If it ends up going to charity, it goes to fund music related things (music programs in schools, for example).
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If you're running NT or 2000 you can try out VDMSound. I've had a fair amount of luck getting some old DOS games to work correctly in a command prompt box under 2000.
From what I can tell, they're only trying stop to uploads, not downloads, so you're ability to download music from the net isn't affected.
So basically, everyone on that ISP is forced to be a leech. Given that most people on P2P networks are already leeches, this won't be much of an effect.:)
"Disruptive technology" more or less means something that'll change the way business is done. It means, as you said, that companies will have to adapt and find new ways to make money. It doesn't mean anything negative.
FF7 was great. A good story, generally likable characters, the simple but flexible materia system, the minigames, etc. I had no problem blowing 8 hours at a time sitting on the couch playing that thing.
Once I was done, I picked up FF8. I played it for about a week on and off, then forgot about it. It just wasn't the same, and didn't capture my interest nearly as much.
DFW is also home to Nortel's, Ericsson's, and Alcatel's US headquarters, as well as countless others.
But as a Dallas resident, I agree with you. This city is damn boring. Street after street of strip malls, and gigantic malls and movie theatres, etc. Not a whole lot of character.
But perks like low cost of living, no state income tax, no tax on groceries, etc. are enough to keep me here.
Decibels are logarithmic. A 20 dB sound is 10 times are powerful as a 10 dB sound. A 30 dB sound is 10 times as powerful as the 20 dB sound (and 100 times more powerful than the 10 dB one).
173 vs. 120 is more than 100000 times as powerful.
Especially since one of the goals of the project (from this page) was to show that the US policy dictating the maximum keysize was out of date. That policy has since been changed and there is AFAIK, no restriction on keylength anymore (but you still can't export to "bad" countries).
The "Because it's fun" one is bizarre too. I'm sure it was fun writing the client and developing all the server side stuff. But if you just run the client in the background and get any excitement of that then you need to get out more;)
But, as always, it's their computers and if they want to run this contest more power to them.
The real question is, if that $40B had been directly invested hi-tech, science, research grants, and aerospace, would we have gotten more for our money?
And D:? is it my CD-ROM or my second hard drive or my second partition on my first hard drive. In this *NIX is logical and superior.
Unix doesn't exactly win any prizes here either in many cases. All/dev/hdc, for example, tells you is that it's the first drive on the second IDE controller. It can still be either a HD or a CD-ROM drive. Devfs makes things alot better though, at least.
I think that's the point. The panel would be pretty useless if it was only composed of OSS advocates, as they'd only hear and consider one side of the story. The closed source side needs to be there to give them the pros and cons of closed source, allowing them to make a better decision. That's the theory, anyway.
There more to it than just location, unfortunately. For example, here in Dallas, most food and medicine are not taxed if they are considered "essential." So a bag of rice won't be taxed, but a Snickers bar would be. In California (at least where my sister lives), there is no tax on services. Any attempt at a tax lookup system would have to take all these things into account, greatly increasing the size of the problem.
Seeing as how NASA runs the Hubble, I don't really see that being much in the way evidence for the naysayers. If there was a privately owned telescope somewhere on Earth that could make out the landing site, that'd be different.
First of all, if you've read previous stories on TR you'll find they're pretty apathetic towards Macs.
Secondly, this article is comparing the multimonitor abilities of these various graphic cards against each other. It doesn't really make sense to throw a Mac in the mix, since you're changing more than one variable.
For Kazaa, etc. you can try out sig2dat, which works similarly to the MD5 checksums. You click on a sig2dat link and the program will generate a.dat file with a checksum in it, which Kazaa will use to search for the file.
It's not perfect though, since you have to shut down and restart the client to get it to see the generated.dat files. It's nice when using sites such as Fast Track Movies.
Didn't this already happen to Nintendo several years ago? I remember back in the NES days, Nintendo got burned for almost the exact same thing here in the US. I think Nintendo had to send $20 off coupons to anybody who owned an NES as reparation.
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If it ends up going to charity, it goes to fund music related things (music programs in schools, for example).
If you're running NT or 2000 you can try out VDMSound. I've had a fair amount of luck getting some old DOS games to work correctly in a command prompt box under 2000.
From what I can tell, they're only trying stop to uploads, not downloads, so you're ability to download music from the net isn't affected.
:)
So basically, everyone on that ISP is forced to be a leech. Given that most people on P2P networks are already leeches, this won't be much of an effect.
If MS is forced to remove any and all DRM code, they'll just issue a hotfix that'll remove it. I don't see it bringing down Windows.
