90% OF DESKTOP USERS ARE NOT GOING TO USE LINUX. This article plays upon one of the dumber arguments for Windows VS. Linux, as opposed to what the user may want. If you dislike microsoft, like commands lines and lots of typing, and major stability, use Linux. If you like being able to use most commercial software when it is released, do not care about crashes, and like to keep up to date on computing hardware, use Windows. Granted, these are not full arguments, but this guy just penned the article as if he was 30 minutes away from the deadline. All the wrong reasons. Nothing but tripe.
Thi isn't about musical tastes. Its about the music as a means of ownership and how you can obtain ownership: either legally, through buying the album, or through illegal "Get it off ".
And, yes, i sit in bookstores or public areas listening to bands and they are damn good. doesn't mean I'm not going to buy a Beck CD.
Gee whiz, Napster gets shut down (or put on hold). Maybe you could prove the RIAA wrong better by actually supporting the artists whose various works you have downloaded. But of course, that might be the "Wrong" thing to do considering it allows for the RIAA to continue funding itself. But again, wouldn't it be more correct to support the artist(s) by buying their CD. Moving those CDs equates more money for the artists, after the record companies are done tariffing the CDs.
My point is to show them how mp3s can positively influence how music is sold, rather than bitch and moan and have these "protests" against the RIAA, just proving the point that you want everthing for free, and if it isn't free, then you can roll it up real tight and cram it.
Or you could just use some other service (like Scour that propogates "piracy" in a rampant and uncontrollable manner).
This is good for those who are just about out of the loop for getting DSL or have a Cable company which isn't even equipped to roll out Cable internet in the general area of the Cable building.
You can check for DSL subscription rates and service areas at DSLReports, but they themselves claim that phone companies may disagree with the distance or service areas we provide you with.
Cable and DSL providers are not equipped to handle the millions of people who would love having a broadband connection now, what makes you think they'll remedy this by November 2000, rendering this standard useless? I've been checking with BellAtlantic over the past 2 years for DSL, and they haven't even come close to exdpanding their service area to my home. I doubt they will compensate 2 years sloth in the period of 5 months. Nevermind Cablevision's arcane method of rolling out Cable Internet to its customers (its only available in Rhode Island and Connecticut, while its main offices are in New Jersey). Whatever spruces up my Dial-Up internet connection is a good thing in my, and any other Dial-Up user's, opinion. The only bad part is that I'll have to find a hardware-based modem that supports the new standard.
Blizzard can get on with its legions of fans spending countless dollars on its incredible games. 1.5 million were preordered. 1.5 million .
They will eventually port it to Linux (via their extraordinary and friendly staff, or thrgouh another channel, like Loki), as I have read, and can afford to. If you don't want to play an extremely high quality game, fine, don't buy or warez it. But Blizzard won't be crying about not satisfying the Open Source OS crowd immediately when they have already presold 1.5 million copies. They'll be smiling. On giant piles of money.
By the way, I've heard Warcraft 3 will be released on all OSes at once (Linux, Mac, Windows). This is just a rumor, however.
As to quote or paraphrase another poster's insight "It says news for nerds." not "News for Linux/BSD/Unix Zealots who have nothing better to do than make fun of Microsoft and Windows".
And finally, here's the Diablo II Character Guide for those who didnt catch my Anonymous Coward post above.
It really isn't that sneaky or illegal to find song lyrics, as many fans who went out and bought then intellectual property of the band used the coverslip of the CD (which they bought! gasp!), and copied it onto their website, or started a larger fansite (RadioheadNine Inch Nails ), or maybe the band had the balls to put them up on their own website. If you have any sort of love toward a band and ar eonline frequently, you should have found some of these sites already, posting news about the band and putting up those lyrics.
Here, at the Bergen Academies, ready access to computers institutes one major problem: not using them correctly. They plan to give these kids laptops (which , by the way, are very valuable and are a penchant for stealing) to use for educational purposes, when, most likely, they will be used to download pornography or games or warez or sign on to AOL(*shudder*, especially on an ATM connection), or just do general internet surfing not pertaining to your class (like I am right now:).)
It would most likely detract from their learning experience, especially if wireless networking and internet access is deployed, due to these facts. A better alternative would to give the students a little email server with dumb terminals hooked into printers, so they can email themselves their homework to a home address, and research with NS or IE, and print to a local printer. Or you can post all major assignments to a BBS or calendar hosted by your school (Like This), or by a gratutitous company.
It seems that lack of interest after a "Wow! I can do that with my SNES/Genesis/Saturn/Dreamcast! Where do I sign up?" begins to set in. Such ill fated examples as the American rollout of web-capabilities for the Saturn and the XBand service (a modem that went into your SNES or Genesis that allowed you to play SF2 or any multiplayer game online, albeit slowly, or into a very crappy chat program) faded out after awhile. The usefulness of the Internet game box has yet to be proven with the Dreamcast, as well.
As for other helpful job search engines, I find that Techies.com and Monster.com are two fairly great job sites as well. I like how you can narrow down jobs to a certain merto area.
I think it would be a good chance for a programmer (and anyone who supports them) to begin a SETI@home-like client to figure this out. But this begs the question: if the solution was figured out in the prequisite 2 years, how would the money be distributed?
