Don't understand why so many people are complaining about this, I doubt it will make any difference to the majority of people complaining.
If you want to connect your old IDE drive to a new computer, just buy a converter, if you can afford the computer, I'm sure you can find the extra $20 somewhere.
If your old IDE drive breaks and you need a new one, get a SATA card, it costs less than $30, so if you can afford the new drive, I doubt you will have a problem paying the extra $30.
If you want to add storage space to your existing computer and all your PCI slots are gone or you don't know how to open a computer, get a USB drive. Since you don't have a SATA connection, I doubt speed is your main concern.
Finally, if you don't have USB connections, get something like the NSLU2, you can even run Linux on it (I'm running two of those at home with Debian Etch, works really well).
I'm sure you could come up with some scenario where the IDE drive would be useful and there really isn't any other option, but for the vast majority of people complaining, there are solutions already out there that will solve the problem.
And for you folks that read this and/or the spoilers, too bad. You could have closed your eyes.
People don't read spoilers because they are trying to read them. I half-read one because some moron thought it was a good idea to have it as his signature on a gaming forum I read. I didn't go there expecting to see Harry Potter spoilers. It's not always that easy to avoid them.
... then of course there was the incident when the last book was released when someone (stop reading here if you haven't read the last book) drove past a huge line outside a bookstore in a car with a megaphone screaming dumbledore dies.
Anyways, I don't like this being released but then again, some things I do like being released early (like TV shows since they are shown in the US first) so I'm not going to complain, just wish people would stop posting spoilers without even so much as a little warning.
The point wasn't the laptop or which network it connects to, was just saying that KVM extenders have existed for a long time as in a lot of comments, people sounded excited over this thing... might be nice to extend four screen sure, but if you don't need to extend more than one screen, a KVM extender is a better option.
Was just pointing out that KVM has a similar solution which I've been using for many years and I think it works great.
By the way, since you are talking about networks, the setup is actually that there's two separate networks, and for security reasons, no machine outside the room connects to the network inside and vice versa. This is why we have to use the KVM Extenders or we can't physically be in one place and work on machines on both networks at the same time.
We've been using KVM Extenders for years, so when we get into the office we put our laptops in the serverroom, and via the KVM extender we can work in a different room. No noise, and the computers are kept cool all the time.
This was initially done for security reasons, and the first KVM Extenders we had couldn't forward sound or USB, but nowadays it's not a problem at all, and it's all done over cat5 cables.
I have to agree with you, don't understand how this is fighting anything at all.
Don't get me wrong, having a place where you can upload images without having to register is nice, but it's not like there's a lot of censorship going on in Sweden. Basically, avoid anything illegal and you're good to go, which is exactly what they are doing.
Plus, this time around they are actually hosting the files, with TPB they are just linking to them which is why they haven't been shutdown (yea yea, I know they got shut down once but they haven't been convicted of anything.... yet).
Anything illegal = site gone, and I'm certain the government/police/xxAA would _love_ a reason to shut them down.
since when has anyone expected privacy in public? the 2 words are the EXACT oppersite meaning to each other.
Seriously? So you go out telling people everything about yourself, where you work, the names of your family-members, your age, how much money you make...
So... when you go out to the pub, or let's take something more public, a free concert in a big park, you expect everything you do to be caught on camera and posted on the web?
No-one in their right mind expects that _everything_ they do in public will be caught on camera, which is basically what you are saying that one should expect.
People expect other people to see what they do in public, however, if you go to the pub you expect people to be in a similar state of mind as yourself. You also expect people to remember you, not film you. Memory is very different from actually filming people, more things then the actual events affect how you remember things and the best part is, time can make people forget and heck, you can even lie about the events if you regret what you did and feel embarrassed. Try arguing with a video on youtube.
How anyone can mod your post insightful is beyond me. If what you said was true then I, as a male who recently became single, would _never_ have the courage to go out and talk to women, I'd walk around being afraid that everything would be caught on camera and posted to the web. It's hard enough as it is, and I am happy to say that I completely disagree with you, because if I didn't, I doubt I'd ever leave my home.
The more Microsoft tightens control the sale of Windows in the third world, the more they'll promote the use and development of Free alternatives.
Not that they don't have a right to do it, of course, since anyone has the right to demand that their products not be pirated. It's just that in this case it will turn out to be quite negative for them.
