Not to mention if you order a server pre-installed with Linux you rarely get the bleeding edge newest edition, you get the tried, tested 1 year old version that you know is stable.
I admit, having the ability to plug in a keyboard would be nice, but for the few occasions when it would be useful, I think the built in one would be enough (especially the one on the c700.)
For most data-entry the PC is what I'd use. (either syncing, or VNC)
Game demo for PC: Free download Game rental for PS2: $2-$5 (unless you work for blockbuster)... or do you actually expect to buy every game?
I have a PS2, I'm 26, this is my first console, not counting gameboy and gamegear....The PC just made more sense, but as I am a fan of Final Fantasy and finally had some cash to spend on a console due to a new job I decided to treat myself.
The PC I have anyway, the few modifications it needed for gaming ($99 for a geforce 2, $30 for a nice controller, $50 for a nice joystick for flight sims) were less than I'd pay for a console and memory card, and extra controller (you couldn't play online really till this x-mas season, so a second controller is a must)
I don't think there is a best system, it all deends on what you play. RTS games are far better on the PC (although they could be as good if they supported USB keyboard & mouse on the PS2) many other games are best on a console.
I got a similar letter from Redhat's lawyers for selling umm, someone's Linux distro on CD on e-bay. They sayed go ahead and sell it if you like (GPL licence and all that...) but DON'T call it Redhat or anything that suggests red hat (rouge chapeau, greenhat etc.) I tried to explain that what I was selling really WAS RedHat, burned from the psyche ISOs I downloaded from Redhat, and that I wasn't even really making a profit, just getting the product out there for those who couldn't log in to the damned FTP mirrors..... they care not if it is actually good for the company in the long run (more users potentially buying support) they only care that the trademark is being used by someone unauthorized.
I've been watching the Zaurus line for a replacement for my aging Visor Deluxe...this may be the one I buy. (It's English release ought to be timed nicely for when I'll actually have cash too.:)
Why is it that people assume a large mp3 collection is pirated?
I'm with you all the way, CDs are a half decent way to purchase music, but for daily use mp3/ogg/fill-in-your-favorite-codec is the way to go. I have almost completed my conversion of ALL my CDs to ogg which I can listen to on my PC (where I spend a good bit of my time) on my stereo (via my qcast enabled PS2) or on my windows PC in the basement (via winamp)
Sure it was a little expensive to do this (required an extra 6 gigs or so of storage that could have been used for something else), but I was buying a harddrive for the windows PC anyway, so I just got a big one, moved my Linux onto that and gave the old one to windows....but the convenience of never having to search for that CD I want is worth it to me....and now I have the space I'm going to want in a few months for photo and video editing.
If you read the article, you'd know the answer to that question.:) It was 120mm. (in the text under the butterfly picture near the bottom of the article.)
I already use WMP on top of crossover wine, it'd be nice to have a native port....either that or an OSS way of reading ALL of the codecs it supports. Just when you think you've got 'em all covered someone posts an audio or video file that I can't access any other way.
...but am I wrong in thinking that this method is fundamentally flawed?
"Isaac Newton thought the influence of gravity was instantaneous, but Einstein assumed it traveled at the speed of light and built this into his 1915 general theory of relativity"
"Kopeikin found another way. He reworked the equations of general relativity to express the gravitational field of a moving body in terms of its mass, velocity and the speed of gravity. If you could measure the gravitational field of Jupiter, while knowing its mass and velocity, you could work out the speed of gravity."...wouldn't that mean that the equations he started with were based on the assumption that gravity was the speed of light, therefore if he re-works these equations to take the known mass and velocity and give a number equaling the speed of gravity it SHOULD come out as the speed of light, not because that's the right answer, but because that's the value the original equation was based on??
Actually I think it was Oracle that originally came up with the idea that all files should be items in a database. They pitched an idea of a system with no taditional filesystem at all a few years back, and the demo was pretty interesting, but I don't think they got anywhere with it.
