Hmmm, using these sorts of e-mail addresses can lead to annoyances to legitimate domain owners. For awhile I remember the owner of junk.com, which seems to no longer exist, posting complaints about people type "whatever@junk.com" when they register software. It seems his servers were hit or something.
I always like to use the webmaster's e-mail account when registering software. For example, if I was registering software on widgets.com, I might use the e-mail address "webmaster@widgets.com" or "abuse@widgets.com" to register the software.
I feel torn, as I want to support free software vendors by allowing them to make money, but I just don't want my e-mail address to be sold for spam. Ever. I also don't want those annoying newsletters that I could care less about unless I *explicitely* ask for it (and not be tricked or required by default).
I used to say exactly what you are saying. I would always check out an older laptop at school just to get the nipple because I simple hating the touch pads. However, have you tried the newer laptop touch pads? The technology has improved greatly in the last year or so.
I've recently used the touchpad on the newer Apple iBook/Titaniums and some new Toshiba laptops we have, and it is excellent. I've switched to it and now can't stand going back to the nipple when I am forced to, but when I use some of the older touchpad laptops, I get irritated at how sloppy they are.
I started with severe shooting pains in my right hand due to too many hours of work, programming for school, and mostly because of playing Diablo II.
I started using my right hand for mousing and developed the shooting pains within a couple of months (which is odd, since it took almost 8 years of computing to develop the pain in my right hand).
I tried several mice, but the trackball worked best. Not all trackballs are created equal, however. Some of them require you to push the buttons with the standard pointer and middle finger. These did nothing for the pain.
Finally, I found an excellent trackball that is both ambidextrous AND allows the left and right mouse button to be pushed with the pinky and thumb instead of the standard fingers. It's also Optical so I don't need to clean the damn thing every week. It's the Logitech Marble mouse, and it rocks.
I found the most difficult part to get used to is not having the scrool button. It took longer to get used to that than switching from my right to left hand. Now I can use a trackball or standard mouse in either hand with equal ease.
Unfortunately, it is not feasible to bring a trackball to work because I am always sitting at a different terminal, so I had to adopt a method where I use my right hand to guide the mouse and push the buttons with my right hand (while using the muscles in my wrist and not my fingers) to do the mouse. It's only a little counterproductive, and it's better than not being able to work...
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Yeah, I think this might not be the best use of development resources, but our school uses OpenDOS for boot disks to reimage machines. It easier to download the free, open licensed versions than to try to find a copy of MS-DOS somewhere. Handy.
Oh great. It's already impossible to find a job with my measly bachelor's degree and now I have self-healing computers to look forward to. I should studied accounting...
The emotional bond that seems to exist between the mother and child within the womb seems irreplacable. It's proven fact that stimulation is what help babies develop, and it seems like a test-tube baby would lack many of the sensations available to a naturally born baby (the sounds of the mother's voice, jostling, temperature and hormonal variations).
As I posted earlier, I think this sort of thing could make us "God children" (see G.A.T.T.A.C.A.) become inferior as superior, disease and disability-free children are born from laboratories.
I was hoping someone someone would point this out. I'm sick of people outing the DivX codec because they think it is a hack of a legitimate one. The DivX 4 one isn't, and it's superior to the hacked one in countless ways.
>it is completely different, it is incompatible,
Well, sort of. If you install the DivX 4 codec, you can *play* DivX 3.x media.
Ugh, QuickTime can't comapre with some of the other codes out there. You can find some GOOD comaprisons here. If you're trying to minimize size, which most of us are, MPEG4/DivX is the way to go. If you are looking for lossless quality, I like the PicVideo's MJPEG codec.
Sorry, this was a bit before my time (at least computing time). I started on Apples, and even though Amiga was around, it was going out of style (at least around here).
I think you should check the P2P networks again. I think new videos are more often released as DivX 4 than 3.11. Also, DivX 4 is superior in countless ways, including native 2-pass encoding, the fact that it's not a hack and is under constant development, and is backward compatible. There are countless guide based on the DivX 4 format. 3.11 is going out, with good reason. Doom9.org
Doesn't that make sense? "Popular" web sites/companies generally have to pay more for equipment because they get more hits, and thus (hopefully) more revenue. The little guys who are less popular pay less because they don't need an Enterprise/Oracle solution - they can stick to the cheaper stuff.
Everyone pays more for success, and hopefully also makes more money in the process. A popular site costs more to build/maintain/license/etc. This is included in that cost.
> The kid has the right to say what he wants, no matter what it is.
