ok that's complete BS and BnetD can prove it by offering blizzard an agreement/contract stating that Blizzard will alow BnetD to continue unmolested under the condition that they never sell/lease/rent their code or anything derived from a battlenet emulator, and that the project remains free for remainder of eternity.
and if blizzard doesnt find that aggreement to their liking, it will blow their excuse out of the water, and prove what we already suspect
you know, thats a pretty scary thought.. if someone rooted the update server, how hard would it be for them to post a "you gotta get this now" update to infect every system that does auto update, not to mention the people who update manually.. hmm scary, but interesting notion..
just because someone is giving something for free doesn't give them the right to install something on your computer without your knowledge or consent..
what if someone offered to fix your car and you couldn't afford to get it done by a pro.. but then you find out he put a bug in your car to know exactly where you go and who is in your car, and maybe even an audio bug to record your conversations? hmm? would you like that much? i doubt you'd stick to your "oh well it's not so bad since it was free" phylosophy.
i'm not exactly ranting about htis topic specifically, but mostly for the "piggy back" programs that reside in things like kaza and so on, but this is right along the lines of it...
Yea, MP3's are very entrenched, but so was napster, most people didn't want to try something else, but then when it started going down and asking for money, no one had a problem switching to a different p2p program..
wouldn't it be possible to just make a "clip on" version of the top layer to just place over an existing monitor to achieve the same effect? that would certainly make it alot cheaper, although i suppose that the whole pixel line up would be thrown out of whack..
"Which explains a whole heck of alot about NASA's current dilemmas."
i dunno... back in the day when i used to code on my trash-80 coco2 and 3, "stability" was never a problem, it wasnt even an issue to be discussed. We all took for granted that you COULDN'T crash your computer unless you you started really fusking with the OS, or did something to crash it on purpose.. aside from that, i would probly trust a trash-80 to run my life support if i had to choose that or a pc.. (yea sure sure, linux, whatever, till someone "gets root" and then really DOES 0wN J00)
"The phone companies are evil and the sooner we can rid ourselves of them, the better"
well call me nuts, but it seems to me that the amount of money a company/organization has is directly proportional to how evil and immoral they are in their bussiness practices...
oh wait.. then that would make the government righteously uncurrupt.. what was i thinking??
Well my old CDrom had something called "read_long" dissabled by the manufactuer, what this means is i was unable to use cd rippers... it would read for a second or two and then quit.. so for 2 years i would simply play the cd, and have an audio program record the wave files, then compress to MP3 (cooledit worked nicely).. it took a while, but it worked.. now a slight variation would be to use a cd player's line out to the sound card's line in, and record a hot enough signal to keep a good SNR, and really you probly wouldn't hear a difference from the orriginal CD... so if you can hear it, you can record it...
as ofr thos copy protected dvd's? just telesynch your tv;)
But still even if he's talking in megabits.... 5,000 mbps ?!?!?!? that would be equilivant to 32 OC3 lines, or 111 T3 lines.. wow, i wish my cable company could deliver that, especially over a 30 megabit cable line...
and god, to think of the prototype nic it would take to recieve all that....
my sugestion is really that they calculate on average how many users would be online at any one time...
give em about 100k/sec each, pipe through routers to not let em infringe on other ppl's bandwidth, and you're set.. i know 100/sec is huge for "ledgimate use", but in this day and age, waiting for a wabpage is hella anoying even if only for 2 seconds.. standards are increasing, i can still remember when 9600 baud (thats what it was called back then, i remember, i was wearing an onion on my belt) was huge and only rich ppl had it, the rest of us losers were on 300 to 2400 bps...
maybe even set up a program to calculate their bandwidth and if they go over lets say 4 gb of trafic in a month, it cuts them down to a pipe of 10k/sec for the rest of the month (some kind of fair-use clause)
well thats just what i would do if i were running things.. of course they wont take logical, well thought out steps to fairly solve the problem, they'll just bitch and whine, and then maybe block ports or something and punish the whole group...
where do i put my 4x raid array?
my 2nd nic for my home network?
my removable HD bay, cdrom and cd-rw with only one bay?
how about my firewire card?
ok yea, its cute, and its a nice idea for ppl who dont want to upgrade in the slightest, but even boards with only 2 pci slots in them dont get much market cause most ppl want to upgrade alot.
i think they have a good concept that might sell to some people, but i think its pretentious to say that it will replace ATX, the whole AT/ATX concept is built on scalability, take that waya and you have you're own use once and throw away computer.
yea, 1mhz with 1gb ram sounds decent now.. but someday it wont even be good enough to donate to a 3rd world country.
