Yea but where can I get a good "New Coke" now? I was one of the ones saying "Bring It Back you bastards" when they changed formulas...and also the one that said "Choice is good" when they brought Clasic Coke to live in harmony with New Coke....But now where is New Coke?
Do textpad, dreamweaver, frontpage work in an ssh session? Do textpad, dreamweaver, frontpage work on almost any OS known to man?
The reason I got used to vi or vim if possible is because you can count on it being anywhere -- local, remote, you name it....No matter what box I was on EVER -- I could type vi filename.html.
How would KITT do on "Who wants to be a Millionaire"?
Study A: Scientific studies show that KITT had a larger vocabulary than most computerized cars of his era -- so we think he could get at least to $250K without using any of his lifelines.
Study B: Our team of scientists got sidetracked in discussing who would win between batman or aquaman...so we were never sble to finish the study.
Don't know what is worse -- the spyware/adware -- or the browser and OS that make it possible.
I have seen a machine/browser infected with a few of these buggers....and if there was ever a plug or commercial for Linux.....then this was it. Nasty Nasty Nasty stuff boys and girls. I think if uncle Bill were to sit down at a workstation that was infected with these bad boys (to check on his stocks) that even he would switch to Linux.
Is this really so revolutionary that it would warrent me to create a windows partition? I have to admit that the last Windows I ran was Windows 95 and have managed to "get by" with Linux since 1998. Yet, this is the first Windows application that has been hyped so much that I feel like it may be worth a try.
I continue to be amazed that there seems to be a certain number of people that continue to pay retail++ for used electronics on Ebay. I guess these are the same people willing to pay $12+ per electronic copy of a CD online. I say these people save themselves some money and go on down to the local circuit city and get a new hard drive and good sounding CD --- and have enough money left over for lunch and a movie.
I realize that the market share tends to point out 90%+ using IE, but that does not jive with the percentage of people I know. I have seen almost everyone in my family and workplace (on their home machines) switch over to Mozilla or Firebird for the native popup blocking, etc -- with little or no input from me....(Most of these people actually come up to me and say "you have to try this"). I can't imagine that this situation is unique to only the people around me. If this is happening everywhere -- then I assume the numbers have to be swaying somewhat.
Companies interested in already coded starting points that just need a few more features (most GPL/OSS projects) will have a cutoff point as to where they would:
A. Start from scratch in house B. Expand upon the source with in house team C. Bring someone (contract/consultent) in to bone up on the code and fork it to their needs D. Find a different package that meets their needs
The fact they are looking to the original team to do it means that they are looking for the most efficient (both in knowledge and cost) solution out of the gate.
If the cost remains cheaper than it would be for them to do it "in house" or bringing in a contractor -- then that would be the sweet spot for all involved.
I call bullshit -- real geeks don't have to call tech support....Let alone spend hours online with tech support. They must be at one with the gadgets. The gadgets must be an extension of them.
** Plus if you are going to get geeks to spend 15K to supply a family with the latest gadegts....Make sure it is geeks who have had 15K to spend themselves. A true geek does not just read about it...he lives it.
Great point. I do that to nowadays. I stopped going to the "regular" movies when tickets went from $5.50 to $7.50. Wait a month or two and you can go to the "dollar" theater and watch a good show AND have some expensive popcorn and drink for the same cost just for the ticket a month or two earlier.
This is a great example of why I would never think of "pirating" a movie...You either see it when it comes out for full price, See it for $1 a month or $2 later, buy or rent the DVD, or even wait for them to show up in the used bin and buy the whole DVD for about the same price it would have cost to go to the movie when it came out.
In comparison to the music world it is just to easy for us patient folk to legally participate. Imagine if a CD was dropped from $18 to $6.99 after it had been released a while?
Yea...I saw on the national news last night sandwiched in between the 87 billion to rebuild Iraq for the next month and a little story about more people dieing since "after the war " than during the war that the RIAA was going after the "heavy hitters"..If this little girl living on welfare is one of the top 250 "heavy hitters" than I weap more than ever before at these bastards....I hope that someone in power sees this and realizes that things have gone just a tad bit to far for these greedy bastards. I think that that it would be really cool if these national news chains that think this is such "top news" follow the RIAA to the projects to collect their 2 grand from this poor family.
