Hey, if Hollywood can hire John Madden and Pat Summerall to overlay commentary on Keanu Reeves, I'm sure the CPL can have them lay down some phrases at the matches. Hot damn, I can just hear it...
(Madden scribbling furiously on his e-chalkboard) "So you have this guy charging up the middle with his deagle, when the defender on the other sides NAILS his with his AWM. WHAP. Then you have the newbie over there at the bombsite who drops the bomb off target. Doink. Now here comes the entire NiP offense to run over the n00b. Now that's some Counter-Strike ownage."
OK, and I suppose all that heat will just dissipate all by itself, you know, since you don't want any fans blowing across the fins to facilitate the dissipation.
Personally, I have 6 fans controlled with a baybus, yes, it is loud, yes, it is noisy, and yes, I maybe would like something quieter since I am getting annoyed by it. However, if you wish to overclock anything, fans, and usually multiple high output/high noise fans, are a necessity. It's just a matter of degree.
hehe, since viruses are one of the last non-copyrightable pieces of software left, it wouldn't be illegal under the DMCA to change the coding to, say, delete all the.MP3 and Ogg files off of a system?
heh, it's so funny, I really wouldn't put it past them anymore...
Show me a embedded router that can be a MP3 player, router, HTTP server, FTP server, DNS server, DVD player, be totally upgradeable, i.e. sound, video, processor, etc.
I can show you my little Duron 750 that does all these things. Under Windows, no less. (working on the Linux port)
Your arguement is 99% accurate. If (and the EULA specifically says this, with Windows AND Office) you own a laptop, you can legally have 1 license of the OS on the desktop and the laptop, provided you own them both.
Otherwise, I totally agree, if you score a laptop with ME at a firesale, you should be able to sell it and pop in XP. However, this is why MS made the distinction between OEM and Retail in the first place.
#2 - people buying used OS's are not buying them to get the disks. Come on, everybody and their brother has a CDR and will burn you off a copy of the Windows cabinet files. I'd like to see a geek version of Survivor, where we get dropped into a foreign country and have to come up with a CDR filled with Microsoft Juarez as quickly as possible. It would be a half-hour show, unedited. Point: people are buying these things on EBay because they want to be quasi-legitimate, ie "I should buy a copy of the software that I use!". Remove that as a possibility, and how many people are really going to spend $150 on an OS for a $150 computer? Arrr, Billy, time t'uh fire up me CDR!
This is true in theory, that the sellers and the buyers generally are honest people that aren't looking to pirate, but I think we should follow the money here. MS's OEM EULA states that the software in which this system is installed with cannot be separated, blah blah blah. This is why MS makes the distinction between OEM and Retail products in the first place. They have been doing this for years. Why buy one copy of Windows for $199 when you can get a OEM for $99? Because of their wonderful packaging, and the ability to resell. Besides, EULA's aside, MS isn't getting anything out of this deal, they are seeing someone who SHOULD be UPGEADING their system to run XP instead taking the easy way out and buying a OS that will work on their current machine.
I agree with you completely, they should be DAMN HAPPY that they are making a concerted effort to BUY a OS vs. having next-door neighbor with a spiffy new machine burn his old OS.
If people will ever accept peace they need to find a way of dealing with eachother other than through violence. I will pray for peace, just as I will pray for an end to the violence that is going on right now
and how many more thousands of innocent Americans have to die before we do something decisive? Let me understand this correctly. If I go over there and kick your ass, based on your reasoning, you are going to sit there and try to figure out a way to resolve my dispute with you peacefully. I, not wanting peace, will then proceed to kick your ass again. Repeat cycle.
I'm sorry, but I can't really see your reasoning working in this scenario, nor the scenario of the WTC. You have to understand, as "innocent" as these people are, they WILL NOT STOP until EVERY American and American ally is DEAD. No pausing to reflect, no thoughts on peaceful resolution, EVERYONE DEAD.
Gateway is apparently in the hole because they don't offer much "unique" and with computer sales allegedly having a bad forecast, this doesn't leave much room for competition: Dell, IBM, and now "HP/Compaq" are here to stay
No, Gateway is in the hole because of the whole OfficeMax venture failing miserably. Weitzen somehow didn't see beforehand that OMax wasn't moving many systems to begin with, having a Gateway Country there wasn't going to do a whole lot of good. Plus, Weitzen by himself was a HORRIBLE CEO and manager, some of the policies he instated were mind-boggling, and definately anti-consumer. Now that Waitt is back in command, I think Gateway will pull through.