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Not just the third world.. I know quite a few people who aren't willing to dish out the extra money for a real windows license and don't have the energy to keep running the patches to keep a pirated version going, and have now swapped to ubuntu. I would personally prefer them running Windows since they can install it themselves, whereas Ubunbu requires me to work, but I see this as my contribution for the greater good in the world:) (yes installing ubuntu is easy, but getting all apps running when you dont know what the apps are called or where to find them is not easy).
Personally, my gaming system is Windows XP with the other three systems running various linux distro's, 2xUbuntu and one Debian, oh, and I have the NSLU2 running Debian Etch, coolest system ever:)
As others have said, I think it would be absolutely great if MS would enforce the copy protection since a lot of people would have to step back and ask themselves why on earth they need windows, as well as putting more pressure on gaming companies to make the games linux compatible.
Does it still draw power, or at the same high consumption-rate, if the screen is blanked?
I just bought a Radeon X1950Pro since my previous card wasn't handling Lord of the Rings Online very well, and I never considered that it might increase my power consumption when im not using the system.
(Genuinly interested in a response to this if someone really knows, would change my current behavior of just putting the system in powersave to actually turning it off).
I sort of agree with your opinions on politicians, but I disagree with your opinion on voting.
Not voting means that you accept _any_ government that may be elected, which means that you are accepting the fact that an extreme-right or extreme-left government may win the election.
Personally, I _always_ vote, generally for the party I dislike the least, and not because I care who wins from the generally accepted parties, but simply because I do _not_ accept extreme left/right parties getting a larger share of the votes because I was too lazy to do something about it. In the end, even if an extreme government wins, atleast I tried to stop it, and that counts for something, atleast to me personally.
For commercial and for larger non-commercial webcasters the judges set a pay-per-play rate of:
$.0008 per play for 2006
$.0011 per play for 2007
$.0014 per play for 2008
$.0018 per play for 2009
$.0019 per play for 2010
Per Play means the following:
Any time ONE listener hears ONE song (or any portion of a song), that's a "performance." If ONE listener hears ten songs, that's TEN performances. If 1000 listeners hear ten songs, that's 10,000 performances.
So what will the internet radio stations have to pay?
Here's a calculation:
$0.0008 X 10,000 listeners X 16 songs/hr. = $128. It'll cost our imaginary webcaster $128 to play one hour of music for 10,000 people.
At the end of the day, that's $3,072 ($128 X 24 hrs./day) -- for just a single day! After a week goes by, it's $21,504 ($3,072 X 7 days/wk.).
And for all of 2006, this webcaster with a steady average audience of 10,000 listeners would owe $1,121,280!! (the $3,072 X 365 days/yr.)
That takes care of 2006. For 2007, the rate increases 37.5%! So, with no audience growth, the cost of streaming music for the year would increase to $1,541,760.
And the royalty rate goes up another 28% in 2008, and another 28% in 2009, topping out at a $.0019 per performance rate in 2010 (resulting in a royalty obligation of $2,663,040 for that same audience averaging 10,000 listeners) for that year.
I listen to www.di.fm all the time, I love their radio, and I am actually afraid what will happen now.
It's so nice getting to listen to the music you like without having to bother about downloading / converting music etc, and I've been a premium member at di.fm for quite some time.
My initial thought is though, can't they move the internet radio servers out of the US, to countries with a bit more sensible laws?
This isn't pirating (you may technically be able to save the streams but it's not trivial and most non-technical people wouldn't bother), this isn't stealing revenue, this isn't hurting anyone... if anything, it should be helping the sale of music. There must be more people than me who have listened to a tune on internet radio and then went and bought it because it was really good.
For all you people in the US, go to DI.FM and do what it says there... help internet radio!!
This is interesting. Growing up, I was the only one that really liked metal music, none of my friends did.
They asked me how I could listen to it and not get stressed out or even how I could enjoy listening to it, and I always told them that it actually calms me and thats why I listen to it.
I never looked like a metalhead (well, except a jeansjacket I had in my early teens with metallica/sepultura/megadeth marks stiched all over it), but I pretty much only listened to metal.
Always thought I was weird in this aspect because still today, I haven't found anyone else who thinks that metal music is calming, whereas I still listen to it every now and then just to relax.
It'll be interesting to watch SCOs share price now...
Down around 1% at the moment.
How a company with no case at all and a marketcap of 237,5M USD can be so stupid as to sue a company with a market cap of 140B USD is beyond me.
I mean, there simply cannot be another reason than to inflate the stockprice. Five years ago they were at $40, now they are at $2.50.
