"I don't plan on buying another computer for another year, but what about then? How do I move it? I still use my linux box alot and can imagine there is a point where I will use it exclusively in the future. I still paid for the music, I want to take it with me."
You can have the music play on 3 different macs, or you can BURN the songs. I think you can only burn a single playlist 10 times(make 10 copies of whatever cd you just downloaded) but then you can just make a new playlist, mix and match and burn anew!
"...not letting the pirates patch their installs of Windows might not be in MS's best interests either. If some worm gets loose, and 98% of registered Windows users are patched, but none of the cracked copies are, the worm will replicate to the 2% of unpatched registered users much faster..."
So if you have a pirated copy, and you constantly get infected by worms because you can't get any security patches, wouldn't that make you more inclined to BUY THE SOFTWARE?
apple has bad luck with join ventures like that... before AOL, apple and (is it compuserve?) were getting together to make this home internet service... apple backed out at the last minute, and shortly after the launch, this home internet system became AOL, the largest(by a HUGE margin) ISP in the world.
" As I look for a fast mirror to download from, I see that many of the mirrors have not been updated yet. In addition, some of them do not seem to have complete files (4.7M for an ISO is a bit small, don't you think?)."
"This would be such a boon...way more important than Gentoo PPC Live."
They are both Linux, they are both GPLed... the only 'more important'ness Knoppix has would be the hardware detection, and i am sure it can be ported...
Hell yes we admit to havin high prices, what are you talking about? It isn't something we brag about ("you think that is impressive, look at our enemployment!") but it isn't like we hide it away... we know we have high gas prices.
By the by, our entire tax system is screwy, our budget is out of wack, and some school are closing weeks early because they don't have the money to operate... O, but when we get our pro baseball team, then all will be right with the world.
"This strategy didn't necessarily work for Sega with the Dreamcast. It came out first, and had the edge over the PS2 in certain aspects, yet it still lost."
The problem was that the dreamcast was release so early, that it was premature, and nearly half a generation early. Nintendo will likely release days or a few weeks ahead of their competition, not several months.
" From the Soviet side, much of the cold war was smoke and mirrors...they made themselves look more dangerous than they actually were. As for the Americans, they were happy to let the public believe the Soviets were a serious threat...the bigger the threat the more money for the defence industry. The "missile gap" was largely imaginary."
ok, so the Soviets could only destroy the world 2 times over, while we could destroy the world 7 or 8 times over... either way, the world is destroyed, and everyone is dead....
"...but nobody's going to use it when there are alternatives that are cheaper, more free, with more apps, and are better supported."
Ironicly, these were the same problems that plagued the BeOS the first time around... Well, that, and some questionable tactics by a Redmond company to discourage BeOS being bundled with computers...
mac osX has this supported, so i hear. There examples of it in the sample code that apple gives out to developers, but i guess noone has found it useful enough to put into their product...
Not many practical uses, but it would be cool to have a round, bounderless window of a globe rotating... maybe for an atlas program or something.
yes, but were VHS tapes handed out in the millions to governments who were considering using Beta for internal use(archives, cspan, what have you) in the hopes that the government would adopt VHS as the standard, and thus pressure citizens of that country to do so also?
why is everyone wanting to hack the xBox, and further the adoption of a machine made by a company that EVERYONE here seems to hate? want to hack a console, cool, lets do it. Sony has a friggin KIT to help you guys hack it!
Sure, find, hack the console up, but in 5 years, when everyone is hating the monopoly MS will have on the home entertainment market, i will loudly proclaim that 'i told you so'.
or better yet, lets not waste hundreds of billions of dollars on the countless satelites, bandwidth, & maintenance. lets not waste it on that in the first place, so we don't need laws to be written to stop the big bad brother from watchin over our shoulder at a hundred miles up....
besides, the agencies you would REALLY be fearing seeing these pictures, wouldn't necesarily have a problem with bending the laws in the first place.
Why gaurd your phone, but give out your name? How hard is it to get a phone book and look up your name? Easy. And like you said, your name is unique, so you will likely be the only one listed.
Your address is the same way, and i am sure a unique name like your might even HURT your privacy, since there wouldn't be 500 name hits like there would be with a John or a Smith.
" Car's aren't perfect but they are the most economically efficient solution for most places"
I can't think of how many families that use gas sucking SUVs to drive in town to the grocery store and back... economical my ass.
a 3d massive multiplayer game that uses the real world as it's map... and you want HUD glasses, so you don't have to use hands?
