It is not possible to have a linksys router do NAT on a downstream only connection. Why? - The way NAT works is (partially) by identifying outgoing sockets. Without this, NAT is useless. On the other hand, you could use proxies however.
To use NAT though, both the upstream and the downstream must be connected to the same routing device. An old computer would do the job nicely.
I wonder what would happen if all of a sudden P2P companies starting suing the RIAA? Sure, it would cost money, but they wouldn't have to hire dream team lawyers, because it wouldn't really matter if they won or lost, it would just keep the RIAA off their backs.
Buying a TiVo without service doesn't make much sense to me. If TiVo said upfront, "We are going to use YOUR space, to record things that YOU don't want, so WE make money," it would be another story.
Parents can give children rights if they want; they don't have to.
Well, as a teen living in the US, I'm afraid I'm going to have to point out that every generalization you make in your comment is incorrect. It's a nice idea to give children full rights, but there really isn't any benefit gained.
Where do you get the idea that there is 'extra space'? Most likely, TiVo never planned for this, and is using your space that could be used for something you want to watch. The difference between children and adults are that children have no rights. Adults have the right to use things they buy in the manner they want to. Adults can deny children of whatever rights they feel is necessary.
If you're going to make an analogy, try and make it almost make sense.
I own two epson printers.. and I'm looking for a new one at the moment. The main criteria I'm looking for is that its ink will NOT dry up even after long periods of no usage (3 months about). Instead of going with these companies who try to trick the consumers into buying $50 cartridges, I would like to go with a company that isn't screwing over it's customers (well... trying to). Any suggestions?
This is a good point. But, like the poster said.. how fair is it that you get the agreements AFTER you buy the product? Has anyone that has worked in a computer store ever had anyone come back and return software because they couldn't agree to the EULA? Of course not.. people should know what they are buying (and what they will have to agree to) BEFORE they buy it. Doing a search on Microsoft.com for 'EULA' showed up some tech support articles, and that's it. I think that EULAs should be invalid unless customers can view them before buying the software..
I am getting very confused by Microsoft's strategies. Although they are fighting off in being seperated for being a monopoly, they keep acting blatantly as one! Are they trying to make Microsoft as big as possible before it's split, or giving the thumb to the states that are prosecuting it?
If I made millions of dollars for selling my A paper publically, it wouldn't really matter if some people copied it, since I'm already a millionaire, and I don't believe in crying that I'm not a billionaire.
Yes, all outgoing phone calls are free.. but what about incoming for the other party? You can pick your area code, but what if you want to pick your first 3 digits too? Hopefully you can, or at least pick what local long distance area you would like. Other than that, this sounds great.. I will have to try it when I figure that out:)
I would love to see Yahoo and AOL's reasons for lobbying against the bill...
"Well, as we all know, we provide extraordinary services to our customers, without them knowing it, by giving them the latest advertisements, that are useful, entertaining, and just great! It would be a shame if some users could not receive these because they didn't know they were available. We want to protect consumer's interests!"
I'm not even sure why people bother with bnetd that much.. Head over to the zone.com. Yep, it's hosted by Microsoft. Why, you ask? They have support for any IPX compatible game.. which is well, all of Blizzard's games. Let Blizzard sue Microsoft.. that'd be a laugh.
AIM might have been a closed protocol once upon a time.. but do a websearch on google for 'AIM protocol', and you'll be in for a surprise... I honestly don't see why AOL is doing this either.. Aol's client(s) are shit, and trillian is well, great. If trillian can't connect to AIM, I won't use AIM then.
If you kept your facts straight you would realize that the bnetd developers have offered numerous times to put in anti-piracy checks. However, Blizzard has declined.
Correct me if I'm wrong: You can't play on Bnetd without the game? My point was, they aren't making money through advertising (in the game). Using bnetd does not impair people from going to battle.net. I've used to use battle.net for starcraft.. and guess what, NEVER visited the website! I also never have seen a banner ad from Battle.net. Maybe it's something they added after I switched to bnetd, who knows?
