Your friends are losing money from going through even a small distributors. Think of the fact that I doubt seriously that there is much advertising for your friends band. I have never even seen much advertising when I am up in Halifax for many bands at all.
Where do I find more information? Places like mp3.com where I can find and hear a few songs and if the musician does not even sell things, PAGE views get them money. Its a nice service and we get some decent music. If they had thier music for sell, with some sample mp3's on the WEB, I bet they would have more exposure.
Gnutella has a lot of non-comercial products on it, will the MPAA go after people who happen to have a name like "Metallicock" or something that is CLOSE, and they think it is REAL? see: www.joecartoon.com for Metallicock group.
If they all use GPL Linux kernels, then we can ask for the source to all the OS's. Think of HOW EASY it will be to start a simple Digital Assistant company if you can grab tons of modified specifically for code, and you dont have to PAY for the changes since another company has done so.. thus charging LESS for it.
In essense, people who come later in the business can charge cheaper prices.
Jon,
I have yet to be a person who critizes your stances but this time I have to. Very simply, The US must not apologize for an incident that they did not cause. This would cause all the terrorists of the world to enjoy new life after Reagan and Clintons bombings of them. China must not be allowed to gain on falsehoods.
When the US lost a plane in Soviet Territory in Eisenhower's presidency. The first thing we did was lie. We stated that we did not do it, and the Russians pounced.. they had the PILOT!. We were left with many years of egg on our face and problems internationally. We lied and got caught.
China wants to be a world power, they will have that if they win this showdown. They are HOLDING AMERICANS AS HOSTAGES!! to think otherwise is to ignore that they cannot come home of thier own free will.
What would happen if China starts executing the Hostages??? They would say "eye-for-an-eye" and the US apologizing for this incident would give even more credence to this scenario.
Dont be fooled, China is the Red Dragon and when The Eagle fights a Dragon, Fire must burn.
Ownership of Programs submitted for a class?
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I noticed that in this article it talks about the difference between an employer and a student at a university. Since Students at a university are Customers, do projects they submit for grades still become the property of the University.
My university (years ago I was there) had a policy that any project submitted became the property of the University AND the Rights to the code came with it.
I wrote a really nice program that has been requested to be posted elsewhere during that time. It was my understanding that I no longer had ownership of that.
Oh lord, this is what is WRONG with colleges today.
CS is turning into a "Web Design and Programming" Degree instead of the real intellectual computer degree that it has been. We see Computer Science degrees become more and more worthless as we continue to try and hire BS degree people.
Come on, questions like: What is a Round Robin scheme? What does a semaphore do? These simple questions are beyond these people today.
OH LORD, this one got me. MS practically buys Corel and then claims the reason they are leaving is that Linux is faltering.
"Applications are not available for Linux"
See Above for major reason. While there are quite a FEW full out application packages you can purchase for Linux, I think the main problem is that they dont see the free packages that do the work as well. Its below their FUD Radar.
Very simply, Maildir and qmail is a much stronger security typed system than Sendmail and the way it stores (mbox). This does not mean Maildir is better, but it does mean I use Maildir as my domain mail router.
Wait, Maildir SUCKS when it comes to supported apps. I also love to use IMAP and the ability to hook into it, and I run procmail to filter crap.
So... I have a personaly mail system using IMAP that I connect to, and I use Maildir to actually handle all the mail server stuff.
What we are witnessing is the DEATH of common sense. People leap instead of look, they scream instead of ask, they avoid instead of understand. We are witnessing the end of the time where computers were considered something to marvel at as something nice, and entering the time where computers are to be viewed as liquid horror.
Common sense dictates that if I buy something, I own it.
Common sense dictates that if someone or some group(Microsoft) breaks laws they should be punished. Do the crime, do the time.
Common sense dictates that I should be able to watch what I want, when I want, in the privacy of my own home.
......
Basically what we are seeing is these simple common sense rules being taken and tossed as "irrelvant" in a technological society. Technology does not mean that basic common sense has to change.
