This company makes a memory stick so slim it'll fit in your wallet... it's about as thick as 3 credit cards. Works great, very geeky... I keep my backups in my butt.
I have a DishNetwork PVR... I just have the box record it each night and then watch it the following evening when I get off work. The problem with DiskNetwork is that I live in Washington and they don't time-correct their feeds, so I see the east-coast Daily Show... that means the show that's supposed to come on at 11:00 PM comes on at 8:00... RIGHT DURING PRIME TIME on other networks! Very annoying; fortunately, they have a later showing I can record without missing any prime-time shows.
There are two quizzes. One of them asks the 6 questions that were in the survey, and another one quizzes you on the political leanings of the three talk shows mentioned. I don't see what you're complaining about... the article is about political knowledge and late-night talk shows, and the quizzes are about political knowledge and how that applies to late-night talk shows.
You could buy an iMac G5... as far as I know, they're either really close to silent, or silent... if you don't mind a slow-ass machine, you can go back and get one of those CRT iMacs which have no fans at all. Or a G4 Cube, also with no fans at all. Stay away from the G5 tower, though, those are pretty noisy... they try, and they're quieter than most computers at that speed, but they're still pretty noisy.
Also, most laptops can run without a fan for hours on end. Get a good laptop, plug it into your monitor and mouse and keyboard and go to town... another advantage is that you can unplug it if you wanna take it somewhere.
Maybe if third party supporters didn't say things like:
"roundly shut out by the ruling oligarchy"
they could garner enough respect to be invited to the next 'official' debates? People aren't going to respect you as a third party if you're openly hostile to the entire system.
Yes, but the original poster is asking, "has anybody actually sent it to Microsoft?"
A lot of time people on the Internet rant about some product, but they never bother to actually contact the company about it. If this guy actually sent the less to Microsoft that's one thing; if it's just a pointless rant it's not.
Please, we've been hearing about the space hotel since at least the 60s and probably before. There was one in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), I think it was a Hilton.
It's like those damned flying cars. Since the 40s, flying cars have been "5 years away!" You'll be able to buy one "5 years from now!" You can fly above the crowded freeways in luxury!
No one tears up for flying cars... you know why? Because despite being promised every decade for the last 65 years, it's never happened. I've never been able to buy a flying car, and the FAA hasn't even bothered to consider licensing any.
Cry about the space hotel WHEN IT EXISTS, not when some rich jerk promises it, or you'll be crying until you're dead.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it happen... but from my experience, most of these type of press releases are nothing but lies.
Last time, places 100 miles away just got an annoying shower of ash that turned to instant mucky-sticky-crap in the rain and was a pain to clean off the roads.
Because the current PS2 has a hard drive option and people who buy the PStwo (or whatever the hell they call it) might want to play Final Fantasy 11? But they can't. I guarantee this'll bite a few people in the ass... "Mom! I saw Final Fantasy at Bobby's house and it was an MMORPG, can we get it for our PStwo?" kind of situation.
Now if they were announcing the PS3 doesn't have a drive, then you might have a point.
At least software from Microsoft you can be somewhat sure they might have considered the user might not have admin access... at Lotus this seems to be an entirely foreign concept.
Of course, Notes also has two different installers: One that puts its data in its own folder in Program Files, and then the "multi-user" version which (correctly) puts its data in Documents And Settings... why the hell would ANYone use the first installer?
Don't forget us IT workers who *aren't* in the corporate world but are struggling at publicly-funded facilities whose levies and bonds fail every single year when taken to election.
Where I work we have 2 employees coping with 180 Windows desktops, 20 IBM Infoprint 21, 5 Infoprint 1120 printers, about 13 servers, and 2 OS/400 running Midranges. Oh yeah, and we're a medical facility so we are subject to HIPAA and our servers must be up 24/7 or it impacts patient-care.
We don't have the manpower to create policies on all our desktops. I know that everyone on Slashdot is going to declare that I'm incompetent, but I have no training on policies in Active Directory (I came here after managing Novell networks), and every time I start to read up on the subject, there's an emergency... someone's printer died, one of the servers is acting up, etc.
The place can't afford to hire anyone with sufficient Active Directory experience-- hell, they can barely afford to pay me. The Bonds and Levies run in this district have failed for almost the last decade.
What is your recommendation? What do I *do*?
I mean, saying that's the solution is one thing, but implementing it is another. We have some computers that need to be entirely locked-down (patient rooms), some that need to be almost entirely open (marketting and administrative), and tons that are somewhere in the middle.
Yes, but if that's true, then you shouldn't have any need to illegally download RIAA artists because, by your definition, they aren't "true artists" and therefore produce only crap.
Look, here's how the law works now: It's VERY simple, and all these arguments just gloss over the fact of it:
IF YOU CREATE THE MATERIAL, YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH IT. IF YOU DO NOT CREATE THE MATERIAL, YOU CAN DO ONLY WHAT CREATOR SAYS YOU CAN.
