Why was that modded funny?
According to All Things Digital, this is really Microsoft's fix....
Early this morning we were alerted by our customers that there was a widespread issue affecting our 2006 model Zune 30GB devices (a large number of which are still actively being used). The technical team jumped on the problem immediately and isolated the issue: a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year. That being the case, the issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to January 1, 2009. We expect the internal clock on the Zune 30GB devices will automatically reset tomorrow (noon, GMT). By tomorrow you should allow the battery to fully run out of power before the unit can restart successfully then simply ensure that your device is recharged, then turn it back on. If you are a Zune Pass subscriber, you may need to sync your device with your PC to refresh the rights to the subscription content you have downloaded to your device.
YOU obviously didn't read any of the books. The books were about solving the anomalies when the laws didn't work. 99.99999% of the time they worked, which is why a mystery was created when they did not work. It wouldn't have been much of an interesting read following a robot around telling how he perfectly obeyed all three laws all of the time.
Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick! Everyone knows that a burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call them burrow owls anyway?
That's why instead of coasting in Neutral or with the clutch on you do what's known in the hypermiling world as a FAS (Forced Auto Stop) -- You shut your car off and coast to the light (you can put it back in accessory 2 position after a few seconds to count the mileage and restore power steering brakes. You should shut the car off if it's going to be longer than 10 seconds at a stop in any case. If you mis-time the light and it goes green while you're still moving, you can pop the clutch in 4th or 5th to restart it so you don't wear your starter and incur the additional gas usage penalty involved with starting it. The FAS technique is also quite useful combined with Pulse and Glide techniques (P&G).
As an FYI even the original claim is incorrect as the number of mutations in the population is overall increasing, due to the fact that the effect of natural selection is reduced. If anything we should be worried that the increase in harmful mutations in the general population is going to result in increased birth defects / genetic diseases.
Or, perhaps the mutations will result in mutants with extreme psychic powers, or able to shoot lasers out of his eyes, or control the weather, or fire, or ice. Maybe they'll even be able to shapeshift.
I, for one, welcome Magneto, my magnetic-field manipulating overlord.
Well, Microsoft officially endorse the open-source client, so I'd imagine that they have at least a somewhat vested interest in making sure that it works and remains compatible with the official windows/mac clients.
Yep, MS will endorse it and help out until such time as it becomes the defacto standard, at which time the help will mysteriously disappear and everything in the "new version" will be completely different, and lock out linux... I can see that coming from a mile away.
"Clean Leagues" - nice thought but it would never work...
The clean leagues would quickly become the most popular since it has "normal people" doing the best they can with what they've got (the very essence of athletics). Once the clean leagues were more popular, then all the athletes would want to be in them, since that is where the popularity was, therefore the athletes prone to doping would want to play there, too, hiding there doping. That would quickly become a situation as it is today.
If, on the other hand, the doping league somehow increased it's popularity over the clean league, then all the players would want to play there, and the clean players would feel compelled to dope there.
The fact is that doping is bad for a player's health and should not be allowed on that basis, since any allowance of an any sort allows doping to proliferate, and makes all players feel the need to do it to be competitive.
Yeah, I'd love to see some Elric of Melnibone movies... folowed by expanding to some other aspects of the eternal champion. Moorcock's books were definitely some mind-warping stuff to read back when I was a kid.
Apparently, no Australian adult is allowed to own anything that would be dangerous in the hands of a lunatic or a drunken retard You mean Crocodile Dundee couldn't really have had that foot long knife, or was he just an outlaw?
How is Tyler writing that 60 years later any evidence at all of what the framers intended?
(I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I don't see that as valid evidence)
You people drive me crazy... The #1 priority of the human race should be getting colonized on another planet? Do you realize just how fragile our existence here is? Besides the threat of global warming and it's consequences, any number of happenings in space could take us out almost instantly... If we have a comet decide to hit us, if the Sun decides to have a belch that comes our way are just the first two that pop in my head, but there are many others. Right now we have all our eggs in one tiny (by space standards) fragile basket... If one of those events happens, and that basket breaks, we are done as a species, it's over, fin, no mas.... AIDS research, cancer research, etc, are going to do nothing but improve our health and contribute to an overpopulation problem (and wouldn't it be nice to be able to send those extra people to another planet to relieve that problem...)
Yeah, all will probably be well their until the astronauts on the station start having relationships with each other... Then you'll end up with some wacky lady running across the space staion in a diaper with a can of mace to take out her rival....
Not quite as popular as it used to be, but there are still a few thousand of us that play this browser based strategy game....
http://games.swirve.com/earth
Oh yeah, Citrix also allows seamless applications, which Terminal Server can't do. This lets you just publish the app and not a complete desktop.
I hate to break it to you (especially since I'm no MS Fanboy), but I've had a single app published through MS Terminal services on a Win2k server for a couple years now. If you RDP to that box, and log in, all you get is the one application that I published...
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Modded -1 redundant when no other post had mentioned Linux?? I don't get it.... Gotta love the moderators :)
You could replace them as the old ones go dead, which over a period of years would replace them all for essentially no cost.
