opinions from those who have been in a similar situation
Old Ted would suggest you get some nails, black powder, and a lot of stamps. Forget the computer. It's part of the industrialist conspiracy..
Enjoy that remote cabin! Forget the computer. Go out there and run naked. Get drunk in town and tell the womenfolk that you've got a cabin and invite them to come out there and run naked with you. Sure, a bunch of them will tell you to get lost. That's unfortunate for them. The rest are going to come out there and you'll share the time of your lives together.
Largely because of the proprietary format wars, ebooks have flopped commercially
eBooks have flopped because it's not a desireable format for reading large volumes of text. I installed a copy of the Hobbit on my Handspring and spent about 4 minutes reading the first few pages. The lack of contrast on the handheld was painful on my eyes and it was pretty annoying to have to keep pushing the scroll button. A used paperback is an exponentially better medium for reading than an eBook.
Holy crap. I can't believe this hooplah! Batteries do not possess infinite lives. The iPod batteries are NOT PROPRIETARY. Any 3rd party can step in and sell replacements. It's not like these are Hewlett Packard ink jet carts. Apple is not selling iPods at a loss, then charging a fortune for the things that wear out (batteries / ink carts).
If you want to be taken seriously, step up to the plate and tell me how much a replacement battery for a Dell mp3 player costs. Hell. If you visit the Dell site and check out their mp3 player, the silly FM transmitter thing is $50. I bought one of those at Best Buy for $21. The cassette adapter is also $50. Uhhh. I think I got one of those for like $7... or else it came for free with some other crap device I bought.
Many universities are already implementing packet shaping at the router-level. They want to protect their bandwidth from abuse by p2p apps that are mostly used to transport illicit content. They use filters like
Packeteer. I'm curious if the encryption can trick these types of filters.
No. That's port-blocking. Packet shaping examines the protocol and then throttles the bandwidth allowed to that type of packet. I'm curious if the encryption will masquerade the type of packet this p2p app uses and thereby defeat packet shaping filters.
Does the RSA encryption also help defeat packet-shaping done at the router level? If so, then that's also another advantage MUTE would have over p2p protocols like Gnutella.
Say what you will about home ownership as the incentive for individuals to contribute to the GDP, but while we're all owning homes and sprawling our cities hundreds of square miles, countries with lower qualities of life are replacing our industrial production plants with theirs.
You're totally right. Unfortunately, what you're saying is likely to be the noose around America's economic neck.
Right now, because our cities are spread out and we drive cars so damn much, we consume a mammoth amount of oil each day. Our addiction to oil has put us over the metaphorical barrel in relation to the Middle East. Metaphor not as in an oil barrel, but metaphor as in Marcelus Wallace slumped over a barrel in Pulp Fiction while Zed bangs him from behind. The US is so dependent on foreign oil, our current government has made it a top priority to secure a consistent oil fix for our addiction. It's not so politically popular to work on conservation within the US as it is to promise that voters will be able to continue to drive their SUV's instead of walking to the train station in the morning.
It's awful. In the same way that species become extinct when they can't evolve with a changing environment, the United States is likely to lose its economic dominance in the world due to its inefficient transportation infrastructure. So mock trains and the like all you want. In fifty or so years, though, when you're wondering why the US can't support you with social security, or provide you with whatever quality of life you have now, don't you dare move to a different country that had the insight to plan its communities for energy efficiency today. We are all sealing our own economic fate when we refuse to let go of our steering wheels.
Some people are also making this observation about our current
federal sentencing guidelines for drug posession. Taking a ride in a car that contains some substance could give you the same trip to jail this spammer is looking at.
If Tivo goes belly-up, you can bet your bottom dollar that people will reverse-engineer the program-listing updater and provide a workaround probably based on the XMLTV that MythTV uses. Not only that, but imagine all the used Tivo units that would be for sale for $5 or less apiece!
People already can reverse-engineer the guide data updater, but out of respect for Tivo's business model, no one has provided a publicly-available hack.
I own a series one Tivo that I've upgraded with an ethernet card and an extra hard drive. I love it, but I am envious of those series 2 owners who enjoy mp3 streaming and photo album viewing on their Tivos. I've got a lifetime subscription on mine, so there's no way I'm going to scrap my Tivo. But....
