Its *HIS* music, he can do whatever he wants with it. He may be a "greedy asshole" as you say, but its his legal right. Lars doesn't want his music distributed on napster and via mp3s where anyone with a cable modem can download a 256k rip of the album in half an hour. Thats hardly called trading.
The reason behind metallicas hate for napster is because it was used to distribute some of their songs before they are officially relased. Its not about money, its about controlling THEIR music on THEIR terms.
Lets say you are working on some cool invention scheduled to be released next month. I break in and steal the plans and start making copies of your design. I bet you would be pretty pissed off to. But then again information wants to be free.
Well people must think they are getting theif moneys worth otherwise cd sales would have dropped. If people are willing to pay $18 for a cd then the companies will gladly charge it. If people stopped buying cds you can bet they would cut the prices to get people back.
See around here the truth doesn't matter. Rarely does a topic mean what the article is really about. They skim for a sentence or two and take it out of context to incite zealots and generate banner hits. See my previous comment on this matter.
See how much safer it is without guns? Pretty soon the government can watch after you 24x7 in case you do something bad. Its funny how england needs cameras on every street corner and highway to look for criminals. I guess its better that you can only get robbed blind and beaten instead of being shot.
You talk of intels vaporware but where are the SMP athlon chipsets? AMD claims the athlon can be used in dual or quad states but so far no one has made even a prototype. Intel isn't going anywhere in the high end server market until AMD comes up with a SMP design.
Humans are an insignificant speck in the universe, on the cosmic scale it doesn't matter if one planet gets wiped out by an asteroid. And yes someday there will be an end to the human race.
Guess what? Not everyone likes or uses linux. Why is it whenever someone writes an article pointing out shortcomings and their dislikes you always assume microsoft has paid them off?
After the consumer buys the product the company is no longer the owner and should have not have to worry what someone does after they buy it. Just more government waste that I would have to end up paying.
You are paying higher gas prices because the arabs got together and jacked up the price. They know the world runs on oil, so people will have to pay. Its simple greed.
Over a year ago I spent about $400 building an overclocked dual celeron system. It has two C333's running comfortably at 500mhz with no problems at all. One year later its still faster than most systems available today. Lets see you beat that price/performance factor. It sure was funny seeing intel developers stating that celerons don't support SMP while abit was cranking out BP6's left and right.
130 watts huh? Hmmm so if you have two 100 watt light bulbs my wiring is overloaded? Thanks for telling me. Most US wiring is rated for 15 or 20 amps, thats 1800 and 2400 watts:)
Lets face facts, 99% of napster traffic is copyrighted material. FTP does not specifically search and index copyrighted material. I bet a very very small amount of all ftp traffic is used to distribute warez, compare that to nearly all of napster traffic.
Maybe taco should have read the schools network policy of not being allowed to distribute illegal/copyrighted material before he makes such dumbass comments.
How many people actually own a digital tv right now? Can they only receive digital broadcasts, or can they receive normal air/cable? Why pay so much for something that will never catch on anyhow?
You will have to encode files at least to 256k to get rid of annoying distortion. Don't ever listen to 128k acoustic mp3s with headphones. Its horrible.
Fujitsu and Western digital go hand in hand when it comes to making cheap hard drives. I sure as hell wouldn't buy one. Strangely enough fujitsu also makes (or made) Sparc cpu's.
I bet you were using the CDE window manager with lots of services running? Install linux on a 386 and try to run X. Come back in 5 mins and it might load. Use the olvwm window manager and watch what serviced load and you'll be fine. Don't forget Solaris was designed specifically for the hardware. Linux was hacked to run.
Back during kernel 2.0.34 sun4c architecture had a mmu slowdown bug that rendered the machine unusable after one day. Do you know how long a kernel compile took on an IPC with this bug? 6 hours! I installed OpenBSD 2.4 and have never looked back. Linux used to give scsi bus reset errors at least once every bootup,not the case with OpenBSD. Let me just say that OpenBSD has *NEVER* crashed. Not a single lock up or crash of any kind, other than the usual netscape segfault.
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Its *HIS* music, he can do whatever he wants with it. He may be a "greedy asshole" as you say, but its his legal right. Lars doesn't want his music distributed on napster and via mp3s where anyone with a cable modem can download a 256k rip of the album in half an hour. Thats hardly called trading.
The reason behind metallicas hate for napster is because it was used to distribute some of their songs before they are officially relased. Its not about money, its about controlling THEIR music on THEIR terms.
