You can hear it now. "The internet is CRAWLING with pedophiles!!!!!" "OUR CHILDREN!!!!!" "Pedophiles fund terrorists!!" "Please BT!! Censor MORE!!!" "Ladies and gentlemen. I am assumming absolute power over...."
Some FUD dowsing is needed.
The article states. BT said in its first three weeks its new system, which bars access to particular sites, registered nearly 250,000 attempts to view web pages containing images of child pornography
OK 250,000 hits in 3 weeks/21 days That's about 11905 hits per day or 496 hits per hour. Let us assume, as most will, that every hit was from someone out looking for that paticular site.
Lets assume the average kiddie porn junkie will check 30 sites for one hour every two days. Sound unreasonable. I'll get back to this. This means that there are about 17 seperate pedophiles checking porn every hour or 816 pedophiles every two days. Which rotated leaves only 816 pedophile on the BT network
Unrealistic? Maybe? But let's assume every KP junkie checks 30 sites every week That means 90 sites in three weeks And with 250,000 hits thats gives us approx 2778 pedophiles on the whole BT net.
Wow. 2778. That a little over 0.000046% of the population. I guess it's time for rallys, restrictions and roundups.
Sun have finally woken up to the fact that most consumers are tech-dreads not tech-heads. They fear tech more than they welcome it and as such need to be comforted when faced with unfamiliar grounds. Intel realised this years ago and have made sure that unless there's an 'Intel Inside' ("_DUM_.do de dum DEE!") sticker on the side, people will worry and say, "What's the pentuim? Will it work without an intel inside?" Prepare for the "Is your microwave/fridge/car/computer/watch/relational_dat abase caffinated?" campaign. FUD works.
Java on mobile has increased the framework's profile a LOT, especially amoung younger phone buyers. Even my kid brother knows about java games, and he can barely use e-mail. Java seems to mean 'fun' in the minds of some. Well maybe not, but it means Something!
It must have finally clicked with Sun that people just won't magically get to know about java through the grapevine. You need stickers, Java Inside, Duke, Gosling's beard, hip coders(very hard to find:E) and big TV ads to promote your technology so people will say, "Hey what about Java? I'd like to have that." Essentially, to really sell a technology, no matter how good or bad it is, you have to play to the Pointy Haired Boss.
Of course Sun would LOVE to to foster the belief out there that unless it's got Java, it's worthless. "Has it got Java? Will it work without that coffe sticker?" It could happen. I wonder will Microsoft realise a similar campaign. One based on a cup of tea perhaps? I wonder will.NET get a publicity campaign or will it just be shoved down our throats with pictures of smiling actors staring into PC screens(which we can't see). They may regret not using that cup of tea. Then again Sun may regret all that money wasted on sticker that people thought were promoting a new decaf drink.
Disclaimer: Java is Good. Garbage collection is Smart++.
Yes I also want that update. I've checked the iPod sofware update site and there's nothing about improved battery life on it. Danm!
The BBC article on this mentioned that apple improved battery life solely thrugh better firmware. Interesting. Sharp programming, or was the initial software ill-written bloat?
This is unbelievable you know. Not only does ClarChannel fill the airwaves with rubbish music 24/7, now we aren't even entitled to parody or saitirise them anymore. What would happen if someone instead started the site ClearChannelIsAMonopoly.net ? Do they get sued too? I'll bet the DMCA had something to do with this. And since it was a.net domain, were Verisign involved?
RadioAid was taken to arbitration instead of the US Judicial system This part sickens me the most. Forget a jury of your peers. It would seem that important decisions are now left to private clubs. I wouldn't be surprised if some in the clear channel camp played golf/tennis/handball with some of the 'independant' arbitrators and chatted about the case 'off the record'. "Tsk,tsk. Those RadioAid Hippies. Communists, I tell you Bob. Sheer terrorist sympathisers. FORE!!"
