Well, the great thing about Kazaa is it's viral. If you get a song that's wrong, you can either nuke it, meaning there will be fewer bad copies out there, or you can rename it yourself, and that copy will propgate faster than bogus copies.
Well, Kazaalite.com is hurting, but luckily, you can get Kazaalite on Kazaa! I get quite a few people downloading my copy Kazaalite with either grokster or Kazaa.
What I'm wondering, and I've asked this before, is is there any way for the RIAA to "shut down" Fasttrack? Is Fasttrack as distributed as they say it is? If there were servers for the RIAA to attempt to shut down, is it enough to shut down all of the Fasttrack network?
That's not a bad idea. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time to write (I run a few other businesses), and I don't have the money to hire writers, but I have thought about it. There definately is a need for orignal content, meaning real, fresh writing on the Web. Salon is at least surviving with a subscription system, and I'm sure they could do better if they trimmed costs (they still have offices in downtown San Francisco, for example).
Just what I need... another place to read the exact same wire news stories. Jesus. That's all the Web is now... a lot of rehashed wire stories. Already I can get those at CNN, ABC, Yahoo, MSN, hell, everybody has those. I want FRESH WRITING. Salon used to have it, before they went subscription. Other than them, I'm not sure where else to read real writing.
First off, most people don't have an extra phone line, because they're simply not on the Net that much. Secondly, does that $40/month include the basic cable service you have to buy?
No, I don't think it's "minimal use". I used to be a developer, and still today, I'm on the Net all day long. The real reason is WHY broadband? Am I willing to pay another $50/month to have web pages load a few seconds faster? No. Have my email come in a few seconds faster? No. Have my MP3's download faster? Maybe. But then, all you gotta do is fire up Kazaalite, start the downloads, and 20 minutes later, you've got your music. The only thing I'd even consider getting broadband for is to listen to launch.com. But again... $50/month? eh. Probably not.
Yup. Which is plenty good for virtually any application that's not a game. Try http://www.ubid.com Honestly. Either I'll look at a $100 PDA, or a $500 laptop. Anything else is a waste.
A keyboard + a Palm = a laptop computer. What's the point of buying lots of silly things to plug in together, lug around together, and sacrifice real hard drives, CD-R's, etc. when you can just buy a hard drive. I think (and the market has proven me correct, based on sales), that there's really no space for a product between pocket organizer and laptop computer. It's like buying a moped.... what's the point? Either get a car or a bicycle. A moped is both a very slow motorized vehicle, and a very heavy bicycle. A PDA is both a very slow, feature poor laptop, and a very expensive, bulky pocket organizer.
In case you've been asleep for the past 20 years or so, technology is constantly improving, making older products obsolete. PDA's didn't exist 15 years ago (outside of my cool Casio Databank watch). A few eyars ago there were no color screens, no Net connections, etc. Waiting a year is only gonna give you the options you want. Innovation and obsolescence isn't gonna stop, ever.
It's about time that they have some reasonably priced models. This is really, really gonna help them. Very few people need a $500 PDA. At that price, you can get a full featured laptop that isn't a whole heck of a lot bigger. I'd consider a $100 PDA for basic organization stuff. I would never consider more than that for something that's not a laptop computer.
So does this mean that the inner city kids have to play GTA3 for "homework"? Possibly for their preparation for the real world classes?
Economics 101:
Now notice, that when you crack a brotha' in the head with a bat, he drops his money. Now, other people will rush up to see what's up to see what's goin' down, and then you can clock all of those suckas, too.
Law 101: When you have to steal a cop car, keep in mind that the doors are all locked. So, try to open the passenger side. When the punk ass bitch gets out to try to git ya', he unlocks all of his doors! So then slide in the passenger side, and take off while that fool is still runnin' around to the other side of the car!
Sociology 101: Be careful when you're in a gang controlled 'hood. Taking one connected guy's car id gonna make all of his brotha's try to gat yo ass.
Foreign language:
After you piss off the Italians, NEVER go back into their neighborhood. They be gunnin' for ya with sawed-offs that can take out ANY vehice.
