beer, coffee, choclate coated coffee beans, sweets and if your realy luckey you'll get a migrane kick in at the perfect moment and save yourself some cash.
Caffeine is a Good Thing, but be careful -- if you start feeling like saying "I am Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole," you won't be very productive.
I'm sure apple tried this, but then they would have to color match the mice with the iMac shells. It's probably pretty hard to make a "snow" color opitical light.
Use infrared. No need to worry about color at all.
Is this true? I've never met a CD player that didn't like a CD-R, and I've got some OLD players. On the other hand, CD-RWs, obviously, are a different story. I've found that CD-RWs aren't playable in any of my CD players, but my DVD player recognizes it just fine (which, I guess, you would expect.)
The reason behind this is that CDRWs reflect less light and thus require slightly different methods of using the laser light to read the disc. Standard CD players are not able to do this; therefore, they are not able to read CDRWs.
"Mojo payments"...is it just me or does that make it sound like "mondo" payments or "mega" payments?
I wonder what "the free market" would say a fair price is for a single song on MP3?
As we all know too well, 'the free market' != 'those who market'. Take a look at the price gouging going on with CD prices today. I'd pay **at most** $1 (preferably less than that) per MP3, but here is what 'they' would perhaps charge:
$18 per cd / 14 songs per cd = $1.29 per song
So they're charging 29% more than most would be willing to pay. 29% is a lot.
Perhaps this is a step in the right direction (users being able to obtain music without dropping $18 for a CD with blah blah blah...), but why pay? Even if the music costs, say, $1 per download, the costs could easily be recouped through advertising. Sure, nobody likes looking at banner ads, but would you rather A) pay $1 for every MP3 you download, or B) look at a couple of banner ads in exchange for being able to download an MP3 without fear of the RIAA coming after you/shutting down the service/etc.?
Why dosen't Saint Linus build a machine code module, tacked on to the main linux kernel that emulates another pentium, a virtual pentium if you like. I know you can emulate other kinds of cpu with m/code why not another pentium.
This is similar to what VMWare does. VMWare takes the existing resources on a computer running either Windows or Linux and emulates another PC, which can run whatever OS you want it to run.
I'd rather have messages on my machine, it only takes a second to delete if you've got a digial answerer and you don't have to go through the trouble of talking to the (often) moronic people on the line. However, what ABC is doing seems illegal, but I'm not sure on that, wonder if they got all the numbers off people sigining up for Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
TM: Hi, this is [name] from [Big Marketing Company]. Would you be interested in...? Me: No thanks. TM: Are you confident? Me: Yes. TM: Is that your final answer? Me: That is my final answer. [Game show sounds in background] TM: No, I'm sorry. That is the wrong answer.
Not that it's alone... it's illegal to unscramble cable, too.
But there's a big difference between descrambling cable and DeCSS: you paid for the content on the DVD that you are DeCSSing, but you didn't pay for the premium cable channel you are descrambling. Therefore, it is within your right (fair use) to descramble the DVD, while it is not within your right to descramble the cable channel.
If you've never seen ReBoot... well... I'm sorry. The canonical episode (Talent Night from the second season) is available on VHS."
When I first read this, I read it as Telnet Night instead of Talent Night I think I've been up for too long when I start mistaking words like that for computer terms... =)
Hell, RH even puts RPMs and even ISO images up on their site so people can download and/or burn their own, and people STILL buy CDs from them.
The problem with this is that not everyone has broadband available to them. I live in a medium-sized town (~35000), but yet there is no cable or DSL!(*#@!#! I'm stuck on a fscking 56k, which isn't very conductive to being able to download a 650 MB ISO file.
What's the big deal? I'd rather have two 600mhz chips than OneBigOle 1.13Ghz chip. Nothing has scaled to this processing speed, save research stuff, so why waste the cash?
So you have an SMP board. Why not get two 1.13 GHz chips (*drool* 2.26 GHz total) instead of two 600 MHz chips or one 1.13 GHz chip? As some earlier posts have stated, and as should already be obvious, there is no such thing as overkill when you are dealing with processor speed.
