Sony announced today that songs purchased on CDs and through online music stores are not the property of the purchaser. The purchase only grants the purchasee the right to license the music for a period of one year, at which time the license needs to be renewed at the original purchase price. Listening to songs after the license has expired, constitutes theft and will be prosecuted by the RIAA to the maximum allowed by law. A spokesperson for Sony was quoted as saying "The artists devote their lives to the creation of this music and we are only doing this to protect their rights and livelyhoods".
I am 53 years old. I spent over 27 years working as a programmer on Wall Street. I just graduated from Culinary School and next week I start as a line cook in a local diner. Next time you order a berger and fries, think of me and plan your career change early.
I have been an IBM mainframe programmer for the past 27 years. You know, COBOL, CICS, DB2, etc. I bought my first PC in '93. A 486 rumming win 3.1. I could have gone the same route as you but I didn't. I am now, and always have been a hacker at heart. The result is, I have A+, MCP, and CCNA certifications. My home network runs numerous flavors of Win, LINUX, and my laptop is an iBook. The computer I'm on now is my favorite build, Slack 10 with Firefox, Thunderbird, and OO.o, fully configured and integrated into the network with shared printers, NFS shares, and SMB shares. I an extremelly proud of this setup.
I don't spend all my free time slaving over a hot terminal, but I do spend time enjoying it as a hobby. I am currently supporting the computers and networks of an number of friends and family. It gets to be a pain sometimes, but each time I am confronted with an infested computer, I learn more. Yes, I hate spending 4 days cleaning up the PC of a friend of a friend. But before doing that I hade no idea you could restrict which web sites a Windows computer could access by simply updating the hosts file. Get the picture? A hobby is a hobby, shitty work and all. And with the changes that have come to the IT environment in the past 4 years, the knowledge I've gained increases my worth in the "Incredibly Shrinking Job Market".
I'll be spending the holiday at my girlfriend's house. We are cooking dinner together for whatever friends and family that care to show up. In my spare time, I will be installing Slackware 10 on an old P II that runs Win Millenium. I just installed a 60 gig HD and I am making it a file and print server for her laptop so she can roam around her home with her laptop and print form anywhere. She is totally computer illiterate. I have already installed firefox on her XP laptop and SP2. I can think of nothing better for Thanksgiving than to be with the one you love, having family and friends over, and nerding with Linux.
May you all have a happy and healthy holiday.
I had a long talk with the tech support for Citibank. I found out that they don't suport Safari. Nasty, nasty people. They said they support IE and Netscape Only. Lucky for me Firefox works perfectly.
You have been doing an excellent job of educating your Mom. Now its time to get her a copy of "How to Repair and Upgrade Your Computer". In a few months, she may well be doing Tech Support for you.
I tried to convince my parents to switch to Linux. There only objections weres that they couldn't run Juno and their favorate Casino games.
I've keep looking for simple books on XP because my father keeps asking me how things work, yet he refuses to read the books because they are too confusing. My father was always a "fix it yourself" kind of guy in an analog way. He taught me wiring, plumbing, carpentry, and auto mechanics, yet he can't seems to grasp digital concepts. This is frustrating for both of us.
A couple of years back (about 20, ya know, yesterday) I tried to design a music system that would store my entire collection and then play it back on-demand. The technology was not there yet. Now I have a 40 gig iPod and my entire CD collection doesn't even make a dent in the storage.
I have it hooked up to a good pair of PC speakers in my "Nerd Room" with a sub-woofer that vibrates the whole room. When I'm in my car, I have it hooked into the Stereo. And, of course, there are just earphones for that train ride each morning and evening.
It's a perfect solution, I always have my entire music collection where ever I go, indexed, accessable and easy to use.
I've been a mainframe programmer for close to 30 years now. I can remember a time (seems like yesterday, damn it was yesterday) where it was close to impossible to get more than 50 Mbytes of storage for files. I used to sit at my desk musing about attaching a 30 GigaByte PC drive to the mainframe so I could easily store large files. Its about time IBM came up with the technology to take cheap (?) PC type storage and use it on their zSeries computers.
Go to www.baen.com and download Free Books. It seems the publishers insist that the way to produce more sales is to allow the public to sample their good for FREE first. The format of download does not include any DRM protection, You can DL in HTML, RTF or other formats.
EVERY song on my brand new iPod comes from my CD collection. iPods are just a more convient way to carry 100+ CDs. Boy do I resent being called a thief by some Gates Flunky.
