Life is all about balance. Raising kids, too. Teach them as much as you like as early as you like. Just remember to balance work and play, outside and inside, free time and rules. Kids need rules and need to test them. They also need their own space. Limited of course, but their own.
Netscape is just sooo good. Why would anyone use the crappy Internet Explorer. And why would anyone use Microsoft Office if Wordperfect Office is just better?
There is no 2.7 yet and Linux Torvalds still maintains the 2.6 kernel. All these new features just proove once more that 2.6 is not yet the stable kernel. Good that Sarge will come out with a solid 2.4. Even though I only operate a couple desktops I had my problems with 2.6 and actually went back to 2.4 on some machines. I sincerely hope that 2.6 will become stable sometimes soon.
This system is already in place in Germany. I wonder why there are no descritions on this rated high. No German reaers at this time? Anyways, the system is called "toll collect", since all major project names in Germany now need English names in order to sound "cool". A huge federal contract was awarded to a large consortium of super large companies, among them DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom and Oracle. It was supposed to start working in the fall of 2003 and failed miserably. This was in many ways embarissing to both the companies and even more for the traffic minister. Not only was this system supposed to be a major export article and a boost to the German export economy (our economy largely depends on exports btw) but also a way to make money. Since the companies were found to be fault since they promised to have the system ready at that time (the on board units didn't work at all) they were supposed to pay the money the fed didn't get because the system was not in place. But their contract said otherwise and the whole thing became a huge blunder. Apparently nobody at the federal traffic ministry had really read the contract. You guys think Enron was bad? You obviously don't have the faintest idea what goes on in old Europe. In the US business meddles way too much in politics. In Europe it is the other way around.
The system started up finally in 2005 with over 1 year delay. Currently trucks pay for highways. Cars as well as anything not using a highway are not taxed. The system relies on GSM for data exchange and GPS combined with sensors at the entry points of highways to measure stuff like length, exchange data via short range radio and check license plates. If You want to know more I guess You can google it up.
3. He was really trying to break in and it was good that he was arrested.
Are there no admins that read/. any more? I used to read logs and tried to report serious attempts to break in with the latest root kit by some script kiddy to the isp that kid was using. That had absolutely no effect. Now I can just trace an IP and tell the police and they will go out and actually contact that person or even arrest them instead of ignoring me altogether?
1. Microsoft makes a pretty crappy product. 2. Monopolies lead to crappy products. After Windows 95 (and OS/2) there has been no competition and hence no innovation. 3. The only "innovation" has been the integration of Windows NT and 9x/ME. It was planned for 1999. Judge for Youself how well it worked. 4. No GUI innovation. My Grandma can't operate Windows 95 nor XP. If there had been competition there would have been a much, much better product.
5. If this better product would be on the market would OSS have a competitor? OSS can compete, because Microsoft makes such a crappy product, but this is only because Microsoft has a monopoly in the OS market. Think about it.
6. In capitalism any company strives for more profits. Gaining a monopoly and using it is part of this strive. Adam Smith himelf wrote that a strong fed has to regulate the market. Don't blame Microsoft. Blame the regulator.
7. Bill Gates granted most of his money to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. I champion free software because I believe a free information society needs free software. I also think Microsoft makes crappy products and I try not to use them because of this and because they are not free.
Still I don't think Bill Gates is evil in any way. Reasons are stated above.
I guess that does it for my US visit. I spend a year in northern California and I wanted to visit my host parents. I also wanted to visit some friends in New York and my girlfriend really wants to go there.
5 years in prision? I mean I do a little p2p here and there. Nothing big, but would You take that chance?
Now suppose someone (like many Slasdoters at the moment will, since you were so nice to put up this list) browses a couple cams and witnesses a murder.
What to do? Who to call? How to get the culprit? Maybe save the victim? What is this cam is located in Barzil?
He would ask Slashdot for help.
