If the PC is the one driving your home audio and video system, whats the problem?
Its "multi-function/multi-tasking" device, versus "dedicated computer doing one thing well"... yes, Virginia, computers are getting cheap enough to do that now...
Seems to me that a CD which that [sic] requires any software installed for it to be played by a standard CD drive is by definition at least "brokenware," or perhaps "meddleware." What if it's being used in a computer without an operating system supported by these "playback software components"?
What if its a boot CD that comes with its own operating system, and if you want to play it in your computer, you just boot from the CD?
I can see music companies going in this direction; after all they have enjoyed a very lucrative relationship with audio components such as the CD and DVD player, whose sole task (opposed to the PC's multi-tasking) while you are using them is to serve a single task: playing an artists' audio CD.
How long until we see a smash underground 'demo CD' from a rockin' new act that uses vmlinuz and a custom 'record company distro' to play their tunes for you on your PC, single-task use only like... ?
PC's operating system is its strength, and weakness. The fact that anyone can have that processor running any OS they want, at any time, is an often overlooked fact;; music-co's are only suffering at the hands of mp3, because they've ignored the bigger picture: if they come to the table with their own boot CD's, in a way which breaks rules for rock and roll reasons, then suddenly the PC is a PSX2, and its a new world order for music and video artists...
I'd quite happily boot my tiBook with a new CD from an artist, if it contained shit and did shit I'd never seen before on my PC, and if there were a way for me to turn off my hard dis (i.e. physically disconnect my USB ram-chip, or something...)
That shouldn't be too hard to do, now... This 'desktop war' is a straw man. Record companies should be fighting the "boot CD" war, and take it to the 'game console' level of ease-of-use...
There's a -ton- of stuff up there, all bolted together, all brought up in stages, over time, on various rocket systems.
All that gear needs to be brought up slowly.
Sure, if we had mega-ton capable boosters, we could build a nice exoskeleton and put it all inside with room for boots, but since its all going up, slowly, bit by bit, and must be assembled up there, cables go where they can, in relation to the rest of the project.
I think we've got the assembly wrong, however, personally. I don't know why we're limiting ourselves to tubes and cans (booster hardware, yeah, i know) that need to be bolted together, when with a little more serious robotics and industrial process "space-a-fy'ing" we could be blowing big bubbles out of the raw material instead, and having more controlled space to work in and around for less energy... but I guess there's a reason for it.
why is it absurd, exactly? what does it cost you to protect your privacy, another e-mail address, and a tightly maintained, well managed address book of friends, family and acquaintances with whom you want to communicate.
you cannot take away another persons freedom to communicate to you. its as fundamental as having your own personal freedom to communicate freely.
privacy is something you must maintain without infringing on the 'rights' of others, right? so i see no problem with changing my e-mail address, or using custom addresses for particular people, and protecting my own identity. i don't -have- to, as a matter of course i manage spam i receive fairly well, but then thats my point: e-mail isn't broken. management of it is.
What's your grand scheme for email address management that lets me keep in contact with all of those people?
tell the ones who want to communicate with you what your new e-mail address is... and do it as often (or not) as you feel like.
but wasn't it 1982 someone said that FedEx was the future of all future corporate enterprises, and was fundamentally the nee-plus ultra of all forms of commerce, forever?
Wake me up (and still, not trolling) when I can send ShipCo. Inc, my own.DXF file, and its there in the morning...
nigeria being famous for internet fraud is like, so totally gibson i can't even stand it. i bet their cell phone networks kick ass over anything you'd find in SoCal, as well...
dude, chill. i think that -all- military are criminals, not just the sub-contracted, non-responsible kind.
and yes, before you meatheads go on with your 'security rules' bullshit, its bullshit. give me peace over warfare any day, and yes: peace is far cheaper than war.
hey, i'm not saying i agree with the situation, just that - by using private, independent contractors - the current U.S. Administration is exploiting a loophole in the Geneva convention that lets them... essentially... do whatever they want.
They've already proven willing to do this. This is one of the most law-unabiding group of criminals ever to have wrenched power from the State, and they're doing it freely and willingly.
Unix is a tools-based approach. You have many tools already, with which you can do many different kinds of things.
Windows is a "one app, one task" based approach. You've got an app for everything you need to do, and you can't use those apps together to accomplish a bigger 'task'.
Yes, I prefer the Unix way. Give me a toolbox, and with that toolbox (and not much else) I can build a car, a house, a boat, a dam, a power station, etc.
But with Windows, I gotta download "PowerStation 1.0", "House 2.3.2", "Boat 3.2", etc. And god help me if I wanna plug House into PowerStation safely and securely...
