While it's true MS is a tad "forceful" diversification isn't the real solution to the problem.
Having sys-admins who do their jobs instead of whining about patching will fix *many* windows related problems.
I think it's a matter of using the right tools for the job. Secretaries shouldn't have to learn userland *nix just to type up a TPS cover sheet for their weekly memos.
Likewise some network admin shouldn't be forced to use WinXP just because the latest.NET makes every XML transaction cost less [or whatever]....
That being said you can run GNU/Linux and get rooted just as easily as you could with Windows if you don't patch your system.
At least I can read. I never said I was an "audio expert". I just said that while FLAC is nice and all the kind of use a *portable* player would get would negate the benefits. That and bootleg tapes suck.
Last time I checked the masking effects of a very loud bus or subway would very much negate any quality benefits you get from lossless encoding. And you don't have to be an expert to figure that out. You just have to be "not a moron" which you seem to have failed.
Um nobody in their right mind would say being at the concert and a recording are the same thing [at least as far as musicians go].
I don't care how good your compression is, heck store it as PCM for all I care, it won't feel the same as simply being there.
So unless you're going to get an accoustically well designed chamber and very expensive recording equipment no amount of "quality" in storage will make up for the loss that is present at a concert full of thousands of bodies [which distort the sound], etc...
Really? PGP makes lots of money? That's why the project has been sidelined forever and GPG is basically dominating?
Oops...
I don't doubt people need it, I just think most users who do use it are poorly informed on security related issues. Encrypting your entire disk because you may want to keep 3 files private is a huge waste of time and memory.
Whatever happened to just fucking gpg -c a tar ball?
How many times do you write to a CD-R?
This seems like a "solution to a problem that doesn't exist".
As for Harddisk encryption... that's just stupid. Of the 250,000 files on my disk, 100 of them are private. Why should I waste time/space to secure encrypt the rest of my disk when I could careless if you can read my files [when you break into my house and use my computer no less].
Don't forget when your taxes go up, your shoes come off [in airports] and your kids get "reprogrammed patriotically" to snitch, this is all to prevent the terrorists from winning:-)
I say the best thing americans can do is diassociate from Bush and offer him as a war criminal:-)
Hmm... $87B for a war, less than half of that for education.... yeah your new tax dollars would be well spent....:-|
Even by your twisted logic, I am sharing using P2P. I am sacrificing my bandwidth, for which I pay some sum of money, for someone else's benefit. Regardless of whether I download any files in return, I am giving my upload speed to other people and they don't necessarily have to give anything back to me.
By your twisted logic it would be ok to drive a truck through a store window and share the loot because you paid for the gas to get there. The bits were not yours to send [or in my analogy the property to take].
I don't know why people find this hard to believe. You know what? 70 years ago you couldn't copy a book verbatim with a pen and sell it on the street either. Just because you make a copy of the audio with an encoder doesn't mean you're entitled to the data in the sense of "sharing" it.
Sure you may be doing people a service but it still isn't sharing since it wasn't yours to share in the first place.
What's your point? I didn't say P2P was useless I said all these jackasses that abuse P2P and claim it as "right" e.g. pirating audio/video/etc are making the rest look bad.
It's like if a group said "all gun owners should be able to buy tags for people" or something. If that was being pushed as "status quo" then gun owners would look bad regardless if they believed that or not.
Do I think the RIAA is useless and old school? Yes. Do I think P2P technology serves a good purpose? Yes. Do I think people should copy music and "make it available" [re: pirate or share or whatever] just because they can? No.
The problem is too many people think that they can do whatever they want because the RIAA is the "enemy". Well they [the RIAA] may suck but they're in the right. Regardless of what you think about copyright laws and such someone has to get paid for the music. If the artist decides to sign with the RIAA that's *their* fault.
Actually yes, telling stories requires effort. If I want to tell a good story I have to get the story in order, get a good audience, set the mood, etc.. it takes work. You can't just tell stories in a monotonous voice to anyone you find off the street...
I find "sharing" to mean that you are going out of your way to give something to someone else. E.g. sharing your time by helping move someone to a new home. Sharing your money by donating to charities, sharing your wisdom by giving guidance to troubled youth, etc, etc.
I find nothing altruistic about setting up a P2P application in the tray and walking away. That isn't chariatable nor "sharing". It's just plain piracy.
What's worse is all you stupid jackasses really make it harder for legitimate uses of P2P technology to shine through. Every time some jackass says "sending the latest [riaa] tune is sharing, information was meant to be free!" gives more fuel for the RIAA fodder.
This is pissing me off. They didn't sue a 12 yr old. You can't sue minors! They sued the parent who was *responsible* for what the kid did. My fucking god, yes RIAA bad, indy good, but please at least get the fucking facts straight.
