So how does the internet affect CDs coming in my mailbox?
It may not if whomever is sending them to you sees it as a viable business model to do so. If, however, after watching their sales drop year over year as people turn to digital distribution the vendor you purchase from decides to call it quits you will either have to find another distributor or join the majority of people who have switched to digital distribution.
The internet will not automatically make delivery of physical media obsolete and gone forever; customers and business viability should decide that. Unfortunately for us our law makers seem to think it should be up to them to decide when delivery of physical media to consumers is no longer sustainable. And it seems that if they get their way that time will be never. They will prop up a dead business model using legal tricks instead of properly embracing the future. (As our buggy and whip making ancestors did last century).
That's also BS. I can set my BIOS to boot from any drive I want. Windows always picks the first drive's master boot record to install it's loader no matter what the BIOS settings are. I've been through this dozens of times, including with Windows 7 and you're wrong. Try it, set your BIOS to boot from your second hard drive and then throw in the Windows install disk. It will overwrite the master boot record on your first drive without giving you the option to change drives or even skip that step so you could use a fdisk/mbr to avoid it.
You're missing the point. Even if you pre-partition the second drive Windows still installs it's boot loader on the first. This is not just true of 7, it's been doing this since NT 4.
Brushing aside your "you should just know how to it" bs ( I thought stuff "just works" in Windows, it's teh easy!) it goes beyond understanding the partitioning. It's about behaving in a counter intuitive way that requires discovery on the user's part. I can naturally assume that I'll be better off partitioning my own drive. It takes a real WTF moment to realize you have to rip out one of your drives before you install Windows if you don't want the unexpected behavior of your master boot record being on a different drive then the OS. Another poster said "install Windows first, that's the rule". Fine, I get that but it's still f'ng stupid.
Where will we go to buy soldering irons and those RCA to headphone jack adapters now?
They are called Mini RCA and come in mono or stereo versions. The black bands at the base of the metal tells which you have. And as a fan of RadioShack you should have known this.:-)
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The brilliant guy who decided a xbm file should easily be able to double as a c header file thought so. I agree with him. Am I gonna go flipping bits in the textual representation of an image? No, but it's nice to know I can easily read meta data in my text editor, see if there is some obvious corruption in a file or just include it as a resource in my program.
Yeah my take on it is 95% of Debian has been around for a while and has been field tested so it's probably a good fit for that mission critical server your about to build.
I don't need the latest and greatest most of the time, just something that I know, with confidence, will work well for a particular purpose.
Can we outlaw thinking for ourselves while we're at it? (/s)
Sarcasm aside, not thinking for yourself is not mandatory yet but it is strongly encouraged so I don't think you'll need to wait too long. This is definitely quite a good start for Ireland. As another poster mentioned I wonder in what form and when this is coming to the US?
the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies has weighed in on the dispute in favor of the NPG.
There's a shocker. These people are just as bad as the *AA here in the U.S. Their about us page just screams "we make money of every dirty copyright trick we can think of and pretend to do it for you, the artist, the photographer, the little guy". It's all such a sham.
Check out their site, I was going to quote some of it but you can't even right click the page without their stupid JavaScript alerting you that their site is their content, blah, blah. Hello, 1996 called they want their cheap tricks back. Obviously this stuff is easy to defeat but it's still ridiculous that they even do it at all.
I hope this suit goes all the way to the new Supreme Court England is setting up and that these idiots get a total smackdown. Hey, a guy can dream a little right?
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So how does the internet affect CDs coming in my mailbox?
It may not if whomever is sending them to you sees it as a viable business model to
do so. If, however, after watching their sales drop year over year as people turn to
digital distribution the vendor you purchase from decides to call it quits you will
either have to find another distributor or join the majority of people who have switched
to digital distribution.
The internet will not automatically make delivery of physical media obsolete and gone
forever; customers and business viability should decide that. Unfortunately for us our
law makers seem to think it should be up to them to decide when delivery of physical media
to consumers is no longer sustainable. And it seems that if they get their way that time
will be never. They will prop up a dead business model using legal tricks instead of
properly embracing the future. (As our buggy and whip making ancestors did last century).
That's also BS. I can set my BIOS to boot from any drive I want. Windows always picks the first drive's master boot record to install it's loader no matter what the BIOS settings are. I've been through this dozens of times, including with Windows 7 and you're wrong. Try it, set your BIOS to boot from your second hard drive and then throw in the Windows install disk. It will overwrite the master boot record on your first drive without giving you the option to change drives or even skip that step so you could use a fdisk /mbr to avoid it.
FTW! Free as in "we don't spy on you".
You're missing the point. Even if you pre-partition the second drive Windows still installs it's boot loader on the first. This is not just true of 7, it's been doing this since NT 4.
