Yeah, but you can't just pop windows on a SPARC box, and hot swap parts. Linux also doesn't have the ability to hot swap on SPARC, so it has to be (to some extent) a feature of the OS!
God knows that MPAA, RIAA, etc are goint to try to force DRM into all of the D-A converters, so that you cant fair-use^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H steal content. Then you will see people getting arrested for selling mod-chips, etc.
I can see it now. You can only watch an older episode of the Simpsons if you subscribe to some fox service.
Who even uses the built-in tuners on their TVs? On my new TV, both of my antenna jacks sit empty, while my S-Video and RCA ports are all used up. I would be perfectly content if my television didn't even have a built-in tuner.
Yeah, well address 4.3 GB of memory on an Intel processor (Itanic doesn't count, because no one uses it!).
Intel is the king of SMP, I love their 32 or 64 way boxes. Oh my bad, you are supposed to "cluster" windoze servers, try this in the real world, and see if you get the performance of a E15K.
Yeah, because Dell has to pay MSFT for every computer they produce, whether it has Windoze on it or not. It is called the Microsoft tax, and that is why real geeks roll their own PC!
Why not just stick a wireless access point on the network. Put it on the floor near a window or something, and you should be in business... This would even work on the most secure networks.
In the United States at least VIN numbers actually have information encoded into them. Mine starts with 1HGEM......, and from just the 1H part you know that my car is a Honda made in the United States. When I insured my car, and gave the company the VIN, they instantly knew that I bought a Silver 2002 Honda Civic LX Coupe.
I believe it is illegal to change your VIN number, no matter what, otherwise how will the police know whether or not your car is stolen? Odds are if the car was not stolen you wouldn't get proscecuted though...
It is not like changing your Phone #, it is more like changing the VIN number of your car. Which is very illegal. Sure you own the car, but why would you want to change the VIN # except for illegal purposes.
I back up all of my new CD's when I buy them, and keep the originals in perfect condition. Therefore if someone "borrows" one, or if it gets ruined (scratched), then I just pull out the original, and make another copy. I am not a gamer, but if I was I would surely back up the games right when I bring them home.
At the risk of being moded flame bait. If you don't like it here, then move! Most american's don't care. How many Joe 6-packs roll their own DVD Players or Computers? It only matters to people like myself and the rest of the slashdot crowd. This is our fight, and we have to fight it ourselves.
How will they check your credit score then? Should they assume you don't have any credit (or bad credit). I guess they could decline you a cellphone, because you didn't pass the credit requirements, not because you failed to give a SSN.
Look where most of these new 20 Screen stadium-style theaters are going. I don't know about where you live, but in Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL they are mostly going into entertainment complexes (such as BayWalk), which have huge rent. I think a 3 million dollar hit would kill their bottom line, they would have to probably call in Kenneth Lay (Enron CEO), or a Worldcom excecutive in to make them profitable.
"2) Why do I need 100 MB of online storage when I can put 700-800 MB on a CD-R or CD-RW?"
Burning a CD takes to long! If I am working on something at home, work, and school. I want a fast means of transferring it. Drag, Drop, Leave is faster than Insert CD, Drag, Drop, Wait, Eject CD, especially since with online storage you don't have to carry the file with you.
I have linux and DSL, so it doesn't matter, but I can see why most Win/Mac users would pay for a service like that. With Linux it is free, all you do is set up a Directory protected by a password, and use your favorite browser to grab your files from anywhere in the world.
Smaller phones sell better. People want phones that they can put in their pocket, even shirt pocket. Most of the smaller phones use Lithium Ion batteries which last much longer than NiCd (that most bigger phones use). I have a Samsung N200, and love it. I can fit it in my pocket, and it has alarms, a calendar, calculator, phone book, etc. I only wish that they could put an MP3 player in there.
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No device is completely digital, our ears our analog devices. So all digital audio systems must convert to analog at one point... :-)
Yeah, but you can't just pop windows on a SPARC box, and hot swap parts. Linux also doesn't have the ability to hot swap on SPARC, so it has to be (to some extent) a feature of the OS!
God knows that MPAA, RIAA, etc are goint to try to force DRM into all of the D-A converters, so that you cant fair-use^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H steal content. Then you will see people getting arrested for selling mod-chips, etc.
