"I'm just flabbergasted that the carp keeps coming out of that company..."
Yes, Windows is the "carp" of the OS world. Linux is the salmon, more tasty and fewer bones to pick.
This is Kansas, where a school board eliminated the teaching of evolution. The fundamentalist wakos take over every chance they get. If Dorothy were from modern-day Kansas, she would have stayed in Oz.
Um, no, radio isn't "legal" either. You can't get away from their clutches so easily. If you have a business, and you play "their" music to customers,whether "music on hold" or in your lobby, they want their pound (0.4 kG) of flesh.
Well, perhaps I am the enemy, as far as loud car stereos go. I have made my living for 20+ years designing their hardware. I plead the "guns don't kill people" argument; you don't have to use your 2000 watt system to pollute the acoustic environment, you can choose to play some nice quiet jazz. Yea, right.I deplore the irresponsibe use of such technology as much as any other considerate citizen. The problem with the notion of FM radio hijacking as a cure is that (duh!) most of these damn young kids are playing CD's (of stolen MP3's) because FM radio SUCKS and nothing short of an EMP weapon will stop it.
Like the parent poster, I am an idealogue. I wasn't, until M$ insisted that IE was an integral part of W95 - I was a Netscape user. This made me mad. My choice to move to Linux was emotional. I have refused to reward M$ bad behavior with my money. The lack of virii, register corruption and application problems that just can't be solved (like printing while on the 'net hanging up my modem) is icing on the cake.
I see a potential benefit for rural America, where there is no UHF TV broadcasting. Signals at UHF TV frequencies go further for a given amount of power than in the 2.4 GHz 802.11 band. Wireless ISP, anyone?
Sadly, this isn't a new problem. It's been around since the Walkperson debuted. The real culprit is that the 1/8"/3.5 mm jack is a POS and any force on the plug will eventually break either the solder joints themselves or the circuit-board traces (tracks in the UK) to which they connect.The person that suggested glueing the body of the jack to the board is on the right track. A more-robust jack design is needed, but that would cost more.
If it's the same as the Mozilla client, it doesn't catch messages with Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64. I get 10 - 15 of these a day, and made a filter for it.
I think I agree with the parent poster. Most glues don't work worth a $%^& on plastics; what you want is a "solvent weld" where the parts to be joined are softened with chemicals and then pushed together to make a homogeneous joint. I use "Ambroid Pro Weld", available at hobby shops nationwide. Please read the directions. Do not taunt "Ambroid Pro Weld".
Well, to add coals to Newcastle, my T20 runs SuSe just fine. But I DID have to swap out the miniPCI ethernet/modem combo with one having a modem chipset (Lucent) supported by Linux. That Linmodem "driver" is one of the best-documented and debugged pieces of GNU software I've ever seen.
Yes, existing analog FM is capable of great sound. Unfortunately, the vast majority of commercial stations process the s%$t out of the audio, including compression and equalization, so it sounds terrible, in an effort to be "louder" than others on the dial. If you're lucky, you live where there's small, non-commercial stations that actually care about sound quality.
Digital broadcasting won't change the commercial paradym. It DOES have the potential of making AM radio sound good - but hey, AM is all hate-talk now anyway.
Why is this newsworthy? She's just another pr0n queen, as her website makes clear. I appologize to the.001% of slashdot readers who are women - yes, I am a pig, I had to look.
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Government, and laws, are neither good nor bad per se. Good laws protect people from being screwed, and bad laws, like this one, enable the screwing of people.
This is linguistic revisionism, and it has dangers. If you eliminate terms from the language because they make someone uncomfortable, you allow the public to forget or erase history. I think this ultimately does a disservice to those who were oppressed.
Here we see the failure of blacklisting in action. Big ISP's such as AOL are under tremendous pressure from their customers to block spam, so they revert to crude methods; like politicians, it's more important to be seen doing something about the problem than to actually do something about it.
Gosh, isn't this a simple software issue? Some credit card bills show the full number, some don't - a firmware upgrade for the bill-printing machines should be all it takes. But of course, it all comes down to $.
Um, you folks are missing the point. The whole reason Fry's is selling this box with Thizlinux on it is to avoid the M$ tax and be able to hit a low pricepoint without pissing off M$ by selling a box with no OS.
A friend of mine bought one of these boxen. It did actually work, and I don't recall Chinese, but the functionality as-configured was minimal. And guess what - he put Windows(tm) on it.
While Fry's may not sell a good system with Linux installed, somebody in the buying chain is certainly aware of the penguin. There's usually a decent selection of Linux distros and even apps sometimes - I've seen the obscure Xess on sale there, and stuffed plush Tuxes!
I have a better idea. Simply pass all of your email through a third-world country, where someone that's paid $1.00 an hour will filter it for you. Sadly, with all the outsourcing going on, no too far-fetched.
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"I'm just flabbergasted that the carp keeps coming out of that company..." Yes, Windows is the "carp" of the OS world. Linux is the salmon, more tasty and fewer bones to pick.
You have to teach the kid to "just say Gno".
