Ok, I can either pay $10 a month to hear music from some good bands I will never be able to see live, or buy a CD from, or I can listen to the local college station, for free, and listen to some good local bands that might have grown up down the street, sell their CDs for $5 at the local record store (and hand them out free at their shows) and play at the local bars.
Sure XM radio does sound nice, I can listen to my style music wherever I go and it'll be commercial free. But I already listen to my style music, with no real commercials (a bunch of public service announcements and news about upcoming shows, but nothing advertising mcdonalds or anything like that.) And the music I listen to on a local college station is usually LOCAL music. Unless it's really good music from somewhere else.
I dunno, I'm probably just weird, but there's a connection to the local college station that I feel when I listen to it. I wouldn't get that same connection with satellite radio. It's like watching CNN over the local news, they both report the same news, except CNN is more generalized and in depth, the local news is going to have the same news as CNN including local events.
If you look at it, it seems like they only cover backing up files on a remote location and downloading the files to a new computer so you can update settings (like coppying a httpd.conf file to a server and then downloading it to a new server that will use the httpd.conf file for it's apache settings.)
But I've been thinking, it can be bent to include downloading of software updates. It fit's into all of those steps perfectly,
Accessing the World Wide Web using a user's computer-related hardware device;
A developer goes online on a computer
transferring information from said computer-related hardware device through said World Wide Web to a remote storage medium;
Upload's information (a self extracting exe containing updates for software) to a remote storage medium (any server online, like a ftp site)
transferring said information from said remote storage medium to a new computer-related hardware device;
The file gets downloaded from the site to a different computer (it could be a regular users computer)
and
using said information from said computer-related hardware device on said new computer-related hardware device to update said user's settings on said new computer-related hardware device.
Using the said information (the self extracting exe file) from the site, on the new computer (the regular user's computer) to update the computer's settings (they could claim that settings includes whatever a patch might include.)
They're not going to get any money from it, even if it is just for uploading and downloading settings there's so much prior art. Using norton ghost to make a drive image, uploading that to a server through the internet, and downloading it on a new computer (also through the internet) would be prior art.
I tend to agree, but what if you had a doctor who's signature block said "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" or a politician who's signature block said "Ask yourself what you can do for ME"
I would respect those people for showing "Hey we have a sense of humor too, we're only human."
Seriously though, that sounds very cool and it is deffinitely the future of computing, but how much heat does it produce? And why do the articles talk about how "Bulky" it is. Sure it's big (although I've seen RAID cards that took up almost an entire full size case), but if there was a 7GHz athlon out that was the size of my head, I'd deffinitely buy it. I don't care that it takes up so much space.
Doesn't anyone want to know how Microsoft discovered the picture and the story? Do they routinely check up on any website's from their employee's to make sure that no information has been leaked? I would guess they do (don't want that windows source code to be released) but I think that'd probably bother me if I were an employee. What if I wanted to post how much I hated my boss? Or how I'd like to bang that hot new girl in marketing? Those are things you might want to share with the internet that you don't want your co-workers finding out.
Funny that we all were laughing at Richard when he wrote his "dystopian science fiction which will never happen outside of a paranoid mind guarded with a tinfoil hat" and at the same time we all kept allowing it to slowly happen. And who looks like a fool now? Not Richard but us. It certainly doesn't make me feel proud at all.
EXACTLY! I hope everyone realizes this. I mean come on, they're posting DMCA exceptions! You know what this means? The DMCA IS LESS RESTRICTIVE! Holy shit! This could lead to them eventually taking away the entire DMCA! WHERE WOULD THAT LEAVE US!! We'd be lost without it's guiding wisdom.
All sarcasm aside, you obviously saw "blah blah Congress blah DMCA blah." And decided to post this. And who looks like a fool now? You do, silly billy, RTFA next time.
What he's saying is that microsoft can take a round block and hammer it into a square hole until it fits. Sure it won't fit perfectly, but they can throw money at working at the square block till it fit's pretty nicely. They don't have to give up, they should give up, but because they have so much money they have the luxury to keep moving on. With open source, if it doesn't work, don't try anymore it's probably a waste of time and resources which are very limited (work, and school get in the way of a lot of things.)
