Is there a list of the songs that come with it? Is it grouped by genre? There's alot of different tastes out there and I can easily see several people buying this FOR the music (non-tech ppl of course), just to find out that it doesn't have single song they like. 2,000 songs @ ~4 megs a piece = 8,000MB, or 8Gigs sacraficed to an unusuable data format. 8gigs over a modem certianly isn't a laughable amount over a short time span, but how many 56K 80+GB warez sites have you seen? I can't justify the loss of space/Saved bandwidth ratio especially when I won't want most of the music...
I think it would have been a better decision to slap 8Gigs of DRM'd Porn on the drive..
That's a pretty wide range of ages to cater for. An 8 year old would probably get bored with the shell pretty quickly, and opt to play a few games of xbill (Free games, a great way to learn about the benefits of OpenSource), whereas a 16 year old would probably be more interested in nmap and gcc (You'd better not produce a legion of script kiddies).
And as far as the one who are on slashdot, the best directions you could give them is "Quit trolling":)
Wow, a religious troll. No wonder you're full of crap.
That was the most nonsensical rant I've ever heard. Creationist beleifs have ablsolutely nothing to do with ethics. In fact, no religious construct does. Ethics is a science based on reason, not blind faith.
I'm suprides to see FatWallet not being represented by the ACLU or EFF, this kind of thing seem right up their alley. It's not just FatWallet.com and members that were told to shut the hell up or pay dearly by big corporations, they told EVERYONE to shut the hell up or pay. It seemed like a frivilous lawsuit to begin with and I was sad to see FatWallet comply, but I certainly understod why. Now they are fighting not only for Black Friday sales prices, but rights to republish factual information. Hopefully this will show those corporation participating that if they brndish a big stick, we'll just take it from them and beat em down with it.
I don't know how many time I've had to deal with a customer calling up demanding to know why we are broacasitng their IP address to hackers. Not to mention stupid employees installing bonzi buddy all over their companies servers.. guess who gets to clean that cerap up? The tech, thankfully, not me..
Supposedly this study is based on the TCO over a span of 5 years, but Win2K hasn't been out 5 years. 5 years ago, Linux was much more difficult to install and admin than most distributions now, and the user/support base was much smaller.
And from the perspective of hiring support, I don't see what makes people think a Linux admin is more expensive than an MCSE monkey. In fact, I just got free support from RedHat about an issue we were having with Apache (Problem with Date::Manip). Super helpful, figured it out instantly, we fixed it, done. Three days prior we had a 3 hour call to M$ tech support (@$250/hr) for them to tell us to reboot, re install all the service packs, and finally just blaming us and telling us we'd have to reinstall the entire system. After a bit more fussing with it, I got everything back and working without reinstalling. (A tech tried uninstalling Windows Media Player, and it wreaked havoc)
What's the difference between sorting out 3,000 resumes and 3,000 irrelevant google links? Secondly, if someone is not actively seeking employment, then they are probably employed. Why not give the job to one of the thousands of highly qualified unemployed Open Source professionals? Seriously, it's like a geek can't get a break in this business;)
This article had no mention of Linux, Mac, or any other Non-Windows tweaks. I've seen better tweaking guides at geocities pages, so I don't see where they get off calling their guid "comprehensive". Maybe they should substitute "Yet another" for "comprehensive".
If you're looking for a small footprint the Pheonix project is smaller, faster, and more feature rich than Opera. And the effect of Opera being cross platform if negligible, considering that Mozilla is too.
Your reasoning is flawed. Mozilla is in no way inferior to Opera. Mozilla has tons more features and options than Opera, giving it a MUCH larger resource footprint, and less room for error than with Mozilla. Also, Opera has a much smaller user base, which means less testing and bug reporting. Not to mention that Opera is COMMERCIAL and costs money, unless you like seeing ads everywhere. Even IE is free, without adware. I personally like Opera, but if anything it is inferior to Mozilla.
You are thinking of the wrong Divx. before the Divx codec was out, there was a type of DVD called Divx that had a limited number of plays. This Divx didn't last long and was completely overshadowed by the codec of the same name. I understand your confusion, with both having the same unique name, but the Divx codec is a compressions scheme that makes DVD quality video small enough to download over a broadband connection.
