Um...I think by now, we should not be using software that is that old for reasons other then the users reasons. How about support. How about you never use a desktop app for a mission critical thing! I AM paying attention. Users DO need to learn new stuff and NOT because we tell them too....because every other company generally does too and unless that employee wants to be stuck for 20 years in a dos app, then they have to learn the new stuff. If they ever want to be employable in another place, then they need to learn the new stuff. Where I work, for us, you generally do have users clamoring for new software. Because they too get brainwashed that they need it. We only give the users what they want. We only finally got fully to microsoft office when the wordperfect folks all retired. I remembe a time where we supported Wordperfect, Lotus Notes, Foxpro, Excel, Quattro Pro and Powerpoint. Teh point is that the company sets the standard, not the employee. If they don't like it they can always get another job. I don't usually here people whining too much about ripping out the old software anyway. Only thing I do hear about is when they finally notice a change you made to a program 6 months to a year ago and want it changed back even though they said that is what they wanted.
Yes I do. I have never had that problem. Only way you have that problem is if you have an account at some famous_domain.com or something like that. Good examples are yahoo.com, hotmail.com and aol.com. No question. That happens there. Everywhere else....I don't even see how it coudl happen unless you were working at microsoft.com, or redhat.com or some big business.com. Most people only have a yahoo or hotmail account FOR spam. They start one (like I did) so that if someone wants to send you a joke, you give them that address. Then you can summarily delete them in a fell swoop.
You mean to tell me a good mail admin has to force crap like this on you in order to reduce spam? HECK NO! Number 4 and possibly number 3 on your list are the only vaild ones. Unusual e-mail addresses will only last about 5 minutes if you try to institute that. The hassle (typing in a mile long e-mail address) is more then it's worth (less spam). Spam reduction happens by BEING A SMART USER! That means, don't give it to every Tom, Dick and Harry. Don't put it on the ladies room wall either. You mean you'd hand person after person on the street a piece of paper with your e-mail address or home address on it? I didn't think so.
In the many years I have been using compuers I have only seen a virus attack come via Code Red and when a stupid admin infected a file everyone touches when they login to the network. Both of these were no fault of my own. I have done what many used to consider risky computing. Downloading from BBS's and the Net. Some people still think that stuff is dangerous. It can be, if you just download and install/run any piece of code! If you practice being a smart user you don't download from websites that look terrible or work terribly. In the BBS days you did not download stuff from a new system until you were on a couple days and got a feel for how the system was run. You don't click on executables you get in E-mail unless you knew it was coming! You don't click OK everytime you see it on the screen! You READ what is on the screen. If everyone would just do simple things like that, even Microsoft systems would be a whole lot safer.
BS! Spreadsheets are not the type of data that IS should worry about. These are USER documents. We will back them up, but after that your on your own. Mean time we'll go back to converting data for migrating our data in Oracle to the new application you asked us to implement but now don't give a shit about.
You mean they run businesses off of a spread sheet? Wow. I don't know how you can do that unless you have a SMALL business. Point is, if your still using a spreadsheet (no matter whether it wax Lotus, Excel or whatever) to run a business, you are hurting. Everything that's critical should be stored in a nice secure location and your users desktops and home directories aren't the most secure place for that stuff. If it's critical to the business, it should be in a database that can be relatively secure. Only thing that spreadsheets and word processing should be used for is those one off letters and maybe prettifying your data in a nice graph. Everything else should be automated to a point. If you always send a letter when a customer buys x product, why isn't there something in your system to kick that off when a customers buys said product? My wife used to have a job where she had 3-4 letters she'd spend all day putting different addresses on BY HAND and sending out. I asked her why she didn't do a mail merge and she said I don't now how. Here eyes glazed over as I tried to tell her. I also asked her why her company did not figure out a way to have the main computer do it all. Again eye glaze. Some companies refuse to treat computers (even the databases they use via a client) like computers. They still treat it like a paper record. Rather then type the message once then do up a Access database or Excel sheet and then do a mail merge, they just sit and type type type...print print print. Or, my favorite one, they spend all day making a beautiful Word document that would look great when printed, but then they attach it in a e-mail. GRR! Why can't they just send it in the TEXT of the e-mail! That's what it's for! Attachments just makes it nice to send you something that might need signed then snail mailed back. They are great for other reasons, but your main communication should be in the text of the e-mail and not a bloody word attachment! GRR! I'll get off my soapbox now.
