Emusic.com does this and I assume they are making money. $10/month download whatever you want, I guess the banner ads are paying decent money or something. Great deal, but I do have my wonders about the profitablity. Until then I'll just keep downloading my music from them legally. Beats the hell out of dealing with napster and partial songs, disconnects, and slow downloads
Try emusic.com, for $9.95/month (with 1 year commitment, rate goes up for shorter commitment) you can download unlimited, legal mp3's. No they don't have everything, but they seem to be growing their collection pretty fast. Best part it's legal, the artists get some money, and I have the right to burn a copy onto a CD for use in my car. At $10/month it's dirt cheap, I got more than enough music in my first weekend to make it a good deal for me.
You can already do this to an extent. try emusic.com's subscription service, reasonable rates and a decent collection of music. I know they have quite a bit of hard to find punk, can't say anything about the other types of music you mentioned.
Ok I admit this is a somewhat silly exercise, but I wanted to see if I could access DeCSS source rom Judge Kaplan's site so here goes. don't want to do anything illegal here so I'm just going to use inline text.
start at http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/judges/USDJ/kaplan.ht m
click the link titled "help"
scroll down to the browser types section and click on the link titled "http://www.home.netscape.com/computing/download"
Go to the Search form at the bottom and type in "decss"
First link I got was this http://www.fortunecity.de/wolkenkratzer/diamanten/ 377/
which happens to have links to DeCSS
Seems to me like the judge should have done a little more research before he ruled considering that DeCSS was accessible in 4 clicks from his own page
Windows setup may be fairly easy, but I think that the Mandrake install procedure is signifigantly easier while allowing more options fore advanced users. I can think of a few key areas where it is fairly obvious.
Hard Drive Partitioning - Windows requires that I use dos tools to partition my disk while Mandrake has an easy to use GUI system to take care of this. Particularly useful for trying to ween windows users off of windows with a dual boot system.
# of Reboots - I don't quite remember how many reboots my last install of win9x required but I know it was more than the single reboot required by Mandrake.
Drivers - Windows often requires finding driver disks to install on a system, Mandrake has installed on all of the systems I've tried without the need for me to supply drivers.
My final test in this comparison is the experiences of friends in family. I haven't gotten any complaints on the Mandrake install, but I have gotten a few with windows installs. So while there are still areas of Linux that need work before Joe User can use it with ease, I think the install has been improved (atleast on the Mandrake distro) to the point where it is easier than Windows.
And lets not forget that long before the NBA Dream Team other countries had been using professional athletes for the olympics. Some from the NBA, some from other places. Is cycling any worse because they use professional athletes? How about sailing or volleyball? Pro athletes is not a new thing, it just happens that the US has a huge advantage when you start using NBA players. I didn't hear complains from other counries when the NHL allowed hockey players time off for the olympics. The Olympics are supposed to showcase the best athletes from each country. As a fan I expect nothing else than to see he greatest athletes in the world.
That's sort of like saying that since all of these Eminem Mp3's are available there's no way he can sell copies of his album. I think you would see the whole rom scene dry up real quick if these companies would make these games available at a fair price. (fair price needs to take into account the age of these games, so no charging $30 for toejam and earl). It can be real hard to find many of these older games (both console and arcade) so maybe the companies should sponsor an emu for their systems and make a little money that they wouldn't have made otherwise.
It's always hard to pursue a discussion with a faceless opponent but I shall try my best.
Do you actually live in Texas? I do and I have yet to see these conditions that you talk about. Yes there is illegal labor, but I think Texas does a better job cracking down on it than any of the other 3 states that share a border with Mexico.
And exactly how is this Bush's fault? You obviously have the wrong view of the Texas political system. In Texas we have a weak governor's office, and a fairly weak statewide government. Who holds the power? The counties
So I think it's fairly unlikely that Bush is responsible for these problems and probably couldn't do anything about them if he wanted.
This does of course mean he can't take credit for all of the bills that were passed under him, or various improvements in the state. He can take credit for actually getting the Texas Legislature to actually get things done in a state where that is a pretty rare thing.
So no Bush isn't as great as some people would make you think, but he's also not as bad as others say.
