You think THIS is silly? Here in teh UK, we (used to) give students grants and free tuition. Then someone noticed that it worked out cheaper than giving them state benefit and lowered unemployment figures.
You: I'd like a computer. Full tower case, dual 1Ghz Intel Xeon processors, Four 72-gig disks, two pairs both in a mirrored RAID on an Adaptec controller, Gigabyte MX-2TS motherboard, 1Gb RAM, SB Live platinum sound card and a Creative 3D blaster GeForce GTS II video card.
Them: Okay, $10,000 so far. Do you want Windows with that?
You: Is it free?
Them: No, but we're best equipped to install and OS for you!
You: Ah, so I should take the components home, build a computer, bring it in here, pay you to install an OS I don't want, go back home and reformat the hard disk?
Them: Well, uh...
You: The shop down the street offered me the same parts for $8,000.
Or alternatively, you could take this approach:
You: I'd like a computer.
Them: Do you want Windows 98 with that?
You: Why would I want Windows 98? Windows Millenium Edition will be out in a few weeks anyway, I may as well wait. We both know the upgrade will be outragously expensive.
Or another option would be:
You: I want a computer.
Them: Do you want Windows 98?
You: If I do, I'll install it myself.
Them: But we are highly experienced! We know all about how best to install Windows for you!
You: I see. Which card games do I not want installed?
Them: Um... Solitaire?
You: No, hearts and Freecell.
Or...
You: I'd like to buy a computer, please.
Them: That'll be $3,500 plus $70 for a copy of Windows 98.
You: If I want Windows, I'll install it myself, thaks.
Them: But we are highly experienced and knowledgable about computer-related matters!
You: Can you convert the binary 1011 into hex in your head?
Them: No, can you?
You: Sure. You multiply the first digit by 8, giving you 8, then the second by 4 giving you 0 and the third by 2 giving you 2 and the fourth by 1, giving you 1. Add them all together and you have eleven decimal, which we all know converts to B in hexadecimal. Doesn't everyone know that?
"The voice-activated wearable computer. It may be far out, but it isn't far off."
Back in the real world, one IBM Wearable PC prototype [Fig. 1] is being tried out on an assembly line for electric power generators at a General Electric Co. subsidiary. Containing a Pentium 233 MMX processor, 64MB RAM
y'know, once upon a time, I had a 233Mhz MMX processor on a computer. About 4 years ago, in fact. And one christmas I acquired a copy of 'IBM ViaVoice' and put it to work. It sucked totally: There was no way you could get any level of accuracy without sacraficing word rate to about 10 words per minute. Recently, on my 600Mhz computer, I got a new copy of ViaVoice. It is a lot better. Making a comparison, I would rate voice recognition on a 233Mhz MMX processor as 'Unbelievably, pitifully inaccurate whilst similtaniously far slower than is acceptable'. Don't qoute me on that, by the way.
Anyway, here's my point: Unless they have a very small vocabulary ("Buy" and "Sell"), voice recognition would be very difficult to implement.
I was thinking of applying for a range of patents:
TITLE: 'Being bloody stupid' buisness practice
ABSTRACT: A buisness practice that demonstrates ignorance and contempt towards the requirements and wishes of customers, i.e. Microsoft.
TITLE: 'Patently Obvious' action
ABSTRACT: An action by which a process, product, action, device or construct may proceed from a non-completed state to either a completed state or a state nearer to the state of completion than the initial state, which is, to some degree, faster, easier, cheaper, or more efficent than other potential options for completing or progressing said process, product, action, device or construct.
TITLE: One-click or similar input
ABSTRACT: A method of inputing computer data into a device such as a computer that involves, in some manner, performing an action invoking an electromechanical device that makes a sound that could be described as a 'click', or a device possesing a likeness to said device which does not make a 'click' but which could potentially be expected to make a 'clicking' sound.
TITLE: Eating
ABSTRACT: A process by which a biological entity such as a human can consume nourishment of some type, i.e. pizza.
It's unconstitutional for our legal system to presume someone guilty of a crime until proven innocent, so why should it be legal for corporations to do so?
I've done some checking into this. If turns out that murder is also illegal, but if you have money and fame like, ooh, OJ Simpson for instance, you won't be punished for your actions anyway.
