Going to an optical trackball over a mouse has made my life 10 times better.
I wanted to stay corded so I didn't have to mess with extra software or compatability issues. RF, IR and who knows what control wireless mice [small chinese men with semaphore flags].
I went with Microsoft {{{ouch}}} Optical Trackball. The black one and not the expensive of the two.
Being able to use extension cords keeps me close to home base and lets me put the thing on my leg, head, cock, etc.
Of course if it's porn or quake... the mouse doesn't end up on the floor when I'm excited. A few times I've had to chase the 'ball' down when I'm stoned and drop the damn thing.
The whole reason I went to it was because my personal computer didn't sit on a desk but on a microwave stand and I sat on the couch. Mobile Mouse Pad.
Of course you will lose some of the story, but converting a book/comic/anime/etc to movie or television is tricky because of the timing.
I've only watched DragonBall [and Z] a few times but knowing what I do about it and other anime is that doing live action, translating and such loses a lot automatically.
Fox, make sure the story is good and then everyone will be happy. You have to do good at one or the other. Good luck.
I just hope we don't see a DBZ Saturday morning cartoon.
...I borrowed it from the library, and 'tempest' is at the end saying that it was the next level of 'cracking'. Or eavesdropping, I should say that instead. I can't say what edition the book was so the year is also impossible to know. Supposedly this "Hack" has been on Geraldo.
Just goes to show that computers draw together the people who are nervous and those who actually want to watch those scared people who are putting duct tape over their windows.
But usually the 'groups' which are actually 'channels' who are exclusive get busted. They are active, they work to move files and are usually getting some stuff most people don't. Their piracy sometimes is going towards business solutions.
Many things I've 'observed' is that you can't talk trade in most channels because it starts to get scary for the user. They put up the server and don't want to bother with the people but do want to serve.
Hey they just want you to serve. They are the confidence men of software piracy. False promises and hidden IP's.
I think there is an excellent client for people willing to share and download all at once.
Spr Jukebox for mIRC [Windows or Wine.. you're pick]. When you have a channel full of users then you can see who has slots open, you get a flowing list of songs which the user is 'playing'. Very nice. Searching, but then cut and paste. But everything is pretty clear.
If you can read you can actually set up lists of files to get. Since most [all?] commands are in the channel it just plays them and gets the files! You can just download someone's user list and browse it etc.
Like I say, very nice. Development is kinda dropped off but the author has noticed it and might pick it up again. Everything works.
And I uhhmm know people who are uploading 3 gigs in a few days and downloading the same in a day. All the while sharing DVD movies... although in VCD or divx format, great copies.
The problem with your system is that my ISP is the one who is collecting this tax and somehow will have to distinguish between what is free and what is un-free.
If I'm downloading linux iso's I don't want the money to go to some Nazi content holder. Why can't debian/Red Hat/mandrake/Slackware get the money?
So P2P needs to collect or make the money. Look below for my comment on this.
The RIAA doesn't want people to have digital copies that they can burn.
File sharing companies at least want to deliver something that we can hear, watch, and experience.
The fast track[tm] technology that is used by products such as Kazaa[tm] and Music City's Morpheus[also tm] is pretty strong and can combine clients/servers to provide media almost on demand for people who have dsl/cable and above. Gnutella also is becoming the strongest in terms of a network that may never be truly killed. And let's not forge Napster, the demon of P2P IMHO; they may actually sell some media to people.
No one wants to bother with DRM. Computer users will most likely reject any such system. So, the simple solution is to take a somewhat common sense approach.
Advertising and competition must come into play so that the P2P business isn't stomped on by media owners [of course, if the money comes in no one gets stomped]. Maybe one network will offer digital copies, fast browsing and strong searching. Another might offer a way to put your media on a personal server and a winamp/xmms/FreeAmp/Netscape/IE et.al. plug-in will be the search and viewing client. Finally an open and free network which will probaly be supported by an array of advertising stunts.
The point is, we can have a system where no one is abused. DRM isn't needed if people use common sense and let these systems evolve into a decent business model. Not everything will work. But media/content owners can be payed. One thing I think we will need to get over is the fact that P2P systems may collect data on what is downloaded, viewed, and listened to.
If we don't think of P2P as a way to get free stuff and show our friends how cool we are because we watched LOTR 2 days before release we may save it. Let's think of it as Cable, Network TV and the like. But like some cable channels if you don't want commercials you are going to have to pay up.
