To my knowledge, this is the first time an ISP offers this kind of service
I'm sure people are holding back on their wisecracks concerning your knowledge.
To my knowledge...this is old news, and not that great.
For example: OnDemandGames.PlaySite.com" uses Stream Theory as the wizard behind their curtain. That's right, it's just a Citrix Terminal Server type of thing...
Imagine paying only $10 per month for games like Unreal Tournament. You'd have to ask: why not buy the GOTY edition at the local store and get better performance...for only 15 bucks??
I never watched the series. For a few reasons, including: the commercials made it look downright stupid, and it was already a couple years in...I hate starting into a show late and missing out on the early story.
I decided to start watching it a few weeks ago. Pretty good. Fun show, I guess. The John Crichton character is acted a bit dorky. Too much effort into being a tough mysterious cool dude. Those characters aren't real to me. I always imagine all of their dark suave melting away in an instant when they are standing in front of a mirror popping a zit, or sitting on the toilet realizing there's no TP a little too late.
Anyways...I watched the ending and was pissed off. I thought "wow, other people followed this show for 4 years just for that?? what krunk!". It was an entertaining episode (except for Sark, or whatever that pansy's name is). But...what a downer ending. How brave and groundbreaking of them to end the series without a glorious happy ending!! Oh yeah, Terry Gilliam already did that...a million times before.
allows vendors to license their products until so many millions are made, then agree to release the code under GPL
What if I release product "Bob" and after I reach threshold-1 licenses I discontinue the product line. But, I immediately then begin marketing product "Jimmy", which had been under development just in time for the end of "Bob", and which happens to satisfy the needs of "Bob" users. Rinse, repeat.
The FCC oversees certain industries (airlines, banks and phone companies) and will have to "buy in" to the registry for it to affect those industries.
Wonder if there will be companies that do (insert random thing) business but think to get themselves excluded by paying $1000 to become a "phone company" (a reseller of long distance service). If the FCC doesn't buy into the FTC's list, then such a company might have a loop hole and be able to share the data in own "division" of the company to it's others (ie. it's actual original business).
"ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft is attempting to do away with DLL version conflicts in its next version of Windows with a technology it calls 'really large hard drives'."
We're pleased to announce the newest reason for you to subscribe to Slashdot.
Or...we're pleased to announce the newest reason you should just go read The Register (and NYT and PopSci Magazine) yourself. Because we at/. will purposefully delay our news until it is ripe and old (unless you pay).
Important Stuff:
Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.
I noticed some of the moderation done within this thread. What a waste. And how ridiculous. When an original story post is a dupe how can any reply to it ever be considered off-topic or redundant?? Think about it. Any moderation within this thread is a waste of mod points.
Manufacutring cost
How much more expensive? 1 cent per piece? 99 cents per piece? It'll be a very small additional cost. There is no retooling needed. Anyways, doesn't matter. Some folks interested in this are content providers hoping for DRM. Including software vendors using an installer that marks the CD so that the install is limited after the first time.
Reduced capacity
That's not a concern, either. I remember years ago getting Apple Dev Network CDs where Apple included bonus music on the data CDs (you didn't know this until you popped the data CD into your car player). I thought it was kinda cool and for a while would burn my CDs in mixed-mode...no real reason, just being spaztic. Anyways, I wasn't worried about reduced capacity then. I wouldn't be worried about it here. CDs are used for convenience, not space. Take a look at the next Reader Rabbit CD you buy for your kids (or yourself?). Even with AOL and other crap bundled onto it we're talking well under 30mb used. Anyone worried about the waste? If "The Learning Company" thought they could prevent even just some piracy by using 1 byte of that wasted 610mb of space for an additional 1 cent of cost...why not? The only why-not is they have to hope that most of their target audience has a CDR drive.
Drive compatibility problems
There is no issue here. No firmware problems. A driver update wouldn't even be necessary.
Software compatibility problems
Who ever said the entire disk is ISO9660? Yet another non-issue. There are many ways to mix discs. I guess you haven't tried it.
The only good application I can think of...
If that's where your imagination on this topic ends, then I seriously doubt your opening sentence: I have thought about this idea before...
It would make more sense for uses that you have in mind. But, I'd guess CDR-ROM is more useful for people like Intuit. I'm guessing the software vendors are pushing for this...or the media makers are hoping the software people will jump on it.
It used to be nobody had a CDROM drive. Now days, everyone does. And how long until "everyone" has a CDRW? Pretty much everyone I know (yep, all 2).
A software vendor could develop an installer that requires you install from a CDRW drive. It only installs if the writeable portions hasn't already been modified (by the installer on the first installation).
I figure many people are going to say "what the heck, why is this news??"...but I enjoyed gsfprez's writing there (and the topic, too).
