Those contain child-inappropriate material, to be sure (although I couldn't get the first link to load), but if they don't charge money for access, there's less incentive for them to aggressively market. You're less likely to "stumble" upon them. Heck, if you google for goatse.cx, you don't even get goatse.cx on the first page! They also look like they might be harder to trace than someone who has to show up on a credit card bill.
I had a "semi-hentai" Sailor Moon site up and running when I was 17 (about 7 years ago). I actually think my ISP _didn't_ have a "no porn" clause at the time, or maybe they just didn't bother to do anything about it once I went over 1GB of traffic a month and they got to start charging me for bandwidth. Is that something I would've put in a.sex domain? Probably not. But if someone happened to stumble across it, what were they going to do? Say they didn't see the warning page? And what were they going to do? Sue me for my allowance? I didn't have a whole lot to lose.
The.sex domain seems like a good idea for legit porn businesses who don't want to randomly get sued and who have assets worth suing over. Not to mention the fact that, if most porn was taken off the other domains, it'd make anti-porn software a lot easier to write.
Actually, if you leave it connected long enough without accessing it, the hard disk in the iPod will spin down. (You may need to check the appropriate system preference.) I leave mine plugged in all the time, and every now and then I need to wait for it to spin up so I can access a file on it.
Apple does say (somewhere) that you should remove the iPod from any and all carrying cases when charging it, but so far I've ignored that too.
I actually used it as a scratch disk for downloading about 3GB the other day. The hard disk was probably spinning for a good 9 hours or so. For that, though, I did take it out of its case and let the metal part sit on a wooden chair to help dissipate the heat.
I, for one, would not pay for access if it were limited by either time or bandwidth (as in $.25/MB). Granted, I also don't like coffee, but hopefully the shop offers more than that? A tip jar wouldn't hurt, of course, especially if you let your customers know how much it costs you to provide this free service.
If you're worried about abuse, you could solve it this way:
Disallow access to the general public.
If someone wants to use your network, they must give you their MAC address and enough identifying information that you know who they are. (Name and address, perhaps.)
Keep something of a log, or at least tell people you're doing so, that tracks who's using it for what.
Ignore the log unless you get in trouble, either technical or legal.
I haven't had to try this myself, but there's supposed to be a checkbox in the AirPort Admin software that says, "Enable Equivalent Password", or something like that. Checking that should let PC users connect.
For starters, Linux is meant to be a fairly lean OS. That said, if you're experiencing this on both OS's (i.e., in Linux), you need more RAM. Period. If that is not an option, you need to do less at once. Or perhaps nothing.;)
I'm not sure how much you currently have, but I'd guess it's less than 256MB. (At least, I _hope_ so, considering my experience with OS X with 320 on a G3 iBook.*) Upping it to 384 or 512 should help.
Another way to increase your available memory-- and this is for OS X users-- is to upgrade your video card to something that has at least 32MB of VRAM. I got back 50 or 100MB of system RAM once I upgraded mine and OS X started using Quartz Extreme.
*If you're wondering, the only time my iBook thrashes is when I'm downloading 100,000 news headers in Thoth with other apps open.
... is that they're too busy playing WarCraft III.
No, seriously. There's a level 50 player on the Kalimdor (Asia) ladder. US ladders are at something like 35. Koreans are known Blizzard fanatics. I believe there's a paid WarCraft III tournament that's happening in Korea either soon or recently.
Actually, what I've noticed recently is that women prefer 2-D games (Fighting games, side scrollers, etc.) while men are more likely to play (and are often better at) 3-D games (FPS's, Mario 64, etc.).
I was talking to my sister yesterday, in fact, and she said she didn't like the whole 3-D thing. The other two gamer girls I know don't play many 3-D games, either.
While the Interplanety Spy series was good, the thing I didn't like about those books was that you usually got two options, one of which was "you die next page".
Well, that and the story where Quallium makes everything it touches Quallium except for one other substance, which struck me as an incredibly stupid idea.
