This has caused me to stop buying CDs and DVDs. I recently priced the Ugly Betty DVD at amazon.ca and it was 64$ CAN. I went over to amazon.com and it was only 36 bucks. Given the current exchange rate, it should cost about 40 bucks canadian, so that means that amazon is pocketting 24$ on a single DVD. The same thing goes for CDs as well.
Fsckers.
There is absolutely no tech bubble, anywhere near the millennium bubble. This correction that we're going through has more to do with monetary policy, and the bloody Bush administrations devaluation of the American currency. One trillion dollars on a failed war, and they didn't even secure the oil. What a bunch of idiots.
DC power is a simple way to reduce power consumption by 30%, it can also significantly
reduce cooling requirements, and it's compatible with standard telco DC power kit.
If none of your code is running in kernel space, then you're home free. As long as you write all of your code, or use LGPL, BSD or similarly licensed libraries. Don't be afraid.
This is a Canadian right wing newspaper put out by the neocons at CanWest Global. Don't believe the anti-hype, this is all a concerted disinformation campaign being put on by the conservatives.
Since when did one user's opinion become a must have collection of addons for thunderbird? Oh, I know, since Taco decided to post this ridiculous review of TB extensions, windoze centric, and the guy doesn't think that enigmail is useful for him which speaks volumes, in plaintext, of course.
Not so much Canada, as an extreme right wing party that pretended that they are a simple conservative party to be elected into a minority position, and then pretend that they have a Bush style mandate (without the implied homosexuality, of course). They takes pages and pages (reams really) out of the Bush playbook, and attempt to pass it off as something that the majority of Canadians want to see happening. Unfortunately, we are in no position to have an election any time soon, and meanwhile, these idiots are doing everything in their power to change a barely socialist country into an American style capitalist empire. They even called up the reserve to serve in Afghanistan yesterday, and the Prime Minister sounded like he was repeating verbatim a speech that Shrub recently made concerning troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Fsck this company, they are scum. Their tech support is shit, and their products are perpetually buggy pieces of crap which one is forced to upgrade every year for an insane amount of money.
Anyway, tax filing software should be provided by the IRS or Revenue Canada, or whatever your tax collecting authority happens to be. I hate the fact that I have to pay some thrid party for tax prepartion software every goddamned year. This really pisses me off, in case you haven't realised, especially given that I have only 2 weeks to file and my return this year is going to be a nightmare, and I'm too cheap to pay an accountant 500 bucks to do my taxes.
You know what pisses me off more than that? It's being forced to spend 15 minutes opening the CD or DVD that I've purchased trying to get off the goddamned "security stickers". Fucking idiots in the music and movie industries, the lot.
Okay, assuming for the moment that this article isn't just a peanut being lobbed to Micro$oft in advance of the release of Vista, I agree, linux has its problems. And as others have pointed out, things aren't as easy as they should be. But hell, if you can't get an Ubuntu (I don't use install, and don't particularly like it myself, but it's the best distro for newbies that I've found) install working for you 'out of the box' then you got other problems. Mac OSX and Windoze both can confound newbies, and L^Husers. Hardware issues are often addressed in Linux far more quickly than they are by Micro$oft. I admit that there are problems with gnome, and I don't just mean the fact taht the gnome developers are a bunch of plonkers, and the functionality of some of their core utilities, like totem, which never works properly for me, certainly not as reliably as mplayer. This particular complaint could also be lobbed in the direction of the fedora maintainers though, since they seem to be a little slow keeping up with gnome updates. All in all though, it is getting much better. If you want to send mail (thunderbird) or browse the web (firefox) or write docs or spreadsheets (OO) you're off and running. Rhythmbox, et. al. are great at playing music and managing huge libraries. hardware support is excellent, except for, most notably, nvidia and ati's obstinate refusal to not play ball in the open source ball park, or football pitch, if you prefer. Just being a diehard linux user is enough to get these distros into shape, but it sure as hell doesn't hurt.
Use it and they will come.
