I've had no problems with download speed--usually maxing out my DSL, certainly faster than any p2p networks I've used. The downloaded songs are just mp3s, so you keep them forever. Selection doesn't rival audiogalaxy, alas, but they certainly have a lot outside of the mainstream.
I can say the same about many free MP3 sites, not the least of which is Epitonic.
Another mentioned the fact that a hunter firing at a falling monkey always hits the monkey no matter how far away it is, even though it drops just as the hunter fires.
I don't know, it doesn't seem to be site specific. 6.03 is more stable than the earlier 6.0 line, but it still just randomly dissappears, the same as the earlier versions. It's usually right after you click on a link (any link, even known good sites) It doesn't crash X, Opera just goes *poof*. I have to have javascript on for various sites to even work. I've convinced some of them that making your whole nav bar javascript is pretty dumb, but there are still a lot of sites out there like that.
Java support is a sore point. I still have not gotten Java to work in Opera. The closest I came was getting the coffee cup using the netscape 6 plugin from blackdown, the applet never finishes loading though. Yes, I tried the NS4 plugin first (I got black boxes only). Since I paid for Opera, I put in a priority support request, and they basically said "Yep, it's broken."
Luckily I don't need Java all that much in my browser, so I still use Opera a lot. Mozilla does seem to be moving quickly in comparison to the pretty slow development of Opera, however, that is why I say I may switch soon if things keep going this way.
You've got to understand, women are, in general, stupid and gullible. Religious older women are at least doubly more so. They have no concept of reality, past what is told them, so when someone says that LSD has rat poison in it, or that someone woke up with their kidneys missing, they are likely to believe it. I mean, if they buy the stuff about a big imaginary old white guy that is all powerful and all good, other things are trivial in comparison.
Opera is much slower. I heard how fast Opera was, so I downloaded it and watching as the images diffused before my eyes.
From what I can tell, Mozilla and the rest are constructing the page offscreen, then flipping it into view all at once. Opera seems to construct the page in pieces. With Mozilla and the like, It seems there is more delay before the page actually begins to display.
I use Opera almost exclusively, but I just downloaded Mozilla 1.1 to see if it was any better than the 1.0 prerelease I tried last. Moz 1.1 is indeed much better, faster loading, etc.
Recent versions of Opera Linux seem to crash a lot more than the 5.0 series did. With Mozilla improving so quickly, and Opera taking so long to stabilize the 6.0 series, I may start using Mozilla more.
<sarcasm> Boy, I'm glad you understand how HTML works. </sarcasm >
Re:Meanwhile, the press is completely unbiased...
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The smart people already get it. The time for subelty is over. Leave that to SNL and the satire web sites. We need to get through to everyone, not just the ones that get the subtle in-jokes and clues. DMCA+DRM is a disease that threatens general computing; this isn't about CDs and Elvis Costello, this is about the right to use your turing machine to manipulate bits and bytes how you want it to.
The government considers computers a weapon, and just like Gun Control Inc. wants to remove weapons from the hands of those who could use them to threaten the social order, the RIAA and MPAA are a harbingers of a larger picture... The disarmament of the public.
Those in power want to stay in power, and private ownership of high speed turing machines, and firearms, and many other things that are being lobbied against, are a threat that must be eliminated.
at), I had to go online and pick up a license file for each track (and fill in a form on a pop-up window for the first one, giving them a BS name and address).
I think you are missing the point of the article, as the Slashdot title implies...
"How to boil a frog"...
You turn up the heat slowly.... of course. This time you had to do some annoying stuff, and fill in some bogus info on some forms. It's the "next time" we are worried about.
I used to have a C64 text RPG type game that had that typo in the actual program. It took me forever to figure out what "You but the potion" meant. Being about 7 or 8 years old at the time, I figured it might be british slang or something I wasn't aware of.
I'm perplexed where this idea that "property is theft" came from, and what does it have to say about "You own your own body"? Did you steal it from your parents?
Heh, yeah. I think there are a good chunk of people who want reasonable reform, but just go a little overboard sometimes though.
I too don't completely understand the neo-Marxist/Anarcho-Communist philosophy that seems popular among many younger people. I think it stems from a very screwed up message that kids are getting from music and movies, news and propaganda.
They know that government interference is generally bad, they believe in freedom and individual responsibility(sometimes), and they see the damage that runaway criminal corporations do, so their conclusion is a mix of anarchy and communism, to strike back against the governments and corporations that hinder them, in a knee-jerk way, mixing anarchy and communism.
I don't think they have the long term vision to see that it's not capitalism and the free market that is to blame for the abuses of corporations, it's criminal collusion between corporations and governments usually, or other criminal acts on the parts of the corporation, that prevent the free market from operating properly.
