The people that download copyright infringing movies via the internet are usually the really big movie buffs who will watch it in the theater anyway, or those that would never pay to see the movie. Now people doing this may offend your own personal sense of morality, but there isn't financial loss to the content creators. If you don't believe me just wait for the B.O. resutls to ROTK when it comes out, even though it will be available on the 'net. The real losses come from the street vendor type piracy in asia, the middle east and other lands afar, but that will continue as long as they don't put the movie fares there into proportion with the citizens of those places incomes.
Then if this ever comes to pass you could probably take it to the supreme court because it's unconstitutional. You could probably do the same thing right now with the cd sales levy, but ofcoarse they can get away with it because indy artists can't afford lawyers like big industry can.
I find it very unlikely that you could get windows XP to run on a machine that only has a 1gb harddrive. That's gotta be what, a pentium pro or something? And yes, if you want to compare the install size of something from 1998, it would only be fair to compare to a linux version's install size from 1998. KDE 3.x is new technology just like windows XP, you may want to consider something a little lighter and faster(like fluxbox, xfce) for such an old machine(damn I thought I was ghetto with my old p3 450). Still, it should have fit with debian 3 and only kde installed.
Since they are suing employees of the ISP for something the ISP's customer did, does that mean that they themselves as individuals (organization president perhaps) can be sued for the actions of any customer of theirs? All millions(or whatever) of them? Thats alot of liability there, now I know why they need to do anything for money, at any moment the shitstorm could pour down on them and they need to be prepared.
I contest that Donald Rumsfeld IS pure evil. You just have to look at ANY video with him in it and you can tell. You can see how he is drunken with power, and insane with his own ego. I'm no Bush basher like some, he's an OK guy, but Rummy is SATAN!
And before you troll me, please actually look at a video clip of him.
1. http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver 2. kde 3.2 has speed improvements. 3. Use a simpler widget theme, I was surpised at the speed differences. 4. Use epiphany, galeon, or mozilla firebird/thunderbird. Or Konqueror/opera for a non gecko choice. 5. Ximian OpenOffice, Koffice, abiword, emacs, vi...
Redhat has always been one of the slower, more bloated distro's, try something else.
1. http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver
2. kde 3.2 has speed improvements.
3. Use a simpler widget theme, I was surpised at the speed differences.
4. Use epiphany, galeon, or mozilla firebird/thunderbird. Or Konqueror/opera for a non gecko choice.
5. Ximian OpenOffice, Koffice, abiword, emacs, vi...
Redhat has always been one of the slower, more bloated distro's, try something else.
6. NEVER!
I beleive the intent was to comfort PHB's who only go for comercially available products, regardless of the price or actual differences. Also, Ximian does some nice polishing work.
In my experience 1/2 of linux users that I know IRL switch thier browser identifier to IE. Konqueror(and other browsers) should make that option automatically disabled when visiting google. It's too bad these people don't just enable it for specific sites that require IE, but most of them are busy and "just can't be bothered" with it, so they stay identified as IE all the time.
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
It doesn't run everything, but it's getting there. Also, I'm pretty sure there is a native linux Ultima7 client somewhere.
"There are other methods. As every good sysadmin knows, it is part of standard practise to send data to the screen of interesting variety to keep all the pixies that make up your picture happy. Screen pixies (commonly mis-typed or re-named as 'pixels') are categorised by the type of hat they wear (red, green or blue) and will hide or appear (thereby showing the colour of their hat) whenever they receive a little piece of food. Video cards turn data into pixie-food, and then send them to the pixies - the more expensive the card, the better the food, so the better behaved the pixies are. They also need constant stimulation - this is why screen savers exist.
To take your suggestions further, you could just throw the random data to console, thereby letting the pixies consume it. This causes no heat to be produced at all, keeps the pixies happy and gets rid of your data quite quickly, even if it does make things look a bit messy on your screen.
Incidentally, as an ex-admin of a large ISP who experienced many problems attempting to maintain a stable temperature in a server room, I would strongly discourage people sending the data they do not want out to the network. The fairies who do the packet switching and routing get annoyed by it as well."
Wanted: Dedicated editor for the task of auditing past documents for "innacuracies". Must be profficient in latest edition of newspeak. Starting: Right away, needed to replace previous employee who recently perished in an "accident".
