I've had a quick look around, and some of the info is just blatantly wrong.
If they want to be taken seriously, then they need to at least TRY to be accurate.
Example - go to their info on Isaac Asimov, and look at the Foundation entry - see the order in which they place the books? Extremely wrong! They merely place them in chronological order of being published, even though anyone who reads the series will know that is NOt the order for the storyline at all.
If they get things as simple and basic as that wrong, I'm afraid I can;t trust anything else they state:-/
"As for a form to alert admins, it'd be better if you just emailed the story poster. Thats true of dupes, typos, broken URLs, or flat out mistakes."
Of course, if the story posters actually did their job properly and checked for dupes, typos, broken URIs etc, then this would not be a problem in the first place, would it?
If you bothered to RTFA before whinging, you woudl realise just how wrong you are.
Clue - there is no 1GB/day hard limit.
Clue 2 - usage is averaged over a month - so unless you are planing to download those ISOs *EVERY SINGLE DAY*, then you will ahve zero problems - you download them one day, exceeding 1GB that day, no problem.
Download them EVERY day exceeing 30GB+ per month - well, you do have a problem, and not just from NTL's policy!
It is easy to get the login details of other users - I did this at Uni myself (many years ago) and over a few weeks I got the username and password of everyone in the department who were using those systems - Suns running SunOS which, last time I checked, is a unix-based system.
(It wasn't big and it wasn't clever, although in my defense all I did this for was to see if people woudl fall for it - I never used the passwords to do anything)
Your example of the Rolling Stones - they have been recording for 40 years, so there's one already.
Status Quo - Released first album in 1968, still going strong, still playing material even from back then.
Pink Floyd - 1967 and still going (although they don't seem to be doing much atm, but they were opening their gigs on their last tour with material from their 1967 album)
Queen - first album released 1973, still playhing material off that right to the very end. Still exist as a musical entity, most recently using their music in a musical in the West End.
"Who can give a guarantee that nobody tampers with the results or creates a database with citizens voting information?"
Given that this can already be done now with existing paper-based voting (certainly in the UK and the US anyway), I don't see that it is any different.
I guess the best solution is to maintain the option for Internet or in-person voting, that way people can chose which way to vote as they please.
"Programmers need direct access to the code, and one wants to keep things updated as much as possible - which the OS community provides."
Great. JUST what I want when I am in brainsurgery - the robot doing the surgery is running code written by loads of clueless(*) amatures, instead of one written exclusivly by highly trained and experienced professionals and closely reviewed by their peers.
(*) Clueless about brainsurgery et al, which the vast majority of Linux coders are (as are the vast majority of everybody).
"'Computer games are art and should be dealt with accordingly"
Rubbish.
By that argument, all films are also art and should be unclassified...
I see nothing wrong with a classification system for games so that they are played by appropriate audiences, and so that parents can make informed desicions when buyiong games.
OK, then what IS the sequel to "Lord Of The Rings", please?
I'll give you a huge clue - there isn;t one. Tolkein wrote the first chapter of a sequel, but it never got further than that.
There is no sequel to Lord Of The Rings.
You *could* try to claim that The Two Towers is a sequel to Fellowship Of The Ring (in terms of books, not movies), but even that is flawed - FOTR was 2 books, TTT was 2 books, and ROTK was 2 books, all of which made up the one story LOTR. The whole was written as a single entity, split into parts for ease of release etc.
(It's like saying "chapter 2 is the sequel to chapter 1"...)
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" Unless you are working as contractor pay cuts are not legal in the UK. "
Bullshit.
Well, OK, it's true they can not FORCE you to take it - but the alternative is that you quit your job.
It is legal.
It happens.
It is also fair (which is better - take a 10% paycut or have the firm have to lay off 10% of the workforce?).
Deal with it.
"I'll wait until something free (as in beer and speech) before I think it's secure enough for my data, thanks."
Well write one and release it then.
Go on, if it is that easy to do, DO IT.
I dare you.
Put your money where your mouth is and develop/release such a program.
I can't afford a nice big house, so I'll just sleep in yours and eat your food; somehow I think that won't matter, right?
I've had a quick look around, and some of the info is just blatantly wrong.
:-/
If they want to be taken seriously, then they need to at least TRY to be accurate.
Example - go to their info on Isaac Asimov, and look at the Foundation entry - see the order in which they place the books? Extremely wrong! They merely place them in chronological order of being published, even though anyone who reads the series will know that is NOt the order for the storyline at all.
If they get things as simple and basic as that wrong, I'm afraid I can;t trust anything else they state
Thanks for the mod down, Taco - what's up, you don't like the truth?
"As for a form to alert admins, it'd be better if you just emailed the story poster. Thats true of dupes, typos, broken URLs, or flat out mistakes."
Of course, if the story posters actually did their job properly and checked for dupes, typos, broken URIs etc, then this would not be a problem in the first place, would it?
"When you're used to 1.3GHz and faster x86 hardware, 360 and 700 MHz sparcs are slow."
Then use modern UltraSPARC-III systems then - 1.2GHz currently with faster to come.
Or the 1.2GHz US-IIIi which wipes the floor with the x86 in many applications.
Geez, if yo are going to make comparisons, compare like with like.
Oh, you mean as opposed to MacOS X which simply checks to see if there is anything new to be updated and if there is, lets you know?
