..Apple should have started up their own cell phone company.;-) Or at least bought some tower space (?) on an existing network. Then again, we don't know how much of this is Apple's doing and how is AT&T's.
Oh jeez, this reminds me of the last company I worked at, where they tried to do *everything* in spreadsheets, even documents that would have been much better in word processors or databases.
In philosophy, some people try to cheat and call things "self-evident." But, really, what's self-evident to you may not be self-evident to me. Likewise with what's obvious and what's not.
Then there's people on the other side of the fence
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who don't even want to think about security. I've got a coworker who detests Ubuntu and swears he'll never use it because he doesn't want to use sudo all the time (i.e. the distribution doesn't have an administrator user by default apparently).
...the American/Puritan work ethic. Why would taking a short nap in the afternoon when I'm having lunch coma be such a terrible thing? Heck, I'll even do it without pay. Won't cost the employer a thing. It's so crazy that we try to pretend like we're worker bots without biological needs and failings.
It's already starting to happen. These are flown remotely (like, thousands of miles away remotely) and have successfully attacked targets in Iraq/Afghanistan.
...not being one of those kids who studied hard and got a really high SAT score. I probably could have gone to a better school or gotten a scholarship.:-(
This is something that really concerns me, because I want to move to a remote location, far away from the throngs of humanity when I retire. Fortunately that's still 2-3 decades off. But broadband access in rural areas in the U.S. is terrible so far. I'm hoping maybe there will be line-of-sight high speed wireless? I've heard that satellite Internet access has *horrible* latency problems, like on the order of *seconds* (not milliseconds).
They got nothin' on the NSA: "NSA's budget for electricity exceeds US$31 million per year, making it the second largest electricity consumer in the entire state of Maryland."
1. BitTorrent that works as well as Windows. I had a devil of a time messing with port forwarding and all that and still couldn't get more than a few KB/s speed. UPnP on Windows makes this a snap.
2. DVD viewing program with deinterlacing that's as good as PowerDVD's, for watching TV shows without all those horiztonal scan lines during motion.
3. Desktop Effects in Ubuntu locked up my dad's computer when I turned it on. He has a modern Dell system too. Pressing the shutdown button in Ubuntu locked up X for me one time. Just general polish stuff like that would be nice.
I subscribed for a month. Nice idea... DRM-free with MP3 encoded pretty well. There are a few problems with it. Lack of popular/big label artists. You really have to like indie rock or whatever they specalize in. Also there's a proprietary download manager, so Linux support is iffy. But, still, competition with iTunes sounds good. Me, I'll stick to used CDs ripped to FLAC.
Now the pixelated censorship box in the films...
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on used CD sales than on piracy. Why put all this effort into lawsuits that make them even more unpopular and give people a rationalization for piracy?
I don't think it's a technical issue at all, it's just what people "know". Whenever I go on a job hunt people ask for my resume "in a Word.doc", as if that's the only possible format.
...something more probable, like making GIMP a killer Photoshop clone or something. Games is just such a competitive and tricky market, and I wonder if there would really be that many Linux people willing to pay for them. Seems like many Linux people in the desktop space are high school and college kids.
...on improving the business model, thinking up new ways to make money by offering better goods and services, people might actually like the RIAA and spend more money. Just a thought.:-)
I seem to recall seeing stories on Washington D.C. and New York City photographers getting hassled for taking pictures. This is kind along the same lines. Does anyone really watch the cam pirated movies anyway? The few I've seen have been terrible quality. Maybe it was just for personal consumption.
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..Apple should have started up their own cell phone company. ;-) Or at least bought some tower space (?) on an existing network. Then again, we don't know how much of this is Apple's doing and how is AT&T's.
Oh jeez, this reminds me of the last company I worked at, where they tried to do *everything* in spreadsheets, even documents that would have been much better in word processors or databases.
