Throttle the upload speed in your BT client. I've only got 320Kb/s up, so I set my client to upload at 12 - 16KB/s and the internets run nicely. To compensate for the reduced bandwidth, I just seed for longer. Everyone wins.
Upload throttling seems to give me a better download speed too; probably something to do with maxing out the connections at the router.
Don't be an asshole, and you won''t be modded down. It's that easy.
No, it's not. You can be an asshole and have something insightful or informative to say, and any moderation points accorded should reflect WHAT THE POSTER POSTED.
When I'm modding, I look at the relevance and merits of the post itself. I don't even consider the user name as a factor. In truth, I don't even look at the handle before moderating.
Personally I don't care for sock puppetry and associated shenanigans, but that will not affect any moderation I give - UNLESS it's quite obviously a post designed simply to game the system.
Seriously, a mod HAS to be objective in the allocation of points, else the system falls flat on it's arse.
Because it's not their business sector. They're just not interested in your money if that's what you're looking for. It's an entirely different market. Apple are an integrated "systems" company - they're perfectly willing to sell you a system that includes OS X and a computer, because that's what a complete system _is_ according to Apple. The only way Apple can maintain a level of consistency is by controlling both the hardware _and_ the software.
You can't buy OS X and install it on a Dell for the same reasons that you can't buy a blank Macbook Pro.
Oblig car analogy: try and buy a Ford with a Chevy engine from your GM dealer.
You know, the thrust of your message is correct - just because someone amends the rule book doesn't mean you have to play by those new rules. You always have the choice to not play the damned game at all. Turn your back...
Civil disobedience is indeed a powerful tool, and I fully advocate its use whenever the legislators get out of step from what society really wants.
Unfortunately you posted anonymously, so I cannot mod you up. If you had the courage of your convictions you'd have opened an account before posting, then we could have expanded the debate. I guess your current moderation of 0 reflects that people don't know how to moderate your post; unfortunately it also means your post will get buried bellow the default threshold.
Whenever I move data to a network drive / partition I always verify that the data was successfully copied before I delete the original, regardless of the OS I'm using. I've never been bitten by this bug.
It should be noted that cut / paste doesn't exist in OSX (the menu option exists but is 'greyed out'), and 'copy' is the default option if you drag a file to a network drive, but you can always use the command line 'mv' to move a file. I guess the only people who will witness this bug will be those that use the command line, and again I'd guess that they would be in the minority as the Mac OS is primarily a 'drag and drop' interface. I know that hitting a certain combination of modifier keys can invoke a move operation, but it's certainly not the default.
Ok, but this is really getting off-topic now. How you, or anyone else feels about smoking is irrelevant here. Reading the OP's story, I get the impression he was exploring the process, not looking to solve the argument itself. In other words, the validity of his argument was immaterial, what he was looking for was 'how' the argument was developed.
He could equally have postulated that black was white.
It seems to be the growing opinion of the EU courts (and the Spanish authorities) that multimedia "piracy" is not something they should be concerned with, unless there's a clear financial profit motive for the pirate.
With this in mind, it's quite safe to share stuff on Kazaa, Limewire and similar. Replicating dvds and cds and selling them on street corners will dump you in the shit however.
It's still legal in Spain to record the tv or radio and share those recordings with your family and friends. The courts feel that multimedia sharing over p2p is no different.
Could this post possibly be more irrelevant and off-topic? Here, let me try:
4 years ago I bought my motorcycle for 8k. Today the factory are selling it new at 6k. Triumph suck.
My 5MP digicam was 800 when I bought it. Today, I can buy a 10MP camera for 500. Canon suck.
Company x launches their product at a price set by the market. When six months later the market no longer supports that price, company x will become teh suck if they drop their price? Early adopters invariably get shafted. They always have and probably always will.
But this is all totally off-topic to this discussion.
Aldrete-Davila was, at the time and to the best of knowledge to the border guards, an unknown, regular, innocent citizen that they had decided "was suspicious".
