I totally concur. I'm currently using a new T22 (with Win2K), and it is spectacular. Great keyboard, 1400x1050 resolution, 32GB HDD, built-in 56K & 10/100 (intel chipset),
One thing to note on the NIC is that most models have options for either 3Com or Intel. In my experience, Intel has far fewer driver problems with their NIC products.
Since this enforcement software seems to run as a modified client for Gnutella, Napster, etc., why not encrypt the traffic between the clients, servers, etc. using some form of public key encryption (similar to SSL)? Then just place some boilerplate legaleze in the EULA to disallow any reverse engineering of the encryption, under the DCMA...
Yup, you're missing something. For one thing, the stills don't show the dynamics of motion involved - you can have an original GeForce SDR and compare it with a GeForce 2 Ultra on Quake 3, and they look pretty much the same. But they sure as hell play different.
I find this 3d "revolution" disappointing anyway.
Well, then you're probably just not into that sort of thing. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't make sense for you to go around disparaging it just because it doesn't float your boat.
I've had two friends that have tried it (DirectPC regular version on Windows), with highly unsatisfactory results. Horrilbe latency, and you couldn't tell by me that you were downloading anything at anywhere near 400Kbps. You're better off with two tin cans and some string.
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I've been using the American Express Private Payments (R) (C) (TM) function since it became available, and I love it. Some quick points:
It's easy to use - it takes about 30 seconds to log into the AmEx website and get a one-time CCN, which can be drag & dropped to the form on the web site you are purchasing from.
I don't know about other CC companies, but the AmEx site does not require any plug-ins, and should be compatible with just about any browser.
As far as the running out of numbers issue is concerned, I don't think it will ever be a problem. Why? Because (at least with AmEx) each number is valid for only one transaction, and is accompanied by an expiration date which is the month / year that you request the number. The number is (at least for that transaction) also linked to the name and billing address for your credit card. So basically, after x weeks or months, each number can be reused. Since there are four data items that must coincide for a charge to occur (CCN, Exp. Date, Cardholder Name, and Cardholder Billing Address), numbers could theoretically be safely reused almost immediately if the CC company felt like it.
I realize that privacy is a very hot topic amongst the Slashdot crowd, but lets face it: the average Joe Sixpack computer user is your typical aliterate moron who gets all of his information about the world by watching the local news on television. He'd give graphic descriptions of his wife's nipples to the folks at Amazon (C) (R) (TM) for $1.50 off of his next order. People routinely put up with (pranks suggested during a previous story not withstanding) mountains of junk mail, annoying telemarketers calling during dinner, and those assholes who want you to "vote for them" by purchasing magazines they're selling door to door while you're trying to get your vital information about life on Earth by watching the local news.
Let's face it: privacy isn't an issue. The only way it will become an issue is if it is featured in a story on the local news, in which case the subject will be exaggerated and misreported, and then the people will demand that the government outlaw the Internet. And then how will we stea^H^H^H^H sample music and download pr0n?
The best solution is to just to turn off cookies, use a reasonably good spam filter, and accept the fact that 3 billion people will find out that you purchased that bootleg video of Natalie Portman eating hot grits.
And don't whine to me about "Well, super-duper-ultra-scsi7 isn't that cheap" because many many apps simply don't need fast disk - they may very well be CPU bound or maybe memory bandwidth bound.
Perhaps not, but they'll probably be using Fibre Channel anyway, if not solid-state storage.
When they dissolve the company, the remaining assets (after liabilities) will be divided among the shareholders. You'll probably wind up with some NVidia stock.
Do you have anything to back this up? There are some cases where the LD produced was better than the DVD but that was due to incompetent compression encoding / mastering but that isn't the rule.
Most DVDs remastered with anamorphic transfers take down LD's quality wise hands down.
As someone who owns about 50 LDs and about 110 DVDs, I would say that while you are correct in that a well-transferred DVD is far superior to LD, the average LD is still much better than the average DVD, because most of the DVD transfers are crap (and, unfortunately, the compression artifacts are watermelon-sized on my HDTV-quality projection screen). But I'll admit that I only buy DVDs now because they are cheaper and the format is more convenient. Oh well.
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then
look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at
just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. Generally, you should raise
your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same
twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you
know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up
"interspersed".
1. Nobody in the U.S. really cares about how aluminum is pronouced in England.
2. We try to keep the vocabulary minimized and encourage the overuse of various interjections such as "Like" and "You Know" so that alcoholic Europeans can follow our conversations. You know?