Where have you been? You can't use libel or slander. You can't say "I plan on killing the president" or "I have a bomb" on airplane. You can't break confidentiality agreements orally. I suppose you have the *ability* to say whatever you want, but if you define rights by what you are legally allowed to do, then you do not have the *right* to say whatever you want.
He's asking for $300 on his site to pay some web hosting company for a copy of it. If he truely cares about his convictions, why not get it for free off of the wayback machine? Could be tedious, but it's better than nothing.
Our Uni has network shares. We started with 20MB quotas which was rediculous because it was almost maxed out by IE/Netscape/roaming profiles, Eudora data files, and the like. The quota is now at 50MB and it seems to be a much better amount. This was paid for with the student technology fee.
We use Northern'squota server to implement quota on Dell Windows 2000 Servers. However, Quota Server seems to buckle under the pressue with 5000 students per box. We have a lot of problems with quota being screwed up. I think around 3000 people per box is more of a sweet spot for this particular product. We have under 1500 staff/faculty per box and it has very few problems.
We had unrestricted 100 megabit access to our OC-3 pipe in the dorms. I was told that two years after installing ethernet in the dorms our bandwidth bill had become 16 times greater than it was before dorm ethernet. The cost the University was enormous. Instead of blocking ports, which is generally frowned upon by the IT department (hey, they like P2P too!) they decided to implement "bandwidth shaping" which would throttle the bandwidth when excessive outgoing tranfer was detected, and would bring itself back up once the excessive usage stopped. I'm not sure how they're doing it but it was a huge disaster at the beginning (people were getting shut off completely). It seems to be working now I guess and I haven't noticed any annoyances, but I'm on a cable modem and would probably be unaffected anyway.
I do a ton of downloading and I would say around 80-90% of it is legitimate (I transfer a lot of legal ISOs), so I'm glad I haven't been affected.
Yeah, what they did was probably innapropriate, but from their point-of-view, what were their options? Do you honestly think law enforcement would give two shits about their problems?
This probably violates Interstate Commerce, RICO, wire fraud, and possibly mail fraud, but as citizens they would probably have to fight it themselves, which would be costly and difficult to organize I think.
Ok, I'm clearly not a lawyer and have no legal training, but it seems like the little guys always get screwed.
That said, I think this sort of vigilante justice is wrong. Perhaps the right thing to do is just take it up the ass and learn from your mistake, but I can see how a lot of people would have a problem with that (including myself).
I don't think they are under any obligation to pay you for a bad sale, no more than the newspaper classifieds are. Their fraud protection program is clearly identified, and they are there to facilitate sales. I think buyer beware is implicit in any sort of auction site.
I have only been burned once, for a moderately small amount, but I learned quickly to avoid money order transactions and be aware of a buyer's online rating. A buyer's feedback is the best way to protect yourself, and paying with a credit card is even better (if the buyer allows it).
I like PayPal, but I don't think you get the credit card protection because you were not ripped off by the merchant who made the charge (PayPal), so I don't see how you could have very good cause for stopping payment. Has anyone ever gotten their money back from a bad PayPal transaction?
Sec. 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that...
I've often wondered why the RIAA can't use the DMCA against the authors of P2P software, which would allow them to attempt to take down even the decentralized, anonymous P2P technology (sure, there's no central server, but you can sue the guy who makes it). I realize that once it's released it can circle the Internet forever, but that sure hinders development. And if development becomes a community effort, they could sue any provider that hosts the effort. To me, the DMCA seems vague enough to provide this opportunity.
Why don't the threaten to sue the author of eDonkey or the Gnutella clients? I suppose it's a tedious task, but that's their job. It's no more tedious than shutting down FTP sites...
I might not paying a dollar or so, but I can't afford spending $6/month for each site I find something useful on.
It's just like paying for music. I generally don't mind paying $12-$14 for a music CD that has 3 or more songs on it I like, but most of the time I only want one song - which doesn't justify me paying the full price of the CD. So I don't.
Another problem is available alternatives - If Google was the only search engine available and charged, I would probably pay for it. Since there are many good alternatives that are free (at the moment), I don't feel like shelling out the money. Alas, I still haven't applied this philosophy to my choice of operating systems, but I have more and more reasons every day...
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It might hurt to shift into gear when I drive, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna allow my computer to take my ability to walk too!
Hmmm, using these sorts of e-mail addresses can lead to annoyances to legitimate domain owners. For awhile I remember the owner of junk.com, which seems to no longer exist, posting complaints about people type "whatever@junk.com" when they register software. It seems his servers were hit or something.
I always like to use the webmaster's e-mail account when registering software. For example, if I was registering software on widgets.com, I might use the e-mail address "webmaster@widgets.com" or "abuse@widgets.com" to register the software.
