And no OS provides what I want - free as in speech, free as in beer, UNIX as in POSIX (and thusly a near workalike for Solaris at user level) - though I will say I'm at least making inroads on that, NetBSD's working on that too...
It's good that they still provide the updates, as some people hate to upgrade their OS (especially on a server you don't want to update it!)...myself included
Yeah, WTF? Why does anyone need a calculator AT ALL prior to high-school level math? And I would say, keep to the 4-function ones in high school, except for calculus...where you need more!
I am bound to agree, and most of what I was taught was out of a book or out in the world (field trips aplenty) and I spent very little of my non-free time on computers in school. (A lot of my free time otoh...) I did quite well, considering that I do have a classified learning disability - I was special ed and took a few Honors classes, and had a Regents with Honors diploma...
Well, the Japanese version had it, and several of my friends in Pokemon-Originals have used it with their copies (legit and pirate) of Japanese Pokemon DP.
I haven't; I don't have a DS and no desire to buy one right now over one game.
My question is why the government's using COTS software, and especially M$, given it's got more holes than Swiss cheese, shouldn't the government be running custom hardware and software so that this can't happen?
It may be something Amish and Mennonites know, maybe we could take a tip from them and get back to basics, cut our dependencies on the grid and on the outside world at large.
I can hear the voices of a thousand nerds and geeks screaming "Give up my Internet? NUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" We have limits as to what we can and can't give up; there are pressing reasons to stay on the grid, but hell, why can't one grow, say, a few veggies in a blanketbox or something? Modern and old-fashioned can go hand-in-hand.
It would maybe be nice to port apt and start an apt repo (might need to change the extension for the deb files to avoid confusion with Linux debs), but you'd have to really affk with it to get it to work with Winsock, unless you use Cygwin...
For comparison, I have 3072:768 business-class at $80 monthly. TW tried to get me to switch but they wouldn't offer me more than 384 kbps up so I told them no, as long as they can't offer the uplink I get from VZ I'm staying with VZ. (I do use my uplink...heavily.)
Apart from it now being about keeping people off gnuware there's nothing new about this, they were saying what, 10, 15 years ago?, that they didn't really mind the rampant piracy of their software because it would get people hooked and they'd come back and buy legit. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
I hear this from Shaw and Cox users all the time, they're getting shitograms from the ISP over their heavy bandwidth usage. Well, Verizon's never bitched at me and I have full uplink running almost 24/7. This was true even when I had a residential line.
Yeah, ever since DOOM (the last of the classic-era id games), they sold out and became the very thing they hated...
We need back the innovative company that brought you Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D because they pushed the state of the art at the time, not Quake fifty-million because they can make a quick buck.
The unfortunate truth, although, not every coder is out to get release fast, some of us still take some extra time to make our code simpler and lighter rather than just brute-forcing it.
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And no OS provides what I want - free as in speech, free as in beer, UNIX as in POSIX (and thusly a near workalike for Solaris at user level) - though I will say I'm at least making inroads on that, NetBSD's working on that too...
-uso.
Yes, I would think that schoolwork is "work for hire" and would be property of the school...
-uso.
As I mentioned in another topic, I think this is insane but apparently the RIAA thinks CDs should cost $34 each due to inflation...
Ridiculous. $10 I paid gladly, $12 was ok, but when every album costs $17+, I ain't buying.
-uso.
You can be "below the poverty line" and have a DVD recorder, digital cable, fast broadband and a reasonably new computer...how do I know?
Um, I have something called a mirror?
-uso.
Yeah, the same RIAA that <A HREF="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02 /07/011217">thinks CDs ought to cost $34 a pop</A>...
Data's cheap and I ain't paying their inflated prices for it.
-uso.
If so then that part of the USAPATRIOTACT is null and void, as anything that conflicts with the Constitution in federal code is legally null and void.
-uso.
I wonder if a driving android can be constructed.
*RUNS*
-uso.
Romanian is of Romance stock same as French and Spanish, though with a bit of a Slavic bent (as French has a slight Germanic bent).
-uso.
Sounds Romanian to me
-uso.
It's good that they still provide the updates, as some people hate to upgrade their OS (especially on a server you don't want to update it!) ...myself included
-uso.
Last I checked, Sarge was the stable branch and Woody was obsolete even by Debian standards.
-uso.
Yeah, WTF? Why does anyone need a calculator AT ALL prior to high-school level math? And I would say, keep to the 4-function ones in high school, except for calculus...where you need more!
-uso.
I am bound to agree, and most of what I was taught was out of a book or out in the world (field trips aplenty) and I spent very little of my non-free time on computers in school. (A lot of my free time otoh...) I did quite well, considering that I do have a classified learning disability - I was special ed and took a few Honors classes, and had a Regents with Honors diploma...
-uso.
Well, the Japanese version had it, and several of my friends in Pokemon-Originals have used it with their copies (legit and pirate) of Japanese Pokemon DP.
I haven't; I don't have a DS and no desire to buy one right now over one game.
-uso.
"The more you tighten your grip Gov. Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers"
-uso.
Keep in mind the names RCA and GE. I believe they're owned by Thomson.
-uso.
Pirated DVDs, heh, most of my torrents are off-the-air TV rips :P
And once in a while I distribute my own content, RIAA and MPAA, so fucking deal.
-uso.
My question is why the government's using COTS software, and especially M$, given it's got more holes than Swiss cheese, shouldn't the government be running custom hardware and software so that this can't happen?
-uso.
It may be something Amish and Mennonites know, maybe we could take a tip from them and get back to basics, cut our dependencies on the grid and on the outside world at large.
I can hear the voices of a thousand nerds and geeks screaming "Give up my Internet? NUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" We have limits as to what we can and can't give up; there are pressing reasons to stay on the grid, but hell, why can't one grow, say, a few veggies in a blanketbox or something? Modern and old-fashioned can go hand-in-hand.
-uso.
It would maybe be nice to port apt and start an apt repo (might need to change the extension for the deb files to avoid confusion with Linux debs), but you'd have to really affk with it to get it to work with Winsock, unless you use Cygwin...
-uso.
For comparison, I have 3072:768 business-class at $80 monthly. TW tried to get me to switch but they wouldn't offer me more than 384 kbps up so I told them no, as long as they can't offer the uplink I get from VZ I'm staying with VZ. (I do use my uplink...heavily.)
-uso.
Apart from it now being about keeping people off gnuware there's nothing new about this, they were saying what, 10, 15 years ago?, that they didn't really mind the rampant piracy of their software because it would get people hooked and they'd come back and buy legit. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
-uso.
I hear this from Shaw and Cox users all the time, they're getting shitograms from the ISP over their heavy bandwidth usage. Well, Verizon's never bitched at me and I have full uplink running almost 24/7. This was true even when I had a residential line.
-uso.
Yeah, ever since DOOM (the last of the classic-era id games), they sold out and became the very thing they hated...
We need back the innovative company that brought you Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D because they pushed the state of the art at the time, not Quake fifty-million because they can make a quick buck.
-uso.
The unfortunate truth, although, not every coder is out to get release fast, some of us still take some extra time to make our code simpler and lighter rather than just brute-forcing it.
-uso.