> > What would be cool is if there was a "competing" record company(s) that weren't members of the RIAA that sold CD's at a decent price
> It'd be great, but only if the retailers sold them with the discount intact. The unscrupulous might simply see it as a way to jack up their own profits on those titles;
Dischord, the Washington DC based punk label, has a nice solution to this: All their CDs/LPS/etc have a little blurb on the back to the effect of "This CD is $11 postpaid from [mailing address here]." Of course, very few other labels do that.
> Worse, the keyboard doesnt behave like ASCII or tile nethack, which is offencive to habitual players.
IIRC, the keyboard does behave the same as far as keybindings go, or at least it's configurable to do so. The biggest gripe I've got with Falcon's Eye's keyboard support is it doesn't always buffer keys, so if you're used to wacking keys quicker'n the interface can respond, it's annoying. At least you probably die less floating-eye related deaths.
Problem is, I haven't been able to compile NH with both Falcon's Eye *and* TTY graphics options... br
You could get off the couch, look for the teeny-tiny buttons on the tv itself to change channels, hit the off button instead, and go find a book.
Or you could rant about nothing in particular on/., except your wireless keyboard & mouse are awol too...
Ob-sort-of-on-topic: The province of Alberta, Canada (where I live) is actually rather proud of being rat-free. Unfortunately, it looks like the tales of it becoming so by means of armed rednecks driving up & down the saskatchewan border are, alas, myth.
Supposedly the recording industry's profits increased while Napster was up, and decreased after shutting it down. So obviously, it's the *lack* of pirated mp3's that's causing their financial woes. The solution? Charge a deposit on blank CDRs, etc, then *refund it* once they're filled with free-as-in-beer music.
I think the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button shouldn't take you to the first result, but rather the n'th, where n is random. Otherwise, luck doesn't really enter into it.
With all the folks plugging their fave Chuck Jones shorts, I thought somebody ought to mention the work of utter, twisted, psychedelic genius that is "Dough for the Dodo". Like a Dali painting crossed with a pie in the face.
>Some people aren't getting the point here. The old 486s are the Gas Guzzzlers, using lots of space and power and generating even more heat and noise. Do you really want to run it?
Funny, none of my 486's ever needed a water cooling system, or for that matter even a CPU fan. Noise yeah, space mostly because at one point I was using the power supply from one case with all the bits installed in another, except the extra HD that didn't fit in either. But for the record, 99% of the time Caldera 1.3 (with a 2.0.something kernel) ran quite nicely with X in 16 megs. The other one percent, of course, while running Netscape or KFM, it would swap-thrash for like half an hour at a time. Reboot!
As somebody who's usually riding the trailing edge of the PC market, I'm glad somebody's looking past the planned obsolesence trip and doing something useful with older hardware.
I take it you've never waited *overnight* for a kernel to compile on a 486 w/4mb. If you needed to recompile everything in even a smallish linux distro on a machine like that, you'd probably have found a faster box for free by the time it's done anyway.
Most of the examples Katz mentioned apply only to a limited demographic slice, if you will, of those who use the net now. It's quite possible that the net is too many things to too many different kinds of people for there to be any such thing as its heart. And you know what? This is a good thing. Ten years from now, the idea that there even could be a "heart" of the internet is probably gonna seem laughable.
That isn't to say that there isn't room for new technologies on top of the internet to shake things up a little. Look at the Napster/p2p revolution, for example. Shady business legally, to be sure, but a good wake up call for the record & movie industries, who after all have an entire business model whose obsolesence is now a Simple Matter of Bandwidth.
But if you want to find any kind of significant change in the character of the net, or better yet the net significantly changing society, the wealthy, industrial First World is probably the last place to look right now. What about the ~90% of the world on the other side of the (much-hyped) digital divide?
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> > What would be cool is if there was a "competing" record company(s) that weren't members of the RIAA that sold CD's at a decent price
> It'd be great, but only if the retailers sold them with the discount intact. The unscrupulous might simply see it as a way to jack up their own profits on those titles;
Dischord, the Washington DC based punk label, has a nice solution to this: All their CDs/LPS/etc have a little blurb on the back to the effect of "This CD is $11 postpaid from [mailing address here]." Of course, very few other labels do that.
