Amount of substance? They make it sound like he was distributing drugs. Maybe they're checking the hard drive for traces of white powders
Hello Slashdot.org reader,
We have gotten a temporary court order against calling it "music." In the 1980s, "music" was "music." However once Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, and 98 Degrees, showed up there was so much dilution that we were forced to stop calling it all "music."
Thank you for your time,
Mr Andy H 1978
We will be sending our lawyers out momentarily to confiscate your hand and eyes as our new policy mandates. ------------
Call me paranoid, but if they confiscated his computer for distributing both music and movies, well, why does the RIAA care about movies? They're music, right?
Call me even more paranoid, but I'm worried that the two evil organizations, the RIAA and the MPAA, are working together. To restrict media only to those who pay $17 per CD? To stop the distribution of all new VCR-type devices?
Soon we'll have the MAA--the Media Association of America.
It seems to me that the Duron will be used on sub-$1200 PCs from Compaq and Hateway but will an experienced computer technician (or someone who actually cares about overclocking) really look towards a Duron? I doubt it.
Durons are cheap processors ($100 for 650MHz) so you really shouldn't expect to get a lot out of them. Sure you *can* play Quake with them but they're not meant for professional or gaming use, they're meant for I-Just-Want-to-Buy-The-Internet-And-Get-On-With-My -Life people. People who don't care if they can get 35.1 but not 35.2 FPS, people who *won't want to overclock* their computer.
I'm actually developing my own apache module, mod_caffeine. Simply visit http://localhost/caffeine-level and set the kilograms of caffeine to simulate.
A rating of 60kg is too high. At 60kg the server will speed up slightly, but return normal requests with "408 YOU SUCK" and "409 CLEANER" error codes.
I set my apache server on 30kg, personally.
Hope this helped. E-mail me for more mod_caffeine info and to get some source code.
Since you've long been in the computer/technology industry, what would you say attributed to the biggest change (a good or bad change) in that industry?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but trading CDs with your friends is perfectly legal in the US, right? I have plenty of CD junkie friends and I guess I'll start asking them.
It's free music, quickly. The only downside is they might not have too much music. Still, it's a help.
I think however that all of the people who really care about online music (and therefore have a LOT of music on their computer) will move to another solution. Then there will be more music for the rest of us.
And remember..."I believe there is a world market for maybe 4 computers." You can never predict the future when it comes to technology.
The RIAA will NEVER succeed in stopping online music trading. Never. They're getting themselves bad press while doing NOTHING to get rid of the trade.
Now I don't really think that what Napster doing was completely legit, nor do I believe the "It's for trading uncopyrighted music" because we all know what it's for. Pirating music, plain and simple.
But as it's been noted countless times before there are at least half a dozen alternatives to Napster, including Gnutella, CuteMX, Freenet, OpenNAP, IRC #mp3z and #mp3s, etc. The RIAA won't touch many of those. They're just getting bad press, that's all.
Why not make the people happy? They'd be accomplishing the exact same thing!! And they'd also gain the general public's trust and liking, too.
I assume that if Napster wins the battle, the RIAA will have to pay them their lost revenue. Napster doesn't make revenue...so will this be the first case of...
But eventually every network will come to have a most important 4% whether it is desired or not. The US, in its early years, didn't say "We want our country to be based in random places" but it turned out that way. Chicago, California, and the New York area are all hubs of the US.
Knock out the most important 4% of anything and something will go wrong. A few examples include countries, people, world leaders, country defenses (planes, tanks, etc.). Now destroying the top 4% of countries will get the top 8 countries destroyed. That's maybe the USA, England, France, Japan, Australia, Canada, China, and India? Well then you lose a good deal of the population, not to mention the services and products they provide, as well as the money they pay to have goods imported.
Hell, even knocking out the top 1% of anything would mess up a lot. If the US and Japan were wiped off the face of this planet, well there would be quite a bit of trouble.
