I think that phone looks pretty tight actually... nice icons;)
cept the only thing with linux devices like that, knowing that it runs linux makes me want to access a terminal immediately.. i want a phone with a terminal!!!!!!
jesus god are they for real? Its just hard to believe that those bastards are still charging $23 a month to have crappy dialup internet access.. Of course they can afford to sell those comps for $299.. i'm sure it wouldnt cost too much more than that for a complete celeron system if you were to buy it from someone else, or get your neighborhood computer geek to build it for you.. it just bothers me that people still pay an arm and leg for a bad internet provider, and a bad PC.. the motivation for searching for bargains has been lost.. i guess thats why people still use m$ windows.. commercialized innovation has gotten the best of the majority..
hahah man.. you guys are hilarious...and totally misunderstood the whole point... i pay a shit load of bills every month just so ya know... which is part of the reason i started this whole convo.
and if you are so retarded, that you don't agree with what humanely said, then we obviously know where you will eventually end up..
the world is built up of nothing but kings and queens that have tons of money and will always be rich, and the people that are poor, definitely stay poor for quite the majority of their life...
why would they even invent something like the opensource community if they didn't have some of the same thoughts as I do regarding this matter? obviously they have no capitalistic views if they want to give software away for free, and share knowledge with everyone in the world.. money only exists because of greed.. and our natural instinct to kill.. its just a simple way for us to slowly kill our fellow man..
its kind of the same thing when it comes the free music community.. the RIAA suing the pants off of teenagers who download music becuz they can't pay their huge salaries due to the small decrease in cd sales... stop downloading music if you support the idea of striving to make money.. becuz you're just like them..
my views are far from communist, but living a world based around more culture, art, and passion, is what we should be striving for.. money is nothing.. and it will only fuck us in the very end.. its pointless.. its hard to convince those who have already been corrupted..
its already happened in so many aspects.. money and music is just couple examples..
it may be a little off subject, but think about the fact that the artists that the majority of world listens to, are nothing but brainwashing TNA video stars.. and have no talent, or passion for what they are doing.. then they end up bragging about their gold plated faucet for their sinks when MTV cribs comes to their house.. they dont think about the millions of people that are dying, struggling, and the huge amounts of other world issues that are getting resolved thanks to greedy fuckin piece of shit bastards, like most of you..
i dont know where everyone gets the idea that you need profits to have a good economy... profits don't mean shit besides bigger salaries for greedy sons of bitches. people will never learn for this fuckin sin is going to ruin mankind.. imagine the world as an entire opensource community... oh what a wonderful place it would be.. think about it for real.. money is bullshit. and sorry for the lame vagueness and reasoning, but its true..
we don't need it.. its just nature's way.. we grow up, and strive to be better than your fellow man.. go to college for the primary reason of graduating, getting a good job that pays you lots of money.. and for what??
its surely nothing passionate... how many people do you know who are passionate about their job? not many thats for sure.. they are passionate about that check they get at the end of the week.. life shouldnt be worrying about money all the time.. which 95% of the world does..
i agree with pretty everyone who has something to say about the button layout of a PDA as compared to a GBA..
however, PC compared to PS2 is a completely different story.. When you spend $1000 of a PC, you're getting every fuckin game system there ever is.. And shit, you can even buy those handy USB - PS2 controller adapters.. i play GTA with it all the time.. works great..
plus GTA on PC is a millions times better than on a PS2.. car insertation, modifications, etc... all the goodness..
I enjoy listening to the radio sometimes when I don't feel like listening to my cds at a certain time.. it'll usually be the oldies station cuz its fun to listen to those when you're high... and some of the talk radio shows like Mancow and Don & Mike are pretty funny.. those would be my only reasons for actually KEEPING radio..
and about the RIAA, it would be so fuckin easy to demolish them.. the Indie music scene has grown so much over the past 10 years, and the interest has a lot to do with that.. I mean its next to FREE to put your band online, and promote the hell out of it.. anybody could do it. and millions of people have access to your music or information about your band..
the only thing artists would be missing out on, if the RIAA was dead and gone, would be the financial backings for these bands.. bands are investments for the record labels.. and i will admit thats it definitely hard to accomplish anything as a band, or should I say "business" without a little help with a decent amount of cash, to get you moving..
if you hate the record industry for the common reasons, like we all do, but see my reasonings for why we might need them, then there's only one way to resolve the issue.. start a new online record label, that lets people download the music for free.. free band promotion.. kinda like mp3.com.. if the site was popular enough, they could easily make enough money from advertising, to fund the bands of their choice, and fund themselves as well..
