Is it me or is the RIAA comeing up with any excuse but the obvious one, ALL THE CRAPPY ALBUMS coming out!
I have a CD-R, I burn disks. THe disks I burn are the same mix tapes I made when I was in high school. All my favorite songs form 300+ cd collection I have. The benifit I have now is that I can make better choices on the cds I buy becuase I can listen to songs other than the force fed radio hit and decide if the whole album is worth buying. Not very many reciently.
RIAA and MPAA have made huge strides to protect thier copyrights. But the same companies would see no problem with this type of deception. We really want the government to say away from regulating the computer industry, but untill they do this BS will continue to get worse. The average AOL user has no idea and are building a army of zombie DOS machines and now an army of zombie marketing harvesters....
I get a ton of enjoyment out of/. daily. Infact/. is the only page I would be willing to slap down $5 for to make sure it stays around. In fact I have no adds as I write this.
Agreed. Napster may be dead, but this does not give the RIAA the right to maintain a monopoly that allows them to tell comsumers how they can listen to music. Let the other companies explore offering ligitimate practices.
I hope they actually try it. The Great Uneducated Masses bight begin to look else where for information and find the true gems on the net created by people with passion for the subject matter. I get really ill every time I go to a site that is simply a collection of press releases, links to content on other pages and 15 banner adds...
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If this guy had bothered to poke around, he would have found the shift-Right Click trick. Simply click the icon so that it is highlighted then hold shift and right clock the icon. The resulting menu will have the option "Open With". Select the option and the resulting dialog will ahve a list of all registered apps and a check box labeled always use this app. Reassociation for the masses.
Windows 2k even keeps a secondary association list. Once you have forced the file open in a specific app the open with menu will be there with that app.
Looks like Mr. Mac guy needs to check his references.
In my haste I forgot to reference the origal thread Sorry about that.
Also this is of interest:
Origins: On June 5 1973, Canadian radio commentator Gordon Sinclair decided he'd had enough of the stream of criticism and negative press recently directed at the United States of America by foreign journalists (primarily over America's long military involvement in Vietnam, which had ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords six months earlier). When he arrived at radio station CFRB in Toronto that morning, he spent twenty minutes dashing off a two-page editorial defending the USA against its carping critics which he then delivered in a defiant, indignant tone during his "Let's Be Personal" spot at 11:45 AM that day.
The unusualness of any foreign correspondent -- even one from a country with such close ties to the USA as Canada -- delivering such a caustic commentary about those who would dare to criticize the USA is best demonstrated by the fact that even thirty years later, many Americans doubt that this piece (which has been circulating on the Internet in the slightly-altered form quoted above as something "recently" printed in a Toronto newspaper) is real. It is real, and it received a great deal of attention in its day. After Sinclair's editorial was rebroadcast by a few American radio stations, it spread like wildfire all over the country. It was played again and again (often superimposed over a piece of inspirational music such as "Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"), read into the Congress Record multiple times, and finally released on a record (titled "The Americans"), with all royalties donated to the American Red Cross. (A Detroit radio broadcaster named Byron MacGregor recorded and released an unauthorized version of the piece that hit the record stores before Sinclair's official version; an infringement suit was avoided when MacGregor agreed to donate his profits to the Red Cross as well).
Sinclair passed away in 1984, but he will long be remembered on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border -- both for his contributions to journalism, and for his loudly proclaiming what no one else at the time would stand up and say.
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
America: The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German
technocracy, and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -! not once, but several times and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America!
This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything and never even get a thank you for the things we do.
I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single American that has read this.
Origins: On June 5 1973, Canadian radio commentator Gordon Sinclair decided he'd had enough of the stream of criticism and negative press recently directed at the United States of America by foreign journalists (primarily over America's long military involvement in Vietnam, which had ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords six months earlier). When he arrived at radio station CFRB in Toronto that morning, he spent twenty minutes dashing off a two-page editorial defending the USA against its carping critics which he then delivered in a defiant, indignant tone during his "Let's Be Personal" spot at 11:45 AM that day.
The unusualness of any foreign correspondent -- even one from a country with such close ties to the USA as Canada -- delivering such a caustic commentary about those who would dare to criticize the USA is best demonstrated by the fact that even thirty years later, many Americans doubt that this piece (which has been circulating on the Internet in the slightly-altered form quoted above as something "recently" printed in a Toronto newspaper) is real. It is real, and it received a great deal of attention in its day. After Sinclair's editorial was rebroadcast by a few American radio stations, it spread like wildfire all over the country. It was played again and again (often superimposed over a piece of inspirational music such as "Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"), read into the Congress Record multiple times, and finally released on a record (titled "The Americans"), with all royalties donated to the American Red Cross. (A Detroit radio broadcaster named Byron MacGregor recorded and released an unauthorized version of the piece that hit the record stores before Sinclair's official version; an infringement suit was avoided when MacGregor agreed to donate his profits to the Red Cross as well).