2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on
your behalf.
When England creates a company half as important as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, or PlaySkool, we might consider their input (before we arbitrarily discard it).
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It
really isn't that hard.
It's not so much that we can't tell as that we can't bring ourselves to give a rat's ass.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the
good guys.
1. We're still bent over that whole 1812 thing.
2. You should be kissing our asses in Times Square (that's in New York) for graciously keeping your actors off of the dole.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen",
but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
Why are you English so concerned with God saving Elton John?
6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of
football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game.
The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders
may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no
longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football.
Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult
game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby
(which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for
a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like
nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by
2005.
1. The most difficult part of "European" football is staying awake through a game.
2. There is the NFL-Europe, you know (where we send the players not yet good enough to compete in the real NFL).
3. Who the hell came up with the rule requiring the announcer to yell the word "scooooooooore!" for as long as it took for the point to actually be scored (average time - 2 hours or something like that)?
4. The reason that "American" football players wear large amounts of protective gear is that they're, on average, larger than any three Englishmen combined.
5. I'll grant you that Rugby is a cool sport, but it's one best left to the Australians.
7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using nuclear weapons if
they give you any merde. The 98.85% of you who were not aware that there is
a world outside your borders should count yourselves lucky. The Russians
have never been the bad guys. "Merde" is French for "shit".
1. The only reason that the Russians have never been the bad guys is that we were much badder.
2. Nobody in the U.S. cares about Quebec. As for the French, as long as they keep shipping the wine, we'll ignore the fact that they treat us like crap when we cross the pond to visit. Besides, an economy like France's would make anyone cranky. Plus they gave us the Statue of Liberty.
8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 8th will be a new
national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day".
Yeah, right. Come over hear and make us. Last time I checked the scoreboard it read US 2, UK 0.
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your
own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
1. Who do you think buys most of the really cool German cars, Germans?
2. As a driver of one of the aforementioned really cool German cars, I will concede that most cars made by American car companies really do suck. But that's ok because we're too busy building cars for Honda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, etc. over here now.
10. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.
Everyone knows it was a conspiricy between the Military-Industrial Complex, the Bavarian Illuminati, Richard Nixon, and a few hippies in Baltimore. You should check around before you ask these questions, you know.
If you live in central San Diego (and if you don't, it sucks to be you), you can be proud to know that our local Representitive, Brian Bilbray, fully supports HR 5275. His position statement on the subject can be found here. Of course, MP3.com is a San Diego company, so we should expect his support, but it's still nice to see that somebody in congress has a clue about this stuff.
We have tiny electrostatic motors, tiny gears, and many other things that are shrinking in size. Is there any group hell-bent on putting all of this nano-stuff together and making something?
Could you imagine how depressing it must be to spend years of your life engaged in a hopelessly Quixotic struggle against advancing technology? Of course, it couldn't happen to nicer people...
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I totally concur. I'm currently using a new T22 (with Win2K), and it is spectacular. Great keyboard, 1400x1050 resolution, 32GB HDD, built-in 56K & 10/100 (intel chipset),
One thing to note on the NIC is that most models have options for either 3Com or Intel. In my experience, Intel has far fewer driver problems with their NIC products.
Since this enforcement software seems to run as a modified client for Gnutella, Napster, etc., why not encrypt the traffic between the clients, servers, etc. using some form of public key encryption (similar to SSL)? Then just place some boilerplate legaleze in the EULA to disallow any reverse engineering of the encryption, under the DCMA...
Well, then you're probably just not into that sort of thing. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't make sense for you to go around disparaging it just because it doesn't float your boat.
I've had two friends that have tried it (DirectPC regular version on Windows), with highly unsatisfactory results. Horrilbe latency, and you couldn't tell by me that you were downloading anything at anywhere near 400Kbps. You're better off with two tin cans and some string.
I still have my DOTT CD - phear me!
Just my $.02
I guess that's one way to use up all of that empty space Canada's got lying around...
Whoops, power failure! We just lost every bit of data on the network! Guess we'll just have to start over by chiseling symbols into stone tablets...
My girlfriend would be pissed off that we didn't bring her along.
I realize that privacy is a very hot topic amongst the Slashdot crowd, but lets face it: the average Joe Sixpack computer user is your typical aliterate moron who gets all of his information about the world by watching the local news on television. He'd give graphic descriptions of his wife's nipples to the folks at Amazon (C) (R) (TM) for $1.50 off of his next order. People routinely put up with (pranks suggested during a previous story not withstanding) mountains of junk mail, annoying telemarketers calling during dinner, and those assholes who want you to "vote for them" by purchasing magazines they're selling door to door while you're trying to get your vital information about life on Earth by watching the local news.
