It's even worse when you realise it's a SUBSCRIPTION.
Good point. "Software as a subscription service" is this Pie-in-the-sky dream that companies like redhat have wherein they get continual guaranteed income without having to actually produce new, saleable product over time. They want to create a model where they "service" the current version at their leisure, bug-fixing, mainly, and you pay them sight unseen to keep using what you already bought.
Under that system, if they can implement it completely, not only do your updates stop if the payments stop, the OS you "bought" becomes inert. they want the same "guaranteed income" that Utilities get.
As someone who buys DVD movies he wants to watch rather than renting them, I'm not real fond of this concept. Even though I'm in the software industry, and could possibly profit from this model to a degree, no raise that I could get could possibly pay my subscription to everything I want to use.
And the cool thing about the "long and involved" instructions is that they do the best job of any documentation I've read so far of explaining WHY you're taking the steps you're told to.
I learned more about Linux when I first installed Gentoo (pre 1.2) than I did in the previous years of working with the OS.
For the first time I understood specifically why things were the way they were, rather than just following the "install wizard".
I agree that etc-update can be troubling. I've learned never to let it update conf files that I have important settings in "wholesale". Instead, I copy the "new" config file and manually determine if any important changes are included.
I managed to hose my/etc/fstab and/etc/modules.autoload on seperate occasions due to my own inattention and someone thinking that an update to a freaking COMMENT warrented re-zeroing those files to defaults. Not fun.
That's pretty much the only thing I dislike about the distro though, and on the whole, etc-update is useful more than not.
Indeed. I prefer Gentoo, myself, but I wouldn't evangelize it in a news submission. The link connected to "other options" should have gone to kernel.org, or been omitted entirely.
I'm in much better shape now than I was when Bush took office. That's my measuring stick. The economy is better than it was, from my point of view.
Terribly sorry about those sour grapes, sport.
BTW, Prices can go down, and sales can go up, and there can be a net growth. The only way that lower prices=lower growth is if the number of SKUs stays the same or lowers.
This initiative is a good thing. Is he bringing it up now (instead of a year ago) because of the upcoming election? Probably.
How incredibly short sighted of you. I'm amazed that we allow illegal invaders to steal benefits that they are not entitled to. I'm amazed that we dont encourage those on the public doleto be productive, instead of living for the First of the Month.
And I'm amazed that we spend federal dollars to help already rich-and-spoiled children with no other discernable talent create things designed to offend and call it "art".
Good fucking %DIETY% man. Without the space program, there would be no such thing as the personal computer. Personally, I prefer my current career to hanging drywall or selling thingamawidgets or whatever the hell else I would be doing without our current micro-electronics.
Unless we're going to do the responsible thing and start encouraging people to not have children they can't fucking afford to support we're very quickly going to run out of ROOM on this planet. Never mind the hypothetical comet. Read some studies of what happens when rats get too crowded.
It does not convert... installed packages to the Debian counterparts, but installs a base system... and cleans traces from the previous distribution."
Debian's a fine distribution, but I doubt many people would take kindly to having this tool applied to a system that has been configured and running for any amount of time. If it's just going to install a base system, I'll just install a NEW system with Debian.
Show me a tool that converts portage or rpm data and creates a working Debian equivalent and I'll be impressed.
This doesnt accomplish anything more than wiping and starting over...
Much as I distrust Microsoft in many things, I find it hard to believe that Carly Fiorino has anything ethical in her heart, given what was done to the technologies that Compaq pioneered since they were bought by HP, and her view on moving jobs overseas.
Well, come to think of it, I've gotten screwed by ATI's abandoning of hardware a couple times now, so ATI is on the "never buy, ever" list (and I got it put there for the fortune 500 company I work for, as well) so I wouldn't have bought an ATI card anyhow, but this is a cool bit of info. Not something I'd use at work, but still interesting.
If a game locks up after someone has done this, the reason will be quite apparent. Overclockers and bios swappers tend to pay closer attention to the behavior of their hardware. It won't be a mystery...
The sentence should be permanent ban from using ALL computer equipment.
Like hacking so much? do something illegal like that and you can NEVER touch a fucking computer again. THAT would work.