I think recording on a computer puts you in the same boat as mp3's recorded to computers. I recall something stupid like the RIAA saying that computers are not home recording devices (someone please expand and/or correct me on this). I'm guessing that the networks would have no problem trying to use the same ploy.
An even better question is why should the ability to record a TV show to a Tivo be any different than recording to a PC?
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Windows 98 does support multi-monitor support in 3D. This has been a very popular setup in the flight sim community, though the typical use is one screen for 3D view, and the others for viewing gauges and other informative displays. The main reason for not using multiple monitors running 3D views is not a flaw in Windows (Even MS gets things right sometimes) it due to the amount of processing it takes to display more than one 3D view.
I recall a interesting point from a discussion about this same subject some time ago. One of the primary reasons that Cellular technology and infrastructure has grown faster in Europe is that normal landline phone services are billed differently in the US. In the US a local call is basically free instead of paying per minute as is done in europe. Because of this Europeans are used to paying for their phone service on a per minute basis, so cell phones aren't that big a step. In the US many people have a problem with a per minute charge for local calls on a cell phone. Maybe the best way for the US to catch up is to start charging a flat fee for local calls, this has been shown to be a proven payment model that Americans accept as evidenced by the growth of the internet once flat fee unlimited use plans became the norm.
I know that some states have laws against displaying pornography in libraries. I recall a situation in march in Tumwater, WA where an individual was arrested for this very thing.
I think the main concern is that filtering software is sort of like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Should kids be seeing porn in the library? No. Should adults? Probably not in a library (couldn't sexual harassment laws be used in this situation if a library patron or employee finds it offensive?).
What should be done is that libraries should adopt a rule system where viewing of porn can lead to the loss of the privelege (yes privelege, you aren't unconditionally guaranteed the ability to use the computers in a library) of using the computers. Why do we need software? Most libraries I've been to have the computers in publically viewable areas, if someone complains action should be taken.
I think that who uses the computers can be done in a similar manner. Give those with research needs priority access. Maybe this means signing a log saying what your need is. Then if people want to do other stuff they can whenever there are free computers. Or maybe set up a couple of extra computers for general use, you sign in and get a 1/2 hour.
In the end I think people will do the job better and more fairly than any filtering software available. So let's give free internet access with conduct rules. As long as the rules are enforced the problem should solve itself
I prefer taking my Palm with me on planes or in class to taking a book along. It's smaller, lighter, and the pages never tear. I have no problems reading on my palm. As for the format that can be a pain but I just used adobe's converter to convert.pdf to text, then text to.doc(palm file format not MS). It's sort of a pain but it's not like I have to do more than a few mouse clicks.
Sorry to say that the gay guy doesn't win. I caught an article in one of those outdoors magazines on a plane trip (Outside or National Geographic Adventure). It seems he got arrested for allegedly abusing his adopted son soon after the show finished taping.
I've already mentioned this a couple of times in previous discussions, but it seems it hasn't been seen by many people so at the risk of repeating myself too often I'm going to post it again.
Try emusic.com they have flat rate plans ranging from $9.99/month to $19.99/month (depending on length of contract) for unlimited legal mp3 downloads. They don't have much in the way of top 40 stuff but that's fine for me.
This is a nice system because I get my music cheaply and the artists/labels get some money for their work. If this could continue on a larger scale with emusic continuing to sign new labels/artists this could be an important piece of the future of internet distribution of music.
No I don't work for them, I'm just a happy customer who downloaded about 10 gigs of legal mp3's over the weekend and only paid $9.99.
so you're the one eating up their bandwidth:) I actually debated about posting the original message because I was worried what would happen if they got slashdotted.
Well I'd think that as a service such as emusic becomes more profitable they would be able to sign bigger labels. Personally I find it a good deal because they have many albums that are hard to find locally and tend to cost too much when I do find them. I also like the fact that with the unlimited use, flat fee system I can download an album from a band I've never heard of and give it a listen. In the end the RIAA is going to have to get involved at some point for legal electronic distribution of music to take off. The problem is that the RIAA simply holds too much control. Maybe something needs to be done about this, but I don't think Napster or any other kind of file sharing is the answer. This simply get's the powers that be going against us and puts musicians in a tough place. The only other situation I can think of where legal distribution of mp3's works is if the musicians get rid of the RIAA and put together a system that benefits them.
