It's not pirating it when you buy a copy of OS-X and then crack it to run on your PC.
You've still paid for it, you just aren't using it in the way Apple intended. The downside for Apple is of course that you didn't buy the overpriced hardware that normally goes with it.
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perhaps simpler/better to just put shielding around the cinema itself so that no phone in there can receive a signal? That way you are not depending on the phone to be compatible.
The other low tech device I've seen used in cinemas is a simple slide among the ads that reminds people to switch off their phone. That takes care of the "forgetting" issue and leaves only the "they can't make me so I won't" sociopaths.
The CCLI system for churches works like this. Churches pay an annual fee for a CCLI licence, and then they can choose the music they want to use in their services without having to worry about copyright. THey keep records of what songs are used each week and the composers are paid out of the pool.
I fully agree with you. and I wasn't trying to say that smoking is healthy. I don't smoke myself and never have. I hate being in the room when people are smoking. I'm just trying to point out that there are other things that can kill you, and smoking isn't the only lifestyle choice that can end your life early.
My Grandfather was once told he'd live to be 100 if he quit smoking. He certainly wouldn't have emphysema now. That he has got to 90 is in spite of smoking, not because of it. I believe that his active lifestyle has contributed to that, and it got me thinking about my lack of activity and maybe I should do something about that, because merely not smoking does not guarantee a long life.
A quick survey of my four grandparents, while a small sample, is enlightening.
Maternal Grandmother Sendentary job, never smoked. developed diabetes at age 70, constant blood pressure problems - died age 84 after years of suffering strokes
Maternal Grandfather Athlete and Gallipoli Veteran - Not a smoker to my knowledge. Suffered with high blood pressure and died age 84 due to complications from Parkinson's disease.
Paternal Grandmother Overweight to the point of obesity. Gave up smoking when in her 40s Died age 71 from complications resulting from Type 2 diabetes.
Paternal Grandfather Stevedore and tennis coach. Smoked all his adult life until age 78. Always has two schooners (large glass) of beer every evening. Recently celebrated his 90th birthday. Suffers from Emphysema (not yet on oxygen) which will probably eventually kill him.
From this small sample, it appears that lack of fitness will kill you just as quick if not quicker than smoking.
So Slashdotters, instead of poking fingers at the smokers, get up, turn off your computer, get out from your Mother's basement and go for a walk. It might save your life.
The first viruses referred to in the article were boot sector viruses. They didn't care what O/S you were running. Linux and OS/2 were just as vulnerable.
It's funny how this has changed. I recall at work before our IBM Token Ring LAN was first installed, people used to compose their document at the nearest PC, then save their document on a floppy disc and go print it at a PC that was equipped with a printer.
Once we got the LAN installed (but pre-internet so no external link) it was no longer necessary to walk across the room using "sneakernet" to print a document, but people did it out of habit, and because setting up their own PC to print via the LAN was bothersome to them.
You could pick who those people were, becuase their PCs kept getting infested with viruses, largely because due to the scarcity of floppys, there was always one (and it only took one) who took stuff home or to Uni on the same floppy and then spread the love via the printer PC.
Those of us who used the LAN to print or exchange files were relatively safe.
It's possible that if you have all your RFID cards together in your wallet, you'll need to pull out each one when you use it.
I once worked in an office where the entry to the building (multiple tenancy) used an RFID card, and the entry to our floor used another similar RFID card.
If the two cards were together they wouldn't read. You had to separate them and only bring the relevant one up to the reader.
If this is common, it doesn't bode well for waving the wallet full of cards at the reader and hoping it picks the right one.
You joke, but the first game I played was a flight simulator on a WANG 2200 that one of my school buddies wrote in BASIC (in 12K of memory). There was no event polling, so we had to fly the plane using INPUT statements. The RETURN key got worn out after a while.
I want to see a system that can model solid particles, liquids and gases within the same system so that I can finally model biosolids digester gas mixing. So far I have not come across anything that can do it, and so there is no way to tell if a gas mixing system works or not, until you take the digester off-line and shovel out the grit. From what I can tell, they are generally designed using a mixture of experience and guesswork.
Usually off-road use along narrow unmade fire trails gives much greater risk (almost certainty) of panel damage from projecting tree branches. Would you put your A$45,000+ vehicle at risk of this, 4WD or not? Fraser Island (the example I used) is a popular tourist destination here in Australia. It is made almost entirely of sand. The beach is the main highway, as a British tourist found out after he got run over while sleeping on the beach.
You can take a rented 4WD there AFAIK because driving on beaches/sand requires off-road ability but there is less risk of roll-overs or panel damage from passing bushes and trees (don't make sudden turns at high speed though!)
At the very least, it will tow your boat/caravan, which is all most people use them for anyway.
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It's not pirating it when you buy a copy of OS-X and then crack it to run on your PC.
You've still paid for it, you just aren't using it in the way Apple intended. The downside for Apple is of course that you didn't buy the overpriced hardware that normally goes with it.
perhaps simpler/better to just put shielding around the cinema itself so that no phone in there can receive a signal? That way you are not depending on the phone to be compatible.
The other low tech device I've seen used in cinemas is a simple slide among the ads that reminds people to switch off their phone. That takes care of the "forgetting" issue and leaves only the "they can't make me so I won't" sociopaths.
I once set my phone to vibrate for a meeting (as one does) and then left it on the table instead of in my pocket.
It rang during the meeting and started moving across the table, scaring the crap out of the guy sitting next to me.
SO much for discretion.
