Its not that software is not worth such an investment, its just that a product must stay in the price range of its competition for it to be worth it. Even down here in Texas where people will get in fights over brands of trucks, I'm sure the diehard Ford/Chevy/Dodge loyalists would stop buying their favorite brand of truck if it was $10000 more than a comparible model. With nothing to compare to $179 dollars for Redhat isn't that much. But when you consider joining the Mandrake Club costs $120 and SuSE costs $89.95 you see that Redhat's price IS too much.
Worse, this shows a deep-seated lack of democratic values in you. The US has a democratically elected government. You yourself are part of that government, and it's up to you to make it what you want it to be.
Wow! What a great idea! Will you please tell me how to do this? Voting doesn't work, I vote every year and the same sort of assholes get elected. Grass roots lobbying doesn't work, because there is some corporate interest group (that will go against you) that is better funded and has better "access" to politicians. And don't get me started about bureaucracy.
This sort of thinking is just naive. Especially when it comes to changing "big government". Bad policy like the drug war and farm subsidies will never go away because hundreds of thousands of people in the bureaucracy mooch of the money provided for such things. Do you really think all the people working for the DEA (just for an example), really want pot legalized? HELL NO! Because they, prosecutors, Anti-Drug advertising reps, ect. would be out of work. Since this is their gravy train (and politics is little more than a hobby to most people because we have another bill-paying job), they will do everything (including abhorrent commercials that show stoned children gunning as each other) to keep everything the way it is and we don't have the time or resources to stop them. There is no way to get rid of harmful government policy besides killing whoever is behind it. This is just not an acceptable option- except for John Poindexter; THE MOST EVIL NERD EVER (I sure hope this post puts me on his illegal list).
Because the implied message is that she is not actually on the pill and that she is lying to you to get knocked up. Not a big worry for many people, but if you are wealthy or you are at a low end State University (where many girls are majoring in getting married), then you live in fear of such women. I guess a worse, more general statement would be:
phone rings: Hey, remember me. No? Come on, office party three months ago. Remember how I told you I was on birth control, well... something happened.
I'm glad to see that the opening of the quake source code has allowed for interesting new ideas. And I thought that pocket quake was as good as it gets.
The fact is Americans like to drive big, inefficient cars, even if it means whining about the heavy traffic they're stuck in because everyone else likes to drive too, and the high gas prices because everyone else likes to drive gas-guzzling cars too. Widespread train travel isn't going to make a comeback.
Fact is people don't want to fly in planes. Every since 9-11, the fear of another terrorist attack (and large overheads and high fuel prices) almost have the major airlines belly up. People are sick of the frustration that can be caused by airports and the uncomfort of some coach class seats. Especially if a train system-that doesn't have to go everywhere (just connect major cities)- came along that was fast enough to be comparible in time and money with more comfort. I mean, you can't justify putting it in Idaho or Wyoming, but the whole eastern and western coast will probably eventually develop a need for a high speed train system.
Switzerland has been around in an independant form for over 500 years and is still healthy and will continue to be healthy. It's because they play well with others
Bullshit. Everyone knows that Switzerland has a healthy economy and has worked as a neutral nation is because the banks there hide the dirty money for both sides in a conflict. Hitler at one time along with the world's largest drug dealers today use Switz banks to hide money the rest of the world wouldn't let them have. The healthiness stems more from the "see no evil" school of thought when it comes to doing business. Its not a rosy truth. Just like the fact that the reason Belgium is a healthy country is because King Leopold stole over a billion dollars worth of rubber at the turn of the century from the Congo (at the cost of millions of African lives).
I would say there is a vast bit more difference than you imply. The issue of whether homosexuals, women and divorcees should be allowed and to what extent and in what roles they should be allowed to serve in ministry is a big deal, because the Bible makes it an issue
Actually when you compare the number of verses dealing with homosexuals and the role of women in the Bible and compare it to the verses that talk about war and forgiveness, you will find many of these points are in a small minority of scripture. On the other hand they are big deals to modern humans, (actually not really in perspective but we got to fill up a news report somehow) so different denominations define themselves based apon them. If everyone would quit worrying about what makes their faith special instead of the hundreds of things that make it the same, than the huge recources the indivivual churches have could be brought together to serve a greater purpose.
Every decent downloader with a fat pipe got everything they wanted illegal music-wise back in the napster days. Come on people! Its 2004! Get opensource programs faster, download independent movies, get dj mixes streamed from the best clubs in the world. Cheap Porn for cring out loud! Or my new favorite- old Playstation games that I bought back in the day but they got eaten by my PS1 before I could finish them! With modern emulators they look better that some PS2 games. I can finally see the ending to Final Fantasy 9. All great stuff- Get all your music and get out. Your connection is better spent in other ways.
