Any computer bought ~3 years ago will last pretty much forever now. Most people just read email and surf the web, and any shitty computer will do that. Right now computer companies are trying to figure out how to scam the home user out of more money.
Gaming and power users are the only things that legitimatly keeps the PC market alive and kicking.
I dont know about other people, but I am allowed to use all my ports with no transfer cap. I use my SBC DSL about 24/7 at 142kb/s downloading stuff, and I have never had any problems.
Do providers just do some "pin the tail on the donkey" game with a map of the USA when it comes to transfer caps and port blocks?
Hey, if your there tell them to get the damn adds off of my cable tuner. I'm already paying them gobs of money, I dont want to see 16-bit color ads when im changing channels!
The problem is, the whole reason the OS is there is to support programs. Sure, you COULD have the work processor have its own kernel and other funtions, but the developer leaves that ot the OS. It is the purpose of the OS to make it easier on the developer by including shortcut and other goodies. However, in this day and age of "multi-platform" support developers are being pushed away from that crutch (not that it's a bad thing).
Making a program mutli-platform is like using peanut butter instead of sticky notes. Sure you CAN do it, but taking the shortcut (using OS APIs and other thing) is how an OS is supposed to work.
That's what alot of FreeBSD people complain about. Programs for Linux are supposed to be so portable, but many times they are just as dependent as their Windows brethren.
Hey, is that link in your sig for real? It's not like a white sumpremisit movement or something? I wouldn't do it, but sounds like a cool idea, an oasis of freedom. =P
Oh yeah, I use PGP disks with 256 bit AES for all my important files. Also thinking of hooking up my hard drives to a shotgun or something, for emergencies =)
Oh course theres no real reason they would want me but it's a good feeling to know your data and life is secure =)
Yes, I know. I use gaim-encrytion whenever I know one of their taps/other measures would be alerted.
Hardware firewall, software firewall, seperate network from the internet to share files between computers, whack hard drives with a sledge hammers before I throw them out, etc. I didn't know the EFF had card, I will ahve to look into that.
Well, the big corporations ARE the government now. Senators all just puppets fighting other puppets. The US leadership is full of people who were previously in the major industry private sector, with alliances to their old contacts. Many will be rehired by their coporations once they do their damage.
This is not a Republican/Democrat thing, this is a GOVERNMENT thing.
Which is why we have a "god gene", relgion allows people to group together and be in a "community", which allows protection. Ironic the very thing relgion is fighting is the thing (evolution) that allows people to follow their system.
Slashdot has alot of Athiests and smart, critial thinkers. It is only natural we piss on Creationism, mainly because it is so lacking of science it is the Micheal Jackson of the scientific area.
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Microsoft did not record the call, the Slashdot editor did.
Gaming and power users are the only things that legitimatly keeps the PC market alive and kicking.
ok ok, I forgot it's not a compiler but the joke still applies =)
Holler for old-skool compilers =P
On my computer the cat sits on top of the screen and bats at anything on the screen that moves. Does that with TV's too.
Shit happens...to cats, get over it.
mod parent up. Holy crap, one of the best posts I have read in weeks.
Do providers just do some "pin the tail on the donkey" game with a map of the USA when it comes to transfer caps and port blocks?
You have a phone, use it!
Hey, if your there tell them to get the damn adds off of my cable tuner. I'm already paying them gobs of money, I dont want to see 16-bit color ads when im changing channels!
??? I thought that Photoshop was way more efficient/faster on OSX than on a Windows. I guess thats just Apple marketing crap then?
Making a program mutli-platform is like using peanut butter instead of sticky notes. Sure you CAN do it, but taking the shortcut (using OS APIs and other thing) is how an OS is supposed to work.
That's what alot of FreeBSD people complain about. Programs for Linux are supposed to be so portable, but many times they are just as dependent as their Windows brethren.
All the talent was used up in the 70's.
Hey, is that link in your sig for real? It's not like a white sumpremisit movement or something? I wouldn't do it, but sounds like a cool idea, an oasis of freedom. =P
Oh course theres no real reason they would want me but it's a good feeling to know your data and life is secure =)
Hardware firewall, software firewall, seperate network from the internet to share files between computers, whack hard drives with a sledge hammers before I throw them out, etc. I didn't know the EFF had card, I will ahve to look into that.
This is not a Republican/Democrat thing, this is a GOVERNMENT thing.
This is a step away from the goverment scanning traffic to pick out "evil terrorists trying to kill innocent American babies".
I would never use that. 320 kbps music all the way. I'm not downloading freakin 112 kbps quality music =P
Which is why we have a "god gene", relgion allows people to group together and be in a "community", which allows protection. Ironic the very thing relgion is fighting is the thing (evolution) that allows people to follow their system.
Slashdot has alot of Athiests and smart, critial thinkers. It is only natural we piss on Creationism, mainly because it is so lacking of science it is the Micheal Jackson of the scientific area.
Which proves, once and for all, that God is really just Jimmy playing on his quantum computer. We are all just virtual agents in a simulated world.
If we can emulate life, who says we are are not being emulated right now.
I submit to our chrome-polished bipedal robotic overlords.