You were marked down as a troll beacuse you exspressed arguments that are time tested, proven arguments to make if you are trolling. In fact, the RWM troll technique is actualy considered obsolete at this point. Not only are you probably a troll, but if you are, your using obsolite techniques.
I'm sorry if the Napster kiddies will be forced to return to asking Mom and Dad for money to buy their music instead of stealing it, but that's how laissez faire capitalism works.
Well, its certanly a good thing we don't live under laissez faire capitalism.
(I'm almost certan this is a troll, btw, but just in case it isn't)
IMHO this proves that the big 8 are nothing more than monopolies that will stop at *nothing* to make sure that I do not do something that the exec. staff of RIAA say I can do.
Granted, they can buy out your ISP, telephone company, cable company, etc., but how in the hell do they expect to be able to block it at your computer? Buy out/bribe Microsoft to put it in their next "upgrade"?
Actualy, they can't, thats the whole point of antitrust laws...
And I don't think changing the port number of protocols that Napster and Gnutella use (to something like port 80) will help much either. I believe there are certain firewall modules being developed at this time can "understand" and learn how certain protocols work and travel over networks, and filter them out accordingly.
Well, it wouldn't be to hard to filter out even pure mp3 data, either, but the performance hit would be way to high. The network is continuing to grow, and the presn't infistructure is already stressed.
But besides that, encryption. You can't filter something out if you don't know what it is. And napster et al can not only change port numbers, but actualy layer over HTTP (IE send each packet as a HTTP request, etc, not hard to do, and not even a bad idea really)
Well, if they (the RIAA) does lose that lawsuit, I don't see how they could posibly manage to get all cablemodem users blocked from napster (and its not like they couldn't just change the port or something.... (port 80, anyone? Napster could easly be layerd on top of HTTP)
Some cable companies might agree, particularly ones owned by the same media giants, but others wont. If napster's growth continues on its upward trend, I doubt people would stick with a cable company that censored their internet access for its own finacial gain, espcialy with DSL just a phone call away..
Gnutella isn't about piracy, its about Porn, everyone knows that.
But seriously, this is pathetic, and an absolute abuse of our legal system. I was under the impression that you at least needed to own some copyrights before you could actualy sue anyone. And as someone who is activly developing a gnutella clone, this is not happy news...
But then, napster itself didn't distribute anything, just allowed other people to share audio files. It happened that the majority of audio files people wanted to share were copyrighted to someone else.
Given that distribution of copyrighted audio for non-commercial gain is explicitly legal, I don't see what the problem is...
I agree as far as office goes, Linux wont make any inroads in business where M$ office is standard (witch is a lot), with out having a fully compatible office suit.
On the other hand, why do we need IE? what's wrong with Mozilla?
I hate to be the Terminology Nazi here, but "Nazi" doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. It refers to a murderous political party that rose to power in Germany after world war one. While its leader, Adolph Hitler probably did have lots of anal sex (really), it does not refer to someone who is anal about facts, rather someone who kills lots of Jews.
Also, newspapermen of the early 1900s used black ink, but on high-acid-paper that quickly turned yellow.
Yeh, windows(9x) is easy to install, kind of. I've heard NT can be a bitch though. But having installed both 95, 98, Red hat, Corel, and mandrake (as well as slack ware about 4 years ago). I can safely say that Linux is easier to install.
Setting up slack ware in 1996 was a bitch, and I'm sorry to say but Corel's distro was completely fucked (network didn't work, when I tried to change the desktop rez, it consistently fucked my setup bad enough to require a reinstall)
Win 98 and 95 have the exact same install, and it takes about an hour. Mandrake and Redhat are also similar, detected my hardware as well as windows, and installed quicker. Also, remember, after you actually get windows on the hard drive you need to detect hardware, etc. Sometimes this can take a while, and sometimes things can go screwy. I've seen a lot more people with windows install problems then with Linux install problems, but then a lot more people run Windows.
As far as difficulty for me, I'd say installing both windows and Linux rate close to zero, with Linux being very slightly closer to zero then windows.
Any kind of new, filesharing technology will be pushed aside for the bland, boring, corporate controlled web.
The primary purpose of VCRs, before video tape rentals most certainly was Copyright infringement, but if it hadn't been allowed the video rental industry never would have started.
Similarly, any new technology that moves the Internet away from the highrachal, centrally controllable Web model to a more Peer-to-peer model could be used readily for copyright infringement. This judgment could mean that any technological advances in certain directions must contain copyright controls, limits on what the user can do with information on their own computer, in order to even be developed.
