There is a certain amount of evidence that smoking also reduces the risk of Parkinson's.
Call it the Newspaper Editor's diet. Combine it with the Atkins diet and you're all set. Now a healthy meal is a big steak, a rasher of bacon and a big side of greasy homefries, wash it down with a pot of coffee and half a pack for dessert.
Who knew? Sounds like a scene from Sleeper.
Seriously, write a book and it will sell billions of copies. People are always ready to strongly endorse their own vices given half a chance. It's a pretty lucrative field, giving them that chance.
I needed a map of Scotland yesterday. Not a great map, just some sort of map with a few cities on it. Even something a kid drew for a school project would have done the trick.
Yep, a page of hits trying to sell me a map of Scotland.
Well, I have a frickin' map of Scotland, so I went over to the shelf and pulled it down, which I guess is what I'll just do by default from now on, even If I'm sitting at my desk and already working on the internet. It's faster than wading through all the crap.
So much for the internet being an educational resource. I thought they called it the information super highway and were all hep to get it into schools, not the international home shopping network. My advice? Buy the kids a cheap atlas and almanac. Then another for yourself.
Of course that's now grounds for suspicion of being a terrorist.
Were it not for the DMCA the same would be entirely true of American law as well. As it stands now you are still the owner of the DVD in America but your legal rights as to what you can do with it have been restricted.
It's important to note however that even under the DMCA there is no license involved and you will find no EULA like small print on your DVD or its packaging.
You own it.
So one of the many horrors the DMCA has foisted upon us is the legal precedent that you may be restricted in the use to which you put your own property by the seller.
In the case of analog recordings the DMCA does not apply and so tape and vinyl records still follow the old rules.
KFG
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If it comes to that Jefferson warned that large corporations were the most serious threat to liberty all the way back in the late 1700's.
American inheritence tax was originally concieved not, primarily, as a means of deriving funds for the state, but rather to prevent the formation of multigenerational capitalist aristocracies which could wield power greater than the government.
In Norway the prosecution can appeal a case. In the American sense this is double jeopardy, but bear in mind that they don't actually try him twice.
An appeal is basically a trial of the original trial itself, not of the defendant. Only technical legal issues are argued, not the facts of the case. If the trial was conducted properly the original decision cannot be reversed.
Believe it or not (and it's really, really hard to believe if you've spent any time in them at all) American courts really about the most liberal courts, at least at their philosophical core, in the world.
So yes, for an American this can be hard to understand, but it isn't entirely out of line.
I'm a vegetarian. I grow much of my own produce. I don't follow traditional farming/gardening techniques. I sow a small number of plants and tend to each one by hand as if it were a valuable, prize winning rose.
I grow some really, really nice veggies.
As a result it seems as if every gopher within a 20 mile radius has heard of me and decided my yard is the place to live. It became a real problem.
But then I had a realization:
I'm growing the plants for me to eat. I don't get to eat my plants because the gophers are eating them instead. Well, that means that, in essence, the gophers are my plants.
Problem solved. Would you like extra crispy or regular recipe?
Yeah, pretty much. This is an advance, but it's really just an incremental one that makes the job a bit easier and more precise. It isn't transformative.
I don't train horses, I train bicycle racers. The horsie people might the advantage of horses being a bit smarter and less argumentative.
A measured course, a stopwatch, a video camera and a heartrate monitor in the hands of a trained observer is 99.9999% of the way there.
Of course with all the money involved with horse racing a few more significant digits aren't to be ignored, but this is hardly a breakthrough equivilent to lifting training techniques from the realm of reading chicken entrails into the stratosphere of high science in one go.
Although if you're the person selling the system you might well want people to believe it is.
It really doesn't get much more complicated than that when dealing with commodity goods. The rest is just fluff for the VCs and investment bankers.
But when doing something like this take the article's advice. Don't involve the VCs and investment bankers. Do it from the garage or basement. Scrape up whatever funds you can from your own signature, friends and family.
Buy some stuff. Sell it. Roll over the profits into more stuff. Sell some. Rinse and repeat.
Sleep on one of the folding tables you build systems on and eat Ramen noodles for a few years. It's a good experience and gives you stories to annoy the hell out of your grandchildren with. Earn your way up instead of borrowing it.
It really is as simple as just doing it. My last brick and mortar was three months from conception to opening day, starting with nothing in my pocket but a few hundred bucks and credit card with a $1000 limit.
