Re:tend to be smaller files than movies
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A few gigabytes? Maybe you should get something actually compressed. HDTV Episodes range in size between 350 an 450MB in divX format with no noticable loss of quality even on a 53 inch tv screen. Personally I download, watch the episode once and then delete it. Once it comes out on DVD I purchase the entire season box set for my collection....I just did a calculation and maybe it would save me money if i couldnt download the episodes...i calculated that i bought 21 season sets from series i originally downloaded...thats over $1000 canadian
Someone needs to contact these idiots....
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If it wasnt for the threat of file sharing as they called it I never would have tried out Buffy, Stargate SG1, and Smallville. If it wasnt for buffy i never would have tried Angel. If it wasnt for Stargate SG1 i never would have tried out Stargate Atlantis. Because of file sharing I have purchased all 7 seasons of buffy the day it came out, same goes for 7 seasons of Stargate, 3 of smallville, 4 of angel....thats money they never would have seen otherwise
There has been a lot of zombie movies recently yes but unless i'm one myself I don't remember any zombies in the evil dead movies...not the first or second anyways. The characters were possesed by Demons.
I guess with the NHL Lockout
Sean Burke of the Philadelphia Flyers had
to find some hockey to play. When it comes to hockey I guess the XBOX delivers with NHL2k5:)
With nothing better to do he probably had his XBOX turned on 24 hours a day 7 days a week for the last few months. Any Microsoft System is doomed to failure with uptime like that!
Actually just so your aware the bandwith allocation isue isn't because of slashdot. It's been like that for a few days now ever said the rumours of him being cast had gotten stronger.
I had problems with them a while ago which ended up wrongfully costing me money. Maybe i should have sued them but instead closed my account. I originally opened my account between the dates mentioned. You can bet I want the money even if its 35 cents out of principle.
Am I the only one that thinks Anti-Spam products should be free? Spam is aggraveting enough as it is without having to actually pay to get rid of it. Here's a novel solution:
spammer gets sued
spammer gives money
money is used to found free anti-spam product
customer doesnt have to pay to get rid of the nuisance
although if I bothered to check sourceforge I'm sure there must already be a free product out there.
I hope McAfee is smart enough to allow free products to go on. I really do think patents when it comes to computer software need to have their rules changed. This is really getting out of hand. Gene patents are the same way...what has this world come to when you can patent the rights to the gene that ____fill in the blanks____?
Times do change apparently, this is the first time as far back as I can remember that Intel is not number 1. Great to hear, I used to buy Intel but in terms of quality AMD is not a problem, to boot its cheaper and usually faster than intel.
Certainly a long way from the old cyrix days (agh...any remember those? I Wish I didnt...!))
Sounds like this would be a perfect processor for emulating consoles such as the SNES, XBOX, GameCube, PS2, etc etc or pretty much any other processor.
Not only are there issues with the fact that Canadians pay royalties every time a blank CD is purchased but the RIAA is actually smaller in Canada than Bell for instance (I realise the opposite might be true in the US).
Taking a look at the history in the US with the RIAA I highly doubt we have seen the last of this. The biggest problem the RIAA faces with Canada is they are already getting royalties for every blank CDs purchased and therefore only have legal grounds to sue people who share and cannot touch those who simply download the music. But hey i'm no lawyer so what do I know:)
The guys they have to worry about are not the guys they will catch (people who download software but yet dont even have a firewall installed). Most people who know a thing or two about security who download from P2P probably use a firewall of some sort and would probably notice a "phone home" when trying to run an installer (and be able to block it from doing its job). This means they wouldnt catch the "hard core" guys (who is the ones they should worry about) but they would catch the "average joe" who is clueless.
As well; what about the legal implications? Trojans are illegal, even in this case!
Personally it worries me that this asteroid wasnt found until only 2 days ago (according to the newscientist article).
