$18/month for unlimited downloads plus you get a free CD of tracks you actually like in the process. Sure you need to keep subscribed to listen to the songs but many people spend more than that on their CDs every month.
Pay by the song will be interesting so long as the price point is sufficiently attractive ($0.25-$1 per song) as well as the conditions (physical PCM on the CD, no DRM bullshit).
Maybe they're sick of fighting us and actually want to give us what we want? How many people were saying they'd start buying music if they were given a chance?
While trying to access a ground based station the mobile phone would power up to its full transmitting power (~1W) trying to find a station thereby wreaking havoc with the control systems.
I pay AUD$88 a month for a 512/128 connection with 6GB of onpeak bandwidth, unlimited offpeak bandwidth, rate limiting after I hit my quota for the month (64kbps) and free traffic from the WAIX peering point (every other major ISP in the perth area).
The rate limiting also only applies to onpeak traffic. Offpeak and WAIX traffic are always full speed. I could leech 130 gigs from WAIX if I wanted to and not pay an extra cent.
Of course I shopped around and found the best deal rather than submitting to the man and whining about it.
Was this orchestrated by people who already have patents?
If they do keep the current patents, how can they justify not allowing patents to be set while keeping other patents? Isn't it just a case of double standards?
K5 has been having troubles with speed over the past couple of weeks. I'm sure this will make it much better.
It's good to know that you're using your power for good and not for evil. Oh wait, last time I checked blindly flooding a community run site into oblivion by sending 250,000 people our way is evil.
The 386SX was used in 286 boards. Intel released a package called "SXNow!" which was basically a 386SX in a 286 package.
In the early models the 486SX was indeed just a rebadged 486DX with the coprocessor disabled. When Intel realised it was stupid to manufacture the same die for different prices they started on a 486SX without the coprocessor circutry on the die. These eventually made it into production in 1991-1992.
While I'm not doubting your point that 266MHz should be enough for most people, the extra power that a 3.0GHz has under the hood need not be wasted power. There are many interesting things that excess cycles can be used for.
For instance, my 1GHz Athlon is folding for Folding@Home using the Google Toolbar. My CPU usage hasn't gone below 99% since I got the toolbar and every spare cycle has gone to helping humanity.
MY GOD! You're a brilliant FUD spreader!
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Not only did you manage to get the incorrect OS (the subject of the conversation was Windows XP) but you also put in an OS that was released 18 months before the OS that everyone else was talking about!
How could you not prove your point that Windows sucks! You should be awarded the "LUNIX MEDAL OF WINDOWS FIGHTING COURAGE ALPHA!" for that piece of FUD.
What are the odds they'll profit-share with people they're getting rich off of? (well, ok, attempting)
Oh come on!
Someone finds out a way to make money out of the damn thing through their own initiatives and suddenly code sharing isn't good enough anymore.
I can tell you now, if I saw this kind of crap on/. and I was a big business CEO, I'd think twice about investing into creating stuff for/using Linux.
It used to be about the OS. The hobbyists would do stuff in their own time while big business would make their money from Linux and contribute back what they've improved (a'la Redhat, SGI, IBM).
If this is the way that OSS is heading then I don't want any part in it. This virtual extortion of companies using community backlash is almost as bad as the evil empire.
If you're really lazy and can wait a few weeks, the new version of the Google Toolbar will have the new Google Compute feature (basically a Folding@home client) which runs in the background.
Of course, you'd know this if/. didn't reject my story about the cool new Google Compute. I guess they were too busy dissin the RIAA that day.
Since another person has kindly derailed your WindowsCE argument, let me derail you on the hardware side.
The Dreamcast uses a something along the lines of a hardware-accelerated software modem. The Hitachi SH4 that the dreamcast uses has a couple of registers and, IIRC, a couple of instructions specifically for working with the modem so that you don't have to fuck around when you're trying to work with the hardware.
It's a software modem but not software in the sense that we're used to.
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$18/month for unlimited downloads plus you get a free CD of tracks you actually like in the process. Sure you need to keep subscribed to listen to the songs but many people spend more than that on their CDs every month.
Pay by the song will be interesting so long as the price point is sufficiently attractive ($0.25-$1 per song) as well as the conditions (physical PCM on the CD, no DRM bullshit).
Maybe they're sick of fighting us and actually want to give us what we want? How many people were saying they'd start buying music if they were given a chance?
Although the MS Knowledge base is good a resolving lots of questions/bugs I wish it were more like Bugzilla....
You want a database full of solutions to become a database full of bug descriptions?
Could be a combination of the two?
While trying to access a ground based station the mobile phone would power up to its full transmitting power (~1W) trying to find a station thereby wreaking havoc with the control systems.
The question remains: Why are cellphones forbidden while WiFi is obviously allowed in planes?
Possibly because cell phones operate on completely different frequencies and can reach much higher power levels than Wi-Fi?
How exactly can you preach the doom of an open language? Its like saying Linux is doomed because all the Linux companies losing money.
I say; If there's someone still supporting it the platform is still supported.
Almost every DSL provider, at least in this state, will do DSL in regional areas the same as metro areas for an AUD$10 a month surcharge.
