The point he was trying to make is that anyone who considers the issue rationally would realize that "accidentally" sending a check somewhere doesn't mean your money is gone, all that person would need to do is void the check by number and issue a new one to the "correct" recipient. Asking the mistaken recipient to deposit the money would be a roundabout and unprofitable way to do the exact same thing, thus it looks suspicious to begin with.
Well, I dunno, maybe the fact that they mention this Loath^H^H^H^H^Hawesome bar in the summary?
Maybe the fact that, since it's cited as an "early example" of this integration TFA is going on about, that we could look at it as a sign of what could be lurking in the next-next release?
...Maybe the beta users just felt like venting frustration?
It's not. I believe the comment was rather along the lines of suggesting that one COULD, to spare the sound any further degradation, change step 3 of the "Burn, Rip, Re-encode" trick of avoiding DRM to "Re-encode as FLAC".
As far as your other statement, I sincerely hope the answer is "nothing at all" though I don't doubt they would try something if they could get away with it.
I don't know if the situation has improved any in Vista, but as far as XP goes there are a LOT of programs you simply can't use that way. I run as admin constantly, and with a full awareness of how dangerous it is. At least a third of the programs I use, poorly written as they are, try to do things like save configuration files (or saved games) in their installation folder. Unfortunately limited accounts are not allowed write access to Program Files, and there is no getting these boneheads to RTFM and learn what %AppData% is for. So like it or not, I'm Admin.
I tried Vista, and reverted the next day - couldn't stand it. No telling if they've fixed this problem or managed to beat some sense into the developers yet, and I don't know if/when it will be necessary for me to find out.
Okay, so the problem is basically "the big bad evil monopoly"? I'm looking at their pricing page right now and I just can't bring myself to call $38.99 "bad". Not when I've been paying more than that (plus the same over again for TV service) for God knows how long. Even if they throw in a boatload of surcharges and extra crap, I'm STILL ahead compared to cable. I don't even watch TV anyway.
So you're upset that your choice is $50 phone+internet or $39 internet? Shit, just take the internet and go on, it's not likely to get much cheaper for that speed - in this country anyway.
Unless I see a real reason to NOT switch (along the lines of the endless Comcast horror stories) I might give them a call soon. Just pointing out how the evil corporation behaves in general simply isn't compelling enough, since by that logic I wouldn't have ANY broadband -- or modern conveniences of any kind, really.
Because my choices are apparently AT&T DSL, Earthlink DSL, or dial-up. And I don't even have a landline!
A question: What's wrong with AT&T?
Regarding that "no landline" business... Are you saying there is literally no phone line connecting to your house, or just that you don't subscribe to a service?
Because I don't see the problem in the latter case, as I've been glancing in the direction of AT&T ever since I started reading these cable company articles of late (especially the one where TWC is looking at using MY home county as the test area for this pay-per-GB nonsense) and I don't see any reason why you can't sign up for 6Mbit DSL without bothering with any regular phone line. It's even slightly cheaper than what I pay around here for Roadrunner's 4.7 (I suppose they would market it as 5.0 but strangely they never advertise transfer speeds, just "We're really really FAST, so give us money or rot in dial-up hell!"). I'm actually very curious if there is some pressing reason why I should not use AT&T, as that would affect my decision to either jump over now before the ship sinks or cross my fingers and hope Warner come to their senses.
On a slight tangent, has anyone else noticed that Time Warner's roadrunner commercials, the ones I saw a few months back anyway, seem to blatantly support putting every ounce of your bandwidth to use downloading "music and movies 50X faster!"--their phrase not mine. Not the sort of message I'd expect to get from a company that claims all this bandwidth hogging is hurting the other customers and clogging the tubes that poor Granny's email wants to flow through. It even sounds vaguely supportive of piracy, though I'm sure if pressed their clarification would be something like, "Music and movies that you paid through the nose *cough*I mean a reasonable price for a license to use, of course."