You know, I always thought it was kinda a funny thing. Long ago I was a Mac developer doing shrink-wrap stuff. Apple was at it's peak, and still people said they had 10% of the market share. They said that was pathetic. But, from my perspective it was always encouraging. Because (anecdotally, I know) when I looked around...schools, banks, businesses, friends' houses, etc... I almost never saw Macs. I would have guessed 2%.
I wonder where they are now? I know that a few years ago the flavored iMacs sold like hotcakes and yet did nearly nothing to bolster Apple's percentage. That's partly because each flavor had a different model # and the percentage stuff is tracked by model #. Apparently it was too difficult for IDC, or whoever it was, to add.
How can a post be offtopic if it's a reply to a dupe?
There is no such thing as an offtopic reply to a dupe story.
Whenever you see a dupe, you'll see hundreds of posts, like mine here, pointing out the dupeness. And you'll see a bunch of "in soviet russia" jokes. Dupes are offtopic themselves. They don't do anything except exist as a place for people to point out that not only do the/. editors suck, but the/. search feature is plenty krunky as well.
For a reasonable fee per story, I am offering my services to the editors of/. as a proofreader and duplicate checker
You mean, you're willing to be another/. editor?? If you became one, your good intentions would fade within days. Soon you'd be posting dupes and saying, like CommanderTaco, "It's a dupe, but it's still neat!!!!!
I love it. Slashdot editors don't like being told that they suck so their latest method for dealing with people that point out dupes? Mod them down, of course.
Slashdot Mirror
Should spammers get some privacy protection too?
What do you mean by "too"? Nobody gets privacy protection.
To my knowledge, this is the first time an ISP offers this kind of service
I'm sure people are holding back on their wisecracks concerning your knowledge.
To my knowledge...this is old news, and not that great.
For example: OnDemandGames.PlaySite.com" uses Stream Theory as the wizard behind their curtain. That's right, it's just a Citrix Terminal Server type of thing...
Imagine paying only $10 per month for games like Unreal Tournament. You'd have to ask: why not buy the GOTY edition at the local store and get better performance...for only 15 bucks??
I never watched the series. For a few reasons, including: the commercials made it look downright stupid, and it was already a couple years in...I hate starting into a show late and missing out on the early story.
I decided to start watching it a few weeks ago. Pretty good. Fun show, I guess. The John Crichton character is acted a bit dorky. Too much effort into being a tough mysterious cool dude. Those characters aren't real to me. I always imagine all of their dark suave melting away in an instant when they are standing in front of a mirror popping a zit, or sitting on the toilet realizing there's no TP a little too late.
Anyways...I watched the ending and was pissed off. I thought "wow, other people followed this show for 4 years just for that?? what krunk!". It was an entertaining episode (except for Sark, or whatever that pansy's name is). But...what a downer ending. How brave and groundbreaking of them to end the series without a glorious happy ending!! Oh yeah, Terry Gilliam already did that...a million times before.
"To be continued"...yeah, right.
allows vendors to license their products until so many millions are made, then agree to release the code under GPL
What if I release product "Bob" and after I reach threshold-1 licenses I discontinue the product line. But, I immediately then begin marketing product "Jimmy", which had been under development just in time for the end of "Bob", and which happens to satisfy the needs of "Bob" users. Rinse, repeat.
The FCC oversees certain industries (airlines, banks and phone companies) and will have to "buy in" to the registry for it to affect those industries.
Wonder if there will be companies that do (insert random thing) business but think to get themselves excluded by paying $1000 to become a "phone company" (a reseller of long distance service). If the FCC doesn't buy into the FTC's list, then such a company might have a loop hole and be able to share the data in own "division" of the company to it's others (ie. it's actual original business).
IMHO, it's way too slow compared to the missiles, and will not be able to scramble fast enough
Why scramble at all? It would be floatin' around all the time. A bunch would be.
"ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft is attempting to do away with DLL version conflicts in its next version of Windows with a technology it calls 'really large hard drives'."
We're pleased to announce the newest reason for you to subscribe to Slashdot.
/. will purposefully delay our news until it is ripe and old (unless you pay).
Or...we're pleased to announce the newest reason you should just go read The Register (and NYT and PopSci Magazine) yourself. Because we at
I'd pay...if they promised MORE CmdrTaco dupes.
The question is whether stripping the natural resources counts as hindering/harming others.
No, that wouldn't count. But, going to the moon and smoking cigarettes there would.
Offtopic? What is the topic?
we don't need 300 people to reply that way.
we need CmdrTaco to be tied to a chair and forced to read 300 such posts over and over, non-stop, for a week.
Important Stuff:
/.
Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.
I noticed some of the moderation done within this thread. What a waste. And how ridiculous. When an original story post is a dupe how can any reply to it ever be considered off-topic or redundant?? Think about it. Any moderation within this thread is a waste of mod points.
