Well I'd be running Linux if my video card and sound card and network card (USB wireless, sadly) would work there....i've tried everything to no avail.
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to put a CD in your discman with a linux kernel built into it, the latest build of apache, and some sort of static content, hook up the remote jack and convert it into a CAT5 jack on the other end, and bam you have a portable webserver you can play music in? or, you can put a disc full of mp3s into it and put streaming software onto it?
OK, so I'm going over the top here, but the Slashdot community has sure seen a bunch of mighty weird webservers...
Well how about taking into consideration the game Bejeweled? It's a simple game that is very very simply designed with (relatively) simple graphics and it's very, very addictive.
In Bejeweled, I don't have to reload, switch weapons, or perform acrobatic feats in slomo like I do in Max Payne. But it's every bit as enjoyable.
I agree that many FINE sites like/. are falling into tough times because there are so many religious readers.
Just please..PLEASE for the LOVE OF GOD...If I don't subscribe immediately...PLEASE DON'T PUT THOSE ******* BONZI BUDDY ADS there...or the ORBITZ ads...those TREE LOOT ads...My brain is already disintegrating.;)
Question. If you use a text browser, how will the ads be any good? There's only so much you can put in an alt tag.
Jeebus. I better burn all of my MP3s onto non-volatile media.
I sure as hell hope that the Feds don't ratify this one. Holy shit, if they do, I am SO joining the EFF when I grow up...
Nononono. The EFF can't be accessed because it is a site that 'aims to subvert hardware copy protection.' Silly me.
However. An idea. Why can't we just keep our old hardware with no copy protection? Or will the Feds come and take our computers, all our possessions, and throw us in jail while they have a giant LAN party with all of the non-conformant computers?
If you compare every piece of writing that delves into something a troll like you wouldn't understand to Katz - yes, agreed, Katz can get repetitive and annoying AT TIMES - then you should be the one packing your bags, in shame.
Fred is a smart guy and wouldn't rant giant loads of trash on his own page as you so allude him to. Give him a break. He's no industry analyst or Robert X. Cringely. He's just a manga artist that vents his thoughts on his own personal web page - just like thousands if not millions of other normal people around the world who share themselves with each other.
So is the problem that each time something gets slashdotted that it goes under a vastly different scrutiny filter? If you're mad at the story, shouldn't you be more mad at the person who submitted it? It's like submitting a story to someone's livejournal!
I can say this too! What I do if I hear about a certain artist, I will download some songs from one specific album. If they're good and i like 90% of them (you have to allow for a few turkeys in every album), I will buy the CD. Easy as that.
Block the keywords 'xxx' and 'mp3' from a port-80 web site. (I found out that if I move my web server to port 60, none of these restrictions apply ^_^)
Use a Novell remote management type system to keep us from signing on to IM programs (OK offtopic...i know...)
But lately people have been finding ways around them, like anonymizers, but iPrism has started to block those too.
People at schools: how do the admin folks there 'manage' our visited sites? just sparking a discussion topic...
I think one of the vital contributing factors was that Music City Records provided the CD playing software that would track user habits - NON-ANONYMOUSLY - and use it for free marketing research.
If this had not happened would the RIAA have not lost?
Have Sega and Nintendo REALLY ever teamed up on ANYTHING? We're studying Communists/Nationalists (Chinese revolution) in class now...OHH MAKING CONNECTIONS! inside joke...
I think that some guys at Microsoft are being paid to leak an address list. For example, a spam to me had a whole list of other 'h' email addresses...They probably have a user list somewhere that they leaked out from MS...
Just some thoughts...We/.ers can never stop conspiracy-theorizing Microsoft...:P
Right, let's clean this act up. My point was that the minute i bought the cutting edge, better stuff came out. Yes, I was wrong about the release within two weeks - i meant announcement.
I'd have marked you Insightful, except that I don't have anymore mod points. Sorry.
DDR is CHEAP, and it's GOOD. But of late it's been getting rather expensive, so the gap is closing. I was still running on PC100 when Crucial was selling 256MB PC2100 sticks for, what? $35? I assumed that prices would stay that way for a while, but when I finally decided to upgrade, the price rose to $60-70.
First Windows 98 (bought the original version four days before Second Edition came out), the Radeon (bought it two weeks before the GeForce3 and the newer Radeons came out), and now this, I really don't have any luck...I either seize the opportunity too early or too late. Doh!
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This is a unifying technology! It will be fully endorsed by the SPA, RIAA, MPAA, FBI,
So they can all keep tabs on you at once?
Imagine how many SETI@home data units that thing could process in half an hour...!
Well I'd be running Linux if my video card and sound card and network card (USB wireless, sadly) would work there....i've tried everything to no avail.
...I run Windows 2000 Professional. XP is too flowery for me...
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to put a CD in your discman with a linux kernel built into it, the latest build of apache, and some sort of static content, hook up the remote jack and convert it into a CAT5 jack on the other end, and bam you have a portable webserver you can play music in? or, you can put a disc full of mp3s into it and put streaming software onto it?
