Who would have thought that allowing users to ideally "share" samples of media with someone else (via youtube or the like) that someone that watches or listens might actually like it and buy the CD/DVD/Whatever. I'm sure a lot of us here use to have mix tapes that someone made up for you and thought to yourself "wow I like that song I might buy the cassette(or CD)". Really how are people supposed to get new music if all they have to go buy is the crap that is on those music television shows or on the radio where they play a very limited selection, and if you don't like Justin Tiberlake or 50 Cent too bad.
So what are the cards that will have open source 2D and 3D acceleration? I have an x1950pro and I am sick of crappy linux drivers. Never the less a good start by AMD to release some of their specs but they should release everything.
The way I see it, and I know it isn't the law. If you get an IP address from the router then that is authorisation from the person that owns the connection. I'm not saying that it is right to connect to unsecure networks but as many people have said a lot of devices automatically connect to unsecured wireless networks. How can it be stealing if this persons wireless signals are virtually bombarding me and my OS by default wants to connect. Surely the OS vendor, the router manufacturer, and the person that set up the connection are to blame as well. I bet there would be a case if you got prosecuted for "stealing" broadband to sue all of the above.
Possibly the biggest load of shit I have ever read. At any rate everyone has something to hide, if you didn't you would wear clothes, have doors, have curtains, use firewalls, etc.. Sure I may not do anything illegal but I still want my privacy. I don't want my private information going to the US government or any other government for that matter. You could say that the US government is a terrorist in it's own right and who is watching them?
First thing that I do, like I'm most others do is make coffee the last thing my underlings want to experience is me without my caffeine fix and if someone made it there before me if they know what's good for them they'll have a coffee ready for me. After that I check my emails for the funnys that the people sent me, followed by the more serious ones after the caffeine has hit. I then check what everyone has planned for the day, I like to let people decide what they want to do for the day if anything has come up that needs some attention then I will direct them to the more urgent matters. I really guess it depends on the kind of environment that you work in. I work in a place were at lot of the staff are mature and don't need much direction. After I tell people what to do I like to sit back and read slashdot and some news sites for a while. Then I go to a long lunch maybe at a pub, after which I follow up on purchase orders and "service" vendors to see why they have broken on my network/servers you can be sure some monkey has done something that they shouldn't have. After that I like to get to work on my own little projects for a couple of hours, just to make it look like I am doing something. Then I like to take an early minute.
What happens to all the data that is being collected now and why won't people from the future be able to read, work with, figure it out, whatever? Also why should we care? It's not like the planet will be habitable in even a million years at the rate we are destroying it.
Thats what I'll say to my creditors when they come a knocking. Imagine the lost income that $5 million could have produced over 15 years. I tell you what, it's pretty obvious why people are in so much debt when the schools can't even manage their own, what are they supposed to teach the students, the future debt holders of tomorrow? Just buy buy buy and then worry about the implications later. Take 'em to court IBM. That's what I'd want you to do if I was a shareholder, in fact I'd see it as your duty to me.
I feel ripped off as well. I have a copy of Vista business in my grubby little hands at the moment and when I say a copy that's exactly what it is. A TDK disk copied by a company with the serial printed on the label and will install on anything with the VLK (or whatever it is now) on the disk. Surely if MS are going to all this trouble with the hologram then they MUST crack down on these retailers. For all I know it could be pirated. I have reported the company to the BSA and I hope that MS gets them good. I am systematically going to do this with all the CDs that retailers give to me that are copies, give me a burnt CD and I will report you for piracy.
I have often been tempted to buy palm products but they are always inferior to everything else in the same price range. I mean their brand new 750 only has a 1.3mp camera with 2x digital zoom, lacking in memory, runs windows mobile 5.0, 240x240 screen, and only a 300mhz processor which is not enough for windows. Please palm come out with some decent numbers and ditch windows mobile for a decent OS like symbian or stick to palmOS or even give Linux a try.
I have to say that I have one of these DAS keyboards and I think it's great. Sure you could use an IBM Model M but when you use PC's that don't have PS/2 ports it's a little hard. Also it stops people from using my PC at work, well worth the $80usd in my book.
Last year I purchased a "DAS Keyboard" http://daskeyboard.com/ which is a keyboard with no letters on the keys, I was wondering if anyone else had purchased one of these. I am using the qwerty layout at the moment and never tought how to touch type but I can type at around 80wpm with very good accuracy. I thought about switching to a dvorak layout many years ago when I heard of the benefits but never got around to it. Anyways I was wondering if this keyboard would be a suitable match for those of you that are having a hard time getting a dvorak board.
