I'm glad the editors didn't classify this story as "Your Rights Online" and turn it into another anti-Ashcroft-fest. To stay on topic, identity thieves and the like are the right people to go after. Maybe the salaries for the RIAA's lawyers should go to fighting crime like that.
Well, traditionally, IE has been a wonky browser, so perhaps you should switch to Mozilla or the K browser under Linux or Safari for mac. Ad and popup blocking (with the help of PithHelmet)! Yum!
Is this another one of those posts that attempts to prove the point that moderators like the old, stale jokes by putting them all together?
I know I've seen a few posts before, all of whom soon have replies from the author that it was an experiment to show that "mods are fools" or something like that.
You can't share other stuff with iTunes! That's nonsense! iTunes' music sharing works by sending an MP3/AAC stream to the other computers. It doesn't just do a blanket file copy without regard to file type or whatever.
If anything, the parent should be modded troll for making such an inane comment pretending to know what he's talking about.
Well, the thing is, a TON of moderators are too stupid to tell fact from disguised fiction, so he gets modded up informative and such. It's not a good thing to pass off misinformation to people, you know. I hate people who go around spouting out nonsense about science that they think is true but is really just stupid.
(Heck, I don't know that you're not PhysicsExpert, but it doesn't really matter.)
Standing more than 62 inches (1.6 meters) tall and weighing about three pounds (1.4 kilograms) at launch, the most detailed reproduction of a Saturn 5 readily available today is 1/70th the size and 1/2,166,666th the weight of the original.
"It's just a matter of scale as far as the rockets are concerned. The laws of physics don't change,"
Try telling that to a 2-atom-wide model rocket.
The laws of physics are a tad different on the quantum scale.;-)
Virginia Tech's cluster is now in shouting distance of 10 Teraflops/s, and there are still a few weeks left to optimize the system. (They've gained over 2 Teraflops/s in the last 2 weeks)
Teraflops per second eh? A teraflop is a trillion floating point operations per second, so a teraflop per second would be an increase of calculation speed (of 1 teraflop) for each second that goes by.
Incredible! I want one of those trillion floating point operations per second squared machines in my computer!
Oh, and if I want to go on, I could say that if "they've gained over 2 Teraflops/s in the last 2 weeks," then their acceleration is increasing at a linear rate, so their floating point performance is increasing exponentially!
(Sorry, I don't like ATM machines and PR relations and PIN numbers; I couldn't help but post);-)
What the heck does a story about some local hick cited from a conspiracy theory publication have to do with nuclear safety and building plants on fault lines?
I guess it's good that the nuclear power plants of the design in the U.S CAN'T FREAKING CREATE FALLOUT! If you had to hide somewhere from a fire, the inside of a nuclear power plant would be just about the safest place. These things are built to take on hell.
Just because you watched "Atomic Twister" on TBS Superstation doesn't mean that it's true, indicative of ANYTHING about nuclear power plants, or that if a fire got near a nuclear plant that "they could have a Civ2:CallToPower nuclear fall out zone to clean up."
If there's anything that California, and the U.S. in general, needs, it's more nuclear plants. Or perhaps you don't remember the rolling blackouts of 2002 or whenever caused by a lack of power partially due to the fatally flawed, so-called "environmentally friendly" philosophy of California.
But please. Before you start posting about the dangers to something about which you apparently haven't a clue, read up on it instead of basing your obviously limited knowledge from bad sci-fi movies.
Read the fine link? It's a torrent! A mirror unto itself! It's one of the better ways to prevent Mr. Slashdot Effect from smashing the poor ADSL connection.
iTMS lets you re-download music you've already purchased. Not true. Once your download has completed, you can't download a song again unless you purchase it again. Apple recommends that you burn a backup of the downloaded song to CD or anything.
It also trashes a moderate number of computers on install, which some may see as a drawback.;) As someone just said, they released a version that takes care of that.
MMJB doesn't work with the iPod? Somebody better tell Apple that they shouldn't have shipped it with all the iPods up until now. MMJB's DRM-infected^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprotected songs are WMA's, which will not play on the iPod. Regular MP3's and such work just fine, but you can't copy the songs you purchase from their music service (which wasn't around when Apple first packaged the two together).
The other thing he doesn't cover is that Napster and MMJB downloads will work directly, without laborious circumvention techniques, on many different portable players and also on the computer itself on MMJB, WMP, and Winamp. So they work with anything that can read protected WMA. And I wouldn't call burning and re-ripping laborious.
iTMS only plays on iTunes or iPod. iThink unless you have an iPod, you're better off with another service. At least one company (I can't remember the name) has said that if the AAC format (the one that iTunes/iPod uses) catches on, then their players will support it. So don't be too sure about the strictly-Apple requirement in the not-so-distant future.
The whole point of it being Napster is the name! The Roxio people thought that by renaming a service to something relatively well-known that people would flock to it.
Taking away the name would destroy what little credibility it has in the minds of the average folk.
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I'm glad the editors didn't classify this story as "Your Rights Online" and turn it into another anti-Ashcroft-fest. To stay on topic, identity thieves and the like are the right people to go after. Maybe the salaries for the RIAA's lawyers should go to fighting crime like that.
Well, traditionally, IE has been a wonky browser, so perhaps you should switch to Mozilla or the K browser under Linux or Safari for mac. Ad and popup blocking (with the help of PithHelmet)! Yum!
new. Of course, if it is the same news over and over again (or blatently Microsoft propeganda), then it isnt worth the bother.
:D
So why do you read sladshdot again?
No, but we can tell you to shut up, as even you admit that you haven't the slightest clue what you're talking about.
