I think this is news to lots of users of Ubuntu.. A huge collective WTF??
My wife got a new computer a few years ago that came bundled with a printer. The printer came with drivers for XP and Vista only. There were no drivers for Win 98, 2K pro, ME (don't laugh.. Wife's laptop for school)
Our printers are all connected to the wireless router using a dongle printserver. We returned the printer for incompatibility with the rest of the Windows machines on the Lan, not the Linux machine. The troll for printer compatiblity is shooting a dead horse. Any machine in the house on either the wired or wirless lan can easily print to any printer on the lan.
We use printservers like this one on all our printers. It saves ink. It makes using the laser instead of a inkjet easy. No cables are required to print from laptops. The LAN, Printserver, and printers are all compatible with Linux. Windows often requires install drivers for the printer and printserver. Linux simply requires entering the printserver IP address and select a compatible driver. The port for the laser is for example located at//192.168.1.101/prn on our LAN. Getting Vista to connect to it took two hours and a google search.
Vista wants a printserver name and doesn't like a printserver on an IP address or one not in your DNS server. Printer compatibility isses are not a Linux issue. Windows is much harder to connect. Vista also required a registry tweak to connect to a Simple Share Printserver. That took 8 hours of my day off and a google search to connect my wife's new laptop to our fileserver. Linux could connect either using Netbios SMB, or NFS. Vista couldn't authenticate to login.
Demand is high for education. Being a full time student and working full time is difficult. Being laid off and having no prospects gave many the incentive to change career paths. Tuition is up due to the demand and limited number of seats.
As far as interest, some of these rates are being offset by inflation. Now that we are printing money out of thin air to stimulate the economy, the dilution of dollars and your life savings is very real. Prices will go up as long as there are lots more inflated dollars competing for the same resources.
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The free field pattern near a loop antenna is nothing new. RFID or any other application such as a transmitter for the heairng impaired makes no difference.
A 3D plot of a simple loop antenna can be seen on this page; http://vk1od.net/antenna/SmallUntunedSquareLoop/ The 3D plot is near the bottom of the page. It it resembles the magnetic field of a bar magnet or a coil of wire with a current, that is no supprise.
I don't think they have a claim. Read the patent. Other than sharing either electric or gas or both, the patent is not even close. The Prius engine runs to maintain battery charge and engine temperature. The patent claims electric unless the power demand is above 30 of the gas engine capacity so it only runs in a high effeciency power band. There are some things that resemble each other, The patent is so far off it would like Microsoft unable to use a graphical user interface because Apple patented the point and click interface.
It's another hybrid where gas, electric or both can be used, but other than that, I don't think the claim has merit. In the prius the electric is a pair of Motor/Generators. In the patent, there is a motor, a generator, and a starter motor. I think because of the scope of the patent being so different from the Prius power split configuration, they have no case.
I'm using a Laserjet III. I picked up the memory module cheap online so it will now print a full graphic page. It's hardly portable like the Laserjet II. Aftermarket cartridges are 4 for $100. The consumables for this are about the same price as 1 set of carts for the color HP950c color ink jet, but last 5X as long. This makes it's operating cost about 1/20th the ink jet. The inkjet is seldom used for this reason.
I recently picked up a laserjet 1100 for free. I use it when traveling. I'm still running on the original cart. The toner doesn't dry out like an unused inkjet so when I do need it, it just works.
Then the ticket simply boils down to how the machine detected you actually came to a stop. How slow is stopped. How long is not moving considered stopped. A quick stop may be detected as a rolling stop. Unless you park it to guarantee a detected stop, you are a target of the revenue machine. Waiting for the green prevents any possibility of a photo of you in the intersection with a red. It eliminates false positives which is what much of the fight is about.
I think one way to fight this is to use the approach that some cyclists use in the "Critical Mass" approach to cycling safety.
If a grass roots protest was formed by simply stopping at ALL red lights and waiting for a green would soon gridlock traffic. Until the tickets go away for turning on red, not turning on red to avoid the new tax is the solution to show the impact it has on drivers. Stopping for the red and waiting for the green saves you the ticket as well as the line behind you.