I think they also don't see that government is a necessary evil, but only when it serves the sole purpose to protect individual rights, and to protect the free market.
When I questioned one of these types on how his system would play out, it sort of fell apart at the enforcement stage. He proposed that everyone own everything, and everyone would work together for the common good, with no power structures. I asked him how he would prevent people from leeching off the work of others, and he answered that they would just not be able to reap the benefits of the work of others if they didn't contribute. When I asked him how he proposed to prevent them from getting the benefit without a central power structure to enforce the rules, things sort of fell apart, or rather, they just went in circles.
So, in all, I think most of the "property is theft" people just don't think it out throughly enough to understand the implications of what they advocate.
Write the DMA (see near the bottom of the page.) I did it and my junk mail was reduced, but not eliminated. I get a lot less national stuff though, most of what is left is local offers.
You are a rockin' maniac. You are a singin' hyena. You are a rock star in Jesus' name. You can really rock Sadam Hussein's ass. You are so lovable to me in the long run. ALANIS MORISSETTE!
possible point of having wireless net access if I still need to have line-of-sight connectivity?
Shooting the signal over a luddite neighbor's land without his consent or knowledge?
With good enough antennas, you should be able to get this going 200-300 feet or more line of site, neglecting rain, which is more of a problem than with 802.11b.
Also, if your walls are non-metallic and non-conductive, they are going to be pretty invisible to the radio most likely.
The problem with patent laws isn't so much with the laws, it's with the USPTO. They seem to have an attitude of "patent em all and let the courts sort em out", which means the only winners are the lawyers.
Software patents are also a big problem. How can you patent math? Math, and by extension, algorithms, aren't invented, they are discovered. Allowing patents on basic algorithms and the obvious applications of those algorithms does more to stifle than anything else.
This is going offtopic, and I usually agree with you, being mostly Libertarian myself, as you seem to be, but keep in mind that all IP laws are synthetic crutches, created to offset failures in the free market. IP laws must strike a careful balance, and in certain areas that balance is currently way off.
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I've had no problems with download speed--usually maxing out my DSL, certainly faster than any p2p networks I've used. The downloaded songs are just mp3s, so you keep them forever. Selection doesn't rival audiogalaxy, alas, but they certainly have a lot outside of the mainstream.
I can say the same about many free MP3 sites, not the least of which is Epitonic.
Another mentioned the fact that a hunter firing at a falling monkey always hits the monkey no matter how far away it is, even though it drops just as the hunter fires.
Heh...
I don't know, it doesn't seem to be site specific. 6.03 is more stable than the earlier 6.0 line, but it still just randomly dissappears, the same as the earlier versions. It's usually right after you click on a link (any link, even known good sites) It doesn't crash X, Opera just goes *poof*.
I have to have javascript on for various sites to even work. I've convinced some of them that making your whole nav bar javascript is pretty dumb, but there are still a lot of sites out there like that.
Java support is a sore point. I still have not gotten Java to work in Opera. The closest I came was getting the coffee cup using the netscape 6 plugin from blackdown, the applet never finishes loading though. Yes, I tried the NS4 plugin first (I got black boxes only). Since I paid for Opera, I put in a priority support request, and they basically said "Yep, it's broken."
Luckily I don't need Java all that much in my browser, so I still use Opera a lot. Mozilla does seem to be moving quickly in comparison to the pretty slow development of Opera, however, that is why I say I may switch soon if things keep going this way.
You've got to understand, women are, in general, stupid and gullible. Religious older women are at least doubly more so. They have no concept of reality, past what is told them, so when someone says that LSD has rat poison in it, or that someone woke up with their kidneys missing, they are likely to believe it. I mean, if they buy the stuff about a big imaginary old white guy that is all powerful and all good, other things are trivial in comparison.
Oh, so now that Slashdot changed the story to include the real link, I'm going to get modded to hell as redundant. Great
In a related story, Lego(tm) joined the long list of toys banned on planes today.
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Opera is much slower. I heard how fast Opera was, so I downloaded it and watching as the images diffused before my eyes.
From what I can tell, Mozilla and the rest are constructing the page offscreen, then flipping it into view all at once. Opera seems to construct the page in pieces. With Mozilla and the like, It seems there is more delay before the page actually begins to display.
I use Opera almost exclusively, but I just downloaded Mozilla 1.1 to see if it was any better than the 1.0 prerelease I tried last. Moz 1.1 is indeed much better, faster loading, etc.
Recent versions of Opera Linux seem to crash a lot more than the 5.0 series did. With Mozilla improving so quickly, and Opera taking so long to stabilize the 6.0 series, I may start using Mozilla more.
This has nothing to do with money, it has everything to do with control.
Relax.. it's a quote from Gattaca.
:)
Heh, OK. Someone mod me down.
This pseudo-mystical shit flies here? I thought most of the people here believed in science.