If that was the penalty, I'm pretty sure most of you script kiddies would not poke your fingers into systems that ARE NOT YOURS. Or worse, brag about it like some 13 year old pimple-faced moron, like you just did.
Exactly. I saw a interview with Adrian on Screensavers right around the time he turned himself in. It was clear that his parents never instilled the concept of "not yours, don't touch".
He's the same kind of kid that would borrow his friends' bicycle without asking, and when confronted protest "well you weren't using it at the time..."
If Adrian has a sense of right and wrong, he's never exhibited it in any interview I've seen. He just can't accept that just because he can see it, doesn't mean he can stick his fingers in and see what he can do. He doesn't recognize that while the world is a wonderful place to explore, it's not all available to him. Some toys belong to the OTHER children.
Freedom fighter my ass. He's a spoiled brat offspring of two hippies.
Or if they force their way in, being in fear for my life from these presumably armed, non-police individuals invading my home, I can shoot them.
I don't expect them to be knocking down doors any time soon. They're not going to get the authority to carry assault rifles or the like, and without that kind of firepower, I'd expect more than a couple to wind up seriously dead trying such tactics, at least in states with sane "Protection of Self, Family, and Domicile" laws like Florida.
The major problem with the advertisin modle in current radio is that it is the most abysmally targeted marketing on the planet.
New car ads to a market in which nearly %80 of listeners ONLY listen in their cars?
ads for ANYTHING for which the background or hook music is any style other than that which the station the ad is running on plays? Who in their right mind would think that rap music in an ad run on a classic rock station in the south is a way to sell a product? Country music in an ad on an R&B station? I've heard both. A lot more than I'd like.
Marketing directors for radio stations are the ones who should be downsized first. These guys HAVE to pad %50 of air time with ads, because they can't charge shit for them, because they DON"T FUCKING WORK. Try at least considering your audience, and you might be able to charge more for the ads your selling, guys. This doesn't take market research. This doesn't require personal information from listeners. This requires common sense, and paying attention to the music you're playing.
The fact that Clear CHannel owns most these days, and there is precious little variation in play lists makes it even more astounding that the complete imbeciles in marketing can't put 2 and 2 together.
Thank %DIETY% that I got out of that industry back in the 80's.
As if the drivel on NPR is going to be improved by higher definition....
Seriously (now that I've earned a couple Troll moderations) Talk radio does not need this. That's why it's usually on AM anyhow (note that this is HD-FM, presumably to be used by FM licensees).
Do you really want to listen to Rush Limbaugh trip out in high def?...
I'm an equal opportunity detester. I think BOTH major parties are full of scum, liars and thieves
Radio is that thing owned by "Clear Channel" wherein they play the same shit over and over. Like one of those songs? great, because you'll be able to hear it at the exact same time on the (name your music preference here) station in whatever city you live in, because, Guess What? they fired most of the local DJ's years ago. Most of what you hear on Clear Channel owned stations is syndicated (particularly the morning stuff.
Don't want to hear a car ad in your new car (why the fuck do stations even run these when most people only listen in their cars?), Tough shit! They own the competition too, so if you flip channels, you'll hear the same ad, or another just as worthless!
The above is why I don't even turn on the radio any more. I already own the music I want to listen to (legaly, don't split hairs over licensing, I have the CDs, I'll use them as I see fit as long as I'm not passing them around). I listen to THAT on my MP3 jukebox, or in the CD player.
Why the hell would I want to listen to random crap and then listen to advertisements that don't interest me to pay for it? To experience new music? No, I'm not interested in the crap-du-jour that Clear Channel is selling. I get new music recommendations from friends whos opinions I give a shit about. Or sometimes from the cute girl at the counter at the music store (when I go in there looking for a DVD).
Illiterate, and devoid of any real moral compass. The morons trying to sue are likely made up in part of specific reasons why the Haitian denizens of Miami are generally distrusted.
