Harvesting IP addrs to present to RIAA? Nothing malicious there?
What gets me though is that people continue to dl exe files via p2p despite being warned constantly that the networks are a vipers-nest of viruses. Why can't they stick to using p2p the way god and nature intended - for mp3s?
Yeah, especially seeing as ogg/vorbis is OS and MP3 isn't. I just compressed the new zero 7 album to MP3 @ 180kbps and to ogg @ circa 120kbps: ogg is obviously the smaller file size (this is so important for data transfer) while the quality is audibly no different - neither is perfect but ogg has the advantage, I think. OS afficianados really ought to at least consider making the switch (almost painlesss) to ogg/vorbis.
I Am Not A Troll but I genuinely cannot see any need for mobile phones, other than social ie "Hi Dave, I'm gonna be 2.5 seconds late..." or "Hi Jen, I'm outside right now...". They're only good for pissing people off - and they're very good at that. Give me a bleeper and a bottle of beer, any day...
You're probably, depressingly, right. However we then have to target the broader majority - the semi-clued. These people use mostly W2K or XP in the office and need (not want) to be able to read excel and word docs as a minimum. They would also like to play MP3s and browse the web. Setting-up any modern linux to automount a hotplug'd device is fairly straightforward and will probably come preconfigured by the next major round of distro releases. All I can say is that I abandoned W2K on Dec 27 2003 and have since used exclusively slackware and can do everything I hitherto did under that OS. (I must admit, CUPS had me reaching for my AK47, but hell, configuring any modern windows system is never without its challenges)
Because that CD didn't work. Goddamit, OS/2 always looked so much more promising than Windows(TM) - but, goddamit, MS got their stuff to the market and it worked (mostly, (sometimes)). Goddamit!
I agree more or less totally. Forget the legacy games; good games will appear on linux boxes when the market for them exists - which it patently doesn't at this time. We do need to point out that most of the major (mainstream) apps are here now, and ready to surplant the MS stuff. Dead right that linux would be a much better choice for CAD, but the main things were enumerated in your post.
The change is happening. Its evolving under its own power. The RIAA and the parrallel orgs in Europe are dinosaurs - big, brutal and capable of doing damage. But their days are surely numbered.
It's called making an informed decision. If you don't think it's a value purchase, don't make the purchase. Doesn't mean you can just rip off a copy for yourself without compensating anyone).
Well it does mean that - at least here in the real world. My "informed" decision is not to spend 14GBP ($20) on a cd when I can dl it free. I'll happily compensate the producers of the music, whenever they get their act together to cut-out the blood-sucking middlemen (who, as ever, are doing most of the crying)
Remember people, advertising is just the polite form of spam, at the end of the day it does EXACTLY the same thing as spam, it steals users bandwidth without their permission to shove a load of shit they don't want down the pipe and eat those cpu cycles.
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...their girl friend is ugly, their choice of religion is a vertical drop to Hell or their car is the worst thing ever to sputter and belch its way out of Detroit. How the hell do you know so much about me?
Surely the desktop environment - the most important point of the whole thing to any migrating MS user - is intimately connected with the capabilities of the undelying OS?
...there is a steeper learning curve to using Linux than Windows.
Is there, really? Compare 2 total novices; they both receive a properly installed box, one with linux (whatever flavour) and the other with XP. I don't believe there is much more ease-of-use for the XP user. I work at a place where total newbies walk in off the street for tuition in (unfortunately 100% MS stuff - not my choice, but there you are) and I see their (often comical) struggles with the basic concepts of computing - ie what is a file? where HAS my email gone to when IE freezes? These concepts are both identical regrdless of the OS. Surely you are not suggesting that Abiword is in some way harder to use than MSWord? Or WMP is in any way simpler than Xine?
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Harvesting IP addrs to present to RIAA? Nothing malicious there?
What gets me though is that people continue to dl exe files via p2p despite being warned constantly that the networks are a vipers-nest of viruses.
Why can't they stick to using p2p the way god and nature intended - for mp3s?
Yeah, especially seeing as ogg/vorbis is OS and MP3 isn't.
I just compressed the new zero 7 album to MP3 @ 180kbps and to ogg @ circa 120kbps: ogg is obviously the smaller file size (this is so important for data transfer) while the quality is audibly no different - neither is perfect but ogg has the advantage, I think.