And this would be the first crime solved on Slashdot. (or not)
Now what if some mean old Slashdot guy puts up a fake cam site with a video of some staged crime...
It talks about the fact that nobody cares if you share proprietary software among friends, but destroys your life if you were to distribute it beyond that. Already the large software makers a working on tools that could restrict your rights much further. It comes down to 1984. With "secure computing" (whatever the current name may be) that exists today and very smart software that can actually detect content it would be possible to control what someone is able to email to their friends today. Of course, laws (see the Patriot Act and the DMCA for this one) still partly forbid this at the moment. Also there are free alternatives. But as soon as pretty much everyone depends on free software anyone could just throw the switch and we are in 1984, just worse.
I use Suns JVM and the Flash Plugin myself, don't get me wrong. I just think when writing such a large article that this should be included.
The reason why the copyright is not enforced better is simply that they make more money this way. Who would buy M$ software if EVERYONE had to pay for it?
Ok, I knew it before, but I got proven again, moderators don't bother to RTFA. So if you care for Karma and respond to anything from the article that is not in the slashdot snip you need to quote the article!
Apart from this I guess German roads seem to be cleaner. I never had a flat tire, nor did my dad. Also I can't remember a friend complaining about it. Maybe it is due to me riding a bike a lot and I certainly had my share of flat tires on a bike, but then again the article doesn't talk about bike tires at all.
"30 or so underground, highly secretive servers where nearly all of the unlicensed music, movies, and videogames available on the Internet originate."
"One file became 30 files became 3,000 files became 300,000 files"
"You do not need some 350-pound hit man with a Glock at your front door."
"I hear a soft ping. "That tells me a movie just made its first appearance on a topsite.""
Very nice story. Top it off with a soft ping.
"As a consultant for one of the world's largest entertainment companies, Forest notifies his bosses whenever one of their movies appears on a topsite."
"In 24 hours, SMF's single version of The Hulk had metastasized into at least 50,000 copies. Within 72 hours, the movie was all over the most popular P2P networks. Before it reached even a single shared file folder on Kazaa, Forest estimates there were already several hundred thousand copies in circulation, guaranteeing that casual computer users would be able to find and download it easily."
OK, the guy gets financed as a consultant by the large record companies and they give him enough money so that he can not only afford a nice living and very expensive hardware, he also takes money he gets from the movie/record industry and donates hardware to piracy groups, just like other rich patrons do.
Also tens of thousands of little "helpers" race to put a new file that "trickled down" on more and more online space. Where would they put it? Certainly not their own servers that they rented. Did they crack their own computers and installed ftps on them? Do they own botnets?
P2P is there for a reason. My brother does Kazaa and they don't really dl movies off this. The eDonkey networks do. And the distribution is really simple. Just take a hub at some college with a fat connection and the eDonkey protocol (forced upload of at least the file you just dl, somewhat like torrents) and the clients will do the rest for this eDonkey hub. Though I certainly believe
""Bullshit," says Forest. "Trying to distribute The Hulk through the P2Ps would take months, not hours." That's because files on the public file-sharing networks, where no single node is much more powerful than the next, spread at a glacial pace."
that, modern p2p doesn't work this way anymore. Direct Connect and eDonkey or BitTorrent are not Gnutella anymore. Forest puts the right word at the beginning of this paragraph.
"The top telesync groups, like Centropy, VideoCD, and TCF, are using $10,000 camcorders they get directly from Japan, cams you can't find in the US," says Frank. The least desirable releases are "cams," made by an audience member with a camcorder. I ask Frank how his group could afford such exotic toys. "People buy them for us," he says, as if this explains everything. "Usually, these people were in the scene at one time, and now they just want free downloads without having to contribute." As it turns out, much of the extensive hardware - from superfast processors to servers with terabytes of storage - are donated by these well-heeled patrons.
Do topsites exist? Certainly! Specialized rippers? Absolutely! But is there a vast conspiracy with topsites for every genre with an organized hierarchy of thousands of people toiling away to pirate every singe piece of IP on the market like the article suggests? I don't think so!