Nice find. Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it. This is a repeat of the bubble caused by the same thing. Borrowed money to invest in a rising market. Money then poured in. It's a variation of a ponsi scheme. It's a pyramid of investors with borrowed money making a resource scarce and rising in value until the bubble burst. Everyone got rich.. until the hammer fell. The last ones in were left with the bill. Carter started the latest one. Bush didn't stop it and Obama got the bust.
I agree. Bush did too little to correct the lending practices that led up to the troubled asset relief program (TARP). So where did it originate?
Roots of the Crisis The cause of this crisis is the overly relaxed lending from 2000 onwards. Bankers driven by bonus targets lent to families who could not afford the mortgages: today there are five million American homeowners delinquent or in foreclosure. This is no longer a sub-prime lending problem, but a lending problem as excess home inventories push down all home prices.
"The architect of the mortgage meltdown is once again asking Fanny Mae to ease up on their loan regulations. This is exactly what got us into this trouble in the first place. Even as the mortgage industry was in trouble Barney Frank denied that there was any problem with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Even as President Bush and John McCain were trying to warn of the impending crisis Barney Frank was in denial."
The start is here;
The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism and "redlining" because urban blacks were being denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.
I didn't say the previous administration was faultless. I'm looking at the current activity accelerating the export of jobs by encouraging employers to set up elsewhere for economic and regulatory reasons. The current rate of rising government debet and the printing of money exceeds any predecessor. Faith in the value of the US currency is in free fall. Many are looking to new hard currency, either gold, guns, or the Euro to hold value as a replacement for the unstable US money.
I'm just saying...if MS (and I can't believe I"m defending MS here) actually broke no tax laws, then you really can't accuse them of tax evasion. It is not against the law to work within the law. If you don't like the tax laws as they are, change them. Just don't be pissed if they then leave the state. Other states would be thrilled to have the high paying jobs within their borders.
State? You are narrowing the field too tight. With the current administration, simply moving to another state may be short sighted. To pay for all the bailouts, carbon credits, and universal health care, there will me many more companies that are international looking to move headquarters. The states and country can then simply tack on import duty fees and sales taxes to collect revenue from the made in India or China imports.
Have we gone insane? Governments instead of being happy with the glass is half full an it's a big glass are looking at the glass is half empty, we are not getting the full deal and are thus knifing the golden goose to get all the eggs. Many of these geese are flying overseas.
Can we get an administration in office that understands some economics?
This page has the graph showing typical LED lamps at 1/2 brightness at 6,000 hours. Many claim life of 50,000 hours, but it's no longer useable and no longer effecient At 16,000 hours many only put out 20% of the light. This is not a savings. The bulbs I'm testing has a huge dimming after only 2 months, not 1 year.
I find this marketing scheme is often used to sell underpowered bulbs. They don't match the lumens/watt of a CFL. They just match the intensity of the beam to an unfocused CFL at the same distance and claim it is a 60 Watt replacement when it's really a 15 watt replacement.
Before buying any LED lamp, check the Lumens. A 60 Watt incandescant lamp is about 800 Lumens. Many LED counterparts are only 80 lumens. Philips Par 38 16 watt LED lamp is only 850 Lumens. How many 3 or 5 watt LED bulbs have you seen claiming to replace a 60 watt bulb?
Only a few lamps are high lumens/watt, and many have rapid breakdown of the flourescent material causing rapid reduction in output such as the bulbs I have. What's the saving when the bulb though still burning puts out less than 1/2 the light after 2 months of use?
I'm not buying many more of these until this issue is solved.
I picked up some. I used one constantly for about 2 months for the reptile cage. I percieve it seems to be dim, so I swapped it with another i used intermittantly. The difference in intensity is very striking. If they put out less than 1/2 the light after only a couple months use, they are not worth the money. I'll wait to find some that don't fade rapidly.
Science was popular enough the magazine Popular Science was in most supermarket news racks much like computer game magazines are now. It wasn't popular with everyone, but enough were interested to have a huge circulation.
Most of them are based on the Intel Atom processor. I wonder if intel's securities report has sales numbers. Darn the reports I used to find free online are now subscription. Anybody subscribe to EDGAR Online and willing to look it up?
I hit the web and stay off of any internal sites when doing this. It's break time. To do anything on any internal site requires the domain login which I simply don't do. It makes things hard for phishing and other malware to get a foothold. It has no persistent write space whatever. It's dead at power off.