Actually I kind of agree with him. I will tell ya why. Personally, when I am at home it's my time. I usually love unplugging for at least an hour if not the whole evening. Yeah I love technology and all, but why I want to is invariably, I always start to ask the question is it worth it when I start working on something. If it isn't, I push away and relaxe by watching a DVD. Now if I didn't have the hassle of normal day to day computer using, I would use it more. Case in point, my PDA is what I take with me on trips rather then a laptop. It works EVERYTIME and powers on in less then a second. People hate having to wait for the boot sequence and all of that. People want to work. Remember when the first home computers came out and they were real popular? Remember why? The reason it was was that they were instant on. No waiting for a disk to be read or any of that. On my Atari 800XL, when I wanted to write a paper for school, I would insert the cartridge for the word processor and turn it on. THAT'S IT! The software was available soon after (less then a second) I flipped the power switch. The only downside of the older ones was that saves took forever because you usually could not afford the disk drive so you were stuck with tape. My Atari 800XL cost LESS then the disk drive! We used a tape drive. There's no reason we can't have these type of computers and no reason to kill off the PC because of them. The PC could turn out to be a household server more then anything with everyone having a laptop style or pad style computer that could be used anywhere. When you were at home, the pad could periodically dump it's contents to the PC and when you leave you can make sure you have the files you really need with you. Appliance computers will happen eventually. Even us geeks will use them.
Um....I don't hardly get any on my home one. You know why? I DON'T USE IT ON PUBLIC WEBSITES!! I also don't plaster it all over my web page. I only give it to sites and people I implicitly trust. My S/N Ratio is rather low. Now anytime I want to make a entry onto a public website, I use my hotmail account. Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and other major ISP's are hardest hit because they are so large that there is almost one address for every thinkable name(except for really weird ones). So, the spammer knows there will probably be a jsmith@aol.com.
Now in contrast, I checked my work mail this monrning and it was about 90 percent spam. Why? Someone high up in the college thought it would be a good idea to out our whole college's e-mail directory online. There defense of the idea was we are a public school and must make everything except the stuff voered by FERPA public. I guess our e-mail and snail mail addresses aren't covered there. Anyway, I tried to tell them within a month our whole directory would have been crawled by a spammer and I was right. Everyone's getting high levels of spam. I even get stuff that could be targetted at students even though they have a entirely different domain and everything for their student issued e-mail accounts. Funny thing was they asked our mail server admin to help set this up! (well, he could have been TOLD to do it too)
Not sure....it's a Pentium 3 500. It's quite old. I will be using it a bit longer I think. I share it with the wholke department now, but it will be mine when the new system comes in to replace it. It's not to obad for what I do. They even run XP at a decent clip too once you up the memory although it could DEFINITELY use a better graphics card (Trio 3D sucks!)
Want to say I have a 300PL that's on it's 4th year. It's been her almost as long as I have. The drive is just going on like gangbusters. We have not had alot of problems with these machines. Now the newer IBM's, well, I can't say I care for how the power button works (you have to hold it in to power off), but other then that they are fine. I will say this...in the many years I have been around computers I have had people tell me never to buy hardrives from EVERY manufacturer. Even Seagate and IBM. Sure, you can get a bad batch every once in a while, but, in general, I have only had 2-3 hard disks fail on me and in most cases hard disks have been upgraded long before they fail.
First, the RIAA knows they're not losing as much as they say they are, but even if they are, it doesn't matter. They are more worried about losing business legitimately to people distributing music over the internet instead of through them.
Ok how do they know this? Where are your figures? How can something that can't possibly be predicted (about lkike the weather man saying they are sure we'll get snow). The RIAA could even screwup and predict they aren't loosing as much and then lose much more. Record sales aren't something that can be predicted. A few years ago, you might have said that Mariah Carey would still be a top female artist this year yet is any of her new album getting much promotion or play? Only thing you hear is when you hear she's goign to the hospital again cuz she freaked out. Still, this isn't a basis for prating music! It doesn't make it right! Also, the RIAA is not worried too much about artists who legally promote on the internet only because joe six pack could care less. If that artist does not have a CD out they are nobody to most people. You are also forgetting that there are still alot of people who don't have computers. How would they know unless a artist comes out of that internet thing and does a cd?
Second, copy protection with the support of the DMCA means they don't have to worry about copyright terms anymore because the content is essentially locked up forever. 95 years from now (barring any further extensions by Congress), the content of a CD produced today will technically enter the public domain, but the former copyright holder will still have control over it because it's still copy protected. The DMCA makes it illegal to produce a tool to defeat the copy protection regardless of whether it's used for piracy or fair use.
Totally agree with you there. DMCA is a bad law period. It has proctections that extend too far into the future as well as it cuts into fair use. Copy protected CD's will fail. Look what happened to music on Mini Disc! (I actually saw some at best buy a while back)
My argument is that the RIAA isn't losing as much from piracy as they claim....
