Comment THIS IS AWESOME!!! BAD SUMMARY (Score 2, Informative) 291
If you RTFA you see that the 31 dollars is per-year handling of your disc, you set the prices for your prints and get commision based on that... sheesh guys wake up
Comment Re:And the inevitable problems (Score 1) 727
chances are, the people who have made this switch(as I have,2 weeks running ubuntu(mind you it took several botched attempts at setting myself a proper partition size and swap, but i got through it)) are not making the switch because they think this is a way to run their windows programs 'better' i am assuming 95% of all people who switch to linux of any variant are doing so at the urging(and with the support) of close friends and family. ubuntu being my own personal experience(last install of linux i tried was redhat circa 1998-99) and my experience was several orders of magnitude better. compiz is the bomb, i dont honestly think i have been more pleased with a system, considering my pc would struggle at best to install a basic version of vista, i am quite pleased, my internet experience on the whole has increased, on windows when i would max my incoming bandwidth i would be experiencing disconnects and poor connectivity from other applications, none of these issues thus far in ubuntu, and i've noticed my upstream is on average 50-60K/sec faster, there are decent equivalents for just about any program i use, the only exception is that i run a virtual machine for apps i am not ready to let go of yet, mIRC (i spent all those years learning to script it i am not throwing that away) and convertxtodvd which i have not found a decent alternative to as of yet, i havent gone the WINE route as i feel it would be counter-productive to what I am trying to accomplish with the switch.
any thoughts?
Comment IF they are going this route (Score 1) 395
will ISP's do the 'right thing' and maybe set some 'free-leech' whitelist where people who use services such as steam/youtube/wow/itunes that can accrue a lot of bandwidth over the course of the month, while trying to bill UPSTREAM to entice legitimate content-providers to buy themselves a slot on this 'whitelist' so their business model is not affected by this sudden loss of 'capacity' on the ISP networks?
I'm hoping not, but at least it would keep those who are legitimately paying for products and services to continue to receive the value that they are paying for.
ie, 100gb cap, but anything going thru itunes/wow/steam/youtube etc would not be counted against your quota, everything else does, hopefully this isnt where things are going, but who knows :( its time for a 'public internet' where you pay for your access and thats it, u are free to do as u please on the connection u pay for, if you do something that is illegal and get caught then thats between you and the authorities, the ISP should not be involved.
Comment Dave's Not Here Man (Score 1) 71
Another of my child-hood icons has fallen to the beast of time, thanks Dave, you've helped to inspire millions and will continue to do so.
R.I.P
Comment Re:Tactics? (Score 1) 227
where is the money coming from to pay for these domain names?
Comment Re:need special hardware? (Score 1) 272
using Socket 478 based Pentium 4(2.8Ghz) running 2Gb RAM and WinXP Pro as the underlying OS i am able to run 2 Windows 2000 Pro Systems with very little Processor hit, I usually run around 7% CPU utilization and hit approx 50% RAM usage. With the minimize to the tray option I dont even realize these are running half the time.
p.s the VM's in question are only allocated 256Mb RAM each, and performance in each window is very snappy
Comment Re:Not new (Score 1) 96
of course this is pertinent, Slashdot is losing its vision, and has to look at stories over and over again to keep from forgetting them, or is this just your first day here.... no wait UID too low... what is your excuse
hmm
captcha = speech
how ironic
Comment Re:no soup! (Score 1) 658
fine, i accept your analysis, however i have based this on your UID and not the content of your message :D
Comment no soup! (Score 1) 658
is this an indication that all ISP's in the country are full of boardmembers making over 500k a year? no internetsoup for you!! seriously though, I envision america's internet infrastructure to be as badly in need of repair/upgrades as their roads/water/electrical infrastructures. why the pullout? is this just so you naughty people wont pirate Britney's new tracks so fast?