They tailed him, he got nervous and parked the van, then ran for the border. When he ran, Ramos shot him.
The agents "did not know who this individual was or what he had in the van," (Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra) Kanof said. "They just decided or guessed."
At this point in time there was no evidence of a crime. They had not looked at the van, preferring to give chase, then shooting when it looked like he was getting away. The assumption was made: If you run you must be guilty.
OK, so the van was full of pot. Big deal. This was not a factor in the shooting - in fact the pot was only discovered when their superiors arrived at the scene some time later.
The guards' convictions need to stand because there was no justification for the shooting. Running away from the law should never illicit a fatal response excepting occasions where someone is in mortal danger. A suspect legging it across a canal to the border does not automatically justify opening fire.
I, personally, applaud the court ruling. We're all a bit safer for it.
Nerds are people first and nerds second, and as people, we should all be concerned about the actions of thus most unctuous and corrupt government. Nerds are people first and nerds second, and as people, we should all be interested in hearing about the specials on offer at the local store.
So should/. post this weeks "Managers' Specials"?
Is that relevant "News for nerds"?
Hmm... never mind, apparently it is. Carry on. Nothing to see here...
Apple doesn't really want you to use Safari. Neither does Google. They are really happy with you as you are because you are already using a standards-based browser.
Neither Apple nor Google could give a shit over what browser you turn up at their door wearing. Web standards are not a big deal to them - witness their web sites' code validation results. Neither of them validate to even Wilbur levels.
As long as you don't use Explorer that is bad for everyone.
How is that bad for everyone? Just above, you listed 2 major companies that are willing to serve you dressed in your best IE suit. If I use IE, that's my choice. There are many reasons for a user to choose IE over the competition:
* it was already installed * I know this interface already * it works on the sites I visit * it integrates with Explorer and our intranet apps * I'm not allowed to install stuff on my work machine * ??? * Profit!
In any of the above cases, IE could be the right choice for me.
Now, if IE was sending out malformed requests and crashing the servers it connected to, you may have had a point. But as long as the internets work for me and my surfing doesn't impede your surfing in any way, what's the problem?
</devils advocate>
Oblig. Disclaimer: I'm a web developer with a MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad running Ubuntu Feisty (with ies4linux and IE7), and see about 40% of my time spent getting standards compliant sites to work with IE.
If IE followed w3c standards to the same extent as Firefox or Safari, the bulk of my time would be occupied finding more clients to fill the 40% extra time I gained.
Currently, I'm paid for that x-platform test/devel thang - I strongly doubt I'd get paid for fishing for more clients.
Now most windows machines are on home user's PCs, home users don't understand security, they plug their routers in and 1/2 are too incapable to even set WEP on their wireless
More than the clueless users, the ISPs have to share a lot of responsibility with the packages they sell. A friend of mine who lives across town finally got broadband access. He couldn't get ADSL where he lives because he's too far from the exchange so he got cable installed, and the company supplied a set top TV box and a cable modem. He IM'd me to let me know:
Him: "Hey, I got internet!" Me: "Congrats." Him: "I got a package from Company X that gives me 30 million TV channels and free phone calls and a fixed IP address for only $x a month. The guy came and installed it all this morning." Me: "Nice. What's your IP?" Him: "It's xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. It's really fast, I can download stuff in seconds that used to take me ages. Gimme links to some good porn sites... and where can I download some tunes?" Him: "Weird..." Me: "What?" Him: "Some file just appeared on my desktop. It wasn't there earlier." Me: "It's just a text file. Read it." Him: "It says I should unplug my network cable and go buy a router." Him: "How did you know it was a text file?"
Slashdot Mirror
Damn. 404 :(
... and the black ones are obviously ninjas.
Throttle the upload speed in your BT client. I've only got 320Kb/s up, so I set my client to upload at 12 - 16KB/s and the internets run nicely. To compensate for the reduced bandwidth, I just seed for longer. Everyone wins.
