Congressmen forget who they work for (the people who elect them) and just care about fundraising.
The problem is that elected officials don't work for the people who elect them. They work for their party. We don't even get to vote for them unless their party nominates and selects them. That doesn't happen unless they make the party money in the form of campaign contributions.
This is actually illegal, the end result being contamination of ground water. Residential people will usually get away with this, but when businesses retire old machines, they have to be careful and pay a recycler like IBM to take their machines and dispose of them legally. The article is basically talking about how many of these recycling services just ship the PCs overseas to dump there, where they don't have laws against it.
I actually have had your site in my bookmarks for a while. I definitely prefer the crossing eye method to the red/cyan method. I've done a few images like this with my digital camera, though they aren't up anywhere.
One day, I's like to get a second digicam of the same make/model to be able to do "live" stills, like of people and such.
As funny as this sounds, this is the exact problem with 486s. A few months ago I bought a replacement 486 chip for one that had died. When I went to install it I realized that it could go in any way. I emailed the guy I bought it from and luckily he knew the correct orientation (I could not find a motherboard manual on the web).
US Customs know what is inside is not drugs, kiddie pr0n, etc
If you really do want to know, US Customs does x-ray the materials to see that the label matches the contents. In this case, they would have seen some electronics coming from Hong Kong, which, when you think about it, really do look like a gift for under $30. They also randomly open some packages, or will open a package if they see something they don't like (like a bottle of pills). Of course, kiddie porn should be easy to get through customs, they don't care about a magazine, or CD, or whatever for it would probably come in, and if it is on a CD they aren't going to check the contents of the CD.
For many offending items, they will just confiscate and tell no one. This leads to a lot of international scams involving "selling drugs" but they never ship and customs is blamed. If it is a lot of drugs, they will usually let it through and pick up the receiver one they are in possession of the drugs. Then they will try to work up the chain.
No it's not. The thing that's wrong about the DCMA is that it moved copyright circumvention from civil court to criminal court. They didn't throw Sklyarov in jail because of a tort.
We are talking about bundling a preloaded RedHat on here. It wouldn't necessarily be less cost, and they would have a company to call and say X doesn't work/
Windows ME came with the machine. I use 2000 on my work laptop (the one I want to do a reinstall on to reclaim space). Thank you for handing down your judgement while taking the time to understand my situation.
I put in a separate alias for each service I subscribe to. That way I can tell who has sold my address. It also allows me to drop that specific address from my alias list, allowing me to keep the other ones still working but not having to sift through the spam (which is useful for announcements and for sites like eBay where it sends ligitimate notifications). I have one for my wife to use on usenet too. Once that one gets too much spam, I'll change it slightly. that way you can still reply-to and have it get to her.
For those who don't know how, you just add a line in/etc/aliases.
alias: account
One of the advantages of running your own SMTP server. I use DHS for my (free) domains and am running this on a home network off a cable modem w/ linksys router. No, it's not an open relay.
Would be to sell the port for $500-$1000. Basically have it as a development operating system. This would allow intel shops a slightly cheaper way of porting to OS X. Of course, final testing would have to be on an actual mac, but it would be a good investment for a intel/windows only company who wants to enter into the mac market.
> Hour wasted re-installing OS 2-3 times annually
Now you're just being rediculous.
Grrr. Yeah, really ridiculous, as I sit here doing a backup so that I can reinstall Windows ME on my wifes compaq for the second time this year. Both times it is because Outlook Express is crashing in MSOE.DLL whenever it's launched, and uninstall/reinstall isn't helping. The odd thing is that it worked for a few weeks and then started getting worse. Now it doesn't work at all.
This follows yesterday where I did a reinstall of Windows 95 on a friend's computer (side note, did you know IE6 won't install on Win95. Grr). A friend of his father donated an older system to him with a 540MB HD, completely full. After removing all the applications he really didn't need, there was only 100MB free. So, I burned the whole drive to disc, formatted, reinstalled, installed a bunch of apps, and now there's 300MB free.
