That's what I have and it works well. I have few people except telemarketers who ever call anymore and persoanlly I don't see the need of having the second line. I also don't squander all my money on long distance charges so it works ok too. Also as I recall cable modems are subject to network saturation via large ammounts of local users and thus if I was going to waste the big money I would go for DSL. Also ISDN crapped out with per minute charges (personally I like free unlimited per month fees).
Why most it cost $40/month anyway? I don't see the utility or the reasoning. Personally it has to break for the modem limit (traditionally for years and years $19.95 for national providers and much lower like around $7 or less for basic access in state providers). Why the hell is broadband still so expensive any way? If they want people to use it perhaps they need to get the damn price down to reasonable levels.
A perfect way to copy digital movies to prevent use of the evil foolish system. At some fundamental level output has to work on an analog basis right? Well simply create a monitor to take account of what pixels are created when and at what position. Then correlate this information into a decoded presentation. Same for any program. Get a logic analyzer to work on it. Eventually success.
However I don't believe that society is evil nor driven by people in smoke filled rooms. Oh and if it's that troubling then perhaps someone *looks around nervously* would like to create a few "accidents" of people in high places (ie various "evil" people you identify) I wouldn't be opposed. Has anyone actually attempted to actually say coerce^H^H^H^H^H^Hconvince some of these guys who control DVD media that you want their stuff? Perhaps someone should create say an opensource app that can create and use virtual actors, sets, scenes, and the like to create a movie? Do something like povray but take it to the next level. Make sure that it's possible to do this and create your own movie format. I find these topics vaguely irritating in their own way. I had a CS teacher who thought it was really cool to waste the time that we should have spent studying for a final better getting on a soap box and telling everyone how they should fear the boogieman. Ok guys and gals here's a really, really, maybe stupid, goofie idea. Why don't you stop using your actual names on the god damned code and including contact information for yourself. First rule on the internet after finger/cookies/ and personal web sites started being abused was never give out your real name. I have never actually let drop my real name in a public forum because I know better. Get a stupid free e-mail account and a free homepage service and upload your code and communicate to your minions. Why is everyone soooo suprised that people are getting tracked down if you are putting your real name on the code. It's like a person who puts a "secret" political manifesto and then publishes his advertisement for a barbecue to discuss it on the same document? It's just really stupid to me.
Uh this may sound like it's rather damaging but from all the legal breifs comming out of California with all these various cases based on little or no hard evidence I wonder if the governmetn of California is full of crooks, robbers, and fools. I mean most of the major problems seem to happen there examples (I am not full of shit) 1. *Extreme* political groups ie communists, environmentalists, groups who like to git rid of humans because good ol' mother earth needs protectin', large scale companies managing to scam people like various industries like agriculture and manufacturing concerns. 2. High levels of utopian ideals including nudists, beatniks, a whole slew of extremely small religious cults. 3. Large populations of individuals who can be manipulated because they are screwed by the government and get low wages. 4. Because of 3 large ammounts of votes can be generated by people from camps 1-3 and can really get under the skin of society. 5. Holleywood was (and most likely still is) allied with communists of various degrees and also of persons who have extreme and to equal levels untenable ideas about society. I don't really care much about DVD technology but enough is enough. Society has to grow up and stop listening to extremists who seem to think that they can take the world into a *Brave new era* and live in the here and now. Open souce people are not evil ( I have my own idea for a spiffy program and indend to use most likely the GPL to accomplish it). Why is it that it just looks like *the* most liberal state in the union and consequently most of the *eeeeevvviiiilll* ideas that government has seem to all come out of california. Most states seem positively boring in return take oh say North Dakota or Main or maybe Vermont.
I don't want to have to pay each time I access the damn web. That's insane. Even for access to a search engine. Search engines are a staple of access to information and retrieval on the internet. Withough search engines we would have to go looking and testing out various links and the like to get anywhere.
Personally if the web ever gets to use "micropayments" in any large scale fashion where using the web at all requires payment (in addition to my ISP fees) I will never use it again. It's just not worth *that* much to me.
