i used to do this all the time when pepsi had a promotion where you could get free pepsi by getting a winning bottlecap and i worked at a store that sold bottles of pepsi. it was incredibly easy, and i turned one winning bottle into about 10 free bottles.
Maybe if Disney gets knocked from the top spot, they'd realize that they need to work harder on producing good media. It seems to me that the quality of their stuff has been dropping horribly. They did a great job of making things based off of classic material, but some of the stuff they relase that isn't is simply bad, in my opinion.
This is slightly OT, however, I was wondering if anyone has had much success getting the game Daggerfall to work properly under linux via any means. This was, and still is, in my mind, one of the best RPG's ever (as long as you ignored the impossibly difficult process of actually "beating" it). I've never played another game that offered me so much freedom of movement and action.
Blank cd's are cheap, so using them to distribute free software is a wonderful idea. If you can burn this, and give it to a few friends, co-workers, or family members who use windows, if they like it, most likely they'll burn it and pass it on (the probably already do this with other software anyway). This being legal, they'll actually feel good about redistributing it. The wider this gets spread, the less money goes into the pockets of people who head greedy corporations, and more money goes to the actual programmers. In my mind, if i'm getting all my software free, i'm more likely to be able to donate directly to the programmer(s) to keep the projects going, because i'm not wasting money on pretty boxes, or supporting company bureaucracy.
Send copies of this or knoppix out with your christmas cards this year. Give people the gift of freedom.:)
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i used to do this all the time when pepsi had a promotion where you could get free pepsi by getting a winning bottlecap and i worked at a store that sold bottles of pepsi. it was incredibly easy, and i turned one winning bottle into about 10 free bottles.
same here. computer needs to be up and running to sleep. my hard drives shut down after 15mins of nonuse, so it's just the sweet sweet sound of fans.
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Maybe if Disney gets knocked from the top spot, they'd realize that they need to work harder on producing good media. It seems to me that the quality of their stuff has been dropping horribly. They did a great job of making things based off of classic material, but some of the stuff they relase that isn't is simply bad, in my opinion.
This is slightly OT, however, I was wondering if anyone has had much success getting the game Daggerfall to work properly under linux via any means. This was, and still is, in my mind, one of the best RPG's ever (as long as you ignored the impossibly difficult process of actually "beating" it). I've never played another game that offered me so much freedom of movement and action.
That's gonna make for one accurate circle!
Blank cd's are cheap, so using them to distribute free software is a wonderful idea. If you can burn this, and give it to a few friends, co-workers, or family members who use windows, if they like it, most likely they'll burn it and pass it on (the probably already do this with other software anyway). This being legal, they'll actually feel good about redistributing it. The wider this gets spread, the less money goes into the pockets of people who head greedy corporations, and more money goes to the actual programmers. In my mind, if i'm getting all my software free, i'm more likely to be able to donate directly to the programmer(s) to keep the projects going, because i'm not wasting money on pretty boxes, or supporting company bureaucracy. Send copies of this or knoppix out with your christmas cards this year. Give people the gift of freedom. :)