If anyone can still find them, I'd recommend either the Time Machine series or the Super Choose Your Own Adventure. (I only have #1 of the supers; not sure if there are more.)
Oh, please. I probably have half a dozen games I've paid for and never bothered to install because I'm too busy playing WarCraft III, Quake, or tranquility.
Seriously, though. You could try that OSDN personals I'm seeing advertised on here or put an ad in your journal. I'm sure there are plenty of girl-hungry guys on slashdot.
I thought I read in a post that if you copy music to the iPod as a regualer hard drive, then the iPod won't play it. If that is the case, then it is pretty worthless IMO.
Okay, here's how it works. The iPod is one drive that works in two different ways. One way is an automatic sync up with iTunes (which you can also do yourself). The other is to use it as a detachable hard drive. The files iTunes puts on your iPod aren't visible when you view it as a hard drive. This makes sense, actually, as it keeps the two uses of it logically separate.
Now, to copy music back to a computer and be able to play it on your iPod, there are two ways to do it.
First, is the simple way. Copy the file to your iPod when it's acting as a hard drive. Copy it to the computer in question. Drop it into iTunes (or whatever) and let it copy back to the iPod.
Second, you can open up the iPod when it's acting as a hard drive, go into the invisible iPod_Control folder, then the Music folder. Next you'll have various folders to choose from. I have F00 - F19. You file will be in one of these folders. Why it spreads your music across 20 folders, I don't know. Maybe it's to try to prevent copying back (but that's a pretty weak scheme for doing so). Maybe it's because the iPod can find a song more easily using some sort of hash (but why not simply access by filename?). Doing it this way, however, you'll notice that all non-alphanumeric and non-period characters have been turned to underscores. I can only assume that's so they can use the same code on the Windows side, which doesn't allow nearly as many characters in filenames as the Mac does.
(It's interesting to note that each of the folders, F00 - F19, has files running A-Z. It doesn't split up based on first letter, at the very least.)
Okay, this is probably just a troll, since it says it isn't one, but it's a new troll to me. Anyway...
Is there support for OGG files?
Probably not. Yes, OGG is an open standard. Yay. That's nice. I don't feel like re-encoding 10GB of songs.
Can I use it between my home PC and my work PC both of which run Linux?
Hasn't someone released software to let your Linux-using PC's talk to the iPod? I think so.
Can I copy a new track to the iPod at home and then download from it to my work PC?
Yes, just use the iPod like a FireWire hard drive, which it is.
Will it play those files that I want to copy FROM IT to my other PC?
This is the same question you just asked. Are you expecting a different answer?
Oh, and if Apple thinks I am going to pay $100 for a portable player and then $50 for batteries, they are nuts.
What does the Neuros run on? Happy rays of sunshine? I couldn't tell from the site. Maybe it said it in the "demo", but I'm not downloading flash over dialup.
BTW, if you don't want DRM, don't download music from a music service. That's the only way you get it, and that's true for any service, not just the iTMS.
Also, if you get modded, you'll probably be modded flamebait. A troll has to actually look like he knows what he's talking about.
As I recall, MK was limited to 16-bit graphics and had characters spewing ice shards from their wrists. Manhunt sounds like it's aiming for photorealism and the sense that, "Hey, you could do this in real life, too."
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Those contain child-inappropriate material, to be sure (although I couldn't get the first link to load), but if they don't charge money for access, there's less incentive for them to aggressively market. You're less likely to "stumble" upon them. Heck, if you google for goatse.cx, you don't even get goatse.cx on the first page! They also look like they might be harder to trace than someone who has to show up on a credit card bill.
.sex domain? Probably not. But if someone happened to stumble across it, what were they going to do? Say they didn't see the warning page? And what were they going to do? Sue me for my allowance? I didn't have a whole lot to lose.
.sex domain seems like a good idea for legit porn businesses who don't want to randomly get sued and who have assets worth suing over. Not to mention the fact that, if most porn was taken off the other domains, it'd make anti-porn software a lot easier to write.
