* This story is posted to slashdot * Slate gets slashdotted * The head of the washington post wants to see this website they just paid "millions of dollars" for * "503: Service Unavailable!! " * "We paid what for this thing?"
The price of dvd burners has dropped greatly in the last year or so. I'll seen them advertised for as low as $60. And creating a backup that took several cds before can be put on just one dvd.
I know it's been said many times. But the solution is simple: make it not worth the trouble to copy cds. In other words: Lower the price of the cds to a reasonable level and people will just opt to buy it. Instead you have record companies doing all this r&d into protection and raising the cost of the cds to pay for it!
Ok then. Here's what we need to do. Someone start a sourceforge project to create a spyware program for linux. Of course, since it'll be open source, it'll be a better quality spyware program than what is available for windows. Then companies will start moving to linux.
Course, then someone will have to start a sourceforge project to create an anti-spyware program...
Reading about violence is different that seeing it, or commenting it yourself in a video game.
"billion jillion kids" may not be affected by it (or at least not in a major way) but some will. It's those that we need to worry about. Every one here hates the war yet doesn't want to give up violence. I don't understand.
One thing they should do is to place links on the download page to the most popular/useful extensions. People are going to look for features they are used to in IE that are implented in exts in ff and need to be able to find them easily. The link at the firefox page just links to the mozilla update page. From there you have to click the extensions tab. And then the extensions page (to me) doesn't seem very user friendly.
That is something to consider. Doesn't Debian use that apt-get thing? Does that mean it goes out and downloads the package off the internet? One problem I have is that I'm on dial-up. That's why I avoid distros that d/l a lot of stuff (like Gentoo). Another thing is that I've heard Debian is really for advanced users. Is that true?
Why is this surprising? The GPS system was built by and put up by the military for their use. It's their system. They just decided to let civilians use it. If they decide they want it all back, that's their business.
Can we sell T-shirts with this code on them? Go nuts, it's public domain. But please don't lead your customers to believe that I'm getting a cut of the proceeds unless you give me one.
But then won't they have to make the source code available to people who buy the shirt?...Oh wait, it's not GPL...nevermind
I'll give you one. I dual boot Win XP/Red Hat 9. Last night I decided to play around with Linux some more so I booted it up. There's a rpm that I had installed a while back that I decided I wanted to uninstall so that I could install a different version. I remembered that in RH 5(?) there was a graphical rpm manager. I couldn't find it. (The only thing I found was a Add/Remove software like Windows(tm) type thing). So I got on the internet a found out there is a program called KPackage that would do what I needed. Only problem is I couldn't find it! I found a webpage telling about it and showing screen shots. And I found another that pointed me to the KDE homepage (which had no mention if it). I eventually found it. (It itself is an rpm:-) Then when I tried to install it via the terminal I got an error message about a key not found. I have to think that the average user switching from Windows would have given up by now. Linux has come a long way. I remember the first time I installed a distro, it had a window manager, but it didn't automatically boot into it by default. And if you wanted KDE you had to download it yourself and install it. It's getting closer, but it's not there yet. (Not for the average windows user anyway.) I'm trying to force myself to use it so that I'll learn it. But the average microsoft customer just isn't going to do that.
I just wanted to mention that there is also Allegro. It's a multi-platform gaming library:
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/ also see http://www.allegro.cc/
I always thought it was funny at my old job. I didn't have admin rights to my own machine. But I had full db access. So while I wasn't allowed to defrag my own hard drive, I could delete all the tables in the database and bring the company to it's knees.
Why not give any IT person who wants it admin access to there own machine? But with this condition: They screw it up, they have to fix it. They will get no support whatsoever from the help desk or system admin. If they fill it with spyware, they have to get it off. Give them a restore disk and let them start over any time they need to. If they do something that screws up the network, cut them off the network.
NEVER give someone more privelages than they need to do their job
Problem is, a lot of shops just go with default privelages. Which in some cases don't allow you to do your job.
I had a coworker who wasn't allowed to delete an icon off his desktop because he wasn't the user that created it (it was a shortcut to word or something). It's one thing to limit users who don't know what they're doing. It's another thing to insult compenent computer professionals.
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1. Get an official NFL license
2. Release poor product (all money went to license)
3. ????
4. Profit!
I get the idea that number 3 involves suing someone, but I'm not sure...
an unnamed individual
Makes me think about that line in Loaded Weapon 1 when they were trying to get info from Lovitz:
"Gimme a name!"
"Weren't your parents suppose to do that?"
I can see it now:
* This story is posted to slashdot
* Slate gets slashdotted
* The head of the washington post wants to see this website they just paid "millions of dollars" for
* "503: Service Unavailable!! "
* "We paid what for this thing?"
