Instead of punishing everyone in these countries by taxing them for the few people who actually want to receive the free government programming like the BBC, why not just move this programming to an encrypted over-the-air format and require a special access card and receiver to decode it? Then the only people who could watch these channels are those who actually pay for them? That's what the whole tax is about in the first place right? They just assume anyone with a TV MUST be watching the high quality programming on the BBC like reruns of Benny Hill so they have to tax everyone because anyone with a TV can receive it for free. So, just make them buy a special receiver and you guarantee that only those interested in the programming can receive it and you can eliminate the tax!
If people are afraid to post anything with copyrighted material, whether it's the music in the background or clips from a show, then the whole thing is going to fall apart. I know I'm just repeating what's already been said a million times over, but why the hell did google buy youtube in the first place if they were just going to turn around and do this?
Because they wanted to destroy YouTube. It is basically the biggest competition for their own Google Videos product. It was only a matter of time before YouTube tanked though. Napster on one hand was merely a directory of users that were serving up content from *their* computers in a peer-to-peer fashion. Napster never hosted any copyrighted content like YouTube does and yet Napster still got their asses handed to them. YouTube flagrantly allows users to violate copyright laws without any policing on their part whatsoever. Why don't uploaded videos have to pass through an editorial review process before they get posted to a public forum? YouTube needs to take responsibility for the fact that they have a huge hand in allowing copyrighted material to be hosted on *their* servers. Ignorance is no excuse.
Along the same lines, why buy an Apple cell phone when you can buy a Nokia phone for less money?
I've been wondering that myself. What would be so special about an Apple iPhone that would distinguish it from any number of other cell phones out there that play music already? Sony has their Walkman phones, Motorola has the SLVR, ROKR, KRZR, etc. I think Samsung even has phones that play music. Then you get into the Smartphones like Blackberries or Treos and all those can play music as well.
Apple will have to make something pretty special to differentiate it from the others since they are late to the game. Video? It's been done. Chat? Already done. Music? Already done. Live TV? Already done. WiFi + GSM or CDMA in a single phone? Already done. iSync compatibility? Tons of phones available that have that. Organizers, calendars, todo lists, etc.? Been done. Cameras? Done. Video cameras? Done. E-Mail? Done. So Apple, what can you offer in an iPhone that would distinguish itself from 50 other phones other there that have all of the above features besides a white plastic case and a light-up Apple logo on the back of it?
A company such as Novell may consider that the filesystem platform isn't as supported as what it once was and is moving away from it.
Good. They should be throwing their weight behind a better filesystem like XFS or JFS instead. If you're dealing with large files a lot, they put ext3fs AND reiserfs to shame. The only place I'd use ext3 anymore is on my system disk, but my large video stores run JFS.
I thought RFID tags were passive devices. How do you make a "high powered" passive device? I guess you can increase the power of the scanners, but the tags themselves are the same no?
Apparently , a new computer virus has been engineered by a user of
America Online that is unparalleled in its destructive capability.
Other, more well-known viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf, and
Michaelangelo pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest
creation by a warped mentality.
What makes this virus so terrifying is the fact that no program
needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be infected. It can be
spread through the existing e-mail systems of the InterNet.
Luckily, there is one sure means of detecting what is now known as
the "Good Times" virus. It always travels to new computers the
same way - in a text e-mail message with the subject line reading
simply "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy once the file has
been received - not reading it. The act of loading the file into
the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times" mainline
program to initialize and execute.
The program is highly intelligent - it will send copies of itself
to everyone whose e-mail address is contained in a received-mail
file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed
to trash the computer it is running on.
The bottom line here is - if you receive a file with the subject
line "Good TImes", delete it immediately! Do not read it! Rest
assured that whoever's name was on the "From:" line was surely
struck by the virus. Warn your friends and local system users of
this newest threat to the InterNet! It could save them a lot of
time and money.
Personally I think this is a shame. Because of the laissez-faire attitude we have very poor quality free drivers, as no one has the incentive to reverse-engineer the hardware, and very poor quality proprietary hardware.
Nobody is forcing you to use proprietary NVidia graphics drivers or their cards. The open source driver support for S3, Trident and the old Cirrus Logic cards is quite good. If you use Linux you have to expect that you won't be able to use the latest and greatest hardware available unless you're willing to accept some bitter terms from the manufacturer to protect their intellectual property so that they can stay on top of the game. We've seen what happens to the manufacturers' cards that Linux fully supports in open source... the companies become irrelevant. Do you think Nvidia wants to become irrelevant just to satisfy some silly kernel source code requirement? Better yet, why doesn't *Linux* implement a binary compatibility layer for drivers so manufacturers don't HAVE to implement their own proprietary interface. If there was a simple accepted binary driver interface that manufacturers could use to write drivers for Linux you'd see a LOT more support for Linux on cutting edge hardware. Blame Linus for that not happening though. He holds on to these antiquated beliefs in "free" software to the detriment of people that actually want to use their computers for something useful. That's why a lot of people, myself included, have abandoned Linux on the desktop and use Macs now.
A true gamer must spend at least $500 a year upgrading their system to get better performance out of a game. Somehow I don't think those balloon popping games on Pogo require a really high end system.
