Simple. Give your paying customers something extra for their money. Like support (people from your company vs a IRC room), extra documentation, or advance releases/direct VCS access (The GPL doesn't require that you release betas)
If someone tried this, and everyone started believing that CDs were higher quality than MP3s, then naturally the value of sharing the MP3s over ed2k and the like nearly vanishes. But, the reason that MP3s got so popular in the first place is because they weren't impossible to send over 56k. Now, we live in an age of 15Mb/s cable, 30/30Mb/s fiber, and even more on the horizon. What about when someone starts throwing around songs in FLAC/ALAC/WMAl (which are now feasible with modern broadband) and find out, "Hey, this sounds exactly like the CD!" What can they do then to prevent the revival of P2P?
Like with their current throttling, who says they're going to distinguish between P2P users and, say, Lotus Notes/Exchange, Joost, or Skype? (the last two being blatant competitors to Comcast)
In TFA (from the Asus website), they give you an email to Asus support. Tell them you (and many other Eee owners) would be much happier with the Eee if we had the madwifi drivers so we could use the Eee with whatever distro we wanted.
Or you could go the OSS zealot route and tell them that if they don't release the source, you will send your Eee to Blendtec and ensure that no one you know will buy one. Of course, I'd go with the first route.
Re: B, you can usually change any sort of non-biological (and, using extreme measures, some biological ones too) demographic information about yourself. There's nothing that says you can't suddenly turn from liberal to conservative or vice versa, or get married (or turn gay/lesbian), etc.
OT: is there a way to escape greaterthan/lessthan signs?
And methinks you need more than just titles as well. Ex: Joe rents "Shaun of the Dead", and hates it. It would be a good idea to not suggest "Hot Fuzz", as they share many of the actors, directors, etc.
Selling PCs with 512MB of RAM is perfectly acceptable in my book, as long as it isin't running Vista. Just about every PC I use on a daily basis has 512MB (except one, my gaming rig, naturally), and they never really feel slow.
Torture: a method of causing excruciating pain to subdue/coerce a person with non-lethal intent Weapon: a device used to knowingly kill or severely injure another person
Tell me, which would you classify a claymore mine as?
Keep in mind this is the same Slashdot that still uses the Debian logo for Ubuntu stories, yet manages to get new icons for the Wii and 360 (PS3 not necessary since their controller never changes on the outside)
You can get EVDO(Sprint/Verizon), HSDPA(AT&T), and EDGE(T-Mobile) PCMCIA cards from all the major providers, and I know Dell and Lenovo will sell laptops with these integrated
The Game Boy Color had a special link cable to hook up to your cellphone to play against other people in one of the Pokemon games (Crystal IIRC). It was pulled out in the US and EU releases, which Im guessing is for 1 of 2 possible reasons: 1) The cell network in America and the EU didn't yet have the horsepower to sustain the speed they wanted (keep in mind Japan's WCDMA network was/is very advanced compared to the GPRS, CDMA, and TDMA of the time) 2) It just wasn't very popular
I've noticed that not only does Konq have a built-in adblocker, it comes with (at least in the Kubuntu build) a pre-set filter list, which cannot be said of Opera.
Sony has always made excellent hardware. It's when they expanded into media (movies, music, television, etc.) that the evil started. The media side wanted the hardware side to clamp down on "piracy" and etc., and the hardware side didn't have the backbone to say no.
There's a old saying in the business: "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away". Most of the performance gains we make in hardware will be sapped away by the next Windows release, almost without exception. And while I don't think Vista is a horrible trainwreck of an OS, there aren't enough worthwhile changes to consider moving my XP machines to it considering the cost (funds and hardware). The fact is, my 4-year old XP machine does just as much as the brand new Vista machine here, and I dont see any benefit.
Depending on what the students use them for, you may want to start reccomending Asus Eee's. They're cheap, small, but the best part from your end is the fact that they use flash memory instead of HDs. I'd say that would bring the durability up a few notches. And if you can convince them to stick with the Linux model (a WinXP model is due by years-end), a few of those trivial problems might go away as well.
Well, if you're concerned about Blizzard snooping on you, you could set up a very limited account that only has access to the Wine and WoW directories (possibly using chroot as well), and nothing else so no matter what their program is doing, it only sees as far as you allow it. I'm sure there's things in SELinux and AppArmor that could help as well.
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Simple. Give your paying customers something extra for their money. Like support (people from your company vs a IRC room), extra documentation, or advance releases/direct VCS access (The GPL doesn't require that you release betas)
A) I have no clue what the hell TFS is about
B) I know we're not supposed to read TFA, but at least give us one!
EMI already gave up on DRM. Why would they go back to it after they themselves let the cat out of the bag?
