That's a question of personal taste. Netflix's documentary collection is large and the quality of titles on the whole is the best I've ever seen, and well worth the $7.99/month CAD that I gladly pay for it. (Ever seen Manda Balla? I hadn't even heard of this film until I saw it browsing Netflix. One of many excellent titles worth watching and recommending)
On a side note, yes I've downloaded high-quality HD movies without paying for them (it's legal in Canada, you know), but Netflix is just easier, and the aforementioned selection so good that I don't know of a better place to go shopping for films on-line. The music industry would do well to bring a comparable product to market (and don't talk to me about satellite radio. The concept is ok, but the sound quality is just too poor to even think about paying any real money for).
And according to Barbara Coloroso, disgust leads to contempt; contempt leads to a view of inferiority and objetification; bullying follows, and at some point any inhumanity can be justified, because after all, they're less than human. She claims this to be the path that has led up to every major genocide of this century.
I'll stop there before somebody Godwins me, and I'm not trying to suggest that all disgust and contempt lead to genocide or even murder, but I do think it's a road best not travelled.
I'd be happier if I could run windows 7 on it, and I'm sure there's a way
It's not as hard as you think. Just take the Windows 7 source code and recompile the whole thing for ARM. Sit back and enjoy a glass of root beer and let the compiler do the rest.
Now MS has bought Skype, it's not all about technology, but also about a technology that is widespread. This has the potential to be that technology and to replace Skype.
Maybe so, but making it browser dependent is an unnecessary handicap in my perspective, an artificial limitation.
So the former then, Google Voice is not Voice. I wasn't trying to troll, I just have no familiarity with Google Voice, and thought it funny that it shouldn't be VoIP when the one phrase is virtually a transliteration of the other, but apparently that's the case.
I heard you like an OS in your OS, so I put an app in your app so you can experience the reinvention of every app while you surf the web.
I'm not sure I like this trend of taking every piece of software functionality, making it work inside a browser, and then treating it like it's something new. I feel like I'm back in the 90s, where every new song on the radio was some old song sung by a new person.
I don't think Canadian ISPs are particularly concerned with the legality of P2P content, but rather the fact that Rogers is a cable company, so if you're downloading video and music that you did not purchase from them, then that's a problem. They don't actually care so much about WOW, because they don't see it as a threat to their revenue model.
Polygamy is, according to wikipedia, "a heterosexual marriage which includes more than two partners." Substitute relationship or cohabitation for marriage and 1% starts to look like a really low number compared to their neighbours.
What are you talking about? PPAs are a great way to have the latest version of a handful of programs, and have nothing to do with hell that I'm aware of. But yeah, if you want cutting edge everything then Ubuntu's six month release cycle is probably not for you.
That means if you, AC, put a piece of GPLed software on the store, you are effectively obligating MS to host the source code and GPL somewhere as the distributor.
Even if you're 100% correct on that, what load does that create for MS, really? Let's say they allow GPL apps in their store, and worst case scenario, every app submitted to the store is GPL. So they now have two extra obligations comared to the alternate reality of having 0 GPL apps in their store: 1. They have to host the code, and 2. They have to provide bandwidth to everybody that downloads the code. Storage is cheap, so I can't see #1 being a big issue. Add 1 cent to the price of every GPL app and you'll more than pay for that extra storage. #2 is a cost only when somebody actually downloads the source. How often does that happen really? Really? Am I being too generous to estimate that every 30th download of an app will be the source? I can't see this being a problem.
No, the real problem here is a philosophical one. MS simply will not acknowledge free (as in speech) software as a legitimate way to do things, because to do so would be a betrayal of their own business model, where every bit has a price. BSD-like licenses get a free pass because MS has ways of capitalizing on such licenses, and has in the past.
I'm somewhere between novice and expert with firewalls on large networks, and this article says absolutely nothing that makes sense to me. The author posits that a firewall in front of a server is just a new bottleneck. Really? In what way?
General consensus on security-oriented forums seems to be that a DDOS is effective because it fills your internet pipe. If my firewall is a bottleneck, then it's either too weak for the pipe it's deployed on, or it's trying to do something stupid with packets that arrive there, and drowning as a result.
That, or this is all way over my head, in which case the author of the article has failed to reach a reasonably savvy audience.
Did that. FF portable on a reasonably fast USB stick (OCZ Rally 2) would still freeze up for seconds at a time. Mind you this was almost 2 years ago; I think it was FF 3.0 portable at the time, but none of the above made the problem go away. Maybe things have improved since then, but I have no pressing need to run FF portable lately, so I don't presently care to find out.
Slashdot Mirror
Cyanogenmod.
SSD Trim.
Mind you, I'm all Ubuntu at home, but for a Windows SSD user trim is the killer feature.
selection is still pathetic
That's a question of personal taste. Netflix's documentary collection is large and the quality of titles on the whole is the best I've ever seen, and well worth the $7.99/month CAD that I gladly pay for it. (Ever seen Manda Balla? I hadn't even heard of this film until I saw it browsing Netflix. One of many excellent titles worth watching and recommending)
On a side note, yes I've downloaded high-quality HD movies without paying for them (it's legal in Canada, you know), but Netflix is just easier, and the aforementioned selection so good that I don't know of a better place to go shopping for films on-line. The music industry would do well to bring a comparable product to market (and don't talk to me about satellite radio. The concept is ok, but the sound quality is just too poor to even think about paying any real money for).
