No not really, a recent update, i believe around the time Half-Life added voice chatting, had a survey, on the bottom it clearly says to skip the survey. It clearly told you that you could skip the survey w/o any penalty in the first page.
First of all, I would like to say that I am no longer part of the @home network (THANKFULLY, i'm part of AT&T, which has a usenet server with binaries that do 3 day retention and excellent completion and unlimited downloads of course).
To set a bytecap on their servers isn't exactly a good idea, throttling would be so much better, so if certain people were taxing the servers too much, they can be limited. I used to pull about 600KB/s(yes that's BYTES) on my local SF Bay Area server and loved it. I never exceeded 500 megabytes a day (mostly for anime) though. In fact, from what I've read and from what I've experience pre-AT&T-split, the news servers were never taxed, but it's possible that the network was at times (I seriously doubt it, but that's what they say).
Although I don't do massive downloads, I do know many people who are warez kiddies and rely on usenet for their fix. We're talking 10+ Gigabytes per day here by the way. They're going to get their 10+ Gigabyte fix whether @home caps the downloads on the usenet servers or not, the only difference is that they're going to get it from somewhere else. The result of this is a bigger strain on their INTERNET network. Before (double-checking with traceroute), when one accessed the news server, it would just use the local @home network, never leaving the internet. Now, I know a few people that have signed up with Newsfeeds (note: don't even consider these guys unless you're a warez kiddie, stay with giganews/supernews/easynews/newshosting, they go there because it's unlimited downloads at fast speeds but the completion is horrible, spread over 18 servers so you have to use special programs).
The warez kiddies are going to get their fix either way, before less bandwidth was used using the @home usenet server (no bandwidth going to the internet). Now they're getting it from college dorms and pay usenet services. Smart move, pushing the network traffic to the internet, where it costs money!
Please try to stop spreading the misconception that DivX 4 (opendivx or any other variant) is open source. It violates several definitions of the open sourced definition (i.e. the one about "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor")
Considering that one of the major shareholders is AT&T (broadband or parent company it doesn't matter), they MUST keep the service running anyway.
AT&T WILL obtain the hardware and maybe the people who keep the cable internet system running.AT&T WANTS @HOME TO FILE FOR CHAPTER 7 (liquidation, bubye). Why? If they kept @home, they would still have less control over the system and if they obtained @home's hardware when they make the new system it'd be cheaper (not to mention the same people to run the familiar system).
Then why don't they BUY OUT @home? Simple! @home has something like SIX BILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT. If AT&T bought them out, they would have to deal with that debt and do you really think the shareholders would be happy about a sudden 6 billion in debt? HELL NO! AT&T will let @home liquidate and pick up everything (people and hardware) dirt cheap (because no one else will set up a cable system in that area, they CAN'T AT&T controls it, thus they're the only buyer).
AT&T is playing a smart move here, and they probably have @HOME executives in on this too and have other cable providers notified (that's why they're all making "backup" plans, because if they really weren't going out of business, then why would @home tell them, that would make the CO's trust @home less!)
Sigh... just a stupid ploy for AT&T to get full administration to the cable internet system dirt cheap w/o paying any debts.
Smart move AT&T.
If they decide to do anything different, AT&T execs are stupid for not doing this.;-]
It's not only just regional, it's just ONE station, it's KTEH (channel 54) in the San Francisco Bay Area. They don't cut ANYTHING, and that includes nudity, swearing or violence. It's all subtitled with the exception of Serial Experiments Lain which Pioneer (the distributor) wouldn't let them get it subbed (why? nobody knows). They show it 9:30 PM on sunday nights.
If you're unfortunate enough not to be living in the bay area, then call your local PBS station and try to get a bunch of people to pledge some money to show anime. Tell them to call up KTEH, afaik they're looking to form a co-op with a few other stations so they can get episodes cheaper. At least that's how it started in our area, people offering to pledge money and support and such.
Are you saying you don't know anyone who cheered when we bombed the hell out of iraq? Sure you can say it was deserved, but there still were civilians killed...
IMHO both are tragedies and shouldn't be celebrated, but it's not like it's something you don't see here.
Personally, I don't give a care weather Windows XP is a success or not, let's be honest here, how will this affect other operating systems? It's just a pretty GUI that you have to buy.. there isn't any massive improvements. Nothing to see here folks, move along now.