What is this "landline" that you are talking about?
A landline is a phone connected into the POTS network via a physical cable and receives power from a central distribution point allowing it to survive power outages (assuming the upstream provider has a generator or UPS built into the terminals). It usually allows unmetered calling to anyone in your local area and allows you to receive calls from anywhere without paying fees.
Unfortunately, my cordless phone does not. I could always fix it with battery backup, but we've got two cellphones in the house, so I'm not terribly concerned.
I'd be willing to part with my line-powered phone for a reasonable price... say $125. It is a beautiful shade of green and comes with a 12 foot cord between the handset and base and I can provide up to a 100 foot cable to plug into your VOIP adapter and the base for $15. This phone is specially designed to withstand prolonged power outages with absolutely no battery backup required on the phone itself as long as the line is powered (i.e. your VOIP adapter is on a UPS or generator).
In the Usa its common to us a "," but in Europe you will see a "." used instead.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. What do you use for a decimal point, a comma? I suppose a billion isn't a thousand million in your world either.
thats what your teachers were talking about when they told you about plagiarism
For those that aren't aware, plagiarism is the practice of dishonestly claiming original authorship of material which one has not actually created, such as when a person incorporates material from someone else's work into his own work without attributing it. Within academia, plagiarism is seen as academic dishonesty, and is a serious and punishable academic offense.
Don't forget the massive tornadoes of super-cool air being pulled down from space causing helicopters to instantly freeze over and fall from the sky. It's only a matter of days before we all freeze to death because of global warming god damnit! We need to fundamentally change the way humans do things NOW, not tomorrow. Turn off all your electronic stuff immediately and don't use any fuel!
Please let it be a 12" widescreen iPod with touchscreen interface, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and built-in dual CDMA/GSM phone functionality with wireless Bluetooth stereo headphones! Oh please oh please oh please Steve!
Ummm, that guy is bitching that an 800MHz Powerbook with 1GB of RAM was slow running 10.2.x, which is a bunch of bullshit since I'm running 10.3.9 on an 800MHz G3 iBook with 640MB of RAM and it runs fine. Hell, we had 333MHz G3 B&W Powermacs with 384MB of RAM that ran OS X 10.1.x just fine when we still had those machines. The guy is a wanker, plain and simple.
my laptop is only 3 feet from the monitor because it HAS to be to use the monitor.
My laptop is directly connected to the monitor and I can just close a lid and bring it along with me. What kind of shitty laptop did you buy that doesn't include a display?
No, it will load AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV and Apple Lossless files.
But not WMA or DRM protected WMA files. This is a huge disadvantage as every non-iTunes Music Store web site selling music uses WMA. If iTMS stumbles, the iPod is doomed.
It is illegal to "back up" DVDs using the method you describe in the United States because to do so on 99.9% of the commercial DVDs out there you'd have to circumvent the copy protection which would mean violating the DMCA. In all reality though, DVDs are a very robust and sturdy medium. I've never had any issues with my DVDs scratching or breaking and frankly, if you're watching a DVD enough to actually wear it out or scratch it enough then you probably should buy another copy anyway just to support the artists.
You don't lose your data if the display dies.... Apple does a backup of the HDD unless you request them not to and sign the work order stating this.
Is that a new policy? When I had my iBook serviced (several times.. curse you piece of shit G3 iBook) I had the option of them backing it up for a fee, but otherwise I had to accept that I could lose my data if I didn't pay for their backup service. Thankfully I had my own backups so it wasn't an issue, plus the machine always came back with the drive fully intact without a problem since they just swap out the motherboard.
This idea that people should not share wireless (even when their ISP allows it) is just one more step in wrecking the freedom of the internet.
Sharing your wireless access point is an incredibly dangerous proposition, especially when the authorities come busting down your door for being a child pornographer, sending threatening e-mail to the President, or committing vast copyright infringement. How are you going to explain yourself? "Uh uh uh... I let ANYONE use my wireless so you can't prove it was me." Right. At the very least you'll be paying for a lawyer to get your ass out of jail. You could avoid all of that by just turning on WPA and taking simple precautions to stop people from pirating your wifi signal. In my opinion "sharing" wireless should be illegal because if I can pick up the signal outside my house using nothing but a non-modified laptop then the signal is too strong to begin with and you're violating FCC rules. You should take steps to ensure that the wireless signal does NOT leak outside your house and cause interference with others.
If I want stock picks I employ a professional, not a scum sucking spammer.
These stock spams aren't meant to benefit YOU, they're meant to pump and dump worthless stocks so the spammers or their customers can make money fast and get out with the clueless buyers holding worthless overpriced stock.
What happens when $50/month for 5Mbps service no longer covers their costs?
Easy, the providers raise prices to cover their upstream costs. If you want to use 5 Mbps worth of bandwidth then you should pay for 5 Mbps worth of upstream bandwidth. It's not rocket science. Why should Google pay a ton of money because *I* want to stream 5 Mbps worth of Google Videos? They pay their bandwidth costs, and I'll pay mine. If that means paying $300 a month for ADSL then so be it.
