Some people like receiving 'junk mail' in it's 'physical' and maybe even it's 'electronic' form. There are 'shopping deal' websites that you can sign up to receive notices of deals, i.e. Office Depot rebates. Some of those are opt-in systems, but clearly it shows there are people who like solicitation by email.
I don't like being spammed, but I am not going to pretend everyone is like me.
You are right that it would be a mistake to not continue to watch China and hope that we can make a difference there, eventually.
One thing we most definitely should do is vigorously investigate any links between funding of political interests in this country, donations from Chinese interests, and any 'deals' that may have been arranged. If anybody in the Bush administration is as culpable as the Clinton and Gore people are and were, something needs to be done about it.
Well, category B) as you describe it: kills the market for live/unreleased/discontinued tracks. If any of those were gonna pay for a sack of groceries for the artist, they sure aren't if everybody thinks like you. And every track in existence was 'unreleased' for a time. If the market is saturated by illegal copies, it could be that nothing would ever be 'released.'
You claiming that a bunch of greedy downloaders are 'tuFF and righteous rebels' and that there is a 'political dynamic to it all' falls flat on it's face. The people doing the downloading will laugh at you. Go ahead and tell them what a rebellious vanguard they are. They're people. Having fun downloading stuff that they shouldn't.
There is no 'resistance' outside the fantasy of a tiny number of armchair 'rebels.' By golly, if you're going to rebel, do something significant. Posting on/. isn't.
Well, heck. There's been 'face recognition' biometric data on most people's passports for over a century already. As long as said 'biometric data collection' methods have existed, there have been people, i.e. the Amish, who've objected to it.
This isn't really anything more, other than possibly higher resolution recordings.
I mean it! I read the whole trilogy back in the summer of 1974, but don't spoil it for me by telling me how it ends!
Actually, since the books are more drawn out, with much more detail, and the graphics are rendered with far superior algorithms (wetware, as it were), I'd recommend to anybody who hasn't read the books that they not 'spoil' it by seeing the film first.
Well, heck. There's been 'face recognition' biometric data on most people's passports for over a century already. As long as said 'biometric data collection' methods have existed, there have been people, i.e. the Amish, who've objected to it.
This isn't really anything more, other than possibly higher resolution recordings.
Actually, all Apple shipped when you ordered an Apple I from them was a populated circuit board. You had to hunt down your own power transformer (rectifier and regulators were on-board) and pick out a keyboard to use (strobed parallel ASCII output, with a scratchpad area to add inverter logic if your keyboard used the opposite logic levels).
No case whatsoever was provided. You could bolt it on a piece of plexiglass, or make the fanciest enclosure you chose.
My BigBoard (Z-80 based Xerox 820 clone) is similar in many respects, except newer so it has an on-board disk controller (for 8" drives).
France, Italy, Russia, and probably most of the others you cited have had 'revolutions' that formed new governments in the time since the US was founded.
It's really a mistake for you to accuse somebody else of ignorance.
The acronymn SCUM is already taken. It's the name of the Society for Cutting Up Men, and there's a SCUM manifesto. It's a radical lesbian seperatist group. Sorry, you're a few decades too late. Pick another acronymn.
Unless you're an angry dyke with a knife, of course.
There have got to be at least 800 clueless knobs with three digit user numbers. Granted there have got to be at least 8000 with four digit user numbers, so come on.
Clearly we hung out in different circles. Nobody who I knew except for a few people who copped an elite attitude had Macs. Many had Commodore 64's or PCs. Some had Amigas.
Windows 3.x was apparently good enough that Apple sued Microsoft over it. That's, umm, kind of a direct endorsement from Apple.
Also, there are many companies where the employees don't have Web or Internet access. There are still security concerns but the problems that have cascaded through corporations over the last several years have been the result of web-connected machines that readily accept any email from outside the company firewall. Without a connection to 'the outside' much of the patching and what-not isn't as necessary.
My experience is that schools are getting rid of older machines, not accepting them as donations. I got to a weekly auction and a few weeks ago had the chance to buy a whole pallet load of Pentium II 400 machines for $15 each. (I only bought two) It sort of pisses me off that as a taxpayer I am paying these schools and colleges to play upgrade games they shouldn't have to.
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Some people like receiving 'junk mail' in it's 'physical' and maybe even it's 'electronic' form. There are 'shopping deal' websites that you can sign up to receive notices of deals, i.e. Office Depot rebates. Some of those are opt-in systems, but clearly it shows there are people who like solicitation by email.
I don't like being spammed, but I am not going to pretend everyone is like me.
They could put him in a lineup with Fidel Castro and accidentally shoot them both.
Whoops.
translation:
'It's scary, Democrats, and French/German collaborators, laugh nervously.'
Well, how about you just wander off into the woods for your Iron John retreat.
Have fun.
And SCO will be crushed, their first day in court.
You are right that it would be a mistake to not continue to watch China and hope that we can make a difference there, eventually.
