Have you tried version 7 of the Adobe Acrobat Reader? I was shocked as I figured when I downloaded it it would just add more garbage that slowed it down to even further hights of unusability... and yet when I opened a PDF with it, the whole thing came up in like 3 seconds.
They definately were going for "teh snappy" with the 7 release. Try it out, it's quite a bit better.
I still prefer Preview though;) (and damnit.. xpdf can suck sometimes.. why do half of my documents show only pics and no text?)
But hasn't MS stated a few times that they own the IP on the chips? They can make them at their own foundries which allows them to get around the cost of materials portion. I imagine they paid a large lump sum for lifetime (or at least lifetime of the console.. maybe 10 years) rights to make as many chips as they want using the design they bought from IBM and ATI.
Anyway, they definitly seem to be in a better position this time around than the original Xbox.
The problem is, Windows by default has auto-run enabled upon CD insertion. Most people won't go through the hassle of turning this off (it's not even in a very obvious place to turn it off..) So yeah.. someone might want to rip it to MP3.. but as soon as you insert the disk it auto-runs the rootkit which then hides itself and disables your ability to rip the files (what it was meant to do).
So to answer your base question... Yes. (most) everyone does have auto-run enabled for all CD's (these discs Sony put out have both an audio and data track.. so the line between audio and data CD is a bit blurred) because it is the default; which most people do not change.
I'm simply asking for another reason, any other reason, why we SHOULD adopt IPv6.
VoIP
At my company I was in charge of setting up the new phone system (VoIP running the asterisk PBX software). One of the biggest pains in the entire setup has had to do with NAT, specifially with the SIP protocol. There is another protocol that works with this type of system through a NAT (the IAX2 protocol), but there's some limited use. You see, most hard VoIP phones sold use the SIP protocol. The SIP protocol doesn't work very well through NATs. If no NAT is involved, it works fine. Our internal phones on the internal LAN work perfectly due to no NAT. We also have several minor offices all over the world that are using these VoIP phones.. some from their own home broadband connections. Most of those home connections use some form of NAT through their home router. These SIP phones do not work most of the time through the NAT (Sometimes they do.. it's about 50/50).
There are IAX2 phones, but those are very new, low on features, and don't fit the standard setup we have already.
Now if both sides (Server and phone over the net) are behind a NAT, it's impossible to connect. That's to be expected.. there needs to be at least one end-point in any situation like that. That also means that if I wanted multiple PBXs (I'm sure there's a use for that), I'd need multiple addresses. And man, it would sure make my job easier if I could get my users to have their own unique IP address just for their phone.. but no ISP will give you a second IPv4 address just for your phone -- well at least without charging you an arm and a leg.
So I could easily see a very quickly growing market (VoIP phones) gaining quite a bit from an IPv6 transition.
I'd like to reiterate what the parent says about v4 compatible v6 addresses. I've had to study RFC2373 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2373.html) and the people who designed IPv6 didn't do it without consideration of the current system and how a transition would go. In fact, a lot of effort went into making it possible to transition to a larger address system while using both systems at the same time.
It's actually similar to how the x86 archetecture has advanced. When we moved up to 32-bit CPUs, in order to access the upper bits, new registers were created to address those upper bits while the lower ones stayed. An older 16-bit program would merely only use the lower bits, ignoring the upper ones since it wasn't designed to use them.
IPv6 allows for the last 32 bits to be used as an IPv4 address. You can even write out an IPv4 compatible IPv6 address using a combiniation of both hex and dotted decimal. eg: 0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:129.144.52.38 which in IPv6 can be compressed to::FFFF:129.144.52.38 and which an IPv4 device would see it as merely 129.144.52.38. The idea being, when transferring over, only devices that actually need IPv4 compatibility would have an IPv6/IPv4 address. Quick example using NAT technology:
Say I have an office with 500 devices that need net connections. Now I also have a remote office with another 200 devices. These devices all like to connect to each other.. with various servers and services on each that make using NAT translation a PITA, but also buying 700 IPv4 addresses is mighty expensive. Now most of these devices are for internal use.. (I'll get to that). Now we do have 5 web servers that need to be accessed by people outside of the company (sales servers with web pages to sell stuff or show off our company). We give all 700 devices IPv6 addresses so that they can access each other over the internet. We give those 5 that need to be seen by everyone IPv6 addresses that have IPv4 mappings so that everyone can see them. We can get a few IPv6 addresses with IPv4 mappings to act as a NAT-like access point for internal devices to get to external IPv4 places for say viewing web pages or the like from internal machines.
