You can currently get VoD via Virgin Media... from your STB. I can watch a whole range of episodes of stuff I might have missed over the past week, at my leisure with play/pause/ff/rw etc. It's pretty cool - BUT - it's part of your TV package, not your Broadband, so it wouldn't go on your monthly limit even if you did have one:)
according to an article not too long ago, you can get a full refund for your MS pre-installed OS within only 2 emails. I would think that they SHOULS fully support your decision to use an OS that doesn't require a 4GB of ram sweet-spot (XP is more like 2GB) and a 512mb graphics card to run at top video effects (XP is more like what, 32?)
I don't see how you'd have to check the TOS before you could get a Vista refund. IMHO, you SHOULD be able to get a refund on ANY OS that costs you money without you wanting it.
He might be an asshole, but you're a coward. Don't make sweeping statements like that without proof to back them up. And when you fail at that, STFU yourself.
"The day google decides not to do mail...they can simply turn off their machines and you can kiss your mail good bye."
and goodbye to a large revenue maker? or don't you see the ads they serve in gmail? or perhaps the corporate email services they sell?
A couple of the reasons why they give out free mail accounts like this are ad serving (profit making) and getting people used to the interface. Once the people are hooked, businesses start using them. You can see this with Windows. If the majority of people used Linux as their home desktop, a lot more businesses would adopt linux desktops.
In the UK I have Virgin Media Broadband (formerly NTLWorld). I get a 10mb/s for about £35 a month (soon to be 20mb/s for only £2 more) and I download A LOT of data (500 - 1000 GB a month) and I've never heard a peep from the ISP.
AFAIK they don't market their service as 'unlimited' but I haven't found a limit in the TOS either. They did briefly state that they were limiting their service but then removed the caps again not long after.
I would take exception if they told me that it was 'unlimited' and then suddenly started limiting my service after a certain limit had been reached. The way I would show them that I was angry would be to change service. Why stick with something you're not happy with?
You let your nine year old daughter use the Internet on her own? If you didn't, and you were there with her, you still let her look at porn?
Most porn is quite easily spotted by domain anyway... www.teenhardanal.com is pretty easy to spot.
because in real life, you avoid porn by NOT looking for it.
on the internet, and lets be honest here, you don't find a lot of porn by accident.
if your child is visiting the kind of sites that links to porn, or has porn banners, you are a BAD FUCKING PARENT for not bringing your kids up right, or not monitoring your kids properly. it's always the same argument, parents are responsible for their kids, not the fucking government/isp/god etc.
I also live in the UK and haven't had any problems with downloading ~500GB/mo for over 4/5 years, and I've had my cable connection for as long as it's been available. Our ISP played about with limits for a while, but then they dropped them again less than 6 months later, in that time, I never heard anything from them.
BTW - if you're in the UK and you're on 2mbps, unlucky. 20mbps is what I have at home and it's only £40/mo. Suggest you start looking for a better ISP!
and there's always news about guns being put to good use in the US;) Hell, you only need them for revolution and you can't even start one of those when it's needed!
Memory footprint larger in KDE? Are you sure? Maybe you should have done some research: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmar k.html
Now of course this is slightly bias (just look at that domain!) but I'm sure I've read this elsewhere also.
This is a hard decision for me then. My top accessed applications on my pc are:
Putty, Adobe Photoshop, Skype, Firefox and Counstrstrike-Source.
While all of these applications DO work for me, it's a bit dissapointing that they aren't supported in Vista. Lucky I wasn't in a hurry to upgrade really.
I don't think It would be right for them to have to open their networks. I'm pretty sure their business model depends on their network being closed. Here in the UK you can use IRC/SSH/SMTP/DATA across all of our cell carriers, so there's no reason why the US should be any different - even if your networks aren't exactly the same. However, this doesn't require all networks being 'open'.
you're right, nobody in open source is upset by this. the only people who thing that 'open source' has 'lost its halo' are the people who typically don't use opensource software in the first place.
doesn't matter WHO contributes to open source, as long as they follow the rules, then no harm is done. before Intel and IBM decided to contribute (for free) companies were making money using open source software. Loads of companies use OS stuff in their commercial offerings and make heaps of cash. This article is no more than journalist shit stirring. I'm suprised this makes it past the mods.
You're an idiot.
Apple wrote Mac OSX to run on Apple hardware. This is no different from DVD player software writers writing software for their DVD player hardware.
Apple did fix music to only play on iTunes, but now they're learning their ways and correcting that (soon I hope!) Music can, and should, play on any audio device, custom software for custom platforms should not.
