Each has lasted 3 to 4 years, however I have upgraded other components in the boxes. Added hard drives and memory about every 1.5 years, replaced video cards and modems every year. But the latest system will probably only get one upgrade in its life when a reasonably priced DVD burner (whose DVDs work on my DVD player) comes out. My CD burner is Good Enough, even after 3 years. I have 30 GB of hard drive, on two drives, and use about 10 of that. The 256 MB of ram is plenty. The ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon does MP2 recording in real time.
The range safety package was used when the Challenger exploded in flight. If you watch videos of that, you see the SRBs flying out of control after the explosion. Shortly after, the range safety officer set off the explosives.
The encrypted video format with the disk itself. The layout of tracks/data on a dvd is fairly standardized, and the MPAA has no control over how an end user stores data on the disk, excepting that the end user can't store video in the encrypted format that the MPAA uses. But you can make your own unencrypted dvd video disks and distribute them without paying royalties.
Seems to me that he has strong grounds for appeal. Fleeing the country seems extreme. Why do he, and presumably his lawyer, think he would lose on appeal? There's something missing here.
if the employees of Red Hat, Caldera, and Turbo Linux have to run Linux at work?
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Umm, I think you're referring to a tactile system. There already are braille readers that can do web pages, if the pages are useable with lynx. As for 3-d, if it is necessary to see stereo up close, I probably couldn't use it. You see, when I was 11 I caught a 2X4 in my left eye (playground disagreement)and have no central vision in that eye, so I can't see stereo very well.
Ahhh, well, that makes sense. I imagine lots of us have had this happen. Certainly not the first time it's happened to me. But it's a slow day, and I've karma to burn (I love the smell of burning karma..) so I bitched. Interesting story. Imagine a beowulf cluster of quantum computers not being turned on!
The difference between spam and regular junk mail is the cost, and who pays it. Spam costs the sender a very small fraction of a penny to send, but the receiver pays with his time. . Junk mail costs several pennies to send. Believe me, if some of the people here got the volume of junk mail that they get of spam, their postmen would go on strike. Rough, back of the envelope calculations follow.
Cost, at 46 cents/minute (what my employer thinks I'm worth) it costs me roughly 3 cents to deal with each spam. The sender paid, what, about 1/1000 cents to send it. So, it costs me more to deal with it than they paid to send it. Same amount of time to deal with junk mail, but cost the sender 34 cents to send it. So they pay more to send it than I pay to deal with it.
Or, you can look at it this way:
100 mails/day*14g/mail=1400g/day. Three pounds for those non-metric people out there. That, and the cost, makes junk mail very self limiting. There is not a similar limitation on spam.
The parallels are true. Lots of car freaks are geeks. Many geeks are car freaks. Think of how much some of us enjoy hacking, and remember that hacking a car isn't that different from hacking a pc. Philosopically, anyway.
Had mine for years, never had a problem with it. I've burned a couple of hundred disks with it, too. You have some weird heat/dust problem in your box? Or, try hooking it up to a different power cable. Could be a dodgy power supply.
Is my ISP. I run Suse 7.1 at home. While they don't support linux, they don't object to it. The only thing to be aware (or beware) of is that you have to put the '-h hostname' command in your dhcp client startup. I've had great results with them. No downtime and good speeds on the download. I don't run a server, so upload speed isn't an issue. The install was great. The installer came when they said he would, only took about 1/2 hour.
Punk, new wave, stuff that was nowhere else. Listen to the sunday brunch at the archives with weezil, 9 to 11 am I think, to hear what they used to play. Then listen to 94.7 to hear what everyone else was playing. The lack of chioce, in a major area like DC, is why I want sat radio.
Actually written before the speech. At Linux Today.
And,from the Times, this story. Favorite quote, on the "threat" of the GPL:"an I.B.M. vice president, said, "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you know, we have a lot of lawyers.""
Probably not. After all, no one pays for TV that has ads. Wait a minute. I pay for CNN, Weather Channel, and other stuff on cable. You know, this just might work.
All joking aside, satellite radio is a good idea. Anyone who lives in an area that Clear Channel has moved into is looking forward to actual choices. (Can anyone in the DC area tell me the difference between DC101 and WHFS?) Those who live in rural areas with only one FM "rock" (which is actually top 40) one country and one NPR station will also love this. Frank Ahrens, a reported/commentator for the Washington Post has written extensively about this.
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I saw this on the other site yesterday.
