There's a huge fucking sticker on the box saying 'Windows Vista Ready', so, I expect it to work with Vista. (It does, but I swear my ATi 9800 ran Aero slightly faster).
I saw a bunch of High Defention TV monitors on the shelf that said Digital TV Ready. They did not have a Digital tuner so none of them would work out of the box. Some sort of expensive extra part that is not supplied is required to make it work such as a Sateltie box, Cable box, or Set top tuner box.
I waited until Digital Televisions were complete and finaly bought my wife a Digital TV for her birthday last week. It includes a Digital TV tuner built-in. I will be able to watch the evening news after analog is turned off in the USA.
There is some subtle wording that when something is "Ready", it comes with the impression that other parts not yet here will be needed. I learned that from all the Digital TV ready TV monitors on the store shelves.
I got a good price because it does not say HDCP compatible or ready anywhere on the box. I think any new HD DVD format will be incompatible with it. When this set is old and obsolete in another 15 years, and HD DVD movies are under $10 and players are under $50, then I may look for a set that is HDCP capable. The sellers of the format don't need to hold their breath. Other than not supporting the latest and greatest DRM format, the set has all the bells and whistles including analog component, D-Sub analog, NTSC, S-video, and HDMI at all resolutions. I like the D-Sub connector. It makes a great PC gaming monitor.
I bet we didn't see an iLife '07 announcement at MacWorld because it's going to be bundled right into Leopard as part of the OS, just to stick it to Microsoft even further.
Windows from many vendors some with lots of bundled limited funcition or time trialware. This is hurting MS in a big way. People want to buy a PC and go to work, not spend the time pulling off stuff that doesn't work. Way too many people can directly relate to the I'm a Mac commercial called "Out of the Box" which shows Mac and PC in boxes. The Mac guy is ready to go to work. The PC guy needs lots of updates out of the box including patches and AV updates.
Fully working bundled applications was one of the pleasnt suprises in Ubuntu. It came loaded with applications. The add/remove got fully working applications installed. I have yet to find a demo anything in Ubuntu. I don't have a Mac. If Mac's bundled applications work like Ubuntu's bundled applications, then the commercial is right-on.
MS thinks Paint is a photo editor. Ubuntu thinks The Gimp is a photo editor. I consider only one ready to edit photos out of the box. Same for e-mail, Evolution or Outlook Express, editing, Notepad, Wordpad, or Open Office, Abi word. I'm not sure what the bundled apps are with a Mac, but if they are as good as what comes with Ubuntu, they have a winner.
In short... It's the killer apps stupid.
In the 1980's, there was tons of free software for the DOS platform and that was a reason to get a DOS PC. Now the PC market is
After that, the man told me he had tried to use Linux, but he had found it difficult. I told him the first things that came to my mind: that it depended on the distribution (he tried Kubuntu).
I reply that I have had too many problems with Windows and have moved on. I give examples.
I had a photocopyer set up using a scanner and printer. I needed to edit a photo, which launched the 30 day trial software for the photo editor bundled with the machine. Now anytime I want to photocopy something, it launches the photo editor on top of the photocopier software when the scanner is used. I ask if he could fix it for me? It's too difficult for me to fix and is still broken after 6 months.
Both operating systems have things that need to be understood in order to maintain the system. I personaly find Linux easer to fix than fixing what's wrong in the Windows Registry which killed the photocopier. Uninstalling the photo editor did not fix the problem. Now Windows offers to search for the missing exe file when I attempt to photocopy something. I now photocopy on the Linux machine instead. I did not have to install any software or drivers to make it work.
At least in Linux, the programs are operational instead of trialware.
When I have visitors and they want to check their online mail, or want to check something online, I log them into a Ubuntu machine and show them the icon for Firefox. When they are done, I ask how they liked using Linux.
If a Windows user is getting a machine fixed, I offer to lend them a replacement while their machine is being fixed. I provide a machine and give them a password for one of the generic accounts. Seldom do I spend over 5 minutes in user support. Here, log in like this, here is the menu, here is Firefox, here is Evolution, here is Open Office, here is your home directory, here is the shutdown button for logoff or shutdown. No there is not a C:\.
