The problem with this is that it is not something else.
Linux is more difficult to install and use and configure for 'normal' desktop use because few of you have had to do that for someone else. Few of you have had to support Linux desktops in a 'normal' office environment.
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Geesh where have I seen the alienated techno geek and the smart sexy vaguely foreign brainiac chick hook up before?
Oh yeah, in a million other books.
I hope the book is better than the reviews and synopses.
I always wonder why all the people who talk about the new age of media always forget the typewriter. The typewriter has at least as much to do with the dissemination of information as the press. Afterall presses are expensive, complicated and controlled by restrictive governments. Typewriters and for that matter fax machines are not. The typewriter gave the grass roots movements the ability to distribute their information under the radar.
At any rate my point is that much of this paranoia about restrictive use I think will result in nothing because of the same reasons. If we're going to outlaw the PC, more or less as a vehicle for information dissemination then we would already outlawed the typewriter.
Put a big snowplow on the front of a bunch of those suckas and just clear the path. You don't have to destroy the debris - you just have to move it the hell out the way.
It looks like ATT in the early 60's pretty much invented our whole world. And now, it's pretty much just 5000 minute calling plans and crappy stock performance.
OK all you free market weenies you weren't even born when Ma Bell made you pay for every phone extention in your own house. They metered the voltage on the line and if they detected a drop the operator broke into your call and told you you were breaking the law and needed to pay for the extra extensions.
My 78 Corolla had 150K before it got hit by a truck and totalled. All the windows blew out, crushed the rear end broke damn near everything. Drove it home - about a half mile with everything leaking.
What did you do drive it into the Pacific? I leased 3 of them and they were Russian Trucks. Indestructible.
At any rate the Civic HX is a gas only and gets about 80-85% of the mileage of the Civic electric hybrid. The insight is more of a concept car - only two seats no back at all no storage really. The Prius is an Echo with a different powerplant to give you a sense of the bigger size.
Toyota is supposed to be delivering a hybrid next year if I remember correctly. Probably based on a Corolla floorpan.
no no her point was narrow. It was, if there is anyone at all you are legally permitted TO sue, it's not the record companies since recording artists have already whored away all their rights in a recording contract guaranteed to leave them broke. If you sign a contract that says "You can never sue me for any reason - you no rights no redress" well that pretty much says it all. It doens't make any sense to sue Napster because a) they have no money b) probably provide a benefit to the artist. But Hey - Craptallica sued their own fans, right?
What Ms. Love was saying is that the distribtion medium doesn't change the way the artists are NOT compensated anyway. Even if CD's were a buck or even free it wouldn't change the rigged game that is engineered to pay artists nothing and record companies everything. Her point was that legally speaking, if you CAN sue anyone it should be Napster because your rights are already tied up in the record companies.
All you pooh poohers flaming anyone critical of this policy clearly don't understand that contracts are not supposed to be exploitive or hidden or one sided or vague or invasive.
You do understand that don't you?
What if the 'contract' stated you couldn't but gas except at the rental agency for 3x the retail price but the terms were so vague you didn't read or understand them and they assessed you a $20,000 fine. Still feel good? What if your 'contract' said they could bill your credit card ANY AMOUNT without your knowledge or permission? Still get your Libertarian juices flowing?
Is your cable bill a contract? By your reasoning it is. What if your cable 'contract' stated which pay per view events you were allowed to purchase and that there was penalty if you 'broke' the terms? Still boxing for Adam Smith and John Locke?
You people wave the word contract around like you know what you're talking about. You do know that some contracts are illegal right?
It should be no more than $21.60 but really move the decimal point again: $2.16. Make it out of paper and make it disposable. Then it will be something.
I've seen Watchdog cards used for this purpose. When the temp rises above X deg. it performs an orderly shutdown. I believe there are IBM desktops and servers that have this feature built in.
Is it to get me to do something or is it to just to give me a shock? This dog brain is confused?!?!?!
I can't wait until its a law that my home alarm system has to be MS run and they get to decide who comes and goes into my house. Perhaps we'll have to license our own existence by them.
Was a PCXT 10 function button down the left side. It was STEEL and you could sled on it or bash someone's head in. Almost as heavy as the unit on a 3279. Then I had a PCAT with the 'standard 12/24 function keys across the top. Still STEEL. It weighed almost as much as small notebook machine.
I'm using an IBM mini with a TP eraser pointer. It works nice. The key travel is not squishy but not long either. Like a Thinkpad really. And the eraser pointer is nice. It has it's own PS/2 mouse port in, so I plug in a Marble Mouse and switch off between Eraser and Marble.
I also have a mini (no keypad) w/o no Eraser but w/ standard 'click' travel PS/2 keys.
I also have a standard size with an Eraser but w/ standard click.
I also have 3 Soft Touch that are whisper quiet. -all IBM KB's
BTW there are companies that make lefthand keyboards and keyboards with detachable keypads that be attached on the left or right or made free.
I liked the Happy Hacking compactness but felt that they were taking advantage of people at what, $70?
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The problem with this is that it is not something else.
Linux is more difficult to install and use and configure for 'normal' desktop use because few of you have had to do that for someone else. Few of you have had to support Linux desktops in a 'normal' office environment.
Geesh where have I seen the alienated techno geek and the smart sexy vaguely foreign brainiac chick hook up before?
Oh yeah, in a million other books.
I hope the book is better than the reviews and synopses.
