The difference between the "war on terrorism" and the "war on drugs" is that MOST Americans think that the drug war is complete crap! I don't think there are too many people in the US that would mind constantly fighting terrorism.
While I agree with your post, I think at the beginning of ANY war americans try to be patriotic and supportive of their country. It's only after the war has been long drawn-out and in many cases deemed unwinnable that people start to speak out against it. The WoD has been ongoing for what, 20 years now? The fact that it's had NO effect whatsoever on drug traffic, drug prices, or number of addicted users and has cost us millions of dollars, thousands of lives, and many of our freedoms is starting to reach the american consiousness.
Americans are supportive of the war on terrorism now because it's "the patriotic thing to do", and because they've wounded our ego. "How DARE they come attack us? we'll show them who has the biggest dick!" What happens in 20 years when we're just as vulnerable to terrorist activity, we've lost thousands of lives in the battle, given up many more of our freedoms, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars and had really no effect on terrorism? Maybe we'll find a new war to fight at that point. Seems instead of admitting a war is a failure it's easier to shift the public's eyes to a new war and maybe they're forget about the old one.
I have an idea for the next one: let's declare war on children! It's for the children you know! We must protect them from becomming corrupted by greed and evil, so we'll just take them out by targeted strategic attacks. Are you thinking of having kids? Well, we'll arrest you, too. It's for the children, you know.
As americans we look for a quick fix for any situation. Someone attacks us so it's easiest to lash out and attack them back (whoever "them" is). The only way to stop terrorism/drug trade/child pornography/etc is to get to the source of the problem and find what WHY these things exist and attack THAT. Attacking people for what they believe isn't exactly fair.
I want to thank the slash team as well for doing a great job of keeping slashdot up and running! It was my primary news source all day long when I wasn't able to get news from the "major" media sites.
My only gripe is I think it was very out of place and a bit insensitive that right in the middle of this (around 12pm if IIRC) Jon Katz took this tragedy as an opportunity to post some rant about how technology led us to this evil situation we were in and how technology was changing the way people get news or some such. I'm normally not a Katz-basher, but I think this was WAAAY out of place and insensitive to the people that died that day. Not only that, but it was unnecessary noise while people were still scrambling to get to the FACTS of what was going on. We really didn't need some insensitive wanna-be journalist's opinion on technology, of all things, in the middle of all of this. Maybe it would have been more appropriate on Wednesday or Thursday, but (to me) it was out of line at 12pm on Tuesday. Not to mention the whole crux of his article was off base (people killed people Tuesday, not technology).
Okay, I'll stop bitching now. Thanks again Slashdot, for stepping up to the plate and knocking one out of the park!
What technology? Guy walks into a plane, shoots pilots, and turns the yoke. These events could have happened at any time since the towers were first constructed 30 years ago. What is this rant about technology for?
AGREED 100%. If anything today has taught us that all of our technology so far has NOT prepared us for or protected us from a terrorist attack of this magnitude. For God sakes they didn't have 15-million-dollar laser-guides missiles to attack us, they took our own planes and guided them into the most densely populated structure (to my knowledge) in the U.S. Where's the technology in that? Even McVeigh's oklahoma city bomb was more advanced than that.
What's this technology he's talking about allowing video and images to spread all around the world? I actually had to go borrow a radio from one of my coworkers because the net radio station I normally listen to has been down all day, and other net radio stations are sporadic at best. Even CNN has been reduced to showing a crude mostly-text page with one picture to keep from buckling under the load.
If anything, this attack has shown us how fragile our technology is, and that technology is no substitute for good foreign policy and crisis management.
Has any one here noticed the irony and symbollism of using two American Airlines and United Airlines jets as weapons on US targets as opposed to any other random jet that could have been used? This simply adds insult to injury.
This is a sad, sad day for America. I'm not a religious person but I'll be saying a prayer tonight for the families of the victims and for our country to heal.
I can understand your point givig that any press is good press. I read through the other posts so far and got to thinking... Would I want to be a martyr for this cause?, would I risk the pain of eing seperated from my family? Would I rick my job,resulting in lack of vehicle to support my family, pay the mortgage etc.
