All of that rounded non-functional crap is annoying. Should be able to stack thing not spread them out all over your house. Or even better, make EVERYTHING rack mountable.
``There is no scientific insight to be gained by counting planets,'' says Neil de Grasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, the centerpiece of the Rose Center.
There is no signifigance in counting votes. There is no signifigance in counting days. There is no signifigance in counting people. There is no signifigance in counting processes per second. There is no signifigance in counting this person as a person.
``Eight or nine, the numbers don't matter.''
4+4=8 5+4=9 8=9 Cool. I think I got it.
You can take away all things that do not have signifigance...in your own life. One man's decision to call a planet any less than a planet for the world to accept as reality, is a man that should be considered liable for his credibilty and resolve his meaning with solid fact. His point is moot.
This is cool: My dad has an autographed copy of one of Clyde Tombaugh's books. He met him at an Astronomical Society meeting. Talked to him for about an hour about all things space. Clyde deserves respect and I have a cool father.
Fresh out of the box, any Microsoft spell checker does Not even recognize the word Linux. How do you expect me to use something like that.
As for being one of those rampant Linux Zealots, yeah so what. I do it just to piss poeple like you off. Works well doesn't it. The original artical was a flame bait. So I flamed. Flame me. I do not care. Let that be known.
On the note of Linux being a costly endeavor: Take the liscensing fees for example. It works just the oposite of Windows related support: (Pay a million $ for a bugged out piece of software and spend days on the phone getting walked through how to boot properly). Or...download a piece of Functioning, bug-tested software from Linux, read a few lines of a man page, and your all set. The cost is in your time spent learning. If that time is too much to spend then you do not deserve to know the answers.
I hear the sounds of herds of people running out and stocking up on curruent drive technology in order to have something to use if this is implemented.
some questions:
1) Mutual hardware support in boxes. OSes, Other hardware, etc?
2) What will be allowed?
3) Owner should have the option of disabling. Like old satelite dish signal scrambling tecnology. (A person could buy a descrambler.) In this case, an interface that most users never see. Kind of like the preferences areas of most OSes that no one ever knows are there unless you go looking for them. Make it a Hard Drive BIOS with the ability to set it's parameters from the boot origin.
4) Will there be *tripwire* type logs that will be sent to some where indicating that copy material was attempted to be accessed or cracked?
5) Why this and not an attempt to control the art of Cr/Hacking? Not that I'm opposed to either, it's what feeds the industry...
I couldn't agree more. It really comes down to the admins ability to maintain and replicate often so if in event of total destruction, there is a backup. Not to mention bug fixes and upgrades that keep this stuff from happening. [Sue happy people of the 90's. Arrrggghhhh.]
Tim McEwen has written a billing service that will handle all of his eCommerce and hosting accounts. It will automatically send email, paper, and other (?) notification of monthly charges. It keeps regualr track of all incoming and out going statements. It currently is running on an Apache System supported by mySQL. (did I get that right?)
I know that this is part of his regular business of eCommerce, but he may be willing to let an individual (or 2 or 3) have it if there could be a mutual agreement reached. Please contact Tim at his customer service e~mail
There weren't any details describing just how the artist or the individual who created the material would recieve his/her payment for such said charges. It sounds as if some will reap the benefits but who? In the section [?Monetizing content?] where he talks about the fact that no one is making money on the net content that is flying around out here, this only stands to augment my question of who will be making it if some thing like this is done.
His article, ambitous and hopeful, does not tell me one single thing about how I'm going to get paid when and if this ever gets implemented. There is no sight that takes me through to the clear and concise end. These are fluff and stuff stories of an idea. Not definitive solutions. I am not convinced.
He speaks of charging ISPs for content, regardless of it's nature. Whether it "50 megs of garbage or 50 megs of Garbage" who's going to keep track of that my friend? Who will know just what has been viewd or listened to. Who will determine who gets how much in the end. This is a bit like MP3 saying that the Payback for Playback plan works. At 2 cents per download or what ever it is, it'll be 4010 before any one accumulates any amount of money.
Look, all I know is that I hated Napster when (it) the idea first hit the net. Some how I began to like it though. It was because it was free. I am officially torn in this issue of credit where credit is due. I like listening to the music like I would on the radio. But I still feel the guilt of downloading a song for free and knowing damn well that it'll be -10 degrees in hell before I go buy every album containing every track that I've nabbed.