Really, I should know after running it for about 2 or so years until I switched to debian. The experience of sitting at my computer for 10 hours to try and find a problem that some guy didn't get because he was up since 3am Tuesday (it's Friday now) and he didn't do is anoying.
I like debian because I can actually upgrade the distribution. One of the things I don't like about Mandrake is it's use of Pentium optimizations (I run on a 486/66) and it's method of putting everything in a big unorganized directory of RPMs and it's lack of a floppy install.
Really. I hardly ever have actual problems. In fact I wish it were *more* unsatble so that I could get upgrades of all the new actual development versions of various software like the kernel and friends. Personally having access to things like the newest lynx code in official.deb form wold be a plus. Maybe even the development versions of various GNOME apps and it's core code. Or how about updating the Xfree stuff every week like they have for the WINE code.
It needs to be up to date and more or less whole. If it changed that much technically you could package "unstable" and press CDs and it would still be more stable than Red Hat or others.
Do they plan to release CDs that can be purtchessed?
Personally I may be temporarily switching OSs to (*sob*) Win98 to get proper free internet support since no one in the linux community can give local access in Utah (too damn hot I will probably move back to Maine).
Can you get copies of a pressed CD of unstable? That would be cool. Unfortunately I don't have a good CD burner.
Most people don't have time to sort through thousands of lines of code looking for the little nasties. I doubt many people do even in the code business.
People should realize that the most potent form of use that pgp/gpg has are their use of webs of trust. Also you should get the public key that the person is expecting from that person. Anything else is open to fraud.
their nuclear devices with on site control systems that no one has access to. I believe that the "football" that the president has is just a ploy. Only an idiot would hook up nuclear weapons control systems to the internet.
The subs got attacked by depth charges and were sunk. Also ever heard of doing a nice long range radar sounding or perhaps a thermal imaging or even a radiation analysis from the ocean or space. This isn't really terribly interesting.
Really people aren't going to be *that* stupid. There are plenty of deep water docks for subs along the Eastern US controlled by the military why couldn't they go to one of those?
Putin isn't exactly pro-US (although he isn't stupid enough to go against the US either directly). I do not believe that the US did fire on the sub but one has to ask what the hell was a nuclear powered sub was doing that close to other US allied controlled waters? Oh and this "Red October" was in fact on a spying mission when it had that little accident and sank. Personally we really, really, really need to crack down on these stupid Borris Badinov spies before they decide to steal more military secrets or perhaps get a foothold for a suprise attack. On the subject of armanents; personally I would rather have the government controlling weapons of mass destruction than some stupid publically traded company. In fact arms dealers have to register with the government to do their thing and they are closely monitored for any duplicity.
Well since you have started your own little thread I thought I might chime in with my own thoughts. Music isnt' the be all and the end all of entertainment. Just as radio isn't even a candle to television in any sense. Plus I am not going to take a 4 year degree to learn to decipher a speaker system and then void the warrenty on my speakers to get said sound. It is just sheer lunacy. Perhaps you should look into things that need more protecting than just music like perhaps human rights/liberties, or perhaps free expression. I never owned a piece of sound hardware and I don't really care to start. The principal is simple humans have far better things to do with their time than to constantly chase legaleese with a bunch of fat cats and put themselves in bad circumstances. I want to honestly know *why* in the hell suddewntly music seems to be more important than blood, human life, or even moving pictures. Reading a good book at a library or perhaps going to a nice play or even opera is better than getting pure music. In short the human race should pick it's battles for the public to care about and I can't possibly see why music should be one of them. Music is all about love/lost love/getting in love and the like any way. Verry little with any political message or theme. Most is bland. Classiccal music at least tells a story and I don't need to go on napster to get a copy of that and it's not even questionable. I want you to show me a new song (within the last 50 years) that has told some form of epic story using a rock n' roll genre as it's basis. I don't think it exists. Now Faust: that's literature.
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That's what I have and it works well. I have few people except telemarketers who ever call anymore and persoanlly I don't see the need of having the second line. I also don't squander all my money on long distance charges so it works ok too. Also as I recall cable modems are subject to network saturation via large ammounts of local users and thus if I was going to waste the big money I would go for DSL. Also ISDN crapped out with per minute charges (personally I like free unlimited per month fees).
