Napster only finds things too. It doesn't transfer anything at all. It sets up a direct connection between the two members of the program, but the file never touches Napster's servers. I don't know about Scour, but I presume it works the same way.
As far as things like this are concerned, I'm not really a big fan of Credit Card Companies... I would much prefer to use something like PayByCheck.com, much as Tom Smith does. They charge you less, and more people can buy your product. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Of course Linux reviews aren't payed for. I listened to many reviewers before I purchased Slackware 7.0, and as a new user, I have yet to find myself being dissapointed. As you can see by the article here Most of the problems that people have with Linux stem from the user, not the software... Linux reviews don't need to be payed for. The software speaks for itself.
All this is really going to be able to do is to cause the Australians to fall behind in the race to provide more streaming media for the world, which is the next frontier as broadband gains more and more support. They are strangiling themselves by forcing all internet media to end up having to go through the hoops of most network censors. That's just one more industrialized nation out of the battle.
You know, normally, I don't like a thing that this guy has to say, but he has a point here... If the entire internet is 'free' doesn't that mean that a huge corporation is 'free' to buy up most of the bandwidth and control much of the content? After all, that is total freedom for you...
This is correct. The user is tresspassing onto E-Bay's private server, and as such is violating the law. If a dunk man was slobbering on people in a McDonald's, they would have the right to call the cops. This is the same concept.
...but this really isn't any different from any other form of voting. I can pretend to be a dead guy in person, or I can do it over the computer. But most politicians aren't smart enough to use a computer.
I don't know if very many business owners would really want to trust a mission critical system to a 14 year old who can't be bothered to spell out the word 'you'.
Great... Another excuse for parents to not watch their screaming fucking kids when I go to a theme park, so that I have to deal with them instead. It will tell you where they are, but not what their doing, after all.
Just what we need in America. One more excuse for lazy fucking mothers to let their children run wild and be disrespectful.
But this sort of thing just really creeps me out. I don't likt the idea of peopel actively trying to hunt me down to give me ads.. Of course, it could be the diablo 2 talking...
They should have the right to throw me out. But they shouldn't have the right to gag me as I come in, just in case I decide to yell about Natalie Portman...
Just because you don't get shot, you aren't censored? Sounds like telling me that if I'm not eating a 48 oz steak, I'm not eating... Just because it's not extreme doesn't make it right...
So, wait... when M$ used their leverage to block all of E-Bay's auctions of M$ products, that wasn't censorship? When private corporations try to stifle you, what is that? Bad business practice?
As a mac advocate, I can definatly tell you what the issue at hand is...
I'll probably get modded down for speaking out against the open source comunity, but I definately think that open source is just too obtuse. The Macintosh people are avant-garde, when it comes down to it, and it's going to be damned near impossible to break it to them that they are going to have to use clunky, ugly software! Open source programmers simply have not been able to make an intuitive, good-looking interface, and it's not going to happen anytime soon. Unless the open-source community really starts to work out their issues with making user-friendly programs, it's going to be just about impossible to ever get through to the artistic rebels that the Macintosh is going to.
As a Macintosh Tech, I am more than happy t use anything that isn't the fucking yo (Half yo-yo). I have long dreamed of taking the ball out of two of them, attaching a dowel between them, and making a real yo-yo out of them. The it might have a use. I love Macs, but I hate that fucking thing.
Actually, Gender is what someone associates with themselves. One's gender tends to match one's sex, but that is not always the case. Ergo, it is more appropriate to say gender. Sex is a physical construct. I'm sure that if a biological female had Gender Identity Disorder, he would be more likly to be a geek. As a matter of fact, one of my very good friends is a geeky male who was born female.
Finally using what I learned in women's studies, Dusty Hodges
In my opinion, as a feminist male, one of the main reasons is social bias. Society still has a bit of a push for women to become nurses and such, and, as a result, are pushed away from technological carrers. Most of them just aren't exposed to technology, as a result. If you asked most men who weren't exposed to computers at an early age the same question, you'd probably get similar results. (As defense... How many of the geeks here had a computer before puberty? Most, from what I seem to hear...)
However, the other major barrier is simple psychology. It has been shown in many studies that women tend to think more in terms of emotion and social interaction. While this is not true for all women, it is for the majority. Men, on the other hand, tend to think in terms of logic, black and white. While both have their place in the world at large, in the land of computer programming, you can't very well program in emotions. You have to use logic, which is something that the male brain is wired for more so than the female./ This is not to say that women are not capable of thinking logically. It's just that, on the average, it isn't something that appeals on a day to day basis.
Actually, as one of the beta stress testers, I can tell you it IS a signifigantly different game. It's a MUCH larger world, it has 3 new character classes, and it actually has a plot, with a backstory and the whole nine yards.
All in all, Diablo II is a far superior game to the original, in graphics, sound, plot, playability, lack of cheats, and a whole slew of new abilities. I don't really remember alot of people complaining about Quake III because it was the same game as DOOM...
You need to read more code through the eyes of an artist. I admit that nothing I have been able to code can be considered art, but look at the above post about the creator of TeX... THAT is Art.
So you know, I have read the complete works of Shakespeare, and have heard most of the great works of Johann Sebastian Bach. I am not trivializing their efforts. I am saying that they are not the only art.
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Actually, the RIAA is going to sue Tim Berners-Lee and Al Gore next, as they are the co-creaters of the internet.
Napster only finds things too. It doesn't transfer anything at all. It sets up a direct connection between the two members of the program, but the file never touches Napster's servers. I don't know about Scour, but I presume it works the same way.
