David:
Nice. 400Mhz computer that plugs into a USB port of a Windows box
Then fires up Debian on itself and an X Server on the Windows box
... and can be plugged into a Linux box too now that I read on a bit further
$240 for the half gig version. That isn't too bad.
azz:
I don't think I've mentioned WFMU before -- they're an eclectic US independant radio station who have a wonderfully bizarre blog written by their staff.
Lots of really odd music, impassioned rants about various subjects, and so on.
azz: Guess I won't be buying Blu-Ray discs either.
David: Guess I'll be installing the inevitable DRM bypass so I can use my discs the way I want .... i.e. without waiting half an hour for the adverts and being able to use the global market to get discs without price fixing problems
azz: You're assuming the DRM bypass will exist. In ten years' time, it probably won't.
David: The joy of FOSS, it probably will.
azz: Free software can't do anything about DRM-encumbered hardware -- Blu-Ray/HDDVD drives won't have the security holes that current software exploits in DVD drives.
David: They'll probably just have different security holes :) I'll just wait and see.
azz: And we're assuming we're even going to be able to run Linux in a few years' time. With the "trusted computing" stuff that's getting introduced into PCs, it's looking less and less likely that that'll be the case. Remember that Apple and Microsoft control both the hardware manufacturers and the law in the US (and they're getting their way with EU law too).
David: I think there is too much of a non-Win/Mac install base for that to happen. And the recent fun with Patent law suggests that the EU isn't going to rollover for them too easily.
azz:
The only reason we've not got EU software patent law is because the new EU constitution hasn't been ratified -- the vast majority support the law, and under the new constitution it'll be a majority vote.
(So, obviously, please don't vote to ratify the new constitution if it ever comes down to that...)
David:
Didn't the EU parliment throw the law out with something like a 90% majority?
Or would the constitution have rendered them impotent?
azz: Only after it had been rejected a couple of times with just a handful of votes against it.
David: Ah.
azz: Remember that the people who're campaigning for software patents have all the money, and we don't; they will win eventually. (That doesn't mean it's not worth fighting, but we won't win.)
David:
"this is a mandatory field to fill in. We ask for a home phone number as you may not have your mobile phone with you."
Yes, becuase I carry my land line with me when I go out. Honest.
azz: Maybe they're thinking "if you've sent your phone back for repair", but yes, that's still a great bit of phrasing.
David: Possibly ... but they could just ask for A phone number
azz:
"The Pentagon would hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing today."
"Country music concert"?
How very... surreal.
Slightly less surreal if you don't misread "Clint Black" as "Cilla Black".
azz:
Millie is the reincarnation of Calvin. The last couple of days have been particularly good...
More specifically, the entire strip is the reincarnation of Calvin and Hobbes. Not that I'm complaining.
azz: Regardless of whether you agree with the campaign, I do like the quote from 1911...
azz: As visited by hundreds of Sourceforge users daily...
David: he he he
azz:
Step 1: make small box with several shiny knobs on.
Step 2: write lots of bullshit about it.
Step 3: profit!
azz: This should make producing the hackergotchi images for the planet page rather easier.
David:
On the subject of which - we must have some hackergotchi photo taking come the BBQ
Someone has stolen Adam's brain
David: o/~ We're on a road to nowhere