i would have thought it is outselling the as-yet-unreleased-in-the-uk PSP by more than 2x...
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you miserable bastard. the guy mirrors articles for the benefit of the community at large, and you call him a "karma whore"?
Because of course everyone is just desperate for karma, i know i personally wouldn't even get out of bed if i wasn't going to earn slashdot karma for it - its a big part of my life.
BT works brilliantly well at minimising the cost of distributing content, however, i do not belive that the protocol is inherently any more reliable than a client-server model, when coupled with a download manager that can resume half finished downloads.
my complaint is the Major Movie Studios can afford to have a crapload of servers to distribute their content. If i am uploading content on behalf of MGM (or whoever), i expect to be paid as a distribution outlet, otherwise why in the hell should i seed? to help MGM? fuck MGM, they can afford to do ALL the seeding.
however, the PHB has heard of MS. the PHB knows that everyone uses MS. the PHB knows that any problems you have because of MS, your competitors are having also.
you don't really choose MS in these situations, its already there. if you take it upon yourself to change everything about the computers your company runs, then you take the blame on as well.
you can paint MS as 'the only option' and its shortcomings are just facts of life. once you create 'choice' you also create 'bad choice'.
They are embracing BT because someone just figured out that eventually content WILL be delivered over the net. and someone else figured out 'Hey! Why the hell should we pay for the bandwidth neccessary to deliver all this content when we can get all these geeks/idiots to do it for us??'
My upwidth is 1/8th my downwidth. why the hell should I use what precious little upstream I have distributing content for major content providers? using bittorrent is a Fucking Stupid Idea for anyone but these content providers. there are plenty of protocols designed to distribute over the web. use them.
Most of the people here seem to be jumping on the 'BT is great' bandwagon without actually thinking about it. which i suppose is fairly standard for/.
Seconded. Ive been with Metronet for 18 months now and have nothing but praise for them. There were some connectivity problems last year, but they kept the customers completely up-to-date the whole time.
Plus they won't hand out your details willy nilly to any copyright enforcement agencies, according to a mate of mine who is also with them.
i have been having loads of problems with this. we recently went from symantec's mail filter (haaaa hahahahaha) to ASSP (its brilliant) and now i am having to stay logged in to hotmail all day, so i can send people test email. they are so used to getting all the spam, now that it has gone away they constantly think the mail server is broken
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i just LOVE the fact that you are all sweaty for enormous battle robots, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake, but you are frightened of RFID.
When the Lumiere brothers first showed their film of a train pulling into a station, people ran in terror fromt he screen as they thought they were going to be crushed.
i'm not disagreeing with you, Sony are the last people I want meddling with my brain. however, as the above proves, people normalise to things.
your problem there will be encouraging people to look after the children, instead of just having amazing simulated sex all the time. i know which way i would go on that one...
already has. back in 2000, when ICQ could send SMS in the UK (i dont *think* it can anymore), we used to bang off twenty or thirty to a friends's phone - since SMS capacity in 2000 on the average phone was low (10-15), this would swiftly fill the memory, and then they would queue up in the message centre. delete one, get another one. renders the phone useless until you have churned through deleting the whole lot. we actually used to call it a DDoS
send a couple of hundred off, and you can basically prevent someone from using their phone for the best part of a day. possibly this is why the networks stopped allowing ICQ to send SMS. it was bloody great when used sensibly though, i wish trillian could do it now.
My mum has got about 15-20 Acorn Boxes, all flavours, 3000s all the way up to StrongARM, all still in daily use in her classroom. they are all over educational establishments, they were the original Tesco Voucher computers.
and frankly they are bloody brilliant. no slow death like windows boxes which need reformatting annually, spyware notwithstanding. the OS is on ROM for some of them i believe.
and so many hours wasted on Stunt Racer 2000. so many happy hours...
i'm IT chieftain for a recruitment company. find me well supported (and i mean 'man to come and fix my broken shit, no more than an hour from central london - i HAVE to have this to satisfy the powers that be) linux recruitment software to replace my windows-only current solution.
MS dominates the market, 3rd party suppliers only support MS, you can make the Best Fucking Linux Desktop on the planet, it could fellate me gently all day while i work, and i STILL couldn't roll it out (apart from dual boot on my machine obviously - mmm fellatio...)
therefore MS has to play nice. since they clearly can't play nice on their own, they need to be forced. step forward, EU Directive.
