I think things have changed in the past couple of years. First off, (and all of this is in my humble opinion, of course), we were all unhappy when we (the computer savvy world) we being given a bad name because some kids were sharing music. And it started out harmlessly enough, some kids on IRC or something like that.
Then, along came colleges with their LANS that everyone had access to shared folders and could trade at will, and at light speed. Whole albums were being copied in a blink of an eye, and that's about the time that napster started and the RIAA took interest... Because it wasn't some small thing.
now... onto why we (again, the computer savvy community) believe that the RIAA is still a horrible entity.
1.) The RIAA has used very strong language in their description of file sharers... everything from pirates to copy right infringers... essentially, criminals. When in fact, most of us were, for the most part, in compliance with copyright laws, as screwed up as they may be. The DMCA (which no one seems to like at this point) states that end users (i.e. US) are entitle to make backup copies (i'm not sure if it's 1 copy or however many...) for personal use. I personaly have my entire CD collection ripped in MP3 form on my hard drive for my own use... that's near 20,000 songs. And, if I can be fined 10,000 for every song... thats (doing math in head...) 200 million dollars! because, I sure as hell don't have proof that i bought all (or any) of those CD's...
Ok, rambling point number 2.) and this one hits close to home with me... The music industry has taken a severe turn over the past 10 years. Bands aren't pushing albums anymore, they're pushing singles... But, since only the top 10 chart toppers are for sale in single form anymore (if at all) most songs we (us again) would like are not available to us unless we spend nearly 20 big ones on a CD where we have heard only 1, maybe 2 of the songs... and too often are the rest of the songs crap (and thusly why they're not all singles i suppose)... But, I'm not about to go out and pay the RIAA folks $19.95 for me to listen to one song, and then give the last $.05 to the band for trying to put out a full album. That math just doesn't work for me (and I am not exaggerating at all there, I'm in the music business, for each CD sold, the band generally gets between 5 and 12 cents...)
Last but absolutely not least.... mp3's are not (by far) CD quality, by their nature... No one has ever seemed to bring this up (atleast that I've seen). true CD audio clocks in at about 10 megs a minute (raw wav format at 16 bits stereo)... mp3 format generally comes in at about 1 meg a minute... Once again, do the math, 1/10 the size != 100% quality. And, on most CD's they have disclaimers that say "this recording was meant to be played off of a CD to achieve the highest quality in audio listnening... if you feel that this is not the case please write xxx @ xxxx.com"
And, along those lines, I, as an artist/musician, feel that it's not just the music (the music should be the most important part of course, though), but more the overall package. This includes... Artwork, extra features, videos, interactive media....
So, in conclusion, I believe that if bands and record labels would step up to the plate, so to speak, and give the consumer a reason to want to buy CD's again (be it cheaper price.. better overall package, BETTER SONGS!!!) that alot of people will turn back around. Not everyone, but alot of people, enough to balance things out.
I for one will still continue to download MP3's before I buy an album, and no one's going to stop me.
Thank you, and I apologize for ranting incoherantly for the last 20 paragraphs.
So, can't someone who knows what they're doing write some of these things? This is exactly why jon q public is afraid of things becoming 'technology rich'
So, I'm not sure if this has been brought up, I didn't see it anywhere, but then again, i'm not perfect (as much I'd like to think so). My point is, that if the RIAA has posted the 'user names' of these kazaa users that are probably the 'worst' of the offenders, and plan on taking that user info and finding out who the offenders actually are. This I believe, is made clear by the RIAA to end in lawsuit no matter who it is. But, aren't there inherent risks when doing this. what if (and I assume that this is in alot of cases here) the offenders are under age. And by posting their alias, one can easily find them via a minimal amount of searching, and they've already accused them of a crime. Doesn't the law protect the names of minors involved in civil or criminal cases? maybe I'm being far fetched here, but I'd like to hear some people's opinions on the topic. NGTV13
the DMCA is probably crossing everyone's mind here, because people are scared of it. They hear the words "reverse-engineering" and quiver in their long johns... I believe that the simple fact is, that even if these companies get the linux users, it will cost them more money in the long run. Because if anyone has tried to compile drivers (third party or otherwise) for any wireless card, it's not the simplest thing to do, and you need to have a decent amount of knowledge to do it, which some linux users don't (and that's fine). But, then they have to pay their tech support people more to learn linux driver installation techniques, which (imho) aren't as streamlined as windows. For example... I purchased a linksys wireless NIC about a year back because I couldn't find drivers for any of the ones I had, and I had seen on their site the linux drivers. I loaded them up, and then, when they didn't work right (probably due to user error on my part) I sent them an email, something brainless like "are your drivers compatible with my version of linux?" and the response I got back every time I emailed was simply "we do not support linux".