A properly configured loaner is good. A live CD most times will be a problme because it takes longer than 5 minutes to explain why it doesn't play MP3's and flash sites don't work. After they have used a properly configured loaner, be prepared to help a new user learn the basics from filesystem, printer, email, and network setup. After they understand it isn't Windows, then they will be ready for a live/install CD.
The lawsuit accuses Dell of artificially inflating profits "by secretly receiving approximately $250 million a quarter in likely illegal rebate kickbacks payments" from Intel in return for an exclusive deal to purchase Intel's microprocessors, class-action lawyer William Lerach told Reuters.
Intel denied the accusations and said that some of the claims appear to "rehash" similar complaints against the chip maker by smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.. A Dell spokesman would not comment on the lawsuit.
If the case had no merit, then it shouldn't go forward at all, but I don't see how this 'collusion' defense addresses the charges at hand.
The all the labels ganged up at once is the issue in that defense point. Let's say you got caught red-handed stealing a candy bar at the local 7-11. In the investigation (discovery) they found you had a much of merchandise from Wal*Mart, Target, Costco, Toys are Us, and Radio Shack. Instead of 7-11 sueing you for damages, they decided together to have the local BBB sue you for all the merchandise you had without a reciept. You do keep reciepts, don't you?
This is not Sony suing for piracy of a Sony track. This is not Atlantic Records suing for piracy of a Atlantic track. This is a bunch of supposedly indipendant companies bring the lawsuit in "Collusion" to compound dammages. This is the collusion charge.
Sony didn't catch him. Someone else did. Sony has added their name to the case in collusion with the RIAA middle man and other record companies.
Not to mention Sony/BMG selling music direct to consumers through their club for $6-7/CD. I'll bet Tower paid more than that wholesale for their CD's.
So the choice is free (illegal), discount (direct), discount (online), discount (walmart), full price (retail/tower).
Many people have valid reasons to buy less CD's. For me several factors all compound together to reduce CD purchases.
1 Value.. I spend money on thing of more value at less cost. I typicaly buy DVD's under $10. Most CD's under $10 are not worth buying.
2 Quality.. Do a Google search on volume wars and CD's. Enough said.
3 Compatibility.. I look for red book standard music CD's. There are so few round shiny things anymore that proclaim to be a Philips standard trademarked Compact Disc tm.
4 Cartel relationship.. They are suing their customers, it's time to stop supporting this pratice.
5 Good enough existing library.. I'm still ripping my LP and Compact Tape collection.
In a nutshell, they are selling a low value, low quality product at high prices and the company has shown maffia strong arm tactics which I can not support in principal.
I used to pirate VHS tapes when pre-recorded tapes were $60-$80 dollars (late 1970's) by sharing with neighbors. Blank tapes were in the $10-15 each range. Now that movies are less than blank tape used to be, I get higher qualiity at lower prices buying the DVD. The music industry has not yet made this move to combat piracy. Instead they have moved to lower quality at high prices by offering low bitrate, dynamic range compressed, DRM'ed, downloads at close to full retail price and no right of first sale. They expect me to find it of value to me? No, I find value on other products and services instead.
Most 2 hour movies are less expensive than most any 2 hours of audio recordings. How do they think it's just as expensive to produce just audio instead of audio and video. They don't need expensive sets, rendering farms, and supporting cast that the movie industry needs. So tell me again why the product is higher priced per minute?
Yes, I am saying the product is way overpriced and I chose not to buy it.
Fluorescents MUST have a certain minimum operating time to see benefits
In some environments they simply are not up to the job. Ever replace an oven light with a CF? How long did it last? Were you able to get it to work after your first pizza?
How about the light in the Microwave Oven? That is another classic example of a short duty cycle application where a CF will probably fail with less than 24 operating hours on it.
Despite using all balanced connections, there is a marked increase in the volume of the noise floor whenever I replace the incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents, or when I use the long-tube traditional types.
Besides balanced connections, proper grounding and 100% shielding are required. Good equipment with proper input RF filtering is also important. Good fideliety does not require passing 100Khz and up. Elimination of ground loops is essential. See a good audio engineer for help. (Was my job)
Cheap equipment will pick up every local CB and Ham radio operator in the neighborhood as well as a low wattage RF source such as a CF lamp or wireless mic.
CF lamps, even the noisy ones have to pass FCC emission standards to prevent iterferance to public safety radio and other communications. If you are picking them up in your studio, you need some power conditioning, grounding and or shielding and maybe even replacement of cheap wires and components.
