I took out an ad in my town's local newspaper that I would do tech support at $10/hour. So everyone in town would know that if I was at your house working on your computer you were going to have to pay me.
(Of course, this was as a college student visiting my hometown of 700 people where everyone read the same newspaper.)
I think a good idea would be if you had a 10GB upload limit, after 8GB it caps the speed by which people can get to your site. (I'm not really sure if this can be done in IIS/Apache but like the "Limit Upload bandwidth" option in KaZaA, etc) That way your pages would load slowly until you reach the 9GB mark, then it could slow it down even more, or only allow 50 people connected at the same time, etc.
Of course what does that mean for the home user? Possibly the same thing of ratcheting down the speed, or only allowing you to establish 5 simultaneous connections at a time.
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Well we have "laws" against murder, but the army does that. So I'm sure it's perfectly "legal" for the CIA to try and bring down some 3rd world country. Although I doubt that RIAA attacks on Gnuttella networks would be as well received.
Been a member since December 2000 and have logged over 160 movies (I had the "8 out a time" plan for 9 months).
I enrolled because of an "Intro to Film" class and Queued up every film they mentioned in class or in the book (the ones that were on DVD anyway). I saw Anime, Classics, Comedies, Dramas, Westerns, TV Shows, Porno, you name it I was there. Movies that I know i wouldn't have rented at BlockBuster (Godfather I/II/III) work great with Netflix.
Good films I woulnd't have checked out at BlockBuster but found to be pretty good after watching from Netflix:
Series 7: The Contenders
The Big Chill (with Humphery Bogart)
Clerks (Animated Series)
The Sopranos (Complete Episodes of the Series)
Sex in the City (Complete Episodes of the Series)
Faulty Towers (Complete Episodes of the Series)
French Connection I&II
Godfather I/II/III
Monty Python Flying Circus (Complete Episodes of the Series)
Black Adder (Complete Episodes of the Series)
Primary Colors
This is Spinal Tap
Thirteen Days
Don't be a menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice
Best of Chris Rock Show I&II
Double Indemnity
Poirot: The ABC Murders
Jesus Christ Superstar
Dr. StrangeLove
StarTreck#14: City on the Edge of Forever
Manchurian Candidate (highly recommended)
Roughnecks: The Pluto Campaign
Maltese Falcon
Wild Things
Dune (The Sci-Fi Channels Version)
Fight Club
M
Dark City
North by Northwest
Bound
Strangers on a Train
I don't know when this happened, but at some point in time they STOPPED PUTTING UP PORNO!!! WTF? That was one of the better features in my mind. And then when I went down to 2 DVD's out a month I REALLY started noticing the turnaround time. A few movies have been lost in the shuffel, but I blame the post office.
I throughly enjoy the service, but it's gone downhill for me lately. After 160 movies I came to the conclusion there were only 30 or more I wanted to see then I would hang up my hat, of course 20 of those are all on "Short/Long/Very Long wait". I'm hoping that at some point in time they will eventually get around to me.
I encourage everyone to try it for 3 months to really get a feel for it. If you don't like it after that time you probably won't at all.
How we went from transparent skin to the Alamo is beyond me... but let me be the first Texan to publically thank the courageous Tennessee citizens (who i'm sure are all dead by now) for the work they did to make create Texas. We couldn't have done it without you.
Okay, admit it, I'm betting that a lot of people (most non-Texans I'm sure) read "UT Scientists" and thought to themselves "Unreal Tournament has scientists? This game RULES!"...okay, i'm an idiot, go raiders...
The old "Read the **cking Manual" to this I have two interesting stories:
I work as "tech support" for my department at Texas Tech University. (Nothing quite as complicated as the origional "ask slashdot" submission but I enjoy it.) One morning I'm chatting with my coworkers and one of them mentions that Real player isn't crashing alot, I tell him he can just reinstall it and it would probably work. He then asks when I can do it for him. I think "I'm to important to do some small job like that" and tell him he can just do it himself. He then counters that with his job as a "interviewer" he could just hand someone a list of questions and tell them to hit record on the tape player and just leave the room... I replaced it later that day.
Last night at exactly 12:03AM I got a call from my aunt because she wanted to add her mother on Yahoo Messenger, and wanted me to walk her through it.
It seems like I'm constantly troubleshooting computers (who isn't?). But the worst problem I ever came up with was when I bought an IBM Aptiva, added a slave drive, ran Aptiva's "update" program to be current and all. After tearing my hair out trying to get it to boot, and then doing the investigative work for 4 hours, it turned out to be an incompatibility with my new slave drive, which was the same brand and model (aside from size) as the first. Blimey.
