Perhaps because that study is bad science? It ignores the fact that people with the emotional/physical problems they describe are more likely to be internet addicts than the average person. They have proven no strong, general correlation, and it is akin to saying "Piloting a 747 makes you a very smart and focused person" when really, the people who are doing that usually already have those qualities.
I personally care a lot about noise. I pick out my CPU fans, Hard drives and power supply/case fans based on "Which, under X decibals, provides the very best performance?". The difference between 99th percentile of cooling performance and 80th percentile usually means about 50% less noise with CPU fans.
I'd love to test this better, but I think a very big ammount of bandwidth is used by one specific group: tech-ignorant college students. I have some experience, I'm an RA in a dorm at IU Bloomington. People open Kazaa and leave it on 24/7, not even knowing (or caring) that they consume gigabytes of bandwidth daily (especially on male floors where most people have at least a few large porn movies, which are probably in more demand than Britney tunes).
We put up signs notices, strongly requesting people fully close P2P programs when not using them, but it's been my experience that most students can't grasp that it really matters.
They don't really need a program, you can find out the IP and ISP of anyone on Kazaa as soon as they start sending you a file, just using basic tools on any OS, even Windows. I imagine if they really are using a custom program to do this for some reason, then the program just runs on top of Kazaa/whatever and therefore never is actually connected to the network itself. I'm just speculating, but it doesn't seem like there'd be any reason for them to right an entire P2P client to do this.
It is sad that stations like Digitally Imported are quite possibly going to become an endangered species. They brought me music I'd never have encountered on FM radio, or most likely have been lucky enough to find on file sharing services.
However, many public radio stations that offer streaming audio will remain, such as WQXR FM will likely remain, as they already pay royalties. So it is at least almost guaranteed that there will be some free, non-commercial radio in the internet's future. Now if only we could get NPR to pony up the cash for a few public, all-trance stations:-)
Athlon XP 1900+: $114
Pentium 4 2000mhz: $235
Athlon XP 1400+: $80
Pentium 4 1600mhz: $146
Ok, effectively equal processors (in the Benchmarks Tom's provides) but the Athlons cost nearly half as much! Maybe the fastest pentium is slightly faster than the fastest athlon (an exponentially more expensive), but I think you'd be nuts to pay twice the price just for the name.
Tom's is mixing statistics in saying that since SOME pentiums are better than athlons that ALL pentiums are better than athlons. It's a harmful message that could cause consumers to overspend a great deal of money.
If it's anything like the boards and the coverage of/. subscriptions on other sites, you'll have to explain 50 times the radical concept of people PAYING BACK the $5-$50 it costs Slashdot to let them read the site every year.:-)
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But if you have a friend, don't you in theory talk to him over AIM, ICQ, IRC or something? I have plenty of friends who live far from me, and when they want to show me some new music (or vice versa) we just use AIM or mIRC.
Never, ever, has anyone said "I just put it on Morpheus, go get it!" It would be a very roundabout and error-prone way of going about it, compared to just sending over AIM/ICQ.
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Napster existed for a long time with illegal sharring effectively stopped. Hey, isn't this what the whole Slashdot crowd claimed to want? It's a fileshare and there's no illegal swapping, so shouldn't you guys have loved it? Nope, you all moved on to Kazaa and Bearshare.
I've yet to see anyone provide an actual reason for filesharing other than to pirate copyrighted material. Everything legitimate is already available on the web and ftp.
It makes no sense to get all mad at the RCAA simply for trying to protect it's profits. If someone was cutting out 33% of your salary (if you have a salary, hah) would you be like "Well I can't infringe on his rights..." or would you do something about it?
The record industry isn't trying to stop you from trading Linux binaries or whatever you claim to be using File Sharing for. They're just guys trying to watch their backs. Yes, I agree that most of them are overpaid whores, but that really doesn't matter.
Ok label this as a troll. It's a different viewpoint! Ahh!!! I bet he even runs Windows!