Ballanced inputs is not a cure all of noise pick-up. It is only a part of a multi-pronged aproach to noise elimination.
Meanwhile, RIAA wants $750 per song... Isn't that a little unfair?
Yes, Sony is getting ripped off big time. Filesharers are simply getting $750 per title shared, not $750 per copy someone else recieved from him.
Sony is not getting charged $750 per song on the DRM CD. They are getting charged $150 for everyone who picked up a copy of the same set of songs from them. How unfair is that? I think they would love to have to pay $750/song for each of the CD titles they distributed regardless of how many copies sold of each title. It would be much cheaper!;-)
The little iPod is worth a few hundred bucks, but the music on it is worth (potentially) 10's of thousands - if you could trivially (without googling) take the songs off it.
Here is a real world example of protected content problems. The iTunes tracks are DRM'ed to the player. If you could copy them off, they are of no use to anyone else.
You are on vacation. You would like to associate your iPod to another computer to listen to some podcasts.. Oops you have to delete all the music to associate it to the new computer... Not good.
Why can't you copy the tracks off the player so you can associate it without erasing the iPod? What's wrong with backing up all the tracks, associating to the other computer, listening to the podcasts, and when finished, copy your music back to your iPod. Even better would be if it didn't delete the stuff already on it when connecting to a new computer. The DRM'ed tracks from the iPod in theory shouldn't be playable on any body else's iPod and should work if copied back to the same iPod. In reality, they blanket erase the iTunes tracks when associating with a new computer.
My MP3 player is much more consumer friendly in the above situation. I load my music from home and add some MP3 blogs at work without deleting anything from the player (unless I run out of room and temp store some tunes on the PC to make room).
If I attend a lecture and want to record it and later save it or post it online, I can do that too.
This license may be modified, addended, or revoked at any time by Linden Lab in its sole discretion.
This was taken out of context. It simply is in refrence to the online store selling items with the modified logo. If the site creator got out of line with the products with the modified logo, they simply reserve the right to revoke the license to use the logo. The fact they granted a license to use the mofified logo is without fees or royalty payments is very gracious.
Try using the Mickey Mouse logo in a modified form on your website in a paradoy and sell products with the logo. I doubt the Disney lawyers have a sense of humor regarding selling products with a Mickey logo.
Limiting the release of particular features can be a way to force users of your older products to your newer products.
And people migrating off 2000.XP means lots of inexpensive games for those of us who wait to see what is good and the prices to fall. Buying games for $5-10 is much better than $50-$80. It's the same games, but I play them a few years later.
My kid bought a Playstation for $19 and a few $5 games. Not everyone wants to spend several hundred dollars for a console. Wait a while and visit the local GameStop. Buy what people are moving out of. I don't mind if someone else takes the depreciation blues.
Dude, pay attention. That's like staying up to midnight for Windows XP or ME. It's been out forever. Did you mean Edgy? Or maybe the release of Feisty Fawn?
For gods sake, priviledges to install software? On a users' machine at home?
Um, are you telling me you run as root all the time? Have you no sense of security?
If I want to install something, I have to log in as an administrator under Linux.
On a default installation of Windows, I am given root (administrator) privilages by default. To get software installed, all it takes is an e-mail saying take a look at my naked wife and the attachment is nude.jpg.exe, and the.exe is a known file type so you just see nude.jpg by default.
This does not work on Linux when you do not run as root.
If I go to view a photo and it asks for permission (from me) and I'm not expecting an executable, then I know it won't install without my permission.
If you are running as Administrator or root as your primary account, you need to see a security advisor.
You can't build-your-own laptop at this point, and laptops are becoming more and more prevalent.
Used laptops which have become seperated from the CD's and restore disks are not expensive. Pick up one which has lost the components for a valid WGA license. Remember, Linux does not need the horsepower of a typical Windows install.
The tools to remain completely hidden are all there -- heck, you could probably do interviews in Wired under a psuedonym, the only absolute would be keeping the Clark-Kent-esque secret of your true identity hidden, and I'm not sure if some people would be able to swallow their pride enough to do that.
You missed use a public hotspot from a PC with a fresh OS install and no identifiable informaton on it.
After the upload, wipe the disk and install another OS. Leave no tracks.
