Re:*higher* signal-to-noise
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Requiem for Usenet
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right on, most of the comp.language.* news groups are of the highest quality, and I've learned very useful things in them over the last 10 years. Not to mention groups devoted to various fan fiction for fun. most of the good stuff is on free news servers that carry only the the text groups. Usenet exists because a huge number of people want it.
I make photos for display, have color pictures hanging I've made of the kids that still look good after six years. For $45 I can make a dozen or more 8x10 pictures, which is far less than studios have ass-plowed me for similar number of lousier unedited works. The printer with the same cartidge also does the once-in-a-blue-moon color diagrams I need for business too, so i'm having a hard time understanding someone being into digital photography and not wanting something to view where there's no computer present.
Edit is fast & great for bringing up a Unix text file and then saving as dos/windows type text file, I do the keystrokes in less than 1 second, and let the machine catch up and do it while I'm on to the next thing
1. instant gratification, see the results NOW. 2. can distribute copies to friends/family at almost zero cost 3. Easy to edit, splice, crop without all those funny filters, darkroom, papers and messy chemicals 4. don't have to pay for bad pictures
that said, I've been a photographer for over 30 years and have enjoyed developing my own photos, but now that I'm living with a pile of other folks don't have money or time or space for film photography
GW Bush: "All 14 year olds in the former soviet states will declare and allow inspection of their hacking tools, or we will, with a coalition of the willing, invade and destroy them. Those who are not with us are against us."
Re:It's Captain Tripps!
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A Flu Pandemic?
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and your internet infrastructure will be so economical then, just a cross-over twisted pair to the other surviving human's machine! But which of you will control DNS?
haha, from precompiled binaries, sure. A fully customized and optimized install will take a LONG time. But some of us want to have a fully functional system in a hurry, with all devices & services rolling.
Re:And the MPAA/RIAA's response will be...
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Darknets Coming Soon?
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oh, you're saying the RIAA have never harassed or brought charges against innocent people? you're saying they've never tried to get police power? pry your head out of your ass
right, just one version with no confusion, XP Home Edition for the desktop. Oh, there's also Windows XP Professional. And Windows XP Embedded. And Windows XP Starter Edition.....
that's a disgusting mindset that makes laws like that, people need to start taking full responsibilty for their actions rather than having government take away freedoms and meddling to protect people from themselves.
nah, the British got the mess rolling in years before 1914-1918, remember Lawrence of Arabia? Muslim world was getting engraged at meddling by Christian world in late 19th century, word jihad used then for sure.
stole my thunder, was going to say this was Microsoft Hurd. Be a race to see who could release first, MS or GNU, or if the next ice age would start.
Re:Calm. The. #$@!. Down. It's not that I'm cheap
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OpenBSD 3.8 Released
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actually, you can install from a single floppy, that downloads the rest. As other posters have pointed out, there's plenty of x86 ISO for CD install out there too.
or are cable tv news and radio the real culprit? both of those are growing. Via cable tv I get news from around the globe, very different view than U.S. media. Radio is still hot after all these years because we still drive & any media more involved would likely make us crash.
not to mention a 100 foot deep bunker doesn't do much good when the "well-defined enemies" can poke a 100+ foot hole in the ground with even a modest h-bomb
retina identification is a U.S. invention with patent held by U.S. citizen. Dolly was first adult cloned animal, done in Scotland . Cell phones? Cell communication invented by Bell labs in 1947 for police use, in 1973 handset for use outside of automobile done by another U.S. company called Motorola by Dr. Cooper.
Gate's comment brings up an interesting thing that applies to Microsoft too: those asian countries are following and copying western civilization, generally not leading innovation. As for Cambridge, yes England was once mighty and great, including her schools, but in last 20 years has any hot new technology come out of there?. And of course Microsoft should have thought of search engines before anyone else, but they follow, not lead.
you'll see plenty if you shop at the cheap consumer-crap places like I do, my 28" Sony TV weighs a ton! I'm hoping LCD will become so cheap I can buy 3' at less than $400, because I'm getting too old to lug around this moster vacuum bottles
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right on, most of the comp.language.* news groups are of the highest quality, and I've learned very useful things in them over the last 10 years. Not to mention groups devoted to various fan fiction for fun. most of the good stuff is on free news servers that carry only the the text groups. Usenet exists because a huge number of people want it.