Call me cynical, but laws are just there to keep arrest figures high.
I have read on internet (www.aceshardware.com I think) that you can use existing alpha mb to put K7 into it; word is the K7 uses the Slot A (DEC Alpha) interface and so is supposed to support alpha style SMP. So the K7 should have nice SMP, scable up to 32 processors.
If you wanted just dual processors, this implies A UP2000 or suchlike would do the job, but I can't say for sure.
Here's a qoute from Paul Jakma
Interestingly the new *Alpha* 21264 UP1000 motherboard uses the AMD Irongate chipset.. they also have a dual 21264 UP2000 board based on a DEC chipset. So it seems K7/Alpha chipsets are interchangeable, so then K7 SMP is probably possible using the DEC chipset.
And here's a qoute from Acehardware.com:
Alpha:Slot-A:Slot-B:Athlon KH Yeap Wednesday,
June 23, 1999 (10:00 AM EST)
Ok, at the ongoing PC Expo in New York, Alpha
Processor Inc. is demo'ing its new
Alpha-21264 750 Mhz, which is expected to
come out in July. More interestingly a 1 Ghz
versions of the processor, which runs under
regular air-cool condition, is also demo'ed
along with a Slot-A motherboard, UP1000, and
a Slot-B motherboard, UP2000. For further
details check out this News.com report.
Now, a lot of people have been wondering
about the possibility of running a K7 on an
Alpha Slot-A or Slot-B motherboard. According
to Alpha, yes, this is possible. To make
things even more interesting Alpha's new
Slot-A motherboard, UP1000, uses a chipset
that is a hybrid between AMD's very own K7
chipset, Irongate (AMD-751), and ALI's
M1543C!! PC Watch Japan has a great shot of
this UP1000 motherboard. Also appears on PC
Watch is a photo of the Slot-B UP2000 and a
photo of the 1 Ghz Slot-B Alpha processor.
Special thanks to Daiki for this wonderful
tips.
So, you could try an Alpha dual-processor Motherboard but I can't give you any garuntees.
Windows NT 4.0 currently supports over 39,000 systems and devices on the Hardware Compatibility List. Linux does not support important ease-of-use technologies such as Plug and Play, USB, and Power Management.
Um... neither does NT 4.0 on a clean install. I used it once. Plug and play was sketchy, USB support nonexistant and i'll be damned if I cound find any power management.
What I reccommend in situations like this is to talk to callers whenever possible. Try to take up as much of thier time as you can without buying anything. If they try to push thier shit on you, respond with an unreasonable request, like "Oh, by the way, does your package include free, unlinited broadband internet access?" or "I'll buy it on the condition that you agree to give me $15,000 every month for life". After you have used up as much time as possible, tell them you never had any intention of buying and ask to be removed from thier call list, otherwise you will unsubscribe from thier service.
That falls under my patent on "'Lawsuit-related business practice' related business practices"
Aha! That is in conflict with my 'Being bloody stupid' buisness practice. My lobbyists have been notified and as soon as the appropriate laws have paid thier wat into the statute books, the feds will be kicking down your door. Your only hope is to spend a few $ thou' on lawyers to hopelesly outgun me for a few years, until I have no money left. Or you could just do an OJ Simpson and hope the jury is comprised of ignorant morons. In fact, these law things are silly, I think I'll train my accountants into an eliete ninja force to crush all me competitors. I am going to call them The middle-aged mutant ninja accountants! Ph33r!
Aha! They plan on sueing people for infringing on patents? That falls under my patent, USP#1829904768237501765824609105 on 'Lawsuit-related buisness practice'!
Where did I put my Chief Intellectual Property Officer???
Maybe they could train it to recognise the phrase 'No, hold the anchovies'. If they could, it would be substantially more inteligent than the goods answering the phone at my local pizza delivery place.
Why don't we all make big donations to EFF to turn it into one of those data haven thingies privacy advocates are always talking about? We could offer everyone who makes a $2000+ donation a free satellite downlink for ultra-fast internet access as well. Oh... I remember! we'd rather spend the money on our own systems.
Wired: So, what do you think of these CueCat hackers?
