sad that this story gets 2 replies, when the latest MS/linux/media player scandal gets a hundred in less time. arg, what else can i say really. i find the preservation of an ancient and intelligent creature just a wee bit more interesting, and yet there seems to be nothing anyone can do about it. from what i know the solution to poaching can only be economic/legislative, not scientific/technical. and the people who have the power don't seem to care enough. so so sad. anyone got recent figures on elephant populations?
That's possible, it's also possible that i was right; that's what a discussion forum is for. I feel like i'm talking to someone who's not very good at picking up on subtleties. There's lots of interesting things going on on subconcious levels you know.
I think the word you are looking for is spelt "toddler".
You say "Soros is a tool" is a valid opinion, but don't expect someone reading that to agree with you. When I read a three word opinion with poor English and no reasoning, i'm more likely to think the poster is a "tool". Now I, not being American and perhaps not too well read, had never heard of this guy. but after reading this article and a few comments like this, i'm thinking he's most likely right. Show me why he's not. If you don't care what i think, why are you posting here. All you do with comments like that is damage your "cause".
Btw, no one said he's a philosopher (including himself) he was introduced as a self-made billionaire with some political opinions.
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ah that's why the N-gage was such a sucess. oh no, it wasn't. i'd (if i want to be really geeky;) rather have an iPod in my left pocket and a DS in my right. or maybe a DS in my right pocket and my MP3 CD player in the left.. or.. well you get the idea - not one fat $350 battery eating games machine.
well i (not particularly into games atm and only half following this) expected it to be $300 tops. didn't expect Sony to go *more* than double the Nintendo price. although i expect the street price *will* be around £300 - do i have any takers at $299.95? maybe if i throw in a spare battery?;)
interesting post, but: a lot of the reason to run a system with limited accounts is to prevent certain *users* doing things *you* don't want. not things that are 'definately wrong', like installing viruses, just things you don't want in your organisation. how is your better security modal/OS design ever going to prevent that? i guess on a single user system what you're saying could make good sense?
she must have had Admin access to make herself an admin, no?
i manage systems with limited user accounts perfectly fine. just about all software works aswell, office apps, multimedia, games, communications - it's not as bad as people make out. stuff that doesn't work - people don't get to play! (evil grin;) also be sure to complain to the makers, it's the only way to improve this.
it connects to ftp://209.171.43.27/www/system/ u/p bawz/pagdba
apparently, the text indicates, that's the only source for the installed files.
if say, 500 of us were to log into that and stay connected, would we stop the virus? would there be any risk to ourselves? (giving your IP away for a start).
The news that Green Day is selling packs of their-own-labelled CDRs + artwork (for 8USD) a couple of days ago got me thinking: call it a proposal for the music industry. sorry this is slightly OT, but the level of disatisfaction expressed with all current or forseeable offerings in this thread made me think it was worth adding.
Let me repost what i posted on another forum, so more people can see it@
[people commenting that they'd buy the CD pack if they came with the music]
my answer:
"no of course you can't sell 5 CDs with the music on for $8 because then you're competing with [totally undercutting] shop stock. however, [the industry] can sell the artwork on its own and let people warez the music, because a few dollars per CD is better than no sale at all, which is what happens when someone illegaly downloads the music now.
if they decided to let people share the music freely (remember, that's done at our cost, we pay for our net connnections), and charge for the artwork/posters/merchandise, i think we have a business again.
P2P fans should be happy with this [decision to sell printed CDRs] anyway. they don't know where you're getting the music. now you've got a source for nice artwork. that's what i originaly thought this was. i still think $8 is good value for that. the industry is getting a clue, just very slowly. eventually they'll realise the recorded music is not worth trying to charge for/control.
AND they can still sell prerecorded cds in shops, just not as many as they once did. plenty of people still like them.
they just have to weigh up whether they'll lose more to piracy when the art is available, than they gain in prerecorded sales from not having art available. i bet they don't. In fact, i bet they've already done that math. which makes the whole [expletive deleted] thing [the crusade against P2P] a lie. Music companies, are you selling content or things? make up your minds. until then, i'm not buying anything. but i'd rather buy things. "
well, maybe it was mad, but i don't think i've heard this in this form considered yet. since then i've thought of more things they could sell, like branded portable player skins (like mobile phone cases, they sell a riot). remember, fans like stuff.
- whole albums at a reasonable price (say half the price of buying all the tracks seperately). since i mostly listen to whole albums, not songs, and albums are prohibitively expensive atm track by track.