Now, it may hurt their Windows Media format being used by Hollywood-types since DRM was one of its selling points.
"Disruptive technology" more or less means something that'll change the way business is done. It means, as you said, that companies will have to adapt and find new ways to make money. It doesn't mean anything negative.
FF7 was great. A good story, generally likable characters, the simple but flexible materia system, the minigames, etc. I had no problem blowing 8 hours at a time sitting on the couch playing that thing.
Once I was done, I picked up FF8. I played it for about a week on and off, then forgot about it. It just wasn't the same, and didn't capture my interest nearly as much.
Have you tried the official drivers at http://opensource.creative.com?
The FAQ has "Rear speaker support" listed as one of the features.
I have one of the older Live! cards that only supports 2 speakers, so I couldn't tell you how well the rear speaker stuff works.
He says he uses valid XHTML, but then goes on to use non-standard quotes through his answers. Hypocrit :)
DFW is also home to Nortel's, Ericsson's, and Alcatel's US headquarters, as well as countless others.
But as a Dallas resident, I agree with you. This city is damn boring. Street after street of strip malls, and gigantic malls and movie theatres, etc. Not a whole lot of character.
But perks like low cost of living, no state income tax, no tax on groceries, etc. are enough to keep me here.
Decibels are logarithmic. A 20 dB sound is 10 times are powerful as a 10 dB sound. A 30 dB sound is 10 times as powerful as the 20 dB sound (and 100 times more powerful than the 10 dB one).
173 vs. 120 is more than 100000 times as powerful.
Especially since one of the goals of the project (from this page) was to show that the US policy dictating the maximum keysize was out of date. That policy has since been changed and there is AFAIK, no restriction on keylength anymore (but you still can't export to "bad" countries).
;)
The "Because it's fun" one is bizarre too. I'm sure it was fun writing the client and developing all the server side stuff. But if you just run the client in the background and get any excitement of that then you need to get out more
But, as always, it's their computers and if they want to run this contest more power to them.
The real question is, if that $40B had been directly invested hi-tech, science, research grants, and aerospace, would we have gotten more for our money?
Let's see, put $40B in Slashdot terms... It's enough money that every man, woman, and child in China could watch Lord of the Ring around 4 times!
One of the biggest things I miss from DOS is the ability to do something like this:
copy *.cpp *.bak
You can do the same thing in Unix by various methods, but it's not nearly so easy or intuitive.
Unix doesn't exactly win any prizes here either in many cases. All
I think that's the point. The panel would be pretty useless if it was only composed of OSS advocates, as they'd only hear and consider one side of the story. The closed source side needs to be there to give them the pros and cons of closed source, allowing them to make a better decision. That's the theory, anyway.
I personally don't keep backups. However, I'm sure at least two other me's in parallel dimensions do, so I'm probably good to go.
Hopefully the other me's in the other dimensions aren't counting on me to keep backups. Those idiots.
Or the asteroid is filled with delicious, creamy oil. Mmmmm, oil.
It's actually against PP's TOS to charge extra for a PP transaction as well (and it was this way even before Ebay bought them):
You agree that you will not impose a surcharge or any other fee for accepting PayPal as payment.
There more to it than just location, unfortunately. For example, here in Dallas, most food and medicine are not taxed if they are considered "essential." So a bag of rice won't be taxed, but a Snickers bar would be. In California (at least where my sister lives), there is no tax on services. Any attempt at a tax lookup system would have to take all these things into account, greatly increasing the size of the problem.
Seeing as how NASA runs the Hubble, I don't really see that being much in the way evidence for the naysayers. If there was a privately owned telescope somewhere on Earth that could make out the landing site, that'd be different.
First of all, if you've read previous stories on TR you'll find they're pretty apathetic towards Macs.
Secondly, this article is comparing the multimonitor abilities of these various graphic cards against each other. It doesn't really make sense to throw a Mac in the mix, since you're changing more than one variable.
For Kazaa, etc. you can try out sig2dat, which works similarly to the MD5 checksums. You click on a sig2dat link and the program will generate a .dat file with a checksum in it, which Kazaa will use to search for the file.
.dat files. It's nice when using sites such as Fast Track Movies.
It's not perfect though, since you have to shut down and restart the client to get it to see the generated
Imagine having a Beowulf cluster that used these things. That'd be a big repair bill...
Didn't this already happen to Nintendo several years ago? I remember back in the NES days, Nintendo got burned for almost the exact same thing here in the US. I think Nintendo had to send $20 off coupons to anybody who owned an NES as reparation.