DC: I love hackers. I think they're great, funny, clever and I can't understand why they're all single.
ENTER: Intern carrying note. He hands it to the CEO, and starts to leave. DC reads the memo...
DC (Explosively): THEY'RE THEY'RE THREATENING OUR PROFITS? SUE THE MOTHERFU*KERS!!!!!
An SP9004 spud gun is on my list too, and a cair of Glasstron goggles. Nice!
Well, I'm going out now. If any karma whores would like to check out my links and use thier 1337 copy and paste skills in case there are errors, you can go right ahead.
For the reasons of my post, a 'server' is an almost-always-connected computer, one that spends a significant amount of time uploading compared to downloading. If I am downloading a file, the computer that I am connecting to is the server. You could say that they should also be refferred to as 'clients', but I am downloading from them, and they aren't *my* clients. So I call them servers. Almost everyone knows what I mean.
That's the problem: A bogus client can report back anything, and nobody can ever verify if it's true.
Yeah, that could be a problem, but the way I see it, it would be easier for a user to share the files they have downloaded than to write a new client that gave incorrect responses. Also, if people tried to download and couldn't, people would just use diferent servers (hopefully).
I've seen some FTP servers with upload/download ratios too.
Indeed. The problem here is that people can upload pointless files nobody wants, and it takes them a long time. The idea behind my proposal was that people just have to share the things that they have downloaded rather than unsharing them.
You could probably go off IP address and distribute the rating across the Internet.
Yes, as long as there is no central authority distributing ratings. And no way to identify users. I suppose each user could be given an exclusive, random number and another number that correlates to it. The correlating number could be SHA-1 hashed, then the server could run a 'query' service where other servers send the numbers and if the person is known, it returns thier rating and correlating number. But that could be bypassed by people starting thier own servers and giving themselves false credit and it all starts getting complicated.
Nothing to keep the PPP users from disconnecting and reconnecting on a different IP but that might even be detectable algorithmically, and the modem users aren't really going to be your biggest bandwidth vampires anyway.
Yeah... the idea of giving people numbers is the original time isn't really long enough to make a big download, and we wouldn't want to exclude all dial-up users (who would be unable to use the service if they got an IP someone had used before), because... uh... I'm a dial-up user some of the time.
Nothing will kill Gnutella off any faster than if they implemented this.
Sure, but wouuld I personally be any worse off? All it would mean for people with slow connections is they would have to keep the files they downloaded shared - most people wouldn't want to download from a 56k modem when there are faster servers out there, which there are.
They'd quickly move to a different theft device if this were ever implemented.
So there would be less people downloading files without making any availiable. Boo effinging hoo. I hardly think that makes the service dead. I think it makes if faster and better for 'honest' users. Which would be the aim.
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The scariest thing about this election is the fact that the two leading candidates agree on most of the issues that concern us most.
Aha, but according to http://www.algorelovesyou.com/, Al Gore is 97% in love with Video game violence!
And if you can't believe comedy websites, who can you believe?
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
Bush does *not* want to blame bad parents he would like to shift the blame to something else.
I know what we can do... Blame Canada, Blame Canada, before someone thinks to blame us!
their hearts have been turned dark by the big bad internet
But AL GORE INVENTED THE INTERNET! He is to blame! AL GORE IS TURNING OUR CHILDREN INTO MURDERERS!
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
I confided in Paul Leyland, an encryption expert working for Microsoft
Well *no wonder* it was cracked!
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
You think THIS is silly? Here in teh UK, we (used to) give students grants and free tuition. Then someone noticed that it worked out cheaper than giving them state benefit and lowered unemployment figures.
Degree in the history of Darts, anyone?
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
You could try this:
You: I'd like a computer. Full tower case, dual 1Ghz Intel Xeon processors, Four 72-gig disks, two pairs both in a mirrored RAID on an Adaptec controller, Gigabyte MX-2TS motherboard, 1Gb RAM, SB Live platinum sound card and a Creative 3D blaster GeForce GTS II video card.
Them: Okay, $10,000 so far. Do you want Windows with that?
You: Is it free?
Them: No, but we're best equipped to install and OS for you!
