The electric company makes no claims of giving you all of the electricity you want for a flat rate. Most broadband providers are doing just that, and then trying to set limits after the fact. If my isp wanted to offer different tiers I'd have no problem paying for what I use, but I'd be pissed if they just capped us all with no option to pay for what we use.
13. People pointing out that there's a Matt Dillon who's an actor that got to see that hot chick from Starship Troopers naked in Wild Things 14. Posts adding bullets to lists made in other posts 15. Profit!
The problem with Comcast's tech support is that the majority of their call centers are in Canada (disclaimer: I'm Canadian and have a few friends who work at these call centers). You see, the majority of their calls are from people who say things like " Hey, uh, my internet's broken.". After ten minutes or so of "can you load any webpages in explorer", disconnect the cable modem and reconnect it" and so on, they finally ask the sub to power cycle the computer and find out that he can't because there's been a power failure and he's had no current for the last two hours. I believe this to be one of the main reasons why their tech support sucks so much: they've all stopped caring.
It's not so much that people are idiots, though that is often true. A few people I work with have gone to broadband in the last year or so, but didn't want to give up the email addresses they've been using for the last six or seven years. I couldn't justify $25 a month for ONE email address (I pay $15 a month for hosting that comes with unlimited addresses) but that's a personal choice, I guess...
This is all so creepy. Earlier this week (wednesday or so) my girlfriend and I were doing a little game of "do you remember where you were when..." and I was telling her about how our third grade class was watching the Challenger launch on TV in the classroom. We were discussing the whole issue of how children deal with tragedies such as this (she's in child care) and then this happens today. I'm glad to see there's someone else who, despite how horrible it was, wouldn't want to have missed the Challenger accident, even so young. Just my thoughts on the whole situation. My thoughts are with the families of the fallen.
Indeed. I'm running Mandrake (8.1) and I recently thought about switching to Debian. I installed Debian 3.0 and when I went to install Ximian Gnome and found out that I couldn't, I ditched it and went back to Mandrake. Say what you want about all the other tools, a good interface makes an OS usable. I don't want to spend days on end getting my UI "just so" and I happen to like Ximian Gnome. It's the best for me. And while we're at it, I like Mandrake and prefer vi over emacs. Flame away!
You could probably remove the modem from the 'games' account hardware profile. At least that way they'd have to go into the hardware profiles and re-add it, so it kills the "I'm too lazy to logout of this acct and log back in to surf the web". Just a thought...
And they have a right-mouse button and a scroll wheel!
Yeah, so? The trackball I used to click 'Reply to This' has two left buttons, two right buttons, a scroll wheel, and six programmable buttons across the top (Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro). And it works just wonderfully on my Mac, as will any proper USB device. Oh yeah, and my computer colour matches properly, which I'm sure your PCs don't. And it may be a small thing, but I like my 'command' key on my Mac rather than 'ctrl+shift' on a PC.
I'd like to hope that other, bigger websites and the companies that own them will realize that if this goes through then SBC will be coming after them eventually. Maybe then they'll band together and help the little guys out with some lawyers, take this to court, and get it shut down. Better to use the lawyer horde now than be paying licensing on some ridiculous patent forever. Hey, I can dream can't I?
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Wow. You sure have posted a lot in this thread, and they all seem to be modded way up. You come across as knowledgeable, polite, friendly, and sincere. All the qualities one could ever want in a geek. So, um...are you up for adoption?
I played in a band. We booked all of our own shows at bars and small venues, did all of our own setup / breakdown / sound, made all of our flyers to stick up at bars so people knew we were playing. We kept the money we made. It wasn't a lot, but it was enough that even though we weren't working "day jobs" we could still pay our rent and other bills. We made our own music with no help from a record company. We made promo tapes to give to the owners of venues who wanted to hear us before they signed us to play a show. So how again does the record company make the music?
Odd...I have a Leadtek GeForce 3 Ti200 and I go from cold system to Ximian Gnome on Mandrake in no time at all. Now my Win 2k partition is another story entirely...that boot is a good five minutes, but I always attributed that to Win 2k and not to the vid card (and I'm sure it's not the Athlon XP 1700 that makes Win boot so slow...)