But hey, don't let facts interfere with your position.
"My question is, who the hell is going to come rescue you when you get stuck in the elevator?"
This is a job for.... International Rescue!
Wrong.
That software does not crack the encryption.
RTFL
Especially the bit that says "This is not a cracking program (you need to supply the required secret information in order to decrypt)"
So no, they have not cracked it already.
So let's see, taking your figures over a month we get...
3CD ISO = 2G
SHOUTcast at 10 hours a day every day = 30 * 50M * 10 = 15G
MP3.com downloads for car = 2G (YOUR figures)
Total 19G per months.
Still *WAY* within the limit" suggested by NTL, so where's your problem?
Go on then, prove it.
Crack it for us.
Heck, you would even win their competition for $1,000,000 and a Ferrari.
So come on bigmouth, prove it.
*bbbzt*
Wrong answer, thanks for playing.
If you bothered to RTFA before whinging, you woudl realise just how wrong you are.
Clue - there is no 1GB/day hard limit.
Clue 2 - usage is averaged over a month - so unless you are planing to download those ISOs *EVERY SINGLE DAY*, then you will ahve zero problems - you download them one day, exceeding 1GB that day, no problem.
Download them EVERY day exceeing 30GB+ per month - well, you do have a problem, and not just from NTL's policy!
*bzzt*
Wrong answer, thanks for playing.
It is easy to get the login details of other users - I did this at Uni myself (many years ago) and over a few weeks I got the username and password of everyone in the department who were using those systems - Suns running SunOS which, last time I checked, is a unix-based system.
(It wasn't big and it wasn't clever, although in my defense all I did this for was to see if people woudl fall for it - I never used the passwords to do anything)
None at all as they are going to have obtained clearance for this - hell, the artists will be getting a cut from the sales anyway, so eveyone wins.
if they have cleared this in advance with the band / promoters / agents.
No problem whatsoever.
The mixdown and mastering won't be as good as it will be quick, but as a souvenir of the concert it'd be pretty cool!
"# "An error of type 1 has occured" no memory protection until OSX. What were they thinking? Losing your work is very user friendly"
Which is why MacOSX is memory protected and doesn't report errors in that way either.
Get with it, dude, you are 2+ years out of date with that rant.
"# To eject/umount a disk, drag it to the trash! "
No you don't.
You drag it over the "Eject" icon.
Even you can understand that, surely?
"# Floppy disks."
What are these antiquated things of which you speak?
Macs don't use floppies these days - haven't for years.
Look, if you are going to rant, at least try and rant about something current, as opposed to stuff that was fixed years ago.
Unless you woudl like me to rant about the problems in the Linux kernel 0.0.1, perhaps?
Let's see.
Your example of the Rolling Stones - they have been recording for 40 years, so there's one already.
Status Quo - Released first album in 1968, still going strong, still playing material even from back then.
Pink Floyd - 1967 and still going (although they don't seem to be doing much atm, but they were opening their gigs on their last tour with material from their 1967 album)
Queen - first album released 1973, still playhing material off that right to the very end. Still exist as a musical entity, most recently using their music in a musical in the West End.
there's 4 to be getting started with.
"Who can give a guarantee that nobody tampers with the results or creates a database with citizens voting information?"
Given that this can already be done now with existing paper-based voting (certainly in the UK and the US anyway), I don't see that it is any different.
I guess the best solution is to maintain the option for Internet or in-person voting, that way people can chose which way to vote as they please.
"Programmers need direct access to the code, and one wants to keep things updated as much as possible - which the OS community provides."
Great. JUST what I want when I am in brainsurgery - the robot doing the surgery is running code written by loads of clueless(*) amatures, instead of one written exclusivly by highly trained and experienced professionals and closely reviewed by their peers.
(*) Clueless about brainsurgery et al, which the vast majority of Linux coders are (as are the vast majority of everybody).
Linus works at Transmeta, so we are supposed to love Transmeta and everything they do.
Transmeta are implementing DRM, so we are supposed to hate Transmeta and everything they do.
Oh no! Simultaneous yet mutually exclusive conditions.
What do we do?
Do we like Transmeta or do we hate them?
TELL ME WHAT TO THINK, SLASHDOT!
I hope someone uploads it to their favourite P2P network soon, I can't wait to download a copy of this DVD!
"'Computer games are art and should be dealt with accordingly"
Rubbish.
By that argument, all films are also art and should be unclassified...
I see nothing wrong with a classification system for games so that they are played by appropriate audiences, and so that parents can make informed desicions when buyiong games.
Sounds pretty responsible to me.
OK, then what IS the sequel to "Lord Of The Rings", please?
I'll give you a huge clue - there isn;t one. Tolkein wrote the first chapter of a sequel, but it never got further than that.
There is no sequel to Lord Of The Rings.
You *could* try to claim that The Two Towers is a sequel to Fellowship Of The Ring (in terms of books, not movies), but even that is flawed - FOTR was 2 books, TTT was 2 books, and ROTK was 2 books, all of which made up the one story LOTR. The whole was written as a single entity, split into parts for ease of release etc.
(It's like saying "chapter 2 is the sequel to chapter 1"...)
Nope, not when I bought this Mac (with OSX10.2) two months ago - I had to download them from Apple's website.
Perhaps it is different in different countries?