Okay lets weigh up the options. 1. File correct police report, don't get $1500, chances of police finding your laptop... none.
2. File a slightly incorrect police report, get $1500, by some random stroke of luck the police do find your laptop. Chances police believe that the thief is lying and just cut the lock with some bolt cutters... good
Yes, and that is a god damned big list! To make that god damned big list worse its barely catagorised, application naming is stupid (K-everything, G-everything). Descriptions of packages are optional, and they only include the executable files so you end up having to install 8 more packages spanned across 3 cd's to get xmms working.
As an example how many fucking IRC clients does a linux distribution need? One thats how many ONE, if someone wants another one they can download it. The same can be said about web broswers, you need at most two, lynx and the graphical browser of your choice. Don't throw in konqurer, mozilla and firefox in the same distribution, its annoying and confusing to fix. Text editors, Word Processors, Office Suites, media players! Four+ programs to do exactly same thing I don't want that, I want one program and if it is shit I can uninstall it, download a better one and install that one.
"Despite the relatively low price of PC games, many gamers are still choosing to resort to piracy rather than pay for legitimate boxed copies," said Matt Pierce, publisher of the computer games magazine, PC Gamer.
I don't know about the rest of the world but a new release PC game in Australia retails for $100+. Now to me that is not a relatively low price.
In fact the only game I've ever considered worth paying $100 for was half-life and this is only because it is still maintained and I got many (Half-life, Counterstrike, Day of Defeat etc.) games with it. Call me stingy but for me a game is worth at most $20 a year.
Actually I think it is more to do with cost. The reason why Australians prefer SMS messages is because talking on a mobile is going to cost you around $1.50 a minute, thats god damn rediculious but thats what the Telco's charge. A SMS on the other hand costs.20c or less.
When you compare this to America, I believe that mobiles are treated as normal land line phones so you get charged a lot less to use them and generaly get free local calls. Couple that with lack of interservice SMS and you get their current situation.
I don't think you should worry about that... Buzz Aldrin is what? 75 years old and still going strong. Ofcourse that all depends on whether he went to the moon in the first place *shifty eyes* *puts on foil hat*
I've reciently acqured some refurbished Telstra harddisks, naturaly they were unformatted. There wasn't that much interesting information on the disks however I did notice that Telstra apps predominantly appear to be written entirely for MS Access or in Visual Basic. A linux OS would have to overcome these difficulties before it could be implemented.
Well I for one consider all people my friends until they prove otherwise, in fact so much so that I'm willing to share my DVD collection with them. Where does that leave me?
Actualy if youd ever had your graphics drivers screw themselves on Windows XP, and it is rare, you would find that it just defaults back to 640X480 generic vesa drivers. This lets you save what you were doing and restart the computer.
At the risk of being seen as flamebait, can someone PLEASE tell me why I would spend a few extra hundred dollars to get an Ipod when I could get a $70 cd player that will read rewritables and play MP3s?
Seriously I don't see the attraction, its a hard drive that plays mp3s! Why would you spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars for something when you can get with similar, if not equal, functionality in a much cheaper device?
Actualy that last sentence pretty much sums up my opinion of the entire range of Apple products.
Actualy Australia has this really nifty store called Dick Smith Electronics, this store is very cool because they have a mobile phone recycling bin inside. The idea being that customers put their old mobiles in the bin and Dick Smith recycles it and saves the envronment from harmful chemicals. However this bin serves another great purpose, its a constant source of free phones for me! Every time my phone breaks its another trip to Dick Smith for a rummage through the bin. A new battery later and I've got a new phone.
As a side note if you do decide to go through the phone bin make sure you smell the phone you want to take... you would be shocked at how many times the vibrate function is flagrantly abused on old phones.
This is the exact reason why Nokia 3310 and 3315 phones are so predominant in Australia. These phones went for about $150 a pop last time I checked and came with a pre-paid plan, Optus phones were network locked IIRC but Telstra phones were not. So now there is a massive market for 3310 covers because every teenager who didn't want to get locked into contract bought one.
Now phone companies are having a really hard time trying to flog off MMS phones, no one can see the point of buying a new phone so they can send 95 cent messages to each other.
As a side note it has also resulted in whats called a "Nokia salute" at teeniebopper concerts where cigarette lighters are not allowed. Just press enter on the phone and hold up the phone for the band to see.
Actually if you read the article fully you will see that the system can be modified to work in legacy cinemas. For example an actual horse can be used in the place of 400 speakers.
In Australia we get our needles at school, no permission slip no vaccines. If parents don't want us to get the needles they don't sign it, and everyone is happy.
I think it was Michael Moore that told us that if we don't like the Politicians we should apply for the jobs, if honest people don't run for office then only the scoundrels will.
And for the people that think the p2p version would be a treat, it is unmastered, and as Bono gets older, the cigarettes sink into the vocal cords, and production helps the music sound a lot better.
*sarcasm* Yeah this will really turn people off downloading it, just like how no one downloads CAM rips these days.
The problem is that most major desktops try to imitate both Windows and OSX and end up with a severely fucked version of neither. Then again, what do I know? I use Fluxbox.
I think that Fluxbox is pretty much the definition of a severely fucked version of neither.
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The other way to defeat these types of locks is to just take the steering wheel off and drive with a monkey wrench.
Well the laptop is sitting in his closet. I don't think the validity of his ownership of it is in question.
