It really has. I was skeptical on online purchasing actually slowing piracy, but I convinced myself in a way.
Disclaimer: It probably isn't "Right" and you may not like it, but I pirate everything. I don't pay for cable or satellite, all my TV is downloaded from private trackers automatically through RSS feeds to my media center, no ads, no fees.
My books are downloaded from IRC onto my Sony Reader.
My Music is torrented from various sources, as are any movies I watch.
I just don't pay for content if I don't have to.
Now looking back, I've bought 10+ games on Steam. It is genuinely more convenient than pirating. I can wipe windows with no worries of losing my games. I'm bad at keeping CD's and DVD's in peak condition and there is no worry there because my media is all online. I realized I had no problem at all paying for stuff if they made it more convenient than pirating, it never was about the money despite what I thought. Turns out, I'm lazy and will take the easiest path no matter whether its free or illegal or otherwise.
I realized this when thinking about why I've bought from steam and still pirate my music rather than downloading from iTunes. Downloading from torrents is just as easy as iTunes, and I can re-download my content. If I lose a hard drive etc and my AAC files are gone, they are gone and I have to re-buy them. This is BS! Why bother buying them?
Either way, I believe Steam really has gotten it right and I will continue to buy games off of there, especially from small developers.
A: Why would a CPU spike cause a browser to crash?
B: Why did this never ever ever happen in FF2?
Disclaimer: I'm downloading firefox3 for the first time right now so dont know if it will happen to me in FF3 so if it happened to you in FF2 as well disregard B.
I have had my P3 1GHz toughbook for a long time. It has survived MANY drops onto hard and soft surfaces. It has survived extended use in the rain. I even ran over the corner of it once and no bending/issues.
The only issues it does have is the port cover hinges are very flimsy so most of the time those covers don't survive long.
I use the internet to be educated, and many non fiction e-books do exists, they just have to be some kind of popular. With a sales rank of 1029912 it just isn't likely.
I wont lie, much of the appeal is the VAST library of free books out there, being able to read anything I fancy with a few keyboard strokes.
But the readers themselves are what cinched it. I have always had access to the books but reading on a laptop really is not convenient and does strain the eyes. Not to mention horrible battery life (as compared to a reader type device)
On my Sony (Blech I know) Reader, I can read 2-3 good sized books in between battery charges. I can take it with me traveling to 3rd world countries instead of the seperate suitcase for books I normally bring.
And even just reading in a normal environment I find it better and more comfortable than a dead-tree book. I can lay in any position without worrying about the page folding or losing my page. I can read at night without worrying about losing my page when I fall asleep reading (often). If reading in the cold I can keep my whole body including hands under the covers and read and just hold the book through the covers, one finger on a button.
The screen looks fantastic, the battery life is great, and it has a million and one advantages over a dead tree book. I would never go back. I even download e-book versions so I can read them on my reader.
I think it is mostly because the SI binary prefixes just sound so terrible. A mebibyte? It sounds like a five year old child trying to speak about computers.
If I said that to my boss at work (I run some backend ISP servers as part of my job) I would probably be laughed at right then and there. Being laughed at in the work place is not exactly something most people crave.
Every software lists their requirements in base 2 and even your OS shows it in base 2. It has been an SI prefix for a long time granted, but it HAS been industry standard to use base 2 in this industry for over half a century.
Seagate settled and it was a class action suit. If you havent made any claims against the class action settlement, you are also free to sue Seagate for the same reason.
These definitions haven't been 'standard' in this industry for over half a century now. Just because some storage company's marketing departments have now decided otherwise, does not mean this is legal. Every piece of software including the OS (not to mention all software system requirements, oops!) measures in base 2.
Companies are unsurprisingly getting sued, and equally unsurprising, are settling these suits as quickly as they can because they know they will lose.
Mebibytes and gibibytes will NEVER catch on. The geeks would have to spearhead something like this, and they never will because the words sound stupid and you sound stupid and unprofessional using them.
Storage makers ALWAYS label their products as base-10 amounts.
My 74GB WD Raptor HDD is 69.2 GB. They are getting sued because for 40-60 years now, maybe longer, storage/ram etc in computing has been base-2 (it being a binary system). Now they are switching to base 10 because they can advertise a higher space than what is actually sold. They are getting sued for this and rightfully losing. Seagate lost a similar law suit and now creative. The companies are going to have to learn to ignore the dolts in marketing and just tell the truth or start losing money through similar law suits.
