Wouldn't it be great to have a utility that responded to every single email in your junk box with whatever response you felt like cooking up today? The utility wouldn't have canned messages included, users would be forced to craft their own unique messages. The utility could also base its response on keywords, and it could also take a single keyword and expand to look for all l33t variations. For example, an email containing 'c14liss' could get this:
"You, sir a Godsend. I've been having troubles getting it up for over four years now. Please send me more details about this product.
"
The utility could also email any addresses in the message body, and could visit hyperlinks from the email and harvest addresses, as well as filling in any forms it finds with its message and hitting submit.
Go grab a copy of Anapod Explorer from http://www.redchairsoftware.com/. If you value drag and drop functionality (and among other things, using your iPod for Shoutcast streaming) that much you can pay Red Chair the $25 they're asking for their awesome software. I bought Dudebox for my Dell DJ, its a great product.
iTunes doesn't DRM your existing mp3 collection, its just as free as anything else. It just happens to be not so great on Windows cause it's not integrated so well with everything else as it is on the Mac.
The margins on the pirate CDs must be tiny, so at the end of the day the legit vendors may still be more profitable.
Considering the pirates are buying their blank discs in MegaHyperHappy bulk, I'd think the profit margins on pirate CDs would be SuperHappyFunTimes. You can get a 100 pack of CD-R's off of Newegg for $20. That's $.20 a CD. A computer with a burner is a fixed cost that was most likely purchased long ago and has probably since been paid for with pirate CD revenue. Selling each one for $1.25 gives you an awesome 525% return on your investment, minus bandwidth costs.
I'm also fairly sure that you can get CDs for cheaper than $.20 a piece. Man, I gotta start pirating for profit.
How is this going to help any University with their p2p related issues? Schools aren't legally liable for the trading of illegal files any more than any other ISP would, their only concern is bandwidth costs.
Streaming music is going to cost more bandwidth than a downloaded music collection (a legally, unshared collection), that's a no brainer.
Why is it that no brainers are so difficult for some people to understand, anyway? Do they have negative brains?
You may be surprised at the number of kids who decide which school to go to based on the quality of the sports program. I know I was.
I'm not looking to start an off-topic flamewar or anything, but that's silly. If you plan on playing on the sports team, sure, but to fill the stands? I was divided between two schools with similar academics and chose my school because of its proximity to Mt. Baker, where I get to enjoy my sports in the first-person, not where I get drunk in the lodge and watch from a safe distance.
IANAL (such a filthy acronym), and that's why I'm asking this question. Does the UN have a statute of limitations on this offense?
Where is he going to be put on trial, anyway? If he broke a UN sanction, surely they can't try him in a US court. Are they really going to ship Fischer to the Hague for playing chess twelve years ago?
I go to a school with a sizable hippie population (WWU), and though people might groan when I tell them that their password has to be 6-8 characters, consist of both letters and numbers, alternate between letters and numbers twice, and contain no dictionary words, no one is organizing a protest.
The only time a similar situation to yours occurred at our school was when an article in our paper raising privacy concerns about the Remote Assistance feature in Windows. We;ve never used the feature (which the user, not the tech, would have to initiate if we did), and no one asked us about when the article was published.
I checked out the site (accessible at music.listings.ebay.com) and couldn't figure out what format the files come in. Anyone want to buy a song and find out?
Apple isn't going to want to show off its brand-spanking-new totally kickass system with the disclaimer "some features not available on mobile platforms." OS 10.4 and the G5 Powerbook will enjoy a simoultaneous launch.
When's 10.4 due? January? I rekon thats a worst-case estimate. Apple is probably lighting a fire under IBM's ass (with the current 2.5 Ghz G5s) to make a mobile G5 possible for the Christmas season.
Japan didn't surrender after the first bomb, thus a second was justified. Their effectiveness had already been shown in the Southwestern US, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not tests. How many times does it have to be said that a prolonged war with Japan would have cost more lives than ending the war with nukes?
Why would Intel oppose open source? It's going to be a very very very very very long time before the average Joe can afford to run his own chip fab facility in his garage.
I was wondering why the hell OLI supported Netscape but not Firefox, so I decided to see what happened when I tried to use one of the courses. I went to Economics, and then the page to test for compatibility, and was told everything was good except for my choice in browser. When I went to see what would happen if I tried to use the course anyway (by hitting back on my browser to get to the TOC) Firefox lost its ability to talk to the internet. I Alt+F4'ed to close it, and then when reopening found that my profile was currently in use, and had to kill firefox.exe which was still running.
I've reproduced the problem on my machine (WinXP, Sun JVM), can anyone else?
Maybe political speeches will become shorter, or the eleven o'clock news will last only 5 minutes, the witty banter between news anchors edited out.
