I'm just wondering: what if all the communications with the tracker were done via an SSH tunnel?
Since the tracker is central to uploading and downloading BitTorrent data, I would think this would make it that much harder to track down anyone. Of course, there's the issue of actually setting up the tunnel, but I think you get the idea. The traffic going through the ISP would be meaningless.
How many will be used by the record labels individualy (not the RIAA as a colective) even if they DON'T lapse? They are only ptorected from the RIAA, not the labels as individuals. It's also a slam dunk case, they have already plead guilty!
Not true at all. I bought a track at work, but I can't play it at home because I'm unable to authorize my home computer(s) due to a proxy configuration.
A proxy configuration issue? Could you elaborate on this? This sounds like an easy-to-fix problem.
Dude, if you're not planning on sharing the music you buy with the whole world, the restrictions that they *do* put in will NEVER hinder you.
Do you burn a given playlist more than 10 times? Do you have more than three Macs you will use to listen to that music? You can put what you buy on an UNLIMITED number of iPods (ok, nobody has a ton of them, but still) and 128kbps AAC sounds better than an MP3 of the same bitrate. Not quite the 320kbps you "require" but still very good.
It's amazing how people always complain. People, it's not going to get better than this. Do you really think Apple could have struck a deal with the five record labels without some sort of DRM?
Good luck clicking on those download links. All of them have this in their source: "http:download/default.asp?refnum=...", rendering them useless without some copy-paste work.
I'm sure that's just an incentive to buy the high-quality ones. Must be.:P
What I find even more pathetic is when they have ships surrounding them and say "we can't go anywhere!". Have they not EVER heard of the third dimension? Ya know, UP or DOWN?
Reminds me of a Futurama episode, where people encircle a ship so that it won't move. The ship just moves up and speeds away.:)
Someone please explain to me the harm you're doing your ISP if you have other computers behind a NAT, sharing a connection you're PAYING for. From their end, you're still using up ONE IP address. Plus, no one's asking them to support this configuration.
Please don't tell me it's because of "lost profits".
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
This is on OS 8/9, right? Reminds me of the good old times. As I recall, the base RAM requirements for a moderate number of extensions/control panets used up about 20Mb in those days. File coying operations cached the file in RAM if possible, so there's another 17Mb gone. Netscape is also memory hungry... and here comes the old VM system, grinding things to a halt. And if that doesn't do it, that cooperative multitasking will (you know, the one that intelligently stops EVERYTHING if you hold you click-and-hold in, say, the menubar?).
My point here is that the Mac OS, pre-OSX, was not very inneficient. I'm not surprised by what you're describing. And that 300MHz processor is not even a G3. What are you expecting?
You wanted reasons to choose a Mac? OS X. On modern hardware. I've always swore by Macs, but in retrospective, I honestly can't believe I put up with so much grief before OS X came along.
If Aqua really isn't your thing, what are you doing on Mac OS X? And if you like OS X, why are you complaining about such a trivial thing? Just wondering here.
But to answer your question, no, you can't make OS X applications use your X window manager.
Oh, don't misunderstand. Being helpful and sharing is a good thing, and we should strive to be like this.
But the fact that my parents raised me does not IN ANY WAY imply that I should lose my sanity over supporting them for every conceivable computer problem they might encounter.
Some people DO NOT learn ANYTHING that's too "alien", even after being told many times (my mother even took notes, for cyring out loud! and that DID NOT help!). It's just too removed from the way they see things. I'll refer you to the post about that person that doesn't get the concept of resizing a window. Sometimes it's that hopeless, and a line has to be drawn.
That post sums up just about the exact feeling I get when asked to do tech support for my mother.
It just never ends. After a decade, you'd think that simple concepts would be nailed down, understood, assimilated, but NO! She consistently manages to crash her computer, lose files, etc. Not to mention the midnight panic attacks when the printer suddenly stops working for obscure reasons that no one else in the universe but me MUST have the answer for. And, of course, if I installed anything, I MUST know why it breaks down six months later. After a while, you completely lose the concept of a family bond with your parents because of this.
OK, ten years to get to something 5 light years away, so we are talking roughly half the speed of light here, yes?
Are there any serious time effects at that speed? Five years for who? Do the astronauts come back and meet their great great great great grandchildren?
At 0.5c, time would pass about 1.3 times slower for the people on the ship (from our point of view). So for a a 10-year trip, they'll effectively be travelling about three years into the future (from their point of view).
On a side note, this also means that, from our point of view, the space ship will appear to have contracted by a factor of about 1.3.
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Since the tracker is central to uploading and downloading BitTorrent data, I would think this would make it that much harder to track down anyone. Of course, there's the issue of actually setting up the tunnel, but I think you get the idea. The traffic going through the ISP would be meaningless.