You: Ah, so I should take the components home, build a computer, bring it in here, pay you to install an OS I don't want, go back home and reformat the hard disk?
Them: Well, uh...
You: The shop down the street offered me the same parts for $8,000.
Or alternatively, you could take this approach:
You: I'd like a computer.
Them: Do you want Windows 98 with that?
You: Why would I want Windows 98? Windows Millenium Edition will be out in a few weeks anyway, I may as well wait. We both know the upgrade will be outragously expensive.
Or another option would be:
You: I want a computer.
Them: Do you want Windows 98?
You: If I do, I'll install it myself.
Them: But we are highly experienced! We know all about how best to install Windows for you!
You: I see. Which card games do I not want installed?
Them: Um... Solitaire?
You: No, hearts and Freecell.
Or...
You: I'd like to buy a computer, please.
Them: That'll be $3,500 plus $70 for a copy of Windows 98.
You: If I want Windows, I'll install it myself, thaks.
Them: But we are highly experienced and knowledgable about computer-related matters!
You: Can you convert the binary 1011 into hex in your head?
Them: No, can you?
You: Sure. You multiply the first digit by 8, giving you 8, then the second by 4 giving you 0 and the third by 2 giving you 2 and the fourth by 1, giving you 1. Add them all together and you have eleven decimal, which we all know converts to B in hexadecimal. Doesn't everyone know that?
Them: Um...
I'm sure you can think of a few alternatives too.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
"The voice-activated wearable computer. It may be far out, but it isn't far off."
Back in the real world, one IBM Wearable PC prototype [Fig. 1] is being tried out on an assembly line for electric power generators at a General Electric Co. subsidiary. Containing a Pentium 233 MMX processor, 64MB RAM
y'know, once upon a time, I had a 233Mhz MMX processor on a computer. About 4 years ago, in fact. And one christmas I acquired a copy of 'IBM ViaVoice' and put it to work. It sucked totally: There was no way you could get any level of accuracy without sacraficing word rate to about 10 words per minute. Recently, on my 600Mhz computer, I got a new copy of ViaVoice. It is a lot better. Making a comparison, I would rate voice recognition on a 233Mhz MMX processor as 'Unbelievably, pitifully inaccurate whilst similtaniously far slower than is acceptable'. Don't qoute me on that, by the way.
Anyway, here's my point: Unless they have a very small vocabulary ("Buy" and "Sell"), voice recognition would be very difficult to implement.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
I was thinking of applying for a range of patents:
TITLE: 'Being bloody stupid' buisness practice
ABSTRACT: A buisness practice that demonstrates ignorance and contempt towards the requirements and wishes of customers, i.e. Microsoft.
TITLE: 'Patently Obvious' action
ABSTRACT: An action by which a process, product, action, device or construct may proceed from a non-completed state to either a completed state or a state nearer to the state of completion than the initial state, which is, to some degree, faster, easier, cheaper, or more efficent than other potential options for completing or progressing said process, product, action, device or construct.
TITLE: One-click or similar input
ABSTRACT: A method of inputing computer data into a device such as a computer that involves, in some manner, performing an action invoking an electromechanical device that makes a sound that could be described as a 'click', or a device possesing a likeness to said device which does not make a 'click' but which could potentially be expected to make a 'clicking' sound.
TITLE: Eating
ABSTRACT: A process by which a biological entity such as a human can consume nourishment of some type, i.e. pizza.
Well, those are my entries.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
It's unconstitutional for our legal system to presume someone guilty of a crime until proven innocent, so why should it be legal for corporations to do so?
I've done some checking into this. If turns out that murder is also illegal, but if you have money and fame like, ooh, OJ Simpson for instance, you won't be punished for your actions anyway.
Call me cynical, but laws are just there to keep arrest figures high.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
you didn't tell us which model
7thzone.com has an extensive selection of 'region-free solutions'.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
I have read on internet (www.aceshardware.com I think) that you can use existing alpha mb to put K7 into it; word is the K7 uses the Slot A (DEC Alpha) interface and so is supposed to support alpha style SMP. So the K7 should have nice SMP, scable up to 32 processors.
If you wanted just dual processors, this implies A UP2000 or suchlike would do the job, but I can't say for sure.
