Uh, I work 55 hours a week. Thats 11 hours a day, and I make pretty good money. 15$ IS trivial to me, and 40$ is too.
I have all the typical responsibilities and I pay for everything I do, consume, use, enjoy etc.
As for playing time; I left the house this morning at 7:30, I just got home 5 minutes ago and its 7:45. I was up until 2am lastnight playing BurnOut 3, I starded shortly after 8 lastnight. See, thats what real gamers do, forsake sleep for their hobby. There goes your time estimates.
Just because you can't swing it doesn't mean everyone that can is a spoiled rich kid.
Suck it up and either quit your bitchin or get a better job.
"-but that means there are 40% still going on. Not an insignifigant number."
Especially considering thats 40% of however many billions they had before the "filtering".
No small number indeed, still quite enough to show the RIAA that Napster is still a valuable service, even if its "copyrighted material" isn`t traded.
Uh, I`m not talking about random spam, because I never get that kind. I`m talking about spam from people trying to sell me things, and then giving me their email address to contact them.
Its really simple if you use your brain, try to follow along.
JoeSchmoe emails me and tries to get me to buy his audio cassette tapes that teach me the meaning of life, I have to email him and ask em for it so its not considered spam anymore, because I`m asking to be contacted back.
See where I`m goin with this, or is it over your head?
While your dreaming of that, I'll do what I've always done.
Go to some place like contest junction and flood the return email addresses back. Hey, its rude, but it works. I usually sign the spammer up for as many porn in your email things as I can find, and then I hit em with virtual greeting from somewhere tellin em to eat it.
Hate to argue with such a good post, but your wrong on alot of your ideas.
Mainly, CPU's rising to unsafe temps will cause the system to become unstable, thus resulting in a crash. Hence why people burn in their CPUs to test the stability.
Also, as for chips being made as fast as possible, thats also false. When chips are fabbed, they aren't fabbed in lots of 500mhz and lots of 550mhz, they are all fabbed together and tested afterward before locking the multiplier, thats how overclocking got started, you know.
Intel also doesn't prevent overclocking, they just lock the multiplier, which means you have to up the frontside bus instead. The only time I've seen any hardware that detects overclocking and prevent it is on a mobo with an Intel chipset, and nobody is using new CPUs on the BX or the whole i8xx series of chipsets, mainly because of the limitations.
This story is wrong anyway, there was a documented overclock this high a couple weeks ago, Tom just gets coverage because its a well known website.
M$ releases a Linux distro that no serious Linux user will want to use, mainly because we know it will be put together without security, stability and compatibility in mind. M$ is known for not repairing bugs that are serious security holes in current products. Not because they can`t, simply because that don`t want to.
In steps the Open Source Business Model that so many depend on nowadays- Support Contracts. Sure, M$ will help fix the holes it created, but you have to pay, and your going to pay one way or the other.
Of course, anyone that has the source can fix the bugs themselves, and eventually someone would release patches to fix everything M$ did wrong, right?
Wrong.
M$ won`t use a standard Linux licensing model, they will stick with the licensing model they`ve always used. You rent the product, no you may not see the source and if you spread around any information about a flaw in our product, you will be sue`d.
Not to mention the forking that could occur if M$ entered the market and started making proprietary standards and forcing people to use their software to do certain tasks.
Do you really think M$ won`t release new kernels on a bi monthly basis just to make money? Whether they be good kernels that add functionality or not doesn`t matter when the bottom dollar is the reason for releasing it.
This all comes back to the Open Source Business Model.
The current Open Source Business Model is not geared toward selling Linux, or selling Software. Redhat wouldn`t make much money, if that were the case. Its about selling support and upgrade services. That part is at least covered for large businesses that wish to use Linux as a standard. They can buy a support contract with thier software, which is how the Open Source Business Model is working right now.
Besides, most large businesses have IT staff on hand, or on call, that can come in and troubleshoot any problems. Most of whom hang out in usenet, which brings a practical use for usenet tech support.
The problem I see is, from the screenshots, it doesn`t appear to be a shell replacement, it looks like it runs on top of explorer.exe. You can see the taskbar in the screenshots with tons of stuff open, and very little visible.
I'm hoping I'm looking at it wrong. If not, that project would be pretty useless. Who wants a desktop that runs on top of another desktop, in windows?
I happen to use Litestep and have been for a few months now, I have no complaints at all. I haven`t seen any loss in windows functionality, other than the smaller hit to system resources and longer uptimes in win98.;-)
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Start swearing and your just another 12 year old who managed to get on the net before growing a pair.
A 12 year old with a slashdot ID that low? ...
I think that would make him, umm, like 22ish by now? :p
Uh, I work 55 hours a week. Thats 11 hours a day, and I make pretty good money. 15$ IS trivial to me, and 40$ is too.
I have all the typical responsibilities and I pay for everything I do, consume, use, enjoy etc.
As for playing time; I left the house this morning at 7:30, I just got home 5 minutes ago and its 7:45. I was up until 2am lastnight playing BurnOut 3, I starded shortly after 8 lastnight. See, thats what real gamers do, forsake sleep for their hobby. There goes your time estimates.
Just because you can't swing it doesn't mean everyone that can is a spoiled rich kid.
Suck it up and either quit your bitchin or get a better job.
