Yes it did. This was my kneejerk reaction. But think about how today is different.
In the 70's, I dubbed from tape to tape, LP to tape or radio to tape. I needed to have some form of the song on a purchased media unless I taped from the radio, so the record company made money off me, just not as much as if they sold me multiple copies. The quality of tapes was acceptable and listenable, but time consuming to make. To make a mix tape took hours: cueing the record just right, rewinding the tape to just the right spot.
Now, I can make a perfect copy of any song WITHOUT HAVING TO HAVE A PURCHASED COPY. I can make as many perfect copies as I like and with a good software package, equalized and custumized.
The record industry has good reason to fear. The genie is out of the bottle. Everyone who currently has a burner and the MP3 codec can keep cranking out music cds ad nauseum. Until the RIAA buys the MP3 codec and sues to stop its use, people won't even slow down.
The big reason for Oog Vorbis is the free codec. No one can shut it down. So when the music industry wises up, people will still have someplace to go.
There is no reason now to switch from a format that gives excellent compression, plays on many devices and allows free [albeit disputedly so] songs from many places. I have over 15,000 songs in MP3 format. Why switch?
Well, my brothers and sisters. What is "free" today is gone tomorrow. Napster was a blessing to the song-swapping community until too many knew about it and began to realise the profit potential that was slipping away. Hard drive makers are being encouraged to add copyright protection at the hardware level to stop the MP3/music industry profit hemorrage. New formats with "rights protection" are coming to prevent the free exchange of songs. At some point, someone with enough sense will buy the patents underlying the MP3 formats and stop any software/hardware maker from using the format.
Without a "free as in beer" solution, we are left without an alternative while the music industry turns the screws. I am surprised they haven't bought the rights already.
Get ready children. The bad men will shut us down without the people in the open-source movement like Vorbis.
I hate to quote lunatics, but it was Ross Perot that said "We want jobs to make microchips, not potato chips." The idea is that the higher up on the food chain you are, the better the view.
The same is true with knowledge: the more you know about the world, its people and how to control it all, the less shit you are forced to eat. Now, a little excrement is consumed by all, but the people with the knowledge get to say who eats the most. Same with any technology: train our people to use it so they are at the top of the food chain.
Nanotech will be in the hands of those who understand it and can use it. Its benefits will trickle from the haves to the have-nots only if those in the know benefit from it. Capitalism reigns, Trotsky remains dead in Mexico with an axe in the back. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
My brothers and sisters: the only path to freedom it the one you make for yourself. Learn what other people value, use it industriously and bask in the warm glow of capitalism. Let untrained, unwilling to learn, undisaplined people till the soil and turn the screws.
At least Jan Claude Van Damme looks the part. SS is a sissy! Segal with the ponytail, the soft face. He'd be someone's bitch in 5 seconds in prison!
No one ever said he was a good actor. They all like the action in his films. Who's the chick who popped out of the cake when he was supposedly a Navy Seal turned cook? Now that's worth eight bucks right there.
Part of the problem with this guy's approach is that it hugs the coasts -- the most highly prized real estate in the world. Additionally, the coastal ecosystems are among the most valued -- without human "enhancement"
Pardon me: Did you see this is the coast of Eritrea? The land is WORTHLESS! It's DESERT!!!! That's the whole point here! Taking worthless, unusable land and growing food! No one is suggesting tearing down beach houses for aquaculture. Sheesh.
Commercial speech is differently recognised than individual speech. A company is not allowed to give a prosective employer any info about the former employee other then to acknowledge that the employee was indeed employed.
If you currently have an employment contract with your current employer, you could sue the former employer for tortious interference with a contract. Having a job is not a right, but not having former employers fuck with your current job status is a right. Further, truth is a valid defence to a slander charge, so if you told the truth and they sued you, you can counter with a frivolous litigation charge.
I love the law.
Clearly I can't give you legal advice without knowing more and this does not constitute a legal relationship, but I would not roll over if they fuck with you.