This is completely ridiculous. If any of the victims of this fold and just pay, shame on them. IINAL, esp not a danish one, so I don't know how the court systems work over there, but I have a feeling this same case in America would be thrown out of court. Unless they can explicitly prove they were sharing data with users who did not already have a license to the data (which should be protected under Fair Use). And unless they have subpoeniad the receivers of said data, they have no case at all. However if I had been one of the victims of this suit, I think it would have caused me severe emotional distress, and slandered my good name. At least that's what my counter suit would claim.
PmRemote (or actually it's palmremote, it's icon is just named pmremote) is of course software to act as a universal infrared remote. Unlike Omniremote, this one isn't programmable, however it comes with several default selections which make it handy in many situations. It can be found Here
I once spent ~12 hours straight one night logging into this one BBS, creating a new login, and using my lmiited temp login download credit to download softcore pr0n jpegs one by one over 2400 baud modem.
Now I can leech full Porn DVD's over cable. Isn't technology grand?
As it has already been said you can just say no anytime your asked for your personal info. But what you may not know ( or may not have thought of) is WHY they ask you in the first place. Ok yeah, tracking statitics and what not, but that's not what I mean. The reason this still goes on in many retail stores is because people don't say no. They figure it's part of the process of purachasing whatever. If people would start refusing to divulge information, companies would be less apt to attempt to get it from you.
Junking old computers is not the way to recycle them. A computer is only as obsolete as the software it runs. Here's some examples of how I have recycled old computers..
2 386DX DNS servers
5 386-486 thin clients using a multitude of different thin client/diskless node configurations. PXES is a great distro for this type of use.
It seems to me that popping up unsolicited browser windows is both theft of bandwidth and theft of system resources. I've actualy been DoS'd by multitudes of pop ups each spawning it's own pop up children. Although I don't see what their test sight was supposed to do, I didn't get any pop ups and my pop up blocker didn't do anything out of the ordinary..
I have no idea how I got along before I got one. Mine isn't even a good one, Just a Visor Handspring, 16-bit grey scale, but damn is it useful. With my Nokia 3360 I can connect to the internet via infrared on the pda and phone and use PalmVNC to control my servers from anywhere. Also, the the infrared is hella useful as a universal remote control.. Between omniremote and pmremote I never have to miss my favorite shows whenever I'm around a public TV. I also use J-Pilot + the Keyring plugin to carry a nice encrypted list of l/p combos and general server info. I jot down notes on it all the time. I can also use the phone book etensively. I don't really use the scheduler at all, cuz I have no schedule:)
But the BEST use for my pda I've had so far is basically as a gameboy:)
I fully expect to see this come up again. It seems more and more they are pushing the limits as to how many of our civil right they can take away. Depending on how many of their constitutants they can placate, they progress or retract operations. It's been done for years, ex. Prohibition. They took away a right, People bitched and yelled and creamed and flat out broke the law to the point they gave the right back and dubbed prohibition "The noble experiment". What's so noble about stripping our rights away?
All ranting aside, we need to put a stop to the theory of "Let's see which rights we can take away" and more "Let's see what rights we can protect". In examples such as this don't be satisfied with the fact that they withdrew the plan, let them know how disgusted you are it was ever conceived in the first place.
I hope the bastard slips up and get his ass sued off. Or better yet his customers get sued. This guy is a millionaire because spam works for companies who sell this crap and pay him to spam us with it. I imagine I'd have a hard time selling pills to enlarge your penis or free xxx pornsite passwords door to door. In fact I'd probably be arrested, especially after I tried to make the sale to a minor who answered the door. I don't see how e-mail should be any different.
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Is there a list of the songs that come with it? Is it grouped by genre? There's alot of different tastes out there and I can easily see several people buying this FOR the music (non-tech ppl of course), just to find out that it doesn't have single song they like. 2,000 songs @ ~4 megs a piece = 8,000MB, or 8Gigs sacraficed to an unusuable data format. 8gigs over a modem certianly isn't a laughable amount over a short time span, but how many 56K 80+GB warez sites have you seen? I can't justify the loss of space/Saved bandwidth ratio especially when I won't want most of the music...