OK, so I'm going over the top here, but the Slashdot community has sure seen a bunch of mighty weird webservers...
Well how about taking into consideration the game Bejeweled? It's a simple game that is very very simply designed with (relatively) simple graphics and it's very, very addictive.
In Bejeweled, I don't have to reload, switch weapons, or perform acrobatic feats in slomo like I do in Max Payne. But it's every bit as enjoyable.
Um, someone eventually has to make it, and whoever it is doesn't necessarily have to be some FP lamer or troll library bot.
I mean, not really as a world power, but more of a country that can kick ass rather than sit on theirs.
Wonder if this could have been inspired from 9/11?
It's nice to see China recognized as a world power...or is it?
exactly...i guess that's what i meant.
It's good to finally hear that a big mega-company like Sony is embracing an open-source OS like Linux.
I agree that many FINE sites like /. are falling into tough times because there are so many religious readers.
;)
Just please..PLEASE for the LOVE OF GOD...If I don't subscribe immediately...PLEASE DON'T PUT THOSE ******* BONZI BUDDY ADS there...or the ORBITZ ads...those TREE LOOT ads...My brain is already disintegrating.
Question. If you use a text browser, how will the ads be any good? There's only so much you can put in an alt tag.
Jeebus. I better burn all of my MP3s onto non-volatile media.
I sure as hell hope that the Feds don't ratify this one. Holy shit, if they do, I am SO joining the EFF when I grow up...
Nononono. The EFF can't be accessed because it is a site that 'aims to subvert hardware copy protection.' Silly me.
However. An idea. Why can't we just keep our old hardware with no copy protection? Or will the Feds come and take our computers, all our possessions, and throw us in jail while they have a giant LAN party with all of the non-conformant computers?
Piro = Fred Gallagher
Largo = Rodney Caston
Well, as user #196596, count me out.
If you compare every piece of writing that delves into something a troll like you wouldn't understand to Katz - yes, agreed, Katz can get repetitive and annoying AT TIMES - then you should be the one packing your bags, in shame.
Fred is a smart guy and wouldn't rant giant loads of trash on his own page as you so allude him to. Give him a break. He's no industry analyst or Robert X. Cringely. He's just a manga artist that vents his thoughts on his own personal web page - just like thousands if not millions of other normal people around the world who share themselves with each other.
So is the problem that each time something gets slashdotted that it goes under a vastly different scrutiny filter? If you're mad at the story, shouldn't you be more mad at the person who submitted it? It's like submitting a story to someone's livejournal!
I rest my case.
I can say this too!
What I do if I hear about a certain artist, I will download some songs from one specific album. If they're good and i like 90% of them (you have to allow for a few turkeys in every album), I will buy the CD. Easy as that.
Sorry...the iPrism link is http://www.iprism.net/
The other one goes to 'RocketSearch' >_
PLEASE DON'T MOD THIS DOWN AS I AM ONLY CORRECTING MYSELF.
- Use the iPrism filter that is updated regularly
- Block the keywords 'xxx' and 'mp3' from a port-80 web site. (I found out that if I move my web server to port 60, none of these restrictions apply ^_^)
- Use a Novell remote management type system to keep us from signing on to IM programs (OK offtopic...i know...)
But lately people have been finding ways around them, like anonymizers, but iPrism has started to block those too.People at schools: how do the admin folks there 'manage' our visited sites? just sparking a discussion topic...
I think one of the vital contributing factors was that Music City Records provided the CD playing software that would track user habits - NON-ANONYMOUSLY - and use it for free marketing research.
If this had not happened would the RIAA have not lost?
Have Sega and Nintendo REALLY ever teamed up on ANYTHING? We're studying Communists/Nationalists (Chinese revolution) in class now...OHH MAKING CONNECTIONS! inside joke...
I think that some guys at Microsoft are being paid to leak an address list. For example, a spam to me had a whole list of other 'h' email addresses...They probably have a user list somewhere that they leaked out from MS...
/.ers can never stop conspiracy-theorizing Microsoft...:P
Just some thoughts...We
Right, let's clean this act up. My point was that the minute i bought the cutting edge, better stuff came out. Yes, I was wrong about the release within two weeks - i meant announcement.
Sorry for any confusion. meep.
I'd have marked you Insightful, except that I don't have anymore mod points. Sorry.
DDR is CHEAP, and it's GOOD. But of late it's been getting rather expensive, so the gap is closing. I was still running on PC100 when Crucial was selling 256MB PC2100 sticks for, what? $35? I assumed that prices would stay that way for a while, but when I finally decided to upgrade, the price rose to $60-70.
First Windows 98 (bought the original version four days before Second Edition came out), the Radeon (bought it two weeks before the GeForce3 and the newer Radeons came out), and now this, I really don't have any luck...I either seize the opportunity too early or too late. Doh!
Wow. That's a pretty good deal...I bought my Radeon for $200 (a VERY good deal - considering built in video in/out and hardware DVD decoder included)
The $299 price tag doesn't seem realistic for a company that has been making good money selling stuff for $400+.
Might want to upgrade yet. Hmm. Looks pretty too ^_^