The implications of this could be very far reaching. For instance, if Clear Channel can annex ChealChannelSucks.net, what else can they do? Can they SLAAP Google to stop referencing sites wich critisise them? Can they sue sites that critisise them because they used the ClearChannel name without consent? Will someone come after me for the above paragraph? Will they come after you for reading it? Linking to it? We NEED to be able to say out loud and in public CLEARCHANNELSUCKS!! THEY ARE AN EVIL MONOPOLY!! Without getting our asses sued off for unconformity. If we can't, then the slope just gets slipperier. Fight the power RadioAid. I've never heard of you but I'm with you 100%.
Is clearchannelsucks.org still about? Or has it been blasted by too many censorware products picking up 'suck' in the url? How long until clearchannel get that one too, having been 'aided' by the decision in the favour on.net?
I've had this argument with an ardent tech evalgelist before. He argued that DVD,CDs and HDD are ridiculous, not only because they can be damaged easily, but beacause they are essentially mechanical devices. 5 microseconds was too slow for him. Radial latency was too much of a hang.
He figured that in 10 years time we'll all be using flash memory based devices capable of holding Gigabytes of data, instead of mechanical media.
I argued that while flash memory type devices would emerge, you can already get 1-2GB USB memory sticks, the CD/DVD format would also increase apace. Although I'd have to say DVD is lagging behind, but probobly only because, unlike USB flash, it required better hardware to use the higher storage. Blu-Ray discs should give us 50GB of portable storage, and Rockstar at least expects them for the next format of console.
I figured that in 10 years time 50GB DVDs will be the norm and perhaps as much as 200GB DVDs will be readily available. While at the same time flash memory might only get up to 10GB at an afforadble price. That was another argument I had in favour of DVD. Price. DVDs can be as cheap as $2, but even a 128MB USB stick will cost $50.
We will always have portable, hard media,(read only?) storage, simply because it will always be bigger cheaper but still slower than the alternatives. Having movies on HDD is nice, but how can we bring them over to a friends or with us on holidays? It's nice to have something you can hold in your hand and say, that's mine, rather than something 'somewhere' on hard disc that might expire, or delete itself by tomorrow.
Homeland security soons hopes, through coersion, fear, FUD, false warnings and money, to install trackable microchips in every Mexican by the year 2020.
Upon so doing it will be able to monitor all immigrants crossing the border, and those without chips will obviously be terrorists.
Yeah, I loved the whole cast of the original MGS. Who could ever forget classic lines like:
"Snake you've been talking to..." "Cambell!! Your too late!".... "LIQUID!!"
Ahh classic moments. However the voice acting in the remake I found was not to par with the original. Paticularly as they toned down all the characters accents. I'm not talking about MGS2 as, quite frankly, to bring it up again would only complicate things further.
Could the pinacle of superior Soviet gameing technology stand up to the 3D card accellerated game fests of today?
Sadly, for many of the games on the shelf these days, the answer is yes. I'm willing to be ploy play could still stand up to a lot of the fare they sell for 60 euro in east(ern) germany today.
"Capitalist Fools! Only classless video game offer true excitement!
Also in soviet russia IE would have been used as the KGBs primary tool for destroying capitalism. Both through exploits and by pointing out the class struggle between IE and FireFox. Of course back in those days the CIA would have used the DMCA to make sure no-one knew about these holes.
Rest assured, if Firefox ever does make it big time, ~20-30% of browsers, malware writers WILL exploit any hole they can find.
Hopefully the developers will be quick enough to fix it, but will users be sharp enough to get the patches. I think automatic updates for firefox are what is needed to ensure users have less to worry about. I know myself that the patch for the shell exploit was not a simple matter of clicking search for updates, as the update program times 0out after 2 secs.
Firefox won't be immune to the legions of spammers, crackers, marketers and pornographers which have already begun to exploit it. With some kind of autoinstaller/updater or a faster update cycle users could be confident that whatever new tricks the spammers come up with, the fixes will be prompt. Hopefully anyway.
I know autoinstallers aren't in vouge, for many good reasons. But if it's just for one, largely selfcontained program, would it really be so bad.
Maybe at the very least mozilla could have a list of critical, anti-spam and other update categories. Or would that just confuse people
the impact on life may be significant but not catastrophic, including phenomena such as power-outages, satellite malfunctions and disruptions in the rhythmic functions of some animals such as loggerhead turtles
And just how would this be different to any other day.
