I used to subscribe to Musicmatch Platinum. I thought it was an incredible service! I especially liked the artist match and on demand services. I have a varied (some say warped) taste in music. Musicmatch did an incredible job of using my existing mp3 collection to target online music to my tastes.
During the two years I was a subscriber, my only complaint was that there was no Linux option. I filled out surveys and finally even complained to customer support. The response I recieved from customer support was that codec licensing agreements prevented them from releasing a Linux port.
Even so I continued to subscribe until I switched to my current job where they do not allow me to listen to online music at work (the main place I use windows as an OS.)
If Yahoo is able to bring out a Linux port of the online service, I will immediately become a subscriber again.
According to your web site "The Libertarian Party has long recognized the importance of allowing free and open immigration, understanding that this leads to a growing and more prosperous America. " Please explain what is meant by the terms "free and open." Does this mean open borders? Do you support doing away with all limits on imigration?
"Ask an American and a Japanese if they are "good in math". The Japanese will typically say "no", the American will say "yes". Ask the same 2 kids to take a standardized math test, the Japanese will score better than the American."
That has a lot to do with knowing enough to know how bad you are. For example I play chess. I am not a great player, but I am high school chess club level. For years people would ask "Are you any good at chess?" and I would reply "Not Really." After years of beating these people I now say "Yes, I know how to play chess well." I still know that I am not a very good chess player, but now I also know that most people cannot play chess. All they really know is how to move the pieces, but not how to play the game.
" In the 1979-80 timeframe there was a typewriter in use at Xerox (where I worked) that had "th", "st" and a few other things superscripted. It also had some fractions - "1/2" for sure and I remember some others."
Yeah my Dads Underwood had this ability. This is the same typewriter he kept when they were replaced in his office working for the Army in 1963. It was replaced by an IBM selectric which also had this ability and was fist produced in 1961. Might want to look at the history of typwriters to get a better idea of what was available when.
" I am not the only one who is either thinking about or has already switched to Nvidia just because of the drivers."
I made the switch about a year ago. I have never looked back.
I read ATI's instalation instruction for SuSE, and feel sorry for anyone who has to follow them. On my SuSE instalations, to install Nvidia's driver I just launch Yast2 and do an online update. I get the drivers straight from SuSE let Yast install them. It is a snap.
"If we have problems with people staying on the road in a car, what will it be like if they can fly?"
Yeah I think we have things out of order. What we really need is self driving cars. That would reduce a lot of congestion and allow us all to drive drunk.
"I can't wait until your first person shooter stops and drinks a nice cold refreshing soda."
I have long been a proponent of corporate sponsorship of MMORPG's. Instead of charging us for the software and then charging us again to play, both should be free. The trade off would be that you potion of health becomes a Mountain Dew and your potion of strength is a Red Bull. It gets even better with Remmington and Colt supplying weapons.
What a great way to build brand loyalty as in "The best armor is made by Tommy Hilfiger!" or "My Chevy is much faster than you Toyota!"
I want my gaming habit subsidised. Advertisers have been missing a bet for a long time.
WOW! The lead blurb for this needs to be updated. In Josh'd own words:
"UPDATE: Welcome Slashdot visitors. I'm not sure how to submit a correction to slashdot, but I am NOT the person responsible for the WIX/WTL projects. I site them as examples and am working with people who where responsible for those projects to enable more of the same for the groups I work in. It would be great if someone at Slashdot could change the wording here since I really can't take credit for the work the WIX and WTL project leaders have done. "
No Such Job Security in the USA
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From the article: "a system of patronage and stiff legal protections make it difficult for employers to fire anyone."
I do not know about you, but it has been proven to me on numerous occasions that it is easy to fire anyone in the USA. Now it may be that certain union workers -The Teamsters- might be able to get away with that, but I live in a right to work state, and here they are considered mostly a joke.
"Canada's police chiefs propose a surcharge of about 25 cents on monthly telephone and Internet bills to cover the cost of tapping into the communications of terrorists and other criminals."
They should follow the Unied States example from "The War On Drugs." When you arrest a suspect, freeze all their finances. Then when you convict, sell off all those assets and give the money to the law enforcement agency that made the arrest. This way the criminals pay for the enforcement.
OK glad I got that off my chest. Now, I run Linux and the only real gaming I do is in NeveWinter Nights. Maybe because I do not do any First Person Shooter / Real time gaming I do not notice a problem, but all my computers run the $49.00 special, Geforce card. I really like Geforce Cards. I love Nvidias support for Linux. I appreciate all you hard core gamers buying the new cards so they keep dropping the price on the other cards. I just can't get enthusiastic over a new video card when the ones I have a perofrming adequately.
Isn't California switching to electronic voting machines?
Isn't Diebold the company providing those systems?
Doesn't Diebold use a closed source model?
Looks to me like this is a chance to drive a wedge into either Diebolds closed model or Californias acceptance of it.
