the content is already available for free if you look even haphazardly, a nicely compressed AVI still takes awhile to download and seed back to at least a >1.00 ratio. maybe if they included a service with bigger pipes (they want the disribution for their bloated mat'l for free from the consumer? fat chance) and intellegently sized files and then way better pricing. i dunno what they have in germany, but i have an anemic upload rate of 314 kbps with my covad supplied home adsl. i already have a shitload of stuff in my seed que waiting for it's turn back out. and i usually try to restrain myself to AVIs in the 700MB range.
i know this'll seem like a paradox, but i've had more success running *nix than i ever achieved with windows. i always felt like i was just pissin' in the wind with any consumer grade windows OS i've had installed (win95 thru winme). honestly, i've had the same level of frustration with linux, but when i solve a problem i walk away with knowledge. with windows i just end up walking away. well, to be fair, i did learn how to fdisk, format and reinstall...
i love the majority of beer commercials. but i have had to stop drinking cuz i can't handle alcohol. same with microsoft. great marketers, those ms guys. but my last PC purchase came with winme. seems i can't handle msware any more than i can hold my liquor. i hope they bring back the guy in the butterfly suit, those ads were fun to watch...
this may be OT, but this is an easy, no brainer you "rocket scientists" seem to have overlooked. instead of arguing about the pros and cons of google's decision and gates, may be you should investigate where all those shipping containers floating across the pacific ocean are originating from. i know where they're headed, i've roofed some MAJOR square feet of space here in and around chicago. funny that all these big ass pre-cast concrete boxes have railroad facillities and miles of truck dock doors and are usally parked up close to major interstates.
try listening to rush limbaugh for five minutes. and i spose try listening to ted kennedy (i don't have a better example off the top of my head, sorry) for five minutes. they're both pathetic assholes. both of em may make a good point somewhere but jeeze, there's so much crap to filter out it becomes a chore. i have libertarian leanings, but i am also somewhat of a realist. i am a registered republican cuz where i live that's who's in charge locally (ther's no point in primary voting as a dem, there's usually only one dem candidate per post in local elections) but i vote on both sides in general elections. i feel more like a demographic skew than anything else. i am also ant-war (i don't think killing our children is ever a good idea)but have nieces and nephews in the armed forces (one currently in the middle east) so i support our troops, just not how they are deployed at the current time. maybe fighting terrorism is a noble cause, but, uh, not in effin iraq. and cetainly not ever by doing an end run around the constitution.
FTFA "Among the machines infected were US military computers in California and in Virginia."
nice to see my tax dollars hard at work first buying redmond software, then being exploited for profit.
i am disappointed that a 1993 beemer was the best they could do vehicle wise. what do gates and ballmer drive?
i never had any goals as i started out (being in a bar band is hardly a wise career aspiration, no matter how much i loved making music), drifted from unskilled job to job out of high school to support my growing family. i finally settled on job in construction based only on a perceived need to "work outside."
my son has always known what he wanted to do when he grew up. my wife and i supported him, encouraged him. he's been at it since he got of school. ironically, he loves what he does, but hates his job. oops, well can't say we didn't try.
Azureus worked out of the box on my sarge desktop with no problem, although i do have a gb of ram so maybe i'd be an exception? i'll prolly tire of all the bells and whistes soon, even though not having to fire up more than one instance to do multiple downloads/uploads is nice but not neccesary. i may even just read up on the CLI version of bt and run it onna headless box. it's just nize to have options...
Oh, yeah. Functional port forwarding, in the world of firewalls and DHCP and NAT that we live in, works wonders.
i have a debian sarge NAT box running rc.firewall and iptables (2.6.8 kernel) between my home LAN and the cloud. port forwarding is a simple matter of sshing into the NAT box and firing up vi and finding where i need to edit. jeeze, if i can do it, it can't be hard. well, ok, i don't run DHCP on my network,/etc/hosts is all i really need.
