I'm rather disappointed by this news. The first ad had me scratching my head, but I thought the second one was rather funny and I was interested to see where, if anywhere, they were going to go with it. They sucked as advertisements, and I know for damn sure they weren't going to have me wiping my Debian install any time soon, but none the less, I enjoyed watching them.
Legal questions aside, is there some technical merit to using Sandvine instead of just blocking the packets? Is it less expensive to the ISP or something? I don't understand why they're doing it.
"Most People" buying a machine today work with digital photos, have a camcorder, want to be able to burn DVDs, want to play music while working, want to keep a web browser, e-mail, and at least 1 other application running.
My $300 laptop dual-booting XP and Debian with 1 gig of ram and a Celeron does all of this just fine.
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In the old days people had a way of dealing with people like the RIAA execs. They grabbed them, stripped them, beat them, coated them in tar and feathers. In other words they made a public example of them to discourage other similar-thinking assholes from doing the same thing. Are we too civilized for that today?
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
- Hunter S. Thompson
I call bullshit on that. I'm guessing he bought his 20 gigabyte HDD player five years ago. I have a 30 gig player I got for 100 dollars with a battery that lasts days on a single charge, and I've seen 20 gig HDD-based players for as low as 60 dollars.
Lots of people want large hard drive based players these days. The demand may not be as high, but if it wasn't there, they wouldn't be selling them. They just appeal to different people.
And consider the following ironic thought: what are the chances that, 10 years from now on your (10th? 15th? 25th?) anniversary, you'll be able to find a working VHS player to watch your wedding video?
Pretty good. VCRs, in my experience, aren't like DVD players, that kneel over and die every two years. The age of the built-like-a-tank non-disposable consumer electronics is over, it seems.
Which is why you shouldn't pay for programs that come with these shitty, draconian DRM methods. I pirated Bioshock, I'll probably pirate Spore and Mass Effect as well. If you don't like what they're doing, the best way to let them know is by not giving them your money. Not that it matters, both games are going to sell by the crate anyway, but at least you won't be bleeding from the asshole when they decide that Spore has been obsoleted by Spore 2 and replace their Spore activation servers with Spore 2 activation servers.
I agree; Winks and nudges piss me off. Fortunately, every MSN client I am aware of that supports them has an option to turn them off. Custom emoticons could be put into the same boat by some, as well.
I'm familiar with aMSN. It is the most full-featured MSN client for Linux I've used, but I use Emesene most of the time, simply because I'm one of these snotty interface whores who demands that everything look and behave consistently. It's not quite there yet, but it seems very promising; Think Pidgin, only with the focus on providing closer-to-full MSN support rather than basic support for 50 or so protocols.
This DOES seem pretty ridiculous, but more open-source IM clients can only be a good thing. Maybe eventually there will be an open, unofficial MSN client that supports voice and video messaging, the sending and receiving of custom emotions and handwritten messages, and has a decent interface.
Their best albums were the first 3, and today those albums aren't in sync with the latest trends in contemporary radio-friendly rock music. Screw Metallica.
Fixed a couple of typos. It's understandable, all those keys are pretty close together.
Firefox 3 beta 5 is practically a release candidate, the beta being generally more stable than the latest Firefox 2 stable release. KDE4 is pretty much for developers at this point. It has some cool new features, but it also has lots of bugs and design flaws, and isn't very usable yet.
Try Wubi, which I believe is included in this release. It installs Ubuntu to a disk image on your current filesystem and boots into it via the Windows bootloader. If you don't like it, you can uninstall it from Windows like any other program. I don't think it supports the Hibernate feature, and of course NTFS isn't as efficient as ext3, but it's by far the easiest and safest way to set up a dual-boot between Windows and Linux. Your NTFS drives will read under Ubuntu just like any other hard drive.
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Good thing Wine Is Not an Emulator.
To my knowledge, it's shipped with every home version of Windows since ME.
I'm rather disappointed by this news. The first ad had me scratching my head, but I thought the second one was rather funny and I was interested to see where, if anywhere, they were going to go with it. They sucked as advertisements, and I know for damn sure they weren't going to have me wiping my Debian install any time soon, but none the less, I enjoyed watching them.
