I've spent over $500 this year on nearly 50 CDs from CDBaby. They only sell independant albums, in every category you can think of, and they've got thousands of 'em.
I've been really impressed at the quality of many of the bands. It's also great to get personal emails from some of the bands when I purchase their CDs, talk with the actual band members, and know that my money actually went to them. I haven't been back to mainstream bands since.
Another shameless plug: Check out Portal if you like Tool and Soundgarden..;)
I haven't researched this, but I'd imagine that for ICBMs (big daddy nuclear missles) you'd want to blow them up before they get to line-of-sight of the ground. Thus, space-based missiles defense.
These ground-based, mobile defense lasers would be for local targets and short-range missiles.
The record labels are spending thousands of dollars funding the counterfeit rings so that they can claim billions of dollars lost to piracy. They get their value back in public sympathy and tax returns.
If I remember correctly, "copy protection" was a feature on floppy disks and video tapes so you couldn't write over your precious data. So, in that sense, all of my CD's are already "copy protected". And I'm glad about it.
"copy interference" on the other hand...;)
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You missed the point.. Binary is the most efficient iff the bits are binary. If you used larger bases, then you would trade-off precision in the same amount of memory space.
But using ternary bits would still allow for more precision and a greater range than with the same number of binary bits.
I've wanted this for years.. Imagine going to a concert page and downloading a list of the concerts appearing in your area, and having it import neatly into your calendar. Or a list of opening nights for movies. Or book readings at local bookstores.
The import should suggest a category name for these events, but let you override it. In the PIM, you should be able to export any category to give to someone else (like, public-family events, business events) and to delete/manage entire categories at a time. (esp. to deal with spammed event lists)
If this feature is out there anywhere, I haven't seen it.
Well, I don't know if you've done your part, but I've already quintupled my attacks on insecure routers because of this article!
Honestly.
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I've read this in a few books...
"It's easy to kill someone if you're willing to give up your life in return."
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..heard on CNN just a few minutes ago that the One Liberty Plaza building was unstable. Cops were shouting for people to run away from it if they valued their lives.
The building is 54 stories tall, black, and looks kinda like a large airconditioning unit with three "columns" of "slatted" windows on the east/west side, and four columns on the north/south sides..
Here's a link at skyscapers, but I expect this to be slashdotted soon.
I'm feeling that way too.. I've never cried at anyone's death, but this.. The death toll will probably be close to the population of my home town of Gilroy. A whole zip code of people. I'm kind of stunned.
My brother just joined the marines three months ago.. I praying for him too.
I'm rather pissed about that too. The questionairre I saw asked whether I'd ever had sex with a guy. Didn't care about type of sex or length of time passed.
I see two different issues here. In the beginning, you are saying that you don't have a choice how much you eat. ("Some of us have extraordinary appetites")
In the second part, you seem to be defending your choice to eat and not feel guilty about it. ("I work very hard to pay my rent and have my big steak on Saturday")
So what's the big deal? Do you want to change your weight? If not, then why are you defending your helplessness to change it? If you do want to change your weight, then why are you defending your choice to eat big steaks?
I have a problem with my weight. I want to weigh less, but I have difficulties keeping to a diet. This may be a habit, or it may be genetic -- I don't care. I learned how to drive in California, and I escaped a fundamentalist background, so I figure that with enough effort I can overpower my instincts and bad habits on anything. But it's like smoking. It's proven to be usually detrimental, and damned hard to quit, but if you work consistently at it, you CAN stop.
Actually, software can be "a philosophy" as well as a tool. Unfortunately, most people in business think that business decisions are exempt from ethics.
I actually found this rather interesting. It shows an evolution of work in time (of time?). The first time I saw something like this was in Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas, and he would take a long strip of paper and start doodling across it. He didn't have many samples, but he did have other doodles for the chapter headers that changed as he did.
So what fascinates me about this Palm art is not that it was done with a Palm, but rather how it seems to be a two dimensional projection of a length of time.
