However, having Kazaa Lite has allowed me to download/sample music I wouldn't normally buy without hearing it first. I've recently gotten bit by the Jazz bug. I've never really listened to Jazz, so I have no idea who the good artists are, and who to avoid. Now that I've been downloading some jazz, the likelihood that I'll buy some Jazz CDs when I go to the mall again is higher because of my Kazaa Lite usage.
So, if the RIAA shuts down Kazaa and its clones, they're cutting off people like me. I generally buy only from bands whose works I'm familiar with. Unless someone gives me a CD to listen to, the likelihood of my buying is slim to none. And forget radio - all they play is teenie-bopper shite.
Agreed. The 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower just as I was pulling into my parking lot at my (then) office. I thought it was a total and tasteless joke (considering the juvenile humor the morning show I listed to at the time was known for). When I unlocked the office, I jumped on CNN's webpage. By the time that the rest of the engineers and the admin staff arrived, CNN was almost unreachable. We did get to watc about 15 minutes more of the coverage before we lost connection.
I tried several other news sites (MSNBC, ABCNews, etc) only to find the same congestion.
No, the internet isn't ready to handle the bandwidth associated with millions of people logging on to get the latest information.
Which leads me to a question: Any *decent* (and FREE) newstickers out there that are totally customizable, and run under Windows? I already checked SourceForge.. I've been using Netropa, but its not set up to allow me to add whatever channels I want. I tried Swen (from Tucows) but it doesn't work at all..
BZZZT! WRONG answer. IBM didn't ship copies of Win 3.1 with OS/2. IBM developed two versions of OS/2 - One with Windows *included* in the kernel, the other requiring the USER to supply the copy of Windows. You couldn't install OS/2 with Windows support, and then uninstall OS/2 and keep Windows - it didn't work that way. See, IBM still had access to Win 3.1 source from their deals with MS. When their license ran out, MS released 3.11 in order to break OS/2's hooks. IBM was able to figure out what they did, and released an APAR (its number escapes me) to remidy this.
How do I know? I worked at IBM, supporting OS/2 in their call center. I got there just as OS/2 2.11 was rolling out and left after WARP Server.
Do online petitions even work? I mean, does anyone whose on the receiving end of one of these even take them seriously? Not bashing, I'm just curious...
Well, you're certainly welcome to discuss the atrocities of the world with your other personalities. Slashdot, however, is a TECHNOLOGY news and discussion site, not NATO or the UN.
If you/the rest of your personalities don't like what's posted on/., I suggest reading something else.
Thousands of people dying? Guess what, that's been happening since before the age of recorded history. And if more people played video games maybe they'd find its a nice outlet for aggression. It certainly keeps me from beating the snot out of air-wasting morons such as yourself.
Moderators: Feel free to mod me however you want, I've got Karma to burn.
" Starting to allow legislation about what can or can't be passed over the net sure sounds like the DMCA to me. So how can you be for one and against the other? "
Easy: With one, we've got the government trying to help the little guy get a cap on all the junkmail. With the other, we've got the government telling us what we can and cannot do with music we've purchased and have a 'fair use' right to use.
Of course, 'fair use' doesn't mean 'share with the world' but what right does the governemnt or the RIAA have to step in and mandate that our A/V hardware won't allow us to make back ups of works we bought the rights to use?
At least there wasn't any MS-bashing in this thread (that I've seen yet, but we're under 50 responses so far..)
Idiot judge is right. What right does a 3rd party have to access my bandwidth and systems to propigate their junkmail? In a perfect world, this would be laughed out of court.
I think what he's saying is some people don't understand that stuff they've specifically OPTED IN FOR (and I don't mean by a 3rd party without their request, such as happened to me) and will see this as spam, get pissy, and sue.
Alternately, we need to be able to FORCE companies that we've signed up for and then requested to opt-out to be held accountable. At one point, I signed up for messages from the NRA. I later decided I didn't want them any more and opted-out. I continued to get junk from them (despite the fact that their server swore my address wasn't in their database) until I threatened to introduce them to the RBL. Amazingly, I got a response from an actual PERSON saying that my address was deleted.
