Bull shit. Do some research before you post instead of instinctively kissing the BBC's ass as quickly as you can type.
You don't need no restrictive technology to make money out of media content They're using DRMed WMV, and limiting the content to UK BBCi users.
just find an easy-to-use distribution vector Not to easy to use for the rest of the world.
and a fair price Oh, that's good. I hate the licence fee - detest it - and don't pay it. Mainly because I don't have a TV. But as my broadband ISP subscription allows me to access BBCi, I'll be able to access this stuff, for free! How fair can you get? And, some poor bastard struggling financially who can barely afford to pay their annual 120/130 just to view their bog standard 2 BBC analogue channels probably can't afford broadband, and won't get this. Hurray for the licence fee!
Who will want to sweep through a couple of hundreds of low-res DiVx files on Kazaa to download a show when you can get it premium quality for a price this low? Well, I'll admit, I can get it for free. But most people can't get it at all. And... I might still want to get stuff off Kazaa etc, because the BBC doesn't create all the good content in the world.
*sigh*. Is it EVER gonna get a single local mail tree for all POP accounts feature? Is it even on the list of planned enhancements? Until it gets this, I WILL NOT SWITCH TO IT. Nor will quite a few other people. I wish the developers would get a clue.
This issue pisses me off, a lot. Because I'd love to switch from OE, but I won't put up with not having this feature.
Well, I tried it and instead of just replacing the deleted notepad.exe with the desired one, it popped up an error message saying it needed the Windows XP CD-ROM to restore the 'critical system files'. I just cancelled that, however, and it left the new file there when I copied it in.
Trouble is, there are an awful lot of apps that just blindly launch notepad.exe for stuff. It's the default for IE, although I accept you can change it; but what about something like mIRC? When you double click on a logfile to view it, guess what? It opens up notepad. There are a lot of apps out there that do this. It just turns out to be a hell of a lot simpler to replace notepad.exe. What would be good is to leave protection on, but just unprotect notepad.exe. I don't suppose that's possible?
... disabled on my machine. See, they idiotically count stuff as trivial as 'notepad.exe' as a system file which gets replaced if changed. Trouble is, I like replacing it. For my text editor of choice.
I'm a university student in Canada, and we (like every other university) have a DC hub on our ResNet.
Care to inform me what a ResNet is, and why your Universit(ies) seem to take such a lax approach to illegal stuff being done over it? Going to a UK university, I have no notion of what this is, and we most certainly don't have some kind of centralised server that we can setup a DC server on.
Hmm. I never really saw what was so fantastic about Goldeneye. Wasn't it just another FPS, with average graphics, a rather limited storyline, 3 different difficulty levels, and about a 1FPS framerate if you didn't have a memory expansion pack (try playing the jungle level without one)?
I don't. Ask the founding fathers which situation would come closer to the definition of 'the pursuit of happiness' - the general population being able to watch DVDs on their chosen OS, or disallowing that with the express intention of making Very Rich people Even Richer - and I think they'd go for the former.
IS it me, or is there no adult link on www.lycos.com? If there is one (I don't count the 'models' link as really adult), could you point out where it is to me?
Possibly one of the very few good things to come from that bastard.
Good things? The VW Beetle original is possibly the most hideous car I've ever seen, with the modern version not much better. Horrible loud engine, shaped like a beetle (appropriate), and painted in such eye-insulting colours you'd think they had a national survey to find out what people disliked the most.
Well, I read the article, but all I got for the last link was this: 'We couldn't find any product matches on Shopping.com for "the Bugatti Veyron"'. Darnit I want one.
Hum... but can you schedule Ghost to happen once nightly via a batch script, getting the system to reboot first? I'd like regular ghosting of my main partition onto a backup partition, in case the main drive fails. Getting all the registry settings back to how they are now would be a nightmare!
He's installing McAfee and after a month his ADSL internet connection has mysteriously dropped to 2k/second.
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If a newbie user has just installed Linux on their box, it's bound to be one with a more friendly UI. And they'll have a nicer IDE editor on there like Kedit. The kind of situation you're talking about sounds more like the 'box from 1982 crashed and burned and now we need to recover some data from it' scenario, which would only apply to system administrators or something.
when i switch into notepad in win32 I often type jjjjj to do down a few lines. Also:wq ends up in there a lot.
So? When I use Stuff like vi, i'm always trying to type Alt-F-S to save, Alt-F-A to save as, using the arrow keys, Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-V to paste, etc. Of course you get used to the shortcut keys on the editor you're used to. Doesn't make vi more sensible or superior.
A machine without a compiler? That's like a man without a penis. It's pretty inexcusable in this day and age, when even Microsoft have made their C++ compiler freely available.
Yep. And no more ridiculous extraneous correct spelling of doughnut, or mad original spelling of aluminium, or mad correct spelling of nuclear, or insane un-PC words like 'waitress', or...
The anonymous proxy wouldn't keep logs in my example. And the packet sniffer would only work if you happened to be relaying packets somewhere between the anonymous proxy and the user - not likely.
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Bull shit. Do some research before you post instead of instinctively kissing the BBC's ass as quickly as you can type.