- no DRM, obviously. assume since i paid, i'm not on P2P. i'm not going to work around artificial restrictions.
- Lame preset standard encoded MP3s, nicely tagged. perhaps a lossless option, but i'm not too bothered. i shouldn't have to pay twice either, this is a licence for content and i'm paying for time/bandwidth.
- a wide range of independant (sp.?) label material, since i'm not really interesting in most major label music. this could be the biggest stumbling block, organising all the rights holders.
- ability to preview any part of a song, if this can be done safely.
- album art downloads in high res JPEGs?
- not pay per track, but a reasonable limit per month would be preferable, perhaps with a tiered service for heavy/light users. the money must go to the right artists in the right proportions though.
- the store should remember what i've bought, and let me download it again in case a file is lost, and maybe even let me order a hard copy at media + handling cost since i've already paid for the music.
finally, i will not use any online store until i know that the artist and store are getting a deal that makes it worth their time, since they are the two parties most providing me with the service.
oh yeah? you think i'm the troll. you don't think that was implied? i'm asking who's the troll, the republican, the newspaper, or slashdot. why didn't they just say "an outdated standard"? although this could just be a misunderstanding from text-based communication, that's why i was asking for context.
lol, talk about flamebait. what if it was a spanish, or english design, would that be alright? outrageous. somehow i think this was taken out of context (by a left-leaing paper). he can't be that much of a f**$%^* idiot can he? or can he? excuse me for not reading the loong article.
ok i don't normally do grammar correction posts but this one is a pet peeve of mine, so please excuse:
That word, 'aka', does not mean what you think it means. aka is an abbreviation for "also known as". it is used for pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms de plume, maiden names etc. In this case, Jeb Bush IS the brother of G.W. Bush, and so on. It's not a nick name or anything else.
Point your browsers to the tarball for maximum excitement.
Come on/., if this place can't manage some genuine excitement over Ogg Vorbis (or whatever it's called), what chance has it got. Look, someone's supporting Ogg Vorbis! Even if it is only the developers...
that's so everyone visiting the site can think it's only them who can't visit the site. thus transferring the blame from the developers to the user. cunning eh?
I live less than 100 miles away from Saint Hellens. The local news is reporting that there have been hundreds of small earthquakes per hour, and they havn't been like this since it blew in 1980. I can't wait to see what happens!
You're not... worried at all? I seem to remember doing St. Hellens in geography and it was a pretty big explosion. If we don't get another post from you (apart from correcting the date) we'll know what happened:) good luck! you might want to start digging, or running! but then, i'm not a seismologist..
it's the biggest this millenium aswell. amazing. on a semi-related note, i still hear politicians on TV talking about bringing things into the 20th century..
September 11. Remember that? there's a reason to care. I think the people who did that didn't like America much, no? Not condoning or saying you should agree with them, but you certainly should care *if* and *why* people hate your leadership, because to other countries, your leader(s) *do* represent *you*. witness people burning effigys of George Bush and Tony Blair, then capturing and beheading American citizens because that's all they can get hold of. is this being reported in your news coming up to the election? it's all we hear here. Come on, are you really not bright enough to see the connection? btw, people may be interested to learn France has a large Muslim population, somewhere in the region of 5-10 million i believe (much higher than we have in the UK for example).
eMule keeps stats on all files - i've uploaded over 10GB of OpenOffice (about 200 installs). Reading down the list other most popular files are: Java Runtime, Acrobat Reader, windows media redistributable, audiograbber, kerio personal firewall (i hope this is freeware), spybotsd, a freeware game called soldat. Game patches, drivers and utilities are all in there. I've transferrred at least a gig of each of these since i last reinstalled eMule, and most files are around 10MB so that's not bad.
I admit, this is not how i get most of my software. I just decided one day to share all my non-commercial software folders, i pay flat rate internet access so why not. partly it's to support software i like, like OpenOffice. No it's nothing to do with credits or anything like that, what's the chance of getting credit with someone i might want a file from? pretty slim. eMule has no centralised credit system:)
If you're thinking, i could put a virus in these files, if i did the checksum wouldn't match and it would appear as the only source, so i doubt anyone would download it.
Please, everyone share all your freeware (assuming you don't pay per GB). Also, it's important to show the network has a legitimate use, and mean what we say, and say what we mean.
