Well, a couple of them had blue backs. It's some sort of rainbow pack. They were prety inexpensive too. I suppose it's possible they sell a couple diferent types or qualities of media. (come to think of it the floppys I mentioned were probably rainbow colored too.)
Oh well, I guesse it's back to making colored labels with my Neato and hopeing they don't peal off.
A "Dead Man's Switch" is simply a switch that will change state if the user suddenly disapears. (or dies)
The gas pedal of your car is an example. If you suddenly die or leave you'll probably let up on the gas and the car will come to a stop. (If you die on cruise-controll you're screwed but what do you care anyway?)
Anouther example would be if you had stuff on your computer that you didn't want anyone to see you could write a script that would require you to give a certain command every so many days or it would erase/encrypt your harddrive. (So your next of kin can't look at your porn.)
In this case, though, I think the original poster just ment a switch that would detect if the HD was removed from the computer's case. (who knows how you upgrade the thing!)
Assuming this patch works as advertised, why wouldn't you use bad memory on any machine you wanted to save a few bucks on?
We're talking about ram that was defective when it was manufactured. It's not going to get worse. There are just some areas of the chips that can't be used.
I recently bought a 10-pack of Verbatim disks. I grabbed 'em because they had these nifty thin cases instead of the jewel cases. (also I figured if they were colored I could remember what was on 'em until I got around to labeling them.)
Out of a pack of 10 I've found 4 defective ones and I've still got three I havn't tryed!
I should have known better. After all the problems I've had with Verbatim floppies.
They're not talking about chips that just fail on thier own.
They're talking about chips that were defective to begin with. Chips that were malformed during manufacture. Manufacture only happens once, so they're not likely malform again.
If you could get chips that failed thier final testing but were >99% ok you could use them this way. If these chips are available somewhere you can probably get them at a tremendous discount. So instead of paying $zillion for 128mb, you'd pay a few bucks for 128mb minus half a dozen bytes.
If anything putting more RAM in your machine (for the same price) would give you more stability for your dollar, not less.
They're taking an idea that's already popular(man pages). Then they make some trivial cosmetic change. And put out a 'better' but non-compatable version. They'll play fair and nice until the majority of the people are using 'better-then-man pages' and every programer must use this format or his program will be deamed 'hard to use' and 'poorly documented' and then they'll jack up the price and start squezing competing suites out of business.
That's why they have investors, because they hope to claw thier way into a monopoly.
More likely they'll take the current open source applications, put thier own name and slightly modified GUI on them, and claim they wrote them from scratch.
Who will know? If they compile them slightly diferently so the binaries aren't bit-for-bit exactly the same would it be possible to determine if they've 'highjacked' some free software and made it thier own?
Sure, with similer functionality I know I won't buy them, but MS and other established software companies are doing a good job of scaring people about Free Software. They want someone they can call and yell at when it doesn't work quite right.
So when a book goes out of print the knowledge or entertainment contained in it should eventualy pass out of existance?
In the future will books where the original author and publisher are long dead be revered as holy anchient tomes because no one is allowed to copy it and once that last book is gone the text inside is lost forever?
Most of us don't realy want to live in Sci-Fi shorts.
I don't think my brain could ever simulate a Tetris game and at the same time have another part of my brain trying to play the tetris game.
The only time I've ever actually remembered a dream involving tetris involved a game of tetris that I had to solve that was simply out of control. There was no way I could possibly solve it. It was going to fast and I just couldn't seem to make the pieces do what I wanted.
I think that's the only way tetris could exist in a dream, You get the impression of the game, but your subconscious brain isn't emulating a Nintendo for you.
It's because they're starting to become very popular.
Seriously. When something is a nitch player people let slip all the minor flaws of the thing in favor of it's enherant coolness. But when the thing starts to become mainstream where large numbers of people use the thing all the little defects start to be noticed. Partialy because of the many eyes, and partialy because the enthusiests that were there at the start were willing to put up with a few flaws but the only some-what interested masses are not. At the same time the enherant coolness of the thing becomes less of an issue because that's what people expect from a mainstream thing.
In short, people expect stuff that's main-stream to be perfect, but nitch items are given more slack.
-Andy
P.S. Sorry for any spelling errors. I'm at a public web-surfing terminal and there isn't an obvious was to spell-check.
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Why is that bigotry? If I want to create an organization to educate my children the way I want, then that should be my right.
Of course it's your right but that doesn't mean it's not bigotry. We've got free speech here in the U.S. so bigotry is perfectly legal.
But as a member of the organization in question, I'm perfectly free to disagree with them, criticize them and feel morally superior. That's my right.
So is topic drift.
-Andy (Eagle Scout)Just because the supreme court says we can do it doesn't mean we should.
Personally I'm amazed by the bigotry coming from BSA headquarters lately. I'm just happy that kind of attitude hasn't reached the local councils yet.
-Andy L (Eagle Scout)I was under the impresion that the boat that hit the Cole didn't show any signs of being hostile until seconds before impact.
You can expect them to enter a port then sink all the boats already there.
-Andy
This is the main reason I try to use mozilla when possible. I don't need to logout/login every time my browser dies.
-Andy
-Andy
Well, a couple of them had blue backs. It's some sort of rainbow pack. They were prety inexpensive too. I suppose it's possible they sell a couple diferent types or qualities of media. (come to think of it the floppys I mentioned were probably rainbow colored too.)
