But remember, dell gives you non-standard parts. It may look like an atx, but it isn't.
You also will get the absolute cheapest components they can stuff in that case. A power supply that just *barely* covers the power requirements of the configuration it was shipped in. Put much more than a second hard drive in and suddenly you are in trouble. Go out and buy a new power supply and suddenly you have a fried motherboard because they use a non-standard atx-lookalike pinout.
When you build it yourself, you know what you are getting. And if that means you pay a few bucks more, so be it. That's the price you pay for higher quality parts.
This isn't entirely true. Sure, the label pays the studio costs and marketing costs up front, but they bill the artist for it all.
From fightcloud, the artist gets $1 (or whatever) for selling the CD, and from that they pay for the studio and marketing and hopefully make a profit some day.
From the "normal" labels, the artist gets $.10 to $.50 per cd sold (from the article), and from that gets to pay the label back for cd production, studio costs, and marketing.
So, basically, here the artist gets twice as much, and has to pay for 2 of the 3 costs of production (studio/marketing), with the labels, they get less money and have to pay for everything. Read Courtney Love's article sometime. She claims that unless many, many cds are sold, the artist ends up owing the label a lot of money.
You know? I'm not sure I'd label "Home button should appear on main toolbar" as a very serious issue. Its more of a personal UI whine than anything.
The option to move it would be nice for those that care, but it hardly qualifies as a showstopper for deployment.
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Well, I'd imagine most spyware runs as Administrator or with the system account, not as a normal unprivileged user.
So, while you COULD set the directory to not writable by Adminsitrator, its harder/impossible to prevent the program from simply re-instating the write access, and modifying the files.
I think all this would accomplish is giving a false sense of security.
My simple solution? Statically link the (now huge) spyware checker, and have it run from cdrom. No way anything could really interfere with it anymore short of checking every running process to see if it looks like a detection program and then killing it (which I think would be highly intrusive on system resources.)
To quote the dude, "Thats, like, your OPINION, man"
I personally find IE almost totally unusable. It's only redeeming feature in my eyes is the fact that almost everything under windows uses its internet settings so if I don't want things connecting without my permission, I just set IE's proxy to something useless and nothing can connect anymore.
You say IE is better than Netscape. I agree. I say it's worse than mozilla. Which of us is right? Both of us. You are entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to mine.
The courts found that M$ had used their windows monopoly illegally to kill netscape. People tend to use what's installed rather than get something else if its "good enough". IE was free and was good enough in the beginning, which killed the pay to play netscape. Granted, IE has become a rather decent browser of late.
I suppose the question becomes: If a rampaging horde burns villages and kills thousands to get someplace and then sets up something you like, does that make how they got there OK?
Not that that matters to me much. I've gotten so sick of javascript pop-ups I've just changed mozilla's security settings so it outright denies permission for any javascript popup anywhere.
Sure, it's annoying on those sites that use pop-ups for things like viewing the full size graphic from a thumbnail, or for info text (like tvguide.com), but compared to aggrivation of going to some site and getting 10 pop-under windows, it's worth it.
Your TiVo needs to know what shows you watch, not TiVo, inc. It downloads the schedule, your PVR finds the shows and records them. Even if there was some reason to upload that data, there's no reason that they'd HAVE to track it.
Companies just need to get out of the "well, if the info's there, we should track it" mode, and more into "this info was given to find out X, but we don't need to record that info. just use and destroy". Or just keep info on "48722543 people recorded the simpsons", there's no reason to have anything related to YOU saved.
But they do anyway. I don't care if they promise not to sell the info. *someone* is still watching.
Someone applies for a patent. The patent is "reviewed" by the PTO, then placed on a public accessable website for, say, a year. during that time, the general public can submit prior art. There are enough bored, interested, people out there that at least the really obvious ones would be weeded out.
Hmm. I would think aborting on the last byte would be a good way to end up with a corrupt file. Granted, it wouldn't take a long time to figure out what that last byte was supposed to be, but still.
One would think the better method would have been to have zmodem actually receive the last byte, tell the server that it needs that byte resent, and THEN abort the transfer while still claiming that last byte was corrupt.
On my neverending quest for "official" nintendo controllers for my cube, I wandered into Funcoland. They had a gamecube on display with a couple of GBA's attached to it as controllers. Was pretty cool. I personally found the GBA's to be sort of sub-par controllers however, the normal ones were easier to use.