Some genres have fans. Some of those organize and make topsites. But from there on I don't believe in thousands of little racers mainly because modern p2p apps are way beyond this.
I have been doing this for years. I tell ppl that the only thig they have to pay for in Software nowdays is the Microsoft tax, even if they want to stay on Windoze.
My list includes (but is no limited to, I have left out some stuff I have seen here):
1. Similar to Your site, a site about "liberated games has been set up and announced on Slashdot" http://www.liberatedgames.com/ People also want to play games, don't they? And games is one thing where commercial software often times still has an edge. Good thing if they at least make free downloads.
2. Ultimate Zip is slightly outdated. 2002 is lightyears gone, but archievers don't change their un-archieve methods all too often. http://www.ultimatezip.com/download.htm 7 -Zip is great, but I had it crash on me too often and too severe. Ultimate Zip never did.
3. Kerio Personal Firewall. Sygate is also good and Zone Alarm and all the others, but I found that in the last couple test Kerio always came out pretty good, so it should be included at least. http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
4. Don't forget about Opera. A banner is no spyware. www.opera.com
5. The Palm Desktop Software is a pretty cool PIM app (very easy, very straightforward). Much, much better than Outlook. And You can even sync with Your palm;-) http://www.palmone.com/us/software/desktop/ 6. Exact Audio Copy is a pretty cool software that can Rip a CD and tries very hard to get it all. http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
7. Did You check for ClamWin? A Windows version of the free Clam AV Software. http://www.clamwin.com/ GNU GPL and all that.
8. I always include a current version of the official JRE from Sun. This could come on handy to run...
9....Xnap. A p2p framework that has plugins for many p2p networks. http://xnap.sourceforge.net/
10. Speaking of p2p gnucleus come to mind. http://www.gnucleus.com/Gnucleus/
11. If You installed Mozilla You still need the flashplayer for it. Macromedia has a download for You: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download /downl oad.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
12. For writing CDs under Linux there has been the trusty old cdrecord program. Suprise, surprise, it is available under Windows as well and someone even wrote a nice gui for it. http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
There is soo much more, but the many ppl on Slashdot have covered a lot and will hopefully cover more. I am eager to see Your site in the future and will write more suggestions as they come to mind if You provide an Email address.
I don't know about graphic design all that much. I have 3 friends (that don't know each other) that all work in this field. I have never heard any one of them complain/talk about this topic.
For work a graphic designer has to have the printer in mind. Every printer/printing machine works different and therefore has a slightly different output to the same intput as far as I know. So one has to adjust to the machine e.g. be able to adjust colors on the monitor. So this would be more about being able to adjust colors.
Also this might be about viewing angle since lcds change colors (every slashdot user that has access to a laptop can check this) depending on the viewing angle. This is being worked on. So I imagine this new machine to have more stable colors as the viewing angle changes.
but FreeDOS won't be replaced by Linux. 99.99 % will install Windows on them. I have been there. You can go into any shop (almost all carry them) and get a CD for about a buck containing Windows XP, Office, Photoshop and Dreamweaver in a printed cardboard cover.
Nobody, not even the largest businesses will get bothered if they only install pirated versions. Considering the fact that all large Software makers dont't do discounts in countries with a lower average income I have a hard time imagening anyone paying for Windows in China.
So Windows is basically free (as in beer) for everyone in China. So Linux and Windows are on par considering price. On how many desktops do You see FreeDOS getting replaced by Linux again?
It is just another codec with the name "MP3" slapped on it, because they apparently hold the rights to it. This is marketing. It won't take off, because real MP3 isn't compatible and neither Microsoft nor any label is backing it. Devices on the market at the moment support MP3, WMA and some even OGG.
Right after 9-11 Boeing's stock was tanking. Both planes that hit the WTC were planes and all commerical flights were grounded. Also the airlines were hit hard and wouldn't buy new planes soon.