In philosophy, some people try to cheat and call things "self-evident." But, really, what's self-evident to you may not be self-evident to me. Likewise with what's obvious and what's not.
Hahaha! Sir, if I only had mod points...
who don't even want to think about security. I've got a coworker who detests Ubuntu and swears he'll never use it because he doesn't want to use sudo all the time (i.e. the distribution doesn't have an administrator user by default apparently).
...the American/Puritan work ethic. Why would taking a short nap in the afternoon when I'm having lunch coma be such a terrible thing? Heck, I'll even do it without pay. Won't cost the employer a thing. It's so crazy that we try to pretend like we're worker bots without biological needs and failings.
It's already starting to happen. These are flown remotely (like, thousands of miles away remotely) and have successfully attacked targets in Iraq/Afghanistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_drone
...not being one of those kids who studied hard and got a really high SAT score. I probably could have gone to a better school or gotten a scholarship. :-(
This is something that really concerns me, because I want to move to a remote location, far away from the throngs of humanity when I retire. Fortunately that's still 2-3 decades off. But broadband access in rural areas in the U.S. is terrible so far. I'm hoping maybe there will be line-of-sight high speed wireless? I've heard that satellite Internet access has *horrible* latency problems, like on the order of *seconds* (not milliseconds).
They got nothin' on the NSA: "NSA's budget for electricity exceeds US$31 million per year, making it the second largest electricity consumer in the entire state of Maryland."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsa
People sue Richard Stallman for inventing the GPL. Terms of the suit include requiring Mr. Stallman to shave his beard.
I play on the Dragon Go Server. It's easy to just spend a minute or two here or there without a big commitment.
http://www.dragongoserver.net/
1. BitTorrent that works as well as Windows. I had a devil of a time messing with port forwarding and all that and still couldn't get more than a few KB/s speed. UPnP on Windows makes this a snap.
2. DVD viewing program with deinterlacing that's as good as PowerDVD's, for watching TV shows without all those horiztonal scan lines during motion.
3. Desktop Effects in Ubuntu locked up my dad's computer when I turned it on. He has a modern Dell system too. Pressing the shutdown button in Ubuntu locked up X for me one time. Just general polish stuff like that would be nice.
I subscribed for a month. Nice idea... DRM-free with MP3 encoded pretty well. There are a few problems with it. Lack of popular/big label artists. You really have to like indie rock or whatever they specalize in. Also there's a proprietary download manager, so Linux support is iffy. But, still, competition with iTunes sounds good. Me, I'll stick to used CDs ripped to FLAC.
...will be even higher resolution! ;-)
Companies like to standardize on one OS/vendor, not have a bunch of variables like this.
on used CD sales than on piracy. Why put all this effort into lawsuits that make them even more unpopular and give people a rationalization for piracy?
I don't think it's a technical issue at all, it's just what people "know". Whenever I go on a job hunt people ask for my resume "in a Word .doc", as if that's the only possible format.
...something more probable, like making GIMP a killer Photoshop clone or something. Games is just such a competitive and tricky market, and I wonder if there would really be that many Linux people willing to pay for them. Seems like many Linux people in the desktop space are high school and college kids.
...smelled something funny in the air around LASER printers. So if I owned a LASER printer, can I collect as part of a fat class action lawsuit? :-)
...on improving the business model, thinking up new ways to make money by offering better goods and services, people might actually like the RIAA and spend more money. Just a thought. :-)
I seem to recall seeing stories on Washington D.C. and New York City photographers getting hassled for taking pictures. This is kind along the same lines. Does anyone really watch the cam pirated movies anyway? The few I've seen have been terrible quality. Maybe it was just for personal consumption.
Some people have been able to run Remedy via WINE under Linux.
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http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=23
...to have "lab fees" for those courses that require expensive equipment, field trips, etc. Heck, we even had this at my high school.
Hmm, couldn't he contribute anonymously somehow? Login via an encrypted protocol and send code under a "pen name" of sorts?