Bandwidth ain't free, it probably costs more to keep a server up that services a million clients a day than it would be to press the disks. The store owners shoulder all the operating costs of the stores and delivery costs for the CDs.
Advertising/promotion costs and payola are the same either way.
I have the same unit, I found a firmware update that supposedly fixes some stuff, as well as making it region free. You burn it onto an ISO9660 disc and 'play ' it. I believe I found it on doom9.net.
I never tried it, so I cant speak for its effectiveness. The glitches I've seen never really bothered me, they amount more to just a clumsy interface and a crappy remote than anything else, but it's never crashed though. Perhaps I have a newer firmware? It might be worth a shot for you to look into it though.
Maintaining an authentication list gets unweildly, if not impossible, when you start having thousands of machines that could possibly access the list. Besides, MACs can be sniffed and spoofed by someone who really wants in.
I've been up and down this road, since I design records systems for police. They dont have/cant afford a real CDPD or similar wireless infrastructure, yet they want mobile reporting capabilities in the cars. So the solution is a few conveniently placed drive-up 802.11 APs.
You'd be surprised how little your local police department cares about security. They get really annoyed when I start in about how easy it would be for any joker with a laptop to start messing with their data the way they want it set up. Hell, anyone who knows the DELETE keyword in SQL could clear their warrants and outstanding citations.
The last thing they want to do is maintain anything. The only solution I could get them to accept is the DMZ/VPN one. There's no route to the real network save through that tunnel, which is locked down tighter than any 128bit WEP joke of an encryption.
It'd be fun though. I could swear out warrants for people I dont like, complete with authorization to use force because they are known to be armed cop killers and high on PCP. And noone could ever trace it.
MAC Authentication is virtually useless, though, in a large orginization. Imagine Fred in marketing gets a new laptop, or new PCMCIA card, and has to spend 3 weeks twiddling his thumbs while some giant confused IT department circlejerks around adding the MAC to the list.
Security is usually inconvenient, but it doesn't have to be too inconvenient. A wireless AP on a DMZ, with only the ability to VPN into the real network is a good solution.
Why do you think your APEX DVD changer was so cheap? Cheap components save maybe 20 bucks, but it's the lack of real QA that saves the big cheese.
I only assume it's an apex because I have an apex changer with the exact same problems, but for 120 bucks and the ability to play MP3, VCD, etc, I'm willing to accept it. For a 400 dollar Sony, I wouldnt, and most would return it to the store.
Using VC++.Net is just an upgrade from using VC++ 6, you don't have to use managed code if you dont want to.
So it's the exact same development process, with a slightly better compiler, in that it produces slightly faster code (better optimized for AthlonXP, iSSE2, etc).
Using.NET doesnt mean using the CLR or creating interpreted code or making everything XML..NET is also speak for Vis Studio 7, same as XP is speak for Windows v6.
Though frankly the CLR isn't as slow (on a windows box) as slashbots make it out to be. Maybe mono is, but run natively it's fast enough that I could see games being created for it. For most eye-candy intensive games, it's your video card choking while your CPU is only at 12% utilization.
Install slackware as a base system, binutils and gcc and the other 'required stuff'.
Recompile and reinstall your kernel, glibc, etc, etc..
You get all the benefits of LFS with less headaches.
Of course this is really only useful on an x86 box, but for those wanting a completely tweaked/unique linux box on their desktop, this is no doubt an easier route to take.
Just getting linux to boot from scratch is the time consuming part, customizing it from there on in is the fun stuff (IMO). So skip the gruntwork and get to the meat and potatoes.
There's a ton of Mac users who would pay 60 bucks to download each and every track, because they wouldn't want to be doing something as uncool and pedestrian as shopping at Best Buy.
It doesnt have to be a common address to be brute forced.
Spammers leave their bots running all day and all night, and they dont care if they get 7 billion bounced emails for 500,000 delivered. Especially when it comes to the big dog domains like msn.com, aol.com hotmail.com or comcast.net.
That's good. I dont want "black hole" lists at the ISP level.
I dont want providers arbitrarily deciding that some IP block can no longer send me e-mail.
Because then you wind up with some person/comittee with an agenda deciding that I can no longer get e-mail from, say, a group with an opposing point of view. If Bill Gates controlled the black hole list, maybe kernel.org shows up on it. If RMS controlled it, hotmail would show up on it.
It's a bad system, wide open to abuse. Punish the criminals, don't hinder the internet.
That doesn't disprove anything I said. It was programmable, sure, but it had no conditional or branching instructions. It could only execute code sequentially.