Next you will go on how P2P is "sharing" [which doesn't make sense since you share something by depriving yourself of it, but if that's the case then it is something material and it is theft!]
as the first link. In fact the entire first page is all fan/official site stuff. Where you got porno out of that I'll never know. Maybe you're kid searched for "Harry can fuck me hard all potter day?"
As for the "preventitive measures" what's wrong with just talking to your kids? When I was young my parents warned me about talking to strangers, taking paths alone [e.g. hidden from plain view from the street], etc....
It isn't upto corporations to raise the current generation of kids just like it wasn't upto television to raise the past five or so decades of kids.
Maybe if DNS were used correctly it wouldn't happen that way. DNS is supposed to be distributed. E.g. I contact my router [which runs a DNS server], my server contacts my ISP [which runs a cache] my ISP contacts ??? well it should contact it's providers cache and so on....
Also verisign makes it money by selling domain names. Recall that they used to be free at one point.
The DNS control is *entrusted* to Verisign. Versign doesn't own the internet and they could easily be replaced.
Um in virtually every app you just highlight text and click the middle [or both for 2 button] button. As for images... well it may be a pain [e.g. download the image and import] but if you're copying alot of images off the web you're a thief anyways so who cares:-)
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While it's true MS is a tad "forceful" diversification isn't the real solution to the problem.
.NET makes every XML transaction cost less [or whatever]....
Having sys-admins who do their jobs instead of whining about patching will fix *many* windows related problems.
I think it's a matter of using the right tools for the job. Secretaries shouldn't have to learn userland *nix just to type up a TPS cover sheet for their weekly memos.
Likewise some network admin shouldn't be forced to use WinXP just because the latest
That being said you can run GNU/Linux and get rooted just as easily as you could with Windows if you don't patch your system.
Tom
If you don't have this thingy called a Comp-Put-Or at home to play the music in the first place then ya, that would be a good idea.
Personally I'd just find it more cost effective to route some lineout cable to the stereo then buy a totally new device which I have shove shit on.
Or even better yet is get one of those ethernet players.
Of course you'd think of this if you were as smart as I am.
Tom
At least I can read. I never said I was an "audio expert". I just said that while FLAC is nice and all the kind of use a *portable* player would get would negate the benefits. That and bootleg tapes suck.
Last time I checked the masking effects of a very loud bus or subway would very much negate any quality benefits you get from lossless encoding. And you don't have to be an expert to figure that out. You just have to be "not a moron" which you seem to have failed.
Tom
Um nobody in their right mind would say being at the concert and a recording are the same thing [at least as far as musicians go].
I don't care how good your compression is, heck store it as PCM for all I care, it won't feel the same as simply being there.
So unless you're going to get an accoustically well designed chamber and very expensive recording equipment no amount of "quality" in storage will make up for the loss that is present at a concert full of thousands of bodies [which distort the sound], etc...
Tom
audiophiles.....
e t. ..slashdot....poster!
Where exactly do you use a *portable* player that is accoustically sound anyways? The bus? The subway? The streets?
Simply...must...be....a...drop...buzzword....le
Next you will be going on about the airbags on the new JTF fighters....
Tom
Hahahahahahaha Suckers!
Really? PGP makes lots of money? That's why the project has been sidelined forever and GPG is basically dominating?
Oops...
I don't doubt people need it, I just think most users who do use it are poorly informed on security related issues. Encrypting your entire disk because you may want to keep 3 files private is a huge waste of time and memory.
Tom
Very insightful comment. Almost as if you thought it up yourself, go back to your uh.... DOS!
This article is all speculation...
Ok here, um the next AMD processors will be faster than before, have more cache, maybe some new instructions [doworkNow! then doworkNow! (ext)].
I must be an AMD insider now, l33t l33t !
Tom
Whatever happened to just fucking gpg -c a tar ball?
How many times do you write to a CD-R?
This seems like a "solution to a problem that doesn't exist".
As for Harddisk encryption... that's just stupid. Of the 250,000 files on my disk, 100 of them are private. Why should I waste time/space to secure encrypt the rest of my disk when I could careless if you can read my files [when you break into my house and use my computer no less].
Tom
Don't forget when your taxes go up, your shoes come off [in airports] and your kids get "reprogrammed patriotically" to snitch, this is all to prevent the terrorists from winning :-)
:-)
:-|
I say the best thing americans can do is diassociate from Bush and offer him as a war criminal
Hmm... $87B for a war, less than half of that for education.... yeah your new tax dollars would be well spent....
Tom
Wow. Well when I switched from single pepsi's to valuepacks I saved over 50$ a week!
