Sounds to me like a case of keyboard membrane death. ZX Spectrums, of which I'm a fan, had the same problem and many a speccy user, moreso 48k users I think, had to replace their membranes.
Corporate.... responsibility....
Say those words over in your head.
Such a concept doesn't exist. Kinda like an ethics class in a business degree.
Anyway, I don't blame Sony at all here. If people are going to be retarded enough to queue in the cold and rain, regardless of social status for a piece of electronics then they're idiots.
Although I didn't experience the amount of people buying a PS2 for a cheap DVD player personally, it must've been because around about the time of the launch and for a good time afterwards I saw DVDs all over the place marked as PS2 compatible.
I'm quite sure it's first come first served. I don't imagine it'll be dissimilar to the UK where I am where we don't have to serve you anything. At all. I could say 'fuck you all' and sell it to my staff.
On a related note, I don't know if this has ever jarred with people like it used to do with me but it used to annoy the piss out of me whenever people referred to webpages as websites.
Anyone?
The thing is, people do. I've seen on numerous occasions on Limewire and such networks an executable or a zip file for Microsoft Office or Windows XP that is something ridiculously small like 100k. It exists because some twat clicks on it and wonders why a small window opens and then vanishes shortly before their system grinds to a halt...
Now, I like the BBC but they dropped severely in my estimation the moment they apologised to the government unreservedly for the report that stated the amount of time it would take for Saddam to launch weapons against the UK. The whole government report was bollocks, the BBC knew it and when they put the story out all hell broke loose in the media.
The BBC eventually got down on their knees and gave head to the government.
Bunch of fucking cowards if you ask me.
I still respect them but damn, that didn't help.
The *primary* reason I've downgraded back to 1.5 is because my favourite extension superT hasn't been upgraded for it. That's about it. I don't have any other problems, but I'll wait until I know it's safe to upgrade because it's painful browsing without that extension.
How exactly do the RIAA prove that the contents of the HD haven't been modified since they made the demand for it? Whats to say the guy didn't delete the files he was accused of downloading before the RIAA pounced? Hmm...
What I love is in the BBC News this morning a completely uneducated politician says that YouTube basically doesn't police the videos that come in.
My point is how can they? They get an absolute deluge of videos in every single day. Do they expect an entire warehouse of people checking it? The fact is with the number of videos they get every single day the ONLY option is to have it community moderated and quite obviously, the community likes what they're getting so unless you want a small selection of videos policed by a number of YouTube stuff you're always going to get "copyright infringement".
I hate people making comments on things that they know nothing about...
You know, the far more likely thing is if you refuse then they'll just say no and turn you away.
Infinitely more likely than an anal probing. Unless the guy gets off on it.
Or use container file based encryption like say, TrueCrypt, and a hidden volume! Voila. Put some random stuff in the normal layer and away you go. Complete deniability.
I thought that ban was all but lifted was it not? I don't see the big furore about exporting PGP anymore. My mind is slightly fuzzy on the details, perhaps Phillip got a license to export it.
It was probably IDEA or something hindering it, but I was sure that the ban on crypto export had been lifted to a small degree.
Anyone?
And therein is the problem.
YEOVIL.
YEOVIL IS NOT ENGLAND.
The article at the top of the Slashdot page implies it's all over England which is quite clearly is NOT.
It's not even mentioned on BBC news either and for something of this magnitude to be not mentioned on the BBC is a huge huge deal. I think this story is horseshit.
Look at Apple. There's messageboards out there *cough*ipodlounge*cough* that are pretty much Apple Nazis. You even speak out against the ipod, which granted on an iPod message board is probably a bad thing, and you're screwed.
The MOMENT something branded with the cursed fruit logo is released, hordes of screaming Apple fanboys will descend upon it from on high and buy it in droves. Simply because it says apple, so it must be good.
Same behaviour is seen with Japanese culture fanboys. "What's that? Wow! It's Japanese! I can't understand it, but it's Japanese so it MUST be cool!!111"
I wish people would stop using the words intelligent and software. It bugs me. It's going to be wrong more than 50% of the time, there is no way to measure human emotion by the slim bandwidth of a phone call. Sounds like a company is pushing this tech as the next big thing and making money out of suckers.
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One word. Macrovision.
Some=most If a decent TV made in the last 10-15 years doesn't support NTSC it should be taken outside and beaten.
I had a ZX81 and they never improved that. :) The thing had nearly as many crashes as a Windows 95 PC on high load. Did you build your ZX80 from kit?
