I have a co-worker who absolutely loves open source software and uses every opportunity to lobby for its adoption in the office. Anytime Microsoft is mentioned or some MS software is causing him problems, he gets extremely upset and says that it's a perfect example of why we should switch our workstations to Linux.
He always loves to talk with me about how he used to do a lot of "scripting" back in the day and that I need to train him to administer our server someday so he can "know everything that's going on" in our operations.
During one of his sermons, another co-worker asked if he was using Linux at home, at which point he paused for a few seconds and started mumbling something about his router and "any day now".
You miss the point of his post. Who really cares about artists? When it comes to entertainment and consumer stuff, I think about ME. It's all about convenience, not legalities and morals. P2p lacks consistency and reliability. I don't buy from allofmp3 (not a big music guy), but I can understand the allure.
Back when I was first learning guitar before the internet became big, I would buy all kinds of books that had songs I wanted to learn. Then when OLGA came along I had no incentive to buy them anymore because a song was just a search box away. I don't think it has much to do with artist incentive as much as profit from those books. Music instrument stores have walls of those things.
Joe Normal User tries to get on his wireless LAN with this cool new Fedora Core system he found and wanted to try. Sure it loaded up fine onto his system; the installer was intuitive and straight-forward. However, he has no internet. He plugs in his CAT5 and the problem fixed. But that sucks. He bought the wireless router so he could do away with that ugly red cable that snakes across the living room and pisses off his wife. Oh well, he'll keep going, he's curious.
What is this about no mp3's without setting up yum and grabbing the needed stuff? Okay, Joe Normal User has read up on yum and yum.conf and struggled through getting it setup after searching the forums and jumping on IRC (Joe is happy about an IRC client coming standard). He finds the repository he needed (and writes down the steps he went through for later reference) and types "yum install blehbleh". He thinks the typing is quaint and makes him feel like a hacker. Cool, mp3s are working now. Joe is getting a sense of power from bending the computer to his will.
He excitedly tries to play a DVD. Nothing. Okay, hit the forums again. Damn...no DVD support. Something about media cartels and general nefariousness seem to be getting in his way but there seems to be a solution. He uses his newfound hacking skills and fires up yum again. He downloads some libraries with cool hacker-sounding names like 'libdethdvd3' and VLC, as well as MPlayer just in case. Cool! Now his test DVD title screen comes up....but DAMN, it freezes when play is pressed. MPlayer does nothing. He hits the forums again reads something about certain DVD's that don't play nice and something about evil media cartels again.
He decides he doesn't have time for this so he slicks the drive and re-installs Windows, then goes and makes love to his wife after apologizing about all the cables and how he is spending too much time in front of the computer.
Saunders penned a humorous essay stemming from the events. It was a confession to Oprah Winfrey that all of the fiction he'd written had, in fact, been true. But Saunders had a hard time getting the piece published quickly, and now it feels dated. "There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity," he says.
Great strategy game. Decent AI, good story, and very deep gameplay. You can micromanage to death or automate what you want. I've been playing it since 1999; it's the one game that is always on my hard drive. The Civ games never did it for me.
Parent makes a great point. I got into computers because I found out I could make my own maps in Doom back in the nineties. A few years ago I fell into a job doing Geographic Information Systems work and now I make maps for a living!;)
Seriously, it's a fun job, you get to do some coding regularly and do field work as well. Great IT job.
from your wiki link:
Ames showed deception on three polygraph tests while spying for the Soviet Union. He failed when asked if any foreign intelligence service has tried to recruit him as a spy. Ames found excuses for the failures, which had been accepted by the examiners.
I think they are the number one best reason to own a PDA. You can carry a library in your pocket!
However, the DRM and file format bullcrap is what kills the whole concept for me. I've run into selveral problems trying to read books that, yes, I have bought. Sometimes I can't buy a book because it's only for Palm. When I do buy a book, I run into problems tranferring it to other computers without the DRM pitching a fit. Plus, books in paper form have the obvious physical advantages other than how many you can carry.
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You should take a look at the UK's Tier 1 (General) program. It's a points based system. Denmark has something similar.
I have a co-worker who absolutely loves open source software and uses every opportunity to lobby for its adoption in the office. Anytime Microsoft is mentioned or some MS software is causing him problems, he gets extremely upset and says that it's a perfect example of why we should switch our workstations to Linux.
He always loves to talk with me about how he used to do a lot of "scripting" back in the day and that I need to train him to administer our server someday so he can "know everything that's going on" in our operations.
