www.users.qwest.net says that ndgreen is not a registered user. on the off chance that ndgreen was typoed i was going to search their directory of user created pages, but apparently people were abusing the ability to view other peoples publicly available web pages, so qwest disabled the search function (but kept a link to 'search our user pages' on the user not found page... what a horrific kludge qwest's website is:--) LMAO
I think i've been to a few of their sites... the one that require flash to view and since i've been to lazy to install the flash plugin since its more than apt-get away, i close the page and go look for another site.
the trouble with flash is that it's a closed format, as such it won't gain universal acceptance unless its a miracle worker. users need to be able to 1.open the page requireing flash, 2. notice they dont have it, click on a link to autoinstall it without closing the site or closing the other seven sites i have open i just havent read yet, 3. and keep on browsing seemlessly. (the one time i've bothered to install flash, the browser had to reboot, and i couldn't remember what site i had found off the search engine and browser also closed all of the other pages i had also found that didn't require flash, it was annoying).
every user who would rather close the one page and not come back because its too much trouble... we'll i guess they dont need those customers anyway.
I have to agree, M$ does make some good products, and they are cross platform... they should just stick to hardware:--)
I really can't render an opinion as to the browser, other than my wife reboots into linux to browse the web because she says IE is way to slow at loading her hotmail. Looks about the same speed to me, but I havent timed them.
notice the phrase isn't 'can still open, edit, save, and print their existing documents'... (this is a pdf f%#$ing reader all over again, where my end user base needs to fill in the form and email it back, but that's an extra $250 per user for the full acrobat so they print the form and a 10$/hr intern reenters the data again because double and triple entry is so much cheaper.)
ditto with the personal toolbar... i was sickened with the '(AOLRUNLOGO)Instantmessage / WebMail / Radio / People / YellowPages...
but a few minutes later i discovered it was part of the bookmark.htm file-- now it's sweet. i organize my bookmarks into catagories and each of what used to be toolbar buttons are now 5 different bookmark pulldowns for long term bookmarks: SearchEngines/TechSupportStuff/Headlines (/. & K5 etc) / daily (web comics:--) / work (sites i administer)...
i agree, but would like to point out that from a workstation point of view (specifically as a new user) the joy of debian is installing every toy under the sun, letting dselect tell you what else you need to install to get the sun to work, and what programs will break the sun. so as a new user to debian, your first system is going to probably have all sorts of stuff installed. and even after that, if you are using the box as a workstation and trying to use it to do all sorts of things, you are going to have a lot of packages.
imho all distros should at least attempt to include something similar to bastille for their system... i had telnet installed for a long time, and i would love to have the debian install tell me that telnet is insecure, use ssh. i would love to have the install lock down the box by default and have a script lead me though opening up the box (and telling me what security risks i'm introducing in running whatever as i make each hole). after reading this answers article i think im going to download bastille just to read through the logic of why and when to secure what.
when i first started this job, i didn't know my predicessors admin password on all the nt workstations... i installed a crack utility, and a second later, all it told me was that my predicessors first name was fred. a week into the job i start to notice this other pattern-- tim's password is tim, ron's is ron, and june's is june, and of course the admin pw on all the workstations in the office was 'fred.' i almost fell out of my chair.
so i go out and read the article, and im reading about a 17 year old 'internet music fan' and next is the guy that wrote gnutella and they have pictures of them and they look like happy energetic people. i scroll the page down to the next person, a sour horrid looking troll like evil image, something out of a Grim fairy tale maybe, the wicked stepmother, or maybe Baba Yaga. my brain reboots after gpf'ing on that image and i notice that the name is 'hillary rosen.' because i can not stomache anymore i scroll it off the page and continue reading. (blah, why oh why would anyone anywhere intentionally chooses to use such an image?)
winmodems ARE a perfect example of how you leverage your software monopoly into a hardware market to expand your monopoly. if this weren't true, those winmodems would have drivers for at least one other OS (Be? Mac? MacX? BSD? Linux? Win9x? WinNT? Win2K? Qnx? -- make 2 columns of support and no support for a graphical representation)
yes this floppy here is dd'd from bootdisk.bin (bd990404). it mounts and changes the password file, by default the 'administrator' password, but it does any. i've been using it for over 6 months now to administrate my offices's nt workstations (predicessor did not leave the admin password:--)
i have a linux boot disk that boots up into a tiny ram shell environment automounts an ntfs or fat partition, extracts the password file, and changes the administrator (default, but can choose another) password. so i agree all of this can not only work, but would be sweet
I thought this reg was there to stop the practice of mailing out unordered products and then sending a bill? it is. 1) im mailed a cat because i suscribe to wired (without request on my part to get the cat) 2) I start doing what I want with it... write a stupid driver interface whatever. 3) DC tells me and everyone that I 'can't' do that, I can only use their 'software' in a way they like (limitation). 4) limited use afterwords, charging money afterwords, changing an EULA afterwards...
