I would think that older versions should be given away. Maybe a major version older (selling 3.2, give away 2.x) or 2 minor versions (selling 3.2, give away 3.0) something like that.
I'd love to be able to grab a copy of Windows 95 for my kid's machine. Maybe download it from Microsoft's site as an ISO image (I lost my 95 CD).
Well, I hate cars. Always have, always will. I have philosophical differences with them. I've also done some basic auto work (replacing oil, fluids, and belts; and replacing alternators, spark plugs, brake pads and shoes, etc.). I still hate the things. If I ever move somewhere bicycle-friendly, I'll ride them more often (riding a bike in Dallas, TX, US, means you have a death wish).
So, when my car was on its last legs about 3 months ago, I did what it took to buy a brand new Ford Focus Sedan, with a full 5 year extended warranty. Unless I run this thing into a tree or off a cliff, Ford'll fix it. I may do a little electrical work, like installing a homebrew MP3 player with custom display (if I get an extra $1K and some number of days to mess with it). Other than that, I don't want to touch it.
To me, a car is a tool to take me from point A to point B. I don't WANT to hack it, I just want to use it. And, as my priorities change while I age, I'm feeling the same about computers. I just want to install things and mess with them, not hack the code just so the damn thing will compile. People think I'm nuts just wanting to install binary Red Hat RPMs, but that's me. I can compile if I need to, but I don't like doing it; I'd rather USE the app than hack it.
Click "Programming" at the top of the screen, and then choose away. I personally like channel 51, The XM Music Lab (progressive rock/metal, psychedelic, etc.; a very underrepresented genre, IMO).
If I could afford it (I'm being hit by the crappy high-tech economy right now), I would buy it. It's better than all the banal crap that plays here in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, US, metroplex.
..hence the moniker "introverts"! Don't make them go to some stupid company party in the first place! I know I hate the damn things and don't go to them. I've only been to 1 company party in my whole career (and it was a small 5 person company dinner at an Italian joint), and I'll never go to another! The whole idea is stupid, IMO.
... why would i want to hang out with people that aren't as smart as me?
That's exactly what I was thinking. I deal with this every day. Some people think I have a big ego, but so what? I am intelligent, and I share very little (actually almost nothing) in common with the people I see regularly.
Now, at my current position, sometimes I'll stay late with my boss and we'll play some video games and maybe have a beer. It's fun. But other than that, I don't pal around with him as we share no interests or philosophical leanings (actually, we're complete opposites).
Wow! Great! You know what you're doing! Wonderful! So, you're applying, right? I mean, you can help them, and you want to, so you're going to try, right?
...and in the meantime, you correct all the problems with the "wired Internet" (especially my pet peeve, the domain name system, TLDs, etc.; what a mess!). You add features, rip out old cruft, and, in general, improve on the Internet, but on your own terms and not on some corporate or government type's terms.
Well, let's rebuild FidoNet, but wireless! I still remember the first time I got FidoMail on my first BBS...how cool that was!
I personally think that the astronaut selection process is quite a crock o' faeces. It was OK for the 50s and 60s, when space travel was really new. It's time for the "common person" to get access to space.
And, why, every time this subject comes up, does someone say something stupid like "Well, Challenger had a tourist on board, and IT BLEW UP!". WTF? Do you think that her presence made the thing self-destruct?! Grow a brain!
> They shouldn't do this for the same reason they
> shouldn't be installing cable tv services, or
> telephone services, cell phone networks, or
> movie theaters: these are non-essential
> services
I disagree. In this day and age, telephone and Internet services should be considered essential. No, you can't eat them, but they can help so many people if they were only available and affordable. Essential services in my book are electricity, heating/cooling, telephone, and Internet service.
Journalism has alwasy been subjugated to market forces. It's almost a good sign that online journalism has started to feel these effects themselves. It is a sign that online news is growing up.
No one who actually believes in telling the truth would stand for shit like this. It's extremely sad that someone would think that this shows "growing up". I see it as the indicator that the Internet is becoming just as fucked up as "meatspace". And I was hoping it was above that, that the Net could make things better. Oh well...
If I remember the tech specs (I have them saved on my hard drive somewhere), they can operate in a peer-to-peer mode. The Linux kernel supports it (under Networking Devices, choose WAN devices, and use Metricom Starmode [STRIP]).
I'd love to see a Freenet spring up in Dallas using these things. Any others interested?
I know that coming into an already-operating NOC you get what's there. Where I work now, the network is a mess. There are many things that could be improved, but "that's the way they've always been". Oh well...It doesn't reflect on me, so I don't care.