"an individual must have an impairment that prevents or severely restricts the individual from doing activities that are of central importance to most people's daily lives"
I don't know about them, but being able to work and support myself (ie. keep living) is of sorta central importance to my life..
rare you say? well maybe for the tech industry, but look around you, stay up till 3am and watch infomercials.. most the scams out there are baldface... fat-trappers? plant extract? theres a world full of con artists always trying to get your money.. and if you knew nothing about compression, you'd probly ditch your gzip and call them with your creditcard number, cause supplies are limited...
if Dave's win98 is crashing that bad, he obviously doesn't know how to keep his system in working condition.. Its all too easy to keep a 98 machine finely tweaked so that it runs smoothly and doesnt crash, aside from the rare time.. So giving him linux, which is infinitly more difficult to run than windows, would only make him gripe about linux, and how difficult it is to understand..
Once i learned my way around the registry and little tricks and tips here and there to optimize my system, i had no problems with 98, and running a good memory manager took care of the odd memory leaks i was having..
Basically when i hear people complain about their computers crashing all the time, i laugh, cause just like anything else, if you don't take care of it, and just load it full of crap, etc, of course its gonna break down.. and i don't think he'd have any better luck with linux, if he doesn't know how to keep his system clean..
now for the manditory lip service: i DO however swear by linux as a server. just not a desktop. linux should never be used by ppl who know little or nothing.
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ok that's complete BS
and BnetD can prove it by offering blizzard an agreement/contract stating that Blizzard will alow BnetD to continue unmolested under the condition that they never sell/lease/rent their code or anything derived from a battlenet emulator, and that the project remains free for remainder of eternity.
and if blizzard doesnt find that aggreement to their liking, it will blow their excuse out of the water, and prove what we already suspect
dear lord, you're right!
nothing is safe!
im serious...
good plan! perhaps an equally good plan would be to embed the link into a flash button, as far as i know spambots cant decode flash, right?
but i like that idea as well
hehe most likely
Thats a no brainer... 75-year-old lonely man, please meet 18-year-old-looking fembot companion...
why do people have to ask rhetorical questions? err...oops
damn someone beat me to the obligatory sarcastic comment..
but really, when i see this kind of malformed "cause-effect" aproach to analyzing anything, i wonder how man managed to invent the wheel...
you know, thats a pretty scary thought.. if someone rooted the update server, how hard would it be for them to post a "you gotta get this now" update to infect every system that does auto update, not to mention the people who update manually.. hmm scary, but interesting notion..
mmmmm... havoc....
just because someone is giving something for free doesn't give them the right to install something on your computer without your knowledge or consent..
what if someone offered to fix your car and you couldn't afford to get it done by a pro.. but then you find out he put a bug in your car to know exactly where you go and who is in your car, and maybe even an audio bug to record your conversations? hmm? would you like that much? i doubt you'd stick to your "oh well it's not so bad since it was free" phylosophy.
i'm not exactly ranting about htis topic specifically, but mostly for the "piggy back" programs that reside in things like kaza and so on, but this is right along the lines of it...
Yea, MP3's are very entrenched, but so was napster, most people didn't want to try something else, but then when it started going down and asking for money, no one had a problem switching to a different p2p program..
wouldn't it be possible to just make a "clip on" version of the top layer to just place over an existing monitor to achieve the same effect? that would certainly make it alot cheaper, although i suppose that the whole pixel line up would be thrown out of whack..
shrig.. i'd still like to see it in person
as did cher and a few other bands by using extreme settings with hard correction to get that almost robotic voice...
errr... wasn't it the Navy, not NASA?
yvan eth nioj, right?
*I'm* cynical
wow with all the postings talking about spam these days, we should open a new forum dedicated to that..
spam.spam.spam.slashdot.and.spam.org
"Which explains a whole heck of alot about NASA's current dilemmas."
i dunno... back in the day when i used to code on my trash-80 coco2 and 3, "stability" was never a problem, it wasnt even an issue to be discussed. We all took for granted that you COULDN'T crash your computer unless you you started really fusking with the OS, or did something to crash it on purpose.. aside from that, i would probly trust a trash-80 to run my life support if i had to choose that or a pc.. (yea sure sure, linux, whatever, till someone "gets root" and then really DOES 0wN J00)
"The phone companies are evil and the sooner we can rid ourselves of them, the better"
well call me nuts, but it seems to me that the amount of money a company/organization has is directly proportional to how evil and immoral they are in their bussiness practices...
oh wait.. then that would make the government righteously uncurrupt.. what was i thinking??