on a side not changing an EULA by the company is forming a new contract and voids the old contract, and the new EULA doesn't become valid until you receive compensation for the change (standard contract law even under ucita btw-- and contract law is a much bigger entity than one ucita law)
from http://www.feedmag.com/re/re392_master.html: We now have about thirty terabytes of archival material that we data mine. And that's 1.5 times the size of all of the books in the Library of Congress.... we're now beyond the largest collection of information ever accumulated by humans... We use as our original inspiration the Library of Alexandria. Because they were the first people that tried to collect it all... They got up to five hundred thousand books... The Library of Congress -- the largest library now -- is seventeen million. Only thirty four times more than what we had in 300 B.C. "
2300 years = 34x as many volumes less than 10 years = 1.5 x smithsonian and growing fast?
and the bit about the top 10 sites get 20% traffic is incomplete-- his point is the linear nature:
top 10 sites = 20%
top 100 sites = 40%
top 1000 sites = 60%
top 10000 sites = 80%
With every use of 'what's new' in netscape 4.06+ sending stats to alexia's servers, this guy gives me some real mixed feelings:--)
This is an email I got back from the band Marillions website after I discovered that they had signed with EMI 'after' taking preorders for their next album and using the preorder money to produce the upcoming album:
"When a record label gives a band an advance, part of the contract says that the record label owns all the music, etc. associated with the album. By not taking this advance and raising the money over the internet and mail-order, Marillion will retain FULL OWNERSHIP of the music for the first time in the career."
Dear Kel;
You may have misinterpreted the email, so I thought I'd write to you to
explain the deal. Marillion have signed a *distribution* deal with EMI, not
a *record* deal.
What this means is that Marillion are raising the money that would normally
be provided by the record company themselves by pre-selling the next album.
When a record label gives a band an advance, part of the contract says that
the record label owns all the music, etc. associated with the album. By not
taking this advance and raising the money over the internet and mail-order,
Marillion will retain FULL OWNERSHIP of the music for the first time in the
career. This means that we can do whatever we want with it, without being
tied down.
EMI is simply licensing the music FROM Marillion to distribute it
world-wide. This could have been done with ANY record label or distributor,
but Marillion chose EMI because of its large world-wide distribution
network.
In addition, Lucy Jordache, Marillion's Marketing and Communications
Manager, used to work for EMI, and as such knows the staff we are dealing
with, and how to get results! All promotion will be handled together, and
will be approved directly by the band - in short, Marillion are in complete
control.
This is the first time a band has ever done this with a major label, and we
hope it will break new ground and encourage other artists to take control
(and ownership!) of their music. The Album 12 2CD Special Edition available
for pre-order is completely independent of EMI, and will be sold,
manufactured, and distributed solely by Racket Records. THIS is the way we
are raising the money to record the album, and are trying to make it
something special for the fans who want to help us out! This version will
NOT be available in the shops, and will NOT be handled by EMI.
I hope this explains things a little more, and please feel free to contact
me should you have any other questions. Yes, a major label is involved, but
not in the traditional way. We're changing the way the music business works,
and encourage you to spread the news!
Regards,
Erik Nielsen
Director of Operations
Racket Records
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Marillion and Racket Records
http://www.marillion.com
racket@marillion.com
PO Box 252, Aylesbury, BUCKS, HP18 0YS, UK
Fax +44 (0)1296 770 839
"probable cause" is a term used in criminal cases to define where a 'law enfocement' officer can begin to assume that a criminal law has been broken. For some reason the US Attorneys offices doesn't seem to find naptster's or 2600's conduct to be criminal (as in the trafficing of copywritten material-- and they and the 'law enforcement' officers do go after the backalley piracy rings).
in a civil case, Jack Valenti does not have any rights to 'probable cause.'
Why did Coyote create the Universe?
As a practical joke on mankind-- we just don't get it.
On a related note, when Coyote was asked if someone got conned selling New York to the Dutch for a box of beads, he said, "of course someone got conned. Stupid Dutch. Don't they know they can't own land?"
Rene Descarte said "I think therefor I am." I think he assumed an aweful lot.
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the vampire rip-off you don't go into... is primarily Nancy Collin's 3 part 'Sonja Blue' trilogy "sunglasses after dark" "paint it black", and "in the blood." Years later she has now written a sonja blue/ WoD crossover novel "a dozen black roses."
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the trouble with flash is that it's a closed format, as such it won't gain universal acceptance unless its a miracle worker. users need to be able to 1.open the page requireing flash, 2. notice they dont have it, click on a link to autoinstall it without closing the site or closing the other seven sites i have open i just havent read yet, 3. and keep on browsing seemlessly. (the one time i've bothered to install flash, the browser had to reboot, and i couldn't remember what site i had found off the search engine and browser also closed all of the other pages i had also found that didn't require flash, it was annoying).
every user who would rather close the one page and not come back because its too much trouble... we'll i guess they dont need those customers anyway.
worse actually, english degree=highest rate of acceptance into... law school
for my wife, the final straw was the utter sexism and condesention of his 'chick-clickers' story.
