I used it with success for a while, and then my computer just refused to boot. At first it seemed to be a video card issue, but I wiped and reinstalled Windows and SP1 worked fine, my card's drivers installed and worked fine, I installed all available updates with no problems...
and then I installed SP2 and the blue screen issue came back
It's important to realize that cutting all those worthless scientific programs for the next decade will give us money to stay another 12-18 hours in Iraq
OK, so what Mac players could play AAC before iTunes? What you're saying sounds witty and intelligent, but it isn't. The fact is, iTunes can play AAC the same as MP3, and that's different than if Sony releases movies in a format that's PSP-only
Do you disagree with this, or do you just want to strain logic even further to try to make some "point"?
The point is, someone does a google search looking for information on your page, your page comes up as the top-ranked result, and the person's browser begins to load your page while the person's neurons take a few seconds to decide to click on the top link
There's three "whys" involved here: - why would google do this? because it makes their search engine better for people using it - why would the person looking at your site want this? because it gives them a faster load time - why would you, as the site owner, want this? because your site is loading faster for the people looking at it, which is going to give you some "positive vibes", and because turning it off is a small "fuck you" to the people looking at your page, which isn't really a signal you want to give
Frankly, if your site is coming up #1 in any reasonably popular google search, you ought to be bringing in enough bling that you can deal with a few erroneous page "views"
It's so much better this way though. Apple can take things like BSD and Mach and KHTML and H.264 and build on them and make great things cheaply, and Microsoft can spend 10 times the R&D and build it all from scratch, and still wind up with something that sucks compared to what Apple made
Best way to do Netflix(or any of the "x movies at a time" services) is get the movie, immediately rip to a hard drive, and send it back. From there you can burn, play directly, rip to DivX, or whatever suits you. Lets you go through tons of movies a month and always have some "in the queue" to be watched
You may not agree with open-source philosophy, but to caricature it as "only choosing to do business with inferior tools when superior tools are widely available because the inferior tools conform to some arbitrary standard of ideological acceptability"
Any so-called worldview you're working with here would condone Mengele in the same sentence as DB2, an overstatement so broad it's ironic coming from the keyboard of the person who criticized using the wrong tool for the job.
A lot of the laughs in the books were from the bizarre dryly humorous writing style. I don't know how you can convert that to a movie, but it doesn't seem like they even tried
Obviously not posted by a business owner of any sort. 4% loss may sound paltry, but if you choose to look at that 4% as being taken out of your net profit it'll look considerable larger, i.e. 4% out of $27B
Right. Because when someone buys a DVD, it's 100% profit for industry. There's absolutely no production or shipping costs on the part of the producer, because DVDs and their packages grow on magic trees in candyland, and are delivered to Best Buy by the volunteer video fairy
"a new system that will thwart 97% of existing DVD copying software[as of today]"
They're admitting that people existing cracks work on the new system! How long is it going to take for that 3% to become 100%? I give it about a month from the release of the first DVD with the new system
To be honest, the Mac Mini's form factor is mostly a solution in search of a problem.
Thank God all other consumer products in our society are designed for the best possible efficiency and functionality, completely absent considerations of form or style
At least Apple, minus a few Flower Power iMacs, makes classy stuff. Your vaunted PC makers are the ones grafting 10 pound pieces of neon plastic to their boxes and calling it style.
Perhaps not higher resolution, but when you're on a planet with 1/100th the amount of sunlight as the earth, you'd probably be wise not to be filtering any more of it out trying to get color pics.
That's complete bull. Please quote anything credible saying half the people paying into SS die before collecting. I have trouble believe that at all, and even less so if you modify the statement to "pay anything significant", given that someone who dies at 20 may have only paid a few bucks into SS
Beyond that, the surplus was there because we put it there, i.e. because the government raised taxes to create a surplus *specifically* to deal with the issue of the baby boomers. This was back around 1983, and you can go check on what Greenspan said at the time.
Again, this entire "crisis" is manufactured. It's been known about for years, and isn't a crisis at all. Rich people have been taking money used for social security to fund their tax cuts, and now when it turns around and the working class ask for the money back, the rich cry foul.