What I find funny is that on S11's site they actually thank Nike for the extra traffic. This is what is says...
NIKE DISCLAIMER: This site's administrators have no idea how or why the nike.com page was redirected to s11.org and do not condone this action, however we do thank nike for the extra hits.
Lake Superior may have a small tide but Lake Michigan has quite a big tide. The difference between high tide and low tide are maybe about 6 feet (on the ground). Lake Michigan is the largest freshwater lake I believe.
I'm 12 years old and not writing BASIC programs which display text on the screen. I know perl, php, C++, C, html, css, javascript, vbscript, xml, and I'm learning Assembler. I also know how to conduct HTTP, FTP, POP3, and SMTP transactions by hand. I use NT and Mandrake.
I believe I can speak from experience. Kids learn best when they aren't sheltered but rather encouraged to learn as quickly as possible. I have at least 20 books on topics ranging from marketing to databases to Active Server Pages to PHP and I can certainly testify for the fact that books work.
If kids are introduced to computers when they are young, around 6, then they'll start off knowing a little, then by age 9 they may want to learn HTML.
Also not all 12- and 13-year olds are stupid and know nothing. I am aware that I know more than the average 6th or 7th grader but I'm not alone.
Same here. I own thousands of dollars of Microsoft products because they used to be high quality, effecient, and overall better than the other competing products.
Now, with the new IE Cookies bug, this, the DOJ ruling, how they couldn't answer my problem so I had to reformat, and many other instances of pure arrogance, I am going to be 100% Linux.
As of right now I tri-boot with Be, Mandrake Linux, and Win2kPro...but not only Be and Linux. Why? I am just sick and tired of MS not caring about their customers and writing bad software at outrageous prices (MSOffice2kPro for ~650). See ya in Linux, Microsoft.
Did you guys realize that you'd lose a good number of your fan or potential fan base?
If just 30,000 (around 1/10) people actually bought your CD, you'd get around $540,000. Seems like it may've been more beneficial to rethink your strategy than to just demand that Napster bans all users who you've collected usernames of.
Also, what about possible legal issues? Perjury...after all, you probably can't absolutely verify every single name on the list, can you?
Additionaly, why not just ask Napster to ban all Metallica music rather than its downloaders; that'd stop the problem at its source.
All I did to stop the effects of this is... 1) Open Folder Options 2) Go to File Extensions 3) Disassociate vbs files with all apps--in other words, delete the file extension
It seemed to me as if all of the content was taken from UseIt.com, his partner Website. I've been a reader of Useit for a long time and it seemed like I got very little original content when I bought and read this book.
So, basically, the gov is mad at Microsoft for... *Creating superior products *Beating its competitors *Competing
Where I go to school, we've got all Macs--2 iMacs and about 45 75MHz Performas. Overwhelmingly, as in 100%, of people use IE--by choice! Netscape is installed on every computer, too! As easy to get to. On these systems there is no default browser; you must log on to a central Apple IPShare server. That certainly says something about MS products.
Also, on those same Macs, is Microsoft Office. That's the only program they teach, however Appleworks/Clarisworks come(s) on all computers. If it wasn't a superior product, why is it being used?
On a side note... I recently upgraded to Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and was certainly pleasantly surprised. I needed tech support (it was my problem) and I called them, and in less that 35 seconds (I timed it) I was connected to the techsupport rep who helped me. He found and got rid of the problem in seconds; yet waited until he was sure it worked until he we hung up. Now THAT'S support.
Microsoft is an excellent company who simply competes. Just because the majority of users choose QUALITY products such as Windows 98 doesn't mean Microsoft is evil.
If Windows 98/NT4/NT3.51/2000/95/ETC are so bad, I have just one question. _Why_ are they in use? It would take an average person less that $200 to go and get Linux, Be, etc. But not many people do? So, what does that mean? Let's take a look: Microsoft's products are: *Easier *Powerful *Comprehensive *Well-supported *Popular *More stable
About the stability... It's a good bet that, if your Windows OS crashed, say, 178 times in a year, that 177 would be purely software. Badly written software. It is not Window's fault. Microsoft neither causes nor encourages bugs but gets blamed for EVERY bug that is encountered! Now that's unfair.
