I bought my girlfriend a Rio S50 mp3 player for Christmas to use while she works out. I was trying to show her how to rip her cd's, when my trust Cd-n-Go software couldn't access freedb. No good ripping mp3's named 'Track 01', so...
I fired up Windows Media Player and went directly to the options. I turned off DRM, ripped the cd, and transferred the songs to the player. The 'song' was 3.5 minutes of nothing. I listened to the mp3 in WinAmp - 3.5 minutes of silence. Windows Media Player will not allow you to make an mp3 is you turn off DRM.
I was forced to install Real Player to rip the cd. Better than Media Player, but what an obtrusive piece of software. I hate it.
I'm angry that my old standby, Cd-n-Go, can't access the cd database. It was a great program. Now I have to use Media Player or Real One? No thanks. I took it back.
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Fanwing Planes?
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From the bits of the website I've been able to see, it's not much at all like the Kyosho DF (I had the electric F-16 and the glow-powered F-86). Kyosho uses the fan to produce thrust, lift is generated by the wings.
The Fanwing is producing both lift and thrust from the same device.
Because making movies is so expensive, only two in 10 films ever retrieve their production and marketing investment from domestic theatrical exhibition
If only 20% of your movies are making money, I'd say you have bigger problems than little Johnny downloading your movie.
Try limiting your expenses next time. That's how the rest of the world works.
"no one should be ignorant of the fact that the U.S. themselves are not exactly virgin in the field of hitting very large amounts of civilians with no prior warning what so ever."
Please forgive me while I try to forget that Japan is just as guilty of the same crime.
In the early 1980s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that consumers have the right to record TV programs for home viewing. Consumer advocates say that decision means over-the-air broadcasts can't be copy-protected -- period.
Disney and Fox say otherwise, arguing that advancing technology has changed the boundaries.
Does this mean they are above the law, or do they merely get to change them at will?
that the topic of the Slashdot story was the same as the title of the cnet story? The/. editors didn't screw this one up, they just copied and pasted another person's mistake
Read the article you linked to. The only Freedom of speech/press issue discussed was media reporting of election results before the polls had closed. Censorship was not even mentioned.
You have some valid points, but you're loosing sight of one issue. AIM belongs to AOL.
You continue to make statements such as "it makes much better business sense working with people like me than fighting us." Sure, maybe in your opinion, it does. But you are not AOL, so quite frankly, your opinion of how they should run their system is of no importance to them. They have a different goal than you. You want to talk to your sister without using AIM. They want you to talk to your sister by using AIM.
You telling AOL how they should run their system is analogous to me telling you how you should run your home LAN.
Comparing this "interview" to the Microsoft one last week reminds me of a field trip I took in high school. We toured a nuclear power plant and a gas-fired power plant. The nuclear plant was unbelievably clean, with a well laid out visitor center, plush conference room, and a company rep dressed in a suit.
The gas-fired plant, by contrast, was incredibly noisy, had a meeting room with missing roof tiles, and our tour guide was wearing overalls.
I see the same thing in comparing this Interview to the Microsoft one. One is slick, well-presented, clean. The other is rough around the edges, not as polished, but overall, a much better neighbor.
If ever there was a need for a standard, surely/. has just proven it. mbits, KBps, kBps, kbps, MBps. How can you know what someone means? Are you measuring from MSN's bandwidth page or from a file ftp?
There are so many units being thrown around, how does anyone know what anyone else is talking about?
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that's believable, when you consider the 35-40 year technology difference.
"well, they were active noise cancelling ones"
Then how could you hear her?
Slap a motor on this and you're good to go
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I bought my girlfriend a Rio S50 mp3 player for Christmas to use while she works out. I was trying to show her how to rip her cd's, when my trust Cd-n-Go software couldn't access freedb. No good ripping mp3's named 'Track 01', so...
I fired up Windows Media Player and went directly to the options. I turned off DRM, ripped the cd, and transferred the songs to the player. The 'song' was 3.5 minutes of nothing. I listened to the mp3 in WinAmp - 3.5 minutes of silence. Windows Media Player will not allow you to make an mp3 is you turn off DRM.
I was forced to install Real Player to rip the cd. Better than Media Player, but what an obtrusive piece of software. I hate it.
I'm angry that my old standby, Cd-n-Go, can't access the cd database. It was a great program. Now I have to use Media Player or Real One? No thanks. I took it back.
