I signed up when it was unlimited downloads...now you get a certain number a month depending on your subscription...I have the cheapest one and it's $10 a month for 40 downloads.
Best part? 192kbps+ MP3s! No protection! And even if you cancel your subscription...if your harddrive dies you can just sign up again (for as little as a month) and they'll let you re-download your whole library for free.
Granted, you lose some fidelity as it is MP3 and not CD-quality...and there are very few 'brand new' or 'popular' artists...
but I don't care. The price is right and I've downloaded a whole bunch of cool stuff that I like.
How do you know it's all being seen by credible witnesses? How do you know it's all being reported? What if people are being hush-hush so as not to scare away the rescuers?
Oh and yeah...they're all dying because the rescuers are scared...last I heard people were still going in despite the reports. If some asshole is shooting at a helicopter desperately needed for this operation...it would be criminal for the pilot to NOT leave the area and go elsewhere.
Personally, I think all these people are dying due to the local government's lack of planning and the Fed's cutting of the FEMA budget for city improvements.
Some of this behavious is still simply inexcusable. Scared and angry I can understand but when you start shooting at your rescuers and raping the women and forming gangs and trying to take power...
I thought most places in the US had a law like this...making it illegal to not render assistence to someone in need. I hope they prosecute those greedy bastards grabbing luxury items and pushing to the front of the line and causing riots. If they survive that is. What a mess.
Well played sir...but the 'do something constructive' rang a little sour considering this is Slashdot and if it can't be done constructively with a keyboard it usually isn't done at all:D
I mean...yeah...that's some rough shit...but come ON! Three days has just passed since the storm hit and it's anarchy already. It's not like nobody is coming...they are...it's just all fucked up. If you can't keep your shit together for three days....man....I dunno...
Line the cabinets with RF-defeating something or other and put the scanner INSIDE. Do you really need to know what's sitting on the counter? Not really...you can just look...but knowing whats in the depths of the refridgerator or cabinets would be nice.
Like from the 40's and 50's which fortold a glorious future in which industry and government would scratch each others' backs for the good of the people. Smelled like propaganda when I was 14 and found them in a dusty used bookstore...
Sunds like we got that future...but the back scratching doesn't seem to be trickling down to the citizens.
Poor bastard made a bad call and covered up his adultry. But you know, I can forgive him that perjury...why? It had nothing to do with his ability as a president. He just didn't want his wife to break his balls.
Now, when a president lies and orders his underlings to mis-represent facts to support that lie...and doesn't get an impeachment trial...that's when I get worried.
That's what they said in the comentary. Since we've learned what the actor was suffering with before his death, I wonder if in a better state of mind he would have done it.
Then we'll be mining those landfills...which sounds like an easier job than mining metals.
All sorts of weird future scenarios come to mind...a world where disposable utensils are made of glass or metal or something...because we need the polymers for more important things.
If the law mandates 5 days, you do 5 days or you can just not accept that state diploma! This is auite black-and-white. Don't like it? Let your home-schooled kid take the GED.
I also meant, that the parent give the kid answers or hints while the kid is taking the test. I would hope that any parent would take time to help their kid prepare for a test.
That's laughable. What records? You write down that Johnny went to class every day? How does the state know you aren't coaching your child on tests? How does the state know you aren't letting him play outside one day a week and you fake the records cause you're tired of teaching or need to catch up on other things?
The Apple users apparantly expected more, so they organized a class-action suit. You could have done the same. Now Nokia just has one more piece of data that encourages lying to consumers.
Copyright Infringement may be oft compared to 'theft' or 'stealing' but they are certainly different.
If you want to consider yourself a thief, go ahead. Personally, I delete 90% of the stuff I download. The stuff I keep I end up buying as DVDs when they come out and chucking the inferior downloaded copy.
So if you consider me to be a thief because I don't want to wait for my favorite TV show to come to DVD...AND I don't want to record it myself so instead rely on a friend who records it for me...
If they were smart they'd be training their own services people...so the customer would just be a user...dependent on a service contract for administration.
We did OS, we studied the fundamentals of networking, all the way down to the hardware layer. We had KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THE HARDWARE WORKED. The poster I replied to seemed to think the CS degree should also include instructions on how to assemble a PC or replace circuit board components.
I don't give a shit about team outings, or free pizza lunch or any of that crap. My job is rewarding enough. I want the $$ to justify the time I put into it. I can buy my own drinks and food, thanks.
At least that's how it's happened in CT...many schools met the education goals "No Child Left Behind", but the government didn't cough up the money they were promised! WTF? 150Billion so G.W. can avenge daddy-bush in the mid-east? But we can't pay for our kids' education?
Sure, things like the cache size and technique, bus capacitites and behaviours, type kind of disks and their controlers are usefull to know. They can make for more efficient code on a specific system.
A requirement? I dunno...I think this knowledge is what makes a good programmer great...gives him more ideas as to why something might be behaviing in a particular way. But where I work, we have great specialization and it's really nice sometimes to call in the Database gurus to check out our schema and access patterns...or the OS guys to see if the code is causing too many context shifts.
If I couldn't have these guys backing me up, I don't know if I could cram my head with enough of that info to do any good.
So, a programmer should know enough about these things to ask intelligent questions/reasearch of those who know alot of these things.
Oh and if your little company produces electronic devices...yeah..maybe you need to know more about the guts than the majority of programmers.
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I signed up when it was unlimited downloads...now you get a certain number a month depending on your subscription...I have the cheapest one and it's $10 a month for 40 downloads.
Best part? 192kbps+ MP3s! No protection! And even if you cancel your subscription...if your harddrive dies you can just sign up again (for as little as a month) and they'll let you re-download your whole library for free.
