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So who is being protected when all they did was repeat the actual Losers sites of scammers? Why not shut them down instead of just copying them?
By inputting the date in this manner, they require a parent or legal guardian to contact them. the way they do this verification for the Parent or Guardian is by requesting the parent/guardian input the Credit Card information so they can verify it.
Windows allows you to add a disk and manages to set it up for you. Yes, you can go full partition or break it down. Under XP, it even asks what File System to install. You say You have had problems getting things going. Everyone has. But to say that you cannot add a device unless Windows was pre-installed is wrong. I just finished upgrading my XP box with 2 NEW drives (80GB a piece), a New Geforce2 Video card, and replaced the onboard sound with a SB Audigy. I was up and running as soon as the system booted up.
Now, Tell me this would be possible if I were running ANY version of Linux on that machine.
Would it be possible? NO. It wouldn't. I like to use Linux, however stating that it is no trouble is just plain INACCURATE.
Oh, and the reason I made all these upgrades to the XP machine? I wanted to play Medal Of Honor.
People tend to forget what MADE the Windows platform what it is now, and what made DOS before it. Games & Porn are what DRIVE New development in the computer field. They are what BUILT todays industry. Because the appeal to the upper and lower echelons of People.
People Make their Own Experience
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This article states that more people are staying home, surfing the web, and basically shunning 'society' as a whole.
I think it is more accurate to say that people are creating their own worlds to 'live' in via the Net, e-mail, IM. No longer forced to go to the 'club' or 'bar scene', they are able to stay at home and interact on a level of THEIR choosing.
This is quite different from the days of past, where the "big' event was the local malt shop or the town dance. You can't have these types of events for fear of the drive by (because someone disagreed with someone else) shooting, the random rapes and murders. the people of 'society' today can no longer be as trusting as they used to be. There are too many 'bad people' out there. We all know it only takes one idiot with a gun and attitude to ruin an entirelky innocent affair.
So people choose to cocoon themselves in the comfort of their homes, creating virtual experiences (Which aren't necessarily 'virtual', because while they may not happen in PERSON, they do happen and therefore lend an experience) with others from the comfort of their chair. They can express their ignorance or brilliance in any way they choose (so why is it most tend towards the former rather than the latter?) and not feel fear of being hurt with anything other than WORDS.
Say what you will....but a flaming e-mail never sent anyone to the hospiutal bleeding to death....
I had both PacBell and Not@home while I lived in the Silicon Valley. The company I worked for paid for one, and at $40.00 I did not mind paying for the other. I used the DSL line to run my own Web/Mail/FTP service, and just used the cable for High Speed access. It soon came to a point where the cable connection became worthless due to shared bandwidth, but I left it hooked up for 6 - 8 months just to use it sporadically. I never loaded the Not@home specific browser or utility programs (I did not even know what my email address was for Not@Home) and just used the connection.
I went to cancel and the CSR stated I had over 1200 emails. I told her I NEVER used this account, nor did I EVER give out the address as I did NOT KNOW IT. She stated that "sometimes this happens" and I had to clear out all the email before they could cancel the account. I asked for the login and password, and she said "None have been assigned to that account"
They assigned one, I logged on, and proceeded to remove a years worth of SPAM. All of it addressed to the email address. NONE of the mail was worth the time it took to delete.
I would bet they sold the list, similar to what QWEST is doing, before I would believe someone made off with information.
I am writing an e-mail to the published address with this text:
I will not be purchasing the music you produce for the simple fact that you choose to label me a criminal (or as a person with criminal intent) automatically. By purchasing your product, I would in essence be accepting this label, and agreeing to being treated and handle as a criminal (or one with criminal intent).
I ask that you refresh your standards, and follow the PUBLISHED standard of RED BOOK AUDIO:
Red Book defines the standards for audio CDs. Audio files are placed in one or more tracks on the CD, with each track normally holding one song. Tracks carry sectors that are 1/75th of a second in length, with each sector containing 2,353 bytes of audio information. Simple math tells us that 176,475 bytes of information are read per second.
