wow....somebody try this and see what happens, because here's what happened to me: I of course followed the link to vote. I right clicked the link and opened in a new windows. I clicked '1' and hit 'submit'. It returned a popup error box saying 'line 22: permission denied'. I figured it was just because IE sucks, so I cut and pasted the link to a new IE window, and the vote went through no problem. Have they blacklisted anyone with slashdot as the referrer?
people don't want to have to think to use a pda. if they wanted to think, they'd try to remember all of their phone numbers and appointments rather than using a gadget to record it all. if your average wall street suit can't make it do what he wants, you've just cut off 90% of your market.
Firing at your computer with a 12 gauge from close range isn't good for it either, but would you sue Smith & Wesson for damages when you blew a hole in your case? The fact that Sony is admitting that this will cause crashes probably protects them from liability. It may not be the best business strategy, but that's not really the issue here. Now if it caused my stereo to crash, I'd be pissed. Any news on whether we'll see this *protection* on any worthwhile discs?
And if AMD made it instead of intel, it would overheat. You'd need some serious cooling, but if it sprung a leak the shit would *literally* hit the fan.
They dropped the ball on the FIC review too. The only thing they got right was the stability - you simply can't hurt these things. The performance is great, it's probably the best board for overclocking if you know what you're doing (you need to set jumpers) but if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't be overclocking your system anyways. Their support is superior - in addition to all of the infromation on their site they have a message board. And for the price ($60 for the AD11, which supports AthlonXP + DDR) you can't really beat it.
I'd assume that the part in there that says "with prompting" is the warning you are looking for. And it's the runtime environment...the same way many Win programs install VB runtime components, or for that matter, any other number of DLL's.
Same problem here. I've had my iname acct. for around four or five years now. And I would have had no problem paying to continue the forwarding service, accept that it seems they tried to make money by selling their user lists to spammers. So there's no way in hell I'll pay to keep having spam forwarded to one of my "real" email addresses. Instead I'll keep using it as free web-mail and sign it up for anything that I know will get spammed. They get money to sell it to spammers, I don't pay a thing - least I can do for a service that's been so good.
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I realize it's not a bug, but is it responsible of slashdot to post links to small sites that don't have the bandwidth and bring down their servers? We, the slashdot community, are constantly bringing down sites. Do you blame slashdot for this? It's not his fault they haven't patched their shoddy software, and it's not a malicious attack - he's not repeatedly crashing the same servers. It's a bug - a security flaw - and it needs to be fixed.
from what I hear, the problem in Pennsylvania isn't guys with pictures of little kids, it's guys with pictures of their sisters The war on child pornography, much like the war on terrorism, can only be a good thing. Remember when we had that war on drugs, and now there are no more drugs? This will be just like that...
I posted the same thing when this came up the other day, but I was actually serious. Why should the recording artists get all of the 'tax' when some of us aren't burning music, we're burning ISOs of our favourite distros. I want to see all the 'tax' *I* pay on CD-R's go to Debian (and the good folks at IPcop.org, who make a hell of a nice firewall/router, and which is residing on a few cds around here somewhere...)
Quite why they bother protecting the latest Britney album is beyond me. Who the hell would want to duplicate that?
Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson, Shakira, and any number of other 'artists' are duplicating it as we speak. Oh wait, that's not what you meant...
You just raised what I feel would be an iteresting point: what about selling an mp3 player with no memory? could they tax the memory if it wasn't explicitly sold for mp3 players? I know I wouldn't buy memory for my digital camera if a portion of what I paid was funding the recording industry. That also brings up the question of cd-r taxes. Why should I be paying money to the recording industry for a cd-r that's being used to hold the newest debian iso? If I tell them that that's what it's for, will they give the "tax" to the FSF instead? The recording industry is NOT a government body, so why should the government be subsidizing them?
I'd like to take that one step further though. I'd like to see AOL/TW buy RedHat and develop it into AOL-OS (or some such named product). All the power of linux, all the ease-of-use of AOL - which is to say, damn simple. Eventually, phase out the Windows version entirely. You want AOL? Gotta use AOL-OS. But that's a good thing, since it's cheaper than Windows and, with all that AOL/TW cash behind a linux distro, way more stable. Now THAT'd be cool...I'd almost use AOL for that;)
as a funny sidenote, I followed your link (who doesn't love cheap hardware??) While browsing the CPU section, I came across an AMD K6-2 450 with the little blurb next to it reading "One of the industries hottest processors..."