I really can't render an opinion as to the browser, other than my wife reboots into linux to browse the web because she says IE is way to slow at loading her hotmail. Looks about the same speed to me, but I havent timed them.
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but a few minutes later i discovered it was part of the bookmark.htm file-- now it's sweet. i organize my bookmarks into catagories and each of what used to be toolbar buttons are now 5 different bookmark pulldowns for long term bookmarks: SearchEngines/TechSupportStuff/Headlines (/. & K5 etc) / daily (web comics:--) / work (sites i administer)...
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imho all distros should at least attempt to include something similar to bastille for their system... i had telnet installed for a long time, and i would love to have the debian install tell me that telnet is insecure, use ssh. i would love to have the install lock down the box by default and have a script lead me though opening up the box (and telling me what security risks i'm introducing in running whatever as i make each hole). after reading this answers article i think im going to download bastille just to read through the logic of why and when to secure what.
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i cant begin to make the jokes: ms speak for digitaldiva? lifestyle? MDLA? can i get certified? roflmao.
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on a side not changing an EULA by the company is forming a new contract and voids the old contract, and the new EULA doesn't become valid until you receive compensation for the change (standard contract law even under ucita btw-- and contract law is a much bigger entity than one ucita law)
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We now have about thirty terabytes of archival material that we data mine. And that's 1.5 times the size of all of the books in the Library of Congress.... we're now beyond the largest collection of information ever accumulated by humans... We use as our original inspiration the Library of Alexandria. Because they were the first people that tried to collect it all... They got up to five hundred thousand books... The Library of Congress -- the largest library now -- is seventeen million. Only thirty four times more than what we had in 300 B.C. "
2300 years = 34x as many volumes
less than 10 years = 1.5 x smithsonian and growing fast?
and the bit about the top 10 sites get 20% traffic is incomplete-- his point is the linear nature:
top 10 sites = 20%
top 100 sites = 40%
top 1000 sites = 60%
top 10000 sites = 80%
With every use of 'what's new' in netscape 4.06+ sending stats to alexia's servers, this guy gives me some real mixed feelings:--)
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reversing the work for hire does not reverse the prior standard in which artists dont get back their copywrites for 35 years.
"When a record label gives a band an advance, part of the contract says that the record label owns all the music, etc. associated with the album. By not taking this advance and raising the money over the internet and mail-order, Marillion will retain FULL OWNERSHIP of the music for the first time in the career."
Dear Kel; You may have misinterpreted the email, so I thought I'd write to you to explain the deal. Marillion have signed a *distribution* deal with EMI, not a *record* deal. What this means is that Marillion are raising the money that would normally be provided by the record company themselves by pre-selling the next album. When a record label gives a band an advance, part of the contract says that the record label owns all the music, etc. associated with the album. By not taking this advance and raising the money over the internet and mail-order, Marillion will retain FULL OWNERSHIP of the music for the first time in the career. This means that we can do whatever we want with it, without being tied down. EMI is simply licensing the music FROM Marillion to distribute it world-wide. This could have been done with ANY record label or distributor, but Marillion chose EMI because of its large world-wide distribution network. In addition, Lucy Jordache, Marillion's Marketing and Communications Manager, used to work for EMI, and as such knows the staff we are dealing with, and how to get results! All promotion will be handled together, and will be approved directly by the band - in short, Marillion are in complete control. This is the first time a band has ever done this with a major label, and we hope it will break new ground and encourage other artists to take control (and ownership!) of their music. The Album 12 2CD Special Edition available for pre-order is completely independent of EMI, and will be sold, manufactured, and distributed solely by Racket Records. THIS is the way we are raising the money to record the album, and are trying to make it something special for the fans who want to help us out! This version will NOT be available in the shops, and will NOT be handled by EMI. I hope this explains things a little more, and please feel free to contact me should you have any other questions. Yes, a major label is involved, but not in the traditional way. We're changing the way the music business works, and encourage you to spread the news! Regards, Erik Nielsen Director of Operations Racket Records -------------------------------------------------- --
Marillion and Racket Records
http://www.marillion.com
racket@marillion.com
PO Box 252, Aylesbury, BUCKS, HP18 0YS, UK
Fax +44 (0)1296 770 839
in a civil case, Jack Valenti does not have any rights to 'probable cause.'
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As a practical joke on mankind-- we just don't get it.
On a related note, when Coyote was asked if someone got conned selling New York to the Dutch for a box of beads, he said, "of course someone got conned. Stupid Dutch. Don't they know they can't own land?"
Rene Descarte said "I think therefor I am." I think he assumed an aweful lot.
the vampire rip-off you don't go into... is primarily Nancy Collin's 3 part 'Sonja Blue' trilogy "sunglasses after dark" "paint it black", and "in the blood." Years later she has now written a sonja blue/ WoD crossover novel "a dozen black roses."