I don't think so. Not in my case.
Yes, but let's say you publish a paper on how to break a popular encryption algorithm used by the russian government.. THEN let's say you travel to russia to deliver a speach on how to break the encryption algorithm. Would you not expect consequences?
I'm just playing devil's advocate here.. While I agree that the law is stupid and it's a shame someone has to be a martyr for it, he had to have had SOME idea of what he was getting in to when he came to the US to deliver a speech on how to circumvent copyright protection.
*I'd* certainly expect to be arrested/harrassed/martyred if I went around giving lectures on how to make crystal meth in your bathtub, whether I agree that it's right to teach drug making or not.
ALl they really need is an algorithm.... whish shouldn't be a problem from the guys that revolutionized searching in the first place.
And really, from what I can gather from the article, all the need is to extend their already successful algorithm. Google ranks a result higher because more pages link to it, regardless of what type of page the linking page is. Teoma ranks a result higher because more relevant pages link to it. It seems to check that the linking page is on the same subject.
While Teoma's technology makes sense, I'm not sure how relevant it is in the real world. If I have a page about Ice Fishing, would I link to a page about Rambus patents? Probably not.
While I see your argument that Gramma Public gets online for free stuff, and I appreciate free stuff as much as the next guy, I disagree that paying your ISP entitles you to "free stuff". Your ISP is providing you with a SERVICE (access to the internet), not content. Think of it this way.. You pay a cover charge to get into a night club, does this entitle you to free drinks? No, the cover charge only provides you access to the club, and covers things like insurance on you while you're in the club, etc. You still have to pay for drinks because of costs in providing those drinks to you (alcohol, bartenders, etc).
You paid $40,000 for your brand new gas-guzzling SUV. Does this entitle you to shop at macy's for free? No, the SUV provides a service (getting you to macy's), you still have to pay for the product they provide.
People will not pay for web content because it HAS been free, and people do not like to pay for something that has been free up until now. This is why people will not pay for online music. Napster popped up and made it easy for Gramma Public to get music for free, so why would she pay for it now?
There IS something however that consumers ARE willing to pay for online. Porn. Why? Because quality porn has NEVER been free online. Yes, I know there are newsgroups, and there are so-called "free" porn sites, but the signal to noise ratio is so out of whack most people would rather pay a modest fee for no banner ads, pop-ups, or spam while looking at porn.
I agree that when it becomes simple for me to pay for online content, I'll do it. I bought three installments of stephen king's The Plant because a) I'm used to paying for stephen king's books anyway, and $1 per chapter is a bargain, and b) because it was easy for me to click Pay and go to amazon's site which already had my CC info on file and click Make Payment and be done with it.
Once people get a reasonably easy way to pay for content, and become sufficiently frustrated with pop-ups, spam, loss of privacy, low signal to noise ratio, etc, they'll be willing to pay for online content.
BTW, I don't see slashdot users EVER willing to pay for content. Why? Because we ARE the content. Why should we pay for what we provide?
I dunno, I certainly understand pulling out all of the "I'd like to give a shoutout to my peeps back in Brooklyn -- (c) G'love" type of messages, but I think versions are useful. There have been times when tracking down a problem with a NIC or SCSI card I need to check the version of the driver in the kernel. It's 1000 times easier to dmesg then look for the driver version than it is to go walking through the kernel source tree and lessing through the.h and.c files looking for version info.
Of course, if rather than printing to the screen if the drivers would drop a file to (say)/proc/drivers/((device)) so that you could ls -l/proc/drivers to see what's compiled in your kernel, or cat/proc/drivers/((device)) for all of the startup info, version info, shoutouts, etc - that would ROCK.
Agreed 100%. Raise your hand of you supply your real info in Internic's whois database? Not me. Have you installed Real Player lately? They ask you for about 500 pages of personal info.. I lie like hell... I use sneakemail to protect my email address, and give fake info every opportunity I get.. I run webwasher on my primary browsing PC to filter cookies, banner ads, and "web bugs". My home phone number is unlisted. EVEN given all of that I still receive more than my share of spam, junk snail mail and telemarketers. If you want ANY privacy you will have to fight for every inch. Don't just skip registrations, fill them out all of the way with as much fake info and bullshit as you can. It's an easy way of giving them the finger and telling them we won't stand for it. I highly recomend profanity in your personal info... Makes you stand out.
