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Trying to install Linux on a laptop with nocdrom or Ethernet but DLINK usb wi-fi. I NEED HELP!
A second-hand PCMCIA 10Mbit Ethernet card can be had for just a few bucks. In fact, it'll save you more than its purchase price in aspirin you'd need otherwise! Or how about a USB 5.25" enclosure and an old CD-ROM drive you have lying around? Once you've got a base system installed from floppies (kernel, some tools), you can use both those tools much more easily than the wireless item.
I wonder why all those Flash-memory music players all seem to play MP3 and WMA. Aren't there any of those devices that play MP3 and Ogg Vorbis instead?
The real difference here is that you can't read. GP said selling or giving away the copies was illegal, so your example falls under giving away (with financial side-effect), hence it's illegal.
Worse yet! Google has millions of computers in climate-controlled datacenters, and some very expensive internet connections. Obviously, they don't get that for free.
But you don't have to pay to search on Google! They're dumping their product illegally!
Send out the lawyers with frikkin' lasers on their heads!
Yes, I remember that game too. Very good, athmosperic. You might like Space Crusade (early nineties, find an Atari ST or Amiga emulator) or Dawn of War (recent RTS).
What do you mean, their own demise? Google is one of the things that make the internet more useful and more attractive to people.
Oh, wait, you mean that a useful and attractive internet means people are going to not sign up for SBC broadband! Of course, how silly of me that I didn't see your impeccable logic for what it is immediately!
Have you read any EULA lately? They explicitly state that they have the right to revoke your licence for any reason whatsoever. If those EULAs are ruled as being binding, they do have the power to declare all existing legal Windows installs to be illegal.
"Nice computer you have there. It would be a shame if it turned out to contain unlicenced software..."
Hey, I happen to think the vast majority of blogs are useless, alright? But if people want to blog, why put those kinds of roadblocks in their way? Also, charging money, regardless of the amount, means that the bloggers can't be anonymous anymore. Big issue in some countries.
I'd still like it to be possible to exclude all blogs in web searches, though...
So according to you, poor people shouldn't be able to go to a cyber cafe to post to their blog? I never implied that these poor people would have their own computer -- they're too poor, that's the entire point!
Yes, and those two bucks will also be very affordable for poor people in third world countries. They'll just have to go a day without food, no problem!
No, in reality it will just mean that people will see no point at all anymore in purchasing the copy-crippled CDs, and will just fill their MP3 players with downloaded files.
Sounds to me like this is yet another make-everyone-a-criminal laws.
Don't be pissed for missing X: Beyond the Frontier. It's got submarine physics, not spaceship physics, i.e. you can turn around, and your velocity turns with you. Totally ridiculous. Also, those graphical backdrops of huge planets and stuff just looked fake. It looked like I was flying in badly simulated space and those giant matte paintings supposed to be far-off scenery were floating close by.
Luckily I didn't waste too much money on it, but it's still a waste, since I put it away not long after purchasing it.
And for the record, I also bought Elite II, over ten years ago, and Elite III, about ten years ago, and I played those games a lot, because they were very very good, even though they, especially Elite III, had some bugs.
I wasn't impressed at all with X: Beyond the Frontier, so I'm not expecting X2 too be any good either. Am I very wrong here?
You are aware that those Circuit City DIVX discs have nothing to do with the DivX;-) codec that was basically a hack of another MPEG-4 codec, except for the similarity in name?
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And looking at your username, you also bought seven sets of Firefly ;-)
As this link confirms, Debian can be installed from a wide variety of media. Check it out. This probably goes for some other distros as well.
A second-hand PCMCIA 10Mbit Ethernet card can be had for just a few bucks. In fact, it'll save you more than its purchase price in aspirin you'd need otherwise! Or how about a USB 5.25" enclosure and an old CD-ROM drive you have lying around? Once you've got a base system installed from floppies (kernel, some tools), you can use both those tools much more easily than the wireless item.
I don't think the GP meant to categorize 20th century science as classic science...
I wonder why all those Flash-memory music players all seem to play MP3 and WMA. Aren't there any of those devices that play MP3 and Ogg Vorbis instead?
I read that safe mode won't protect you from the terrible secret of the Sony rootkit...
Do you have optical drives in your PC?
The real difference here is that you can't read. GP said selling or giving away the copies was illegal, so your example falls under giving away (with financial side-effect), hence it's illegal.
Worse yet! Google has millions of computers in climate-controlled datacenters, and some very expensive internet connections. Obviously, they don't get that for free.
But you don't have to pay to search on Google! They're dumping their product illegally!
Send out the lawyers with frikkin' lasers on their heads!
Yes, I remember that game too. Very good, athmosperic. You might like Space Crusade (early nineties, find an Atari ST or Amiga emulator) or Dawn of War (recent RTS).
What do you mean, their own demise? Google is one of the things that make the internet more useful and more attractive to people.
Oh, wait, you mean that a useful and attractive internet means people are going to not sign up for SBC broadband! Of course, how silly of me that I didn't see your impeccable logic for what it is immediately!
Have you read any EULA lately? They explicitly state that they have the right to revoke your licence for any reason whatsoever. If those EULAs are ruled as being binding, they do have the power to declare all existing legal Windows installs to be illegal.
"Nice computer you have there. It would be a shame if it turned out to contain unlicenced software..."
Neverwinter Nights more your cup of tea?
Hey, I happen to think the vast majority of blogs are useless, alright? But if people want to blog, why put those kinds of roadblocks in their way? Also, charging money, regardless of the amount, means that the bloggers can't be anonymous anymore. Big issue in some countries.
I'd still like it to be possible to exclude all blogs in web searches, though...
So according to you, poor people shouldn't be able to go to a cyber cafe to post to their blog? I never implied that these poor people would have their own computer -- they're too poor, that's the entire point!
Yes, and those two bucks will also be very affordable for poor people in third world countries. They'll just have to go a day without food, no problem!
That yellow thing is called the DayStar...
Just keep pressing that button every 108 minutes!
Too much work. Let's burn it and say we produced the results they were expecting.
No, in reality it will just mean that people will see no point at all anymore in purchasing the copy-crippled CDs, and will just fill their MP3 players with downloaded files.
Sounds to me like this is yet another make-everyone-a-criminal laws.
I know that, I type halt and reboot myself too, nowadays. It's a lot faster than the point-n-click method of shutting down the system ;-)
I call it Intelligent Deceleration!
At least your dog doesn't sound like an annoying mobile phone...
Don't be pissed for missing X: Beyond the Frontier. It's got submarine physics, not spaceship physics, i.e. you can turn around, and your velocity turns with you. Totally ridiculous. Also, those graphical backdrops of huge planets and stuff just looked fake. It looked like I was flying in badly simulated space and those giant matte paintings supposed to be far-off scenery were floating close by.
Luckily I didn't waste too much money on it, but it's still a waste, since I put it away not long after purchasing it.
And for the record, I also bought Elite II, over ten years ago, and Elite III, about ten years ago, and I played those games a lot, because they were very very good, even though they, especially Elite III, had some bugs.
I wasn't impressed at all with X: Beyond the Frontier, so I'm not expecting X2 too be any good either. Am I very wrong here?
Instead of typing "now", you can save two keystrokes by typing a zero ("0") instead.
You are aware that those Circuit City DIVX discs have nothing to do with the DivX ;-) codec that was basically a hack of another MPEG-4 codec, except for the similarity in name?