Agreed. If I got my name in the news every time I drilled through a power line in my house or hammered a nail through a water pipe, I'd be more popular than Paris Hilton.
I can't imagine it's any better for someone who isn't familiar with the house at all!
This has nothing to do with being short on funds. Judging from how behind the times the RIAA is, they probably just haven't figured out how to read email yet.
Not so fast, buddy. This is how it all ends. Global warming causes the ice caps to melt, and it releases that neon-green buggy stuff that only gets active at night, like on that one x-files episode.
I'm stocking up on flashlight batteries and fuel for the generator.
You really got me excited, and I gave it a try, and I'm back to my initial statement. It's good, but it's not ready for Joe User. I'm not going to rag, but this is my reason why, since others may stumble across this:
Downloading a.deb file and double clicking it would be fine if it was the linux standard. I do see people who don't try opening files just because they don't know what the icon means. Still, I don't think that's over the top for Joe User. What IS over the top is having to then run apt-get -f install from the terminal to get Automatix to install. I don't know what the issue was, but did it on a brand-spanking-new Kubuntu 7.04 install, and had to do that. Hell, I don't even know what -f install does. I suppose I could man it, but back to the root issue, I don't care. Just make it work.
Secondly, I now have the issue that I can use apt-get to install programs, I can use Kubuntu's 'Add/Remove Programs' icon, which gives me something similar to Automatix, and I can use automatix. That doesn't include other install methods, such as downloading a.deb file, or source, or whatever else the world has.
Anyway, I have to play with it more. It's not a bad tool, I'll keep it, and thanks for turning me on to it, but sadly, it's just a patch for what is probably one of linux's biggest issues.
All this brings up a good point, and one I'm currently having to address. How do you tell someone who is not a web designer (small business owners, from my experience) that their website is bad, or has problems, when the web is such a collection of bad examples? 'But Everybody Else is Doing It!'
I'm a student doing some web work for my university. Nothing major.
Anyway, my boss (who is an awesome guy, but not a web designer), the person who threw the site together originally, used Dreamweaver, and for some reason made every link an individual Flash file, so our pages aren't being indexed correctly by Google. When I said that it was a problem, his response was that 'I'm not the only one using Dreamweaver, find out what we do to make it work'.
How do you tell someone in a situation like this: 'No, it's just wrong, and if you want it to work, you're going to have to pay me to redo it' when the rest of the web is just as bad?
As a Mac owner who uses Dell (about as commonplace as you can get) monitors, I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. Could you provide a link?
I agree with you, but it's not quite that simple. I'm not a hardcore linux user, but I have yet to be able to play DVD's on my Kubuntu7.04 setup. Give that same system to a Joe Schmoe off the street, and there's no way they're going to be able to do what they want. Real Linux is getting closer to user-friendlyness, but it's still got a little ways to go before it can enter the average household.
Now if Dell is already installing the needed packages and doing the setup, or making it easier, that's one thing, but I was unaware if they are.
I'm sorry, but enough of this article is just silly for me to not take any of it seriously. A lite-Firefox without Favorites or History? You must be running on seriously old hardware if you need to strip out Favorites.
I completely agree with you here. While people will drive all around town and wait in lines where the gas is 3 cents cheaper, so they save a whole 50 cents, they'll go to Meijers or Flaming Eagle or whatever grocery store, and blow dollars at a time just not checking prices between stores, or even between products sitting on the same shelves.
I agree with you there. I never thought about exe's until I started using Linux, but now that I do, it's a totally unfriendly way to manage software, particularly when you want to know what version of BLAH you're running, or what BLAH needs to run, or even if you have BLAH installed.
The only thing I prefer over apt is OS X's apps. God do I love just throwing applications in the garbage...:)
The customer should not have to worry that his/her computer is 'compatible' with the iPhone in any way...
I have to disagree with you here. I used to work in technology sales, and it's extremely common for uneducated customers to walk into a store, buy something, take it home, discover it doesn't work like they want, and then get mad at either the store, the company, or me, because the product doesn't work based on magic. You can try to anticipate the customer's needs, try to make sure they have what they need, but they don't always listen, and you can't ask everything. With a product like this, which I'm sure was a mob scene, it's even worse.
I know most of us are American, and it's out of the question to research a product before we buy it to see what it does, how it works, and what we already need, but I'm sorry. If you buy something and make up your own magic rules about what it needs and does, and then it doesn't do those things, or needs a usb port, or electricity, or a 32bit OS, guess what. Read the freakin box next time.
I'm not a mac fanboy, but this article is obviously bashing. He had his post removed from the forums right away? I bet Apple is trying to cover up the truth! Maybe they should support 64-bit OSes, maybe they're going to, maybe it's a conspiracy to destroy teh Microsoft, but this article is about a guy who needs to learn how to shop.
Back in my day, we had to carry reels of tape through a lake, uphill both ways, and when we finally got home with the tape, our dad would beat us to death with a punch card.
Now you try telling that to the kids today, and they won't believe you.
But you fail to answer the fundamental question - why "must" you get cable?
