I've been very happy with the service, it just when problems occur things do not get fixed quickly. Ive been without service for 3 weeks for one outage (and about 10 phone calls) and then for 4 days.
I got it last year and it took about 1.5 weeks to get the install done.
Other than that its been sweet. I get about the data rate they said and have a fixed IP (they're moving away from fixed IP but haven't taken mine away.
Like the ones used by those CD names databases would be one way.
I don't know that much about those IDs but a verification system similar to what myMP3.com uses might sufice.
This would be hacked in about 2 days and soon people would be swapping cd ids, but nothing seems foolproof..
what else could you use. An Encrypted licence number with your music CD? This is starting to sound like Circut Cities ill fated DIV-X DVD player that charged per use....
All the mp3 posts and the comments attached are getting more ridiculous.
If the recording companies don't deserve money for promoting and selling recording than who does.?
Yes they're greedy (the recording companies), but I don't see ANYONE/ doing anything about it, and they do pay the artist, something NAPSTER users ususally ARE NOT doing. All those people using napster who claim the big companies are ripping off artists are stealing more harming the artists more than the companies that risk money investing in them (by providing capital to record._)
They're lots and lots of small labels out there, and they all seem the same. You think if they're was a better way artists would flock too it. I haven't seen a single major musical player yet come out of MP3.com. (not that they're aren't good artists on that company.)
That being said, NAPSTER doesn't bother me as much as the fact that it has all those users , and what it says about peoples respect for other peoples art/music. I think people should be individiually responsible... I used to think the semi / technically savvy were a little more enlightened . They're not and its kinda sad.
Whats new about this way of distibution is the speed. It used to be copy at 1x then 2x tape dubbers, now music is being swapped anonymously over a network. Times have changed, and I think we will see new laws coming up shortly to cover this stuff.
That being said those that work often don't have time to scour the net for music, its cheapper to buy music still. (1/2 of my time is worth.....). I think streaming mp3 is a great thing to suck bandwidth at work, like radio but since radio has gone way downhill and I don't get reception in my building its cds or that.
I got the screen shot to load finally. They're running GIMP and EMACS on OSX. This will definetly increase the usefullness and power of OS-X, because now X apps won't have to be rewritten to use the Aqua interface.
Its making the machine much more workstation like. Its good to have all that scripting power like perl etc on a box. Scripts and remote control are the biggest failures of non unix OS (I know applescript , visual basic, etc.. but they're weak)
I have to say I'm a civil engineer who is moving toward a masters in Comp-sci. I've worked at some places that have done extensive testing and some that haven't.
What surprises me is the responsibilty and lack of oversight of programmers in general. In civil engineering you need licensing before anyone can build what you design (PE) and ususlly a design is looked over and signed by 2 PE's minimum before it goes out.
Granted a civil engineering failure can cost a lot more in human cost than a computer one, but that is changing rapidly as computers start to control thing like aeroplanes and cars. Also software is very very complex in ways that some civil engineering stuff is not., but buildings tend to fail much less than software.
Open source helps this by allowing many to review the code before using. Reading others code is hard, so good documentation would be a great start. They're needs to a set guidlines. This editorial is a good start.
Your point is a little off, but what you want already exists, just not in digital form.
They're already exists a group that doesn micropay collections, (I found this out when I lived with a proffesional musician...)
ASCAP(American Society of Compossers Authors and Publishers) does the micro pay collection and writes the artists a check for all the little payments.
Actually where is ASCAP in all this? They're really dropping the ball. They could make this work....
I love the way people justify they're wrongs. The record company is evil, Cds cost too much.
Just say "I like free music." three times..don't you feel better.
Cd's DO cost to much, but that doesn't give you the right to take tracks off them for free. Just don't but they CD's
look its one of those things, if your car polutes and noone elses because they bought polution control devices, does does it make a difference. Not really. Now, if everyone thought like you, we'd all be driving poluting cars and polution would be worse. This is why we need government, since they make the playing field more level.
