I can understand what you're saying but I think that working long hours is just a matter of having to do too much work in too little time. You might be an owner of a consulting company and may be in the position to decide how many hours you (or your employees) will require for a certain project using certain tools. So then if you're nice to yourself (or your employees) you just don't plan deadlines that will require ridiculous hours for yourself or your employees. I think however that a lot of people are in the position that their managers are not so nice to them and give them so much work to do (probably without the choice of tools) in such a short time that they have to work stupid hours.
yeah, but which information is really free? If information wasn't created by some individual(s) it was most likely at least recreated by some individual(s). All these indidviduals might claim some sort of ownership over the information and demand some sort of compensation for it's use.
It seems to me that historically the concept of copyright is relatively new. I don't neccesarily disagree with the concept of copyright but I just think that what we are seeing right now is tending towards the opposite extreme of not having copyright at all; complete control of the copyright holders over the materials.
What I'd like to see is some fair and socially healthy copyright legislation. IMHO freedom of information has greatly contributed to the general advancement of mankind's living conditions. I understand that profit is a factor that drives the creation of new information and that is something that should be taken into account. However I don't think that the motive of profit should stop the availability of information to society.
What we need is legislation that takes the welfare of the human race as a whole into account and not just the factor "profit".
I recently learnt to touch-type, in the beginning I hated the fact that I was having to type slower than I was used to. Now that I'm used to it I really love it and I can type faster than I could before. I find that it has been worth the effort learning.
for windows there's a program that forces you to take small breaks. I have suffered from RSI and really find that this program helps me to reduce some muscle tension.
I've got a laptop with a UK keyboard as well but I just set it to standard US layout. It's easy enough to remember that @ is " and vice versa since you're actually pressing the shift-2 key like you're used to to get a @, it just says shift-", that's all. There are some other keys like #, ~ and | that are in different places as well but it's the same story as with the @" swap. I think the best thing is to set a keyboard to the language/layout you're used to, then remembering the "swapped" keys is easy anough because your fingers are used to your own language/layout.
the whole thing that these corps seem to be missing however is that mp3s and tab might actually serve to make the music more poplular and thus to increase record sales. OK, I understand that it might not work this way with chart music but for all other stuff I just think it might hold...
I don't know about that, it's true that I've seen some stuff that was obviously wrong or someone's "interpretation" but there's also some stuff that seemed to be copied right out of a tab book. "Little Wing by Jimi" comes to mind.
On the whole I think it's pretty lame to sue the Olga. The times I've used it were just to figure out some note in some lick or some vague chord. Not something I would go out for and buy a $20 tab book. Those books are sooo overpriced. How many of those books do they sell anyhow? It's not like people are buying n'sync tab or anything.
I thought that people playing music was a way to make the music more popular and would result in higher record sales.
I've also had this idea that instrument manufacturers should try and help out the OLGA. The more easy it becomes for people to learn and play an instrument the more popular instruments themselves might become. I think if a company like Fender or Gibson would speak out for the OLGA it would make a pretty powerful statement not in the least because so many artists use their products.
On an OT note, what's with the deluge of mod points that seems to have hit/. users ?
I agree that it is a good idea to keep a hammer lying around in case the self-destruct mechanisms fail. However I think that a carefully engineered self-destruct mechanism might do a better job at destroying equipment. With a hammer (or an axe) you can smash at the outside of all your consoles/computers/racks/whatever but self destruct mechanisms might be imstalled in the deepest internals of the apparatus so that maximum damage might be done. I wonder if the crew of planes like that have any training in destroying stuff. I think it would be fun to be trained in stuff like that. -"now watch me destroy your pc in 3 seconds with 2 kicks in the right places"
I mean more like a "self-destruct" button somewhere, it lets the smashing up part be automated but the decision of when to smash is still in human control...
what I don't understand about that us plane landing in China is that the equipment on board didn't seem to have any self-destruct mechanisms. I think that with top secret equipment flying around the world they would take precautions...
yeah, except that Win2K Professional is the same OS as Win2K Server, but for a few registry settings and a couple of DLL's. It's an artificial distinction made by Microsoft to sell more copies of a more expensive OS. They couldn't make money if they sold a highly-capable server-ready OS at their desktop price, and nobody would buy a general-purpose OS at the prices MS charges for W2K Server.
