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All the searching was handled by centralized servers, not napster itself.
could you please explain this? to my understanding, napster the company and software product handled the searching (yes by centralized servers), but napster did handle the searching, thus the shutdown. most current implementors of the gnutella design (kazza, morpheous, gnucleus, bearshare, etc) do not handle the searches, rather, searches are handled by the many other users on the network.
this site isn't a couple of college guys hanging around slapping up a message board at all. it's the bread and butter of more then a couple people, and to get the bread and butter, they've gotta have some revenue, advertisement. ads pay for being viewed. weird stories get viewed more often than dull booring stories. though from time to time, i'm sure someone might toke a little extra and throw up something really wacky.
most normal users never need to venture into the make menu config. you're stepping into the aunt millie terrortory here. most modern distributions include all drivers for all hardware (at the time if distribution) as a kernel module. if your specific hardware isn't supported by a current distribution, chances are you can compile just the driver needed (or obtain a compiled driver). hell, most sysadmins don't go around building their own kernel. they use the one that comes on the cd, and worry about their other work. kernel building is really more of a geek thing than anything else. trying to scrape that extra 5-10% performance improvement.
did you have some issues as a child that you wouldn't care to discuss? get over it. i can't see any evidence that the man ever touched a "child". his intent is pure speculation and could be interpreted many different ways. the actual actions are concrete facts, intent is some abstract concept that people cling to when trying to uphold laws. it's a bogus concept.
having just come out of an long period of interviewing, i can tell you that there are many managers who still feel that "no one ever got fired for choosing microsoft". they'll tell you strait up, "we're a m$ shop, how do you feel about that", which means, "i've sold my soul so we can have crap software and you all developers can have worthless skills in the market place, how would you like to move your career back a few years? we've got.NET, that might go somewhere, right?"
the original poster had a valid point from what i can see. there's a price point where the big guys (MGM, Disney, etc.) can afford to hold their copyright and the smaller guys cannot. could disney shell out 100k for each movie to hold onto the copyright? of course they could. perhaps the re-license fee could be a percentage of actual revenue, but that would be extremely shady as well.
i do agree that copyrights NEED to expire in a reasonable amount of time, perhaps 15 years or so. the intent of a copyright is to give the creator a limited monopoly on the work for a limited amount of time. this lets them and only them make some money while they're off working on the next great peice of work. elvis' estate shouldn't be raking in a check everytime someone sings the blue suede shoes or whatever his songs were. those people should be out earning their own fortune or living off the interest of their parents, but not the continued revenue from "royalty" paymemts for some has-been song.
we need to stop making excuses for the current system, and stop trying to find a way to fit it better into the way the system was intended to function. no extensions, no 50/80/100 year copyrights. limited needs to be defined, and to me it is well under 20 years. to me it should be well under 10 years, but i could waver on that a little.
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significant what? significance is maybe what you had intended to type? perhaps, you wanted to type "There are significant differences..". perhaps it was just a human mistake. regardless, what you intended to type, and what appeared on the slashdot posting were two entirely diferent things causing significant disruption in the overall karma of the slashdot world.
the original poster did suggest to encode from the original digital medium (cd audio). the real problem with this is that nearly all compressed music devices on the market only support mp3, with no hope of upgrading the software. my dvd player plays mp3's nicely, my cd walkman can handle mp3's. these items will not play ogg. untill some of these consumer devices (car stereos, etc) support ogg, it's not really a portable format. nice for the pc, but when you want to stick something in your dvd player, you instantly need the common format... chicken/egg
unless you're working for a nice large company who deals w/ dell, and will let you in on their contract. besides, you're still paying for it, you're just not getting it.
