Actual that isn't true. You can buy a full auto weapon from a class 3 dealer. You just need a lengthy approval process to get the special license needed.
Just want to say, I saw Iron Maiden tonight, and their singer (Bruce Dickenson) gave a 5 minute or so monologue about how he didn't feel threatened by file sharing.
His reasoning was that they were selling more albums now than ever before, and this was due to fan loyalty. He said that if people wanted to tape the show and share it on the internet, that is fine (this before they played a yet unreleased song). He reasoned that since they were connecting with the fans, and making album that were made with the fans in mind, that is why they continued to sell. His message to the record companies was to have original music, not music that was copies of the hit band of the moment.
This went over pretty well to the PACKED house of fanatical fans (to say the least, as many cheers to this, as anything else). I don't think these guys are going to have problems selling records, file sharing or not!
RIAA take a lesson from Iron Maiden!! Say what you will about the intelligence level of heavy metal bands and fans, but this was about the best advocacy of file sharing that I have ever heard.
I'm not really sure of the ethics of file sharing myself. I am an amature musician myself, and I feel musicians do deserve compensation. I just wanted to point out that I don't think that bands that are really connecting with the fans on a long term basis (Like Iron Maiden, Dio, and Motorhead playing on this tour) have a lot to worry about! I know I want to support them!
A GREAT movie, no "bad guy overkill"
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Review: Insomnia
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I really liked it. I can see why a lot of people wouldn't though. For some reason with me, it really hit the same type of chord as Silence of the Lambs, even though it's a really different movie. I though the acting was great, and Robin Williams is very good as a bad guy, in an underplayed sort of way.
It seems like most movies of this type sort of try to one up previous movies by having a creepier villian. It's sort of a bad guy escalation. This movie is excellent because it gives us a very believable killer. He's not a total psycho, he's not a devil worshiper, etc.
I watch a lot of movies, and I'm a fan of this genre. It's gets old seeing seeing some super freak killer. In movies, anyways, it's lost it's shock value for me. It's much more interesting seeing a killer try to justify what he did, and convince the cop chasing him that they are really very similar. I saw the previews for this, and I was expecting something very hokey from these scenes between the cop and the killer. They were anything but, and made the movie much more interesting.
Anyways, just my opinion,
Dave
The technology of the room
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Review: Panic Room
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Unless I missed it somewhere in the part of the film where the house is being shown, It's never mentioned how recently this room was built. Why couldn't in have been fairly old?
Obviously if it were entirely modern, up to date and totally self contained, there wouldn't be much of a movie here. I think that the lack of a working phone in the room was explained quite well - It simply was never activated at the phone company by the new tenants.
Without gettign caught up on the technology of this film, it was a pretty rare thing these days, a film that actually has some very suspenseful moments.
Depends on what type of music you want to play. If you like Blues or Rock, Fender Standard Stratocaster or Standard Telecaster are pretty cool - I have both the Mexican and American models, and I can tell you the Mexicans are well worth what you pay for them . If you like heavy metal, Ibanez and Jackson low end models seem to be pretty good. That's sort of the ~$300 range of starter guitars. check out alt.guitar.beginner , alt.guitar, and other guitar related NGs . My advice if you are open to all kinds of music, get the Mexican Standard Fender Telecaster.
Well the original poster says he works for a reseller and support shop dealing with Macs. If the guys working there are going to be sysadmins after a one week class, well they are going to become sysadmins in a few more months on their own inititive anyways.
I've been to some unix training classes before, one of them Sun's sysadmin training (part 1). And I can tell you that it will take a lot more than a 1 week class to make someone a sysadmin. Even if that classes is geared towards making sysadmins.
Unless Apple has some really great training - "I know kung-fu! AND Unix!".
Unless the original poser is implying that a 1 week training class automagically makes someone worth double what they were making. Regardless of what they learned in that class.