I own an IPOD 4G/40GB that I pruchased the first day it became available. I have only one small problem with it. I tried to use it for my AM run. Every time it tries to access the HD, I had to stop because the jaring was causing it problems. Okay, I needed a memory chip based MP3 player. I looked around and decided on a RIO Cali 256mb. It plays WMA and MP3. I refuse, for phylosophical reasons, to use WMA. To encode a MP3 file from my CD collection I had to register my product, give them my email address, and download the "Lame" encoder. They restrict the download to 3 times for the encoder even though it comes under the GPL (its backed up on my LAN and I burned it on CD just to be safe).
Using iTunes the encoding of my CDs was fast and easy. RIO was a pain in the ass and slow as hell. A few of the songs came out in such poor quality they needed to be redone. It took me 2 days to get a playlist and about an hours worth of songs on the thing. It is no where near as intuitive as iTunes.
It does work well and has good sound quality. I hope they really improve their software or it will not even come close to being an iPOD buster.;
I grew up on Heinlein. I always loved "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". I thought it was a primer on how to run a revolution until I read the Sten Series (Cole and Bunch). Apart from that, when I was a teen I read "Glory Road". That influenced me to take up fencing in High School. Heinlein always started me thinking. As a result, I took a number of Philosophy courses in college. I would say he influenced my life more than any other author.
I started out with Earthlink Dial-up (23.99/mo) and an extra phone line (about 20/mo). Now I have a cable modem at 45/mo. The net cost of broadband for me is $1/mo. For me, the cost of cable is equal to the cost of dial-up right now.
I've crashed my NT desktop at work twice so far today. My Linux box at home never crashes. I think you definition of "TRUST" is too qualified and prefer my more emotional one.
Recently in my local computer store I was shocked by the lack of hardware for sale that doesn't require a windows operating system. All the computers for sale come with some flavor of windows. (In the past few months I have seen an increate in the number of high end machines that come with Linux.) What piracy? You buy a machine and you get windows, no choice. The only possibility of piracy is the small percentage of the population willing to build there own.
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Sony announced today that songs purchased on CDs and through online music stores are not the property of the purchaser. The purchase only grants the purchasee the right to license the music for a period of one year, at which time the license needs to be renewed at the original purchase price. Listening to songs after the license has expired, constitutes theft and will be prosecuted by the RIAA to the maximum allowed by law. A spokesperson for Sony was quoted as saying "The artists devote their lives to the creation of this music and we are only doing this to protect their rights and livelyhoods".
I am 53 years old. I spent over 27 years working as a programmer on Wall Street. I just graduated from Culinary School and next week I start as a line cook in a local diner. Next time you order a berger and fries, think of me and plan your career change early.
"If 'buts' and 'or' were filthy whores, we'd all be covered in chanker sores."
I have been an IBM mainframe programmer for the past 27 years. You know, COBOL, CICS, DB2, etc. I bought my first PC in '93. A 486 rumming win 3.1. I could have gone the same route as you but I didn't. I am now, and always have been a hacker at heart. The result is, I have A+, MCP, and CCNA certifications. My home network runs numerous flavors of Win, LINUX, and my laptop is an iBook. The computer I'm on now is my favorite build, Slack 10 with Firefox, Thunderbird, and OO.o, fully configured and integrated into the network with shared printers, NFS shares, and SMB shares. I an extremelly proud of this setup.
I don't spend all my free time slaving over a hot terminal, but I do spend time enjoying it as a hobby. I am currently supporting the computers and networks of an number of friends and family. It gets to be a pain sometimes, but each time I am confronted with an infested computer, I learn more. Yes, I hate spending 4 days cleaning up the PC of a friend of a friend. But before doing that I hade no idea you could restrict which web sites a Windows computer could access by simply updating the hosts file. Get the picture? A hobby is a hobby, shitty work and all. And with the changes that have come to the IT environment in the past 4 years, the knowledge I've gained increases my worth in the "Incredibly Shrinking Job Market".
Sorry if I sound like I'm preaching.
I'll be spending the holiday at my girlfriend's house. We are cooking dinner together for whatever friends and family that care to show up. In my spare time, I will be installing Slackware 10 on an old P II that runs Win Millenium. I just installed a 60 gig HD and I am making it a file and print server for her laptop so she can roam around her home with her laptop and print form anywhere. She is totally computer illiterate. I have already installed firefox on her XP laptop and SP2. I can think of nothing better for Thanksgiving than to be with the one you love, having family and friends over, and nerding with Linux.
