the RIAA declares listening to cds purchased at your local retailer to be un-constitutional. since the constitution is not being enforced, it is null and void.
I too run my own mail server. I could personally care less if AOL gets my mail or not, but i do see your point. My two suggestions are as follows:
1) make sure your server passes the open relay tests at abuse.net.
2) if you are really worried, use a smart host. Have your mail server route its mail through your isp's mail server. I do this as a courtesy because i really don't want to get into a philsophical debate with comcast.
Its just a shame that all this technology will be beaten by simply swapping the sessions. Just have your multi session drive read the session with the audio tracks instead of the one with the wma. If their "encryptions" prevents use of ripping digitally, it can still be ripped analog style, which means it can still be turned into mp3 and ogg/vorbis very easily. Why don't they just stop. With all the money invested in trying to build a better lock, they could have changed buisness models numerous times.
I read over on ars that Penn State was about to start charging its entire campus regardless of who uses the service (ahhh yes, I remember the great pay for what you don't use fees).
This seems to be a regular bait and switch. We will sell this to Universities for next to nothing, hope we get the majority of the students hooked, the n jack up the price a non-student would pay for the service.
I had enough fees added on to my tuition bill when i was at school. I feel sorry for those of you who are just entering or will be entering soon.
From my point of view, you seem to have hit the nail on the head. RLVs are something that our current energy sources just can't dream to achive. We could build the vehicle that could sustain it, but we currently have no way of powering that vehicle.
IIRC, this is the reason behind the space elevator. Thus, we can get into space and dock with something already in orbit. Then we can transfer to some other station where work on space only vehicles can take place. These vehicles can then take advantage of ION Propulsion since it provides a constant acceleration.
My degree isn't in aerospace engineering, neither i have i even attempted to read futher on either of the above concepts other than a quick glimpse, but it seems to me that we are going about things in the wrong direction. I wonder what it will take to bring that revelation that suddenly changes everything?
It is all well and good to give the codec an ideal place to be run. My favorite tourture test (and which curently Windows Media v9 is by far in the lead) is a live encoding test.
I'm just a college student with little room, and so my computer is an all in one. As such, it is my pvr. I use the ATI All-In-Wonder 8500 DV.
While i have a 30 Gig drive dedicated for pvr purposes, it sucks recording in mpeg1 or mpeg2 because of the massive file sizes it creates.
I set out to find the codec that works best for live recordings of TV. Divx seems to do well video wise, but the audio gets out of sync fast. Xvid sucks on a live recording. I am able to do a 800x600 capture of live tv with WMV9 and not lose sync, and when viewed at a slight distance (4 feet) is good enough to watch what i missed.
The main benifit is that this translates my 30 gig drive into aprox 30 hours of storage. Get the other codecs to let me record live and not consume all my resources and i'll be happy as a clam.
Pudged Cleared up my confusion. My main issue was the release of coordinates to the sattalite braodcast. I was un-aware of the Apple stores picking up this broadcast individually. Sorry for not being clear.
I know that many people claim they make the majority of their money from their hardware. But i'm not so sure about this anymore. Ever open up a Mac lately? Turn over the main board and you will sure enough find an intel nic. The only thing they make anymore is the nifty case, keyboard, and mouse. They resell the rest and i'm not so sure the profit margin is what everyone thinks it is. Its more plausible to me that when you buy a new mac, you are paying the suggested retail price for all the software included in one plus a small markup on the hardware. Just my 2 cents.
Fair enough, I think we are arguing the same point from two different points of view. I know those features are needed, but they should not be the first thing seen, as you have pointed out as well.
If I had the skill, i'd work on it myself but i don't. So all i can do is to try to get more people to agree with us. The complexity is nice, and can be kept and should be becuase it offers so much to the admins. However, this all should be transparent to the every day average user, and currently it isn't. I think we both agree on this.
Again, You have missed the point compleatly becuase you chose to look at a small percentage of the total user base as a whole.
I did concide that if you want a remote system, fine. I also stated that i was only complaining about the people who jump on those who don't understand as much. Now, again... please deflate your heads. The MAJORITY of ALL computer users are not techs or programers or anything of the sort. THIS is the reason your precious OS will never make a dent in the desktop market. (This is the only point i was arguing about)
This is ment as an apeal to wake up. Stop thinking you are better then everyone else. As a server linux kicks ass. Graphicaly... i'm sorry, it just sucks.