Prospective employeers give preferance to employees skilled in a version of Unix they are using. If the interview was for a job in an OSX shop, well I'd expect the guy with OSX training and experiance to get a higher offer than someone with training and experiance with Solaris, all things being equal. How many places out there are looking to hire Solaris admins? HPUX? Lots. It remains to be seem what the demand for OSX specific admins will be.
What's the difference between admining OSX and some other Unix? Maybe 10 - 20K a year.
That being said, if I would interviewing for admins I would prefer someone who had been messing around with Linux for a couple of years and really nailed the general unix questions to someone who had been to 2 or 3 classes in exactly the OS they would be working in on the job, but couldn't answer any general technical questions.
Lots of people out there that look good on paper but sound REALLY bad when you get them in the room with a couple of admins with 10 years experiance doing the technical questioning...
This may be a dumb question, but how can you change what shows up in their server logs? It would be cool if you could point me in the direction to find out how to do this...
Mp3.com is really great IMHO. There is everything there from amazingly talented musicians to utter crap, and the choice of what to listen to is up to you. I have replaced listening to CDs lately with stuff from mp3.com.
There is also some new stuff there from members of washed up old bands that I used to listen to in the 80's. It's a great way to hear stuff that I wouldn't be able to find in a record store due to it's lack of mass appeal.
Some of the stuff that is really high on the charts (and is making money for the musicians)boggles the mind how it got there. Check out:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/37/thedopamine_reu ptake_in.html ($2,693.16 in Payback earnings)
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/97/screamin_sheena .html ($4,646.31 in Payback earnings )
I just saw the following on mp3.com today when searching for a "name brand" musician:
Wondering why this page looks empty?
We promised our lawyers no new lawsuits this month...
I'm not really that familiar with the pirating aspect of mp3.com that is brought up here on slashdot. From what I can tell when it did exist, it was somewhat more trouble to go to than using napster. Was it really widely used for this purpose?
from the RIAA vs Mp3.com legalese at http://www.mp3.com/news/533.html
4. To receive access to the tracks from a commercial CD over the My.MP3 service, a user need only do one of two things: First, the user can place an order for the commercial CD from one of several online CD retailers cooperating with MP3.com ("Instant Listening Service"). Second, the user can insert a commercial CD (or a copy, authorized or unauthorized, of a commercial CD) into his or her computer CD-ROM drive for a few seconds ("Beam-it"). Once a user has either placed the order or briefly inserted the CD, My.MP3 gives him or her permanent access to listen to or download the infringing reproductions of the CD's tracks from the defendant's server, on demand, at any place and through any device that can access the MP3.com site through the Internet. The My.MP3 service is further described in pages from the MP3.com Web site attached hereto as Appendix A.
Here's a quote from http://www.stephenking.com/download.html " No tiresome encryption! Want to print it and show it to a friend? Go ahead!" Some kind soul(s) could put this story on their webpage and share it with a few thousand friends for free, and provide a link back to pay for it. That way you would get lots of people downloading it for free, and a few nice people going to the official page to download it and pay. This would blow the whole experiment that Mr. King is proposing, but sometimes that's what happens in the real world... Myself, I'm a huge S.K. fan and I certainly would not hesitate to pay a measly $1 to read this. What is $1 anyways...the time it takes to pay filling out the credit card info would deter more people really. I don't see S.K. as a hack the way lots of people on Slashdot apparently do. I think he is a talented author, who writes a lot more than horror. He has experimented with a lot of unusual ideas for distributing his work in the past as well - an Audio only book, a ebook only story, etc. The is also not the first time that S.K. has messed around with serial novels of course...
Bruce has a lot of experiance with the supernatural and wierd, so I feel that he is uniquely qualified for the job. I mean really, can the cigarette smoking man stand up to a guy who travelled back into time with only a big old car, a chainsaw, shotgun, chemistry books and stuff to battle the undead? And made it back? And was on Xena, and was a cowboy? Only Jim Carey would be better IMHO.