That said, I would stop posting things about the old corp and move on with your life. It is a small world and you don't get ahead badmouthing people. Even if it is the truth.
Washington DC -- In a baffling announcement from the Oval Office today, George W. Bush declared he would lobby to have freedom of assembly revoked.
"I have heard all the arguments that the framers of the Constitution held the right of assembly inviolate, but it's dangerous to allow groups like Bin Laden to meet and discuss strategery" said the President, flanked by Republican members of both houses of Congress. "If they can't meet, they can't talk treason."
The President outlined a plan to disallow freedom of religion as well, citing the "Moslem" problem. The President's speech was aired on PBS right after the Super Bowl. "You have to hand it to Dubya," quipped political pundit and prognosticator George Stephenopolis, "everyone was watching Survivor 2. Slipped right through the cracks."
I remeber reading about the Tetris game MIT made out of a computer, a multi-story building and its lights. Too much.
At the risk of sounding weepy-eyed for college days -- IT'S A PRANK. Lighten up, California. No one gets hurt 'cause they're ENGINEERS. They have looked at all the contingent risks and eliminated them. Move on.
If there wasn't the risk of getting arrested, though, the hack wouldn't be so beautiful.
I have a friend from high school. Brilliant kid from a brilliant family. He is now a brain surgeon. Said he does brains instead of hearts because the brain surgeons drive better cars.
He didn't go into medicine for the money, though. His brother is making 12 times the money as an attorney in Chicago. His family has a business he could have gone into and bought 5 Lexi [plural of Lexus?]
I met him for breakfast last year. At 8 am, he had been at the hospital for 2 hrs already with a patient. I wanted to buy him a cup of coffee, but he told me had had sworn off caffiene because he could not afford a tremor in his hand, no matter how slight. He got minimum 8 hrs sleep every night and had to give up woodworking [which he loved] so his hands weren't callused.
I would GIVE this guy a Lexus if I needed someone to put his hands in my brain: I would want him. Who the fuck wouldn't?
Ever see that commercial for the Discover card? Dad buying his daughter a dog, says the $600 beagle is too expensive. Asks about the $25 hyena, which in turn eats the store clerk. Dad thoughtfully reconsiders beagle. Tag line - some things are worth more.
I'm a lawyer, kids. If you have a transaction for $100 million and you will make $10 million, do you mind paying me $500 an hour to make it work? Not likely. You get what you pay for.
I do work for neighborhood merchants and my church for free. Not to mention my entire extended family. Not everything is money.
EXCELLENT idea on making appointments. Make it graphical so patient can look at dr. availability week by week real time.
Be VERY careful linking from a professional site to any other. Make sure that you advise the patient that they are about to get advice from outside your site and that you cannot guarrantee it is accurate. Tell them that it is the basis for study and that you can best answer any serious questions.
The very bad thing about the internet is that any pissant with Frontpage can look like the Mayo Clinic. [me included] OK, maybe with Dreamweaver.
That said, it is important for patients to have information. If there are sites you trust to dispense it, link to them
We believe that there are on the order of 10 to the 21st power stars in our Universe. If you write that number out, it looks like this: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is a lot of stars.
It is quite probible that with all the pre-organic matter floating around that the SETI boys may have a point: It ain't IF there's life out there, it's how far away and do they have radios yet.
Seriously, if you put enough monkeys in a room with enough typewriters, you will get Shakespear's sonnets. Life is out there kids.
Washington D.C. - The fatted calf was killed today as NASA officials welcomed its prodigal son, Pioneer-6, back into the fold.
"You know how it is," said Dr. Phil McCrevice, 67 year old mission speacialist who was the youngest member of the Pioneer-6 launch team in 1965. "People get busy, move away, grow apart. It's not to say that we didn't think of Pioneer-6 all these years, but...." The crusty old scientist then began weeping softly.
NASA has begun to plan a family reunion for all the much beloved but long neglected space hardware it has cast out over the years. "Heck, we haven't even tried to get in touch with any of the stuff we left on the moon in the Apollo years," a ranking NASA official said, "I wonder how they've been?"