Look. If my lazy (I will ignore the pot thing, even though it shows you love faulty stereotypes) roomate copies my paper for his own benefit, then he is stil just COPYING IT. If he takes my copy of the paper and turns it in HE IS STEALING IT. The first example is simple plagerism and second is plagerism and theft. Public goods (goods that are not exhausted when they are used and therefore can be used by as many as the system of distribution will support) cannot be stolen- only copied.
I don't know how moderators can even give points to this sort of drivel since every day nearly there is a slashdot story that clearly explains the difference. My guess is that the points are comming from that minority of readers that are older so they do not have time to enjoy the finer things like determining the difference between theft and copying and smoking weed. These people often seem to be bitter towards those that do enjoy themselves. I just never figured how they got the time to read this site in the first place.
Video games are not dieing. In fact the market is as big as it has ever been. On the console side the fact that huge companies such as Micro$oft and $ony are major players in the market makes it much more stable than when it was smaller companies that could disappear with one disapointing generation (such as Dreamcast).
On the PC side games are as good as it gets. Emulation has brought back classics from the past often making improvements (for example: did any of you every play secret of mana 2? No you say, it never came out in english. well now you can for free! Also the market is ripe for homebrew PC games. If something like Counterstrike would have been released 2 years before it did, few would have played it.
I think that this person has trouble telling the difference between the market as presented in a gaming magizine and reality.
The first major embarisment of the French in the American period was during the Franco-Prussian War.Germany for the first time in history united together and abosolutaly crushed the French, even taking captive their king. This proved the might of the newly created German state, and showed that without another Napoleon the French would never again be a top tier military power in the world. It was almost as embarasing as the Japan-Russian War for the Russians or the Italo-Ethiopian War for the Italians.
The American military probably killed (cause the government doesn't count) 40000 Iraq troops while losing only 482 American troops. That is a one hundred to one ratio. And our troops weren't killing some guys with hunting guns or low end assault rifles like what would happen in a modern American revolution. These Iraq soldiers were highly trained paid professionals. If they would have fought in the manor that Americans would have to in order to fight the government, it easily would have been a 200 to one ratio. With that ratio 500000 soldiers could kill 100000000 people. But that assumes that the government would fight a modern civil war with ground troops. Instead they would probably send tomahawks and bombs from the sky (stuff that you can't defend yourself from with anything at the gun store).
When our forefathers fought their war of independence, they had nearly the same equipment (technologically speaking) as the British they were fighting. Now the populace is so far behind. The military would win. That's why we must act now from keeping things from becoming another civil war.
There are already websites that allow people to check on the background of their doctor. Why shouldn't they be able to do the same with patients? The internet is for all.
I need a roomate. Just don't try to use the microwave. It still hasn't recovered from my last 3:00am "cheese experiment."
Directions on Taking Apart the Muvo2
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I can't believe/. finally told about the awesome Muvo2 hack, but didn't give a link for directions to do it. Here are some taken from http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1 023&message=7308713.
And upgrade the firmware of the unit. This is VITAL. If you do not upgrade ahead of time, you will have serious issues later on. Upgrade the firmware FIRST. It has some auto-recovery features that will prove necessary in later steps. Remove the battery when you are done. Now ground yourself.
2. At the top of the Muvo2 there are two small screws. With a very small philips screwdriver, remove these screws.
3. Open the battery compartment. At the bottom, there are two very small screws. Remove these as well.
4. Remove the back of the unit.
5. Lift the circuit board carefully. It was held in place by the previous 4 screws.
6. Underneath the top circuit board, there is a plate holding down the microdrive. At the top, there are two screws. Remove them. On the side, there is a very very small silver screw. It is smaller than the two black ones. Remove it.
7. There is a piece of black tape in the lower corner. Underneath that tape is the last screw holding down the MD plate. Remove the tape carefully, and unscrew the screw.
8. Lift the plate out. Now, CAREFULLY pry the pin-array from the microdrive. Very gently use a small flat screwdriver to work your way down the black plastic strip. DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING. It should come out easily.
9. Take the 4gb MD and format it in your camera. You should have a 4gb MD now.
10. Put the 1gb MD back into the array. Carefully press it down. Again, do not force anything, it should slide in very easily.
11. Replace the screws, place the tape over the black screw where you found it, and reassemble the Nomad.
12. Turn it on. It will report that there is a media error and go into recovery mode.
13. Select Reload firmware from the recovery menu. It will take a few seconds, reload the firmware, and then report a media error.
