Re:what bothers me about services like this...
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exactly, i don't understand why they don't just use a master list of songs which are allowed on the sattelite, and block the rest. it's a lot easier than trying to block all the songs that are illegal to share.
I see this as a good thing for the online music community. Let's face it, we're not going to beat the RIAA anytime soon. Up until now, it hasn't been incredibly common to find some of the bigger name artists distributing their music online, because their labels are RIAA-controlled. With this in place, record labels will be more willing/comfortable distributing music online. Only like one song off an album? You won't need to buy the whole friggin thing anymore, just the songs that you like. It's not going to stop napster, gnutella, or any of those other p2p things. The CD didn't stop people making tapes did it? This is just increasing the legal value of the mp3. the way I see it. But hey, I could be completely wrong too.
think about this, someone calls up microsoft tech support complaining that windows isn't working. the tech support guy asks "did you run any unsigned software?", when they say yes, "oh i'm sorry, by doing that you have nullified any warranty you had with us. we are not responsible for what happened, i suggest you contact the maker of the unsigned software. or you can optionally pay for support from us. it'll only cost you your first born." or not.
No doubt, they had these at an internship I had when I was in school. I threw my back out, and the only time I wasn't in pain was when I was sitting in one of those. I would say they are well worth the cash.
I seem to remember one of my college professors talking about a study she had read, where the average IQ of the u.s. or the world or something had gone up a few points. It seems people believed that this was partially due to video games, and this wasn't just the gamers and the game companies who thought this. But other people as well:)
Freedom of choice is what it's all about baby. Have each of them pick a programming language they haven't yet worked in. And write a program of sorts which takes advantage of some of that languages unique features. I did this with perl, and made a LaTeX spellchecker, it was actually more fun than it sounds.
well, afaik, the beta versions of red hat are only available for download. it stands to reason that the same people who download the beta, will download the final version as well, and not pay the bucks for a boxed release.
A friend of mine recently got a ford pickup (the model number escapes me at the moment) which can run off of gasoline or methanol. The only major problem he had was the availability of methanol. I'm not sure about the fine print, but it seemed like a good way to tackle the availability problem. He can get methanol when it's available, but if it isn't he's not completely screwed.
There is an office suite for linux called applixware which can read the doc format, and save to html or rtf. it does cost money but not nearly as much as M$ office....unless you copy it:-)
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exactly, i don't understand why they don't just use a master list of songs which are allowed on the sattelite, and block the rest. it's a lot easier than trying to block all the songs that are illegal to share.
I see this as a good thing for the online music community. Let's face it, we're not going to beat the RIAA anytime soon. Up until now, it hasn't been incredibly common to find some of the bigger name artists distributing their music online, because their labels are RIAA-controlled. With this in place, record labels will be more willing/comfortable distributing music online. Only like one song off an album? You won't need to buy the whole friggin thing anymore, just the songs that you like. It's not going to stop napster, gnutella, or any of those other p2p things. The CD didn't stop people making tapes did it? This is just increasing the legal value of the mp3. the way I see it. But hey, I could be completely wrong too.
think about this, someone calls up microsoft tech support complaining that windows isn't working. the tech support guy asks "did you run any unsigned software?", when they say yes, "oh i'm sorry, by doing that you have nullified any warranty you had with us. we are not responsible for what happened, i suggest you contact the maker of the unsigned software. or you can optionally pay for support from us. it'll only cost you your first born." or not.
No doubt, they had these at an internship I had when I was in school. I threw my back out, and the only time I wasn't in pain was when I was sitting in one of those. I would say they are well worth the cash.
If you know LaTeX, you can use that, just use slides as your documenttype. i.e.: \documenttype{slides} at the top. Or, get a copy of Applixware.
I found this the other day and thought it was kinda neat.
I seem to remember one of my college professors talking about a study she had read, where the average IQ of the u.s. or the world or something had gone up a few points. It seems people believed that this was partially due to video games, and this wasn't just the gamers and the game companies who thought this. But other people as well :)
Freedom of choice is what it's all about baby. Have each of them pick a programming language they haven't yet worked in. And write a program of sorts which takes advantage of some of that languages unique features. I did this with perl, and made a LaTeX spellchecker, it was actually more fun than it sounds.
well, afaik, the beta versions of red hat are only available for download. it stands to reason that the same people who download the beta, will download the final version as well, and not pay the bucks for a boxed release.
A friend of mine recently got a ford pickup (the model number escapes me at the moment) which can run off of gasoline or methanol. The only major problem he had was the availability of methanol. I'm not sure about the fine print, but it seemed like a good way to tackle the availability problem. He can get methanol when it's available, but if it isn't he's not completely screwed.
they're in 5.0 right now, and i'm pretty sure it can read the latest stuff. it is red-hat-centric though, the installation is rpm-based.
There is an office suite for linux called applixware which can read the doc format, and save to html or rtf. it does cost money but not nearly as much as M$ office....unless you copy it :-)