I pay for spotify and have been for a year and a half.
When did I subscribe? The first time an ad ran when my visa card was within reach:p
I am lazy. I find downloading music from torrent sites a pain in the ass as mostly I just want a few songs, not the whole album.
Sorting is annoying... keeping track of where stuff is stored is too.
The killer feature though is being able to set up a playlist anywhere and play that list back anywhere. Being able to bring my playlists with me to work is quite nice. Worth paying for.
I subscribe to the plan with mobile features too so I can stream music directly to my phone over the wlan at work. Spiffy as hell.
Will I go back to not paying for music? Unlikely. Unless they royally fuck up spotify. Nothing surprises me anymore though...
Also by people who have no clue about technology unfortunately.
This is a tech company and the only allowed browser is IE. Why? Because all other browsers are insecure. Why you ask?
* They dont support 'mcafee script scan'... * They are mostly open source, and open source software is by definition a security risk. (......) * Open source software is a legal liability as the company does not have a license agreement for use of the software. (oh yes, they actually claim that the GPL is not an actual license but something 'pretend' and that at any time they could get sued for using such software. Buy photoshop for doing minor adjustments to color of images, dont use gimp! After all, if we all buy photoshop the price is so much lower!)
Oh, and department managers get the "+p" version of machines as they need the power for driving the office suite at optimal performance. The rest of us who run multiple virtual machines on our laptops for testing purposes get the regular office-worker machines:p
Meh... I should stop or I'll just keep ranting for hours:p
I have a 3 year old laptop on which I have to run a software suite which is woefully inefficient.
Copying 3-4 sheets of function block logic from one controlle to another (control system stuff) generates anywhere from 3 to 10 gigabytes of disk traffic due to the insanity of no caching for ANY sort of query or check in the application. The vendor wont fix it as they consider the product "too old" to fix, but this product runs the control system on at least 20 oil/gas installations in Norway and over 400 industrial plants in the US.... meh I say.
An SSD would be quite nice to have... It would also be nice to have more than a gig of ram... Especially when the data-sets I work with frequently wont fit in ram...
But alas, the laptop has to reach 4 years of age until I can get a replacement or upgrade...
The past week I have spent at least 5 hours just -waiting- for operations to finish. As the operations hog all the disk io it is near impossible to get anything else done at the same time without going utterly mad.
Oh... and dont get me started on the utter insanity of working with huge spreadsheets on a 14 inch display....
There is already a register of everyone with citizenship in Norway. It works quite well as far as I know and is used for verifying identity and not much more.
How is this going to screw me over exactly? Are there not already a myriad of registries you have to appear in to get anything done in the real world?
I personally prefer having a national registry like this compared to having to present a birth certificate if I want to prove my identity...
Google for bittorrent problems related to your router model and see if you get some hits.
There are some issues with some models of linksys routers in particular.
Other than that: Limit your upstream usage to below 80% of your bandwidth and you should be fine. I can download at 3mb/sec on torrents fine while playing RIFT without lag issues:)
Ah, I had a brainfart and read it as a augmented reality type thing for mapping or somesuch... One day I'll learn to not post before actually waking up from my nap *innos*
There is no reason for such an app to send text messages, so why would I install the app with that permission? Recently one of my android games (nuked it weeks ago, dont remember the name.. was some tower defense thing) asked for permission to "call numbers" when I updated it.... hahaha, fuck no. You are a game, you dont need that. *bye bye app!*
You might be surprised to know that some of the students starting these courses have never touched programming at all. Hell, in 2003 I had people in my class who had never used a word processor.... this was in a course-line on programming industrial PLCs.... scary:p
In Europe the provider is required by law to make the unlock code available. You have to pay an early termination fee if you break a contract but they cant block you from using the phone on another network if you want to.
Dont clobber the rights of everyone because some people are asshats of greater douchery...
This coming from someone still in therapy at age 26 due to the asshattery throughout my first 9 years of school. You would think I want all things like this stopped but for fucks sake dont ruin the world to 'save the children'. Go for the fuckbags in other ways... What someone does outside of school is between parents or in a worse case youth arbitration boards or the legal system... Meh.
If you re-read his/her post you might notice that nowhere did he claim the advice and training was aimed at lowering youth crime rates. It is aimed at informing the students about the tools at their disposal for dealing with assbags online;)
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I pay for spotify and have been for a year and a half.
When did I subscribe? The first time an ad ran when my visa card was within reach :p
I am lazy. I find downloading music from torrent sites a pain in the ass as mostly I just want a few songs, not the whole album.
Sorting is annoying... keeping track of where stuff is stored is too.
The killer feature though is being able to set up a playlist anywhere and play that list back anywhere.
Being able to bring my playlists with me to work is quite nice. Worth paying for.
I subscribe to the plan with mobile features too so I can stream music directly to my phone over the wlan at work. Spiffy as hell.
Will I go back to not paying for music? Unlikely. Unless they royally fuck up spotify. Nothing surprises me anymore though...
Also by people who have no clue about technology unfortunately.
