I was under the impression that your software attempted a form of orthogonal application persistence on Windows, like you save the state your applications are in and you restore it elsewhere without problems. That's an OS feature.
If you're only hosting the user-folder on the USB stick, make a.reg script to do that.
In any case, it should not require active software to run, since it's a hardware product of sorts that should just plain store files and nothing else.
1. You're paying again for songs you already have. If you buy a new cd, you're paying the same people the same rights, which you already had. You just get a new plastic disk and that's it. 2. They can (and they are) currently forcing you to use the media in the way they like it. If you buy a record, you'll need to pay again for the mp3, again for the cassette (if they even publish it!) and again for the CD. You're using the same song four times for the exact same purpose with the exact same content (jitter not counted) and you're forced to pay for the rights four times. If some lame producer thinks it's funny to just publish it on write-protected CompactFlash for some weird device, you can't even get the song. Same if the cd isn't popular enough, you can't get it without paying for delivery charges of a medium you don't want. 3. The artist isn't even getting any real amount of what you pay for the Cd. I believe it was once calculated to be about 80 cents on a 20-dollar 20-track album. The rest disappears in the meantime, nobody really knows where it went or why you'd need to pay those people.
Music is overpaid and underallowed. The more you'd like to do with your music, the more the RIAA wants you to pay even if there isn't any lawful right you're also buying with it.
How about replacing a plain CD with a cd with 20 rights-object-thingies in there? Each object would give you a discount on any other CD you also buy that contains that same track, since you shouldn't pay for the rights again. In the worst case, you can replace your scratched CD for the price of the CD, not the CD and another bag of rights. You could send one to itunes in a way and receive the song for a very low price in itunes format, since you already had it. Add a bit of education to that (copying isn't legal unless you also have a rights-object-thingy for it, pretty much the same as with a car or a house, they all have personifying property logic) and the problem would be solved for the better of both. It even requires no DRM.
Personally, I'm against it being biased toward any operating system in general. If your technology doesn't, you just have a plain USB storage device with some pre-loaded Windows software, that's ok with me. That would be pretty equal to about any publically sold device, coming with Windows-only cd's.
My preference would be that you guys make the hardware and that you leave the OS features to the OS makers.
> Considering that by the end of the year it will be very difficult to find ANY USB flash drive which does NOT contain U3 technology, it would be advisable for them to apply the necessary corrections to those machines' configurations as soon as possible.
Without U3 smart technology that runs only on fscking windows? Egad. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? that shit out of my sight.
Three new ones actually. Two rocks floating in between planets appeared to be large enough for the definition to count as a planet too, and somebody could finally be bothered to look beyond pluto and found a larger rock floating behind it.
> Automatic Updates in XP is a great step forward, but it's still opt-in.
If it's anything like it's on 2k, it's like having a funnel right through your mouth straight through to your stomach shoving stuff down and calling that opting-in to eat dinner.
I recall seeing a post about FPGA's in an Opteron socket, allowing fully customized coprocessors for the Opteron. I also see now that ATI is being bought by AMD.
Adding 1+1 gives me 3, otherwise equal to, make a GPU that fits an Opteron socket that you can replace just as easily as a normal processor, with its own memory in a similar way to normal outputs and a "videocard" reduced to about a RAMDAC.
> Where I live in the US, regular gas (I think it's 87? 88?) is $2.89/ gallon on a good day, up to about $3.05. My car's pretty gas efficient, and I get 300 miles on about $35. My mother's car costs closer to $60 for the same distance.
Where I live in the Netherlands, regular gas (95) is 1.529 euro per liter. I drive an Opel Astra (Vauxhall for you english people) and I think I'd have to fill it up every 300-400 miles. That costs me 60 euros each time then.
Dear US, you're not having high oil prices. Go back to sleep (or buy an efficient car for crying out loud).
I recently bought a new processor, which was twice the price of the old one. It's 5 times as fast as the previous one. If you add to that that my current (new) processor is now almost out of stock and that the entire architecture is being phased out very quickly, I can only wait to see what you could want more for.
I'm guessing most of Slashdot will buy a new processor and some form of surround view or 3d monitor soon, you'll have enough power to render a live girlfriend.
I had to laugh at this, mainly because for me the usual world is just that:
> Renders Flash into meaningless symbols.
Yep, blank boxes. Just hate those websites. Don't render properly in Links nor in Lynx, completely impossible to surf using telnet. Useless.
> Decodes Java into meaningless binary. Already was, no decode necessary.
> Turns javascript powered websites into impossible to understand hex clusters that don't do anything when you click on them. Seeing as the current types of compressed javascript and autogenerated javascript, I would say most websites aren't far off. Again, in telnet, it doesn't do anything.
> Dumps MP3 data to beep()
I'm pretty sure I've seen that done before... at least twice. It's well possible, but it gives such a high cpu load...
I'd prefer external combustion but it seems that having 40 foot afterburners on your car is kind of dangerous for other people... say those behind you at the lights...