Anyway his point was that Microsoft can make software that totally blows and spend time and money making it better since people are getting paid to do it (it's their job so they don't have to worry about work taking up their time) and microsoft has a lot of money to spend to fund crap projects. With open source you have to worry about your limited resources and you try to not spend them on crap.
The car weighs 2000 lbs, says it in the article, they weren't talking about the lightest electric car, just the "fastest" which isn't really true. The car's top speed is like 65mph, it's 0-60 might be the fastest among electric cars, but it's top speed is LOOOOOOOOW.
Sorry to burst your bubble, all nissan altimas (the 4 cylinder and the 6) will beat your car in a race, they all have a better hp/weight ratio. The 4 cylinder has 175 hp and weighs 2983lbs and the 6 has like 245 hp and weighs 3,300 (or something like that.) So yes the guy at work will beat your ford escort gt. Assuming both cars are stock and both drivers know how to shift, and both cars have the same gear ratios, anyway there's like a million factors you're not counting on but most likely, your car's going to lose.
And with acceleration, weight isn't the most important thing (sure it's important, taking off 100 lbs gives you.1 second added to your 1/4 mile but giving yourself 100 more hp will give a MUCH better boost.) There's also gear ratios (final gear ratio is very important when trying to balance acceleration and top speed.) You can also change the suspension, add racing slicks, move heavy objects to the back (balancing the weight ratio, giving your drive tires more grip unless you have a FWD car then you really shouldn't be spending so much on drag racing because your car is limited from the start.) Saying weight is more important than hp is like saying your escort gt will beat my mustang cobra (it won't, believe me) just because it weighs 1,300 lbs less.
It's not like this article even compared hp to a ferrari f355 (like 350 hp in a 2,800 lb car, top speed of around 170-180, 0-60 in like 4.6 seconds, much faster 1/4 mile time than the electric car because the electric car hits it's top speed at 65 too quickly.) They just compared 0-60 times in which case the electric car wins.
Did anyone look at that and think "Ok if this is the future of obscuring words in graphic images then please count me out." I could hardly read the words... and because they don't make sense people don't know if the word they see is correct or not. Good going, confusing bot's and most users (yes I can read what it said but it took a while, and most people would never figure those letters out correctly.)
Slashdot's scalability is quite amazing. It seems as a sites ability to resist a slashdotting goes up, slashdot's ability to slashdot a website also goes up. Usually it's at a higher rate but sometimes the sever makes it out alive. Although most of the time it ends up as a smoking pile of slag.
Maya Personal Learning Edition 5 Offers:
A new hardware rendering option using the power of next-generation graphics cards. Get near software-quality images at often dramatically faster speeds.
A unified rendering workflow for easy and consistent access through a common interface.
Animation enhancements to constraints, forward/inverse kinematics and ghosting for added flexibility.
Maya Paint Effects(TM) to polygon conversion for a whole new range of looks plus more editing and output options.
An improved polygon reduction method for making lightweight game models and MODs.
Hmmmmm. Hardware Rendering. Graphics Cards. Animation. Polygons. Game Models.
Ooo ooo I know! It's an office suite! What? That's wrong? Damn I wish the site said what it was! These clues are too hard to figure out!
Beside's most slahsdot reader's know what Maya is as they have a linux version which is used by some large companies to make 3D animation's in some movies. Which get's talked about a lot on slashdot.
Yes because we all know a dirty shuttle is a bad shuttle. Why would it matter if they could just wash off the shuttle? Anyway he really means they can wash the fire paste off, read this paragraph which comes after the sentence in question.
He's going to build two small-scale houses, coat one with fire paste and leave the other as is. Then they're both going to be set on fire. When the fire paste is sprayed off, Hurtubise said, the house will be there intact.
It's obvious, it says it right there "When the fire paste is sprayed off." not "When the house is washed."
