Why do I read the "news" here? Seems they try to find all the mildly sensationalist stuff they can, and now the news. The logical fallacy is obvious but, just in case, the conclusion made is that if kids do X more than Y, then X will win and Y will die out. While that conclusion *can* be true, it isn't true on its own grounds. They could grow out of it. With kids, fads are embraced and discarded at a very high rate.
Still, I guess it's fun for moment to imagine a Corporate MySpace system. Even more fun to imagine it as the primary communications method with the email server turned off. I bet somebody would build a client so they could easily send and retrieve their MySpace postings.
Oh, and far as the mail is dying "given the annoyance of spam", gimme a break. Spam will migrate to any sufficiently used open communications medium. Hell, have you seen all the anti-spam tools bloggers have to use these days?
Yawn. 1/10 for FUD. Slashdot FUD: "...showing connections to..." Source: "...trying to connect to..." Nice faulty translation there. Tons of system try to connect to every other system on the Internet; bad guys, good guys and just curious guys. Also from the source: "...my computer even in an idle state..." The processes active on a target system is not indicative of what other systems are trying to do in most cases. Plz may I'z haves moore FUD. K thx.
60 in a couple months of "casual" play? A good time to 60 is 14 days of active game play. That's 336 hours in game. In 60 real days, that's an average of 5.6 hours a day. Casual play? What?
Why? So you can listen to their playlists instead of your own? So you can listen to the commercials on most stations when it has been advertised as commercial free? So you can have no interaction with the music source?
I think the $10 for Rhapsody goes much farther; assuming you are a shut-in like this poster states. Admittedly, Rhapsody does not tune in the car well.
This could be the result of the tape inputs, but more likely it is a result of the sound card's reproduction and possibly the cabling from the sound card to the amp. I have had some rather crappy sound cards over the years. Another thing to check is the software controlled levels. You definitely don't want adjusted values going into your stereo system.
I agree with a previous poster, who suggested trying a test with a CD directly and a CD through the sound card and tape input. If you don't have any duplicate CDs, I'd think it'd be worth the $15 bucks to do the test.
Although I agree with you on points, many a sane man has spent money on "long series of zeroes and ones" for quite a while and will continue to do so for far into the forseeable future. This is in evidence by such huge software-centric companies such as Microsoft. Software is like any other service; people will pay someone else to do something for them (or at least make it easier for them) if they do not have the time or expertise to do it for themselves. Products and services have always run the economy.
If you're referring to Linux as the whole OS with all the good little tools, applications, etc., then it has already fragmented.
I've been using Red Hat Linux for quite a while now, and I could comfortably work in most any version of the distribution. But plop me on a Caldera machine and I start to get lost quickly. Debian uses yet another file structure and configuration scheme. I haven't even used Slackware since the days of downloading 40+ floppies, but I know they've got their own standards. And don't forget the other distributions: Mandrake, StormLinux, Corel, etc, etc. Although many of them are just modifications of other distros.
I think this will just get worse over time. Right now, it doesn't take too much time to learn how a new distro is put together. But, with the addition of all these graphical configuration tools (linuxconf, yast, etc) that are very particular to each distro, it won't be too long before you're spending an hour just to figure out to tell sshd to not allow root logins.
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Why do I read the "news" here? Seems they try to find all the mildly sensationalist stuff they can, and now the news. The logical fallacy is obvious but, just in case, the conclusion made is that if kids do X more than Y, then X will win and Y will die out. While that conclusion *can* be true, it isn't true on its own grounds. They could grow out of it. With kids, fads are embraced and discarded at a very high rate.
Still, I guess it's fun for moment to imagine a Corporate MySpace system. Even more fun to imagine it as the primary communications method with the email server turned off. I bet somebody would build a client so they could easily send and retrieve their MySpace postings.
Oh, and far as the mail is dying "given the annoyance of spam", gimme a break. Spam will migrate to any sufficiently used open communications medium. Hell, have you seen all the anti-spam tools bloggers have to use these days?
Yawn. 1/10 for FUD. Slashdot FUD: "...showing connections to..." Source: "...trying to connect to..." Nice faulty translation there. Tons of system try to connect to every other system on the Internet; bad guys, good guys and just curious guys. Also from the source: "...my computer even in an idle state..." The processes active on a target system is not indicative of what other systems are trying to do in most cases. Plz may I'z haves moore FUD. K thx.
http://www.mygamestock.com/wowleveling.asp
These guys seem even better. But they only promise 7-10 days of 24/7 playing.
http://www.power-leveling.com/WNormalPowerleveling .htm
And these guys do this for a living. Maybe you should work for them?
60 in a couple months of "casual" play? A good time to 60 is 14 days of active game play. That's 336 hours in game. In 60 real days, that's an average of 5.6 hours a day. Casual play? What?
Why? So you can listen to their playlists instead of your own? So you can listen to the commercials on most stations when it has been advertised as commercial free? So you can have no interaction with the music source?
I think the $10 for Rhapsody goes much farther; assuming you are a shut-in like this poster states. Admittedly, Rhapsody does not tune in the car well.
Yes, they actually do.
Dude, you get charged to ship it back.
For future reference, Esperanto is definitely not gender-neutral.
This could be the result of the tape inputs, but more likely it is a result of the sound card's reproduction and possibly the cabling from the sound card to the amp. I have had some rather crappy sound cards over the years. Another thing to check is the software controlled levels. You definitely don't want adjusted values going into your stereo system. I agree with a previous poster, who suggested trying a test with a CD directly and a CD through the sound card and tape input. If you don't have any duplicate CDs, I'd think it'd be worth the $15 bucks to do the test.
Although I agree with you on points, many a sane man has spent money on "long series of zeroes and ones" for quite a while and will continue to do so for far into the forseeable future. This is in evidence by such huge software-centric companies such as Microsoft. Software is like any other service; people will pay someone else to do something for them (or at least make it easier for them) if they do not have the time or expertise to do it for themselves. Products and services have always run the economy.
If you're referring to Linux as the whole OS with all the good little tools, applications, etc., then it has already fragmented.
I've been using Red Hat Linux for quite a while now, and I could comfortably work in most any version of the distribution. But plop me on a Caldera machine and I start to get lost quickly. Debian uses yet another file structure and configuration scheme. I haven't even used Slackware since the days of downloading 40+ floppies, but I know they've got their own standards. And don't forget the other distributions: Mandrake, StormLinux, Corel, etc, etc. Although many of them are just modifications of other distros.
I think this will just get worse over time. Right now, it doesn't take too much time to learn how a new distro is put together. But, with the addition of all these graphical configuration tools (linuxconf, yast, etc) that are very particular to each distro, it won't be too long before you're spending an hour just to figure out to tell sshd to not allow root logins.