But Boeing (through acquisitions) became a large arms supplier. So I knew I could make a big buck betting on Boeing stocks.
I still look back on it and think I was right about it. I would have made money with arms selling.
But hey, arms traders probabely have the same moral problems than You have.
This makes a lot of sense for China. It is a vast country after all that is hard to monitor. Not only a lot of infrastructur is missing, but also the local authorities have a really bad tendency to cover up any problems including large scale environmental disasters. That is one of the problems with authorian rule. So being able to monitor the provinces from Beijing gives them a lot of control.
Do You really think China has now the technology to monitor people from the sky? I doubt even the US has this. But who am I kidding? This is Slashdot of all places so I better get my tinfoil hat to blend in with the crowd.
The coloring is one feature I like best. There is almost always a blue dark tone to all the scenes. You can really tell that some people at the show love to play with colors.
Las Vegas is the ultimate place for this. Almost all scences play in the dark and there is lots of colored light around (just like in the real Vegas).
Also all the colors used fit very well with each other.
There is a certain style with the actors and the interior of the buildings that corresponds very well with the mentioned colors. The actors also look and dress very stylish. The black guy sometimes even seems to have green eyes.
All in all the series is beautifully made by some very talented and dedicated designers. I also like the plot and other stuff, but the style/design stands out most.
Miami of course has horrible colors that don't fit at all and I haven't seen NY yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Life is all about balance. Raising kids, too. Teach them as much as you like as early as you like. Just remember to balance work and play, outside and inside, free time and rules. Kids need rules and need to test them. They also need their own space. Limited of course, but their own.
You put it right.
Balance
Netscape is just sooo good. Why would anyone use the crappy Internet Explorer. And why would anyone use Microsoft Office if Wordperfect Office is just better?
Wrong timeline. Sorry
There is no 2.7 yet and Linux Torvalds still maintains the 2.6 kernel. All these new features just proove once more that 2.6 is not yet the stable kernel. Good that Sarge will come out with a solid 2.4. Even though I only operate a couple desktops I had my problems with 2.6 and actually went back to 2.4 on some machines. I sincerely hope that 2.6 will become stable sometimes soon.
Cheers
This system is already in place in Germany. I wonder why there are no descritions on this rated high. No German reaers at this time?
Anyways, the system is called "toll collect", since all major project names in Germany now need English names in order to sound "cool". A huge federal contract was awarded to a large consortium of super large companies, among them DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom and Oracle. It was supposed to start working in the fall of 2003 and failed miserably. This was in many ways embarissing to both the companies and even more for the traffic minister. Not only was this system supposed to be a major export article and a boost to the German export economy (our economy largely depends on exports btw) but also a way to make money. Since the companies were found to be fault since they promised to have the system ready at that time (the on board units didn't work at all) they were supposed to pay the money the fed didn't get because the system was not in place. But their contract said otherwise and the whole thing became a huge blunder. Apparently nobody at the federal traffic ministry had really read the contract. You guys think Enron was bad? You obviously don't have the faintest idea what goes on in old Europe. In the US business meddles way too much in politics. In Europe it is the other way around.
The system started up finally in 2005 with over 1 year delay. Currently trucks pay for highways. Cars as well as anything not using a highway are not taxed. The system relies on GSM for data exchange and GPS combined with sensors at the entry points of highways to measure stuff like length, exchange data via short range radio and check license plates.
If You want to know more I guess You can google it up.
I see ppl. saying that this is either
/. any more? I used to read logs and tried to report serious attempts to break in with the latest root kit by some script kiddy to the isp that kid was using. That had absolutely no effect.
1. A hoax,
2. Outragious if it is true
or
3. He was really trying to break in and it was good that he was arrested.
Are there no admins that read
Now I can just trace an IP and tell the police and they will go out and actually contact that person or even arrest them instead of ignoring me altogether?