Ok, not to sound like I'm pimping the company but try emusic.com. $9.99/month unlimited downloads of legal mp3's. The artists get a cut of the profits. I'm not sure exactly how they make a profit here, possibly banner ads on the site. If you don't sign up for the unlimited plan it's about $1 for a song or $9 for a complete album
I think the only way this works is if the RIAA gets a cut of the money and get's to set the rules. Besides why should I pay when I can pay $9.99/month and get unlimited mp3 downloads legally through emusic.com. This way I get a good deal and the musicians get some money for their work,
That is a good point. At some point a large project needs a group of people dedicated to source code documentation. Sure the programmers themselves could do the documentation, but that is often an afterthought. Perhaps teams need to make more of a push to get people who are willing to help document the code. In the end these people may be nearly as valuable as the programmers by allowing more code reuse throughout open source
I've heard a bunch of complaints over the course of this whole napster fiasco that have basically said that CD's cost too much. So what is a fair price for music? I found a place that lets me download unlimited LEGAL mp3's for $9.99 a month. They don't have all of the major artists, but that's fine with me.
When Stephen King decides to try a new distribution format and charges a low price people complain about that too. Heck his first ebook release was being pirated within hours and it only cost $2.50.
I think it's time for all of the people out there saying things are too expensive to put up or shut up. When you see something released that is a fair price you should pay the money if you want the product.
There's a real simple solution to that first problem. Grab the source and put some time in making it better. It is after all open source software so that's kind of the idea. It does no good to complain that the GNOME team moves too slow unless you are willing to do something about it.
Along the same lines try to change the views of the constituents. If a politician votes against the wishes of the constituents too often he will not be elected next time. So try to raise awareness of the issues that you feel are important. Post signs, place ads, write letters.
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Emusic.com does this and I assume they are making money. $10/month download whatever you want, I guess the banner ads are paying decent money or something. Great deal, but I do have my wonders about the profitablity. Until then I'll just keep downloading my music from them legally. Beats the hell out of dealing with napster and partial songs, disconnects, and slow downloads
Try emusic.com, for $9.95/month (with 1 year commitment, rate goes up for shorter commitment) you can download unlimited, legal mp3's. No they don't have everything, but they seem to be growing their collection pretty fast. Best part it's legal, the artists get some money, and I have the right to burn a copy onto a CD for use in my car. At $10/month it's dirt cheap, I got more than enough music in my first weekend to make it a good deal for me.
You can already do this to an extent. try emusic.com's subscription service, reasonable rates and a decent collection of music. I know they have quite a bit of hard to find punk, can't say anything about the other types of music you mentioned.
Don't work for them, just a happy customer
Judge Kaplan linking to DECSS? You got it here's my original post.
Kaplan braking the law?
Ok I admit this is a somewhat silly exercise, but I wanted to see if I could access DeCSS source rom Judge Kaplan's site so here goes. don't want to do anything illegal here so I'm just going to use inline text.
t m / 377/
start at http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/judges/USDJ/kaplan.h
click the link titled "help"
scroll down to the browser types section and click on the link titled "http://www.home.netscape.com/computing/download"
Go to the Search form at the bottom and type in "decss"
First link I got was this http://www.fortunecity.de/wolkenkratzer/diamanten
which happens to have links to DeCSS
Seems to me like the judge should have done a little more research before he ruled considering that DeCSS was accessible in 4 clicks from his own page
Windows is supposed to work? I'm not sure I know anyone who has achieved this state. Is it somewhat akin to transcending the physical world?
Windows setup may be fairly easy, but I think that the Mandrake install procedure is signifigantly easier while allowing more options fore advanced users. I can think of a few key areas where it is fairly obvious.
Hard Drive Partitioning - Windows requires that I use dos tools to partition my disk while Mandrake has an easy to use GUI system to take care of this. Particularly useful for trying to ween windows users off of windows with a dual boot system.
