We need a labelling organization like the PMRC, but one that slaps labels on saying "Can't Be Played On Home Computers, CD Players, And In Cars".
We need people to rip Ogg files. We need people to host things at MP3.com and Try And Buy places.
Above all, we need to break the back of the RIAA label Crony Capitalists who skim the money with their artificial monopoly. Either they give us rippable CDs or we don't buy them. Always buy with a credit card, and if it doesn't work, promptly return and insist on a full refund - not store credit. If they refuse, deny the charges.
This is war. We can win. It just takes blood, toil and tears.
All the attacks on MP3 and CD ripping by RIAA are starting to have a negative effect.
Killing Napster will mean the death of the Large Record Label Monopolies.
Why? Because the rest of the world is busy ripping the CDs for us, and the Net goes around obstacles. Information just wants to be free, and RIAA can't stop it, no matter how hard they try.
The sad part is all these polluted CDs coming out mean I've been just buying CDs direct from my friends who are in bands, to avoid the Label Monopoly gigo and their flawed discs.
Once again MSFT tries to sell us "services" - this year the PHB buzzword is "web services". And since MSFT is losing sales - because people are cutting back - they need to find a "reason" why PHBs should go for "web services".
One way is to tell them HTML is dead.
We in the Open Source sphere know that we can ignore all the MSFT FUD and just keep evolving along. Let MSFT tell us Borland is dead (they grew more than MSFT last year due to Open Source). Let MSFT tell us that Linux is dead on servers (we grew more than them on servers). Let MSFT tell us that Java is dead (it's beating the MSFT competition six ways to Sunday).
Face it, only one thing smells like Dead Fish, and that's the Dark Lord in Redmond.
One Web Service to Rule Them All One Web Service to BIND Them One Web Service to SSH Them All And in the darkness blind them
1. Are we invited to the wedding?
2. Can we crash at your place?
3. Will you have a simulcast of the wedding for those too cheap/////far away to attend?
4. When's the bachelor party?
5. When's the bachelorette party?
6. Can we go to both?
7. Will the wedding be Open Source?
8. Will the ring you give her say "One Ring To Rule Them All" in Elvish?
9. Is Jon Katz invited? Can we dunk him in the punch bowl?
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Now, I've seen neither, so I'm just going by the buzz in the film fest community, and some early reactions when I was at Cannes (mostly Antibbes, Cannes is so much of a freak show, and the parties are deathly dull).
But, I would think that Moulin Rouge MUST get at least two awards, for music and dance if nothing else.
Vanilla Sky is sad - I saw the original Spanish movie it's based on, and Cruz did a better job there - my guess is that it will get one award, only because the Americanized remake sucked so bad, and it had SO much potential, but Americans won't see many subtitled films (except Amelie, which is by far the best movie of all of them).
Now, I'm biased here, cause one of the lobster consultants in In The Bedroom is a family friend from my childhood, when we owned French House Island in Maine (near Jonesport).
But, of the two, In The Bedroom is far the best, and Sissy Spacek deserves the award for her role here. This is definitely an amazing movie, and highly deserving of every award it gets.
Gosford Park was quite nice, but not deserving of an award. A fine movie, with a great cast, but none truly worked for it, lest it be the lady's maid who is truly the detective in this movie. Sad, really, as it a visually beautiful film. So don't be surprised if it's shut out of the awards contention, except for some minor award for technical reasons.
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I have had the most interesting time with this one - Halle is apparently quite disliked in the African-American community (have talked with four different black women about her, and most dislike her acting and regard her as very uneven at best - and these are filmies, so they have seen her other roles).
That said, I thought she did a good job in the movie, and she make take the award, more for who she is than for this exact movie.
Billy Bob Thornton did an excellent job in this movie - but he got too many nominations and awards, so he'll get nothing for his work here.
Buy online from Vermont companies - and in the comment section point out how glad you are that they're opt-in.
If you go to a non-Vermont commercial website, send a comment that you don't buy from non-opt-in companies and you wish their state would take Vermont's lead.
If you get opt-out email or other UCE spam from a company, find the emails of the corporate execs and sign them up to all the lists you can find.
