As if anyone saved their receipt and the box. Even if they did, and it was printed on that early thermal paper, then it's no longer readable.
This is bullshit, it really only mocks Lisa buyers. If I had bought a Lisa, I'd be ready to kill the 'xec at the center of a certain reality-distortion field right about now.
The store came up with this system in order to cut down on shop-lifting. It's reasonable, but it's not backed by law, and the man took advantage of that.
Maybe the store needs a different system to discourage shop lifting. Maybe we need legislation that supports their current system, not sure how you would craft that.
As for the guy who tasered, he was sure annoying. Certainly he deserved it, but I'm not sure that the law can allow giving assholes the beating they so richly deserve.
I don't know about this. I've had good friends at work since I was a teenager, but I've never talked at a urinal. And I've never called attention to farts at work.
It sounds to me more like your friend works a place where some guys are unusually gross. Grossness isn't sexist, and it isn't a crime, but it isn't universal either.
By the way, listening to male to female transsexuals who take (massive) hormone is fascinating too.
It becomes clear that the discernible emotional and mental differences between men and women can be switched back and forth by changing hormones.
I suspect that all of the theories about brain structure differences are looking at unimportant things - the important differences are hormonal, period.
You've got it wrong. The difference is almost a secret but it is known.
Talk to women who've taken testosterone in order to become trans-men. They take higher than natural doses in order to create the physical changes quickly and they find out that:
Testosterone is a strongly psychotropic hormone. Women who take it not only find themselves having an pornographic imagination (compared with what they were used to), but they find that heightened visual thinking makes mathematics and physics easier.
They also find that they start having the same emotional and social problems as men. I remember listening to this trans-woman talk about how testosterone turned her from a cool dyke into a very uncool male geek who couldn't help offending women by watching them too closely. But she got a degree in physics.
Well if the NSA was the only organization that (back then) could conceivably build (super expensive) hardware capable of brute forcing the shorter key, then what they did was create a secure back door.
They strengthened the algorithm to keep the competition out, and lowered the number of bits so that you have the ability to break an occasional key.
It was a back door based on wealth and manpower, but still a backdoor.
Hmm, I just remembered that I did manage to fix a touchpad problem on an Ubuntu installation once, but it wasn't sensitivity, it was autoscroll. The default settings for touchpads are too fancy, with the edges of the pad treated as scroll bars - a really bad feature on a system like mine where there is a separate scroll wheel!
Not really. The hardware is noisy, and there must be software settings for how long to wait, and for what magnitude of input to respond to.
Actually I have the same problem in Windows and Ubuntu on my Gateway. I have to be very careful to keep my hands well clear of the pad when I hit the space bar. And I admit that I haven't found an adjustment for this.
I'm pretty sure the problem is caused by a mode where movements near the edge of the pad are specially interpreted as scroll commands. I managed to turn of a similar feature in Windows, but haven't bothered to figure out the configure file settings for Ubuntu.
It's a pain that most tuning in Linux comes down to researching and rewriting text files in/etc
Ha! That reminds me of one of my vary favorite jokes.
An old Penny Arcade shows Tycho in a wrestling ring being beat to a pulp by a guy labeled "Windows XP upgrade" (ok the picture is allegorical) and he's calling out to Gabe, "Why? You told me this would be easy, an hour at most! My world is pain!"
And Gabe replied, "Sometimes when you want to hurt someone very badly you have to tell them terrible lies."
I've found what works on the DMV. It's called hiring a lawyer. And it costs $1000.
But it does work. The DMV screwed me, I went to trial the other day and they couldn't come up with any evidence (they were in the wrong). That's 3 points that didn't get on my license.
I'm doing something similar with the IRS. To get the best deal I can out of them involves hiring accountants and lawyers and costs thousands, but it will save me three times what it costs.
Asshole. You expect the Orbitz scheduling program to give you a valid schedule. It's not the customer's place to be debugging Orbitz incompetently maintained database.
Not only was the schedule invalid, but it depended on the customer paying for transportation between stops without informing the customer of that fact.
It's quite the incompetent travel agent who books you flights, but neither books transportation between stops nor informs you that you need to do this. That's HIS JOB that's why you use a fucking agent.
In this case, the agent was an incompetently written and maintained program. Not the customer's responsibility.
So they wrapped a shit product up in a bow and sold it. The guy notices all of one minute later that he's been cheated and tries to fix the purchase. No doubt, by California law he's entitled to change his mind, but never mind that, any fucking competent business can deal.
Orbitz failed. And they had incompetent management that not only failed the customer, but failed every kind of public relations by excusing the inexcusable and releasing the customer's private information. My God, how can anyone be that incompetent?
