is that you get very isolated, very fast to the point where there is no one around you to listen but your computer.
this makes the computer geeks(some of them, anyways) different than the hippies, and more like hermits or the like - those of us who are truly disconnected, and who have nothing but technology (and no internet helps)...become *changed* somehow...~
i havnt eaten more than one meal in five(six?eight?) days. and i consider myself fairly high up in 'the system' as far as tech_based_lives goes. I am learning very quickly that a warm meal, some electricity to power my 486, and soap is a blessing onto it's own. but don't get me wrong - there is something wrong here. so long as there are starving people, when others are wasting food , so long as there are people in the dark, living without even a phone line(they r expensive yo!) while others are tossing fully working 450Mhz pentium III's in the trash (because they are not 'state_of_the_art'...as if they were when they were bought)
something is wrong here.
unless of course you mean by saying "the basis of all successful economies int he world", 'is the basis of the most ruthless, bloody regiemes in the world', i think you have something very wrong.
with a 3 14.4 kbps dialup modems (arpanet, i mean?) i have one, i know another guy with one. if the internet was in *real* jeapordy, couldn't the universities, and induviduals just 'start fresh'...i mean the rfcs' appear to give a pretty much bleuprint method of how to move..right? what is really stopping us from building supercomputers...etc...? especially with modern tech, we could just buy a regular computer, get a whole load of modems...and go back to TTY ! why not?
of course, i'm concerned about the internet as anyone, but i'm connecting currently through stolen bandwidth anyways - the 'net is too expensive for most people it seems to me...decentralization could probably help that, though...but keep in mind...no matter how bad it gets, we can always start anew, so long as we have those 3 14.4kbps...
this service, we should all boycott. the people who would profit from this, at any lenght, are not going to be anyone who we want to profit, but rather those who will continue to use our funds against us - dont kid yourself, these people will stab you as soon as look at you for a dime, and this is only the first step - once everyone is paying for downloading music, should it ever occur, they will find a way to bankrupt or otherwise disarm gnutella, and then exploit the unknowing consumers again! it is insane that you even post this to slashdot, a place i usually hope to see 'useful' news...in opposition to advertising of new services that are built to harm us geeks!
i smell riaa influence here, and anything the riaa touches, looks at, pokes, should be burned, and then urinated on. let them spend their money putting together online music service after online music service - the less influence they have for other things the better! but dont support them!!!
at least until they break down...i'm not quite sure what to do with them after that, but one could put a reasonable sized supercomputer together from x86's running linux i'm sure. in the meanwhile, i'm upgrading my main computer, to a Pentium-133 come this decembre. there is so much need for computers, it is unbeleivable. not everyone can afford the latest tech!
If we can convince gullible humans that they have a soul, we can definitely convince gullible computers that they have a soul. give it time. it was only what, mabye 20 years ago the apple// e was 'top knotch' ?
thats the way i've been going at it... one cd at a time... besides, when you do it one at a time, its more personal:) i can sign/autograph, or dip it in my own blood for all my fan would care...but its going directly from me to them. the musicians who sell a billion copies of their cd miss this, i think,..and they are not quite as connected to their fans...at least not all of them...`
do you completely misunderstand the point of creativity in art, or are you just playing dumb? artists should be able to do whatever, whenever, however, with whatever disk they feel neccessary.
anything less, and you are limiting yourslef, your talents, and growing closer to selling out:P
i CAN however install windows 3.x,2.x,1.x, and DOS/DOSSHELL 6.x-5.x... at least i can USE the machine, instead of letting it collect dust as a failed linux box.
and say to hell with it, we'll all become bar
codes. i mean really. 6,200,000,000 people...
according to my calculator sais over
1 800 000 000 in hex...(but my calculator sucks
so i could be mistaken in here)
"hi im $FE10110039:) a/s/l?"
and you could add descriptors/last names to make
the system even more usable...