Is this another one of those posts that attempts to prove the point that moderators like the old, stale jokes by putting them all together?
I know I've seen a few posts before, all of whom soon have replies from the author that it was an experiment to show that "mods are fools" or something like that.
Who modded this informative?
You can't share other stuff with iTunes! That's nonsense! iTunes' music sharing works by sending an MP3/AAC stream to the other computers. It doesn't just do a blanket file copy without regard to file type or whatever.
If anything, the parent should be modded troll for making such an inane comment pretending to know what he's talking about.
Well, the guy didn't mark it as an obligatory reference in the subject line. It's a critical step in the karma whoring process.
Phew!
I was afraid that was going to be a goatse link!
Well, the thing is, a TON of moderators are too stupid to tell fact from disguised fiction, so he gets modded up informative and such. It's not a good thing to pass off misinformation to people, you know. I hate people who go around spouting out nonsense about science that they think is true but is really just stupid.
(Heck, I don't know that you're not PhysicsExpert, but it doesn't really matter.)
support@microsoft.comp ort@microsoft.com
support@microsoft.com
sup
They let it happen; now, they're sending it to your doorstep.
Right, right. x^2 vs. k^x. Mea culpa.
One of the better AC postings. Even though it, arguably like its parent, is completely off topic.
Good link nonetheless.
The "s" is silent. Or the written equivalent of silent, at least. :-)
Standing more than 62 inches (1.6 meters) tall and weighing about three pounds (1.4 kilograms) at launch, the most detailed reproduction of a Saturn 5 readily available today is 1/70th the size and 1/2,166,666th the weight of the original.
;-)
"It's just a matter of scale as far as the rockets are concerned. The laws of physics don't change,"
Try telling that to a 2-atom-wide model rocket.
The laws of physics are a tad different on the quantum scale.
Virginia Tech's cluster is now in shouting distance of 10 Teraflops/s, and there are still a few weeks left to optimize the system. (They've gained over 2 Teraflops/s in the last 2 weeks)
;-)
Teraflops per second eh? A teraflop is a trillion floating point operations per second, so a teraflop per second would be an increase of calculation speed (of 1 teraflop) for each second that goes by.
Incredible! I want one of those trillion floating point operations per second squared machines in my computer!
Oh, and if I want to go on, I could say that if "they've gained over 2 Teraflops/s in the last 2 weeks," then their acceleration is increasing at a linear rate, so their floating point performance is increasing exponentially!
(Sorry, I don't like ATM machines and PR relations and PIN numbers; I couldn't help but post)
I believe they purposefully did not choose Linux because the Mac OS X has much better drivers and control of the hardware among other reasons.
What the heck does a story about some local hick cited from a conspiracy theory publication have to do with nuclear safety and building plants on fault lines?
Oh. Pardon me why I don my tin foil hat and try to twist my brain to that ridiculous pattern of so-called "thought."
I guess it's good that the nuclear power plants of the design in the U.S CAN'T FREAKING CREATE FALLOUT! If you had to hide somewhere from a fire, the inside of a nuclear power plant would be just about the safest place. These things are built to take on hell.
Just because you watched "Atomic Twister" on TBS Superstation doesn't mean that it's true, indicative of ANYTHING about nuclear power plants, or that if a fire got near a nuclear plant that "they could have a Civ2:CallToPower nuclear fall out zone to clean up."
If there's anything that California, and the U.S. in general, needs, it's more nuclear plants. Or perhaps you don't remember the rolling blackouts of 2002 or whenever caused by a lack of power partially due to the fatally flawed, so-called "environmentally friendly" philosophy of California.
But please. Before you start posting about the dangers to something about which you apparently haven't a clue, read up on it instead of basing your obviously limited knowledge from bad sci-fi movies.
Read the fine link? It's a torrent! A mirror unto itself! It's one of the better ways to prevent Mr. Slashdot Effect from smashing the poor ADSL connection.
Judging by the last three words, the parent post should be modded Redundant! Ha ha, get it? All three of those words mean the same thing?
:-(
Too bad the moderators weren't quick enough to catch that and mod it that way.
iTMS lets you re-download music you've already purchased.
;)
Not true. Once your download has completed, you can't download a song again unless you purchase it again. Apple recommends that you burn a backup of the downloaded song to CD or anything.
It also trashes a moderate number of computers on install, which some may see as a drawback.
As someone just said, they released a version that takes care of that.
MMJB doesn't work with the iPod? Somebody better tell Apple that they shouldn't have shipped it with all the iPods up until now.
MMJB's DRM-infected^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprotected songs are WMA's, which will not play on the iPod. Regular MP3's and such work just fine, but you can't copy the songs you purchase from their music service (which wasn't around when Apple first packaged the two together).
The other thing he doesn't cover is that Napster and MMJB downloads will work directly, without laborious circumvention techniques, on many different portable players and also on the computer itself on MMJB, WMP, and Winamp.
So they work with anything that can read protected WMA. And I wouldn't call burning and re-ripping laborious.
iTMS only plays on iTunes or iPod. iThink unless you have an iPod, you're better off with another service.
At least one company (I can't remember the name) has said that if the AAC format (the one that iTunes/iPod uses) catches on, then their players will support it. So don't be too sure about the strictly-Apple requirement in the not-so-distant future.
Yes, but it's up to Apple to implement them in such a useful way.
Gee, and there's no DRM on regular music that you put on the iPod either!
The whole point of it being Napster is the name! The Roxio people thought that by renaming a service to something relatively well-known that people would flock to it.
Taking away the name would destroy what little credibility it has in the minds of the average folk.