Give me a break, we are only at the beginning of 2004.
No kidding. Who cares if it runs Linux? Just buy a Mac and run OS X. It's 100 times better than Linux and you don't have to worry about whether it'll support your hardware. Plus, there's even software and games you can buy for it. It's a nice middle ground between the high end (Windows) and the low end (OS/2, FreeBSD, Linux).
Often times, IT staff at colleges end up supporting whatever the students happen to bring with them.
Which is completely asinine. All you do is announce that you will support Windows 2000 and Windows XP on end-user machines. Anything else is not permitted to be connected to the network. Problem solved, no support issues. If someone gets a virus and is running Win98 then disconnect them from the network and bring them up for academic dismissal for violating the school's policy.
*Prevention* is having security staff there, monitoring you. Who wants to be strip-searched at the movies. Come on people....
Actually according to an article I read that's exactly what they're doing. Not strip searches, but wanding people down, going through metal detectors, using night vision goggles by security staff to look for camcorders, etc. It's just nuts. I'm not saying that because I pirate movies with a video camera at movie theaters, but I'm saying it because I'm sick and tired of being treated like a criminal everywhere I go. I go to the airport and am guilty until I prove my innocence by subjecting myself to their metal detectors, x-ray machines, bag searches, etc. Now I have to put up with this shit at a movie theater? It's amazing these people still wonder why they're losing money and people are just staying home.
They can feed hungry White Box vendors, but I grant that White Box vendors have to contend with the general ignorance of the people.
Please don't underestimate the ignorance of the people either. Aside from reasonable prices your next biggest item should be the best tech support money can buy. Without good tech support people will just go elsewhere. You WILL get people calling you that don't understand how to plug in their color-coded cables or even how to turn it on even though it's clearly explained in a 3 foot by 3 foot fold out poster in very simple pictographs. This isn't 1990 when most of the people using computers were either businesses with support personnel or very techie home users who were used to dealing with DOS and drivers, boot disks, config.sys, etc. The majority of people today using computers are complete and utter morons. That is the problem with success: Once you've exhausted your techie base you're left with the common cattle to support your profit margins.
if you did something like this and sold it cheap enough, you could get your foot in the student laptop market.
A G4 iBook starts at $999 (student discount price) and is the best student laptop on the market hands-down. How are you going to compete with Apple? For even bigger cheapskates there are the $699 deals on Dell laptops. You just can't touch that if you're a startup and intend to make a profit (you know, that thing that helps pay for you to eat and sleep in a warm comfortable home at night?).
I met TiVo (specifically DirecTiVo) at a friend's house and was not really impressed. He had just gotten it that same day and it didn't even have the full channel information or show times and schedules so it was pretty useless. I asked him why he didn't just force it to refresh the listings right then and there and he said it didn't even have an ethernet connection. Get this, these things dial up over an antiquated modem connection to get their listings. There's also no way to offload shows that you've recorded once the paltry "35 hours" of storage is used up. On top of it all, the program guide was abysmally slow to scroll. Perhaps it's a limitation of DirecTV rather than TiVo so I won't hold that against them, but my digital cable box scrolls much faster. Anyway, I went over there to evaluate whether it was worth me looking into a similar setup and I came away laughing at it. I'll stick with my MythTV dual tuner system and digital cable.
No, but everytime I see THG I keep thinking "The Humble Guys" and am wondering if they've got some new 0-day warez out like Police Quest II or Space Quest.
Anyway, be sure to always drink from leaded crystal, which has the right sort of pore structure to support continuous beads of tiny bubbles (given a good wine sample - Korbel ain't never gonna taste good).
I usually only drink Champagne that comes out of a box or a bottle with a screw on cap. Is the stuff made by this Don guy any better?
Should SCO claims carry any merrit, the code in question would be removed instantly - which is exactly what SCO doesn't want.
This is what I really don't understand. If their legitimate gripe is that people are using their technology without their permission then prove to us that you wrote the infringing parts and we'll remove it and replace it with clean code. The way they're pursuing this whole matter are downright underhanded.
As sad as this is, the proper way to distribute the blacklist information might be Email.