What I'll be watching though, is the X-Box release. I'll be HELPING it become madly successful, and I hope all of you do the same. Go out, help out microsoft and BUY AN X-BOX! Why help the Other Side(tm)? Because if X-Box becomes the gaming platform of choice, above Windows, then there IS NO REASON TO USE WINDOWS ANYMORE. Yes, you've heard me right, why do any of us keep a spare windows partition? Yep, games. Windows XP won't affect me, weather I upgrade or not, but if X-Box becomes successful and everyone makes games for it, then i can finally fdisk my windows partition to hell, and so can the rest of you. I can finally convince all my friends to switch over to linux because they'll all be happily playing games on the X-Box.
So Windows XP? What the hell, the masses like it or don't like it I don't give a crap, but with X-Box, you betcherass that I'll be watching closely and helping the MS X-Box movement along ^_^
Heh, they already do, windows 2000 already has RAW sockets! Even your lovely Gibson's page states it! http://grc.com/dos/xpsummary.htm, and i quote-
The security features built into all other raw socket capable operating systems (Windows 2000, Unix, Linux, etc.) deliberately restrict raw socket access....
Note that win2k is listed. Still, Gibson's nutty..
Choose either one, weather you leased your modem or purchased, either or there's a clause that allows you to host both a FTP server and an HTTP server.
You act as though putting it in the end is bad! The worst place to put something like that if you want something like that mentioned is in the MIDDLE! Psycologically, you only remember things you read that are in the beginning and the end, which is the BEST place to put in your opinions, noitce that most media put their opinions in the outside and the conflicting opinion in the middle? Think that's a coincidence?
I applaud the LA Times for mentioning that at the end so the readers can remember something like that ^_^
Microsoft denies that any Microsoft software is in fact null and void of any licensing, since under UCITA we can be sued for violation of the GPL
Not true at all, the UCITA does NOT make the GPL work, it just makes clickwrap licences work. The GPL works on this idea, you can use the software personally and do whatever the fsck you want to with it, you don't need a licence to use the software, if you bought it/obtained it legally, then you have a right to use it, but you do NOT have a right to distribute it because it's COPYRIGHTED, i.e. only the creator has a right to distribute it. All the GPL does is GIVE you the right to redistribute it UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, if you don't accept the GPL, YOU MAY NOT REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM/WORKS/ETC.
Wow really? So what i've been using doesn't really exist? News to me.
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divfix.html
it rebuilds the table (note that the file will NOT BE THE EXACT SAME AS THE ORIGINAL AFTER BUILDING SO RESUMES WILL _NOT_ WORK, my advice is to copy it to another directory and fix it, that way you have an original copy.)
Fsck alt.binaries.anime! Alt.binaries.anime was NOT registered correctly and it's considered a rogue group, it's all about alt.binaries.MULTIMEDIA.anime. I _HATE_ it when people post exclusively to alt.binaries.anime (except when they're reposts, put as much crap in taht group, i don't give a care).
Anyway, alt.binaries.anime tends to be a place where you dump old anime, crappy anime, or dvd rips, so it's not TOO bad...
watch for my inuyasha posts on abma =] ep 30 is coming provided i can get it early, check tuesday morning.
Oh comon, love hina 25 wasn't THAT bad was it? It's an insult to stick it in the same group as the spring special! =]
25 was just like another episode from my point of view, of course, as everyone thought that was the END of the series, which i agree WOULD have been one crap ass ending, but the creator (uhmm.. forgot his name) said that if someone watched it for the first time, it would be 1-25, winter, then spring special.
The spring special is the ending to the series. Isn't it nice to end with that? The crappy disnification of that special is incredible. It felt wayyyy too much like a disney movie. For Example, the "let's all go on an adventure for some stupid reason" is in there, the "cute cuddly animals" (in this situation it was turtles, and a fsckload of em), and finally, the one that irritated me the MOST was the "now boys and girls, let's all sing a song at the end". Grrrrrrrr. Can you tell i'm INCREDIBLY pissed at the spring special? This is supposed to be the ending of a GREAT series and they blew it with this bullshit.
