Not to mention the total screwing we're all going to get when the baby-boomers retire and the government has to start paying for their retirements...
Well I don't know about you, but I'm hoping this doomsday arrives sooner rather than later. When they're retiring in full force, then we'll have to confront that problem. And come up with a more sane policy than pumping cash out of their kids to pay for their retirements...
Spend the $1 billion on better things. We should try and solve our own planets problems before going out into space.
Yes, the c. $400 billion being spent on the US military has a far better chance of furthering the lot of humanity. And Bush's tax cut of $1.4 trillon sure helped out all of those disadvantaged rich people.
Buddy, in some cultures you'd be in big trouble for uttering such disparaging comments about your authorities and leaders. But the West's culture of freedom allows you to do it. I'd say sharing that culture with oppressed people will help out humanity.
And I'm sure you're of the opinion that the improving economy following Bush's tax cut is just a coincidence, right?
Don't you hate it when people writing articles make up their own units? Whoever heard of measuring pollution in "humans"?
I'm going to assume that this "humans" unit is probably some kind of ratio, like parts per million, or Oprah-watchers per household. In that case, why don't we use another ratio instead, one that's more accepted?
the best solution I've seen is the AC adapter for my G4 Powerbook, a sleek combo yoyo/flying saucer; but while it looks good on the desktop, it still makes too big of a bulge in my case when I travel
Well stick that adapter in the front of your pants -- then you won't hear any complaining about the bulge being too big.
Ok a little more clarification. Apparently when they say "back up to two additional computers" they mean you can back up your license files on the first computer, then restore those license files to two other computers, allowing the music files to play there.
At least that seems to be the case. I gave that a try, and it appears to work. Although to your casual computer user, this is probably a non-trivial and confusing task (heck, I didn't even get it right away).
Thanks to Brian Briggs, the articles' author, for pointing me towards the Walmart music downloads EULA which does say that you can play the music on more than one computer. The sentence "You may play music an unlimited number of times on up to three (3) personal computers" is a little vague, though (emphasis mine). Should probably read " the music files" or something. Of course I can play music on up to three computers -- I don't need an EULA to tell me that.:p
On this page, they tell you that "Download music to 1 computer and back up to up to two additional computers". I guess the "two additional computers" means you're allowed to copy the file to two more computers, besides the 1 you're allowed to play the file on. God forbid Wal-mart stops by your house and see's the file sitting on four computers! Not that it will play anywhere but the first computer...
What rights do I have with the songs?
The songs you buy you can burn to a CD, transfer to a wma player and listen to on up to three computers.
That's not true -- with Wal-Mart's music downloads, you can only listen on one computer. I downloaded a song on my laptop, then when I copied it to my desktop and tried to play it there, I got this "License Acquisition" dialog box:
Song License Not Available The license for this music download is not available. Music download licenses are delivered one time only to the computer you use to play the song for the firs time. You may have already downloaded the license to another computer, or the song license expired before you played the song for the first time. If you have any questions about recovering lost music and license, please contact one of our Customer Service associates by sending an email to musicdownloads@walmart.com, or by calling 1-800-222-8132 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (CT), 7 days a week.
So it's pretty clear to me that I'm only allowed to play a song I downloaded on one PC (although I'm allowed, according to the download page, to back it up to a couple other computers, whatever they mean by that).
Wal-Mart meat cutters in one store contemplated joining a union. One actually signed a union card. Days later, every meat cutter in that store was laid off, and one week later Wal-Mart announced it would be going to pre-packaged (and pre-cut) meats in all of its stores.
Do you have anything to back up this claim? News stories, say?
"Well the problem is that Walmart has, for all intents & purposes, hired the Chinese government (wheee socialism eh?) to provide a cheap workforce that can't say no. Walmart has done a great many evil things, and exploited many people."
So does this mean that the mom and pop store that sells some "Made in China" action figure toys have also hired the Chinese government to provide a cheap workforce? Or is it ok if just two people (mom and pop) exploit the Chinese? What if there's a cooperative venture amongst mom and pop stores to increase their purchasing power, is it still ok for them to stock Power Ranger toys?
donutz's corollary to Kris_J's corollary: The increase in frequency of stories on the end of Moore's Law on Slashdot will occur primarily as a result of duplicate stories.
"Also why don't most normal American's a have a problem with Bush yet?"
Normal americans wouldn't have a problem with a reincarnated Hitler. As long as they have TV, plenty of food, etc. most of them will be happy.
Who the hell is this eurleif, and what gives him the authority to speak for most normal Americans?
If anyone can answer for those Americans, it's they themselves. I say we put it to a vote. Preferably not on an electronic no-paper-trail voting machine. Then we'll know what most normal Americans think of people like eurleif and their opinions...
By singing! Obviously, these pills need to be able to disable singing to prevent file sharing.