Also for those that have made the switch but aren't touch typers and just magically your fingers know where the keys are, does it take a long time to "learn" and can you switch back between them without hassles?
I did a bit of travelling last year in western Europe and found that life would have been so much easier with a simple PDA with wifi with GPS and possibly some travel eBooks as well. Now I am a big fan of lonely planet but the massive books add a lot of weight to your backpack. I don't recommend that you take a laptop, Europe isn't like Asia, there are internet cafes everywhere and a lot of hostels have wifi or an internet terminal.
A lot of people have said that less is better with clothes and I have to agree, I ended up giving away my sweatshirts as they added too much weight and I found that even in the mild European summer I didn't really get cold when walking round with my pack on. My advice is check the weather before you leave and then pack for 10 degrees Celsius more, you can always put two shirts on rather than a sweatshirt. I did quite a few treks with my 15kg pack on and I can tell you after a couple of days a few hours a day a 15kg pack feels like it's 100kg.
Carrying a Swiss army knife sounds like a good idea for all those times that you need to use a half sized knife, a magnifying glass, a screwdriver and a cork screw, well a cork screw may come in handy... but what ever you do, DO NOT carry a knife, you are asking to be held up at international terminals and possibly searched.
Always carry a little bit of change (notes preferably) of different currencies if you are going through a couple of countries, when you travel through Europe you really don't need to carry a lot of food or water as long as you got a little money you can buy something, saves on valuable space and weight in your pack.
Many people have said to carry a lighter, while yes they are handy you don't want to loose your nice Zippo so be sure if you get on a plane to not have it on your carry on.
Some people said a decent pack and I have to say this is possibly THE most important thing, it is going to be attached to you for long periods of time. You can get packs now that are really high tech made from light weight materials and that have hard shaped backs that you can adjust depending on how tall, how broad your shoulders are and have a day pack. I think it might be a good idea to consider something like that. I did and I'm glad I did otherwise I can assure you that after a couple of days I would have ended up in a chiropractor.
All the electronics that I took were my iPod and a camera and I seemed to manage fine, in fact I loved not having a phone or a laptop.
Of course what you take really depends on how you want to get around where you are staying what time of year. Be sensible and think ahead.
I'm sorry but the clear lack of understanding dripping from your post is just incredible. There is one law for citizens and none for police. It's really quite simple and we see it time and time again in cases just like this where the public rightfully point out misconduct from the police and then end up on the wrong side of the law. I have never met a nice, considerate, helpfull policeman and I like to think of myself as a law abiding person. I have absolutly no respect for them and none for the legal system that they are supposedly enforcing. How can you when the people enfocing the law break it time and time again. Two wrongs apparently, at least legally me a right.
I work for a company that uses a Sun box for a critical application and clients connect using telnet. This vulnerbility could be the answer I was looking for to get the outsourced company that looks after it to switch to SSH which is easily fast enough for the requirements of our users.
OK well perhaps I have over genralised. Here in Australia the 3G network is already in place and has been for quite some time now and covers a large percentage of the country. If you buy just a GSM phone you are either an idiot or there is a must have feature on that phone (which isn't likely). "NextG" as it's called here is now availible and it covers 98% of the country now I don't know about you but if you have 3G/GSM and NextG/GSM why on earth would you want just a GSM phone when you could have a nice speed in certain areas and still have the coverage of GSM. The fact remains that it IS old technology and they should be developing phones that look towards the future rather than look back to GSM.
But whats the point of this when you can't go gown to your local phone store and buy these things off the shelf. Now when I first heard that people were releasing devices that run Linux I was very, very interested in purchasing one or at least testing one out. Much to my surprise these devices were no where to be found. Not only are they not at the local phone store I have emailed countless people about getting a linux based phone and no one has even replied, are these phones vaporware or what? Does anyone have one? Also I only know of one of these phones that has 3G, now really in this day and age 3G just doesn't cut it and does anyone even want GSM phone? I'm surprised they aren't going directly to landfill. I know that I sure don't want a technology that is EXTREMELY out dated. Where are the "Open" HSDPA phones and even 3G phones?
I think instead of turning this into an I'm better than you kind of situation how about you attack the people that think they have the right to decide what cities are intelegent depending on how many people have broadband.
