What the? You can barely play an mp3 on a BeBox, let alone use it to plot a bombing or similar.
Damn, I'm glad I live in a country where the police are utterly powerless. Copper comes over to you in a train station and tries to talk to you and you demand to talk to his superior and know his badge number, instantly - and they go away. Always.
Re:There is NOTHING the RIAA or the USA can do
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Considering they're bound to be owned by anybody BUT the government (its only in places like the US, UK, Ireland etc where the state actually owns significant amounts of the fibre), some ISP's insurance somwhere would have the resources to fix them, yes.
Hey, I can think of something... you just have to pronounce it the North Dublin way, and all of a sudden a certain word that I'm not sure if its swear filtered here or not; but certainly is by my employers proxy, rhymes with it...
I was bought a new OS/2 powered Thinkpad for my 11th birthday (damn, that dates me pretty specifically), and as a result I was able to get used to UNIX and even MacOS significantly easier. I had my own machine to mess around on - quite important, really - and I had to fix my own feckups. I had it quad booting at one stage, nice fun activity that that is... I could have managed with my own desktop bar the fact that my family travelled quite a bit, and lugging a Dell Dimension wasn't ever practical.
If your kid actually needs a laptop, (not just their own machine), and you can afford it, get them one. You should then even be able to take the PS/2 or similar out of their room, if they have one - and you can remove the TV too. However, if you're just getting them one to use AIM and play a few games, don't.
RSI-CRI still do offer SGI "Laptops". And yes, they'd not only burn your bollox off, but crush them into little tiny peices - I'm not even sure they take the boards out the SGI's case, just shove the machine into the chassis.
s/USA/Canada there, and its exactly my experience with IBM - IBM Ireland were willing to support (and repair) a Canadian bought Thinkpad for the lenght of the -Irish- warranty (2 years at the time) rather than the Canadian (1 year at the time). HP, however. Blergh..
Gecko Browser?
Thats what the Firefox 1.1 trunk builds brand themselves as unless you set the configure switch to show you have the Mozilla Foundations permission.
Its a bit weird seeing it build an app called "firefox-bin" thats not allowed call itself Firefox, though...
You're not using your keyboard correctly. It can be any damn layout in the world, you just don't know how to position your hands, etc. I've been using a keyboard for 8 hours a day for 14 years. Its always been qwerty or qwertz. I've never had -any- problems. No carpal, no need for wrist braces, etc.
The other possibility is that you're, eh, doing something else while at the computer. Bet its slower to cyber on a dvorak keyboard, eh?
Even -if- this gets exploited, it doesn't work cross tabs and it doesn't work if you more than one tab open in the window containing the 'trusted' site; at least not on FF 1.04 here on BeOS.
Now, how many FF users still browse with multiple windows and NO tabs? Anyone who found out about it the geeky ways uses tabs, and I should hope that the first thing you show any Joe Idiot how to do when you install FF on the machine you've just (been paid to) de-spyware is use the tabs...
Ehh...
Dunno about now, but for years Logitech used to make Microsoft's mice for them, in a fab in Dublin...
That old square serial 'Microsoft' mouse had a direct cousin in Logitechs line, although shapes started to move off shape-wise with the PS/2 mice.
BeOS. Which Palmsource bought, refused to licence even to people who had pre-existing reseller licences, and never used in (any|a major) way in a product, and not at all in a shipping product.
For buying the OS I use for really bugger all (11 million), ceasing development and distribution, not using any of it, sapping the life-force from its developers, and then moving to the polar opposite (Linux).
Hope it feels great to get almost three times more for your NAME than the only OS that had Microsoft actually scared on the -home- desktop.
By having tens of thousands of automatically web roaming MSIE boxes, Windows and IE usage figures on the web stay high... these boxes will be able to 'surf' faster than the average human, and will be visiting the kind of sites that have tracker scripts installed...
Damn kids and their modern technology....
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In my day, when you washed your (1st generation, flash-based) mp3 player, you just put it on top of your (17", radition levels that burn out brains) monitor with the memory card out for a few hours to dry
Same with cellphones, flash keys, etc. But noooo, someone had to go and put rustable moving parts into mp3 players...
from extremely rusty memory, yes. Definately they were by 1994 (which is when I can first remember listening to them), which is still more than ten years ago
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I haven't seen one on sale either but I got one free with a Brother printer from Viking Direct recently. Does that count?
Its still in its box. Being kept for ebaying in twenty years time or so.
Move it to either side, or tap the side of the screen - the "Apple Sudden Motion Dectector" does a great job of turning mine off if I do that...
I didn't knock only one book off my shelf, it knocked all of them off - when it pulled the entire bookcase off the wall...
I go from my satellite TV DX'ing experience and say that amplifying a frequency makes stuff worse if the SNR is poor.
So, if I encase my entire house in aluminium foil a second time over I'll overamplifying the signal... however can it fail...
Unless They start selling attenuating aluminium foil, of course...
