Repeat after me: Would you like fries with that? How about an apple pie?
While i'm sure your little scenario actually went down as you said [engage snicker], the reality is that if i can get cds and mp3s from amazon or any of the other alternate music sources your business is lost anyway, i don't have to leave my house and go to your crappy little analog store.
Sounds like John Nash's game "Fuck You Buddy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Sucker, which was invented in the 1950's. So they put you in a subway the game is the same...
We have now reached a point where "Easy to Use" is no longer an issue and specialization (i was looking forward to Undead Linux but they went away). There are more and more distros/sub-distros that are providing more and more specific customizations out of the box. These distros are not for people who have using linux for years, they are for people who just want to use their computer without having to work at it. This can be easily done with linux and on their OLD computers. I have converted a few people starting with just FOSS, then when they too easily get their windows systems compromised I show them Mint, Mepis, Linspire, Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubunt/Edubuntu, and yes I have checked out Granular, it is nice. Most people just want to go on web, get their email, watch videos, play games, type a document. And any of the distros out there allow this with little or no fuss.
Hold on! You mean that the RIAA are passing out legal certificates verifying you ARE a PIRATE!!?? Daaaaaaaamn, I must have one, ARRRRRRRRR Matey! The scurvy bastards be PIRATE MAKERS!
First off they were getting BAAAAD publicity, and in this instance bad publicity is bad. When geeks start turning away from you and telling their friends not to use your service it begins to ahem... hurt. But I also think that perhaps the congress critters that are worried we are falling behind infrastructurally, may have hinted at dropping investigations and maybe even a little free gubmint money to help "upgrade" the public infrastructure. Indeed. And the other benefit is that.... AT&T is now the SPY ISP attempting to pick through traffic and block your downloads. We shall see, though, keep an eye on the broadband forums, we shall know soon enough.
That even here in California, we have illiterate fearful ignorant people that want to sit in a bunker an wait to nuke the commies. TKFTs alive and well in the state of California. I wonder if they called to complain on their cell phones, or perhaps from a wireless phone in their house? Perhaps when they get in an accident they use their On-Star to call for help... hmmm... No, i'm sure they just sit there in their caves wondering if they should bathe this week.
it stops when the shows don't get watched or listened to. HBO & Showtime cater to certain markets, and some of the network broadcast shows want access to that clientèle. This works the same for violence as far as i am concerned, turn it off if you do not like it, write to the sponsors of the shows, this was the way stuff got done prior to Bush 'n Co. appointments. Let society check itself. Shows like Mojo Nixon's Lyin' Cocksuckers, Bill Maher's Realtime, and Penn 'n Teller's Bullshit, are all great shows that use expletives within the context of their show and should be seen/heard on regular stations everyone has access to not just for those who can afford it. Plus they are doing the ultimate nanny-state shuck and jive, if parents don't know or "can't" monitor what their child watches/listens to, why do i have to be stopped from seeing/hearing? The Lenny Bruce quote says it all, and that is their real fear, they are doing this to make their own "Speech Free" zone, the opposite of what tv/radio should be, a FREE SPEECH zone.
So YOUR basis for calling ASSHAT is an article from 2004? ok... First, any operating system can be owned, open ports etc that shouldn't be, not updating the programs that you are serving up and let me be the first to admit, when your server does not reboot every week because it needs a break you tend to forget that it needs updating. If i did not get snort alerts, i would rarely go into the many ipcop routers i have setup using discarded e-machines. And truly unless you are using apt, updates on vintage oses is a pita, and apt only works really well on debian based oses... but do go on about how this is not at all the problem of the company that brings us the swiss cheese that are their operating systems.
Perhaps you should tell it to your congress critter what inhabits the Armed Services committee and also takes the campaign dollars from Microsoft (employees only to be sure), and forces the pentagon to use the good patriotic software. Oh and are you gonna be the one to tell the general that if he does not understand how to drag and drop with the "pointer thingy" he can't have access to secure data.:D
Thumbin on the tubes, waitin for a truck... full of email.
indeed, but a t1 could be shared via wireless or other means between a bunch of neighbors. Where i am i can get a t1 for around $250 per mo split 6 ways that's less than comcast charges for their "ultra superfast basic broadband":D
Most people won't even think of looking into these things i realize, but there are other options out there.
