"Friends" started doing this the season before their last with their "extended" episodes. All I do to compensate is on my dvr I tell it to start a few minutes early and end a few late.
gawd its not "piracy" that's something done for profit this is merely a hobby. I relied on p2p to get Roswell and Enterprise episodes because we didn't have upn in the area. This is clearly another case of the media business trying to squash any new change rather than adapt themselves.
neat idea I think. G4/Tech TV's Screen Savers is so Windows loving it makes me sick so this show could fill a niche. Although maybe instead of being only about oss maybe the show should be "Slashdot TV" complete with a few talking heads to argue about something in the last 5 minutes of the show to represent the forums here.:)
Funny how info likes this only gets picked up mainstream sites AFTER PBS reports.
PBS ran a story about this two weeks ago, archeaologists call these people "pre-clovus". Not all agree though, some have other explenations for the date discrepencies and they also question why no other signs of human prescence other than the spear heads appear in those layers of strata. So the juries still out.
another way to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Many of the "bootlegged" movies I've seen I'm convinced are actually leaked by the industry for movies that don't push a lot of advertising for it.
That aside come on movie industry, the movie trading hobby is just that - a hobby it doesn't keep us from seeing the movie especially when you consider the quality they usually are. If anything it makes more people interested in multimedia professions just like cracking games led people into programming careers and so on.
What's next? Will they start confiscating people's cell phones when they enter the theatre because they may have a camera on it?
how would agreeing to Kyoto treaty cost jobs? It would seem to me to do the opposite for at least a short while anyway.
I know one way we can conserve energy and thereby cut some pollution -- shut off at least half the damn city lights at night. Seriously ever notice the light pollution? It's horrible, even my small town of 20,000 I have to drive 20 miles or further into the country to get a dark enough spot for night sky observing.
once again legitimate users will suffer for the violations of the very few. Congress has got to step in and put a stop to this harrassment because this one especially blocks technological advancement.
yup. We already have nuke plants and they are already faced with problem no. 1 that you mentioned. I don't know about problem no. 2 though.
From what I understand (very limited and old info though) is that the waste is mainly water that was used for cooling and spent rods.
If it can be solved it definetly is an answer. The left would hate it of course because they wouldn't have anything left to whine about as it fullfill what they've been demanding for years anyway. I absolutely hate whineing without a solution.
LOL and to think they needed "research money" to come to this conclusion!
****from article below****
"The research was funded by National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Packard Foundation.
Says the professor who does not use the falling-paper effect to grade student essays and forecast their future: "What is predictable is that as the autumn leaves tumble down, they drift in particular directions, depending on the way they turn. This may explain, Wang adds, "why you are getting the leaves from your neighbor."
****end of article quote***
This project is as ridiculous as the one I read about last week where researchers "proved" that cats stress. == No duh Sherlocks they coulda just called any of us cat owners and asked us and saved a heck of a lot of money and time.
Industrial labor working people of the world: those are the customers of the expensive overpriced vehicle you contributed to build. Bow down to the greatness of their education.
"oh we quiver in awe of your genius great holders of expensive pieces of paper..."
...and I'd say it provides useful arguements for converting people from Windows and Mac platforms to Linux...but sadly, most people I try to convert use the "but this does what I want already, and that's more work, and I don't really see the benefit" excuse. It seems that people tend to suffer with what they have, if it works at all, rather than put in a little effort and change something to be much better.
Me: True and the arguement makes sense -- at the moment. But have they forgotten what it was like to upgrade from win3.1? the driver incompatabilites driving them mad that they gave up and just bought brand new? It happend again with '98. XP was an easier transition but Longhorn is going to be another beast altogether with this 3d desktop! Windows just got even more bloated! Remember the first '95 computers shipped with 8meg of memory? MEG! Not gig -- meg.
Will these people do the switch all over again? (the hardware companies are just hopeing they will, they love it when M$ adds bloat because their sales go up. XP wasn't a big enough sales jump but their all banking on "Win Media center" for now and "Longhorn" for the near future.