I don't know about everyone else, but I only watch the news on television because of the hot anchor eye candy. Take that away and TV news has no advantage over reading news on the web at all.
Everyone else is telling awful service tales, why not me?
I went to Best Buy to checkout a Lexmark All-In-One they had advertised for a wicked cheap after-rebate price. When I got to the printer section I found it it wasn't there. I asked an employee there if I could get some test pages printed, and he obliged, "Oh, sure thing..." After five minutes, I had zero test pages. He admitted to me this wasn't his section, he was just trying to get something copied (don't they have an office copier elsewhere?!)
I asked him if they had any Bluetooth mouse, and he replied, "Oh, yeah, just come over here." We got to the mouse section, he picked up a blue, corded Microsoft mouse - "The blue one, right?"
Do they think the average car bomber will be overcome with so much frustration when he's forced to use his keys that he'll be unable to attack the military base?
I don't see any reason for this to exist, unless they're worried about people h4x0ring their way into government cars. It'd probably be cheaper to just rip out the keyless entry in those cars, though.
I was a rampant wacky Windows pirate, downloading apps I have no idea how to work (CAD apps, for instance), but since switching to OS X the only "software" I've gotten without paying is a key to make Quicktime into the pro version.
I've got no qualms about that, either, I'm not going to pay even a fraction of a cent for full-screen playback, that ought to be included.
This is quite off topic, and feel free to mod me for it, but I can't stand the 'hit shuffle and go' mentality of people these days. There was an article posted a while back reporting that some percentage (a majority, IIRC) of iPod users never use playlists, they just hit shuffle and go. Whatever happened to enjoying an album? When did the entire country get ADD? It's this mentality that keeps the flow of shitty albums and one hit wonders alive.
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Wouldn't it be great to have a utility that responded to every single email in your junk box with whatever response you felt like cooking up today? The utility wouldn't have canned messages included, users would be forced to craft their own unique messages. The utility could also base its response on keywords, and it could also take a single keyword and expand to look for all l33t variations. For example, an email containing 'c14liss' could get this:
"You, sir a Godsend. I've been having troubles getting it up for over four years now. Please send me more details about this product.
"
The utility could also email any addresses in the message body, and could visit hyperlinks from the email and harvest addresses, as well as filling in any forms it finds with its message and hitting submit.
I wish I could code.
I'm not buying a robot until they produce one that runs on beer, insults my friends, and steals from people.
p1mpl337govoment kills lib3rty4all
pimp1337govoment kills lib3rty4all
pimp1337govoment kills lib3rty4all
lib3rty4all cratered
lib3rty4all: shit
pimp1337govement: haha, pwned
The RIAA is gonna have its lawyers all over this Ka(zaa)-band satellite!
Go grab a copy of Anapod Explorer from http://www.redchairsoftware.com/. If you value drag and drop functionality (and among other things, using your iPod for Shoutcast streaming) that much you can pay Red Chair the $25 they're asking for their awesome software. I bought Dudebox for my Dell DJ, its a great product.
iTunes doesn't DRM your existing mp3 collection, its just as free as anything else. It just happens to be not so great on Windows cause it's not integrated so well with everything else as it is on the Mac.
Oh yeah, anyone wanna buy a Dell DJ?
The margins on the pirate CDs must be tiny, so at the end of the day the legit vendors may still be more profitable.
Considering the pirates are buying their blank discs in MegaHyperHappy bulk, I'd think the profit margins on pirate CDs would be SuperHappyFunTimes. You can get a 100 pack of CD-R's off of Newegg for $20. That's $.20 a CD. A computer with a burner is a fixed cost that was most likely purchased long ago and has probably since been paid for with pirate CD revenue. Selling each one for $1.25 gives you an awesome 525% return on your investment, minus bandwidth costs.
I'm also fairly sure that you can get CDs for cheaper than $.20 a piece. Man, I gotta start pirating for profit.
Microsoft donates huge amounts of money (relative to there economy) to forign university's which basically provides them with free Microsoft products.
And after they graduate, they continue to use Microsoft products for free! omg piracy lol!
How is this going to help any University with their p2p related issues? Schools aren't legally liable for the trading of illegal files any more than any other ISP would, their only concern is bandwidth costs.
Streaming music is going to cost more bandwidth than a downloaded music collection (a legally, unshared collection), that's a no brainer.
Why is it that no brainers are so difficult for some people to understand, anyway? Do they have negative brains?
You may be surprised at the number of kids who decide which school to go to based on the quality of the sports program. I know I was.
I'm not looking to start an off-topic flamewar or anything, but that's silly. If you plan on playing on the sports team, sure, but to fill the stands? I was divided between two schools with similar academics and chose my school because of its proximity to Mt. Baker, where I get to enjoy my sports in the first-person, not where I get drunk in the lodge and watch from a safe distance.
