I posted this story with The Register's slant on things which was that this was just MS's way of forcing users to 'upgrade' from Win9x to WinXP or whatever, for 'security reasons', and I interpreted that as meaning that newer MS apps will now not work in Win9x. But my submission was rejected (hmm).
I'd LOVE to see AOL and RealAudio have difficulty; preferably fatal. The world would be a much better place if those two spiders went down the plughole:-)
Mmm, but illegal trading's about the only recourse you have if you want to listen to some half-decent music at the same time as protesting about the RIAA's ludicrous price inflation. To support DRM is to make significant impacts in people's right to protest.
Disclaimer: Yeah I know, don't buy the music at all. But most people simply MUST have their 'hip and trendy' music. Better that they protest by piracy, than not protest at all, allowing the RIAA to continue price-inflation. IMHO.
Well, Philips' slogan is "Let's make things better". Unfortunately, that slogan doesn't specify whether it's better for consumers, or better for corporations.
But Windows Media Player automatically rips CD tracks to.WMA when you move it to 'my media library' in WMP. I discovered this recently when I had a look at my brother's massive collection of.WMAs in his My Music directory.
At some point when faced with all of the DRM crap that companies are trying to force us into, I'll just decide to move on to other activities which are less technologically oriented.
That's an extremely frightening concept. I'm all for doing many things in life, but the idea of big corps pushing people OUT of using computers to do stuff like develop software is disgusting. We LIKE using computers, and it shouldn't be allowed to happen. It's like telling a stock broker to quit their job and 'find something else to do'. They do it mainly because they love it. They couldn't bear to leave it, and they sure as hell would fight it!
There's a quote by Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Unfortunatley, I think it's bullshit. The only thing that changes the world nowadays is money and weapons.
There are some easy things you can do for drive ventillation - the easiest is to put the drive as far down as you can get in the case.
That's exactly where mine are, right behind the two intake case fans:-) I just felt them and they're not even hot; this case is EXCELLENT for cooling. I'm using a CoolerMaster ATC-201. Go buy it! It's WORTH the money.
Well, yes, but if HDs can be made that only fail after 100 years or something, that is a preferable thing to having to regularly backup data (and I mean on a daily basis) for fear of hardware failure. I'm surprised a new technology hasn't been discovered to store data. Does anybody know how unbelievably complex hard drives are these days? Just take a look at the technical information for the things. No wonder they fail. A *particle* can make them fail. There MUST be a simpler, more reliable way, to store large quantities of digital data...
This is news to me; when did IBM leave the hard drive market? Did I just dream the recent news story about them creating more densely packed drives designed for mobile computing?
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There's nothing magical about government that makes unprofitable research easier for them than for a nonprofit organization.
Oh yes there is. The government has the enormous power to require you to pay money to them, whereas a nonprofit does not.
... free as in herpes.
I posted this story with The Register's slant on things which was that this was just MS's way of forcing users to 'upgrade' from Win9x to WinXP or whatever, for 'security reasons', and I interpreted that as meaning that newer MS apps will now not work in Win9x. But my submission was rejected (hmm).
Yeah, God bless them for it. God bless a multibillion corporation for maintaining dominance over consumer rights. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!
I'd LOVE to see AOL and RealAudio have difficulty; preferably fatal. The world would be a much better place if those two spiders went down the plughole :-)
ME? Haha. ME is 98 with new icons, etc. There IS no fundamental change from 98. If it's the cutoff line, it's 100% arbitrary.
I would gladly pay a disuation fee to discuss on slashdot. Wasn't there an ideia like that sometime?
If there was, I'd imagine it pretty quickly got thrown in the bin, where it belonged.
Au contraire. Margaret Mead was right. Ask Hitler and Goebbels. Or Lenin and Stalin. Or Mao.
;-)
Ask Bush, or Gates, or Blair. or Howard (John). or Putin. I think you'd get a different answer (if they were being totally honest
Yep. This was what I was implying; maybe I should have said 'the only thing that controls the world nowadays', rather than 'changes'.
The hacker would need to track down a _lot_ of free samples to be able to analyze the disc properly.
Not necessarily. The 'hacker' could merely copy the entire DVD's raw data to a proper DVD, within 8 hours. Problem solved.
Pessamism abounds. And it didn't win the US the war of independence :-)
Mmm, but illegal trading's about the only recourse you have if you want to listen to some half-decent music at the same time as protesting about the RIAA's ludicrous price inflation. To support DRM is to make significant impacts in people's right to protest.
Disclaimer: Yeah I know, don't buy the music at all. But most people simply MUST have their 'hip and trendy' music. Better that they protest by piracy, than not protest at all, allowing the RIAA to continue price-inflation. IMHO.
Well, Philips' slogan is "Let's make things better". Unfortunately, that slogan doesn't specify whether it's better for consumers, or better for corporations.
You're not a geek, but you read Slashdot. Yeah. Right.
;-)
j/k
It's been suggested before, it's been tried before, it's been shown not to work before, try some other method, don't flog this dead horse.
It's funny that anyone living in a state which calls itself democratic could seriously say this.
Wrong, because the rich can afford to pay $20 for a CD in the first place. SO it hurts the poor far more, proportionally.
But Windows Media Player automatically rips CD tracks to .WMA when you move it to 'my media library' in WMP. I discovered this recently when I had a look at my brother's massive collection of .WMAs in his My Music directory.
Congratulations. You just stated the precise reasons as to why this bill needs to be implemented.
At some point when faced with all of the DRM crap that companies are trying to force us into, I'll just decide to move on to other activities which are less technologically oriented.
That's an extremely frightening concept. I'm all for doing many things in life, but the idea of big corps pushing people OUT of using computers to do stuff like develop software is disgusting. We LIKE using computers, and it shouldn't be allowed to happen. It's like telling a stock broker to quit their job and 'find something else to do'. They do it mainly because they love it. They couldn't bear to leave it, and they sure as hell would fight it!
There's a quote by Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Unfortunatley, I think it's bullshit. The only thing that changes the world nowadays is money and weapons.
There are some easy things you can do for drive ventillation - the easiest is to put the drive as far down as you can get in the case.
:-) I just felt them and they're not even hot; this case is EXCELLENT for cooling. I'm using a CoolerMaster ATC-201. Go buy it! It's WORTH the money.
That's exactly where mine are, right behind the two intake case fans
Compaq should just issue a press release stating the truth; that anyone stupid enough to buy Compaq crap deserves to lose their data.
Well, yes, but if HDs can be made that only fail after 100 years or something, that is a preferable thing to having to regularly backup data (and I mean on a daily basis) for fear of hardware failure. I'm surprised a new technology hasn't been discovered to store data. Does anybody know how unbelievably complex hard drives are these days? Just take a look at the technical information for the things. No wonder they fail. A *particle* can make them fail. There MUST be a simpler, more reliable way, to store large quantities of digital data...
This is news to me; when did IBM leave the hard drive market? Did I just dream the recent news story about them creating more densely packed drives designed for mobile computing?