This isnt the first time either, a few months ago a much larger asteroid was not discovered until AFTER it passed earth. Both cases are too late to do something about should one be on a colision course with earth. I think better monitoring has to be in place.
Brain able to detect viruses early?
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Mind Over Machine
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I'm sure most of you are aware
the brain is a very complex system.
I have a theory. The brain tries to relay information
to the rest of our body as much as it can, although the rest of our body is complex I doubt
it comes even close to the brain in terms of complexity. The brain can be thought of
as a monitoring system; it relays information back and forth within the body.
I think it is very conceivable to think that the brain is able to measure a lot more
about our body in general than it is able to show the rest of the body. This means
that in theory it is able to measure minor changes within the body (such as the start of a cold)
before the changes reach a level deemed critical by the "system". Once a signal is deemed
critical your body starts feeling it (such as the pains associated with a cold).
Assuming my theory is correct why would it throw away such information? It is like any
other monitoring systems; you just cannot keep all information and affect your entire system
because of it. Your body quietly attemps to fight off a virus early on without your knowledge
because of information relayed back and forth between it and the brain. If it is succesfull you
will never be aware of it, should it reach a "critical" stage you are aware of it as you feel
the symptoms.
The body would not be able to handle all of these signals; no matter
how complex the humain body is, there must be billions of signals alone.
Your body is obviously aware of the cold before you are
since it transmits information to parts of your body to produce the cells capable of
fighting infections (as you can see here I'm not fammiliar with all the mechanisms of a cold but
I'm sure I'm probably not too far off).
Anyways; I'm leaving you with this thought:
What if your body is able to detect the "Intrusions" of a cancer as it forms still in a stage that is
very easy to kill? What if it can detect a foreign entity (such as the virus that causes AIDS?)
What if the Brain wave patterns can be found....what if?
I think your jumping the gun a little too quickly about switching to Linux. The code is 4 years old and with all the security issues that have been going on I doubt many weaknesses (if any) will be found on newer versions of windows. Not unless your still using tools from 4 years ago and never run windows update. Having said that why are you using windows in the first place?:)
I wouldnt mind seeing Java Open Sourced, perhaps it would finally convince some of those nay-sayers to switch to Java. Speed an issue...? Not anymore. Memory an issue? Not since 1.5, took a little while to get there but any language goes through learning
Better quality, more channels, cheaper. how can that be beaten? as for the signal loss thing, i'm in canada where we have snow storms (no igloos though!) and i only had loss of signal twice in the last 3-4 years. the signal loss lasted a couple of hours at the most.
It wasnt as good as i wanted it to be after having waited for it for so long but it was still a fun "popcorn" movie and I cant wait to see it again on DVD January 13th.
Hulk was dissapointing and would have to be in the worst category while Timeline was pretty good and so was T3
Might work for some people but not for me...none of the pictures interested me enough to want me to click on a single link and isnt that what this is all about? chances are if there were captions or a title with the thumbnails i would have clicked at least on one or two articles...right now the old fashioned way (just links without pictures to articles) would be much more efficient in making me actually read any of the articles.
His two decades will become 5-10 years easy...the reason? You cant use past data to predict what will happen, as more and more appliances (or whatever else) come out the rate at which IP space is used up will continue to grow...unless you force someone within a household to use routers for all their networking needs there is no stopping the explosion...IP space will run out well before his predictions. Even if his predictions are correct should we wait until the last minute to introduce a new format? The longer we wait the more expensive a switch will cost to everyone involved...that cost will certainly end up with the customer in the end...
but when do you stop...I mean your neck can only change angles so much during the day without it having some sort of long term effect i would think (let alone the radiation).