> is still want to be able to instal an os by insterting the cd and clicking a few times.
Me, I wanna click a few times, and then play Pac-Man while the install finishes. When linux can do this...what? Caldera already does? Oh.
> Worse, the keyboard doesnt behave like ASCII or tile nethack, which is offencive to habitual players. IIRC, the keyboard does behave the same as far as keybindings go, or at least it's configurable to do so. The biggest gripe I've got with Falcon's Eye's keyboard support is it doesn't always buffer keys, so if you're used to wacking keys quicker'n the interface can respond, it's annoying. At least you probably die less floating-eye related deaths.
Problem is, I haven't been able to compile NH with both Falcon's Eye *and* TTY graphics options...
br
You could get off the couch, look for the teeny-tiny buttons on the tv itself to change channels, hit the off button instead, and go find a book.
/., except your wireless keyboard & mouse are awol too...
Or you could rant about nothing in particular on
Ob-sort-of-on-topic: The province of Alberta, Canada (where I live) is actually rather proud of being rat-free. Unfortunately, it looks like the tales of it becoming so by means of armed rednecks driving up & down the saskatchewan border are, alas, myth.
Given that xfree's website doesn't list that sis chipset as supported, I'd guess not. Unless somebody can enlighten me otherwise.
let's see those perl weenies do *this*!
Tommorrow: Slashcode to be rewritten in sed.
Supposedly the recording industry's profits increased while Napster was up, and decreased after shutting it down. So obviously, it's the *lack* of pirated mp3's that's causing their financial woes. The solution? Charge a deposit on blank CDRs, etc, then *refund it* once they're filled with free-as-in-beer music.
I think the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button shouldn't take you to the first result, but rather the n'th, where n is random. Otherwise, luck doesn't really enter into it.
With all the folks plugging their fave Chuck Jones shorts, I thought somebody ought to mention the work of utter, twisted, psychedelic genius that is "Dough for the Dodo". Like a Dali painting crossed with a pie in the face.
Not like Chuck ever did a bad 'toon...
>Some people aren't getting the point here. The old 486s are the Gas Guzzzlers, using lots of space and power and generating even more heat and noise. Do you really want to run it?
Funny, none of my 486's ever needed a water cooling system, or for that matter even a CPU fan. Noise yeah, space mostly because at one point I was using the power supply from one case with all the bits installed in another, except the extra HD that didn't fit in either. But for the record, 99% of the time Caldera 1.3 (with a 2.0.something kernel) ran quite nicely with X in 16 megs. The other one percent, of course, while running Netscape or KFM, it would swap-thrash for like half an hour at a time. Reboot!
As somebody who's usually riding the trailing edge of the PC market, I'm glad somebody's looking past the planned obsolesence trip and doing something useful with older hardware.
(Ob my-l33t-box-brag: 300mhz AMD, 32mb ram, 20gig hd, and stop laughing, it's impolite.)
I take it you've never waited *overnight* for a kernel to compile on a 486 w/4mb. If you needed to recompile everything in even a smallish linux distro on a machine like that, you'd probably have found a faster box for free by the time it's done anyway.
What rolls down stairs Alone or in pairs Rolls over your neighbour's dog It's great for a snack It fits on your back It's log, log, log!
Most of the examples Katz mentioned apply only to a limited demographic slice, if you will, of those who use the net now. It's quite possible that the net is too many things to too many different kinds of people for there to be any such thing as its heart. And you know what? This is a good thing. Ten years from now, the idea that there even could be a "heart" of the internet is probably gonna seem laughable.
That isn't to say that there isn't room for new technologies on top of the internet to shake things up a little. Look at the Napster/p2p revolution, for example. Shady business legally, to be sure, but a good wake up call for the record & movie industries, who after all have an entire business model whose obsolesence is now a Simple Matter of Bandwidth.
But if you want to find any kind of significant change in the character of the net, or better yet the net significantly changing society, the wealthy, industrial First World is probably the last place to look right now. What about the ~90% of the world on the other side of the (much-hyped) digital divide?
Thank ghod the article only mentioned wget 1.6 as a spambot, I'm running 1.5.3, which doesn't have the --evil-bastard or --potted-meat options.
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