I don't think Haitians as a group SHOULD be distrusted, but there are some SERIOUSLY fucking bad eggs in that shithole of a city that make things bad for their compatriots. (not that they're the only group, I wouldn't go near Miami at the moment for any amount of cash)
Hint to the Haitians that want to be part of society: Alienate, persecute and police the criminals among you, or you will continue to be branded as a group. It's not right, it's not cool, but it's the way things are, and you'd do us all a service by purging the scum that have tainted your image before Joe Bubba the Ignorant.
Thugs are Thugs and should be treated as such. Just because they are part of your ethnic group doesn't make them heros.
I don't really have a use for any radio, subscription or otherwise. I already own a (legitimate) copy of the music I want to hear.
I have no interest in being exposed to crap like top 40, Springsteen (I'm a classic rock lover, but some "artists" that fall into that category annoy me no end), or pretty much anything other than What I Want WHEN I Want It (and NOTHING else).
My MP3 jukebox takes care of that for me, and without a monthly fee.
As far as new music, I rely on recommendations from friends whose opinions I value. Do I care what Bob the DJ has been paid to play for me? FUCK no.
I was in the music (and radio) industry once, about 15 years ago. I know what kind of scumbags dwell there. I care not for what they want to sell me.
Yea, that's why Darl is running around with those bodyguards. Nothing to lose (that or he's realized that even if he manages to buy his way out of this, he's still fucked).
I certainly don't have the talent, but I'd hate to be the man that pissed off a million geeks with "l33t sk1llz".
One way or another, down the road, Darl is fucked.
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Good point. "Software as a subscription service" is this Pie-in-the-sky dream that companies like redhat have wherein they get continual guaranteed income without having to actually produce new, saleable product over time. They want to create a model where they "service" the current version at their leisure, bug-fixing, mainly, and you pay them sight unseen to keep using what you already bought.
Under that system, if they can implement it completely, not only do your updates stop if the payments stop, the OS you "bought" becomes inert.
they want the same "guaranteed income" that Utilities get.
As someone who buys DVD movies he wants to watch rather than renting them, I'm not real fond of this concept. Even though I'm in the software industry, and could possibly profit from this model to a degree, no raise that I could get could possibly pay my subscription to everything I want to use.
This model isn't good for anyone.
And the cool thing about the "long and involved" instructions is that they do the best job of any documentation I've read so far of explaining WHY you're taking the steps you're told to.
/etc/fstab and /etc/modules.autoload on seperate occasions due to my own inattention and someone thinking that an update to a freaking COMMENT warrented re-zeroing those files to defaults. Not fun.
I learned more about Linux when I first installed Gentoo (pre 1.2) than I did in the previous years of working with the OS.
For the first time I understood specifically why things were the way they were, rather than just following the "install wizard".
I agree that etc-update can be troubling. I've learned never to let it update conf files that I have important settings in "wholesale". Instead, I copy the "new" config file and manually determine if any important changes are included.
I managed to hose my
That's pretty much the only thing I dislike about the distro though, and on the whole, etc-update is useful more than not.
Indeed. I prefer Gentoo, myself, but I wouldn't evangelize it in a news submission. The link connected to "other options" should have gone to kernel.org, or been omitted entirely.
I'm in much better shape now than I was when Bush took office. That's my measuring stick. The economy is better than it was, from my point of view.
Terribly sorry about those sour grapes, sport.
BTW, Prices can go down, and sales can go up, and there can be a net growth. The only way that lower prices=lower growth is if the number of SKUs stays the same or lowers.
This initiative is a good thing. Is he bringing it up now (instead of a year ago) because of the upcoming election? Probably.
So. Fucking. What.
How incredibly short sighted of you. I'm amazed that we allow illegal invaders to steal benefits that they are not entitled to. I'm amazed that we dont encourage those on the public doleto be productive, instead of living for the First of the Month.
And I'm amazed that we spend federal dollars to help already rich-and-spoiled children with no other discernable talent create things designed to offend and call it "art".
Good fucking %DIETY% man. Without the space program, there would be no such thing as the personal computer. Personally, I prefer my current career to hanging drywall or selling thingamawidgets or whatever the hell else I would be doing without our current micro-electronics.