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I think its mostly because he started the personal computer revolution.. without him, things would be different.. i won't say, "without him we'd have nothing", but he definitely sparked the idea of computers in everyone's home which has lead us to today.. not too fond of the man if ya ask me.. Torvald definitely should of been #1 because this is the year 2003 for christ sakes.. of course bill and steve impacted the industry and the world.. but damn, that shit happened years ago haha.. Linus started a movement, and its been so successful.. a movement based on his morale.. standing up for what you think is right, and actually accomplishing something for just being a hacker, is no easy task..
beos is quite a fun little OS if you ask me.. i'm one of those kind of people that enjoy trying out as many different possibilities for computing as possible.. which includes experimenting with all sorts of OS's.
i think beos is great for everyday, regular computing.. AIM, E-mail, cd-burning, wordprocessing, IRC, whatever it may be, there's usually a piece of software written for the task you are looking to accomplish.. of course there arent very many "advanced" apps for all you crazy users out there, but i mean think about what the majority of internet users do when they connect? the basics...
and what better for those types of people, than a free OS thats easy as hell to install, and is pretty stable?? i'm glad they are still releasing new versions of the max edition.. when
i like a little change in my computing diet.. i enjoy dual booting linux and BeOS cuz it just gives me the opportunity to have a more dynamic computing experience.. something different.. for basic users..
jesus christ.. here we go again... first of all, there are many kids out there that were like me when I was in school..
and what i mean by that is, when a teacher talks about how "bad" or "wrong" it is to do something, we would go out and do it anyway.. atleast thats how it was with marijuana..
second of all, this RIAA shit has got to go.. jesus god people.. gimme a damn break.. a "starving artist" doesn't make money off their cd sales anyway.. we all know they make money from playing shows, or selling merchandise like tshirts and hats or whatever they have to offer.. just becuz some of the artists are too fuckin lazy, and want special imported portabello mushrooms on their pizza instead of regular ones, or bands that can't book their own shows, or get financial backing, are obviously the kind of people that don't work hard enough and are not passionate enough about what they are doing.. yet we all still care way too much to hear those "catchy riffs" and singalong chorus's, instead of worrying about music that actually takes talent to play, and doesn't warp your mind just by making the song catchy enough to the point where you just like it cuz of how many times you've heard it..
since when do all people in bands have to have huge houses and lots of cars?? so why keepin supporting them?? its like giving money to the queen of england for no apparent reason.. just becuz she is the queen.. and its required..
i will never be required to buy anything.. however i'll hear whatever the hell i want..
geesh its just depressing that there's so much good music out there that nobody's heard.. yet we arguing, and filing lawsuits against the music that sucks ass..
i think someone needs to start a community kind of like Mp3.com... where people can download music of all sorts, for free.. But it would be completely up to the artist if they wanted give away their music. and it would be the site maintainer's job to make these bands look appealing to the public. there's a whole world of music out there, yet most people are confined only to what they see on TV.. And that music is over commercialized and of course the record industry is going to sue people that are making their #1 money makers, start to loose cash flow. screw all that.. most music you see on tv sucks complete ass as it is.. you might as well take the time and motivation, to search for good bands that truly put their heart and soul into their music, and merely want people to LISTEN to it rather than worrying about how much money they are going off of the record. if you think otherwise, then this whole thing has turned into a Moral issue.. because the true artist is not out to make money.. Download, Distribute, Destroy is what most Anti-RIAA people say..
regardless if its stealing or not, you're supporting something that has no HEART if you agree with the actions of the RIAA.. and that alone describes what kind of person you are.. and those people that fit into this category always seem to be the same people that make this world a bad place in most capitalistic aspects.
but unfortunately we live in a society where money talks and bullshit walks..
i'm a strong supporter of the free music community, and being a musician, and playing in a rock band, i'm totally against everything that the RIAA stands for to begin with.. its ridiculous to file lawsuits against teenagers for having downloaded music first of all.. There needs to be a GNU, but for Music.. Becuz just like the software industry, the source needs to be free! Open Music! bands make their money from playing huge shows, and selling merchandise like tshirts and stuff.. having their music heard worldwide, and for free, is something thats priceless.. i'd rather have billions of people hear my music, than only a couple that have the money, and the motivation, to go to the cd store to purchase it.. not saying that buying records isn't cool.. because it is.. and people should buy records to support cd stores, not a huge industry whose primary concern is capital and not passion...
