Firstly, they do have other ways of making money. They're owned by escient who makes all sorts of "convergence" entertainment products.
Secondly, you're right, they took over cddb after a useful amount of seed work had been done for free. Quite ingenious, and quite evil of them. And like most evil things, it's been quite profitable for them too.
The reason for the exclusvity clause in their contract is so it's hard to compete. I think the open source community should take the time to use freedb, or help on cdindex, so escient doesn't end up being the only purveyor of this information in the world, in which case I think we can all be sure that it won't be free anymore. ----------------------------
I didn't make the claim, but yes, I do have a job programming on Linux and FreeBSD with gcc/egcs. I'm a firm believer in having design meetings over pizza and and a few pitchers, which makes them go by much faster, and tends to get everybody involved relaxed enough that it removes a lot of ego from the design.
Not to be rude, but it sounds to me like you need to spend more time looking for a job that suits you well. ----------------------------
Thank you for answering my question, of whether anandtech was dead, or if my employer had attempted a transparent proxy and failed. ----------------------------
The Mount Pinatubo eruption emitted 42 Megatons of CO2. On the other hand, in 1990, Hawaii emitted 16 Megatons of CO2. As far as I'm aware, the notable emission from Mount Pinatubo was not CO2, but the fact that it created the largest stratospheric SO2 cloud ever observed.
Maybe it's because of people like me, who don't check their e-mail every single time WMMail lets me know another piece has arrived. If I did, I wouldn't be able to actually do anything. If you need to talk to three people before you send out a quick memo, and you e-mail them it might end up blocking for up to a day. The phone on the other hand rarely blocks for more than an hour. ----------------------------
This book is a must read for anybody who manages people in the tech industry, wants to manage people in the tech industry or who just want to get additional perspective on how many facets of management, environment and coworkers can affect your productivity and your happiness.
netscape is quite capable of taking down X. I haven't seen it happen yet with 4.74 but it's happened to me with 4.72 and previous every once in a while. The machine was still quite alive though, just had to ssh into it. ----------------------------
or does this mean that comcast @home customers can't use a vpn to get into their corporate networks anymore. bye-bye telecommuting. ----------------------------
Wow, it's amazing! It's a man, made entirely out of straw! Dear god, and now a cfonet reporter has gone and lit it on fire! Burn, straw man, burn! ----------------------------
Unfortunately you can't register. you see, you get the registration e-mail back from mindpixel, and you go to the url listed inside it, and get: The requested URL/confirm.php3 was not found on this server.
You might consider fixing that.
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An anonymous double-blind system would be great but if we look at the world we live in, I think that the whistleblower needs to have some sort of accountability, if even only to very restricted set of eyes. Otherwise, there'd be nothing to stop people from anonymously blowing the whistle maliciously. "Whoops, did your chemical plant get searched again? That's odd, our chemical plant never gets searched.' ----------------------------
Would you encourage your child to read http://kids.stormfront.org/? If they did, I'd want to know so I could at help them parse it, and realize that their new favorite game shouldn't become White Power Doom, and if it does, I want to know about it. ----------------------------
Actually 75% of females, and 73% of males have no had sex at age 15, and the average age of the first sexual experience is approximately 17 years, according to mangrove and terry's work, available at http://www.childtrends.org/r_ac.cfm.
While I'm not about to sit here and say I think it's a good site, or has good content, I would argue that http://www.geocities.com/ SoHo/Cafe/8781/wyldestorms2.html doesn't deserve to be blocked, despite containing lots of images, and text that I would classify as (poorly written) erotica. ----------------------------
Perhaps the 21% poverty rate which relates to the 1500/100,000 youth (10-17) arrest rate which indicates a high (double the average for United States metropolitan areas) crime youth culture (overall rate is also double the national average, as of 1997) which would probably indicate a hostile learning environment.
To be honest, I don't know, there could be lots of factors, class size, etc, but I'm not going to take the time to find them out to argue an AC. ----------------------------
But could you please show me the proof that most welfare recipients are able to work despite living in depressed neighborhoods with poor education systems that don't allow them to make enough money to move out of the depressed neighborhoods?
How about public school funding? It's a great scam. Pay for it all via property tax, which means, ooooh yeah. rich people get lots of money for their schools, and good educations whereas the depressed neighborhoods, not enough money to get a good teacher. or a good book. or a good building.
this of course leads to an undereducated and poor population who... well.. can't get out. there are success stories, but it's *hard* for these people. I dare you to do social work for a year and see how much of an option these people have.
I'm not claiming nobody abuses the system, just that there's a large body of the population that's stuck in a downward spiral, and it truly isn't their fault. ----------------------------
don't expect the cops to care. you see, by the time you appeal alllllll the way up to the point that it matters, you'd have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. you're much more likely to take the '$1000 first time offender and 1 year probation' option. ----------------------------
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Secondly, you're right, they took over cddb after a useful amount of seed work had been done for free. Quite ingenious, and quite evil of them. And like most evil things, it's been quite profitable for them too.
The reason for the exclusvity clause in their contract is so it's hard to compete. I think the open source community should take the time to use freedb, or help on cdindex, so escient doesn't end up being the only purveyor of this information in the world, in which case I think we can all be sure that it won't be free anymore.
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do you have a link to 'cddb2-enabled' that doesn't get us non-developer folks a username/password prompt?
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I didn't make the claim, but yes, I do have a job programming on Linux and FreeBSD with gcc/egcs. I'm a firm believer in having design meetings over pizza and and a few pitchers, which makes them go by much faster, and tends to get everybody involved relaxed enough that it removes a lot of ego from the design.