When Radio first came out, it was everybody talking to everybody else. It was going to liberate everyone, and free the information for the tech nerds. But we all know what happened, air filled with the meaningless chatter of a few, franchise radio stations owned by Disney. I would like it if that didn't happen to the Internet.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Actually, I'd prefer it if modem users *didn't* share files. The degrading of GnutellaNet has a lot more to do with the fact that the network fabric of Gnutella sucks then it does with the fact that lots of people aren't sharing. If I were designing Gnutella today from the ground up(actually I'm working on a clone so I know a lot about its limitations) I would have modem users who wanted to 'share' files upload them to servers with faster connections, sort of a watered down freenet.
Gnutella takes a ton of bandwidth just to send, receive, and rout packets. Obviously, in any system, most of the people are going to be consumers, and I don't see why you would want or even expect everyone to chip in equally. The system could certainly be designed to keep that in mind.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Dude, all that says is "That can't work beacuse it violates the second law of thermodynamics." It dosn't say, why exactly it can't happen, only that it would beacuse "The second law of thermodynamics is true!"
You're talking about entropy without mentioning it by name.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is immutable. You can't get around it..
No. The smaller the scale, the less of an effect the 2nd law of thermodynamics has. When you are talking about individual molicules, there is no effect whatsoever. This isn't surprizing, since thermydynamics deals with the movements of large numbers of molicules....
Its like newtons laws, it may be very, very close to the truth, but its still false.
I guess this could be possible with people, too, if we could develop a drinkable antifreeze that wouldn't kill us.
Food grade antifreez is fun. Actualy, the chemical requirements for an anti-freezing agent are not very much, salt will do it. the stuff we call antifreeze just happens to be the very best.
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You were marked down as a troll beacuse you exspressed arguments that are time tested, proven arguments to make if you are trolling. In fact, the RWM troll technique is actualy considered obsolete at this point. Not only are you probably a troll, but if you are, your using obsolite techniques.
I'm sorry if the Napster kiddies will be forced to return to asking Mom and Dad for money to buy their music instead of stealing it, but that's how laissez faire capitalism works.
Well, its certanly a good thing we don't live under laissez faire capitalism.
(I'm almost certan this is a troll, btw, but just in case it isn't)
IMHO this proves that the big 8 are nothing more than monopolies that will stop at *nothing* to make sure that I do not do something that the exec. staff of RIAA say I can do.
That would make them an octopoly...
Granted, they can buy out your ISP, telephone company, cable company, etc., but how in the hell do they expect to be able to block it at your computer? Buy out/bribe Microsoft to put it in their next "upgrade"?
Actualy, they can't, thats the whole point of antitrust laws...
And I don't think changing the port number of protocols that Napster and Gnutella use (to something like port 80) will help much either. I believe there are certain firewall modules being developed at this time can "understand" and learn how certain protocols work and travel over networks, and filter them out accordingly.
Well, it wouldn't be to hard to filter out even pure mp3 data, either, but the performance hit would be way to high. The network is continuing to grow, and the presn't infistructure is already stressed.
But besides that, encryption. You can't filter something out if you don't know what it is. And napster et al can not only change port numbers, but actualy layer over HTTP (IE send each packet as a HTTP request, etc, not hard to do, and not even a bad idea really)
Well, if they (the RIAA) does lose that lawsuit, I don't see how they could posibly manage to get all cablemodem users blocked from napster (and its not like they couldn't just change the port or something.... (port 80, anyone? Napster could easly be layerd on top of HTTP)
Some cable companies might agree, particularly ones owned by the same media giants, but others wont. If napster's growth continues on its upward trend, I doubt people would stick with a cable company that censored their internet access for its own finacial gain, espcialy with DSL just a phone call away..
Gnutella isn't about piracy, its about Porn, everyone knows that.
But seriously, this is pathetic, and an absolute abuse of our legal system. I was under the impression that you at least needed to own some copyrights before you could actualy sue anyone. And as someone who is activly developing a gnutella clone, this is not happy news...
But then, napster itself didn't distribute anything, just allowed other people to share audio files. It happened that the majority of audio files people wanted to share were copyrighted to someone else.
Given that distribution of copyrighted audio for non-commercial gain is explicitly legal, I don't see what the problem is...
I agree as far as office goes, Linux wont make any inroads in business where M$ office is standard (witch is a lot), with out having a fully compatible office suit.
On the other hand, why do we need IE? what's wrong with Mozilla?
