No, I'm simply saying I do not appreciate being lumped into the mp3 p1r4t3 d00dz category like the parent post would imply. And I refuse to pay even more when what I'm already overcharged for the laughable connection I have as it is. I don't download "gigabytes upon gigabytes" but I download a significant amount, when my connection is usable that is...
Don't they realise that these noble, honourable souls constantly downloading gigabytes upon gigabytes of MP3s and porn deserve a free ride?
No, but I'm already paying by the month for my MP3s. And Comcast is already gouging me for $55 each month for the cable modem.
The connection is shitty, with frequent lag spikes. Ever had a Google search page stall while loading? It's pretty sad, and I experience it multiple times every day. $55 is already outrageous for the crap quality of the connection they give me, and now I'll be expected to pay more for those laggy, stalling downloads of MP3s I've already paid for.
There's something similar available in a program called esky:
esky is an implementation of job freezing (checkpoint/resume) for Unix processes. It can save the state of a running process to disk then later resume it from the point it left off, possibly on a different machine.
Hopefully Blizzard will drop their attack against Bnetd before the release.
Yeah, and that makes up for them launching it in the first place. Sorry, they'd have to do a lot more than simply "drop the attack" before they'll get me to respect them as a company again.
I believe you could do something similar with apt-get and a crontab.:) Put the Debian security server in your sources.list, and have apt-get upgrade your packages from it on a daily/weekly/monthly/whatever basis. There may be a downside to doing this, I honestly have never tried it - but I can't think of any reason off the top of my head why it wouldn't work.
... at least with OmniWeb (and presumably other browsers) where I can set up my own keywords
Mozilla has this, too.:) Works quite nicely, especially since I can just type "g something" to search Google, or "jargon something" to look up a word on Jargon File, etc.
I've been following AbiWord development for a while, and I'm still amazed by this little piece of software. I use it for all my small- and medium-sized documents (anything larger and I use LyX), and I love it.
One of the strong points of AbiWord is there's all sorts of nice "little things" features, such as the ability to import and export PalmDoc and PsionWord documents (I have both a PalmOS handheld and a Psion/EPOC/Symbian/whatever handheld). The lack of tables is a drag, but once that's added, I think this will truly be the perfect lightweight word processor. None of that useless bloat a la MS Office, just the features 99% of people need 99% of the time. Kudos to the AbiWord team.
You'll need to write/steal/beg-someone-to write a small wrapper program which simply "records" whats going into/dev/dsp
I don't know if this would work with Win4Lin or VMWare, but there's a program called vsound that does pretty much what you're talking about. It wraps its own sound functions around the program, and records any audio output. It's worked with every program I've tried -- RealPlayer, mikmod, web browsers with plugins, and so forth.
Yeah, they really should make their presence known! I mean, they could do stuff like send out CDs and come up with a catchy slogan to advertise on TV. Maybe something like "so easy to use it's #1." And who knows, maybe they could get a computer store (perhaps CompUSA) to bundle AOL discs with everything... These people just need to think a bit.
Glenn Reynolds has written an interesting, albiet a bit speculative, in regards to the role of the US Government in the possible quieting of nanotechnology research.
Time for some sentence structure review. Take out the comma segment in the beginning of the sentence, and we get "Glenn Reynolds has written an interesting in regards to the role..." Has written an interesting what?
Come on, Slashdot! If you want people to pay for this damn site, you really ought to at least proof read your friggin' postings. Sheesh.
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Hello? Long distance phone calls? If you make a lot of such calls, it's way cheaper to set up a VoIP setup and get around the metering.
Sadly I have to agree with you. When you look back at all the enthusiasm Americans (and indeed, the world) had for such things as setting foot on the moon, and when practically every friggin' launch was televised to eager audiences everywhere... Contrast that to today, and you realize just how much it's changed.
The first thing that came into my mind when reading the parent post was Homer sitting at the TV, and a televised NASA launch comes on. He struggles to change the channel, the batteries fall out of the remote, etc. etc. I figure this is how a lot of people feel these days about NASA and space exploration. If it isn't warp drives, photon torpedos, and superintelligent androids, it's boring.
Let's see 80 minutes of CD-quality music now uses 700 MB of space. How exactly does 300 minutes of CD-quality music fit on 500 MB?
Maybe they use WMA or MP3 or something. A lot of people consider 128kbps MP3s to be "CD quality" so ~1MB per minute * 500MB of space = 500 minutes or so of music.
Yes, the part you're missing is that Microsoft does not want the license transferred at all if it was a copy of Windows that came with your PC. With regards to this school stuff, they're talking about transfer of Windows with the PC it came with. That, to them, is ok.
But they're saying that if the PC does not appear to come with the originally-bunbled copy of Windows, then the school should not accept it. Supposedly the original purchaser of the PC is off enjoying (heh) their copy of Windows on another system, which would be a big no-no in Microsoft's eyes.
