Sounds like computers. The first one I remember using was an old Dell that used to belong to my uncle. The switch on there was the sort you use on lights, with two exciting settings - on or off.
With the advent of things like ACPI and APM, computers (and other consumer appliances) are always on unless you flick the hard switch at the back or unplug it at the mains.
I think I've worked out the culprit. Almost every consumer appliance has a clock nowadays, but very few have CMOS batteries - maybe it's because they can't be bothered to reset the clock after switching them back on.
My aunt got AOL with anti-spyware and firewall and security. Eventually she had 35 different viruses, managed to remove all but 28 unique signatures (this was before I developed my brute-force removal method). Chucked a ton of spyware too.
Rubbish. Linux is not that dissimilar to Windows - it's not as if they've been taught to operate Windows and are then thrown in front of an alien control panel from Independence Day. The Linux desktop is almost exactly the same as Windows. As it OpenOffice. Oh, yes, and you forget that forum support is free, whereas if you ring Microsoft they'll say "Hi! What's your credit card number?"
...true, I'm sure Steve Irwin was a good man, but in the meantime, millions of people (let alone other animals) are starving in Africa, global warming is threatening to put an end to the world as we know it, and in the Middle East people are going around blowing each other up. Do I detect some injustice here?
There is pretty much no Linux compatible hardware around here, and as people are too lazy to demand the manufacturers release hardware, Linux is not being well adopted. Perhaps we should start an open-source campaign in Britain?
Yes, Email, IM and map searches have been around for a long time, but you can expect Google's enormous repository of data and the overall ease of use of the products to win the market over in the end. What they need to do is get Gmail out of its invite-only status outside of the US and the other countries it lets you use a mobile phone with. I've been using it since a friend sent me an invitation, and I've not used any other Email since. It's a good service, but Google needs to start making them more obvious and accessible to the public.
Pluto isn't even anything special in the Kuiper Belt. There are plenty of objects, many of them probably larger than Pluto, that are classed as KBOs, so why isn't Pluto classed as such? If they found an Earth-sized rock orbiting a thousand AUs from the Sun, THAT should be classed as a planet.
...if you look properly, it looks a lot like Microsoft is copying Apple. In the latest beta of Vista, progress meters shimmer. Windows slide into the taskbar when minimised. And practically everything glows when hovered over. Sound familiar, anyone???
You hit the nail on the head there. Conspiracy theorists are now going to say that it's final proof that it was a fake. However, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. And something that confuses me is that no-one has taken the obvious measure of picking up a very large telescope and looking at the landing site on the Moon: see if there are any specks that might actually be the lower stage of the LM, or the flag.
...Firefox is returning a timeout error page. Oh dear, I hope they get their 'try online' server fixed faster than it took to get the app itself out...
Yes, sounds like a window for monopoly abuse that Microsoft can worm their way into. Any guesses on when they'll patent the operating system? The computer program? The computer itself!?
...I hate to be a pedant, but are you sure it would fit in EVERY computer in the world? What about the ones without 5 1/4" drive bays?:-)
But you could ALSO decrease the size of the laser and motor that reads/writes the disk. Thus you would have your 1.6tB (which I can't imagine anyone in the world needing, unless they're a system administrator or Bill Gates) AND it would fit into a 5 1/4" drive bay.
...there is some REALLY funny stuff that comes out ot speech-to-text. For example:
On a mobile phone that was being demonstrated in Italy just after the Pope had been elected, an Italian spoke into it with a strong accent that the machine wasn't accustommed to. The speaker said "Congratulations to our new Pope." The phone repeated: "Congratulation to our new poke."
On one of the computers at my church, the WGA Notifier came through MS Update. Fair-dos, I thought. But the church logs anonymous users in through the guest profile. You can see where this is going...
When I tried to use the guest profile, the system tray spouted an icon that said "you may not be running genuine Windows." I logged out, logged in as the system administrator, and asked why.
"The product key could not be read."
Well, do you think you'd LET guest users look at the product key so they can steal your copy of Windows, even if the PK isn't attached? But Microsoft contradicted itself, and I went home happy that I'd found a bug in Microsoft software. (I wasn't off the ceiling for several hours.)
Mercifully, an update was issued that allowed the program to check the PK in the Guest profile. But note the wording of the bubble:
"You MAY not be running Genuine Windows."
May? That, translated out of marketing-speak and into English, reads:
"Oh, dear. You might well have a legit copy of Windows but we believed our computer, so we assume you're a fake. So, we're going to display consistent nag screens until you cough up two hundred pounds to buy Windows."
Or throw the (beep) thing away and use Linux or a pen and paper.