No....they could be loosing more. Point is you don't know. It's really a stupid point to argue. If you really think it's right, well, good for you. I don't. Lots of other folks agree with me. I personally don't care about p2p programs such as Kazaa and would not mind it a bit if they'd go away. Just so long as p2p in and of it self does not get labelled as illegal. Same goes for making a MP3. That's fair use unless I decided to put it in a publically available place like a FTP site, a web site, or a p2p client. If p2p is made illegal, it would make most servers next to impossible (server could be a peer as well as the client being a peer...). If fair use is taken away, then I can't make a copy of anything...even as a backup. Then I have to buy a copy for all of the places I want it available for. That's wrong. I am against illegal use of p2p. Theirs a lot of legal uses for both p2p and mp3. Neither should be made to have controls to make it harder to use.
True enough. But what should be really asked is why is the price of this thing so high? The only way I see this being even close is if they used CF instead of SDRAM. Even then the cost of the IDE interface and the CF cards (or chips if they repackage it) can't be that much. Of course the performance would suck with CF though.
What I really see happening with something like this is if the server costs alot and the DB that is running on the thing is larger then the total available ram. You can't always go out and BUY a new server MB. You can go and get this. I do agree with maxing out the ram though instead of buying this. It makes more sense at the moment.
I do think when the cost of CF comes down and the amount of space available goes up, that CF or something similar will start to be used as a conventional hard drive. It's going to happen and for some folks who use PDA's alot, it has happened. Maybe at some point OS's like CE and Symbian may be advanced enough to take over for the PC (NOT servers, but PC's.). You can say Linux is in that group and is sufficient for PC's running with CF HDisks, but right now the cost is just prohibitive. Some day those Winchester disks may just seem like another quaint technology like 8 inch, 5 1/4 floppy drives and (for alot of us) modems.
How about he goes to all kinds of churches. I will get the info and give it to you if you want. Evidence of the past couple years proves, to me, that people DON'T know the difference between right and wrong. Just because the top MP3.com download happens to also have music that may be promoted by record companies belonging to the RIAA does not mean that the download can't be a legal one. The record company obviously released this on to MP3.com or their website. It may not have been on CD before.
Many have said the RIAA controls what you listen to. I say they don't. Does the RIAA have a guy with a remote control on your arm that can change the cd or frequency on the radio? NO! Doe the RIAA put subliminal messages into the music that makes you like it? Highly doubtful. Did the RIAA Brainwash me? Not likely as I don't lisyten to much top 40.
I also agree that the current mode of releasing stuff on CD's is likely outmoded, but we shall see. Some say software should not be distrubuted on CD but I beg to differ with you there. CD's are still needed for most software as most products are too large and not enough people have broadband. Time will tell there too. BTW, the name o fthe guy that came you our church was David Noel. He's not about his music.....he's about the Lord who the music worships. If you want to say I am brainwash I guess I can say yeah my brain has been washed in the holy spirit. I can tell right from wrong. Downloading stuff that's for sale is wrong Only way to look at it.
Look...it does not matter how they percieve it or how you percieve it. Could the artist have sold an album? Possibly. Does that make it right to download it because you weren't going to buy it anyway? Does it make it right when you buy the album? Again...possibly. But in either case, this can be percieved as theft. If it wasn't, how did Napster get shutdown? Only reason I see is they were trying to make a legit business out of it. Because of this, they had central servers and were very much in the public eye. That's not to say that noone else is trying this or that noone else has central servers. Most don't. It's still wrong. I just don't get HOW this can ever be percieved as legal. Only way P2P can do what you want (bring exposure to unknowns) is if they exclude the knowns. The unknowns just want exposure. The knowns just want you to buy there CD.
Also where are your figures about people and whether they are pirating or not? Show me REAL figures of the amount of piracy that occurs and I will believe you. You can't by the way because the only thing you can tell is what a person downloaded and you can't tell if that person is going to by a cd or whether they already have it.
If you get taken to court because of your massive collection of downloaded MP3's your sharing, good luck getting a lawyer!:)
Could one use this for swap space? Swap could be regenerated between power off (say when you move the machine). Then you could have a startup script see if this thing was configged on boot up and if it was, use the swap. If not, it could config it as swap and then reboot? Am I off base here? Swaps would be lightening fast and if you happen to lose swap when powered off it ain't no big deal.
