Oh come now! You can always do a site:slashdot.org and search Google. All the knowledge about ANYTHING is right there at your fingertips. Sometimes in duplicate and triplicate!
Brings up an interesting point... Last night we were offered "free" Guinness pint glasses with each Guinness purchased. We were told they were 20oz glasses. Pints aren't 20oz we said.
591ml on the box the bartender claimed. Like anyone in the USA knows how many ounces that equates to...
Google knew though: 591 ml = 19.9840873 US fluid ounces.
They weren't lying about the size of the glass but we determined w/their incorrect pour and the resulting Guinness head that we were ending up with 17.0568431 ounces anyway.
Luckily for the bartender (and the drunk/ditzy waitress) we had Google and wireless Internet.
or a major backlash which will get Congress to change the FCC's direction.
What major backlash? There aren't enough people w/HDTV yet (nevermind HDTV+recorders) that the broadcast flag would matter.
People will get their HDTV+recorders and say, "oh, we can't copy that, it makes sense, there's no such thing as timeshifting and fair use!"
They were smart about the flag... They did it before HDTV became entrenched. That way there would be no backlash because no one would know any different.
A great indication of when you should quit your job is when you wake up every morning and dread going into work. Its okay to wish you were doing something else, but if you wake up and always hate the idea of going into the office then it is probably a good time to find a new line of work.
Stop being so work centered. I'm serious. It's *the* most unhealthy part of our society.
Extremely efficient for disseminating files (e.g., SMTP is not very good if you want to share a 100MB file with thousands of people)
No but FTP, IRC, and HTTP are.
Are widely popular precisely because they enable copyright infringement (the majority of web sites are not for the purpose of copyright infringement, but the majority of traffic on Grokster surely is)
Handguns are widely popular for hunting.
Are difficult to track down and eliminate copyright infringement (if an FTP site at some IP address becomes popular, it's easy to figure out who is hosting the site and who needs to be contacted to have it shut down. P2P networks have provided no such mechanisms - for good reason, because they're either ideologically against copyright, or against copyright because breaking it is how they make money)
It is SO difficult to see what IPs are using BitTorrent to share files. iptraf or netstat. Tough stuff I know.
This has nothing to do with P2P as a method of communicating data. This has everything to do with the providers of P2P networks providing reasonable safeguards against copyright infringement, which, like it or not, is the law of the land.
So creators of FTPd, HTTPd, SMTPd, NNTPd, etc should all have to write in "reasonable" safeguards to stop copyrighted material from passing over their software?
Honestly, that can't work, I am free to move my copyrighted software from machine to machine to machine via FTP, HTTP, etc. That would put an end to the usefulness of these programs.
BTW -- I have talked about "reasonable" before. What's reasonable? I suppose in this day and age being "reasonable" all depends on how much money was slipped into the pockets of our law makers.
What I don't understand is why it even has to go this far. P2P applications are the same as any other network transmission medium.
HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IRC, SCP, blah blah blah blah blah, can all be used to send files across the Internet to another party.
P2P has its legitimate uses as does any other object. P2P has its illegal uses as does any other tool. Obviously the lawyers would have a field day if P2P was banned...
Although the writer of the article goes into detail, frankly, iDownload is using semantics to hide the true purpose. Spyware, is software that is installed on a consumer's computer, WITHOUT that consumer's explicit, knowledgeable consent, and DOES NOT serve a proper, useful service for that consumer.
No way?! A Spyware company that's trying to use word games to justify their existence? No way!
I thought that there were straight forward and honest people behind those companies installing software w/o my knowledge on my computer.
Slashdot and OSDN are clamoring to raise subscription rates!
In a move that the OSDN bean-counters believe will give Slashdot and OSDN more cash on hand, Slashdot.org is announcing that they are raising subscription rates to $5.25 for 1000 pages of ad-free* viewing.
More and more frequently Slashdot has been giving its readers the opportunity to read day old news AGAIN! The editors of the site claim that this is part of their overall marketing plan:
Rob Malda (aka CmdrTaco) was quoted in the NYT (vampire sucking required) as saying, "well we give you TWICE the news in two days so we thought it was only right that our subscribers pay a little bit extra!"
Zonk was quoted as saying, "well we give you TWICE the news in two days so we thought it was only right that our subscribers pay a little bit extra!"
While Slashdot does have an e-mail link on their site to allow Slashdot subscribers to report these duplicates to the "Editor on Duty" the editors have admitted in secret taped conversations (on IRC) that the email address is bunk and goes to/dev/null... "How are we to justify raising subscription rates if the readers weren't getting the same old shit twice?"