Wouldn't a moderated Usenet group make more sense? The trusted person would be the only one allowed to post the updates and you can't really DDOS usenet except by spamming the group, which you wouldn't be able to do since you can't post to it.
It's a little expensive for $400, not to mention that it's got only a 120GB HardDisk.
Well, technically if it's RAID-1 it'd have two 120GB hard disks. I wish I could find out more but the site seems slashdotted. Does anyone have a mirror of Mirra (no pun intended)?
Is it just me, or does this thing sound exactly like the Cobalt Cube from a few years back?
Umm, that's probably because it IS the same Cobalt that produced the Cube. Sun bought them several years ago (and subsequently killed them off by failing to release timely security patches or regular updates anymore). I've got several RaQ4r's and I should find out how this affects us when we keep them around to use as workgroup toy servers after we upgrade to general purpose Linux servers. They were great and I would keep using them if only Sun kept patches up to date. Oh well.
The general test for an action being a crime is if it involves coercing another into doing something. Murder, rape, theft, assault, etc. all have an element of coercion and are thus crimes.
Ah, the old "Your right to punch me in the nose ends where my nose begins" argument. I agree completely. If what you're doing does not infringe on another person then nobody should stop you.
Speeding is not a crime, because it involves only me, the car, and a road, none of which are being coered into doing anything.
I think speeding needs to be redefined. Reckless driving, weaving in and out of traffic and generally causing mayhem on the roads should be a crime. Driving 100mph down a deserted freeway with not another car in site at 3am is not a crime (IMHO).
most people probably have 1-2 AIM windows open for each browser window
I would assume "most people" don't even use instant messaging though. I've never understood what people see in using instant messaging. If I want to chat online I'll just use IRC and if I want to send someone a message without waiting for a reply I'll use e-mail. IM seems to serve no real purpose except for people too lazy to use the already existing technologies. Besides, if I really need instant gratification from someone THAT bad it's more likely I'll just call them on the phone.
The funniest thing was after about 4 days I had a bad dream one night about opening and slurping down a giant can of coke & spoiling my caffeine-fast.
God you guys are weak-willed. I could quit taking in caffeine anytime I like but I love Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke. Nothing washes down a couple of Fast Break candy bars and a bag of M&M's better than a Diet Coke. Mmmmmm.. lunch. Caffeine addiction. Pfffft. Hogwash. Fiddle-faddle.
Please name one TV-capture card that captures and packs video into DivX using free software.
I use a cheapo Hauppauge WinTV dbx/stereo card (model 401) and it works just fine. MythTV captures video from it and encodes it straight to DivX format to save it on the hard drive. Actually, my Athlon 2400+ easily captures a 480x480 input stream at 2200kbps from both my WinTV cards, encodes them in real time, and lets me watch one while also encoding. As long as you've got a 1GHz PIII or better you shouldn't have a problem encoding to DivX in realtime.
She's doing something that's illegal where she lives, and she's posting to the
Internet photos of herself doing it.
Yes, heaven forbid we allow women to go around nekkid in public places! What would the Lord say when we stand before him on Judgement Day? Lighten up people. If some chick wants to show her breasts at a bar and the owner doesn't have a problem with it then don't complain. Nobody forced them to watch her.
Sometimes I wonder why slashdot (or comments pushed up to score:5) even link to sites that will either flame up in DoS-style burnination, or will cost the provider a crapload of cash for going over bandwidth limits.
Bah, this was on Fark a couple of days ago already. She's apparently loosely associated with Nebraska Coeds and they have much better pictures.
The trouble with SATA seems to be it's even worse than ATA was with drive support. Now I can only have ONE drive per bus? It was bad enough I could only have two per channel when SCSI had at least 7-14 devices per channel, but now I only have one per port. That's just nuts. To top it off the new motherboards only have 2-4 ports for SATA. Why not build them with 12 ports?
Sorry, but iTunes seems to be pretty worthless to me. I can't find anything I like on it. I go to search for "Foo Fighters" and it suggests Too Fighters instead. What kind of online music store doesn't have Foo Fighters!? I open up Poisoned, type in Foo Fighters and voila. Tons of songs available for free. The problem with all these online music stores is selection and overpriced tracks IMHO. It's certainly not the best invention of 2003. Napster on the other hand probably was the best invention of its year.
