I think the 'requester' (that's you, running the screensaver) cannot be expected to be aware of the capacity and limitations of the 'receiver' (the spam site). Thus, he (you) cannot be held responsible to what may happen to the receiver's site.
HA!
So, apparently, it touched somebody's raw nerve! Good! I hope someone will come up with a version 2 that'll be a bit more robust.
Did you know that the day BEFORE yesterday the screensaver had been downloaded 9,000 times?
And yesterday this was 81,000 times!
Small wonder our spammer friends got nervous!
Didn't whatsisname humbly proclaim himself "Leader of the free world"?
'Leader' translates, literally, to 'Führer' in German . . .
NOT AGAIN PLEASE!!!!
OberonX, the "fucking point" - as you so eloquently state - is to get a dozen people - wannabe Bill Gates's - to part with their savings (as an 'investment'). Say, a couple hundred thousand dollars per head. And then vanish to a south sea island!
Check out http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=126148&t hreshold=1&commentsort=1&tid=179&tid=3&mode=thread &cid=10563310
I smell 'em a mile away, these days. Remember "http://www.siliconfilm.com/"? Check it out: they haven't even bothered to take down the website. It's still there. The press releases of THAT digital miracle came out every 6 months for 5 years running. And got plenty exposure through such "professional" journalists as Peter Cohen from MacCentral/MacWorld. Yes, indeed! The same guy. He did it again! He fell for this one too. Some people clearly never learn...
Either that, or even worse: Peter Cohen is part of the scam . . . (which wouldn't surprise me).
So what scam are these Cherry OS hoaxsters trying to pull? My guess is they're trying to get people to 'invest' in the further 'development & engineering to get it ready for the mass markets'. In other words: it's probably a scam. Once gullible 'investors' have invested, they'll probably never hear about it again! Wanna bet?
Cherry OS is a pipe dream. Even if remotely true - meaning that it WOULD work, more or less (which it doesn't!) - Cherry OS hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell to survive: it's very existence would immediately create 2 mortal enemies: Micro$haft AND Apple. That, in itself, is a death sentence!
"[...] 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope for a fraction of its $2 billion dollar cost." is a claim that was made very recently of a concept for an optical telescope at the south pole. The great clarity of the earth's athmosphere there would also allow a next-generation-Hubble at a fraction of its predecessor's cost.
At the time it struck me that a telescope at that position - virtually static - might be very limited in terms of what parts of the universe it could actually 'see'.
'Looks like'?
Maybe you should check your opinions and insinuations against the facts BEFORE you open your mouth:
http://www.smart.com/-snm-0135145948-1096715329-00 00001072-0000006372-1097324828-enm-is-bin/INTERSHO P.enfinity/WFS/mpc-en-content-Site/en_EN/-/EUR/SVC PresentationPipeline-Start?Page=issite%3a%2f%2fsma rt-Site%2fsmart%2ecom%2fRootFolder%2fsmart%2fmodel le%2fsmartcitycoupe%2fsicherheit%2fkonstruktion%2e page
Check the facts before spreading rumors and insinuations:
http://www.smart.com/-snm-0135145948-1096715329-00 00001072-0000006372-1097324828-enm-is-bin/INTERSHO P.enfinity/WFS/mpc-en-content-Site/en_EN/-/EUR/SVC PresentationPipeline-Start?Page=issite%3a%2f%2fsma rt-Site%2fsmart%2ecom%2fRootFolder%2fsmart%2fmodel le%2fsmartcitycoupe%2fsicherheit%2fkonstruktion%2e page
I've been using an iPod (combined with a Belkin card reader) for mobile mass photo storage for 6 months. It's great! Don't need a tiny screen for that. In fact, I don't WANT a tiny screen for that. My photo's deserve a full size monitor at least! Would never even attempt to show them to others on a 2 inch screen.
The iPod is just for mobile mass photo storage. It does that fantastically already! A 2 inch screen won't add any REAL functionality for REAL pro photographers!