Hmm. you may have just hit something important. A lot of it is to do with presentation of particular kinds of music as "cool". People, especially youngsters are herd animals often without a well formed taste of their own. thus they are vulnerable to this pressure. It would be fascinating to know what people would like if they were brought up in a vacuum, with access to all music, but never hearing anyone else's opinion on music. i know it's impossible, but i bet a lot of what's now independant/alternative music would be more popular. you'd probably have more melodic pop and less hip-hop aswell - ? not saying that's necessarily a good thing.
These people have no understanding of music as art. They probably listen only to their own fixed charts ("what do you mean my taste in music sucks, this was supposed to be number 1!"). Pity them.
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sad that this story gets 2 replies, when the latest MS/linux/media player scandal gets a hundred in less time. arg, what else can i say really. i find the preservation of an ancient and intelligent creature just a wee bit more interesting, and yet there seems to be nothing anyone can do about it. from what i know the solution to poaching can only be economic/legislative, not scientific/technical. and the people who have the power don't seem to care enough. so so sad. anyone got recent figures on elephant populations?
I think the word you are looking for is spelt "toddler".
Btw, no one said he's a philosopher (including himself) he was introduced as a self-made billionaire with some political opinions.
ah that's why the N-gage was such a sucess. oh no, it wasn't. i'd (if i want to be really geeky ;) rather have an iPod in my left pocket and a DS in my right. or maybe a DS in my right pocket and my MP3 CD player in the left.. or.. well you get the idea - not one fat $350 battery eating games machine.
well i (not particularly into games atm and only half following this) expected it to be $300 tops. didn't expect Sony to go *more* than double the Nintendo price. although i expect the street price *will* be around £300 - do i have any takers at $299.95? maybe if i throw in a spare battery? ;)
interesting post, but: a lot of the reason to run a system with limited accounts is to prevent certain *users* doing things *you* don't want. not things that are 'definately wrong', like installing viruses, just things you don't want in your organisation. how is your better security modal/OS design ever going to prevent that? i guess on a single user system what you're saying could make good sense?
i manage systems with limited user accounts perfectly fine. just about all software works aswell, office apps, multimedia, games, communications - it's not as bad as people make out. stuff that doesn't work - people don't get to play! (evil grin ;) also be sure to complain to the makers, it's the only way to improve this.
apparently, the text indicates, that's the only source for the installed files.
if say, 500 of us were to log into that and stay connected, would we stop the virus? would there be any risk to ourselves? (giving your IP away for a start).
Let me repost what i posted on another forum, so more people can see it@
[people commenting that they'd buy the CD pack if they came with the music]
my answer: "no of course you can't sell 5 CDs with the music on for $8 because then you're competing with [totally undercutting] shop stock. however, [the industry] can sell the artwork on its own and let people warez the music, because a few dollars per CD is better than no sale at all, which is what happens when someone illegaly downloads the music now. if they decided to let people share the music freely (remember, that's done at our cost, we pay for our net connnections), and charge for the artwork/posters/merchandise, i think we have a business again.
P2P fans should be happy with this [decision to sell printed CDRs] anyway. they don't know where you're getting the music. now you've got a source for nice artwork. that's what i originaly thought this was. i still think $8 is good value for that. the industry is getting a clue, just very slowly. eventually they'll realise the recorded music is not worth trying to charge for/control.
AND they can still sell prerecorded cds in shops, just not as many as they once did. plenty of people still like them.
they just have to weigh up whether they'll lose more to piracy when the art is available, than they gain in prerecorded sales from not having art available. i bet they don't. In fact, i bet they've already done that math. which makes the whole [expletive deleted] thing [the crusade against P2P] a lie. Music companies, are you selling content or things? make up your minds. until then, i'm not buying anything. but i'd rather buy things. "
well, maybe it was mad, but i don't think i've heard this in this form considered yet. since then i've thought of more things they could sell, like branded portable player skins (like mobile phone cases, they sell a riot). remember, fans like stuff.
shhhh - it's how slsk is. of course, since no buying is involved, it can hardly be considered a store. (being slightly cryptic deliberately).
- whole albums at a reasonable price (say half the price of buying all the tracks seperately). since i mostly listen to whole albums, not songs, and albums are prohibitively expensive atm track by track.
- no DRM, obviously. assume since i paid, i'm not on P2P. i'm not going to work around artificial restrictions.
- Lame preset standard encoded MP3s, nicely tagged. perhaps a lossless option, but i'm not too bothered. i shouldn't have to pay twice either, this is a licence for content and i'm paying for time/bandwidth.
- a wide range of independant (sp.?) label material, since i'm not really interesting in most major label music. this could be the biggest stumbling block, organising all the rights holders.
