And just how do you propose to implement this grand scheme of filtering in just 72 hrs.
Problem 1) Time constraints.
Problem 2) The way Napster works, the file being traded never passes through Napster's server. The filtering would have to be done on the client. This means that Napster would have to lock out all accounts unless you upgrade to the new client software.
Problem 3) Can you imagine the volume of songs that are covered by copyrights by these 4 giants. Imagine the size of the song definitions file. I thought 4.5 megs of antivirus definitions was big.
Problem 4) Encoding a digital signature in each non-copyrighted would mean augmenting the file format of MP3's. This also means new client software. Plus, how does my band record a CD in our home studio(meaning we own the copyrights if we wish to enforce them), and them rip it to MP3 so we can share it on Napster or other sharing services to get quicker exposure. Do we have to now buy a "MP3 non-copyrighted song encoding software?" No thank you, I'll just use the method I have now that cost me nothing more than the cost of my CD burner.
I attend a college with a co-op is part of our curriculum. I will be going on my third and final co-op this spring. What have I learned most from my two previous co-ops?
1. Engineering is full of menial tasks.
2. No one starts off doing the really cool stuff right out of college anyway, unless you are a genius. Engineers work in teams and you will most likely start out working under a more experienced PE until you learn a special skill or prove your self to be engineering management type material.
3. MOST IMPOSTANT LESSON. Not all jobs turn out to be as cool as they are cracked up to be. Not all management cares about giving co-ops meaningful work. They hired you for a purpose and intend to exploit you for it. This is a valuable life lesson.
My advice for the posters: Ask to get involved in projects that you are interested in. Talk to your supervisor and let him know that you would like to work in some more challenging work along with what you are currently doing. Be open, and if he/she does not respond well then leave and take that lesson with you for the rest of your career.
Remember, you got an opportunity to see real engineering in person, even if you could not actively participate. That should give you an idea of whether you want to spend the next 4 years studying it and the rest of your life doing it. Not everyone gets that type of opportunity.
The Challenger accident serves as a lesson to all engineers. The exact cause of the explosion was the failure an O-ring on one of the SRBs. It failed because of the low temperature of the launch site that day. Morton Thiokol, the maker of the o-ring, did not know and could not accurately predict how the o-ring would perform that day since no one had thought to test it at low temperatures. Because of the bloated probability figures and the fact that the whole nation was watching, engineers at Thiokol were persuaded to NOT postpone the launch, which they had the power to do, if they thought there was sufficient danger. The Morton engineers are one of many hundreds of engineers who are consulted every time there is a shuttle launch.
The above lesson that even single, simple engineers can have a profound responsibility to the safety of the public, and engineers should not let their instincts or ideas be persuaded by businessmen.
These lessons are taught to EVERY sophomore engineering student (mechanical, electrical, systems, chemical, biomed, etc....) at my school in an engineering ethics class that uses the Challenger and many other well known and documented engineering misjudgments as examples.
It seems that the article was focusing on the enterprise or server market and not the desktop market. Mac OSX is still viewed by many as a desktop OS. How many people do you know run important services off of a Macintosh?
Clearly, Linux has no where to go but up in the server market. This is where it performs best. And system admins are not affraid to play with it. Why spend more money on AIX, HP-UX, or Solaris, when you can buy a cheaper Intel server and a free OS (or pay US $39.99 for Red Hat) and configure it to your needs. That is why Linux is gaining its market share.
The worst part about BellAtlantic is that they use PPPoE and DHCP instead of a static IP. This makes it harder to share your connection among a home network. The download speeds are fast as far as I am concerned. But, if anyone tries to get an MP3 off of me, I might as well have a cable connection. The Upload part of Adsl is SLOW!!!!!.
Also, the customer support from BellAtlantic, Verizon whatever sucks. I had a problem with my connection, and they bounced me around from dept to dept. No one could fix it. It ended up being a billing problem and now I have to wait another 15 days far service to get turned back on. They SUCK!
I agree with Kiethros, 932MB is way too much for just an OS.
Whister looks like Win2k with new skins for the explorer. We have a Win2k machine here at work, and I am unimpressed with it. When we got it new it had -no- software loaded. Just the OS and the harddrive reported almost 900 MB used. That is way too much.
I suspect that this has something to do with M$ Windows File Protection Which basically keeps a copy of all the important dlls and other files in case someone deletes them, or some program overwrites the dll with an older version during install. Stupid.
On that computer, by boss installed all of the add-ons from the win2k cd. This included IIS 5.0. Since we are not using this computer for a web server I turned those services off b/c I considered it a security hazzaed and a waste of memory and CPU cycles. Well, M$ has a an IIS Performance tracking program that runs as an entirely seperate process. And when it looks for performance stats on a computer with no web server running. Consequently it causes a memory pool drain and will crash the computer overnight. It took me two weeks to figure out what was doing this. They call that stable. BS
Why cant M$ manage thier files and installed programs with a database approach, like Debain. Now there is a stable OS.
My homepage is on an intranet also. The server does not have a fully qualified name however. My homepage is set to http://myservername/ If what you are saying is true, microsoft would not be able to redirect my browser back to the homepage.
Also I still have automatically check for Internet explorer upadates check in the advanced options(although i just uncheched it)
Another side note: Yahoo uses a redirect similar to this on their homepage. If you go to www.yahoo.com, then hover the mouse over the link for yahoo mail, the URL is http://www.yahoo.com/homet?http://mail.yahoo.com
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And just how do you propose to implement this grand scheme of filtering in just 72 hrs.