Uhhh no you're going to raise your kids to hate video games. They're not going to want to play any games at all if they have to start off with ol games like that. Sure if they did start with old classic's they'd be great as a lot of the old classics were VERY hard games. Not like today's games which take hours to beat instead of months. But who would want to play those archaic games. They'd be at their friend's houses playing GTA4 all day while you're trying to get them to play pitfall, they're never going to play it until they're older. When they're older they'll play it to see how good they'd do on older games and to see what we were playing when we were much younger.
I really mean that, are they very social out going kids? Or do they sit home playing games as soon as school's over till 2AM?
I would imagine the average child being very bored with those games. They're probably the kids that are occasional gamers. Find the kid's that sit home all day and play video games and they'd be much better at these classics. With different views on them too.
No, 1 in 7 have rethought their plans to switch to linux. Doesn't mean it changed they just thought about it again.
Maybe half those people said "Well screw SCO I'm still installing linux" and maybe the other half said "Oh well let's wait for the lawsuit to blow over then we'll install linux." The statistic doesn't say they totally gave up on linux, they just thought about it again.
Dude it's easier just having it automatic. You don't go up to a sliding door at a supermarket and say open to tell it that you absolutely want it to open. And if you do want that option, that's fine just put it in at your supermarket, but don't take the option away from everyone else because YOU feel it's stupid. It's not that hard to disable autorun on your own computer so there's no real reason to have it taken completely out.
If you worked at Dell or Gateway for tech support you would love autorun, you can just tell your client "Ok stick in the CD and wait for this dialog to pop up." And you know it will pop up because the computer came with auto run. And if it doesn't pop up the user knows enough to load their own CDs, either way it makes your job easier having it their instead of having no option at all.
Besides, being a moron would be to say that every user can handle a "OK/Cancel" screen, we all know that most users will be to stupid to hit OK because they think "Hey it's installed I should hit cancel so it doesn't install again." Then they sit and wait for it to pop up with the Play dialog (usually after you install a game or something like that it'll switch from Install to Play making it incredibly easy on the user.) Besides having two dialogs like that would be a bad UI design.
And if this was such a great idea, why don't hardware CD players have "autorun"? I have three of these and all of them require me to hit play before they play the disk I inserted (granted some have autorun, but at least 3 dont).
Dude right their you say "Well hardware CD players don't have autorun because it's a dumb idea" and right after that "Well some do have it but mine don't." Every CD player I've ever used had auto run. I've had at least 4 stereos, and 6 car stereos (purchased 4 cars with CD players, bought 2 new head units with CD players.) So from that logic (my 10 stereos to your 3 and I didn't even include my DVD player or VCRs which all have autplay) autorun is a very good idea.
I was just in Arizona, right near phoenix (gonna move their.) I would have driven right to this comapnies HQ and laughed for hours at them. They're suing this guy for telling people something that's already common knowledge (I don't think it's a secret that holding shift would disable autorun I'm pretty sure microsoft shows that on their website somewhere.) If this company had some kind of thing pop up that said "Don't click here!" and someone told everyone "Hey if you click there, the protection no longer works" would they still be able to sue the person under the DMCA? It's such a blatently obvious thing, not like he had to reverse engineer anything.
I absolutely hate Autorun and find it one of the most useless "innovations" of the last decade.
Absolutely, autorun has done nothing good for me. I really enjoyed having a phone call every hour from new computer users that say "Hey umm I put this CD in and ummm how do I install it? It's not doing anything." I mean come on, with autorun you can pop in a CD and not have to look for any kind of setup program cause a page automatically loads and has a nice little "Installation" icon right on it! That's terrible! I wish it was never put into computers, because since I'm never going to use it (being the 1337 hax0r that I am) no one will EVER use it.
They should also remove GUIs, cause I mean really, what can you do in a GUI that you can't do from a command prompt? If you can't use a command prompt you shouldn't be using a computer! They're completely useless, take up too much memory (on your harddrive and in RAM) they slow down the loading of your computer and they provide no benefit to computer techies.
