Personally i just short out 2 lines of the bus with my toe at the exact right moment to make it seem like a backspace was pressed. Its pretty hard to get used to the timing, so you kids can keep your toys for now.
Not to mention they'll mod up the most inane crap and ignore the best gems. I won't post anonymous, just look at my post history. Mostly crap got to +5, good stuff left forgotten.
The allofmp3.com music store is cheaper and far superior in user experience. You get to choose your encoding from a bunch of DRM-less formats and at any bitrate, both CBR and VBR. Then you pay by the file size you download. USD 5$ gets you 500Mb. And you can listen to their entire library for free at low quality before you buy. Plus its a no-bullshit website/company, and you notice it constantly. I'm sure some of you will value this last point.
(I am only affiliated with allofmp3.com as a happy customer.)
I do not use many plugins, and in fact when i upgraded to 1.0pr it only complained about one. I tried to unistall it just to be on the safe side, but it wont uninstall (even after restarting the browser). Also another one i use just stopped working with no warning. That's 2 out of 4 for me.
I know its free and i'm very thankful for the work that has been done and given away. Regardless of price, Firefox is still my choice. Just pointing out the negative experience in an overall excelent piece of software.
* many cool plugins and themes haven't been updated for 1.0PR - which would demonstrate the full power of FF
I find that the most glaring error in firefox. The plugins that need updating EVERY SINGLE VERSION of it. I mean, how hard can it be to make the plugins work across versions? Is the interface changing EVERY version? Is the change worth it? Is it getting THAT much better for plugin programmers? What they'll acomplish with this is that they'll burn trought the good will of the plugin programmers before releasing 1.0 final.
Considering slashdot is a indispensable resource when working on IT, i would say the new IT theme colours on slashdot are reason enough for many people to switch activity.
Yeah, i'm glad money is flowing into Nigeria, as i am about to complete a transaction with a Nigerian prince that will settle my money problems for good. I laugh at thee.
The weapons of this type owned by the americans right now are good enough. Just take the example of Iraq: americans won the invasion battle but they can't hold the land peacefully. No matter how big of a rail gun, it won't help in these situations. What good is this rail gun anyway? It's not like anyone could defeat the american navy before the RG anyway.
Consider it like if you order something by mail. You call a shop in russia and another in your (non-Russia) country. Legally which is the point of sale? You will pay customs for russian goods, so clearly the point of sale is where the selling company is shipping from.
Regarding declaration to the tax man, in my country in EU we dont declare imports at this volume, the imports are taxed at the border (airport, etc) and if they want to tax this they will have to tax the bytes themselves... all of them, from all sources outside of borders.
Re:HOW expensive again? Check out allofmp3.com
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And it is as legal as the black market. Just what I want. I like getting visits from men in dark suits after downloading 100 songs from Russia that are 100% legal. Sign me up!
While it may seem inconceivable that in comparision with an american service the russians may provide better and cheaper products, and, most of all, a far better user experience without DRM, it is now the truth. The utter stagnation that american law has imposed on american development has brought these results, and trust me, these are just the beggining. I have yet to see a single reason why this russian service is illegal. It may seem shocking that the russians can provide so much more for so much less, and how can it be legal if itunes has to charge much more to be legal? Well, my dear americans, to whom i always hope for the best, you kinda dug this hole yourselves.
I have a computer services company, and a client of ours, a lawyer, never ever lets his computer out of his office. All repairs, no matter what, are done in his office, under his scrutiny. He has no problems paying for it, he says he is required by law (we are in Spain) to be sure that his clients' data is safe at all times. There just isn't another option.
On the other hand, this method saves HD space. If you start a download of a 1GB file with some other programs, such as emule, a 1 GB temp file is created immediately. Shareaza's method requires only as many bytes of HD space as have been downloaded so far.
Not necessarily true. In the latest versions of windows (with NTFS5) you can use sparse files, which are files in which large zero-filled parts of the file are not allocated to disk space, hence not "wasting" it before the download ends.
The major potential advantage is that in this casethe algae produce oils/hydrocarbons which (hopefully) could be used in place of fossil fuels (no need to design new machines)
The major disadvantage i see is that we would keep burning fuel into the air even after we "run out" of fuel. Which means that the theory that there is not enough oil to burn to alter our climate goes belly up.
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Personally i just short out 2 lines of the bus with my toe at the exact right moment to make it seem like a backspace was pressed. Its pretty hard to get used to the timing, so you kids can keep your toys for now.