This is just a theory.
btw, the same thing goes for ISP's i had the same problem with SBC dsl, i called for a port number that would not dictate what OS I was using, they asked anyways... I said linux, they said they don't support linux, and hung up.
I love PS as much as the next guy, probably moreso, but what I never understood about the game is, why is it online? There's no need for it to be online. You can play the game in it's entirety offline just fine. Then, each time you decide to go online, each time you do so, you need to start the game from scratch. This seems rather tedius to me.
That's essentially what I, and my friends, did. Since we're livid nicotine addicts, we often would take cigarrette breaks and just the game on pause and after a break or two, we could just fast forward through the commercials (except, of course the britney ones). This was a fool proof plan until the end of the game (in real time not when we were watching it) when we had like 10 minutes left in the game, and the neighbors scream "OH my god, the pats kicked a field goal to wiin!!" it kinda ruined it for us
There will always be ways around copy protection. There are tapes out there now that have copy protection on them, and in VCR's that don't allow you to directly copy them. But, as anyone really knows, that's an easy to get around measure of pretection. I'm sure that someone will very quickly, crack this security measure. It's been done with every other form of security that has ever been made.
It has occured to me recently (namely while reading through some of these responses) that we're looking in the wrong place. I think it's more than accepted throughout the world that our world is dying (how quickly is disputed, but dying nonetheless). But, why are we ONLY looking for other habitable planets. Why aren't we exploring alternatives at all? or maybe we are and i'm just ingorant to them (like most things in my world). What, for instance, is being said, and or is in the public realm of knowledge, about conscience uploading, or the transfer of personality to a computer, or like device. Then, where we once needed food, we don't, where we once needed a healthy environment, we need not anymore...
If anyone has any REAL info (not just me rambling like an evangelist) on the subject, would you please keep me informed in some way shape and form. This is a topic that i'm amazingly intrigued by, but know very little of the actual details in it..
OK, so, i'm not going to spurt alot of scientific fact (mainly because I don't know many scientific facts, and I really wish i did, and envy those who do). But, say there are millions and billions of habitable planets out there. Does that really surprise anyone? I mean, if you look at how [life] happened on earth, people usually refer to it as a 'one in a billion shot'. So, factor that into a googleplex of stars and so on and so forth (into infinity) why wouldnt' there be billions and billions of habitable, probably life sprouting, planets? WE'd be naive to think anything but. It makes me upset when i hear, mainly, but not limited to, religous types claim that we're the only species capable of life and contact within the entire universe (and beyond, but i'm not even getting into that realm right now, dealing solely with our universe). And that since, there is no direct mention of aliens (but plenty of indirect) in the bible, that therfore, they don't exist, and if they do, they must be surreal creatures that don't really exist in god's world.
Then we must begin to try to comprehend the alternate plane/universes of existence. Wherein, we stop lookin at what is physically before us in plain sight (so to speak) and look into the alternates that are available to us. Forgive me if this is below what most of you think on. Once we begin to unravel the fabric of space/time then we begin to open up a million possibilities. The most notable of which is teh ability to go to parallel universes (think sliders, and not event horizon hehe). But, not only does this open up that venue, but just think about travelling within time. To before we began to ruin our planet. oh hell, planets in our own solar system were, at one time, or in the future, fertile. Who says we can't go back in time (or forward) to a time when a planet (not necisarily out planet, we've seen the negative effects of that in the back to the future series). I'm not saying that this is an immediate fix to the impending problem of our planet becoming an iced earth.... but, you'd be surprised how close scientests (and otherwise, those of you who know what i'm talking about, know what i'm talking about) are to making leaps and bounds in the scientific fields here. They have to, or else we're not going to be around to be the first poster any longer!
