Seem to recall that only 3% of college freshmen have the mindset to code anything non-trivial. That means there are at least six billion ape descendants out there who should never, ever be allowed to write a program.
The fixes aren't in the license agreement, simply to keep lawyers at bay. Any reputable company will provide necessary fixes to their product. If they don't, the customers just fade away. So do the companies.
You can learn from canned lectures. I'm not interested in university credits - I have quite enough already - but I do like to learn things now and then. Recorded lectures are good for that.
So are "Ideas" on CBC Radio 2 & alt.binaries.sounds.radio.misc
I too have several hundred gigs of mp3s, collected over the last five years.
Every item is stored on at least two hard drives, not on the same machine.
Periodically, I add any new stuff to a large portable USB drive.
When I have enough to fill a DVD, I burn one and verify it. They're tucked away in a different location. (I used to use cdrs, rather a lot of them, but switched to dvds as soon as burners were affordable.)
I don't need on-line RAID. Redundant, off-site storage and very little discipline is adequate for my needs.
I bought some segmented alphanumeric Nixie tubes from a surplus dealer, just after the last ice age. Drove them with TTL and 180 volts. Very visible, but they just didn't seem retro then.
We have a shiny new 16:9 HDTV but no HD source. There's no off-the-air HDTV in our part of the planet. However, our old TV died, and it seemed silly not to get something that will handle HD when adequate content is available. So we're part of that 50%.
While we wait, DVDs and a surprising number of mpeg4 downloads look pretty good. Even Gilligan's Island...
I have SlimServer running on a busy computer, and had occasional problems with my three-year-old Slimp3 running out of buffer and falling silent, or stuttering, for half a minute at a time. Increasing memory to 1 GB solved the problem.
Squeezebox + podcasts = radio almost on demand. Great product.
I don't think that's a problem. Hewlett-Packard's HP-85 desktop, http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/hp85.html, popular in the 1980s, had a 32 character by 16 line display, 256 x 192 dots. They were quite adequate.
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Seem to recall that only 3% of college freshmen have the mindset to code anything non-trivial. That means there are at least six billion ape descendants out there who should never, ever be allowed to write a program.
The fixes aren't in the license agreement, simply to keep lawyers at bay. Any reputable company will provide necessary fixes to their product. If they don't, the customers just fade away. So do the companies.
So are "Ideas" on CBC Radio 2 & alt.binaries.sounds.radio.misc
Would you pay less for access to a subset of the Internet? Would you pay more for guaranteed universal access?
So what, exactly, are you naysayers going to do about it? Party on?
Every item is stored on at least two hard drives, not on the same machine.
Periodically, I add any new stuff to a large portable USB drive.
When I have enough to fill a DVD, I burn one and verify it. They're tucked away in a different location. (I used to use cdrs, rather a lot of them, but switched to dvds as soon as burners were affordable.)
I don't need on-line RAID. Redundant, off-site storage and very little discipline is adequate for my needs.
I bought some segmented alphanumeric Nixie tubes from a surplus dealer, just after the last ice age. Drove them with TTL and 180 volts. Very visible, but they just didn't seem retro then.
While we wait, DVDs and a surprising number of mpeg4 downloads look pretty good. Even Gilligan's Island...
Squeezebox + podcasts = radio almost on demand. Great product.
Surely aliens would use 33 bit Windows? That would be a bit odd.
How about it, Warner Brothers? Time for a Looney Tunes first-person-shooter?
I don't think that's a problem. Hewlett-Packard's HP-85 desktop, http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/hp85.html, popular in the 1980s, had a 32 character by 16 line display, 256 x 192 dots. They were quite adequate.
Suppose Hollywood deliberately leaked a movie. If word got out that it was really good, it might make more than a mere $380 million.
Oh? It wasn't that good? Pity.