ex-spammer seems to not understand why they are worse than bulk mail. Email spam cost us money and bandwidth on our end, bulk mail dont. Besides, its much easier to sort out legitimate snail mails from bulk & they always carry some amount of legitimacy with it that email spam can never provide. Fp ?!:)
"RAM failure rates are less than hard drive failure rates, so it might also mean more stability from that perspective"
Well that is because they havnt been subjected to that sort of load as yet. RAM could pose its set of unique problems once implemented as databases.
There, one more person gets silenced with MOD point abuse ! While i dont agree with the way mr.dot com ceo conveyed his message, he absolutely has a point.
I am not a big fan of Microsoft either (especially after this DRM initiative) but I do believe editors have a role to be NEUTRAL. Giving a spin to discussions right at the start is pathetic indeed. I am sure many more readers agree with this. Mod me down, but to me this is more like Civil Disobedience !:) for i am already a subscriber.
Others who feel the same, pls leave a message in this thread. Thanks.
why has security been linked so much DRM these days ? Whenever i read an article on some kind of rights management initiative - there is almost talk about securing the PC. Security & DRM are two different things ! wih gates works on them individually.
Its amazing how the quote from Benjamin dude works so well here. Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security
Seems like there always was , will be people trying to take away freedom under the pretext of security - even in computing !
I think it is more about someone who has recognized the money to made in the small businesses rather than someone trying to "Democratize the web". And there is nothing novel about it as the article wishes to potray. The big guns are fairly well established on the web after dot com boom (as in explosion) and the next obvious target for the web development industry would be small business. Has anyone seen Microsoft ads lately on TV ?
Interland intends to lower that barrier by offering Web site hosting to small businesses for as little as $23 a month. Hey, there are many more good hosts which offer hosting for price far lesser than that.
this whole libel thing is scary. i cant think of one particular case where it could be used rightly. I find the court defaulting against libel rather comforting. Honestly, If call someone bitch repeatedly can he/she sue me for libel ? Where does one draw the line between good freedom of speech and libel speech ??
thats the best comment i have read so far. I like the analogy he draws between car & computer science. Both the needs are not fundamental (as in food, water and clothing), workers in both the industry have come under the effect finding cheaper alternatives being developed elsewhere across the world & both can be safely described as mature at the moment. All that never spelt death for car, neither will it for software.
Someone else that we know has been getting behind the action of it all. Microsoft has been distributing content with their own DRM through ALTnet on Kazaa.
PressPlay is already on the same path using Microsoft DRM.
You agree not to use the Software to: 2.1 Transmit or communicate any data that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
why not ?
Assuming that the goal of each of these codecs is to produce music closest to the original in the best possible compression - it does make for a excellent yardstick.
If modifying aspects of the music piece is the goal - a codec that performs well on a particular genre will not do so well on the other.
a cheap giveaway like a subscription for slashdot for someone to design a cool logo and come up with a color scheme ? Am sure there are many talented ones out there who would like to get their work displayed !
Searched for the number on that taped conversation on google and found out that this is the shitty online directory that they purportedly add you to. Now liberty online - that must be another name these guys do business under
oh how altruistic, NOT ! They figure that the expense is worth the initiative it might provide for users to download windows version of their software. If it werent for trailors, i wouldnt have Quicktime bloatware on my machine.
why ? because they have a picture of fluffy bunnies on their toys r us division ? Or a little baby holding a car ?
What other way can a website advertise the product -even if they are targetting only adults ? More importantly, who gets to decide where the line is to be drawn ?
no shit, They say that there is a duplicate at around 10 -10^28 meters away. Then they state that the most unlikely event is most likely to occur which almost contradicts the first statement describing possibility of a duplicate.
This is all speculation. Such articles only make me think about how our ancestors could have imagined about all the things we take for granted today - like earth is round, there is land on other side of the ocean, sun and the moon causing eclipses that must have facinated their minds. Maybe one day our decendents might find a way to verify these speculations the same way we did for our ancestors.
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ex-spammer seems to not understand why they are worse than bulk mail. Email spam cost us money and bandwidth on our end, bulk mail dont. Besides, its much easier to sort out legitimate snail mails from bulk & they always carry some amount of legitimacy with it that email spam can never provide. Fp ?! :)
"RAM failure rates are less than hard drive failure rates, so it might also mean more stability from that perspective" Well that is because they havnt been subjected to that sort of load as yet. RAM could pose its set of unique problems once implemented as databases.
more people do this,the percentile score of the real test takers will increase.
but but what about Halo ??