I had a "semi-hentai" Sailor Moon site up and running when I was 17 (about 7 years ago). I actually think my ISP _didn't_ have a "no porn" clause at the time, or maybe they just didn't bother to do anything about it once I went over 1GB of traffic a month and they got to start charging me for bandwidth. Is that something I would've put in a
The
Actually, if you leave it connected long enough without accessing it, the hard disk in the iPod will spin down. (You may need to check the appropriate system preference.) I leave mine plugged in all the time, and every now and then I need to wait for it to spin up so I can access a file on it.
Apple does say (somewhere) that you should remove the iPod from any and all carrying cases when charging it, but so far I've ignored that too.
I actually used it as a scratch disk for downloading about 3GB the other day. The hard disk was probably spinning for a good 9 hours or so. For that, though, I did take it out of its case and let the metal part sit on a wooden chair to help dissipate the heat.
What, no one else has pointed out that he misspelled Britney Spears? Come on, you don't have to like her to have seen her name in print.
See also: .Mac / iDisk.
I think removing porn from .com would be part of the plan.
.sex, um, the sites that require a credit card for access.
Making their sites easier to block is for the benefit of, as always, the children.
Yes, kids will find porn. Older ones. Older than, say, 13. It's the 6-year-olds that people really worry about.
As for what I would put in
I don't know about you, but I'd like to be able to send e-mail from an access point.
I, for one, would not pay for access if it were limited by either time or bandwidth (as in $.25/MB). Granted, I also don't like coffee, but hopefully the shop offers more than that? A tip jar wouldn't hurt, of course, especially if you let your customers know how much it costs you to provide this free service.
If you're worried about abuse, you could solve it this way:
I haven't had to try this myself, but there's supposed to be a checkbox in the AirPort Admin software that says, "Enable Equivalent Password", or something like that. Checking that should let PC users connect.
Or so I've heard.
For starters, Linux is meant to be a fairly lean OS. That said, if you're experiencing this on both OS's (i.e., in Linux), you need more RAM. Period. If that is not an option, you need to do less at once. Or perhaps nothing. ;)
I'm not sure how much you currently have, but I'd guess it's less than 256MB. (At least, I _hope_ so, considering my experience with OS X with 320 on a G3 iBook.*) Upping it to 384 or 512 should help.
Another way to increase your available memory-- and this is for OS X users-- is to upgrade your video card to something that has at least 32MB of VRAM. I got back 50 or 100MB of system RAM once I upgraded mine and OS X started using Quartz Extreme.
*If you're wondering, the only time my iBook thrashes is when I'm downloading 100,000 news headers in Thoth with other apps open.
... is that they're too busy playing WarCraft III.
No, seriously. There's a level 50 player on the Kalimdor (Asia) ladder. US ladders are at something like 35. Koreans are known Blizzard fanatics. I believe there's a paid WarCraft III tournament that's happening in Korea either soon or recently.
Hmmm.... that still sounds like a troll. Oh well.
Will a color wheel do?
For the curious, here's the source.
That was my first thought, but the license (referenced by the previous article) appears to only apply to solid state media, not hard drives.
Actually, what I've noticed recently is that women prefer 2-D games (Fighting games, side scrollers, etc.) while men are more likely to play (and are often better at) 3-D games (FPS's, Mario 64, etc.).
I was talking to my sister yesterday, in fact, and she said she didn't like the whole 3-D thing. The other two gamer girls I know don't play many 3-D games, either.
While the Interplanety Spy series was good, the thing I didn't like about those books was that you usually got two options, one of which was "you die next page".
Well, that and the story where Quallium makes everything it touches Quallium except for one other substance, which struck me as an incredibly stupid idea.
If anyone can still find them, I'd recommend either the Time Machine series or the Super Choose Your Own Adventure. (I only have #1 of the supers; not sure if there are more.)
Oh, please. I probably have half a dozen games I've paid for and never bothered to install because I'm too busy playing WarCraft III, Quake, or tranquility.
