134 inches diagonal of pr0n in your living room, I mean, MAN! It's a new experience:-)
All this for just, like, $1k today. Plus some $100s for a good projection cloth.
That way you're out much less than if you buy one of these screens. Plus, you have one hell of a movie rig (which serves as an excellent official excuse).
(As for the flight sim freaks, I'm not really sure... but pr0n freaks probably outnumber them anyway...)
Don't know if it was intended as funny, either. In any case it's goddamn for real.
Corporations need to understand that people ARE prepared to pay, if served music conveniently in forms THEY want, which is not the form currently pushed.
People will always get music in the most convenient way. Emusic stood a fighting chance, but doesn't with this move. The poster is so right -- it's back to P2P.
Not that P2P is perfect. The first corp to launch a reasonably-priced download-all-you-want service is going to RAKE in money. The key here, however, is CONVENIENCE and QUALITY. P2P has the convenience, but not consistent quality. (For instance, I downloaded a Britney Spears track once by accident; I'm still recovering from the shock.) Anyway, if you can provide both convenience and consistent good quality, then you have a winner.
The "back to Kazaa" comment is VERY real. Is it really that hard to understand one of the basic tenets of capitalism, that you have to give the customer what they want, how they want it, and when they want it, in order to obtain their money?
(And please, no comments about "but Kazaa is stealing" or such. I'm trying to make a point about human behavior and how to shape laws and business in light of that behavior; current laws are not relevant to the argument.)
You Americans talk about your federal pound-me-in-the-ass prisons as if the punishment of being raped daily is somehow fitting for the bad guys. "He did a bad thing, so he deserves the worst he can get."
Are you seriously thinking this way about sending somebody to what amounts to a rape camp, and shutting them in there for the rest of their life? Seriously?
How would you look on a woman being sent to such a camp for five years, to be raped by men daily? Feel disgust when you read that and try to comprehend it - the total barbaricness of it? Then, tell me, why is it so different when a man is being sent to such an experience? On top of that, typically a heterosexual man?
The former Iraqi government used to punish bad people by rape, they say. The Iraqis, however, were not _proud_ of that.
ZoneAlarm is actually a lot worse than being hard to configure, or sometimes botching up the network layers.
It corrupts VALID traffic, too. As in changing bits that are supposed to get through unchanged. Just a year ago, I would have dismissed this as FUD. However, I was a heavy P2P user at one time and had ZA'd my box. 75% of all downloads came home corrupt and I was tearing my hair, did I really have this bad codecs (almost none of the movies worked) or is there just so much junk out there?
I googled around a bit and found a tip to remove ZA. Not just disable it, but remove it. I did. Lo and behold, not a corrupt download since.
Anecdotal? Absolutely. Enough for me not to trust ZA on my network ever again? Just as absolutely. This time it was replaceable downloads I didn't care the world for, the next time it may be me shuffling my code archive to and from a backup server while replacing a hard drive.
This just adds to other small annoyances I've had with ZA (like killing my bandwidth intermittently), but not being able to trust it to keep my data intact was an instant GTFOMS for that piece of software.
If Zone Labs had acked the troubles, visibly devoted effort to resolving them, explained the causes, and worked with their customer base to SOLVE these damn problems, then it may be a different story. Now they're just pretending like it's a happy happy world with shiny happy people, which makes them not trustworthy to me.
(if a rep from Zone is reading this, feel free to contact me)
I can't WAIT for the first 802.11g-enabled wristwatch, imagine being able to link up ad-hoc to a dozen other watches and be able to......uhm......to tell time twelve times as efficiently!
Help BSA (whom I hate and I think are morally unjust), or cause trouble to telemarketers, whom I hate just as much?
Decisions, decisions.
I choose the high ground and good karma today. Creating over destroying, helping over tearing down. Sharing should be allowed, legal, and considered helpful. I will not report. I will not help the BSA.
Your second search is formatted like a U.S. phone number, so I'd say going into calculator mode when searching for phone numbers would be a misdesign...
No, Enterprise users won't settle for interruptions. It's the IT guy's work to figure out how to make a noninterruptible environment as cheap as possible.