I hate to be the Terminology Nazi here, but "Nazi" doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. It refers to a murderous political party that rose to power in Germany after world war one. While its leader, Adolph Hitler probably did have lots of anal sex (really), it does not refer to someone who is anal about facts, rather someone who kills lots of Jews.
Also, newspapermen of the early 1900s used black ink, but on high-acid-paper that quickly turned yellow.
Dude, installing windows is not very hard, otherwise, why would windows users keep doing it over and over again (I know I have...)?
Yeh, windows(9x) is easy to install, kind of. I've heard NT can be a bitch though. But having installed both 95, 98, Red hat, Corel, and mandrake (as well as slack ware about 4 years ago). I can safely say that Linux is easier to install.
Setting up slack ware in 1996 was a bitch, and I'm sorry to say but Corel's distro was completely fucked (network didn't work, when I tried to change the desktop rez, it consistently fucked my setup bad enough to require a reinstall)
Win 98 and 95 have the exact same install, and it takes about an hour. Mandrake and Redhat are also similar, detected my hardware as well as windows, and installed quicker. Also, remember, after you actually get windows on the hard drive you need to detect hardware, etc. Sometimes this can take a while, and sometimes things can go screwy. I've seen a lot more people with windows install problems then with Linux install problems, but then a lot more people run Windows.
As far as difficulty for me, I'd say installing both windows and Linux rate close to zero, with Linux being very slightly closer to zero then windows.
We are all pretty screwed
Any kind of new, filesharing technology will be pushed aside for the bland, boring, corporate controlled web.
The primary purpose of VCRs, before video tape rentals most certainly was Copyright infringement, but if it hadn't been allowed the video rental industry never would have started.
Similarly, any new technology that moves the Internet away from the highrachal, centrally controllable Web model to a more Peer-to-peer model could be used readily for copyright infringement. This judgment could mean that any technological advances in certain directions must contain copyright controls, limits on what the user can do with information on their own computer, in order to even be developed.
When Radio first came out, it was everybody talking to everybody else. It was going to liberate everyone, and free the information for the tech nerds. But we all know what happened, air filled with the meaningless chatter of a few, franchise radio stations owned by Disney. I would like it if that didn't happen to the Internet.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Actually, I'd prefer it if modem users *didn't* share files. The degrading of GnutellaNet has a lot more to do with the fact that the network fabric of Gnutella sucks then it does with the fact that lots of people aren't sharing. If I were designing Gnutella today from the ground up(actually I'm working on a clone so I know a lot about its limitations) I would have modem users who wanted to 'share' files upload them to servers with faster connections, sort of a watered down freenet.
Gnutella takes a ton of bandwidth just to send, receive, and rout packets. Obviously, in any system, most of the people are going to be consumers, and I don't see why you would want or even expect everyone to chip in equally. The system could certainly be designed to keep that in mind.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Um...
Dude, all that says is "That can't work beacuse it violates the second law of thermodynamics." It dosn't say, why exactly it can't happen, only that it would beacuse "The second law of thermodynamics is true!"
if nitrogen was inert, there would never be Nitrous Oxide, in inert element is one that does not chemicaly react, like Xenon.
Earths atmosphere is already 80% nitrogen, "poluting" the air with nitrogen would be like poluting the sea with water
Your user name says Louis Wu, but your website says you are Chris Cantrell. Who are you?
The energy needed will be exactly the same as the energy released (not counting shipping energy).
The LN is just a way to store energy.
You're talking about entropy without mentioning it by name. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is immutable. You can't get around it..
No. The smaller the scale, the less of an effect the 2nd law of thermodynamics has. When you are talking about individual molicules, there is no effect whatsoever. This isn't surprizing, since thermydynamics deals with the movements of large numbers of molicules....
Its like newtons laws, it may be very, very close to the truth, but its still false.
What is the environmental impact of letting tons of nitrogen a day escape into the atmosphere?
Earths atmosphere is 80% nitrogen
actualy, it was 45% more ice then last year that melted, witch was about .000001% in total
I think his point was that when clouds pass over, it gets cooler
If clouds reflect IR back to earth, they would also reflect back to space. You would know that if you spent any time whatsoever thinking about it.
I guess this could be possible with people, too, if we could develop a drinkable antifreeze that wouldn't kill us.
Food grade antifreez is fun. Actualy, the chemical requirements for an anti-freezing agent are not very much, salt will do it. the stuff we call antifreeze just happens to be the very best.
Not rings, but still a rigid, 3d crystalin pattern, the crystal structure takes less molicules per unit volume then liquid water