But that's just it. Many people are willing to pay ~ $0.80 - $1 (USD) per GB to download stuff, even illegially. I'd guess that many would pay 50-75% more for the convienience of a HTTP download with a dl manger, which is a LEGAL download, of known quality from the studios, or a licensed business.
The big thing is that is far to cheap for the studios, but I'm not sure they can keep costs this high... There are too many people who know how and are willing to get Movies via net for $1 or less, and full first release DVDs (copies) for a cost of ~$5.
I know having legal movies is great but is the utility of legal worth 3-4x the cost of the actual product to many? I'd say it could be worth 50% of the cost, but not many times the cost.
Well, what I do that seems to work is use NOD32 with only on demand scanning, and use drive images to keep everything going well. But that might be beyond most non techies.
I'd like to know how you did that. My A64 3400+ with cool + Quiet running will peg to the full 2.4Ghz when I run a distributed client. They want to use any CPU available.
Indeed. For those who are more lazy(and on windows), you can set your browser of choice(or all browsers on your system) to accept all cookies, and use proxomitron to either reject all cookies not defined in a text list, or set all cookies session only except for the ones you specify in the same list.
That's not encryption though, encryption makes things look like random noise. You're thinking of stenography, and there's nothing so far that's very good at it in the digital world.
Oh, I agree you should know how to maintain your computer.
At first glance, this looks like a Heck ya. However, it brings up an interesting point - were the people watching the superbowl's "wardrobe malfunction" in possession of a nipple picture?
I think the issue is that you can end up places you don't expect to be on the net. Especially if using IE. Now, 400+ pics in temp internet files... that's a lot IMHO. It's suspicious.
I can't see a non techie claiming I'm currently "in possession" of this slashdot page in any meaningful way. I'm viewing it, but there's no exposed way for me to go back to it unless I actively save the content.
Also, if I'm in possession of everything I see on the internet, isn't that a big copyright violation?
I don't think you could reasonably claim files that your browser caches, without your input, as files you have possession of. They are like claiming a TV broadcast is in your possession. Now, I can see using them, in a case like this, to prove/prosecute for *viewing child porn*, but not being in possession of it.
However, you seem to think it's easy to change ISPs. I can't. I have ONE broadband ISP where I live. ONE. I cannot switch.
If you suggest I move... that's rediciulous. Let's all just up and move to a different town each time a spammer comes by. Sure. Maybe if you're Bill Gates.
It is NOT easy to change ISPs, nor is it necessarily even possible. Oh, it's my fault for living here. Well excuse me - get the hell off your high horse. It's people like you making e-mail unuseable.
Weird. Over here, there are lots of contractors, or small business men who come out, but don't have a shop, or a portable credit/debit card reader (they cost a lot AFAIK).
Seems odd to me. Also, here anyway, lots of people send money by check. I recently graduated college, and lots of my family members mailed checks, as it's a bad idea to mail cash, and I certainly have no way to process a credit/debit card. How do you do that? Bank wires I guess - but here those cost $35 each, more than some of the checks were for!
How do you pay other people? Like, in the US, say someone fixes clothes dryers on the side, doesn't have a business. So they charge you 150USD... Around here, we'd give them a check - both cause we usually don't keep $150 laying around, and sort of as a recipt of payment.
Except then you have to be limited to basically the games that come with the appliance. I doubt any appliance will come out with a game library for some nich product.
I think we're getting close though with the PS3/xBox 360. Though they are more game focused.
Hmmm, I don't see any ads on weather underground. Though I am a member - wow $5 a year to get rid of ads as well as support a service that I use.
You're right, it's been so long since I've used wunderground as a non-member I didn't realise it had gotten so crappy for free. Back 4 years ago, there was one banner that proxomitron removed easily.
Hmmm, my mid range GeForce 6600GT cost me $190 3 months ago. Maybe we are defining mid range differently, but to me, mid range is part of the current generation of cards - 6xxx or Xxxx, not the last generation cards like the 5500 or 9600.
There is the entry level 6200, midrange 6600 and high end 6800. There are similar cards in the previous generation.
Well, Streamload manages to do batch uploads with a Java applet (which still requires full access to the machine - so a similar security risk, though I know Streamload and trust them) which works in Opera just fine, so I would guess it would also work in FireFox.
Worse case senario for unintelligent clients of any type on windows - use NetLimiter (I'm using 1.3, it's great). You can set upload/download limits per application, and schedule changes (say you want to upload max when you're asleep or something).
I'll say this much. Any program that is claiming to be beta should be feature/UI complete or very very close to a freeze on those things IMHO. Beta should be for bugfixes and wider testing (specifically public betas). Now, I know MS always is a little ahead of every other software vendor - many on/. will claim that MS final releases are equivelent to betas from other companies. Sometimes I agree:P
If they are asking for feature suggestions, or are planning massive work on the UI and the like prior to a final release, I would think it would be better to call it a Preview Release (like Opera does) - not exactly Alpha testing (Appears stable to internal dev's), though given some of the known issues, maybe this ought to be Alpha...
