I doubt anyone here is a telecomms expert or knows enough about the industry and the technology to make any useful suggestions: the kind of answers you are going to get will probably involve well-tuned Pringles cans, or something equally unreasonable, like laying fiber all over the place in rural, residential areas.
Good luck in your search, but I doubt anyone here will be of much help. Find and talk to some experts.
I'm getting sick of every single fucking Ask Slashdot question having more replies of "Dur, this is a stoopid question!" and "What are j00, some kind of moron?" rather than an actual exchange of information.
Have you ever stopped to consider that perhaps the reason that no meaningful exchange of information occurs in this section of slashdot is because the questions being asked here of late are completely inane?
Ask slashdot used to be good. The questions used to be intriguing and required a little more thought thank simply linking to a fucking Google search. Nowadays, they're just Slashdot-Retarded, thoughtless ponderances with as much conversation potential as a pile of dogshit. "What kind of electric dork cars are there?" USE GOOGLE. "What kind of laptops have good linux driver support?" USE GOOGLE. "Where can I get good geek shit for my right hand^W^Wgirlfriend?" SHUT UP, ASK A REAL FUCKING QUESTION, AND USE GOOGLE!
It's hard to engender any sort of worthwhile conversation when the only answers you can really give are pointers to websites. There hasn't been a thought-provoking question on Ask Slashdot in months.
Look how well ad-revenue-based websites are doing!
Why, the owners of such websites are often able to purchase "luxury items" such as chalk and hamburgers with their nearly limitless income!
Would there also be an option to purchase an ad-free ad-based desktop (that still has a few ads in it, "for fun") for an additional $20 per year? Would that help bump LNUX shares up a little?
The price was also $35-45k, depending on model year and features.
$35-45k will buy you a nice luxury car with dead-cow seats and all the features you could ever want... or, it'll buy you the peace of mind that you're not harming the rainforest (a forest which, incidentally, couldn't give a rat's ass about your EV-1.)
Obviously, most people saw the price tag, had a seizure, and bought an Accord instead.
I actually semi-considered getting an Insight until I saw the fucking thing. It's hideous! It looks like a squashed milk carton. The one I saw was barf-green, too, which didn't help matters much.
I ended up getting a 3-series instead, which not only doesn't look like ass, but also has no problem going over 65. (I guess I'm a Bad Person for using a gasoline-powered car though.)
Nothing like elitism and prejudice for a rational argument. So much for the World Wide web being a world-wide accessible medium, apparently the concept of "world-wide" eludes you.
Actually, the concept and I are pretty good friends. I can access the Web from anywhere in the World, assuming I have a computer capable of doing so. What part of "World-Wide Web" implies "something that ought to be accessible by any computer ever made?"
You may have a slow-ass computer, but there's simply no reason to continue using Netscape 4, no matter what you may say.
There are stripped-down versions of mozilla out there. You can use Opera or Internet Explorer 5, if you run Windows. You may even be able to stomach Mozilla or Netscape 6 if you've got a computer built this century.
The world does not owe you a favor for having a slow-ass computer, though. We're not about to sit idly by while your shitty 486 attempts to render our modern websites. Stop using NS4. Times are changing. Get with it, or give up. But, stop whining.
Netscape 4 is used by about 1% of the browsing public. It's 6-year-old technology. Yeah, it runs great on a Pentium II, but so does IE5.5. Use that instead. Or use Mozilla and live with the slight slowdown (though, really, on a PII, there's not much of a slowdown, let's be honest.)
i have only a nokia 7160, and have not been very impressed with it. the phone is not very well built, the battery will fall off if you look at it funny, the microphone sucks.
I don't get it... Kazaa, WinMX, etc.. get sued all to hell, but these car audio makers market devices to rip mp3's and no one says a damn thing.
Kinda makes me wonder.
It does? About what?
The fact is, Kazaa, WinMX, Napster, Scour, and Audiogalaxy (et al) specialized in profiteering through the exchange of misappropriated intellectual property. The format used just happened to be MP3.
Sony is profiting through the sale of legitimate hardware that allows the user to store copies of CDs (which he presumably owns) on a hard drive in his car. The format it stores them in just happens to be MP3.
I see absolutely no connection other than the fact that both things used MP3.
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On a similar note, what is your IP address?
- A.P.
I doubt anyone here is a telecomms expert or knows enough about the industry and the technology to make any useful suggestions: the kind of answers you are going to get will probably involve well-tuned Pringles cans, or something equally unreasonable, like laying fiber all over the place in rural, residential areas.
Good luck in your search, but I doubt anyone here will be of much help. Find and talk to some experts.
- A.P.
Most of which are illegal to do while driving.
Why the hell didn't he just buy an MP3 head unit?
- A.P.
Elmer Fudd Google
H4x0r g00g13
Swedish Chef Google
- A.P.
Oops. Forgot the slash at the end of the URL for Pig Latin Google.
- A.P.
Klingon Google.
:)
Pig Latin Google.
What we need is an xx-askslashdot google.
- A.P.
The only protocol I ever use is ICMP.
- A.P.
Well, yeah, but then they're just playing stolen music on CDs. That's different.
A guy with a laptop and Winamp with the pitch control plugin gets the gas-face from me, though.
- A.P. (DJing for 13 years now...)