Sending either of those opinions to the DOJ mean that the sender is an semi-literate idiot, and they probably don't know what it means for a corporation to lose it's charter.
But they probably know how to spell "a semi-literate idiot".
If I sent an email saying "I hate Microsoft", this is a comment on Microsoft's business practices. Implicitly it means I want Microsoft dechartered.
If I sent an email saying "Microsoft is evil", this is also a comment on Microsoft's business practices. Implicitly it means I want Microsoft dechartered.
Seems to me a majority of the public probably wants Microsoft dechartered. But the DOJ just doesn't want to admit that. Since they've been paid off.
I saw this in the Business Wire - apparently Oracle will be ditching Unix to run on Linux, and will then do versions for the different OS as well.
But their main servers will all be Linux.
As to those who gripe about "darned business Linux" stuff - what's stopping you from doing your own Open Source projects? We never paid attention to Windows - you don't have to pay attention to Business glomming on to Linux either.
I can see why those guys are camped out at the Cinerama two blocks from me now.
Sounds like a cool flick - especially Ewan McGregor's role in it.
Concept: wish they had JarJar fight with a Dark Clone of himself - think of the fight scene! Man, you'd be rolling in the aisles and weeping at the same time. And they could Matrix it even, with the ears used to attack like bullets...
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Re:Perhaps not, gaming is a business
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Last Word on Loki
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It is an OK port. No font-metric bit, but they really streamlined winex for this not-port. However, it's still clunky, and it has the WINE overhead behind it, and you lose some of the niceties that the Loki games had (Alt-Enter, ^Z, variable output not limited to X). Further, sound is more likely to chop up even on a fast machine, and the input occasionally flakes out.
But it is quite playable, if you don't mind the handful of ugly seams. (This is probably the best game experience I've had under WINE/WineX so far. It's still not as nice as the native ports I've played.)
Well, I still think I'd rather have something than nothing.
Gaming is a cruel harsh business. The money's been in the add-ons since back in the 80s, RPG, Strategy, or computer video game.
Let's hope some will learn from Loki's attempts, and that eventually we'll get native Linux versions, hopefully bundled on the same CD as the Mac/Win version.
Until that day, I'll buy what I can, but I'm not holding my breath.
Did you miss the part about not buying windows games?
Windows games DO NOT SUPPORT Linux.
Paying five dollars a month to extend the directx gaming monopoly to our platform is most certainly not supporting Linux.
But anyone who doesn't understand that the gaming business is 80 percent marketing and 20 percent gaming will have problems.
Say what you will about The Sims under WINEX (Transgaming, which you can buy with a bundle from Mandrake - Linux plus a game!) - but the reality is that they understand WHAT the market WANTS.
Sure, we ideally want native Linux games.
But we're all gamers - if it comes out on Windows first, we'll buy it.
If we had releases with special add-ons for Linux, that would have been a killer app. But instead we got a port.
If we have Geek Party for The Sims coming out on Linux first, then released for Windows 60 days later, that would be a killer app. Since it's already coded for Windows, it would be a great marketing ploy.
Buzz will save you. But you still need a good game with balanced play and scalable levels so you don't get bored.
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We need a labelling organization like the PMRC, but one that slaps labels on saying "Can't Be Played On Home Computers, CD Players, And In Cars".
We need people to rip Ogg files. We need people to host things at MP3.com and Try And Buy places.
Above all, we need to break the back of the RIAA label Crony Capitalists who skim the money with their artificial monopoly. Either they give us rippable CDs or we don't buy them. Always buy with a credit card, and if it doesn't work, promptly return and insist on a full refund - not store credit. If they refuse, deny the charges.
This is war. We can win. It just takes blood, toil and tears.
-
All the attacks on MP3 and CD ripping by RIAA are starting to have a negative effect.
Killing Napster will mean the death of the Large Record Label Monopolies.
Why? Because the rest of the world is busy ripping the CDs for us, and the Net goes around obstacles. Information just wants to be free, and RIAA can't stop it, no matter how hard they try.
The sad part is all these polluted CDs coming out mean I've been just buying CDs direct from my friends who are in bands, to avoid the Label Monopoly gigo and their flawed discs.