Ok, i modded it up. Its nice to be useful.
Not to mention they'll mod up the most inane crap and ignore the best gems. I won't post anonymous, just look at my post history. Mostly crap got to +5, good stuff left forgotten.
So, CleverNickName, Nathdot is your second slashdot account...
The allofmp3.com music store is cheaper and far superior in user experience. You get to choose your encoding from a bunch of DRM-less formats and at any bitrate, both CBR and VBR. Then you pay by the file size you download. USD 5$ gets you 500Mb. And you can listen to their entire library for free at low quality before you buy. Plus its a no-bullshit website/company, and you notice it constantly. I'm sure some of you will value this last point.
(I am only affiliated with allofmp3.com as a happy customer.)
I do not use many plugins, and in fact when i upgraded to 1.0pr it only complained about one. I tried to unistall it just to be on the safe side, but it wont uninstall (even after restarting the browser). Also another one i use just stopped working with no warning. That's 2 out of 4 for me.
I know its free and i'm very thankful for the work that has been done and given away. Regardless of price, Firefox is still my choice. Just pointing out the negative experience in an overall excelent piece of software.
* many cool plugins and themes haven't been updated for 1.0PR - which would demonstrate the full power of FF
I find that the most glaring error in firefox. The plugins that need updating EVERY SINGLE VERSION of it. I mean, how hard can it be to make the plugins work across versions? Is the interface changing EVERY version? Is the change worth it? Is it getting THAT much better for plugin programmers? What they'll acomplish with this is that they'll burn trought the good will of the plugin programmers before releasing 1.0 final.
Considering slashdot is a indispensable resource when working on IT, i would say the new IT theme colours on slashdot are reason enough for many people to switch activity.
The edonkey massivelly distributed filesystem is my backup.
I take issue with the moderation issued upon my parent comment.
You got trolled. Hard.
Yeah, i'm glad money is flowing into Nigeria, as i am about to complete a transaction with a Nigerian prince that will settle my money problems for good. I laugh at thee.
If anything has become clear in history, it is that god posts as AC...
www.allofmp3.com - click the "english" link if you don't speak russian. Its the best legal music download service you can imagine.
Finally we understand the origin of your sig.
The weapons of this type owned by the americans right now are good enough. Just take the example of Iraq: americans won the invasion battle but they can't hold the land peacefully. No matter how big of a rail gun, it won't help in these situations. What good is this rail gun anyway? It's not like anyone could defeat the american navy before the RG anyway.
Yeah, we did! And thanks for those pics of your wife in the hidden "honey" folder. Those came in really handy, if you catch my drift.
Consider it like if you order something by mail. You call a shop in russia and another in your (non-Russia) country. Legally which is the point of sale? You will pay customs for russian goods, so clearly the point of sale is where the selling company is shipping from.
Regarding declaration to the tax man, in my country in EU we dont declare imports at this volume, the imports are taxed at the border (airport, etc) and if they want to tax this they will have to tax the bytes themselves... all of them, from all sources outside of borders.
While it may seem inconceivable that in comparision with an american service the russians may provide better and cheaper products, and, most of all, a far better user experience without DRM, it is now the truth. The utter stagnation that american law has imposed on american development has brought these results, and trust me, these are just the beggining. I have yet to see a single reason why this russian service is illegal. It may seem shocking that the russians can provide so much more for so much less, and how can it be legal if itunes has to charge much more to be legal? Well, my dear americans, to whom i always hope for the best, you kinda dug this hole yourselves.
I have a computer services company, and a client of ours, a lawyer, never ever lets his computer out of his office. All repairs, no matter what, are done in his office, under his scrutiny. He has no problems paying for it, he says he is required by law (we are in Spain) to be sure that his clients' data is safe at all times. There just isn't another option.
Don't forget Ninenine.
Well if you have access to the media, you might as well do the old Big-Axe-D.O.S. attack on the cable.
Not necessarily true. In the latest versions of windows (with NTFS5) you can use sparse files, which are files in which large zero-filled parts of the file are not allocated to disk space, hence not "wasting" it before the download ends.
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-sparse.htm
Infinite resistance to being helplessly stomped by better players...
The major disadvantage i see is that we would keep burning fuel into the air even after we "run out" of fuel. Which means that the theory that there is not enough oil to burn to alter our climate goes belly up.