Perhaps this can be a fighting point for us against the carnavore. This proves that they are collecting the wrong stuff. I would have liked for them to find Bin Laden, and the FBI can go through my Akai mailing list and Spam that I recieve if that will catch him, because I don't really do anything personal that isn't encrypted heavily.
I wonder if this will be the evidence that they need to make them stop using it.
How many movies really do well in a series anyway? Look at terrible movies like Jason and other scary movies. Yea, they suck bigtime. Scream?
Face it, most movies can't make the second one decent. Jurassic Park 2 sucked in compairsion to the first in the box office. For Star Wars to be on number 5, that's an acomplishment.
LoTR will have a hard time, even though I love it, because it does have so much in it to pack in. Star Wars doesn't have to fit in tomes of masterfully crafted work, sure there are alot of books, but the movies deteremine the books, not the other way around for Star Wars.
Isn't there normally a clause that says something like: We are not responsible for content of the sites that we host. In addition we do not allow pornographic material to be posted to our site.
Why is Microsoft responsible? I am not a MSFT lover, but blame who is to blame. Who doctored the photos? Who posted them? Isn't that defaming her image? That's illegal right? So why is Microsoft the one in jeopardy over this?
I know that the posting of "we aren't responsible for stuff on our site posted by users" doesn't always fly legally, but don't they have a responsiblity to know who their users are?
Does anyone think that for a company as big as Microsoft that to trace down a person, well having IP logs of where the person came from, because they posted to their web server.. (Or does IIS log anything..). With a court order shouldn't they be able to trace that ever through 'anonmyous' proxies? Come on MSFT, use that technology and find that sicko.
I think Adobe wants to talk to him as well, because he's probably running a pirated copy of Photoshop on his computer.
What really sucks, is that fact that popups and banners, etc take up alot of bandwidth. In fact I bet that it takes up about 50% of the average users web surfing bandwidth, (websurfing doesn't count Kazaa usage).
Since this is probably true, doesn't it suck that not only are the companies with popups exploiting you, but you are paying for their banners, with your bandwidth.
I wouldn't be suprized if people don't (I think they should) start demanding that the ISPs in some way give you an option to block popup, give you software to do so, or give you the option to block traffic from those sources, turning your cable modem into a router that can block things. People demand that companies take you off their mailing lists, or phone lists. If the companies persist they can contact the postal service or telco (their service providers) that people are harassing them.
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Supermicro cases and motherboards, while very expensive in comparision to others at times, have proven very good. While not covered on gaming sites much do to their lack of support for overclocking and being geared towards server equipment, they are great products.
They have proven to be expandable beyond all dreams of mine. I personally am using a Supermicro P6DGU mobo, which has SCSI onboard, a raidport expansion, dual processor support up to dual gigs, 2 gb memory support, and all the PCI expansion that I need.
I am also using a Supermicro 760A case, which has proven to be great (although quite heavy for gaming and lans). The weight, while it may seem like a problem, is really a benefit. I have many other cases of simalar sizes (all of which get comments when people see my computer for the first time, esp if they have a half foot tall Dell), and this has the strongest metal as well as the best construction. My case has only a 300watt power supply, but it has room for more, with modification of course. I sit my UPS on top (which is a beast), and it don't flinch. Its a great system.
My only notes about their stuff, would be that it isn't made for your average user. They don't have an forums on their site, or anything like that. They don't have USB ports on the front (although its a simple mod, and just use a USB hub). My board doesn't have 4x AGP, Firewire, or 64-bit PCI slots. Although many of their boards today have most of those. Anyway, where else are you gonna pick up a doublewide case, with 8 Xeon processors and 8 gb of ram? Well, that's not my system, but its great.
I am currently trying to 'make' a rackmount case for an extra server for Csound (www.csounds.com) and a few other things. Also with supermicro you can get rack cases of all sizes.
I guess I am one of the lucky ones for OSC stuff, I live in Greensboro, where he does. He stops by the B+N and Borders here quite often. I have a few books signed.
Grr,, log on didn't work!!!
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If Microsoft and Gates created something that could be a potential threat to the USA and its safety shouldn't they be arrested/charged with treason or at least something as bad as what they have charged the DeCss writers with?
The Man:"So your saying that your software problems could the be probable cause of the downing of an airplane by terrorists?"
