Maybe not, but it would still be nice with a site where people interested in the art of music could get a place to introduce themselves on and host their music on. I liked mp3.com originally, but then it got a radical layout change so it became very hard to navigate the site IMHO (talking about the most recent layout with black background making it look like a bad porn site and not professional and clean at all).
I really enjoyed the service as a legal but still free way to get some good music in tidy categories to make everything easy to find. Soon enough, you got favorite artists that matched your music taste.
Deviant Art is a fabolous site for all sorts of graphics artists, whether they like design computer icons,application skins, like to draw full fledged freehand drawings, or is into photography. I really hope we'll see an equivalent site for music!
It's interesting with these kind of fake surround things. Even if I happen to have a proper surround system, it was still eerie when I once tested my speaker setup. A voice went on telling "front left", "front center", "front right", "behind left", "behind right". Then it went on with "behind center" and it really sounded like that too even if it's just a wall there.:-) Made my jump in my sofa a bit. hehe
The point with surround sound to me is to have sound come from specific locations. Like a sound behind you to the right. If such a TV doesn't pull off that I don't really see the point with it.
That headline almost make it look like, well, that Saruman won't be in RotK. He will, just not in the theatre release.:-P The cut shouldn't be vital for the movie either.
I doubt that's a problem with their space program getting too much money. You say it yourself -- its a humanitarian and social problem. I'm sure China can attempt solving that one without cutting down on space program funding which is probably still extremely small when considering the big picture.
By the way, I'd say the same thing to those who think USA should lower their funding for NASA to solve violence on the street, mass murders in school clases, etc.
I think it's a problem that are better solved than minimizing funding for organizations that already have small funding when taking the country's budget into account.
The new discs will have a second session, containing encrypted audio data, that can be played on a PC, using Sony's software (On supported platforms, non lintel users need not apply). The audio can also be copied to a portable music player, but only sony players are supported.
That sounds like using their position of creating copy protections to gain an unfair advantage on the hardware market to me.
When all movies are done, release them all in their extended cut version as one long movie with even more extra material. Should be around 12 hours in total.
Cooperate with Microsoft to make this disc only play in special DRM DVD's, and when done so, disable the pause button.
Watch the movie pirates (yarrr!) die from blod clots!
???
Profit!
Now, this would have two side effects:
Only legal users are affected, since pirates would have just released it as a DivX with surround sound support and no stupid DRM stuff.
It would take away a lot of flexibility when watching it for legal users.
In other words, just like any other badly thought out ??AA plan.
I suggest a Slashdot poll. Seriously. Then we can look back and see whether or not Slashdotters in the aggregate can predict the future regarding something we clearly have a lot to say about.
How come the "Related Topics" regarding file sharing in that article are:
1. Music swappers sued, amnesty unveiled 2. Why I've stopped sharing music 3. 12-year-old settles music swap lawsuit 4. Why suing college students for music downloading is right
Basically goes to tell:
1. Fear us! 2. Join us! 3. We do have a heart after all! 4. We're right!
And no related article touching the failing business model of the RIAA, their overly aggresive and inefficient pursuing of pirates that fairly often results in completely innocent targets?
Although the site can be funny, I must say those who replied and never got any answer back from the spammer are those that truly wasted time. A spammer often sends huge masses of mail where each mail just take a second or so to send, and usually don't supply a valid reply address. Then these guys sit down, taking their time to write a 3 pages long reply that no one except those visiting TheSpamLetters.com will read.
No, since WM support doesn't equal only WM support. In my opinion, they'd only truly take over if audio players stopped supporting mp3, DVD players stopped supporting SVCD, etc. But they didn't, so Windows Media hasn't taken over anything, although many devices support it as well as other formats.
If you RTFA, they have a poll as well, asking "Should fireworks be banned", just like if that article shows a reason to.:-) Yes, terrorists could buy enough fireworks to blow up the Westminster Hall! Ban them!
Unless maybe Microsoft 1) puts it on all new Windows OS
You can already get the IPv6 layer for Windows XP. There's even a basic version for it included in XP, although an improved version with more features are available free to download from Microsoft. I recall it wasn't included for the simple reason it wasn't ready.