Patenting the idea sounds hilarious at first, but I wonder if it really is patentable, and thus could be an effective way to keep companies from actually doing that? Are there any other privacy-damaging schemes like this on the horizon that could be prevented through preemptive patenting?
In general, I'm against using patents for denial, but imagine if someone patented DoubleClick's banners first, and set a prohibitive licensing price.
You could try to create an agent which will strip complexities from web pages and convert them into no frame, no image pages with the content at the top.
This would be useful for blind web surfing so that the user, for example, would listen to the content first before getting to the sidebar. This could also make web sites more PDA friendly.
You could split pages into content and links, catagorize web sites into those and present accordingly, extrapolate summaries of pages for faster surfing, simplify tables, strip unnessessary design to get just the meat of the page.
I've been saying for years that CPUs, OSs, systems and networks ought to be diverse in order for everyones systems to be more secure overall. A monopoly in any area (mail program, java interpreter, word editor, whatever) just puts the same weak links everywhere. Spreading viruses effectively requires a sort of critical mass/density.
Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever dilute the masses enough to get rid of hoax viruses.
There are some additional bad scenarios that occurred to me. I don't know if these are possible under UCITA and DMCA.
I have heard someone citing the reverse engineering clauses as preventing companies from creating compatible competive software, like creating Word importers for StarOffice through reverse engineering. Would the UCITA+DMCA mean that if you had your family photos in some database (lets call it Photos2000) and for some reason they/you disabled the software, no one would be legally allowed to recover the photos from the database without the software? Would that be reverse engineering?
Another scenario: Last year, someone found that Real was sending private user information back to Real without the users knowledge or permission. Before that, someone discovered a bug in Windows OS registration that sent the user's private information back to Microsoft regardless of how the user checked the "Don't send my info" box. Would the UCITA+DMCA make this software network-eavesdropping illegal as being reverse engineering? Would the AIM/Microsoft fiasco be considered reverse engineering?
Amazon.com (AMZN) announced today that it has been awarded a patent for increasing stock prices through negative profits. At the heart of the patent is a scientific formula which states that the stock value is larger when the P/E ratio is zero, "Vs=1/Pe (where Pe=0)", when connected to the internet.
Upon notification of being awarded the patent Amazon.com filed lawsuits against other internet companies infringing on the patent.
Said company spokesperson Chip Schott, "We feel that patents are nessessary to encourage innovation by awarding creative genius. Amazon.com has lead the way in stockholder satisfaction and we have earned it. We feel that generating high stock value through negative earnings is not at all obvious, unlike our other patents. Other companies should not allowed to steal this scientific method from us without properly licensing it."
Ebay, one of the defendants named in the lawsuits, announced that they would investigate the profitability of making profits should the court decide in Amazon.com's favor.
Amazom.com stock rose $5 following the announcement.
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I've been really impressed at the quality of many of the bands. It's also great to get personal emails from some of the bands when I purchase their CDs, talk with the actual band members, and know that my money actually went to them. I haven't been back to mainstream bands since.
Another shameless plug: Check out Portal if you like Tool and Soundgarden.. ;)
I haven't researched this, but I'd imagine that for ICBMs (big daddy nuclear missles) you'd want to blow them up before they get to line-of-sight of the ground. Thus, space-based missiles defense.
These ground-based, mobile defense lasers would be for local targets and short-range missiles.
I guess.
The record labels are spending thousands of dollars funding the counterfeit rings so that they can claim billions of dollars lost to piracy. They get their value back in public sympathy and tax returns.
If I remember correctly, "copy protection" was a feature on floppy disks and video tapes so you couldn't write over your precious data. So, in that sense, all of my CD's are already "copy protected". And I'm glad about it.
;)
"copy interference" on the other hand...
You missed the point.. Binary is the most efficient iff the bits are binary. If you used larger bases, then you would trade-off precision in the same amount of memory space.
But using ternary bits would still allow for more precision and a greater range than with the same number of binary bits.