Oh well, I guesse it's back to making colored labels with my Neato and hopeing they don't peal off.
-AndyYea, but his palm pilot is handcuffed to his other hand.
A "Dead Man's Switch" is simply a switch that will change state if the user suddenly disapears. (or dies)
The gas pedal of your car is an example. If you suddenly die or leave you'll probably let up on the gas and the car will come to a stop. (If you die on cruise-controll you're screwed but what do you care anyway?)
Anouther example would be if you had stuff on your computer that you didn't want anyone to see you could write a script that would require you to give a certain command every so many days or it would erase/encrypt your harddrive. (So your next of kin can't look at your porn.)
In this case, though, I think the original poster just ment a switch that would detect if the HD was removed from the computer's case. (who knows how you upgrade the thing!)
-AndyAssuming this patch works as advertised, why wouldn't you use bad memory on any machine you wanted to save a few bucks on?
We're talking about ram that was defective when it was manufactured. It's not going to get worse. There are just some areas of the chips that can't be used.
-AndyI recently bought a 10-pack of Verbatim disks. I grabbed 'em because they had these nifty thin cases instead of the jewel cases. (also I figured if they were colored I could remember what was on 'em until I got around to labeling them.)
Out of a pack of 10 I've found 4 defective ones and I've still got three I havn't tryed!
I should have known better. After all the problems I've had with Verbatim floppies.
-AndyThey're not talking about chips that just fail on thier own.
They're talking about chips that were defective to begin with. Chips that were malformed during manufacture. Manufacture only happens once, so they're not likely malform again.
If you could get chips that failed thier final testing but were >99% ok you could use them this way. If these chips are available somewhere you can probably get them at a tremendous discount. So instead of paying $zillion for 128mb, you'd pay a few bucks for 128mb minus half a dozen bytes.
If anything putting more RAM in your machine (for the same price) would give you more stability for your dollar, not less.
-AndyThey are trying yo use MS's model then.
They're taking an idea that's already popular(man pages). Then they make some trivial cosmetic change. And put out a 'better' but non-compatable version. They'll play fair and nice until the majority of the people are using 'better-then-man pages' and every programer must use this format or his program will be deamed 'hard to use' and 'poorly documented' and then they'll jack up the price and start squezing competing suites out of business.
That's why they have investors, because they hope to claw thier way into a monopoly.
More likely they'll take the current open source applications, put thier own name and slightly modified GUI on them, and claim they wrote them from scratch.
Who will know? If they compile them slightly diferently so the binaries aren't bit-for-bit exactly the same would it be possible to determine if they've 'highjacked' some free software and made it thier own?
Sure, with similer functionality I know I won't buy them, but MS and other established software companies are doing a good job of scaring people about Free Software. They want someone they can call and yell at when it doesn't work quite right.
-AndySo when a book goes out of print the knowledge or entertainment contained in it should eventualy pass out of existance?
In the future will books where the original author and publisher are long dead be revered as holy anchient tomes because no one is allowed to copy it and once that last book is gone the text inside is lost forever?
Most of us don't realy want to live in Sci-Fi shorts.
-Andy
We need to get someone to run the exact same ad with a pro-Linux caption.
Might be some copyright issues of course.
Perhaps he wasn't sent it. Perhaps he's had it all along.
I think the idea is that this is something he wants to do but he still needs enough money so that they don't turn off his electricity.
Crap! I've been forgeting to delete my core dumps. That explains a lot. ...Actualy it explains why I've been forgeting to delete my core dumps.
I don't think my brain could ever simulate a Tetris game and at the same time have another part of my brain trying to play the tetris game.
The only time I've ever actually remembered a dream involving tetris involved a game of tetris that I had to solve that was simply out of control. There was no way I could possibly solve it. It was going to fast and I just couldn't seem to make the pieces do what I wanted.
I think that's the only way tetris could exist in a dream, You get the impression of the game, but your subconscious brain isn't emulating a Nintendo for you.
-Andy
Wow you must be quite the lady's man! I once fantasized about being turned on.
If you get an account, Slashdot allows you to set your account so that you never see signatures, unless they've been typed in with the comment.
Make for much easier reading. Espsialy since people don't seem to see anything wrong with 5+ line signatures.
-Andy
More likely they were anarobic and it was supposed to be a giant booby trap.
Replacing '.' with '©'! Talk about inovation!
Still... Somehow I expected MS would be the first with that one.
By the time it's carving channels, it aint' doing much for the greenhouse effect.
It's because they're starting to become very popular.
Seriously. When something is a nitch player people let slip all the minor flaws of the thing in favor of it's enherant coolness. But when the thing starts to become mainstream where large numbers of people use the thing all the little defects start to be noticed. Partialy because of the many eyes, and partialy because the enthusiests that were there at the start were willing to put up with a few flaws but the only some-what interested masses are not. At the same time the enherant coolness of the thing becomes less of an issue because that's what people expect from a mainstream thing.
In short, people expect stuff that's main-stream to be perfect, but nitch items are given more slack.
-Andy
P.S. Sorry for any spelling errors. I'm at a public web-surfing terminal and there isn't an obvious was to spell-check.