I always wonder why all the people who talk about the new age of media always forget the typewriter. The typewriter has at least as much to do with the dissemination of information as the press. Afterall presses are expensive, complicated and controlled by restrictive governments. Typewriters and for that matter fax machines are not. The typewriter gave the grass roots movements the ability to distribute their information under the radar.
At any rate my point is that much of this paranoia about restrictive use I think will result in nothing because of the same reasons. If we're going to outlaw the PC, more or less as a vehicle for information dissemination then we would already outlawed the typewriter.
Put a big snowplow on the front of a bunch of those suckas and just clear the path. You don't have to destroy the debris - you just have to move it the hell out the way.
Do it yerself gene sequencing...ooops
It looks like ATT in the early 60's pretty much invented our whole world. And now, it's pretty much just 5000 minute calling plans and crappy stock performance.
Yeah that's what I'm talkin bout. Laser armed Hummer conversion. All we need is the automatic crushing death claw and turbo trash compactor.
Because that's what it would turn into - better yet WinXP with ads
OK all you free market weenies you weren't even born when Ma Bell made you pay for every phone extention in your own house. They metered the voltage on the line and if they detected a drop the operator broke into your call and told you you were breaking the law and needed to pay for the extra extensions.
Is that the hill you want to die on?
They send us their oil and we send them nuclear waste material. Or, if they prefer in 'pre spent' form on the tips of missiles. Seems fair to me.
This is a floating Cayman Islands or Bermuda. Tax free, regulation free - a techno brass plate corporation.
Boeing airliners are turned over to their customers in mid air over international waters to avoid taxes with just this sort of thing in mind.
Yes the Corolla based unit is the next evolutionary step - bigger more mainstream, less of a 'world' car.
My 78 Corolla had 150K before it got hit by a truck and totalled. All the windows blew out, crushed the rear end broke damn near everything. Drove it home - about a half mile with everything leaking.
What did you do drive it into the Pacific? I leased 3 of them and they were Russian Trucks. Indestructible.
At any rate the Civic HX is a gas only and gets about 80-85% of the mileage of the Civic electric hybrid. The insight is more of a concept car - only two seats no back at all no storage really. The Prius is an Echo with a different powerplant to give you a sense of the bigger size.
Toyota is supposed to be delivering a hybrid next year if I remember correctly. Probably based on a Corolla floorpan.
no no her point was narrow. It was, if there is anyone at all you are legally permitted TO sue, it's not the record companies since recording artists have already whored away all their rights in a recording contract guaranteed to leave them broke. If you sign a contract that says "You can never sue me for any reason - you no rights no redress" well that pretty much says it all. It doens't make any sense to sue Napster because a) they have no money b) probably provide a benefit to the artist. But Hey - Craptallica sued their own fans, right?
What Ms. Love was saying is that the distribtion medium doesn't change the way the artists are NOT compensated anyway. Even if CD's were a buck or even free it wouldn't change the rigged game that is engineered to pay artists nothing and record companies everything. Her point was that legally speaking, if you CAN sue anyone it should be Napster because your rights are already tied up in the record companies.
You dirty colonist rabble with your General Washingham. The Quartering Act stands.
All you pooh poohers flaming anyone critical of this policy clearly don't understand that contracts are not supposed to be exploitive or hidden or one sided or vague or invasive.
You do understand that don't you?
What if the 'contract' stated you couldn't but gas except at the rental agency for 3x the retail price but the terms were so vague you didn't read or understand them and they assessed you a $20,000 fine. Still feel good? What if your 'contract' said they could bill your credit card ANY AMOUNT without your knowledge or permission? Still get your Libertarian juices flowing?
Is your cable bill a contract? By your reasoning it is. What if your cable 'contract' stated which pay per view events you were allowed to purchase and that there was penalty if you 'broke' the terms? Still boxing for Adam Smith and John Locke?
You people wave the word contract around like you know what you're talking about. You do know that some contracts are illegal right?
It should be no more than $21.60 but really move the decimal point again: $2.16. Make it out of paper and make it disposable. Then it will be something.
They were one of the first general Linux distros with DBCS support and the product has simplified and traditional Chinese support.
I mean people still crash for no obvious reason, right? How user friendly is a refrigerator or a power drill? How user friendly is your girlfriend?
I've seen Watchdog cards used for this purpose. When the temp rises above X deg. it performs an orderly shutdown. I believe there are IBM desktops and servers that have this feature built in.
Is it to get me to do something or is it to just to give me a shock? This dog brain is confused?!?!?!
I can't wait until its a law that my home alarm system has to be MS run and they get to decide who comes and goes into my house. Perhaps we'll have to license our own existence by them.
Was a PCXT 10 function button down the left side. It was STEEL and you could sled on it or bash someone's head in. Almost as heavy as the unit on a 3279. Then I had a PCAT with the 'standard 12/24 function keys across the top. Still STEEL. It weighed almost as much as small notebook machine.
I'm using an IBM mini with a TP eraser pointer. It works nice. The key travel is not squishy but not long either. Like a Thinkpad really. And the eraser pointer is nice. It has it's own PS/2 mouse port in, so I plug in a Marble Mouse and switch off between Eraser and Marble.
I also have a mini (no keypad) w/o no Eraser but w/ standard 'click' travel PS/2 keys.
I also have a standard size with an Eraser but w/ standard click.
I also have 3 Soft Touch that are whisper quiet.
-all IBM KB's
BTW there are companies that make lefthand keyboards and keyboards with detachable keypads that be attached on the left or right or made free.
I liked the Happy Hacking compactness but felt that they were taking advantage of people at what, $70?