>>You use a MASSIVE amount of memory in relation to your file size. You may have noticed it sits at a black screen for a bit before running. Why? It is doing all its calculations, decompressing in to memory. When running on my system, it took 350MB.
Honestly not trying to troll, but seriously, how much of that ram and loading time is taken up by the 4K demo and how much is actually DirectX libraries being loaded?
I know you can actually find the audio of this out on the Internet. I have a copy and I think the whole thing (speech) is about an hour long. Anyway, here's the quote he said.
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didnt - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
So, maybe "640k out to be enough for anybody for an entire decade!" would be little more accurate.
I don't think it's necessarily that people aren't into "real" news, I think this is one of those things that impacted a lot of people around the entire world all at the same time. As we get more and more of our news off the Internet this will become more common.
There's not a lot of news that effects everyone in the world all at once. Probably as soon as North Korea launches a nuke against someone the same thing will happen.
But the point of my original post really had nothing to do with her accidentally sharing. A person downloads Kazaa to 'get' music. I know of know when that siad, "Hey I'm going to install Kazaa to share these 24 files I have. Har har har!!"
She had every intent of 'stealing' the music. She didn't want to get her lazy but to the store or get a job to pay for the music. Maybe she even went to her friends and said, "I STOLE music today!! HA HA HA!!! Screw the System!!!!!"
My point still stands though. A person would be $1.92 million better off just going into Wal-Mart and stealing the CDs.
I mean if we are talking risk vs. reward, well, the Reward is better stealing from Wal-Mart, as you get an actually CD with better sound quality, and the Risk is better as I don't think there would ever be a case where I person walks into Wal-Mart, puts a CD in her purse and gets fined $1,920,000.00
I'm saying the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Yeah, maybe she's scum bag pile of crap, I don't know, but destroying a person life over what most people here do everyday is a little odd.
Re-read what I read. I said she 'Downloaded' Kazaa. She wanted to download some songs not upload them. Most people with those file sharing programs (many of our Moms included) don't realize that you are sharing their downloads. She got 'caught' or should I say the RIAA found it better to charge her with uploading, but the point still stands she wanted to DL a few songs not upload them.
So the point was, and is, the lesson learned was, steal CDs from Wal-Mart not download them from the internet.
I mean seriously don't do that, but if you go into Wal-Mart and steal a CD most likely nothing is going to happen to you if you get caught with one CD on you. Maybe they'll call the cops to come scare you, and that's a maybe.
Just getting a copy off the internet though (not even depriving another person or store of the actual CD even) will cost you MILLIONS. I mean really, 1.92 million? I mean if she gave 100% of every paycheck she ever makes, even at a decent wage, she probably won't make that much money in her LIFE. So destroying someones entire existance because they downloaded some songs? Does that seem just?
In Lane County, Oregon (google about our Jail situation, where they have a comuter program to determine who gets released early based on certain criteria) a guy was sentenced to 1 year in jail by a judge for rape. The jails are so over crowded that they (the computer program) let him out after 3 hours!! 2 weeks later he raped and murdered some other lady. (We're all hoping they keep this guy in next time for at least a week:rolls eyes:)
So a rapist gets 3 hours of Jail time, and someone who DL'ed Kazaa to her computer gets their life ruined?
The RIAA are pulling some strings behind the scene I think it's obvious to say.
I think you haven't used Opera Unite. I mean you have a well written post there, but it is completely false. Yes, you can access your computer through operaunite.com, IF you choose to sign up for an account.
You don't need an operaunite account. You can access it by your ip address:8840.
I have mine set up with a domain name and went to the domain control panel and changed my DNS setting to forward the domain to my IP.
>>If you don't trust it on a remote host, it probably shouldn't be web accessible.
Yeah, but maybe this product (and ones already out there and soon to follow) will allow us to expand our idea of what should be web accessible.
For example I wouldn't make my entire MP3 collection web accessible using Google storage space. Why because even though my intention is to use it only so "I" can access all my music anywhere I go, Google might not see it that way. (Or what ever company I happen to have storing my data). With Unite and a few clicks I can have my music available to me and not have to worry about the company hosting it thinking I might be breaking the law.
Is this Slashdot? Is this the Slashdot that use to have every user complaining about having their files and information being held in "The Cloud"? The place where people use to complain about the security and privacy of their pictures if they were on Flickr,their Email and their Docs if they were all located on Googles servers??