According to the article (did no one in the thread read the article), the issue is that if you use Updater to update other software, it will check to see if Updater itself needs updating and will install that update without telling you.
Only one program is affected, the updater itself. And the issue is that it downloads it's own updates differently than other updates, not asking you. But it only downloads it's own update if it is already downloading something else.
It seems very stealth, in that it's using other downloads to hide its own download, and isn't alerting you, and for no good reason.
Also the problem with backlights wearing out could have been dealt with by simply making the backlight replaceable. That could have been done with off the shelf tech, instantly, years ago. Ship out laptops and an equal number of replacement backlights. That would cost an extra $7 or something. Hell they could have put a backup directly in the screen. When backlight 1 goes out, it switches to backlight 2.
Or they could have specified higher quality backlights. If the backlights are better sealed they won't leak air and won't wear out.
The OLPC is what it is because MIT spent (wasted) years developing new technology for it.
The most important aspect, in my mind, is the screen backlight, because usual tubes wear out fairly quickly and have to be replaced.
But they could have been to market years ago if they had stayed with off the shelf, or nearly off the shelf products.
The prism color is a perfect example of over-designing. They probably doubled to tripled the brightness/watt, but so what? Is that worth a three year wait? Also, knowing something about the eye, I'll wager that brightness comes a price in picture quality - you can't get saturated colors with wide spectrum filters, and that's what you get when you go for efficiency.
Also it will be useful that it's very very very low power - in some remote villages that don't have electricity.
But in 1/2 or 2/3 of the places they're sending these, power isn't a problem.
They could have gotten some laptops out the door with existing technology years ago and blanketed the half of their market that has electricity available.
And changing the battery would require sending it back to Apple, in the hopes the wealthier children will always buy a new one when the battery wears out.
The aerospace industry has taken notice of a California researcher who, using off-the-shelf components, built and successfully demonstrated the world's first successful amplified photon thruster. Dr. Young Bae of the Bae Institute first demonstrated his Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) with an amplification factor of 3,000 in December, 2006.
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As if anyone saved their receipt and the box. Even if they did, and it was printed on that early thermal paper, then it's no longer readable.
This is bullshit, it really only mocks Lisa buyers. If I had bought a Lisa, I'd be ready to kill the 'xec at the center of a certain reality-distortion field right about now.
Not sure I entirely agree.
The store came up with this system in order to cut down on shop-lifting. It's reasonable, but it's not backed by law, and the man took advantage of that.
Maybe the store needs a different system to discourage shop lifting. Maybe we need legislation that supports their current system, not sure how you would craft that.
As for the guy who tasered, he was sure annoying. Certainly he deserved it, but I'm not sure that the law can allow giving assholes the beating they so richly deserve.
I don't know about this. I've had good friends at work since I was a teenager, but I've never talked at a urinal. And I've never called attention to farts at work.
It sounds to me more like your friend works a place where some guys are unusually gross. Grossness isn't sexist, and it isn't a crime, but it isn't universal either.
By the way, listening to male to female transsexuals who take (massive) hormone is fascinating too.
It becomes clear that the discernible emotional and mental differences between men and women can be switched back and forth by changing hormones.
I suspect that all of the theories about brain structure differences are looking at unimportant things - the important differences are hormonal, period.
You've got it wrong. The difference is almost a secret but it is known.
Talk to women who've taken testosterone in order to become trans-men. They take higher than natural doses in order to create the physical changes quickly and they find out that:
Testosterone is a strongly psychotropic hormone. Women who take it not only find themselves having an pornographic imagination (compared with what they were used to), but they find that heightened visual thinking makes mathematics and physics easier.
They also find that they start having the same emotional and social problems as men. I remember listening to this trans-woman talk about how testosterone turned her from a cool dyke into a very uncool male geek who couldn't help offending women by watching them too closely. But she got a degree in physics.
Well if the NSA was the only organization that (back then) could conceivably build (super expensive) hardware capable of brute forcing the shorter key, then what they did was create a secure back door.
They strengthened the algorithm to keep the competition out, and lowered the number of bits so that you have the ability to break an occasional key.
It was a back door based on wealth and manpower, but still a backdoor.
Fine there is a KDE version.
For fine tuned install you use the alternate install CD which is a standard Debian install.
That's what I used because I wanted to install on a pre-partitioned disk (since the linux partitioner confuses Ghost).
I have the same problem with this in Windows that I have in Ubuntu.
Hmm, I just remembered that I did manage to fix a touchpad problem on an Ubuntu installation once, but it wasn't sensitivity, it was autoscroll. The default settings for touchpads are too fancy, with the edges of the pad treated as scroll bars - a really bad feature on a system like mine where there is a separate scroll wheel!
