technically, the biggest problem with FC is that it's behind. Hundreds of numbers behind, in fact. If you look at Windows, you'll notice that Windows 2000 was out years ago. XP is because they've run out of numbers and have to do letters now. Redhat is going back to tiny numbers, which guarantees they won't be competitive in the linux market.
And of course, linux is also dying. Please notify the trolls.
somehow I don't think that 800 thousand bogus hotmail addresses and fradulent names are going to make the FBI sing and dance. But that's just what i think.. who really knows what's going on, with a fumble-mouthed ignoramus in charge of the country, and the inhabitants a bunch of repressed spineless bozos.
while you're at it, might as well mention the excellent ogg firmware too. Cuts battery life down to ~9 hours on my machine, but that's not so bad considering that most mp3 players they tested didn't even get that much.
OT: I wonder where the testers managed to find 1400 mAh batteries, since the cheapest crap NiMH I could even find a year ago were all 2100. I sense incompetence.
The iRiver iFP-390T currently supports ogg, but only if you use player-specific beta firmware. Of course, if you want an iPod but crave precious ogg support, try the H-series, which have supported ogg from way back. See here for more. U will like. iRiver's H-series kicks ass on the second-generation iPods, while remaining cheaper and with nice features like the text viewer and USB 2. Supports ogg, gets way better battery life, cheaper. That about says it all.
And check this: for almost every iRiver, there's UMS firmware which transforms the unit into an universal mass storage device. Works fine on Linux or the Mac. iRiver is a sweet company.
you seem to have a problem distinguishing between morality and legality. When data is copied, you do not deprive another person of that data. You might think that there's less incentive for information creators to produce, but the reality is that I only go to concerts of artists whose music i've discovered through the internet (ie, 'piracy,' which is perfectly legitimate where i live) and it certainly benefits them. I would never buy the retail cds anyways. at most, the record industry loses about four dollars annually by my 'piracy' of thousands of songs, while the band has a)gained a fan, b)been paid when i attend their concert, and c)gained ten more fans when i share with other people. Note that the last benefit multiplies exponentially, to a point.
Not all incentives for artists to create come from record companies, dude. Game makers likewise: if you want to play online (eg. almost all new games) then you need a valid serial, which comes at a price. Pay for the service, but the game itself can be free. This is information, after all, and it's not something you can prevent others from owning just because you created it.
access to that data is what you paid for, and it's your data for your own personal use as soon as it's physically in your possession. Most people worldwide have common law rights (aka common sense rights which haven't been rescinded by corrupted american courts/politicians) to back up such things however they like. cracking digital rights restrictions benefits those poor suckers who paid for the crippled product, yet doesn't encourage copyright infringement because a)almost everybody prefers mp3 anyways, b)anything apple sells is widely available already in mp3 format, c)audiophiles won't touch aac no matter what happens, and d)fair use is fair use. and just for the record, copyright infringement is NOT theft. Intellectual property is a legal device designed to legitimize an unnatural concept. You can't own an idea in the same way you can own property.
i could have used this bastard last night, when my libranet install killed hours of work! dammit. ended up blowing it away, but without the aid of this wonderful tool. dammit!!! of course, usage of BFM presupposes successful installation/configuration of Java, so it wouldn't have worked anyways..
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"they fail to see that they are paying for the support that Redhat provides, not for linux itself"
yo buddy, if i charge you fifty-thousand for the tires on my dodge viper and toss in the car for free, it DOESN'T MATTER whether you pay for the car or for the tires! you're paying the same amount either way. in this case, redhat is charging approx. the same as microsoft charges for similar products - to the guy in the article, it's a poke in the eye with your finger, or a poke in the eye with my finger. same difference.
... and before there was the kernel, there were the GNU utilities, which were direct ripoffs of old UNIX utilities, and it should have ended right there so as not to taint my 'modern' linux desktop with old rubbish. Linux would never have attracted its minions without those utilities, which are the backbone of any Linux distro. Don't give me the crap about Linux being just a kernel - it's GNU/Linux, and it's a whole bloody system. Kinda. It's a whole big messy system designed by committee, with a million add-ons half-assedly designed by committees to run on top of it.
Intellectual property is a legal device designed to decrease freedom, and therefore I am opposed. Communism only works when everybody takes part, and I encourage you to do likewise.
hey retard, I couldn't find the part of ESR's rant wherein he mentions that an ADVANCED configuration is explicitly DISABLED with no other recourse. Obviously, you have a narrow-minded fixation on nothing more than what's in front of your face, two inches from your nose - however, ESR is not actually proposing to completely disable advanced configuration of CUPS. He is giving notice that the default configuration could be much, much easier. This is called common sense, and you would benefit from a careful assimilation of similar principles.