I think it would have been a better decision to slap 8Gigs of DRM'd Porn on the drive..
"Ah, a signal. Quick, beam a signal back, and...uh...wait 30,000,000 years for a reply! Cool!"
If we do get a radio signal from 30 Mil years back you can be sure as hell whoever sent it wasn't trying to talk to us.
That's a pretty wide range of ages to cater for. An 8 year old would probably get bored with the shell pretty quickly, and opt to play a few games of xbill (Free games, a great way to learn about the benefits of OpenSource), whereas a 16 year old would probably be more interested in nmap and gcc (You'd better not produce a legion of script kiddies).
:)
And as far as the one who are on slashdot, the best directions you could give them is "Quit trolling"
Wow, a religious troll. No wonder you're full of crap.
That was the most nonsensical rant I've ever heard. Creationist beleifs have ablsolutely nothing to do with ethics. In fact, no religious construct does. Ethics is a science based on reason, not blind faith.
I'm suprides to see FatWallet not being represented by the ACLU or EFF, this kind of thing seem right up their alley. It's not just FatWallet.com and members that were told to shut the hell up or pay dearly by big corporations, they told EVERYONE to shut the hell up or pay. It seemed like a frivilous lawsuit to begin with and I was sad to see FatWallet comply, but I certainly understod why. Now they are fighting not only for Black Friday sales prices, but rights to republish factual information. Hopefully this will show those corporation participating that if they brndish a big stick, we'll just take it from them and beat em down with it.
I don't know how many time I've had to deal with a customer calling up demanding to know why we are broacasitng their IP address to hackers. Not to mention stupid employees installing bonzi buddy all over their companies servers.. guess who gets to clean that cerap up? The tech, thankfully, not me..
Supposedly this study is based on the TCO over a span of 5 years, but Win2K hasn't been out 5 years. 5 years ago, Linux was much more difficult to install and admin than most distributions now, and the user/support base was much smaller.
And from the perspective of hiring support, I don't see what makes people think a Linux admin is more expensive than an MCSE monkey. In fact, I just got free support from RedHat about an issue we were having with Apache (Problem with Date::Manip). Super helpful, figured it out instantly, we fixed it, done. Three days prior we had a 3 hour call to M$ tech support (@$250/hr) for them to tell us to reboot, re install all the service packs, and finally just blaming us and telling us we'd have to reinstall the entire system. After a bit more fussing with it, I got everything back and working without reinstalling. (A tech tried uninstalling Windows Media Player, and it wreaked havoc)
What's the difference between sorting out 3,000 resumes and 3,000 irrelevant google links? Secondly, if someone is not actively seeking employment, then they are probably employed. Why not give the job to one of the thousands of highly qualified unemployed Open Source professionals? Seriously, it's like a geek can't get a break in this business ;)
This article had no mention of Linux, Mac, or any other Non-Windows tweaks. I've seen better tweaking guides at geocities pages, so I don't see where they get off calling their guid "comprehensive". Maybe they should substitute "Yet another" for "comprehensive".
If you're looking for a small footprint the Pheonix project is smaller, faster, and more feature rich than Opera. And the effect of Opera being cross platform if negligible, considering that Mozilla is too.
Your reasoning is flawed. Mozilla is in no way inferior to Opera. Mozilla has tons more features and options than Opera, giving it a MUCH larger resource footprint, and less room for error than with Mozilla. Also, Opera has a much smaller user base, which means less testing and bug reporting. Not to mention that Opera is COMMERCIAL and costs money, unless you like seeing ads everywhere. Even IE is free, without adware. I personally like Opera, but if anything it is inferior to Mozilla.
You are thinking of the wrong Divx. before the Divx codec was out, there was a type of DVD called Divx that had a limited number of plays. This Divx didn't last long and was completely overshadowed by the codec of the same name. I understand your confusion, with both having the same unique name, but the Divx codec is a compressions scheme that makes DVD quality video small enough to download over a broadband connection.
A game where people with no life can createa and control fictional characters with no life either.