You can tell my IE posts from work. They are the ones with missed typos and spelling errors. Firefox highlights errors. IE 6 does not. If I intend to post online, this alone is the biggest reason to use the live CD.
IE 6 online is dangerous, but not as bad as for a home user without a corporate firewall. Firefox and IE go through the same proxy firewall. You tell me which is safer for the company.
Sometimes when on break, I boot a live Ubuntu distro. It runs in memory. I set the networking in Firefox to use the default proxy, load flashplayer from Adobe, and enjoy the break with tabs and no worries. Some who think they are stuck with IE simply don't know they have an option.
IE 6 at work badly scrambles Slashdot pages with text running over text. I use Firefox to check my user page and see replies. The page is unusable in the corporate IE 6 default browser.
In the 1970's I took a typing class before the PC was invented and on the market. Computers were on the way, but just a novelty in the hobby market. The class was filled with typewriters with all blank keys. You touch type or else. This was great as it started me typing without looking at the keys. I very quickly learned to find the keys with the notches. Correction tape was a pain.
The biggest problem now is not QWERTY vs Dorvak, it's the layout of the rest of the keys. This is highly non-standard. Using multiple keyboards as I move about home and factory, the delete and escapse keys are located everywhere from top left to the key cluster between the numeric pad to in the numeric pad to stuffed down by the Windows key on either side. In short, they could be anywhere except in the middle of the regular typing keys.
My favorite keyboard overall is the old IBM klacky keyboard without the Windows key. It's one of the few keyboards that doesn't have a sticky spacebar. Way too many keyboards have a wide space bar that won't press down unless you hit it directly in the middle. Having to go back and insert missing spaces cuts typing speed.
a) something I wanted to hear and b) something I could use the way I wanted to use it.
Now I don't because a) or b) (or more and more often both) are simply not fulfilled. Must be because I copy that shit that ain't even worth wasting the bandwidth.
With the digital age, this is very true. As we have more and more uses for music, the restrictions prohibit each possible use. Each restriction is a devaluation of the CD. How do we tell the music industry to get real?
I shoot digital video and post on Youtube. I assemble powerpoint slideshows for weddings. I thought of doing an animated christmas light show, but canned the idea due to the cost of licensing from a very limited library offered on Lights O Rama.
License rights for additional songs are currently under negotiation and they will be added to this page as contracts are signed.
So far their list of legal music that can be licensed is now up to 12 choices. Wow, huge legal catalog. It's about $30/song for most tracks for the license. You still have to buy the album in addition to getting the license for some songs. Some come with a 128K MP3. Wow, I can play one of the same dozen or so songs played everywhere. No thanks. http://store.lightorama.com/sequences.html
Somehow the "For Private home use only, No public performance" just cuts the value to next to nothing if I can't have a music track on youtube, do a christmas light show to music or play music in sync with the slideshow. End result.. I don't spend top dollar on CD's I can't use.
It doesn't mean I pirate them. I look for other stuff without the legal risk or do without.
I won't be doing a Animated Christmas display again this year. I have a full DMX512 sequencer, dimmer packs, cable, but, I'm not using it for Christmas Lights. I won't be putting it on youtube, and I'm not buying the CD. There is no reason to buy the CD. I can't use it. All public uses is forbidden.
For me with ISP traffic shaping, it was either a 24 hour download or FTP from University of Oregon Open Source Lab in 15 minutes. In one I get to run up hosting costs and the other I get slow rates trying to off load a busy server. Bit torrent would be useful if it didn't crawl at 2.5 K bits. Dial up is faster for many users.
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I think this is news to lots of users of Ubuntu.. A huge collective WTF??
My wife got a new computer a few years ago that came bundled with a printer. The printer came with drivers for XP and Vista only. There were no drivers for Win 98, 2K pro, ME (don't laugh.. Wife's laptop for school)
Our printers are all connected to the wireless router using a dongle printserver. We returned the printer for incompatibility with the rest of the Windows machines on the Lan, not the Linux machine. The troll for printer compatiblity is shooting a dead horse. Any machine in the house on either the wired or wirless lan can easily print to any printer on the lan.
