Certainly by "almost everyone" you are referring to some specific demographic of which a majority "has their base music collection built by now." There will forever be people that are "just now" getting into music or new types of music and wanting to get their ears on everything they can. I personally have bought maybe 3 CDs in the past 3 years. I don't download music either, I just haven't been interested. But if I had the money and the time and the inclination, there is a whole host of music that I'd want to add to my collection, which is mainly CDs released 5-10 years ago.
When the submitter of the story writes the summary as if he were an objective 3rd party when he isn't?
Far as the actual thing goes, it's interesting but so far very few details. I want to know how much these guys get paid and how long they work each day, and where do I apply if it's decent?;)
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Weird. But no. I also have the Games section in my slashbox and the headlines show up just fine.
I doubt it. It probably does mean that they will be more familiar with open source things for the future, and will be more comfortable with whatever programs they actually do use than MS ones. However, that doesn't mean they are going to understand (or care) why that software was chosen over MS.
You are operating under the false assumption that comic books cannot be epic or have book-quality stories. This simply isn't true. While it is probably true of the standard Marvel/DC monthly comic book issue, it is not true of the comic book as a medium. Trade paperbacks often contain epic stories in comic book format with drama and characters that you care about in the same way a good book or movie can get you to care about characters.
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10. Is this just happening in the U.S.?
Any comic book store in the world can participate in Free Comic Book Day, although there may be some limitations on which titles are available in which countries due to licensing and other considerations. If you want your local store to get involved, let them know!
Since it's a home computer, what do people do on computers these days... contact information for people, financial information (taxes anyone?), and I'm sure plenty of other things. Keep the scenario simple, someone could break into his house and steal the computer and have easy access to that stuff if it's not properly protected.
That's like saying, "Does Microsoft even realize that people can simply open DOC files with OpenOffice instead?" It's not going to stop their business practices.
"Titor claimed to be a serving soldier who was recruited to a governmental time travel project. He was supposedly sent from 2036 back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer which he claimed was needed to overcome a Unix bug--Unix-based machines would no longer function after 2038, a known bug related to the 32-bit nature of the Unix clock." for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor/
I think I lost an hour or 2 of my life reading up on the archives of his posts.
Maybe Chairman Bill doesn't "get" it because he's too busy answering press calls about his generosity in donating his billions to them poor brown people over there.
What is this elitist, racist bullshit? I can't even read the rest of the article now. Yes, let's flame someone for donating to poor people. He should put all of his money in a vault and go swimming Uncle Scrooge style and laugh at "them poor brown people" in his spare time. What. The. Fuck.
Has anybody else noticed that almost every single article SOMEONE comes along and says "gee is it not clever that I got the 'Nothing for you to see here.' message? hahaha!" and they inevitably get mod points. Lame.
Maybe you need to have credit cards with companies that are up to snuff these days, the current Visa I use is updated the same day (often under an hour) for purchases made before the close of the business day, and whatever else immediately shows up the next day. And I don't mean just a dollar amount, it has the name of the business etc.
Damn people can't spell. Or he is purposely going by "rouge" but why would a guy do that? Maybe after so many years of going by the typo of "rogue" he just couldn't give it up... ha.
They don't really need to. Hopefully they can be smart enough to take it somewhere to have it fixed, even if they have to pay some outrageous fee to do it.
If your car stopped running because of some complicated issue in the engine, you don't have to understand the problem or the solution to take it to a mechanic.
The boing-boing isn't clear if this is part of the press release or not, but I quote: "Mash-up and re-mix potential is an intrinsic part of the Sanctuary project empowering the audience to exercise greater control over purchased film content and treating re-use as an opportunity as opposed to a threat."
Considering how many people use Windows on a daily basis without any problem, I think you might need to take a course or something if you are "constantly fighting with it to do the simplest things" even though "it's just for email and Office."
Seriously. It's not rocket science (and it ain't computer science either).
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Certainly by "almost everyone" you are referring to some specific demographic of which a majority "has their base music collection built by now." There will forever be people that are "just now" getting into music or new types of music and wanting to get their ears on everything they can. I personally have bought maybe 3 CDs in the past 3 years. I don't download music either, I just haven't been interested. But if I had the money and the time and the inclination, there is a whole host of music that I'd want to add to my collection, which is mainly CDs released 5-10 years ago.