I agree with your points. The issue is NOT that Rock is not more popular, it is WHY it is. It is much cheaper to produce simplified music for the masses than it is to produce elegant complex musical pieces. Corporations would rather spend 5 thousand to startup a 4 person band than 500,000 thousand for an orchestra.
Sex is not music. Music is enhancement to sex and nowadays mostly Sex is used in music to enhance the music... because they know the music SUCKS. Country music is using Sex now more and more and it just shows how it really sucks.
Remember that more people bought the soundtrack to Chess than bought most all of that years Rock groups.
What is the most published Book in the world? The Bible.
What is the most listened to Music in the World?
Religious Music.
Can Corporations make money from It? They do, but not as much as they could with other music... so they do that.
Hence... Corporations give the IMPRESSION that Rock music is more popular than Religious Music... and yet whole stations are dedicated to Religious Music.. and Christmas music around christmas is almost EVERY station.
"Rock has replace classical music as the most popular, because now the populace chooses what's popular as opposed to the select elite rich."
I disagree with you here. While Rock is the most popular, it is corporations that choose what you listen to. We miss out on great music all the time becuase of the lack of availability. I know that corporations are FORMING bands specifically to control the entire process and make more money (anyone remember Winger?).
I dont exactly think that Rock is the most popular either considering that some of these things like Riverdance and other classical stories and plays outsell rock time and again. It is just never advertised as much because they dont need too advertise it to make the money.
This woman can be used by the people to find the intent of the voter. Of course it would take 6 years to go through all the ballots!! By that time Clinton would have finally grown tired of it.
I thought I would tell you that We loved your comment and I told Sandy Peterson over on Age of Kings Heaven (www.ageofkings.com) when I first read this in Game Developers. It was EXTREMELY insightful and very well written.
I like to commend you on it, and say.. keep up the work as AoK still has its share of trainers that people claim work.
http://www.satirewire.com/news/0011/nader_wins.sht ml
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Please put in a computer voting system. I will then end up the next president with over 500 electoral votes and all on "write in" votes.
I will be a great president. I can do many things with computers. Want a raise? I can help you.
A computer system is only fair. People already know that I am the best there is and it only takes a computer system for voting to let them vote for me properly.
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this is satire, but will be true if we do it on computers... maybe not me.
It has also been reported that 19,000 ballots from palm beach were invalidated because 2 holes had been punched for the presidential candidate. I wonder which two they were...?
I know.. the simplest answer to this is people felt they had to vote for both president and vice president. I mean, there were 2 holes next to the candidates. I would assume that older people or new voters would not realize that it is 1 punch for 2 people.
It would be real interesting if the 19k ballots were all punched as gore buchanan or bush buckanan.
I current own and run a MUD. This mud is based on several of the OpenSource codebases out there. it is TEXT and it is FREE.
Guess what? So are the thousands of other muds out there in existance. I believe a MUD should be able to use the most standard connection available, TELNET, to allow users of many different platforms to connect.
I have hundreds of users who are from all over the globe using basic programs, or the more advanced MUD clients.
If you want to use a graphical MUD, then pay up for the hard work and effort put into it. Everquest, Ultima Online, and many other Massively Multiplayer games are out there and extremely good for them.
You see, GAMES are not worth Free Software unless they really expect to last. Basically you spend some serious effort on a game that next year is obsolete. The turnover for games is incredible. Dont thing free software will change that. You have to have infinite playability and you have to support the widest range you can.
Why do muds still persist? Because they are seriously fun CHAT rooms. You start in a game and end up in a family. Its amazing how that works.
Btw, go to Freshmeat.net and get all the other GREAT FREE MUD codebases and work on it yourself. Worldforge is also out there to do the EXACT same thing.
Note: Neverwinter Nights when released will do everything that a local MUD hoster wants to do ANY players are interchangable and can be moved between worlds. It may be the closest to a MUD killer out there.