# of Reboots - I don't quite remember how many reboots my last install of win9x required but I know it was more than the single reboot required by Mandrake.
Drivers - Windows often requires finding driver disks to install on a system, Mandrake has installed on all of the systems I've tried without the need for me to supply drivers.
My final test in this comparison is the experiences of friends in family. I haven't gotten any complaints on the Mandrake install, but I have gotten a few with windows installs. So while there are still areas of Linux that need work before Joe User can use it with ease, I think the install has been improved (atleast on the Mandrake distro) to the point where it is easier than Windows.
And lets not forget that long before the NBA Dream Team other countries had been using professional athletes for the olympics. Some from the NBA, some from other places. Is cycling any worse because they use professional athletes? How about sailing or volleyball? Pro athletes is not a new thing, it just happens that the US has a huge advantage when you start using NBA players. I didn't hear complains from other counries when the NHL allowed hockey players time off for the olympics. The Olympics are supposed to showcase the best athletes from each country. As a fan I expect nothing else than to see he greatest athletes in the world.
That's sort of like saying that since all of these Eminem Mp3's are available there's no way he can sell copies of his album. I think you would see the whole rom scene dry up real quick if these companies would make these games available at a fair price. (fair price needs to take into account the age of these games, so no charging $30 for toejam and earl). It can be real hard to find many of these older games (both console and arcade) so maybe the companies should sponsor an emu for their systems and make a little money that they wouldn't have made otherwise.
It's always hard to pursue a discussion with a faceless opponent but I shall try my best.
Do you actually live in Texas? I do and I have yet to see these conditions that you talk about. Yes there is illegal labor, but I think Texas does a better job cracking down on it than any of the other 3 states that share a border with Mexico.
And exactly how is this Bush's fault? You obviously have the wrong view of the Texas political system. In Texas we have a weak governor's office, and a fairly weak statewide government. Who holds the power? The counties
So I think it's fairly unlikely that Bush is responsible for these problems and probably couldn't do anything about them if he wanted.
This does of course mean he can't take credit for all of the bills that were passed under him, or various improvements in the state. He can take credit for actually getting the Texas Legislature to actually get things done in a state where that is a pretty rare thing.
So no Bush isn't as great as some people would make you think, but he's also not as bad as others say.
I think recording on a computer puts you in the same boat as mp3's recorded to computers. I recall something stupid like the RIAA saying that computers are not home recording devices (someone please expand and/or correct me on this). I'm guessing that the networks would have no problem trying to use the same ploy.
An even better question is why should the ability to record a TV show to a Tivo be any different than recording to a PC?
Windows 98 does support multi-monitor support in 3D. This has been a very popular setup in the flight sim community, though the typical use is one screen for 3D view, and the others for viewing gauges and other informative displays. The main reason for not using multiple monitors running 3D views is not a flaw in Windows (Even MS gets things right sometimes) it due to the amount of processing it takes to display more than one 3D view.
I recall a interesting point from a discussion about this same subject some time ago. One of the primary reasons that Cellular technology and infrastructure has grown faster in Europe is that normal landline phone services are billed differently in the US. In the US a local call is basically free instead of paying per minute as is done in europe. Because of this Europeans are used to paying for their phone service on a per minute basis, so cell phones aren't that big a step. In the US many people have a problem with a per minute charge for local calls on a cell phone. Maybe the best way for the US to catch up is to start charging a flat fee for local calls, this has been shown to be a proven payment model that Americans accept as evidenced by the growth of the internet once flat fee unlimited use plans became the norm.
I know that some states have laws against displaying pornography in libraries. I recall a situation in march in Tumwater, WA where an individual was arrested for this very thing.
I think the main concern is that filtering software is sort of like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Should kids be seeing porn in the library? No. Should adults? Probably not in a library (couldn't sexual harassment laws be used in this situation if a library patron or employee finds it offensive?).
What should be done is that libraries should adopt a rule system where viewing of porn can lead to the loss of the privelege (yes privelege, you aren't unconditionally guaranteed the ability to use the computers in a library) of using the computers. Why do we need software? Most libraries I've been to have the computers in publically viewable areas, if someone complains action should be taken.