I'd like to submit this as Exhibit T in the "Slashdot needs a -1 Plain Fucking Stupid moderation category" case.
Seriously. The "GINORMOUS" 9MB you talk about includes the JRE which can be used to run pretty much anything else you care to run.
I'm in .au and we have reasonable download limits.
I pay AUD$88 a month for a 512/128 connection with 6GB of onpeak bandwidth, unlimited offpeak bandwidth, rate limiting after I hit my quota for the month (64kbps) and free traffic from the WAIX peering point (every other major ISP in the perth area).
The rate limiting also only applies to onpeak traffic. Offpeak and WAIX traffic are always full speed. I could leech 130 gigs from WAIX if I wanted to and not pay an extra cent.
Of course I shopped around and found the best deal rather than submitting to the man and whining about it.
Either that or figure out a way to browse the internet by candlelight.
What about current patents?
Was this orchestrated by people who already have patents?
If they do keep the current patents, how can they justify not allowing patents to be set while keeping other patents? Isn't it just a case of double standards?
K5 has been having troubles with speed over the past couple of weeks. I'm sure this will make it much better.
It's good to know that you're using your power for good and not for evil. Oh wait, last time I checked blindly flooding a community run site into oblivion by sending 250,000 people our way is evil.
Thank you very much Timothy.
Your little "defeat" involves the server being extremely synchronised to your clock, and knowing the timezone the server is in.
Otherwise if you're hashing the time at the millisecond level (which you should) you're going to have to fake a few hundred thousand hashes.
Not to mention you could just stop the transaction if they replied with the wrong verify hash.
UDP Message: GIVE ME STATS!
UDP Reply: Challenge #HASHOFCURRENTTIME
UDP Message: VERIFY #HASHOFCURRENTTIME
UDP Reply: DATA
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Brilliant idea...
Except the next version of Windows (Longhorn) is either going to be 5.2 or 6.0. I'm pretty sure it's 6.0.
Windows XP is still version 5.1 internally.
The 386SX was used in 286 boards. Intel released a package called "SXNow!" which was basically a 386SX in a 286 package.
In the early models the 486SX was indeed just a rebadged 486DX with the coprocessor disabled. When Intel realised it was stupid to manufacture the same die for different prices they started on a 486SX without the coprocessor circutry on the die. These eventually made it into production in 1991-1992.
You already paid $600 for a copy of Photoshop and you're going to throw it out...
So Microsoft pay $X a month to maintain a whole bunch of servers and a gaming network and YOU think they should charge consumers a once-off fee?
Guess why you're not employed by Microsoft's accounting department.
While I'm not doubting your point that 266MHz should be enough for most people, the extra power that a 3.0GHz has under the hood need not be wasted power. There are many interesting things that excess cycles can be used for.
For instance, my 1GHz Athlon is folding for Folding@Home using the Google Toolbar. My CPU usage hasn't gone below 99% since I got the toolbar and every spare cycle has gone to helping humanity.
Not only did you manage to get the incorrect OS (the subject of the conversation was Windows XP) but you also put in an OS that was released 18 months before the OS that everyone else was talking about!
How could you not prove your point that Windows sucks! You should be awarded the "LUNIX MEDAL OF WINDOWS FIGHTING COURAGE ALPHA!" for that piece of FUD.
why oh bloody why does WMP require internet access when playing a media file when all the required codecs are installed
Because it likes to get things like artist information, CD covers and other little bits and pieces for you?
Here, see for yourself.
Ummm...
Wouldn't a 24 hour H:M:S clock require 16 bits not 9?
4 for the 24 hours or 12 hours + sign, 6 for 0-60 minutes and 6 for the 0-60 seconds?
What are the odds they'll profit-share with people they're getting rich off of? (well, ok, attempting)
/. and I was a big business CEO, I'd think twice about investing into creating stuff for/using Linux.
Oh come on!
Someone finds out a way to make money out of the damn thing through their own initiatives and suddenly code sharing isn't good enough anymore.
I can tell you now, if I saw this kind of crap on
It used to be about the OS. The hobbyists would do stuff in their own time while big business would make their money from Linux and contribute back what they've improved (a'la Redhat, SGI, IBM).
If this is the way that OSS is heading then I don't want any part in it. This virtual extortion of companies using community backlash is almost as bad as the evil empire.
If you're really lazy and can wait a few weeks, the new version of the Google Toolbar will have the new Google Compute feature (basically a Folding@home client) which runs in the background.
/. didn't reject my story about the cool new Google Compute. I guess they were too busy dissin the RIAA that day.
Of course, you'd know this if
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Since another person has kindly derailed your WindowsCE argument, let me derail you on the hardware side.
The Dreamcast uses a something along the lines of a hardware-accelerated software modem. The Hitachi SH4 that the dreamcast uses has a couple of registers and, IIRC, a couple of instructions specifically for working with the modem so that you don't have to fuck around when you're trying to work with the hardware.
It's a software modem but not software in the sense that we're used to.
Ummm... On Windows our backspace key actually works without having it spawn a load of ^Ks.
Also, why the hell do you guys keep using ^K? Haven't you heard of ^W?