Google understands the difference between the UK and Ireland, meaning I get to keep a gmail.com addy even if the UK is made go to googlemail.com
Unlike Microsoft, who now offer you a hotmail.co.uk adress if you say you're in Ireland.
What the? You can barely play an mp3 on a BeBox, let alone use it to plot a bombing or similar. Damn, I'm glad I live in a country where the police are utterly powerless. Copper comes over to you in a train station and tries to talk to you and you demand to talk to his superior and know his badge number, instantly - and they go away. Always.
Considering they're bound to be owned by anybody BUT the government (its only in places like the US, UK, Ireland etc where the state actually owns significant amounts of the fibre), some ISP's insurance somwhere would have the resources to fix them, yes.
Hey, I can think of something... you just have to pronounce it the North Dublin way, and all of a sudden a certain word that I'm not sure if its swear filtered here or not; but certainly is by my employers proxy, rhymes with it...
BeUnited is the standards body only, the actual site for the Haiku Operating System is here:
Haiku
I was bought a new OS/2 powered Thinkpad for my 11th birthday (damn, that dates me pretty specifically), and as a result I was able to get used to UNIX and even MacOS significantly easier. I had my own machine to mess around on - quite important, really - and I had to fix my own feckups. I had it quad booting at one stage, nice fun activity that that is... I could have managed with my own desktop bar the fact that my family travelled quite a bit, and lugging a Dell Dimension wasn't ever practical.
If your kid actually needs a laptop, (not just their own machine), and you can afford it, get them one. You should then even be able to take the PS/2 or similar out of their room, if they have one - and you can remove the TV too. However, if you're just getting them one to use AIM and play a few games, don't.
Thats funny, I ping google.ie and use Yahoo....
I'd read that article, but
Access to this web page is restricted at this time.
Reason:
The Websense category "Advocacy Groups" is filtered.
URL:
http://censorware.net/reports/liza.html
Great.
RSI-CRI still do offer SGI "Laptops". And yes, they'd not only burn your bollox off, but crush them into little tiny peices - I'm not even sure they take the boards out the SGI's case, just shove the machine into the chassis.
I'd like to see you get one on as hand luggage...
s/USA/Canada there, and its exactly my experience with IBM - IBM Ireland were willing to support (and repair) a Canadian bought Thinkpad for the lenght of the -Irish- warranty (2 years at the time) rather than the Canadian (1 year at the time). HP, however. Blergh..
Gecko Browser? Thats what the Firefox 1.1 trunk builds brand themselves as unless you set the configure switch to show you have the Mozilla Foundations permission. Its a bit weird seeing it build an app called "firefox-bin" thats not allowed call itself Firefox, though...
Theres one of two things wrong with you:
You're not using your keyboard correctly. It can be any damn layout in the world, you just don't know how to position your hands, etc. I've been using a keyboard for 8 hours a day for 14 years. Its always been qwerty or qwertz. I've never had -any- problems. No carpal, no need for wrist braces, etc.
The other possibility is that you're, eh, doing something else while at the computer. Bet its slower to cyber on a dvorak keyboard, eh?
Even -if- this gets exploited, it doesn't work cross tabs and it doesn't work if you more than one tab open in the window containing the 'trusted' site; at least not on FF 1.04 here on BeOS.
Now, how many FF users still browse with multiple windows and NO tabs? Anyone who found out about it the geeky ways uses tabs, and I should hope that the first thing you show any Joe Idiot how to do when you install FF on the machine you've just (been paid to) de-spyware is use the tabs...
X.4.1/Firefox 1.04 - it *tried* to open iChat. Nothing else...
Ehh... Dunno about now, but for years Logitech used to make Microsoft's mice for them, in a fab in Dublin... That old square serial 'Microsoft' mouse had a direct cousin in Logitechs line, although shapes started to move off shape-wise with the PS/2 mice.
BeOS. Which Palmsource bought, refused to licence even to people who had pre-existing reseller licences, and never used in (any|a major) way in a product, and not at all in a shipping product.
For buying the OS I use for really bugger all (11 million), ceasing development and distribution, not using any of it, sapping the life-force from its developers, and then moving to the polar opposite (Linux). Hope it feels great to get almost three times more for your NAME than the only OS that had Microsoft actually scared on the -home- desktop.
One problem - Slashdot is part of the OSTG. Not the OSDL. Different company...
By having tens of thousands of automatically web roaming MSIE boxes, Windows and IE usage figures on the web stay high... these boxes will be able to 'surf' faster than the average human, and will be visiting the kind of sites that have tracker scripts installed...
In my day, when you washed your (1st generation, flash-based) mp3 player, you just put it on top of your (17", radition levels that burn out brains) monitor with the memory card out for a few hours to dry
Same with cellphones, flash keys, etc. But noooo, someone had to go and put rustable moving parts into mp3 players...
from extremely rusty memory, yes. Definately they were by 1994 (which is when I can first remember listening to them), which is still more than ten years ago