Such a solution may well involve ultra cheap drives (one-third the cost of reliable ones) in a redundant RAID setup with hotspares, for example.
If I flagrantly violate the Windows EULA by decompiling, reverse engineering, benchmarking, and doing who-knows-what else to it, could I then absolve myself of this by telling them, "I just did it to see if you guys were up to anything illegal"?
No, but you can absolve yourself by telling them, "I live in Europe where your screw-the-customers policy does not apply, as reverse engineering is always legal regardless of contractual terms. So, up yours."
I believe this applies to most of the non-US (and perhaps some of the US states as well? California springs to mind as having a lot of foresight here...)
My point is that the EULA shouldn't be taken as literally as it's written. It's overbroad on purpose, and unenforceable in large portions.
As for the applicability of this to the Kazaa EULA... well, in the US, money and lawyers seem to be able to accomplish amazing things with society.
I'm on front row already, now all I need is popcorn...
The only French I remember from primary school is "Mon genou pliant n'a plus d'ecrevisses", a sentence I constructed to include as many words as possible of those we had for homework that day.
It means "My collapsible knee is out of crayfish". Almost as useful as the German language course from the movie "Top Secret!", with such gems as "Ich habe Sauerkraut in meine Lederhosen" and "Der Blitz ist in der Flaschmatusche".
If you ask me, the response would be that stupid and trivial software patents aren't, algorithm and process patents aren't, computerized 14th century practices aren't, whereas those that are classic patents that just happens to involve a computer, like "method for improving output of sawmill involving computerized scales and sorting" or similar, will be.
But IANAL. In any case, in my view of the world, this directive is a step forward from the current situation.
(Especially given that everything interop is nonpatentable and noninfringing.)
There are _tons_ of software patents in the EU. It's just that their status have been rather undetermined, and filing for such a patent - while possible - has been a sort of a gamble, as nobody has known the future of their enforceability.
Now, thanks to this directive, we do know. And I think it's a huge step forward, and in the right direction to boot.
...exactly this IS my plan B; opening my hard drives and embedding thermite into the unused space between the circle-shaped discs and rectangle-shaped outer cover. There's usually space at the far end from the read/write heads.
As for making thermite, it's not very hard grinding common iron rust and aluminum dust together, is it? Based on the atomic weight of Fe2O3 + 2 Al => 2 Fe + Al2O3? The trick is to ignite the stuff, you need something like burning magnesium. And, in the case of hard drives, you need to press it to a solid form from the dust to embed in the casings.
(As for anybody stupid enough to try this from this post -- DON'T. Thermite burns at over 2,500 degrees C; droplets of melted IRON is usually fretting about violently when thermite burns. This is the only time ever I've seen iron melt. Thermite is so violent it fits right into the saying "Death is what happens to stupid people who try dangerous things.")
Then again, that is why I want to encase it in my hard drives: out of harm for me, but certainly not for the data I might want to destroy. Anybody have pointers to how to solve these problems?
Why didn't I ever think of that? I used the C000- video area from time to time when I was only using text mode (aah, nothing like 704k of DOS memory), but why didn't I enable this?
GAAAAAH!
*bangs head*
There, better now. Where was I? Ohyes, I need another 512M to play PlanetSide better...
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Nah, you buy a projector instead.
:-)
134 inches diagonal of pr0n in your living room, I mean, MAN! It's a new experience
All this for just, like, $1k today. Plus some $100s for a good projection cloth.
That way you're out much less than if you buy one of these screens. Plus, you have one hell of a movie rig (which serves as an excellent official excuse).
(As for the flight sim freaks, I'm not really sure... but pr0n freaks probably outnumber them anyway...)
Don't know if it was intended as funny, either. In any case it's goddamn for real.
Corporations need to understand that people ARE prepared to pay, if served music conveniently in forms THEY want, which is not the form currently pushed.
People will always get music in the most convenient way. Emusic stood a fighting chance, but doesn't with this move. The poster is so right -- it's back to P2P.