Look at XM radio, in my town it's becoming quite popular. We can take advantage of technology in a good way.
There would be no point to having windows now a days without IE.
Look at other operating systems. Linux can update the system and what not right over any old internet connection. They don't need to come up with.net and require IE.
XP works great. But all the improvements are really coming down to IE is pretty nice. XP's pretty solid. Security... we will see. Uptime of 2 days [20 hours], and 6 days is the most since I've been counting. That is a lot considering Windows 9x would crash almost once a day. Desktop machines don't need to run for months, but it is nice that my linux box does:)
But look to the future of MS. Connectivity and re-inventing the Internet. It's obvious to me, seen there commercials about the car painting. They play it off as if.net made a difference. TCP/IP can connect that palm top device and whatever machine is painting the car.
They look to the future and see another internet which is owned 110% by M$.
As I see things now [typing this in XP], the case is now backwards.
Before it was using Windows to get users to switch to Internet Explorer. Now the case has turned 180 degrees.
When I use any Microsoft app, from Money to Encarta... I can't help to notice all rely on IE. The problem is, you can't use IE very well without Windows.
Congratulations XP owners... you paid ~$200 for Internet Explorer and.net applications.
IMHO, it's the people who want to make money on P2P which contributes to illegal filesharing. These are the people who open easy to get web sites, start AD Banner supported bloatware.
I've seen the underground, but when I saw Napster I was shocked. Let's be frank, some serious Bad Things were going on in the open. Supposedly they made no money, but I don't know.
Basically I hate napster because it offers push button controls to get music that you might/maybe/should pay for. Hey, we've all done it! But the Net isn't to blame. Before 1992 I got music from the library that I taped. I broke the law... but it was a small law then.
The 'net has made illegal filesharing able because there is an effort by more than a few people to make it easier. There is numerous efforts, but the 'net didn't cause the frenzy that we are in.
P2P caused it. It's not the internet's fault. It's people, and it's an explosion in file swapping technologies. Digital copies are nice too!
But there is an option to use these technologies in a good way, just as the internet in general. The internet didn't create pr0n, it is just another way to get it. I like the couch and VCR myself.
Computers can't replace everything, but I'm getting off the point.
I can see this happening, and I'm not 100% against this. Of course a minimal set of recovery disks would be nice. The problem is with pre-loaded software. You shouldn't have boxes and manuals, but you are getting [buying] a license which you can't even use.
There are problems when you start to pre-load software. I bought a HP PC which came with a recovery CD. After using the PC for a few months I 'recovered' it a few times. It was an open-box buy, and I think the previous owner returned it because of a virus. Fixed that, recovered and broke it again over and over. All the times my fault.
But later on down the road I started to install other OS's and even different Windows versions. The problem was while I was under warrantee I couldn't select which software I wanted to restore. Basically I had Windows which I couldn't install, McAfee AV... couldn't install, numerous apps which I couldn't install.
So, they need to have a better recovery system. Take hint from the on-line install options made available from linux vendors[install via FTP today?]. Do something to ensure that users [lamers] can re-install the base and licensed software.
Alan: Open development. People have spent ten years looking over each other's code able to refine the existing code and to spot security holes. The same process of peer review that ensures university research quality and that bridges don't fall down has simply been applied to software, which as an engineering discipline should always have been the case.
Finally, a good quote! Seriously he has a great point. When anti-Open people talk about 'Free Software' and the such they almost always talk about the economics of it.
Open Source isn't about money, it's not about economics. Red Hat shows that they can be the builders of the bridge. They can put together all those pieces of steel. Alan has just helped go over the plans and helped make sure they bridge doesn't go down.
Hell, I can get bridge plans off the internet now... but I need someone to build it for me! In this view Red Hat would be the people to call.
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...we all once used the 'net for useful things.
Then a bunch of jesus freaks found out that you could trade pr0n and not make it community business.
Boom, bang... millions of lusers... RealPlayer... mp3... dotCOM explosion...
... the gov't made the Internet purposeful.
The headline should read "Users Become Adults"
Going to an optical trackball over a mouse has made my life 10 times better.
I wanted to stay corded so I didn't have to mess with extra software or compatability issues. RF, IR and who knows what control wireless mice [small chinese men with semaphore flags].
I went with Microsoft {{{ouch}}} Optical Trackball. The black one and not the expensive of the two.
Being able to use extension cords keeps me close to home base and lets me put the thing on my leg, head, cock, etc.
