Wow, the future looks good. Previously I had imagined that a state-sponsored broadcasting company in britain had been formed to educate and entertain. Sadly, like many other areas of human endeavor, assholes got into the management layer and destroyed many many recordings of irreplacable shows. I don't see exactly how assholes are going to be kept out of the management structure of these future corporations, but I am now reassured I don't need to back up shows i care about.
No, I didn't know system 7 was from 1991. I am not an apple user (well, not since the europlus). I recall it as being 7. Maybe it wasn't. A quick google says that the machine _could_ run os9 but fails to reveal what it was shipped with.
They will go on the shelf next to all those dvds with the action viewable from different camera angles and lots of alternate endings and stuff we were promised when the same kind of idiots in suits were selling us a new more profitable format.
Interesting. My background is cpm/dos/windows/(lately)linux and a few years ago i was messing about with a bondi blue iMac on OS7. I found it hard to get it to do anything, it couldn't see any win or linux boxes or any printers on the lan, which I half expected, but there didn't seem to be much in the way of configuration for the network or the screen or indeed any hardware compared with the equivalent win95/98. Maybe what I want to do isn't what Apple expects me to want to do? I would welcome the chance to try a more modern mac and see how things have altered.
because my ISP might traffic shape the crap out of my connection when i go over some arbitary limit and I might get interrupted by a phone call or the cat being sick on the sofa so it would be an advantage to have a cache of the movie.
because using bittorrent may be construed as supporting terrorism/CP by some stupid/evil/corrupt organisation I cannot afford to argue against in court.
I spoke with the MPAA rep and you are dead wrong. Because CP is a niche market the prices would be sky high and the fact that they are traded for free does not diminish the amount of money lost. The rep reckoned that the CP copyright holder is losing $190 billion a second.
Obviously the evil terrorist hackers would have to attack the electricity distribution via the control centres on the internerd, the power companies long ago stipulated that all pylons and power poles be made of adamantium and be guarded 24/7 so there is no feasible way to attack the wires strung all over the fricken country.
I recently bought a docking station with speaker jack, £35 . I also would need a mains psu and cable at around £25. The used iPods will have to be pretty freaking cheap for me to keep under $60-80.
I agree that 'What is legal or not, and what is right or not are often completely different', this would indicate that the law is out of kilter. Why isn't the legal profession trying to ensure that right==legal?
Just switch all the traffic lights off. Seriously. I have never, in decades of driving, seen longer queues at broken traffic lights than when they were working. This is especially true at a busy crossroads on my old route to work, working traffic lights meant a queue of 12 - 20 cars in each direction whereas broken traffic lights had less than 5 cars in any direction. Same roads, same time of day.
The traffic light manufacturers must be bribing the local councils and highways departments pretty good.
According to my law guidebook "a prior fair and impartial procedure" involves an adversarial legal setup with two legal teams. Each team drains its client's bank account as fast as money transfer technology makes possible and the first client to go bankrupt loses the case.
Oh Christ, don't say that! I was going to get a percentage off some Nigerian guy for helping him get $50million out of the country. Once he hears this investment opportunity he will spend it at home in Nigeria.:-(
Hmmm, maybe not in your neck of the woods, but here in the UK you can get a ticket (and 3 points, collect 12 points in 3 years and lose your license ) for 33 in a 30. Mind you, getting up to 33 on the potholed, roadwork infested ( always digging up the services under the road, never resurfacing the road itself ) highways round here may be considered wild driving. Cop cars routinely zap around at double the limit with no safety issues though.
I get freaked out by automatic transmissions requiring the engine to rev. It always seems to be bizarre to be in a 6.5 litre V8 car and have to rev up the engine just to manouver into a parking space when you can do it with clutch and tickover in a clapped out 1100cc ford. Back to the subject of overcoming failures, motorcycles are good practice for this as you often have to get home when some of the controls have been wiped out due to falling off.
The important point for me is that you can usually bodge a mechanical system together until you make a proper repair, I bet your friend soon found another spring to use, or a rubber band or just drove carefully and lifted the pedal back up with his toe.
Fantastic news! In your face, terrorism! We just need a few more directives like this and the war on terror will be won!!!! (sarcasm-meter catches fire)
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Wow, the future looks good.
Previously I had imagined that a state-sponsored broadcasting company in britain had been formed to educate and entertain. Sadly, like many other areas of human endeavor, assholes got into the management layer and destroyed many many recordings of irreplacable shows.
I don't see exactly how assholes are going to be kept out of the management structure of these future corporations, but I am now reassured I don't need to back up shows i care about.
