There's no way that aol is the good guy when it comes to spam, they sell members emails for spam usage. I know mine was sold because I created a brand new screen name specifically to avoid spam (previous screen name gets like 10 spams an hour), and did nothing on it. AIM and web outside of aol itself and no chatting in it. And within 3 days I was getting spam. Now tell me my address was not stolen.
1) Because I can do everything on a PC that I could do on a MAC. 3) Because I don't want to pay for an OS when I can get one for free. 4) Linus is much 'cooler' than Steve.
Wait a sec... you're claiming you can do everything a mac does on your PC and you're running linux? Don't get me wrong, I love linux and all, but it's not acclaimed for the highest quality software and ease of use as you get from a mac. (although it gets better daily)
Why don't we get rid of everything new and apparently annoying to somebody. We don't need computers, everyone got along fine without them. We don't need cars, who would ever want to leave their neighborhood? TV, radio, phones, planes, all these new fangled gadgets are annoying to someone and should be banned, fuck our freedom to innovate. Why, of we didn't have technology, we wouldn't have to worry about all this digital rights bs. We'd all be a lot better living only with our family in a cave chasing after the animals with a spear. Oh wait, that spear's technology too, get rid of it. I hate technology. I hate people, I hate freedom.
Get rid of all that spyware, I use ad aware. It has worked for a lot of things I never heard of and it's simple/small. Check it out www.lavasoft.de. Free as well.
Take the time and donate a buck or so to him, maybe he can take the cash and upgrade his service to handle the/. crowd, or maybe a little bit more than he has been able to.
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There is the PengAol project where they have created a *working* client to access aol. the downside is that it's all in french and appears to only work in france (I've never gotten it to work). Maybe you can try your luck and/or donate some code to the project.
I do say it's about time to legislate against bad parenting. It's not impossible, it just takes a lot of time and effort on the part of our elected officials. I'm so sick and tired of people pushing their responsabilities on whatever is close at hand and easy to blame.
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Well first the whole OS has to be reverse engineered and fully functional to the extent of the original before it can be improved upon.
Realistically it's a whole new OS that happens to look and feel like dos as well as having compatability. So it's a whole new quake game when it comes to improving it.
I had problems with the latest KDE's ARTs and ALSA in the past. As soon as YMF724 became available in the kernel itself, the problems seemed to dissapear. Will there be a choice for people like me between the ALSA implementation and the old one? Or have all the problems been fixed in ALSA? I always liked alsa as a strong and stable driver system in the past, so this has to be good news.
I hate to break it to you, but it only has a 766mhz celeron. It's already way outdated by even the most conservative standards.
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In reality, No.
But I know that I'd want my hot chick to be a gamer/computer nerd. Someone i can share my obsession with. Now that's a great place to meet people with the same interests.
From what I've read, AOL isn't letting them be their own companies, they are just so disorganized that they don't do anything with them. This is also the same story before AOL bought Time/Warner. There were internal conficts that ended up making the two companies figt each other from the inside out. They're so rich, they just buy out a company to have a leverage point, and never really care what the company was in the first place. So it ends up the other company just survives on it's own, just the head guy is employed also by AOL/Time/Warner.
What is meant by this is that replacing the thermal pad with thermal compund is optional. You definatly need a thermal conductor between the heatsink and the proc. That's just common sense.
Seriously, how many of you were very good at computers but your parents or other siblings had no clue? So your parents are part of the "I don't want to know" crowd with aol. You as a geek kid try out this new interesting thing called 'linux'. You struggle (or not) and get it installed. Then you find out you can't get online because all you have for access is AOL. Which your parents are too computer illiterate to know the difference and won't pay for something else. You as a kid have no money to pay for any other ISP. You soon get discouraged and leave linux for windows because you need the internet.
No matter what other applications there are out there the internet is the killer application. It is the best tool for learning the OS and its intricacies at the beginning.
Here's my personal take on the predictions take it as you will, IANAEOTF (I Am Not An Expert On The Future)
1) Buisness will grow, it isn't hard to figure that buisness will move into the black. All the rest will fail and we're left with only the succesful corperations. Duh.
2) I see it happening slightly, although it feels that he is stating that linux will become noticable everywhere and with too much optomism. What's with "measurable market share"? isn't 0.25% measured?