I had no idea I needed to answer that question in order to make my point. If you read my original post, however, you'll see that the reason I get cable is because it's worth the cost to me.
This is the current Slashdot rationalization for copyright infringement, services theft, etc. - the idea that somehow, the fact that you don't like the way a company does business entitles you to their products for free.
No, the this you cite, my post, is me telling you that if I think your company stinks, you're probably not going to get my money. Not only that, but if your stuff is lying around on the net, and I can get away with it, guess what... I'm gonna download it.
I think (and I don't mean this as an insult) that you have a very limited and traditional view of business models. Mitsubishi makes a ton of stuff, including cars. I loved the 2000 Eclipse when it came out (still do). The product that Mitsubishi provided had a value in a fairly traditional manner. If I wanted an eclipse, I could buy one for about $30k, or steal one. Because stealing one would probably mean spending more time in jail then in the car, I don't consider that a legitimate option. So the value of the car is $30k, I spend it, and I own the product.
Now if my neighbor had an eclipse in his garage, and I could just make a copy of it in my garage, and the odds were greatly in my favor that nobody would ever notice, do you think the car would still be worth $30k to me? The answer is: Hells No. Would people keep paying the $30k for Eclipses? Not where I'm from. Mitsubishi would then have a problem. I don't care if the answer is to bulldoze every car-copying-garage, or arrest every car-copier, lower prices, invent new cars, whatever. The point is, Mitsubishi is making less money because of the way the world is.
Now I know that's a silly example because we can't copy cars, and I'm probably going to get replies who tell me that my analogy is incorrect because of 8010 reasons, but my point is there. Please, and seriously, think it over. If it makes me a bad person because I think that way, so be it, but it's just that simple, and I don't feel like it puts me on the list to go to hell. And no, I don't need a cause. I'm just watching TV.
Wait, so the size of the file downloaded affects what the power output of the Tx now?
It's obvious that you do not understand the technology we're talking about here. Let me try to explain: The Internet is a series of tubes. If you want to send a bigger file, you need a bigger tube or it will get stuck. When you try to download a large file, the wireless access point automatically creates a large tube, which leads right to where you are sitting. I will leave the dangers of this to your imagination.
While I'm going to be bad and not cite specific examples, the RIAA doesn't really want to get paid for the value of the specific songs infringed upon by the specific student. The point of their campaign is to make examples of people. If the RIAA takes me to court and wants the $14 or so I might owe them for my illegally downloaded Three 6 Mafia album, they can have it. But that's not going to be very effective for them. Heck, it's going to cost them at least ten times that to even prepare something basic to send to me requesting that I pay up and stop infringing.
Now, on the other hand, you go into a school like OU and completely bankrupt a few students, set them up working at the local McDonalds, people might think twice about file sharing.
As much as we like to pretend the RIAA is a friendly little group, yes, the student IS sued into oblivion.
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Them geeksquad boys said I could get me a new internet for only $30 a month and it's got the AOL too so I can do my emails.
Agreed. If I got my name in the news every time I drilled through a power line in my house or hammered a nail through a water pipe, I'd be more popular than Paris Hilton.
I can't imagine it's any better for someone who isn't familiar with the house at all!
Slashdot is not the proper place for a comprehensive discussion of the o-zone.
Those of you over 18 might want to check out this clip though, if you're not sure exactly what the o-zone is.
This has nothing to do with being short on funds. Judging from how behind the times the RIAA is, they probably just haven't figured out how to read email yet.
The security threat lies in giving the NSA the ability to tap people's phones at all.
Not so fast, buddy. This is how it all ends. Global warming causes the ice caps to melt, and it releases that neon-green buggy stuff that only gets active at night, like on that one x-files episode.
I'm stocking up on flashlight batteries and fuel for the generator.
Most places I've seen it applied, it's a 4-1 reduction. Now if we could just get everything to be 12v...
You really got me excited, and I gave it a try, and I'm back to my initial statement. It's good, but it's not ready for Joe User. I'm not going to rag, but this is my reason why, since others may stumble across this:
.deb file and double clicking it would be fine if it was the linux standard. I do see people who don't try opening files just because they don't know what the icon means. Still, I don't think that's over the top for Joe User. What IS over the top is having to then run apt-get -f install from the terminal to get Automatix to install. I don't know what the issue was, but did it on a brand-spanking-new Kubuntu 7.04 install, and had to do that. Hell, I don't even know what -f install does. I suppose I could man it, but back to the root issue, I don't care. Just make it work.
.deb file, or source, or whatever else the world has.
Downloading a
Secondly, I now have the issue that I can use apt-get to install programs, I can use Kubuntu's 'Add/Remove Programs' icon, which gives me something similar to Automatix, and I can use automatix. That doesn't include other install methods, such as downloading a
Anyway, I have to play with it more. It's not a bad tool, I'll keep it, and thanks for turning me on to it, but sadly, it's just a patch for what is probably one of linux's biggest issues.
All this brings up a good point, and one I'm currently having to address. How do you tell someone who is not a web designer (small business owners, from my experience) that their website is bad, or has problems, when the web is such a collection of bad examples? 'But Everybody Else is Doing It!'
