Instead of paying $30 to ship your mac off to be recycled, why don't you pay $25 in shipping and send it to me? I'd especially like to recycle one of those g4's for you.
Seems the citizens were forced to obtain pirated copies due to the high cost and having to buy software they did not need to get the parts they DID need.
So that explains why piracy effects nearly industry in asian countries. Its simply due to illegal monopolies and bundling useless stuff with useful stuff. Apparently people wanting to get something for nothing isn't the real reason after all.
"The Inquirer is reporting that a group in Germany has deciphered the information sent to Microsoft during an update using Windows Update and says that information on all software installed on your computer is sent, even that which is not Microsoft's own software."
So now that we know what is sent out, how long until someone figures out how to make it so you can choose which information is sent out?
The service rates vary from $4 to $18/month, the latter giving you unlimited downloads and streaming content and 10 burnable tracks a month to CD. Future plans will include a pay-as-you-burn cost as well, expected later this year. However, the service is strictly limited to AOL customers, making many wonder if it will grab enough attention of the current subscriber base to actually be of value.
Considering that the majority of AOL's customers are on 56k dialup that actually gets connection speeds similar to 33.6, I don't really see how this is going to take off. $18 a month on top of the $25 people already pay for AOL isn't that good of a deal, you might as well start buying cd's again. Broadband + kazaa is cheaper than aol + aol's music service and is definitly more unlimited than anything aol can come out with.
I'm not sure i buy the whole "to google" is a common word. It's not really. As much as I love google, its really not even heard of by most of the aol using masses. While "to google" might be popular with the crowd I run with, it's certainly not commonly used. Isn't there some time limit on how long it is commonly used before other people and start claiming it's part of the english language and doing what they please with it? The whole xerox example is flawed because although people say "to xerox" just like they say "to google" but you won't see a commercial for a Canon Brand Xeroxer nor will you see commercials where another brand claims to xerox documents.
It does grab memory, but just click the memory command on the bottom right periodically and you can free up big chunks. (Insert your own joke about vomiting here.)
What a weird concept, having to control the memory usage yourself. You'd think that they could automate that or something.
Another feature I wanted to add to an editor is to hide all comments at once. I hate having to scroll up and down to find bits of code I am working with that are logically close to each other but separated by copious comments.
That would seem like it would be easy enough to implement. I could see that being useful if you do the javadoc style comments where you comment all the methods and such. You don't really need to see all of that while you are coding, you know (or should know) what your methods do.
There is actually no Constitutional right to privacy. People like to conjure out of of vapors eminating from other amendments, but it is all smoke and mirrors: it is NOT there. I would be in favor of amending the Constitution to add this right.
The Roe v Wade case pretty much estabished the right to privacy, as that was one of the main points used to win the case.
This isn't so crazy, on the discovery channel or tlc a while back they had a special about a group of people who were recreating one of the early wooden subs that managed to stay submerged for several hours and sink some other ships or something.
IIRC, the group managed to get the thing built right at the deadline, the were racing against the clock for some reason such as the weather or because of their permit or something like that. And they got all the leaks fixed at the last minute or so, but then they discovered that the amount of carbon dioxide from exhaling quickly poisened the air in the ship for the one guy that was rowing.
and whether or not they asked for a meal without pork.
It's going to be really hard trying to not make nazi references about this one, considering they are being so anti-sematic. Or maybe we should just be scared of vegitarians as well as jews and muslims.
Luckily for the world, the NT team likes to eat their own dog food. Unluckily, there isn't any indication that the team that released ME even booted it up before they shipped it.
Sure part of the problem is OEM's using crap hardware, but there isn't any excuse for windows me.
320GB? How do you figure? I can put 1000 songs on my 5GB iPod, so that works out to 160GB - a drive size iTunes Feedback [slashdot.org] system, and hopefully they weill release a patch.
Some people rip their mp3s at pretty high qualities.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings ?? If you are going to refer to record labels generically, you should make sure you are actually talking about a record label people have heard of. The big record labels don't have the time or money to sell cdr's with music on them, they can just as easily print too many cds and warehouse them for when they need to have extra on hand.
That exactly why I love Office Space, our printers are constantly saying "pc load letter" and someone almost always says "pc load letter, wtf does that mean?"
If ars technica is reporting it, why didn't they provide a link to the story at ars. We could do without the link to the main website, but a link to the story would be nice.
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Instead of paying $30 to ship your mac off to be recycled, why don't you pay $25 in shipping and send it to me? I'd especially like to recycle one of those g4's for you.
An Apple II, circa 1976, goes for $50-$100 on eBay!
And they sell for approximately $1000 in japan if they are in mint condition.
Specifically, he talked about the savings he claims in moving Dell's Oracle databases from Solaris to Red Hat.
So unix is dead, but a unix-like os is its replacement? He should have said something like bsd based unixes are dead.
You've been able to get "barebones" laptops off of ebay for a long time.
Seems the citizens were forced to obtain pirated copies due to the high cost and having to buy software they did not need to get the parts they DID need.