Lucas created Star Wars. You can whinge on and on about how he 'ruined' it, but the fact is that because he created it, he can do whatever he wants with it. And because he puts a little notice on it saying, "this work cannot be distributed without express permission from me" that means you can't do it. PERIOD. That's ALL THERE IS to copyright law. It's simple.
If you think it's wrong, fine, WORK TO CHANGE THE LAW, but don't break it! Use the Ghandi method to change the law, not the revolutionary method.
The main problemw ith a GUI is that you can't script them (or not trivially anyway).
MacOS has a scripting language called AppleScript which lets you trivially script pretty much every GUI app that runs on the system. In OS X, they've made it so that for an app to NOT be scriptable, the developer of that app would have to do it on purpose.
So... just because Windows and Linux don't have a good solution to this problem doesn't mean that the problem applies to EVERY GUI.
And while this doesn't apply to this CD in particular, there can be other reasons to use a boot CD for a game. The Gentoo folk (and probably others) have made LiveCDs for popular graphics and CPU-intensive games. The enitre mini-distro is optimized solely for this game, right down to kernel tweaks and patches. For those of us who don't have outrageously expensive gaming hardware, this can squeeze a considerable bit of performance out of a box.
And at the same time it makes it completely impossible to run, say, voicecomm software with the game unless the software you want to use just HAPPENS to run in Linux and be included on the CD. Oh, and if your computer is upgraded with a new video card, the CD is now obsolete because it has old drivers. Oh, and there's no place to store data for the game, such as saves or control preferences.
No, it's a stupid idea. We had to do that with the Commodore 64 because of the limitations of the machine, but there's no reason to do it now... it's just stupid.
Saving lives is saving lives. Proclaiming that Iraqui/Kurdish lives are less important than American lives is ridiculous coming from anyone who lives in a country founded with the phrase, "all men are created equal."
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This company makes a memory stick so slim it'll fit in your wallet... it's about as thick as 3 credit cards. Works great, very geeky... I keep my backups in my butt.
I have a DishNetwork PVR... I just have the box record it each night and then watch it the following evening when I get off work. The problem with DiskNetwork is that I live in Washington and they don't time-correct their feeds, so I see the east-coast Daily Show... that means the show that's supposed to come on at 11:00 PM comes on at 8:00... RIGHT DURING PRIME TIME on other networks! Very annoying; fortunately, they have a later showing I can record without missing any prime-time shows.
There are two quizzes. One of them asks the 6 questions that were in the survey, and another one quizzes you on the political leanings of the three talk shows mentioned. I don't see what you're complaining about... the article is about political knowledge and late-night talk shows, and the quizzes are about political knowledge and how that applies to late-night talk shows.
You could buy an iMac G5... as far as I know, they're either really close to silent, or silent... if you don't mind a slow-ass machine, you can go back and get one of those CRT iMacs which have no fans at all. Or a G4 Cube, also with no fans at all. Stay away from the G5 tower, though, those are pretty noisy... they try, and they're quieter than most computers at that speed, but they're still pretty noisy.
Also, most laptops can run without a fan for hours on end. Get a good laptop, plug it into your monitor and mouse and keyboard and go to town... another advantage is that you can unplug it if you wanna take it somewhere.
Maybe if third party supporters didn't say things like:
"roundly shut out by the ruling oligarchy"
they could garner enough respect to be invited to the next 'official' debates? People aren't going to respect you as a third party if you're openly hostile to the entire system.
If it's completely legit, then why do I hand them $250 and get only $100 back? That's $150 away from being legit.
Yes, but the original poster is asking, "has anybody actually sent it to Microsoft?"
A lot of time people on the Internet rant about some product, but they never bother to actually contact the company about it. If this guy actually sent the less to Microsoft that's one thing; if it's just a pointless rant it's not.
Please, we've been hearing about the space hotel since at least the 60s and probably before. There was one in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), I think it was a Hilton.
It's like those damned flying cars. Since the 40s, flying cars have been "5 years away!" You'll be able to buy one "5 years from now!" You can fly above the crowded freeways in luxury!
No one tears up for flying cars... you know why? Because despite being promised every decade for the last 65 years, it's never happened. I've never been able to buy a flying car, and the FAA hasn't even bothered to consider licensing any.
Cry about the space hotel WHEN IT EXISTS, not when some rich jerk promises it, or you'll be crying until you're dead.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it happen... but from my experience, most of these type of press releases are nothing but lies.
Last time, places 100 miles away just got an annoying shower of ash that turned to instant mucky-sticky-crap in the rain and was a pain to clean off the roads.
Now, 10 miles away...
Yes, it's entirely impossible that I inherited these problems-- I must have created them myself.
God, this crap, and the guy who said, "just switch to Linux," reminds me how fucking out-of-touch everyone who posts here is. Nevermind.
