Just remember, prescription drugs are cheap up north BECAUSE they are expensive here. Or to put it another way, prescription drugs are expensive here because they are cheap up north.
Dont forget to send money to the sound engineers, the studio managers, the musicians, pre press engineer, factory workers and everyone else involved. Or do you think that Madona just grunts and craps out a pile of CDs?
"Computers did not teach me how to interact with other people. They did not teach social or moral skills. They provided a fraction of the education I needed. Computers will never be able to replace the social education that every person needs."
I've read it. Its BS and doesn't work in the real world. In the real world, if I spend X years and Y dollars creating an innovative peace of software I need to at least recoup my expenses when trying to sell it as a service. Another group however can just take what I wrote (since its released under the GPL) and under sell me on support costs since they have no development expenses to make up.
"My thoughts entirely. The first question I asked myself was WHY were the Feds raiding his house in the first place?"
Because his employer found kidi porn on his work computer and turned him in. RTFA as the saying goes. That it was on his work AND home computer makes his story very hard to believe.
"One guy at my office accidentally got some CWS variants on his machine, and the IT department - myself included - went through the router logs (school district, have to keep the logs, state law here) to see where he got it. This resulted in his getting fired (free pr0n site, and yes, he was logged in as himself).
In short, these little bastards really _can_ ruin your life and your machine."
You dont think his looking at pron from work had anything to do with it do you?
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1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a boxed eddition of Doom III, sealed with seven seals.
2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the box, and to loose the seals thereof?
3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, ID of Activision, hath prevailed to open the box, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the Redmond beast, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Linux client, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the even Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
7 And he came and took the box out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
8 And when he had taken the box, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Linux client, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the box, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Limux client that was respawned to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Linux client for ever and ever.
14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
Well, I guess one could say that being able to run windows native apps on Linux gets the end user over to Linux in the first place rather then spend money on Windows. One there is a good user base of Linux systems there is a reason for companies to release Linux native versions of the apps. So a Windows emulation layer (or what ever) solves the chicken and the egg problem of commercial apps.
HOWEVER. I for one think Linux has a long way to go before it can be used be Joe and Jane CompUSA customer. Simple things are missing from many distros that end up requireing extensive work to add. Untill the end user dosn't need to mess around in the kernel code it will not be acceptable. For example.
I'm building a PPTP server, which should be simple.
1. Debian has a package for Poptop. However I want to use MSCHAPv2 which requires that the kernel support MPPE (why the hell is this in the kernel?). 2. There is a kernel module for MPPE for Debian. However it needs a 2.4.x kernel. 3. Debian by default installs a 2.2.x kernel. 4. Installing a 2.4.x kernel over the default Debian install kills Lilo. 5. Installing with the 2.4.x kernel from the Debian installer breaks the included driver for the 3COM NIC in the server. 6. Vodka makes all my troubles go away for a while. 7. GOTO 6
"I have some tape backups that lasted a lot less than that. The reason? Can't find a machine that will read the tapes anymore. I heard that google had a hard time reading some old magtapes to get the old news archives off of them (circa late '80s)."
Oods are the data is still good. You just chose to not spend the time and money to get the information off the tapes. Hell, you can still get data off of punch cards. I would be shocked if there wasn't someone out there with a tape drive that would read your tapes.
"What DIGITAL media lasts longest? My first instinct is to say some type of tape, but tape drives seem to come in and go out of fashion fairly quickly. IDE drives might be another alternative..."
There is a reason people back up to tape even though it costs more per gigabyte then hard disks.
This is the AIT1 spec from Sony.
Avg. media uses: greater than 30,000
Media archival: greater than 30 years
Average head life: minimum 50,000 recording head contact hours
Media drum wraps: 100,000 times
Tape repositioning: 1,000,000 cycles
"The real reason RAMBUS wasnt a success was because it was so fuggin expensive! Why pay extra money for a motherboard that supports it to pay 2x-4x the amount for the RAM as well? Nearly doubles the PC cost!"
Because it was better technology? Overlooking that the cost of the memory was only about 10% higher. You must also think that all computer upgrades are worthless. After all, why pay extra money for a motherboard that supports an Athlon 64 just to end up spending 2x-4x the amount for the CPU as well? So hows your XT running?
All that being said, the company seems to be full of jerks. Pity realy as I like the memory architecture a lot. My old P4 1.7Ghz to this day has better memory IO then any other PC I've seen.
