let's see...i've got my main PC running Debian, and my roommate's PC running RedHat 7.1...the Unreal Tournament server runs RedHat 6.2, and I guess you can count the SmoothWall router distribution too, so that makes 4.
There you have it...with 4 PC's (and one on the way), it's the world's largest installation of PC's running nothing but Linux!!
You're absolutely right, but i think you misunderstood my point...my problem with the concept is the lack practicality in spending so much money for the "lab durability," when a $100 device nearly matches it in "real-world" durability.
I'm not saying "gee, my crappy Palm M100 is better than that thing!!" Because believe me, my M100 IS a piece of crap. But it's a durable piece of crap, and it only cost a hundred bucks.
1.5 meters, if you think about it, is not that much of a drop. I've dropped a Palm M100 from a fifteen-foot ladder before, and it kept ticking. That's the beauty of solid-state electronics. No moving parts means nothing to get jarred loose or broken off. Now if these guys can put something together with a TOTALLY scratch-resistant screen, I'll really be impressed.
i think you can mark that down under the "accidentally hit CTRL-V while typing and got a little piece of a previous slashdot story interjected in the new blurb" category.
You just took what i said and applied it to a REALLY broad scenario. Surely you're not so dense as to believe that a store is going to stop selling the CD's immediately because someone tries to return one...
As i said, the immediate situation is not resolved. You return a copy-protected CD that you can't play, and you get an identical one in return. The only reasonable solution that doesn't screw you out of 20 bucks is not to buy the CD.
who said we're upset with this guy? We're upset that any company would want to copy-protect CDs in a manner that would make them unusable, or in a manner that would take away our right to choose how we want to listen to them.
sorry for asking, but exactly what kind of tax do you pay for your car? Sales tax?? Title tax?? All of these things fit under the category "taxable items". A city can place a tax on a purchased item, if you purchased it in that city...likewise, a county/state can tax you if you want to hold the title to that vehicle, or be licensed to drive it..
I fail to see the "parallelism" between your car and a satellite.
you're right...but in the same sense, does LA tax people for inventory that they hold in say, China? No, they don't...because they can't. It's out of their jurisdiction. So how could a satellite be IN their jurisdiction, if China is not???
the city of los angeles and/or los angeles county is able to tax any land within its city/county limits, correct? So in a sense, while they might not own certain individual lots or tiles of land, they still own the infrastructure that runs underneath it and over the top of it.
In this case, they're taxing infrastructure, which is perfectly admissible, if not standard practice. It's alot like collecting a toll to use a road.
However, the case in question (satellites) does not involve infrastructure to even the slightest extent. Los Angeles does not own the space in which the satellite exists; they do not own any of the property used to support the satellite; and they certainly don't own the satellite itself. It seems to me that this type of case would be fairly cut-and-dry...leave it to the wonderful LA county judicial system to let it drag out for as long as it did...
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a PDA that takes ALSO functions as my mobile phone. I've been longing for it for years. The bluetooth functionality, while not necessary, would allow me to use a wireless headset or earpiece...much better than the current hybrid PDA/cell phones, which basically force you to hold the freakin' PDA up to your face (generally not very accomodating).
The wireless capability would not necessarily have to be 802.11...it could be 3G wireless CDMA or something of that nature. I'm looking for TOTAL voice/data connection, in a fully mobile environment.
sorry, compaq...it's nice, but until it's got bluetooth and some kind of wireless connectivity (built-in CDMA phone capabilities???), I'm not gonna shell out the $400+ you're asking.
...does anyone else think that "steganography" is just the latest in annoying media-driven hysterics? Every month there's a new buzzword that exists simply to point out the "evils" of the internet...
MAYBE this is just another one of those words!! With so many other more effective and simple methods of encryption (read: PGP), why would anyone go to all the trouble?
so nVidia hit a bump in the road with their first product. Who cares? They're still the industry leader, without question.
And as far as using a GF3, I chose that particular chipset for the sake of forward-compatibility. I'm saying that they should have at least made a "top of the line" version with the bleeding-edge chipset, and performance enhancments to accommodate it. Doing so would have been more in tune with their current trend of innovative products.
It seems you missed the point of my post completely.
