Most IM software has a feature that turns on logging. I would think it would be assumed that someone in chat is keeping a log. It seems common sense not to say anything incriminating over chat. At least to me...
Get together, purchase the tools or access to the tools to create music directly, make CDs, and together, negotiate to sell them to stores.
It's happening here in Sacramento, where Tower Records first Started. We have a couple of Music Stores here in town (Dimple Records, The Beat) that will sell CDs that don't belong to any label - usually for $10 a CD. I've know a couple of people that have self-produced CDs and then sold them at the local stores. The people actually end up making money if they do some self promotion as well. I have a feeling that we're a step away from some of our local musicians trying out a co-op style label as I've heard it mentioned a couple of times. Yeah, this is a small scale, local movement but the point is that it started. I plan on putting my $$ and audio skills into making it gain momentum if I can.
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if you increase the price of songs some stores will simply have to shutdown
There's the finest point you make. The RIAA would like it if they could prove that online distribution "doesn't work" and could somehow move back to being the ones in charge of everything. They would like these companies to fail.
On another tangent, they may be shooting for the first reverse discount I've ever heard of: Since online distribution is competition to CD sales (their traditional business), they need to make CDs appear to be a better bargain. By increasing the price per song online, they have given CDs a discounted rate without ever really discounting them.
Freemed is good. You'll have to dedicate a machine to running it, but all of the people in the office use it from a web browser. It's also heading torward FULL HIPAA compliance. Good luck.
One of the more amazing at the time that I saw was a workable subset implemented in the '80s on a PC card. It turned an early IBM PC into a desktop mainframe for some applications
I remember some COBOL developers in the mid-90s using MVS on some specialized PCI cards. I used to have a bookmark to the vendor that made them, but it's long gone now. Instead, how about running ES/390 in an emulator? Dust off those JES commands and have some fun IPLing on your PC. Now if only Storagetek made USB cables for the Timberline silos... Imagine a cluster of... wait... STK and IBM both did that already.
I don't have time to look up the part of the EULA, but doesn't this violate their own EULA for visual studio if it was written with that? Isn't there some part that said that the end user couldn't open source what they create?
Why was it that Superman always stood there and let the bad guys shoot their guns at them, but when they ran out of bullets and threw their guns at him, he ducked?
The mods are going to burn my karma with their heat vision for being offtopic, but perhaps it's just reflex. Like when someone fakes throwing something at you and you jump. Then again, perhaps he doesn't exist and it's merely a dramatic element to tell a story... nah.
2,500 years is an instant in evolutionary time and the existence a group of organisms that are just recently isolated is quite a different matter from life that evolved totally independently.
Doesn't that depend on how long their life-cycle is? Think of insects. A person at age 65 is the equivalent of around 23,000 generations of insects that have a life cycle of 24 hours. They are talking about microbes being under the ice. On the microscopic level, things can move quite rapidly - very often faster than insect life-cycles. I'm betting that 2,500 years is plenty of time for these little buggers go through some dramatic changes. Sure, we won't see a microbe with a foot or the missing link, but we can still learn a lot. Hopefuly we learn enough to point us into the right direction at least.
I'm not sure about that... Hotmail is essentially one big server side program - they don't have to worry about breaking much other than the html code, and they only have to worry about patching a relatively few number of machines (basically just fix the code on the hotmail servers).
If 5,000 machines is just a few, I'd hate to see a large server environment. From the Hotmail Migration Case Study:"The current network of more than 5,000 servers is organized into about a dozen clusters; each consisting of front-end servers linked to data storage machines."
Mind you that it's grouped into "about a dozen" clusters, but that's still quite a patch rollout. I'm stunned that Ms managed to finally get Hotmail migrated completely to Windows. I wonder how many Linux boxen that service would require... Then they could run it on a single IBM 390 system with lots of virtualized Linux installs.
For giggles, let's do some math:
5,000 copies of W2k3 at $999 each: $4,995,000 (They would probably work a volume licencing deal with you at this point)
Client Licences bought in 20 packs at $799 each for "100 million active users" minus the 125,000 client licences 5,000 copies of W2k3 server would provide: $3,990,006,250 (again, they'd work a bulk deal I bet)
Being MS and not having to think about how much this would cost for a real company to do: Priceless (I wonder if they write off the licencing costs as lost income)
Wow! That sure makes the price of patching those 5,000 servers quickly seem like a drop in the bucket.