Yea but wouldn't it had been funnier to answer his proposal on goatse.cx?
Well my old CDrom had something called "read_long" dissabled by the manufactuer, what this means is i was unable to use cd rippers... it would read for a second or two and then quit.. so for 2 years i would simply play the cd, and have an audio program record the wave files, then compress to MP3 (cooledit worked nicely).. it took a while, but it worked.. now a slight variation would be to use a cd player's line out to the sound card's line in, and record a hot enough signal to keep a good SNR, and really you probly wouldn't hear a difference from the orriginal CD... so if you can hear it, you can record it...
;)
as ofr thos copy protected dvd's? just telesynch your tv
But still even if he's talking in megabits.... 5,000 mbps ?!?!?!? that would be equilivant to 32 OC3 lines, or 111 T3 lines.. wow, i wish my cable company could deliver that, especially over a 30 megabit cable line...
and god, to think of the prototype nic it would take to recieve all that....
my sugestion is really that they calculate on average how many users would be online at any one time...
give em about 100k/sec each, pipe through routers to not let em infringe on other ppl's bandwidth, and you're set.. i know 100/sec is huge for "ledgimate use", but in this day and age, waiting for a wabpage is hella anoying even if only for 2 seconds.. standards are increasing, i can still remember when 9600 baud (thats what it was called back then, i remember, i was wearing an onion on my belt) was huge and only rich ppl had it, the rest of us losers were on 300 to 2400 bps...
maybe even set up a program to calculate their bandwidth and if they go over lets say 4 gb of trafic in a month, it cuts them down to a pipe of 10k/sec for the rest of the month (some kind of fair-use clause)
well thats just what i would do if i were running things.. of course they wont take logical, well thought out steps to fairly solve the problem, they'll just bitch and whine, and then maybe block ports or something and punish the whole group...
where do i put my 4x raid array?
my 2nd nic for my home network?
my removable HD bay, cdrom and cd-rw with only one bay?
how about my firewire card?
ok yea, its cute, and its a nice idea for ppl who dont want to upgrade in the slightest, but even boards with only 2 pci slots in them dont get much market cause most ppl want to upgrade alot.
i think they have a good concept that might sell to some people, but i think its pretentious to say that it will replace ATX, the whole AT/ATX concept is built on scalability, take that waya and you have you're own use once and throw away computer.
yea, 1mhz with 1gb ram sounds decent now.. but someday it wont even be good enough to donate to a 3rd world country.
"an individual must have an impairment that prevents or severely restricts the individual from doing activities that are of central importance to most people's daily lives"
I don't know about them, but being able to work and support myself (ie. keep living) is of sorta central importance to my life..
rare you say? well maybe for the tech industry, but look around you, stay up till 3am and watch infomercials.. most the scams out there are baldface... fat-trappers? plant extract? theres a world full of con artists always trying to get your money.. and if you knew nothing about compression, you'd probly ditch your gzip and call them with your creditcard number, cause supplies are limited...
um, not to be labled flaimbait or anything but...
if Dave's win98 is crashing that bad, he obviously doesn't know how to keep his system in working condition.. Its all too easy to keep a 98 machine finely tweaked so that it runs smoothly and doesnt crash, aside from the rare time.. So giving him linux, which is infinitly more difficult to run than windows, would only make him gripe about linux, and how difficult it is to understand..
Once i learned my way around the registry and little tricks and tips here and there to optimize my system, i had no problems with 98, and running a good memory manager took care of the odd memory leaks i was having..
Basically when i hear people complain about their computers crashing all the time, i laugh, cause just like anything else, if you don't take care of it, and just load it full of crap, etc, of course its gonna break down.. and i don't think he'd have any better luck with linux, if he doesn't know how to keep his system clean..
now for the manditory lip service: i DO however swear by linux as a server. just not a desktop. linux should never be used by ppl who know little or nothing.
this what you were looking for?x 4. 0/i586boot.img
ftp://download.xteamlinux.com.cn/pub2/xteamlinu