> The P2P services don't offer music, they offer files.
Not this argument again! We all know this is a lame excuse.
You know, I am just establishing an international, undergound trafficing chain. But it is not my fault if people keep feeding that chain with smuggled people or illegal drugs on the other end. I'm just keeping the supply chain running, how am I supposed to control these things?
You will need a Windows system to actually use those tools, so Windows Genuine Advantage will be a wall for only those who are not using a legitimate copy of Windows. I guess that is a reasonable limitation for them to make.
But they have every right to do so in a free world no? What keeps forces behind Linux from boasting with the other assumed 99 % of the pages? Please explain this lack of spirit.
And why is that? Because everything should be free? The good side in licencing is that standard compliance can be forced, and no dominant company can distort the standard they way they please.
In other words, the $1000 now would be worth some $131500 in 100 years assuming 5 per cent annual interest rate, so effectively one is paying $1315 per year for the registration.
Some 70 to 80 per cent of Internet traffic is already P2P related. I wonder if a sizable portion of this is pure query traffic. I would assume that applications such this one that support multiple networks would be cause for increased query traffic all around. Therefore in my opinion it's hard to say if this development is a good thing at all.
Actually the reference provided in the story claims that the "gravitational waves have been observed indirectly from several projects since the 1960s". I fail to understand though why the./ story states no such waves have not been detected.
I can see how Microsoft goes with those hardware giants, but Disney? What's Disney's expected contribution to next generation consumer video equipment standards, and how other movie production companies are supposedly different?
But this is only until the first terrorist attack against railroad infrastructure. After that, I can see traveling with such high end trains being as much hassle than with airplanes today.
Accoding to this news (sorry, in Finnish) from today, Nokia denies that any original Nokia battery had ever exploded. Cheap third party batteries are a growing problem, because they usually lack safety components that prevent the battery from overheating when it's dropped or short circuiting.
As a frequent party goer, I'm constantly on the hunt for new gimmics to impress the laay-deees. And this device if anything should keep me on dates for the rest of the year. Thank you, Slashdot!
I has to be closed source, so application specific cheats^H^H^H^H^H features wouldn't be so blatant. I wouldn't expect any graphics card driver from a manufactorer to be Open Source.
"Why would an industry alliance need to define a standard to share an MP3 file between a smart phone and a PC?"
Well how about for automatic media file discovery and interoperability between appliances? Or should all interop development be left for Apple while the rest of us go for closed source file transfer utilities and closed protocols that probably aren't supported on ones favourite OS?
I quick look to WinZip's public web site reveals that indeed, 256bit AES is available.
There's nothing wrong with PGP in itself. Too bad it's rather unlikely for organization with connections to serveral others to be able to use that for that in scale that strong encryption ZIPs could be used for secure inter-organizational file transfers.
How's AES for serious encryption format? That's what the new WinZip 9 beta boasts.
The greatness of ZIP has been it's compatibility across platforms. It's so widely spread tool one finds it hard to image that a file couldn't be opened by receiver on some other system. When it comes to encryting files, it'd be important for ZIP to adopt one solution for strong encryption.
And no, in the real world, there is most likely no PGP or GPG where you have to send that important document encrypted outside your organization. Will they install because you ask? Most likely not. So go ahead, cross you fingers and send away unencrypted. That way you know the data will be readable by (at least) one receiver.
Even though one uses a particular mirror to download files, the installer still loads some important files from Ximian's servers. Which, you can guess, are pretty slow right about now.
What's interesting is that while some those files are common, like glibc RPM, they are not available in RPM directories on mirror sites which contain dozens of other needed packages. So it looks like the installer falls back to Ximian's server by default. Also this happens to with files that are on the selected mirror as well.
I see Mandrake has been dropped and only SuSe and RH distributions are supported. Does this mean that Mandrake is already user friendly enough and doesn't need any pasted-on-top solutions?
Pardon me, but I have lived under assumption that hard drives are indeed a hack to solve the problem of high RAM memory prices and their volatility. If RAM would have been cheap and non volatile from the beginning, it's not like hard drives would have been so widely spread by default. It's the same with main memory and cache memory. Why would anyone use slow main memory if fast cache-type memory would be as cheap?
Have you by the way noticed that every new Linux desktop release is slower than the releases before? It's because of this thing called "adding new features" which by the way don't come free of computing power on any OS.
From the patent: "Unscrupulous resellers and/or distributors may purchase less expensive processors that are rated at lower clock frequencies and then remark those processor at higher clock frequencies, a procedure known as over-clocking."
Phew! I thought that they were onto us price aware hackers at home.
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> The P2P services don't offer music, they offer files.
Not this argument again! We all know this is a lame excuse.
You know, I am just establishing an international, undergound trafficing chain. But it is not my fault if people keep feeding that chain with smuggled people or illegal drugs on the other end. I'm just keeping the supply chain running, how am I supposed to control these things?
