As someone who warezed *everything* as a kid and is now trying to make a living in the arts, I find it ironic that I can't afford a hat now. firstly:why do you need a hat and why is that your biggest concern?
secondly: you would be amazed to find out how many people use warez to create the art- even in high level professional environments- I do electronic music and it always amuses me when peers of mine get all pissed off when their music is posted on a tracker, but they are using cracked software and unauthorized samples to create the stuff in the first place. In fact, I don't know about you but if it weren't for warez, I wouldn't have had the exposure to professional grade software to learn the skills in either my professional career (funny enough I work in litigation) or in my audio/video/3d work that I used to do professionally until so much of the work dried up (as a result of the industry change about 7 years ago I had to take a day job since I couldn't support myself contracting anymore)and even back when I was working professionally, warezed versions of things like photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, maya, 3d studio, etc were everywhere when I would contract with companies.
I have actually been using a c7 1.2 and it performs well- I have a wibrain b1h- the big thing that i have noticed is that though raw processing is decent (I haven't had any major issues yet and I have been doing a lot of audio, video and 3d on the fly with it-) performance is similar to my old p4 2.8, but my umpc fits in the palm of my hand for god's sake)the big thing that via did that was smart was integrate on the board an on board via 8x agp gpu that swaps cycles and has a base of 64 megs of acceleration that shares memory with the on boad (I have a gig on the machine)- as a result when I am doing graphic heavy things on it (games, 3d rendering, photoshop) I don't notice a slowdown. Also in realworld- the wibrain does get (w/o the wifi on) about 3.5-4 hrs of runtime when I am using heavy processing on it which ain't bad.
seriously, I have become a bit of a fan of via after owning one, esp. since in the umpc world most of the processors are celerons and when you compare the raw performance and size of a via 1.2 (full chipset) and a 900 mhz celeron (like on the asus r1h) you really do see the upside of the via- I am not saying that someone won't make something better, and maybe soon- but a lot of ppl who have never used a via in a real world test like to slag it before even trying it out.
Books require a lot more imagination than games or movies because you have to infer what the people/places/things in the book look/act like based off of the descriptions. one word...M.U.D.D.
Sadly, in the 1st month of using Vista, Ive had more BSOD's than the entire time of using a computer of any kind. yes, but if you are constantly crashing no one will have time to exploit your machine between bluescreens- think, if you can't use your computer, how can someone who is hacking in?
vista security wins again
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Space tourists may one day drink coffee served in "cups" made from corkscrews of ribbon-like material that miraculously keep liquid suspended in their centre. space tourists? WTF?
where exactly is a "space tourist" supposed to go?
1. it takes around 7 months to get to mars which is the closest planet- I don't know about you, but I hate having to deal with long flights- I go once a year from the west coast to the east coast and I freakin' hate dealing with airports and sitting in a damn plane for hours at a time- I think I would go ballistic after 7 months in a commercial airliner- that's like prison.
2. what exactly are you supposed to see? putting aside a trip to mars itself, no matter where you go on your "space tour" outside it will pretty much be the same thing.... space and stars- once you get away from earth there really isn't anything that spectacular it just looks like... well, stars. Putting the boredom of the outside world, let's say you built a space station resort- what would be so much better about it that would make it better than a resort on earth? everything will be prefabricated and there will prolly be like, 5 starbucks on it (hey, it's better, it's packed in spirals)if you are tired of the resort there is NO WHERE to go, and if you don't like it it takes you FOREVER to get back home.
3. cost- no one will be able to afford to go into space ever unless we have some sort of new propulsion device that doesn't cost so damned much and doesn't rip apart the vehicle on takeoff. spaceflight is damnes expensive- the space shuttle costs 450 million dollars per flight- that means in order to break even, if you could cram 450 people on a space shuttle (that is if you ignore the fact that it would have to burn more fuel to pack those ppl in) each one would have to pay 1 million dollars to go... if it were a commercial enterprise, each would more likely pay 2 to 3 million per seat.
no offense, but I think that considering the comfort of "space tourists" is putting the cart before the horse a bit- we should instead be thinking about how and why we want to get somewhere before how comortable it is doing it.