Contact your state's labor board. Not paying you for work you've already done is illegal. I'd also call the state AG's office.
I saw on a movie or TV show once where a programmer put a time-bomb in a program and when the company he contracted for didn't pay him, he let it go off. It was one of those will-go-off-unless-you-pay-me-and-I-enter-a-specia l-key-type things. Not sure if this is even possible, legal, or ethical.
You say milestones were met. I assume that you have something in writing that says what your goals are or were. If push comes to shove, you can always threaten to take your source code and walk. If they were to threaten to sue, call your local TV station's watchdog reporter (I'm sure every market has one) and spill the beans... Might also hint that any potential VCs looking to back their company would surely re-think their decisions.
I'd also look into finding out your state's laws regarding recording conversations. My state, Texas, is a one-side state. Meaning that at least one party must be aware that there is a recording being made. As long as you know, that base is covered. I don't know, however, if its admissable in court. Maybe civil court, but not criminal..
There's a big difference here - that was an earthquake and this was a man-made destruction brought about by the actions of a coward and his brain-washed followers.
Had the earthquake been caused by someone equally cowardly, its likely that it would've gotten more attention.
While either are tragic, the attacks on the US were more horrifying to more people as this wasn't something that had happened before. Earthquakes have been happening since the dawn of recorded history. No one ever used a fully-loaded airliner as a device of mass-murder before.
Personally, I hope that Bin Ladin is still alive and that the US catches the SOB. I'd *pay* to watch his sorry ass tortured and killed at the hands of the US.
..already been done. I saw something some months back where a company took video footage and pictures and made a computer model out of it to determine exactly why the WTC fell. The impact blew the fire-resistant coating off of the gurders which allowed them to be exposed to open flame. Ultimately, the rivets popped and the trusses fell one by one.
It was quite interesting. I think it was either on PBS or ABC, I don't recall which.
Now, if you're talking about a full recreation of the events using computer modelling, that I've not seen and would be interested in seeing if such a thing exists.
You obviously either don't have children or really don't give a shit about preserving videos of your kids. I'm thinking the latter, and the closest you'd come to kids would either be those that you fondle on the bus on the way home to your mother's basement, or those you drool over in the kiddie porn newsgroups.
>>No one person could really use all this storage in a home/personal computing >>needs (THAT ARE LEGITMATE).
Totally untrue. I've got an ATI TV Wonder VE for video editing. I have several hours of video of my son that I've been capturing using the card. A single 90 minute run took 4GB. The tapes I have are at least 4 hours in length. Add to the mix XP's installation, the installation of my video editing software, email, MechWarrior 4, GTA3, VCD images when editing is done, etc and I can easily chew into a 320GB drive.
I agree completely. I've got an 80GB and a 15GB in my main system at home. Sure, I've got a nice speedy CDRW drive, but who can afford the time and money to back up 95GB of data on 700MB CDRWs? That's 97280MB, which would take almost 139 700MB discs. This doesn't even take into account the additional 20GB my wife has in her system.
It's great to see they're advancing in the realms of HDD storage, but someone needs to come up with an economical way for Joe User to back up his data.
I also read somewhere that the theoretical limit of IDE was 328GB...
Wasn't aware there was a patch for the water -- to be honest, it looks fine without this added to it.
Still doesn't answer the issue about the inability to tweak the gamma correction. Some of the subterranian levels are completly unplayable with this added on.
You've got to be kidding. I downloaded and installed this the FIRST time it was posted on/. Sure, the textures look a little better but the way he implemented the effects on water make the levels in the game with water almost unplayable. Plus, there's no way to increase the gamma and the game is overall too dark.
The C Dock II or III will not work with the Inspiron 8000 -- The "lock hook" on the docking station has no place to insert to the back of the Inspiron 8000. The hole that would normally accept this on the 8000 is covered. Breaking it out and attempting to insert the 8000 into a Dock III or III could potentially damage the laptop, the dock, or both.
