Without bothering to google for any pertinant articles, I beleive the expansion of the soda from a compressed state provides more than sufficient chilling. Empirically, I usually order my soda "no ice" and have never had a problem with it being "lukewarm". I'll usually finish the drink far sooner than it will have a chance to get warm, even on a hot day with no A/C.
Why not? They ported it to the Mac, a platform I would assume far different than Windows. Surely a non-trivial effort for a market share and raw install counts that was less then than linux is now. Given probably more than 70% of the (bloated) logic would would probably stand unchanged. I would think that for far less than a million, say 5 programmers at $100K (like MS pays any where near that for coders) would probably have a 1st cut done in 6 months and RC1 in a year. Look at REACTOS, they are recreating the entire underlying OS on a volunteer/part-time basis. Imagine their progress if they were paid salary and benefits. Many moons ago I was writing multi-platform SCSI scanner drivers, in far less than a year I had an extensive set of self-created tools that hid the proprietary OS & GUI calls with header macros, typedefs and wrapper functions that allowed us to code UI modules, different for each vendor, often different for each scannner model, using internal definitions. Admittedly they were similar platforms, WIN16, WIN32S (AH, the joys of "thunking"), WIN32 and OS/2. Had there been a scanner manufacturer willing to contract the work, I have no doubt that I would have been able to port to the linux environment with far less effort than I expended on getting WIN32S to operate.
The technical feasbility is certainly there, cost would be pocket change to Billy-Boy. There were probably enough linux enthusiasts mired by needing to interect with native windows customers & associates, who needed a sound and supported implementation of Word, that it would have been a good bet that it also have been a profitable product. Unsurprisingly, its politics and egos that make it improbable, not the technical or business hurdles.
As a favor to any future posessors of a trojaned disc.
1. Locate physical position of code on CD, it is assumed to be in the same place on every "protected" CD.
2. Create a jig with a nail or some other method of defacing the disc surface and preventing the program from ever being copied from the CD.
3. ???
4. profit!
Isn't FOSS all about choice? Isn't there supposed to be strength from diversity? Haven't the dangers of a monoculture been pointed out repeatedly? Many years ago, Xaveria Hollander recounted in "The Happy Hooker" (THAT got your attention didn't it?) how, when she was growing up, one day a week up her family spoke nothing but a foreign language. I always thought this was an excellent idea. Occaisonal immersion in alternative viewpoints. Different viewpoints is what gives us the ability to detect depth of field, discriminating near objects from more distant ones from difference in parallax. Surely this is more preferable to Gatesian railroading philosophy?
They say eval, but only because it doesn't include some of the proprietary stuff on the disk. No big deal, just download what you need from the YOU (Yast Online Update). I have installed using the "SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-x86_64-GM.iso" image on my dual opteron in multiple partitions with a multiboot to XP and XP64, and Suse 9.3 as a fallback in case VMware Linux chokes in the 10. Install MS to the 1st partition(s) of the 1st disk, then install Suse, it will recognize the windows bootable partitions and include them in the GRUB boot menu. Dirt Simple. I did have some issues with installing 9.3 to a disk other than the 1st. Rather than argue I put a new IDE 300GB drive in and install to there. I think you would be OK as long as the MBR and one Linux boot partition are on the 1st drive. I do have another v10 drive on a SATA drive (windows needs drivers install Suse just works) and can boot to it from the GRUB on the 1st drive. Two other hints: run "checkcfg -add smartd" to install the monitor for drive health and use "Kcontrol" to turn off the cursor animation, you cant do it from the desktop properties,the help does not index cursor properties.
Step 1: Edit out the time-stealing advertisments and corporate logos. How many times do we have to see/hear THX, Tinkerbell, a lion or some kid with the moon in his butt-crack? These are almost legtimaite compared to the "pre-views" blatently beating you upside the head.
Step 2: An internet database of these edits so other consomers can create a properly pruned and more watchable DVD.
We have already given them our money, we should not be required to pay again and again with no choice in watching this useless content.
Roseanne: I fully support this. Who doesn't take pleasure in a well maintained lawn? Fresh green grass, a pleasure to the eyes, nose and toes. Some even take pleasure in hearing the distant sound of the mower across the street on a summer afternoon...
Chase: That's LAWS.
Roseanne: Well then, that's different...Nevermind.
This is absolutely painless. OpenSuse http://opensuse.org/ and probably most other distros, will automatically detect how much free space is in the current NTFS/FAT partition and allow you to resize it, I'd recommend creating around a 10G partition for a full install (90 min). Opensuse has a DVD ISO for a swapfree install,and a easy install time KDE/GNOME GUI selection. Opensuse is anexcellant distro for 1st-time dabblers. HTH
I think you are confused about the reason for the doppler effect. It appears that you are either "getting small" or maybe getting plural (weee) rather than having fun (whee).