Ever notice how MAPS spelled backwards is SPAM? I wonder why...:P
Anyway, if the MAPS blocks out legit emails to prevent spam, then so be it. If an ISP does not care enough about the outside world to want to secure its email system from abuse by spammers, then it deserves what is coming. Specifically, since its customers will not be able to email anybody (unless they use Hotmail/Yahoo/etc.), they will likely notice the reduced quality of service and find themselves a new ISP. Eventually, the ISP will notice their bottom line dropping, and *maybe* they will smarten up then.
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I beleive the idea is to insert a short ad in the middle of the music...
You're not really paying for an Athlon (example) at XXX MHz, you're really just paying for an Athlon, period. The real reason for the sharp price differences is that in the "faster" versions, the silicon is better. So if you have a piece of silicon that is factory-set at, say, 700 MHz, what is wrong with pushing it to 800 MHz if it is capable of doing so?
Luckily your argument is completely without any legal merit. According to the 1992 Audio Home Recording Act, any non-commercial sharing of music is in fact perfectly legal and not copyright infringement at all. The method, scale, or "impact" of the copying has nothing to do with it. Period. So long as there is no fee or other quid pro quo exchange, trading music on Napster is not infringement.
The relevant part of the AHRA is as follows (taken from this link at Cornell's law server):
Sec. 1008. Prohibition on certain infringement actions
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
There is plenty of interest in cs, it's just that most of the people interested aren't any good.
Or they were sucked into another field like I was. I was going to go into CS, but the CE (comp. engineering) department persuaded me to go with them instead.
Compare that to your work place. No matter how cool your boss seems, if they turned to you and said "Hey, times are tight. I'd really like to keep you around, but I'm not sure if you're really valuable enough to keep. Could you just put in maybe 4 weeks at no pay? If i decide to keep you, i'll pay you for that time, but i let you go, i'll owe you nothing." Are you going to stick around that there?
I know people who have had experiences similar to this. Needless to say, they weren't with the company for much longer. And due to the occupation of this person and nature of the company, the company pretty much had to shut down after this.
What this implies is that if you are going to use something like Autocad for profit, you should pay for it, even if you're not sure how much longer you will be using it. This goes against my belief in the "try-before-you-buy" system, but if you're gonna use it to make money, it's only fair that the makers of Autocad get a cut. After all, they are helping you make more profit.
MP3s are a slightly different matter IMO. You don't usually gain profit off of them (well, you gain the "profit" of having personal entertainment), but at the same time, people do build careers around this, thus necessitating that they receive profit. Perhaps a legal system of downloading and even being able to legally trade MP3s would involve paying a small fee per MP3 if you keep it a certain amount of time, decide you like it, decide to burn it to a CD, etc. Some commercial sites may even be able to support a free or reduced-price legal MP3 system by advertising. But if you just listen to an MP3 once or twice and then delete it, there would be no point in paying for it.
Open source does have a marketplace - just because people can get the source doesn't mean people won't pay for it. You and your happy little windows 15 minutes is almost up....14....13...12...
15, 14, 13, 12, 11,... *BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH*
Looks like he'll have to start over again with that 15 minutes.
you're PAYING for AOL...you shouldn't be subject to that.
Unless it subsidizes (reduces the cost) of your AOL service, which is not likely in this case.
There are other things people pay for and still have to view advertisements on. In some of these cases, the advertisements do subsidize what is being used. Newspapers are an example of this; yes, you do pay for your copy of the paper, but you'd be paying a lot more were it not for the ads. And yes, there are places out there where advertisements are shown that do not subsidize costs. For example, the company I work for has been building a 5-mile stretch of turnpike (turnpike == toll road) where there are literally dozens of billboard stands waiting for advertisements. People pay to use the road, and the billboards don't subsidize the costs much if at all (with as many as there are, it'd be free if they did), so they deserve not to be bombarded with so many ads. Oh well. Money talks, I guess.
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This is the dumbest move the RIAA has pulled so far.
You mean the MPAA.
RIAA = recording industry, fight against Napster
MPAA = movie industry, fight against DeCSS
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beer, coffee, choclate coated coffee beans, sweets and if your realy luckey you'll get a migrane kick in at the perfect moment and save yourself some cash.
Caffeine is a Good Thing, but be careful -- if you start feeling like saying "I am Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole," you won't be very productive.
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I own a e button Logitech optical mouse and it is *sweet* (especially for it's list price $29.99).
