Dumb or desperate artists don't make squat. Smart artists make decent money of their CDs. On one hand you have TLC who signed an exceptionally bad contract and went on to have one of the best selling CDs of all time and still were declaring bankruptcy. On the other you have Garth Brooks, Sting, Price, etc. who all are exceptionally wealthy and can make money strictly off their CDs if they wanted to.
Right there's you, who still has the same buying habits (which doesn't say that you don't have illegal MP3s), and the rest of the napster/gnutella using world who definitely have illegally aquired music.
I guess you pick your CDs up right at the plant? It costs money to shuffle them around to the distributors, to the stores. It costs the stores money to put them on the shelves and pay some college student $8.00/hr to ring them up at the register. I suspect that the cost is greater than $2-4.
In one of the previous "stories" about slashdot someone posted a link to their network graphs. If everybody used all the bandwidth they could all the time (which is what you are effectively saying) then there would be no way to tell when napster was banned. Yet that fellows traffic graphs had a real difference showing.
Specifying appropriate use of bandwidth have absolutely nothing to do with identifying packets. Bandwidth capping is not so reasonable in a lot of cases. Sometimes a valid use would require 75% of the bandwidth, othertimes it's certainly pointless to reserve that bandwidth and force others who also have valid uses to modem speeds. It's most definitely not wrong or stupid or anything else to prevent abuses and track down violators. I cheer the universities that have sent students up the river for violations.
A good network administrator (one that actually works for the people who pay his salary as opposed to people who abuse the network he's supposed to administrate) will attempt a simple technological solution. If that fails he won't go nicely ask them to stop, he'll send the police over to haul the asshole away, take his computers, etc.
...organizations will have too much trouble shutting them down and it will all be open again.
Instead they stop trying to quietly save their bandwidth and prevent people from breaking the law (which is the prototypical use of these types of services) and instead just send the police to their doors. Let's get real here, the universities and businesses aren't here to hide your actions or to cover your back or to support your decision to break the law. I guess some people really want to weed themselves out of the gene pool.
And Europe was settled from Africa. So what. If you want to draw a line in history and say this is where it all started you'd better realize that the line can be draw at 1776 just as easily as it can be drawn at 1000 BC.
And pray tell who let them in? They didn't evolve here don't you know. There's documented evidence of the "native americans" moving down from the bearing straight pushing the previously "native americans" down north america, into south america and then they were gone.
Van Allen belts baby! Yup, the same things that grab charged particles and create the northern lights here on Earth. Jupiter's belts are correspondingly larger and therefore grab a greater number of energetic particles and guide them into a shell around the planet. I think anywhere within the first two Galilean satellites is a pretty dangersous place.
Move quickly to do what? Take their driver developers away from programming drivers and put them to work on filtering email? Sounds like a good idea to me.
Where do these stupid and immature suggestions come from?
It's not true that you can use drivers from, for example, Linux on, for example, FreeBSD. I will never be able to use any Linux driver that uses DRI because the kernel support doesn't exist in FreeBSD. Even when the kernel support is done, I still won't be able to use it because it will be different.
The drivers included in the current XF86 release are 2D accelerated drivers. They don't do 3D. However nVidia has released the sources to their glx module for XF86 3.3.x. The only problem is that it's very confusing, unexplained source code. You could conceivably study the code and figure out how it works. So far nobody has been interested in doing so since nVidia seems to have given the impression that they would be providing such drivers as the time grew near. We'll just have to wait a day or two.
What I'd like to know is how fast really is the transformation engine on that card? Is it able to surpass the current generation of CPUs? Will it be able to out perform the boxes that come out in six months? Let's get real here. Transformation is only useful when it is substantially faster than the using the CPU. How many games can progress with non-rendering aspects of the gameplay without user input? So what good does it do to offload the job onto the vid card if the CPU still has to wait until the frame is displayed and the player has had a chance to provide feedback?
Posting this here is an admirable sentiment, but effectively useless. If you want to impress them, write them a letter on the company letterhead indicating the same. As an AC your word is worthless beyond it's very words. Only good points of logic, insight, commentary are of any value from an AC. Threats, arguments, etc. are content free.
Dunno about everywhere, but in all the places I've lived you have two choices for televsion: air broadcast with about four network channels or one cable company. The single cable company was given a government monopoly to develop a particular area because they are using a limited resource (the ability to haul cable all over town and dig up the roads for maintainence and such.) Part of that agreement is that they maintain certain community standards and keep control of the costs to the consumer.
(Oh yeah, in recent years satellite has become an afforable option.)
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Dumb or desperate artists don't make squat. Smart artists make decent money of their CDs. On one hand you have TLC who signed an exceptionally bad contract and went on to have one of the best selling CDs of all time and still were declaring bankruptcy. On the other you have Garth Brooks, Sting, Price, etc. who all are exceptionally wealthy and can make money strictly off their CDs if they wanted to.
