This is great. We need ONE end all system that Everyone uses, it should include ALL content and All devices! This is Great. So as hackers we will only need to break ONE system, instead of a bunch of little ones. Sweet. On hack to rule them ALL
If you, me and Bill Gates are in a bar the average net worth of people in the bar is a few billion, so the next round is on you? Didnt think so. Including the none file shareing computer users and people that dont have any music files in their statistics is an artificial way to allow them lower the number of files their 'volunteers' need to have to be significant thus making the data inaccurate.
I know Color LCD's are more expensive.. But really.. Black and white in this day and age. The LCD is 80x80 already.. so the res is like insanly horrable. If it was color it might be mildly intresting, but as it stands it sucks.
Uh.. just install and then resize/reparition the drive. If it will allow to use FAT do that as there are freeware apps that will resize for you. If it forces you to use NTFS then youll have to buy something like partition magic that can handle NTFS volumes. This really isnt a huge deal infact it might only be a problem if you need to 'reinstall' windows as then it will most likly wipe your linux partitions. Of course if you made backups it should be cool.
Since when did a Laptop, Gameboy or a Walkman become a triggering device on a weapon of mass destruction? I mean if the planes are so delicate should we really be flying in them? If all OSAMA needs is his sprintPCS, laptop, and a walkman turned on at takeoff to bring down a plane why didn't they try it long ago? What would freak out americans more then watching a plane crash every day? And if it was really a safty issue wouldn't they ban them from the cabin.. ala GUNS, KNIVES? The Generic reason given to turn all this stuff off at take off and landing is that it *MAY* interfer with ILS. Now I have a few tips on how to handle this. FIRST upgrade ILS.. if gameboy and walkmans are fuxing it then it needs to be upgraded.. there are several ways to get around this.. I mean if my CELL PHONE can connect me.. with a BILLON other CELL PHONES without jumping on to the wrong call then you think ILS could be upgraded to freqecny hop as well. Second what about some sheilding around the cabin? Wrap some tin foil around the cabin.. that seems to keep the aliens out of my head. Finally don't realy on ILS in the first place.. I know its tough being a pilot these days.. but put the damn drink down.. grab the big dealy between your legs and look out the shiny thing infront of you. If you can't handle it and need to get drunk on a flight buy a ticket and sit in the back with the rest of the damn drunks.
I think you touched on many things that matter. Price, Format.. but even more rights or site features also matter.
Here are a few ideas that might help you out.
Format - mp3, ogg, wmv.. the answer is yes. Why not offer all of the formats.. if you offer one its trival for someone to re-encode to a format they want.. but why make them? It will save you a small amount of disk space in the end.. but possiably cost you users. So the correct answer is to offer all possiable formats at the expense of a little disk space.
Price - this is a tough one. I would recomend going with at least two options.. first a per track - with a cut price for full ablums. The second is a all you can eat flat rate. As the recent RIAA articals posted on slashdot we know that artist make next to nothing on their album sales. So why not embrace this, use this reason to keep the costs per track as low as possible.. something on the order of a nickle or dime per track. At that rate you will kill most pirates as it wont be worth it to pirate when you can download everthing for a few bucks and get it quick and clean. Remember your goal is to make keep the serivce profitable and while keeping the artist in the front and getting them gigs where
they make the real money.
free radio streaming - you should run streaming on the site.. and push it.. with shows.. and user requests allowing communitys to build around the service.
real world tie-ins - as part of the communitys you should give presales and promos to community members. Such as cut rate tickets or even garrenteed presales to subscribers. Many people who dont download would be willing to pay a few bucks a month to get them deals on concert tickets. Avid fans would kill for a chance at backstage passes or other common give aways. I mean big acts hand these out to radio stations to give to jacksasses that dont have jobs and most likly never heard of the band. Shouldn't promos go to the real fans?
