There's lots of supported devices under Linux. Maybe if people would do their research BEFORE buying hardware, rather than buying something and finding out AFTERWARDS that it's not supported, all this whining wouldn't happen.
Always check for Linux support before buying hardware. Even if it's hardware for a non-Linux system. You never know when it'll be moved to a Linux box in the future.
With a system like that, I'm not surprised things are a bit slow. Join this decade, dude. Even if you're poor, a low end Pentium II system you can probably get for $50 will trounce that and you'll be much happier. }:)
The funny thing about all this is Microsoft misses the point.
NO ONE rips video from the VGA/DVI cable. Not only would you require very custom hardware to do this, but the quality wouldn't even be optimal!
Video ripping is done long before the stream reaches the monitor, and is usually done out of band of the utilities that would enforce this ridiculous protection anyway!
Not only are companies trying to implement DRM that will drive up the cost of hardware, but they don't even seem to know how pirates actually rip content in the first place!
I believe the licenses don't cover personal use; only use in a commercial product.
So you can play MP3s under Linux legally; just download and compile your favorite player.
The only reason Red Hat can't release MP3 playing support in their distros is that the distro is considered a "product" produced by a company, so it would fall under the license.
Even if it were illegal, who cares? It's not like they're going to hack into your computer, find out you compiled an MP3 player and then sue you. The bad press generated by this alone would probably sink their company!
A 14.4 modem can handle a terabyte easily, given enough time.
Of course, that terabyte would take 6,944 days to transfer, so you better hope you have a good UPS and that the telco switch isn't rebooted in those 20 years. }:)
For me, I found the MP3 file first. It was the song "Always Forever" by Donna Summers, a pop song that was popular at the time.
When I saw a whole song claiming to fit in 3MB, I downloaded it and immediately scrambled for the player, WinPlay3. My 486 could barely handle it, but it did, and I was amazed at the sound quality from that 3MB file! I immediately thought.. "Wow.. I bet the record labels aren't gonna like this..." Annoyingly, Winplay3 was crippleware and had a 30 second limit, so I had to find a crack for it as well. (hey, I was a poor college student!)
Of course, to this day when I hear this song it reminds me of that day, and I hold special fondness for it as my first MP3. Not to mention it's kinda catchy...
Ughhh. These sort of people make me sick. If it were up to them, the entire world would have to be child-safe and adults wouldn't be able to have any fun for fear of corrupting "Tha Chiiiiiiiildren!"
Quote: "Anime is not averse to portraying hypersexuality in children, nudity, adult relationships and gang rapes wrapped in a cartoon fabric" says Rafier. "It's designed purely to attract the attention of children. Cartoons should be left alone for the younger population, and not abandoned to seemier cultures."
How can they have the GALL to assume anime is "designed purely to attract the attention of children"? Life isn't all about children. A lot of anime is designed for adults. If it attracts the attention of kids, TOUGH LUCK. It's not my job to protect someone else's kids.
I wish more parents would get off their lazy asses and actually PARENT, instead of expecting everyone else to take care of their kids. I don't have nor want kids for a reason; I don't want to have to child-proof my world. I shouldn't have to child-proof it for anyone else's kids either. That's the parents' job.
If Slashdot's search engine actually worked, and didn't return five million unrelated articles if you enter more than one search term, maybe we'd be able to use it.
Are there really companies that force you to take certification courses when you're already employed, even though you can just learn what you need on the job?
For instance, someone who got hired with a Win2K cert, and continues to maintain XP systems when they come along.. Why retake a cert when you're already doing your job right and have learned what you need on the job?
Seems wasteful. I can understand needing a cert to GET the job, but once you're in you shouldn't need to...
Just because this guy wrote UNIX N1.1 doesn't make him some sort of God or anything. He seems to complain more than he makes an effort to help fix the problem, and I think we should just disregard his ranting and raving.
Yes, there's still issues with Linux audio. But whining and running off to another OS isn't going to fix them.
He complained endlessly about Mozilla too. It seems he does nothing but whine.
Thing is, you don't really own land in the US. You have to pay property tax, so it's more like an initially expensive lease you have to buy from the previous owner.
