That's exactly the problem. STOP FUCKING LISTENING TO MUSIC THAT ISN'T FREE. Paying for music just gives them more money to support restrictions, lawsuits, and overly wealthy suckass artists.
If you cut off the flow they won't have much choice but to either drop their prices to something reasonable or to go completely free.
It's OUR fault that this shit got to the level it has. It's obvious that people don't want to pay out the ass for music and that the RIAA wants you to.
You decide if you want the prices to continue to go up... 99 cents might have been more reasonable but how long did that last? A year not even? No thanks. I'll stick to supporting free music.
Don't forget that it continues to make the community look bad. "See, we made this format so that people could legally download music for a nominal fee and they just keep breaking it so that they can pirate the tunes."
Don't bother with DRM, RIAA sponsored music, and certainly don't bother with breaking it. Just ignore it and support free music.
I would be weary (even as a non-gamer) of any PC that was branded under Compaq. My gf had a p3-500 that she bought when she entered college. It had 64mb of RAM. Only 56mb was usable for anything because 8 of it was tied up for VRAM.
How could any hardcore gamer trust a Compaq computer with a history like that?
Great. I am talking about MY documents. I can open any of my Documents w/o a problem in 97, 2000, and XP. I cannot open those same documents without a problem in OO.
Miguel realizes that while, for example, OOo doesn't have all the MS Office features, "it's good enough" and that's a great start for the majority of users.
But the problem is that it is NOT "good enough". Just because OSS zealots think it is does not mean that it is.
When I can open every single one of my Word and Excel files without a single error then it will be "good enough". The missing features, etc, are one thing but not having the exact replica of what I saved in Office is a hassle.
I agree with him that if OSS software gets rooted on the Windows side then the transition to the Linux side would be easier... Only if Linux becomes a large percentage better than Windows at somepoint. That point comes when the rest of the world decides it not when "we" do.
except that my first GPS unit was $300 and my next one will likely be in the $400 range. I would love a color GPS unit.
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I know plenty of people that use a handheld and a GPS. Consolidating the number of devices I have to hold when geocaching would be a great thing... I currently have the GPS, a digital camera, and a Sidekick. I sometimes have to bring along other things like a headlamp, etc.
If I could have a reliable GPS unit that was attached to my PDA and it still functioned as well as a handheld one I would love it.
While I am no fan of Comcast and their practices I have to use them as there are no other reasonably priced alternatives. Now. To respond to your post:
a) Comcast blocks no ports that I am aware of. I have DNS, SMTP, HTTP, SSH, and various other services running without interruption.
b) it's $42.95/mo for those with their own modem and a CATV hookup (I pay more because I don't have CATV). For that price you get 3000/256.
c) The extra $40 isn't worth half the speed IMHO. Hell, it is likely that even if I *could* get DSL at my residence I wouldn't. There is no way I would pay *more* for 640/160k DSL than 3000/256. Woo, I can have multiple IPs! I don't care. NAT works fine.
d) selling services to your neighbors is ridiculous. Even if they did have a clue your bandwith would be shared. 1500/256 isn't exactly blazing for multiple users.
Where do you think this extra money is going to? Certainly not to pay the artists more! It's going to fund more lawsuits, politician pocket packing, and advertisements aimed at making everyone look like a thief except themselves.
Remember that everytime you swap CDs to listen to some "great music". Remember that everytime you flip to a news channel and see talk going on about how those Internet thieves are robbing the music industry. Remember that everytime you see new laws put into place to protect the financial interests of conglomorate coporations.
it's called "bait and switch" and I was expecting it all along. They knew that they would suck you in with the idea of a song for less than a buck (and plenty of people posted here that they were willing to pay just that).
So now they want more money (because it's actually working) and they want to basically make it stupid for you to buy an album from iTunes because they are more expensive than the $12.99 you can pay at Walmart.
Ahh, the cartels... I won't repeat my suggestion for what everyone should do.