"I could have sworn I just saw a slashdot article stating that 80% of all spam came from some country like Elbonia or something."
I think the difference here is one of volume. While the largest number of servers are located outside the US, this article is saying that US servers still provide the bulk of the actual emails sent. Think of it this way:
1,000 non-US servers sending 3 emails a day VS. 3 US servers sending 3,000 emails each a day.
This is always the problem with statistics, they can be made to prove a point depending on how and which number you actually report. There is still one othe number left out of the calculations - To how many recipients are each of the emails sent?
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Hardware details:
* AMD Athlon 2000 Processor
* 128 MB DDR RAM
* Expandable up to 1 GB RAM
* 40 GB hard drive
* Includes keyboard, mouse, stereo speakers and Ethernet interface (does not include monitor)
* Supports onboard AMD Duron processor
* Supports 200 MHz front-side bus
* Supports integrated 256 MB SDRAM onboard
* Shared memory architecture allows a maximum of 64 MB main memory to act as frame buffer
* Linare PC comes with the following types of support: phone, e-mail and web
* Includes a 1-year warranty return to manufacturer
* Model AD2000
* Supports high resolutions up to 1920 x 1440
Software details:
* Linare Linux
* Linux-based operating system
* KDE: powerful graphical desktop environment
* OpenOffice Office Suite
* Mozilla browser
* Mozilla e-mail
Yeah I agree. I believe there will always be a place in the world for proprietary Apps and OS's. For example I never burn CD's under anything but Linux. It is just easier, more intuitive and it just works under Linux / K3b. In windows I have never been able to get a bootable CD to burn correctly.
"But when you compare price of a typical user's system, is the difference really that much?"
That is what I found interesting. If you look, an entry level system in any of the adds that listed one could be had for about $400 US. At that same time, the bleeding edge of technology would cost you over $3000 US. I thought it interesting that the author did not recognize this fallacy in his logic. He even commented that software prices had remained stable. What he did not acknowledge was that a 15 year old game does not have the complexity or richness of game play that new titles possess. Sim City 2000 is no comparison to Meet The Sims, just like an AMD 486-DX4/100 processor is no match for an AMD 64.
"Basically all BW did with NWN was release a set of tools for people/groups to create their OWN worlds/adventures/environments. "
Yeah that was and is what is great about NWN. It gives us all the freedom to create our own little piece of the universe. One of the biggest failures on the part of the community, IMHO, was the failure to take advantage of the server portal features. Theoretically it is possible for a player to take a character from one world to the next without ever retuning to the GameSpy interface. Unfortunately early efforts at creating a clearinghouse for server portals was impeeded by the lack of external data access in the server engine. I think it would be really cool to have a hundered or more servers linked into a trully MMORPG that was FREE!
Currently it is SuSE specific but now that Novel has GPL'ed it I am hoping it will become the standard for all distributions. One of my favorite things about it is that the terminal version and GUI version work and act the same.
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Funny, I associate that with MSN. When I think of a Windows I think of the teddy bear logo from windows WFW 3.11.
During the two years I was a subscriber, my only complaint was that there was no Linux option. I filled out surveys and finally even complained to customer support. The response I recieved from customer support was that codec licensing agreements prevented them from releasing a Linux port.
Even so I continued to subscribe until I switched to my current job where they do not allow me to listen to online music at work (the main place I use windows as an OS.)
If Yahoo is able to bring out a Linux port of the online service, I will immediately become a subscriber again.
According to your web site "The Libertarian Party has long recognized the importance of allowing free and open immigration, understanding that this leads to a growing and more prosperous America. "
Please explain what is meant by the terms "free and open." Does this mean open borders? Do you support doing away with all limits on imigration?
That has a lot to do with knowing enough to know how bad you are. For example I play chess. I am not a great player, but I am high school chess club level. For years people would ask "Are you any good at chess?" and I would reply "Not Really." After years of beating these people I now say "Yes, I know how to play chess well." I still know that I am not a very good chess player, but now I also know that most people cannot play chess. All they really know is how to move the pieces, but not how to play the game.
Yeah my Dads Underwood had this ability. This is the same typewriter he kept when they were replaced in his office working for the Army in 1963. It was replaced by an IBM selectric which also had this ability and was fist produced in 1961. Might want to look at the history of typwriters to get a better idea of what was available when.
I made the switch about a year ago. I have never looked back.
I read ATI's instalation instruction for SuSE, and feel sorry for anyone who has to follow them. On my SuSE instalations, to install Nvidia's driver I just launch Yast2 and do an online update. I get the drivers straight from SuSE let Yast install them. It is a snap.
"Thanks Mark, that's just a little more information than I needed."
What? Doesn't everyone have a network jack in the john? That is whee I get my best ideas!
Yeah I think we have things out of order. What we really need is self driving cars. That would reduce a lot of congestion and allow us all to drive drunk.
