So can I get somebody's old unlocked iPhone and put my SIM card in it, without being forced to buy a data plan yet? Wifi-only would be just fine, and I see no reason to pay exorbitant fees for tiny amounts of bandwidth on 3G or 4G data.
Filters have gotten so good, they now block most legitimate email too!
Seriously. I'm getting sick of AOL, Earthlink, and MSN just deleting order receipt emails I send out to people when they buy my software. (Gmail and a million others don't have this problem).
The best part is when the customer emails to complain, I reply with their order details, then a few days later they forward the same complaint email with "2nd notice" added to the subject line. If I do reach the customer, not once has the deleted order receipt email been in their spam/junk/bulk email folders. ISPs just accept email for delivery and delete it it seems.
http://www.softlayer.com/ - their base dedicated servers for $159/month come with 3000GB/month of bandwidth, exactly what you need. They've been around forever and a ton of other VPS people basically just resell their stuff anyway.
So it sounds like Windows Media Player, except it's not modular and easy for end users to add new codecs? And it's just now getting Blu-Ray support?
Not that I've ever really had a problem with codecs. Videos just seem to work on WMP and MPC just fine every time I try, and I never install any "codec pack" or anything other than XviD perhaps.
Honestly I can't figure out why I'd want this still. "Self contained" seems like a big downside to me. It doesn't even compete with VNC or RDP?? The name is pretty misleading as well.
So what is VideoLAN anyway? Seems like something to stream video, over a LAN, based on the name at least?
Doesn't DLNA pretty much obsolete that? DLNA seems to be built into all my devices (tv, xbox, squeezebox) and Windows by default now, and works just fine.
I'm confused as to what this software is for, and why I should care about it.
AT&T **always** has removed text charges I complain about. And I call and complain about a 9 cent charge I didn't want. I don't even have a text plan, and don't text anybody. I keep telling them to block all texts always no matter what, but whenever one shows up on my phone, I get charged for it. Again, it has, fortunately, been super easy to call AT&T and complain, every single time. Pretty sure they're paying the support staff a lot more money for the time spent on the call to reverse a 9 cent charge. If everybody did this, I'm sure cell companies would lose enough money to get their act together.
I can't think of a single site that does this. And I forget my passwords all the time. Every single site seems to generate a new 8 character random password, and email *that* to you, or a link where you can click and enter a new password.
I guess I figured smartphones might have a bigger battery than my RAZR's 3.7v 900mAh.
1200-2400mAh for something that does all kinds of applications and web access seems pretty small if 900mAh is what they give phones to people who don't even care about texting.
I think batteries are rated in mAh, not mWh. For example, my Netbook has a 6600mAh battery that outputs 11.1v. I think that's basically 73.26Wh, or 36 hours of idle time at 2W. I don't have any smartphone to compare, nor do I know the actual idle usage of the Atom CPU in my netbook, or the other components in it.
I think the fact that almost nothing I watch on Netflix is even available in HD makes the Wii a fine choice. That, and I'm not about to pay any amount of money for a "gold" account to use my Xbox 360 for the same function. What a frickin rip-off! Not sure where Microsoft gets off thinking that's a good idea. Anyway, 480p is DVD quality, and while it's not HD, I'm perfectly fine with it, even on my 60".
Glad I removed all my downloads from cnet a few years back. I was really getting pissed at them for hosting my files, after explicitly telling them they were not authorized to, and could only link to the download on my website. Yet they kept changing the links back and distributing my software with no rights to do so.
They're largely irrelevant now thanks to Google, so I didn't miss much. They like to think they're important and matter, but they're really no different than any other PAD-file-generated spam site that auto-awards 5 stars to everything you submit.
You can repeat monthly and select [The Last] [Day of the month] in the custom options. Don't just select every 31st, because obvious some months don't have a 31st day! You can also repeat monthly and select Recur on day(s) and click 1 and 15. Don't see any issue here.
It might be theoretically somewhat possible, if the keys are just random number indexes into a database (requiring an online check) and you have 1.7 million in order, maybe you can figure out the seed and formula for the pseudo-random number generator used. With the right information (which may be much more than 1.7 million sequential numbers) I know it's eventually possible to predict the output of a pseudo-random number generator. Although a single reset of the seed number (re-calling srand() with some random time as the seed) would make all your work useless.
Some people care about doing it legally. A lot of random sites on the internet probably aren't licensed to distribute the anime. Half the time it's only subtitled bullshit anyway, or 240i quality. Netflix is easy, legal, and integrates with people's TV/blu-ray players without any trouble.