But now one has to think.. why would we need 700 externally accessable devices? Isn't that a security nightmare? Managing all of them so that they don't get hit by a worm or such could really suck... but why do those devices have to be computers? What about VoIP phones or something similar?
I currently manage a VoIP setup that I implimented and support myself, and let me tell you.. NATs SUCK for VoIP. SIP hates it.. works half the time and the other half no go. If two devices are behind NATs, plain and simple they cannot talk to each other. If they have external addresses on most phones you can just dial straight to the IP address of another VoIP phone without even needing an intermediate server.. which can be handy at times.
It's just a minor example and I'm sure it can be picked apart and made to work on IPv4 (I've been doing such). But the time/cost savings of IPv6 along with just the mirade of possibilities it brings shouldn't be thrown aside because it would be "too hard" or "too expensive". The cost isn't as high as a lot of people think.. most are just afraid because they don't know anything about IPv6 and what you can do with it in reguards to IPv4. And of course no one knows, because no one is going to train in an area that has no use currently, which will remain that way until people educate themselves in it.
as I doubt any record in field p will actually equal the string '1; delete employees;'
Now what you're probably thinkog of is setting that ? in '?' to be something like:
1'; delete employees;
attempting to escape out of the select prematurely with a well placed ' after the 1. However, using prepaired statements (which is what I believe the GP was speaking of) runs the statement through a parser to set escape characters into the query strings so something like that can't happen. The example above would turn into something like:
1\'; delete employees;
which would still yeild a fun result of Empty Set (0.00 sec). You don't actually need a stored procedure for safe queries with user input, just a language that has prepared statements (or heck write you're own version of it if your language of choice doesn't have it, it's not that difficult of a thing to make).
pfft, why stop there? A downgrade to Vellum is nice and all I suppose.. but only 800 years? And what if you have no sheep? I say we downgrade even further, to a long proven technology with greater data integrity and archival storage... Rock Carvings.
Thousands upon thousands of years.. and you can even leave them outside (in an area with moderly low rainfall). See if you can do that with your silly paper or Vellum. pfft.
*goes back to carving out some C-code on his handy granite slab*
I don't know if you've read any of the articles, but most people who actually got to sit down and play with it were told to just have it in their lap and move it with very minimal movements (think laser pointer). All of the reporters seemed to say that it was still very responsive even with very tiny movements.
I don't think a "wildly gesture" will be required for every game.. though probably the option will be there for some (A drumming game for example).
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I would hazard a guess that whomever modded this Informative +1 didn't read it closely enough. You were suckered!
How about because there might be traces of the files on your computer, or they might find some other way of finding out. Also lying to a court isn't really looked upon very highly. It's much more serious than pirating some music.
Just as a musing, This could probably be gotten around without actualy commiting prejury.
Prejury is basically making a false statement while under oath. I think the idea would be to bring doubt into the case by stating that it is feasible, and perhaps not even completely unlikely, that someone else could be using your same connection without your knowledge to share files. Now if you really were sharing files yourself (and if you don't own the copyright on them or have permission, shame on you), then if the court asks you directly if you were sharing files, you could use the fifth amendment.
The idea, I believe, would be to place doubt into the system. That an IP address found by the RIAA is not an acceptable unique identifier for a person. It would be a bit risky though, and probably cost a bunch in lawyer fees.. But I'd be interested in the story if anyone tried.
I think what the grandparent is trying to say is that a cookie is merely a small piece of text, usually with an identifying number, left in the cookie cache of your web browser with an ID linked to the URL that created it. It is a piece of text, not a program.. unable to "phone home" as it were or store any other information besides with the creator of the cookie put into it. They cannot collect information about other things and store them for later retrieval from the company.
You're computer will not get slowed down by cookies (once again, just small text files). Certain programs such as adaware will however recognize malicious cookies as being ones that are used to track your movement on the internet. The way that this works is dozens of websites participate in allowing the tracking company (such as doubleclick) to read their own cookie each time you connect to the site. So if you went to say msn's website and they were using doubleclick's tracking cookies, they would send a request to doubleclick to check for their cookie before msn sends its page info. Doubleclick would then go "ah yes, our cookie is here.. this is user ID *some ID number*. Let us update our database which has a primary key of that number to add the information that this user has visited msn at this time today".
Cookies are not all bad, they help to keep track of state (such as shopping carts or login info) across pages.. as html was designed as a static medium.
Err.. so anyway.. Cookies didn't slow down your computer. It was probably spyware/malware from p0rn sights or Gator or some shit like that.