Apart from compasses pointing south and and increased demand for factor 500, we shouldn't all begin to panic needlessly. The compass was a pretty shoddy means of navigation anyway, with the movement of the poles and all. And sunbathing?! What kind of pasttime is that?!
This could affect global warming though. Combined with the greenhouse effect we could all be fried little geeks.
I wonder if it would be possible to set up a network of gigantic electromagnets and attempt to impede or even reverse the earths magnetic flip flop?
13.2 In the absence of an out-of-court settlement within (2) months as from their occurrence, and unless emergency proceeding are necessary, the disagreements or disputes shall be referred to the Paris Courts having jurisdiction, by the first party to take action.
Does this mean companies can rob French OSS, and then force the creator to haul his ass to Paris to stop them? Or dows it just mean he has to get his ass to a fench law court? Either way some OSS writers may not be able to travel.
Also considering the agreement requires the matter to be taken to a French court with jurisdiction, won't that mean that US, UK or other compnaies who breach it won't be held liable as they were outside the juristiction of any French court?
I wonder just how exactly 16 devices can connect together without a primary controller.
Maybe it uses the system that the GBA used by using the wire configuration to choose the primary, or maybe the software does? Maybe it uses some super advanced DHCP?
By including SFU in Windows, Microsoft could rapidly become the biggest supplier of Unix software if Longhorn proves a success
HA! It's finally happened. MS have come up with a solution to the Linux Question. Simply supply your own version of Unix called Longhorn and simply make it incompatable with any other Unix distrobution, especially linux. Question is will it work?
Zions confirmed that Microsoft is working to replace all open-source code in SFU with commercially licensed alternatives. Last year it licensed Unix software from SCO.
You may rest assured that this is the stage where the 'new technologies' i.e lock-ins, will be introduced into the unix source code. They will be lovely features of course, ADT, WinFS etc, etc. But all will be tied inexorably to windows and sealed with the DMCA.
This may be the lynchpin of the whole Longhorn stratgey? Or I could just be on drugs.
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Intel brought us...the deliberately misleading "the P-III makes your Internet faster!!"
God I remember the hype and FUD those B******ds stirred up with that bloddy ad campaign. I can still hear people walking up to me and asking: "Do you have a PC? What's your pentium?". Calm, calm, think happy... "Two OK!! It's two! And tell all your friends you need a pentium or your computer won't work! BEGONE EWES!!" It hurt to hear that again and again. I just gave up correcting people. They looked at me like I was crazy. Geeze listen to this guy, he dosen't know what a pentium is.
If Intel learned anything in those last few years of the P6 core's life, it learned that clock speed sells
It certainly does, and that's still the one thing that keeps me from buying AMD. When I configure a PC I can choose between a Pentium 2.2GHz, or an AMD 2400. Now how fast is the 2400? I don't know, It didn't say, and that's why AMD is No. 2. That and Intels hugely successful campaign of intel inside, making consumers believe that if hasn't got an intel chip, it won't work. They expect it, like they expect a monitor. Let them pay for their ignorence.
I think I speak for all long term windows users here when I say.... Huh?..... I've only got the faintest idea what this article is going on about, but since I'm a Fedora user with a gripe about installing software on linux, I'll brashly comment anyway.
RPM is good. I love RPM. I can't imagine where I'd be without that lovely self contained, self extracting package that Just Works(TM). Of course sometimes it dosen't Just Work, like when it was built for a different distro, which is very annoying. Still, it's either that or configure,make,make install or a big gcc -lSDL - lSDL_image -lGLU etc..... for about 50 files. And while these things aren't rocket science, not having a double click to install makes my Linux life all the harder. I'm too long in the windows universe perhaps, but I still like RPM. Now if only it had a GUI.
But on the other hand, will self installers lead us down the path of mindless users, spyware and spam boxes with embedded linux(the horror)!!! Do we tread the path of usability at our peril?
I just wonder are comics part of the growing trend within drama and literature to 'spice up' the story, by adding in shall we say supernatural elements.
