The HP 'drivers' for my all-in-one machine come in at 180 megabytes! The interface is sheer bloat, it installs a handful of totally unnecessary (Disabling them has little consequence) services and startup processes, and there is still no x64 driver!
I beta'd for them, told them that in no uncertain terms, they changed nothing. I sold the printer they gave me.
Never had a problem with that, on account of software & hardware firewalls. I haven't even used Windows Update because I don't like the new MS Genuine Advantage (R) "tool" to "help" users update (& by the way lock their Product Key to one box) and now IE is banned. If the MS-funded BSA busts our door down, they will find the required licenses, but it is my hope when that day comes they will be horrified at the sight of linux boxes. We are already experimenting with Ubuntu on Thinkpads (due to the unreliability of Windows, not viruses/spyware), and if it works out, buh-bye Bill.
I think the MS apologists need to stop wasting time on this board and work on ways to keep their paying customers on the reservation. They should think deep and long on this. For instance, if we do indeed switch to another OS, we will probably no longer require a site license for Office.
I can't speak for everybody, but I'm still on Windows 2000. I "upgrade" any XP machines I end up with to Win2K, and I've done this service for several friends and family.
I think XP is gross and from what I hear about Vista so far, count me out. Especially if it includes *any* DRM.
What you're saying is true also, insofar as filling out webforms, etc. But in keeping with the topic, webform information (usually) does not end up publicly searchable on google for idle law enforcement officers to browse thru.
I would guess that the myspace users, knowing and wanting the information they post to be publicly visible to their peers, would be prone to exaggeration in their attempts to raise their social standing, get laid, etc. and the temptation for police to act on this supposed information would be great. There could be potential fourth amendment issues if law enforcement were to start breaking down doors, only to find a bunch of powdered sugar, an aralia plant, airsoft guns, etc.
I'm glad it works for you, our problems come from a variety of devices. For instance, it is common in Win2K to plug in a USB2.0 hard drive and get an incorrect function driver error. It is resolvable by repeatedly plugging until the OS finally gets it. Other times, the OS will forget these drives have been installed and demand a driver disk. Win2K ships with the driver. Removing and reattaching a variety of similar drives will sometimes get the OS mixed up and applying the name and drive letter of one drive to another. I do not think the technology is as mature and flawess as all that computer science theory and marketing speak would have us believe. I used to think firewire was the flakier technology but since the varoius 1.0, 1,1 and 2.0 USBs and backward compatibility issues, it is now the other way around.
I've installed Ubuntu three times now to see if I could get Windows off the one non-gaming machine left in my house that's still running it. So far, no luck. Several problems I've been able to solve myself, but there were a couple of glaring issues that made me think I wouldn't install Ubuntu on a machine for a noob.
First, the support for USB devices is spotty
USB is spotty in ANY os. I think Ubuntu would be perfect for the n00b - the install cd includes browser, mail, picture viewer etc & lack of vulnerabilities to the usual Windows vruses. It is the power user coming over from Windows who has trouble, mainly in finding replacement apps.
We are close to achieving this goal. Some would say that human liberty has been compromised, but the reality is just the opposite. As surveillance expands, people become free from danger, free to walk alone at night, free to work in a safe place, and free to buy any legal product or service without the threat of fraud. One day every man and woman will quietly earn credits, purchase items for quiet homes on quiet streets, have cook-outs with neighbors and strangers alike, and sleep with doors and windows wide open. If that isn't the tranquil dream of every free civilization throughout history, what is?
The problem is, all that security has to be controlled from somewhere, and that means power in the hands of men -- fallible, selfish men -- and all thru the 20th century, it was proven repeatedly that time this kind of control over citizens is at hand, millions die.
Your idea is straight from Orwell, do you really think that is going to get past Slashdot readers?
I always wondered about the type of person who would look at one of those faxes and say 'Exactly what I need!" and buy, and if there were enough suckers to make it worthwhile to send a fax - one at a time - to thousands of fax machines. It seems mroe likely that only the junk spammers make money and the spam "beneficiaries" take it in the shorts.