LOL
Yea right!
I call BS HOAX all the way!
1. Microsoft makes a pretty crappy product.
2. Monopolies lead to crappy products. After Windows 95 (and OS/2) there has been no competition and hence no innovation.
3. The only "innovation" has been the integration of Windows NT and 9x/ME. It was planned for 1999. Judge for Youself how well it worked.
4. No GUI innovation. My Grandma can't operate Windows 95 nor XP. If there had been competition there would have been a much, much better product.
5. If this better product would be on the market would OSS have a competitor? OSS can compete, because Microsoft makes such a crappy product, but this is only because Microsoft has a monopoly in the OS market. Think about it.
6. In capitalism any company strives for more profits. Gaining a monopoly and using it is part of this strive. Adam Smith himelf wrote that a strong fed has to regulate the market. Don't blame Microsoft. Blame the regulator.
7. Bill Gates granted most of his money to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. I champion free software because I believe a free information society needs free software. I also think Microsoft makes crappy products and I try not to use them because of this and because they are not free.
Still I don't think Bill Gates is evil in any way. Reasons are stated above.
I guess that does it for my US visit. I spend a year in northern California and I wanted to visit my host parents. I also wanted to visit some friends in New York and my girlfriend really wants to go there.
5 years in prision? I mean I do a little p2p here and there. Nothing big, but would You take that chance?
Great list. I tried a couple, it works.
...
Now suppose someone (like many Slasdoters at the moment will, since you were so nice to put up this list) browses a couple cams and witnesses a murder.
What to do? Who to call? How to get the culprit? Maybe save the victim? What is this cam is located in Barzil?
He would ask Slashdot for help.
And this would be the first crime solved on Slashdot. (or not)
Now what if some mean old Slashdot guy puts up a fake cam site with a video of some staged crime...
The implications
Think of more!
It talks about the fact that nobody cares if you share proprietary software among friends, but destroys your life if you were to distribute it beyond that.
Already the large software makers a working on tools that could restrict your rights much further. It comes down to 1984. With "secure computing" (whatever the current name may be) that exists today and very smart software that can actually detect content it would be possible to control what someone is able to email to their friends today.
Of course, laws (see the Patriot Act and the DMCA for this one) still partly forbid this at the moment. Also there are free alternatives. But as soon as pretty much everyone depends on free software anyone could just throw the switch and we are in 1984, just worse.
I use Suns JVM and the Flash Plugin myself, don't get me wrong. I just think when writing such a large article that this should be included.
The reason why the copyright is not enforced better is simply that they make more money this way. Who would buy M$ software if EVERYONE had to pay for it?
Ok, I knew it before, but I got proven again, moderators don't bother to RTFA. So if you care for Karma and respond to anything from the article that is not in the slashdot snip you need to quote the article!
Apart from this I guess German roads seem to be cleaner. I never had a flat tire, nor did my dad. Also I can't remember a friend complaining about it. Maybe it is due to me riding a bike a lot and I certainly had my share of flat tires on a bike, but then again the article doesn't talk about bike tires at all.
When was the last time anyone of you had a flat tire?
From the article:
"30 or so underground, highly secretive servers where nearly all of the unlicensed music, movies, and videogames available on the Internet originate."
"One file became 30 files became 3,000 files became 300,000 files"
"You do not need some 350-pound hit man with a Glock at your front door."
"I hear a soft ping. "That tells me a movie just made its first appearance on a topsite.""
Very nice story. Top it off with a soft ping.
"As a consultant for one of the world's largest entertainment companies, Forest notifies his bosses whenever one of their movies appears on a topsite."
"In 24 hours, SMF's single version of The Hulk had metastasized into at least 50,000 copies. Within 72 hours, the movie was all over the most popular P2P networks. Before it reached even a single shared file folder on Kazaa, Forest estimates there were already several hundred thousand copies in circulation, guaranteeing that casual computer users would be able to find and download it easily."