Did YOU think out your post before you submitted it?! Do your taxes go up when theres major road work that needs to be done..
;-)
Oh yah, well what about people that dun pay taxes but buy the hardware, are we gonna have welfare wireless nodes and zones?
Aren't you able to bitch at people when the road work takes longer than expected?!
Ah crikey, you did think out your post, I guess your right.
How this could/is/will affect the on-going trial.
Its like, now their TOS basically say: You have no rights while using this service, and anything you passthru, becomes ours.
To me, thats all the evidence a judge should need.
Seem, I dunno, kinda dumb considering /. was backed down by the church of scientology.
Wo
"-but that means there are 40% still going on. Not an insignifigant number."
Especially considering thats 40% of however many billions they had before the "filtering".
No small number indeed, still quite enough to show the RIAA that Napster is still a valuable service, even if its "copyrighted material" isn`t traded.
Uh, I`m not talking about random spam, because I never get that kind. I`m talking about spam from people trying to sell me things, and then giving me their email address to contact them.
:b
Its really simple if you use your brain, try to follow along.
JoeSchmoe emails me and tries to get me to buy his audio cassette tapes that teach me the meaning of life, I have to email him and ask em for it so its not considered spam anymore, because I`m asking to be contacted back.
See where I`m goin with this, or is it over your head?
Ya know when they release those estimates about how much spam really costs?
I bet they don`t include the traffic from people directed at the TOS guys, or the TOS guys salaries.
Think about it, there are actual people out there that only have a job because of email abuse!
Isn`t that sad? Spammers have created jobs that people depend on.
ugh, that is scary.
While your dreaming of that, I'll do what I've always done.
Go to some place like contest junction and flood the return email addresses back. Hey, its rude, but it works. I usually sign the spammer up for as many porn in your email things as I can find, and then I hit em with virtual greeting from somewhere tellin em to eat it.
What about other languages?
;-)
Say your german and are looking for a german artist, then what?
Is pig latin universal?
Who taught pigs to speak, and WHY LATIN?!
Your trying to find a band but can't figure out how to spell it in pig latin?
Like, Oingo Boingo? This is just gonna be another cause of baldness.
Everyone pullin their hair out because they can`t figure out how to spell stuff in pig latin.
Thats what you get when you teach pigs how to speak!
Hate to argue with such a good post, but your wrong on alot of your ideas.
Mainly, CPU's rising to unsafe temps will cause the system to become unstable, thus resulting in a crash. Hence why people burn in their CPUs to test the stability.
Also, as for chips being made as fast as possible, thats also false. When chips are fabbed, they aren't fabbed in lots of 500mhz and lots of 550mhz, they are all fabbed together and tested afterward before locking the multiplier, thats how overclocking got started, you know.
Intel also doesn't prevent overclocking, they just lock the multiplier, which means you have to up the frontside bus instead. The only time I've seen any hardware that detects overclocking and prevent it is on a mobo with an Intel chipset, and nobody is using new CPUs on the BX or the whole i8xx series of chipsets, mainly because of the limitations.
This story is wrong anyway, there was a documented overclock this high a couple weeks ago, Tom just gets coverage because its a well known website.
Well, I can tell ya what`ll happen.
M$ releases a Linux distro that no serious Linux user will want to use, mainly because we know it will be put together without security, stability and compatibility in mind. M$ is known for not repairing bugs that are serious security holes in current products. Not because they can`t, simply because that don`t want to.
In steps the Open Source Business Model that so many depend on nowadays- Support Contracts. Sure, M$ will help fix the holes it created, but you have to pay, and your going to pay one way or the other.
Of course, anyone that has the source can fix the bugs themselves, and eventually someone would release patches to fix everything M$ did wrong, right?
Wrong.
M$ won`t use a standard Linux licensing model, they will stick with the licensing model they`ve always used. You rent the product, no you may not see the source and if you spread around any information about a flaw in our product, you will be sue`d.
Not to mention the forking that could occur if M$ entered the market and started making proprietary standards and forcing people to use their software to do certain tasks.
Do you really think M$ won`t release new kernels on a bi monthly basis just to make money? Whether they be good kernels that add functionality or not doesn`t matter when the bottom dollar is the reason for releasing it.
This all comes back to the Open Source Business Model.
The current Open Source Business Model is not geared toward selling Linux, or selling Software. Redhat wouldn`t make much money, if that were the case. Its about selling support and upgrade services. That part is at least covered for large businesses that wish to use Linux as a standard. They can buy a support contract with thier software, which is how the Open Source Business Model is working right now.
Besides, most large businesses have IT staff on hand, or on call, that can come in and troubleshoot any problems. Most of whom hang out in usenet, which brings a practical use for usenet tech support.
The problem I see is, from the screenshots, it doesn`t appear to be a shell replacement, it looks like it runs on top of explorer.exe. You can see the taskbar in the screenshots with tons of stuff open, and very little visible. I'm hoping I'm looking at it wrong. If not, that project would be pretty useless. Who wants a desktop that runs on top of another desktop, in windows? I happen to use Litestep and have been for a few months now, I have no complaints at all. I haven`t seen any loss in windows functionality, other than the smaller hit to system resources and longer uptimes in win98. ;-)
Oh Yea, you read it. In 67 years the long awaited spork patent will be granted, stifling KFC`s hold on the Coleslaw market.