Then what do you do about your CREDIT CARD companies who call you? They are not in violation of the TCPA because you are WITH THEM. ie: Get free insurance, or add this feature etc. EVERY SINGLE CC company I dealt with DOES THIS. Citibank, First USA, AT&T, Choice, CapitalOne, Discover.
You tell me? We almost need a CC to live and expecially to play on internet buying. So help me out here? WHAT THE HELL do you DO?
Wait? yep its blatant. We are always looking for skilled C programmers and System Engineers for HPUX and Solaris and soon Linux. While I will NOT speak for my company I will say that it is HARD to find people willing to do UNIX internships. Most people are wanting NETWORKING or MS and thus lose out on the opportunities we provide.
I work in a house that CREATES NEW Unix programs. Oh sure, we DONT create Open Source as our contracts are mostly military. We are very strong on knowledge and ability.
So, for those looking for UNIX interns, you have to look in the military areas and you have to actually LOOK.
We are located specifically in Chesapeake, Virginia. USA.
Working in an environment that competes against COE based products, we have the same problem that it sounds like you do. Consider the following methods of getting around such requirements.
1. COE requires a certain "Style" well, that is FINE and easy to do. Make that so.
2. COE cannot do certain things that your platform can. This is how we are able to get in the door and close it on COE.
3. DONT STAY WITH THE US GOVERNEMNT. They are one of the worst customers I have ever had. Canada is the best...
Let me clarify somethings. The US governement use of products are required by a lot of other NATO countries before they think of purchasing a system.
The US governement contracts are typically Best Value, and so even if you are small and have best price you can lose to a raytheon.. BEST price rules in NATO.
The US Governement will come in behind the contract and take money back. This is true even on fixed price contracts. If you bid 4 million on a project and when you are done the ACTUAL contractual price then is audited and you may lose hundreds of thousands of dollars at the whim of the US governement auditor.
COE has to go away. Many of the people working in COE agree to this as well. It is bad that large companies like SAIC, ENRI, and others that get a large constant funding to keep COE around.
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None of these views is from the company I work for. If you find out who I work for, do not even think of holding them responsible. I choose to take my own time to write this for the benefit of others. Go away and play with someone who actually represents thier company on the net.
Pity... Yep, I guess so. Consider the end result of your actions.
MONEY is not everything, and it sure dont buy happiness.
Having kids, having a life, having someone who cares about you and will do this with you and for you is worth all the computers in the world combined. Without that, money is hollow indeed.
I dont feel pity for people who choose this path, I may feel sad when I see you on a park bench feeding the pigeons while I play with my grandchildren.
A few things.
1. I am a parent, and soon to be a multiple parent. THERE is nothing that is better, even computers.
2. I have no problem with stopping my kids from doing things because I ALREADY use things that prevent it. Your censorware type issues are already IN My configuration of Linux and how I choose to use it.
3. Dont blast parents for asking for help. The entire community raised you. You school, Church, Friends and all.. THEY ALL raised you. Is it too much to ask for some help in those issues? NO, it is not. It is too much to demand it be enforced on others NOt your own.. thats freedom blocking.
Censorware, and the PTC are all parts of a system that is designed to teach kids they are worthless and to tell them life is worthless. It is pathetic that parents cannot use the tools we have: TURN off the computer, TURN off the TV. Give them a book to read.
As for your choice not to have children. I would say I feel sorry for you, for when you are 65 and alone.. look back and think. Was doing all those little things worth sacrificing IMMORTALITY. The only Immortality we have is through our children.
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All is well and good, except this.
Your friends are losing money from going through even a small distributors. Think of the fact that I doubt seriously that there is much advertising for your friends band. I have never even seen much advertising when I am up in Halifax for many bands at all.
Where do I find more information? Places like mp3.com where I can find and hear a few songs and if the musician does not even sell things, PAGE views get them money. Its a nice service and we get some decent music. If they had thier music for sell, with some sample mp3's on the WEB, I bet they would have more exposure.