From your link:
The Z3 did not contain the conditional branch. The ENIAC or MARK I did not have the conditional branch, either
And like I said, some consider it the first computer because of this, some dont (nor do some consider ENIAC or MARK I fully programmable either).
So what are you saying, you want AOLTW and Comcast to be able to decide what websites you can access, just because you hate MS and Disney more?
They're corporations. Of course their motives are profit driven. That's a no-brainer. But, your right to view whatever web page you want includes the right to see disney.com and hotmail.com.
In this battle, they are on the right side. And unlike whiney petitions from angry geeks, they actually have some clout, and people will listen to them.
All in all, its a good thing. They could be signing a backroom deal with $BROADBAND_PROVIDER to carry their content exclusively, and block nuisance sites like slashdot.
Zuse's machines had no type of a branch instruction, they could only perform a sequence of calculations. Ie; no conditionals (ifs) or loops (for, while, etc).
A lot of comp. sci folks hold that it's not a computer until it can branch and do conditional logic. Zuse's work was impressive, especially considering they were built way cheap (they used like recycled tin from soupcans and whatnot - very MacGyver) but they were really more like an automated adding machine than a computer as we know it.
I have one of the ubiquitous antec/chieftec/whatever alienware clone cases. A vent filter for forced air registers fits perfectly in front of the intake fans (they sell em at home depot for like 3 bucks of a dozen). It's an ultra budget solution, but like I said, they fit perfectly, and you cant see it, and it works great.
The exhaust fans have been repinned to run at 5 volts, just to make sure that the air into the case comes through the front through the filter, rather than being sucked through other little gaps (like around the drives).
There's a *lot* of dust around since I've been remodelling the house. I replace the filter whenever it gets dirty, from once a week to once a month depending on what's going on.
I haven't seen a spec of dirt inside this case yet, whilst my 'unfiltered' older machines need a thorough cleaning every other month or so.
I just popped the side off to verify myself, and the HSF on the CPU is as clean as the day I took it out of the box six months ago.
I can also vouch for the steel filters for range hoods, they do well trapping smoke and dust, and you can run 'em through the wash when they get dirty.
You shouldnt be spending 500 bucks to keep dust out of a regular PC, it just seems excessive. You'd be better off to let it clog and die and spend the 500 on a fancy new PC - but that's just the way I think.
Judges can only interpret law, not ignore or rewrite them.
A judge is only to read the law and enforce it as written. The supreme court is no different, except in that the piece of law they interpret and enforce is the consitution. Confusion only arises when the case is outside of what is in law, then the judges duty is to rule in favor of the spirit of the law.
Of course, this is good, because judges arent elected. And the last thing you want is some appointed assclown deciding what the rules are.
If you dont like existing copyright laws, take it up with the legislature, that's their job.
I mean the purse is 10 million. It seems to me you'd have spent that many times over to develop a rocket ship. So I doubt the winner recoups his investment, let alone makes any profit.
So I assume it's more about bragging rights? And if so, why not donate the 10 million to charity, and just give out a fancy trophy?
A few favorite albums that I own, I own on vinyl, CD, and possibly even cassette.
So, capture the vinyl recording and burn it to a CD-R. What's that? You want 44.1khz 16 bit digital stereo sound? Then buy it.
When the next technology releases these same media with a better sounding and looking format, I'll buy it AGAIN.
And when color TV came out everyone had to buy a new set - they didnt get a free upgrade from black and white. And now everyone has to get HDTV if they want the improved resolution and stereo surround sound. So what?
You don't have to buy it again, unless you want the added value the new format offers.
There's no reason content producers should shoulder the cost of keeping your nerd-gear up to date.
They arent tracking what the users did, they already know the IPs that were committing the offenses (for the sake of argument lets just assume an offense was comitted).
The only key Verizon holds is who the person that the particular IP has been assigned to.
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Bandwidth ain't free, it probably costs more to keep a server up that services a million clients a day than it would be to press the disks. The store owners shoulder all the operating costs of the stores and delivery costs for the CDs.
Advertising/promotion costs and payola are the same either way.
I have the same unit, I found a firmware update that supposedly fixes some stuff, as well as making it region free. You burn it onto an ISO9660 disc and 'play ' it. I believe I found it on doom9.net.
I never tried it, so I cant speak for its effectiveness. The glitches I've seen never really bothered me, they amount more to just a clumsy interface and a crappy remote than anything else, but it's never crashed though. Perhaps I have a newer firmware? It might be worth a shot for you to look into it though.
Maintaining an authentication list gets unweildly, if not impossible, when you start having thousands of machines that could possibly access the list. Besides, MACs can be sniffed and spoofed by someone who really wants in.
