Limiting access to a shitty little scratched up disc that only cost the companies $0.05 to make for $17 a pop is rape, plain and simple, especially when you consider there's one good song on an album and 12 other terrible songs
You mean that one song that is played to death on the radio for weeks, if not months on end? And you still want to buy it? Why the hell are you buying that boy bandH^H^H^H^H^H^ groups cd in the first place?
I suggest you start listening elsewhere and start buying (more imortantly, enjoying) albums that are actually listenable from start to finish.
They are also voiding the warranty on the whole car as per GM. Doesn't sound like it's worth it, especially if you shelled out extra for an extended warranty.
With all the recent talk about multi core processors, will this sort of thing be relegated to hardware; or will there still be a need for software scheduler?
1) i don't smoke 2) i don't ride a motorcycle 3) i don't collect model and... 4) they let all the gas out because they are paranoid about the house getting burnt down.
oh, and 5) ??? 6) profit
5) burn the house down accidentally 6) profit by collecting on the insurance
and buy as many cigarettes, motorcyles and models as you want?;D
I received the most heartwarming letter from a very nice Nigerian man. I get to help him this Christmas season and I also get large a financial reward!
He also told me that as brothers, God had brought us together.
Sounds electrifying! We need to rectify this alternating situation. We currently need to take a more direct approach. Let's hope they can induct some more engineers, and they can harness the capacitance of their talents and rectify the situation.
Get yourself an IBM Thinkpad X30 from the authorizes IBM Ebay store. These are heavily discounted (overstock) NEW laptops with a full warranty.I recommend these for several reasons:
Very durable, small -- won't take up that much space in your cabin
12" screen, more than adequate for general purpose computing, plus the smaller backlight mean considerable power savings in the long run.
Get yourself a couple of deep cycle marine batteries. 1 to use, the other being charged.
Do you want to build your own windmill? Looks like fun project.
P.S. I don't know how remote your cabin is, but if you get yourself a Proxim/Orinoco WiFi card (these have external antenna jacks) and build/buy from a ebay a hi gain 2.4 Ghz yagi antenna, you might be able to hit someone's WiFi AP. It's worth a shot/ fun to try.
If you do by any chance get WiFI with this setup, update your journal and let us. It would be cool to know how you accomplished it.
No, the proper technique is called a "reach around". You reach around behind the box, unplug the network cable or phone line (I caught a worm over dialup once, that was the most hilarious thing ever), and consider yourself lucky.
So what you're saying is, when your getting screwed by Microsoft, and they don't have the common courtesy to give you a reach around; I should go ahead and give myself one?
I'm glad the new kernel is out in time for the holiday season... wait... that's sad isn't it
I don't think so. I think that the simple fact that thousands of people can come togther and work so hard; and selflessly at that, to produce such a wondreful piece of software, and then give it to all manking to use as he sees fit; from hospitals, education, small mom and pop shops, scientists, ham radio operators, and hobbyists alike, etc; I think that sure does call for a joyous celebration.
What the hell is wrong with you? All you had to do is tell him your a bona fide Slashdot alumni.
Then that stuffy looking Hi-Fi salesman would have riped off his button down shirt and tie and revealed his cape and BSD insignia lycra tights.
He would have then led you to the revolving fireplace-secret entrance, that leads to the basement where where all the Christman elves work fastidiously on multi-zone DVD playes of all types. That run Linux! That have big stickers that say "No way in hell even remoteley do these players have anythig to do with Microsoft!"
Or maybe he would have just said "Slash-who?"/joke/
[...] the pigeons were 99 per cent reliable, Mr Andreef said. "They also work for peanuts."
Maybe if they were imported Finlandian pigeons they would be 100% reliable? But then we coudn't avoid that whole debate over whether the birds ID band should have GNU/Pigeon. Maybe RMS would refuse airspace use to any bird not properly labeled GNU/Pigeon? Would these pigeons prefer Emacs or Vi?
BTW what is the weight of a memory stick laden....oh never mind...
It's all around you, many of the products _you_ use every day...
I only caught the last sentence as I was scolling down, and I almost thought you were going to tell me that these Open source chips are opressing me for my electrical properties and I am a slave to some sort of artificial consctuct.
