Maybe, but if you had read the article, you would have realized that this doesnt fix everything.
One of his primary ways of buidling "fake" feedback was to sell items to another of his IDs. Thus, he could build seller feedback easily and illegitimately, without having to actually sell the first thing.
Many people, especially of the college age, have come to the point that paying for music is an almost unheard of notion. An idea like this would go a long way towards remedying that--basically, those kids (myself included) are likely going to continue downloading music regardless of the legality. I would wholeheartedly support this idea.
The article mentions several problems that keep this from coming to fruition. The first is licensing. A system like this would have no way of supporting each artist--a specific, flat amount would go to the licensing service. It should be a relatively easy task, however, to gather statistics on what songs are downloaded how many times--from that, reward those artists X% of the flat fee. The second problem that they raise is one of cost--tuition costs have risen greatly recently, far outpacing inflation, and many students (or their parents) are not going to want to pay for a system they may or may not use. Fine. Don't. Don't make it a compulsory part of tuition. Sort of like schools send out flyers allowing student to purchase sheets or rugs that they know fit the beds or rooms, let the student decide if he wants to tack that extra money on his tuition bill.
I really think an idea like this could go a long way towards bringing a solution to the filesharing problems.
The difference between acts such as Lincoln's and those that have occurred recently is that our current state has no defined "end". When Lincoln did these things, it was wartime, a war with a definite end--when the war was over, the understanding was that these rights would be returned. Our current state does not have a specific end date, no enemy to defeat, no war to win. Thats what makes this time so scary.
OK... Lets not have any "I really dont understand why anyone needs X card" or "Why buy it now" or "the average Joe doesnt need..." posts. We all know it, we've all heard it... Lets say something somewhat original this time.
Now that they will be selling their bodily fluids to pay for the ISP charges, I think we can count on other people not following suit with free albums;-)
Many bands stay in the bar circuit indefinitely. They arent all out looking for record deals.
It does, however, depend on the music you are referring to. For much rock music, this may be the case. But this is not the case for many other types of music, especially blues and jazz. There are several blues bands (and quite good ones at that) that have played at the local blues bar for twenty years. And you would be surprised how easy it is to like blues--after all, its what rock came from: rock borrows its scales and chord progressions from blues.
Before you get your panties in a twist, its not quite that bad. The fact of the matter is that people have been using Sat phones and the internet from Base Camp for years now, and even from the peak. This is just the first person doing it commercially, seperate of the individual expeditions.
Yes, it was impossible. They were at over 200,000 feet. The escape system was not designed to be used over 100,000 feet. The pressure suits that the astronauts wear during descent are not rated for higher than 70,000 feet.
In addition, the escape hatch and pole only works if the shuttle is in its normal flight. If it is at an unexpected angle, it likely will not work.
Add that all together, and there isnt much chance that anyone got out.
Just skip the whole olive part. Here in the south, we just throw the whole firecracker at the intended target (which frequently happens to be my brother).
Except I have it on my machine, and was playing it earlier...
the only people who can run it are the weirdos who buy $400 video cards every four months
I can run it up to 40 FPS on my radeon 8500 if I drop all the detail and resolution. At 800x600, on medium detail with bump mapping enabled, I am getting 20-25. Not good, but playable.
My machine is a p4 2.4 w/ a 64mb Radeon 8500. I have 512 megs DDR. Running at 800x600, medium detail, with bumpmapping enable, I am averaging around 20-25 FPS.
Try killing any and all non essential processes running in the background. Also, try killing and multiple monitors (just unclick the "extend my desktop...", you dont have to pull other cards out).
I have one of these. Evaluation product from Acer. It is a very neat machine, but I think that is the extent of it. It exceptionally small, and the word rcognition software is amazing.... But I cant see it being too useful. Its a lot faster to type.
Plus, that damn hinge is flimsier than Bob Dole's dick.
Most of the same enthusiasts that this is aimed towards, especially those needing/desiring watercooling, are going to do it themselves. They could build this system for $1500.
Not to mention the fact that they would do it anyways just out of the sheer enjoyment of tinkering with their machines.
Plus, they get to pick exactly what parts they want, not whatever the company decides to put in there.
There is the issue of a warantee, being able to send it back if it blows up... But is this worth the extra $1500-$2000? Absolutely not. You could build an entirely new system for that price.
I would. A $145 1.8a overclocked to 2.6-2.7 on stock voltage (or very close to it) with the retail heatsink/fan? Thats a damn good deal-about $300 savings at the least.