This is definitely going to be controversial...but here goes...
Microsoft has made the computer industry better for everyone involved. How could they get prosecuted for providing FREE software (IE), creating strategic deals with other companies, etc. They are using smart business practices. If every business that produced quality products was prosecuted, what would become of this world?
Why aren't Torvalds and Apache prosecuted for monopolizing on the server market? After all, they both have a significant hold on the server market.
About 10 years ago, MS was practically forced into supporting IBM's OS/2 operating system with threats that IBM would stop supporting Windows and DOS. Why doesn't/didn't IBM get prosecuted?
I'd say the US government has kinda monopolized on the government market in the US. Sue them!
What will become of a world where businesses are afraid to compete in fear of being prosecuted for anti-competitive transactions?
When MS released IE for free, Netscape was forced to do the same with Navigator/Communicator. Isn't this BETTER for consumers? I don't know everyone's opinions but I'd rather be able to download software for free rather than paying $20/$30 for it.
I guess what I'm saying is that Microsoft has been performing extremely successful business--but now they get prosecuted for that kind of thing?
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Amount of substance? They make it sound like he was distributing drugs. Maybe they're checking the hard drive for traces of white powders
Hello Slashdot.org reader,
We have gotten a temporary court order against calling it "music." In the 1980s, "music" was "music." However once Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, and 98 Degrees, showed up there was so much dilution that we were forced to stop calling it all "music."
Thank you for your time,
Mr Andy H 1978
We will be sending our lawyers out momentarily to confiscate your hand and eyes as our new policy mandates.
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Call me paranoid, but if they confiscated his computer for distributing both music and movies, well, why does the RIAA care about movies? They're music, right?
Call me even more paranoid, but I'm worried that the two evil organizations, the RIAA and the MPAA, are working together. To restrict media only to those who pay $17 per CD? To stop the distribution of all new VCR-type devices?
Soon we'll have the MAA--the Media Association of America.
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GPLed POP3/IMAP/SMTP to Web/WAP gateway
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If you look at this page, you'll see right under 'Release 1.0' Apple says this:
[...]Preliminary support for Intel is provided, allowing developers to begin bringing Darwin to the Intel platform.[...]
Could this possibly mean they *are* interested in porting it to Intel? I sure wouldn't mind...
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GPLed POP3/IMAP/SMTP to Web/WAP gateway
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It seems to me that the Duron will be used on sub-$1200 PCs from Compaq and Hateway but will an experienced computer technician (or someone who actually cares about overclocking) really look towards a Duron? I doubt it.
y -Life people. People who don't care if they can get 35.1 but not 35.2 FPS, people who *won't want to overclock* their computer.
Durons are cheap processors ($100 for 650MHz) so you really shouldn't expect to get a lot out of them. Sure you *can* play Quake with them but they're not meant for professional or gaming use, they're meant for I-Just-Want-to-Buy-The-Internet-And-Get-On-With-M
My $.02
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I'm actually developing my own apache module, mod_caffeine. Simply visit http://localhost/caffeine-level and set the kilograms of caffeine to simulate.
A rating of 60kg is too high. At 60kg the server will speed up slightly, but return normal requests with "408 YOU SUCK" and "409 CLEANER" error codes.
I set my apache server on 30kg, personally.
Hope this helped. E-mail me for more mod_caffeine info and to get some source code.
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Since you've long been in the computer/technology industry, what would you say attributed to the biggest change (a good or bad change) in that industry?
The WWW? The Internet? Cheap PCs? E-commerce?
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Even when you DO get the first post, the title is wrong. Kinda dissapointing I gotta say...ROFL
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but trading CDs with your friends is perfectly legal in the US, right? I have plenty of CD junkie friends and I guess I'll start asking them.
