That would be the same Sting who featured in an ad (in the UK at least) for a Jaguar car (probably around 5 miles to the gallon) that had leather seats and a rare wood (mahogany?) dashboard... Yeah, right on, Sting:)
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Yeah, but how hard is answering a question on PHP and apache 2? The only 2 possible answers are "It might work" and "It doesn't work".
I absolutely agree. I never meant to give the impression that computer literacy == approving of copyright abuse. I was thinking more of the distinction between "my manager says all P2P is the devil incarnate" and those who, knowing about the subject, can take into account the complications.
The problem is that I can't find it in my heart to side with the RIAA, but nor do I agree that entertainment should be free without helping those who created it make a living.
At the moment, we have two extremes: the RIAA, and Napster (or whatever it is this week). Neither is desirable, but no-one seems to have made popular a really good 3rd way, AFAIK. Yes, there are lots of ideas floating around, but we need more of a paradigm shift. Just letting people download samples isn't really going to get us anywhere fast enough.
Here's an example (not a paradigm shift, but gives you an idea of what I want and why): remove internet radio royalties, and let lots of people stream what they want to. If you latch onto a few stations run by people who share your tastes, you soon get to know lots of stuff you love and had never heard of (in my case, it's listening to Radio Free Klezmer that's got me buying loads of John Zorn...). Then (and here's the clincher), you can buy the damn songs online and download them, so even if the CD's out of print (like my favourite Henry Kaiser album), or only ships from the US and you're in the UK and have to pay exorbitant customs charges, you can stil get the CD easily. Of course, I'd expect.aif files to be available as well as.mp3s... some of us don't play music through soggy cornflakes packets attached to our monitors:) Oh, and.tiffs of the covers as well.
Given that many CD stores like Amazon or Tower Records already have clips of music, why aren't they offering all the really obscure stuff for download? Bastards...
Thing is, I'm fed up of everyone talking about how they want to buy albums "by" their favourite band-flavour-of-the-moment. There's been so much stuff done in the decades before us, I want to find the interesting stuff and listen to it.
Well, that concludes my rant. See you same time, same place next week...
Depends what you mean by the "average" artist. Surely there is a broad range of political stances, computer literacy and general apathy.
I'm much more interested in the way the RIAA works, from someone who presumably has worked with and without the system, and done plenty of research into the matter.
The adds work. We don't really know how, but they do
You'll find an awful lot of ads aren't just "Here's a new product", it's more that the ads associate a set of "values" (rebelliousness, healthiness, apple-pie patriotism, etc, etc) with the product. The point being that if they match the set of values to the mentality of their target market, then the next time a "target person" walks into a store and sees the product, they'll feel a certain "familiarity" with it.
You may have walked into a shop looking for something, seen a particular brand, and thought "ah, something in me tells me that's the one to go for...". OK, you don't *quite* think that, but something very similar. It's all the subliminal making-you-trust-the-brand-name-implicitly crap they put into the adverts, which you *can't* ignore, even if you say you pay no attention to them.
For more info, see Derren Brown's Mind Control site... he's a fantastic hypnotist (I was hypnotised by him, he's astounding), and one of the real experts at NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). He did a good skit on advertising once, and managed to get the advertisers themselves to do exactly what he wanted by using their own methods back on them...
Yes, and Maya is for serious professionals who *know* how to use a computer.
Seriously, all those tiny little icons, most of which have no immediately obvious meaning. It's hardly grandmother-friendly, is it? Or is that not the point?
From the linked site's T&Cs, you're a "User" of the site if you are:
Anyone who reads, posts to, links to or refers to this site, directly, indirectly, inferred or otherwise.
Damn, they shouldn't have put the comma in after 'site'... now you're a user if you indirectly read it or, more likely, infer an indirect reading of a link to an otherwise direct post.
Sorry, I'm in a Grammar Nazi style mood tonight.
Actually, more to the point, they state that:
In using this site, you acknowledge the acceptance of the terms listed within this document. If you do not agree with these terms, you will possess no further rights to this site and all contents contained within.
But the terms state that we have no 'right' to the content on the site anyway. So what, exactly, are they threatening us with???
As mentioned above (and in the Register where I first saw this story), Dave claims he *never* called his logo Godzilla. And it really doesn't look anything like Godzilla either.
However, I agree that tying in the Mozilla link was their excuse to post this somewhat non-story.
Oh, that's odd. The only false positives my users have had were stupid people e-mailing with a non-existent time-zone to a list of people with similar names (like a non-bcc'd joke fowarding list)
I haven't had problems with large attachments. And we get quite a few through our servers. Oh well. YMMV, as always. Nor have I come across the non-blank-before-'From ' bug, and some users have had over 400 messages SPAM-marked within a month. Perhaps there's a bug in a library on non-FreeBSD systems. Hell, who am I trying to fool... it works for me, I wouldn't like to say anything about anyone else. Dunno why:)
Or just move back over to your old FreeBSD servers and type 'cd/usr/ports/mail/spamass-milter; make install' (assuming Billy G doesn't mind using sendmail).