3) To say that linux will be preloaded on future machines when it's been tried and failed miserably in the past years is still too optomistic. At the moment M$ has a stranglehold on that market and it's just not profitable enough to preload. Too much hassle at this moment to accomidate 0.25% of the market. Even considering that number faulty, it's still just not quite enough.
4) It just drags on and on.
5) He's just reaching for this one. I don't see microsoft products being banned compleatly. I doubt they use XP for high level stuff anyway. Remember the high security distro the NSA (I think it was the NSA) is working on? They trust in unix and it's clones just like most backend stuff. Enen M$ uses BSD for hotmail.
6) Again, a complete and utter ban of M$? Unlikly. I can see buisness warming up to linux and other unix clones for workstations and alowing employees to choose, rather than a lot of these employees secretly using linux on a separate partition from the usual windows or without support from the company.
7) doubtful with their monetary constraints and lack of market penetration. Do you get tech TV? I don't and nobody I know gets it without a satilite. If you don't reach enough people, and only about 0.25% of those people are interested, then your showw quickly bites the dust.
8) I can see this happening actually. Don't whine and complain, it's a necisary evil to get more market share.
9) Wtf? Someone please explain this to me.
10) And finally, the easiest one. Everything progresses more. It grows and more people find out and learn about linux and other unix clones. Viva la revolution.
I appologize for the repetition of the 0.25% number. It's just a number that represents the actual market share, whatever that is in reality.
I'd love to start reading these stories, but I find it hard to sit and read off my monitor any large ammount of text. How do you all read books off the internet? Is there a way easier on the eyes? Printing them all out seems to be a little excessive.
(Yes I do have a 21in monitor, and would like something short of finding an english translation in book form.)
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bad me, I meant to say sold at the end instead of stolen. that's what I get for not previewing =(
There's no way that aol is the good guy when it comes to spam, they sell members emails for spam usage. I know mine was sold because I created a brand new screen name specifically to avoid spam (previous screen name gets like 10 spams an hour), and did nothing on it. AIM and web outside of aol itself and no chatting in it. And within 3 days I was getting spam. Now tell me my address was not stolen.
1) Because I can do everything on a PC that I could do on a MAC.
3) Because I don't want to pay for an OS when I can get one for free.
4) Linus is much 'cooler' than Steve.
Wait a sec... you're claiming you can do everything a mac does on your PC and you're running linux? Don't get me wrong, I love linux and all, but it's not acclaimed for the highest quality software and ease of use as you get from a mac. (although it gets better daily)
slashcode adds spaces to really long links. so try again and look for the 2 spaces added to the link.
Why don't we get rid of everything new and apparently annoying to somebody. We don't need computers, everyone got along fine without them. We don't need cars, who would ever want to leave their neighborhood? TV, radio, phones, planes, all these new fangled gadgets are annoying to someone and should be banned, fuck our freedom to innovate. Why, of we didn't have technology, we wouldn't have to worry about all this digital rights bs. We'd all be a lot better living only with our family in a cave chasing after the animals with a spear. Oh wait, that spear's technology too, get rid of it. I hate technology. I hate people, I hate freedom.
Get rid of all that spyware, I use ad aware. It has worked for a lot of things I never heard of and it's simple/small. Check it out www.lavasoft.de. Free as well.
Take the time and donate a buck or so to him, maybe he can take the cash and upgrade his service to handle the /. crowd, or maybe a little bit more than he has been able to.
It's only too true.
Please wait while I drown in self pity.
There is the PengAol project where they have created a *working* client to access aol. the downside is that it's all in french and appears to only work in france (I've never gotten it to work). Maybe you can try your luck and/or donate some code to the project.
Copyprotected Disc = CD...
very well stated. I totally agree.
I do say it's about time to legislate against bad parenting. It's not impossible, it just takes a lot of time and effort on the part of our elected officials. I'm so sick and tired of people pushing their responsabilities on whatever is close at hand and easy to blame.
Well first the whole OS has to be reverse engineered and fully functional to the extent of the original before it can be improved upon.
Realistically it's a whole new OS that happens to look and feel like dos as well as having compatability. So it's a whole new quake game when it comes to improving it.