Upload throttling seems to give me a better download speed too; probably something to do with maxing out the connections at the router.
Slashdot has ads?!? Since when?
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No, it's not. You can be an asshole and have something insightful or informative to say, and any moderation points accorded should reflect WHAT THE POSTER POSTED.
When I'm modding, I look at the relevance and merits of the post itself. I don't even consider the user name as a factor. In truth, I don't even look at the handle before moderating.
Personally I don't care for sock puppetry and associated shenanigans, but that will not affect any moderation I give - UNLESS it's quite obviously a post designed simply to game the system.
Seriously, a mod HAS to be objective in the allocation of points, else the system falls flat on it's arse.
Off the top of my head:
* Quicksilver?
* BitTorrent?
* ZFS?
Sooo... I guess the "spell checker" feature missed the shipping deadline yet again, then?
Ah well, there's always SP2...
Your wish is our command.
Because it's not their business sector. They're just not interested in your money if that's what you're looking for. It's an entirely different market. Apple are an integrated "systems" company - they're perfectly willing to sell you a system that includes OS X and a computer, because that's what a complete system _is_ according to Apple. The only way Apple can maintain a level of consistency is by controlling both the hardware _and_ the software.
You can't buy OS X and install it on a Dell for the same reasons that you can't buy a blank Macbook Pro.
Oblig car analogy: try and buy a Ford with a Chevy engine from your GM dealer.
You know, the thrust of your message is correct - just because someone amends the rule book doesn't mean you have to play by those new rules. You always have the choice to not play the damned game at all. Turn your back...
Civil disobedience is indeed a powerful tool, and I fully advocate its use whenever the legislators get out of step from what society really wants.
Unfortunately you posted anonymously, so I cannot mod you up. If you had the courage of your convictions you'd have opened an account before posting, then we could have expanded the debate. I guess your current moderation of 0 reflects that people don't know how to moderate your post; unfortunately it also means your post will get buried bellow the default threshold.
Sign up and debate. It costs you nothing...
Perhaps because it's 'move', not 'copy then delete'?
Whenever I move data to a network drive / partition I always verify that the data was successfully copied before I delete the original, regardless of the OS I'm using. I've never been bitten by this bug.
It should be noted that cut / paste doesn't exist in OSX (the menu option exists but is 'greyed out'), and 'copy' is the default option if you drag a file to a network drive, but you can always use the command line 'mv' to move a file. I guess the only people who will witness this bug will be those that use the command line, and again I'd guess that they would be in the minority as the Mac OS is primarily a 'drag and drop' interface. I know that hitting a certain combination of modifier keys can invoke a move operation, but it's certainly not the default.
Nevertheless, it's still a bug...
But accurate.
Ok, but this is really getting off-topic now. How you, or anyone else feels about smoking is irrelevant here. Reading the OP's story, I get the impression he was exploring the process, not looking to solve the argument itself. In other words, the validity of his argument was immaterial, what he was looking for was 'how' the argument was developed.
He could equally have postulated that black was white.
In a related link, the EU courts have decided that Telefónica are under no legal obligation to give out details of p2p users suspected of copyright infringement to Promusicae, the MPAA and other IP rights holders.
It seems to be the growing opinion of the EU courts (and the Spanish authorities) that multimedia "piracy" is not something they should be concerned with, unless there's a clear financial profit motive for the pirate.
With this in mind, it's quite safe to share stuff on Kazaa, Limewire and similar. Replicating dvds and cds and selling them on street corners will dump you in the shit however.
It's still legal in Spain to record the tv or radio and share those recordings with your family and friends. The courts feel that multimedia sharing over p2p is no different.
BJ Clinton? For fuckin' real?
:D
Now there's a name with credibility
C'mon guy, give a link at least...