Don't forget that's the MAXIMUM penalty. For every bounced e-mail there is a certain penalty, they add up and form a maximum penalty. A judge will set a MUCH MUCH lower penalty based on the crime and the damage done. The only reason the penalty was so high is because everything is automated, it's a lot easier for a computer to commit a crime 160,000 times.
If you made a script that raped or murdered 160,000 people your maximum penalty would be quite high too. I think it's about 4 million years in prison for 160,000 second degree murder charges. And I think the minimum sentence for 160,000 rape charges would be a bit under 3 million years. It wasn't that the penalty for this persons crimes should be over 400 years in prison, it's just that the maximum penalties add up to that and the fines also just happen to add up to over 100 million.
Yay Staten Island! My hometown (had no idea the ramones came from their, that's quite sweet) although I don't know how safe it is to say that Punk started in NYC since the sex pistols were out in england around the same time. It's like in SLC Punk "Ramones in NY, Sex pistols in england, who cares who started it. All I know is that we did it harder and we did it better" or something like that I don't have the movie on my laptop to check hehe.
I never thought about it before but I figure it's like this.
Time warner is a part of the RIAA (At least I'm pretty sure they are.) Time warner provides cable connections. Soooo they avoid suing cable users which would give cable a bad name. They can include "Download your favorite music online" in all their ads without worring about people saying "Hey didn't they sue like 100 people for using cable to download music, let's not get cable."
Anyway, that's just my little conspiracy theory, I could be wrong (and I probably am)
Yes because many fans are 30ft long. Wait, they're only 17-21'? Damn that changes everything. A small house can be 30 feet across. Hell my room isn't even 30 feet across but it's as wide as most houses my friends live in.
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Ok, I can either pay $10 a month to hear music from some good bands I will never be able to see live, or buy a CD from, or I can listen to the local college station, for free, and listen to some good local bands that might have grown up down the street, sell their CDs for $5 at the local record store (and hand them out free at their shows) and play at the local bars.
Sure XM radio does sound nice, I can listen to my style music wherever I go and it'll be commercial free. But I already listen to my style music, with no real commercials (a bunch of public service announcements and news about upcoming shows, but nothing advertising mcdonalds or anything like that.) And the music I listen to on a local college station is usually LOCAL music. Unless it's really good music from somewhere else.
I dunno, I'm probably just weird, but there's a connection to the local college station that I feel when I listen to it. I wouldn't get that same connection with satellite radio. It's like watching CNN over the local news, they both report the same news, except CNN is more generalized and in depth, the local news is going to have the same news as CNN including local events.
If you look at it, it seems like they only cover backing up files on a remote location and downloading the files to a new computer so you can update settings (like coppying a httpd.conf file to a server and then downloading it to a new server that will use the httpd.conf file for it's apache settings.)
But I've been thinking, it can be bent to include downloading of software updates. It fit's into all of those steps perfectly,
Accessing the World Wide Web using a user's computer-related hardware device;
A developer goes online on a computer
transferring information from said computer-related hardware device through said World Wide Web to a remote storage medium;
Upload's information (a self extracting exe containing updates for software) to a remote storage medium (any server online, like a ftp site)
transferring said information from said remote storage medium to a new computer-related hardware device;
The file gets downloaded from the site to a different computer (it could be a regular users computer)
and using said information from said computer-related hardware device on said new computer-related hardware device to update said user's settings on said new computer-related hardware device.
Using the said information (the self extracting exe file) from the site, on the new computer (the regular user's computer) to update the computer's settings (they could claim that settings includes whatever a patch might include.)
They're not going to get any money from it, even if it is just for uploading and downloading settings there's so much prior art. Using norton ghost to make a drive image, uploading that to a server through the internet, and downloading it on a new computer (also through the internet) would be prior art.
I tend to agree, but what if you had a doctor who's signature block said "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" or a politician who's signature block said "Ask yourself what you can do for ME"
I would respect those people for showing "Hey we have a sense of humor too, we're only human."