2 monitors makes a bigger difference than you think, unfortunately you dont realise that until you have two monitors. Still too many windows...would love to have three monitors...one for my code, the other for my output (what i have right now), and the third to view my logs...too lazy to alt-tab;)
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A few gigabytes? Maybe you should get something actually compressed. HDTV Episodes range in size between 350 an 450MB in divX format with no noticable loss of quality even on a 53 inch tv screen. Personally I download, watch the episode once and then delete it. Once it comes out on DVD I purchase the entire season box set for my collection....I just did a calculation and maybe it would save me money if i couldnt download the episodes...i calculated that i bought 21 season sets from series i originally downloaded...thats over $1000 canadian
If it wasnt for the threat of file sharing as they called it I never would have tried out Buffy, Stargate SG1, and Smallville. If it wasnt for buffy i never would have tried Angel. If it wasnt for Stargate SG1 i never would have tried out Stargate Atlantis. Because of file sharing I have purchased all 7 seasons of buffy the day it came out, same goes for 7 seasons of Stargate, 3 of smallville, 4 of angel....thats money they never would have seen otherwise
There has been a lot of zombie movies recently yes but unless i'm one myself I don't remember any zombies in the evil dead movies...not the first or second anyways. The characters were possesed by Demons.
I guess with the NHL Lockout Sean Burke of the Philadelphia Flyers had to find some hockey to play. When it comes to hockey I guess the XBOX delivers with NHL2k5 :)
With nothing better to do he probably had his XBOX turned on 24 hours a day 7 days a week for the last few months. Any Microsoft System is doomed to failure with uptime like that!
Actually just so your aware the bandwith allocation isue isn't because of slashdot. It's been like that for a few days now ever said the rumours of him being cast had gotten stronger.
That they claim their software is fast but yet their web site is reaaaaaaaaaaly slow
I had problems with them a while ago which ended up wrongfully costing me money. Maybe i should have sued them but instead closed my account. I originally opened my account between the dates mentioned. You can bet I want the money even if its 35 cents out of principle.
A box set hasnt been annouced for region 1 yet (US & Canada).
Am I the only one that thinks Anti-Spam products should be free? Spam is aggraveting enough as it is without having to actually pay to get rid of it. Here's a novel solution: spammer gets sued spammer gives money money is used to found free anti-spam product customer doesnt have to pay to get rid of the nuisance although if I bothered to check sourceforge I'm sure there must already be a free product out there. I hope McAfee is smart enough to allow free products to go on. I really do think patents when it comes to computer software need to have their rules changed. This is really getting out of hand. Gene patents are the same way...what has this world come to when you can patent the rights to the gene that ____fill in the blanks____?
Times do change apparently, this is the first time as far back as I can remember that Intel is not number 1. Great to hear, I used to buy Intel but in terms of quality AMD is not a problem, to boot its cheaper and usually faster than intel. Certainly a long way from the old cyrix days (agh...any remember those? I Wish I didnt...!))
Sounds like this would be a perfect processor for emulating consoles such as the SNES, XBOX, GameCube, PS2, etc etc or pretty much any other processor.
Not only are there issues with the fact that Canadians pay royalties every time a blank CD is purchased but the RIAA is actually smaller in Canada than Bell for instance (I realise the opposite might be true in the US).
Taking a look at the history in the US with the RIAA I highly doubt we have seen the last of this. The biggest problem the RIAA faces with Canada is they are already getting royalties for every blank CDs purchased and therefore only have legal grounds to sue people who share and cannot touch those who simply download the music. But hey i'm no lawyer so what do I know :)
The guys they have to worry about are not the guys they will catch (people who download software but yet dont even have a firewall installed). Most people who know a thing or two about security who download from P2P probably use a firewall of some sort and would probably notice a "phone home" when trying to run an installer (and be able to block it from doing its job). This means they wouldnt catch the "hard core" guys (who is the ones they should worry about) but they would catch the "average joe" who is clueless. As well; what about the legal implications? Trojans are illegal, even in this case!
Personally it worries me that this asteroid wasnt found until only 2 days ago (according to the newscientist article). This isnt the first time either, a few months ago a much larger asteroid was not discovered until AFTER it passed earth. Both cases are too late to do something about should one be on a colision course with earth. I think better monitoring has to be in place.
