Why does Microsoft all of a sudden have to compete with Google Video/YouTube? If McDonalds comes out with a new burger, does GM all of a sudden have to react? Yes, MS and Google are both tech companies, but why should MS start doing a hosted video service just because Google is doing it?
or whatever pop-up that LACKS a basic "no, and never ever ask me again for ANY site!!!!" option right on the popup. Better yet, it shouldn't ask this in the first place.
Which version are you using? Maybe it's a new feature of v2, but on mine the popup has an option for "remember password", "not this time", and "never for this site". And as others have said, the option to turn the whole thing off is in the preferences options, anyway.
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> but what about your passport. Just leave it at home when you travel?
I certainly wouldn't carry it with me in my wallet - I'd keep it in the safe in my hotel room.
That will be pretty inconvinient when you are at the airport.
Why would you leave your passport if you're going to the airport? But why would you take your passport everywhere with you when you're going to the beach, siteseeing, etc.?
why can't they just post the Excel file online somewhere? Heck, there's tons of free filehosts, too!
Also, since the information is *already* technically available freely, aren't there other independent sources that could compile the information and aggregate it? Some public volunteer govt watchdog type groups or something?
Good info...I do think I'll play with it some more. Given your example, even in a windows interface, I'd personally do (from the beginning of the line) ctrl-right arrow, ctrl-right arrow, ctrl-right arrow, ctrl-shift-right arrow, ctrl-shift-right arrow, ctrl-shift-right arrow, delete. Just because there's a GUI, doesn't mean you *always* depend on the mouse!
Every so often I'll see an article like this (vim, emacs, whatnot) and I'll go check it out. I keep trying gvim (I think after downloading and playing with it again this morning it's been probably 4-5 times now over the past few years), and I keep getting frustrated. For a developer using Windows, and programming primarily in.NET, what does gvim offer me over something like Notepad++ (my current editor of choice)? The extent of my raw text file editing is mostly classic ASP pages (small mods, nothing from scratch) or the occasional txt data file or something. Everything else I do in Visual Studio.
I keep trying gvim out, but it just seems like too much work to get to my basic functionality that I've come to expect out of other windows editors. Some of my shortcut keystrokes don't work, and I don't really want to track down how to remap them. I shouldn't have to. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how to change the default font, and make it stick. The same to get the bottom scrollbar to stick. I shouldn't have to look up settings in one file, and edit a different text file in order to make simple configuration changes. gvim offers "tabs", but not as I've come to expect tabs to work. It's not so much a "tabbed interface" as it is an interface that "supports tabs". How do I make it open each file by default in a tab?
I dunno...maybe I'm just too lazy. It seems very powerful, for the occasional edit and decent find and replace in files, it seems like too much work to get set up the right way, and on top of that you have to learn the basic commands, too.
Maybe if I worked in both Windows and Linux on a more regular basis, then it would be more of an advantage? I'll play with it some more and maybe I'll force myself to learn it. Just my $.02.
I think it's the (sometimes daily) change in prices of 5-10% that hurts more than the price. Sure, $3 a gallon sucks, but if it's always roughly that price you would get used to it. Instead we have gas for $2.70, then a week later it's down to $2.38. Or in the morning it's 2.65, that afternoon it's $2.80. What other necessary commodity item has prices that jump around so much? Blaming economics and supply and demand on rapid price jumps is bullshit.
Why would DELL do that. OS-less Optiplex workstation are only discounted by $70AUD(~$53US) from the same machine with OS (being XP Pro SP2).
Where does the other $150US come from?
Mostly my point was that if a big OEM company offered a system at a significant discount (by your point, the difference is relatively insignificant now) due to bundling linux instead of Windows, and it did all the basic stuff the consumer needed, then it could truly become "mainstream". At this current moment, the difference is pretty small between no OS and Windows, so why not go with Windows? Plus, in my mind, I was thinking more along the lines of home consumers instead of businesses.