I have long been a proponent of corporate sponsorship of MMORPG's. Instead of charging us for the software and then charging us again to play, both should be free. The trade off would be that you potion of health becomes a Mountain Dew and your potion of strength is a Red Bull. It gets even better with Remmington and Colt supplying weapons.
What a great way to build brand loyalty as in "The best armor is made by Tommy Hilfiger!" or "My Chevy is much faster than you Toyota!"
I want my gaming habit subsidised. Advertisers have been missing a bet for a long time.
I heard it came from 13 witches to a coven and 13 full moons to a year. Part of the Church's Jihad against Pagans.
"UPDATE: Welcome Slashdot visitors. I'm not sure how to submit a correction to slashdot, but I am NOT the person responsible for the WIX/WTL projects. I site them as examples and am working with people who where responsible for those projects to enable more of the same for the groups I work in. It would be great if someone at Slashdot could change the wording here since I really can't take credit for the work the WIX and WTL project leaders have done. "
I do not know about you, but it has been proven to me on numerous occasions that it is easy to fire anyone in the USA. Now it may be that certain union workers -The Teamsters- might be able to get away with that, but I live in a right to work state, and here they are considered mostly a joke.
Am I the only one who thought that phone companies were going to offer services where by you could have your own phone tapped?
--Must need more coffee...
They should follow the Unied States example from "The War On Drugs." When you arrest a suspect, freeze all their finances. Then when you convict, sell off all those assets and give the money to the law enforcement agency that made the arrest. This way the criminals pay for the enforcement.
OK glad I got that off my chest. Now, I run Linux and the only real gaming I do is in NeveWinter Nights. Maybe because I do not do any First Person Shooter / Real time gaming I do not notice a problem, but all my computers run the $49.00 special, Geforce card. I really like Geforce Cards. I love Nvidias support for Linux. I appreciate all you hard core gamers buying the new cards so they keep dropping the price on the other cards. I just can't get enthusiastic over a new video card when the ones I have a perofrming adequately.
Isn't Diebold the company providing those systems?
Doesn't Diebold use a closed source model?
Looks to me like this is a chance to drive a wedge into either Diebolds closed model or Californias acceptance of it.
I think the difference here is one of volume. While the largest number of servers are located outside the US, this article is saying that US servers still provide the bulk of the actual emails sent. Think of it this way:
1,000 non-US servers sending 3 emails a day VS. 3 US servers sending 3,000 emails each a day.
This is always the problem with statistics, they can be made to prove a point depending on how and which number you actually report. There is still one othe number left out of the calculations - To how many recipients are each of the emails sent?
Hardware details: * AMD Athlon 2000 Processor * 128 MB DDR RAM * Expandable up to 1 GB RAM * 40 GB hard drive * Includes keyboard, mouse, stereo speakers and Ethernet interface (does not include monitor) * Supports onboard AMD Duron processor * Supports 200 MHz front-side bus * Supports integrated 256 MB SDRAM onboard * Shared memory architecture allows a maximum of 64 MB main memory to act as frame buffer * Linare PC comes with the following types of support: phone, e-mail and web * Includes a 1-year warranty return to manufacturer * Model AD2000 * Supports high resolutions up to 1920 x 1440 Software details: * Linare Linux * Linux-based operating system * KDE: powerful graphical desktop environment * OpenOffice Office Suite * Mozilla browser * Mozilla e-mail
Yes! Telecom which is a superset of the networking acronyms from IT.
Yeah I agree. I believe there will always be a place in the world for proprietary Apps and OS's. For example I never burn CD's under anything but Linux. It is just easier, more intuitive and it just works under Linux / K3b. In windows I have never been able to get a bootable CD to burn correctly.
That is what I found interesting. If you look, an entry level system in any of the adds that listed one could be had for about $400 US. At that same time, the bleeding edge of technology would cost you over $3000 US. I thought it interesting that the author did not recognize this fallacy in his logic. He even commented that software prices had remained stable. What he did not acknowledge was that a 15 year old game does not have the complexity or richness of game play that new titles possess. Sim City 2000 is no comparison to Meet The Sims, just like an AMD 486-DX4/100 processor is no match for an AMD 64.
Yeah that was and is what is great about NWN. It gives us all the freedom to create our own little piece of the universe. One of the biggest failures on the part of the community, IMHO, was the failure to take advantage of the server portal features. Theoretically it is possible for a player to take a character from one world to the next without ever retuning to the GameSpy interface. Unfortunately early efforts at creating a clearinghouse for server portals was impeeded by the lack of external data access in the server engine. I think it would be really cool to have a hundered or more servers linked into a trully MMORPG that was FREE!
Anyone know where or when this will be available for download? I see there is a free eval on IBM's site but I want to wait for the truly free version.
Actually I think this is where Stargate SG1 Jumps the Shark.
When I do not have shell access I use Webmin.