I believe Office XP is 10.0 also. What would really be interesting is compare the metadata or actual file raw data (strings, hex view etc..) between the Apple and the Windows versions. I do not have access to an Mac but I doubt that the two versions of Office would create the exact same file, meaning there is probably a trackable difference between the two.
For the last week or so I have been leaving a machine with KaZaa Lite running non stop.
Even though I am capped at 128kbits upload, people have still managed to pull between 500MB to roughly 750MB a day from it. Only amature car/street racing videos and the psyche iso's. NO illegal material at all. The RIAA/MPAA can kiss my ass. P2P has a purpose and I am using it in that manner.
What about FTP, usenet, IRC, IM's? The list goes on and on. Maybe the RIAA/MPAA should skip the middleman and complain to the retailers that are selling computers to students. That would solve the copyright and bandwidth problems.
5 step process for outdated business model, if you can't beat 'em:
Not just NASA. There are quite a few nuclear reactor protection systems based on the 8086/8088. I really don't think these chips are any different then what you could buy from an electronics store. We performed our own signature and time response testing after replacing anything so they were well tested prior to use.
Unlisted, unpublished phone number is a simple solution. I get maybe one truely unsolicited call every three months. I still get the calls from Sears, AT&T and their "affiliates" etc.. because I had past business with them but a simple "DO NOT CALL" is weeding them out also. The only disadvantage is a monthly fee which I feel I should not have to pay but this method does work.
When asked about security Mundie states: "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently."
I interpet this as: People ASSUMED they were getting something secure. When they realized they were not they went elsewhere to find something that was. Microsoft ironically wants to be the elsewhere too. They can get there two ways. Make the product more secure the first time, or continue as normal and sell yet something else on top of or next to the other product. A tier level of security I guess. Seems like a very odd way to operate..
Actually ANY cell phone with or without service will allow 911 calls (so I've read here). The programming required is to change the originating number to 123-456-7890 so the 911 operator knows it is a 911 only phone and can not get call backs.
They are going to "only watch traffic patterns". Oh fucking bullshit.
I used to make a daily trip between 2 exits on the PA turnpike. I often completed the 23 mile trip in 17-20 minutes. The speed limit is 65 but based on the tickets time stamps I was clearly going faster. I don't know if the booths are time synced but I was waiting for the day I would be asked to pull to the side and wait for an officer.
Taking over an existing contract is not the same as building someone from the ground up. The larger the business the more complex the systems and the more interaction between them. You are contracting out to save money, letting a contractor come in and replace everything to what they know or the current standard is not exactly going to reduce the bottom line. More so for a large world wide company.
I worked for an airline that outsourced a majority of thier work in the mid 90's. Result? Enough of the employees whose job was working with all that equipment (ticket agents, gate agents and everyone in between) complained enough and three years later the company hired the IT staff back.
The savings on paper was pretty good and most likely was the only thing that they really saw. The long term effect was very low quality work with response times that were not adequate for an airline. I'm sure these things could have been addressed better in the support contract for a price, but that price would have gone up and the deal would not have looked as good on paper.
Maybe BitKeeper can't help if Subversion takes that market on its own, but they are not going to help them do it.
What if Chevy forbid you from driving your Camaro to a Ford dealer. What if Cingular Wireless blocked the customer service and sales numbers for Sprint, AT@T, or NexTel?
What if all Compaq computers were forbidden from browsing Dell websites?
You could go on and on with dumb examples.
EULA's are not some type of new law. They can restate parts of the law (copyright notice etc..)but do not make any new ones. If you violate one of the vendors addon's what is the penalty? Voiding the clickthru "contract" and giving your one copy of the software back? Big deal.
You may not get to that price point for some time but.. why do they have to be printed? My family had the same hangup for the first year we had our DC.
I am sure this was mentioned in another thread but a direct price comparision a Click and Run and MS Windows is not possible.
Windows does NOT come loaded with applications. There are some basic MS plugs to get you hooked on other MS products but nothing more. C&R has many tools that would easily be worth many times over the $129 cost if you bought the Windows only comparables. With this comparision, the $129 is a very good deal in terms of overall functionality. On the other side though, you could load $YOUR_DISTRO and get almost the same applications for free and install them yourself. Which will the average consumer rather have? I do not know but it appears that Lindows's business model depends on the C&R.
I too am in DC. We have Sprint and I've had no problems yet. I to have been using SSH all day to home (Comcast) in Northern VA which is only 13 hops with nothing greater then 11ms and to a few places in Hawaii. None of which are currently using UUNet. All working fine there.
I've had slightly better luck. I almost have disks 1 through 4 in less then 24 hours. Taking some time but thanks to ncftp and bgget its been pretty easy. I used Google with different keywords trying to find the not so popular mirrors and have been having some luck with that.