If you don't pay property tax, they can take away your land, so you're not really "owning" it. Sad, but true.
Li-Ion batteries in that form factor are expensive, and you're also paying for the labor to replace it.
If you're willing to replace it yourself, you can get the battery for around $50 and swap it yourself.. It's painful, though, especially on the 4gen models (though most 4gen models should still be in the early stages of their battery lifetime)
Of course... my post was more of a joke than anything else...
But hearing this did remind me of that old joke that our entire universe is really some student's doctoral thesis, and that he's just about to graduate. }:)
FTL drives are boring. What these systems need is an Infinite Improability Drive. Then you can just zap the computer to anywhere in the universe, with only minor, temporary effects to the environment.
Who's going to care about a few old minitower cases floating around in deep space near Alpha Centurai?
Plus, you might get to experience interesting new things, like being turned into a cat for a few minutes, or Windows not sucking.
I always thought "lame" was used to describe a horse that was no longer useful for riding or doing work because of an injury, not a handicap.
The meaning of words can change over time; I have never heard "lame" used as a word to describe a handicapped person; only in reference to horses and as a mild insult...
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It's either one. Batman has been referred to as both "The Batman" and just plain "Batman" in different comics and television shows/movies.
So I suppose it depends on which story/continuity you're discussing.
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There's lots of supported devices under Linux. Maybe if people would do their research BEFORE buying hardware, rather than buying something and finding out AFTERWARDS that it's not supported, all this whining wouldn't happen.
Always check for Linux support before buying hardware. Even if it's hardware for a non-Linux system. You never know when it'll be moved to a Linux box in the future.
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>486-DX4 100mhz
>28MB RAM
>1.7GB HD
>1MB SVGA
With a system like that, I'm not surprised things are a bit slow. Join this decade, dude. Even if you're poor, a low end Pentium II system you can probably get for $50 will trounce that and you'll be much happier. }:)
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The funny thing about all this is Microsoft misses the point.
NO ONE rips video from the VGA/DVI cable. Not only would you require very custom hardware to do this, but the quality wouldn't even be optimal!
Video ripping is done long before the stream reaches the monitor, and is usually done out of band of the utilities that would enforce this ridiculous protection anyway!
Not only are companies trying to implement DRM that will drive up the cost of hardware, but they don't even seem to know how pirates actually rip content in the first place!
>or wind farms destroying the skylines and slaughtering migratory birds?
The birds will adapt. If all the birds dumb enough to fly into the windmills get killed, the end result will eventually be.... smarter birds.
This is a good thing. Well, until the birds become super-intelligent and take over the world... We should kill them all now before it's too late!!!!
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Nah, since it's an open-source application, someone will add MP3 support as a patch.
RedHat distros don't come with MP3 support, but everyone installs it anyway.
Nice try, good luck next time. }:)
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I believe the licenses don't cover personal use; only use in a commercial product.
So you can play MP3s under Linux legally; just download and compile your favorite player.
The only reason Red Hat can't release MP3 playing support in their distros is that the distro is considered a "product" produced by a company, so it would fall under the license.
Even if it were illegal, who cares? It's not like they're going to hack into your computer, find out you compiled an MP3 player and then sue you. The bad press generated by this alone would probably sink their company!
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A 14.4 modem can handle a terabyte easily, given enough time.
Of course, that terabyte would take 6,944 days to transfer, so you better hope you have a good UPS and that the telco switch isn't rebooted in those 20 years. }:)
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For me, I found the MP3 file first. It was the song "Always Forever" by Donna Summers, a pop song that was popular at the time.
When I saw a whole song claiming to fit in 3MB, I downloaded it and immediately scrambled for the player, WinPlay3. My 486 could barely handle it, but it did, and I was amazed at the sound quality from that 3MB file! I immediately thought.. "Wow.. I bet the record labels aren't gonna like this..." Annoyingly, Winplay3 was crippleware and had a 30 second limit, so I had to find a crack for it as well. (hey, I was a poor college student!)
Of course, to this day when I hear this song it reminds me of that day, and I hold special fondness for it as my first MP3. Not to mention it's kinda catchy...