The downloading a song then buying the album I have no doubt that it happens. But it does not happen near as often as you'd think. After a while people think....hey lets hop on Kazaa and see if the rest of it is there. This is like taking a sample of food and then realize hey they are giving it away so I can have more....then u get pissed when the store sez you can't have any more samples. You say that doesn't happen...but it does and it happens more with music then other stuff. I will argue against the copy protection, but P2P services like Napster was, Kazaa and others promote stealing essentially. Now if someone had a cripple one that only would allow you to trade non RIAA music (ie tha recording of you in your garage)...then fine...livve it up.
Humm.....you say not all criminals are morally wrong, but yet you go on and say it's right because the RIAA is a big corporation? That's just bullshit. Stealing is WRONG period no matter who you steal from. Which do you think it's wrong to steal a computer from your neighbor or from a Best Buy? Best Buy is a big company and they make money but do you go in and shoplift? That's what you do when you use p2p to download a full album. Sure, buying a CD after hearing a MP3 seems like your doing something right, but after a while when do you realize that hey I don't have to do it....that idea breaks down(why buy it when you already have it?) Oh and the RIAA doesn't stop you from hearing a local band. Lots of these bands also have cd's with them. A guest worship leader at church with some AWESOME songs also had CD's he was selling so he can continue his ministry. You see....NO RIAA there. Also if my brothers friend still had his band, I would have cut some MP3s and spread them on Kazaa. They wouldstill be around then. Also, the RIAA ain't stupid. They are promoting what is selling...unfortunately there's a lot of CRAP out there. If you don't buy that crap, maybe just maybe the RIAA might promote something you like to listen to. I don't agree with the copy protection. It's never going to work anyway.
You obviously haven't heard her recent stuf. Sure she ain't the best in the world but after that one thing (I think her second album she change her image a bit....or tried too), she changed to be more like she wa son her first album. Steve McQueen is a awesome song....one of those that you can't get out of your head, but has yet to get any real air play.
That's the problem. You "Music Sharing" people think your doing the world a favor. I don't care how you state it....sharing music online via Kazaaa or whatever is wrong if it's copyrighted music. You have no principles.
Now that I get THAT out of the way, I am against the copy-protection BS they are using because it makes it harder for me to put music in a form I want to listen to. I don't share and I have bought every CD I have made MP3's with. I still think the weak encryption that was included on DVD's is also wrong. I also agree that if they want to sell me a cd, make something I want to listen to. I don't want to listen to Dirrty from that slut Christina Agulera (she even looks Dirrty on her album cover. ICK!). Give me something that the artist came up with and not the record company.
Sheryl Crow is very good and her music is at least original. I can listen to lots of her stuff and almost every song on the album is pretty darn good. Sure she has done remakes (Guns and Rose's Sweet Child of Mine....very different then the Original), but if you ever look at Sheryl she's never something that she isn't. Christina's image make over has some style person's finger prints all over it. Then again, maybe she really is a slut.
Which I don't personally like either. Minimizing the app should put the damn thing in the tray if it has an icon like msn messnger, icq or other programs. This is inconsistent behavior. THIS is cruft not some of the stuff he has on his. Although he does have some true cruft there.
Saw a game pad like device last Christmas season and it had 10 Activision games including River Raid and I even think Pitfall was on it. It looked like a Genesis or maybe like one of those nifty PS/2 controllers with the fan ins thme for cooling your hands. It was pretty cool.
Yes I LOVE PocketPC apps that have an exit code!! WHY does Microsoft think this is bad? Is it because Palm does not have it?? We all know that PocketPC's code that manages resources...well, SUCKS. Anyone who has been doing hardcore PocketPC work knows this. Anyone who wants to play a divx file in PocketDivx KNOWS it works best of you close all of the apps. What I wish they'd do is make the X in the upper right corner of almost all PocketPC apps ACT LIKE AN X IN WINDOWS! The X icon has always truely closed apps and not the psuedo close that PocketPC does. PLEASE make it close the app! You don't have to make it save it because it already saves everything you write into Pocket Word. Editing is really easy with a stylus so you don't have to add a save dialog when you close an app and killing stuff you don't want is easy as dragging the sylus and tap-holding it to pop up the context menu. Oh and the original post said it's very easy not to close apps.....try it's impossible with out tripping thru the control panel.
That is unless you have an iPaq with iTask in rom or some other task manager like Wisbar. Right now I don't use one because it covers up the Wireless icon. They are making progress on making the connection icons accessible in the Pelmar version of Wisbar, but it's still kind of kludgy and the latest beta has a bug which puts black lines on top of the icons for some reason. When they fix that, Wisbar will be perfect and pretty (it's skinnable! YAH!).