Last year I did a reinstall twice. Once was due to a roomate incomprehendingly installing a bunch of nonuninstallable spyware while using the computer to surf. I only noticed because I switched.vbs to open notepad and I had no real way of telling what other files it installed. The other time was a registy corruption.
And to top all of that off, I'm presently wanting to do a format/reinstall on my work laptop because about 6Gigs are taken up by OS/applications and I really am not using that much stuff. I tried using DISKdata to show me where all the space is going to and was able to reclaim 2 Gigs (to get it down to 6Gigs), but it should really only be around 4.
I don't know it it really is better on a Mac. I can't see how it would be. They must have the equivilent problems like uninstallers leaving crap around. I even like to wipe the slate clean on my linux box once a year (not because I've ever seen Debian leave crap around when I do a complete remove, but it is easier for me to figure out the software I use and add that than to figure out what software I don't want).
Oh well, at least my backup scripts didn't have to be changed much between now and last month.
And one extra person at a concert isn't going to cost the band anything significant. But inorder for the band to put on a show, it costs them money (renting the venue, etc). To have that train available to ride costs money. It isn't a one time cost like recording a cd. The analogy is flawed because it's talking about a different situation.
Seriously, I'm using Java2D. I'm making a BufferedImage, calling createGraphics, which returns a Graphics2D object, and using all the funky things like cubic interpolation on my scaled background and drawing with Line2D.Float
Now, if you don't use xvfb, then the awt will break, but I'm saying it works with xvfb.
You didn't come here on Sept 11th, did you? While it held up better than cnn.com, it was, effectively,/.ed. There was a story afterwards of the effects of that day on the/. servers and how they handled their performance problems.
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Congressmen forget who they work for (the people who elect them) and just care about fundraising.
The problem is that elected officials don't work for the people who elect them. They work for their party. We don't even get to vote for them unless their party nominates and selects them. That doesn't happen unless they make the party money in the form of campaign contributions.
So, you see, the whole system is just fucked.
Didn't they see the ISOs for free here among other mirrors?
I throw my old computers into the trash
This is actually illegal, the end result being contamination of ground water. Residential people will usually get away with this, but when businesses retire old machines, they have to be careful and pay a recycler like IBM to take their machines and dispose of them legally. The article is basically talking about how many of these recycling services just ship the PCs overseas to dump there, where they don't have laws against it.
Actually, there haven't.
It's not.
Move farther away from the monitor and try again.
Jeez.
Other people mentioned applications, but there is a website that let's you do it too.
I actually have had your site in my bookmarks for a while. I definitely prefer the crossing eye method to the red/cyan method. I've done a few images like this with my digital camera, though they aren't up anywhere.
One day, I's like to get a second digicam of the same make/model to be able to do "live" stills, like of people and such.
Anyways, love the site.
EOM
As funny as this sounds, this is the exact problem with 486s. A few months ago I bought a replacement 486 chip for one that had died. When I went to install it I realized that it could go in any way. I emailed the guy I bought it from and luckily he knew the correct orientation (I could not find a motherboard manual on the web).
US Customs know what is inside is not drugs, kiddie pr0n, etc
If you really do want to know, US Customs does x-ray the materials to see that the label matches the contents. In this case, they would have seen some electronics coming from Hong Kong, which, when you think about it, really do look like a gift for under $30. They also randomly open some packages, or will open a package if they see something they don't like (like a bottle of pills). Of course, kiddie porn should be easy to get through customs, they don't care about a magazine, or CD, or whatever for it would probably come in, and if it is on a CD they aren't going to check the contents of the CD.
For many offending items, they will just confiscate and tell no one. This leads to a lot of international scams involving "selling drugs" but they never ship and customs is blamed. If it is a lot of drugs, they will usually let it through and pick up the receiver one they are in possession of the drugs. Then they will try to work up the chain.
No it's not. The thing that's wrong about the DCMA is that it moved copyright circumvention from civil court to criminal court. They didn't throw Sklyarov in jail because of a tort.
Here's a start to some research.
We are talking about bundling a preloaded RedHat on here. It wouldn't necessarily be less cost, and they would have a company to call and say X doesn't work/
I knew the 1920 response was familiar. That's a dittohead response to deforestation, both picking a low point in forestation and "[ignoring] the fact that much of today's forests are single-species tree farms, as opposed to natural old-growth forests which support diverse ecosystems".
