Oh come on now.. how many people do you know that fit into the categories of both "home user" and "I actually paid for my copy of Windows"?
If you bought a computer with Windows installed the licensing fees were part of the price of the computer. Since most users will never install an OS, that means most of them paid for their copies of Windows.
I just ran across the street to my neighbor who's a diehard NT user and danced circles around him with my stuffed Tux screaming "VAPORWARE MY ASS! T UX OWNS J00!".
I went to see a movie last night (Miss Congeniality, very funny) and they showed the trailer for Antitrust. One of the guys who is standing around the computer watching the press conference is wearing a "code poet" shirt from Thinkgeek.
I tried to put a 12 gig drive into a friend's laptop (P133) and it only showed up as 8.
That's an older BIOS thing. I've got an old P200 that sees my 13GB as a 8 but Linux sees it as it is and it works fine. I know that when I bought a Western Digital hard drive a while back it came with a floppy that fixed the >8GB problem.
They want prior art? Check out the screenshot page on my site (devfoo.org). There's no way this'll make it's way through the patent office, almost everyone with a website has some form of thumbnails.
Imagine being able to store 25 full-length, DVD-quality movies on a disc the size of a quarter. That amounts to a data storage density of about 1.2 trillion bits per square inch. A recent development by University of Massachusetts researchers may someday enable consumers to do just that.
Gandi.net is cheaper than that. The price is 10 Euros, which is about $11USD depending on the current exchange rate. I've had a few friends tell me good things about them.
That $1.50 is more than the artist gets if I just get free CDRs from my friend. When I buy CDs I tend to immediately rip them and record it on my MD player and let the CDs sit in a big pile in my room, where it's hard for them to get scratched. -antipop
This is a good point. I have mounds of CDRs people have burned me, but I still continue to buy CDs, many of which I already have on CDR. Why? I want liner notes, lyrics, art, and the warm-fuzzy feeling that I gave money back to the band. The record industry isn't just selling CDs, they're selling a packaged product and that packaging is just as much a part of the product as the music.
I remember reading an interview a few months ago with the metal band Finger Eleven. The reporter asked them how they felt that their new album had been leaked to Napster two months before it had hit stores. They told the reporter they didn't care about people passing their music around, what they didn't like about Napster was that their music wasn't presented to the listener the way that they had originally intended it to be. They wanted the listener to see the art they had made and everything else because it was just as much a part of their CD as the music.
Anyways, that's what I think. The music is important, but so is the rest of it.
BTW, Finger Eleven's album "The Greyest of Blue Skies" is awesome =).
Oh man, I had a Packard Bell as one of my first computers. Those things sucked hard. One day I awoke to find my CDROM drive (state of the art then) no longer being detected by the OS, even though the computer had been on all night. Ever tried opening one of those things? I was gonna add a hard drive to an old PB I picked up somewhere. I opened it up and saw the mounting spots for an additional drive, but guess what? No IDE slot to plug it in to the mobo! wtf!?
It's sad to see what this country is coming too. Want to know why a bill like this is going to be passed? Politicians trying to get the vote of the moral majority. Conservative parents want their children protected from the "evils" of the internet, no matter what the cost. People tend to forget that children are not the only ones using the internet at libraries. What about college students? What happens when someone without access to the internet in their home needs to do research on breast cancer? the Holocaust? religious cults?
The real moral question is not whether you want your horny teenager looking at porn in a public library, but what happens to the people who need legitimate information but are denied.
You too!? I went to the mall last weekend and explained it 7 times! I've never gotten in trouble with it, although I was at a concert a few days back with some non-geek friends and explained it to them. Upon finding out that the code on the back was now illegal, they promptly ran to the nearest police officer and (laughingly) told them I had illegal stuff on my shirt and should be arrested immediately =).
Also, the fact that mandrake is compiled for pentiums is also pretty neat and convenient.
Yeah, it's neat all right until you need to install Linux on an old 486 as a router or server. Security and stability should come first in a distribution, not convenience. Isn't that most of Microsoft's problem? -Antipop
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It's the ++Y2K bug!!
-antipop
Oh come on now.. how many people do you know that fit into the categories of both "home user" and "I actually paid for my copy of Windows"?
If you bought a computer with Windows installed the licensing fees were part of the price of the computer. Since most users will never install an OS, that means most of them paid for their copies of Windows.
-antipop
But.. but... they took my stapler!!
-antipop
I just ran across the street to my neighbor who's a diehard NT user and danced circles around him with my stuffed Tux screaming "VAPORWARE MY ASS! T UX OWNS J00!".
-antipop
I went to see a movie last night (Miss Congeniality, very funny) and they showed the trailer for Antitrust. One of the guys who is standing around the computer watching the press conference is wearing a "code poet" shirt from Thinkgeek.