I think thesee little drives aree really cool. Great idea. Just pop it in to your USB port and your off! But in my opinion there is a few problems. Such as not enough storage. OOO 16, 32 and 64MB !!!!! Not cool at all. I want something thats atleast above 100mb. At lastly, why the hell is something that small, and butt-looking, so dag nabbed expensive????? I would pay 10 buck for something like that and no more. I mean damn, zip disks are cheap as shit and they aree probably faster and they hold more space. Faster, if your using an IDE drive that is. But anyway. Lower down the price a lot, and offer more storage above 100mb, then I think you got yourself a pretty neat product. Peace...
Well you know what. I think thats just a bogus question. Because in my personal opinion, I've never been a big fan of Mac to begin with. I just don't think an os like OSX should even be categorized with Linux.
I've noticed a pretty big difference in stability over the past couple milestones.. Its still not excellent, but its gotten better. Put it this way, atleast it doesn't look like a shitty version of Netscape Communicator4x with missing buttons and other signs of gayness. Luckily, there are also many platforms it supports. To tell ya the truth, I'm getting pretty damn tired of Netscape Communicator4x for linux.. Its horrible
Yea I agree with you completly. RealTek kinda pisses me off with their genericness. I've had great experience with the DEC Tulip chipset based cards. Very easily supported too. DOWN WITH REALTEK
I just wanted to make a note of something. In 2.2.14 and below, and 2.3 and above, the support for the RealTek 8139 card was listed in the config. But for some reason, its not listed in 2.2.15 nor.16.. Whats up with that? I'm not all about compiling that driver manually.
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I think that phone looks pretty tight actually... nice icons ;)
cept the only thing with linux devices like that, knowing that it runs linux makes me want to access a terminal immediately.. i want a phone with a terminal!!!!!!
lol....
haha.. what a bargain!!!
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jesus god are they for real? Its just hard to believe that those bastards are still charging $23 a month to have crappy dialup internet access.. Of course they can afford to sell those comps for $299.. i'm sure it wouldnt cost too much more than that for a complete celeron system if you were to buy it from someone else, or get your neighborhood computer geek to build it for you.. it just bothers me that people still pay an arm and leg for a bad internet provider, and a bad PC.. the motivation for searching for bargains has been lost.. i guess thats why people still use m$ windows.. commercialized innovation has gotten the best of the majority..
hahah man.. you guys are hilarious...and totally misunderstood the whole point... i pay a shit load of bills every month just so ya know... which is part of the reason i started this whole convo.
and if you are so retarded, that you don't agree with what humanely said, then we obviously know where you will eventually end up..
the world is built up of nothing but kings and queens that have tons of money and will always be rich, and the people that are poor, definitely stay poor for quite the majority of their life...
why would they even invent something like the opensource community if they didn't have some of the same thoughts as I do regarding this matter? obviously they have no capitalistic views if they want to give software away for free, and share knowledge with everyone in the world.. money only exists because of greed.. and our natural instinct to kill.. its just a simple way for us to slowly kill our fellow man..
its kind of the same thing when it comes the free music community.. the RIAA suing the pants off of teenagers who download music becuz they can't pay their huge salaries due to the small decrease in cd sales... stop downloading music if you support the idea of striving to make money.. becuz you're just like them..
my views are far from communist, but living a world based around more culture, art, and passion, is what we should be striving for.. money is nothing.. and it will only fuck us in the very end.. its pointless.. its hard to convince those who have already been corrupted..
its already happened in so many aspects.. money and music is just couple examples..
it may be a little off subject, but think about the fact that the artists that the majority of world listens to, are nothing but brainwashing TNA video stars.. and have no talent, or passion for what they are doing.. then they end up bragging about their gold plated faucet for their sinks when MTV cribs comes to their house.. they dont think about the millions of people that are dying, struggling, and the huge amounts of other world issues that are getting resolved thanks to greedy fuckin piece of shit bastards, like most of you..
i dont know where everyone gets the idea that you need profits to have a good economy... profits don't mean shit besides bigger salaries for greedy sons of bitches. people will never learn for this fuckin sin is going to ruin mankind.. imagine the world as an entire opensource community... oh what a wonderful place it would be.. think about it for real.. money is bullshit. and sorry for the lame vagueness and reasoning, but its true..
we don't need it.. its just nature's way.. we grow up, and strive to be better than your fellow man.. go to college for the primary reason of graduating, getting a good job that pays you lots of money.. and for what??
its surely nothing passionate... how many people do you know who are passionate about their job? not many thats for sure.. they are passionate about that check they get at the end of the week.. life shouldnt be worrying about money all the time.. which 95% of the world does..
