Quoth the poster: "God, does everything that MS does need to have some ulterior motive?"
Nothing Microsoft does has an ulterior motive. Their motive is to make as much money as possible. Their methods can sometimes be questioned, but never their motive.
I got a CD of my university work back in 1996. I've just tested the contents with tar and not a problem. The CD was not in a dark, cold room, but with my regular CD collection.
FYI it is a CD-R74 650MB TDK. Gold on the label side, and green on the other.
Because the flux capacitor requires 1.21 GW of electricity and if plutonium is not freely available on the open market (a la November 1955) They would have to come up with a zany scheme to capture a bolt of lightning to power the time circuits. Duh
I agree completely with this. How often have people downloaded a song only to find it was renamed by some dickhead; or somebody decided to replace the file with random crap.
What guarentees will there be for things like this. Will the guarentee that the song I download is good quality (technical quality, as we all know most music from the RIASS is what you get when you push a 16 year old through a PEPSI can).
PS is anyone else getting a lot of "500 internal server error" messages. (Slashdot is being slashdotted)
if I am not happy with the song (quality), how will I be able to get my money back. Or is it buyer beware.
"... as aliases for the Jewish group Kahane Chai or Kach, which is suspected of organizing attacks on Palestinians..."
I thought that the US government was on the side of Israel in the war against Palestine. From the news reports the war over there was about Israel trying to stop Palestine from suicide bombing.
So who is the US govt for in this war? The Israel terrorists or the Palestinian terrorists.
PS this is not meant to be a troll. I'd really like to know the stance of the US govt wrt this war.
"I suspect that over time consumers will appreciate the inherent advantages"
Could you explain some of the advantages of an ebook?
All I can think of is the advantages of a regular book.
- I can drop a book and not worry about it. - Books don't have batteries that can go flat. - I do not need any type of device to read the book. - The format of a book will never change. Therefore I am not worried about vendor lock-in.
It is all to do with the linking. Linksys has code that is statically linked to the Kernel. As it stands, statically linking code to the Kernel requires the code to be GPL'd. If they don't like it they can use a different OS.
Consider it payment to the open source community for use of the Kernel.
Quoth: "I say "most" because towns like Wyndham are kind of difficult to get the bandwidth to..."
I live about 20 Km from the Sydney CBD (as the crow flies) and I can see the exchange from my window. But because of Tesltra's pair gain system (aka rim job) I cannot get Broadband. Telstra was prepared to go as low as $80 per month for ISDN capped at 500MB. How nice of them.
So it is not just the towns in the bush that cannot get broadband. It is also a lot of suburbs that were built after 1996 as that is the time that Telstra started rimming their customers.
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Quoth the poster: "God, does everything that MS does need to have some ulterior motive?"
Nothing Microsoft does has an ulterior motive. Their motive is to make as much money as possible. Their methods can sometimes be questioned, but never their motive.
Laywer: So, Mr Torvalds, isn't it true that you based your "Linux" system on Unix.
Linus: No, it was based on Minix.
Judge: Case dismissed.
Nice sig
As described in the slashdot dictionary:
recent: the timeframe between the current time and last copulation time with a person other than one's self.
I got a CD of my university work back in 1996. I've just tested the contents with tar and not a problem. The CD was not in a dark, cold room, but with my regular CD collection.
FYI it is a CD-R74 650MB TDK. Gold on the label side, and green on the other.
Don't worry folks, they all just got CD burners for their birthday / christmas / whatever. And they all now boast an impressive mp3 collection on CD.
Or, they all have been converted to ogg.
backup.sh*
/backup /backup.tar.gz /etc /home /backup
/backup /backup.tar.gz -C / /backup
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/backup
tar -czf
/sbin/umount
restore.sh*
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/backup
tar -xzf
/sbin/umount
* Patent Pending
Wouldn't that be bloc -1?
Hmmm, guess we also need a bloc for "Me make funny, me laugh"
Except when he got his ass kicked at Waterloo (I knew listening to ABBA in the '70s would one day pay off)
Because the flux capacitor requires 1.21 GW of electricity and if plutonium is not freely available on the open market (a la November 1955) They would have to come up with a zany scheme to capture a bolt of lightning to power the time circuits. Duh
Nope, I purchased a 100RL from Tandy in `91 and it was a discontinued item then. BTW, I still have it.
I agree completely with this. How often have people downloaded a song only to find it was renamed by some dickhead; or somebody decided to replace the file with random crap.
What guarentees will there be for things like this.
Will the guarentee that the song I download is good quality (technical quality, as we all know most music from the RIASS is what you get when you push a 16 year old through a PEPSI can).
PS is anyone else getting a lot of "500 internal server error" messages. (Slashdot is being slashdotted)
if I am not happy with the song (quality), how will I be able to get my money back. Or is it buyer beware.
"... as aliases for the Jewish group Kahane Chai or Kach, which is suspected of organizing attacks on Palestinians..."
I thought that the US government was on the side of Israel in the war against Palestine. From the news reports the war over there was about Israel trying to stop Palestine from suicide bombing.
So who is the US govt for in this war? The Israel terrorists or the Palestinian terrorists.
PS this is not meant to be a troll. I'd really like to know the stance of the US govt wrt this war.
"I suspect that over time consumers will appreciate the inherent advantages"
Could you explain some of the advantages of an ebook?
All I can think of is the advantages of a regular book.
- I can drop a book and not worry about it.
- Books don't have batteries that can go flat.
- I do not need any type of device to read the book.
- The format of a book will never change. Therefore I am not worried about vendor lock-in.
two words
choice a
It is all to do with the linking. Linksys has code that is statically linked to the Kernel. As it stands, statically linking code to the Kernel requires the code to be GPL'd. If they don't like it they can use a different OS.
Consider it payment to the open source community for use of the Kernel.
Quoth: "I say "most" because towns like Wyndham are kind of difficult to get the bandwidth to..."
I live about 20 Km from the Sydney CBD (as the crow flies) and I can see the exchange from my window. But because of Tesltra's pair gain system (aka rim job) I cannot get Broadband. Telstra was prepared to go as low as $80 per month for ISDN capped at 500MB. How nice of them.
So it is not just the towns in the bush that cannot get broadband. It is also a lot of suburbs that were built after 1996 as that is the time that Telstra started rimming their customers.
Quoth the poster:
"Never have 8 friends enjoyed weight training as much as when this game goes into multiball mode."
This is slashdot, as if anyone here would have 8 friends.
add this to you firewall rules:
iptables -A FORWARD -d 64.94.110.11 -j REJECT
...NOT resort to lowering the bar and hitting below the belt...
:)
Personally, I think we should raise the bar to about head height and swing
Slashdot this is. Here you must be new, no?
OBligatory anti-insightful Simpsons reference:
Articles have gotten a lot better (worse?) now that "They have the internet on computers"
Score -1: badly paraphrased Simpsons joke with bad spelling
That word you use... you use it a lot... I do not think it means what you think it means.
DMCA v's DeCSS / Mod chips
What is being stated is as follows:
:)
1. To use GPL covered software you have to agree with the GPL.
2. SCO says GPL is invalid
3. Therefore SCO cannot agree with the GPL.
4. If you disagree with the GPL you are not allowed to use the software.
5. Kernel, GCC, GNU, samba, etc all sue SCO for violation of the license and SCO goes away.
*6. ???
*7. Profit
Note: * 6 and 7 are just for a bit of karma whoring