The problem with that is that the **AA will probably realize that the money people are spending on their goods was *earned* by *stealing* said goods. They probably won't be fans of the idea of you purchasing movies/music with money you got from trading pirated copies of other movies/music.
So, a respected computer magazine attempts to see if a vulnerability is wide spread, checks some default passwords, does no damage, and reports their findings to the public...and you want them to be punished? Why? Do you think it's the magical pixies that are posting advisories to CERT? If there were no people doing this, we wouldn't know about nearly as many security holes. I applaud Wired for this, as I'm sure do all the Sprint subscribers who have now changed their default password thanks to this article.
Yeah, it would be great if they stopped being so innovative and started releasing all the mediocre crap that their competitors are selling. Why does everyone think that just because a game doesn't involve car jacking and murder that it's a kids game? It seems pretty apparent that there are people who enjoy what Nintendo has to offer, and we're not all kids. They do appeal to the younger gamers, which is great, since nobody else seems to be willing to, but that's not their only market. If they're not selling games you want, buy a PS2.
I have no idea of how the law works on this, so it's an honest question. If a patent holder allows others to use their patents royalty free for quite a while (I'm assuming the patents in question have been in linux for a good 10 years or so...) and then sells their IP, what's involved with the new patent holder making claims?
The article states that they're already in talks with content producers. They also make a point of stating that it's large and fast enough to stream media and that it has an onboard processor capable of on-the-fly encryption. Looks like they wanna see these things on the shelves next to dvds. Also, the article says that the cards store anywhere from 100 mb to 5 gb. Does this mean that the 'under $15' pricetag they talk about is for a 100mb model? Anybody got any more info?
Is it legal? Is it ethical? Doesn't seem like a clear-cut issue either way, but I sleep just fine at night.
You just answered half of your question. If you're sleeping fine at night then it's ethical. Just because your ethics don't match someone else's, doesn't mean you're unethical. You're the one who has to live with your decisions. By the way, regardless of what the troll above said, I'm sure there are a hell of a lot of people using computers exactly in the way you describe, and if that's what the **AAs are fighting so hard to destroy, good damn luck. I refuse to give up the simplicity of fair use just to satisfy those idiots.
Now show me how to get a product adopted when your competitor is pushing a loss leader financed by $40 billion in cash reserves and MS Office.
Make a better product. Oracle costs way more than MS SQL Server, but people still use it. People (or, more specifically, companies) will pay more for a better product. Rather than whine about MS undercutting them, they should be trying to explain why their codec is better. If my DVD player costs an extra 25 cents to make but I know I'm getting a superior product, I'll spend it. Hell, I'll even eat that extra 25 cents per unit to keep my player priced with the competition who used the cheaper, inferior codec. The MPEG consortium has large corporations as members. I'm sure none of them are going out of business because they're selling fewer 50 cent licenses.
Why does everything have to be about money? Ever written code for fun? Ever do it in your spare time? Do we always have to place a monetary value on our time? Does everything always have to be "well, *I* created this and people like it, so I obviously deserve money for it?"
I heard a rumour from a couple folk who seem to think that sometime in February there will be a price drop on the PS2. I can't seem to find any evidence to go along with this, but I've heard it from more than one person, although they didn't point me to any sort of proof. Anybody know if this is true or if I'm being lied to?
The same works for movies. Can't get into that 'R' flick you wanna see? Download it from KaZaA. Get a parent to rent it on vid for you or take you to the theatre. Point is, the rating system has served it's purpose. If a parent takes their 14 yr old to see an 'R' slasher flick, that's their decision as a parent. If the kid d/l's it or whatever, then that's their decision...it's not up to the gov't to protect the children from media...that's a parent's job. The same way the clerk at Blockbuster would question a 10 yr old renting "Showgirls" or the guy at the counter ID'd me when I went to see "The Crow", as long as we get that from the people at video game stores, and actually enforcing the ratings system, I say we're all good.