"That's a hardware thing, not software"
Not really. The hardware is noisy, and there must be software settings for how long to wait, and for what magnitude of input to respond to.
Actually I have the same problem in Windows and Ubuntu on my Gateway. I have to be very careful to keep my hands well clear of the pad when I hit the space bar. And I admit that I haven't found an adjustment for this.
I'm pretty sure the problem is caused by a mode where movements near the edge of the pad are specially interpreted as scroll commands. I managed to turn of a similar feature in Windows, but haven't bothered to figure out the configure file settings for Ubuntu.
/etc
It's a pain that most tuning in Linux comes down to researching and rewriting text files in
Ha! That reminds me of one of my vary favorite jokes.
An old Penny Arcade shows Tycho in a wrestling ring being beat to a pulp by a guy labeled "Windows XP upgrade" (ok the picture is allegorical) and he's calling out to Gabe, "Why? You told me this would be easy, an hour at most! My world is pain!"
And Gabe replied, "Sometimes when you want to hurt someone very badly you have to tell them terrible lies."
funny Now why did /. say I had posted 16 seconds ago when it's been a couple of hours? Clock running slow?
I've found what works on the DMV. It's called hiring a lawyer. And it costs $1000.
But it does work. The DMV screwed me, I went to trial the other day and they couldn't come up with any evidence (they were in the wrong). That's 3 points that didn't get on my license.
I'm doing something similar with the IRS. To get the best deal I can out of them involves hiring accountants and lawyers and costs thousands, but it will save me three times what it costs.
Someone needs to explain to PC world that their bad service is the 8th highest story on digg.
How many people read digg?
Asshole. You expect the Orbitz scheduling program to give you a valid schedule. It's not the customer's place to be debugging Orbitz incompetently maintained database.
Not only was the schedule invalid, but it depended on the customer paying for transportation between stops without informing the customer of that fact.
It's quite the incompetent travel agent who books you flights, but neither books transportation between stops nor informs you that you need to do this. That's HIS JOB that's why you use a fucking agent.
In this case, the agent was an incompetently written and maintained program. Not the customer's responsibility.
So they wrapped a shit product up in a bow and sold it. The guy notices all of one minute later that he's been cheated and tries to fix the purchase. No doubt, by California law he's entitled to change his mind, but never mind that, any fucking competent business can deal.
Orbitz failed. And they had incompetent management that not only failed the customer, but failed every kind of public relations by excusing the inexcusable and releasing the customer's private information. My God, how can anyone be that incompetent?
According to the article (did no one in the thread read the article), the issue is that if you use Updater to update other software, it will check to see if Updater itself needs updating and will install that update without telling you.
Only one program is affected, the updater itself. And the issue is that it downloads it's own updates differently than other updates, not asking you. But it only downloads it's own update if it is already downloading something else.
It seems very stealth, in that it's using other downloads to hide its own download, and isn't alerting you, and for no good reason.
Also the problem with backlights wearing out could have been dealt with by simply making the backlight replaceable. That could have been done with off the shelf tech, instantly, years ago. Ship out laptops and an equal number of replacement backlights. That would cost an extra $7 or something. Hell they could have put a backup directly in the screen. When backlight 1 goes out, it switches to backlight 2.
Or they could have specified higher quality backlights. If the backlights are better sealed they won't leak air and won't wear out.
The OLPC is what it is because MIT spent (wasted) years developing new technology for it.
The most important aspect, in my mind, is the screen backlight, because usual tubes wear out fairly quickly and have to be replaced.
But they could have been to market years ago if they had stayed with off the shelf, or nearly off the shelf products.
The prism color is a perfect example of over-designing. They probably doubled to tripled the brightness/watt, but so what? Is that worth a three year wait? Also, knowing something about the eye, I'll wager that brightness comes a price in picture quality - you can't get saturated colors with wide spectrum filters, and that's what you get when you go for efficiency.
Also it will be useful that it's very very very low power - in some remote villages that don't have electricity.
But in 1/2 or 2/3 of the places they're sending these, power isn't a problem.
They could have gotten some laptops out the door with existing technology years ago and blanketed the half of their market that has electricity available.
Funny.
And changing the battery would require sending it back to Apple, in the hopes the wealthier children will always buy a new one when the battery wears out.
I'm getting paranoid too, since the quality has dropped so much in the last few years.
Notice that complaints are all getting marked down?
We're being punished for noticing.
I was not talking about SIDs. Nice try through.
Thank you.
Wouldn't it be nice if the "authors" at slashdot actually read slashdot?
The aerospace industry has taken notice of a California researcher who, using off-the-shelf components, built and successfully demonstrated the world's first successful amplified photon thruster. Dr. Young Bae of the Bae Institute first demonstrated his Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) with an amplification factor of 3,000 in December, 2006.