In 3 years I've been with the service, I've only had it go down once for about 6 hours due to a service interruption.
Are you sure your cable wiring in the house is ok?
In the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area, we have Optimum Online, a service from which I've often obtained speeds up to 7, 8 Mbits/s.
The upload speed isn't too shabby either, I've sustained uploads at around 1.5 to 2 Mbits/s for periods of more than 1 hour at a time, according to my MRTG graph.
A music CD ripped to MP3 typically takes somewhere around 60 to 100 megs of space, with individual tracks averaging around 5 megs each--and can be downloaded separately.
A movie of good-length typically takes around 600-700 megs in DivX;-) format, currently the most popular "moviez" format. This cannot be downloaded and subsequently enjoyed in chunks.
Pirating movies takes a substantially higher amount of bandwidth per movie than small-time MP3 warezing, and the bulk of the music industry's loss comes from the high amount of 'small-time" MP3 pirating.
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Disregarding, once more, the sheer unethicalness of using your special privileges on the network to solicit money from your users. Disregarding, of course, the dubious legal grounds of your actions as related to Open Projects Network as a non-profit entity. How typical.
And disregarding the fact that the group that you label the the trolls, the "vocal minority" as you call us, conveniently enough, just happen to include almost every single one of the former staff that have been with the network since the very beginning, and have been jumping ship precisely because they saw what was coming.
Disregarding the fact that even various server sponsors have been silenced for complaining about your heavy-handed tactics in dealing with dissent.
Disregarding the fact that the administrative channel, once a forum for the open transmission of thought and understanding, has been turned into a police state of staffers who silence users at a whim and k-line the "vocal minority" at the drop of a hat.
Disregarding that the channel itself has been marked moderated (+m) purely because you do not have the guts to stand up to a fair critique of your mistakes.
You, lilo, are out of control. Every last stabilizing factor in the OPN staff have been eliminated. All who remain are little more than cronies who will stand for everything you do or say because they know no better. Just this past weekend you removed the o:lines of 2 staff.opn members for the simple reason that they have been chatting on OFTC, the alternative to your iron-handed rule.
Frankly, we're tired of your bullshit. Take it elsewhere.
In direct opposition to my mostly pro-Microsoft stances, I am of the opinion that widely used formats, no matter what the licensing restrictions, ought to be forcibly placed into the public domain by law. This includes various compression schemes such as Sorenson used in QuickTime.
Microsoft has no problems with using Open Source (in the case of BSD-licensed software), Microsoft has no problems with showing their (big) clients and universities the source code to their programs and packages.
What Microsoft has a problem with, is with the GNU license.
Microsoft, as an ISP, hosting someone's pictures, is successfully sued for hosting those images.
The point is not that it's Microsoft, the point is that an ISP has lost the case. Although it's definitely of interest that even Microsoft is not immune to this sort of suit.
This case is a set-back to ISPs everywhere.
That's great. Instead of helping to make it more secure, let's work to undermine the facility's resources and possibly trigger the disaster you're supposed to prevent.
But don't let it be said that the Chinese government is blocking off most of the Net to its citizens for altruistic reasons.
Not to mention a good 85-90% of the population live out of reach of internet cafes, can't afford computers, can't afford internet access, can barely afford to feed themselves from day to day.
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I hope that they'll be teaching those kids how NOT to write games like Daikatana. :)
Anachronox, maybe.
I'm using an old modem, it doesn't have any way to flash firmware or even web page configuration access. I haven't modified it in any way.
In 3 years I've been with the service, I've only had it go down once for about 6 hours due to a service interruption. Are you sure your cable wiring in the house is ok?
In the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area, we have Optimum Online, a service from which I've often obtained speeds up to 7, 8 Mbits/s.
The upload speed isn't too shabby either, I've sustained uploads at around 1.5 to 2 Mbits/s for periods of more than 1 hour at a time, according to my MRTG graph.
Try watching the movie in sections at the same time. Can't do that.
Again, it's a matter of convenience and practicality.