Does it matter to a band if they don't sell 1 album because you downloaded it. No. Now if everyone thinks like you the band will be back saying "do you want fries..." and not making music.
Why don't you listen to streaming mp3 instead of radio? When you buy an album your paying money to listen to the music you want anytime, anywhere. (Although the overzelous RIAA might question that assertion.)
Also, what ever happened to supporting bands you like to listen too?
Actually 16 Megapixels is excellent. I have a hi -res scanner (4000 dpi) and I usually can see grain or grain like artifacts in my scan. Each scan of 35 mm size is about 50-60 megs. I can print an 11x17 from 35 mm and its beautiful (epson 1270).
The main problems with this increased resolution are
1. memory useage
2. It takes time/ processing power to store/compress and image of that size. In the proffesional realm cameras that take 4+ frames per second with film will have that advantage (4 fps is not as fast as one thinks if shooting action. This is a minor point for point and shoots.
That being said I'm sticking with film, its archival (almost) and is good for storing. I scan what I want (2-10 shots per roll). I'll move to get a digital camera that takes my lenses and when ink-jet printers can produce a decent black and white print.
The CMOS technology has attracted attention for its lower power requirements, as well as its ability to integrate with image-processing circuits. However, several engineering obstacles remained-including problems with the precision of internal transistors that led to variable image precision-and few products were developed using this technology. However, Canon has now overcome these obstacles, and has succeeded in developing a large CMOS sensor.
Its easy.
1) Broke students (I was a broke student...) who REALLY like free stuff, and have enough time to search for music they want.
2) Big bandwidth (back in my day we had a vax cluster that was neat,and gopher! now I hear they have really really fast interntet, but I digress) by making universities stop allowing napster et al. server set ups you reduce the number of high speed connections to mucic.
3) Single point of responsibility for many people. Let them deal with there students.
Personal responsibility? The law doesn't punish individuals for their violations (yet....) So they're trying anything
the radio piece I heard said that the judge could have ordered more but gave them the 25,000 $ because mp3.com was behaving well. MP3.com has settled with others for abour 2 million.
I agree the drop down menu move the mouse around kinda sucks, but the mouse has its place. Thinking about using photoshop without a mouse makes me think it wasn't such a bad idea (mouse for some tasks very good), just one gone too far. Although application designers on the mac through the use of "Shortcut keys" eliminate trips to menus and toolbars and make me happy
I thought I understood it, but the more I look at this stuff the more I get confused.
Xwindows show up in both KDE and GNOME but the API to program under each is different?
At work we have some applications (Oracle java installer, some perl Tk programs) that don't run over the XVision software our windows clients use. They work fine on the console with a window manager.
If on an Xterm on a windows machine I can type KDE and it sort of pastes some of the KDE icons on the windows desktop. Thats a real mess.
I think it was a demo notes mail client, not the full fledged notes client.
I've don'e some notes application development with lotus script and there is a lot there. Notes is not a simple port.
I don't think Notes 5 is available for anything but windows (4.6 was available mac,win, AIX).
The fact that there was an AIX version may bring hope that they can get a linux one, although notes seems to be turning into domino (server) with a web browser front end.
Disclaimer, Its been about a year since I used Notes, its been off my radar.
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I've had bellatlantic in MA.
I've been very happy with the service, it just when problems occur things do not get fixed quickly. Ive been without service for 3 weeks for one outage (and about 10 phone calls) and then for 4 days.
I got it last year and it took about 1.5 weeks to get the install done.
Other than that its been sweet. I get about the data rate they said and have a fixed IP (they're moving away from fixed IP but haven't taken mine away.
I host my site on DSL so its a slow up ink.
I would actually still recomend it.
Like the ones used by those CD names databases would be one way.
I don't know that much about those IDs but a verification system similar to what myMP3.com uses might sufice.
