I used to play quakeworld on a 33.6 connection, in 1997, and it was quite alright... But modern games tax bandwidth much worse, and playing over slow connections produced all kinds of weird results (remember ice skating characters from latency/low ping issues)
I know that there are some people that enjoy Internet radio, and I've played with it a little bit, but honestly, I don't know anyone that has kept consistently listening to an Internet radio station for years. I'm sure that there are Slashdotters that do so, but I'm suspicious that the number of people sticking with it may be low. I can listen to the song collection on my computer, and things like last.fm do a better job of recommending music that I'd like than Internet radio.
I listen to more internet radio than I do offline radio. The best internet stations are as good as the best sattelite radio stations, and light years better than terrestrial radio.
never figured out why people like Internet video. When I go to CNN, I find that it's almost always better to read the text with a few chosen video snapshots than to watch the video. They have the same concerned-but-not-overwrought talking heads and so forth. There's just no point in having someone reading my content aloud if I could more rapidly read it.
Internet video is the next big thing, go on google video, look up "patrolling with sean kennedy" it is a free show available to anyone who wants to watch it, hosted on google video (as well as bittorent through the official site). All free and made to be spread around.
Mmm...I do agree, but not really because of speed. I found that modem connections drop enough that with software that doesn't understand resuming downloads, it can be tough to download a large file. It's also an issue because a dial-up connection usually is contending with a voice line. However, simply in terms of speed...I never really had a problem batching things up. A steady, reliable 5K per second is not really a problem, at least for most legal content.
Sorry I like downloading my linux distros in less than 2 hours, I went through several live cds before I found one I liked
I only know of a couple of people who do not have high speed internet, you can get high speed internet for 30$ cad a month for reasonable speeds, where I live, and for 60$ cad a month you can get 10mbit cable with little restrictions on how to use it.
well I'm trying to explain that advertising is intrusive in ALL it's forms...
Personally I think billboards should be illegal, they destroy the landscape, but I'm not about to go on a witchhunt for the guy who owns the company that made the ad for the billboard, or try and take away his rights as a human being.
Internet radio is basically useless without broadband (128kbit mp3s, the standard, cannot be streamed on a 56k connection)
internet video is basically useless without broadband
uploading/downloading is horrible on dial-up, even stuff like windows patches or linux kernal updates can take hours
bittorrent? I don't think so
gaming? out of the question
dial-up is basically only useful for casual browsing and email/IM... You cannot really enjoy the net without it.. I'm glad I have my 10mbit cable connection every second I use it.. then again, I am a power user.
It is straight economics... The "spammers" have the ability to advertise using faults in the windows operating system, therefore they will... They would be foolish not to. If you look at it from a pure marketing standpoint it is a great oppurtunity.
I don't like being exposed to ads while driving on the highway either, but someone decided it was a good idea to destroy our landscape with ads for the almighty dollar.
If someone drives around in an unreliable, unsafe automobile, which although it functions most of the time is prone to breaking down and such, possibly causing injury, who's fault is it? Possibly the maker of the automobile, granted, and deffinately the fault of the person driving it (if they have prior knowledge of their automobile being unrealiable and possibly unsafe).
Well I wouldn't blame the adware people as much as the people who make a faulty operating system prone to exploits. Neverless, a properly updated windows system using firefox and only reliable purchased software (not pirated warez, which are prone to include viruses and other goodies), shouldn't suffer from intrusive software... Generally that comes with excessive pirated software use and/or access to pornographic websites.
People who spam, or work in the adware industry, are still human..
A lot of people seem to have no sense of morality when speaking of spammers... They aren't any worse than anyone else working in the ad industry. They still have rights as human beings
Most of the big problems in SP1 and earlier were fixed in sp2. Anything else can be tackled with minor patches at this point. Big upgrades like the new glass interface and such I wouldn't expect to be released before vista, most of the biggest changes belong with a new OS.
Remeber, unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't charge for point release upgrades to their OS, but they still need to make some money somehow.
According to wikipedia, he is pro gun-control, against racism, and supports chastity and the sanctity of marriage. While I don't agree with his strong views against homosexuality, there are much worse people out there than this guy. It's nice to see a sci-fi writer who isn't a completely nutball liberal.
How am I supposed to believe this is real if there is a pic of the flying speghetti monster in the corner (FSM). Looks like slashdot got duped by a joke article again...
People stop buying commercial music and only buy from indie labels who don't manipulate their artists and the prices of their wares. My musical tastes make this a lot easier (I am into mostly electronic music), but I encourage everyone to avoid funding the major labels who want to control the artists and take away rights from the public.