A music CD ripped to MP3 typically takes somewhere around 60 to 100 megs of space, with individual tracks averaging around 5 megs each--and can be downloaded separately. A movie of good-length typically takes around 600-700 megs in DivX ;-) format, currently the most popular "moviez" format. This cannot be downloaded and subsequently enjoyed in chunks.
Pirating movies takes a substantially higher amount of bandwidth per movie than small-time MP3 warezing, and the bulk of the music industry's loss comes from the high amount of 'small-time" MP3 pirating.
Let's put your opinion to the test.
Ask Rob Levin to step down.
Disregarding, once more, the sheer unethicalness of using your special privileges on the network to solicit money from your users. Disregarding, of course, the dubious legal grounds of your actions as related to Open Projects Network as a non-profit entity. How typical.
And disregarding the fact that the group that you label the the trolls, the "vocal minority" as you call us, conveniently enough, just happen to include almost every single one of the former staff that have been with the network since the very beginning, and have been jumping ship precisely because they saw what was coming.
Disregarding the fact that even various server sponsors have been silenced for complaining about your heavy-handed tactics in dealing with dissent.
Disregarding the fact that the administrative channel, once a forum for the open transmission of thought and understanding, has been turned into a police state of staffers who silence users at a whim and k-line the "vocal minority" at the drop of a hat.
Disregarding that the channel itself has been marked moderated (+m) purely because you do not have the guts to stand up to a fair critique of your mistakes.
You, lilo, are out of control. Every last stabilizing factor in the OPN staff have been eliminated. All who remain are little more than cronies who will stand for everything you do or say because they know no better. Just this past weekend you removed the o:lines of 2 staff.opn members for the simple reason that they have been chatting on OFTC, the alternative to your iron-handed rule.
Frankly, we're tired of your bullshit. Take it elsewhere.
But what about Lindows?
Doesn't Lindows just give you a XFree86 session running as uid(0)?
Your other option is to get Linux on one of these babies and try to get one of the many Simcity clones to run on it.
Shouldn't be too hard.
Adore worm
L1on worm
Cheese
Sadmind
Admworm ...
I'm pretty sure I'm missing a few recent worms... anyone else care to add to this list?
I suppose Ramen doesn't count.
Here's a question for you:
If they have no computers (and presumably, therefore, no windows, no outlook, no address book) how did they send the e-mail?
As an alternative, maybe if they put some actual decent shows on TV they wouldn't lose so many viewers.
In direct opposition to my mostly pro-Microsoft stances, I am of the opinion that widely used formats, no matter what the licensing restrictions, ought to be forcibly placed into the public domain by law. This includes various compression schemes such as Sorenson used in QuickTime.
Microsoft has no problems with using Open Source (in the case of BSD-licensed software), Microsoft has no problems with showing their (big) clients and universities the source code to their programs and packages.
What Microsoft has a problem with, is with the GNU license.
It's easy to take something, go your own way with it, then when it's sufficiently advanced and distinguished, call it your own standard.
The thing is, you can call it standard all you want, doesn't make it any more a true standard.
You need to build mindshare with all of your users, clients, etc., get some partners to help you along and support Your Way(tm).
That part looks good for these United Linux folks.
I still prefer The Debian Way, though, and I doubt they will be able to change that.
However, it will be good to have an alternative to Red Hat in the minds of the Common Folk.
Microsoft, as an ISP, hosting someone's pictures, is successfully sued for hosting those images. The point is not that it's Microsoft, the point is that an ISP has lost the case. Although it's definitely of interest that even Microsoft is not immune to this sort of suit. This case is a set-back to ISPs everywhere.
Opera is neither free as in speech nor free as in beer.
Where are our favorite open source zealot insightful comments?
That's great. Instead of helping to make it more secure, let's work to undermine the facility's resources and possibly trigger the disaster you're supposed to prevent.
[SPOILER ALERT] Actually, it's an entire arm. [/SPOILER ALERT]
But don't let it be said that the Chinese government is blocking off most of the Net to its citizens for altruistic reasons. Not to mention a good 85-90% of the population live out of reach of internet cafes, can't afford computers, can't afford internet access, can barely afford to feed themselves from day to day.
How hypocritical of you then.