if anyone hasn't noticed, Apple and Microsoft have been playing very nice together since last year.
Can anyone explain to me why MS has been playing nice with Apple but not with Linux? I have never understood why they are doing that but they try so hard to stop Linux adoption. Mac's are the ones putting the bigger dent in their desktop marketshare. You would think they wouldn't be releasing Office and other things on that platform to keep people from switching away and decreasing their markethare even more.
So it looks like a good old fashion book burning is in order! Unfortunately, it's a website.
How about a good old fashioned slashdoting to take down the sever that the article is on? The server might go up in flames.
Also, the ability to return a game that I do not like.
Isn't that the point of renting games from places like Blockbuster or some other place so you can try them before you buy them? I'm also thinking Blokcbuster had (has?) a policy where if you rent a game and you do like it you can keep the game and pay the rest of the purchase price if you want to buy it.
I'm currently on site at a customer's office.
Wow, you are posting on slashdot while at a customer's office? You have to let me know how you bill the customer for that?
We can already stream DVD-quality movies encoded at 1 mbps or so, well within the current consumer "broadband" offerings. I'd assume that would be in the target range.
I'm not exactly sure how this will work but they said you have to offload the data to their servers. So if you are playing a game wouldn't you have to upload all the data to their servers so they can process it? Consumer internet connections are fairly quick at downloading but it seems that the upload speed is going to be a problem. My internet connection is 10mbps down but only about 700kbps up. So that seems like it would be the problem.
Tip: if you don't want to burn a CD just to test a distro, you can write the Live CD images to a USB stick. Just look at the livecd-iso-to-disk script in Fedora's ISO.
Do you know a program that I can use with any distro? I was going to get some CD-RWs but this sounds like a better idea.
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