You have to love "over 55 gigabytes of Linux programs and documentation freely available for download via FTP and/or WWW access"
If you have a linux box and broadband, this is your first bookmark.
This is a perfect job for a geologist with culinary aspirations. Rockhounds can add to the body of scientific knowledge about volcanism and cook up tasty BBQ meals at the same time!
Simply hang meat seasoned to taste at precisely measured distances from lava flow. Within minutes, you can have tender, wholsome meals on the job. And talk about easy baked potatoes? Bury them in volacnic ash [don't forget to wear your asbestos gloves!] and Voila! Baked spuds.
I just wanted to know if the book offered any recipes along these lines for amature Volcano-heads like me.
Washington, D.C. = Senator Strom Thurmon denounced the reckless attitude of various stellar objects, including what he termed "voracious black holes" for unusually high rates of star births seen in some galaxies.
"Clearly, the family values I so highly espouse are sadly lacking with these voracious black holes, and this is the reason these holes see such unusually high rates of star births.".
The prune-like Senator went on to extoll abstinence for the Black Holes and other stellar objects. He then left for a prolonged nap.
Or maybe it was a FRICKIN joke. [As in Frikin Hot Pocket]
Microsoft Uses Quantum Security
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Seattle -- Nov. 4, 2000. The world's richest man today informed the world of a break in to the Microsoft beta server, which uses quantum security as a firewall.
"Our security has been compromised," said Gates at the hastily called press conference. "Oh, wait, no we haven't. Hold on: yes we have. Damn, these dual quantum states."
After a tantrum, the Uber-geek stomped away from the podium in a huff and would not return this reporter's calls.
Spinal Tap rules.
Slashdot Mirror
Carl Spackler: Correct me if I'm wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key.
Sandy MacReedy: Gophers! You great git! Not golfers! The little brown furry rodents!
Carl Spackler: We can do that. We don't even have to have a reason.
Caddyshack
Yes it did. This was my kneejerk reaction. But think about how today is different.
In the 70's, I dubbed from tape to tape, LP to tape or radio to tape. I needed to have some form of the song on a purchased media unless I taped from the radio, so the record company made money off me, just not as much as if they sold me multiple copies. The quality of tapes was acceptable and listenable, but time consuming to make. To make a mix tape took hours: cueing the record just right, rewinding the tape to just the right spot.
Now, I can make a perfect copy of any song WITHOUT HAVING TO HAVE A PURCHASED COPY. I can make as many perfect copies as I like and with a good software package, equalized and custumized.
The record industry has good reason to fear. The genie is out of the bottle. Everyone who currently has a burner and the MP3 codec can keep cranking out music cds ad nauseum. Until the RIAA buys the MP3 codec and sues to stop its use, people won't even slow down.
The big reason for Oog Vorbis is the free codec. No one can shut it down. So when the music industry wises up, people will still have someplace to go.
Finally, slashdot won't get slashdotted.
Goddamn right on!!!!
There is no reason now to switch from a format that gives excellent compression, plays on many devices and allows free [albeit disputedly so] songs from many places. I have over 15,000 songs in MP3 format. Why switch?
Well, my brothers and sisters. What is "free" today is gone tomorrow. Napster was a blessing to the song-swapping community until too many knew about it and began to realise the profit potential that was slipping away. Hard drive makers are being encouraged to add copyright protection at the hardware level to stop the MP3/music industry profit hemorrage. New formats with "rights protection" are coming to prevent the free exchange of songs. At some point, someone with enough sense will buy the patents underlying the MP3 formats and stop any software/hardware maker from using the format.
Without a "free as in beer" solution, we are left without an alternative while the music industry turns the screws. I am surprised they haven't bought the rights already.
Get ready children. The bad men will shut us down without the people in the open-source movement like Vorbis.
Bras that sense sagging breasts and lift and separate automatically?
Maybe you don't get it.
I hate to quote lunatics, but it was Ross Perot that said "We want jobs to make microchips, not potato chips." The idea is that the higher up on the food chain you are, the better the view.