What is your time worth? How long does it take to change the battery? What are the chances of breaking the device changing it yourself?
What are you retarded or did you just time travel here from the 19th century? It's a damn battery for heaven's sake not a fusion reactor control system. If you haven't figured out how to change a battery by now pay the 5 year old next door to do it for you.
learn to live on LESS (and you'll find you appreciate those things even more), then you don't have to worry about living "paycheck to paycheck" because you've reduced your living expenses considerably. Do you really need that $400 SUV out in the driveway? Do you really need that 1600 sq ft house with the 1 acre yard? No, you don't.
Sure, you can live in a squalid shithole and eat ramen noodles all day, ride a bike to your job at McDonalds, and generally live a pathetic life, but where is the fun in that? Most people LIKE to live above the level of a common beast.
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No kidding. Who cares if it runs Linux? Just buy a Mac and run OS X. It's 100 times better than Linux and you don't have to worry about whether it'll support your hardware. Plus, there's even software and games you can buy for it. It's a nice middle ground between the high end (Windows) and the low end (OS/2, FreeBSD, Linux).
Which is completely asinine. All you do is announce that you will support Windows 2000 and Windows XP on end-user machines. Anything else is not permitted to be connected to the network. Problem solved, no support issues. If someone gets a virus and is running Win98 then disconnect them from the network and bring them up for academic dismissal for violating the school's policy.
Actually according to an article I read that's exactly what they're doing. Not strip searches, but wanding people down, going through metal detectors, using night vision goggles by security staff to look for camcorders, etc. It's just nuts. I'm not saying that because I pirate movies with a video camera at movie theaters, but I'm saying it because I'm sick and tired of being treated like a criminal everywhere I go. I go to the airport and am guilty until I prove my innocence by subjecting myself to their metal detectors, x-ray machines, bag searches, etc. Now I have to put up with this shit at a movie theater? It's amazing these people still wonder why they're losing money and people are just staying home.
Please don't underestimate the ignorance of the people either. Aside from reasonable prices your next biggest item should be the best tech support money can buy. Without good tech support people will just go elsewhere. You WILL get people calling you that don't understand how to plug in their color-coded cables or even how to turn it on even though it's clearly explained in a 3 foot by 3 foot fold out poster in very simple pictographs. This isn't 1990 when most of the people using computers were either businesses with support personnel or very techie home users who were used to dealing with DOS and drivers, boot disks, config.sys, etc. The majority of people today using computers are complete and utter morons. That is the problem with success: Once you've exhausted your techie base you're left with the common cattle to support your profit margins.
A G4 iBook starts at $999 (student discount price) and is the best student laptop on the market hands-down. How are you going to compete with Apple? For even bigger cheapskates there are the $699 deals on Dell laptops. You just can't touch that if you're a startup and intend to make a profit (you know, that thing that helps pay for you to eat and sleep in a warm comfortable home at night?).
I met TiVo (specifically DirecTiVo) at a friend's house and was not really impressed. He had just gotten it that same day and it didn't even have the full channel information or show times and schedules so it was pretty useless. I asked him why he didn't just force it to refresh the listings right then and there and he said it didn't even have an ethernet connection. Get this, these things dial up over an antiquated modem connection to get their listings. There's also no way to offload shows that you've recorded once the paltry "35 hours" of storage is used up. On top of it all, the program guide was abysmally slow to scroll. Perhaps it's a limitation of DirecTV rather than TiVo so I won't hold that against them, but my digital cable box scrolls much faster. Anyway, I went over there to evaluate whether it was worth me looking into a similar setup and I came away laughing at it. I'll stick with my MythTV dual tuner system and digital cable.
No, but everytime I see THG I keep thinking "The Humble Guys" and am wondering if they've got some new 0-day warez out like Police Quest II or Space Quest.
I usually only drink Champagne that comes out of a box or a bottle with a screw on cap. Is the stuff made by this Don guy any better?
This is what I really don't understand. If their legitimate gripe is that people are using their technology without their permission then prove to us that you wrote the infringing parts and we'll remove it and replace it with clean code. The way they're pursuing this whole matter are downright underhanded.