Band sites - as communitys build you should plan to have at least templates for bands to have their own sites including forums and other tools. Another part of this is to have clear rules about fan run sites and things such as art work and linking. If you have the rules clear before this happens youll avoid stepping on toes and pissing off the very people that your making money on. The Rules should not be just donts.. but also do's and things like sources of art work.. and how to link. How to attribute and how to stay legal.
I have yet to see a site that knows whats its doing. Most are crap.. and the few that do something right.. do alot more wrong. The best thing is to remember what the goals are.. and to plan well while remaining flexable. Never forget that your in this to promote the music and build a following.. so the normal RIAA tatics that confront end users dont work so well. Passive aggreive works the best.. give and take.. when you find a person swapping the albums.. show them how to link to your site and program their own radio show and then ask them to stop swapping. When that doesnt work use the good will you have built in the community to put on the outside and watch the peer pressure stop them. Soon the community will be self policeing
Dont be like Darth Vader.. dont squeeze your grip..they will only slip between your fingers.. keep your hands open.. and scoop them all up.
Jesus christ on a cross. TivoCommunity.com, has huge blackout hole on two topics. First being Theft of serivce. Of course they consider using a tivo without paying for the tivo service even if you dont want the service 'theft of service'. The other verboten topic is recording extraction. This is becouse the Tivo is supposedly terrified of the media industry, but it looks like as soon as a heavy weight wants to build the box all of a sudden the topic is no longer verboten but even part of a licensing deal. That sucks. They have crapped on the tivo users for so long, first stealing all of the good hacks which were free and then locking down the Series2 boxes, just to sell the common hacks to rest of us at a huge price/package (aka Home Media Option). Can someone ANY ONE explain why hacking huge drives into the tivo (something that directly impacts sale prices ) is OK, but extracting the recordings to archive isnt? When buying the tivo your not forced into a contract so why then is third party programming sources illegal? Tivo needs to get back to its roots. Build a kickass machines, and let us geeks have our way with it, we will build new ideas and features that they would have never tought of. Im sure the OSD of callerID was really High on the list for tivo before the hackers got to it. Or the TivoWeb interface was just a step ahead of the offical web interface I mean tivo would had it on the road map.. BS. Just for the record telling us that we arnt allowed to extract recordings for the last 3 years and then signing a contract to build a machine that exactly does that is the biggest load of crap I have ever seen. You should appologize to all tivo owners for being such a group of sell out assholes.
Really these people need to stop watching SouthPark for ideas of new products. What next.. are they going to bug them as well to listen in.. just in case they are talking to a bad person.. or using language they dont like? Doesnt this show complete lack of trust in your children.. and when the parent doesnt trust the child will the child ever trust the parent? I mean wont they belive all rules and such are in place to control the child and not protect? Bah, if a parent buys this they should save the money.. and just buy the lotech version.. I think its call a CAGE.
What about Mac Hardware.. Like umm.. a usb mouse. Ya, that works on a mac.. then you just slap 'also works on pc's' in on the otherside of the box and let them come after you. So how long till the manufactures figure out its easier to put a half ass mac driver on their website.. and call it a mac product and keep shipping the same box? A bigger problem is that I belive the parent of Office Depot owns other retail chains.. will they be forced to change as well?
Check out the 'Art of Assembly Language Programming'
One of the early projects is exactly this, programming
a set of LED's to flash in a seqance.
You can find it at webster.cs.ucr.edu
They belive this new *feature* will require that SQL be intergrated. Saying its not now doesnt speak to the added feature. Presonally I like the idea of better shared object support. Disk space is cheap.. I mean delete a few prono's and you can have like ever version of MSVC40.dll ever made.. I dont mind wasting the disk space.. I mind the headaches of shitty little apps that you must have breaking other stuff thats playing by the rules. Maybe instead of keeping a version of each shared object for each application we should just go back to static binaries? I mean is the savings in disc space so much? How many OS's really share code segements between processes? And when they do, how much space do they save with dynamic code and CoW.