GAAH! At least I have InuYasha to tide me over. It's going to be 90something episodes so i'm going to have to watch for a while;-]... and episode 29 was just subbed yesterday, 30 to come next monday. Word of advice, do NOT watch 29 until you get 30... you'll know why.
Not as funny as you think, there's something REALLY like that for PDA's
lemme get my unsupported Philips Nino 300 out, one of the input methods is that.. it's called T9.
They're in sets of 3, I.E. ABC, DEF, GHI, JKL, MNO
and you tap in the boxes. It'll usually narrow it down to the one selection if the word's long enough, i find 4-5 words it's usually correct, if there's more than 1, it chooses the one you use more often, but if it's a different one, there's a list that you can select from. If it's not in the list, you select the individual letters (e.g. tapping like it were a keyboard) =]
Here are two system messages from dal.net... sorry i don't have the logs for the time, but it was around 11PM PST..
(frink) [Server message to tsunami.* users] We invite all tsunami users who are curious about AOL's purchase of DALnet to ask questions in #aolnet. Visit http://www.dal.net/ for more info.
then later...
(crystalize) Welcome back to DALnet, and yes, APRIL FOOLS!
So those of you too stupid/worried, it's a fscking joke... mkay?
The problem with that idea is that the situation is different if you're a company ISSUING stock. If you are the one ISSUING, you're not getting money directly if the stock goes up unless you issue MORE stock.
For example, in the current market conditions, if you issued stock at 20 dollars each, then you would get 20 x all the amount of stock being issued. If the market conditions are bad though, and poeple are not willin to buy at 20, then it may be dramatically lower, like 8. So the amount of funding they get will also be lower. This has NOTHING to do with the stock going up. If the stock goes up after the IPO, (REGARDLESS weather the ipo was at a low price or high) the company can issue more stock, but not at the same amount as the IPO.
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No not really, a recent update, i believe around the time Half-Life added voice chatting, had a survey, on the bottom it clearly says to skip the survey. It clearly told you that you could skip the survey w/o any penalty in the first page.
First of all, I would like to say that I am no longer part of the @home network (THANKFULLY, i'm part of AT&T, which has a usenet server with binaries that do 3 day retention and excellent completion and unlimited downloads of course).
To set a bytecap on their servers isn't exactly a good idea, throttling would be so much better, so if certain people were taxing the servers too much, they can be limited. I used to pull about 600KB/s(yes that's BYTES) on my local SF Bay Area server and loved it. I never exceeded 500 megabytes a day (mostly for anime) though. In fact, from what I've read and from what I've experience pre-AT&T-split, the news servers were never taxed, but it's possible that the network was at times (I seriously doubt it, but that's what they say).
Although I don't do massive downloads, I do know many people who are warez kiddies and rely on usenet for their fix. We're talking 10+ Gigabytes per day here by the way. They're going to get their 10+ Gigabyte fix whether @home caps the downloads on the usenet servers or not, the only difference is that they're going to get it from somewhere else. The result of this is a bigger strain on their INTERNET network. Before (double-checking with traceroute), when one accessed the news server, it would just use the local @home network, never leaving the internet. Now, I know a few people that have signed up with Newsfeeds (note: don't even consider these guys unless you're a warez kiddie, stay with giganews/supernews/easynews/newshosting, they go there because it's unlimited downloads at fast speeds but the completion is horrible, spread over 18 servers so you have to use special programs).
The warez kiddies are going to get their fix either way, before less bandwidth was used using the @home usenet server (no bandwidth going to the internet). Now they're getting it from college dorms and pay usenet services. Smart move, pushing the network traffic to the internet, where it costs money!
Please try to stop spreading the misconception that DivX 4 (opendivx or any other variant) is open source. It violates several definitions of the open sourced definition (i.e. the one about "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor")
Thank you.
Suuuure... http://biz.yahoo.com/p/a/athmq.ob.html
there ya go. I don't see 1 billion, but i do see 6-7 billion in the red. I find a company's financial report more accurate than dotcomscoop, no?
Why do the creditors want @home out of business?
;-]
Considering that one of the major shareholders is AT&T (broadband or parent company it doesn't matter), they MUST keep the service running anyway.
AT&T WILL obtain the hardware and maybe the people who keep the cable internet system running.AT&T WANTS @HOME TO FILE FOR CHAPTER 7 (liquidation, bubye). Why? If they kept @home, they would still have less control over the system and if they obtained @home's hardware when they make the new system it'd be cheaper (not to mention the same people to run the familiar system).