I had problems with the latest KDE's ARTs and ALSA in the past. As soon as YMF724 became available in the kernel itself, the problems seemed to dissapear. Will there be a choice for people like me between the ALSA implementation and the old one? Or have all the problems been fixed in ALSA? I always liked alsa as a strong and stable driver system in the past, so this has to be good news.
I hate to break it to you, but it only has a 766mhz celeron. It's already way outdated by even the most conservative standards.
In reality, No.
But I know that I'd want my hot chick to be a gamer/computer nerd. Someone i can share my obsession with. Now that's a great place to meet people with the same interests.
From what I've read, AOL isn't letting them be their own companies, they are just so disorganized that they don't do anything with them. This is also the same story before AOL bought Time/Warner. There were internal conficts that ended up making the two companies figt each other from the inside out. They're so rich, they just buy out a company to have a leverage point, and never really care what the company was in the first place. So it ends up the other company just survives on it's own, just the head guy is employed also by AOL/Time/Warner.
To only be purchased by someone with an extremly small penis.
Parent Post: AMD XP 1500 $107
Above reply: AMD XP 1.5GHz $133
I'm very glad to see that AMD's marketing strategy is working just as planned.
The only thing that could be more vaporus than Duke Nukem Forever would be the OS X version of Duke Nukem Forever.
What is meant by this is that replacing the thermal pad with thermal compund is optional. You definatly need a thermal conductor between the heatsink and the proc. That's just common sense.
"Oh won't somebody please think of the children?"
Seriously, how many of you were very good at computers but your parents or other siblings had no clue? So your parents are part of the "I don't want to know" crowd with aol. You as a geek kid try out this new interesting thing called 'linux'. You struggle (or not) and get it installed. Then you find out you can't get online because all you have for access is AOL. Which your parents are too computer illiterate to know the difference and won't pay for something else. You as a kid have no money to pay for any other ISP. You soon get discouraged and leave linux for windows because you need the internet.
No matter what other applications there are out there the internet is the killer application. It is the best tool for learning the OS and its intricacies at the beginning.
Here's my personal take on the predictions take it as you will, IANAEOTF (I Am Not An Expert On The Future)
1) Buisness will grow, it isn't hard to figure that buisness will move into the black. All the rest will fail and we're left with only the succesful corperations. Duh.
2) I see it happening slightly, although it feels that he is stating that linux will become noticable everywhere and with too much optomism. What's with "measurable market share"? isn't 0.25% measured?
3) To say that linux will be preloaded on future machines when it's been tried and failed miserably in the past years is still too optomistic. At the moment M$ has a stranglehold on that market and it's just not profitable enough to preload. Too much hassle at this moment to accomidate 0.25% of the market. Even considering that number faulty, it's still just not quite enough.
4) It just drags on and on.
5) He's just reaching for this one. I don't see microsoft products being banned compleatly. I doubt they use XP for high level stuff anyway. Remember the high security distro the NSA (I think it was the NSA) is working on? They trust in unix and it's clones just like most backend stuff. Enen M$ uses BSD for hotmail.
6) Again, a complete and utter ban of M$? Unlikly. I can see buisness warming up to linux and other unix clones for workstations and alowing employees to choose, rather than a lot of these employees secretly using linux on a separate partition from the usual windows or without support from the company.
7) doubtful with their monetary constraints and lack of market penetration. Do you get tech TV? I don't and nobody I know gets it without a satilite. If you don't reach enough people, and only about 0.25% of those people are interested, then your showw quickly bites the dust.
8) I can see this happening actually. Don't whine and complain, it's a necisary evil to get more market share.
9) Wtf? Someone please explain this to me.
10) And finally, the easiest one. Everything progresses more. It grows and more people find out and learn about linux and other unix clones. Viva la revolution.
I appologize for the repetition of the 0.25% number. It's just a number that represents the actual market share, whatever that is in reality.
I'd love to start reading these stories, but I find it hard to sit and read off my monitor any large ammount of text. How do you all read books off the internet? Is there a way easier on the eyes? Printing them all out seems to be a little excessive.
(Yes I do have a 21in monitor, and would like something short of finding an english translation in book form.)
"Those who can give up essential liberty in order to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" Benjamin Franklin