For instance many new shows star vampires, dead people, are set in space or have oodles of compuers and special effects lathered all over them. Which isn't to say that some aren't good. Similarly, there arn't a lot of comics just about regular joe bloggs action. Much more likley to find mutants or flying superheroes than cops and robbers. Dick Tracey was phased out for superman, MacGuyver for Star Trek.
Personally I think people prefer to have the added spice of exotic setting or characters. It's OK, but I think a lot of modern pop culture is being sold on the cherry topping alone by exec types catering to the L.C.D. Which isn't to say good stuff isn't there. It's just that old signal to noise ratio falling again. It still enjoy a good old fashioned detective story, complete with mudane setting and plot. I just gets more riveting!
I still haven't bought even one song. Primarily because Apple will not extend this 1/10th Billion dollar business to my country, but also due to the fact that I get great soundtracks by ripping the music from video games.
Why don't apple make video game soundtracks. If the soundtrack to one of your favourite games was available for $9.99 would you get it. I would but then I'm a bit of a freak. Still game soundtracks, film soundtracks, TV show soundtracks. Maybe Apple could offer ambience tracks as well. $0.99 for a dawn corus track, or the sound of New York at rush hour. Whatever tickles your fancy, and your wallet.
I hearby copyright and patent all these ideas. Anyone using, disseminating, talking or even thinking about them will be sued. Have a musical day!:E
Slashdot Mirror
You can hear it now.
"The internet is CRAWLING with pedophiles!!!!!"
"OUR CHILDREN!!!!!"
"Pedophiles fund terrorists!!"
"Please BT!! Censor MORE!!!"
"Ladies and gentlemen. I am assumming absolute power over...."
Some FUD dowsing is needed.
The article states.
BT said in its first three weeks its new system, which bars access to particular sites, registered nearly 250,000 attempts to view web pages containing images of child pornography
OK 250,000 hits in 3 weeks/21 days
That's about 11905 hits per day or 496 hits per hour. Let us assume, as most will, that every hit was from someone out looking for that paticular site.
Lets assume the average kiddie porn junkie will check 30 sites for one hour every two days. Sound unreasonable. I'll get back to this.
This means that there are about 17 seperate pedophiles checking porn every hour or 816 pedophiles every two days. Which rotated leaves only 816 pedophile on the BT network
Unrealistic? Maybe? But let's assume every KP junkie checks 30 sites every week
That means 90 sites in three weeks
And with 250,000 hits thats gives us approx 2778 pedophiles on the whole BT net.
Wow. 2778. That a little over 0.000046% of the population. I guess it's time for rallys, restrictions and roundups.
Ain't maths great?
Sun have finally woken up to the fact that most consumers are tech-dreads not tech-heads. They fear tech more than they welcome it and as such need to be comforted when faced with unfamiliar grounds. Intel realised this years ago and have made sure that unless there's an 'Intel Inside' ("_DUM_.do de dum DEE!") sticker on the side, people will worry and say, "What's the pentuim? Will it work without an intel inside?" Prepare for the "Is your microwave/fridge/car/computer/watch/relational_dat abase caffinated?" campaign. FUD works.
:E) and big TV ads to promote your technology so people will say, "Hey what about Java? I'd like to have that." Essentially, to really sell a technology, no matter how good or bad it is, you have to play to the Pointy Haired Boss.
.NET get a publicity campaign or will it just be shoved down our throats with pictures of smiling actors staring into PC screens(which we can't see). They may regret not using that cup of tea. Then again Sun may regret all that money wasted on sticker that people thought were promoting a new decaf drink.
Java on mobile has increased the framework's profile a LOT, especially amoung younger phone buyers. Even my kid brother knows about java games, and he can barely use e-mail. Java seems to mean 'fun' in the minds of some. Well maybe not, but it means Something!
It must have finally clicked with Sun that people just won't magically get to know about java through the grapevine. You need stickers, Java Inside, Duke, Gosling's beard, hip coders(very hard to find
Of course Sun would LOVE to to foster the belief out there that unless it's got Java, it's worthless. "Has it got Java? Will it work without that coffe sticker?" It could happen. I wonder will Microsoft realise a similar campaign. One based on a cup of tea perhaps? I wonder will
Disclaimer: Java is Good. Garbage collection is Smart++.