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you might be pretty surprised on the quick accuracy you can gain with a trackball. I've been using one for about 4 years now and, while it was difficult at first, I'm able to quite easily hit headshots in Unreal 2004; no aim bot needed.
The difficulty though is people are more used to mice already, switching to a trackball takes a bit of a relearning on how to gain accuracy once again with it. But man are they comfortable!
Copyright law was established in the US Constitution. How again was the law bought and paid for?
Alright.. just to make sure I wasn't mistaken, I actually took a quick glance once again out the Constitution to make sure I wasn't missing anything from when I last read it.
Where the HELL is copyright law established in the US Constitution? I see things about creating branches, dealing with slavery, voting, power distributed through states... even right to free speech and the press.. but not a single thing that gives you intellectual property rights to restrict information due to creation of content. It's just not in there!
Please.. maybe I'm mistaken and didn't read it carefully enough.. but please.. point to me the exact Article and/or amendment that makes copyright a part of the CONSTITUTION. Otherwise, I call bullshit.
odd.. Thousands of people still play the game (I'm one of them) and think it's probably the best out there.
I even tried WoW for about a month.. and I think I discovered why I still prefer FFXI over WoW even though the graphics are a bit dated. FFXI actually follows pretty well with other FF games in the fact that it has a STORY. There's an overall arching storyline that you discover through missions of the 3 seperate countries. Also, when you achieve something, be it a cutscene or a new level or somesuch, you feel like you've accomplished something. (only have WoW as an example) but for WoW, you can get to the "end game" eg. level 60, in about a month.
Another thing I prefer about FFXI over any other MMORPG is the ability to change jobs. Imagine playing a Dwarf in WoW but you got bored as a paladin, and decided you wanted to take up the wizardly arts. Well in FFXI you can change between being a mage, an warrior, a theif... any of the jobs that you have access to very easily. One of the greatest benifits of which is if you have friends who are lower or higher level than you, you can both just change to a job that you've leveled to roughly the same place and go play.
I tried to go back to WoW, but it was pointless.. as a level 31 paladin, all of my friends were level 45+ and waay more powerful than me. I couldn't do anything because in any given situation I'd be useless. The only way we could play together is at end game, or if we both started new characters. The game ends up being a Massively Single Online RPG. Single person game that a lot of people happen to be in at the same time.
I dunno, but I'd say that FFXI is one of the best FF games made (still a big fan of VII though). And the community is very far from dying.. new content is being released all the time. We just had our second major expansion, and even downloadable updates every month or two are adding new areas, quests, missions.. STORY.
Alright.. I see a pad of notepaper with random scribbles on it, some sunglasses, a mountain dew bottle, a disgruntled Russian co-worker who just looks at porn all day, a dead plant in the corner, and some gum stuck to the floor.
I dunno what's grown on that gum, and frankly I don't want to, but I'm not sure how it's hurting KDE/KHTML via Apple.. Apple sure didn't put the gum there, and I'm pretty sure it was like a mint gum and not an Apple gum.. I could be wrong though..
But I think the point the grandparent is making is that you can backup iTunes music just as well as you can with a CD. You could burn a CD of what you've downloaded (at a bit of a quality loss), you could just copy the files to a DVD for archival.. you could transfer them to another computer... heck you can do anything you would do with your normal computer data for backup in the same way.
Now if you only downloaded the files from iTunes, never made a backup or copied the files anywhere, and your computer's hard drive died or was stolen, then yes.. you lose your music. Then again, if you never made mp3's of your CD's or copied them in any fashion and the CD got destroyed or stolen, you'd be SOL there too.
So I really don't see how CD's are better in the whole backup area.
Linux isn't really about killing Windows off.. whoever thought that the primary idea behind Linux when it was created was to make MS go bankrupt and for no one in the world to ever use Windows is a bit dilusional. Linux is an alternative. It's a choice. The same thing could be said in reverse: Windows Can't Kill Linux.
There's too many people who are interested with tinkering.. with having something being totally customizable if they take their time. With being free and able to run their computer the way they want. Is this the majority of people? Not even close! But it's enough that Linux will sustain itself in spite of any FUD MS and crew would throw at it.
Who cares if Linux never overtakes Windows? I know before I discovered it in '98, I thought I was doomed to the endless update/virus/adware world that everyone else was in (except those crazy mac people.. which now due to the mac mini I am one as well.. side tracking....)