Jones reveals very little personal information, as she considers it private and has expressed from the beginning a strong preference for avoiding fame. Here are the reasons she gave in the early days for using just her initials:
"I originally wanted to stay anonymous, in a sense, by just saying PJ. Eventually media attention and other factors made it impossible to remain just PJ but I would have if I could have. I have no desire to be famous, for one thing.
So, SCO doesn't like groklaw, PJ doesn't want people to know who she is... anyone else think that SCO is doing this just to get her out in the light, just because they don't like groklaw?
Short cut from the link above:
UCPD officers became involved after they were asked for help by a community service officer - or CSO -- employed by the library. This is typically the next step in such a situation, since the UCPD officers and our CSOs - which number 123 and are mostly students -- work collaboratively and routinely without incident. A person identified after the incident as a student was repeatedly refusing to comply with the requirement that he show an ID in the library after 11 p.m.
UCPD officers became involved after they were asked for help by a community service officer - or CSO -- employed by the library. This is typically the next step in such a situation, since the UCPD officers and our CSOs - which number 123 and are mostly students -- work collaboratively and routinely without incident. A person identified after the incident as a student was repeatedly refusing to comply with the requirement that he show an ID in the library after 11 p.m.
The student was clearly told by both the community service officer and, subsequently, the UCPD that if he refused to show his ID, he would have to leave the library.
When he continued to refuse to do so, officers attempted to escort him out. At this point, the student went limp and, at the same time, encouraged other library patrons to join in his resistance.
These actions created an urgent situation in which the officers deemed it necessary to touch the student with a Taser that was set in its "drive stun" capacity in order to gain compliance. He was touched -- not "shot" -- with a Taser, which conveyed an electric current.
... and here's my favorite:
Not all the events Tuesday night can be heard or viewed on YouTube...
Apparently there will be an independent investigation, so I'm guessing nothing will happen in the end.
Wait long enough and people forget...
I hate the way some companies use oddball screws to try and stop people taking the device apart. It doesn't work - those who really want to take it apart will find the tool or improvise, and it merely annoys them. Those who don't want to take it apart wouldn't even if you used screws that could be undone with the tip of a steak knife.
... like the xbox360, where you can "make" your own tool by cutting some hard plastic, delays the opening-the-xbox360-process by an entire 5 minutes, and requires one additional tool, scissors.
I completely agree, the only thing this does is stops "kids" from opening the console, which really has no effect in the end. I guess what they are worried about is people hacking the console, which will happen sooner or later one way or another, and the people hacking it couldn't care less about the screws or even if they have to break the plastic.
With the internet, it takes just one person to show how its done, and thousands will follow. For the xbox360, there is a company selling the special tool you need, I think the going rate is around $10.
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Anyone else than me who started thinking of Dmitri Sklyarov after reading this story?
I used to as well for the longest time but then I both 2x19" LCD's, and I am never going back.
Don't understand why so many people are complaining about this, I doubt it will make any difference to the majority of people complaining.
If you want to connect your old IDE drive to a new computer, just buy a converter, if you can afford the computer, I'm sure you can find the extra $20 somewhere.
If your old IDE drive breaks and you need a new one, get a SATA card, it costs less than $30, so if you can afford the new drive, I doubt you will have a problem paying the extra $30.
If you want to add storage space to your existing computer and all your PCI slots are gone or you don't know how to open a computer, get a USB drive. Since you don't have a SATA connection, I doubt speed is your main concern.
Finally, if you don't have USB connections, get something like the NSLU2, you can even run Linux on it (I'm running two of those at home with Debian Etch, works really well).
I'm sure you could come up with some scenario where the IDE drive would be useful and there really isn't any other option, but for the vast majority of people complaining, there are solutions already out there that will solve the problem.
Hmm, I'm getting a bit worried here, I broke this encryption using my fingers, and if breaking encryption is illegal, my hands.. ehh... gotta run!
Anyways, I don't like this being released but then again, some things I do like being released early (like TV shows since they are shown in the US first) so I'm not going to complain, just wish people would stop posting spoilers without even so much as a little warning.
If you want to avoid malware, go for Lynx, I bet you there isn't even one threat that works under Lynx.
... the actual webpage might not work either, but that's just a minor detail :)
The point wasn't the laptop or which network it connects to, was just saying that KVM extenders have existed for a long time as in a lot of comments, people sounded excited over this thing... might be nice to extend four screen sure, but if you don't need to extend more than one screen, a KVM extender is a better option.
Was just pointing out that KVM has a similar solution which I've been using for many years and I think it works great.