There, one more person gets silenced with MOD point abuse ! While i dont agree with the way mr.dot com ceo conveyed his message, he absolutely has a point.
:) for i am already a subscriber.
I am not a big fan of Microsoft either (especially after this DRM initiative) but I do believe editors have a role to be NEUTRAL. Giving a spin to discussions right at the start is pathetic indeed. I am sure many more readers agree with this. Mod me down, but to me this is more like Civil Disobedience !
Others who feel the same, pls leave a message in this thread. Thanks.
why has security been linked so much DRM these days ? Whenever i read an article on some kind of rights management initiative - there is almost talk about securing the PC. Security & DRM are two different things ! wih gates works on them individually.
Its amazing how the quote from Benjamin dude works so well here.
Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security
Seems like there always was , will be people trying to take away freedom under the pretext of security - even in computing !
I think it is more about someone who has recognized the money to made in the small businesses rather than someone trying to "Democratize the web". And there is nothing novel about it as the article wishes to potray. The big guns are fairly well established on the web after dot com boom (as in explosion) and the next obvious target for the web development industry would be small business. Has anyone seen Microsoft ads lately on TV ?
Interland intends to lower that barrier by offering Web site hosting to small businesses for as little as $23 a month.
Hey, there are many more good hosts which offer hosting for price far lesser than that.
NYTimes username:freethepress123 password:freethepress12
who else read that as Orgasm and math ? i need some sleep..
Kim Jong Il pointed to buggy software produced at redmond as sure signs of american belligerence against DPRK.
"american hegemoney moust stop ! the secureless systems we have can be used to launch attack on our country", he was heard saying.
this whole libel thing is scary. i cant think of one particular case where it could be used rightly. I find the court defaulting against libel rather comforting. Honestly, If call someone bitch repeatedly can he/she sue me for libel ? Where does one draw the line between good freedom of speech and libel speech ??
thats the best comment i have read so far.
I like the analogy he draws between car & computer science. Both the needs are not fundamental (as in food, water and clothing),
workers in both the industry have come under the effect finding cheaper alternatives being developed elsewhere across the world & both can be safely described as mature at the moment.
All that never spelt death for car, neither will it for software.
Someone else that we know has been getting behind the action of it all. Microsoft has been distributing content with their own DRM through ALTnet on Kazaa.
PressPlay is already on the same path using Microsoft DRM.
I believe it is the later - Sousa (without the A). You could also also call it linux with a lizard , they will understand.
From the Kazaa terms and conditions :
You agree not to use the Software to:
2.1 Transmit or communicate any data that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, invasive
of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable.
Isnt that basis enough to sue the RIAA ?
why not ? Assuming that the goal of each of these codecs is to produce music closest to the original in the best possible compression - it does make for a excellent yardstick. If modifying aspects of the music piece is the goal - a codec that performs well on a particular genre will not do so well on the other.
a cheap giveaway like a subscription for slashdot for someone to design a cool logo and come up with a color scheme ? Am sure there are many talented ones out there who would like to get their work displayed !
no all of that cant be done, we wont have stories to post on the main page then. Oh well, I guess we can always dupe em.
That was a big disappointment during these horny hours. All i could see was matrix like greenary.
Searched for the number on that taped conversation on google and found out that this is the shitty online directory that they purportedly add you to.
Now liberty online - that must be another name these guys do business under
This is an associated press article and u can access it without the registration here
oh how altruistic, NOT !
They figure that the expense is worth the initiative it might provide for users to download windows version of their software. If it werent for trailors, i wouldnt have Quicktime bloatware on my machine.
why ? because they have a picture of fluffy bunnies on their toys r us division ? Or a little baby holding a car ?
What other way can a website advertise the product -even if they are targetting only adults ? More importantly, who gets to decide where the line is to be drawn ?
no shit,
They say that there is a duplicate at around 10 -10^28 meters away. Then they state that the most unlikely event is most likely to occur which almost contradicts the first statement describing possibility of a duplicate.
This is all speculation. Such articles only make me think about how our ancestors could have imagined about all the things we take for granted today - like earth is round, there is land on other side of the ocean, sun and the moon causing eclipses that must have facinated their minds. Maybe one day our decendents might find a way to verify these speculations the same way we did for our ancestors.
good for you ! Which university have you graduated from ?