I make photos for display, have color pictures hanging I've made of the kids that still look good after six years. For $45 I can make a dozen or more 8x10 pictures, which is far less than studios have ass-plowed me for similar number of lousier unedited works. The printer with the same cartidge also does the once-in-a-blue-moon color diagrams I need for business too, so i'm having a hard time understanding someone being into digital photography and not wanting something to view where there's no computer present.
Edit is fast & great for bringing up a Unix text file and then saving as dos/windows type text file, I do the keystrokes in less than 1 second, and let the machine catch up and do it while I'm on to the next thing
1. instant gratification, see the results NOW.
2. can distribute copies to friends/family at almost zero cost
3. Easy to edit, splice, crop without all those funny filters, darkroom, papers and messy chemicals
4. don't have to pay for bad pictures
that said, I've been a photographer for over 30 years and have enjoyed developing my own photos, but now that I'm living with a pile of other folks don't have money or time or space for film photography
GW Bush: "All 14 year olds in the former soviet states will declare and allow inspection of their hacking tools, or we will, with a coalition of the willing, invade and destroy them. Those who are not with us are against us."
and your internet infrastructure will be so economical then, just a cross-over twisted pair to the other surviving human's machine! But which of you will control DNS?
haha, from precompiled binaries, sure. A fully customized and optimized install will take a LONG time. But some of us want to have a fully functional system in a hurry, with all devices & services rolling.
oh, you're saying the RIAA have never harassed or brought charges against innocent people? you're saying they've never tried to get police power? pry your head out of your ass
yes, they all suck
right, just one version with no confusion, XP Home Edition for the desktop. Oh, there's also Windows XP Professional. And Windows XP Embedded. And Windows XP Starter Edition.....
that's a disgusting mindset that makes laws like that, people need to start taking full responsibilty for their actions rather than having government take away freedoms and meddling to protect people from themselves.
nah, the British got the mess rolling in years before 1914-1918, remember Lawrence of Arabia? Muslim world was getting engraged at meddling by Christian world in late 19th century, word jihad used then for sure.
stole my thunder, was going to say this was Microsoft Hurd. Be a race to see who could release first, MS or GNU, or if the next ice age would start.
actually, you can install from a single floppy, that downloads the rest. As other posters have pointed out, there's plenty of x86 ISO for CD install out there too.
or are cable tv news and radio the real culprit? both of those are growing. Via cable tv I get news from around the globe, very different view than U.S. media. Radio is still hot after all these years because we still drive & any media more involved would likely make us crash.
not to mention a 100 foot deep bunker doesn't do much good when the "well-defined enemies" can poke a 100+ foot hole in the ground with even a modest h-bomb
There is 15TB of pr0n movies in existence: 7.2TB of that is made in Japan, and 7.5TB of the remainder contains Ron Jeremy.
they'd rather the guy next to them had a laptop to view porn, since it's much harder to surrendipitously get a peek at those little iPod screens
well, they're usually loath to go after the elected liars, the appointed ones generally have to take the fall
retina identification is a U.S. invention with patent held by U.S. citizen. Dolly was first adult cloned animal, done in Scotland . Cell phones? Cell communication invented by Bell labs in 1947 for police use, in 1973 handset for use outside of automobile done by another U.S. company called Motorola by Dr. Cooper.
be doing some of this?
Gate's comment brings up an interesting thing that applies to Microsoft too: those asian countries are following and copying western civilization, generally not leading innovation. As for Cambridge, yes England was once mighty and great, including her schools, but in last 20 years has any hot new technology come out of there?. And of course Microsoft should have thought of search engines before anyone else, but they follow, not lead.
you'll see plenty if you shop at the cheap consumer-crap places like I do, my 28" Sony TV weighs a ton! I'm hoping LCD will become so cheap I can buy 3' at less than $400, because I'm getting too old to lug around this moster vacuum bottles
I had a somewhat similar thought about my wife but not cleaning the house, cleaning something else...
the piston charged hot compressed gas cannons using either helium or hydrogen look promising too