Wow! I'm impressed that you're able to find the majority of the content you want in Iceland. I guess I just kind of picture it like finding everything I need in my city (4 million people). Damn, I may just have to move to Iceland...:)
Don't you have satellite? I think your situation would be ideal for satellite. I mean, your latency would be shit, but if you can only get ~1GB a month, that's not a lot.. I probably use that much in a few days. This is online gaming, pcduo from work, stream mp3s from my home server...
So wait... you physically stole something from me and you magically think that because you hold it in your hands I don't own it? Since when has stealing something ever been legal? You never owned it so you inherited no rights to it.
Oh, and what you're describing is called trading. I lend you this, you lend me that. You either let him borrow your CDs or you didn't. There's no mysterious third option that says you did but you didn't. Laws HAVE been broken. You just chose not to report their being broken.
As it stands now, if you were lucky enough to make a backup in the even the original was stolen, lucky you. If not, well maybe next time you'll remember.
If you're going to use an analogy, lay off the crack.:)
The article you linked to, there was a quote from one of the councilmen(?) stating that they are strapped for cash and being locked into something that would cost more down the road was not a good idea. I applaud them for their forward thinking attitudes.
That's looking at the short term picture. MS is willing to "give" away their software to lock in their business later. So, from their(MS) perspective it would be merely future revenue. And yes, I have tried KDE. In fact, that's what I'm currently using. Well, when I need to get stuff done. Otherwise I use enlightenment for the sheer puurrtiness/tweakability of it.
I will say that I was very impressed with RH9's installer. I was disappointed that they seem to think I'm blind and need HUGE icons for everything. Just for shits and giggles, I broke out an old LSL iso cd I bought that had slackware 1.2.13 on it and installed it. How far we have come.... omg!!!
Easy. Firewire. I have a DV camera. I'd like to be able to take those movies, rip them, and burn a dvd. After spending 10 minutes figuring out how-to work Pinnacle DV Studio, I hooked up my camera, uploaded the film, and in 2 hours I had DVD playable in my home DVD player.
Not to sound rude, but I call bullshit. Any system where users are involved require some type of maintenance. Esp. linux. Rarely does something in linux just WORK. Once you've gotten it working, it'll keep going, but getting it there is often a pain the ass.
I won't imply it. I'll outright state it. Billy & friends spend oodles of cash on making(stealing) their software prettier, shinier & easier to use. To further emphasize my point, let's look at the all out flame wars that break out anytime someone mentions that doing FOO in linux should not involve RFTM, compiling it, or caring whether library bar-2.894b-36 is installed. Linux is a geek's OS. It has been since the beginning, and, IMO, it still is.
Linux is for people who WANT to know all about their computer and how it works. For people who enjoy knowing how it is that little box on the floor does what it is told. Microsoft caters to those that have no desire to think of their computer as anything more than a magic box that they magically make work (some of the time).
And just so I'm not completely OT, the city of Munich made that decision in large part to save money. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that a major international hub has decided to embrace OSS, but let's not kid ourselves. Money talks. The diversity of OSS apps may have gotten our foot in the door, but the cash is what sealed the deal.
Why are you posting that as an AC? I mean, it'd be different if it was just a straight rip from babelfish. Hell, the fact that your grammar translating from babelfish is better than most slashdot editor's normal grammar makes me believe you deserve to modded up.
I have a few questions I'd like to see if you (or anyone else) could help me answer.
Are (legible) hand written letters more likely to be seen and/or carry more weight than the standard boilerplate templates that automagically create the perfect sounding opinion?
When I write a letter to my congressman I have always recieved a response. Soon afterwards, my mailbox is crammed full of soliciations from organizations of all kinds wanting money. Now, as I just recently moved into my new apt, I know that they must have sold (given) away my info. Is this standard practice, and if so how do I request to not be listed?
Also, I am concerned at the willingness of legislators to be spoon-fed opinions by lobbyists. It seems as though this would allow an awful lot of abuse/misuse.
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In my office, the big thing is hotbar. Another crapware prog that does nothing but cause more hassles. It is a pain in the ass to get rid of.