I have heard of something that plays OGG out of the box....
Nokia N-Gage.
Sorry to get your hopes up...
Yes I also want that update.
I've checked the iPod sofware update site and there's nothing about improved battery life on it. Danm!
The BBC article on this mentioned that apple improved battery life solely thrugh better firmware. Interesting. Sharp programming, or was the initial software ill-written bloat?
This is unbelievable you know. Not only does ClarChannel fill the airwaves with rubbish music 24/7, now we aren't even entitled to parody or saitirise them anymore. What would happen if someone instead started the site ClearChannelIsAMonopoly.net ? Do they get sued too? I'll bet the DMCA had something to do with this. And since it was a .net domain, were Verisign involved?
.net?
RadioAid was taken to arbitration instead of the US Judicial system
This part sickens me the most. Forget a jury of your peers. It would seem that important decisions are now left to private clubs. I wouldn't be surprised if some in the clear channel camp played golf/tennis/handball with some of the 'independant' arbitrators and chatted about the case 'off the record'. "Tsk,tsk. Those RadioAid Hippies. Communists, I tell you Bob. Sheer terrorist sympathisers. FORE!!"
The implications of this could be very far reaching. For instance, if Clear Channel can annex ChealChannelSucks.net, what else can they do? Can they SLAAP Google to stop referencing sites wich critisise them? Can they sue sites that critisise them because they used the ClearChannel name without consent? Will someone come after me for the above paragraph? Will they come after you for reading it? Linking to it? We NEED to be able to say out loud and in public CLEARCHANNELSUCKS!! THEY ARE AN EVIL MONOPOLY!! Without getting our asses sued off for unconformity. If we can't, then the slope just gets slipperier.
Fight the power RadioAid. I've never heard of you but I'm with you 100%.
Is clearchannelsucks.org still about? Or has it been blasted by too many censorware products picking up 'suck' in the url? How long until clearchannel get that one too, having been 'aided' by the decision in the favour on
Maybe all the Stateainians who cross the border to canada should be made to submit biometric data to canadian companies/governments.
How long do yu think that would last eh?
The questions is will Pyongyang declae the Slashdot effect to be an attack on North Korea by the web?
What the hell is a shopping mall link doing on a communist website. Has the world gone topsy turvy?
Clearly sir, you have never heard of VBA.
Empowering amatuers with sysadmin capabilities since 1993!
Where would you like script kiddies to joyride your computer to today?
I've had this argument with an ardent tech evalgelist before. He argued that DVD,CDs and HDD are ridiculous, not only because they can be damaged easily, but beacause they are essentially mechanical devices. 5 microseconds was too slow for him. Radial latency was too much of a hang.
He figured that in 10 years time we'll all be using flash memory based devices capable of holding Gigabytes of data, instead of mechanical media.
I argued that while flash memory type devices would emerge, you can already get 1-2GB USB memory sticks, the CD/DVD format would also increase apace. Although I'd have to say DVD is lagging behind, but probobly only because, unlike USB flash, it required better hardware to use the higher storage. Blu-Ray discs should give us 50GB of portable storage, and Rockstar at least expects them for the next format of console.
I figured that in 10 years time 50GB DVDs will be the norm and perhaps as much as 200GB DVDs will be readily available. While at the same time flash memory might only get up to 10GB at an afforadble price. That was another argument I had in favour of DVD. Price. DVDs can be as cheap as $2, but even a 128MB USB stick will cost $50.
We will always have portable, hard media,(read only?) storage, simply because it will always be bigger cheaper but still slower than the alternatives. Having movies on HDD is nice, but how can we bring them over to a friends or with us on holidays? It's nice to have something you can hold in your hand and say, that's mine, rather than something 'somewhere' on hard disc that might expire, or delete itself by tomorrow.
Homeland security soons hopes, through coersion, fear, FUD, false warnings and money, to install trackable microchips in every Mexican by the year 2020.