...it lacks the typical "punch" that nVidia products usually carry. It's odd that nVidia, a company that has always been a leader in its field, would introduce a fairly plain-vanilla product. There really aren't any truly exciting features built into the "all-in-one" board. But at 120-150 dollars, i guess it's fairly decent.
The really odd thing, i guess, is that nVidia didn't try to integrate a GeForce 3 chipset into the equation. Then this board would have been truly awesome, even if it cost $300-$400.
...transorbital just hired a guy with about a dozen TV movie-of-the-week credits as their marketing director!!! And with the success that those made-for-tv-miniseries-pieces-of-crap generate, is it really any wonder that TransOrbital is selling "product" as well as they are? I mean come on, if the guy can push "Runaway Father" on a generally mindless tv-viewing public, then he can sell ANYTHING!!!
It's not like they're picking and choosing files to put on the disc!!!! They're burning a full image, with all necessary and included files!!! So how is it that your friends' burns would end up any different from discs coming from the creators????
...to look back at the mistakes of the "not-so-long-ago"...
The.COM "boom" and the associated bust was a gold rush, plain and simple. We're all aware of that now...some of us were even affected by it very heavily. Rebel.com and its proprietors are only one of probably thousands of similar ventures that failed miserably because they thought they had the market cornered. EVERYBODY thought they had the market cornered (especially PETS.COM), and most of them went broke.
Moral of this story (and every other identical story that we've read for the past 6 months)...if it seems too good to be true, it is. Now let's move on, please.
you are correct, and such was the undoing of Napster...
only after it was found that Napster WAS in fact created with the intention of sharing copyrighted material was it convicted. A memo or some sort of communique between a few of the top people at Napster (Fanning being one of them, if i'm not mistaken) proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the people who made Napster KNEW that it would be used to share copyrighted materials, and released it with the intention of capitalizing on that sharing process.
The new incarnations (KaZaa, Morpheus, AudioGalaxy, etc) are probably guilty of the same thing...but the advantage they share is a lack of an intervening server like Napster used. Because it is truly peer-to-peer, the worst any court can do is stop the distribution of the software. But even then, the courts are powerless to stop it from being used, because it works independently of any central server or index database (as in Napster).
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There you have it...with 4 PC's (and one on the way), it's the world's largest installation of PC's running nothing but Linux!!
I'm not saying "gee, my crappy Palm M100 is better than that thing!!" Because believe me, my M100 IS a piece of crap. But it's a durable piece of crap, and it only cost a hundred bucks.
1.5 meters, if you think about it, is not that much of a drop. I've dropped a Palm M100 from a fifteen-foot ladder before, and it kept ticking. That's the beauty of solid-state electronics. No moving parts means nothing to get jarred loose or broken off. Now if these guys can put something together with a TOTALLY scratch-resistant screen, I'll really be impressed.
i think you can mark that down under the "accidentally hit CTRL-V while typing and got a little piece of a previous slashdot story interjected in the new blurb" category.
As i said, the immediate situation is not resolved. You return a copy-protected CD that you can't play, and you get an identical one in return. The only reasonable solution that doesn't screw you out of 20 bucks is not to buy the CD.
who said we're upset with this guy? We're upset that any company would want to copy-protect CDs in a manner that would make them unusable, or in a manner that would take away our right to choose how we want to listen to them.
However, exchanging the CD isn't going to help if you're just getting the same thing in return.
sorry for asking, but exactly what kind of tax do you pay for your car? Sales tax?? Title tax?? All of these things fit under the category "taxable items". A city can place a tax on a purchased item, if you purchased it in that city...likewise, a county/state can tax you if you want to hold the title to that vehicle, or be licensed to drive it..
I fail to see the "parallelism" between your car and a satellite.
you're right...but in the same sense, does LA tax people for inventory that they hold in say, China? No, they don't...because they can't. It's out of their jurisdiction. So how could a satellite be IN their jurisdiction, if China is not???
well, technically, yes they do.
the city of los angeles and/or los angeles county is able to tax any land within its city/county limits, correct? So in a sense, while they might not own certain individual lots or tiles of land, they still own the infrastructure that runs underneath it and over the top of it.