Hey everybody, Orrin Hatch said that he wouldn't mind trying his CD's to be put up on Napster. Well I'm going to buy the "Freedoms Light" CD and put it up as soon as it is mailed to me. (I'm also going to mail the senator and give him fair warning.)
I know this comes off sounding like a newbie question (which I am). But can you suggest websites that have news on compression and new file formats? Or sites where I can buy encoders for Mp4, VQF, etc.
While were "on" the subject, what is the best video decoder?
While I doubt that Mp3 will been totally blown away as a file format. i gaze into my crystal ball (pause for dramatic effect) and predict that some form of digital music (perhaps one that can't be traded illegally) will prosper.
Suing everyone is a problem for them, because they CAN'T do it. What they do is send out Cease and Desist letters to everyone, and then those that do not are sued, specifically the big name ones, or just the ones they can catch.
This is what happened with Napster. There is Gnutella, CuteMX, Scour.net, and the 100,000 banned Metallica users that got back on; but they don't sue them because it would drain even the RIAA's deep pockets.
2600.com put up the DeCSS program on their servers, when the court issued an injunction to stop that before the trial, they hyperlinked it to other places, which the court upheld. Why doesn't the MPAA go after them? It can't because they are in another country. But the MPAA is still suing 2600.
I don't really know my history all that well but I believe that whenever someone would get arrested or shut down for selling Hustler magazine, Larry Flynt would go to that town and get arrested just so he could fight it (and because he could afford to).
So this is what will happen. Cease and desist orders will be given, many will stop voluntarily, a few high profile people will refuse, and they will get sued. You try and put one up on your website though and your boss will tell you that we can't do that anymore because "We might get sued."
Of course that is the way it happened with Mp3's at my place of business. Hyperlinks... seem to be a different story.
He (Jack Valenti, President of the MPAA) has stated before a house subcommittee: Valenti told the Committee that the digital world is far more dangerous that the analog world. "The 1000th copy of a digitized movie is as pure as the original, whereas in analog each copy is degraded in quality."
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I took out an ad in my town's local newspaper that I would do tech support at $10/hour. So everyone in town would know that if I was at your house working on your computer you were going to have to pay me.
(Of course, this was as a college student visiting my hometown of 700 people where everyone read the same newspaper.)
I think a good idea would be if you had a 10GB upload limit, after 8GB it caps the speed by which people can get to your site. (I'm not really sure if this can be done in IIS/Apache but like the "Limit Upload bandwidth" option in KaZaA, etc) That way your pages would load slowly until you reach the 9GB mark, then it could slow it down even more, or only allow 50 people connected at the same time, etc.
Of course what does that mean for the home user? Possibly the same thing of ratcheting down the speed, or only allowing you to establish 5 simultaneous connections at a time.
Well we have "laws" against murder, but the army does that. So I'm sure it's perfectly "legal" for the CIA to try and bring down some 3rd world country. Although I doubt that RIAA attacks on Gnuttella networks would be as well received.
Been a member since December 2000 and have logged over 160 movies (I had the "8 out a time" plan for 9 months).
I enrolled because of an "Intro to Film" class and Queued up every film they mentioned in class or in the book (the ones that were on DVD anyway). I saw Anime, Classics, Comedies, Dramas, Westerns, TV Shows, Porno, you name it I was there. Movies that I know i wouldn't have rented at BlockBuster (Godfather I/II/III) work great with Netflix.
Good films I woulnd't have checked out at BlockBuster but found to be pretty good after watching from Netflix:
Series 7: The Contenders
The Big Chill (with Humphery Bogart)
Clerks (Animated Series)
The Sopranos (Complete Episodes of the Series)
Sex in the City (Complete Episodes of the Series)
Faulty Towers (Complete Episodes of the Series)
French Connection I&II
Godfather I/II/III
Monty Python Flying Circus (Complete Episodes of the Series)
Black Adder (Complete Episodes of the Series)
Primary Colors
This is Spinal Tap
Thirteen Days
Don't be a menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice
Best of Chris Rock Show I&II
Double Indemnity
Poirot: The ABC Murders
Jesus Christ Superstar
Dr. StrangeLove
StarTreck#14: City on the Edge of Forever
Manchurian Candidate (highly recommended)
Roughnecks: The Pluto Campaign
Maltese Falcon
Wild Things
Dune (The Sci-Fi Channels Version)
Fight Club
M
Dark City
North by Northwest
Bound
Strangers on a Train
I don't know when this happened, but at some point in time they STOPPED PUTTING UP PORNO!!! WTF? That was one of the better features in my mind. And then when I went down to 2 DVD's out a month I REALLY started noticing the turnaround time. A few movies have been lost in the shuffel, but I blame the post office.
