Simple, they are enthusiasts and love what they do. Sure they could go buy a faster cpu for the money they spent on doing it, but the idea when you goto such extreme cooling isnt enlarging your "e-peen" it's pushing the envelope to the next level.
Example: A rig with a barton 2500 (pre the multiplier locking bs AMD pulled) comes stock at 1.83 ghz.. with a good hsf you could probably get 2.5ghz but not much more than that becuase the power you need to pump into it, if you can get that processor running at -c you can push it way beyond 2.5ghz maybe even 4-5ghz range (barton 2500 was a very nice stepping core, almost as good as the tbred B 1700 JUIHB) now sure, I spend 89 on a new 2500 + the money I spent on a new watercooling and peltier I could have gotten a much better proc and went air cooling, but the joy of overclocking, pushing the envelope is what drove my decision. Someone who buys a high-end retail processor and uses that stock POS hsf would never know the acomplishment I would feel seeing that 3.5ghz mark outa a $90 Processor. Also realize that the cheap processor and the cooling rig is a one time fee, if another sweet processor (high scalability) comes out cheap I can just grab that new one and stick it in my rig and boom, another huge OC for me and the satisfaction of it aswell.
Between 70 and 100 per cent of the population show signs of previous reovirus infection, which is usually confined to the respiratory or gastrointestinal systems in the body.
The reason would be that the reovirus probably never made it to the cancer cells, thus not infecting and killing them.
I would love to be living in a society that was led by our greatest artisons and scientists such as Franklin, such a society would bring peace and fulfillment just by being in the environment created by it. Look at how the people in power influence us now, The front page of the newspapper never shows good news, prime-time news stories are never about a fireman saving a cat from a tree or anything else good and heart warming. We are born and raised into depressive and supressive thinking, if we try to think "outside of the box" we are thought of as insane or disturbed, even those people who are thinking beyond the norm of what we are today probably could not begin to conceive what would have been if polotics werent running this country.
Imagine a society where rather than a political agenda (is it re-election time? etc..), we are working towards the embetterment of human kind, thinking of our fellow humans rather than our pocketbooks becoming fatter...
I'm sure that this system would never work though. Who would handle the politicians from the rest of the world, it's a nice vision to have though, if ever we could get over our petty differences and live in this society it would truely be a great step forward for all of us.
Microsoft doesnt NEED D/RM do implament a system such as that, what they would need is to come up with their own encrypted propriatary media format. Something like shoutcast etc. would suffice.
D/RM will lead to more expensive hardware/software as everything will have to be certified by M$ to be able to run on a DRM OS (Longhorn?) and future more propriatory OS's as they flush out all the legacy hw/sw they had to support to get a userbase. Some of you would say that this is just a flag waving to make the switch to linux, but right at this moment for the average home pc user and even for someone such as myself that switch is just unforsee-able because of lack of the kinds of apps/games I use on a daily basis. Linux is a great os, but I am a gamer and playing something like UT2k3 in wine is not my idea of a great time.
So provided I never permit upload of the whole file to a single downloader, would I be in the clear?
Problem: You have to prove that you didn't upload the whole thing. To have it shared I would assume that you have downloaded the entire app/song/game/whatever yourself. Unless you can prove in court (with logs or whatever) that these particular bytes of the file NEVER got shared you are almost garunteed to be at the losing end of that legal battle.
If you were to only download a neglagable amount of the file that falls below the minimum for copywrite infringment to only share that part then you would probably be able to escape prosecution, but then why bother anyways except to share a fragment of a file, that fragment is most likely the most prolific (sp?) part (as it was the first and therefore the fastest/most shared section of the file in question)?
Microsoft, of course, is no surprise. I'm slightly amazed they didn't give Sco more money.
I think that even Microsoft knows that SCO is fighting a losing battle, the fact that they still cannot come up with any solid code proof of their "IP" in linux is a statement of that.
Microsoft didn't get where they are now by waisting money, they gave SCO enough to stay afloat in hopes that they succeed whilst not throwing money away that they couldn't stand to lose as they know they probably will. If SCO comes up with some "hard evedence" I wouldn't be suprised if that sum from Microsoft gets larger. Sun on the otherhand, I do not see any reason for them to get on SCO's side unless they know something we don't.
I wonder if they happened to patch the Xbox mini os against some recently discovered RPC and DCOM issues aswell.... can't you just see it now, Xbox zombie army of DDoS' attacks Microsoft
Next thing you know we will be hearing about how they crashed a bunch of teen slumber partys because the hostess didn't have legal rights to publicly play the cd's.
Keep it in the news that the RIAA squeezed $2,000 dollars out of a poor pre-teen who thought she had paid for the service to begin with. If they're going to play PR games, there's no reason people who despise them can't do the same thing.
The web site in question that she paid $29.99 for access to all this "free music" is here. You should really check out their faq page, quite a funny read seeing as how they basically are charging you for a link to kazaa or a kazaa networked app.
I have heard a few mention a market blackout of all purchases of cds/movies for one month. If this could be acomplished let me sugest the perfect dates for this, It will be probably the most difficult blackout in history to pull off though, if we did we would definately send a message to the music industry, RIAA and everyone else who is listening. December 1 - December 31
You are a fucking idiot. How the fuck can you compare terrorism with spam?
Spam may be annoying, but it won't kill you.
You obviously have never tried any of the products they are trying to sell have you....
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Simple, they are enthusiasts and love what they do. Sure they could go buy a faster cpu for the money they spent on doing it, but the idea when you goto such extreme cooling isnt enlarging your "e-peen" it's pushing the envelope to the next level.