Good point. These people, generally web literate (but not web savvy) corporate types will go online, spend thousands and thousands of dollars on online trading and the such. When, and i know this from personal experience, they have no idea what they're getting into. They need to do their research, or else they're gonna get scammed, much like they are rigth now
Ok, so this is kinda a blur to me, but I seem to remember, back in the days of return of the jedi, that george lucas released some ridiculus title for it (i forget what it was, someone please fill me in here) so as to disuade bootleggers. Then, about 2 days before the movie came out, he changed the title to Return of the Jedi, therfore, all these bootleggers that had been making merchandise under this assumed name, were, in effect, screwed. So, maybe that's what he's doing here, maybe it's not, who knows...
On a side note, though, the name does portray the movie in a very accurate sense (anyone who's a star wars nerd like myself would know exactly what it's talking about just by hearing the title)
Exactly, I believe that, as long as these sites don't break any laws (slander and the like) and keep everything, albeit probably negative, true. These sites should be able to remain. What happens if I want to make a page called USAsucks.gov or something to that extent, to show my protest of certain policies that america has.... will I be arrested? Should i be arrested? The right to question the policies of anybody is protected in the constitution. Granted, they should do so tastefully (IMO of course) but hey, that's not written in the law... According to the constitution, they could write "MICROSOFTSUCKSBIGDONKEYBALLS.com" and it would be legal, so long as it was used in the metaphorical sense (because, if it were meant to be literal, they'd be lying... i think anyways...
Does anyone else sense the irony in us discussing the topic of whether or not we are disconnected from each other, while part of one of the biggest online communities in the world? I feel that 'people connections' are just changing a bit. Where, you would sit on your front porch waving at the neigbors driving by and having barbecues. You sit on the internet, and turn buddy pounce on for your cyber friends, and have parties on IRC.... The times are changing for people connections, but i'm not saying that's a bad thing...
Yeah, if someone likes windows, then let them have windows. It doesn't make them any less of a geek (and yes, I understand that we're arguing the symentacs of being a geek, which is in and of itself geeky). But, I for one run a windows machine and a linux machine, both with equal usage (Slackware 8.0 as a server, and winXP as a client). Adn, i'm not any expert of PDA's by any means, but, I would assume that on a tiny handheld, the OS wouldn't matter as much as on a large desktop, but I could be wrong.... (which I usually am)
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Ok, we've seen it happen, and happen well, with linux. People get a free OS, make it their own, box it, ship it, make it puurrrrty, and turn a profit (red hat has done this greatly, despite that i know i'll get flamed for saying that...). Why can't this work for freeBSD? I mean, the latest version of FreeBSD that i own (4.3) might as well be Slackware 8.0 (ok, well, kinda reverse that...). And it is a commercially viable solution, that, if given a monetary incentive, could blossom into a great OS (not that I don't like it now, but it needs it's share of work and testing and the such)....
Well, if it helps any, I have a close friend (actually, my father) who worked for solbourn for maybe 10 years, and if anyone would know about a way around your problem, he would, so I've got him working on it right now..
NGTV|3
I agree, and I disagree... First off, I agree that one of the major reasons the Ebay got off so easily is because it is a big business... And that one of the reasons that napster is getting reemed a new one is because it is smaller, with a sort of rebelous feel to it. But..... The sole purpose of napster is to bootleg music (but it should be free anyways, why the heck should we pay suits money... but that's a whole other argument there) and with ebay, 90% or more (i have no idea what the actual number is) is legitametely resold, and even a decent amount of new items. With very few illegal items, but I agree that the basic principal of both is the same, and that it shouldn't make a difference... But that's america for ya, whoever's got the money, has the voice...
