Mr. Oppenheimer says that, in essence, the only purpose of a P2P system is to copy copyrighted materials. I say the only reason the predominant activity on the P2P networks is music sharing because there are no equivalent legal means to obtain music.
I have downloaded aproximately 100 singles over the last two years. Of those 100, I have gone on to purchase the CDs they came from, for about 40 of those singles. Since the Apple iTunes music service was launched, I check there, and buy there, if they have it there. Only after that would I consider LimeWire. As the number of songs and albums on iTMS approaches the size of the current and back catalog of available music, I can see my participation in music theft approaching zero.
You probably noticed you weren't running on a G5 either. I'm confident that if you can score a G5 system this early, getting 10.2.7 to go with it isn't much of a challenge.
The real question is: which albums would suffer if the tracks were played in reverse order, or in random order. The albums which can't survive this test should be sold as a unit, perhaps as a 50MB single track for $8...
Epic Games and Sony Corp have released a new Unreal Tournament 2003 MMORPG version of Capture-The-Flag called DOMAIN WARS... Beta tests were completed over the weekend.
All the mainboard and peripheral companies still require you to boot off a DOS boot disk to run their BIOS upgraders and firmware installers. Likewise, a number of disk utility and disaster recovery tools use DOS to load their OS independant tools. DOS will still be necessary until these uses get handled by other forms of storage. -Gary
I can see me using something like this in a data center where I have a screen and keyboard already there. I'd need the serial port for hooking up to network hardware, raid arrays, etc. and I would really miss it not being there. Both my Ti PowerBook and PC laptops have no standard serial ports any more, and I've had troubles making USB->serial adapters work. So that would be one use.
1. Price received to sell equivalent disks to the public at inflated prices -- $75 mil. 2. Price claimed on accounting to write off expense for company benefit -- $75 mil. 3. Cost to actually produce disks at $.10/disk? low 4. Cost listed on reports to shareholders to minimize bad PR -- see #3.
It's easy to rate connectors from a modern, current perspective, but not fair. Every connector you mention was designed to meet the specific needs of its application using the currently available vendor capabilities. When that serial connector was designed and adopted, it was the best solution for its problem, or it wouldn't have lasted. Of course, if it were being designed now, a whole different set of specifications and considerations would apply. Likewise, what we will be using in 25 years is speculative fiction. I just think it is important to keep a perspective on this, see things through the eyes of the people who had to make things connect then. -Gary
Equally important, there are more uses for blank CD-Rs than copying pre-recorded CDs. I use hundreds of CD-Rs a month for data interchange, backing up machines and setting up boot disks. And I haven't burned a music CD this year. I don't see those statistics broken down out of the aggregate.
Microsoft should be forced to buy at full price, Linux distributions, Mac OS X and the hardware to run them on, and donate that to the schools. This would be a real penalty and would also benefit its competitors.
Not only do I agree that the computers were not packed properly for all the reasons given, but you should also know that, if you don't have the packing, in many cases you can call the company and have them ship you appropriate, approved cases and packing materials which you can turn around and use to ship elsewhere. I've done this for a tape jukebox I needed repairs performed on, and the extra money and time spent was well worth it. OK, so the PowerTower Pro would have been a problem, but certainly Apple would have sent him a box for a G4 PowerMac. The same thing applies to sending hard disks back to the OEM for repair -- Seagate, IBM, etc. won't even accept your drive for repair unless you have it in an approved container. They'll be glad to send you clean, strong approved packing boxes.
I also hope he made backups of the data on the drives and took those with him. It sucks to lose hardware, but with the prices of replacements these days, it won't break you to replace them. But losing your data can drive some people to suicide.
I'd like to know how much heat these puppies put out, and how many you could fit in to a 1U rack space. 1000 machines/rack, anyone? I'll bet the
power cube situation would be a *bear*.
I was wondering, since Russia looks like it will
send one more ship to Mir before the end, if there
were anything that would be worth saving, that
they could fit in the Soyuz capsule with
themselves safely? Anything up there worth saving
for a museum or for more practical reasons that
couldn't easily replaced here on the ground?
Perhaps what is needed is for a public group to release, possibly with a $10 shareware fee (so people will take it seriously), an Internet site blocker which blocks only one site, say "hustler.com". This way, the libraries can be in compliance with the law and still return responsibility and choice to the end-users. -Gary
We operate a six year old Internet services company and we have thousands of domains registered with NSI and owned by our clients. It may be one thing to reassign one or two domains, but as an IPP, what could we really do to change things and go with a new provider without sticking ourselves or our clients with a huge bill. I've been waiting on the phone for many hours trying to reach a NSI staffer for various domain problems, and many times I've thought that it would be great to have a choice. Still, organizing and executing such a move without disruption to our clients would be a nightmare undertaking. What we need is a stable, reliable registrar with tools to help us with many domains simultaneously. Any thoughts?
