Well, the question really comes down to, which do I love more: her or the game? That's the one that takes precedence. If it was really a big deal, I would just play games that had a pause button.
My SO and I had a rule. I could play games if I wanted, but each game had a pause button she could could invoke at any time (even if the game didn't actually have a pause button). Basically, the idea is that she is above the game (which she should be). Do you have a cell phone or desk phone at work she could call? That could be the pause button. Yes, you may lose the game, but it's better than losing the relationship.
Great, just what I need... even worse reception in the Sierra Nevada foothills. My hope was that Cingular would just add, not take away. Looks like the switch will happen in 2005 which means I'll have 6 months or so left in my contract that I'll either have to pay the crazy termination fee or just deal with it.:-/
T-Mobile's service may be getting worse, at least in the California/Nevada region. Here's a little history.. unfortunately, I don't know dates.
1. AT&T forms AT&T wireless 2. AT&T spins AT&T wireless off as a stock symbol 3. AT&T sells AT&T wireless to investors (so it is no longer part of AT&T but carries the name) 4. Cingular buys AT&T Wireless, but not the name 5. (in the future) AT&T will release an in-house brand of wireless known as... AT&T Wireless, but using Sprint's towers instead of the GSM towers.
Currently all AT&T customers will be or have switched over to Cingular.
Now for a little background on Cingular and T-Mobile. At least in California, I can use either Cingular's towers or T-Mobile's towers for free (I'm a cingular customer). This is because T-Mobile did not have any service out in CA and NV and Cingular had really bad service in NY. Now that Cingular has bought out AT&T Wireless, they could easily break the agreement with T-Mobile since AT&T has great coverage in NY. T-Mobile gets the shaft by having to either stop offering service in CA and NV or put up a lot of towers.
IANAL, but from what I recall, copying on a tape from the radio is legal because it goes over the public airwaves. I would assume (no, I didn't read the article) that this would be how they're trying to infer that stream ripping is legal.
The problem with stream ripping used to be the quality but with 300k audio streams, ripping seems to be a good alternative for fileswappers. What will the RIAA do? Probably one of two options. (1) Ban internet radio (2) increase the royalties of internet radio to either (a) cut it completely or (b) limit it to large stations that they can better control.
Bundling unpopular tracks? That's the beauty of single downloads, you only get what you want. Also, if we take an example cd of $19.99 with 10 tracks, that's about $2.00 per track. Again, why pay for something not on physical media at a lower bitrate for the same price? Raising prices happen, but the technology is too new to be raising the price right now.
I'd run the cable to a central switch and have an access point on each floor. This setup will work well for lan games, but if you're all trying to do online gaming, you better have a decent connection.
I know this part doesn't answer your question, but I'd agree with others. Invest the money, buy a house, pay off debt or do something you wouldn't otherwise get a chance to do.
DRM in iTunes is changed. Please repurchase all of your old songs. Seriously, the DRM with Apple's music wasn't that bad. Why make it so that they have to change things around? Remember iTunes Music Sharing? You use to be able to stream from any computer to any computer. Since people didn't use it for personal use, they forced it to only work on the same subnet (thereby not allowing users at work to access music from their home machine). I wouldn't say Apple is perfect, but they're more on our side than Microsoft is.
We have a local ISP and we are probably his largest customer. We've had problems since he is a startup and he traced them to trojans/worms/etc. so he sent them a warning to fix their system and then when they didn't, he shut them off. It's worked very well for us, keeps the number of infections down, keeps his network up and running, and keeps people accountable for the security of their computers.
And if anyone is wondering why we're going with a startup for business, it's because the only choice between 144kbps DSL and a full T1 is this guy.
is what I thought was more traditional. But while on the subject, what group is this for? The original hackers? Crackers? Script Kiddies? Phone Phreaks? All of the above? It seems to me that before you can give a group a logo, you have to actually define that group first. On the site, they do seem to have a statement of beliefs or whatever, but I think the guy has a little bit big of a head to act like is the authority on hackers.
First off, I would agree with others... keep the government out of it. Why do we cry to the government for things like this? Why shouldn't shows be allowed to show me products?
This leads to the money issue. If they can't sell commercial because no one is watching them and they can't do product placement, how are they supposed to make money? People paying to receive their channels? Nope, that money goes to your Cable company or Dish network provider or, you don't pay anything because you get it by your own antenna.
Furthermore, the more government intervention, the more the government does, the more people they need, the more they need to pay, the more we have to pay in taxes.
Well, these two answers in the FAQ would lead one to believe that this is an English speaking board.
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope? Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news,submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
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Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites? There are some sites like this already. For example, there's a Spanish site, and a Portuguese one. These sites aren't run by us, however. We have discussed the possibility of international mirrors, but we haven't made any decisions yet.
Maybe that they were given misinformation? It is no small secret that the forged document that said there were WMDs was given to us by the British. Also, it's not like Bush can read every single piece of intelligence. That's why we have an intelligence *agency*. It's their job to brief the President.