Sinclair passed away in 1984, but he will long be remembered on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border -- both for his contributions to journalism, and for his loudly proclaiming what no one else at the time would stand up and say.
I reciently had engament pics done by a very nice lady who uses Frontpage to develop here site. She uses a pretty lame right click script as an attempt to stop people from stealing her images. I explained to her that it was useless and showed her how easy it was to get around and offered to watermark her images for her with her logo.
It is quite obvious that she did not want her images to be taken. How would she know that robots.txt would stop these searches let alone that the searchs exist?
The main issue I see here is removing the web designers right to say "no".
I spend a lot of time editing my images in photoshop until they are perfect. I generally don't care if someone thinks they are cool and would like to use them. I do have an issue with people who take my images and claim them as their own work.
These search engines make it seem as though it is OK to take what ever you want and not credit the source.
That is not cool at all. If you want an image ask the developer if you can.. 9 times out of 10 they dont care as long as you give htem credit and a link.
Before I became involved with computers, I was a completely different person than I am now. I was more concerned with getting laid, drinking beer and poping any pills I could find. My job was a vehicle for funding my vices.
After playing Wolf3d in high school, I found something that facinated me to the point of BBSing and being the first in my area on the Net. The net itself has taught me a whole new value system. I have picked up books to teach myself languages... soemthing they could not beat me into in High School. Although my job is still a vehicle for funding my vices.. but my vices are more healthy for me. 8)
If the U.S. system allows me to sit on deathrow for 20 years apealing my conviction for a murder that I did not commit, the same priviledge should be extended to Microsoft.
I too am irritated by the tactics that M$ has employeed, but I am willing to let justice run its due coarse.
... I find it hilarious that 9 out of 10 pieces of spam sitting in my deleted items folder are related to how to use the power of
E - M A I L M A R K E T I N G ! !
Slashdot Mirror
Is it me or is the RIAA comeing up with any excuse but the obvious one, ALL THE CRAPPY ALBUMS coming out!
I have a CD-R, I burn disks. THe disks I burn are the same mix tapes I made when I was in high school. All my favorite songs form 300+ cd collection I have. The benifit I have now is that I can make better choices on the cds I buy becuase I can listen to songs other than the force fed radio hit and decide if the whole album is worth buying. Not very many reciently.
Check here. Please be kind... 8(
a case for my DirecTV Emulator that doesn't look like I raided radioshack! Sweet does it come in black.
RIAA and MPAA have made huge strides to protect thier copyrights. But the same companies would see no problem with this type of deception. We really want the government to say away from regulating the computer industry, but untill they do this BS will continue to get worse. The average AOL user has no idea and are building a army of zombie DOS machines and now an army of zombie marketing harvesters....
I can't read anymore today as I am about to read my 25 refresh limit. Damn guess I'll have to read ShugaShack the rest of the day.
I get a ton of enjoyment out of /. daily. Infact /. is the only page I would be willing to slap down $5 for to make sure it stays around. In fact I have no adds as I write this.
Agreed. Napster may be dead, but this does not give the RIAA the right to maintain a monopoly that allows them to tell comsumers how they can listen to music. Let the other companies explore offering ligitimate practices.
I hope they actually try it. The Great Uneducated Masses bight begin to look else where for information and find the true gems on the net created by people with passion for the subject matter. I get really ill every time I go to a site that is simply a collection of press releases, links to content on other pages and 15 banner adds...
.
.
If this guy had bothered to poke around, he would have found the shift-Right Click trick. Simply click the icon so that it is highlighted then hold shift and right clock the icon. The resulting menu will have the option "Open With". Select the option and the resulting dialog will ahve a list of all registered apps and a check box labeled always use this app. Reassociation for the masses.
Windows 2k even keeps a secondary association list. Once you have forced the file open in a specific app the open with menu will be there with that app.
Looks like Mr. Mac guy needs to check his references.
Please read the entire thread. I posted a follow up that this was originally written in 1973.
Yes thank you for your support.
Search for Gordon Sinclair in Google.
In my haste I forgot to reference the origal thread Sorry about that.
Also this is of interest:
Origins: On June 5 1973, Canadian radio commentator Gordon Sinclair decided he'd had enough of the stream of criticism and negative press recently directed at the United States of America by foreign journalists (primarily over America's long military involvement in Vietnam, which had ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords six months earlier). When he arrived at radio station CFRB in Toronto that morning, he spent twenty minutes dashing off a two-page editorial defending the USA against its carping critics which he then delivered in a defiant, indignant tone during his "Let's Be Personal" spot at 11:45 AM that day.
