But buying at a bricks and mortar store makes money for the store. The store managers will see that this Linux stuff sells well, and they'll increase the amount of shelf space it gets. More people will see Linux and hopefully try it and like it.
Hmmph. This reminds me of why I had resolved to never try to post anything funny on Slashdot.
Here's an idea. Create a checkbox in the post comment page for "Funny". Only moderators who have proven they have a sense of humor can mod a "Funny" post down. Of course if a "Funny" post is modded down it should be a 4X karma hit.
See, now this is genuinly offtopic. Come and get me moderators!
I'll bet you're one of those folks who believes in the existance of chickens despite the fact that the only way to get chickens is from eggs and the only way to get eggs is from chickens.
Don't bet on that kind of price reduction due to quantity.
You have to get the quantity first, before the prices go down. But until the prices go down you can't get the quantity.
It's the chicken and the egg problem all over again. You can't get chickens without eggs, and you can't get eggs without chickens, therefore neither chickens or eggs exist.
For receiving HDTV signals wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a tuner and put a high end vidio capture card in your PC? Control the tuner using LIRC for an integrated system.
The spammers will just hide thier tracks using servers outside the US in safe havens for shady activities.
Practically speaking I'd like to see international law recognize that those profiting from spam (the people who are actually taking the money for the products) are responsable for the spam even if the spam cannot be traced directly back to them. Fines with teeth would be needed for enforcement.
Recently in Slashdot (motto: "Begone, for I will fart soon!"), residents reported an outbreak of goblins. Perhaps you think there are no goblins in Slashdot. Perhaps you are an idiot.
As the French say, au contraire (literally: "Your code is non-optimal!"). I have here in my hands a copy of an Associated Press article sent in by alert reader CmdrTaco, whose name can be rearranged to spell "COMCDART", although that is not my main point. "CmdrTaco", by the way, only has the letters "Cmaco" in in common with "Monica Lewinsky", so there is no other reason to mention Monica Lewinsky in this column.
According to a quote which I am not making up, from Slashdot Mayor Lord Hemos (formally "Mayor Lord Hemos" and informally "Willy"), goblins ranks as a major crisis just behind Penguin Mints, Bawls and Jolt (insert your "Mountain Dew" joke here), as evidenced by the following conversation between Slashdot government employees:
FIRST SLASHDOT EMPLOYEE: "I only loved you for your money."
SECOND SLASHDOT EMPLOYEE: "Die you fool, Die!"
FIRST SLASHDOT EMPLOYEE: "Hey you!"
Fortunately I have a suggestion for Mayor Willy, and that is: defragment George Steinbrenner's jellyware.
No, seriously, my suggestion does not involve George Steinbrenner's jellyware, although it might involve confusticating Tobacco Institute scientists. My suggestion is more along the lines of a coup de grace, from the French coup, meaning "Eating", and de grace, meaning "all the pizza in the world". The procedure (you may want to write this down):
1. Slashdot it.
2. Call the BOFH.
But instead the Slashdot city council (motto: "We'll take money from you and give it to me when you pry the joystick out of our cold, dead fingers") thinks that they (the goblins) will eat human flesh soon, sending this message to the public, and to the world: "Cops are wusses.".
Speaking of which, "The Slashdot Goblins Outbreak" would be a great name for a rock band.
All they need to do is start jailing people and then use those cases to scare people away from the P2P networks. If they can make people afraid to share files then they destroy the reason that most people frequent the P2P networks.
Slashdot Mirror
About thirty webcomics. (Really.)
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And then:
Newsforge
Overclockers.com
Slashdot
The Register
Osopinion
Osnews
Wired
theinquirer.n
On my way to work I listen to Don Wade and Roma out of Chicago for semi-coherant national news and talk.
It's a good thing that the legal system can't distinguish between a junk fax and a spam email.
Not to mention the fact that most home users won't see a 2X performance boost from 64 bits.
Perhaps ADC is a secret colony of Borg drones.
Chimera is based on Mozilla's rendering engine, so he's really using Mozilla before he goes to Internet Exploder.
Presumably Mozilla itself is on the list because the newest version of Mozilla will be more up to date than the newest version of Chimera.
But buying at a bricks and mortar store makes money for the store. The store managers will see that this Linux stuff sells well, and they'll increase the amount of shelf space it gets. More people will see Linux and hopefully try it and like it.
Hmmph. This reminds me of why I had resolved to never try to post anything funny on Slashdot.