* Bug 89350 -- Home button should appear on main Toolbar
* Bug 35268 -- Edit Source using External Editor
* Bug 96877 -- Address book: Lists lose addresses
Ok, 96877 is rather serious, but c'mon... the home button not appearing in the main toolbar? Whoopdidoo. In my mind, it belongs on the link bar with the other links. Back is not a link. Front is not a link. Stop is not a link. Home is a link, and so are the items in my Bookmark menu and my favorites toolbar. An option to toggle where it appears would be handy for those who want to change it, but I don't see this as a show-stopper.
As for the external editor bit, yeah that's a good point, but for 90% of users, will it matter much? No. The average user does not know that you can view the source of HTML, much less edit it as such. And a lot of them don't really care. They just want to browse the web in a pleasant fashion, which is something Mozilla does an admirable job of providing, IMHO.
I'm equally skeptical that people will pony up money when they can still easily get it for free
The problem with stuff like Gnutella, Kazaa, etc. is you generally have to know EXACTLY what you're looking for. One of the reasons I joined emusic.com (a pay service, $10-15 a month depending on which subscription you get) is because I can find all sorts of stuff simply by genre and style, or by specific artist/song if I choose.
I can't go to Gnutella and say "find some contemporary jazz" and expect to get anything decent. I can go and type "Louis Armstrong" if I know that's what I want, but I don't always know what I want. Most people don't either.
Here's a sum-up list of why I pay for emusic:
Search by artist, track, album, or browse the genres. The latter is something you really can't do well in existing file-sharing networks.
Excellent download speeds at constant rates. I can snag multiple tracks off emusic at 180-200k/sec pretty much anytime, day or night. Contrast this to the crappy 2-5k/sec I got from people on Gnutella.
Lots of music in the styles I like. I'm not much for what's "cool" like Brititney Spears or whatever. Since the filesharing networks, by their very nature, tend to only have what the majority of people like, it's hard to find the music *I* enjoy. I don't see a lot of smooth jazz or caribbean music out there on the leech networks.
Other than that, all I can say is - go try out the 30 day trial and see for yourself. It's pretty sucky you have to have a credit card to sign up for the friggin' trial, but you may be surprised what good music there is to be found on there. Personally, what I find is worth paying for.
... that I just signed up for emusic.com. You won't find Britney Spears or the like there, but then again, that may be a good thing depending on your point of view. I've found all sorts of good stuff on there from independent artists, things the RIAA doesn't seem inclined to try and sell. $15 a month is a little steep, but then again, that's cheaper than a single CD with the latest shovel-songs courtesy of the RIAA... And there's a free trial, too.:)
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No, I'm simply saying I do not appreciate being lumped into the mp3 p1r4t3 d00dz category like the parent post would imply. And I refuse to pay even more when what I'm already overcharged for the laughable connection I have as it is. I don't download "gigabytes upon gigabytes" but I download a significant amount, when my connection is usable that is...
Don't they realise that these noble, honourable souls constantly downloading gigabytes upon gigabytes of MP3s and porn deserve a free ride?
No, but I'm already paying by the month for my MP3s. And Comcast is already gouging me for $55 each month for the cable modem.
The connection is shitty, with frequent lag spikes. Ever had a Google search page stall while loading? It's pretty sad, and I experience it multiple times every day. $55 is already outrageous for the crap quality of the connection they give me, and now I'll be expected to pay more for those laggy, stalling downloads of MP3s I've already paid for.
Thanks, but no thanks.
An article about Microsoft that's been up for hours and still has less than 100 comments?
In other news, ambient temperature in Hell dropped to a remarkable -12F this afternoon...
This song can be found as an "EMusic Exclusive" on this page, for my fellow EMusic'ers.
Hopefully Blizzard will drop their attack against Bnetd before the release.
Yeah, and that makes up for them launching it in the first place. Sorry, they'd have to do a lot more than simply "drop the attack" before they'll get me to respect them as a company again.
I believe you could do something similar with apt-get and a crontab. :) Put the Debian security server in your sources.list, and have apt-get upgrade your packages from it on a daily/weekly/monthly/whatever basis. There may be a downside to doing this, I honestly have never tried it - but I can't think of any reason off the top of my head why it wouldn't work.
the only danger of kids chatting on irc is them becoming script kiddies
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... at least with OmniWeb (and presumably other browsers) where I can set up my own keywords
Mozilla has this, too. :) Works quite nicely, especially since I can just type "g something" to search Google, or "jargon something" to look up a word on Jargon File, etc.
I've been following AbiWord development for a while, and I'm still amazed by this little piece of software. I use it for all my small- and medium-sized documents (anything larger and I use LyX), and I love it.
One of the strong points of AbiWord is there's all sorts of nice "little things" features, such as the ability to import and export PalmDoc and PsionWord documents (I have both a PalmOS handheld and a Psion/EPOC/Symbian/whatever handheld). The lack of tables is a drag, but once that's added, I think this will truly be the perfect lightweight word processor. None of that useless bloat a la MS Office, just the features 99% of people need 99% of the time. Kudos to the AbiWord team.
