people who care for music are more likely to download and/or buy i hardly download any music, but neither do i listen to it often, or buy it. i do download lots of anime, and i've also got a good manga and anime collection i bought:). besides it being pure logic that people downloading more are also more likely to buy (you don't download crap you don't care about), i fail to see what it's supposed to prove. that downloading completely inhibits buying is obviously not true. the claims are rather that people downloading are buying less than they normally would, and that could still be true. it's not because they buy more than people who don't download (and don't care), that they're not buying less than they normally would.
'can run five to six kilometres at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill, for up to six hours before stopping' 20 meters per minute = 1.2 km/h, so if they do it for 6 km's, that's about 5 hours but i find the redundant data a bit stupid (not to mention the weird unit for speed, just use m/s or km/h, something we're used to seeing).
first step into realising that ever so popular bash.org quote
get up
get on up
get up
get on up
and DANCE * nmp3bot dances:D- i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
i'm thinking the same.
it seemed to be going well at the start, but then it started to drift a bit, and as soon as the wing surface wasn't nicely aligned with the movement, it quickly fell apart.
if they had some good stabilizing, i think it would have made a fair chance to complete the flight.
ofcourse, i know nothing about aircraft design, etc... but from what i saw, that's what happened, as soon as it didn't face straight up anymore, it got torn apart.
well, that was a nice word by word translation of "the mice don't care about what you think", but unfortunately, it's not dutch:p
it should have been
tkend u taw mo tein neveg nezium ed
ofcourse, when you suspect the ram to be the issue. but if you're seeing signs indicating other things, ram might not be the first thing you go checking...
i so far have experienced 2 ram failures, neither where what i would call simple... the first one was when assembling a new pc. everything was assembled, i powered on the pc and......... nothing. absolutely nothing. no screen, no warning beeps, only the cd drive that sometimes spun a bit, that was it. took me quite a while before i realised it was faulty ram. i'd expect with failty ram that my motherboard would at least signal a ram failure or so, but apparantly not!
the second one was with an older pc, where the ram had begun failing. at first it was just the pc getting unstable at random moments, wasn't getting worried yet (it's still windows:p). and then suddenly it started getting very unstable. soon after windows xp only wanted to boot in 4bit colors, and things kept getting worse (booting into safe mode was an achievement). here, when things really got bad i knew that ram was very likely to be the problem.
but so far i have yet to see a "simple" ram failure. when ram starts acting odd, the symptoms can point you to a lot of other things (at least in the cases i have seen so far. maybe others do have experience with simple ram failures)
well, read the other replies. apparantly it is a feature you have to enable yourself, which is useful in some cases, and is no security danger (unless you do stupid things with it).
the entire story seems to be a non-issue... it's no real backdoor, just one you can enable for certain uses.
dunno, if they're the one providing internet access to the students, and the fact is that students can't be expected to be studying 24/7, it's imo reasonable to make the network good enough to allow casual gaming. allow the students some fun!
going to a university is already costing a lot of money, and you're there most of the week, so why isn't it reasonable to expect that the internet can also be used for non educational purposes? this is not like the network of some highschool, where kids are only when they get lessons, and can go home every night to game on their own pc's and their own connections...
depends on how big the range is where we can see it.
it's not because it's a lot of energy, that it has to be seen from all over the planet. it has to originate somewhere, and you'de probably have to be looking very close to there to see it...
haven't read the article eiter, but i'd assume that if it's something seen that easily, they wouldn't spend 6 years trying to figure it out
well, it's very simple, when they lose the case, everyone in the world will get an SMS "We're very sorry for the price gouging SMS "STOP" to 1234 to no longer recieve updates on our class action suits" each SMS will cost you 1$ (both recieve and send) and their fine is paid:)
well, we probably all got mixed feelings, but the cracking of a gmail account vs the proof of the copyright organisations doing seriously illegal things against us, and doing their best to cover it up...
it's a clear win... noone likes the fact that that box could be hacked, but the blow this could be against copyright organisations, and showing how moral they are simply outweighs it by far....
now the algorithm is publicly known, anyone can make pages that abuse it somehow ^^
and then they can update it to counter those abuses
etc...
let the war begin!
don't remember where, but i recently read that it's well known that the human heart is capable of some serious self healing, so i'm not that surprised by this. did it heal beyond what they thought was possible/normal? or is it only under certain conditions that weren't met this time?
are you serious? here in europe i here the opposite, the store where i buy games, the owner says he's got trouble selling the ps3, while the 360 keeps doing good... about the power, ps3 has got better processors, the 360 has got a better graphics card, how it will balance out, dunno... the cell chip has some phenomenal theoretical capabilities, the only problem is wether they manage to make use of it before the ps4/next xbox launch...