The unusualness of any foreign correspondent -- even one from a country with such close ties to the USA as Canada -- delivering such a caustic commentary about those who would dare to criticize the USA is best demonstrated by the fact that even thirty years later, many Americans doubt that this piece (which has been circulating on the Internet in the slightly-altered form quoted above as something "recently" printed in a Toronto newspaper) is real. It is real, and it received a great deal of attention in its day. After Sinclair's editorial was rebroadcast by a few American radio stations, it spread like wildfire all over the country. It was played again and again (often superimposed over a piece of inspirational music such as "Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"), read into the Congress Record multiple times, and finally released on a record (titled "The Americans"), with all royalties donated to the American Red Cross. (A Detroit radio broadcaster named Byron MacGregor recorded and released an unauthorized version of the piece that hit the record stores before Sinclair's official version; an infringement suit was avoided when MacGregor agreed to donate his profits to the Red Cross as well).
Sinclair passed away in 1984, but he will long be remembered on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border -- both for his contributions to journalism, and for his loudly proclaiming what no one else at the time would stand up and say.
The Original Broadcast real audio format. Hope no linux users get to irritated.
The Americans
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
America: The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German
technocracy, and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -! not once, but several times and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America!
This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything and never even get a thank you for the things we do.
I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single American that has read this.
The Original Broadcast real audio format. Hope no linux users get to irritated.
Origins: On June 5 1973, Canadian radio commentator Gordon Sinclair decided he'd had enough of the stream of criticism and negative press recently directed at the United States of America by foreign journalists (primarily over America's long military involvement in Vietnam, which had ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords six months earlier). When he arrived at radio station CFRB in Toronto that morning, he spent twenty minutes dashing off a two-page editorial defending the USA against its carping critics which he then delivered in a defiant, indignant tone during his "Let's Be Personal" spot at 11:45 AM that day.
The unusualness of any foreign correspondent -- even one from a country with such close ties to the USA as Canada -- delivering such a caustic commentary about those who would dare to criticize the USA is best demonstrated by the fact that even thirty years later, many Americans doubt that this piece (which has been circulating on the Internet in the slightly-altered form quoted above as something "recently" printed in a Toronto newspaper) is real. It is real, and it received a great deal of attention in its day. After Sinclair's editorial was rebroadcast by a few American radio stations, it spread like wildfire all over the country. It was played again and again (often superimposed over a piece of inspirational music such as "Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"), read into the Congress Record multiple times, and finally released on a record (titled "The Americans"), with all royalties donated to the American Red Cross. (A Detroit radio broadcaster named Byron MacGregor recorded and released an unauthorized version of the piece that hit the record stores before Sinclair's official version; an infringement suit was avoided when MacGregor agreed to donate his profits to the Red Cross as well).
Sinclair passed away in 1984, but he will long be remembered on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border -- both for his contributions to journalism, and for his loudly proclaiming what no one else at the time would stand up and say.
Here are my thoughts, John. This is so sad, but it's gonna go down.
I reciently had engament pics done by a very nice lady who uses Frontpage to develop here site. She uses a pretty lame right click script as an attempt to stop people from stealing her images. I explained to her that it was useless and showed her how easy it was to get around and offered to watermark her images for her with her logo.
It is quite obvious that she did not want her images to be taken. How would she know that robots.txt would stop these searches let alone that the searchs exist?
The main issue I see here is removing the web designers right to say "no".
I spend a lot of time editing my images in photoshop until they are perfect. I generally don't care if someone thinks they are cool and would like to use them. I do have an issue with people who take my images and claim them as their own work.
These search engines make it seem as though it is OK to take what ever you want and not credit the source.
That is not cool at all. If you want an image ask the developer if you can.. 9 times out of 10 they dont care as long as you give htem credit and a link.
Before I became involved with computers, I was a completely different person than I am now. I was more concerned with getting laid, drinking beer and poping any pills I could find. My job was a vehicle for funding my vices.
After playing Wolf3d in high school, I found something that facinated me to the point of BBSing and being the first in my area on the Net. The net itself has taught me a whole new value system. I have picked up books to teach myself languages... soemthing they could not beat me into in High School. Although my job is still a vehicle for funding my vices.. but my vices are more healthy for me. 8)
If the U.S. system allows me to sit on deathrow for 20 years apealing my conviction for a murder that I did not commit, the same priviledge should be extended to Microsoft.
I too am irritated by the tactics that M$ has employeed, but I am willing to let justice run its due coarse.
... a majority of Mac users use love,sex and god for passwords. HACK THE PLANET!
... I find it hilarious that 9 out of 10 pieces of spam sitting in my deleted items folder are related to how to use the power of E - M A I L M A R K E T I N G ! !
http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/rfc/rf c1918.html
in case your slow.
It's a non routable IP address "dumbass"