This is standard business practice, not something that is only done by MS. It all comes down to that you charge the highest possible price a customer is prepared to pay for a certain product.
I have my doubts about this story too, however I can think fo a reason why the kids would want to accept the $250; I think that they probably want the attention, if you're alone in a room there's no feedback on your work like in a normal job. In other words there's noone that says -you did a good job on this or that etc. etc. I think that even though they might (and I seriously doubt it) be making lots of money that kind of attention is important to people too.
telemarketeering companies ?
customer service companies ?
I know that most people amazon laid off nearby recently were working in call centers, while those people might have understood a little about computers they are not the type of people that would start.coms or it companies, they are just the type of people that work in callcenters and do customer services...
I think that the people that have some techical training already found another job, the market is still quite good for people with technical training.
I agree in that it's a matter of file associations and configuration but real player is the most aggresive piece of software I've seen so far. Install it and boom: if you try to download something from the web you suddenly get "real-download manager". Next you have to get rid of the useless startcenter. Then it tries to takes over all the file associations, it's easy enough to fix, but it's annoying. Futhermore it's the only application that I know of has an option to take back file associations if other apps grab them. (they call this correcting) Oh yeah, and it tries to sign you up for an endless amount of "subscriptions" to all kind of junk... After that it's the worst mp3 player I've seen so far and for streaming video I prefer windows media player.
First of all, why aren't manufacturers of screwdrivers blamed for the killing of jews in WW2 ? I mean I bet the Germans greatly benefitted from having screwdrivers when they were building concentration camps.
Secondly, the "evidence" that this book gives is very thin, there are a lot of assumptions made but the writer doen't have any hard evidence. Here in Europe the book wash trashed in newspaper reviews as subjective and badly researched...
Thirdly, it seems to be a trend that every company that ever had anything to do with WW2 gets bad publicity these days and off course demands for compensations. I know that what happened to the Jews in WW2 was evil beyond comprehension, and I fully agree to the principle of comapnies that profited from that compensate the victims etc. But that doesn't mean that every single company that ever did business with the Nazi regime was evil and can be partly held responsible for the holocaust... If they knew what was going to happen with their stuff, sure then they might be blamed, but how many people expected that 8 million Jews would be killed in concentration camps before say 1942 ?
I don't like this trend of trying to divide things into good/evil black/white etc. People at that time were the same as now, just doing their jobs, trying to make a living etc. Sure if they knew they were aiding the destruction of 8 million people they would have refused to do their work, but I don't think they did know.
For all I know Microsoft Access could have been used for aiding the "etnic-cleansing" that has recently been going on on the Balkans, does that give anyone the right to say that Microsoft aided in this process without giving detailed evidence ?
"z" reminds me of those Nissan sports cars, z-280 z-240 , 300-zx etc... Those z-280 types are pretty old (70s) and were like one of the first Japanese attempts at sports cars I believe... In some weird retro way I find them extrememy cool, I mean owning a new Porsche is nice, but it's so cliche yuppie scum-ish. I would prefer a nice 60-70s Mercedes or BMW.
same here, I never found anything useful on gnutella. I've got a 10Mbps line so I was keeping something like 50-100 connections going, but it still couldn't find anthing decent.
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This type of thing is exactly what is meant by vaporware. It is a part of "expectations management".