By the way, since you are talking about networks, the setup is actually that there's two separate networks, and for security reasons, no machine outside the room connects to the network inside and vice versa. This is why we have to use the KVM Extenders or we can't physically be in one place and work on machines on both networks at the same time.
We've been using KVM Extenders for years, so when we get into the office we put our laptops in the serverroom, and via the KVM extender we can work in a different room. No noise, and the computers are kept cool all the time.
This was initially done for security reasons, and the first KVM Extenders we had couldn't forward sound or USB, but nowadays it's not a problem at all, and it's all done over cat5 cables.
I have to agree with you, don't understand how this is fighting anything at all.
Don't get me wrong, having a place where you can upload images without having to register is nice, but it's not like there's a lot of censorship going on in Sweden. Basically, avoid anything illegal and you're good to go, which is exactly what they are doing. Plus, this time around they are actually hosting the files, with TPB they are just linking to them which is why they haven't been shutdown (yea yea, I know they got shut down once but they haven't been convicted of anything.... yet).
Anything illegal = site gone, and I'm certain the government/police/xxAA would _love_ a reason to shut them down.
Seriously? So you go out telling people everything about yourself, where you work, the names of your family-members, your age, how much money you make...
So... when you go out to the pub, or let's take something more public, a free concert in a big park, you expect everything you do to be caught on camera and posted on the web?
No-one in their right mind expects that _everything_ they do in public will be caught on camera, which is basically what you are saying that one should expect.
People expect other people to see what they do in public, however, if you go to the pub you expect people to be in a similar state of mind as yourself. You also expect people to remember you, not film you. Memory is very different from actually filming people, more things then the actual events affect how you remember things and the best part is, time can make people forget and heck, you can even lie about the events if you regret what you did and feel embarrassed. Try arguing with a video on youtube.
How anyone can mod your post insightful is beyond me. If what you said was true then I, as a male who recently became single, would _never_ have the courage to go out and talk to women, I'd walk around being afraid that everything would be caught on camera and posted to the web. It's hard enough as it is, and I am happy to say that I completely disagree with you, because if I didn't, I doubt I'd ever leave my home.
The more Microsoft tightens control the sale of Windows in the third world, the more they'll promote the use and development of Free alternatives.
Not that they don't have a right to do it, of course, since anyone has the right to demand that their products not be pirated. It's just that in this case it will turn out to be quite negative for them.
l Not just the third world.. I know quite a few people who aren't willing to dish out the extra money for a real windows license and don't have the energy to keep running the patches to keep a pirated version going, and have now swapped to ubuntu. I would personally prefer them running Windows since they can install it themselves, whereas Ubunbu requires me to work, but I see this as my contribution for the greater good in the worldPersonally, my gaming system is Windows XP with the other three systems running various linux distro's, 2xUbuntu and one Debian, oh, and I have the NSLU2 running Debian Etch, coolest system ever
As others have said, I think it would be absolutely great if MS would enforce the copy protection since a lot of people would have to step back and ask themselves why on earth they need windows, as well as putting more pressure on gaming companies to make the games linux compatible.
Does it still draw power, or at the same high consumption-rate, if the screen is blanked?
I just bought a Radeon X1950Pro since my previous card wasn't handling Lord of the Rings Online very well, and I never considered that it might increase my power consumption when im not using the system.
(Genuinly interested in a response to this if someone really knows, would change my current behavior of just putting the system in powersave to actually turning it off).
I sort of agree with your opinions on politicians, but I disagree with your opinion on voting.
Not voting means that you accept _any_ government that may be elected, which means that you are accepting the fact that an extreme-right or extreme-left government may win the election.
Personally, I _always_ vote, generally for the party I dislike the least, and not because I care who wins from the generally accepted parties, but simply because I do _not_ accept extreme left/right parties getting a larger share of the votes because I was too lazy to do something about it. In the end, even if an extreme government wins, atleast I tried to stop it, and that counts for something, atleast to me personally.
Anyone surprised this happened to Sony?
For commercial and for larger non-commercial webcasters the judges set a pay-per-play rate of:
$.0008 per play for 2006
$.0011 per play for 2007
$.0014 per play for 2008
$.0018 per play for 2009
$.0019 per play for 2010
Per Play means the following:
Any time ONE listener hears ONE song (or any portion of a song), that's a "performance." If ONE listener hears ten songs, that's TEN performances. If 1000 listeners hear ten songs, that's 10,000 performances.
So what will the internet radio stations have to pay?
Here's a calculation:
$0.0008 X 10,000 listeners X 16 songs/hr. = $128. It'll cost our imaginary webcaster $128 to play one hour of music for 10,000 people.