In order to keep the bandwidth caps from becoming oppressive, we need a large number of competitors. If we have too much consolidation in the industry, the need for caps will become the excuse for making the Internet a crippled shell of what it once was. absolutely, here in san francisco we can get any dsl we want, that is any ISP that we want that runs through At&t and any cable that we want... so long as it runs through comcast- if we get satellite tv we have our choice- at&t dish or directv so where do we get an arguing point? there is no one to compete to bring the price down, with just 1 cable company and all lines running through at&t (which allows them to fix the price of competing isp's) the price can in the long run for consumers only go up unless there is direct gov't intervention
actually it is easier if you use something like this http://dban.sourceforge.net/- it is better to get something that can hit all the sectors and if I remember right it does drives in parallel, and verification- there are other free wipers too, but for non-commercial/gov't use a single wipe takes out pretty much everything sans a few lines of the sector data when I have tried to recover the stuff with the equipment at work
for all practical purposes something like WEP is not secured - the hack is so insanely easy that you might as well have no encryption on it, but my response was more to the "criminal negligence" comment- I was pointing out that there are two different standards to the law- if your network is unsecured and someone is using it to do non-criminal (illegal activity is pretty rare of the average person riding your connection) yet questionable things- there is no "criminal negligence" involved- people confuse criminal and "sue-able" activities and trade metaphors quite often- leaving your network open is nothing like "leaving a rifle, loaded with the safety off in your front yard vs. locking it up in your house" as just leaving your network open is more like leaving your house open with a sign on it saying "out of the house, come in"- sure someone could come in your house and use your phone to plan a terrorist attack but that is the entering person's responsibility and not you for owning a phone line or leaving the door unlocked, there is nothing "criminal" about it any more than the phone company is practicing "criminal negligence" by having payphones or the library is practicing "criminal negligence" by allowing users to use the internet.
it's the senate- here in california we have 2 senators like everyone else, but the largest population by far in the US, if the senate were to be divided fairly by population we would have 12 seats in the senate not 2 (as we have 12% of the us population)
most activities that would happen from someone hacking into your wireless network would not be criminal, more likely someone riding you for p2p and such- unless they are proxying through you or botting your network to trade kiddie porn or plan a terrorist attack you would end up in civil court not criminal
No, from what I've seen in legal cases is that you have to at least show it was likely someone else used your property to commit the crime. It's not enough to say "someone else was driving my car" you have to explain who it could have been and know reasonably where it was. that depends on the case- if it is kiddie porn it is criminal- then you just need to be able to demonstrate that someone else could have used it as you are trying to raise reasonable doubt- if it was the RIAA coming after you the burden of proof is lighter as they just need to convince the jury that you are "responsible" for their clim of loss, though it is still a jury and if you can demonstrate that there was no questionable activity taking place on your machines then you have prolly got it locked up with them- long story short- if someone had it in for you they could screw with you, but if there is no evidence on your machines that you have done anything wrong and all someone has is an IP trace, you won't get in trouble
that only works with simple passwords on a dictionary attack- mine is a 27 character phrase with extended characters- no matter how fast the key can be broken it would still take years to brute force a 27 character password
see, the really amusing thing is that one of the best security measures that I have is where I live- I am in san francisco and in my apartment if I pop open my laptop I have a good 40 networks that show up- a few of them not secured a LOT of WEP and then some like me with just good old WPA (1) the fact of it is- herd mentality. when you are in a herd you don't have to be the strongest- you just need to be stronger than the weakest- obviously no encryption gets rode first- then WEP then WEP(2) then WPA- since I don't see there being a group of 40 hackers sitting at my doorstop at once trying to run brute force attacks on EVERY network so for the most part, I am safe.
But, one of the main problems to Linux adoption is the install process. no, the MAIN problem is software support- until more software that doesn't act like cobbled together homebrew with a gui that gives you a headache or more mainstream software developers actually develop for linux people won't want to switch- the average consumer plain and simple wants something that works and isn't an eyesore- granted the OS's for ubuntu and knoppix and puppy releases all look decent enough, but there is no one developing apps that understands UI (and I mean actual usability not just pretty icons) or goes and looks at exactly which wheel they are reinventing and why theirs is lopsided.
On my machine at home I am either A. gaming B.composing music or C.doing multimedia (3d, graphics, video editing) all of this could be awesome on linux as it is a well designed kernal and OS, but there is little to no software comparable to what I use at home (though a lot of it STILL is not vista compatible so as you would guess I am sticking with XP for a while)
I have had my yahoo for over 10 years (nearly 15) and the spam filter is more overinclusive than anything else- I get about 1 spam a week that slips through- though i get about 5 or 6 non-spams that get get accidentally marked as spam and I do get on the average about 150-200 spam e-mails a day, so the ratio is pretty good
the market has been dealing with this already long before mp3's- "illegal" mp3's are not stolen they are reproduced without authorization just as japan, taiwan, hong kong and china have been doing with products that were produced and patented in the US since the 50's- it did not stop businesses from thriving and it did not reduce the income of these companies, they just strived to create better service, better product and put more time and effort into R&D and marketing- is it any wonder that there is such a large backlash to the lawsuits and the schemes that the RIAA has come up with? Rather than better service and better product they are penalizing and blaming consumers and putting out more limited and costly product that arguably lacks innovation and quality.