I have been doing this periodically since this was last posted on./ If you browse at some of the other catagories you can find some as high as $6. With Opera you can click on a link to open in background. Do this for about 5-10 links and then go back and close them. You can do this without ever looking at them.
I think the statement from Sergiu Luchian, the Dig's Intelligent Transportation Systems Manager, sums up the multibillion dollar project nicely. He states "I think we can do it." I doubt he had that attitude when he initially applied for his position.
Actually the 99 Cobra has 3.27 gears stock. This coupled with the IRS (less wheel hop), my crappy street tires, and the torque band difference between the 4.6 and 5.0 make the difference. I use BFGoodrich Comp TA VR4's. Not a very good tire for performance because it is a harder compound, but the only tire I have ever had on the car that gets more then 40k miles. The problem with the lower numerical gears is that the car either bogs down or breaks and spins too much. With BFG drag radials I can get decent 60ft times launching at 4500 rpm's.
Did not mean to flame anyone or start a flame war. I am not bragging about anything here, I know a Mustang is a low budget car with piss poor handling from the factory. I knew this when I only paid $15k for it brand new. Just trying to make a point about flooring it when dumping the clutch Consider your statement.. You are telling me that I have a complex and I bought a Mustang to compensate for it and in the same paragraph telling me how much better the world thinks of your decision? I admire and am interested in the technology and the overall package the BWM's offer. I do not admire the owners that bought the offering and somehow connect themselves with the product like they were part of it. Your only connection with BMW is the paper work you signed at the dealer. Not much of an accomplishment on your part. That Mr AC, is someone trying to compensate for something.
I don't think this qualifies as an easter egg or a design flaw but old Mopars (mid 60's to late 70's) had leakage through the heater blower motor that allowed you to listen to the radio without the keys. If you hit the brakes, turned on the turn signal, and had the heater motor on any position but off, the radio would work. My friends dad worked for a Dodge dealer in the mid 70's and we used to play around in the cars.
Maybe I am missing the point of the story... Now, hold forward the gear selector, and floor it
Floor it? Is the sole purpose of this to simply do a burnout or possibly a 360? This will not get the car out of the hole faster then a controlled start. With advice like that I can see why they electronically limited this. I have a measly ~250RWHP Mustang with a 2.73 differential. Dumping the clutch (or faster then normal release) at anything higher then 2000 rpms on street tires sends the car into almost an immediate sideways condition. At the track its worse, without a concrete launchpad its about 1500 rpm's and asphalt you can not avoid spin at any RPM.
Do I understand this correctly? In his opening remarks, Rep. Berman (D-Calif.) claimed that 3 billion files a month were illegally downloaded. Since the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel charges eight cents per digital recording, Berman concluded that the industry is losing about $240 million per month.
I would gladly pay.08 per song and call it even. Is this sales they are losing or simple digital distribution costs. I find it hard to believe they think they are losing 2.88 BILLION per year. Is this a change for the RIAA? They gave up on the downloading prevents sales ploy, now its lost money on digital downloads too? Rosen must be a business genius, what other CEO can lose more in one year then they made in the last 5 combined, and still turn the same profit as the previous year!
What person out there would take a company to court that is allowing them to distribute and download music that a lot of the major companies don't want you to do?
There is more to P2P then mp3 files. I have been using KaZaa lite for almost 6 months. I have NOT downloaded or shared a single MP3 file on it. I use it extensively for amature videos and pictures (not prOn either). Mostly car street and track racing and small movies. P2P is excellent for this as most people can not afford a monthly transfer fee from a hosting company, I do not have to browse through hundreds of pages with Google, and I do not have to use my monthly Giganews account.
I am assuming that KaZaa lite does not have this ill effect.
The RIAA and music distributors can save (or make more) money if they only have to pimp for a few artists. That is why we appear to have premade molded megastars like Britney Spears, a couple boy bands and a few rappers. This is all they can realistically promote and push along without saturating their business process and not have to compete with themselves. By allowing more bands through, or allowing uncontrolled distribution outside of their control will cut into this business plan. IMHO this is why they must maintain control of the music. Piracy, although probably not near the problem they make it out to be, is more a front for this agenda. The media conglomerates fought tooth and nail to prevent small lower powered "local" radio stations for this same reason, to maintain control of the consumers and limit your choice to their choice.
Thanks Mr Moderator for moding this as troll. It was not a troll post. I read the entire FAQ and gave my idea of what I thought. All completely related to the topic at hand. I guess it did not agree with your viewpoint and therefore you considered it as troll. I guess thats why/. has meta-moderation.
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I believe Office XP is 10.0 also. What would really be interesting is compare the metadata or actual file raw data (strings, hex view etc..) between the Apple and the Windows versions. I do not have access to an Mac but I doubt that the two versions of Office would create the exact same file, meaning there is probably a trackable difference between the two.