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Um...I think by now, we should not be using software that is that old for reasons other then the users reasons. How about support. How about you never use a desktop app for a mission critical thing! I AM paying attention. Users DO need to learn new stuff and NOT because we tell them too....because every other company generally does too and unless that employee wants to be stuck for 20 years in a dos app, then they have to learn the new stuff. If they ever want to be employable in another place, then they need to learn the new stuff. Where I work, for us, you generally do have users clamoring for new software. Because they too get brainwashed that they need it. We only give the users what they want. We only finally got fully to microsoft office when the wordperfect folks all retired. I remembe a time where we supported Wordperfect, Lotus Notes, Foxpro, Excel, Quattro Pro and Powerpoint. Teh point is that the company sets the standard, not the employee. If they don't like it they can always get another job. I don't usually here people whining too much about ripping out the old software anyway. Only thing I do hear about is when they finally notice a change you made to a program 6 months to a year ago and want it changed back even though they said that is what they wanted.
Yes I do. I have never had that problem. Only way you have that problem is if you have an account at some famous_domain.com or something like that. Good examples are yahoo.com, hotmail.com and aol.com. No question. That happens there. Everywhere else....I don't even see how it coudl happen unless you were working at microsoft.com, or redhat.com or some big business.com. Most people only have a yahoo or hotmail account FOR spam. They start one (like I did) so that if someone wants to send you a joke, you give them that address. Then you can summarily delete them in a fell swoop.
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You mean to tell me a good mail admin has to force crap like this on you in order to reduce spam? HECK NO! Number 4 and possibly number 3 on your list are the only vaild ones. Unusual e-mail addresses will only last about 5 minutes if you try to institute that. The hassle (typing in a mile long e-mail address) is more then it's worth (less spam). Spam reduction happens by BEING A SMART USER! That means, don't give it to every Tom, Dick and Harry. Don't put it on the ladies room wall either. You mean you'd hand person after person on the street a piece of paper with your e-mail address or home address on it? I didn't think so.
In the many years I have been using compuers I have only seen a virus attack come via Code Red and when a stupid admin infected a file everyone touches when they login to the network. Both of these were no fault of my own. I have done what many used to consider risky computing. Downloading from BBS's and the Net. Some people still think that stuff is dangerous. It can be, if you just download and install/run any piece of code! If you practice being a smart user you don't download from websites that look terrible or work terribly. In the BBS days you did not download stuff from a new system until you were on a couple days and got a feel for how the system was run. You don't click on executables you get in E-mail unless you knew it was coming! You don't click OK everytime you see it on the screen! You READ what is on the screen. If everyone would just do simple things like that, even Microsoft systems would be a whole lot safer.
BS! Spreadsheets are not the type of data that IS should worry about. These are USER documents. We will back them up, but after that your on your own. Mean time we'll go back to converting data for migrating our data in Oracle to the new application you asked us to implement but now don't give a shit about.
You mean they run businesses off of a spread sheet? Wow. I don't know how you can do that unless you have a SMALL business. Point is, if your still using a spreadsheet (no matter whether it wax Lotus, Excel or whatever) to run a business, you are hurting. Everything that's critical should be stored in a nice secure location and your users desktops and home directories aren't the most secure place for that stuff. If it's critical to the business, it should be in a database that can be relatively secure. Only thing that spreadsheets and word processing should be used for is those one off letters and maybe prettifying your data in a nice graph. Everything else should be automated to a point. If you always send a letter when a customer buys x product, why isn't there something in your system to kick that off when a customers buys said product? My wife used to have a job where she had 3-4 letters she'd spend all day putting different addresses on BY HAND and sending out. I asked her why she didn't do a mail merge and she said I don't now how. Here eyes glazed over as I tried to tell her. I also asked her why her company did not figure out a way to have the main computer do it all. Again eye glaze. Some companies refuse to treat computers (even the databases they use via a client) like computers. They still treat it like a paper record. Rather then type the message once then do up a Access database or Excel sheet and then do a mail merge, they just sit and type type type...print print print. Or, my favorite one, they spend all day making a beautiful Word document that would look great when printed, but then they attach it in a e-mail. GRR! Why can't they just send it in the TEXT of the e-mail! That's what it's for! Attachments just makes it nice to send you something that might need signed then snail mailed back. They are great for other reasons, but your main communication should be in the text of the e-mail and not a bloody word attachment! GRR! I'll get off my soapbox now.