This is absolutely true, i have about 2TB of data (you know, just... stuff...) backed up on DVD, and i can tell you that its a total nightmare. if you want to maintain any kind of system, keeping relevant (dare i say 'sequential'?) data together on a disc, it takes a lot of time and effort, and a huge amount of hard drive space for temporary storage.
i've now got two DVD burners, and i put discs in in the morning, and burn discs from work, via VNC. its the only way to stay on top.
hard drives are fairly cheap these days, but if you are looking at any kind of local VoD serving you still need an awful lot of them, and more importantly, an awful lot of IDE channels to sit them on. if this stuff can seriously amp up volume/channel ratio that will be excellent.
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i would have thought it is outselling the as-yet-unreleased-in-the-uk PSP by more than 2x...
Because of course everyone is just desperate for karma, i know i personally wouldn't even get out of bed if i wasn't going to earn slashdot karma for it - its a big part of my life.
http://nuhi.msfn.org/
my complaint is the Major Movie Studios can afford to have a crapload of servers to distribute their content. If i am uploading content on behalf of MGM (or whoever), i expect to be paid as a distribution outlet, otherwise why in the hell should i seed? to help MGM? fuck MGM, they can afford to do ALL the seeding.
you don't really choose MS in these situations, its already there. if you take it upon yourself to change everything about the computers your company runs, then you take the blame on as well.
you can paint MS as 'the only option' and its shortcomings are just facts of life. once you create 'choice' you also create 'bad choice'.
try this http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alte rnative.htm
My upwidth is 1/8th my downwidth. why the hell should I use what precious little upstream I have distributing content for major content providers? using bittorrent is a Fucking Stupid Idea for anyone but these content providers. there are plenty of protocols designed to distribute over the web. use them.
Most of the people here seem to be jumping on the 'BT is great' bandwagon without actually thinking about it. which i suppose is fairly standard for /.
*Throws Cosmo in the bin*
Surely, then, People would be downloading Linux which is *free*.
Plus they won't hand out your details willy nilly to any copyright enforcement agencies, according to a mate of mine who is also with them.
One assumes that the links to the virus scanner and ad aware are allowed through.
here is a link for ASSP, if you like it give them money. http://assp.sourceforge.net/
i just LOVE the fact that you are all sweaty for enormous battle robots, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake, but you are frightened of RFID.
or worse still; 'Mandrill' ahref=http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals /species/9803.htmlhttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/con tent/animals/species/9803.html>
urgly.
i'm not disagreeing with you, Sony are the last people I want meddling with my brain. however, as the above proves, people normalise to things.
how about 'Stange Days'? that had something along these lines
your problem there will be encouraging people to look after the children, instead of just having amazing simulated sex all the time. i know which way i would go on that one...
ha ha.
i make myself sad.
Sarah Sprague who will almost certainly never be 'one of the guys with girlfriends' no matter how hard she tries.
or indeed, Al Cap0wned! i don' care how off-topic it is. i rate both of the prequels so far -1 Offtopic in the thread of Star Wars anyway.
send a couple of hundred off, and you can basically prevent someone from using their phone for the best part of a day. possibly this is why the networks stopped allowing ICQ to send SMS. it was bloody great when used sensibly though, i wish trillian could do it now.
and frankly they are bloody brilliant. no slow death like windows boxes which need reformatting annually, spyware notwithstanding. the OS is on ROM for some of them i believe.
and so many hours wasted on Stunt Racer 2000. so many happy hours...
emulator http://www.redsquirrel.fsnet.co.uk/redsquirrel.htm l
i'm IT chieftain for a recruitment company. find me well supported (and i mean 'man to come and fix my broken shit, no more than an hour from central london - i HAVE to have this to satisfy the powers that be) linux recruitment software to replace my windows-only current solution.
MS dominates the market, 3rd party suppliers only support MS, you can make the Best Fucking Linux Desktop on the planet, it could fellate me gently all day while i work, and i STILL couldn't roll it out (apart from dual boot on my machine obviously - mmm fellatio...)
therefore MS has to play nice. since they clearly can't play nice on their own, they need to be forced. step forward, EU Directive.
i've now got two DVD burners, and i put discs in in the morning, and burn discs from work, via VNC. its the only way to stay on top.
hard drives are fairly cheap these days, but if you are looking at any kind of local VoD serving you still need an awful lot of them, and more importantly, an awful lot of IDE channels to sit them on. if this stuff can seriously amp up volume/channel ratio that will be excellent.
windows has no ability (AFAIK) to switch users while still logged in Right Click. Run As... May not play nice with domain structure.