The same is true with knowledge: the more you know about the world, its people and how to control it all, the less shit you are forced to eat. Now, a little excrement is consumed by all, but the people with the knowledge get to say who eats the most. Same with any technology: train our people to use it so they are at the top of the food chain.
Nanotech will be in the hands of those who understand it and can use it. Its benefits will trickle from the haves to the have-nots only if those in the know benefit from it. Capitalism reigns, Trotsky remains dead in Mexico with an axe in the back. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
My brothers and sisters: the only path to freedom it the one you make for yourself. Learn what other people value, use it industriously and bask in the warm glow of capitalism. Let untrained, unwilling to learn, undisaplined people till the soil and turn the screws.
At least Jan Claude Van Damme looks the part. SS is a sissy! Segal with the ponytail, the soft face. He'd be someone's bitch in 5 seconds in prison!
No one ever said he was a good actor. They all like the action in his films. Who's the chick who popped out of the cake when he was supposedly a Navy Seal turned cook? Now that's worth eight bucks right there.
Part of the problem with this guy's approach is that it hugs the coasts -- the most highly prized real estate in the world. Additionally, the coastal ecosystems are among the most valued -- without human "enhancement"
Pardon me: Did you see this is the coast of Eritrea? The land is WORTHLESS! It's DESERT!!!! That's the whole point here! Taking worthless, unusable land and growing food! No one is suggesting tearing down beach houses for aquaculture. Sheesh.
Well, not really.
Commercial speech is differently recognised than individual speech. A company is not allowed to give a prosective employer any info about the former employee other then to acknowledge that the employee was indeed employed.
If you currently have an employment contract with your current employer, you could sue the former employer for tortious interference with a contract. Having a job is not a right, but not having former employers fuck with your current job status is a right. Further, truth is a valid defence to a slander charge, so if you told the truth and they sued you, you can counter with a frivolous litigation charge.
I love the law.
Clearly I can't give you legal advice without knowing more and this does not constitute a legal relationship, but I would not roll over if they fuck with you.
That said, I would stop posting things about the old corp and move on with your life. It is a small world and you don't get ahead badmouthing people. Even if it is the truth.
Yeah, but Scour worked. And lot's of users with lots of files. That's the formula for good peer to peer.
Scour is back! I am happy like a little girl. Now is the the time on Slashdot when we dance.
Washington DC -- In a baffling announcement from the Oval Office today, George W. Bush declared he would lobby to have freedom of assembly revoked.
"I have heard all the arguments that the framers of the Constitution held the right of assembly inviolate, but it's dangerous to allow groups like Bin Laden to meet and discuss strategery" said the President, flanked by Republican members of both houses of Congress. "If they can't meet, they can't talk treason."
The President outlined a plan to disallow freedom of religion as well, citing the "Moslem" problem. The President's speech was aired on PBS right after the Super Bowl. "You have to hand it to Dubya," quipped political pundit and prognosticator George Stephenopolis, "everyone was watching Survivor 2. Slipped right through the cracks."
I remeber reading about the Tetris game MIT made out of a computer, a multi-story building and its lights. Too much.
At the risk of sounding weepy-eyed for college days -- IT'S A PRANK. Lighten up, California. No one gets hurt 'cause they're ENGINEERS. They have looked at all the contingent risks and eliminated them. Move on.
If there wasn't the risk of getting arrested, though, the hack wouldn't be so beautiful.
I have a friend from high school. Brilliant kid from a brilliant family. He is now a brain surgeon. Said he does brains instead of hearts because the brain surgeons drive better cars.
He didn't go into medicine for the money, though. His brother is making 12 times the money as an attorney in Chicago. His family has a business he could have gone into and bought 5 Lexi [plural of Lexus?]
I met him for breakfast last year. At 8 am, he had been at the hospital for 2 hrs already with a patient. I wanted to buy him a cup of coffee, but he told me had had sworn off caffiene because he could not afford a tremor in his hand, no matter how slight. He got minimum 8 hrs sleep every night and had to give up woodworking [which he loved] so his hands weren't callused.