You advocate collecting and SELLING your users' demographic information to spammers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hadvertisers, but you use a spambait address on slashdot? You're willing to subject to people loyal to your site (i.e. your CUSTOMERS) to spam, but let me guess, you don't like it in your inbox? Funny..
Can someone explain to me the significance of this? I mean, Mozilla already runs under linux with Mozilla's own libraries. Why take a portable (albeit bloated) product and port it to a VERY limited set of APIs?
If you are not a nice guy work on yourself or try to make the girl you are with pregnant ASAP. This highers your chance that she stays with you even so you are an a*hole.
Good lord. I seriously hope that either you were on crack when you wrote this or it was some vague attempt at humor. If a guy is not a nice guy, first off, he'll never ADMIT he's not a nice guy. Even if people tell him. Secondly, assuming he did admit it, you CERTAINLY shouldn't advise him to go around spreading his diseased genes around our gene pool. And lastly, bringing a real live human being into this world simply for the purpose of keeping trailor trash betty around for another year is wreckless and not fair to anyone, especially the kid! Sheesh.
I couldn't agree more with your analysis of The Sims' gameplay. Apparently we are in the minority, though, since The Sims was a huge commercial success. Apparently, the mass market loves really boring games
Hmm, no, I think you miss the point.. As Good American Consumers, we love the idea of controlling one or more people in their boring, mundane in order to *buy stuff*. It's the american dream.. Is there an option in the Sims to invest your money? Hell no. You buy a big screen TV to increase your "entertainment" lifeforce. The goal of sims is the same as american life (he with the most stuff "wins")...
People moved from tapes to CD because of the sound quality and ease of use (no rewinding etc) and vinyl 'phased out' since it was just too large and unwieldy to use.
Not to be too nit-picky, but MANY older formats still have comfortable niche markets. Nowhere is it written that there has to be an all-or-nothing transition.
Vinyl is still VERY popular in underground dance/rave (electronic) music. Most trance/house/dnb/breakbeat/etc music is released on vinyl only. From the DJ's perspective it's much easier to control (ever try to scratch with CDs?). MD still has a loyal following of fans.. Some folks swear by them.. DAT is widely popular in the live audio bootlegging^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htrading community. Heck, I still know quite a few people who still buy and use cassettes.
The way *I* understood these discs to be marketed was as a replacement for expensive compactflash and similar mediums. Imagine using these in a digital camera, 500 MB of storage in the size of a quarter at the cost of a few bucks.. I also under stood them to be targeting to portable players, phones, PDAs, etc. In other words, hardware that is too small for CDs to be practical.
When TechTV reviewed these discs they gave the impression that your new Brittney Spears CD would *include* a dataplay disc at no extra charge, for use in your portable players. This is the first time I've *ever* heard these hyped as a replacement for CDs. I think the slashdot crowd is quick to scream shenannigans for no good reason.
I think the point was "wow, if they could overcome the huge odds of doing this, maybe they could overcome the huge odds of getting me a date" or something. Along those same lines, maybe they should take over slashdot, after all, if they could make a single atom transistor, maybe they could post an article with correct grammar.. (ducking)
Well, I know you are referring to yahoo, the indexing service, but Yahoo mail actually has some clue.. For free you get a mail account and 6MB of storage. For folks like me that like to archive most/all mail, you can pay $19.95/year for a 20MB mailbox. You can also point your domain there (email@joeschmoe.com) for a fee. I can't think of examples off hand of how they could apply this to other areas, but it seems to me like the way to go.
That said, there are some dumb moves. To get POP access to your yahoo mail box you have to sign up for this "yahoo delivers!" service which sends solicited spam to you once or twice a week. I'd much rather have the option to pay a couple more bucks a year and gain POP access.