Not to be rude, but it sounds to me like you need to spend more time looking for a job that suits you well.
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10^100 is a googol.
10^googol is a googolplex.
And this site can help you imagine that.
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something is borked.
Thank you for answering my question, of whether anandtech was dead, or if my employer had attempted a transparent proxy and failed.
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The Mount Pinatubo eruption emitted 42 Megatons of CO2. On the other hand, in 1990, Hawaii emitted 16 Megatons of CO2. As far as I'm aware, the notable emission from Mount Pinatubo was not CO2, but the fact that it created the largest stratospheric SO2 cloud ever observed.
This isn't my area of specialty, so I may have misinterpreted something. My references for my assertations are Pre-Eru ption Vapor in Magma of the Climactic Mount Pinatubo Eruption: Source of the Giant Stratospheric Sulfur Dioxide Cloud regarding Mount Pinatubo, and Table 3.4 - CO2 Emissions in Hawaii by Fuel, 1990 from the Hawaii Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
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Maybe it's because of people like me, who don't check their e-mail every single time WMMail lets me know another piece has arrived. If I did, I wouldn't be able to actually do anything. If you need to talk to three people before you send out a quick memo, and you e-mail them it might end up blocking for up to a day. The phone on the other hand rarely blocks for more than an hour.
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wow, really? what a coincidence, mine also four fingernail clippers and 2.4 children! What a coincidence!
Actually I'm lying. It doesn't have clippers.
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I've never understood how people keep their desks clean at work. Right now my desk has on it the following:
And that's just what's on my desk, let alone what's on my shelves, under my desk, or in the filing cabinets.
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The book Peopleware by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister has a section with seven chapters about the office environment alone.
This book is a must read for anybody who manages people in the tech industry, wants to manage people in the tech industry or who just want to get additional perspective on how many facets of management, environment and coworkers can affect your productivity and your happiness.
This book is as essential as The Mythical Man Month by Brooks.
If you haven't read this books yet, read them now.
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netscape is quite capable of taking down X. I haven't seen it happen yet with 4.74 but it's happened to me with 4.72 and previous every once in a while. The machine was still quite alive though, just had to ssh into it.
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or does this mean that comcast @home customers can't use a vpn to get into their corporate networks anymore. bye-bye telecommuting.
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Wow, it's amazing! It's a man, made entirely out of straw! Dear god, and now a cfonet reporter has gone and lit it on fire! Burn, straw man, burn!
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Unfortunately you can't register. you see, you get the registration e-mail back from mindpixel, and you go to the url listed inside it, and get: /confirm.php3 was not found on this server.
The requested URL
You might consider fixing that.
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If by 'making mixtapes for friends' you mean 'letting everybody who asks take unlimited copies of your music'.
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An anonymous double-blind system would be great but if we look at the world we live in, I think that the whistleblower needs to have some sort of accountability, if even only to very restricted set of eyes. Otherwise, there'd be nothing to stop people from anonymously blowing the whistle maliciously. "Whoops, did your chemical plant get searched again? That's odd, our chemical plant never gets searched.'
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Would you encourage your child to read http://kids.stormfront.org/? If they did, I'd want to know so I could at help them parse it, and realize that their new favorite game shouldn't become White Power Doom, and if it does, I want to know about it.
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Actually 75% of females, and 73% of males have no had sex at age 15, and the average age of the first sexual experience is approximately 17 years, according to mangrove and terry's work, available at http://www.childtrends.org/r_ac.cfm.
Please check the stats before you post them.
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While I'm not about to sit here and say I think it's a good site, or has good content, I would argue that http://www.geocities.com/ SoHo/Cafe/8781/wyldestorms2.html doesn't deserve to be blocked, despite containing lots of images, and text that I would classify as (poorly written) erotica.
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My years of living in the amazon have paid off. Good-bye Jeff Bezos!
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Perhaps the 21% poverty rate which relates to the 1500/100,000 youth (10-17) arrest rate which indicates a high (double the average for United States metropolitan areas) crime youth culture (overall rate is also double the national average, as of 1997) which would probably indicate a hostile learning environment.
To be honest, I don't know, there could be lots of factors, class size, etc, but I'm not going to take the time to find them out to argue an AC.
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But could you please show me the proof that most welfare recipients are able to work despite living in depressed neighborhoods with poor education systems that don't allow them to make enough money to move out of the depressed neighborhoods?
How about public school funding? It's a great scam. Pay for it all via property tax, which means, ooooh yeah. rich people get lots of money for their schools, and good educations whereas the depressed neighborhoods, not enough money to get a good teacher. or a good book. or a good building.
this of course leads to an undereducated and poor population who... well.. can't get out. there are success stories, but it's *hard* for these people. I dare you to do social work for a year and see how much of an option these people have.
I'm not claiming nobody abuses the system, just that there's a large body of the population that's stuck in a downward spiral, and it truly isn't their fault.
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if by "operating at a heightened state of awareness" you mean "abused their power" then yes, you understand my opinion.
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Do you think he deserved to get arrested?
Do you think children should call 1-800 numbers to warn school administrators about trenchcoats?
If your answers to the above are not the same, you should rethink your positions.
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don't expect the cops to care. you see, by the time you appeal alllllll the way up to the point that it matters, you'd have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. you're much more likely to take the '$1000 first time offender and 1 year probation' option.
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