Unless we're going to do the responsible thing and start encouraging people to not have children they can't fucking afford to support we're very quickly going to run out of ROOM on this planet. Never mind the hypothetical comet. Read some studies of what happens when rats get too crowded.
Better to open a new frontier of opportunity now.
Debian's a fine distribution, but I doubt many people would take kindly to having this tool applied to a system that has been configured and running for any amount of time. If it's just going to install a base system, I'll just install a NEW system with Debian.
Show me a tool that converts portage or rpm data and creates a working Debian equivalent and I'll be impressed.
This doesnt accomplish anything more than wiping and starting over...
Much as I distrust Microsoft in many things, I find it hard to believe that Carly Fiorino has anything ethical in her heart, given what was done to the technologies that Compaq pioneered since they were bought by HP, and her view on moving jobs overseas.
So really we should be asking Ric Flair? /wrastlin' geek
Well, come to think of it, I've gotten screwed by ATI's abandoning of hardware a couple times now, so ATI is on the "never buy, ever" list (and I got it put there for the fortune 500 company I work for, as well) so I wouldn't have bought an ATI card anyhow, but this is a cool bit of info. Not something I'd use at work, but still interesting.
If a game locks up after someone has done this, the reason will be quite apparent. Overclockers and bios swappers tend to pay closer attention to the behavior of their hardware. It won't be a mystery...
Trespass is trespass. If you're not invited, you stay the fuck out.
What he did is a felony, and rightfuly so. The penalty he recieves should be harsh enough to discourage others from following his lead.
If you choose to make your "shed" available for free housing to J Random Stranger, great, have a ball.
Fortunately the law protects the rights of those of us who do not share your potentially dangerous "generosity".
I certainly would not feel comfortable if an amoral, spoiled little brat like Lamo decided to get curious and explore my shed.
If you're on the level, I hope you're next.
It IS a crime. What you did is as well.
The sentence should be permanent ban from using ALL computer equipment.
Like hacking so much? do something illegal like that and you can NEVER touch a fucking computer again. THAT would work.
If that was the penalty, I'm pretty sure most of you script kiddies would not poke your fingers into systems that ARE NOT YOURS. Or worse, brag about it like some 13 year old pimple-faced moron, like you just did.
Exactly. I saw a interview with Adrian on Screensavers right around the time he turned himself in. It was clear that his parents never instilled the concept of "not yours, don't touch".
He's the same kind of kid that would borrow his friends' bicycle without asking, and when confronted protest "well you weren't using it at the time..."
If Adrian has a sense of right and wrong, he's never exhibited it in any interview I've seen. He just can't accept that just because he can see it, doesn't mean he can stick his fingers in and see what he can do. He doesn't recognize that while the world is a wonderful place to explore, it's not all available to him. Some toys belong to the OTHER children.
Freedom fighter my ass. He's a spoiled brat offspring of two hippies.
Or if they force their way in, being in fear for my life from these presumably armed, non-police individuals invading my home, I can shoot them.
I don't expect them to be knocking down doors any time soon. They're not going to get the authority to carry assault rifles or the like, and without that kind of firepower, I'd expect more than a couple to wind up seriously dead trying such tactics, at least in states with sane "Protection of Self, Family, and Domicile" laws like Florida.
ReplayTV is not out of business. It is currently owned by D&M of Japan (Dennon/Marantz), and doing quite well.
Speak for yourself. I'd prefer sound quality over this "improvement.
The major problem with the advertisin modle in current radio is that it is the most abysmally targeted marketing on the planet.
New car ads to a market in which nearly %80 of listeners ONLY listen in their cars?
ads for ANYTHING for which the background or hook music is any style other than that which the station the ad is running on plays? Who in their right mind would think that rap music in an ad run on a classic rock station in the south is a way to sell a product? Country music in an ad on an R&B station? I've heard both. A lot more than I'd like.
Marketing directors for radio stations are the ones who should be downsized first. These guys HAVE to pad %50 of air time with ads, because they can't charge shit for them, because they DON"T FUCKING WORK. Try at least considering your audience, and you might be able to charge more for the ads your selling, guys. This doesn't take market research. This doesn't require personal information from listeners. This requires common sense, and paying attention to the music you're playing.