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Jim Gray Is Missing
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If he was going offshore, he either had or should have had an EPIRB [wikipedia.org] (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon.
Most of these are designed to float out of their holder in case of a sinking and are water activated. The lack of a signal for this size vessel is a good sign it's still afloat. Whether he is alive or onboard is to be seen. He could have had a medical emergency or fallen overboard which would not activate the beacon.
It's the little companies who are more likely to try to pinch pennies by cheating on Windows licenses and software licenses in general.
I just noticed the BSA is running the rat on your boss banner ads on Userfriendly.org. Nice reward offered. It may even be enough to tide you over while your boss goes out of business.
BSA now offering up to $200,000 in rewards for Qualifying Piracy Reports!
These actions are the big prompt to move from MS to Ubuntu for me. All my white boxes have migrated. Only the OEM PC's from IBM, HP, and Dell have Windows and the older ones are upgrading to Linux.
The machines are not running an MS OS not provided by the manufacture. Any upgrades are to Linux because the license terms are much better and provide immunity to the BSA.
If the Linux Counter is correct, that is about 2.3 BILLION dollars Linux users have BEEN FORCED to give to Microsoft.
May I recommend building your own white box? There is no reason to pay the MS tax if you don't want to.
I was given a few parts and built a white box and picked Ubuntu as the OS because I couldn't stand the high price required for a retail version of XP. I was intending to dual boot, but decided to use dual PC's instead (with a preloaded box).
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The website left a big gaping hole for nvida to use to shut down the site.
From the site;
"If the posts begin getting out of control, again, the site will be shut down."
Is this instructions for nvida to shut down this site? Post a bunch of flames on the site and they will shut down for you.
There's a huge fucking sticker on the box saying 'Windows Vista Ready', so, I expect it to work with Vista. (It does, but I swear my ATi 9800 ran Aero slightly faster).
I saw a bunch of High Defention TV monitors on the shelf that said Digital TV Ready. They did not have a Digital tuner so none of them would work out of the box. Some sort of expensive extra part that is not supplied is required to make it work such as a Sateltie box, Cable box, or Set top tuner box.
I waited until Digital Televisions were complete and finaly bought my wife a Digital TV for her birthday last week. It includes a Digital TV tuner built-in. I will be able to watch the evening news after analog is turned off in the USA.
There is some subtle wording that when something is "Ready", it comes with the impression that other parts not yet here will be needed. I learned that from all the Digital TV ready TV monitors on the store shelves.
I got a good price because it does not say HDCP compatible or ready anywhere on the box. I think any new HD DVD format will be incompatible with it. When this set is old and obsolete in another 15 years, and HD DVD movies are under $10 and players are under $50, then I may look for a set that is HDCP capable. The sellers of the format don't need to hold their breath. Other than not supporting the latest and greatest DRM format, the set has all the bells and whistles including analog component, D-Sub analog, NTSC, S-video, and HDMI at all resolutions. I like the D-Sub connector. It makes a great PC gaming monitor.
I bet we didn't see an iLife '07 announcement at MacWorld because it's going to be bundled right into Leopard as part of the OS, just to stick it to Microsoft even further.
Windows from many vendors some with lots of bundled limited funcition or time trialware. This is hurting MS in a big way. People want to buy a PC and go to work, not spend the time pulling off stuff that doesn't work. Way too many people can directly relate to the I'm a Mac commercial called "Out of the Box" which shows Mac and PC in boxes. The Mac guy is ready to go to work. The PC guy needs lots of updates out of the box including patches and AV updates.
Fully working bundled applications was one of the pleasnt suprises in Ubuntu. It came loaded with applications. The add/remove got fully working applications installed. I have yet to find a demo anything in Ubuntu. I don't have a Mac. If Mac's bundled applications work like Ubuntu's bundled applications, then the commercial is right-on.
MS thinks Paint is a photo editor. Ubuntu thinks The Gimp is a photo editor. I consider only one ready to edit photos out of the box. Same for e-mail, Evolution or Outlook Express, editing, Notepad, Wordpad, or Open Office, Abi word. I'm not sure what the bundled apps are with a Mac, but if they are as good as what comes with Ubuntu, they have a winner.
In short... It's the killer apps stupid.
