>So, I should pay more now for "bleeding edge" in order to help someone else pay less tomorrow?
As that 'other' person in you're equation, I'd say yes, fairly emphatically.
Not sure if it's the same thing but a collegue at work (UK) got a similar letter (similar damages claim too) but in his case, he downloaded a doctored game put out by the game company that phoned home with his details when he tried to play it.
I have a Canon 300D (aka Digital Rebel) with a hacked firmware that effectively turns it into a 10D - a much more expensive variant. Pretty much all canon DSLRs have been hacked to upgrade them and add features over the years. It was probably 5+ years ago that someone managed to run MAME on a Kodak point & click which was pretty cool too.
It's pretty good here. All the desks are in banks of 5 seats between the corridor and window, row after row (about 15 rows per side of the building at a guess). There are seperate meeeting rooms if you need that plus rooms for video conferencing, 'quiet areas' which are mobile/phone/meeting free if you need to sit & think then each floor has a pair of communal printer/copier/fax hubs - no desk is allowed anything like that. It's bright, breezy, airy and everyone you need is usually just feet away. They also encourage you to wander about so I could wander off to a nice high floor to enjoy theviews while I grab a coffee (the coffee lounges are every 8 floors. The coat cupboards are heated so your coat is dry if you get soaked in the morning. Good but pricy restaurant. A small shop. It's all good. Only downside is the expensive Aero chairs that might be great in theory but wear the ass out your suit pants with te coarse nylon fabric.
>it makes you think 'hey, maybe there is something to Fujitsu more than photocopiers...'
Interesting to see how different territories have different takes on this. I've never seen or hear of Fujitsu making photocopiers. When I think of them I think of laptops/desktops & hard drives.
Having used an Inspiron 15.4inch with a 1600x1200 screen for some years, I recently had to get a replacement and all I could find were widescreen ones. As I use Dreamweaver a lot, I need lots of vertical space so I can have code, WYSYWIG and tools open. I had to pay extra for any screen above 1280x800 odd and eventually settled fo a 1680x1050 which is OK but still very cramped. Those extra 150 pixels make all the difference and the obsession with widescreen laptops sees rather shortsighted. My wife recently bought one too and after scorning me paying extra for a higher res is now regretting buying hers with the standard screen as she has to do way more scrolling on web sites now
And lets not forget all the drama etc when the press found out how that little deal was managed and how much money the new owners made when the government woefully undervalued it (as per usal).
I used to be a customer of Telewest which became Blueyonder bfore Virgin took them over. Back then it was a great service. I used to laugh at my usage capped ADSL using friends with their flaky connections and bandwidth that went up and down while my Cable went flat out 24/7 downloading as much as 200Gb a month. The TV box was great too - better picture than Sky Digital, neat facilities etc. I was really gutted when I moved house to an area that didn't have Blueyonder cable and reluctantly signed up with Sky for TV, BT for phones and a rapid succession of crap ADSL providing goons.
Two years on, I'm with Zen ADSL who provide a great service and Sky is OK but when when I visit friends who are still on Virgin, the TV is now terrible - jerky, freezing, grainy and the broadband? WTF happened? Very, very sad. That said, Blueyonder were billions in debt afer investing in all the infrstructure so I guess they were too generous but it was great while it lasted.
>Well, it's always nice when the idiots paint a nice big "Class Action Lawsuit Bullseye" on their foreheads, ain't it?
I'm not sure we have those in the UK - I've certainly never heard of one.
People always view the oil issue in terms of fuel, what about plastic? We still pretty much rely on Oil for that and we don't seem to be doing a whole lot of rsearch on new materials for when the oil and thus plastics run out
>big-ass 5.25" floppies
Pah! 8" floppies were big-ass. 5.25" were nice and neat, until the 3.5 ones came along and confused everybody ("Why is this a floppy disk? it doesn't bend?")
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>So, I should pay more now for "bleeding edge" in order to help someone else pay less tomorrow?
As that 'other' person in you're equation, I'd say yes, fairly emphatically.
Not sure if it's the same thing but a collegue at work (UK) got a similar letter (similar damages claim too) but in his case, he downloaded a doctored game put out by the game company that phoned home with his details when he tried to play it.
>Show me where I can still buy secondhand PC games.
My (smallish) town has 2 shops plus there's Ebay, charity shops, boot fairs etc.
I have a Canon 300D (aka Digital Rebel) with a hacked firmware that effectively turns it into a 10D - a much more expensive variant. Pretty much all canon DSLRs have been hacked to upgrade them and add features over the years. It was probably 5+ years ago that someone managed to run MAME on a Kodak point & click which was pretty cool too.