At the end of the day, that's $3,072 ($128 X 24 hrs./day) -- for just a single day! After a week goes by, it's $21,504 ($3,072 X 7 days/wk.).
And for all of 2006, this webcaster with a steady average audience of 10,000 listeners would owe $1,121,280!! (the $3,072 X 365 days/yr.)
That takes care of 2006. For 2007, the rate increases 37.5%! So, with no audience growth, the cost of streaming music for the year would increase to $1,541,760.
And the royalty rate goes up another 28% in 2008, and another 28% in 2009, topping out at a $.0019 per performance rate in 2010 (resulting in a royalty obligation of $2,663,040 for that same audience averaging 10,000 listeners) for that year.
Information taken from www.savethestreams.org.
I listen to www.di.fm all the time, I love their radio, and I am actually afraid what will happen now.
It's so nice getting to listen to the music you like without having to bother about downloading / converting music etc, and I've been a premium member at di.fm for quite some time.
My initial thought is though, can't they move the internet radio servers out of the US, to countries with a bit more sensible laws?
This isn't pirating (you may technically be able to save the streams but it's not trivial and most non-technical people wouldn't bother), this isn't stealing revenue, this isn't hurting anyone... if anything, it should be helping the sale of music. There must be more people than me who have listened to a tune on internet radio and then went and bought it because it was really good.
For all you people in the US, go to DI.FM and do what it says there... help internet radio!!
... the same thing I said around 10 years ago, Assembly is the absolutely best language to know, and the absolutely worst to write something in.
This is interesting. Growing up, I was the only one that really liked metal music, none of my friends did.
:)
They asked me how I could listen to it and not get stressed out or even how I could enjoy listening to it, and I always told them that it actually calms me and thats why I listen to it.
I never looked like a metalhead (well, except a jeansjacket I had in my early teens with metallica/sepultura/megadeth marks stiched all over it), but I pretty much only listened to metal.
Always thought I was weird in this aspect because still today, I haven't found anyone else who thinks that metal music is calming, whereas I still listen to it every now and then just to relax.
Nice to finally see that I'm not alone in this
Need edit :(
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Last post was wrong, was looking at the wrong stock (was looking at SCOR)
How a company with no case at all and a marketcap of 237,5M USD can be so stupid as to sue a company with a market cap of 140B USD is beyond me.
I mean, there simply cannot be another reason than to inflate the stockprice. Five years ago they were at $40, now they are at $2.50.
A Brainscanner developed by male scientists, here is what they are really thinking (I used my brainscanner on them):
1) Get Brainscanner and go to pub
2) ???
3) Pleasure
http://www.ucla.edu/bulletin/remarks-nov17presscon f.html
... and here's my favorite:
Short cut from the link above:
UCPD officers became involved after they were asked for help by a community service officer - or CSO -- employed by the library. This is typically the next step in such a situation, since the UCPD officers and our CSOs - which number 123 and are mostly students -- work collaboratively and routinely without incident. A person identified after the incident as a student was repeatedly refusing to comply with the requirement that he show an ID in the library after 11 p.m.
UCPD officers became involved after they were asked for help by a community service officer - or CSO -- employed by the library. This is typically the next step in such a situation, since the UCPD officers and our CSOs - which number 123 and are mostly students -- work collaboratively and routinely without incident. A person identified after the incident as a student was repeatedly refusing to comply with the requirement that he show an ID in the library after 11 p.m.
The student was clearly told by both the community service officer and, subsequently, the UCPD that if he refused to show his ID, he would have to leave the library. When he continued to refuse to do so, officers attempted to escort him out. At this point, the student went limp and, at the same time, encouraged other library patrons to join in his resistance. These actions created an urgent situation in which the officers deemed it necessary to touch the student with a Taser that was set in its "drive stun" capacity in order to gain compliance. He was touched -- not "shot" -- with a Taser, which conveyed an electric current.
Not all the events Tuesday night can be heard or viewed on YouTube...
Apparently there will be an independent investigation, so I'm guessing nothing will happen in the end.
Wait long enough and people forget...
I completely agree, the only thing this does is stops "kids" from opening the console, which really has no effect in the end. I guess what they are worried about is people hacking the console, which will happen sooner or later one way or another, and the people hacking it couldn't care less about the screws or even if they have to break the plastic.
With the internet, it takes just one person to show how its done, and thousands will follow. For the xbox360, there is a company selling the special tool you need, I think the going rate is around $10.