In 99 using a Compaq machine that had a graphical boot loader that sat on the HD. This had a simple window intreface to control Hardware configuration and other stuff. While is just felt like windows 3.1, ( a point and click interface ontop of a command mode backend ) it worked ALOT like what is described here. Personally using HD space for the bios sucks. One of the great things about PC's that you can yank out the drives, slap a new one in.. and most of the time boot right up. But now your going to tie the HD to the machine hardware so to the degree of of the bios. And what happens when I dont want to give up partion entry for the bios replacment? I agree that the PC bios sucks. I much more prefer the OpenFirmware approach, but I think the key here is that the bios(or its replacment) needs to reside on the mother board as thats what it primarly configures. Do you really want your Bios to start tooling around on a NTFS partion to recover the machine ? Shouldnt that be something the OS does? A better bios that could do console on serial/ network addess would be cool. A better bios that could intelligantly pass paramaters to the system would be cool. A bios thats going to suck up HD space, and fux with the filesystem, no thanks.
I have done some reading on this experiment.
The ants are going to be living in a agar based
colliodal suspension. The agar (red sweed) will be mixed with
sucrose (sugar), and some antifungals and of course
water. You can buy the similar habitat at
http://www.beachworld.it/eng/antquarium.html
Or you can mix your own.. agar.. sometimes (agar-agar) is used as a gelatin replacement.. and is often used in asian cooking..
We need a gnutella plugin. One that will allow the user to rate mp3s, and media. And then finds people with other similar ratings. And finally informs the user of files that that similar peers note as good. The ratings must be positive and negative, and allow for varing tastes. While eclitic people may throw a wrench into everything, only a free solution will do. All of the for profit companies will just sell out the to the RIAA cartels.
By posting this comment, you've infringed on two pieces of MPAA Intellectual Property- prepare to submit your body's memory and i/o features to Organic Digital "Rights Management"
Well they have pooked every nook and crany.. well
not the nook.. Ouch.. Oh no There Goes the Nook.
Mmmm.. I LOVE the SMELL of FLAME war in the Morning. Posting his email address.. nice touch.. ssshh...."What was it?", "A disturbance in the network.. it felt like a 100,000 flames hit a Disney lawyers mbox.. and then silence"
So when will see NEW mod chips that get around this hack.. or at least allow us to change the Serial Number to something else which will allow you to get around the ban ?? Why doenst M$ see that the everytime they come out with a new detection.. the users can just build a more stealhty chip.. and change the serial number... As time has shown these encryption systems always fail.
Timothy the self appointed king of dupes.. is now even putting dupes inside a single posting. Most people would think thats hard.. but not for the KING. Remember thats King of the Dupes.. not Dopes.
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This is great. We need ONE end all system that Everyone uses, it should include ALL content and All devices! This is Great. So as hackers we will only need to break ONE system, instead of a bunch of little ones. Sweet.
On hack to rule them ALL
If you, me and Bill Gates are in a bar the average net worth of people in the bar is a few billion, so the next round is on you? Didnt think so. Including the none file shareing computer users and people that dont have any music files in their statistics is an artificial way to allow them lower the number of files their 'volunteers' need to have to be significant thus making the data inaccurate.
I know Color LCD's are more expensive.. But really.. Black and white in this day and age. The LCD is 80x80 already.. so the res is like insanly horrable. If it was color it might be mildly intresting, but as it stands it sucks.
You sunk my business model!
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Uh.. just install and then resize/reparition the drive. If it will allow to use FAT do that as there are freeware apps that will resize for you. If it forces you to use NTFS then youll have to buy something like partition magic that can handle NTFS volumes. This really isnt a huge deal infact it might only be a problem if you need to 'reinstall' windows as then it will most likly wipe your linux partitions. Of course if you made backups it should be cool.