Talking about the program - So far, the media blitz hasn't tempted me to download it. I am not a graphic designer, so vector graphics aren't really interesting to me - or at least no one has ever explained why they would be. I basically work on cleaning up screenshots, and digital pictures taken from my consumer model cameras. Photoshop would be the bomb for this, but way overkill and priced out of my world. Paint Shop Pro is plenty, though with Corel buying it now, I'm looking at paint.net.
This program's interface looks like the GIMPs around 2.0, and we all remember the various flame wars over that. Suffice it to say that for Windows and the average user, that interface is... impossible. Not going to fly.
I do have to ask who this is actually targetted at? I would guess it would need serious UI work and features to compete against Photoshop/Illustrator or Fireworks for the pro's, and I just don't see the consumer market "getting" it - compared to Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro.
Oh, I don't know. There's something to be said for a product you can use *today* vs "real soon now".
And, to me, if product has has feature X (like tabbed browsing) that makes the internet much more useable for say 4 years now, what have they come up with now they have tackled that?
Personally I'm loving ERA in Opera 8. Now I don't have to copy all those text files on the web to notepad for word wrap. I don't have to fight forums where someone though it would be fun to have a 5 screen wide post.
I also think that Opera could play up the voice browsing somewhat. Especially if they get that on cell phones.
Wouldn't the FireFox paradigm be to have RSS be a separate application, a la Thunderbird? In fact, doesn't Thunderbird do RSS? But maybe it's better served by a dedicated application...
This leads to an interesting idea. For home users, who won't deal with the hassle of getting most programs to work without admin rights, it might make sense to work backwards...
Basically, run their "dangerous" programs, like the browser, as a limited user. I'd guess something like what I understand a chroot jail to be on linux.
I've been very lucky it seems - I've never had UPS lose a package. And I've ordered lots of stuff online which shipped via them, as well as shipped things via them...
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But that's just it. Many people are willing to pay ~ $0.80 - $1 (USD) per GB to download stuff, even illegially. I'd guess that many would pay 50-75% more for the convienience of a HTTP download with a dl manger, which is a LEGAL download, of known quality from the studios, or a licensed business.
The big thing is that is far to cheap for the studios, but I'm not sure they can keep costs this high... There are too many people who know how and are willing to get Movies via net for $1 or less, and full first release DVDs (copies) for a cost of ~$5.
I know having legal movies is great but is the utility of legal worth 3-4x the cost of the actual product to many? I'd say it could be worth 50% of the cost, but not many times the cost.
Well, what I do that seems to work is use NOD32 with only on demand scanning, and use drive images to keep everything going well. But that might be beyond most non techies.
I'd like to know how you did that. My A64 3400+ with cool + Quiet running will peg to the full 2.4Ghz when I run a distributed client. They want to use any CPU available.
The biggest problem is that there only seems to be a way to disable it IN THE FLASH Plugin, ON THE ONE SITE. It's site by site...
Does anyone know how to find the directory where this is set? I'd like to delete anything in there currently.
Glad I have click to play flash, but geeze, I want a global setting. This is horribly designed.
Indeed. For those who are more lazy(and on windows), you can set your browser of choice(or all browsers on your system) to accept all cookies, and use proxomitron to either reject all cookies not defined in a text list, or set all cookies session only except for the ones you specify in the same list.
That's not encryption though, encryption makes things look like random noise. You're thinking of stenography, and there's nothing so far that's very good at it in the digital world.
Oh, I agree you should know how to maintain your computer.
At first glance, this looks like a Heck ya. However, it brings up an interesting point - were the people watching the superbowl's "wardrobe malfunction" in possession of a nipple picture?
I think the issue is that you can end up places you don't expect to be on the net. Especially if using IE. Now, 400+ pics in temp internet files... that's a lot IMHO. It's suspicious.
I can't see a non techie claiming I'm currently "in possession" of this slashdot page in any meaningful way. I'm viewing it, but there's no exposed way for me to go back to it unless I actively save the content.
Also, if I'm in possession of everything I see on the internet, isn't that a big copyright violation?
I don't think you could reasonably claim files that your browser caches, without your input, as files you have possession of. They are like claiming a TV broadcast is in your possession. Now, I can see using them, in a case like this, to prove/prosecute for *viewing child porn*, but not being in possession of it.
However, you seem to think it's easy to change ISPs. I can't. I have ONE broadband ISP where I live. ONE. I cannot switch.
If you suggest I move... that's rediciulous. Let's all just up and move to a different town each time a spammer comes by. Sure. Maybe if you're Bill Gates.
It is NOT easy to change ISPs, nor is it necessarily even possible. Oh, it's my fault for living here. Well excuse me - get the hell off your high horse. It's people like you making e-mail unuseable.
