You shouldn't have to avoid virii, spyware, worms, trojans, and rootkits; your OS should be secure against those things.
Does your DVD player get infected by random porn movies? Does your TV get infected from channel surfing public access? Microsoft has made it acceptable to release an unfinished product, charge for it, and then charge again just to make it do what it was supposed to do in the first place.
iTunes isn't restricted to just Windows XP, right? It therefore automatically just gained almost the entire theoretical market (iTunes works in WINE by the way).
I tend to do basically what MPlayer does nowadays, and that includes using Subversion for SCM, Bugzilla for bugs, Mailman for mailing lists, and Apache HTTPD for serving it all. I like to maintain a Debian Sid package (you can't directly upload to stable or testing anyhow, so the Debian maintainers will take care of adapting the package for those distros), and if someone else on the team knows anything about RPM, we also maintain the.spec file as well. I also like to keep an emerge script in there as well, but even if I didn't, someone would write one faster than you can bootstrap a Gentoo Mac Pro, so there's nothing to worry about there.
Do you think that $15000 price doesn't help pay for all those overhead fees for the tier1 company that provides the connection? Or do said tier1 companies just lack server hardware, support staff, HR, a CEO, etc.?
VCs could dump money into Sun (OpenOffice, StarOffice), Red Hat (Linux, RHEL, many other GPL'd stuff), and Novell (more Linux, SuSE, other GPL'd stuff).
Just dual boot and keep a copy of Windows for gaming. One day you'll be able to play basically any game flawlessly via WINE, but that's not the case right now. Maybe it'll be ready for that by the time Vista comes out?
You don't consider shift, tab, ctrl, alt, win, and fn to be used enough by your left pinky? I'd say that it's used more than my right pinky (which is just return, shift,/,;, ', and \).
What about us who use touchpads? It seems to be more natural to, uh, er, not use it all. Well, up and down seems more natural, but maybe that's due to scrolling all the time.
An OC-12 (622 Mbps) dedicated (99.99% uptime, downtime = reimbursed) costs about $15000 a month (many would say "holy shit", but that's a good deal). Doing some Google calculator math, that equates to about 13.31 GB/$. Charging over 10 times that price sounds pretty bad.
Then again, using dedicated T1 (1.5 Mbps) math, that equates to about 1.20 GB/$, but only dial-up ISPs use(d) those (and businesses with low bandwidth and high uptime needs).
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You shouldn't have to avoid virii, spyware, worms, trojans, and rootkits; your OS should be secure against those things.
Does your DVD player get infected by random porn movies? Does your TV get infected from channel surfing public access? Microsoft has made it acceptable to release an unfinished product, charge for it, and then charge again just to make it do what it was supposed to do in the first place.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. They are legally defined as a monopoly regardless of any "competition" you think there is.
iTunes isn't restricted to just Windows XP, right? It therefore automatically just gained almost the entire theoretical market (iTunes works in WINE by the way).
We proclaimed it dead before the first Slashdot article went live!
This has been proclaimed dead by a site independent of Slashdot, so it must be true. Netcraft confirms it: Amazon Unbox is dying.
I tend to do basically what MPlayer does nowadays, and that includes using Subversion for SCM, Bugzilla for bugs, Mailman for mailing lists, and Apache HTTPD for serving it all. I like to maintain a Debian Sid package (you can't directly upload to stable or testing anyhow, so the Debian maintainers will take care of adapting the package for those distros), and if someone else on the team knows anything about RPM, we also maintain the .spec file as well. I also like to keep an emerge script in there as well, but even if I didn't, someone would write one faster than you can bootstrap a Gentoo Mac Pro, so there's nothing to worry about there.
and pretty much every non-ipod mp3 player.
There are mp3 players other than the iPod? </Joe Sixpack>
The XviD encodes from the scene are like half that size, and they're typically recorded in a PAL region where standard-def is better.
Rent it from Blockbuster/Hollywood Video/Netflix and back it up.
Or are you looking for a legitimate way?
Do you think that $15000 price doesn't help pay for all those overhead fees for the tier1 company that provides the connection? Or do said tier1 companies just lack server hardware, support staff, HR, a CEO, etc.?
Hollywood is perfectly capable of delivering DRM-free, standards-compliant media, too.
Oh, that's the standard COPPA form that uses ancient analogue methods of verification.
Wait, doesn't DRM stand for "direct renderring module"?
Quad core is already available in all Mac Pros (they all have dual Xeons, and each Xeon has dual-core).
VCs could dump money into Sun (OpenOffice, StarOffice), Red Hat (Linux, RHEL, many other GPL'd stuff), and Novell (more Linux, SuSE, other GPL'd stuff).
Just dual boot and keep a copy of Windows for gaming. One day you'll be able to play basically any game flawlessly via WINE, but that's not the case right now. Maybe it'll be ready for that by the time Vista comes out?
If you want serious discussions, go to Digg.
Oh wait...
How about Fark?
According to Wiktionary, it means "to stop using [Microsoft] Windows" (or to throw something from a window).
And she's a woman no less! When will the jokes end?
You don't consider shift, tab, ctrl, alt, win, and fn to be used enough by your left pinky? I'd say that it's used more than my right pinky (which is just return, shift, /, ;, ', and \).
What about us who use touchpads? It seems to be more natural to, uh, er, not use it all. Well, up and down seems more natural, but maybe that's due to scrolling all the time.
Oh, but hot coffee didn't become an issue until after it was released for Xbox and PC.
I ask this because of some math:
An OC-12 (622 Mbps) dedicated (99.99% uptime, downtime = reimbursed) costs about $15000 a month (many would say "holy shit", but that's a good deal). Doing some Google calculator math, that equates to about 13.31 GB/$. Charging over 10 times that price sounds pretty bad.
Then again, using dedicated T1 (1.5 Mbps) math, that equates to about 1.20 GB/$, but only dial-up ISPs use(d) those (and businesses with low bandwidth and high uptime needs).
How much do you pay for your internet connection?
Dude, all he's asking for is standards-compliant DRM-free media, not some esoteric demand for a xine-specific video.
Can't you help them set up the options? After that's set, there's minimal clicks to getting the rip started anyhow.