Apple's willingness to allow some singles to be priced higher than 99 cents indicates the company feels empowered by its current success in the download market and sees a chance to boost profits from the sales of digital music.
This does NOT mean anything of the sort. It means that if Apple wants to sell these songs on its online store it has to bow to the wishes of the music cartels. It's their music afterall.
You know, I have downloaded less than 10 songs since the height of the Napster/Kazaa days (2000/2001?) and the rest have been songs that are legally available for free. Why the hell are we bothering to support the cartel's music? You realize that they are going to keep pushing and pushing (with bait-and-switch if necessary) to keep online downloads out so that they can reign supreme in the sales of music.
Support only the artists that allow the free taping and distribution of their music! Do NOT let the cartels continue to dictate to you and your favorite artists how the music you love will be distributed and at what cost.
I have no direct proof on me but anything I have ever tried to open in OO (word or excel) has barfed.
I don't consider myself any sort of "power user" with Office products either. If a simple Word document won't open I can't believe your comment that "they picked the 5-6 things that OO can't do" is valid.
I have been saying this for quite some time on here. OpenOffice is NOT an acceptable replacement for MS Office regardless of what you hear the slashbots saying.
Yes, OpenOffice is good for what *most* people do. It certainly does not support everything that everyone uses. Just because it is "good enough" for some it certainly isn't what the rest of us want.
From what I saw in the screenshots only it *looks* good. I won't know until I actually run it. I am a bit leary of running any beta software that I don't have access to the source code.
Running strangely named binaries from.tgz files reminds me of days-gone-by in Linux... I figured for a well done "port" that they would at least have the idea that they should make the executable something named better than what it is.
Last night I ran AVG and almost fucking shit... *I* had a virus. Java/Bytever. I am VERY careful to run AdAware and SpyBot (including SpyBlaster) along with AVG all on a daily basis.
I don't install programs from untrusted sources and I usually pay close attention to weird things going on.
Yet there it was. Three infected files.
I guess I wasn't paranoid enough. Sad as that may be.
It takes both SpyBot and AdAware... SpyBot gets things that AdAware misses and vice versa (for example I ran it yesterday (along with AVG) and cleared out a bunch of stuff that had accumulated over a three day time period and SpyBot missed 11 things that AdAware picked up).
They are free and "free", respectively, why not use them both?
It depends on where you go. Yes, IRC has that stuff available to you, so does Google.
Stay out of #10YROLDZ4FORTIEZ and #h4ck3rz4h1r3 and you will be fine. There are plenty of decent channels out there that serve their purpose without falling into this "Wild Wild West" attitude.
And the plot thickens... They are doing this (as the article states) to keep Linux and other OSs from being compatible. By breaking their network filesystems they force people to upgrade, stay away from free alternatives, and make more and more money.
This will also be to make sure that DRM can succeed. If there were ways around their "innovations" for security what good would it do? First thing you have to do is break networking and make sure that only other secured machines can talk.
Remember people: the end of computing as we know it is coming fast.
I was more impressed by the fact that they needed 1000 more processors and a new data center so they asked IBM to open a new production line just for them.
I'm not a moron like the rest of the Slashbots. I understand that 98+% of the world doesn't give one flying fuck about Fair Use, freedom of choice, or anything.
All they care about is whether or not Survivor goes to season 12 and if the Bachelor/ette decide to get married for real on live TV.
But that's of no issue. Just because THEY don't care and don't understand the issues doesn't mean that I don't. It doesn't mean that I am not happy to educate anyone and everyone no matter how paranoid they believe me to be.
It will never make sense to many but if I can get just a few people to understand perhaps the world will not blow up before our eyes.
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You forgot the most important word in that sentence... "legally".
That's exactly the problem. STOP FUCKING LISTENING TO MUSIC THAT ISN'T FREE. Paying for music just gives them more money to support restrictions, lawsuits, and overly wealthy suckass artists.
If you cut off the flow they won't have much choice but to either drop their prices to something reasonable or to go completely free.
