You see, Mac has always been proprietary hardware. You have to wait for Mac to make it hardware compatible first and then move on from there. Eventually it'll get to you. I'm not against Mac, they're great computers and thier users are the most loyal customer around. It's just they failed in a large way by keeping the Macs harwadre proprietary. It eliminated cheap parts, readily available software, and cheap upgrades. I had to move to PC in order to use software reqired to do my job. Reminds me somewhat of BETA and VHS of the days past...
It's kind of hard to get everything you want in one package. You could always join the military and then after boot camp you'd be able to take a seat on a cargo plane to anywhere in the world you want to go that the miltary are headed. Of course it's kind of like standby, but you can fly for Free and Cargo planes have TONS of knee room! Or you could take a boat and take a bit longer to get there. Wait! Back to the Military thing, maybe you could get a Nuclear Sub to take you accross the ocean. It may be a bit longer, but you may get into underwater conflicts.
When processors/memory/lcds etc are getting cheaper by the minute, Why would you want to go back and use something that came to light so many years ago?
Ok, so what happens when someone learsn to trick this reboot manager into doing theiur bidding. Say a virus, trojan, or worm "learns" how to get this thing to work for it. It's a system process right? Thus should have some pretty hefty access priviliges and probably a million holes to have to plug. I'm waiting for the new generation of bugs and security holes that can be exploited just from one new aspect of this OS. Way to go Microsoft!
As far as I'm concerned there is only Star Trek (The Next Generation too) and Star Wars. Any other series that I have seen has not impressed me, and is most likely the primary reason for their demise. By no means am I trying to be anti-SciFi here, but seriously has any other show captured anyone as those did? Some of them have "Hot Chicks" in skin tight uniforms, but that's about the extent of the draw. Troll/Flamebait mod me if you must, but that is my opinion and I'm not afraid to post it.
-- Opinions expressed are just that, opinions and by no means should make you feel like less of a person if you happen to have opposing views. Furthermore, I'm not trying to make enemies, merely stating my personal observations.
I have certain programs on my computer that can get past my firewall for various reasons. I often wonder about some of the biggest heists in the world, they're usually done by someone on the inside. If your network is locked down and something from the inside punches a hole in it how do you control any of that?
"I can't come up with anything else in the entire marketing world where marketers knowingly introduce a flawed or inadequate product [and] it helps grow your user base."
I had never thought about it that way before, but if you think about it, how many times have you used software and it crashed and you got upset. Now on the flip side, how many times have you downloaded a buggy beta test software and had it crash and been really upset? Interesting concept, someone releases something sub-par, we test it, they fix it and sell for lots of money! Maybe Vista should be released this way, free download off of the MSFT site, fix it and then sell it to me.
Thanks, you really said what I was originally thinking. How much of the space on this thing is actually going to be devoted to music versus behind the scenes footage, Rootkits, Lyrics via.txt files, and pictures. ??? My first MP3 player was a RIO 900 or 9000, anyway, it only had 128MB of space and I couldn't really fit too many Great sounding MP3's on it.
What about the music Quality?
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I dont' care what people say, compressed audio sounds different/worse than straight recordings. If they are compressing their entire CD down to 128M I wonder what the compression rate will be? I'm also curious if I can buy their USB drive and then receive via download, mail, or other the high quality, non-compressed tracks. Does anyone else agree?
If the surface of the moon was fused into a "glassy substance", just imagine the reflection we would get from the moon at night! Talk about Global Warming!
Multi-Billion Dollar Lawsuit anyone!?
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I love how they fine individual bad guys/hackers/script kiddies who create and spread viruses trojans etc depending on how many computers they infected and the loss of time money. I hope Sony get's hit with a HUGE Fine! They deserve it! They compromised security of my personal info stored on my PCs and also opened me up to a miriad of other nasty Internet problems. Let Sony BURN! They make more money than they know what to do with anyway! I say pay it back to the people that they harmed with their damn RootKit! I pride myself of having a neatly secured and locked down network and unfortunately had a rather large hole or 5 punched in it by Sony and their Damn Root Kit. Where can I add my name to a Class Action suit against them? Someone let me know and if there's not one yet I'll be Damned if I'm not the first in line to start the filing process!
Sony offered to unmask it so that we can see it's there, but how do we remove it? How do we even know it's there? I want this shit out of my life! Sony you Bastards!