I'd like to build a MyTH box. Not only would it give me the new series 2 Tivo features I crave, but there's stuff on myth and freevo that aren't in Tivo. Like MAME plugins and different themes. And don't forget the DVD offloading of shows / movies you can do with a DIY solution.
the other money in this equation
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While evaluating this business model, please consider that AOL might be making a fair piece of change from adware, bookmarks, desktop icons, etc. that it preloads on these computers. I think it's cool they're spreading StarOffice. Way to go, AOL.
You know, this movie is sounding vaguely familiar. But in the first film, didn't the US go to the moon
before it got involved in a long, protracted guerilla war we eventually had to abandon? I know Bush is simply casting about trying to find something to make Americans feel good about the country, but geez-- doesn't he remember what happened to the last 'moon president'?? Or perhaps he is trying to develop a program that will make his successor the next moon president (i.e. get assassinated).
I really wish he would stop pulling stuff like this out of the blue without any build up. Right along with the missle defense scheme and drilling in the arctic refuge, it's really clear that these ideas aren't coming from groundswelling opinion polls, but rather are the product of all his meetings with industrial lobbyists.
You know, it's a little absurd that a country as small in size of Japan would continue to advance high-speed rail transportation to such extreme levels. It's not even a particularly well-suited geography. The rails for such trains must run without tight turns or changes in elevation while the country is extremely mountainous.
Here in Texas, about 10 years ago there was a proposal in the government to implement a high speed rail system that would connect Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Southwest Airlines forcefullylobbied against it and it was succesful at defeating the initiative. We would have been an ideal setting for such a forward-thinking transportation system. Had the rail system been better developed before 9-11, we wouldn't be in such a bind for travel that we're in now. Not to mention how it would help lower our consumption / dependence on foreign oil.
BMWs and Mercs fail to hold their value over time. A ten-year-old porsche can be bought for around $30k to $40k and if it was previously well-maintained, then you'll have a kick-ass performance car that shouldn't have any mechanical problems.
Yeah. I think the ASP compatibility environments are used in some places if you really search. Obviously sun and the others who have developed them did it to help migrate customers off Microsoft platforms. It's a workaround, for sure.
I think the point of the parent and many others is that the niche you are describing will not include mankind. That is perhaps the best argument against wonton destruction of the environment. Humankind can easily paint itself into a corner if it doesn't protect the habitat in which we flourished as well as other species.
The hooks that should really be discussed here is the fact that Wells Fargo was able to get the FBI to work this case and do this leg work of contacting AOL and watching out for this login. The thing that sucks is that if it were my laptop that were stolen, neither the FBI or AOL would help me recover it via this method. Remember the case of that guy in Chicago who was buying laptops on eBay, but never paying for them? Here's
the page describing one victim's success in catching the crook after the FBI refused to help.
This is nothing to be concerned about. Nobody ships data overseas. Just code. Hosting data overseas doesn't make a lot of sense if it's to be accessed by domestic (US) clients.
I don't know how many bit they were, but in the movie "Twister" they had product placement by SGI that featured a supposed SGI laptop. It was ridiculous. They actually had some regular laptop, but they ran a piece of masking tape across the name and hand-wrote 'SGI' on there. Additionally, when a big hail storm hit and they were running for cover, the guy with the laptop held it over his head to shield himself from the falling chunks of ice.. uhh.. how real is that?
WHEW! I haven't seen so many retards bite. This debian troll is awesome! The kook mods and the kooks responding have no idea that this post is complete fiction. Very clever fiction. He's making jokes all along with the 'final solution' reference and people are all, "Are you sure you want to say that in the same sentence?!?" It was
intentional...
And he makes these mods look like idiots by tying in ridiculous methods like 'LISP hooks'... ha-hah! The point of this is obviously to also make fun of all the people who brag about how apt-get is the answer for everything. That's a translation for all you fools.
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Largely because of the proprietary format wars, ebooks have flopped commercially
Yeah. I think the ASP compatibility environments are used in some places if you really search. Obviously sun and the others who have developed them did it to help migrate customers off Microsoft platforms. It's a workaround, for sure.
Good job, Debian Troll!