Can it run Doom 3 at a good framerate?
Seriously though, that sounds very cool and it is deffinitely the future of computing, but how much heat does it produce? And why do the articles talk about how "Bulky" it is. Sure it's big (although I've seen RAID cards that took up almost an entire full size case), but if there was a 7GHz athlon out that was the size of my head, I'd deffinitely buy it. I don't care that it takes up so much space.
Ummm because the company is in Israel, a country that has to deal with terrorist type attacks on a daily basis? I thought the same question till I saw
"...said Major-General (Ret.) Isaac Ben- Israel, former head of the R&D Directorate of the Israeli Ministry of Defense."
What else is the former head of the R&D Directorate of the Israeli Ministry of Defense going to say about a new chip like this one?
Doesn't anyone want to know how Microsoft discovered the picture and the story? Do they routinely check up on any website's from their employee's to make sure that no information has been leaked? I would guess they do (don't want that windows source code to be released) but I think that'd probably bother me if I were an employee. What if I wanted to post how much I hated my boss? Or how I'd like to bang that hot new girl in marketing? Those are things you might want to share with the internet that you don't want your co-workers finding out.
Funny that we all were laughing at Richard when he wrote his "dystopian science fiction which will never happen outside of a paranoid mind guarded with a tinfoil hat" and at the same time we all kept allowing it to slowly happen. And who looks like a fool now? Not Richard but us. It certainly doesn't make me feel proud at all.
EXACTLY! I hope everyone realizes this. I mean come on, they're posting DMCA exceptions! You know what this means? The DMCA IS LESS RESTRICTIVE! Holy shit! This could lead to them eventually taking away the entire DMCA! WHERE WOULD THAT LEAVE US!! We'd be lost without it's guiding wisdom.
All sarcasm aside, you obviously saw "blah blah Congress blah DMCA blah." And decided to post this. And who looks like a fool now? You do, silly billy, RTFA next time.
What he's saying is that microsoft can take a round block and hammer it into a square hole until it fits. Sure it won't fit perfectly, but they can throw money at working at the square block till it fit's pretty nicely. They don't have to give up, they should give up, but because they have so much money they have the luxury to keep moving on. With open source, if it doesn't work, don't try anymore it's probably a waste of time and resources which are very limited (work, and school get in the way of a lot of things.)
Anyway his point was that Microsoft can make software that totally blows and spend time and money making it better since people are getting paid to do it (it's their job so they don't have to worry about work taking up their time) and microsoft has a lot of money to spend to fund crap projects. With open source you have to worry about your limited resources and you try to not spend them on crap.
The car weighs 2000 lbs, says it in the article, they weren't talking about the lightest electric car, just the "fastest" which isn't really true. The car's top speed is like 65mph, it's 0-60 might be the fastest among electric cars, but it's top speed is LOOOOOOOOW.
.1 second added to your 1/4 mile but giving yourself 100 more hp will give a MUCH better boost.) There's also gear ratios (final gear ratio is very important when trying to balance acceleration and top speed.) You can also change the suspension, add racing slicks, move heavy objects to the back (balancing the weight ratio, giving your drive tires more grip unless you have a FWD car then you really shouldn't be spending so much on drag racing because your car is limited from the start.) Saying weight is more important than hp is like saying your escort gt will beat my mustang cobra (it won't, believe me) just because it weighs 1,300 lbs less.
Sorry to burst your bubble, all nissan altimas (the 4 cylinder and the 6) will beat your car in a race, they all have a better hp/weight ratio. The 4 cylinder has 175 hp and weighs 2983lbs and the 6 has like 245 hp and weighs 3,300 (or something like that.) So yes the guy at work will beat your ford escort gt. Assuming both cars are stock and both drivers know how to shift, and both cars have the same gear ratios, anyway there's like a million factors you're not counting on but most likely, your car's going to lose.