I've been up and down this road, since I design records systems for police. They dont have/cant afford a real CDPD or similar wireless infrastructure, yet they want mobile reporting capabilities in the cars. So the solution is a few conveniently placed drive-up 802.11 APs.
You'd be surprised how little your local police department cares about security. They get really annoyed when I start in about how easy it would be for any joker with a laptop to start messing with their data the way they want it set up. Hell, anyone who knows the DELETE keyword in SQL could clear their warrants and outstanding citations.
The last thing they want to do is maintain anything. The only solution I could get them to accept is the DMZ/VPN one. There's no route to the real network save through that tunnel, which is locked down tighter than any 128bit WEP joke of an encryption.
It'd be fun though. I could swear out warrants for people I dont like, complete with authorization to use force because they are known to be armed cop killers and high on PCP. And noone could ever trace it.
MAC Authentication is virtually useless, though, in a large orginization. Imagine Fred in marketing gets a new laptop, or new PCMCIA card, and has to spend 3 weeks twiddling his thumbs while some giant confused IT department circlejerks around adding the MAC to the list.
Security is usually inconvenient, but it doesn't have to be too inconvenient. A wireless AP on a DMZ, with only the ability to VPN into the real network is a good solution.
You get what you pay for.
Why do you think your APEX DVD changer was so cheap? Cheap components save maybe 20 bucks, but it's the lack of real QA that saves the big cheese.
I only assume it's an apex because I have an apex changer with the exact same problems, but for 120 bucks and the ability to play MP3, VCD, etc, I'm willing to accept it. For a 400 dollar Sony, I wouldnt, and most would return it to the store.
The law in most places doesn't care, it was your network, it was your responsibility.
Using VC++ .Net is just an upgrade from using VC++ 6, you don't have to use managed code if you dont want to.
.NET doesnt mean using the CLR or creating interpreted code or making everything XML. .NET is also speak for Vis Studio 7, same as XP is speak for Windows v6.
So it's the exact same development process, with a slightly better compiler, in that it produces slightly faster code (better optimized for AthlonXP, iSSE2, etc).
Using
Though frankly the CLR isn't as slow (on a windows box) as slashbots make it out to be. Maybe mono is, but run natively it's fast enough that I could see games being created for it. For most eye-candy intensive games, it's your video card choking while your CPU is only at 12% utilization.
Will games be written with .NET?
.NET?
.NET than are written for Linux?
Yes
Will all games be written with
No
Will games be written with SDL and OpenGL?
Yes
Will all games be written with SDL and OpenGL?
No
Will more games be written with
Yes
Will it really be any different from the way it is now?
No
Was this article posted just to give zealots a chance to yammer about MS world conquest and other conspiracy theories?
Yes
Install slackware as a base system, binutils and gcc and the other 'required stuff'.
Recompile and reinstall your kernel, glibc, etc, etc..
You get all the benefits of LFS with less headaches.
Of course this is really only useful on an x86 box, but for those wanting a completely tweaked/unique linux box on their desktop, this is no doubt an easier route to take.
Just getting linux to boot from scratch is the time consuming part, customizing it from there on in is the fun stuff (IMO). So skip the gruntwork and get to the meat and potatoes.
All in all it seems better to just get the phones that are cat5-ed to your laptop/BB connection.
But then you gotta walk around the office with your laptop in tow, maybe in a backpack, looking like a radio operator circa WWII.
I share your apathy. This is just same-old, same-old except with the new buzzword WiFi attached.
That's not what I said.
There's a ton of Mac users who would pay 60 bucks to download each and every track, because they wouldn't want to be doing something as uncool and pedestrian as shopping at Best Buy.
>> why has the music industry been such a grinch about it?
Because, as the saying goes, if you give an inch they'll take a mile.
Every big server on kazaa will just claim they have 100,000 friends a month.
Common sense is sorely lacking on both sides of the fence.
At a buck a song, I have a 'Ramones greatest hits' that'd cost about 60 bucks for the lesser-quality Apple version.
Mac fanatics seem to really like spending money, so they'll lap this shit up. They're the kind of customers most corporations would kill for.
Unlike many CEOs, he'll give a plain-talk answer to a straight question.
Who wants to take bets that he'll give self-affirming, buzzword-laden, market-speak answers?
Don't be so sure.
It doesnt have to be a common address to be brute forced.
Spammers leave their bots running all day and all night, and they dont care if they get 7 billion bounced emails for 500,000 delivered. Especially when it comes to the big dog domains like msn.com, aol.com hotmail.com or comcast.net.
That's good. I dont want "black hole" lists at the ISP level.