Depends on what you define as 'storage bricks', Mike. I'm very happy with my 20GB iPod/Belkin cardreader combo. I stored 3 weeks worth of Amazon trek, HiRes, on it and could have gone on for another 3 weeks. I use it for portable mass storage. I don't WANT a videoscreen on that! Because I wouldn't dream of showing my photos to anybody on a 320x240 screen! Horror! My photos deserve a LARGE monitor! At least!
Doesn't anybody see that this is an urban legend? Because eliminating trees and shrubbery from the mountains'/Alps' slopes also eliminates their extensive root systems. Which are fundamental to keeping the dirt together and on top of the bedrock. Dirt that has an extremely important 'sponge' function: it collects and holds water (rain and melted snow) and - under 'normal' circumstances - releases that water gradually over time into the valleys and river systems.
Without trees and shrubbery on the mountains the rain and melted snow are NOT collected NOR held, but flow almost immediately into the valleys and river systems. Since these cannot handle all that water at once, the result is flooding!
We see it every spring time.
And every new skiing piste/slope aggravates the problem!!!
"when we run out of oil we will convert coal to synthetic fuel." Huh? Whaddayamean 'When'...? The Germans/Nazis developed the technology in WWII. The South Africans refined it and put it into practice: today, they extract/refine about 50% of their petrol/gas (for cars) from coal! Steadily grown since the 60's!
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Doesn't sound either 'cheap' or portable to me.
Sounds like ridiculous overkill to me.
Like going to work in a space shuttle . . .
MichaelMalak (look further on) has a really clever solution: he uses the memory-card of his digital camera for portable storage. Gets around the no-portable-storage-devices-in-this-company's-buil ding regime! Great example of 'lateral thinking'!
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In civilized countries REAL doctors ride shotgun on ambulances! Where did you say you lived . . . ?
I think the 'requester' (that's you, running the screensaver) cannot be expected to be aware of the capacity and limitations of the 'receiver' (the spam site). Thus, he (you) cannot be held responsible to what may happen to the receiver's site.
HA! So, apparently, it touched somebody's raw nerve! Good! I hope someone will come up with a version 2 that'll be a bit more robust. Did you know that the day BEFORE yesterday the screensaver had been downloaded 9,000 times? And yesterday this was 81,000 times! Small wonder our spammer friends got nervous!
Didn't whatsisname humbly proclaim himself "Leader of the free world"? 'Leader' translates, literally, to 'Führer' in German . . . NOT AGAIN PLEASE!!!!
OberonX, the "fucking point" - as you so eloquently state - is to get a dozen people - wannabe Bill Gates's - to part with their savings (as an 'investment'). Say, a couple hundred thousand dollars per head. And then vanish to a south sea island! Check out http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=126148&t hreshold=1&commentsort=1&tid=179&tid=3&mode=thread &cid=10563310
I smell 'em a mile away, these days. Remember "http://www.siliconfilm.com/"? Check it out: they haven't even bothered to take down the website. It's still there. The press releases of THAT digital miracle came out every 6 months for 5 years running. And got plenty exposure through such "professional" journalists as Peter Cohen from MacCentral/MacWorld. Yes, indeed! The same guy. He did it again! He fell for this one too. Some people clearly never learn... Either that, or even worse: Peter Cohen is part of the scam . . . (which wouldn't surprise me). So what scam are these Cherry OS hoaxsters trying to pull? My guess is they're trying to get people to 'invest' in the further 'development & engineering to get it ready for the mass markets'. In other words: it's probably a scam. Once gullible 'investors' have invested, they'll probably never hear about it again! Wanna bet?
Cherry OS is a pipe dream. Even if remotely true - meaning that it WOULD work, more or less (which it doesn't!) - Cherry OS hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell to survive: it's very existence would immediately create 2 mortal enemies: Micro$haft AND Apple. That, in itself, is a death sentence!
"[...] 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope for a fraction of its $2 billion dollar cost." is a claim that was made very recently of a concept for an optical telescope at the south pole. The great clarity of the earth's athmosphere there would also allow a next-generation-Hubble at a fraction of its predecessor's cost. At the time it struck me that a telescope at that position - virtually static - might be very limited in terms of what parts of the universe it could actually 'see'.