POOOOOOOP!
i just wanted to be one of the first people to post a reply
sounds like they want to make a huge cluster..
i agree with pretty everyone who has something to say about the button layout of a PDA as compared to a GBA..
however, PC compared to PS2 is a completely different story.. When you spend $1000 of a PC, you're getting every fuckin game system there ever is.. And shit, you can even buy those handy USB - PS2 controller adapters.. i play GTA with it all the time.. works great..
plus GTA on PC is a millions times better than on a PS2.. car insertation, modifications, etc... all the goodness..
I enjoy listening to the radio sometimes when I don't feel like listening to my cds at a certain time.. it'll usually be the oldies station cuz its fun to listen to those when you're high... and some of the talk radio shows like Mancow and Don & Mike are pretty funny.. those would be my only reasons for actually KEEPING radio..
and about the RIAA, it would be so fuckin easy to demolish them.. the Indie music scene has grown so much over the past 10 years, and the interest has a lot to do with that.. I mean its next to FREE to put your band online, and promote the hell out of it.. anybody could do it. and millions of people have access to your music or information about your band..
the only thing artists would be missing out on, if the RIAA was dead and gone, would be the financial backings for these bands.. bands are investments for the record labels.. and i will admit thats it definitely hard to accomplish anything as a band, or should I say "business" without a little help with a decent amount of cash, to get you moving..
if you hate the record industry for the common reasons, like we all do, but see my reasonings for why we might need them, then there's only one way to resolve the issue.. start a new online record label, that lets people download the music for free.. free band promotion.. kinda like mp3.com.. if the site was popular enough, they could easily make enough money from advertising, to fund the bands of their choice, and fund themselves as well..
"Software is like sex, it's better when it's free. "
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I think its mostly because he started the personal computer revolution.. without him, things would be different.. i won't say, "without him we'd have nothing", but he definitely sparked the idea of computers in everyone's home which has lead us to today.. not too fond of the man if ya ask me.. Torvald definitely should of been #1 because this is the year 2003 for christ sakes.. of course bill and steve impacted the industry and the world.. but damn, that shit happened years ago haha.. Linus started a movement, and its been so successful.. a movement based on his morale.. standing up for what you think is right, and actually accomplishing something for just being a hacker, is no easy task..
beos is quite a fun little OS if you ask me.. i'm one of those kind of people that enjoy trying out as many different possibilities for computing as possible.. which includes experimenting with all sorts of OS's.
i think beos is great for everyday, regular computing.. AIM, E-mail, cd-burning, wordprocessing, IRC, whatever it may be, there's usually a piece of software written for the task you are looking to accomplish.. of course there arent very many "advanced" apps for all you crazy users out there, but i mean think about what the majority of internet users do when they connect? the basics...
and what better for those types of people, than a free OS thats easy as hell to install, and is pretty stable?? i'm glad they are still releasing new versions of the max edition.. when
i like a little change in my computing diet.. i enjoy dual booting linux and BeOS cuz it just gives me the opportunity to have a more dynamic computing experience.. something different.. for basic users..
jesus christ.. here we go again...
first of all, there are many kids out there that were like me when I was in school..
and what i mean by that is, when a teacher talks about how "bad" or "wrong" it is to do something, we would go out and do it anyway.. atleast thats how it was with marijuana..
second of all, this RIAA shit has got to go.. jesus god people.. gimme a damn break.. a "starving artist" doesn't make money off their cd sales anyway.. we all know they make money from playing shows, or selling merchandise like tshirts and hats or whatever they have to offer.. just becuz some of the artists are too fuckin lazy, and want special imported portabello mushrooms on their pizza instead of regular ones, or bands that can't book their own shows, or get financial backing, are obviously the kind of people that don't work hard enough and are not passionate enough about what they are doing.. yet we all still care way too much to hear those "catchy riffs" and singalong chorus's, instead of worrying about music that actually takes talent to play, and doesn't warp your mind just by making the song catchy enough to the point where you just like it cuz of how many times you've heard it..
since when do all people in bands have to have huge houses and lots of cars?? so why keepin supporting them?? its like giving money to the queen of england for no apparent reason.. just becuz she is the queen.. and its required..
i will never be required to buy anything.. however i'll hear whatever the hell i want..