You give the DMCA too much credit. As I recall, nobody was trying to make money out of reverse-engineering DVD's/DeCSS either, they were just looking to make a open source DVD player for Linux, and look where THAT got them.
Give the lawyers time to draft the nastygrams, I'll start downloading the software...
of course it will be cost effective, you are taking the cheaper way out. However, some people actually _need_ dual 1.2's in their system, for whatever reason....
they'll probably have some SDMI-ish type watermarking on it, it kinda makes sense when yo think about it, what better test for SDMI or SDMI type copy protection that to put it on a new music format that you KNOW people are going to try to crack?
It isn't like they can magically replace MP3 with SDMI+MP3...
I wanted to see links to the cluster!! SGI servers, sure, we have those here too, I wanted to see a cluster worthy of the phrase "Now imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...":)
I REALLY want to see the movie too, looks AWESOME:)
-Jeff
Now face Bill
Think about his direction, wonder why he made Windows at all
Spam in the place where you were
Now face down
Think about your pager, and the asshole that is spamming you
Now spam.......
I'm sorry, complete spur of the moment thing:)
to be sung to REM's Stand
anywho, if Kodak doesn't make a product compatible with the recent OS, people simply wont buy it. Period. No profit.
Besides, as has been said before, Kodak has pulled this shit before too, with the film market, trying to sneak proprietary formats around. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, they bitch and moan.
You seem to forget that OEM builders can and WILL put XP on ALL their boxes. In fact, all units being sold today come with a free upgrade to XP once it's released.
That being said, MS is going to have a REAL hard time getting people to upgrade. So why doesn't Kodak make a product that purposely doesn't work with the MS OS du jour
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ummm, how is chipsets Intel's core business??? I always thought it was server processors (Xeon)? With the multitude of chipset makers (VIA, Aladdin) out there making PIII/PIV enabled chipsets, I doubt Intel is going to shake much from this. Bottom line, AMD has a much mure relaxed position on releasing the specs necessary to run their processors, I believe that is one of the reasons they have as much market share as they do. Intel, on the other hand, is much more stringent when it comes to releasing specs of that kind.
I'm sure after Rambus, Intel will screen it's clients/partners much more carefully, and nVidia's current business practices leave MUCH to be desired. Just ask Hercules.
I completely agree. Ever since our station in Cleveland (107.9 The End) went to rap, I completely stopped listening to the radio. Period. I have tried to better the cause by going on a AM radio station at my college, but, I find that no one really wants to be enlightened anymore. When I was playing great ska bands like Less than Jake or Aquabats, I would get requests for Marilyn Manson et al. After a while, I just quit, now I do my normal MP3 hunt, and my CD burner is busier because of it.
personally, I think it's great that we FINALLY started to break some balls overseas. Everyone, at least on the ZDNet forums, was bitching and whining about entrapment, well, there is NO OTHER WAY to effectively nail these guys. Our (US) laws don't apply to them, same way that their country's laws didn't stop them from DDoS'ing a few our the US's major servers. This whole idea about "can't view, only copy" is total crap, the judge knows damn well the FBI is going to copy it, then view it, then go for the warrant if they have to. In the end, if it gets a few hundred Russian/E. European script kiddies off our backs, more power to the feds.
Personally I'd rather see a standard stereo component sized box, a UI that operates through your television and normal remote, and 30+ gigs, but this one is looking like a great start.
Taco, I really don't get it. As a college student, I have about 2.5 gigs worth of MP3's on my personal computer. My roommate has about a GB as well. Now we have a device that sports one of the smallest 15GB drives I have ever seen. Yet, you dog it and want more memory. I don't know about you, but not everyone sits down and downloads 5GB of music every night. As far as I know, I have the most music of anyone on my floor. This device, in it's current capacity, would be MORE than enough for what I use. Be happy with that. As far as I'm concerned, if you want something that is portable to hold your obscenely (sp?) massive 30GB+ collection, invest in a laptop. Otherwise, something like this (I agree with you though, needs a pretty massive redesign) would be completely adequate for 95% of all the MP3 pirates out there.
I don't know if NASA has to, given that they are a federally funded and subsidized agency, like the FAA. One would assume that the FAA has very easy access to the flight plans, if any of NASA, and files them themselves.
