XP *DOES* boot faster. Microsoft spent tons of time optimizing the boot sequence, and it definitely shows. I have XP installed now for several months with tons of programs installed and it still takes ~20 seconds between "Restart" and usable state. (Helluva lot faster than my Linux partition, I might add.)
Good points. I agree that we do have some right to privacy, but it bugs me when people just *assume* it's somehow granted in the Constitution. I'm not saying the Constituion should enumerate every right we have, but people should educate themselves to know what the Constitution *does* say.
In other words, we forfeit our right of privacy at our facilities or our homes -- a right which we are guaranteed under the Constitution -- simply to satisfy you that we are not cheating on a license.
Will someone please point out to me the Article, Section, and Clause, of the Constitution which guarantees a right to privacy? The closest I can find is Amendment IV, which protects us against unreasonable search and seizure. But I have yet to see where the Constitution says "Everyone has a right to privacy." I'm not saying that we don't have the right to privacy, I'm just wondering where it's guaranteed in the Constitution like Mr. Duchene says.
I agreed with your comments until you implied the death penalty should go. I suppose you'd rather put Mr. bin Laden in prison for life, guest of the US Penal system?
Well I use the official windows client at home and work, and that client is improving all the time too. Not only that, but I don't have to hold my breath every time I log on hoping that I won't be booted off within 5 minutes!!!
Actually, this isn't quite like Divx. The thing that bugged me (and most others, I'd imagine) about Divx was the fact that your DVD player was plugged up to a phone line and at any time could call in and charge your credit card for a viewing. Thus, if the babysitter was over, he/she could watch one of your expired movies and charge your card. Anyway, if it's cheap enough, these "destructive discs" may have their place. I'd like to be able to rent a DVD for $3 that I could just throw away when I'm done watching it. The more I think about it - the better the idea seems to me. It's like all the positive stuff of Divx (renting a DVD and not returning it) without Big Brother watching over your shoulder.
If an insurance company charged equal to what it really cost them to insure their customers, they wouldn't be around for very long.
This is incorrect. Auto insurance companies, on average, pay OUT about 101% of what they receive through premiums. Where does the profit come from? Investing the money you pay in premiums. That's why they make you pay all sorts of fees if you decide to go with a monthly plan - to make up for the money they won't make by investing your premium up front. (This is true for auto insurance, I don't know about other lines.)
what do you do you do when a Windows using DJ gets a BSOD in the middle of a party?
Easy: have a portable CD player standing by to take over during a reboot. Or, have another laptop ready to go. A laptop powerful enough to just play MP3s is cheap... I'd do this even if I was running Linux. Murphy's law that the one time it would crash would have to be in front of hundreds of people...
There was no change of law in Canada. What happened was this organization (AVLA) just changed their licensing to allow the DJs to make MP3s. It is still illegal to make unauthorized copies of music. Now, making MP3s is legal for DJs though. A small difference, but still significant. The legal system didn't decide that MP3s are okay (for DJs), the music industry did.
If McClean sold fast food, then yeah, there may be a problem. The McDonald name (and prefixing products with 'Mc') are only valid relating to fast food items. I could open a McDonalds Computer Store if I wanted and McDonalds (the fast food chain) couldn't do anything about it. Anyway, like most of us, IANAL.
(I realize the parent post was probably more tongue-in-cheek than serious, but it seemed a good place to make this point.)
I'm allowed to let you hear it. I'm not allowed to 'give' you a copy though. The problem is.... with digital audio, what's the difference?
I think this is where streaming comes in... There are plenty of sites that stream music (internet radios??) that the RIAA doesn't have a problem with. It's distributing the digital copy the RIAA cares about. You don't have to rip a CD just to let your friend hear it... I don't know if that makes any sense, but it does in my head... (Not agreeing with the RIAA, just pointing out the difference.)
