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It's time to take back our streets!People! Good citizens of slashdot! It's time that we stopped allowing the wretched Music Industry to sue the good people of Napster. There's only one solution: Let's get rid of democracy and replace it with literature from a Burger King calorie chart. It's time to own up to the fact that it simply has not worked. Napster should be suing the Music Industry for having to trade such bad Britney Spears songs.
Sincerely,
The Red Menace (aka Ralph Nader)
LostBrainHere's my wife, where's yours?
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Re:If you are sick of Microsoft...Here's mine!
http://www.lostbrain.com/microsoft.html
tcd004
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I'm surprised you got a jewel case!I haven't seen one of those in a software box for 2 years!
tcd004
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Corel for linux is a huge plus!This is great news but Linux has a long way to go in the DTP market. However, since it's postscript support is so good, it will be a great contender to knock macs and WINNT out of the DTP workstation market. I'd like to do layout on a linux box.
tcd004
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Learn C++ in Five Minutes!Hey excited Netizens! Wanna learn a difficult programming language in just five minutes?! Wanna earn gobs of money from desperate start-ups who will throw any sort of bribe at you to work in their tiny, cramped, dungeon-like cubicle!? Well stop wishing and start learning with my new seminar!
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Step Four: Watch as the money, women and strange magic powers are bestowed upon you.
It's just that simple!
-Bgs006
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Sometimes I feel like somebody's watching meIf only they made new Popeye cartoons in these modern times:
"I'll gladly give up my online privacy on Tuesday for a bitchin' credit card offer today."
"Oh Popeye! Save me! I keep getting spammed by United States pyramid marketing schemes!"
"Don't worry, Olive, I'll moves ya' to Europe where online privacy is more valued."
"I'm strong to's do Finnish, because they eat's their private spinach, 'cause I'm Popeye the sailor man."They can't all be winners, folks.
-BGS006
LostBrainWait a second, this isn't Ain't-It-Cool-News
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Sometimes I feel like somebody's watching meIf only they made new Popeye cartoons in these modern times:
"I'll gladly give up my online privacy on Tuesday for a bitchin' credit card offer today."
"Oh Popeye! Save me! I keep getting spammed by United States pyramid marketing schemes!"
"Don't worry, Olive, I'll moves ya' to Europe where online privacy is more valued."
"I'm strong to's do Finnish, because they eat's their private spinach, 'cause I'm Popeye the sailor man."They can't all be winners, folks.
-BGS006
LostBrainWait a second, this isn't Ain't-It-Cool-News
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Now if they'll just make them I-opener friendly...Seriously, this seems like a heck of a lot of work to shave boot time, especially cause it will be pointless after we get some decent solid-state drives.
tcd004
Have you been to wwink's Blog?
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Now if I could play Hitchhiker on my cell phone!But where would you stick the babel fish?
tcd004 Visit wwink's Daily Blog.
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A great resource for this kind of stuff is:
http://www.adbusters.org
Incredibly cool anti-advertising magazine
tc004
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Ignorance Is BlissAt last I can take my Playstation to church with me! Screw you God, I want a high score on Tomb Raider!
-Brandon LostBrainBecause Breaking Up Microsoft Is Funny
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Ignorance Is BlissAt last I can take my Playstation to church with me! Screw you God, I want a high score on Tomb Raider!
-Brandon LostBrainBecause Breaking Up Microsoft Is Funny
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Note To Self: Sell Doubleclick Stock
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Note To Self: Sell Doubleclick Stock
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Note To Self: Sell Doubleclick Stock
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I'll takewhat apple has done in the last 10 years:
dropped legacy tech
Introduced DTP, DTV, iie1390, etc.
and more
over what MS has done any day
tcd004
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Don't get too excited about digital yet.I'm guessing the pic is made of the RGB color gamut, which means the range of colors they can reproduce is only about 1/10th of what you can do on traditional cellulite.
