and by running this ad, Snopes, which is highly reputable, is providing an implied endorsement of the product. Man, Slashdot mush *really* endorse Microsoft products then!
Obviously the inconsistent capitalization, spelling, and punctuation in your article indicates that you posted while either multitasking, or showing off your high IQ by browsing/. with vi and wget.
OGG works on next to nothing Actually, I asked my wife for an "mp3 player" with OGG support for Christmas. She walked into future shop and the first salesman she asked pointed out several right away, he didn't even have to check the packaging. I was really surprised, I take it as an indication that it is a fairly common request.
If gp is concerned about being perceived as a "sell-out," there is also the option of handpicking certain companies to advertise for, rather than using an ad service. As an aspiring musician, I would be much quicker to take equipment advice from a musician I consider "good," than some Google ad on a random website, or some goof-ball teenager in a music store.
If you are seeing large hit-counts on your site because you are giving away a quality product, there are probably plenty of ways you can use that "gift-economy" to gain some reward.
I don't understand... so if you're mediocre, then giving away you're product won't lead you to fame and riches? Isn't that a good thing?
This "free" internet distribution scheme just seems to lead to a more "free" marketplace. Instead of crappy product forced down our throats because it is the only thing distributed by big-media over the airwaves, people can actually develop a taste for what they like by sharing with like-minded people and sampling from a freely available resource.
maybe they don't want to maintain the old protocol forever?
XMPP has well maintained, free, server software, and has the added benefit of things like jingle (voice), and a rather large user base (GTalk & Jabber). Considering all they want is for users to use their services, this should simultaneously lower their overhead and increase the value of their services.
This is yet another positive sign that arbitrary incompatibility is giving way to the (old) concept of open standards for communication on the internet.
It's basically Linux with fluxbox, firefox, and some other apps installed on the motherboard (maybe flash) -set up to boot to desktop in a couple seconds. I seriously don't see how/.'rs are thinking so backwards. There's many uses for this, besides quick boot. Boot when you're system is borked, no hard drive, or to install bios updates without having to do it from windows. Not to mention, 90% of home pc use is strictly web based; why wait for a full system to boot if you're just going to check something quick on-line? Generally, I think the lay person will simply consider this "booting to the internet, or firefox or whatever" instead of booting into windows. Big deal, You don't always need a swiss army knife to cut a slice of bread. If anything this will teach people they can use computers *without* windows.
And get that music out through what medium? Radio is owned and managed by the cartel. Internet radio is being killed by the cartel. TV? nope. Free market how?
It's about education. Ignorance allows people to be taken advantage of. If a friend is putting premium gas in their '99 honda civic, I have no problem educating them that higher octane gas is mostly a gimic, and is a waste of money for them.
Similarly, people pay out the nose for ms office just so they can type of an assignment for class, or write a letter to print out. I have no problem educating them about free alternatives that not only cost nothing, but can be transfered from machine to machine and shared with friends.
I think your first and third group are only quantitatively different. Their idea of "reasonable price" just differs. Some of group 1 may be unwilling to pay anything more than an internet connection fee, but others are probably looking for (for example) music at much less than iTune's ~$20 an hour.
As long as these media cartels set the prices and suppress the free market, this problem will be common. Although, netlabels and company are probably going to open up the markets considerably in the next decade.
When I worked for the Canadian military for a summer, the procedure we had was to open 'em up, pull out the platters, and gouge the crap out of them with a screw driver.
Actually, the parent suggests teaching LaTeX as an alternative. Somehow I doubt it would be feasible, but personally, I wish people knew there was a better way to write than putting everything in word.
Text is for writing, TeX is for formatting, word processors? Well, they're for what's left.
I just can't believe people are fine with them modifying outgoing emails to add ads. Way to allow them to make you're outgoing emails both un-professional and annoying.
Would it kill them to generate a random password and put it on the router? My thought exactly, why not use the router serial number or some random code that is printed right on the router as the default admin password (or even WEP/WPA password). By default the router is open to anyone with physical access to it, but locked off from neighbours.
I don't know about him, but everything on my wireless home network travels over SSH tunnels.
(I'm not advocating his position, but "windows" network shares are designed for secured and trusted LANs and are really not appropriate for weakly secured wireless networks)
Why would a hydrogen airship need to be manned? and include a relatively heavy control center? They move slow enough that they could be controlled remotely from a base station, or a vehicle driving ahead. Avoid flying over heavily populated areas and a fire would simply mean loss of equipment, not lives.
It seems like many of these "bad" patents stem from these form applications combining some standard practice with the Internet. Anything done on paper easily transfers to the Internet because the Internet was designed that way -thats a testimate to the Internet's design, not to the bozo who thinks ordering pizza over the "tubes" is genius.
The RIAA doesn't sell music. They are a "trade group" representing several major record labels, ie, they are a group of lawyers providing legal services to the big-label cartel. As long as the big record labels continue to pay the RIAA to sue customers, pay off politicians, and eliminate competition, then the RIAA is giving it's customers exactly what they want.
You're confusing audio compression (ie. dynamic range compression) and data compression (ie. mp3). CD's are very hi-fi until you drop 3/4 of the dynamic range by preamping the snot out of it. They are not cramming more music on to a CD, they are mastering the audio so that all the parts are laud, even on crappy headphones.
You're moving to Mepis to get three years of commercial support on the current version? Oh wait.. they don't sell that. There's plenty of reasons to switch, but this makes no sense. You can still get 18 months commercial support, and both versions of KDE are available in the repositories.
Basically, NO ONE can support KDE3.x for the next three years because the KDE developers will probably neglect it in 2 years. NO ONE can sell a rock-solid KDE4 distro (ie. LTS) this spring because it's simply not ready. So they are *only* providing 18 months commercial support -sounds fair. The only other rational option would be to postpone both LTS versions to 8.10.