Why most it cost $40/month anyway? I don't see the utility or the reasoning. Personally it has to break for the modem limit (traditionally for years and years $19.95 for national providers and much lower like around $7 or less for basic access in state providers). Why the hell is broadband still so expensive any way? If they want people to use it perhaps they need to get the damn price down to reasonable levels.
You have to admit more actual developmetn would happen if people would just swallow their pride and get the code out without their names.
A perfect way to copy digital movies to prevent use of the evil foolish system. At some fundamental level output has to work on an analog basis right? Well simply create a monitor to take account of what pixels are created when and at what position. Then correlate this information into a decoded presentation. Same for any program. Get a logic analyzer to work on it. Eventually success.
However I don't believe that society is evil nor driven by people in smoke filled rooms. Oh and if it's that troubling then perhaps someone *looks around nervously* would like to create a few "accidents" of people in high places (ie various "evil" people you identify) I wouldn't be opposed. Has anyone actually attempted to actually say coerce^H^H^H^H^H^Hconvince some of these guys who control DVD media that you want their stuff? Perhaps someone should create say an opensource app that can create and use virtual actors, sets, scenes, and the like to create a movie? Do something like povray but take it to the next level. Make sure that it's possible to do this and create your own movie format. I find these topics vaguely irritating in their own way. I had a CS teacher who thought it was really cool to waste the time that we should have spent studying for a final better getting on a soap box and telling everyone how they should fear the boogieman. Ok guys and gals here's a really, really, maybe stupid, goofie idea. Why don't you stop using your actual names on the god damned code and including contact information for yourself. First rule on the internet after finger/cookies/ and personal web sites started being abused was never give out your real name. I have never actually let drop my real name in a public forum because I know better. Get a stupid free e-mail account and a free homepage service and upload your code and communicate to your minions. Why is everyone soooo suprised that people are getting tracked down if you are putting your real name on the code. It's like a person who puts a "secret" political manifesto and then publishes his advertisement for a barbecue to discuss it on the same document? It's just really stupid to me.
Uh this may sound like it's rather damaging but from all the legal breifs comming out of California with all these various cases based on little or no hard evidence I wonder if the governmetn of California is full of crooks, robbers, and fools. I mean most of the major problems seem to happen there examples (I am not full of shit) 1. *Extreme* political groups ie communists, environmentalists, groups who like to git rid of humans because good ol' mother earth needs protectin', large scale companies managing to scam people like various industries like agriculture and manufacturing concerns. 2. High levels of utopian ideals including nudists, beatniks, a whole slew of extremely small religious cults. 3. Large populations of individuals who can be manipulated because they are screwed by the government and get low wages. 4. Because of 3 large ammounts of votes can be generated by people from camps 1-3 and can really get under the skin of society. 5. Holleywood was (and most likely still is) allied with communists of various degrees and also of persons who have extreme and to equal levels untenable ideas about society. I don't really care much about DVD technology but enough is enough. Society has to grow up and stop listening to extremists who seem to think that they can take the world into a *Brave new era* and live in the here and now. Open souce people are not evil ( I have my own idea for a spiffy program and indend to use most likely the GPL to accomplish it). Why is it that it just looks like *the* most liberal state in the union and consequently most of the *eeeeevvviiiilll* ideas that government has seem to all come out of california. Most states seem positively boring in return take oh say North Dakota or Main or maybe Vermont.
That might be a problem. Also recall that they had to rely on the people in the area 51 research facility and the like.
I don't want to have to pay each time I access the damn web. That's insane. Even for access to a search engine. Search engines are a staple of access to information and retrieval on the internet. Withough search engines we would have to go looking and testing out various links and the like to get anywhere.
Personally if the web ever gets to use "micropayments" in any large scale fashion where using the web at all requires payment (in addition to my ISP fees) I will never use it again. It's just not worth *that* much to me.
Goggle dosn't let me do that yet. I can scan those 24,000,000+ or so matches that I may want to look at or just browse. Quite nice.
And at least if you have them you can point back or point more back. They both work exceedingly well to prevent problems.
Red Hat has a few problems. Why do they actually have so many all the time that's my question.