I'm also shocked they can do this in a 4 hour download. When you consider the incredibly high resolution those frames have to be rendered at, (probably 1200-2400 dpi-totally a guess) I would estimate a film like that would be in the range of 7-10 tetrabytes.
tcd004
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I'm guessing this won't hold up too long.Most web services have found in the past that if you try to charge people, or businesses for something that isnt' worth paying for, (or they're not used to paying for) your traffic will dissappear.
Case in point, Salon.com and their old days of subscriber-based content, which went the way of the do-do.
tcd004
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wonder how long it will takelinux to overcome macs in the "size of the game catalog" category.
tcd004
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sega too?
I'm actually surprised Sega didn't do this first, Since they're trying to be so pioneering on the net.
In any case, I'll bet they OS sometime in the next couple months. Of course, I think sega has always been more
open with their hardware.tcd004
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I don't think this is that great of HP.I'm sure there are alot of people out there who are relying in these things, and can't afford to simply exchange them. HP should have offered to refund a portion of the original purchase price. If I bought a car that they told me was 6 cylinder, but turned out to be 4, I'd expect part of my purchase price back, if anything.
tcd004
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This is truly unique. (lame post)Since when does an organization found guilty have ot right to make demands? I know personal rights are protected in this country, but the constitution sure as hell doesn't start "We the coorporations of America, in order to form a more perfect market, do ordain and establish this contract for the United Software Companies of North America."
I know it was a lame post, its late, get over it.
tcd004
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Wow! Cool!Anyone know where I can download an illegal version of that software?
tcd004
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That kids programming software.Is really damn cool. Wish they had had that when I was a wee one.
My question is, if:
Beta testing of ToonTalk began in January 1995 at the Encinal School in Menlo Park, California
why isn't this software in general circulation yet. We studied logo when I was in elementary school, if we would have had this stuff, there'd be more programmers out there today.
tcd004
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A corporate conspiracy!Could there be some $ or political issue Linux is ruled "INCOMPATABLE" with these boards? Seems like everyone I've talked to has had zero problems witht that config.
tcd004
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How do you, of all people....feel about government regulation of the net. As someone with a stake in online campaigning, fundraising, even political merchandising, (those buttons have to bring in a little dough) do you see some of the arguments over net taxation, regulation, and personal privacy having an effect on your niche?
tcd004
You know where this Link goes.
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Too bad.They seem like a very accepting organization. I'll bet if MS had found a way to "sponsor" some of their activities, and become a funding part of their organization, they could have reaped 10 times the good pr.
Now they're just exposed for the thugs they are.
tcd004
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Wow, it must be IR day on Slashdot.Heres are some great consequences of high-res, remote satellite imaging links, (the results of which are only compounded by OS'ing the technology.)
www.spaceimaging.com (the first ones to sell commercial high-res imagery, very cool site with sat photo dowonloads)
A report by the Carnegie Endownment For Internatinal Peace
An abstract is posted online with the full report available for download.
on the effects of commercial High-res.
Secrets for Saletcd004 Here's my Microsoft Parody, where's yours.
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An excellent article on shortcomings of tech war..by Michael O'hanlon of the Brookings Instution.
Can High Technology Bring the Troops Home?
tcd004
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OK, this is totally ridiculous.This is the equivalent of saying "I have a patent for the process of putting mail in a mailbox, therefore the USPS is violating my patent."
Perhaps one form of a "posting" mechanism could be patented, but not the simple action itself. If that's the case, every website that takes email via forms, including the Govt ones, are in violation of that patent.
tcd004
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Sorry but...I think it's a little late for that. I'm sick of the fact that every spammer out there seems to have a copy of my credit report.
Unless the FTC plans to sieze already-existing databases, or to regulate their use, the privacy war is already over, (except for those netziens who haven't been born yet.
tcd004
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I could have sworn a similar expirement has al...ready been done with atomic clocks.
tcd004
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Does anyone knowif these would outlast a regualr HD. It seems to me ramchips might degrade even faster than HD wafers.