'Looks like'? Maybe you should check your opinions and insinuations against the facts BEFORE you open your mouth: http://www.smart.com/-snm-0135145948-1096715329-00 00001072-0000006372-1097324828-enm-is-bin/INTERSHO P.enfinity/WFS/mpc-en-content-Site/en_EN/-/EUR/SVC PresentationPipeline-Start?Page=issite%3a%2f%2fsma rt-Site%2fsmart%2ecom%2fRootFolder%2fsmart%2fmodel le%2fsmartcitycoupe%2fsicherheit%2fkonstruktion%2e page
Check the facts before spreading rumors and insinuations: http://www.smart.com/-snm-0135145948-1096715329-00 00001072-0000006372-1097324828-enm-is-bin/INTERSHO P.enfinity/WFS/mpc-en-content-Site/en_EN/-/EUR/SVC PresentationPipeline-Start?Page=issite%3a%2f%2fsma rt-Site%2fsmart%2ecom%2fRootFolder%2fsmart%2fmodel le%2fsmartcitycoupe%2fsicherheit%2fkonstruktion%2e page
Check the facts! http://www.smart.com/-snm-0135145948-1096715329-00 00001072-0000006372-1097324828-enm-is-bin/INTERSHO P.enfinity/WFS/mpc-en-content-Site/en_EN/-/EUR/SVC PresentationPipeline-Start?Page=issite%3a%2f%2fsma rt-Site%2fsmart%2ecom%2fRootFolder%2fsmart%2fmodel le%2fsmartcitycoupe%2fsicherheit%2fkonstruktion%2e page
It IS a helmet . . . !
I've been using an iPod (combined with a Belkin card reader) for mobile mass photo storage for 6 months. It's great! Don't need a tiny screen for that. In fact, I don't WANT a tiny screen for that. My photo's deserve a full size monitor at least! Would never even attempt to show them to others on a 2 inch screen. The iPod is just for mobile mass photo storage. It does that fantastically already! A 2 inch screen won't add any REAL functionality for REAL pro photographers!
Combine that Video-iPod with the iPodder app (http://ipodder.org/), add WiFi, and you've got a really, really tiny and extremely mobile Tivo!
Combine that VideoPod with the iPodder app (http://ipodder.org/), add WiFi, and you've got a really, really tiny and extremely mobile Tivo!
Depends on what you define as 'storage bricks', Mike. I'm very happy with my 20GB iPod/Belkin cardreader combo. I stored 3 weeks worth of Amazon trek, HiRes, on it and could have gone on for another 3 weeks. I use it for portable mass storage. I don't WANT a videoscreen on that! Because I wouldn't dream of showing my photos to anybody on a 320x240 screen! Horror! My photos deserve a LARGE monitor! At least!
ROFLMAO!
Doesn't anybody see that this is an urban legend? Because eliminating trees and shrubbery from the mountains'/Alps' slopes also eliminates their extensive root systems. Which are fundamental to keeping the dirt together and on top of the bedrock. Dirt that has an extremely important 'sponge' function: it collects and holds water (rain and melted snow) and - under 'normal' circumstances - releases that water gradually over time into the valleys and river systems. Without trees and shrubbery on the mountains the rain and melted snow are NOT collected NOR held, but flow almost immediately into the valleys and river systems. Since these cannot handle all that water at once, the result is flooding! We see it every spring time. And every new skiing piste/slope aggravates the problem!!!
"when we run out of oil we will convert coal to synthetic fuel." Huh? Whaddayamean 'When'...? The Germans/Nazis developed the technology in WWII. The South Africans refined it and put it into practice: today, they extract/refine about 50% of their petrol/gas (for cars) from coal! Steadily grown since the 60's!
Doesn't sound either 'cheap' or portable to me. Sounds like ridiculous overkill to me. Like going to work in a space shuttle . . .
MichaelMalak (look further on) has a really clever solution: he uses the memory-card of his digital camera for portable storage. Gets around the no-portable-storage-devices-in-this-company's-buil ding regime! Great example of 'lateral thinking'!
I've got 40GB of portable storage, with USB 2.0 and FireWire, in my iPod . . .