I really don't see how people can come up with the notion that by owning a PC, it automatically means that file-sharing
is at fault for not buying that latest collection of 15 crappy songs, and 1 good song.
Has anyone thought that maybe people who have PC's are a bit more educated on things such as how much money our
of each cd purchase is really given to the artist? There could be a ton of things at play here.
This kind of "study" almost sounds like deep down, it was paid for by "the man..."
I think that this will be a never-ending debate on the same grounds as "do cell phones cause cancer" - Everyone has their
end-all-be-all answer, until the next study comes out a year later..
Actually, the gig footprint can creep up while having as an example:
2 google personal homepages open (stocks, news, slashdot of course:))
and 1-2 windows open with 2-3 tabs in each..
It seems that any memory the Firefox asks the system for, just isn't released once used..
There was a program one of my coworkers used a few months back that tracked how much memory was used by certain processes each minute, and saved the info in nice graphs.. Firefox never went down, always went up..
In all fairness, I must point out that getting the gig footprint takes all day, sometimes into the next to get that high.
I'm thinking there is more than one issue with Firefox and the memory hole issue, because even with 4GB of ram, the system locks up (or takes 30 secs to allow any other screen to come up) after it only takes 1 gig out of the game.. Maybe Firefox becomes unstable after taking up a certain amt? I'm no programming guru, so I haven't a clue..
I've got two other boxes, those each have two gigs of ram in them (one AMD 3500+ one P4 3.4) and they have the same issues (although I've only seen them get to 4-500 megs before they get slow, and only once got to 800+ megs)
And as for making it up.. don't I wish:) - I'd rather be making it up, than experiencing it on a daily basis..
I have 4GB of DDR400 in Dual Channel mode on my server boards here at the house..
Also have 14 extensions loaded (each time having to reload all of them on new builds)
I have to reload Firefox daily, as it typically gets over a 1gig footprint on the system.. Even when I close any/all firefox windows, I still have to kill the process.. It slows the system to a crawl when it gets up to 1gig..
They have still yet to fix this, telling people it's a "feature" - none of the settings tweaks on the forums help.. It doesn't look like they are actually going to fix the issue..
There must be a super-neato death ray being built under his house, to be shown at the event..
My only hope is that it runs on windows, and will crash when they hit the little red button..
I worked for the Best Buy Services Team (name before GS) and then GeekSquad (marketing gimmick) for a total of 5 years.
My Managers at the time (Operations Manager, PC Area Manager, etc as they always changed who managed the tech bench) said many many MANY times to use whatever software we could get on the net, legal or not, because they didn't want to:
A) "Store Use" software (Hurts that days profit margin)
B) Purchase the license for whatever software we needed from a local computer store that actually carried the good tools (BBY only has the "can we sell this to everyone in the country at once?" software.. Alot of it is overbloated crap, that most real techs wont touch)
Anyone working for a BBY store's tech bench (geeks) knows this happens.. The last year I was with them, 12 of our stores in our area were sent C&D letters from the Business Software Alliance.. Our Dist. Manager at the time even said "If you can't get caught, and it saves us money in the services budget, do it"
As the owner of a hosting company with 2000+ active accounts,
I have alot of experience with yahoo's mail servers.
I would have to say that I've never heard someone refer to
themselves as an "Email Admin" say yahoo mail is great.
I've seen yahoo fail to send email from our client servers to
yahoo email addresses 25-30% of the time, from servers in NYC, Chicago,
and LA. We get bounces all the time saying that the email server
mx(insert number).yahoo.com isn't accepting connections at this time.
Their servers need a very big kick in the pants..
Greetings all,
In the past, when a group (say, warez, etc..) has their website taken
down by the FBI, it's replaced by a redirect to the FBI's homepage. This
appears to have happened to this site also.
When you look at the original link, without clicking it, it's correct.
When you click it, it's redirected with the same directory content as the
original site, but goes to the FBI site.
Simply a case of a website that was/.'d at almost the
same time it was taken down by the G-men.
I have two comments for this one:
First, how is this really different from say, paying $40 for two people to go to the movies that
are subjected to all kinds of crappy adverts as they are waiting for the movie
(or even previews, which include more crappy ads) to start?
Second, I don't think seeing an ad in a game is going to make me buy the product.
As said before, it's better to see a pop machine with coke or pepsi on it, rather than "cola!"
but it wouldn't make me say "hmm, I see a coke ad.. I need to run to the store right now and buy
some!" Have we really come to the point that consumers will make purchases of products based on
an ad in a game? Maybe I'm not in that reality:)
I would think it would be easy to see why they restrict their software to run on their own machines...
They will sell more of their machines. If my hardware was in high demand because it ran software that can't be run on other systems, why would I want to set it free?
Perhaps someone at the RIAA had just finished watching "Minority Report" and got a bit wide-eyed at all the money they could make by using that method with this?:)
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I can just hear the Spaceballs theme now... Good stuff.. funny :) - Mod Parent up another!
I really don't see how people can come up with the notion that by owning a PC, it automatically means that file-sharing
is at fault for not buying that latest collection of 15 crappy songs, and 1 good song.
Has anyone thought that maybe people who have PC's are a bit more educated on things such as how much money our
of each cd purchase is really given to the artist? There could be a ton of things at play here.
