I just don't think I could bring myself to go into a shop and ask for an OGG player without sounding like a caveman. Also what about all the existing MP3's? Converting from one lossy format to another just doesn't do anyone any good
If I could somehow do a scam and then transfer these winnings into tangible good / money. i.e. say via ebay then I would consider it to be a "real crime". If it is just money only used in the game then its down to the game designers / users to sort out appropriate punishment. Prehaps it could be argued that as ingame characters get better AI could the real world user be accused of murder, though that of course is another can of worms
Though the BBC itself is a big media company as I understand its not to make profit and most of the funding is from the TV license fee so if they step out of line they get their funding cut off (on a very basic level)
I have great memories of our Amstrad 1512, and if I remember it was the first decently priced, consumer accessible PC in the UK of course I have no sources to site this. However the use of GEM as an alternative to Windows and I remeber as a kid having some programs in magazines like PC Plus where you could play games in glourious 16 colours. Of course there was the posh kids who had the hard disk version.
How well does it support hardware? Will my scanner work out of the box like Ubuntu? A "friendly" OS will just work with all your hardware without having to recompile the kernel. As others have said its not the worlds best article
Whilst it would be nice not to worry about money everyone who works on Linux does need money to live off. CD,T-shirts are all ways of helping support the people who give you the freedom of choice. Its not a large price to pay is it?
Looking at this is appears that a company called "NameView Inc" is supplying the ads from the IP block 72.51.27.0 - 72.51.27.255 http://www.nameview.com/
Prehaps calling them on +1 (309) 424-5497 might help to say what a bad idea this is or we can just block the IP range (which is now what I'm going to do)
There isn't hte saying keeping up with Jonses for nothing. People will upgrade to faster hardware just so they can click from their web browser to their email applicaton 0.00001ms faster than on the previous version of windows
What coporates want is support. If something breaks they want someone on the end of the phone that will fix it and stay there as long as needed. They don't want a mailing list where someone might reply. For the home user/semi-serious that is fine but if you have a system that is making a million an hour then you want to have the reassurance there is someone there that can help out if needed
iSCSI is slightly differnet as rather than presenting a file system, it presents a hardware device. So you show it a 1TB device over the network (e.g/dev/sdb) then the client machine can partition that disk up as if it was local. Thats the advantage over just a shared network filesystem
I've got an iSCSI setup using http://www.open-e.com/ (basically a custom debian distro on a compact flash) hooked upto a 3Ware 9550SX with Western Digital RAID disks (all SATA). So the short answer is you can just use normal disks. If you really want it on the cheap you can do a single system with a single disk, although why you would want to I don't know
Its like government advice, one week we eat to much salt, the next week we aren't eeating enough. At the end of the day if someone can afford to pay for this sort of things, not go hungry and enjoy themselves who are we to pass judgement
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I'm going guess its the fox ...
Whats the sound quality like as you are going from a lossy compression to lossless so I guess you don't loose anything ?
I just don't think I could bring myself to go into a shop and ask for an OGG player without sounding like a caveman. Also what about all the existing MP3's? Converting from one lossy format to another just doesn't do anyone any good
If I could somehow do a scam and then transfer these winnings into tangible good / money. i.e. say via ebay then I would consider it to be a "real crime". If it is just money only used in the game then its down to the game designers / users to sort out appropriate punishment. Prehaps it could be argued that as ingame characters get better AI could the real world user be accused of murder, though that of course is another can of worms
Also depending on who the numbers ore fudged you could count the number of cores shipped to make things look even more impressive
Though the BBC itself is a big media company as I understand its not to make profit and most of the funding is from the TV license fee so if they step out of line they get their funding cut off (on a very basic level)
Whats the joke?
I have great memories of our Amstrad 1512, and if I remember it was the first decently priced, consumer accessible PC in the UK of course I have no sources to site this. However the use of GEM as an alternative to Windows and I remeber as a kid having some programs in magazines like PC Plus where you could play games in glourious 16 colours. Of course there was the posh kids who had the hard disk version.
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It is if (s)he's a US (p)resident.
How well does it support hardware? Will my scanner work out of the box like Ubuntu? A "friendly" OS will just work with all your hardware without having to recompile the kernel. As others have said its not the worlds best article
Whilst it would be nice not to worry about money everyone who works on Linux does need money to live off. CD,T-shirts are all ways of helping support the people who give you the freedom of choice. Its not a large price to pay is it?
And this isn't just s/Chuck Norris/Jamais Cascio/g
If you have a few million spar http://www.privateislandsonline.com/ then you just have to get it made into a country
You have to wonder how much of the ad revenue they do get. I suppose there must be a lot of type in traffic for them to even consider this
Looking at this is appears that a company called "NameView Inc" is supplying the ads from the IP block 72.51.27.0 - 72.51.27.255 http://www.nameview.com/
Prehaps calling them on +1 (309) 424-5497 might help to say what a bad idea this is or we can just block the IP range (which is now what I'm going to do)
Trying to avoid looking like a fisher-price play toy would also help..
Many people will still sleep with a pig though...
There isn't hte saying keeping up with Jonses for nothing. People will upgrade to faster hardware just so they can click from their web browser to their email applicaton 0.00001ms faster than on the previous version of windows
What coporates want is support. If something breaks they want someone on the end of the phone that will fix it and stay there as long as needed. They don't want a mailing list where someone might reply. For the home user/semi-serious that is fine but if you have a system that is making a million an hour then you want to have the reassurance there is someone there that can help out if needed
iSCSI is slightly differnet as rather than presenting a file system, it presents a hardware device. So you show it a 1TB device over the network (e.g /dev/sdb) then the client machine can partition that disk up as if it was local. Thats the advantage over just a shared network filesystem
I've got an iSCSI setup using http://www.open-e.com/ (basically a custom debian distro on a compact flash) hooked upto a 3Ware 9550SX with Western Digital RAID disks (all SATA). So the short answer is you can just use normal disks. If you really want it on the cheap you can do a single system with a single disk, although why you would want to I don't know
Its like government advice, one week we eat to much salt, the next week we aren't eeating enough. At the end of the day if someone can afford to pay for this sort of things, not go hungry and enjoy themselves who are we to pass judgement
They will give with one hand, take with the other
Now it means I don't have an excuse to go round squeezing peoples melons (yes I know its a bad joke)
Washes down that bachelor chow real good