I was actually interested at one point in running a legal musicstation in Norway and contacted Tono (Norway's Performing Rights Society) for some more information.
They hadn't entirely worked out the technical details yet - not even today, it's only 2005 after all - but when I checked with them in 2003 they assured me I could run a fully legal stream for about $80 a month.
There was no per listener fee.
I'd have to call my livingroom (or wherever the server was located) a "club" and the stream had to be 100% live (no pre-recorded stuff). The downside was that I'd also have to provide Tono with a monthly list of every single song played on the station.
That, in combination with the fact that Tono seemed completely clueless to the whole idea of music on the internet kind of made me lost interest in the whole matter.
Violation of privacy, false sense of security.
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Using GPS to Track Teens
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Here in Norway, we've got Location Services (often referred to as POS). Any content provider receives the following information connected to an end users location: latitude, longitude, start- and end-angel, inner and outer radius, region, municipal-number and county.
The system works up to 300m accurate in city centres, but might be as much as 35km accurate in rural areas (since there are less antennas that can be used in triangulating the signal).
Information about the end user is not available content providers, since those content providers receive only a unique static id for each customer that orders a Location Service.
A service using POS would be a lot better than a service where you rely on a specific kind of cellphone being on, not in use and equipped with a specific Java application (of which you have no clue what it in fact does, since it was installed for you).
The best thing of all: with POS users have to specifically approve requests for any content provider. So no sneaky applications that parents can install on mobile phones.
The invasion of privacy "offered" by the Teens Arrive Alive system should scare any sane American away from the system, assuming that the fact that it comes recommended by the former chief of military ops in Iraq wasn't enough to make you scream and run for your life.
About burning bridges, think well what you do and how you bring it. You can burn bridges but make it sound as if it's not your fault
I've got a good example of that.
When I started in an earlier job (company shall stay anonymous to protect the innocent), one of my colleagues was in the process of leaving the company (on the best of terms, by the way).
After he left, the over-active system administration department of the company wiped his system so the next guy could use it. Turns out that that system ran half a dozen scripts that glued critical parts of the system together.
I bought their MP300 a couple of weeks ago and I absolutely love it.
One thing that isn't mentioned on the MP300 page (since usage is illegal in Scandinavia), is that the player includes an FM transmitter that can be enabled by running a small program.
Member #0000002 of the "Anything But Linux" foundation. Welcome to the world of tomorrow!!! 10:18AM up 3 mins, 0 users, load averages: 20.39, 8.24, 3.31
http://www.scps.nyu.edu/ claims I "need a 4.0 browser to view this website" when I identify as Opera and then manages to link to two non-existing pages where I can download "proper" browsers. A classic example of a site that can't properly do browser detection and most likely hasn't had its code updated in ages.
Someone please explain why this troll got a +4 Informative at the time of my posting. This "review of CMSs" is pathetic.
The author takes generalizing to an extreme in his advantages/disadvantages section.
He's hopelessly biased towards Zope (for apparently no reason other than "I have all the books!")
He has no argumentation on why people should not be using Plone, Drupal, Slashcode etc. Even worse, the only place he even mentions these CMSs is on page 27 with URLs to the project as his only comment.
I get 4 Mbit down and 500 Kbit up for about half the price of SWB's 1.5 Mbit down w/ 16 Kbit up.
For about $150 a month here in Norway, we're enjoying 12.5Mbit down and 6.25Mbit up. Okay, we have to live within 500 metres from our nearest phonecentral, but given that we live in central Oslo that is not really an issue - had our place been further away from a phonecentral, then we would have to live with 5Mbit/5Mbit (ofcourse a lot cheaper) - big deal.
16Kbit upstream just can't be an acceptable alternative. Most people can walk faster that that;-)
A couple of days ago I tried their 2.0.0 version and from a Linux user's point of view it's the worst piece of crap I've ever encountered.
Half of the stuff doesn't work, it's slow as hell and almost anything makes you run into their Click-N-Run program (for which you need a $99 a year subscription).
I sincerely hope this'll be the very last time I ever see a/root/My Documents folder.
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Opera has an official torrent for this release available right here.
I was actually interested at one point in running a legal musicstation in Norway and contacted Tono (Norway's Performing Rights Society) for some more information.
They hadn't entirely worked out the technical details yet - not even today, it's only 2005 after all - but when I checked with them in 2003 they assured me I could run a fully legal stream for about $80 a month.
There was no per listener fee.