Not entirely true, the albeit small, family run, community based, cable co I worked for for the past 3 years (up until I got a better paying gov't job) used actual physical traps... they tried the adressable box thing and decided it was more to their advantage to give all the tvs in the same house the same services using physical traps in the distribution. This meant that if you got the movie tier on one TV you got it on ALL your TVs, and all without a box....using ordinary "cable ready TVs" as they were designed to be used.
The advent of Digital only channels meant that they were forced to use a box because there was no standard for digital signal delivery.
NOW they could throw away the boxes....once everyone has a new "Digital cable ready TV"
1) Standardize digital cable TV reception in TV sets so as to eliminate set-top boxes -- meaning that your TV will, after 30 years of cable TV imprisonment, finally regain the ability to CHANGE THE DAMNED CHANNEL. Thanks, guys, but I would rather've seen you do this in 1980, when you first forced me to use your stupid boxes.
Um, depending on what Cable Co. you are with you COULD do that since the 80's (assuming your TV was bought in the 80's and "Cable ready")...of course your old 50's set would still get all 12 channels it's capable of tuning in on cable.
I know I probably shouldn't feed the trolls, but c'mon man, have you ever actually looked at linux?
in the past 6 years (that would be since 1996) Not only has the eye candy and hardware support gotten better, but Linux pioneered the software firewall, installation and upgrade routines have improved, clustering has been introduced, loads of new applications have been developed for it, a windows API compatibility layer has almost been completed, support for several new filesystems have been added (some of them journaling systems) many many performance improvements have been made, several distros have agreed upon certain standards that they will all support....and much more that I can't think of right now.
That's not to say improvements of equal value haven't been made on other OSes, but there certainly HAVE been improvements on the Linux platform in the past 6 years.
I find as time goes on I'm buying fewer and fewer CDs. Maybe it's just that my musical tastes are changing.
More and more of the music I listen to is put out by artists who are not on major labels and I think if this is how the major labels are going to treat the buyers then that is only going to continue.
Yes, I do buy an aweful lot of CD-Rs compared to CDs (this year about 300 to one), but I've NEVER burned a CD-R of music I wasn't entitled to. That is, music I had written permission from the artist to make copies of (one of my hobbies recently has been collecting music for an online radio station that hasn't gotten off the ground yet... all of it with full permission from the artists and copyright owners to make MP3 copies for use by the station to by-pass RIAA efforts to tax the hell out of the little guy. In that capacity I've made live recordings of some indie bands with their permission and even been asked to send them copies)
On the other hand, most of the CD-Rs I burn are chock full of free software (open source or otherwise freely distributable) so I resent music industry efforts to make me pay the big labels for the right to buy blank CD-Rs, NONE of which will be used to copy thier "property".
... as a follow-up, what I'd LIKE to use P2P for is ISO images for new Linux distributions and other large, timely downloads, but not enough people share this sort of thing.
Illegal: Downloading Southpark and Osbournes episodes before they air in Canada.
Downloading music from bands I've heard about but haven't heard their music yet so I can decide if I want to buy the CD (that one shouldn't be illegal but it is)
Legal: Downloading MP3s distributed by bands without a major record label.
Downloading e-texts (most of the ones I've found on P2P networks are freely distributable
Downloading Divx/mpg movie trailers when I can't get on the sites.
Downloading Divx/mpg videos that were created to be freely distributed
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Not to mention if you order a server pre-installed with Linux you rarely get the bleeding edge newest edition, you get the tried, tested 1 year old version that you know is stable.
To help reduce the number of missing programs next time why not use rpm -qa to get a list of what is currently installed, then install from the list?
There is already a consumer grade MPEG2 video tape format (although I haven't heard of a camcorder that uses it)
DVHS - http://www.dvhsmovie.com/home.asp
Actually I'd equate "#xbins on IRC" to "index.html on the web" :)
I admit, having the ability to plug in a keyboard would be nice, but for the few occasions when it would be useful, I think the built in one would be enough (especially the one on the c700.)