When this happens and you remind them that MS has been wanting to kill support already for the 9x's stand by ready with your Knoppix disk and show them how life can be breathed back into their computer and the constant upgrade cycle to support MS's bank account can be done away with.
You're really not worth replying to because your rudeness shows your low intelligence and the fact that you didn't read my post fully. I said "I'm not letting Bush off the hook either" he's just as guilty. So all you're doing is steering clear of the fact that you don't know jack about this topic.
Containers get inspected from everywhere, France, Italy, Japan, you name it.
You're the partisan hack agreeing with this scare tactic of Kerry's without even researching it sheesh.
>>95% of shipping containers coming into this country aren't being inspected, yet we have law enforcement agents to spare...
Ok wait just a minute. I am sick and tired of the left making that statement.
As a former Coast Guardsman I can speak to this issue with authority.
Do you have any idea how many "shipping containers" come into this country? Millions my friend - millions. There is a system and always has been for what needs inspected just like your local town cops have for what to look for for drunk drivers late at night or suspect vehicles and so on. I guarentee you that at least 95% of all cars driving through town late at night or from bars also are not inspected. So you see that statement is just a scare tactic, it has no helium in its balloon. The suppossed 5% that are getting inspected do so because they meet certain guidelines that are used to weed through it all! It would take absolutely millions of people to inspect them all! The CG has less than 50,000! Most of which are E3 and below who do grunt work, havn't been sent to the LE school yet, or hazmat school and so on.
Get some facts before you continue to spew Kerry's unqualified quotes like that. And yes Bush has some whoppers he spews out over and over so I aint letting him off the hook either it's just this one is a whopper that people are completely ignorant about how it works. It should show you how stupid Kerry thinks the American people are that we'd fall for this scare tactic.
there's tons of perfectly good used pc's and used parts out there. I just bought a dual p2-450 rig for example off ebay for $80 ($100 w/shipping) that is now doing file and print sharing and crunching folding@home.
This rig flies with Yoper Linux I was flat out amazed. I still ended up putting one of my XP Pro licences on it though because I ran into too many troubles making my hp psc printer work through samba but even with winxp it is fast and reliable.
So if M$ really thinks there's a market for $100 pc's in so called "developing" countries then people should set up biz's that recycle these used pc's and sell them over "there".
Why didn't Ballmer suggest this though? - Simple answer, because he won't make money on that. He knows ms makes their money through oem sales and notice he made this stupid "need" revealed on the heels of the announcement of the stripped down winxp they are developing for these "developing" countries? So what's he really getting at? -
My conspiracy theory answer: When the XBox came out I told people this was ms's first move into making their own computers, people laughed. But with the rumors that xbox 2 could be a full media computer keyboard, windows and all no ones laughing now. I think those who suggested that ms's answer for this so called "$100" need is an embedded version of windows that users "subscribe" to use and is basically an advanced dumb terminal are correct.
I predict they will either make it themselves or they'll have a licence to select few oem's to put it embedded and the oem's will be the ones that collect the subscription fee.
The most expensive part of a computer these days is STILL the monitor, but a custom version of windows on a rig like this could automatically blow up the text on the tv when an app that needs more clarity is called on such as email.
This plan of theirs would be in addition to their other windows products of course not a replacement.
>>Firefox's open platform gives it enormous potential to hatch a new class of applications that live on the desktop but do business on the Web.'"
old news. This is the same thing that was said back when Netscape made the first "Communicator" suite and it didn't come to pass.
indeed motherboards would be an issue. remember the fiasco we all went through with AMD chips when AGP first came out? even USB took a while to get working right on amd platforms.
This may be straying off a bit but you know what I found interesting this week was Intels backing off plans for the 4GHz chip in favor of instead concentrating on performance of existing chips admitting that mhz speed isn't everything. Funny thing is that's what Apple's been saying all along isn't it?
ok. Proof?