You know, the one where you have to use your families collection of John Deere 9mm's to protect from Globalist Food Corporations hell-bent on using their genetic 'sciences' to control plant growth and maximize profits while forcing the 'average american farmer' to bend over and take their perfect bug-killing irreproducible corn right up the Deere-y Air, whether they like it or not...
Yup. Thats a game I'm excited to play^H^H^H^Hwaste my life away at...
So, technically, The Solicitor General wasn't telling a lie. Welcome to politics, where your aversion and misunderstanding of doublespeak is something you'll have to check at the door, but only if you're a Citizen.
I would say that phrase is the #1 reason i never, ever use microsoft windows.
if you have to download a program for every single little thing you do on your computer, the operating system is broken. don't bother trying to fix it, just switch.
honestly, that really struck home with me. you need a program for everything you want to do on your computer? oh, you must be using windows...
you haven't lived (as a computer geek) until you've worked on a coding project, 20 hours a day for 5 weeks, sitting in a chilly halon-smelling computer room, with a 128-char daisy-wheel printer chattering away in your ear, printing label print jobs you spooled with 'lp sometextfile' 4 months ago... having to cat/cut/grep/uniq that same 'sometextfile' whenever the tractor-feed edge tape gets jammed and you only notice because the temperature in your immediate vicinity has risen because the daisy wheel hasn't noticed and is stuck, typing the names and addresses of 150,000 people, over and over, on the same position on the rubber roll, and the whole thing has started to smoke.
until you've been there, its hard to understand why its not so easy to get excited about a program called 'gLabels', which just seems so... redundant... even in its 'advanced'-ness...
you need a GUI to print labels? Bwwaaaahahahaaaahahaahaa! here's a dime kid, go by yourself a chance to type 'man awk' at some command line...
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really, you know the kid eh?
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maybe he's getting 'rewarded' for being a brave kid and not freaking out while his family and other caring adults helped him get the bone out.
hell, its not like geeks like you wouldn't need a lollypop
.. oh .. ermm ... VST?
EXTERMINATE!! EXTERMINATE!!!
You're not supposed to like them. You're supposed to obey them.
oh well. i'll just have to make one of my own dalek fleets one day, then you'll see. you'll see.
Davros rocks the boat as one of the most all-time evil entities in my universe. In my opinion, he deserves his own TV show.
I'm gonna re-implement Dr. Who, Open Source like, and say a few things about the Daleks, Davros, and pretty much Only The Daleks.
The Daleks Are The Superior Species!! You -cannot- destroy them!
The Daleks were one of the things that kept me going back for more, time and again, from Dr. Who.
...
That and the short skirts of the companions too, of course, but
You *CAN'T* call it Dr. Who if he's not battling the Daleks. Daleks are like, undeniably part of Dr. Who.
Would you have put up with Star Wars without Darth?
If the PC is the one driving your home audio and video system, whats the problem?
Its "multi-function/multi-tasking" device, versus "dedicated computer doing one thing well"
I want one with full SVG support (load and save) ... can Cyto do that yet?
Anyone else notice the lack of ability to boot another operating system on these devices?
Seems to me that a CD which that [sic] requires any software installed for it to be played by a standard CD drive is by definition at least "brokenware," or perhaps "meddleware." What if it's being used in a computer without an operating system supported by these "playback software components"?
...
... This 'desktop war' is a straw man. Record companies should be fighting the "boot CD" war, and take it to the 'game console' level of ease-of-use ...
What if its a boot CD that comes with its own operating system, and if you want to play it in your computer, you just boot from the CD?
I can see music companies going in this direction; after all they have enjoyed a very lucrative relationship with audio components such as the CD and DVD player, whose sole task (opposed to the PC's multi-tasking) while you are using them is to serve a single task: playing an artists' audio CD.
How long until we see a smash underground 'demo CD' from a rockin' new act that uses vmlinuz and a custom 'record company distro' to play their tunes for you on your PC, single-task use only like... ?
PC's operating system is its strength, and weakness. The fact that anyone can have that processor running any OS they want, at any time, is an often overlooked fact;; music-co's are only suffering at the hands of mp3, because they've ignored the bigger picture: if they come to the table with their own boot CD's, in a way which breaks rules for rock and roll reasons, then suddenly the PC is a PSX2, and its a new world order for music and video artists
I'd quite happily boot my tiBook with a new CD from an artist, if it contained shit and did shit I'd never seen before on my PC, and if there were a way for me to turn off my hard dis (i.e. physically disconnect my USB ram-chip, or something...)
That shouldn't be too hard to do, now
There's a -ton- of stuff up there, all bolted together, all brought up in stages, over time, on various rocket systems.
... but I guess there's a reason for it.
All that gear needs to be brought up slowly.
Sure, if we had mega-ton capable boosters, we could build a nice exoskeleton and put it all inside with room for boots, but since its all going up, slowly, bit by bit, and must be assembled up there, cables go where they can, in relation to the rest of the project.
