I'm happy to see advancements in stuff like this, because we can start stimulating our own economy! One thing that I'd like to know is what kinda fuel economy this thing has, and how much power the darned thing can kick out. If the preceeding two things are large, then gasoline will be kicked out of the market . I wonder, though, will these engines be as fun to work on as normal gas ones? I have one helluva time working on my '75 Benz.
Does Microsoft understand the definition of punishment? Punishment/Settlement means that they have to do something for SOMEONE ELSE, not to further their interests (aka injecting their software into the mainstream). However! I need to look at this this way- whatever settlement, some company is going to benifit. It says that Apple has 1/2 of the pre-college market share, and this would increase Apple's share a bit, and lower Microsoft's share, but increase their presence in office software. The first settlement would only bring gain to Microsoft (hm, but really, they aren't gaining or losing anything). This might be what we planned, but thats only in schools. What's Microsoft doing about their monopoly in the real world, eh? I'm still for breaking up the company unless they can do something for the real world. What they're doing for shcools is just fine, but a monopoly is far reaching, and they've gotta be broken up. If they have this settlement, they still have a "monopoly" pure and simple.
When I was a newbie, all I did was chain mail, chat, play games, and go to flashy sites. Now that I've been surfing the web for 7+ years, I tend to play fewer games, block span and chain mail, only use messanger from time to time, and use Yahoo for all my searches. I don't know about you, but I seem to fall right into the experienced web users groove.
Do I want Office for Linux? Well, lemme tell you this- I think we just found a way to get linux to crash. And what about clippy? "Hello, you look like you're running Linux! Do you want help running Linux?" Heh, give Microsoft a chance to develop a program, and they will find a way to get the damned thing to crash.
I know of at least one person who could benifit from this. Also, who know where this can lead us? Later on they might find a way to make the paralyzed walk. I just have to say that my hat is off to the group of scientists who smoked enough weed to think this possible, then do it. Honestly, how the hell do they get those wacked-out ideas?
Lemme tell you all right off the bat that I find Fox News to be the best news channel out there for the analysis. If you want current events, take your ass over to CNN, but aside from current events, Fox is simply the best. O'reilly, Hannity + Colmes, etc... are good because the host engages the guest, instead of the Larry King Live way of "uh huh, yep, right, correct."
Does Fox sensationalize? Yes. Do NBC, ABC, CNN, etc... sensationalize? Yes. I see Fox as even with all the other organizations in that aspect.
As with people saying that Fox News is right wing, I've gotta say that you all are dead wrong. As Obi-Wan once said "It's true, from a certain point of view." Fox tries harder than any other news channel that I've seen to play it right down the center. Now, it is in my honest opinion that the mainstream media (CNN, NY Times, etc...) are skewed (however slightly) to the left (PROOF!!!!->Republican senator has a small slip of tounge, all hell is let lose on him. Democratic senator starts calling blacks "Niggers" and being offensive to the minorities that he/she represents, they get a pass from the media. I don't recall who this was exactly, but give me some time and I will dig it out).
Now, when the mainstream media is slightly skewed to the left, and then suddenely a player comes in playing it right down the center, where is is in relation to the Liberal Media? That'll usually be the opposite of your left hand, and there comes the accusations of Fox Being RIGHT WING. And to disprove any right wing theories of yours, I would like to point out that Fox News just hired GERALDO RIVERA as a correspondant. Now he isn't leftist, I don't know who is.
Just so you know, Fox wasn't around at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, so get your facts straight. Oh, and just to clarify, who the hell did you think did 9-11? Lucifer? Christ! If Bin Laden bombed our embassies, the Cole, etc..., what would his next target be? SOMETHING BIG IN THE HOME COUNTRY. Think for a second and you might find out that intellegence comes from it.
For God's sake, Stay away from MSNBC and Larry King.
I am of course referring to the Macintosh Millenium. Remember that thing? It came out a few months after the Powerbooks, and was the predicessor to the iMac (all in one stuff w/ LCD screen) I actually used one, and it was one helluva machine and had a real nice design. It kinda looked like a curved slab of wood about 1" thick. They never sold many of them, but I really think that this is a good revival of that machine, and the same design would would rock, since it would be one helluva space saver (a computer about 1.5 feet tall, 1 foot wide and 1-3 inches thick?). They could go somewhere with this.
