I wish sites would realize that pissing off their viewers with popups and big honking ads, does not make the viewer more likely to visit the advertisers site or buy their product. It has quite the opposite effect. I've stopped going to some sites that I like for the simple reason that I really F*ing hate popups!
I don't know why the company is losing money, the product is still hugely popular with kids. My kids have a ton of it and all their friends do too. The new versions are excellent and match the times perfectly. Everytime the kids get a new Lego catalog, I look at the products and think "Here is a company that really gets it!".
By the way, the plural of Lego is Lego, not Legos!
Bloat not considered, but mozilla's email is nice
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Being chained to the horrible outlook at work, i have to say that i think that mozilla's mail tool is really nice. It does everything i want in email cleanly and with out any hassel. I really think that an email tool should be separate from the browser so that you can mix and match, but in this case the mail tool makes mozilla the only choice for me.
I you don't agree, try an experiment, take Redhat 7.1 and Windows and try to install it on a modern machine and see how it compares. My experience is that Linux will probably install, detect and set up all the hardware, reboot once and be up and running. Windows will reboot at least 3 or 4 times in the process, and then you will have to go to the web site for your video card and download the latest drivers, then repeat the process for the sound card, etc.
I don't know if they still do it, but the University of Waterloo used to sell surplus junk on the first wednesday of each month. They usually had decent stuff.
I don't know Covad's full story but I feel kind of bad for them because their problems may not entirely be their fault. I tried for 3 months last year to get a DSL line, Covad was always prepared to do it but were dependent on Verizon. Verizon never showed up for a single appointment and consistently reported that they did and had no access to the property. Turns out that was their standard approach to dealing with other companies customers. Pretty hard to survive in a market where you live under the thumb of the ruling monopoly.
Subject says it all, you can often pick up an old classic mac for as low as $5. Go and find a decent fullscreen clock program or screen saver and shove the thing in a corner of your office.
I'd like to see someone hold a contest to see who can be the first to completely defeat this technology. First prise should be the complete Charlie Pride collection. On second thought maybe this should wait until the recording industry has invested a shit load of money into it.
Think about it. You are a small start up or pre-start up with an idea for an embedded application. You need to build a prototype of your hardware and software. It needs an O/S. What are you going to do. Call up the devil, sign contracts, fork over a shit load of money. Or are you going to download Linux and get to work.
Wince is doomed in the embeded market simply because Linux is a better choice, it's free, you get the source. Sure you might have to publish your changes, but that really can't hurt you as long as no one is selling the same hardware set. M$'s only choice is to get wince into the hands of inventors up front for free. If poeple are stupid enough to not realize that you will have to ultimately pay Billie, i guess they will get what's coming to them. Let's hope that most people aren't that stupid.
I really like Harrison but he is just too long in the tooth for the part. Think Roger Moore in his last few bonds (or his first few for that matter:). I'd go see a younger Indy, say in the period somewhere between young indian and raiders. That would put it in the 20's or so. Prime egyptology!
The longer this thing carries on, the longer M$ is under the microscope and news headlines repeat and affirm that they are in fact an evil monopoly. Every action that they perform will be set in that light and scrutinized before the public. The biggest success of the case has been changing the public's perception of Microsoft.
If I were to use a browser with this feature (which I doubt that I will), i'd simply disable it. The last thing I want is my browser using cpu cycles and network bandwidth to look up every word on the page so that it can link to advertising and corporate sanctioned sites. What a stupid bloated feature!
Funny how he talks about foolish business practices such as giving something away now in hope of getting paid for it in the future, considering the fact that for the past 4 months or so almost every consumer product has offered a $400 MSN rebate.
In that report I saw no mention of using DeCSS to simply view the movies under Linux where no legal or authorized DVD player existed. The arguments seemed to revolve around copying and distributing content an assumed but not necessarily proven allegation. Using DeCSS to access the media in it's inteneded use, ie. watching the bloody movie, never seems to be mentioned.