You do realize they have that game out already, right? I don't know if Valve made it, but i think it is called REAL LIFE, if you can't google for, step outside, and you will likely find it there.
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"I don't plan on buying another computer for another year, but what about then? How do I move it? I still use my linux box alot and can imagine there is a point where I will use it exclusively in the future. I still paid for the music, I want to take it with me."
You can have the music play on 3 different macs, or you can BURN the songs. I think you can only burn a single playlist 10 times(make 10 copies of whatever cd you just downloaded) but then you can just make a new playlist, mix and match and burn anew!
So if you have a pirated copy, and you constantly get infected by worms because you can't get any security patches, wouldn't that make you more inclined to BUY THE SOFTWARE?
apple has bad luck with join ventures like that... before AOL, apple and (is it compuserve?) were getting together to make this home internet service... apple backed out at the last minute, and shortly after the launch, this home internet system became AOL, the largest(by a HUGE margin) ISP in the world.
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"This would be such a boon...way more important than Gentoo PPC Live."
They are both Linux, they are both GPLed... the only 'more important'ness Knoppix has would be the hardware detection, and i am sure it can be ported...
I actually am an Oregonian...
Hell yes we admit to havin high prices, what are you talking about? It isn't something we brag about ("you think that is impressive, look at our enemployment!") but it isn't like we hide it away... we know we have high gas prices.
By the by, our entire tax system is screwy, our budget is out of wack, and some school are closing weeks early because they don't have the money to operate... O, but when we get our pro baseball team, then all will be right with the world.
The problem was that the dreamcast was release so early, that it was premature, and nearly half a generation early. Nintendo will likely release days or a few weeks ahead of their competition, not several months.
ok, so the Soviets could only destroy the world 2 times over, while we could destroy the world 7 or 8 times over... either way, the world is destroyed, and everyone is dead....
Ironicly, these were the same problems that plagued the BeOS the first time around... Well, that, and some questionable tactics by a Redmond company to discourage BeOS being bundled with computers...
Yes, yes they do.
mac osX has this supported, so i hear. There examples of it in the sample code that apple gives out to developers, but i guess noone has found it useful enough to put into their product...
Not many practical uses, but it would be cool to have a round, bounderless window of a globe rotating... maybe for an atlas program or something.
it is called e-mail. one address, and you can check it from anywhere in the world!
So what if they can barely keep the power grid up or have starving people.... The Soviets faught the Cold War and they had people starving too.
Let us not forget that North Korea has also had enough time and money to make atomic bombs... that is quite a few food stamps spent on R&D.
10,000? Buddy if this things goes at full capacity, it would be more like 1,000,000.
You know you are right, that isn't even close to a fair comparison.
so what you are saying is...
"If a tree is shot at on the server, and noone is around, is it still rendered?"
let computers run programs themselves?
maybe they could make a neat little 3d program and have the programs be represented in the 3d space...
maybe have the 3d program mimick Earth at around the turn of the century...
maybe call it The Matrix... Dun, Dun, DUN!
3rd party software is to blame for windows. but the system is to blame on linux? isn't linux, in essence, just a collection of 3rd party software?
yes, but were VHS tapes handed out in the millions to governments who were considering using Beta for internal use(archives, cspan, what have you) in the hopes that the government would adopt VHS as the standard, and thus pressure citizens of that country to do so also?
Sure, find, hack the console up, but in 5 years, when everyone is hating the monopoly MS will have on the home entertainment market, i will loudly proclaim that 'i told you so'.
or better yet, lets not waste hundreds of billions of dollars on the countless satelites, bandwidth, & maintenance. lets not waste it on that in the first place, so we don't need laws to be written to stop the big bad brother from watchin over our shoulder at a hundred miles up....
besides, the agencies you would REALLY be fearing seeing these pictures, wouldn't necesarily have a problem with bending the laws in the first place.
Why gaurd your phone, but give out your name? How hard is it to get a phone book and look up your name? Easy. And like you said, your name is unique, so you will likely be the only one listed.
Your address is the same way, and i am sure a unique name like your might even HURT your privacy, since there wouldn't be 500 name hits like there would be with a John or a Smith.
" Car's aren't perfect but they are the most economically efficient solution for most places" I can't think of how many families that use gas sucking SUVs to drive in town to the grocery store and back... economical my ass.
a 3d massive multiplayer game that uses the real world as it's map... and you want HUD glasses, so you don't have to use hands?
You do realize they have that game out already, right? I don't know if Valve made it, but i think it is called REAL LIFE, if you can't google for, step outside, and you will likely find it there.
No, it wouldn't have.