Sounds to me like a case of keyboard membrane death. ZX Spectrums, of which I'm a fan, had the same problem and many a speccy user, moreso 48k users I think, had to replace their membranes.
Yes, Mr Anonymous Coward, you're perfectly qualified to talk about ANYTHING. :)
Corporate.... responsibility.... Say those words over in your head. Such a concept doesn't exist. Kinda like an ethics class in a business degree. Anyway, I don't blame Sony at all here. If people are going to be retarded enough to queue in the cold and rain, regardless of social status for a piece of electronics then they're idiots.
Although I didn't experience the amount of people buying a PS2 for a cheap DVD player personally, it must've been because around about the time of the launch and for a good time afterwards I saw DVDs all over the place marked as PS2 compatible.
I'm quite sure it's first come first served. I don't imagine it'll be dissimilar to the UK where I am where we don't have to serve you anything. At all. I could say 'fuck you all' and sell it to my staff.
Is fucking in the dictionary?
On a related note, I don't know if this has ever jarred with people like it used to do with me but it used to annoy the piss out of me whenever people referred to webpages as websites. Anyone?
The thing is, people do. I've seen on numerous occasions on Limewire and such networks an executable or a zip file for Microsoft Office or Windows XP that is something ridiculously small like 100k. It exists because some twat clicks on it and wonders why a small window opens and then vanishes shortly before their system grinds to a halt...
Now, I like the BBC but they dropped severely in my estimation the moment they apologised to the government unreservedly for the report that stated the amount of time it would take for Saddam to launch weapons against the UK. The whole government report was bollocks, the BBC knew it and when they put the story out all hell broke loose in the media. The BBC eventually got down on their knees and gave head to the government. Bunch of fucking cowards if you ask me. I still respect them but damn, that didn't help.
How about not listening to the radio at all? Surely having nothing at all is better than sonic death of the ears by listening to normal radio?
The *primary* reason I've downgraded back to 1.5 is because my favourite extension superT hasn't been upgraded for it. That's about it. I don't have any other problems, but I'll wait until I know it's safe to upgrade because it's painful browsing without that extension.
The hack that I use, in 1.5, is have Crash Recovery as an extension and then close the Firefox process if I want to save. :)
How exactly do the RIAA prove that the contents of the HD haven't been modified since they made the demand for it? Whats to say the guy didn't delete the files he was accused of downloading before the RIAA pounced? Hmm...
What I love is in the BBC News this morning a completely uneducated politician says that YouTube basically doesn't police the videos that come in. My point is how can they? They get an absolute deluge of videos in every single day. Do they expect an entire warehouse of people checking it? The fact is with the number of videos they get every single day the ONLY option is to have it community moderated and quite obviously, the community likes what they're getting so unless you want a small selection of videos policed by a number of YouTube stuff you're always going to get "copyright infringement". I hate people making comments on things that they know nothing about...
You know, the far more likely thing is if you refuse then they'll just say no and turn you away. Infinitely more likely than an anal probing. Unless the guy gets off on it.
Or use container file based encryption like say, TrueCrypt, and a hidden volume! Voila. Put some random stuff in the normal layer and away you go. Complete deniability.
I thought that ban was all but lifted was it not? I don't see the big furore about exporting PGP anymore. My mind is slightly fuzzy on the details, perhaps Phillip got a license to export it. It was probably IDEA or something hindering it, but I was sure that the ban on crypto export had been lifted to a small degree. Anyone?
And therein is the problem. YEOVIL. YEOVIL IS NOT ENGLAND. The article at the top of the Slashdot page implies it's all over England which is quite clearly is NOT.
It's not even mentioned on BBC news either and for something of this magnitude to be not mentioned on the BBC is a huge huge deal. I think this story is horseshit.
Look at Apple. There's messageboards out there *cough*ipodlounge*cough* that are pretty much Apple Nazis. You even speak out against the ipod, which granted on an iPod message board is probably a bad thing, and you're screwed.
The MOMENT something branded with the cursed fruit logo is released, hordes of screaming Apple fanboys will descend upon it from on high and buy it in droves. Simply because it says apple, so it must be good. Same behaviour is seen with Japanese culture fanboys. "What's that? Wow! It's Japanese! I can't understand it, but it's Japanese so it MUST be cool!!111"
I wish people would stop using the words intelligent and software. It bugs me. It's going to be wrong more than 50% of the time, there is no way to measure human emotion by the slim bandwidth of a phone call. Sounds like a company is pushing this tech as the next big thing and making money out of suckers.