It's OUR fault that this shit got to the level it has. It's obvious that people don't want to pay out the ass for music and that the RIAA wants you to.
You decide if you want the prices to continue to go up... 99 cents might have been more reasonable but how long did that last? A year not even? No thanks. I'll stick to supporting free music.
Don't forget that it continues to make the community look bad. "See, we made this format so that people could legally download music for a nominal fee and they just keep breaking it so that they can pirate the tunes."
Don't bother with DRM, RIAA sponsored music, and certainly don't bother with breaking it. Just ignore it and support free music.
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I would be weary (even as a non-gamer) of any PC that was branded under Compaq. My gf had a p3-500 that she bought when she entered college. It had 64mb of RAM. Only 56mb was usable for anything because 8 of it was tied up for VRAM.
How could any hardcore gamer trust a Compaq computer with a history like that?
Great. I am talking about MY documents. I can open any of my Documents w/o a problem in 97, 2000, and XP. I cannot open those same documents without a problem in OO.
Thus, I am not wrong.
Miguel realizes that while, for example, OOo doesn't have all the MS Office features, "it's good enough" and that's a great start for the majority of users.
But the problem is that it is NOT "good enough". Just because OSS zealots think it is does not mean that it is.
When I can open every single one of my Word and Excel files without a single error then it will be "good enough". The missing features, etc, are one thing but not having the exact replica of what I saved in Office is a hassle.
I agree with him that if OSS software gets rooted on the Windows side then the transition to the Linux side would be easier... Only if Linux becomes a large percentage better than Windows at somepoint. That point comes when the rest of the world decides it not when "we" do.
a Garmin iQue is a lot more money, is apparently not all that great at anything it does, and is PocketPC OS.
except that my first GPS unit was $300 and my next one will likely be in the $400 range. I would love a color GPS unit.
I know plenty of people that use a handheld and a GPS. Consolidating the number of devices I have to hold when geocaching would be a great thing... I currently have the GPS, a digital camera, and a Sidekick. I sometimes have to bring along other things like a headlamp, etc.
If I could have a reliable GPS unit that was attached to my PDA and it still functioned as well as a handheld one I would love it.
While I am no fan of Comcast and their practices I have to use them as there are no other reasonably priced alternatives. Now. To respond to your post:
a) Comcast blocks no ports that I am aware of. I have DNS, SMTP, HTTP, SSH, and various other services running without interruption.
b) it's $42.95/mo for those with their own modem and a CATV hookup (I pay more because I don't have CATV). For that price you get 3000/256.
c) The extra $40 isn't worth half the speed IMHO. Hell, it is likely that even if I *could* get DSL at my residence I wouldn't. There is no way I would pay *more* for 640/160k DSL than 3000/256. Woo, I can have multiple IPs! I don't care. NAT works fine.
d) selling services to your neighbors is ridiculous. Even if they did have a clue your bandwith would be shared. 1500/256 isn't exactly blazing for multiple users.
Sorry for the self reply but...
Where do you think this extra money is going to? Certainly not to pay the artists more! It's going to fund more lawsuits, politician pocket packing, and advertisements aimed at making everyone look like a thief except themselves.
Remember that everytime you swap CDs to listen to some "great music". Remember that everytime you flip to a news channel and see talk going on about how those Internet thieves are robbing the music industry. Remember that everytime you see new laws put into place to protect the financial interests of conglomorate coporations.
it's called "bait and switch" and I was expecting it all along. They knew that they would suck you in with the idea of a song for less than a buck (and plenty of people posted here that they were willing to pay just that).
So now they want more money (because it's actually working) and they want to basically make it stupid for you to buy an album from iTunes because they are more expensive than the $12.99 you can pay at Walmart.
Ahh, the cartels... I won't repeat my suggestion for what everyone should do.
Apple's willingness to allow some singles to be priced higher than 99 cents indicates the company feels empowered by its current success in the download market and sees a chance to boost profits from the sales of digital music.