I'm sure most of you are aware the brain is a very complex system. I have a theory. The brain tries to relay information to the rest of our body as much as it can, although the rest of our body is complex I doubt it comes even close to the brain in terms of complexity. The brain can be thought of as a monitoring system; it relays information back and forth within the body. I think it is very conceivable to think that the brain is able to measure a lot more about our body in general than it is able to show the rest of the body. This means that in theory it is able to measure minor changes within the body (such as the start of a cold) before the changes reach a level deemed critical by the "system". Once a signal is deemed critical your body starts feeling it (such as the pains associated with a cold). Assuming my theory is correct why would it throw away such information? It is like any other monitoring systems; you just cannot keep all information and affect your entire system because of it. Your body quietly attemps to fight off a virus early on without your knowledge because of information relayed back and forth between it and the brain. If it is succesfull you will never be aware of it, should it reach a "critical" stage you are aware of it as you feel the symptoms. The body would not be able to handle all of these signals; no matter how complex the humain body is, there must be billions of signals alone. Your body is obviously aware of the cold before you are since it transmits information to parts of your body to produce the cells capable of fighting infections (as you can see here I'm not fammiliar with all the mechanisms of a cold but I'm sure I'm probably not too far off). Anyways; I'm leaving you with this thought: What if your body is able to detect the "Intrusions" of a cancer as it forms still in a stage that is very easy to kill? What if it can detect a foreign entity (such as the virus that causes AIDS?) What if the Brain wave patterns can be found....what if?
I think your jumping the gun a little too quickly about switching to Linux. The code is 4 years old and with all the security issues that have been going on I doubt many weaknesses (if any) will be found on newer versions of windows. Not unless your still using tools from 4 years ago and never run windows update. Having said that why are you using windows in the first place? :)
I wouldnt mind seeing Java Open Sourced, perhaps it would finally convince some of those nay-sayers to switch to Java. Speed an issue...? Not anymore. Memory an issue? Not since 1.5, took a little while to get there but any language goes through learning
Better quality, more channels, cheaper. how can that be beaten? as for the signal loss thing, i'm in canada where we have snow storms (no igloos though!) and i only had loss of signal twice in the last 3-4 years. the signal loss lasted a couple of hours at the most.
It wasnt as good as i wanted it to be after having waited for it for so long but it was still a fun "popcorn" movie and I cant wait to see it again on DVD January 13th. Hulk was dissapointing and would have to be in the worst category while Timeline was pretty good and so was T3
I think this refers to music only, downloading Photoshop would still prove illegal under canadian law.
Or was that last year? The linux based Gaming OS... not that there isnt one if you count the xbox :)
Wasnt there something called Phantom too?
Might work for some people but not for me...none of the pictures interested me enough to want me to click on a single link and isnt that what this is all about? chances are if there were captions or a title with the thumbnails i would have clicked at least on one or two articles...right now the old fashioned way (just links without pictures to articles) would be much more efficient in making me actually read any of the articles.
His two decades will become 5-10 years easy...the reason? You cant use past data to predict what will happen, as more and more appliances (or whatever else) come out the rate at which IP space is used up will continue to grow...unless you force someone within a household to use routers for all their networking needs there is no stopping the explosion...IP space will run out well before his predictions. Even if his predictions are correct should we wait until the last minute to introduce a new format? The longer we wait the more expensive a switch will cost to everyone involved...that cost will certainly end up with the customer in the end...
but when do you stop...I mean your neck can only change angles so much during the day without it having some sort of long term effect i would think (let alone the radiation). 2 monitors makes a bigger difference than you think, unfortunately you dont realise that until you have two monitors. Still too many windows...would love to have three monitors...one for my code, the other for my output (what i have right now), and the third to view my logs...too lazy to alt-tab ;)