I appreciate the informativeness, becuase it was really... BUt I only see one problem, the merced was the codename for the pentium 3, early on... I only know this (not to be a smartass) is because I work for a corporation the sells hardware software (i love saying that) to intel, and I get the inside scoop, most of the time...
But, thanks anyways =]
I had the distinct privelage to see the, then named, itanium (now being dubbed the P4, don't ask me why) at the spring comdex in chicago last year. This chip was amazing, i believe the MS (yeah, MS) rep said it was running at 1.5 GHz, which at the time was amazing, seeing as the fastes pIII was about 800MHz at the time. The whole arcitecture is changed, and I mean drastically, the whole motherboard itself is now in two main pieces, the bottom half sliding out to allow easy access to memory, fans etc... And this processor is something else, just wait...
Ok, so here's how to get around those damn, shits on the constitution, known as internet filters...
First off, I only know this on netscape, but I assume it works the same on internet imploder 4.x+... Go up to the edit bar, click on preferences, then go to advanced, and proxies, hit the button that says 'connect directly to internet'... This will disable any proxy servers that you might be going through...
Further more, if you are in windoze, you can click the start button, and run, then type the entire web address there (don't forget the http://) ORRRR, if you're on a mac, I think it's like this.... Go to the apple pull down thingy (don't know waht it is called) adn find the network section, there should be a "connect to" option, click on it and then type in the full web address in the space provided.....
i would go into detail on how to get around proxies and filters under a *nix environment, but I don't have the time, nor is it relative to the generic school setting as this is based upon (I doubt very many public schools are running debian......)
Thanks, and hope this helps out a lot...
p.s. BE forewarned on two things.... You didn't hear this from me if you get cought goin to some stupid porn site with this info, and that if there's any network security built into the terminal computer itself, that any changes to the netscape config files will cause it to crash (novell netware does this, atleast in my cases)
so, be careful, and save what you need FIRST....
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I think things have changed in the past couple of years. First off, (and all of this is in my humble opinion, of course), we were all unhappy when we (the computer savvy world) we being given a bad name because some kids were sharing music. And it started out harmlessly enough, some kids on IRC or something like that.
Then, along came colleges with their LANS that everyone had access to shared folders and could trade at will, and at light speed. Whole albums were being copied in a blink of an eye, and that's about the time that napster started and the RIAA took interest... Because it wasn't some small thing.
now... onto why we (again, the computer savvy community) believe that the RIAA is still a horrible entity.
1.) The RIAA has used very strong language in their description of file sharers... everything from pirates to copy right infringers... essentially, criminals. When in fact, most of us were, for the most part, in compliance with copyright laws, as screwed up as they may be. The DMCA (which no one seems to like at this point) states that end users (i.e. US) are entitle to make backup copies (i'm not sure if it's 1 copy or however many...) for personal use. I personaly have my entire CD collection ripped in MP3 form on my hard drive for my own use... that's near 20,000 songs. And, if I can be fined 10,000 for every song... thats (doing math in head...) 200 million dollars! because, I sure as hell don't have proof that i bought all (or any) of those CD's...
Ok, rambling point number 2.) and this one hits close to home with me... The music industry has taken a severe turn over the past 10 years. Bands aren't pushing albums anymore, they're pushing singles... But, since only the top 10 chart toppers are for sale in single form anymore (if at all) most songs we (us again) would like are not available to us unless we spend nearly 20 big ones on a CD where we have heard only 1, maybe 2 of the songs... and too often are the rest of the songs crap (and thusly why they're not all singles i suppose)... But, I'm not about to go out and pay the RIAA folks $19.95 for me to listen to one song, and then give the last $.05 to the band for trying to put out a full album. That math just doesn't work for me (and I am not exaggerating at all there, I'm in the music business, for each CD sold, the band generally gets between 5 and 12 cents...)
Last but absolutely not least.... mp3's are not (by far) CD quality, by their nature... No one has ever seemed to bring this up (atleast that I've seen). true CD audio clocks in at about 10 megs a minute (raw wav format at 16 bits stereo)... mp3 format generally comes in at about 1 meg a minute... Once again, do the math, 1/10 the size != 100% quality. And, on most CD's they have disclaimers that say "this recording was meant to be played off of a CD to achieve the highest quality in audio listnening... if you feel that this is not the case please write xxx @ xxxx.com"
And, along those lines, I, as an artist/musician, feel that it's not just the music (the music should be the most important part of course, though), but more the overall package. This includes... Artwork, extra features, videos, interactive media....
