I dont, i'll continue to use Divx or Xvid. Being that both are either free or really cheap (for the pro ver of divx).
I dont buy thier claims that its any better than divx. To start with, thier samples are biased and most likely have been changed to show an advantage in thier product.
If they do in fact have a better quality then the comperable codecs, is it worth the cost of licening this codec for just a slight improvement in quality?
Let see here.... if we have 1 billion spams per day, at roughly 5kb per message, this equals to almost 5TB of wasted bandwidth. This is only what is caught. Now with this we can start estimating the costs per day for dealing with spam.
Lets consider bandwidth cost $1 per GB, AOL being as large as they are may be able to make that less. At that cost it is $5000 per day. This does not include the cost for extra equiptment to deal with the extra bandwidth, for people to write anti-spam software, etc. i'm going to estimate that it cost AOL over $10000 per day because of spam. or over 3.5 million in one year.
I tried it... but they need some improvments before i will try it again.
Prices: Compared to DVD rental at blockbuster... movielink is sometimes more expensive. You dont even get close to DVD quality. There is a convenice factor in the price and i expect that.
Quailty: Movie link is really poor. i dont like movies that are 320x240 standard. I did email them about this. they told me that in the near future they will make available widescreen movies. Hopefully at a res higher than 320x240.
Serivice: This is probably where they score the highest. I had no trouble paying for and downloading the movie i wanted to watch. I had mistyped my email address when i signed up and customer service made it really easy for me to fix that.
So in the end. I really think that movielink has potential. If they get less afraid that someone will copy thier movies.
I think this suit will draw more bad publicity than what the the peoples comments did... really i never heard of this until i read about the suit today.
Yes, That probably is a bootleg, as well as some of the other links... if the price looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Chinese bootlegers take the japan release dvd or record it from japan tv and release it on dvd region free with mandrin and sometimes english subtitles.
If you ever buy foriegn release anime.. take some time to make sure its a real copy.
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i'm hoping thats sarcasm... slashdot is one of the only sites that i really dont mind tracking me. but i really doubt doubleclick has anything to do with this site since it doesnt always get favorable coverage.
I guess if they make file swapping illeagal/immposible they would have no way of regaining the legal/lobbyest fees that they have already spent... but can the really expect to get much money out of a poor college student?
but if you have nothing to hide why should you be afraid of cameras in public places. if your a regular john doe your not going to get any attention paid to you. cellphones might be a little more worrysome if data fell into the wrong hands... but i think 911 locating it quite useful. What about the incedents your really not sure where you are? As for purchase tracking... have you heard of cash?
A few weeks ago I found a program for pop3 mailboxes that scans all incomming mail and against open relay lists. it also has options that allow you to whitelist an email address that got black listed. For the most part its been fairly accurate. For more information go here
I think that walmart adding lindows to the computers they sell is one of the worst things that could happen to linux. Here's why:
1.The average person that would by a buy a walmart computer is not going to be very computer savvy. They probably wont know the difference between windows and linux. What happens when that person buys windows software and assumes that it will run on his or her new computer?
2.Tech support. Most computer repair techs are familiar with windows, but not that many would be comfortable working with linux if at all. If they buyer needs help with running widows, they cant just call thier local computer guy.
There is one good thing with this, we finnaly have a version of windows thats easy for anyone with some computer knowlege to install and use. i know mandrake and red hat are supposed to be easy also, they still require a bit of technical knowlege.
I saw this movie on opening weekend and i was quite impressed. I was expecting something more uniquie like Momento. I still enjoyed this one anyway. i dont think it was good enough to deserve any oscars but certinaly worthy of an honorable mention.
I'd have to agree with that... just remove all the old electronics and put in standard computer parts, i'd say you got a very cool case... If you need to move it, just start up the engines
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Thier just making the situation worse by not pricematching. I tend not to buy stuff from Best buy anyway unless it something i need now and cant wait for shipping. They do have good deals on new games once and a while i'll admit that.
On an off topic note... i happen to live right across the street from the new best buy HQ. Because of it size they have to redo a nearby bridge to a freeway to accomade the potential traffic.
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I dont, i'll continue to use Divx or Xvid. Being that both are either free or really cheap (for the pro ver of divx).
I dont buy thier claims that its any better than divx. To start with, thier samples are biased and most likely have been changed to show an advantage in thier product.
If they do in fact have a better quality then the comperable codecs, is it worth the cost of licening this codec for just a slight improvement in quality?
KaZaA users suing the RIAA?
haha, good idea. I would only support this because i dont like the riaa or the mpaa for that matter not because i want people to pirate.
I just emailed them, they are working on adding dreamweaver support, as well as other studioMX applications.
Let see here....
if we have 1 billion spams per day, at roughly 5kb per message, this equals to almost 5TB of wasted bandwidth. This is only what is caught. Now with this we can start estimating the costs per day for dealing with spam.
