This is an interesting problem for me to wrap my mind around.. part of me wants to side with Clean Flicks due to fair use and such. But the logical thinking side of me argues that if they don't like the movies content, they aren't forced to watch the movie. Saying that they can get around copyright law by forming a cooperative ownership club is kind of like saying libraries should be able to censor and change books due to the fact that people support them through taxes and are members by purchasing a library card.
Obviously there is always going to be things that are too expensive for many. Hell, digital cable and premium cable channels are too expensive for many. Normal dialup internet is too expensive for many.
Yeh, I love how someone will download something, think it's someone different than it is and rename the file before sharing it again, paying no attention to the id3 tags.. Doesn't every use winamp? I'm amazed at how often I'll get mp3's which are labeled wrong, but have the correct id3 info because the person who originally ripped them used a service such as cddb.
Yeh, its also not really possible to add legitimacy to a company whos primary objective is to distribute software which facilitates distributing illegal music and software.
Here's a good test I've developed to tell if a company is legit. Does it bundle spyware with the software? If yes, its most likely not legit and will be sued out of existance sometime soon. Does it facilitate transfering music and video on a peer to peer level, if yes its most likely not legit and will be sued out of existance.. With kazaa, both are true so it'll be gone soon.
As someone who has to do network support, nothing is worse than a computer which has had kazaa and the accompaning spyware installed. That new.net crap ruins the winsock stuff forcing a total reinstall, and those spyware proxys have people complaining about QoS when its the proxy which is providing the crappy service. I await the day we come to/. to bury kazaa, not to praise it.
Could just be rumors or fakes, but it seems reasonable.
I was expecting real pictures after reading the story.. the first couple of pictures were definately computer rendered and the last was horribly grainy.. The idea of a sub $100 palm device is cool tho.. so I hope the rumors are true.
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That beats throwing another en after it like a lot of their words have..
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Dont troll people for no reason.. rtfc.. he didnt say anything about wanting to cache the site.. just made a joke about it possibly getting slashdotted.
Using U for You and R for are isn't leet speak, its just ignorant slang.. Now, if they were using 3's for E's and 7's for T's then it would truly be '1337 5p34k.
Assuming its like the time they dropped the car out, they will just cut the roof off.. although I personally think it would be cooler if they all exited the folding door in the front..
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Technically, you don't need a parachute for the bus, just the people inside..
Also, they have parachutes for small planes such as cesdna's, but I don't think its feasible to put parachutes on larger planes.
Yeh.. I don't see how they are going to do a bus.. I seen them drop the car out on TLC or something.. they cut the roof off, but what they didn't count on was the fact that the car wasn't anywhere close to being evenly weighted so it spun around on the way down making it really hard for the people to jump out with out being tangled in the chute.
cool. thanks for the info.. im thinking ebay is the way to go.. or possibly some mac shop that has converted theirs to racks, but most places that have the space just rack the original case on the side..
I for one think this is a great idea. No one is forcing you to use redhat, and no one is keeping you from changing the look and feel of your desktop, but at least the initial install of a redhat distro will have a consistant look. Its good to see redhat making a move like this as they are one of the biggest linux distributors today. Mandrake has been doing similar things although instead of making kde and gnome look the same, they have just branded them both with mandrake logos.
Its obviously different on the empty side of the fence, but in the pc world, if you are halfway smart you can get a blazing system cheaply if you do a few simple things. Plan on it taking a while and build it from parts. Buy a case*, mobo+proc, ram* (if your old stuff wont work) Make sure you shop around some.. dont just pop in local computer shop and start buying.. Use your existing video card and harddrive and go to work for a couple more weeks.. watch the sales and the hot deals forums on anandtech and such.. Then spend another couple of weeks pay checks getting top of the line stuff at half retail value because you shopped around and got a deal.
Ding ding ding.. Heh.. the ut demo has like 1 player model and a couple levels. BF has models of aircraft carriers, planes, tanks, jeeps, players etc. So if it were an coding effiency issue, I'd say the BF crew is way ahead of epic.
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This is an interesting problem for me to wrap my mind around.. part of me wants to side with Clean Flicks due to fair use and such. But the logical thinking side of me argues that if they don't like the movies content, they aren't forced to watch the movie. Saying that they can get around copyright law by forming a cooperative ownership club is kind of like saying libraries should be able to censor and change books due to the fact that people support them through taxes and are members by purchasing a library card.
Report: Broadband Too Expensive For Many
No Duh!.
Obviously there is always going to be things that are too expensive for many. Hell, digital cable and premium cable channels are too expensive for many. Normal dialup internet is too expensive for many.