Ok, maybe I'm wrong, but I see no point for Blizzard to continue pursuing this. First of all, it's stupid to begin with. It is a GOOD thing for Blizzard, bringing them more business. "Hey, I want to play the Blizzard game ______, but their servers SUCK!" "That's ok, use Bnetd"... and so on. But other than that, they are going to alienate tons of their users.. and for what? Is Bnetd stealing business? No.. Is Bnetd stealing advertising revenue? No.. Blizzard.net doesn't use advertising. So why? If someone can give me a good answer for this, I'd love to hear it.
An easy solution I can think of is just selling cd audio drives (no data) that read like normal cd players. That way, we can listen to copy protected cds, rip copy protected cds, hence making there no need to be copy protected cds in the first place.
Sony, I have a great idea for you.. here is how you make the PERFECT copy protection.
You will need: 1(One) CD (Compact-Disc), 1(One) big sharp object Steps: 1.Place CD on flat surface, with the label side down. 2.Hold the big sharp object, be careful not to drop it on your toe, it will hurt. 3.Place the big sharp object's sharp point near the middle of the cd. 4.Apply pressure, and move the object toward the outside of the cd. 5.Rotate, and repeat. Extra precautions: Breaking the CD in half will result in an extra layer of protection.
Well, I had always thought myself an open kind of person. I had a mac, and I used it, didn't hate it, didn't particularly love it. Sure, Mac OS X is cool, but Apple's business strategies are turning more and more into Microsoft, and are just in general annoying me. They over charge, have shitty support, and well, their board of directors needs to get a kick in the ass (one that's hard enough to kick them out of Apple)... sorry Steve. I foresee Apple losing most of their developers in the future.. leaving them left with an operating system that yes, is developed by people over 18, but has no software to run! Apple is doomed, and I predict it will be gone within 10 years (probably bought out). They have cool stuff, but seriously, who wants to pay, and who wants to put up with crap like this? I'm sticking with open hardware, and *truly* open software.
Unfortunately, Tribes 2 has NO support for voodoos at all. Don't ask me why.. they just don't work, in opengl or direct 3d. Get another card, or look for 'MiniGL' on the internet, which is a glide mini opengl dll, which works ok on tribes 2. GL!
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Not so much as distance, but customer density. Putting in a neighborhood upstream station isn't cost effective if only a few people are using it.
To use NAT though, both the upstream and the downstream must be connected to the same routing device. An old computer would do the job nicely.
I wonder what would happen if all of a sudden P2P companies starting suing the RIAA? Sure, it would cost money, but they wouldn't have to hire dream team lawyers, because it wouldn't really matter if they won or lost, it would just keep the RIAA off their backs.
Parents can give children rights if they want; they don't have to.
See above.
Parents can drop charges for their children.
Well, as a teen living in the US, I'm afraid I'm going to have to point out that every generalization you make in your comment is incorrect. It's a nice idea to give children full rights, but there really isn't any benefit gained.
If you're going to make an analogy, try and make it almost make sense.
I own two epson printers.. and I'm looking for a new one at the moment. The main criteria I'm looking for is that its ink will NOT dry up even after long periods of no usage (3 months about). Instead of going with these companies who try to trick the consumers into buying $50 cartridges, I would like to go with a company that isn't screwing over it's customers (well... trying to). Any suggestions?
This is a good point. But, like the poster said.. how fair is it that you get the agreements AFTER you buy the product? Has anyone that has worked in a computer store ever had anyone come back and return software because they couldn't agree to the EULA? Of course not.. people should know what they are buying (and what they will have to agree to) BEFORE they buy it. Doing a search on Microsoft.com for 'EULA' showed up some tech support articles, and that's it. I think that EULAs should be invalid unless customers can view them before buying the software..
I am getting very confused by Microsoft's strategies. Although they are fighting off in being seperated for being a monopoly, they keep acting blatantly as one! Are they trying to make Microsoft as big as possible before it's split, or giving the thumb to the states that are prosecuting it?