You'll need to write/steal/beg-someone-to write a small wrapper program which simply "records" whats going into /dev/dsp
I don't know if this would work with Win4Lin or VMWare, but there's a program called vsound that does pretty much what you're talking about. It wraps its own sound functions around the program, and records any audio output. It's worked with every program I've tried -- RealPlayer, mikmod, web browsers with plugins, and so forth.
... pure FUD and has no place on slashdot.
You must be new here. :)
Just look at what happened to Earth because of humans.
The Internet Radio Day of Silence is a day of protest for Internet Radio stations to get the word out on the issue.
Wait, you get the word out with silence? :) </lameness>
AOL just didn't do enough advertising.
Yeah, they really should make their presence known! I mean, they could do stuff like send out CDs and come up with a catchy slogan to advertise on TV. Maybe something like "so easy to use it's #1." And who knows, maybe they could get a computer store (perhaps CompUSA) to bundle AOL discs with everything... These people just need to think a bit.
Glenn Reynolds has written an interesting, albiet a bit speculative, in regards to the role of the US Government in the possible quieting of nanotechnology research.
Time for some sentence structure review. Take out the comma segment in the beginning of the sentence, and we get "Glenn Reynolds has written an interesting in regards to the role..." Has written an interesting what?
Come on, Slashdot! If you want people to pay for this damn site, you really ought to at least proof read your friggin' postings. Sheesh.
Hello? Long distance phone calls? If you make a lot of such calls, it's way cheaper to set up a VoIP setup and get around the metering.
Sadly I have to agree with you. When you look back at all the enthusiasm Americans (and indeed, the world) had for such things as setting foot on the moon, and when practically every friggin' launch was televised to eager audiences everywhere... Contrast that to today, and you realize just how much it's changed.
The first thing that came into my mind when reading the parent post was Homer sitting at the TV, and a televised NASA launch comes on. He struggles to change the channel, the batteries fall out of the remote, etc. etc. I figure this is how a lot of people feel these days about NASA and space exploration. If it isn't warp drives, photon torpedos, and superintelligent androids, it's boring.
Does SuSE 8.0 include StarOffice 6.0 as well?
According to another poster on here, it comes with StarOffice 5.2.
Let's see 80 minutes of CD-quality music now uses 700 MB of space. How exactly does 300 minutes of CD-quality music fit on 500 MB?
Maybe they use WMA or MP3 or something. A lot of people consider 128kbps MP3s to be "CD quality" so ~1MB per minute * 500MB of space = 500 minutes or so of music.
But they're saying that if the PC does not appear to come with the originally-bunbled copy of Windows, then the school should not accept it. Supposedly the original purchaser of the PC is off enjoying (heh) their copy of Windows on another system, which would be a big no-no in Microsoft's eyes.
outlaw filming someone via hidden camera without their permission except in public places
Maybe this will mean the death of X10 and those damn ads. :)
* Bug 35268 -- Edit Source using External Editor
* Bug 96877 -- Address book: Lists lose addresses
Ok, 96877 is rather serious, but c'mon... the home button not appearing in the main toolbar? Whoopdidoo. In my mind, it belongs on the link bar with the other links. Back is not a link. Front is not a link. Stop is not a link. Home is a link, and so are the items in my Bookmark menu and my favorites toolbar. An option to toggle where it appears would be handy for those who want to change it, but I don't see this as a show-stopper.
As for the external editor bit, yeah that's a good point, but for 90% of users, will it matter much? No. The average user does not know that you can view the source of HTML, much less edit it as such. And a lot of them don't really care. They just want to browse the web in a pleasant fashion, which is something Mozilla does an admirable job of providing, IMHO.
</my2>I'm equally skeptical that people will pony up money when they can still easily get it for free
The problem with stuff like Gnutella, Kazaa, etc. is you generally have to know EXACTLY what you're looking for. One of the reasons I joined emusic.com (a pay service, $10-15 a month depending on which subscription you get) is because I can find all sorts of stuff simply by genre and style, or by specific artist/song if I choose.
I can't go to Gnutella and say "find some contemporary jazz" and expect to get anything decent. I can go and type "Louis Armstrong" if I know that's what I want, but I don't always know what I want. Most people don't either.
Here's a sum-up list of why I pay for emusic:
Other than that, all I can say is - go try out the 30 day trial and see for yourself. It's pretty sucky you have to have a credit card to sign up for the friggin' trial, but you may be surprised what good music there is to be found on there. Personally, what I find is worth paying for.
... that I just signed up for emusic.com. You won't find Britney Spears or the like there, but then again, that may be a good thing depending on your point of view. I've found all sorts of good stuff on there from independent artists, things the RIAA doesn't seem inclined to try and sell. $15 a month is a little steep, but then again, that's cheaper than a single CD with the latest shovel-songs courtesy of the RIAA... And there's a free trial, too. :)
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