Gnutella has a lot of non-comercial products on it, will the MPAA go after people who happen to have a name like "Metallicock" or something that is CLOSE, and they think it is REAL? see: www.joecartoon.com for Metallicock group.
If they all use GPL Linux kernels, then we can ask for the source to all the OS's. Think of HOW EASY it will be to start a simple Digital Assistant company if you can grab tons of modified specifically for code, and you dont have to PAY for the changes since another company has done so.. thus charging LESS for it.
In essense, people who come later in the business can charge cheaper prices.
I went out and bought me some Yahoo porn.
Porn is good.. Porn is nice.. just dont tell... my wife.
Jon,
I have yet to be a person who critizes your stances but this time I have to. Very simply, The US must not apologize for an incident that they did not cause. This would cause all the terrorists of the world to enjoy new life after Reagan and Clintons bombings of them. China must not be allowed to gain on falsehoods.
When the US lost a plane in Soviet Territory in Eisenhower's presidency. The first thing we did was lie. We stated that we did not do it, and the Russians pounced.. they had the PILOT!. We were left with many years of egg on our face and problems internationally. We lied and got caught.
China wants to be a world power, they will have that if they win this showdown. They are HOLDING AMERICANS AS HOSTAGES!! to think otherwise is to ignore that they cannot come home of thier own free will.
What would happen if China starts executing the Hostages??? They would say "eye-for-an-eye" and the US apologizing for this incident would give even more credence to this scenario.
Dont be fooled, China is the Red Dragon and when The Eagle fights a Dragon, Fire must burn.
I noticed that in this article it talks about the difference between an employer and a student at a university. Since Students at a university are Customers, do projects they submit for grades still become the property of the University.
My university (years ago I was there) had a policy that any project submitted became the property of the University AND the Rights to the code came with it.
I wrote a really nice program that has been requested to be posted elsewhere during that time. It was my understanding that I no longer had ownership of that.
Is this still legal?
Oh lord, this is what is WRONG with colleges today.
CS is turning into a "Web Design and Programming" Degree instead of the real intellectual computer degree that it has been. We see Computer Science degrees become more and more worthless as we continue to try and hire BS degree people.
Come on, questions like: What is a Round Robin scheme? What does a semaphore do? These simple questions are beyond these people today.
"Look at Corel leaving the Linux business"
OH LORD, this one got me. MS practically buys Corel and then claims the reason they are leaving is that Linux is faltering.
"Applications are not available for Linux"
See Above for major reason. While there are quite a FEW full out application packages you can purchase for Linux, I think the main problem is that they dont see the free packages that do the work as well. Its below their FUD Radar.
Very simply, Maildir and qmail is a much stronger security typed system than Sendmail and the way it stores (mbox). This does not mean Maildir is better, but it does mean I use Maildir as my domain mail router.
Wait, Maildir SUCKS when it comes to supported apps. I also love to use IMAP and the ability to hook into it, and I run procmail to filter crap.
So... I have a personaly mail system using IMAP that I connect to, and I use Maildir to actually handle all the mail server stuff.
Did you STEAL it? I have no problems with baby brokering. Its morally bad, but it can be good for the baby.
Who cares? He did the time.
Is that a question or a request?
What we are witnessing is the DEATH of common sense. People leap instead of look, they scream instead of ask, they avoid instead of understand. We are witnessing the end of the time where computers were considered something to marvel at as something nice, and entering the time where computers are to be viewed as liquid horror.
Common sense dictates that if I buy something, I own it.
Common sense dictates that if someone or some group(Microsoft) breaks laws they should be punished. Do the crime, do the time.
Common sense dictates that I should be able to watch what I want, when I want, in the privacy of my own home.
......
Basically what we are seeing is these simple common sense rules being taken and tossed as "irrelvant" in a technological society. Technology does not mean that basic common sense has to change.