The planiverse was written by A. K. Dewdney, a prof a The University of Western Ontario. He was my thesis instructor and a very cool and intelligent guy. He wrote a column in Scientific American for a few years on computer and mathimatical puzzles and problems and is probably best known as the creator of Corewars. I highly suggest checking out some of his old columns and writings.
I also have a 802.11 setup and a microwave:) and thrown into the mix, an x10 dvd anywhere 2.4 Ghz audio video sending unit which I use to play radio from a satellite reciever on my stereo. I use the 802.11 setup to play mp3's off of an NFS mounted file system on a laptop also on the same stereo.
Here is what I see.
1) If I am playing the radio through the x10 setup and turn on the microwave, it practally destroys my speakers. This is true on all of the 4 channels that the x10 supports. It is impossible to use the X10 and the microwave at the same time.
2) If I am playing an mp3 on the laptop and switch the stereo over to the x10 receiver, i will here the laptop accessing the file system as a series of fuzzy zip sounds.
3) If i am playing mp3's through the laptop and run the microwave. I see and hear no noticable difference. Also the 2.4 GHz broadcast from the X10 equipement does not seem to affect the laptops's disk access in anyway.
Now I realize that this is not an itensive network application, nor or is very scientific. It is however a real world application of the technology and my take is that if you are using an 802.11 device to do downloads or serious network intensive applications, sure you will suffer from interference from other 2.4 Ghz devices (including microwaves which by the way happen to fall exactly in that spectrum). Go do these things on your PC. If on the other hand, you are using your wireless network for more low key applicatioins such as surfing the net, checking email, simple file access. You will not notice any problem at all, it is simply not a problem.
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I wish sites would realize that pissing off their viewers with popups and big honking ads, does not make the viewer more likely to visit the advertisers site or buy their product. It has quite the opposite effect. I've stopped going to some sites that I like for the simple reason that I really F*ing hate popups!
I don't know why the company is losing money, the product is still hugely popular with kids. My kids have a ton of it and all their friends do too. The new versions are excellent and match the times perfectly. Everytime the kids get a new Lego catalog, I look at the products and think "Here is a company that really gets it!".
By the way, the plural of Lego is Lego, not Legos!
Being chained to the horrible outlook at work, i have to say that i think that mozilla's mail tool is really nice. It does everything i want in email cleanly and with out any hassel. I really think that an email tool should be separate from the browser so that you can mix and match, but in this case the mail tool makes mozilla the only choice for me.
Let the lawsuits commence!
I you don't agree, try an experiment, take Redhat 7.1 and Windows and try to install it on a modern machine and see how it compares. My experience is that Linux will probably install, detect and set up all the hardware, reboot once and be up and running. Windows will reboot at least 3 or 4 times in the process, and then you will have to go to the web site for your video card and download the latest drivers, then repeat the process for the sound card, etc.
I don't know if they still do it, but the University of Waterloo used to sell surplus junk on the first wednesday of each month. They usually had decent stuff.
I don't know Covad's full story but I feel kind of bad for them because their problems may not entirely be their fault. I tried for 3 months last year to get a DSL line, Covad was always prepared to do it but were dependent on Verizon. Verizon never showed up for a single appointment and consistently reported that they did and had no access to the property. Turns out that was their standard approach to dealing with other companies customers. Pretty hard to survive in a market where you live under the thumb of the ruling monopoly.
Thus allowing him to stay in the country, work to make enough money to eat and fuel the U.S legal system. (not necessarily in that order)
The obvious guess would be eXtreme Prejudice.
Any others?
Does anyone know if there is a way to get Mozilla
to send ie's user agent code so that it can access those stupid ie only sites?
Unfortunately that involves destroying the mac and :)
feeding the fish, neither appeal to me
Subject says it all, you can often pick up an old classic mac for as low as $5. Go and find a decent fullscreen clock program or screen saver and shove the thing in a corner of your office.