- ability to preview any part of a song, if this can be done safely.
- album art downloads in high res JPEGs?
- not pay per track, but a reasonable limit per month would be preferable, perhaps with a tiered service for heavy/light users. the money must go to the right artists in the right proportions though.
- the store should remember what i've bought, and let me download it again in case a file is lost, and maybe even let me order a hard copy at media + handling cost since i've already paid for the music.
finally, i will not use any online store until i know that the artist and store are getting a deal that makes it worth their time, since they are the two parties most providing me with the service.
oh yeah? you think i'm the troll. you don't think that was implied? i'm asking who's the troll, the republican, the newspaper, or slashdot. why didn't they just say "an outdated standard"? although this could just be a misunderstanding from text-based communication, that's why i was asking for context.
lol, talk about flamebait. what if it was a spanish, or english design, would that be alright? outrageous. somehow i think this was taken out of context (by a left-leaing paper). he can't be that much of a f**$%^* idiot can he? or can he? excuse me for not reading the loong article.
That word, 'aka', does not mean what you think it means. aka is an abbreviation for "also known as". it is used for pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms de plume, maiden names etc. In this case, Jeb Bush IS the brother of G.W. Bush, and so on. It's not a nick name or anything else.
thanks, and yes there are typos in this post!
Come on /., if this place can't manage some genuine excitement over Ogg Vorbis (or whatever it's called), what chance has it got. Look, someone's supporting Ogg Vorbis! Even if it is only the developers...
that's so everyone visiting the site can think it's only them who can't visit the site. thus transferring the blame from the developers to the user. cunning eh?
You're not... worried at all? :) good luck! you might want to start digging, or running! but then, i'm not a seismologist..
I seem to remember doing St. Hellens in geography and it was a pretty big explosion. If we don't get another post from you (apart from correcting the date) we'll know what happened
good point. is FileZilla windows only. XPIs are supposed to work on any platform. does this one? not that it matters to me very much..
Roughly what i was going to say. No offense to the developer, but we already have the excellent FileZilla.
it's the biggest this millenium aswell. amazing. on a semi-related note, i still hear politicians on TV talking about bringing things into the 20th century..
alright, so George has pissed all over your childhood memories. but does he have to ask you before changing your xbox dashboard?
September 11. Remember that? there's a reason to care. I think the people who did that didn't like America much, no? Not condoning or saying you should agree with them, but you certainly should care *if* and *why* people hate your leadership, because to other countries, your leader(s) *do* represent *you*. witness people burning effigys of George Bush and Tony Blair, then capturing and beheading American citizens because that's all they can get hold of. is this being reported in your news coming up to the election? it's all we hear here. Come on, are you really not bright enough to see the connection? btw, people may be interested to learn France has a large Muslim population, somewhere in the region of 5-10 million i believe (much higher than we have in the UK for example).
eMule keeps stats on all files - i've uploaded over 10GB of OpenOffice (about 200 installs). Reading down the list other most popular files are: Java Runtime, Acrobat Reader, windows media redistributable, audiograbber, kerio personal firewall (i hope this is freeware), spybotsd, a freeware game called soldat. Game patches, drivers and utilities are all in there. I've transferrred at least a gig of each of these since i last reinstalled eMule, and most files are around 10MB so that's not bad.
I admit, this is not how i get most of my software. I just decided one day to share all my non-commercial software folders, i pay flat rate internet access so why not. partly it's to support software i like, like OpenOffice. No it's nothing to do with credits or anything like that, what's the chance of getting credit with someone i might want a file from? pretty slim. eMule has no centralised credit system :)
If you're thinking, i could put a virus in these files, if i did the checksum wouldn't match and it would appear as the only source, so i doubt anyone would download it.
Please, everyone share all your freeware (assuming you don't pay per GB). Also, it's important to show the network has a legitimate use, and mean what we say, and say what we mean.
Hmm. you may have just hit something important. A lot of it is to do with presentation of particular kinds of music as "cool". People, especially youngsters are herd animals often without a well formed taste of their own. thus they are vulnerable to this pressure. It would be fascinating to know what people would like if they were brought up in a vacuum, with access to all music, but never hearing anyone else's opinion on music. i know it's impossible, but i bet a lot of what's now independant/alternative music would be more popular. you'd probably have more melodic pop and less hip-hop aswell - ? not saying that's necessarily a good thing.
These people have no understanding of music as art. They probably listen only to their own fixed charts ("what do you mean my taste in music sucks, this was supposed to be number 1!"). Pity them.