If you follow the link, there's info at the bottom of the page. http://www.freenation.tv/hotellostliberty2.html
I particularly like the "Just Desserts Cafe."
Knights are addressed as "Sir" not as "Lord". Lords are an entirely different beast. There was just a link to this on a story on the front page yesterday... http://www.debretts.co.uk/etiquette/correct_forms_ of_address.html
When the submitter of the story writes the summary as if he were an objective 3rd party when he isn't? Far as the actual thing goes, it's interesting but so far very few details. I want to know how much these guys get paid and how long they work each day, and where do I apply if it's decent? ;)
Weird. But no. I also have the Games section in my slashbox and the headlines show up just fine.
I doubt it. It probably does mean that they will be more familiar with open source things for the future, and will be more comfortable with whatever programs they actually do use than MS ones. However, that doesn't mean they are going to understand (or care) why that software was chosen over MS.
You are operating under the false assumption that comic books cannot be epic or have book-quality stories. This simply isn't true. While it is probably true of the standard Marvel/DC monthly comic book issue, it is not true of the comic book as a medium. Trade paperbacks often contain epic stories in comic book format with drama and characters that you care about in the same way a good book or movie can get you to care about characters.
10. Is this just happening in the U.S.?
Any comic book store in the world can participate in Free Comic Book Day, although there may be some limitations on which titles are available in which countries due to licensing and other considerations. If you want your local store to get involved, let them know!
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Since it's a home computer, what do people do on computers these days... contact information for people, financial information (taxes anyone?), and I'm sure plenty of other things. Keep the scenario simple, someone could break into his house and steal the computer and have easy access to that stuff if it's not properly protected.
That's like saying, "Does Microsoft even realize that people can simply open DOC files with OpenOffice instead?" It's not going to stop their business practices.
"Titor claimed to be a serving soldier who was recruited to a governmental time travel project. He was supposedly sent from 2036 back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer which he claimed was needed to overcome a Unix bug--Unix-based machines would no longer function after 2038, a known bug related to the 32-bit nature of the Unix clock."
for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor/
I think I lost an hour or 2 of my life reading up on the archives of his posts.
No, they'll just jack the price up all together. They make a killing on that crap to begin with.
That's Algorythms!
Maybe Chairman Bill doesn't "get" it because he's too busy answering press calls about his generosity in donating his billions to them poor brown people over there.
What is this elitist, racist bullshit? I can't even read the rest of the article now. Yes, let's flame someone for donating to poor people. He should put all of his money in a vault and go swimming Uncle Scrooge style and laugh at "them poor brown people" in his spare time. What. The. Fuck.
Too bad it's the government's duty to attempt to tax the highest amount allowed by law.
Oh, nevermind. I had to actually sign out of Gmail to see the front page that has the counter of how much storage space is available.
Hmmm.... You are currently using 2 MB (0%) of your 1415 MB.
Has anybody else noticed that almost every single article SOMEONE comes along and says "gee is it not clever that I got the 'Nothing for you to see here.' message? hahaha!" and they inevitably get mod points. Lame.
Maybe you need to have credit cards with companies that are up to snuff these days, the current Visa I use is updated the same day (often under an hour) for purchases made before the close of the business day, and whatever else immediately shows up the next day. And I don't mean just a dollar amount, it has the name of the business etc.
Damn people can't spell. Or he is purposely going by "rouge" but why would a guy do that? Maybe after so many years of going by the typo of "rogue" he just couldn't give it up... ha.
They don't really need to. Hopefully they can be smart enough to take it somewhere to have it fixed, even if they have to pay some outrageous fee to do it.
If your car stopped running because of some complicated issue in the engine, you don't have to understand the problem or the solution to take it to a mechanic.
No time for reading, all the time for posting on /. comments. Oh yea, we see where your priorities lie.
The boing-boing isn't clear if this is part of the press release or not, but I quote: "Mash-up and re-mix potential is an intrinsic part of the Sanctuary project empowering the audience to exercise greater control over purchased film content and treating re-use as an opportunity as opposed to a threat."
And how is that bad, exactly?
Wow. I have a blog, but there's about a snowball's chance in hell that I would ever put a link to it on my resume. That's just crazy talk.
Considering how many people use Windows on a daily basis without any problem, I think you might need to take a course or something if you are "constantly fighting with it to do the simplest things" even though "it's just for email and Office."
Seriously. It's not rocket science (and it ain't computer science either).