While this seems like a pretty good idea, the labels seem to have forgotten... As long as the music can be listened to, it can be copied.
It doesnt take much to run a line out to a computer and record the input to whatever format suits your fancy. Sure, not as easy, and not *as* good sound, but it sure isnt bad, and it isnt hard either.
Whoops. There goes their vaunted Copy Protection. And Im probably in violation of the DMCA, too.
I just went to some of his "example" sites. I have Pop-UpStopper installed and running. I visited using IE 5.5 (if anything would show popups, this would be it). While banner ads still show (as they should--I have nothing blocking them because they dont bother me), every popup the pages spawned was killed, instantly.
Hit me the other day. Just noticed it last night, and I (think) I have it under control.
First, look out for small downloads, specifically anything with names such as "installer" or "downloader." I dont know how I got mine, but my brother's machine got hit after he tried to d/l the newest version of Britannica. Serves him right. When I went to see what he downloaded, I saw that it was a file around 700k.
Yes, it does spread over Kazaa lite.
Once it is installed, it proceeds to fill up your machine with approximately 700k files, usually in windows or winnt/temp/sys32. Thats where all mine were (Im running W2K).
However, dont go crazy yet. I downloaded the newest virus update for NAV (dated 5/17) and ran it. It picked all the downloads right up. Since they were all junk files that it had downloaded, I had it delete them all.
So far, so good. Havent had any recurrence since then (although this was last night, so I dont consider it enough time to truly test). Hopefully it really is this easy to clean up, but Im sure I will quickly find out.
Norton (Symantec) has released a tool that cleans up the infected files. Works pretty well too: I just fixed a friend's computer with it. Her machine was messed to the point that it would barely boot, and I got it running fully in a matter of minutes with it. Grab it from http://www.symantec.com
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Maybe, but if you had read the article, you would have realized that this doesnt fix everything.
One of his primary ways of buidling "fake" feedback was to sell items to another of his IDs. Thus, he could build seller feedback easily and illegitimately, without having to actually sell the first thing.
The first launch? What are they planning on doing, supergluing back together the shattered pieces they find floating in the ocean after it crashes?
Now this is a good idea.
Many people, especially of the college age, have come to the point that paying for music is an almost unheard of notion. An idea like this would go a long way towards remedying that--basically, those kids (myself included) are likely going to continue downloading music regardless of the legality. I would wholeheartedly support this idea.
The article mentions several problems that keep this from coming to fruition. The first is licensing. A system like this would have no way of supporting each artist--a specific, flat amount would go to the licensing service. It should be a relatively easy task, however, to gather statistics on what songs are downloaded how many times--from that, reward those artists X% of the flat fee. The second problem that they raise is one of cost--tuition costs have risen greatly recently, far outpacing inflation, and many students (or their parents) are not going to want to pay for a system they may or may not use. Fine. Don't. Don't make it a compulsory part of tuition. Sort of like schools send out flyers allowing student to purchase sheets or rugs that they know fit the beds or rooms, let the student decide if he wants to tack that extra money on his tuition bill.
I really think an idea like this could go a long way towards bringing a solution to the filesharing problems.
The difference between acts such as Lincoln's and those that have occurred recently is that our current state has no defined "end". When Lincoln did these things, it was wartime, a war with a definite end--when the war was over, the understanding was that these rights would be returned. Our current state does not have a specific end date, no enemy to defeat, no war to win. Thats what makes this time so scary.
OK... Lets not have any "I really dont understand why anyone needs X card" or "Why buy it now" or "the average Joe doesnt need..." posts. We all know it, we've all heard it... Lets say something somewhat original this time.
Now that they will be selling their bodily fluids to pay for the ISP charges, I think we can count on other people not following suit with free albums ;-)
Many bands stay in the bar circuit indefinitely. They arent all out looking for record deals.
It does, however, depend on the music you are referring to. For much rock music, this may be the case. But this is not the case for many other types of music, especially blues and jazz. There are several blues bands (and quite good ones at that) that have played at the local blues bar for twenty years. And you would be surprised how easy it is to like blues--after all, its what rock came from: rock borrows its scales and chord progressions from blues.
Before you get your panties in a twist, its not quite that bad. The fact of the matter is that people have been using Sat phones and the internet from Base Camp for years now, and even from the peak. This is just the first person doing it commercially, seperate of the individual expeditions.