I usually skim (or Ctrl-F) these astronomy articles just on the off chance that someone has started a rational EU-related discussion; as you can imagine, it doesn't happen very often. I never participate, myself, because I don't have the time or the detailed knowledge of the material to debate the point well against a crowd who largely don't care, because they're already convinced that Science has won and everyone else is just in "the fringe" and automatically discredited. I'm still trying to decide if the previous counts as a run-on sentence. Ah, well.
In fact, the GGP was trying to say "Burning in audio mode is stupid" with the reasoning that a DATA mode CD can hold over 10 hours of songs. He did, of course, miss the correct size but not by much. It should have been obvious when he gave a figure of 1Mb per minute that he was referring to still-MP3-compressed audio.
It wasn't a shell, it was Perl code, which lets you execute shell commands by `enclosing said command in backticks`. You don't need to know what command you're running ahead of time because of the `$nifty way $it interpolates your $variables` (or should that be my $variables ?)
Not that I'm an expert in shells or anything, but last I looked, echo means "print this to stdout", which would do no executing and merely expose your evil scheme for the world to see. Where's the fun in that?
Am I the only one who read that and thought of the old SNES cart Revolution X?
Terrible game, but the fact that you could shoot CDs at people stuck in my mind somehow.
The world needs more disc-launching games, I think. =)
No, not the article.
The fact that from over six hundred posts, I only see a few dozen suggesting the entire concept is bullshit, and only a small subsection of those that (brilliantly?) deduced that the whole thing is a joke.
Geez, it really isn't that hard. I know it's a stretch to even RTFA, but the "company" website is only a click away from that...
Stare at that site real close for a minute or two. See the humor now?
I mean, seriously: "protect your revenue"? "virtual algorithm"? What is a virtual algorithm, anyway? By definition, it's an algorithm that does not exist.;) The title tag on that page is "New Page 1" - would any company raking in money by selling Total Blocking of Peer 2 Peer Sharing for Your Intellectual Property (that line cracked me up even as I typed it) seriously be that retarded?
And that's only the front page. Click around a bit and even more 'clues' pop up, including random statistics and physically or mathematically impossible claims.
How can anyone look at that and think "Oh crap, we need to change our hashes now!" or "You won't break MY p2p!!" instead of ROFL?
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The point he was trying to make is that anyone who considers the issue rationally would realize that "accidentally" sending a check somewhere doesn't mean your money is gone, all that person would need to do is void the check by number and issue a new one to the "correct" recipient. Asking the mistaken recipient to deposit the money would be a roundabout and unprofitable way to do the exact same thing, thus it looks suspicious to begin with.
Maybe the fact that, since it's cited as an "early example" of this integration TFA is going on about, that we could look at it as a sign of what could be lurking in the next-next release?
...Maybe the beta users just felt like venting frustration?
It has what now? Says whom?
It's not. I believe the comment was rather along the lines of suggesting that one COULD, to spare the sound any further degradation, change step 3 of the "Burn, Rip, Re-encode" trick of avoiding DRM to "Re-encode as FLAC".
As far as your other statement, I sincerely hope the answer is "nothing at all" though I don't doubt they would try something if they could get away with it.
I don't know if the situation has improved any in Vista, but as far as XP goes there are a LOT of programs you simply can't use that way. I run as admin constantly, and with a full awareness of how dangerous it is. At least a third of the programs I use, poorly written as they are, try to do things like save configuration files (or saved games) in their installation folder. Unfortunately limited accounts are not allowed write access to Program Files, and there is no getting these boneheads to RTFM and learn what %AppData% is for. So like it or not, I'm Admin.
I tried Vista, and reverted the next day - couldn't stand it. No telling if they've fixed this problem or managed to beat some sense into the developers yet, and I don't know if/when it will be necessary for me to find out.
Okay, so the problem is basically "the big bad evil monopoly"? I'm looking at their pricing page right now and I just can't bring myself to call $38.99 "bad". Not when I've been paying more than that (plus the same over again for TV service) for God knows how long. Even if they throw in a boatload of surcharges and extra crap, I'm STILL ahead compared to cable. I don't even watch TV anyway.
So you're upset that your choice is $50 phone+internet or $39 internet? Shit, just take the internet and go on, it's not likely to get much cheaper for that speed - in this country anyway.