It's free music, quickly. The only downside is they might not have too much music. Still, it's a help.
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I think however that all of the people who really care about online music (and therefore have a LOT of music on their computer) will move to another solution. Then there will be more music for the rest of us.
And remember..."I believe there is a world market for maybe 4 computers." You can never predict the future when it comes to technology.
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The RIAA will NEVER succeed in stopping online music trading. Never. They're getting themselves bad press while doing NOTHING to get rid of the trade.
Now I don't really think that what Napster doing was completely legit, nor do I believe the "It's for trading uncopyrighted music" because we all know what it's for. Pirating music, plain and simple.
But as it's been noted countless times before there are at least half a dozen alternatives to Napster, including Gnutella, CuteMX, Freenet, OpenNAP, IRC #mp3z and #mp3s, etc. The RIAA won't touch many of those. They're just getting bad press, that's all.
Why not make the people happy? They'd be accomplishing the exact same thing!! And they'd also gain the general public's trust and liking, too.
Just a few thoughts.
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I assume that if Napster wins the battle, the RIAA will have to pay them their lost revenue. Napster doesn't make revenue...so will this be the first case of...
Paying someone to sue you if you won?
Just a thought.
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But eventually every network will come to have a most important 4% whether it is desired or not. The US, in its early years, didn't say "We want our country to be based in random places" but it turned out that way. Chicago, California, and the New York area are all hubs of the US.
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About Tenchi: They have gotten only a few calls about the 'sexiness' of Tenchi.
Oh great, what next!? PokePorn?
thinks to self: no wait, that CAN'T be new, I saw it last night
AboutPCs.com
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Knock out the most important 4% of anything and something will go wrong. A few examples include countries, people, world leaders, country defenses (planes, tanks, etc.). Now destroying the top 4% of countries will get the top 8 countries destroyed. That's maybe the USA, England, France, Japan, Australia, Canada, China, and India? Well then you lose a good deal of the population, not to mention the services and products they provide, as well as the money they pay to have goods imported.
Hell, even knocking out the top 1% of anything would mess up a lot. If the US and Japan were wiped off the face of this planet, well there would be quite a bit of trouble.
Just a thought...
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What I find funny is that on S11's site they actually thank Nike for the extra traffic. This is what is says...
NIKE DISCLAIMER: This site's administrators have no idea how or why the nike.com page was redirected to s11.org and do not condone this action, however we do thank nike for the extra hits.
Lake Superior may have a small tide but Lake Michigan has quite a big tide. The difference between high tide and low tide are maybe about 6 feet (on the ground). Lake Michigan is the largest freshwater lake I believe.
I'm 12 years old and not writing BASIC programs which display text on the screen. I know perl, php, C++, C, html, css, javascript, vbscript, xml, and I'm learning Assembler. I also know how to conduct HTTP, FTP, POP3, and SMTP transactions by hand. I use NT and Mandrake.
I believe I can speak from experience. Kids learn best when they aren't sheltered but rather encouraged to learn as quickly as possible. I have at least 20 books on topics ranging from marketing to databases to Active Server Pages to PHP and I can certainly testify for the fact that books work.
If kids are introduced to computers when they are young, around 6, then they'll start off knowing a little, then by age 9 they may want to learn HTML.
Also not all 12- and 13-year olds are stupid and know nothing. I am aware that I know more than the average 6th or 7th grader but I'm not alone.
Same here.
I own thousands of dollars of Microsoft products because they used to be high quality, effecient, and overall better than the other competing products.
Now, with the new IE Cookies bug, this, the DOJ ruling, how they couldn't answer my problem so I had to reformat, and many other instances of pure arrogance, I am going to be 100% Linux.
As of right now I tri-boot with Be, Mandrake Linux, and Win2kPro...but not only Be and Linux.
