But the people making spam just change their methods. Maybe they start hijacking machines overseas, or using Trojans to spam from others machines.
I think that's the best thing we can hope to happen, then the FBI can get involved and we can label spammers as international terrorists and REALLY start laying into them. If spammers think a few civil lawsuits are bad, just wait until they're getting their teeth kicked in by the jack-booted thugs of the US government for "hacking" with the intent to disrupt interstate and international trade, not to mention possibly some trumped up DMCA charges for trying to use another computer to disguise their true location. The sky is the limit once some good laws are in effect that make spamming into a truely dangerous industry (and I don't mean dangerous like getting tons of junk mail in your physical mail box like that spammer that had an interview some months ago)
Are you using the passthrough cables? to make my sound work I have to run the 1.8th inch jack passthrough from the sound on the ati card to the mic/line-in jack on on my soundcard. Either that or plug the speakers in to it directly. Are you still not getting any sound doing this? Or are you just looking for a way to get the sound to pass through the pci bus rather than using extra cables? I don't know if it's possible to do the latter on these cards. Sorry.
If you care about standards and alternatives to IE, then you should care about just about any good news for the opposition to M$. Of course, if you don't care about webpages being viewable through OSX, Unix, Linux, or anything but windowsXP and it's successors, then by all means, continue to care nothing about alternative browser choices.
I also have an ATi TV wonder VE (in addition to a radeon 9700pro, but that's neither here nor there, as I agree on their driver support being crap) and use these open source drivers. They work great under windows 2000 on my dual athlon machine. They also worked fine in windows98se in my past experience.
No offense, but this kind of statement really hard to believe when the company name isn't given for verification. Not that it's impossible or a bad idea, but I'm guessing more like improbable for a 'board of directors' for any company that's realistically large enough to have a true 'board of directors' to recognize the inherent dangers of their software eula's at this point in history.
Even though some companies understand M$ is trying to position their poisoned dagger under the company's metaphorical ribcage for the best position to hold the company hostage, the company is attempting to do the same thing to any of their clients in any cases possible. Thus they at least understand M$'s position, whereas most of these out of touch old men don't understand the true position of free software.
Summed up, most companies distrust M$, but distrust open source even more. (even if it's completely unfounded, you're not dealing with rational thinking, you're dealing with people that are fed and driven by greed, and free software runs totally askew of their ideals)
is my journal. It's mainly links to subbing websites and torrent repositories, but it's a good start.
If you're looking for commentary on the legal aspect, I'd recommend you read this, it's written by Andy Kent several years ago, but is still basically right. Andy Kent works for ADV films.
http://member.newsguy.com/~memoirs/legal.html
Re:Rio with OGG and 100Mbit ethernet...
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Hmm... I didn't see any information there about the 'rio pearl'. Is diamondmm really still around? or do they call it the sonic blue rio pearl?
Sounds like a great player, but of course, there's more to a player than the features you mentioned.
While it would be a breath of fresh air to have a player that supports the best truely open sound compression standard, I've always wanted to see the money, so to speak. It's not so much that I don't believe the company won't have vorbis support in some form, but the last thing I want to see is support for it a la the support of mpeg4 in stand alone dvd player machines (simple profile only, no divx3.11 [supposedly remedied now on some players]).
However, mainstream standalone player support helps add some legitimacy to vorbis, and it'd be great to see.
promises promises.
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Ogg support? I wouldn't buy one UNTIL they actually have the support up and running.
Seriously, I don't want to sign up for that gamespy stuff, ever. Someone should start up a torrent for this and show the RIAA/MPAA just what good legal uses bittorrent really has.
The press release says that 2/3 of their 300,000 song catalog is available for CD burning
Am I the only one that cringes every time I hear about one of these new services? I feel that even so much as casting their inane 'you buy it, but don't own it' business model in a positive light is a disservice to anyone not affiliated with the RIAA.
As far as I'm concerned, music should be a black and white/all or nothing deal. Either the music is free of anything attempting to block it from WHATEVER use I choose to put it to, or I (along with everyone else) don't (shouldn't) buy it. I want the music company over a barrell begging me not to do what they don't want, not the other way around (the way it's supposed to be in a free market, the customer controls at least as much as the seller.)
While I'm no big fan of ATi's driver problems, and can name off several problems I have with them on a regular basis (no subtitles in power dvd 4 when acceleration is enabled, counter strike will crash when you hit esc, FSAA doesn't work with 16 bit games (they had a kludge for this, but it still doesn't work for some games)) the 9700 is one of the best cards I've ever owned. For refreshrate problems try 'refreshlock'. It's what I use, and it works flawlessly.