So, you leave out the tag (or include a tag). So, will IE then report your page to M$ for non-compliance? Will the police knock on your door at 3:00AM and have you "fix" your website? After all, you wouldn't want to be "un-American" and not support Micro$oft, now would you?
Fuck Microsoft, and all of capitalist society. What a bunch of dickheads.
> The only strange thing is that they have no sorting for biological garbage, trash that rottens to earth.
My wife and I run a website, Homestead.org, which is about self-sufficiency, growing your own food, living "simply", etc. Although we're living in the big city again, in an apartment, we do our little bit. Lots of our organic garbage such as veggie scraps, fruit cores, etc., get put in a large plastic box out on the balcony and allowed to rot. Layer the waste with dirt (from somewhere not contaminated with chemicals; go take a Sunday country drive and come back with a few shovelfulls of dirt from the boonies!); aka some waste, then some dirt, then more waste, then more dirt, etc. The dirt provides bacteria and fungi to break down the waste. And, voila! Your own simple compost bin. (Don't let it fill with water, though. Ick!)
Yeah, dumbass, the fact that she was a civilian caused the explosion. I wish people would quit bringing up Challenger when they have no fucking clue.
NASA can't send up civilians for tourism purposes. There's some sort of limitation in their charter preventing it. Instead, they're required to release the technology to allow commercial interests to pursue that avenue.
I say let Russia do whatever it wants. It's not the US's job to police the whole damn planet!
.com domains are for "international" companies.co.
So, ibm.com is OK, and texasclothing.co.us is OK, too. mcdonalds.com for the restaurant, and mcdonalds.co.us for something else.
NO! Don't waste his time! He's had to postpone his launch because of media interviews. Enough already; let him go!
Besides, we've seen how the/. community responds to his efforts: like a bunch of uninformed, stupid-ass idiots (mostly; a few posts are decent).
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How would you sue a company for violation of the
GPL? Would the FSF, as an entity, be the Plaintiff? Or would the FSF instigate a class action suit on behalf of the software developer community? In either case, if this story is true, it's time to test the GPL. Sue Sony!
>I'm looking forward to the day when I'll be able
>to script on a Palm device (using a foldout
>keyboard of course.)
Yea, the keyboard would help. It gets really
tiring trying to do #, $, >, %, &, and ! in
Graffiti all the time, over and over.
This is another perfect example of why governments shouldn't be given the job of expanding humanity into space. I'd like to see more people actually trying to forge ahead into space, like Brian Walker, Rocketguy. Let the government do their little space station and satellite experiments while hundreds or thousands of individuals launch themselves towards the moon or the stars.
Let Tito go. The Russians should tell the U.S. to shove it. If this was a commercial contract, and a supplier (as Russia is in this case) didn't follow through after being paid US$20 million, they'd be sued and any court on the planet would make them pay damages. If I were Tito, and they shafted me, even if they gave me my money back, I'd sue them over this just to prove a point.
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Man, people should only be given moderator points proportional to their IQ. That way, stupid moderation like this wouldn't happen.
I'd love to be able to grab a copy of Windows 95 for my kid's machine. Maybe download it from Microsoft's site as an ISO image (I lost my 95 CD).
So, when my car was on its last legs about 3 months ago, I did what it took to buy a brand new Ford Focus Sedan, with a full 5 year extended warranty. Unless I run this thing into a tree or off a cliff, Ford'll fix it. I may do a little electrical work, like installing a homebrew MP3 player with custom display (if I get an extra $1K and some number of days to mess with it). Other than that, I don't want to touch it.
To me, a car is a tool to take me from point A to point B. I don't WANT to hack it, I just want to use it. And, as my priorities change while I age, I'm feeling the same about computers. I just want to install things and mess with them, not hack the code just so the damn thing will compile. People think I'm nuts just wanting to install binary Red Hat RPMs, but that's me. I can compile if I need to, but I don't like doing it; I'd rather USE the app than hack it.
Does it disgust anyone else that their site looks like it was made with M$ Front Page?! Blech!
Let 'em know I sent you.
http://www.xmradio.com
Click "Programming" at the top of the screen, and then choose away. I personally like channel 51, The XM Music Lab (progressive rock/metal, psychedelic, etc.; a very underrepresented genre, IMO). If I could afford it (I'm being hit by the crappy high-tech economy right now), I would buy it. It's better than all the banal crap that plays here in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, US, metroplex.
