I used to have this game a long time ago that let you use the space shuttle to ferry parts up to build Space Station Freedom and it was actually kind of fun. Just because you don't have guns and aliens doesn't mean it doesn't have any risks or rewards. Who knows what the objectives could be? Constructing a Mars base using current technology? Building a generational space ship that leaves the solar system? There are lots of ideas.
But would the world really be a better place if we had stuck to using horse drawn carts?
Hmm, I guess that depends. What's the fuel economy on a horse-drawn cart these days? I guess we'd have to ask the Amish. Plus the emissions are much more manageable and it can be used as fertilizer to grow more fuel for the horse. I think the world probably would be better if we had stuck with horse-drawn carts, from a purely environmental perspective.
I'm looking for a new ISP because just this week I got a notice from Rogers that they've decided to change the definition of 'unlimited' to 95Gigs + $1.50/Gig after that. What on Earth are you transferring that 3GB per day isn't enough bandwidth? Let me guess, you download dozens of different Linux install DVDs per month and write reviews for Linux Journal? If you've got a fast Internet connection there's no reason to download the entire DVD ISO, just do a net install off a ~100MB CD image and download only the packages you need to install from the FTP or HTTP server.
Now, if you're honest and say you're download dozens of pirated movies, music, and software then I admit I feel sorry for your situation because that stuff can become really addictive.
If he was just taking drivers that worked in Windows XP, then why would Creative have purposefully disabled that functionality in their Vista drivers? If some guy can pretty easily reverse engineer the drivers for another OS and get them working on a newer version then I would think Creative, with the source code in hand, should easily be able to make that functionality work on Vista. Why is Creative disabling this functionality if the device and OS is capable of supporting it? Are they just trying to sell new cards? I doubt that's the answer since it seems like some of the cards he's talking about are relatively recent and claim Vista support.
Oh my god! The horror! Your "personal space" was being disrupted aboard a plane full of other people. How dare they. Why didn't you just retire to your own private compartment and shut the door? What's that? Oh, it's a common public space? What's that? Public spaces are generally noisy and full of people chatting with each other? You're on a fucking plane for Christ's sake. Could you possibly have picked a noisier mode of travel and you're complaining about people talking? Get over yourself.
Have fun never flying again then. Not a huge deal since you'll probably be dead within a year, but still inconvenient if you have to travel home to be in hospice near your family.
National Security supersedes the Presidential Records Act. There was likely e-mail on those drives that could've had a massive negative effect on the President and his administration, thus it is in our national security interests to see that those records were destroyed.
The alternative is to download a DVD rip DRM unencumbered, no FBI warning, no forced previews - hell, no previews.
Nothing's stopping you from buying the movie and then ripping it of all the extraneous garbage. Inconvenience isn't a sufficient justification for breaking the law. Pirating a movie is a lot worse than violating the DMCA to copy a movie you own in my opinion.
It's a bridge, it's not going to send data out the NIC if it has the MAC address of the virtual machine in its virtual bridge's table. At worst it may flood a couple of packets.
I'm sorry, but HD-DVD users are just plain outta luck. Next time, join the rest of us and just wait.
That doesn't seem right though. Since you're just purchasing a license to the movie, why can't you mail your HD-DVD discs back to the manufacturer and have them be exchanged for a Blu-Ray copy of the same movie (if available) for a nominal fee (say, $5 plus reasonable shipping and handling)? Perhaps Congress needs to get involved and sort this mess out so HD-DVD users don't get screwed out of their investment... it certainly adversely affects lives more than steroid using baseball players or the war in Iraq. Write your Congressman today and demand an HD-DVD exchange program be setup immediately!!!
Given that any moonbase (aren't they putting the cart before the horse here?) will be largely metal, will the signal get through.
I'm sure they'll have repeaters all over the place inside the colony. As for a metal base, I thought they were looking at using inflatable structures since they are lighter weight.
Better hope it boots properly the first time! Or perhaps this is a normal procedure for you, and you can change kernels remotely easily when the system won't boot.
Not a big deal since most people should have terminal servers and remote power control units setup to gain remote console access and reboot out of band if necessary. Even better, if they're VMs under VMware or something similar then you still have remote console and reboot capabilities. I used to perform all kinds of critical maintenance from my laptop in the bathroom on the weekend while taking a crap.
It's easy to avoid, just don't fly. I haven't flown in 6 years and I have no plans on ever flying again in my lifetime until these fascist TSA practices are changed and airlines treat their passengers with more respect instead of like cattle cramming as many people as possible into tiny seats with no room. There's no place in this world that I want to go to that I can't drive to within a week or so.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Whatever happened to "If it ain't broke don't fix it"?
Florida didn't use electronic voting in 2000 in the most disputed counties nor did Ohio in 2004 in its disputed counties. If anything, the electronic voting systems proved to be BETTER than paper ballots in both those situations and Bush was re-elected because of paper ballot problems. Need I remind you of the infamous pictures of the recount guys looking with a magnifying glass to try and determine whether a chad had any imprint on it or to try to determine, if in the case of two punched chads, which one was the accidental one and which wasn't? Paper ballots are for luddites and a complete sham.
You must really be out of the loop if you think that Memory Stick support is exclusive to Sony products.
Name one piece of consumer electronics that supports MemoryStick exclusively other than Sony cameras and devices. Just because your laptop comes with a multi-flash-memory reader doesn't mean it was designed for memory stick. The only products that use Memory Stick are Sony products. Everyone else uses more open cards.
