Well yes the technology concept is not new but lets face it. If you can get a rock solid 54Mbps connection anywhere on say a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 or a Dell X5 or a
Besides, then there is the it-can-be-done mentality. People want to push the limits of their technology to see if it can do it. If it can't then how can they make it to. It is all about going where no (wo)man has gone before. Remember, people thought about going to Mars long before Beagle 2, Spirit and the other nauseatingly named robot landed there - Gallileo even passed it (IIRC) but now we are getting down and dirty with the red earth - or would that be red mars:)
I remember when one had to was 32 miles to get to the library to look up information - uphill! Both ways! Now I have just to turn on my laptop with a frickin' huge antenna and look up information.
Hrmmm, I wonder why we have such obesity issues. Got to admit, this would be fun with a Humvee downtown NY.
Light can make pretty colours on your walls from the reflection off a CD.
AOL CDs make cool coasters - so moisture is good!
Radiation - anyone try putting a CD in a small bowl of water, putting a paperclip on it and putting it in the microwave?
Scratches - Two words(acronymns): AOL CD
Marking - See Scratching
Adhesive labels - but what other kinds of labels can you get? Surely the adhesive types are preferable to the kind that aren't adhering. I mean if I put a CD in a drive with a label that didn't adhere, I'd ruin the drive alot faster than with an adhesive label.
This was only a test (of my idiocy). Had this been a real example of my idiocy, someone would have killed me by now!
M$ will make you upgrade to the newest version or product XXX or your computer (supposedly running Windows) will not load it.
Ahh, 1984ism in the government, 1984ism in the banks and now 1984ism in the world of Computers. I just hope it isn't 1984ism in the supermarket!
Heh, you had it easy! When I was young we had to make our own CD! We had to extract the materials from the Earth and with our own two hands mold them into a perfectly flat and perfectly balanced CD. And if we failed we had to walk 60 miles in a blizzard to our local extraction plant for more minerals up hill - BOTH WAYS!
Whippersnappers!
Well, I'd argue that. Punch cards don't corrupt althoguh I found MANY ways to screw them up (and some were creative too! Try target practive with a paperclip bow and arrow trying to get the arrow through the punch holes;))
Or come off it! Yes, osme of the tips are interesting, but if some idiot (who reads Slashdot and/or would visit a web site regarding something like this) actually needs to be told glued on labels are bad - well I guess idiots are like rabbits, they like to profusely populate;)
I'm not criticizing the article (nor am I trolling), I just truly wonder why someone would need to be told some of the things mentioned. I guess common sense is like a geek, it does profusely populate.
Anonymous Coward,
I'm not sure of what you posted and when or even on what topic however I can assure you I did not and would not plagarize something of yours. It would certainly be helpful if you were to post your name so someone might be able to verify your complaint.
I have not been on/. long, in fact I have only just started reading the site as of a month ago, hardly long enough for me to have read your comment.
I would ask that you not simply jump the gun. The interesting thing is that this whole article was about keeping something that is publicly available under one person's lock and key and in essence this is what you are doing now (in regards to your opinion).
I can not give you a solid answer on how our posts match up the way you say they do however the chances of them being very similar are there (likely one of 1:100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00)
and thus this may be the result of fate playing an interesting game.
This is the type of mentality that I truly fear. The type where we are too shielded, much like Japan before and after WWII. If we become too guarded and too introverted nothing will be shared and it will again be a space race situation (I'm making alot of fuzzy historical refrences - I apologise).
I have a feeling that over time Microsoft is going to go down the tubes. While at first they simply wanted to guard what was theirs (a reasonable thing to do - even if it was something not worth guarding) they then wanted total control and they don't know where to draw the line (think Mike Rowe).
I would personally like to see Microsoft analysed by some independent (and if this were to succeed, much like communism, there would have to be no greed in his heart) ethics consellor. Sure everyone in the US has the right to capitalism and its benefits/pitfalls but no company should be able to *legally* disable every other company through such a simple means as this.
Of course if we could implicate Microsoft in some sex scandal or corruption case...
In other news, Micrsoft has been implicated in the largest corruption case known to the United States and likely the world - the complete corruption of every file on a Windows machine!In other news several major Linux distributors and Apple computers saw a 600% increase in their stock value
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...but it's always sad to watch someone stoop to this level.
This is true. Trying to forcibly stop someone from doing something they have a full right to do using shadowy if not downright illegal methods.
Suddenly I'm seeing a corelation here...
1. Buy computers for big publicity BigMac
2. Laser engrave: "I'd like a BigMac to go!" with a limited edition number.
3. ???
