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Thats unfortunate.
In the UK we quite often get to watch some lucky b'stard making a meal of a condensation covered aluminium can of the most ice cold delicious yellow lager poured into a pre-chilled glass and left in a humid room just long enough for the girl in the commercial to disrobe and offer up her body to the guy who is about to drink the beer and then take the woman....
Wait.. I had a point.. We get to see beer being drunk on TV in England.
At some point the Bill Gates and Blue Screen jokes just lose their luster.
Its was in the 1980s for most of us.
Sorry, couldn't resist. This is the reason we do it. Its still funny to hate MS. Human nature needs something to complain about and if it happens to be someone universally hated, like a successful businessman, then all to the good.
You can take away my computer, but you can't take away my MS-antipathy.
It isn't about it passing without notice, its about security, being the buzzword of the noughties (00's) and how persuasive the NSA and the FBI are in making manufacturers adopt it.
Sorry, but people are not posting comments at the rate of one per second on three week old stories
No mate, what you have there is INCREDIBLY intelligent Slashcode, it takes you automatically to the recently posted dupe's comments.
Although, it might not be the first dupe, three weeks seems a long time to miss a story.
I went to very nicely named site yesterday and heard an interview between Commander Taco and the webmaster. Breathless webmaster (who does actually sound as if he is performing a one handed typing class over the exposure to such greatness) asked what the main cause of a slashdotting was.
It turns out that most of the time bandwidth isn't the problem, its the CPU time needed to create the page and the multiple threads needed to feed the images. CmdrTaco suggested that hosting images on a separate machine would be the single most effective thing to reduce/. effect, and proper caching of pages.
Forgive him, he is using Windows 2004 beta, it automatically adds latency to any traffic to sites not approved by Microsoft.
Slashdot gets 2 hours or so because not only is it not approved, but it has intelligent arguments on it.
Oh wait, no, they redefined intelligent again, it means clever now, doesn't it?
Are you saying that because you use Yahoo as an ISP (?) you can't use a different browser that they haven't written a hijack for?
Try http://lavasoftusa.com and get adaware. Failing that, hijackthis would be a good search. If you cannot use the internet the same way we can, email Yahoo and tell them they are censoring you.
I am the father of a 7 year old kid, and I want to give him access to the internet, unsupervised from his own PC, for the moment.
I just want to make sure that his PC cannot go to any sites that I don't authorise on a whitelist.
I want to be able to put crap like carttonnetwork.com and foxkids.com into a list and everything else will come up as not found.
Distribution of Linux binaries would help things a lot. Before the advent of.MSI files, installation of a program on Windoze was, at the hardest level, comprised of four steps:
Get the installation
Click the install file
Get the VB Runtimes
Copy the VB Runtimes to the Windoze directory
And the easiest ever was just to download one file to the right place and run it.
No mention of source code, compilation, required packages, the occaisional Kernel module or anything like that.
Don't get me wrong, I use Linux, I really do, but I spend a lot of time using it, rather than using applications on it.
I *do* know that with OSS you can compile apps with your own options, but to be fair, I draw the line a little before that.
o bad they won't get it right till I can rip, mix, burn. I don't do the CD shuffle in rush hour traffic. I load the MP3 CD and let it run
Most people buy a 10 disc changer for that.
I'm not interested in deciding which DRM player format to buy.
Did you decide to choose MP3, or did you get taken along on the wave of popularity like the rest of us?
Even people in th eknow don't influence decisions like that enough, or we would all have moved the market to a much better format than MP3 by now.
Its Joe Public, and his billion clones that decides things like that. Everyone else jsut tries to influence him.
Put in a standard CD, then use a clothes peg or a piece of sticky tacky blue poster gum to hold down the lid-open pin, take out the CD, put the crippled one in, then...
Wait wait wait, thats the lengths people will go to to get PS1 disks for nothing, not audio.
Sorry.
Maybe this will be even easier to circumvent.
My point is that no matter what, people will still get round it and there will be DRM-free content on the net.
But! People will also buy CDs to play in the car, and thats a large amount of current MP3 downloads.
I think this might work both ways, sales go up, piracy can continue.
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Thats unfortunate.
In the UK we quite often get to watch some lucky b'stard making a meal of a condensation covered aluminium can of the most ice cold delicious yellow lager poured into a pre-chilled glass and left in a humid room just long enough for the girl in the commercial to disrobe and offer up her body to the guy who is about to drink the beer and then take the woman....
Wait.. I had a point.. We get to see beer being drunk on TV in England.
At some point the Bill Gates and Blue Screen jokes just lose their luster.
Its was in the 1980s for most of us.
Sorry, couldn't resist. This is the reason we do it. Its still funny to hate MS. Human nature needs something to complain about and if it happens to be someone universally hated, like a successful businessman, then all to the good.
You can take away my computer, but you can't take away my MS-antipathy.