"hi i'm FE10110039, decker. i 80386." etc etc.
and it would give them an excuse to give us barcode tattoos!. imagine how sexy you'd look with one of those.
i mean obviously this may go through it...but such things exist, that can detect these 'dud' files...especially if they are careless enough to just use a cut & paste loop in them somewhere... i hope limewire does, anyways. i am not nearly leet enough to help on this front yet... keep up the good fight, fellow deckers...the rest of us are depending on you...
melted...as well as i believe i've lost 3 monitors(and TWO television sets! same plugin to boot!) in my room to fire...amongst other things...loosing monitors sucks, they are hard to replace : anything to keep them cool.
of course, being in middle - canada i'm lucky ; i open the window and i can get the tempurature of my room -30(or lower) degrees should i want it to be...which a computer *will not* overheat in:)
the biggest threat there is that people will be afraid to connect to gnutella...and therefor wont...and then gnutella wont be a very powerful place to find music...
however...there will ALWAYS be music pirate's...and whether there's one or a million is going to be the question...they can't stop us all, especially bootleg traders and the like. its' not only an integral part of the music industry, but also an integral part of the *indie* music industry...and they wouldnt stand for having no recording equipment...i for one wont.
that the techies(read: the SMARTER of their fans)...are aware of what the RIAA and it's associates are doing to people...that they too may join us in the struggle against them. They gave up all their rights when they became labelled...and complaining that people are not promoting such activities, by buying their albums and thus paying off the very same orginizations
which seek to imprison us...is sheer stupidity.
as well this is furthermore propeganda to make us geeks more like the witches of the past : 'burn them, they are evil' sort of thing
"you keep calling these kids criminals, eventually they will start acting like criminals"-emmanuel goldstein, early off the hook episode
if we do, of course by them new. i am lucky enough to be a musician myself, so if i crave music, i can pull out my guitar for awhile... i feel sorry for those of you who dont have that priviledge...also i wonder how this makes the canadian version of this bill fare...if it will increases the chances that it will be upheld as well...
how hard it is to get a "regular", ie, dot matrix printer, anymore? i mean, if you want photo quality that's great, go hard...but for those of us who just want to print out a homework assignment, or cards, or mabye even some ASCII art or something and cant really afford the 200$ ink cartridges:...there used to be cheap ink & printers...relatively cheap anyways...but now they dont sell you anything but the ub3rexpensive inkjets/photo quality. i dont see how people need this kind of quality...yes its nice to have the quality, but for the money you pay it may not be worth it : BRING BACK THE DOT MATRIX!
it DOES do physical harm : when you work for say, 8 hours... fixing & cleaning a box from a nasty virus, you have lost 8 hours of your life. your dna has lost some length in some places, and you have likely inhaled carcinogens released from some fume from the computer, and theres definitely something not healthy(killing your cells) about the monitor... while the physical damage, with one person, may not be large or even noticable, added over thousands of working-hours over dozens of people...perhaps the idea that of those people one of their lives has just been wasted, all for a bug...even if each of them just lost a few hairs from stress : the mass is gone.
this is the concern here...i dont want to waste some poor collective bastards life because of microsoft deciding that.exe 's make files ugly:P
but the day that i stop writing music is the day that i die. period.
please dont see this as offtopic...i really dont intend it to be..
if i have to go to jail, or use insane copyright protection to do this...i will...but i dont think this will ever be the case. but i WILL keep writing and performing music...and i'm not bad or anything...which means that people wanting to hear music will inevidably come to me...and i will be the one who gets to choose how (*cough P2P*) to distribute my music...
if the content industry wants to fuck itself it can go right ahead...all it does is open up for the little guys...
of course this is only the case at the breaking point ; the point where people cannot afford the 300 $ / cd copyright protection tax...until then we will continue to lose more and more peoples interest...
dont care to lose some quality while your at it? convert to microsoft-GIFconvert to ASCII...and you should end up with a 250*256 bit at most sized (unless i'm mistaken here) image...which can be resized by H(x) html tags or other things for web, or just plain compressed and left like that:)
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is that you get very isolated, very fast to the point where there is no one around you to listen but your computer.