-antipop
I tried to put a 12 gig drive into a friend's laptop (P133) and it only showed up as 8.
That's an older BIOS thing. I've got an old P200 that sees my 13GB as a 8 but Linux sees it as it is and it works fine. I know that when I bought a Western Digital hard drive a while back it came with a floppy that fixed the >8GB problem.
-antipop
They want prior art? Check out the screenshot page on my site (devfoo.org). There's no way this'll make it's way through the patent office, almost everyone with a website has some form of thumbnails.
-antipop
[proof] that internet companies are bloated
Not as bloated as emacs, eh?
-antipop
That's why I'm applying for "antipop: I put the dot in i."
-antipop
tetrinet.org. it is more addictive than crack.
-antipop
I've been playing since 2 this afternoon and can't stop. I have 2 finals tomorrow... must... stop...
-antipop
Imagine being able to store 25 full-length, DVD-quality movies on a disc the size of a quarter. That amounts to a data storage density of about 1.2 trillion bits per square inch. A recent development by University of Massachusetts researchers may someday enable consumers to do just that.
Can you say "vaporware"?
-antipop
Gandi.net is cheaper than that. The price is 10 Euros, which is about $11USD depending on the current exchange rate. I've had a few friends tell me good things about them.
-antipop
Yeah, but I'm that one.
-antipop
My birthday was yesterday, how weird is that? This is pretty cool, I have the same birthday as Linus' daughter!
Congrats to Linus and his family.
-antipop
Maybe he should GPL his sig so then the changes made by everyone can be enjoyed by the community?
-antipop
That $1.50 is more than the artist gets if I just get free CDRs from my friend. When I buy CDs I tend to immediately rip them and record it on my MD player and let the CDs sit in a big pile in my room, where it's hard for them to get scratched.
-antipop
the container ITSELF is part of the product.
This is a good point. I have mounds of CDRs people have burned me, but I still continue to buy CDs, many of which I already have on CDR. Why? I want liner notes, lyrics, art, and the warm-fuzzy feeling that I gave money back to the band. The record industry isn't just selling CDs, they're selling a packaged product and that packaging is just as much a part of the product as the music.
I remember reading an interview a few months ago with the metal band Finger Eleven. The reporter asked them how they felt that their new album had been leaked to Napster two months before it had hit stores. They told the reporter they didn't care about people passing their music around, what they didn't like about Napster was that their music wasn't presented to the listener the way that they had originally intended it to be. They wanted the listener to see the art they had made and everything else because it was just as much a part of their CD as the music.
Anyways, that's what I think. The music is important, but so is the rest of it.
BTW, Finger Eleven's album "The Greyest of Blue Skies" is awesome =).
-antipop
Oh man, I had a Packard Bell as one of my first computers. Those things sucked hard. One day I awoke to find my CDROM drive (state of the art then) no longer being detected by the OS, even though the computer had been on all night. Ever tried opening one of those things? I was gonna add a hard drive to an old PB I picked up somewhere. I opened it up and saw the mounting spots for an additional drive, but guess what? No IDE slot to plug it in to the mobo! wtf!?
-antipop
It's sad to see what this country is coming too. Want to know why a bill like this is going to be passed? Politicians trying to get the vote of the moral majority. Conservative parents want their children protected from the "evils" of the internet, no matter what the cost. People tend to forget that children are not the only ones using the internet at libraries. What about college students? What happens when someone without access to the internet in their home needs to do research on breast cancer? the Holocaust? religious cults?
The real moral question is not whether you want your horny teenager looking at porn in a public library, but what happens to the people who need legitimate information but are denied.
-Antipop
You too!? I went to the mall last weekend and explained it 7 times! I've never gotten in trouble with it, although I was at a concert a few days back with some non-geek friends and explained it to them. Upon finding out that the code on the back was now illegal, they promptly ran to the nearest police officer and (laughingly) told them I had illegal stuff on my shirt and should be arrested immediately =).
-Antipop
Turtle Beach Montego drivers. Here's a hint: use Slackware.
-Antipop
Be wonderful for clearing arterial blockages, etc...
And if those Jack 'n the Boxes keep popping up on every corner down here in the South, there will be plenty arteries to clear...
-Antipop
Also, the fact that mandrake is compiled for pentiums is also pretty neat and convenient.
Yeah, it's neat all right until you need to install Linux on an old 486 as a router or server. Security and stability should come first in a distribution, not convenience. Isn't that most of Microsoft's problem?
-Antipop
Actually, in a maximized Netscape window at 1600x1200 the topic is a little over a half a line.
-Antipop