I've had to go so far as adding *.hotbar.com to the firewall (I try to allow as much freedom as possible) because I would uninstall it on their machines only to find it there again within a week. Why? Because they all want little cute frilly emails. Then they bitch because everything is taking too long. Hotbar calls home for the stupidest non internet related shit. Stuff like browsing the local network makes this thing reload. What's worse is every email they send has an ad for them at the bottom.
All the workstations up here are P4-1.6's and that thing just brings the system to a crawl. Do a search in goo
That's so dead on to what I'd expect them to say it's scary.
Last night on the News Hour they were talking about the upcoming FCC ruling on expanding monopoli^H^H^H^H^H^H ownership of tv/radio markets. You should've seen the VP of NBC stutter his way through it... Hahaha...
Unless you're a top songwriter you basically get paid dirt.
Songwriters should be allowed to make money off the lyrics since they wrote them in the first place.
That being said, I think LyricFind and the MPA should sit down and work out a licensing agreement with each other to work out a deal that benefits all three parites involved (Songwriters, LyricFind and consumers).
Yes, songwriters should be allowed to make money off the SONGS they write. You're forgetting a key componet of being a songwriter -- the MUSIC. Without it, you are just a lyricist. Just because your chosen profession doesn't command the salary you think it should, doesn't mean you should try extortion.
I don't believe that LyricFind should pay the MPA (sanctioned by whom?) a dime. I would like to see this whole issue brought forth under full public scrutiny. I think this actually helps our cause against the RIAA as it clearly shows that corporations are abusing laws to further their own agendas.
I fully understand the plight of the songwriters. However, this is business. Nobody guarantees you'll make money. Only the chance. I fail to see how a court would be sympathetic to the songwriters.
You don't work for Bank of America do you? I remember hearing that same story when I first started there. I remember looking at the book of funny money and laughing soo hard at some of the crap that got passed off as legit.
My favorite counterfit was the one that had 2 different denominations depending on which side of the bill you were looking at.. $100 front, $20 back. hahahaha...
I'm sorry but I'm calling bullshit. I am sick and tired of some marketing dept. deciding that today they're going to re-write what commonly accepted words/comparisons mean.
It's called deceptive advertising.
Plain & simple. Intel makes processors. Their competitor is AMD. A reasonable person would expect that as they are competitiors any "marketing friendly" term used to describe speed is comparing apples to apples. The layman is not a computing expert. It is reasonable for them to assume that a AMD XP 3200+ would be comparable to an Intel 3.2 GHz machine. This is clearly not the case. I would encourage AMD to re-consider it's naming scheme if it is not offering a valid comparison. Anything less brings squalor to their company.
And for the record, I am a HUGE AMD fanboy. All of my PC's run Athlon chips and I only build systems with AMD chips as the cost/performance has been there. If AMD is unable to keep it's worth, I have no qualms with switching sides.
Encryption & establishing identity go hand-in-hand. I work for one of the largest PPO's in the nation. It is of the upmost importance that identity can be established in addition to providing a secure means to get there.
I need to know that not only can nobody but the recipient get my message, but that said recipient is who they claim to be.
I am in the middle of discussions of trying to move us off of tumbleweed (a la hotmail type secure email) and on to pgp/gpg. I would like to hear more about your experience/difficulties with pgp/gpg (I don't have any. but then again, I've been using pgp since 1997, so any difficulties I might have remembered are forgotten in light of the tumbleweed project).
Okay, first... that's just way more than we want to hear.;)
Second, it's does not make sense to read on in the internet while on the loo. Why not? Look at toilet seats... How many public facilities provide those ohh so nifty, yet utterly worthless butt protectors?
I think that MANY people will have a problem with the idea that the Construction Bob just put his grimy paws all over the display. I mean, just the smell is enough to kill.
Not to mention the fact that newspaper can also be a life-saver should you find yourself suddenly without some t.p. >:)
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Do you work for them or something? I went to their home page and I can't bring up anything on their products, just fluff about management and jobs. Not even an old Wired article from 1999 gets me to a "products" page.
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Have you thought about turning your $100 into a pot for the person who writes the most/best/original (insert code/module you want) for this game...
Wow! I'm impressed that you're able to find the majority of the content you want in Iceland. I guess I just kind of picture it like finding everything I need in my city (4 million people). Damn, I may just have to move to Iceland... :)
Don't you have satellite? I think your situation would be ideal for satellite. I mean, your latency would be shit, but if you can only get ~1GB a month, that's not a lot.. I probably use that much in a few days. This is online gaming, pcduo from work, stream mp3s from my home server...