500 ways to get TV and still nothing to watch.
The price of dvd burners has dropped greatly in the last year or so. I'll seen them advertised for as low as $60. And creating a backup that took several cds before can be put on just one dvd.
So the person tailgating me wasn't a bad driver--he was just trying to steal some bandwidth?
Which charges more? (Remember to add in the price of popcorn and soft drinks when calculating the hollywood total!)
If people in a moving plane can it that kind of bandwidth, why can't the cable company get a cable line/modem run to my house!!!
I know it's been said many times. But the solution is simple: make it not worth the trouble to copy cds. In other words: Lower the price of the cds to a reasonable level and people will just opt to buy it. Instead you have record companies doing all this r&d into protection and raising the cost of the cds to pay for it!
Ok then. Here's what we need to do. Someone start a sourceforge project to create a spyware program for linux. Of course, since it'll be open source, it'll be a better quality spyware program than what is available for windows. Then companies will start moving to linux.
Course, then someone will have to start a sourceforge project to create an anti-spyware program...
Reading about violence is different that seeing it, or commenting it yourself in a video game.
"billion jillion kids" may not be affected by it (or at least not in a major way) but some will. It's those that we need to worry about. Every one here hates the war yet doesn't want to give up violence. I don't understand.
One thing they should do is to place links on the download page to the most popular/useful extensions. People are going to look for features they are used to in IE that are implented in exts in ff and need to be able to find them easily. The link at the firefox page just links to the mozilla update page. From there you have to click the extensions tab. And then the extensions page (to me) doesn't seem very user friendly.
That's kinda funny you say that, since USA and Sci-Fi are owned by the same company.
I think that was his/her point.
cell phone free zones
So instead of smoking or non-smoking, we'll now have cell phoning and non-cell phoning sections?
I love my laptop and all, but I don't carry it around with me in my wallet.
That is something to consider. Doesn't Debian use that apt-get thing? Does that mean it goes out and downloads the package off the internet? One problem I have is that I'm on dial-up. That's why I avoid distros that d/l a lot of stuff (like Gentoo). Another thing is that I've heard Debian is really for advanced users. Is that true?
Why is this surprising? The GPS system was built by and put up by the military for their use. It's their system. They just decided to let civilians use it. If they decide they want it all back, that's their business.
Can we sell T-shirts with this code on them? Go nuts, it's public domain. But please don't lead your customers to believe that I'm getting a cut of the proceeds unless you give me one.
But then won't they have to make the source code available to people who buy the shirt?...Oh wait, it's not GPL...nevermind
I'll give you one. I dual boot Win XP/Red Hat 9. Last night I decided to play around with Linux some more so I booted it up. There's a rpm that I had installed a while back that I decided I wanted to uninstall so that I could install a different version. I remembered that in RH 5(?) there was a graphical rpm manager. I couldn't find it. (The only thing I found was a Add/Remove software like Windows(tm) type thing). So I got on the internet a found out there is a program called KPackage that would do what I needed. Only problem is I couldn't find it! I found a webpage telling about it and showing screen shots. And I found another that pointed me to the KDE homepage (which had no mention if it). I eventually found it. (It itself is an rpm :-) Then when I tried to install it via the terminal I got an error message about a key not found. I have to think that the average user switching from Windows would have given up by now. Linux has come a long way. I remember the first time I installed a distro, it had a window manager, but it didn't automatically boot into it by default. And if you wanted KDE you had to download it yourself and install it. It's getting closer, but it's not there yet. (Not for the average windows user anyway.) I'm trying to force myself to use it so that I'll learn it. But the average microsoft customer just isn't going to do that.
I just wanted to mention that there is also Allegro. It's a multi-platform gaming library:
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
also see http://www.allegro.cc/
Funny thing is they'll probably outsource the tech to support India.
I always thought it was funny at my old job. I didn't have admin rights to my own machine. But I had full db access. So while I wasn't allowed to defrag my own hard drive, I could delete all the tables in the database and bring the company to it's knees.
I can see it now: Hundreds of CDs floating around offering "1,000 Minutes of Long Distance Free!"
Why not give any IT person who wants it admin access to there own machine? But with this condition: They screw it up, they have to fix it. They will get no support whatsoever from the help desk or system admin. If they fill it with spyware, they have to get it off. Give them a restore disk and let them start over any time they need to. If they do something that screws up the network, cut them off the network.
NEVER give someone more privelages than they need to do their job
Problem is, a lot of shops just go with default privelages. Which in some cases don't allow you to do your job.
I had a coworker who wasn't allowed to delete an icon off his desktop because he wasn't the user that created it (it was a shortcut to word or something). It's one thing to limit users who don't know what they're doing. It's another thing to insult compenent computer professionals.