I won't let anybody prohibit me from using and copying and distributing anything that contains any code that I wrote. Sounds more like the GPL actually...
Dunno about rioting, but here in Australia I moved out of college because one of the country's top universities couldn't provide me with internet access better than $10/GB access to a HTTP proxy server. I'm now lucky to be connected to an exchange where competing ISPs have installed equipment so I'm paying $80/month for 10Mbit down, 1Mbit up and 40GB/month usage.
That's right, I can use my entire download quota in less than half a day, but I'm about an four times better off than people on crappy plans or out in the sticks - until very recently, the highest speed offered to most of the population was 1.5Mbit down/256kbit up. And the national telco (Telstra) thinks that "Unlimited" means 10GB/month. Including uploads.
It's worth noting the TortiseSVN (a windows shell-extension GUI for Subversion) can diff Word files. That's right, pull up your log for a file/directory, right click on a commit and click "show differences" - the doc opens up in Word in reviewing mode, with changes annotated and highlighted in red.
SVN rocks for a whole bunch of other reasons, but that's the best thing about it that I've discovered by accident.
Are you honestly suggesting that browsing the web at work doesn't affect performance? By definition, you aren't doing something useful to the company. If it is useful to the company, get an exemption. This is the issue - at any sane company, you can easily get an exemption for anything useful. Employers generally WANT their employees to have the tools that make their jobs easier, especially when (as in the case of internet access) the cost is close to zero.
At schools this is completely opposite. If the school's proxy isn't letting you at a site you think could help with your assignment - tough shit. Access it from home, if you can.
3-year warranty including accident cover makes the power connector and the motion sensor moot. I have zero use for a webcam. My 17" has a 1920x1200 display and a 7800GO - both better than Apple's offerings. The only thing that I wish I had on my laptop is the touchpad, and that's just not worth the price difference.
Don't get me wrong, the MBPs are damn sexy laptops. But I have better uses for the money.
Two problems with that: 1. I have an ergonomic keyboard so the keys are different shapes 2. I learned QWERTY by looking at the keys...
But the real reason that I haven't switched is that I spend so much time typing on other people's keyboards - kinda hard to do on-site support otherwise. If it wasn't for that I would've switched years ago. I'd still like to give it a try if I could get a USB keyboard hardwired for DVORAK - if I could just plug in and type (without any messing about in system settings changing keyboard layouts) it wouldn't be a problem.
I consider $15 a good deal for an hour's worth of music. That is, live music of a style that I like played by talented musicians. A CD is AT BEST 2 out of 3 - most don't even cover one. And you don't know until you listen to it!
So, I buy concert tickets. Anywhere from $30-$120 for a few hours of music. Limewire, bittorrent? Free advertising. If I like your music (and remember I won't like your music if I haven't heard it, and if I haven't downloaded it I haven't heard it) then I'll buy a ticket to your concert when you play in my city. I might even buy a t-shirt if I like the show. But I'll be damned if I'm going to pay (or watch/listen to ads for stuff I don't want) to find out if I want to go to your concert.
As for artists that don't play live: get a job. Most writers have real jobs, so what makes you so special? I highly doubt you spend 40 hours a week working on your next album, so why should I pay for you to sit beside the pool drinking cocktails just because you mixed together an hour of beats?
Would the iPod have ever caught on without iTunes? I tend to think of it the other way - would iTunes have ever caught on without the iPod? I love my iPod, but I can't stand that software.
The last new dell laptop I've dealt with (my girlfriend's 6400) came with more crap than you could imagine. The first thing I noticed after turning it on (and waiting several minutes for it to boot), was a vista error message saying that it couldn't load an unsigned driver for what appeared to be the CD-burning software that came with the thing. This was straight out of the box.
Sure dell might send a few bucks towards MS for each laptop sold, but they make far, far more back from all the crap they this lets them bundle. Just look a the prices of their "n" models - if they were really cheaper for dell, wouldn't they price them as such?
But what if you leave your car unlocked with your malware-0wned but ripped-from-legit-CDs music filled laptop parked outside a public library connected to the free wifi with windows file sharing turned on? What then?
It's notable truth that when entering a new market, you don't want to have no competition - you want your competition to suck.
If there's no competition then either you've come up with something amazingly new that nobody's even seen before (and thus nobody know that they want one) or there's simply no market. Neither is good.
But if you have competitors - and they suck - then you're in a good position to take over the market:)
Unfortunately, from what I've seen about the iPhone, Apple hasn't eliminated all the suck just yet:(
This is one of the reasons I like Gentoo (there are plenty of reasons not to like it) - since you build everything yourself anyway, installing something from sources is usually very easy because you already have the toolchain set up and ready to go. If there are some dependencies that you don't have, chances are that typing "emerge [your dependencies]" will fix that:)
I'd actually buy a Wikipedia T-shirt if it was decently priced and didn't suck. But then again, I have firefox stickers on my PC and laptop so maybe I'm not in the majority there.
If I come up with an idea - all by myself, no prior art that I'm aware of - why *shouldn't* I be able to use it just because someone else thought of it first?