Just like those stock pump spams have no effect on the stock price, yet there are always new ones next week pumping new companies. The only ones making money are the spammers. What's really cool is you can check Yahoo Finance to see if the spam worked. Last week I got a bunch of spams pumping EGLY.OB, promising a $3.00 gain, a tripling of price, more spams than any I ever saw for a single company. I had to go look. The result? +0.06 (+5%).
I have to agree - there are several players that take SD cards. My personal preference is for ones that take AAA batteries for continuous usage & come with no charger/adapter hassles for foreign travel. The Rio lasts 14 hours on 1 AAA. No waiting for recharge. It weighs 1/4 as much as an iPod & does cool things like record off the FM radio. Certainly unstylish & unhip as all hell to not have iPod, but practicalities dictate something different.
Finally got around to installing Ubuntu 6.1 on a spare IBM laptop & I have to say I'm pretty amazed how easy it was. Never really used linuxes before. Interestingly, on that laptop (Thinkpad T23)it installed & is working on a 100gb Toshiba drive on which both XP and Win2K Windows Setup failed. The Ubuntu Setup even partitioned the disk and left alone the windows partition with the failed XP install. Ubuntu does seem to use a lot of CPU (fine tuning needed?) I'd like to fully convert everything over if I can find replacement apps.
Never read / seen LOTR, but looked thru the Wikipedia entry for Tolkein, it sounds as this might not be the same type of thing - he altered the original work that had made him a success, in order to construct a framework for a larger fiction world and subsequent novel.
Furthermore, revision seems to be a SF only thing. Perhaps from the scientific method?
Seriously, if you're OK with all these alterations, you'll find it's really going to suck 20 years from now when the LOTR you love and treasure is altered to fit whatever profit / PC / whim of the time.
No, there's this thing called job stigma. The kids in Calif don't want to do jobs that Mexicans do - stoop labor, landscaping, kitchen work, etc - because that's what Mexicans are willing to do. This was certainly not the case two decades ago.
These jobs never paid a living wage,* but they used to pay an intermediate wage suitable for unskilled workers.
That is, until the floodgates were opened to cheap labor. As with the situation with China, with cheap toys flooding in, we are now discovering how costly all this cheap stuff is.
*As it's currently defined: Sufficient salary to support a household with three dependents - in Calif, that's in the mid five figures
If you live in CA it is common knowledge that once undocumented aliens get past the 15-mile checkpoints, the ICE can or will not enforce. In any event the Border Patrol "arrest" procedure is catch-and-release - no confinement, no court dates, no consequences. Certainly you are aware of the Minuteman movement, where frustrated citizens (or racists, depending on your viewpoint) sit on the border to deter entry. A local talk show host calls them "undocumented border patrol agents."
If you visit the south end of the San Fernando Valley you will find the logical conclusion of these policies - essentially a Mexican colony in the US, 200,000+ strong. Certainly they are hard workers who take the jobs Americans don't want to do, but who's to say the jobs would have paid higher - and not had alien stigma - if we didn't let them all in in the first place.
I Had To: * Give away all the items I could * Drop a tradeskill * Learn enchanting (1) * DE whatever I could * Give away the disenchanted mats * Sell what I couldn't DE * Destroy what I couldn't sell * Delete my character * Cancel my account * Uninstall * Throw away all CDs, manuals, and shred handwritten WoW notes
That's only 11 Steps, you need one more, so include:
* Cancelling the card
Seriously, if these games are this addictive, the next thing that's got to happen is a massive tobacco style lawsuit and cash settlement.
Is it also whining when we complain about the suckage known as the matrix sequels, or are you going to defend those turds too.
All of these sequels should never have been made, because they have the effect of diminishing the original, all for the sake of more money. Lucas is especially culpable in that he rewrites the original. It is not just Jar Jar and badly acted love scenes (I almost said Jar Jar in badly acted love scenes, hopefully Lucas doesn't read this and get ideas for 7).