A little healthy competition is good. People have to eat, you know, and proprietary software, if kept in a decent price range, can actually be complimentary to free software. Darwin, for example, could actually give back to the BSD community. I think the only problem w/ Linux is that here arent enough programs, because Linux geeks expect everything for free. If we start to show that you can sell things for linux, then more stuff will be developed, and BAM!, there you go.
I was thinking about getting a JVC CD reciever w/ MP3 playback, but now I'm not too sure what to get, the Rio or the JVC... I've had good experiences w/ JVC in the past, but I haven't tried SonicBlue yet. Any help out there?
Studies have shown that light patterns can affect your sleep... So, if I go to sleep in class, I'll have a different "experience" than if I go to sleep in my bed. Right...
Now, I don't know about you, but I see no difference when I sleep in total darkness or with laser lights all around me (I've tried this before), so how the heck will this affect my lifestyle other than me having bad dreams of the damn system crashing. Who knows?
This sounds really interesting, and I'd like to see how this thing actually works. But alas! Something like this was already invented! It's name- marijuana. It sounds like you make someone trippy in their sleep w/o narcotics w/ this machine. Just an observation
One of the reactions to 9-11, and I'm not totally surprised. But this is just great (sarchasim sets in)! I wonder how much politics are going to be thrown at this, and we just have another McDade Act in our lap (loose connection, of course, but you know where I'm going...A good idea that just won't work out). If you don't know what the McDade acts are, here it is in a nutshell- No undercover officer (FBI, Sheriff, CIA, etc...) can't ever lie when they are undercover (Bill Clinton idea...).
I hope that the governments won't abuse the new tool that they have in their arsenal against terrorism, but if they do, it will be our duity to bring it to their attention.
Wow, what a change! Going from watching Junkyard wars all today, now I see this...
But, sadly to say, this is what we should have been doing years ago. It seems to me that the Bush administration is watching its steps carefully, and they really won't make a step w/o having something to back them up, but we need to look at this the other way. From what the article said (by a brief skimming), they stated that wired money goes through them. Now, I'm not a person who would know a whole lot about this kind of stuff, but I'm thinking that it wouldn't require too much effort to re-route a small "processing fee" to Bin-Laden. Of course I could be wrong, but these terrorists are fairly crafty- I mean, who would think that an Egyptian Doctor could (possibly, unconfirmed because we can't get spys into Al-Queda thanks to the McDade acts passed by our favorite Bill Clinton) be the head of the terror network that has tons of wackos who are willing to kill themselves for the benifit of thier cause?
Its very hard for me to say this, but I think this what we should have been doing long ago. The US is filled w/ too much politics and people that want to be politically correct and humanitarian. I'm sorry, but this stuff just doesn't work. In order to protect ourselves, WE MUST have an iron fist in dealing with matters that concern homeland security. What people need to realize that the world is not a pretty place, and rarely is there a solution that works out perfectly w/o the need to squash others. Thats life, and there is no way to change it...there is NO SUCH THING as utopia, and we have to live with what we have.
I was using a Mac, and quite well, when I was about 6. I was surfing the net by 7. Everybody is a newbie when they start anything. What Red Hat wants to do here is to be able to teach kids how to use Linux instead of Windows. Have you ever seen a REAL GOOD (snicker) Windows user try to use Linux...
I have, and believe me, they don't know how to do jack (its even worse if you don't have a graphical login..."Whats up with this Linux deal, its just like DOS, no graphics").
I tell ya, this exposes kids to a whole different world of OS's. I'm willing to bet if you force these kids to use Linux, they will learn how to use it, and pretty proficiently.
Actually, let me ask you this- If we don't show kids linux in the school, then when will they learn? I got into it when my dad showed me when Red Hat 5.0 came out, but I was lucky. My father teaches EE at Cornell, and all that dept uses is Linux, but most of the students there haven't heard of it, much less used the OS before they got there. The real reason why Linux doesn't have much developed for it is because not enough people know about it, and I think that if we were to incorporate Linux into schools, we might see a different trend in software development.