You weren't using NTFS-formatted storage were you? Hint: Linux-based OSs perform a lot better on Linux-native filesystems. Try ext4 or jfs next time.
And this is worse than in-house Exchange how?
What are you implying, that it's about time?
And according to Barbara Coloroso, disgust leads to contempt; contempt leads to a view of inferiority and objetification; bullying follows, and at some point any inhumanity can be justified, because after all, they're less than human. She claims this to be the path that has led up to every major genocide of this century.
I'll stop there before somebody Godwins me, and I'm not trying to suggest that all disgust and contempt lead to genocide or even murder, but I do think it's a road best not travelled.
I'd be happier if I could run windows 7 on it, and I'm sure there's a way
It's not as hard as you think. Just take the Windows 7 source code and recompile the whole thing for ARM. Sit back and enjoy a glass of root beer and let the compiler do the rest.
You can say "1.5 Gigameters".
Now MS has bought Skype, it's not all about technology, but also about a technology that is widespread. This has the potential to be that technology and to replace Skype.
Maybe so, but making it browser dependent is an unnecessary handicap in my perspective, an artificial limitation.
So the former then, Google Voice is not Voice. I wasn't trying to troll, I just have no familiarity with Google Voice, and thought it funny that it shouldn't be VoIP when the one phrase is virtually a transliteration of the other, but apparently that's the case.
I heard you like an OS in your OS, so I put an app in your app so you can experience the reinvention of every app while you surf the web.
I'm not sure I like this trend of taking every piece of software functionality, making it work inside a browser, and then treating it like it's something new. I feel like I'm back in the 90s, where every new song on the radio was some old song sung by a new person.
VoIP=Voice over Internet Protocol
So are you saying that Google Voice isn't Voice, or that it doesn't work on the Internet Protocol?
Odd. Have you tried changing the I/O scheduler?
And a couple layers of confirmation dialogs. Nothing says 'serious' like confirmation dialogs.
I don't think Canadian ISPs are particularly concerned with the legality of P2P content, but rather the fact that Rogers is a cable company, so if you're downloading video and music that you did not purchase from them, then that's a problem. They don't actually care so much about WOW, because they don't see it as a threat to their revenue model.
...and send reconnaissance information back to the good guys
So if I know for sure that I'm the bad guy, I definitely don't want to be using one of these.
Polygamy is, according to wikipedia, "a heterosexual marriage which includes more than two partners." Substitute relationship or cohabitation for marriage and 1% starts to look like a really low number compared to their neighbours.
What are you talking about? PPAs are a great way to have the latest version of a handful of programs, and have nothing to do with hell that I'm aware of. But yeah, if you want cutting edge everything then Ubuntu's six month release cycle is probably not for you.
That means if you, AC, put a piece of GPLed software on the store, you are effectively obligating MS to host the source code and GPL somewhere as the distributor.
Even if you're 100% correct on that, what load does that create for MS, really? Let's say they allow GPL apps in their store, and worst case scenario, every app submitted to the store is GPL. So they now have two extra obligations comared to the alternate reality of having 0 GPL apps in their store: 1. They have to host the code, and 2. They have to provide bandwidth to everybody that downloads the code. Storage is cheap, so I can't see #1 being a big issue. Add 1 cent to the price of every GPL app and you'll more than pay for that extra storage. #2 is a cost only when somebody actually downloads the source. How often does that happen really? Really? Am I being too generous to estimate that every 30th download of an app will be the source? I can't see this being a problem.
No, the real problem here is a philosophical one. MS simply will not acknowledge free (as in speech) software as a legitimate way to do things, because to do so would be a betrayal of their own business model, where every bit has a price. BSD-like licenses get a free pass because MS has ways of capitalizing on such licenses, and has in the past.
There is no reason to believe Jesus could read
Except that he quoted the old testament. Or are you implying that he had the audio version?
I'm somewhere between novice and expert with firewalls on large networks, and this article says absolutely nothing that makes sense to me. The author posits that a firewall in front of a server is just a new bottleneck. Really? In what way?
General consensus on security-oriented forums seems to be that a DDOS is effective because it fills your internet pipe. If my firewall is a bottleneck, then it's either too weak for the pipe it's deployed on, or it's trying to do something stupid with packets that arrive there, and drowning as a result.
That, or this is all way over my head, in which case the author of the article has failed to reach a reasonably savvy audience.
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/08/13/1644229/Joachim-De-Posada-Talks-About-Delayed-Gratification
...to the public without disclosing important information about themselves.
I thought facebook disclosed all information about the public to themselves.
Did that. FF portable on a reasonably fast USB stick (OCZ Rally 2) would still freeze up for seconds at a time. Mind you this was almost 2 years ago; I think it was FF 3.0 portable at the time, but none of the above made the problem go away. Maybe things have improved since then, but I have no pressing need to run FF portable lately, so I don't presently care to find out.