Its illegal for you perhaps , not for me.I understand this is a mostly american site so i can understand your opinion .;) however i currently live in the land of the free..Germany.
If i were to do the maths i would have to fiqure in a few things. 1: buying a copy of windows(does it work on wine ?) 2: buying a compatible player(not that i would want one , im perfectly happy with the one i have right now)
3: what if it goes belly up
4: I can get several albums full off of allofmp3.com for the same price , perhaps i could get more off rhapsody yes. Atleast with allofmp3 i would own the music and could do what the hell i wanted with it.
Well if your calling me a lier then you fail to note i mention in the story that i told him how to stop it from starting up.
The only thing changed is i just picked up the highlights, I have no idea why the guy disapeard he may have just left , but it was my assumption he followed my advice and then rebooted his computer...
If you disbelive me , then fair enough you are welcome to you opinion but i want thank you not to insult me in future without a shread of evidence either way.
I agree in part , but to follow that argument to its logical conclusion..Should we not make all airplanes 1 seater devices with automation or perhaps a 2 seater 1 seat being a pilot and the other a passenger. Doing that would make any crashes but a minor tragedy.
I prefer to think of it this way , the less flights that hapen then the less likely it is a crash will occur.
Shockingly enough i did get the joke , i was just expanding upon it. Obviously that went over your head. I appoligise , next time i will stick a large notice at the top stating my intentions
[10:28] your kidding , how the hell can you fake an irc log [10:28]<you> like this!!!! [10:29]<me> oh is this a fake irc log [10:29]<you> yes it is [10:29]<me> hm,,, how odd
Well thats why im using it mainly . having the ability to easily swap between carbon/cocoa apps and a ksh shell is wonderfull. Currently i have an eMac sitting as my main work terminal for the fact i can quite eassily run apps intended for a wide variety of systems with VPC6 or bochs . plenty of native ports to darwin thanks to fink etc fills out my requierments for remote administration of the server so i barely ever need to move off my chair(probably a bad thing come to think of it).
Reminds me of a time i was on irc once , this guy stormed into the room shouting and threatening to hack everyones computers (aparently he had been banned the night before). So i did a whois and a few other things and found out he was using windows. It was fairly obvious that at best the guy was a skript kiddie and had hardly any knowlidge of the system.So i said "hey mate i just hacked your system"
he mutterd some obscenitys and not so polietly asked me to prove it. So i said to him to type msconfig in a command prompt(i still have some working knowlidge of windows).
He then continue to mutter obscenitys about this having already been there , i decided to elaborate and told him i had installed two services as proof of my skill , those were RPC and messenger(this was a few years back) . He started becoming increasingly disturbed so i went for the kill and had a freind who uses windows to netsend him a message(he had forgoten to mask his ip) and in the message it said," the only way to remove the ""Virus was to deselect the rpc service and reboot". A few moments later a ping timeout message and the guy was never heard from again.
This is why the bug fixes are passed back through the kernel releases. If you constantly upgrade to the latest release then ofcourse you will bump into glitches now and then.
The highest number is not a gaurentee of stability , if you want stable then keep your system on a kernel a few releases back and just keep it patched. The very latest releases feature,mainly improvments and aditions to the functionality of the kernel.
2.6.12 will be "bleeding edge" when its released and i wouldnt trust my working system to it unless i really needed something that was part of the kernel . Generaly its a good idea to wait untill 2.6.12 has had its fair share of testing before commiting to using it
Basicaly what you have here is exactly the same service as napster.com , its a complete rip off , and im betting as soon as you stop paying that fee the musics DRM would lock you out
I can hear alot of judges and lawyers rubbing their hands together going "Anti-trust suit", as once again microsoft uses its monopoly to push something onto the public that they don't know they need. Of-course The only reason they the legal community is getting excited is , They are planning what to spend their big fat pay-offs on!
Have you ever had to deal with AOLs abuse system. Well a year or two ago i was making a complaint about a couple of AOL members abusing a web server(could of been only one with 2 accounts). in total i think i sent them 50 complaints with logs and only ever got 2 emails back saying it will be looked into. Time passed but still nothing , in the end i had to blacklist most of the USAs AOL members and all AOL email address(random IP adress on a nasty scale , and free emails). Im not alone in this action i know several other people who have done the same thing, to think of a site off the top of my head.. anandtech.com blocks all AOL email adress from registering due to abuse.