This does NOT mean anything of the sort. It means that if Apple wants to sell these songs on its online store it has to bow to the wishes of the music cartels. It's their music afterall.
You know, I have downloaded less than 10 songs since the height of the Napster/Kazaa days (2000/2001?) and the rest have been songs that are legally available for free. Why the hell are we bothering to support the cartel's music? You realize that they are going to keep pushing and pushing (with bait-and-switch if necessary) to keep online downloads out so that they can reign supreme in the sales of music.
Support only the artists that allow the free taping and distribution of their music! Do NOT let the cartels continue to dictate to you and your favorite artists how the music you love will be distributed and at what cost.
I have no direct proof on me but anything I have ever tried to open in OO (word or excel) has barfed.
I don't consider myself any sort of "power user" with Office products either. If a simple Word document won't open I can't believe your comment that "they picked the 5-6 things that OO can't do" is valid.
I have been saying this for quite some time on here. OpenOffice is NOT an acceptable replacement for MS Office regardless of what you hear the slashbots saying.
.tgz files reminds me of days-gone-by in Linux... I figured for a well done "port" that they would at least have the idea that they should make the executable something named better than what it is.
Yes, OpenOffice is good for what *most* people do. It certainly does not support everything that everyone uses. Just because it is "good enough" for some it certainly isn't what the rest of us want.
From what I saw in the screenshots only it *looks* good. I won't know until I actually run it. I am a bit leary of running any beta software that I don't have access to the source code.
Running strangely named binaries from
Last night I ran AVG and almost fucking shit... *I* had a virus. Java/Bytever. I am VERY careful to run AdAware and SpyBot (including SpyBlaster) along with AVG all on a daily basis.
I don't install programs from untrusted sources and I usually pay close attention to weird things going on.
Yet there it was. Three infected files.
I guess I wasn't paranoid enough. Sad as that may be.
It takes both SpyBot and AdAware... SpyBot gets things that AdAware misses and vice versa (for example I ran it yesterday (along with AVG) and cleared out a bunch of stuff that had accumulated over a three day time period and SpyBot missed 11 things that AdAware picked up).
They are free and "free", respectively, why not use them both?
It depends on where you go. Yes, IRC has that stuff available to you, so does Google.
Stay out of #10YROLDZ4FORTIEZ and #h4ck3rz4h1r3 and you will be fine. There are plenty of decent channels out there that serve their purpose without falling into this "Wild Wild West" attitude.
Lots of money buys lots of earplugs and sunglasses.
what do you think it is for? You think that they don't find Samba to be a major threat to their way of life?
People *need* to share files. People used to need to pay MSFT big money to have a file server and licenses for computers to connect to that server.
Samba changed all that. Now everything works seemlessly (and at times much faster than the Windows servers).
You think that MSFT doesn't want to stop that by changing the way things work and making sure no one can start up their own competing stuff?
And the plot thickens... They are doing this (as the article states) to keep Linux and other OSs from being compatible. By breaking their network filesystems they force people to upgrade, stay away from free alternatives, and make more and more money.
This will also be to make sure that DRM can succeed. If there were ways around their "innovations" for security what good would it do? First thing you have to do is break networking and make sure that only other secured machines can talk.
Remember people: the end of computing as we know it is coming fast.
They have a faster CPU and a bigger fan than both of my computers together!
:)
Soon we will move to external video card RAIDs with their own AC units
I was more impressed by the fact that they needed 1000 more processors and a new data center so they asked IBM to open a new production line just for them.
I'm not a moron like the rest of the Slashbots. I understand that 98+% of the world doesn't give one flying fuck about Fair Use, freedom of choice, or anything.
All they care about is whether or not Survivor goes to season 12 and if the Bachelor/ette decide to get married for real on live TV.
But that's of no issue. Just because THEY don't care and don't understand the issues doesn't mean that I don't. It doesn't mean that I am not happy to educate anyone and everyone no matter how paranoid they believe me to be.
It will never make sense to many but if I can get just a few people to understand perhaps the world will not blow up before our eyes.