I'd be really surprised if there wasn't decent IPv6 support in Windows Longhorn.
Now.. let's say you are the next google, amazon, ebay, etc. You want to set a web site, will you choose IPv4 or IPv6? Of *course* you will choose IPv4, because most people are using it.
What are you talking about? What do you mean with next Google? Just because Google doesn't speak IPv4 doesn't mean they have to redesign the service. LOL. It's almost like you think the users or webmasters will need to care about whether they're connected to IPv6 or not? Users just type w-w-w-.-g-o-o-g-l-e-.-c-o-m as usual. Web masters just upload the content to their host as usual. If the host has a DNS entry, then that's just a matter of typing in the name of the host.:-) Where exactly do you see there's such a major difference that you'll suffer from choosing IPv6?
Let's say you are an ISP customer, your ISP offers you an IPv6 address, or an IPv4 address. The IPv4 address will access all sites (because we're in the middle of the changeover, remember), and the IPv6 address will access, maybe, a handful of geeky sites.
No, if an IPv6 transition occurs, all IPv4 addresses will be reachable in the new IPv6 format, since a special address space in IPv6 is allocated for this. After a while, more and more will switch to "real" IPv6 addresses. But the customers will never really have to care about these technicalities. They just get their dot com and is happy.:-)
I think I'm getting where your key misunderstanding and basis for your post is. You think IPv6 wasn't designed to coexist transparently with IPv4. Well, surprise there, it is.
This is subtle but I believe the changeover will NEVER happen, and the BSD/Linux, etc, machines that are all rearin' to go with IPv6 will be used only for private networks (behind NAT and/or tunnel boxes, ironically).
Why not on internet? IPv6 was designed from the ground to coexist with IPv4 after all. Routers only supporting IPv6 routing will be able to wrap IPv4 addresses and transmit data to IPv4 hosts, and fix the addresses back so the IPv4-only supporting host will never even know it's connected to an IPv6 network.
why do I care if it breaks an obsolete protocol like FTP??
Maybe you don't, but a world outside your ego bubble does, including both corporations and home users. Wake up.
NAT is the right solution for IP address shortage. Instead of wasting time with IPv6, they should've been looking at lower-level NAT routing/addressing protocols that are backwards-compatible, if that's possible.
Ooh, I'm so happy you aren't a network protocol designer.:-O
You seem to have quite a bit of reading to do to catch up with the latest advancements in the IPv6 area and especially how invisibly it can coexist with IPv4. Of course the designers never thought "let's do this protocol, make it totally incompatible, so no one will ever be able to switch smoothly".
In short, the "Death of the Internet" due to lack of IP space is a myth, which doesn't bode well for getting IPv6 rolled out any time soon."
This is just one of maybe 10 nice features with IPv6. Another is native support for IPSec. And ad hoc support for all those handheld devices popping up everywhere. But sure, the address space is maybe the most important one, and the most well known. However, I'd personally really like to see IPv6 rolled out just for the non-address space related improvements.
The users blocked are notified about it, and Telia will help them sort things out. Probably by giving suggestions to clean up trojans, etc. since these are often the reason someone spam without knowing. They also only seem to block well-known, heavy duty, spammers right now, since they haven't yet implemented a spam filter, but are considering it.
So, even if the customers won't be given a time period to stop spamming, they're still not left unaware about it, as the/. news post incorrectly states.
Telia says they're also attempting to detect spam hosts much quicker than earlier, when it could take up to a week or more to shut a host on their network down, when the damage was already done.
At work days, I actually find Google Groups at least as useful as Google Search itself, so AllTheWeb would suck in that case. I'm not even sure if there *is* another free usenet service (that's totally free to, no catch) that also use a clean interface.
Remember folks... the only reason people use Google is because it's not bastardized with corporate greed
Not me. I use Google because it's the most useful search engine I've found. Very good search results. Very good other features I use daily (e.g. Google Groups)
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe not, but it would still be nice with a site where people interested in the art of music could get a place to introduce themselves on and host their music on. I liked mp3.com originally, but then it got a radical layout change so it became very hard to navigate the site IMHO (talking about the most recent layout with black background making it look like a bad porn site and not professional and clean at all).