AOL do not take complaints seriously and all they do (or so ive heard) in most cases is send an email to the person warning them to stop it or they will be cut off.
So perhaps the admin was over-zelous but on the other hand i wouldnt put it past AOL to totaly ignore complaints and reports of abuse , so i think its more a wake up call for shody ISPs to take action to stop spam
I don't know who moded this down , Its 100% correct. We need to constantly balance these things and if we let the whole ethical thing sway us too far in one direction we could tip over(equaqly the same if we let all decisions be made on a fiscal basis).
Balance is the most important thing we can strive for , not to drop our ethics but also not to forget the world outside. Take head from other reveloutions that went so very wrong by letting fanatcism control the helm.Rushing the point and ending up with quite the oposite to what was desired. If we keep our heads and keep our thoughts focused (on all sides of the argument) we will have far greater success.
What I do find crazy is that there are some computers with 32 mb of RAM listed here. I'm surprised Steam even loaded! There are about a 100 people who have less than a 100 megs of RAM who are probably cursing 'coz HL2 doesn't work on their machines. And don't get me started on the 200 MHz machines which are listed!
There is also alot of people who love messing with statistics;)
;) we get them from Japan. Plus im not to botherd as i would rather lose the ability(untill the hacks show up) than be ripped off. Plus if i got a US one i could easily get the UMD movies imported aswell , it really is not much a problem and if everyone did that it would send a nice message to sony about screwing over the EU customers
249 euros , that is insane.. currently the imported models from the USA are selling for less than 250 with a game and some other goodies. Im sorry but that is really low , the european market should not stand for such treatment . First off considering the strength of the dollar right now. Do you realise that the price would be 349 USD for Europe
I for one will not stand for such treatment consider the price in the USA is 100 less.
To be honest worst comes to worst the UK could do without RIAA , As the UK and well the whole of europe has alot of bands signed to labels outside the RIAA.
Another think though , i would dearly love this to come up in the european court as they have a tendancy to rule in favour of the people , If it hapens that the european court rules that it is unlawfull then it will begin to spread over the member states.
When it has spread to all the member states then the practice will extend beyond the member states to non member states , at which point there is an extremly large import export market which would flow to you guys in the USA , Australlie , Canada , New zeland etc.
When this hapens , people will stop buying the DRM crap localy and pay for the imported stuff that they can do as they please with.
Thus the snowball continues to roll and hopefull that would be the end of DRM in music (hopefully a side-effect would be removing it from software and Films)
I belive these screenshots are not intended for "Us" (as in the experienced users. They are to show the new guys what is in store for them when they get the system up and running and how the desktop will look. As remember this is targeted at the "Newbies" and most of them probably have never seen KDE let alone know what it is
Yes fair enough the other BSDs may not be ment for the average person , but yyour missing one vital point here , this is not the other BSDs (actualy OS X is fairly well aimed at the commen man)This BSDs sole aim is to make BSD easy to use which i think is a grand ambition as it gives the people more to choose from.
Yes indeed more trained admins are needed , but ontop of that a wider user base is also needed as such a think spectrum of users will keep the *free* *bsds unaprochable which may make adopotion of the system harder .
Its insane the ammount of bandwidth this is sucking up (i remember a time when virus's and worms were relativly well programed, still as bad but less collaterol dammage). I would like to see more ISP isntead of suplying basic DSL modems with those overpriced sign up deals but instead a proper firewall/router/Dsl modem. This would save us all alot of pain in the long run .
Well thanks ! Yes it was a simple joke . The reason is that the woman really does deserve no respect in this industry and yet she continues to get constant coverage. Im willing to bet she makes a fair bit from sponsership through links.
With The animosity she causes by her ill-informed rants..I'm amazed any industry types take her seriously any-more.
Yes also it was not sexist , Its just her name is Didio and not Schillster as i would rather have made a joke calling her a schill or a tool but it wouldnt of made me laugh as much and would lose all humor.