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Dunno about rioting, but here in Australia I moved out of college because one of the country's top universities couldn't provide me with internet access better than $10/GB access to a HTTP proxy server. I'm now lucky to be connected to an exchange where competing ISPs have installed equipment so I'm paying $80/month for 10Mbit down, 1Mbit up and 40GB/month usage.
That's right, I can use my entire download quota in less than half a day, but I'm about an four times better off than people on crappy plans or out in the sticks - until very recently, the highest speed offered to most of the population was 1.5Mbit down/256kbit up. And the national telco (Telstra) thinks that "Unlimited" means 10GB/month. Including uploads.
It's worth noting the TortiseSVN (a windows shell-extension GUI for Subversion) can diff Word files. That's right, pull up your log for a file/directory, right click on a commit and click "show differences" - the doc opens up in Word in reviewing mode, with changes annotated and highlighted in red.
SVN rocks for a whole bunch of other reasons, but that's the best thing about it that I've discovered by accident.
It's not a strip club, it's a series of boobs!
Sorry, you said lame analogy; only one thing comes to mind.
At schools this is completely opposite. If the school's proxy isn't letting you at a site you think could help with your assignment - tough shit. Access it from home, if you can.
I personally know several people who (occasionally) smoke tobacco through bongs. One of them ironically has a pot leaf painted on it.
I wish I still had mod points...
Australia's bandwidth market can *definitely* benefit from more competition.
3-year warranty including accident cover makes the power connector and the motion sensor moot. I have zero use for a webcam. My 17" has a 1920x1200 display and a 7800GO - both better than Apple's offerings. The only thing that I wish I had on my laptop is the touchpad, and that's just not worth the price difference.
Don't get me wrong, the MBPs are damn sexy laptops. But I have better uses for the money.
Two problems with that:
1. I have an ergonomic keyboard so the keys are different shapes
2. I learned QWERTY by looking at the keys...
But the real reason that I haven't switched is that I spend so much time typing on other people's keyboards - kinda hard to do on-site support otherwise. If it wasn't for that I would've switched years ago. I'd still like to give it a try if I could get a USB keyboard hardwired for DVORAK - if I could just plug in and type (without any messing about in system settings changing keyboard layouts) it wouldn't be a problem.
Look at his name...
I consider $15 a good deal for an hour's worth of music. That is, live music of a style that I like played by talented musicians. A CD is AT BEST 2 out of 3 - most don't even cover one. And you don't know until you listen to it!
So, I buy concert tickets. Anywhere from $30-$120 for a few hours of music. Limewire, bittorrent? Free advertising. If I like your music (and remember I won't like your music if I haven't heard it, and if I haven't downloaded it I haven't heard it) then I'll buy a ticket to your concert when you play in my city. I might even buy a t-shirt if I like the show. But I'll be damned if I'm going to pay (or watch/listen to ads for stuff I don't want) to find out if I want to go to your concert.
As for artists that don't play live: get a job. Most writers have real jobs, so what makes you so special? I highly doubt you spend 40 hours a week working on your next album, so why should I pay for you to sit beside the pool drinking cocktails just because you mixed together an hour of beats?
Still not lossless, and I can still torrent FLAC albums for free...
Looks like a useless toy to me. And it requires special paper - WTF?
The last new dell laptop I've dealt with (my girlfriend's 6400) came with more crap than you could imagine. The first thing I noticed after turning it on (and waiting several minutes for it to boot), was a vista error message saying that it couldn't load an unsigned driver for what appeared to be the CD-burning software that came with the thing. This was straight out of the box.
Sure dell might send a few bucks towards MS for each laptop sold, but they make far, far more back from all the crap they this lets them bundle. Just look a the prices of their "n" models - if they were really cheaper for dell, wouldn't they price them as such?
It's a useful abbreviation for x86-64. Get over it.
Why can't it be another Little Big Adventure game... Now I'm all disappointed.
Your isn't closed :P
But what if you leave your car unlocked with your malware-0wned but ripped-from-legit-CDs music filled laptop parked outside a public library connected to the free wifi with windows file sharing turned on? What then?
It's notable truth that when entering a new market, you don't want to have no competition - you want your competition to suck.
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If there's no competition then either you've come up with something amazingly new that nobody's even seen before (and thus nobody know that they want one) or there's simply no market. Neither is good.
But if you have competitors - and they suck - then you're in a good position to take over the market
Unfortunately, from what I've seen about the iPhone, Apple hasn't eliminated all the suck just yet
This is one of the reasons I like Gentoo (there are plenty of reasons not to like it) - since you build everything yourself anyway, installing something from sources is usually very easy because you already have the toolchain set up and ready to go. If there are some dependencies that you don't have, chances are that typing "emerge [your dependencies]" will fix that :)
I'd actually buy a Wikipedia T-shirt if it was decently priced and didn't suck. But then again, I have firefox stickers on my PC and laptop so maybe I'm not in the majority there.
If I come up with an idea - all by myself, no prior art that I'm aware of - why *shouldn't* I be able to use it just because someone else thought of it first?