This is a tech company and the only allowed browser is IE. Why? Because all other browsers are insecure.
Why you ask?
* They dont support 'mcafee script scan'...
* They are mostly open source, and open source software is by definition a security risk. (......)
* Open source software is a legal liability as the company does not have a license agreement for use of the software.
(oh yes, they actually claim that the GPL is not an actual license but something 'pretend' and that at any time they could get sued for using such software. Buy photoshop for doing minor adjustments to color of images, dont use gimp! After all, if we all buy photoshop the price is so much lower!)
Oh, and department managers get the "+p" version of machines as they need the power for driving the office suite at optimal performance. The rest of us who run multiple virtual machines on our laptops for testing purposes get the regular office-worker machines :p
Meh... I should stop or I'll just keep ranting for hours :p
I have a 3 year old laptop on which I have to run a software suite which is woefully inefficient.
Copying 3-4 sheets of function block logic from one controlle to another (control system stuff) generates anywhere from 3 to 10 gigabytes of disk traffic due to the insanity of no caching for ANY sort of query or check in the application.
The vendor wont fix it as they consider the product "too old" to fix, but this product runs the control system on at least 20 oil/gas installations in Norway and over 400 industrial plants in the US.... meh I say.
An SSD would be quite nice to have... It would also be nice to have more than a gig of ram... Especially when the data-sets I work with frequently wont fit in ram...
But alas, the laptop has to reach 4 years of age until I can get a replacement or upgrade...
The past week I have spent at least 5 hours just -waiting- for operations to finish. As the operations hog all the disk io it is near impossible to get anything else done at the same time without going utterly mad.
Oh... and dont get me started on the utter insanity of working with huge spreadsheets on a 14 inch display....
Win7 already does this. The DNS Client service performs caching of queries.
There is already a register of everyone with citizenship in Norway. It works quite well as far as I know and is used for verifying identity and not much more.
How is this going to screw me over exactly? Are there not already a myriad of registries you have to appear in to get anything done in the real world?
I personally prefer having a national registry like this compared to having to present a birth certificate if I want to prove my identity...
Yes, it is.
Google for bittorrent problems related to your router model and see if you get some hits.
There are some issues with some models of linksys routers in particular.
Other than that: Limit your upstream usage to below 80% of your bandwidth and you should be fine. :)
I can download at 3mb/sec on torrents fine while playing RIFT without lag issues
Dialup to other countries is still internet though, and IS routing around the damage.
Badly, but still...
Ah, I had a brainfart and read it as a augmented reality type thing for mapping or somesuch... One day I'll learn to not post before actually waking up from my nap *innos*
I was thinking the same thing.
There is no reason for such an app to send text messages, so why would I install the app with that permission?
Recently one of my android games (nuked it weeks ago, dont remember the name.. was some tower defense thing) asked for permission to "call numbers" when I updated it.... hahaha, fuck no. You are a game, you dont need that. *bye bye app!*
Mmmm, bacon!
Ah, works now it seems... Didnt 6 months ago when I tried installing it last.. wonder what changed.
Assuming one is still on winxp of course. DS wont run on win7 for instance :p
I keep my data on a raid-5 array so no issue there ;)
We're talking a person in their 20s that still, in 2003, sent out HAND WRITTEN job applications.
The few drives I've seen with it forward just a bit flag of error nor not. :(
So while you can tell it has errors you cant see what the problem is
You might be surprised to know that some of the students starting these courses have never touched programming at all. :p
Hell, in 2003 I had people in my class who had never used a word processor.... this was in a course-line on programming industrial PLCs.... scary
They'll just block ranges of addresses.
No worries, the scene-release is international :p
In Europe the provider is required by law to make the unlock code available. You have to pay an early termination fee if you break a contract but they cant block you from using the phone on another network if you want to.
25% sales tax can be rough ;)
But yes, it is 500 per piece of plastic.
All coatings are not equal. I've had some bad ones, but the current glasses are damn nice.
Expensive as hell though... about 500 bucks per lense. (-10.5 / -10.75)
Hell, file a police report if that doesnt work.
Dont clobber the rights of everyone because some people are asshats of greater douchery...
This coming from someone still in therapy at age 26 due to the asshattery throughout my first 9 years of school.
You would think I want all things like this stopped but for fucks sake dont ruin the world to 'save the children'. Go for the fuckbags in other ways... What someone does outside of school is between parents or in a worse case youth arbitration boards or the legal system... Meh.
If you re-read his/her post you might notice that nowhere did he claim the advice and training was aimed at lowering youth crime rates. ;)
It is aimed at informing the students about the tools at their disposal for dealing with assbags online
The case boils down to him being accused of shagging her without a condom when she asked him to wear one.
This is rape in sweden. As I think it should be all over the place... since she did not consent to the action performed (unprotected sex).
His guilt I have no clue on obviously. I think he is a douchebag of greater asshattery but that doesnt make a person a rapist :p
Ah, the joy of college...
Glad I'm done... There is that pesky thing called "work" that sneaks in when that happens though...