The CD-DA (Compact Disc-Digital Audio) can hold up to 99 tracks, and has a maximum theoretical playing time of approximately 72 minutes. A Table of Contents at the beginning of each CD indicates the location of each track in minutes, seconds, and sectors. The Red Book specifies an error detection code and error correction code (EDC and ECC), to interpolate musical information when a disc that has been scratched or scuffed generates errors when read.
With what I currently run?
I am no "Average User" by any means apparently. I have the use of 2 IDE drives, 1 CDRW, 1 CD-Rom. Just the storage components alone would necessitate the need for a tower case of some sort. And this is in the Low Grade system. I have a separate system with a SCSI controller with 4 devices, the IDE sockets are packed with drives. Sure, I could replace these lower size drives (20MB) with One Drive of greater capacity (80MB) which is what I plan on doing. Does that mean I get rid of the 20MB drives? No....it just means they replace a smaller capacity drive in another system. Or in addition to.
I have and will always recommend to friends and foes alike: Get a system that ALLOWS expansion. Whether you use it or not...it is better to HAVE extra space and not need it, instead of needing space and NOT having it available.
Hell, lets not go back to the Packard Hell days...or the Days of the "Compaq All-In-One" systems. Footprint or not...it has to be repairable if I am spending more than $100 for it.
The media moguls and the upper echelon seem to be saying "We KNOW that the 'consumer' is going to pirate this stuff" even when it doesn't exist yet. Average Joe consumer is barely aware of the Network card connected to their ADSL line, much less wireless. this is taking on the aspect of "We KNOW what is best" and the standards don't even exist yet.
Several Points:
1. Wireless is still in the 'breaking ground' stage. The average consumer won't be using it for at least 5 years.
2. the motive is not for 'quality control' or bettering the overall output, it is for CONTROLLING and CHARGING (taxation w/o representation?) for something I MAY or MAY not decide to do.
3. it has nothing to do with how much they lose, but rather how much they HAVEN'T MADE yet. Money, not quality, not content, is the motivator here.
4. No Government Agent who wants to keep being paid to sit in a chair is going to go against ANY of these initiatives. No POLITICIAN (dirty sounding word isn't it) will want to take the brunt and be accused, not of OPEN SOURCE, of PIRACY and Support of ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
My question is, and will be....what am I paying for? A license to view this while the Corporation ALLOWS me to? Or did I purchase (PURCHASE) a copy that is now in MY hands and MY CONTROL? I saw no EULA when I cracked open my first DVD case....will these become the Norm? Will I be forced to sign a NDA when I go to Best Buy and purchase LOTR on DVD box set, and if I violate that EULA by playing (Heaven forbid) for a group of friends, or on My Computer rather than my Corporate Owned / Controlled DVD-XBox-Internet Appliance device, will the Corporate Copyright Control (CCCP) Police bust in my door and take me to "the Camp" to wash my mind of unclean Corporate thoughts?
"If it is a crime to own a DVD/Wireless device, only Criminals will have them"
Is the fact they they chose the AMD Athlon Series of chips to build these waste - of -space devices. That doesn't in any way account for the prices however. $1800 dollars is way too much for this type of system. if they were really inclined, a person could put one togther for less than $500.
Just my.02
This is nothing "New". Oh boy, Intel put out a 2.2 Ghz chip. The tests showed on the site have it losing to an AMD 1600+. So you can be almost assured that AMD will have a FASTER and CHEAPER chip on the market very soon. Why pay the R&D for Intel, when AMD has one out there already.
Plus, I have to say on the Win XP comment, I run it on a 900mhz chip, and it runs pretty damn fast. I know what running on a 386/16 was all about....and this is NOTHING compared to that slowness.
I am seeing too many similarities in the concepts. take what EVERYONE else has worked on, using their IP as your own, shut off input / accessibility and then package it as your own and charge the same people money to use what they helped create. Seems "free" means until they want to turn a profit on the contributions made.
"Sure, you can contribute all you want...but it will cost if you want to USE it."
No thanks....I have a neat Lindows system...called Dual BOOT.