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Instead of punishing everyone in these countries by taxing them for the few people who actually want to receive the free government programming like the BBC, why not just move this programming to an encrypted over-the-air format and require a special access card and receiver to decode it? Then the only people who could watch these channels are those who actually pay for them? That's what the whole tax is about in the first place right? They just assume anyone with a TV MUST be watching the high quality programming on the BBC like reruns of Benny Hill so they have to tax everyone because anyone with a TV can receive it for free. So, just make them buy a special receiver and you guarantee that only those interested in the programming can receive it and you can eliminate the tax!
I've been wondering that myself. What would be so special about an Apple iPhone that would distinguish it from any number of other cell phones out there that play music already? Sony has their Walkman phones, Motorola has the SLVR, ROKR, KRZR, etc. I think Samsung even has phones that play music. Then you get into the Smartphones like Blackberries or Treos and all those can play music as well.
Apple will have to make something pretty special to differentiate it from the others since they are late to the game. Video? It's been done. Chat? Already done. Music? Already done. Live TV? Already done. WiFi + GSM or CDMA in a single phone? Already done. iSync compatibility? Tons of phones available that have that. Organizers, calendars, todo lists, etc.? Been done. Cameras? Done. Video cameras? Done. E-Mail? Done. So Apple, what can you offer in an iPhone that would distinguish itself from 50 other phones other there that have all of the above features besides a white plastic case and a light-up Apple logo on the back of it?
I thought RFID tags were passive devices. How do you make a "high powered" passive device? I guess you can increase the power of the scanners, but the tags themselves are the same no?
Apparently , a new computer virus has been engineered by a user of America Online that is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other, more well-known viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf, and Michaelangelo pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a warped mentality.
What makes this virus so terrifying is the fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread through the existing e-mail systems of the InterNet.
Luckily, there is one sure means of detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always travels to new computers the same way - in a text e-mail message with the subject line reading simply "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received - not reading it. The act of loading the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times" mainline program to initialize and execute.
The program is highly intelligent - it will send copies of itself to everyone whose e-mail address is contained in a received-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the computer it is running on.
The bottom line here is - if you receive a file with the subject line "Good TImes", delete it immediately! Do not read it! Rest assured that whoever's name was on the "From:" line was surely struck by the virus. Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat to the InterNet! It could save them a lot of time and money.
A true gamer must spend at least $500 a year upgrading their system to get better performance out of a game. Somehow I don't think those balloon popping games on Pogo require a really high end system.
A landline is a phone connected into the POTS network via a physical cable and receives power from a central distribution point allowing it to survive power outages (assuming the upstream provider has a generator or UPS built into the terminals). It usually allows unmetered calling to anyone in your local area and allows you to receive calls from anywhere without paying fees.
I'd be willing to part with my line-powered phone for a reasonable price... say $125. It is a beautiful shade of green and comes with a 12 foot cord between the handset and base and I can provide up to a 100 foot cable to plug into your VOIP adapter and the base for $15. This phone is specially designed to withstand prolonged power outages with absolutely no battery backup required on the phone itself as long as the line is powered (i.e. your VOIP adapter is on a UPS or generator).
For those that aren't aware, plagiarism is the practice of dishonestly claiming original authorship of material which one has not actually created, such as when a person incorporates material from someone else's work into his own work without attributing it. Within academia, plagiarism is seen as academic dishonesty, and is a serious and punishable academic offense.
Don't forget the massive tornadoes of super-cool air being pulled down from space causing helicopters to instantly freeze over and fall from the sky. It's only a matter of days before we all freeze to death because of global warming god damnit! We need to fundamentally change the way humans do things NOW, not tomorrow. Turn off all your electronic stuff immediately and don't use any fuel!
Please let it be a 12" widescreen iPod with touchscreen interface, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and built-in dual CDMA/GSM phone functionality with wireless Bluetooth stereo headphones! Oh please oh please oh please Steve!
Ummm, that guy is bitching that an 800MHz Powerbook with 1GB of RAM was slow running 10.2.x, which is a bunch of bullshit since I'm running 10.3.9 on an 800MHz G3 iBook with 640MB of RAM and it runs fine. Hell, we had 333MHz G3 B&W Powermacs with 384MB of RAM that ran OS X 10.1.x just fine when we still had those machines. The guy is a wanker, plain and simple.
Completely and totally underwhelming was my response to the announcements. Who cares about iPods? Where are the Core 2 Duo Macbook Pros?
What does ANY of that have to do with renting DVDs over the Internet? Completely different concept entirely.
It is illegal to "back up" DVDs using the method you describe in the United States because to do so on 99.9% of the commercial DVDs out there you'd have to circumvent the copy protection which would mean violating the DMCA. In all reality though, DVDs are a very robust and sturdy medium. I've never had any issues with my DVDs scratching or breaking and frankly, if you're watching a DVD enough to actually wear it out or scratch it enough then you probably should buy another copy anyway just to support the artists.
These stock spams aren't meant to benefit YOU, they're meant to pump and dump worthless stocks so the spammers or their customers can make money fast and get out with the clueless buyers holding worthless overpriced stock.
Eliminate your boss and take his position because he's a complete moron.