yeah... cell phones are getting ridiculous. I remember the days when you could count on a cell phone that only had poor phone service. Now you have phones with poor service, disabled features, low-quality cameras and now portable music. How about a ring-tone that does not become perpetually annoying?
The only problem with that is that SCO will point out that the bell and whistle provided are actually Unix Bells and Unix Whistles and thus intellectual property of SCO. Then they will start a slew of lawsuits against cats and referees.
You know, I am beginning to regret using anything more powerful than a fully mechanical typewriter. I agree that this among other DRM actions will only succeed to devalue both the technology and any content provided for that technology.
We can all talk about how "the big companines do not understand", but I would venture to guess that they probably just do not care... right now this appears to be where the money is.
Although I'm sure people have them for a reason, I've never been really sure why people would want a USB audio device, save for maybe some rare circumstance on a laptop.
PCI audio boards are cheap, and fairly well supported on most desktop platforms.
Oh wait, I got confused for a moment... Redhat==Linux? Maybe, I'm sure that point could be argued (but so can the existance of dog). Linux==Redhat? Nope. I suppose here would be a good plug for Debian. True, it is not exactly the most up-to-date distribution (Sarge: now defaults with the new 2.4 kernel!), but what it lacks in packages for the most up-to-date version of VLC it makes up for in roach-like disaster perseverance.
What is a real royal pain in the butt is when a vendor offering updates for its products doesn't distribute the update in hard-copy (thus forcing one to, at the worst case, hand update every machine).
On top of that, I can't say I like the start button either.
Put that tape on erase
Rearrange your face
We always liked Picasso anyways.
From We're Through Being Cool, by Devo
You cannot expect state-of-the-rat technologies from open source, mostly because a lot of what is being poured into os's either has something to do with digital rights removal, or glitzy interfaces, and I'm done with glitzy interfaces.
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yeah... cell phones are getting ridiculous. I remember the days when you could count on a cell phone that only had poor phone service. Now you have phones with poor service, disabled features, low-quality cameras and now portable music. How about a ring-tone that does not become perpetually annoying?
The only problem with that is that SCO will point out that the bell and whistle provided are actually Unix Bells and Unix Whistles and thus intellectual property of SCO. Then they will start a slew of lawsuits against cats and referees.
You know, I am beginning to regret using anything more powerful than a fully mechanical typewriter. I agree that this among other DRM actions will only succeed to devalue both the technology and any content provided for that technology. We can all talk about how "the big companines do not understand", but I would venture to guess that they probably just do not care... right now this appears to be where the money is.
Although I'm sure people have them for a reason, I've never been really sure why people would want a USB audio device, save for maybe some rare circumstance on a laptop. PCI audio boards are cheap, and fairly well supported on most desktop platforms.
Oh wait, I got confused for a moment... Redhat==Linux? Maybe, I'm sure that point could be argued (but so can the existance of dog). Linux==Redhat? Nope. I suppose here would be a good plug for Debian. True, it is not exactly the most up-to-date distribution (Sarge: now defaults with the new 2.4 kernel!), but what it lacks in packages for the most up-to-date version of VLC it makes up for in roach-like disaster perseverance. What is a real royal pain in the butt is when a vendor offering updates for its products doesn't distribute the update in hard-copy (thus forcing one to, at the worst case, hand update every machine). On top of that, I can't say I like the start button either.
Put that tape on erase Rearrange your face We always liked Picasso anyways. From We're Through Being Cool, by Devo You cannot expect state-of-the-rat technologies from open source, mostly because a lot of what is being poured into os's either has something to do with digital rights removal, or glitzy interfaces, and I'm done with glitzy interfaces.
Ah patching. What a great way to spend a day.