Yeh, I love how someone will download something, think it's someone different than it is and rename the file before sharing it again, paying no attention to the id3 tags.. Doesn't every use winamp? I'm amazed at how often I'll get mp3's which are labeled wrong, but have the correct id3 info because the person who originally ripped them used a service such as cddb.
Yeh, its also not really possible to add legitimacy to a company whos primary objective is to distribute software which facilitates distributing illegal music and software.
Here's a good test I've developed to tell if a company is legit. Does it bundle spyware with the software? If yes, its most likely not legit and will be sued out of existance sometime soon. Does it facilitate transfering music and video on a peer to peer level, if yes its most likely not legit and will be sued out of existance.. With kazaa, both are true so it'll be gone soon.
As someone who has to do network support, nothing is worse than a computer which has had kazaa and the accompaning spyware installed. That new.net crap ruins the winsock stuff forcing a total reinstall, and those spyware proxys have people complaining about QoS when its the proxy which is providing the crappy service. I await the day we come to /. to bury kazaa, not to praise it.
Could just be rumors or fakes, but it seems reasonable.
I was expecting real pictures after reading the story.. the first couple of pictures were definately computer rendered and the last was horribly grainy.. The idea of a sub $100 palm device is cool tho.. so I hope the rumors are true.
That beats throwing another en after it like a lot of their words have..
Dont troll people for no reason.. rtfc.. he didnt say anything about wanting to cache the site.. just made a joke about it possibly getting slashdotted.
Like to make stuff? ReadyMade magazine [readymademag.com] is like Martha Stewart meets Wired.
I dig readymade magazine.. are you affiliated with them or just advertising because its a cool magazine?
Using U for You and R for are isn't leet speak, its just ignorant slang.. Now, if they were using 3's for E's and 7's for T's then it would truly be '1337 5p34k.
how do they expect to get out of the damn bus?
Assuming its like the time they dropped the car out, they will just cut the roof off.. although I personally think it would be cooler if they all exited the folding door in the front..
Technically, you don't need a parachute for the bus, just the people inside..
Also, they have parachutes for small planes such as cesdna's, but I don't think its feasible to put parachutes on larger planes.
Yeh.. I don't see how they are going to do a bus.. I seen them drop the car out on TLC or something.. they cut the roof off, but what they didn't count on was the fact that the car wasn't anywhere close to being evenly weighted so it spun around on the way down making it really hard for the people to jump out with out being tangled in the chute.
Anyone else ever notice that Nimda = Admin spelled backwards?
Thats not a coincidence.
Its .eml not .elm ..
cool. thanks for the info.. im thinking ebay is the way to go.. or possibly some mac shop that has converted theirs to racks, but most places that have the space just rack the original case on the side..
Is how does one get one of these cases cheaply? Its not really feasible to buy a mac just to gut it for the cute case..
Amen. When you are right, you're right.
This would provide a great deal of flexibility and upgradability to the cars of the future.
Can't wait to hear about someone overclocking their car and adding extra fans and windows in places they don't belong.
Sounds a lot like the magnifier that is built into windows as well..
It's "eat your cake and have it too." Having it and then eating it is no trick at all.
That may be logically correct, but the phrase that people use is "have your cake and eat it too"
I for one think this is a great idea. No one is forcing you to use redhat, and no one is keeping you from changing the look and feel of your desktop, but at least the initial install of a redhat distro will have a consistant look. Its good to see redhat making a move like this as they are one of the biggest linux distributors today. Mandrake has been doing similar things although instead of making kde and gnome look the same, they have just branded them both with mandrake logos.
Just because gracenote runs cddb, doesn't mean that they aren't allowed to run other business ventures using different technology.
Its obviously different on the empty side of the fence, but in the pc world, if you are halfway smart you can get a blazing system cheaply if you do a few simple things.
Plan on it taking a while and build it from parts.
Buy a case*, mobo+proc, ram*
(if your old stuff wont work)
Make sure you shop around some.. dont just pop in local computer shop and start buying..
Use your existing video card and harddrive and go to work for a couple more weeks.. watch the sales and the hot deals forums on anandtech and such..
Then spend another couple of weeks pay checks getting top of the line stuff at half retail value because you shopped around and got a deal.
Or the games are like apples and oranges.
Ding ding ding..
Heh.. the ut demo has like 1 player model and a couple levels. BF has models of aircraft carriers, planes, tanks, jeeps, players etc. So if it were an coding effiency issue, I'd say the BF crew is way ahead of epic.