Now THAT'S comedy!
p.s. - I have a K6-2 450, and I love it...
I have the 3390, and it's the same thing. I'm in a poor reception area as it is, but my signal strength is usually pretty good. Now my service provider on the other hand...
I think what you're going for is a little different though. No magazine is making money by distributing a movie. They may discuss a movie, or review it, or interview the actors, or even give away the plot. But it's still not the whole movie. And note that in mags all of the still pics of a movie will tell you exactly who owns the right to that picture. But (as far as hollywood is concerned) p2p networks are giving away their products. And now, they're admitting to taking money for this service. All bad.
giFT is an open source ft client, and they're also developing the openFT network that they hope will become the new standard for p2p file trading. It's loosely based on the FastTrack network used by kazaa but it's all open sourced.
"MusicCity (also known as StreamCast Networks) has failed to pay any amounts due to Kazaa BV under the parties' license agreement"
How will the RIAA / MPAA / Software industry look upon this, with Kazaa adimitting to making money off of their copyrights? (I know that's flawed logic, but the RI/MPAA cares not for your 'logic') Kazaa just admitted that they're in this for the cash. Sure, it's just a license to software that can be used to trade *anything* (not just copyrighted material), but they just admitted that they can and do control who gets on the network AND that they're making cash off of it. They just drew the bullseye on their own forehead.
I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Subscribers should get the stories a little in advance (15 mins to an hour should do it) so they can get the links before everyone else eats up the bandwidth. THAT would be a perk worth subscribing for.
p.s. - when I saw your topic as 'mirrors' I thought you were gonna talk about building a case out of mirrors. that'd be sweet!
What about comments? Comments are what make slashdot what it is - otherwise it would be 'stories other people wrote and we linked to'. But if I had to use one of my paid for pages to make comments, I'd be less likely to comment. That would greatly diminish the quality of the site. (well, not that *me* personally not commenting would have a negative impact, but users in general...my comments are mostly garbage anyways...)
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wow....somebody try this and see what happens, because here's what happened to me: I of course followed the link to vote. I right clicked the link and opened in a new windows. I clicked '1' and hit 'submit'. It returned a popup error box saying 'line 22: permission denied'. I figured it was just because IE sucks, so I cut and pasted the link to a new IE window, and the vote went through no problem. Have they blacklisted anyone with slashdot as the referrer?
people don't want to have to think to use a pda. if they wanted to think, they'd try to remember all of their phone numbers and appointments rather than using a gadget to record it all. if your average wall street suit can't make it do what he wants, you've just cut off 90% of your market.
Firing at your computer with a 12 gauge from close range isn't good for it either, but would you sue Smith & Wesson for damages when you blew a hole in your case? The fact that Sony is admitting that this will cause crashes probably protects them from liability. It may not be the best business strategy, but that's not really the issue here. Now if it caused my stereo to crash, I'd be pissed. Any news on whether we'll see this *protection* on any worthwhile discs?
And if AMD made it instead of intel, it would overheat. You'd need some serious cooling, but if it sprung a leak the shit would *literally* hit the fan.
They dropped the ball on the FIC review too. The only thing they got right was the stability - you simply can't hurt these things. The performance is great, it's probably the best board for overclocking if you know what you're doing (you need to set jumpers) but if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't be overclocking your system anyways. Their support is superior - in addition to all of the infromation on their site they have a message board. And for the price ($60 for the AD11, which supports AthlonXP + DDR) you can't really beat it.
I don't suppose that his site getting linked from the front page of slashdot will do anything to help his bandwidth problems...
The auction is already under way!!! Hurry up!!! You can go here to bid on all of the Windows source!!!
I'd assume that the part in there that says "with prompting" is the warning you are looking for. And it's the runtime environment...the same way many Win programs install VB runtime components, or for that matter, any other number of DLL's.
Same problem here. I've had my iname acct. for around four or five years now. And I would have had no problem paying to continue the forwarding service, accept that it seems they tried to make money by selling their user lists to spammers. So there's no way in hell I'll pay to keep having spam forwarded to one of my "real" email addresses. Instead I'll keep using it as free web-mail and sign it up for anything that I know will get spammed. They get money to sell it to spammers, I don't pay a thing - least I can do for a service that's been so good.
