I never realized I had to be a frilly designer in order to be computer literate. I suppose if I watched trading spaces everyday I'd probably be a computer whiz...
First off, many P2P networks are smart enough to easily defeat this attack. Reputation tracking alone, out of several technologies already implimented to prevent this attack, is almost enough.
Keyword here: almost. I've gotten a number of "Excellent" rated files from kazaa and found them to have the same annoying screech-pop sounds and any other ones. I no longer pay any attention to whether or not a file is rated because it hardly makes a difference.
How is rating a file going to stop this? The only people who use it are the RIAA anti-piracy people. They get 50 people to rate it excellent, and then everyone downloads it. The find out its the same pop-screech sound, but they leave it on their hard drive and don't rate it down. Other people see that there is an enourmous bandwidth for this "excellent" file and figure its a sure thing. Wrong!
Says who? Perhaps it went more like, all the companies were just waiting for someone else to strike it rich before taking the plunge? Obviously that didn't happen, or they'd have all have jumped right into it. The only people that know are the companies, everything else is purely speculation.
Btw, I wouldn't agree the Rambus was any better. The lone fact that it was proprietary alone makes it crap.
Speaking of cough syrup and "only time will tell", have you ever listened to that song by Enya while tripping your nuts off? Wait till you peak, and then turn it on.. good god..
You can't lose what you never had... and your government's set up probably explains why you don't have any multi-millionaires in your country... much less billionaires.
Reminds me of grade school. No matter which class, there would always be some kid sitting next to me, peeking over at my paper. I'd act like I didn't notice/care, but secretly mark wrong answers. As soon as they finished their test, I'd go back and change them to the right answers.
I fooled kids for many years that way. No one ever confronted me as to why I always had a higher grade than they did. Served them right.
So far a majority of the comments seem to deal with the fact that it doesn't cost the manufacturers squat to produce the cds, therefore we're all being ripped off. That would be true, but its not the manufacturers that are jacking the prices up.
Then some say that the artists and the producers and all myriads of other people that worked on the cd need to be paid, so the prices are jacked up. True, but in a limited sense. The artists make more money from their tours and shows than they do off cds, which suggests to me that they aren't paid heavily from CD sales.
How about the equipment used in the production of the music from start to finish? That could all very well be paid for with one smash hit album.
Where is all this money going then? To the executives of course! Where does money always go in big business? To the fat cats at the top, and then it trickles down from there. So the reason why cds are so expensive is because the executives were merely giving themselves pay raises according to the work they've accomplished over the ages. These businesses have been around longer than many of us by several years. Thus the prices rise and rise. So why wouldn't they just lower the prices and take a pay cut? Would you? If you were making millions a year, gaining more and more power and prestige by the day, hour, minute, and second, wouldn't you want it even moreso? Would you ever want to cut it back for the good of everyone else? Much less anyone else? Of course not.
So now that the big question of why do we have to pay so much for cds has been answered, the next question is what are we going to do? My answer is that people will continue to do what they've been doing for the past 6 years until it can no longer be done; steal the music.
After we can no longer do so? Perhaps there will be a large movement in the arts? One can only hope. We should be so lucky to have the opportunity to lift the cover from our eyes that the mass media so cleverly put there in our sleep. Perhaps they just pushed a little too far in their greed.
The above comment is purely opinion. Any mistakes for facts or otherwise are the responsibility of the reader.
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Sure have, but it takes less than a minute to download 60 megs on my dsl.
I usually DO want to listen to a show when I want therefore I have DSL and life is peachy. Case closed.
People who have the option of broadband, but stick to dial-up, and then complain about slow speeds and long waiting times should be taken out back and beat with a smart stick.
They have begun teaching this in school. My senior year in high school I took a class called contemporary communications. Half of the semester all we did was watch videos of commercials and music to see how they try to shove you to go out and buy stuff to make your non-existant problems go away.
Then English 101 in college was basically the same thing. Spent a whole semester on debunking the tricks and trades of marketing. I was more interested in those classes than I had been since I took my first computer class as a first grader.