And with acceleration, weight isn't the most important thing (sure it's important, taking off 100 lbs gives you
It's not like this article even compared hp to a ferrari f355 (like 350 hp in a 2,800 lb car, top speed of around 170-180, 0-60 in like 4.6 seconds, much faster 1/4 mile time than the electric car because the electric car hits it's top speed at 65 too quickly.) They just compared 0-60 times in which case the electric car wins.
"The PDA is dead," says David Levin, the boss of Symbian, the leading maker of smartphone software.
In other news, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came out and announced that Linux is dead.
Did anyone look at that and think "Ok if this is the future of obscuring words in graphic images then please count me out." I could hardly read the words... and because they don't make sense people don't know if the word they see is correct or not. Good going, confusing bot's and most users (yes I can read what it said but it took a while, and most people would never figure those letters out correctly.)
Slashdot's scalability is quite amazing. It seems as a sites ability to resist a slashdotting goes up, slashdot's ability to slashdot a website also goes up. Usually it's at a higher rate but sometimes the sever makes it out alive. Although most of the time it ends up as a smoking pile of slag.
From the first link in the article -
Maya Personal Learning Edition 5 Offers:
A new hardware rendering option using the power of next-generation graphics cards. Get near software-quality images at often dramatically faster speeds.
A unified rendering workflow for easy and consistent access through a common interface.
Animation enhancements to constraints, forward/inverse kinematics and ghosting for added flexibility.
Maya Paint Effects(TM) to polygon conversion for a whole new range of looks plus more editing and output options.
An improved polygon reduction method for making lightweight game models and MODs.
Hmmmmm. Hardware Rendering. Graphics Cards. Animation. Polygons. Game Models.
Ooo ooo I know! It's an office suite! What? That's wrong? Damn I wish the site said what it was! These clues are too hard to figure out!
Beside's most slahsdot reader's know what Maya is as they have a linux version which is used by some large companies to make 3D animation's in some movies. Which get's talked about a lot on slashdot.
Yes because we all know a dirty shuttle is a bad shuttle. Why would it matter if they could just wash off the shuttle? Anyway he really means they can wash the fire paste off, read this paragraph which comes after the sentence in question.
He's going to build two small-scale houses, coat one with fire paste and leave the other as is. Then they're both going to be set on fire. When the fire paste is sprayed off, Hurtubise said, the house will be there intact.
It's obvious, it says it right there "When the fire paste is sprayed off." not "When the house is washed."
Uhhh no you're going to raise your kids to hate video games. They're not going to want to play any games at all if they have to start off with ol games like that. Sure if they did start with old classic's they'd be great as a lot of the old classics were VERY hard games. Not like today's games which take hours to beat instead of months. But who would want to play those archaic games. They'd be at their friend's houses playing GTA4 all day while you're trying to get them to play pitfall, they're never going to play it until they're older. When they're older they'll play it to see how good they'd do on older games and to see what we were playing when we were much younger.
I really mean that, are they very social out going kids? Or do they sit home playing games as soon as school's over till 2AM?
I would imagine the average child being very bored with those games. They're probably the kids that are occasional gamers. Find the kid's that sit home all day and play video games and they'd be much better at these classics. With different views on them too.
No, 1 in 7 have rethought their plans to switch to linux. Doesn't mean it changed they just thought about it again.
Maybe half those people said "Well screw SCO I'm still installing linux" and maybe the other half said "Oh well let's wait for the lawsuit to blow over then we'll install linux." The statistic doesn't say they totally gave up on linux, they just thought about it again.
0.7% of a shit load of money is still a shit load of money.
Dude it's easier just having it automatic. You don't go up to a sliding door at a supermarket and say open to tell it that you absolutely want it to open. And if you do want that option, that's fine just put it in at your supermarket, but don't take the option away from everyone else because YOU feel it's stupid. It's not that hard to disable autorun on your own computer so there's no real reason to have it taken completely out.
If you worked at Dell or Gateway for tech support you would love autorun, you can just tell your client "Ok stick in the CD and wait for this dialog to pop up." And you know it will pop up because the computer came with auto run. And if it doesn't pop up the user knows enough to load their own CDs, either way it makes your job easier having it their instead of having no option at all.