Let's face it: privacy isn't an issue. The only way it will become an issue is if it is featured in a story on the local news, in which case the subject will be exaggerated and misreported, and then the people will demand that the government outlaw the Internet. And then how will we stea^H^H^H^H sample music and download pr0n?
The best solution is to just to turn off cookies, use a reasonably good spam filter, and accept the fact that 3 billion people will find out that you purchased that bootleg video of Natalie Portman eating hot grits.
There's nothing that's as annoying as when I'm riding to class on my scooter and someone almost runs me over!
Hey, I resemble that!
Which, of course, recalls the joke:
Q: How do you keep a woman from speeding in Arkansas?
A: Put a governor on her.
No, just run in wearing Natalie Portman masks and pour hot grits all over their NT boxen.
<Dr. Evil Voice>
</Dr. Evil Voice>
Perhaps not, but they'll probably be using Fibre Channel anyway, if not solid-state storage.
When they dissolve the company, the remaining assets (after liabilities) will be divided among the shareholders. You'll probably wind up with some NVidia stock.
The 'lifetime' warranty refers to the life of the company
Are you suggesting that Prodigy (the industrial music group) purchase BT (the DJ)? Didn't they outlaw that sort of thing?
As someone who owns about 50 LDs and about 110 DVDs, I would say that while you are correct in that a well-transferred DVD is far superior to LD, the average LD is still much better than the average DVD, because most of the DVD transfers are crap (and, unfortunately, the compression artifacts are watermelon-sized on my HDTV-quality projection screen). But I'll admit that I only buy DVDs now because they are cheaper and the format is more convenient. Oh well.
1. Nobody in the U.S. really cares about how aluminum is pronouced in England.
2. We try to keep the vocabulary minimized and encourage the overuse of various interjections such as "Like" and "You Know" so that alcoholic Europeans can follow our conversations. You know?
When England creates a company half as important as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, or PlaySkool, we might consider their input (before we arbitrarily discard it).
It's not so much that we can't tell as that we can't bring ourselves to give a rat's ass.
1. We're still bent over that whole 1812 thing.
2. You should be kissing our asses in Times Square (that's in New York) for graciously keeping your actors off of the dole.
Why are you English so concerned with God saving Elton John?
1. The most difficult part of "European" football is staying awake through a game.
2. There is the NFL-Europe, you know (where we send the players not yet good enough to compete in the real NFL).
3. Who the hell came up with the rule requiring the announcer to yell the word "scooooooooore!" for as long as it took for the point to actually be scored (average time - 2 hours or something like that)?
4. The reason that "American" football players wear large amounts of protective gear is that they're, on average, larger than any three Englishmen combined.
5. I'll grant you that Rugby is a cool sport, but it's one best left to the Australians.
1. The only reason that the Russians have never been the bad guys is that we were much badder.
2. Nobody in the U.S. cares about Quebec. As for the French, as long as they keep shipping the wine, we'll ignore the fact that they treat us like crap when we cross the pond to visit. Besides, an economy like France's would make anyone cranky. Plus they gave us the Statue of Liberty.
Yeah, right. Come over hear and make us. Last time I checked the scoreboard it read US 2, UK 0.
1. Who do you think buys most of the really cool German cars, Germans?
2. As a driver of one of the aforementioned really cool German cars, I will concede that most cars made by American car companies really do suck. But that's ok because we're too busy building cars for Honda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, etc. over here now.
Everyone knows it was a conspiricy between the Military-Industrial Complex, the Bavarian Illuminati, Richard Nixon, and a few hippies in Baltimore. You should check around before you ask these questions, you know.
No problem.
Check these out:
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2,890,321 Bush
2,884,261 Gore
96,387 Nader
If about 6,000 of those Nader votes had gone to Gore...
If you live in central San Diego (and if you don't, it sucks to be you), you can be proud to know that our local Representitive, Brian Bilbray, fully supports HR 5275. His position statement on the subject can be found here. Of course, MP3.com is a San Diego company, so we should expect his support, but it's still nice to see that somebody in congress has a clue about this stuff.
Could you imagine how depressing it must be to spend years of your life engaged in a hopelessly Quixotic struggle against advancing technology? Of course, it couldn't happen to nicer people...