I want Coke and Pepsi to vie for the rights to blow up bombs of red dye (for coke) or red and blue dye (for pepsi) all over the moon (in the shape of their respective trademarks) so that instead of that boring ol' grey blob we can see the conveniently round logo of whichever soft-drink company paid more for the most eyeballs anyone has ever gotton...
Houston has just been totally screwed over. I live in Humble, just outside of Houston and near Houston Intercontinental Airport, and the ONLY local telco provider is Sprint Local Services. Nobody is planning to offer DSL in this area... We can't even get Cable because we were owned by TCI before Warner and the lines are SO terrible... I literally live 10 minutes away from all sorts of high speed access, but for the next 2 or three years at least, I won't be able to get ANY of it...
At least you HAVE some sort of high speed access. Where I live, I can't get @home. I can't get any sort of cable-modem access. I can't get any sort of DSL. For christ's sake, I can't even get goddamned Sprint Local Services to get me an ISDN!!! So I know that it must suck for ya'll to have to quietly break your AUP, but just remember what it was like with 56k and remember that there are LOTS of people who can't get anything better.
The MPAA's first argument is that the music is their IP. Forget this for the moment. Their second argument (at least AFAIK) is that it hurts their industry. Too bad - march of progress, etc. Destruction of the Pony Express was not a (valid) reason to cut the telegraph wires.
So of course we now have "the artists"... And how it hurts them. I want to know why we need rock stars who are millionaires. Digital media won't kill live concerts and - stop me if I'm wrong - but I've heard of people making an honest living by performers. Modern music might actually be worthwhile if musicians were more entertaining...
So why do we have to perpetuate the music-industry-inspired childhood fantasy of the Rock Star who "loves to drive in his Jaguar" and "always ate at the steak bar"... "Welcome my son! Welcome to the machine!"...
Wasn't it (haha - idealistically) supposed to be that "the artists" were musicians because they loved their music above all else?
Anyone had any success using a Netopia R7100 w/ PPTP, MS-CHAPv2, and MPPE to link a non-routable LAN with another non-routable LAN via poptop or whatever (the server has, of course, a real ip address)?
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I want Coke and Pepsi to vie for the rights to blow up bombs of red dye (for coke) or red and blue dye (for pepsi) all over the moon (in the shape of their respective trademarks) so that instead of that boring ol' grey blob we can see the conveniently round logo of whichever soft-drink company paid more for the most eyeballs anyone has ever gotton...
Houston has just been totally screwed over. I live in Humble, just outside of Houston and near Houston Intercontinental Airport, and the ONLY local telco provider is Sprint Local Services. Nobody is planning to offer DSL in this area... We can't even get Cable because we were owned by TCI before Warner and the lines are SO terrible... I literally live 10 minutes away from all sorts of high speed access, but for the next 2 or three years at least, I won't be able to get ANY of it...
At least you HAVE some sort of high speed access. Where I live, I can't get @home. I can't get any sort of cable-modem access. I can't get any sort of DSL. For christ's sake, I can't even get goddamned Sprint Local Services to get me an ISDN!!! So I know that it must suck for ya'll to have to quietly break your AUP, but just remember what it was like with 56k and remember that there are LOTS of people who can't get anything better.
So of course we now have "the artists"... And how it hurts them. I want to know why we need rock stars who are millionaires. Digital media won't kill live concerts and - stop me if I'm wrong - but I've heard of people making an honest living by performers. Modern music might actually be worthwhile if musicians were more entertaining...
So why do we have to perpetuate the music-industry-inspired childhood fantasy of the Rock Star who "loves to drive in his Jaguar" and "always ate at the steak bar"... "Welcome my son! Welcome to the machine!"...
Wasn't it (haha - idealistically) supposed to be that "the artists" were musicians because they loved their music above all else?
Anyone had any success using a Netopia R7100 w/ PPTP, MS-CHAPv2, and MPPE to link a non-routable LAN with another non-routable LAN via poptop or whatever (the server has, of course, a real ip address)?