Here in Norway, we used to have the world's cheapest electricity. Then the electrical market was "freed" and connected with the rest of the Nordic countries through Nord Pool. Last winter our electricity prices grew something like ten-fold!
On the other hand you could point out that PDF has been around for ten years and grown explosively, but hasn't replaced printed media yet.
Yeah, and take the printing press... it has not killed off handwriting yet. New innovations don't always replace their predecessors, sometimes they supplement them.
1. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam.
Oh come on, we all know that it isn't that easy! If it were, why haven't the US, Canada and Mexico returned North America to the natives yet? I mean, they were there for a much longer time before the Europeans came, than the jews were in the middle east before the birth of Islam!
A lot of "minor" news site get their stories from slashdot, and they might be a bit late. Maybe the visitors coming from these sites make up the final rise?
I find this a lot more odd than for example software piracy. I mean, books are SO cheap that the small price is worth it just to get a feeling of not breaking the law. Although software piracy is not justifiable, it is "explainable" with the high price of a lot of software. Book piracy, I believe, is not really explainable.
One thing I've been thinking about lately... say you share a bunch of songs, all named like real songs, all with a plausible file size. RIAA sees this, and notes you down. Has anything really been proven? Am I not allowed to make a file on my harddrive containing the words "I own, I own, I own..." over and over again until the file takes up a logical amount of space, name the file say "Metallica - Enter Sandman.mp3", and share it? What's wrong about that? Some RIAA person would have to download the file in order to prove that I was in fact sharing copyrighted material, and not just some oddly named textfile. AND, in the US, downloading copyrighted material is illegal, right? So RIAA would break the law by downloading it. Unless of course they have a search warrant, but then the person would have to be made aware of this in advance. I guess this thread is too old now for anybody to reply... but still.
For those of you who want to try it out at home, just use one of your several hundred AOL CDs, and voila, you'll have a line slow enough to try it out.
If we knew the location of all NEA's, and even more importantly, could raise the funds to go through with something like this, we might aswell keep it simple, and attach mass drives to them all. Then we could do some mining while we're at it.
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Well, selling it at a loss means that MS is slowly gaining a higher and higher game console market share. With Sony and Nintendo out of the way in a few years time, and a continued shift by game developers towards the Xbox platform instead of the PC, Microsoft will have created their own, controlled platform. Yes, the Xbox is just a PC, but maybe that will change... What about the next Xbox? With the ever-increasing popularity of the console, Microsoft is slowly making their dream come true; control of the hardware.
This obsession with the naming of the OS can seem a bit weird, I agree. But reading things like what you just wrote, "like he want's it to be known", really makes me understand how incorrect spelling/naming can annoy people!
"9 PC's & 13 monitors. Server PC is a 2.0ghz AMD and has 1 Asus 4800se G4 AGP and when Motor flying 4 PCI graphic cards for the instrument panels.. All 8 Clients have AGP cards and are AMD 800 to 1.5ghz... My Ask21 Glider with 3 Asus 4800se G4 cards on the front 6 monitors, giving great downward landing view."
Why is that special? Isn't that just the system requirements for Fs2002? Seems to be to me at any rate...
As Linux From Scratch is rather hard to maintain anyway (rebuilding a library at the bottom often causes problems for stuff linked against it), it is common to "reLFS", that is build an entirely new LFS on another partition on your harddrive. One builds the very latest of everything, and then moves all config files and stuff over from the old system. When I move over my personal stuff, I tend to be veeeery strict with myself, and "leave behind" a lot of things (to die under the hand of mke2fs). That way, my system gets a total spring cleaning rather often, and the system is updated.
Slashdot Mirror
...you'll be redirected to a site for entering into the elections?
Here in Norway, we used to have the world's cheapest electricity. Then the electrical market was "freed" and connected with the rest of the Nordic countries through Nord Pool. Last winter our electricity prices grew something like ten-fold!
Well no, but most slashdot readers can...
-1 new 120 GB drive: Roughly $120
-1 "old" unused computer: Roughly $0
-1 copy of GNU/Linux: Roughly $0
-Some metres of ethernet cable: Roughly $15
TOTAL: Roughly $135
$399-$135=$264.