Not that P2P is perfect. The first corp to launch a reasonably-priced download-all-you-want service is going to RAKE in money. The key here, however, is CONVENIENCE and QUALITY. P2P has the convenience, but not consistent quality. (For instance, I downloaded a Britney Spears track once by accident; I'm still recovering from the shock.) Anyway, if you can provide both convenience and consistent good quality, then you have a winner.
The "back to Kazaa" comment is VERY real. Is it really that hard to understand one of the basic tenets of capitalism, that you have to give the customer what they want, how they want it, and when they want it, in order to obtain their money?
(And please, no comments about "but Kazaa is stealing" or such. I'm trying to make a point about human behavior and how to shape laws and business in light of that behavior; current laws are not relevant to the argument.)
You Americans talk about your federal pound-me-in-the-ass prisons as if the punishment of being raped daily is somehow fitting for the bad guys. "He did a bad thing, so he deserves the worst he can get."
Are you seriously thinking this way about sending somebody to what amounts to a rape camp, and shutting them in there for the rest of their life? Seriously?
How would you look on a woman being sent to such a camp for five years, to be raped by men daily? Feel disgust when you read that and try to comprehend it - the total barbaricness of it? Then, tell me, why is it so different when a man is being sent to such an experience? On top of that, typically a heterosexual man?
The former Iraqi government used to punish bad people by rape, they say. The Iraqis, however, were not _proud_ of that.
Why are Americans?
ZoneAlarm is actually a lot worse than being hard to configure, or sometimes botching up the network layers.
It corrupts VALID traffic, too. As in changing bits that are supposed to get through unchanged. Just a year ago, I would have dismissed this as FUD. However, I was a heavy P2P user at one time and had ZA'd my box. 75% of all downloads came home corrupt and I was tearing my hair, did I really have this bad codecs (almost none of the movies worked) or is there just so much junk out there?
I googled around a bit and found a tip to remove ZA. Not just disable it, but remove it. I did. Lo and behold, not a corrupt download since.
Anecdotal? Absolutely. Enough for me not to trust ZA on my network ever again? Just as absolutely. This time it was replaceable downloads I didn't care the world for, the next time it may be me shuffling my code archive to and from a backup server while replacing a hard drive.
This just adds to other small annoyances I've had with ZA (like killing my bandwidth intermittently), but not being able to trust it to keep my data intact was an instant GTFOMS for that piece of software.
If Zone Labs had acked the troubles, visibly devoted effort to resolving them, explained the causes, and worked with their customer base to SOLVE these damn problems, then it may be a different story. Now they're just pretending like it's a happy happy world with shiny happy people, which makes them not trustworthy to me.
(if a rep from Zone is reading this, feel free to contact me)
I can't WAIT for the first 802.11g-enabled wristwatch, imagine being able to link up ad-hoc to a dozen other watches and be able to... ...uhm... ...to tell time twelve times as efficiently!
I still prefer to measure my hard drives in Libraries of Congress. It is a standardized unit that everybody knows about.
At least, that was until some coding shop sold me a drive that would hold 20 GLoCs, and it turns out they meant gigalines of CODE! I feel so cheated.
And here you are complaining about, what, a 7.5% difference?
This is outrageous! I demand that Terrans and the NCs get something equally cool!
:-)
Or at least that I get a chance to try this new stuff out myself.
(whaddayaknow, the sad thing is that nobody will get this reference)
Help BSA (whom I hate and I think are morally unjust), or cause trouble to telemarketers, whom I hate just as much?
Decisions, decisions.
I choose the high ground and good karma today. Creating over destroying, helping over tearing down. Sharing should be allowed, legal, and considered helpful. I will not report. I will not help the BSA.
I will not assist a dysfunctional system.
Your second search is formatted like a U.S. phone number, so I'd say going into calculator mode when searching for phone numbers would be a misdesign...
This is probably the first post EVER that I see that has a moderation of (5, Troll).
How did this get modded "Informative"? An enjoyable read for sure, but "Informative"? :-) :-)
A comprehensive list of phone numbers to telemarketing call centers
I am sure they want to talk to people, as lonely as they must be.
