You probably think that's funny, but I appled to and got accepted to Central Michigan University in 2001 and decided not to attend because of a bad conversation with a sysadmin where he told me students should not have the ability to host any type of content. I went to (relatively) neighboring Grand Vallley State University (gvsu.edu) instead, and I'm glad I did.
Michael, couldn't you just show an ounce of journalistic integrity and not accept stories with this much spin? Stating your opinion in something that's not an editorial doesn't help your credibility, either.
Pffft, Slashdot is not a news site. Slashdot links to news sites. They do no research of their own, and don't even bother verifying the validity of any of the articles. Indeed, all they have is editorial power. Remember, you're just posting a reply to a message about a news article.
Well, we've been fighting for roughly 230 years and we're still kicking ass. I agree that Win2k sucks, but it's like the horrible un-reliable applications used for airplanes to communicate with the landing tower: the human brain always takes up the slack. Maybe people would start relying more on technology and less on intelligence if they ran anything more stable, eh?
This sounds like an elaborate April Fools joke that got a little out of hand to me. After all, it's still only April 17th, and the first story surfaced not long ago.
I thought the inside of the CRT looked more like a speaker, with a big magnet and a speaker-cone shape coming off of it going to the glass. But, alas, the CRT screens that were also speakers were made by Packard Bell or Compaq and had speakers attached to the side of the screen. It's quite interesting that the LCD beat the CRT to market with this technology, being that CRTs have been out for a while longer, ie. in everyones homes by the 1950s
The rock punched a hole through the roof and ceiling, shredded a set of venetian blinds, ricocheted off a metal window sill, shot about 15 feet across the bedroom and shattered a floor-to-ceiling mirror before coming to rest on the floor.
Yeah, stuff that flies through my atmosphere, roof, and blinds usually doesn't have the power to go through the window sill, and thus rocochets.
Other than annoying website navigation, some web games, and short movie clips, what's Flash used for? I don't think I'm the only one wondering what someone would use this for.
This is perhaps the most creative way to enforce a law I've ever heard of. More power to 'em. It would be easy, however, to anonymously attack someone by putting their cell phone number on a sticker and posting it around town. I hope they don't prosecute people that have been attacked this way.
Let's all go register for online lotteries with our new Hotmail accounts. Then we'll give our e-mail address to the airport on that little frequent flyer card because I know they're going to send me only useful info. Oh yeah, let's not forget Kazaa registration, seedy computer retailers, and mail-in rebates.
I participate in none of these activities. I have my email address on my website, but I spell it out instead of using the at@symbol.com . I've had two e-mail addresses since Summer 2001 and the only spam I get is from Windows e-mail viruses, which aren't compatible with my operation system. Yes, it *is* possible to have a public e-mail address that doesn't get spammed.
I don't mean to sound like "that guy", but my iBook really does not have any problems with heat. I can set it on my lap for a good long while and barely notice any heat. This is one of the reasons that apple has not moved up to the G4 yet, so my computer is quite slow, but at least I never think twice about setting it on my lap for a game of mid-class Starcraft.
This developer note is a technical description of the PowerBook G4 17-inch computer. The note provides information about the computer?s internal design, input-output features, and expansion capabilities.
This developer note is intended to help hardware and software developers design products that are compatible with the Macintosh products described here.
Apparently it is designed to help developers release hardware and software.
It declined to comment on prices; a spokeswoman said the initial target market will be business customers.
Looks like I won't be seeing it for a good, long time. By the time we consumers see it, it will probably be fairly bogged down. I love being the kill-joy.
The irony here is that Windows gets an unfair market-share boost because it is inferior to Linux and requires more installations to do the same work.
While I wholly agree with Nicholas on most of the article, this line doesn't seem to help the community. One of the stereotypes of linux users is that we think it is better than everything else in every application. This is simply not the case.
