All this guy's blog says is that SCO *could* get delisted if they don't keep their stock price above $1. SCO hasn't received any Letter of Deficiency from NASDAQ, and once they get one, they have six months to correct it, so none of this is actually threatening to happen anytime extremely soon. All in all, a very content-free post for anyone who's followed the SCO litigation in the slightest.
I have a LaCie BigDisk, and the damn thing keeps disappearing from the devices list, or appearing as a different device. In order to fix this, I have to 1) Disconnect the USB cable, 2) UNPLUG the drive (turning it off won't work), 3) WAIT at least a minute (10 seconds doesn't work), 4) plug the drive back in, 5) plug the USB back in.
This is their OFFICIAL troubleshooting procedure too. All my coworkers that have the LaCies have the same problem. Some coworkers have a Western Digital that's half the capacity, but gives them no problems. Screw LaCie.
HTML was not intended for complicated magazine layouts.
What's your grand vision of what HTML was intended for? Oh yeah, "information", because aesthetics are fundamentally immoral.
Here's mine: if it has a MIME type and a visual representation, the web should be able to show it, with any variant that type allows and any position the container can handle. Yes, do go on and decry the anarchic ruin such flexibility will bring. The rest of us will use it.
Intel doesn't go around telling us that their design will push 17 hojillion gigazoxels, with more computing power than Deep Blue, HAL, and I AM put together, in order to render better-than-real detail in realtime while simultaneouslly giving you a handjob and ordering flowers for your gf.
Bullshit. They simply won't play newer HD-DVD's. Keys are revoked by simply not putting them on new discs. Of course the end result is pretty similar -- your player is still effectively bricked for any new disc you purchase. I'd love to see what they do with in-car players, assuming they ever make them in HD. There seems little point for such small screens, but people will want to take their HD discs along with them and still expect them to work. Perhaps these players will still work, but with the Image Constraint Token enabled. On a car player, you'll never notice. To actually brick those would be to brave the collective wrath of soccer moms nationwide.
> "Oh, sorry, Brune - we have to let you go. See, a client of ours googled you and someone put a page up about you being a pedophile. I know it's not true, but the client insists..."
Terminating someone for that is big-time wrongful termination liability, regardless of the justifications. Of course, the story can also go "Sorry you couldn't make partner, maybe next time. We just couldn't line up the clients for you because of that libel thing, you understand?" and you're still relatively screwed.
Thank goodness my name is incredibly common, so most any google check on me will turn up people far more famous, and thankfully none terribly infamous.
Oh gosh, an asinine pure-POV soapboxing article was deleted from wikipedia, yes it must be a conspiracy. Oh wait, it's still there and someone dared suggest it be deleted. God damned russkies, can't trust 'em.
I normally make it a point to not complain about the moderation system here, but who the fuck moderates this kookery up?
> exactly what is stopping malware2.0 from killing my processor?
Most PC's don't have recoverable bios backups, so most PC's can be all-but-bricked by malware that corrupts the bios. For most people who aren't into pulling chips, that's completely bricked.
It's an unsuccessful virus that instantly kills its host. Malware these days goes to quite some lengths to avoid notice so they can actually execute their intended purpose.
> What I want is the AppleTV to act as a MythTV frontend.
I want a tiny and inexpensive box that can be a MythTV backend. As in do the actual recording. I doubt the AppleTV is up to the task. I'm not saying this cool hacked box sucks, but it's not what I'm pining for.
> You can't be one of the most hated companies in the world without some negative effects.
Don't confuse the little island of geekdom you inhabit with "the world". Halliburton beats Microsoft by a country mile, even among tech geeks. Actually since tech geeks tend to the left or at least libertarian, it probably even beats MS as "most hated" by a wider margin among tech geeks.
> Come on, 4% market share and you are surprised when a computer does not run OSX?
In his little micro-startup tech-hipster corner of the world, yeah, most of the folks he runs across are probably running Macs. Just goes to show how in touch Paul Graham is with the real world.
And Sony doesn't have to allow it. They can collect their fees at distribution time. Otherwise, it's pretty hard to sell a console game in quantity when you can't put the words "Sony" or "PlayStation" on the box. I doubt the dev kits themselves are significant revenue sources.
I never see a can or bottle on the street in San Francisco -- there's an army of homeless that pick them up the instant it hits the ground.
Papers and bags on the other hand... I thought there was supposed to be an ordnance requiring locking lids on outdoor trash cans (that's "rubbish bins" for you folks over in the UK) but if there is, I don't think it's ever enforced.
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Dear SCO: you keep pissing our money away. We found a better tactic. Go fish. Love, Steve.
All this guy's blog says is that SCO *could* get delisted if they don't keep their stock price above $1. SCO hasn't received any Letter of Deficiency from NASDAQ, and once they get one, they have six months to correct it, so none of this is actually threatening to happen anytime extremely soon. All in all, a very content-free post for anyone who's followed the SCO litigation in the slightest.
I have a LaCie BigDisk, and the damn thing keeps disappearing from the devices list, or appearing as a different device. In order to fix this, I have to 1) Disconnect the USB cable, 2) UNPLUG the drive (turning it off won't work), 3) WAIT at least a minute (10 seconds doesn't work), 4) plug the drive back in, 5) plug the USB back in.
