This is precisely what I have been wishing for since last October, when Cox Cable bumped Speedvision - the only American source of Formula One coverage - from their basic digital tier to the next tier up. They replaced it with MTV2, of all things - what garbage. I had no interest at all in the next tier of channels aside from SpeedTV and was not inclined to pay the extra cash. Surely a-la-carte TV is the best alternative.
More selective pay-per-view would be better still - SpeedTV is invariably showing NASCAR 99% of the time - a dull sport wherein drivers go many times round an oval, forever turning left.
Of course that simply doesn't give the networks what they want - me exposed to as much of their programming as possible. One can always dream.
Waitress:...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Windows Critical Vulnerabilities come every few weeks...doubtless they'll get them all in time.
By time they finish perfecting XP, Longhorn will be about ready for testing (i.e. release on an unsuspecting world of Joe Users, to be followed by a vast number of Critical Updates).
Hear, hear! Installing and configuring anything Linux is a nightmare unless one is a hard-core techie. For me, once I got it all set up it was infinitely better than Windows - but if it were as idiot-proof as XP, that would take all the fun out of Linux, no? Geeks love that feeling of superiority as they watch the next guy lose his 200-page brief due to a Windows crash, since that never happens in Linux.
Hum, works fine for me...not slashdotted at all... but all the "big problems" this guy names aren't terribly critical are they? All can be fixed more or less easily, given time....
Unfortunately, in a capitalist economy it's very hard for such an altruistic idea as open source (and free software? nothing's free!) to compete with big business.
Egad! Must a political discussion invade a Linux story?
Incidentally, the palestinians aren't famous for their gentlemanly war either. Both sides are guilty of torture, sending their kids to blow themselves up in the name of religion, et cetera et cetera et cetera, as would say the king of Siam. It's a centuries-old hatred and it isn't likely to end soon.
I chucked my Panasonic portable Cd player three years ago or so because of the staticky headphone jack problem and got an iriver ChromeX something or other - it lasted until just recently with no problem whatever. (I dropped it one time too many - that was about the 200th time though.) Irivers and Rios are, in my experience, very well built (though Rio dropped their RioVolt line recently, I think.)
Ipod, of course, remains the market standard - so one would think Apple would spend a bit more time testing their latest and greatest.
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More selective pay-per-view would be better still - SpeedTV is invariably showing NASCAR 99% of the time - a dull sport wherein drivers go many times round an oval, forever turning left.
Of course that simply doesn't give the networks what they want - me exposed to as much of their programming as possible. One can always dream.
And did slashdot go offline in the past half hour? Doubtless someone has mentioned it already...
This is the skit in question:
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
(et cetera)...see the full script or the sound file.
Oh wait, you have to pay for it.
Damn.
By time they finish perfecting XP, Longhorn will be about ready for testing (i.e. release on an unsuspecting world of Joe Users, to be followed by a vast number of Critical Updates).
Argh.
I suppose you've all seen the Dumbentia "Linux is more geeky" [pdf] parody ad...
Unfortunately, in a capitalist economy it's very hard for such an altruistic idea as open source (and free software? nothing's free!) to compete with big business.
Incidentally, the palestinians aren't famous for their gentlemanly war either. Both sides are guilty of torture, sending their kids to blow themselves up in the name of religion, et cetera et cetera et cetera, as would say the king of Siam. It's a centuries-old hatred and it isn't likely to end soon.
Ipod, of course, remains the market standard - so one would think Apple would spend a bit more time testing their latest and greatest.