Right there's you, who still has the same buying habits (which doesn't say that you don't have illegal MP3s), and the rest of the napster/gnutella using world who definitely have illegally aquired music.
I guess you pick your CDs up right at the plant? It costs money to shuffle them around to the distributors, to the stores. It costs the stores money to put them on the shelves and pay some college student $8.00/hr to ring them up at the register. I suspect that the cost is greater than $2-4.
In one of the previous "stories" about slashdot someone posted a link to their network graphs. If everybody used all the bandwidth they could all the time (which is what you are effectively saying) then there would be no way to tell when napster was banned. Yet that fellows traffic graphs had a real difference showing.
Specifying appropriate use of bandwidth have absolutely nothing to do with identifying packets. Bandwidth capping is not so reasonable in a lot of cases. Sometimes a valid use would require 75% of the bandwidth, othertimes it's certainly pointless to reserve that bandwidth and force others who also have valid uses to modem speeds. It's most definitely not wrong or stupid or anything else to prevent abuses and track down violators. I cheer the universities that have sent students up the river for violations.
Moderate this up.
A good network administrator (one that actually works for the people who pay his salary as opposed to people who abuse the network he's supposed to administrate) will attempt a simple technological solution. If that fails he won't go nicely ask them to stop, he'll send the police over to haul the asshole away, take his computers, etc.
...organizations will have too much trouble shutting them down and it will all be open again.
Instead they stop trying to quietly save their bandwidth and prevent people from breaking the law (which is the prototypical use of these types of services) and instead just send the police to their doors. Let's get real here, the universities and businesses aren't here to hide your actions or to cover your back or to support your decision to break the law. I guess some people really want to weed themselves out of the gene pool.
And Europe was settled from Africa. So what. If you want to draw a line in history and say this is where it all started you'd better realize that the line can be draw at 1776 just as easily as it can be drawn at 1000 BC.
And pray tell who let them in? They didn't evolve here don't you know. There's documented evidence of the "native americans" moving down from the bearing straight pushing the previously "native americans" down north america, into south america and then they were gone.
I'd like to see him innovate "win-zip.com" into something.
I'll take that bet for $100. Just send a money order.
Actually I think Hemos get's a check everytime a piece of space junk wipes out a useful piece of space junk.
Genius moderation going on here. A factful answer to an erroneous statement posted at a default posting level get's a overrated moderation?
Van Allen belts baby! Yup, the same things that grab charged particles and create the northern lights here on Earth. Jupiter's belts are correspondingly larger and therefore grab a greater number of energetic particles and guide them into a shell around the planet. I think anywhere within the first two Galilean satellites is a pretty dangersous place.
Hey! Don't forget Pioneer 10. He just got a new lease on life. Not to bad for our oldest semi-functioning space probe.
Move quickly to do what? Take their driver developers away from programming drivers and put them to work on filtering email? Sounds like a good idea to me.
Where do these stupid and immature suggestions come from?
It's not true that you can use drivers from, for example, Linux on, for example, FreeBSD. I will never be able to use any Linux driver that uses DRI because the kernel support doesn't exist in FreeBSD. Even when the kernel support is done, I still won't be able to use it because it will be different.
Do you know that the code you choose to run has been looked at and audited by someone other than the authors? Or is that just something you believe?
If you have the hardware that is supported, then 4.0 would probably be an improvement over the 3.3.x versions.
For people who qualify (you know, us Karma Whores) the trouble is not involved at posting at 2 (+1) it's at posting at 1 or less.
They're not.
The drivers included in the current XF86 release are 2D accelerated drivers. They don't do 3D. However nVidia has released the sources to their glx module for XF86 3.3.x. The only problem is that it's very confusing, unexplained source code. You could conceivably study the code and figure out how it works. So far nobody has been interested in doing so since nVidia seems to have given the impression that they would be providing such drivers as the time grew near. We'll just have to wait a day or two.
What I'd like to know is how fast really is the transformation engine on that card? Is it able to surpass the current generation of CPUs? Will it be able to out perform the boxes that come out in six months? Let's get real here. Transformation is only useful when it is substantially faster than the using the CPU. How many games can progress with non-rendering aspects of the gameplay without user input? So what good does it do to offload the job onto the vid card if the CPU still has to wait until the frame is displayed and the player has had a chance to provide feedback?
Posting this here is an admirable sentiment, but effectively useless. If you want to impress them, write them a letter on the company letterhead indicating the same. As an AC your word is worthless beyond it's very words. Only good points of logic, insight, commentary are of any value from an AC. Threats, arguments, etc. are content free.
Dunno about everywhere, but in all the places I've lived you have two choices for televsion: air broadcast with about four network channels or one cable company. The single cable company was given a government monopoly to develop a particular area because they are using a limited resource (the ability to haul cable all over town and dig up the roads for maintainence and such.) Part of that agreement is that they maintain certain community standards and keep control of the costs to the consumer.
(Oh yeah, in recent years satellite has become an afforable option.)