In fact, amavisd-new (or is it -ng?) supports spamassassin/razor now, so you get 3 milters for the price of one:)
"So, if a copy of Office is being bought for educational use it costs say $10 - the price of the packaging, materials, shipping and handling"
Microsoft do even better than this: for charities (at least in the UK) the 1st 3 licences for Office XP are FREE. Then it's a normal edu-type charge for more licences.
You see, that doesn't *quite* work... my father (actually very computer savvy, taught me C programming) managed to plug an Apple ADB cable into the ethernet socket when reaching round the back of the computer (PowerMac 7200).
*Sigh*
I still haven't quite worked out how he did it (just try it...)
Yeah, I have similar experience with many OSes. I love Macs (in the last week, I've spent an hour or so supporting 40 Macs, and 2 *days* supporting 4 PCs). However, the current line of Apple ads is excruciatingly annoying, and I wish Apple would ditch them ASAP.
1. Why can't you accept that some things are *nobody's* fault? His disorder isn't *his* fault, it's just *there*. Of course telling him "it's not your fault" isn't going to help, but telling him to buck up really *is* like shouting at a blind person to look where they're going: what would be of use is giving them a white cane or a guide dog.
2. People born with no legs, or blind, or chemical imbalances.... whatever happened to "strong protect the weak"? Those who can work pay taxes/donate to charity to help give white sticks/guide dogs to the blind, or to give medication to people with bi-polar (well, in the UK they do, I know Americans have a slightly less socialist model of health care). Now, there's a difference between that and mollycoddling little gripes and problems.
As for something *good* that Apple's doing with regards video codecs, take their fight against the MPEG board about the 'per-play' license. Apple aren't going to release QT 6 properly until they can talk the MPEG people out of it:)
Apple? An evil bad company? I mean yes, they're a company, they're out to make money, they probably do some dodgy things that are morally dubious (and no, I don't mean produce a lime iMac...although that was *nearly* evil).
However, they're OSS with Darwin, and are really trying to get into the whole Open Source thing. They're putting out some cool hardware (the XServe is *much* more than just a pretty box). They're really trying to listen to what consumers want (both pro and domestic, which is *hard*), and also what developers need.
I know, I think they should put out QT for Linux. I run FreeBSD servers, I think they should put out packages for their various bits of free software (QuickTime Streaming Server, WebObjects adaptors, etc) for FreeBSD. But they are NOT evil!
And anyway, didn't I see a story the other day about Sorenson coming to Linux? Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think Real or Win Media players were available for Linux either?
I've no idea what Mike Batt was trying to do, I have very little time for him... The Wombles theme was good, but he went on to write the Conservative's Election 2001 theme tune, so he's evidently an unprincipled wazzock...:)
Oh, and of course I meant "pianist" in the original post, not "pianoist".
And the whole point was that it *did* consist of things. Cage was trying to get us to listen to the sounds around us (which was a decently new idea back in the 60s). A poster below says that the first performance was in a forest: I don't know whether that's true, but it seems reasonable. But as I said, birdsong and rustling in a forest can have a rhythm to it, it's good to listen to. However, someone else's idea of that rhythm is crap.
You can buy a musical score for Cage's 4'33", with precise instructions for the pianoist to walk on stage, look at his watch, shut the lid and sit there for the alloted time (4'33" = 273" = (kind of) absolute zero in Celsius).
It was actually one of the most interesting pieces he did... the idea was to get the audience to listen to the "random" sounds around them, and indeed random sounds can sometimes be interesting. BUT what Cage spent a lot of his time doing was writing pieces which were meant to simulate this random noise (e.g. "101 metronomes"). And believe me, folks, nothing is so tedious as listening to someone else's idea of what random noise is...
I think the weak link in the chain of your argument is that the end user wouldn't have given you permission to write that scribbler.
As long as you provided the software "as is", the user has *chosen* to run your software, and hence implicitly given you "permission". Now I know that it gets tricky, since one may consider that they only wanted to run the bit of the software that *works*, but if that's the case, well, surely the Flight Sim in MS Word, etc, can count as something that "degrades system performance" (uses up disk space, not the best example but you know what I mean...)?
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That would be the same Sting who featured in an ad (in the UK at least) for a Jaguar car (probably around 5 miles to the gallon) that had leather seats and a rare wood (mahogany?) dashboard... Yeah, right on, Sting :)
Yeah, but how hard is answering a question on PHP and apache 2? The only 2 possible answers are "It might work" and "It doesn't work".
:-)
I'm interested... as an occasional FCP user, what else does it talk to? I thought its only outside-world communications *were* EDLs?