Anyway, the point being.. Linux is strong due to it's following, and has great potential to do quite a few things Windows has troubles with. The choice is there for anyone to pick up that option if they so choose. What's the big deal?
In western culture people value blond hair and blue eyes; which is the current almost universal concept of beauty primarily for white folks, and ironically was the basis of superiority for one of the ugliest totalitarian regime.
So saying all Chinese people will do is breed males, and ignore the fact that most white people will probably breed bloundes and blue-eyed perfect devils is facetious.
hmm, this rubs me as being quite racist.. and I'll explain why. A lot of the posts I've read on here are talking about the Chinese in their selection of gender due to the combination of China's One Baby policy along with the cultural view that males are a greater benifit to a household than a female. This is only talking about gender, not specific features.. but let's assume that "designer babies" are possible.. which is where your statement comes in.
The "universal concept of beauty primarily for white folks" being blonde hair and blue eyes is somehow being linked to Hitler and the Nazi reign of terror that occurred during the last world war. I find it very difficult to have a straight association with the color of your skin, hair, and eyes creating "perfect devils" in the sense that they will, because of their physical features, become sort of horrid hate-mongers.
I had always been of the belief that it's one's environment, especially when growing up, that will have the greatest impact on one's character and quality later on in life. To assume that because someone is white with blonde hair and blue eyes means that they will become a Neo-Nazi or some other sort of "bad person" seems very short sighted, racist, and full of anger.
I just don't understand these views now adays.. I had always hoped that people were passed that.. but I suppose not.
Just a small note if you hadn't been paying attention for the last oh.. decade or so..
Linux *IS* a major operating system on the x86 platform. It has backing by *major* companies such as IBM. It has a solid background derived from the *NIX world which makes all of those "oh so difficult" configuration text files, quite standard.
Now as for the "Every setting should be in a GUI" mentality, I'll express why at least I believe that would be a downgrade for any OS.
Linux is a *very* versitile and flexible system. It can be made to run on very old hardware, small devices, supercompters, or the average Joe User's desktop. Linux provides basically the kernel, which you can then run any number of applications under. The default and easiest user interface for Linux just so happens to be a shell prompt (of which even that there are several varieties.. it's all about choice). Now this is not to say that Linux is purely text-based and you must now a bazillion arbitrary text commands to do any actual work on a Linux system. There's also a nice graphical interface that you can run (Several actually), such as X.org or FreeX86.
Now as we all know, graphical environments have settings.. things such as your screen resolution, refresh rate, or bit depth. In most OS's these options are chosen by the user, or maybe the beginning settings are set by the OS upon install. I've recently had an upgrade to a newer graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT) which has drivers for both Linux and Windows. Now in windows, after installation and a reboot it mysteriously set my monitor to 115x4000, which my monitor cannot display at all so it turns itself off.. I can't just close the graphical part of windows and change the oddly chosen starting numbers in a simple text file from a text prompt.. in fact I cannot change any settings at all because I don't have any of my pretty buttons on the screen. The only way to fix such a problem is to reboot into "Safe Mode" and change the values from there or uninstall the defunct drivers.
Granted Linux may be a small bit more work.. I have to actually open up a config file and type in my resolution numbers into the heavily commented xorg.config file. It's not easy for the Joe User to find where that xorg.config file is if they've never touched Linux I'll admit.. and maybe they won't know how to follow the directions as well.. but will the same Joe User be able to know that he's going to have to boot into Safe Mode (or that even it's a driver problem and maybe something windows did didn't just destroy his hardware) ?
This is just about a simple graphics configuration. It may not seem so benifitial to Joe User, but a system admin with over 100 systems may need to implement changes to all users desktops in some arbitrary fashion, and being able to telnet or ssh into all computers and run scripts to change *any* setting because they're in easy standard text files... well let's just say it's better than changing a radio button 100 times in a graphical box.
GUI's definatly make certain tasks easier.. generally for the actual desktop user.. but for a system admin or any sort of technical department, text files are a lot easier to work with. And it's not like Linux will take away the GUI functions completely... the daily work tasks can be done perfectly fine with a mouse and icons in X.
This is already longer than I wanted it to be.. but in short: keep config files in text files.. it really *is* easier when you understand why they're like that.
And nothing is holding Linux back.. it's already a major player. It may not be what you want it to be, but it's still here to stay.
What was your video card though? I know people who have similar setups as yours on a mac, but with 32 mb of video ram it runs like crap for them.
Just curious because if someone were able to get WoW running in a playable fashion with a 32mb video card (as this looks not upgradable on the mini-mac), then this would be a nice little machine to start playing around with macs again with for myself.
