It would be oh so lovely if laws were made on moral grounds. Meanwhile, back in the real world, laws are made by those with power and cash == power so laws will always favour the major corporations.
As for cracking down or organised crime, don't they have cash too?
There's a lot more to the world than the home user. I'm busy putting together the wireless office where all users will have wireless laptops and for me wireless bandwidth is a big issue.
Oh, and incidentally I stream MP3s arround my home to a number of netgear MP101s and I notice the performance suffering when I'm downloading bittorrents or when ny son is playing on-line games so maybe I'd like more bandwidth at home too. Yes - I'm at the technically savvy end of the market but much more domestic data streaming is coming real soon and it's difficult to convince my wife that all these cables are required when wireless is available.
If that was the case how come I (and many others like me) used Marshall amps with the controls which went to 11 back in the late seventies/early eighties.
I may not be able to remember the sixties because I was there but by the eighties the psychadelics had made way for coke and my memory is pretty good.
For those who didn't see 'Spinal Tap' - Marshall once sold an amplifier where the knobs instead of being marked 0 - 10 were marked 0 - 11. Many musicians, not normally noted for their technical savvy, assumed that they were that little bit louder
Each one turned up to 11
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Maybe the Hacker Mentality needs to be tempered with regard to the consequences of ones actions. I'm sorry Officer - I only shot him to see what would happen. You don't understand the hacker mentality
I'm not sure I entirely agree. I use Amazon regularly and my reasons are
Convenience - why trek into town only to discover that HMV/Waterstones haven't got what I want.
Availability - Amazon usually have what I want.
Recommendations - the other customers also purchased feature has led me down some unexpected and rewarding avenues. Sometimes I just browse but often enough I purchase.
Maybe this all adds up to usability but I see it as wider than that.
The USA has unrestricted internet access and it hasn't stopped them going to war with Iraq on very dubious grounds.
Indeed, during the last US election the internet was used as a weapon of misinformation. Just because we have access to so much information doesn't mean that any of it is true.
And I'll bet this is modded flamebait for being critical of the US!
I work for a large international company and we're still using Win95. We see no reason to change. Many of our PCs are used for basic Office apps and Unix terminal emulation. We're not connected to the Internet so we see no reason to spend thousends of pounds replacing the 486s running Win95. At ~£1000 per base unit and over 4,000 units it's £4,000,000 we just don't need to spend.
I'm no great lover of M$, I use Mozilla and Firefox but if Redmond playing catchup means that I spend less time sorting out the PCs of all my friends/relatives who insist on using IE then this has got to be a good thing.
And yes I've tried persuading them to use Mozilla and/or Firefox but AOL comes with IE and I cant't persuade them to migrate from AOL either!
This was all covered back in the late sixties/early seventies by the great Donald Michie http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~dm/dm.html
If only there had been the processing power back then. The project was stopped because 'computers will never be powerful enough' such is the foresight of civil servants.
If I had Dell's capital I might invest a few bucks in an up-and-coming tech stock like RH. It might prove very useful given that Dell have some interest in the cheepo server market.
I'm not saying this points to some massive change in direction, just a little future proofing, and if it all goes wrong he can afford it.
I don't know if picture quality was the driving factor but my peer group, mostly middle class, middle aged and British, who are not techies or geeks have all got HDTV. Mostly it goes with upgrading for Sky or Digibox to get the extra channels.
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to give up glue sniffing
The Japanese industrial heartlands had a few difficulies around then. In particular Hiroshima and Nagasaki had infrastructure difficulties.
It would be oh so lovely if laws were made on moral grounds. Meanwhile, back in the real world, laws are made by those with power and cash == power so laws will always favour the major corporations.
As for cracking down or organised crime, don't they have cash too?
At the risk of being modded redundant you can add the Netgear MP101 MP3 player to that list. That's why I have to rely on WEP (and hope)
Oh, and incidentally I stream MP3s arround my home to a number of netgear MP101s and I notice the performance suffering when I'm downloading bittorrents or when ny son is playing on-line games so maybe I'd like more bandwidth at home too. Yes - I'm at the technically savvy end of the market but much more domestic data streaming is coming real soon and it's difficult to convince my wife that all these cables are required when wireless is available.
I may not be able to remember the sixties because I was there but by the eighties the psychadelics had made way for coke and my memory is pretty good.
Oh yes
Back in the eighties when I was a roadie I used to work for a band which had them (name withdrawn to protect the embarrassed!)
For those who didn't see 'Spinal Tap' - Marshall once sold an amplifier where the knobs instead of being marked 0 - 10 were marked 0 - 11. Many musicians, not normally noted for their technical savvy, assumed that they were that little bit louder
for when you want that extra edge
Appeal is an intransitive verb. Your definition is spot on however.
Maybe the Hacker Mentality needs to be tempered with regard to the consequences of ones actions.
I'm sorry Officer - I only shot him to see what would happen. You don't understand the hacker mentality
I'm not sure I entirely agree. I use Amazon regularly and my reasons are
- Convenience - why trek into town only to discover that HMV/Waterstones haven't got what I want.
- Availability - Amazon usually have what I want.
- Recommendations - the other customers also purchased feature has led me down some unexpected and rewarding avenues. Sometimes I just browse but often enough I purchase.
Maybe this all adds up to usability but I see it as wider than that.I agree in principle but...
The USA has unrestricted internet access and it hasn't stopped them going to war with Iraq on very dubious grounds.
Indeed, during the last US election the internet was used as a weapon of misinformation. Just because we have access to so much information doesn't mean that any of it is true.
And I'll bet this is modded flamebait for being critical of the US!
South of the river mate - Nah, can't go down there. You'll never guess who I had in the back of my cab yesterday.....
I work for a large international company and we're still using Win95. We see no reason to change. Many of our PCs are used for basic Office apps and Unix terminal emulation. We're not connected to the Internet so we see no reason to spend thousends of pounds replacing the 486s running Win95. At ~£1000 per base unit and over 4,000 units it's £4,000,000 we just don't need to spend.
And yes I've tried persuading them to use Mozilla and/or Firefox but AOL comes with IE and I cant't persuade them to migrate from AOL either!
This was all covered back in the late sixties/early seventies by the great Donald Michie http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~dm/dm.html If only there had been the processing power back then. The project was stopped because 'computers will never be powerful enough' such is the foresight of civil servants.
That's just the reflection off the tin foil hat
- Vibrate
- Leak oil
- break down when it's wet
and these new Japanese files are not a threat to our businessIf I had Dell's capital I might invest a few bucks in an up-and-coming tech stock like RH. It might prove very useful given that Dell have some interest in the cheepo server market.
I'm not saying this points to some massive change in direction, just a little future proofing, and if it all goes wrong he can afford it.
I don't know if picture quality was the driving factor but my peer group, mostly middle class, middle aged and British, who are not techies or geeks have all got HDTV. Mostly it goes with upgrading for Sky or Digibox to get the extra channels.
But the term is far older than WWII. It was in common usage in the British navy in the 1700s. One posible origin is the old Frence 'ajurie' - to help.
Sorry - you're WWII origin is an urban myth.
jury-rig (jr-rg) tr.v. jury-rigged, jury-rigging, jury-rigs
To rig or assemble for temporary emergency use; improvise: The survivors of the wreck jury-rigged some fishing gear.
And Tom Hanks, and ...
Duct Tape == Sticky backed plastic
Val Singleton - you shaped my childhood!