You don't need no restrictive technology to make money out of media content
They're using DRMed WMV, and limiting the content to UK BBCi users.
just find an easy-to-use distribution vector
Not to easy to use for the rest of the world.
and a fair price
Oh, that's good. I hate the licence fee - detest it - and don't pay it. Mainly because I don't have a TV. But as my broadband ISP subscription allows me to access BBCi, I'll be able to access this stuff, for free! How fair can you get? And, some poor bastard struggling financially who can barely afford to pay their annual 120/130 just to view their bog standard 2 BBC analogue channels probably can't afford broadband, and won't get this. Hurray for the licence fee!
Who will want to sweep through a couple of hundreds of low-res DiVx files on Kazaa to download a show when you can get it premium quality for a price this low?
Well, I'll admit, I can get it for free. But most people can't get it at all. And... I might still want to get stuff off Kazaa etc, because the BBC doesn't create all the good content in the world.
*sigh*. Is it EVER gonna get a single local mail tree for all POP accounts feature? Is it even on the list of planned enhancements? Until it gets this, I WILL NOT SWITCH TO IT. Nor will quite a few other people. I wish the developers would get a clue.
This issue pisses me off, a lot. Because I'd love to switch from OE, but I won't put up with not having this feature.
Well, I tried it and instead of just replacing the deleted notepad.exe with the desired one, it popped up an error message saying it needed the Windows XP CD-ROM to restore the 'critical system files'. I just cancelled that, however, and it left the new file there when I copied it in.
Just wait until they invent wireless power. Then we'll have problems.
About the only way people could make an more outrageous mod at this point would be a computer inside a cow pie.
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Ever seen a Gateway box?
Trouble is, there are an awful lot of apps that just blindly launch notepad.exe for stuff. It's the default for IE, although I accept you can change it; but what about something like mIRC? When you double click on a logfile to view it, guess what? It opens up notepad. There are a lot of apps out there that do this. It just turns out to be a hell of a lot simpler to replace notepad.exe. What would be good is to leave protection on, but just unprotect notepad.exe. I don't suppose that's possible?
Everyone else requests that the X consortium stuff their suggestion up their ass and let people call it whatever the hell they want!
... disabled on my machine. See, they idiotically count stuff as trivial as 'notepad.exe' as a system file which gets replaced if changed. Trouble is, I like replacing it. For my text editor of choice.
Can most people say they are 'athiests' (that is, actively DON'T think there is a god), or are they really agnostics?
I'm a university student in Canada, and we (like every other university) have a DC hub on our ResNet.
Care to inform me what a ResNet is, and why your Universit(ies) seem to take such a lax approach to illegal stuff being done over it? Going to a UK university, I have no notion of what this is, and we most certainly don't have some kind of centralised server that we can setup a DC server on.
Hmm. I never really saw what was so fantastic about Goldeneye. Wasn't it just another FPS, with average graphics, a rather limited storyline, 3 different difficulty levels, and about a 1FPS framerate if you didn't have a memory expansion pack (try playing the jungle level without one)?
I don't. Ask the founding fathers which situation would come closer to the definition of 'the pursuit of happiness' - the general population being able to watch DVDs on their chosen OS, or disallowing that with the express intention of making Very Rich people Even Richer - and I think they'd go for the former.
With Paypal's fees, that's a real annoyance.
IS it me, or is there no adult link on www.lycos.com? If there is one (I don't count the 'models' link as really adult), could you point out where it is to me?
Possibly one of the very few good things to come from that bastard.
Good things? The VW Beetle original is possibly the most hideous car I've ever seen, with the modern version not much better. Horrible loud engine, shaped like a beetle (appropriate), and painted in such eye-insulting colours you'd think they had a national survey to find out what people disliked the most.
Well, I read the article, but all I got for the last link was this: 'We couldn't find any product matches on Shopping.com for "the Bugatti Veyron"'. Darnit I want one.
Hurm. Sounds a bit like vi, doesn't it? Except that, for vi, you don't so much need a strip of paper as a tome big enough to press flowers with. :-)
Any idea where the Windows registry is stored, ie. in what files?
Hum... but can you schedule Ghost to happen once nightly via a batch script, getting the system to reboot first? I'd like regular ghosting of my main partition onto a backup partition, in case the main drive fails. Getting all the registry settings back to how they are now would be a nightmare!
He's installing McAfee and after a month his ADSL internet connection has mysteriously dropped to 2k/second.
If a newbie user has just installed Linux on their box, it's bound to be one with a more friendly UI. And they'll have a nicer IDE editor on there like Kedit. The kind of situation you're talking about sounds more like the 'box from 1982 crashed and burned and now we need to recover some data from it' scenario, which would only apply to system administrators or something.
when i switch into notepad in win32 I often type jjjjj to do down a few lines. Also :wq ends up in there a lot.
So? When I use Stuff like vi, i'm always trying to type Alt-F-S to save, Alt-F-A to save as, using the arrow keys, Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-V to paste, etc. Of course you get used to the shortcut keys on the editor you're used to. Doesn't make vi more sensible or superior.
A machine without a compiler? That's like a man without a penis. It's pretty inexcusable in this day and age, when even Microsoft have made their C++ compiler freely available.
Yep. And no more ridiculous extraneous correct spelling of doughnut, or mad original spelling of aluminium, or mad correct spelling of nuclear, or insane un-PC words like 'waitress', or...
The anonymous proxy wouldn't keep logs in my example. And the packet sniffer would only work if you happened to be relaying packets somewhere between the anonymous proxy and the user - not likely.