I really enjoyed the service as a legal but still free way to get some good music in tidy categories to make everything easy to find. Soon enough, you got favorite artists that matched your music taste.
Deviant Art is a fabolous site for all sorts of graphics artists, whether they like design computer icons,application skins, like to draw full fledged freehand drawings, or is into photography. I really hope we'll see an equivalent site for music!
Oh, I see.. doh :-) Then it sounds pretty amazing.
:-) Made my jump in my sofa a bit. hehe
It's interesting with these kind of fake surround things. Even if I happen to have a proper surround system, it was still eerie when I once tested my speaker setup. A voice went on telling "front left", "front center", "front right", "behind left", "behind right". Then it went on with "behind center" and it really sounded like that too even if it's just a wall there.
All over the place?
The point with surround sound to me is to have sound come from specific locations. Like a sound behind you to the right. If such a TV doesn't pull off that I don't really see the point with it.
That headline almost make it look like, well, that Saruman won't be in RotK. He will, just not in the theatre release. :-P The cut shouldn't be vital for the movie either.
I doubt that's a problem with their space program getting too much money. You say it yourself -- its a humanitarian and social problem. I'm sure China can attempt solving that one without cutting down on space program funding which is probably still extremely small when considering the big picture.
By the way, I'd say the same thing to those who think USA should lower their funding for NASA to solve violence on the street, mass murders in school clases, etc.
I think it's a problem that are better solved than minimizing funding for organizations that already have small funding when taking the country's budget into account.
The new discs will have a second session, containing encrypted audio data, that can be played on a PC, using Sony's software (On supported platforms, non lintel users need not apply). The audio can also be copied to a portable music player, but only sony players are supported.
That sounds like using their position of creating copy protections to gain an unfair advantage on the hardware market to me.
Now, this would have two side effects:
In other words, just like any other badly thought out ??AA plan.
It seems you have an impermeable sense of humor.
Thanks! However, I've heard my ability of finding sarcasms is lacking. Can you verify that?
I hope the new DVD has an extra-special "toilet break" feature!
Silly... The DVD's don't have these features, but your player has. It's called "Pause button".
I suggest a Slashdot poll. Seriously. Then we can look back and see whether or not Slashdotters in the aggregate can predict the future regarding something we clearly have a lot to say about.
Slashdot Poll #987
... in favor of the RIAA. :-P
How come the "Related Topics" regarding file sharing in that article are:
1. Music swappers sued, amnesty unveiled
2. Why I've stopped sharing music
3. 12-year-old settles music swap lawsuit
4. Why suing college students for music downloading is right
Basically goes to tell:
1. Fear us!
2. Join us!
3. We do have a heart after all!
4. We're right!
And no related article touching the failing business model of the RIAA, their overly aggresive and inefficient pursuing of pirates that fairly often results in completely innocent targets?
Although the site can be funny, I must say those who replied and never got any answer back from the spammer are those that truly wasted time. A spammer often sends huge masses of mail where each mail just take a second or so to send, and usually don't supply a valid reply address. Then these guys sit down, taking their time to write a 3 pages long reply that no one except those visiting TheSpamLetters.com will read.
No, since WM support doesn't equal only WM support. In my opinion, they'd only truly take over if audio players stopped supporting mp3, DVD players stopped supporting SVCD, etc. But they didn't, so Windows Media hasn't taken over anything, although many devices support it as well as other formats.
the aliens that find voyager only have CD players? How will they play the record that strapped to the craft?
:-)
At least they'll get some good human soft porn.
If you RTFA, they have a poll as well, asking "Should fireworks be banned", just like if that article shows a reason to. :-) Yes, terrorists could buy enough fireworks to blow up the Westminster Hall! Ban them!
Bill Gates ran a demo of Longhorn at PDC just days ago, revealing heaps of new information about the coming... savior? :-)
Unless maybe Microsoft 1) puts it on all new Windows OS
.. let's say you are the next google, amazon, ebay, etc. You want to set a web site, will you choose IPv4 or IPv6? Of *course* you will choose IPv4, because most people are using it.
:-) Where exactly do you see there's such a major difference that you'll suffer from choosing IPv6?