I lived in an apartment in town. Was not capable of having either Cable Internet Nor DSL due to where it sat on the road and how it obtained its cable feed. The only other option I had was Satellite, however I had no clear line of sight. I bought a house 3 miles from where the apartment sat, and now have the option of DSL (which I chose based on a past cable experience UGH) and Cable (via Excite at first, now AT&T and soon to be something else) and Satellite (Cost prohibitive at the moment). The DSL is not too bad, however I am a bit further from the drop than I would care to be. Cost is a major factor, as when I lived in California it was $40 a month for either. Here (Oregon) it is $70+ to start. If I did not need it for what I do, I would not have it. When it comes to the point of where it becomes cost prohibitive, I will cancel it and go to Dial up due to the sole factor of COST>
It all boils down to politics in the workplace. If you don't have "friends" you can count on, you will not be appreciated for what you do. It is not a matter of talent or knowledge that will get you moving, but who can SEE it in you. You could be the next Einstein, but if no one wants to be around you while you are, no one will take notice. Politics in a workplace are terrible, but they are what allow you to KEEP your job. You may get through all the Interviews that are available, yet if you don't "play the game", you will always be looking for that next job.
You have to ask questions. You have to LISTEN TO THE Answers and see past what is being said to what is being MEANT. It shouldn't have to be this way, and everyone should have reviews based on what was accomplished....but the person has to see what you do in order to understand.
I Love this Quote:
"The school choosing Windows is, in contrast, commiting itself to a far more complex environment in which systems failure is a daily reality and student access to the the Windows desktop opens everything to easy insider attack. As a result this choice will impose a continuous drain on management time and energy as they confront one crisis after another"
This states that every day something is going to make the system crash and damage data, and waste time. If that were the case, I wouldn't look at the implementation as opposed to the Administrator. Not for choosing the "wrong" OS, but for not knowing enough about it to make it stable and a usable platform. This would apply to Unix also, as the wrong Administrator could kill the reliability inherent to thr *Nix boxes. And the second question would have to be how many students are going to have Solaris or even Linux on their HOME machine.....? Unless they have more than one (but all college students are poor right?) they are going to be using whatever OS came with their system.
FWIW, A losing battle is to stay with NT for Enterprise based Services. Not desktop, and Windows already sucked the populace into that realm, but in true Server functionality. The only stable platform for this is some form of UNIX. Linux is Stable, a form of UNIX and FREE.
You do get what you pay for. In Linux only though. Windows always makes you feel like you need a refund....
.
Ala Johnny Mnemonic or anything out of a Gibson Novel. Need to hook into a wetwire sort of apparatus and feed the input (and output for that matter) directly into the Cerbral Cortex. Fast as lightning, and you save cost on the monitor
;-}
It is the next evolution. Anything that involves physical movement should be put to the wayside. Therefore we can truly be "Gods" in that if we can think it, we can make it happen.
I have to ask if these advertisers actually think that people buy stuff based on the nuisance they have to close the window on these obtrusive entities. I for one have NEVER clicked, much less bought, anything based on a Web Ad. So much useful bandwidth is wasted on this crap.
I also get tired of the Ads trying to claim "Well, it is a media medium". Guess what, it isn't TV. It isn't a magazine. It is the web. A totally different beast.
It costs me (on average) 10 cents for a BLANK CD-R. It takes me roughly an hour to find enough music to fill a CD-R (Audio Format). My hobby is collecting, so the time spent is free.
Lessee....takes me 30 minutes to go to the Music Shop. 20 Minutes picking out & buying my CD (at a cost Per CD (rounded) $20.00), and then 30 minutes back home. Buying stuff is a chore not a hobby, so I charge 1/2 my time rate ($40). Even without that charge of time...do the math.
I would already have an Inet connection. I would already have a CD-R burner. So, for 10 Cents, I can have the latest & greatest.
Why don't they take all the money they are spending on the worthless "Protection" scheme and reduce the cost of a Real CD. I might actually want to buy one then. As it stands, I don't (nor do I see in the future any need) buy them now because of the hassle. But if they were to be available, online, at a minor price (I am talking $1.00 here at most) per CD, I am sure I would take the time to download and record my own. Then they might actually make money....