;)
E button? Does that mean it has 2.718281828 buttons?
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Better yet, why stop at 3 buttons, or 5?
Why have any buttons at all? There is a buttonless mouse out there.
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I'm sure apple tried this, but then they would have to color match the mice with the iMac shells. It's probably pretty hard to make a "snow" color opitical light.
Use infrared. No need to worry about color at all.
=================================
Is this true? I've never met a CD player that didn't like a CD-R, and I've got some OLD players. On the other hand, CD-RWs, obviously, are a different story. I've found that CD-RWs aren't playable in any of my CD players, but my DVD player recognizes it just fine (which, I guess, you would expect.)
The reason behind this is that CDRWs reflect less light and thus require slightly different methods of using the laser light to read the disc. Standard CD players are not able to do this; therefore, they are not able to read CDRWs.
=================================
"Mojo payments"...is it just me or does that make it sound like "mondo" payments or "mega" payments?
I wonder what "the free market" would say a fair price is for a single song on MP3?
As we all know too well, 'the free market' != 'those who market'. Take a look at the price gouging going on with CD prices today. I'd pay **at most** $1 (preferably less than that) per MP3, but here is what 'they' would perhaps charge:
$18 per cd / 14 songs per cd = $1.29 per song
So they're charging 29% more than most would be willing to pay. 29% is a lot.
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Perhaps this is a step in the right direction (users being able to obtain music without dropping $18 for a CD with blah blah blah...), but why pay? Even if the music costs, say, $1 per download, the costs could easily be recouped through advertising. Sure, nobody likes looking at banner ads, but would you rather A) pay $1 for every MP3 you download, or B) look at a couple of banner ads in exchange for being able to download an MP3 without fear of the RIAA coming after you/shutting down the service/etc.?
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Why dosen't Saint Linus build a machine code module, tacked on to the main linux kernel that emulates another pentium, a virtual pentium if you like. I know you can emulate other kinds of cpu with m/code why not another pentium.
This is similar to what VMWare does. VMWare takes the existing resources on a computer running either Windows or Linux and emulates another PC, which can run whatever OS you want it to run.
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and anyone with half a clue working for AOL
That would be what, two employees? =)
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I'd rather have messages on my machine, it only takes a second to delete if you've got a digial answerer and you don't have to go through the trouble of talking to the (often) moronic people on the line. However, what ABC is doing seems illegal, but I'm not sure on that, wonder if they got all the numbers off people sigining up for Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
TM: Hi, this is [name] from [Big Marketing Company]. Would you be interested in...?
Me: No thanks.
TM: Are you confident?
Me: Yes.
TM: Is that your final answer?
Me: That is my final answer.
[Game show sounds in background]
TM: No, I'm sorry. That is the wrong answer.
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Not that it's alone ... it's illegal to unscramble cable, too.
But there's a big difference between descrambling cable and DeCSS: you paid for the content on the DVD that you are DeCSSing, but you didn't pay for the premium cable channel you are descrambling. Therefore, it is within your right (fair use) to descramble the DVD, while it is not within your right to descramble the cable channel.
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If you've never seen ReBoot ... well ... I'm sorry. The canonical episode (Talent Night from the second season) is available on VHS."
When I first read this, I read it as Telnet Night instead of Talent Night
I think I've been up for too long when I start mistaking words like that for computer terms... =)
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Hell, RH even puts RPMs and even ISO images up on their site so people can download and/or burn their own, and people STILL buy CDs from them.
The problem with this is that not everyone has broadband available to them. I live in a medium-sized town (~35000), but yet there is no cable or DSL!(*#@!#! I'm stuck on a fscking 56k, which isn't very conductive to being able to download a 650 MB ISO file.
=================================
What's the big deal? I'd rather have two 600mhz chips than OneBigOle 1.13Ghz chip. Nothing has scaled to this processing speed, save research stuff, so why waste the cash?
So you have an SMP board. Why not get two 1.13 GHz chips (*drool* 2.26 GHz total) instead of two 600 MHz chips or one 1.13 GHz chip? As some earlier posts have stated, and as should already be obvious, there is no such thing as overkill when you are dealing with processor speed.
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Isn't Gervase the one who all the women are voting for because of, well, "moo"?