I betcha I could find a pretty good (maybe slightly used last generation) laptop to play DVD's on for about $600. HOWEVER -- I have always had problems with battery life on all of my laptops. And buying a couple of extra batteries (although) an option, can get almost as expensive as the laptop itself. I have a really cool (older) laptop that I purchased on (knock on wood) E-bay for $300 that works great for a nice linux desktop, and it plays DVD's. (I decided to order a new battery for it (because the old one was out in about 45 mins.) and payed almost 2/3 of what the laptop cost me.
I noticed the home of my distro of choice: Slackware had this page up the other day. I checked back a few hours later and it was gone. I thought maybe it was an isolated protest, but based on this story I guess not.
"The last thing RIAA wants is stations regularly broadcasting entire CDs, legally, in a high-quality way that can be easily copied"
Following a set of semi-resonable (however stupid)rules like not playing the same song in a 3 hour timeframe -- or the same artist back to back is a lot easier to manage and accept "punishment" for -- than it is to blindly pay the kind of big time cash it would take to broadcast as a hobby.
If they would come out and set resonable limits for similar to Quality at or over 96K & Listenership at or over 100 slots has to pay something. And then the real "hobbyist/not for profit" broadcasters below those levels are going to be left alone....I could live with that.
Yes that is it. Much the same way that if you side swipe my car while I am in the grocery store -- yet leave a note on the window as to who you are, what your phone number is, etc....That is a better situation for all involved than if you sideswipe my car and then just run. (I have no one to argue accountibility with -- and you could be arrested for a hit and run.)
Spam does not bother me half as much as the fact that the true sender of said spam is easily able to disguise the origin of said spam by forging headers and spoofing, bouncing, relaying. (I.E. -- taking advantage of a bad set of protoccols that should not be in use anymore.) The first step to fixing the spam problem should be a mass adoption of protocols that make it imbossible to determine the origin and owner of the offending piece of data.
Let the spam battles of the future be fought in open view, collesium style rather than a thief in the night shooting you in the back.
Ok. Try this on for size. Why would anything less than the ability to stream 128 kbits per second to at least a potential 1000 users scare the RIAA. I mean look at the bandwidth that would take:
Even having the possibility to have 100 users at a time would run you about 4,052 GB per month. I think the price of bandwidth alone should be enough to regulate the threat for the RIAA.
A shoutcast stream at 32K (somewhere less than AM quality) with the possibillity of "getting lucky" and having 20 users (from around the world) connected at various times throughout any given month will be a hobby that will cost you around $25 - $100 (about 200 GB of data if the slots stayed filled) to just make available. You will not be making any money. Do it for fun.
So -- I am paying an average of $50 bucks a month to stream less than AM quality music to at the most 20 simultanious users.....Yet at the very least they want me to pay $2500 minimum yearly plus about $7 per listener per month to do this.
That is ludicrus. That is awful. What do I owe if I invite 25 friends to a party at my house put 50 CD's I have purchased in a CD changer, hit shuffle and then play in the background as my party goes on for 4 hours? That is more akin to what a webbrodcast is -- than comparing it to a real life FOR PROFIT radio company that has the advanatge of a small dial that can only fit 15 or so channels in a band between 87+ to 108.0 and lots of bored people driving their cars home from work.
Look at shoutcast -- you have almost 4000 servers competing for 30,000 users. Each server has anywhere between 5 and 500 slots. Their is no commercial radio station that could make payroll for 1 week with those kind of demographics.
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google'in for trivia would get you shot on IRC...lol
Yea but where can I get a good "New Coke" now? I was one of the ones saying "Bring It Back you bastards" when they changed formulas...and also the one that said "Choice is good" when they brought Clasic Coke to live in harmony with New Coke....But now where is New Coke?
Do textpad, dreamweaver, frontpage work in an ssh session? Do textpad, dreamweaver, frontpage work on almost any OS known to man?
The reason I got used to vi or vim if possible is because you can count on it being anywhere -- local, remote, you name it....No matter what box I was on EVER -- I could type vi filename.html.