Actually when I think about it one of the first things that interested me in technology was that it would reduce the amount of work humans have to do. I saw a future where 40-hour work weeks became 10-hour work weeks because everything would be so automated and we wouldn't have excessive extras that we don't need -- or else we'd have an overabundance of them and everyone would have them.
More likely people would still work 40hrs, just fewer people would have jobs, or the rich would have dozens of butlers and jesters.
I never said I agreed with the proposed system with it's stupid "art tax" or whatever. But imho part of being libertarian is being against excessive government intervention, and intellectual property protection is an excess to me, though it may not be to you. How many of my tax dollars could be saved without the RIAA tying up the courts etc.
Abolishing copyright isn't socialism by any means, it is more anarchist or libertarian than anything. Copyright requires government enforcement. That socialism may not favor copyright is coincidental and irrelevant, and it would be more accurate to say that capitalism does favor it, and most other situations do not.
How can you say windows is better at multimedia? I can't play any video format flawlessly fullscreen and fullspeed on windows other than mpeg1, it always is slow, out of sync, frame skippy, or broken. While on linux I can play anything I can think of perfectly. Not to mention that I don't have to hunt and peck for codecs, and cajole them into working properly(like I did with windows), all the codecs are compiled with the player for me.
Most of the applications you've mentioned aren't the "premier" such application of it's type. For ex: K3b is imho the best cdburning application for linux, and it isn't terribly different from nero.
That's a pretty cool idea. Write a driver developement kit that by design makes the driver work on linux, and windows with an extra component. Just make the devel kit easy to use and understand, and excelerate production time enough that it would be used.
Yes the layout could be more minimal and refined, but most of the appearance can be better "skinned" by using more visually appealing qt and kde theme components. Look at kdelook.org for more info. It may not be Mac OSX pretty, but it can look much better than the default-esque screenshots.
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The people that download copyright infringing movies via the internet are usually the really big movie buffs who will watch it in the theater anyway, or those that would never pay to see the movie. Now people doing this may offend your own personal sense of morality, but there isn't financial loss to the content creators. If you don't believe me just wait for the B.O. resutls to ROTK when it comes out, even though it will be available on the 'net. The real losses come from the street vendor type piracy in asia, the middle east and other lands afar, but that will continue as long as they don't put the movie fares there into proportion with the citizens of those places incomes.
Then if this ever comes to pass you could probably take it to the supreme court because it's unconstitutional. You could probably do the same thing right now with the cd sales levy, but ofcoarse they can get away with it because indy artists can't afford lawyers like big industry can.
I find it very unlikely that you could get windows XP to run on a machine that only has a 1gb harddrive. That's gotta be what, a pentium pro or something? And yes, if you want to compare the install size of something from 1998, it would only be fair to compare to a linux version's install size from 1998. KDE 3.x is new technology just like windows XP, you may want to consider something a little lighter and faster(like fluxbox, xfce) for such an old machine(damn I thought I was ghetto with my old p3 450). Still, it should have fit with debian 3 and only kde installed.
Since they are suing employees of the ISP for something the ISP's customer did, does that mean that they themselves as individuals (organization president perhaps) can be sued for the actions of any customer of theirs? All millions(or whatever) of them? Thats alot of liability there, now I know why they need to do anything for money, at any moment the shitstorm could pour down on them and they need to be prepared.
Are there any credible laptop manufacturers in Brazil that might offer a laptop without the MS tax?
Please someone with some money, patent all possible future DRM techniques.
I contest that Donald Rumsfeld IS pure evil. You just have to look at ANY video with him in it and you can tell. You can see how he is drunken with power, and insane with his own ego. I'm no Bush basher like some, he's an OK guy, but Rummy is SATAN! And before you troll me, please actually look at a video clip of him.
1. http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver ...
2. kde 3.2 has speed improvements.
3. Use a simpler widget theme, I was surpised at the speed differences.
4. Use epiphany, galeon, or mozilla firebird/thunderbird. Or Konqueror/opera for a non gecko choice.
5. Ximian OpenOffice, Koffice, abiword, emacs, vi
Redhat has always been one of the slower, more
bloated distro's, try something else.
