Sadly, for me most of the world does indeed end at the US borders. I was born here, but most of my family's back in India. For me to use this product to contact them, they would have to purchase a computer and get online in a place where electricity is spotty at best. They can, however, get a relatively cheap cell phone and I can call them for about five bucks (sixty a year). I understand your point and see how this can be useful for wired countries, but for most of the rest of the world skype is moot.
I don't understand the fuss about all of this VOIP stuff. I still can call only another VOIP user at this point, right? If that's the case, there are plenty of tools out there already that enable this, even on PocketPC, which an earlier post pointed out. I'd rather pay my $50 a month for my cell and call anyone I want from wherever I want. I do value the aspect of getting everyone to switch to VOIP, which is what I think skype (among others) are trying to do. Once that happens and that wimax stuff takes off, then we'll be much better off, methinks.
Triumph, please show up at the line again next year with your faux Vulcan. This time we'll be wise to your riddles and tricks! You can again have a mind battle with that wierd black elf dude with his filet-o-fish sandwich.
Seriously, I can't wait. I'm dead serious - I'm too much of a fanatic to let petty things like plot and cool dialogue get in the way of a Star Wars movie. Come on! It's friggin Star Wars, man! Anything Star Wars related is cool, except for the books. Those are just plain stupid. Go ahead, mod me down, and I'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
This dude has a decent idea, I guess. I've found a method that has been foolproof for the past three years. I only give out my email address to people I directly know. I've had a Hotmail address that's been spam free since 2001, not even a drop in the bulk bucket. Once or twice a year I'll get a Hotmail Services thing, but that doesn't matter to me. I keep a junk address at Yahoo when filling out online forms, posting, etc. It works for me and it works for my friends. My ISP email address has _never_ received any spam.
Dude, I hear what you're saying, but there's a difference between voting with your wallet and a company making a product that works properly from the get-go. It doesn't make sense to me that a coporation would make something closed and spend billions of dollars defending their product from crackers, anti-trust lawsuits, and constant requirements for upgrades. The way it works today is any closed proprietary format _will_ be broken and made available to the public. Why fight it? Just create something that works for everyone and you'll save yourself a lot of hassle and dollars in the long run. And you'll look good to the hacker community and the public, to boot. Then again, I'm not a corporate vice president of legal affairs/development/marketing/etc., so I have zero badges to wear that will allow me to crow about this with any credibility.
I guess this is could be a troll, but I can't stand them. I could never stand them. The quality is always subpar, their "player" is a chock full of bloated spyware junk, the link to the free player is hidden better than the holy fucking grail, ugh, ugh, and...ogg? Even if they have fixed all of those (and more) problems, their crapware forced me to find a better alternative and I'll never, ever, and I mean never go back to that horrendous software. Seriously, I could shit on a floppy, put it in my computer, and get a better quality product than anything Real will ever put out.
I even found different colored cable for the different areas of my cube.
I wonder if he also sealed the empty packaging, waste paper, and dead hardware in neat little foil packets before disposing of them in the proper receptacle, which, of course, sits right next to the cozy for his server.;)
Mandrake was my first taste of Linux and I'm glad to have learned much from them and their community. I hope these guys stick around - while Slack/Debian/Gentoo/etc. are great, it's always important to have distros like this available to those interested in making the switch. I haven't paid them anything since 2002 - maybe I need to throw them some bucks in gratitude. Seems a far better option than the windows tax (pirates be exempt from this doubloon taxation, me knows. arrr!)
someday i hope to be as 1337 as you. free software also includes free knowledge. as i freely distribute code, i also freely distribute my knowledge of it. if i expect free software philosophies to ever take hold with the public, i need to make sure they know how to use it, not make offhand comments to them about how "stupid" they are.
After rtfa (or rtfpdf) the basics alone made me laugh. Some examples: No sales force, Cross platform, No cost to download. A quote: Additionally, OpenOffice does not have an e-mail client, so customers may incur a licensing cost associated with buyin and e-mail application. Oh lord...as if any distro doesn't come with a billion email clients already. Thanks, MS, I needed that laugh today after dubugging your wacky VB.
I'm with ya, bud. Leo 'n' Kate, then Kate's emigre to that game show (jeez - I can't even remember what it was called before X-play). The current host set is odd, at best. I haven't watched it in over a year because they're just not the same. It was funny as hell when Woz and Mitnick hosted - stuttering, stammering, hamfisting their way through 90 minutes of fun TV time. The most annoying to me is that Kevin Rose dude. While I admire his enthusiasm for, and advocacy of, Linux and open source, he seems to be trying a little hard to be geeky (man, I wish that was true in high school;) I think he thinks he's 1337 h@x0r or something. One of his "Dark Tips": Kazaa Lite. WTF? I wish I could stick it to the man like that.
I'll have to agree (for the win) - Robot Wars is great. If nothing else, it allows me to watch a Red Dwarf alumni make a little cash. I am a little bummed about the demise of BattleBots on CC.
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to Linslash? Did taco threaten a lawsuit?
Sadly, for me most of the world does indeed end at the US borders. I was born here, but most of my family's back in India. For me to use this product to contact them, they would have to purchase a computer and get online in a place where electricity is spotty at best. They can, however, get a relatively cheap cell phone and I can call them for about five bucks (sixty a year). I understand your point and see how this can be useful for wired countries, but for most of the rest of the world skype is moot.
Exactly - thanks for bringing that up. Standards, people! And open ones, at that.
I'm glad you asked and yes, I do excel at whining about problems without offering a solution.