You will need a Windows system to actually use those tools, so Windows Genuine Advantage will be a wall for only those who are not using a legitimate copy of Windows. I guess that is a reasonable limitation for them to make.
But they have every right to do so in a free world no? What keeps forces behind Linux from boasting with the other assumed 99 % of the pages? Please explain this lack of spirit.
And why is that? Because everything should be free? The good side in licencing is that standard compliance can be forced, and no dominant company can distort the standard they way they please.
In other words, the $1000 now would be worth some $131500 in 100 years assuming 5 per cent annual interest rate, so effectively one is paying $1315 per year for the registration.
You know that's called community contribution. There's this thing called open source software which relies to this very same thing. Some like it hot.
My quit Google search produced many second hand sources, but I also witnessed numbers of this sort myself when working for an ISP.
Some 70 to 80 per cent of Internet traffic is already P2P related. I wonder if a sizable portion of this is pure query traffic. I would assume that applications such this one that support multiple networks would be cause for increased query traffic all around. Therefore in my opinion it's hard to say if this development is a good thing at all.
Actually the reference provided in the story claims that the "gravitational waves have been observed indirectly from several projects since the 1960s". I fail to understand though why the ./ story states no such waves have not been detected.
I can see how Microsoft goes with those hardware giants, but Disney? What's Disney's expected contribution to next generation consumer video equipment standards, and how other movie production companies are supposedly different?
But this is only until the first terrorist attack against railroad infrastructure. After that, I can see traveling with such high end trains being as much hassle than with airplanes today.
What's this from an old telecom monopoly! Orgasm via POTS would've made more business sense.
Accoding to this news (sorry, in Finnish) from today, Nokia denies that any original Nokia battery had ever exploded. Cheap third party batteries are a growing problem, because they usually lack safety components that prevent the battery from overheating when it's dropped or short circuiting.
As a frequent party goer, I'm constantly on the hunt for new gimmics to impress the laay-deees. And this device if anything should keep me on dates for the rest of the year. Thank you, Slashdot!
I has to be closed source, so application specific cheats^H^H^H^H^H features wouldn't be so blatant. I wouldn't expect any graphics card driver from a manufactorer to be Open Source.
"Why would an industry alliance need to define a standard to share an MP3 file between a smart phone and a PC?"
Well how about for automatic media file discovery and interoperability between appliances? Or should all interop development be left for Apple while the rest of us go for closed source file transfer utilities and closed protocols that probably aren't supported on ones favourite OS?
I quick look to WinZip's public web site reveals that indeed, 256bit AES is available.
There's nothing wrong with PGP in itself. Too bad it's rather unlikely for organization with connections to serveral others to be able to use that for that in scale that strong encryption ZIPs could be used for secure inter-organizational file transfers.
How's AES for serious encryption format? That's what the new WinZip 9 beta boasts.
The greatness of ZIP has been it's compatibility across platforms. It's so widely spread tool one finds it hard to image that a file couldn't be opened by receiver on some other system. When it comes to encryting files, it'd be important for ZIP to adopt one solution for strong encryption.
And no, in the real world, there is most likely no PGP or GPG where you have to send that important document encrypted outside your organization. Will they install because you ask? Most likely not. So go ahead, cross you fingers and send away unencrypted. That way you know the data will be readable by (at least) one receiver.
Even though one uses a particular mirror to download files, the installer still loads some important files from Ximian's servers. Which, you can guess, are pretty slow right about now.
What's interesting is that while some those files are common, like glibc RPM, they are not available in RPM directories on mirror sites which contain dozens of other needed packages. So it looks like the installer falls back to Ximian's server by default. Also this happens to with files that are on the selected mirror as well.
I see Mandrake has been dropped and only SuSe and RH distributions are supported. Does this mean that Mandrake is already user friendly enough and doesn't need any pasted-on-top solutions?
Pardon me, but I have lived under assumption that hard drives are indeed a hack to solve the problem of high RAM memory prices and their volatility. If RAM would have been cheap and non volatile from the beginning, it's not like hard drives would have been so widely spread by default. It's the same with main memory and cache memory. Why would anyone use slow main memory if fast cache-type memory would be as cheap?
Maybe Slashdot should adopt a category for US centric news?
Have you by the way noticed that every new Linux desktop release is slower than the releases before? It's because of this thing called "adding new features" which by the way don't come free of computing power on any OS.
"Bill said 640K of memory is enough for most people"
And he was absolutely right at the time, no?
From the patent: "Unscrupulous resellers and/or distributors may purchase less expensive processors that are rated at lower clock frequencies and then remark those processor at higher clock frequencies, a procedure known as over-clocking. "
Phew! I thought that they were onto us price aware hackers at home.