And that is deforestation. A homogenous set of trees is not the same as a forest.
Windows ME came with the machine. I use 2000 on my work laptop (the one I want to do a reinstall on to reclaim space). Thank you for handing down your judgement while taking the time to understand my situation.
Not that I didn't expect someone to do so.
The problem being that once this gets popular enough, the spammers with just unencode the mailto (this is not encrypted, just encoded).
I put in a separate alias for each service I subscribe to. That way I can tell who has sold my address. It also allows me to drop that specific address from my alias list, allowing me to keep the other ones still working but not having to sift through the spam (which is useful for announcements and for sites like eBay where it sends ligitimate notifications). I have one for my wife to use on usenet too. Once that one gets too much spam, I'll change it slightly. that way you can still reply-to and have it get to her.
/etc/aliases.
For those who don't know how, you just add a line in
alias: account
One of the advantages of running your own SMTP server. I use DHS for my (free) domains and am running this on a home network off a cable modem w/ linksys router. No, it's not an open relay.
Because you are dealing with people who don't know peace or want to negotiate / compromise for that matter.
Yup. That's what you have to deal with when you vote Republican.
Would be to sell the port for $500-$1000. Basically have it as a development operating system. This would allow intel shops a slightly cheaper way of porting to OS X. Of course, final testing would have to be on an actual mac, but it would be a good investment for a intel/windows only company who wants to enter into the mac market.
I guess then the problem would be piracy, though.
> Hour wasted re-installing OS 2-3 times annually
.vbs to open notepad and I had no real way of telling what other files it installed. The other time was a registy corruption.
Now you're just being rediculous.
Grrr. Yeah, really ridiculous, as I sit here doing a backup so that I can reinstall Windows ME on my wifes compaq for the second time this year. Both times it is because Outlook Express is crashing in MSOE.DLL whenever it's launched, and uninstall/reinstall isn't helping. The odd thing is that it worked for a few weeks and then started getting worse. Now it doesn't work at all.
This follows yesterday where I did a reinstall of Windows 95 on a friend's computer (side note, did you know IE6 won't install on Win95. Grr). A friend of his father donated an older system to him with a 540MB HD, completely full. After removing all the applications he really didn't need, there was only 100MB free. So, I burned the whole drive to disc, formatted, reinstalled, installed a bunch of apps, and now there's 300MB free.
Last year I did a reinstall twice. Once was due to a roomate incomprehendingly installing a bunch of nonuninstallable spyware while using the computer to surf. I only noticed because I switched
And to top all of that off, I'm presently wanting to do a format/reinstall on my work laptop because about 6Gigs are taken up by OS/applications and I really am not using that much stuff. I tried using DISKdata to show me where all the space is going to and was able to reclaim 2 Gigs (to get it down to 6Gigs), but it should really only be around 4.
I don't know it it really is better on a Mac. I can't see how it would be. They must have the equivilent problems like uninstallers leaving crap around. I even like to wipe the slate clean on my linux box once a year (not because I've ever seen Debian leave crap around when I do a complete remove, but it is easier for me to figure out the software I use and add that than to figure out what software I don't want).
Oh well, at least my backup scripts didn't have to be changed much between now and last month.
I'll play what he's playing.
And one extra person at a concert isn't going to cost the band anything significant. But inorder for the band to put on a show, it costs them money (renting the venue, etc). To have that train available to ride costs money. It isn't a one time cost like recording a cd. The analogy is flawed because it's talking about a different situation.
Seriously, I'm using Java2D. I'm making a BufferedImage, calling createGraphics, which returns a Graphics2D object, and using all the funky things like cubic interpolation on my scaled background and drawing with Line2D.Float
Now, if you don't use xvfb, then the awt will break, but I'm saying it works with xvfb.
That's one way to pay for a wedding, I guess.
You didn't come here on Sept 11th, did you? While it held up better than cnn.com, it was, effectively, /.ed. There was a story afterwards of the effects of that day on the /. servers and how they handled their performance problems.