Will you buy MP3s, unrestricted, for a reasonable price? Or will you continue to download it for free via Limewire?
99 cents (or more) per track is hardly reasonable for what is probably a 128kbps MP3 file. The download price should be the CD's MSRP minus a reasonable discount (20%-30%) for the fact that there is no packaging, shipping, storage, or distribution costs involved beyond bandwidth, and the downloads should be in WAV, FLAC, Apple's Lossless codec, or some other open non-proprietary uncompressed digital format that is an exact duplicate of the CD track if it were to be ripped to a computer in order to allow exact re-duplication back to a CD-R for listening in a portable or car CD player. Selling sub-quality MP3s for the same price per track as you could buy the CD is ridiculous. The only people that benefit are those too lazy to drive to the box store and buy the CD.
What I find odd is that Apple's newest keyboard is just a modern rehash of the IBM PCjr chicklet design, and yet nobody I've talked to has made big complaints about it.
Have you ever actually used one for more than an hour? I switched from the old Mac keyboard to the new keyboard when my computer was refreshed and at first I thought I'd hate it, but I've fell in love with it. The keystroke travel is just as good as the old keyboard and it's thin and light. I have no problems at all typing on it just as fast as the old style keyboards.
So they are DEFINITELY monetizing it, by charging more now that it has some traffic.
No, I think that is their standard rate for 1 year registrations and you can get it down to $19.95 by registering for 5 years at $99.95 up front, which makes me really wonder what kind of idiots still buy domains through them when they're charging $25 more than their competitors for the exact same service.
NFS without basic features like famd and posix attributes would be about as useful as Windows 3.11 would be for sharing SMB -- useful only for a single user environment where users don't take advantage of built-in features like setting permissions on network files
Did you even bother to read the blurb? The devices are geared towards home users, not business environments. I couldn't care less if everyone on my LAN at home can read/write anything on my NAS. It's just there to store ripped DVDs, music, pornography, and other shit that is nice to store centrally.
Not in a capitalist society. See, capitalism really is the best system since supply and demand rules. We'll use a lot less gasoline when it costs $25/gallon because we simply won't be able to afford it anymore so we'll have to find alternatives or use public transit.
If you really have something sensitive on your drive then they should be using Filevault or create an encrypted disk image. Apple gives them the tools and if they're too ignorant to take advantage of them then that is their own problem.
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I used to have this game a long time ago that let you use the space shuttle to ferry parts up to build Space Station Freedom and it was actually kind of fun. Just because you don't have guns and aliens doesn't mean it doesn't have any risks or rewards. Who knows what the objectives could be? Constructing a Mars base using current technology? Building a generational space ship that leaves the solar system? There are lots of ideas.
So, you think that paying a tax on blank media gives you a right to pirate content?
Now, if you're honest and say you're download dozens of pirated movies, music, and software then I admit I feel sorry for your situation because that stuff can become really addictive.
If he was just taking drivers that worked in Windows XP, then why would Creative have purposefully disabled that functionality in their Vista drivers? If some guy can pretty easily reverse engineer the drivers for another OS and get them working on a newer version then I would think Creative, with the source code in hand, should easily be able to make that functionality work on Vista. Why is Creative disabling this functionality if the device and OS is capable of supporting it? Are they just trying to sell new cards? I doubt that's the answer since it seems like some of the cards he's talking about are relatively recent and claim Vista support.
Oh my god! The horror! Your "personal space" was being disrupted aboard a plane full of other people. How dare they. Why didn't you just retire to your own private compartment and shut the door? What's that? Oh, it's a common public space? What's that? Public spaces are generally noisy and full of people chatting with each other? You're on a fucking plane for Christ's sake. Could you possibly have picked a noisier mode of travel and you're complaining about people talking? Get over yourself.
Have fun never flying again then. Not a huge deal since you'll probably be dead within a year, but still inconvenient if you have to travel home to be in hospice near your family.
National Security supersedes the Presidential Records Act. There was likely e-mail on those drives that could've had a massive negative effect on the President and his administration, thus it is in our national security interests to see that those records were destroyed.
It's a bridge, it's not going to send data out the NIC if it has the MAC address of the virtual machine in its virtual bridge's table. At worst it may flood a couple of packets.
I'm sure they'll have repeaters all over the place inside the colony. As for a metal base, I thought they were looking at using inflatable structures since they are lighter weight.
You don't have an iPhone do you? Poor SOB. Someday you will... just keep saving your pennies and you will know the glory of the iPhone.
It's easy to avoid, just don't fly. I haven't flown in 6 years and I have no plans on ever flying again in my lifetime until these fascist TSA practices are changed and airlines treat their passengers with more respect instead of like cattle cramming as many people as possible into tiny seats with no room. There's no place in this world that I want to go to that I can't drive to within a week or so.
Probably the same type of person that changes his fonts in a web forum post.
No, I think that is their standard rate for 1 year registrations and you can get it down to $19.95 by registering for 5 years at $99.95 up front, which makes me really wonder what kind of idiots still buy domains through them when they're charging $25 more than their competitors for the exact same service.
Did you even bother to read the blurb? The devices are geared towards home users, not business environments. I couldn't care less if everyone on my LAN at home can read/write anything on my NAS. It's just there to store ripped DVDs, music, pornography, and other shit that is nice to store centrally.
If you really have something sensitive on your drive then they should be using Filevault or create an encrypted disk image. Apple gives them the tools and if they're too ignorant to take advantage of them then that is their own problem.