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Ever notice how MAPS spelled backwards is SPAM? I wonder why... :P
Anyway, if the MAPS blocks out legit emails to prevent spam, then so be it. If an ISP does not care enough about the outside world to want to secure its email system from abuse by spammers, then it deserves what is coming. Specifically, since its customers will not be able to email anybody (unless they use Hotmail/Yahoo/etc.), they will likely notice the reduced quality of service and find themselves a new ISP. Eventually, the ISP will notice their bottom line dropping, and *maybe* they will smarten up then.
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I beleive the idea is to insert a short ad in the middle of the music...
Oooooh, and she's buying a stairway to Pepsi...
Or how about...
Sweeeeeeet 10-10-321 (instead of 'Sweet Emotion')
The possibilities go on and on...
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You're not really paying for an Athlon (example) at XXX MHz, you're really just paying for an Athlon, period. The real reason for the sharp price differences is that in the "faster" versions, the silicon is better. So if you have a piece of silicon that is factory-set at, say, 700 MHz, what is wrong with pushing it to 800 MHz if it is capable of doing so?
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Luckily your argument is completely without any legal merit. According to the 1992 Audio Home Recording Act, any non-commercial sharing of music is in fact perfectly legal and not copyright infringement at all. The method, scale, or "impact" of the copying has nothing to do with it. Period. So long as there is no fee or other quid pro quo exchange, trading music on Napster is not infringement.
The relevant part of the AHRA is as follows (taken from this link at Cornell's law server):
Sec. 1008. Prohibition on certain infringement actions
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Any thoughts?
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Spending your teen years learning programming is not something you will be thankful for when you are forty.
Unless you get a job out of this self-taught skill that starts at $70000 a year, which is quite possible given the need for CS people today.
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There is plenty of interest in cs, it's just that most of the people interested aren't any good.
Or they were sucked into another field like I was. I was going to go into CS, but the CE (comp. engineering) department persuaded me to go with them instead.
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Compare that to your work place. No matter how cool your boss seems, if they turned to you and said "Hey, times are tight. I'd really like to keep you around, but I'm not sure if you're really valuable enough to keep. Could you just put in maybe 4 weeks at no pay? If i decide to keep you, i'll pay you for that time, but i let you go, i'll owe you nothing." Are you going to stick around that there?
I know people who have had experiences similar to this. Needless to say, they weren't with the company for much longer. And due to the occupation of this person and nature of the company, the company pretty much had to shut down after this.
What this implies is that if you are going to use something like Autocad for profit, you should pay for it, even if you're not sure how much longer you will be using it. This goes against my belief in the "try-before-you-buy" system, but if you're gonna use it to make money, it's only fair that the makers of Autocad get a cut. After all, they are helping you make more profit.
MP3s are a slightly different matter IMO. You don't usually gain profit off of them (well, you gain the "profit" of having personal entertainment), but at the same time, people do build careers around this, thus necessitating that they receive profit. Perhaps a legal system of downloading and even being able to legally trade MP3s would involve paying a small fee per MP3 if you keep it a certain amount of time, decide you like it, decide to burn it to a CD, etc. Some commercial sites may even be able to support a free or reduced-price legal MP3 system by advertising. But if you just listen to an MP3 once or twice and then delete it, there would be no point in paying for it.
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Open source does have a marketplace - just because people can get the source doesn't mean people won't pay for it. You and your happy little windows 15 minutes is almost up....14....13...12...
...
15, 14, 13, 12, 11,
*BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH*
Looks like he'll have to start over again with that 15 minutes.
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you're PAYING for AOL...you shouldn't be subject to that.
Unless it subsidizes (reduces the cost) of your AOL service, which is not likely in this case.
There are other things people pay for and still have to view advertisements on. In some of these cases, the advertisements do subsidize what is being used. Newspapers are an example of this; yes, you do pay for your copy of the paper, but you'd be paying a lot more were it not for the ads. And yes, there are places out there where advertisements are shown that do not subsidize costs. For example, the company I work for has been building a 5-mile stretch of turnpike (turnpike == toll road) where there are literally dozens of billboard stands waiting for advertisements. People pay to use the road, and the billboards don't subsidize the costs much if at all (with as many as there are, it'd be free if they did), so they deserve not to be bombarded with so many ads. Oh well. Money talks, I guess.
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