For most data-entry the PC is what I'd use. (either syncing, or VNC)
I think it comes down to these numbers:
... or do you actually expect to buy every game?
...The PC just made more sense, but as I am a fan of Final Fantasy and finally had some cash to spend on a console due to a new job I decided to treat myself.
Game demo for PC: Free download
Game rental for PS2: $2-$5 (unless you work for blockbuster)
I have a PS2, I'm 26, this is my first console, not counting gameboy and gamegear.
The PC I have anyway, the few modifications it needed for gaming ($99 for a geforce 2, $30 for a nice controller, $50 for a nice joystick for flight sims) were less than I'd pay for a console and memory card, and extra controller (you couldn't play online really till this x-mas season, so a second controller is a must)
I don't think there is a best system, it all deends on what you play. RTS games are far better on the PC (although they could be as good if they supported USB keyboard & mouse on the PS2) many other games are best on a console.
try insurance benefit. I see this as no different than VIN #'s etched in the window glass.
I got a similar letter from Redhat's lawyers for selling umm, someone's Linux distro on CD on e-bay. They sayed go ahead and sell it if you like (GPL licence and all that...) but DON'T call it Redhat or anything that suggests red hat (rouge chapeau, greenhat etc.) I tried to explain that what I was selling really WAS RedHat, burned from the psyche ISOs I downloaded from Redhat, and that I wasn't even really making a profit, just getting the product out there for those who couldn't log in to the damned FTP mirrors. .... they care not if it is actually good for the company in the long run (more users potentially buying support) they only care that the trademark is being used by someone unauthorized.
Drool...
...this may be the one I buy. (It's English release ought to be timed nicely for when I'll actually have cash too. :)
I've been watching the Zaurus line for a replacement for my aging Visor Deluxe
Why is it that people assume a large mp3 collection is pirated?
...but the convenience of never having to search for that CD I want is worth it to me. ...and now I have the space I'm going to want in a few months for photo and video editing.
I'm with you all the way, CDs are a half decent way to purchase music, but for daily use mp3/ogg/fill-in-your-favorite-codec is the way to go. I have almost completed my conversion of ALL my CDs to ogg which I can listen to on my PC (where I spend a good bit of my time) on my stereo (via my qcast enabled PS2) or on my windows PC in the basement (via winamp)
Sure it was a little expensive to do this (required an extra 6 gigs or so of storage that could have been used for something else), but I was buying a harddrive for the windows PC anyway, so I just got a big one, moved my Linux onto that and gave the old one to windows.
If you read the article, you'd know the answer to that question. :) It was 120mm. (in the text under the butterfly picture near the bottom of the article.)
I already use WMP on top of crossover wine, it'd be nice to have a native port. ...either that or an OSS way of reading ALL of the codecs it supports. Just when you think you've got 'em all covered someone posts an audio or video file that I can't access any other way.
"Isaac Newton thought the influence of gravity was instantaneous, but Einstein
assumed it traveled at the speed of light and built this into his 1915
general theory of relativity"
"Kopeikin found another way. He reworked the equations of general relativity
to express the gravitational field of a moving body in terms of its mass,
velocity and the speed of gravity. If you could measure the gravitational
field of Jupiter, while knowing its mass and velocity, you could work out
the speed of gravity."
assumption that gravity was the speed of light, therefore if he re-works these
equations to take the known mass and velocity and give a number equaling the
speed of gravity it SHOULD come out as the speed of light, not because that's
the right answer, but because that's the value the original equation was
based on??
Actually I think it was Oracle that originally came up with the idea that all files should be items in a database. They pitched an idea of a system with no taditional filesystem at all a few years back, and the demo was pretty interesting, but I don't think they got anywhere with it.