I'm pretty sure it's possible to change Windows to not use Explorer.exe anymore too, just edit the "Shell" entry at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
You can probably set that to load Firefox as your shell instead, and them use other group policies to prevent other applications from being started (from ctrl+shift+ESC - Task Manager), for a kiosk-mode for example.
So why aren't we doing it? Because it's a stupid idea. We still want noon to be when the sun is overhead, and midnight to be the middle of the night. Internet be damned, it's arbitrarily more convenient for most people, because most people don't travel all that often, and spend most of their time in their local time zone.
With crappier rippers maybe. With a direct digital rip, it should be the same every time, in theory, from any CD drive.
Exact Audio Copy uses the AccurateRip system which somehow manages to tell me that my rips are exactly the same as hundreds of other random people via some central DB. The only time it doesn't match up, is when I have a massive scratch in a very old CD, and EAC took hours ripping and re-ripping the same sector to get the best results possible with what I gave it to work with.
One file may be legal for one person, and illegal for another. For example, if you rip your CD yourself, the resulting MP3 is legal. Copy the same MP3 onto a friend's computer, and it's illegal. I don't think such a software is even possible to write. Every pirated / illegal MP3 file would have to be already watermarked as such in order for the software to function. What if the "common" version of the file floating around on Napster was just a basic 128Kbps rip with a common MP3 encoder, and you used the same encoder to rip the same song from the original CD yourself? In theory, it is very possible that the resulting MP3 is bit-for-bit the same as the one millions of other people pirated from Napster, even though you own the original CD and ripped the file yourself.
They likely could be PCI compliant by claiming that "old versions" were still secure and any "known" issues had their fixes backported. The whole PCI compliance thing is just a bunch of crap in my experience, where somebody magically decides that old versions are automatically vulnerable, so using the latest RHEL or CentOS won't automatically pass compliance. You have to file exceptions for everything saying fixes are backported. They just take your word for it and sign off, letting you basically claim compliance no matter what.
Run a binary diff on the original, or even just a fc/b from a command prompt, and you'll find that most no-cd cracks only change a handful of bytes at best. Sometimes they remove a large chunk of code entirely. I've never actually seen substantial modification or additional code added to the exe with "legit" cracks.
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How is this even legal, if I'm not under any current contract with AT&T?
So can I get somebody's old unlocked iPhone and put my SIM card in it, without being forced to buy a data plan yet? Wifi-only would be just fine, and I see no reason to pay exorbitant fees for tiny amounts of bandwidth on 3G or 4G data.
Filters have gotten so good, they now block most legitimate email too!
Seriously. I'm getting sick of AOL, Earthlink, and MSN just deleting order receipt emails I send out to people when they buy my software. (Gmail and a million others don't have this problem).
The best part is when the customer emails to complain, I reply with their order details, then a few days later they forward the same complaint email with "2nd notice" added to the subject line. If I do reach the customer, not once has the deleted order receipt email been in their spam/junk/bulk email folders. ISPs just accept email for delivery and delete it it seems.
http://www.softlayer.com/ - their base dedicated servers for $159/month come with 3000GB/month of bandwidth, exactly what you need. They've been around forever and a ton of other VPS people basically just resell their stuff anyway.
So it sounds like Windows Media Player, except it's not modular and easy for end users to add new codecs? And it's just now getting Blu-Ray support?
Not that I've ever really had a problem with codecs. Videos just seem to work on WMP and MPC just fine every time I try, and I never install any "codec pack" or anything other than XviD perhaps.
Honestly I can't figure out why I'd want this still. "Self contained" seems like a big downside to me. It doesn't even compete with VNC or RDP?? The name is pretty misleading as well.
So what is VideoLAN anyway? Seems like something to stream video, over a LAN, based on the name at least?
Doesn't DLNA pretty much obsolete that? DLNA seems to be built into all my devices (tv, xbox, squeezebox) and Windows by default now, and works just fine.
I'm confused as to what this software is for, and why I should care about it.
AT&T **always** has removed text charges I complain about. And I call and complain about a 9 cent charge I didn't want. I don't even have a text plan, and don't text anybody. I keep telling them to block all texts always no matter what, but whenever one shows up on my phone, I get charged for it. Again, it has, fortunately, been super easy to call AT&T and complain, every single time.
Pretty sure they're paying the support staff a lot more money for the time spent on the call to reverse a 9 cent charge. If everybody did this, I'm sure cell companies would lose enough money to get their act together.
I can't think of a single site that does this. And I forget my passwords all the time. Every single site seems to generate a new 8 character random password, and email *that* to you, or a link where you can click and enter a new password.