I would definitely trade my 9700's drivers for nvidia's drivers any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I've owned two radeons, and three nvidia cards (tnt2, geforce2, geforce4) and the nvidia drivers were always faster and more compatible.
However, I think PC3d is in a pretty good state, right now. We're well past the times of metal, glide, and all the other proprietary apis, and good games still come out all the time. The hardware front really couldn't be any better, as the 9700 was the biggest jump in performance since the Voodoo2. nVidia really got complacent on the hardware engineering front, and things are better now than they've been in about 4-5 years as far as hardware competition goes.
The main difference seems to actually just be that when someone disappears in the US of A no one knows what happened to them.
Being a dissident in any country is dangerous. No less so since the new witch trials began. (all this terrorism stuff) And it gets more dangerously legal everyday with guys like Ashcroft at the country's 'justice' helm.
We all saw what good a paper trail did in Florida in the 2000 USA presidential campaign. The problems run much deeper than just a paper trail in the USA. When people are cut off from voting by police roadblocks, and thousands of ballots are thrown away, or arranged in a confusing way to try to get people to vote for someone that they don't want to, there's more than just a paper trail problem.
Unfortunately, the US government runs its own elections, rather than a truely impartial third party.
Did I read 'IRC' and 'productive' in the same sentence!?
As someone that's been part of a recent upstart IRC network, growing pains aren't the only problems you get. We've been repeatedly DoS attacked (most likely from angry young men that don't want people leaving to go to a 'competing' network... The attitude that seems to disturbingly parallel this) Remember, the number of people in your IRC channel DOES NOT make your penis ANY LONGER than it really is.
special edition dvds? How is Peter Jackson supposed to sell two versions of the same movie two times only four months apart if they're both the same number of discs?
I'm sorry to say that I've yet to find a really satisfactory and impartial comparison, much less, one that is up to date. I've had to do all of my own testing to figure out what settings do, and how codecs compare. Mainly xvid, divx4/5, sbc, and ffvfw. As I stated earlier, I've found xvid in it's latest incarnations(Koepi and Umaniac's versions are easy to find, and work great, in my experience) are the best, and the doom9 xvid forum is a great place to give feedback to, and get information from, the creators of this robust and customizeable codec.
This is probably the closest thing I could find to an impartial comparison, displaying unpostprocessed, and postprocessed images from many different codecs. Unfortunately, when I tried the link, it didn't respond, hopefully it will be back up.
You seem to have left one piece if information out though: If Doom9 are not THE EXPERTS, then who is?
Why do I get the feeling you're trying to draw me into a flame? The impetus to provide who THE EXPERTS happen to be isn't mine, it's apparently yours.
Once again, the purpose of my post wasn't to flame doom9, it's a great news site. It was to warn those that would go there that their article wasn't as good as it could have been.
As an aside, I'd consider the actual xvid/virtualdub/divx/RV9 developers to be 'THE EXPERTS' when it comes to each of their respective products. Everyone else is just a user, no matter how empowered they may feel.
I should add a qualification to my statement, the 'Ishibaar' version that was used by Doom9 isn't available compiled into binary form, you'd either have to get a binary directly from 'Ishibaar' himself, or get it off it from his specific cvs version and compile it youself (something those 'most people' you're talking about might have no idea how to do).
Besides, I implied no fraud, I implied exactly what is going on there, poor methodology in the testing.
Doom9 is a good site to get news on about what codecs and applications are new, or releasing new versions. It's also a good place for discussion with the developers of many open source applications and codecs/video containers.
However, I'd recommend that if you read their video codec reviews, you keep several things in mind. Firstly, the review is very subjective, and though I agree with the conclusion (xvid does the best job in my experience) the reviewer isn't exactly doing a normal comparison. Secondly, they're not very open to criticism, constructive or otherwise, and seem to have the attitude that they are THE EXPERTS on video encoding and codecs, and are thus beyond reproach, although, from what I can tell, the site owners aren't actually actively involved in the development of any codecs or applications.
The main two flaws of the review are: A. they use post processing in all of their comparison screenshots and the reviewer used post processed shots to determine which he thought looked best. That in itself pretty much invalidates the results, as the actual output of the codecs isn't the only thing being tested, but also the perceptual quality of their respective post-filtering schemes. B. he was using a special version of xvid that's not available to the public, and that many of the people involved in xvid didn't even realize existed, which, once again completely invalidates his results for the rest of us.
So, like I said, good site, great news, even greater discussion, questionable codec review.
Re:You will eat your RAM and like it!