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Obviously the inconsistent capitalization, spelling, and punctuation in your article indicates that you posted while either multitasking, or showing off your high IQ by browsing /. with vi and wget.
Your never going to see RIAA signed artists getting 50%, but magnatune has plenty of quality bands, CC licences, and flexible pricing.
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If gp is concerned about being perceived as a "sell-out," there is also the option of handpicking certain companies to advertise for, rather than using an ad service. As an aspiring musician, I would be much quicker to take equipment advice from a musician I consider "good," than some Google ad on a random website, or some goof-ball teenager in a music store.
If you are seeing large hit-counts on your site because you are giving away a quality product, there are probably plenty of ways you can use that "gift-economy" to gain some reward.
I don't understand... so if you're mediocre, then giving away you're product won't lead you to fame and riches? Isn't that a good thing?
This "free" internet distribution scheme just seems to lead to a more "free" marketplace. Instead of crappy product forced down our throats because it is the only thing distributed by big-media over the airwaves, people can actually develop a taste for what they like by sharing with like-minded people and sampling from a freely available resource.
maybe they don't want to maintain the old protocol forever?
XMPP has well maintained, free, server software, and has the added benefit of things like jingle (voice), and a rather large user base (GTalk & Jabber). Considering all they want is for users to use their services, this should simultaneously lower their overhead and increase the value of their services.
This is yet another positive sign that arbitrary incompatibility is giving way to the (old) concept of open standards for communication on the internet.
"windows+revolutionary": 2,050,000
HA! I CALL QUESTION TO YOUR METHODS! (in Stewie Griffin's voice)
It's basically Linux with fluxbox, firefox, and some other apps installed on the motherboard (maybe flash) -set up to boot to desktop in a couple seconds. I seriously don't see how /.'rs are thinking so backwards. There's many uses for this, besides quick boot. Boot when you're system is borked, no hard drive, or to install bios updates without having to do it from windows. Not to mention, 90% of home pc use is strictly web based; why wait for a full system to boot if you're just going to check something quick on-line? Generally, I think the lay person will simply consider this "booting to the internet, or firefox or whatever" instead of booting into windows. Big deal, You don't always need a swiss army knife to cut a slice of bread. If anything this will teach people they can use computers *without* windows.
And get that music out through what medium? Radio is owned and managed by the cartel. Internet radio is being killed by the cartel. TV? nope. Free market how?
It's about education. Ignorance allows people to be taken advantage of. If a friend is putting premium gas in their '99 honda civic, I have no problem educating them that higher octane gas is mostly a gimic, and is a waste of money for them.
Similarly, people pay out the nose for ms office just so they can type of an assignment for class, or write a letter to print out. I have no problem educating them about free alternatives that not only cost nothing, but can be transfered from machine to machine and shared with friends.
I think your first and third group are only quantitatively different. Their idea of "reasonable price" just differs. Some of group 1 may be unwilling to pay anything more than an internet connection fee, but others are probably looking for (for example) music at much less than iTune's ~$20 an hour.
As long as these media cartels set the prices and suppress the free market, this problem will be common. Although, netlabels and company are probably going to open up the markets considerably in the next decade.
When I worked for the Canadian military for a summer, the procedure we had was to open 'em up, pull out the platters, and gouge the crap out of them with a screw driver.
Sometimes low-tech just works.
Actually, the parent suggests teaching LaTeX as an alternative. Somehow I doubt it would be feasible, but personally, I wish people knew there was a better way to write than putting everything in word.
Text is for writing, TeX is for formatting, word processors? Well, they're for what's left.
I just can't believe people are fine with them modifying outgoing emails to add ads. Way to allow them to make you're outgoing emails both un-professional and annoying.
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I don't know about him, but everything on my wireless home network travels over SSH tunnels.
(I'm not advocating his position, but "windows" network shares are designed for secured and trusted LANs and are really not appropriate for weakly secured wireless networks)
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Why would a hydrogen airship need to be manned? and include a relatively heavy control center? They move slow enough that they could be controlled remotely from a base station, or a vehicle driving ahead. Avoid flying over heavily populated areas and a fire would simply mean loss of equipment, not lives.
Only human arrogance would lead one to believe that the [subject of the simulation] are humans.
It seems like many of these "bad" patents stem from these form applications combining some standard practice with the Internet. Anything done on paper easily transfers to the Internet because the Internet was designed that way -thats a testimate to the Internet's design, not to the bozo who thinks ordering pizza over the "tubes" is genius.
The RIAA doesn't sell music. They are a "trade group" representing several major record labels, ie, they are a group of lawyers providing legal services to the big-label cartel. As long as the big record labels continue to pay the RIAA to sue customers, pay off politicians, and eliminate competition, then the RIAA is giving it's customers exactly what they want.
You're confusing audio compression (ie. dynamic range compression) and data compression (ie. mp3). CD's are very hi-fi until you drop 3/4 of the dynamic range by preamping the snot out of it. They are not cramming more music on to a CD, they are mastering the audio so that all the parts are laud, even on crappy headphones.
You're moving to Mepis to get three years of commercial support on the current version? Oh wait.. they don't sell that. There's plenty of reasons to switch, but this makes no sense. You can still get 18 months commercial support, and both versions of KDE are available in the repositories.
Basically, NO ONE can support KDE3.x for the next three years because the KDE developers will probably neglect it in 2 years. NO ONE can sell a rock-solid KDE4 distro (ie. LTS) this spring because it's simply not ready. So they are *only* providing 18 months commercial support -sounds fair. The only other rational option would be to postpone both LTS versions to 8.10.