I suppose you could consider it a massive upgrade to ethernet when you fill up 80 gigs of movies and then just move the hd into the other room for the other computer to use. Can't beat pushing 80 gigs from one side of your house to the other in just a minute or so.
If he's so smart, he should be able to realize why people make fun of his uncombed hair. I was the same way when I was a kid. I wore the same 3 pairs of sweat pants for most of my childhood, never once combed my hair, and hardly ever brushed my teeth. Sure some kids made fun of me, but because it never bothered me, I was always nice to them. I made friends with people from all grades. It takes more to win friends over than just appearance, and it takes more to scare them away. I think it has more to do with your characteristics, self-control, and whether or not you even WANT friends.... thats stuff you can't really teach.
I'm tired of all these studies on retarded crap. Where's our cure for cancer or aids? Quit pissing around and do something useful. Something that isn't going to change 2 weeks down the road when someone else gets some grant money to blow.
Not only that, but people who follow these "reports" are like stupid sheep. "So-and-so says eggwhites are good! Lets all eat eggwhites!" "So-and-so says sitting on your head for an hour a day will extend your life by a year! Lets go buy some mats!"
Honestly, if people can't use a little critical thinking when reading these sophomoric studies, they deserve to die from the jump off the bridge.
" If you were to fully develop the entire tree for all possible chess moves, the total number of board positions is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,
000,000,000,000, or 10120, give or take a few. That's a very big number. For example, there have only been 1026 nanoseconds since the Big Bang. There are thought to be only 1075 atoms in the entire universe. When you consider that the Milky Way galaxy contains billions of suns, and there are billions of galaxies, you can see that that's a whole lot of atoms. That number is dwarfed by the number of possible chess moves. Chess is a pretty intricate game!"
I think you missed the part where he turned all those 0's into 10120. From thence the carat was implied, thus the rest of his statement makes sense.
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I believe houston's airports were closed for a day as well. I can't imagine the hell the admins must have went through.
I never realized I had to be a frilly designer in order to be computer literate. I suppose if I watched trading spaces everyday I'd probably be a computer whiz...
First off, many P2P networks are smart enough to easily defeat this attack. Reputation tracking alone, out of several technologies already implimented to prevent this attack, is almost enough.
Keyword here: almost. I've gotten a number of "Excellent" rated files from kazaa and found them to have the same annoying screech-pop sounds and any other ones. I no longer pay any attention to whether or not a file is rated because it hardly makes a difference.
How is rating a file going to stop this? The only people who use it are the RIAA anti-piracy people. They get 50 people to rate it excellent, and then everyone downloads it. The find out its the same pop-screech sound, but they leave it on their hard drive and don't rate it down. Other people see that there is an enourmous bandwidth for this "excellent" file and figure its a sure thing. Wrong!
That's about 10 seconds more than anyone should need.
Says who? Perhaps it went more like, all the companies were just waiting for someone else to strike it rich before taking the plunge? Obviously that didn't happen, or they'd have all have jumped right into it. The only people that know are the companies, everything else is purely speculation.
Btw, I wouldn't agree the Rambus was any better. The lone fact that it was proprietary alone makes it crap.
Speaking of cough syrup and "only time will tell", have you ever listened to that song by Enya while tripping your nuts off? Wait till you peak, and then turn it on.. good god..
Strange.. slashdot no longer dupes stories from 1999-2000? I can't say as I've seen too many rambus stories as of late...
Chalk it up to old habit... or perhaps the fact that you can't utilize certain features of some of the newer ram without having identical pairs...
;)
The point is though, at least you CAN get away with using only one stick. For some people the $100 saved feeds the family for another week.
Haha.. excellent.
Die 20 second waiting period!
You can't lose what you never had... and your government's set up probably explains why you don't have any multi-millionaires in your country... much less billionaires.
I think NOP would better suffice..
Reminds me of grade school. No matter which class, there would always be some kid sitting next to me, peeking over at my paper. I'd act like I didn't notice/care, but secretly mark wrong answers. As soon as they finished their test, I'd go back and change them to the right answers.
I fooled kids for many years that way. No one ever confronted me as to why I always had a higher grade than they did.
Served them right.
