I just put together a system with near identical components (Only 512 MB DDR RAM), but I have not had any problems with any sort of conflict. I'm running Windows XP, and I haven't had any random lock ups or anything. I wonder why I haven't, but you have? Interesting. Are you sure the system is being cooled well enough?
I've been using PayPal for my eBay auctions for over a year and a half, and never had any problems. I've kept a balance of around $1000 for a while, it only earns 2% from the money market fund, but hey its better than nothing;)
I have their debit card, and that has worked great, and the 1% cashback isn't bad either. I have never had a problem, so I don't know what their customer service is like though. However, I think they do have enough features, and its easy enough to use, that they should be successful enough to keep a solid stock price. Who knows how it will really go, if the stock tanks I'll withdraw my funds;)
We already do all of that, but in between the shows and original content, we still play music. We have local bands play on the air, we are a member of AP, I attend all sorts of news events with the press and get interviews, hell I'm going to Comdex;), but we still do have some time we need to fill with music. We air 4 live talk shows each week, ranging from Sports to Politics, to Entertainment, each week we have a local band come on and perform, we DO record the choir:)
But I'm sure you have no problem with the tens of thousands of dollars thrown at the various sports every year? This gives people valuable experience and the ability to see what its like to work in the field of journalism? What about school newspapers, are those wastes of money too? Our school district has plenty of money for other things, so I don't see the problem.
Our funding will get pulled by the School Board if we don't show some degree of popularity. Yeah, it sucks, but if the people at our school aren't interested it in because we only play unsigned artists who decide to give us their CDs, then we won't have a staff, or a station. Yeah, it sucks being at the mercy of a population of teenagers, but that's how it goes -- even if we have a 1500 watt transmitter.
Yeah, except you also made the same mistake I did. When I first read it, I thought it was two cents per performance also. However, upon closer inspection, it's actually only two tenths of a cent. That is more doable for us non-commercial stations, but it still is lame how me have to 1) buy the CD, then 2) pay a license to broadcast it, now 3) pay another license fee to netcast.
1) We purchase a CD at retail price 2) We then pay $3000 in licensing fees to play on non-commercial radio 3) We then will have to pay again to netcast it.
This is outrageous. I am the manager of a non-commercial station at a High School, and we just recently began netcasting. We already pay over $3000 a year in license fees to play music on the normal airwaves. Now we have to pay even more to play the same music over the internet? I don't understand, either we have a license to play it or not...
And anyway, how is it that we have to pay large fees to promote their music? We are non-commercial, we get nothing out of it! What is going on? A long time ago, there was the whole "Payola" scandal where the record companies paid stations to play certain records. Now it's the other way around? This is insane. We will have to stop netcasting because of this, and that makes me so angry.
How did companies such as Covad and others that do not have their own lines expect to survive? To me it seems, if a company built an infastructure, (i.e. phone network/cable network), then it should be able to do with it as it pleases. If it wants to resell, then let it resell. If it doesn't, don't make them, and let them do it on their own terms. If they want to screw everyone, then people will dump their service in favor of something else.
Competition can exist, in the form of alternate high speed internet connections. For example, if I don't like my Cable Service, I could switch to DSL. If I didn't like my DSL Service, I could get Sprint Wireless, If I didn't like that, then I could get Satelitte.
While the Cable/DSL provider may have a monopoly over the business that travels over THEIR lines, they do not control other forms of access.
I realize that this is quite the ideal scenerio, and it doesn't work like that in practice as often as it should, services aren't available in all areas.
However, I believe that this system does work. I had horrible experience here with my Ameritech (SBC) phone service. High bills, poor service, all together lousy. So I switched to AT&T Digital Phone. It has proven to be cheaper and include more features. Ameritech, who has a monopoly over local phone service on their lines lost out to AT&T. Ameritech will notice that their lousy service is causing others to leave, then they will have to improve their service.
In areas where there are no alternatives, well, I have no solution. I guess if you don't like the DSL service, cancel it and go back to dial up. As much as you may hate it, no one is forcing you to buy DSL service.
-- Dave
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I wasn't aware of a cmd line command to shut down a machine... is there one? There is a command to shut down IIS I believe.
I will be the first to admit, I used Napster all the time. Before Napster, I downloaded/traded MP3s on IRC. I now have 7 GB of MP3s on my computer. However, I do not kid myself and say that this is fair use or whatever.