Reading this forum sometimes reminds me of the eliteist additude many of you have. Your reply to the question of how often are the remote aspects of X needed is "everyday, what are you? retarted?" Do you honestly think you are better than everyone else becuase you use the remote abilities?
You seem to forget that the VAST majority of users are not geeks or techs or engineers, but are your everyday user who is looking at a computer as nothing more than an appliance (yes i suck at spelling). As such, it should be transperent to use. If you want remote abilities, fine... but please don't assume that you are so much better than the rest of the world because you can make use of it.
For every person you show me who preaches about the remote abilites of X, i can probably show you 2 who would not be sure how to turn a computer on (and i'm not talking about third world commutnities here). Remember, the majority of users still can't figure out how to program their vcr.
Because no one is stepping up to fix the situtation. Those that are responsible realize where they are at in this development level. They don't want to make two versions of the setup, so they are trying to figure out which way is better. They are dissagreeing. If they split up, petty differences will lead to non compatiable versions, and forcing all Windowing managers to chose between the two versions. Most likely you will not see two versions of KDE or GNOME and so on and so forth. Your choice will become less than it is curently where you have one windowing system being managed by other windowing managers who run yet more file managers.
The reason you see VideoPhone's in certain areas is becuase they are in hostile zones. In hostile zones, all press has been warned that planes scanning above for radar sites will see an upling as a ping on them the same as a radar site... That could cause many problems. As far as reporters onboard ships, the ships are not going to give them alot of bandwidth via their sat. hookups. So they have to use what they get. Hope that helps.
And the difference between this and setting Windows Update to download automaticlly then inform you before proceeding with an install is? Basically all that has been proved is a good admin will stay on top of updates. And eveyone here gets confused when something isn't Microsofts fault.
Maybe you should reread that yourself. The point being made was that even for a finite document, as the ammount of information increases (i.e. the depth of the tree) you can generally expect your memory usage to continue to escalate. If a Database was ever developed using this scheme, it could easily run most (read that all but a special few) machines in existance out of memory very quickly depending on the tree search algorith used. For example, the Breadth First Search Algorith is capable of generating 1MB/sec in analyzing nodes... Big deal you say... in 24 hours, if the search is still running... your using 86GB. Mind you, this search could be just to find the color of a dog.
Jeesh... Leave it up to the slashdot comunity to attack the author for his review becase the X11/XFree86 based DE's came in last. Maybe just once you might look at the review, and think to yourselves... So thats why linux still isn't accepted as a Desktop Enviroment. Yes, its great for servers, and nerds and geeks. No, it will never work for the average user who like to point and click install, or drag and drop. When the vast majority of the world is wrong, its time to reconsider if you are actually right.
Acording to Computerworld support has been extended to 2004. I am sorry, and perhaps you are correct. However, there is a distinct difference in the way the apps run. If this wasn't the case, XP would not have distinct binary compatibility layers in the compatibility modes, however... it does. The over all picture I explained is correct. Eventually, native application support will be removed. Curently, Microsoft has stated that Exchange 2000 will NOT be able to run on Server 2003. Also, please remember, you are running a beta version. Even if it is a Release Canadite, it is not the Final Retail Version yet.
MS bought Virtual PC for a reason. They are porting it. The goal is to allow Windows Server 2003 to run apps built for NT4. Windows Server 2003 will not natively suport these apps, however, if you need to run them, then you should have a licensed copy of NT4 on hand. Basically, the virtual machine will become part of the native os, so you can install others in the enviroment.
It is quite possible that this is the solution that will be used for for Longhorn. While the native OS will not be able to run the software, the VM will have no problem with it. Remember, MS isn't stupid. While their software may have security problems, and their buisness practices questionable... they do know what they are doing. If they didn't, why would the be everywhere?
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the RIAA declares listening to cds purchased at your local retailer to be un-constitutional. since the constitution is not being enforced, it is null and void.
I hear sony's come with the memory stick reader built in for digital picture viewing.
