> Nobody is going to spend a lot of time, effort, and money producing entertainment programs they don't make any money on.
As a film festival organiser I can happily state that you are totally wrong.
We have around 60 hours a year of video submitted to us per year (average film length 5mins) for our regional short film section. We also have over 2000 titles in our archive. Almost all have 0 commercial potential, despite their quality, though a few have made it to tv.
People are out there making good free stuff to watch, you just got to knowwheretofindit
1) fly to the US, submitting my fingerprints and retinal scan at the border 2) rent an apartment with cable 3) buy a DVR & program it for remote access 4) fly home & watch Colbert & co once downloaded
Building a kernel with just the drivers you want to use was one of the first post-installation jobs of FreeBSD.
You can't even boot Linux from a floppy no more:(
The main OSes are big balls of cruft bloated horribly by the 80/20 rule for general purpose computing but only the OSS ones allow you to do something about it.
Even then you still face the possible time penalty of recompiling userland. That's why I'm glad plan9 only takes 15 mins to make world.
My ISP (and I mean mine, I'm a shareholder) doesn't give a flying fuck what I do with the bandwidth I paid for (and yes, I do pay). The fixed IP of my 2Mb ADSL suits my needs, and many of the needs of other business users we have as customers, extra QoS not required
>> I've been known to send 1,000,000 legitimate emails a month. > Unhh... well if this is really true then you could always explain your legitimate reasons to the ISP and they'd let you send it.
It is really true and I should have to explain as much to my bandwidth supplier about how I use bandwidth as I do to my electricity supplier concerning my joules per coulomb.
I've been known to send 1,000,000 legitimate emails a month.
ISP's should protect their own mail servers. And that's it.
They send me an invoice. I send them a cheque. End of story.
However, in other news, I also rent a SPAM filtered POP box from them. They add the evil bit to stuff they consider SPAM. I download it and see if I concur. It works pretty well.
I'd still rather get the 1000 forged emails a day I get now than think an email was sent when the address was mis-typed.
Though I do make use of separate MAIL FROM: & X-Errors-To: to weight responses.
The people in my office, and people in general, are not as meticulous in their preparation of communications. That email address you scribbled down last night or during a phone conversation might be a bit unreadable, you should at least know if *someone* received it !
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> Nobody is going to spend a lot of time, effort, and money producing entertainment programs they don't make any money on.
As a film festival organiser I can happily state that you are totally wrong.
We have around 60 hours a year of video submitted to us per year (average film length 5mins) for our regional short film section. We also have over 2000 titles in our archive. Almost all have 0 commercial potential, despite their quality, though a few have made it to tv.
People are out there making good free stuff to watch, you just got to know where to find it
so, all I have to do is :
1) fly to the US, submitting my fingerprints and retinal scan at the border
2) rent an apartment with cable
3) buy a DVR & program it for remote access
4) fly home & watch Colbert & co once downloaded
http://www.fring.com/
Skype / Google talk client for symbian
free as in beer
What's mysterious about "user adds ads to video before uploading" ?
Building a kernel with just the drivers you want to use was one of the first post-installation jobs of FreeBSD.
You can't even boot Linux from a floppy no more
The main OSes are big balls of cruft bloated horribly by the 80/20 rule for general purpose computing but only the OSS ones allow you to do something about it.
Even then you still face the possible time penalty of recompiling userland. That's why I'm glad plan9 only takes 15 mins to make world.
here's how to do something similar in plan9
/n/mute /n/mute /dev/audio
mkdir
bind
run_noisy_application
Corporal punishment while listening to Britney ? I'd cum in my pants
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
surely
Linus : "I refer to them as offsite backups"
This Canadian fellow "is now quite nervous" not "has had his freedom crushed".
Learn some economics.
Prices are set such that people are prepared to pay, not that "cost of business + 30%".
It's called the elasticity of demand.
Keep racking up your prices and you'll lose customers.
Keep dropping your prices and you'll lose money.
There's a sweet spot between the two that maximises your price.
These people have decided that $1.99 is their sweet spot.
A competitor might decided to try $1.75 and consequently move the market.
never buy anything
Thanks for you misguided rant, quite amusing.
My ISP (and I mean mine, I'm a shareholder) doesn't give a flying fuck what I do with the bandwidth I paid for (and yes, I do pay). The fixed IP of my 2Mb ADSL suits my needs, and many of the needs of other business users we have as customers, extra QoS not required
Get off your high horse and suck it's cock.
>> I've been known to send 1,000,000 legitimate emails a month. ... well if this is really true then you could always explain your legitimate reasons to the ISP and they'd let you send it.
> Unhh
It is really true and I should have to explain as much to my bandwidth supplier about how I use bandwidth as I do to my electricity supplier concerning my joules per coulomb.
I'm a DSL customer.
I've been known to send 1,000,000 legitimate emails a month.
ISP's should protect their own mail servers. And that's it.
They send me an invoice. I send them a cheque. End of story.
However, in other news, I also rent a SPAM filtered POP box from them. They add the evil bit to stuff they consider SPAM. I download it and see if I concur. It works pretty well.
> This is DIFFERENT from sending a bounce message in reply to SPAM filters, which is bad.
so what, that's not the issue
I sometimes send 1,000,000 emails in a month.
I know how different MTAs respond.
I'd still rather get the 1000 forged emails a day I get now than think an email was sent when the address was mis-typed.
Though I do make use of separate MAIL FROM: & X-Errors-To: to weight responses.
The people in my office, and people in general, are not as meticulous in their preparation of communications. That email address you scribbled down last night or during a phone conversation might be a bit unreadable, you should at least know if *someone* received it !
but you DO need to discriminate.
If I sent an email to davw@domain.com when I meant dave@domain.com I want a goddam error message telling me so.
The whole point of bouncing is to tell the sender they got the address wrong.
How do you propose to discriminate between mistyped and forged ?
Mummy, I've done a poo poo in the potty, I'm a good boy.
cp file.iso /mnt/cd/wd # burn to cd /mnt/cd/wd # fixate /mnt/cd/ctl # eject
rm
echo eject >
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/cdfs
How do you discriminate (SPF Policy aside) ?
Using the words of a government minister with a degree in Economics & Politicals and the NFU isn't going to cut much ice with me I'm afraid.
My home grown apples are rather tasty.
As is the veg I buy from my local growers co-operative.
Organic food outside of supermarkets is not as expensive is you claim.
You can even have it delivered.
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