What kinda numbnet creates a site that uses a pop-up interface?
I'm pretty eclectic, and I might have found it to be a worthwhile subscription. However, since they seem intent on preventing further investigation I am left to wonder if their product is as poorly implemeted as their web site.
In other news: Sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Bears defecate in the woods.
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I think my point was pretty clear, proper opt-in etiquette requires an affirmative action to request repeat emails like newsletters, announcements. I will buy off on providing an email address for validation purposes for the service. Any use beyond that SINGLE confirmation email is required to be UNSELECTED by default. The marketing droids like to think of all sorts of clever things to insinuate themselves into your life so they can claim that they are following rules of the "YOU_CAN-SPAM" act and then sell that information to others. Good-luck to them, I use http://spamgourmet.com/ to provide one-off and sender restricted addresses to foil their dastardly plots and relieve me of having to wade through their fine print. I currently have over 60 aliases still getting used of which maybe 4 are actually forwarding mail.
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And there you have the core reason. They do not have the right to spam anyone by default. That box should be presented as unchecked in the page. If a user does not explictly indicate (solicit) a request for it, they do not have the right to send it and it IS unsolicited commercial email and should be dealt with accordingly.
There will not be anything to interdict. When these items are shipped and cross our borders they will be perfectly legitimate. What will happen is that the "secret" of applying an "overvoltage" to a specific set of components/connectors will "accidently" disable the Digital Rectum Manacles (TM) and leave the normal functionality untouched will be "leaked", probably by selling the instructions on e-bay (preceeding business method patent pending). With the added benefit that such actions void the warranty and when it breaks 23 months later a new player will have to be purchased.
I wonder if there are any statistical studies to prove that exposure to MS software contributes to a higher frequency off off by 1 errors? My post seems to be a prime example.;)
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My brother is overweight and hirsute, you insensitive clod!
Without bothering to google for any pertinant articles, I beleive the expansion of the soda from a compressed state provides more than sufficient chilling. Empirically, I usually order my soda "no ice" and have never had a problem with it being "lukewarm". I'll usually finish the drink far sooner than it will have a chance to get warm, even on a hot day with no A/C.
Sorry, it just slipped out.
Why not? They ported it to the Mac, a platform I would assume far different than Windows. Surely a non-trivial effort for a market share and raw install counts that was less then than linux is now. Given probably more than 70% of the (bloated) logic would would probably stand unchanged. I would think that for far less than a million, say 5 programmers at $100K (like MS pays any where near that for coders) would probably have a 1st cut done in 6 months and RC1 in a year. Look at REACTOS, they are recreating the entire underlying OS on a volunteer/part-time basis. Imagine their progress if they were paid salary and benefits. Many moons ago I was writing multi-platform SCSI scanner drivers, in far less than a year I had an extensive set of self-created tools that hid the proprietary OS & GUI calls with header macros, typedefs and wrapper functions that allowed us to code UI modules, different for each vendor, often different for each scannner model, using internal definitions. Admittedly they were similar platforms, WIN16, WIN32S (AH, the joys of "thunking"), WIN32 and OS/2. Had there been a scanner manufacturer willing to contract the work, I have no doubt that I would have been able to port to the linux environment with far less effort than I expended on getting WIN32S to operate.
The technical feasbility is certainly there, cost would be pocket change to Billy-Boy. There were probably enough linux enthusiasts mired by needing to interect with native windows customers & associates, who needed a sound and supported implementation of Word, that it would have been a good bet that it also have been a profitable product. Unsurprisingly, its politics and egos that make it improbable, not the technical or business hurdles.
"Digital Rectal Mangling", just about sez it all
As a favor to any future posessors of a trojaned disc.
1. Locate physical position of code on CD, it is assumed to be in the same place on every "protected" CD.
2. Create a jig with a nail or some other method of defacing the disc surface and preventing the program from ever being copied from the CD.
3. ???
4. profit!
Isn't FOSS all about choice? Isn't there supposed to be strength from diversity? Haven't the dangers of a monoculture been pointed out repeatedly? Many years ago, Xaveria Hollander recounted in "The Happy Hooker" (THAT got your attention didn't it?) how, when she was growing up, one day a week up her family spoke nothing but a foreign language. I always thought this was an excellent idea. Occaisonal immersion in alternative viewpoints. Different viewpoints is what gives us the ability to detect depth of field, discriminating near objects from more distant ones from difference in parallax. Surely this is more preferable to Gatesian railroading philosophy?
Maybe they meant "incest"? I sure feel like I'm being molested by an uncle.
