Why don't these sites just opt out of indexing? Its not hard, just throw couple lines of code in your html and bye bye people finding your site on google.
The main problem with enforcing copy right laws is that the average joe is not remotly affriad of getting caught. Any family with internet that I know downloads songs. There is just no risk. If the goverment procecuted 500 people for downloading a song, movie, warez ect., then the average user would be know that they are risking punishment. They shut down a big warez ring every once in awile, but do I notice a shortage of warez on the internet? No. As soon as one provider gets shutdown, another pops up.
Probly a good reason they would never do this is because they most likely reuse alot of there code in there newer os's. They could at least release the win9x kernel though.
Programs like seti@home that use your space cpu cycles can conflict with other programs that act the same way. For example I had this compression program that would compress stuff with a low priority process. Since Seti and the compression program were both trying to use the spare cpu power, they didn't play well together.
This comments is probly to late for anyone to read but....I find it supprising that a news company that is own by microsoft (or am I wrong?) is saying bad things about xbox games.
Oh my god, I guess Teoma is screwed. Thats why google is so good. And if someone from from Teoma has ever been to google, there minds were probly read so now google knows all of there trade secrets.
I totaly agree with you. Think of the other big search engine names, yahoo, ask.com, hotbot....They are regular words. And google is just easy to remember.
But google had somthing differant when it came out. It was just a search engine. It never tryed to be a big bloated portal like yahoo. Teoma looks like its just trying to imitate google, not inovate. Plus Google sounds cooler than Teoma:)
Even if it is as good as google, its still not going to kill it. Google is the search engine everyone knows and loves. Unless this engine comes out with some great feature like reading your mind instead of you needing to type, It's not gona take away too much of google's traffic.
Recently to take attention away from Be, microsoft has been bragging about there database'd operating system. According to a microsoft rep, "our operating systems have allways been database'd, everything in windows is based on data".
Now that I think about it I guess you could set up a filter. But we all know that internet filters do not work to good. And there is allso the chance of somone using your connection to send death threats to the prez.
I think if some P2P program came out for websites, it would solve the bandwidth problem of alot of sites. For example, you go to a website, you start downloading a video file or whatever, but instead of downloading it from the main site, it would download from a bunch of differant people. Only certain sites would be allowed to put content on the network. Then once you get the file, people can download it from you. Anybody think somthing like this will actualy come out some day?
People used to be on the web more because there was'nt much more to do than just surf around. But now that we have p2p and instant messaging, people are comming on the internet with a task they want to accomplish. Wether it be to download the latest mp3 or to check some sports scores.
Since few people actualy put valid info when subscribing to free web stuff, I think we are going to start seeing banner ads targeting 60 year old woman with 12 kids that make $900,000 a year. So screw privacy, be truthful on online forms.
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I hope this somehow spawns the invention that lets me turn my urin into drinkable water.
Why don't these sites just opt out of indexing? Its not hard, just throw couple lines of code in your html and bye bye people finding your site on google.
Gaming at work isnt much fun anyway since most work computers have crapy video cards. There is allways solitare though.
Just because you like xbox better than the ps2 does not mean the xbox is going to "win"
The main problem with enforcing copy right laws is that the average joe is not remotly affriad of getting caught. Any family with internet that I know downloads songs. There is just no risk. If the goverment procecuted 500 people for downloading a song, movie, warez ect., then the average user would be know that they are risking punishment. They shut down a big warez ring every once in awile, but do I notice a shortage of warez on the internet? No. As soon as one provider gets shutdown, another pops up.
Probly a good reason they would never do this is because they most likely reuse alot of there code in there newer os's. They could at least release the win9x kernel though.
If they did that then people would find the 50 other excel easter egg games that no has found out about yet :)
Programs like seti@home that use your space cpu cycles can conflict with other programs that act the same way. For example I had this compression program that would compress stuff with a low priority process. Since Seti and the compression program were both trying to use the spare cpu power, they didn't play well together.
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God dam it I'm tired of this april 1st....oh this is serious?
This comments is probly to late for anyone to read but....I find it supprising that a news company that is own by microsoft (or am I wrong?) is saying bad things about xbox games.
Oh my god, I guess Teoma is screwed. Thats why google is so good. And if someone from from Teoma has ever been to google, there minds were probly read so now google knows all of there trade secrets.
Thats cool and all, but does the tolite have a 56k modem in it like the one from The Sims?
I totaly agree with you. Think of the other big search engine names, yahoo, ask.com, hotbot....They are regular words. And google is just easy to remember.
But google had somthing differant when it came out. It was just a search engine. It never tryed to be a big bloated portal like yahoo. Teoma looks like its just trying to imitate google, not inovate. Plus Google sounds cooler than Teoma :)
Even if it is as good as google, its still not going to kill it. Google is the search engine everyone knows and loves. Unless this engine comes out with some great feature like reading your mind instead of you needing to type, It's not gona take away too much of google's traffic.
Recently to take attention away from Be, microsoft has been bragging about there database'd operating system. According to a microsoft rep, "our operating systems have allways been database'd, everything in windows is based on data".
Now that I think about it I guess you could set up a filter. But we all know that internet filters do not work to good. And there is allso the chance of somone using your connection to send death threats to the prez.
What happens when someone starts looking up kiddie porn on your connection? Are you liable?
I think if some P2P program came out for websites, it would solve the bandwidth problem of alot of sites. For example, you go to a website, you start downloading a video file or whatever, but instead of downloading it from the main site, it would download from a bunch of differant people. Only certain sites would be allowed to put content on the network. Then once you get the file, people can download it from you. Anybody think somthing like this will actualy come out some day?
Since the link is /.-ed, you can see the page by using this link
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"without copy protection there can be no broadband entertainment"
Hmm, I'm being entertained by this divx'ed Matrix movie I just downloaded
People used to be on the web more because there was'nt much more to do than just surf around. But now that we have p2p and instant messaging, people are comming on the internet with a task they want to accomplish. Wether it be to download the latest mp3 or to check some sports scores.
Since few people actualy put valid info when subscribing to free web stuff, I think we are going to start seeing banner ads targeting 60 year old woman with 12 kids that make $900,000 a year. So screw privacy, be truthful on online forms.
I would like to make a meaningful comment but my energy meter is too low.