If you're someone who likes reading, there's so much more good stuff in there than you're likely to find on the bestsellers rack at B&N.
I'm not necessarily a "newer is better" type of person. I tend to like old movies, classic novels, and NES games. I'd rather read Dickens than Stephen King, and happen to think that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote much better mysteries than Dan Brown (DaVinci code was IMO formulaic drek, why all the hype?)
Harldly anyone subscribes to print newspapers, the days of the paperboy chucking the sunday edition into your rosebush or onto your roof have been gone for a long while.
People just pick it up when they stop to get gas/smokes/coffee/whatever, or just read the copy lying there on the subway, etc..
This doesn't take those kind of numbers into account. That is, this isnt saying more people read WSJ online than they do in print.
If I were to guess, I'd say most would prefer to read dead-tree material than read a computer or PDA screen. It's just so much more comfortable for the eyes, and easier to take to the john.
What are you talking about, Canada is where bacon comes from. Back-bacon or peameal bacon (whichever you want to call it) is the only true bacon.
Bacon comes from the BACK of the pig, those little strips of fat you get in the US are SALTED SIDE PORK, and NOT BACON.
I repeat, Bacon : Bac - on : BACK - on, bacon is back meat. Damnit.
They sell this crap down here and call it "Canadian bacon", and I don't know what the fuck it's supposed to be. It's neither canadian nor bacon.
After months of searching, I managed to find a local butcher who knows what bacon is, and how to cure it properly. If you're in the MD area, I'll hook you up.
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An open source assortment of random buzzwords. This sounds like just the product our marketing dept has been looking for!
What about the rest of the commonwealth? What about Brits abroad?
What if I, a Canadian living in the US, was willing to voluntarily pay the UK "TV Tax" for access to "Two Fat Ladies" reruns?
Meh.. The internet's not supposed to work like this. Why don't the BBC and China, for that matter, set up their own private networks if they don't want outlanders hitting their servers?
Then maybe the Brits need their own private distribution methods (ie; their TV sets), rather than trying to carve up the Internet a la the Great Firewall of China?
Obviously it's not simply a temperature thing, since most of space is absolute zero, and I can see stars and suns and stuff. So it's not freezing light as in freezing water.
So how exactly do you stop photons from moving? How does this affect relativity (e=mc^2)? How does this affect our perception of the universe - ie; if the light from the star that we think is 10,000 light years away is only moving 20mph or so, it could really be millions of light years away?
Does like, time slow down? My heads spinning. Freeze sounds like the wrong word.
My point was sony has hundreds of legally binding contractual obligations to make piracy of their signed artists as difficult as possible. Apple does not.
They just resell others content. They have much less to lose when some bands stuff is all over the 'net for free.
Sony, on the other hand, has contracts with the bands they've signed, which no doubt include some clause about them doing whatever is in their power to prevent the stuff from being pirated.
The Hauppage is about the only one that actually works under linux, if that means it's the "best ever", then so be it.
The article is pretty right, the image quality of the Hauppages sucks when I compare a capture done on the 250 to a capture on my Tivo, of the exact same program on the exact same channel at the exact same time.
He was way wrong, because he forgot who his fans are (well, were) and where he came from.
Metallica couldn't get a record contract to save their lives. In those days Van Halen was risky. Noone wanted to touch them.
It was people like me, passing around bootleg tapes, saying "Dude!! listen to this shit! These mofo's are HARDCORE!"
I traded a bunch of Metallica on Napster and others. None of the studio stuff. Every fan already has a copy of Master of Puppets, Ride, or Kill 'em All. Most of the Metallica trading was live shows (especially stuff with Cliff, or even the way old stuff with Dave), rarer stuff like Green Hell. The same bootlegs and live shows that made the band.
I'm not justifying the legality of any of it, but that's what pissed off the fans. It was a big "fuck you, we don't need you anymore now that we're rich!". I *made* them rich, by going to the concerts, buying the T-shirts, picking fights with Megadeth fans, and hyping them to everyone I knew.
While I still like the older music, I'm no longer a Metallica fan. They should have let someone else be the industry bitch. They blew it, big.
And very politely started tiptoeing towards bitching me out, asking a bunch of questions about my net usage.
I'm really not a bandwidth hog, I don't run P2P 24-7, once in a blue moon I'll fire up bittorrent for some reason or another.
I do use OpenVPN, I get my email from work, my kid brother connects to my LAN via OpenVPN, mostly so we can play games (much easier than forwarding umpteen billion ports for whatever we feel like playing that day).
Well, the customer service guy calls because they noticed the VPN traffic. Or rather, SSL traffic on port 1194.
It says in the AUP that I can't run a VPN or servers of any sort (does that mean I can't host a two player game of quake?). He started dancing around the issue, and as soon as I saw where he was going we had this exchange:
"Is there a problem with my network usage?"
