Seriously? Let's say I'm Universal, I've got about a gazillion artists I hold the copyrights for. Should I pay all the employees needed (too many) to scour YT every day for the hundreds of videos that uploaded every day and infringe on my copyrights?
Why do people keep talking about ads on YouTube? YouTube is already going *way* too far with the few ads they've got. If they start making any real money from ads they will be sued for every penny they have forgotten in their pants.
To place ads they would need to remove all copyrighted material which should strip them of about 80% of their visitors.
I read the numbers and they seem pretty low. Here in Greece 100% of University students cheat on homework assignments. There are "bookstores" around Universities that somehow get their hands on homework from past years and students go there to xerox the one they need and go home and copy them to a clean sheet of paper.
And I'd guess about 99% cheat in exams. Everybody goes into class 20 minutes before the exam begins and write everything they'll need on the desk. Then they copy when they exam begins.
How is it in other countries? I want to hear from people all over the world on this because I think we've overdone it here.
No-nonsense POP access with other email clients (ie. outlook) so I don't even have to use the web-UI if I prefer.
Well, not really. Gmail's POP support is very buggy. It goes down randomly. And there have been plenty of cases reported (happened to me twice) of Gmail's POP not working when you've got mail that it doesn't like (like some DOC's.) It just fails then. You have to go in with the web interface, find the culprit among thousands of messages and delete it. Then POP works again.
Until Google fixes POP in Gmail I use the web interface exclusively.
Gmail drive functionality (however long that is going to work)
You have to be very poor to need a drive of 2 GB, even if it's orders of magnitude slower than the rest of your drives.
/. is full of misinformation about 3D performance under linux. Yes, I have an nvidia card, yes, I have the latest drivers and no, id games are not faster under linux. I tried it because I'd read a million times in/. how 3D is better in linux because of better memory/disk management and all that bullshit.
This is certainly not the case. 3D performance is not better in linux than in Windows. It's actually quite a bit worse. Granted, it's probably not because of the OS itself but because nvidia spends more resources on developing drivers for windows than it does for linux.
If you truly get better performance with Q4 under linux, install the latest windows drivers and enable DMA or whatever weird thing you've messed up in windows. Because I did extensive testing with four different timedemos I recorded and they all say the same thing.
Rogue-likes are fun, but my problem with them is the extreme repetitiveness. You start the game, do some stuff, go on, get killed, you have to start over no matter how far you went.
I loved ADOM and I played it for hours but I eventually got bored of the constant fear that I'll get killed and have to start over.
Go into your comments preferences and set it so funny modded comments get -2. That's what I do, makes/. a lot more tolerable. Otherwise 90% of posts in some stories are "funny."
What are you talking about? I don't have a webcam and I'm not planning to ever get one. I do have a microphone but I can always plug it off or mute it from the sound controls. The article has nothing to do with 1984.
If your main reason for buying a computer is playing games, the gap between computer and console is narrower every year. Why not save the money and just get one?
If your main reason for buying a Mac is viewing pictures, the gap between the Mac and the Pc is non-existant. Why not save the money and just get one?
Insightful my ass. Where I live (Greece) 90% of people who aren't buying their first computer pick the components and order them. You can have them delivered to you and ready to assemble or you can have it delivered assembled with the parts you picked (for a fee of about 5 euros or about 7$.)
OS is optional, you can install whatever you want.
Every time a discussion about Dell or Alienware or whatever comes up in/. I'm amazed how people with great knowledge on IT (/. regulars) can discuss how good or bad Alienware PC's are. It's just a brand name people, the components inside are that matter. Dell etc. just do the assembly.
What the hell are you babbling about? If someone wants to do what you describe they're absolutely free to do it. If they want to sign with a record company it's their problem, don't you think?
Who the fuck are you to tell artists how do they sell their music? Fuck off.
Reading the steady influx of typical/. "Copying everything is legal! Information wants to be free!" etc., I thought of the following:
Why won't people who believe that also tell us what they do for a living. I believe we'll find out that they don't work in software (as many/. posters do.) If they did they wouldn't be advocating people use their software without paying.
When you're out of the dance you can sing all you want as they say in my country.
Why when an article in/. has so many comments that they create pages of them, if I go to the second page I get the same (or almost the same, with 1-2 added) comments as the first?
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Some people hate Bush so much it's unbelievable. They'll say completely ludicrous stuff to accuse him.
He's 60 fuck's sake. Why should he have a girlfriend? Nerd jokes are so American and so unfunny.
Seriously? Let's say I'm Universal, I've got about a gazillion artists I hold the copyrights for. Should I pay all the employees needed (too many) to scour YT every day for the hundreds of videos that uploaded every day and infringe on my copyrights?
Why do people keep talking about ads on YouTube? YouTube is already going *way* too far with the few ads they've got. If they start making any real money from ads they will be sued for every penny they have forgotten in their pants.
To place ads they would need to remove all copyrighted material which should strip them of about 80% of their visitors.