I'm just a bit curious... Does the patch keep the rootkit permanently disabled and removed? It seems to me that if we put a deviant Sony CD back into our computer that the rootkit would just be reinstalled. Then do we have to run the patch again? This is rediculous. I've do not intend on purchasing any music that has the SONY lable on it. This to me is just plain stupid. What gives Sony the right to install deviant software on "MY" pc and then make it stealth so that I don't know it's there. As far as I'm concerned I think that's the lowest a company can go. That's stooping to the level of those bastard red headed step children Spammers/Spyware installer/Virus/worm pushing assholes.
I'm to the point now watching this rediculous attempt from Sony to attach it's controls on something that I purchase the rights to use/listen/backup and trying to enforce through deviant means. What is this rootkit supposed to do!? They just wanted to install it for the Hell Of It? Nope, it's supposed to reinforce their stupid DRM bullshit and keep me from listening to the music that I paid for. I'm to the end of my rope. I think that there needs to be a group or mutiple groups put together that should purposefully break what Sony is trying to do. I've been years out of the programming/Computer industry and thus lack the skills to do it, but I think that we should form Anti-DRM, anti-Sony groups to demolish the protection that they put on their stupid CD's. I will not from this day forward purchase anymore music from Sony until they drop their Bullshit practices. I call for a Boycot of Sony's Music. I'm not sure what one man can start, but I'll be damned if I'm going to stand around any longer and watch Sony impose itself on me! They want me to buy their shit, then they want to enforce by deviance their policy, and after all that they hijack my PC for WHo knows what! Ahhh! Time for a Revolution. I love my PS2, but am refusing to play it again until SONY stops all this Bullshit! No more video games purchased either. Damn you Sony! Leave me the Hell alone! Stay off of my Computer and my CD's! Damn you!
With that said, I feel somewhat better, but am still disturbed deep inside that they would have to stoop to that level to try and enforce their protection. Maybe they don't realize that as the sound comes out of the speakers it can be recorded with a MIC and pirated that way, or through LINE OUT. Damn them. Rant Over.
I just don't want to see, a couple years from now, Microsoft being awarded patents on the invention of the Honeypot.
Let's get together and file for patents on the SPAM process. Then we need to file papers on creating an OS that enables the above process. Then we need to patent the process of patenting the above.
A couple friends and I set up a computer to measure our own security practices for hosting our own website before brining it online and live and then continually tried hacking into it. One night after we had connected it to the Internet while we were attempting access, someone else gained access through a hole we hadn't patched and turned our machine into a zombie. We set up a bunch of monitoring software and watched it. It attempted, or rather participated in, three DDoS attacks on various websites, it was continually resending received SPAM messages, and was accessed an average of about 40 times a second from all over the Internet. We watched it for a few days and then Blew off our install and started over fresh, and by the way we patched the hole before putting it online again. We continued to hack at it for a few weeks and then left it. It was comprimised again about a month later, but was never used as Vigorously as the first time we brought it online. Is there anywhere that you know of that the log files (All backed up on a separte machine) would be sent that could be useful to humanity to stop these folks from spamming? The data and IP's are over a year old at best but it may still be helpfull.
I love my old CRT TV! It's picture is so, well, it reminds me of being a kid! I don't want to grow up! This opinions expressed in this post are totally random and have nothing to do whatsoever with the posters true feelings or the feelings or opinions of your local stations. Thank you.
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I got the NES for Christmas. It came with Super Mario Brothers and I also got Zelda. I must have played those games for 100+ hours the first Month. I spent so much time with my NES that my parents would make me go out and play with my friends and even signed me up for sports and swimming lessons etc so I would get outside. I thank my parents that I didn't just veg out, but still enjoy a good marathon game time from time to time. Ahhh, the good old days!
Has anyone ever heard that Hindsite is 20/20? Meaning you can look back and see clearly and exactly what you should or shouldn't have done. This sounds like a story of sour grapes! Napster or Shawn Fannigan? whatever the kid's name was is trying to rub this in the Music Industry's face. "See!? If we'd have done a deal then pirating wouldn't be there, Gnutella would never have take off like it has, and all of your music would be safe!" See! If you'd have listened to us, everything would be just fine. I call BULLSHIT!
I for one enjoy listening to my music before I buy it. I liked the radio, but how many of you have been burned and bought a CD/Tape/Record/etc after hearing only one track on the radio only to find out that the rest of the album is pure shit. I like to be able to download the "WHOLE" damn album and listen. Then if I like it, I go buy the CD/Tape/Record/etc, if I don't I certainly don't keep it cause it sucks! Only thing wasted is some time and temporary disk drive space, not my hard earned cash. This whole music situation is stupid.
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Whatever that means... Slashdotted I understand, but I've never heard the term Dugg before for going down...