Apples hardware/software combination is NOT 100% to do with making you pay high prices for expensive hardware. Apple market their personal computing solution as easy to use, reliable and relatively bug free. You cannot do that when you allow your software to be installed on any range of cheap hardware someone bought from any-old-hardware vendor.
IMO Apple did a good job by writing their software well for their hardware platform. My next development platform will be a Mac and I for one do not mind paying higher prices for a stable machine that doesn't flake out all the time or get infected with spyware, or exposed to hundreds of vulnerabilities every month.
I use p2p/newsgroups to download and watch movies. If *I* think it's worth buying, I will buy it so I can watch it time and time again. I don't like the fact that the industries can charge so much for you to watch a film which might be absolutely crap, they are forcing me to pay to see this crap!
They might say "that's the point of trailers" but trailers are biased.
People will buy good value movies, music and other products regardless of p2p.
I don't get this.
In your case, the shop would be/buying/ the stolen equipment, therefore handling stolen goods. In this case, Google is promoting it's own product in a way that would make them more money (them being Google). I don't see how the content of the sites is the business of Google in the first place, they only care if they're breaking the adsense contract.
so how long until someone expoits the software on here, loads up their own payload and lets it fly?
this many usb sticks with undetected exploit-ware on them would cause a lot of havoc!
perhaps i'm wrong, but it would be interesting to see how they've tried to counter this threat.
Mod me down if you like, but he's right. You only consider them terrorists because of what is fed you by governments and news corporations.
Good book for this topic: Dining With Terrorists - Phil Rees (ISBN 0-330-43305-9)
Ok, maybe I should have made the point that this is a RESIDENTIAL service. If I wanted to run a mailing list, I would need a BUSINESS or COMMERCIAL connection. Most residential connections actually have clauses in the TOC stating that this kind of activity is prohibited in large amounts. The large amounts I'm talking about is hours of outgoing mail, non-stop. Tell me how many people legitimately do THAT.
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You can currently get VoD via Virgin Media... from your STB. I can watch a whole range of episodes of stuff I might have missed over the past week, at my leisure with play/pause/ff/rw etc. It's pretty cool - BUT - it's part of your TV package, not your Broadband, so it wouldn't go on your monthly limit even if you did have one :)
according to an article not too long ago, you can get a full refund for your MS pre-installed OS within only 2 emails. I would think that they SHOULS fully support your decision to use an OS that doesn't require a 4GB of ram sweet-spot (XP is more like 2GB) and a 512mb graphics card to run at top video effects (XP is more like what, 32?) I don't see how you'd have to check the TOS before you could get a Vista refund. IMHO, you SHOULD be able to get a refund on ANY OS that costs you money without you wanting it.
He might be an asshole, but you're a coward. Don't make sweeping statements like that without proof to back them up. And when you fail at that, STFU yourself.
"The day google decides not to do mail...they can simply turn off their machines and you can kiss your mail good bye." and goodbye to a large revenue maker? or don't you see the ads they serve in gmail? or perhaps the corporate email services they sell? A couple of the reasons why they give out free mail accounts like this are ad serving (profit making) and getting people used to the interface. Once the people are hooked, businesses start using them. You can see this with Windows. If the majority of people used Linux as their home desktop, a lot more businesses would adopt linux desktops.
In the UK I have Virgin Media Broadband (formerly NTLWorld). I get a 10mb/s for about £35 a month (soon to be 20mb/s for only £2 more) and I download A LOT of data (500 - 1000 GB a month) and I've never heard a peep from the ISP.
AFAIK they don't market their service as 'unlimited' but I haven't found a limit in the TOS either. They did briefly state that they were limiting their service but then removed the caps again not long after.
I would take exception if they told me that it was 'unlimited' and then suddenly started limiting my service after a certain limit had been reached. The way I would show them that I was angry would be to change service. Why stick with something you're not happy with?
You let your nine year old daughter use the Internet on her own? If you didn't, and you were there with her, you still let her look at porn? Most porn is quite easily spotted by domain anyway... www.teenhardanal.com is pretty easy to spot.
because in real life, you avoid porn by NOT looking for it.
on the internet, and lets be honest here, you don't find a lot of porn by accident.
if your child is visiting the kind of sites that links to porn, or has porn banners, you are a BAD FUCKING PARENT for not bringing your kids up right, or not monitoring your kids properly. it's always the same argument, parents are responsible for their kids, not the fucking government/isp/god etc.