I didn't write a business plan and have it bound in leather, or spend the next 5 years shopping the plan about. I Just did it.
Indeed. I'm inclined to agree with the above poster that this is a "Slashvertisement."
You can do everything this system does for about $2000, assuming you buy everything new. If you've already got a PC (as I assume most of us here do)you can do it for a lot less, obviously.
If you're someone like me who does data acquisition and plays around with scratch built IR gear just for fun you can do it with what you've got lying around the house in odd drawers and such.
I don't think I've even written a "why is this news for nerds" post before, but I have to wonder when Slashdot became a "Here, buy this overpriced toy" site instead of a "Hey, look at the cool shit you can hack for almost nothing site."?
Let's see more stupid case mods or something. They're stupid, pointless and often technologically moronic, but at least they're about someone who did something instead of about someone who went shopping.
In the true sense you'd be correct. In the legal sense you are not. The people of Champagne did not do a good job of protecting their trademark internationally, therefore if I go into a local store looking for real Champagne I have to specify such. My locale (upstate NY) is one of the world's major producers of "Champagne," each bottle clearly labeled "Champagne" in big, bold letters.
Which is why any Frenchman laughing at the cultural idiocy of an American could be legitimately laughed right back at for their own.
The good people along the Charente, however, taking an object lesson from their countrymen in Champagne, took the proper steps to secure their trademark legally. Thus when I go into a store in NY and ask for Cognac what I get actually comes from the Cognac Delimited Zone. Everything else is brandy.
Anyone who wishes to laugh at stupid Americans for asking for "French Cognac" will get no retort from me. French Brandy, however, is perfectly legitimate.
Yeah, I screwed up. That should be more like $370. Pure braino. I'm afraid I average more than 10 songs per CD though. Unless we're talking jazz or classical, in which case it might be one hour long "song."
Since piano rolls, wax cylinders, vinyl disks and tape aren't quite dead yet I think it's little early to start predicting the demise of the CD when a godzillion of them are sitting unsold on shelves this very moment and factories are engaged in making a godzillion more, all based on this years geek fad.
Buy a used CD. $5 bucks from locally owned store. You don't contribute to the artist that way I'm afraid, but you don't contribute to the RIAA either who would likely skim the artist's share anyway.
You've contributed to the local economy and supported the contiued viability of the used CD market.
Now you have a CD, a piece of property with attached rights that's worth. . . $5. You've reduced your liquidity but maintained net worth. You have acquired the music for free.
Rip it to whatever format you like and put them on whatever devices you like. All legal like so long as you don't trade them or the original CD. If you only listen to rips store the CD safely as a backup source.
Now, if you download 1000 ACC songs you've spent $1000 bucks and have a license. Not property. If things go badly for you in the future and you spend a year or two laid off you can sit around hungry and listen to your music.
$70 gets you the same number of songs on used CDs. If things go bad for you in the future you've got an extra $930 in the bank and property which can be liquified fairly quickly to get another $50 bucks if you want.
Whether or not you erase your rips is left to your own sense of ethics, so maybe you're sitting around still listening to your music too.
If you don't mind old vinyl you can do even better. It's about 50 songs for a buck if you shop garage sales.
Because on my box I've got vorbis files, but there seems to be a distinct lack of ACC and WMA files.
Ah, I get it. You mean little room left in the commercial, RIAA endorsed online music store field.
What has that got to do with an open source solution? Is there "no room" for Linux because of all the money Apple and MS are pouring into their operating systems?
Open Source means will continue to serve very well for Open Source ends.
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There is a certain amount of evidence that smoking also reduces the risk of Parkinson's.
Call it the Newspaper Editor's diet. Combine it with the Atkins diet and you're all set. Now a healthy meal is a big steak, a rasher of bacon and a big side of greasy homefries, wash it down with a pot of coffee and half a pack for dessert.
Who knew? Sounds like a scene from Sleeper.
Seriously, write a book and it will sell billions of copies. People are always ready to strongly endorse their own vices given half a chance. It's a pretty lucrative field, giving them that chance.
KFG
Yeah. Looked and found. Major brain fart on my part. Please ignore me, I'm obviously insane.
We now return you to your regular program.
KFG
Or even worse, combining them with a new EULA.
KFG
Not only that, but the very first hit is a loverly little map of Scotland, the very one used to suit my needs.
Go figure.
I searched for a lot of maps yesterday and my brain is obviously fried.
NYS and map doesn't produce quite as pleasing results though. The second hit is downright annoying.