Not entirely true, the albeit small, family run, community based, cable co I worked for for the past 3 years (up until I got a better paying gov't job) used actual physical traps... they tried the adressable box thing and decided it was more to their advantage to give all the tvs in the same house the same services using physical traps in the distribution. This meant that if you got the movie tier on one TV you got it on ALL your TVs, and all without a box. ...using ordinary "cable ready TVs" as they were designed to be used.
....once everyone has a new "Digital cable ready TV"
The advent of Digital only channels meant that they were forced to use a box because there was no standard for digital signal delivery.
NOW they could throw away the boxes
1) Standardize digital cable TV reception in TV sets so as to eliminate set-top boxes -- meaning that your TV will, after 30 years of cable TV imprisonment, finally regain the ability to CHANGE THE DAMNED CHANNEL. Thanks, guys, but I would rather've seen you do this in 1980, when you first forced me to use your stupid boxes.
Um, depending on what Cable Co. you are with you COULD do that since the 80's (assuming your TV was bought in the 80's and "Cable ready")
Can you trademark well known mythological creature's and hero's names in the US? I'm pretty sure you can't in Canada then again IANAL.
I know I probably shouldn't feed the trolls, but c'mon man, have you ever actually looked at linux?
...and much more that I can't think of right now.
in the past 6 years (that would be since 1996) Not only has the eye candy and hardware support gotten better, but Linux pioneered the software firewall, installation and upgrade routines have improved, clustering has been introduced, loads of new applications have been developed for it, a windows API compatibility layer has almost been completed, support for several new filesystems have been added (some of them journaling systems) many many performance improvements have been made, several distros have agreed upon certain standards that they will all support.
That's not to say improvements of equal value haven't been made on other OSes, but there certainly HAVE been improvements on the Linux platform in the past 6 years.
E-mail me @
rod@powergate.ca
I'll do it for $10US ($15 Canadian if that's easier)including the shipping. I'd send it airmail through the post office.
I find as time goes on I'm buying fewer and fewer CDs. Maybe it's just that my musical tastes are changing.
More and more of the music I listen to is put out by artists who are not on major labels and I think if this is how the major labels are going to treat the buyers then that is only going to continue.
Yes, I do buy an aweful lot of CD-Rs compared to CDs (this year about 300 to one), but I've NEVER burned a CD-R of music I wasn't entitled to. That is, music I had written permission from the artist to make copies of (one of my hobbies recently has been collecting music for an online radio station that hasn't gotten off the ground yet... all of it with full permission from the artists and copyright owners to make MP3 copies for use by the station to by-pass RIAA efforts to tax the hell out of the little guy. In that capacity I've made live recordings of some indie bands with their permission and even been asked to send them copies)
On the other hand, most of the CD-Rs I burn are chock full of free software (open source or otherwise freely distributable) so I resent music industry efforts to make me pay the big labels for the right to buy blank CD-Rs, NONE of which will be used to copy thier "property".
Are you trying to DL one now? which distro? I might be able to mail you a copy for a small fee.
...but for some applications that's ok.
If, for example, you are on the road in a car/rv you could use the cigarette lighter adapter.
... as a follow-up, what I'd LIKE to use P2P for is ISO images for new Linux distributions and other large, timely downloads, but not enough people share this sort of thing.
Well, here are the things I use P2P for
Illegal:
Downloading Southpark and Osbournes episodes before they air in Canada.
Downloading music from bands I've heard about but haven't heard their music yet so I can decide if I want to buy the CD (that one shouldn't be illegal but it is)
Legal:
Downloading MP3s distributed by bands without a major record label.
Downloading e-texts (most of the ones I've found on P2P networks are freely distributable
Downloading Divx/mpg movie trailers when I can't get on the sites.
Downloading Divx/mpg videos that were created to be freely distributed
That's how you do it?!
/release /renew ...and it works on static IP systems!
That's one less line than
ipconfig
ipconfig
Thanks.