I'd be happy to get to the native resolution of my TFT - my eyes hurt every night from reading from this screen. But alas, it's a new X1300 I bought as a random guess over an X550. I was ever so stupid...
I'm gonna try hacking the kernel now. Might work better, best of all it's in text mode so no mind-tormenting text...
Quantum entanglement is having two electrons with the exact same spin in at least 2 directions. They're then sent off into opposing directions, where they can be measured for their spin, but only in one direction (principle of Heisenberg). You can't determine what the spin of the electron will be, all you know is that this electron and that other electron have the same. Now, if you both listen to the electron stream at the same time and listen to the same combination of electron spins, only you'll know what the spin was exactly (since you can't clone the electron). Hence, quantum encryption, or what it is more like, quantum key exchange.
Explaining it as sending something, then looking at it and thereby determining what you've sent is wrong.
Look at it more like your report card being sent home arriving the day you receive your grades at school. You don't know the grades, nor do your parents. They are as far as you and your parents are concerned undetermined, but you can't determine what they'll be (you can only determine what they already were). You can, knowing your grades, talk about them without exchanging the grades. You could say something like "I want an allowance raise of $10 minus my french grade plus three times my math grade" which would instantly make sense to the only other that got your grades.
Quantum mechanics is explained wrong. Just tell people what's really going on, it's an abstraction so you don't have to try to think about light speed, you can just say that the state is determined, but you can't determine it. Each electron has a fixed position it is in, it's just in a position you can't measure so it's pointless to know that it has such a position, so you might as well assume it doesn't have a position for all practical purposes.
A few days ago I received a laptop from the IT department for a business trip the day after. I told them to install some software on it. Net result was that I received a laptop with the software I requested - but without a login, and the software wasn't activated.
If the IT department thinks along with you those things shouldn't happen.
More like, FROM the US. Movies generally appear in the US 3 to 12 months before they appear in europe or elsewhere. By the time you're calling a movie old we are about to receive it in the cinema. Your christmas movies are our summer movies and vice versa (which does make for a cozy feeling, seeing Ice Age in the midst of the summer...).
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What should the last 13 runs do?
I was under the impression that your software attempted a form of orthogonal application persistence on Windows, like you save the state your applications are in and you restore it elsewhere without problems. That's an OS feature.
.reg script to do that.
If you're only hosting the user-folder on the USB stick, make a
In any case, it should not require active software to run, since it's a hardware product of sorts that should just plain store files and nothing else.
Well...
1. You're paying again for songs you already have. If you buy a new cd, you're paying the same people the same rights, which you already had. You just get a new plastic disk and that's it.
2. They can (and they are) currently forcing you to use the media in the way they like it. If you buy a record, you'll need to pay again for the mp3, again for the cassette (if they even publish it!) and again for the CD. You're using the same song four times for the exact same purpose with the exact same content (jitter not counted) and you're forced to pay for the rights four times. If some lame producer thinks it's funny to just publish it on write-protected CompactFlash for some weird device, you can't even get the song. Same if the cd isn't popular enough, you can't get it without paying for delivery charges of a medium you don't want.
3. The artist isn't even getting any real amount of what you pay for the Cd. I believe it was once calculated to be about 80 cents on a 20-dollar 20-track album. The rest disappears in the meantime, nobody really knows where it went or why you'd need to pay those people.
Music is overpaid and underallowed. The more you'd like to do with your music, the more the RIAA wants you to pay even if there isn't any lawful right you're also buying with it.
How about replacing a plain CD with a cd with 20 rights-object-thingies in there? Each object would give you a discount on any other CD you also buy that contains that same track, since you shouldn't pay for the rights again. In the worst case, you can replace your scratched CD for the price of the CD, not the CD and another bag of rights. You could send one to itunes in a way and receive the song for a very low price in itunes format, since you already had it. Add a bit of education to that (copying isn't legal unless you also have a rights-object-thingy for it, pretty much the same as with a car or a house, they all have personifying property logic) and the problem would be solved for the better of both. It even requires no DRM.
Personally, I'm against it being biased toward any operating system in general. If your technology doesn't, you just have a plain USB storage device with some pre-loaded Windows software, that's ok with me. That would be pretty equal to about any publically sold device, coming with Windows-only cd's.
My preference would be that you guys make the hardware and that you leave the OS features to the OS makers.
> Considering that by the end of the year it will be very difficult to find ANY USB flash drive which does NOT contain U3 technology, it would be advisable for them to apply the necessary corrections to those machines' configurations as soon as possible.
Without U3 smart technology that runs only on fscking windows? Egad. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? that shit out of my sight.
Don't have a credit history, only a debet history, is that ok?
Three new ones actually. Two rocks floating in between planets appeared to be large enough for the definition to count as a planet too, and somebody could finally be bothered to look beyond pluto and found a larger rock floating behind it.
You can't just take a complex organization and turn it around 90 degrees without expecting trouble...