Driver's Ed:
Do your best to get a tank. Nobody casn stop yo ass in a tank. Those motherfucka's be solid!
It's very simple. You're not entitled to severance. Unless you signed something in your starting contract that explicitly entitled to severance (this usually doesn't happen for anybody except for executives), the company doesn't have to pay you a dime in severance pay. Consider yourself VERY fucking lucky to get anything on your way out, and sign the damn papers. Most people are simply asked to leave, and that's it. No severance of any kind.
Personally, I'm in favour of having spammers publically tortured to death. I think that such a penalty (a legally enforced one, not a vigilante act) would really reduce the spam problem.
Oh please. It's fucking email. Most of the people on the planet don't even have email, so considered your whiny ass very privileged just to have a computer and Net access.
It's extra email. That's all. Nobody raped your mother. Nobody shot your sister. It's email. I find it really hard to believe that the extra second it takes you daily to nuke your spam is really *that* critical. Get over yourself. The extra second you have to spend deleting spam that you could instead spend playing whatever video game you play is really not that valuable. I could say that you should be publically tortured and executed because you wasted a minute of my time by posting such drivel.
Wow. You just succeeded in a single post to define the very opposite of KISS. I'm impressed. That's the most convoluted mess I've ever read. Talk about silliness!
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I can use my VISA card to buy anything anywhere. Same principle. I don't exactly feel oppressed. I guess that you don't use credit cards, huh?
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Displaced? From where? Yours and 100 other geeks' computers? Not exactly a triumph.
Well, that's nice and all, but you're already being tracked with credit cards, your utility bills, and just about everything else you do in real life. If you want to be completely "in control of your information", might I suggest living in a cabin in the woods somewhere with no utilities where you grow your own food? That's about the only way you can be even remotely "private".
I think that average people know that, and that's why the privacy paranoia is only among geeks. They can't see past their monitors to realize that complete and total privacy doesn't exist any more.
And beyond that, does it really matter if somebody knows what kind of toilet paper you buy? Does it matter if somebody has your name and telephone number? Unless you're somebody really, really important, you're really just talking through your tinfoil hat. Average Joe user doesn't care (and sure as hell doesn't read Slashdot).
Look Dr. Atkins: We're on to you. Now quit trolling. Go away. None of these poor, fat, computer geeks need your bullshit miracle cures. Life's a bitch. Everything that tastes good is bad for you, and everything that tastes like shit is good for you. That's life. Go sell your snake oil elsewhere.
First off, yes, Americans are fucking huge. True. See any correlation between McDonald's and Wendys on every corner and their fat asses. And yes, low-fat diets have been preached forever, but you see anybody following them? As a proud owner of McDonald's stock, I'm very happy to see people *not* following those low-fat diets. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to see this. Stand outside any fast food restaurant for 5 minutes. Where are all of those Atkins wonder-people? Generally, all I see are fat people, and even fatter people.
As far as diabetes, I have no clue as to what you're talking about. You must be working for Atkins, and you probably just copied and pasted the wrong paragraph here. That's all right. You're an obvious troll.
What I'm wondering, is with the overwhelming number of posts saying, "I'm on the Atkins diet! I'm thin, trim, good-looking, and healthy!", is the Slashdot audience really such a fat, lazy, gullible, stupid bunch, or are there a lot of people who work for Atkins posting here? This is very, very wierd.
Yeah, of course that's the best way to do it, but the Atkins diet is popular because most people are such goddamned lazy, fat slobs (especially in the US). They're so desperate for an easy way that they can look decent and still eat like a pig at a trough, so they're gonna defend it to the death, even though it does god knows what to your kidneys, and clogs up those oh-so-unimportant arteries faster than you can say "lard ass".
I agree. Eat less. Exercise. Works great for me too.
Also, Mozilla is relatively new. More importantly, Mozilla has about 1/100 of the users that IE has, meaning that that's also 1/100 fewer people seeing any potential bugs.