this is why I am trying to find an inexpensive source for either thumb drives that I can brand or usb mp3 players- I want my next release (I am an indie artist) to be in high quality mp3 on physical media with remixable tracks and video on re usable branded media- I have just been having a hard time finding the media cheap enough to let me sell the release somewhere in the $9-$11 range (I want to have the storage be 1gig +) you still get a piece of physical media and don't feel ripped off b/c you can use the physical media for whatever you want if you are bored of my music.... I figure that I will put the album up for D/L sans the video and or whatever other goodies up if you delete it and need to replace the music
I hope that there is a PC version (xp drivers)or a PC knockoff that is made inexpensively as the optimus is insanely expensive but I would love to have one
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I agree, we need demonoid back online
secondly: you would be amazed to find out how many people use warez to create the art- even in high level professional environments- I do electronic music and it always amuses me when peers of mine get all pissed off when their music is posted on a tracker, but they are using cracked software and unauthorized samples to create the stuff in the first place. In fact, I don't know about you but if it weren't for warez, I wouldn't have had the exposure to professional grade software to learn the skills in either my professional career (funny enough I work in litigation) or in my audio/video/3d work that I used to do professionally until so much of the work dried up (as a result of the industry change about 7 years ago I had to take a day job since I couldn't support myself contracting anymore)and even back when I was working professionally, warezed versions of things like photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, maya, 3d studio, etc were everywhere when I would contract with companies.
this is me- http://www.rpmchallenge.com/component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/user,3336/Itemid,296/
it will be fun.
I have actually been using a c7 1.2 and it performs well- I have a wibrain b1h- the big thing that i have noticed is that though raw processing is decent (I haven't had any major issues yet and I have been doing a lot of audio, video and 3d on the fly with it-) performance is similar to my old p4 2.8, but my umpc fits in the palm of my hand for god's sake)the big thing that via did that was smart was integrate on the board an on board via 8x agp gpu that swaps cycles and has a base of 64 megs of acceleration that shares memory with the on boad (I have a gig on the machine)- as a result when I am doing graphic heavy things on it (games, 3d rendering, photoshop) I don't notice a slowdown. Also in realworld- the wibrain does get (w/o the wifi on) about 3.5-4 hrs of runtime when I am using heavy processing on it which ain't bad.
seriously, I have become a bit of a fan of via after owning one, esp. since in the umpc world most of the processors are celerons and when you compare the raw performance and size of a via 1.2 (full chipset) and a 900 mhz celeron (like on the asus r1h) you really do see the upside of the via- I am not saying that someone won't make something better, and maybe soon- but a lot of ppl who have never used a via in a real world test like to slag it before even trying it out.
I have had dengue fever when I was a kid- it almost killed me.
vista security wins again
where exactly is a "space tourist" supposed to go?
1. it takes around 7 months to get to mars which is the closest planet- I don't know about you, but I hate having to deal with long flights- I go once a year from the west coast to the east coast and I freakin' hate dealing with airports and sitting in a damn plane for hours at a time- I think I would go ballistic after 7 months in a commercial airliner- that's like prison.
2. what exactly are you supposed to see? putting aside a trip to mars itself, no matter where you go on your "space tour" outside it will pretty much be the same thing.... space and stars- once you get away from earth there really isn't anything that spectacular it just looks like... well, stars. Putting the boredom of the outside world, let's say you built a space station resort- what would be so much better about it that would make it better than a resort on earth? everything will be prefabricated and there will prolly be like, 5 starbucks on it (hey, it's better, it's packed in spirals)if you are tired of the resort there is NO WHERE to go, and if you don't like it it takes you FOREVER to get back home.
3. cost- no one will be able to afford to go into space ever unless we have some sort of new propulsion device that doesn't cost so damned much and doesn't rip apart the vehicle on takeoff. spaceflight is damnes expensive- the space shuttle costs 450 million dollars per flight- that means in order to break even, if you could cram 450 people on a space shuttle (that is if you ignore the fact that it would have to burn more fuel to pack those ppl in) each one would have to pay 1 million dollars to go... if it were a commercial enterprise, each would more likely pay 2 to 3 million per seat.
no offense, but I think that considering the comfort of "space tourists" is putting the cart before the horse a bit- we should instead be thinking about how and why we want to get somewhere before how comortable it is doing it.