14. Select Connect to PC. Now, connect the USB connector to your PC.
15. Run the Firmware upgrade again, and allow it to upgrade the firmware.
16. Power it down. Then back up.
17. When it turns on, it will report a scansearch error, or a media error then throw you into recovery mode. Select Format. It should take a few seconds to format.
18. Power it off, power it back on, and you should have a working 1gb Muvo2, a working 4gb MD in your camera, and a big smile on your face.
I know it is easy to find on the web, but after reading some of the questions (many of the mod +5) on/. I wonder if some people even know google exists.;)
Without Social Security numbers, how do you know if my friend Theodore Kaczynski is the exact same guy as the unibomer? Since this data can be easily misrepresented (and has no legal guarantees of accuracy), online association would never hold up in court if you have a good lawyer. I know some people are worried about more than this- such as employees using the data to hire people- but in those cases it would be better to just not get the job and avoid association with such underhanded tactics. Only a court can imprison me and take my freedom, so that's my only worry.
This prevents people from stealing program content by not watching the commercials.
Wow. It's telling when the option of getting up and walking somewhere else for 3 minitues is not considered. So they lock the channel. I'll just go get a sandwich. Or turn the damn thing off.
We live in a wireless world. Future wireless standards will soon have the bandwidth of a cable modem anyway. This ruling will just making those technologies role out cheaper and faster (since that's now where the future money is). SBC is already getting into satellite networks. Mmmm. Good two way satellite.
Plus, if fiber isn't shared, then more will have to be put down (more for everyone). The largest problem I foresee is if is if the applies to power lines as well (which would kill many beneficial deregulation efforts all over the country).
Re:I still don't get the streaming revenue model
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Well, I posted this up top but I love wasting/.'s disk space.
There is really only one true benefit I see for on-demand, unlimited music that you don't own. If you have enough time, you can download nearly every song you wanted in a few months (40 or so bucks) and use sound capture software to turn the "for rent" songs into whatever format you please.
This actually is enticing to me because I am sure that the quality of Napster's songs would be better than those of the major illegal P2P music trading networks.
True you can buy the songs from Apple at a dollar apiece, but this way would be cheaper (especially if you got something like 200 gigs of songs). Also this way the record companies (and hopefully the artists) get paid- though not as much as they would like. Napster could benefit from getting a lot more subscriptions (and the market share it implies) which can keep it afloat that much longer.
There is really only one true benefit I see for us/.'s concerning on-demand, unlimited music that you don't own. If you have enough time, you can download nearly every song you wanted in a few months (40 or so bucks) and use sound capture software to turn the "for rent" songs into whatever format you please.
This actually is enticing to me because I am sure that the quality of Napster's songs would be better than those of the major illegal P2P music trading networks.
True you can buy the songs from Apple at a dollar apiece, but this way would be cheaper (especially if you got something like 200 gigs of songs). Also this way the record companies (and hopefully the artists) get paid- though not as much as they would like. Napster could benefit from getting a lot more subscriptions (and the market share it implies) which can keep it afloat that much longer. As far as the legality of it, "I didn't do it" combined with "I didn't sign anything" with a "everbody's doing it" on top!
The missing link in SCO's business plan is revealed.
Instead of
1. Claim possession of a popular open source work.
2. ?
3. Profit
We now know it is
1. Claim possession of a popular open source work.
2. Use legal threats to dupe chickensh*t companies like EV1 Servers to paying licensing fees
3. profit
Since this is now an effective way of making money, I claim Mozilla (conquistador style) as my intellectual property. Better reinstall Internet Explorer nerds, or pay my $100,000,000 licensing fee.;)
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Well a lot of us did and here we are. iTunes is now my bitch.
Apple will fix their encryption, and MS will improve theirs.
and some dude will just crack it again.
Its not that software is not worth such an investment, its just that a product must stay in the price range of its competition for it to be worth it. Even down here in Texas where people will get in fights over brands of trucks, I'm sure the diehard Ford/Chevy/Dodge loyalists would stop buying their favorite brand of truck if it was $10000 more than a comparible model. With nothing to compare to $179 dollars for Redhat isn't that much. But when you consider joining the Mandrake Club costs $120 and SuSE costs $89.95 you see that Redhat's price IS too much.
Wow! What a great idea! Will you please tell me how to do this? Voting doesn't work, I vote every year and the same sort of assholes get elected. Grass roots lobbying doesn't work, because there is some corporate interest group (that will go against you) that is better funded and has better "access" to politicians. And don't get me started about bureaucracy.