Really, I should know after running it for about 2 or so years until I switched to debian. The experience of sitting at my computer for 10 hours to try and find a problem that some guy didn't get because he was up since 3am Tuesday (it's Friday now) and he didn't do is anoying.
I like debian because I can actually upgrade the distribution. One of the things I don't like about Mandrake is it's use of Pentium optimizations (I run on a 486/66) and it's method of putting everything in a big unorganized directory of RPMs and it's lack of a floppy install.
It's just creating a new category of release to make it so that others can feel better. That's all nothing so grand as creating a new red hat.
Really. I hardly ever have actual problems. In fact I wish it were *more* unsatble so that I could get upgrades of all the new actual development versions of various software like the kernel and friends. Personally having access to things like the newest lynx code in official .deb form wold be a plus. Maybe even the development versions of various GNOME apps and it's core code. Or how about updating the Xfree stuff every week like they have for the WINE code.
It needs to be up to date and more or less whole. If it changed that much technically you could package "unstable" and press CDs and it would still be more stable than Red Hat or others.
Do they plan to release CDs that can be purtchessed?
Personally I may be temporarily switching OSs to (*sob*) Win98 to get proper free internet support since no one in the linux community can give local access in Utah (too damn hot I will probably move back to Maine).
Can you get copies of a pressed CD of unstable? That would be cool. Unfortunately I don't have a good CD burner.
Most people don't have time to sort through thousands of lines of code looking for the little nasties. I doubt many people do even in the code business.
Ever heard of a little technique like they used in "A Cask of Amantalado" by Edgar Allen Poe. Classic revenge, nicely done.
People should realize that the most potent form of use that pgp/gpg has are their use of webs of trust. Also you should get the public key that the person is expecting from that person. Anything else is open to fraud.
their nuclear devices with on site control systems that no one has access to. I believe that the "football" that the president has is just a ploy. Only an idiot would hook up nuclear weapons control systems to the internet.
Really, do you actually work for the NSA unlikely at all.
The subs got attacked by depth charges and were sunk. Also ever heard of doing a nice long range radar sounding or perhaps a thermal imaging or even a radiation analysis from the ocean or space. This isn't really terribly interesting.
Really people aren't going to be *that* stupid. There are plenty of deep water docks for subs along the Eastern US controlled by the military why couldn't they go to one of those?
Putin isn't exactly pro-US (although he isn't stupid enough to go against the US either directly). I do not believe that the US did fire on the sub but one has to ask what the hell was a nuclear powered sub was doing that close to other US allied controlled waters? Oh and this "Red October" was in fact on a spying mission when it had that little accident and sank. Personally we really, really, really need to crack down on these stupid Borris Badinov spies before they decide to steal more military secrets or perhaps get a foothold for a suprise attack. On the subject of armanents; personally I would rather have the government controlling weapons of mass destruction than some stupid publically traded company. In fact arms dealers have to register with the government to do their thing and they are closely monitored for any duplicity.
Well since you have started your own little thread I thought I might chime in with my own thoughts.
Music isnt' the be all and the end all of entertainment. Just as radio isn't even a candle to television in any sense.
Plus I am not going to take a 4 year degree to learn to decipher a speaker system and then void the warrenty on my speakers to get said sound.
It is just sheer lunacy. Perhaps you should look into things that need more protecting than just music like perhaps human rights/liberties, or perhaps free expression. I never owned a piece of sound hardware and I don't really care to start.
The principal is simple humans have far better things to do with their time than to constantly chase legaleese with a bunch of fat cats and put themselves in bad circumstances.
I want to honestly know *why* in the hell suddewntly music seems to be more important than blood, human life, or even moving pictures.
Reading a good book at a library or perhaps going to a nice play or even opera is better than getting pure music.
In short the human race should pick it's battles for the public to care about and I can't possibly see why music should be one of them. Music is all about love/lost love/getting in love and the like any way. Verry little with any political message or theme. Most is bland. Classiccal music at least tells a story and I don't need to go on napster to get a copy of that and it's not even questionable.
I want you to show me a new song (within the last 50 years) that has told some form of epic story using a rock n' roll genre as it's basis. I don't think it exists.
Now Faust: that's literature.