One judgement and one settlement in favour or the plaintiff starts setting a pretty big precedent and future judgements will now almost certainly go in favour of the plaintiff.
The programs that support the ipod on linux still suck. My GF had a bunch of problems trying to get hers to work (newest ver nano). I had to find some custom libraries, make them work with rhythmbox (which sucks too) and show her how to use rhythmbox. Everything about it was very non intuitive and impossible for a new user.
I personally love ubuntu and it is my main OS, but for all the girlfriends and grandmas out there, it still has a ways to go.
What exactly did you think a hostile takeover was? It is someone offering other shareholders more than market value for their stock against the wishes of the board or primary shareholder. This could be also done in the private arena. This is how they got the shares in the first place. One of the employees sold his stake in Craigslist to eBay.
I was trying to do some work with my DMM and couldn't figure out why it was off. Couldn't be the battery I just changed it! Took off my sunglasses in frustration and there it was, full brightness.
Not saying it's a bad thing to oversell, but when greed starts to dictate by how much, we all get hosed. All I want is to play my games(...), and download what I want in relative peace. As do we all:)
It is a 20 meg unmetered pipe, but he has numerous 10 meg burst piped customers (then throttled down to 2 meg). As you can see he has only exceeded 10 megabits a few times at peak hours.
You have to watch a graph like this (using cacti,snmp scanner w/rrdtool etc) and see if you're banging off the limiter. If you are you need a bigger pipe, if not, keep it as is.
Getting a 100 meg pipe if you have ten 10 meg customers would be insane, you would be paying for 85-90 percent more bandwidth than you needed.
The problem comes when the overselling goes too far. You see a graph that is constantly at the top only coming off of it in spikes and you know you're in trouble. Some companies just don't care I guess.
Yeah 12 whole volts of zip zap, scary! I take it you have never touched an actual car battery and realized to your great dismay, it did not shock you at all;)
I've been waiting for a phone article so I could ask this but...
I currently have a blackberry pearl that is giving up the ghost. I am looking into other phones and smart phones seem quite a bit in their infancy right now. What I want in a phone is a decent OS, wifi, full qwerty keyboard, etc. Basically looking for a Nerdy phone. Some people here really seem to like their nokia's. Are the E-62 or E-70 decent phones? Also I hate the blackberry SMS app, it is not threaded and a real chore to do a lot of texting on. Is the Nokia SMS app threaded and just hit enter to send just like a AIM/MSN window on a pc? (Also like a treo)
I have been learning towards a Treo 680 since the interface is snappy and there are quite a few apps. But they are bulky, the OS is pretty outdated, etc. Is there no such thing as a nice Linux based phone I could download Firefox for, which has a snappy UI? Android inst there yet and maybe I should try to wait, but not sure how much longer this phone will last.
Sorry for the rambling post, thanks for all help in advance.
Ignorant fibbers in the congregation Gather around spewing sympathy, spare me None of them could even hold a candle up to you Blinded by choices hypocrites won't seek But enough about the collective Judas
You are wrong. The pirates could care less about WGA since all they have to do is wait for it to be cracked then they wont have to deal with it at all. In any copy of XP you download now, you almost never need a key, and you never need to do any fake activating. It is only the legitimate purchasers who suffer from this crap.
As you can see here: http://img.ncix.com/images/17275_All.jpg It just plugs into the back of a 2.5 or 3.5 ATA hard drive, and gives you USB. Also comes with a molex connectorized power supply. I've found it handy in my computer testing.
Well other than the obvious difficulty in even knowing its exact trajectory...
I imagine the problem might have something to do with the Three body problem.
Once 2 gravitational fields are affecting and object plus its own, it is, as far as I know, Impossible to predict its path. Even if all variables are known.
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It really has. I was skeptical on online purchasing actually slowing piracy, but I convinced myself in a way.
Disclaimer: It probably isn't "Right" and you may not like it, but I pirate everything. I don't pay for cable or satellite, all my TV is downloaded from private trackers automatically through RSS feeds to my media center, no ads, no fees.
My books are downloaded from IRC onto my Sony Reader.
My Music is torrented from various sources, as are any movies I watch.
I just don't pay for content if I don't have to.