I think that who uses the computers can be done in a similar manner. Give those with research needs priority access. Maybe this means signing a log saying what your need is. Then if people want to do other stuff they can whenever there are free computers. Or maybe set up a couple of extra computers for general use, you sign in and get a 1/2 hour.
In the end I think people will do the job better and more fairly than any filtering software available. So let's give free internet access with conduct rules. As long as the rules are enforced the problem should solve itself
I prefer taking my Palm with me on planes or in class to taking a book along. It's smaller, lighter, and the pages never tear. I have no problems reading on my palm. As for the format that can be a pain but I just used adobe's converter to convert .pdf to text, then text to .doc(palm file format not MS). It's sort of a pain but it's not like I have to do more than a few mouse clicks.
Sorry to say that the gay guy doesn't win. I caught an article in one of those outdoors magazines on a plane trip (Outside or National Geographic Adventure). It seems he got arrested for allegedly abusing his adopted son soon after the show finished taping.
I've already mentioned this a couple of times in previous discussions, but it seems it hasn't been seen by many people so at the risk of repeating myself too often I'm going to post it again.
Try emusic.com they have flat rate plans ranging from $9.99/month to $19.99/month (depending on length of contract) for unlimited legal mp3 downloads. They don't have much in the way of top 40 stuff but that's fine for me.
This is a nice system because I get my music cheaply and the artists/labels get some money for their work. If this could continue on a larger scale with emusic continuing to sign new labels/artists this could be an important piece of the future of internet distribution of music.
No I don't work for them, I'm just a happy customer who downloaded about 10 gigs of legal mp3's over the weekend and only paid $9.99.
so you're the one eating up their bandwidth :) I actually debated about posting the original message because I was worried what would happen if they got slashdotted.
Well I'd think that as a service such as emusic becomes more profitable they would be able to sign bigger labels. Personally I find it a good deal because they have many albums that are hard to find locally and tend to cost too much when I do find them. I also like the fact that with the unlimited use, flat fee system I can download an album from a band I've never heard of and give it a listen. In the end the RIAA is going to have to get involved at some point for legal electronic distribution of music to take off. The problem is that the RIAA simply holds too much control. Maybe something needs to be done about this, but I don't think Napster or any other kind of file sharing is the answer. This simply get's the powers that be going against us and puts musicians in a tough place. The only other situation I can think of where legal distribution of mp3's works is if the musicians get rid of the RIAA and put together a system that benefits them.
Ok, not to sound like I'm pimping the company but try emusic.com. $9.99/month unlimited downloads of legal mp3's. The artists get a cut of the profits. I'm not sure exactly how they make a profit here, possibly banner ads on the site. If you don't sign up for the unlimited plan it's about $1 for a song or $9 for a complete album
I think the only way this works is if the RIAA gets a cut of the money and get's to set the rules. Besides why should I pay when I can pay $9.99/month and get unlimited mp3 downloads legally through emusic.com. This way I get a good deal and the musicians get some money for their work,
That is a good point. At some point a large project needs a group of people dedicated to source code documentation. Sure the programmers themselves could do the documentation, but that is often an afterthought. Perhaps teams need to make more of a push to get people who are willing to help document the code. In the end these people may be nearly as valuable as the programmers by allowing more code reuse throughout open source
I've heard a bunch of complaints over the course of this whole napster fiasco that have basically said that CD's cost too much. So what is a fair price for music? I found a place that lets me download unlimited LEGAL mp3's for $9.99 a month. They don't have all of the major artists, but that's fine with me.
When Stephen King decides to try a new distribution format and charges a low price people complain about that too. Heck his first ebook release was being pirated within hours and it only cost $2.50.
I think it's time for all of the people out there saying things are too expensive to put up or shut up. When you see something released that is a fair price you should pay the money if you want the product.
There's a real simple solution to that first problem. Grab the source and put some time in making it better. It is after all open source software so that's kind of the idea. It does no good to complain that the GNOME team moves too slow unless you are willing to do something about it.
Along the same lines try to change the views of the constituents. If a politician votes against the wishes of the constituents too often he will not be elected next time. So try to raise awareness of the issues that you feel are important. Post signs, place ads, write letters.