KFG
I needed a map of Scotland yesterday. Not a great map, just some sort of map with a few cities on it. Even something a kid drew for a school project would have done the trick.
Yep, a page of hits trying to sell me a map of Scotland.
Well, I have a frickin' map of Scotland, so I went over to the shelf and pulled it down, which I guess is what I'll just do by default from now on, even If I'm sitting at my desk and already working on the internet. It's faster than wading through all the crap.
So much for the internet being an educational resource. I thought they called it the information super highway and were all hep to get it into schools, not the international home shopping network. My advice? Buy the kids a cheap atlas and almanac. Then another for yourself.
Of course that's now grounds for suspicion of being a terrorist.
It wasn't like this even just a few months ago.
KFG
Were it not for the DMCA the same would be entirely true of American law as well. As it stands now you are still the owner of the DVD in America but your legal rights as to what you can do with it have been restricted.
It's important to note however that even under the DMCA there is no license involved and you will find no EULA like small print on your DVD or its packaging.
You own it.
So one of the many horrors the DMCA has foisted upon us is the legal precedent that you may be restricted in the use to which you put your own property by the seller.
In the case of analog recordings the DMCA does not apply and so tape and vinyl records still follow the old rules.
KFG
If it comes to that Jefferson warned that large corporations were the most serious threat to liberty all the way back in the late 1700's.
American inheritence tax was originally concieved not, primarily, as a means of deriving funds for the state, but rather to prevent the formation of multigenerational capitalist aristocracies which could wield power greater than the government.
Well, we see how well that worked out.
KFG
In Norway the prosecution can appeal a case. In the American sense this is double jeopardy, but bear in mind that they don't actually try him twice.
An appeal is basically a trial of the original trial itself, not of the defendant. Only technical legal issues are argued, not the facts of the case. If the trial was conducted properly the original decision cannot be reversed.
Believe it or not (and it's really, really hard to believe if you've spent any time in them at all) American courts really about the most liberal courts, at least at their philosophical core, in the world.
So yes, for an American this can be hard to understand, but it isn't entirely out of line.
KFG
I wish I had the honour of knowing you.
The wonder of the internet is that, at least in some limited sense, you do.
And vice versa I might add.
KFG
Oh, that's a "G". Never mind...
Blame my parents. Lord knows I do.
KFG
. . . that you don't agree with whatever zealotry is current in your time.
XML and OOP suck big, fat, hairy monkey balls.
There, how'd I do?
KFG
I'm a vegetarian. I grow much of my own produce. I don't follow traditional farming/gardening techniques. I sow a small number of plants and tend to each one by hand as if it were a valuable, prize winning rose.
I grow some really, really nice veggies.
As a result it seems as if every gopher within a 20 mile radius has heard of me and decided my yard is the place to live. It became a real problem.
But then I had a realization:
I'm growing the plants for me to eat. I don't get to eat my plants because the gophers are eating them instead. Well, that means that, in essence, the gophers are my plants.
Problem solved. Would you like extra crispy or regular recipe?
KFG
Yeah, pretty much. This is an advance, but it's really just an incremental one that makes the job a bit easier and more precise. It isn't transformative.
I don't train horses, I train bicycle racers. The horsie people might the advantage of horses being a bit smarter and less argumentative.
A measured course, a stopwatch, a video camera and a heartrate monitor in the hands of a trained observer is 99.9999% of the way there.
Of course with all the money involved with horse racing a few more significant digits aren't to be ignored, but this is hardly a breakthrough equivilent to lifting training techniques from the realm of reading chicken entrails into the stratosphere of high science in one go.
Although if you're the person selling the system you might well want people to believe it is.
KFG
Stop rewriting the wheel and improve what's out there in meaningful new ways.
But before you can do that you have to at least understand the wheel.
Of course that doesn't mean you have to release every bloody line of code you write.
KFG
Buy low, sell high.
It really doesn't get much more complicated than that when dealing with commodity goods. The rest is just fluff for the VCs and investment bankers.
But when doing something like this take the article's advice. Don't involve the VCs and investment bankers. Do it from the garage or basement. Scrape up whatever funds you can from your own signature, friends and family.
Buy some stuff. Sell it. Roll over the profits into more stuff. Sell some. Rinse and repeat.
Sleep on one of the folding tables you build systems on and eat Ramen noodles for a few years. It's a good experience and gives you stories to annoy the hell out of your grandchildren with. Earn your way up instead of borrowing it.
