An addition to the question: does anyone have any good suggestions for a bag for a big 17 inch laptop? It's considerably larger than the 17" powerbook, and i'd also like to be able to fit books and/or my other smaller laptop (tablet) inside. Are there any bags that would fit this?
While we're on the subject, can anyone recommend a car that gets good gas mileage I can fit into the trunk area of my Ford Excursion that I can use to motor around the city streets? The Excursion gets awful gas mileage in the city so I'd like to carry an extra car with me to use for those short 4-5 block commutes between buildings on campus. I've thought about a golf cart or such but they're not particularly fast. Would a Ford Focus fit?
But if they are gonna make a 100MB network, how can they plan to 'upgrade' that to 10GB, without having to replace nearly everything they buy? Cat6, not Cat5e must be used (or so the IEEE standard says for 10GB) so if they buy that now, then they don't have to replace it.
Would it be easier for you guys to understand if they had said that this is a high speed research network starting at 1 Gbps and eventually topping out at 100 Gbps? Because, that's what they're saying.
With iTunes you can burn a CD and play that on any CD player, totally DRM-free. If you want to you can also re-rip those songs off the CD into any format you choose, again totally DRM-free. Then they can be played on any player you want.
But AAC is a lossy format which you'd be burning to a CD and then re-encoding into probably another lossy format (MP3). Quality will be crappy. Where are the music services that offer FLAC downloads or some other lossless music file format with or without DRM? The RIAA wants them to charge based on what a CD with 12-15 tracks would cost, but fails to properly warn the public that what they're downloading is far inferior to the audio quality you'd get with a real CD. Personally a cheap knock-off 192kbps mp3 or AAC encoded music track is only worth about 5 cents to me. If it was in FLAC I'd consider it for $1 since if I uncompressed it I'd have the exact same thing I'd get with the CD.
New NVidia drivers for linux? I'm still trying to get the old ones to work!!
Just out of curiosity, but what is so hard about getting the NVidia drivers to work? All you have to do is type sh./NVIDIA-whatever.run and it compiles and installs the modules for you. Then just change/etc/X11/XFree86-4's driver line from nv to nvidia, in the modules section comment out GLcore and dri and add glx and that should be it. Oh yea, and of course add the nvidia module into your startup scripts somewhere so it loads the module before X starts. Under Debian this was all pretty straight forward. I just threw it in/etc/modules and it loads at startup. I don't understand why people are having such big problems. Here's a hint, if you're trying to use GCC 3.3, apparently it doesn't work worth shit for compiling modules so go back to GCC 2.95. Since I did that I've had no problems with my kernel or compiling kernel modules for it. With GCC 3.3, the NVIDIA installer would mysteriously fail.
This was already brought up in the past. The SEC isn't interested in pursuing the SCO pump-and-dump scheme because they think it has insignificant effects on the market in general. It's sad, but the only thing the SEC cares about is the general well-being of the stock market. If SCO defrauded all of it's customers it'd still be an insignificant blip on the radar compared to say.. if IBM did.
Apple Stores aren't the only vendor selling Apple Hardware, go to your local CompUSAs or Microcenters, they carry alot of Apple hardwares.
True, but you have no incentive to buy it from anyone except Apple. If you'll check carefully the prices at Compusa and other online vendors of Mac products are almost always within $5 of the Apple Store price. The only way they can make any money is on stuff like "free" 512MB memory upgrades (plus a $39 mandatory installation fee) or getting a "free" printer (with $100 mail in rebate).
Meanwhile you have thousands of combinations of computer products you can buy on the PC line and they all have competitive pricing. Geez, I guess I really am talking myself out of buying that Powerbook. The only thing keeping me interested in them is that Windows XP sucks and Linux is too immature on notebooks for my needs. I just want something that "works" without fiddling around or having to worry about viruses. (Yes, I know, Linux r00lz on servers.. I have several at home.. I'm talking about on a notebook where I want to actually run business productivity software like Office (the REAL office, not StarOffice)).
While it's true that looks do count for something, reputation can count for even more.
If I were a judge and they both came into my court I think I'd rule in Darl's favor without even bothering to hear Alan's side of the story. Looks are EVERYTHING in modern society and mean far more than reputation.
The whole point is to create rarity in the market, my friend. They sit on crap for 30 years, because they CAN, because they own it. Slowly, the existing copies disappear -- misuse, breaking of LP decks/8-track players, obsolescence of the playback technology.