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The electric company makes no claims of giving you all of the electricity you want for a flat rate. Most broadband providers are doing just that, and then trying to set limits after the fact. If my isp wanted to offer different tiers I'd have no problem paying for what I use, but I'd be pissed if they just capped us all with no option to pay for what we use.
13. People pointing out that there's a Matt Dillon who's an actor that got to see that hot chick from Starship Troopers naked in Wild Things
14. Posts adding bullets to lists made in other posts
15. Profit!
The problem with Comcast's tech support is that the majority of their call centers are in Canada (disclaimer: I'm Canadian and have a few friends who work at these call centers). You see, the majority of their calls are from people who say things like " Hey, uh, my internet's broken.". After ten minutes or so of "can you load any webpages in explorer", disconnect the cable modem and reconnect it" and so on, they finally ask the sub to power cycle the computer and find out that he can't because there's been a power failure and he's had no current for the last two hours. I believe this to be one of the main reasons why their tech support sucks so much: they've all stopped caring.
It's not so much that people are idiots, though that is often true. A few people I work with have gone to broadband in the last year or so, but didn't want to give up the email addresses they've been using for the last six or seven years. I couldn't justify $25 a month for ONE email address (I pay $15 a month for hosting that comes with unlimited addresses) but that's a personal choice, I guess...
This is all so creepy. Earlier this week (wednesday or so) my girlfriend and I were doing a little game of "do you remember where you were when..." and I was telling her about how our third grade class was watching the Challenger launch on TV in the classroom. We were discussing the whole issue of how children deal with tragedies such as this (she's in child care) and then this happens today. I'm glad to see there's someone else who, despite how horrible it was, wouldn't want to have missed the Challenger accident, even so young. Just my thoughts on the whole situation. My thoughts are with the families of the fallen.
Indeed. I'm running Mandrake (8.1) and I recently thought about switching to Debian. I installed Debian 3.0 and when I went to install Ximian Gnome and found out that I couldn't, I ditched it and went back to Mandrake. Say what you want about all the other tools, a good interface makes an OS usable. I don't want to spend days on end getting my UI "just so" and I happen to like Ximian Gnome. It's the best for me. And while we're at it, I like Mandrake and prefer vi over emacs. Flame away!
You could probably remove the modem from the 'games' account hardware profile. At least that way they'd have to go into the hardware profiles and re-add it, so it kills the "I'm too lazy to logout of this acct and log back in to surf the web". Just a thought...
And they have a right-mouse button and a scroll wheel!
Yeah, so? The trackball I used to click 'Reply to This' has two left buttons, two right buttons, a scroll wheel, and six programmable buttons across the top (Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro). And it works just wonderfully on my Mac, as will any proper USB device. Oh yeah, and my computer colour matches properly, which I'm sure your PCs don't. And it may be a small thing, but I like my 'command' key on my Mac rather than 'ctrl+shift' on a PC.
I'd like to hope that other, bigger websites and the companies that own them will realize that if this goes through then SBC will be coming after them eventually. Maybe then they'll band together and help the little guys out with some lawyers, take this to court, and get it shut down. Better to use the lawyer horde now than be paying licensing on some ridiculous patent forever. Hey, I can dream can't I?
Wow. You sure have posted a lot in this thread, and they all seem to be modded way up. You come across as knowledgeable, polite, friendly, and sincere. All the qualities one could ever want in a geek. So, um...are you up for adoption?
I played in a band. We booked all of our own shows at bars and small venues, did all of our own setup / breakdown / sound, made all of our flyers to stick up at bars so people knew we were playing. We kept the money we made. It wasn't a lot, but it was enough that even though we weren't working "day jobs" we could still pay our rent and other bills. We made our own music with no help from a record company. We made promo tapes to give to the owners of venues who wanted to hear us before they signed us to play a show. So how again does the record company make the music?
Odd...I have a Leadtek GeForce 3 Ti200 and I go from cold system to Ximian Gnome on Mandrake in no time at all. Now my Win 2k partition is another story entirely...that boot is a good five minutes, but I always attributed that to Win 2k and not to the vid card (and I'm sure it's not the Athlon XP 1700 that makes Win boot so slow...)
