Actually, I just compared GNOME, KDE and XFce on the latest Ubuntu. GNOME is more bloated and slow than KDE. Download Kubuntu and Ubuntu and compare 'em yourself.
Our solid state answering machine has the option of diverting calls straight to voicemail based on caller ID, making different ringing tones, and so on. It's years old and no longer on sale, but you'll probably find plenty of others still around that can do the same things. Personally I like sending "caller ID blocked" and "unknown" straight to voice mail...
Most of my contributions to Wikipedia would not be allowed under the new "no original content" policy. Some of it has already been deleted as insufficiently referenced. The problem is, the topics I cared to write about were things that weren't covered in great detail on the web. You won't find anything on the Pareto Conjecture other than what I wrote on h2g2; I no longer remember the book I read about it in, and there aren't any other articles about it on the web. Does that mean it's worthless information? I don't think so.
And more to the point, you can bit-copy an encrypted DVD and it works. The encryption has absolutely nothing to do with copy protection. It's all about enforcing region coding and avoiding a free market.
Um, could you tell me exactly what you mean by "overpriced?"
Consider a plot of the number of CDs purchased multiplied by profit margin (i.e. total profit) on the Y axis, versus the price per CD on the X axis. The result will be a bell curve.
Start off charging $1 per CD. You make no profit, but you sell a ton of them. So you increase the price, and your profits increase proportionally. So you increase the price more.
At some point, the price starts to put people off, and sales begin to drop. Eventually, even though you keep increasing the profit margin, the resulting drop in sales is so big that you make less money overall. Then it's all the way down until you basically hit zero sales.
Now, looking at my own buying patterns, it's clear that for me, the price of CDs is over to the right of the peak of the bell curve. Hence, CDs are overpriced.
For instance, there are at least 10 CDs I'd buy tomorrow if they were $10; but they're not, they're $16 or $18. At that price, the record companies make $0, because I simply won't buy the CDs. They would be smarter to sell 10 CDs at a lower profit margin, than no CDs at all at a high profit margin.
So the question then becomes: am I typical, or atypical? I think the prevalence of file sharing and casual copying of MP3s, combined with the long trend of dropping sales, is a strong indication that I'm more typical than you and the record companies might like to think
Try reading Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell for a detailed listing of historical and archeological evidence supporting the Biblical accounts.
And then read The Jury Is In, which carefully analyzes the infamous Evidence That Demands a Verdict.
People are also starting to catch on to the fact that HP's newer printers are crap.
Yes, once upon a time HP made great printers. Plenty of LaserJets still in use today. But nowadays you're more likely to find out that your HP printer is slow, noisy, requires a 30MB driver download that's buggy as all hell, and breaks in under a year.
With wired, you can break up segments of the network and run routers, so individual work groups can have 1Gbps between their machines, shunt huge files around, but not impact the rest of the network.
With wireless, you've got 54mbps potentially shared across the entire userbase. And as soon as anyone tries to use an 11b card, the entire network gets slower.
Really, this is the dumbest idea I've read about since I last read comp.risks.
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Odd that you'd see the same failure mode on so many machines. Makes me wonder if your download was corrupted.
Did you use IE for the download? IE will truncate file downloads and not warn you of the error.
Check the MD5 checksums of the ISO images. Also, check the MD5 checksum of the burnt CD, in case it's a problem with your CD burning software.
Actually, I just compared GNOME, KDE and XFce on the latest Ubuntu. GNOME is more bloated and slow than KDE. Download Kubuntu and Ubuntu and compare 'em yourself.
And as part of the infrastructure for the bloated and slow GNOME desktop environment.
Our solid state answering machine has the option of diverting calls straight to voicemail based on caller ID, making different ringing tones, and so on. It's years old and no longer on sale, but you'll probably find plenty of others still around that can do the same things. Personally I like sending "caller ID blocked" and "unknown" straight to voice mail...
The Newton was portable. A slim 10" laptop is just about portable. Something that needs a full size courier bag to lug around isn't.
It's a mystery to me. There must be some solid marketing behind why Apple don't offer a truly portable machine, for example.