"Umm, well maybe"
"Am I abusing the network, hogging bandwidth"
"Well no, but we noticed a lot of traffic on a port known for VPNs"
"OK, well go ahead and cancel my account. I've been meaning to go with satellite and DSL for a while now, I just couldn't be arsed to climb up on the roof and install it."
He apologized and hung up. I couldn't believe that I threatened the cable co and they backed down.
Anywho, I'm fully prepared to follow through. SpeakEasy and Dish Network are but a phone call away.
Slashdot, since you're completely in cohoots, will speakeasy be signing this agreement?
Not to mention it will drive out the private sector, since noone will be able to compete with free or taxpayer subsidized service. So residents will be stuck with one option, the government provided service. And government provided services fucking suck.
I've worked with enough city IT departments to know that they are not the assclowns I want to be acting as my ISP, just out of sheer incompetence.
Do you really think Comcast, Verizon et al are going to stick around, or do anything to improve service? They'll never be able to compete against taxpayer-subsidized services on price, and not enough people buy based on quality.
Government run initiatives like this will provide short term good, but long term bad.
Frankly, I think Texas has the right idea by banning this, even though that view is unpopular with slashbots who want their free stuff now.
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Project Gutenberg isn't cheap enough for you?
If you're someone who likes reading, there's so much more good stuff in there than you're likely to find on the bestsellers rack at B&N.
I'm not necessarily a "newer is better" type of person. I tend to like old movies, classic novels, and NES games. I'd rather read Dickens than Stephen King, and happen to think that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote much better mysteries than Dan Brown (DaVinci code was IMO formulaic drek, why all the hype?)
YMMV
Harldly anyone subscribes to print newspapers, the days of the paperboy chucking the sunday edition into your rosebush or onto your roof have been gone for a long while.
People just pick it up when they stop to get gas/smokes/coffee/whatever, or just read the copy lying there on the subway, etc..
This doesn't take those kind of numbers into account. That is, this isnt saying more people read WSJ online than they do in print.
If I were to guess, I'd say most would prefer to read dead-tree material than read a computer or PDA screen. It's just so much more comfortable for the eyes, and easier to take to the john.
So I'll just make it an FP
Please, no meat touching, ma'am!
My only point was that that blurb doesn't tell me what it is.
It's full featured, ACID compliant, templated, backwards compatible, vertically integrated, etc..
What is it? Some sort of gameboy game?
What are you talking about, Canada is where bacon comes from. Back-bacon or peameal bacon (whichever you want to call it) is the only true bacon.
Bacon comes from the BACK of the pig, those little strips of fat you get in the US are SALTED SIDE PORK, and NOT BACON.
I repeat, Bacon : Bac - on : BACK - on, bacon is back meat. Damnit.
They sell this crap down here and call it "Canadian bacon", and I don't know what the fuck it's supposed to be. It's neither canadian nor bacon.
After months of searching, I managed to find a local butcher who knows what bacon is, and how to cure it properly. If you're in the MD area, I'll hook you up.
Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management and publishing system. Built on Apache, the world's most robust and dependable Web server, and backed by the reliability of the ACID-compliant PostgreSQL RDBMS, Bricolage scales to meet the content management needs of the most demanding of organizations. Bricolage's intuitive browser-based interface works with any modern web browser, and lets you perform in minutes the customization and configuration tasks that other systems require hours to carry out. Furthermore, Bricolage features a fully customizable workflow environment, so that it can work the way that you work. Together with templating support built on the highly flexible and popular Perl programming language and extensive user groups and permissions, Bricolage provides an affordable yet powerful solution for your content management needs. A comprehensive, actively-developed open source CMS, Bricolage has been hailed as quite possibly the most capable enterprise-class open-source application available by eWEEK.
An open source assortment of random buzzwords. This sounds like just the product our marketing dept has been looking for!
Coolness, Park!
Mann said that duplicity is often necessary in order to mirror the Kafkaesque nature of surveillance.
See, it's a lampoon of people who use the word Kafkaesque when they don't know what Kafkaesque means!
Please, ma'am.. No meat touching!
(What is she going to turn into a bug?)
Try to understand, he's just a man
A warrior of words taking a stand
He is Franz Kafka!
Livin' like a bug ain't easy.
I got tiny little bug feet
I don't really know what bugs eat
Proxy?
It'll just get thrown on kazaa, et al, like everything else.
Once something is "free", it loses it's appeal to warez d00ds, though.
What about the rest of the commonwealth? What about Brits abroad?
What if I, a Canadian living in the US, was willing to voluntarily pay the UK "TV Tax" for access to "Two Fat Ladies" reruns?
Meh.. The internet's not supposed to work like this. Why don't the BBC and China, for that matter, set up their own private networks if they don't want outlanders hitting their servers?