I realize it's not a bug, but is it responsible of slashdot to post links to small sites that don't have the bandwidth and bring down their servers? We, the slashdot community, are constantly bringing down sites. Do you blame slashdot for this? It's not his fault they haven't patched their shoddy software, and it's not a malicious attack - he's not repeatedly crashing the same servers. It's a bug - a security flaw - and it needs to be fixed.
from what I hear, the problem in Pennsylvania isn't guys with pictures of little kids, it's guys with pictures of their sisters The war on child pornography, much like the war on terrorism, can only be a good thing. Remember when we had that war on drugs, and now there are no more drugs? This will be just like that...
I posted the same thing when this came up the other day, but I was actually serious. Why should the recording artists get all of the 'tax' when some of us aren't burning music, we're burning ISOs of our favourite distros. I want to see all the 'tax' *I* pay on CD-R's go to Debian (and the good folks at IPcop.org, who make a hell of a nice firewall/router, and which is residing on a few cds around here somewhere...)
You're from Canada and you think Newfoundland is a western city?
Quite why they bother protecting the latest Britney album is beyond me. Who the hell would want to duplicate that?
Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson, Shakira, and any number of other 'artists' are duplicating it as we speak. Oh wait, that's not what you meant...
You just raised what I feel would be an iteresting point: what about selling an mp3 player with no memory? could they tax the memory if it wasn't explicitly sold for mp3 players? I know I wouldn't buy memory for my digital camera if a portion of what I paid was funding the recording industry. That also brings up the question of cd-r taxes. Why should I be paying money to the recording industry for a cd-r that's being used to hold the newest debian iso? If I tell them that that's what it's for, will they give the "tax" to the FSF instead? The recording industry is NOT a government body, so why should the government be subsidizing them?
yeah, you know what's coming...
Imagine (the tax on) a beowulf cluster of iPods!
I'd like to take that one step further though. I'd like to see AOL/TW buy RedHat and develop it into AOL-OS (or some such named product). All the power of linux, all the ease-of-use of AOL - which is to say, damn simple. Eventually, phase out the Windows version entirely. You want AOL? Gotta use AOL-OS. But that's a good thing, since it's cheaper than Windows and, with all that AOL/TW cash behind a linux distro, way more stable. Now THAT'd be cool...I'd almost use AOL for that ;)
as a funny sidenote, I followed your link (who doesn't love cheap hardware??) While browsing the CPU section, I came across an AMD K6-2 450 with the little blurb next to it reading "One of the industries hottest processors..."
Now THAT'S comedy!
p.s. - I have a K6-2 450, and I love it...
I have the 3390, and it's the same thing. I'm in a poor reception area as it is, but my signal strength is usually pretty good. Now my service provider on the other hand...
No, no. BakedBabies put it best when they called Amelie "a 'Fight Club' for chicks".
I think what you're going for is a little different though. No magazine is making money by distributing a movie. They may discuss a movie, or review it, or interview the actors, or even give away the plot. But it's still not the whole movie. And note that in mags all of the still pics of a movie will tell you exactly who owns the right to that picture. But (as far as hollywood is concerned) p2p networks are giving away their products. And now, they're admitting to taking money for this service. All bad.
giFT is an open source ft client, and they're also developing the openFT network that they hope will become the new standard for p2p file trading. It's loosely based on the FastTrack network used by kazaa but it's all open sourced.
How will the RIAA / MPAA / Software industry look upon this, with Kazaa adimitting to making money off of their copyrights? (I know that's flawed logic, but the RI/MPAA cares not for your 'logic') Kazaa just admitted that they're in this for the cash. Sure, it's just a license to software that can be used to trade *anything* (not just copyrighted material), but they just admitted that they can and do control who gets on the network AND that they're making cash off of it. They just drew the bullseye on their own forehead.
I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Subscribers should get the stories a little in advance (15 mins to an hour should do it) so they can get the links before everyone else eats up the bandwidth. THAT would be a perk worth subscribing for.
p.s. - when I saw your topic as 'mirrors' I thought you were gonna talk about building a case out of mirrors. that'd be sweet!
What about comments? Comments are what make slashdot what it is - otherwise it would be 'stories other people wrote and we linked to'. But if I had to use one of my paid for pages to make comments, I'd be less likely to comment. That would greatly diminish the quality of the site. (well, not that *me* personally not commenting would have a negative impact, but users in general...my comments are mostly garbage anyways...)