this makes the computer geeks(some of them, anyways) different than the hippies, and more like hermits or the like - those of us who are truly disconnected, and who have nothing but technology (and no internet helps)...become *changed* somehow...~
'evil old' governments just arent what they used to be, though
i havnt eaten more than one meal in five(six?eight?) days. and i consider myself fairly high up in 'the system' as far as tech_based_lives goes. I am learning very quickly that a warm meal, some electricity to power my 486, and soap is a blessing onto it's own. but don't get me wrong - there is something wrong here. so long as there are starving people, when others are wasting food , so long as there are people in the dark, living without even a phone line(they r expensive yo!) while others are tossing fully working 450Mhz pentium III's in the trash (because they are not 'state_of_the_art'...as if they were when they were bought) something is wrong here. unless of course you mean by saying "the basis of all successful economies int he world", 'is the basis of the most ruthless, bloody regiemes in the world', i think you have something very wrong.
i'll supply the source. i think it's in an early rfc, but i'll find it again. it wasnt' *that* kind of a 14.4 no doubt, but it was 3, 14.4 modems.
with a 3 14.4 kbps dialup modems (arpanet, i mean?) i have one, i know another guy with one. if the internet was in *real* jeapordy, couldn't the universities, and induviduals just 'start fresh'...i mean the rfcs' appear to give a pretty much bleuprint method of how to move..right? what is really stopping us from building supercomputers...etc...? especially with modern tech, we could just buy a regular computer, get a whole load of modems...and go back to TTY ! why not?
of course, i'm concerned about the internet as anyone, but i'm connecting currently through stolen bandwidth anyways - the 'net is too expensive for most people it seems to me...decentralization could probably help that, though...but keep in mind...no matter how bad it gets, we can always start anew, so long as we have those 3 14.4kbps...
this service, we should all boycott. the people who would profit from this, at any lenght, are not going to be anyone who we want to profit, but rather those who will continue to use our funds against us - dont kid yourself, these people will stab you as soon as look at you for a dime, and this is only the first step - once everyone is paying for downloading music, should it ever occur, they will find a way to bankrupt or otherwise disarm gnutella, and then exploit the unknowing consumers again! it is insane that you even post this to slashdot, a place i usually hope to see 'useful' news...in opposition to advertising of new services that are built to harm us geeks!
i smell riaa influence here, and anything the riaa touches, looks at, pokes, should be burned, and then urinated on. let them spend their money putting together online music service after online music service - the less influence they have for other things the better! but dont support them!!!
at least until they break down...i'm not quite sure what to do with them after that, but one could put a reasonable sized supercomputer together from x86's running linux i'm sure. in the meanwhile, i'm upgrading my main computer, to a Pentium-133 come this decembre. there is so much need for computers, it is unbeleivable. not everyone can afford the latest tech!
If we can convince gullible humans that they have a soul, we can definitely convince gullible computers that they have a soul. give it time. it was only what, mabye 20 years ago the apple // e was 'top knotch' ?
thats the way i've been going at it... one cd at a time... besides, when you do it one at a time, its more personal :) i can sign/autograph, or dip it in my own blood for all my fan would care...but its going directly from me to them. the musicians who sell a billion copies of their cd miss this, i think,..and they are not quite as connected to their fans...at least not all of them...`
do you completely misunderstand the point of creativity in art, or are you just playing dumb? artists should be able to do whatever, whenever, however, with whatever disk they feel neccessary.
:P
anything less, and you are limiting yourslef, your talents, and growing closer to selling out
which means i cannot install linux :p
... at least i can USE the machine, instead of letting it collect dust as a failed linux box.
ease of install my ass
i CAN however install windows 3.x,2.x,1.x, and DOS/DOSSHELL 6.x-5.x
the highest level of communication coming out of it is a floppy drive : i can sneakernet it tocommunicate with everything.
i may not havem uch say...but i say, we should keep the floppy around at least a little longer...for compatibility's sake.
and say to hell with it, we'll all become bar
codes. i mean really. 6,200,000,000 people...
according to my calculator sais over
1 800 000 000 in hex...(but my calculator sucks
so i could be mistaken in here)
"hi im $FE10110039
and you could add descriptors/last names to make
the system even more usable...
