I always assumed they were so named because they copied the disk nibble by nibble (i.e. 4 bits at a time). Or nybble, if you're into the Wyld Stallyns!
...you could replace the IE application backend with the Firefox application backend.
Exactly what problem does this solve? Aside from the numerous technical problems, what could you possibly gain from this that you wouldn't gain from a) just using Firefox or b) replacing Windows with Linux ?
If you ask me, that's something people should be working towards.
It's a good thing no one did ask you. The Free Software Community has better things to do than make it easier for people to keep using Windows.
As long as you can legally own the music this way, this is a good thing.
The major problem with the RIAAs action in recent years is that they've offered no reasonable alternative, other than, "get in your car, drive to the store and purchase our product on physical media," which is, of course, no longer needed. If this succeeds, it would be the first time the record companies will have acknowledged the fact that their product isn't the medium, it's the content.
This is great, and I applaud all these efforts, but spam will continue as long as it is profitable.
This will help you not see as much spam, but the only thing that will stop spam is to convince people to stop buying products from spammers' clients. And that means teaching everyone, from your neighbors to your grandparents, why it spam is bad, and that even if you really really want that product, you should buy it somewhere else.
Somebody, somewhere, is still buying stuff from these people.
The only way to stop spammers is to stop the people who are paying them money to send it. And the only way to do that is to make it an ineffective advertising medium.
If everyone (and I mean everyone) stopped buying products from spammers and their clients, we could wipe it off the planet by the end of the year. How many people here have explained to their parents, neighbors, and non-technical friends why spam is bad? Or how, even if it's about a product they really want, they should buy it from somebody else on principle? We've been trying to solve this problem for a long time, but I've only seen proposals for technical solutions.
There are no technical solutions to social problems. Support the Great Spam Boycott.
I used to live in central Indiana, where the minority ethnic groups make up a startlingly low percentage of the population. Yet, more than three out of four cars you'd see pulled over were being driven by black people. I hear this is documented somewhere with actual figures, but it got absurd enough that the practice was commonly known as being pulled over for "DWB,"
Driving While Black.
Don't laugh, it's not funny. How many of you can say that if you were regularly pulled over, or meticulously watched while you were driving, a police officer couldn't eventually legally arrest you? How many of you always obey every single traffic law? Obviously, there are other factors involved here, but saying the white man isn't trying to keep everyone else down just isn't true.
Tivo is great; it works right out of the box, and the user interface looks pretty good. There are two things about it, though, that make rolling your own attractive. First, Tivo doesn't let you take things off of the box and archive them. Second, it doesn't let you take media you've already got and put it onto the box to play through your home theater.
You'd think by now a Tivo would at least function as an mp3 player.
OK. I'd like to pay to download songs. Where do I sign up?
Here's the answer: nowhere. Your options are: either drive down to your nearest record store and pay for pressing, shipping, handling, packaging, advertising, sales assistance, cashiering, and post-sale security checks; or you can download it for free. What am I supposed to do if I like one particular song and would like a legal, electronic copy of it?
The issue isn't about opression, or stealing being some kind of right. It's about a market that's unsatisfied.
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Uh, you do know you can get a brand new one for ten bucks on rubiks.com, right?
Yeah, it works great with ROT13.
nibbled the disk bit-by-bit
I always assumed they were so named because they copied the disk nibble by nibble (i.e. 4 bits at a time). Or nybble, if you're into the Wyld Stallyns!
...you could replace the IE application backend with the Firefox application backend.
Exactly what problem does this solve? Aside from the numerous technical problems, what could you possibly gain from this that you wouldn't gain from a) just using Firefox or b) replacing Windows with Linux ?
If you ask me, that's something people should be working towards.
It's a good thing no one did ask you. The Free Software Community has better things to do than make it easier for people to keep using Windows.
Pepsi? I think not. Flansburgh's sandals are filled with Coca-Cola.
gzip directory/* | //network/share/file.gz
I don't even know where to begin telling you what's wrong with that.
As long as you can legally own the music this way, this is a good thing.
The major problem with the RIAAs action in recent years is that they've offered no reasonable alternative, other than, "get in your car, drive to the store and purchase our product on physical media," which is, of course, no longer needed. If this succeeds, it would be the first time the record companies will have acknowledged the fact that their product isn't the medium, it's the content.
This is great, and I applaud all these efforts, but spam will continue as long as it is profitable.
This will help you not see as much spam, but the only thing that will stop spam is to convince people to stop buying products from spammers' clients. And that means teaching everyone, from your neighbors to your grandparents, why it spam is bad, and that even if you really really want that product, you should buy it somewhere else.
Somebody, somewhere, is still buying stuff from these people.
Support the Great Spam Boycott!
The only way to stop spammers is to stop the people who are paying them money to send it. And the only way to do that is to make it an ineffective advertising medium.
If everyone (and I mean everyone) stopped buying products from spammers and their clients, we could wipe it off the planet by the end of the year. How many people here have explained to their parents, neighbors, and non-technical friends why spam is bad? Or how, even if it's about a product they really want, they should buy it from somebody else on principle? We've been trying to solve this problem for a long time, but I've only seen proposals for technical solutions.
There are no technical solutions to social problems. Support the Great Spam Boycott.
I used to live in central Indiana, where the minority ethnic groups make up a startlingly low percentage of the population. Yet, more than three out of four cars you'd see pulled over were being driven by black people. I hear this is documented somewhere with actual figures, but it got absurd enough that the practice was commonly known as being pulled over for "DWB,"
Driving While Black.
Don't laugh, it's not funny. How many of you can say that if you were regularly pulled over, or meticulously watched while you were driving, a police officer couldn't eventually legally arrest you? How many of you always obey every single traffic law? Obviously, there are other factors involved here, but saying the white man isn't trying to keep everyone else down just isn't true.
You mean they're for real?
The show takes place in Sunnydale. (google check: &q=vampire+slayer+sunnydale: 79,200. &q=vampire+slayer+sunnyvale: 573).
The only nightlife in Sunnyvale seems to be the teeny boppers lined up on Murphy St. Sunday nights.
Seems the missing piece in all this is supported MPEG-2 encoding hardware. Then one could use a really low-power (read: quiet) CPU to run it all.
Are there any cards out there worth looking at?
Tivo is great; it works right out of the box, and the user interface looks pretty good. There are two things about it, though, that make rolling your own attractive. First, Tivo doesn't let you take things off of the box and archive them. Second, it doesn't let you take media you've already got and put it onto the box to play through your home theater.
You'd think by now a Tivo would at least function as an mp3 player.
You obviously don't have as many allergies as I do.
While trying to get a RealTek 8139 card to work, I happened upon this. Has anything happened to resolve the situation since this was posted?
"Please click here and download Flash 6. It's free."
Cool...where can I get the source code?
Er, isn't that printk()?
If 200K is so painful to download, what do you want a web browser for anyway?
where do they keep all their mp3s?
> NOT PAYING FOR THE SHIT YOU DOWNLOAD
OK. I'd like to pay to download songs. Where do I sign up?
Here's the answer: nowhere. Your options are: either drive down to your nearest record store and pay for pressing, shipping, handling, packaging, advertising, sales assistance, cashiering, and post-sale security checks; or you can download it for free. What am I supposed to do if I like one particular song and would like a legal, electronic copy of it?
The issue isn't about opression, or stealing being some kind of right. It's about a market that's unsatisfied.
Can anyone report on whether these things run fanless ? The multia I had next to the stereo is a bit loud for the living room.
Right then, hack away. Release what you want under whatever license you decide on. Meanwhile, we'll keep on using Free Software.
-rick