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Seriously, I think this is a testament to how far rich yuppie egos will go. Yes, the guy is 42, not the normal twentysomethings that the dot-comers in that repo article a few days ago are, but his thought process level is just the same, IMO. This is a guy who, just because he "made his own fortune", or is a "self-made man", he suddenly thinks he knows more than all the combined PhD's that GRADUATED COLLEGE at NASA, arguably one of the largest collection of scientific minds ever put together. Screw them, I suppose, all this guy has to do is pick up Rocketry for Dummies and blow a few million the he just has lying around and fly up into space. I say give him the Darwin Award now, an make him fork over his fortune to NASA, God knows the US government isn't. Maybe he can have his name on the module of the ISS where they keep the bathrooms:)
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Hey, if Hollywood can hire John Madden and Pat Summerall to overlay commentary on Keanu Reeves, I'm sure the CPL can have them lay down some phrases at the matches. Hot damn, I can just hear it...
:)
(Madden scribbling furiously on his e-chalkboard) "So you have this guy charging up the middle with his deagle, when the defender on the other sides NAILS his with his AWM. WHAP. Then you have the newbie over there at the bombsite who drops the bomb off target. Doink. Now here comes the entire NiP offense to run over the n00b. Now that's some Counter-Strike ownage."
Or it could just be me.
OK, and I suppose all that heat will just dissipate all by itself, you know, since you don't want any fans blowing across the fins to facilitate the dissipation.
Personally, I have 6 fans controlled with a baybus, yes, it is loud, yes, it is noisy, and yes, I maybe would like something quieter since I am getting annoyed by it. However, if you wish to overclock anything, fans, and usually multiple high output/high noise fans, are a necessity. It's just a matter of degree.
hehe, since viruses are one of the last non-copyrightable pieces of software left, it wouldn't be illegal under the DMCA to change the coding to, say, delete all the .MP3 and Ogg files off of a system?
heh, it's so funny, I really wouldn't put it past them anymore...
well, your troll post aside...
Show me a embedded router that can be a MP3 player, router, HTTP server, FTP server, DNS server, DVD player, be totally upgradeable, i.e. sound, video, processor, etc.
I can show you my little Duron 750 that does all these things. Under Windows, no less. (working on the Linux port)
Your arguement is 99% accurate. If (and the EULA specifically says this, with Windows AND Office) you own a laptop, you can legally have 1 license of the OS on the desktop and the laptop, provided you own them both.
Otherwise, I totally agree, if you score a laptop with ME at a firesale, you should be able to sell it and pop in XP. However, this is why MS made the distinction between OEM and Retail in the first place.
#2 - people buying used OS's are not buying them to get the disks. Come on, everybody and their brother has a CDR and will burn you off a copy of the Windows cabinet files. I'd like to see a geek version of Survivor, where we get dropped into a foreign country and have to come up with a CDR filled with Microsoft Juarez as quickly as possible. It would be a half-hour show, unedited. Point: people are buying these things on EBay because they want to be quasi-legitimate, ie "I should buy a copy of the software that I use!". Remove that as a possibility, and how many people are really going to spend $150 on an OS for a $150 computer? Arrr, Billy, time t'uh fire up me CDR!
This is true in theory, that the sellers and the buyers generally are honest people that aren't looking to pirate, but I think we should follow the money here. MS's OEM EULA states that the software in which this system is installed with cannot be separated, blah blah blah. This is why MS makes the distinction between OEM and Retail products in the first place. They have been doing this for years. Why buy one copy of Windows for $199 when you can get a OEM for $99? Because of their wonderful packaging, and the ability to resell. Besides, EULA's aside, MS isn't getting anything out of this deal, they are seeing someone who SHOULD be UPGEADING their system to run XP instead taking the easy way out and buying a OS that will work on their current machine.
I agree with you completely, they should be DAMN HAPPY that they are making a concerted effort to BUY a OS vs. having next-door neighbor with a spiffy new machine burn his old OS.
If people will ever accept peace they need to find a way of dealing with eachother other than through violence. I will pray for peace, just as I will pray for an end to the violence that is going on right now
and how many more thousands of innocent Americans have to die before we do something decisive? Let me understand this correctly. If I go over there and kick your ass, based on your reasoning, you are going to sit there and try to figure out a way to resolve my dispute with you peacefully. I, not wanting peace, will then proceed to kick your ass again. Repeat cycle.
I'm sorry, but I can't really see your reasoning working in this scenario, nor the scenario of the WTC. You have to understand, as "innocent" as these people are, they WILL NOT STOP until EVERY American and American ally is DEAD. No pausing to reflect, no thoughts on peaceful resolution, EVERYONE DEAD.
