However, we all know that the majority of people DO burn such things, so what do we do, make it illegal and throw everyone in jail? Or just pay the damn few cents a CD?
It depends on what they were guaranteed, doesn't it? If the contract they signed stipulated an always-available Internet connection, and it wasn't always available (due to whatever circumstances), shouldn't a refund be in order?
When a telephone pole near my house was struck by lightning last year, I lost cable (and cable modem Internet access) for a couple of weeks. The cable company not only happily refunded me half a month's worth of charges, but I didn't even have to ask.
I would love to read that article, but, since LinuxToday uses fixed-size tables, I quickly grew tired of left-right scrolling just to get to read a single line of text.
Even if I resize the window, the whole page doesn't fit on my screen.
If 56k analog modem users are the ones being discriminated against, then, please explain to me why the fuck 24.0.0.0/8 is the most-scanned block on the Internet?
If modem users have it so bad, why does everyone want to hack broadband users?
I say everyone just STFU and deal with it.
- A.P.
"hacker" vs. "cracker": something to consider.
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Does anyone else think that "crackers can read your email" is something Chef from South Park would say?
CHEF: Now, children, don't leave your computer on when you're not around! Crazy crackers can read your email!
Works for me. Though I don't quite see what the need for your response was. Sites should not depend on banner ads for revenue anyway. I would have thought this obvious, given the staggering death toll in the once-lucrative-for-about-15-minutes banner-ad-driven-website field so far. Once something idiot-proof comes along that can block them, and everyone starts using it, the rest of those sites will be gone.
So? If you're copying to your minidisc player, just do a straight.wav recording rather than decompressing an illegally-acquired MP3 (which is still lossy....) Unless you're assuming everyone's MP3s are ill-gotten. People who actually buy music might find minidisc players useful.
- A.P.
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My brother goes to WFU, and he indeed has an IBM Celeron-based laptop (with a rather large screen).
By default, every WFU laptop (all IBM thinkpads) comes with a wireless LAN card, and every dorm and campus building has a wireless transmitter in it. Every dorm room also has a lot of ethernet ports (more than the number of tenants in the room, I believe, enough for the laptop and a desktop machine for each student.)
All is not well, however: they also require some horrible Windows authentication to get onto the network, however. This authentication is tied into DHCP servers, so you *have* to logon in order to get an IP address for any length of time. Doesn't bode well for Linux users, I'm afraid.
Apache decreased, what, 1.5% or something? This is somehow a signal of the end of Open Source? When Microsoft loses a dime a share, does that signal its imminent demise too?
Let's get real.
Re:.4FPS IS NOT 4/10s of a second per frame!!
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Yes.
I fucked up. And slashdot is making me wait 20 seconds to reply. And now another 2 minutes to post. God damn it, I love bad perl.
- A.P.
In Other News, Jon Katz Discovers Seanbaby.
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Good ol' Jon, always 3 years behind everyone else.
Next week: An article about someone who welcomes you to his website, and kisses you!
In 3 years, Katz will write an article about the cultural impact of the "All Your Base" phenomenon.
How's that memepool writeup you started in 1998 coming along, Jon?:)
- A.P.
.4FPS IS NOT 4/10s of a second per frame!!
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Jesus! We do math good at slashdot.
4/10s of a frame per second means you can do just over 2 frames per second.
God damn. People go to college and come out knowing this much about math?
Yes, and his BIOS came pre-loaded on his motherboard. Linux zealots practice what they preach when it's convenient and glamorous to do so. But I'm sure there's one fool out there writing his own BIOS and blowing his own ROMs.
NOW how will I realize my dream of constructing a Beowulf cluster out of 486 SX/25s? If I get a few hundred more it'll be JUST AS FAST as my Athlon 500!
- A.P.
Inviting geeks to a party? Are you INSANE?
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Geeks go fucking crazy when surrounded by even a dozen people. How the hell do you think they'll react when surrounded by a DOZEN THOUSAND at a LINUX RAVE? Good god, at least let them hang out in the cool-down room. There aren't *too* many people in those.
Hemos: I'm curious.
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To what degree do you disagree with Damage? His argument against the article he references is pretty convincing. The "Decision Matrix" the guy uses in the original article is full of mistakes and far from an objective comparison of Macs vs. PCs. The original article's author is also one of those people who *still insist* the G4 is faster than the Pentium 4 (and he conveniently "forgets" about the Athlon!) Damage calls the guy to the carpet over these things, and it's hard to find holes in what he says.
"XXXX To be Windows-Only" means "we read like the first couple lines of the article and assumed it was Windows-only, or we didn't read it at all and trusted the summary from the submitter."
On a related note, "XXXX using GPLed code in closed-source application" means "we looked at the first couple paragraphs of the website, didn't see a source RPM, and decided there was no source code."
Also, "Amiga OS 4.0 released," "Apple regains marketshare," or "story that was posted yesterday reposted today" usually means "Rob Malda smokes crack".
Calculating netmasks has been relegated to the very back of my brain and was recently pushed out for good by a Palm Pilot application. Why the fuck should anyone be expected to know something as seldom-used as that? What's next? "Explain in 50 words or less the benefits of 'tar' over 'pax'"? Are you gonna argue with candidates over whether/opt is better than/usr/local for third-party applications? The flags for "ltrace"?
If trivial little things like this are what you base your hiring decisions on, I doubt many will want to work for you.
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However, we all know that the majority of people DO burn such things, so what do we do, make it illegal and throw everyone in jail? Or just pay the damn few cents a CD?
You're Canadian, aren't you?
- A.P.
It depends on what they were guaranteed, doesn't it? If the contract they signed stipulated an always-available Internet connection, and it wasn't always available (due to whatever circumstances), shouldn't a refund be in order?