So that explains why piracy effects nearly industry in asian countries. Its simply due to illegal monopolies and bundling useless stuff with useful stuff. Apparently people wanting to get something for nothing isn't the real reason after all.
The original article is, unfortunately, pay-per-view
Isn't pay-per-view copyright some cable company?
"The Inquirer is reporting that a group in Germany has deciphered the information sent to Microsoft during an update using Windows Update and says that information on all software installed on your computer is sent, even that which is not Microsoft's own software."
So now that we know what is sent out, how long until someone figures out how to make it so you can choose which information is sent out?
The service rates vary from $4 to $18/month, the latter giving you unlimited downloads and streaming content and 10 burnable tracks a month to CD. Future plans will include a pay-as-you-burn cost as well, expected later this year. However, the service is strictly limited to AOL customers, making many wonder if it will grab enough attention of the current subscriber base to actually be of value.
Considering that the majority of AOL's customers are on 56k dialup that actually gets connection speeds similar to 33.6, I don't really see how this is going to take off. $18 a month on top of the $25 people already pay for AOL isn't that good of a deal, you might as well start buying cd's again. Broadband + kazaa is cheaper than aol + aol's music service and is definitly more unlimited than anything aol can come out with.
I'm not sure i buy the whole "to google" is a common word. It's not really. As much as I love google, its really not even heard of by most of the aol using masses. While "to google" might be popular with the crowd I run with, it's certainly not commonly used. Isn't there some time limit on how long it is commonly used before other people and start claiming it's part of the english language and doing what they please with it? The whole xerox example is flawed because although people say "to xerox" just like they say "to google" but you won't see a commercial for a Canon Brand Xeroxer nor will you see commercials where another brand claims to xerox documents.
It does grab memory, but just click the memory command on the bottom right periodically and you can free up big chunks. (Insert your own joke about vomiting here.)
What a weird concept, having to control the memory usage yourself. You'd think that they could automate that or something.
Another feature I wanted to add to an editor is to hide all comments at once. I hate having to scroll up and down to find bits of code I am working with that are logically close to each other but separated by copious comments.
That would seem like it would be easy enough to implement. I could see that being useful if you do the javadoc style comments where you comment all the methods and such. You don't really need to see all of that while you are coding, you know (or should know) what your methods do.
Emacs is everything you want in an IDE
Speak for yourself, emacs is definitely not what I want in an IDE
There is actually no Constitutional right to privacy. People like to conjure out of of vapors eminating from other amendments, but it is all smoke and mirrors: it is NOT there. I would be in favor of amending the Constitution to add this right.
The Roe v Wade case pretty much estabished the right to privacy, as that was one of the main points used to win the case.
This isn't so crazy, on the discovery channel or tlc a while back they had a special about a group of people who were recreating one of the early wooden subs that managed to stay submerged for several hours and sink some other ships or something.
IIRC, the group managed to get the thing built right at the deadline, the were racing against the clock for some reason such as the weather or because of their permit or something like that. And they got all the leaks fixed at the last minute or so, but then they discovered that the amount of carbon dioxide from exhaling quickly poisened the air in the ship for the one guy that was rowing.
It is not very stable and you would gain no advantages in networking between x86 and Macs by using OpenDarwin, since there is NO gui whatsoever.
Unless dont count xfree86 with inverted colors
Is there any real advantage to be had by running darwin on a pc than linux or one of the various bsd's?
and whether or not they asked for a meal without pork.
It's going to be really hard trying to not make nazi references about this one, considering they are being so anti-sematic. Or maybe we should just be scared of vegitarians as well as jews and muslims.
Luckily for the world, the NT team likes to eat their own dog food. Unluckily, there isn't any indication that the team that released ME even booted it up before they shipped it.
Sure part of the problem is OEM's using crap hardware, but there isn't any excuse for windows me.
320GB? How do you figure? I can put 1000 songs on my 5GB iPod, so that works out to 160GB - a drive size iTunes Feedback [slashdot.org] system, and hopefully they weill release a patch.
Some people rip their mp3s at pretty high qualities.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings ?? If you are going to refer to record labels generically, you should make sure you are actually talking about a record label people have heard of. The big record labels don't have the time or money to sell cdr's with music on them, they can just as easily print too many cds and warehouse them for when they need to have extra on hand.
That exactly why I love Office Space, our printers are constantly saying "pc load letter" and someone almost always says "pc load letter, wtf does that mean?"
Does pr0n accurately depict sex?
Of course it does.. Doesn't your gf suck you off after taking it in the ass for an hour?
He explores the fact that new entrants to Computer Science curriculum are typically clueless about what 'real' developers actually do.
That could be because the cs curriculums at most universities fail to actually teach what 'real' developers do.
If ars technica is reporting it, why didn't they provide a link to the story at ars. We could do without the link to the main website, but a link to the story would be nice.
QLI Linux has a few different laptops running linux and windows free, but they weigh in near 7lbs so that might be kinda heavy.