I second this point. If any information is accessible with the police officer in a public place, or a place he or she has prior permission to be in, then why can't it be used?
If I put stolen goods on display in my home's front window, can a police officer not act upon that because they're in a private location, even if he or she just happened to spot them whilst walking down the street?
Nobody would buy it, it would simply cost too much.
No discount on Windows licences, since the MS OEM licence says it must be a Windows only system. Large amount of time spent rebuilding disk images to include latest Linux patches etc. Pain in the arse to support. "What is this Linux thing anyway?"
Also, the plans to build the devices are now digitised in a modern format. Even assuming the format becomes obsolete, details on how to read it will be transcribed into the latest format eg. even though vinyl records are more or less obsolete, details on how they are read are available on the internet.
All it needs is archive.org to keep the records, and it will be possible to step back through the algorithms and plans in order to extract the data. I cannot see the CD-ROM specification being lost forever when it's so easy to migrate an entire knowledgebase across mediums and formats.
Microsoft do not steal anything. People give Microsoft money, which ultimately leads to an increase in the net worth of one William Gates III, so he can give the money back out however the hell he likes.
So, let me reiterate my main point: Bill Gates is not a thief, nor is Microsoft. No matter how immoral their business practice may be, people still give them money.
But it would hopefully reduce the load on the servers. Not to mention the fact you could then start watching the new RSS feed for any interesting tech videos without the usual rabble on/.
/. stripped my less than symbol, what I actually wrote was "99% IS LESS THAN 100%" Some users will have problems. In my experience SP2 is mostly good, with odd problems.
It's the same as most Linux distros. Works out of the box on 95% of systems, there's still 1 in 20 people with problems.
What I said was install SP2, you can always remove it if you have issues, but holding back because of one problem when SP2 fixes many with only a slim chance of problems just goes against common sense.
I'm a lone trial pupil for an e-learning environment at my school, and I still prefer paper books.
eBooks won't take off until they're as easy to handle as a textbook, ie you can slip a 'bookmark' in and leave it there, pick it up and flick to page 27, take a note, flick back, doodle in the corners, highlight notes, and (most importantly) still have a space available to write notes in! eBooks are a nice idea, but when you're trying to do take notes from them you still need both the source and a space to write it in *at the same time*.
Since I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not:
Install SP2 now. What are you doing waiting to install a set of patches? There are no issues with SP2 and 99% of users, except that it might put an extra dialog box in the way of doing something stupid. Not to mention all those horrible security fixes and automatic updates on by default.
This new issue is not worth leaving your system unpatched for, if anything it's exactly the kind of thing that SP2 forced updates to be on by default for.
For that 100% accurate comment you get a new fan. This is the point I keep making, and the point which Linux zealots keep replying to with "Oh it's easy, download xyz, sudo this, make install, emerge it, recompile the driver and you're done!".
Linux does not make life easy for the user. OS X does. Windows does to some extent.
A single LCD for each eye would create a generation of people with eye problems, because there is no way to create true stereoscopic vision using two rendered images without a *lot* of extra hardware to track where your eyeball is focussing.
Hold your finger in front of yourself, and focus on it. Notice how everything behind it blurs out? LCD screens currently cannot do this, but due to movements of the head causing the image to shift your brain will interpret the parralax and your eyes will still try to focus on the point as though it had actual depth (which the LCD doesn't).
IANAOptician, but as far as I'm aware this is the serious issue with 3D headsets.
Wrong. There are people who would much rather use a more secure OS than Windows, and know about Linux, but really just cannot be bothered working around some of the more ass-backwards systems. I can do things in Windows within minutes that take a good half hour on Linux. Now, I agree with the practice improving speed but some things just do not work between distros, whereas Windows does.
Personal choice would make a difference when both are truly as easy to use as each other. Until then, it's too much effort for entrenched users to switch (although it is slowly getting better).
At the moment the desktop lineup is OS X, Windows, Linux. For servers it is Linux, Windows, OS X.
No, the pack itself is quite light. The weight comes from ballast, ie the stuff you'd put in a pack anyway.
So your soldier, for instance, would load his 'pack' as normal, plug it into his headset and he's good to go. Perhaps properly integrating this into smart-wear, such as intelligent ballistic armor which can report when it's hit, is the beginnings of a single wearable piece of kit which provides all the data that soldiers need. Plus a pack for food, ammunition and the rest.
I used Message Notifier but found it caused problems when exiting Trillian - do you experience anything similar (seems to exit OK then reports a crash)?
Despite that, this kind of feedback is great. PCs need a wider array of 'generic output' devices which can be tailored to people's needs.
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I second this point. If any information is accessible with the police officer in a public place, or a place he or she has prior permission to be in, then why can't it be used?
If I put stolen goods on display in my home's front window, can a police officer not act upon that because they're in a private location, even if he or she just happened to spot them whilst walking down the street?
No sovereign country can lay claim to any land on any celestial body.
Just out of interest, which extension?
Nobody would buy it, it would simply cost too much.
No discount on Windows licences, since the MS OEM licence says it must be a Windows only system.
Large amount of time spent rebuilding disk images to include latest Linux patches etc.
Pain in the arse to support.