Run reverse DNS on your own IP. If you are at any sort of normal ISP I'll bet you have a hostname. Now your dumb box connected to a cable modem is "secure"
Registering is a good way of filtering people. You can force them to do things like get approved first, or get them to provide a valid e-mail address and recieve an e-mail and click on a link within it, etc. Also makes it easier to then kill anyone who's spamming not just by IP or URL but by username
All this prevents the simplistic SPAM bots from just POSTing to your cgi scripts and forces them to jump through hoops
A few problems, as a Wordpress user and as someone who's run into problems w/ other people's MT blogs: - spam bots attack WP and MT through various means, one of the most common being to simply POST to the mt-comments.cgi or wp-comments-post.php URLs on peoples sites - the bots mainly post huge amounts of links to stupid websites, like viagra or poker strategy. the goal is to get a higher google ranking by having links from many different sites - the biggest problem for WP users is that you get flooded with literally hundreds of comments per day. if you have good filtering you'll at worst just have to sit around and delete some manually - the biggest problem for MT users(or that MT users cause) is that because of the poor design of MT, the comments script takes up a huge amount of CPU time. apparently it actually goes through the process of rebuilding the static post pages even when comments are moderated or auto-deleted. now imagine you have 500 posts and they all get hit at the same time - it's something close to a forkbomb on the server
The best solution to all of this is to find a way to prevent the stuff from ever getting posted. Once it's submitted you're going to have to analyze it in some way and decide if its SPAM or its good. There are some simple solutions like renaming the comment post scripts, and some more complicated ones like using a verification number or requiring users to register. In any case, it's a very major problem for almost anyone with a blog.
I dreamed up something like this a while back...think I commented over at k5. The legal issues would definitely need more hammering out, but I think it could definitely work.
As far as technical issues, it would probably be difficult to get hundreds of users to send you data for any specific file. Most of the time I download from BitTorrent I only have 10-20 different people sending me data throughout.
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I used it with success for a while, and then my computer just refused to boot. At first it seemed to be a video card issue, but I wiped and reinstalled Windows and SP1 worked fine, my card's drivers installed and worked fine, I installed all available updates with no problems...
and then I installed SP2 and the blue screen issue came back
Fuck it
It's important to realize that cutting all those worthless scientific programs for the next decade will give us money to stay another 12-18 hours in Iraq
What a deal
If Tivo would just release a recorder that stored video in H.264 I think this problem would mostly go away
OK, so what Mac players could play AAC before iTunes? What you're saying sounds witty and intelligent, but it isn't. The fact is, iTunes can play AAC the same as MP3, and that's different than if Sony releases movies in a format that's PSP-only
Do you disagree with this, or do you just want to strain logic even further to try to make some "point"?
What do you mean by reload? Things set in about:config, for the most part, should stay set
The point is, someone does a google search looking for information on your page, your page comes up as the top-ranked result, and the person's browser begins to load your page while the person's neurons take a few seconds to decide to click on the top link
There's three "whys" involved here:
- why would google do this? because it makes their search engine better for people using it
- why would the person looking at your site want this? because it gives them a faster load time
- why would you, as the site owner, want this? because your site is loading faster for the people looking at it, which is going to give you some "positive vibes", and because turning it off is a small "fuck you" to the people looking at your page, which isn't really a signal you want to give
Frankly, if your site is coming up #1 in any reasonably popular google search, you ought to be bringing in enough bling that you can deal with a few erroneous page "views"
Right, you also have to consider the possiblity of at-home recharges. If this becomes possible, a daily charge doesn't seem too bad anymore
It's so much better this way though. Apple can take things like BSD and Mach and KHTML and H.264 and build on them and make great things cheaply, and Microsoft can spend 10 times the R&D and build it all from scratch, and still wind up with something that sucks compared to what Apple made
In my day, we only had one bit, and we liked it!
Best way to do Netflix(or any of the "x movies at a time" services) is get the movie, immediately rip to a hard drive, and send it back. From there you can burn, play directly, rip to DivX, or whatever suits you. Lets you go through tons of movies a month and always have some "in the queue" to be watched
You may not agree with open-source philosophy, but to caricature it as "only choosing to do business with inferior tools when superior tools are widely available because the inferior tools conform to some arbitrary standard of ideological acceptability"
Any so-called worldview you're working with here would condone Mengele in the same sentence as DB2, an overstatement so broad it's ironic coming from the keyboard of the person who criticized using the wrong tool for the job.