I've never seen a DJ that plays MP3s, and I'd laugh at one that did. Real DJs use vinyl and, to a lesser extent, CD.
What on earth can you do as an MP3 DJ? Attempt to poorly beatmatch?
At least you can scratch CDs now.
- A.P.
I'm getting sick of every single fucking Ask Slashdot question having more replies of "Dur, this is a stoopid question!" and "What are j00, some kind of moron?" rather than an actual exchange of information.
Have you ever stopped to consider that perhaps the reason that no meaningful exchange of information occurs in this section of slashdot is because the questions being asked here of late are completely inane?
Ask slashdot used to be good. The questions used to be intriguing and required a little more thought thank simply linking to a fucking Google search. Nowadays, they're just Slashdot-Retarded, thoughtless ponderances with as much conversation potential as a pile of dogshit. "What kind of electric dork cars are there?" USE GOOGLE. "What kind of laptops have good linux driver support?" USE GOOGLE. "Where can I get good geek shit for my right hand^W^Wgirlfriend?" SHUT UP, ASK A REAL FUCKING QUESTION, AND USE GOOGLE!
It's hard to engender any sort of worthwhile conversation when the only answers you can really give are pointers to websites. There hasn't been a thought-provoking question on Ask Slashdot in months.
- A.P.
Look how well ad-revenue-based websites are doing!
Why, the owners of such websites are often able to purchase "luxury items" such as chalk and hamburgers with their nearly limitless income!
Would there also be an option to purchase an ad-free ad-based desktop (that still has a few ads in it, "for fun") for an additional $20 per year? Would that help bump LNUX shares up a little?
- A.P.
You've made my worst-signatures list. Congrats!
The price was also $35-45k, depending on model year and features.
$35-45k will buy you a nice luxury car with dead-cow seats and all the features you could ever want... or, it'll buy you the peace of mind that you're not harming the rainforest (a forest which, incidentally, couldn't give a rat's ass about your EV-1.)
Obviously, most people saw the price tag, had a seizure, and bought an Accord instead.
- A.P.
The part of the definition that explicitly stated "homogenous systems", which would be systems _other_ that your own.
No, that would be heterogeneous. Homogeneous systems are all the same.
- A.P.
...is that they all look like ass.
I actually semi-considered getting an Insight until I saw the fucking thing. It's hideous! It looks like a squashed milk carton. The one I saw was barf-green, too, which didn't help matters much.
I ended up getting a 3-series instead, which not only doesn't look like ass, but also has no problem going over 65. (I guess I'm a Bad Person for using a gasoline-powered car though.)
- A.P.
Nothing like elitism and prejudice for a rational argument. So much for the World Wide web being a world-wide accessible medium, apparently the concept of "world-wide" eludes you.
Actually, the concept and I are pretty good friends. I can access the Web from anywhere in the World, assuming I have a computer capable of doing so. What part of "World-Wide Web" implies "something that ought to be accessible by any computer ever made?"
Oh, wait. It isn't implied.
You stand retarded.
- A.P.
Since when is HTML programming?
Since they extended the same term to include "Visual Basic".
- A.P.
You may have a slow-ass computer, but there's simply no reason to continue using Netscape 4, no matter what you may say.
There are stripped-down versions of mozilla out there. You can use Opera or Internet Explorer 5, if you run Windows. You may even be able to stomach Mozilla or Netscape 6 if you've got a computer built this century.
The world does not owe you a favor for having a slow-ass computer, though. We're not about to sit idly by while your shitty 486 attempts to render our modern websites. Stop using NS4. Times are changing. Get with it, or give up. But, stop whining.
- A.P.
Netscape 4 is used by about 1% of the browsing public. It's 6-year-old technology. Yeah, it runs great on a Pentium II, but so does IE5.5. Use that instead. Or use Mozilla and live with the slight slowdown (though, really, on a PII, there's not much of a slowdown, let's be honest.)
Kill Netscape 4, now.
Let it die. Let it be forgotten.
- A.P.
This is just what I bought my PS2 for!!!!!
Oh wait.
No.
It was to play "Gran Turismo".
- A.P.
Yes, because a pet is a status symbol. All your friends will think you are uber-leet for having a marmoset.
What a moronic Ask Slashdot question.
- A.P.
i have only a nokia 7160, and have not been very impressed with it. the phone is not very well built, the battery will fall off if you look at it funny, the microphone sucks.
i would much rather have a motorola
Why, so the antenna would fall off, instead?
Motorola's phones suck, too.
- A.P.
I don't get it... Kazaa, WinMX, etc.. get sued all to hell, but these car audio makers market devices to rip mp3's and no one says a damn thing.
Kinda makes me wonder.
It does? About what?
The fact is, Kazaa, WinMX, Napster, Scour, and Audiogalaxy (et al) specialized in profiteering through the exchange of misappropriated intellectual property. The format used just happened to be MP3.
Sony is profiting through the sale of legitimate hardware that allows the user to store copies of CDs (which he presumably owns) on a hard drive in his car. The format it stores them in just happens to be MP3.
I see absolutely no connection other than the fact that both things used MP3.
- A.P.
Optimum Online in Connecticut caps theirs at 10 outbound. I've downloaded stuff at upwards of 700KB/second.
This must be a slow news day.
- A.P.