Think the USPS is slow? Try paying a bill through the mail with a check when you will have the amount in your account the next day. I swear these move faster than email.
The best part, and the part that makes learning RPN easiest, is that you get to see the whole stack. If you do something wrong, you can undo. So if you do 5 - 8 instead of 8 - 5, you hit undo, swap, and try again.
Doing this just a few times with RPN will usually sell someone on the benefits of RPN.
Another nice thing is that if you are doing something like adding up bills, you can just push each item onto the stack. This will give you a nice list of everything you are working with. This is usually easier to read than one massive run on sentence.
Personally though, since leaving school, I get most of my math done through emacs, either using calc, or lisp-interactive.
Instead of a rebuttal, which I don't think Moody's article really deserves since it would be considered flamebait to anyone that can add, I propose something different. When something that bad comes up, everyone on/. should follow the banner adds from the page Moody's article is on, find customer service on that site, and tell them exactly why you visited the site. Explain that their advertisement was on page spewing FUD, and that they have consequently been affected by this. Explain that their banner ad went to waste because you have no intention of spending your money with sombody that supports those idiotic views. Also explain that you don't care that they don't have editorial control over the content, they do have control over which editor's sites they spend ad money on.
I didn't intend to say that all the best music is on different labels.
My intent is that we have made the labels what they are by buying almost exclusively from them.
It is a very self-perpetuating thing. We buy from them, and that gives them the money to promote the next thing we buy from them.
What needs to be done is to de-recruit some bands into a "no-middleman" setup. I personally believe that is the wave of the future, but its unproven as yet. Personally, I wouldn't know how to tell a millionaire that the way he's been making his millions is all wrong.
These guys like to make music. If they can make music, if they can continue to make a lot of money, without having to deal with any more of the business side (letting the label handle that), why the hell should they change?
Our biggest hope lies in convincing someone that has "enough" money to go ahead and try it, much like Stephen King is attempting with his serial right now.
I would enjoy that also, but that hasn't been my observation watching the people around me using Napster.
They are not "trading" or "swapping" music. Those terms indicate that the person they get the music from would no longer have it. They are copying it. They are copying large quantities of it because it is free.
These are high schoolers, or college kids either. These people are sysadmins, and programmers who all make plenty of money to buy the music, but they don't.
Just my observation. Personally, as someone who gets paid for creative work (programmer) I do pay for what I use, or I avoid buying it.
I agree with your point though that a lot of people would like to get rid of the middleman, but I'll have to disagree that its the impetus behind Napster.
In college, my best friends (we'd hang out in their room) would receive phone calls for the local cable company. The big problem was that we were in a small town with only two prefixes: 863, and 869. 863 was the main one, but the cable company had 869.
Needless to say, anything that went wrong with cable would end up with us getting calls about it. The best part was that the phone had a different ring for off campus calls, so we always knew when it was about cable.
We would answer it "Cable Customer Service", and tell people we would send a truck right out. Nobody ever caught the fact that we didn't ask them where they lived first.
Sometimes we would ask them where they lived, they would tell us, and we would tell them cable was out in that area, and should be back up in under 48 hours. We would then tell them that we wouldn't be charging them anything for their cable service that month.
We never did bill them, so I suppose its all true enough, but we started getting calls from lawyers anyway. We did show the proper respect for the situation, and told them we would stop, while we proceded to give phony help. Being well in debt from student loans can give you an inordinate amount of confidence of your chances in a civil suit.
ok, I'm a dork trying to be funny. I swear I was thinking "mail it to me" and simultaneously thinking "don't type 'email it to me'" Of course, I ended up typing it wrong.
I realize your message is at humor, but I think its not too far off.
My personal opinion is that cheater are the geek equivalent of a bully. They are not looking for a fair fight. They are just looking to beat people up.
Since he is only requiring that he money from 75% of downloads, he is being quite generous.
Consider for a second that the book is redistributable, and may make it to many people based solely on one download. It would even be possible to have a total payment of greater than 100%.
