Indeed, the Toshiba laptop I just got in a trade is 99.9% supported in GNU/Linux. That 0.1% is the headphone jack; with pure ALSA it simply doesn't work, and with PulseAudio it works but has to be manually switched when I plug in my 'phones or external speakers. Also, with Pulse I get a nasty static from time to time and the only cure is to reboot (I've tried stopping and starting the sound system and no dice).
Of course, the fact that the Intel HD graphics are fully supported is really great. Still, it's that one audio niggle that keeps me from truly enjoying GNU/Linux on it.
You can do and say anything you want outside work.
That's not always true. I work in law enforcement, and our policy manual (which I had to sign a notarized agreement to obey in order to maintain employment) specifically states that at all times we are to maintain the agency as well as all other law enforcement in a positive light. The section specifies social media, blogs and microblogging sites, personal websites and variations on "letters to the editor" type rants. In other words, I cannot at any time be negatively critical of my employer or similar agencies in any recorded form, whether public or private. To do so is to be terminated on the spot without redress.
Sometimes I wonder why I still work there, but I can't get around the fact that it pays decent, has the best insurance and retirement benefits in my area, and is virtually immune from the negative economy.
I can imagine on their monitors, a perfect circle of white among all the red dots indicating people's phones. Perhaps the people studying the screens will think it's some smelly homeless guy walking around the mall staring angrily at customers, and none of them want to be within 20 feet of you.
Well...if you have been buying sealed collectible games for any amount of time you would already know to avoid Gamestop. They don't give a shit if it's collectible, special edition, if a Moogle jumps out and sings to you in Japanese. They will pocket the Moogle and charge you $20 over retail for the trouble.
There is one, and only one, reason to buy at Gamestop: Gameboy Advance used carts are often less than on eBay after shipping is figured in. If you don't have a GBA or DS that can play GBA carts, the store is pointless.
What a female's intelligence does is make you (the guy) want to be with her longer than the time it takes to go a few rolls in the hay.
Yeah, because every single man on earth is a shallow pig who values that roll in the hay more than a meaningful, long lasting relationship with an intellectual equal.
No wait, that's just you.
And yes, I do have an intelligent girlfriend who also happens to be attractive (not a goddess by most men's standards, but few would call her plain or ugly) AND has a positive, friendly personality. They do exist, but they are usually all taken. Fate smiled upon me for once in my life.
I had to root my Moto Cliq to be able to run anything higher than 2.1. Given that the unofficial alpha-quality 2.2 ROM for my phone is faster and more stable than the Motorola official 2.1, I'd say the platform itself is pretty darned open. Especially compared to, say, iOS where jailbreaking has the opposite effect (locking you in to the last official OS release until a new exploit is found).
That said, another poster had a great point about the fact that once you jailbreak iOS you still have full access to all official portals along with the dark side. Now, apparently, that is not the case with Android.
Then we have the N900. It is a very open phone in every sense of the word (the OS is closer to "true Linux" than Android, the hardware is well documented and OSS friendly, etc.) but T-Mobile, Nokia and Intel have all but disavowed knowledge of its existence these days. It is a true hacker's phone in the sense that once you buy it, you're on your own for support. And as it fades into obscurity (hell, it was always obscure) with it goes any chance of a truly open mobile platform. And before you say "what about MeeGo?", it is so far from being a viable phone platform that it may as well not exist in that sphere.
Sadly, the world is stuck on the top three: Android, iOS and Blackberry, and the latter is beginning to fade from the consumer marketplace. Two years ago when someone whipped out their smartphone in public it was usually a Blackberry and slightly less often an iPhone; these days it's primarily an Android device with the occasional iPhone. Yet another duopoly...
Not 100% relevant to the topic at hand, but I still have a Mac Performa 460 that is in perfect running condition. I keep it around because it has a bunch of my favorite Mac games from my high school days. Sure, I could put mini vMac on my PC and copy the games over, but there's something about that ADB keyboard and mouse, and the sound of the 200mb SCSI drive whirring away in the pizza-box case as I'm playing Shadowgate or Ultima III.
My point being, it's as much about the great hardware of old, as it is about the games themselves. I vote DOS Box!
Now I want to dig out that Pentium III from the closet and start installing DOS 6.22 and Ultimate Doom...
My TV is the most expensive part of my setup, and it's relatively basic (32" Panasonic Viera). I have an HP Slimline, given to me by a friend when they upgraded, hooked up to the PC input. It's just powerful enough for 1080p, though my TV only does up to 720p natively so it's more than enough for now. I have a Logitech wireless keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse Presenter 8000 for input. The default Vista install for the OS was good enough for me, with a combination of WMC with Netflix, XBMC, and Hulu for front ends. My girlfriend supplies her Netflix account, and I get about 60 digital channels via an old-fashioned analog TV antenna in the attic. About 30 of those channels are quality content, and the picture on most of them is stunning. I have sound routed through a JVC 5.1 Dolby Digital setup with a 5-disc DVD player, also donated by my girlfriend.