My question is what happens to the salt ? Do the plants absorb it ? Because if they don't then the salt content in the soil will become very high. I don't know if the plants can stand *any* amount of salt or are just tolerant to a certain range of levels of salt ? If the salt level in the salt keeps on increasing it seems like this would thing couldn't go on indefinetly.
it seems like they only filter out britney spears and christina aguilera (otis rush is always hard to find), that's a good thing as far as i'm concerned, less bandwidth taken by trading stupid pulp music. If this is the only effect the riaa has then they might have even done a good thing...
downloading mp3's is not theft, it's copyright violation. Theft and copyright violation are different things, copyright violation might leed to loss of income but it doesn't decrease the value or amount of property like theft does. If I copy a cd it only harms the copyright holder if I don't buy that cd because I have copied it. If I steal a cd from a store it decreases the value of their inventory....
I'm not saying that copyright violation is not wrong, I'm just saying that copyright violation is not the same as theft. Record and software (media ?) companies would like you to equate copyright violation with theft, but they're not the same...
I agree with the parent post, because of Napster I have discovered a lot of new music. I intend to buy every single cd once I graduate and start making some decent money.
The (then) colonial powers 'united' a lot of ethnical groups into 'territories' , (India, Indonesia, Congo, etc. for example). After these territories became independent they were basically countries made up out of ethnical groups that never chose to unite for themselves. In a lot of these countries the colonial government was merely replaced by a government of a dominant ethnical group. (the Javanese in Indonesia for example) This 'unnatural' situation has been the cause of many ethnical tensions resulting in violence in ex-colonial 'countries' like Indonesia, India, Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia etc. etc. Whilst I'm not making any judgment on who benefitted more from colonization (colonies or colonizers), the problems I have described are IMO at least partially based on the results of colonization....
Although, if I understand correctly, the main force behind colonization was the seeking of profit, spice-trade in far-East, slave-trade in Africa, gold in South-America ad South-Africa, the exepction maybe being North-America. (don't know about that)
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I can understand what you're saying but I think that working long hours is just a matter of having to do too much work in too little time. You might be an owner of a consulting company and may be in the position to decide how many hours you (or your employees) will require for a certain project using certain tools. So then if you're nice to yourself (or your employees) you just don't plan deadlines that will require ridiculous hours for yourself or your employees. I think however that a lot of people are in the position that their managers are not so nice to them and give them so much work to do (probably without the choice of tools) in such a short time that they have to work stupid hours.
yeah, but which information is really free? If information wasn't created by some individual(s) it was most likely at least recreated by some individual(s). All these indidviduals might claim some sort of ownership over the information and demand some sort of compensation for it's use.
It seems to me that historically the concept of copyright is relatively new. I don't neccesarily disagree with the concept of copyright but I just think that what we are seeing right now is tending towards the opposite extreme of not having copyright at all; complete control of the copyright holders over the materials.
What I'd like to see is some fair and socially healthy copyright legislation. IMHO freedom of information has greatly contributed to the general advancement of mankind's living conditions. I understand that profit is a factor that drives the creation of new information and that is something that should be taken into account. However I don't think that the motive of profit should stop the availability of information to society.
What we need is legislation that takes the welfare of the human race as a whole into account and not just the factor "profit".
I recently learnt to touch-type, in the beginning I hated the fact that I was having to type slower than I was used to. Now that I'm used to it I really love it and I can type faster than I could before. I find that it has been worth the effort learning.
for windows there's a program that forces you to take small breaks. I have suffered from RSI and really find that this program helps me to reduce some muscle tension.
I've got a laptop with a UK keyboard as well but I just set it to standard US layout. It's easy enough to remember that @ is " and vice versa since you're actually pressing the shift-2 key like you're used to to get a @, it just says shift-", that's all. There are some other keys like #, ~ and | that are in different places as well but it's the same story as with the @" swap.
I think the best thing is to set a keyboard to the language/layout you're used to, then remembering the "swapped" keys is easy anough because your fingers are used to your own language/layout.
the whole thing that these corps seem to be missing however is that mp3s and tab might actually serve to make the music more poplular and thus to increase record sales. OK, I understand that it might not work this way with chart music but for all other stuff I just think it might hold...
so ? what if my guessing is as good as theirs ? Should that be illegal ?