I agree with your points. The issue is NOT that Rock is not more popular, it is WHY it is. It is much cheaper to produce simplified music for the masses than it is to produce elegant complex musical pieces. Corporations would rather spend 5 thousand to startup a 4 person band than 500,000 thousand for an orchestra.
Sex is not music. Music is enhancement to sex and nowadays mostly Sex is used in music to enhance the music... because they know the music SUCKS. Country music is using Sex now more and more and it just shows how it really sucks.
Remember that more people bought the soundtrack to Chess than bought most all of that years Rock groups.
What is the most published Book in the world? The Bible.
What is the most listened to Music in the World?
Religious Music.
Can Corporations make money from It? They do, but not as much as they could with other music... so they do that.
Hence... Corporations give the IMPRESSION that Rock music is more popular than Religious Music... and yet whole stations are dedicated to Religious Music.. and Christmas music around christmas is almost EVERY station.
"Rock has replace classical music as the most popular, because now the populace chooses what's popular as opposed to the select elite rich."
I disagree with you here. While Rock is the most popular, it is corporations that choose what you listen to. We miss out on great music all the time becuase of the lack of availability. I know that corporations are FORMING bands specifically to control the entire process and make more money (anyone remember Winger?).
I dont exactly think that Rock is the most popular either considering that some of these things like Riverdance and other classical stories and plays outsell rock time and again. It is just never advertised as much because they dont need too advertise it to make the money.
I can connect to a site at work, but not at home, and yet I can connect to home from work and work from home.
This is a constant thing on the internet, the routing tables are constantly screwed.
It dont work and I would say several percent of the internet is down every moment.
This woman can be used by the people to find the intent of the voter. Of course it would take 6 years to go through all the ballots!! By that time Clinton would have finally grown tired of it.
I thought I would tell you that We loved your comment and I told Sandy Peterson over on Age of Kings Heaven (www.ageofkings.com) when I first read this in Game Developers. It was EXTREMELY insightful and very well written.
I like to commend you on it, and say.. keep up the work as AoK still has its share of trainers that people claim work.
Winston
http://www.satirewire.com/news/0011/nader_wins.sht ml
Please put in a computer voting system. I will then end up the next president with over 500 electoral votes and all on "write in" votes.
I will be a great president. I can do many things with computers. Want a raise? I can help you.
A computer system is only fair. People already know that I am the best there is and it only takes a computer system for voting to let them vote for me properly.
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this is satire, but will be true if we do it on computers... maybe not me.
Just watched a CNN show. The people there present that there were no 15,000 people who made the mistake 4 years ago.
But lets assume they did.
so: 1. the ballot must work, look 15 thousand people made the MISTAKE 4 years ago.
I assert that that may exactly prove that the ballot is crapola period.
It has also been reported that 19,000 ballots from palm beach were invalidated because 2 holes had been punched for the presidential candidate. I wonder which two they were...?
I know.. the simplest answer to this is people felt they had to vote for both president and vice president. I mean, there were 2 holes next to the candidates. I would assume that older people or new voters would not realize that it is 1 punch for 2 people.
It would be real interesting if the 19k ballots were all punched as gore buchanan or bush buckanan.
I current own and run a MUD. This mud is based on several of the OpenSource codebases out there. it is TEXT and it is FREE.
Guess what? So are the thousands of other muds out there in existance. I believe a MUD should be able to use the most standard connection available, TELNET, to allow users of many different platforms to connect.
I have hundreds of users who are from all over the globe using basic programs, or the more advanced MUD clients.
If you want to use a graphical MUD, then pay up for the hard work and effort put into it. Everquest, Ultima Online, and many other Massively Multiplayer games are out there and extremely good for them.
You see, GAMES are not worth Free Software unless they really expect to last. Basically you spend some serious effort on a game that next year is obsolete. The turnover for games is incredible. Dont thing free software will change that. You have to have infinite playability and you have to support the widest range you can.
Why do muds still persist? Because they are seriously fun CHAT rooms. You start in a game and end up in a family. Its amazing how that works.
