hey are less than $10 more than IDE
So if you don't care about $10, why don't you take a $10 note from your pocket now, and throw it in the bin?
The truth is, a PATA optical drive is cheaper than a SATA one, and just as good. So the extra $10 buys nothing of any value to the customer. If we all spend $10 on something useless, the hardware industry makes millions selling us useless junk. Why should we allow them to do that?
And slot-loading drives will choke on non-standard-sized CDs, such as the 200M CDs you often get with drivers on them. Why would anyone deliberately buy a CD drive that cannot handle every CD?
This is scary stuff. If metal knives and guns can be so readily detected when hidden in clothing, I'm going to have to keep mine in a metal container next time I go out on a killing spree.
Then someone would have to go to the trouble of inventing a metal detector to detect my knife.
Oh wait...
Alternatively, sites like Youtube could amend their terms and conditions to allow themselves to automatically add adverts to all videos as they were being downloaded.
If they did this to every video they would quickly alienate their users. But if (say) 1 video in 100 had an advert added as you downloaded it, they could make a lot of money without losing too many users.
If the Chinese can't afford to pay for Hollywood movies, then "Hollywood cracking down" would cost them money for enforcement, without bringing in any income from sales. So it will never happen.
What Hollywood want, of course, is for governments to enforce copyrights at the taxpayers expense. That doesn't cost them anything, except a little in bribes to make it happen.
This will work fine for a few years, while there are only a few models of player, and they are expensive enough for it to be worthwhile supporting them.
But after a while it will become impossible to get updates for older models of players. People will have to keep on buying new ones as the keys for their old ones are revoked.
Perhaps the stores will start having special offers: "buy this disk for $100 and get a free player that will play it".
So when the key of your Samsung BD-P1000 is revoked, your player will no longer play any new disks that you buy. You will have to go out and buy a new player.
That's why Star Trek depicts a society run by the military. If making physical objects were almost free, like copying music is now, the only way to prevent "piracy" would be to have an extremely repressive government. And just think what a terrorist group would do if they got hold of a transporter.
The MCA bus was a big flop for IBM back at the time of the PS/2.
It's big selling point was that you could plug in adapters without having to worry about setting DIP switches, which were common on ISA cards at the time. The problem was that the configuration was done by a program on a floppy disk, not by the bios. Lose the floppy disk and you were stuffed.
I remember an IBM salesman bringing a shiny new top-of-the-range PS/2 to show to us. He proudly plugged it in an switched it on and... nothing. He had taken out the network card before he put it in his car, without putting in the magic floppy. The thing just refused to boot. Putting in the floppy did not help: you had to do it before taking out the card. Of course we did not spend our money on such junk.
There is sort of an epidemic -- perceived or actual, I don't know, and it hardly matters -- of obnoxious, petty crime
So, after installing all those cameras, there is an epidemic of exactly the sort of crime that they are supposed to prevent? And the solution is to install more, and more expensive, cameras? It's working well, isn't it?
It certainly matters whether the epidemic is perceived or actual: no amount of law enforcement is going to reduce crime if the crime is not "actual", but just in the minds of the right-wing press.
Since the hack took several weeks, perhaps they simply didn't want to spend the time needed to repeat it on another version of Vista. Time, after all, is money. Then their remarks about the cost of the work have been misinterpreted as referring to the cost of Vista.
I think you're describing the Unix feature that you can replace an executable file while it is in use; the program that is using it will continue to see the deleted version of the file, and new programs will see the new version.
That's not a bug, it's a feature. It's the reason why you don't have to reboot Unix machines after a software update, as you do for Windows.
If you look around, you'll notice that Henry cleaners are used by professionals in places like offices and hotels. The ones you buy in the retail shop are basically industrial-quality cleaners with an amusing face and will stand a considerable amount of abuse.
Dysons are designed to look pretty, and are heavily advertised. They are then built cheaply in the Far East. Suprisingly, they are a lot more expensive than the sturdier professional machines: I suppose a lot of money goes into advertising (or into Dyson's pocket).
Back in the old days, some monitors would fail to sync to some refresh rates, and the display would collapse to a dot in the centre of the screen, which would burn a hole in the phosphor (or worse).
I don't think monitors like that have been sold for the last 20 years or so, but the warning has never been removed from the manual.
Bear in mind that the people selling these cameras are skilled professional salesmen, but the people buying them are local politicians, which requires no special education or training.
If the crime rate goes down when cameras are installed, the sales pitch will be "cameras reduce crime". If it goes up, the pitch will be "more cameras are needed to combat rising crime".
The expense will not be an issue, so long as it is only a small proportion of the money raised by taxes for other things. And if anyone raises the question of value for money, the salesman can simply ask "do you want this to be the only community that does not protect its citizens with cameras".
The trick was getting the first few cameras installed. After that, I can't see how their spread could be stopped.
Surely the whole point of having a street protest is that it is visible to everyone, and can't be ignored. If you manage to get into a good fight with the police then all the better, because then you're likely to be seen on the TV news.
But if you simply put a video on YouTube, then everyone can simply ignore it. In fact, most politicians are probably unaware of the existence of YouTube. How does that advance your cause?
A java based emulator doesn't need to be ported.
That's the huge advantage of java. Just port the 100 meg or so of JVM, throw in a faster processor and a few more gigs of memory, and it'll run on anything.
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hey are less than $10 more than IDE
So if you don't care about $10, why don't you take a $10 note from your pocket now, and throw it in the bin?
The truth is, a PATA optical drive is cheaper than a SATA one, and just as good. So the extra $10 buys nothing of any value to the customer. If we all spend $10 on something useless, the hardware industry makes millions selling us useless junk. Why should we allow them to do that?
