You aren't kidding.... but more importantly, I have all this music on a pocket-sized MP3 player. Nearly my whole collection. At my fingertips. No hunting. No searching. No storing hundreds of CDs on my shelves.
The pure and simple fact remains that the entire planet will STILL be trading music in some fashion until the end of the time itself.
* Outlawing filesharing networks won't slow it down.
* Blocking access to the sites hosting networks or files won't stop it.
* I doubt that even getting rid of the net won't have much of an impact.
Everyone has forgotten (or is ignoring the fact) that even before any of these things were around people were swapping music just as successfully. How many of you had (or still have) stacks of audo-cassettes you dubbed from a friend's CD before CD-Rs came out? For a point in time, that's how some of my friends ONLY got music.
Life has taught me, Pam and Tommy Lee to pick battles and roll with the punches -- a clue train that the record companies need to hop on before they get completely pounded into the ground. We can all rest assured though that they won't stop until some enforced (laugh) law is on the books and/or the net is gone (laugh) and they are "suffering" as much as ever.
They don't get that the net is growing and changing, and perhaps one day there won't be any ISP to close down, or backbone to hamper. This particular battle will only get harder for them...
So what will really happen?
Considering that everything happens in cycles, I'd guestimate that we'll probably see a flourish of musicians making music for the love of it rather than record companies making musicians for the profit of it.
But... as someone has already posted (more than once). This is definitely a dead horse, and I have decided at this point that I simply don't care anymore - I've already converted all my CDs to MP3 format.
Damn, I've been wanting to create an addition to my site for the longest time that does just that since there's been a growth in telnet systems over the last few years.
The face of BBSing has changed over the last few years, but I assure you that it is alive and well in the form of telnet bulletin boards connected to the internet.
But still there is that lingering cry of people saying it puts the costs on the receiver. Though I have never seen one ISP raise their rates because of spam, I would be interested in someone showing me one...
DAMNIT!!!!!!!
My time *IS* money, and the time I spend trying to sort through 50-60 spam messages a day to make sure I'm not missing a client's important e-mail is costing me REAL money. Not to mention all the general maintenance time it takes to download and get rid of the sh!t. I can't tell you how often a legitimate message I received gets mistaken as spam for whatever reason and then I'm forced to do damage control.
I hate ignorate posts about "spam doesn't cost anyone anything!"
The reason that existing project containers would not suffice is because my project is an exercise in shape design as it applies to usability.
Basically, I'm trying to create a working prototype so I can test how usable it really is -- and a lot of that usability depends on the form factor of the device.
"Hey, this way we don't have to spend our own money on fighting this problem!"
Should there have been [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags around that? Geeze, I hope so.
Seriously though - as much as I desire 'less government,' I do struggle with this one every day as I download hundreds of obvious scam, porn and stupid attempts to trick me into "clicking here" or "going there."
My gut tells me that this won't do much though:(
What I really need is for MS to incorporate the "bounce message" feature into Outlook Express as Apple has done with OS X Mail!
You spend $3,000 on that Sony MiniDV camera with 3CCDs and it's quickly outdated.
No matter how many time I tell myself I'm over the fact that this will alway happen (stuff being outdated right after you buy it), the first thing that pops into my mind is "damn, if only I could have waited a little longer..."
Actually, this is very cool. Combine it with the depth capturing story we heard about earlier and hopefully dept projection and the future looks really really awesome!
Like others have posted here, I've always wanted to try my hand at punched card programming. Normal people (non geeks) look at me funny when we talk about it.
Has anyone found software that allows you to virtually punch cards and run them through a virtual reader?
I'd love to try to create something comparable to a "Hello World!" program:)
You think so? One could definitely argue that there's a lot of what you call "FPS-ish" stuff in ALL of the Zeldas. The first one in particular had fighting/slashing in nearly every screen you went through!
Yes, there is some fighting, but I'd hardly say that it's FPS-ish.
With a new game in the works, it must still be quite popular. To me at least, each Zelda was reason enough to buy the next console.
I'm sick, I know. Aside from the Cube (which I'll be purchasing once the new Zelda is released), I own every Nintendo console and every version of Zelda.
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They state that it looks at the content of the messages to determine if it is spam, so I'd imagine that it's similar in some ways.
:) It also does seem to get better over time.
My luck with it has been very good, with no false positive and only a few missed ones over the course of a month.
I originally stored over 1000 spams before it was released and "trained it" in one fell swoop
You aren't kidding.... but more importantly, I have all this music on a pocket-sized MP3 player. Nearly my whole collection. At my fingertips. No hunting. No searching. No storing hundreds of CDs on my shelves.
The pure and simple fact remains that the entire planet will STILL be trading music in some fashion until the end of the time itself.
* Outlawing filesharing networks won't slow it down.
* Blocking access to the sites hosting networks or files won't stop it.
* I doubt that even getting rid of the net won't have much of an impact.
Everyone has forgotten (or is ignoring the fact) that even before any of these things were around people were swapping music just as successfully. How many of you had (or still have) stacks of audo-cassettes you dubbed from a friend's CD before CD-Rs came out? For a point in time, that's how some of my friends ONLY got music.