I also live in the UK and haven't had any problems with downloading ~500GB/mo for over 4/5 years, and I've had my cable connection for as long as it's been available. Our ISP played about with limits for a while, but then they dropped them again less than 6 months later, in that time, I never heard anything from them. BTW - if you're in the UK and you're on 2mbps, unlucky. 20mbps is what I have at home and it's only £40/mo. Suggest you start looking for a better ISP!
Not to mention Doom 3, Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Neverwinter Nights (both) and don't forget Tux Racer :p
and there's always news about guns being put to good use in the US ;) Hell, you only need them for revolution and you can't even start one of those when it's needed!
and there's always news about guns being put to good use in the US ;)
don't these things also act as 'beacons' so that they can be found after a crash?
Memory footprint larger in KDE? Are you sure? Maybe you should have done some research: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmar k.html
Now of course this is slightly bias (just look at that domain!) but I'm sure I've read this elsewhere also.
This is a hard decision for me then. My top accessed applications on my pc are: Putty, Adobe Photoshop, Skype, Firefox and Counstrstrike-Source. While all of these applications DO work for me, it's a bit dissapointing that they aren't supported in Vista. Lucky I wasn't in a hurry to upgrade really.
but if you're not that way inclined... man touch ;)
I don't think It would be right for them to have to open their networks. I'm pretty sure their business model depends on their network being closed. Here in the UK you can use IRC/SSH/SMTP/DATA across all of our cell carriers, so there's no reason why the US should be any different - even if your networks aren't exactly the same. However, this doesn't require all networks being 'open'.
I don't think so. If I'd just narrowly avoided going to a Siberian prison for a decade, I'd be pretty careful of anything I did in the future.
you're right, nobody in open source is upset by this. the only people who thing that 'open source' has 'lost its halo' are the people who typically don't use opensource software in the first place. doesn't matter WHO contributes to open source, as long as they follow the rules, then no harm is done. before Intel and IBM decided to contribute (for free) companies were making money using open source software. Loads of companies use OS stuff in their commercial offerings and make heaps of cash. This article is no more than journalist shit stirring. I'm suprised this makes it past the mods.
You're an idiot. Apple wrote Mac OSX to run on Apple hardware. This is no different from DVD player software writers writing software for their DVD player hardware. Apple did fix music to only play on iTunes, but now they're learning their ways and correcting that (soon I hope!) Music can, and should, play on any audio device, custom software for custom platforms should not. Apples hardware/software combination is NOT 100% to do with making you pay high prices for expensive hardware. Apple market their personal computing solution as easy to use, reliable and relatively bug free. You cannot do that when you allow your software to be installed on any range of cheap hardware someone bought from any-old-hardware vendor. IMO Apple did a good job by writing their software well for their hardware platform. My next development platform will be a Mac and I for one do not mind paying higher prices for a stable machine that doesn't flake out all the time or get infected with spyware, or exposed to hundreds of vulnerabilities every month.
I use p2p/newsgroups to download and watch movies. If *I* think it's worth buying, I will buy it so I can watch it time and time again. I don't like the fact that the industries can charge so much for you to watch a film which might be absolutely crap, they are forcing me to pay to see this crap! They might say "that's the point of trailers" but trailers are biased. People will buy good value movies, music and other products regardless of p2p.
I don't get this. In your case, the shop would be /buying/ the stolen equipment, therefore handling stolen goods. In this case, Google is promoting it's own product in a way that would make them more money (them being Google). I don't see how the content of the sites is the business of Google in the first place, they only care if they're breaking the adsense contract.
so how long until someone expoits the software on here, loads up their own payload and lets it fly? this many usb sticks with undetected exploit-ware on them would cause a lot of havoc! perhaps i'm wrong, but it would be interesting to see how they've tried to counter this threat.
sorry if i sound stupid, but wouldn't somebody notice this kind of thing? i don't have a clue, pleasde don't flame me :(
Mod me down if you like, but he's right. You only consider them terrorists because of what is fed you by governments and news corporations. Good book for this topic: Dining With Terrorists - Phil Rees (ISBN 0-330-43305-9)
Ok, maybe I should have made the point that this is a RESIDENTIAL service. If I wanted to run a mailing list, I would need a BUSINESS or COMMERCIAL connection. Most residential connections actually have clauses in the TOC stating that this kind of activity is prohibited in large amounts. The large amounts I'm talking about is hours of outgoing mail, non-stop. Tell me how many people legitimately do THAT.