Not a joke. I actually prefer Vim to anything.
How about this one....
How would KITT do on "Who wants to be a Millionaire"?
Study A:
Scientific studies show that KITT had a larger vocabulary than most computerized cars of his era -- so we think he could get at least to $250K without using any of his lifelines.
Study B:
Our team of scientists got sidetracked in discussing who would win between batman or aquaman...so we were never sble to finish the study.
Don't hate the playa...hate the game.
.....then this was it. Nasty Nasty Nasty stuff boys and girls. I think if uncle Bill were to sit down at a workstation that was infected with these bad boys (to check on his stocks) that even he would switch to Linux.
Don't know what is worse -- the spyware/adware -- or the browser and OS that make it possible.
I have seen a machine/browser infected with a few of these buggers....and if there was ever a plug or commercial for Linux
Yes it is that bad.
Is this really so revolutionary that it would warrent me to create a windows partition? I have to admit that the last Windows I ran was Windows 95 and have managed to "get by" with Linux since 1998. Yet, this is the first Windows application that has been hyped so much that I feel like it may be worth a try.
Embargo On!
We only go to war with people that are lucky even to have running water and electricity -- let alone space programs.
It's a hard sell the the American public to go to ware with an even foe. To much at risk in lost numbers on our side.
I continue to be amazed that there seems to be a certain number of people that continue to pay retail++ for used electronics on Ebay. I guess these are the same people willing to pay $12+ per electronic copy of a CD online. I say these people save themselves some money and go on down to the local circuit city and get a new hard drive and good sounding CD --- and have enough money left over for lunch and a movie.
Those 700 guys we just rolled the bluetooth GPS units to are going to be sad to here that it is dead.
I realize that the market share tends to point out 90%+ using IE, but that does not jive with the percentage of people I know. I have seen almost everyone in my family and workplace (on their home machines) switch over to Mozilla or Firebird for the native popup blocking, etc -- with little or no input from me....(Most of these people actually come up to me and say "you have to try this"). I can't imagine that this situation is unique to only the people around me. If this is happening everywhere -- then I assume the numbers have to be swaying somewhat.
Companies interested in already coded starting points that just need a few more features (most GPL/OSS projects) will have a cutoff point as to where they would:
A. Start from scratch in house
B. Expand upon the source with in house team
C. Bring someone (contract/consultent) in to bone up on the code and fork it to their needs
D. Find a different package that meets their needs
The fact they are looking to the original team to do it means that they are looking for the most efficient (both in knowledge and cost) solution out of the gate.
If the cost remains cheaper than it would be for them to do it "in house" or bringing in a contractor -- then that would be the sweet spot for all involved.
I call bullshit -- real geeks don't have to call tech support....Let alone spend hours online with tech support. They must be at one with the gadgets. The gadgets must be an extension of them.
** Plus if you are going to get geeks to spend 15K to supply a family with the latest gadegts....Make sure it is geeks who have had 15K to spend themselves. A true geek does not just read about it...he lives it.
Great point. I do that to nowadays. I stopped going to the "regular" movies when tickets went from $5.50 to $7.50. Wait a month or two and you can go to the "dollar" theater and watch a good show AND have some expensive popcorn and drink for the same cost just for the ticket a month or two earlier.
This is a great example of why I would never think of "pirating" a movie...You either see it when it comes out for full price, See it for $1 a month or $2 later, buy or rent the DVD, or even wait for them to show up in the used bin and buy the whole DVD for about the same price it would have cost to go to the movie when it came out.
In comparison to the music world it is just to easy for us patient folk to legally participate. Imagine if a CD was dropped from $18 to $6.99 after it had been released a while?
I wonder if someone will haxor a Mandrake 9.lite version? All ads removed.
This whole concept does not really bother me 1 bit. I think as long as it remains free and downloadable they have every right to go all Nascar on it.