Then maybe the Brits need their own private distribution methods (ie; their TV sets), rather than trying to carve up the Internet a la the Great Firewall of China?
Obviously it's not simply a temperature thing, since most of space is absolute zero, and I can see stars and suns and stuff. So it's not freezing light as in freezing water.
So how exactly do you stop photons from moving? How does this affect relativity (e=mc^2)? How does this affect our perception of the universe - ie; if the light from the star that we think is 10,000 light years away is only moving 20mph or so, it could really be millions of light years away?
Does like, time slow down? My heads spinning. Freeze sounds like the wrong word.
My point was sony has hundreds of legally binding contractual obligations to make piracy of their signed artists as difficult as possible. Apple does not.
Can't Apple zealots read?
Kind of like the Army has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and then makes plans to use Linux in some of it's upcoming weapons systems!
They just resell others content. They have much less to lose when some bands stuff is all over the 'net for free.
Sony, on the other hand, has contracts with the bands they've signed, which no doubt include some clause about them doing whatever is in their power to prevent the stuff from being pirated.
that is all.
Instead of using every new mp3 player as a chance to plug the iPod?
The Hauppage is about the only one that actually works under linux, if that means it's the "best ever", then so be it.
The article is pretty right, the image quality of the Hauppages sucks when I compare a capture done on the 250 to a capture on my Tivo, of the exact same program on the exact same channel at the exact same time.
It wont reboot if you have anything running, or if there has been keyboard or mouse activity in the last XX minutes (can't remember the timeframe).
As for the parent, you can choose "remind me tomorrow", and it won't prompt every 15 minutes.
But which Who song shall be the theme?
I would think "Pictures of Lily", since it's about young boys masturbating.
He was way wrong, because he forgot who his fans are (well, were) and where he came from.
Metallica couldn't get a record contract to save their lives. In those days Van Halen was risky. Noone wanted to touch them.
It was people like me, passing around bootleg tapes, saying "Dude!! listen to this shit! These mofo's are HARDCORE!"
I traded a bunch of Metallica on Napster and others. None of the studio stuff. Every fan already has a copy of Master of Puppets, Ride, or Kill 'em All. Most of the Metallica trading was live shows (especially stuff with Cliff, or even the way old stuff with Dave), rarer stuff like Green Hell. The same bootlegs and live shows that made the band.
I'm not justifying the legality of any of it, but that's what pissed off the fans. It was a big "fuck you, we don't need you anymore now that we're rich!". I *made* them rich, by going to the concerts, buying the T-shirts, picking fights with Megadeth fans, and hyping them to everyone I knew.
While I still like the older music, I'm no longer a Metallica fan. They should have let someone else be the industry bitch. They blew it, big.
France's ISPs seemed to have rolled over already.
They aren't even done writing up the draft, and France has already surrendered!
And very politely started tiptoeing towards bitching me out, asking a bunch of questions about my net usage.
I'm really not a bandwidth hog, I don't run P2P 24-7, once in a blue moon I'll fire up bittorrent for some reason or another.
I do use OpenVPN, I get my email from work, my kid brother connects to my LAN via OpenVPN, mostly so we can play games (much easier than forwarding umpteen billion ports for whatever we feel like playing that day).
Well, the customer service guy calls because they noticed the VPN traffic. Or rather, SSL traffic on port 1194.
It says in the AUP that I can't run a VPN or servers of any sort (does that mean I can't host a two player game of quake?). He started dancing around the issue, and as soon as I saw where he was going we had this exchange:
"Is there a problem with my network usage?"
"Umm, well maybe"
"Am I abusing the network, hogging bandwidth"
"Well no, but we noticed a lot of traffic on a port known for VPNs"
"OK, well go ahead and cancel my account. I've been meaning to go with satellite and DSL for a while now, I just couldn't be arsed to climb up on the roof and install it."
He apologized and hung up. I couldn't believe that I threatened the cable co and they backed down.
Anywho, I'm fully prepared to follow through. SpeakEasy and Dish Network are but a phone call away.
Slashdot, since you're completely in cohoots, will speakeasy be signing this agreement?
Not to mention it will drive out the private sector, since noone will be able to compete with free or taxpayer subsidized service. So residents will be stuck with one option, the government provided service. And government provided services fucking suck.
I've worked with enough city IT departments to know that they are not the assclowns I want to be acting as my ISP, just out of sheer incompetence.
This isn't competition, this is elimination.
Do you really think Comcast, Verizon et al are going to stick around, or do anything to improve service? They'll never be able to compete against taxpayer-subsidized services on price, and not enough people buy based on quality.
Government run initiatives like this will provide short term good, but long term bad.
Frankly, I think Texas has the right idea by banning this, even though that view is unpopular with slashbots who want their free stuff now.