What happen to all the 'get of my lawn' types that said, "I'll never put my information in the 'Cloud'. They can take my physical hard drives when they pry them from my cold dead fingers!!"
Now you are provided with (one of many) alternatives to have your files on YOUR computer AND the advantages of them being in the cloud (like you can access your files no matter what location your at and be able to share files with other people)
This seems like a case of you can't please any of the people any of the time kinda thing.
eBook readers take so little power. Why don't they have a solar cell in them like calculators.
I mean, 20 years ago they used to give away crappy calculators everywhere with those little solar cells in them. Now a generation later, little solar cells should be in all devices like eBook readers.
>>The kid in that movie threatened to spray pesticide in the face of the police officer. It's on a completely different level from what happened in TFA. Threatening police is a bad idea, even if you're just joking.
Yeah, being a smart ass to cops is dumb. But does a kid being a smart ass give them to right to do this to 'overreact' to this level?
That's insane. They even lie in their reports, saying they were concerned about the prop he was using. A sprayer with water in it. The lie because they say they were concerned it was poison, but uh, they just leave the sprayer there and even let one of the other kids have it.
Wow! That's a lot of concern. So why did they lie?
Check out the video. Some college kids from the UofO are out in the "Ken Kezzie Free Speech" plaza in Eugene protesting the spraying of pesticides and get harassed by the cops and the taserd.
I mean look at the kids out there, 18 or 19, doing one of the great things about this country and that is letting you're thoughts be voiced.
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>>You use a MASSIVE amount of memory in relation to your file size. You may have noticed it sits at a black screen for a bit before running. Why? It is doing all its calculations, decompressing in to memory. When running on my system, it took 350MB.
Honestly not trying to troll, but seriously, how much of that ram and loading time is taken up by the 4K demo and how much is actually DirectX libraries being loaded?
I know you can actually find the audio of this out on the Internet. I have a copy and I think the whole thing (speech) is about an hour long. Anyway, here's the quote he said.
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didnt - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
So, maybe "640k out to be enough for anybody for an entire decade!" would be little more accurate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_for_Positive_Sexuality
>>Although if 'twice a day' helps, all of slashdot should have near perfect DNA.
Yeah, the Mormons should start recruiting on Slashdot. We could breed like mofos for them if we could just get girls.
.. I know 92% of time statistics are made up, but if you read the article you'll see they have a pretty graph, so I think the data is good.
It's like my dad use to tell me, "If you're not 1st your last!" Shake and Bake Baby!!!
And they wonder why sites like the TPB are so popular. :rolls_eyes:
I don't think it's necessarily that people aren't into "real" news, I think this is one of those things that impacted a lot of people around the entire world all at the same time. As we get more and more of our news off the Internet this will become more common.
There's not a lot of news that effects everyone in the world all at once. Probably as soon as North Korea launches a nuke against someone the same thing will happen.
And computers should never have more than 640K of RAM...
>>$34 million was the estimated value of the tracks hosted on Rapidshare.
$1.92million / 24 songs, that's $80,000 per song...
$34million / $80,000 = 425 songs.
I thought rapidshare had a much more diverse collection of music than that.
>>I hate how Windows fonts look pixelated even with Cleartype on
There not pixelated, they have holes.
http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html
It's save electricity. See, MS is justing trying to be a "green" company.
But the point of my original post really had nothing to do with her accidentally sharing. A person downloads Kazaa to 'get' music. I know of know when that siad, "Hey I'm going to install Kazaa to share these 24 files I have. Har har har!!"
She had every intent of 'stealing' the music. She didn't want to get her lazy but to the store or get a job to pay for the music. Maybe she even went to her friends and said, "I STOLE music today!! HA HA HA!!! Screw the System!!!!!"
My point still stands though. A person would be $1.92 million better off just going into Wal-Mart and stealing the CDs.
I mean if we are talking risk vs. reward, well, the Reward is better stealing from Wal-Mart, as you get an actually CD with better sound quality, and the Risk is better as I don't think there would ever be a case where I person walks into Wal-Mart, puts a CD in her purse and gets fined $1,920,000.00
I'm saying the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Yeah, maybe she's scum bag pile of crap, I don't know, but destroying a person life over what most people here do everyday is a little odd.
Re-read what I read. I said she 'Downloaded' Kazaa. She wanted to download some songs not upload them. Most people with those file sharing programs (many of our Moms included) don't realize that you are sharing their downloads. She got 'caught' or should I say the RIAA found it better to charge her with uploading, but the point still stands she wanted to DL a few songs not upload them.