Apart from the TV, my total cost came to just under $100, most of which was the keyboard and mouse. I do plan to put a digital tuner card in the lone PCI slot so I can start recording my own network TV instead of downloading or fooling with Hulu, and a better video card with HDMI out in the PCI-E slot once I decide to upgrade the TV to a 1080p unit. I would much prefer a current generation Mac mini, of course, but I'm a tightwad and can't justify the extra expense, especially considering all the wasted potential in using such a great little machine for a set top box.
As a whole, it's not like the police have a great deal of respect for citizens who exercise their rights. So I have to wonder: do they retaliate? Do they suddenly take a really hard look at his driving and see how many things they can charge him with that they'd normally let slide?
Take it from someone who works in law enforcement (not a cop, support staff): Yes, yes they do. And they brag about it to each other and to those of us who work behind the scenes. It's disgusting, and it's one of the things that forces me to weigh my conscience against the near-Utopian benefits package. If my part time job could even come close to the same level of benefits I'd leave law enforcement for good.
That's what I am considering as well. My contract runs out around the time this deal is scheduled to close, so I wouldn't have any ETFs to worry about. The question now is, are there any decent prepaid GSM carriers in Georgia, that also offer good 3G data rates?
I switched to T-Mobile strictly to get away from AT&T's bullshit yet stay with a GSM carrier! And I love T-Mobile's support as well, though AT&T's wasn't that bad to be honest.
This still stinks to no end though. And the worst part is, I can't take my N900 to any other US carrier, as only ATT/TMO is GSM here.
I'll second that, I got an N900 a few weeks ago and had added a friend's Skype ID to his contacts entry when he signed up for the service. A few days later he called me, and it wasn't until I had been talking to him for a bit and he asked how his new laptop sounded that I realized it was a Skype call. It was so seamless! I'm in phone heaven right now.
/He sounded great btw, just like a regular 3G call.
I'd also suggest that anyone who registers against donation would be put at the back of the line for recipient organs (or taken off the list).
You do realize that communism, while good on paper most of the time, never works in reality right? There's this little thing called "human compassion" that will put your conscientious objector in a position based on his need and not your indignation.
To put it another way, communism will only work when humanity is completely replaced by autonomous machines without emotion.
Grand idea, except that many cultures and religions have rules against desecrating the body after death. It may be rational to harvest when the heart stops, but it's not realistic.
Or the eyes from a suicide victim. My brother's eyes brought sight to two blind people, and the rest of his organs were given to research, as per his wishes. Yes, he was a scientist.
I don't know about Rambus inventing it, but I have seen SIMMs with stacked chips before at my part time bench testing job. There was a batch of them in a box of very old RAM I had to evaluate. We didn't have a server on hand old enough to put them in for testing (they were registered units) so they stayed in the junk bin.
You seem to forget that it's not the downloading that people are being sued for. It's the "making available" to others, which is exactly what happens when one torrents. Setting up a torrent for each and every DVD and CD one owns amounts to making those works available to those who do not own the physical copy on an epic scale. For your idea to be relevant, you'd have to visit download-only file caches like Hotfile or Fileserve for your files.
You know, I'm not taking sides here but I feel the need to point out something too. It doesn't matter how high in the geek celebrity circle someone is, calling another person an idiot because they aren't aware of the facts, in itself indicates a juvenile mentality. Calling someone ignorant, on the other hand, would not only be more correct, it would be less childish and offensive to boot, and would allow for a reasonable request to become educated on the matter.
Yes, Mr. Arlie is an Xorg driver genius, but he has yet to do more than call names and pick a fight here on the Slashdot grade school playground.
Yes you can, and I'm actually on Lamebook's side in this; I personally feel it's a legal parody. I just pointed out that in the end, the actual content creators (the users) have no say in the matter either way.
Copyrighted by whom? Not the Facebook user who posted it; you waive your right to copyright the moment you sign up for a Facebook account. There is an argument to be made that Lamebook is profiting off of Facebook's "copyrighted" content, but Facebook didn't create the content. They just force their users to hand over rights to it. It's a clusterfuck all the way around, and unfortunately the only ones left with no rights at all are the users.
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Indeed, the Toshiba laptop I just got in a trade is 99.9% supported in GNU/Linux. That 0.1% is the headphone jack; with pure ALSA it simply doesn't work, and with PulseAudio it works but has to be manually switched when I plug in my 'phones or external speakers. Also, with Pulse I get a nasty static from time to time and the only cure is to reboot (I've tried stopping and starting the sound system and no dice).