We use printservers like this one on all our printers. It saves ink. It makes using the laser instead of a inkjet easy. No cables are required to print from laptops. The LAN, Printserver, and printers are all compatible with Linux. Windows often requires install drivers for the printer and printserver. Linux simply requires entering the printserver IP address and select a compatible driver. The port for the laser is for example located at //192.168.1.101/prn on our LAN. Getting Vista to connect to it took two hours and a google search.
Vista wants a printserver name and doesn't like a printserver on an IP address or one not in your DNS server. Printer compatibility isses are not a Linux issue. Windows is much harder to connect. Vista also required a registry tweak to connect to a Simple Share Printserver. That took 8 hours of my day off and a google search to connect my wife's new laptop to our fileserver. Linux could connect either using Netbios SMB, or NFS. Vista couldn't authenticate to login.
http://www.jr.com/trendnet/pe/TRD_TE100P1P/ Network printserver
http://www.simpleshare.com/ Network attached storage
Demand is high for education. Being a full time student and working full time is difficult. Being laid off and having no prospects gave many the incentive to change career paths. Tuition is up due to the demand and limited number of seats.
As far as interest, some of these rates are being offset by inflation. Now that we are printing money out of thin air to stimulate the economy, the dilution of dollars and your life savings is very real. Prices will go up as long as there are lots more inflated dollars competing for the same resources.
The free field pattern near a loop antenna is nothing new. RFID or any other application such as a transmitter for the heairng impaired makes no difference.
A 3D plot of a simple loop antenna can be seen on this page;
http://vk1od.net/antenna/SmallUntunedSquareLoop/
The 3D plot is near the bottom of the page.
It it resembles the magnetic field of a bar magnet or a coil of wire with a current, that is no supprise.
I don't think they have a claim. Read the patent. Other than sharing either electric or gas or both, the patent is not even close. The Prius engine runs to maintain battery charge and engine temperature. The patent claims electric unless the power demand is above 30 of the gas engine capacity so it only runs in a high effeciency power band. There are some things that resemble each other, The patent is so far off it would like Microsoft unable to use a graphical user interface because Apple patented the point and click interface.
It's another hybrid where gas, electric or both can be used, but other than that, I don't think the claim has merit. In the prius the electric is a pair of Motor/Generators. In the patent, there is a motor, a generator, and a starter motor. I think because of the scope of the patent being so different from the Prius power split configuration, they have no case.
Consumers do not want ads. There fixed it for you.
I'm using a Laserjet III. I picked up the memory module cheap online so it will now print a full graphic page. It's hardly portable like the Laserjet II. Aftermarket cartridges are 4 for $100. The consumables for this are about the same price as 1 set of carts for the color HP950c color ink jet, but last 5X as long. This makes it's operating cost about 1/20th the ink jet. The inkjet is seldom used for this reason.
I recently picked up a laserjet 1100 for free. I use it when traveling. I'm still running on the original cart. The toner doesn't dry out like an unused inkjet so when I do need it, it just works.
Then the ticket simply boils down to how the machine detected you actually came to a stop. How slow is stopped. How long is not moving considered stopped. A quick stop may be detected as a rolling stop. Unless you park it to guarantee a detected stop, you are a target of the revenue machine. Waiting for the green prevents any possibility of a photo of you in the intersection with a red. It eliminates false positives which is what much of the fight is about.
I think one way to fight this is to use the approach that some cyclists use in the "Critical Mass" approach to cycling safety.
If a grass roots protest was formed by simply stopping at ALL red lights and waiting for a green would soon gridlock traffic. Until the tickets go away for turning on red, not turning on red to avoid the new tax is the solution to show the impact it has on drivers. Stopping for the red and waiting for the green saves you the ticket as well as the line behind you.
Nice find. Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it. This is a repeat of the bubble caused by the same thing. Borrowed money to invest in a rising market. Money then poured in. It's a variation of a ponsi scheme. It's a pyramid of investors with borrowed money making a resource scarce and rising in value until the bubble burst. Everyone got rich.. until the hammer fell. The last ones in were left with the bill. Carter started the latest one. Bush didn't stop it and Obama got the bust.
I agree. Bush did too little to correct the lending practices that led up to the troubled asset relief program (TARP). So where did it originate?
Roots of the Crisis
The cause of this crisis is the overly relaxed lending from 2000 onwards. Bankers driven by bonus targets lent to families who could not afford the mortgages: today there are five million American homeowners delinquent or in foreclosure. This is no longer a sub-prime lending problem, but a lending problem as excess home inventories push down all home prices.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/09/28/franks_fingerprints_are_all_over_the_financial_fiasco/t/
So what is the root of the lending that created all the troubled assets?
