What bothers me is when sites become popular, require ads to support themselves, offer subscription services that claim you won't see any ads, but when you subscribe you still get ads at every link *cough*IGN*cough*
I have a Motorola V66 (? extremely thin, B&W display) that my girlfriend gave me when she tired of it. It's at least a year old, and probably can't be bought anymore. But it makes calls, and that's about it. It also has a standby battery life of close to 1 week after being at least a year old.
I have the feeling that the reason people record TV to watch it at a later time is that it may be good, but it's not good enough to interrupt what they're doing at that time. And if that is the case, people will give up on programming altogether if they can't record it. I know if I wasn't allowed to record Adult Swim shows, I probably wouldn't see them at all (except on the Friday web cast), because most of the time I can't be bothered to stay awake until 2AM if I have to wake up in the morning.
I really don't care if average people start migrating to Linux. I like what I'm using. I don't want what I'm using to be evolved into what Windows is now.
It's probably so they can recoup some loss from the price they're selling all the other materials. I have a feeling they're going to be selling at a huge loss with 3 PPC 970s doing the processing, along with a new ATI chipset.
I do agree that a lot of people use mod-chips for piracy. But it's also true that a lot of people use mod-chips to play region-encoded games. There are a lot of games that only came out in Japan, that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day here.
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So does that mean children under the age of 18 do not have to pay for a haircut, since they legally cannot enter a contract?
Have fun on the robot reservation, suckers! We're not gonna honor those bogus treaties!
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I don't like spending a lot of time with a washing machine; if the one I have works, and accepts the detergents I can buy at the store, then it's fine with me... although some clothes-cleaning experts may be more picky.:-)
Thank you, sir, for your excellent analogy. Not that it'll be helpful to the tons of/. zealots out there, but humorous and informative, nonetheless.
Their competitor's response should then be to show people their 50GB discs. They don't do it, they have egg on their face. They do it, Microsoft has egg on their face.
Either way, I end up smiling at somebody else covered in egg.
Seconded. My laptop has 512MB RAM and currently KDE (2 Konsoles, Konqueror, KMail, KOrganizer, KPilot), Gaim, & daemons are using 145 MB, with the rest cached. top reveals that my three biggest memory users are Konqueror, KMail, and X, taking up about 25% of my total memory.
Windows, OTOH, maxes out my memory as soon as it starts up, all the while dumping everything into the paging file.
Of course I know that this software is not for me. The questions I posed were actually referring to the philosophical me, and not the actual me. And the philosophical me, in this case, was a reference to the average user who may fear that the FBI will come knocking down their door if they don't delete all their illegal files.
I'd like to know how it differentiates between a legal file and an illegal file. Would it delete my podcasts of a local radio show that are perfectly legal, but distributed in mp3 format? Would it delete a ripped copy of a DVD that I created from a DVD recorder. Would it delete any movie files (mpeg, wmv, avi, mov) I have stored, regardless of their content? Or will it actually perform hashes on every single file stored on the computer that has an extension that could deem it illegal?
Maybe one day UNICEF will get into the movie industry. But until then, Walt Disney, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros, Universal and 20th Century Fox are the guys to see.
Please show me where they trounced Nintendo in the market place. And when I say market place, I consider the entire world where Nintendo and Microsoft have basically been neck and neck in hardware sales since their respective releases. Sure, Microsoft is doing surprisingly well in NA, but Japan is a different story.
I believe it was called the PSX because when it was still being developed for the SNES, it's code name was the PlayStationX. Then the name kinda stuck since the name used was the codename minus the X.
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What bothers me is when sites become popular, require ads to support themselves, offer subscription services that claim you won't see any ads, but when you subscribe you still get ads at every link *cough*IGN*cough*
I don't work for Google.. but if they need me, I currently need a job. You hear that Google?
I thought it was usually a knee-jerk reaction to "Posted by Zonk".
Apparently Eastern Europe is not part of continental Europe, by the article's author's logic.
I have a Motorola V66 (? extremely thin, B&W display) that my girlfriend gave me when she tired of it. It's at least a year old, and probably can't be bought anymore. But it makes calls, and that's about it. It also has a standby battery life of close to 1 week after being at least a year old.