The most the 8000 will take is an APR (Advanced Port Replicator). NOT a full-size dock.
Proof? See http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/search.asp ?Page b4Search=search&searchType=AND&keyword=port+8000&c ategory_id=2999..and FWIW I work at Dell, testing laptops and I have an 8000 in front of me.
Hell, my Oakleys are Polarized. Why would I need a camera with a filter when I can sport my sunglasses and simply read the screen? A lot less conspicuous than running around with a camera in a 'secure' area.
I dropped TW digital cable a long time ago (too expensive) but I do recall that it IS possible to remove whatever channels you want from the tuner. If memory serves be correctly, you simply add the channels you want to your favorites, and use the Favorites button on the remote to scroll through them. Want to go back? Use the Previous channel button.
Of course, I have no idea what cable box you're using.. Mine was an Atlanta Scientific or something like that.
... to give my signature digitally. Whenver I go to a store that I know uses one of them, I inform the cashier that I don't give my signature digitally, and tell them I require a "regular" receipt.
There's no law on the books that says one has to give a signature that allows for digital capture.
I have yet to run into a situation where I'm informed that they don't offer it. Besides, by that point they've already billed my credit card. If they can't put the money back without a (digital) signature, they're going to have to give me cash, or I'm leaving without signing.
What annoys me is why the fsck Fry's insists on photocopying your driver's license whenever you attempt to write a check. Isn't that illegal?
I'm using RR, and I'm in Round Rock (for those not in the know, you could spit in Round Rock and hit Austin) and am currently *on* the Grokster network..
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I seem to recall lawsuits against a couple of gun makers by families of victims of gun-related crimes....
If CDs were sub-$10, I'd surely buy more.
However, having Kazaa Lite has allowed me to download/sample music I wouldn't normally buy without hearing it first. I've recently gotten bit by the Jazz bug. I've never really listened to Jazz, so I have no idea who the good artists are, and who to avoid. Now that I've been downloading some jazz, the likelihood that I'll buy some Jazz CDs when I go to the mall again is higher because of my Kazaa Lite usage.
So, if the RIAA shuts down Kazaa and its clones, they're cutting off people like me. I generally buy only from bands whose works I'm familiar with. Unless someone gives me a CD to listen to, the likelihood of my buying is slim to none. And forget radio - all they play is teenie-bopper shite.
Agreed. The 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower just as I was pulling into my parking lot at my (then) office. I thought it was a total and tasteless joke (considering the juvenile humor the morning show I listed to at the time was known for). When I unlocked the office, I jumped on CNN's webpage. By the time that the rest of the engineers and the admin staff arrived, CNN was almost unreachable. We did get to watc about 15 minutes more of the coverage before we lost connection.
I tried several other news sites (MSNBC, ABCNews, etc) only to find the same congestion.
No, the internet isn't ready to handle the bandwidth associated with millions of people logging on to get the latest information.
Which leads me to a question: Any *decent* (and FREE) newstickers out there that are totally customizable, and run under Windows? I already checked SourceForge.. I've been using Netropa, but its not set up to allow me to add whatever channels I want. I tried Swen (from Tucows) but it doesn't work at all..
BZZZT! WRONG answer. IBM didn't ship copies of Win 3.1 with OS/2. IBM developed two versions of OS/2 - One with Windows *included* in the kernel, the other requiring the USER to supply the copy of Windows. You couldn't install OS/2 with Windows support, and then uninstall OS/2 and keep Windows - it didn't work that way. See, IBM still had access to Win 3.1 source from their deals with MS. When their license ran out, MS released 3.11 in order to break OS/2's hooks. IBM was able to figure out what they did, and released an APAR (its number escapes me) to remidy this.
How do I know? I worked at IBM, supporting OS/2 in their call center. I got there just as OS/2 2.11 was rolling out and left after WARP Server.