Brushing aside your "you should just know how to it" bs ( I thought stuff "just works" in Windows, it's teh easy!) it goes beyond understanding the partitioning. It's about behaving in a counter intuitive way that requires discovery on the user's part. I can
naturally assume that I'll be better off partitioning my own drive. It takes a real WTF moment to realize you have to rip out one of your drives before you install Windows if you don't want the unexpected behavior of your master boot record being on a different drive then the OS. Another poster said "install Windows first, that's the rule". Fine, I get that but it's still f'ng stupid.
Ah closure. thank you.
Where will we go to buy soldering irons and those RCA to headphone jack adapters now?
They are called Mini RCA and come in mono or stereo versions. The black bands at the base of the metal tells :-)
which you have. And as a fan of RadioShack you should have known this.
As long as nothing includes reading /. I'm fine with that.
They are everywhere.
The truth hurts buddy. :-)
The brilliant guy who decided a xbm file should easily be able to double as a c header file thought so. I agree with him. Am I gonna go flipping bits in the textual representation of an image? No, but it's nice to know I can easily read meta data in my text editor, see if there is some obvious corruption in a file or just include it as a resource in my program.
Thanks RMS for Emacs, the GPL and the spirit of GNU that I found in 1995 and has not left me since!
Happy Hacking!
and a Tenacious D sound theme!
No, the other Ozzie, the guy who invented Lotus Notes. Which just might make him even more of a lunatic then the Ozzie you're referring to!
Think we can count on Ozzie to do the right thing and give the USPTO a heads-up?"
I keep hearing it's a new Microsoft so maybe.
Ah crap who am I kidding... I'm betting no.
there is a competing version out there as well.
Oh please, oh please, for the love of Ubuntu, do refrain from using the word naked and RMS in the same sentence.
Thanks!
Heard it attributed to him recently, shamelessly stole it for my own use here. :-)
Yeah my take on it is 95% of Debian has been around for a while and
has been field tested so it's probably a good fit for that mission
critical server your about to build.
I don't need the latest and greatest most of the time, just something
that I know, with confidence, will work well for a particular purpose.
Actually Ubuntu is an African word that means "one who is unable to install Debian".
Can we outlaw thinking for ourselves while we're at it? (/s)
Sarcasm aside, not thinking for yourself is not mandatory yet but it is strongly encouraged so I don't think you'll need to wait too long. This is definitely quite a good start for Ireland. As another poster mentioned I wonder in what form and when this is coming to the US?
Isn't View Source even easier?
the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies has weighed in on the dispute in favor of the NPG.
There's a shocker. These people are just as bad as the *AA here in the U.S. Their about us page just screams "we make money of every dirty copyright trick we can think of and pretend to do it for you, the artist, the photographer, the little guy". It's all such a sham.
Check out their site, I was going to quote some of it but you can't even right click the page without their stupid JavaScript alerting you that their site is their content, blah, blah. Hello, 1996 called they want their cheap tricks back. Obviously this stuff is easy to defeat but it's still ridiculous that they even do it at all.
I hope this suit goes all the way to the new Supreme Court England is setting up and that these idiots get a total smackdown. Hey, a guy can dream a little right?
run Linux? Seriously.
Oh, wait here we go:
# Intel Atom Z520 @ 1.33GHz, 533MHz FSB; 512K Cache
# Intel US15W chipset
# 1GB of DDR2 Memory
# 8.9 inch LCD (1024x600 resolution); LED backlight, Resistive Touch Panel
# Intel GMA 500 integrated graphics
# 16GB ASUS-JM S41 solid state drive (SSD)
# 16GB SDHC Card Included
# 10GB Eee Online Storage
# 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
# Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
# No optical drive
# 0.3 megapixel webcam + Digital Array Microphone
# VGA Output
# USB 2.0 x 2
# RJ-45 (Ethernet 10/100)
# Headphone / Mic Input Jacks
# MMC/SD card reader
# Twin speakers
# Gesture-enabled trackpad
# 2.11 Pounds (with battery installed)
# 0.99 - 1.11 inches thick
# Non-Removable Li-ion Battery (Up To 5 Claimed Hours of Computing)
# 8.85" (W) x 6.45" (D) x 0.99 - 1.11" (H)
# Windows XP Home
# Color Options: White, Black
# Protective Sleeve
# 1-year limited warranty
Guess we'll have to find out for ourselves (as usual)! :-)
you mean the pirates are going to continue to beat out "the man" and get away with it?
I'm just utterly shocked.
Oh just wait, PNG's won't be around much longer.
Remember folks, when PNG's are outlawed only outlaws will have PNG's.
That's unpossible!