I think yahoo just has too much dead weight. Yahoo's chat, messenger, mail, and web index are all good. The rest I could do without.
Did I get a bad build (build ID 2001021503)? Is my machine misconfigured? What the hell is going on?
I can't speak to your machine, but a lot of people (myself included) will stand up and fight for how well mozilla does for *us*. After trying some of the Mxx releases (as far back as M15) I was even more of a skeptic than you.. But since the first of this year I've been randomly using nightlies (as in, whenever I can remember to update I do) and have been nothing but impressed. My current build (2001013004) on my home win2k pro machine, and the build I use at work (2001021105) on RH linux 6.1 have been nothing but rock solid stable. I think my home build has crashed MAYBE twice, and my linux build has not crashed since I installed it (knocking on wood). In theory the 0.8 release should be EVEN more stable, as they branched it a couple of weeks ago and did nothing but hammer out bugs.
Most stability problems can be traced back to fragments of early mozilla installs lying around waiting to bite you... Things like installing overtop of an old install, not completely removing an old install, or using a profile from an old install. If you watch netscape.public.mozilla.general you'll see many people come into the group bitching about stability, but leave happy once the folks there have them COMPLETELY remove old installs and start fresh.
Just thought I'd defend the lizard a little bit since it's trendy to bash him these days, and I'm feeling guilty cause I don't contribute to the project..:)
Those and other NEAR pictures should keep astronomers busy for awhile. Some suggest unknown forces breaking up boulders, moving debris into flat crater pools and creating unidentifiable depressions the size of hand and footprints.
Maybe the Heaven's gate cult survived after all.... Just landed on the wrong celestial object.
What about when people mix songs? Add a little bass backbeat in, a little synth in here and there and you can alter the profile of the song without actually harming the audible quality of the song. This is still infringing the copyright since the original music is still being used.
I guess that's debatable.. If I wanted to d/l the new U2 track I don't think I'd want it if some 14 year old in his bedroom laid down a screaching synth lead over it from is $100 casio keyboard - but that's just me.
But yeah, I guess that's my question, if you can alter the waveform enough to make it dissimilar to the original but not audibly different. I don't really know anything about waveform generation/analysis.
When is the music no longer a copyrighted object? If I hear a song in the morning, and recall it during the day, is that not a copy of the intellectual content (stored in the memory cells of the brain)? By remembering the song, did I just infringe upon the copyright?
I don't have a definitive answer for you, but I do know that live performance of a song is perfectly legal. If I want to play a Jimmy Buffett song on my guitar for my friends, or if my band wants to play a cover of a Buffett song for 100,000 people it's legal as long as we don't record it and sell it for profit. I think remembering the song in your head would be sort of a live performance...
I realize that watermarks wouldn't work, but I was thinking if you decompressed to wav and analyzed the waveform it wouldn't matter what bitrate was used in the compression because the waveform you'd get when you decoded it would still be very similar to the original waveform... Of course with a low enough bitrate you'd start to see breakup of the waveform but by then I don't think the song would be desirable anyways.
I do see your point on the huge CPU requirements though, but you could offload this to the client software. When a user puts a song in the napster dir to share the software uncompresses it and generates a "snapshot" of the wav which would be sent to napster servers and compared against a database of known commercial song "snapshots" which would be provided by the record label if they determine one of their songs is being offered on napster.
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While I agree with your post, I think at the beginning of ANY war americans try to be patriotic and supportive of their country. It's only after the war has been long drawn-out and in many cases deemed unwinnable that people start to speak out against it. The WoD has been ongoing for what, 20 years now? The fact that it's had NO effect whatsoever on drug traffic, drug prices, or number of addicted users and has cost us millions of dollars, thousands of lives, and many of our freedoms is starting to reach the american consiousness.
Americans are supportive of the war on terrorism now because it's "the patriotic thing to do", and because they've wounded our ego. "How DARE they come attack us? we'll show them who has the biggest dick!" What happens in 20 years when we're just as vulnerable to terrorist activity, we've lost thousands of lives in the battle, given up many more of our freedoms, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars and had really no effect on terrorism? Maybe we'll find a new war to fight at that point. Seems instead of admitting a war is a failure it's easier to shift the public's eyes to a new war and maybe they're forget about the old one.