I'd like to see someone hold a contest to see who can be the first to completely defeat this technology. First prise should be the complete Charlie Pride collection. On second thought maybe this should wait until the recording industry has invested a shit load of money into it.
Think about it. You are a small start up or pre-start up with an idea for an embedded application. You need to build a prototype of your hardware and software. It needs an O/S. What are you going to do. Call up the devil, sign contracts, fork over a shit load of money. Or are you going to download Linux and get to work.
Wince is doomed in the embeded market simply because Linux is a better choice, it's free, you get the source. Sure you might have to publish your changes, but that really can't hurt you as long as no one is selling the same hardware set. M$'s only choice is to get wince into the hands of inventors up front for free. If poeple are stupid enough to not realize that you will have to ultimately pay Billie, i guess they will get what's coming to them. Let's hope that most people aren't that stupid.
Is it illegal to break the encryption or to talk about how you did it? If it's former, he did this outside of the US.
Change someone elses prompt to "". Drives them crazy
until they figure it out.
I really like Harrison but he is just too long in the tooth for the part. Think Roger Moore in his last few bonds (or his first few for that matter :). I'd go see a younger Indy, say in the period somewhere between young indian and raiders. That would put it in the 20's or so. Prime egyptology!
"Take a long hard suck on my arse" in german?
The longer this thing carries on, the longer M$ is under the microscope and news headlines repeat and affirm that they are in fact an evil monopoly. Every action that they perform will be set in that light and scrutinized before the public. The biggest success of the case has been changing the public's perception of Microsoft.
If I were to use a browser with this feature (which I doubt that I will), i'd simply disable it. The last thing I want is my browser using cpu cycles and network bandwidth to look up every word on the page so that it can link to advertising and corporate sanctioned sites. What a stupid bloated feature!
Hey, Steven. It's called Research!
Funny how he talks about foolish business practices such as giving something away now in hope of getting paid for it in the future, considering the fact that for the past 4 months or so almost every consumer product has offered a $400 MSN rebate.
In that report I saw no mention of using DeCSS to simply view the movies under Linux where no legal or authorized DVD player existed. The arguments seemed to revolve around copying and distributing content an assumed but not necessarily proven allegation. Using DeCSS to access the media in it's inteneded use, ie. watching the bloody movie, never seems to be mentioned.
The planiverse was written by A. K. Dewdney, a prof a The University of Western Ontario. He was my thesis instructor and a very cool and intelligent guy. He wrote a column in Scientific American for a few years on computer and mathimatical puzzles and problems and is probably best known as the creator of Corewars. I highly suggest checking out some of his old columns and writings.
I also have a 802.11 setup and a microwave :) and thrown into the mix, an x10 dvd anywhere 2.4 Ghz audio video sending unit which I use to play radio from a satellite reciever on my stereo. I use the 802.11 setup to play mp3's off of an NFS mounted file system on a laptop also on the same stereo.
Here is what I see.
1) If I am playing the radio through the x10 setup and turn on the microwave, it practally destroys my speakers. This is true on all of the 4 channels that the x10 supports. It is impossible to use the X10 and the microwave at the same time.
2) If I am playing an mp3 on the laptop and switch the stereo over to the x10 receiver, i will here the laptop accessing the file system as a series of fuzzy zip sounds.
3) If i am playing mp3's through the laptop and run the microwave. I see and hear no noticable difference. Also the 2.4 GHz broadcast from the X10 equipement does not seem to affect the laptops's disk access in anyway.
Now I realize that this is not an itensive network application, nor or is very scientific. It is however a real world application of the technology and my take is that if you are using an 802.11 device to do downloads or serious network intensive applications, sure you will suffer from interference from other 2.4 Ghz devices (including microwaves which by the way happen to fall exactly in that spectrum). Go do these things on your PC. If on the other hand, you are using your wireless network for more low key applicatioins such as surfing the net, checking email, simple file access. You will not notice any problem at all, it is simply not a problem.