Problem 1) Time constraints.
Problem 2) The way Napster works, the file being traded never passes through Napster's server. The filtering would have to be done on the client. This means that Napster would have to lock out all accounts unless you upgrade to the new client software.
Problem 3) Can you imagine the volume of songs that are covered by copyrights by these 4 giants. Imagine the size of the song definitions file. I thought 4.5 megs of antivirus definitions was big.
Problem 4) Encoding a digital signature in each non-copyrighted would mean augmenting the file format of MP3's. This also means new client software. Plus, how does my band record a CD in our home studio(meaning we own the copyrights if we wish to enforce them), and them rip it to MP3 so we can share it on Napster or other sharing services to get quicker exposure. Do we have to now buy a "MP3 non-copyrighted song encoding software?" No thank you, I'll just use the method I have now that cost me nothing more than the cost of my CD burner.
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Tounge in cheek but TRUE.
I attend a college with a co-op is part of our curriculum. I will be going on my third and final co-op this spring. What have I learned most from my two previous co-ops?
1. Engineering is full of menial tasks.
2. No one starts off doing the really cool stuff right out of college anyway, unless you are a genius. Engineers work in teams and you will most likely start out working under a more experienced PE until you learn a special skill or prove your self to be engineering management type material.
3. MOST IMPOSTANT LESSON. Not all jobs turn out to be as cool as they are cracked up to be. Not all management cares about giving co-ops meaningful work. They hired you for a purpose and intend to exploit you for it. This is a valuable life lesson.
My advice for the posters: Ask to get involved in projects that you are interested in. Talk to your supervisor and let him know that you would like to work in some more challenging work along with what you are currently doing. Be open, and if he/she does not respond well then leave and take that lesson with you for the rest of your career.
Remember, you got an opportunity to see real engineering in person, even if you could not actively participate. That should give you an idea of whether you want to spend the next 4 years studying it and the rest of your life doing it. Not everyone gets that type of opportunity.
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The Challenger accident serves as a lesson to all engineers. The exact cause of the explosion was the failure an O-ring on one of the SRBs. It failed because of the low temperature of the launch site that day. Morton Thiokol, the maker of the o-ring, did not know and could not accurately predict how the o-ring would perform that day since no one had thought to test it at low temperatures. Because of the bloated probability figures and the fact that the whole nation was watching, engineers at Thiokol were persuaded to NOT postpone the launch, which they had the power to do, if they thought there was sufficient danger. The Morton engineers are one of many hundreds of engineers who are consulted every time there is a shuttle launch.
The above lesson that even single, simple engineers can have a profound responsibility to the safety of the public, and engineers should not let their instincts or ideas be persuaded by businessmen.
These lessons are taught to EVERY sophomore engineering student (mechanical, electrical, systems, chemical, biomed, etc....) at my school in an engineering ethics class that uses the Challenger and many other well known and documented engineering misjudgments as examples.
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It seems that the article was focusing on the enterprise or server market and not the desktop market. Mac OSX is still viewed by many as a desktop OS. How many people do you know run important services off of a Macintosh?
Clearly, Linux has no where to go but up in the server market. This is where it performs best. And system admins are not affraid to play with it. Why spend more money on AIX, HP-UX, or Solaris, when you can buy a cheaper Intel server and a free OS (or pay US $39.99 for Red Hat) and configure it to your needs. That is why Linux is gaining its market share.
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The worst part about BellAtlantic is that they use PPPoE and DHCP instead of a static IP. This makes it harder to share your connection among a home network. The download speeds are fast as far as I am concerned. But, if anyone tries to get an MP3 off of me, I might as well have a cable connection. The Upload part of Adsl is SLOW!!!!!.
Also, the customer support from BellAtlantic, Verizon whatever sucks. I had a problem with my connection, and they bounced me around from dept to dept. No one could fix it. It ended up being a billing problem and now I have to wait another 15 days far service to get turned back on. They SUCK!
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Whister looks like Win2k with new skins for the explorer. We have a Win2k machine here at work, and I am unimpressed with it. When we got it new it had -no- software loaded. Just the OS and the harddrive reported almost 900 MB used. That is way too much.
I suspect that this has something to do with M$ Windows File Protection Which basically keeps a copy of all the important dlls and other files in case someone deletes them, or some program overwrites the dll with an older version during install. Stupid.
On that computer, by boss installed all of the add-ons from the win2k cd. This included IIS 5.0. Since we are not using this computer for a web server I turned those services off b/c I considered it a security hazzaed and a waste of memory and CPU cycles. Well, M$ has a an IIS Performance tracking program that runs as an entirely seperate process. And when it looks for performance stats on a computer with no web server running. Consequently it causes a memory pool drain and will crash the computer overnight. It took me two weeks to figure out what was doing this. They call that stable. BS
Why cant M$ manage thier files and installed programs with a database approach, like Debain. Now there is a stable OS.
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My homepage is on an intranet also. The server does not have a fully qualified name however. My homepage is set to http://myservername/ If what you are saying is true, microsoft would not be able to redirect my browser back to the homepage. Also I still have automatically check for Internet explorer upadates check in the advanced options(although i just uncheched it) Another side note: Yahoo uses a redirect similar to this on their homepage. If you go to www.yahoo.com, then hover the mouse over the link for yahoo mail, the URL is http://www.yahoo.com/homet?http://mail.yahoo.com
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