Probabally 70% of my MP3s are songs that I have NOT purchased, nor do I own on CD. I burn them to CD and listen to them on my discman, stereo, etc. Most of these I have never paid for, and never intend to pay for. That being said though, most likely, if Napster had never existed, I still would not have bought the CDs. I have become much more of a music fan, a fan of all types of music, because I have been able to listen to all types via Napster, without spending thousands of dollars. However, make no mistake, it is still stealing. I have near-original quality copies of many full albums, and singles, which I have burned to CD, yet never paid for. Regardless of profits, motives, etc, it is not possible to justify that as not being theft.
That being said though, I will still use my p2p music trading software.
I don't know about this, it smells kind of rotten. However, I am sure to be stoned by the open source people if I say that I think the government shouldn't step in. Well, I will anyway.
As we all know, as much as we say it or not, Microsoft has no power of force to make us purchase Windows. In fact, there are people, while a minority, who purchase comuters/build computers that use other operating systems. So that being said, there are still people who choose to use the Microsoft products, because it's eaiser. Right now I have 2 linux machines at my house, one doing DNS/Web and SETI@HOME, and another one I play around with. Yet, I still use Windows for my main desktop. I use Windows for my desktop because it is much simplier to get it to work with all of my devices, Printers, ORB Drive, Sound Card, etc. Microsoft doesn't force me to buy Windows, I chose to.
Microsoft makes a product, Microsoft charges some amount of money for said product. If you don't like the product, or the way it is produced, then don't buy it. OR better yet, develop a BETTER product. You always have the choice not to purchase something. You could buy a Mac for example, if you are not so linux inclined. So what if Microsoft bundles IE with Windows, they made the product, they should be able to put whatever they want in it.
Ok, so I'm sure you don't agree with me. How about this. I decide to make an alternative operating system, and through my computer science genious I create one that is more stable than *NIX and much eaiser to use than Windows. I want to sell it to compete with Microsoft.
I look at Red Hat, or Mandrake or whatever. WOAH, they are GIVING AWAY their product, and it comes bundled with web browsers, office programs, paint programs, everything under the sun. Now, how in the world can I compete with that. It's just not fair, they are giving it away for free, and it comes with everything that someone would want. How's the little guy ever going to be able to compete with that. They should be forced to not give away anything with the OS, right?
Oh, wait, nevermind they can give it all away, because they aren't Microsoft.
I mean, I don't think I would even want all of this stuff bundled together.
Knowing myself, I would probabally lose it, and since it has everything all in one, I would lose the company's records, my favorite pictures, my mp3 collection, and my new wireless lan pc card.
Or, I'd drop it.
I don't know, but it seems like all of these products that try to combine everything together ususally do a less than satisfactory job.
I'll stick to my Visor/Nomad/Cell Phone/Laptop and just duct tape them together.
From what I hear the duct tape look is in now, but when was it ever out?
Now we have seen arguments that say this is similar to programs that remove ad banners. Well, I suppose on one level someone can make that argument, but that is not a valid comparision.
As previously mentioned, this said program will turn all occurances of a chosen word or phrase into a link to a specified website that has information or sells the product inferred or described by that keyword. Now, there are a few kickers here.
First off, this doesn't really apply to us computer savvy people, but I am sure there are plenty of people who just mindlessly installed this program. Ok, now say I run a web site that reviews DVD players. Now, when I am talking about the pros and cons of a certain dvd player, do I want whenever the word DVD shows up to link to some random company that I have no control over? Say the site says "I recommend this DVD player, as its features are..." and DVD Player becomes a link to a completely different player that what I am talking about. To the uninformed surfer that would look like I was linking to one thing while talking about another. It just doesn't make sense.
It's like if I go into the library and just randomly insert phrases into the books.
"It was the best of times DRINK SPRITE, it was the worst of times NEW FORD EXPEDITION - 0.9% APR - LIMITED TIME ONLY!"
Oh but its ok, because I may have but a small disclaimer outside the library saying "We reserve to right to insert ads into other peoples' work"
I don't think so folks, it just doesn't make sense.
Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
Why should a company be able to randomly insert links and change how people percieve content? It just doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must ban this program!