OK, the guy gets financed as a consultant by the large record companies and they give him enough money so that he can not only afford a nice living and very expensive hardware, he also takes money he gets from the movie/record industry and donates hardware to piracy groups, just like other rich patrons do.
Also tens of thousands of little "helpers" race to put a new file that "trickled down" on more and more online space. Where would they put it? Certainly not their own servers that they rented. Did they crack their own computers and installed ftps on them? Do they own botnets?
P2P is there for a reason. My brother does Kazaa and they don't really dl movies off this. The eDonkey networks do. And the distribution is really simple. Just take a hub at some college with a fat connection and the eDonkey protocol (forced upload of at least the file you just dl, somewhat like torrents) and the clients will do the rest for this eDonkey hub. Though I certainly believe
""Bullshit," says Forest. "Trying to distribute The Hulk through the P2Ps would take months, not hours." That's because files on the public file-sharing networks, where no single node is much more powerful than the next, spread at a glacial pace."
that, modern p2p doesn't work this way anymore. Direct Connect and eDonkey or BitTorrent are not Gnutella anymore. Forest puts the right word at the beginning of this paragraph.
"The top telesync groups, like Centropy, VideoCD, and TCF, are using $10,000 camcorders they get directly from Japan, cams you can't find in the US," says Frank. The least desirable releases are "cams," made by an audience member with a camcorder.
I ask Frank how his group could afford such exotic toys. "People buy them for us," he says, as if this explains everything. "Usually, these people were in the scene at one time, and now they just want free downloads without having to contribute." As it turns out, much of the extensive hardware - from superfast processors to servers with terabytes of storage - are donated by these well-heeled patrons.
Do topsites exist? Certainly! Specialized rippers? Absolutely! But is there a vast conspiracy with topsites for every genre with an organized hierarchy of thousands of people toiling away to pirate every singe piece of IP on the market like the article suggests? I don't think so!
Some genres have fans. Some of those organize and make topsites. But from there on I don't believe in thousands of little racers mainly because modern p2p apps are way beyond this.
HaHaHa, You forgot to post anonymusly, Mr FXP
The little green men will come and get ya all!!! ... green lasers? I thought we were talking about the FBI. Sorry.
What's wrong with Slashdot?
Why are posters suddenly RTFA??
I have been doing this for years. I tell ppl that the only thig they have to pay for in Software nowdays is the Microsoft tax, even if they want to stay on Windoze.
7 -Zip is great, but I had it crash on me too often and too severe. Ultimate Zip never did.
;-)
...Xnap. A p2p framework that has plugins for many p2p networks.
d /downl oad.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
My list includes (but is no limited to, I have left out some stuff I have seen here):
1. Similar to Your site, a site about "liberated games has been set up and announced on Slashdot"
http://www.liberatedgames.com/
People also want to play games, don't they? And games is one thing where commercial software often times still has an edge. Good thing if they at least make free downloads.
2. Ultimate Zip is slightly outdated. 2002 is lightyears gone, but archievers don't change their un-archieve methods all too often.
http://www.ultimatezip.com/download.htm
3. Kerio Personal Firewall. Sygate is also good and Zone Alarm and all the others, but I found that in the last couple test Kerio always came out pretty good, so it should be included at least.
http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
4. Don't forget about Opera. A banner is no spyware. www.opera.com
5. The Palm Desktop Software is a pretty cool PIM app (very easy, very straightforward). Much, much better than Outlook. And You can even sync with Your palm
http://www.palmone.com/us/software/desktop/
6. Exact Audio Copy is a pretty cool software that can Rip a CD and tries very hard to get it all.
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
7. Did You check for ClamWin? A Windows version of the free Clam AV Software.
http://www.clamwin.com/
GNU GPL and all that.