Re:This really works - and you don't rent the disk
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Did you not read the question earlier? The one asking "Why do we code for Open Source"?
It doesn't matter what it IS....just that it is out there. It takes a bit to hack it, then all the better. More of a challenge.
Because the only reason to do anything is because you can and you want to.
It is a great idea. However, if man can make it, he can break it too.
Cracks and Downloading
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· Score: 1
I can see it now....
"I can Crack that game in 3 notes...."
"CRACK That Game!!"
Just a curious question as to how they would delete it from my system if the file is transferred to a READ Only Media like CD-R?
I might just burn a CD so that I could watch it at anytime. Course, I am guessing they had not even thought of that yet....
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So who is being protected when all they did was repeat the actual Losers sites of scammers? Why not shut them down instead of just copying them?
No....THANKS!
Please. This is BS of the FUD kind.
Windows allows you to add a disk and manages to set it up for you. Yes, you can go full partition or break it down. Under XP, it even asks what File System to install. You say You have had problems getting things going. Everyone has. But to say that you cannot add a device unless Windows was pre-installed is wrong. I just finished upgrading my XP box with 2 NEW drives (80GB a piece), a New Geforce2 Video card, and replaced the onboard sound with a SB Audigy. I was up and running as soon as the system booted up.
Now, Tell me this would be possible if I were running ANY version of Linux on that machine.
Would it be possible? NO. It wouldn't. I like to use Linux, however stating that it is no trouble is just plain INACCURATE .
Oh, and the reason I made all these upgrades to the XP machine? I wanted to play Medal Of Honor.
People tend to forget what MADE the Windows platform what it is now, and what made DOS before it. Games & Porn are what DRIVE New development in the computer field. They are what BUILT todays industry. Because the appeal to the upper and lower echelons of People.
This article states that more people are staying home, surfing the web, and basically shunning 'society' as a whole.
I think it is more accurate to say that people are creating their own worlds to 'live' in via the Net, e-mail, IM. No longer forced to go to the 'club' or 'bar scene', they are able to stay at home and interact on a level of THEIR choosing.
This is quite different from the days of past, where the "big' event was the local malt shop or the town dance. You can't have these types of events for fear of the drive by (because someone disagreed with someone else) shooting, the random rapes and murders. the people of 'society' today can no longer be as trusting as they used to be. There are too many 'bad people' out there. We all know it only takes one idiot with a gun and attitude to ruin an entirelky innocent affair.
So people choose to cocoon themselves in the comfort of their homes, creating virtual experiences (Which aren't necessarily 'virtual', because while they may not happen in PERSON, they do happen and therefore lend an experience) with others from the comfort of their chair. They can express their ignorance or brilliance in any way they choose (so why is it most tend towards the former rather than the latter?) and not feel fear of being hurt with anything other than WORDS.
Say what you will....but a flaming e-mail never sent anyone to the hospiutal bleeding to death....
I went to cancel and the CSR stated I had over 1200 emails. I told her I NEVER used this account, nor did I EVER give out the address as I did NOT KNOW IT. She stated that "sometimes this happens" and I had to clear out all the email before they could cancel the account. I asked for the login and password, and she said "None have been assigned to that account" They assigned one, I logged on, and proceeded to remove a years worth of SPAM. All of it addressed to the email address. NONE of the mail was worth the time it took to delete.
I would bet they sold the list, similar to what QWEST is doing, before I would believe someone made off with information.
I am writing an e-mail to the published address with this text:
I will not be purchasing the music you produce for the simple fact that you choose to label me a criminal (or as a person with criminal intent) automatically. By purchasing your product, I would in essence be accepting this label, and agreeing to being treated and handle as a criminal (or one with criminal intent).
I ask that you refresh your standards, and follow the PUBLISHED standard of RED BOOK AUDIO:
Red Book defines the standards for audio CDs. Audio files are placed in one or more tracks on the CD, with each track normally holding one song. Tracks carry sectors that are 1/75th of a second in length, with each sector containing 2,353 bytes of audio information. Simple math tells us that 176,475 bytes of information are read per second.