If I made millions of dollars for selling my A paper publically, it wouldn't really matter if some people copied it, since I'm already a millionaire, and I don't believe in crying that I'm not a billionaire.
echo '0' > spyware.dll
Yes, all outgoing phone calls are free.. but what about incoming for the other party? You can pick your area code, but what if you want to pick your first 3 digits too? Hopefully you can, or at least pick what local long distance area you would like. Other than that, this sounds great.. I will have to try it when I figure that out :)
Microsoft will never put this into effect. Even if it did, why should we care? We've been doing great without any help from M$.
I would love to see Yahoo and AOL's reasons for lobbying against the bill...
"Well, as we all know, we provide extraordinary services to our customers, without them knowing it, by giving them the latest advertisements, that are useful, entertaining, and just great! It would be a shame if some users could not receive these because they didn't know they were available. We want to protect consumer's interests!"
This only applies to Minnesota.
It would not take Blizzard much effort to create something like the system used in Tribes 2. Probably a lot cheaper than suing someone...
I'm not even sure why people bother with bnetd that much.. Head over to the zone.com. Yep, it's hosted by Microsoft. Why, you ask? They have support for any IPX compatible game.. which is well, all of Blizzard's games. Let Blizzard sue Microsoft.. that'd be a laugh.
A better analogy would be that you make a key, and you want it to only work in your car, but Ford(tm) will not tell you how.
AIM might have been a closed protocol once upon a time.. but do a websearch on google for 'AIM protocol', and you'll be in for a surprise... I honestly don't see why AOL is doing this either.. Aol's client(s) are shit, and trillian is well, great. If trillian can't connect to AIM, I won't use AIM then.
If you kept your facts straight you would realize that the bnetd developers have offered numerous times to put in anti-piracy checks. However, Blizzard has declined.
Correct me if I'm wrong: You can't play on Bnetd without the game? My point was, they aren't making money through advertising (in the game). Using bnetd does not impair people from going to battle.net. I've used to use battle.net for starcraft.. and guess what, NEVER visited the website! I also never have seen a banner ad from Battle.net. Maybe it's something they added after I switched to bnetd, who knows?
Ok, maybe I'm wrong, but I see no point for Blizzard to continue pursuing this. First of all, it's stupid to begin with. It is a GOOD thing for Blizzard, bringing them more business. "Hey, I want to play the Blizzard game ______, but their servers SUCK!" "That's ok, use Bnetd" ... and so on. But other than that, they are going to alienate tons of their users.. and for what? Is Bnetd stealing business? No.. Is Bnetd stealing advertising revenue? No.. Blizzard.net doesn't use advertising. So why? If someone can give me a good answer for this, I'd love to hear it.
An easy solution I can think of is just selling cd audio drives (no data) that read like normal cd players. That way, we can listen to copy protected cds, rip copy protected cds, hence making there no need to be copy protected cds in the first place.
Sony, I have a great idea for you.. here is how you make the PERFECT copy protection.
You will need: 1(One) CD (Compact-Disc), 1(One) big sharp object
Steps:
1.Place CD on flat surface, with the label side down.
2.Hold the big sharp object, be careful not to drop it on your toe, it will hurt.
3.Place the big sharp object's sharp point near the middle of the cd.
4.Apply pressure, and move the object toward the outside of the cd.
5.Rotate, and repeat.
Extra precautions: Breaking the CD in half will result in an extra layer of protection.
Well, I had always thought myself an open kind of person. I had a mac, and I used it, didn't hate it, didn't particularly love it. Sure, Mac OS X is cool, but Apple's business strategies are turning more and more into Microsoft, and are just in general annoying me. They over charge, have shitty support, and well, their board of directors needs to get a kick in the ass (one that's hard enough to kick them out of Apple)... sorry Steve. I foresee Apple losing most of their developers in the future.. leaving them left with an operating system that yes, is developed by people over 18, but has no software to run! Apple is doomed, and I predict it will be gone within 10 years (probably bought out). They have cool stuff, but seriously, who wants to pay, and who wants to put up with crap like this? I'm sticking with open hardware, and *truly* open software.
Unfortunately, Tribes 2 has NO support for voodoos at all. Don't ask me why.. they just don't work, in opengl or direct 3d. Get another card, or look for 'MiniGL' on the internet, which is a glide mini opengl dll, which works ok on tribes 2. GL!