I propose that if there is a solution to this. Abolish all forms of MPEG format. That's bold I know. But if a person were able to log on to a site and pick from every song (available) that they wanted, and could build their own listening platform, then the usage could be tracked in the form of how many times you check the songs out of the *library*.
Did any one find the excessive use of ?'s (question marks) in the article really ?annoying?
I heard a along time ago there was a scientist that had found a way to use water to power a combustable engine. The motor would get some where around 150 MPG if not more. Then one day this man came home only to find that his entire experiment had been confiscated. All of the records of the work. The plans. Every thing. It was a very clean job. A single trace of a clue as to who may have done it was never found.
Ahhh, Cassette tape drives. Gotta love 'em. Weren't those the coolest. I wish todays boxes could tap right in to the TV. I'd finally have a 19" color monitor!
I used to work for were regular readers as well. We would paruse/. daily looking for the keen anwers to the great many technical questions out there. Sometimes getting cought up in the usuall trolling that will inevitably happen. Did they get upset with us for this? Who knows. I guess it doesn't matter now. I don't work there any more. The project was finished.
Any way, I see/. as being a useful resource to flip through and find what you are looking for. It's like reading a local news paper. I don't care about all of the free 900# services at the back of the issue, more what I care about is found right where I look. The links from/. (freshmeat, OSDn, etc.) are all great resources. Let the people use at will. If they absuse, limit the usage. It's like any other news agency, there are pages to read on the job and pages to not read on the job. It all depends on what kind of job it is and depends on the appropriation to the job. Have at it.
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All of that rounded non-functional crap is annoying. Should be able to stack thing not spread them out all over your house. Or even better, make EVERYTHING rack mountable.
First reply to first post dammit!
That's quite an Earth shattering post he has there isn't it!
Dear Santa,
Please bring back Geekizoid soon...
Thank you,
Mark
and Foremost.
Why doesn't the US hire a team of l33+ and crack the system and have complete control over the whole outcome. Seems like a good idea to me.
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``There is no scientific insight to be gained by counting planets,'' says Neil de Grasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, the centerpiece of the Rose Center.
There is no signifigance in counting votes. There is no signifigance in counting days. There is no signifigance in counting people. There is no signifigance in counting processes per second. There is no signifigance in counting this person as a person.
``Eight or nine, the numbers don't matter.''
4+4=8 5+4=9 8=9 Cool. I think I got it.
You can take away all things that do not have signifigance...in your own life. One man's decision to call a planet any less than a planet for the world to accept as reality, is a man that should be considered liable for his credibilty and resolve his meaning with solid fact. His point is moot.
This is cool: My dad has an autographed copy of one of Clyde Tombaugh's books. He met him at an Astronomical Society meeting. Talked to him for about an hour about all things space. Clyde deserves respect and I have a cool father.
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Micronauts? The Micropolis Mega City was where it was at!
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That's Martian you moron! Teehee.
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George will fix it. Honest.
"I'm going to solve all the world's problems, I'm going to blow it up!" - Marvin The Matrian
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It's like a frickin' card game! "Hey there pal, my 5 9's beat yer 4 9's any day where I come from!"
Heck, based on that little marketing strategy, Linux just better tuck their little wagger between the legs and head for the porch.
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I need to go learn how to read and write in Russian or what ever that was so I can get a grasp on whats going on so I can post intelligently.
You know it's like them foreign automobiles, they just seem to run better and have fewer problems. They get good mileage too.
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Dude, -123 k? You are my fscking hero. 'Nuff said.
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Fresh out of the box, any Microsoft spell checker does Not even recognize the word Linux. How do you expect me to use something like that.
As for being one of those rampant Linux Zealots, yeah so what. I do it just to piss poeple like you off. Works well doesn't it. The original artical was a flame bait. So I flamed. Flame me. I do not care. Let that be known.
On the note of Linux being a costly endeavor: Take the liscensing fees for example. It works just the oposite of Windows related support: (Pay a million $ for a bugged out piece of software and spend days on the phone getting walked through how to boot properly). Or...download a piece of Functioning, bug-tested software from Linux, read a few lines of a man page, and your all set. The cost is in your time spent learning. If that time is too much to spend then you do not deserve to know the answers.