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Actual that isn't true. You can buy a full auto weapon from a class 3 dealer. You just need a lengthy approval process to get the special license needed.
Just want to say, I saw Iron Maiden tonight, and their singer (Bruce Dickenson) gave a 5 minute or so monologue about how he didn't feel threatened by file sharing.
His reasoning was that they were selling more albums now than ever before, and this was due to fan loyalty. He said that if people wanted to tape the show and share it on the internet, that is fine (this before they played a yet unreleased song). He reasoned that since they were connecting with the fans, and making album that were made with the fans in mind, that is why they continued to sell. His message to the record companies was to have original music, not music that was copies of the hit band of the moment.
This went over pretty well to the PACKED house of fanatical fans (to say the least, as many cheers to this, as anything else). I don't think these guys are going to have problems selling records, file sharing or not!
RIAA take a lesson from Iron Maiden!! Say what you will about the intelligence level of heavy metal bands and fans, but this was about the best
advocacy of file sharing that I have ever heard.
I'm not really sure of the ethics of file sharing myself. I am an amature musician myself, and I feel musicians do deserve compensation. I just wanted to point out that I don't think that bands that are really connecting with the fans on a long term basis (Like Iron Maiden, Dio, and Motorhead playing on this tour) have a lot to worry about! I know I want to support them!
I really liked it. I can see why a lot of people wouldn't though. For some reason with me, it really hit the same type of chord as Silence of the Lambs, even though it's a really different movie. I though the acting was great, and Robin Williams is very good as a bad guy, in an underplayed sort of way.
It seems like most movies of this type sort of try to one up previous movies by having a creepier villian. It's sort of a bad guy escalation. This movie is excellent because it gives us a very believable killer. He's not a total psycho, he's not a devil worshiper, etc.
I watch a lot of movies, and I'm a fan of this genre. It's gets old seeing seeing some super freak killer. In movies, anyways, it's lost it's shock value for me. It's much more interesting seeing a killer try to justify what he did, and convince the cop chasing him that they are really very similar. I saw the previews for this, and I was expecting something very hokey from these scenes between the cop and the killer. They were anything but, and made the movie much more interesting.
Anyways, just my opinion,
Dave
Unless I missed it somewhere in the part of the film where the house is being shown, It's never mentioned how recently this room was built. Why couldn't in have been fairly old?
Obviously if it were entirely modern, up to date and totally self contained, there wouldn't be much of a movie here. I think that the lack of a working phone in the room was explained quite well - It simply was never activated at the phone company by the new tenants.
Without gettign caught up on the technology of this film, it was a pretty rare thing these days,
a film that actually has some very suspenseful moments.
Depends on what type of music you want to play. If you like Blues or Rock, Fender Standard Stratocaster or Standard Telecaster are pretty cool - I have both the Mexican and American models, and I can tell you the Mexicans are well worth what you pay for them . If you like heavy metal, Ibanez and Jackson low end models seem to be pretty good. That's sort of the ~$300 range of starter guitars. check out alt.guitar.beginner , alt.guitar, and other guitar related NGs . My advice if you are open to all kinds of music, get the Mexican Standard Fender Telecaster.
Well the original poster says he works for a reseller and support shop dealing with Macs. If the guys working there are going to be sysadmins after a one week class, well they are going to become sysadmins in a few more months on their own inititive anyways.
I've been to some unix training classes before, one of them Sun's sysadmin training (part 1). And I can tell you that it will take a lot more than a 1 week class to make someone a sysadmin. Even if that classes is geared towards making sysadmins.
Unless Apple has some really great training - "I know kung-fu! AND Unix!".
Unless the original poser is implying that a 1 week training class automagically makes someone worth double what they were making. Regardless of what they learned in that class.