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Have you tried version 7 of the Adobe Acrobat Reader? I was shocked as I figured when I downloaded it it would just add more garbage that slowed it down to even further hights of unusability... and yet when I opened a PDF with it, the whole thing came up in like 3 seconds.
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They definately were going for "teh snappy" with the 7 release. Try it out, it's quite a bit better.
I still prefer Preview though
(and damnit.. xpdf can suck sometimes.. why do half of my documents show only pics and no text?)
You of course assume that the posting /.ers actually read the article.
Man, you must be new here.
But hasn't MS stated a few times that they own the IP on the chips? They can make them at their own foundries which allows them to get around the cost of materials portion. I imagine they paid a large lump sum for lifetime (or at least lifetime of the console.. maybe 10 years) rights to make as many chips as they want using the design they bought from IBM and ATI.
Anyway, they definitly seem to be in a better position this time around than the original Xbox.
The problem is, Windows by default has auto-run enabled upon CD insertion. Most people won't go through the hassle of turning this off (it's not even in a very obvious place to turn it off..) So yeah.. someone might want to rip it to MP3.. but as soon as you insert the disk it auto-runs the rootkit which then hides itself and disables your ability to rip the files (what it was meant to do).
So to answer your base question... Yes. (most) everyone does have auto-run enabled for all CD's (these discs Sony put out have both an audio and data track.. so the line between audio and data CD is a bit blurred) because it is the default; which most people do not change.
VoIP
At my company I was in charge of setting up the new phone system (VoIP running the asterisk PBX software). One of the biggest pains in the entire setup has had to do with NAT, specifially with the SIP protocol. There is another protocol that works with this type of system through a NAT (the IAX2 protocol), but there's some limited use. You see, most hard VoIP phones sold use the SIP protocol. The SIP protocol doesn't work very well through NATs. If no NAT is involved, it works fine. Our internal phones on the internal LAN work perfectly due to no NAT. We also have several minor offices all over the world that are using these VoIP phones.. some from their own home broadband connections. Most of those home connections use some form of NAT through their home router. These SIP phones do not work most of the time through the NAT (Sometimes they do.. it's about 50/50).
There are IAX2 phones, but those are very new, low on features, and don't fit the standard setup we have already.
Now if both sides (Server and phone over the net) are behind a NAT, it's impossible to connect. That's to be expected.. there needs to be at least one end-point in any situation like that. That also means that if I wanted multiple PBXs (I'm sure there's a use for that), I'd need multiple addresses. And man, it would sure make my job easier if I could get my users to have their own unique IP address just for their phone.. but no ISP will give you a second IPv4 address just for your phone -- well at least without charging you an arm and a leg.
So I could easily see a very quickly growing market (VoIP phones) gaining quite a bit from an IPv6 transition.
I'd like to reiterate what the parent says about v4 compatible v6 addresses. I've had to study RFC2373 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2373.html) and the people who designed IPv6 didn't do it without consideration of the current system and how a transition would go. In fact, a lot of effort went into making it possible to transition to a larger address system while using both systems at the same time.
::FFFF:129.144.52.38 and which an IPv4 device would see it as merely 129.144.52.38. The idea being, when transferring over, only devices that actually need IPv4 compatibility would have an IPv6/IPv4 address. Quick example using NAT technology:
It's actually similar to how the x86 archetecture has advanced. When we moved up to 32-bit CPUs, in order to access the upper bits, new registers were created to address those upper bits while the lower ones stayed. An older 16-bit program would merely only use the lower bits, ignoring the upper ones since it wasn't designed to use them.
IPv6 allows for the last 32 bits to be used as an IPv4 address. You can even write out an IPv4 compatible IPv6 address using a combiniation of both hex and dotted decimal. eg: 0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:129.144.52.38 which in IPv6 can be compressed to
Say I have an office with 500 devices that need net connections. Now I also have a remote office with another 200 devices. These devices all like to connect to each other.. with various servers and services on each that make using NAT translation a PITA, but also buying 700 IPv4 addresses is mighty expensive. Now most of these devices are for internal use.. (I'll get to that). Now we do have 5 web servers that need to be accessed by people outside of the company (sales servers with web pages to sell stuff or show off our company). We give all 700 devices IPv6 addresses so that they can access each other over the internet. We give those 5 that need to be seen by everyone IPv6 addresses that have IPv4 mappings so that everyone can see them. We can get a few IPv6 addresses with IPv4 mappings to act as a NAT-like access point for internal devices to get to external IPv4 places for say viewing web pages or the like from internal machines.