Unless you have had your head in the sand for the last 15 years, Microsoft has gotten most of their popularity from the fact that you only had to buy one copy of the software. Office has took over because of it's ease of installation on multiple stations without "needing" to buy more copies; same with Win3.1 WinNT Win95 Win98 and WinME. In fact a couple of shops in the area got busted numerous times for selling "pirated copies" (actually they were real serial numbers but they were used more than once), in fact the perception ( i got a client that thought that because the WinXP license was for 2 processors he could legally install it on 2 machines).
My point here is that Microsoft after taking incredibly long time (even longer than Debian, not quite as long as DukeNukem), to come out with the Vista release they had to go with what they knew worked in getting Vista out there in great numbers, thus THEY RELEASED the bios hack, thinking they would shut it off with the first service pack...:D Looks as though they were wrong again...
Microsoft owes its profits to piracy and if people actually have to start paying and paying full price for their shit, then that is when they begin the long hard slide to the bottom. Commence.
So far the 10 machines i have xp sp3 installed on work better, in fact it fixed an explorer.exe problem on a Sony VGP-XL1B3 media center that kept reoccurring after an update in early 2007 and MS could never figure out. Lower end machine (less than 1gb ram), actually run smoother, so far so good.
i can get a core2duo with 1gb ram and a 160gb sata hd w/dvd writer and 256mb video card for $400, to build it, it would be about $600 or so plus my time to put it together. For some things this is a no brainer; i can put my OS of choice on it in 20min.(not including updates) so while it may come with vista it won't have it for long.:)
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Repeat after me:
Would you like fries with that? How about an apple pie?
While i'm sure your little scenario actually went down as you said [engage snicker], the reality is that if i can get cds and mp3s from amazon or any of the other alternate music sources your business is lost anyway, i don't have to leave my house and go to your crappy little analog store.
Get busy moving onto your new career.
They just went here...
http://www.iso.org/iso/store/shopping_faqs.htm#shop-online
My understanding was that George Bush's Cyber Initiative was getting Achy Breaky Heart onto his iPod, mission unaccomplished?
Sounds like John Nash's game "Fuck You Buddy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Sucker, which was invented in the 1950's. So they put you in a subway the game is the same...
We have now reached a point where "Easy to Use" is no longer an issue and specialization (i was looking forward to Undead Linux but they went away). There are more and more distros/sub-distros that are providing more and more specific customizations out of the box. These distros are not for people who have using linux for years, they are for people who just want to use their computer without having to work at it. This can be easily done with linux and on their OLD computers. I have converted a few people starting with just FOSS, then when they too easily get their windows systems compromised I show them Mint, Mepis, Linspire, Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubunt/Edubuntu, and yes I have checked out Granular, it is nice. Most people just want to go on web, get their email, watch videos, play games, type a document. And any of the distros out there allow this with little or no fuss.
Hold on! You mean that the RIAA are passing out legal certificates verifying you ARE a PIRATE!!??
Daaaaaaaamn, I must have one, ARRRRRRRRR Matey! The scurvy bastards be PIRATE MAKERS!
we welcome our Chinese, Microsoft-crushing overlords.
all our base are belong to you.
First off they were getting BAAAAD publicity, and in this instance bad publicity is bad. When geeks start turning away from you and telling their friends not to use your service it begins to ahem... hurt. But I also think that perhaps the congress critters that are worried we are falling behind infrastructurally, may have hinted at dropping investigations and maybe even a little free gubmint money to help "upgrade" the public infrastructure. Indeed. And the other benefit is that .... AT&T is now the SPY ISP attempting to pick through traffic and block your downloads. We shall see, though, keep an eye on the broadband forums, we shall know soon enough.