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Well, the great thing about Kazaa is it's viral. If you get a song that's wrong, you can either nuke it, meaning there will be fewer bad copies out there, or you can rename it yourself, and that copy will propgate faster than bogus copies.
Well, Kazaalite.com is hurting, but luckily, you can get Kazaalite on Kazaa! I get quite a few people downloading my copy Kazaalite with either grokster or Kazaa.
No need to wait. The lite version has been out for quite some time... http://www.kazaalite.com
What I'm wondering, and I've asked this before, is is there any way for the RIAA to "shut down" Fasttrack? Is Fasttrack as distributed as they say it is? If there were servers for the RIAA to attempt to shut down, is it enough to shut down all of the Fasttrack network?
That's not a bad idea. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time to write (I run a few other businesses), and I don't have the money to hire writers, but I have thought about it. There definately is a need for orignal content, meaning real, fresh writing on the Web. Salon is at least surviving with a subscription system, and I'm sure they could do better if they trimmed costs (they still have offices in downtown San Francisco, for example).
Just what I need... another place to read the exact same wire news stories. Jesus. That's all the Web is now... a lot of rehashed wire stories. Already I can get those at CNN, ABC, Yahoo, MSN, hell, everybody has those. I want FRESH WRITING. Salon used to have it, before they went subscription. Other than them, I'm not sure where else to read real writing.
First off, most people don't have an extra phone line, because they're simply not on the Net that much. Secondly, does that $40/month include the basic cable service you have to buy?
No, I don't think it's "minimal use". I used to be a developer, and still today, I'm on the Net all day long. The real reason is WHY broadband? Am I willing to pay another $50/month to have web pages load a few seconds faster? No. Have my email come in a few seconds faster? No. Have my MP3's download faster? Maybe. But then, all you gotta do is fire up Kazaalite, start the downloads, and 20 minutes later, you've got your music. The only thing I'd even consider getting broadband for is to listen to launch.com. But again... $50/month? eh. Probably not.
Didn't I just read this exact same article here last week?
Yup. Which is plenty good for virtually any application that's not a game. Try http://www.ubid.com
Honestly. Either I'll look at a $100 PDA, or a $500 laptop. Anything else is a waste.
A keyboard + a Palm = a laptop computer. What's the point of buying lots of silly things to plug in together, lug around together, and sacrifice real hard drives, CD-R's, etc. when you can just buy a hard drive. I think (and the market has proven me correct, based on sales), that there's really no space for a product between pocket organizer and laptop computer. It's like buying a moped.... what's the point? Either get a car or a bicycle. A moped is both a very slow motorized vehicle, and a very heavy bicycle. A PDA is both a very slow, feature poor laptop, and a very expensive, bulky pocket organizer.
In case you've been asleep for the past 20 years or so, technology is constantly improving, making older products obsolete. PDA's didn't exist 15 years ago (outside of my cool Casio Databank watch). A few eyars ago there were no color screens, no Net connections, etc. Waiting a year is only gonna give you the options you want. Innovation and obsolescence isn't gonna stop, ever.
It's about time that they have some reasonably priced models. This is really, really gonna help them. Very few people need a $500 PDA. At that price, you can get a full featured laptop that isn't a whole heck of a lot bigger. I'd consider a $100 PDA for basic organization stuff. I would never consider more than that for something that's not a laptop computer.
So does this mean that the inner city kids have to play GTA3 for "homework"? Possibly for their preparation for the real world classes?
Economics 101:
Now notice, that when you crack a brotha' in the head with a bat, he drops his money. Now, other people will rush up to see what's up to see what's goin' down, and then you can clock all of those suckas, too.
Law 101:
When you have to steal a cop car, keep in mind that the doors are all locked. So, try to open the passenger side. When the punk ass bitch gets out to try to git ya', he unlocks all of his doors! So then slide in the passenger side, and take off while that fool is still runnin' around to the other side of the car!
Sociology 101:
Be careful when you're in a gang controlled 'hood. Taking one connected guy's car id gonna make all of his brotha's try to gat yo ass.