Who hates it when people take a small amount of money/power/water/gold/whatever and multiply it by some big amount to make it seem important?
No, my friend, a million dollars a year for a company of Google's size is peanuts.
"Pretty scary when you think about it."
Why? Why the fuck is it scary? No, really, why?
Grow up already and throw away your Che Guevara t-shirts.
I read the numbers and they seem pretty low. Here in Greece 100% of University students cheat on homework assignments. There are "bookstores" around Universities that somehow get their hands on homework from past years and students go there to xerox the one they need and go home and copy them to a clean sheet of paper.
And I'd guess about 99% cheat in exams. Everybody goes into class 20 minutes before the exam begins and write everything they'll need on the desk. Then they copy when they exam begins.
How is it in other countries? I want to hear from people all over the world on this because I think we've overdone it here.
They've got ads.
No-nonsense POP access with other email clients (ie. outlook) so I don't even have to use the web-UI if I prefer.
Well, not really. Gmail's POP support is very buggy. It goes down randomly. And there have been plenty of cases reported (happened to me twice) of Gmail's POP not working when you've got mail that it doesn't like (like some DOC's.) It just fails then. You have to go in with the web interface, find the culprit among thousands of messages and delete it. Then POP works again.
Until Google fixes POP in Gmail I use the web interface exclusively.
Gmail drive functionality (however long that is going to work)
You have to be very poor to need a drive of 2 GB, even if it's orders of magnitude slower than the rest of your drives.
I have a relatively fast computer - a Turion 64 with 1GB of RAM. Both Gmail and the old Yahoo Mail load in less than 1 second for me.
I don't know what planet you're on, but Gmail takes certainly longer than 1 second to load.
/. is full of misinformation about 3D performance under linux. Yes, I have an nvidia card, yes, I have the latest drivers and no, id games are not faster under linux. I tried it because I'd read a million times in /. how 3D is better in linux because of better memory/disk management and all that bullshit.
This is certainly not the case. 3D performance is not better in linux than in Windows. It's actually quite a bit worse. Granted, it's probably not because of the OS itself but because nvidia spends more resources on developing drivers for windows than it does for linux.
If you truly get better performance with Q4 under linux, install the latest windows drivers and enable DMA or whatever weird thing you've messed up in windows. Because I did extensive testing with four different timedemos I recorded and they all say the same thing.
Rogue-likes are fun, but my problem with them is the extreme repetitiveness. You start the game, do some stuff, go on, get killed, you have to start over no matter how far you went.
I loved ADOM and I played it for hours but I eventually got bored of the constant fear that I'll get killed and have to start over.
Just dual boot and keep a copy of Windows for gaming. One day you'll be able to play basically any game flawlessly via WINE
Hmmmmmmmmm.... no.
Go into your comments preferences and set it so funny modded comments get -2. That's what I do, makes /. a lot more tolerable. Otherwise 90% of posts in some stories are "funny."
What are you talking about? I don't have a webcam and I'm not planning to ever get one. I do have a microphone but I can always plug it off or mute it from the sound controls. The article has nothing to do with 1984.
If your main reason for buying a computer is playing games, the gap between computer and console is narrower every year. Why not save the money and just get one?
If your main reason for buying a Mac is viewing pictures, the gap between the Mac and the Pc is non-existant. Why not save the money and just get one?
Yeah. It's unbelievable at what lengths people will go to defend Apple. Maybe it's the huge price tag that gives them the will.
Insightful my ass. Where I live (Greece) 90% of people who aren't buying their first computer pick the components and order them. You can have them delivered to you and ready to assemble or you can have it delivered assembled with the parts you picked (for a fee of about 5 euros or about 7$.)
/. I'm amazed how people with great knowledge on IT (/. regulars) can discuss how good or bad Alienware PC's are. It's just a brand name people, the components inside are that matter. Dell etc. just do the assembly.
OS is optional, you can install whatever you want.
Every time a discussion about Dell or Alienware or whatever comes up in
You're gonna buy insurance from some company because they have a nice ad? And this is "Insightful"? WTF?
Country of manufacturing has nothing to do with quality. 90% of computer hardware is manufactured in Taiwan, all brands included, from Asus to ECS.
Why the hell do you write companies' names in all caps?
What the hell are you babbling about? If someone wants to do what you describe they're absolutely free to do it. If they want to sign with a record company it's their problem, don't you think?
Who the fuck are you to tell artists how do they sell their music? Fuck off.
Reading the steady influx of typical /. "Copying everything is legal! Information wants to be free!" etc., I thought of the following:
/. posters do.) If they did they wouldn't be advocating people use their software without paying.
Why won't people who believe that also tell us what they do for a living. I believe we'll find out that they don't work in software (as many
When you're out of the dance you can sing all you want as they say in my country.
The fact that you stuck "Elenor Roosevelt" there means you're discussing people too.
Why when an article in /. has so many comments that they create pages of them, if I go to the second page I get the same (or almost the same, with 1-2 added) comments as the first?
It's getting ridiculous!