In the 1980's, there was tons of free software for the DOS platform and that was a reason to get a DOS PC. Now the PC market is
After that, the man told me he had tried to use Linux, but he had found it difficult. I told him the first things that came to my mind: that it depended on the distribution (he tried Kubuntu).
I reply that I have had too many problems with Windows and have moved on. I give examples.
I had a photocopyer set up using a scanner and printer. I needed to edit a photo, which launched the 30 day trial software for the photo editor bundled with the machine. Now anytime I want to photocopy something, it launches the photo editor on top of the photocopier software when the scanner is used. I ask if he could fix it for me? It's too difficult for me to fix and is still broken after 6 months.
Both operating systems have things that need to be understood in order to maintain the system. I personaly find Linux easer to fix than fixing what's wrong in the Windows Registry which killed the photocopier. Uninstalling the photo editor did not fix the problem. Now Windows offers to search for the missing exe file when I attempt to photocopy something. I now photocopy on the Linux machine instead. I did not have to install any software or drivers to make it work.
At least in Linux, the programs are operational instead of trialware.
When I have visitors and they want to check their online mail, or want to check something online, I log them into a Ubuntu machine and show them the icon for Firefox. When they are done, I ask how they liked using Linux.
If a Windows user is getting a machine fixed, I offer to lend them a replacement while their machine is being fixed. I provide a machine and give them a password for one of the generic accounts. Seldom do I spend over 5 minutes in user support.
Here, log in like this, here is the menu, here is Firefox, here is Evolution, here is Open Office, here is your home directory, here is the shutdown button for logoff or shutdown. No there is not a C:\.
A properly configured loaner is good. A live CD most times will be a problme because it takes longer than 5 minutes to explain why it doesn't play MP3's and flash sites don't work. After they have used a properly configured loaner, be prepared to help a new user learn the basics from filesystem, printer, email, and network setup. After they understand it isn't Windows, then they will be ready for a live/install CD.
The lawsuit accuses Dell of artificially inflating profits "by secretly receiving approximately $250 million a quarter in likely illegal rebate kickbacks payments" from Intel in return for an exclusive deal to purchase Intel's microprocessors, class-action lawyer William Lerach told Reuters.
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Intel denied the accusations and said that some of the claims appear to "rehash" similar complaints against the chip maker by smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.. A Dell spokesman would not comment on the lawsuit.
Gleaned from;
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070202/dell_lawsuit.html?
If the recording industry is hurting soo badly, where the hell are they getting the money for all theese lawsuits & lawyers ?
Wrong! Most charges don't go to court, they go to the settlement center.
"The cartel's demand for $7500 came through the RIAA 'settlement centre,' but Santangelo plans to fight although,
So it makes its victims an offer they can't refuse - Settle. Or else. "
http://p2pnet.net/story/5925
If the case had no merit, then it shouldn't go forward at all, but I don't see how this 'collusion' defense addresses the charges at hand.
The all the labels ganged up at once is the issue in that defense point. Let's say you got caught red-handed stealing a candy bar at the local 7-11. In the investigation (discovery) they found you had a much of merchandise from Wal*Mart, Target, Costco, Toys are Us, and Radio Shack. Instead of 7-11 sueing you for damages, they decided together to have the local BBB sue you for all the merchandise you had without a reciept. You do keep reciepts, don't you?
This is not Sony suing for piracy of a Sony track. This is not Atlantic Records suing for piracy of a Atlantic track. This is a bunch of supposedly indipendant companies bring the lawsuit in "Collusion" to compound dammages. This is the collusion charge.
Sony didn't catch him. Someone else did. Sony has added their name to the case in collusion with the RIAA middle man and other record companies.
Not to mention Sony/BMG selling music direct to consumers through their club for $6-7/CD. I'll bet Tower paid more than that wholesale for their CD's.
So the choice is free (illegal), discount (direct), discount (online), discount (walmart), full price (retail/tower).
Many people have valid reasons to buy less CD's. For me several factors all compound together to reduce CD purchases.
1 Value.. I spend money on thing of more value at less cost. I typicaly buy DVD's under $10. Most CD's under $10 are not worth buying.
2 Quality.. Do a Google search on volume wars and CD's. Enough said.
3 Compatibility.. I look for red book standard music CD's. There are so few round shiny things anymore that proclaim to be a Philips standard trademarked Compact Disc tm.