Do online petitions even work? I mean, does anyone whose on the receiving end of one of these even take them seriously? Not bashing, I'm just curious...
Well, you're certainly welcome to discuss the atrocities of the world with your other personalities. Slashdot, however, is a TECHNOLOGY news and discussion site, not NATO or the UN.
/., I suggest reading something else.
If you/the rest of your personalities don't like what's posted on
Thousands of people dying? Guess what, that's been happening since before the age of recorded history. And if more people played video games maybe they'd find its a nice outlet for aggression. It certainly keeps me from beating the snot out of air-wasting morons such as yourself.
Moderators: Feel free to mod me however you want, I've got Karma to burn.
" Starting to allow legislation about what can or can't be passed over the net sure sounds like the DMCA to me. So how can you be for one and against the other? "
Easy: With one, we've got the government trying to help the little guy get a cap on all the junkmail. With the other, we've got the government telling us what we can and cannot do with music we've purchased and have a 'fair use' right to use.
Of course, 'fair use' doesn't mean 'share with the world' but what right does the governemnt or the RIAA have to step in and mandate that our A/V hardware won't allow us to make back ups of works we bought the rights to use?
At least there wasn't any MS-bashing in this thread (that I've seen yet, but we're under 50 responses so far..)
Idiot judge is right. What right does a 3rd party have to access my bandwidth and systems to propigate their junkmail? In a perfect world, this would be laughed out of court.
I think what he's saying is some people don't understand that stuff they've specifically OPTED IN FOR (and I don't mean by a 3rd party without their request, such as happened to me) and will see this as spam, get pissy, and sue.
Alternately, we need to be able to FORCE companies that we've signed up for and then requested to opt-out to be held accountable. At one point, I signed up for messages from the NRA. I later decided I didn't want them any more and opted-out. I continued to get junk from them (despite the fact that their server swore my address wasn't in their database) until I threatened to introduce them to the RBL. Amazingly, I got a response from an actual PERSON saying that my address was deleted.
Contact your state's labor board. Not paying you for work you've already done is illegal. I'd also call the state AG's office.
a l-key-type things. Not sure if this is even possible, legal, or ethical.
I saw on a movie or TV show once where a programmer put a time-bomb in a program and when the company he contracted for didn't pay him, he let it go off. It was one of those will-go-off-unless-you-pay-me-and-I-enter-a-speci
You say milestones were met. I assume that you have something in writing that says what your goals are or were. If push comes to shove, you can always threaten to take your source code and walk. If they were to threaten to sue, call your local TV station's watchdog reporter (I'm sure every market has one) and spill the beans... Might also hint that any potential VCs looking to back their company would surely re-think their decisions.
I'd also look into finding out your state's laws regarding recording conversations. My state, Texas, is a one-side state. Meaning that at least one party must be aware that there is a recording being made. As long as you know, that base is covered. I don't know, however, if its admissable in court. Maybe civil court, but not criminal..
All in all, don't let them screw you over.
There's a big difference here - that was an earthquake and this was a man-made destruction brought about by the actions of a coward and his brain-washed followers.
Had the earthquake been caused by someone equally cowardly, its likely that it would've gotten more attention.
While either are tragic, the attacks on the US were more horrifying to more people as this wasn't something that had happened before. Earthquakes have been happening since the dawn of recorded history. No one ever used a fully-loaded airliner as a device of mass-murder before.
Personally, I hope that Bin Ladin is still alive and that the US catches the SOB. I'd *pay* to watch his sorry ass tortured and killed at the hands of the US.
..already been done. I saw something some months back where a company took video footage and pictures and made a computer model out of it to determine exactly why the WTC fell. The impact blew the fire-resistant coating off of the gurders which allowed them to be exposed to open flame. Ultimately, the rivets popped and the trusses fell one by one.
It was quite interesting. I think it was either on PBS or ABC, I don't recall which.
Now, if you're talking about a full recreation of the events using computer modelling, that I've not seen and would be interested in seeing if such a thing exists.
