I don't think blizzard realizes this, but this move will prolly push the program out to "its illegal, time go get it while u can status" which will, in effect, cause it to spread more like wildfire (kinda like the slashdot effect on websites, since everyone knows it'll be taken down, ppl will grab it while they still can weather they use it or not.). so IMHO, they just caused this program to be seriously distributed.;p
I kinda get annoyed at the sudden "boycott" mentallitity, it won't work unless u have a *lot* of people boycott blizzard, and really in a way (no matter how small) they kinda hurt themselfs by closing this project forcivly.
god I can't spell tonight:(
this *all* is in my opinion.. i could be very wrong.. so just ignore me, its for the best;p
I love this part of that article:
This is copy protection? Here's a better question: Are all Dell owners with DVD drives who buy CDS copy-protected discs in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Perhaps, if they purchase the NEC DVD drive just for the purpose of circumventing the copy protection.
It'd really suck if your door got knocked down for buying a dell.. hrmm.. good thought there tho.. the "Dell Dude" would be behind bars =)
I mean, if you play the cd using, say, SPDIF, then wouldn't you notice the "lower" quality of the track? Are they just making it so the analog will play fine? 'course they are lean on the technicial details, but it would be interesting to know how they can make the quality lower in the copy, but not in the playback on a pc-cdrom.. 'course, I guess if they were to tell us, we'd be arrested 'cause of a violation of the DCMA.. for reading a peice about their method, which could be used to create a circomvention device..
I still wonder what happended to the "personal copy" clause in the fair use act.. (or am I confused?)
Seems like a kewl idea, I wish they had something like this in orlando.. The only thing I see (tho I dunno how cali laws/rules are) is problems with people who rent.. down in florida, your reqiured to have permission to setup any type of attenna.. It'll be interesting to see how this works out.. I wonder what protocol they will use.:)
Also how strong the signal is without an atenna.. be kinda like wirless internet for thoes laptop people, when the infastructure gets big enuff, from soo many residental users. I hope this works out:)
ermmm.. this *wasn't* ment to be trollish..
just stating a point.. tho it seems I'm the only one not allowed to bash the first guy to got troll.. but hey its tru, a lot of sysadmins don't like stupidity, or atleast their version of stupiditiy, (sorry but when someone complains about their monitor not working, and you come up and press the button, and it magically comes on.. you tend to consider it stupid.. u just never say it:)
sigh.. musta hit a nerve..
They've been around for a while..
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I remember in Miami, going to a hardware distrubitor who had harddrives with plexiglass tops running, for demo purposes, they had an OS on there and everything.. I do know that it had to be done in a cleanroom, cause the slightest bit of dust would cause trouble..
if I'm not mistaken, it was the good ole RLL harddrives (before IDE, heh)
Something like this would be great, in areas where space is tight, like mabey a camper, or even in the working world, a lil computer to have on research escapades in the congo, or small computers for troops to have when they are on a recon mission, course the input and viewing devices would have to be worked out. The only thing I really don't see tho, is a home user use for these.. hell where I work, most people comlain if they have to take their laptops home, no matter how slim it is.. a good amount of homes won't want this, cause sales people trying to push the compaq or hp or emachine will say its not upgradable.. (notice how thats become a buzzword now and days?)
I don't see this catching in the home user aspect, but I can see a lot of benifits outside the standard user arena..
Now imagine a beowulf cluster in your car! I'd just hate to see your harddrives after you get in an accident trying to compile the latest version of glibc:)
Don't know where you get your info, but sysadmins are some of the MOST important people in a company. Sounds like you've had a bad experiance with a few, possiably could be a bad day a sysadmin had, or the fact that you just piss them off too much, they don't respond very well to stupidity.. expecially in smaller companies where the sysadmin also has to do some helpdesk work from time to time. I know of quite a few companies that rely heavily on the sysadmin, and for the most part respect him (just don't act like it sometimes), they handle just about as much as a diretor does, if not more in certain areas..
I honeslty wasn't.. With a system like TiVo, where you can see what was rewound, what was recorded, etc.. its almost impossiable for them to hold back from collecting stats.. not that its a good thing or a bad thing, you have to think that, if they don't collect stats, after a while there might not be a TiVo (don't they already post losses from their equipment?).. now what would be nice, if their stat collector could be disabled, so you can opt-out.