May you all have a happy and healthy holiday.
I had a long talk with the tech support for Citibank. I found out that they don't suport Safari. Nasty, nasty people. They said they support IE and Netscape Only. Lucky for me Firefox works perfectly.
You have been doing an excellent job of educating your Mom. Now its time to get her a copy of "How to Repair and Upgrade Your Computer". In a few months, she may well be doing Tech Support for you.
I tried to convince my parents to switch to Linux. There only objections weres that they couldn't run Juno and their favorate Casino games.
I've keep looking for simple books on XP because my father keeps asking me how things work, yet he refuses to read the books because they are too confusing. My father was always a "fix it yourself" kind of guy in an analog way. He taught me wiring, plumbing, carpentry, and auto mechanics, yet he can't seems to grasp digital concepts. This is frustrating for both of us.
A couple of years back (about 20, ya know, yesterday) I tried to design a music system that would store my entire collection and then play it back on-demand. The technology was not there yet. Now I have a 40 gig iPod and my entire CD collection doesn't even make a dent in the storage.
I have it hooked up to a good pair of PC speakers in my "Nerd Room" with a sub-woofer that vibrates the whole room. When I'm in my car, I have it hooked into the Stereo. And, of course, there are just earphones for that train ride each morning and evening.
It's a perfect solution, I always have my entire music collection where ever I go, indexed, accessable and easy to use.
I've been a mainframe programmer for close to 30 years now. I can remember a time (seems like yesterday, damn it was yesterday) where it was close to impossible to get more than 50 Mbytes of storage for files. I used to sit at my desk musing about attaching a 30 GigaByte PC drive to the mainframe so I could easily store large files. Its about time IBM came up with the technology to take cheap (?) PC type storage and use it on their zSeries computers.
Go to www.baen.com and download Free Books. It seems the publishers insist that the way to produce more sales is to allow the public to sample their good for FREE first. The format of download does not include any DRM protection, You can DL in HTML, RTF or other formats.
EVERY song on my brand new iPod comes from my CD collection. iPods are just a more convient way to carry 100+ CDs. Boy do I resent being called a thief by some Gates Flunky.
I own an IPOD 4G/40GB that I pruchased the first day it became available. I have only one small problem with it. I tried to use it for my AM run. Every time it tries to access the HD, I had to stop because the jaring was causing it problems. Okay, I needed a memory chip based MP3 player. I looked around and decided on a RIO Cali 256mb. It plays WMA and MP3. I refuse, for phylosophical reasons, to use WMA. To encode a MP3 file from my CD collection I had to register my product, give them my email address, and download the "Lame" encoder. They restrict the download to 3 times for the encoder even though it comes under the GPL (its backed up on my LAN and I burned it on CD just to be safe).
Using iTunes the encoding of my CDs was fast and easy. RIO was a pain in the ass and slow as hell. A few of the songs came out in such poor quality they needed to be redone. It took me 2 days to get a playlist and about an hours worth of songs on the thing. It is no where near as intuitive as iTunes.
It does work well and has good sound quality. I hope they really improve their software or it will not even come close to being an iPOD buster.;
I grew up on Heinlein. I always loved "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". I thought it was a primer on how to run a revolution until I read the Sten Series (Cole and Bunch). Apart from that, when I was a teen I read "Glory Road". That influenced me to take up fencing in High School. Heinlein always started me thinking. As a result, I took a number of Philosophy courses in college. I would say he influenced my life more than any other author.
The ITEF working group responsible for evaluating Sender ID is expected to nominate it as an Internet standard this week.
There is nothing I love more than a well edited article. It says loads for it's credibility.
I started out with Earthlink Dial-up (23.99/mo) and an extra phone line (about 20/mo). Now I have a cable modem at 45/mo. The net cost of broadband for me is $1/mo. For me, the cost of cable is equal to the cost of dial-up right now.
I heard that they plan to knight Charlie Manson next.
I've crashed my NT desktop at work twice so far today. My Linux box at home never crashes. I think you definition of "TRUST" is too qualified and prefer my more emotional one.
Recently in my local computer store I was shocked by the lack of hardware for sale that doesn't require a windows operating system. All the computers for sale come with some flavor of windows. (In the past few months I have seen an increate in the number of high end machines that come with Linux.) What piracy? You buy a machine and you get windows, no choice. The only possibility of piracy is the small percentage of the population willing to build there own.
Gibson thought of this 10? years ago. He called them MICROSOFTS