All of the tech details are important, but don't lose sight of the fact that you need something to attract people to the site. You can't just build out momentum. Sites that only get one or two posts a day get dismissed rather quickly by us fickle geek types as lame. The idea/need for the community should come first with the tech build around it to support it. Good luck!
Logged forests are far more biodiverse than any sort of farmland. Farmland rates very low on the biodiversity scale, not much better than a parking lot.
Properly farmed land can be supplemental environment for many species of plants and animals. You might be interested in checking out The Land Institute in Kansas, where they are using the natural biodiversity of the plains to raise crops. If you can get past your knee-jerk prejudices you would find there are some great ideas being formed there - by "hippies". I've been to the Land Institute and what they do is interesting if not amazing. They are also the keepers of the last natural virgin plain in the United States, which is worth seeing by itself. Sadly, it's only a few acres because of - you guessed it - the type of farming that led to the "Dust Bowl".
As for me being suckered into the rhetoric of the eco-extremists... they don't like me either. I give them as much hell as anyone else that dismisses an idea off-handedly out of spite or prejudice for a percieved group of "fascists". The problems I have with engineered food relate to intellectual property, market control and exploitation more than anything else. I'm a pragmatist, not an environmentalist.
Be careful slinging around the term "fascist" as it's usually a sign that you are one.
One final thought: I would say that logged forest and woodland is equally as much of a tragedy as a modern farm. I live in Northern California where farming is rampant and clear cutting is common. i have seen a great deal of both. Both are a waste of resources.
Okay, there is one more thought then I really am done: Log in and be proud of your opinions when you post. You make some very good points, albeit in a very negative way. If you can, next time offer some alternatives instead of simply criticizing.
Have it both ways with Hemp Plastics. Hemp can grow so rampantly it has to be gottenridof with other wild weeds, such as thistle. How much more renewable do you want?
Beagle 2 (Score:3, Interesting)
by Devil's BSD (562630) on 2004.03.18 13:30 (#8603379)
(http://devilsbsd.mg2.org/)
It's obviously Beagle 2, trying to phone home.
At the same time as your
Beagle 2? (Score:3, Funny)
by zeux (129034) * on 2004.03.18 13:30 (#8603387)
I'm surprised nobody yet did a joke about this flying object being Beagle2 that is just still bouncing on the Mars surface...
Damned mind readers...First the martians, then you... where's that tin-foil hat of mine? Bastards are everywhere!
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...if we in the so-called "developed nations" don't fix our legal systems, third-world countries, where "intellectual property law" cannot be enforced for lack of a functional legal system, will become the leaders in creative industries, including IT, right?
Spot on. Further, we are outsourcing lots of jobs to these countries already (India, for example). Makes a helluva one-two punch doesn't it?
(1) A person may not:...
(c) use a context based triggering mechanism to display an advertisement that partially or wholly covers or obscures paid avertising or other content on an Internet website in a way that interferes with a user's ability to view the Internet website.
So under this, would Pop-Under Ads be okay? Are MDI and child windows illegal under this bill? Woohoo! The "About Internet Explorer" popup in the help menu is illegal! Hell, the menu itself is illegal if it obscures the web page. And Clippy has finally been outlawed! This will be so much fun! I'm so glad we have politicians who think these things through so we don't have to. I should have never studied IT and went into politics where I can make sweeping technology decisions instead.
I wonder why these big companies waited until after the bill passed to begin lobbying. If the governor signs the bill, isn't it going to be a lot harder to get rid of it?
The article mentioned that this thing literally sped through the legislature. The companies had to gather enough resistance to seem coherent and by the time they did, the bill passed. In today's climate of "See I help the little people" politics, this doesn't surprise me at all. Look at how quickly other "comsumer" or "security" bills have been slam dunked in US government. Modern politicians are deperate to seem like they are doing something that the common man and woman can grasp. Whether that something is the right something to do probably doesn't even enter the equasion. The more percieved "good" that a politician can do, the more room he/she has to do what they want and still get re-elected.
before copyright, works that couldn't be developed based on performance revenues were commissioned by the local royalty, wealthy families, church, and/or government
These days we call it soundtrack, jingle and scoring work. There are lots of professional musicians making very good livings doing it. Danny Elfman anyone?
They say it hasnt really taken off yet.
I would say thats pretty untrue considering there is an effect named after them of a site beeing taken down by a sheer number of click-throughs.