In which case now watch Oswald 1.0 quietly disappear.
My guess is that Disney's intent is to bury Oswald to avoid confusion with the now far more profitable Mickey Mouse.
Also avoids the risk of NBC pulling an SCO over Mickey Mouse.
I'm in the middle of downloading about two dozen patches for Suse 10.0
At least they're issuing patches
Funniest and cheapest defence against Wild Weasels I've ever heard of using a modded microwave oven.
I don't think the Hillsong people would agree with you
2000 years too late, the veil split already.
That puts it one ahead of BSD, which is only dying (according to the troll)
The CCLI system for churches works like this. Churches pay an annual fee for a CCLI licence, and then they can choose the music they want to use in their services without having to worry about copyright. THey keep records of what songs are used each week and the composers are paid out of the pool.
I think that's how it works anyway.
If only George Lucas had thought as you do.
I fully agree with you. and I wasn't trying to say that smoking is healthy. I don't smoke myself and never have. I hate being in the room when people are smoking. I'm just trying to point out that there are other things that can kill you, and smoking isn't the only lifestyle choice that can end your life early.
My Grandfather was once told he'd live to be 100 if he quit smoking. He certainly wouldn't have emphysema now. That he has got to 90 is in spite of smoking, not because of it. I believe that his active lifestyle has contributed to that, and it got me thinking about my lack of activity and maybe I should do something about that, because merely not smoking does not guarantee a long life.
A quick survey of my four grandparents, while a small sample, is enlightening.
Maternal Grandmother
Sendentary job, never smoked. developed diabetes at age 70, constant blood pressure problems - died age 84 after years of suffering strokes
Maternal Grandfather
Athlete and Gallipoli Veteran - Not a smoker to my knowledge. Suffered with high blood pressure and died age 84 due to complications from Parkinson's disease.
Paternal Grandmother
Overweight to the point of obesity. Gave up smoking when in her 40s
Died age 71 from complications resulting from Type 2 diabetes.
Paternal Grandfather
Stevedore and tennis coach. Smoked all his adult life until age 78. Always has two schooners (large glass) of beer every evening. Recently celebrated his 90th birthday. Suffers from Emphysema (not yet on oxygen) which will probably eventually kill him.
From this small sample, it appears that lack of fitness will kill you just as quick if not quicker than smoking.
So Slashdotters, instead of poking fingers at the smokers, get up, turn off your computer, get out from your Mother's basement and go for a walk. It might save your life.
(I don't smoke btw)
The first viruses referred to in the article were boot sector viruses. They didn't care what O/S you were running. Linux and OS/2 were just as vulnerable.
It's funny how this has changed. I recall at work before our IBM Token Ring LAN was first installed, people used to compose their document at the nearest PC, then save their document on a floppy disc and go print it at a PC that was equipped with a printer.
Once we got the LAN installed (but pre-internet so no external link) it was no longer necessary to walk across the room using "sneakernet" to print a document, but people did it out of habit, and because setting up their own PC to print via the LAN was bothersome to them.
You could pick who those people were, becuase their PCs kept getting infested with viruses, largely because due to the scarcity of floppys, there was always one (and it only took one) who took stuff home or to Uni on the same floppy and then spread the love via the printer PC.
Those of us who used the LAN to print or exchange files were relatively safe.
It's supposed to watch all that boring TV for you so that you don't have to.
Next up, according to Douglas Adams, is the Electric Monk.
A focussed tachyon beam with the correct phase variance should fix it
It's possible that if you have all your RFID cards together in your wallet, you'll need to pull out each one when you use it.
I once worked in an office where the entry to the building (multiple tenancy) used an RFID card, and the entry to our floor used another similar RFID card.
If the two cards were together they wouldn't read. You had to separate them and only bring the relevant one up to the reader.
If this is common, it doesn't bode well for waving the wallet full of cards at the reader and hoping it picks the right one.
That didn't stop the US space program did it? Or did they house all the homeless people first?
You joke, but the first game I played was a flight simulator on a WANG 2200 that one of my school buddies wrote in BASIC (in 12K of memory). There was no event polling, so we had to fly the plane using INPUT statements. The RETURN key got worn out after a while.
My suggestion for any company wanting to cut overheads is to open a subsidiary in India for the following divisions:
CEO & senior Management
Accounting
Marketing
HR
Won't happen though. I wonder why?
I want to see a system that can model solid particles, liquids and gases within the same system so that I can finally model biosolids digester gas mixing. So far I have not come across anything that can do it, and so there is no way to tell if a gas mixing system works or not, until you take the digester off-line and shovel out the grit. From what I can tell, they are generally designed using a mixture of experience and guesswork.
I'm over 40, and I regularly play Lego Starwars with my 7yo son (highly rcommended game btw). And I play Doom 3 after he's gone to bed.
Since when was there an age limit?
Then those readers should submit stories and then B_____s-B_____s ceases to be an issue.
Usually off-road use along narrow unmade fire trails gives much greater risk (almost certainty) of panel damage from projecting tree branches. Would you put your A$45,000+ vehicle at risk of this, 4WD or not? Fraser Island (the example I used) is a popular tourist destination here in Australia. It is made almost entirely of sand. The beach is the main highway, as a British tourist found out after he got run over while sleeping on the beach.
You can take a rented 4WD there AFAIK because driving on beaches/sand requires off-road ability but there is less risk of roll-overs or panel damage from passing bushes and trees (don't make sudden turns at high speed though!)
At the very least, it will tow your boat/caravan, which is all most people use them for anyway.