So, all those developers who worked with WinFS Beta 1 have had all their work wasted. Why does the phrase "business as usual" spring to mind?
However, there are two workarounds to this.
1. Write your own WinFS. Get a VB or VC++ program to index all the files on the disk and organise them into repositories. Or 2. Run Linux and use GNOME Storage when it comes out. Or better still, write your own filesystem and OS. Replace Windows and give Mr. Gates a run for his money...
Yes, technological fantasies. It spent millions during the Cold War looking into remote viewing - a posh name for psychics. On a programme on the Discovery channel they did an experiment to test this - using a game of Battleships. The person who was just choosing squares at random was doing FAR much better than the guy who claimed to be psychic.
But it's still utter rubbish.
Look at the picture at http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41641000/jpg /_41641102_ufo_203.jpg. So much for being 'clearly not man-made'.
How come the 'spaceship' is crystal clear while the rest of the image is blurred? Clearly Photoshopped... And can Mr McKinnon actually tell us how the 'free energy' works, which he supposedly found documents on? And how can one communicate with Wordpad? And who says it's impossible to take a screencap of a Java application? It's a load of [censored]!
And, what's more, it's completely impossible to have free energy. If anyone can generate free energy, their name can only be God.
And antigrav is hardly alien technology: a late conjencture tells us that some magnets at 80 tesla or above can easily generate antigravity effects. (It's only a conjecture, but as is well known, most physicists are SURE there is a connection between magnetism and gravity.)
(Oh, yeah, and any aliens would have to travel several hundred lightyears to reach us.)
Nice try, McKinnon, but we're not stupid. You're conning gullible people into going against NASA.
I've been programming BASIC since six on an old Commodore 64. Now I use Visual BASIC and C - and I'm only 13. Therefore I consider myself a qualified child. Sadly, it's a dying phenomenon which needs to be revived. Hang on - hmm, you've got me thinking...
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Exactly. For all we know, it could have been one of the children who was visiting the sites in particular.
Sounds like computers. The first one I remember using was an old Dell that used to belong to my uncle. The switch on there was the sort you use on lights, with two exciting settings - on or off.
With the advent of things like ACPI and APM, computers (and other consumer appliances) are always on unless you flick the hard switch at the back or unplug it at the mains.
I think I've worked out the culprit. Almost every consumer appliance has a clock nowadays, but very few have CMOS batteries - maybe it's because they can't be bothered to reset the clock after switching them back on.
>He's an ex-footballer
By that, people of America, to clear up any confusion, we mean soccer.
This is another example of people being deceived by companies saying that their products are the killer cure for spyware. AOL is an Internet provider (dubiously, as it already has an appalling track record for that too). Instead of saying that their product will stop viruses, spyware etc. it should educate its users and advise them to download AVG or Spybot. Or better still, use Linux instead. See http://www.wambooli.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5, http://www.wambooli.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11
Rubbish. Linux is not that dissimilar to Windows - it's not as if they've been taught to operate Windows and are then thrown in front of an alien control panel from Independence Day. The Linux desktop is almost exactly the same as Windows. As it OpenOffice. Oh, yes, and you forget that forum support is free, whereas if you ring Microsoft they'll say "Hi! What's your credit card number?"
Don't post your Email on this. Otherwise you'll probably get...
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Get your clothes back on, you disgusting thing!
Oh well. At least it means Willy on Wheels will be out of a job...
...true, I'm sure Steve Irwin was a good man, but in the meantime, millions of people (let alone other animals) are starving in Africa, global warming is threatening to put an end to the world as we know it, and in the Middle East people are going around blowing each other up. Do I detect some injustice here?
There is pretty much no Linux compatible hardware around here, and as people are too lazy to demand the manufacturers release hardware, Linux is not being well adopted. Perhaps we should start an open-source campaign in Britain?
Yes, Email, IM and map searches have been around for a long time, but you can expect Google's enormous repository of data and the overall ease of use of the products to win the market over in the end. What they need to do is get Gmail out of its invite-only status outside of the US and the other countries it lets you use a mobile phone with. I've been using it since a friend sent me an invitation, and I've not used any other Email since. It's a good service, but Google needs to start making them more obvious and accessible to the public.
...VHS vs. Betamax, except with added copy protection and blue-screening! Already I can see Sony's profits booming!!!!
Pluto isn't even anything special in the Kuiper Belt. There are plenty of objects, many of them probably larger than Pluto, that are classed as KBOs, so why isn't Pluto classed as such? If they found an Earth-sized rock orbiting a thousand AUs from the Sun, THAT should be classed as a planet.
...if you look properly, it looks a lot like Microsoft is copying Apple. In the latest beta of Vista, progress meters shimmer. Windows slide into the taskbar when minimised. And practically everything glows when hovered over. Sound familiar, anyone???