(too bad Slash is stripping sarcasm tags)
<sarcasm> Boy, I'm glad you understand how HTML works. </sarcasm >
The smart people already get it. The time for subelty is over. Leave that to SNL and the satire web sites. We need to get through to everyone, not just the ones that get the subtle in-jokes and clues. DMCA+DRM is a disease that threatens general computing; this isn't about CDs and Elvis Costello, this is about the right to use your turing machine to manipulate bits and bytes how you want it to.
The government considers computers a weapon, and just like Gun Control Inc. wants to remove weapons from the hands of those who could use them to threaten the social order, the RIAA and MPAA are a harbingers of a larger picture... The disarmament of the public.
Those in power want to stay in power, and private ownership of high speed turing machines, and firearms, and many other things that are being lobbied against, are a threat that must be eliminated.
at), I had to go online and pick up a license file for each track (and fill in a form on a pop-up window for the first one, giving them a BS name and address).
I think you are missing the point of the article, as the Slashdot title implies...
"How to boil a frog"...
You turn up the heat slowly.... of course. This time you had to do some annoying stuff, and fill in some bogus info on some forms. It's the "next time" we are worried about.
I used to have a C64 text RPG type game that had that typo in the actual program. It took me forever to figure out what "You but the potion" meant. Being about 7 or 8 years old at the time, I figured it might be british slang or something I wasn't aware of.
I'm perplexed where this idea that "property is theft" came from, and what does it have to say about "You own your own body"? Did you steal it from your parents?
Heh, yeah. I think there are a good chunk of people who want reasonable reform, but just go a little overboard sometimes though.
I too don't completely understand the neo-Marxist/Anarcho-Communist philosophy that seems popular among many younger people. I think it stems from a very screwed up message that kids are getting from music and movies, news and propaganda.
They know that government interference is generally bad, they believe in freedom and individual responsibility(sometimes), and they see the damage that runaway criminal corporations do, so their conclusion is a mix of anarchy and communism, to strike back against the governments and corporations that hinder them, in a knee-jerk way, mixing anarchy and communism.
I don't think they have the long term vision to see that it's not capitalism and the free market that is to blame for the abuses of corporations, it's criminal collusion between corporations and governments usually, or other criminal acts on the parts of the corporation, that prevent the free market from operating properly.
I think they also don't see that government is a necessary evil, but only when it serves the sole purpose to protect individual rights, and to protect the free market.
When I questioned one of these types on how his system would play out, it sort of fell apart at the enforcement stage. He proposed that everyone own everything, and everyone would work together for the common good, with no power structures. I asked him how he would prevent people from leeching off the work of others, and he answered that they would just not be able to reap the benefits of the work of others if they didn't contribute. When I asked him how he proposed to prevent them from getting the benefit without a central power structure to enforce the rules, things sort of fell apart, or rather, they just went in circles.
So, in all, I think most of the "property is theft" people just don't think it out throughly enough to understand the implications of what they advocate.
Write the DMA (see near the bottom of the page.) I did it and my junk mail was reduced, but not eliminated. I get a lot less national stuff though, most of what is left is local offers.
You are a rockin' maniac.
You are a singin' hyena.
You are a rock star in Jesus' name.
You can really rock Sadam Hussein's ass.
You are so lovable to me in the long run.
ALANIS MORISSETTE!
-Wesley Willis
possible point of having wireless net access if I still need to have line-of-sight connectivity?
Shooting the signal over a luddite neighbor's land without his consent or knowledge?
With good enough antennas, you should be able to get this going 200-300 feet or more line of site, neglecting rain, which is more of a problem than with 802.11b.
Also, if your walls are non-metallic and non-conductive, they are going to be pretty invisible to the radio most likely.
Maybe the story just isn't very interesting?
Also, it's prime time Sunday TV time across the USA right now.
The problem with patent laws isn't so much with the laws, it's with the USPTO. They seem to have an attitude of "patent em all and let the courts sort em out", which means the only winners are the lawyers.
Software patents are also a big problem. How can you patent math? Math, and by extension, algorithms, aren't invented, they are discovered. Allowing patents on basic algorithms and the obvious applications of those algorithms does more to stifle than anything else.
This is going offtopic, and I usually agree with you, being mostly Libertarian myself, as you seem to be, but keep in mind that all IP laws are synthetic crutches, created to offset failures in the free market. IP laws must strike a careful balance, and in certain areas that balance is currently way off.
the whole idea of prison is to keep individuals from physically harming others
You must have missed that whole "War on Drugs" thing that's been happening the last several decades.
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Are you sure about that?
I wasn't really referring to the part I quoted, I meant his whole message looked like some 10 year old typed it.
the coursework required by college courses is more than is required to get certified
Apparently you failed English several times?