Napster's searches are extremely easy to use and rather powerful. They'll also sort results by ping, remote users lines speed, bitrate, etc etc. There are still a few bugs that haven't been worked out but overall it's a pretty nifty program. Much easier than trying to use a locator and dcc on irc. Another thing about it is that you don't have to have any brains whatsoever to share your files. You just tell Napster what folder to look in and it will include all the mp3s in that folder in the searches on its server.
3) IE5 abandon the old good url auto-complete scheme with a evil one. Ironically, netscape adopt this great tradition from IE4 and it's much better. Netscape (IE4) only auto-fill the most recent/frequent used url, which is much more accurate than the drop down list IE5 gives me. You have no idea how slow that is (233 libretto)
You can turn on the "old good url auto-complete" in preferences. It's called "Use in-line auto-complete" or something like that. I believe somebody already posted how you can turn off #4. When something's bugging you, it's usually beneficial to snoop around in the user options. Most of these UI issues can be configured to your liking.
I have IE set to run in a separate process (I think it's in options/advanced). The few times it's crashed in the past few months it hasn't brought down the OS with it. Sure, it'll take up more resources but not any more than running Netscape.
Yes, somewhat faster then a modem but still a ton slower then a 10baseT network
Obviously, but I think the point here is that we're talking about the Dreamcast. Since game designers will write with the 56k modem in mind, a null modem connection would be very adequate.
Learning a programming language is like learning a foreign language. The first one's pretty tough, but they only get easier after that. It's all about underlying concepts.
They mention on their web site that multiple clients may be working on the same chunk of data in order to cooberate results. If you keep shutting down the client and restarting it, it's no wonder it will assign you one you may have seen before - but aborted. SETI@home realizes that with the number of computers working on the process, they'll end up out of fresh data to give out, which is why they're duplicating it. I personally think it's a good idea.
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XP *DOES* boot faster. Microsoft spent tons of time optimizing the boot sequence, and it definitely shows. I have XP installed now for several months with tons of programs installed and it still takes ~20 seconds between "Restart" and usable state. (Helluva lot faster than my Linux partition, I might add.)
Good points. I agree that we do have some right to privacy, but it bugs me when people just *assume* it's somehow granted in the Constitution. I'm not saying the Constituion should enumerate every right we have, but people should educate themselves to know what the Constitution *does* say.
In other words, we forfeit our right of privacy at our facilities or our homes -- a right which we are guaranteed under the Constitution -- simply to satisfy you that we are not cheating on a license.
Will someone please point out to me the Article, Section, and Clause, of the Constitution which guarantees a right to privacy? The closest I can find is Amendment IV, which protects us against unreasonable search and seizure. But I have yet to see where the Constitution says "Everyone has a right to privacy." I'm not saying that we don't have the right to privacy, I'm just wondering where it's guaranteed in the Constitution like Mr. Duchene says.
Well, considering yahoo uses google... Yes?
I agreed with your comments until you implied the death penalty should go. I suppose you'd rather put Mr. bin Laden in prison for life, guest of the US Penal system?
Well I use the official windows client at home and work, and that client is improving all the time too. Not only that, but I don't have to hold my breath every time I log on hoping that I won't be booted off within 5 minutes!!!
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The service does run completely in java and doesn't install anything.
Actually, this isn't quite like Divx. The thing that bugged me (and most others, I'd imagine) about Divx was the fact that your DVD player was plugged up to a phone line and at any time could call in and charge your credit card for a viewing. Thus, if the babysitter was over, he/she could watch one of your expired movies and charge your card. Anyway, if it's cheap enough, these "destructive discs" may have their place. I'd like to be able to rent a DVD for $3 that I could just throw away when I'm done watching it. The more I think about it - the better the idea seems to me. It's like all the positive stuff of Divx (renting a DVD and not returning it) without Big Brother watching over your shoulder.
If an insurance company charged equal to what it really cost them to insure their customers, they wouldn't be around for very long.