I have the feeling that the reason people record TV to watch it at a later time is that it may be good, but it's not good enough to interrupt what they're doing at that time. And if that is the case, people will give up on programming altogether if they can't record it. I know if I wasn't allowed to record Adult Swim shows, I probably wouldn't see them at all (except on the Friday web cast), because most of the time I can't be bothered to stay awake until 2AM if I have to wake up in the morning.
I really don't care if average people start migrating to Linux. I like what I'm using. I don't want what I'm using to be evolved into what Windows is now.
It's probably so they can recoup some loss from the price they're selling all the other materials. I have a feeling they're going to be selling at a huge loss with 3 PPC 970s doing the processing, along with a new ATI chipset.
I do agree that a lot of people use mod-chips for piracy. But it's also true that a lot of people use mod-chips to play region-encoded games. There are a lot of games that only came out in Japan, that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day here.
So does that mean children under the age of 18 do not have to pay for a haircut, since they legally cannot enter a contract?
Come on.. this is Slashdot. Since when do the trolls read anything but the headline?
NTFS is lossy because multiple times, after a clean power down, I've booted up to corrupted and missing files, essential to the operation of the OS.
Have fun on the robot reservation, suckers! We're not gonna honor those bogus treaties!
I don't like spending a lot of time with a washing machine; if the one I have works, and accepts the detergents I can buy at the store, then it's fine with me... although some clothes-cleaning experts may be more picky. :-)
/. zealots out there, but humorous and informative, nonetheless.
Thank you, sir, for your excellent analogy. Not that it'll be helpful to the tons of
Their competitor's response should then be to show people their 50GB discs. They don't do it, they have egg on their face. They do it, Microsoft has egg on their face.
Either way, I end up smiling at somebody else covered in egg.
Seconded. My laptop has 512MB RAM and currently KDE (2 Konsoles, Konqueror, KMail, KOrganizer, KPilot), Gaim, & daemons are using 145 MB, with the rest cached. top reveals that my three biggest memory users are Konqueror, KMail, and X, taking up about 25% of my total memory.
Windows, OTOH, maxes out my memory as soon as it starts up, all the while dumping everything into the paging file.
Of course I know that this software is not for me. The questions I posed were actually referring to the philosophical me, and not the actual me. And the philosophical me, in this case, was a reference to the average user who may fear that the FBI will come knocking down their door if they don't delete all their illegal files.
I'd like to know how it differentiates between a legal file and an illegal file. Would it delete my podcasts of a local radio show that are perfectly legal, but distributed in mp3 format? Would it delete a ripped copy of a DVD that I created from a DVD recorder. Would it delete any movie files (mpeg, wmv, avi, mov) I have stored, regardless of their content? Or will it actually perform hashes on every single file stored on the computer that has an extension that could deem it illegal?
It's not exactly what you are looking for since you still have to be root at some point, but try it like this:
/tmp/mozilla as normal user without WRITE access to /bin /tmp/mozilla/* / [or something like that]
/bin, but the mozilla executables are available for all.
Install to
su to root
cp -R
Now, the installer will no longer actually write the virus to any executables in
The movie industry is not a charity
Maybe one day UNICEF will get into the movie industry. But until then, Walt Disney, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros, Universal and 20th Century Fox are the guys to see.
I don't know what restaurants you go to, but the free bread I eat is fresh and piping hot.
Wow.. and I'm feeling down after 9 months of not getting a job after graduating. You, sir, are a real trooper. I salute you.
Please show me where they trounced Nintendo in the market place. And when I say market place, I consider the entire world where Nintendo and Microsoft have basically been neck and neck in hardware sales since their respective releases. Sure, Microsoft is doing surprisingly well in NA, but Japan is a different story.
I believe it was called the PSX because when it was still being developed for the SNES, it's code name was the PlayStationX. Then the name kinda stuck since the name used was the codename minus the X.
Is that why most major Linux distros are using GNOME by default nowadays? Oh wait.. they're using KDE. My bad.