The people that do this the best are Disney. If they haven't proven they're evil enough, occassionally they come out with something like "Snow White, now on DVD... get it now before it goes back in the vault... FOREVER!" rofl.
It's too bad the recording industry doesn't put as much effort into signing new and original bands as they do fighting to protect their antiquated business model.
Yea, that's what I tell Microsoft when I pirate their products too. If only they weren't such monopolists and came up with a better business model to promote a more open software industry, I wouldn't have to pirate Office and Windows 2000. The damn stuff is like crack cocaine! I can't help myself! Honest officer! It's all Microsoft's fault! It's the 21st century, personal responsibility is dead.
Yeah but rather than wait for someone at MS to release a patch, people would install it from elsewhere and won't ever get fed-up with crapy software from Redmond.
I doubt it. They'll just spread the rumor that it's a trojan. "But I have the source!!" doesn't mean much to 99% of the public who don't have compilers on their computers to compile the source into a usable binary so they'll blindly accept it that it is a trojan.
The 535 members of Congress have no power compared to Wal-Mart's
global reach: Wal-Mart does not have to answer to American voters, just
it's stockholders who are seeking unethical profit.
That's not really true. Before they could build a walmart in our neighborhood the city council put it up for a vote in the general election as an issue. It failed and thus we have no walmart here... just little mom and pop shops.
Now I love a good MS bash same as any good Slashdotter but we really can't blame this on them. More and more spam is coming from trojaned machines both 'nix and Windows. You would do better to save your barbs for non-diligent sysadmins.
That's a bit like blaming the rape victim for being assaulted. Let us remember that first and foremost, the spammer is at fault here. For what it's worth, you SHOULD be able to put a totally insecure machine on the Internet and not worry about someone abusing it just like a woman SHOULD be able to walk down the street without worrying about being assaulted. The problem is that there are too many immoral assholes fscking it up for the good people in this world so we need to make sure our doors are locked at night, our women carry concealed weapons, and our computers are set to auto-update.
why can't you just do the nice thing and say "Good Job guys keep it up!" instead of "crap we better get our arses in gear before the japs send their robots to control us"
Because humans are all about competition. Don't even pretend that's not the truth. Everywhere from schools to offices to sports to global politics... everyone competes with everyone else. It's human nature.
As much as I would like to see O/S everywhere in the world, I think that what Iraq needs before anything else at the moment is a stable government.
I think it would go a long way towards establishing a free and democratic open market there if Microsoft offered up to a 50% reduced rate on new Windows 2003 Server installs and XP client licenses. Perhaps it could all be arranged through a trusted middleman such as Halliburton to seal the deal. $100 billion of Iraq's future oil revenue would be funneled directly into Halliburton who would in turn purchase 3 million Windows XP desktop 1 year license packages and 500 Windows 2003 Server 1 year license packs. The rest of the money from the oil revenue would cover overhead and management fees involved in procuring the transaction between Microsoft and Iraq's new free and stable democratic government.
However, the reason that music is valuable isn't because it is scarce, which is why gasoline is valuable, but because it is new, unusual, different.
Then why does a Beatles CD cost the same today as it did in 1985 (adjusting for inflation and the like). If the reason music is valuable is because it is new then "old" songs from 2 or 3 years ago or longer should be free because who would buy them?
most of the online music stores suck anyway, why do we need more prefab music stores that will all sell the same junk anyway. Just because you can build it and put it up faster doesn't mean it's any better.
Because everyone was complaining that the RIAA's business model is dead and we need online music distribution to curb music piracy. If online music distribution fails then the RIAA can come back and say "see, you tried and they still pirate music... they're just little thieves."
amen! why pay for gas either? the prices are heinous! just drive off after pumping. And what about food? Why dont we just get it for free by leaving before they give the check? What has this world come to? what has happened to our god given right to free stuff that others work hard to make?
Another person confusing copyright infringement and theft. *sigh*. If I take your gas and don't pay for it, you don't have the gas to sell to another customer. If I create gas out of thin air that is completely identical to your gas for my own use, you still have your gas to sell and nobody is missing anything. Sharing is GOOD. For Pete's sake, the only people that are against sharing are fscked up RIAA lapdogs who must've been the ones running home to mommy when other kids asked to play with their toys. Selfish pricks.
It seems like they can't figure out the difference between a mail server and a firewall. If you can connect to the port it is not firewalled off, rather the mail server prevents you from using it.