MSFT:" Well yea, the code sucks so much that it could do that?"
The Man: " Just like a Bomb could bring down a plane?"
MSFT: "Well sure"
The Man: So you are saying that you have made something that could potentially harm the amercian public by terrorisim?
MSFT: Yep
The Man: Ok boys, (signals to men in black suits), Mr Gates, you have the right to remain silent, anything that you say will be misquoted...
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Either that, or could the 'debug' or 'edit' utility be seen as devices for digital circumvention? Any MSFT products? What about the 'copy' command? hmm... interesting... it seems to be made to copy things. Billions of Mp3s have been copied freely using the 'copy' command, think of all those DOS programs that were copied using only that...
Well at least the copy command wasn't spyware.. and with no popups!!!
If they dev'd it in QT or something couldn't you run it on OsX anyway? You can boot into XFree86 can't you? It should work fine, i think that the mac and the linux toolkits would happen at the same time?
Case mods can get a little immature. I am all for being able to put the most air through my computer, and OC it alot, but really- isn't it just easier sometimes to just buy something a little faster? No that isn't the creative way, but the lights and all just get to me after a while. At first they are cool, but then I think that you should really be working on keeping you box(es) running fast in the first place. Think about expandabilty and useablity of lights and stickers. Now some case mods (like switchable fans) are acutally useable.
I would like to know what./ers in general think about case mods.. Do you have any? Are for for/against them? Think they are a waste of time? Good use of creativty?
well, now if you need 32mb video memory for an OS that will only be the only developer supported OS... doesn't that put most of the iMacs (not the new flat screen one silly) out in the cold? Also, last time I checked, most of these laptops didn't have a 32mb video card.
You know, while they flaunt the *nix core to the OS, they sure do know how to make it run slow in compairsion to other *nixes, as well as compatable with so little, but then again KDE with Performance Liquid theme running is slow too!!
Protools is still being developed for OS 9 and I don't think that they have even started the move to X, hell on the windows side for LE you can't even run 2k, let alone XP! (www.digidesign.com)
What about this iChat? AOL is blocking all these 3rd party clients? Is there going to be a problem with this one too?
Just me, or wouldn't just about everyone rather have a GNU license than that of a Microsoft product? The Microsoft ones make you sell your soul, the GNU is very reasonable and although i am not a lawyer, i understand the GNU for the most part.
Why in the world don't companies make DVD's non-regioned? Isn't region 0 a universal region? I would think that if you buy the DVD, that you have bought a license to watch the DVD anywhere, not just if you bought a DVD player from Japan on EBay!
Perhaps it is just to keep the prices up (so trading DVDs worldwide wouldn't happen as much). I know u can get around this, but its a pain in the ass to have to do.
Asides the fact that it is OT, Linux is GNU based, and you could have downloaded or burned a copy from someone else. IF you have that many problems with the distro, try another one. The Corel Linux is by no means the best, or only one, not to say that it doesn't have its strong points, but it just isn't all there is.
Ah, i know that thinkgeek won't like this, but I personally am thinking of trying a cycle as such, but i am going to cut caffiene from my diet (as well as probably eating more healthly foods)
Tibbon
Does this mean that those of us whose art leans us towards excentrictity should try this out?:) Just joking. I am thinking of trying an altered sleep cycle, and I am a musician (among other things). I am hoping that it will benefit my arts, instead of negatively affecting them. I plan as well to document and chart my sleep habits (time to write a CGI prog to input my sleep, and eating habits and chart them).
I am really sick of advertising that smacks me in the face, esp when I don't want it. Sometimes, i don't mind advertising. I expect TV commercials. When I read through Linux and programming mags i expect to see ads for things that I probably want. This type of advertising is good, but 1000 popups or IM's that say "Have you ever seen a girl with an animal" accompanied with a link, make me sick.
Tibbon
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I am assuming you read some of the stuff above in the books. Which books have the Skywalker children?
Perhaps this can be a fighting point for us against the carnavore. This proves that they are collecting the wrong stuff. I would have liked for them to find Bin Laden, and the FBI can go through my Akai mailing list and Spam that I recieve if that will catch him, because I don't really do anything personal that isn't encrypted heavily.
I wonder if this will be the evidence that they need to make them stop using it.