I don't understand the fuss about all of this VOIP stuff. I still can call only another VOIP user at this point, right? If that's the case, there are plenty of tools out there already that enable this, even on PocketPC, which an earlier post pointed out. I'd rather pay my $50 a month for my cell and call anyone I want from wherever I want. I do value the aspect of getting everyone to switch to VOIP, which is what I think skype (among others) are trying to do. Once that happens and that wimax stuff takes off, then we'll be much better off, methinks.
Triumph, please show up at the line again next year with your faux Vulcan. This time we'll be wise to your riddles and tricks! You can again have a mind battle with that wierd black elf dude with his filet-o-fish sandwich.
The Creeping Sense of Disappointment?
Seriously, I can't wait. I'm dead serious - I'm too much of a fanatic to let petty things like plot and cool dialogue get in the way of a Star Wars movie. Come on! It's friggin Star Wars, man! Anything Star Wars related is cool, except for the books. Those are just plain stupid. Go ahead, mod me down, and I'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
This dude has a decent idea, I guess. I've found a method that has been foolproof for the past three years. I only give out my email address to people I directly know. I've had a Hotmail address that's been spam free since 2001, not even a drop in the bulk bucket. Once or twice a year I'll get a Hotmail Services thing, but that doesn't matter to me. I keep a junk address at Yahoo when filling out online forms, posting, etc. It works for me and it works for my friends. My ISP email address has _never_ received any spam.
Han: That chip goes there and that chip goes there!
Chewie: *Bwaaaaarrraaugh* (translation: Stuff it, honky.)
When I listen to these I feel extreme relaxation so 'sake' it to me! Oh jeez, I couldn't resist. How about a Bond if Austin isn't your bag?
These speakers are best listened to at the precise temperature of ninety-eight degrees fahrenheit.
Dude, I hear what you're saying, but there's a difference between voting with your wallet and a company making a product that works properly from the get-go. It doesn't make sense to me that a coporation would make something closed and spend billions of dollars defending their product from crackers, anti-trust lawsuits, and constant requirements for upgrades. The way it works today is any closed proprietary format _will_ be broken and made available to the public. Why fight it? Just create something that works for everyone and you'll save yourself a lot of hassle and dollars in the long run. And you'll look good to the hacker community and the public, to boot. Then again, I'm not a corporate vice president of legal affairs/development/marketing/etc., so I have zero badges to wear that will allow me to crow about this with any credibility.
will they be starting abm.netflix? or maybe #netflix on some dcc friendly irc network??
I guess this is could be a troll, but I can't stand them. I could never stand them. The quality is always subpar, their "player" is a chock full of bloated spyware junk, the link to the free player is hidden better than the holy fucking grail, ugh, ugh, and...ogg? Even if they have fixed all of those (and more) problems, their crapware forced me to find a better alternative and I'll never, ever, and I mean never go back to that horrendous software. Seriously, I could shit on a floppy, put it in my computer, and get a better quality product than anything Real will ever put out.
From the article:
I even found different colored cable for the different areas of my cube.
I wonder if he also sealed the empty packaging, waste paper, and dead hardware in neat little foil packets before disposing of them in the proper receptacle, which, of course, sits right next to the cozy for his server. ;)
Mandrake was my first taste of Linux and I'm glad to have learned much from them and their community. I hope these guys stick around - while Slack/Debian/Gentoo/etc. are great, it's always important to have distros like this available to those interested in making the switch. I haven't paid them anything since 2002 - maybe I need to throw them some bucks in gratitude. Seems a far better option than the windows tax (pirates be exempt from this doubloon taxation, me knows. arrr!)
someday i hope to be as 1337 as you. free software also includes free knowledge. as i freely distribute code, i also freely distribute my knowledge of it. if i expect free software philosophies to ever take hold with the public, i need to make sure they know how to use it, not make offhand comments to them about how "stupid" they are.
I just sent one of these over to the Tech Model show. Whoo baby!
Steve Mann as one of the models? I hope so. Unless, of course, they wanted people to actually _wear_ the tech ;-)
After rtfa (or rtfpdf) the basics alone made me laugh. Some examples: No sales force, Cross platform, No cost to download. A quote: Additionally, OpenOffice does not have an e-mail client, so customers may incur a licensing cost associated with buyin and e-mail application. Oh lord...as if any distro doesn't come with a billion email clients already. Thanks, MS, I needed that laugh today after dubugging your wacky VB.
I chose MS Office because I like throwing away my money. I am also a moron. That is why I have a chandelier hanging in my car.
ha! wonderful! mod up +5 informative! I can't believe I forgot that graphic. It must be all this VB I've been examining for the past four hours...
Yes, yes, and yes! It will be called: Whipped Cream Panties, Linux, and You.
Herb Goodman: Oh, Nimoy, we'll need those ears back, too, I'm afraid.
I'm with ya, bud. Leo 'n' Kate, then Kate's emigre to that game show (jeez - I can't even remember what it was called before X-play). The current host set is odd, at best. I haven't watched it in over a year because they're just not the same. It was funny as hell when Woz and Mitnick hosted - stuttering, stammering, hamfisting their way through 90 minutes of fun TV time. The most annoying to me is that Kevin Rose dude. While I admire his enthusiasm for, and advocacy of, Linux and open source, he seems to be trying a little hard to be geeky (man, I wish that was true in high school ;) I think he thinks he's 1337 h@x0r or something. One of his "Dark Tips": Kazaa Lite. WTF? I wish I could stick it to the man like that.
I'll have to agree (for the win) - Robot Wars is great. If nothing else, it allows me to watch a Red Dwarf alumni make a little cash. I am a little bummed about the demise of BattleBots on CC.
I got yer trusted computing right here, pal.