Prospective employeers give preferance to employees skilled in a version of Unix they are using. If the interview was for a job in an OSX shop, well I'd expect the guy with OSX training and experiance to get a higher offer than someone with training and experiance with Solaris, all things being equal. How many places out there are looking to hire Solaris admins? HPUX? Lots. It remains to be seem what the demand for OSX specific admins will be.
What's the difference between admining OSX and some other Unix? Maybe 10 - 20K a year.
That being said, if I would interviewing for admins I would prefer someone who had been messing around with Linux for a couple of years and really nailed the general unix questions to someone who had been to 2 or 3 classes in exactly the OS they would be working in on the job, but couldn't answer any general technical questions.
Lots of people out there that look good on paper but sound REALLY bad when you get them in the room with a couple of admins with 10 years experiance doing the technical questioning...
This may be a dumb question, but how can you change what shows up in their server logs? It would be cool if you could point me in the direction to find out how to do this...
Mp3.com is really great IMHO. There is everything there from amazingly talented musicians to utter crap, and the choice of what to listen to is up to you. I have replaced listening to CDs lately with stuff from mp3.com. There is also some new stuff there from members of washed up old bands that I used to listen to in the 80's. It's a great way to hear stuff that I wouldn't be able to find in a record store due to it's lack of mass appeal. Some of the stuff that is really high on the charts (and is making money for the musicians)boggles the mind how it got there. Check out: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/37/thedopamine_reu ptake_in.html ($2,693.16 in Payback earnings)
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/97/screamin_sheena .html ($4,646.31 in Payback earnings )
I just saw the following on mp3.com today when searching for a "name brand" musician:
Wondering why this page looks empty?
We promised our lawyers no new lawsuits this month...
I'm not really that familiar with the pirating aspect of mp3.com that is brought up here on slashdot. From what I can tell when it did exist, it was somewhat more trouble to go to than using napster. Was it really widely used for this purpose?
from the RIAA vs Mp3.com legalese at http://www.mp3.com/news/533.html
4. To receive access to the tracks from a commercial CD over the My.MP3 service, a user need only do one of two things: First, the user can place an order for the commercial CD from one of several online CD retailers cooperating with MP3.com ("Instant Listening Service"). Second, the user can insert a commercial CD (or a copy, authorized or unauthorized, of a commercial CD) into his or her computer CD-ROM drive for a few seconds ("Beam-it"). Once a user has either placed the order or briefly inserted the CD, My.MP3 gives him or her permanent access to listen to or download the infringing reproductions of the CD's tracks from the defendant's server, on demand, at any place and through any device that can access the MP3.com site through the Internet. The My.MP3 service is further described in pages from the MP3.com Web site attached hereto as Appendix A.
Here's a quote from http://www.stephenking.com/download.html " No tiresome encryption! Want to print it and show it to a friend? Go ahead!" Some kind soul(s) could put this story on their webpage and share it with a few thousand friends for free, and provide a link back to pay for it. That way you would get lots of people downloading it for free, and a few nice people going to the official page to download it and pay. This would blow the whole experiment that Mr. King is proposing, but sometimes that's what happens in the real world... Myself, I'm a huge S.K. fan and I certainly would not hesitate to pay a measly $1 to read this. What is $1 anyways...the time it takes to pay filling out the credit card info would deter more people really. I don't see S.K. as a hack the way lots of people on Slashdot apparently do. I think he is a talented author, who writes a lot more than horror. He has experimented with a lot of unusual ideas for distributing his work in the past as well - an Audio only book, a ebook only story, etc. The is also not the first time that S.K. has messed around with serial novels of course...
Bruce has a lot of experiance with the supernatural and wierd, so I feel that he is uniquely qualified for the job. I mean really, can the cigarette smoking man stand up to a guy who travelled back into time with only a big old car, a chainsaw, shotgun, chemistry books and stuff to battle the undead? And made it back? And was on Xena, and was a cowboy? Only Jim Carey would be better IMHO.