Upon so doing it will be able to monitor all immigrants crossing the border, and those without chips will obviously be terrorists.
Yeah, I loved the whole cast of the original MGS. Who could ever forget classic lines like:
....
"Snake you've been talking to..."
"Cambell!! Your too late!"
"LIQUID!!"
Ahh classic moments. However the voice acting in the remake I found was not to par with the original. Paticularly as they toned down all the characters accents.
I'm not talking about MGS2 as, quite frankly, to bring it up again would only complicate things further.
Could the pinacle of superior Soviet gameing technology stand up to the 3D card accellerated game fests of today?
Sadly, for many of the games on the shelf these days, the answer is yes. I'm willing to be ploy play could still stand up to a lot of the fare they sell for 60 euro in east(ern) germany today.
"Capitalist Fools! Only classless video game offer true excitement!
...IE bugs YOU!!
Also in soviet russia IE would have been used as the KGBs primary tool for destroying capitalism. Both through exploits and by pointing out the class struggle between IE and FireFox.
Of course back in those days the CIA would have used the DMCA to make sure no-one knew about these holes.
Rest assured, if Firefox ever does make it big time, ~20-30% of browsers, malware writers WILL exploit any hole they can find.
Hopefully the developers will be quick enough to fix it, but will users be sharp enough to get the patches. I think automatic updates for firefox are what is needed to ensure users have less to worry about. I know myself that the patch for the shell exploit was not a simple matter of clicking search for updates, as the update program times 0out after 2 secs.
Firefox won't be immune to the legions of spammers, crackers, marketers and pornographers which have already begun to exploit it. With some kind of autoinstaller/updater or a faster update cycle users could be confident that whatever new tricks the spammers come up with, the fixes will be prompt. Hopefully anyway.
I know autoinstallers aren't in vouge, for many good reasons. But if it's just for one, largely selfcontained program, would it really be so bad.
Maybe at the very least mozilla could have a list of critical, anti-spam and other update categories. Or would that just confuse people
It's called Metal Gear Solid.
The most camp game ever made. Think about it!
Quote: Ocelot: "There's nothing like the feeling of sliding a long silver bullet, into a well greased chamber"
How Solid Snake is not a gay icon, I'll never know. Maybe the market has been ignoring this demographic.
the impact on life may be significant but not catastrophic, including phenomena such as power-outages, satellite malfunctions and disruptions in the rhythmic functions of some animals such as loggerhead turtles
And just how would this be different to any other day.
Apart from compasses pointing south and and increased demand for factor 500, we shouldn't all begin to panic needlessly.
The compass was a pretty shoddy means of navigation anyway, with the movement of the poles and all. And sunbathing?! What kind of pasttime is that?!
This could affect global warming though. Combined with the greenhouse effect we could all be fried little geeks.
I wonder if it would be possible to set up a network of gigantic electromagnets and attempt to impede or even reverse the earths magnetic flip flop?
13.2 In the absence of an out-of-court settlement within (2) months as from their occurrence, and unless emergency proceeding are necessary, the disagreements or disputes shall be referred to the Paris Courts having jurisdiction, by the first party to take action.
Does this mean companies can rob French OSS, and then force the creator to haul his ass to Paris to stop them? Or dows it just mean he has to get his ass to a fench law court? Either way some OSS writers may not be able to travel.
Also considering the agreement requires the matter to be taken to a French court with jurisdiction, won't that mean that US, UK or other compnaies who breach it won't be held liable as they were outside the juristiction of any French court?
Vive le difference.
I wonder just how exactly 16 devices can connect together without a primary controller.
Maybe it uses the system that the GBA used by using the wire configuration to choose the primary, or maybe the software does? Maybe it uses some super advanced DHCP?
By including SFU in Windows, Microsoft could rapidly become the biggest supplier of Unix software if Longhorn proves a success
HA! It's finally happened. MS have come up with a solution to the Linux Question. Simply supply your own version of Unix called Longhorn and simply make it incompatable with any other Unix distrobution, especially linux. Question is will it work?