"What is this Linux thing anyway?"
One local cinema has the screens pretty much enclosed in faraday cages. No phone signals in there :D
Also, the plans to build the devices are now digitised in a modern format. Even assuming the format becomes obsolete, details on how to read it will be transcribed into the latest format eg. even though vinyl records are more or less obsolete, details on how they are read are available on the internet.
All it needs is archive.org to keep the records, and it will be possible to step back through the algorithms and plans in order to extract the data. I cannot see the CD-ROM specification being lost forever when it's so easy to migrate an entire knowledgebase across mediums and formats.
Such as? And please don't quote the IP stack, as the BSD licence allows Microsoft to use it in exactly the way they did.
Microsoft do not steal anything. People give Microsoft money, which ultimately leads to an increase in the net worth of one William Gates III, so he can give the money back out however the hell he likes.
So, let me reiterate my main point:
Bill Gates is not a thief, nor is Microsoft. No matter how immoral their business practice may be, people still give them money.
Britain will go our own way, bust out the top secret technologies we've been working on for 50 years and hold the world to ransom for...
ONE MILLION POUNDS STERLING!
Muahahaha*cough*... Ahahaha!
You talk as if you need it ;-)
Google sets is actually kinda cool. It lets you put in a list of items, and Google will work out what it's a list of and find some more of them.
So, for example, "USA", "UK" and "Russia" will return a list including "Canada", "Australia", "France", "Iraq" etc.
Seconded.
But it would hopefully reduce the load on the servers. Not to mention the fact you could then start watching the new RSS feed for any interesting tech videos without the usual rabble on /.
However, rigging it to automatically torrent any movies or sounds linked in a /. article would be a good idea, hmm?
/. stripped my less than symbol, what I actually wrote was "99% IS LESS THAN 100%" Some users will have problems. In my experience SP2 is mostly good, with odd problems.
Sliding scales. Buy one song a month it's $3, buy more than two they drop to $2.50 etc down to $0.50.
Surely the overhead in transactions will be dealt with in the 'first' songs for the month, and the rest can be straight to the artist.
99% of users 100% of users.
It's the same as most Linux distros. Works out of the box on 95% of systems, there's still 1 in 20 people with problems.
What I said was install SP2, you can always remove it if you have issues, but holding back because of one problem when SP2 fixes many with only a slim chance of problems just goes against common sense.
I'm a lone trial pupil for an e-learning environment at my school, and I still prefer paper books.
eBooks won't take off until they're as easy to handle as a textbook, ie you can slip a 'bookmark' in and leave it there, pick it up and flick to page 27, take a note, flick back, doodle in the corners, highlight notes, and (most importantly) still have a space available to write notes in! eBooks are a nice idea, but when you're trying to do take notes from them you still need both the source and a space to write it in *at the same time*.
Since I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not:
Install SP2 now. What are you doing waiting to install a set of patches? There are no issues with SP2 and 99% of users, except that it might put an extra dialog box in the way of doing something stupid. Not to mention all those horrible security fixes and automatic updates on by default.
This new issue is not worth leaving your system unpatched for, if anything it's exactly the kind of thing that SP2 forced updates to be on by default for.
For that 100% accurate comment you get a new fan. This is the point I keep making, and the point which Linux zealots keep replying to with "Oh it's easy, download xyz, sudo this, make install, emerge it, recompile the driver and you're done!".
Linux does not make life easy for the user. OS X does. Windows does to some extent.
A single LCD for each eye would create a generation of people with eye problems, because there is no way to create true stereoscopic vision using two rendered images without a *lot* of extra hardware to track where your eyeball is focussing.
Hold your finger in front of yourself, and focus on it. Notice how everything behind it blurs out? LCD screens currently cannot do this, but due to movements of the head causing the image to shift your brain will interpret the parralax and your eyes will still try to focus on the point as though it had actual depth (which the LCD doesn't).
IANAOptician, but as far as I'm aware this is the serious issue with 3D headsets.
Wrong. There are people who would much rather use a more secure OS than Windows, and know about Linux, but really just cannot be bothered working around some of the more ass-backwards systems. I can do things in Windows within minutes that take a good half hour on Linux. Now, I agree with the practice improving speed but some things just do not work between distros, whereas Windows does.
Personal choice would make a difference when both are truly as easy to use as each other. Until then, it's too much effort for entrenched users to switch (although it is slowly getting better).
At the moment the desktop lineup is OS X, Windows, Linux. For servers it is Linux, Windows, OS X.
No, the pack itself is quite light. The weight comes from ballast, ie the stuff you'd put in a pack anyway.
So your soldier, for instance, would load his 'pack' as normal, plug it into his headset and he's good to go. Perhaps properly integrating this into smart-wear, such as intelligent ballistic armor which can report when it's hit, is the beginnings of a single wearable piece of kit which provides all the data that soldiers need. Plus a pack for food, ammunition and the rest.
I used Message Notifier but found it caused problems when exiting Trillian - do you experience anything similar (seems to exit OK then reports a crash)?
Despite that, this kind of feedback is great. PCs need a wider array of 'generic output' devices which can be tailored to people's needs.
All those in favour of a detailed study on this, say aye.