Well duh! I thought that was so obvious I didn't need to state it. Of course the RIAA will be working with Phizer (or whichever pharmaceutical company creates these things) to ensure that one of the side effects of the music pill is weakened vocal cords...
Does anyone else think that fingernail-sized cards for music is a BAD idea? I have enough problems keeping track of CDs sometimes, these things would be incredible easy to lose.
That's why I'm going to wait until music is distributed on a pill-sized pill. That way, you just swallow it, and the music is absorbed into your brain cells, giving you a permanent copy -- no worries about losing it or it being stolen.
Come to think of it, this should be a cure (or at least a treatment) for when you get a song stuck in your head...you just eat a different song to overwrite it.
And I'm sure the RIAA will be all over this new music format, positively love it: how are you going to share what's in your head? They can't lose!
As with Inktomi, Teoma has no free Add URL page -- but also as with Inktomi, Teoma crawls the web, so if you have links pointing at your web site, you may get included naturally.
In other words, you only have to pay if you want a guarantee that your site will appear. If you're popular, it'll probably end up there anyway.
In theory, at least. It's been several months (probably about half a year since I first noticed) and Teoma hasn't re-crawled and re-indexed my old pages. My new page is linked to from one of my old pages, and it's yet to show up.
Who's to say that Teoma is actively crawling the pages currently in their index? In my experience, they're not.
I use Teoma interchangably with Google. Teoma results are as relevant as Google's yet slightly different, however they almost always have the best most relevant results in common.
The problems I see with Teoma are
1) they seem to crawl sites pretty infrequently (I see two old pages of mine listed...one 404's, another has had all its content moved to my new site (and redirects you there after a couple seconds). Google appears to visit my site at least once a month, sometimes more.
2) you have to pay to play if you're a webmaster. If your site's already in, then great (unless the page is now gone, like mine are). If you want to get your new site included, you gotta pony up the dough. Google crawls my site for free...
I am perfectly comfortable with my wiener size... I agree the flamebait was uncalled for!
Maybe the moderator has an issue with his wiener size!
Quite possible! I mean, if someone has a problem with the size of their wiener, then the thought of 2 billion tons of stuff must make their wiener seem pretty insignificant...but then, who'd want a 2 billion ton wiener anyway?
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Not to mention the total screwing we're all going to get when the baby-boomers retire and the government has to start paying for their retirements...
Well I don't know about you, but I'm hoping this doomsday arrives sooner rather than later. When they're retiring in full force, then we'll have to confront that problem. And come up with a more sane policy than pumping cash out of their kids to pay for their retirements...
Buddy, in some cultures you'd be in big trouble for uttering such disparaging comments about your authorities and leaders. But the West's culture of freedom allows you to do it. I'd say sharing that culture with oppressed people will help out humanity.
And I'm sure you're of the opinion that the improving economy following Bush's tax cut is just a coincidence, right?
Don't you hate it when people writing articles make up their own units? Whoever heard of measuring pollution in "humans"?
I'm going to assume that this "humans" unit is probably some kind of ratio, like parts per million, or Oprah-watchers per household. In that case, why don't we use another ratio instead, one that's more accepted?
Like maybe Volkswagen bug per cubic mile?
in your search, like this:
Search for Book without Google Print
Me to!
Opps, I mean, mee too!
darn it...
Me too!
the best solution I've seen is the AC adapter for my G4 Powerbook, a sleek combo yoyo/flying saucer; but while it looks good on the desktop, it still makes too big of a bulge in my case when I travel
Well stick that adapter in the front of your pants -- then you won't hear any complaining about the bulge being too big.
Ok a little more clarification. Apparently when they say "back up to two additional computers" they mean you can back up your license files on the first computer, then restore those license files to two other computers, allowing the music files to play there.
:p
At least that seems to be the case. I gave that a try, and it appears to work. Although to your casual computer user, this is probably a non-trivial and confusing task (heck, I didn't even get it right away).
Thanks to Brian Briggs, the articles' author, for pointing me towards the Walmart music downloads EULA which does say that you can play the music on more than one computer. The sentence "You may play music an unlimited number of times on up to three (3) personal computers" is a little vague, though (emphasis mine). Should probably read " the music files" or something. Of course I can play music on up to three computers -- I don't need an EULA to tell me that.
The Benefits of Music Downloads, according to Wal-Mart.
On this page, they tell you that "Download music to 1 computer and back up to up to two additional computers". I guess the "two additional computers" means you're allowed to copy the file to two more computers, besides the 1 you're allowed to play the file on. God forbid Wal-mart stops by your house and see's the file sitting on four computers! Not that it will play anywhere but the first computer...