Well, if copycats weren't allowed, we wouldn't have the GUI as we know it today. Windows would not exist. (That's not necessarily a bad thing...)
You hit the nail on the head there. Conspiracy theorists are now going to say that it's final proof that it was a fake. However, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. And something that confuses me is that no-one has taken the obvious measure of picking up a very large telescope and looking at the landing site on the Moon: see if there are any specks that might actually be the lower stage of the LM, or the flag.
...Firefox is returning a timeout error page. Oh dear, I hope they get their 'try online' server fixed faster than it took to get the app itself out...
Yes, sounds like a window for monopoly abuse that Microsoft can worm their way into. Any guesses on when they'll patent the operating system? The computer program? The computer itself!?
...I hate to be a pedant, but are you sure it would fit in EVERY computer in the world? What about the ones without 5 1/4" drive bays? :-)
But you could ALSO decrease the size of the laser and motor that reads/writes the disk. Thus you would have your 1.6tB (which I can't imagine anyone in the world needing, unless they're a system administrator or Bill Gates) AND it would fit into a 5 1/4" drive bay.
...there is some REALLY funny stuff that comes out ot speech-to-text. For example:
On a mobile phone that was being demonstrated in Italy just after the Pope had been elected, an Italian spoke into it with a strong accent that the machine wasn't accustommed to. The speaker said "Congratulations to our new Pope."
The phone repeated: "Congratulation to our new poke."
Who says computers don't have a sense of humour?
Microsoft charge you to hunt down bugs in their software. As opposed to Linux where it's free and you may even get paid. Thanks, Bill.
On one of the computers at my church, the WGA Notifier came through MS Update. Fair-dos, I thought. But the church logs anonymous users in through the guest profile. You can see where this is going...
When I tried to use the guest profile, the system tray spouted an icon that said "you may not be running genuine Windows." I logged out, logged in as the system administrator, and asked why.
"The product key could not be read."
Well, do you think you'd LET guest users look at the product key so they can steal your copy of Windows, even if the PK isn't attached? But Microsoft contradicted itself, and I went home happy that I'd found a bug in Microsoft software. (I wasn't off the ceiling for several hours.)
Mercifully, an update was issued that allowed the program to check the PK in the Guest profile. But note the wording of the bubble:
"You MAY not be running Genuine Windows."
May? That, translated out of marketing-speak and into English, reads:
"Oh, dear. You might well have a legit copy of Windows but we believed our computer, so we assume you're a fake. So, we're going to display consistent nag screens until you cough up two hundred pounds to buy Windows."
Or throw the (beep) thing away and use Linux or a pen and paper.
So, all those developers who worked with WinFS Beta 1 have had all their work wasted. Why does the phrase "business as usual" spring to mind?
However, there are two workarounds to this.
1. Write your own WinFS. Get a VB or VC++ program to index all the files on the disk and organise them into repositories. Or
2. Run Linux and use GNOME Storage when it comes out. Or better still, write your own filesystem and OS. Replace Windows and give Mr. Gates a run for his money...
Yes, technological fantasies. It spent millions during the Cold War looking into remote viewing - a posh name for psychics. On a programme on the Discovery channel they did an experiment to test this - using a game of Battleships. The person who was just choosing squares at random was doing FAR much better than the guy who claimed to be psychic. But it's still utter rubbish.
Look at the picture at http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41641000/jpg /_41641102_ufo_203.jpg. So much for being 'clearly not man-made'.
How come the 'spaceship' is crystal clear while the rest of the image is blurred? Clearly Photoshopped... And can Mr McKinnon actually tell us how the 'free energy' works, which he supposedly found documents on? And how can one communicate with Wordpad? And who says it's impossible to take a screencap of a Java application? It's a load of [censored]!
And, what's more, it's completely impossible to have free energy. If anyone can generate free energy, their name can only be God.
And antigrav is hardly alien technology: a late conjencture tells us that some magnets at 80 tesla or above can easily generate antigravity effects. (It's only a conjecture, but as is well known, most physicists are SURE there is a connection between magnetism and gravity.)
(Oh, yeah, and any aliens would have to travel several hundred lightyears to reach us.)
Nice try, McKinnon, but we're not stupid. You're conning gullible people into going against NASA.
Anti-Linux? Oo-er... The EU have just been given another excuse to put Vista's release on hold for another antitrust case.
I've been programming BASIC since six on an old Commodore 64. Now I use Visual BASIC and C - and I'm only 13. Therefore I consider myself a qualified child. Sadly, it's a dying phenomenon which needs to be revived. Hang on - hmm, you've got me thinking...