Even though I am capped at 128kbits upload, people have still managed to pull between 500MB to roughly 750MB a day from it. Only amature car/street racing videos and the psyche iso's. NO illegal material at all. The RIAA/MPAA can kiss my ass. P2P has a purpose and I am using it in that manner.
What about FTP, usenet, IRC, IM's? The list goes on and on. Maybe the RIAA/MPAA should skip the middleman and complain to the retailers that are selling computers to students. That would solve the copyright and bandwidth problems.
5 step process for outdated business model, if you can't beat 'em:
Lobby lawmakers
Use PR money for FUD
Manipulate the numbers
Modify your business plan
Join them
They are running out of options!!
Not just NASA. There are quite a few nuclear reactor protection systems based on the 8086/8088.
I really don't think these chips are any different then what you could buy from an electronics store. We performed our own signature and time response testing after replacing anything so they were well tested prior to use.
You might be a ricer if...
Or check out the Hall of Shame at the Rice-Boy page.
Unlisted, unpublished phone number is a simple solution. I get maybe one truely unsolicited call every three months. I still get the calls from Sears, AT&T and their "affiliates" etc.. because I had past business with them but a simple "DO NOT CALL" is weeding them out also. The only disadvantage is a monthly fee which I feel I should not have to pay but this method does work.
When asked about security Mundie states:
"Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently."
I interpet this as:
People ASSUMED they were getting something secure. When they realized they were not they went elsewhere to find something that was. Microsoft ironically wants to be the elsewhere too. They can get there two ways. Make the product more secure the first time, or continue as normal and sell yet something else on top of or next to the other product. A tier level of security I guess. Seems like a very odd way to operate..
Actually ANY cell phone with or without service will allow 911 calls (so I've read here). The programming required is to change the originating number to 123-456-7890 so the 911 operator knows it is a 911 only phone and can not get call backs.
They are going to "only watch traffic patterns". Oh fucking bullshit.
I used to make a daily trip between 2 exits on the PA turnpike. I often completed the 23 mile trip in 17-20 minutes. The speed limit is 65 but based on the tickets time stamps I was clearly going faster. I don't know if the booths are time synced but I was waiting for the day I would be asked to pull to the side and wait for an officer.
Taking over an existing contract is not the same as building someone from the ground up. The larger the business the more complex the systems and the more interaction between them. You are contracting out to save money, letting a contractor come in and replace everything to what they know or the current standard is not exactly going to reduce the bottom line. More so for a large world wide company.
I worked for an airline that outsourced a majority of thier work in the mid 90's. Result? Enough of the employees whose job was working with all that equipment (ticket agents, gate agents and everyone in between) complained enough and three years later the company hired the IT staff back.
The savings on paper was pretty good and most likely was the only thing that they really saw. The long term effect was very low quality work with response times that were not adequate for an airline. I'm sure these things could have been addressed better in the support contract for a price, but that price would have gone up and the deal would not have looked as good on paper.
Maybe BitKeeper can't help if Subversion takes that market on its own, but they are not going to help them do it.
What if Chevy forbid you from driving your Camaro to a Ford dealer. What if Cingular Wireless blocked the customer service and sales numbers for Sprint, AT@T, or NexTel?
What if all Compaq computers were forbidden from browsing Dell websites?
You could go on and on with dumb examples.
EULA's are not some type of new law. They can restate parts of the law (copyright notice etc..)but do not make any new ones. If you violate one of the vendors addon's what is the penalty? Voiding the clickthru "contract" and giving your one copy of the software back? Big deal.
You may not get to that price point for some time but.. why do they have to be printed? My family had the same hangup for the first year we had our DC.
Okay, I'll reply not just to feed the trolls but also for someone that might not know (like my relatives that send 2.1MB bmp files)
JPEG is a lossy compression. Depending on the level of compression and the content of the original photo, you will get a wide variety of results.
I highly suggest reading the JPEG faq for more details or checking Google for the right format that best suits your need.
I am sure this was mentioned in another thread but a direct price comparision a Click and Run and MS Windows is not possible.
Windows does NOT come loaded with applications. There are some basic MS plugs to get you hooked on other MS products but nothing more. C&R has many tools that would easily be worth many times over the $129 cost if you bought the Windows only comparables.
With this comparision, the $129 is a very good deal in terms of overall functionality.
On the other side though, you could load $YOUR_DISTRO and get almost the same applications for free and install them yourself. Which will the average consumer rather have? I do not know but it appears that Lindows's business model depends on the C&R.
I too am in DC. We have Sprint and I've had no problems yet. I to have been using SSH all day to home (Comcast) in Northern VA which is only 13 hops with nothing greater then 11ms and to a few places in Hawaii. None of which are currently using UUNet. All working fine there.