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Just remember, prescription drugs are cheap up north BECAUSE they are expensive here. Or to put it another way, prescription drugs are expensive here because they are cheap up north.
Your right, I should have said "steaming pile".
Dont forget to send money to the sound engineers, the studio managers, the musicians, pre press engineer, factory workers and everyone else involved. Or do you think that Madona just grunts and craps out a pile of CDs?
You just didn't spend enough time playing Quake.
Those two screen shots do not realy look much alike. Sorry but I dont see how the one "ripped off" the other.
I've read it. Its BS and doesn't work in the real world. In the real world, if I spend X years and Y dollars creating an innovative peace of software I need to at least recoup my expenses when trying to sell it as a service. Another group however can just take what I wrote (since its released under the GPL) and under sell me on support costs since they have no development expenses to make up.
(looks down at the ground) Found one!
Because his employer found kidi porn on his work computer and turned him in. RTFA as the saying goes. That it was on his work AND home computer makes his story very hard to believe.
In short, these little bastards really _can_ ruin your life and your machine."
You dont think his looking at pron from work had anything to do with it do you?
Using the latest in advanced sensor technology, we can now answer the age old question "does a bear crap in the woods".
I'm wondering what would happen if one where to plug a firewire DVD-ROM drive into it.
1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a boxed eddition of Doom III, sealed with seven seals.
2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the box, and to loose the seals thereof?
3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, ID of Activision, hath prevailed to open the box, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the Redmond beast, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Linux client, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the even Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
7 And he came and took the box out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
8 And when he had taken the box, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Linux client, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the box, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Limux client that was respawned to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Linux client for ever and ever.
14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
As did I (sigh)
"Seriously though, I think they actually wrote a real single player game to go with this one."
Thats what they claim. But they said the same thing about Quake. Then again they also said Quake was to Doom what Doom was to Pac Man.
there will be a game that uses this fine engine. Untill then we'll just have to poke at the demo app that ID is including with the runtime.
HOWEVER. I for one think Linux has a long way to go before it can be used be Joe and Jane CompUSA customer. Simple things are missing from many distros that end up requireing extensive work to add. Untill the end user dosn't need to mess around in the kernel code it will not be acceptable. For example.
I'm building a PPTP server, which should be simple.
1. Debian has a package for Poptop. However I want to use MSCHAPv2 which requires that the kernel support MPPE (why the hell is this in the kernel?).
2. There is a kernel module for MPPE for Debian. However it needs a 2.4.x kernel.
3. Debian by default installs a 2.2.x kernel.
4. Installing a 2.4.x kernel over the default Debian install kills Lilo.
5. Installing with the 2.4.x kernel from the Debian installer breaks the included driver for the 3COM NIC in the server.
6. Vodka makes all my troubles go away for a while.
7. GOTO 6
It can order from Dominos or it can order pizzia? Becuase I have to tell you, Domino doesn't sell anything I would call pizzia.
To be anything like the Phantom Sony would have to move its offices to one empty room at a strip mall.
and remember kids, large RIAA backed groups can afford biger broadcast gear then you can.
Why? What's the benefit to them? Not a troll, just playing devils advocate.
Oods are the data is still good. You just chose to not spend the time and money to get the information off the tapes. Hell, you can still get data off of punch cards. I would be shocked if there wasn't someone out there with a tape drive that would read your tapes.
There is a reason people back up to tape even though it costs more per gigabyte then hard disks.
This is the AIT1 spec from Sony.
Avg. media uses: greater than 30,000
Media archival: greater than 30 years
Average head life: minimum 50,000 recording head contact hours
Media drum wraps: 100,000 times
Tape repositioning: 1,000,000 cycles
Because there's just no way to get the data off an audio CD you buy at the mall.
Solid state drives have been around for a long time. Hell, the old RocketDrives could hit 4GB with four 1GB RDRAM sticks.
Because it was better technology? Overlooking that the cost of the memory was only about 10% higher. You must also think that all computer upgrades are worthless. After all, why pay extra money for a motherboard that supports an Athlon 64 just to end up spending 2x-4x the amount for the CPU as well? So hows your XT running?
All that being said, the company seems to be full of jerks. Pity realy as I like the memory architecture a lot. My old P4 1.7Ghz to this day has better memory IO then any other PC I've seen.
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