I recently helped my grandmother purchase a computer. Her budget was large enough to get an iMac, so I suggested it, and she purchased it. I made sure she got the extended warranty from Apple because it includes phone support. She would not dial the number no matter how much I suggested it.
She liked to get face to face help, and everyone she knows uses Windows. They couldn't help her with her Mac, even though it's the simplest thing to use. In this situation, I bought the iMac from her and replaced it with a Windows PC, and she is now satisfied.
Every system has its place, and ignoring this fact will reflect badly on the Linux community until we realize it.
I don't mean to sound redundant here or anything, but you know how people use DES 3 times and called it 3DES? Why not use ROT-13+ 3 times and call it 3ROT-13?
Is there even a reason to be concerned with this when ROT-13+ is perfectly secure? It was recently expanded from regular ROT-13 so it doesn't only encrypt letters, so it should be good enough for any application.
Microsoft has had anti-trust trouble since, I think, 1997. With enough money in the bank to run the company without profits for decades, they will be able to hire whatever celebrity attourneys are necessary to win the case. This is run-of-the-mill Microsoft business.
Wow, these are the first PC laptops to come close (surpass?) to Apple's PB's in a while
I agree. I'm an iBook user instead of a Powerbook user for financial reasons, but this will certainly give me second thoughts next time I purchase a laptop. The only thing that came close to the Mac laptops in battery life and leetness factor was the Sony Vaio, which at the time I purchased the iBook was not enough to grab my sale. This might move Apple from their currently large chunk of the laptop market.
I don't use windows very often, but I do remember seeing a number of full-screen ads for X Box games a while ago. They would fill the entire screen for a few seconds. I continue to use web browsers that do not support this activity, but it goes to show what is still not too low for Microsoft.
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Any bets on how long it will take Razr1911 to crack this?
You probably think that's funny, but I appled to and got accepted to Central Michigan University in 2001 and decided not to attend because of a bad conversation with a sysadmin where he told me students should not have the ability to host any type of content. I went to (relatively) neighboring Grand Vallley State University (gvsu.edu) instead, and I'm glad I did.
His name is my name, too!
Michael, couldn't you just show an ounce of journalistic integrity and not accept stories with this much spin? Stating your opinion in something that's not an editorial doesn't help your credibility, either.
Pffft, Slashdot is not a news site. Slashdot links to news sites. They do no research of their own, and don't even bother verifying the validity of any of the articles. Indeed, all they have is editorial power. Remember, you're just posting a reply to a message about a news article.
Well, we've been fighting for roughly 230 years and we're still kicking ass. I agree that Win2k sucks, but it's like the horrible un-reliable applications used for airplanes to communicate with the landing tower: the human brain always takes up the slack. Maybe people would start relying more on technology and less on intelligence if they ran anything more stable, eh?
Remember, no matter how advanced medical machines get, there will still always be the cold, mechanical hands of the doctor.
This sounds like an elaborate April Fools joke that got a little out of hand to me. After all, it's still only April 17th, and the first story surfaced not long ago.
John Dobson, h4x0r hunter, at your service. Aull roight, time to geht to work on this server. Oh, a skript kiddie, the worst koind!
I thought the inside of the CRT looked more like a speaker, with a big magnet and a speaker-cone shape coming off of it going to the glass. But, alas, the CRT screens that were also speakers were made by Packard Bell or Compaq and had speakers attached to the side of the screen. It's quite interesting that the LCD beat the CRT to market with this technology, being that CRTs have been out for a while longer, ie. in everyones homes by the 1950s
The rock punched a hole through the roof and ceiling, shredded a set of venetian blinds, ricocheted off a metal window sill, shot about 15 feet across the bedroom and shattered a floor-to-ceiling mirror before coming to rest on the floor.
Yeah, stuff that flies through my atmosphere, roof, and blinds usually doesn't have the power to go through the window sill, and thus rocochets.
Other than annoying website navigation, some web games, and short movie clips, what's Flash used for? I don't think I'm the only one wondering what someone would use this for.