* - ad-free only refers to banner ads, not posts to the main page that are made to appear as "stories" when they are in all actuality advertisements (i.e. iPods)
"(Gates) is one of the most important business leaders of his age," he said. "Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy."
If only Knighthood came with all the grandeur that fairytales make it out to be. Luckily for Gates he falls right into the lot of Knights that were brutal barbarians who killed their competitors off by lopping their heads off with a sharp steel sword.
Among the pomp and grandeur of the formal state rooms at the palace, Gates will kneel in front of the sovereign, who will gently tap him on the shoulder with a sword.
You have to wonder if this is something like Gates received from the DOJ... "Among the pomp and grandeur of the formal courthouse, Gates will kneel in front of the judge, who will gently slap him on the wrist.
They need to name that something cool like Honorary Convicted Monopolist or something.
Whether the Firewire feature was dropped from the first incarnation, or was put in place ready for the Mac's next revision isn't clear. However, early rumours surrounding the so-called "headless iMac" that was to become the Mac Mini, did indeed mention an integrated iPod Dock, fitted to help encourage Windows-using iPod owners to switch to the Mac platform...
I'm sorry but what made ME (as a "PC" user) to switch to the Mac platform was the price. $499 for the base model is 100% perfect. I have said it here before (and I am saying it again)... Once Apple created a computer that was reasonably priced I would purchase one and I did.
It's nice that it runs cool, near silent, and that it is snappy for what I use it for (with 512MB) but it's super nice that it was priced right.
I don't own an iPod and I likely will never own an iPod so the iPod dock wouldn't make me switch. I highly doubt that PC users would switch just because of an iPod docking feature.
Unfortunately, it's all about the telecom industry, both in the US, and abroad, trying to consolidate power, and shut out open access, whether it's data or voice.
And what happens when you have municipal wifi and they ban it (along with a lot of other stuff) because it's not "community friendly" or it wastes too much bandwith?
This is typical bean-counter logic. Let's see... 1 million sales at $0.99 = $990,000. But 1 million sales at $9.99 = $9,990,000! Wow, that's 10x better!
But see they're in it for the musicians so it's ok. Right?
Sadly, people will pay the increased prices (everyone pointed to the eventual raise to 1.25 when iTunes first started) because they don't have a choice. Once the sales peak off and start to drop it will of course be the pirates fault.
See! We allowed downloads to happen legally and we had to cover our costs by raising the prices only a little (mind you most physical CDs are in the $13 to $16 range) so 1.25/track seems logical right?!?!?
Do any of the moderators actually read the fucking article first?
The CPU is a 2.4Ghz Celeron. It's not an expensive P4.
Overpriced, underpowered, and dumb.
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You too can spend an exorbitant amount of money on software that is already freely available! This software package is only $70! It allows you to rip and share your MP3s all over your house just like everyone else does with Samba or built in Microsoft networking or your typical streaming MP3 server!
You can also buy a $400 2.4 Ghz Celeron with a ridiculously small amount of RAM (256) and HD space (80GB) which includes Linspire which wants you to pay to upgrade software available for other Linux distributions FREE!
Sorry guys, I'm sticking to my current setup that includes free software that's just as easy to use.
I want to know if stores are going to have "extra security measures" which require you to show your ID when you purchase something under $25.
It's a real pain in the ass when it is "company policy" to request IDs. I don't shop at a local Cub Food grocery store because they require me to show an ID.
My signature is usally an unintelligible squiggle. It's nothing like what shows on my ID. Signing credit card shit is a hassle and I make sure to do it as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, it seems Troika's transition from their prior isometric perspective games to first-person this time may not have been completely smooth. Since release, several bugs have emerged including a showstopper that has quite a few players to experience a crash to desktop in one of the later missions. An interim patch has been released by the fan community, but it's unfortunate a flaw of this magnitude managed to sneak past quality assurance, and that the players themselves had to fix it. Aside from that, characters occasionally glide across the floor instead of walking, and some actions are out of sync with the audio. There are also various graphical glitches like flickering textures and NPCs that disappear in front of you as you move down the street or exhibit other bizarre behaviors such as walking above the ground.
While the review says that the graphics were nice I couldn't disagree more. I wasn't blown away by them and I certainly don't care much for graphics anyway.