Tell me again why I should buy this?
On the other hand you could point out that PDF has been around for ten years and grown explosively, but hasn't replaced printed media yet.
Yeah, and take the printing press... it has not killed off handwriting yet. New innovations don't always replace their predecessors, sometimes they supplement them.
1. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam.
Oh come on, we all know that it isn't that easy! If it were, why haven't the US, Canada and Mexico returned North America to the natives yet? I mean, they were there for a much longer time before the Europeans came, than the jews were in the middle east before the birth of Islam!
Surely there must be some mirrors that are 100% trusted? Ran by GNU staff, and the such?
A lot of "minor" news site get their stories from slashdot, and they might be a bit late. Maybe the visitors coming from these sites make up the final rise?
I find this a lot more odd than for example software piracy. I mean, books are SO cheap that the small price is worth it just to get a feeling of not breaking the law. Although software piracy is not justifiable, it is "explainable" with the high price of a lot of software. Book piracy, I believe, is not really explainable.
Make that "...say you share a bunch of FILES,".
One thing I've been thinking about lately... say you share a bunch of songs, all named like real songs, all with a plausible file size. RIAA sees this, and notes you down. Has anything really been proven? Am I not allowed to make a file on my harddrive containing the words "I own, I own, I own..." over and over again until the file takes up a logical amount of space, name the file say "Metallica - Enter Sandman.mp3", and share it? What's wrong about that?
Some RIAA person would have to download the file in order to prove that I was in fact sharing copyrighted material, and not just some oddly named textfile. AND, in the US, downloading copyrighted material is illegal, right? So RIAA would break the law by downloading it. Unless of course they have a search warrant, but then the person would have to be made aware of this in advance.
I guess this thread is too old now for anybody to reply... but still.
For those of you who want to try it out at home, just use one of your several hundred AOL CDs, and voila, you'll have a line slow enough to try it out.
Who implied that they did anything wrong?
If we knew the location of all NEA's, and even more importantly, could raise the funds to go through with something like this, we might aswell keep it simple, and attach mass drives to them all. Then we could do some mining while we're at it.
Well, selling it at a loss means that MS is slowly gaining a higher and higher game console market share. With Sony and Nintendo out of the way in a few years time, and a continued shift by game developers towards the Xbox platform instead of the PC, Microsoft will have created their own, controlled platform. Yes, the Xbox is just a PC, but maybe that will change... What about the next Xbox? With the ever-increasing popularity of the console, Microsoft is slowly making their dream come true; control of the hardware.
This obsession with the naming of the OS can seem a bit weird, I agree. But reading things like what you just wrote, "like he want's it to be known", really makes me understand how incorrect spelling/naming can annoy people!
"9 PC's & 13 monitors. Server PC is a 2.0ghz AMD and has 1 Asus 4800se G4 AGP and when Motor flying 4 PCI graphic cards for the instrument panels.. All 8 Clients have AGP cards and are AMD 800 to 1.5ghz... My Ask21 Glider with 3 Asus 4800se G4 cards on the front 6 monitors, giving great downward landing view."
Why is that special? Isn't that just the system requirements for Fs2002? Seems to be to me at any rate...
I just kinda like the sound of SCO being "hurled" or "lobbed" by a giant slingshot!!
He should just sue SCO and live off the money... relaxing in a fabulous villa, doing a bit of kernel coding every now and then ;-)
"Inappropriate spam"? Ehm... is there any other kind of spam?
Someone should just write the source of the linux kernel in "proper" handwriting!
This thread made me use up all my floppies, sadly.
Does she run Linux?
Yeah they should stick with the official names, and say that it is really kernel 2.4.21-rcN we're talking about here.
As Linux From Scratch is rather hard to maintain anyway (rebuilding a library at the bottom often causes problems for stuff linked against it), it is common to "reLFS", that is build an entirely new LFS on another partition on your harddrive. One builds the very latest of everything, and then moves all config files and stuff over from the old system. When I move over my personal stuff, I tend to be veeeery strict with myself, and "leave behind" a lot of things (to die under the hand of mke2fs). That way, my system gets a total spring cleaning rather often, and the system is updated.