Granted, you lose some fidelity as it is MP3 and not CD-quality...and there are very few 'brand new' or 'popular' artists...
but I don't care. The price is right and I've downloaded a whole bunch of cool stuff that I like.
How do you know it's all being seen by credible witnesses? How do you know it's all being reported? What if people are being hush-hush so as not to scare away the rescuers?
Oh and yeah...they're all dying because the rescuers are scared...last I heard people were still going in despite the reports. If some asshole is shooting at a helicopter desperately needed for this operation...it would be criminal for the pilot to NOT leave the area and go elsewhere.
Personally, I think all these people are dying due to the local government's lack of planning and the Fed's cutting of the FEMA budget for city improvements.
Because, you know...AIX has all those features. Oh, did you mean Linux?
Some of this behavious is still simply inexcusable. Scared and angry I can understand but when you start shooting at your rescuers and raping the women and forming gangs and trying to take power...
No excuses for that. Absolutely none.
I thought most places in the US had a law like this...making it illegal to not render assistence to someone in need. I hope they prosecute those greedy bastards grabbing luxury items and pushing to the front of the line and causing riots. If they survive that is. What a mess.
Well played sir...but the 'do something constructive' rang a little sour considering this is Slashdot and if it can't be done constructively with a keyboard it usually isn't done at all :D
I mean...yeah...that's some rough shit...but come ON! Three days has just passed since the storm hit and it's anarchy already. It's not like nobody is coming...they are...it's just all fucked up. If you can't keep your shit together for three days....man....I dunno...
Line the cabinets with RF-defeating something or other and put the scanner INSIDE. Do you really need to know what's sitting on the counter? Not really...you can just look...but knowing whats in the depths of the refridgerator or cabinets would be nice.
Like from the 40's and 50's which fortold a glorious future in which industry and government would scratch each others' backs for the good of the people. Smelled like propaganda when I was 14 and found them in a dusty used bookstore...
Sunds like we got that future...but the back scratching doesn't seem to be trickling down to the citizens.
Poor bastard made a bad call and covered up his adultry. But you know, I can forgive him that perjury...why? It had nothing to do with his ability as a president. He just didn't want his wife to break his balls.
Now, when a president lies and orders his underlings to mis-represent facts to support that lie...and doesn't get an impeachment trial...that's when I get worried.
That's what they said in the comentary. Since we've learned what the actor was suffering with before his death, I wonder if in a better state of mind he would have done it.
Well usually a soldier knows what he is doing.
I think my argument is flawed...I believe Murder requires intent. Otherwise it would be homocide?
Then we'll be mining those landfills...which sounds like an easier job than mining metals.
All sorts of weird future scenarios come to mind...a world where disposable utensils are made of glass or metal or something...because we need the polymers for more important things.
If the law mandates 5 days, you do 5 days or you can just not accept that state diploma! This is auite black-and-white. Don't like it? Let your home-schooled kid take the GED.
I also meant, that the parent give the kid answers or hints while the kid is taking the test. I would hope that any parent would take time to help their kid prepare for a test.
You didn't think about it, but there you are: responsible for killing a whole bunch of people!
Mass Murderer?
That's laughable. What records? You write down that Johnny went to class every day? How does the state know you aren't coaching your child on tests?
How does the state know you aren't letting him play outside one day a week and you fake the records cause you're tired of teaching or need to catch up on other things?
The Apple users apparantly expected more, so they organized a class-action suit. You could have done the same. Now Nokia just has one more piece of data that encourages lying to consumers.
Copyright Infringement may be oft compared to 'theft' or 'stealing' but they are certainly different.
If you want to consider yourself a thief, go ahead. Personally, I delete 90% of the stuff I download. The stuff I keep I end up buying as DVDs when they come out and chucking the inferior downloaded copy.
So if you consider me to be a thief because I don't want to wait for my favorite TV show to come to DVD...AND I don't want to record it myself so instead rely on a friend who records it for me...
You should stop drinking the kool-ade!
If they were smart they'd be training their own services people...so the customer would just be a user...dependent on a service contract for administration.
We did OS, we studied the fundamentals of networking, all the way down to the hardware layer. We had KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THE HARDWARE WORKED. The poster I replied to seemed to think the CS degree should also include instructions on how to assemble a PC or replace circuit board components.
We on slashdot are going to use your own time-honored techniques of smear and fear on you!
I'm sure they could come up with cost savings for using less prestigous offices no problem.
Besides, I work out of my home in shorts and flip-flops.
I don't give a shit about team outings, or free pizza lunch or any of that crap. My job is rewarding enough. I want the $$ to justify the time I put into it. I can buy my own drinks and food, thanks.
At least that's how it's happened in CT...many schools met the education goals "No Child Left Behind", but the government didn't cough up the money they were promised! WTF? 150Billion so G.W. can avenge daddy-bush in the mid-east? But we can't pay for our kids' education?
Sure, things like the cache size and technique, bus capacitites and behaviours, type kind of disks and their controlers are usefull to know. They can make for more efficient code on a specific system.
/reasearch of those who know alot of these things.
A requirement? I dunno...I think this knowledge is what makes a good programmer great...gives him more ideas as to why something might be behaviing in a particular way. But where I work, we have great specialization and it's really nice sometimes to call in the Database gurus to check out our schema and access patterns...or the OS guys to see if the code is causing too many context shifts.
If I couldn't have these guys backing me up, I don't know if I could cram my head with enough of that info to do any good.
So, a programmer should know enough about these things to ask intelligent questions
Oh and if your little company produces electronic devices...yeah..maybe you need to know more about the guts than the majority of programmers.