...it's trying to be a pensive, philosophical art-piece, there's no special effects...
Well, it's good to know that there were no special effects in the movie, this means we have made a ton of technological advances over the last 10 days. My faith in NASA is almost restored.
If it doesn't have my name on the outside, it's junk mail by definition and never even gets opened. This eliminates about 90% of it. The rest are sneaky credit card offers, and I know who my CC issuer is, so they don't fool me either.
Your example still does not fly. You're not looking for a specific machine, just a good number cruncher. An activity, as opposed to a specific solution. So why does your example want a specific CD? Don't you just want something good to listen to? Warner has just as many similar artists as EMI, so why not go to the place that provides the cheapest music?
Advertising isn't always bad. I know I'll usually go through many of the ads in the newspaper looking for good deals. That's the advertising I like -- when I'm actually looking for it
Though it's often like cops... they're never there when you need them.
I would agree, Stanley is the least likeable character on Lexx. Least sympathetic, least redeemable.
For all the trashing Lexx receives, I still think it's a damn good show, with a good universe, plenty of weirdness, and interesting characters. I'm not sure why people so impulsively dislike it, is it because of the sex slave factor?
So let me get this straight... global economic trends will be predicted by tracking browsing habits of people who use download 'accelerators'? I sincerely hope nothing important will be decided on these results.
But the big question is do we want songs with DRM? If yes, why do we want them so? So that we can redistribute them?
I assume you meant to write 'do we want songs withOUT DRM?' If so, then the answer is that so we can do whatever we want with them, up to and including redistributing. I can do that with CDs today, give it to a friend. I can also make a mix CD, sell it to a used CD store, and much more.
Would it be fair to redistribute songs which we downloaded for 99 cents to millions of people using Kazaa?
Is it fair for whom? What does this have to do with fair?
Why are songs any different from licensed software?
Songs are not software. That's how they're different. Do you even have to ask?
What exactly is the ideal solution that we are looking for?
Empry rhethoric and redundant questions. Do you have anything to contribute?
With DVI video interfaces and fibreoptic audio outputs, the loss of quality would be negligable.
Ah, no, the loss of quality would be zero. Unfortunatelly, DRM is planned to ride in the signal along the digital connects, to be decoded at the latest possible point. All tapping the optic cable will get you is scrambled garbage.
Uh, ok, stupid question.. but can't MS just revoke the signature on the compromised applet? If not, why not? Does that mean that anything MS signs, is signed for life? What about 3rd party software/drivers? What if there is a backdoor or some other hidden malicious code?
Your capitalist friend is out to lunch, because if this were a capitalist society, we wouldn't have laws mandating stupid things like DRM in the first place.
Yeah, but, well, isn't that the point of this article?
Yes! And that's the entire point. We don't need another email system. We already have one. And it sucks for the amount of spam that goes through it. Why switch to another system that has exactly the same problems?
Spam will catch up. There are already a small number of spamers working IM effectively, and it could get as bad as e-mail at any time.
But IM is a type of white-list by default. People are used to this kind of set up. I use ICQ, so I'll use it as an example. Other systems may not have these same features.
I've set my account to always require authorization. No one gets to add me to their list if I don't want to. (OK, this mechanism is client side, or at least was a couple years ago when I checked. Still, explicitely blacklisting people, to varying levels, is almost as easy as whitelisting someone. Add to ignore, add to invisible. Done.)
No one I know just randomly adds me to their ICQ list. There are so few of these requests anyways, it's easy enough to check out the requester's info and decide whether it's legitimate or not.
Messages from people not on my list get deleted without even being read, and if there was an option to do this automatically, I'd turn it on.
Turned off all the other messaging crap, like web pager, email gateway, etc. It's all spam, no one I know would use it legitimately to contact me.
IM does not have to be disruptive, contrary to popular belief.
Set file transfers to be autoaccepted and minimized from people on your list. Everyone else gets denied.
Turn off all sound effects... ugh.