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Exactly... The market always tends towards monopoly. Either through collusion, (why should companies try to outdo each other when they can help maintain a comfortable status quo?) or competition eliminating the weaker of the competitors through natural market conditions.
Of course, that doesn't mean the natural market condition is what is actually wanted, it's a fallacy of capitalism. People won't just 'play fair'.
Oh yes, here's some insight about your gas price problem.
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I think that's the best thing we can hope to happen, then the FBI can get involved and we can label spammers as international terrorists and REALLY start laying into them. If spammers think a few civil lawsuits are bad, just wait until they're getting their teeth kicked in by the jack-booted thugs of the US government for "hacking" with the intent to disrupt interstate and international trade, not to mention possibly some trumped up DMCA charges for trying to use another computer to disguise their true location. The sky is the limit once some good laws are in effect that make spamming into a truely dangerous industry (and I don't mean dangerous like getting tons of junk mail in your physical mail box like that spammer that had an interview some months ago)
Those of us that have played RO don't call it Lagnarok for nothing.
Are you using the passthrough cables? to make my sound work I have to run the 1.8th inch jack passthrough from the sound on the ati card to the mic/line-in jack on on my soundcard. Either that or plug the speakers in to it directly. Are you still not getting any sound doing this? Or are you just looking for a way to get the sound to pass through the pci bus rather than using extra cables? I don't know if it's possible to do the latter on these cards. Sorry.
If you care about standards and alternatives to IE, then you should care about just about any good news for the opposition to M$. Of course, if you don't care about webpages being viewable through OSX, Unix, Linux, or anything but windowsXP and it's successors, then by all means, continue to care nothing about alternative browser choices.
hopefully this will solve your problems.
No offense, but this kind of statement really hard to believe when the company name isn't given for verification. Not that it's impossible or a bad idea, but I'm guessing more like improbable for a 'board of directors' for any company that's realistically large enough to have a true 'board of directors' to recognize the inherent dangers of their software eula's at this point in history. Even though some companies understand M$ is trying to position their poisoned dagger under the company's metaphorical ribcage for the best position to hold the company hostage, the company is attempting to do the same thing to any of their clients in any cases possible. Thus they at least understand M$'s position, whereas most of these out of touch old men don't understand the true position of free software. Summed up, most companies distrust M$, but distrust open source even more. (even if it's completely unfounded, you're not dealing with rational thinking, you're dealing with people that are fed and driven by greed, and free software runs totally askew of their ideals)
is my journal. It's mainly links to subbing websites and torrent repositories, but it's a good start. If you're looking for commentary on the legal aspect, I'd recommend you read this, it's written by Andy Kent several years ago, but is still basically right. Andy Kent works for ADV films. http://member.newsguy.com/~memoirs/legal.html
Hmm... I didn't see any information there about the 'rio pearl'. Is diamondmm really still around? or do they call it the sonic blue rio pearl?
Sounds like a great player, but of course, there's more to a player than the features you mentioned.
While it would be a breath of fresh air to have a player that supports the best truely open sound compression standard, I've always wanted to see the money, so to speak. It's not so much that I don't believe the company won't have vorbis support in some form, but the last thing I want to see is support for it a la the support of mpeg4 in stand alone dvd player machines (simple profile only, no divx3.11 [supposedly remedied now on some players]).
However, mainstream standalone player support helps add some legitimacy to vorbis, and it'd be great to see.
Ogg support? I wouldn't buy one UNTIL they actually have the support up and running.
Seriously, I don't want to sign up for that gamespy stuff, ever. Someone should start up a torrent for this and show the RIAA/MPAA just what good legal uses bittorrent really has.
Am I the only one that cringes every time I hear about one of these new services? I feel that even so much as casting their inane 'you buy it, but don't own it' business model in a positive light is a disservice to anyone not affiliated with the RIAA.
As far as I'm concerned, music should be a black and white/all or nothing deal. Either the music is free of anything attempting to block it from WHATEVER use I choose to put it to, or I (along with everyone else) don't (shouldn't) buy it. I want the music company over a barrell begging me not to do what they don't want, not the other way around (the way it's supposed to be in a free market, the customer controls at least as much as the seller.)
While I'm no big fan of ATi's driver problems, and can name off several problems I have with them on a regular basis (no subtitles in power dvd 4 when acceleration is enabled, counter strike will crash when you hit esc, FSAA doesn't work with 16 bit games (they had a kludge for this, but it still doesn't work for some games)) the 9700 is one of the best cards I've ever owned. For refreshrate problems try 'refreshlock'. It's what I use, and it works flawlessly.
I would definitely trade my 9700's drivers for nvidia's drivers any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I've owned two radeons, and three nvidia cards (tnt2, geforce2, geforce4) and the nvidia drivers were always faster and more compatible.