I've wanted this for years.. Imagine going to a concert page and downloading a list of the concerts appearing in your area, and having it import neatly into your calendar. Or a list of opening nights for movies. Or book readings at local bookstores.
The import should suggest a category name for these events, but let you override it. In the PIM, you should be able to export any category to give to someone else (like, public-family events, business events) and to delete/manage entire categories at a time. (esp. to deal with spammed event lists)
If this feature is out there anywhere, I haven't seen it.
Honestly.
I've read this in a few books...
"It's easy to kill someone if you're willing to give up your life in return."
..heard on CNN just a few minutes ago that the One Liberty Plaza building was unstable. Cops were shouting for people to run away from it if they valued their lives.
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The building is 54 stories tall, black, and looks kinda like a large airconditioning unit with three "columns" of "slatted" windows on the east/west side, and four columns on the north/south sides..
Here's a link at skyscapers, but I expect this to be slashdotted soon.
http://www.skyscrapers.com/building/979098/e_in
My brother just joined the marines three months ago.. I praying for him too.
I'm rather pissed about that too. The questionairre I saw asked whether I'd ever had sex with a guy. Didn't care about type of sex or length of time passed.
In the second part, you seem to be defending your choice to eat and not feel guilty about it. ("I work very hard to pay my rent and have my big steak on Saturday")
So what's the big deal? Do you want to change your weight? If not, then why are you defending your helplessness to change it? If you do want to change your weight, then why are you defending your choice to eat big steaks?
I have a problem with my weight. I want to weigh less, but I have difficulties keeping to a diet. This may be a habit, or it may be genetic -- I don't care. I learned how to drive in California, and I escaped a fundamentalist background, so I figure that with enough effort I can overpower my instincts and bad habits on anything. But it's like smoking. It's proven to be usually detrimental, and damned hard to quit, but if you work consistently at it, you CAN stop.
Actually, software can be "a philosophy" as well as a tool. Unfortunately, most people in business think that business decisions are exempt from ethics.
So what fascinates me about this Palm art is not that it was done with a Palm, but rather how it seems to be a two dimensional projection of a length of time.
In general, I'm against using patents for denial, but imagine if someone patented DoubleClick's banners first, and set a prohibitive licensing price.
This would be useful for blind web surfing so that the user, for example, would listen to the content first before getting to the sidebar. This could also make web sites more PDA friendly.
You could split pages into content and links, catagorize web sites into those and present accordingly, extrapolate summaries of pages for faster surfing, simplify tables, strip unnessessary design to get just the meat of the page.
Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever dilute the masses enough to get rid of hoax viruses.
I have heard someone citing the reverse engineering clauses as preventing companies from creating compatible competive software, like creating Word importers for StarOffice through reverse engineering. Would the UCITA+DMCA mean that if you had your family photos in some database (lets call it Photos2000) and for some reason they/you disabled the software, no one would be legally allowed to recover the photos from the database without the software? Would that be reverse engineering?
Another scenario: Last year, someone found that Real was sending private user information back to Real without the users knowledge or permission. Before that, someone discovered a bug in Windows OS registration that sent the user's private information back to Microsoft regardless of how the user checked the "Don't send my info" box. Would the UCITA+DMCA make this software network-eavesdropping illegal as being reverse engineering? Would the AIM/Microsoft fiasco be considered reverse engineering?
Does someone have the answers to these?
--"Net increase in greed."
Upon notification of being awarded the patent Amazon.com filed lawsuits against other internet companies infringing on the patent.
Said company spokesperson Chip Schott, "We feel that patents are nessessary to encourage innovation by awarding creative genius. Amazon.com has lead the way in stockholder satisfaction and we have earned it. We feel that generating high stock value through negative earnings is not at all obvious, unlike our other patents. Other companies should not allowed to steal this scientific method from us without properly licensing it."
Ebay, one of the defendants named in the lawsuits, announced that they would investigate the profitability of making profits should the court decide in Amazon.com's favor.
Amazom.com stock rose $5 following the announcement.