But now one has to think.. why would we need 700 externally accessable devices? Isn't that a security nightmare? Managing all of them so that they don't get hit by a worm or such could really suck... but why do those devices have to be computers? What about VoIP phones or something similar?
I currently manage a VoIP setup that I implimented and support myself, and let me tell you.. NATs SUCK for VoIP. SIP hates it.. works half the time and the other half no go. If two devices are behind NATs, plain and simple they cannot talk to each other. If they have external addresses on most phones you can just dial straight to the IP address of another VoIP phone without even needing an intermediate server.. which can be handy at times.
It's just a minor example and I'm sure it can be picked apart and made to work on IPv4 (I've been doing such). But the time/cost savings of IPv6 along with just the mirade of possibilities it brings shouldn't be thrown aside because it would be "too hard" or "too expensive". The cost isn't as high as a lot of people think.. most are just afraid because they don't know anything about IPv6 and what you can do with it in reguards to IPv4. And of course no one knows, because no one is going to train in an area that has no use currently, which will remain that way until people educate themselves in it.
what if '?' = '1; delete employees;'
Then it would probably return:
Empty Set (0.00 sec)
as I doubt any record in field p will actually equal the string '1; delete employees;'
Now what you're probably thinkog of is setting that ? in '?' to be something like:
1'; delete employees;
attempting to escape out of the select prematurely with a well placed ' after the 1. However, using prepaired statements (which is what I believe the GP was speaking of) runs the statement through a parser to set escape characters into the query strings so something like that can't happen. The example above would turn into something like:
1\'; delete employees;
which would still yeild a fun result of Empty Set (0.00 sec). You don't actually need a stored procedure for safe queries with user input, just a language that has prepared statements (or heck write you're own version of it if your language of choice doesn't have it, it's not that difficult of a thing to make).
pfft, why stop there? A downgrade to Vellum is nice and all I suppose.. but only 800 years? And what if you have no sheep? I say we downgrade even further, to a long proven technology with greater data integrity and archival storage... Rock Carvings.
Thousands upon thousands of years.. and you can even leave them outside (in an area with moderly low rainfall). See if you can do that with your silly paper or Vellum. pfft.
*goes back to carving out some C-code on his handy granite slab*
I don't know if you've read any of the articles, but most people who actually got to sit down and play with it were told to just have it in their lap and move it with very minimal movements (think laser pointer). All of the reporters seemed to say that it was still very responsive even with very tiny movements.
I don't think a "wildly gesture" will be required for every game.. though probably the option will be there for some (A drumming game for example).
Oh I think we did..
*spends another mod point*
Just as a musing, This could probably be gotten around without actualy commiting prejury.
Prejury is basically making a false statement while under oath. I think the idea would be to bring doubt into the case by stating that it is feasible, and perhaps not even completely unlikely, that someone else could be using your same connection without your knowledge to share files. Now if you really were sharing files yourself (and if you don't own the copyright on them or have permission, shame on you), then if the court asks you directly if you were sharing files, you could use the fifth amendment.
The idea, I believe, would be to place doubt into the system. That an IP address found by the RIAA is not an acceptable unique identifier for a person. It would be a bit risky though, and probably cost a bunch in lawyer fees.. But I'd be interested in the story if anyone tried.
heh, and why would he care?
:)
MS invented the iPod, remember? It'd be good for him to promote it
I think what the grandparent is trying to say is that a cookie is merely a small piece of text, usually with an identifying number, left in the cookie cache of your web browser with an ID linked to the URL that created it. It is a piece of text, not a program.. unable to "phone home" as it were or store any other information besides with the creator of the cookie put into it. They cannot collect information about other things and store them for later retrieval from the company.
You're computer will not get slowed down by cookies (once again, just small text files). Certain programs such as adaware will however recognize malicious cookies as being ones that are used to track your movement on the internet. The way that this works is dozens of websites participate in allowing the tracking company (such as doubleclick) to read their own cookie each time you connect to the site. So if you went to say msn's website and they were using doubleclick's tracking cookies, they would send a request to doubleclick to check for their cookie before msn sends its page info. Doubleclick would then go "ah yes, our cookie is here.. this is user ID *some ID number*. Let us update our database which has a primary key of that number to add the information that this user has visited msn at this time today".
Cookies are not all bad, they help to keep track of state (such as shopping carts or login info) across pages.. as html was designed as a static medium.