This would be hacked in about 2 days and soon people would be swapping cd ids, but nothing seems foolproof..
what else could you use. An Encrypted licence number with your music CD? This is starting to sound like Circut Cities ill fated DIV-X DVD player that charged per use....
All the mp3 posts and the comments attached are getting more ridiculous.
If the recording companies don't deserve money for promoting and selling recording than who does.?
Yes they're greedy (the recording companies), but I don't see ANYONE/ doing anything about it, and they do pay the artist, something NAPSTER users ususally ARE NOT doing. All those people using napster who claim the big companies are ripping off artists are stealing more harming the artists more than the companies that risk money investing in them (by providing capital to record._)
They're lots and lots of small labels out there, and they all seem the same. You think if they're was a better way artists would flock too it. I haven't seen a single major musical player yet come out of MP3.com. (not that they're aren't good artists on that company.)
That being said, NAPSTER doesn't bother me as much as the fact that it has all those users , and what it says about peoples respect for other peoples art/music. I think people should be individiually responsible... I used to think the semi / technically savvy were a little more enlightened . They're not and its kinda sad.
Whats new about this way of distibution is the speed. It used to be copy at 1x then 2x tape dubbers, now music is being swapped anonymously over a network. Times have changed, and I think we will see new laws coming up shortly to cover this stuff.
That being said those that work often don't have time to scour the net for music, its cheapper to buy music still. (1/2 of my time is worth.....). I think streaming mp3 is a great thing to suck bandwidth at work, like radio but since radio has gone way downhill and I don't get reception in my building its cds or that.
is a protected element of "free speach"
This allows political humour , celebrity humor , editorial and editorial cartoons.
This is getting really really out of hand.
I got the screen shot to load finally. They're running GIMP and EMACS on OSX. This will definetly increase the usefullness and power of OS-X, because now X apps won't have to be rewritten to use the Aqua interface.
Its making the machine much more workstation like. Its good to have all that scripting power like perl etc on a box. Scripts and remote control are the biggest failures of non unix OS (I know applescript , visual basic, etc.. but they're weak)
Just thought I'd point that out
I have to say I'm a civil engineer who is moving toward a masters in Comp-sci. I've worked at some places that have done extensive testing and some that haven't.
What surprises me is the responsibilty and lack of oversight of programmers in general. In civil engineering you need licensing before anyone can build what you design (PE) and ususlly a design is looked over and signed by 2 PE's minimum before it goes out.
Granted a civil engineering failure can cost a lot more in human cost than a computer one, but that is changing rapidly as computers start to control thing like aeroplanes and cars. Also software is very very complex in ways that some civil engineering stuff is not., but buildings tend to fail much less than software.
Open source helps this by allowing many to review the code before using. Reading others code is hard, so good documentation would be a great start. They're needs to a set guidlines. This editorial is a good start.
gnustep.
Its open source to.
ooops I replied to a anon coward.
some people have way way too much free time.
This doesn't seem to make the product "Better" in anyway, just gets rid of the annoying ads that help pay for the AIM servers.
Now if he could only get rid of those annoying ads that pay for slashdot.
I'm truly underwhelmed.
pc world story
gamers neeed not apply..
ASCAP(American Society of Compossers Authors and Publishers) does the micro pay collection and writes the artists a check for all the little payments.
Actually where is ASCAP in all this? They're really dropping the ball. They could make this work....
Apple also voided IMATECs silly patents Its on apeal now I think.
So using napster to pirate music is justified.
I love the way people justify they're wrongs. The record company is evil, Cds cost too much.
Just say "I like free music." three times..don't you feel better.
Cd's DO cost to much, but that doesn't give you the right to take tracks off them for free. Just don't but they CD's
look its one of those things, if your car polutes and noone elses because they bought polution control devices, does does it make a difference. Not really. Now, if everyone thought like you, we'd all be driving poluting cars and polution would be worse. This is why we need government, since they make the playing field more level.