The first time was in 1922.
See PDF from this page
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E7DA1339E133A25752C2A9639C946395D6CF
and in 1929 the economy imploded.
Again in 2000, followed by about 8-9 years.
Here is the root again;
http://americaswatchtower.com/2009/06/24/barney-frank-asks-fannie-mae-to-easy-up-on-loan-regulations-will-he-ever-learn/
"The architect of the mortgage meltdown is once again asking Fanny Mae to ease up on their loan regulations. This is exactly what got us into this trouble in the first place. Even as the mortgage industry was in trouble Barney Frank denied that there was any problem with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Even as President Bush and John McCain were trying to warn of the impending crisis Barney Frank was in denial."
The start is here;
The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism and "redlining" because urban blacks were being denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/09/28/franks_fingerprints_are_all_over_the_financial_fiasco/
So yes, Bush is at fault for not stopping it. He warned about it and left it to fall apart on it's own.
I didn't say the previous administration was faultless. I'm looking at the current activity accelerating the export of jobs by encouraging employers to set up elsewhere for economic and regulatory reasons. The current rate of rising government debet and the printing of money exceeds any predecessor. Faith in the value of the US currency is in free fall. Many are looking to new hard currency, either gold, guns, or the Euro to hold value as a replacement for the unstable US money.
I'm just saying...if MS (and I can't believe I"m defending MS here) actually broke no tax laws, then you really can't accuse them of tax evasion. It is not against the law to work within the law. If you don't like the tax laws as they are, change them. Just don't be pissed if they then leave the state. Other states would be thrilled to have the high paying jobs within their borders.
State? You are narrowing the field too tight. With the current administration, simply moving to another state may be short sighted. To pay for all the bailouts, carbon credits, and universal health care, there will me many more companies that are international looking to move headquarters. The states and country can then simply tack on import duty fees and sales taxes to collect revenue from the made in India or China imports.
Have we gone insane? Governments instead of being happy with the glass is half full an it's a big glass are looking at the glass is half empty, we are not getting the full deal and are thus knifing the golden goose to get all the eggs. Many of these geese are flying overseas.
Can we get an administration in office that understands some economics?
Sorry to double post. Just found a page with a graph showing my issue with life.
http://www.philipslumileds.com/technology/images/maint_chart_large.jpg
This page has the graph showing typical LED lamps at 1/2 brightness at 6,000 hours. Many claim life of 50,000 hours, but it's no longer useable and no longer effecient At 16,000 hours many only put out 20% of the light. This is not a savings. The bulbs I'm testing has a huge dimming after only 2 months, not 1 year.
The graph is on this page;
http://www.philipslumileds.com/technology/lumenmaintenance.cfm
I find this marketing scheme is often used to sell underpowered bulbs. They don't match the lumens/watt of a CFL. They just match the intensity of the beam to an unfocused CFL at the same distance and claim it is a 60 Watt replacement when it's really a 15 watt replacement.
Before buying any LED lamp, check the Lumens. A 60 Watt incandescant lamp is about 800 Lumens. Many LED counterparts are only 80 lumens. Philips Par 38 16 watt LED lamp is only 850 Lumens. How many 3 or 5 watt LED bulbs have you seen claiming to replace a 60 watt bulb?
Only a few lamps are high lumens/watt, and many have rapid breakdown of the flourescent material causing rapid reduction in output such as the bulbs I have. What's the saving when the bulb though still burning puts out less than 1/2 the light after 2 months of use?
I'm not buying many more of these until this issue is solved.
I picked up some. I used one constantly for about 2 months for the reptile cage. I percieve it seems to be dim, so I swapped it with another i used intermittantly. The difference in intensity is very striking. If they put out less than 1/2 the light after only a couple months use, they are not worth the money. I'll wait to find some that don't fade rapidly.
Science was popular enough the magazine Popular Science was in most supermarket news racks much like computer game magazines are now. It wasn't popular with everyone, but enough were interested to have a huge circulation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Science
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/index.html
Most of them are based on the Intel Atom processor. I wonder if intel's securities report has sales numbers. Darn the reports I used to find free online are now subscription. Anybody subscribe to EDGAR Online and willing to look it up?