I have an idea for the next one: let's declare war on children! It's for the children you know! We must protect them from becomming corrupted by greed and evil, so we'll just take them out by targeted strategic attacks. Are you thinking of having kids? Well, we'll arrest you, too. It's for the children, you know.
As americans we look for a quick fix for any situation. Someone attacks us so it's easiest to lash out and attack them back (whoever "them" is). The only way to stop terrorism/drug trade/child pornography/etc is to get to the source of the problem and find what WHY these things exist and attack THAT. Attacking people for what they believe isn't exactly fair.
Shayne
(asbestos suit donned)
My only gripe is I think it was very out of place and a bit insensitive that right in the middle of this (around 12pm if IIRC) Jon Katz took this tragedy as an opportunity to post some rant about how technology led us to this evil situation we were in and how technology was changing the way people get news or some such. I'm normally not a Katz-basher, but I think this was WAAAY out of place and insensitive to the people that died that day. Not only that, but it was unnecessary noise while people were still scrambling to get to the FACTS of what was going on. We really didn't need some insensitive wanna-be journalist's opinion on technology, of all things, in the middle of all of this. Maybe it would have been more appropriate on Wednesday or Thursday, but (to me) it was out of line at 12pm on Tuesday. Not to mention the whole crux of his article was off base (people killed people Tuesday, not technology).
Okay, I'll stop bitching now. Thanks again Slashdot, for stepping up to the plate and knocking one out of the park!
Shayne
What technology? Guy walks into a plane, shoots pilots, and turns the yoke. These events could have happened at any time since the towers were first constructed 30 years ago. What is this rant about technology for?
AGREED 100%. If anything today has taught us that all of our technology so far has NOT prepared us for or protected us from a terrorist attack of this magnitude. For God sakes they didn't have 15-million-dollar laser-guides missiles to attack us, they took our own planes and guided them into the most densely populated structure (to my knowledge) in the U.S. Where's the technology in that? Even McVeigh's oklahoma city bomb was more advanced than that.
What's this technology he's talking about allowing video and images to spread all around the world? I actually had to go borrow a radio from one of my coworkers because the net radio station I normally listen to has been down all day, and other net radio stations are sporadic at best. Even CNN has been reduced to showing a crude mostly-text page with one picture to keep from buckling under the load.
If anything, this attack has shown us how fragile our technology is, and that technology is no substitute for good foreign policy and crisis management.
Shayne
This is a sad, sad day for America. I'm not a religious person but I'll be saying a prayer tonight for the families of the victims and for our country to heal.
Shayne
I don't think so. Not in my case.
Yes, but let's say you publish a paper on how to break a popular encryption algorithm used by the russian government.. THEN let's say you travel to russia to deliver a speach on how to break the encryption algorithm. Would you not expect consequences?
I'm just playing devil's advocate here.. While I agree that the law is stupid and it's a shame someone has to be a martyr for it, he had to have had SOME idea of what he was getting in to when he came to the US to deliver a speech on how to circumvent copyright protection.
*I'd* certainly expect to be arrested/harrassed/martyred if I went around giving lectures on how to make crystal meth in your bathtub, whether I agree that it's right to teach drug making or not.
Shayne
And really, from what I can gather from the article, all the need is to extend their already successful algorithm. Google ranks a result higher because more pages link to it, regardless of what type of page the linking page is. Teoma ranks a result higher because more relevant pages link to it. It seems to check that the linking page is on the same subject.
While Teoma's technology makes sense, I'm not sure how relevant it is in the real world. If I have a page about Ice Fishing, would I link to a page about Rambus patents? Probably not.
Shayne
Err, shouldn't that be "$ chown -R us.us yourbase"?
Or for the NT Fans:
Right click YourBase->Properties->Security->Ownership->Take Ownership
Shayne (yes, I'm being pedantic) ;-)
"Welcome to Microsoft Cover-My-Ass-System 2000(TM) - What do you want to screw up today?
Sorry, couldn't resist...