I think we've got the assembly wrong, however, personally. I don't know why we're limiting ourselves to tubes and cans (booster hardware, yeah, i know) that need to be bolted together, when with a little more serious robotics and industrial process "space-a-fy'ing" we could be blowing big bubbles out of the raw material instead, and having more controlled space to work in and around for less energy
why is it absurd, exactly? what does it cost you to protect your privacy, another e-mail address, and a tightly maintained, well managed address book of friends, family and acquaintances with whom you want to communicate.
... and do it as often (or not) as you feel like.
you cannot take away another persons freedom to communicate to you. its as fundamental as having your own personal freedom to communicate freely.
privacy is something you must maintain without infringing on the 'rights' of others, right? so i see no problem with changing my e-mail address, or using custom addresses for particular people, and protecting my own identity. i don't -have- to, as a matter of course i manage spam i receive fairly well, but then thats my point: e-mail isn't broken. management of it is.
What's your grand scheme for email address management that lets me keep in contact with all of those people?
tell the ones who want to communicate with you what your new e-mail address is
e-mail is cheap.
See SPOT.
... sorry, haven't gotten over that 'language is music' thing from the other day, just had to type that out to see what it would be like to say ... ;)
See SPOT Blue Screen!?
Blue Screen, SPOT, Blue Screen?!
... USB datastick thingies.
Anyone know where I can get them at a good price, in that quantity?
... and i'm really not trying to troll.
.DXF file, and its there in the morning ...
but wasn't it 1982 someone said that FedEx was the future of all future corporate enterprises, and was fundamentally the nee-plus ultra of all forms of commerce, forever?
Wake me up (and still, not trolling) when I can send ShipCo. Inc, my own
nigeria being famous for internet fraud is like, so totally gibson i can't even stand it. i bet their cell phone networks kick ass over anything you'd find in SoCal, as well ...
Unless you've learned to use e-mail for 20 years, you have no business 'predicting its demise'.
Such fallacies are indicative of a broader disorder. Good tech works!
dude, chill. i think that -all- military are criminals, not just the sub-contracted, non-responsible kind.
and yes, before you meatheads go on with your 'security rules' bullshit, its bullshit. give me peace over warfare any day, and yes: peace is far cheaper than war.
hey, i'm not saying i agree with the situation, just that - by using private, independent contractors - the current U.S. Administration is exploiting a loophole in the Geneva convention that lets them ... essentially ... do whatever they want.
They've already proven willing to do this. This is one of the most law-unabiding group of criminals ever to have wrenched power from the State, and they're doing it freely and willingly.
Unix is a tools-based approach. You have many tools already, with which you can do many different kinds of things.
...
Windows is a "one app, one task" based approach. You've got an app for everything you need to do, and you can't use those apps together to accomplish a bigger 'task'.
Yes, I prefer the Unix way. Give me a toolbox, and with that toolbox (and not much else) I can build a car, a house, a boat, a dam, a power station, etc.
But with Windows, I gotta download "PowerStation 1.0", "House 2.3.2", "Boat 3.2", etc. And god help me if I wanna plug House into PowerStation safely and securely
You know, the one where you have to use your families collection of John Deere 9mm's to protect from Globalist Food Corporations hell-bent on using their genetic 'sciences' to control plant growth and maximize profits while forcing the 'average american farmer' to bend over and take their perfect bug-killing irreproducible corn right up the Deere-y Air, whether they like it or not ...
Yup. Thats a game I'm excited to play^H^H^H^Hwaste my life away at...
Yeah. Um.. Those responsible for the abuses aren't U.S. Troops.
They're independent, private contractors.
So, technically, The Solicitor General wasn't telling a lie. Welcome to politics, where your aversion and misunderstanding of doublespeak is something you'll have to check at the door, but only if you're a Citizen.
If you have to look at it to notice its there, its not embedded enough.
The strength of embedded linux is its invisibility, not its market share.
I would say that phrase is the #1 reason i never, ever use microsoft windows.
...
if you have to download a program for every single little thing you do on your computer, the operating system is broken. don't bother trying to fix it, just switch.
honestly, that really struck home with me. you need a program for everything you want to do on your computer? oh, you must be using windows
you haven't lived (as a computer geek) until you've worked on a coding project, 20 hours a day for 5 weeks, sitting in a chilly halon-smelling computer room, with a 128-char daisy-wheel printer chattering away in your ear, printing label print jobs you spooled with 'lp sometextfile' 4 months ago
until you've been there, its hard to understand why its not so easy to get excited about a program called 'gLabels', which just seems so
you need a GUI to print labels? Bwwaaaahahahaaaahahaahaa! here's a dime kid, go by yourself a chance to type 'man awk' at some command line