago--I think it was ZDNet, but I can't find it--about employers spying on their employees by taking advantage of built-in microphones in the computers that most people don't know are there.
:)
Anyone know where that story is? It's not all that informative, but it'd legitimize my mentioning it. I vaguely remember a sexual harrassment suit attached to the story, but I could be making that up.
(Wherever I read the story, I remember that it warned people that "if your hard drive is making noises and you're not touching the machine, your boss is probably spying on you." I can't remember if I actually wrote an angry letter or not...)
Others have also probably mentioned spy-by-screenshot software, which regularly sends screenshots of employee computers to a central spy computer, which displays miniatures of all the monitors on the boss's screen. I don't have a citation for that one, either...
Am I right in assuming that this move officially declares all Amiga technology outside of Gateway's labs officially obsolete? Those that held on to the absolute latest models in the hopes that the technology they already own would be extended have just officially had their last hopes dashed, no? No Amiga software or hardware will be of any use with whatever they come up with, right?
/., though I deeply sympathize with everyone's frustrations.)
Yeah, the Amiga *used* to be about a better way, but now that we have no idea what "way" is supposed to be better, how the hell can we support it?
I'm still curious how Gateway hopes to capitalize off its investment in Amiga technology, because it sure sounds like they just threw it all in the back room and are starting from scratch. (For this reason alone, I'm not against continuing to report Amiga news on
Now we *really* need a Linux port of Deluxe Galaga...