Could this post possibly be more irrelevant and off-topic? Here, let me try:
4 years ago I bought my motorcycle for 8k. Today the factory are selling it new at 6k. Triumph suck.
My 5MP digicam was 800 when I bought it. Today, I can buy a 10MP camera for 500. Canon suck.
Company x launches their product at a price set by the market. When six months later the market no longer supports that price, company x will become teh suck if they drop their price? Early adopters invariably get shafted. They always have and probably always will.
But this is all totally off-topic to this discussion.
Troll. Your id3 data is written to the relevant file, not the iTunes database. Uninstall iTunes and you'll lose:
1. ratings
2. play count
3. iTunes.app
1kg = 2.2lbs
Xenuphobe?
Aldrete-Davila was, at the time and to the best of knowledge to the border guards, an unknown, regular, innocent citizen that they had decided "was suspicious".
They tailed him, he got nervous and parked the van, then ran for the border. When he ran, Ramos shot him.
The agents "did not know who this individual was or what he had in the van," (Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra) Kanof said. "They just decided or guessed."
At this point in time there was no evidence of a crime. They had not looked at the van, preferring to give chase, then shooting when it looked like he was getting away. The assumption was made: If you run you must be guilty.
OK, so the van was full of pot. Big deal. This was not a factor in the shooting - in fact the pot was only discovered when their superiors arrived at the scene some time later.
The guards' convictions need to stand because there was no justification for the shooting. Running away from the law should never illicit a fatal response excepting occasions where someone is in mortal danger. A suspect legging it across a canal to the border does not automatically justify opening fire.
I, personally, applaud the court ruling. We're all a bit safer for it.
So should
Is that relevant "News for nerds"?
Hmm... never mind, apparently it is. Carry on. Nothing to see here...
Neither Apple nor Google could give a shit over what browser you turn up at their door wearing. Web standards are not a big deal to them - witness their web sites' code validation results. Neither of them validate to even Wilbur levels.
How is that bad for everyone? Just above, you listed 2 major companies that are willing to serve you dressed in your best IE suit. If I use IE, that's my choice. There are many reasons for a user to choose IE over the competition:
* it was already installed
* I know this interface already
* it works on the sites I visit
* it integrates with Explorer and our intranet apps
* I'm not allowed to install stuff on my work machine
* ???
* Profit!
In any of the above cases, IE could be the right choice for me.
Now, if IE was sending out malformed requests and crashing the servers it connected to, you may have had a point. But as long as the internets work for me and my surfing doesn't impede your surfing in any way, what's the problem?
</devils advocate>
Oblig. Disclaimer: I'm a web developer with a MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad running Ubuntu Feisty (with ies4linux and IE7), and see about 40% of my time spent getting standards compliant sites to work with IE.
If IE followed w3c standards to the same extent as Firefox or Safari, the bulk of my time would be occupied finding more clients to fill the 40% extra time I gained.
Currently, I'm paid for that x-platform test/devel thang - I strongly doubt I'd get paid for fishing for more clients.
More than the clueless users, the ISPs have to share a lot of responsibility with the packages they sell. A friend of mine who lives across town finally got broadband access. He couldn't get ADSL where he lives because he's too far from the exchange so he got cable installed, and the company supplied a set top TV box and a cable modem. He IM'd me to let me know:
Him: "Hey, I got internet!"
Me: "Congrats."
Him: "I got a package from Company X that gives me 30 million TV channels and free phone calls and a fixed IP address for only $x a month. The guy came and installed it all this morning."
Me: "Nice. What's your IP?"
Him: "It's xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. It's really fast, I can download stuff in seconds that used to take me ages. Gimme links to some good porn sites... and where can I download some tunes?"
Him: "Weird..."
Me: "What?"
Him: "Some file just appeared on my desktop. It wasn't there earlier."
Me: "It's just a text file. Read it."
Him: "It says I should unplug my network cable and go buy a router."
Him: "How did you know it was a text file?"
He runs XPsp2.