First off, I didn't sign a goddamn thing when I signed up. I gave them cash, and they smiled and said thank you.
Second, I have a copy of the original TOS I got when I signed up, and it doesn't say anything about not running servers. I checked it again to make sure when they spammed me this time (5 emails about not running Kazaa - thanks).
We simply need to make email delivery cost something. A tenth of a penny an email would be more than enough.
I've heard that before, and I don't think it's enough. All you need is one idiot to say, "Yes, I do wish my penis was larger!" and at $39.95, he's just covered 40,000 emails. Are spammers getting a 1 in 40,000 response rate right now? I don't know, but they're paying for net access somehow. So raise it. A dollar an email. Then you have a 50 million dollar outlay to spam the world. Better have a good response rate with a pricey item to get that back.
But that doesn't work for me. Why should I have to pay that, or any amount, to use a service I'm already paying for? Isn't that why I shell out 20 bucks a month - to use the intarweb, 80% of which is still probably email?
Or how about amounts based on karma? 1 post/2 minutes to start, then a post a minute, then 2 or so. If you're going to crapflood with positive karma, you'll get knocked down pretty quickly anyway.
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Would you rather have a few innocents locked up and deter a number of crimes, or would you rather have no innocents harmed and not deter any?
The latter. Every time. Regardless of the crime. When you're sitting on death row praying for some DNA evidence to show up that clears you, you might understand. Think about if you were publicly targeted as a child molester (say, front page newspaper photo). You'd never work again. You'd never get a date again. Your neighbours would fear you, harrass you, and generally make your life miserable. What if you didn't do it?
If a convicted child molester moves into my neighborhood - I WANT TO KNOW.
Why? Will you watch your children more closely? Will you move away? Where would you go? Would you force said molester to move away? To where? What would you do differently in your safe little neighbourhood that may already have someone like that in it? Why do you have to wait for a known threat to make sure your children are safe?
The question that immediately springs to my mind is not about how affordable it is, but why the fuck should we have to? It's not enough that people are shelling out for physical DVD players and overpriced DVDs? Now we have to pay additional fees to actually play the purchased DVDs on the purchased players?
OptOnline in NY has 10 down/1 up, with no caps. Box set at The Wiz comes with a brand-new cable modem, new 10/100 NIC, 50 feet of cable cable, 20 feet of cat5, and a year's worth of access. Total cost is just over $300.
Well, you were using open-source and Linux interchangeably, so I was too. I agree wholeheartedly with your statement that it works both ways, and I think that's a good thing. Embrace and extend can be positive, as long as it remains open. I was just taking issue with "Microsoft hasn't found anything worth incorporating from Linux."
Two 19" screens on a Matrox G400. Yum! I didn't have any problems getting everything working, and Matrox has decent Linux support, although I wish they'd put out driver updates more than once a year. Kicker dies a lot after I moved to X 4.2, and quite a few people are having similar problems. New drivers are promised Real Soon Now, so we'll see what happens.
I dread having to use computers with just one screen now; I don't think I could ever go back. I'm thinking about hooking up a third monitor, actually. Need a reinforced desk and a small nuclear generator to power all this crap though.
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First off, I didn't sign a goddamn thing when I signed up. I gave them cash, and they smiled and said thank you.
Second, I have a copy of the original TOS I got when I signed up, and it doesn't say anything about not running servers. I checked it again to make sure when they spammed me this time (5 emails about not running Kazaa - thanks).
Yeah right. Find me a 10 meg down ISP for 20 bucks a month, and I'll switch in a minute.
We simply need to make email delivery cost something. A tenth of a penny an email would be more than enough.
I've heard that before, and I don't think it's enough. All you need is one idiot to say, "Yes, I do wish my penis was larger!" and at $39.95, he's just covered 40,000 emails. Are spammers getting a 1 in 40,000 response rate right now? I don't know, but they're paying for net access somehow. So raise it. A dollar an email. Then you have a 50 million dollar outlay to spam the world. Better have a good response rate with a pricey item to get that back.