There's nothing to see here, move along, it's just another typical CmdrTaco post.
Man, the dude is embarrassing. He obviously never reads
that because of this thing...we should boycott!
:(
nevermind that boycotting wouldn't change our behavior...we haven't travelled in 10 years.
if Oprah reads Slashdot, maybe she'll take pitty on my story and pay for us to go to Hawaii??
Manufacutring cost
...
How much more expensive? 1 cent per piece? 99 cents per piece? It'll be a very small additional cost. There is no retooling needed. Anyways, doesn't matter. Some folks interested in this are content providers hoping for DRM. Including software vendors using an installer that marks the CD so that the install is limited after the first time.
Reduced capacity
That's not a concern, either. I remember years ago getting Apple Dev Network CDs where Apple included bonus music on the data CDs (you didn't know this until you popped the data CD into your car player). I thought it was kinda cool and for a while would burn my CDs in mixed-mode...no real reason, just being spaztic. Anyways, I wasn't worried about reduced capacity then. I wouldn't be worried about it here. CDs are used for convenience, not space. Take a look at the next Reader Rabbit CD you buy for your kids (or yourself?). Even with AOL and other crap bundled onto it we're talking well under 30mb used. Anyone worried about the waste? If "The Learning Company" thought they could prevent even just some piracy by using 1 byte of that wasted 610mb of space for an additional 1 cent of cost...why not? The only why-not is they have to hope that most of their target audience has a CDR drive.
Drive compatibility problems
There is no issue here. No firmware problems. A driver update wouldn't even be necessary.
Software compatibility problems
Who ever said the entire disk is ISO9660? Yet another non-issue. There are many ways to mix discs. I guess you haven't tried it.
The only good application I can think of
If that's where your imagination on this topic ends, then I seriously doubt your opening sentence:
I have thought about this idea before...
It would make more sense for uses that you have in mind. But, I'd guess CDR-ROM is more useful for people like Intuit. I'm guessing the software vendors are pushing for this...or the media makers are hoping the software people will jump on it.
It used to be nobody had a CDROM drive. Now days, everyone does. And how long until "everyone" has a CDRW? Pretty much everyone I know (yep, all 2).
A software vendor could develop an installer that requires you install from a CDRW drive. It only installs if the writeable portions hasn't already been modified (by the installer on the first installation).
Microsoft is .. trying to stop spam sent to Hotmail users
Mod parent +5 funny.
The problem with this is how to craft laws that would affect spammers but not regular users of the internet.
I don't think that the problem at all.
OK, maybe it's a tiny part of the problem. But not at all a significant part of the problem.
I understand that spam is a problem. But if not for spam, what are we to do about our penises?
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Thx,
- amalgamatedhomeloansandcollegedegrees@aol.uk.com.
I figure many people are going to say "what the heck, why is this news??"...but I enjoyed gsfprez's writing there (and the topic, too).
You know, I always thought it was kinda a funny thing. Long ago I was a Mac developer doing shrink-wrap stuff. Apple was at it's peak, and still people said they had 10% of the market share. They said that was pathetic. But, from my perspective it was always encouraging. Because (anecdotally, I know) when I looked around...schools, banks, businesses, friends' houses, etc... I almost never saw Macs. I would have guessed 2%.
I wonder where they are now? I know that a few years ago the flavored iMacs sold like hotcakes and yet did nearly nothing to bolster Apple's percentage. That's partly because each flavor had a different model # and the percentage stuff is tracked by model #. Apparently it was too difficult for IDC, or whoever it was, to add.
How can a post be offtopic if it's a reply to a dupe?
/. editors suck, but the /. search feature is plenty krunky as well.
There is no such thing as an offtopic reply to a dupe story.
Whenever you see a dupe, you'll see hundreds of posts, like mine here, pointing out the dupeness. And you'll see a bunch of "in soviet russia" jokes. Dupes are offtopic themselves. They don't do anything except exist as a place for people to point out that not only do the
For a reasonable fee per story, I am offering my services to the editors of /. as a proofreader and duplicate checker
/. editor?? If you became one, your good intentions would fade within days. Soon you'd be posting dupes and saying, like CommanderTaco, "It's a dupe, but it's still neat!!!!!
You mean, you're willing to be another
ahahaahaaa!!
I love it. Slashdot editors don't like being told that they suck so their latest method for dealing with people that point out dupes? Mod them down, of course.
The previous method? Ignore them.
dupe
The original news.com.com story is slightly more informative.
.com.
It's also slightly more
Some people use so many words to show how little they know.
No, it's not the install software. It's something that is installed along with TurboTax, that happens to manage the access to TurboTax.
But, yes, what other krunk uses the pisser?