It is inconceivable for a writer to rewrite his/her fiction novels, why do you praise Lucas for doing the same? Can you imagine multiple versions of any classic fiction?
Space.com does this, but they have a standard agreement to split 50% of revenue. In any event I think it is highly unlikely that any worthwhile money will be made off any user's photos, even in the aggregate, due to the lack of quality and content of user photography. Even if a photo was interesting enough to order, they will not sell prints unless they disable right click and rely on the stupid money.
I was wondering if the 25 or so astronauts who went to the Moon, including both lunar orbit and surface landings, was a large enough group to draw these statistical conclusions from.
That's the entire POINT. Sony is a video game company. Sony is also a movie company and member of MPAA. Sony's movie arm is cutting off the video game arm and blood is spurting all over the place. For many people who are against DRM, it is a beautiful sight.
Ideally, yes, but the problem is that "government" is made up of individuals who often put personal gain above the well being of all their constituents. In the case of the USA, those politicians are bought and paid for by corporations and organizations, much like we used to trade pogs and baseball cards when we were kids.
It's how we ended up with things like DMCA and copyright extension, which reinforces those competition barriers you mentioned with federal law enforcement. If this sort of thing continues, your solution could backfire on the public - big time.
This is the reason why most Latin American countries remain third world, despite having the exact same governmental structure as the US. Official acts do not happen without the mordida, which only the wealthy can pay, thus accumulating things to the wealthy. This sort of thing is spreading to the US. Randy Duke Cunningham took millions in bribes & is going to be sentenced
today - if he gets a light one I think that will tell all of us which way this country is headed. But we all knew they are on the take - whenever some politician pushes anything odd like selling major shipping ports to the UAE, or promoting job outsourcing to India like that's a good thing, I first try to find out "what's in it for him?"
I wish I had an alternate solution, but unfortunately I do not.
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The HP 'drivers' for my all-in-one machine come in at 180 megabytes! The interface is sheer bloat, it installs a handful of totally unnecessary (Disabling them has little consequence) services and startup processes, and there is still no x64 driver!
I beta'd for them, told them that in no uncertain terms, they changed nothing. I sold the printer they gave me.
Can you get their vids to work in Mozilla?
Never had a problem with that, on account of software & hardware firewalls. I haven't even used Windows Update because I don't like the new MS Genuine Advantage (R) "tool" to "help" users update (& by the way lock their Product Key to one box) and now IE is banned. If the MS-funded BSA busts our door down, they will find the required licenses, but it is my hope when that day comes they will be horrified at the sight of linux boxes. We are already experimenting with Ubuntu on Thinkpads (due to the unreliability of Windows, not viruses/spyware), and if it works out, buh-bye Bill.
I think the MS apologists need to stop wasting time on this board and work on ways to keep their paying customers on the reservation. They should think deep and long on this. For instance, if we do indeed switch to another OS, we will probably no longer require a site license for Office.
"Trouble" and "Bad" as if Gates will show up with baseball bats if I don't upgrade?!? :)
I can't speak for everybody, but I'm still on Windows 2000. I "upgrade" any XP machines I end up with to Win2K, and I've done this service for several friends and family.
I think XP is gross and from what I hear about Vista so far, count me out. Especially if it includes *any* DRM.
What you're saying is true also, insofar as filling out webforms, etc. But in keeping with the topic, webform information (usually) does not end up publicly searchable on google for idle law enforcement officers to browse thru.
I would guess that the myspace users, knowing and wanting the information they post to be publicly visible to their peers, would be prone to exaggeration in their attempts to raise their social standing, get laid, etc. and the temptation for police to act on this supposed information would be great. There could be potential fourth amendment issues if law enforcement were to start breaking down doors, only to find a bunch of powdered sugar, an aralia plant, airsoft guns, etc.
What would happen to this software model if things like this end up costing you money court time.