During one of his sermons, another co-worker asked if he was using Linux at home, at which point he paused for a few seconds and started mumbling something about his router and "any day now".
I moved from the U.S. to Europe and all of my games work fine.
You miss the point of his post. Who really cares about artists? When it comes to entertainment and consumer stuff, I think about ME. It's all about convenience, not legalities and morals. P2p lacks consistency and reliability. I don't buy from allofmp3 (not a big music guy), but I can understand the allure.
Back when I was first learning guitar before the internet became big, I would buy all kinds of books that had songs I wanted to learn. Then when OLGA came along I had no incentive to buy them anymore because a song was just a search box away. I don't think it has much to do with artist incentive as much as profit from those books. Music instrument stores have walls of those things.
Joe Normal User tries to get on his wireless LAN with this cool new Fedora Core system he found and wanted to try. Sure it loaded up fine onto his system; the installer was intuitive and straight-forward. However, he has no internet. He plugs in his CAT5 and the problem fixed. But that sucks. He bought the wireless router so he could do away with that ugly red cable that snakes across the living room and pisses off his wife. Oh well, he'll keep going, he's curious.
What is this about no mp3's without setting up yum and grabbing the needed stuff? Okay, Joe Normal User has read up on yum and yum.conf and struggled through getting it setup after searching the forums and jumping on IRC (Joe is happy about an IRC client coming standard). He finds the repository he needed (and writes down the steps he went through for later reference) and types "yum install blehbleh". He thinks the typing is quaint and makes him feel like a hacker. Cool, mp3s are working now. Joe is getting a sense of power from bending the computer to his will.
He excitedly tries to play a DVD. Nothing. Okay, hit the forums again. Damn...no DVD support. Something about media cartels and general nefariousness seem to be getting in his way but there seems to be a solution. He uses his newfound hacking skills and fires up yum again. He downloads some libraries with cool hacker-sounding names like 'libdethdvd3' and VLC, as well as MPlayer just in case. Cool! Now his test DVD title screen comes up....but DAMN, it freezes when play is pressed. MPlayer does nothing. He hits the forums again reads something about certain DVD's that don't play nice and something about evil media cartels again.
He decides he doesn't have time for this so he slicks the drive and re-installs Windows, then goes and makes love to his wife after apologizing about all the cables and how he is spending too much time in front of the computer.
Dr. Herbert West from Re-Animator was a great mad scientist
Finally a way to stay in touch with all my felonious friends!
Saunders penned a humorous essay stemming from the events. It was a confession to Oprah Winfrey that all of the fiction he'd written had, in fact, been true. But Saunders had a hard time getting the piece published quickly, and now it feels dated. "There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity," he says.
Helllllloooooo Blogoshpere! God, that word sucks.
When I want a new book and don't know which one, I go to Amazon and read reviews from others who have bought. It works for the most part. Oh well.
Great strategy game. Decent AI, good story, and very deep gameplay. You can micromanage to death or automate what you want. I've been playing it since 1999; it's the one game that is always on my hard drive. The Civ games never did it for me.
This is marked Funny but what's even funnier is the absolute truth behind it. I am nervous buying CD's...so I don't.
Parent makes a great point. I got into computers because I found out I could make my own maps in Doom back in the nineties. A few years ago I fell into a job doing Geographic Information Systems work and now I make maps for a living! ;)
Seriously, it's a fun job, you get to do some coding regularly and do field work as well. Great IT job.
from your wiki link: Ames showed deception on three polygraph tests while spying for the Soviet Union. He failed when asked if any foreign intelligence service has tried to recruit him as a spy. Ames found excuses for the failures, which had been accepted by the examiners.
he is wrong, wrong, wrong
I love the internet... *wipes tear
For someone to invest so much money, he probably enjoyed every minute of it.
How ironic Mr. Insightful! ;)
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Dune is available on CD from Borders.
http://www.drobe.co.uk/extra/geminuswideboy-huge.j pg
Nano users! Post big huge pics so we can all see.
I think they are the number one best reason to own a PDA. You can carry a library in your pocket! However, the DRM and file format bullcrap is what kills the whole concept for me. I've run into selveral problems trying to read books that, yes, I have bought. Sometimes I can't buy a book because it's only for Palm. When I do buy a book, I run into problems tranferring it to other computers without the DRM pitching a fit. Plus, books in paper form have the obvious physical advantages other than how many you can carry.
"Found new hardwa-" CRASH
Greg Stillson?
The article AND comments are dupes. Just copy this comment you made and save it for the next article about Linux rising to the desktop.