Trust me, they know it now. The server is in flames. Just imagine when/. really gets popular.
You forgot about the "hundreds of millions of people each and everyday" part. OS/2 need not apply there! Though I admit that I too miss the days of a pure text install. At least some *nix distros still support a "text GUI" kind of mode.
The chart is for the old licensing scheme "Upgrade Advantage", not the current "Software Assurance" scheme. Thus, since UA has been discontinued there can be no revenue from it in 2005. What revenue they got from SA should be a different chart.
While you and the other responder are correct, the chart is still misleading and slants the article. The 2005 portion shouldn't have been in there, a note should have been added to clarify or show the SA numbers. Good journalism would have included all three.
The chart lists $1.8 billion in 2003, $1.1 billion for 2004 and $0 for 2005. Why even list 2005? It hasn't happened yet. All this chart does by having 2005 on there is mislead people into thinking that 2005 was fruitless. What a base way to "support" what you say in your article. When I got to that part, I dismissed the article even though I agreee that MS is in for trouble with the upgrade dilema. Bad journalism strikes again.
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Most IM software has a feature that turns on logging. I would think it would be assumed that someone in chat is keeping a log. It seems common sense not to say anything incriminating over chat. At least to me...
On another tangent, they may be shooting for the first reverse discount I've ever heard of: Since online distribution is competition to CD sales (their traditional business), they need to make CDs appear to be a better bargain. By increasing the price per song online, they have given CDs a discounted rate without ever really discounting them.
Been to a Bank of America to use the ATM? They run ads.
Freemed is good. You'll have to dedicate a machine to running it, but all of the people in the office use it from a web browser. It's also heading torward FULL HIPAA compliance. Good luck.
I don't have time to look up the part of the EULA, but doesn't this violate their own EULA for visual studio if it was written with that? Isn't there some part that said that the end user couldn't open source what they create?
Mind you that it's grouped into "about a dozen" clusters, but that's still quite a patch rollout. I'm stunned that Ms managed to finally get Hotmail migrated completely to Windows. I wonder how many Linux boxen that service would require... Then they could run it on a single IBM 390 system with lots of virtualized Linux installs.
For giggles, let's do some math:
- 5,000 copies of W2k3 at $999 each: $4,995,000 (They would probably work a volume licencing deal with you at this point)
- Client Licences bought in 20 packs at $799 each for "100 million active users" minus the 125,000 client licences 5,000 copies of W2k3 server would provide: $3,990,006,250 (again, they'd work a bulk deal I bet)
- Being MS and not having to think about how much this would cost for a real company to do: Priceless (I wonder if they write off the licencing costs as lost income)
Wow! That sure makes the price of patching those 5,000 servers quickly seem like a drop in the bucket.All of the tech details are important, but don't lose sight of the fact that you need something to attract people to the site. You can't just build out momentum. Sites that only get one or two posts a day get dismissed rather quickly by us fickle geek types as lame. The idea/need for the community should come first with the tech build around it to support it. Good luck!
As for me being suckered into the rhetoric of the eco-extremists... they don't like me either. I give them as much hell as anyone else that dismisses an idea off-handedly out of spite or prejudice for a percieved group of "fascists". The problems I have with engineered food relate to intellectual property, market control and exploitation more than anything else. I'm a pragmatist, not an environmentalist.
Be careful slinging around the term "fascist" as it's usually a sign that you are one.
One final thought: I would say that logged forest and woodland is equally as much of a tragedy as a modern farm. I live in Northern California where farming is rampant and clear cutting is common. i have seen a great deal of both. Both are a waste of resources.
Okay, there is one more thought then I really am done: Log in and be proud of your opinions when you post. You make some very good points, albeit in a very negative way. If you can, next time offer some alternatives instead of simply criticizing.
Have it both ways with Hemp Plastics. Hemp can grow so rampantly it has to be gotten rid of with other wild weeds, such as thistle. How much more renewable do you want?
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OS/2... ah, the memories.
The chart lists $1.8 billion in 2003, $1.1 billion for 2004 and $0 for 2005. Why even list 2005? It hasn't happened yet. All this chart does by having 2005 on there is mislead people into thinking that 2005 was fruitless. What a base way to "support" what you say in your article. When I got to that part, I dismissed the article even though I agreee that MS is in for trouble with the upgrade dilema. Bad journalism strikes again.