Since when did a Laptop, Gameboy or a Walkman become a triggering device on a weapon of mass destruction? I mean if the planes are so delicate should we really be flying in them? If all OSAMA needs is his sprintPCS, laptop, and a walkman turned on at takeoff to bring down a plane why didn't they try it long ago? What would freak out americans more then watching a plane crash every day? And if it was really a safty issue wouldn't they ban them from the cabin.. ala GUNS, KNIVES? The Generic reason given to turn all this stuff off at take off and landing is that it *MAY* interfer with ILS. Now I have a few tips on how to handle this. FIRST upgrade ILS.. if gameboy and walkmans are fuxing it then it needs to be upgraded.. there are several ways to get around this.. I mean if my CELL PHONE can connect me.. with a BILLON other CELL PHONES without jumping on to the wrong call then you think ILS could be upgraded to freqecny hop as well. Second what about some sheilding around the cabin? Wrap some tin foil around the cabin.. that seems to keep the aliens out of my head. Finally don't realy on ILS in the first place.. I know its tough being a pilot these days.. but put the damn drink down.. grab the big dealy between your legs and look out the shiny thing infront of you. If you can't handle it and need to get drunk on a flight buy a ticket and sit in the back with the rest of the damn drunks.
Here are a few ideas that might help you out.
I have yet to see a site that knows whats its doing. Most are crap.. and the few that do something right.. do alot more wrong. The best thing is to remember what the goals are
Dont be like Darth Vader.. dont squeeze your grip..they will only slip between your fingers.. keep your hands open.. and scoop them all up.
Jesus christ on a cross. TivoCommunity.com, has huge blackout hole on two topics. First being Theft of serivce. Of course they consider using a tivo without paying for the tivo service even if you dont want the service 'theft of service'. The other verboten topic is recording extraction. This is becouse the Tivo is supposedly terrified of the media industry, but it looks like as soon as a heavy weight wants to build the box all of a sudden the topic is no longer verboten but even part of a licensing deal. That sucks. They have crapped on the tivo users for so long, first stealing all of the good hacks which were free and then locking down the Series2 boxes, just to sell the common hacks to rest of us at a huge price/package (aka Home Media Option). Can someone ANY ONE explain why hacking huge drives into the tivo (something that directly impacts sale prices ) is OK, but extracting the recordings to archive isnt? When buying the tivo your not forced into a contract so why then is third party programming sources illegal? Tivo needs to get back to its roots. Build a kickass machines, and let us geeks have our way with it, we will build new ideas and features that they would have never tought of. Im sure the OSD of callerID was really High on the list for tivo before the hackers got to it. Or the TivoWeb interface was just a step ahead of the offical web interface I mean tivo would had it on the road map.. BS. Just for the record telling us that we arnt allowed to extract recordings for the last 3 years and then signing a contract to build a machine that exactly does that is the biggest load of crap I have ever seen. You should appologize to all tivo owners for being such a group of sell out assholes.
Its got Shannon Tweed, Bill Maher.. and was filmed at my University of California at Riverside. IMDB
Really these people need to stop watching SouthPark for ideas of new products. What next.. are they going to bug them as well to listen in.. just in case they are talking to a bad person.. or using language they dont like? Doesnt this show complete lack of trust in your children.. and when the parent doesnt trust the child will the child ever trust the parent? I mean wont they belive all rules and such are in place to control the child and not protect? Bah, if a parent buys this they should save the money.. and just buy the lotech version.. I think its call a CAGE.
What about Mac Hardware.. Like umm.. a usb mouse. Ya, that works on a mac.. then you just slap 'also works on pc's' in on the otherside of the box and let them come after you. So how long till the manufactures figure out its easier to put a half ass mac driver on their website.. and call it a mac product and keep shipping the same box? A bigger problem is that I belive the parent of Office Depot owns other retail chains.. will they be forced to change as well?
Check out the 'Art of Assembly Language Programming' One of the early projects is exactly this, programming a set of LED's to flash in a seqance. You can find it at webster.cs.ucr.edu
Im so glad I live in a country where Im innocent until proven guilt by a court of my peers.
errr... Im sorry Mr Ashcroft, your right.. I was having evil thoughts, Im guilty of thought crime. Yes we are at war with the people from the east.