I saw no mention in the article if Linux, OSX, or other OS'es would be supported. That is a large issue for me if I'm going to come off $200...
Early this morning we were alerted by our customers that there was a widespread issue affecting our 2006 model Zune 30GB devices (a large number of which are still actively being used). The technical team jumped on the problem immediately and isolated the issue: a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year. That being the case, the issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to January 1, 2009. We expect the internal clock on the Zune 30GB devices will automatically reset tomorrow (noon, GMT). By tomorrow you should allow the battery to fully run out of power before the unit can restart successfully then simply ensure that your device is recharged, then turn it back on. If you are a Zune Pass subscriber, you may need to sync your device with your PC to refresh the rights to the subscription content you have downloaded to your device.
YOU obviously didn't read any of the books. The books were about solving the anomalies when the laws didn't work. 99.99999% of the time they worked, which is why a mystery was created when they did not work. It wouldn't have been much of an interesting read following a robot around telling how he perfectly obeyed all three laws all of the time.
Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick! Everyone knows that a burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call them burrow owls anyway?
It's Debian hot and spicy.
It's not "official" Debian, but it's the best way to run unstable as a desktop.
That is hilarious
That's why instead of coasting in Neutral or with the clutch on you do what's known in the hypermiling world as a FAS (Forced Auto Stop) -- You shut your car off and coast to the light (you can put it back in accessory 2 position after a few seconds to count the mileage and restore power steering brakes. You should shut the car off if it's going to be longer than 10 seconds at a stop in any case. If you mis-time the light and it goes green while you're still moving, you can pop the clutch in 4th or 5th to restart it so you don't wear your starter and incur the additional gas usage penalty involved with starting it. The FAS technique is also quite useful combined with Pulse and Glide techniques (P&G).
As an FYI even the original claim is incorrect as the number of mutations in the population is overall increasing, due to the fact that the effect of natural selection is reduced. If anything we should be worried that the increase in harmful mutations in the general population is going to result in increased birth defects / genetic diseases.
Or, perhaps the mutations will result in mutants with extreme psychic powers, or able to shoot lasers out of his eyes, or control the weather, or fire, or ice. Maybe they'll even be able to shapeshift.
I, for one, welcome Magneto, my magnetic-field manipulating overlord.
ummmm....... NO I'll be voting for Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party for President, of course.
Well, Microsoft officially endorse the open-source client, so I'd imagine that they have at least a somewhat vested interest in making sure that it works and remains compatible with the official windows/mac clients.
Yep, MS will endorse it and help out until such time as it becomes the defacto standard, at which time the help will mysteriously disappear and everything in the "new version" will be completely different, and lock out linux... I can see that coming from a mile away.
The clean leagues would quickly become the most popular since it has "normal people" doing the best they can with what they've got (the very essence of athletics). Once the clean leagues were more popular, then all the athletes would want to be in them, since that is where the popularity was, therefore the athletes prone to doping would want to play there, too, hiding there doping. That would quickly become a situation as it is today.
If, on the other hand, the doping league somehow increased it's popularity over the clean league, then all the players would want to play there, and the clean players would feel compelled to dope there.
The fact is that doping is bad for a player's health and should not be allowed on that basis, since any allowance of an any sort allows doping to proliferate, and makes all players feel the need to do it to be competitive.
Since I've warned her over and over about doing that, I told my wife she's on her own from now on.
Uhhhh..... let me know how that works out for you, would 'ya?
Yeah, I'd love to see some Elric of Melnibone movies... folowed by expanding to some other aspects of the eternal champion. Moorcock's books were definitely some mind-warping stuff to read back when I was a kid.
How is Tyler writing that 60 years later any evidence at all of what the framers intended? (I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I don't see that as valid evidence)
You people drive me crazy... The #1 priority of the human race should be getting colonized on another planet? Do you realize just how fragile our existence here is? Besides the threat of global warming and it's consequences, any number of happenings in space could take us out almost instantly... If we have a comet decide to hit us, if the Sun decides to have a belch that comes our way are just the first two that pop in my head, but there are many others. Right now we have all our eggs in one tiny (by space standards) fragile basket... If one of those events happens, and that basket breaks, we are done as a species, it's over, fin, no mas.... AIDS research, cancer research, etc, are going to do nothing but improve our health and contribute to an overpopulation problem (and wouldn't it be nice to be able to send those extra people to another planet to relieve that problem...)
Yeah, all will probably be well their until the astronauts on the station start having relationships with each other... Then you'll end up with some wacky lady running across the space staion in a diaper with a can of mace to take out her rival....
Not quite as popular as it used to be, but there are still a few thousand of us that play this browser based strategy game.... http://games.swirve.com/earth
I'm not clear on how the summit of Everest has "plenty of clean water", when it is above the clouds...
I hate to break it to you (especially since I'm no MS Fanboy), but I've had a single app published through MS Terminal services on a Win2k server for a couple years now. If you RDP to that box, and log in, all you get is the one application that I published...
you probably wanna check this out then: http://damnsmalllinux.org/