You see, Mac has always been proprietary hardware. You have to wait for Mac to make it hardware compatible first and then move on from there. Eventually it'll get to you. I'm not against Mac, they're great computers and thier users are the most loyal customer around. It's just they failed in a large way by keeping the Macs harwadre proprietary. It eliminated cheap parts, readily available software, and cheap upgrades. I had to move to PC in order to use software reqired to do my job. Reminds me somewhat of BETA and VHS of the days past...
I'd like to send you some money to purchase one for me and then have you mail it back to me here in the states. hehe.
Its just that people are silly and like to argue. We do Not! err, um, nice point. :)
It's kind of hard to get everything you want in one package. You could always join the military and then after boot camp you'd be able to take a seat on a cargo plane to anywhere in the world you want to go that the miltary are headed. Of course it's kind of like standby, but you can fly for Free and Cargo planes have TONS of knee room! Or you could take a boat and take a bit longer to get there. Wait! Back to the Military thing, maybe you could get a Nuclear Sub to take you accross the ocean. It may be a bit longer, but you may get into underwater conflicts.
Helicopters have a large down daft that can cause problems. Blimps don't seem to have that problem.
When processors/memory/lcds etc are getting cheaper by the minute, Why would you want to go back and use something that came to light so many years ago?
Ahh, but you replied.
Ok, so what happens when someone learsn to trick this reboot manager into doing theiur bidding. Say a virus, trojan, or worm "learns" how to get this thing to work for it. It's a system process right? Thus should have some pretty hefty access priviliges and probably a million holes to have to plug. I'm waiting for the new generation of bugs and security holes that can be exploited just from one new aspect of this OS. Way to go Microsoft!
What if it can't do it without a reboot? Does the system then have to shutdown and mess everything up?
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As far as I'm concerned there is only Star Trek (The Next Generation too) and Star Wars. Any other series that I have seen has not impressed me, and is most likely the primary reason for their demise. By no means am I trying to be anti-SciFi here, but seriously has any other show captured anyone as those did? Some of them have "Hot Chicks" in skin tight uniforms, but that's about the extent of the draw. Troll/Flamebait mod me if you must, but that is my opinion and I'm not afraid to post it.
-- Opinions expressed are just that, opinions and by no means should make you feel like less of a person if you happen to have opposing views. Furthermore, I'm not trying to make enemies, merely stating my personal observations.
Generation Trance: What generation are you?I have certain programs on my computer that can get past my firewall for various reasons. I often wonder about some of the biggest heists in the world, they're usually done by someone on the inside. If your network is locked down and something from the inside punches a hole in it how do you control any of that?
I had never thought about it that way before, but if you think about it, how many times have you used software and it crashed and you got upset. Now on the flip side, how many times have you downloaded a buggy beta test software and had it crash and been really upset? Interesting concept, someone releases something sub-par, we test it, they fix it and sell for lots of money! Maybe Vista should be released this way, free download off of the MSFT site, fix it and then sell it to me.
...my child gets a hold of the negatives and eats them? E. coli poisoning!? No thank you!
Thanks, you really said what I was originally thinking. How much of the space on this thing is actually going to be devoted to music versus behind the scenes footage, Rootkits, Lyrics via .txt files, and pictures. ??? My first MP3 player was a RIO 900 or 9000, anyway, it only had 128MB of space and I couldn't really fit too many Great sounding MP3's on it.
I dont' care what people say, compressed audio sounds different/worse than straight recordings. If they are compressing their entire CD down to 128M I wonder what the compression rate will be? I'm also curious if I can buy their USB drive and then receive via download, mail, or other the high quality, non-compressed tracks. Does anyone else agree?
If the surface of the moon was fused into a "glassy substance", just imagine the reflection we would get from the moon at night! Talk about Global Warming!
I love how they fine individual bad guys/hackers/script kiddies who create and spread viruses trojans etc depending on how many computers they infected and the loss of time money. I hope Sony get's hit with a HUGE Fine! They deserve it! They compromised security of my personal info stored on my PCs and also opened me up to a miriad of other nasty Internet problems. Let Sony BURN! They make more money than they know what to do with anyway! I say pay it back to the people that they harmed with their damn RootKit! I pride myself of having a neatly secured and locked down network and unfortunately had a rather large hole or 5 punched in it by Sony and their Damn Root Kit. Where can I add my name to a Class Action suit against them? Someone let me know and if there's not one yet I'll be Damned if I'm not the first in line to start the filing process!
Sony offered to unmask it so that we can see it's there, but how do we remove it? How do we even know it's there? I want this shit out of my life! Sony you Bastards!