Gateway is apparently in the hole because they don't offer much "unique" and with computer sales allegedly having a bad forecast, this doesn't leave much room for competition: Dell, IBM, and now "HP/Compaq" are here to stay
No, Gateway is in the hole because of the whole OfficeMax venture failing miserably. Weitzen somehow didn't see beforehand that OMax wasn't moving many systems to begin with, having a Gateway Country there wasn't going to do a whole lot of good. Plus, Weitzen by himself was a HORRIBLE CEO and manager, some of the policies he instated were mind-boggling, and definately anti-consumer. Now that Waitt is back in command, I think Gateway will pull through.
Give the lawyers time to draft the nastygrams, I'll start downloading the software...
Just ask Kevin Mitnick, he'll tell you all about it.
of course it will be cost effective, you are taking the cheaper way out. However, some people actually _need_ dual 1.2's in their system, for whatever reason....
It isn't like they can magically replace MP3 with SDMI+MP3...
I REALLY want to see the movie too, looks AWESOME :)
-Jeff
hehe, 0 for 2 is not good, especially when you had AOL backing you for a while ;)
Now face Bill
:)
Think about his direction, wonder why he made Windows at all
Spam in the place where you were
Now face down
Think about your pager, and the asshole that is spamming you
Now spam.......
I'm sorry, complete spur of the moment thing
to be sung to REM's Stand
anywho, if Kodak doesn't make a product compatible with the recent OS, people simply wont buy it. Period. No profit.
Besides, as has been said before, Kodak has pulled this shit before too, with the film market, trying to sneak proprietary formats around. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, they bitch and moan.
Boo hoo.
You seem to forget that OEM builders can and WILL put XP on ALL their boxes. In fact, all units being sold today come with a free upgrade to XP once it's released.
That being said, MS is going to have a REAL hard time getting people to upgrade. So why doesn't Kodak make a product that purposely doesn't work with the MS OS du jour
I'm sure after Rambus, Intel will screen it's clients/partners much more carefully, and nVidia's current business practices leave MUCH to be desired. Just ask Hercules.
someone should parse the article and post examples...
wait, that would take HOURS! :)
I completely agree. Ever since our station in Cleveland (107.9 The End) went to rap, I completely stopped listening to the radio. Period. I have tried to better the cause by going on a AM radio station at my college, but, I find that no one really wants to be enlightened anymore. When I was playing great ska bands like Less than Jake or Aquabats, I would get requests for Marilyn Manson et al. After a while, I just quit, now I do my normal MP3 hunt, and my CD burner is busier because of it.
personally, I think it's great that we FINALLY started to break some balls overseas. Everyone, at least on the ZDNet forums, was bitching and whining about entrapment, well, there is NO OTHER WAY to effectively nail these guys. Our (US) laws don't apply to them, same way that their country's laws didn't stop them from DDoS'ing a few our the US's major servers. This whole idea about "can't view, only copy" is total crap, the judge knows damn well the FBI is going to copy it, then view it, then go for the warrant if they have to. In the end, if it gets a few hundred Russian/E. European script kiddies off our backs, more power to the feds.
sorry to say, but most cable is NOT PPPoE, how could it be? The cable box/router NEVER touch a phone line.
Taco, I really don't get it. As a college student, I have about 2.5 gigs worth of MP3's on my personal computer. My roommate has about a GB as well. Now we have a device that sports one of the smallest 15GB drives I have ever seen. Yet, you dog it and want more memory. I don't know about you, but not everyone sits down and downloads 5GB of music every night. As far as I know, I have the most music of anyone on my floor. This device, in it's current capacity, would be MORE than enough for what I use. Be happy with that. As far as I'm concerned, if you want something that is portable to hold your obscenely (sp?) massive 30GB+ collection, invest in a laptop. Otherwise, something like this (I agree with you though, needs a pretty massive redesign) would be completely adequate for 95% of all the MP3 pirates out there.
I don't know if NASA has to, given that they are a federally funded and subsidized agency, like the FAA. One would assume that the FAA has very easy access to the flight plans, if any of NASA, and files them themselves.
Seriously, I think this is a testament to how far rich yuppie egos will go. Yes, the guy is 42, not the normal twentysomethings that the dot-comers in that repo article a few days ago are, but his thought process level is just the same, IMO. This is a guy who, just because he "made his own fortune", or is a "self-made man", he suddenly thinks he knows more than all the combined PhD's that GRADUATED COLLEGE at NASA, arguably one of the largest collection of scientific minds ever put together. Screw them, I suppose, all this guy has to do is pick up Rocketry for Dummies and blow a few million the he just has lying around and fly up into space. I say give him the Darwin Award now, an make him fork over his fortune to NASA, God knows the US government isn't. Maybe he can have his name on the module of the ISS where they keep the bathrooms :)