but then again, maybe i should get the hint, and not feed the troll. it's not as if you're ever gonna look at these thongs objectively ^^
roflmao, you're hilarious ^^ where did he say you need a 3000$ box (or that a 3000$ box isn't enough?) it's just that most pc gamers make big updates from time to time, so dx10 cards and vista will grow in marker share when people feel the need to update their dx9 generation rig to a dx10 generation monster:). also, about the ps3 (and xbox360), yeah, we know, it's cheaper, but the hardware stays the same for the next few years, so little progress over that time, and the pc's are already matching it's performance, in 2 or 3 years pc games will be a lot better than the console games. not to mention it are also different kind of games (besides the generic cross platform hyped crap for teens)
and just wondering, why a ps3? i'm no console player myself, but from what i heard so far from xbox360 vs ps3 is that the 360 is cheaper, better graphics (for now at least), more and better games,.... or is this another episode in your great quest against m$?
yeah, awesome idea, and don't buy any software that has something you don't agree with in the license agreement, etc...
in the end you'll have no internet, and a pc with no commercial software, and you'll be able to do absolutely nothing...
it would be nice if there was always someone who's doing things completely right, if there's a company that just has the product you want, without abusing the power it/the industry has over you, but that's some seriously wishful thinking....
i also noticed that trackers are the current weak point of bittorrent.
at my university, they blocked bittorrent by filtering the packets that request the peer list from the tracker, thus making it impossible to start any torrent since you'll never be able to get the peer list... (which i ofcourse circumvented by editing azureus so it replaces a char from the request to %## with ##the hexadecimal ascii, the same for the webservers that act as trackers, but the filter didn't catch it:p)
if they can make the trackers part harder to see, bittorrent can become virtually unstoppable:)
i know, but that's more or less a gamble...
you have to have the luck for them to be available where you live, hope that they'll provide a good service (not always the case), hope that they'll stick to their policy, and hope that they won't get taken over by either belgacom or telenet...
so far i'm still living with my parents, so changing providers won't happen... dunno what i'm gonna do when i'm on my own...
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people who care for music are more likely to download and/or buy :).
i hardly download any music, but neither do i listen to it often, or buy it. i do download lots of anime, and i've also got a good manga and anime collection i bought
besides it being pure logic that people downloading more are also more likely to buy (you don't download crap you don't care about), i fail to see what it's supposed to prove. that downloading completely inhibits buying is obviously not true. the claims are rather that people downloading are buying less than they normally would, and that could still be true. it's not because they buy more than people who don't download (and don't care), that they're not buying less than they normally would.
'can run five to six kilometres at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill, for up to six hours before stopping'
20 meters per minute = 1.2 km/h, so if they do it for 6 km's, that's about 5 hours
but i find the redundant data a bit stupid (not to mention the weird unit for speed, just use m/s or km/h, something we're used to seeing).
first step into realising that ever so popular bash.org quote
:D- i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
get up
get on up
get up
get on up
and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances
you know, there always is the option of not putting NO return adress on it :p
i'm thinking the same. it seemed to be going well at the start, but then it started to drift a bit, and as soon as the wing surface wasn't nicely aligned with the movement, it quickly fell apart. if they had some good stabilizing, i think it would have made a fair chance to complete the flight. ofcourse, i know nothing about aircraft design, etc... but from what i saw, that's what happened, as soon as it didn't face straight up anymore, it got torn apart.
well, that was a nice word by word translation of "the mice don't care about what you think", but unfortunately, it's not dutch :p
it should have been
tkend u taw mo tein neveg nezium ed
ofcourse, when you suspect the ram to be the issue. but if you're seeing signs indicating other things, ram might not be the first thing you go checking...
i so far have experienced 2 ram failures, neither where what i would call simple...
:p). and then suddenly it started getting very unstable. soon after windows xp only wanted to boot in 4bit colors, and things kept getting worse (booting into safe mode was an achievement).
the first one was when assembling a new pc. everything was assembled, i powered on the pc and......... nothing. absolutely nothing. no screen, no warning beeps, only the cd drive that sometimes spun a bit, that was it. took me quite a while before i realised it was faulty ram. i'd expect with failty ram that my motherboard would at least signal a ram failure or so, but apparantly not!
the second one was with an older pc, where the ram had begun failing. at first it was just the pc getting unstable at random moments, wasn't getting worried yet (it's still windows
here, when things really got bad i knew that ram was very likely to be the problem.