Legal questions aside, is there some technical merit to using Sandvine instead of just blocking the packets? Is it less expensive to the ISP or something? I don't understand why they're doing it.
No, I can't do better. But I'm not taking people's money so that I can not do better. Quod erat demonstrandum.
No reason, other than to prove that effective mass file renaming doesn't REQUIRE a command prompt.
Look up an app called ExplorerXP, it's rather good with mass file renaming.
Rock Band is your friend.
"Most People" buying a machine today work with digital photos, have a camcorder, want to be able to burn DVDs, want to play music while working, want to keep a web browser, e-mail, and at least 1 other application running.
My $300 laptop dual-booting XP and Debian with 1 gig of ram and a Celeron does all of this just fine.
In the old days people had a way of dealing with people like the RIAA execs. They grabbed them, stripped them, beat them, coated them in tar and feathers. In other words they made a public example of them to discourage other similar-thinking assholes from doing the same thing. Are we too civilized for that today?
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
- Hunter S. Thompson
I call bullshit on that. I'm guessing he bought his 20 gigabyte HDD player five years ago. I have a 30 gig player I got for 100 dollars with a battery that lasts days on a single charge, and I've seen 20 gig HDD-based players for as low as 60 dollars.
You not liking something doesn't make it obsolete. Disk based players won't be "obsolete" until SSD becomes cheaper per-byte than HDD.
Lots of people want large hard drive based players these days. The demand may not be as high, but if it wasn't there, they wouldn't be selling them. They just appeal to different people.
And consider the following ironic thought: what are the chances that, 10 years from now on your (10th? 15th? 25th?) anniversary, you'll be able to find a working VHS player to watch your wedding video?
Pretty good. VCRs, in my experience, aren't like DVD players, that kneel over and die every two years. The age of the built-like-a-tank non-disposable consumer electronics is over, it seems.
Which is why you shouldn't pay for programs that come with these shitty, draconian DRM methods. I pirated Bioshock, I'll probably pirate Spore and Mass Effect as well. If you don't like what they're doing, the best way to let them know is by not giving them your money. Not that it matters, both games are going to sell by the crate anyway, but at least you won't be bleeding from the asshole when they decide that Spore has been obsoleted by Spore 2 and replace their Spore activation servers with Spore 2 activation servers.
I agree; Winks and nudges piss me off. Fortunately, every MSN client I am aware of that supports them has an option to turn them off. Custom emoticons could be put into the same boat by some, as well.
I'm familiar with aMSN. It is the most full-featured MSN client for Linux I've used, but I use Emesene most of the time, simply because I'm one of these snotty interface whores who demands that everything look and behave consistently. It's not quite there yet, but it seems very promising; Think Pidgin, only with the focus on providing closer-to-full MSN support rather than basic support for 50 or so protocols.
This DOES seem pretty ridiculous, but more open-source IM clients can only be a good thing. Maybe eventually there will be an open, unofficial MSN client that supports voice and video messaging, the sending and receiving of custom emotions and handwritten messages, and has a decent interface.
Their best albums were the first 3, and today those albums aren't in sync with the latest trends in contemporary radio-friendly rock music. Screw Metallica.
Fixed a couple of typos. It's understandable, all those keys are pretty close together.
I've never seen Blade: Trinity, now I'm sure to avoid it. Thanks. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be off to hang myself.
Firefox 3 beta 5 is practically a release candidate, the beta being generally more stable than the latest Firefox 2 stable release. KDE4 is pretty much for developers at this point. It has some cool new features, but it also has lots of bugs and design flaws, and isn't very usable yet.
Try Wubi, which I believe is included in this release. It installs Ubuntu to a disk image on your current filesystem and boots into it via the Windows bootloader. If you don't like it, you can uninstall it from Windows like any other program. I don't think it supports the Hibernate feature, and of course NTFS isn't as efficient as ext3, but it's by far the easiest and safest way to set up a dual-boot between Windows and Linux. Your NTFS drives will read under Ubuntu just like any other hard drive.