Bah, spectator sports.
IANAL (such a filthy acronym), and that's why I'm asking this question. Does the UN have a statute of limitations on this offense?
Where is he going to be put on trial, anyway? If he broke a UN sanction, surely they can't try him in a US court. Are they really going to ship Fischer to the Hague for playing chess twelve years ago?
Zuh? Where do you go?
I go to a school with a sizable hippie population (WWU), and though people might groan when I tell them that their password has to be 6-8 characters, consist of both letters and numbers, alternate between letters and numbers twice, and contain no dictionary words, no one is organizing a protest.
The only time a similar situation to yours occurred at our school was when an article in our paper raising privacy concerns about the Remote Assistance feature in Windows. We;ve never used the feature (which the user, not the tech, would have to initiate if we did), and no one asked us about when the article was published.
I checked out the site (accessible at music.listings.ebay.com) and couldn't figure out what format the files come in. Anyone want to buy a song and find out?
Here's my prediction -
Apple isn't going to want to show off its brand-spanking-new totally kickass system with the disclaimer "some features not available on mobile platforms." OS 10.4 and the G5 Powerbook will enjoy a simoultaneous launch.
When's 10.4 due? January? I rekon thats a worst-case estimate. Apple is probably lighting a fire under IBM's ass (with the current 2.5 Ghz G5s) to make a mobile G5 possible for the Christmas season.
Japan didn't surrender after the first bomb, thus a second was justified. Their effectiveness had already been shown in the Southwestern US, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not tests. How many times does it have to be said that a prolonged war with Japan would have cost more lives than ending the war with nukes?
Why would Intel oppose open source? It's going to be a very very very very very long time before the average Joe can afford to run his own chip fab facility in his garage.
Because Microsoft wrote Active Desktop. Duh.
I was wondering why the hell OLI supported Netscape but not Firefox, so I decided to see what happened when I tried to use one of the courses. I went to Economics, and then the page to test for compatibility, and was told everything was good except for my choice in browser. When I went to see what would happen if I tried to use the course anyway (by hitting back on my browser to get to the TOC) Firefox lost its ability to talk to the internet. I Alt+F4'ed to close it, and then when reopening found that my profile was currently in use, and had to kill firefox.exe which was still running.
I've reproduced the problem on my machine (WinXP, Sun JVM), can anyone else?
Maybe political speeches will become shorter, or the eleven o'clock news will last only 5 minutes, the witty banter between news anchors edited out.
I don't know about everyone else, but I only watch the news on television because of the hot anchor eye candy. Take that away and TV news has no advantage over reading news on the web at all.
Yes, I do have a thing for asian chicks.
Where's my tin-foil colostomy bag?
I am outraged! Your World with Neil Cavuto is my child's favorite show!
Unfortunately, Fox News isn't a broadcaster, they're cable/satellite only, and therefore their content is only regulated by market forces.
Also, clickable link, dammit.
Everyone else is telling awful service tales, why not me?
I went to Best Buy to checkout a Lexmark All-In-One they had advertised for a wicked cheap after-rebate price. When I got to the printer section I found it it wasn't there. I asked an employee there if I could get some test pages printed, and he obliged, "Oh, sure thing..." After five minutes, I had zero test pages. He admitted to me this wasn't his section, he was just trying to get something copied (don't they have an office copier elsewhere?!)
I asked him if they had any Bluetooth mouse, and he replied, "Oh, yeah, just come over here." We got to the mouse section, he picked up a blue, corded Microsoft mouse - "The blue one, right?"
Bah.
Do they think the average car bomber will be overcome with so much frustration when he's forced to use his keys that he'll be unable to attack the military base?
I don't see any reason for this to exist, unless they're worried about people h4x0ring their way into government cars. It'd probably be cheaper to just rip out the keyless entry in those cars, though.
This is for true.
I was a rampant wacky Windows pirate, downloading apps I have no idea how to work (CAD apps, for instance), but since switching to OS X the only "software" I've gotten without paying is a key to make Quicktime into the pro version.
I've got no qualms about that, either, I'm not going to pay even a fraction of a cent for full-screen playback, that ought to be included.
IIS! Har har har.
HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected
Internet Information Services
This is quite off topic, and feel free to mod me for it, but I can't stand the 'hit shuffle and go' mentality of people these days. There was an article posted a while back reporting that some percentage (a majority, IIRC) of iPod users never use playlists, they just hit shuffle and go. Whatever happened to enjoying an album? When did the entire country get ADD? It's this mentality that keeps the flow of shitty albums and one hit wonders alive.