Shayne
While I see your argument that Gramma Public gets online for free stuff, and I appreciate free stuff as much as the next guy, I disagree that paying your ISP entitles you to "free stuff". Your ISP is providing you with a SERVICE (access to the internet), not content. Think of it this way.. You pay a cover charge to get into a night club, does this entitle you to free drinks? No, the cover charge only provides you access to the club, and covers things like insurance on you while you're in the club, etc. You still have to pay for drinks because of costs in providing those drinks to you (alcohol, bartenders, etc).
You paid $40,000 for your brand new gas-guzzling SUV. Does this entitle you to shop at macy's for free? No, the SUV provides a service (getting you to macy's), you still have to pay for the product they provide.
People will not pay for web content because it HAS been free, and people do not like to pay for something that has been free up until now. This is why people will not pay for online music. Napster popped up and made it easy for Gramma Public to get music for free, so why would she pay for it now?
There IS something however that consumers ARE willing to pay for online. Porn. Why? Because quality porn has NEVER been free online. Yes, I know there are newsgroups, and there are so-called "free" porn sites, but the signal to noise ratio is so out of whack most people would rather pay a modest fee for no banner ads, pop-ups, or spam while looking at porn.
I agree that when it becomes simple for me to pay for online content, I'll do it. I bought three installments of stephen king's The Plant because a) I'm used to paying for stephen king's books anyway, and $1 per chapter is a bargain, and b) because it was easy for me to click Pay and go to amazon's site which already had my CC info on file and click Make Payment and be done with it.
Once people get a reasonably easy way to pay for content, and become sufficiently frustrated with pop-ups, spam, loss of privacy, low signal to noise ratio, etc, they'll be willing to pay for online content.
BTW, I don't see slashdot users EVER willing to pay for content. Why? Because we ARE the content. Why should we pay for what we provide?
Shayne
Of course, if rather than printing to the screen if the drivers would drop a file to (say) /proc/drivers/((device)) so that you could ls -l /proc/drivers to see what's compiled in your kernel, or cat /proc/drivers/((device)) for all of the startup info, version info, shoutouts, etc - that would ROCK.
Shayne
Shayne (or am I?)
Shayne
Shayne
(scans Ricky Martin CD)
How do you feel about Livin' La Vida Loca?
Better yet! We can now implement RFC2795 (the Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite) in Perl! Who wants to start a page on sourceforge? :)
Shayne
If you are not a nice guy work on yourself or try to make the girl you are with pregnant ASAP. This highers your chance that she stays with you even so you are an a*hole.
Good lord. I seriously hope that either you were on crack when you wrote this or it was some vague attempt at humor. If a guy is not a nice guy, first off, he'll never ADMIT he's not a nice guy. Even if people tell him. Secondly, assuming he did admit it, you CERTAINLY shouldn't advise him to go around spreading his diseased genes around our gene pool. And lastly, bringing a real live human being into this world simply for the purpose of keeping trailor trash betty around for another year is wreckless and not fair to anyone, especially the kid! Sheesh.
Shayne
Hmm, no, I think you miss the point.. As Good American Consumers, we love the idea of controlling one or more people in their boring, mundane in order to *buy stuff*. It's the american dream.. Is there an option in the Sims to invest your money? Hell no. You buy a big screen TV to increase your "entertainment" lifeforce. The goal of sims is the same as american life (he with the most stuff "wins")...
Shayne
Not to be too nit-picky, but MANY older formats still have comfortable niche markets. Nowhere is it written that there has to be an all-or-nothing transition.
Vinyl is still VERY popular in underground dance/rave (electronic) music. Most trance/house/dnb/breakbeat/etc music is released on vinyl only. From the DJ's perspective it's much easier to control (ever try to scratch with CDs?). MD still has a loyal following of fans.. Some folks swear by them.. DAT is widely popular in the live audio bootlegging^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htrading community. Heck, I still know quite a few people who still buy and use cassettes.
The way *I* understood these discs to be marketed was as a replacement for expensive compactflash and similar mediums. Imagine using these in a digital camera, 500 MB of storage in the size of a quarter at the cost of a few bucks.. I also under stood them to be targeting to portable players, phones, PDAs, etc. In other words, hardware that is too small for CDs to be practical.