:-)
:-O
You can already get the IPv6 layer for Windows XP. There's even a basic version for it included in XP, although an improved version with more features are available free to download from Microsoft. I recall it wasn't included for the simple reason it wasn't ready.
I'd be really surprised if there wasn't decent IPv6 support in Windows Longhorn.
Now
What are you talking about? What do you mean with next Google? Just because Google doesn't speak IPv4 doesn't mean they have to redesign the service. LOL. It's almost like you think the users or webmasters will need to care about whether they're connected to IPv6 or not? Users just type w-w-w-.-g-o-o-g-l-e-.-c-o-m as usual. Web masters just upload the content to their host as usual. If the host has a DNS entry, then that's just a matter of typing in the name of the host.
Let's say you are an ISP customer, your ISP offers you an IPv6 address, or an IPv4 address. The IPv4 address will access all sites (because we're in the middle of the changeover, remember), and the IPv6 address will access, maybe, a handful of geeky sites.
No, if an IPv6 transition occurs, all IPv4 addresses will be reachable in the new IPv6 format, since a special address space in IPv6 is allocated for this. After a while, more and more will switch to "real" IPv6 addresses. But the customers will never really have to care about these technicalities. They just get their dot com and is happy.
I think I'm getting where your key misunderstanding and basis for your post is. You think IPv6 wasn't designed to coexist transparently with IPv4. Well, surprise there, it is.
This is subtle but I believe the changeover will NEVER happen, and the BSD/Linux, etc, machines that are all rearin' to go with IPv6 will be used only for private networks (behind NAT and/or tunnel boxes, ironically).
Why not on internet? IPv6 was designed from the ground to coexist with IPv4 after all. Routers only supporting IPv6 routing will be able to wrap IPv4 addresses and transmit data to IPv4 hosts, and fix the addresses back so the IPv4-only supporting host will never even know it's connected to an IPv6 network.
why do I care if it breaks an obsolete protocol like FTP??
Maybe you don't, but a world outside your ego bubble does, including both corporations and home users. Wake up.
NAT is the right solution for IP address shortage. Instead of wasting time with IPv6, they should've been looking at lower-level NAT routing/addressing protocols that are backwards-compatible, if that's possible.
Ooh, I'm so happy you aren't a network protocol designer.
You seem to have quite a bit of reading to do to catch up with the latest advancements in the IPv6 area and especially how invisibly it can coexist with IPv4. Of course the designers never thought "let's do this protocol, make it totally incompatible, so no one will ever be able to switch smoothly".
In short, the "Death of the Internet" due to lack of IP space is a myth, which doesn't bode well for getting IPv6 rolled out any time soon."
This is just one of maybe 10 nice features with IPv6. Another is native support for IPSec. And ad hoc support for all those handheld devices popping up everywhere. But sure, the address space is maybe the most important one, and the most well known. However, I'd personally really like to see IPv6 rolled out just for the non-address space related improvements.
... does it run Linux?
:-)
One day, one day...
Sorry... Too early in the morning...
:-) But the other parts should still be true. ;-)
Not quite sure how I read that news post.
The users blocked are notified about it, and Telia will help them sort things out. Probably by giving suggestions to clean up trojans, etc. since these are often the reason someone spam without knowing. They also only seem to block well-known, heavy duty, spammers right now, since they haven't yet implemented a spam filter, but are considering it.
/. news post incorrectly states.
So, even if the customers won't be given a time period to stop spamming, they're still not left unaware about it, as the
Telia says they're also attempting to detect spam hosts much quicker than earlier, when it could take up to a week or more to shut a host on their network down, when the damage was already done.
At work days, I actually find Google Groups at least as useful as Google Search itself, so AllTheWeb would suck in that case. I'm not even sure if there *is* another free usenet service (that's totally free to, no catch) that also use a clean interface.
Remember folks... the only reason people use Google is because it's not bastardized with corporate greed
Not me. I use Google because it's the most useful search engine I've found. Very good search results. Very good other features I use daily (e.g. Google Groups)
Yahoo! and Microsoft are actively developing their own search technologies and buy other companies
That doesn't say they'll come up with anything good. MS has been unable to so far.
What keeps Google afloat nowadays is just its name.
Why not point us all to an engine with better search results then?