So, in conclusion, I believe that if bands and record labels would step up to the plate, so to speak, and give the consumer a reason to want to buy CD's again (be it cheaper price.. better overall package, BETTER SONGS!!!) that alot of people will turn back around. Not everyone, but alot of people, enough to balance things out.
I for one will still continue to download MP3's before I buy an album, and no one's going to stop me. Thank you, and I apologize for ranting incoherantly for the last 20 paragraphs.
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and to that end, as we say here in chicago, vote early, vote often...
So, can't someone who knows what they're doing write some of these things? This is exactly why jon q public is afraid of things becoming 'technology rich'
So, I'm not sure if this has been brought up, I didn't see it anywhere, but then again, i'm not perfect (as much I'd like to think so). My point is, that if the RIAA has posted the 'user names' of these kazaa users that are probably the 'worst' of the offenders, and plan on taking that user info and finding out who the offenders actually are. This I believe, is made clear by the RIAA to end in lawsuit no matter who it is. But, aren't there inherent risks when doing this. what if (and I assume that this is in alot of cases here) the offenders are under age. And by posting their alias, one can easily find them via a minimal amount of searching, and they've already accused them of a crime. Doesn't the law protect the names of minors involved in civil or criminal cases? maybe I'm being far fetched here, but I'd like to hear some people's opinions on the topic.
NGTV13
the DMCA is probably crossing everyone's mind here, because people are scared of it. They hear the words "reverse-engineering" and quiver in their long johns... I believe that the simple fact is, that even if these companies get the linux users, it will cost them more money in the long run. Because if anyone has tried to compile drivers (third party or otherwise) for any wireless card, it's not the simplest thing to do, and you need to have a decent amount of knowledge to do it, which some linux users don't (and that's fine). But, then they have to pay their tech support people more to learn linux driver installation techniques, which (imho) aren't as streamlined as windows. For example... I purchased a linksys wireless NIC about a year back because I couldn't find drivers for any of the ones I had, and I had seen on their site the linux drivers. I loaded them up, and then, when they didn't work right (probably due to user error on my part) I sent them an email, something brainless like "are your drivers compatible with my version of linux?" and the response I got back every time I emailed was simply "we do not support linux".
This is just a theory.
btw, the same thing goes for ISP's i had the same problem with SBC dsl, i called for a port number that would not dictate what OS I was using, they asked anyways... I said linux, they said they don't support linux, and hung up.
Computer, hello computer...
*Gets handed mouse*
*talks into mouse*
"Hello computer"
"Use the keyboard"
"Oh, how quaint..."
Just thoughted it needed to be said
I love PS as much as the next guy, probably moreso, but what I never understood about the game is, why is it online? There's no need for it to be online. You can play the game in it's entirety offline just fine. Then, each time you decide to go online, each time you do so, you need to start the game from scratch. This seems rather tedius to me.
That's essentially what I, and my friends, did. Since we're livid nicotine addicts, we often would take cigarrette breaks and just the game on pause and after a break or two, we could just fast forward through the commercials (except, of course the britney ones). This was a fool proof plan until the end of the game (in real time not when we were watching it) when we had like 10 minutes left in the game, and the neighbors scream "OH my god, the pats kicked a field goal to wiin!!" it kinda ruined it for us
There will always be ways around copy protection. There are tapes out there now that have copy protection on them, and in VCR's that don't allow you to directly copy them. But, as anyone really knows, that's an easy to get around measure of pretection. I'm sure that someone will very quickly, crack this security measure. It's been done with every other form of security that has ever been made.