Uhmmmmm.....
:)
So wait... you physically stole something from me and you magically think that because you hold it in your hands I don't own it? Since when has stealing something ever been legal? You never owned it so you inherited no rights to it.
Oh, and what you're describing is called trading. I lend you this, you lend me that. You either let him borrow your CDs or you didn't. There's no mysterious third option that says you did but you didn't. Laws HAVE been broken. You just chose not to report their being broken.
As it stands now, if you were lucky enough to make a backup in the even the original was stolen, lucky you. If not, well maybe next time you'll remember.
If you're going to use an analogy, lay off the crack.
The article you linked to, there was a quote from one of the councilmen(?) stating that they are strapped for cash and being locked into something that would cost more down the road was not a good idea. I applaud them for their forward thinking attitudes.
That's looking at the short term picture. MS is willing to "give" away their software to lock in their business later. So, from their(MS) perspective it would be merely future revenue. And yes, I have tried KDE. In fact, that's what I'm currently using. Well, when I need to get stuff done. Otherwise I use enlightenment for the sheer puurrtiness/tweakability of it.
I will say that I was very impressed with RH9's installer. I was disappointed that they seem to think I'm blind and need HUGE icons for everything. Just for shits and giggles, I broke out an old LSL iso cd I bought that had slackware 1.2.13 on it and installed it. How far we have come.... omg!!!
Easy. Firewire. I have a DV camera. I'd like to be able to take those movies, rip them, and burn a dvd. After spending 10 minutes figuring out how-to work Pinnacle DV Studio, I hooked up my camera, uploaded the film, and in 2 hours I had DVD playable in my home DVD player.
Not to sound rude, but I call bullshit. Any system where users are involved require some type of maintenance. Esp. linux. Rarely does something in linux just WORK. Once you've gotten it working, it'll keep going, but getting it there is often a pain the ass.
I won't imply it. I'll outright state it. Billy & friends spend oodles of cash on making(stealing) their software prettier, shinier & easier to use. To further emphasize my point, let's look at the all out flame wars that break out anytime someone mentions that doing FOO in linux should not involve RFTM, compiling it, or caring whether library bar-2.894b-36 is installed. Linux is a geek's OS. It has been since the beginning, and, IMO, it still is.
Linux is for people who WANT to know all about their computer and how it works. For people who enjoy knowing how it is that little box on the floor does what it is told. Microsoft caters to those that have no desire to think of their computer as anything more than a magic box that they magically make work (some of the time).
And just so I'm not completely OT, the city of Munich made that decision in large part to save money. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that a major international hub has decided to embrace OSS, but let's not kid ourselves. Money talks. The diversity of OSS apps may have gotten our foot in the door, but the cash is what sealed the deal.
Why are you posting that as an AC? I mean, it'd be different if it was just a straight rip from babelfish. Hell, the fact that your grammar translating from babelfish is better than most slashdot editor's normal grammar makes me believe you deserve to modded up.
I have a few questions I'd like to see if you (or anyone else) could help me answer.
Are (legible) hand written letters more likely to be seen and/or carry more weight than the standard boilerplate templates that automagically create the perfect sounding opinion?
When I write a letter to my congressman I have always recieved a response. Soon afterwards, my mailbox is crammed full of soliciations from organizations of all kinds wanting money. Now, as I just recently moved into my new apt, I know that they must have sold (given) away my info. Is this standard practice, and if so how do I request to not be listed?
Also, I am concerned at the willingness of legislators to be spoon-fed opinions by lobbyists. It seems as though this would allow an awful lot of abuse/misuse.
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In my office, the big thing is hotbar. Another crapware prog that does nothing but cause more hassles. It is a pain in the ass to get rid of.
I've had to go so far as adding *.hotbar.com to the firewall (I try to allow as much freedom as possible) because I would uninstall it on their machines only to find it there again within a week. Why? Because they all want little cute frilly emails. Then they bitch because everything is taking too long. Hotbar calls home for the stupidest non internet related shit. Stuff like browsing the local network makes this thing reload. What's worse is every email they send has an ad for them at the bottom.