Thank God you were only talking about open source ships that could be so superior in their design one day thet they could acheuve a state of consciou...er...eh never mind
And tell me, oh bright 100w bulb, what is to happen to the physicians, paramedics, OEM personell (office of emergency management) and other people who rely on their cell phones to save your buttocks in a time of crisis?
Alot of these folks phone also double as pagers, where they get text messages during times of emergencies. Also, whose to say that these devices won't jam pagers? What about my EMS radio? Will it get jammed when I'm working up a cardiac arrest and I can't call for a backup? What if my psych patient decides to take a stab at me with his machete? Can you gaurantee my LIFE that these jammers won't interfere with my emergency communcations?
What happens when OEM sets up a command post at an incident and there happens to be several jammers located near by?
Cell phone jamming by the ordinary citizen should be a crime. And the above said are my reasons.
What if you registered for a buisness license and called it, I don't know, RBE Consultants. (Randon Billing Error) This way you could bill for your time spent fixing their error. You could also start the converstation with the rep as " Hi, this call maybe monitored or recorded for quality assurance...." and you could save the call to mp3 on your computer witha Radio Shack 2.99 phone suction cup microphone.
Then just send them a bill as a consultant, something like $11.52.
Slashdot Mirror
Limiting access to a shitty little scratched up disc that only cost the companies $0.05 to make for $17 a pop is rape, plain and simple, especially when you consider there's one good song on an album and 12 other terrible songs
You mean that one song that is played to death on the radio for weeks, if not months on end? And you still want to buy it? Why the hell are you buying that boy bandH^H^H^H^H^H^ groups cd in the first place?
I suggest you start listening elsewhere and start buying (more imortantly, enjoying) albums that are actually listenable from start to finish.
Spear Brittany!
--
Post alot of Ask Slashdot's, and take the advice seriously. :P
--
They are also voiding the warranty on the whole car as per GM. Doesn't sound like it's worth it, especially if you shelled out extra for an extended warranty.
With all the recent talk about multi core processors, will this sort of thing be relegated to hardware; or will there still be a need for software scheduler?
1) i don't smoke
;D
2) i don't ride a motorcycle
3) i don't collect model
and...
4) they let all the gas out because they are paranoid about the house getting burnt down.
oh, and
5) ???
6) profit
5) burn the house down accidentally
6) profit by collecting on the insurance
and buy as many cigarettes, motorcyles and models as you want?
--
I received the most heartwarming letter from a very nice Nigerian man. I get to help him this Christmas season and I also get large a financial reward!
He also told me that as brothers, God had brought us together.
Boy I can't wait!
--
Sounds electrifying! We need to rectify this alternating situation. We currently need to take a more direct approach. Let's hope they can induct some more engineers, and they can harness the capacitance of their talents and rectify the situation.
We shall now meditate, repeat after me:
Ohm
Ohm
Ohm
.. where's the non-circumcised proof?
;P
I'm not Jewish, so I can answer that....
Whooshh....
Get yourself an IBM Thinkpad X30 from the authorizes IBM Ebay store. These are heavily discounted (overstock) NEW laptops with a full warranty.I recommend these for several reasons:
Very durable, small -- won't take up that much space in your cabin
12" screen, more than adequate for general purpose computing, plus the smaller backlight mean considerable power savings in the long run.
Get yourself a couple of deep cycle marine batteries. 1 to use, the other being charged.
Do you want to build your own windmill? Looks like fun project.
P.S. I don't know how remote your cabin is, but if you get yourself a Proxim/Orinoco WiFi card (these have external antenna jacks) and build/buy from a ebay a hi gain 2.4 Ghz yagi antenna, you might be able to hit someone's WiFi AP. It's worth a shot/ fun to try.
If you do by any chance get WiFI with this setup, update your journal and let us. It would be cool to know how you accomplished it.
--
3-5 hr battery life depending on usage.
No, the proper technique is called a "reach around". You reach around behind the box, unplug the network cable or phone line (I caught a worm over dialup once, that was the most hilarious thing ever), and consider yourself lucky.
;)
So what you're saying is, when your getting screwed by Microsoft, and they don't have the common courtesy to give you a reach around; I should go ahead and give myself one?
Seems like a great idea to me! Thanks
--
Duh, .doc MS Word format. You think people woudn't jump ship to capable word processors like Abi word if .doc was fully documented?