Then why don't they BUY OUT @home? Simple! @home has something like SIX BILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT. If AT&T bought them out, they would have to deal with that debt and do you really think the shareholders would be happy about a sudden 6 billion in debt? HELL NO! AT&T will let @home liquidate and pick up everything (people and hardware) dirt cheap (because no one else will set up a cable system in that area, they CAN'T AT&T controls it, thus they're the only buyer).
AT&T is playing a smart move here, and they probably have @HOME executives in on this too and have other cable providers notified (that's why they're all making "backup" plans, because if they really weren't going out of business, then why would @home tell them, that would make the CO's trust @home less!)
Sigh... just a stupid ploy for AT&T to get full administration to the cable internet system dirt cheap w/o paying any debts.
Smart move AT&T.
If they decide to do anything different, AT&T execs are stupid for not doing this.
Your argument can be countered by one sentence:
Tell that to the millions of random people in stalinist russia who "disappeared".
Have a nice day! ^_^
oh and i forgot to mention, hold down 2 while playing until the slider goes to around 75, and it'll even work in console! (don't put in -gui)
yep, works great ^_^ i'm now a mplayer fanatic, after all what other media player can play movies in ascii?
mplayer -vo aa -aaextended -gui
It's not only just regional, it's just ONE station, it's KTEH (channel 54) in the San Francisco Bay Area. They don't cut ANYTHING, and that includes nudity, swearing or violence. It's all subtitled with the exception of Serial Experiments Lain which Pioneer (the distributor) wouldn't let them get it subbed (why? nobody knows). They show it 9:30 PM on sunday nights.
If you're unfortunate enough not to be living in the bay area, then call your local PBS station and try to get a bunch of people to pledge some money to show anime. Tell them to call up KTEH, afaik they're looking to form a co-op with a few other stations so they can get episodes cheaper. At least that's how it started in our area, people offering to pledge money and support and such.
Are you saying you don't know anyone who cheered when we bombed the hell out of iraq? Sure you can say it was deserved, but there still were civilians killed...
IMHO both are tragedies and shouldn't be celebrated, but it's not like it's something you don't see here.
Personally, I don't give a care weather Windows XP is a success or not, let's be honest here, how will this affect other operating systems? It's just a pretty GUI that you have to buy.. there isn't any massive improvements. Nothing to see here folks, move along now.
What I'll be watching though, is the X-Box release. I'll be HELPING it become madly successful, and I hope all of you do the same. Go out, help out microsoft and BUY AN X-BOX! Why help the Other Side(tm)? Because if X-Box becomes the gaming platform of choice, above Windows, then there IS NO REASON TO USE WINDOWS ANYMORE. Yes, you've heard me right, why do any of us keep a spare windows partition? Yep, games. Windows XP won't affect me, weather I upgrade or not, but if X-Box becomes successful and everyone makes games for it, then i can finally fdisk my windows partition to hell, and so can the rest of you. I can finally convince all my friends to switch over to linux because they'll all be happily playing games on the X-Box.
So Windows XP? What the hell, the masses like it or don't like it I don't give a crap, but with X-Box, you betcherass that I'll be watching closely and helping the MS X-Box movement along ^_^
Heh, they already do, windows 2000 already has RAW sockets! Even your lovely Gibson's page states it! http://grc.com/dos/xpsummary.htm, and i quote-
The security features built into all other raw socket capable operating systems (Windows 2000, Unix, Linux, etc.) deliberately restrict raw socket access....
Note that win2k is listed. Still, Gibson's nutty..
Choose either one, weather you leased your modem or purchased, either or there's a clause that allows you to host both a FTP server and an HTTP server.
You act as though putting it in the end is bad! The worst place to put something like that if you want something like that mentioned is in the MIDDLE! Psycologically, you only remember things you read that are in the beginning and the end, which is the BEST place to put in your opinions, noitce that most media put their opinions in the outside and the conflicting opinion in the middle? Think that's a coincidence?