This is incorrect. Auto insurance companies, on average, pay OUT about 101% of what they receive through premiums. Where does the profit come from? Investing the money you pay in premiums. That's why they make you pay all sorts of fees if you decide to go with a monthly plan - to make up for the money they won't make by investing your premium up front. (This is true for auto insurance, I don't know about other lines.)
yeah, something like that... :)
what do you do you do when a Windows using DJ gets a BSOD in the middle of a party?
Easy: have a portable CD player standing by to take over during a reboot. Or, have another laptop ready to go. A laptop powerful enough to just play MP3s is cheap... I'd do this even if I was running Linux. Murphy's law that the one time it would crash would have to be in front of hundreds of people...
There was no change of law in Canada. What happened was this organization (AVLA) just changed their licensing to allow the DJs to make MP3s. It is still illegal to make unauthorized copies of music. Now, making MP3s is legal for DJs though. A small difference, but still significant. The legal system didn't decide that MP3s are okay (for DJs), the music industry did.
From the article: But "with MPEG-3 compression you can get a lot of music on a hard drive," said Heindl
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but isn't it MPEG-1 layer 3?
If McClean sold fast food, then yeah, there may be a problem. The McDonald name (and prefixing products with 'Mc') are only valid relating to fast food items. I could open a McDonalds Computer Store if I wanted and McDonalds (the fast food chain) couldn't do anything about it. Anyway, like most of us, IANAL.
(I realize the parent post was probably more tongue-in-cheek than serious, but it seemed a good place to make this point.)
I'm allowed to let you hear it. I'm not allowed to 'give' you a copy though. The problem is.... with digital audio, what's the difference?
I think this is where streaming comes in... There are plenty of sites that stream music (internet radios??) that the RIAA doesn't have a problem with. It's distributing the digital copy the RIAA cares about. You don't have to rip a CD just to let your friend hear it... I don't know if that makes any sense, but it does in my head... (Not agreeing with the RIAA, just pointing out the difference.)
what makes napster better than an IRC client?
Napster's searches are extremely easy to use and rather powerful. They'll also sort results by ping, remote users lines speed, bitrate, etc etc. There are still a few bugs that haven't been worked out but overall it's a pretty nifty program. Much easier than trying to use a locator and dcc on irc. Another thing about it is that you don't have to have any brains whatsoever to share your files. You just tell Napster what folder to look in and it will include all the mp3s in that folder in the searches on its server.
3) IE5 abandon the old good url auto-complete scheme with a evil one. Ironically, netscape adopt this great tradition from IE4 and it's much better. Netscape (IE4) only auto-fill the most recent/frequent used url, which is much more accurate than the drop down list IE5 gives me. You have no idea how slow that is (233 libretto)
You can turn on the "old good url auto-complete" in preferences. It's called "Use in-line auto-complete" or something like that. I believe somebody already posted how you can turn off #4. When something's bugging you, it's usually beneficial to snoop around in the user options. Most of these UI issues can be configured to your liking.
I have IE set to run in a separate process (I think it's in options/advanced). The few times it's crashed in the past few months it hasn't brought down the OS with it. Sure, it'll take up more resources but not any more than running Netscape.
Yes, somewhat faster then a modem but still a ton slower then a 10baseT network
Obviously, but I think the point here is that we're talking about the Dreamcast. Since game designers will write with the 56k modem in mind, a null modem connection would be very adequate.Learning a programming language is like learning a foreign language. The first one's pretty tough, but they only get easier after that. It's all about underlying concepts.
They mention on their web site that multiple clients may be working on the same chunk of data in order to cooberate results. If you keep shutting down the client and restarting it, it's no wonder it will assign you one you may have seen before - but aborted. SETI@home realizes that with the number of computers working on the process, they'll end up out of fresh data to give out, which is why they're duplicating it. I personally think it's a good idea.
I don't think the number of Meta-Chlorides matters, but the concentration.