Btw, go to Freshmeat.net and get all the other GREAT FREE MUD codebases and work on it yourself. Worldforge is also out there to do the EXACT same thing.
Note: Neverwinter Nights when released will do everything that a local MUD hoster wants to do ANY players are interchangable and can be moved between worlds. It may be the closest to a MUD killer out there.
*SCREAM HARD*
Then what do you do about your CREDIT CARD companies who call you? They are not in violation of the TCPA because you are WITH THEM. ie: Get free insurance, or add this feature etc. EVERY SINGLE CC company I dealt with DOES THIS. Citibank, First USA, AT&T, Choice, CapitalOne, Discover.
You tell me? We almost need a CC to live and expecially to play on internet buying. So help me out here? WHAT THE HELL do you DO?
www.edocombat.com
Wait? yep its blatant. We are always looking for skilled C programmers and System Engineers for HPUX and Solaris and soon Linux. While I will NOT speak for my company I will say that it is HARD to find people willing to do UNIX internships. Most people are wanting NETWORKING or MS and thus lose out on the opportunities we provide.
I work in a house that CREATES NEW Unix programs. Oh sure, we DONT create Open Source as our contracts are mostly military. We are very strong on knowledge and ability.
So, for those looking for UNIX interns, you have to look in the military areas and you have to actually LOOK.
We are located specifically in Chesapeake, Virginia. USA.
Working in an environment that competes against COE based products, we have the same problem that it sounds like you do. Consider the following methods of getting around such requirements.
1. COE requires a certain "Style" well, that is FINE and easy to do. Make that so.
2. COE cannot do certain things that your platform can. This is how we are able to get in the door and close it on COE.
3. DONT STAY WITH THE US GOVERNEMNT. They are one of the worst customers I have ever had. Canada is the best...
Let me clarify somethings. The US governement use of products are required by a lot of other NATO countries before they think of purchasing a system.
The US governement contracts are typically Best Value, and so even if you are small and have best price you can lose to a raytheon.. BEST price rules in NATO.
The US Governement will come in behind the contract and take money back. This is true even on fixed price contracts. If you bid 4 million on a project and when you are done the ACTUAL contractual price then is audited and you may lose hundreds of thousands of dollars at the whim of the US governement auditor.
COE has to go away. Many of the people working in COE agree to this as well. It is bad that large companies like SAIC, ENRI, and others that get a large constant funding to keep COE around.
---
None of these views is from the company I work for. If you find out who I work for, do not even think of holding them responsible. I choose to take my own time to write this for the benefit of others. Go away and play with someone who actually represents thier company on the net.
Pity... Yep, I guess so. Consider the end result of your actions.
MONEY is not everything, and it sure dont buy happiness.
Having kids, having a life, having someone who cares about you and will do this with you and for you is worth all the computers in the world combined. Without that, money is hollow indeed.
I dont feel pity for people who choose this path, I may feel sad when I see you on a park bench feeding the pigeons while I play with my grandchildren.
Sometimes I wonder....
A few things.
1. I am a parent, and soon to be a multiple parent. THERE is nothing that is better, even computers.
2. I have no problem with stopping my kids from doing things because I ALREADY use things that prevent it. Your censorware type issues are already IN My configuration of Linux and how I choose to use it.
3. Dont blast parents for asking for help. The entire community raised you. You school, Church, Friends and all.. THEY ALL raised you. Is it too much to ask for some help in those issues? NO, it is not. It is too much to demand it be enforced on others NOt your own.. thats freedom blocking.
Censorware, and the PTC are all parts of a system that is designed to teach kids they are worthless and to tell them life is worthless. It is pathetic that parents cannot use the tools we have: TURN off the computer, TURN off the TV. Give them a book to read.
As for your choice not to have children. I would say I feel sorry for you, for when you are 65 and alone.. look back and think. Was doing all those little things worth sacrificing IMMORTALITY. The only Immortality we have is through our children.