However, I think PC3d is in a pretty good state, right now. We're well past the times of metal, glide, and all the other proprietary apis, and good games still come out all the time. The hardware front really couldn't be any better, as the 9700 was the biggest jump in performance since the Voodoo2. nVidia really got complacent on the hardware engineering front, and things are better now than they've been in about 4-5 years as far as hardware competition goes.
The main difference seems to actually just be that when someone disappears in the US of A no one knows what happened to them. Being a dissident in any country is dangerous. No less so since the new witch trials began. (all this terrorism stuff) And it gets more dangerously legal everyday with guys like Ashcroft at the country's 'justice' helm.
We all saw what good a paper trail did in Florida in the 2000 USA presidential campaign. The problems run much deeper than just a paper trail in the USA. When people are cut off from voting by police roadblocks, and thousands of ballots are thrown away, or arranged in a confusing way to try to get people to vote for someone that they don't want to, there's more than just a paper trail problem.
Unfortunately, the US government runs its own elections, rather than a truely impartial third party.
Politics are a dangerous thing in America.
As someone that's been part of a recent upstart IRC network, growing pains aren't the only problems you get. We've been repeatedly DoS attacked (most likely from angry young men that don't want people leaving to go to a 'competing' network... The attitude that seems to disturbingly parallel this) Remember, the number of people in your IRC channel DOES NOT make your penis ANY LONGER than it really is.
special edition dvds? How is Peter Jackson supposed to sell two versions of the same movie two times only four months apart if they're both the same number of discs?
I'm sorry to say that I've yet to find a really satisfactory and impartial comparison, much less, one that is up to date. I've had to do all of my own testing to figure out what settings do, and how codecs compare. Mainly xvid, divx4/5, sbc, and ffvfw. As I stated earlier, I've found xvid in it's latest incarnations(Koepi and Umaniac's versions are easy to find, and work great, in my experience) are the best, and the doom9 xvid forum is a great place to give feedback to, and get information from, the creators of this robust and customizeable codec.
This is probably the closest thing I could find to an impartial comparison, displaying unpostprocessed, and postprocessed images from many different codecs. Unfortunately, when I tried the link, it didn't respond, hopefully it will be back up.
Hope it helps.
Why do I get the feeling you're trying to draw me into a flame? The impetus to provide who THE EXPERTS happen to be isn't mine, it's apparently yours.
Once again, the purpose of my post wasn't to flame doom9, it's a great news site. It was to warn those that would go there that their article wasn't as good as it could have been.
As an aside, I'd consider the actual xvid/virtualdub/divx/RV9 developers to be 'THE EXPERTS' when it comes to each of their respective products. Everyone else is just a user, no matter how empowered they may feel.
I should add a qualification to my statement, the 'Ishibaar' version that was used by Doom9 isn't available compiled into binary form, you'd either have to get a binary directly from 'Ishibaar' himself, or get it off it from his specific cvs version and compile it youself (something those 'most people' you're talking about might have no idea how to do).
Besides, I implied no fraud, I implied exactly what is going on there, poor methodology in the testing.
Doom9 is a good site to get news on about what codecs and applications are new, or releasing new versions. It's also a good place for discussion with the developers of many open source applications and codecs/video containers. However, I'd recommend that if you read their video codec reviews, you keep several things in mind. Firstly, the review is very subjective, and though I agree with the conclusion (xvid does the best job in my experience) the reviewer isn't exactly doing a normal comparison. Secondly, they're not very open to criticism, constructive or otherwise, and seem to have the attitude that they are THE EXPERTS on video encoding and codecs, and are thus beyond reproach, although, from what I can tell, the site owners aren't actually actively involved in the development of any codecs or applications. The main two flaws of the review are: A. they use post processing in all of their comparison screenshots and the reviewer used post processed shots to determine which he thought looked best. That in itself pretty much invalidates the results, as the actual output of the codecs isn't the only thing being tested, but also the perceptual quality of their respective post-filtering schemes. B. he was using a special version of xvid that's not available to the public, and that many of the people involved in xvid didn't even realize existed, which, once again completely invalidates his results for the rest of us. So, like I said, good site, great news, even greater discussion, questionable codec review.
Exactly... The market always tends towards monopoly. Either through collusion, (why should companies try to outdo each other when they can help maintain a comfortable status quo?) or competition eliminating the weaker of the competitors through natural market conditions. Of course, that doesn't mean the natural market condition is what is actually wanted, it's a fallacy of capitalism. People won't just 'play fair'. Oh yes, here's some insight about your gas price problem.