Of course, the fact that the Intel HD graphics are fully supported is really great. Still, it's that one audio niggle that keeps me from truly enjoying GNU/Linux on it.
You can do and say anything you want outside work.
That's not always true. I work in law enforcement, and our policy manual (which I had to sign a notarized agreement to obey in order to maintain employment) specifically states that at all times we are to maintain the agency as well as all other law enforcement in a positive light. The section specifies social media, blogs and microblogging sites, personal websites and variations on "letters to the editor" type rants. In other words, I cannot at any time be negatively critical of my employer or similar agencies in any recorded form, whether public or private. To do so is to be terminated on the spot without redress.
Sometimes I wonder why I still work there, but I can't get around the fact that it pays decent, has the best insurance and retirement benefits in my area, and is virtually immune from the negative economy.
I can imagine on their monitors, a perfect circle of white among all the red dots indicating people's phones. Perhaps the people studying the screens will think it's some smelly homeless guy walking around the mall staring angrily at customers, and none of them want to be within 20 feet of you.
Well...if you have been buying sealed collectible games for any amount of time you would already know to avoid Gamestop. They don't give a shit if it's collectible, special edition, if a Moogle jumps out and sings to you in Japanese. They will pocket the Moogle and charge you $20 over retail for the trouble.
There is one, and only one, reason to buy at Gamestop: Gameboy Advance used carts are often less than on eBay after shipping is figured in. If you don't have a GBA or DS that can play GBA carts, the store is pointless.
What a female's intelligence does is make you (the guy) want to be with her longer than the time it takes to go a few rolls in the hay.
Yeah, because every single man on earth is a shallow pig who values that roll in the hay more than a meaningful, long lasting relationship with an intellectual equal.
No wait, that's just you.
And yes, I do have an intelligent girlfriend who also happens to be attractive (not a goddess by most men's standards, but few would call her plain or ugly) AND has a positive, friendly personality. They do exist, but they are usually all taken. Fate smiled upon me for once in my life.
I had to root my Moto Cliq to be able to run anything higher than 2.1. Given that the unofficial alpha-quality 2.2 ROM for my phone is faster and more stable than the Motorola official 2.1, I'd say the platform itself is pretty darned open. Especially compared to, say, iOS where jailbreaking has the opposite effect (locking you in to the last official OS release until a new exploit is found).
That said, another poster had a great point about the fact that once you jailbreak iOS you still have full access to all official portals along with the dark side. Now, apparently, that is not the case with Android.
Then we have the N900. It is a very open phone in every sense of the word (the OS is closer to "true Linux" than Android, the hardware is well documented and OSS friendly, etc.) but T-Mobile, Nokia and Intel have all but disavowed knowledge of its existence these days. It is a true hacker's phone in the sense that once you buy it, you're on your own for support. And as it fades into obscurity (hell, it was always obscure) with it goes any chance of a truly open mobile platform. And before you say "what about MeeGo?", it is so far from being a viable phone platform that it may as well not exist in that sphere.
Sadly, the world is stuck on the top three: Android, iOS and Blackberry, and the latter is beginning to fade from the consumer marketplace. Two years ago when someone whipped out their smartphone in public it was usually a Blackberry and slightly less often an iPhone; these days it's primarily an Android device with the occasional iPhone. Yet another duopoly...
Not 100% relevant to the topic at hand, but I still have a Mac Performa 460 that is in perfect running condition. I keep it around because it has a bunch of my favorite Mac games from my high school days. Sure, I could put mini vMac on my PC and copy the games over, but there's something about that ADB keyboard and mouse, and the sound of the 200mb SCSI drive whirring away in the pizza-box case as I'm playing Shadowgate or Ultima III.
My point being, it's as much about the great hardware of old, as it is about the games themselves. I vote DOS Box!
Now I want to dig out that Pentium III from the closet and start installing DOS 6.22 and Ultimate Doom...
My TV is the most expensive part of my setup, and it's relatively basic (32" Panasonic Viera). I have an HP Slimline, given to me by a friend when they upgraded, hooked up to the PC input. It's just powerful enough for 1080p, though my TV only does up to 720p natively so it's more than enough for now. I have a Logitech wireless keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse Presenter 8000 for input. The default Vista install for the OS was good enough for me, with a combination of WMC with Netflix, XBMC, and Hulu for front ends. My girlfriend supplies her Netflix account, and I get about 60 digital channels via an old-fashioned analog TV antenna in the attic. About 30 of those channels are quality content, and the picture on most of them is stunning. I have sound routed through a JVC 5.1 Dolby Digital setup with a 5-disc DVD player, also donated by my girlfriend.