N-series PCs will cost the same as PCs that ship with Windows, a Dell representative said.
they're not even avoiding the "tax"! the article also states that these are only available for LARGE corporate accounts, you and i won't be able to order them through dell.com. nice pr move dell, but you've still gotta let us order a pc w/o the M$ OS. I don't want it, and I don't need it!
technically, you're right, but remember, the copyright power granted to congress is for a limited copyright to progress the "arts". this means if you write us a nice story we'll let you be the only one to sell it for a little while. after that you've gotta write another one, because anybody can sell your first. it's all about consumer's rights, sometimes the fat bastards up on the hill tend to forget minor details such as that.
i don't see how a software lease is benifical from an accounting perspective.
most businesses lease their hardware, which comes with oem software. that oem software stays with the hardware when the lease expires. the entire expense of leasing the system is an instant write-off (during the month in which the expense occurred).
server type software i can see, (where you just don't get oem versions) but not desktop software..
with vmware you need a licensed copy of the resident operating system, in this case one of the Microsoft strains. using codeweaver's product, as i understand it, that need is eliminated. it allows you to install windows software on a linux system.
there's a reason you don't allow normal users to have administrator (root) access. among the many others, you just don't want them to fsck up the system beyond unbelief.
on a side note, why do you need to remove the drive to write an os to it???
um you do know that decss doesn't have much to do with digital/analog, right? w/o decss you can't view the encrypted video stream. you can though copy the encrypted video stream all you want regardless of what "copy protection" they've implemented.
oh sure. and a wife doesn't have to be pleasant to look at either, right? she just needs to be able to produce some offspring, cook a little dinner, sweep the floors and fetch some beers.
on a more serious note, part of functionality is it's appearance. more polished is more pleasant to look at and will therefor be easier to use all around. bash/cmd.exe whatever is functional, but you don't see masses flocking to them right off the bat.
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All the searching was handled by centralized servers, not napster itself.
could you please explain this? to my understanding, napster the company and software product handled the searching (yes by centralized servers), but napster did handle the searching, thus the shutdown. most current implementors of the gnutella design (kazza, morpheous, gnucleus, bearshare, etc) do not handle the searches, rather, searches are handled by the many other users on the network.
i'm thinking chris rock, though you might have to throw in a few costume mods to pull it off.
this site isn't a couple of college guys hanging around slapping up a message board at all. it's the bread and butter of more then a couple people, and to get the bread and butter, they've gotta have some revenue, advertisement. ads pay for being viewed. weird stories get viewed more often than dull booring stories. though from time to time, i'm sure someone might toke a little extra and throw up something really wacky.
"make xconfig" on a normal user
most normal users never need to venture into the make menu config. you're stepping into the aunt millie terrortory here. most modern distributions include all drivers for all hardware (at the time if distribution) as a kernel module. if your specific hardware isn't supported by a current distribution, chances are you can compile just the driver needed (or obtain a compiled driver). hell, most sysadmins don't go around building their own kernel. they use the one that comes on the cd, and worry about their other work. kernel building is really more of a geek thing than anything else. trying to scrape that extra 5-10% performance improvement.
i wouldn't think he should be the coach for the girls varsity volleyball team at my kids school, no.
was he convicted of posessing child pornogrophy on his computer?
did you have some issues as a child that you wouldn't care to discuss? get over it. i can't see any evidence that the man ever touched a "child". his intent is pure speculation and could be interpreted many different ways. the actual actions are concrete facts, intent is some abstract concept that people cling to when trying to uphold laws. it's a bogus concept.
ok moderators. this is not OFF topic. it's completely on the topic of the 30 millionares, and also on topic with the parent post.
having just come out of an long period of interviewing, i can tell you that there are many managers who still feel that "no one ever got fired for choosing microsoft". they'll tell you strait up, "we're a m$ shop, how do you feel about that", which means, "i've sold my soul so we can have crap software and you all developers can have worthless skills in the market place, how would you like to move your career back a few years? we've got .NET, that might go somewhere, right?"
that was good entertainment value!
the original poster had a valid point from what i can see. there's a price point where the big guys (MGM, Disney, etc.) can afford to hold their copyright and the smaller guys cannot. could disney shell out 100k for each movie to hold onto the copyright? of course they could. perhaps the re-license fee could be a percentage of actual revenue, but that would be extremely shady as well.