The CD-DA (Compact Disc-Digital Audio) can hold up to 99 tracks, and has a maximum theoretical playing time of approximately 72 minutes. A Table of Contents at the beginning of each CD indicates the location of each track in minutes, seconds, and sectors. The Red Book specifies an error detection code and error correction code (EDC and ECC), to interpolate musical information when a disc that has been scratched or scuffed generates errors when read.
Maybe we canAn Ex-Girlfriend told me once.... "Just Let It Go....its over"
I have and will always recommend to friends and foes alike: Get a system that ALLOWS expansion. Whether you use it or not...it is better to HAVE extra space and not need it, instead of needing space and NOT having it available.
Hell, lets not go back to the Packard Hell days...or the Days of the "Compaq All-In-One" systems. Footprint or not...it has to be repairable if I am spending more than $100 for it.Several Points:
1. Wireless is still in the 'breaking ground' stage. The average consumer won't be using it for at least 5 years.
2. the motive is not for 'quality control' or bettering the overall output, it is for CONTROLLING and CHARGING (taxation w/o representation?) for something I MAY or MAY not decide to do.
3. it has nothing to do with how much they lose, but rather how much they HAVEN'T MADE yet. Money, not quality, not content, is the motivator here.
4. No Government Agent who wants to keep being paid to sit in a chair is going to go against ANY of these initiatives. No POLITICIAN (dirty sounding word isn't it) will want to take the brunt and be accused, not of OPEN SOURCE, of PIRACY and Support of ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
My question is, and will be....what am I paying for? A license to view this while the Corporation ALLOWS me to? Or did I purchase (PURCHASE) a copy that is now in MY hands and MY CONTROL? I saw no EULA when I cracked open my first DVD case....will these become the Norm? Will I be forced to sign a NDA when I go to Best Buy and purchase LOTR on DVD box set, and if I violate that EULA by playing (Heaven forbid) for a group of friends, or on My Computer rather than my Corporate Owned / Controlled DVD-XBox-Internet Appliance device, will the Corporate Copyright Control (CCCP) Police bust in my door and take me to "the Camp" to wash my mind of unclean Corporate thoughts? "If it is a crime to own a DVD/Wireless device, only Criminals will have them"Is the fact they they chose the AMD Athlon Series of chips to build these waste - of -space devices. That doesn't in any way account for the prices however. $1800 dollars is way too much for this type of system. if they were really inclined, a person could put one togther for less than $500. Just my .02
This is nothing "New". Oh boy, Intel put out a 2.2 Ghz chip. The tests showed on the site have it losing to an AMD 1600+. So you can be almost assured that AMD will have a FASTER and CHEAPER chip on the market very soon. Why pay the R&D for Intel, when AMD has one out there already.
Plus, I have to say on the Win XP comment, I run it on a 900mhz chip, and it runs pretty damn fast. I know what running on a 386/16 was all about....and this is NOTHING compared to that slowness.
I am seeing too many similarities in the concepts. take what EVERYONE else has worked on, using their IP as your own, shut off input / accessibility and then package it as your own and charge the same people money to use what they helped create. Seems "free" means until they want to turn a profit on the contributions made.
"Sure, you can contribute all you want...but it will cost if you want to USE it."
No thanks....I have a neat Lindows system...called Dual BOOT.
I lived in an apartment in town. Was not capable of having either Cable Internet Nor DSL due to where it sat on the road and how it obtained its cable feed. The only other option I had was Satellite, however I had no clear line of sight. I bought a house 3 miles from where the apartment sat, and now have the option of DSL (which I chose based on a past cable experience UGH) and Cable (via Excite at first, now AT&T and soon to be something else) and Satellite (Cost prohibitive at the moment). The DSL is not too bad, however I am a bit further from the drop than I would care to be. Cost is a major factor, as when I lived in California it was $40 a month for either. Here (Oregon) it is $70+ to start. If I did not need it for what I do, I would not have it. When it comes to the point of where it becomes cost prohibitive, I will cancel it and go to Dial up due to the sole factor of COST>
It all boils down to politics in the workplace. If you don't have "friends" you can count on, you will not be appreciated for what you do. It is not a matter of talent or knowledge that will get you moving, but who can SEE it in you. You could be the next Einstein, but if no one wants to be around you while you are, no one will take notice. Politics in a workplace are terrible, but they are what allow you to KEEP your job. You may get through all the Interviews that are available, yet if you don't "play the game", you will always be looking for that next job.