Do you know any details as to how it was darker?
How many movies really do well in a series anyway? Look at terrible movies like Jason and other scary movies. Yea, they suck bigtime. Scream?
Face it, most movies can't make the second one decent. Jurassic Park 2 sucked in compairsion to the first in the box office. For Star Wars to be on number 5, that's an acomplishment.
LoTR will have a hard time, even though I love it, because it does have so much in it to pack in. Star Wars doesn't have to fit in tomes of masterfully crafted work, sure there are alot of books, but the movies deteremine the books, not the other way around for Star Wars.
Isn't there normally a clause that says something like: We are not responsible for content of the sites that we host. In addition we do not allow pornographic material to be posted to our site.
Why is Microsoft responsible? I am not a MSFT lover, but blame who is to blame. Who doctored the photos? Who posted them? Isn't that defaming her image? That's illegal right? So why is Microsoft the one in jeopardy over this?
I know that the posting of "we aren't responsible for stuff on our site posted by users" doesn't always fly legally, but don't they have a responsiblity to know who their users are?
Does anyone think that for a company as big as Microsoft that to trace down a person, well having IP logs of where the person came from, because they posted to their web server.. (Or does IIS log anything..). With a court order shouldn't they be able to trace that ever through 'anonmyous' proxies? Come on MSFT, use that technology and find that sicko.
I think Adobe wants to talk to him as well, because he's probably running a pirated copy of Photoshop on his computer.
What really sucks, is that fact that popups and banners, etc take up alot of bandwidth. In fact I bet that it takes up about 50% of the average users web surfing bandwidth, (websurfing doesn't count Kazaa usage).
Since this is probably true, doesn't it suck that not only are the companies with popups exploiting you, but you are paying for their banners, with your bandwidth.
I wouldn't be suprized if people don't (I think they should) start demanding that the ISPs in some way give you an option to block popup, give you software to do so, or give you the option to block traffic from those sources, turning your cable modem into a router that can block things. People demand that companies take you off their mailing lists, or phone lists. If the companies persist they can contact the postal service or telco (their service providers) that people are harassing them.
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Insert your thoughts here--
Supermicro cases and motherboards, while very expensive in comparision to others at times, have proven very good. While not covered on gaming sites much do to their lack of support for overclocking and being geared towards server equipment, they are great products.
They have proven to be expandable beyond all dreams of mine. I personally am using a Supermicro P6DGU mobo, which has SCSI onboard, a raidport expansion, dual processor support up to dual gigs, 2 gb memory support, and all the PCI expansion that I need.
I am also using a Supermicro 760A case, which has proven to be great (although quite heavy for gaming and lans). The weight, while it may seem like a problem, is really a benefit. I have many other cases of simalar sizes (all of which get comments when people see my computer for the first time, esp if they have a half foot tall Dell), and this has the strongest metal as well as the best construction. My case has only a 300watt power supply, but it has room for more, with modification of course. I sit my UPS on top (which is a beast), and it don't flinch. Its a great system.
My only notes about their stuff, would be that it isn't made for your average user. They don't have an forums on their site, or anything like that. They don't have USB ports on the front (although its a simple mod, and just use a USB hub). My board doesn't have 4x AGP, Firewire, or 64-bit PCI slots. Although many of their boards today have most of those. Anyway, where else are you gonna pick up a doublewide case, with 8 Xeon processors and 8 gb of ram? Well, that's not my system, but its great.
I am currently trying to 'make' a rackmount case for an extra server for Csound (www.csounds.com) and a few other things. Also with supermicro you can get rack cases of all sizes.
I guess I am one of the lucky ones for OSC stuff, I live in Greensboro, where he does. He stops by the B+N and Borders here quite often. I have a few books signed.
Even if they did release the source... are they making them release the comments to the code? Betcha its TOTALLY unreadable..
Is outlook responsible for information loss and viruses? Spreading of viruses? Making a product that will perpetuate them?
