Just a guess, but very few people are reading it in the past, and unless someone was over your shoulder as you typed it, not many in the present, either.
Windows 95 has a desktop environment that's fairly quick, simple, easy to configure, and runs comfortably in 8MB.
Windows 95 quick with 8mb ram? I find it unbearable with less than 24, but maybe my standards are higher. And easy to configure, well, yeah, if you have experience with windows...but linux is pretty damn easy to configure with experience as well.
Why can't there be a 'lite' version of KDE which uses only 1MB to give me exactly the sort of consistency I had with my Mac Plus?
Because no one has needed that enough to make it. The source is availble, have a go at it.
But I'd say the biggest place where Win95 beats Linux is this: I could run Win95 quite comfortably on a PC with 8MB RAM and it would give me a somewhat friendly UI and a consistent interface across applications, with buttons and menus that would all look and work similarly. On Linux today I have two choices: use a desktop environment like KDE which requires more than 128MB RAM to run comfortably, or else use a bare-bones window manager like fvwm2 or icewm and put up with the fact that every app's buttons and menus are going to look completely different (xterm still has that weird scrollbar that requires a three-button mouse!).
Have you tried using an older version of Linux? Trying to compare current linux with a near 10 year old Windows on OLD hardware is kinda apples to oranges, isn't it?
I got oceanfront property on the moon for ya, real cheap...
Really? All my moon property so far has been land locked. How cheap is cheap? I'm looking to expand to ocean front, but I still need enough money to help this friendly Nigerian man.
It is quite easy to do, asuming the atticment size limit is 1mb, split iso's into 650 chunks and email them to yourself.
Get your friends to sign up and forward the iso to everyone using CC.
650 1 mb files? That's more work than paying for it. Let alone the fact that if you're CCing all your friends you're sending out 650mb * number of people - that's a lot of bandwith that adds up quickly and gets you noticed. I don't think any real warez group is going to be using this.
Very few artists are signed when they are in a position to demand something from the record company, usually they're given the option "Accept our contract and eat, or don't and starve".
Still, how would you feel if you were going to die unless someone stole some IP. Personally, if I (or my (future) wife or (future) children) was gonna die because some rich doctor wanted to make more money off his invention - I'd be all over stealing the IP. If he doesn't care enough about my life to sell it to me for what I am able to pay, I don't care enough about fulfilling his greed and respecting IP.
To be fair, no one would die if Linus didn't reveal his code for free. If people can't afford the price he sets for treatment, people will die. Crucial point, no?
Actually, it probably does just what it's supposed to. This isn't meant to stop ALL copying, just keeping joe-average-user from burning a copy for his friend.
You probably work for that goatse guy trying to imagine a beowolf cluster of business plans but foiled by micro$oft.
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Daddy, what's great-grampa doing with those ladies?
Oh, sorry son. Wrong file. Don't tell your mother.
If you're reading this from the future...
Just a guess, but very few people are reading it in the past, and unless someone was over your shoulder as you typed it, not many in the present, either.
Windows 95 has a desktop environment that's fairly quick, simple, easy to configure, and runs comfortably in 8MB.
Windows 95 quick with 8mb ram? I find it unbearable with less than 24, but maybe my standards are higher. And easy to configure, well, yeah, if you have experience with windows...but linux is pretty damn easy to configure with experience as well.
Why can't there be a 'lite' version of KDE which uses only 1MB to give me exactly the sort of consistency I had with my Mac Plus?
Because no one has needed that enough to make it. The source is availble, have a go at it.
But I'd say the biggest place where Win95 beats Linux is this: I could run Win95 quite comfortably on a PC with 8MB RAM and it would give me a somewhat friendly UI and a consistent interface across applications, with buttons and menus that would all look and work similarly. On Linux today I have two choices: use a desktop environment like KDE which requires more than 128MB RAM to run comfortably, or else use a bare-bones window manager like fvwm2 or icewm and put up with the fact that every app's buttons and menus are going to look completely different (xterm still has that weird scrollbar that requires a three-button mouse!).
Have you tried using an older version of Linux? Trying to compare current linux with a near 10 year old Windows on OLD hardware is kinda apples to oranges, isn't it?
I got oceanfront property on the moon for ya, real cheap...
Really? All my moon property so far has been land locked. How cheap is cheap? I'm looking to expand to ocean front, but I still need enough money to help this friendly Nigerian man.
They are also eyeing the multibillion-dollar video game market video game market.
They must be eyeing it with both eyes.
It is quite easy to do, asuming the atticment size limit is 1mb, split iso's into 650 chunks and email them to yourself.
Get your friends to sign up and forward the iso to everyone using CC.
650 1 mb files? That's more work than paying for it. Let alone the fact that if you're CCing all your friends you're sending out 650mb * number of people - that's a lot of bandwith that adds up quickly and gets you noticed. I don't think any real warez group is going to be using this.
but what does it matter if the enemy can simply still smuggle dirty bombs or plagues into our cities?
A good super weapon then would be mind control, that would trump everything that's out there and everything that could be sans time travel.
OK, I don't know what the hell E-Ink is :(
The ink you use to make the letter E, duh!
And honestly, when was the last time a total stranger came up to you on the street to tell you something you wanted to hear? :)
Last night there was this girl on the corner that told me something I wanted to hear. Then did something I wanted to do...
The who was the source of the original story
Wow, first they make great music, and now they're reporting the news! Is there anything they can't do?
the artists don't demand better conditions
Very few artists are signed when they are in a position to demand something from the record company, usually they're given the option "Accept our contract and eat, or don't and starve".
Actually all I'm trying to do is crack the encryption on this nude Britney Spears pic. Thanks for tipping everyone off. - God
Hi, I'm Troy McClure; you may remember me froms such bands as "Carl the Rockin Squirrel" and "Calypso Hypotenuse".
The things they can do with chemicals now days...scary...but cool.
You should see what they could do with LSD in the 70s.
Still, how would you feel if you were going to die unless someone stole some IP. Personally, if I (or my (future) wife or (future) children) was gonna die because some rich doctor wanted to make more money off his invention - I'd be all over stealing the IP. If he doesn't care enough about my life to sell it to me for what I am able to pay, I don't care enough about fulfilling his greed and respecting IP.
To be fair, no one would die if Linus didn't reveal his code for free. If people can't afford the price he sets for treatment, people will die. Crucial point, no?
I think this is more for a situation where you don't want anyone else reading the e-mail except for the recipient, otherwise why bother?
How about 217 then? Nice and easy to remember - like when I chmod something...
Exactly WHAT are you chmoding 217???
Earn as in wait until they celebrate the 18th/21st = 9 month anniversary of when their parents copulated? Yep, that's earning it. Hard work, too.
Finally, a practical use for science!
Pour me up a frosty, cold glass of technology, barkeep.
Actually, according to the RIAA: 300GB = One Trillion Dollars of lost revenue.
A Trillion dollars can buy a lot of porn...
Actually, it probably does just what it's supposed to. This isn't meant to stop ALL copying, just keeping joe-average-user from burning a copy for his friend.
You probably work for that goatse guy trying to imagine a beowolf cluster of business plans but foiled by micro$oft.
I did my homework and Im a proud member of Slashdot Nation.
If you had really done you're homework, you'd know it's SCO this week.