The fact that Clear CHannel owns most these days, and there is precious little variation in play lists makes it even more astounding that the complete imbeciles in marketing can't put 2 and 2 together.
Thank %DIETY% that I got out of that industry back in the 80's.
As if the drivel on NPR is going to be improved by higher definition....
...
Seriously (now that I've earned a couple Troll moderations) Talk radio does not need this. That's why it's usually on AM anyhow (note that this is HD-FM, presumably to be used by FM licensees).
Do you really want to listen to Rush Limbaugh trip out in high def?
I'm an equal opportunity detester. I think BOTH major parties are full of scum, liars and thieves
Radio is that thing owned by "Clear Channel" wherein they play the same shit over and over. Like one of those songs? great, because you'll be able to hear it at the exact same time on the (name your music preference here) station in whatever city you live in, because, Guess What? they fired most of the local DJ's years ago. Most of what you hear on Clear Channel owned stations is syndicated (particularly the morning stuff.
Don't want to hear a car ad in your new car (why the fuck do stations even run these when most people only listen in their cars?), Tough shit! They own the competition too, so if you flip channels, you'll hear the same ad, or another just as worthless!
The above is why I don't even turn on the radio any more. I already own the music I want to listen to (legaly, don't split hairs over licensing, I have the CDs, I'll use them as I see fit as long as I'm not passing them around). I listen to THAT on my MP3 jukebox, or in the CD player.
Why the hell would I want to listen to random crap and then listen to advertisements that don't interest me to pay for it? To experience new music? No, I'm not interested in the crap-du-jour that Clear Channel is selling. I get new music recommendations from friends whos opinions I give a shit about. Or sometimes from the cute girl at the counter at the music store (when I go in there looking for a DVD).
More of the same in "high def?"
No fucking thank you.
Nice Andromeda Strain reference. Haven't seen that run lately. A couple years ago, Sci Fi ran that a couple times a year at least...
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Illiterate, and devoid of any real moral compass. The morons trying to sue are likely made up in part of specific reasons why the Haitian denizens of Miami are generally distrusted.
I don't think Haitians as a group SHOULD be distrusted, but there are some SERIOUSLY fucking bad eggs in that shithole of a city that make things bad for their compatriots. (not that they're the only group, I wouldn't go near Miami at the moment for any amount of cash)
Hint to the Haitians that want to be part of society: Alienate, persecute and police the criminals among you, or you will continue to be branded as a group. It's not right, it's not cool, but it's the way things are, and you'd do us all a service by purging the scum that have tainted your image before Joe Bubba the Ignorant.
Thugs are Thugs and should be treated as such. Just because they are part of your ethnic group doesn't make them heros.
Oh yea, because a system wherein there is no monetary compensation for actually knowing what you're talking about is SO much better...
When there is no incentive to excel, Man will not excel. That's why the Soyuz Sovietzki is gone. Long Live indeed...
I don't really have a use for any radio, subscription or otherwise. I already own a (legitimate) copy of the music I want to hear.
I have no interest in being exposed to crap like top 40, Springsteen (I'm a classic rock lover, but some "artists" that fall into that category annoy me no end), or pretty much anything other than What I Want WHEN I Want It (and NOTHING else).
My MP3 jukebox takes care of that for me, and without a monthly fee.
As far as new music, I rely on recommendations from friends whose opinions I value. Do I care what Bob the DJ has been paid to play for me? FUCK no.
I was in the music (and radio) industry once, about 15 years ago. I know what kind of scumbags dwell there. I care not for what they want to sell me.
* Winners compare their achievments to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others. * ARMONK, NY - Aug. 8,
And IBM measures their achievements in how many American workers they can replace.
I can't think of any other significant company based in Armonk, so I'm just burning Karma for the hell of it.
SCO has nothing to lose.
Yea, that's why Darl is running around with those bodyguards. Nothing to lose (that or he's realized that even if he manages to buy his way out of this, he's still fucked).
I certainly don't have the talent, but I'd hate to be the man that pissed off a million geeks with "l33t sk1llz".
One way or another, down the road, Darl is fucked.