And for god's sake, tell them to get an xbox or ps[23] or wii if they want to play games, forget about PC games.
Go get yourself a Cowan iAudio X5, excellent music player, with FM radio. Battery life is really good, available with a 20/30/60GB disk. My only beef, as usual, is that the battery cannot be replaced without sending it in to be replaced (of course, they all do this so that when the battery dies, everyone will just upgrade, rather than going to the hassle of sending it in for replacement.) Anyway, it plays tons of formats (including ogg vorbis and flac). And the bios is availabe with DRM (broken) and non-DRM (not broken).
Hell, if they don't encrypt their user passwords then I'll pass on a functionning file transfer feature. This is a HUGE security issue.
The question should be, can I turn file transfers off... on second thought, the question should be, why the hell would I install something on my computer that allows me to send/recv files from other users without the need for a password (for all intents and purposes).
I hope that it is just FUD or a beta issue with the user passwords stored in plaintext in the accounts xml file, because otherwise I will never configure this bloody program on any of my computers.
I had the same question. I do know that booting linux from flash does not work well if you use the device for logging as well. The best solution to this is to use syslog over the network to another server. Flash is not good for random filesystem based access. Perhaps a block based approach which is what this thing would use, would be more efficient. The difficulty would be keeping a consistent mapping between the cached blocks on the flash and where they should be written on disk.
I've been working in the industry for 25 years and IMNSHO I would recommend that you take the job from google. Microsoft's business model is a dying entity, and with Vista in an eternal state of delay, history has shown that these sorts of companies have a very hard time of changing directions and coming around. This is not to say that Microsoft will not turn around, there's just a lot of momentum in the other direction, and it will take time for them to put the brakes on and come around. Enough with the metaphors.
Web 2.0 is almost certainly the future, and chances are very good that neither Google nor Microsoft will provide the first real web 2 killer app, but with google you'd be on the right side of the technological dividing line.
Go with google for a few years. And for some real fun, if you like working long hours, join a startup, cause thta's the only way to make big money, although your changes are only slightly better than winning the lottery.
You, my son, are in the wrong place if you think that no one here has ever heard of ogg vorbis. And, btw, there are lots of media players out there that support ogg vorbis, iRiver, samsung, cowan. Check out this baby.
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This has caused me to stop buying CDs and DVDs. I recently priced the Ugly Betty DVD at amazon.ca and it was 64$ CAN. I went over to amazon.com and it was only 36 bucks. Given the current exchange rate, it should cost about 40 bucks canadian, so that means that amazon is pocketting 24$ on a single DVD. The same thing goes for CDs as well. Fsckers.
Perfect, and you've managed to slashdot the dumbass. Ha ha.
There is absolutely no tech bubble, anywhere near the millennium bubble. This correction that we're going through has more to do with monetary policy, and the bloody Bush administrations devaluation of the American currency. One trillion dollars on a failed war, and they didn't even secure the oil. What a bunch of idiots.
Yeah, I had to read it 3 times before I was able to parse phonographic.
dcpower
If none of your code is running in kernel space, then you're home free. As long as you write all of your code, or use LGPL, BSD or similarly licensed libraries. Don't be afraid.
FUD
But John McCain is a fucking whore and a moron.
They shouldn't need anything more than vim/emacs and a copy of latex at this point in their careers!
Yes you are, and we all know why!
Nice try Gates!
This is a Canadian right wing newspaper put out by the neocons at CanWest Global. Don't believe the anti-hype, this is all a concerted disinformation campaign being put on by the conservatives.
Since when did one user's opinion become a must have collection of addons for thunderbird? Oh, I know, since Taco decided to post this ridiculous review of TB extensions, windoze centric, and the guy doesn't think that enigmail is useful for him which speaks volumes, in plaintext, of course.