At least partially, yes. Bush outlined in his speech a number of reasons why we were going into Iraq. The media focused on weapons of mass destruction. Another reason that Bush stated *before* people started criticizing him was to free the Iraqi people. The media just decided not to harp on that until it appeared no weapons of mass destruction would be found. All in all, the Iraqi people are freed of a harsh dictator, the world is a safer place for having that dictator out of control, and the U.S. has shown once again that it has the power to protect not only itself, but other nations, thereby showing the strength of our military and, hopefully, disuading the next person from trying something. I'm no war hawk, in fact, I prefer the peaceful solution, but the peaceful solution in that area has not seemed to work and, thus, war was called for.
Yes, and the republicans want to control absolutely every aspect of your life including half your money - so you're willing to sacrifice that for toll-free interstate highways?:)
I find that Bush and company seem to be more about cutting taxes than the Democrats. Not as much as the Libertarians, but the Libertarians can afford to cut that much if they're only funding a military. I don't think the highway system is going toll, but if the federal government didn't keep it up, then it might.
If you have a good place with informative views and arguments for Libertarians, I'd be interested in seeing it. Living in such a liberal state, I don't hear much above the roar of the Democrats.:)
Rich? Well, maybe for someone just out of college, but not rich by a long shot.
Haven't written my representative, though representatives from Connecticut don't seem to care what conservatives say anyway. Still, I should check the bill out and see what it says.
I'm not quite Libertarian. More conservative Republican. Libertarians (from my understanding) only want the government to be in charge of taxes and war. I think there's a benefit to interstates and having one currency (though I guess that could come under taxes) as well as interstate commerce. Maybe I'm missinformed though.
Income tax was originally outlawed in the U.S. It was deemed necessary at some point, but only the extremely wealthy had to pay so it was accepted. Now look where we are. Yes, it may start out at one cent per e-mail (or even a fraction of a cent per e-mail), but what happens if that's "not effective enough" or "costs of bandwidth go up"?
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Well, the question really comes down to, which do I love more: her or the game? That's the one that takes precedence. If it was really a big deal, I would just play games that had a pause button.
My SO and I had a rule. I could play games if I wanted, but each game had a pause button she could could invoke at any time (even if the game didn't actually have a pause button). Basically, the idea is that she is above the game (which she should be). Do you have a cell phone or desk phone at work she could call? That could be the pause button. Yes, you may lose the game, but it's better than losing the relationship.
Where would one find the BSOD screen saver? I tried download.com and versiontracker.com and came up with nothing.
Great, just what I need... even worse reception in the Sierra Nevada foothills. My hope was that Cingular would just add, not take away. Looks like the switch will happen in 2005 which means I'll have 6 months or so left in my contract that I'll either have to pay the crazy termination fee or just deal with it. :-/
T-Mobile's service may be getting worse, at least in the California/Nevada region. Here's a little history.. unfortunately, I don't know dates.
1. AT&T forms AT&T wireless
2. AT&T spins AT&T wireless off as a stock symbol
3. AT&T sells AT&T wireless to investors (so it is no longer part of AT&T but carries the name)
4. Cingular buys AT&T Wireless, but not the name
5. (in the future) AT&T will release an in-house brand of wireless known as... AT&T Wireless, but using Sprint's towers instead of the GSM towers.
Currently all AT&T customers will be or have switched over to Cingular.
Now for a little background on Cingular and T-Mobile. At least in California, I can use either Cingular's towers or T-Mobile's towers for free (I'm a cingular customer). This is because T-Mobile did not have any service out in CA and NV and Cingular had really bad service in NY. Now that Cingular has bought out AT&T Wireless, they could easily break the agreement with T-Mobile since AT&T has great coverage in NY. T-Mobile gets the shaft by having to either stop offering service in CA and NV or put up a lot of towers.
a group has managed to hack the moma and it is now running linux without copy protection.
IANAL, but from what I recall, copying on a tape from the radio is legal because it goes over the public airwaves. I would assume (no, I didn't read the article) that this would be how they're trying to infer that stream ripping is legal.
The problem with stream ripping used to be the quality but with 300k audio streams, ripping seems to be a good alternative for fileswappers. What will the RIAA do? Probably one of two options. (1) Ban internet radio (2) increase the royalties of internet radio to either (a) cut it completely or (b) limit it to large stations that they can better control.
Bundling unpopular tracks? That's the beauty of single downloads, you only get what you want. Also, if we take an example cd of $19.99 with 10 tracks, that's about $2.00 per track. Again, why pay for something not on physical media at a lower bitrate for the same price? Raising prices happen, but the technology is too new to be raising the price right now.
I'd run the cable to a central switch and have an access point on each floor. This setup will work well for lan games, but if you're all trying to do online gaming, you better have a decent connection.
I know this part doesn't answer your question, but I'd agree with others. Invest the money, buy a house, pay off debt or do something you wouldn't otherwise get a chance to do.