The inability of another player to play these songs (without going through alot of trouble to remove the DRM) is a show stopper for me.
Isn't that a showstopper for using Itunes in the first place? It's ridiculous to pay for music that you're locked into a single piece of hardware/software for, especially at essentially the same price of a CD (if you were to buy all of the tracks on the CD).
Now, we geeks might finally be able to begin offering Linux as an option for our friends, family, and customers, and not be met with "Huh?," but it'll still be a long time yet before Joe the drywaller, or Jim the doctor, or even Marge, the accountant, actually seeks out a Linux box for an objective, independent reason.
Maybe, but if Dell or HP or Best Buy offer a PC system that will browse the intarweb and do email and IM and print school reports, for a *real* discount ($200+ less than a Windows system?), then they all those Joe Smith's might actually adopt a linux system. The vast majority of the people out there won't bother installing linux, but they don't bother installing Windows, either. They just want something that works.
Come to think of it, Dell or HP should do a Mac-like marketing campaign for linux PCs: "don't want viruses? don't want spyware? Want to do everything else you actually want to do on a computer? Buy this....it's $200 less than a Windows PC, and $1200 less than a Mac PC!"
Heh, my kid brother just bought the Core bundle (which means I got his old xbox! Yay for being cheap!). I doubt he fully understands the difference between the two, mostly I think it's that he had the money for the Core and not the Premium (or whatever the mega one is called). He's 16. My parents don't have broadband, so he's not going to be using Live anytime soon. There's no "home network", and he's hooking it up to a probably 10-15 yr old TV. I'm not sure how the hard drive works into things.
Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. Ah well.....guess I'll keep an eye on things. If it gets to the point where I really have to upgrade, I'll probably just wipe it out and start things over. By then, maybe I'll be even more familiar with linux that I can script out most of the setup that I've done. Woohoo!
Also, how much is involved with upgrading an existing knoppmyth box to a newer version? I set up knoppmyth maybe 6 months ago, and still have work to do, but the basic things I want it to do are working and working great. Seems like when I was setting things up and tried "upgrading" and it blew away all of my settings - not just the mythtv settings, but VNC, openssh, samba shares, all were gone after running their "upgrade". Maybe I just did it wrong?
Anyone else start getting a banner ad at the bottom of their channel guide with Comcast digital cable? As of Tuesday night, I now have lost about a fifth of the screen, an entire channel row, to a big ugly ad. It's even better that the ad changes every time I page up or page down.....gahhhhh.
Um, well, it goes like this:
1) Subscribe, pay for a month or two
2) Download every track available
3) Strip DRM from every track
4) Stop subscription when all tracks are downloaded
5) Wait until more music is available
On the way people will be distributing and sharing the unprotected tracks, too, further decreasing the need for a Napster subscription.
If there was a way to instantly photocopy books, it is like you advocating everyone go to the library, copy every book you want, and never buy another book again, at least until a sizable collection of new books is available.
I think I'll wait for
6) Download entire Napster library via bittorrent.
I can't say I print much of anything now, but back in school I'd print A LOT. You know, term papers, research reports, presentations, notes, etc. I'm thinking students drive a lot of the personal printing market.
No, I fully agree that for 99% of the time the quality difference is probably unnoticeable, especially if it's being played in the car or computer speakers or even an ipod or something. My understanding is that official pressed CDs are sourced from the original recording sources - DAT tapes (?) or whatnot that comes in the recording studio. These are going to be higher quality that burned CDs that are "sourced" from compressed AACs/MP3s, etc. In my mind, I see purchased pressed CDs as consumer "sources" - the closest thing you'll get to the original sound short of whatever was in the studio. Therefore, digitally ripping a lossless copy from the CD could be considered a "master copy", and ripping and compressing tracks from a pressed CD would be only 2 degrees away from the master. I dunno...just my $.02?
You do realize that when you're "burning to a CD then ripping it back" you're DRM-free ripped copy is even less quality than the original file you started with, right? Burning a compressed audio file to a CD, then ripping it to yet another compressed file is reducing the sound quality. Whether it's noticeable or not, it's not the same as buying a pressed CD and ripping tracks from that.