...and what can be done to make Windows better.
Mr. Gates taking a long walk off a short pier?
--
The moral of the story? Always have a working headlamp when your smuggling copious amounts of cocaine on your bicycle.
"Say hello to my little friend." Tony Montana on a big wheel.
--
I'm glad the new kernel is out in time for the holiday season... wait... that's sad isn't it
I don't think so. I think that the simple fact that thousands of people can come togther and work so hard; and selflessly at that, to produce such a wondreful piece of software, and then give it to all manking to use as he sees fit; from hospitals, education, small mom and pop shops, scientists, ham radio operators, and hobbyists alike, etc; I think that sure does call for a joyous celebration.
Merry Christmans to all!
I thought the GPL gave you cancer? Have I been on prophylactic chemotherapy for naught?
What the hell is wrong with you? All you had to do is tell him your a bona fide Slashdot alumni.
/joke/
Then that stuffy looking Hi-Fi salesman would have riped off his button down shirt and tie and revealed his cape and BSD insignia lycra tights.
He would have then led you to the revolving fireplace-secret entrance, that leads to the basement where where all the Christman elves work fastidiously on multi-zone DVD playes of all types. That run Linux! That have big stickers that say "No way in hell even remoteley do these players have anythig to do with Microsoft!"
Or maybe he would have just said "Slash-who?"
--
Bah, the hackers will make their own
Scroll to the middle of the page.
[...] the pigeons were 99 per cent reliable, Mr Andreef said. "They also work for peanuts."
Maybe if they were imported Finlandian pigeons they would be 100% reliable? But then we coudn't avoid that whole debate over whether the birds ID band should have GNU/Pigeon. Maybe RMS would refuse airspace use to any bird not properly labeled GNU/Pigeon? Would these pigeons prefer Emacs or Vi?
BTW what is the weight of a memory stick laden....oh never mind...
Nah, it will just be outsourced to India.
Make your SLUSHIE 10X (ten times!)bigger!!!!
We gaurantee you a ice cream headache of Budhist proportions!!!
Brought to you by Gandu Enterprises!(TM)
--
I think it would pay for at least 2 of these chaps to earn a no-code Amatuer Radio license. You have pretty much free range from 900Mhz and upwards.
You could use upto 1500 Watts of power and it would all be legal.
P.S. You would have to transmit callsigns, but thats really no biggie.
--
It's all around you, many of the products _you_ use every day...
I only caught the last sentence as I was scolling down, and I almost thought you were going to tell me that these Open source chips are opressing me for my electrical properties and I am a slave to some sort of artificial consctuct.
Thank God you were only talking about open source ships that could be so superior in their design one day thet they could acheuve a state of consciou...er...eh never mind
--
Google is your friend.
And pacemaker interference is exacerbated by digital cellular technology as opposed to the less prevalent analog type.
--
And tell me, oh bright 100w bulb, what is to happen to the physicians, paramedics, OEM personell (office of emergency management) and other people who rely on their cell phones to save your buttocks in a time of crisis?
Alot of these folks phone also double as pagers, where they get text messages during times of emergencies. Also, whose to say that these devices won't jam pagers? What about my EMS radio? Will it get jammed when I'm working up a cardiac arrest and I can't call for a backup? What if my psych patient decides to take a stab at me with his machete? Can you gaurantee my LIFE that these jammers won't interfere with my emergency communcations?
What happens when OEM sets up a command post at an incident and there happens to be several jammers located near by?
Cell phone jamming by the ordinary citizen should be a crime. And the above said are my reasons.
What if you registered for a buisness license and called it, I don't know, RBE Consultants. (Randon Billing Error) This way you could bill for your time spent fixing their error. You could also start the converstation with the rep as " Hi, this call maybe monitored or recorded for quality assurance...." and you could save the call to mp3 on your computer witha Radio Shack 2.99 phone suction cup microphone.
Then just send them a bill as a consultant, something like $11.52.
Sounds like a good little side buisness to me.
--
Between the skin cancer and the glare off my tin foil hat..er I feel a song coming on...
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm a schizophrenic
And so am I.
Back to the LED's, I always apply a generous of SPF 45 when I see one shining my way.
--