Comment Re:So you are stuck with the crap build in stereo (Score 1) 1224
apparently sub 1000000 Slashdot UID's don't hold the prestige they once did, ok so new rule, everyone with 967726 UID's or below are now the respected few , that the rest of us should look to and mod up when the situation allows
-not usually a spelling nazi, but...LOL come on
Submission + - Wikipedia in mass panic over Colbert jab (com.com) 1
athloi writes: "In the wake of "The Colbert Report" host Stephen Colbert waxing philosophical about Wikipedia, making changes to entries on the air and urging his viewers to edit entries to include details he knew were false, an editor of the site has banned the comedian. True open content isn't paranoid, and it's not up for any idiot to edit, either. Wikipedia isn't OS in the same way OSS is, it's OS in the way a graffiti wall is. If OSS developers ran an encyclopedia, they'd assign developer project managers to each entry and the entries would be actually informative, unlike Wikipedia's mishmash of gossip, plagiarism and political revenge fantasies.
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6102088-7.html?pa rt=rss&tag=6102088&subj=news"
Submission + - Pillow with an HDMI port?
Anonymous Coward writes: "My son just discovered that my squishy pillow apparently has an HDMI port and that when his Dad sent the child support there were microscopic Wookies that bummed a ride.
However, here is the question, what would a HDMI port be doing in my otherwise normal squishy pillow and what does microscopic Wookies have to do with it — if anything? He has also discovered a mysterious wall rash that he does not know what caused it to manifest... other than possibly some connection to microscopic Wookies tariling into a dark spot in the pillow that may be a manifestation of the Sith.
However, it still remains a huge mystery as to the meaning and purpose of the HDMI port and why there are so many scratches on the inside of a lightbulb.
What next? Are his pants going to start standing up and walking by themselves. He said he would not be suprised if a new lifeform had developed in the racid stuff at the bottom of his hamper..."
However, here is the question, what would a HDMI port be doing in my otherwise normal squishy pillow and what does microscopic Wookies have to do with it — if anything? He has also discovered a mysterious wall rash that he does not know what caused it to manifest... other than possibly some connection to microscopic Wookies tariling into a dark spot in the pillow that may be a manifestation of the Sith.
However, it still remains a huge mystery as to the meaning and purpose of the HDMI port and why there are so many scratches on the inside of a lightbulb.
What next? Are his pants going to start standing up and walking by themselves. He said he would not be suprised if a new lifeform had developed in the racid stuff at the bottom of his hamper..."
Submission + - Mars mission borrows technology from PS3, Xbox 360 (networkworld.com)
jbrodkin writes: "The same IBM processors in your Xbox 360, PS3, the car you drive and some of the world's fastest supercomputers are leaving for Mars today to support a NASA mission searching for extraterrestrial life. And this is no mere coincidence. Lessons learned from the incredible video throughput of the PlayStation 3 and the extreme scalability and reliability of mainframes factor into the processors being used on the Phoenix Mars Lander. Similarly, the experience building processors that make the most efficient use of energy on a spacecraft is helping IBM make data centers on Earth more efficient in a time when limitations of space and power are increasingly important.
"This is the onboard machine that runs all of the functions that will have to be performed somewhat autonomously on Mars when it lands," explains Dave McQueeney, chief technology officer for IBM's federal contracting business. "These are the computers inside the spacecraft that are responsible for the navigation, control, scientific instruments, power management ... the things that are the brains of the Lander itself.""
Submission + - The Mystery of the 2,000 Year-Old Computer
oloron writes: "A hundred years ago, sponge divers off the coast of Greece found, amidst the wreckage of an ancient ship, "a shoebox-size lump of bronze, which appeared to have a wooden exterior. Inside... [was] what looked like a bronze dial. Researchers also noticed precisely cut triangular gear teeth of different sizes. The thing looked like some sort of mechanical clock. But this was impossible, because scientifically precise gearing wasn't believed to have been widely used until the fourteenth century — fourteen hundred years after the ship went down."
It look a century — and all kinds of next-generation CAT scans. But finally, researchers have unraveled the mystery of the "Antikythera Mechanism."
It turns out that the ancient Greeks were more clever than we ever dreamed. (And we dreamed they were pretty clever.) The artifact does indeed have the an amazingly precise gear train. And it's used to power what the New Yorker is calling "the world's first computer."
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/0705 14fa_fact_seabrook
but does it run linux?"