So far a majority of the comments seem to deal with the fact that it doesn't cost the manufacturers squat to produce the cds, therefore we're all being ripped off. That would be true, but its not the manufacturers that are jacking the prices up.
Then some say that the artists and the producers and all myriads of other people that worked on the cd need to be paid, so the prices are jacked up. True, but in a limited sense. The artists make more money from their tours and shows than they do off cds, which suggests to me that they aren't paid heavily from CD sales.
How about the equipment used in the production of the music from start to finish? That could all very well be paid for with one smash hit album.
Where is all this money going then? To the executives of course! Where does money always go in big business? To the fat cats at the top, and then it trickles down from there. So the reason why cds are so expensive is because the executives were merely giving themselves pay raises according to the work they've accomplished over the ages. These businesses have been around longer than many of us by several years. Thus the prices rise and rise.
So why wouldn't they just lower the prices and take a pay cut? Would you? If you were making millions a year, gaining more and more power and prestige by the day, hour, minute, and second, wouldn't you want it even moreso? Would you ever want to cut it back for the good of everyone else? Much less anyone else? Of course not.
So now that the big question of why do we have to pay so much for cds has been answered, the next question is what are we going to do? My answer is that people will continue to do what they've been doing for the past 6 years until it can no longer be done; steal the music.
After we can no longer do so? Perhaps there will be a large movement in the arts? One can only hope. We should be so lucky to have the opportunity to lift the cover from our eyes that the mass media so cleverly put there in our sleep. Perhaps they just pushed a little too far in their greed.
The above comment is purely opinion. Any mistakes for facts or otherwise are the responsibility of the reader.
Sure have, but it takes less than a minute to download 60 megs on my dsl.
I usually DO want to listen to a show when I want therefore I have DSL and life is peachy. Case closed.
People who have the option of broadband, but stick to dial-up, and then complain about slow speeds and long waiting times should be taken out back and beat with a smart stick.
Kudos to you. I just don't have the balls to either agree or disagree with a comment that I can't decypher.
Oh how I tried.. but in the end it was hopeless
They have begun teaching this in school. My senior year in high school I took a class called contemporary communications. Half of the semester all we did was watch videos of commercials and music to see how they try to shove you to go out and buy stuff to make your non-existant problems go away.
Then English 101 in college was basically the same thing. Spent a whole semester on debunking the tricks and trades of marketing. I was more interested in those classes than I had been since I took my first computer class as a first grader.
Xbox media center perhaps?? Oh wait.. it's called a mod-chip..
I think this is the first 10 times I've seen it used.
I've heard of jumping the boat, but somehow that doesn't quite fit.
I suppose you could consider it a massive upgrade to ethernet when you fill up 80 gigs of movies and then just move the hd into the other room for the other computer to use. Can't beat pushing 80 gigs from one side of your house to the other in just a minute or so.
Is that for a "normal" reading speed, or flipping through as fast as you possibly can? I hate stats.
If he's so smart, he should be able to realize why people make fun of his uncombed hair. I was the same way when I was a kid. I wore the same 3 pairs of sweat pants for most of my childhood, never once combed my hair, and hardly ever brushed my teeth. Sure some kids made fun of me, but because it never bothered me, I was always nice to them. I made friends with people from all grades. It takes more to win friends over than just appearance, and it takes more to scare them away. I think it has more to do with your characteristics, self-control, and whether or not you even WANT friends.... thats stuff you can't really teach.
They didn't make a game console that doesn't make money.
That sounds too closely related to pedophilia... you might want to recheck your research.
I'm tired of all these studies on retarded crap. Where's our cure for cancer or aids? Quit pissing around and do something useful. Something that isn't going to change 2 weeks down the road when someone else gets some grant money to blow.
Not only that, but people who follow these "reports" are like stupid sheep. "So-and-so says eggwhites are good! Lets all eat eggwhites!" "So-and-so says sitting on your head for an hour a day will extend your life by a year! Lets go buy some mats!"
Honestly, if people can't use a little critical thinking when reading these sophomoric studies, they deserve to die from the jump off the bridge.
I think you missed the part where he turned all those 0's into 10120. From thence the carat was implied, thus the rest of his statement makes sense.