I've had slightly better luck. I almost have disks 1 through 4 in less then 24 hours. Taking some time but thanks to ncftp and bgget its been pretty easy. I used Google with different keywords trying to find the not so popular mirrors and have been having some luck with that.
I have been doing this periodically since this was last posted on ./ If you browse at some of the other catagories you can find some as high as $6.
With Opera you can click on a link to open in background. Do this for about 5-10 links and then go back and close them. You can do this without ever looking at them.
I think the statement from Sergiu Luchian, the Dig's Intelligent Transportation Systems Manager, sums up the multibillion dollar project nicely. He states "I think we can do it."
I doubt he had that attitude when he initially applied for his position.
Actually the 99 Cobra has 3.27 gears stock. This coupled with the IRS (less wheel hop), my crappy street tires, and the torque band difference between the 4.6 and 5.0 make the difference. I use BFGoodrich Comp TA VR4's. Not a very good tire for performance because it is a harder compound, but the only tire I have ever had on the car that gets more then 40k miles. The problem with the lower numerical gears is that the car either bogs down or breaks and spins too much. With BFG drag radials I can get decent 60ft times launching at 4500 rpm's.
Did not mean to flame anyone or start a flame war. I am not bragging about anything here, I know a Mustang is a low budget car with piss poor handling from the factory. I knew this when I only paid $15k for it brand new. Just trying to make a point about flooring it when dumping the clutch
Consider your statement.. You are telling me that I have a complex and I bought a Mustang to compensate for it and in the same paragraph telling me how much better the world thinks of your decision? I admire and am interested in the technology and the overall package the BWM's offer. I do not admire the owners that bought the offering and somehow connect themselves with the product like they were part of it. Your only connection with BMW is the paper work you signed at the dealer. Not much of an accomplishment on your part. That Mr AC, is someone trying to compensate for something.
I don't think this qualifies as an easter egg or a design flaw but old Mopars (mid 60's to late 70's) had leakage through the heater blower motor that allowed you to listen to the radio without the keys.
If you hit the brakes, turned on the turn signal, and had the heater motor on any position but off, the radio would work. My friends dad worked for a Dodge dealer in the mid 70's and we used to play around in the cars.
Maybe I am missing the point of the story...
Now, hold forward the gear selector, and floor it
Floor it? Is the sole purpose of this to simply do a burnout or possibly a 360? This will not get the car out of the hole faster then a controlled start. With advice like that I can see why they electronically limited this.
I have a measly ~250RWHP Mustang with a 2.73 differential. Dumping the clutch (or faster then normal release) at anything higher then 2000 rpms on street tires sends the car into almost an immediate sideways condition. At the track its worse, without a concrete launchpad its about 1500 rpm's and asphalt you can not avoid spin at any RPM.
Do I understand this correctly?
.08 per song and call it even. Is this sales they are losing or simple digital distribution costs. I find it hard to believe they think they are losing 2.88 BILLION per year. Is this a change for the RIAA? They gave up on the downloading prevents sales ploy, now its lost money on digital downloads too?
In his opening remarks, Rep. Berman (D-Calif.) claimed that 3 billion files a month were illegally downloaded. Since the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel charges eight cents per digital recording, Berman concluded that the industry is losing about $240 million per month.
I would gladly pay
Rosen must be a business genius, what other CEO can lose more in one year then they made in the last 5 combined, and still turn the same profit as the previous year!
What person out there would take a company to court that is allowing them to distribute and download music that a lot of the major companies don't want you to do?
There is more to P2P then mp3 files. I have been using KaZaa lite for almost 6 months. I have NOT downloaded or shared a single MP3 file on it. I use it extensively for amature videos and pictures (not prOn either). Mostly car street and track racing and small movies. P2P is excellent for this as most people can not afford a monthly transfer fee from a hosting company, I do not have to browse through hundreds of pages with Google, and I do not have to use my monthly Giganews account.
I am assuming that KaZaa lite does not have this ill effect.
The RIAA and music distributors can save (or make more) money if they only have to pimp for a few artists. That is why we appear to have premade molded megastars like Britney Spears, a couple boy bands and a few rappers. This is all they can realistically promote and push along without saturating their business process and not have to compete with themselves. By allowing more bands through, or allowing uncontrolled distribution outside of their control will cut into this business plan. IMHO this is why they must maintain control of the music. Piracy, although probably not near the problem they make it out to be, is more a front for this agenda. The media conglomerates fought tooth and nail to prevent small lower powered "local" radio stations for this same reason, to maintain control of the consumers and limit your choice to their choice.
Thanks Mr Moderator for moding this as troll. It was not a troll post. I read the entire FAQ and gave my idea of what I thought. All completely related to the topic at hand. I guess it did not agree with your viewpoint and therefore you considered it as troll. I guess thats why /. has meta-moderation.