It doesn't matter what you consider it... It is still theft.
No, it is NOT theft. It is copyright infringement. Stop calling it that. It is debatable whether copyright infringement is right or wrong (currently it is legally wrong), but wipe that brainwash out. Copying MP3s or movies is not stealing anything from anybody. If someone downloads a file, the world is no different than it was before. Nobody is out anything.
Victimless crimes are still crimes.
Good luck arguing that one - there's a debate that's been going on forever. You're honestly bringing up the marijuana for personal consumption argument? Yes, it's illegal now, but I'd wager that in the next 20 years we'll see something in the way of government regulation of legalized personal marijuana. Just because it's illegal now doesn't make it right.
As far as making duplicate copies of those physical items.....if I were to make a counterfeit copy, yes, that would be a problem. There's really no good analogy between the physical world and the digital world. If I make a forgery of a bank's property deed, yes, that's a problem. But if I have an exact copy of the property deed, down to the last detail, so that as far as the bank or anyone else is concerned is is as real and legit as the original, what is the problem? Are copied digital files less authentic as the originals? There is a vast difference between stealing and copying!!
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Why does Microsoft all of a sudden have to compete with Google Video/YouTube? If McDonalds comes out with a new burger, does GM all of a sudden have to react? Yes, MS and Google are both tech companies, but why should MS start doing a hosted video service just because Google is doing it?
Get that shit out there. I'd drop Comcrap in a heartbeat if there was the FIOS alternative.
why can't they just post the Excel file online somewhere? Heck, there's tons of free filehosts, too!
Also, since the information is *already* technically available freely, aren't there other independent sources that could compile the information and aggregate it? Some public volunteer govt watchdog type groups or something?
Good info...I do think I'll play with it some more. Given your example, even in a windows interface, I'd personally do (from the beginning of the line) ctrl-right arrow, ctrl-right arrow, ctrl-right arrow, ctrl-shift-right arrow, ctrl-shift-right arrow, ctrl-shift-right arrow, delete. Just because there's a GUI, doesn't mean you *always* depend on the mouse!
Every so often I'll see an article like this (vim, emacs, whatnot) and I'll go check it out. I keep trying gvim (I think after downloading and playing with it again this morning it's been probably 4-5 times now over the past few years), and I keep getting frustrated. For a developer using Windows, and programming primarily in .NET, what does gvim offer me over something like Notepad++ (my current editor of choice)? The extent of my raw text file editing is mostly classic ASP pages (small mods, nothing from scratch) or the occasional txt data file or something. Everything else I do in Visual Studio.
I keep trying gvim out, but it just seems like too much work to get to my basic functionality that I've come to expect out of other windows editors. Some of my shortcut keystrokes don't work, and I don't really want to track down how to remap them. I shouldn't have to. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how to change the default font, and make it stick. The same to get the bottom scrollbar to stick. I shouldn't have to look up settings in one file, and edit a different text file in order to make simple configuration changes. gvim offers "tabs", but not as I've come to expect tabs to work. It's not so much a "tabbed interface" as it is an interface that "supports tabs". How do I make it open each file by default in a tab?
I dunno...maybe I'm just too lazy. It seems very powerful, for the occasional edit and decent find and replace in files, it seems like too much work to get set up the right way, and on top of that you have to learn the basic commands, too.
Maybe if I worked in both Windows and Linux on a more regular basis, then it would be more of an advantage? I'll play with it some more and maybe I'll force myself to learn it. Just my $.02.
I think it's the (sometimes daily) change in prices of 5-10% that hurts more than the price. Sure, $3 a gallon sucks, but if it's always roughly that price you would get used to it. Instead we have gas for $2.70, then a week later it's down to $2.38. Or in the morning it's 2.65, that afternoon it's $2.80. What other necessary commodity item has prices that jump around so much? Blaming economics and supply and demand on rapid price jumps is bullshit.