The real problem with water cooling is getting the H2O cooled fast enough to deliver cold water to the processor. I haven't read the article, but I was never a fan of water cooling, instead I use a refrigerator.
Explanation- What is overclocking good for? Really? What I've seen is that people OC their computer to save that all important dollar, but find out that the cost for upgrading the cooling system is more expensive than just dishing out the cash and buying the faster processor (EXCEPT for the case of the P4 1.9Ghz and 2 Ghz). What I did when I OC'ed my computer was just for the hell of it, whereas my roomate in college (and at camp) did it just to show that you could. What did we do? We went down to the local Salvation Army, bought one of those little chest freezers, cut a couple of holes for the cables, put some caulk around those holes for a seal, and there we had it, a frozen computer. I tell you, nothing impresses the girls more that reaching into the freezer to put in a music cd. In the freezer, we also put a whole slew of those silica gel packets just to make sure that there was no water to damage our computer if there was a period of time when the power cable was knocked out. This was really a non-issue though, because we kept the freezer below freezing, so all the H2O vapor was frozen (except for the subliminating water, but that really doesn't matter. This was just a show off machine, and in the end, we ruined the computer when we spilled a bottle of vodka over the processor (the vodka was "coolant", and Joe was getting rid of the excess stuff)
First and foremost, I would like to say that it was good when Dell offered Linux on their machines, I got my Inspiron 8000 and GX1 for about $200-500 less than a windows version.
-BUT-
The installations REALLY sucked. I had to go back and re-install Linux on both. On top of that, I also needed to dload the newest Linux (at the time, Dells shipped w/ RH7.0, when Red Hat had been shipping 7.1 for a long time). The problems ranged from not being able to have the CD drive toast CD's, or even read stuff to having the computer randomly lock up. All problems were fixed upon the re-installation, but it was a (minor) inconvience. I think that all Dell did was make one install image and then use them for all the machines, from laptop to desktop. I seemed to have fewer problems on the OptiPlex...Oh well
Just letting the public know about how *much* Dell cares about Linux. Next time I want a computer, I'll just buy the parts. (I would have done that, but these damned grants don't let you do that, now do they?) If people are really interested in getting a quality linux box, they should go to Penguin Computing at . My buddy just got a machine from them, and he tells me that they are the Alienware of the linux world.
You're name sums it all up, "Retarded_One"
A)Small typo. I think you should know that I'm a Roman Catholic, so don't start preaching the Bible to me.
B)I work with both MS Windows and Linux. I AM NOT ANTI-MS. Actually, there were some good things that came out of MS. I am a guy, so I am endowed too.
C)I am also a Boy Scout. Give me a girl, and I will screw her, fool.
D)Though they may, its only for their own benifit (FreeBSD w/ Hotmail for example) They do develop for Mac, but remember- Microsoft wouldn't be as succesfull as it is today.
E)It would intrest you, Retarded_One, that right now I am typing this on a Dell Inspiron 8000 running Windows 2000. I develop webs for people, especially for my school. I use Windows, Linux and Mac. I'll be the first to tell you that I prefer the Mac and Linux to Windows any day. However, I give Microsoft a chance constantly. Therefore, start drinking Pepsi, Coke AND go to your local supermarket and buy a few bottles of generic cola.
F)Believe what you want to believe, but I'll ask you this- have you yourself used anything other than Windows? It seems to me that you don't have anything to say to me about the crap that Microsoft publishes. Tell me, why does it take a minimum of about 64 Megs of RAM to run WordXP? Why does it take over about 2 GIGS to install Windows XP, and I don't even get an office suite? Why does the OS crash a lot? If you work for a car company, would you get a lot of business if you sold cars that had horrible fuel economy, were as huge and as heavy as heck, had no structural integrity and then sold it for over $100,000? NO!!!! This is what Microsoft is selling us, and therefore an alternative sprung up, GNU.