8. I always include a current version of the official JRE from Sun. This could come on handy to run...
9.
http://xnap.sourceforge.net/
10. Speaking of p2p gnucleus come to mind.
http://www.gnucleus.com/Gnucleus/
11. If You installed Mozilla You still need the flashplayer for it. Macromedia has a download for You:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/downloa
12. For writing CDs under Linux there has been the trusty old cdrecord program. Suprise, surprise, it is available under Windows as well and someone even wrote a nice gui for it.
http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
There is soo much more, but the many ppl on Slashdot have covered a lot and will hopefully cover more. I am eager to see Your site in the future and will write more suggestions as they come to mind if You provide an Email address.
Cheers
my CD player has an optical digital out
I don't know about graphic design all that much. I have 3 friends (that don't know each other) that all work in this field. I have never heard any one of them complain/talk about this topic.
For work a graphic designer has to have the printer in mind. Every printer/printing machine works different and therefore has a slightly different output to the same intput as far as I know. So one has to adjust to the machine e.g. be able to adjust colors on the monitor. So this would be more about being able to adjust colors.
Also this might be about viewing angle since lcds change colors (every slashdot user that has access to a laptop can check this) depending on the viewing angle. This is being worked on. So I imagine this new machine to have more stable colors as the viewing angle changes.
but FreeDOS won't be replaced by Linux. 99.99 % will install Windows on them. I have been there. You can go into any shop (almost all carry them) and get a CD for about a buck containing Windows XP, Office, Photoshop and Dreamweaver in a printed cardboard cover.
Nobody, not even the largest businesses will get bothered if they only install pirated versions. Considering the fact that all large Software makers dont't do discounts in countries with a lower average income I have a hard time imagening anyone paying for Windows in China.
So Windows is basically free (as in beer) for everyone in China. So Linux and Windows are on par considering price. On how many desktops do You see FreeDOS getting replaced by Linux again?
It is just another codec with the name "MP3" slapped on it, because they apparently hold the rights to it. This is marketing. It won't take off, because real MP3 isn't compatible and neither Microsoft nor any label is backing it. Devices on the market at the moment support MP3, WMA and some even OGG.
If You really still use Limewire than that is Your fault (tm).
http://xnap.sourceforge.net/
With plugins for Gnutella, OpenNap, GiFT, Overnet and stuff. All in Java. With a nice little MacOSX installer.
Like we all have those color laser printers at home for personal stuff. It's not like they are freakin' expensive.
Right after 9-11 Boeing's stock was tanking. Both planes that hit the WTC were planes and all commerical flights were grounded. Also the airlines were hit hard and wouldn't buy new planes soon.
But Boeing (through acquisitions) became a large arms supplier. So I knew I could make a big buck betting on Boeing stocks.
I still look back on it and think I was right about it. I would have made money with arms selling.
But hey, arms traders probabely have the same moral problems than You have.
This makes a lot of sense for China. It is a vast country after all that is hard to monitor. Not only a lot of infrastructur is missing, but also the local authorities have a really bad tendency to cover up any problems including large scale environmental disasters. That is one of the problems with authorian rule. So being able to monitor the provinces from Beijing gives them a lot of control.
Do You really think China has now the technology to monitor people from the sky? I doubt even the US has this. But who am I kidding? This is Slashdot of all places so I better get my tinfoil hat to blend in with the crowd.
I like the original series for many reasons.
The coloring is one feature I like best. There is almost always a blue dark tone to all the scenes. You can really tell that some people at the show love to play with colors.
Las Vegas is the ultimate place for this. Almost all scences play in the dark and there is lots of colored light around (just like in the real Vegas).
Also all the colors used fit very well with each other.
There is a certain style with the actors and the interior of the buildings that corresponds very well with the mentioned colors. The actors also look and dress very stylish. The black guy sometimes even seems to have green eyes.
All in all the series is beautifully made by some very talented and dedicated designers. I also like the plot and other stuff, but the style/design stands out most.
Miami of course has horrible colors that don't fit at all and I haven't seen NY yet.