This kind of "study" almost sounds like deep down, it was paid for by "the man..."
I think that this will be a never-ending debate on the same grounds as "do cell phones cause cancer" - Everyone has their
end-all-be-all answer, until the next study comes out a year later..
Although it could technically be listed under "windows is better" I think there should be
one more, that they have been smacked with left and right:
windows is secure
Actually, the gig footprint can creep up while having as an example: :))
:) - I'd rather be making it up, than experiencing it on a daily basis..
2 google personal homepages open (stocks, news, slashdot of course
and 1-2 windows open with 2-3 tabs in each..
It seems that any memory the Firefox asks the system for, just isn't released once used..
There was a program one of my coworkers used a few months back that tracked how much memory was used by certain processes each minute, and saved the info in nice graphs.. Firefox never went down, always went up..
In all fairness, I must point out that getting the gig footprint takes all day, sometimes into the next to get that high.
I'm thinking there is more than one issue with Firefox and the memory hole issue, because even with 4GB of ram, the system locks up (or takes 30 secs to allow any other screen to come up) after it only takes 1 gig out of the game.. Maybe Firefox becomes unstable after taking up a certain amt? I'm no programming guru, so I haven't a clue..
I've got two other boxes, those each have two gigs of ram in them (one AMD 3500+ one P4 3.4) and they have the same issues (although I've only seen them get to 4-500 megs before they get slow, and only once got to 800+ megs)
And as for making it up.. don't I wish
I have 4GB of DDR400 in Dual Channel mode on my server boards here at the house..
Also have 14 extensions loaded (each time having to reload all of them on new builds)
I have to reload Firefox daily, as it typically gets over a 1gig footprint on the system.. Even when I close any/all firefox windows, I still have to kill the process.. It slows the system to a crawl when it gets up to 1gig..
They have still yet to fix this, telling people it's a "feature" - none of the settings tweaks on the forums help.. It doesn't look like they are actually going to fix the issue..
So,
apparently you didn't get the memo that they changed the name to Wii?
Did you read the article mentioned? It even points out the name change...
I agree 100%...
245mb of memory used on one open firefox window that displays a static text only homepage..
Oh wait, that crazy amt of memory usage is a "feature"
There must be a super-neato death ray being built under his house, to be shown at the event..
My only hope is that it runs on windows, and will crash when they hit the little red button..
If only /. had a bad comment skip feature :)
I worked for the Best Buy Services Team (name before GS) and then GeekSquad (marketing gimmick) for a total of 5 years.
My Managers at the time (Operations Manager, PC Area Manager, etc as they always changed who managed the tech bench) said many many MANY times to use whatever software we could get on the net, legal or not, because they didn't want to:
A) "Store Use" software (Hurts that days profit margin)
B) Purchase the license for whatever software we needed from a local computer store that actually carried the good tools (BBY only has the "can we sell this to everyone in the country at once?" software.. Alot of it is overbloated crap, that most real techs wont touch)
Anyone working for a BBY store's tech bench (geeks) knows this happens.. The last year I was with them, 12 of our stores in our area were sent C&D letters from the Business Software Alliance.. Our Dist. Manager at the time even said "If you can't get caught, and it saves us money in the services budget, do it"
As the owner of a hosting company with 2000+ active accounts,
I have alot of experience with yahoo's mail servers. I would have to say that I've never heard someone refer to
themselves as an "Email Admin" say yahoo mail is great. I've seen yahoo fail to send email from our client servers to
yahoo email addresses 25-30% of the time, from servers in NYC, Chicago,
and LA. We get bounces all the time saying that the email server
mx(insert number).yahoo.com isn't accepting connections at this time.
Their servers need a very big kick in the pants..
And to think, I thought this would be a post where dumb flames
wouldn't take place by the people working in the mail room..
I was wrong.
Greetings all, In the past, when a group (say, warez, etc..) has their website taken /.'d at almost the
down by the FBI, it's replaced by a redirect to the FBI's homepage. This
appears to have happened to this site also. When you look at the original link, without clicking it, it's correct.
When you click it, it's redirected with the same directory content as the
original site, but goes to the FBI site. Simply a case of a website that was
same time it was taken down by the G-men.
I have two comments for this one:
:)
First, how is this really different from say, paying $40 for two people to go to the movies that
are subjected to all kinds of crappy adverts as they are waiting for the movie
(or even previews, which include more crappy ads) to start?
Second, I don't think seeing an ad in a game is going to make me buy the product.
As said before, it's better to see a pop machine with coke or pepsi on it, rather than "cola!"
but it wouldn't make me say "hmm, I see a coke ad.. I need to run to the store right now and buy
some!" Have we really come to the point that consumers will make purchases of products based on
an ad in a game? Maybe I'm not in that reality
I can just see this now:
"Hey, wanna buy a pager? Come on, Alphanumeric! How about a blender?
I've got a deal just for you on vcr's buddy.. Step into my alley"
I would think it would be easy to see why they restrict their software to run on their own machines...
They will sell more of their machines. If my hardware was in high demand because it ran software that can't be run on other systems, why would I want to set it free?
Perhaps someone at the RIAA had just finished watching "Minority Report" and got a bit wide-eyed at all the money they could make by using that method with this? :)