It really is as simple as just doing it. My last brick and mortar was three months from conception to opening day, starting with nothing in my pocket but a few hundred bucks and credit card with a $1000 limit.
I didn't write a business plan and have it bound in leather, or spend the next 5 years shopping the plan about. I Just did it.
You can too.
KFG
Yes, I've actually done this. Covered three stories with speaking tubes made out of scrounged plumbing and old garden hose.
It worked too.
If I were you I'd consider using wires though. They've invented this thing called the "intercom."
Check it out.
KFG
Indeed. I'm inclined to agree with the above poster that this is a "Slashvertisement."
You can do everything this system does for about $2000, assuming you buy everything new. If you've already got a PC (as I assume most of us here do)you can do it for a lot less, obviously.
If you're someone like me who does data acquisition and plays around with scratch built IR gear just for fun you can do it with what you've got lying around the house in odd drawers and such.
I don't think I've even written a "why is this news for nerds" post before, but I have to wonder when Slashdot became a "Here, buy this overpriced toy" site instead of a "Hey, look at the cool shit you can hack for almost nothing site."?
Let's see more stupid case mods or something. They're stupid, pointless and often technologically moronic, but at least they're about someone who did something instead of about someone who went shopping.
KFG
In the true sense you'd be correct. In the legal sense you are not. The people of Champagne did not do a good job of protecting their trademark internationally, therefore if I go into a local store looking for real Champagne I have to specify such. My locale (upstate NY) is one of the world's major producers of "Champagne," each bottle clearly labeled "Champagne" in big, bold letters.
Which is why any Frenchman laughing at the cultural idiocy of an American could be legitimately laughed right back at for their own.
The good people along the Charente, however, taking an object lesson from their countrymen in Champagne, took the proper steps to secure their trademark legally. Thus when I go into a store in NY and ask for Cognac what I get actually comes from the Cognac Delimited Zone. Everything else is brandy.
Anyone who wishes to laugh at stupid Americans for asking for "French Cognac" will get no retort from me. French Brandy, however, is perfectly legitimate.
KFG
If it comes to that Earth itself is just as much a real space object as anything "out there."
Geology, oceanography and meteorology are planetary studies.
KFG
Yeah, I screwed up. That should be more like $370. Pure braino. I'm afraid I average more than 10 songs per CD though. Unless we're talking jazz or classical, in which case it might be one hour long "song."
Your milage may vary.
KFG
Since piano rolls, wax cylinders, vinyl disks and tape aren't quite dead yet I think it's little early to start predicting the demise of the CD when a godzillion of them are sitting unsold on shelves this very moment and factories are engaged in making a godzillion more, all based on this years geek fad.
KFG
Specifically because this is the way you purchase all the RIAA legal (although resented) .ogg files you want.
.ogg files for free.
At the moment I'm listening to Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain. In this case I inherited it. Got a few hundred legal
One of the possible benefits in dealing with an open standard physical medium and an open source rip format.
KFG
Buy a used CD. $5 bucks from locally owned store. You don't contribute to the artist that way I'm afraid, but you don't contribute to the RIAA either who would likely skim the artist's share anyway.
You've contributed to the local economy and supported the contiued viability of the used CD market.
Now you have a CD, a piece of property with attached rights that's worth. . . $5. You've reduced your liquidity but maintained net worth. You have acquired the music for free.
Rip it to whatever format you like and put them on whatever devices you like. All legal like so long as you don't trade them or the original CD. If you only listen to rips store the CD safely as a backup source.
Now, if you download 1000 ACC songs you've spent $1000 bucks and have a license. Not property. If things go badly for you in the future and you spend a year or two laid off you can sit around hungry and listen to your music.
$70 gets you the same number of songs on used CDs. If things go bad for you in the future you've got an extra $930 in the bank and property which can be liquified fairly quickly to get another $50 bucks if you want.
Whether or not you erase your rips is left to your own sense of ethics, so maybe you're sitting around still listening to your music too.
If you don't mind old vinyl you can do even better. It's about 50 songs for a buck if you shop garage sales.
KFG
Sorry, I got my post in before yours.
KFG
Because on my box I've got vorbis files, but there seems to be a distinct lack of ACC and WMA files.
Ah, I get it. You mean little room left in the commercial, RIAA endorsed online music store field.
What has that got to do with an open source solution? Is there "no room" for Linux because of all the money Apple and MS are pouring into their operating systems?
Open Source means will continue to serve very well for Open Source ends.
KFG