..hence the moniker "introverts"! Don't make them go to some stupid company party in the first place! I know I hate the damn things and don't go to them. I've only been to 1 company party in my whole career (and it was a small 5 person company dinner at an Italian joint), and I'll never go to another! The whole idea is stupid, IMO.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I deal with this every day. Some people think I have a big ego, but so what? I am intelligent, and I share very little (actually almost nothing) in common with the people I see regularly.
Now, at my current position, sometimes I'll stay late with my boss and we'll play some video games and maybe have a beer. It's fun. But other than that, I don't pal around with him as we share no interests or philosophical leanings (actually, we're complete opposites).
Wow! Great! You know what you're doing! Wonderful! So, you're applying, right? I mean, you can help them, and you want to, so you're going to try, right?
Well, let's rebuild FidoNet, but wireless! I still remember the first time I got FidoMail on my first BBS...how cool that was!
I personally think that the astronaut selection process is quite a crock o' faeces. It was OK for the 50s and 60s, when space travel was really new. It's time for the "common person" to get access to space.
And, why, every time this subject comes up, does someone say something stupid like "Well, Challenger had a tourist on board, and IT BLEW UP!". WTF? Do you think that her presence made the thing self-destruct?! Grow a brain!
I disagree. In this day and age, telephone and Internet services should be considered essential. No, you can't eat them, but they can help so many people if they were only available and affordable. Essential services in my book are electricity, heating/cooling, telephone, and Internet service.
No one who actually believes in telling the truth would stand for shit like this. It's extremely sad that someone would think that this shows "growing up". I see it as the indicator that the Internet is becoming just as fucked up as "meatspace". And I was hoping it was above that, that the Net could make things better. Oh well...
I'd love to see a Freenet spring up in Dallas using these things. Any others interested?
I know that coming into an already-operating NOC you get what's there. Where I work now, the network is a mess. There are many things that could be improved, but "that's the way they've always been". Oh well...It doesn't reflect on me, so I don't care.
So, you leave out the tag (or include a tag). So, will IE then report your page to M$ for non-compliance? Will the police knock on your door at 3:00AM and have you "fix" your website? After all, you wouldn't want to be "un-American" and not support Micro$oft, now would you?
Fuck Microsoft, and all of capitalist society. What a bunch of dickheads.
>are already on earth in sufficient and far less expensice quantities
Not true. Helium-3 is a typical example.
My wife and I run a website, Homestead.org, which is about self-sufficiency, growing your own food, living "simply", etc. Although we're living in the big city again, in an apartment, we do our little bit. Lots of our organic garbage such as veggie scraps, fruit cores, etc., get put in a large plastic box out on the balcony and allowed to rot. Layer the waste with dirt (from somewhere not contaminated with chemicals; go take a Sunday country drive and come back with a few shovelfulls of dirt from the boonies!); aka some waste, then some dirt, then more waste, then more dirt, etc. The dirt provides bacteria and fungi to break down the waste. And, voila! Your own simple compost bin. (Don't let it fill with water, though. Ick!)
NASA can't send up civilians for tourism purposes. There's some sort of limitation in their charter preventing it. Instead, they're required to release the technology to allow commercial interests to pursue that avenue.
I say let Russia do whatever it wants. It's not the US's job to police the whole damn planet!
Besides, we've seen how the /. community responds to his efforts: like a bunch of uninformed, stupid-ass idiots (mostly; a few posts are decent).
How would you sue a company for violation of the GPL? Would the FSF, as an entity, be the Plaintiff? Or would the FSF instigate a class action suit on behalf of the software developer community? In either case, if this story is true, it's time to test the GPL. Sue Sony!
>I'm looking forward to the day when I'll be able
>to script on a Palm device (using a foldout
>keyboard of course.)
Yea, the keyboard would help. It gets really tiring trying to do #, $, >, %, &, and ! in Graffiti all the time, over and over.
This is another perfect example of why governments shouldn't be given the job of expanding humanity into space. I'd like to see more people actually trying to forge ahead into space, like Brian Walker, Rocketguy. Let the government do their little space station and satellite experiments while hundreds or thousands of individuals launch themselves towards the moon or the stars. Let Tito go. The Russians should tell the U.S. to shove it. If this was a commercial contract, and a supplier (as Russia is in this case) didn't follow through after being paid US$20 million, they'd be sued and any court on the planet would make them pay damages. If I were Tito, and they shafted me, even if they gave me my money back, I'd sue them over this just to prove a point.