Because the current PS2 has a hard drive option and people who buy the PStwo (or whatever the hell they call it) might want to play Final Fantasy 11? But they can't. I guarantee this'll bite a few people in the ass... "Mom! I saw Final Fantasy at Bobby's house and it was an MMORPG, can we get it for our PStwo?" kind of situation.
Now if they were announcing the PS3 doesn't have a drive, then you might have a point.
Except in Around the World in 80 Days, a Jackie Chan movie that had NO OUTTAKES! Biggest rip-off in history.
Try Lotus Notes sometime. Ugh.
At least software from Microsoft you can be somewhat sure they might have considered the user might not have admin access... at Lotus this seems to be an entirely foreign concept.
Of course, Notes also has two different installers: One that puts its data in its own folder in Program Files, and then the "multi-user" version which (correctly) puts its data in Documents And Settings... why the hell would ANYone use the first installer?
Don't forget us IT workers who *aren't* in the corporate world but are struggling at publicly-funded facilities whose levies and bonds fail every single year when taken to election.
Where I work we have 2 employees coping with 180 Windows desktops, 20 IBM Infoprint 21, 5 Infoprint 1120 printers, about 13 servers, and 2 OS/400 running Midranges. Oh yeah, and we're a medical facility so we are subject to HIPAA and our servers must be up 24/7 or it impacts patient-care.
We don't have the manpower to create policies on all our desktops. I know that everyone on Slashdot is going to declare that I'm incompetent, but I have no training on policies in Active Directory (I came here after managing Novell networks), and every time I start to read up on the subject, there's an emergency... someone's printer died, one of the servers is acting up, etc.
The place can't afford to hire anyone with sufficient Active Directory experience-- hell, they can barely afford to pay me. The Bonds and Levies run in this district have failed for almost the last decade.
What is your recommendation? What do I *do*?
I mean, saying that's the solution is one thing, but implementing it is another. We have some computers that need to be entirely locked-down (patient rooms), some that need to be almost entirely open (marketting and administrative), and tons that are somewhere in the middle.
Do you sit in your fucking basement with a few encyclopedias and a big notebook writing replies to possibly anti-piracy arguments?
Holy shit, so because I was *slightly* wrong about Ghandi means that stealing people's IP is right? Good thing you have it all fucking figured out.
Yes, but if that's true, then you shouldn't have any need to illegally download RIAA artists because, by your definition, they aren't "true artists" and therefore produce only crap.
Look, here's how the law works now: It's VERY simple, and all these arguments just gloss over the fact of it:
IF YOU CREATE THE MATERIAL, YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH IT. IF YOU DO NOT CREATE THE MATERIAL, YOU CAN DO ONLY WHAT CREATOR SAYS YOU CAN.
Lucas created Star Wars. You can whinge on and on about how he 'ruined' it, but the fact is that because he created it, he can do whatever he wants with it. And because he puts a little notice on it saying, "this work cannot be distributed without express permission from me" that means you can't do it. PERIOD. That's ALL THERE IS to copyright law. It's simple.
If you think it's wrong, fine, WORK TO CHANGE THE LAW, but don't break it! Use the Ghandi method to change the law, not the revolutionary method.
Uh. What about it? Is there some relevance? I assume this is a TV show or movie or book or something by the titlecase...
Flamebait? Man, get a sense of humor.
The results...
Nobody who cares about programming languages is popular.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Don't tell me what to do!
You shutup!!
Just a minor correction:
The main problemw ith a GUI is that you can't script them (or not trivially anyway).
MacOS has a scripting language called AppleScript which lets you trivially script pretty much every GUI app that runs on the system. In OS X, they've made it so that for an app to NOT be scriptable, the developer of that app would have to do it on purpose.
So... just because Windows and Linux don't have a good solution to this problem doesn't mean that the problem applies to EVERY GUI.
Will probably eat the USB standard for dinner. Yum!
And while this doesn't apply to this CD in particular, there can be other reasons to use a boot CD for a game. The Gentoo folk (and probably others) have made LiveCDs for popular graphics and CPU-intensive games. The enitre mini-distro is optimized solely for this game, right down to kernel tweaks and patches. For those of us who don't have outrageously expensive gaming hardware, this can squeeze a considerable bit of performance out of a box.
And at the same time it makes it completely impossible to run, say, voicecomm software with the game unless the software you want to use just HAPPENS to run in Linux and be included on the CD. Oh, and if your computer is upgraded with a new video card, the CD is now obsolete because it has old drivers. Oh, and there's no place to store data for the game, such as saves or control preferences.
No, it's a stupid idea. We had to do that with the Commodore 64 because of the limitations of the machine, but there's no reason to do it now... it's just stupid.
Saving lives is saving lives. Proclaiming that Iraqui/Kurdish lives are less important than American lives is ridiculous coming from anyone who lives in a country founded with the phrase, "all men are created equal."