It has occured to me recently (namely while reading through some of these responses) that we're looking in the wrong place. I think it's more than accepted throughout the world that our world is dying (how quickly is disputed, but dying nonetheless). But, why are we ONLY looking for other habitable planets. Why aren't we exploring alternatives at all? or maybe we are and i'm just ingorant to them (like most things in my world). What, for instance, is being said, and or is in the public realm of knowledge, about conscience uploading, or the transfer of personality to a computer, or like device. Then, where we once needed food, we don't, where we once needed a healthy environment, we need not anymore...
If anyone has any REAL info (not just me rambling like an evangelist) on the subject, would you please keep me informed in some way shape and form. This is a topic that i'm amazingly intrigued by, but know very little of the actual details in it..
OK, so, i'm not going to spurt alot of scientific fact (mainly because I don't know many scientific facts, and I really wish i did, and envy those who do). But, say there are millions and billions of habitable planets out there. Does that really surprise anyone? I mean, if you look at how [life] happened on earth, people usually refer to it as a 'one in a billion shot'. So, factor that into a googleplex of stars and so on and so forth (into infinity) why wouldnt' there be billions and billions of habitable, probably life sprouting, planets? WE'd be naive to think anything but. It makes me upset when i hear, mainly, but not limited to, religous types claim that we're the only species capable of life and contact within the entire universe (and beyond, but i'm not even getting into that realm right now, dealing solely with our universe). And that since, there is no direct mention of aliens (but plenty of indirect) in the bible, that therfore, they don't exist, and if they do, they must be surreal creatures that don't really exist in god's world.
Then we must begin to try to comprehend the alternate plane/universes of existence. Wherein, we stop lookin at what is physically before us in plain sight (so to speak) and look into the alternates that are available to us. Forgive me if this is below what most of you think on. Once we begin to unravel the fabric of space/time then we begin to open up a million possibilities. The most notable of which is teh ability to go to parallel universes (think sliders, and not event horizon hehe). But, not only does this open up that venue, but just think about travelling within time. To before we began to ruin our planet. oh hell, planets in our own solar system were, at one time, or in the future, fertile. Who says we can't go back in time (or forward) to a time when a planet (not necisarily out planet, we've seen the negative effects of that in the back to the future series). I'm not saying that this is an immediate fix to the impending problem of our planet becoming an iced earth.... but, you'd be surprised how close scientests (and otherwise, those of you who know what i'm talking about, know what i'm talking about) are to making leaps and bounds in the scientific fields here. They have to, or else we're not going to be around to be the first poster any longer!
NGTV|3
Good point. These people, generally web literate (but not web savvy) corporate types will go online, spend thousands and thousands of dollars on online trading and the such. When, and i know this from personal experience, they have no idea what they're getting into. They need to do their research, or else they're gonna get scammed, much like they are rigth now
Ok, so this is kinda a blur to me, but I seem to remember, back in the days of return of the jedi, that george lucas released some ridiculus title for it (i forget what it was, someone please fill me in here) so as to disuade bootleggers. Then, about 2 days before the movie came out, he changed the title to Return of the Jedi, therfore, all these bootleggers that had been making merchandise under this assumed name, were, in effect, screwed. So, maybe that's what he's doing here, maybe it's not, who knows...
On a side note, though, the name does portray the movie in a very accurate sense (anyone who's a star wars nerd like myself would know exactly what it's talking about just by hearing the title)
Exactly, I believe that, as long as these sites don't break any laws (slander and the like) and keep everything, albeit probably negative, true. These sites should be able to remain. What happens if I want to make a page called USAsucks.gov or something to that extent, to show my protest of certain policies that america has.... will I be arrested? Should i be arrested? The right to question the policies of anybody is protected in the constitution. Granted, they should do so tastefully (IMO of course) but hey, that's not written in the law... According to the constitution, they could write "MICROSOFTSUCKSBIGDONKEYBALLS.com" and it would be legal, so long as it was used in the metaphorical sense (because, if it were meant to be literal, they'd be lying... i think anyways...
Does anyone else sense the irony in us discussing the topic of whether or not we are disconnected from each other, while part of one of the biggest online communities in the world? I feel that 'people connections' are just changing a bit. Where, you would sit on your front porch waving at the neigbors driving by and having barbecues. You sit on the internet, and turn buddy pounce on for your cyber friends, and have parties on IRC.... The times are changing for people connections, but i'm not saying that's a bad thing...