They say eval, but only because it doesn't include some of the proprietary stuff on the disk. No big deal, just download what you need from the YOU (Yast Online Update). I have installed using the "SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-x86_64-GM.iso" image on my dual opteron in multiple partitions with a multiboot to XP and XP64, and Suse 9.3 as a fallback in case VMware Linux chokes in the 10. Install MS to the 1st partition(s) of the 1st disk, then install Suse, it will recognize the windows bootable partitions and include them in the GRUB boot menu. Dirt Simple. I did have some issues with installing 9.3 to a disk other than the 1st. Rather than argue I put a new IDE 300GB drive in and install to there. I think you would be OK as long as the MBR and one Linux boot partition are on the 1st drive. I do have another v10 drive on a SATA drive (windows needs drivers install Suse just works) and can boot to it from the GRUB on the 1st drive. Two other hints: run "checkcfg -add smartd" to install the monitor for drive health and use "Kcontrol" to turn off the cursor animation, you cant do it from the desktop properties,the help does not index cursor properties.
Step 1: Edit out the time-stealing advertisments and corporate logos. How many times do we have to see/hear THX, Tinkerbell, a lion or some kid with the moon in his butt-crack? These are almost legtimaite compared to the "pre-views" blatently beating you upside the head.
Step 2: An internet database of these edits so other consomers can create a properly pruned and more watchable DVD.
We have already given them our money, we should not be required to pay again and again with no choice in watching this useless content.
Roseanne: I fully support this. Who doesn't take pleasure in a well maintained lawn? Fresh green grass, a pleasure to the eyes, nose and toes. Some even take pleasure in hearing the distant sound of the mower across the street on a summer afternoon...
Chase: That's LAWS.
Roseanne: Well then, that's different...Nevermind.
Does thios make it Suprafarcical?
Or meaybe even Suprafarcigilsticexpialdocius?
Can you say re-duh-ndant?
This undeserved bashing of MS and BG has got to stop.
Business as usual.
You must be new here.
Nothing to see, move along.
I observe your ID and can only assume you are an infrequent lurker or perhaps the question was rhetoric.
This is absolutely painless. OpenSuse http://opensuse.org/ and probably most other distros, will automatically detect how much free space is in the current NTFS/FAT partition and allow you to resize it, I'd recommend creating around a 10G partition for a full install (90 min). Opensuse has a DVD ISO for a swapfree install,and a easy install time KDE/GNOME GUI selection. Opensuse is anexcellant distro for 1st-time dabblers.
HTH
I know it's: Age/Sex/Location, but there is a low but finite posibility someone else besides me will be amused by the subject line.
I think you are confused about the reason for the doppler effect. It appears that you are either "getting small" or maybe getting plural (weee) rather than having fun (whee).
What kinda numbnet creates a site that uses a pop-up interface?
I'm pretty eclectic, and I might have found it to be a worthwhile subscription. However, since they seem intent on preventing further investigation I am left to wonder if their product is as poorly implemeted as their web site.
In other news:
Sun rises in the east, sets in the west.
Bears defecate in the woods.
I think my point was pretty clear, proper opt-in etiquette requires an affirmative action to request repeat emails like newsletters, announcements. I will buy off on providing an email address for validation purposes for the service. Any use beyond that SINGLE confirmation email is required to be UNSELECTED by default. The marketing droids like to think of all sorts of clever things to insinuate themselves into your life so they can claim that they are following rules of the "YOU_CAN-SPAM" act and then sell that information to others. Good-luck to them, I use http://spamgourmet.com/ to provide one-off and sender restricted addresses to foil their dastardly plots and relieve me of having to wade through their fine print. I currently have over 60 aliases still getting used of which maybe 4 are actually forwarding mail.
And there you have the core reason. They do not have the right to spam anyone by default. That box should be presented as unchecked in the page. If a user does not explictly indicate (solicit) a request for it, they do not have the right to send it and it IS unsolicited commercial email and should be dealt with accordingly.
There will not be anything to interdict. When these items are shipped and cross our borders they will be perfectly legitimate. What will happen is that the "secret" of applying an "overvoltage" to a specific set of components/connectors will "accidently" disable the Digital Rectum Manacles (TM) and leave the normal functionality untouched will be "leaked", probably by selling the instructions on e-bay (preceeding business method patent pending). With the added benefit that such actions void the warranty and when it breaks 23 months later a new player will have to be purchased.
> the feeling I got from the White House was that gas prices were the primary concern
Considering their ties to Big Oil. I assume they feel the prices are still to low by a factor of five?
I wonder if there are any statistical studies to prove that exposure to MS software contributes to a higher frequency off off by 1 errors? My post seems to be a prime example. ;)