And bands, if they are trying to be heard, and are having no luck.. then they are doing something wrong...
it requires hard work.. like 80% of people in this world do everyday.. hard fuckin work..
take advantage of the internet... its so easy to make yourself heard on the internet...
WHY THE HELL DOES ANYBODY NEED THE HELP OF RECORD LABELS???
a band is a business.. it should be your own business.. the labels control you, and can do whatever they want with your music...
that is hardly what I call, passionate art...
heheh good call.. thats exaclty how i feel...
geesh its just depressing that there's so much good music out there that nobody's heard.. yet we arguing, and filing lawsuits against the music that sucks ass..
i think someone needs to start a community kind of like Mp3.com... where people can download music of all sorts, for free.. But it would be completely up to the artist if they wanted give away their music. and it would be the site maintainer's job to make these bands look appealing to the public. there's a whole world of music out there, yet most people are confined only to what they see on TV.. And that music is over commercialized and of course the record industry is going to sue people that are making their #1 money makers, start to loose cash flow. screw all that.. most music you see on tv sucks complete ass as it is.. you might as well take the time and motivation, to search for good bands that truly put their heart and soul into their music, and merely want people to LISTEN to it rather than worrying about how much money they are going off of the record. if you think otherwise, then this whole thing has turned into a Moral issue.. because the true artist is not out to make money.. Download, Distribute, Destroy is what most Anti-RIAA people say..
regardless if its stealing or not, you're supporting something that has no HEART if you agree with the actions of the RIAA.. and that alone describes what kind of person you are.. and those people that fit into this category always seem to be the same people that make this world a bad place in most capitalistic aspects.
but unfortunately we live in a society where money talks and bullshit walks..
i'm a strong supporter of the free music community, and being a musician, and playing in a rock band, i'm totally against everything that the RIAA stands for to begin with.. its ridiculous to file lawsuits against teenagers for having downloaded music first of all.. There needs to be a GNU, but for Music.. Becuz just like the software industry, the source needs to be free! Open Music! bands make their money from playing huge shows, and selling merchandise like tshirts and stuff.. having their music heard worldwide, and for free, is something thats priceless.. i'd rather have billions of people hear my music, than only a couple that have the money, and the motivation, to go to the cd store to purchase it.. not saying that buying records isn't cool.. because it is.. and people should buy records to support cd stores, not a huge industry whose primary concern is capital and not passion...
heeheeheheehEHEHHAhahAH! awesome :-)
I think thesee little drives aree really cool. Great idea. Just pop it in to your USB port and your off! But in my opinion there is a few problems. Such as not enough storage. OOO 16, 32 and 64MB !!!!! Not cool at all. I want something thats atleast above 100mb. At lastly, why the hell is something that small, and butt-looking, so dag nabbed expensive????? I would pay 10 buck for something like that and no more. I mean damn, zip disks are cheap as shit and they aree probably faster and they hold more space. Faster, if your using an IDE drive that is. But anyway. Lower down the price a lot, and offer more storage above 100mb, then I think you got yourself a pretty neat product. Peace...
Well you know what. I think thats just a bogus question. Because in my personal opinion, I've never been a big fan of Mac to begin with. I just don't think an os like OSX should even be categorized with Linux.
I've noticed a pretty big difference in stability over the past couple milestones.. Its still not excellent, but its gotten better. Put it this way, atleast it doesn't look like a shitty version of Netscape Communicator4x with missing buttons and other signs of gayness. Luckily, there are also many platforms it supports. To tell ya the truth, I'm getting pretty damn tired of Netscape Communicator4x for linux.. Its horrible
Yea I agree with you completly. RealTek kinda pisses me off with their genericness. I've had great experience with the DEC Tulip chipset based cards. Very easily supported too. DOWN WITH REALTEK
haha you'd be surprised. A lot of those kids are a lot smarter than most adults when it comes to kernel source hacking. They know what they're doing.
I just wanted to make a note of something. In 2.2.14 and below, and 2.3 and above, the support for the RealTek 8139 card was listed in the config. But for some reason, its not listed in 2.2.15 nor .16.. Whats up with that? I'm not all about compiling that driver manually.