Just think how fast Metallica MP3's can be downloaded to these babies! tcd004
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C would be the perfect starterSomeone should put together a set of wooden blocks with common programming marks, as well as the alphabet painted on them.
tcd004
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What if you patented....the smell of oxygen?
tcd004
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I wonder.
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I wonder.
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The way I see it....For now MP3's are a great tech both for consumer and industry. They're a good way to build buzz, expose your music to fans who wouldn't otherwise hear it, etc...
The main reason for this is because it is too tedious to download an MP3, decode it, and burn it to a disk. However, 2 years from now when someone builds a program that does this automatically, and the bandwith/hardware can do it in about 5 seconds, there won't be any reason to visit the local CD store.
for now it's a great tech, in two years, the Record compnanies will probably have found a way to encrypt it anyway.
tcd004 Here are my Microsoft and AICN parodies, where are yours?
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The way I see it....For now MP3's are a great tech both for consumer and industry. They're a good way to build buzz, expose your music to fans who wouldn't otherwise hear it, etc...
The main reason for this is because it is too tedious to download an MP3, decode it, and burn it to a disk. However, 2 years from now when someone builds a program that does this automatically, and the bandwith/hardware can do it in about 5 seconds, there won't be any reason to visit the local CD store.
for now it's a great tech, in two years, the Record compnanies will probably have found a way to encrypt it anyway.
tcd004 Here are my Microsoft and AICN parodies, where are yours?
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I wonder which planet...Will be the first one turned into a disney theme park.
tcd004
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This is what
Yep, I've been waiting a long time for this one! tcd004
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I give genetic patentlaw 5 years before it's deemed unconstutional and scrapped. Man, will the biotech companies be screwed then.
The problem is that medicine and biotech are such multi-faceted diciplines. A patent on a gene someone develops to keep their corn alive, has a good chance becoming part of a cure for a human disease, or whatever. (sure that scenario is a longshot, but you get the jist)
As soon as a case comes along where a bio-patent obstructs someone's freedom to receive proper health care or live thier life in a reasonable fashion, (Imagine if a cure for Diabetes was held up cause of a genetic patent case!)
tcd004
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Any time there..are opportunites to exploit a new economy, there are companies who jump in prematurely. I wouldn't be suprised if they go the way of the do-do. Just consider how many PC startups came and went in the 80's.
tcd004
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Use the xeon!
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I know I'll get flamed for thisBut I have to say I'm disappointed the AP is not pursueing the guys who made that Elian parody. No matter how much it sucks, copyright law is a reality. I know it's a totaly face in the Microsoft case as we saw last week, but as a writer and photographer, I know I woulndn't want something I did to be illegally picked up and distributed 350,000 times without at least giving me a credit line.
The AP got alot of bad press over that and they didn't deserve it. I deal with the AP every day. They're inexpensive, easy to deal with, and a hell of alot more friendly than Corbis, (owned by Bill G.) If the guys who made the parody would have just contacted the AP and paid the fee, none of this would have happened. I bet it would have cost less than $250.
What's more is that pic was easily a pulitzer candidate, but now that it's been the but of every possible joke, there's no way the photographer will get it.
tcd004
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I know I'll get flamed for thisBut I have to say I'm disappointed the AP is not pursueing the guys who made that Elian parody. No matter how much it sucks, copyright law is a reality. I know it's a totaly face in the Microsoft case as we saw last week, but as a writer and photographer, I know I woulndn't want something I did to be illegally picked up and distributed 350,000 times without at least giving me a credit line.
The AP got alot of bad press over that and they didn't deserve it. I deal with the AP every day. They're inexpensive, easy to deal with, and a hell of alot more friendly than Corbis, (owned by Bill G.) If the guys who made the parody would have just contacted the AP and paid the fee, none of this would have happened. I bet it would have cost less than $250.
What's more is that pic was easily a pulitzer candidate, but now that it's been the but of every possible joke, there's no way the photographer will get it.
tcd004
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It's great to know