How did kazaa not make the list? They collect demographic information from every computer that is on its network.
This is perhaps the most creative way to enforce a law I've ever heard of. More power to 'em. It would be easy, however, to anonymously attack someone by putting their cell phone number on a sticker and posting it around town. I hope they don't prosecute people that have been attacked this way.
Let's all go register for online lotteries with our new Hotmail accounts. Then we'll give our e-mail address to the airport on that little frequent flyer card because I know they're going to send me only useful info. Oh yeah, let's not forget Kazaa registration, seedy computer retailers, and mail-in rebates.
I participate in none of these activities. I have my email address on my website, but I spell it out instead of using the at@symbol.com . I've had two e-mail addresses since Summer 2001 and the only spam I get is from Windows e-mail viruses, which aren't compatible with my operation system. Yes, it *is* possible to have a public e-mail address that doesn't get spammed.
I don't mean to sound like "that guy", but my iBook really does not have any problems with heat. I can set it on my lap for a good long while and barely notice any heat. This is one of the reasons that apple has not moved up to the G4 yet, so my computer is quite slow, but at least I never think twice about setting it on my lap for a game of mid-class Starcraft.
This developer note is a technical description of the PowerBook G4 17-inch computer. The note provides information about the computer?s internal design, input-output features, and expansion capabilities.
This developer note is intended to help hardware and software developers design products that are compatible with the Macintosh products described here.
Apparently it is designed to help developers release hardware and software.
Dammit, I had to. Sorry.
-1, Troll
It declined to comment on prices; a spokeswoman said the initial target market will be business customers.
Looks like I won't be seeing it for a good, long time. By the time we consumers see it, it will probably be fairly bogged down. I love being the kill-joy.
The irony here is that Windows gets an unfair market-share boost because it is inferior to Linux and requires more installations to do the same work.
While I wholly agree with Nicholas on most of the article, this line doesn't seem to help the community. One of the stereotypes of linux users is that we think it is better than everything else in every application. This is simply not the case.
I recently helped my grandmother purchase a computer. Her budget was large enough to get an iMac, so I suggested it, and she purchased it. I made sure she got the extended warranty from Apple because it includes phone support. She would not dial the number no matter how much I suggested it.
She liked to get face to face help, and everyone she knows uses Windows. They couldn't help her with her Mac, even though it's the simplest thing to use. In this situation, I bought the iMac from her and replaced it with a Windows PC, and she is now satisfied.
Every system has its place, and ignoring this fact will reflect badly on the Linux community until we realize it.
I don't mean to sound redundant here or anything, but you know how people use DES 3 times and called it 3DES? Why not use ROT-13+ 3 times and call it 3ROT-13?
Is there even a reason to be concerned with this when ROT-13+ is perfectly secure? It was recently expanded from regular ROT-13 so it doesn't only encrypt letters, so it should be good enough for any application.
Just thought you'd like to know, ROT13 is outdated. There is a new protocol out to replace it as of a couple of days ago called ROT-13+.
Microsoft has had anti-trust trouble since, I think, 1997. With enough money in the bank to run the company without profits for decades, they will be able to hire whatever celebrity attourneys are necessary to win the case. This is run-of-the-mill Microsoft business.
Wow, these are the first PC laptops to come close (surpass?) to Apple's PB's in a while
I agree. I'm an iBook user instead of a Powerbook user for financial reasons, but this will certainly give me second thoughts next time I purchase a laptop. The only thing that came close to the Mac laptops in battery life and leetness factor was the Sony Vaio, which at the time I purchased the iBook was not enough to grab my sale. This might move Apple from their currently large chunk of the laptop market.
I don't use windows very often, but I do remember seeing a number of full-screen ads for X Box games a while ago. They would fill the entire screen for a few seconds. I continue to use web browsers that do not support this activity, but it goes to show what is still not too low for Microsoft.