When TechTV reviewed these discs they gave the impression that your new Brittney Spears CD would *include* a dataplay disc at no extra charge, for use in your portable players. This is the first time I've *ever* heard these hyped as a replacement for CDs. I think the slashdot crowd is quick to scream shenannigans for no good reason.
Shayne
I don't see the contextual relevance...
I think the point was "wow, if they could overcome the huge odds of doing this, maybe they could overcome the huge odds of getting me a date" or something. Along those same lines, maybe they should take over slashdot, after all, if they could make a single atom transistor, maybe they could post an article with correct grammar.. (ducking)
Shayne
There is no 'Value Add' to what Yahoo provides.
Well, I know you are referring to yahoo, the indexing service, but Yahoo mail actually has some clue.. For free you get a mail account and 6MB of storage. For folks like me that like to archive most/all mail, you can pay $19.95/year for a 20MB mailbox. You can also point your domain there (email@joeschmoe.com) for a fee. I can't think of examples off hand of how they could apply this to other areas, but it seems to me like the way to go.
That said, there are some dumb moves. To get POP access to your yahoo mail box you have to sign up for this "yahoo delivers!" service which sends solicited spam to you once or twice a week. I'd much rather have the option to pay a couple more bucks a year and gain POP access.
I think yahoo just has too much dead weight. Yahoo's chat, messenger, mail, and web index are all good. The rest I could do without.
Shayne
2001-04-20 16:20:00
;-)
Cause all kinds of good stuff happens at 4:20..
Shayne
I can't speak to your machine, but a lot of people (myself included) will stand up and fight for how well mozilla does for *us*. After trying some of the Mxx releases (as far back as M15) I was even more of a skeptic than you.. But since the first of this year I've been randomly using nightlies (as in, whenever I can remember to update I do) and have been nothing but impressed. My current build (2001013004) on my home win2k pro machine, and the build I use at work (2001021105) on RH linux 6.1 have been nothing but rock solid stable. I think my home build has crashed MAYBE twice, and my linux build has not crashed since I installed it (knocking on wood). In theory the 0.8 release should be EVEN more stable, as they branched it a couple of weeks ago and did nothing but hammer out bugs.
Most stability problems can be traced back to fragments of early mozilla installs lying around waiting to bite you... Things like installing overtop of an old install, not completely removing an old install, or using a profile from an old install. If you watch netscape.public.mozilla.general you'll see many people come into the group bitching about stability, but leave happy once the folks there have them COMPLETELY remove old installs and start fresh.
Just thought I'd defend the lizard a little bit since it's trendy to bash him these days, and I'm feeling guilty cause I don't contribute to the project.. :)
Shayne
Maybe the Heaven's gate cult survived after all.... Just landed on the wrong celestial object.
Shayne
I guess that's debatable.. If I wanted to d/l the new U2 track I don't think I'd want it if some 14 year old in his bedroom laid down a screaching synth lead over it from is $100 casio keyboard - but that's just me.
But yeah, I guess that's my question, if you can alter the waveform enough to make it dissimilar to the original but not audibly different. I don't really know anything about waveform generation/analysis.
When is the music no longer a copyrighted object? If I hear a song in the morning, and recall it during the day, is that not a copy of the intellectual content (stored in the memory cells of the brain)? By remembering the song, did I just infringe upon the copyright?
I don't have a definitive answer for you, but I do know that live performance of a song is perfectly legal. If I want to play a Jimmy Buffett song on my guitar for my friends, or if my band wants to play a cover of a Buffett song for 100,000 people it's legal as long as we don't record it and sell it for profit. I think remembering the song in your head would be sort of a live performance...
Shayne
I do see your point on the huge CPU requirements though, but you could offload this to the client software. When a user puts a song in the napster dir to share the software uncompresses it and generates a "snapshot" of the wav which would be sent to napster servers and compared against a database of known commercial song "snapshots" which would be provided by the record label if they determine one of their songs is being offered on napster.
Shayne