Actualy i supose i could call her Drildio as she is a tool , alas thanks for understading that sometimes its just a joke
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Well i find it has always been emacsulate
Yes the ladies are always PINEing over me , It's as if i were a THUNDERBIRD or perhaps its just something to do with the EVOLOUTION of the species
Its illegal for you perhaps , not for me .I understand this is a mostly american site so i can understand your opinion . ;) however i currently live in the land of the free ..Germany.
If i were to do the maths i would have to fiqure in a few things.
1: buying a copy of windows(does it work on wine ?)
2: buying a compatible player(not that i would want one , im perfectly happy with the one i have right now)
3: what if it goes belly up
4: I can get several albums full off of allofmp3.com for the same price , perhaps i could get more off rhapsody yes. Atleast with allofmp3 i would own the music and could do what the hell i wanted with it.
Well if your calling me a lier then you fail to note i mention in the story that i told him how to stop it from starting up
The only thing changed is i just picked up the highlights, I have no idea why the guy disapeard he may have just left , but it was my assumption he followed my advice and then rebooted his computer...
If you disbelive me , then fair enough you are welcome to you opinion but i want thank you not to insult me in future without a shread of evidence either way
I agree in part , but to follow that argument to its logical conclusion ..Should we not make all airplanes 1 seater devices with automation or perhaps a 2 seater 1 seat being a pilot and the other a passenger . .
Doing that would make any crashes but a minor tragedy
I prefer to think of it this way , the less flights that hapen then the less likely it is a crash will occur.
Shockingly enough i did get the joke , i was just expanding upon it .
Obviously that went over your head. I appoligise , next time i will stick a large notice at the top stating my intentions
Didnt know that then though hee , this was a few years ago now though .
[10:28] your kidding , how the hell can you fake an irc log ,,, how odd
[10:28]<you> like this!!!!
[10:29]<me> oh is this a fake irc log
[10:29]<you> yes it is
[10:29]<me> hm
Well thats why im using it mainly . having the ability to easily swap between carbon/cocoa apps and a ksh shell is wonderfull .
Currently i have an eMac sitting as my main work terminal for the fact i can quite eassily run apps intended for a wide variety of systems with VPC6 or bochs . plenty of native ports to darwin thanks to fink etc fills out my requierments for remote administration of the server so i barely ever need to move off my chair(probably a bad thing come to think of it).
Reminds me of a time i was on irc once , this guy stormed into the room shouting and threatening to hack everyones computers (aparently he had been banned the night before). .So i said "hey mate i just hacked your system" .
.
So i did a whois and a few other things and found out he was using windows.
It was fairly obvious that at best the guy was a skript kiddie and had hardly any knowlidge of the system
he mutterd some obscenitys and not so polietly asked me to prove it
So i said to him to type msconfig in a command prompt(i still have some working knowlidge of windows).
He then continue to mutter obscenitys about this having already been there , i decided to elaborate and told him i had installed two services as proof of my skill , those were RPC and messenger(this was a few years back) . He started becoming increasingly disturbed so i went for the kill and had a freind who uses windows to netsend him a message(he had forgoten to mask his ip) and in the message it said," the only way to remove the ""Virus was to deselect the rpc service and reboot"
A few moments later a ping timeout message and the guy was never heard from again.
This is why the bug fixes are passed back through the kernel releases.
If you constantly upgrade to the latest release then ofcourse you will bump into glitches now and then.
The highest number is not a gaurentee of stability , if you want stable then keep your system on a kernel a few releases back and just keep it patched.
The very latest releases feature
2.6.12 will be "bleeding edge" when its released and i wouldnt trust my working system to it unless i really needed something that was part of the kernel . Generaly its a good idea to wait untill 2.6.12 has had its fair share of testing before commiting to using it
Basicaly what you have here is exactly the same service as napster.com , its a complete rip off , and im betting as soon as you stop paying that fee the musics DRM would lock you out
I can hear alot of judges and lawyers rubbing their hands together going "Anti-trust suit", as once again microsoft uses its monopoly to push something onto the public that they don't know they need. Of-course The only reason they the legal community is getting excited is , They are planning what to spend their big fat pay-offs on!
Have you ever had to deal with AOLs abuse system . . .. anandtech.com blocks all AOL email adress from registering due to abuse .
.