Lets say you are working on some cool invention scheduled to be released next month. I break in and steal the plans and start making copies of your design. I bet you would be pretty pissed off to. But then again information wants to be free.
Well people must think they are getting theif moneys worth otherwise cd sales would have dropped. If people are willing to pay $18 for a cd then the companies will gladly charge it. If people stopped buying cds you can bet they would cut the prices to get people back.
See around here the truth doesn't matter. Rarely does a topic mean what the article is really about. They skim for a sentence or two and take it out of context to incite zealots and generate banner hits. See my previous comment on this matter.
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The truth really hurts, doesn't it?
I have a sblive card and its never crashed or had any problems. You must be using beta drivers or something.
See how much safer it is without guns? Pretty soon the government can watch after you 24x7 in case you do something bad. Its funny how england needs cameras on every street corner and highway to look for criminals. I guess its better that you can only get robbed blind and beaten instead of being shot.
Yeah that hard lock really gave you a log or wealth of info.
Take a look at how stable netscape is or how long it takes staroffice to load before your criticize windows.
You talk of intels vaporware but where are the SMP athlon chipsets? AMD claims the athlon can be used in dual or quad states but so far no one has made even a prototype. Intel isn't going anywhere in the high end server market until AMD comes up with a SMP design.
Humans are an insignificant speck in the universe, on the cosmic scale it doesn't matter if one planet gets wiped out by an asteroid. And yes someday there will be an end to the human race.
Guess what? Not everyone likes or uses linux. Why is it whenever someone writes an article pointing out shortcomings and their dislikes you always assume microsoft has paid them off?
After the consumer buys the product the company is no longer the owner and should have not have to worry what someone does after they buy it. Just more government waste that I would have to end up paying.
You are paying higher gas prices because the arabs got together and jacked up the price. They know the world runs on oil, so people will have to pay. Its simple greed.
Mine works fine using perl scripts under win32. It just sends keyboard esc codes, why should a kernel driver be needed?
I still call it sunsite, because of the hardware sun donated to the project.
Over a year ago I spent about $400 building an overclocked dual celeron system. It has two C333's running comfortably at 500mhz with no problems at all. One year later its still faster than most systems available today. Lets see you beat that price/performance factor. It sure was funny seeing intel developers stating that celerons don't support SMP while abit was cranking out BP6's left and right.
130 watts huh? Hmmm so if you have two 100 watt light bulbs my wiring is overloaded? Thanks for telling me. Most US wiring is rated for 15 or 20 amps, thats 1800 and 2400 watts :)
Put me down for 1.5 weeks.
Lets face facts, 99% of napster traffic is copyrighted material. FTP does not specifically search and index copyrighted material. I bet a very very small amount of all ftp traffic is used to distribute warez, compare that to nearly all of napster traffic.
Maybe taco should have read the schools network policy of not being allowed to distribute illegal/copyrighted material before he makes such dumbass comments.
It was ordered quiet so the verdict would be impartial. They didn't want a big media event and all kinds of publicity to hamper the trial.
How many people actually own a digital tv right now? Can they only receive digital broadcasts, or can they receive normal air/cable? Why pay so much for something that will never catch on anyhow?
Thats napsters defense, they can't help 99% of the mp3s it indexs are copyrighted material.
You will have to encode files at least to 256k to get rid of annoying distortion. Don't ever listen to 128k acoustic mp3s with headphones. Its horrible.
Fujitsu and Western digital go hand in hand when it comes to making cheap hard drives. I sure as hell wouldn't buy one. Strangely enough fujitsu also makes (or made) Sparc cpu's.
You can buy a personal solaris license for about $20 all together. $10 for the media and $10 shipping, manuals and everything.
I bet you were using the CDE window manager with lots of services running? Install linux on a 386 and try to run X. Come back in 5 mins and it might load. Use the olvwm window manager and watch what serviced load and you'll be fine. Don't forget Solaris was designed specifically for the hardware. Linux was hacked to run.
Back during kernel 2.0.34 sun4c architecture had a mmu slowdown bug that rendered the machine unusable after one day. Do you know how long a kernel compile took on an IPC with this bug? 6 hours! I installed OpenBSD 2.4 and have never looked back. Linux used to give scsi bus reset errors at least once every bootup,not the case with OpenBSD. Let me just say that OpenBSD has *NEVER* crashed. Not a single lock up or crash of any kind, other than the usual netscape segfault.