Actually I kind of agree with him. I will tell ya why. Personally, when I am at home it's my time. I usually love unplugging for at least an hour if not the whole evening. Yeah I love technology and all, but why I want to is invariably, I always start to ask the question is it worth it when I start working on something. If it isn't, I push away and relaxe by watching a DVD. Now if I didn't have the hassle of normal day to day computer using, I would use it more. Case in point, my PDA is what I take with me on trips rather then a laptop. It works EVERYTIME and powers on in less then a second. People hate having to wait for the boot sequence and all of that. People want to work. Remember when the first home computers came out and they were real popular? Remember why? The reason it was was that they were instant on. No waiting for a disk to be read or any of that. On my Atari 800XL, when I wanted to write a paper for school, I would insert the cartridge for the word processor and turn it on. THAT'S IT! The software was available soon after (less then a second) I flipped the power switch. The only downside of the older ones was that saves took forever because you usually could not afford the disk drive so you were stuck with tape. My Atari 800XL cost LESS then the disk drive! We used a tape drive. There's no reason we can't have these type of computers and no reason to kill off the PC because of them. The PC could turn out to be a household server more then anything with everyone having a laptop style or pad style computer that could be used anywhere. When you were at home, the pad could periodically dump it's contents to the PC and when you leave you can make sure you have the files you really need with you. Appliance computers will happen eventually. Even us geeks will use them.
Er this morning and covered by FERPA. I should know better then posting before I have had my first cuppa joe!
People get spam because they aren't careful who they give their address out to. It's as simple as that!
Um....I don't hardly get any on my home one. You know why? I DON'T USE IT ON PUBLIC WEBSITES!! I also don't plaster it all over my web page. I only give it to sites and people I implicitly trust. My S/N Ratio is rather low. Now anytime I want to make a entry onto a public website, I use my hotmail account. Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and other major ISP's are hardest hit because they are so large that there is almost one address for every thinkable name(except for really weird ones). So, the spammer knows there will probably be a jsmith@aol.com.
Now in contrast, I checked my work mail this monrning and it was about 90 percent spam. Why? Someone high up in the college thought it would be a good idea to out our whole college's e-mail directory online. There defense of the idea was we are a public school and must make everything except the stuff voered by FERPA public. I guess our e-mail and snail mail addresses aren't covered there. Anyway, I tried to tell them within a month our whole directory would have been crawled by a spammer and I was right. Everyone's getting high levels of spam. I even get stuff that could be targetted at students even though they have a entirely different domain and everything for their student issued e-mail accounts. Funny thing was they asked our mail server admin to help set this up! (well, he could have been TOLD to do it too)
Not sure....it's a Pentium 3 500. It's quite old. I will be using it a bit longer I think. I share it with the wholke department now, but it will be mine when the new system comes in to replace it. It's not to obad for what I do. They even run XP at a decent clip too once you up the memory although it could DEFINITELY use a better graphics card (Trio 3D sucks!)
By the time we can buy them, the encrypted brain implants would be the hottest thing. Start looking in the military surplus bins in 2020.
Want to say I have a 300PL that's on it's 4th year. It's been her almost as long as I have. The drive is just going on like gangbusters. We have not had alot of problems with these machines. Now the newer IBM's, well, I can't say I care for how the power button works (you have to hold it in to power off), but other then that they are fine. I will say this...in the many years I have been around computers I have had people tell me never to buy hardrives from EVERY manufacturer. Even Seagate and IBM. Sure, you can get a bad batch every once in a while, but, in general, I have only had 2-3 hard disks fail on me and in most cases hard disks have been upgraded long before they fail.
I am more interested in figuring out how to make a PC (Linux, Windows or whatever) appear as a mac to .Mac. Of course the other way is cool too! :)
First, the RIAA knows they're not losing as much as they say they are, but even if they are, it doesn't matter. They are more worried about losing business legitimately to people distributing music over the internet instead of through them.
Ok how do they know this? Where are your figures? How can something that can't possibly be predicted (about lkike the weather man saying they are sure we'll get snow). The RIAA could even screwup and predict they aren't loosing as much and then lose much more. Record sales aren't something that can be predicted. A few years ago, you might have said that Mariah Carey would still be a top female artist this year yet is any of her new album getting much promotion or play? Only thing you hear is when you hear she's goign to the hospital again cuz she freaked out. Still, this isn't a basis for prating music! It doesn't make it right! Also, the RIAA is not worried too much about artists who legally promote on the internet only because joe six pack could care less. If that artist does not have a CD out they are nobody to most people. You are also forgetting that there are still alot of people who don't have computers. How would they know unless a artist comes out of that internet thing and does a cd?
Second, copy protection with the support of the DMCA means they don't have to worry about copyright terms anymore because the content is essentially locked up forever. 95 years from now (barring any further extensions by Congress), the content of a CD produced today will technically enter the public domain, but the former copyright holder will still have control over it because it's still copy protected. The DMCA makes it illegal to produce a tool to defeat the copy protection regardless of whether it's used for piracy or fair use.