Life has taught me, Pam and Tommy Lee to pick battles and roll with the punches -- a clue train that the record companies need to hop on before they get completely pounded into the ground. We can all rest assured though that they won't stop until some enforced (laugh) law is on the books and/or the net is gone (laugh) and they are "suffering" as much as ever.
They don't get that the net is growing and changing, and perhaps one day there won't be any ISP to close down, or backbone to hamper. This particular battle will only get harder for them...
So what will really happen?
Considering that everything happens in cycles, I'd guestimate that we'll probably see a flourish of musicians making music for the love of it rather than record companies making musicians for the profit of it.
But... as someone has already posted (more than once). This is definitely a dead horse, and I have decided at this point that I simply don't care anymore - I've already converted all my CDs to MP3 format.
Thank you.
:)
Thank you.
Thank you.
That made my day
Okay, I'll bite.
My first modem was a 1200baud internal.
I ran my first part time BBS on a Tandy 1000EX 8Mhz, 16color PC with no hard drive, a 5 1/4" internal and 3 1/2" external floppy drive.
I also ran one on an IBM XT 10MB HD
I used ProComm Plus for most of my dialing and then switched to Telemate (still the best) years later.
I wrote my first door program, "The Graffiti Wall," when 2400 baud modems were still hot technology.
I used to MANUALLY log in to the Compuserve network via a DOS terminal.
I still know all those damn funky ass modem AT commands:
ATQ0V1X4...
What a trip.
Damn, I've been wanting to create an addition to my site for the longest time that does just that since there's been a growth in telnet systems over the last few years.
:(
Not enough time in the day
BRE v0.988 which was y2k compliant was released a LONG time ago...
http://www.johndaileysoftware.com/
Well, you can definitely still play BRE online on a numerous amount of telnet bulletin boards :)
The face of BBSing has changed over the last few years, but I assure you that it is alive and well in the form of telnet bulletin boards connected to the internet.
But still there is that lingering cry of people saying it puts the costs on the receiver. Though I have never seen one ISP raise their rates because of spam, I would be interested in someone showing me one...
DAMNIT!!!!!!!
My time *IS* money, and the time I spend trying to sort through 50-60 spam messages a day to make sure I'm not missing a client's important e-mail is costing me REAL money. Not to mention all the general maintenance time it takes to download and get rid of the sh!t. I can't tell you how often a legitimate message I received gets mistaken as spam for whatever reason and then I'm forced to do damage control.
I hate ignorate posts about "spam doesn't cost anyone anything!"
The reason that existing project containers would not suffice is because my project is an exercise in shape design as it applies to usability.
Basically, I'm trying to create a working prototype so I can test how usable it really is -- and a lot of that usability depends on the form factor of the device.
I didn't want to disclose the details of my design to a 3rd party, but it looks like QuickParts may be exactly what I need. Thanks!!
Not much, you're right.
When I wrote that message, I guess I was only thinking of relaying through other people's mail servers and hijacking old versions of formmail.
... that'll teach my to type what I'm thinking instead of thinking that I'm typing what I'm thinking... er...
Yes, everyone knows the from headers are pretty much crap. Whooppee, you're a genius.
Right...
... and maybe then the "poor sucker" will do something about it so that they won't get "borrowed" again.
Should there have been [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags around that? Geeze, I hope so.
Seriously though - as much as I desire 'less government,' I do struggle with this one every day as I download hundreds of obvious scam, porn and stupid attempts to trick me into "clicking here" or "going there."
My gut tells me that this won't do much though
What I really need is for MS to incorporate the "bounce message" feature into Outlook Express as Apple has done with OS X Mail!
I thought it was:
sleep less = age faster
Maybe you're just living longer because the years go by faster?
:)
I agree, but I also have to admit that it will take a long time to outgrow my PowerBook/Sony VX-2000 combination ;)
Argh. I meant depth projection.
Dept projection already exists in the form of "You're pre-approved!" spam e-mail.
:)
You spend $3,000 on that Sony MiniDV camera with 3CCDs and it's quickly outdated.
No matter how many time I tell myself I'm over the fact that this will alway happen (stuff being outdated right after you buy it), the first thing that pops into my mind is "damn, if only I could have waited a little longer..."
Actually, this is very cool. Combine it with the depth capturing story we heard about earlier and hopefully dept projection and the future looks really really awesome!
Like others have posted here, I've always wanted to try my hand at punched card programming. Normal people (non geeks) look at me funny when we talk about it.
:)
Has anyone found software that allows you to virtually punch cards and run them through a virtual reader?
I'd love to try to create something comparable to a "Hello World!" program
A resource for punched card information:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/index.html
You think so? One could definitely argue that there's a lot of what you call "FPS-ish" stuff in ALL of the Zeldas. The first one in particular had fighting/slashing in nearly every screen you went through!
Yes, there is some fighting, but I'd hardly say that it's FPS-ish.
Maybe I'm just being stoopid, but ...
...look at Nintendo's Zelda series.
With a new game in the works, it must still be quite popular. To me at least, each Zelda was reason enough to buy the next console.
I'm sick, I know. Aside from the Cube (which I'll be purchasing once the new Zelda is released), I own every Nintendo console and every version of Zelda.
Surely I'm not the only one?