Napster's purpose was not that of an archival service so you can download old albums that you didn't take care of in the first place.
Lets use this example. If I go to Borders and buy a book on P2P from O'Reilly and I decide to use it as home plate in a game of baseball, is Borders or O'Reilly responsible for replacing it?
While technically it would be legal to use a electronic source of the book should you happen to find one (assuming you could prove you owned the original), it wouldn't be the responsibility of the author, publisher or retail store to put the book in an electronic format just in case you're careless.
Besides, I don't know what your problem is really. My original post was in reference to CD-Recorders and was an asshole response to a sarcastic comment that I was too braindead this morning to identify as sarcastic, to which I had posted a retraction already.
Actually, since they lose money on every box sold, as long as you don't buy games, you can get a decent little PC for $200 and take money away from MS.
If they do have authentication, I don't think it could be easily built into silicon, or at least wouldn't be worthwhile or architecturally correct to do so. If it's in there, then it's just in the stripped down OS that's running the box, which could be easily modified or simply erased.
I think thats a pretty good analysis based on some facts from the article like they still had 70 employees and that Fanning was the CTO. Personally, I don't know of anybody that became a CTO right out of college (or by dropping out of college). Although based on previous articles about the company, it was probably just a token title anyways.
Of course they don't. All the people I work with that make less than me can all be spotted eating greasy McDonalds for lunch while browsing the web. Suffice it to say that when I have to work on their computer, I can't even use the scroll-wheel because it's either to greasy to grip my finger, or too gummed up to move.
Reminds me of the wise George Carlin. Something to the effect of "I don't get sick, ya know why? Cause I used to swim in the Hudson river, covered in feces, and it builds up your immune system."
They could always just pre-record high quality samples of "Baby, baby", "Oh yeah, yeah" and "I Love You" and randomly insert them into some music. Instant pop music without the overpriced puppets!
I do have to bug them about account credit at this point. I never cared if it was down for an hour, but it's been mostly down for the last 2 weeks and several calls have gotten me nowhere. After calling the local office today, they said that 1 of the 2 CMTS units is down and they'll need the weekend to get it working again.
Ummmmm, doesn't the frequency directly translate into maximum transfer speed. For example, the faster a signal cycles, the faster the data can be sent since data is sent on a per cycle basis, not a per second basis.
I have Adelphia and I've been bugging them about this and several techs keep telling me that the actual cap is at the head end. Anybody know if this could be true or not?
I've looked at the modems config screens and it shows Downstream: 717MHz, and Upstream: 33MHz. Could it be double-capped?
I agree a little bit with the manager. But I can also see how in certain situations he could be wrong.
If you truly are completely restesting ALL the functionality, then by all means, bugs should be fixed. On the other hand, some piece of code in another module could be expecting buggy results from the piece of code that you think is simplistic to fix. So unless it's a bug in a self-contained routine, then fixing it may require more planning then "I have the source file open, so...".
WMP does ask you to do a free upgrade. That's how they sneak all the digital rights management crap in there. The first time WMP asked me to upgrade, I looked at the list of features FIRST. DRM was the first one and I've been clicking "Upgrade Later" ever since.
If it takes one person 1 year to catch 40 frogs, and the governments solution is a chemical spray, has nobody thought of just using a lawnmower or heavy duty roller?
I wouldn't bother if I were you. Since Charlie's been running the place for the last 30 years, it's gone straight down the crapper. There was a disgruntled Oompa-Loompa incident a few years back, and the Sony lawsuit over Wonka-vision has nearly backrupt the company.
Incoming missile sir! What do we do? <officer> Don't worry, it's one of ours. <private> But sir, it's still going to HIT us!
This not only sounds like something that belongs in a Dilbert strip, but also the basis for the logic that allows the spreading of all these e-mail viruses.
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Napster's purpose was not that of an archival service so you can download old albums that you didn't take care of in the first place.
Lets use this example. If I go to Borders and buy a book on P2P from O'Reilly and I decide to use it as home plate in a game of baseball, is Borders or O'Reilly responsible for replacing it?
While technically it would be legal to use a electronic source of the book should you happen to find one (assuming you could prove you owned the original), it wouldn't be the responsibility of the author, publisher or retail store to put the book in an electronic format just in case you're careless.