Tom
does it.... does it save a nickle?
Sorry... stupid MSFT commercials....
Tom
Even by your twisted logic, I am sharing using P2P. I am sacrificing my bandwidth, for which I pay some sum of money, for someone else's benefit. Regardless of whether I download any files in return, I am giving my upload speed to other people and they don't necessarily have to give anything back to me.
By your twisted logic it would be ok to drive a truck through a store window and share the loot because you paid for the gas to get there. The bits were not yours to send [or in my analogy the property to take].
I don't know why people find this hard to believe. You know what? 70 years ago you couldn't copy a book verbatim with a pen and sell it on the street either. Just because you make a copy of the audio with an encoder doesn't mean you're entitled to the data in the sense of "sharing" it.
Sure you may be doing people a service but it still isn't sharing since it wasn't yours to share in the first place.
Tom
What's your point? I didn't say P2P was useless I said all these jackasses that abuse P2P and claim it as "right" e.g. pirating audio/video/etc are making the rest look bad.
It's like if a group said "all gun owners should be able to buy tags for people" or something. If that was being pushed as "status quo" then gun owners would look bad regardless if they believed that or not.
Do I think the RIAA is useless and old school? Yes. Do I think P2P technology serves a good purpose? Yes. Do I think people should copy music and "make it available" [re: pirate or share or whatever] just because they can? No.
The problem is too many people think that they can do whatever they want because the RIAA is the "enemy". Well they [the RIAA] may suck but they're in the right. Regardless of what you think about copyright laws and such someone has to get paid for the music. If the artist decides to sign with the RIAA that's *their* fault.
Tom
Actually yes, telling stories requires effort. If I want to tell a good story I have to get the story in order, get a good audience, set the mood, etc.. it takes work. You can't just tell stories in a monotonous voice to anyone you find off the street...
I find "sharing" to mean that you are going out of your way to give something to someone else. E.g. sharing your time by helping move someone to a new home. Sharing your money by donating to charities, sharing your wisdom by giving guidance to troubled youth, etc, etc.
I find nothing altruistic about setting up a P2P application in the tray and walking away. That isn't chariatable nor "sharing". It's just plain piracy.
What's worse is all you stupid jackasses really make it harder for legitimate uses of P2P technology to shine through. Every time some jackass says "sending the latest [riaa] tune is sharing, information was meant to be free!" gives more fuel for the RIAA fodder.
Tom
This is pissing me off. They didn't sue a 12 yr old. You can't sue minors! They sued the parent who was *responsible* for what the kid did. My fucking god, yes RIAA bad, indy good, but please at least get the fucking facts straight.
Next you will go on how P2P is "sharing" [which doesn't make sense since you share something by depriving yourself of it, but if that's the case then it is something material and it is theft!]
Tom
"Harry Potter" in google gives me
http://www.harrypotter.com/
as the first link. In fact the entire first page is all fan/official site stuff. Where you got porno out of that I'll never know. Maybe you're kid searched for "Harry can fuck me hard all potter day?"
As for the "preventitive measures" what's wrong with just talking to your kids? When I was young my parents warned me about talking to strangers, taking paths alone [e.g. hidden from plain view from the street], etc....
It isn't upto corporations to raise the current generation of kids just like it wasn't upto television to raise the past five or so decades of kids.
Tom
When Intel comes out with "ultra-optimized .... [fine print] DRM enabled" systems...
DON'T BUY THEM.
That'll shut them up fairly quick.
Tom
What if you had a tablet PC where the monitor [or LCD] is the "computer" :-)
Ok I'll shut up now...
Tom
Maybe if DNS were used correctly it wouldn't happen that way. DNS is supposed to be distributed. E.g. I contact my router [which runs a DNS server], my server contacts my ISP [which runs a cache] my ISP contacts ??? well it should contact it's providers cache and so on....
Also verisign makes it money by selling domain names. Recall that they used to be free at one point.
The DNS control is *entrusted* to Verisign. Versign doesn't own the internet and they could easily be replaced.
Tom
Um in virtually every app you just highlight text and click the middle [or both for 2 button] button. As for images... well it may be a pain [e.g. download the image and import] but if you're copying alot of images off the web you're a thief anyways so who cares :-)
Tom
windows boots faster
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My fucking name is Tom St Denis not Tom StDenis you fucking idiot.
Die in a car fire you mo-fo.
Poopyhead!
I like smurfs.
Maybe we could make a beowolf cluster of these?
Hot grits and chicks!
Uh, uh, hard disk good.
Ok so we argue about MB vs. MiB. What about "blocks" on the f'ing XBOX thingy? What the fuck are those?
Tom