I had no idea Cisco had such a strong stance against Open Source. I guess all the Linux router projects out there are cutting into their market share.
This is completely ridiculous. If any of the victims of this fold and just pay, shame on them. IINAL, esp not a danish one, so I don't know how the court systems work over there, but I have a feeling this same case in America would be thrown out of court. Unless they can explicitly prove they were sharing data with users who did not already have a license to the data (which should be protected under Fair Use). And unless they have subpoeniad the receivers of said data, they have no case at all. However if I had been one of the victims of this suit, I think it would have caused me severe emotional distress, and slandered my good name. At least that's what my counter suit
would claim.
PmRemote (or actually it's palmremote, it's icon is just named pmremote) is of course software to act as a universal infrared remote. Unlike Omniremote, this one isn't programmable, however it comes with several default selections which make it handy in many situations. It can be found Here
is it going to be before I play Final Dragon Fantasy Quest 13?
I once spent ~12 hours straight one night logging into this one BBS, creating a new login, and using my lmiited temp login download credit to download softcore pr0n jpegs one by one over 2400 baud modem.
Now I can leech full Porn DVD's over cable. Isn't technology grand?
As it has already been said you can just say no anytime your asked for your personal info. But what you may not know ( or may not have thought of) is WHY they ask you in the first place. Ok yeah, tracking statitics and what not, but that's not what I mean. The reason this still goes on in many retail stores is because people don't say no. They figure it's part of the process of purachasing whatever. If people would start refusing to divulge information, companies would be less apt to attempt to get it from you.
Imagine a beowulf cluster.. up in flames
duck
Sorry..
Junking old computers is not the way to recycle them. A computer is only as obsolete as the software it runs. Here's some examples of how I have recycled old computers..
:)
2 386DX DNS servers
5 386-486 thin clients using a multitude of different thin client/diskless node configurations. PXES is a great distro for this type of use.
1 486DX Laptop + Trinux (Awesome network trouble shooting/ consoling tool)
1 100Mhz Pentium Sound server (just winamp + VNC + a soundcard)
I'm sure there's tons of other uses I haven't touched on, if you can think of any let me know! It might make a good ask slashdot article
It seems to me that popping up unsolicited browser windows is both theft of bandwidth and theft of system resources. I've actualy been DoS'd by multitudes of pop ups each spawning it's own pop up children. Although I don't see what their test sight was supposed to do, I didn't get any pop ups and my pop up blocker didn't do anything out of the ordinary..
I have no idea how I got along before I got one. Mine isn't even a good one, Just a Visor Handspring, 16-bit grey scale, but damn is it useful. With my Nokia 3360 I can connect to the internet via infrared on the pda and phone and use PalmVNC to control my servers from anywhere. Also, the the infrared is hella useful as a universal remote control.. Between omniremote and pmremote I never have to miss my favorite shows whenever I'm around a public TV. I also use J-Pilot + the Keyring plugin to carry a nice encrypted list of l/p combos and general server info. I jot down notes on it all the time. I can also use the phone book etensively. I don't really use the scheduler at all, cuz I have no schedule :)
:)
But the BEST use for my pda I've had so far is basically as a gameboy
I fully expect to see this come up again. It seems more and more they are pushing the limits as to how many of our civil right they can take away. Depending on how many of their constitutants they can placate, they progress or retract operations. It's been done for years, ex. Prohibition. They took away a right, People bitched and yelled and creamed and flat out broke the law to the point they gave the right back and dubbed prohibition "The noble experiment". What's so noble about stripping our rights away?
All ranting aside, we need to put a stop to the theory of "Let's see which rights we can take away" and more "Let's see what rights we can protect". In examples such as this don't be satisfied with the fact that they withdrew the plan, let them know how disgusted you are it was ever conceived in the first place.
I hope the bastard slips up and get his ass sued off. Or better yet his customers get sued. This guy is a millionaire because spam works for companies who sell this crap and pay him to spam us with it. I imagine I'd have a hard time selling pills to enlarge your penis or free xxx pornsite passwords door to door. In fact I'd probably be arrested, especially after I tried to make the sale to a minor who answered the door. I don't see how e-mail should be any different.