I dont want providers arbitrarily deciding that some IP block can no longer send me e-mail.
Because then you wind up with some person/comittee with an agenda deciding that I can no longer get e-mail from, say, a group with an opposing point of view. If Bill Gates controlled the black hole list, maybe kernel.org shows up on it. If RMS controlled it, hotmail would show up on it.
It's a bad system, wide open to abuse. Punish the criminals, don't hinder the internet.
That doesn't disprove anything I said. It was programmable, sure, but it had no conditional or branching instructions. It could only execute code sequentially.
From your link:
The Z3 did not contain the conditional branch. The ENIAC or MARK I did not have the conditional branch, either
And like I said, some consider it the first computer because of this, some dont (nor do some consider ENIAC or MARK I fully programmable either).
It could do math, but it couldnt make decisions.
So what are you saying, you want AOLTW and Comcast to be able to decide what websites you can access, just because you hate MS and Disney more?
They're corporations. Of course their motives are profit driven. That's a no-brainer. But, your right to view whatever web page you want includes the right to see disney.com and hotmail.com.
In this battle, they are on the right side. And unlike whiney petitions from angry geeks, they actually have some clout, and people will listen to them.
All in all, its a good thing. They could be signing a backroom deal with $BROADBAND_PROVIDER to carry their content exclusively, and block nuisance sites like slashdot.
Zuse's machines had no type of a branch instruction, they could only perform a sequence of calculations. Ie; no conditionals (ifs) or loops (for, while, etc).
A lot of comp. sci folks hold that it's not a computer until it can branch and do conditional logic. Zuse's work was impressive, especially considering they were built way cheap (they used like recycled tin from soupcans and whatnot - very MacGyver) but they were really more like an automated adding machine than a computer as we know it.
At least that's what I was taught about it.
I have one of the ubiquitous antec/chieftec/whatever alienware clone cases. A vent filter for forced air registers fits perfectly in front of the intake fans (they sell em at home depot for like 3 bucks of a dozen). It's an ultra budget solution, but like I said, they fit perfectly, and you cant see it, and it works great.
The exhaust fans have been repinned to run at 5 volts, just to make sure that the air into the case comes through the front through the filter, rather than being sucked through other little gaps (like around the drives).
There's a *lot* of dust around since I've been remodelling the house. I replace the filter whenever it gets dirty, from once a week to once a month depending on what's going on.
I haven't seen a spec of dirt inside this case yet, whilst my 'unfiltered' older machines need a thorough cleaning every other month or so.
I just popped the side off to verify myself, and the HSF on the CPU is as clean as the day I took it out of the box six months ago.
I can also vouch for the steel filters for range hoods, they do well trapping smoke and dust, and you can run 'em through the wash when they get dirty.
You shouldnt be spending 500 bucks to keep dust out of a regular PC, it just seems excessive. You'd be better off to let it clog and die and spend the 500 on a fancy new PC - but that's just the way I think.
Judges can only interpret law, not ignore or rewrite them.
A judge is only to read the law and enforce it as written. The supreme court is no different, except in that the piece of law they interpret and enforce is the consitution. Confusion only arises when the case is outside of what is in law, then the judges duty is to rule in favor of the spirit of the law.
Of course, this is good, because judges arent elected. And the last thing you want is some appointed assclown deciding what the rules are.
If you dont like existing copyright laws, take it up with the legislature, that's their job.
What's the deal with this anyways?
I mean the purse is 10 million. It seems to me you'd have spent that many times over to develop a rocket ship. So I doubt the winner recoups his investment, let alone makes any profit.
So I assume it's more about bragging rights? And if so, why not donate the 10 million to charity, and just give out a fancy trophy?
A few favorite albums that I own, I own on vinyl, CD, and possibly even cassette.
So, capture the vinyl recording and burn it to a CD-R. What's that? You want 44.1khz 16 bit digital stereo sound? Then buy it.
When the next technology releases these same media with a better sounding and looking format, I'll buy it AGAIN.
And when color TV came out everyone had to buy a new set - they didnt get a free upgrade from black and white. And now everyone has to get HDTV if they want the improved resolution and stereo surround sound. So what?
You don't have to buy it again, unless you want the added value the new format offers.
There's no reason content producers should shoulder the cost of keeping your nerd-gear up to date.
This particular hypocrisy isn't new, it's ingrained into our society.
par example,
Code of the schoolyard.
Steal from me, and I'm telling teacher!
Tell on me for stealing, and you're an asshole.
They arent tracking what the users did, they already know the IPs that were committing the offenses (for the sake of argument lets just assume an offense was comitted).
The only key Verizon holds is who the person that the particular IP has been assigned to.