I'm just a bit curious... Does the patch keep the rootkit permanently disabled and removed? It seems to me that if we put a deviant Sony CD back into our computer that the rootkit would just be reinstalled. Then do we have to run the patch again? This is rediculous. I've do not intend on purchasing any music that has the SONY lable on it. This to me is just plain stupid. What gives Sony the right to install deviant software on "MY" pc and then make it stealth so that I don't know it's there. As far as I'm concerned I think that's the lowest a company can go. That's stooping to the level of those bastard red headed step children Spammers/Spyware installer/Virus/worm pushing assholes.
I'm to the point now watching this rediculous attempt from Sony to attach it's controls on something that I purchase the rights to use/listen/backup and trying to enforce through deviant means. What is this rootkit supposed to do!? They just wanted to install it for the Hell Of It? Nope, it's supposed to reinforce their stupid DRM bullshit and keep me from listening to the music that I paid for. I'm to the end of my rope. I think that there needs to be a group or mutiple groups put together that should purposefully break what Sony is trying to do. I've been years out of the programming/Computer industry and thus lack the skills to do it, but I think that we should form Anti-DRM, anti-Sony groups to demolish the protection that they put on their stupid CD's. I will not from this day forward purchase anymore music from Sony until they drop their Bullshit practices. I call for a Boycot of Sony's Music. I'm not sure what one man can start, but I'll be damned if I'm going to stand around any longer and watch Sony impose itself on me! They want me to buy their shit, then they want to enforce by deviance their policy, and after all that they hijack my PC for WHo knows what! Ahhh! Time for a Revolution. I love my PS2, but am refusing to play it again until SONY stops all this Bullshit! No more video games purchased either. Damn you Sony! Leave me the Hell alone! Stay off of my Computer and my CD's! Damn you!
With that said, I feel somewhat better, but am still disturbed deep inside that they would have to stoop to that level to try and enforce their protection. Maybe they don't realize that as the sound comes out of the speakers it can be recorded with a MIC and pirated that way, or through LINE OUT. Damn them. Rant Over.Let's get together and file for patents on the SPAM process. Then we need to file papers on creating an OS that enables the above process. Then we need to patent the process of patenting the above.
A couple friends and I set up a computer to measure our own security practices for hosting our own website before brining it online and live and then continually tried hacking into it. One night after we had connected it to the Internet while we were attempting access, someone else gained access through a hole we hadn't patched and turned our machine into a zombie. We set up a bunch of monitoring software and watched it. It attempted, or rather participated in, three DDoS attacks on various websites, it was continually resending received SPAM messages, and was accessed an average of about 40 times a second from all over the Internet. We watched it for a few days and then Blew off our install and started over fresh, and by the way we patched the hole before putting it online again. We continued to hack at it for a few weeks and then left it. It was comprimised again about a month later, but was never used as Vigorously as the first time we brought it online. Is there anywhere that you know of that the log files (All backed up on a separte machine) would be sent that could be useful to humanity to stop these folks from spamming? The data and IP's are over a year old at best but it may still be helpfull.
I love my old CRT TV! It's picture is so, well, it reminds me of being a kid! I don't want to grow up! This opinions expressed in this post are totally random and have nothing to do whatsoever with the posters true feelings or the feelings or opinions of your local stations. Thank you.
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I got the NES for Christmas. It came with Super Mario Brothers and I also got Zelda. I must have played those games for 100+ hours the first Month. I spent so much time with my NES that my parents would make me go out and play with my friends and even signed me up for sports and swimming lessons etc so I would get outside. I thank my parents that I didn't just veg out, but still enjoy a good marathon game time from time to time. Ahhh, the good old days!
Has anyone ever heard that Hindsite is 20/20? Meaning you can look back and see clearly and exactly what you should or shouldn't have done. This sounds like a story of sour grapes! Napster or Shawn Fannigan? whatever the kid's name was is trying to rub this in the Music Industry's face. "See!? If we'd have done a deal then pirating wouldn't be there, Gnutella would never have take off like it has, and all of your music would be safe!" See! If you'd have listened to us, everything would be just fine. I call BULLSHIT!
I for one enjoy listening to my music before I buy it. I liked the radio, but how many of you have been burned and bought a CD/Tape/Record/etc after hearing only one track on the radio only to find out that the rest of the album is pure shit. I like to be able to download the "WHOLE" damn album and listen. Then if I like it, I go buy the CD/Tape/Record/etc, if I don't I certainly don't keep it cause it sucks! Only thing wasted is some time and temporary disk drive space, not my hard earned cash. This whole music situation is stupid.
Rant Over.