Foreign language:
After you piss off the Italians, NEVER go back into their neighborhood. They be gunnin' for ya with sawed-offs that can take out ANY vehice.
Driver's Ed:
Do your best to get a tank. Nobody casn stop yo ass in a tank. Those motherfucka's be solid!
It's very simple. You're not entitled to severance. Unless you signed something in your starting contract that explicitly entitled to severance (this usually doesn't happen for anybody except for executives), the company doesn't have to pay you a dime in severance pay. Consider yourself VERY fucking lucky to get anything on your way out, and sign the damn papers. Most people are simply asked to leave, and that's it. No severance of any kind.
Personally, I'm in favour of having spammers publically tortured to death. I think that such a penalty (a legally enforced one, not a vigilante act) would really reduce the spam problem.
Oh please. It's fucking email. Most of the people on the planet don't even have email, so considered your whiny ass very privileged just to have a computer and Net access.
It's extra email. That's all. Nobody raped your mother. Nobody shot your sister. It's email. I find it really hard to believe that the extra second it takes you daily to nuke your spam is really *that* critical. Get over yourself. The extra second you have to spend deleting spam that you could instead spend playing whatever video game you play is really not that valuable. I could say that you should be publically tortured and executed because you wasted a minute of my time by posting such drivel.
Wow. You just succeeded in a single post to define the very opposite of KISS. I'm impressed. That's the most convoluted mess I've ever read. Talk about silliness!
I can use my VISA card to buy anything anywhere. Same principle. I don't exactly feel oppressed. I guess that you don't use credit cards, huh?
Displaced? From where? Yours and 100 other geeks' computers? Not exactly a triumph.
Well, that's nice and all, but you're already being tracked with credit cards, your utility bills, and just about everything else you do in real life. If you want to be completely "in control of your information", might I suggest living in a cabin in the woods somewhere with no utilities where you grow your own food? That's about the only way you can be even remotely "private".
I think that average people know that, and that's why the privacy paranoia is only among geeks. They can't see past their monitors to realize that complete and total privacy doesn't exist any more.
And beyond that, does it really matter if somebody knows what kind of toilet paper you buy? Does it matter if somebody has your name and telephone number? Unless you're somebody really, really important, you're really just talking through your tinfoil hat. Average Joe user doesn't care (and sure as hell doesn't read Slashdot).
Look Dr. Atkins: We're on to you. Now quit trolling. Go away. None of these poor, fat, computer geeks need your bullshit miracle cures. Life's a bitch. Everything that tastes good is bad for you, and everything that tastes like shit is good for you. That's life. Go sell your snake oil elsewhere.
First off, yes, Americans are fucking huge. True. See any correlation between McDonald's and Wendys on every corner and their fat asses. And yes, low-fat diets have been preached forever, but you see anybody following them? As a proud owner of McDonald's stock, I'm very happy to see people *not* following those low-fat diets. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to see this. Stand outside any fast food restaurant for 5 minutes. Where are all of those Atkins wonder-people? Generally, all I see are fat people, and even fatter people.
As far as diabetes, I have no clue as to what you're talking about. You must be working for Atkins, and you probably just copied and pasted the wrong paragraph here. That's all right. You're an obvious troll.
What I'm wondering, is with the overwhelming number of posts saying, "I'm on the Atkins diet! I'm thin, trim, good-looking, and healthy!", is the Slashdot audience really such a fat, lazy, gullible, stupid bunch, or are there a lot of people who work for Atkins posting here? This is very, very wierd.
Yeah, of course that's the best way to do it, but the Atkins diet is popular because most people are such goddamned lazy, fat slobs (especially in the US). They're so desperate for an easy way that they can look decent and still eat like a pig at a trough, so they're gonna defend it to the death, even though it does god knows what to your kidneys, and clogs up those oh-so-unimportant arteries faster than you can say "lard ass".
I agree. Eat less. Exercise. Works great for me too.
Also, Mozilla is relatively new. More importantly, Mozilla has about 1/100 of the users that IE has, meaning that that's also 1/100 fewer people seeing any potential bugs.