I absolutely agree. I never meant to give the impression that computer literacy == approving of copyright abuse. I was thinking more of the distinction between "my manager says all P2P is the devil incarnate" and those who, knowing about the subject, can take into account the complications.
.aif files to be available as well as .mp3s... some of us don't play music through soggy cornflakes packets attached to our monitors :) Oh, and .tiffs of the covers as well.
The problem is that I can't find it in my heart to side with the RIAA, but nor do I agree that entertainment should be free without helping those who created it make a living.
At the moment, we have two extremes: the RIAA, and Napster (or whatever it is this week). Neither is desirable, but no-one seems to have made popular a really good 3rd way, AFAIK. Yes, there are lots of ideas floating around, but we need more of a paradigm shift. Just letting people download samples isn't really going to get us anywhere fast enough.
Here's an example (not a paradigm shift, but gives you an idea of what I want and why): remove internet radio royalties, and let lots of people stream what they want to. If you latch onto a few stations run by people who share your tastes, you soon get to know lots of stuff you love and had never heard of (in my case, it's listening to Radio Free Klezmer that's got me buying loads of John Zorn...). Then (and here's the clincher), you can buy the damn songs online and download them, so even if the CD's out of print (like my favourite Henry Kaiser album), or only ships from the US and you're in the UK and have to pay exorbitant customs charges, you can stil get the CD easily. Of course, I'd expect
Given that many CD stores like Amazon or Tower Records already have clips of music, why aren't they offering all the really obscure stuff for download? Bastards...
Thing is, I'm fed up of everyone talking about how they want to buy albums "by" their favourite band-flavour-of-the-moment. There's been so much stuff done in the decades before us, I want to find the interesting stuff and listen to it.
Well, that concludes my rant. See you same time, same place next week...
Depends what you mean by the "average" artist. Surely there is a broad range of political stances, computer literacy and general apathy.
I'm much more interested in the way the RIAA works, from someone who presumably has worked with and without the system, and done plenty of research into the matter.
The adds work. We don't really know how, but they do
You'll find an awful lot of ads aren't just "Here's a new product", it's more that the ads associate a set of "values" (rebelliousness, healthiness, apple-pie patriotism, etc, etc) with the product. The point being that if they match the set of values to the mentality of their target market, then the next time a "target person" walks into a store and sees the product, they'll feel a certain "familiarity" with it.
You may have walked into a shop looking for something, seen a particular brand, and thought "ah, something in me tells me that's the one to go for...". OK, you don't *quite* think that, but something very similar. It's all the subliminal making-you-trust-the-brand-name-implicitly crap they put into the adverts, which you *can't* ignore, even if you say you pay no attention to them.
For more info, see Derren Brown's Mind Control site... he's a fantastic hypnotist (I was hypnotised by him, he's astounding), and one of the real experts at NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). He did a good skit on advertising once, and managed to get the advertisers themselves to do exactly what he wanted by using their own methods back on them...
Yes, and Maya is for serious professionals who *know* how to use a computer.
Seriously, all those tiny little icons, most of which have no immediately obvious meaning. It's hardly grandmother-friendly, is it? Or is that not the point?
From the linked site's T&Cs, you're a "User" of the site if you are:
Anyone who reads, posts to, links to or refers to this site, directly, indirectly, inferred or otherwise.
Damn, they shouldn't have put the comma in after 'site'... now you're a user if you indirectly read it or, more likely, infer an indirect reading of a link to an otherwise direct post.
Sorry, I'm in a Grammar Nazi style mood tonight.
Actually, more to the point, they state that:
In using this site, you acknowledge the acceptance of the terms listed within this document. If you do not agree with these terms, you will possess no further rights to this site and all contents contained within.
But the terms state that we have no 'right' to the content on the site anyway. So what, exactly, are they threatening us with???
*Sigh* -1, Offtopic...
As mentioned above (and in the Register where I first saw this story), Dave claims he *never* called his logo Godzilla. And it really doesn't look anything like Godzilla either.
However, I agree that tying in the Mozilla link was their excuse to post this somewhat non-story.
Hey, at least it's 1.3.26... looks like Trustworthy Computing permeated into *some* parts of M$. :)
Oh, that's odd. The only false positives my users have had were stupid people e-mailing with a non-existent time-zone to a list of people with similar names (like a non-bcc'd joke fowarding list)
:)
I haven't had problems with large attachments. And we get quite a few through our servers. Oh well. YMMV, as always. Nor have I come across the non-blank-before-'From ' bug, and some users have had over 400 messages SPAM-marked within a month. Perhaps there's a bug in a library on non-FreeBSD systems. Hell, who am I trying to fool... it works for me, I wouldn't like to say anything about anyone else. Dunno why
Or just move back over to your old FreeBSD servers and type 'cd /usr/ports/mail/spamass-milter; make install' (assuming Billy G doesn't mind using sendmail).