I feel torn, as I want to support free software vendors by allowing them to make money, but I just don't want my e-mail address to be sold for spam. Ever. I also don't want those annoying newsletters that I could care less about unless I *explicitely* ask for it (and not be tricked or required by default).
I used to say exactly what you are saying. I would always check out an older laptop at school just to get the nipple because I simple hating the touch pads. However, have you tried the newer laptop touch pads? The technology has improved greatly in the last year or so.
I've recently used the touchpad on the newer Apple iBook/Titaniums and some new Toshiba laptops we have, and it is excellent. I've switched to it and now can't stand going back to the nipple when I am forced to, but when I use some of the older touchpad laptops, I get irritated at how sloppy they are.
I started with severe shooting pains in my right hand due to too many hours of work, programming for school, and mostly because of playing Diablo II.
I started using my right hand for mousing and developed the shooting pains within a couple of months (which is odd, since it took almost 8 years of computing to develop the pain in my right hand).
I tried several mice, but the trackball worked best. Not all trackballs are created equal, however. Some of them require you to push the buttons with the standard pointer and middle finger. These did nothing for the pain.
Finally, I found an excellent trackball that is both ambidextrous AND allows the left and right mouse button to be pushed with the pinky and thumb instead of the standard fingers. It's also Optical so I don't need to clean the damn thing every week. It's the Logitech Marble mouse , and it rocks.
I found the most difficult part to get used to is not having the scrool button. It took longer to get used to that than switching from my right to left hand. Now I can use a trackball or standard mouse in either hand with equal ease.
Unfortunately, it is not feasible to bring a trackball to work because I am always sitting at a different terminal, so I had to adopt a method where I use my right hand to guide the mouse and push the buttons with my right hand (while using the muscles in my wrist and not my fingers) to do the mouse. It's only a little counterproductive, and it's better than not being able to work...
Yeah, I think this might not be the best use of development resources, but our school uses OpenDOS for boot disks to reimage machines. It easier to download the free, open licensed versions than to try to find a copy of MS-DOS somewhere. Handy.
Like everything, it comes down to money. Universal and Bertelsmann don't lose money on cloned cats.
Oh great. It's already impossible to find a job with my measly bachelor's degree and now I have self-healing computers to look forward to. I should studied accounting...
The emotional bond that seems to exist between the mother and child within the womb seems irreplacable. It's proven fact that stimulation is what help babies develop, and it seems like a test-tube baby would lack many of the sensations available to a naturally born baby (the sounds of the mother's voice, jostling, temperature and hormonal variations).
As I posted earlier, I think this sort of thing could make us "God children" (see G.A.T.T.A.C.A.) become inferior as superior, disease and disability-free children are born from laboratories.
*sigh* Perhaps I'm just overreacting.
> why not just choose embryos that don't contain the genetic 'defect' if there is one.
*cringe*
G.A.T.T.A.C.A., that's why.
I was hoping someone someone would point this out. I'm sick of people outing the DivX codec because they think it is a hack of a legitimate one. The DivX 4 one isn't, and it's superior to the hacked one in countless ways.
>it is completely different, it is incompatible,
Well, sort of. If you install the DivX 4 codec, you can *play* DivX 3.x media.
Ugh, QuickTime can't comapre with some of the other codes out there. You can find some GOOD comaprisons here. If you're trying to minimize size, which most of us are, MPEG4/DivX is the way to go. If you are looking for lossless quality, I like the PicVideo's MJPEG codec.
If it was so superior, what killed it? Marketing?
Sorry, this was a bit before my time (at least computing time). I started on Apples, and even though Amiga was around, it was going out of style (at least around here).
I think you should check the P2P networks again. I think new videos are more often released as DivX 4 than 3.11. Also, DivX 4 is superior in countless ways, including native 2-pass encoding, the fact that it's not a hack and is under constant development, and is backward compatible. There are countless guide based on the DivX 4 format. 3.11 is going out, with good reason. Doom9.org
> So I am paying more for being popular?
Doesn't that make sense? "Popular" web sites/companies generally have to pay more for equipment because they get more hits, and thus (hopefully) more revenue. The little guys who are less popular pay less because they don't need an Enterprise/Oracle solution - they can stick to the cheaper stuff.
Everyone pays more for success, and hopefully also makes more money in the process. A popular site costs more to build/maintain/license/etc. This is included in that cost.
> The kid has the right to say what he wants, no matter what it is.
Where have you been? You can't use libel or slander. You can't say "I plan on killing the president" or "I have a bomb" on airplane. You can't break confidentiality agreements orally. I suppose you have the *ability* to say whatever you want, but if you define rights by what you are legally allowed to do, then you do not have the *right* to say whatever you want.
