"There is no single entity in the software industry that provides any sort of guarantee that their software is fit for a particular purpose, even the intended purpose for which it is sold."
Well, there needs to be. I hope this sets a precedent: software makers need to be held accountable in the same way airplane manufacturers and auto makers are held accountable. The software industry should not be immune to responsibility simply because the quality of the products it releases is invariably poor.
Let's put some responsibility into this horrible industry, for once.
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You miss the key point: There's actually a link in the article summary that lets you order the video from amazon. Your comment didn't contain any links pointing me to Microsoft so I could order a few copies of Visual Basic.
Next!
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Ever watch one? My good God, I've never seen such horrid pixellation, terrible sound compression, and lousy frame rates (15 FPS! Woo frigging hoo!) in my life! People that download ASFs instead of VCDs need to be beaten until bloody -- the damned things look like shit!
Yes, I know this is offtopic, sort of, but it serves to explain that, maybe, we don't need the ASF format after all.
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People that argued that Netscape cost money seem to forget that Netscape was always free for private, non-commercial use as well. Isn't that the primary use of streaming media? Does anyone actually pay for Real Player?
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Where did you get your figured from? Someone posted here a while back and included a link to a well-documented webpage that stated that fully two thirds of all missions to Mars have been failures. That's a far cry from your number.
We've spent billions and billions of dollars (as have the Russians) shooting stuff at Mars, with very few successes.
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"Under a bill proposed this week by Rep. Jean McGrath, R-Glendale, students living in university residence halls would not be allowed to have guests of the opposite sex in their rooms, except for immediate family."
So I can still bring my sister up to my room... sweet!
"If you can't keep it in your pants, keep it in the family."
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"EMI artists include the Spice Girls, the Rolling Stones and Robbie Williams. Warner Music's artists include Cher, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Madonna and Fleetwood Mac." Wow. How much garbage can you stuff onto one record label? "I guess we'll find out." - A.P. --
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"Because, as musicians under our control, you take it up the ass from us so willingly anyway..."
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No, it isn't. Learn about shit before you post.
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my.mp3.com is perfectly legitimate, if you've watched the mp3.com webcast and actually *found out what it can and cannot do*. You *do not* have access to every song ever made, because *you have to buy physical CDs*. If you do not own the CD *you CAN'T listen to the music*.
Please get a clue.
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From the Judge's injunction decision: "As Plaintiff conceded at the hearing on the TRO, once this information gets into the hands of an innocent party, the Plaintiff loses their ability to enjoin the use of their trade secret."
Well, I've got a copy of DeCSS, and I consider myself pretty innocent -- does this mean the trade secret's dead anyway?
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Okay, so Intel's done some nice stuff. Bill Gates has donated billions to charity too. Does this mean we should give companies that do nice things the license to do whatever the hell they want to other, smaller companies?
Please, think about what you say before you post. What you've said is absolutely laughable.
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I just joined (right now) with a $20 donation. I'm sorta poor so I couldn't afford much more than that. They have an online, secure signup form and they take credit cards.
The EFF *is* our defense in cases like these. Support their efforts!
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At least IMO. The plots have been getting more and more ridiculous; I stopped watching it in favor of either Futurama or nothing at all. The Simpsons now seems more about how many lame jokes they can pack into 24 minutes than anything else.
But that's just me...
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According to Anandtech, who did a review of overclocked Athlons (including ones with the L2 cache switched to 1/3), you still get a performance boost if you up the MHz and change the L2 cache multiplier to a lower setting. Granted, it's not linear, but you still *do* see a significant boost.
Here's the article
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According to Anandtech, who did a review of overclocked Athlons (including ones with the L2 cache switched to 1/3), you still get a performance boost if you up the MHz and change the L2 cache multiplier to a lower setting. Granted, it's not linear, but you still *do* see a significant boost. Here's the article -A.P. --
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...when you've got a linux box sitting on a cable modem at *home* _and_ you've got ethernet in your _dorm_? That's my situation now. I really wanted a simple way to be able to access the files and stuff on my home network. Ssh simply would not do. That is, until I found the SSH-VPN FAQ. I've now got a secure, *fast* connection to all my home machines. I can mount filesystems there on my machine here, easily login to everything, and I don't have to worry about anyone on this (broadcast) network sniffing my passwords (and believe me, it's simple to do.)