Here's an idea. Create a checkbox in the post comment page for "Funny". Only moderators who have proven they have a sense of humor can mod a "Funny" post down. Of course if a "Funny" post is modded down it should be a 4X karma hit.
See, now this is genuinly offtopic. Come and get me moderators!
And the software is open source why can't you just create the database by yourself?
A useful open source "product" would be a data entry program designed to make the creation and editing of these databases easy.
Sure, it's more work, but you shouldn't have any copyright issues unless you distribute the data you entered.
Why would the RIAA want to cite such a statistic even if it's true? It demonstates that price-driven piracy is not the thing killing thier profits.
I'll bet you're one of those folks who believes in the existance of chickens despite the fact that the only way to get chickens is from eggs and the only way to get eggs is from chickens.
True, but most folks don't need/want all that stuff. A few dedicated devices would still be cheaper.
Don't bet on that kind of price reduction due to quantity.
You have to get the quantity first, before the prices go down. But until the prices go down you can't get the quantity.
It's the chicken and the egg problem all over again. You can't get chickens without eggs, and you can't get eggs without chickens, therefore neither chickens or eggs exist.
For receiving HDTV signals wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a tuner and put a high end vidio capture card in your PC? Control the tuner using LIRC for an integrated system.
At least all those repeated strings allow them to compress well.
Oh wait, that one's taken. Nifty Doorways?
If I'm using it I want the potential to change everything.
If I'm administering it I want everything but the basics locked down to reasonable defaults.
One Number to rule them all, One Number to find them,
One Number to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Not directly, but many of the people buying drugs do so with money that they either stole, or that should have been used to support thier family.
For that matter the people producing the cocaine are virtually slaves.
The dealer is just as much a part of the problem as the politicians who maintain our absurd war on drugs.
The spammers will just hide thier tracks using servers outside the US in safe havens for shady activities.
Practically speaking I'd like to see international law recognize that those profiting from spam (the people who are actually taking the money for the products) are responsable for the spam even if the spam cannot be traced directly back to them. Fines with teeth would be needed for enforcement.
And then anyone talking about researching for a paper on breast cancer gets filtered.
Who said thier limitation was technological?
If they don't have the staff to monitor instant messages then it is impossable for them.
Here's some links to previous Slashdot articles.
Homebrew Projectors
Light Sources
Enjoy!
Recently in Slashdot (motto: "Begone, for I will fart soon!"), residents reported an outbreak of goblins. Perhaps you think there are no goblins in Slashdot. Perhaps you are an idiot.
As the French say, au contraire (literally: "Your code is non-optimal!"). I have here in my hands a copy of an Associated Press article sent in by alert reader CmdrTaco, whose name can be rearranged to spell "COMCDART", although that is not my main point. "CmdrTaco", by the way, only has the letters "Cmaco" in in common with "Monica Lewinsky", so there is no other reason to mention Monica Lewinsky in this column.
According to a quote which I am not making up, from Slashdot Mayor Lord Hemos (formally "Mayor Lord Hemos" and informally "Willy"), goblins ranks as a major crisis just behind Penguin Mints, Bawls and Jolt (insert your "Mountain Dew" joke here), as evidenced by the following conversation between Slashdot government employees:
FIRST SLASHDOT EMPLOYEE: "I only loved you for your money."
SECOND SLASHDOT EMPLOYEE: "Die you fool, Die!"
FIRST SLASHDOT EMPLOYEE: "Hey you!"
Fortunately I have a suggestion for Mayor Willy, and that is: defragment George Steinbrenner's jellyware.
No, seriously, my suggestion does not involve George Steinbrenner's jellyware, although it might involve confusticating Tobacco Institute scientists. My suggestion is more along the lines of a coup de grace, from the French coup, meaning "Eating", and de grace, meaning "all the pizza in the world". The procedure (you may want to write this down):
1. Slashdot it.
2. Call the BOFH.
But instead the Slashdot city council (motto: "We'll take money from you and give it to me when you pry the joystick out of our cold, dead fingers") thinks that they (the goblins) will eat human flesh soon, sending this message to the public, and to the world: "Cops are wusses.".
Speaking of which, "The Slashdot Goblins Outbreak" would be a great name for a rock band.
Archive applications by including a standardized virtual machine of the hardware it runs on.
Will you stand up and be counted Mr. AC? No? Then why should anyone else stand up for you?
They can't jail everyone, but they don't have to.
All they need to do is start jailing people and then use those cases to scare people away from the P2P networks. If they can make people afraid to share files then they destroy the reason that most people frequent the P2P networks.