I would GIVE this guy a Lexus if I needed someone to put his hands in my brain: I would want him. Who the fuck wouldn't?
Ever see that commercial for the Discover card? Dad buying his daughter a dog, says the $600 beagle is too expensive. Asks about the $25 hyena, which in turn eats the store clerk. Dad thoughtfully reconsiders beagle. Tag line - some things are worth more.
I'm a lawyer, kids. If you have a transaction for $100 million and you will make $10 million, do you mind paying me $500 an hour to make it work? Not likely. You get what you pay for.
I do work for neighborhood merchants and my church for free. Not to mention my entire extended family. Not everything is money.
EXCELLENT idea on making appointments. Make it graphical so patient can look at dr. availability week by week real time.
Be VERY careful linking from a professional site to any other. Make sure that you advise the patient that they are about to get advice from outside your site and that you cannot guarrantee it is accurate. Tell them that it is the basis for study and that you can best answer any serious questions.
The very bad thing about the internet is that any pissant with Frontpage can look like the Mayo Clinic. [me included] OK, maybe with Dreamweaver.
That said, it is important for patients to have information. If there are sites you trust to dispense it, link to them
Smarter than ME? Really? OK, then I am wrong. Thanks for the tip.
We believe that there are on the order of 10 to the 21st power stars in our Universe. If you write that number out, it looks like this: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is a lot of stars.
It is quite probible that with all the pre-organic matter floating around that the SETI boys may have a point: It ain't IF there's life out there, it's how far away and do they have radios yet.
Seriously, if you put enough monkeys in a room with enough typewriters, you will get Shakespear's sonnets. Life is out there kids.
Washington D.C. - The fatted calf was killed today as NASA officials welcomed its prodigal son, Pioneer-6, back into the fold.
"You know how it is," said Dr. Phil McCrevice, 67 year old mission speacialist who was the youngest member of the Pioneer-6 launch team in 1965. "People get busy, move away, grow apart. It's not to say that we didn't think of Pioneer-6 all these years, but...." The crusty old scientist then began weeping softly.
NASA has begun to plan a family reunion for all the much beloved but long neglected space hardware it has cast out over the years. "Heck, we haven't even tried to get in touch with any of the stuff we left on the moon in the Apollo years," a ranking NASA official said, "I wonder how they've been?"
You have to love "over 55 gigabytes of Linux programs and documentation freely available for download via FTP and/or WWW access" If you have a linux box and broadband, this is your first bookmark.
It's a joke.
This is a perfect job for a geologist with culinary aspirations. Rockhounds can add to the body of scientific knowledge about volcanism and cook up tasty BBQ meals at the same time!
Simply hang meat seasoned to taste at precisely measured distances from lava flow. Within minutes, you can have tender, wholsome meals on the job. And talk about easy baked potatoes? Bury them in volacnic ash [don't forget to wear your asbestos gloves!] and Voila! Baked spuds.
I just wanted to know if the book offered any recipes along these lines for amature Volcano-heads like me.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Washington, D.C. = Senator Strom Thurmon denounced the reckless attitude of various stellar objects, including what he termed "voracious black holes" for unusually high rates of star births seen in some galaxies.
"Clearly, the family values I so highly espouse are sadly lacking with these voracious black holes, and this is the reason these holes see such unusually high rates of star births.".
The prune-like Senator went on to extoll abstinence for the Black Holes and other stellar objects. He then left for a prolonged nap.
Flamebait, My Eye. The good eye, I mean....
Or maybe it was a FRICKIN joke. [As in Frikin Hot Pocket]
Seattle -- Nov. 4, 2000. The world's richest man today informed the world of a break in to the Microsoft beta server, which uses quantum security as a firewall.
"Our security has been compromised," said Gates at the hastily called press conference. "Oh, wait, no we haven't. Hold on: yes we have. Damn, these dual quantum states."
After a tantrum, the Uber-geek stomped away from the podium in a huff and would not return this reporter's calls. Spinal Tap rules.