Lets consider bandwidth cost $1 per GB, AOL being as large as they are may be able to make that less. At that cost it is $5000 per day. This does not include the cost for extra equiptment to deal with the extra bandwidth, for people to write anti-spam software, etc. i'm going to estimate that it cost AOL over $10000 per day because of spam. or over 3.5 million in one year.
I tried it... but they need some improvments before i will try it again.
Prices: Compared to DVD rental at blockbuster... movielink is sometimes more expensive. You dont even get close to DVD quality. There is a convenice factor in the price and i expect that.
Quailty: Movie link is really poor. i dont like movies that are 320x240 standard. I did email them about this. they told me that in the near future they will make available widescreen movies. Hopefully at a res higher than 320x240.
Serivice: This is probably where they score the highest. I had no trouble paying for and downloading the movie i wanted to watch. I had mistyped my email address when i signed up and customer service made it really easy for me to fix that.
So in the end. I really think that movielink has potential. If they get less afraid that someone will copy thier movies.
Give him a break... he could of just been testing the firewall when things went arry.
I only use windows as my desktop os.. any servers would run linux.
As much as i dont like m$ i would have to say that windows as a desktop is better than the linux desktop.
Untill all games run easily on windows and photoshop and 3dsmax are ported to linux (at least Mac OSX)... i'm staying with windows
There are 3 main packages 3dsmax, maya, and lightwave. Then a bunch of others such as electic image, houdini, bryce, blender etc...
Each of these packages take thier own methodology in interface and content creation.
The best one i found is 3dsMAX its powerful yet easy to use. Not to metion a standard in the industry.
Maya is much more confusing.. but it allows so much more custimization. If money is an issue, this is cheaper than 3dsmax.
I havent used lightwave much.
I think this suit will draw more bad publicity than what the the peoples comments did... really i never heard of this until i read about the suit today.
Yes, That probably is a bootleg, as well as some of the other links... if the price looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Chinese bootlegers take the japan release dvd or record it from japan tv and release it on dvd region free with mandrin and sometimes english subtitles.
If you ever buy foriegn release anime.. take some time to make sure its a real copy.
I'm using spampal for Windows with Outlook. i have the filters set up to forward it to the ftc and delete the email. Spampal is avalable here.
... Thats one billion windows licences microsoft wont sell... i wonder if the calculate that as a loss?
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i'm hoping thats sarcasm... slashdot is one of the only sites that i really dont mind tracking me. but i really doubt doubleclick has anything to do with this site since it doesnt always get favorable coverage.
I guess if they make file swapping illeagal/immposible they would have no way of regaining the legal/lobbyest fees that they have already spent... but can the really expect to get much money out of a poor college student?
but if you have nothing to hide why should you be afraid of cameras in public places. if your a regular john doe your not going to get any attention paid to you. cellphones might be a little more worrysome if data fell into the wrong hands... but i think 911 locating it quite useful. What about the incedents your really not sure where you are? As for purchase tracking... have you heard of cash?
A few weeks ago I found a program for pop3 mailboxes that scans all incomming mail and against open relay lists. it also has options that allow you to whitelist an email address that got black listed. For the most part its been fairly accurate. For more information go here
I think that walmart adding lindows to the computers they sell is one of the worst things that could happen to linux. Here's why:
1.The average person that would by a buy a walmart computer is not going to be very computer savvy. They probably wont know the difference between windows and linux. What happens when that person buys windows software and assumes that it will run on his or her new computer?
2.Tech support. Most computer repair techs are familiar with windows, but not that many would be comfortable working with linux if at all. If they buyer needs help with running widows, they cant just call thier local computer guy.
There is one good thing with this, we finnaly have a version of windows thats easy for anyone with some computer knowlege to install and use. i know mandrake and red hat are supposed to be easy also, they still require a bit of technical knowlege.
my $0.02
I remember reading this in the readers digest a few years ago.
I saw this movie on opening weekend and i was quite impressed. I was expecting something more uniquie like Momento. I still enjoyed this one anyway. i dont think it was good enough to deserve any oscars but certinaly worthy of an honorable mention.
The only way M$ will dominate the market is by a pyric victory, they will have to spend so much money it just isnt worth it in the end.
They have wizards for everything... this is definetly a level editor for dummies.
me thinks there should be a slashdot cache to protect the sites that undergo the slashdot effect.
I'd have to agree with that... just remove all the old electronics and put in standard computer parts, i'd say you got a very cool case... If you need to move it, just start up the engines
Thier just making the situation worse by not pricematching. I tend not to buy stuff from Best buy anyway unless it something i need now and cant wait for shipping. They do have good deals on new games once and a while i'll admit that.
On an off topic note... i happen to live right across the street from the new best buy HQ. Because of it size they have to redo a nearby bridge to a freeway to accomade the potential traffic.