Its not a tax. Its a markup from the RIAA on those products aimed at people who haven't got a clue. If it were a tax levied by the government like it is in Canada, it would be on every CDR sold. Only idiots pay the useless markup on "audio" CDRs.
With the massive proliferation of special-interest web sites and message boards (helped in no small part by quality OSS software such as apache, php, mysql and phpBB, as well as many others) usenet is becoming more and more irrelevant. Most action happens in the binaries groups where people just fire up pan or agent (or some other bin-friendly news reader) and go to town downloading software.
Another large part of this is the signal-to-noise ratio. Even though you have the cancel-bots traversing usenet, its still choked full of spam. Web-based message boards and plain old email lists that require you be authenticated before posting have done much to raise the all-important s2n ratio.
I have a Sharper Image Ionic Breeze. For $350 it does a decent job of cleaning allergens and some dust out of the air, but it will NOT keep your home office dust-free.
Right on.:) Most./ers dont know anything about enterprise systems. Thats why you see them rail against commercial unices, because they only know Windows/Mac/Linux/*BSD. This carries over into tape backup strategy. They dont know anything about high-end tape technology, so you will see them suggest things like using large IDE harddrives because it sounds so simple on the surface. To do backups to disk right (and then to tape, because you really should) you need a real SAN though.
How about how well the piece of software manages to stay true to its objective? One of the great things about OSS is that people can take source code and fix it up to do something they need but at the same time, 1000 people with their hands in the pot has the tendency to make a project go nowhere and collapse under its own weight.
Yeah but this was also way back when you had to buy a separate TCP/IP stack for your Dos/Windoze machine. Anyone outside of a university who had any internet access in 1993 (with maybe a scant couple exceptions) was doing it by dialing into a shell account.
TATU are just another commercialized mass produced shit band. Now they are trying to put some "lesbian" spin on then to generate interest with a largely male crowd. Please. If those two eat pussy, I'll eat my cat. Its just a another gimmick to sell garbage.
$375? Per month? yeah? lifetime? Are you buying separate accounts for all of your computers?
You astound me with your ranting. In a different post you claim to use Windows 3.1 for your web browsing and hollar about how everyone needs to be connected, now you are complaining because ISPs cost too much? Supply and demand! There are cheap ISPs out there. If you cant afford $10/mo for internet service, then you are probably working long hours to make ends meet (or should be) and wouldn't have much time to use it anyway.
Yeah but slashdot is littered with people who know nothing about any type of enterprise systems, just Windows and Linux, and so make lame comments based upon no real facts at all whenever they hear something about Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Tru64, etc etc.
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Mame32 makes you go thru them for downloads too. At least, I can never find the newest version anywhere else. Fuck fileplanet. Fuck them in their ear.
Its not a tax. Its a markup from the RIAA on those products aimed at people who haven't got a clue. If it were a tax levied by the government like it is in Canada, it would be on every CDR sold. Only idiots pay the useless markup on "audio" CDRs.
Its not illegitimate. There is no reason the US movie studios can't release the movie internationally sooner than they do.
Region Coding is bullshit.
There is a spammobile that goes to events giving out free spam! I got my picture taken with it when I was in Charlotte, NC
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With the massive proliferation of special-interest web sites and message boards (helped in no small part by quality OSS software such as apache, php, mysql and phpBB, as well as many others) usenet is becoming more and more irrelevant. Most action happens in the binaries groups where people just fire up pan or agent (or some other bin-friendly news reader) and go to town downloading software.
Another large part of this is the signal-to-noise ratio. Even though you have the cancel-bots traversing usenet, its still choked full of spam. Web-based message boards and plain old email lists that require you be authenticated before posting have done much to raise the all-important s2n ratio.
I have a Sharper Image Ionic Breeze. For $350 it does a decent job of cleaning allergens and some dust out of the air, but it will NOT keep your home office dust-free.
And its a royal pain to clean.
No doubt. Why not just seal yourself up in your house with ducttape and plastic sheeting.
Christ, some people need help.
Right on. :) Most ./ers dont know anything about enterprise systems. Thats why you see them rail against commercial unices, because they only know Windows/Mac/Linux/*BSD. This carries over into tape backup strategy. They dont know anything about high-end tape technology, so you will see them suggest things like using large IDE harddrives because it sounds so simple on the surface. To do backups to disk right (and then to tape, because you really should) you need a real SAN though.
How about how well the piece of software manages to stay true to its objective? One of the great things about OSS is that people can take source code and fix it up to do something they need but at the same time, 1000 people with their hands in the pot has the tendency to make a project go nowhere and collapse under its own weight.
Yeah but this was also way back when you had to buy a separate TCP/IP stack for your Dos/Windoze machine. Anyone outside of a university who had any internet access in 1993 (with maybe a scant couple exceptions) was doing it by dialing into a shell account.
One headline: Half-life 2 to appear at E3. Story on pages 4, 5 and 6!
There's nothing cool about pretending to be gay to sell records.
No toenail clippers? No one can hide a gun/bomb if they're naked.
You'd be surprised what some people can stick up their ass
What was homophobic about my post? If they really are gay, theres nothing wrong with it. I think its all a stunt to attract attention though.
I never made that claim. There are plenty of talented and successful musicians that are gay, but this has "gimmick" written all over it.
tshit? Was that a freudian slip?
TATU are just another commercialized mass produced shit band. Now they are trying to put some "lesbian" spin on then to generate interest with a largely male crowd. Please. If those two eat pussy, I'll eat my cat. Its just a another gimmick to sell garbage.
$375? Per month? yeah? lifetime? Are you buying separate accounts for all of your computers?
You astound me with your ranting. In a different post you claim to use Windows 3.1 for your web browsing and hollar about how everyone needs to be connected, now you are complaining because ISPs cost too much? Supply and demand! There are cheap ISPs out there. If you cant afford $10/mo for internet service, then you are probably working long hours to make ends meet (or should be) and wouldn't have much time to use it anyway.
*laugh* Or the users do their own "administration".
Yes, but this is the Register we're talking about here, the "Enquirer" of the IT industry.
And I'll tell you right now that jackass probably wont respond because he knows deep down inside he knows he's wrong.
The blind faith of GWB's supporters sickens me. Maybe they should turn off their AM radio and form a thought of their own.
Yeah but slashdot is littered with people who know nothing about any type of enterprise systems, just Windows and Linux, and so make lame comments based upon no real facts at all whenever they hear something about Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Tru64, etc etc.
Name some. The "liberal media" is a term coined by Rush Limbaugh. Made up rubbish.
75K in silicon valley? Do you qualify for food stamps?
The dot-com implosion. VaLinux stock isnt worth 300 anymore, so they cant keep printing their own money to fund such extravagances. :)
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Thanks. I tried to RTFA but it wouldnt let me go anywhere except page 1.
/. make me wait 20 seconds before posting a reply?
As an aside:
Why the fuck does