All the workstations up here are P4-1.6's and that thing just brings the system to a crawl. Do a search in goo
That's so dead on to what I'd expect them to say it's scary.
Last night on the News Hour they were talking about the upcoming FCC ruling on expanding monopoli^H^H^H^H^H^H ownership of tv/radio markets. You should've seen the VP of NBC stutter his way through it... Hahaha...
Unless you're a top songwriter you basically get paid dirt.
Songwriters should be allowed to make money off the lyrics since they wrote them in the first place.
That being said, I think LyricFind and the MPA should sit down and work out a licensing agreement with each other to work out a deal that benefits all three parites involved (Songwriters, LyricFind and consumers).
Yes, songwriters should be allowed to make money off the SONGS they write. You're forgetting a key componet of being a songwriter -- the MUSIC. Without it, you are just a lyricist. Just because your chosen profession doesn't command the salary you think it should, doesn't mean you should try extortion.
I don't believe that LyricFind should pay the MPA (sanctioned by whom?) a dime. I would like to see this whole issue brought forth under full public scrutiny. I think this actually helps our cause against the RIAA as it clearly shows that corporations are abusing laws to further their own agendas.
I fully understand the plight of the songwriters. However, this is business. Nobody guarantees you'll make money. Only the chance. I fail to see how a court would be sympathetic to the songwriters.
Haha.. point taken. I guess I'm a fanboy so long as I don't end up looking stupid because I'm wrong. :b
You don't work for Bank of America do you? I remember hearing that same story when I first started there. I remember looking at the book of funny money and laughing soo hard at some of the crap that got passed off as legit.
My favorite counterfit was the one that had 2 different denominations depending on which side of the bill you were looking at.. $100 front, $20 back. hahahaha...
I'm sorry but I'm calling bullshit. I am sick and tired of some marketing dept. deciding that today they're going to re-write what commonly accepted words/comparisons mean.
It's called deceptive advertising.
Plain & simple. Intel makes processors. Their competitor is AMD. A reasonable person would expect that as they are competitiors any "marketing friendly" term used to describe speed is comparing apples to apples. The layman is not a computing expert. It is reasonable for them to assume that a AMD XP 3200+ would be comparable to an Intel 3.2 GHz machine. This is clearly not the case. I would encourage AMD to re-consider it's naming scheme if it is not offering a valid comparison. Anything less brings squalor to their company.
And for the record, I am a HUGE AMD fanboy. All of my PC's run Athlon chips and I only build systems with AMD chips as the cost/performance has been there. If AMD is unable to keep it's worth, I have no qualms with switching sides.
I found this at newegg.com
It's 2 ports, supports audio & is only about 90$.
Encryption & establishing identity go hand-in-hand. I work for one of the largest PPO's in the nation. It is of the upmost importance that identity can be established in addition to providing a secure means to get there.
I need to know that not only can nobody but the recipient get my message, but that said recipient is who they claim to be.
I am in the middle of discussions of trying to move us off of tumbleweed (a la hotmail type secure email) and on to pgp/gpg. I would like to hear more about your experience/difficulties with pgp/gpg (I don't have any. but then again, I've been using pgp since 1997, so any difficulties I might have remembered are forgotten in light of the tumbleweed project).
wouldn't that be Technamish?
thanks.. i was wondering what some of those blanks were supposed to be. :)
btw, i'm in houston.... you?
Okay, first... that's just way more than we want to hear. ;)
Second, it's does not make sense to read on in the internet while on the loo. Why not? Look at toilet seats... How many public facilities provide those ohh so nifty, yet utterly worthless butt protectors?
I think that MANY people will have a problem with the idea that the Construction Bob just put his grimy paws all over the display. I mean, just the smell is enough to kill.
Not to mention the fact that newspaper can also be a life-saver should you find yourself suddenly without some t.p. >:)
I always knew that "Studio Magic" button in the Simpson's episode where Bart joins a boy band was really just hiding pro tools & a trained hamster.
It's ultra-broadband. ;)
Do you work for them or something? I went to their home page and I can't bring up anything on their products, just fluff about management and jobs. Not even an old Wired article from 1999 gets me to a "products" page.
Jamie, please consider changing the color scheme. It really is kinda.....bright? I'd be happy with just less color saturation.
p.s., what language is your site in?