If a kid puts he's from 90210 lol do they still run him? Seriously, Internet information is as often as not "disinformation."
Does IPTV stand for the "Intellectual Property" TV network? If so how appropriate.
Or else it could, during the mass subscriber exodus, become the IP (Freeley) Network
I'm glad it works for you, our problems come from a variety of devices. For instance, it is common in Win2K to plug in a USB2.0 hard drive and get an incorrect function driver error. It is resolvable by repeatedly plugging until the OS finally gets it. Other times, the OS will forget these drives have been installed and demand a driver disk. Win2K ships with the driver. Removing and reattaching a variety of similar drives will sometimes get the OS mixed up and applying the name and drive letter of one drive to another. I do not think the technology is as mature and flawess as all that computer science theory and marketing speak would have us believe. I used to think firewire was the flakier technology but since the varoius 1.0, 1,1 and 2.0 USBs and backward compatibility issues, it is now the other way around.
Let's not forget Pamela Rogers who is going to get 18 years for putting up a MySpace page.
I've installed Ubuntu three times now to see if I could get Windows off the one non-gaming machine left in my house that's still running it. So far, no luck. Several problems I've been able to solve myself, but there were a couple of glaring issues that made me think I wouldn't install Ubuntu on a machine for a noob.
First, the support for USB devices is spotty
USB is spotty in ANY os. I think Ubuntu would be perfect for the n00b - the install cd includes browser, mail, picture viewer etc & lack of vulnerabilities to the usual Windows vruses. It is the power user coming over from Windows who has trouble, mainly in finding replacement apps.
The problem is, all that security has to be controlled from somewhere, and that means power in the hands of men -- fallible, selfish men -- and all thru the 20th century, it was proven repeatedly that time this kind of control over citizens is at hand, millions die.
Your idea is straight from Orwell, do you really think that is going to get past Slashdot readers?
I always wondered about the type of person who would look at one of those faxes and say 'Exactly what I need!" and buy, and if there were enough suckers to make it worthwhile to send a fax - one at a time - to thousands of fax machines. It seems mroe likely that only the junk spammers make money and the spam "beneficiaries" take it in the shorts.
Just like those stock pump spams have no effect on the stock price, yet there are always new ones next week pumping new companies. The only ones making money are the spammers. What's really cool is you can check Yahoo Finance to see if the spam worked. Last week I got a bunch of spams pumping EGLY.OB, promising a $3.00 gain, a tripling of price, more spams than any I ever saw for a single company. I had to go look. The result? +0.06 (+5%).
I have to agree - there are several players that take SD cards. My personal preference is for ones that take AAA batteries for continuous usage & come with no charger/adapter hassles for foreign travel. The Rio lasts 14 hours on 1 AAA. No waiting for recharge. It weighs 1/4 as much as an iPod & does cool things like record off the FM radio. Certainly unstylish & unhip as all hell to not have iPod, but practicalities dictate something different.
Finally got around to installing Ubuntu 6.1 on a spare IBM laptop & I have to say I'm pretty amazed how easy it was. Never really used linuxes before. Interestingly, on that laptop (Thinkpad T23)it installed & is working on a 100gb Toshiba drive on which both XP and Win2K Windows Setup failed. The Ubuntu Setup even partitioned the disk and left alone the windows partition with the failed XP install. Ubuntu does seem to use a lot of CPU (fine tuning needed?) I'd like to fully convert everything over if I can find replacement apps.
Never read / seen LOTR, but looked thru the Wikipedia entry for Tolkein, it sounds as this might not be the same type of thing - he altered the original work that had made him a success, in order to construct a framework for a larger fiction world and subsequent novel.
Furthermore, revision seems to be a SF only thing. Perhaps from the scientific method?
Seriously, if you're OK with all these alterations, you'll find it's really going to suck 20 years from now when the LOTR you love and treasure is altered to fit whatever profit / PC / whim of the time.