Besides, I don't know what your problem is really. My original post was in reference to CD-Recorders and was an asshole response to a sarcastic comment that I was too braindead this morning to identify as sarcastic, to which I had posted a retraction already.
I read that page, and I just can't seem to figure out why Google would have a neurosurgeon on staff.
Actually, since they lose money on every box sold, as long as you don't buy games, you can get a decent little PC for $200 and take money away from MS.
If they do have authentication, I don't think it could be easily built into silicon, or at least wouldn't be worthwhile or architecturally correct to do so. If it's in there, then it's just in the stripped down OS that's running the box, which could be easily modified or simply erased.
I can't remember what site I read it on, but it sounds like Sony can now make a profit on their boxes due to better manufacturing processes.
Ignore my previous post. Bad morning so far, and I didn't have my sarcasm detector turned on yet.
Uh, they were only allowing MP3 files to be transferred on their service. It's not like they could also be used for backing up data files.
Are you going to burn millions of CDs and then mail them out on request, for free?
I think thats a pretty good analysis based on some facts from the article like they still had 70 employees and that Fanning was the CTO. Personally, I don't know of anybody that became a CTO right out of college (or by dropping out of college). Although based on previous articles about the company, it was probably just a token title anyways.
Don't you keep up with the news. It's not a process it's piracy.
Of course they don't. All the people I work with that make less than me can all be spotted eating greasy McDonalds for lunch while browsing the web. Suffice it to say that when I have to work on their computer, I can't even use the scroll-wheel because it's either to greasy to grip my finger, or too gummed up to move.
Have you ever noticed that the beige-ish color cars never look real dirty even in the winter?
That's what happens when things are already the color of crud.
Reminds me of the wise George Carlin. Something to the effect of "I don't get sick, ya know why? Cause I used to swim in the Hudson river, covered in feces, and it builds up your immune system."
They could always just pre-record high quality samples of "Baby, baby", "Oh yeah, yeah" and "I Love You" and randomly insert them into some music. Instant pop music without the overpriced puppets!
I do have to bug them about account credit at this point. I never cared if it was down for an hour, but it's been mostly down for the last 2 weeks and several calls have gotten me nowhere. After calling the local office today, they said that 1 of the 2 CMTS units is down and they'll need the weekend to get it working again.
Ummmmm, doesn't the frequency directly translate into maximum transfer speed. For example, the faster a signal cycles, the faster the data can be sent since data is sent on a per cycle basis, not a per second basis.
I have Adelphia and I've been bugging them about this and several techs keep telling me that the actual cap is at the head end. Anybody know if this could be true or not?
I've looked at the modems config screens and it shows Downstream: 717MHz, and Upstream: 33MHz. Could it be double-capped?
I'd bet the military already has some sort of conditioning program like that for spies.
I agree a little bit with the manager. But I can also see how in certain situations he could be wrong.
If you truly are completely restesting ALL the functionality, then by all means, bugs should be fixed. On the other hand, some piece of code in another module could be expecting buggy results from the piece of code that you think is simplistic to fix. So unless it's a bug in a self-contained routine, then fixing it may require more planning then "I have the source file open, so...".
And for extra points, what was the name of the island they were on?
WMP does ask you to do a free upgrade. That's how they sneak all the digital rights management crap in there. The first time WMP asked me to upgrade, I looked at the list of features FIRST. DRM was the first one and I've been clicking "Upgrade Later" ever since.
If it takes one person 1 year to catch 40 frogs, and the governments solution is a chemical spray, has nobody thought of just using a lawnmower or heavy duty roller?
I wouldn't bother if I were you. Since Charlie's been running the place for the last 30 years, it's gone straight down the crapper. There was a disgruntled Oompa-Loompa incident a few years back, and the Sony lawsuit over Wonka-vision has nearly backrupt the company.
Incoming missile sir! What do we do?
<officer> Don't worry, it's one of ours.
<private> But sir, it's still going to HIT us!
This not only sounds like something that belongs in a Dilbert strip, but also the basis for the logic that allows the spreading of all these e-mail viruses.
They just invented this to get those PETA chicks to have sex with them so they'll stop their experiments.