And why has no one screamed about stupid licences like this? It's my $120 I paid I'm more than tired of companies telling me its essentially a rental./rant off.
Reports on their last quarter earnings showed that yes the money is coming from iPod and Laptop sales.
As far as compatabilities, I don't see how that would be a problem because macs now use mostly pc hardware anyway. They support both ATI and Nvidia cards, any USB and firewire device, the only thing "different" about them is the G* risc cpu. Lots of companies make hardware for the MacOS and the drivers for them so I don't see how there'd be incompatabilities.
Oh well.
Isn't that one of SCO's arguements?
Also if C-OS is a rip-off of PearPC then it can't be 100% because they claim it runs at 80% compared to PearPC's what? - 10%
I just don't think there's enough evidence yet to make any assumptions other than it appeared to me it was vaporware when its website disappeared.
ok... but what about if it was G5/RISC hardware? Essentially open up to clone making again. Sorry but I can only see this as a win win situation. Past clone making efforts don't count because they were poorly implemented and it wasn't truely "open clone making" it was only oem's so the choices were limited not to mention the OS version Apple provided was less stellar. OS X on the other hand truely is the holy grail *nix users have wanted for some real competition for MicroSoft. What's making Apple money right now anyway is their specialized products anyway: Laptops and iPods, its not desktops at all.
you're thoughts?
You know I wondered when someone would point that out.
However, if cherryOS did use PearPC's code then they havn't complied with the GPL.
At any rate I read on Wired today an interview with C-OS developer who said he'll soon give source code to PearPC to see for themselves and will have a trial version for people soon and even plans a version that won't require a host OS (windows) to run on.
Personally I think the interest for this should show Apple that there's HUGE market for them to ship MacOS for PC and/or open up to clone making G5's, their mac fanatics will still buy their brand of hardware I bet so I don't think they have anything at all to lose and everything to gain.
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"Friends" started doing this the season before their last with their "extended" episodes. All I do to compensate is on my dvr I tell it to start a few minutes early and end a few late.
gawd its not "piracy" that's something done for profit this is merely a hobby. I relied on p2p to get Roswell and Enterprise episodes because we didn't have upn in the area. This is clearly another case of the media business trying to squash any new change rather than adapt themselves.
neat idea I think. G4/Tech TV's Screen Savers is so Windows loving it makes me sick so this show could fill a niche. Although maybe instead of being only about oss maybe the show should be "Slashdot TV" complete with a few talking heads to argue about something in the last 5 minutes of the show to represent the forums here. :)
straw man.
Funny how info likes this only gets picked up mainstream sites AFTER PBS reports. PBS ran a story about this two weeks ago, archeaologists call these people "pre-clovus". Not all agree though, some have other explenations for the date discrepencies and they also question why no other signs of human prescence other than the spear heads appear in those layers of strata. So the juries still out.
another way to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Many of the "bootlegged" movies I've seen I'm convinced are actually leaked by the industry for movies that don't push a lot of advertising for it. That aside come on movie industry, the movie trading hobby is just that - a hobby it doesn't keep us from seeing the movie especially when you consider the quality they usually are. If anything it makes more people interested in multimedia professions just like cracking games led people into programming careers and so on. What's next? Will they start confiscating people's cell phones when they enter the theatre because they may have a camera on it?
how would agreeing to Kyoto treaty cost jobs? It would seem to me to do the opposite for at least a short while anyway. I know one way we can conserve energy and thereby cut some pollution -- shut off at least half the damn city lights at night. Seriously ever notice the light pollution? It's horrible, even my small town of 20,000 I have to drive 20 miles or further into the country to get a dark enough spot for night sky observing.
>>Despite that, Ebay auctions have already gone up, with one having already reached $265!" there's a sucker born every minute.