Unless I see a real reason to NOT switch (along the lines of the endless Comcast horror stories) I might give them a call soon. Just pointing out how the evil corporation behaves in general simply isn't compelling enough, since by that logic I wouldn't have ANY broadband -- or modern conveniences of any kind, really.
Regarding that "no landline" business... Are you saying there is literally no phone line connecting to your house, or just that you don't subscribe to a service?
Because I don't see the problem in the latter case, as I've been glancing in the direction of AT&T ever since I started reading these cable company articles of late (especially the one where TWC is looking at using MY home county as the test area for this pay-per-GB nonsense) and I don't see any reason why you can't sign up for 6Mbit DSL without bothering with any regular phone line. It's even slightly cheaper than what I pay around here for Roadrunner's 4.7 (I suppose they would market it as 5.0 but strangely they never advertise transfer speeds, just "We're really really FAST, so give us money or rot in dial-up hell!"). I'm actually very curious if there is some pressing reason why I should not use AT&T, as that would affect my decision to either jump over now before the ship sinks or cross my fingers and hope Warner come to their senses.
On a slight tangent, has anyone else noticed that Time Warner's roadrunner commercials, the ones I saw a few months back anyway, seem to blatantly support putting every ounce of your bandwidth to use downloading "music and movies 50X faster!"--their phrase not mine. Not the sort of message I'd expect to get from a company that claims all this bandwidth hogging is hurting the other customers and clogging the tubes that poor Granny's email wants to flow through. It even sounds vaguely supportive of piracy, though I'm sure if pressed their clarification would be something like, "Music and movies that you paid through the nose *cough*I mean a reasonable price for a license to use, of course."
You, sir, are my hero. :)
I usually skim (or Ctrl-F) these astronomy articles just on the off chance that someone has started a rational EU-related discussion; as you can imagine, it doesn't happen very often. I never participate, myself, because I don't have the time or the detailed knowledge of the material to debate the point well against a crowd who largely don't care, because they're already convinced that Science has won and everyone else is just in "the fringe" and automatically discredited.
I'm still trying to decide if the previous counts as a run-on sentence. Ah, well.
In fact, the GGP was trying to say "Burning in audio mode is stupid" with the reasoning that a DATA mode CD can hold over 10 hours of songs. He did, of course, miss the correct size but not by much. It should have been obvious when he gave a figure of 1Mb per minute that he was referring to still-MP3-compressed audio.
It wasn't a shell, it was Perl code, which lets you execute shell commands by `enclosing said command in backticks`. You don't need to know what command you're running ahead of time because of the `$nifty way $it interpolates your $variables` (or should that be my $variables ?)
Not that I'm an expert in shells or anything, but last I looked, echo means "print this to stdout", which would do no executing and merely expose your evil scheme for the world to see. Where's the fun in that?
Terrible game, but the fact that you could shoot CDs at people stuck in my mind somehow.
The world needs more disc-launching games, I think. =)
The fact that from over six hundred posts, I only see a few dozen suggesting the entire concept is bullshit, and only a small subsection of those that (brilliantly?) deduced that the whole thing is a joke.
Geez, it really isn't that hard. I know it's a stretch to even RTFA, but the "company" website is only a click away from that... ;) The title tag on that page is "New Page 1" - would any company raking in money by selling Total Blocking of Peer 2 Peer Sharing for Your Intellectual Property (that line cracked me up even as I typed it) seriously be that retarded?
Stare at that site real close for a minute or two. See the humor now?
I mean, seriously: "protect your revenue"? "virtual algorithm"? What is a virtual algorithm, anyway? By definition, it's an algorithm that does not exist.
And that's only the front page. Click around a bit and even more 'clues' pop up, including random statistics and physically or mathematically impossible claims.
How can anyone look at that and think "Oh crap, we need to change our hashes now!" or "You won't break MY p2p!!" instead of ROFL?
Ditto for Roadrunner commercials.
"... now you can download music and movies at HIGHSPEED!!"
*blink*
"Did I seriously just hear that come out of my TV?"
But if it's just like the other Knoppixes, and it turned out to be German, all you'd have to do is "cheat" with lang=us, wouldn't you?