(Star Wars fans, I understand that if you read the Star Wars books you will argue that Chewbacca does indeed NOT live on Endor, I am merely using this as an example, quoted partly from South Park )
"An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'" - Ayn Rand
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I just put together a system with near identical components (Only 512 MB DDR RAM), but I have not had any problems with any sort of conflict. I'm running Windows XP, and I haven't had any random lock ups or anything. I wonder why I haven't, but you have? Interesting. Are you sure the system is being cooled well enough?
I've been using PayPal for my eBay auctions for over a year and a half, and never had any problems. I've kept a balance of around $1000 for a while, it only earns 2% from the money market fund, but hey its better than nothing ;)
;)
I have their debit card, and that has worked great, and the 1% cashback isn't bad either. I have never had a problem, so I don't know what their customer service is like though. However, I think they do have enough features, and its easy enough to use, that they should be successful enough to keep a solid stock price. Who knows how it will really go, if the stock tanks I'll withdraw my funds
We already do all of that, but in between the shows and original content, we still play music. We have local bands play on the air, we are a member of AP, I attend all sorts of news events with the press and get interviews, hell I'm going to Comdex ;), but we still do have some time we need to fill with music. We air 4 live talk shows each week, ranging from Sports to Politics, to Entertainment, each week we have a local band come on and perform, we DO record the choir :)
But I'm sure you have no problem with the tens of thousands of dollars thrown at the various sports every year? This gives people valuable experience and the ability to see what its like to work in the field of journalism? What about school newspapers, are those wastes of money too? Our school district has plenty of money for other things, so I don't see the problem.
Our funding will get pulled by the School Board if we don't show some degree of popularity. Yeah, it sucks, but if the people at our school aren't interested it in because we only play unsigned artists who decide to give us their CDs, then we won't have a staff, or a station. Yeah, it sucks being at the mercy of a population of teenagers, but that's how it goes -- even if we have a 1500 watt transmitter.
Yeah, except you also made the same mistake I did. When I first read it, I thought it was two cents per performance also. However, upon closer inspection, it's actually only two tenths of a cent. That is more doable for us non-commercial stations, but it still is lame how me have to 1) buy the CD, then 2) pay a license to broadcast it, now 3) pay another license fee to netcast.
How about trying:
1) We purchase a CD at retail price
2) We then pay $3000 in licensing fees to play on non-commercial radio
3) We then will have to pay again to netcast it.
If I don't "own" it, what do I even have?
This is outrageous. I am the manager of a non-commercial station at a High School, and we just recently began netcasting. We already pay over $3000 a year in license fees to play music on the normal airwaves. Now we have to pay even more to play the same music over the internet? I don't understand, either we have a license to play it or not...
And anyway, how is it that we have to pay large fees to promote their music? We are non-commercial, we get nothing out of it! What is going on? A long time ago, there was the whole "Payola" scandal where the record companies paid stations to play certain records. Now it's the other way around? This is insane. We will have to stop netcasting because of this, and that makes me so angry.
How did companies such as Covad and others that do not have their own lines expect to survive? To me it seems, if a company built an infastructure, (i.e. phone network/cable network), then it should be able to do with it as it pleases. If it wants to resell, then let it resell. If it doesn't, don't make them, and let them do it on their own terms. If they want to screw everyone, then people will dump their service in favor of something else.
Competition can exist, in the form of alternate high speed internet connections. For example, if I don't like my Cable Service, I could switch to DSL. If I didn't like my DSL Service, I could get Sprint Wireless, If I didn't like that, then I could get Satelitte.
While the Cable/DSL provider may have a monopoly over the business that travels over THEIR lines, they do not control other forms of access.
I realize that this is quite the ideal scenerio, and it doesn't work like that in practice as often as it should, services aren't available in all areas.
However, I believe that this system does work. I had horrible experience here with my Ameritech (SBC) phone service. High bills, poor service, all together lousy. So I switched to AT&T Digital Phone. It has proven to be cheaper and include more features. Ameritech, who has a monopoly over local phone service on their lines lost out to AT&T. Ameritech will notice that their lousy service is causing others to leave, then they will have to improve their service.
In areas where there are no alternatives, well, I have no solution. I guess if you don't like the DSL service, cancel it and go back to dial up. As much as you may hate it, no one is forcing you to buy DSL service.
-- Dave
I wasn't aware of a cmd line command to shut down a machine... is there one? There is a command to shut down IIS I believe.