>>Or PCs. Or the Internet! Or the biggest killer of all: the motor vehicle.
once again legitimate users will suffer for the violations of the very few. Congress has got to step in and put a stop to this harrassment because this one especially blocks technological advancement.
yup. We already have nuke plants and they are already faced with problem no. 1 that you mentioned. I don't know about problem no. 2 though. From what I understand (very limited and old info though) is that the waste is mainly water that was used for cooling and spent rods. If it can be solved it definetly is an answer. The left would hate it of course because they wouldn't have anything left to whine about as it fullfill what they've been demanding for years anyway. I absolutely hate whineing without a solution.
LOL and to think they needed "research money" to come to this conclusion! ****from article below**** "The research was funded by National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Packard Foundation. Says the professor who does not use the falling-paper effect to grade student essays and forecast their future: "What is predictable is that as the autumn leaves tumble down, they drift in particular directions, depending on the way they turn. This may explain, Wang adds, "why you are getting the leaves from your neighbor." ****end of article quote*** This project is as ridiculous as the one I read about last week where researchers "proved" that cats stress. == No duh Sherlocks they coulda just called any of us cat owners and asked us and saved a heck of a lot of money and time. Industrial labor working people of the world: those are the customers of the expensive overpriced vehicle you contributed to build. Bow down to the greatness of their education. "oh we quiver in awe of your genius great holders of expensive pieces of paper..."
...and I'd say it provides useful arguements for converting people from Windows and Mac platforms to Linux...but sadly, most people I try to convert use the "but this does what I want already, and that's more work, and I don't really see the benefit" excuse. It seems that people tend to suffer with what they have, if it works at all, rather than put in a little effort and change something to be much better. Me: True and the arguement makes sense -- at the moment. But have they forgotten what it was like to upgrade from win3.1? the driver incompatabilites driving them mad that they gave up and just bought brand new? It happend again with '98. XP was an easier transition but Longhorn is going to be another beast altogether with this 3d desktop! Windows just got even more bloated! Remember the first '95 computers shipped with 8meg of memory? MEG! Not gig -- meg. Will these people do the switch all over again? (the hardware companies are just hopeing they will, they love it when M$ adds bloat because their sales go up. XP wasn't a big enough sales jump but their all banking on "Win Media center" for now and "Longhorn" for the near future. When this happens and you remind them that MS has been wanting to kill support already for the 9x's stand by ready with your Knoppix disk and show them how life can be breathed back into their computer and the constant upgrade cycle to support MS's bank account can be done away with.
You're really not worth replying to because your rudeness shows your low intelligence and the fact that you didn't read my post fully. I said "I'm not letting Bush off the hook either" he's just as guilty. So all you're doing is steering clear of the fact that you don't know jack about this topic.
Containers get inspected from everywhere, France, Italy, Japan, you name it.
You're the partisan hack agreeing with this scare tactic of Kerry's without even researching it sheesh.
>>95% of shipping containers coming into this country aren't being inspected, yet we have law enforcement agents to spare... Ok wait just a minute. I am sick and tired of the left making that statement. As a former Coast Guardsman I can speak to this issue with authority. Do you have any idea how many "shipping containers" come into this country? Millions my friend - millions. There is a system and always has been for what needs inspected just like your local town cops have for what to look for for drunk drivers late at night or suspect vehicles and so on. I guarentee you that at least 95% of all cars driving through town late at night or from bars also are not inspected. So you see that statement is just a scare tactic, it has no helium in its balloon. The suppossed 5% that are getting inspected do so because they meet certain guidelines that are used to weed through it all! It would take absolutely millions of people to inspect them all! The CG has less than 50,000! Most of which are E3 and below who do grunt work, havn't been sent to the LE school yet, or hazmat school and so on. Get some facts before you continue to spew Kerry's unqualified quotes like that. And yes Bush has some whoppers he spews out over and over so I aint letting him off the hook either it's just this one is a whopper that people are completely ignorant about how it works. It should show you how stupid Kerry thinks the American people are that we'd fall for this scare tactic.
there's tons of perfectly good used pc's and used parts out there. I just bought a dual p2-450 rig for example off ebay for $80 ($100 w/shipping) that is now doing file and print sharing and crunching folding@home.
