Oh, and I suppose that people who aren't Christian are all totally HORRIBLE people? Just because someone doesn't follow your religion doesn't mean that they can't be a good person.
There are *WAY* more good people out there that aren't Christian than good people that are.
In all reality, however, It's most probable that little will come of this. A university that is available entirely online is of little worth. Most colleges across the nation are starting online classes as we speak, so they fill the void already that an online university could hope for.
I think that you missed one key word here: Free.
Sure the existing colleges may have SOME online classes, but this one will be totally online, and totally free.
But what's the problem if the carriers want to give you MORE capability with your existing hardware? Isn't that classic geek?
Well, the existing hardware isn't exactly good enough to handle that capability, though.
Honestly, do you think that *ANYTHING* worth viewing is going to be readable on that screen? Now, if they threw a bigger screen on there, it would be a totally different story.
I download illegal mp3's because I will not spend 16 dollars on a cd that cost them some absurd amount of money, like 10 cents. Sure, factor in recording/marketing costs and it goes up, but most of what I listen to isn't marketed anyway.
So, do you also pirate all your software, then? That's the same price as burning an audio cd most likely, except they sell it for an absurdly higher profit...
Then again, maybe you see paying that much for this reproduced media as allright, because you're probably a techie that can sympathize with the many hours of labor that programmers go through, and the need to pay them.
Well, record companies have employees to be paid as well... or do they not have a right to earn any money?
what kind of computer you'd be trying to RUN that emu on, anyways... Given the fact that PSX1/N64 emus run slowly on anything but pretty respectable machines, you'd need one hell of a computer to emulate a psx2.
Oh, and even if they *DID* make one, everyone would complain because they wouldn't have a Linux version...
They probably figure that there will always be people who are going to use Linux, no matter what they do. This leads them to thinking... "well, if we can't get them to buy Windows, maybe we can get them to buy Office!"
Hm, I believe that you can make the fonts in windows as big as you want them to be. Go to the display settings menu, then go to settings, then advanced. There should be a font size menu... if you go to other, you should be able to type in any percentage you want in that little box.. (well, up to 500% normal size... which i HOPE is enough.)
Also, about borders and icons.. also in display properties, if you go to appearance, you should be able to change those as well.
Note: I'm using Win98... not sure if it's any different in 95/NT/2000 or whatever. (I'm ASSUMING that you're not still using 3.1;) )
Well, how about putting all sorts of garbage in the files for the real DeCSS code? If both the real one and fake one have all sorts of garbage and different file sizes, won't that throw everything off?
Also, you could put a bunch of comments in the DeCSS code itself so the file size on that isn't the same either...
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It's a cute idea, but it's not that hard to defeat. If I was writing a 'bot to search for DeCSS, I would just check the file size and a hash, and keep a list of "real" DeCSS hashes.
If that's the way it's done, what's stopping people from adding a bunch of stuff to the DeCSS files to make ones of all different sizes?
add a couple extra files to that zip... add some comments to the source... this could be done, 'ne?
"The point is not to provide the consumer a service."
That is the point of all business.
Heh, maybe a hundred years ago that was true, but today? Today business is all about making money. They don't give a shit about the consumer... especially they're selling a product or service that the consumer 'needs'.
It is just me, or does it seem like SlashDot is becoming more and more a place to inform us about the need to fight for our rights? With all this stuff about UCITA, the DeCSS case, etc... It kinda seems like we're almost a 'resistance' of sorts...
And then there's other countries not completely dependant on America. Though I can't think of many offhand... Cuba, I suppose. Will we all have to go there for freedom?
Does anyone else find it sort of humorous that he's telling us to go to Cuba for freedom?;)
National Writers Union, Newspaper Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America, and the Software
The RIAA? You'd think that they'd love something like this in a slightly adapted format that allowed them to kill any music that you had that wasn't yours...
Just a thought, has anyone tried organizing a protest against UCITA? Perhaps one large enough, and in an important enough place to get noticed by the media? (Not ALL the media is owned by the software companies...)
You are, of course, wrong. The scheme works like this: 1) the software won't operate unless it is allowed to contact a remote server during operation. So if you want to use the software at all, you'll open the hole in the firewall.
Oh, of course that will happen... Hmm, that would mean I can't use my new version of Microsoft Word without being connected to the internet? I seriously doubt it'll be like that.
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... decent Christian behaviour ...
Oh, and I suppose that people who aren't Christian are all totally HORRIBLE people? Just because someone doesn't follow your religion doesn't mean that they can't be a good person.
There are *WAY* more good people out there that aren't Christian than good people that are.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Athiest and damn proud of it.
In all reality, however, It's most probable that little will come of this. A university that is available entirely online is of little worth. Most colleges across the nation are starting online classes as we speak, so they fill the void already that an online university could hope for.
I think that you missed one key word here: Free.
Sure the existing colleges may have SOME online classes, but this one will be totally online, and totally free.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
But what's the problem if the carriers want to give you MORE capability with your existing hardware? Isn't that classic geek?
Well, the existing hardware isn't exactly good enough to handle that capability, though.
Honestly, do you think that *ANYTHING* worth viewing is going to be readable on that screen? Now, if they threw a bigger screen on there, it would be a totally different story.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Just as I was reading this post, that little box popped up in Win98 that told me that there was some sort of patch available on the MS site...