Don't you mean As of 4:40pm CST, two of Google's top 10 search results for "litigious bastards" returned something related to SCO...
DRM in iTunes is changed. Please repurchase all of your old songs. Seriously, the DRM with Apple's music wasn't that bad. Why make it so that they have to change things around? Remember iTunes Music Sharing? You use to be able to stream from any computer to any computer. Since people didn't use it for personal use, they forced it to only work on the same subnet (thereby not allowing users at work to access music from their home machine). I wouldn't say Apple is perfect, but they're more on our side than Microsoft is.
We have a local ISP and we are probably his largest customer. We've had problems since he is a startup and he traced them to trojans/worms/etc. so he sent them a warning to fix their system and then when they didn't, he shut them off. It's worked very well for us, keeps the number of infections down, keeps his network up and running, and keeps people accountable for the security of their computers.
And if anyone is wondering why we're going with a startup for business, it's because the only choice between 144kbps DSL and a full T1 is this guy.
is what I thought was more traditional. But while on the subject, what group is this for? The original hackers? Crackers? Script Kiddies? Phone Phreaks? All of the above? It seems to me that before you can give a group a logo, you have to actually define that group first. On the site, they do seem to have a statement of beliefs or whatever, but I think the guy has a little bit big of a head to act like is the authority on hackers.
First off, I would agree with others... keep the government out of it. Why do we cry to the government for things like this? Why shouldn't shows be allowed to show me products?
This leads to the money issue. If they can't sell commercial because no one is watching them and they can't do product placement, how are they supposed to make money? People paying to receive their channels? Nope, that money goes to your Cable company or Dish network provider or, you don't pay anything because you get it by your own antenna.
Furthermore, the more government intervention, the more the government does, the more people they need, the more they need to pay, the more we have to pay in taxes.
but does it run Linux? :ducks:
or try this....
./'ers are involved in a relationship with someone.
How many
Ahhh. You in the back. Anyone else? Anyone at all?
No? Well, sir, do you have a lava lamp?
Well, these two answers in the FAQ would lead one to believe that this is an English speaking board.
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news,submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
Answered by: CmdrTaco
Last Modified: 10/28/00
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
There are some sites like this already. For example, there's a Spanish site, and a Portuguese one. These sites aren't run by us, however. We have discussed the possibility of international mirrors, but we haven't made any decisions yet.
Answered by: CmdrTaco
Last Modified: 10/28/00
Works well, until you lose your RFID scanner.
Maybe that they were given misinformation? It is no small secret that the forged document that said there were WMDs was given to us by the British. Also, it's not like Bush can read every single piece of intelligence. That's why we have an intelligence *agency*. It's their job to brief the President.
At least partially, yes. Bush outlined in his speech a number of reasons why we were going into Iraq. The media focused on weapons of mass destruction. Another reason that Bush stated *before* people started criticizing him was to free the Iraqi people. The media just decided not to harp on that until it appeared no weapons of mass destruction would be found. All in all, the Iraqi people are freed of a harsh dictator, the world is a safer place for having that dictator out of control, and the U.S. has shown once again that it has the power to protect not only itself, but other nations, thereby showing the strength of our military and, hopefully, disuading the next person from trying something. I'm no war hawk, in fact, I prefer the peaceful solution, but the peaceful solution in that area has not seemed to work and, thus, war was called for.
I know this is offtopic, but just wanted to encourage you and thank you for being over there protecting all of us back here in the States.
I find it humorous that you got tired of typing "GoToMyPC" (8 characters) and instead typed "had to give up typing the whole thing (36 characters)
Yes, and the republicans want to control absolutely every aspect of your life including half your money - so you're willing to sacrifice that for toll-free interstate highways? :)
:)
I find that Bush and company seem to be more about cutting taxes than the Democrats. Not as much as the Libertarians, but the Libertarians can afford to cut that much if they're only funding a military. I don't think the highway system is going toll, but if the federal government didn't keep it up, then it might.
If you have a good place with informative views and arguments for Libertarians, I'd be interested in seeing it. Living in such a liberal state, I don't hear much above the roar of the Democrats.
Rich? Well, maybe for someone just out of college, but not rich by a long shot.
Haven't written my representative, though representatives from Connecticut don't seem to care what conservatives say anyway. Still, I should check the bill out and see what it says.
I'm not quite Libertarian. More conservative Republican. Libertarians (from my understanding) only want the government to be in charge of taxes and war. I think there's a benefit to interstates and having one currency (though I guess that could come under taxes) as well as interstate commerce. Maybe I'm missinformed though.
Income tax was originally outlawed in the U.S. It was deemed necessary at some point, but only the extremely wealthy had to pay so it was accepted. Now look where we are. Yes, it may start out at one cent per e-mail (or even a fraction of a cent per e-mail), but what happens if that's "not effective enough" or "costs of bandwidth go up"?