I suggest that you, Retarded_One, realize that Microsoft, as well as any company (or government) has its own downfalls, and people try to find an alternative.
Open Source might not have started if that greedy fool hadn't published crap, charged an arm and a leg for the software, establish a monopoly, place gags on hardware manufacturers and software developers making sure stuff will ONLY run on Windows, and slowly reach total vertical and horizontal integration through ruthless tactics of toying around with the companies so that they can buy them cheap (sorta like a cat playing around w/ it's prey just to be cruel). If Gates wasn't so anal-retentive about licenses, about losing $50 here and there and if he didn't choke the market to fill the world with his bloatware, then Open Source wouldn't be where it is at right now, if even invented. It sorta goes like this- resistance groups don't form when everybody is happy, and when crap isn't thrown at you. In this case, we pay $500+ for a single piece of bloatware that has a total uptime of about 30 sec before it crashes, and when it does run, its still shaky with all the overly expensive Microsoft bloatware Office programs that run on it. THEREFORE a group of people rise to the occasion and flip the finger to "the man" and go off and create something that works, costs next to nothing (sorry, you still have to buy the hardware and the internet connection), without over commercialization. Thank you Gates for filling the market with crap. If you hadn't, then the best OS wouldn't be where it is today, and we would only learn how to program from college courses, not hacking code and seeing how stuff works. Thank god for the FSF
I haven't really read all of working of this, but from what I understand is that they won't play on computers, but will on normal CD Players. SO! All you need to do is to play the CD on your stereo, and plug the recording output (I've got 3 on my JVC amp, 2 on my JVC cd changer) into your audio input of your computer. With this, you can record it on your computer with the sound recorder, or download one. Sure it's a very roundabout route, but won't it work? Because this way is more or less sticking a microphone infront of the speakers, but with much higher quality. I'm not too sure, but thats my $0.02
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I'm happy to see advancements in stuff like this, because we can start stimulating our own economy! One thing that I'd like to know is what kinda fuel economy this thing has, and how much power the darned thing can kick out. If the preceeding two things are large, then gasoline will be kicked out of the market . I wonder, though, will these engines be as fun to work on as normal gas ones? I have one helluva time working on my '75 Benz.
Does Microsoft understand the definition of punishment? Punishment/Settlement means that they have to do something for SOMEONE ELSE, not to further their interests (aka injecting their software into the mainstream). However! I need to look at this this way- whatever settlement, some company is going to benifit. It says that Apple has 1/2 of the pre-college market share, and this would increase Apple's share a bit, and lower Microsoft's share, but increase their presence in office software. The first settlement would only bring gain to Microsoft (hm, but really, they aren't gaining or losing anything). This might be what we planned, but thats only in schools. What's Microsoft doing about their monopoly in the real world, eh? I'm still for breaking up the company unless they can do something for the real world. What they're doing for shcools is just fine, but a monopoly is far reaching, and they've gotta be broken up. If they have this settlement, they still have a "monopoly" pure and simple.
When I was a newbie, all I did was chain mail, chat, play games, and go to flashy sites. Now that I've been surfing the web for 7+ years, I tend to play fewer games, block span and chain mail, only use messanger from time to time, and use Yahoo for all my searches. I don't know about you, but I seem to fall right into the experienced web users groove.
Do I want Office for Linux? Well, lemme tell you this- I think we just found a way to get linux to crash. And what about clippy? "Hello, you look like you're running Linux! Do you want help running Linux?" Heh, give Microsoft a chance to develop a program, and they will find a way to get the damned thing to crash.
I know of at least one person who could benifit from this. Also, who know where this can lead us? Later on they might find a way to make the paralyzed walk. I just have to say that my hat is off to the group of scientists who smoked enough weed to think this possible, then do it. Honestly, how the hell do they get those wacked-out ideas?
Well this has turned into a lively debate.
Lemme tell you all right off the bat that I find Fox News to be the best news channel out there for the analysis. If you want current events, take your ass over to CNN, but aside from current events, Fox is simply the best. O'reilly, Hannity + Colmes, etc... are good because the host engages the guest, instead of the Larry King Live way of "uh huh, yep, right, correct."