This is Kansas, where a school board eliminated the teaching of evolution. The fundamentalist wakos take over every chance they get. If Dorothy were from modern-day Kansas, she would have stayed in Oz.
Um, no, radio isn't "legal" either. You can't get away from their clutches so easily. If you have a business, and you play "their" music to customers,whether "music on hold" or in your lobby, they want their pound (0.4 kG) of flesh.
Well, perhaps I am the enemy, as far as loud car stereos go. I have made my living for 20+ years designing their hardware. I plead the "guns don't kill people" argument; you don't have to use your 2000 watt system to pollute the acoustic environment, you can choose to play some nice quiet jazz. Yea, right.I deplore the irresponsibe use of such technology as much as any other considerate citizen. The problem with the notion of FM radio hijacking as a cure is that (duh!) most of these damn young kids are playing CD's (of stolen MP3's) because FM radio SUCKS and nothing short of an EMP weapon will stop it.
Yes! Work hard on Hurd, and you can beat Longhorn to release!
Like the parent poster, I am an idealogue. I wasn't, until M$ insisted that IE was an integral part of W95 - I was a Netscape user. This made me mad. My choice to move to Linux was emotional. I have refused to reward M$ bad behavior with my money. The lack of virii, register corruption and application problems that just can't be solved (like printing while on the 'net hanging up my modem) is icing on the cake.
I see a potential benefit for rural America, where there is no UHF TV broadcasting. Signals at UHF TV frequencies go further for a given amount of power than in the 2.4 GHz 802.11 band. Wireless ISP, anyone?
Does the Intel bong have multiple pipelines?
Sadly, this isn't a new problem. It's been around since the Walkperson debuted. The real culprit is that the 1/8"/3.5 mm jack is a POS and any force on the plug will eventually break either the solder joints themselves or the circuit-board traces (tracks in the UK) to which they connect.The person that suggested glueing the body of the jack to the board is on the right track. A more-robust jack design is needed, but that would cost more.
Don't worry, I'm sure the video will be in a Windows Media Player format. Um, you don't do Windows, do you?
Thanks for the Zappa quote, d00d or d00dette. One of my faves. No sig is short for "no sig(nificant other)"
Wait a minute...you had a woman buy you lunch??!!! I want your job!
If it's the same as the Mozilla client, it doesn't catch messages with Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64. I get 10 - 15 of these a day, and made a filter for it.
I think I agree with the parent poster. Most glues don't work worth a $%^& on plastics; what you want is a "solvent weld" where the parts to be joined are softened with chemicals and then pushed together to make a homogeneous joint. I use "Ambroid Pro Weld", available at hobby shops nationwide. Please read the directions. Do not taunt "Ambroid Pro Weld".
Well, to add coals to Newcastle, my T20 runs SuSe just fine. But I DID have to swap out the miniPCI ethernet/modem combo with one having a modem chipset (Lucent) supported by Linux. That Linmodem "driver" is one of the best-documented and debugged pieces of GNU software I've ever seen.
Yes, existing analog FM is capable of great sound. Unfortunately, the vast majority of commercial stations process the s%$t out of the audio, including compression and equalization, so it sounds terrible, in an effort to be "louder" than others on the dial. If you're lucky, you live where there's small, non-commercial stations that actually care about sound quality.
Digital broadcasting won't change the commercial paradym. It DOES have the potential of making AM radio sound good - but hey, AM is all hate-talk now anyway.
Why is this newsworthy? She's just another pr0n queen, as her website makes clear. I appologize to the .001% of slashdot readers who are women - yes, I am a pig, I had to look.
Government, and laws, are neither good nor bad per se. Good laws protect people from being screwed, and bad laws, like this one, enable the screwing of people.
This is linguistic revisionism, and it has dangers. If you eliminate terms from the language because they make someone uncomfortable, you allow the public to forget or erase history. I think this ultimately does a disservice to those who were oppressed.
Here we see the failure of blacklisting in action. Big ISP's such as AOL are under tremendous pressure from their customers to block spam, so they revert to crude methods; like politicians, it's more important to be seen doing something about the problem than to actually do something about it.
Gosh, isn't this a simple software issue? Some credit card bills show the full number, some don't - a firmware upgrade for the bill-printing machines should be all it takes. But of course, it all comes down to $.
Um, you folks are missing the point. The whole reason Fry's is selling this box with Thizlinux on it is to avoid the M$ tax and be able to hit a low pricepoint without pissing off M$ by selling a box with no OS. A friend of mine bought one of these boxen. It did actually work, and I don't recall Chinese, but the functionality as-configured was minimal. And guess what - he put Windows(tm) on it. While Fry's may not sell a good system with Linux installed, somebody in the buying chain is certainly aware of the penguin. There's usually a decent selection of Linux distros and even apps sometimes - I've seen the obscure Xess on sale there, and stuffed plush Tuxes!
I have a better idea. Simply pass all of your email through a third-world country, where someone that's paid $1.00 an hour will filter it for you. Sadly, with all the outsourcing going on, no too far-fetched.
Well, let's see. Thousands of innocent Afghans killed. Thousands of innocent Iraqis killed. To what restraint to you refer?