Now looking back, I've bought 10+ games on Steam. It is genuinely more convenient than pirating. I can wipe windows with no worries of losing my games. I'm bad at keeping CD's and DVD's in peak condition and there is no worry there because my media is all online. I realized I had no problem at all paying for stuff if they made it more convenient than pirating, it never was about the money despite what I thought. Turns out, I'm lazy and will take the easiest path no matter whether its free or illegal or otherwise.
I realized this when thinking about why I've bought from steam and still pirate my music rather than downloading from iTunes. Downloading from torrents is just as easy as iTunes, and I can re-download my content. If I lose a hard drive etc and my AAC files are gone, they are gone and I have to re-buy them. This is BS! Why bother buying them?
Either way, I believe Steam really has gotten it right and I will continue to buy games off of there, especially from small developers.
I don't really understand this. Is any part of Facebook based in Canada? If not, how are they subject to our tighter privacy laws?
I can't see how they would be.
A: Why would a CPU spike cause a browser to crash?
B: Why did this never ever ever happen in FF2?
Disclaimer: I'm downloading firefox3 for the first time right now so dont know if it will happen to me in FF3 so if it happened to you in FF2 as well disregard B.
I have had my P3 1GHz toughbook for a long time. It has survived MANY drops onto hard and soft surfaces. It has survived extended use in the rain. I even ran over the corner of it once and no bending/issues.
The only issues it does have is the port cover hinges are very flimsy so most of the time those covers don't survive long.
I use the internet to be educated, and many non fiction e-books do exists, they just have to be some kind of popular. With a sales rank of 1029912 it just isn't likely.
;)
Wikipedia has a good page with a lot of info on the TU-16:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu-16
Following links from that page, including references and external links, I bet you would be quite a bit more information than that book could provide.
Also, nothing wrong with being titillated
I was kind of implying that.
Though, I download from #bookz on undernet.
I wont lie, much of the appeal is the VAST library of free books out there, being able to read anything I fancy with a few keyboard strokes.
But the readers themselves are what cinched it. I have always had access to the books but reading on a laptop really is not convenient and does strain the eyes. Not to mention horrible battery life (as compared to a reader type device)
On my Sony (Blech I know) Reader, I can read 2-3 good sized books in between battery charges. I can take it with me traveling to 3rd world countries instead of the seperate suitcase for books I normally bring.
And even just reading in a normal environment I find it better and more comfortable than a dead-tree book. I can lay in any position without worrying about the page folding or losing my page. I can read at night without worrying about losing my page when I fall asleep reading (often). If reading in the cold I can keep my whole body including hands under the covers and read and just hold the book through the covers, one finger on a button.
The screen looks fantastic, the battery life is great, and it has a million and one advantages over a dead tree book. I would never go back. I even download e-book versions so I can read them on my reader.
I think it is mostly because the SI binary prefixes just sound so terrible. A mebibyte? It sounds like a five year old child trying to speak about computers.
If I said that to my boss at work (I run some backend ISP servers as part of my job) I would probably be laughed at right then and there. Being laughed at in the work place is not exactly something most people crave.
Cant sue everyone! And this is a start.
Every software lists their requirements in base 2 and even your OS shows it in base 2. It has been an SI prefix for a long time granted, but it HAS been industry standard to use base 2 in this industry for over half a century.
I wouldn't say these suits are meritless.
Seagate settled and it was a class action suit. If you havent made any claims against the class action settlement, you are also free to sue Seagate for the same reason.
These definitions haven't been 'standard' in this industry for over half a century now. Just because some storage company's marketing departments have now decided otherwise, does not mean this is legal. Every piece of software including the OS (not to mention all software system requirements, oops!) measures in base 2.
Companies are unsurprisingly getting sued, and equally unsurprising, are settling these suits as quickly as they can because they know they will lose.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Seagate_Settles_Suit_Over_Gigabyte_Definition/1194025700
http://www.harddrive-settlement.com/notice.htm
Mebibytes and gibibytes will NEVER catch on. The geeks would have to spearhead something like this, and they never will because the words sound stupid and you sound stupid and unprofessional using them.
Storage makers ALWAYS label their products as base-10 amounts.