:)
In fact, amavisd-new (or is it -ng?) supports spamassassin/razor now, so you get 3 milters for the price of one
Programmable flow
:) )
Droplet splitting and formation
HTH.
Oliver.
(I reserve the right to take them down if you kill my web server too
"So, if a copy of Office is being bought for educational use it costs say $10 - the price of the packaging, materials, shipping and handling"
:)
Microsoft do even better than this: for charities (at least in the UK) the 1st 3 licences for Office XP are FREE. Then it's a normal edu-type charge for more licences.
Nice MS
*Cough* first hit is always free *Cough*
You see, that doesn't *quite* work... my father (actually very computer savvy, taught me C programming) managed to plug an Apple ADB cable into the ethernet socket when reaching round the back of the computer (PowerMac 7200).
*Sigh*
I still haven't quite worked out how he did it (just try it...)
Yeah, I have similar experience with many OSes. I love Macs (in the last week, I've spent an hour or so supporting 40 Macs, and 2 *days* supporting 4 PCs). However, the current line of Apple ads is excruciatingly annoying, and I wish Apple would ditch them ASAP.
Wow. That www.wilyhacker.com link is *brilliant*. Clear, concise, fittingly illustrated PDFs. Thanks!
A brief response to 2 points:
1. Why can't you accept that some things are *nobody's* fault? His disorder isn't *his* fault, it's just *there*. Of course telling him "it's not your fault" isn't going to help, but telling him to buck up really *is* like shouting at a blind person to look where they're going: what would be of use is giving them a white cane or a guide dog.
2. People born with no legs, or blind, or chemical imbalances.... whatever happened to "strong protect the weak"? Those who can work pay taxes/donate to charity to help give white sticks/guide dogs to the blind, or to give medication to people with bi-polar (well, in the UK they do, I know Americans have a slightly less socialist model of health care). Now, there's a difference between that and mollycoddling little gripes and problems.
Ah, don't believe everything you read on /. :)
:)
As for something *good* that Apple's doing with regards video codecs, take their fight against the MPEG board about the 'per-play' license. Apple aren't going to release QT 6 properly until they can talk the MPEG people out of it
Xine looks impressive, BTW.
Apple? An evil bad company? I mean yes, they're a company, they're out to make money, they probably do some dodgy things that are morally dubious (and no, I don't mean produce a lime iMac...although that was *nearly* evil).
However, they're OSS with Darwin, and are really trying to get into the whole Open Source thing. They're putting out some cool hardware (the XServe is *much* more than just a pretty box). They're really trying to listen to what consumers want (both pro and domestic, which is *hard*), and also what developers need.
I know, I think they should put out QT for Linux. I run FreeBSD servers, I think they should put out packages for their various bits of free software (QuickTime Streaming Server, WebObjects adaptors, etc) for FreeBSD. But they are NOT evil!
And anyway, didn't I see a story the other day about Sorenson coming to Linux? Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think Real or Win Media players were available for Linux either?
I've no idea what Mike Batt was trying to do, I have very little time for him... The Wombles theme was good, but he went on to write the Conservative's Election 2001 theme tune, so he's evidently an unprincipled wazzock... :)
Oh, and of course I meant "pianist" in the original post, not "pianoist".
Well, *one* of his most interesting...
And the whole point was that it *did* consist of things. Cage was trying to get us to listen to the sounds around us (which was a decently new idea back in the 60s). A poster below says that the first performance was in a forest: I don't know whether that's true, but it seems reasonable. But as I said, birdsong and rustling in a forest can have a rhythm to it, it's good to listen to. However, someone else's idea of that rhythm is crap.
You can buy a musical score for Cage's 4'33", with precise instructions for the pianoist to walk on stage, look at his watch, shut the lid and sit there for the alloted time (4'33" = 273" = (kind of) absolute zero in Celsius).
It was actually one of the most interesting pieces he did... the idea was to get the audience to listen to the "random" sounds around them, and indeed random sounds can sometimes be interesting. BUT what Cage spent a lot of his time doing was writing pieces which were meant to simulate this random noise (e.g. "101 metronomes"). And believe me, folks, nothing is so tedious as listening to someone else's idea of what random noise is...
If someone posted the goatse.cx pic at this point, would it be the first time ever it was ontopic?
I think the weak link in the chain of your argument is that the end user wouldn't have given you permission to write that scribbler.
As long as you provided the software "as is", the user has *chosen* to run your software, and hence implicitly given you "permission". Now I know that it gets tricky, since one may consider that they only wanted to run the bit of the software that *works*, but if that's the case, well, surely the Flight Sim in MS Word, etc, can count as something that "degrades system performance" (uses up disk space, not the best example but you know what I mean...)?