At least with Ebay in particular sellers are paying to be viewed on Ebay in a particular way. They are paying to be viewed by an Ebay only audience. If everyone started seeing prices somewhere else, it would directly impact upon what these guys have paid for.
It would seem to me that unless you get the consent of each seller, you shouldn't be posting them elsewhere.
The foundation of Capitalism certainly isn't state run monopolies.
That aside, I have no doubt that the money from the NY Lottery goes to education. But where does the money that originally went to education go? Has the budget been lowered by an amount equal to the amount coming from the lottery?
I can't speak for all states, but I do know it has happened in many of them. The net effect the lottery has had on education has been 0, and the real money has ended up somewhere else.
speaking of tax, lottery is more like a voluntary tax for specific purposes like education
It would be nice if this were true, but the sad fact is that its not. Even though money from the lottery is earmarked for certain items like education the money that education was originally getting is not dedicated in the same way. This means that when the budget is made, lottery money is used for education, and their normal budget is reduced by a corresponding amount.
My only beef with it is that they promote the lottery as a way of getting rich. They should have to do some public service messages saying how much more likely it is to make you poor.
Maybe that is where they could spend the money that they make from the lottery.
Predators STRENGTHEN prey, as just about ANY scientist who knows anything about evolution can tell you.
hah! Predators eat prey. Tell me the ones that are killed are strengthened because of it.
If I leave my keys in my car, I am guilty of carelessness (not a crime). If you steal my car, you are guilty of theft.
To make some better analogies to computers: If you try every key combination possible to steal my car you are the one at fault. If you try your key on every car in every lot, you are the one at fault. If you find out that you can simply break the window of a car, cross a couple wires, and drive off with my car, you are again at fault.
Hmm...seems cars aren't built to defend these sorts of attacks. Why do we hold computers to such a different standard?
Just because they can be attacked with anonymity, doesn't mean its the fault of the victim for being in a place to be a victim.
You are asking to defend the rapist that claims "She was asking for it."
If I shoot you, it is not your fault that you didn't place yourself behind a wall that would stop the bullet.
These people are bullies, and exhibit the bully mentality in the only realm that they are able. Remember, a bully doesn't want to fight you, he just wants to beat you up.
Speaking of which, I'd love to show up at the door of one of these guys, just for the look on their face...anyone have any stories like that?
While he may not have meant to kill them, that doesn't relieve him from intent. His actions were intentional, and if it can be proven that he could a have reasonably believed it might result in something bad, it would be murder.
For example, if you shoot someone in the toe, and they end up bleeding to death, it will be murder provided you intentionally shot at them.
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You must be using Exchange.
Doing this just a few times with RPN will usually sell someone on the benefits of RPN.
Another nice thing is that if you are doing something like adding up bills, you can just push each item onto the stack. This will give you a nice list of everything you are working with. This is usually easier to read than one massive run on sentence.
Personally though, since leaving school, I get most of my math done through emacs, either using calc, or lisp-interactive.
Its often said Aspirin would not make it to market today.
Multi-Head Porn. All the porn, more head.
Instead of a rebuttal, which I don't think Moody's article really deserves since it would be considered flamebait to anyone that can add, I propose something different. When something that bad comes up, everyone on /. should follow the banner adds from the page Moody's article is on, find customer service on that site, and tell them exactly why you visited the site. Explain that their advertisement was on page spewing FUD, and that they have consequently been affected by this. Explain that their banner ad went to waste because you have no intention of spending your money with sombody that supports those idiotic views. Also explain that you don't care that they don't have editorial control over the content, they do have control over which editor's sites they spend ad money on.
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Now if they could just do something about sound quality.
My intent is that we have made the labels what they are by buying almost exclusively from them.
It is a very self-perpetuating thing. We buy from them, and that gives them the money to promote the next thing we buy from them.
What needs to be done is to de-recruit some bands into a "no-middleman" setup. I personally believe that is the wave of the future, but its unproven as yet. Personally, I wouldn't know how to tell a millionaire that the way he's been making his millions is all wrong.