From the bits of the website I've been able to see, it's not much at all like the Kyosho DF (I had the electric F-16 and the glow-powered F-86). Kyosho uses the fan to produce thrust, lift is generated by the wings.
The Fanwing is producing both lift and thrust from the same device.
Because making movies is so expensive, only two in 10 films ever retrieve their production and marketing investment from domestic theatrical exhibition
If only 20% of your movies are making money, I'd say you have bigger problems than little Johnny downloading your movie.
Try limiting your expenses next time. That's how the rest of the world works.
What kind of mileage do you get with it? What about economy for mile?
For reference, my 1995 Nissan Pathfinder (3.0L) runs about 21 mpg. Gas in Chicago is about $1.65 a gallon. My fuel cost is roughly 8 cents per mile.
"no one should be ignorant of the fact that the U.S. themselves are not exactly virgin in the field of hitting very large amounts of civilians with no prior warning what so ever."
Please forgive me while I try to forget that Japan is just as guilty of the same crime.
Slashdotting a site running off a TRS-80. Do you steal candy from kids too?
With 15-30% of the population using their left hands, why are product designers so biased to the right?
Because 70-85% of the population uses their right?
In the early 1980s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that consumers have the right to record TV programs for home viewing. Consumer advocates say that decision means over-the-air broadcasts can't be copy-protected -- period. Disney and Fox say otherwise, arguing that advancing technology has changed the boundaries.
Does this mean they are above the law, or do they merely get to change them at will?
that the topic of the Slashdot story was the same as the title of the cnet story? The /. editors didn't screw this one up, they just copied and pasted another person's mistake
12.M DARPA Contract for FreeBSD Security
Posted by AilleCat on Monday July 09, @10:40AM from the return-to-the-hey-day dept.
NAI Labs has been awarded a $1.2 million contract for TrustedBSD security extentions. The name of the project is...
Read the article you linked to. The only Freedom of speech/press issue discussed was media reporting of election results before the polls had closed. Censorship was not even mentioned.
Yeah, check out my post on the previous story. I guess the powers-that-be don't like you to point out their mistakes.
Think this one will get modded down too?
And after that flattering post, you can kiss your internship goodbye.
I'm glad you understand.
You have some valid points, but you're loosing sight of one issue. AIM belongs to AOL.
You continue to make statements such as "it makes much better business sense working with people like me than fighting us." Sure, maybe in your opinion, it does. But you are not AOL, so quite frankly, your opinion of how they should run their system is of no importance to them. They have a different goal than you. You want to talk to your sister without using AIM. They want you to talk to your sister by using AIM.
You telling AOL how they should run their system is analogous to me telling you how you should run your home LAN.
Welcome to big business.
"AOL, though not legally required to, ought to work with them"
Why? Just because you said so?
If I say you should take the lock off your door so I can eat your food when I'm hungry, will you?
Slashed by the double-edged sword you tried to swing.
Comparing this "interview" to the Microsoft one last week reminds me of a field trip I took in high school. We toured a nuclear power plant and a gas-fired power plant. The nuclear plant was unbelievably clean, with a well laid out visitor center, plush conference room, and a company rep dressed in a suit.
The gas-fired plant, by contrast, was incredibly noisy, had a meeting room with missing roof tiles, and our tour guide was wearing overalls.
I see the same thing in comparing this Interview to the Microsoft one. One is slick, well-presented, clean. The other is rough around the edges, not as polished, but overall, a much better neighbor.
If you know that something is off-topic, why do you even bother to post it?
The security hole you described is no longer there. I just checked.
If ever there was a need for a standard, surely /. has just proven it. mbits, KBps, kBps, kbps, MBps. How can you know what someone means? Are you measuring from MSN's bandwidth page or from a file ftp?
There are so many units being thrown around, how does anyone know what anyone else is talking about?
I've read so many posts about people renaming the songs using alternate cases, letters, etc to slip through the filter.
The RIAA knows this, and so does Napster. And Napster cannot afford to let this happen.
So Napster will, most likely, cease to exist as we know it in the very near future.
I posted a story earlier in the week, submission number 238.
I checked back less than 10 minutes later; it was rejected.
You can't expect me to believe that someone read 200-odd posts, links, etc in less than 10 minutes.
I think someone checks the story like I check my hotmail account: delete, delete, delete, delete...
"how do you possibly protect against this?"
Only one way I can think of....shut down the service.