Does Fox sensationalize? Yes. Do NBC, ABC, CNN, etc... sensationalize? Yes. I see Fox as even with all the other organizations in that aspect.
As with people saying that Fox News is right wing, I've gotta say that you all are dead wrong. As Obi-Wan once said "It's true, from a certain point of view." Fox tries harder than any other news channel that I've seen to play it right down the center. Now, it is in my honest opinion that the mainstream media (CNN, NY Times, etc...) are skewed (however slightly) to the left (PROOF!!!!->Republican senator has a small slip of tounge, all hell is let lose on him. Democratic senator starts calling blacks "Niggers" and being offensive to the minorities that he/she represents, they get a pass from the media. I don't recall who this was exactly, but give me some time and I will dig it out).
Now, when the mainstream media is slightly skewed to the left, and then suddenely a player comes in playing it right down the center, where is is in relation to the Liberal Media? That'll usually be the opposite of your left hand, and there comes the accusations of Fox Being RIGHT WING. And to disprove any right wing theories of yours, I would like to point out that Fox News just hired GERALDO RIVERA as a correspondant. Now he isn't leftist, I don't know who is.
Just so you know, Fox wasn't around at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, so get your facts straight. Oh, and just to clarify, who the hell did you think did 9-11? Lucifer? Christ! If Bin Laden bombed our embassies, the Cole, etc..., what would his next target be? SOMETHING BIG IN THE HOME COUNTRY. Think for a second and you might find out that intellegence comes from it.
For God's sake, Stay away from MSNBC and Larry King.
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I found it amusing that it costs $3000 to fire a single shot with this sucker. A bit pricy for a focused blast of light if you ask me.
I am of course referring to the Macintosh Millenium. Remember that thing? It came out a few months after the Powerbooks, and was the predicessor to the iMac (all in one stuff w/ LCD screen) I actually used one, and it was one helluva machine and had a real nice design. It kinda looked like a curved slab of wood about 1" thick. They never sold many of them, but I really think that this is a good revival of that machine, and the same design would would rock, since it would be one helluva space saver (a computer about 1.5 feet tall, 1 foot wide and 1-3 inches thick?). They could go somewhere with this.
The ultimate gaming machine- Beowulfed Linux PS2's!
A little healthy competition is good. People have to eat, you know, and proprietary software, if kept in a decent price range, can actually be complimentary to free software. Darwin, for example, could actually give back to the BSD community. I think the only problem w/ Linux is that here arent enough programs, because Linux geeks expect everything for free. If we start to show that you can sell things for linux, then more stuff will be developed, and BAM!, there you go.
I was thinking about getting a JVC CD reciever w/ MP3 playback, but now I'm not too sure what to get, the Rio or the JVC... I've had good experiences w/ JVC in the past, but I haven't tried SonicBlue yet. Any help out there?
Heh, you've gotta love the slashdot effect.
Studies have shown that light patterns can affect your sleep... So, if I go to sleep in class, I'll have a different "experience" than if I go to sleep in my bed. Right...
Now, I don't know about you, but I see no difference when I sleep in total darkness or with laser lights all around me (I've tried this before), so how the heck will this affect my lifestyle other than me having bad dreams of the damn system crashing. Who knows?
This sounds really interesting, and I'd like to see how this thing actually works. But alas! Something like this was already invented! It's name- marijuana. It sounds like you make someone trippy in their sleep w/o narcotics w/ this machine. Just an observation
You mean something is supposed to be in my box....damn, I just shelled out $200 for nothing
One of the reactions to 9-11, and I'm not totally surprised. But this is just great (sarchasim sets in)! I wonder how much politics are going to be thrown at this, and we just have another McDade Act in our lap (loose connection, of course, but you know where I'm going...A good idea that just won't work out). If you don't know what the McDade acts are, here it is in a nutshell- No undercover officer (FBI, Sheriff, CIA, etc...) can't ever lie when they are undercover (Bill Clinton idea...).
I hope that the governments won't abuse the new tool that they have in their arsenal against terrorism, but if they do, it will be our duity to bring it to their attention.