One thing we most definitely should do is vigorously investigate any links between funding of political interests in this country, donations from Chinese interests, and any 'deals' that may have been arranged. If anybody in the Bush administration is as culpable as the Clinton and Gore people are and were, something needs to be done about it.
Perhaps the French will give Saddam honorary citizen ship, like they did with cop-killer Mumia.
Well, category B) as you describe it: kills the market for live/unreleased/discontinued tracks. If any of those were gonna pay for a sack of groceries for the artist, they sure aren't if everybody thinks like you. And every track in existence was 'unreleased' for a time. If the market is saturated by illegal copies, it could be that nothing would ever be 'released.'
You claiming that a bunch of greedy downloaders are 'tuFF and righteous rebels' and that there is a 'political dynamic to it all' falls flat on it's face. The people doing the downloading will laugh at you. Go ahead and tell them what a rebellious vanguard they are. They're people. Having fun downloading stuff that they shouldn't.
/. isn't.
There is no 'resistance' outside the fantasy of a tiny number of armchair 'rebels.' By golly, if you're going to rebel, do something significant. Posting on
Well, heck. There's been 'face recognition' biometric data on most people's passports for over a century already. As long as said 'biometric data collection' methods have existed, there have been people, i.e. the Amish, who've objected to it.
This isn't really anything more, other than possibly higher resolution recordings.
(troll? what a putz some moderator must be)
I mean it! I read the whole trilogy back in the summer of 1974, but don't spoil it for me by telling me how it ends!
Actually, since the books are more drawn out, with much more detail, and the graphics are rendered with far superior algorithms (wetware, as it were), I'd recommend to anybody who hasn't read the books that they not 'spoil' it by seeing the film first.
Think about it.
Well, heck. There's been 'face recognition' biometric data on most people's passports for over a century already. As long as said 'biometric data collection' methods have existed, there have been people, i.e. the Amish, who've objected to it.
This isn't really anything more, other than possibly higher resolution recordings.
I bought metal rack rails at the local pro-audio store
Whoo! That's a great way to pay 20% above list price. That guy in the store in the black leather pants has bills to pay, though. So okeey...
"just head onto ebay... The batteries are most likely dead, but it has a place for external batteries."
Hopefully, the batteries aren't just dead. Hopefully they're gone. Unless you own a lot of stock in UPS, or have your own fleet of trucks, of course.
Actually, all Apple shipped when you ordered an
Apple I from them was a populated circuit board. You had to hunt down your own power transformer (rectifier and regulators were on-board) and pick out a keyboard to use (strobed parallel ASCII output, with a scratchpad area to add inverter logic if your keyboard used the opposite logic levels).
No case whatsoever was provided. You could bolt it on a piece of plexiglass, or make the fanciest enclosure you chose.
My BigBoard (Z-80 based Xerox 820 clone) is similar in many respects, except newer so it has an on-board disk controller (for 8" drives).
Serial consoles are fine for some purposes.
You're not going to get many people to ditch the framebuffer on thier desktop machine, though.
Try to think in 1980's terms, at least. Your ASR-33 is leaking oil on the linoleum again.
The tarball of the Linux kernel source is multiple-megabytes in size. In compressed form.
Have you read the whole thing through?
France, Italy, Russia, and probably most of the others you cited have had 'revolutions' that formed new governments in the time since the US was founded.
It's really a mistake for you to accuse somebody else of ignorance.
The acronymn SCUM is already taken. It's the name of the Society for Cutting Up Men, and there's a SCUM manifesto. It's a radical lesbian seperatist group. Sorry, you're a few decades too late. Pick another acronymn.
Unless you're an angry dyke with a knife, of course.
There have got to be at least 800 clueless knobs with three digit user numbers. Granted there have got to be at least 8000 with four digit user numbers, so come on.
You, and many people like you, try to equate conservative Republicans with racist skinheads and storm troopers, etc.
It's the equivalent of what the far right do- they try to equate liberal Democrats with the SLA and far-left terrorist groups.
That's called 'smear.' At least acknowledge what you're doing.
Why do you draw an arbitrary line at Linux 2.0.x?
I remember Slackware with the 1.2.13 kernel being adequate for a lot of learning.
Just curious.
Clearly we hung out in different circles. Nobody who I knew except for a few people who copped an elite attitude had Macs. Many had Commodore 64's or PCs. Some had Amigas.
Windows 3.x was apparently good enough that Apple sued Microsoft over it. That's, umm, kind of a direct endorsement from Apple.
Also, there are many companies where the employees don't have Web or Internet access. There are still security concerns but the problems that have cascaded through corporations over the last several years have been the result of web-connected machines that readily accept any email from outside the company firewall. Without a connection to 'the outside' much of the patching and what-not isn't as necessary.
My experience is that schools are getting rid of older machines, not accepting them as donations. I got to a weekly auction and a few weeks ago had the chance to buy a whole pallet load of Pentium II 400 machines for $15 each. (I only bought two) It sort of pisses me off that as a taxpayer I am paying these schools and colleges to play upgrade games they shouldn't have to.