If someone tried this, and everyone started believing that CDs were higher quality than MP3s, then naturally the value of sharing the MP3s over ed2k and the like nearly vanishes. But, the reason that MP3s got so popular in the first place is because they weren't impossible to send over 56k. Now, we live in an age of 15Mb/s cable, 30/30Mb/s fiber, and even more on the horizon. What about when someone starts throwing around songs in FLAC/ALAC/WMAl (which are now feasible with modern broadband) and find out, "Hey, this sounds exactly like the CD!" What can they do then to prevent the revival of P2P?
Like with their current throttling, who says they're going to distinguish between P2P users and, say, Lotus Notes/Exchange, Joost, or Skype? (the last two being blatant competitors to Comcast)
In TFA (from the Asus website), they give you an email to Asus support. Tell them you (and many other Eee owners) would be much happier with the Eee if we had the madwifi drivers so we could use the Eee with whatever distro we wanted.
Or you could go the OSS zealot route and tell them that if they don't release the source, you will send your Eee to Blendtec and ensure that no one you know will buy one. Of course, I'd go with the first route.
Re: B, you can usually change any sort of non-biological (and, using extreme measures, some biological ones too) demographic information about yourself. There's nothing that says you can't suddenly turn from liberal to conservative or vice versa, or get married (or turn gay/lesbian), etc.
OT: is there a way to escape greaterthan/lessthan signs?
And methinks you need more than just titles as well. Ex: Joe rents "Shaun of the Dead", and hates it. It would be a good idea to not suggest "Hot Fuzz", as they share many of the actors, directors, etc.
To nitpick, it does have a moving part: the fan. While I doubt it'll give out on you, I'm pretty sure you don't want to be using the thing if it does.
Selling PCs with 512MB of RAM is perfectly acceptable in my book, as long as it isin't running Vista. Just about every PC I use on a daily basis has 512MB (except one, my gaming rig, naturally), and they never really feel slow.
Torture: a method of causing excruciating pain to subdue/coerce a person with non-lethal intent
Weapon: a device used to knowingly kill or severely injure another person
Tell me, which would you classify a claymore mine as?
Keep in mind this is the same Slashdot that still uses the Debian logo for Ubuntu stories, yet manages to get new icons for the Wii and 360 (PS3 not necessary since their controller never changes on the outside)
You can get EVDO(Sprint/Verizon), HSDPA(AT&T), and EDGE(T-Mobile) PCMCIA cards from all the major providers, and I know Dell and Lenovo will sell laptops with these integrated
The Game Boy Color had a special link cable to hook up to your cellphone to play against other people in one of the Pokemon games (Crystal IIRC). It was pulled out in the US and EU releases, which Im guessing is for 1 of 2 possible reasons:
1) The cell network in America and the EU didn't yet have the horsepower to sustain the speed they wanted (keep in mind Japan's WCDMA network was/is very advanced compared to the GPRS, CDMA, and TDMA of the time)
2) It just wasn't very popular
I've noticed that not only does Konq have a built-in adblocker, it comes with (at least in the Kubuntu build) a pre-set filter list, which cannot be said of Opera.
AdBlock Plus, as mentioned by GP, has a built-in filter updater to combat exactly what you mentioned.
Sony has always made excellent hardware. It's when they expanded into media (movies, music, television, etc.) that the evil started. The media side wanted the hardware side to clamp down on "piracy" and etc., and the hardware side didn't have the backbone to say no.
There's a old saying in the business: "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away". Most of the performance gains we make in hardware will be sapped away by the next Windows release, almost without exception. And while I don't think Vista is a horrible trainwreck of an OS, there aren't enough worthwhile changes to consider moving my XP machines to it considering the cost (funds and hardware). The fact is, my 4-year old XP machine does just as much as the brand new Vista machine here, and I dont see any benefit.
I think this thread was Godwin'd by the third post. We have a record.
Depending on what the students use them for, you may want to start reccomending Asus Eee's. They're cheap, small, but the best part from your end is the fact that they use flash memory instead of HDs. I'd say that would bring the durability up a few notches. And if you can convince them to stick with the Linux model (a WinXP model is due by years-end), a few of those trivial problems might go away as well.
Well, if you're concerned about Blizzard snooping on you, you could set up a very limited account that only has access to the Wine and WoW directories (possibly using chroot as well), and nothing else so no matter what their program is doing, it only sees as far as you allow it. I'm sure there's things in SELinux and AppArmor that could help as well.
Opera also gets cash for making Google the default.
Miro and Songbird aren't browsers, and XeroBank has a certain purpose (secure portable web browsing)
Did you miss the part where Multics was written in PL/I, not C?
You forgot to have Mono running in BeOS on a PPC built in a FPGA