Err.. so anyway.. Cookies didn't slow down your computer. It was probably spyware/malware from p0rn sights or Gator or some shit like that.
you might be pretty surprised on the quick accuracy you can gain with a trackball. I've been using one for about 4 years now and, while it was difficult at first, I'm able to quite easily hit headshots in Unreal 2004; no aim bot needed.
The difficulty though is people are more used to mice already, switching to a trackball takes a bit of a relearning on how to gain accuracy once again with it. But man are they comfortable!
I stand corrected. Thank you for that.
Copyright law was established in the US Constitution. How again was the law bought and paid for?
Alright.. just to make sure I wasn't mistaken, I actually took a quick glance once again out the Constitution to make sure I wasn't missing anything from when I last read it.
Where the HELL is copyright law established in the US Constitution? I see things about creating branches, dealing with slavery, voting, power distributed through states... even right to free speech and the press.. but not a single thing that gives you intellectual property rights to restrict information due to creation of content. It's just not in there!
Please.. maybe I'm mistaken and didn't read it carefully enough.. but please.. point to me the exact Article and/or amendment that makes copyright a part of the CONSTITUTION. Otherwise, I call bullshit.
Simple, you're gay.
Next!
odd.. Thousands of people still play the game (I'm one of them) and think it's probably the best out there.
I even tried WoW for about a month.. and I think I discovered why I still prefer FFXI over WoW even though the graphics are a bit dated. FFXI actually follows pretty well with other FF games in the fact that it has a STORY. There's an overall arching storyline that you discover through missions of the 3 seperate countries. Also, when you achieve something, be it a cutscene or a new level or somesuch, you feel like you've accomplished something. (only have WoW as an example) but for WoW, you can get to the "end game" eg. level 60, in about a month.
Another thing I prefer about FFXI over any other MMORPG is the ability to change jobs. Imagine playing a Dwarf in WoW but you got bored as a paladin, and decided you wanted to take up the wizardly arts. Well in FFXI you can change between being a mage, an warrior, a theif... any of the jobs that you have access to very easily. One of the greatest benifits of which is if you have friends who are lower or higher level than you, you can both just change to a job that you've leveled to roughly the same place and go play.
I tried to go back to WoW, but it was pointless.. as a level 31 paladin, all of my friends were level 45+ and waay more powerful than me. I couldn't do anything because in any given situation I'd be useless. The only way we could play together is at end game, or if we both started new characters. The game ends up being a Massively Single Online RPG. Single person game that a lot of people happen to be in at the same time.
I dunno, but I'd say that FFXI is one of the best FF games made (still a big fan of VII though). And the community is very far from dying.. new content is being released all the time. We just had our second major expansion, and even downloadable updates every month or two are adding new areas, quests, missions.. STORY.
So in short... You're wrong ^_^
Alright.. I see a pad of notepaper with random scribbles on it, some sunglasses, a mountain dew bottle, a disgruntled Russian co-worker who just looks at porn all day, a dead plant in the corner, and some gum stuck to the floor.
I dunno what's grown on that gum, and frankly I don't want to, but I'm not sure how it's hurting KDE/KHTML via Apple.. Apple sure didn't put the gum there, and I'm pretty sure it was like a mint gum and not an Apple gum.. I could be wrong though..
But I think the point the grandparent is making is that you can backup iTunes music just as well as you can with a CD. You could burn a CD of what you've downloaded (at a bit of a quality loss), you could just copy the files to a DVD for archival.. you could transfer them to another computer... heck you can do anything you would do with your normal computer data for backup in the same way.
Now if you only downloaded the files from iTunes, never made a backup or copied the files anywhere, and your computer's hard drive died or was stolen, then yes.. you lose your music. Then again, if you never made mp3's of your CD's or copied them in any fashion and the CD got destroyed or stolen, you'd be SOL there too.
So I really don't see how CD's are better in the whole backup area.
ok, just stop.. You're just not cutting it.
Shave off the rest of these replies, this needs go on no longer.
Linux isn't really about killing Windows off.. whoever thought that the primary idea behind Linux when it was created was to make MS go bankrupt and for no one in the world to ever use Windows is a bit dilusional. Linux is an alternative. It's a choice. The same thing could be said in reverse: Windows Can't Kill Linux.
There's too many people who are interested with tinkering.. with having something being totally customizable if they take their time. With being free and able to run their computer the way they want. Is this the majority of people? Not even close! But it's enough that Linux will sustain itself in spite of any FUD MS and crew would throw at it.
