But who honestly was thinking that such a system could really last on the long run?
What's next? Selling drugs on the net, or having a prostitute delivered to your doors, all of this with a lot of hype from different forms of media?
I used (a lot!) Napster, I downloaded plenty of CD that otherwise I would have bought. It's been nearly a year since I bough a CD. I'm only going to HMV (and the like...) to see what might be cool to download.
And I sure that I'm not the only one.
It's not a question of free speech, or saying that you wouldn't have bought this CD anyway, that's pure bullshit.
Situation: You're in court, you've been caught with 5 kilos of heroin. You: But my Honour, if didn't have this drug, I wouldn't have injected it..
What kind of a sick idea is that? It's the same thing I heard over over regarding "But I...." and Napster.
Let's Napster goes down. Yes, this is copyrighted material. Yes, legal action can be taken. No, you can't download those songs for free!.
If they let Napster running, what would be next? NapISO, where you can get the latest ISO from Adobe, MS, Corel for free and in a convenient way?
I don't if I'm wrong, but when I have a 3 days long weekend, I can find something else to do than wasting my time in building up such a stupid thing.
Why would you spent 5 days/week working on those damn machines, then, when you've go a weekend for yourself, you say "Hey, why not do something an old computer.. duh..".
Before that (about 15 years ago), I was introduced to computers in 6th grade with TRS80 and Coco. It was okay. We did some Logos, a little bit of BASIC. And our teachers knew a few things about computers. That's how I get hooked to computers. My parents then bought me a C64. Today, I'm programming (please, don't laugh!)RPG on AS/400. At least, I didn't scrap my career doing some web sites design.:)
If you can get great supports from the teachers, and not learning something totally pointless, it can be a wonderful way to learn.
But it can be disastrous if the teachers simply sit their class in front of their computers just to get a break. They have to stay with them to watch their progress, help them, motivate them.
Is it just in the Montreal's area where the upload speed is limited to 15k/sec for both cable (Videotron) and DSL (Bell)? This is extremely lame, and both can't provides a serious technical reason to this.
Of course, there's a mention that no personnal server is supposed to be running, but hey, there's no mention that the upload speed is limited to 15k/sec. So I used to host my server (web, ftp) from videotron. I recently cancelled my account however (i moved).
Furthermore, Videotron is charging extras if you download more than 6 gigs/month, or 1 gig in upload. Things are getting a little bit harder if you wish to run a server with this shitty, oops, sorry, i meant monopoliptic provider.
There's only 2 providers of high speed internet access to home customers in Montreal, bring a few more please.
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In that case, how will be Paladium be implanted? Does Phoenix will have (forced to?) have the paladium's required functions?
Oh yeah. Thanks.
I just filled out the application form, and almost cried.
... Sending an email to the sysop for an access, and sending the message by typing "/s".
I work in Montreal. My boss signed a few years long contract with a major solution provider.
:)
I won't name the company, but let's say it's a rather large one, and very very well known.
Oh well, XYZ billed our company 60k CAN$ to install a simple firewall running Linux.
If my company can afford a 60k$ firewall, they can certainly give me a good raise!
It's a sad situation, but let's be honest.
But who honestly was thinking that such a system could really last on the long run?
What's next? Selling drugs on the net, or having a prostitute delivered to your doors, all of this with a lot of hype from different forms of media?
I used (a lot!) Napster, I downloaded plenty of CD that otherwise I would have bought. It's been nearly a year since I bough a CD. I'm only going to HMV (and the like...) to see what might be cool to download.
And I sure that I'm not the only one.
It's not a question of free speech, or saying that you wouldn't have bought this CD anyway, that's pure bullshit.
Situation: You're in court, you've been caught with 5 kilos of heroin. You: But my Honour, if didn't have this drug, I wouldn't have injected it..
What kind of a sick idea is that? It's the same thing I heard over over regarding "But I...." and Napster.
Let's Napster goes down. Yes, this is copyrighted material. Yes, legal action can be taken. No, you can't download those songs for free!.
If they let Napster running, what would be next? NapISO, where you can get the latest ISO from Adobe, MS, Corel for free and in a convenient way?
Let's think about with for some time please...
I don't if I'm wrong, but when I have a 3 days long weekend, I can find something else to do than wasting my time in building up such a stupid thing.
Why would you spent 5 days/week working on those damn machines, then, when you've go a weekend for yourself, you say "Hey, why not do something an old computer.. duh..".
My 0.02 pissed off dollards...
How to finish Doom I... :)
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Before that (about 15 years ago), I was introduced to computers in 6th grade with TRS80 and Coco. It was okay. We did some Logos, a little bit of BASIC. And our teachers knew a few things about computers. That's how I get hooked to computers. My parents then bought me a C64. Today, I'm programming (please, don't laugh!)RPG on AS/400. At least, I didn't scrap my career doing some web sites design.
If you can get great supports from the teachers, and not learning something totally pointless, it can be a wonderful way to learn.
But it can be disastrous if the teachers simply sit their class in front of their computers just to get a break. They have to stay with them to watch their progress, help them, motivate them.
Is it just in the Montreal's area where the upload speed is limited to 15k/sec for both cable (Videotron) and DSL (Bell)? This is extremely lame, and both can't provides a serious technical reason to this.
Of course, there's a mention that no personnal server is supposed to be running, but hey, there's no mention that the upload speed is limited to 15k/sec. So I used to host my server (web, ftp) from videotron. I recently cancelled my account however (i moved).
Furthermore, Videotron is charging extras if you download more than 6 gigs/month, or 1 gig in upload. Things are getting a little bit harder if you wish to run a server with this shitty, oops, sorry, i meant monopoliptic provider.
There's only 2 providers of high speed internet access to home customers in Montreal, bring a few more please.