It's pretty good here. All the desks are in banks of 5 seats between the corridor and window, row after row (about 15 rows per side of the building at a guess). There are seperate meeeting rooms if you need that plus rooms for video conferencing, 'quiet areas' which are mobile/phone/meeting free if you need to sit & think then each floor has a pair of communal printer/copier/fax hubs - no desk is allowed anything like that. It's bright, breezy, airy and everyone you need is usually just feet away. They also encourage you to wander about so I could wander off to a nice high floor to enjoy theviews while I grab a coffee (the coffee lounges are every 8 floors. The coat cupboards are heated so your coat is dry if you get soaked in the morning. Good but pricy restaurant. A small shop. It's all good. Only downside is the expensive Aero chairs that might be great in theory but wear the ass out your suit pants with te coarse nylon fabric.
And people wonder why CEO's etc don't consider IT people to be on their 'professional' level.
>it makes you think 'hey, maybe there is something to Fujitsu more than photocopiers...'
Interesting to see how different territories have different takes on this. I've never seen or hear of Fujitsu making photocopiers. When I think of them I think of laptops/desktops & hard drives.
I'm sure the volumes of chips they sell in Crays is a drip in the ocean compard to other channels. It's not like Supercomputers are a big seller...
>We use only 100% hand-rubbed foreskin
On the plus side, a little goes a long way once you've rubbed it for a bit.
That must be the nth time I've seen that post (where n is a large whole number)
>Thats the weirdest thing I think I have ever heard on teh internets
Internets? You have more than one at your disposal?
For 2600 betas or indeed any other system's betas/unreleased ROMs to turn up. Check out www.atariProtos.com for news/reviews of many.
Having used an Inspiron 15.4inch with a 1600x1200 screen for some years, I recently had to get a replacement and all I could find were widescreen ones. As I use Dreamweaver a lot, I need lots of vertical space so I can have code, WYSYWIG and tools open. I had to pay extra for any screen above 1280x800 odd and eventually settled fo a 1680x1050 which is OK but still very cramped. Those extra 150 pixels make all the difference and the obsession with widescreen laptops sees rather shortsighted. My wife recently bought one too and after scorning me paying extra for a higher res is now regretting buying hers with the standard screen as she has to do way more scrolling on web sites now
And lets not forget all the drama etc when the press found out how that little deal was managed and how much money the new owners made when the government woefully undervalued it (as per usal).
Of course, this being the UK, we'll give the technology away or sell the company that owns it to an overseas one for 50p.
I used to be a customer of Telewest which became Blueyonder bfore Virgin took them over. Back then it was a great service. I used to laugh at my usage capped ADSL using friends with their flaky connections and bandwidth that went up and down while my Cable went flat out 24/7 downloading as much as 200Gb a month. The TV box was great too - better picture than Sky Digital, neat facilities etc. I was really gutted when I moved house to an area that didn't have Blueyonder cable and reluctantly signed up with Sky for TV, BT for phones and a rapid succession of crap ADSL providing goons.
Two years on, I'm with Zen ADSL who provide a great service and Sky is OK but when when I visit friends who are still on Virgin, the TV is now terrible - jerky, freezing, grainy and the broadband? WTF happened? Very, very sad. That said, Blueyonder were billions in debt afer investing in all the infrstructure so I guess they were too generous but it was great while it lasted.
Damn, forgot to put the break in - my comment starts 'I'm not sure...'
>Well, it's always nice when the idiots paint a nice big "Class Action Lawsuit Bullseye" on their foreheads, ain't it? I'm not sure we have those in the UK - I've certainly never heard of one.
People always view the oil issue in terms of fuel, what about plastic? We still pretty much rely on Oil for that and we don't seem to be doing a whole lot of rsearch on new materials for when the oil and thus plastics run out
My first thought on seeing the headline was if a nuke went off, I'd have the choice of getting fried by radiation or electrocuted by the suit.
in 2007 Apple were the number 5 laptop vendor pushing Lenovo (Thinkpad) off the number 5 spot. They're doing OK.
Maybe it was a bit later than 79/80? No matter, a cool thing to have played with :-)
Could someone tell me what "jumping the shark" means? (I'm from the UK, asked around the office, just got shrugs)
>big-ass 5.25" floppies
Pah! 8" floppies were big-ass. 5.25" were nice and neat, until the 3.5 ones came along and confused everybody ("Why is this a floppy disk? it doesn't bend?")
Could it have been an Acorn System 2 http://lowendmac.com/orchard/07/0228.html