OS afficianados really ought to at least consider making the switch (almost painlesss) to ogg/vorbis.
I Am Not A Troll but I genuinely cannot see any need for mobile phones, other than social ie "Hi Dave, I'm gonna be 2.5 seconds late..." or "Hi Jen, I'm outside right now...".
They're only good for pissing people off - and they're very good at that.
Give me a bleeper and a bottle of beer, any day...
Its just this sort of attitude thats holding Linux back!
(lol)
You're probably, depressingly, right.
However we then have to target the broader majority - the semi-clued. These people use mostly W2K or XP in the office and need (not want) to be able to read excel and word docs as a minimum. They would also like to play MP3s and browse the web. Setting-up any modern linux to automount a hotplug'd device is fairly straightforward and will probably come preconfigured by the next major round of distro releases.
All I can say is that I abandoned W2K on Dec 27 2003 and have since used exclusively slackware and can do everything I hitherto did under that OS. (I must admit, CUPS had me reaching for my AK47, but hell, configuring any modern windows system is never without its challenges)
Because that CD didn't work. Goddamit, OS/2 always looked so much more promising than Windows(TM) - but, goddamit, MS got their stuff to the market and it worked (mostly, (sometimes)).
Goddamit!
I agree more or less totally. Forget the legacy games; good games will appear on linux boxes when the market for them exists - which it patently doesn't at this time.
We do need to point out that most of the major (mainstream) apps are here now, and ready to surplant the MS stuff.
Dead right that linux would be a much better choice for CAD, but the main things were enumerated in your post.
The change is happening. Its evolving under its own power. The RIAA and the parrallel orgs in Europe are dinosaurs - big, brutal and capable of doing damage. But their days are surely numbered.
Seems to me that fascism is always the endpoint of capitalism - hey, was that supposed to be a secret?
It's called making an informed decision. If you don't think it's a value purchase, don't make the purchase. Doesn't mean you can just rip off a copy for yourself without compensating anyone).
Well it does mean that - at least here in the real world. My "informed" decision is not to spend 14GBP ($20) on a cd when I can dl it free. I'll happily compensate the producers of the music, whenever they get their act together to cut-out the blood-sucking middlemen (who, as ever, are doing most of the crying)
I would promptly bet you $50 that it would be tails the next time
And you would have a 50-50 chance of winning/losing.
You're talking about Lembik Opik, aren't you?
Guy is mad as a monkey on crack.
"Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth maybe"
And look what happened to them.
Damn right!
Grandparent's attitude is completely baffling to me but it is so prevalent in society that I often wonder how anything gets changed.
Yes of course, this has been the case all of my 20 years (man and boy) in the industry. I once got paid for switching on a printer.
Or even prestigitation.
Remember people, advertising is just the polite form of spam, at the end of the day it does EXACTLY the same thing as spam, it steals users bandwidth without their permission to shove a load of shit they don't want down the pipe and eat those cpu cycles.
This is all so true. Fantastic post.
Deathmatch : VB script babies versus Osama bin Laden.
Nah. I gave up when they wouldn't let me have sex with the dog.
(Its okay, it was a female dog - I'm not strange or anything...)
I assumed he was a relation of E.L. Doctorow.
...their girl friend is ugly, their choice of religion is a vertical drop to Hell or their car is the worst thing ever to sputter and belch its way out of Detroit.
How the hell do you know so much about me?
Well, fuck you, cock-sucker.
(Obviously a tired and predictable attempt at so-called humour.)
Surely the desktop environment - the most important point of the whole thing to any migrating MS user - is intimately connected with the capabilities of the undelying OS?
...there is a steeper learning curve to using Linux than Windows.
Is there, really? Compare 2 total novices; they both receive a properly installed box, one with linux (whatever flavour) and the other with XP. I don't believe there is much more ease-of-use for the XP user.
I work at a place where total newbies walk in off the street for tuition in (unfortunately 100% MS stuff - not my choice, but there you are) and I see their (often comical) struggles with the basic concepts of computing - ie what is a file? where HAS my email gone to when IE freezes? These concepts are both identical regrdless of the OS. Surely you are not suggesting that Abiword is in some way harder to use than MSWord? Or WMP is in any way simpler than Xine?
I've just got 2.6.3 working - even my flashdisk.
I'll pass on this one, I think.