- buy from reputable distributers with good return policies...
- buy from no-name companies with dodgy return policies, and run the risk of getting screwed.
Sometimes peace of mind is worth the extra couple of bucks you'll have to spend.
(by the way, how come this story never made it to the main page???)
In this case, they're taxing infrastructure, which is perfectly admissible, if not standard practice. It's alot like collecting a toll to use a road.
However, the case in question (satellites) does not involve infrastructure to even the slightest extent. Los Angeles does not own the space in which the satellite exists; they do not own any of the property used to support the satellite; and they certainly don't own the satellite itself. It seems to me that this type of case would be fairly cut-and-dry...leave it to the wonderful LA county judicial system to let it drag out for as long as it did...
it had to be asked...
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a PDA that takes ALSO functions as my mobile phone. I've been longing for it for years. The bluetooth functionality, while not necessary, would allow me to use a wireless headset or earpiece...much better than the current hybrid PDA/cell phones, which basically force you to hold the freakin' PDA up to your face (generally not very accomodating).
The wireless capability would not necessarily have to be 802.11...it could be 3G wireless CDMA or something of that nature. I'm looking for TOTAL voice/data connection, in a fully mobile environment.
sorry, compaq...it's nice, but until it's got bluetooth and some kind of wireless connectivity (built-in CDMA phone capabilities???), I'm not gonna shell out the $400+ you're asking.
I'll stick with my Palm V for now...
...does anyone else think that "steganography" is just the latest in annoying media-driven hysterics? Every month there's a new buzzword that exists simply to point out the "evils" of the internet...
MAYBE this is just another one of those words!! With so many other more effective and simple methods of encryption (read: PGP), why would anyone go to all the trouble?
so nVidia hit a bump in the road with their first product. Who cares? They're still the industry leader, without question.
And as far as using a GF3, I chose that particular chipset for the sake of forward-compatibility. I'm saying that they should have at least made a "top of the line" version with the bleeding-edge chipset, and performance enhancments to accommodate it. Doing so would have been more in tune with their current trend of innovative products.
It seems you missed the point of my post completely.
...it lacks the typical "punch" that nVidia products usually carry. It's odd that nVidia, a company that has always been a leader in its field, would introduce a fairly plain-vanilla product. There really aren't any truly exciting features built into the "all-in-one" board. But at 120-150 dollars, i guess it's fairly decent.
The really odd thing, i guess, is that nVidia didn't try to integrate a GeForce 3 chipset into the equation. Then this board would have been truly awesome, even if it cost $300-$400.
...transorbital just hired a guy with about a dozen TV movie-of-the-week credits as their marketing director!!! And with the success that those made-for-tv-miniseries-pieces-of-crap generate, is it really any wonder that TransOrbital is selling "product" as well as they are? I mean come on, if the guy can push "Runaway Father" on a generally mindless tv-viewing public, then he can sell ANYTHING!!!
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PATIENT: ok
DOCTOR: duz this hurt?
PATIENT: ouch
DOCTOR: roflmao
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DOCTOR: hello?
DOCTOR: r u there?
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It's not like they're picking and choosing files to put on the disc!!!! They're burning a full image, with all necessary and included files!!! So how is it that your friends' burns would end up any different from discs coming from the creators????
Now i KNOW you're trolling.
the developers should have delayed this release until October so they could steal some of WinXP's thunder...
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Moral of this story (and every other identical story that we've read for the past 6 months)...if it seems too good to be true, it is. Now let's move on, please.
(come one, somebody else has to have seen Jurassic Park 3...)
only after it was found that Napster WAS in fact created with the intention of sharing copyrighted material was it convicted. A memo or some sort of communique between a few of the top people at Napster (Fanning being one of them, if i'm not mistaken) proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the people who made Napster KNEW that it would be used to share copyrighted materials, and released it with the intention of capitalizing on that sharing process.
The new incarnations (KaZaa, Morpheus, AudioGalaxy, etc) are probably guilty of the same thing...but the advantage they share is a lack of an intervening server like Napster used. Because it is truly peer-to-peer, the worst any court can do is stop the distribution of the software. But even then, the courts are powerless to stop it from being used, because it works independently of any central server or index database (as in Napster).