4. Profit!
Well yes the technology concept is not new but lets face it. If you can get a rock solid 54Mbps connection anywhere on say a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 or a Dell X5 or a :)
Besides, then there is the it-can-be-done mentality. People want to push the limits of their technology to see if it can do it. If it can't then how can they make it to. It is all about going where no (wo)man has gone before. Remember, people thought about going to Mars long before Beagle 2, Spirit and the other nauseatingly named robot landed there - Gallileo even passed it (IIRC) but now we are getting down and dirty with the red earth - or would that be red mars
I remember when one had to was 32 miles to get to the library to look up information - uphill! Both ways! Now I have just to turn on my laptop with a frickin' huge antenna and look up information.
Hrmmm, I wonder why we have such obesity issues. Got to admit, this would be fun with a Humvee downtown NY.
Ahh, US election time again is it? Dang, my Slashdot watch must be running slow.
Thank you for your kind words. I promise to try better in life and maybe, if I am very lucky I will oneday have as broad a vocabulary as you do.
I've known sailors with a larger vocabulary and more colourful too!
Write on the bottom of the CD and I'll show you ;)
light, moisture, radiation, scratches, marking, adhesive labels
Light can make pretty colours on your walls from the reflection off a CD.
AOL CDs make cool coasters - so moisture is good!
Radiation - anyone try putting a CD in a small bowl of water, putting a paperclip on it and putting it in the microwave?
Scratches - Two words(acronymns): AOL CD
Marking - See Scratching
Adhesive labels - but what other kinds of labels can you get? Surely the adhesive types are preferable to the kind that aren't adhering. I mean if I put a CD in a drive with a label that didn't adhere, I'd ruin the drive alot faster than with an adhesive label.
This was only a test (of my idiocy). Had this been a real example of my idiocy, someone would have killed me by now!
M$ will make you upgrade to the newest version or product XXX or your computer (supposedly running Windows) will not load it. Ahh, 1984ism in the government, 1984ism in the banks and now 1984ism in the world of Computers. I just hope it isn't 1984ism in the supermarket!
Heh, you had it easy! When I was young we had to make our own CD! We had to extract the materials from the Earth and with our own two hands mold them into a perfectly flat and perfectly balanced CD. And if we failed we had to walk 60 miles in a blizzard to our local extraction plant for more minerals up hill - BOTH WAYS! Whippersnappers!
Well, I'd argue that. Punch cards don't corrupt althoguh I found MANY ways to screw them up (and some were creative too! Try target practive with a paperclip bow and arrow trying to get the arrow through the punch holes ;))
Or come off it! Yes, osme of the tips are interesting, but if some idiot (who reads Slashdot and/or would visit a web site regarding something like this) actually needs to be told glued on labels are bad - well I guess idiots are like rabbits, they like to profusely populate ;)
I'm not criticizing the article (nor am I trolling), I just truly wonder why someone would need to be told some of the things mentioned. I guess common sense is like a geek, it does profusely populate.
Anonymous Coward, I'm not sure of what you posted and when or even on what topic however I can assure you I did not and would not plagarize something of yours. It would certainly be helpful if you were to post your name so someone might be able to verify your complaint. /. long, in fact I have only just started reading the site as of a month ago, hardly long enough for me to have read your comment.
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and thus this may be the result of fate playing an interesting game.
I have not been on
I would ask that you not simply jump the gun. The interesting thing is that this whole article was about keeping something that is publicly available under one person's lock and key and in essence this is what you are doing now (in regards to your opinion).
I can not give you a solid answer on how our posts match up the way you say they do however the chances of them being very similar are there (likely one of 1:10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This is the type of mentality that I truly fear. The type where we are too shielded, much like Japan before and after WWII. If we become too guarded and too introverted nothing will be shared and it will again be a space race situation (I'm making alot of fuzzy historical refrences - I apologise). I have a feeling that over time Microsoft is going to go down the tubes. While at first they simply wanted to guard what was theirs (a reasonable thing to do - even if it was something not worth guarding) they then wanted total control and they don't know where to draw the line (think Mike Rowe). I would personally like to see Microsoft analysed by some independent (and if this were to succeed, much like communism, there would have to be no greed in his heart) ethics consellor. Sure everyone in the US has the right to capitalism and its benefits/pitfalls but no company should be able to *legally* disable every other company through such a simple means as this. Of course if we could implicate Microsoft in some sex scandal or corruption case... In other news, Micrsoft has been implicated in the largest corruption case known to the United States and likely the world - the complete corruption of every file on a Windows machine! In other news several major Linux distributors and Apple computers saw a 600% increase in their stock value