As far as things like this are concerned, I'm not really a big fan of Credit Card Companies... I would much prefer to use something like PayByCheck.com, much as Tom Smith does. They charge you less, and more people can buy your product. Sounds like a good deal to me.
HAHAHAHAH!!! Now I have the 1000th Post!
Of course Linux reviews aren't payed for. I listened to many reviewers before I purchased Slackware 7.0, and as a new user, I have yet to find myself being dissapointed. As you can see by the article here Most of the problems that people have with Linux stem from the user, not the software... Linux reviews don't need to be payed for. The software speaks for itself.
All this is really going to be able to do is to cause the Australians to fall behind in the race to provide more streaming media for the world, which is the next frontier as broadband gains more and more support. They are strangiling themselves by forcing all internet media to end up having to go through the hoops of most network censors. That's just one more industrialized nation out of the battle.
You know, normally, I don't like a thing that this guy has to say, but he has a point here... If the entire internet is 'free' doesn't that mean that a huge corporation is 'free' to buy up most of the bandwidth and control much of the content? After all, that is total freedom for you...
Wow. Mom would be proud!
This is correct. The user is tresspassing onto E-Bay's private server, and as such is violating the law. If a dunk man was slobbering on people in a McDonald's, they would have the right to call the cops. This is the same concept.
...but this really isn't any different from any other form of voting. I can pretend to be a dead guy in person, or I can do it over the computer. But most politicians aren't smart enough to use a computer.
I don't know if very many business owners would really want to trust a mission critical system to a 14 year old who can't be bothered to spell out the word 'you'.
Damn it, I'm tired, and I'm at work. Allow me a typo every now and again. Dick.
Great... Another excuse for parents to not watch their screaming fucking kids when I go to a theme park, so that I have to deal with them instead. It will tell you where they are, but not what their doing, after all.
Just what we need in America. One more excuse for lazy fucking mothers to let their children run wild and be disrespectful.
Dusty Hodges
The secretive company that's scanning the net? Perhaps...
Although there should have been more science quickies. =)
But this sort of thing just really creeps me out. I don't likt the idea of peopel actively trying to hunt me down to give me ads.. Of course, it could be the diablo 2 talking...
They should have the right to throw me out. But they shouldn't have the right to gag me as I come in, just in case I decide to yell about Natalie Portman...
Just because you don't get shot, you aren't censored? Sounds like telling me that if I'm not eating a 48 oz steak, I'm not eating... Just because it's not extreme doesn't make it right...
So, wait... when M$ used their leverage to block all of E-Bay's auctions of M$ products, that wasn't censorship? When private corporations try to stifle you, what is that? Bad business practice?
As a mac advocate, I can definatly tell you what the issue at hand is...
I'll probably get modded down for speaking out against the open source comunity, but I definately think that open source is just too obtuse. The Macintosh people are avant-garde, when it comes down to it, and it's going to be damned near impossible to break it to them that they are going to have to use clunky, ugly software! Open source programmers simply have not been able to make an intuitive, good-looking interface, and it's not going to happen anytime soon. Unless the open-source community really starts to work out their issues with making user-friendly programs, it's going to be just about impossible to ever get through to the artistic rebels that the Macintosh is going to.
Just my 2 cents
Dusty Hodges
As a Macintosh Tech, I am more than happy t use anything that isn't the fucking yo (Half yo-yo). I have long dreamed of taking the ball out of two of them, attaching a dowel between them, and making a real yo-yo out of them. The it might have a use. I love Macs, but I hate that fucking thing.
Actually, Gender is what someone associates with themselves. One's gender tends to match one's sex, but that is not always the case. Ergo, it is more appropriate to say gender. Sex is a physical construct. I'm sure that if a biological female had Gender Identity Disorder, he would be more likly to be a geek. As a matter of fact, one of my very good friends is a geeky male who was born female.
Finally using what I learned in women's studies,
Dusty Hodges
In my opinion, as a feminist male, one of the main reasons is social bias. Society still has a bit of a push for women to become nurses and such, and, as a result, are pushed away from technological carrers. Most of them just aren't exposed to technology, as a result. If you asked most men who weren't exposed to computers at an early age the same question, you'd probably get similar results. (As defense... How many of the geeks here had a computer before puberty? Most, from what I seem to hear...)
However, the other major barrier is simple psychology. It has been shown in many studies that women tend to think more in terms of emotion and social interaction. While this is not true for all women, it is for the majority. Men, on the other hand, tend to think in terms of logic, black and white. While both have their place in the world at large, in the land of computer programming, you can't very well program in emotions. You have to use logic, which is something that the male brain is wired for more so than the female./ This is not to say that women are not capable of thinking logically. It's just that, on the average, it isn't something that appeals on a day to day basis.
-Dusty Hodges
Actually, as one of the beta stress testers, I can tell you it IS a signifigantly different game. It's a MUCH larger world, it has 3 new character classes, and it actually has a plot, with a backstory and the whole nine yards.
All in all, Diablo II is a far superior game to the original, in graphics, sound, plot, playability, lack of cheats, and a whole slew of new abilities. I don't really remember alot of people complaining about Quake III because it was the same game as DOOM...
You need to read more code through the eyes of an artist. I admit that nothing I have been able to code can be considered art, but look at the above post about the creator of TeX... THAT is Art.
So you know, I have read the complete works of Shakespeare, and have heard most of the great works of Johann Sebastian Bach. I am not trivializing their efforts. I am saying that they are not the only art.