Does it matter to a band if they don't sell 1 album because you downloaded it. No. Now if everyone thinks like you the band will be back saying "do you want fries..." and not making music.
Why don't you listen to streaming mp3 instead of radio? When you buy an album your paying money to listen to the music you want anytime, anywhere. (Although the overzelous RIAA might question that assertion.)
Also, what ever happened to supporting bands you like to listen too?
The software doesn't commit the violation, users that use it do.
Just like Napster, DeCSS, etc.
Its just a tool. lets be consistent here.
The software can be used for legitimate means.
(sarcasm)
Actually 16 Megapixels is excellent. I have a hi -res scanner (4000 dpi) and I usually can see grain or grain like artifacts in my scan. Each scan of 35 mm size is about 50-60 megs. I can print an 11x17 from 35 mm and its beautiful (epson 1270).
The main problems with this increased resolution are
1. memory useage
2. It takes time/ processing power to store/compress and image of that size. In the proffesional realm cameras that take 4+ frames per second with film will have that advantage (4 fps is not as fast as one thinks if shooting action. This is a minor point for point and shoots.
That being said I'm sticking with film, its archival (almost) and is good for storing. I scan what I want (2-10 shots per roll). I'll move to get a digital camera that takes my lenses and when ink-jet printers can produce a decent black and white print.
This is interesting. Which is better.
according to canon:
The CMOS technology has attracted attention for its lower power requirements, as well as its ability to integrate with image-processing circuits. However, several engineering obstacles remained-including problems with the precision of internal transistors that led to variable image precision-and few products were developed using this technology. However, Canon has now overcome these obstacles, and has succeeded in developing a large CMOS sensor.
Its easy.
1) Broke students (I was a broke student...) who REALLY like free stuff, and have enough time to search for music they want.
2) Big bandwidth (back in my day we had a vax cluster that was neat,and gopher! now I hear they have really really fast interntet, but I digress) by making universities stop allowing napster et al. server set ups you reduce the number of high speed connections to mucic.
3) Single point of responsibility for many people. Let them deal with there students.
Personal responsibility? The law doesn't punish individuals for their violations (yet....) So they're trying anything
the radio piece I heard said that the judge could have ordered more but gave them the 25,000 $ because mp3.com was behaving well. MP3.com has settled with others for abour 2 million.
I agree the drop down menu move the mouse around kinda sucks, but the mouse has its place. Thinking about using photoshop without a mouse makes me think it wasn't such a bad idea (mouse for some tasks very good), just one gone too far. Although application designers on the mac through the use of "Shortcut keys" eliminate trips to menus and toolbars and make me happy
I thought I understood it, but the more I look at this stuff the more I get confused.
Xwindows show up in both KDE and GNOME but the API to program under each is different?
At work we have some applications (Oracle java installer, some perl Tk programs) that don't run over the XVision software our windows clients use. They work fine on the console with a window manager.
If on an Xterm on a windows machine I can type KDE and it sort of pastes some of the KDE icons on the windows desktop. Thats a real mess.
enlighten me!
flyingbuttmonkeys.com in a legal breif..
I mean can you imagine going to trial against flyingbuttmokeys. How can anyone take that seriously.
Seriously these lawsuits are taking the fun out of writing code. It seems anything you write violates many patents..
for the love of trees, please print it 2 up or even better 2 up 2sides per page....
The trees thank you for your support.
I heard much of the speed difference is the x86 series compiler is more optimized than the PPC one.
Hopefully Apple (using gcc for os X) is adding optimizations and they'll be rolled back into linux ppc.
I think it was a demo notes mail client, not the full fledged notes client.
I've don'e some notes application development with lotus script and there is a lot there. Notes is not a simple port.
I don't think Notes 5 is available for anything but windows (4.6 was available mac,win, AIX).
The fact that there was an AIX version may bring hope that they can get a linux one, although notes seems to be turning into domino (server) with a web browser front end.
Disclaimer, Its been about a year since I used Notes, its been off my radar.