$500 for displaying pictures seems like kind of a waste.
try google searching the following: "site:whitehouse.gov iraq"
It appears that google is not paying attention to the nice requests of the robots.txt
I too run my own mail server. I could personally care less if AOL gets my mail or not, but i do see your point. My two suggestions are as follows:
1) make sure your server passes the open relay tests at abuse.net.
2) if you are really worried, use a smart host. Have your mail server route its mail through your isp's mail server. I do this as a courtesy because i really don't want to get into a philsophical debate with comcast.
Its just a shame that all this technology will be beaten by simply swapping the sessions. Just have your multi session drive read the session with the audio tracks instead of the one with the wma. If their "encryptions" prevents use of ripping digitally, it can still be ripped analog style, which means it can still be turned into mp3 and ogg/vorbis very easily. Why don't they just stop. With all the money invested in trying to build a better lock, they could have changed buisness models numerous times.
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I read over on ars that Penn State was about to start charging its entire campus regardless of who uses the service (ahhh yes, I remember the great pay for what you don't use fees).
This seems to be a regular bait and switch. We will sell this to Universities for next to nothing, hope we get the majority of the students hooked, the n jack up the price a non-student would pay for the service.
I had enough fees added on to my tuition bill when i was at school. I feel sorry for those of you who are just entering or will be entering soon.
From my point of view, you seem to have hit the nail on the head. RLVs are something that our current energy sources just can't dream to achive. We could build the vehicle that could sustain it, but we currently have no way of powering that vehicle.
IIRC, this is the reason behind the space elevator. Thus, we can get into space and dock with something already in orbit. Then we can transfer to some other station where work on space only vehicles can take place. These vehicles can then take advantage of ION Propulsion since it provides a constant acceleration.
My degree isn't in aerospace engineering, neither i have i even attempted to read futher on either of the above concepts other than a quick glimpse, but it seems to me that we are going about things in the wrong direction. I wonder what it will take to bring that revelation that suddenly changes everything?
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The Moxi Media Center is an old idea. It was designed to use 802.11a. The only difference is these students switched the .a to the .g...
Why are we supposed to be impressed again?
It is all well and good to give the codec an ideal place to be run. My favorite tourture test (and which curently Windows Media v9 is by far in the lead) is a live encoding test.
I'm just a college student with little room, and so my computer is an all in one. As such, it is my pvr. I use the ATI All-In-Wonder 8500 DV.
While i have a 30 Gig drive dedicated for pvr purposes, it sucks recording in mpeg1 or mpeg2 because of the massive file sizes it creates.
I set out to find the codec that works best for live recordings of TV. Divx seems to do well video wise, but the audio gets out of sync fast. Xvid sucks on a live recording. I am able to do a 800x600 capture of live tv with WMV9 and not lose sync, and when viewed at a slight distance (4 feet) is good enough to watch what i missed.
The main benifit is that this translates my 30 gig drive into aprox 30 hours of storage. Get the other codecs to let me record live and not consume all my resources and i'll be happy as a clam.
Pudged Cleared up my confusion. My main issue was the release of coordinates to the sattalite braodcast. I was un-aware of the Apple stores picking up this broadcast individually. Sorry for not being clear.
I know that many people claim they make the majority of their money from their hardware. But i'm not so sure about this anymore. Ever open up a Mac lately? Turn over the main board and you will sure enough find an intel nic. The only thing they make anymore is the nifty case, keyboard, and mouse. They resell the rest and i'm not so sure the profit margin is what everyone thinks it is. Its more plausible to me that when you buy a new mac, you are paying the suggested retail price for all the software included in one plus a small markup on the hardware. Just my 2 cents.
Fair enough, I think we are arguing the same point from two different points of view. I know those features are needed, but they should not be the first thing seen, as you have pointed out as well.
If I had the skill, i'd work on it myself but i don't. So all i can do is to try to get more people to agree with us. The complexity is nice, and can be kept and should be becuase it offers so much to the admins. However, this all should be transparent to the every day average user, and currently it isn't. I think we both agree on this.
Again, You have missed the point compleatly becuase you chose to look at a small percentage of the total user base as a whole.