-
Once again MSFT tries to sell us "services" - this year the PHB buzzword is "web services". And since MSFT is losing sales - because people are cutting back - they need to find a "reason" why PHBs should go for "web services".
One way is to tell them HTML is dead.
We in the Open Source sphere know that we can ignore all the MSFT FUD and just keep evolving along. Let MSFT tell us Borland is dead (they grew more than MSFT last year due to Open Source). Let MSFT tell us that Linux is dead on servers (we grew more than them on servers). Let MSFT tell us that Java is dead (it's beating the MSFT competition six ways to Sunday).
Face it, only one thing smells like Dead Fish, and that's the Dark Lord in Redmond.
One Web Service to Rule Them All
One Web Service to BIND Them
One Web Service to SSH Them All
And in the darkness blind them
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yup, the site is taking hits way too fast ...
1. Are we invited to the wedding?
2. Can we crash at your place?
3. Will you have a simulcast of the wedding for those too cheap/////far away to attend?
4. When's the bachelor party?
5. When's the bachelorette party?
6. Can we go to both?
7. Will the wedding be Open Source?
8. Will the ring you give her say "One Ring To Rule Them All" in Elvish?
9. Is Jon Katz invited? Can we dunk him in the punch bowl?
-
Now, I've seen neither, so I'm just going by the buzz in the film fest community, and some early reactions when I was at Cannes (mostly Antibbes, Cannes is so much of a freak show, and the parties are deathly dull).
But, I would think that Moulin Rouge MUST get at least two awards, for music and dance if nothing else.
Vanilla Sky is sad - I saw the original Spanish movie it's based on, and Cruz did a better job there - my guess is that it will get one award, only because the Americanized remake sucked so bad, and it had SO much potential, but Americans won't see many subtitled films (except Amelie, which is by far the best movie of all of them).
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Now, I'm biased here, cause one of the lobster consultants in In The Bedroom is a family friend from my childhood, when we owned French House Island in Maine (near Jonesport).
But, of the two, In The Bedroom is far the best, and Sissy Spacek deserves the award for her role here. This is definitely an amazing movie, and highly deserving of every award it gets.
Gosford Park was quite nice, but not deserving of an award. A fine movie, with a great cast, but none truly worked for it, lest it be the lady's maid who is truly the detective in this movie. Sad, really, as it a visually beautiful film. So don't be surprised if it's shut out of the awards contention, except for some minor award for technical reasons.
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I have had the most interesting time with this one - Halle is apparently quite disliked in the African-American community (have talked with four different black women about her, and most dislike her acting and regard her as very uneven at best - and these are filmies, so they have seen her other roles).
That said, I thought she did a good job in the movie, and she make take the award, more for who she is than for this exact movie.
Billy Bob Thornton did an excellent job in this movie - but he got too many nominations and awards, so he'll get nothing for his work here.
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The main thing is it has to be a sale. Then the stronger consumer protections kick in.
It's like when you buy a "package" of four tires and a rebalancing.
You can use the rebalancing and resell the four tires.
Note that those states with UCITA (silly idiots) are SOL, of course. But the rest of us can now resell bundles that we don't use.
Anyone want to buy some decoupled games from me?
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and it's on file in the Library of Congress in a copyrighted game that precedes the BT patent.
well, hey, it's as good a claim as theirs, and I did describe it in a rules book I made that is there.
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Buy online from Vermont companies - and in the comment section point out how glad you are that they're opt-in.
If you go to a non-Vermont commercial website, send a comment that you don't buy from non-opt-in companies and you wish their state would take Vermont's lead.
If you get opt-out email or other UCE spam from a company, find the emails of the corporate execs and sign them up to all the lists you can find.
Remember, you the consumer are king.
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I'm betting either Oregon or Washington state.
Any other guesses?
If it ain't opt-in, it ain't gonna be legal.
Never forget that democracy means we have the power and that corporations are NOT people.
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Sending either of those opinions to the DOJ mean that the sender is an semi-literate idiot, and they probably don't know what it means for a corporation to lose it's charter.
But they probably know how to spell "a semi-literate idiot".
If I sent an email saying "I hate Microsoft", this is a comment on Microsoft's business practices. Implicitly it means I want Microsoft dechartered.