i do agree that copyrights NEED to expire in a reasonable amount of time, perhaps 15 years or so. the intent of a copyright is to give the creator a limited monopoly on the work for a limited amount of time. this lets them and only them make some money while they're off working on the next great peice of work. elvis' estate shouldn't be raking in a check everytime someone sings the blue suede shoes or whatever his songs were. those people should be out earning their own fortune or living off the interest of their parents, but not the continued revenue from "royalty" paymemts for some has-been song.
we need to stop making excuses for the current system, and stop trying to find a way to fit it better into the way the system was intended to function. no extensions, no 50/80/100 year copyrights. limited needs to be defined, and to me it is well under 20 years. to me it should be well under 10 years, but i could waver on that a little.
i have a hard time finding my favorite dvd's in the theater also. jenna jameson just doesn't make the big screen that often i guess...
Besides, they're breaking microsoft's security system.
which security system is that? firewall, encryption, authentication? help me out here?
the same point as fussing about running linux on a playstation, or on a dreamcast, or on my cellphone, or on a nintendo, or, or, or, or.
why does there have to be more of a point than just people playing around and showing others who might be interested?
There are significant between loose [dictionary.com]
significant what? significance is maybe what you had intended to type? perhaps, you wanted to type "There are significant differences..". perhaps it was just a human mistake. regardless, what you intended to type, and what appeared on the slashdot posting were two entirely diferent things causing significant disruption in the overall karma of the slashdot world.
ah, well, back to browsing.
the original poster did suggest to encode from the original digital medium (cd audio). the real problem with this is that nearly all compressed music devices on the market only support mp3, with no hope of upgrading the software. my dvd player plays mp3's nicely, my cd walkman can handle mp3's. these items will not play ogg. untill some of these consumer devices (car stereos, etc) support ogg, it's not really a portable format. nice for the pc, but when you want to stick something in your dvd player, you instantly need the common format... chicken/egg
according to BMG, and others: "ALL YOUr CD's R BELONG To US"..
unless you're working for a nice large company who deals w/ dell, and will let you in on their contract. besides, you're still paying for it, you're just not getting it.
N-series PCs will cost the same as PCs that ship with Windows, a Dell representative said.
they're not even avoiding the "tax"! the article also states that these are only available for LARGE corporate accounts, you and i won't be able to order them through dell.com. nice pr move dell, but you've still gotta let us order a pc w/o the M$ OS. I don't want it, and I don't need it!
technically, you're right, but remember, the copyright power granted to congress is for a limited copyright to progress the "arts". this means if you write us a nice story we'll let you be the only one to sell it for a little while. after that you've gotta write another one, because anybody can sell your first. it's all about consumer's rights, sometimes the fat bastards up on the hill tend to forget minor details such as that.
i don't see how a software lease is benifical from an accounting perspective.
most businesses lease their hardware, which comes with oem software. that oem software stays with the hardware when the lease expires. the entire expense of leasing the system is an instant write-off (during the month in which the expense occurred).
server type software i can see, (where you just don't get oem versions) but not desktop software..
with vmware you need a licensed copy of the resident operating system, in this case one of the Microsoft strains. using codeweaver's product, as i understand it, that need is eliminated. it allows you to install windows software on a linux system.
there's a reason you don't allow normal users to have administrator (root) access. among the many others, you just don't want them to fsck up the system beyond unbelief.
on a side note, why do you need to remove the drive to write an os to it???
There is a great deal of independent research showing that equivalent programmers are more productive in Java over C++.
can you point some of these out?
um you do know that decss doesn't have much to do with digital/analog, right? w/o decss you can't view the encrypted video stream. you can though copy the encrypted video stream all you want regardless of what "copy protection" they've implemented.
oh sure. and a wife doesn't have to be pleasant to look at either, right? she just needs to be able to produce some offspring, cook a little dinner, sweep the floors and fetch some beers.
on a more serious note, part of functionality is it's appearance. more polished is more pleasant to look at and will therefor be easier to use all around. bash/cmd.exe whatever is functional, but you don't see masses flocking to them right off the bat.