I will be the first to admit, I used Napster all the time. Before Napster, I downloaded/traded MP3s on IRC. I now have 7 GB of MP3s on my computer. However, I do not kid myself and say that this is fair use or whatever.
Probabally 70% of my MP3s are songs that I have NOT purchased, nor do I own on CD. I burn them to CD and listen to them on my discman, stereo, etc. Most of these I have never paid for, and never intend to pay for. That being said though, most likely, if Napster had never existed, I still would not have bought the CDs. I have become much more of a music fan, a fan of all types of music, because I have been able to listen to all types via Napster, without spending thousands of dollars. However, make no mistake, it is still stealing. I have near-original quality copies of many full albums, and singles, which I have burned to CD, yet never paid for. Regardless of profits, motives, etc, it is not possible to justify that as not being theft.
That being said though, I will still use my p2p music trading software.
As we all know, as much as we say it or not, Microsoft has no power of force to make us purchase Windows. In fact, there are people, while a minority, who purchase comuters/build computers that use other operating systems. So that being said, there are still people who choose to use the Microsoft products, because it's eaiser. Right now I have 2 linux machines at my house, one doing DNS/Web and SETI@HOME, and another one I play around with. Yet, I still use Windows for my main desktop. I use Windows for my desktop because it is much simplier to get it to work with all of my devices, Printers, ORB Drive, Sound Card, etc. Microsoft doesn't force me to buy Windows, I chose to.
Microsoft makes a product, Microsoft charges some amount of money for said product. If you don't like the product, or the way it is produced, then don't buy it. OR better yet, develop a BETTER product. You always have the choice not to purchase something. You could buy a Mac for example, if you are not so linux inclined. So what if Microsoft bundles IE with Windows, they made the product, they should be able to put whatever they want in it.
Ok, so I'm sure you don't agree with me. How about this. I decide to make an alternative operating system, and through my computer science genious I create one that is more stable than *NIX and much eaiser to use than Windows. I want to sell it to compete with Microsoft.
I look at Red Hat, or Mandrake or whatever. WOAH, they are GIVING AWAY their product, and it comes bundled with web browsers, office programs, paint programs, everything under the sun. Now, how in the world can I compete with that. It's just not fair, they are giving it away for free, and it comes with everything that someone would want. How's the little guy ever going to be able to compete with that. They should be forced to not give away anything with the OS, right?
Oh, wait, nevermind they can give it all away, because they aren't Microsoft.
Who actually buys things like this?
I mean, I don't think I would even want all of this stuff bundled together.
Knowing myself, I would probabally lose it, and since it has everything all in one, I would lose the company's records, my favorite pictures, my mp3 collection, and my new wireless lan pc card.
Or, I'd drop it.
I don't know, but it seems like all of these products that try to combine everything together ususally do a less than satisfactory job.
I'll stick to my Visor/Nomad/Cell Phone/Laptop and just duct tape them together.
From what I hear the duct tape look is in now, but when was it ever out?
As previously mentioned, this said program will turn all occurances of a chosen word or phrase into a link to a specified website that has information or sells the product inferred or described by that keyword. Now, there are a few kickers here.
First off, this doesn't really apply to us computer savvy people, but I am sure there are plenty of people who just mindlessly installed this program. Ok, now say I run a web site that reviews DVD players. Now, when I am talking about the pros and cons of a certain dvd player, do I want whenever the word DVD shows up to link to some random company that I have no control over? Say the site says "I recommend this DVD player, as its features are ..." and DVD Player becomes a link to a completely different player that what I am talking about. To the uninformed surfer that would look like I was linking to one thing while talking about another. It just doesn't make sense.
It's like if I go into the library and just randomly insert phrases into the books.
"It was the best of times DRINK SPRITE, it was the worst of times NEW FORD EXPEDITION - 0.9% APR - LIMITED TIME ONLY!"
Oh but its ok, because I may have but a small disclaimer outside the library saying "We reserve to right to insert ads into other peoples' work"
I don't think so folks, it just doesn't make sense.
Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
Why should a company be able to randomly insert links and change how people percieve content? It just doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must ban this program!
(Star Wars fans, I understand that if you read the Star Wars books you will argue that Chewbacca does indeed NOT live on Endor, I am merely using this as an example, quoted partly from South Park )
"An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'" - Ayn Rand