For a Noobuntu user, it's much easier to have my kids logoof instead of them trying to remember the syntax of the killall command.
Still was a job to get rid of the circle jerk pop ups.
The easiest way out I have found on Ubuntu is to simply logout. It closes all the pop up windows. Log back in and they are all gone.
I hit the web and stay off of any internal sites when doing this. It's break time. To do anything on any internal site requires the domain login which I simply don't do. It makes things hard for phishing and other malware to get a foothold. It has no persistent write space whatever. It's dead at power off.
You can tell my IE posts from work. They are the ones with missed typos and spelling errors. Firefox highlights errors. IE 6 does not. If I intend to post online, this alone is the biggest reason to use the live CD.
IE 6 online is dangerous, but not as bad as for a home user without a corporate firewall. Firefox and IE go through the same proxy firewall. You tell me which is safer for the company.
Sometimes when on break, I boot a live Ubuntu distro. It runs in memory. I set the networking in Firefox to use the default proxy, load flashplayer from Adobe, and enjoy the break with tabs and no worries. Some who think they are stuck with IE simply don't know they have an option.
IE 6 at work badly scrambles Slashdot pages with text running over text. I use Firefox to check my user page and see replies. The page is unusable in the corporate IE 6 default browser.
In the 1970's I took a typing class before the PC was invented and on the market. Computers were on the way, but just a novelty in the hobby market. The class was filled with typewriters with all blank keys. You touch type or else. This was great as it started me typing without looking at the keys. I very quickly learned to find the keys with the notches. Correction tape was a pain.
The biggest problem now is not QWERTY vs Dorvak, it's the layout of the rest of the keys. This is highly non-standard. Using multiple keyboards as I move about home and factory, the delete and escapse keys are located everywhere from top left to the key cluster between the numeric pad to in the numeric pad to stuffed down by the Windows key on either side. In short, they could be anywhere except in the middle of the regular typing keys.
My favorite keyboard overall is the old IBM klacky keyboard without the Windows key. It's one of the few keyboards that doesn't have a sticky spacebar. Way too many keyboards have a wide space bar that won't press down unless you hit it directly in the middle. Having to go back and insert missing spaces cuts typing speed.
a) something I wanted to hear and
b) something I could use the way I wanted to use it.
Now I don't because a) or b) (or more and more often both) are simply not fulfilled. Must be because I copy that shit that ain't even worth wasting the bandwidth.
With the digital age, this is very true. As we have more and more uses for music, the restrictions prohibit each possible use. Each restriction is a devaluation of the CD. How do we tell the music industry to get real?
I shoot digital video and post on Youtube. I assemble powerpoint slideshows for weddings. I thought of doing an animated christmas light show, but canned the idea due to the cost of licensing from a very limited library offered on Lights O Rama.
License rights for additional songs are currently under negotiation and they will be added to this page as contracts are signed.
So far their list of legal music that can be licensed is now up to 12 choices. Wow, huge legal catalog. It's about $30/song for most tracks for the license. You still have to buy the album in addition to getting the license for some songs. Some come with a 128K MP3. Wow, I can play one of the same dozen or so songs played everywhere. No thanks.
http://store.lightorama.com/sequences.html
Somehow the "For Private home use only, No public performance" just cuts the value to next to nothing if I can't have a music track on youtube, do a christmas light show to music or play music in sync with the slideshow. End result.. I don't spend top dollar on CD's I can't use.
It doesn't mean I pirate them. I look for other stuff without the legal risk or do without.
I won't be doing a Animated Christmas display again this year. I have a full DMX512 sequencer, dimmer packs, cable, but, I'm not using it for Christmas Lights. I won't be putting it on youtube, and I'm not buying the CD. There is no reason to buy the CD. I can't use it. All public uses is forbidden.
I'm more along the lines of there must be a way to tell the musicians that I have no reason to buy the CD if I am not permitted to listen to it.
For me with ISP traffic shaping, it was either a 24 hour download or FTP from University of Oregon Open Source Lab in 15 minutes. In one I get to run up hosting costs and the other I get slow rates trying to off load a busy server. Bit torrent would be useful if it didn't crawl at 2.5 K bits. Dial up is faster for many users.