Set incoming messages to no notification, flash in try only. No windows will automatically open or pop up to disturb whatever you are doing.
So IM does not have to be anything like email. Sure, you can go balls out and enable everything, and make it way worse than any email system devised. There is nothing ICQ spammers can do to me aside from me seeing their id number just before I delete it. Big deal. You can even let the message sit unread for weeks, and it won't bother you.
FastTrack -- the protocol is barely an improvement over the original gnutella, and with some additions from the LimeWire people, there are no improvements. It's also closed.
The FastTrack protocol is vastly superior to Gnutella, especially the original Gnutella. It is, quite simply, one of the best, if not THE best, P2P protocol out there.
DC -- totally different, and from a technical perspective, much less impressive. Little more than IRC+DCC with a non-idiotic interface.
DirectConnect interface non-idiotic?!? DC has the stupidest interface of any P2P app I've ever seen. People keep bitching about how hard eDonkey or WinMX are to use (for example), but if anything, those are WAY simpler than DC. Just point and click your way to downloads. I have yet to download a single file via DC. The thing flies in the face of everything users expect of P2P apps, and even Windows apps in general. It's a disgrace.
Just my opinion though, move on, nothing to see here.
FastTrack -- the protocol is barely an improvement over the original gnutella, and with some additions from the LimeWire people, there are no improvements. It's also closed.
Uh, LimeWire has nothing to do with FastTrack. LimeWire is Gnutella.
Your examples do not support your argument. Maybe if your examples were: 'When the cassette tape first came out, is was believed that it as doomed.' All your examples list new technology that was threatening existing tech. Your DVR argument does not follow the same lines.
For people using FastTrack (Kazaa, Kazaalite, etc.), there's a new thing in place that gives you a "participation" rating based on how often and how much people download from you.
Which can be easily faked by, effectively, uploading to yourself. There are even tools to let you do that easily.
The installer does that, and they also offer this capability as a service. It's called CloudBurst, of something like that, and lets people pay to upload their content to the Kazaa nodes, where it's stored in a special shared folder, and it's downloadable with a specially written Kazaa client.
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Well, it's good to know that there were no special effects in the movie, this means we have made a ton of technological advances over the last 10 days. My faith in NASA is almost restored.
If it doesn't have my name on the outside, it's junk mail by definition and never even gets opened. This eliminates about 90% of it. The rest are sneaky credit card offers, and I know who my CC issuer is, so they don't fool me either.
Location header doesn't require the full URL.
Your example still does not fly. You're not looking for a specific machine, just a good number cruncher. An activity, as opposed to a specific solution. So why does your example want a specific CD? Don't you just want something good to listen to? Warner has just as many similar artists as EMI, so why not go to the place that provides the cheapest music?
I'm sorry... LESS than zero?
Though it's often like cops... they're never there when you need them.
I would agree, Stanley is the least likeable character on Lexx. Least sympathetic, least redeemable.
For all the trashing Lexx receives, I still think it's a damn good show, with a good universe, plenty of weirdness, and interesting characters. I'm not sure why people so impulsively dislike it, is it because of the sex slave factor?
It's a very good series. Red and Green Mars are probably the best, and Blue just degenerates into politics, and not much seems to happen.
So let me get this straight... global economic trends will be predicted by tracking browsing habits of people who use download 'accelerators'? I sincerely hope nothing important will be decided on these results.
Uh... yeah... ok... I'm truly speechless.
I assume you meant to write 'do we want songs withOUT DRM?' If so, then the answer is that so we can do whatever we want with them, up to and including redistributing. I can do that with CDs today, give it to a friend. I can also make a mix CD, sell it to a used CD store, and much more.
Would it be fair to redistribute songs which we downloaded for 99 cents to millions of people using Kazaa?
Is it fair for whom? What does this have to do with fair?
Why are songs any different from licensed software?
Songs are not software. That's how they're different. Do you even have to ask?