If anyone else is in my situation, you owe it to yourself to check out these pages, if you haven't already done so:
http://www.vpn.outer.net/2e/vpnssh.html - This site is basically a re-interpretation of the SSH VPN FAQ below, but it's better-written, IMO, and was extremely helpful. I followed its instructions and everything worked beautifully the first time.
He's also pretty unfunny, IMO. His comedy sketches seem forced and, while Conan O'Brien can pull that kind of stuff off, Leno lacks the self-deprecating wit to make it worthwhile.
I say: ditch Leno, put Conan in his time slot, and find a way to make sure Richter stays around after March. But that's just me.
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Netscape has a news client. Microsoft Internet Explorer has a news client. www.deja.com lets you post to Usenet even without a client. How much easier can access to Usenet possibly be? If you can access the web, you can access Usenet!!!
Usenet is an open forum, not some closed, unattainable clique like you're making it out to be. (The administrative side of it, however. ..)
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Whiner. If you absolutely must post to Usenet, do so through deja.com for the duration of the UDP. Historically, UDPs do not last very long, because the whingings of normal users of the ISP and the stigma a UDP places upon the ISP have the end effect of making the admins get off their lazy asses and fix things.
You won't win any friends by "fighting back" like some sort of Che Guevara wannabe of the Internet. But, if it makes you feel any better, you can forge cancels for all of _my_ posts, too.
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Well, there needs to be. I hope this sets a precedent: software makers need to be held accountable in the same way airplane manufacturers and auto makers are held accountable. The software industry should not be immune to responsibility simply because the quality of the products it releases is invariably poor.
Let's put some responsibility into this horrible industry, for once.
- A.P.
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(We should believe them now?)
- A.P.
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Next!
- A.P.
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Yes, I know this is offtopic, sort of, but it serves to explain that, maybe, we don't need the ASF format after all.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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We've spent billions and billions of dollars (as have the Russians) shooting stuff at Mars, with very few successes.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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So I can still bring my sister up to my room... sweet!
"If you can't keep it in your pants, keep it in the family."
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Please get a clue.
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"As Plaintiff conceded at the hearing on the TRO, once this information gets into the hands of an innocent party, the Plaintiff loses their ability to enjoin the use of their trade secret."
Well, I've got a copy of DeCSS, and I consider myself pretty innocent -- does this mean the trade secret's dead anyway?
- A.P.
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Please, think about what you say before you post. What you've said is absolutely laughable.
- A.P.
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The EFF *is* our defense in cases like these. Support their efforts!
- A.P.
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But that's just me...
- A.P.
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Here's the article
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If anyone else is in my situation, you owe it to yourself to check out these pages, if you haven't already done so:
http://www.vpn.outer.net/2e/vpnssh.html - This site is basically a re-interpretation of the SSH VPN FAQ below, but it's better-written, IMO, and was extremely helpful. I followed its instructions and everything worked beautifully the first time.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/VPN- 4.html - Another helpful site, the original VPN HOWTO, has the proper location of some of the tools you'll need.
Good luck, and have fun busting huge, gaping holes in your school's firewall. :)
- A.P.
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I say: ditch Leno, put Conan in his time slot, and find a way to make sure Richter stays around after March. But that's just me.
- A.P.
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Usenet is an open forum, not some closed, unattainable clique like you're making it out to be. (The administrative side of it, however. . .)
-A.P.
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- A.P.
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You won't win any friends by "fighting back" like some sort of Che Guevara wannabe of the Internet. But, if it makes you feel any better, you can forge cancels for all of _my_ posts, too.
- A.P.
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