Of course they will probably blame the drop in sales on 'piracy'.
It's obvious major labels have NO respect for the public and NO respect for their artists. Avoid them. They make most of the money that you spend on CDs, not the artists. If you buy from these labels, you are basically supporting and funding their unethical practices.
linux is like a box of lego pieces which have mismatched colours (for example, compare X windows programs to the extremely uniform Aqua interface), and sometimes certain pieces won't stick to each other unless you remold the pieces from source diagrams. Oh yeah and if you want a program there are 40 almost similar pieces but only one will work and it will require 10 additional pieces to work and they have to be the correct versions of those pieces...
Apple can support whatever hardware they choose, and people who want to run OS X on a white box will make sure they have the supported hardware. The OS will drive the hardware sales.
agreed.. After using firefox and VLC for a while in windows I was less worried about watching media or using the web in LINUX (two extremely important things!) since both programs are available for it and are basically the same in every way... After using the windows versions I knew I wouldn't have anything to worry about in linux if I used the same software
modern distros are easy to install, on their own...
But installing on a system with windows installed still requires skills in partitioning and what not to get it set up right.. Granted, it's easy, but quite scary for the average user who can't even deal with a windows install (I have installed windows for many people who couldn't deal with it and paid me to do it, although they had no problem installing their own hardware upgrades, odd)... Even windows often requires a bit of driver installing and what not to get it working, this is too much for most people... Modern Linux distros are almost as good as windows at auto-detection and what not, but it still takes a lot of work to get anything that isn't detected to work. Average users NEVER WANT TO BE EXPOSED TO A COMMAND LINE/CONSOLE COMMANDS. OS X is probably the only unix/unix-like OS which completely shields the average user from the console. Even Ubuntu linux requires the console to get some things working (like WEP)...
After viewing the pictures of the highly eroded surface, NASA scientists realized it bears a striking resemblance to EDWARD JAMES OLMOS and have renamed the moon in his honour. The moon will now be known as the "EDWARD JAMES OLMOS MOON" in honour of the Battlestar Galactica and Miami Vice star.
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Simple. Provide everyone with a firearm as well...
I used to play quakeworld on a 33.6 connection, in 1997, and it was quite alright... But modern games tax bandwidth much worse, and playing over slow connections produced all kinds of weird results (remember ice skating characters from latency/low ping issues)
I listen to more internet radio than I do offline radio. The best internet stations are as good as the best sattelite radio stations, and light years better than terrestrial radio.
never figured out why people like Internet video. When I go to CNN, I find that it's almost always better to read the text with a few chosen video snapshots than to watch the video. They have the same concerned-but-not-overwrought talking heads and so forth. There's just no point in having someone reading my content aloud if I could more rapidly read it.
Internet video is the next big thing, go on google video, look up "patrolling with sean kennedy" it is a free show available to anyone who wants to watch it, hosted on google video (as well as bittorent through the official site). All free and made to be spread around.
Mmm...I do agree, but not really because of speed. I found that modem connections drop enough that with software that doesn't understand resuming downloads, it can be tough to download a large file. It's also an issue because a dial-up connection usually is contending with a voice line. However, simply in terms of speed...I never really had a problem batching things up. A steady, reliable 5K per second is not really a problem, at least for most legal content.
Sorry I like downloading my linux distros in less than 2 hours, I went through several live cds before I found one I liked
I only know of a couple of people who do not have high speed internet, you can get high speed internet for 30$ cad a month for reasonable speeds, where I live, and for 60$ cad a month you can get 10mbit cable with little restrictions on how to use it.
well I'm trying to explain that advertising is intrusive in ALL it's forms...
Personally I think billboards should be illegal, they destroy the landscape, but I'm not about to go on a witchhunt for the guy who owns the company that made the ad for the billboard, or try and take away his rights as a human being.
bullshit
Internet radio is basically useless without broadband (128kbit mp3s, the standard, cannot be streamed on a 56k connection)
internet video is basically useless without broadband
uploading/downloading is horrible on dial-up, even stuff like windows patches or linux kernal updates can take hours
bittorrent? I don't think so
gaming? out of the question
dial-up is basically only useful for casual browsing and email/IM... You cannot really enjoy the net without it.. I'm glad I have my 10mbit cable connection every second I use it.. then again, I am a power user.
Just rent the dvd, rip it to your system, and you can encode it any way you see fit...