This rig flies with Yoper Linux I was flat out amazed. I still ended up putting one of my XP Pro licences on it though because I ran into too many troubles making my hp psc printer work through samba but even with winxp it is fast and reliable.
So if M$ really thinks there's a market for $100 pc's in so called "developing" countries then people should set up biz's that recycle these used pc's and sell them over "there".
Why didn't Ballmer suggest this though? - Simple answer, because he won't make money on that. He knows ms makes their money through oem sales and notice he made this stupid "need" revealed on the heels of the announcement of the stripped down winxp they are developing for these "developing" countries? So what's he really getting at? -
My conspiracy theory answer: When the XBox came out I told people this was ms's first move into making their own computers, people laughed. But with the rumors that xbox 2 could be a full media computer keyboard, windows and all no ones laughing now. I think those who suggested that ms's answer for this so called "$100" need is an embedded version of windows that users "subscribe" to use and is basically an advanced dumb terminal are correct.
I predict they will either make it themselves or they'll have a licence to select few oem's to put it embedded and the oem's will be the ones that collect the subscription fee.
The most expensive part of a computer these days is STILL the monitor, but a custom version of windows on a rig like this could automatically blow up the text on the tv when an app that needs more clarity is called on such as email.
This plan of theirs would be in addition to their other windows products of course not a replacement.
>>Firefox's open platform gives it enormous potential to hatch a new class of applications that live on the desktop but do business on the Web.'" old news. This is the same thing that was said back when Netscape made the first "Communicator" suite and it didn't come to pass.
just what we need, another device that can track you everywhere you go. Big Brother is watching only it turned out to be business not government.
indeed motherboards would be an issue. remember the fiasco we all went through with AMD chips when AGP first came out? even USB took a while to get working right on amd platforms. This may be straying off a bit but you know what I found interesting this week was Intels backing off plans for the 4GHz chip in favor of instead concentrating on performance of existing chips admitting that mhz speed isn't everything. Funny thing is that's what Apple's been saying all along isn't it?
thanks for info.
ok. Proof? And why has no one screamed about stupid licences like this? It's my $120 I paid I'm more than tired of companies telling me its essentially a rental. /rant off.
Reports on their last quarter earnings showed that yes the money is coming from iPod and Laptop sales. As far as compatabilities, I don't see how that would be a problem because macs now use mostly pc hardware anyway. They support both ATI and Nvidia cards, any USB and firewire device, the only thing "different" about them is the G* risc cpu. Lots of companies make hardware for the MacOS and the drivers for them so I don't see how there'd be incompatabilities. Oh well.
Isn't that one of SCO's arguements? Also if C-OS is a rip-off of PearPC then it can't be 100% because they claim it runs at 80% compared to PearPC's what? - 10% I just don't think there's enough evidence yet to make any assumptions other than it appeared to me it was vaporware when its website disappeared.
ok... but what about if it was G5/RISC hardware? Essentially open up to clone making again. Sorry but I can only see this as a win win situation. Past clone making efforts don't count because they were poorly implemented and it wasn't truely "open clone making" it was only oem's so the choices were limited not to mention the OS version Apple provided was less stellar. OS X on the other hand truely is the holy grail *nix users have wanted for some real competition for MicroSoft. What's making Apple money right now anyway is their specialized products anyway: Laptops and iPods, its not desktops at all. you're thoughts?
You know I wondered when someone would point that out. However, if cherryOS did use PearPC's code then they havn't complied with the GPL. At any rate I read on Wired today an interview with C-OS developer who said he'll soon give source code to PearPC to see for themselves and will have a trial version for people soon and even plans a version that won't require a host OS (windows) to run on. Personally I think the interest for this should show Apple that there's HUGE market for them to ship MacOS for PC and/or open up to clone making G5's, their mac fanatics will still buy their brand of hardware I bet so I don't think they have anything at all to lose and everything to gain.