A lot of the laughs in the books were from the bizarre dryly humorous writing style. I don't know how you can convert that to a movie, but it doesn't seem like they even tried
Obviously not posted by a business owner of any sort. 4% loss may sound paltry, but if you choose to look at that 4% as being taken out of your net profit it'll look considerable larger, i.e. 4% out of $27B
Right. Because when someone buys a DVD, it's 100% profit for industry. There's absolutely no production or shipping costs on the part of the producer, because DVDs and their packages grow on magic trees in candyland, and are delivered to Best Buy by the volunteer video fairy
"a new system that will thwart 97% of existing DVD copying software[as of today]"
They're admitting that people existing cracks work on the new system! How long is it going to take for that 3% to become 100%? I give it about a month from the release of the first DVD with the new system
To be honest, the Mac Mini's form factor is mostly a solution in search of a problem.
Thank God all other consumer products in our society are designed for the best possible efficiency and functionality, completely absent considerations of form or style
At least Apple, minus a few Flower Power iMacs, makes classy stuff. Your vaunted PC makers are the ones grafting 10 pound pieces of neon plastic to their boxes and calling it style.
And so does the PowerBook and iBook. I think a mini is a bit harder to do, given how vertically compressed everything is
Perhaps not higher resolution, but when you're on a planet with 1/100th the amount of sunlight as the earth, you'd probably be wise not to be filtering any more of it out trying to get color pics.
That's complete bull. Please quote anything credible saying half the people paying into SS die before collecting. I have trouble believe that at all, and even less so if you modify the statement to "pay anything significant", given that someone who dies at 20 may have only paid a few bucks into SS
Beyond that, the surplus was there because we put it there, i.e. because the government raised taxes to create a surplus *specifically* to deal with the issue of the baby boomers. This was back around 1983, and you can go check on what Greenspan said at the time.
Again, this entire "crisis" is manufactured. It's been known about for years, and isn't a crisis at all. Rich people have been taking money used for social security to fund their tax cuts, and now when it turns around and the working class ask for the money back, the rich cry foul.
How is there a Mac in a 1983 photo spread?
Run reverse DNS on your own IP. If you are at any sort of normal ISP I'll bet you have a hostname. Now your dumb box connected to a cable modem is "secure"
Glad you know so much
Registering is a good way of filtering people. You can force them to do things like get approved first, or get them to provide a valid e-mail address and recieve an e-mail and click on a link within it, etc. Also makes it easier to then kill anyone who's spamming not just by IP or URL but by username
All this prevents the simplistic SPAM bots from just POSTing to your cgi scripts and forces them to jump through hoops
A few problems, as a Wordpress user and as someone who's run into problems w/ other people's MT blogs:
- spam bots attack WP and MT through various means, one of the most common being to simply POST to the mt-comments.cgi or wp-comments-post.php URLs on peoples sites
- the bots mainly post huge amounts of links to stupid websites, like viagra or poker strategy. the goal is to get a higher google ranking by having links from many different sites
- the biggest problem for WP users is that you get flooded with literally hundreds of comments per day. if you have good filtering you'll at worst just have to sit around and delete some manually
- the biggest problem for MT users(or that MT users cause) is that because of the poor design of MT, the comments script takes up a huge amount of CPU time. apparently it actually goes through the process of rebuilding the static post pages even when comments are moderated or auto-deleted. now imagine you have 500 posts and they all get hit at the same time - it's something close to a forkbomb on the server
The best solution to all of this is to find a way to prevent the stuff from ever getting posted. Once it's submitted you're going to have to analyze it in some way and decide if its SPAM or its good. There are some simple solutions like renaming the comment post scripts, and some more complicated ones like using a verification number or requiring users to register. In any case, it's a very major problem for almost anyone with a blog.
I work for a web host and we've had this issue. 744 on mt-comments.cgi. Sorry guys.
Don't you still need to do cftry/cfcatch stuff for the error handling?
I dreamed up something like this a while back...think I commented over at k5. The legal issues would definitely need more hammering out, but I think it could definitely work.
As far as technical issues, it would probably be difficult to get hundreds of users to send you data for any specific file. Most of the time I download from BitTorrent I only have 10-20 different people sending me data throughout.