I don't know about that, it's true that I've seen some stuff that was obviously wrong or someone's "interpretation" but there's also some stuff that seemed to be copied right out of a tab book. "Little Wing by Jimi" comes to mind.
/. users ?
On the whole I think it's pretty lame to sue the Olga. The times I've used it were just to figure out some note in some lick or some vague chord. Not something I would go out for and buy a $20 tab book. Those books are sooo overpriced. How many of those books do they sell anyhow? It's not like people are buying n'sync tab or anything.
I thought that people playing music was a way to make the music more popular and would result in higher record sales.
I've also had this idea that instrument manufacturers should try and help out the OLGA. The more easy it becomes for people to learn and play an instrument the more popular instruments themselves might become. I think if a company like Fender or Gibson would speak out for the OLGA it would make a pretty powerful statement not in the least because so many artists use their products.
On an OT note, what's with the deluge of mod points that seems to have hit
I agree that it is a good idea to keep a hammer lying around in case the self-destruct mechanisms fail. However I think that a carefully engineered self-destruct mechanism might do a better job at destroying equipment. With a hammer (or an axe) you can smash at the outside of all your consoles/computers/racks/whatever but self destruct mechanisms might be imstalled in the deepest internals of the apparatus so that maximum damage might be done. I wonder if the crew of planes like that have any training in destroying stuff. I think it would be fun to be trained in stuff like that. -"now watch me destroy your pc in 3 seconds with 2 kicks in the right places"
I mean more like a "self-destruct" button somewhere, it lets the smashing up part be automated but the decision of when to smash is still in human control...
what I don't understand about that us plane landing in China is that the equipment on board didn't seem to have any self-destruct mechanisms. I think that with top secret equipment flying around the world they would take precautions...
yeah, except that Win2K Professional is the same OS as Win2K Server, but for a few registry settings and a couple of DLL's. It's an artificial distinction made by Microsoft to sell more copies of a more expensive OS. They couldn't make money if they sold a highly-capable server-ready OS at their desktop price, and nobody would buy a general-purpose OS at the prices MS charges for W2K Server.
This is standard business practice, not something that is only done by MS. It all comes down to that you charge the highest possible price a customer is prepared to pay for a certain product.
I have my doubts about this story too, however I can think fo a reason why the kids would want to accept the $250; I think that they probably want the attention, if you're alone in a room there's no feedback on your work like in a normal job. In other words there's noone that says -you did a good job on this or that etc. etc. I think that even though they might (and I seriously doubt it) be making lots of money that kind of attention is important to people too.
telemarketeering companies ?
.coms or it companies, they are just the type of people that work in callcenters and do customer services...
customer service companies ?
I know that most people amazon laid off nearby recently were working in call centers, while those people might have understood a little about computers they are not the type of people that would start
I think that the people that have some techical training already found another job, the market is still quite good for people with technical training.
I agree in that it's a matter of file associations and configuration but real player is the most aggresive piece of software I've seen so far. Install it and boom: if you try to download something from the web you suddenly get "real-download manager". Next you have to get rid of the useless startcenter. Then it tries to takes over all the file associations, it's easy enough to fix, but it's annoying. Futhermore it's the only application that I know of has an option to take back file associations if other apps grab them. (they call this correcting) Oh yeah, and it tries to sign you up for an endless amount of "subscriptions" to all kind of junk... After that it's the worst mp3 player I've seen so far and for streaming video I prefer windows media player.
First of all, why aren't manufacturers of screwdrivers blamed for the killing of jews in WW2 ? I mean I bet the Germans greatly benefitted from having screwdrivers when they were building concentration camps.
Secondly, the "evidence" that this book gives is very thin, there are a lot of assumptions made but the writer doen't have any hard evidence. Here in Europe the book wash trashed in newspaper reviews as subjective and badly researched...