I kinda find it amuzing tho, commercials replayed more then the game.. =)
Just a note also, I'm paying for business class Road Runner, and lemme tell you, its a bitch if you don't own a business.. Why am I doin that? 'cause I want the extra goodies, not like you get much for it. it really seems that you get a *few* more IPs, better uptime, and higher bandwith, your still bitched at if you run your own personal server, and its a pain in the ass to get a new hostname on your ip. and trust me kiddies, its a *lot* more expensive then residenatial customers, and almost as expensive as SDSL without the benifits.. (if only they supported SDSL in my area:(
Just outta ceriousity, where are you located? I'm not to sure about higher lines, but here in Metro Orlando, a deversified T1 costs about $800/mo (tho I'm sure prices vary by location)
When I worked for DuroComm, I know that some things (DS3s for example) are getting cheaper, however for a larger ISP, I'm sure they get good deals.
My bandwidth usage goes up and down, I could use well over 5GB in a month, or only use 1GB a month.. I'm not one of thoes warez kiddies.. I just happen to do quite a bit of graphics and high quality photo editing (I have photos that range well over the 200MB size), Local group Mp3s, homemade videos (BMWFilmes.com), and the occasional over-the-net linux install.. I do run an Unreal Tournament Server from time to time, so the guys from work can kick my ass, which Road Runner over here is prolly going to end up blocking or some crap like that (thats the buzz in the tech support area atleast).
I'm not saying that your cost isn't a big issue or anything, trust me, I know all about cost. Expecially with the smaller isps (http://www.lexisoft.com) however I'm sure the larger ISPs can atleast try to cut other areas before charging bandwith (do you really need thoes 8 email boxes? Or how about that annoying free webspace you can't do anything with?) tho, I doubt it would lower any costs.. (what, a total $0.05?) but atleast its an idea..
RANT: and I wish people would stop thinkin all high bandwidth users are trading illegal mp3s, videos, warez.... tho a lot are, there are a good amount of legitimant things that use up a lot of bandwidth
(That rant was not into anyone paticialar, just keep seeing it in the posts..)
I've seen these in stores, I have noticed that they arn't very advertised (atleast in my area, Metro Orlando), tho they do look very cool. I like the whole idea of a small wirless network, and at that price range, its cheaper then a lot of network cards. I'm still interested in buying a set just to play 'round with, I wouldn't be supprised if there arn't some cool hacks for these things already..
The interesting thing about the whole wireless P2P idea (atleast for me) is the future size of these things.. with prices coming down, and size being less of a factor, imagine your cell phone also being able to trade mp3s, videos, etc.. in small P2P clouds.. or even your pager, like the Motorola T900s..:)
To be honest, in my opinion, any "experianced" progammer, would atleast try various programming languages.. Ie.. C#.. you never know, he may actually accomplish a lot more then you realize..
I beleive someone with a closed mind, would say something you just said. After all, some pretty interesting things have been made with COBOL, and you know everyone hates COBOL:)
stuff like that is actually pretty cool.. tho it would be really annoying, if you moved up to it and he said.. "The ThinkPad X Series is one hell of a laptop, powerful, slim.. check out www.ibm.com after you play.."
Yea I'd pretty much have to say, that'd ruin the moment for me:)
Well I guess thats one way to test legacy support:)
I can see it in linux now.. give a user 40MB Quota in his user directory, just mount one of thoes puppys in there.. (just hope its a dialup user so he won't notice the speed)
I've always thought thoes things were ugly tho.. but to each his own..:)
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I kinda get annoyed at the sudden "boycott" mentallitity, it won't work unless u have a *lot* of people boycott blizzard, and really in a way (no matter how small) they kinda hurt themselfs by closing this project forcivly.
god I can't spell tonight :( ;p
this *all* is in my opinion.. i could be very wrong.. so just ignore me, its for the best
or (in response to your sig) install windows 98 :)
This is copy protection? Here's a better question: Are all Dell owners with DVD drives who buy CDS copy-protected discs in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Perhaps, if they purchase the NEC DVD drive just for the purpose of circumventing the copy protection.
It'd really suck if your door got knocked down for buying a dell.. hrmm.. good thought there tho.. the "Dell Dude" would be behind bars =)
You mean its not? :)
I still wonder what happended to the "personal copy" clause in the fair use act.. (or am I confused?)
I own the patent for patenting ideas/objects.. so pay me before you enforce yours :)
I don't use fastfind much, but wouldn't this bog down a system, when searching thru 20,000+ PDF/DOC/XLS/TXT files?
I actually thought RLL was a bit different then MFM..