They belive this new *feature* will require that SQL be intergrated. Saying its not now doesnt speak to the added feature. Presonally I like the idea of better shared object support. Disk space is cheap.. I mean delete a few prono's and you can have like ever version of MSVC40.dll ever made.. I dont mind
wasting the disk space.. I mind the headaches of shitty little apps that you must have breaking other stuff thats playing by the rules. Maybe instead of keeping a version of each shared object for each application we should just go back to static binaries? I mean is the savings in disc space so much? How many OS's really share code segements between processes? And when they do, how much space do they save with dynamic code and CoW.
In 99 using a Compaq machine that had a graphical boot loader that sat on the HD. This had a simple window intreface to control Hardware configuration and other stuff. While is just felt like windows 3.1, ( a point and click interface ontop of a command mode backend ) it worked ALOT like what is described here. Personally using HD space for the bios sucks. One of the great things about PC's that you can yank out the drives, slap a new one in.. and most of the time boot right up. But now your going to tie the HD to the machine hardware so to the degree of of the bios. And what happens when I dont want to give up partion entry for the bios replacment? I agree that the PC bios sucks.
I much more prefer the OpenFirmware approach, but I think the key here is that the bios(or its replacment) needs to reside on the mother board as thats what it primarly configures. Do you really want your Bios to start tooling around on a NTFS partion to recover the machine ? Shouldnt that be something the OS does? A better bios that could do console on serial/ network addess would be cool. A better bios that could intelligantly pass
paramaters to the system would be cool. A bios thats going to suck up HD space, and fux with the filesystem, no thanks.
I have done some reading on this experiment. The ants are going to be living in a agar based colliodal suspension. The agar (red sweed) will be mixed with sucrose (sugar), and some antifungals and of course water. You can buy the similar habitat at http://www.beachworld.it/eng/antquarium.html Or you can mix your own.. agar.. sometimes (agar-agar) is used as a gelatin replacement.. and is often used in asian cooking..
We need a gnutella plugin. One that will allow the user to rate mp3s, and media. And then finds people with other similar ratings. And finally informs the user of files that that similar peers note as good. The ratings must be positive and negative, and allow for varing tastes. While eclitic people may throw a wrench into everything, only a free solution will do. All of the for profit companies will just sell out the to the RIAA cartels.
1, Release hackable product
2, Relase Updated Non-Hackable product
3, Sell all hacks from first rev to second rev users.
4, ??
5, Profit
6, Watch rev 2 users learn to hack box..copy hacks in, get pissed off, write xmltv guide update hack,
cancel over priced service.
7, After the company tanks.. try to sell it to SonicBlue (ReplayTV).
I figure we are at 2.5. Im going to start shorting Tiv around 5.5
Halo was orignally developed for the PC..then hijacked for Xbox.. I doubt the code requires xbox memory hacks.
Peace through Superior FirePower
....and IM Not a FBI agent
By posting this comment, you've infringed on two pieces of MPAA Intellectual Property- prepare to submit your body's memory and i/o features to Organic Digital "Rights Management" Well they have pooked every nook and crany.. well not the nook.. Ouch.. Oh no There Goes the Nook.
Mmmm.. I LOVE the SMELL of FLAME war in the Morning. Posting his email address.. nice touch.. ssshh...."What was it?", "A disturbance in the network.. it felt like a 100,000 flames hit a Disney lawyers mbox.. and then silence"
So when will see NEW mod chips that get around this hack.. or at least allow us to change the Serial Number to something else which will allow you to get around the ban ?? Why doenst M$ see that the everytime they come out with a new detection.. the users can just build a more stealhty chip.. and change the serial number... As time has shown these encryption systems always fail.
Timothy the self appointed king of dupes.. is now even putting dupes inside a single posting. Most people would think thats hard.. but not for the KING. Remember thats King of the Dupes.. not Dopes.