That's not true -- with Wal-Mart's music downloads, you can only listen on one computer. I downloaded a song on my laptop, then when I copied it to my desktop and tried to play it there, I got this "License Acquisition" dialog box:
So it's pretty clear to me that I'm only allowed to play a song I downloaded on one PC (although I'm allowed, according to the download page, to back it up to a couple other computers, whatever they mean by that).
Wal-Mart meat cutters in one store contemplated joining a union. One actually signed a union card. Days later, every meat cutter in that store was laid off, and one week later Wal-Mart announced it would be going to pre-packaged (and pre-cut) meats in all of its stores.
Do you have anything to back up this claim? News stories, say?
"Well the problem is that Walmart has, for all intents & purposes, hired the Chinese government (wheee socialism eh?) to provide a cheap workforce that can't say no. Walmart has done a great many evil things, and exploited many people."
So does this mean that the mom and pop store that sells some "Made in China" action figure toys have also hired the Chinese government to provide a cheap workforce? Or is it ok if just two people (mom and pop) exploit the Chinese? What if there's a cooperative venture amongst mom and pop stores to increase their purchasing power, is it still ok for them to stock Power Ranger toys?
Sounds like a lot of the reasons not to shop at Wal-Mart are reasons you shouldn't shop anywhere at all.
The story is pretty fresh, so the news details are still pretty thin
Details? Who needs details! This is Slashdot, just give us a quick blurb and we'll open up the rampant speculation.
Details...Ha!
donutz's corollary to Kris_J's corollary: The increase in frequency of stories on the end of Moore's Law on Slashdot will occur primarily as a result of duplicate stories.
Better than Linux sites (Linux World, Slashdot) linking to each other with speculations that create self fulfilling prophecies.
Not if we can slashdot the hell out of those sites! SCO won't be able to find the scoop on melted heaps of webserver...
"Also why don't most normal American's a have a problem with Bush yet?"
Normal americans wouldn't have a problem with a reincarnated Hitler. As long as they have TV, plenty of food, etc. most of them will be happy.
Who the hell is this eurleif, and what gives him the authority to speak for most normal Americans?
If anyone can answer for those Americans, it's they themselves. I say we put it to a vote. Preferably not on an electronic no-paper-trail voting machine. Then we'll know what most normal Americans think of people like eurleif and their opinions...
"how are you going to share what's in your head?"
By singing! Obviously, these pills need to be able to disable singing to prevent file sharing.
Well duh! I thought that was so obvious I didn't need to state it. Of course the RIAA will be working with Phizer (or whichever pharmaceutical company creates these things) to ensure that one of the side effects of the music pill is weakened vocal cords...
Does anyone else think that fingernail-sized cards for music is a BAD idea? I have enough problems keeping track of CDs sometimes, these things would be incredible easy to lose.
That's why I'm going to wait until music is distributed on a pill-sized pill. That way, you just swallow it, and the music is absorbed into your brain cells, giving you a permanent copy -- no worries about losing it or it being stolen.
Come to think of it, this should be a cure (or at least a treatment) for when you get a song stuck in your head...you just eat a different song to overwrite it.
And I'm sure the RIAA will be all over this new music format, positively love it: how are you going to share what's in your head? They can't lose!
The ultimate in Halloween case mods
In theory, at least. It's been several months (probably about half a year since I first noticed) and Teoma hasn't re-crawled and re-indexed my old pages. My new page is linked to from one of my old pages, and it's yet to show up. Who's to say that Teoma is actively crawling the pages currently in their index? In my experience, they're not.
What to do? Switch to Teoma.
I use Teoma interchangably with Google. Teoma results are as relevant as Google's yet slightly different, however they almost always have the best most relevant results in common.
The problems I see with Teoma are
1) they seem to crawl sites pretty infrequently (I see two old pages of mine listed...one 404's, another has had all its content moved to my new site (and redirects you there after a couple seconds). Google appears to visit my site at least once a month, sometimes more.
2) you have to pay to play if you're a webmaster. If your site's already in, then great (unless the page is now gone, like mine are). If you want to get your new site included, you gotta pony up the dough. Google crawls my site for free...
I am perfectly comfortable with my wiener size... I agree the flamebait was uncalled for!
Maybe the moderator has an issue with his wiener size!
Quite possible! I mean, if someone has a problem with the size of their wiener, then the thought of 2 billion tons of stuff must make their wiener seem pretty insignificant...but then, who'd want a 2 billion ton wiener anyway?
Makes you feel teeny weenie small, doesn't it?
"What does the sun have to do with the size of your weiner? you're weird."
oh c'mon moderators...it was a joke. For all we know he has a really big weiner.
Makes you feel teeny weenie small, doesn't it?
What does the sun have to do with the size of your weiner? you're weird.
Director James Kennedy has announced that the coronal mass ejection is the work of extraterrestrial terrorists! Run for your lives!