Yes, it was impossible. They were at over 200,000 feet. The escape system was not designed to be used over 100,000 feet. The pressure suits that the astronauts wear during descent are not rated for higher than 70,000 feet.
In addition, the escape hatch and pole only works if the shuttle is in its normal flight. If it is at an unexpected angle, it likely will not work.
Add that all together, and there isnt much chance that anyone got out.
Just skip the whole olive part. Here in the south, we just throw the whole firecracker at the intended target (which frequently happens to be my brother).
So... Is this a practical application of that physical handshake demo we saw on /. a while back?
"No, honey... thats a... er... new shifter."
Anyone know what that song playing in the background of the trailer is? Me likes...
No! It's a fake!
Except I have it on my machine, and was playing it earlier...
the only people who can run it are the weirdos who buy $400 video cards every four months
I can run it up to 40 FPS on my radeon 8500 if I drop all the detail and resolution. At 800x600, on medium detail with bump mapping enabled, I am getting 20-25. Not good, but playable.
My machine is a p4 2.4 w/ a 64mb Radeon 8500. I have 512 megs DDR. Running at 800x600, medium detail, with bumpmapping enable, I am averaging around 20-25 FPS.
Try killing any and all non essential processes running in the background. Also, try killing and multiple monitors (just unclick the "extend my desktop...", you dont have to pull other cards out).
This happened earlier this week. I have had it on my machine for several days now.
I have one of these. Evaluation product from Acer. It is a very neat machine, but I think that is the extent of it. It exceptionally small, and the word rcognition software is amazing.... But I cant see it being too useful. Its a lot faster to type.
Plus, that damn hinge is flimsier than Bob Dole's dick.
GameToo Much...... And Die!
It hurts any future kids you may have, too.
Everyone knows that amount of time spent computer gaming is inversely proportional to amount of time porking.
I mean, geez....
I see this as fundamentally flawed.
Most of the same enthusiasts that this is aimed towards, especially those needing/desiring watercooling, are going to do it themselves. They could build this system for $1500.
Not to mention the fact that they would do it anyways just out of the sheer enjoyment of tinkering with their machines.
Plus, they get to pick exactly what parts they want, not whatever the company decides to put in there.
There is the issue of a warantee, being able to send it back if it blows up... But is this worth the extra $1500-$2000? Absolutely not. You could build an entirely new system for that price.
I would. A $145 1.8a overclocked to 2.6-2.7 on stock voltage (or very close to it) with the retail heatsink/fan? Thats a damn good deal-about $300 savings at the least.
While this seems like a pretty good idea, the labels seem to have forgotten... As long as the music can be listened to, it can be copied.
It doesnt take much to run a line out to a computer and record the input to whatever format suits your fancy. Sure, not as easy, and not *as* good sound, but it sure isnt bad, and it isnt hard either.
Whoops. There goes their vaunted Copy Protection. And Im probably in violation of the DMCA, too.
I just went to some of his "example" sites. I have Pop-UpStopper installed and running. I visited using IE 5.5 (if anything would show popups, this would be it). While banner ads still show (as they should--I have nothing blocking them because they dont bother me), every popup the pages spawned was killed, instantly.
Some product this guy is marketing...
How fast are we accelerating (positive or negative) through the universe without even feeling it?
We arent. There is a big difference between acceleration and velocity.
Hit me the other day. Just noticed it last night, and I (think) I have it under control.
First, look out for small downloads, specifically anything with names such as "installer" or "downloader." I dont know how I got mine, but my brother's machine got hit after he tried to d/l the newest version of Britannica. Serves him right. When I went to see what he downloaded, I saw that it was a file around 700k.
Yes, it does spread over Kazaa lite.
Once it is installed, it proceeds to fill up your machine with approximately 700k files, usually in windows or winnt/temp/sys32. Thats where all mine were (Im running W2K).
However, dont go crazy yet. I downloaded the newest virus update for NAV (dated 5/17) and ran it. It picked all the downloads right up. Since they were all junk files that it had downloaded, I had it delete them all.
So far, so good. Havent had any recurrence since then (although this was last night, so I dont consider it enough time to truly test). Hopefully it really is this easy to clean up, but Im sure I will quickly find out.
Hope this helps.
Padme in black leather
Yeah, but I'd like her better with the black leather off.
Norton (Symantec) has released a tool that cleans up the infected files. Works pretty well too: I just fixed a friend's computer with it. Her machine was messed to the point that it would barely boot, and I got it running fully in a matter of minutes with it. Grab it from http://www.symantec.com