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I hear the sounds of herds of people running out and stocking up on curruent drive technology in order to have something to use if this is implemented.
some questions:
1) Mutual hardware support in boxes. OSes, Other hardware, etc?
2) What will be allowed?
3) Owner should have the option of disabling. Like old satelite dish signal scrambling tecnology. (A person could buy a descrambler.) In this case, an interface that most users never see. Kind of like the preferences areas of most OSes that no one ever knows are there unless you go looking for them. Make it a Hard Drive BIOS with the ability to set it's parameters from the boot origin.
4) Will there be *tripwire* type logs that will be sent to some where indicating that copy material was attempted to be accessed or cracked?
5) Why this and not an attempt to control the art of Cr/Hacking? Not that I'm opposed to either, it's what feeds the industry...
.
I couldn't agree more. It really comes down to the admins ability to maintain and replicate often so if in event of total destruction, there is a backup. Not to mention bug fixes and upgrades that keep this stuff from happening. [Sue happy people of the 90's. Arrrggghhhh.]
.
Tim McEwen has written a billing service that will handle all of his eCommerce and hosting accounts. It will automatically send email, paper, and other (?) notification of monthly charges. It keeps regualr track of all incoming and out going statements. It currently is running on an Apache System supported by mySQL. (did I get that right?) I know that this is part of his regular business of eCommerce, but he may be willing to let an individual (or 2 or 3) have it if there could be a mutual agreement reached. Please contact Tim at his customer service e~mail
.
There weren't any details describing just how the artist or the individual who created the material would recieve his/her payment for such said charges. It sounds as if some will reap the benefits but who? In the section [?Monetizing content?] where he talks about the fact that no one is making money on the net content that is flying around out here, this only stands to augment my question of who will be making it if some thing like this is done.
His article, ambitous and hopeful, does not tell me one single thing about how I'm going to get paid when and if this ever gets implemented. There is no sight that takes me through to the clear and concise end. These are fluff and stuff stories of an idea. Not definitive solutions. I am not convinced.
He speaks of charging ISPs for content, regardless of it's nature. Whether it "50 megs of garbage or 50 megs of Garbage" who's going to keep track of that my friend? Who will know just what has been viewd or listened to. Who will determine who gets how much in the end. This is a bit like MP3 saying that the Payback for Playback plan works. At 2 cents per download or what ever it is, it'll be 4010 before any one accumulates any amount of money.
Look, all I know is that I hated Napster when (it) the idea first hit the net. Some how I began to like it though. It was because it was free. I am officially torn in this issue of credit where credit is due. I like listening to the music like I would on the radio. But I still feel the guilt of downloading a song for free and knowing damn well that it'll be -10 degrees in hell before I go buy every album containing every track that I've nabbed.
I propose that if there is a solution to this. Abolish all forms of MPEG format. That's bold I know. But if a person were able to log on to a site and pick from every song (available) that they wanted, and could build their own listening platform, then the usage could be tracked in the form of how many times you check the songs out of the *library*.
Did any one find the excessive use of ?'s (question marks) in the article really ?annoying?
.
I heard a along time ago there was a scientist that had found a way to use water to power a combustable engine. The motor would get some where around 150 MPG if not more. Then one day this man came home only to find that his entire experiment had been confiscated. All of the records of the work. The plans. Every thing. It was a very clean job. A single trace of a clue as to who may have done it was never found.
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He must not go on. There will be no candy left any where. What will we do?!
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no way. i have an inherent fear of mailbombs. don't know why though...
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cool, you owe me two bucks
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Ahhh, Cassette tape drives. Gotta love 'em. Weren't those the coolest. I wish todays boxes could tap right in to the TV. I'd finally have a 19" color monitor!
.
I used to work for were regular readers as well. We would paruse /. daily looking for the keen anwers to the great many technical questions out there. Sometimes getting cought up in the usuall trolling that will inevitably happen. Did they get upset with us for this? Who knows. I guess it doesn't matter now. I don't work there any more. The project was finished.
/. as being a useful resource to flip through and find what you are looking for. It's like reading a local news paper. I don't care about all of the free 900# services at the back of the issue, more what I care about is found right where I look. The links from /. (freshmeat, OSDn, etc.) are all great resources. Let the people use at will. If they absuse, limit the usage. It's like any other news agency, there are pages to read on the job and pages to not read on the job. It all depends on what kind of job it is and depends on the appropriation to the job. Have at it.
Any way, I see
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