This is their OFFICIAL troubleshooting procedure too. All my coworkers that have the LaCies have the same problem. Some coworkers have a Western Digital that's half the capacity, but gives them no problems. Screw LaCie.
HTML was not intended for complicated magazine layouts.
What's your grand vision of what HTML was intended for? Oh yeah, "information", because aesthetics are fundamentally immoral.
Here's mine: if it has a MIME type and a visual representation, the web should be able to show it, with any variant that type allows and any position the container can handle. Yes, do go on and decry the anarchic ruin such flexibility will bring. The rest of us will use it.
> I mean, I go to a web site to find information I'm looking for. In the old days, you could do that
No you couldn't, because most of the time it wasn't there.
All some people can do is bitch. Go unplug.
RTFA, the rare metal in LCDs is Indium, not Iridium.
Ah, you're right ... Dreamworks doesn't do everything in-house, especially Dreamworks Animation.
And Sony is of course is the biggest force behind AACS and all things DRM-related.
Intel doesn't go around telling us that their design will push 17 hojillion gigazoxels, with more computing power than Deep Blue, HAL, and I AM put together, in order to render better-than-real detail in realtime while simultaneouslly giving you a handjob and ordering flowers for your gf.
> It's not a drive spinning, it has no moving parts.
Other than a fan. Running that at full speed 24/7 is sure to wear it right out.
Bullshit. They simply won't play newer HD-DVD's. Keys are revoked by simply not putting them on new discs. Of course the end result is pretty similar -- your player is still effectively bricked for any new disc you purchase. I'd love to see what they do with in-car players, assuming they ever make them in HD. There seems little point for such small screens, but people will want to take their HD discs along with them and still expect them to work. Perhaps these players will still work, but with the Image Constraint Token enabled. On a car player, you'll never notice. To actually brick those would be to brave the collective wrath of soccer moms nationwide.
> SONY Dreamworks doesn't get it.
Viacom owns Dreamworks. Not Sony.
> "Oh, sorry, Brune - we have to let you go. See, a client of ours googled you and someone put a page up about you being a pedophile. I know it's not true, but the client insists..."
Terminating someone for that is big-time wrongful termination liability, regardless of the justifications. Of course, the story can also go "Sorry you couldn't make partner, maybe next time. We just couldn't line up the clients for you because of that libel thing, you understand?" and you're still relatively screwed.
Thank goodness my name is incredibly common, so most any google check on me will turn up people far more famous, and thankfully none terribly infamous.
The prank isn't nearly as funny when you have to point to a google cache for people to see it.
Knowing myspace, they'd take it down in a couple weeks, then there would be three more just like it the same day.
Try spam and keylogging. Usually both.
Oh gosh, an asinine pure-POV soapboxing article was deleted from wikipedia, yes it must be a conspiracy. Oh wait, it's still there and someone dared suggest it be deleted. God damned russkies, can't trust 'em.
I normally make it a point to not complain about the moderation system here, but who the fuck moderates this kookery up?
> exactly what is stopping malware2.0 from killing my processor?
Most PC's don't have recoverable bios backups, so most PC's can be all-but-bricked by malware that corrupts the bios. For most people who aren't into pulling chips, that's completely bricked.
It's an unsuccessful virus that instantly kills its host. Malware these days goes to quite some lengths to avoid notice so they can actually execute their intended purpose.
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> "why isn't fencing one of the sports they included?"
It's hard to accurately simulate parrying without any force feedback, and that's half of fencing right there.
> What I want is the AppleTV to act as a MythTV frontend.
I want a tiny and inexpensive box that can be a MythTV backend. As in do the actual recording. I doubt the AppleTV is up to the task. I'm not saying this cool hacked box sucks, but it's not what I'm pining for.
> You can't be one of the most hated companies in the world without some negative effects.
Don't confuse the little island of geekdom you inhabit with "the world". Halliburton beats Microsoft by a country mile, even among tech geeks. Actually since tech geeks tend to the left or at least libertarian, it probably even beats MS as "most hated" by a wider margin among tech geeks.
> Come on, 4% market share and you are surprised when a computer does not run OSX?
In his little micro-startup tech-hipster corner of the world, yeah, most of the folks he runs across are probably running Macs. Just goes to show how in touch Paul Graham is with the real world.
> You know the type -- liars, thieves, doles, and the dupes who voted them into congress.
:)
I'm pretty sure the Doles are republicans actually
And Sony doesn't have to allow it. They can collect their fees at distribution time. Otherwise, it's pretty hard to sell a console game in quantity when you can't put the words "Sony" or "PlayStation" on the box. I doubt the dev kits themselves are significant revenue sources.
I never see a can or bottle on the street in San Francisco -- there's an army of homeless that pick them up the instant it hits the ground.
Papers and bags on the other hand... I thought there was supposed to be an ordnance requiring locking lids on outdoor trash cans (that's "rubbish bins" for you folks over in the UK) but if there is, I don't think it's ever enforced.
Works fine for me in 2.02. Don't know how stable it is long-term of course.