Totally agree with you there. DMCA is a bad law period. It has proctections that extend too far into the future as well as it cuts into fair use. Copy protected CD's will fail. Look what happened to music on Mini Disc! (I actually saw some at best buy a while back)
My argument is that the RIAA isn't losing as much from piracy as they claim....
No....they could be loosing more. Point is you don't know. It's really a stupid point to argue. If you really think it's right, well, good for you. I don't. Lots of other folks agree with me. I personally don't care about p2p programs such as Kazaa and would not mind it a bit if they'd go away. Just so long as p2p in and of it self does not get labelled as illegal. Same goes for making a MP3. That's fair use unless I decided to put it in a publically available place like a FTP site, a web site, or a p2p client. If p2p is made illegal, it would make most servers next to impossible (server could be a peer as well as the client being a peer...). If fair use is taken away, then I can't make a copy of anything...even as a backup. Then I have to buy a copy for all of the places I want it available for. That's wrong. I am against illegal use of p2p. Theirs a lot of legal uses for both p2p and mp3. Neither should be made to have controls to make it harder to use.
True enough. But what should be really asked is why is the price of this thing so high? The only way I see this being even close is if they used CF instead of SDRAM. Even then the cost of the IDE interface and the CF cards (or chips if they repackage it) can't be that much. Of course the performance would suck with CF though.
What I really see happening with something like this is if the server costs alot and the DB that is running on the thing is larger then the total available ram. You can't always go out and BUY a new server MB. You can go and get this. I do agree with maxing out the ram though instead of buying this. It makes more sense at the moment.
I do think when the cost of CF comes down and the amount of space available goes up, that CF or something similar will start to be used as a conventional hard drive. It's going to happen and for some folks who use PDA's alot, it has happened. Maybe at some point OS's like CE and Symbian may be advanced enough to take over for the PC (NOT servers, but PC's.). You can say Linux is in that group and is sufficient for PC's running with CF HDisks, but right now the cost is just prohibitive. Some day those Winchester disks may just seem like another quaint technology like 8 inch, 5 1/4 floppy drives and (for alot of us) modems.
How about he goes to all kinds of churches. I will get the info and give it to you if you want. Evidence of the past couple years proves, to me, that people DON'T know the difference between right and wrong. Just because the top MP3.com download happens to also have music that may be promoted by record companies belonging to the RIAA does not mean that the download can't be a legal one. The record company obviously released this on to MP3.com or their website. It may not have been on CD before.
Many have said the RIAA controls what you listen to. I say they don't. Does the RIAA have a guy with a remote control on your arm that can change the cd or frequency on the radio? NO! Doe the RIAA put subliminal messages into the music that makes you like it? Highly doubtful. Did the RIAA Brainwash me? Not likely as I don't lisyten to much top 40.
I also agree that the current mode of releasing stuff on CD's is likely outmoded, but we shall see. Some say software should not be distrubuted on CD but I beg to differ with you there. CD's are still needed for most software as most products are too large and not enough people have broadband. Time will tell there too. BTW, the name o fthe guy that came you our church was David Noel. He's not about his music.....he's about the Lord who the music worships. If you want to say I am brainwash I guess I can say yeah my brain has been washed in the holy spirit. I can tell right from wrong. Downloading stuff that's for sale is wrong Only way to look at it.
Look...it does not matter how they percieve it or how you percieve it. Could the artist have sold an album? Possibly. Does that make it right to download it because you weren't going to buy it anyway? Does it make it right when you buy the album? Again...possibly. But in either case, this can be percieved as theft. If it wasn't, how did Napster get shutdown? Only reason I see is they were trying to make a legit business out of it. Because of this, they had central servers and were very much in the public eye. That's not to say that noone else is trying this or that noone else has central servers. Most don't. It's still wrong. I just don't get HOW this can ever be percieved as legal. Only way P2P can do what you want (bring exposure to unknowns) is if they exclude the knowns. The unknowns just want exposure. The knowns just want you to buy there CD.
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Also where are your figures about people and whether they are pirating or not? Show me REAL figures of the amount of piracy that occurs and I will believe you. You can't by the way because the only thing you can tell is what a person downloaded and you can't tell if that person is going to by a cd or whether they already have it.
If you get taken to court because of your massive collection of downloaded MP3's your sharing, good luck getting a lawyer!
Could one use this for swap space? Swap could be regenerated between power off (say when you move the machine). Then you could have a startup script see if this thing was configged on boot up and if it was, use the swap. If not, it could config it as swap and then reboot? Am I off base here? Swaps would be lightening fast and if you happen to lose swap when powered off it ain't no big deal.