This sort of thinking is just naive. Especially when it comes to changing "big government". Bad policy like the drug war and farm subsidies will never go away because hundreds of thousands of people in the bureaucracy mooch of the money provided for such things. Do you really think all the people working for the DEA (just for an example), really want pot legalized? HELL NO! Because they, prosecutors, Anti-Drug advertising reps, ect. would be out of work. Since this is their gravy train (and politics is little more than a hobby to most people because we have another bill-paying job), they will do everything (including abhorrent commercials that show stoned children gunning as each other) to keep everything the way it is and we don't have the time or resources to stop them. There is no way to get rid of harmful government policy besides killing whoever is behind it. This is just not an acceptable option- except for John Poindexter; THE MOST EVIL NERD EVER (I sure hope this post puts me on his illegal list).
phone rings: Hey, remember me. No? Come on, office party three months ago. Remember how I told you I was on birth control, well... something happened.
(commence feeling of life being over).
I'm glad to see that the opening of the quake source code has allowed for interesting new ideas. And I thought that pocket quake was as good as it gets.
Fact is people don't want to fly in planes. Every since 9-11, the fear of another terrorist attack (and large overheads and high fuel prices) almost have the major airlines belly up. People are sick of the frustration that can be caused by airports and the uncomfort of some coach class seats. Especially if a train system-that doesn't have to go everywhere (just connect major cities)- came along that was fast enough to be comparible in time and money with more comfort. I mean, you can't justify putting it in Idaho or Wyoming, but the whole eastern and western coast will probably eventually develop a need for a high speed train system.
Bullshit. Everyone knows that Switzerland has a healthy economy and has worked as a neutral nation is because the banks there hide the dirty money for both sides in a conflict. Hitler at one time along with the world's largest drug dealers today use Switz banks to hide money the rest of the world wouldn't let them have. The healthiness stems more from the "see no evil" school of thought when it comes to doing business. Its not a rosy truth. Just like the fact that the reason Belgium is a healthy country is because King Leopold stole over a billion dollars worth of rubber at the turn of the century from the Congo (at the cost of millions of African lives).
Actually when you compare the number of verses dealing with homosexuals and the role of women in the Bible and compare it to the verses that talk about war and forgiveness, you will find many of these points are in a small minority of scripture. On the other hand they are big deals to modern humans, (actually not really in perspective but we got to fill up a news report somehow) so different denominations define themselves based apon them. If everyone would quit worrying about what makes their faith special instead of the hundreds of things that make it the same, than the huge recources the indivivual churches have could be brought together to serve a greater purpose.
Every decent downloader with a fat pipe got everything they wanted illegal music-wise back in the napster days. Come on people! Its 2004! Get opensource programs faster, download independent movies, get dj mixes streamed from the best clubs in the world. Cheap Porn for cring out loud! Or my new favorite- old Playstation games that I bought back in the day but they got eaten by my PS1 before I could finish them! With modern emulators they look better that some PS2 games. I can finally see the ending to Final Fantasy 9. All great stuff- Get all your music and get out. Your connection is better spent in other ways.
I don't know how moderators can even give points to this sort of drivel since every day nearly there is a slashdot story that clearly explains the difference. My guess is that the points are comming from that minority of readers that are older so they do not have time to enjoy the finer things like determining the difference between theft and copying and smoking weed. These people often seem to be bitter towards those that do enjoy themselves. I just never figured how they got the time to read this site in the first place.
On the PC side games are as good as it gets. Emulation has brought back classics from the past often making improvements (for example: did any of you every play secret of mana 2? No you say, it never came out in english. well now you can for free! Also the market is ripe for homebrew PC games. If something like Counterstrike would have been released 2 years before it did, few would have played it.
I think that this person has trouble telling the difference between the market as presented in a gaming magizine and reality.
Yeah WolfET!! Just got done playing that. Best free thing since google.
The anus of Texas huh? I have a guess of where that could be...
The first major embarisment of the French in the American period was during the Franco-Prussian War.Germany for the first time in history united together and abosolutaly crushed the French, even taking captive their king. This proved the might of the newly created German state, and showed that without another Napoleon the French would never again be a top tier military power in the world. It was almost as embarasing as the Japan-Russian War for the Russians or the Italo-Ethiopian War for the Italians.
When our forefathers fought their war of independence, they had nearly the same equipment (technologically speaking) as the British they were fighting. Now the populace is so far behind. The military would win. That's why we must act now from keeping things from becoming another civil war.
There are already websites that allow people to check on the background of their doctor. Why shouldn't they be able to do the same with patients? The internet is for all.
Raises my hand.
I need a roomate. Just don't try to use the microwave. It still hasn't recovered from my last 3:00am "cheese experiment."
