Or, one could buy 10 or more easy-to-DIY-fix old VW beetles with enough spare parts and earth-frendliness to last a lifetime.
nope. i've been through that. i used to traipse through junkyards in search of beetle parts, often finding the part i wanted to be in the same condition as the part that needed replacement.
and damn near freezing to death during the winter months while driving was never much fun.
or having the engine seize when the number three exhaust decided enough was enough because the stock oil cooler was sorta in the way...
or the accelerator cable broke in traffic in a blizzard or...
i think the earth-friendly part of this solution would be the damn thing won't be running long enough to seriously pollute the atmosphere. that's just me, of course, YMMV.
this joe six pack brought his gateway home a few months ago from best buy and installed debian. i had to fire up the included vista OS to grab a netinst ISO (i wanted to play in 64 bit land)and imgburn. it took me forever to find where one connects to a LAN, the wizards kept steering me down dead ends. and the DVD wizard apparently has never seen an ISO image let alone let me burn one. come to think of it, if it had come preloaded with xp i would have done the same thing.
recorded audio is a reproduction of a live event, no matter how much money you throw at it. it is always going to sound as if you are listening to it from another room through a window. on the high end side you get a better window. toward the low end you still have a window; it is just in a less than ideal location or has a pane of glass.
i'm sure there are exceptions. hendrix's electric ladyland comes to mind. i'm not sure if he eliminated the window or just distorted it into an unrecognizable element.
obviously i'd rather not have my recorded music playing back in a mono telephone sound quality or like those idiots that get stopped in traffic in front of my house with overamplified one-note bass, but at some point you just have to be satisfied with a "close enough for a cigar" quality.
there are some things in life i'm destined to never understand, like quantum physics. this has a similar feel. maybe the entertainment industry is ramping up for some kind of new product that once purchased is never viewed, listened to or used in any way.
around christmas time, i downloaded a cam version of Deck The Halls. if hollywood keeps making crap like that, they won't have to worry about "illegal" movie "piracy." it'll die out from lack of interest.
The more interesting question is who will buying a ladder years from now.
obviously, people that can't master levitation will still need ladders. my contractor still has to buy them, it makes the roofing trade a bit easier...
i have an NEC Ready 7022 that, wait...nevermind, i'm still using it as a router/firewall/NAT box. you are welcome to my copy of Microsoft Bob that came bundled with the software however.
cyber-extremists plan to make all sorts of movies and music available on teh intarweb for free, wreaking financial havoc in california and causing extremely wealthy media moguls to extort money from blind grandmothers as compensation. film@11...
a little OT i spose...
kfjc
wxwc
wxdu
to name a few, i like the very diverse programming, lotsa indie stuff. there aren't that many commercial offerings that aren't IMHO just a rehash of what i already can listen to on FM in a major market. the few commercial streams i have tried to access need activeX and i don't do windows. streamtuner is a nize backport for my debian sarge desktop.
this whole AT&T name thing confuses me to no end. at one point AT&T was my phone company. then they were no longer my phone company but showed up one day as my cable company. then they stopped being my cable company and now they're a phone company again. it wouldn't suprise me to find them in a few years trying to sell me electricity...
Would you be willing to pay a small fee each month if you could get all the music you want and have no legal liability?"
comcast get's 50 bux a month from me for basic cable, and the rate keeps creeping upward. i'm not real happy with the content vs. cost ratio but it's the only game in town for my situation.
earthlink gets about the same per month from me for an ADSL connection. i get some mailboxes, 10MB of webspace, and not really any thing i'd consider as content. i use a bit torrent client for multi-media "content."
enough already with the "small fee" crap. how long is it till ALL my content will be reduced to just another added "small fee?" i'm gonna be sticking my head out the window any day now and yelling, " I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!"
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.061 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.041 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.040 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.048 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms
$ ping::127.0.0.1
ping: unknown host::127.0.0.1
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Or, one could buy 10 or more easy-to-DIY-fix old VW beetles with enough spare parts and earth-frendliness to last a lifetime.
nope. i've been through that. i used to traipse through junkyards in search of beetle parts, often finding the part i wanted to be in the same condition as the part that needed replacement.
and damn near freezing to death during the winter months while driving was never much fun.
or having the engine seize when the number three exhaust decided enough was enough because the stock oil cooler was sorta in the way...
or the accelerator cable broke in traffic in a blizzard or...
i think the earth-friendly part of this solution would be the damn thing won't be running long enough to seriously pollute the atmosphere. that's just me, of course, YMMV.