I'm a student doing some web work for my university. Nothing major.
Anyway, my boss (who is an awesome guy, but not a web designer), the person who threw the site together originally, used Dreamweaver, and for some reason made every link an individual Flash file, so our pages aren't being indexed correctly by Google. When I said that it was a problem, his response was that 'I'm not the only one using Dreamweaver, find out what we do to make it work'.
How do you tell someone in a situation like this: 'No, it's just wrong, and if you want it to work, you're going to have to pay me to redo it' when the rest of the web is just as bad?
As a Mac owner who uses Dell (about as commonplace as you can get) monitors, I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. Could you provide a link?
Or does "hack" mean "use an adapter"?
I agree with you, but it's not quite that simple. I'm not a hardcore linux user, but I have yet to be able to play DVD's on my Kubuntu7.04 setup. Give that same system to a Joe Schmoe off the street, and there's no way they're going to be able to do what they want. Real Linux is getting closer to user-friendlyness, but it's still got a little ways to go before it can enter the average household.
Now if Dell is already installing the needed packages and doing the setup, or making it easier, that's one thing, but I was unaware if they are.
I'm sorry, but enough of this article is just silly for me to not take any of it seriously. A lite-Firefox without Favorites or History? You must be running on seriously old hardware if you need to strip out Favorites.
Indeed. Next thing you know they're going to tell us that being lazy and eating a ton is also a factor.
I completely agree with you here. While people will drive all around town and wait in lines where the gas is 3 cents cheaper, so they save a whole 50 cents, they'll go to Meijers or Flaming Eagle or whatever grocery store, and blow dollars at a time just not checking prices between stores, or even between products sitting on the same shelves.
I agree with you there. I never thought about exe's until I started using Linux, but now that I do, it's a totally unfriendly way to manage software, particularly when you want to know what version of BLAH you're running, or what BLAH needs to run, or even if you have BLAH installed. The only thing I prefer over apt is OS X's apps. God do I love just throwing applications in the garbage... :)
I know most of us are American, and it's out of the question to research a product before we buy it to see what it does, how it works, and what we already need, but I'm sorry. If you buy something and make up your own magic rules about what it needs and does, and then it doesn't do those things, or needs a usb port, or electricity, or a 32bit OS, guess what. Read the freakin box next time.
I'm not a mac fanboy, but this article is obviously bashing. He had his post removed from the forums right away? I bet Apple is trying to cover up the truth! Maybe they should support 64-bit OSes, maybe they're going to, maybe it's a conspiracy to destroy teh Microsoft, but this article is about a guy who needs to learn how to shop.
Luxury.
Back in my day, we had to carry reels of tape through a lake, uphill both ways, and when we finally got home with the tape, our dad would beat us to death with a punch card.
Now you try telling that to the kids today, and they won't believe you.
I think (and I don't mean this as an insult) that you have a very limited and traditional view of business models. Mitsubishi makes a ton of stuff, including cars. I loved the 2000 Eclipse when it came out (still do). The product that Mitsubishi provided had a value in a fairly traditional manner. If I wanted an eclipse, I could buy one for about $30k, or steal one. Because stealing one would probably mean spending more time in jail then in the car, I don't consider that a legitimate option. So the value of the car is $30k, I spend it, and I own the product.
Now if my neighbor had an eclipse in his garage, and I could just make a copy of it in my garage, and the odds were greatly in my favor that nobody would ever notice, do you think the car would still be worth $30k to me? The answer is: Hells No. Would people keep paying the $30k for Eclipses? Not where I'm from. Mitsubishi would then have a problem. I don't care if the answer is to bulldoze every car-copying-garage, or arrest every car-copier, lower prices, invent new cars, whatever. The point is, Mitsubishi is making less money because of the way the world is.
Now I know that's a silly example because we can't copy cars, and I'm probably going to get replies who tell me that my analogy is incorrect because of 8010 reasons, but my point is there. Please, and seriously, think it over. If it makes me a bad person because I think that way, so be it, but it's just that simple, and I don't feel like it puts me on the list to go to hell. And no, I don't need a cause. I'm just watching TV.
The Internet is a series of tubes. If you want to send a bigger file, you need a bigger tube or it will get stuck. When you try to download a large file, the wireless access point automatically creates a large tube, which leads right to where you are sitting. I will leave the dangers of this to your imagination.
While I'm going to be bad and not cite specific examples, the RIAA doesn't really want to get paid for the value of the specific songs infringed upon by the specific student. The point of their campaign is to make examples of people. If the RIAA takes me to court and wants the $14 or so I might owe them for my illegally downloaded Three 6 Mafia album, they can have it. But that's not going to be very effective for them. Heck, it's going to cost them at least ten times that to even prepare something basic to send to me requesting that I pay up and stop infringing.
Now, on the other hand, you go into a school like OU and completely bankrupt a few students, set them up working at the local McDonalds, people might think twice about file sharing.
As much as we like to pretend the RIAA is a friendly little group, yes, the student IS sued into oblivion.
I don't fully understand the economics of this yet. How badly does a CD have to be damaged to be considered an ass copy?
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