4 Cartel relationship.. They are suing their customers, it's time to stop supporting this pratice.
5 Good enough existing library.. I'm still ripping my LP and Compact Tape collection.
In a nutshell, they are selling a low value, low quality product at high prices and the company has shown maffia strong arm tactics which I can not support in principal.
I used to pirate VHS tapes when pre-recorded tapes were $60-$80 dollars (late 1970's) by sharing with neighbors. Blank tapes were in the $10-15 each range. Now that movies are less than blank tape used to be, I get higher qualiity at lower prices buying the DVD. The music industry has not yet made this move to combat piracy. Instead they have moved to lower quality at high prices by offering low bitrate, dynamic range compressed, DRM'ed, downloads at close to full retail price and no right of first sale. They expect me to find it of value to me? No, I find value on other products and services instead.
Most 2 hour movies are less expensive than most any 2 hours of audio recordings. How do they think it's just as expensive to produce just audio instead of audio and video. They don't need expensive sets, rendering farms, and supporting cast that the movie industry needs. So tell me again why the product is higher priced per minute?
Yes, I am saying the product is way overpriced and I chose not to buy it.
Fluorescents MUST have a certain minimum operating time to see benefits
In some environments they simply are not up to the job. Ever replace an oven light with a CF? How long did it last? Were you able to get it to work after your first pizza?
How about the light in the Microwave Oven? That is another classic example of a short duty cycle application where a CF will probably fail with less than 24 operating hours on it.
Despite using all balanced connections, there is a marked increase in the volume of the noise floor whenever I replace the incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents, or when I use the long-tube traditional types.
Besides balanced connections, proper grounding and 100% shielding are required. Good equipment with proper input RF filtering is also important. Good fideliety does not require passing 100Khz and up. Elimination of ground loops is essential. See a good audio engineer for help. (Was my job)
Cheap equipment will pick up every local CB and Ham radio operator in the neighborhood as well as a low wattage RF source such as a CF lamp or wireless mic.
CF lamps, even the noisy ones have to pass FCC emission standards to prevent iterferance to public safety radio and other communications. If you are picking them up in your studio, you need some power conditioning, grounding and or shielding and maybe even replacement of cheap wires and components.
Ballanced inputs is not a cure all of noise pick-up. It is only a part of a multi-pronged aproach to noise elimination.
I put goatse in my hosts file. It doesn't show up anymore.
I know, offtopic.. just feeding the trolls.
Meanwhile, RIAA wants $750 per song... Isn't that a little unfair?
;-)
Yes, Sony is getting ripped off big time. Filesharers are simply getting $750 per title shared, not $750 per copy someone else recieved from him.
Sony is not getting charged $750 per song on the DRM CD. They are getting charged $150 for everyone who picked up a copy of the same set of songs from them. How unfair is that? I think they would love to have to pay $750/song for each of the CD titles they distributed regardless of how many copies sold of each title. It would be much cheaper!
The little iPod is worth a few hundred bucks, but the music on it is worth (potentially) 10's of thousands - if you could trivially (without googling) take the songs off it.
Here is a real world example of protected content problems. The iTunes tracks are DRM'ed to the player. If you could copy them off, they are of no use to anyone else.
You are on vacation. You would like to associate your iPod to another computer to listen to some podcasts.. Oops you have to delete all the music to associate it to the new computer... Not good.
Why can't you copy the tracks off the player so you can associate it without erasing the iPod? What's wrong with backing up all the tracks, associating to the other computer, listening to the podcasts, and when finished, copy your music back to your iPod. Even better would be if it didn't delete the stuff already on it when connecting to a new computer. The DRM'ed tracks from the iPod in theory shouldn't be playable on any body else's iPod and should work if copied back to the same iPod. In reality, they blanket erase the iTunes tracks when associating with a new computer.
My MP3 player is much more consumer friendly in the above situation. I load my music from home and add some MP3 blogs at work without deleting anything from the player (unless I run out of room and temp store some tunes on the PC to make room).
If I attend a lecture and want to record it and later save it or post it online, I can do that too.
This license may be modified, addended, or revoked at any time by Linden Lab in its sole discretion.
This was taken out of context. It simply is in refrence to the online store selling items with the modified logo. If the site creator got out of line with the products with the modified logo, they simply reserve the right to revoke the license to use the logo. The fact they granted a license to use the mofified logo is without fees or royalty payments is very gracious.