I'd have to call my livingroom (or wherever the server was located) a "club" and the stream had to be 100% live (no pre-recorded stuff). The downside was that I'd also have to provide Tono with a monthly list of every single song played on the station.
That, in combination with the fact that Tono seemed completely clueless to the whole idea of music on the internet kind of made me lost interest in the whole matter.
Groeten aan alle nederlandse slasdotters!
Wow, CmdrTaco writes Dutch as well these days?
Here in Norway, we've got Location Services (often referred to as POS). Any content provider receives the following information connected to an end users location: latitude, longitude, start- and end-angel, inner and outer radius, region, municipal-number and county.
The system works up to 300m accurate in city centres, but might be as much as 35km accurate in rural areas (since there are less antennas that can be used in triangulating the signal).
Information about the end user is not available content providers, since those content providers receive only a unique static id for each customer that orders a Location Service.
A service using POS would be a lot better than a service where you rely on a specific kind of cellphone being on, not in use and equipped with a specific Java application (of which you have no clue what it in fact does, since it was installed for you).
The best thing of all: with POS users have to specifically approve requests for any content provider. So no sneaky applications that parents can install on mobile phones.
The invasion of privacy "offered" by the Teens Arrive Alive system should scare any sane American away from the system, assuming that the fact that it comes recommended by the former chief of military ops in Iraq wasn't enough to make you scream and run for your life.
- Official Square Enix website
- IMDB entry
- ff7ac.net (fansite)
- ff7-2.com (fansite)
There's also www.adventchildren.net, but that one's not entirely working for me at the moment....and even more answers to that one.
When I started in an earlier job (company shall stay anonymous to protect the innocent), one of my colleagues was in the process of leaving the company (on the best of terms, by the way).
After he left, the over-active system administration department of the company wiped his system so the next guy could use it. Turns out that that system ran half a dozen scripts that glued critical parts of the system together.
Heavy breakage ensued.
You call not being able to send HTML mail a problem?
;-)
It's a new feature!
Even though everybody seems to be talking about Lycos offering 1GB, I've seen very few people mention that Lycos' offer is not free.
To get the 1GB account you will need to cough up 3.49GBP a month.
Still a good offer though, if you don't have the option of running your own server, but definately not as good as Google's free version.
I bought their MP300 a couple of weeks ago and I absolutely love it.
One thing that isn't mentioned on the MP300 page (since usage is illegal in Scandinavia), is that the player includes an FM transmitter that can be enabled by running a small program.
Does the MP130 have this functionality as well?
> To start with, I'm not a guy.
;-)
And you say that openly on Slashdot?
http://www.scps.nyu.edu/ claims I "need a 4.0 browser to view this website" when I identify as Opera and then manages to link to two non-existing pages where I can download "proper" browsers. A classic example of a site that can't properly do browser detection and most likely hasn't had its code updated in ages.
http://www.expensable.com/ however seems to work quite nicely in my Opera 7.x for Linux.
I wasn't complaining about the topic of your presentation, nor the intents you may have had with it, but calling it a "review of CMSs" was misleading.
I'm surprised nobody has linked to official website, where you can listen to the entire broadcast.
They're offering a transcript, MP3 files and a Real Audio stream as well as in-depth background information.
It doesn't run Linux, it's a Series 60 device just like the Nokia 3650 and Nokia 7650.
I get 4 Mbit down and 500 Kbit up for about half the price of SWB's 1.5 Mbit down w/ 16 Kbit up.
;-)
For about $150 a month here in Norway, we're enjoying 12.5Mbit down and 6.25Mbit up. Okay, we have to live within 500 metres from our nearest phonecentral, but given that we live in central Oslo that is not really an issue - had our place been further away from a phonecentral, then we would have to live with 5Mbit/5Mbit (ofcourse a lot cheaper) - big deal.
16Kbit upstream just can't be an acceptable alternative. Most people can walk faster that that
The Opera guys are from Norway, but they have a satellite office in Sweden.
There's also some more background information about these pages on the Opera website.
Yup.
/root/My Documents folder.
A couple of days ago I tried their 2.0.0 version and from a Linux user's point of view it's the worst piece of crap I've ever encountered.
Half of the stuff doesn't work, it's slow as hell and almost anything makes you run into their Click-N-Run program (for which you need a $99 a year subscription).
I sincerely hope this'll be the very last time I ever see a
Will libnjb, which currently supports the NOMAD Jukebox, also support the NOMAD Jukebox3?
That poster is ofcourse available all over the net, like here for example.
I've got a mirror up and running containing both the The Register article and the zip file.
rc6.org mirror