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Actually, you don't even get to sit. You stand up in the cold and let it haul you around. And since it has handlebars you probably couldn't even hold an umbrella convieniently.
Unless, I suppose, I'm completely misreading the pictures.
Another comment above indicated that the problem wasn't so much that they were sending out unsolicited email, but that their mailing lists did not have confirmation. So I could wander over to Macromedia's site, put your email address in the "That's me!" box, and you'd suddenly be receiving every mailing that Macromedia sends out (which is a non trivial number).
This is what MAPS wanted them to fix, but they refused.
Of course, the other post could be wrong, and as I haven't ever signed up for their lists I can't confirm, but still, it sounds plausible.
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Not only do you have to have KDE installed, it has to be running. Everything in KDE relies upon being able to talk to a variety of daemons to handle everything from file browsing to opening up error dialogues.
I've been trying to run some other KDE apps, and am constantly killed by the interdependencies. If I didn't hate the way KDE feels so much I'd switch, but for now I use a decent WM with gnome shoehorned on top of it.
And use mozilla exclusively. It's mail sucks, but the rest is faster and more reliable than NS4.x IMO.
Call it crap if you will, but the fact remains that the TV series was far more true to the story than the movie was. Lots of good actors and better acting doesn't change the fact that the movie was an inferior representation of Dune.
They tried this when ShowEQ showed up. They kept changing the coding of the messages to stop showeq. Game performance was terrible, there was a patch every day or so. Customers were torqued off. Every time, about an hour after the servers came back up, a new ShowEQ version would be released that dealt with the new encryption.
Verant has stated that they are no longer gonna do this, cause it just ain't worth it.
This emulator, if memory serves, is being written by the same people that do ShowEQ..
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But remember, dell gives you non-standard parts. It may look like an atx, but it isn't.
You also will get the absolute cheapest components they can stuff in that case. A power supply that just *barely* covers the power requirements of the configuration it was shipped in. Put much more than a second hard drive in and suddenly you are in trouble. Go out and buy a new power supply and suddenly you have a fried motherboard because they use a non-standard atx-lookalike pinout.
When you build it yourself, you know what you are getting. And if that means you pay a few bucks more, so be it. That's the price you pay for higher quality parts.
In the grand scheme of things, downloading an MP3 is no worse than going to someplace like music-go-round and buying a used album.
Either way the industry/artists don't get your money. Does that make you a thief?
Sheesh, STARS must be bad if people are recommending Amtrak as a safer alternative.
This isn't entirely true. Sure, the label pays the studio costs and marketing costs up front, but they bill the artist for it all.
From fightcloud, the artist gets $1 (or whatever) for selling the CD, and from that they pay for the studio and marketing and hopefully make a profit some day.
From the "normal" labels, the artist gets $.10 to $.50 per cd sold (from the article), and from that gets to pay the label back for cd production, studio costs, and marketing.
So, basically, here the artist gets twice as much, and has to pay for 2 of the 3 costs of production (studio/marketing), with the labels, they get less money and have to pay for everything. Read Courtney Love's article sometime. She claims that unless many, many cds are sold, the artist ends up owing the label a lot of money.
Dude, it's an orc with the pie.
I mean, really, what would an ogre be doing with a pie?
You know? I'm not sure I'd label "Home button should appear on main toolbar" as a very serious issue. Its more of a personal UI whine than anything.
The option to move it would be nice for those that care, but it hardly qualifies as a showstopper for deployment.
Well, I'd imagine most spyware runs as Administrator or with the system account, not as a normal unprivileged user.
So, while you COULD set the directory to not writable by Adminsitrator, its harder/impossible to prevent the program from simply re-instating the write access, and modifying the files.
I think all this would accomplish is giving a false sense of security.
My simple solution? Statically link the (now huge) spyware checker, and have it run from cdrom. No way anything could really interfere with it anymore short of checking every running process to see if it looks like a detection program and then killing it (which I think would be highly intrusive on system resources.)
To quote the dude, "Thats, like, your OPINION, man"
I personally find IE almost totally unusable. It's only redeeming feature in my eyes is the fact that almost everything under windows uses its internet settings so if I don't want things connecting without my permission, I just set IE's proxy to something useless and nothing can connect anymore.