That even here in California, we have illiterate fearful ignorant people that want to sit in a bunker an wait to nuke the commies. TKFTs alive and well in the state of California. I wonder if they called to complain on their cell phones, or perhaps from a wireless phone in their house? Perhaps when they get in an accident they use their On-Star to call for help... hmmm... No, i'm sure they just sit there in their caves wondering if they should bathe this week.
it stops when the shows don't get watched or listened to. HBO & Showtime cater to certain markets, and some of the network broadcast shows want access to that clientèle. This works the same for violence as far as i am concerned, turn it off if you do not like it, write to the sponsors of the shows, this was the way stuff got done prior to Bush 'n Co. appointments. Let society check itself. Shows like Mojo Nixon's Lyin' Cocksuckers, Bill Maher's Realtime, and Penn 'n Teller's Bullshit, are all great shows that use expletives within the context of their show and should be seen/heard on regular stations everyone has access to not just for those who can afford it. Plus they are doing the ultimate nanny-state shuck and jive, if parents don't know or "can't" monitor what their child watches/listens to, why do i have to be stopped from seeing/hearing? The Lenny Bruce quote says it all, and that is their real fear, they are doing this to make their own "Speech Free" zone, the opposite of what tv/radio should be, a FREE SPEECH zone.
So YOUR basis for calling ASSHAT is an article from 2004? ok... First, any operating system can be owned, open ports etc that shouldn't be, not updating the programs that you are serving up and let me be the first to admit, when your server does not reboot every week because it needs a break you tend to forget that it needs updating. If i did not get snort alerts, i would rarely go into the many ipcop routers i have setup using discarded e-machines. And truly unless you are using apt, updates on vintage oses is a pita, and apt only works really well on debian based oses... but do go on about how this is not at all the problem of the company that brings us the swiss cheese that are their operating systems.
The amount you speak of will cover the cost of the cisco edge router now lets see if we can fund some core routers and some nice switches ;D
wish i had some mod points, as i am pissing and weeping at the same time.
Perhaps you should tell it to your congress critter what inhabits the Armed Services committee and also takes the campaign dollars from Microsoft (employees only to be sure), and forces the pentagon to use the good patriotic software. Oh and are you gonna be the one to tell the general that if he does not understand how to drag and drop with the "pointer thingy" he can't have access to secure data. :D
Thumbin on the tubes, waitin for a truck... full of email.
My name is Jimmy Wales, meet my lawyers Fohk, Ewe & Dago.
You are correct, you are the right tool, and truly the only tool here.
Open Adblock control - insert domain... and there you have it, another empty space where annoyance used to be :D
Dood, everyone knows that Holograms of Natalie Portman do not keep you relaxed, they keep you stimulated and distracted...
indeed, but a t1 could be shared via wireless or other means between a bunch of neighbors. Where i am i can get a t1 for around $250 per mo split 6 ways that's less than comcast charges for their "ultra superfast basic broadband" :D
Most people won't even think of looking into these things i realize, but there are other options out there.
Unless you have had your head in the sand for the last 15 years, Microsoft has gotten most of their popularity from the fact that you only had to buy one copy of the software. Office has took over because of it's ease of installation on multiple stations without "needing" to buy more copies; same with Win3.1 WinNT Win95 Win98 and WinME. In fact a couple of shops in the area got busted numerous times for selling "pirated copies" (actually they were real serial numbers but they were used more than once), in fact the perception ( i got a client that thought that because the WinXP license was for 2 processors he could legally install it on 2 machines).
:D Looks as though they were wrong again...
My point here is that Microsoft after taking incredibly long time (even longer than Debian, not quite as long as DukeNukem), to come out with the Vista release they had to go with what they knew worked in getting Vista out there in great numbers, thus THEY RELEASED the bios hack, thinking they would shut it off with the first service pack...
Microsoft owes its profits to piracy and if people actually have to start paying and paying full price for their shit, then that is when they begin the long hard slide to the bottom. Commence.
This is slashdot so it must be Microsoft's fault, it IS that easy.
So far the 10 machines i have xp sp3 installed on work better, in fact it fixed an explorer.exe problem on a Sony VGP-XL1B3 media center that kept reoccurring after an update in early 2007 and MS could never figure out. Lower end machine (less than 1gb ram), actually run smoother, so far so good.
i can get a core2duo with 1gb ram and a 160gb sata hd w/dvd writer and 256mb video card for $400, to build it, it would be about $600 or so plus my time to put it together. For some things this is a no brainer; i can put my OS of choice on it in 20min.(not including updates) so while it may come with vista it won't have it for long.:)
Are our movies not good enough for them to cause us a 44% loss of our "PROFITS"
Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel and perhaps... Mr. Edwards
It's the truth, so most people WON"T LIKE IT.