I believe he put himself into each category one at a time (he has a very low ID, it's a first post etc).
> Automatic Updates in XP is a great step forward, but it's still opt-in.
If it's anything like it's on 2k, it's like having a funnel right through your mouth straight through to your stomach shoving stuff down and calling that opting-in to eat dinner.
I recall seeing a post about FPGA's in an Opteron socket, allowing fully customized coprocessors for the Opteron. I also see now that ATI is being bought by AMD.
Adding 1+1 gives me 3, otherwise equal to, make a GPU that fits an Opteron socket that you can replace just as easily as a normal processor, with its own memory in a similar way to normal outputs and a "videocard" reduced to about a RAMDAC.
I'm in.
Except that both firkins and furlongs are imperial sizes, and being contrasted to the SI on the page you gave.
Still, there are two. Either liters per 100 kilometers or kilometers per liter.
> Where I live in the US, regular gas (I think it's 87? 88?) is $2.89/ gallon on a good day, up to about $3.05. My car's pretty gas efficient, and I get 300 miles on about $35. My mother's car costs closer to $60 for the same distance.
Where I live in the Netherlands, regular gas (95) is 1.529 euro per liter. I drive an Opel Astra (Vauxhall for you english people) and I think I'd have to fill it up every 300-400 miles. That costs me 60 euros each time then.
Dear US, you're not having high oil prices. Go back to sleep (or buy an efficient car for crying out loud).
I recently bought a new processor, which was twice the price of the old one. It's 5 times as fast as the previous one. If you add to that that my current (new) processor is now almost out of stock and that the entire architecture is being phased out very quickly, I can only wait to see what you could want more for.
I'm guessing most of Slashdot will buy a new processor and some form of surround view or 3d monitor soon, you'll have enough power to render a live girlfriend.
I had to laugh at this, mainly because for me the usual world is just that:
> Renders Flash into meaningless symbols.
Yep, blank boxes. Just hate those websites. Don't render properly in Links nor in Lynx, completely impossible to surf using telnet. Useless.
> Decodes Java into meaningless binary.
Already was, no decode necessary.
> Turns javascript powered websites into impossible to understand hex clusters that don't do anything when you click on them.
Seeing as the current types of compressed javascript and autogenerated javascript, I would say most websites aren't far off. Again, in telnet, it doesn't do anything.
> Dumps MP3 data to beep()
I'm pretty sure I've seen that done before... at least twice. It's well possible, but it gives such a high cpu load...
Especially since their URL starts with /Exe/ZyNET.exe/00000N0J.txt?Z....
I'd prefer external combustion but it seems that having 40 foot afterburners on your car is kind of dangerous for other people... say those behind you at the lights...
I'd be happy to get to the native resolution of my TFT - my eyes hurt every night from reading from this screen. But alas, it's a new X1300 I bought as a random guess over an X550. I was ever so stupid...
I'm gonna try hacking the kernel now. Might work better, best of all it's in text mode so no mind-tormenting text...
Wrong button.
Quantum entanglement is having two electrons with the exact same spin in at least 2 directions. They're then sent off into opposing directions, where they can be measured for their spin, but only in one direction (principle of Heisenberg). You can't determine what the spin of the electron will be, all you know is that this electron and that other electron have the same. Now, if you both listen to the electron stream at the same time and listen to the same combination of electron spins, only you'll know what the spin was exactly (since you can't clone the electron). Hence, quantum encryption, or what it is more like, quantum key exchange.
Now could we stop making a fuss about it?
It is not quite as unintuitive as you might say.
Explaining it as sending something, then looking at it and thereby determining what you've sent is wrong.
Look at it more like your report card being sent home arriving the day you receive your grades at school. You don't know the grades, nor do your parents. They are as far as you and your parents are concerned undetermined, but you can't determine what they'll be (you can only determine what they already were). You can, knowing your grades, talk about them without exchanging the grades. You could say something like "I want an allowance raise of $10 minus my french grade plus three times my math grade" which would instantly make sense to the only other that got your grades.
Quantum mechanics is explained wrong. Just tell people what's really going on, it's an abstraction so you don't have to try to think about light speed, you can just say that the state is determined, but you can't determine it. Each electron has a fixed position it is in, it's just in a position you can't measure so it's pointless to know that it has such a position, so you might as well assume it doesn't have a position for all practical purposes.
That's not a requirement, that's part of the price.
If you added "affordable" to that series of adjectives you'd have been modded insightful.
My mind goes blank just thinking of it...
A few days ago I received a laptop from the IT department for a business trip the day after. I told them to install some software on it. Net result was that I received a laptop with the software I requested - but without a login, and the software wasn't activated.
If the IT department thinks along with you those things shouldn't happen.
More like, FROM the US. Movies generally appear in the US 3 to 12 months before they appear in europe or elsewhere. By the time you're calling a movie old we are about to receive it in the cinema. Your christmas movies are our summer movies and vice versa (which does make for a cozy feeling, seeing Ice Age in the midst of the summer...).