You say IE is better than Netscape. I agree. I say it's worse than mozilla. Which of us is right? Both of us. You are entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to mine.
The courts found that M$ had used their windows monopoly illegally to kill netscape. People tend to use what's installed rather than get something else if its "good enough". IE was free and was good enough in the beginning, which killed the pay to play netscape. Granted, IE has become a rather decent browser of late.
I suppose the question becomes: If a rampaging horde burns villages and kills thousands to get someplace and then sets up something you like, does that make how they got there OK?
Not that that matters to me much. I've gotten so sick of javascript pop-ups I've just changed mozilla's security settings so it outright denies permission for any javascript popup anywhere.
Sure, it's annoying on those sites that use pop-ups for things like viewing the full size graphic from a thumbnail, or for info text (like tvguide.com), but compared to aggrivation of going to some site and getting 10 pop-under windows, it's worth it.
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Well, there's this angle:
Your TiVo needs to know what shows you watch, not TiVo, inc. It downloads the schedule, your PVR finds the shows and records them. Even if there was some reason to upload that data, there's no reason that they'd HAVE to track it.
Companies just need to get out of the "well, if the info's there, we should track it" mode, and more into "this info was given to find out X, but we don't need to record that info. just use and destroy". Or just keep info on "48722543 people recorded the simpsons", there's no reason to have anything related to YOU saved.
But they do anyway. I don't care if they promise not to sell the info. *someone* is still watching.
Of course, Alan is in the UK. Maybe you feel the US has troubles, but is the UK in the same shape? Is it hard to find jobs there?
Why not just open up the patent office?
Someone applies for a patent. The patent is "reviewed" by the PTO, then placed on a public accessable website for, say, a year. during that time, the general public can submit prior art. There are enough bored, interested, people out there that at least the really obvious ones would be weeded out.
Hmm. I would think aborting on the last byte would be a good way to end up with a corrupt file. Granted, it wouldn't take a long time to figure out what that last byte was supposed to be, but still.
One would think the better method would have been to have zmodem actually receive the last byte, tell the server that it needs that byte resent, and THEN abort the transfer while still claiming that last byte was corrupt.
And how, pray tell, do your MP3's end up with better quality than the CD's they are ripped from?
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On my neverending quest for "official" nintendo controllers for my cube, I wandered into Funcoland. They had a gamecube on display with a couple of GBA's attached to it as controllers. Was pretty cool. I personally found the GBA's to be sort of sub-par controllers however, the normal ones were easier to use.
Actually, you don't even get to sit. You stand up in the cold and let it haul you around. And since it has handlebars you probably couldn't even hold an umbrella convieniently.
Unless, I suppose, I'm completely misreading the pictures.
Certainly took MS's checks long enough to clear...
Another comment above indicated that the problem wasn't so much that they were sending out unsolicited email, but that their mailing lists did not have confirmation. So I could wander over to Macromedia's site, put your email address in the "That's me!" box, and you'd suddenly be receiving every mailing that Macromedia sends out (which is a non trivial number).
This is what MAPS wanted them to fix, but they refused.
Of course, the other post could be wrong, and as I haven't ever signed up for their lists I can't confirm, but still, it sounds plausible.
Not only do you have to have KDE installed, it has to be running. Everything in KDE relies upon being able to talk to a variety of daemons to handle everything from file browsing to opening up error dialogues.
I've been trying to run some other KDE apps, and am constantly killed by the interdependencies. If I didn't hate the way KDE feels so much I'd switch, but for now I use a decent WM with gnome shoehorned on top of it.
And use mozilla exclusively. It's mail sucks, but the rest is faster and more reliable than NS4.x IMO.
Call it crap if you will, but the fact remains that the TV series was far more true to the story than the movie was. Lots of good actors and better acting doesn't change the fact that the movie was an inferior representation of Dune.
They tried this when ShowEQ showed up. They kept changing the coding of the messages to stop showeq. Game performance was terrible, there was a patch every day or so. Customers were torqued off. Every time, about an hour after the servers came back up, a new ShowEQ version would be released that dealt with the new encryption.
Verant has stated that they are no longer gonna do this, cause it just ain't worth it.
This emulator, if memory serves, is being written by the same people that do ShowEQ..
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