You sound like a typical "I installed ipchains on my Linux box so I am a firewall admin" n00b. Ever hear of proxy firewalls? Sheesh.
Would be usefull for gaming, where each game is installed on it's own drive image, with it's own, tweaked OS.
Virtual PC has got to be the slowest app I've ever used. Running Windows 2000 inside Virtual PC 5.04 on an 800MHz G3 iBook w/640 megs of ram is BARELY tolerable. I couldn't imagine trying to run an actual game. I guess the later versions of VPC running on a dual 2GHz G5 might bring it up to the performance level of a 200 MHz Pentium.
Although they have some newer planes, I believe the US military is still flying F-14s and F-15s, like back in the 70s. Where has the major progress, other than incremental improvements, been in the last 35 years?
Are you forgetting about the stealth fighters and bombers or the joint strike fighter in development? Aviation hasn't stalled, you just chose not to report on the latest advances. The quality of the aircraft today are much better than those designed in the 1960s and 1970s. Sure, they usually emphasis better over bigger, but what's the problem with that? I prefer my airplanes don't fall out of the sky unless guided by a terrorist... err, and in that case I also prefer they not fall out of the sky.
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While we're on the subject, can anyone recommend a car that gets good gas mileage I can fit into the trunk area of my Ford Excursion that I can use to motor around the city streets? The Excursion gets awful gas mileage in the city so I'd like to carry an extra car with me to use for those short 4-5 block commutes between buildings on campus. I've thought about a golf cart or such but they're not particularly fast. Would a Ford Focus fit?
Would it be easier for you guys to understand if they had said that this is a high speed research network starting at 1 Gbps and eventually topping out at 100 Gbps? Because, that's what they're saying.
Of course capital B is a standard for Bytes. People are just ignorant to the fact. It doesn't make it any less true.
Pop-up? What's a pop-up?
-- Clueless Mozilla user.
You're lucky this probably falls under the parody clause (for now) of the copyright laws or you'd have some RIAA lawyer on your ass right about now.
You've never done tech support for an ISP have you? Give me the machine press anyday over clueless users.
But AAC is a lossy format which you'd be burning to a CD and then re-encoding into probably another lossy format (MP3). Quality will be crappy. Where are the music services that offer FLAC downloads or some other lossless music file format with or without DRM? The RIAA wants them to charge based on what a CD with 12-15 tracks would cost, but fails to properly warn the public that what they're downloading is far inferior to the audio quality you'd get with a real CD. Personally a cheap knock-off 192kbps mp3 or AAC encoded music track is only worth about 5 cents to me. If it was in FLAC I'd consider it for $1 since if I uncompressed it I'd have the exact same thing I'd get with the CD.
Just out of curiosity, but what is so hard about getting the NVidia drivers to work? All you have to do is type sh ./NVIDIA-whatever.run and it compiles and installs the modules for you. Then just change /etc/X11/XFree86-4's driver line from nv to nvidia, in the modules section comment out GLcore and dri and add glx and that should be it. Oh yea, and of course add the nvidia module into your startup scripts somewhere so it loads the module before X starts. Under Debian this was all pretty straight forward. I just threw it in /etc/modules and it loads at startup. I don't understand why people are having such big problems. Here's a hint, if you're trying to use GCC 3.3, apparently it doesn't work worth shit for compiling modules so go back to GCC 2.95. Since I did that I've had no problems with my kernel or compiling kernel modules for it. With GCC 3.3, the NVIDIA installer would mysteriously fail.
This was already brought up in the past. The SEC isn't interested in pursuing the SCO pump-and-dump scheme because they think it has insignificant effects on the market in general. It's sad, but the only thing the SEC cares about is the general well-being of the stock market. If SCO defrauded all of it's customers it'd still be an insignificant blip on the radar compared to say.. if IBM did.
True, but you have no incentive to buy it from anyone except Apple. If you'll check carefully the prices at Compusa and other online vendors of Mac products are almost always within $5 of the Apple Store price. The only way they can make any money is on stuff like "free" 512MB memory upgrades (plus a $39 mandatory installation fee) or getting a "free" printer (with $100 mail in rebate).