Let's start from the top? I'll start from the top myself, and I'll have my fax machine start from the bottom.
in large block letters all over the front. Works rather efficiently.
My pr0n my pr0n my precious pr0n!
Enterprise users wouldn't settle for less.
No, Enterprise users won't settle for interruptions. It's the IT guy's work to figure out how to make a noninterruptible environment as cheap as possible.
Such a solution may well involve ultra cheap drives (one-third the cost of reliable ones) in a redundant RAID setup with hotspares, for example.
If I flagrantly violate the Windows EULA by decompiling, reverse engineering, benchmarking, and doing who-knows-what else to it, could I then absolve myself of this by telling them, "I just did it to see if you guys were up to anything illegal"?
No, but you can absolve yourself by telling them, "I live in Europe where your screw-the-customers policy does not apply, as reverse engineering is always legal regardless of contractual terms. So, up yours."
I believe this applies to most of the non-US (and perhaps some of the US states as well? California springs to mind as having a lot of foresight here...)
My point is that the EULA shouldn't be taken as literally as it's written. It's overbroad on purpose, and unenforceable in large portions.
As for the applicability of this to the Kazaa EULA... well, in the US, money and lawyers seem to be able to accomplish amazing things with society.
I'm on front row already, now all I need is popcorn...
The only French I remember from primary school is "Mon genou pliant n'a plus d'ecrevisses", a sentence I constructed to include as many words as possible of those we had for homework that day.
It means "My collapsible knee is out of crayfish". Almost as useful as the German language course from the movie "Top Secret!", with such gems as "Ich habe Sauerkraut in meine Lederhosen" and "Der Blitz ist in der Flaschmatusche".
What were those recommendations and amendments? And, more importantly, why were they chosen, and what is their effect?
If you ask me, the response would be that stupid and trivial software patents aren't, algorithm and process patents aren't, computerized 14th century practices aren't, whereas those that are classic patents that just happens to involve a computer, like "method for improving output of sawmill involving computerized scales and sorting" or similar, will be.
But IANAL. In any case, in my view of the world, this directive is a step forward from the current situation.
(Especially given that everything interop is nonpatentable and noninfringing.)
There are _tons_ of software patents in the EU. It's just that their status have been rather undetermined, and filing for such a patent - while possible - has been a sort of a gamble, as nobody has known the future of their enforceability.
Now, thanks to this directive, we do know. And I think it's a huge step forward, and in the right direction to boot.
(Given that it passes, at least.)
...exactly this IS my plan B; opening my hard drives and embedding thermite into the unused space between the circle-shaped discs and rectangle-shaped outer cover. There's usually space at the far end from the read/write heads.
As for making thermite, it's not very hard grinding common iron rust and aluminum dust together, is it? Based on the atomic weight of Fe2O3 + 2 Al => 2 Fe + Al2O3? The trick is to ignite the stuff, you need something like burning magnesium. And, in the case of hard drives, you need to press it to a solid form from the dust to embed in the casings.
(As for anybody stupid enough to try this from this post -- DON'T. Thermite burns at over 2,500 degrees C; droplets of melted IRON is usually fretting about violently when thermite burns. This is the only time ever I've seen iron melt. Thermite is so violent it fits right into the saying "Death is what happens to stupid people who try dangerous things.")
Then again, that is why I want to encase it in my hard drives: out of harm for me, but certainly not for the data I might want to destroy. Anybody have pointers to how to solve these problems?
Why didn't I ever think of that? I used the C000- video area from time to time when I was only using text mode (aah, nothing like 704k of DOS memory), but why didn't I enable this?
GAAAAAH!
*bangs head*
There, better now. Where was I? Ohyes, I need another 512M to play PlanetSide better...
Probably. And that $1.75 is a rebate coupon towards their next case with that law firm...
:-)
I love some parts about the American economy, but only because I'm not American.
It's a half BILLION dollar lawsuit.
$500M, not $500k.
Specifically, 521 million dollars.
Something tells me Eolas broke out the champagne after that verdict...
Reading anything before you voice your opinion goes against the spirit of a true Slashdotter. :-)
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(ok, so I agree, I should have)