Sony have some nice portables. If only they had a decent operating system...
Most of my contributions to Wikipedia would not be allowed under the new "no original content" policy. Some of it has already been deleted as insufficiently referenced. The problem is, the topics I cared to write about were things that weren't covered in great detail on the web. You won't find anything on the Pareto Conjecture other than what I wrote on h2g2; I no longer remember the book I read about it in, and there aren't any other articles about it on the web. Does that mean it's worthless information? I don't think so.
And more to the point, you can bit-copy an encrypted DVD and it works. The encryption has absolutely nothing to do with copy protection. It's all about enforcing region coding and avoiding a free market.
First they came for the farmers
but I didn't speak out, because I wasn't a farmer
Then they came for the griefers
but I didn't speak out, because I wasn't a griefer
Then they came for the campers
but I didn't speak out, because I wasn't a camper
But at least it's still a safe place for homophobes
The Unix Haters Handbook is available for free, in PDF format.
From a guy who works for Microsoft, of course.
Consider a plot of the number of CDs purchased multiplied by profit margin (i.e. total profit) on the Y axis, versus the price per CD on the X axis. The result will be a bell curve.
Start off charging $1 per CD. You make no profit, but you sell a ton of them. So you increase the price, and your profits increase proportionally. So you increase the price more.
At some point, the price starts to put people off, and sales begin to drop. Eventually, even though you keep increasing the profit margin, the resulting drop in sales is so big that you make less money overall. Then it's all the way down until you basically hit zero sales.
Now, looking at my own buying patterns, it's clear that for me, the price of CDs is over to the right of the peak of the bell curve. Hence, CDs are overpriced.
For instance, there are at least 10 CDs I'd buy tomorrow if they were $10; but they're not, they're $16 or $18. At that price, the record companies make $0, because I simply won't buy the CDs. They would be smarter to sell 10 CDs at a lower profit margin, than no CDs at all at a high profit margin.
So the question then becomes: am I typical, or atypical? I think the prevalence of file sharing and casual copying of MP3s, combined with the long trend of dropping sales, is a strong indication that I'm more typical than you and the record companies might like to think
A review of SATA RAID controllers that have open source Linux drivers would be very useful to me.
The ExtremeTech article was a complete waste of time.
And then read The Jury Is In, which carefully analyzes the infamous Evidence That Demands a Verdict.
Totally unreadable, the fonts are about 6 pixels high.
Yeah, right, I'm a Nintendo fanboy. Now, go look at all the mockery I've posted about the Wii.
I was in Costco yesterday, and they had a huge rack of Xbox360 systems right next to the front door. Nobody was interested.
Microsoft did a good job of manufacturing an artificial shortage just after the release date, but now the truth is out...
[And to prove I'm not a Sony fanboy: Costco also had a ton of PSPs, but no Nintendo DS or DS Lite systems.]
I was about to post exactly the same thing.
And apparently I'm on some kind of mod point blacklist, I haven't had mod points in months.
Some other easily identified cons:
That's pretty much how I feel about flying in general, these days. Only do it when you absolutely have to.
People are also starting to catch on to the fact that HP's newer printers are crap.
Yes, once upon a time HP made great printers. Plenty of LaserJets still in use today. But nowadays you're more likely to find out that your HP printer is slow, noisy, requires a 30MB driver download that's buggy as all hell, and breaks in under a year.
Yeah, we've had Dog Shit Girl and The New York Subway Wanker (and another similar).
It's going to get more and more common. Everyone ought to read David Brin's The Transparent Society.
It's a full French working day.
Oh, it's worse than that.
With wired, you can break up segments of the network and run routers, so individual work groups can have 1Gbps between their machines, shunt huge files around, but not impact the rest of the network.
With wireless, you've got 54mbps potentially shared across the entire userbase. And as soon as anyone tries to use an 11b card, the entire network gets slower.
Really, this is the dumbest idea I've read about since I last read comp.risks.
...at least he didn't ask them to play FMK.
Because SuSE's installers put X on servers by default. I think it's stupid too, so when I redid the whole thing I did a custom install and excluded X.