It is straight economics... The "spammers" have the ability to advertise using faults in the windows operating system, therefore they will... They would be foolish not to. If you look at it from a pure marketing standpoint it is a great oppurtunity.
I don't like being exposed to ads while driving on the highway either, but someone decided it was a good idea to destroy our landscape with ads for the almighty dollar.
If someone drives around in an unreliable, unsafe automobile, which although it functions most of the time is prone to breaking down and such, possibly causing injury, who's fault is it? Possibly the maker of the automobile, granted, and deffinately the fault of the person driving it (if they have prior knowledge of their automobile being unrealiable and possibly unsafe).
Well I wouldn't blame the adware people as much as the people who make a faulty operating system prone to exploits. Neverless, a properly updated windows system using firefox and only reliable purchased software (not pirated warez, which are prone to include viruses and other goodies), shouldn't suffer from intrusive software... Generally that comes with excessive pirated software use and/or access to pornographic websites.
People who spam, or work in the adware industry, are still human..
A lot of people seem to have no sense of morality when speaking of spammers... They aren't any worse than anyone else working in the ad industry. They still have rights as human beings
Too bad that update requires an expensive proprietary hardware dongle.
Most of the big problems in SP1 and earlier were fixed in sp2. Anything else can be tackled with minor patches at this point. Big upgrades like the new glass interface and such I wouldn't expect to be released before vista, most of the biggest changes belong with a new OS.
Remeber, unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't charge for point release upgrades to their OS, but they still need to make some money somehow.
According to wikipedia, he is pro gun-control, against racism, and supports chastity and the sanctity of marriage. While I don't agree with his strong views against homosexuality, there are much worse people out there than this guy. It's nice to see a sci-fi writer who isn't a completely nutball liberal.
or why not just take a pic with a digital camara! Come on it's not the 80's here people, there are better ways to get your ass out there
That's why I don't date fat chicks... Thin women are easily supported on the good ol' Xerox
I believe he is speaking of the American Christian Theocracy.
I'm sure DOS windows 2.0 would run fine on your system too, doesn't mean it's a good OS...
How am I supposed to believe this is real if there is a pic of the flying speghetti monster in the corner (FSM). Looks like slashdot got duped by a joke article again...
People stop buying commercial music and only buy from indie labels who don't manipulate their artists and the prices of their wares. My musical tastes make this a lot easier (I am into mostly electronic music), but I encourage everyone to avoid funding the major labels who want to control the artists and take away rights from the public.
Of course they will probably blame the drop in sales on 'piracy'.
It's obvious major labels have NO respect for the public and NO respect for their artists. Avoid them. They make most of the money that you spend on CDs, not the artists. If you buy from these labels, you are basically supporting and funding their unethical practices.
linux is like a box of lego pieces which have mismatched colours (for example, compare X windows programs to the extremely uniform Aqua interface), and sometimes certain pieces won't stick to each other unless you remold the pieces from source diagrams. Oh yeah and if you want a program there are 40 almost similar pieces but only one will work and it will require 10 additional pieces to work and they have to be the correct versions of those pieces...
Great now I can't get a 100$ OS X laptop because of some open-source zealots and their principals.. MAN!
Apple can support whatever hardware they choose, and people who want to run OS X on a white box will make sure they have the supported hardware. The OS will drive the hardware sales.
agreed.. After using firefox and VLC for a while in windows I was less worried about watching media or using the web in LINUX (two extremely important things!) since both programs are available for it and are basically the same in every way... After using the windows versions I knew I wouldn't have anything to worry about in linux if I used the same software
modern distros are easy to install, on their own...
But installing on a system with windows installed still requires skills in partitioning and what not to get it set up right.. Granted, it's easy, but quite scary for the average user who can't even deal with a windows install (I have installed windows for many people who couldn't deal with it and paid me to do it, although they had no problem installing their own hardware upgrades, odd)... Even windows often requires a bit of driver installing and what not to get it working, this is too much for most people... Modern Linux distros are almost as good as windows at auto-detection and what not, but it still takes a lot of work to get anything that isn't detected to work. Average users NEVER WANT TO BE EXPOSED TO A COMMAND LINE/CONSOLE COMMANDS. OS X is probably the only unix/unix-like OS which completely shields the average user from the console. Even Ubuntu linux requires the console to get some things working (like WEP)...
After viewing the pictures of the highly eroded surface, NASA scientists realized it bears a striking resemblance to EDWARD JAMES OLMOS and have renamed the moon in his honour. The moon will now be known as the "EDWARD JAMES OLMOS MOON" in honour of the Battlestar Galactica and Miami Vice star.