6. NEVER!
1. http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver 2. kde 3.2 has speed improvements. 3. Use a simpler widget theme, I was surpised at the speed differences. 4. Use epiphany, galeon, or mozilla firebird/thunderbird. Or Konqueror/opera for a non gecko choice. 5. Ximian OpenOffice, Koffice, abiword, emacs, vi ...
Redhat has always been one of the slower, more bloated distro's, try something else.
6. NEVER!
I beleive the intent was to comfort PHB's who only go for comercially available products, regardless of the price or actual differences. Also, Ximian does some nice polishing work.
In my experience 1/2 of linux users that I know IRL switch thier browser identifier to IE. Konqueror(and other browsers) should make that option automatically disabled when visiting google. It's too bad these people don't just enable it for specific sites that require IE, but most of them are busy and "just can't be bothered" with it, so they stay identified as IE all the time.
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ It doesn't run everything, but it's getting there. Also, I'm pretty sure there is a native linux Ultima7 client somewhere.
from:s /faq/funnies.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/book
"There are other methods. As every good sysadmin knows, it is part of standard practise to send data to the screen of interesting variety to keep all the pixies that make up your picture happy. Screen pixies (commonly mis-typed or re-named as 'pixels') are categorised by the type of hat they wear (red, green or blue) and will hide or appear (thereby showing the colour of their hat) whenever they receive a little piece of food. Video cards turn data into pixie-food, and then send them to the pixies - the more expensive the card, the better the food, so the better behaved the pixies are. They also need constant stimulation - this is why screen savers exist. To take your suggestions further, you could just throw the random data to console, thereby letting the pixies consume it. This causes no heat to be produced at all, keeps the pixies happy and gets rid of your data quite quickly, even if it does make things look a bit messy on your screen. Incidentally, as an ex-admin of a large ISP who experienced many problems attempting to maintain a stable temperature in a server room, I would strongly discourage people sending the data they do not want out to the network. The fairies who do the packet switching and routing get annoyed by it as well."
Posted: Dec 3rd, 1984.
Wanted: Dedicated editor for the task of auditing past documents for "innacuracies". Must be profficient in latest edition of newspeak.
Starting: Right away, needed to replace previous employee who recently perished in an "accident".
Edited: Dec 4th, 1984.
Revised: Dec 11th, 1984.
Actually when I think about it one of the first things that interested me in technology was that it would reduce the amount of work humans have to do. I saw a future where 40-hour work weeks became 10-hour work weeks because everything would be so automated and we wouldn't have excessive extras that we don't need -- or else we'd have an overabundance of them and everyone would have them. More likely people would still work 40hrs, just fewer people would have jobs, or the rich would have dozens of butlers and jesters.
How much would it suck for linux if the assets of SuSe and Ximian were bought up and shut down by a certain Redmond software giant?
I never said I agreed with the proposed system with it's stupid "art tax" or whatever. But imho part of being libertarian is being against excessive government intervention, and intellectual property protection is an excess to me, though it may not be to you. How many of my tax dollars could be saved without the RIAA tying up the courts etc.
Abolishing copyright isn't socialism by any means, it is more anarchist or libertarian than anything. Copyright requires government enforcement. That socialism may not favor copyright is coincidental and irrelevant, and it would be more accurate to say that capitalism does favor it, and most other situations do not.
I actually like gaim, but if you want something different you could try kopete.
And how many hours does it take to learn windows? Quite alot for the computer virgin.
How can you say windows is better at multimedia? I can't play any video format flawlessly fullscreen and fullspeed on windows other than mpeg1, it always is slow, out of sync, frame skippy, or broken. While on linux I can play anything I can think of perfectly. Not to mention that I don't have to hunt and peck for codecs, and cajole them into working properly(like I did with windows), all the codecs are compiled with the player for me.
Most of the applications you've mentioned aren't the "premier" such application of it's type. For ex: K3b is imho the best cdburning application for linux, and it isn't terribly different from nero.
That's a pretty cool idea. Write a driver developement kit that by design makes the driver work on linux, and windows with an extra component. Just make the devel kit easy to use and understand, and excelerate production time enough that it would be used.
Yes the layout could be more minimal and refined, but most of the appearance can be better "skinned" by using more visually appealing qt and kde theme components. Look at kdelook.org for more info. It may not be Mac OSX pretty, but it can look much better than the default-esque screenshots.
Chappelle's Show is awesome. The next best thing to a sequel for half baked.