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90% OF DESKTOP USERS ARE NOT GOING TO USE LINUX. This article plays upon one of the dumber arguments for Windows VS. Linux, as opposed to what the user may want. If you dislike microsoft, like commands lines and lots of typing, and major stability, use Linux. If you like being able to use most commercial software when it is released, do not care about crashes, and like to keep up to date on computing hardware, use Windows. Granted, these are not full arguments, but this guy just penned the article as if he was 30 minutes away from the deadline. All the wrong reasons. Nothing but tripe.
Thi isn't about musical tastes. Its about the music as a means of ownership and how you can obtain ownership: either legally, through buying the album, or through illegal "Get it off ".
And, yes, i sit in bookstores or public areas listening to bands and they are damn good. doesn't mean I'm not going to buy a Beck CD.
Gee whiz, Napster gets shut down (or put on hold). Maybe you could prove the RIAA wrong better by actually supporting the artists whose various works you have downloaded. But of course, that might be the "Wrong" thing to do considering it allows for the RIAA to continue funding itself. But again, wouldn't it be more correct to support the artist(s) by buying their CD. Moving those CDs equates more money for the artists, after the record companies are done tariffing the CDs.
My point is to show them how mp3s can positively influence how music is sold, rather than bitch and moan and have these "protests" against the RIAA, just proving the point that you want everthing for free, and if it isn't free, then you can roll it up real tight and cram it.
Or you could just use some other service (like Scour that propogates "piracy" in a rampant and uncontrollable manner).
This is good for those who are just about out of the loop for getting DSL or have a Cable company which isn't even equipped to roll out Cable internet in the general area of the Cable building.
You can check for DSL subscription rates and service areas at DSLReports, but they themselves claim that phone companies may disagree with the distance or service areas we provide you with.
Cable and DSL providers are not equipped to handle the millions of people who would love having a broadband connection now, what makes you think they'll remedy this by November 2000, rendering this standard useless? I've been checking with BellAtlantic over the past 2 years for DSL, and they haven't even come close to exdpanding their service area to my home. I doubt they will compensate 2 years sloth in the period of 5 months. Nevermind Cablevision's arcane method of rolling out Cable Internet to its customers (its only available in Rhode Island and Connecticut, while its main offices are in New Jersey). Whatever spruces up my Dial-Up internet connection is a good thing in my, and any other Dial-Up user's, opinion. The only bad part is that I'll have to find a hardware-based modem that supports the new standard.
Blizzard can get on with its legions of fans spending countless dollars on its incredible games. 1.5 million were preordered. 1.5 million .
They will eventually port it to Linux (via their extraordinary and friendly staff, or thrgouh another channel, like Loki), as I have read, and can afford to. If you don't want to play an extremely high quality game, fine, don't buy or warez it. But Blizzard won't be crying about not satisfying the Open Source OS crowd immediately when they have already presold 1.5 million copies. They'll be smiling. On giant piles of money.
By the way, I've heard Warcraft 3 will be released on all OSes at once (Linux, Mac, Windows). This is just a rumor, however.
As to quote or paraphrase another poster's insight "It says news for nerds." not "News for Linux/BSD/Unix Zealots who have nothing better to do than make fun of Microsoft and Windows".
And finally, here's the Diablo II Character Guide for those who didnt catch my Anonymous Coward post above.
Theatre of Magic
Junkyard
Medieval Madness
Attack from Mars
These are the most entertaining and fun pinball machines I have played.
It really isn't that sneaky or illegal to find song lyrics, as many fans who went out and bought then intellectual property of the band used the coverslip of the CD (which they bought! gasp!), and copied it onto their website, or started a larger fansite (Radiohead Nine Inch Nails ), or maybe the band had the balls to put them up on their own website. If you have any sort of love toward a band and ar eonline frequently, you should have found some of these sites already, posting news about the band and putting up those lyrics.
Here, at the Bergen Academies, ready access to computers institutes one major problem: not using them correctly. They plan to give these kids laptops (which , by the way, are very valuable and are a penchant for stealing) to use for educational purposes, when, most likely, they will be used to download pornography or games or warez or sign on to AOL(*shudder*, especially on an ATM connection), or just do general internet surfing not pertaining to your class (like I am right now :) .)
It would most likely detract from their learning experience, especially if wireless networking and internet access is deployed, due to these facts. A better alternative would to give the students a little email server with dumb terminals hooked into printers, so they can email themselves their homework to a home address, and research with NS or IE, and print to a local printer. Or you can post all major assignments to a BBS or calendar hosted by your school (Like This), or by a gratutitous company.
It seems that lack of interest after a "Wow! I can do that with my SNES/Genesis/Saturn/Dreamcast! Where do I sign up?" begins to set in. Such ill fated examples as the American rollout of web-capabilities for the Saturn and the XBand service (a modem that went into your SNES or Genesis that allowed you to play SF2 or any multiplayer game online, albeit slowly, or into a very crappy chat program) faded out after awhile. The usefulness of the Internet game box has yet to be proven with the Dreamcast, as well.
As for other helpful job search engines, I find that Techies.com and Monster.com are two fairly great job sites as well. I like how you can narrow down jobs to a certain merto area.
I think it would be a good chance for a programmer (and anyone who supports them) to begin a SETI@home-like client to figure this out. But this begs the question: if the solution was figured out in the prequisite 2 years, how would the money be distributed?