Any thoughts?
Just curious: did you even TRY iTunes?
Interesting lapsus.
But "sudo su" will, if you're the main user.
You almost killed me with that one. Thank you. :)
I think you mean "educated" guess.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doing that will seriously screw up your ability to connect to any given address on the Net in the first place.
I think you're over analyzing things. Just a tad.
The dollar is not falling to new lows, it's soaring to new highs!
:P
Oh wait... *that* dollar.
A proxy configuration issue? Could you elaborate on this? This sounds like an easy-to-fix problem.
Dude, if you're not planning on sharing the music you buy with the whole world, the restrictions that they *do* put in will NEVER hinder you.
Do you burn a given playlist more than 10 times? Do you have more than three Macs you will use to listen to that music? You can put what you buy on an UNLIMITED number of iPods (ok, nobody has a ton of them, but still) and 128kbps AAC sounds better than an MP3 of the same bitrate. Not quite the 320kbps you "require" but still very good.
It's amazing how people always complain. People, it's not going to get better than this. Do you really think Apple could have struck a deal with the five record labels without some sort of DRM?
Good luck clicking on those download links. All of them have this in their source: "http:download/default.asp?refnum=...", rendering them useless without some copy-paste work.
:P
I'm sure that's just an incentive to buy the high-quality ones. Must be.
What I find even more pathetic is when they have ships surrounding them and say "we can't go anywhere!". Have they not EVER heard of the third dimension? Ya know, UP or DOWN?
:)
Reminds me of a Futurama episode, where people encircle a ship so that it won't move. The ship just moves up and speeds away.
Someone please explain to me the harm you're doing your ISP if you have other computers behind a NAT, sharing a connection you're PAYING for. From their end, you're still using up ONE IP address. Plus, no one's asking them to support this configuration.
Please don't tell me it's because of "lost profits".
Any electromagnetic radiation consists of photons.
My point here is that the Mac OS, pre-OSX, was not very inneficient. I'm not surprised by what you're describing. And that 300MHz processor is not even a G3. What are you expecting?
You wanted reasons to choose a Mac? OS X. On modern hardware. I've always swore by Macs, but in retrospective, I honestly can't believe I put up with so much grief before OS X came along.
Yes, except '1' in binary is 1 in base 10 (or any base, for that matter), so your sentence is not making sense.
Nice. It's gone. Is the link correct, or did we ./ it out of existence?
If Aqua really isn't your thing, what are you doing on Mac OS X? And if you like OS X, why are you complaining about such a trivial thing? Just wondering here.
But to answer your question, no, you can't make OS X applications use your X window manager.
Oh, don't misunderstand. Being helpful and sharing is a good thing, and we should strive to be like this.
But the fact that my parents raised me does not IN ANY WAY imply that I should lose my sanity over supporting them for every conceivable computer problem they might encounter.
Some people DO NOT learn ANYTHING that's too "alien", even after being told many times (my mother even took notes, for cyring out loud! and that DID NOT help!). It's just too removed from the way they see things. I'll refer you to the post about that person that doesn't get the concept of resizing a window. Sometimes it's that hopeless, and a line has to be drawn.
That post sums up just about the exact feeling I get when asked to do tech support for my mother.
It just never ends. After a decade, you'd think that simple concepts would be nailed down, understood, assimilated, but NO! She consistently manages to crash her computer, lose files, etc. Not to mention the midnight panic attacks when the printer suddenly stops working for obscure reasons that no one else in the universe but me MUST have the answer for. And, of course, if I installed anything, I MUST know why it breaks down six months later. After a while, you completely lose the concept of a family bond with your parents because of this.
Hell.
Now why would Apple port Safari to Windows? What's next, you're going to ask them to port iPhoto, iDVD, etc, because they're great apps?
I'm not trying to be a flamebait here, but let's be realistic.
(start anal-retentive nitpicking here) ;)
:)
I thought it was 186,284 miles per second
I suppose I could be wrong.. heh
If you want to be anal-retentive, do it the right way. It's exactly 299,792,158 meters per second.
Are there any serious time effects at that speed? Five years for who? Do the astronauts come back and meet their great great great great grandchildren? At 0.5c, time would pass about 1.3 times slower for the people on the ship (from our point of view). So for a a 10-year trip, they'll effectively be travelling about three years into the future (from their point of view).
On a side note, this also means that, from our point of view, the space ship will appear to have contracted by a factor of about 1.3.
See here.
Wasn't that the old name for XPlay (another iPod utility), which was changed at the request of Apple?
See here ("Apple muscles Mediafour into dropping "XPod" name for Win-enabling software for iPod").
I don't think they'll be able to use that name for very long.