Of course if it's porn or quake... the mouse doesn't end up on the floor when I'm excited. A few times I've had to chase the 'ball' down when I'm stoned and drop the damn thing.
The whole reason I went to it was because my personal computer didn't sit on a desk but on a microwave stand and I sat on the couch. Mobile Mouse Pad.
Plus, if you are out of change you can still play with the trackball.
Joysticks don't get that phun unless you can take down your pants.
Of course you will lose some of the story, but converting a book/comic/anime/etc to movie or television is tricky because of the timing.
I've only watched DragonBall [and Z] a few times but knowing what I do about it and other anime is that doing live action, translating and such loses a lot automatically.
Fox, make sure the story is good and then everyone will be happy. You have to do good at one or the other. Good luck.
I just hope we don't see a DBZ Saturday morning cartoon.
Good thing I don't have a mic,
... just a web cam.
[[muhahah]]
Exactly nigga.
see where that word is appropriate and fits anywhere? remove the stigma!!!!
u'r old school admit it man...
Just goes to show that computers draw together the people who are nervous and those who actually want to watch those scared people who are putting duct tape over their windows.
Where I'm from ratio's aren't allowed.
Trading isn't allowed.
Automatic kick/ban. Privately people may trade files but not in the channel.
I would agree.
But usually the 'groups' which are actually 'channels' who are exclusive get busted. They are active, they work to move files and are usually getting some stuff most people don't. Their piracy sometimes is going towards business solutions.
Many things I've 'observed' is that you can't talk trade in most channels because it starts to get scary for the user. They put up the server and don't want to bother with the people but do want to serve.
Hey they just want you to serve. They are the confidence men of software piracy. False promises and hidden IP's.
I think there is an excellent client for people willing to share and download all at once.
Spr Jukebox for mIRC [Windows or Wine.. you're pick]. When you have a channel full of users then you can see who has slots open, you get a flowing list of songs which the user is 'playing'. Very nice. Searching, but then cut and paste. But everything is pretty clear.
If you can read you can actually set up lists of files to get. Since most [all?] commands are in the channel it just plays them and gets the files! You can just download someone's user list and browse it etc.
Like I say, very nice. Development is kinda dropped off but the author has noticed it and might pick it up again. Everything works.
Great for college campuses, no fserve sillyness.
Now what do I do with these gig's of files that I was downloading before the network went offline.
Seriously gigs of Bang Bus.
This of course is a bad idea.
And I uhhmm know people who are uploading 3 gigs in a few days and downloading the same in a day. All the while sharing DVD movies... although in VCD or divx format, great copies.
The problem with your system is that my ISP is the one who is collecting this tax and somehow will have to distinguish between what is free and what is un-free.
If I'm downloading linux iso's I don't want the money to go to some Nazi content holder. Why can't debian/Red Hat/mandrake/Slackware get the money?
So P2P needs to collect or make the money. Look below for my comment on this.
The RIAA doesn't want people to have digital copies that they can burn.
File sharing companies at least want to deliver something that we can hear, watch, and experience.
The fast track[tm] technology that is used by products such as Kazaa[tm] and Music City's Morpheus[also tm] is pretty strong and can combine clients/servers to provide media almost on demand for people who have dsl/cable and above. Gnutella also is becoming the strongest in terms of a network that may never be truly killed. And let's not forge Napster, the demon of P2P IMHO; they may actually sell some media to people.
No one wants to bother with DRM. Computer users will most likely reject any such system. So, the simple solution is to take a somewhat common sense approach.
Advertising and competition must come into play so that the P2P business isn't stomped on by media owners [of course, if the money comes in no one gets stomped]. Maybe one network will offer digital copies, fast browsing and strong searching. Another might offer a way to put your media on a personal server and a winamp/xmms/FreeAmp/Netscape/IE et.al. plug-in will be the search and viewing client. Finally an open and free network which will probaly be supported by an array of advertising stunts.
The point is, we can have a system where no one is abused. DRM isn't needed if people use common sense and let these systems evolve into a decent business model. Not everything will work. But media/content owners can be payed. One thing I think we will need to get over is the fact that P2P systems may collect data on what is downloaded, viewed, and listened to.
If we don't think of P2P as a way to get free stuff and show our friends how cool we are because we watched LOTR 2 days before release we may save it. Let's think of it as Cable, Network TV and the like. But like some cable channels if you don't want commercials you are going to have to pay up.
Look at XM radio, in my town it's becoming quite popular. We can take advantage of technology in a good way.