It isn't about it passing without notice, its about security, being the buzzword of the noughties (00's) and how persuasive the NSA and the FBI are in making manufacturers adopt it.
/me looks innocently about
/me takes out a spray can
/me sprays in large letters on the wall
/me walks away unseen
Don't use big fonts then!
Sorry, but people are not posting comments at the rate of one per second on three week old stories
No mate, what you have there is INCREDIBLY intelligent Slashcode, it takes you automatically to the recently posted dupe's comments.
Although, it might not be the first dupe, three weeks seems a long time to miss a story.
Zero rendering problems 0.7 or 0.7 aebrahim. XP Pro.
Ever.
Read some Terry Pratchett Discworld books.
Yeth Mathter.
eBooks available on eMule, but Hardcopy are worth the currency.
You could probably ask Hyacinth Bucket too, but only if you knew who she was.
I went to very nicely named site yesterday and heard an interview between Commander Taco and the webmaster. Breathless webmaster (who does actually sound as if he is performing a one handed typing class over the exposure to such greatness) asked what the main cause of a slashdotting was. /. effect, and proper caching of pages.
It turns out that most of the time bandwidth isn't the problem, its the CPU time needed to create the page and the multiple threads needed to feed the images. CmdrTaco suggested that hosting images on a separate machine would be the single most effective thing to reduce
+1 informative
If I had mod points this week.
Forgive him, he is using Windows 2004 beta, it automatically adds latency to any traffic to sites not approved by Microsoft.
Slashdot gets 2 hours or so because not only is it not approved, but it has intelligent arguments on it.
Oh wait, no, they redefined intelligent again, it means clever now, doesn't it?
Not when you include bought friends
You can't buy friends, you can only rent them.
I thought the accepted notation was free[beer] and free[speech] ?
Oh, I see, my mistake. Parenthesis are the new quotation marks. How clever.
Teach me to skim read something I'm replying to, won't it *sigh*
Are you saying that because you use Yahoo as an ISP (?) you can't use a different browser that they haven't written a hijack for?
Try http://lavasoftusa.com and get adaware. Failing that, hijackthis would be a good search. If you cannot use the internet the same way we can, email Yahoo and tell them they are censoring you.
I am the father of a 7 year old kid
If I ever see a 7 year old kid in Starbucks, I'll be sure to RF-Tag him with a note to his parents =)
I am the father of a 7 year old kid, and I want to give him access to the internet, unsupervised from his own PC, for the moment.
I just want to make sure that his PC cannot go to any sites that I don't authorise on a whitelist.
I want to be able to put crap like carttonnetwork.com and foxkids.com into a list and everything else will come up as not found.
Can anyone suggest a way to do this?
Search?
Don't you usually get them in the archive when you download them from emule?
Out with the back doors, and in with the new windows
Remember all those coverdisks that had shareware by the bag full?
I used to have a directory C:/UTILS for stuff like DO.EXE, CSHOW.EXE, SCAN.EXE and all those others.
Linus started Linux to replace the Unix Kernel, he didn't write GIMP, KDE or Gnome.
The SysV, Unix style consoles, DOS subsystem and other stuff was all in place and ready to be used by the Kernel, IIRC.
That would constitute "based on" would it not?
Taking the non-free stuff and rewriting it from the ground up doesn't change that, AFAIK.
*I'm prepared to accept arguments from the GNU/Linux crowd here.
Distribution of Linux binaries would help things a lot. Before the advent of
And the easiest ever was just to download one file to the right place and run it.
No mention of source code, compilation, required packages, the occaisional Kernel module or anything like that.
Don't get me wrong, I use Linux, I really do, but I spend a lot of time using it, rather than using applications on it.
I *do* know that with OSS you can compile apps with your own options, but to be fair, I draw the line a little before that.
o bad they won't get it right till I can rip, mix, burn. I don't do the CD shuffle in rush hour traffic. I load the MP3 CD and let it run
Most people buy a 10 disc changer for that.
I'm not interested in deciding which DRM player format to buy.
Did you decide to choose MP3, or did you get taken along on the wave of popularity like the rest of us?
Even people in th eknow don't influence decisions like that enough, or we would all have moved the market to a much better format than MP3 by now.
Its Joe Public, and his billion clones that decides things like that. Everyone else jsut tries to influence him.
Hold down the mouse button
Left or right?
Flamebait or troll? Decisions, decisions [grin]
Put in a standard CD, then use a clothes peg or a piece of sticky tacky blue poster gum to hold down the lid-open pin, take out the CD, put the crippled one in, then ...
Wait wait wait, thats the lengths people will go to to get PS1 disks for nothing, not audio.
Sorry.
Maybe this will be even easier to circumvent.
My point is that no matter what, people will still get round it and there will be DRM-free content on the net.
But! People will also buy CDs to play in the car, and thats a large amount of current MP3 downloads.
I think this might work both ways, sales go up, piracy can continue.