Also how strong the signal is without an atenna.. be kinda like wirless internet for thoes laptop people, when the infastructure gets big enuff, from soo many residental users. I hope this works out :)
just stating a point.. tho it seems I'm the only one not allowed to bash the first guy to got troll.. but hey its tru, a lot of sysadmins don't like stupidity, or atleast their version of stupiditiy, (sorry but when someone complains about their monitor not working, and you come up and press the button, and it magically comes on.. you tend to consider it stupid.. u just never say it
sigh.. musta hit a nerve..
if I'm not mistaken, it was the good ole RLL harddrives (before IDE, heh)
I think it was runnin Windows 3.1 :)
I dunno if that was a typo/misinformation or if it was just snuck in there.. but at 1.25GB, must be a shaved version of XP.. :)
I don't see this catching in the home user aspect, but I can see a lot of benifits outside the standard user arena..
Now imagine a beowulf cluster in your car! I'd just hate to see your harddrives after you get in an accident trying to compile the latest version of glibc :)
(sorry, couldn't help myself..)
Don't know where you get your info, but sysadmins are some of the MOST important people in a company. Sounds like you've had a bad experiance with a few, possiably could be a bad day a sysadmin had, or the fact that you just piss them off too much, they don't respond very well to stupidity.. expecially in smaller companies where the sysadmin also has to do some helpdesk work from time to time. I know of quite a few companies that rely heavily on the sysadmin, and for the most part respect him (just don't act like it sometimes), they handle just about as much as a diretor does, if not more in certain areas..
oooo! I need one of thoes "mess with users" buttons! :)
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Disaster Recovery? Sorry but if a disaster happends, I'll be recovering in the Bahamamas
I kinda find it amuzing tho, commercials replayed more then the game.. =)
Just a note also, I'm paying for business class Road Runner, and lemme tell you, its a bitch if you don't own a business.. Why am I doin that? 'cause I want the extra goodies, not like you get much for it. it really seems that you get a *few* more IPs, better uptime, and higher bandwith, your still bitched at if you run your own personal server, and its a pain in the ass to get a new hostname on your ip. and trust me kiddies, its a *lot* more expensive then residenatial customers, and almost as expensive as SDSL without the benifits.. (if only they supported SDSL in my area :(
When I worked for DuroComm, I know that some things (DS3s for example) are getting cheaper, however for a larger ISP, I'm sure they get good deals.
My bandwidth usage goes up and down, I could use well over 5GB in a month, or only use 1GB a month.. I'm not one of thoes warez kiddies.. I just happen to do quite a bit of graphics and high quality photo editing (I have photos that range well over the 200MB size), Local group Mp3s, homemade videos (BMWFilmes.com), and the occasional over-the-net linux install.. I do run an Unreal Tournament Server from time to time, so the guys from work can kick my ass, which Road Runner over here is prolly going to end up blocking or some crap like that (thats the buzz in the tech support area atleast).
I'm not saying that your cost isn't a big issue or anything, trust me, I know all about cost. Expecially with the smaller isps (http://www.lexisoft.com) however I'm sure the larger ISPs can atleast try to cut other areas before charging bandwith (do you really need thoes 8 email boxes? Or how about that annoying free webspace you can't do anything with?) tho, I doubt it would lower any costs.. (what, a total $0.05?) but atleast its an idea..
RANT: and I wish people would stop thinkin all high bandwidth users are trading illegal mp3s, videos, warez.... tho a lot are, there are a good amount of legitimant things that use up a lot of bandwidth
(That rant was not into anyone paticialar, just keep seeing it in the posts..)
I guess at that point, the good 'ole BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) will REALLY be fatal! :)
The interesting thing about the whole wireless P2P idea (atleast for me) is the future size of these things.. with prices coming down, and size being less of a factor, imagine your cell phone also being able to trade mp3s, videos, etc.. in small P2P clouds.. or even your pager, like the Motorola T900s.. :)
now an experianced speller, I am not.. :)
expecially after a few drinks!
I beleive someone with a closed mind, would say something you just said. After all, some pretty interesting things have been made with COBOL, and you know everyone hates COBOL :)
Yea I'd pretty much have to say, that'd ruin the moment for me :)
Well I guess thats one way to test legacy support :)
I can see it in linux now.. give a user 40MB Quota in his user directory, just mount one of thoes puppys in there.. (just hope its a dialup user so he won't notice the speed)
I've always thought thoes things were ugly tho.. but to each his own.. :)
He prolly did.. just didn't inhale :)