Have your company pay for it then. And if you're whining about 56k access only, how is this the fault of all these "Joe Luser"'s and AOL users? It still gives you NO MORE RIGHT to internet access than any other paying subscriber of an Internet Service Provider.
I need to get to work in the morning. Therefore I have more right to the road than a bus full of tourists. Bzzt. Wrong.
Why does it piss you off? Who are you to determine who "needs" a fast connection? Do you "need" it any more than "Joe Luser"? And how dare those AOL users touch your internet? The arrogance of them, thinking that they have as much right as you. How dare they? Let's lock them back into their closed networks.
Exactly. How do you decide that you, as a self-described "power user", has even 1% more right to bandwidth that anyone else willing to pay for it has?
Simple answer is you don't. If I can afford to have FDDI to my house, tell me by what means you (or any other arbitrary body) is going to determine my "worthiness"? Portscan and try to r00tkit me to make sure I have no security holes in my OS? Demand a login to my system to make sure I'm not planning any DoS attacks? I think not.
What exactly is meant by "the Internet isn't ready for broadband yet"? If you ask me, it's screaming for as much bandwidth as it can lay its hands on, at all points, be they last-mile or backbone, rural, city or transoceanic.
And why shouldn't individuals who wish, want, or are willing to pay for, have the "X/2 bandwidth of a corporation"? Give me just one realistic reason, because I'm curious.
They also get the ability to change flight details *without penalty* as a bonus for that higher fare, so if something unexpected pops up, it can be dealt with.
Offers in the street. Here in Melbourne, you can get a "Starter Kit" (they call it that), containing a needle and a cap of heroin (or whatever you call it) for about $2.50 US. The amount of people begging on the streets who are obviously drugged to their eyeballs is a reasonable hint at the fact they charge a bit higher than that when they know you can't change your mind.
But if he remains the only authority on the interpretation of that license, then what does any other participant have? Basically, they have what RMS lets them have, and nothing more.
And isn't that what freedom is all about? ('Not having that', not 'having that'):)
How do you force non-ACPI on install? I really don't like 6 devices sharing the one interrupt, especially considering one of those devices is the MPG decoder card, and another is the SCSI drive hosting the DVD...
You should have seen the look on their faces as I asked how the rest of the indoctrination program was coming along...
Indoctrination? So, how bout we lose the uniforms, and have schools where the divide between rich kid (wearing his latest Tommy jacket) versus poor kid is exaggerated. The world is not a conspiracy.
And the thing is, for reconfiguration messages, you have to confirm whether you want them or not. If the user chooses to do so, it's their fault... How clueless could you be to get a reconfiguration message out of the blue and go "Ooh, better accept this!"?
I couldn't agree more, especially with multiple drives... I had problems with this, not lessened by the fact i belted the case out a bit..., I usually always buy a separate 300W powersupply, ignoring salespeople who say the 220 or 250 supplied will be "more than you could ever use"... Hmmm, 4 10,000 rpm drives, P-III, several USB devices, Viper card, SCSI adapter, DVD decoder, SCSI CDR and IDE DVD and several bay fans... Sorry, I prefer not to risk it...
radio (used to) pay licencing fees for the broadcast rights to a cd... not sure if that's the case now, or that most cd's are given for publicity purposes... not quite the same... shoutcasts are generally individually licenced cds (according to the riaa anyway)...
Interact 2000 was a wank this year, previous years have been good, companies like Adobe, Macromedia...
It's meant to be an Multimedia Festival. Instead this year we got Telstra BigPond, Creative, and 3dfx, a couple of small shop graphic firms, and a bunch of noname small PC shops hawking goods. I was HUGELY disappointed...
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I need to get to work in the morning. Therefore I have more right to the road than a bus full of tourists. Bzzt. Wrong.
I don't think it's them who are arrogant.
Simple answer is you don't. If I can afford to have FDDI to my house, tell me by what means you (or any other arbitrary body) is going to determine my "worthiness"? Portscan and try to r00tkit me to make sure I have no security holes in my OS? Demand a login to my system to make sure I'm not planning any DoS attacks? I think not.
What exactly is meant by "the Internet isn't ready for broadband yet"? If you ask me, it's screaming for as much bandwidth as it can lay its hands on, at all points, be they last-mile or backbone, rural, city or transoceanic.
And why shouldn't individuals who wish, want, or are willing to pay for, have the "X/2 bandwidth of a corporation"? Give me just one realistic reason, because I'm curious.
Try doing that on your $99 fare.
Offers in the street. Here in Melbourne, you can get a "Starter Kit" (they call it that), containing a needle and a cap of heroin (or whatever you call it) for about $2.50 US. The amount of people begging on the streets who are obviously drugged to their eyeballs is a reasonable hint at the fact they charge a bit higher than that when they know you can't change your mind.
I do the same, as use ht://Dig to go through mail...
And isn't that what freedom is all about? ('Not having that', not 'having that') :)
And meanwhile, what is being done about the bug?
How do you force non-ACPI on install? I really don't like 6 devices sharing the one interrupt, especially considering one of those devices is the MPG decoder card, and another is the SCSI drive hosting the DVD...
You would complain if every app had different iconsets, styles, shortcuts... why should books be any different... (short answer? they shouldn't).
Indoctrination? So, how bout we lose the uniforms, and have schools where the divide between rich kid (wearing his latest Tommy jacket) versus poor kid is exaggerated. The world is not a conspiracy.
No, they used it to make the biggest grossing movie, and THEN called it stealing ;)
So sue me, don't you think I've spent enough on my machine already? :)
And the thing is, for reconfiguration messages, you have to confirm whether you want them or not. If the user chooses to do so, it's their fault... How clueless could you be to get a reconfiguration message out of the blue and go "Ooh, better accept this!"?
"TCP/IP CLI capability" is not a "real solution". It is *somewhat* of a *neat thing* for a very small minority of users...
Not only Europe...
I couldn't agree more, especially with multiple drives... I had problems with this, not lessened by the fact i belted the case out a bit..., I usually always buy a separate 300W powersupply, ignoring salespeople who say the 220 or 250 supplied will be "more than you could ever use"... Hmmm, 4 10,000 rpm drives, P-III, several USB devices, Viper card, SCSI adapter, DVD decoder, SCSI CDR and IDE DVD and several bay fans... Sorry, I prefer not to risk it...
Umm, what does DeCSS have to do with Napster?
radio (used to) pay licencing fees for the broadcast rights to a cd... not sure if that's the case now, or that most cd's are given for publicity purposes... not quite the same... shoutcasts are generally individually licenced cds (according to the riaa anyway)...
And the lycra... oh, and the gateway cows... good target practice...
You probably installed one of many winamp plugins which use it... - nothing really to do with MS
Quite possibly due to it only being held every four years ;-)
It's meant to be an Multimedia Festival. Instead this year we got Telstra BigPond, Creative, and 3dfx, a couple of small shop graphic firms, and a bunch of noname small PC shops hawking goods. I was HUGELY disappointed...
Or cowardice, right?
Melbourne IT actually has direct access to NSI's databases... they were one of the "first five" when it came to deregulation....