If I sent an email saying "Microsoft is evil", this is also a comment on Microsoft's business practices. Implicitly it means I want Microsoft dechartered.
Seems to me a majority of the public probably wants Microsoft dechartered. But the DOJ just doesn't want to admit that. Since they've been paid off.
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This would work well with high-speed passenger trains, airplanes, commuter trains, hotels, and even for home use.
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Battery life is about right for a dockable webpad.
Cool!
Now, bring the pricepoint down in 2-3 years to a reasonable level, and these might be the harbinger of the New Net Appliance.
[caveat - I own TMTA stock
Bungee jumping off the Space Elevator
... woah!
...
Hacking the Space Elevator "this is the down signal"
Getting Greenpeace to fly a very large flag from the Space Elevator "better than a smokestack"
Getting a bunch of friends to ride up with you and all sway together so it rocks
Tossing pennies over the railings and watching them burn up on reentry
Paragliding from the space elevator
Paragliding onto the space elevator (not for the faint of heart)
Downloading images from the Space Elevator Coffee Pot webcam
Taking a dump - has to go somewhere
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I saw this in the Business Wire - apparently Oracle will be ditching Unix to run on Linux, and will then do versions for the different OS as well.
But their main servers will all be Linux.
As to those who gripe about "darned business Linux" stuff - what's stopping you from doing your own Open Source projects? We never paid attention to Windows - you don't have to pay attention to Business glomming on to Linux either.
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http://www.enron.com/corp/
Nah, that's the one the White House put up.
We're looking for the SEC ones.
Slashdotting the SEC's just gotta violate some law...
Not really. Now they can tell the news media how many page hits they got from interested investors.
Just think of the positive publicity!
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It's here.
The funny thing, is it's based on Enron's model.
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I can see why those guys are camped out at the Cinerama two blocks from me now.
...
Sounds like a cool flick - especially Ewan McGregor's role in it.
Concept: wish they had JarJar fight with a Dark Clone of himself - think of the fight scene! Man, you'd be rolling in the aisles and weeping at the same time. And they could Matrix it even, with the ears used to attack like bullets
-
It is an OK port. No font-metric bit, but they really streamlined winex for this not-port. However, it's still clunky, and it has the WINE overhead behind it, and you lose some of the niceties that the Loki games had (Alt-Enter, ^Z, variable output not limited to X). Further, sound is more likely to chop up even on a fast machine, and the input occasionally flakes out.
But it is quite playable, if you don't mind the handful of ugly seams. (This is probably the best game experience I've had under WINE/WineX so far. It's still not as nice as the native ports I've played.)
Well, I still think I'd rather have something than nothing.
Gaming is a cruel harsh business. The money's been in the add-ons since back in the 80s, RPG, Strategy, or computer video game.
Let's hope some will learn from Loki's attempts, and that eventually we'll get native Linux versions, hopefully bundled on the same CD as the Mac/Win version.
Until that day, I'll buy what I can, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Alright!
This is what we love about Open Source - it never dies, and we can always keep coding.
Did you miss the part about not buying windows games?
Windows games DO NOT SUPPORT Linux.
Paying five dollars a month to extend the directx gaming monopoly to our platform is most certainly not supporting Linux.
But anyone who doesn't understand that the gaming business is 80 percent marketing and 20 percent gaming will have problems.
Say what you will about The Sims under WINEX (Transgaming, which you can buy with a bundle from Mandrake - Linux plus a game!) - but the reality is that they understand WHAT the market WANTS.
Sure, we ideally want native Linux games.
But we're all gamers - if it comes out on Windows first, we'll buy it.
If we had releases with special add-ons for Linux, that would have been a killer app. But instead we got a port.
If we have Geek Party for The Sims coming out on Linux first, then released for Windows 60 days later, that would be a killer app. Since it's already coded for Windows, it would be a great marketing ploy.
Buzz will save you. But you still need a good game with balanced play and scalable levels so you don't get bored.
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from the article:
NewsForge: What happens to your public CVS repository and the projects it hosts?
Draeker: We'd like to find someone to continue hosting it.
Any volunteers?
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