Example: A rig with a barton 2500 (pre the multiplier locking bs AMD pulled) comes stock at 1.83 ghz.. with a good hsf you could probably get 2.5ghz but not much more than that becuase the power you need to pump into it, if you can get that processor running at -c you can push it way beyond 2.5ghz maybe even 4-5ghz range (barton 2500 was a very nice stepping core, almost as good as the tbred B 1700 JUIHB) now sure, I spend 89 on a new 2500 + the money I spent on a new watercooling and peltier I could have gotten a much better proc and went air cooling, but the joy of overclocking, pushing the envelope is what drove my decision. Someone who buys a high-end retail processor and uses that stock POS hsf would never know the acomplishment I would feel seeing that 3.5ghz mark outa a $90 Processor. Also realize that the cheap processor and the cooling rig is a one time fee, if another sweet processor (high scalability) comes out cheap I can just grab that new one and stick it in my rig and boom, another huge OC for me and the satisfaction of it aswell.
Most things actually work!
Something about their own promotion of their product makes me kinda worry.....
Between 70 and 100 per cent of the population show signs of previous reovirus infection, which is usually confined to the respiratory or gastrointestinal systems in the body. The reason would be that the reovirus probably never made it to the cancer cells, thus not infecting and killing them.
Since when does taking functionality away from something mean you're enhancing it?
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Words change meaning when you translate from English to Marketing.
Perhaps this is where microsoft got their business infrastructure?
I would love to be living in a society that was led by our greatest artisons and scientists such as Franklin, such a society would bring peace and fulfillment just by being in the environment created by it. Look at how the people in power influence us now, The front page of the newspapper never shows good news, prime-time news stories are never about a fireman saving a cat from a tree or anything else good and heart warming. We are born and raised into depressive and supressive thinking, if we try to think "outside of the box" we are thought of as insane or disturbed, even those people who are thinking beyond the norm of what we are today probably could not begin to conceive what would have been if polotics werent running this country.
Imagine a society where rather than a political agenda (is it re-election time? etc..), we are working towards the embetterment of human kind, thinking of our fellow humans rather than our pocketbooks becoming fatter...
I'm sure that this system would never work though. Who would handle the politicians from the rest of the world, it's a nice vision to have though, if ever we could get over our petty differences and live in this society it would truely be a great step forward for all of us.
Remember those damn fireplace videos you could buy cause you were to lame to have a real fireplace in your closet appt? I can just see this now:
"Wow mommy I can almost feel the fire its so warm"
"No son that is the radiation from the 100tb hard drive they had to put in the dvd player"
Microsoft doesnt NEED D/RM do implament a system such as that, what they would need is to come up with their own encrypted propriatary media format. Something like shoutcast etc. would suffice.
D/RM will lead to more expensive hardware/software as everything will have to be certified by M$ to be able to run on a DRM OS (Longhorn?) and future more propriatory OS's as they flush out all the legacy hw/sw they had to support to get a userbase. Some of you would say that this is just a flag waving to make the switch to linux, but right at this moment for the average home pc user and even for someone such as myself that switch is just unforsee-able because of lack of the kinds of apps/games I use on a daily basis. Linux is a great os, but I am a gamer and playing something like UT2k3 in wine is not my idea of a great time.
So provided I never permit upload of the whole file to a single downloader, would I be in the clear?
Problem: You have to prove that you didn't upload the whole thing. To have it shared I would assume that you have downloaded the entire app/song/game/whatever yourself. Unless you can prove in court (with logs or whatever) that these particular bytes of the file NEVER got shared you are almost garunteed to be at the losing end of that legal battle.
If you were to only download a neglagable amount of the file that falls below the minimum for copywrite infringment to only share that part then you would probably be able to escape prosecution, but then why bother anyways except to share a fragment of a file, that fragment is most likely the most prolific (sp?) part (as it was the first and therefore the fastest/most shared section of the file in question)?
Microsoft, of course, is no surprise. I'm slightly amazed they didn't give Sco more money.
I think that even Microsoft knows that SCO is fighting a losing battle, the fact that they still cannot come up with any solid code proof of their "IP" in linux is a statement of that.
Microsoft didn't get where they are now by waisting money, they gave SCO enough to stay afloat in hopes that they succeed whilst not throwing money away that they couldn't stand to lose as they know they probably will. If SCO comes up with some "hard evedence" I wouldn't be suprised if that sum from Microsoft gets larger. Sun on the otherhand, I do not see any reason for them to get on SCO's side unless they know something we don't.
I wonder if they happened to patch the Xbox mini os against some recently discovered RPC and DCOM issues aswell.... can't you just see it now, Xbox zombie army of DDoS' attacks Microsoft
Doesn't Gates drive a Ford? :)
No he distributes them, F#@*%d over rebuild distro.
Next thing you know we will be hearing about how they crashed a bunch of teen slumber partys because the hostess didn't have legal rights to publicly play the cd's.
I have heard a few mention a market blackout of all purchases of cds/movies for one month. If this could be acomplished let me sugest the perfect dates for this, It will be probably the most difficult blackout in history to pull off though, if we did we would definately send a message to the music industry, RIAA and everyone else who is listening. December 1 - December 31
Now lets show the RIAA what a
You are a fucking idiot. How the fuck can you compare terrorism with spam? Spam may be annoying, but it won't kill you. You obviously have never tried any of the products they are trying to sell have you....