I think it's a cartoon, something about a penguin or something
actually it is easier if you use something like this http://dban.sourceforge.net/- it is better to get something that can hit all the sectors and if I remember right it does drives in parallel, and verification- there are other free wipers too, but for non-commercial/gov't use a single wipe takes out pretty much everything sans a few lines of the sector data when I have tried to recover the stuff with the equipment at work
for all practical purposes something like WEP is not secured - the hack is so insanely easy that you might as well have no encryption on it, but my response was more to the "criminal negligence" comment- I was pointing out that there are two different standards to the law- if your network is unsecured and someone is using it to do non-criminal (illegal activity is pretty rare of the average person riding your connection) yet questionable things- there is no "criminal negligence" involved- people confuse criminal and "sue-able" activities and trade metaphors quite often- leaving your network open is nothing like "leaving a rifle, loaded with the safety off in your front yard vs. locking it up in your house" as just leaving your network open is more like leaving your house open with a sign on it saying "out of the house, come in"- sure someone could come in your house and use your phone to plan a terrorist attack but that is the entering person's responsibility and not you for owning a phone line or leaving the door unlocked, there is nothing "criminal" about it any more than the phone company is practicing "criminal negligence" by having payphones or the library is practicing "criminal negligence" by allowing users to use the internet.
it's the senate- here in california we have 2 senators like everyone else, but the largest population by far in the US, if the senate were to be divided fairly by population we would have 12 seats in the senate not 2 (as we have 12% of the us population)
most activities that would happen from someone hacking into your wireless network would not be criminal, more likely someone riding you for p2p and such- unless they are proxying through you or botting your network to trade kiddie porn or plan a terrorist attack you would end up in civil court not criminal
that only works with simple passwords on a dictionary attack- mine is a 27 character phrase with extended characters- no matter how fast the key can be broken it would still take years to brute force a 27 character password
see, the really amusing thing is that one of the best security measures that I have is where I live- I am in san francisco and in my apartment if I pop open my laptop I have a good 40 networks that show up- a few of them not secured a LOT of WEP and then some like me with just good old WPA (1) the fact of it is- herd mentality. when you are in a herd you don't have to be the strongest- you just need to be stronger than the weakest- obviously no encryption gets rode first- then WEP then WEP(2) then WPA- since I don't see there being a group of 40 hackers sitting at my doorstop at once trying to run brute force attacks on EVERY network so for the most part, I am safe.
On my machine at home I am either A. gaming B.composing music or C.doing multimedia (3d, graphics, video editing) all of this could be awesome on linux as it is a well designed kernal and OS, but there is little to no software comparable to what I use at home (though a lot of it STILL is not vista compatible so as you would guess I am sticking with XP for a while)
I voted for baltar
I had a commodore 64 back then, but knew no one else with a computer. I was, though in the heat of the ST vs. amiga... had both, liked amiga better
I have had my yahoo for over 10 years (nearly 15) and the spam filter is more overinclusive than anything else- I get about 1 spam a week that slips through- though i get about 5 or 6 non-spams that get get accidentally marked as spam and I do get on the average about 150-200 spam e-mails a day, so the ratio is pretty good
the market has been dealing with this already long before mp3's- "illegal" mp3's are not stolen they are reproduced without authorization just as japan, taiwan, hong kong and china have been doing with products that were produced and patented in the US since the 50's- it did not stop businesses from thriving and it did not reduce the income of these companies, they just strived to create better service, better product and put more time and effort into R&D and marketing- is it any wonder that there is such a large backlash to the lawsuits and the schemes that the RIAA has come up with? Rather than better service and better product they are penalizing and blaming consumers and putting out more limited and costly product that arguably lacks innovation and quality.
this is why I am trying to find an inexpensive source for either thumb drives that I can brand or usb mp3 players- I want my next release (I am an indie artist) to be in high quality mp3 on physical media with remixable tracks and video on re usable branded media- I have just been having a hard time finding the media cheap enough to let me sell the release somewhere in the $9-$11 range (I want to have the storage be 1gig +) you still get a piece of physical media and don't feel ripped off b/c you can use the physical media for whatever you want if you are bored of my music.... I figure that I will put the album up for D/L sans the video and or whatever other goodies up if you delete it and need to replace the music
I hope that there is a PC version (xp drivers)or a PC knockoff that is made inexpensively as the optimus is insanely expensive but I would love to have one