That's pretty harsh. Once the death sentence has been carried out, I see no reason not to parole them. Have some compassion.
The problem with that is that the **AA will probably realize that the money people are spending on their goods was *earned* by *stealing* said goods. They probably won't be fans of the idea of you purchasing movies/music with money you got from trading pirated copies of other movies/music.
Are you sure it's a joke? I was thinking it was 'informative'.
So, a respected computer magazine attempts to see if a vulnerability is wide spread, checks some default passwords, does no damage, and reports their findings to the public...and you want them to be punished? Why? Do you think it's the magical pixies that are posting advisories to CERT? If there were no people doing this, we wouldn't know about nearly as many security holes. I applaud Wired for this, as I'm sure do all the Sprint subscribers who have now changed their default password thanks to this article.
Yeah, it would be great if they stopped being so innovative and started releasing all the mediocre crap that their competitors are selling. Why does everyone think that just because a game doesn't involve car jacking and murder that it's a kids game? It seems pretty apparent that there are people who enjoy what Nintendo has to offer, and we're not all kids. They do appeal to the younger gamers, which is great, since nobody else seems to be willing to, but that's not their only market. If they're not selling games you want, buy a PS2.
I have no idea of how the law works on this, so it's an honest question. If a patent holder allows others to use their patents royalty free for quite a while (I'm assuming the patents in question have been in linux for a good 10 years or so...) and then sells their IP, what's involved with the new patent holder making claims?
I found a slightly better solution was just as simple to type: ifdown eth0
The article states that they're already in talks with content producers. They also make a point of stating that it's large and fast enough to stream media and that it has an onboard processor capable of on-the-fly encryption. Looks like they wanna see these things on the shelves next to dvds. Also, the article says that the cards store anywhere from 100 mb to 5 gb. Does this mean that the 'under $15' pricetag they talk about is for a 100mb model? Anybody got any more info?
Is it legal? Is it ethical? Doesn't seem like a clear-cut issue either way, but I sleep just fine at night.
You just answered half of your question. If you're sleeping fine at night then it's ethical. Just because your ethics don't match someone else's, doesn't mean you're unethical. You're the one who has to live with your decisions. By the way, regardless of what the troll above said, I'm sure there are a hell of a lot of people using computers exactly in the way you describe, and if that's what the **AAs are fighting so hard to destroy, good damn luck. I refuse to give up the simplicity of fair use just to satisfy those idiots.
Now show me how to get a product adopted when your competitor is pushing a loss leader financed by $40 billion in cash reserves and MS Office.
Make a better product. Oracle costs way more than MS SQL Server, but people still use it. People (or, more specifically, companies) will pay more for a better product. Rather than whine about MS undercutting them, they should be trying to explain why their codec is better. If my DVD player costs an extra 25 cents to make but I know I'm getting a superior product, I'll spend it. Hell, I'll even eat that extra 25 cents per unit to keep my player priced with the competition who used the cheaper, inferior codec. The MPEG consortium has large corporations as members. I'm sure none of them are going out of business because they're selling fewer 50 cent licenses.
Why does everything have to be about money? Ever written code for fun? Ever do it in your spare time? Do we always have to place a monetary value on our time? Does everything always have to be "well, *I* created this and people like it, so I obviously deserve money for it?"
I heard a rumour from a couple folk who seem to think that sometime in February there will be a price drop on the PS2. I can't seem to find any evidence to go along with this, but I've heard it from more than one person, although they didn't point me to any sort of proof. Anybody know if this is true or if I'm being lied to?
The same works for movies. Can't get into that 'R' flick you wanna see? Download it from KaZaA. Get a parent to rent it on vid for you or take you to the theatre. Point is, the rating system has served it's purpose. If a parent takes their 14 yr old to see an 'R' slasher flick, that's their decision as a parent. If the kid d/l's it or whatever, then that's their decision...it's not up to the gov't to protect the children from media...that's a parent's job. The same way the clerk at Blockbuster would question a 10 yr old renting "Showgirls" or the guy at the counter ID'd me when I went to see "The Crow", as long as we get that from the people at video game stores, and actually enforcing the ratings system, I say we're all good.