You have to ask questions. You have to LISTEN TO THE Answers and see past what is being said to what is being MEANT. It shouldn't have to be this way, and everyone should have reviews based on what was accomplished....but the person has to see what you do in order to understand.
I Love this Quote: "The school choosing Windows is, in contrast, commiting itself to a far more complex environment in which systems failure is a daily reality and student access to the the Windows desktop opens everything to easy insider attack. As a result this choice will impose a continuous drain on management time and energy as they confront one crisis after another" This states that every day something is going to make the system crash and damage data, and waste time. If that were the case, I wouldn't look at the implementation as opposed to the Administrator. Not for choosing the "wrong" OS, but for not knowing enough about it to make it stable and a usable platform. This would apply to Unix also, as the wrong Administrator could kill the reliability inherent to thr *Nix boxes. And the second question would have to be how many students are going to have Solaris or even Linux on their HOME machine.....? Unless they have more than one (but all college students are poor right?) they are going to be using whatever OS came with their system.
Glad you were able to stay on topic.....
FWIW, A losing battle is to stay with NT for Enterprise based Services. Not desktop, and Windows already sucked the populace into that realm, but in true Server functionality. The only stable platform for this is some form of UNIX. Linux is Stable, a form of UNIX and FREE.
You do get what you pay for. In Linux only though. Windows always makes you feel like you need a refund....
.
Ala Johnny Mnemonic or anything out of a Gibson Novel. Need to hook into a wetwire sort of apparatus and feed the input (and output for that matter) directly into the Cerbral Cortex. Fast as lightning, and you save cost on the monitor
;-}
It is the next evolution. Anything that involves physical movement should be put to the wayside. Therefore we can truly be "Gods" in that if we can think it, we can make it happen.
I have to ask if these advertisers actually think that people buy stuff based on the nuisance they have to close the window on these obtrusive entities. I for one have NEVER clicked, much less bought, anything based on a Web Ad. So much useful bandwidth is wasted on this crap.
I also get tired of the Ads trying to claim "Well, it is a media medium". Guess what, it isn't TV. It isn't a magazine. It is the web. A totally different beast.
It costs me (on average) 10 cents for a BLANK CD-R. It takes me roughly an hour to find enough music to fill a CD-R (Audio Format). My hobby is collecting, so the time spent is free.
Lessee....takes me 30 minutes to go to the Music Shop. 20 Minutes picking out & buying my CD (at a cost Per CD (rounded) $20.00), and then 30 minutes back home. Buying stuff is a chore not a hobby, so I charge 1/2 my time rate ($40). Even without that charge of time...do the math.
I would already have an Inet connection. I would already have a CD-R burner. So, for 10 Cents, I can have the latest & greatest.
Why don't they take all the money they are spending on the worthless "Protection" scheme and reduce the cost of a Real CD. I might actually want to buy one then. As it stands, I don't (nor do I see in the future any need) buy them now because of the hassle. But if they were to be available, online, at a minor price (I am talking $1.00 here at most) per CD, I am sure I would take the time to download and record my own. Then they might actually make money....
Did you not read the question earlier? The one asking "Why do we code for Open Source"?
It doesn't matter what it IS....just that it is out there. It takes a bit to hack it, then all the better. More of a challenge.
Because the only reason to do anything is because you can and you want to.
It is a great idea. However, if man can make it, he can break it too.
I can see it now....
"I can Crack that game in 3 notes...."
"CRACK That Game!!"
haha
Because you can.
Because it is there.
Because the best hack is the one that does the same job, only in less time with fewer lines of code.
Just a curious question as to how they would delete it from my system if the file is transferred to a READ Only Media like CD-R? I might just burn a CD so that I could watch it at anytime. Course, I am guessing they had not even thought of that yet....