What exactly is the ideal solution that we are looking for?
Empry rhethoric and redundant questions. Do you have anything to contribute?
Ah, no, the loss of quality would be zero. Unfortunatelly, DRM is planned to ride in the signal along the digital connects, to be decoded at the latest possible point. All tapping the optic cable will get you is scrambled garbage.
At least they're right about ONE thing: it probably wouldn't hurt at all :)
Uh, ok, stupid question.. but can't MS just revoke the signature on the compromised applet? If not, why not? Does that mean that anything MS signs, is signed for life? What about 3rd party software/drivers? What if there is a backdoor or some other hidden malicious code?
Your capitalist friend is out to lunch, because if this were a capitalist society, we wouldn't have laws mandating stupid things like DRM in the first place.
Yes! And that's the entire point. We don't need another email system. We already have one. And it sucks for the amount of spam that goes through it. Why switch to another system that has exactly the same problems?
But IM is a type of white-list by default. People are used to this kind of set up. I use ICQ, so I'll use it as an example. Other systems may not have these same features.
I've set my account to always require authorization. No one gets to add me to their list if I don't want to. (OK, this mechanism is client side, or at least was a couple years ago when I checked. Still, explicitely blacklisting people, to varying levels, is almost as easy as whitelisting someone. Add to ignore, add to invisible. Done.)
No one I know just randomly adds me to their ICQ list. There are so few of these requests anyways, it's easy enough to check out the requester's info and decide whether it's legitimate or not.
Messages from people not on my list get deleted without even being read, and if there was an option to do this automatically, I'd turn it on.
Turned off all the other messaging crap, like web pager, email gateway, etc. It's all spam, no one I know would use it legitimately to contact me.
IM does not have to be disruptive, contrary to popular belief.
Set file transfers to be autoaccepted and minimized from people on your list. Everyone else gets denied.
Turn off all sound effects... ugh.
Set incoming messages to no notification, flash in try only. No windows will automatically open or pop up to disturb whatever you are doing.
So IM does not have to be anything like email. Sure, you can go balls out and enable everything, and make it way worse than any email system devised. There is nothing ICQ spammers can do to me aside from me seeing their id number just before I delete it. Big deal. You can even let the message sit unread for weeks, and it won't bother you.
FastTrack -- the protocol is barely an improvement over the original gnutella, and with some additions from the LimeWire people, there are no improvements. It's also closed.
The FastTrack protocol is vastly superior to Gnutella, especially the original Gnutella. It is, quite simply, one of the best, if not THE best, P2P protocol out there.
DC -- totally different, and from a technical perspective, much less impressive. Little more than IRC+DCC with a non-idiotic interface.
DirectConnect interface non-idiotic?!? DC has the stupidest interface of any P2P app I've ever seen. People keep bitching about how hard eDonkey or WinMX are to use (for example), but if anything, those are WAY simpler than DC. Just point and click your way to downloads. I have yet to download a single file via DC. The thing flies in the face of everything users expect of P2P apps, and even Windows apps in general. It's a disgrace.
Just my opinion though, move on, nothing to see here.
Uh, LimeWire has nothing to do with FastTrack. LimeWire is Gnutella.
Your examples do not support your argument. Maybe if your examples were: 'When the cassette tape first came out, is was believed that it as doomed.' All your examples list new technology that was threatening existing tech. Your DVR argument does not follow the same lines.
I fail to see how this bare text-only page is STILL bigger (byte-wise) than Google's main search page...
It's also bigger byte-wise. AV: 10K, Google: 1.2K.
No, it's not at 'random'. The ports targeted are specially selected, they're not picked by throwing a dart at a protocol map.
Which can be easily faked by, effectively, uploading to yourself. There are even tools to let you do that easily.
The installer does that, and they also offer this capability as a service. It's called CloudBurst, of something like that, and lets people pay to upload their content to the Kazaa nodes, where it's stored in a special shared folder, and it's downloadable with a specially written Kazaa client.