And slot-loading drives will choke on non-standard-sized CDs, such as the 200M CDs you often get with drivers on them. Why would anyone deliberately buy a CD drive that cannot handle every CD?
This is scary stuff. If metal knives and guns can be so readily detected when hidden in clothing, I'm going to have to keep mine in a metal container next time I go out on a killing spree.
Then someone would have to go to the trouble of inventing a metal detector to detect my knife.
Oh wait...
Alternatively, sites like Youtube could amend their terms and conditions to allow themselves to automatically add adverts to all videos as they were being downloaded.
If they did this to every video they would quickly alienate their users. But if (say) 1 video in 100 had an advert added as you downloaded it, they could make a lot of money without losing too many users.
If the Chinese can't afford to pay for Hollywood movies, then "Hollywood cracking down" would cost them money for enforcement, without bringing in any income from sales. So it will never happen.
What Hollywood want, of course, is for governments to enforce copyrights at the taxpayers expense. That doesn't cost them anything, except a little in bribes to make it happen.
Actually, we don't have very many gun-toting left-wingers in the UK.
This will work fine for a few years, while there are only a few models of player, and they are expensive enough for it to be worthwhile supporting them.
But after a while it will become impossible to get updates for older models of players. People will have to keep on buying new ones as the keys for their old ones are revoked.
Perhaps the stores will start having special offers: "buy this disk for $100 and get a free player that will play it".
So when the key of your Samsung BD-P1000 is revoked, your player will no longer play any new disks that you buy. You will have to go out and buy a new player.
That's why Star Trek depicts a society run by the military. If making physical objects were almost free, like copying music is now, the only way to prevent "piracy" would be to have an extremely repressive government. And just think what a terrorist group would do if they got hold of a transporter.
I've got a better idea. Don't install the cameras. It won't solve the crime problem, but it will save a lot of money.
The MCA bus was a big flop for IBM back at the time of the PS/2.
It's big selling point was that you could plug in adapters without having to worry about setting DIP switches, which were common on ISA cards at the time. The problem was that the configuration was done by a program on a floppy disk, not by the bios. Lose the floppy disk and you were stuffed.
I remember an IBM salesman bringing a shiny new top-of-the-range PS/2 to show to us. He proudly plugged it in an switched it on and... nothing. He had taken out the network card before he put it in his car, without putting in the magic floppy. The thing just refused to boot. Putting in the floppy did not help: you had to do it before taking out the card. Of course we did not spend our money on such junk.
There is sort of an epidemic -- perceived or actual, I don't know, and it hardly matters -- of obnoxious, petty crime
So, after installing all those cameras, there is an epidemic of exactly the sort of crime that they are supposed to prevent? And the solution is to install more, and more expensive, cameras? It's working well, isn't it?
It certainly matters whether the epidemic is perceived or actual: no amount of law enforcement is going to reduce crime if the crime is not "actual", but just in the minds of the right-wing press.
Since Apple have now fixed Boot Camp so that you can run Vista, this new hardware will help with the Vista performance problems.
Since the hack took several weeks, perhaps they simply didn't want to spend the time needed to repeat it on another version of Vista. Time, after all, is money. Then their remarks about the cost of the work have been misinterpreted as referring to the cost of Vista.
I think you're describing the Unix feature that you can replace an executable file while it is in use; the program that is using it will continue to see the deleted version of the file, and new programs will see the new version.
That's not a bug, it's a feature. It's the reason why you don't have to reboot Unix machines after a software update, as you do for Windows.
As a mathematician, I'm always surprised by people who think that 4 and 4.0 should not be equal.
If you look around, you'll notice that Henry cleaners are used by professionals in places like offices and hotels. The ones you buy in the retail shop are basically industrial-quality cleaners with an amusing face and will stand a considerable amount of abuse.
Dysons are designed to look pretty, and are heavily advertised. They are then built cheaply in the Far East. Suprisingly, they are a lot more expensive than the sturdier professional machines: I suppose a lot of money goes into advertising (or into Dyson's pocket).
Yes, we do have a sense of entitlement: that's what a warranty gives us. It's not the customer's problem if the helpdesk people are not trained.
Back in the old days, some monitors would fail to sync to some refresh rates, and the display would collapse to a dot in the centre of the screen, which would burn a hole in the phosphor (or worse).
I don't think monitors like that have been sold for the last 20 years or so, but the warning has never been removed from the manual.
So... we all have to be watched all the time, just so that you can drive round without carrying a mobile phone?
Bear in mind that the people selling these cameras are skilled professional salesmen, but the people buying them are local politicians, which requires no special education or training.
If the crime rate goes down when cameras are installed, the sales pitch will be "cameras reduce crime". If it goes up, the pitch will be "more cameras are needed to combat rising crime".
The expense will not be an issue, so long as it is only a small proportion of the money raised by taxes for other things. And if anyone raises the question of value for money, the salesman can simply ask "do you want this to be the only community that does not protect its citizens with cameras".
The trick was getting the first few cameras installed. After that, I can't see how their spread could be stopped.
Surely the whole point of having a street protest is that it is visible to everyone, and can't be ignored. If you manage to get into a good fight with the police then all the better, because then you're likely to be seen on the TV news.
But if you simply put a video on YouTube, then everyone can simply ignore it. In fact, most politicians are probably unaware of the existence of YouTube. How does that advance your cause?
A java based emulator doesn't need to be ported.
That's the huge advantage of java. Just port the 100 meg or so of JVM, throw in a faster processor and a few more gigs of memory, and it'll run on anything.
No, you could update the original monochrome IBM PC display whenever you liked. The snow thing was only a (mis)feature of the colour display adapter.
So the attitude stabiliser of a Voyager probe causes it to veer around on a scale that dwarfs a hundred-thousand-mile divergence from its course?