Okay lets weigh up the options.
1. File correct police report, don't get $1500, chances of police finding your laptop... none.
2. File a slightly incorrect police report, get $1500, by some random stroke of luck the police do find your laptop. Chances police believe that the thief is lying and just cut the lock with some bolt cutters... good
I know which one I would choose.
Yes, and that is a god damned big list! To make that god damned big list worse its barely catagorised, application naming is stupid (K-everything, G-everything). Descriptions of packages are optional, and they only include the executable files so you end up having to install 8 more packages spanned across 3 cd's to get xmms working.
As an example how many fucking IRC clients does a linux distribution need? One thats how many ONE, if someone wants another one they can download it. The same can be said about web broswers, you need at most two, lynx and the graphical browser of your choice. Don't throw in konqurer, mozilla and firefox in the same distribution, its annoying and confusing to fix. Text editors, Word Processors, Office Suites, media players! Four+ programs to do exactly same thing I don't want that, I want one program and if it is shit I can uninstall it, download a better one and install that one.
Talk about bloat, linux is pathetic.
Funny one would assume it would be out of copyright by now... what did I miss?
I don't know about the rest of the world but a new release PC game in Australia retails for $100+. Now to me that is not a relatively low price.
In fact the only game I've ever considered worth paying $100 for was half-life and this is only because it is still maintained and I got many (Half-life, Counterstrike, Day of Defeat etc.) games with it. Call me stingy but for me a game is worth at most $20 a year.
Actually I think it is more to do with cost. The reason why Australians prefer SMS messages is because talking on a mobile is going to cost you around $1.50 a minute, thats god damn rediculious but thats what the Telco's charge. A SMS on the other hand costs .20c or less.
When you compare this to America, I believe that mobiles are treated as normal land line phones so you get charged a lot less to use them and generaly get free local calls. Couple that with lack of interservice SMS and you get their current situation.
I don't think you should worry about that... Buzz Aldrin is what? 75 years old and still going strong. Ofcourse that all depends on whether he went to the moon in the first place *shifty eyes* *puts on foil hat*
I for one would gladly donate $10 to see Donald Trump and his stupid haircut sent to the moon. Now that would be worth the price.
I've reciently acqured some refurbished Telstra harddisks, naturaly they were unformatted. There wasn't that much interesting information on the disks however I did notice that Telstra apps predominantly appear to be written entirely for MS Access or in Visual Basic. A linux OS would have to overcome these difficulties before it could be implemented.
Well I for one consider all people my friends until they prove otherwise, in fact so much so that I'm willing to share my DVD collection with them. Where does that leave me?
Actualy if youd ever had your graphics drivers screw themselves on Windows XP, and it is rare, you would find that it just defaults back to 640X480 generic vesa drivers. This lets you save what you were doing and restart the computer.
At the risk of being seen as flamebait, can someone PLEASE tell me why I would spend a few extra hundred dollars to get an Ipod when I could get a $70 cd player that will read rewritables and play MP3s?
Seriously I don't see the attraction, its a hard drive that plays mp3s! Why would you spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars for something when you can get with similar, if not equal, functionality in a much cheaper device?
Actualy that last sentence pretty much sums up my opinion of the entire range of Apple products.
Actualy Australia has this really nifty store called Dick Smith Electronics, this store is very cool because they have a mobile phone recycling bin inside. The idea being that customers put their old mobiles in the bin and Dick Smith recycles it and saves the envronment from harmful chemicals. However this bin serves another great purpose, its a constant source of free phones for me! Every time my phone breaks its another trip to Dick Smith for a rummage through the bin. A new battery later and I've got a new phone.
As a side note if you do decide to go through the phone bin make sure you smell the phone you want to take... you would be shocked at how many times the vibrate function is flagrantly abused on old phones.
No I am not joking.
I agree with you but I also think that no one would disagree with the addition of backjack and hookers... in fact forget the phone.
This is the exact reason why Nokia 3310 and 3315 phones are so predominant in Australia. These phones went for about $150 a pop last time I checked and came with a pre-paid plan, Optus phones were network locked IIRC but Telstra phones were not. So now there is a massive market for 3310 covers because every teenager who didn't want to get locked into contract bought one.
Now phone companies are having a really hard time trying to flog off MMS phones, no one can see the point of buying a new phone so they can send 95 cent messages to each other.
As a side note it has also resulted in whats called a "Nokia salute" at teeniebopper concerts where cigarette lighters are not allowed. Just press enter on the phone and hold up the phone for the band to see.
Hey! I'm using my WI-FI connection whilst driving to type this comment, you insensitive clo
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Actually if you read the article fully you will see that the system can be modified to work in legacy cinemas. For example an actual horse can be used in the place of 400 speakers.
In Australia we get our needles at school, no permission slip no vaccines. If parents don't want us to get the needles they don't sign it, and everyone is happy.
I think it was Michael Moore that told us that if we don't like the Politicians we should apply for the jobs, if honest people don't run for office then only the scoundrels will.
*sarcasm* Yeah this will really turn people off downloading it, just like how no one downloads CAM rips these days.
Thats exactly right, I'm going to download it just so I can delete it.
They only said parallel universes there is actualy only one. Just think somewhere out there there is a parallel straponego wearing a cowboy hat.
I think that Fluxbox is pretty much the definition of a severely fucked version of neither.
Yeah sure... in Japan!