The Washington Post which has the story, with a quick review of the laws and issues, here.
then I went to a 486-50
then a P90
then a P2-333
now I'm running a P3-1GHZ
Each has lasted 3 to 4 years, however I have upgraded other components in the boxes. Added hard drives and memory about every 1.5 years, replaced video cards and modems every year. But the latest system will probably only get one upgrade in its life when a reasonably priced DVD burner (whose DVDs work on my DVD player) comes out. My CD burner is Good Enough, even after 3 years. I have 30 GB of hard drive, on two drives, and use about 10 of that. The 256 MB of ram is plenty. The ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon does MP2 recording in real time.
Oh, about N years.
Of balding Dilbert types in tie-dye suits. Time to up the medication, I guess.
what he's been smoking. Unless you want to become a tool of the corporatist political system?
The range safety package was used when the Challenger exploded in flight. If you watch videos of that, you see the SRBs flying out of control after the explosion. Shortly after, the range safety officer set off the explosives.
The encrypted video format with the disk itself. The layout of tracks/data on a dvd is fairly standardized, and the MPAA has no control over how an end user stores data on the disk, excepting that the end user can't store video in the encrypted format that the MPAA uses. But you can make your own unencrypted dvd video disks and distribute them without paying royalties.
blue scream of death, perhaps?
Saw "Geekomat" instead of "Gekkomat"?
It's "geekomatic" !
Gods. I need more coffee, methinks.
Seems to me that he has strong grounds for appeal. Fleeing the country seems extreme. Why do he, and presumably his lawyer, think he would lose on appeal? There's something missing here.
if the employees of Red Hat, Caldera, and Turbo Linux have to run Linux at work?
Umm, I think you're referring to a tactile system. There already are braille readers that can do web pages, if the pages are useable with lynx. As for 3-d, if it is necessary to see stereo up close, I probably couldn't use it. You see, when I was 11 I caught a 2X4 in my left eye (playground disagreement)and have no central vision in that eye, so I can't see stereo very well.
Ahhh, well, that makes sense. I imagine lots of us have had this happen. Certainly not the first time it's happened to me. But it's a slow day, and I've karma to burn (I love the smell of burning karma..) so I bitched. Interesting story. Imagine a beowulf cluster of quantum computers not being turned on!
Cost, at 46 cents/minute (what my employer thinks I'm worth) it costs me roughly 3 cents to deal with each spam. The sender paid, what, about 1/1000 cents to send it. So, it costs me more to deal with it than they paid to send it. Same amount of time to deal with junk mail, but cost the sender 34 cents to send it. So they pay more to send it than I pay to deal with it.
Or, you can look at it this way:
100 mails/day*14g/mail=1400g/day. Three pounds for those non-metric people out there. That, and the cost, makes junk mail very self limiting. There is not a similar limitation on spam.
2001-05-02 17:56:53 Computing with the computer turned off. (articles,news) (rejected)
The parallels are true. Lots of car freaks are geeks. Many geeks are car freaks. Think of how much some of us enjoy hacking, and remember that hacking a car isn't that different from hacking a pc. Philosopically, anyway.
that size doesn't matter.
Had mine for years, never had a problem with it. I've burned a couple of hundred disks with it, too. You have some weird heat/dust problem in your box? Or, try hooking it up to a different power cable. Could be a dodgy power supply.
Is my ISP. I run Suse 7.1 at home. While they don't support linux, they don't object to it. The only thing to be aware (or beware) of is that you have to put the '-h hostname' command in your dhcp client startup. I've had great results with them. No downtime and good speeds on the download. I don't run a server, so upload speed isn't an issue. The install was great. The installer came when they said he would, only took about 1/2 hour.
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Punk, new wave, stuff that was nowhere else. Listen to the sunday brunch at the archives with weezil, 9 to 11 am I think, to hear what they used to play. Then listen to 94.7 to hear what everyone else was playing. The lack of chioce, in a major area like DC, is why I want sat radio.
And ,from the Times, this story. Favorite quote, on the "threat" of the GPL:"an I.B.M. vice president, said, "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you know, we have a lot of lawyers.""
Which was my point. I grew up listening to HFS in the late 70's and in the 80's. I miss it.
Probably not. After all, no one pays for TV that has ads. Wait a minute. I pay for CNN, Weather Channel, and other stuff on cable. You know, this just might work.
All joking aside, satellite radio is a good idea. Anyone who lives in an area that Clear Channel has moved into is looking forward to actual choices. (Can anyone in the DC area tell me the difference between DC101 and WHFS?) Those who live in rural areas with only one FM "rock" (which is actually top 40) one country and one NPR station will also love this. Frank Ahrens, a reported/commentator for the Washington Post has written extensively about this.