i've got one, the base unit accepts the same battery pack the handsets use. panasonic kx-tg2632
damn, this is going to wreak havoc with my union membership, i just know it...
this joe six pack brought his gateway home a few months ago from best buy and installed debian. i had to fire up the included vista OS to grab a netinst ISO (i wanted to play in 64 bit land)and imgburn. it took me forever to find where one connects to a LAN, the wizards kept steering me down dead ends. and the DVD wizard apparently has never seen an ISO image let alone let me burn one. come to think of it, if it had come preloaded with xp i would have done the same thing.
andy kaufman died without ever admitting he was vic ferrari.
whoosh
sure, a flintstonemobile looks good on paper...
recorded audio is a reproduction of a live event, no matter how much money you throw at it. it is always going to sound as if you are listening to it from another room through a window. on the high end side you get a better window. toward the low end you still have a window; it is just in a less than ideal location or has a pane of glass.
i'm sure there are exceptions. hendrix's electric ladyland comes to mind. i'm not sure if he eliminated the window or just distorted it into an unrecognizable element.
obviously i'd rather not have my recorded music playing back in a mono telephone sound quality or like those idiots that get stopped in traffic in front of my house with overamplified one-note bass, but at some point you just have to be satisfied with a "close enough for a cigar" quality.
there are some things in life i'm destined to never understand, like quantum physics. this has a similar feel. maybe the entertainment industry is ramping up for some kind of new product that once purchased is never viewed, listened to or used in any way.
was there a kitchen sponge living in a pineapple found nearby?
does windmill generated electricity spoil faster than other types?
around christmas time, i downloaded a cam version of Deck The Halls. if hollywood keeps making crap like that, they won't have to worry about "illegal" movie "piracy." it'll die out from lack of interest.
The more interesting question is who will buying a ladder years from now.
obviously, people that can't master levitation will still need ladders. my contractor still has to buy them, it makes the roofing trade a bit easier...
i have an NEC Ready 7022 that, wait...nevermind, i'm still using it as a router/firewall/NAT box. you are welcome to my copy of Microsoft Bob that came bundled with the software however.
Linux, use whatever the heck you want.
that would make a great marketing slogan, if there was a marketing department.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/imag e.htm
they haven't done the rewrite on this yet, have they?
it's not rocket science...
cyber-extremists plan to make all sorts of movies and music available on teh intarweb for free, wreaking financial havoc in california and causing extremely wealthy media moguls to extort money from blind grandmothers as compensation. film@11...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy
"hey rocky! watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat."
go take a peek inside ~/.wine
a little OT i spose...
kfjc
wxwc
wxdu
to name a few, i like the very diverse programming, lotsa indie stuff. there aren't that many commercial offerings that aren't IMHO just a rehash of what i already can listen to on FM in a major market. the few commercial streams i have tried to access need activeX and i don't do windows. streamtuner is a nize backport for my debian sarge desktop.
this whole AT&T name thing confuses me to no end. at one point AT&T was my phone company. then they were no longer my phone company but showed up one day as my cable company. then they stopped being my cable company and now they're a phone company again. it wouldn't suprise me to find them in a few years trying to sell me electricity...
One of the biggest reasons for many people to switch to a UNIX desktop, away from Windows, is security.
nope, my biggest reason was the free beer. i don't want this author guy speaking for me even if he does manage to get his head out of his ass...
Would you be willing to pay a small fee each month if you could get all the music you want and have no legal liability?"
comcast get's 50 bux a month from me for basic cable, and the rate keeps creeping upward. i'm not real happy with the content vs. cost ratio but it's the only game in town for my situation.
earthlink gets about the same per month from me for an ADSL connection. i get some mailboxes, 10MB of webspace, and not really any thing i'd consider as content. i use a bit torrent client for multi-media "content."
enough already with the "small fee" crap. how long is it till ALL my content will be reduced to just another added "small fee?" i'm gonna be sticking my head out the window any day now and yelling, " I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!"
ping6...didn't even realize i had it.
mb@plankton:~$ ping6 ::127.0.0.1 ::127.0.0.1(::127.0.0.1) 56 data bytes ::1 icmp_seq=1 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable ::1 icmp_seq=2 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable ::1 icmp_seq=3 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable ::127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
PING
From
From
From
---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3017ms
it's possible i didn't enable something during my sarge install...
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. ::127.0.0.1 ::127.0.0.1
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.061 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.041 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.040 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.048 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms
$ ping
ping: unknown host
mines broken already...