Besides, being a moron would be to say that every user can handle a "OK/Cancel" screen, we all know that most users will be to stupid to hit OK because they think "Hey it's installed I should hit cancel so it doesn't install again." Then they sit and wait for it to pop up with the Play dialog (usually after you install a game or something like that it'll switch from Install to Play making it incredibly easy on the user.) Besides having two dialogs like that would be a bad UI design.
And if this was such a great idea, why don't hardware CD players have "autorun"? I have three of these and all of them require me to hit play before they play the disk I inserted (granted some have autorun, but at least 3 dont).
Dude right their you say "Well hardware CD players don't have autorun because it's a dumb idea" and right after that "Well some do have it but mine don't." Every CD player I've ever used had auto run. I've had at least 4 stereos, and 6 car stereos (purchased 4 cars with CD players, bought 2 new head units with CD players.) So from that logic (my 10 stereos to your 3 and I didn't even include my DVD player or VCRs which all have autplay) autorun is a very good idea.
I was just in Arizona, right near phoenix (gonna move their.) I would have driven right to this comapnies HQ and laughed for hours at them. They're suing this guy for telling people something that's already common knowledge (I don't think it's a secret that holding shift would disable autorun I'm pretty sure microsoft shows that on their website somewhere.) If this company had some kind of thing pop up that said "Don't click here!" and someone told everyone "Hey if you click there, the protection no longer works" would they still be able to sue the person under the DMCA? It's such a blatently obvious thing, not like he had to reverse engineer anything.
I absolutely hate Autorun and find it one of the most useless "innovations" of the last decade.
Absolutely, autorun has done nothing good for me. I really enjoyed having a phone call every hour from new computer users that say "Hey umm I put this CD in and ummm how do I install it? It's not doing anything." I mean come on, with autorun you can pop in a CD and not have to look for any kind of setup program cause a page automatically loads and has a nice little "Installation" icon right on it! That's terrible! I wish it was never put into computers, because since I'm never going to use it (being the 1337 hax0r that I am) no one will EVER use it.
They should also remove GUIs, cause I mean really, what can you do in a GUI that you can't do from a command prompt? If you can't use a command prompt you shouldn't be using a computer! They're completely useless, take up too much memory (on your harddrive and in RAM) they slow down the loading of your computer and they provide no benefit to computer techies.
Don't forget that's the MAXIMUM penalty. For every bounced e-mail there is a certain penalty, they add up and form a maximum penalty. A judge will set a MUCH MUCH lower penalty based on the crime and the damage done. The only reason the penalty was so high is because everything is automated, it's a lot easier for a computer to commit a crime 160,000 times.
If you made a script that raped or murdered 160,000 people your maximum penalty would be quite high too. I think it's about 4 million years in prison for 160,000 second degree murder charges. And I think the minimum sentence for 160,000 rape charges would be a bit under 3 million years. It wasn't that the penalty for this persons crimes should be over 400 years in prison, it's just that the maximum penalties add up to that and the fines also just happen to add up to over 100 million.
Yay Staten Island! My hometown (had no idea the ramones came from their, that's quite sweet) although I don't know how safe it is to say that Punk started in NYC since the sex pistols were out in england around the same time. It's like in SLC Punk "Ramones in NY, Sex pistols in england, who cares who started it. All I know is that we did it harder and we did it better" or something like that I don't have the movie on my laptop to check hehe.
I never thought about it before but I figure it's like this.
Time warner is a part of the RIAA (At least I'm pretty sure they are.) Time warner provides cable connections. Soooo they avoid suing cable users which would give cable a bad name. They can include "Download your favorite music online" in all their ads without worring about people saying "Hey didn't they sue like 100 people for using cable to download music, let's not get cable."
Anyway, that's just my little conspiracy theory, I could be wrong (and I probably am)
Yes because many fans are 30ft long. Wait, they're only 17-21'? Damn that changes everything. A small house can be 30 feet across. Hell my room isn't even 30 feet across but it's as wide as most houses my friends live in.