but so far i have yet to see a "simple" ram failure. when ram starts acting odd, the symptoms can point you to a lot of other things (at least in the cases i have seen so far. maybe others do have experience with simple ram failures)
well, read the other replies. apparantly it is a feature you have to enable yourself, which is useful in some cases, and is no security danger (unless you do stupid things with it). the entire story seems to be a non-issue... it's no real backdoor, just one you can enable for certain uses.
dunno, if they're the one providing internet access to the students, and the fact is that students can't be expected to be studying 24/7, it's imo reasonable to make the network good enough to allow casual gaming. allow the students some fun! going to a university is already costing a lot of money, and you're there most of the week, so why isn't it reasonable to expect that the internet can also be used for non educational purposes? this is not like the network of some highschool, where kids are only when they get lessons, and can go home every night to game on their own pc's and their own connections...
depends on how big the range is where we can see it. it's not because it's a lot of energy, that it has to be seen from all over the planet. it has to originate somewhere, and you'de probably have to be looking very close to there to see it... haven't read the article eiter, but i'd assume that if it's something seen that easily, they wouldn't spend 6 years trying to figure it out
well, it's very simple, when they lose the case, everyone in the world will get an SMS :)
"We're very sorry for the price gouging
SMS "STOP" to 1234 to no longer recieve updates on our class action suits"
each SMS will cost you 1$ (both recieve and send)
and their fine is paid
well, we probably all got mixed feelings, but the cracking of a gmail account vs the proof of the copyright organisations doing seriously illegal things against us, and doing their best to cover it up...
it's a clear win... noone likes the fact that that box could be hacked, but the blow this could be against copyright organisations, and showing how moral they are simply outweighs it by far....
i was rather thinking in the direction of a pc, and a WOW account
now the algorithm is publicly known, anyone can make pages that abuse it somehow ^^ and then they can update it to counter those abuses etc... let the war begin!
hmm, i think it was an article on this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6940085.stm :)
there are probably circumstances where the heart heals correctly, or forms scar tissue
don't remember where, but i recently read that it's well known that the human heart is capable of some serious self healing, so i'm not that surprised by this.
did it heal beyond what they thought was possible/normal? or is it only under certain conditions that weren't met this time?
are you serious? here in europe i here the opposite, the store where i buy games, the owner says he's got trouble selling the ps3, while the 360 keeps doing good...
about the power, ps3 has got better processors, the 360 has got a better graphics card, how it will balance out, dunno...
the cell chip has some phenomenal theoretical capabilities, the only problem is wether they manage to make use of it before the ps4/next xbox launch...
but then again, maybe i should get the hint, and not feed the troll. it's not as if you're ever gonna look at these thongs objectively ^^
roflmao, you're hilarious ^^ :).
....
where did he say you need a 3000$ box (or that a 3000$ box isn't enough?)
it's just that most pc gamers make big updates from time to time, so dx10 cards and vista will grow in marker share when people feel the need to update their dx9 generation rig to a dx10 generation monster
also, about the ps3 (and xbox360), yeah, we know, it's cheaper, but the hardware stays the same for the next few years, so little progress over that time, and the pc's are already matching it's performance, in 2 or 3 years pc games will be a lot better than the console games. not to mention it are also different kind of games (besides the generic cross platform hyped crap for teens)
and just wondering, why a ps3? i'm no console player myself, but from what i heard so far from xbox360 vs ps3 is that the 360 is cheaper, better graphics (for now at least), more and better games,
or is this another episode in your great quest against m$?
buying tons of porn so they can filter it ofcourse
yeah, awesome idea, and don't buy any software that has something you don't agree with in the license agreement, etc... in the end you'll have no internet, and a pc with no commercial software, and you'll be able to do absolutely nothing... it would be nice if there was always someone who's doing things completely right, if there's a company that just has the product you want, without abusing the power it/the industry has over you, but that's some seriously wishful thinking....
i also noticed that trackers are the current weak point of bittorrent. at my university, they blocked bittorrent by filtering the packets that request the peer list from the tracker, thus making it impossible to start any torrent since you'll never be able to get the peer list... (which i ofcourse circumvented by editing azureus so it replaces a char from the request to %## with ##the hexadecimal ascii, the same for the webservers that act as trackers, but the filter didn't catch it :p)
if they can make the trackers part harder to see, bittorrent can become virtually unstoppable :)
and as someone who likes to tinker with everything, i don't really follow your opinion
i assume they should also outlaw bittorrent for you?
you don't need an enhanced version for that. download a crappy divx version, and you won't see any wires :D
i know, but that's more or less a gamble... you have to have the luck for them to be available where you live, hope that they'll provide a good service (not always the case), hope that they'll stick to their policy, and hope that they won't get taken over by either belgacom or telenet... so far i'm still living with my parents, so changing providers won't happen... dunno what i'm gonna do when i'm on my own...