Wow, what a change! Going from watching Junkyard wars all today, now I see this...
But, sadly to say, this is what we should have been doing years ago. It seems to me that the Bush administration is watching its steps carefully, and they really won't make a step w/o having something to back them up, but we need to look at this the other way. From what the article said (by a brief skimming), they stated that wired money goes through them. Now, I'm not a person who would know a whole lot about this kind of stuff, but I'm thinking that it wouldn't require too much effort to re-route a small "processing fee" to Bin-Laden. Of course I could be wrong, but these terrorists are fairly crafty- I mean, who would think that an Egyptian Doctor could (possibly, unconfirmed because we can't get spys into Al-Queda thanks to the McDade acts passed by our favorite Bill Clinton) be the head of the terror network that has tons of wackos who are willing to kill themselves for the benifit of thier cause?
Its very hard for me to say this, but I think this what we should have been doing long ago. The US is filled w/ too much politics and people that want to be politically correct and humanitarian. I'm sorry, but this stuff just doesn't work. In order to protect ourselves, WE MUST have an iron fist in dealing with matters that concern homeland security. What people need to realize that the world is not a pretty place, and rarely is there a solution that works out perfectly w/o the need to squash others. Thats life, and there is no way to change it...there is NO SUCH THING as utopia, and we have to live with what we have.
I was using a Mac, and quite well, when I was about 6. I was surfing the net by 7. Everybody is a newbie when they start anything. What Red Hat wants to do here is to be able to teach kids how to use Linux instead of Windows. Have you ever seen a REAL GOOD (snicker) Windows user try to use Linux...
I have, and believe me, they don't know how to do jack (its even worse if you don't have a graphical login..."Whats up with this Linux deal, its just like DOS, no graphics").
I tell ya, this exposes kids to a whole different world of OS's. I'm willing to bet if you force these kids to use Linux, they will learn how to use it, and pretty proficiently.
Actually, let me ask you this- If we don't show kids linux in the school, then when will they learn? I got into it when my dad showed me when Red Hat 5.0 came out, but I was lucky. My father teaches EE at Cornell, and all that dept uses is Linux, but most of the students there haven't heard of it, much less used the OS before they got there. The real reason why Linux doesn't have much developed for it is because not enough people know about it, and I think that if we were to incorporate Linux into schools, we might see a different trend in software development.
The real problem with water cooling is getting the H2O cooled fast enough to deliver cold water to the processor. I haven't read the article, but I was never a fan of water cooling, instead I use a refrigerator.
Explanation-
What is overclocking good for? Really? What I've seen is that people OC their computer to save that all important dollar, but find out that the cost for upgrading the cooling system is more expensive than just dishing out the cash and buying the faster processor (EXCEPT for the case of the P4 1.9Ghz and 2 Ghz). What I did when I OC'ed my computer was just for the hell of it, whereas my roomate in college (and at camp) did it just to show that you could. What did we do? We went down to the local Salvation Army, bought one of those little chest freezers, cut a couple of holes for the cables, put some caulk around those holes for a seal, and there we had it, a frozen computer. I tell you, nothing impresses the girls more that reaching into the freezer to put in a music cd. In the freezer, we also put a whole slew of those silica gel packets just to make sure that there was no water to damage our computer if there was a period of time when the power cable was knocked out. This was really a non-issue though, because we kept the freezer below freezing, so all the H2O vapor was frozen (except for the subliminating water, but that really doesn't matter. This was just a show off machine, and in the end, we ruined the computer when we spilled a bottle of vodka over the processor (the vodka was "coolant", and Joe was getting rid of the excess stuff)
First and foremost, I would like to say that it was good when Dell offered Linux on their machines, I got my Inspiron 8000 and GX1 for about $200-500 less than a windows version.