Not so much Canada, as an extreme right wing party that pretended that they are a simple conservative party to be elected into a minority position, and then pretend that they have a Bush style mandate (without the implied homosexuality, of course). They takes pages and pages (reams really) out of the Bush playbook, and attempt to pass it off as something that the majority of Canadians want to see happening. Unfortunately, we are in no position to have an election any time soon, and meanwhile, these idiots are doing everything in their power to change a barely socialist country into an American style capitalist empire. They even called up the reserve to serve in Afghanistan yesterday, and the Prime Minister sounded like he was repeating verbatim a speech that Shrub recently made concerning troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Fsck this company, they are scum. Their tech support is shit, and their products are perpetually buggy pieces of crap which one is forced to upgrade every year for an insane amount of money. Anyway, tax filing software should be provided by the IRS or Revenue Canada, or whatever your tax collecting authority happens to be. I hate the fact that I have to pay some thrid party for tax prepartion software every goddamned year. This really pisses me off, in case you haven't realised, especially given that I have only 2 weeks to file and my return this year is going to be a nightmare, and I'm too cheap to pay an accountant 500 bucks to do my taxes.
Surely searching for 'cd recycling' would have resulted in an answer to this question.
Or are myspace pages fscking ugly and unreadable? That is an atrocity.
You know what pisses me off more than that? It's being forced to spend 15 minutes opening the CD or DVD that I've purchased trying to get off the goddamned "security stickers". Fucking idiots in the music and movie industries, the lot.
Not ebay.ca, it's like watching paint dry waiting for those bloody pages to appear. Not that I mind though, we hates ebay.
Okay, assuming for the moment that this article isn't just a peanut being lobbed to Micro$oft in advance of the release of Vista, I agree, linux has its problems. And as others have pointed out, things aren't as easy as they should be. But hell, if you can't get an Ubuntu (I don't use install, and don't particularly like it myself, but it's the best distro for newbies that I've found) install working for you 'out of the box' then you got other problems. Mac OSX and Windoze both can confound newbies, and L^Husers. Hardware issues are often addressed in Linux far more quickly than they are by Micro$oft. I admit that there are problems with gnome, and I don't just mean the fact taht the gnome developers are a bunch of plonkers, and the functionality of some of their core utilities, like totem, which never works properly for me, certainly not as reliably as mplayer. This particular complaint could also be lobbed in the direction of the fedora maintainers though, since they seem to be a little slow keeping up with gnome updates. All in all though, it is getting much better. If you want to send mail (thunderbird) or browse the web (firefox) or write docs or spreadsheets (OO) you're off and running. Rhythmbox, et. al. are great at playing music and managing huge libraries. hardware support is excellent, except for, most notably, nvidia and ati's obstinate refusal to not play ball in the open source ball park, or football pitch, if you prefer. Just being a diehard linux user is enough to get these distros into shape, but it sure as hell doesn't hurt.
Use it and they will come.
And for god's sake, tell them to get an xbox or ps[23] or wii if they want to play games, forget about PC games.
Available from cowan, check out the specs
The question should be, can I turn file transfers off ... on second thought, the question should be, why the hell would I install something on my computer that allows me to send/recv files from other users without the need for a password (for all intents and purposes).
I hope that it is just FUD or a beta issue with the user passwords stored in plaintext in the accounts xml file, because otherwise I will never configure this bloody program on any of my computers.
I had the same question. I do know that booting linux from flash does not work well if you use the device for logging as well. The best solution to this is to use syslog over the network to another server. Flash is not good for random filesystem based access. Perhaps a block based approach which is what this thing would use, would be more efficient. The difficulty would be keeping a consistent mapping between the cached blocks on the flash and where they should be written on disk.
Web 2.0 is almost certainly the future, and chances are very good that neither Google nor Microsoft will provide the first real web 2 killer app, but with google you'd be on the right side of the technological dividing line.
Go with google for a few years. And for some real fun, if you like working long hours, join a startup, cause thta's the only way to make big money, although your changes are only slightly better than winning the lottery.
You, my son, are in the wrong place if you think that no one here has ever heard of ogg vorbis. And, btw, there are lots of media players out there that support ogg vorbis, iRiver, samsung, cowan. Check out this baby.
God you guys are sheep. iPod and iTunes are crap. Crap!
Crap!