;)
Thought that was kinda funny
-- Dr. Eldarion --
I download illegal mp3's because I will not spend 16 dollars on a cd that cost them some absurd amount of money, like 10 cents. Sure, factor in recording/marketing costs and it goes up, but most of what I listen to isn't marketed anyway.
So, do you also pirate all your software, then? That's the same price as burning an audio cd most likely, except they sell it for an absurdly higher profit...
Then again, maybe you see paying that much for this reproduced media as allright, because you're probably a techie that can sympathize with the many hours of labor that programmers go through, and the need to pay them.
Well, record companies have employees to be paid as well... or do they not have a right to earn any money?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
A VGA cable is supposed to be released...
As for the FF's...
FFX Info
FFXI Info
-- Dr. Eldarion --
what kind of computer you'd be trying to RUN that emu on, anyways... Given the fact that PSX1/N64 emus run slowly on anything but pretty respectable machines, you'd need one hell of a computer to emulate a psx2.
Oh, and even if they *DID* make one, everyone would complain because they wouldn't have a Linux version...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Remote Solution's PJB 100 stores over 80 playback hours (1200 songs),
Anyone else think that that may be a bit too much? I only *HAVE* about 400 mp3s, and I don't listen to a good majority of them anyways...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
PSX2 will be cheaper? Does it come with a remote?
;) Add one of those nice 10 foot controller extension cords onto it, and boom.
No remote, but you have a controller
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Does anyone else think that this will just be another way for people to trap you into looking at their shitty pr0n sites?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Just a thought, but why would the ID's need to be changed in addition to the passwords? Wouldn't a new (good) password be enough?
If that's all they needed to do, the users themselves should be competent enough to handle that...
Although I have no clue, really, what I'm talking about, so feel free to correct me.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
If I'm not mistaken, Miramax is owned by Disney, the first company listed on the mpaa website...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
(Y or N) Are you able to employ a method and process for inducing condensation upon a reflecting surface?
Hey, these people are too clueless to have any clue what that question means...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
They probably figure that there will always be people who are going to use Linux, no matter what they do. This leads them to thinking... "well, if we can't get them to buy Windows, maybe we can get them to buy Office!"
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Hm, I believe that you can make the fonts in windows as big as you want them to be. Go to the display settings menu, then go to settings, then advanced. There should be a font size menu... if you go to other, you should be able to type in any percentage you want in that little box.. (well, up to 500% normal size... which i HOPE is enough.)
;) )
Also, about borders and icons.. also in display properties, if you go to appearance, you should be able to change those as well.
Note: I'm using Win98... not sure if it's any different in 95/NT/2000 or whatever. (I'm ASSUMING that you're not still using 3.1
Hope that was some help.
-- Dr. Eld --
Well, how about putting all sorts of garbage in the files for the real DeCSS code? If both the real one and fake one have all sorts of garbage and different file sizes, won't that throw everything off?
Also, you could put a bunch of comments in the DeCSS code itself so the file size on that isn't the same either...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's a cute idea, but it's not that hard to defeat. If I was writing a 'bot to search for DeCSS, I would just check the file size and a hash, and keep a list of "real" DeCSS hashes.
If that's the way it's done, what's stopping people from adding a bunch of stuff to the DeCSS files to make ones of all different sizes?
add a couple extra files to that zip... add some comments to the source... this could be done, 'ne?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Allright, this guy had a good idea... but what happens when you actually WANT to find a copy of the real DeCSS, and all you can find is that one?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
"The point is not to provide the consumer a service."
That is the point of all business.
Heh, maybe a hundred years ago that was true, but today? Today business is all about making money. They don't give a shit about the consumer... especially they're selling a product or service that the consumer 'needs'.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Gates emphasized that Microsoft's ``closed'' code makes Windows more reliable.
Reliable? What kind of Windows are YOU running, Mr. Gates? If this is reliable, I'd HATE to see unreliable...
and since when does open source lead to unreliability?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It is just me, or does it seem like SlashDot is becoming more and more a place to inform us about the need to fight for our rights? With all this stuff about UCITA, the DeCSS case, etc... It kinda seems like we're almost a 'resistance' of sorts...
Allright, I'll shut up now.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
And then there's other countries not completely dependant on America. Though I can't think of many offhand... Cuba, I suppose. Will we all have to go there for freedom?
;)
Does anyone else find it sort of humorous that he's telling us to go to Cuba for freedom?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
National Writers Union, Newspaper Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America, and the Software
The RIAA? You'd think that they'd love something like this in a slightly adapted format that allowed them to kill any music that you had that wasn't yours...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Just a thought, has anyone tried organizing a protest against UCITA? Perhaps one large enough, and in an important enough place to get noticed by the media? (Not ALL the media is owned by the software companies...)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
You are, of course, wrong. The scheme works like this:
1) the software won't operate unless it is allowed to contact a remote server during operation. So if you want to use the software at all, you'll open the hole in the firewall.
Oh, of course that will happen... Hmm, that would mean I can't use my new version of Microsoft Word without being connected to the internet? I seriously doubt it'll be like that.
-- Dr. E --