Now it could be that I am crazy and don't understand the absolute dependence that koreans have for activex, but surely it would be benifical for everyone to change to vista while activex isn't functional so that internet developers HAVE to create programs that use other technologies, even if they aren't open they have to be better than activex.
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Who would have thought that allowing users to ideally "share" samples of media with someone else (via youtube or the like) that someone that watches or listens might actually like it and buy the CD/DVD/Whatever. I'm sure a lot of us here use to have mix tapes that someone made up for you and thought to yourself "wow I like that song I might buy the cassette(or CD)". Really how are people supposed to get new music if all they have to go buy is the crap that is on those music television shows or on the radio where they play a very limited selection, and if you don't like Justin Tiberlake or 50 Cent too bad.
So what are the cards that will have open source 2D and 3D acceleration? I have an x1950pro and I am sick of crappy linux drivers. Never the less a good start by AMD to release some of their specs but they should release everything.
The way I see it, and I know it isn't the law. If you get an IP address from the router then that is authorisation from the person that owns the connection. I'm not saying that it is right to connect to unsecure networks but as many people have said a lot of devices automatically connect to unsecured wireless networks. How can it be stealing if this persons wireless signals are virtually bombarding me and my OS by default wants to connect. Surely the OS vendor, the router manufacturer, and the person that set up the connection are to blame as well. I bet there would be a case if you got prosecuted for "stealing" broadband to sue all of the above.
Since when do we listen to kids anyway? They clearly know what they are talking about they are CEO's HA!
Possibly the biggest load of shit I have ever read. At any rate everyone has something to hide, if you didn't you would wear clothes, have doors, have curtains, use firewalls, etc.. Sure I may not do anything illegal but I still want my privacy. I don't want my private information going to the US government or any other government for that matter. You could say that the US government is a terrorist in it's own right and who is watching them?
Who would have thought?
First thing that I do, like I'm most others do is make coffee the last thing my underlings want to experience is me without my caffeine fix and if someone made it there before me if they know what's good for them they'll have a coffee ready for me. After that I check my emails for the funnys that the people sent me, followed by the more serious ones after the caffeine has hit. I then check what everyone has planned for the day, I like to let people decide what they want to do for the day if anything has come up that needs some attention then I will direct them to the more urgent matters. I really guess it depends on the kind of environment that you work in. I work in a place were at lot of the staff are mature and don't need much direction. After I tell people what to do I like to sit back and read slashdot and some news sites for a while. Then I go to a long lunch maybe at a pub, after which I follow up on purchase orders and "service" vendors to see why they have broken on my network/servers you can be sure some monkey has done something that they shouldn't have. After that I like to get to work on my own little projects for a couple of hours, just to make it look like I am doing something. Then I like to take an early minute.
What happens to all the data that is being collected now and why won't people from the future be able to read, work with, figure it out, whatever? Also why should we care? It's not like the planet will be habitable in even a million years at the rate we are destroying it.
Thats what I'll say to my creditors when they come a knocking. Imagine the lost income that $5 million could have produced over 15 years. I tell you what, it's pretty obvious why people are in so much debt when the schools can't even manage their own, what are they supposed to teach the students, the future debt holders of tomorrow? Just buy buy buy and then worry about the implications later. Take 'em to court IBM. That's what I'd want you to do if I was a shareholder, in fact I'd see it as your duty to me.
I feel ripped off as well. I have a copy of Vista business in my grubby little hands at the moment and when I say a copy that's exactly what it is. A TDK disk copied by a company with the serial printed on the label and will install on anything with the VLK (or whatever it is now) on the disk. Surely if MS are going to all this trouble with the hologram then they MUST crack down on these retailers. For all I know it could be pirated. I have reported the company to the BSA and I hope that MS gets them good. I am systematically going to do this with all the CDs that retailers give to me that are copies, give me a burnt CD and I will report you for piracy.
The problem is that you can't own music you only have the right to play it, apparently.
I just installed it on a few machines to test and it crashes on every PC when I try to authenticate against my proxy.
I don't care what it is make it multi platform and I'll buy it. VIVA LA OPENGL!
I have often been tempted to buy palm products but they are always inferior to everything else in the same price range. I mean their brand new 750 only has a 1.3mp camera with 2x digital zoom, lacking in memory, runs windows mobile 5.0, 240x240 screen, and only a 300mhz processor which is not enough for windows. Please palm come out with some decent numbers and ditch windows mobile for a decent OS like symbian or stick to palmOS or even give Linux a try.