Here's a qoute from Paul Jakma
Interestingly the new *Alpha* 21264 UP1000 motherboard uses the AMD Irongate chipset.. they also have a dual 21264 UP2000 board based on a DEC chipset. So it seems K7/Alpha chipsets are interchangeable, so then K7 SMP is probably possible using the DEC chipset.
And here's a qoute from Acehardware.com:
Alpha:Slot-A:Slot-B:Athlon KH Yeap Wednesday,
June 23, 1999 (10:00 AM EST)
Ok, at the ongoing PC Expo in New York, Alpha
Processor Inc. is demo'ing its new
Alpha-21264 750 Mhz, which is expected to
come out in July. More interestingly a 1 Ghz
versions of the processor, which runs under
regular air-cool condition, is also demo'ed
along with a Slot-A motherboard, UP1000, and
a Slot-B motherboard, UP2000. For further
details check out this News.com report.
Now, a lot of people have been wondering
about the possibility of running a K7 on an
Alpha Slot-A or Slot-B motherboard. According
to Alpha, yes, this is possible. To make
things even more interesting Alpha's new
Slot-A motherboard, UP1000, uses a chipset
that is a hybrid between AMD's very own K7
chipset, Irongate (AMD-751), and ALI's
M1543C!! PC Watch Japan has a great shot of
this UP1000 motherboard. Also appears on PC
Watch is a photo of the Slot-B UP2000 and a
photo of the 1 Ghz Slot-B Alpha processor.
Special thanks to Daiki for this wonderful
tips.
So, you could try an Alpha dual-processor Motherboard but I can't give you any garuntees.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
Windows NT 4.0 currently supports over 39,000 systems and devices on the Hardware Compatibility List. Linux does not support important ease-of-use technologies such as Plug and Play, USB, and Power Management.
Um... neither does NT 4.0 on a clean install. I used it once. Plug and play was sketchy, USB support nonexistant and i'll be damned if I cound find any power management.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
What I reccommend in situations like this is to talk to callers whenever possible. Try to take up as much of thier time as you can without buying anything. If they try to push thier shit on you, respond with an unreasonable request, like "Oh, by the way, does your package include free, unlinited broadband internet access?" or "I'll buy it on the condition that you agree to give me $15,000 every month for life". After you have used up as much time as possible, tell them you never had any intention of buying and ask to be removed from thier call list, otherwise you will unsubscribe from thier service.
Or you could just hang up.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
That falls under my patent on "'Lawsuit-related business practice' related business practices"
Aha! That is in conflict with my 'Being bloody stupid' buisness practice. My lobbyists have been notified and as soon as the appropriate laws have paid thier wat into the statute books, the feds will be kicking down your door. Your only hope is to spend a few $ thou' on lawyers to hopelesly outgun me for a few years, until I have no money left. Or you could just do an OJ Simpson and hope the jury is comprised of ignorant morons. In fact, these law things are silly, I think I'll train my accountants into an eliete ninja force to crush all me competitors. I am going to call them The middle-aged mutant ninja accountants! Ph33r!
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
OpenTV has a Chief Intellectual Property Officer.
Aha! They plan on sueing people for infringing on patents? That falls under my patent, USP#1829904768237501765824609105 on 'Lawsuit-related buisness practice'!
Where did I put my Chief Intellectual Property Officer???
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
Is it too late to add one of these to my must-have Christmas present list?
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
Maybe they could train it to recognise the phrase 'No, hold the anchovies'. If they could, it would be substantially more inteligent than the goods answering the phone at my local pizza delivery place.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
Why don't we all make big donations to EFF to turn it into one of those data haven thingies privacy advocates are always talking about? We could offer everyone who makes a $2000+ donation a free satellite downlink for ultra-fast internet access as well. Oh... I remember! we'd rather spend the money on our own systems.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
I can see the press release now: Uncontrolled atmosphere re-entry! Kills all known germs, dead!
Surely a bottle of bleach would be cheaper than a space station?
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
I can just see the interview
INT. Digital Convergence OFFICE, DAY
Wired: So, what do you think of these CueCat hackers?
DC: I love hackers. I think they're great, funny, clever and I can't understand why they're all single.
