Well in this case I suppose the "corrupt jackasses" are leechers who use tons of bandwidth. In that case, why not just impose a cap of 10KB/s or so? That's plenty for checking email, webpages, or a ssh session.
Excellent point about manuals. If you're going to make a game that _needs_ some sort of reference, put it in game, or at least stick it in a PDF on the CD.
It's really too bad about MOO3, because I absolutely loved MOO and MOO2. The interface was just awful and unusable.
They're only not bothering to strip email addresses contained within the submitted comments themselves. As long as you didn't sign your comment or anything, it should be more or less anonymous.
Exactly. That's why if you want me to buy music online, you had better be distributing it in a lossless format (FLAC, SHN, APE, whatever...I don't care as long as I can get the original WAV).
What's your point? It's not like much of what iTunes has is exclusive. It's all distributed on P2P anyway, it's just a pain to get that way. I don't see this as having any real consequence besides allowing users to play the files how they want without re-encoding it in another lossy format.
Uh, right. "make bzImage" actually takes a couple minutes on any decently fast computer. You don't need to rebuild all the modules, and even that will take much less than an hour unless you're running ancient hardware.
Nah, it's from the movie called "Help!", by the Beatles:)
There was this professor trying to remove a ring from Ringo's hand, who seemed quite obsessed with ruling the world...very amusing;-)
This is really only true in the USA. Things (ie: sexual attitudes) are quite different in most of western Europe, at least, and surprise, they tend to have fewer problems with teenage pregnancy and such.
It's sad that Gateway support went from amazingly good in the early-mid 90s (personal anecdote: they upgraded me from 486/33 to 486/50 for free when they were out of stock, came with complete manuals, etc) to their current position, which seems to be the absolute worst in the industry. I know of at least one large company who used to deal with them almost exclusively, and now won't touch them at all.
I don't know which problems you're referring to, but the biggest problems I've had with Mandrake and SuSE is upgrading packages. I just can't seem to properly upgrade GTK+ on either distro. That's why I went and made my own distro based on LFS. It works so much better.
What criteria do you use? It's more or less impossible to get every P2P app, especially if they decided to use, say, HTTP PUT operations or FTP to do their transfers. I would hope you're not capping FTP downloads at 16KB/s. Of course, you could cap uploads, but then you run into a whole new problem of false positives.
It's an interesting problem, with no easy solution. Broadband ISPs could start using firewalls that block all incoming TCP SYN packets, but that's going to piss off a lot of people, and then what about UDP...? Whatever you do, there are going to be clever programmers working to get around it.
and if you dig into the ones that aren't, like the infamous McDonald's coffee case, you find the facts aren't as cut-and-dried as you think
Thank you. It seems that almost everyone is misinformed about this case. The woman involved got third-degree burns. If that isn't too hot, I don't know what is.
...is an extremely stupid idea. You're punishing the people who win cases. What the fuck? Why not simply make the loser of any civil case pay for all legal fees? Simple, logical, fair.
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Well in this case I suppose the "corrupt jackasses" are leechers who use tons of bandwidth. In that case, why not just impose a cap of 10KB/s or so? That's plenty for checking email, webpages, or a ssh session.
The linked article is very light on details of what exactly he was actually doing.
Excellent point about manuals. If you're going to make a game that _needs_ some sort of reference, put it in game, or at least stick it in a PDF on the CD. It's really too bad about MOO3, because I absolutely loved MOO and MOO2. The interface was just awful and unusable.
Yes, but C/C++ is largely English in terms of character set and keywords used.
They're only not bothering to strip email addresses contained within the submitted comments themselves. As long as you didn't sign your comment or anything, it should be more or less anonymous.
Good point. Not many people buy CD-ROM drives these days when you can get a DVD-ROM for a few bucks more.
Life on Earth would have already been taken out by the Sun's death throes. Carl Sagan had a great explanation of this in COSMOS.
He's making fun of the fact that the original poster misspelled Cretaceous like crustaceous...
It's not about security at all. It's about saying "fuck you" to the US government.
No.
Exactly. That's why if you want me to buy music online, you had better be distributing it in a lossless format (FLAC, SHN, APE, whatever...I don't care as long as I can get the original WAV).
What's your point? It's not like much of what iTunes has is exclusive. It's all distributed on P2P anyway, it's just a pain to get that way. I don't see this as having any real consequence besides allowing users to play the files how they want without re-encoding it in another lossy format.
That would have been funny five years ago.
Uh, right. "make bzImage" actually takes a couple minutes on any decently fast computer. You don't need to rebuild all the modules, and even that will take much less than an hour unless you're running ancient hardware.
3) You could access the network without a password.
Nah, it's from the movie called "Help!", by the Beatles :)
There was this professor trying to remove a ring from Ringo's hand, who seemed quite obsessed with ruling the world...very amusing ;-)
You don't need the entire monolithic 700MB Knoppix CD for those few utils. You could get by with a CD that loads a ramdisk of a few megs.
Yes, one has a pretty interface and crashes more often.
This is really only true in the USA. Things (ie: sexual attitudes) are quite different in most of western Europe, at least, and surprise, they tend to have fewer problems with teenage pregnancy and such.
Yeah, looks like a more or less generic X server, or perhaps Sun's CDE.
It's sad that Gateway support went from amazingly good in the early-mid 90s (personal anecdote: they upgraded me from 486/33 to 486/50 for free when they were out of stock, came with complete manuals, etc) to their current position, which seems to be the absolute worst in the industry. I know of at least one large company who used to deal with them almost exclusively, and now won't touch them at all.
I don't know which problems you're referring to, but the biggest problems I've had with Mandrake and SuSE is upgrading packages. I just can't seem to properly upgrade GTK+ on either distro. That's why I went and made my own distro based on LFS. It works so much better.
It's an interesting problem, with no easy solution. Broadband ISPs could start using firewalls that block all incoming TCP SYN packets, but that's going to piss off a lot of people, and then what about UDP...? Whatever you do, there are going to be clever programmers working to get around it.
and if you dig into the ones that aren't, like the infamous McDonald's coffee case, you find the facts aren't as cut-and-dried as you think
Thank you. It seems that almost everyone is misinformed about this case. The woman involved got third-degree burns. If that isn't too hot, I don't know what is.
...is an extremely stupid idea. You're punishing the people who win cases. What the fuck? Why not simply make the loser of any civil case pay for all legal fees? Simple, logical, fair.