To reply to my own post, whatever os it was, was on cd. Does that narrow it down?
No, I didn't know system 7 was from 1991. I am not an apple user (well, not since the europlus). I recall it as being 7. Maybe it wasn't. A quick google says that the machine _could_ run os9 but fails to reveal what it was shipped with.
They will go on the shelf next to all those dvds with the action viewable from different camera angles and lots of alternate endings and stuff we were promised when the same kind of idiots in suits were selling us a new more profitable format.
Interesting. My background is cpm/dos/windows/(lately)linux and a few years ago i was messing about with a bondi blue iMac on OS7. I found it hard to get it to do anything, it couldn't see any win or linux boxes or any printers on the lan, which I half expected, but there didn't seem to be much in the way of configuration for the network or the screen or indeed any hardware compared with the equivalent win95/98. Maybe what I want to do isn't what Apple expects me to want to do?
I would welcome the chance to try a more modern mac and see how things have altered.
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OMGBBQ!!!!! Gnome is bettar than both!!!!! and anyway it all comes from PARC work blah blah GEM blah blah Amiga blah
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because my ISP might traffic shape the crap out of my connection when i go over some arbitary limit and I might get interrupted by a phone call or the cat being sick on the sofa so it would be an advantage to have a cache of the movie.
because using bittorrent may be construed as supporting terrorism/CP by some stupid/evil/corrupt organisation I cannot afford to argue against in court.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/
Long live the new flesh!
I spoke with the MPAA rep and you are dead wrong. Because CP is a niche market the prices would be sky high and the fact that they are traded for free does not diminish the amount of money lost. The rep reckoned that the CP copyright holder is losing $190 billion a second.
Terrific, scientists can duplicate something that has been going on elsewhere in the universe for gajillions of years. WHERE IS MY JET PACK?
Yay! Goodbye brainless 2D crap, hello brainless 3D crap and migraines!
Obviously the evil terrorist hackers would have to attack the electricity distribution via the control centres on the internerd, the power companies long ago stipulated that all pylons and power poles be made of adamantium and be guarded 24/7 so there is no feasible way to attack the wires strung all over the fricken country.
I recently bought a docking station with speaker jack, £35 . I also would need a mains psu and cable at around £25. The used iPods will have to be pretty freaking cheap for me to keep under $60-80.
I agree that 'What is legal or not, and what is right or not are often completely different', this would indicate that the law is out of kilter. Why isn't the legal profession trying to ensure that right==legal?
That is no basis for a system of government.
Just switch all the traffic lights off.
Seriously. I have never, in decades of driving, seen longer queues at broken traffic lights than when they were working. This is especially true at a busy crossroads on my old route to work, working traffic lights meant a queue of 12 - 20 cars in each direction whereas broken traffic lights had less than 5 cars in any direction. Same roads, same time of day.
The traffic light manufacturers must be bribing the local councils and highways departments pretty good.
According to my law guidebook "a prior fair and impartial procedure" involves an adversarial legal setup with two legal teams. Each team drains its client's bank account as fast as money transfer technology makes possible and the first client to go bankrupt loses the case.
Oh Christ, don't say that! I was going to get a percentage off some Nigerian guy for helping him get $50million out of the country. Once he hears this investment opportunity he will spend it at home in Nigeria. :-(
Hmmm, maybe not in your neck of the woods, but here in the UK you can get a ticket (and 3 points, collect 12 points in 3 years and lose your license ) for 33 in a 30. Mind you, getting up to 33 on the potholed, roadwork infested ( always digging up the services under the road, never resurfacing the road itself ) highways round here may be considered wild driving. Cop cars routinely zap around at double the limit with no safety issues though.
I get freaked out by automatic transmissions requiring the engine to rev. It always seems to be bizarre to be in a 6.5 litre V8 car and have to rev up the engine just to manouver into a parking space when you can do it with clutch and tickover in a clapped out 1100cc ford.
Back to the subject of overcoming failures, motorcycles are good practice for this as you often have to get home when some of the controls have been wiped out due to falling off.
The important point for me is that you can usually bodge a mechanical system together until you make a proper repair, I bet your friend soon found another spring to use, or a rubber band or just drove carefully and lifted the pedal back up with his toe.
Fantastic news! In your face, terrorism! We just need a few more directives like this and the war on terror will be won!!!! (sarcasm-meter catches fire)
That would be the tired, slumped posture.
French? :-(
No spluh, that is the model with by far the biggest market!