Apart from the TV, my total cost came to just under $100, most of which was the keyboard and mouse. I do plan to put a digital tuner card in the lone PCI slot so I can start recording my own network TV instead of downloading or fooling with Hulu, and a better video card with HDMI out in the PCI-E slot once I decide to upgrade the TV to a 1080p unit. I would much prefer a current generation Mac mini, of course, but I'm a tightwad and can't justify the extra expense, especially considering all the wasted potential in using such a great little machine for a set top box.
As a whole, it's not like the police have a great deal of respect for citizens who exercise their rights. So I have to wonder: do they retaliate? Do they suddenly take a really hard look at his driving and see how many things they can charge him with that they'd normally let slide?
Take it from someone who works in law enforcement (not a cop, support staff): Yes, yes they do. And they brag about it to each other and to those of us who work behind the scenes. It's disgusting, and it's one of the things that forces me to weigh my conscience against the near-Utopian benefits package. If my part time job could even come close to the same level of benefits I'd leave law enforcement for good.
You sick fuck.
And then there's the Linus dying thing, I mean come on!
*ducks*
Maybe I should go pre-paid.
That's what I am considering as well. My contract runs out around the time this deal is scheduled to close, so I wouldn't have any ETFs to worry about. The question now is, are there any decent prepaid GSM carriers in Georgia, that also offer good 3G data rates?
I switched to T-Mobile strictly to get away from AT&T's bullshit yet stay with a GSM carrier! And I love T-Mobile's support as well, though AT&T's wasn't that bad to be honest.
This still stinks to no end though. And the worst part is, I can't take my N900 to any other US carrier, as only ATT/TMO is GSM here.
Fuck.
I'll second that, I got an N900 a few weeks ago and had added a friend's Skype ID to his contacts entry when he signed up for the service. A few days later he called me, and it wasn't until I had been talking to him for a bit and he asked how his new laptop sounded that I realized it was a Skype call. It was so seamless! I'm in phone heaven right now.
I'd also suggest that anyone who registers against donation would be put at the back of the line for recipient organs (or taken off the list).
You do realize that communism, while good on paper most of the time, never works in reality right? There's this little thing called "human compassion" that will put your conscientious objector in a position based on his need and not your indignation.
To put it another way, communism will only work when humanity is completely replaced by autonomous machines without emotion.
Grand idea, except that many cultures and religions have rules against desecrating the body after death. It may be rational to harvest when the heart stops, but it's not realistic.
"Need money fast?" and "Donate a kidney" are mutually exclusive. When you donate something, you aren't compensated financially.
Organ selling, on the other hand, can be quite profitable...until you are caught.
Or the eyes from a suicide victim. My brother's eyes brought sight to two blind people, and the rest of his organs were given to research, as per his wishes. Yes, he was a scientist.
I'm sure Sven and the Majestic Møøse do.
Seconded, and I'll add Epson to that. Their six-color printers are very nice, and reman cartridges are great if you get them from a reputable dealer.
I don't know about Rambus inventing it, but I have seen SIMMs with stacked chips before at my part time bench testing job. There was a batch of them in a box of very old RAM I had to evaluate. We didn't have a server on hand old enough to put them in for testing (they were registered units) so they stayed in the junk bin.
You seem to forget that it's not the downloading that people are being sued for. It's the "making available" to others, which is exactly what happens when one torrents. Setting up a torrent for each and every DVD and CD one owns amounts to making those works available to those who do not own the physical copy on an epic scale. For your idea to be relevant, you'd have to visit download-only file caches like Hotfile or Fileserve for your files.
You know, I'm not taking sides here but I feel the need to point out something too. It doesn't matter how high in the geek celebrity circle someone is, calling another person an idiot because they aren't aware of the facts, in itself indicates a juvenile mentality. Calling someone ignorant, on the other hand, would not only be more correct, it would be less childish and offensive to boot, and would allow for a reasonable request to become educated on the matter.
Yes, Mr. Arlie is an Xorg driver genius, but he has yet to do more than call names and pick a fight here on the Slashdot grade school playground.
Grow up, guys.
Yes you can, and I'm actually on Lamebook's side in this; I personally feel it's a legal parody. I just pointed out that in the end, the actual content creators (the users) have no say in the matter either way.
You just reminded me, I haven't been to Failblog.org all morning. Be back in a few hours.
Copyrighted by whom? Not the Facebook user who posted it; you waive your right to copyright the moment you sign up for a Facebook account. There is an argument to be made that Lamebook is profiting off of Facebook's "copyrighted" content, but Facebook didn't create the content. They just force their users to hand over rights to it. It's a clusterfuck all the way around, and unfortunately the only ones left with no rights at all are the users.