Not bad then. I'm paying $3/month for my checking/ debit/credit card + online banking and billpay. Sounds like that would be a better deal!
Weird. Over here, there are lots of contractors, or small business men who come out, but don't have a shop, or a portable credit/debit card reader (they cost a lot AFAIK).
Seems odd to me. Also, here anyway, lots of people send money by check. I recently graduated college, and lots of my family members mailed checks, as it's a bad idea to mail cash, and I certainly have no way to process a credit/debit card. How do you do that? Bank wires I guess - but here those cost $35 each, more than some of the checks were for!
How do you pay other people? Like, in the US, say someone fixes clothes dryers on the side, doesn't have a business. So they charge you 150USD... Around here, we'd give them a check - both cause we usually don't keep $150 laying around, and sort of as a recipt of payment.
Does everyone then use paypal or something?
Except then you have to be limited to basically the games that come with the appliance. I doubt any appliance will come out with a game library for some nich product.
I think we're getting close though with the PS3/xBox 360. Though they are more game focused.
Hmmm, I don't see any ads on weather underground. Though I am a member - wow $5 a year to get rid of ads as well as support a service that I use.
You're right, it's been so long since I've used wunderground as a non-member I didn't realise it had gotten so crappy for free. Back 4 years ago, there was one banner that proxomitron removed easily.
Hmmm, my mid range GeForce 6600GT cost me $190 3 months ago. Maybe we are defining mid range differently, but to me, mid range is part of the current generation of cards - 6xxx or Xxxx, not the last generation cards like the 5500 or 9600.
There is the entry level 6200, midrange 6600 and high end 6800. There are similar cards in the previous generation.
Tight VNC + you can do batch scripts in windows also.
So, stop using weather.com, and try www.wunderground.com
As it seems weather.com doesn't want your business.
Seriously, could someone please explain to me how that is better than just keeping a tab open with - say - your local wunderground page?
Well, Streamload manages to do batch uploads with a Java applet (which still requires full access to the machine - so a similar security risk, though I know Streamload and trust them) which works in Opera just fine, so I would guess it would also work in FireFox.
Personally, I don't use picture sites, so...
I think Nokia just want's lots of choice for browser on their phones, as they also tend to include Opera on the series 60 IIRC.
Worse case senario for unintelligent clients of any type on windows - use NetLimiter (I'm using 1.3, it's great). You can set upload/download limits per application, and schedule changes (say you want to upload max when you're asleep or something).
I'll say this much. Any program that is claiming to be beta should be feature/UI complete or very very close to a freeze on those things IMHO. Beta should be for bugfixes and wider testing (specifically public betas). Now, I know MS always is a little ahead of every other software vendor - many on /. will claim that MS final releases are equivelent to betas from other companies. Sometimes I agree :P
... impossible. Not going to fly.
If they are asking for feature suggestions, or are planning massive work on the UI and the like prior to a final release, I would think it would be better to call it a Preview Release (like Opera does) - not exactly Alpha testing (Appears stable to internal dev's), though given some of the known issues, maybe this ought to be Alpha...
Talking about the program - So far, the media blitz hasn't tempted me to download it. I am not a graphic designer, so vector graphics aren't really interesting to me - or at least no one has ever explained why they would be. I basically work on cleaning up screenshots, and digital pictures taken from my consumer model cameras. Photoshop would be the bomb for this, but way overkill and priced out of my world. Paint Shop Pro is plenty, though with Corel buying it now, I'm looking at paint.net.
This program's interface looks like the GIMPs around 2.0, and we all remember the various flame wars over that. Suffice it to say that for Windows and the average user, that interface is
I do have to ask who this is actually targetted at? I would guess it would need serious UI work and features to compete against Photoshop/Illustrator or Fireworks for the pro's, and I just don't see the consumer market "getting" it - compared to Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro.
Oh, I don't know. There's something to be said for a product you can use *today* vs "real soon now".
And, to me, if product has has feature X (like tabbed browsing) that makes the internet much more useable for say 4 years now, what have they come up with now they have tackled that?
Personally I'm loving ERA in Opera 8. Now I don't have to copy all those text files on the web to notepad for word wrap. I don't have to fight forums where someone though it would be fun to have a 5 screen wide post.
I also think that Opera could play up the voice browsing somewhat. Especially if they get that on cell phones.
I'm sure there are similar things wrt FireFox.
Wouldn't the FireFox paradigm be to have RSS be a separate application, a la Thunderbird? In fact, doesn't Thunderbird do RSS? But maybe it's better served by a dedicated application...
This leads to an interesting idea. For home users, who won't deal with the hassle of getting most programs to work without admin rights, it might make sense to work backwards ...
Basically, run their "dangerous" programs, like the browser, as a limited user. I'd guess something like what I understand a chroot jail to be on linux.
I've been very lucky it seems - I've never had UPS lose a package. And I've ordered lots of stuff online which shipped via them, as well as shipped things via them ...