I did concide that if you want a remote system, fine. I also stated that i was only complaining about the people who jump on those who don't understand as much. Now, again... please deflate your heads. The MAJORITY of ALL computer users are not techs or programers or anything of the sort. THIS is the reason your precious OS will never make a dent in the desktop market. (This is the only point i was arguing about)
This is ment as an apeal to wake up. Stop thinking you are better then everyone else. As a server linux kicks ass. Graphicaly... i'm sorry, it just sucks.
Reading this forum sometimes reminds me of the eliteist additude many of you have. Your reply to the question of how often are the remote aspects of X needed is "everyday, what are you? retarted?" Do you honestly think you are better than everyone else becuase you use the remote abilities?
You seem to forget that the VAST majority of users are not geeks or techs or engineers, but are your everyday user who is looking at a computer as nothing more than an appliance (yes i suck at spelling). As such, it should be transperent to use. If you want remote abilities, fine... but please don't assume that you are so much better than the rest of the world because you can make use of it.
For every person you show me who preaches about the remote abilites of X, i can probably show you 2 who would not be sure how to turn a computer on (and i'm not talking about third world commutnities here). Remember, the majority of users still can't figure out how to program their vcr.
Because no one is stepping up to fix the situtation. Those that are responsible realize where they are at in this development level. They don't want to make two versions of the setup, so they are trying to figure out which way is better. They are dissagreeing. If they split up, petty differences will lead to non compatiable versions, and forcing all Windowing managers to chose between the two versions. Most likely you will not see two versions of KDE or GNOME and so on and so forth. Your choice will become less than it is curently where you have one windowing system being managed by other windowing managers who run yet more file managers.
Will this play Duke Nukem Forever?
The reason you see VideoPhone's in certain areas is becuase they are in hostile zones. In hostile zones, all press has been warned that planes scanning above for radar sites will see an upling as a ping on them the same as a radar site... That could cause many problems. As far as reporters onboard ships, the ships are not going to give them alot of bandwidth via their sat. hookups. So they have to use what they get. Hope that helps.
And the difference between this and setting Windows Update to download automaticlly then inform you before proceeding with an install is? Basically all that has been proved is a good admin will stay on top of updates. And eveyone here gets confused when something isn't Microsofts fault.
Maybe you should reread that yourself. The point being made was that even for a finite document, as the ammount of information increases (i.e. the depth of the tree) you can generally expect your memory usage to continue to escalate. If a Database was ever developed using this scheme, it could easily run most (read that all but a special few) machines in existance out of memory very quickly depending on the tree search algorith used. For example, the Breadth First Search Algorith is capable of generating 1MB/sec in analyzing nodes... Big deal you say... in 24 hours, if the search is still running... your using 86GB. Mind you, this search could be just to find the color of a dog.
Jeesh... Leave it up to the slashdot comunity to attack the author for his review becase the X11/XFree86 based DE's came in last. Maybe just once you might look at the review, and think to yourselves... So thats why linux still isn't accepted as a Desktop Enviroment. Yes, its great for servers, and nerds and geeks. No, it will never work for the average user who like to point and click install, or drag and drop. When the vast majority of the world is wrong, its time to reconsider if you are actually right.
Acording to Computerworld support has been extended to 2004. I am sorry, and perhaps you are correct. However, there is a distinct difference in the way the apps run. If this wasn't the case, XP would not have distinct binary compatibility layers in the compatibility modes, however... it does. The over all picture I explained is correct. Eventually, native application support will be removed. Curently, Microsoft has stated that Exchange 2000 will NOT be able to run on Server 2003. Also, please remember, you are running a beta version. Even if it is a Release Canadite, it is not the Final Retail Version yet.
MS bought Virtual PC for a reason. They are porting it. The goal is to allow Windows Server 2003 to run apps built for NT4. Windows Server 2003 will not natively suport these apps, however, if you need to run them, then you should have a licensed copy of NT4 on hand. Basically, the virtual machine will become part of the native os, so you can install others in the enviroment.
It is quite possible that this is the solution that will be used for for Longhorn. While the native OS will not be able to run the software, the VM will have no problem with it. Remember, MS isn't stupid. While their software may have security problems, and their buisness practices questionable... they do know what they are doing. If they didn't, why would the be everywhere?
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