I throughly enjoy the service, but it's gone downhill for me lately. After 160 movies I came to the conclusion there were only 30 or more I wanted to see then I would hang up my hat, of course 20 of those are all on "Short/Long/Very Long wait". I'm hoping that at some point in time they will eventually get around to me.
I encourage everyone to try it for 3 months to really get a feel for it. If you don't like it after that time you probably won't at all.
Oh and thanks for Daniel Boone too.
Okay, admit it, I'm betting that a lot of people (most non-Texans I'm sure) read "UT Scientists" and thought to themselves "Unreal Tournament has scientists? This game RULES!" ...okay, i'm an idiot, go raiders...
I work as "tech support" for my department at Texas Tech University. (Nothing quite as complicated as the origional "ask slashdot" submission but I enjoy it.) One morning I'm chatting with my coworkers and one of them mentions that Real player isn't crashing alot, I tell him he can just reinstall it and it would probably work. He then asks when I can do it for him. I think "I'm to important to do some small job like that" and tell him he can just do it himself. He then counters that with his job as a "interviewer" he could just hand someone a list of questions and tell them to hit record on the tape player and just leave the room... I replaced it later that day.
Last night at exactly 12:03AM I got a call from my aunt because she wanted to add her mother on Yahoo Messenger, and wanted me to walk her through it.
It seems like I'm constantly troubleshooting computers (who isn't?). But the worst problem I ever came up with was when I bought an IBM Aptiva, added a slave drive, ran Aptiva's "update" program to be current and all. After tearing my hair out trying to get it to boot, and then doing the investigative work for 4 hours, it turned out to be an incompatibility with my new slave drive, which was the same brand and model (aside from size) as the first. Blimey.
Hey everybody, Orrin Hatch said that he wouldn't mind trying his CD's to be put up on Napster. Well I'm going to buy the "Freedoms Light" CD and put it up as soon as it is mailed to me. (I'm also going to mail the senator and give him fair warning.)
While were "on" the subject, what is the best video decoder?
While I doubt that Mp3 will been totally blown away as a file format. i gaze into my crystal ball (pause for dramatic effect) and predict that some form of digital music (perhaps one that can't be traded illegally) will prosper.
Where can we find a site to cover this? I'm interested in learning if the curve isn't to steep.
Which format is smaller and with better sound quality?
This is what happened with Napster. There is Gnutella, CuteMX, Scour.net, and the 100,000 banned Metallica users that got back on; but they don't sue them because it would drain even the RIAA's deep pockets.
2600.com put up the DeCSS program on their servers, when the court issued an injunction to stop that before the trial, they hyperlinked it to other places, which the court upheld. Why doesn't the MPAA go after them? It can't because they are in another country. But the MPAA is still suing 2600.
I don't really know my history all that well but I believe that whenever someone would get arrested or shut down for selling Hustler magazine, Larry Flynt would go to that town and get arrested just so he could fight it (and because he could afford to).
So this is what will happen. Cease and desist orders will be given, many will stop voluntarily, a few high profile people will refuse, and they will get sued. You try and put one up on your website though and your boss will tell you that we can't do that anymore because "We might get sued."
Of course that is the way it happened with Mp3's at my place of business. Hyperlinks... seem to be a different story.
He (Jack Valenti, President of the MPAA) has stated before a house subcommittee: Valenti told the Committee that the digital world is far more dangerous that the analog world. "The 1000th copy of a digitized movie is as pure as the original, whereas in analog each copy is degraded in quality."
From the Deposition
Page 108 23 Q Do you know if that tech expert had ever 24 made any copies off a computer?
Page 109
5: Q Do you know if he made ten copies? 1000
6: copies?
Then the lawyer for the plaintiff (Jack Valenti's lawyer) then states:
Page 109
7: MR. COOPER: That's absurd.
The MPAA President's own lawyer states that making 1000 copies of a DVD is absurd. Why can't the MPAA realize that?
Eep! I forgot to mention that in Havenco's agreement that you cant launch attacks on other computers from their computers. (Blast, foiled again)
He's refering to Sealand, a "soverign nation" off the coast of the UK. Go to Havenco to learn more.