Come to think of it, Dell or HP should do a Mac-like marketing campaign for linux PCs: "don't want viruses? don't want spyware? Want to do everything else you actually want to do on a computer? Buy this....it's $200 less than a Windows PC, and $1200 less than a Mac PC!"
Skype?
Everyone's got one, and they all stink.
Heh, my kid brother just bought the Core bundle (which means I got his old xbox! Yay for being cheap!). I doubt he fully understands the difference between the two, mostly I think it's that he had the money for the Core and not the Premium (or whatever the mega one is called). He's 16. My parents don't have broadband, so he's not going to be using Live anytime soon. There's no "home network", and he's hooking it up to a probably 10-15 yr old TV. I'm not sure how the hard drive works into things.
Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. Ah well.....guess I'll keep an eye on things. If it gets to the point where I really have to upgrade, I'll probably just wipe it out and start things over. By then, maybe I'll be even more familiar with linux that I can script out most of the setup that I've done. Woohoo!
Also, how much is involved with upgrading an existing knoppmyth box to a newer version? I set up knoppmyth maybe 6 months ago, and still have work to do, but the basic things I want it to do are working and working great. Seems like when I was setting things up and tried "upgrading" and it blew away all of my settings - not just the mythtv settings, but VNC, openssh, samba shares, all were gone after running their "upgrade". Maybe I just did it wrong?
Anyone else start getting a banner ad at the bottom of their channel guide with Comcast digital cable? As of Tuesday night, I now have lost about a fifth of the screen, an entire channel row, to a big ugly ad. It's even better that the ad changes every time I page up or page down.....gahhhhh.
6) Download entire Napster library via bittorrent.
I'm guessing Joe Public isn't in the server buying market all that often, though.
I can't say I print much of anything now, but back in school I'd print A LOT. You know, term papers, research reports, presentations, notes, etc. I'm thinking students drive a lot of the personal printing market.
No, I fully agree that for 99% of the time the quality difference is probably unnoticeable, especially if it's being played in the car or computer speakers or even an ipod or something. My understanding is that official pressed CDs are sourced from the original recording sources - DAT tapes (?) or whatnot that comes in the recording studio. These are going to be higher quality that burned CDs that are "sourced" from compressed AACs/MP3s, etc. In my mind, I see purchased pressed CDs as consumer "sources" - the closest thing you'll get to the original sound short of whatever was in the studio. Therefore, digitally ripping a lossless copy from the CD could be considered a "master copy", and ripping and compressing tracks from a pressed CD would be only 2 degrees away from the master. I dunno...just my $.02?
You do realize that when you're "burning to a CD then ripping it back" you're DRM-free ripped copy is even less quality than the original file you started with, right? Burning a compressed audio file to a CD, then ripping it to yet another compressed file is reducing the sound quality. Whether it's noticeable or not, it's not the same as buying a pressed CD and ripping tracks from that.
No, it is NOT theft. It is copyright infringement. Stop calling it that. It is debatable whether copyright infringement is right or wrong (currently it is legally wrong), but wipe that brainwash out. Copying MP3s or movies is not stealing anything from anybody. If someone downloads a file, the world is no different than it was before. Nobody is out anything.
Good luck arguing that one - there's a debate that's been going on forever. You're honestly bringing up the marijuana for personal consumption argument? Yes, it's illegal now, but I'd wager that in the next 20 years we'll see something in the way of government regulation of legalized personal marijuana. Just because it's illegal now doesn't make it right.
As far as making duplicate copies of those physical items.....if I were to make a counterfeit copy, yes, that would be a problem. There's really no good analogy between the physical world and the digital world. If I make a forgery of a bank's property deed, yes, that's a problem. But if I have an exact copy of the property deed, down to the last detail, so that as far as the bank or anyone else is concerned is is as real and legit as the original, what is the problem? Are copied digital files less authentic as the originals? There is a vast difference between stealing and copying!!
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