Meanwhile you have thousands of combinations of computer products you can buy on the PC line and they all have competitive pricing. Geez, I guess I really am talking myself out of buying that Powerbook. The only thing keeping me interested in them is that Windows XP sucks and Linux is too immature on notebooks for my needs. I just want something that "works" without fiddling around or having to worry about viruses. (Yes, I know, Linux r00lz on servers.. I have several at home.. I'm talking about on a notebook where I want to actually run business productivity software like Office (the REAL office, not StarOffice)).
If I were a judge and they both came into my court I think I'd rule in Darl's favor without even bothering to hear Alan's side of the story. Looks are EVERYTHING in modern society and mean far more than reputation.
I think v2.6.0 will be released December 18th, 2003 around 3am and v2.6.1 will be released January 5th, 2004. Did I win anything?
The people that do this the best are Disney. If they haven't proven they're evil enough, occassionally they come out with something like "Snow White, now on DVD... get it now before it goes back in the vault... FOREVER!" rofl.
Yea, that's what I tell Microsoft when I pirate their products too. If only they weren't such monopolists and came up with a better business model to promote a more open software industry, I wouldn't have to pirate Office and Windows 2000. The damn stuff is like crack cocaine! I can't help myself! Honest officer! It's all Microsoft's fault! It's the 21st century, personal responsibility is dead.
I doubt it. They'll just spread the rumor that it's a trojan. "But I have the source!!" doesn't mean much to 99% of the public who don't have compilers on their computers to compile the source into a usable binary so they'll blindly accept it that it is a trojan.
That's not really true. Before they could build a walmart in our neighborhood the city council put it up for a vote in the general election as an issue. It failed and thus we have no walmart here... just little mom and pop shops.
That's a bit like blaming the rape victim for being assaulted. Let us remember that first and foremost, the spammer is at fault here. For what it's worth, you SHOULD be able to put a totally insecure machine on the Internet and not worry about someone abusing it just like a woman SHOULD be able to walk down the street without worrying about being assaulted. The problem is that there are too many immoral assholes fscking it up for the good people in this world so we need to make sure our doors are locked at night, our women carry concealed weapons, and our computers are set to auto-update.
Because humans are all about competition. Don't even pretend that's not the truth. Everywhere from schools to offices to sports to global politics... everyone competes with everyone else. It's human nature.
I think it would go a long way towards establishing a free and democratic open market there if Microsoft offered up to a 50% reduced rate on new Windows 2003 Server installs and XP client licenses. Perhaps it could all be arranged through a trusted middleman such as Halliburton to seal the deal. $100 billion of Iraq's future oil revenue would be funneled directly into Halliburton who would in turn purchase 3 million Windows XP desktop 1 year license packages and 500 Windows 2003 Server 1 year license packs. The rest of the money from the oil revenue would cover overhead and management fees involved in procuring the transaction between Microsoft and Iraq's new free and stable democratic government.
Then why does a Beatles CD cost the same today as it did in 1985 (adjusting for inflation and the like). If the reason music is valuable is because it is new then "old" songs from 2 or 3 years ago or longer should be free because who would buy them?
Because everyone was complaining that the RIAA's business model is dead and we need online music distribution to curb music piracy. If online music distribution fails then the RIAA can come back and say "see, you tried and they still pirate music... they're just little thieves."
Another person confusing copyright infringement and theft. *sigh*. If I take your gas and don't pay for it, you don't have the gas to sell to another customer. If I create gas out of thin air that is completely identical to your gas for my own use, you still have your gas to sell and nobody is missing anything. Sharing is GOOD. For Pete's sake, the only people that are against sharing are fscked up RIAA lapdogs who must've been the ones running home to mommy when other kids asked to play with their toys. Selfish pricks.
You sound like a typical "I installed ipchains on my Linux box so I am a firewall admin" n00b. Ever hear of proxy firewalls? Sheesh.
Virtual PC has got to be the slowest app I've ever used. Running Windows 2000 inside Virtual PC 5.04 on an 800MHz G3 iBook w/640 megs of ram is BARELY tolerable. I couldn't imagine trying to run an actual game. I guess the later versions of VPC running on a dual 2GHz G5 might bring it up to the performance level of a 200 MHz Pentium.
Are you forgetting about the stealth fighters and bombers or the joint strike fighter in development? Aviation hasn't stalled, you just chose not to report on the latest advances. The quality of the aircraft today are much better than those designed in the 1960s and 1970s. Sure, they usually emphasis better over bigger, but what's the problem with that? I prefer my airplanes don't fall out of the sky unless guided by a terrorist... err, and in that case I also prefer they not fall out of the sky.