-Gary Digital Marketing Inc. og@digimark.net http://www.digimark.net/
It would be nice if we could directly benefit from the tax dollars spent, but most gov't funded research looks to American private industry to develop and commercialize new inventions, the govt doesn't want to be in that business. How else to get products into the hands of people then to provide a commercial incentive?
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Mr. Oppenheimer says that, in essence, the only purpose of a P2P system is to copy copyrighted materials. I say the only reason the predominant activity on the P2P networks is music sharing because there are no equivalent legal means to obtain music.
I have downloaded aproximately 100 singles over the last two years. Of those 100, I have gone on to purchase the CDs they came from, for about 40 of those singles. Since the Apple iTunes music service was launched, I check there, and buy there, if they have it there. Only after that would I consider LimeWire. As the number of songs and albums on iTMS approaches the size of the current and back catalog of available music, I can see my participation in music theft approaching zero.
You probably noticed you weren't running on a G5 either. I'm confident that if you can score a G5 system this early, getting 10.2.7 to go with it isn't much of a challenge.
The real question is: which albums would suffer if the tracks were played in reverse order, or in random order. The albums which can't survive this test should be sold as a unit, perhaps as a 50MB single track for $8...
Epic Games and Sony Corp have released a new Unreal Tournament 2003 MMORPG version of Capture-The-Flag called DOMAIN WARS... Beta tests were completed over the weekend.
All the mainboard and peripheral companies still
require you to boot off a DOS boot disk to run
their BIOS upgraders and firmware installers. Likewise, a number of disk utility and disaster recovery tools use DOS to load their OS independant tools. DOS will still be necessary until these uses get handled by other forms of storage. -Gary
I can see me using something like this in a data center where I have a screen and keyboard already there. I'd need the serial port for hooking up to network hardware, raid arrays, etc. and I would really miss it not being there. Both my Ti PowerBook and PC laptops have no standard serial ports any more, and I've had troubles making USB->serial adapters work. So that would be one use.
1. Price received to sell equivalent disks to the public at inflated prices -- $75 mil.
2. Price claimed on accounting to write off expense for company benefit -- $75 mil.
3. Cost to actually produce disks at $.10/disk? low
4. Cost listed on reports to shareholders to minimize bad PR -- see #3.
It's easy to rate connectors from a modern, current perspective, but not fair. Every connector you mention was designed to meet the specific needs of its application using the currently available vendor capabilities. When that serial connector was designed and adopted,
it was the best solution for its problem, or it
wouldn't have lasted. Of course, if it were being designed now, a whole different set of specifications and considerations would apply. Likewise, what we will be using in 25 years is speculative fiction. I just think it is important to keep a perspective on this, see things through the eyes of the people who had to make things connect then. -Gary
Equally important, there are more uses for blank CD-Rs than copying pre-recorded CDs. I use hundreds of CD-Rs a month for data interchange, backing up machines and setting up boot disks. And I haven't burned a music CD this year. I don't see those statistics broken down out of the aggregate.
Microsoft should be forced to buy at full price, Linux distributions, Mac OS X and the hardware to run them on, and donate that to the schools. This would be a real penalty and would also benefit its competitors.
I also hope he made backups of the data on the drives and took those with him. It sucks to lose hardware, but with the prices of replacements these days, it won't break you to replace them. But losing your data can drive some people to suicide.
I'd like to know how much heat these puppies put out, and how many you could fit in to a 1U rack space. 1000 machines/rack, anyone? I'll bet the
power cube situation would be a *bear*.
I was wondering, since Russia looks like it will
send one more ship to Mir before the end, if there
were anything that would be worth saving, that
they could fit in the Soyuz capsule with
themselves safely? Anything up there worth saving
for a museum or for more practical reasons that
couldn't easily replaced here on the ground?
Perhaps what is needed is for a public group to release, possibly with a $10 shareware fee (so people will take it seriously), an Internet site blocker which blocks only one site, say "hustler.com". This way, the libraries can be in compliance with the law and still return responsibility and choice to the end-users. -Gary
We operate a six year old Internet services company and we have thousands of domains registered with NSI and owned by our clients.
It may be one thing to reassign one or two
domains, but as an IPP, what could we really do
to change things and go with a new provider
without sticking ourselves or our clients with
a huge bill. I've been waiting on the phone
for many hours trying to reach a NSI staffer
for various domain problems, and many times I've
thought that it would be great to have a choice.
Still, organizing and executing such a move without disruption to our clients would be a
nightmare undertaking. What we need is a
stable, reliable registrar with tools to help
us with many domains simultaneously. Any thoughts?
-Gary
Digital Marketing Inc. og@digimark.net
http://www.digimark.net/
It would be nice if we could directly benefit
from the tax dollars spent, but most gov't
funded research looks to American private
industry to develop and commercialize new
inventions, the govt doesn't want to be in that
business. How else to get products into the
hands of people then to provide a commercial
incentive?