Maybe episode length required them to shuffle it around so they'd fit on seven discs?
It's not like there was much continuity in TNG anyway, especially on an episode-to-episode level.
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Perhaps because that study is bad science? It ignores the fact that people with the emotional/physical problems they describe are more likely to be internet addicts than the average person. They have proven no strong, general correlation, and it is akin to saying "Piloting a 747 makes you a very smart and focused person" when really, the people who are doing that usually already have those qualities.
I personally care a lot about noise. I pick out my CPU fans, Hard drives and power supply/case fans based on "Which, under X decibals, provides the very best performance?". The difference between 99th percentile of cooling performance and 80th percentile usually means about 50% less noise with CPU fans.
We put up signs notices, strongly requesting people fully close P2P programs when not using them, but it's been my experience that most students can't grasp that it really matters.
They don't really need a program, you can find out the IP and ISP of anyone on Kazaa as soon as they start sending you a file, just using basic tools on any OS, even Windows. I imagine if they really are using a custom program to do this for some reason, then the program just runs on top of Kazaa/whatever and therefore never is actually connected to the network itself. I'm just speculating, but it doesn't seem like there'd be any reason for them to right an entire P2P client to do this.
It is sad that stations like Digitally Imported are quite possibly going to become an endangered species. They brought me music I'd never have encountered on FM radio, or most likely have been lucky enough to find on file sharing services. However, many public radio stations that offer streaming audio will remain, such as WQXR FM will likely remain, as they already pay royalties. So it is at least almost guaranteed that there will be some free, non-commercial radio in the internet's future. Now if only we could get NPR to pony up the cash for a few public, all-trance stations :-)
Athlon XP 1900+: $114 Pentium 4 2000mhz: $235 Athlon XP 1400+: $80 Pentium 4 1600mhz: $146 Ok, effectively equal processors (in the Benchmarks Tom's provides) but the Athlons cost nearly half as much! Maybe the fastest pentium is slightly faster than the fastest athlon (an exponentially more expensive), but I think you'd be nuts to pay twice the price just for the name. Tom's is mixing statistics in saying that since SOME pentiums are better than athlons that ALL pentiums are better than athlons. It's a harmful message that could cause consumers to overspend a great deal of money.
If it's anything like the boards and the coverage of /. subscriptions on other sites, you'll have to explain 50 times the radical concept of people PAYING BACK the $5-$50 it costs Slashdot to let them read the site every year. :-)
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But if you have a friend, don't you in theory talk to him over AIM, ICQ, IRC or something? I have plenty of friends who live far from me, and when they want to show me some new music (or vice versa) we just use AIM or mIRC. Never, ever, has anyone said "I just put it on Morpheus, go get it!" It would be a very roundabout and error-prone way of going about it, compared to just sending over AIM/ICQ.
Napster existed for a long time with illegal sharring effectively stopped. Hey, isn't this what the whole Slashdot crowd claimed to want? It's a fileshare and there's no illegal swapping, so shouldn't you guys have loved it? Nope, you all moved on to Kazaa and Bearshare. I've yet to see anyone provide an actual reason for filesharing other than to pirate copyrighted material. Everything legitimate is already available on the web and ftp. It makes no sense to get all mad at the RCAA simply for trying to protect it's profits. If someone was cutting out 33% of your salary (if you have a salary, hah) would you be like "Well I can't infringe on his rights..." or would you do something about it? The record industry isn't trying to stop you from trading Linux binaries or whatever you claim to be using File Sharing for. They're just guys trying to watch their backs. Yes, I agree that most of them are overpaid whores, but that really doesn't matter. Ok label this as a troll. It's a different viewpoint! Ahh!!! I bet he even runs Windows!
Maybe episode length required them to shuffle it around so they'd fit on seven discs?
It's not like there was much continuity in TNG anyway, especially on an episode-to-episode level.