I'll bet you only read the old versions of text books, as your own spelling is appallingly similar to some of the pre-proofed manuscripts I've seen. 'exhorbiant?' 'condence?' You're barely literate. Perhaps it's time to buy a new version of your spell-checker too.
my buddy built one, and it scrambled the hard drives in all his computers. also it killed radio reception in one block radius, tv too, and made the phones crap on his kitchen counter. or maybe that was the dog.
i still have the massive power transformer from it:)
yeh it really disturbs me that all this effort is going into the destructive capabilities of these machines. the article should read "free admission for kids under 31"
the funniest thing is that it's not ironic that you got modded down for speaking truth:D seriously, sometimes i wonder who the trolls really are, and how the fark they get all the mod points.. welcome to the fold, friend, and may your stay at/. be blazingly brief for the illumination you bring these peasants:)
OSX is still more intelligent, because it doesn't automatically open an application window when you click on the icon thingy. See, it KNOWS that you probly clicked by mistake! so instead, you'll have to click on the apple bar and open the menu and click on "new window" to get the application window into sight. Better by design. Hell yeh.
Oh, and linux lusers have too many mouse buttons, so GTK+ is crippled by people expecting to use all those extra clickers.
his beef is still valid, however, even if the reasoning isn't sound. Software installation/removal sucks (at least RPM 4 is pretty nasty..) and anybody trying to download GAIM for example ends up downloading 100 MB of crap for seemingly no reason. At least that's what it feels like. Even apt can't ease the pain of installing a tiny app and ending up with 30MB an hour later.
try Nero Burning ROM and select "Open" from the File menu. Select your file, press the Burn button (looks like a CD with a match on it).
Or you could try the ever-popular and totally free DeepBurner. I think cdrecord is supposed to burn ISOs, but I've never successfully managed the task. Or you can try x-cd-roast - just disable automount and nautilus' cd burning features, fiddle with it until it works on your CD-RW media, then burn for real.
My response to your poll is Xfree86. There is nothing worse, and it's a category of horribleness all on its own.
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technically, the biggest problem with FC is that it's behind. Hundreds of numbers behind, in fact. If you look at Windows, you'll notice that Windows 2000 was out years ago. XP is because they've run out of numbers and have to do letters now.
Redhat is going back to tiny numbers, which guarantees they won't be competitive in the linux market.
And of course, linux is also dying. Please notify the trolls.
somehow I don't think that 800 thousand bogus hotmail addresses and fradulent names are going to make the FBI sing and dance. But that's just what i think.. who really knows what's going on, with a fumble-mouthed ignoramus in charge of the country, and the inhabitants a bunch of repressed spineless bozos.
If you criminalize spyware, only the criminals will have it.
while you're at it, might as well mention the excellent ogg firmware too. Cuts battery life down to ~9 hours on my machine, but that's not so bad considering that most mp3 players they tested didn't even get that much.
OT: I wonder where the testers managed to find 1400 mAh batteries, since the cheapest crap NiMH I could even find a year ago were all 2100. I sense incompetence.
The iRiver iFP-390T currently supports ogg, but only if you use player-specific beta firmware.
Of course, if you want an iPod but crave precious ogg support, try the H-series, which have supported ogg from way back. See here for more. U will like. iRiver's H-series kicks ass on the second-generation iPods, while remaining cheaper and with nice features like the text viewer and USB 2. Supports ogg, gets way better battery life, cheaper. That about says it all.
And check this: for almost every iRiver, there's UMS firmware which transforms the unit into an universal mass storage device. Works fine on Linux or the Mac. iRiver is a sweet company.
yup, some people have been using Kazaa to back up private files for years :P
you seem to have a problem distinguishing between morality and legality. When data is copied, you do not deprive another person of that data. You might think that there's less incentive for information creators to produce, but the reality is that I only go to concerts of artists whose music i've discovered through the internet (ie, 'piracy,' which is perfectly legitimate where i live) and it certainly benefits them. I would never buy the retail cds anyways. at most, the record industry loses about four dollars annually by my 'piracy' of thousands of songs, while the band has a)gained a fan, b)been paid when i attend their concert, and c)gained ten more fans when i share with other people. Note that the last benefit multiplies exponentially, to a point.
Not all incentives for artists to create come from record companies, dude.
Game makers likewise: if you want to play online (eg. almost all new games) then you need a valid serial, which comes at a price. Pay for the service, but the game itself can be free. This is information, after all, and it's not something you can prevent others from owning just because you created it.
access to that data is what you paid for, and it's your data for your own personal use as soon as it's physically in your possession. Most people worldwide have common law rights (aka common sense rights which haven't been rescinded by corrupted american courts/politicians) to back up such things however they like. cracking digital rights restrictions benefits those poor suckers who paid for the crippled product, yet doesn't encourage copyright infringement because a)almost everybody prefers mp3 anyways, b)anything apple sells is widely available already in mp3 format, c)audiophiles won't touch aac no matter what happens, and d)fair use is fair use.
and just for the record, copyright infringement is NOT theft. Intellectual property is a legal device designed to legitimize an unnatural concept. You can't own an idea in the same way you can own property.
i could have used this bastard last night, when my libranet install killed hours of work! dammit. ended up blowing it away, but without the aid of this wonderful tool. dammit!!!
of course, usage of BFM presupposes successful installation/configuration of Java, so it wouldn't have worked anyways..