Well a year or two ago i was making a complaint about a couple of AOL members abusing a web server(could of been only one with 2 accounts). in total i think i sent them 50 complaints with logs and only ever got 2 emails back saying it will be looked into
Time passed but still nothing , in the end i had to blacklist most of the USAs AOL members and all AOL email address(random IP adress on a nasty scale , and free emails).
Im not alone in this action i know several other people who have done the same thing, to think of a site off the top of my head
AOL do not take complaints seriously and all they do (or so ive heard) in most cases is send an email to the person warning them to stop it or they will be cut off
So perhaps the admin was over-zelous but on the other hand i wouldnt put it past AOL to totaly ignore complaints and reports of abuse , so i think its more a wake up call for shody ISPs to take action to stop spam
I don't know who moded this down , Its 100% correct .
. .Rushing the point and ending up with quite the oposite to what was desired . .
We need to constantly balance these things and if we let the whole ethical thing sway us too far in one direction we could tip over(equaqly the same if we let all decisions be made on a fiscal basis).
Balance is the most important thing we can strive for , not to drop our ethics but also not to forget the world outside
Take head from other reveloutions that went so very wrong by letting fanatcism control the helm
If we keep our heads and keep our thoughts focused (on all sides of the argument) we will have far greater success
or on the other hand , have the system misrepresent the data which is rather easy on linux ,Fairly sure it would be easy on windows too.
;) we get them from Japan . .
Plus im not to botherd as i would rather lose the ability(untill the hacks show up) than be ripped off
Plus if i got a US one i could easily get the UMD movies imported aswell , it really is not much a problem and if everyone did that it would send a nice message to sony about screwing over the EU customers
249 euros , that is insane .. currently the imported models from the USA are selling for less than 250 with a game and some other goodies.
Im sorry but that is really low , the european market should not stand for such treatment . First off considering the strength of the dollar right now.
Do you realise that the price would be 349 USD for Europe
I for one will not stand for such treatment consider the price in the USA is 100 less.
lets just hope the submitter has the facts wrong
To be honest worst comes to worst the UK could do without RIAA , As the UK and well the whole of europe has alot of bands signed to labels outside the RIAA.
.
Another think though , i would dearly love this to come up in the european court as they have a tendancy to rule in favour of the people , If it hapens that the european court rules that it is unlawfull then it will begin to spread over the member states
When it has spread to all the member states then the practice will extend beyond the member states to non member states , at which point there is an extremly large import export market which would flow to you guys in the USA , Australlie , Canada , New zeland etc.
When this hapens , people will stop buying the DRM crap localy and pay for the imported stuff that they can do as they please with.
Thus the snowball continues to roll and hopefull that would be the end of DRM in music (hopefully a side-effect would be removing it from software and Films)
Well we can but dream
I belive these screenshots are not intended for "Us" (as in the experienced users.
They are to show the new guys what is in store for them when they get the system up and running and how the desktop will look.
As remember this is targeted at the "Newbies" and most of them probably have never seen KDE let alone know what it is
Yes fair enough the other BSDs may not be ment for the average person , but yyour missing one vital point here , this is not the other BSDs (actualy OS X is fairly well aimed at the commen man)This BSDs sole aim is to make BSD easy to use which i think is a grand ambition as it gives the people more to choose from.
Yes indeed more trained admins are needed , but ontop of that a wider user base is also needed as such a think spectrum of users will keep the *free* *bsds unaprochable which may make adopotion of the system harder .
Its insane the ammount of bandwidth this is sucking up (i remember a time when virus's and worms were relativly well programed, still as bad but less collaterol dammage).
I would like to see more ISP isntead of suplying basic DSL modems with those overpriced sign up deals but instead a proper firewall/router/Dsl modem.
This would save us all alot of pain in the long run .
Well thanks ! Yes it was a simple joke . The reason is that the woman really does deserve no respect in this industry and yet she continues to get constant coverage. Im willing to bet she makes a fair bit from sponsership through links.
..I'm amazed any industry types take her seriously any-more.
.
With The animosity she causes by her ill-informed rants
Yes also it was not sexist , Its just her name is Didio and not Schillster as i would rather have made a joke calling her a schill or a tool but it wouldnt of made me laugh as much and would lose all humor
Actualy i supose i could call her Drildio as she is a tool , alas thanks for understading that sometimes its just a joke