From the site on the story page.
[abstract]:
Filed: December 1, 1998
So, this is actuall an old patent. Did microsoft sit back and wait for a time to introduce this patent... how many do they have?
There would be no point to having windows now a days without IE.
.net and require IE.
:)
.net made a difference. TCP/IP can connect that palm top device and whatever machine is painting the car.
Look at other operating systems. Linux can update the system and what not right over any old internet connection. They don't need to come up with
XP works great. But all the improvements are really coming down to IE is pretty nice. XP's pretty solid. Security... we will see. Uptime of 2 days [20 hours], and 6 days is the most since I've been counting. That is a lot considering Windows 9x would crash almost once a day. Desktop machines don't need to run for months, but it is nice that my linux box does
But look to the future of MS. Connectivity and re-inventing the Internet. It's obvious to me, seen there commercials about the car painting. They play it off as if
They look to the future and see another internet which is owned 110% by M$.
Exactly.... we take IE for granted. It's not the bundleware, Windows is.
As I see things now [typing this in XP], the case is now backwards.
.net applications.
Before it was using Windows to get users to switch to Internet Explorer. Now the case has turned 180 degrees.
When I use any Microsoft app, from Money to Encarta... I can't help to notice all rely on IE. The problem is, you can't use IE very well without Windows.
Congratulations XP owners... you paid ~$200 for Internet Explorer and
Windows is the "bundleware".
IMHO, it's the people who want to make money on P2P which contributes to illegal filesharing. These are the people who open easy to get web sites, start AD Banner supported bloatware.
I've seen the underground, but when I saw Napster I was shocked. Let's be frank, some serious Bad Things were going on in the open. Supposedly they made no money, but I don't know.
Basically I hate napster because it offers push button controls to get music that you might/maybe/should pay for. Hey, we've all done it! But the Net isn't to blame. Before 1992 I got music from the library that I taped. I broke the law... but it was a small law then.
The 'net has made illegal filesharing able because there is an effort by more than a few people to make it easier. There is numerous efforts, but the 'net didn't cause the frenzy that we are in.
P2P caused it. It's not the internet's fault. It's people, and it's an explosion in file swapping technologies. Digital copies are nice too!
But there is an option to use these technologies in a good way, just as the internet in general. The internet didn't create pr0n, it is just another way to get it. I like the couch and VCR myself.
Computers can't replace everything, but I'm getting off the point.
I don't know if this exists, but with the focus of news going to wepons and military hardware [nerdware]... let's use a Military category.
I would like to list news that is related to Military improvments, but so would the Bad Guys [tm]
Can I add that there is a 'movie film' which imho best follows the Chuck Jones type of slapstick.
I know people are going to hate me, but this movie did somewhat suck I guess... but the funny WB style of it is pretty good.
The Emperor's New Groove. After I watched it I was ashamed because it is made by disney/devil.
I can see this happening, and I'm not 100% against this. Of course a minimal set of recovery disks would be nice. The problem is with pre-loaded software. You shouldn't have boxes and manuals, but you are getting [buying] a license which you can't even use.
There are problems when you start to pre-load software. I bought a HP PC which came with a recovery CD. After using the PC for a few months I 'recovered' it a few times. It was an open-box buy, and I think the previous owner returned it because of a virus. Fixed that, recovered and broke it again over and over. All the times my fault.
But later on down the road I started to install other OS's and even different Windows versions. The problem was while I was under warrantee I couldn't select which software I wanted to restore. Basically I had Windows which I couldn't install, McAfee AV... couldn't install, numerous apps which I couldn't install.
So, they need to have a better recovery system. Take hint from the on-line install options made available from linux vendors[install via FTP today?]. Do something to ensure that users [lamers] can re-install the base and licensed software.
Alan: Open development. People have spent ten years looking over each other's code able to refine the existing code and to spot security holes. The same process of peer review that ensures university research quality and that bridges don't fall down has simply been applied to software, which as an engineering discipline should always have been the case.
Finally, a good quote! Seriously he has a great point. When anti-Open people talk about 'Free Software' and the such they almost always talk about the economics of it.
Open Source isn't about money, it's not about economics. Red Hat shows that they can be the builders of the bridge. They can put together all those pieces of steel. Alan has just helped go over the plans and helped make sure they bridge doesn't go down.
Hell, I can get bridge plans off the internet now... but I need someone to build it for me! In this view Red Hat would be the people to call.