The downloading a song then buying the album I have no doubt that it happens. But it does not happen near as often as you'd think. After a while people think....hey lets hop on Kazaa and see if the rest of it is there. This is like taking a sample of food and then realize hey they are giving it away so I can have more....then u get pissed when the store sez you can't have any more samples. You say that doesn't happen...but it does and it happens more with music then other stuff. I will argue against the copy protection, but P2P services like Napster was, Kazaa and others promote stealing essentially. Now if someone had a cripple one that only would allow you to trade non RIAA music (ie tha recording of you in your garage)...then fine...livve it up.
Humm.....you say not all criminals are morally wrong, but yet you go on and say it's right because the RIAA is a big corporation? That's just bullshit. Stealing is WRONG period no matter who you steal from. Which do you think it's wrong to steal a computer from your neighbor or from a Best Buy? Best Buy is a big company and they make money but do you go in and shoplift? That's what you do when you use p2p to download a full album. Sure, buying a CD after hearing a MP3 seems like your doing something right, but after a while when do you realize that hey I don't have to do it....that idea breaks down(why buy it when you already have it?) Oh and the RIAA doesn't stop you from hearing a local band. Lots of these bands also have cd's with them. A guest worship leader at church with some AWESOME songs also had CD's he was selling so he can continue his ministry. You see....NO RIAA there. Also if my brothers friend still had his band, I would have cut some MP3s and spread them on Kazaa. They wouldstill be around then. Also, the RIAA ain't stupid. They are promoting what is selling...unfortunately there's a lot of CRAP out there. If you don't buy that crap, maybe just maybe the RIAA might promote something you like to listen to. I don't agree with the copy protection. It's never going to work anyway.
You obviously haven't heard her recent stuf. Sure she ain't the best in the world but after that one thing (I think her second album she change her image a bit....or tried too), she changed to be more like she wa son her first album. Steve McQueen is a awesome song....one of those that you can't get out of your head, but has yet to get any real air play.
That's the problem. You "Music Sharing" people think your doing the world a favor. I don't care how you state it....sharing music online via Kazaaa or whatever is wrong if it's copyrighted music. You have no principles.
....very different then the Original), but if you ever look at Sheryl she's never something that she isn't. Christina's image make over has some style person's finger prints all over it. Then again, maybe she really is a slut.
Now that I get THAT out of the way, I am against the copy-protection BS they are using because it makes it harder for me to put music in a form I want to listen to. I don't share and I have bought every CD I have made MP3's with. I still think the weak encryption that was included on DVD's is also wrong. I also agree that if they want to sell me a cd, make something I want to listen to. I don't want to listen to Dirrty from that slut Christina Agulera (she even looks Dirrty on her album cover. ICK!). Give me something that the artist came up with and not the record company.
Sheryl Crow is very good and her music is at least original. I can listen to lots of her stuff and almost every song on the album is pretty darn good. Sure she has done remakes (Guns and Rose's Sweet Child of Mine
Which I don't personally like either. Minimizing the app should put the damn thing in the tray if it has an icon like msn messnger, icq or other programs. This is inconsistent behavior. THIS is cruft not some of the stuff he has on his. Although he does have some true cruft there.
Saw a game pad like device last Christmas season and it had 10 Activision games including River Raid and I even think Pitfall was on it. It looked like a Genesis or maybe like one of those nifty PS/2 controllers with the fan ins thme for cooling your hands. It was pretty cool.
Yes I LOVE PocketPC apps that have an exit code!! WHY does Microsoft think this is bad? Is it because Palm does not have it?? We all know that PocketPC's code that manages resources...well, SUCKS. Anyone who has been doing hardcore PocketPC work knows this. Anyone who wants to play a divx file in PocketDivx KNOWS it works best of you close all of the apps. What I wish they'd do is make the X in the upper right corner of almost all PocketPC apps ACT LIKE AN X IN WINDOWS! The X icon has always truely closed apps and not the psuedo close that PocketPC does. PLEASE make it close the app! You don't have to make it save it because it already saves everything you write into Pocket Word. Editing is really easy with a stylus so you don't have to add a save dialog when you close an app and killing stuff you don't want is easy as dragging the sylus and tap-holding it to pop up the context menu. Oh and the original post said it's very easy not to close apps.....try it's impossible with out tripping thru the control panel.
That is unless you have an iPaq with iTask in rom or some other task manager like Wisbar. Right now I don't use one because it covers up the Wireless icon. They are making progress on making the connection icons accessible in the Pelmar version of Wisbar, but it's still kind of kludgy and the latest beta has a bug which puts black lines on top of the icons for some reason. When they fix that, Wisbar will be perfect and pretty (it's skinnable! YAH!).