Wouldn't a moderated Usenet group make more sense? The trusted person would be the only one allowed to post the updates and you can't really DDOS usenet except by spamming the group, which you wouldn't be able to do since you can't post to it.
Woops, forget it. It does have only one 120GB disk. Why the hell do they say it's RAID-1?
Well, technically if it's RAID-1 it'd have two 120GB hard disks. I wish I could find out more but the site seems slashdotted. Does anyone have a mirror of Mirra (no pun intended)?
Umm, that's probably because it IS the same Cobalt that produced the Cube. Sun bought them several years ago (and subsequently killed them off by failing to release timely security patches or regular updates anymore). I've got several RaQ4r's and I should find out how this affects us when we keep them around to use as workgroup toy servers after we upgrade to general purpose Linux servers. They were great and I would keep using them if only Sun kept patches up to date. Oh well.
Ah, the old "Your right to punch me in the nose ends where my nose begins" argument. I agree completely. If what you're doing does not infringe on another person then nobody should stop you.
Speeding is not a crime, because it involves only me, the car, and a road, none of which are being coered into doing anything.
I think speeding needs to be redefined. Reckless driving, weaving in and out of traffic and generally causing mayhem on the roads should be a crime. Driving 100mph down a deserted freeway with not another car in site at 3am is not a crime (IMHO).
I would assume "most people" don't even use instant messaging though. I've never understood what people see in using instant messaging. If I want to chat online I'll just use IRC and if I want to send someone a message without waiting for a reply I'll use e-mail. IM seems to serve no real purpose except for people too lazy to use the already existing technologies. Besides, if I really need instant gratification from someone THAT bad it's more likely I'll just call them on the phone.
God you guys are weak-willed. I could quit taking in caffeine anytime I like but I love Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke. Nothing washes down a couple of Fast Break candy bars and a bag of M&M's better than a Diet Coke. Mmmmmm.. lunch. Caffeine addiction. Pfffft. Hogwash. Fiddle-faddle.
Please name one TV-capture card that captures and packs video into DivX using free software. I use a cheapo Hauppauge WinTV dbx/stereo card (model 401) and it works just fine. MythTV captures video from it and encodes it straight to DivX format to save it on the hard drive. Actually, my Athlon 2400+ easily captures a 480x480 input stream at 2200kbps from both my WinTV cards, encodes them in real time, and lets me watch one while also encoding. As long as you've got a 1GHz PIII or better you shouldn't have a problem encoding to DivX in realtime.
Yes, heaven forbid we allow women to go around nekkid in public places! What would the Lord say when we stand before him on Judgement Day? Lighten up people. If some chick wants to show her breasts at a bar and the owner doesn't have a problem with it then don't complain. Nobody forced them to watch her.
Bah, this was on Fark a couple of days ago already. She's apparently loosely associated with Nebraska Coeds and they have much better pictures.
The trouble with SATA seems to be it's even worse than ATA was with drive support. Now I can only have ONE drive per bus? It was bad enough I could only have two per channel when SCSI had at least 7-14 devices per channel, but now I only have one per port. That's just nuts. To top it off the new motherboards only have 2-4 ports for SATA. Why not build them with 12 ports?
Sorry, but iTunes seems to be pretty worthless to me. I can't find anything I like on it. I go to search for "Foo Fighters" and it suggests Too Fighters instead. What kind of online music store doesn't have Foo Fighters!? I open up Poisoned, type in Foo Fighters and voila. Tons of songs available for free. The problem with all these online music stores is selection and overpriced tracks IMHO. It's certainly not the best invention of 2003. Napster on the other hand probably was the best invention of its year.
What are you retarded or did you just time travel here from the 19th century? It's a damn battery for heaven's sake not a fusion reactor control system. If you haven't figured out how to change a battery by now pay the 5 year old next door to do it for you.
Or a small Chicago-area cemetary. I hear Gore was a favorite among the 100-250 year old group.
I don't understand. I thought Elton John was a queen.
Sure, you can live in a squalid shithole and eat ramen noodles all day, ride a bike to your job at McDonalds, and generally live a pathetic life, but where is the fun in that? Most people LIKE to live above the level of a common beast.