These guys like to make music. If they can make music, if they can continue to make a lot of money, without having to deal with any more of the business side (letting the label handle that), why the hell should they change?
Our biggest hope lies in convincing someone that has "enough" money to go ahead and try it, much like Stephen King is attempting with his serial right now.
They are not "trading" or "swapping" music. Those terms indicate that the person they get the music from would no longer have it. They are copying it. They are copying large quantities of it because it is free.
These are high schoolers, or college kids either. These people are sysadmins, and programmers who all make plenty of money to buy the music, but they don't.
Just my observation. Personally, as someone who gets paid for creative work (programmer) I do pay for what I use, or I avoid buying it.
I agree with your point though that a lot of people would like to get rid of the middleman, but I'll have to disagree that its the impetus behind Napster.
We've sold our souls by buying this drivel for so long. Now we are paying the price.
Needless to say, anything that went wrong with cable would end up with us getting calls about it. The best part was that the phone had a different ring for off campus calls, so we always knew when it was about cable.
We would answer it "Cable Customer Service", and tell people we would send a truck right out. Nobody ever caught the fact that we didn't ask them where they lived first.
Sometimes we would ask them where they lived, they would tell us, and we would tell them cable was out in that area, and should be back up in under 48 hours. We would then tell them that we wouldn't be charging them anything for their cable service that month.
We never did bill them, so I suppose its all true enough, but we started getting calls from lawyers anyway. We did show the proper respect for the situation, and told them we would stop, while we proceded to give phony help. Being well in debt from student loans can give you an inordinate amount of confidence of your chances in a civil suit.
How in the world can an American company take Amazon away from a Greek company?
I forgot the password to my dialup account, and I was wondering if you could email it to me.
My personal opinion is that cheater are the geek equivalent of a bully. They are not looking for a fair fight. They are just looking to beat people up.
Consider for a second that the book is redistributable, and may make it to many people based solely on one download. It would even be possible to have a total payment of greater than 100%.
It would seem to me that unless you get the consent of each seller, you shouldn't be posting them elsewhere.
That aside, I have no doubt that the money from the NY Lottery goes to education. But where does the money that originally went to education go? Has the budget been lowered by an amount equal to the amount coming from the lottery?
I can't speak for all states, but I do know it has happened in many of them. The net effect the lottery has had on education has been 0, and the real money has ended up somewhere else.
It would be nice if this were true, but the sad fact is that its not. Even though money from the lottery is earmarked for certain items like education the money that education was originally getting is not dedicated in the same way. This means that when the budget is made, lottery money is used for education, and their normal budget is reduced by a corresponding amount.
My only beef with it is that they promote the lottery as a way of getting rich. They should have to do some public service messages saying how much more likely it is to make you poor.
Maybe that is where they could spend the money that they make from the lottery.
They are try to merge to form a monopoly for overpriced (yet good quality) merchandise...computers...dvd's...etc.
hah! Predators eat prey. Tell me the ones that are killed are strengthened because of it.
If I leave my keys in my car, I am guilty of carelessness (not a crime). If you steal my car, you are guilty of theft.
To make some better analogies to computers: If you try every key combination possible to steal my car you are the one at fault. If you try your key on every car in every lot, you are the one at fault. If you find out that you can simply break the window of a car, cross a couple wires, and drive off with my car, you are again at fault.
Hmm...seems cars aren't built to defend these sorts of attacks. Why do we hold computers to such a different standard?
Just because they can be attacked with anonymity, doesn't mean its the fault of the victim for being in a place to be a victim.
You are asking to defend the rapist that claims "She was asking for it."
If I shoot you, it is not your fault that you didn't place yourself behind a wall that would stop the bullet.
These people are bullies, and exhibit the bully mentality in the only realm that they are able. Remember, a bully doesn't want to fight you, he just wants to beat you up.
Speaking of which, I'd love to show up at the door of one of these guys, just for the look on their face...anyone have any stories like that?
For example, if you shoot someone in the toe, and they end up bleeding to death, it will be murder provided you intentionally shot at them.