Yea...I saw on the national news last night sandwiched in between the 87 billion to rebuild Iraq for the next month and a little story about more people dieing since "after the war
" than during the war that the RIAA was going after the "heavy hitters"..If this little girl living on welfare is one of the top 250 "heavy hitters" than I weap more than ever before at these bastards....I hope that someone in power sees this and realizes that things have gone just a tad bit to far for these greedy bastards. I think that that it would be really cool if these national news chains that think this is such "top news" follow the RIAA to the projects to collect their 2 grand from this poor family.
I betcha I could find a pretty good (maybe slightly used last generation) laptop to play DVD's on for about $600. HOWEVER -- I have always had problems with battery life on all of my laptops. And buying a couple of extra batteries (although) an option, can get almost as expensive as the laptop itself. I have a really cool (older) laptop that I purchased on (knock on wood) E-bay for $300 that works great for a nice linux desktop, and it plays DVD's. (I decided to order a new battery for it (because the old one was out in about 45 mins.) and payed almost 2/3 of what the laptop cost me.
I think I will wait for the movie adaption of this book. We will see what CGI can do with Stan.
I noticed the home of my distro of choice: Slackware had this page up the other day. I checked back a few hours later and it was gone. I thought maybe it was an isolated protest, but based on this story I guess not.
"The last thing RIAA wants is stations regularly broadcasting entire CDs, legally, in a high-quality way that can be easily copied"
Following a set of semi-resonable (however stupid)rules like not playing the same song in a 3 hour timeframe -- or the same artist back to back is a lot easier to manage and accept "punishment" for -- than it is to blindly pay the kind of big time cash it would take to broadcast as a hobby.
If they would come out and set resonable limits for similar to Quality at or over 96K & Listenership at or over 100 slots has to pay something. And then the real "hobbyist/not for profit" broadcasters below those levels are going to be left alone....I could live with that.
Yes that is it. Much the same way that if you side swipe my car while I am in the grocery store -- yet leave a note on the window as to who you are, what your phone number is, etc....That is a better situation for all involved than if you sideswipe my car and then just run. (I have no one to argue accountibility with -- and you could be arrested for a hit and run.)
Spam does not bother me half as much as the fact that the true sender of said spam is easily able to disguise the origin of said spam by forging headers and spoofing, bouncing, relaying. (I.E. -- taking advantage of a bad set of protoccols that should not be in use anymore.) The first step to fixing the spam problem should be a mass adoption of protocols that make it imbossible to determine the origin and owner of the offending piece of data.
Let the spam battles of the future be fought in open view, collesium style rather than a thief in the night shooting you in the back.
Ok. Try this on for size. Why would anything less than the ability to stream 128 kbits per second to at least a potential 1000 users scare the RIAA. I mean look at the bandwidth that would take:
Calculations Complete For 1000 listeners at 128 kbps Calculations @ 1 Month Kilobits = 364,953,600,000 Kilobytes = 45,619,200,000 Megabits = 348,046,875 Megabytes = 43,505,859 Gigabits = 324,144 Gigabytes = 40,518
Even having the possibility to have 100 users at a time would run you about 4,052 GB per month. I think the price of bandwidth alone should be enough to regulate the threat for the RIAA.
A shoutcast stream at 32K (somewhere less than AM quality) with the possibillity of "getting lucky" and having 20 users (from around the world) connected at various times throughout any given month will be a hobby that will cost you around $25 - $100 (about 200 GB of data if the slots stayed filled) to just make available. You will not be making any money. Do it for fun.
So -- I am paying an average of $50 bucks a month to stream less than AM quality music to at the most 20 simultanious users.....Yet at the very least they want me to pay $2500 minimum yearly plus about $7 per listener per month to do this.
That is ludicrus. That is awful. What do I owe if I invite 25 friends to a party at my house put 50 CD's I have purchased in a CD changer, hit shuffle and then play in the background as my party goes on for 4 hours? That is more akin to what a webbrodcast is -- than comparing it to a real life FOR PROFIT radio company that has the advanatge of a small dial that can only fit 15 or so channels in a band between 87+ to 108.0 and lots of bored people driving their cars home from work.
Look at shoutcast -- you have almost 4000 servers competing for 30,000 users. Each server has anywhere between 5 and 500 slots. Their is no commercial radio station that could make payroll for 1 week with those kind of demographics.