When a telephone pole near my house was struck by lightning last year, I lost cable (and cable modem Internet access) for a couple of weeks. The cable company not only happily refunded me half a month's worth of charges, but I didn't even have to ask.
- A.P.
I would love to read that article, but, since LinuxToday uses fixed-size tables, I quickly grew tired of left-right scrolling just to get to read a single line of text.
Even if I resize the window, the whole page doesn't fit on my screen.
Who the hell let the monkey design the website?
- A.P.
If 56k analog modem users are the ones being discriminated against, then, please explain to me why the fuck 24.0.0.0/8 is the most-scanned block on the Internet?
If modem users have it so bad, why does everyone want to hack broadband users?
I say everyone just STFU and deal with it.
- A.P.
Does anyone else think that "crackers can read your email" is something Chef from South Park would say?
CHEF: Now, children, don't leave your computer on when you're not around! Crazy crackers can read your email!
STAN: Holy crap!
CARTMAN: You guys are so lame.
- A.P.
Oh, me too. I mean, I only run Windows at home when I need to play games.
Or visit certain websites.
Or run Office.
Or watch DVD movies.
Or browse Slashdo^W^W^WOr print things.
- A.P.
Works for me. Though I don't quite see what the need for your response was. Sites should not depend on banner ads for revenue anyway. I would have thought this obvious, given the staggering death toll in the once-lucrative-for-about-15-minutes banner-ad-driven-website field so far. Once something idiot-proof comes along that can block them, and everyone starts using it, the rest of those sites will be gone.
- A.P.
1) It's windows-only. Yawn. I won't even see the replacement ads.
2) I run Junkbuster with the transparent GIF patches. I don't see ANY ads.
Will people really care that the banner ads they normally see are replaced by other banner ads?
- A.P.
So? If you're copying to your minidisc player, just do a straight .wav recording rather than decompressing an illegally-acquired MP3 (which is still lossy....) Unless you're assuming everyone's MP3s are ill-gotten. People who actually buy music might find minidisc players useful.
- A.P.
My brother goes to WFU, and he indeed has an IBM Celeron-based laptop (with a rather large screen).
By default, every WFU laptop (all IBM thinkpads) comes with a wireless LAN card, and every dorm and campus building has a wireless transmitter in it. Every dorm room also has a lot of ethernet ports (more than the number of tenants in the room, I believe, enough for the laptop and a desktop machine for each student.)
All is not well, however: they also require some horrible Windows authentication to get onto the network, however. This authentication is tied into DHCP servers, so you *have* to logon in order to get an IP address for any length of time. Doesn't bode well for Linux users, I'm afraid.
- A.P.
You mean, there are people who actually love, not just use or like Microsoft products?
Apache decreased, what, 1.5% or something? This is somehow a signal of the end of Open Source? When Microsoft loses a dime a share, does that signal its imminent demise too?
Let's get real.
Yes.
I fucked up. And slashdot is making me wait 20 seconds to reply. And now another 2 minutes to post. God damn it, I love bad perl.
- A.P.
Good ol' Jon, always 3 years behind everyone else.
:)
Next week: An article about someone who welcomes you to his website, and kisses you!
In 3 years, Katz will write an article about the cultural impact of the "All Your Base" phenomenon.
How's that memepool writeup you started in 1998 coming along, Jon?
- A.P.
Jesus! We do math good at slashdot.
4/10s of a frame per second means you can do just over 2 frames per second.
God damn. People go to college and come out knowing this much about math?
The standard seems to be: "Who the hell cares?"
- A.P.
Yes, and his BIOS came pre-loaded on his motherboard. Linux zealots practice what they preach when it's convenient and glamorous to do so. But I'm sure there's one fool out there writing his own BIOS and blowing his own ROMs.
NOW how will I realize my dream of constructing a Beowulf cluster out of 486 SX/25s? If I get a few hundred more it'll be JUST AS FAST as my Athlon 500!
- A.P.
Geeks go fucking crazy when surrounded by even a dozen people. How the hell do you think they'll react when surrounded by a DOZEN THOUSAND at a LINUX RAVE? Good god, at least let them hang out in the cool-down room. There aren't *too* many people in those.
To what degree do you disagree with Damage? His argument against the article he references is pretty convincing. The "Decision Matrix" the guy uses in the original article is full of mistakes and far from an objective comparison of Macs vs. PCs. The original article's author is also one of those people who *still insist* the G4 is faster than the Pentium 4 (and he conveniently "forgets" about the Athlon!) Damage calls the guy to the carpet over these things, and it's hard to find holes in what he says.
So, how do you disagree with him?
- A.P.
Could you rephrase that in something more closely resembling English??
"XXXX To be Windows-Only" means "we read like the first couple lines of the article and assumed it was Windows-only, or we didn't read it at all and trusted the summary from the submitter."
On a related note, "XXXX using GPLed code in closed-source application" means "we looked at the first couple paragraphs of the website, didn't see a source RPM, and decided there was no source code."
Also, "Amiga OS 4.0 released," "Apple regains marketshare," or "story that was posted yesterday reposted today" usually means "Rob Malda smokes crack".
- A.P.
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Calculating netmasks has been relegated to the very back of my brain and was recently pushed out for good by a Palm Pilot application. Why the fuck should anyone be expected to know something as seldom-used as that? What's next? "Explain in 50 words or less the benefits of 'tar' over 'pax'"? Are you gonna argue with candidates over whether /opt is better than /usr/local for third-party applications? The flags for "ltrace"?
If trivial little things like this are what you base your hiring decisions on, I doubt many will want to work for you.
- A.P.
- A.P.
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