"Because of this people are going to have to replace perfectly good HD sets in order to
view high-def content which is why they bought their HD sets in the first place."
which is why i may wait a looooong time to upgrade my still functioning non-HD 52" NTSC 4:3 rear projection set and my buffer overflow modded first gen dual bootable x-box running xebian. i find the x-box an acceptable media player (i have to use the clunky keyboard/mouse interface cuz i haven't had the time or money to explore the lirc alternative...yet) for my needs.
sure, HD is nice and i don't deny i want it, but if i spend money on the hardware, those idiots of the *AA sure as hell aren't gonna tell me how to use it anymore than i allow m$ to tell me how to use my PCs.
features are ignored by Slashbots and ignorant users alike.
a condescending attitude will absolutely make me want to try this windows OS of which you speak. where can i download the netinst ISO? i can't find it on the official corporate web site. is there a torrent available?
might as well tell me ford is grappling with their SUVs blowing tires and tipping over at speed. i don't think i could be convinced to BUY anything as effed up as windows or an explorer (whoa, a naming coincidence or what. hey, both CEOs are named bill too)
i don't buy fisher-price tools to use for my trade (roofing), and i don't use windows on my PCs. i like to think i can logically choose the right tool for the job.
i still have a working betamax with a ton of tapes, several VHS machines with more tons of tapes, a nice cassette deck that once served to keep my vehicles' tape players fed, a first gen x-box with an assortment of games, a coupla ancient pentium boxes (90 and 166 Mhz) still in use, three analog NTSC tvs (one tv is an "almost too big for the room" rear projection set), a turntable and vinyl records, and a five disk DVD player with an increasing number of discs. i still use the first stereo i ever bought from the early 70s (marantz 1030 amp and 105 tuner) for my desktop's sound. THE NEXT THING deally cycle is getting way out of hand. i'll run out of money or a place to put it if this shit keeps up...
they passed a law that made reefer illegal. whoa, scary. i still smoke pot.
if i chose to make my debian boxen appear as MSDOS machines a dumb law is hardly a deterrent.
when was it proclamed that an *.mp3==cd track?
thats like telling me my copy of ice harvest (a bt download)recorded with a camcorder at a movie theater==the DVD.
"Also there was the issue of too-short tapes (all movies were two tapes) and higher cost of the deck"
i still have and use on occasion my Sony "600 dollar living room clock," but i don't remember two tape movies during the relatively short time Beta movie rentals were available at the corner video store.
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the content is already available for free if you look even haphazardly, a nicely compressed AVI still takes awhile to download and seed back to at least a >1.00 ratio. maybe if they included a service with bigger pipes (they want the disribution for their bloated mat'l for free from the consumer? fat chance) and intellegently sized files and then way better pricing. i dunno what they have in germany, but i have an anemic upload rate of 314 kbps with my covad supplied home adsl. i already have a shitload of stuff in my seed que waiting for it's turn back out. and i usually try to restrain myself to AVIs in the 700MB range.
... Linux.
i know this'll seem like a paradox, but i've had more success running *nix than i ever achieved with windows. i always felt like i was just pissin' in the wind with any consumer grade windows OS i've had installed (win95 thru winme). honestly, i've had the same level of frustration with linux, but when i solve a problem i walk away with knowledge. with windows i just end up walking away. well, to be fair, i did learn how to fdisk, format and reinstall...thanks, you can't imagine how much i truly value your unsolicited opinion.
i love the majority of beer commercials. but i have had to stop drinking cuz i can't handle alcohol.
same with microsoft. great marketers, those ms guys. but my last PC purchase came with winme. seems i can't handle msware any more than i can hold my liquor. i hope they bring back the guy in the butterfly suit, those ads were fun to watch...
HUH? so what was all that telecommuting buzz all about where you'd already be home with direct access to the kitchen?
this may be OT, but this is an easy, no brainer you "rocket scientists" seem to have overlooked. instead of arguing about the pros and cons of google's decision and gates, may be you should investigate where all those shipping containers floating across the pacific ocean are originating from. i know where they're headed, i've roofed some MAJOR square feet of space here in and around chicago. funny that all these big ass pre-cast concrete boxes have railroad facillities and miles of truck dock doors and are usally parked up close to major interstates.
thanks, i'll sit down and wait for my answer...
yeah, a checkbox would have been way easier, but i think i get a higher satisfaction of accomplishment doing it my way...
you're not getting my milk money any more. and if you persist in trying, well, i'm gonna go get chuck norris...
try listening to rush limbaugh for five minutes. and i spose try listening to ted kennedy (i don't have a better example off the top of my head, sorry) for five minutes. they're both pathetic assholes. both of em may make a good point somewhere but jeeze, there's so much crap to filter out it becomes a chore.
i have libertarian leanings, but i am also somewhat of a realist. i am a registered republican cuz where i live that's who's in charge locally (ther's no point in primary voting as a dem, there's usually only one dem candidate per post in local elections) but i vote on both sides in general elections. i feel more like a demographic skew than anything else.
i am also ant-war (i don't think killing our children is ever a good idea)but have nieces and nephews in the armed forces (one currently in the middle east) so i support our troops, just not how they are deployed at the current time.
maybe fighting terrorism is a noble cause, but, uh, not in effin iraq. and cetainly not ever by doing an end run around the constitution.