Yeah, if someone likes windows, then let them have windows. It doesn't make them any less of a geek (and yes, I understand that we're arguing the symentacs of being a geek, which is in and of itself geeky). But, I for one run a windows machine and a linux machine, both with equal usage (Slackware 8.0 as a server, and winXP as a client). Adn, i'm not any expert of PDA's by any means, but, I would assume that on a tiny handheld, the OS wouldn't matter as much as on a large desktop, but I could be wrong.... (which I usually am)
Ok, we've seen it happen, and happen well, with linux. People get a free OS, make it their own, box it, ship it, make it puurrrrty, and turn a profit (red hat has done this greatly, despite that i know i'll get flamed for saying that...). Why can't this work for freeBSD? I mean, the latest version of FreeBSD that i own (4.3) might as well be Slackware 8.0 (ok, well, kinda reverse that...). And it is a commercially viable solution, that, if given a monetary incentive, could blossom into a great OS (not that I don't like it now, but it needs it's share of work and testing and the such)....
Just thought i'd pass along my ideas
NGTV|3
Well, if it helps any, I have a close friend (actually, my father) who worked for solbourn for maybe 10 years, and if anyone would know about a way around your problem, he would, so I've got him working on it right now..
NGTV|3
I agree, and I disagree... First off, I agree that one of the major reasons the Ebay got off so easily is because it is a big business... And that one of the reasons that napster is getting reemed a new one is because it is smaller, with a sort of rebelous feel to it. But..... The sole purpose of napster is to bootleg music (but it should be free anyways, why the heck should we pay suits money... but that's a whole other argument there) and with ebay, 90% or more (i have no idea what the actual number is) is legitametely resold, and even a decent amount of new items. With very few illegal items, but I agree that the basic principal of both is the same, and that it shouldn't make a difference... But that's america for ya, whoever's got the money, has the voice...
I appreciate the informativeness, becuase it was really... BUt I only see one problem, the merced was the codename for the pentium 3, early on... I only know this (not to be a smartass) is because I work for a corporation the sells hardware software (i love saying that) to intel, and I get the inside scoop, most of the time... But, thanks anyways =]
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I had the distinct privelage to see the, then named, itanium (now being dubbed the P4, don't ask me why) at the spring comdex in chicago last year. This chip was amazing, i believe the MS (yeah, MS) rep said it was running at 1.5 GHz, which at the time was amazing, seeing as the fastes pIII was about 800MHz at the time. The whole arcitecture is changed, and I mean drastically, the whole motherboard itself is now in two main pieces, the bottom half sliding out to allow easy access to memory, fans etc... And this processor is something else, just wait...
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how many geniuses you know working on a project named bess???
i'm an idiot, how so (i'm not denying that on a whole level, that I'm an idiot, but I don't see the reference within the context there)
Ok, so here's how to get around those damn, shits on the constitution, known as internet filters... First off, I only know this on netscape, but I assume it works the same on internet imploder 4.x+... Go up to the edit bar, click on preferences, then go to advanced, and proxies, hit the button that says 'connect directly to internet'... This will disable any proxy servers that you might be going through... Further more, if you are in windoze, you can click the start button, and run, then type the entire web address there (don't forget the http://) ORRRR, if you're on a mac, I think it's like this.... Go to the apple pull down thingy (don't know waht it is called) adn find the network section, there should be a "connect to" option, click on it and then type in the full web address in the space provided..... i would go into detail on how to get around proxies and filters under a *nix environment, but I don't have the time, nor is it relative to the generic school setting as this is based upon (I doubt very many public schools are running debian......) Thanks, and hope this helps out a lot...
p.s. BE forewarned on two things.... You didn't hear this from me if you get cought goin to some stupid porn site with this info, and that if there's any network security built into the terminal computer itself, that any changes to the netscape config files will cause it to crash (novell netware does this, atleast in my cases) so, be careful, and save what you need FIRST....
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