I can see it now. You can only watch an older episode of the Simpsons if you subscribe to some fox service.
Who even uses the built-in tuners on their TVs? On my new TV, both of my antenna jacks sit empty, while my S-Video and RCA ports are all used up. I would be perfectly content if my television didn't even have a built-in tuner.
Yeah, well address 4.3 GB of memory on an Intel processor (Itanic doesn't count, because no one uses it!).
Intel is the king of SMP, I love their 32 or 64 way boxes. Oh my bad, you are supposed to "cluster" windoze servers, try this in the real world, and see if you get the performance of a E15K.
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Yeah, because Dell has to pay MSFT for every computer they produce, whether it has Windoze on it or not. It is called the Microsoft tax, and that is why real geeks roll their own PC!
With advances in modern medicine, etc. You might even have MORE time then them....
Why not just stick a wireless access point on the network. Put it on the floor near a window or something, and you should be in business... This would even work on the most secure networks.
In the United States at least VIN numbers actually have information encoded into them. Mine starts with 1HGEM......, and from just the 1H part you know that my car is a Honda made in the United States. When I insured my car, and gave the company the VIN, they instantly knew that I bought a Silver 2002 Honda Civic LX Coupe.
I believe it is illegal to change your VIN number, no matter what, otherwise how will the police know whether or not your car is stolen? Odds are if the car was not stolen you wouldn't get proscecuted though...
It is not like changing your Phone #, it is more like changing the VIN number of your car. Which is very illegal. Sure you own the car, but why would you want to change the VIN # except for illegal purposes.
Then use a USB keyboard.....
Apple's commercial said that if you bring your PC in (to an apple store), they will transfer the files to your new Mac for free.
I back up all of my new CD's when I buy them, and keep the originals in perfect condition. Therefore if someone "borrows" one, or if it gets ruined (scratched), then I just pull out the original, and make another copy. I am not a gamer, but if I was I would surely back up the games right when I bring them home.
But never MS .ORG, since org's are (supposed to be) non-profit.
Sony is now marketing the PSX as PSOne, it is smaller than the original playstation, but everything else is the same...
Actually the artile only talked about "PlayStation", not "PlayStation2". So I guess it would be PSOne, not PS2...
At the risk of being moded flame bait. If you don't like it here, then move! Most american's don't care. How many Joe 6-packs roll their own DVD Players or Computers? It only matters to people like myself and the rest of the slashdot crowd. This is our fight, and we have to fight it ourselves.
I would love to be the company who supplies the bookstore with GB Ethernet cards. $$$$$$$$
How will they check your credit score then? Should they assume you don't have any credit (or bad credit). I guess they could decline you a cellphone, because you didn't pass the credit requirements, not because you failed to give a SSN.
Palm sex (i.e. mastur....)is old-fashoned, how do you think Adam got through all those lonely nights, before Eve seduced him.... :-)
Look where most of these new 20 Screen stadium-style theaters are going. I don't know about where you live, but in Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL they are mostly going into entertainment complexes (such as BayWalk), which have huge rent. I think a 3 million dollar hit would kill their bottom line, they would have to probably call in Kenneth Lay (Enron CEO), or a Worldcom excecutive in to make them profitable.
I thought Linux's NFS implementation was based on Sun's NFS implementation. There is nothing better than NFS on Sun. :-)
Except SMB on NT.
"2) Why do I need 100 MB of online storage when I can put 700-800 MB on a CD-R or CD-RW?"
Burning a CD takes to long! If I am working on something at home, work, and school. I want a fast means of transferring it. Drag, Drop, Leave is faster than Insert CD, Drag, Drop, Wait, Eject CD, especially since with online storage you don't have to carry the file with you.
I have linux and DSL, so it doesn't matter, but I can see why most Win/Mac users would pay for a service like that. With Linux it is free, all you do is set up a Directory protected by a password, and use your favorite browser to grab your files from anywhere in the world.
Smaller phones sell better. People want phones that they can put in their pocket, even shirt pocket. Most of the smaller phones use Lithium Ion batteries which last much longer than NiCd (that most bigger phones use). I have a Samsung N200, and love it. I can fit it in my pocket, and it has alarms, a calendar, calculator, phone book, etc. I only wish that they could put an MP3 player in there.