Who cares if Linux never overtakes Windows? I know before I discovered it in '98, I thought I was doomed to the endless update/virus/adware world that everyone else was in (except those crazy mac people.. which now due to the mac mini I am one as well.. side tracking....)
Anyway, the point being.. Linux is strong due to it's following, and has great potential to do quite a few things Windows has troubles with. The choice is there for anyone to pick up that option if they so choose. What's the big deal?
hmm, this rubs me as being quite racist.. and I'll explain why. A lot of the posts I've read on here are talking about the Chinese in their selection of gender due to the combination of China's One Baby policy along with the cultural view that males are a greater benifit to a household than a female. This is only talking about gender, not specific features.. but let's assume that "designer babies" are possible.. which is where your statement comes in.
The "universal concept of beauty primarily for white folks" being blonde hair and blue eyes is somehow being linked to Hitler and the Nazi reign of terror that occurred during the last world war. I find it very difficult to have a straight association with the color of your skin, hair, and eyes creating "perfect devils" in the sense that they will, because of their physical features, become sort of horrid hate-mongers.
I had always been of the belief that it's one's environment, especially when growing up, that will have the greatest impact on one's character and quality later on in life. To assume that because someone is white with blonde hair and blue eyes means that they will become a Neo-Nazi or some other sort of "bad person" seems very short sighted, racist, and full of anger.
I just don't understand these views now adays.. I had always hoped that people were passed that.. but I suppose not.
Just a small note if you hadn't been paying attention for the last oh.. decade or so..
Linux *IS* a major operating system on the x86 platform. It has backing by *major* companies such as IBM. It has a solid background derived from the *NIX world which makes all of those "oh so difficult" configuration text files, quite standard.
Now as for the "Every setting should be in a GUI" mentality, I'll express why at least I believe that would be a downgrade for any OS.
Linux is a *very* versitile and flexible system. It can be made to run on very old hardware, small devices, supercompters, or the average Joe User's desktop. Linux provides basically the kernel, which you can then run any number of applications under. The default and easiest user interface for Linux just so happens to be a shell prompt (of which even that there are several varieties.. it's all about choice). Now this is not to say that Linux is purely text-based and you must now a bazillion arbitrary text commands to do any actual work on a Linux system. There's also a nice graphical interface that you can run (Several actually), such as X.org or FreeX86.
Now as we all know, graphical environments have settings.. things such as your screen resolution, refresh rate, or bit depth. In most OS's these options are chosen by the user, or maybe the beginning settings are set by the OS upon install. I've recently had an upgrade to a newer graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT) which has drivers for both Linux and Windows. Now in windows, after installation and a reboot it mysteriously set my monitor to 115x4000, which my monitor cannot display at all so it turns itself off.. I can't just close the graphical part of windows and change the oddly chosen starting numbers in a simple text file from a text prompt.. in fact I cannot change any settings at all because I don't have any of my pretty buttons on the screen. The only way to fix such a problem is to reboot into "Safe Mode" and change the values from there or uninstall the defunct drivers.
Granted Linux may be a small bit more work.. I have to actually open up a config file and type in my resolution numbers into the heavily commented xorg.config file. It's not easy for the Joe User to find where that xorg.config file is if they've never touched Linux I'll admit.. and maybe they won't know how to follow the directions as well.. but will the same Joe User be able to know that he's going to have to boot into Safe Mode (or that even it's a driver problem and maybe something windows did didn't just destroy his hardware) ?
This is just about a simple graphics configuration. It may not seem so benifitial to Joe User, but a system admin with over 100 systems may need to implement changes to all users desktops in some arbitrary fashion, and being able to telnet or ssh into all computers and run scripts to change *any* setting because they're in easy standard text files... well let's just say it's better than changing a radio button 100 times in a graphical box.
GUI's definatly make certain tasks easier.. generally for the actual desktop user.. but for a system admin or any sort of technical department, text files are a lot easier to work with. And it's not like Linux will take away the GUI functions completely... the daily work tasks can be done perfectly fine with a mouse and icons in X.
This is already longer than I wanted it to be.. but in short: keep config files in text files.. it really *is* easier when you understand why they're like that.
And nothing is holding Linux back.. it's already a major player. It may not be what you want it to be, but it's still here to stay.
What was your video card though? I know people who have similar setups as yours on a mac, but with 32 mb of video ram it runs like crap for them.
Just curious because if someone were able to get WoW running in a playable fashion with a 32mb video card (as this looks not upgradable on the mini-mac), then this would be a nice little machine to start playing around with macs again with for myself.