"they fail to see that they are paying for the support that Redhat provides, not for linux itself"
yo buddy, if i charge you fifty-thousand for the tires on my dodge viper and toss in the car for free, it DOESN'T MATTER whether you pay for the car or for the tires! you're paying the same amount either way. in this case, redhat is charging approx. the same as microsoft charges for similar products - to the guy in the article, it's a poke in the eye with your finger, or a poke in the eye with my finger. same difference.
... and before there was the kernel, there were the GNU utilities, which were direct ripoffs of old UNIX utilities, and it should have ended right there so as not to taint my 'modern' linux desktop with old rubbish. Linux would never have attracted its minions without those utilities, which are the backbone of any Linux distro.
Don't give me the crap about Linux being just a kernel - it's GNU/Linux, and it's a whole bloody system.
Kinda. It's a whole big messy system designed by committee, with a million add-ons half-assedly designed by committees to run on top of it.
This is a troll?? Naw, kids.
Troll is more like saying,
"running Linux is like giving a BJ to Poindexter, while handjobbing Bush with Cheney plowing from behind."
No, wait, that's just telling it like it is... oops.
imagine getting a blowjob from Geoge Bush Jr.
that's what Linux is like right now. And Cheney. And Poindexter.
screw ARIA - i'll never pay for music again!!!
yarrr, batten the hatches an' prepare to board!!
Intellectual property is a legal device designed to decrease freedom, and therefore I am opposed. Communism only works when everybody takes part, and I encourage you to do likewise.
hey retard, I couldn't find the part of ESR's rant wherein he mentions that an ADVANCED configuration is explicitly DISABLED with no other recourse.
Obviously, you have a narrow-minded fixation on nothing more than what's in front of your face, two inches from your nose - however, ESR is not actually proposing to completely disable advanced configuration of CUPS. He is giving notice that the default configuration could be much, much easier. This is called common sense, and you would benefit from a careful assimilation of similar principles.
I'll bet you only read the old versions of text books, as your own spelling is appallingly similar to some of the pre-proofed manuscripts I've seen.
'exhorbiant?' 'condence?' You're barely literate. Perhaps it's time to buy a new version of your spell-checker too.
If they're dimwitted enough, you'll find them here. Look for the idiots who can't spell.
my buddy built one, and it scrambled the hard drives in all his computers. also it killed radio reception in one block radius, tv too, and made the phones crap on his kitchen counter. or maybe that was the dog.
:)
i still have the massive power transformer from it
yeh it really disturbs me that all this effort is going into the destructive capabilities of these machines. the article should read "free admission for kids under 31"
the funniest thing is that it's not ironic that you got modded down for speaking truth :D seriously, sometimes i wonder who the trolls really are, and how the fark they get all the mod points .. welcome to the fold, friend, and may your stay at /. be blazingly brief for the illumination you bring these peasants :)
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your friend p00p
last time i looked, mandrake had font-smearing on by default. i had to hunt all over to fix it.
Even winxp doesn't do that.
hint: disable anti-aliasing.
OSX is still more intelligent, because it doesn't automatically open an application window when you click on the icon thingy. See, it KNOWS that you probly clicked by mistake! so instead, you'll have to click on the apple bar and open the menu and click on "new window" to get the application window into sight. Better by design. Hell yeh.
Oh, and linux lusers have too many mouse buttons, so GTK+ is crippled by people expecting to use all those extra clickers.
his beef is still valid, however, even if the reasoning isn't sound. Software installation/removal sucks (at least RPM 4 is pretty nasty..) and anybody trying to download GAIM for example ends up downloading 100 MB of crap for seemingly no reason. At least that's what it feels like. Even apt can't ease the pain of installing a tiny app and ending up with 30MB an hour later.
try Nero Burning ROM and select "Open" from the File menu. Select your file, press the Burn button (looks like a CD with a match on it).
Or you could try the ever-popular and totally free DeepBurner. I think cdrecord is supposed to burn ISOs, but I've never successfully managed the task. Or you can try x-cd-roast - just disable automount and nautilus' cd burning features, fiddle with it until it works on your CD-RW media, then burn for real.
My response to your poll is Xfree86. There is nothing worse, and it's a category of horribleness all on its own.
hmm... years ago, Quake rocked. That was almost ten years ago. It sucks now. Horrible pixellation is no longer fashionable, and my comment stands.