Give me great gameplay and a stable playing environment. I haven't ever had a PS2 game crash my PS2 and I certainly haven't had Quake crash my computer. I wouldn't expect any game to do that... Patched or not.
I would venture to say "not that much". Conectiva was apparently the first Linux distro to cater to countries outside of the US and Europe.
It was based out of Brazil (which doesn't give it much weight as far as I'm concerned as I wouldn't trust a pile of shit from.br) and won some obscure awards for being the "best OS".
For a company that recently claimed bankruptcy I just can't see this merger as being fruitful in the future.
They talk a lot about this being the savior of power-consumption but:
They are seen as the solution to power-consumption problems that have come to the fore as clock-speeds have increased beyond 3.0 GHz. At such speeds, single-CPU processors can often dissipate more than 150 W. In contrast, dual-core parts can reduce power consumption to more reasonable levels. For example, a processor with dual 2.0-GHz cores can deliver performance not all that different from a single-core 3.5-GHz part. More important, such a dual-core part will hold down power dissipation to a figure closer to that of a standalone 2.0-GHz CPU, allowing processing throughput to effectively double for not much more power.
Yeah, great, so it reduces power-consumption to "more reasonable levels" yet in every article I have read on this no one really mentions much more than that. What's reasonable? Telling me twice the speed for not much more power doesn't mean anything to me (other than marketing doublespeak).
What I want to know is how much money these processors will save in power consumption compared to how much more they will cost over their single core cousins... No one has said anything about that yet.
Now, also, how many OSs (and applications) are prepared for dual-core support? Are there any available systems that are stable and do that?
People like stuff that's "free". They don't want to pay for things, they don't want to schedule their lives around their TV/network/advertisers, and they certainly don't want to have to buy additional hardware to timeshift.
The Internet (as we know it now) has created a medium that has changed the face of the media world. The media conglomorates think that they can win by using the clout and money we have permitted them to gain over all those years they had us glued to the sets...
What they don't understand is that we will win regardless of timeframe. We are going to do what we want, how we want to do it.
It's a sad reality that the media conglomorates will need to someday face. Most likely when they run out of money.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh come now! You can always do a site:slashdot.org and search Google. All the knowledge about ANYTHING is right there at your fingertips. Sometimes in duplicate and triplicate!
What more could you need?
Brings up an interesting point... Last night we were offered "free" Guinness pint glasses with each Guinness purchased. We were told they were 20oz glasses. Pints aren't 20oz we said.
591ml on the box the bartender claimed. Like anyone in the USA knows how many ounces that equates to...
Google knew though: 591 ml = 19.9840873 US fluid ounces.
They weren't lying about the size of the glass but we determined w/their incorrect pour and the resulting Guinness head that we were ending up with 17.0568431 ounces anyway.
Luckily for the bartender (and the drunk/ditzy waitress) we had Google and wireless Internet.
or a major backlash which will get Congress to change the FCC's direction.
What major backlash? There aren't enough people w/HDTV yet (nevermind HDTV+recorders) that the broadcast flag would matter.
People will get their HDTV+recorders and say, "oh, we can't copy that, it makes sense, there's no such thing as timeshifting and fair use!"
They were smart about the flag... They did it before HDTV became entrenched. That way there would be no backlash because no one would know any different.
A great indication of when you should quit your job is when you wake up every morning and dread going into work. Its okay to wish you were doing something else, but if you wake up and always hate the idea of going into the office then it is probably a good time to find a new line of work.
Stop being so work centered. I'm serious. It's *the* most unhealthy part of our society.
Extremely efficient for disseminating files (e.g., SMTP is not very good if you want to share a 100MB file with thousands of people)
No but FTP, IRC, and HTTP are.
Are widely popular precisely because they enable copyright infringement (the majority of web sites are not for the purpose of copyright infringement, but the majority of traffic on Grokster surely is)
Handguns are widely popular for hunting.
Are difficult to track down and eliminate copyright infringement (if an FTP site at some IP address becomes popular, it's easy to figure out who is hosting the site and who needs to be contacted to have it shut down. P2P networks have provided no such mechanisms - for good reason, because they're either ideologically against copyright, or against copyright because breaking it is how they make money)
It is SO difficult to see what IPs are using BitTorrent to share files. iptraf or netstat. Tough stuff I know.
This has nothing to do with P2P as a method of communicating data. This has everything to do with the providers of P2P networks providing reasonable safeguards against copyright infringement, which, like it or not, is the law of the land.
So creators of FTPd, HTTPd, SMTPd, NNTPd, etc should all have to write in "reasonable" safeguards to stop copyrighted material from passing over their software?