ENTER: Intern carrying note. He hands it to the CEO, and starts to leave. DC reads the memo...
DC (Explosively): THEY'RE THEY'RE THREATENING OUR PROFITS? SUE THE MOTHERFU*KERS!!!!!
Is that about how it went?
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
Here's my present list:
Mobile phone: Ideally the 9110 or 9110i. If that's not availiable, I'll take a Matrix-esque 7110.
I wouldn't mind a Creative DAP Jukebox. Storage for 100 hours of MP3s (But only enough power to play them for about 5 hours).
I'll also take a Kawasaki Ultra 150 Jet Ski (Only £7,245!).
I wouldn't mind a BURN-proof 12x10x32 CD-RW drive.
Every slashdotter I know yould use one of These.
Leatherman Wave Multi-tools are nice, if I didn't already have one.
Want a rack for all your CDs? I'll have a Rolodisc rack. Cool!
If we're allowed whole new systems, I'll take an SGI 550 workstation, with the dual 866 MHz Pentium III Xeon processors and 2 gigs or ram, please.
I'll also have an Ergoview Task chair with headrest.
Since CmdrTaco's paying, I'll have a Panasonic Portable DVD player (Massive 7" widescreen LCD screen!).
If you have any spage change after that, $13,999.95 will get you (Well, me actually. We do GET this stuff, don't we?) a 16:9 Wide, 42" Diagonal Flat-Panel Plasma SDTV-Compatible Monitor. Cool!
A Radio Deadbolt would be cool (US only though
Head-mount Night-vision goggles would be nice.
This summer, I will mainly be avoiding traffic jams in my Armoured Hummer. I'll take the Scorpion III as well - it's cool.
$3,199 is enough for a nice Sony Digital video camera.
An SP9004 spud gun is on my list too, and a cair of Glasstron goggles. Nice!
Well, I'm going out now. If any karma whores would like to check out my links and use thier 1337 copy and paste skills in case there are errors, you can go right ahead.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
There is no server.
For the reasons of my post, a 'server' is an almost-always-connected computer, one that spends a significant amount of time uploading compared to downloading. If I am downloading a file, the computer that I am connecting to is the server. You could say that they should also be refferred to as 'clients', but I am downloading from them, and they aren't *my* clients. So I call them servers. Almost everyone knows what I mean.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
That's the problem: A bogus client can report back anything, and nobody can ever verify if it's true.
Yeah, that could be a problem, but the way I see it, it would be easier for a user to share the files they have downloaded than to write a new client that gave incorrect responses. Also, if people tried to download and couldn't, people would just use diferent servers (hopefully).
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
I've seen some FTP servers with upload/download ratios too.
Indeed. The problem here is that people can upload pointless files nobody wants, and it takes them a long time. The idea behind my proposal was that people just have to share the things that they have downloaded rather than unsharing them.
You could probably go off IP address and distribute the rating across the Internet.
Yes, as long as there is no central authority distributing ratings. And no way to identify users. I suppose each user could be given an exclusive, random number and another number that correlates to it. The correlating number could be SHA-1 hashed, then the server could run a 'query' service where other servers send the numbers and if the person is known, it returns thier rating and correlating number. But that could be bypassed by people starting thier own servers and giving themselves false credit and it all starts getting complicated.
Nothing to keep the PPP users from disconnecting and reconnecting on a different IP but that might even be detectable algorithmically, and the modem users aren't really going to be your biggest bandwidth vampires anyway.
Yeah... the idea of giving people numbers is the original time isn't really long enough to make a big download, and we wouldn't want to exclude all dial-up users (who would be unable to use the service if they got an IP someone had used before), because... uh... I'm a dial-up user some of the time.
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
Nothing will kill Gnutella off any faster than if they implemented this.
Sure, but wouuld I personally be any worse off? All it would mean for people with slow connections is they would have to keep the files they downloaded shared - most people wouldn't want to download from a 56k modem when there are faster servers out there, which there are.
They'd quickly move to a different theft device if this were ever implemented.
So there would be less people downloading files without making any availiable. Boo effinging hoo. I hardly think that makes the service dead. I think it makes if faster and better for 'honest' users. Which would be the aim.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.