Sorry about the sloppy formatting on the previous post
I posted the original, but the login didn't work for some reason. Then i forgot that the formatting is in html
Grr,, log on didn't work!!! ---------------- If Microsoft and Gates created something that could be a potential threat to the USA and its safety shouldn't they be arrested/charged with treason or at least something as bad as what they have charged the DeCss writers with? The Man:"So your saying that your software problems could the be probable cause of the downing of an airplane by terrorists?" MSFT:" Well yea, the code sucks so much that it could do that?" The Man: " Just like a Bomb could bring down a plane?" MSFT: "Well sure" The Man: So you are saying that you have made something that could potentially harm the amercian public by terrorisim? MSFT: Yep The Man: Ok boys, (signals to men in black suits), Mr Gates, you have the right to remain silent, anything that you say will be misquoted... ----------- Either that, or could the 'debug' or 'edit' utility be seen as devices for digital circumvention? Any MSFT products? What about the 'copy' command? hmm... interesting... it seems to be made to copy things. Billions of Mp3s have been copied freely using the 'copy' command, think of all those DOS programs that were copied using only that... Well at least the copy command wasn't spyware.. and with no popups!!!
If they dev'd it in QT or something couldn't you run it on OsX anyway? You can boot into XFree86 can't you? It should work fine, i think that the mac and the linux toolkits would happen at the same time?
Case mods can get a little immature. I am all for being able to put the most air through my computer, and OC it alot, but really- isn't it just easier sometimes to just buy something a little faster? No that isn't the creative way, but the lights and all just get to me after a while. At first they are cool, but then I think that you should really be working on keeping you box(es) running fast in the first place. Think about expandabilty and useablity of lights and stickers. Now some case mods (like switchable fans) are acutally useable.
./ers in general think about case mods.. Do you have any? Are for for/against them? Think they are a waste of time? Good use of creativty?
I would like to know what
well, now if you need 32mb video memory for an OS that will only be the only developer supported OS... doesn't that put most of the iMacs (not the new flat screen one silly) out in the cold? Also, last time I checked, most of these laptops didn't have a 32mb video card.
You know, while they flaunt the *nix core to the OS, they sure do know how to make it run slow in compairsion to other *nixes, as well as compatable with so little, but then again KDE with Performance Liquid theme running is slow too!!
Protools is still being developed for OS 9 and I don't think that they have even started the move to X, hell on the windows side for LE you can't even run 2k, let alone XP! (www.digidesign.com)
What about this iChat? AOL is blocking all these 3rd party clients? Is there going to be a problem with this one too?
Just me, or wouldn't just about everyone rather have a GNU license than that of a Microsoft product? The Microsoft ones make you sell your soul, the GNU is very reasonable and although i am not a lawyer, i understand the GNU for the most part.
Perhaps now i won't need a farm just for a 3d studio max workstation!!!
I don't think that you can phase out RF for some reason, like you can sound, that might be some idea to try, cancel out the waves in total!.
Tibbon
Why in the world don't companies make DVD's non-regioned? Isn't region 0 a universal region? I would think that if you buy the DVD, that you have bought a license to watch the DVD anywhere, not just if you bought a DVD player from Japan on EBay!
Perhaps it is just to keep the prices up (so trading DVDs worldwide wouldn't happen as much). I know u can get around this, but its a pain in the ass to have to do.
Tibbon
Owning 42 would be the answer to everything. However, what's the question now you must figure out! Tibbon
Asides the fact that it is OT, Linux is GNU based, and you could have downloaded or burned a copy from someone else. IF you have that many problems with the distro, try another one. The Corel Linux is by no means the best, or only one, not to say that it doesn't have its strong points, but it just isn't all there is.
:)
Please mod his thread down!
Tibbon
Ah, i know that thinkgeek won't like this, but I personally am thinking of trying a cycle as such, but i am going to cut caffiene from my diet (as well as probably eating more healthly foods) Tibbon
Does this mean that those of us whose art leans us towards excentrictity should try this out? :) Just joking. I am thinking of trying an altered sleep cycle, and I am a musician (among other things). I am hoping that it will benefit my arts, instead of negatively affecting them. I plan as well to document and chart my sleep habits (time to write a CGI prog to input my sleep, and eating habits and chart them).
Tibbon
I am really sick of advertising that smacks me in the face, esp when I don't want it. Sometimes, i don't mind advertising. I expect TV commercials. When I read through Linux and programming mags i expect to see ads for things that I probably want. This type of advertising is good, but 1000 popups or IM's that say "Have you ever seen a girl with an animal" accompanied with a link, make me sick. Tibbon