But that doesn't work for me. Why should I have to pay that, or any amount, to use a service I'm already paying for? Isn't that why I shell out 20 bucks a month - to use the intarweb, 80% of which is still probably email?
Spinal Pap ("our amps go all the way to 11"). It's funny - rent it.
But you ought to be able to see the writing on the wall.
You don't have to be a Kreskin to...
In another five years the only full distro will be Debian
Great. Maybe they'll have KDE3 by then.
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Or how about amounts based on karma? 1 post/2 minutes to start, then a post a minute, then 2 or so. If you're going to crapflood with positive karma, you'll get knocked down pretty quickly anyway.
This would be the same RIAA that was serving mp3s from their website? That RIAA? No, we didn't consider that.
Would you rather have a few innocents locked up and deter a number of crimes, or would you rather have no innocents harmed and not deter any?
The latter. Every time. Regardless of the crime. When you're sitting on death row praying for some DNA evidence to show up that clears you, you might understand. Think about if you were publicly targeted as a child molester (say, front page newspaper photo). You'd never work again. You'd never get a date again. Your neighbours would fear you, harrass you, and generally make your life miserable. What if you didn't do it?
If a convicted child molester moves into my neighborhood - I WANT TO KNOW.
Why? Will you watch your children more closely? Will you move away? Where would you go? Would you force said molester to move away? To where? What would you do differently in your safe little neighbourhood that may already have someone like that in it? Why do you have to wait for a known threat to make sure your children are safe?
You charge your friends 400 bucks to install Windows? Man, welcome to my foes list... ;-)
More like the Russian Jerry Lewis.
The question that immediately springs to my mind is not about how affordable it is, but why the fuck should we have to? It's not enough that people are shelling out for physical DVD players and overpriced DVDs? Now we have to pay additional fees to actually play the purchased DVDs on the purchased players?
I like UltraEdit. I use the AC-mentioned Scite in Linux though.
How about Amazon? :-)
OptOnline in NY has 10 down/1 up, with no caps. Box set at The Wiz comes with a brand-new cable modem, new 10/100 NIC, 50 feet of cable cable, 20 feet of cat5, and a year's worth of access. Total cost is just over $300.
Well, you were using open-source and Linux interchangeably, so I was too. I agree wholeheartedly with your statement that it works both ways, and I think that's a good thing. Embrace and extend can be positive, as long as it remains open. I was just taking issue with "Microsoft hasn't found anything worth incorporating from Linux."
Or are the /. editors just bitter because Microsoft hasn't found anything worth incorporating from Linux?
Like multiple desktops and mouse focus, you mean? Or a multi-user system, for that matter?
Buttons? Feh, that's so 90's. Gigabyte has EasyTune.
Man, recursive overhyped overclocked threads (hyper-ROOT-threading?). The mind b0ggles!
Hjernen din er helt herpa.
Your IQ is 138, and you don't know the difference between 'losers' and 'loosers?' Riiight. Maybe you'll figure it out by the time you finish Grade 9.
Two 19" screens on a Matrox G400. Yum! I didn't have any problems getting everything working, and Matrox has decent Linux support, although I wish they'd put out driver updates more than once a year. Kicker dies a lot after I moved to X 4.2, and quite a few people are having similar problems. New drivers are promised Real Soon Now, so we'll see what happens.
I dread having to use computers with just one screen now; I don't think I could ever go back. I'm thinking about hooking up a third monitor, actually. Need a reinforced desk and a small nuclear generator to power all this crap though.
Your "GET / HTTP/1.1" is important to us. Please stay on the line, and your request will be answered in the order it was received. Thank you for your patience.
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Would it be less durable than the LCD in a digital watch?
The ones that I smashed about half a dozen times before I shelled out for a shock-proof model? I hope not.
What happens if you submit a good kernel patch in Japanese?
I imagine it wouldn't work too well. The patches I've seen have mostly been in C.