So the point was, and is, the lesson learned was, steal CDs from Wal-Mart not download them from the internet.
...Just go into Wal-Mart and steal the damn CDs!
:rolls eyes:)
I mean seriously don't do that, but if you go into Wal-Mart and steal a CD most likely nothing is going to happen to you if you get caught with one CD on you. Maybe they'll call the cops to come scare you, and that's a maybe.
Just getting a copy off the internet though (not even depriving another person or store of the actual CD even) will cost you MILLIONS. I mean really, 1.92 million? I mean if she gave 100% of every paycheck she ever makes, even at a decent wage, she probably won't make that much money in her LIFE. So destroying someones entire existance because they downloaded some songs? Does that seem just?
In Lane County, Oregon (google about our Jail situation, where they have a comuter program to determine who gets released early based on certain criteria) a guy was sentenced to 1 year in jail by a judge for rape. The jails are so over crowded that they (the computer program) let him out after 3 hours!! 2 weeks later he raped and murdered some other lady. (We're all hoping they keep this guy in next time for at least a week
So a rapist gets 3 hours of Jail time, and someone who DL'ed Kazaa to her computer gets their life ruined?
The RIAA are pulling some strings behind the scene I think it's obvious to say.
Opera Unite! To help free the Iranian strangle hold on information!! ;-)
I think you haven't used Opera Unite. I mean you have a well written post there, but it is completely false. Yes, you can access your computer through operaunite.com, IF you choose to sign up for an account.
You don't need an operaunite account. You can access it by your ip address:8840.
I have mine set up with a domain name and went to the domain control panel and changed my DNS setting to forward the domain to my IP.
>>If you don't trust it on a remote host, it probably shouldn't be web accessible.
Yeah, but maybe this product (and ones already out there and soon to follow) will allow us to expand our idea of what should be web accessible.
For example I wouldn't make my entire MP3 collection web accessible using Google storage space. Why because even though my intention is to use it only so "I" can access all my music anywhere I go, Google might not see it that way. (Or what ever company I happen to have storing my data). With Unite and a few clicks I can have my music available to me and not have to worry about the company hosting it thinking I might be breaking the law.
Is this Slashdot? Is this the Slashdot that use to have every user complaining about having their files and information being held in "The Cloud"? The place where people use to complain about the security and privacy of their pictures if they were on Flickr,their Email and their Docs if they were all located on Googles servers??
What happen to all the 'get of my lawn' types that said, "I'll never put my information in the 'Cloud'. They can take my physical hard drives when they pry them from my cold dead fingers!!"
Now you are provided with (one of many) alternatives to have your files on YOUR computer AND the advantages of them being in the cloud (like you can access your files no matter what location your at and be able to share files with other people)
This seems like a case of you can't please any of the people any of the time kinda thing.
eBook readers take so little power. Why don't they have a solar cell in them like calculators.
I mean, 20 years ago they used to give away crappy calculators everywhere with those little solar cells in them. Now a generation later, little solar cells should be in all devices like eBook readers.
Yeah, I don't really see what was so suspicious about the guy?
Here's a photo:
Scene from the REI ATM
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..as most nerds know, it's not a real watch unless it's a calculator watch.
>>The kid in that movie threatened to spray pesticide in the face of the police officer. It's on a completely different level from what happened in TFA. Threatening police is a bad idea, even if you're just joking.
Yeah, being a smart ass to cops is dumb. But does a kid being a smart ass give them to right to do this to 'overreact' to this level?
That's insane. They even lie in their reports, saying they were concerned about the prop he was using. A sprayer with water in it. The lie because they say they were concerned it was poison, but uh, they just leave the sprayer there and even let one of the other kids have it.
Wow! That's a lot of concern. So why did they lie?
I googled it like "keziye" and Kezzie came up.
Obviously I don't know how to spell the name man, I was trippin' on acid when I read him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gr4RsI2V6Y
Check out the video. Some college kids from the UofO are out in the "Ken Kezzie Free Speech" plaza in Eugene protesting the spraying of pesticides and get harassed by the cops and the taserd.
I mean look at the kids out there, 18 or 19, doing one of the great things about this country and that is letting you're thoughts be voiced.
This is crazy!
I more concerned with this one:
8===D (!)
Stay away from my @ss!!