No, there's this thing called job stigma. The kids in Calif don't want to do jobs that Mexicans do - stoop labor, landscaping, kitchen work, etc - because that's what Mexicans are willing to do. This was certainly not the case two decades ago.
These jobs never paid a living wage,* but they used to pay an intermediate wage suitable for unskilled workers.
That is, until the floodgates were opened to cheap labor. As with the situation with China, with cheap toys flooding in, we are now discovering how costly all this cheap stuff is.
*As it's currently defined: Sufficient salary to support a household with three dependents - in Calif, that's in the mid five figures
If you live in CA it is common knowledge that once undocumented aliens get past the 15-mile checkpoints, the ICE can or will not enforce. In any event the Border Patrol "arrest" procedure is catch-and-release - no confinement, no court dates, no consequences. Certainly you are aware of the Minuteman movement, where frustrated citizens (or racists, depending on your viewpoint) sit on the border to deter entry. A local talk show host calls them "undocumented border patrol agents."
If you visit the south end of the San Fernando Valley you will find the logical conclusion of these policies - essentially a Mexican colony in the US, 200,000+ strong. Certainly they are hard workers who take the jobs Americans don't want to do, but who's to say the jobs would have paid higher - and not had alien stigma - if we didn't let them all in in the first place.
I Had To:
* Give away all the items I could
* Drop a tradeskill
* Learn enchanting (1)
* DE whatever I could
* Give away the disenchanted mats
* Sell what I couldn't DE
* Destroy what I couldn't sell
* Delete my character
* Cancel my account
* Uninstall
* Throw away all CDs, manuals, and shred handwritten WoW notes
That's only 11 Steps, you need one more, so include:
* Cancelling the card
Seriously, if these games are this addictive, the next thing that's got to happen is a massive tobacco style lawsuit and cash settlement.
Is it also whining when we complain about the suckage known as the matrix sequels, or are you going to defend those turds too.
All of these sequels should never have been made, because they have the effect of diminishing the original, all for the sake of more money. Lucas is especially culpable in that he rewrites the original. It is not just Jar Jar and badly acted love scenes (I almost said Jar Jar in badly acted love scenes, hopefully Lucas doesn't read this and get ideas for 7).
It is inconceivable for a writer to rewrite his/her fiction novels, why do you praise Lucas for doing the same? Can you imagine multiple versions of any classic fiction?
Space.com does this, but they have a standard agreement to split 50% of revenue. In any event I think it is highly unlikely that any worthwhile money will be made off any user's photos, even in the aggregate, due to the lack of quality and content of user photography. Even if a photo was interesting enough to order, they will not sell prints unless they disable right click and rely on the stupid money.
I was wondering if the 25 or so astronauts who went to the Moon, including both lunar orbit and surface landings, was a large enough group to draw these statistical conclusions from.
That's the entire POINT. Sony is a video game company. Sony is also a movie company and member of MPAA. Sony's movie arm is cutting off the video game arm and blood is spurting all over the place. For many people who are against DRM, it is a beautiful sight.
Ideally, yes, but the problem is that "government" is made up of individuals who often put personal gain above the well being of all their constituents. In the case of the USA, those politicians are bought and paid for by corporations and organizations, much like we used to trade pogs and baseball cards when we were kids.
It's how we ended up with things like DMCA and copyright extension, which reinforces those competition barriers you mentioned with federal law enforcement. If this sort of thing continues, your solution could backfire on the public - big time.
This is the reason why most Latin American countries remain third world, despite having the exact same governmental structure as the US. Official acts do not happen without the mordida, which only the wealthy can pay, thus accumulating things to the wealthy. This sort of thing is spreading to the US. Randy Duke Cunningham took millions in bribes & is going to be sentenced
today - if he gets a light one I think that will tell all of us which way this country is headed. But we all knew they are on the take - whenever some politician pushes anything odd like selling major shipping ports to the UAE, or promoting job outsourcing to India like that's a good thing, I first try to find out "what's in it for him?"
I wish I had an alternate solution, but unfortunately I do not.