My 74GB WD Raptor HDD is 69.2 GB. They are getting sued because for 40-60 years now, maybe longer, storage/ram etc in computing has been base-2 (it being a binary system). Now they are switching to base 10 because they can advertise a higher space than what is actually sold. They are getting sued for this and rightfully losing. Seagate lost a similar law suit and now creative. The companies are going to have to learn to ignore the dolts in marketing and just tell the truth or start losing money through similar law suits.
One judgement and one settlement in favour or the plaintiff starts setting a pretty big precedent and future judgements will now almost certainly go in favour of the plaintiff.
The programs that support the ipod on linux still suck. My GF had a bunch of problems trying to get hers to work (newest ver nano). I had to find some custom libraries, make them work with rhythmbox (which sucks too) and show her how to use rhythmbox. Everything about it was very non intuitive and impossible for a new user.
I personally love ubuntu and it is my main OS, but for all the girlfriends and grandmas out there, it still has a ways to go.
What exactly did you think a hostile takeover was? It is someone offering other shareholders more than market value for their stock against the wishes of the board or primary shareholder. This could be also done in the private arena. This is how they got the shares in the first place. One of the employees sold his stake in Craigslist to eBay.
This will work with any polarized glasses.
I was trying to do some work with my DMM and couldn't figure out why it was off. Couldn't be the battery I just changed it! Took off my sunglasses in frustration and there it was, full brightness.
Sure, but don't think that overselling is a bad thing. No ISP on earth doesnt oversell it's data connection.
Here is an ISP I do some work for.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2207/2387674726_e4d4654e34_o.png
It is a 20 meg unmetered pipe, but he has numerous 10 meg burst piped customers (then throttled down to 2 meg). As you can see he has only exceeded 10 megabits a few times at peak hours.
You have to watch a graph like this (using cacti,snmp scanner w/rrdtool etc) and see if you're banging off the limiter. If you are you need a bigger pipe, if not, keep it as is.
Getting a 100 meg pipe if you have ten 10 meg customers would be insane, you would be paying for 85-90 percent more bandwidth than you needed.
The problem comes when the overselling goes too far. You see a graph that is constantly at the top only coming off of it in spikes and you know you're in trouble. Some companies just don't care I guess.
Yeah 12 whole volts of zip zap, scary! I take it you have never touched an actual car battery and realized to your great dismay, it did not shock you at all ;)
I've been waiting for a phone article so I could ask this but...
I currently have a blackberry pearl that is giving up the ghost. I am looking into other phones and smart phones seem quite a bit in their infancy right now. What I want in a phone is a decent OS, wifi, full qwerty keyboard, etc. Basically looking for a Nerdy phone. Some people here really seem to like their nokia's. Are the E-62 or E-70 decent phones? Also I hate the blackberry SMS app, it is not threaded and a real chore to do a lot of texting on. Is the Nokia SMS app threaded and just hit enter to send just like a AIM/MSN window on a pc? (Also like a treo)
I have been learning towards a Treo 680 since the interface is snappy and there are quite a few apps. But they are bulky, the OS is pretty outdated, etc. Is there no such thing as a nice Linux based phone I could download Firefox for, which has a snappy UI? Android inst there yet and maybe I should try to wait, but not sure how much longer this phone will last.
Sorry for the rambling post, thanks for all help in advance.
Tool said it best:
Ignorant fibbers in the congregation
Gather around spewing sympathy, spare me
None of them could even hold a candle up to you
Blinded by choices hypocrites won't seek
But enough about the collective Judas
Werent they always made by Lenovo even when it was the IBM brand name?
You are wrong. The pirates could care less about WGA since all they have to do is wait for it to be cracked then they wont have to deal with it at all. In any copy of XP you download now, you almost never need a key, and you never need to do any fake activating. It is only the legitimate purchasers who suffer from this crap.
If you don't want to bother with the whole enclosure, ngear makes a thing that is more of a quick tool.
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17275&vpn=NG-RDRIVE-USB&manufacture=nGear%20Technologies%20Inc.
As you can see here: http://img.ncix.com/images/17275_All.jpg It just plugs into the back of a 2.5 or 3.5 ATA hard drive, and gives you USB. Also comes with a molex connectorized power supply. I've found it handy in my computer testing.
Well other than the obvious difficulty in even knowing its exact trajectory...
I imagine the problem might have something to do with the Three body problem.
Once 2 gravitational fields are affecting and object plus its own, it is, as far as I know, Impossible to predict its path. Even if all variables are known.