Honestly, that can't work, I am free to move my copyrighted software from machine to machine to machine via FTP, HTTP, etc. That would put an end to the usefulness of these programs.
BTW -- I have talked about "reasonable" before. What's reasonable? I suppose in this day and age being "reasonable" all depends on how much money was slipped into the pockets of our law makers.
What I don't understand is why it even has to go this far. P2P applications are the same as any other network transmission medium.
HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IRC, SCP, blah blah blah blah blah, can all be used to send files across the Internet to another party.
P2P has its legitimate uses as does any other object. P2P has its illegal uses as does any other tool. Obviously the lawyers would have a field day if P2P was banned...
Although the writer of the article goes into detail, frankly, iDownload is using semantics to hide the true purpose. Spyware, is software that is installed on a consumer's computer, WITHOUT that consumer's explicit, knowledgeable consent, and DOES NOT serve a proper, useful service for that consumer.
No way?! A Spyware company that's trying to use word games to justify their existence? No way!
I thought that there were straight forward and honest people behind those companies installing software w/o my knowledge on my computer.
The TV told us we are free. That's why.
Slashdot and OSDN are clamoring to raise subscription rates!
/dev/null... "How are we to justify raising subscription rates if the readers weren't getting the same old shit twice?"
In a move that the OSDN bean-counters believe will give Slashdot and OSDN more cash on hand, Slashdot.org is announcing that they are raising subscription rates to $5.25 for 1000 pages of ad-free* viewing.
More and more frequently Slashdot has been giving its readers the opportunity to read day old news AGAIN! The editors of the site claim that this is part of their overall marketing plan:
Rob Malda (aka CmdrTaco) was quoted in the NYT (vampire sucking required) as saying, "well we give you TWICE the news in two days so we thought it was only right that our subscribers pay a little bit extra!"
Zonk was quoted as saying, "well we give you TWICE the news in two days so we thought it was only right that our subscribers pay a little bit extra!"
While Slashdot does have an e-mail link on their site to allow Slashdot subscribers to report these duplicates to the "Editor on Duty" the editors have admitted in secret taped conversations (on IRC) that the email address is bunk and goes to
* - ad-free only refers to banner ads, not posts to the main page that are made to appear as "stories" when they are in all actuality advertisements (i.e. iPods)
In addition to his Honorary Convicted Monopolist award he should also receive the Honorary Money Laundering award.
"(Gates) is one of the most important business leaders of his age," he said. "Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy."
If only Knighthood came with all the grandeur that fairytales make it out to be. Luckily for Gates he falls right into the lot of Knights that were brutal barbarians who killed their competitors off by lopping their heads off with a sharp steel sword.
Among the pomp and grandeur of the formal state rooms at the palace, Gates will kneel in front of the sovereign, who will gently tap him on the shoulder with a sword.
You have to wonder if this is something like Gates received from the DOJ... "Among the pomp and grandeur of the formal courthouse, Gates will kneel in front of the judge, who will gently slap him on the wrist.
They need to name that something cool like Honorary Convicted Monopolist or something.
Whether the Firewire feature was dropped from the first incarnation, or was put in place ready for the Mac's next revision isn't clear. However, early rumours surrounding the so-called "headless iMac" that was to become the Mac Mini, did indeed mention an integrated iPod Dock, fitted to help encourage Windows-using iPod owners to switch to the Mac platform...
I'm sorry but what made ME (as a "PC" user) to switch to the Mac platform was the price. $499 for the base model is 100% perfect. I have said it here before (and I am saying it again)... Once Apple created a computer that was reasonably priced I would purchase one and I did.
It's nice that it runs cool, near silent, and that it is snappy for what I use it for (with 512MB) but it's super nice that it was priced right.
I don't own an iPod and I likely will never own an iPod so the iPod dock wouldn't make me switch. I highly doubt that PC users would switch just because of an iPod docking feature.
YMMV.
Unfortunately, it's all about the telecom industry, both in the US, and abroad, trying to consolidate power, and shut out open access, whether it's data or voice.
And what happens when you have municipal wifi and they ban it (along with a lot of other stuff) because it's not "community friendly" or it wastes too much bandwith?
you mean like they already try to do when you install AIM's official Windows client?
They want to know if you want to install WeatherBug.
Cute.
This is typical bean-counter logic. Let's see... 1 million sales at $0.99 = $990,000. But 1 million sales at $9.99 = $9,990,000! Wow, that's 10x better!