Thirdly, it seems to be a trend that every company that ever had anything to do with WW2 gets bad publicity these days and off course demands for compensations. I know that what happened to the Jews in WW2 was evil beyond comprehension, and I fully agree to the principle of comapnies that profited from that compensate the victims etc. But that doesn't mean that every single company that ever did business with the Nazi regime was evil and can be partly held responsible for the holocaust... If they knew what was going to happen with their stuff, sure then they might be blamed, but how many people expected that 8 million Jews would be killed in concentration camps before say 1942 ?
I don't like this trend of trying to divide things into good/evil black/white etc. People at that time were the same as now, just doing their jobs, trying to make a living etc. Sure if they knew they were aiding the destruction of 8 million people they would have refused to do their work, but I don't think they did know.
For all I know Microsoft Access could have been used for aiding the "etnic-cleansing" that has recently been going on on the Balkans, does that give anyone the right to say that Microsoft aided in this process without giving detailed evidence ?
"z" reminds me of those Nissan sports cars, z-280 z-240 , 300-zx etc... Those z-280 types are pretty old (70s) and were like one of the first Japanese attempts at sports cars I believe... In some weird retro way I find them extrememy cool, I mean owning a new Porsche is nice, but it's so cliche yuppie scum-ish. I would prefer a nice 60-70s Mercedes or BMW.
same here, I never found anything useful on gnutella. I've got a 10Mbps line so I was keeping something like 50-100 connections going, but it still couldn't find anthing decent.
This type of thing is exactly what is meant by vaporware. It is a part of "expectations management".
Nah, it's just some Japanese dudes trading karaoke over their 100 Mbps lines... It'll be fine in minutes....
My question is what happens to the salt ? Do the plants absorb it ? Because if they don't then the salt content in the soil will become very high. I don't know if the plants can stand *any* amount of salt or are just tolerant to a certain range of levels of salt ? If the salt level in the salt keeps on increasing it seems like this would thing couldn't go on indefinetly.
how many people do you think actually *know* what the registry *is* ?
I agree with the 96/112 kbps bit, seems like the recording industry is pretty clueless.
britney spears: 15 results
metallica: 100 results LOL
ac/dc: 100 results
dave matthews band: 100 results
soundgarden: 90 results
pink floyd: 100 results
christina aguilera: 23 results
stevie ray vaughan: 100 results
rolling stones: 100 results
nsync: 100 results
david bowie: 60 results
otis rush: 0 results
jimi hendrix
it seems like they only filter out britney spears and christina aguilera (otis rush is always hard to find), that's a good thing as far as i'm concerned, less bandwidth taken by trading stupid pulp music. If this is the only effect the riaa has then they might have even done a good thing...
downloading mp3's is not theft, it's copyright violation. Theft and copyright violation are different things, copyright violation might leed to loss of income but it doesn't decrease the value or amount of property like theft does. If I copy a cd it only harms the copyright holder if I don't buy that cd because I have copied it. If I steal a cd from a store it decreases the value of their inventory....
I'm not saying that copyright violation is not wrong, I'm just saying that copyright violation is not the same as theft. Record and software (media ?) companies would like you to equate copyright violation with theft, but they're not the same...
I agree with the parent post, because of Napster I have discovered a lot of new music. I intend to buy every single cd once I graduate and start making some decent money.
The (then) colonial powers 'united' a lot of ethnical groups into 'territories' , (India, Indonesia, Congo, etc. for example). After these territories became independent they were basically countries made up out of ethnical groups that never chose to unite for themselves. In a lot of these countries the colonial government was merely replaced by a government of a dominant ethnical group. (the Javanese in Indonesia for example) This 'unnatural' situation has been the cause of many ethnical tensions resulting in violence in ex-colonial 'countries' like Indonesia, India, Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia etc. etc. Whilst I'm not making any judgment on who benefitted more from colonization (colonies or colonizers), the problems I have described are IMO at least partially based on the results of colonization....
Although, if I understand correctly, the main force behind colonization was the seeking of profit, spice-trade in far-East, slave-trade in Africa, gold in South-America ad South-Africa, the exepction maybe being North-America. (don't know about that)