He's asking for $300 on his site to pay some web hosting company for a copy of it. If he truely cares about his convictions, why not get it for free off of the wayback machine? Could be tedious, but it's better than nothing.
OpenDOS/DR-DOS is another free, open source alternative. eBay has MS-DOS for sale too.
Ahh, people type things like "prolly" and "gonna" and "whadda you think". The author was likely aware of his playful choice of words.
Our Uni has network shares. We started with 20MB quotas which was rediculous because it was almost maxed out by IE/Netscape/roaming profiles, Eudora data files, and the like. The quota is now at 50MB and it seems to be a much better amount. This was paid for with the student technology fee.
We use Northern's quota server to implement quota on Dell Windows 2000 Servers. However, Quota Server seems to buckle under the pressue with 5000 students per box. We have a lot of problems with quota being screwed up. I think around 3000 people per box is more of a sweet spot for this particular product. We have under 1500 staff/faculty per box and it has very few problems.
We had unrestricted 100 megabit access to our OC-3 pipe in the dorms. I was told that two years after installing ethernet in the dorms our bandwidth bill had become 16 times greater than it was before dorm ethernet. The cost the University was enormous. Instead of blocking ports, which is generally frowned upon by the IT department (hey, they like P2P too!) they decided to implement "bandwidth shaping" which would throttle the bandwidth when excessive outgoing tranfer was detected, and would bring itself back up once the excessive usage stopped. I'm not sure how they're doing it but it was a huge disaster at the beginning (people were getting shut off completely). It seems to be working now I guess and I haven't noticed any annoyances, but I'm on a cable modem and would probably be unaffected anyway.
I do a ton of downloading and I would say around 80-90% of it is legitimate (I transfer a lot of legal ISOs), so I'm glad I haven't been affected.
Yeah, what they did was probably innapropriate, but from their point-of-view, what were their options? Do you honestly think law enforcement would give two shits about their problems?
This probably violates Interstate Commerce, RICO, wire fraud, and possibly mail fraud, but as citizens they would probably have to fight it themselves, which would be costly and difficult to organize I think.
Ok, I'm clearly not a lawyer and have no legal training, but it seems like the little guys always get screwed.
That said, I think this sort of vigilante justice is wrong. Perhaps the right thing to do is just take it up the ass and learn from your mistake, but I can see how a lot of people would have a problem with that (including myself).
I don't think they are under any obligation to pay you for a bad sale, no more than the newspaper classifieds are. Their fraud protection program is clearly identified, and they are there to facilitate sales. I think buyer beware is implicit in any sort of auction site.
I have only been burned once, for a moderately small amount, but I learned quickly to avoid money order transactions and be aware of a buyer's online rating. A buyer's feedback is the best way to protect yourself, and paying with a credit card is even better (if the buyer allows it).
I like PayPal, but I don't think you get the credit card protection because you were not ripped off by the merchant who made the charge (PayPal), so I don't see how you could have very good cause for stopping payment. Has anyone ever gotten their money back from a bad PayPal transaction?
Sec. 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that...
I've often wondered why the RIAA can't use the DMCA against the authors of P2P software, which would allow them to attempt to take down even the decentralized, anonymous P2P technology (sure, there's no central server, but you can sue the guy who makes it). I realize that once it's released it can circle the Internet forever, but that sure hinders development. And if development becomes a community effort, they could sue any provider that hosts the effort. To me, the DMCA seems vague enough to provide this opportunity.
Why don't the threaten to sue the author of eDonkey or the Gnutella clients? I suppose it's a tedious task, but that's their job. It's no more tedious than shutting down FTP sites...
> because instead of stories about Boeing AND students AND satelites, I find stories about Boring OR students OR satelites.
;)
Wow, you searched for "Boeing" and ended up with "Boring". I think the boolean search is the least of your problems
Seriously, though, perhaps Slashdot/OSDN should consider Google's search technology. It might be cost prohibitive for Slashdot, though.
I might not paying a dollar or so, but I can't afford spending $6/month for each site I find something useful on.
It's just like paying for music. I generally don't mind paying $12-$14 for a music CD that has 3 or more songs on it I like, but most of the time I only want one song - which doesn't justify me paying the full price of the CD. So I don't.
Another problem is available alternatives - If Google was the only search engine available and charged, I would probably pay for it. Since there are many good alternatives that are free (at the moment), I don't feel like shelling out the money. Alas, I still haven't applied this philosophy to my choice of operating systems, but I have more and more reasons every day...