You obviously either don't have children or really don't give a shit about preserving videos of your kids. I'm thinking the latter, and the closest you'd come to kids would either be those that you fondle on the bus on the way home to your mother's basement, or those you drool over in the kiddie porn newsgroups.
>>No one person could really use all this storage in a home/personal computing >>needs (THAT ARE LEGITMATE).
Totally untrue. I've got an ATI TV Wonder VE for video editing. I have several hours of video of my son that I've been capturing using the card. A single 90 minute run took 4GB. The tapes I have are at least 4 hours in length. Add to the mix XP's installation, the installation of my video editing software, email, MechWarrior 4, GTA3, VCD images when editing is done, etc and I can easily chew into a 320GB drive.
I agree completely. I've got an 80GB and a 15GB in my main system at home. Sure, I've got a nice speedy CDRW drive, but who can afford the time and money to back up 95GB of data on 700MB CDRWs? That's 97280MB, which would take almost 139 700MB discs. This doesn't even take into account the additional 20GB my wife has in her system.
It's great to see they're advancing in the realms of HDD storage, but someone needs to come up with an economical way for Joe User to back up his data.
I also read somewhere that the theoretical limit of IDE was 328GB...
Wasn't aware there was a patch for the water -- to be honest, it looks fine without this added to it.
Still doesn't answer the issue about the inability to tweak the gamma correction. Some of the subterranian levels are completly unplayable with this added on.
Get yourself listed on AudioGalaxy (http://www.audiogalaxy.com). They were neutered by the RIAA, but still list indie bands.
You've got to be kidding. I downloaded and installed this the FIRST time it was posted on /. Sure, the textures look a little better but the way he implemented the effects on water make the levels in the game with water almost unplayable. Plus, there's no way to increase the gamma and the game is overall too dark.
The C Dock II or III will not work with the Inspiron 8000 -- The "lock hook" on the docking station has no place to insert to the back of the Inspiron 8000. The hole that would normally accept this on the 8000 is covered. Breaking it out and attempting to insert the 8000 into a Dock III or III could potentially damage the laptop, the dock, or both.
p ?Page b4Search=search&searchType=AND&keyword=port+8000&c ategory_id=2999 ..and FWIW I work at Dell, testing laptops and I have an 8000 in front of me.
The most the 8000 will take is an APR (Advanced Port Replicator). NOT a full-size dock.
Proof? See
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/search.as
Hell, my Oakleys are Polarized. Why would I need a camera with a filter when I can sport my sunglasses and simply read the screen? A lot less conspicuous than running around with a camera in a 'secure' area.
I dropped TW digital cable a long time ago (too expensive) but I do recall that it IS possible to remove whatever channels you want from the tuner. If memory serves be correctly, you simply add the channels you want to your favorites, and use the Favorites button on the remote to scroll through them. Want to go back? Use the Previous channel button.
Of course, I have no idea what cable box you're using.. Mine was an Atlanta Scientific or something like that.
Ah, but what happens when they charge my card, haven't the means to give me a paper receipt to sign, and I refuse to do so digitally?
... to give my signature digitally. Whenver I go to a store that I know uses one of them, I inform the cashier that I don't give my signature digitally, and tell them I require a "regular" receipt.
There's no law on the books that says one has to give a signature that allows for digital capture.
I have yet to run into a situation where I'm informed that they don't offer it. Besides, by that point they've already billed my credit card. If they can't put the money back without a (digital) signature, they're going to have to give me cash, or I'm leaving without signing.
What annoys me is why the fsck Fry's insists on photocopying your driver's license whenever you attempt to write a check. Isn't that illegal?
I'm using RR, and I'm in Round Rock (for those not in the know, you could spit in Round Rock and hit Austin) and am currently *on* the Grokster network..
While Keaton is/was a fine actor, Clooney was a better Batman.
Personally, I'd like to see The Rock in this film - I think he'd make a great Batman, although his physique would be better suited for Superman..