Try using the Mickey Mouse logo in a modified form on your website in a paradoy and sell products with the logo. I doubt the Disney lawyers have a sense of humor regarding selling products with a Mickey logo.
Episcopalians react to Vista Launch
u ntu/2006/07/about-ubuntu-christian-edition.html
Does this qualify?
http://www.whatwouldjesusdownload.com/christianub
Limiting the release of particular features can be a way to force users of your older products to your newer products.
And people migrating off 2000.XP means lots of inexpensive games for those of us who wait to see what is good and the prices to fall. Buying games for $5-10 is much better than $50-$80. It's the same games, but I play them a few years later.
My kid bought a Playstation for $19 and a few $5 games. Not everyone wants to spend several hundred dollars for a console. Wait a while and visit the local GameStop. Buy what people are moving out of. I don't mind if someone else takes the depreciation blues.
Crash is still a fun game.
If you're playing WoW (and SWG for whatever reason), then we all know you have no time for sleeping.
He posted at on Tuesday January 30, @03:55PM which is the time a lot of gamers take a power nap or simply crash after a night of gaming.
Or just use a Linux boot CD such as Knoppix.
Good point, but... Live CD's don't have NDISwrapper installed making it difficult to use a public hotspot with most laptops.
Fear not, there is a solution.
A solution is to use the RJ45 connection and bring along an access point which can be configured as a client.
...but I queued up at midnight for dapper drake.
Dude, pay attention. That's like staying up to midnight for Windows XP or ME. It's been out forever. Did you mean Edgy? Or maybe the release of Feisty Fawn?
For gods sake, priviledges to install software? On a users' machine at home?
.exe is a known file type so you just see nude.jpg by default.
Um, are you telling me you run as root all the time? Have you no sense of security?
If I want to install something, I have to log in as an administrator under Linux.
On a default installation of Windows, I am given root (administrator) privilages by default. To get software installed, all it takes is an e-mail saying take a look at my naked wife and the attachment is nude.jpg.exe, and the
This does not work on Linux when you do not run as root.
If I go to view a photo and it asks for permission (from me) and I'm not expecting an executable, then I know it won't install without my permission.
If you are running as Administrator or root as your primary account, you need to see a security advisor.
You can't build-your-own laptop at this point, and laptops are becoming more and more prevalent.
Used laptops which have become seperated from the CD's and restore disks are not expensive. Pick up one which has lost the components for a valid WGA license. Remember, Linux does not need the horsepower of a typical Windows install.
The tools to remain completely hidden are all there -- heck, you could probably do interviews in Wired under a psuedonym, the only absolute would be keeping the Clark-Kent-esque secret of your true identity hidden, and I'm not sure if some people would be able to swallow their pride enough to do that.
You missed use a public hotspot from a PC with a fresh OS install and no identifiable informaton on it.
After the upload, wipe the disk and install another OS. Leave no tracks.
If he was going offshore, he either had or should have had an EPIRB [wikipedia.org] (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon.
Most of these are designed to float out of their holder in case of a sinking and are water activated. The lack of a signal for this size vessel is a good sign it's still afloat. Whether he is alive or onboard is to be seen. He could have had a medical emergency or fallen overboard which would not activate the beacon.
It's the little companies who are more likely to try to pinch pennies by cheating on Windows licenses and software licenses in general.
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I just noticed the BSA is running the rat on your boss banner ads on Userfriendly.org. Nice reward offered. It may even be enough to tide you over while your boss goes out of business.
BSA now offering up to $200,000 in rewards for Qualifying Piracy Reports!
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These actions are the big prompt to move from MS to Ubuntu for me. All my white boxes have migrated. Only the OEM PC's from IBM, HP, and Dell have Windows and the older ones are upgrading to Linux.
The machines are not running an MS OS not provided by the manufacture. Any upgrades are to Linux because the license terms are much better and provide immunity to the BSA.
If the Linux Counter is correct, that is about 2.3 BILLION dollars Linux users have BEEN FORCED to give to Microsoft.
May I recommend building your own white box? There is no reason to pay the MS tax if you don't want to.
I was given a few parts and built a white box and picked Ubuntu as the OS because I couldn't stand the high price required for a retail version of XP. I was intending to dual boot, but decided to use dual PC's instead (with a preloaded box).