But see they're in it for the musicians so it's ok. Right?
Sadly, people will pay the increased prices (everyone pointed to the eventual raise to 1.25 when iTunes first started) because they don't have a choice. Once the sales peak off and start to drop it will of course be the pirates fault.
See! We allowed downloads to happen legally and we had to cover our costs by raising the prices only a little (mind you most physical CDs are in the $13 to $16 range) so 1.25/track seems logical right?!?!?
Sad.
Do any of the moderators actually read the fucking article first?
The CPU is a 2.4Ghz Celeron. It's not an expensive P4.
You too can spend an exorbitant amount of money on software that is already freely available! This software package is only $70! It allows you to rip and share your MP3s all over your house just like everyone else does with Samba or built in Microsoft networking or your typical streaming MP3 server!
You can also buy a $400 2.4 Ghz Celeron with a ridiculously small amount of RAM (256) and HD space (80GB) which includes Linspire which wants you to pay to upgrade software available for other Linux distributions FREE!
Sorry guys, I'm sticking to my current setup that includes free software that's just as easy to use.
I want to know if stores are going to have "extra security measures" which require you to show your ID when you purchase something under $25.
It's a real pain in the ass when it is "company policy" to request IDs. I don't shop at a local Cub Food grocery store because they require me to show an ID.
My signature is usally an unintelligible squiggle. It's nothing like what shows on my ID. Signing credit card shit is a hassle and I make sure to do it as quickly as possible.
Knock off the obvious bullshit Anonymous Pussy, it's getting old.
From this review:
Unfortunately, it seems Troika's transition from their prior isometric perspective games to first-person this time may not have been completely smooth. Since release, several bugs have emerged including a showstopper that has quite a few players to experience a crash to desktop in one of the later missions. An interim patch has been released by the fan community, but it's unfortunate a flaw of this magnitude managed to sneak past quality assurance, and that the players themselves had to fix it. Aside from that, characters occasionally glide across the floor instead of walking, and some actions are out of sync with the audio. There are also various graphical glitches like flickering textures and NPCs that disappear in front of you as you move down the street or exhibit other bizarre behaviors such as walking above the ground.
While the review says that the graphics were nice I couldn't disagree more. I wasn't blown away by them and I certainly don't care much for graphics anyway.
Give me great gameplay and a stable playing environment. I haven't ever had a PS2 game crash my PS2 and I certainly haven't had Quake crash my computer. I wouldn't expect any game to do that... Patched or not.
I would venture to say "not that much". Conectiva was apparently the first Linux distro to cater to countries outside of the US and Europe.
.br) and won some obscure awards for being the "best OS".
It was based out of Brazil (which doesn't give it much weight as far as I'm concerned as I wouldn't trust a pile of shit from
For a company that recently claimed bankruptcy I just can't see this merger as being fruitful in the future.
They talk a lot about this being the savior of power-consumption but:
They are seen as the solution to power-consumption problems that have come to the fore as clock-speeds have increased beyond 3.0 GHz. At such speeds, single-CPU processors can often dissipate more than 150 W. In contrast, dual-core parts can reduce power consumption to more reasonable levels. For example, a processor with dual 2.0-GHz cores can deliver performance not all that different from a single-core 3.5-GHz part. More important, such a dual-core part will hold down power dissipation to a figure closer to that of a standalone 2.0-GHz CPU, allowing processing throughput to effectively double for not much more power.
Yeah, great, so it reduces power-consumption to "more reasonable levels" yet in every article I have read on this no one really mentions much more than that. What's reasonable? Telling me twice the speed for not much more power doesn't mean anything to me (other than marketing doublespeak).
What I want to know is how much money these processors will save in power consumption compared to how much more they will cost over their single core cousins... No one has said anything about that yet.
Now, also, how many OSs (and applications) are prepared for dual-core support? Are there any available systems that are stable and do that?
People like stuff that's "free". They don't want to pay for things, they don't want to schedule their lives around their TV/network/advertisers, and they certainly don't want to have to buy additional hardware to timeshift.
The Internet (as we know it now) has created a medium that has changed the face of the media world. The media conglomorates think that they can win by using the clout and money we have permitted them to gain over all those years they had us glued to the sets...
What they don't understand is that we will win regardless of timeframe. We are going to do what we want, how we want to do it.
It's a sad reality that the media conglomorates will need to someday face. Most likely when they run out of money.
You mean like this (2002)?
Or also seen here.