Zions confirmed that Microsoft is working to replace all open-source code in SFU with commercially licensed alternatives. Last year it licensed Unix software from SCO.
You may rest assured that this is the stage where the 'new technologies' i.e lock-ins, will be introduced into the unix source code. They will be lovely features of course, ADT, WinFS etc, etc. But all will be tied inexorably to windows and sealed with the DMCA.
This may be the lynchpin of the whole Longhorn stratgey? Or I could just be on drugs.
Intel brought us ...the deliberately misleading "the P-III makes your Internet faster!!"
God I remember the hype and FUD those B******ds stirred up with that bloddy ad campaign. I can still hear people walking up to me and asking: "Do you have a PC? What's your pentium?". Calm, calm, think happy... "Two OK!! It's two! And tell all your friends you need a pentium or your computer won't work! BEGONE EWES!!" It hurt to hear that again and again. I just gave up correcting people. They looked at me like I was crazy. Geeze listen to this guy, he dosen't know what a pentium is.
If Intel learned anything in those last few years of the P6 core's life, it learned that clock speed sells
It certainly does, and that's still the one thing that keeps me from buying AMD. When I configure a PC I can choose between a Pentium 2.2GHz, or an AMD 2400. Now how fast is the 2400? I don't know, It didn't say, and that's why AMD is No. 2. That and Intels hugely successful campaign of intel inside, making consumers believe that if hasn't got an intel chip, it won't work. They expect it, like they expect a monitor. Let them pay for their ignorence.
If those of us outside the US could also avail of this loophole^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcharitable work.
Though it will be funny to see bigwigs who go to dinner parties with Gates,McBride and Co. donating to an opposing organisation.
*blinks*
.....
I think I speak for all long term windows users here when I say.... Huh?
I've only got the faintest idea what this article is going on about, but since I'm a Fedora user with a gripe about installing software on linux, I'll brashly comment anyway.
RPM is good. I love RPM. I can't imagine where I'd be without that lovely self contained, self extracting package that Just Works(TM). Of course sometimes it dosen't Just Work, like when it was built for a different distro, which is very annoying.
Still, it's either that or configure,make,make install or a big gcc -lSDL - lSDL_image -lGLU etc..... for about 50 files. And while these things aren't rocket science, not having a double click to install makes my Linux life all the harder. I'm too long in the windows universe perhaps, but I still like RPM. Now if only it had a GUI.
But on the other hand, will self installers lead us down the path of mindless users, spyware and spam boxes with
embedded linux(the horror)!!! Do we tread the path of usability at our peril?
P.S.
What's hdlist.
I just wonder are comics part of the growing trend within drama and literature to 'spice up' the story, by adding in shall we say supernatural elements.
For instance many new shows star vampires, dead people, are set in space or have oodles of compuers and special effects lathered all over them. Which isn't to say that some aren't good. Similarly, there arn't a lot of comics just about regular joe bloggs action. Much more likley to find mutants or flying superheroes than cops and robbers. Dick Tracey was phased out for superman, MacGuyver for Star Trek.
Personally I think people prefer to have the added spice of exotic setting or characters. It's OK, but I think a lot of modern pop culture is being sold on the cherry topping alone by exec types catering to the L.C.D. Which isn't to say good stuff isn't there. It's just that old signal to noise ratio falling again.
It still enjoy a good old fashioned detective story, complete with mudane setting and plot. I just gets more riveting!
What are the record companies going to do with their $75 million cut?
Sue Apple.
I still haven't bought even one song. Primarily because Apple will not extend this 1/10th Billion dollar business to my country, but also due to the fact that I get great soundtracks by ripping the music from video games.
:E
Why don't apple make video game soundtracks. If the soundtrack to one of your favourite games was available for $9.99 would you get it. I would but then I'm a bit of a freak. Still game soundtracks, film soundtracks, TV show soundtracks. Maybe Apple could offer ambience tracks as well. $0.99 for a dawn corus track, or the sound of New York at rush hour. Whatever tickles your fancy, and your wallet.
I hearby copyright and patent all these ideas. Anyone using, disseminating, talking or even thinking about them will be sued. Have a musical day!