Before you do anything else, visit this link:
http://www.nomadworld.com/downloads/firmware/wma-m uvo_2_4.asp
And upgrade the firmware of the unit. This is VITAL. If you do not upgrade ahead of time, you will have serious issues later on. Upgrade the firmware FIRST. It has some auto-recovery features that will prove necessary in later steps. Remove the battery when you are done. Now ground yourself.
2. At the top of the Muvo2 there are two small screws. With a very small philips screwdriver, remove these screws.
3. Open the battery compartment. At the bottom, there are two very small screws. Remove these as well.
4. Remove the back of the unit.
5. Lift the circuit board carefully. It was held in place by the previous 4 screws.
6. Underneath the top circuit board, there is a plate holding down the microdrive. At the top, there are two screws. Remove them. On the side, there is a very very small silver screw. It is smaller than the two black ones. Remove it.
7. There is a piece of black tape in the lower corner. Underneath that tape is the last screw holding down the MD plate. Remove the tape carefully, and unscrew the screw.
8. Lift the plate out. Now, CAREFULLY pry the pin-array from the microdrive. Very gently use a small flat screwdriver to work your way down the black plastic strip. DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING. It should come out easily.
9. Take the 4gb MD and format it in your camera. You should have a 4gb MD now.
10. Put the 1gb MD back into the array. Carefully press it down. Again, do not force anything, it should slide in very easily. 11. Replace the screws, place the tape over the black screw where you found it, and reassemble the Nomad. 12. Turn it on. It will report that there is a media error and go into recovery mode. 13. Select Reload firmware from the recovery menu. It will take a few seconds, reload the firmware, and then report a media error. 14. Select Connect to PC. Now, connect the USB connector to your PC. 15. Run the Firmware upgrade again, and allow it to upgrade the firmware. 16. Power it down. Then back up. 17. When it turns on, it will report a scansearch error, or a media error then throw you into recovery mode. Select Format. It should take a few seconds to format. 18. Power it off, power it back on, and you should have a working 1gb Muvo2, a working 4gb MD in your camera, and a big smile on your face.
I know it is easy to find on the web, but after reading some of the questions (many of the mod +5) on /. I wonder if some people even know google exists. ;)
Without Social Security numbers, how do you know if my friend Theodore Kaczynski is the exact same guy as the unibomer? Since this data can be easily misrepresented (and has no legal guarantees of accuracy), online association would never hold up in court if you have a good lawyer. I know some people are worried about more than this- such as employees using the data to hire people- but in those cases it would be better to just not get the job and avoid association with such underhanded tactics. Only a court can imprison me and take my freedom, so that's my only worry.
This prevents people from stealing program content by not watching the commercials.
Wow. It's telling when the option of getting up and walking somewhere else for 3 minitues is not considered. So they lock the channel. I'll just go get a sandwich. Or turn the damn thing off.
Plus, if fiber isn't shared, then more will have to be put down (more for everyone). The largest problem I foresee is if is if the applies to power lines as well (which would kill many beneficial deregulation efforts all over the country).
He Enjoy's It
Well, I posted this up top but I love wasting /.'s disk space.
There is really only one true benefit I see for on-demand, unlimited music that you don't own. If you have enough time, you can download nearly every song you wanted in a few months (40 or so bucks) and use sound capture software to turn the "for rent" songs into whatever format you please.
This actually is enticing to me because I am sure that the quality of Napster's songs would be better than those of the major illegal P2P music trading networks.
True you can buy the songs from Apple at a dollar apiece, but this way would be cheaper (especially if you got something like 200 gigs of songs). Also this way the record companies (and hopefully the artists) get paid- though not as much as they would like. Napster could benefit from getting a lot more subscriptions (and the market share it implies) which can keep it afloat that much longer.
This actually is enticing to me because I am sure that the quality of Napster's songs would be better than those of the major illegal P2P music trading networks.
True you can buy the songs from Apple at a dollar apiece, but this way would be cheaper (especially if you got something like 200 gigs of songs). Also this way the record companies (and hopefully the artists) get paid- though not as much as they would like. Napster could benefit from getting a lot more subscriptions (and the market share it implies) which can keep it afloat that much longer. As far as the legality of it, "I didn't do it" combined with "I didn't sign anything" with a "everbody's doing it" on top!
1. Claim possession of a popular open source work.
2. ?
3. Profit
We now know it is
1. Claim possession of a popular open source work.
2. Use legal threats to dupe chickensh*t companies like EV1 Servers to paying licensing fees
3. profit
Since this is now an effective way of making money, I claim Mozilla (conquistador style) as my intellectual property. Better reinstall Internet Explorer nerds, or pay my $100,000,000 licensing fee. ;)