I guess I figured smartphones might have a bigger battery than my RAZR's 3.7v 900mAh.
1200-2400mAh for something that does all kinds of applications and web access seems pretty small if 900mAh is what they give phones to people who don't even care about texting.
I think batteries are rated in mAh, not mWh. For example, my Netbook has a 6600mAh battery that outputs 11.1v. I think that's basically 73.26Wh, or 36 hours of idle time at 2W. I don't have any smartphone to compare, nor do I know the actual idle usage of the Atom CPU in my netbook, or the other components in it.
I think the fact that almost nothing I watch on Netflix is even available in HD makes the Wii a fine choice. That, and I'm not about to pay any amount of money for a "gold" account to use my Xbox 360 for the same function. What a frickin rip-off! Not sure where Microsoft gets off thinking that's a good idea.
Anyway, 480p is DVD quality, and while it's not HD, I'm perfectly fine with it, even on my 60".
Glad I removed all my downloads from cnet a few years back. I was really getting pissed at them for hosting my files, after explicitly telling them they were not authorized to, and could only link to the download on my website. Yet they kept changing the links back and distributing my software with no rights to do so.
They're largely irrelevant now thanks to Google, so I didn't miss much. They like to think they're important and matter, but they're really no different than any other PAD-file-generated spam site that auto-awards 5 stars to everything you submit.
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You can repeat monthly and select [The Last] [Day of the month] in the custom options. Don't just select every 31st, because obvious some months don't have a 31st day!
You can also repeat monthly and select Recur on day(s) and click 1 and 15.
Don't see any issue here.
It might be theoretically somewhat possible, if the keys are just random number indexes into a database (requiring an online check) and you have 1.7 million in order, maybe you can figure out the seed and formula for the pseudo-random number generator used. With the right information (which may be much more than 1.7 million sequential numbers) I know it's eventually possible to predict the output of a pseudo-random number generator. Although a single reset of the seed number (re-calling srand() with some random time as the seed) would make all your work useless.
Some people care about doing it legally. A lot of random sites on the internet probably aren't licensed to distribute the anime. Half the time it's only subtitled bullshit anyway, or 240i quality. Netflix is easy, legal, and integrates with people's TV/blu-ray players without any trouble.
Sorry to reply to myself, but: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/143164
I'm pretty sure it's possible to change Windows to not use Explorer.exe anymore too, just edit the "Shell" entry at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
You can probably set that to load Firefox as your shell instead, and them use other group policies to prevent other applications from being started (from ctrl+shift+ESC - Task Manager), for a kiosk-mode for example.
So why aren't we doing it? Because it's a stupid idea. We still want noon to be when the sun is overhead, and midnight to be the middle of the night. Internet be damned, it's arbitrarily more convenient for most people, because most people don't travel all that often, and spend most of their time in their local time zone.
Try EAC, it will compensate for differences in drives to ensure a perfect digital rip every time.
With crappier rippers maybe. With a direct digital rip, it should be the same every time, in theory, from any CD drive.
Exact Audio Copy uses the AccurateRip system which somehow manages to tell me that my rips are exactly the same as hundreds of other random people via some central DB. The only time it doesn't match up, is when I have a massive scratch in a very old CD, and EAC took hours ripping and re-ripping the same sector to get the best results possible with what I gave it to work with.
One file may be legal for one person, and illegal for another. For example, if you rip your CD yourself, the resulting MP3 is legal. Copy the same MP3 onto a friend's computer, and it's illegal. I don't think such a software is even possible to write. Every pirated / illegal MP3 file would have to be already watermarked as such in order for the software to function. What if the "common" version of the file floating around on Napster was just a basic 128Kbps rip with a common MP3 encoder, and you used the same encoder to rip the same song from the original CD yourself? In theory, it is very possible that the resulting MP3 is bit-for-bit the same as the one millions of other people pirated from Napster, even though you own the original CD and ripped the file yourself.
They likely could be PCI compliant by claiming that "old versions" were still secure and any "known" issues had their fixes backported. The whole PCI compliance thing is just a bunch of crap in my experience, where somebody magically decides that old versions are automatically vulnerable, so using the latest RHEL or CentOS won't automatically pass compliance. You have to file exceptions for everything saying fixes are backported. They just take your word for it and sign off, letting you basically claim compliance no matter what.
Run a binary diff on the original, or even just a fc /b from a command prompt, and you'll find that most no-cd cracks only change a handful of bytes at best. Sometimes they remove a large chunk of code entirely. I've never actually seen substantial modification or additional code added to the exe with "legit" cracks.
Nova is probably what I remembered that from, as I don't watch a whole lot else.