Why? I am just sick and tired of MS not caring about their customers and writing bad software at outrageous prices (MSOffice2kPro for ~650). See ya in Linux, Microsoft.
Did you guys realize that you'd lose a good number of your fan or potential fan base?
If just 30,000 (around 1/10) people actually bought your CD, you'd get around $540,000. Seems like it may've been more beneficial to rethink your strategy than to just demand that Napster bans all users who you've collected usernames of.
Also, what about possible legal issues? Perjury...after all, you probably can't absolutely verify every single name on the list, can you?
Additionaly, why not just ask Napster to ban all Metallica music rather than its downloaders; that'd stop the problem at its source.
All I did to stop the effects of this is...
1) Open Folder Options
2) Go to File Extensions
3) Disassociate vbs files with all apps--in other words, delete the file extension
It seemed to me as if all of the content was taken from UseIt.com, his partner Website. I've been a reader of Useit for a long time and it seemed like I got very little original content when I bought and read this book.
Did this happen to anyone else?
So, basically, the gov is mad at Microsoft for...
*Creating superior products
*Beating its competitors
*Competing
Where I go to school, we've got all Macs--2 iMacs and about 45 75MHz Performas. Overwhelmingly, as in 100%, of people use IE--by choice! Netscape is installed on every computer, too! As easy to get to.
On these systems there is no default browser; you must log on to a central Apple IPShare server. That certainly says something about MS products.
Also, on those same Macs, is Microsoft Office. That's the only program they teach, however Appleworks/Clarisworks come(s) on all computers. If it wasn't a superior product, why is it being used?
On a side note...
I recently upgraded to Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and was certainly pleasantly surprised. I needed tech support (it was my problem) and I called them, and in less that 35 seconds (I timed it) I was connected to the techsupport rep who helped me. He found and got rid of the problem in seconds; yet waited until he was sure it worked until he we hung up. Now THAT'S support.
Microsoft is an excellent company who simply competes. Just because the majority of users choose QUALITY products such as Windows 98 doesn't mean Microsoft is evil.
If Windows 98/NT4/NT3.51/2000/95/ETC are so bad, I have just one question. _Why_ are they in use?
It would take an average person less that $200 to go and get Linux, Be, etc. But not many people do? So, what does that mean? Let's take a look:
Microsoft's products are:
*Easier
*Powerful
*Comprehensive
*Well-supported
*Popular
*More stable
About the stability...
It's a good bet that, if your Windows OS crashed, say, 178 times in a year, that 177 would be purely software. Badly written software. It is not Window's fault. Microsoft neither causes nor encourages bugs but gets blamed for EVERY bug that is encountered! Now that's unfair.
This is definitely going to be controversial...but here goes...
Microsoft has made the computer industry better for everyone involved. How could they get prosecuted for providing FREE software (IE), creating strategic deals with other companies, etc. They are using smart business practices. If every business that produced quality products was prosecuted, what would become of this world?
Why aren't Torvalds and Apache prosecuted for monopolizing on the server market? After all, they both have a significant hold on the server market.
About 10 years ago, MS was practically forced into supporting IBM's OS/2 operating system with threats that IBM would stop supporting Windows and DOS. Why doesn't/didn't IBM get prosecuted?
I'd say the US government has kinda monopolized on the government market in the US. Sue them!
What will become of a world where businesses are afraid to compete in fear of being prosecuted for anti-competitive transactions?
When MS released IE for free, Netscape was forced to do the same with Navigator/Communicator. Isn't this BETTER for consumers? I don't know everyone's opinions but I'd rather be able to download software for free rather than paying $20/$30 for it.
I guess what I'm saying is that Microsoft has been performing extremely successful business--but now they get prosecuted for that kind of thing?
Linux's new commercial:
Bah dum ba dee: Get your mom to understand Linux
Bah dum ba dee: Get your mom to understand Linux
Bah dum ba dee: Get your mom to understand Linux