Does the software allow you to skip check-in? That'd make flights a lot easier.
I have to say that I have one of these DAS keyboards and I think it's great. Sure you could use an IBM Model M but when you use PC's that don't have PS/2 ports it's a little hard. Also it stops people from using my PC at work, well worth the $80usd in my book.
Also for those that have made the switch but aren't touch typers and just magically your fingers know where the keys are, does it take a long time to "learn" and can you switch back between them without hassles?
A lot of people have said that less is better with clothes and I have to agree, I ended up giving away my sweatshirts as they added too much weight and I found that even in the mild European summer I didn't really get cold when walking round with my pack on. My advice is check the weather before you leave and then pack for 10 degrees Celsius more, you can always put two shirts on rather than a sweatshirt. I did quite a few treks with my 15kg pack on and I can tell you after a couple of days a few hours a day a 15kg pack feels like it's 100kg.
Carrying a Swiss army knife sounds like a good idea for all those times that you need to use a half sized knife, a magnifying glass, a screwdriver and a cork screw, well a cork screw may come in handy... but what ever you do, DO NOT carry a knife, you are asking to be held up at international terminals and possibly searched.
Always carry a little bit of change (notes preferably) of different currencies if you are going through a couple of countries, when you travel through Europe you really don't need to carry a lot of food or water as long as you got a little money you can buy something, saves on valuable space and weight in your pack.
Many people have said to carry a lighter, while yes they are handy you don't want to loose your nice Zippo so be sure if you get on a plane to not have it on your carry on.
Some people said a decent pack and I have to say this is possibly THE most important thing, it is going to be attached to you for long periods of time. You can get packs now that are really high tech made from light weight materials and that have hard shaped backs that you can adjust depending on how tall, how broad your shoulders are and have a day pack. I think it might be a good idea to consider something like that. I did and I'm glad I did otherwise I can assure you that after a couple of days I would have ended up in a chiropractor.
All the electronics that I took were my iPod and a camera and I seemed to manage fine, in fact I loved not having a phone or a laptop.
Of course what you take really depends on how you want to get around where you are staying what time of year. Be sensible and think ahead.
I'm sorry but the clear lack of understanding dripping from your post is just incredible. There is one law for citizens and none for police. It's really quite simple and we see it time and time again in cases just like this where the public rightfully point out misconduct from the police and then end up on the wrong side of the law. I have never met a nice, considerate, helpfull policeman and I like to think of myself as a law abiding person. I have absolutly no respect for them and none for the legal system that they are supposedly enforcing. How can you when the people enfocing the law break it time and time again. Two wrongs apparently, at least legally me a right.
Does this mean we could all end up suing the police for our traffic infringments if they get charged?
I work for a company that uses a Sun box for a critical application and clients connect using telnet. This vulnerbility could be the answer I was looking for to get the outsourced company that looks after it to switch to SSH which is easily fast enough for the requirements of our users.
OK well perhaps I have over genralised. Here in Australia the 3G network is already in place and has been for quite some time now and covers a large percentage of the country. If you buy just a GSM phone you are either an idiot or there is a must have feature on that phone (which isn't likely). "NextG" as it's called here is now availible and it covers 98% of the country now I don't know about you but if you have 3G/GSM and NextG/GSM why on earth would you want just a GSM phone when you could have a nice speed in certain areas and still have the coverage of GSM. The fact remains that it IS old technology and they should be developing phones that look towards the future rather than look back to GSM.
But whats the point of this when you can't go gown to your local phone store and buy these things off the shelf. Now when I first heard that people were releasing devices that run Linux I was very, very interested in purchasing one or at least testing one out. Much to my surprise these devices were no where to be found. Not only are they not at the local phone store I have emailed countless people about getting a linux based phone and no one has even replied, are these phones vaporware or what? Does anyone have one? Also I only know of one of these phones that has 3G, now really in this day and age 3G just doesn't cut it and does anyone even want GSM phone? I'm surprised they aren't going directly to landfill. I know that I sure don't want a technology that is EXTREMELY out dated. Where are the "Open" HSDPA phones and even 3G phones?
PS my country is better than yours.
Now it could be that I am crazy and don't understand the absolute dependence that koreans have for activex, but surely it would be benifical for everyone to change to vista while activex isn't functional so that internet developers HAVE to create programs that use other technologies, even if they aren't open they have to be better than activex.