I applaud the LA Times for mentioning that at the end so the readers can remember something like that ^_^
Not true at all, the UCITA does NOT make the GPL work, it just makes clickwrap licences work. The GPL works on this idea, you can use the software personally and do whatever the fsck you want to with it, you don't need a licence to use the software, if you bought it/obtained it legally, then you have a right to use it, but you do NOT have a right to distribute it because it's COPYRIGHTED, i.e. only the creator has a right to distribute it. All the GPL does is GIVE you the right to redistribute it UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, if you don't accept the GPL, YOU MAY NOT REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM/WORKS/ETC.
Wow really? So what i've been using doesn't really exist? News to me.
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divfix.html
it rebuilds the table (note that the file will NOT BE THE EXACT SAME AS THE ORIGINAL AFTER BUILDING SO RESUMES WILL _NOT_ WORK, my advice is to copy it to another directory and fix it, that way you have an original copy.)
Fsck alt.binaries.anime! Alt.binaries.anime was NOT registered correctly and it's considered a rogue group, it's all about alt.binaries.MULTIMEDIA.anime. I _HATE_ it when people post exclusively to alt.binaries.anime (except when they're reposts, put as much crap in taht group, i don't give a care).
Anyway, alt.binaries.anime tends to be a place where you dump old anime, crappy anime, or dvd rips, so it's not TOO bad...
watch for my inuyasha posts on abma =] ep 30 is coming provided i can get it early, check tuesday morning.
Oh comon, love hina 25 wasn't THAT bad was it? It's an insult to stick it in the same group as the spring special! =]
;-] ... and episode 29 was just subbed yesterday, 30 to come next monday. Word of advice, do NOT watch 29 until you get 30... you'll know why.
25 was just like another episode from my point of view, of course, as everyone thought that was the END of the series, which i agree WOULD have been one crap ass ending, but the creator (uhmm.. forgot his name) said that if someone watched it for the first time, it would be 1-25, winter, then spring special.
The spring special is the ending to the series. Isn't it nice to end with that? The crappy disnification of that special is incredible. It felt wayyyy too much like a disney movie. For Example, the "let's all go on an adventure for some stupid reason" is in there, the "cute cuddly animals" (in this situation it was turtles, and a fsckload of em), and finally, the one that irritated me the MOST was the "now boys and girls, let's all sing a song at the end". Grrrrrrrr. Can you tell i'm INCREDIBLY pissed at the spring special? This is supposed to be the ending of a GREAT series and they blew it with this bullshit.
GAAH! At least I have InuYasha to tide me over. It's going to be 90something episodes so i'm going to have to watch for a while
Not as funny as you think, there's something REALLY like that for PDA's
lemme get my unsupported Philips Nino 300 out, one of the input methods is that.. it's called T9.
They're in sets of 3, I.E. ABC, DEF, GHI, JKL, MNO
and you tap in the boxes. It'll usually narrow it down to the one selection if the word's long enough, i find 4-5 words it's usually correct, if there's more than 1, it chooses the one you use more often, but if it's a different one, there's a list that you can select from. If it's not in the list, you select the individual letters (e.g. tapping like it were a keyboard) =]
It works pretty well, it's what I use...
hehe seriously though, supposedly it's supposed to be you. I qoute-
There's someone that already does this. emusic, mp3.com, etc
So are the other 90% immortal? =]
Here are two system messages from dal.net... sorry i don't have the logs for the time, but it was around 11PM PST..
(frink) [Server message to tsunami.* users] We invite all tsunami users who are curious about AOL's purchase of DALnet to ask questions in #aolnet. Visit http://www.dal.net/ for more info.
then later...
(crystalize) Welcome back to DALnet, and yes, APRIL FOOLS!
So those of you too stupid/worried, it's a fscking joke... mkay?
The problem with that idea is that the situation is different if you're a company ISSUING stock. If you are the one ISSUING, you're not getting money directly if the stock goes up unless you issue MORE stock.
For example, in the current market conditions, if you issued stock at 20 dollars each, then you would get 20 x all the amount of stock being issued. If the market conditions are bad though, and poeple are not willin to buy at 20, then it may be dramatically lower, like 8. So the amount of funding they get will also be lower. This has NOTHING to do with the stock going up. If the stock goes up after the IPO, (REGARDLESS weather the ipo was at a low price or high) the company can issue more stock, but not at the same amount as the IPO.
Hope that clears things up