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Ughhh. These sort of people make me sick. If it were up to them, the entire world would have to be child-safe and adults wouldn't be able to have any fun for fear of corrupting "Tha Chiiiiiiiildren!"
Quote:
"Anime is not averse to portraying hypersexuality in children, nudity, adult relationships and gang rapes wrapped in a cartoon fabric" says Rafier. "It's designed purely to attract the attention of children. Cartoons should be left alone for the younger population, and not abandoned to seemier cultures."
How can they have the GALL to assume anime is "designed purely to attract the attention of children"? Life isn't all about children. A lot of anime is designed for adults. If it attracts the attention of kids, TOUGH LUCK. It's not my job to protect someone else's kids.
I wish more parents would get off their lazy asses and actually PARENT, instead of expecting everyone else to take care of their kids. I don't have nor want kids for a reason; I don't want to have to child-proof my world. I shouldn't have to child-proof it for anyone else's kids either. That's the parents' job.
Sorry, just had to rant.
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If Slashdot's search engine actually worked, and didn't return five million unrelated articles if you enter more than one search term, maybe we'd be able to use it.
How come that hasn't been fixed anyway?
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Just plug multiple USB keyboards into the same computer. They'll all work, so each player can have a "controller".
Plus you can have "typing wars" when the game is over. }:)
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Uhh, it'd be worse. You're more likely to have a double drive failure out of ten drives than three.
And a double failure is all it takes to take out a RAID5.
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Are there really companies that force you to take certification courses when you're already employed, even though you can just learn what you need on the job?
For instance, someone who got hired with a Win2K cert, and continues to maintain XP systems when they come along.. Why retake a cert when you're already doing your job right and have learned what you need on the job?
Seems wasteful. I can understand needing a cert to GET the job, but once you're in you shouldn't need to...
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Just because this guy wrote UNIX N1.1 doesn't make him some sort of God or anything. He seems to complain more than he makes an effort to help fix the problem, and I think we should just disregard his ranting and raving.
Yes, there's still issues with Linux audio. But whining and running off to another OS isn't going to fix them.
He complained endlessly about Mozilla too. It seems he does nothing but whine.
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Aren't static pads conductive, which would cause such a setup to be unreliable?
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Thing is, you don't really own land in the US. You have to pay property tax, so it's more like an initially expensive lease you have to buy from the previous owner.
If you don't pay property tax, they can take away your land, so you're not really "owning" it. Sad, but true.
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Copying a DVD to your laptop's hard drive so you can watch it on a flight and save battery life since your DVD-ROM drive won't be running, for one...
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Li-Ion batteries in that form factor are expensive, and you're also paying for the labor to replace it.
If you're willing to replace it yourself, you can get the battery for around $50 and swap it yourself.. It's painful, though, especially on the 4gen models (though most 4gen models should still be in the early stages of their battery lifetime)
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Of course... my post was more of a joke than anything else...
But hearing this did remind me of that old joke that our entire universe is really some student's doctoral thesis, and that he's just about to graduate. }:)
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What if our universe is actually the one they're simulating? So in essence, our universe contains itself?
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FTL drives are boring. What these systems need is an Infinite Improability Drive. Then you can just zap the computer to anywhere in the universe, with only minor, temporary effects to the environment.
Who's going to care about a few old minitower cases floating around in deep space near Alpha Centurai?
Plus, you might get to experience interesting new things, like being turned into a cat for a few minutes, or Windows not sucking.
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Manhattan has a lot of tall concrete and steel buildings. This is not a good environment for signal propogation.
Try listening to FM radio as you drive down a Manhattan street, and you'll see what I mean.
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Perhaps... But if you're not on Windows, this has no effect; you can still read the red book data.
The fact that most people use Windows is irrelevant; it only takes one person to rip the music and put it on the Internet.
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I always thought "lame" was used to describe a horse that was no longer useful for riding or doing work because of an injury, not a handicap.
The meaning of words can change over time; I have never heard "lame" used as a word to describe a handicapped person; only in reference to horses and as a mild insult...
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