I was hoping to get a boyfriend this year but I suppose that'll have to wait. For some reason I never seem to have the time...
:-p
How can you expect a boyfriend when you have no friends?
Seriously, though. You could try that OSDN personals I'm seeing advertised on here or put an ad in your journal. I'm sure there are plenty of girl-hungry guys on slashdot.
i've have litterally seen high-school chicks use the back of their fucking iPod as a make-up mirror.
:)
lol
That rules.
Oh, forgot to reply to this:
I thought I read in a post that if you copy music to the iPod as a regualer hard drive, then the iPod won't play it. If that is the case, then it is pretty worthless IMO.
Okay, here's how it works. The iPod is one drive that works in two different ways. One way is an automatic sync up with iTunes (which you can also do yourself). The other is to use it as a detachable hard drive. The files iTunes puts on your iPod aren't visible when you view it as a hard drive. This makes sense, actually, as it keeps the two uses of it logically separate.
Now, to copy music back to a computer and be able to play it on your iPod, there are two ways to do it.
First, is the simple way. Copy the file to your iPod when it's acting as a hard drive. Copy it to the computer in question. Drop it into iTunes (or whatever) and let it copy back to the iPod.
Second, you can open up the iPod when it's acting as a hard drive, go into the invisible iPod_Control folder, then the Music folder. Next you'll have various folders to choose from. I have F00 - F19. You file will be in one of these folders. Why it spreads your music across 20 folders, I don't know. Maybe it's to try to prevent copying back (but that's a pretty weak scheme for doing so). Maybe it's because the iPod can find a song more easily using some sort of hash (but why not simply access by filename?). Doing it this way, however, you'll notice that all non-alphanumeric and non-period characters have been turned to underscores. I can only assume that's so they can use the same code on the Windows side, which doesn't allow nearly as many characters in filenames as the Mac does.
(It's interesting to note that each of the folders, F00 - F19, has files running A-Z. It doesn't split up based on first letter, at the very least.)
They suck because they scratch too easily? Come on, you can do better than that. :-P BTW, get a case.
That's not how you spell cavalier, dumbass. (Or their, for that matter.) If you're going to troll, at least learn to spell first.
Oh, and no entry found for fagotry. Did you mean factory?
Okay, this is probably just a troll, since it says it isn't one, but it's a new troll to me. Anyway...
Is there support for OGG files?
Probably not. Yes, OGG is an open standard. Yay. That's nice. I don't feel like re-encoding 10GB of songs.
Can I use it between my home PC and my work PC both of which run Linux?
Hasn't someone released software to let your Linux-using PC's talk to the iPod? I think so.
Can I copy a new track to the iPod at home and then download from it to my work PC?
Yes, just use the iPod like a FireWire hard drive, which it is.
Will it play those files that I want to copy FROM IT to my other PC?
This is the same question you just asked. Are you expecting a different answer?
Oh, and if Apple thinks I am going to pay $100 for a portable player and then $50 for batteries, they are nuts.
What does the Neuros run on? Happy rays of sunshine? I couldn't tell from the site. Maybe it said it in the "demo", but I'm not downloading flash over dialup.
BTW, if you don't want DRM, don't download music from a music service. That's the only way you get it, and that's true for any service, not just the iTMS.
Also, if you get modded, you'll probably be modded flamebait. A troll has to actually look like he knows what he's talking about.
As I recall, MK was limited to 16-bit graphics and had characters spewing ice shards from their wrists. Manhunt sounds like it's aiming for photorealism and the sense that, "Hey, you could do this in real life, too."
What if that art involves action?
As a side note, that whole "whispering in the ear" deal sounds eerily like brainwashing.
I can't take a language seriously that doesn't have a switch statement. Or better yet, a reverse switch statement.
<?php foreach ( array(78,111,119,32,72,105,114,105,110,103) as $i) { print chr($i); } ?>
Looks good, but... no Mac client.