FTFA "Among the machines infected were US military computers in California and in Virginia."
nice to see my tax dollars hard at work first buying redmond software, then being exploited for profit. i am disappointed that a 1993 beemer was the best they could do vehicle wise. what do gates and ballmer drive?
i never had any goals as i started out (being in a bar band is hardly a wise career aspiration, no matter how much i loved making music), drifted from unskilled job to job out of high school to support my growing family. i finally settled on job in construction based only on a perceived need to "work outside."
my son has always known what he wanted to do when he grew up. my wife and i supported him, encouraged him. he's been at it since he got of school. ironically, he loves what he does, but hates his job. oops, well can't say we didn't try.
i can't find an ie*.deb in unstable, so i got that goin' for me...
Azureus worked out of the box on my sarge desktop with no problem, although i do have a gb of ram so maybe i'd be an exception? i'll prolly tire of all the bells and whistes soon, even though not having to fire up more than one instance to do multiple downloads/uploads is nice but not neccesary. i may even just read up on the CLI version of bt and run it onna headless box. it's just nize to have options...
Oh, yeah. Functional port forwarding, in the world of firewalls and DHCP and NAT that we live in, works wonders.
i have a debian sarge NAT box running rc.firewall and iptables (2.6.8 kernel) between my home LAN and the cloud. port forwarding is a simple matter of sshing into the NAT box and firing up vi and finding where i need to edit. jeeze, if i can do it, it can't be hard. well, ok, i don't run DHCP on my network, /etc/hosts is all i really need.
"Because of this people are going to have to replace perfectly good HD sets in order to view high-def content which is why they bought their HD sets in the first place."
which is why i may wait a looooong time to upgrade my still functioning non-HD 52" NTSC 4:3 rear projection set and my buffer overflow modded first gen dual bootable x-box running xebian. i find the x-box an acceptable media player (i have to use the clunky keyboard/mouse interface cuz i haven't had the time or money to explore the lirc alternative...yet) for my needs.
sure, HD is nice and i don't deny i want it, but if i spend money on the hardware, those idiots of the *AA sure as hell aren't gonna tell me how to use it anymore than i allow m$ to tell me how to use my PCs.
i also would reccomend running
.debs on hand.
apt-get clean
i have a smallish HDD and really don't need to keep all those downloaded
features are ignored by Slashbots and ignorant users alike.
a condescending attitude will absolutely make me want to try this windows OS of which you speak. where can i download the netinst ISO? i can't find it on the official corporate web site. is there a torrent available?
might as well tell me ford is grappling with their SUVs blowing tires and tipping over at speed. i don't think i could be convinced to BUY anything as effed up as windows or an explorer (whoa, a naming coincidence or what. hey, both CEOs are named bill too)
i don't buy fisher-price tools to use for my trade (roofing), and i don't use windows on my PCs. i like to think i can logically choose the right tool for the job.
i still have a working betamax with a ton of tapes, several VHS machines with more tons of tapes, a nice cassette deck that once served to keep my vehicles' tape players fed, a first gen x-box with an assortment of games, a coupla ancient pentium boxes (90 and 166 Mhz) still in use, three analog NTSC tvs (one tv is an "almost too big for the room" rear projection set), a turntable and vinyl records, and a five disk DVD player with an increasing number of discs. i still use the first stereo i ever bought from the early 70s (marantz 1030 amp and 105 tuner) for my desktop's sound. THE NEXT THING deally cycle is getting way out of hand. i'll run out of money or a place to put it if this shit keeps up...
they passed a law that made reefer illegal. whoa, scary. i still smoke pot.
if i chose to make my debian boxen appear as MSDOS machines a dumb law is hardly a deterrent.
when was it proclamed that an *.mp3==cd track?
thats like telling me my copy of ice harvest (a bt download)recorded with a camcorder at a movie theater==the DVD.
"compressing hydraulic oil"
might be why his idea never saw the light of day...
"Also there was the issue of too-short tapes (all movies were two tapes) and higher cost of the deck"
i still have and use on occasion my Sony "600 dollar living room clock," but i don't remember two tape movies during the relatively short time Beta movie rentals were available at the corner video store.but jeeze, jailtime for this? maybe those prosecuted could plea bargain down to DUI...
ooglegay yricslay.