-BUT-
The installations REALLY sucked. I had to go back and re-install Linux on both. On top of that, I also needed to dload the newest Linux (at the time, Dells shipped w/ RH7.0, when Red Hat had been shipping 7.1 for a long time). The problems ranged from not being able to have the CD drive toast CD's, or even read stuff to having the computer randomly lock up. All problems were fixed upon the re-installation, but it was a (minor) inconvience. I think that all Dell did was make one install image and then use them for all the machines, from laptop to desktop. I seemed to have fewer problems on the OptiPlex...Oh well
Just letting the public know about how *much* Dell cares about Linux. Next time I want a computer, I'll just buy the parts. (I would have done that, but these damned grants don't let you do that, now do they?) If people are really interested in getting a quality linux box, they should go to Penguin Computing at . My buddy just got a machine from them, and he tells me that they are the Alienware of the linux world.
You're name sums it all up, "Retarded_One" A)Small typo. I think you should know that I'm a Roman Catholic, so don't start preaching the Bible to me. B)I work with both MS Windows and Linux. I AM NOT ANTI-MS. Actually, there were some good things that came out of MS. I am a guy, so I am endowed too. C)I am also a Boy Scout. Give me a girl, and I will screw her, fool. D)Though they may, its only for their own benifit (FreeBSD w/ Hotmail for example) They do develop for Mac, but remember- Microsoft wouldn't be as succesfull as it is today. E)It would intrest you, Retarded_One, that right now I am typing this on a Dell Inspiron 8000 running Windows 2000. I develop webs for people, especially for my school. I use Windows, Linux and Mac. I'll be the first to tell you that I prefer the Mac and Linux to Windows any day. However, I give Microsoft a chance constantly. Therefore, start drinking Pepsi, Coke AND go to your local supermarket and buy a few bottles of generic cola. F)Believe what you want to believe, but I'll ask you this- have you yourself used anything other than Windows? It seems to me that you don't have anything to say to me about the crap that Microsoft publishes. Tell me, why does it take a minimum of about 64 Megs of RAM to run WordXP? Why does it take over about 2 GIGS to install Windows XP, and I don't even get an office suite? Why does the OS crash a lot? If you work for a car company, would you get a lot of business if you sold cars that had horrible fuel economy, were as huge and as heavy as heck, had no structural integrity and then sold it for over $100,000? NO!!!! This is what Microsoft is selling us, and therefore an alternative sprung up, GNU. I suggest that you, Retarded_One, realize that Microsoft, as well as any company (or government) has its own downfalls, and people try to find an alternative.
Open Source might not have started if that greedy fool hadn't published crap, charged an arm and a leg for the software, establish a monopoly, place gags on hardware manufacturers and software developers making sure stuff will ONLY run on Windows, and slowly reach total vertical and horizontal integration through ruthless tactics of toying around with the companies so that they can buy them cheap (sorta like a cat playing around w/ it's prey just to be cruel). If Gates wasn't so anal-retentive about licenses, about losing $50 here and there and if he didn't choke the market to fill the world with his bloatware, then Open Source wouldn't be where it is at right now, if even invented. It sorta goes like this- resistance groups don't form when everybody is happy, and when crap isn't thrown at you. In this case, we pay $500+ for a single piece of bloatware that has a total uptime of about 30 sec before it crashes, and when it does run, its still shaky with all the overly expensive Microsoft bloatware Office programs that run on it. THEREFORE a group of people rise to the occasion and flip the finger to "the man" and go off and create something that works, costs next to nothing (sorry, you still have to buy the hardware and the internet connection), without over commercialization. Thank you Gates for filling the market with crap. If you hadn't, then the best OS wouldn't be where it is today, and we would only learn how to program from college courses, not hacking code and seeing how stuff works. Thank god for the FSF
I haven't really read all of working of this, but from what I understand is that they won't play on computers, but will on normal CD Players. SO! All you need to do is to play the CD on your stereo, and plug the recording output (I've got 3 on my JVC amp, 2 on my JVC cd changer) into your audio input of your computer. With this, you can record it on your computer with the sound recorder, or download one. Sure it's a very roundabout route, but won't it work? Because this way is more or less sticking a microphone infront of the speakers, but with much higher quality. I'm not too sure, but thats my $0.02
If you haven't already noticed, Afghanistan just went boom. You know what? I think that the world is just being destroyed right before us