"hi i'm FE10110039, decker. i 80386." etc etc.
and it would give them an excuse to give us barcode tattoos!. imagine how sexy you'd look with one of those.
i mean obviously this may go through it...but such things exist, that can detect these 'dud' files...especially if they are careless enough to just use a cut & paste loop in them somewhere... ...the rest of us are depending on you...
i hope limewire does, anyways. i am not nearly leet enough to help on this front yet... keep up the good fight, fellow deckers
melted...as well as i believe i've lost 3 monitors(and TWO television sets! same plugin to boot!) in my room to fire ...amongst other things...loosing monitors sucks, they are hard to replace : anything to keep them cool.
:)
of course, being in middle - canada i'm lucky ; i open the window and i can get the tempurature of my room -30(or lower) degrees should i want it to be...which a computer *will not* overheat in
the biggest threat there is that people will be afraid to connect to gnutella...and therefor wont...and then gnutella wont be a very powerful place to find music...
however...there will ALWAYS be music pirate's...and whether there's one or a million is going to be the question...they can't stop us all, especially bootleg traders and the like. its' not only an integral part of the music industry, but also an integral part of the *indie* music industry...and they wouldnt stand for having no recording equipment...i for one wont.
on that note, RIAA email me here, for my new home address. come and get me motherfuckers!
that the techies(read: the SMARTER of their fans)...are aware of what the RIAA and it's associates are doing to people...that they too may join us in the struggle against them. They gave up all their rights when they became labelled...and complaining that people are not promoting such activities, by buying their albums and thus paying off the very same orginizations which seek to imprison us...is sheer stupidity.
as well this is furthermore propeganda to make us geeks more like the witches of the past : 'burn them, they are evil' sort of thing
"you keep calling these kids criminals, eventually they will start acting like criminals"-emmanuel goldstein, early off the hook episode
they now tariff all blank cds, or will be soon ; as well as hard drives, and all writable media.
this means we here, at least, cannot afford to burn cds...we are forced to buy them new.
if we do, of course by them new. i am lucky enough to be a musician myself, so if i crave music, i can pull out my guitar for awhile...
i feel sorry for those of you who dont have that priviledge...also i wonder how this makes the canadian version of this bill fare...if it will increases the chances that it will be upheld as well...
i mean seriously...i'm thinking of building a tin foil phonograph...it cant be that difficult...it has been around for damn near 200 years :P
how hard it is to get a "regular", ie, dot matrix printer, anymore? i mean, if you want photo quality that's great, go hard...but for those of us who just want to print out a homework assignment, or cards, or mabye even some ASCII art or something and cant really afford the 200$ ink cartridges:...there used to be cheap ink & printers...relatively cheap anyways...but now they dont sell you anything but the ub3rexpensive inkjets/photo quality. i dont see how people need this kind of quality...yes its nice to have the quality, but for the money you pay it may not be worth it : BRING BACK THE DOT MATRIX!
1,999,999,999,999 ideas, rather...should that price hold
it DOES do physical harm : when you work for say, 8 hours... fixing & cleaning a box from a nasty virus, you have lost 8 hours of your life. your dna has lost some length in some places, and you have likely inhaled carcinogens released from some fume from the computer, and theres definitely something not healthy(killing your cells) about the monitor...
.exe 's make files ugly :P
while the physical damage, with one person, may not be large or even noticable, added over thousands of working-hours over dozens of people...perhaps the idea that of those people one of their lives has just been wasted, all for a bug...even if each of them just lost a few hairs from stress : the mass is gone.
this is the concern here...i dont want to waste some poor collective bastards life because of microsoft deciding that
but the day that i stop writing music is the day that i die. period.
please dont see this as offtopic...i really dont intend it to be..
if i have to go to jail, or use insane copyright protection to do this...i will...but i dont think this will ever be the case. but i WILL keep writing and performing music...and i'm not bad or anything...which means that people wanting to hear music will inevidably come to me...and i will be the one who gets to choose how (*cough P2P*) to distribute my music...
if the content industry wants to fuck itself it can go right ahead...all it does is open up for the little guys...
of course this is only the case at the breaking point ; the point where people cannot afford the 300 $ / cd copyright protection tax...until then we will continue to lose more and more peoples interest...
dont care to lose some quality while your at it? :)
convert to microsoft-GIF convert to ASCII...and you should end up with a 250*256 bit at most sized (unless i'm mistaken here) image...which can be resized by H(x) html tags or other things for web, or just plain compressed and left like that