Basically the artical overlooks the fact that as technology advances human ingenuity causes the amount of resources required to maintain a given lifestyle for a single individual to go down. Thus the population does not outstrip the resources available to it. But rather, simply makes more effecent use of them as needed.
After all, its going to be playing it through those little gameboy speakers. Not exactly stellar sound quality. They were designed to play the "beep beep" noises from video games, not high fedelity music. Its a cool idea, great for those who own a gameboy and don't want to shell out the $$$ for an mp3 player. But I think anyone who is really serious about listening to music on the go will pass this by.
Just find somebody who is less than 18 years old to install it. Since they are a minor and therefore unable to enter into a binding contract the EULA is void.
Ok, according to the PDF the number below the symbol is supposed to be the ammount of bandwidth the node in question has. So, just how many kbps is "1*5"?
...your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours...
Am I the only one who cringes at the thought of this? Who gets to look at that data? Surely it won't be kept private. Data like that is just too valuable for marketing divisions to ignore. I think there are some potentially serious privacy concerns here. Even if this data isn't shared with MS or whoever by default, given MS's track record on security I don't think it would take long before someone figured out how to get at it. Or heck, some 3rd party could just write some spyware designed to get it and transmit it somplace. This whole concept just makes me very uncomfortable.
Yep, those things rule. Heck I'm typing this post on one. I went and pulled it out of a pile of old computer parts at half price computers. It was mine for only $3. How somebody could sell such an awsome keyboard for such a small price is beyond me.
It most certainly is my good man! The school of lets beat my little brother over the head with my keyboard.:)
But seriously though, these things are made of machined steel. People have driven large trucks over them and they still work afterwards. It cracks the plastic casing but they still work fine.
Serously, I love my IBM 370 and my fingers would have to fall off in order for me to switch to anything else. The IBM 370 was the origional awsome keyboard and its still the best IMHO. You just can't beat that tactile response and clickity-click noise. Heck you could beat somebody over the head with this thing and there skull would break before the keyboard did. And any keyboard that can be used to beat somebody to death without harming said keyboard gets an A+ in my book. Besides who in there right mind would spend $347 on a freaking keyboard. I might as well buy a new processor or graphics card instead.
Seriously, when 35,000,000 AOL users switch to Mozilla/Netscape/Gecko/whatever when AOL 8.0 comes out we are going to see a browser war the likes of which the world has never seen. I can hardly wait. It's gonna be awsome. /me grins evily :)
I think the point he was trying to make was that under US law a corporation is considered to be equal to an individual for legal purposes even though a corporation isn't actually a person.
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Basically the artical overlooks the fact that as technology advances human ingenuity causes the amount of resources required to maintain a given lifestyle for a single individual to go down. Thus the population does not outstrip the resources available to it. But rather, simply makes more effecent use of them as needed.
How user friendly is your girlfriend?
Define "user friendly".
Maybe they are going to release Microsoft BOB under the GPL....
This is being done. Its called Freenet.
After all, its going to be playing it through those little gameboy speakers. Not exactly stellar sound quality. They were designed to play the "beep beep" noises from video games, not high fedelity music. Its a cool idea, great for those who own a gameboy and don't want to shell out the $$$ for an mp3 player. But I think anyone who is really serious about listening to music on the go will pass this by.
The really funny thing is, he actually does own that white space.
"All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2002 OSDN."
Just find somebody who is less than 18 years old to install it. Since they are a minor and therefore unable to enter into a binding contract the EULA is void.
Why it's so good it's "double plus good".
Ahhh.... I see. Thankyou for the morsel of enlightenmnt. I should have known that.
Ok, according to the PDF the number below the symbol is supposed to be the ammount of bandwidth the node in question has. So, just how many kbps is "1*5"?
...your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours...
Am I the only one who cringes at the thought of this? Who gets to look at that data? Surely it won't be kept private. Data like that is just too valuable for marketing divisions to ignore. I think there are some potentially serious privacy concerns here. Even if this data isn't shared with MS or whoever by default, given MS's track record on security I don't think it would take long before someone figured out how to get at it. Or heck, some 3rd party could just write some spyware designed to get it and transmit it somplace. This whole concept just makes me very uncomfortable.
Yep, those things rule. Heck I'm typing this post on one. I went and pulled it out of a pile of old computer parts at half price computers. It was mine for only $3. How somebody could sell such an awsome keyboard for such a small price is beyond me.
It most certainly is my good man! The school of lets beat my little brother over the head with my keyboard. :)
But seriously though, these things are made of machined steel. People have driven large trucks over them and they still work afterwards. It cracks the plastic casing but they still work fine.
Serously, I love my IBM 370 and my fingers would have to fall off in order for me to switch to anything else. The IBM 370 was the origional awsome keyboard and its still the best IMHO. You just can't beat that tactile response and clickity-click noise. Heck you could beat somebody over the head with this thing and there skull would break before the keyboard did. And any keyboard that can be used to beat somebody to death without harming said keyboard gets an A+ in my book. Besides who in there right mind would spend $347 on a freaking keyboard. I might as well buy a new processor or graphics card instead.
Seriously, when 35,000,000 AOL users switch to Mozilla/Netscape/Gecko/whatever when AOL 8.0 comes out we are going to see a browser war the likes of which the world has never seen. I can hardly wait. It's gonna be awsome.
/me grins evily
:)
Yeah, because it's so annoying to be behind a college student who is buying $50 in groceries with quarters.
I did that once. It was funny.
Dude, this is nothing compaired to what happens when a new version of a relatively major Linux distro comes out.
If you want to check your system for spyware get yourself a copy of Ad-aware. Its great.
All right! The Muppets meet Linux! What could be cooler.
I think the point he was trying to make was that under US law a corporation is considered to be equal to an individual for legal purposes even though a corporation isn't actually a person.
I can confirm that this also works in IE 5.5 under Win2K with all updates/patches.
Mozilla is just as fast as Opera on my box and besides, Opera isn't powerfull enough.
Since nobody has any crystal balls...
*Runs out and comes back*
Hmm... "Outlook not so good."
Wow! This magic eight ball knows everything, I'll ask about exchange server next.
Even then they didn't really get it right untill Windows 2000. Which is by the way, the best OS they ever made.
You do of course realize that what you say is blasphemy in one of its worse forms.