It works alright for me, but that's W2K Pro, with every patch I've found. On a semi-related topic, there's a memory leak in W2K's TCP/IP stack, which I am too unknowledgeable to diagnose further.
To be fair, this is not just an issue of the postal service, but also unscrupulous employees of the recipient company. Your bill/order goes in the bin, and your cash in their pocket.
How does that benefit the artist? (Assuming of course that the original assumption is correct..) It's all very well to improve the end-users method of hearing the music, but if no-one's paying the author for it...
You make a few good points... the stats I supplied were firearm homicides, in reply to your fourth paragraph... If 17,500 people are killed by firearms in the states a year, that would mean 20,000+ gun suicides... Both are rather tragic figures (and in this regard, I'm by no means suggesting America is alone)...
1. True.... AQIS (Quarantine and Inspection) and Customs do a pretty tight job...
2. The population is smaller... but I was talking ratios, and what population there is is reasonably concentrated...
3. No on the second point... we do have organisations similar, but definitely not with the clout of the NRA...
Drugs? We're having the same issues... it's easier to buy heroin on the streets than marijuana... our WarOnDrugs is failing about as completely as yours:)
Specifically, fully automatic weapons are banned. Completely.
Semi-automatic weapons were also nearly totally banned.
Pistols require strict licencing.
Even rifles are very tightly controlled.
Is this what you meant by fewer laws? The kind that mean in America you are almost TWENTY times more likely to die as a result of gun homicide than Australia? Thanks, I think I prefer fewer gun laws.
Cite evidence. For a start, it's not some areas, it's all areas. Which "one case" is this you refer to? I can *guarantee* it's not a result of people not having guns to defend themselves. There were 85 gun homicides in Australia the other year. There were 17 and a half thousand in the US that same year. Your population is only 12 times that of ours. (Source: US CDC and Aus Beaureau of Statistics).
And it's not recent. It was four years ago. I actually live in Austraila. I know when the gun laws were enacted.
AUSTRA LIA UNITED STATES Population18,173,600 254,250,000 Annual Gun Deaths 596 38,317 Gun Homicides85 17,971 Or is that not solid enough a "fact" for you?
Yeah. God knows how uneducated those black savages are. We do it for their own good damnit, and if they don't respect us for that, we'll ship off back to honkytown Africa.
I'm going to get moderated to hell down on this, but what do I care:
Time and again, real-world experience has shown that gun ownership varies inversely to crime.
Fact: In America you are allowed to own guns. In Australia, for the most part, you aren't. Why, if this is the case, is Australia's homicide rate only *8%* of America's?
Probably, unfortunately true. Some people have claimed that they "can't" filter, because what would happen if someone was searching for " - Enter Sandman - Metallica Cover" and the original.
Simple answer to that was that one should have had Metallica in the Artist field, and the other in the Title.
Probably too convenient an answer. To claim Napster is intended to be for unsigned music is hoping for extreme naivety/gullibility in the eyes of the public. The mere fact that mention was made of the analysis of user's query and "selling content" based on this would mean that Napster would *have* to at least passively/tacitly allow such queries, if not explicitly, in order to get the data they're going to be wanting.
So they're kinda stuck, either way I see it. If this "selling content" based on queries is true, there's also the issue of who in the music industry will be willing to deal with them...
I use Outlook too. Notes. It's called a corporate standard. Then I go home and use Pine and Netscape Mail. Your point? If my workplace insisted I use FrontPage for webdesign (thankfully, it doesn't!), does that ruin the credibility of my freelancing as a webdesigner?
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Except for the fact that in one, "Metallica" will (should) be in the Artist field, and in the other in the Title field. Which should make it much more discernible.
The issue of those annoying twats who put everything in the Title field of the ID3 is another matter.That really annoys me.
On 3 - do you know who the author is? He's written *the* most comprehensive guide to securing Red Hat that exists... (it's also generic enough for most distros)... He could probably claim - accurately - to be "some sort of Expert"
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I think this is a very interesting experiment in how much freedom you can give people.
Says quite a lot, unfortunately, about your average Slashdotter.:(
Heh, I used to work for HP in middle eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Tracerouting my home machine (in outer eatern suburbs) meant a trip to Palo Alto and back. Though, being fair, this was HP's networking setup, and not a connectivity issue...
I could see being a babysitter who wouldn't want to share private info or info about thier pr0n surfing habits for example too (but I don't think I would entrust that person with children if that were the case)
Say you surf pr0n... do you trust yourself with your children now?
You are completely and utterly smoking crack. I am Australian. No-one was defending their houses with firearms before. Nor now. The burglary rate DID NOT quadruple. Most parts of Australia have a significantly small proportion of Aboriginal population.
Pop quiz, "pry the gun out of my cold dead fingers": Why is Australia's murder rate EIGHT PERCENT that of the US? Why is it that for a murder to get mentioned on TV or in the papers in the US, there has to be a special angle on it? In AU, if you're murdered, I can pretty much guarantee you a spot on the front page. Why do most polls indicate that a majority of the AU population are happy with gun control here? (The answer is not "because they are clueless").
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It works alright for me, but that's W2K Pro, with every patch I've found. On a semi-related topic, there's a memory leak in W2K's TCP/IP stack, which I am too unknowledgeable to diagnose further.
They already do this, don't they? :)
To be fair, this is not just an issue of the postal service, but also unscrupulous employees of the recipient company. Your bill/order goes in the bin, and your cash in their pocket.
At least in Australia, petrol is a lot more expensive in the country (car fuel, not diesel, which is subsidised for farmers)
The question is what's wrong in his setup that makes them crash? I have IE 5.5 and NS 4.73 open together, day after day, without issues.
How does that benefit the artist? (Assuming of course that the original assumption is correct..) It's all very well to improve the end-users method of hearing the music, but if no-one's paying the author for it...
Not being American, I'm not sure... but the 17,500 was reported by the CDC...
You make a few good points... the stats I supplied were firearm homicides, in reply to your fourth paragraph... If 17,500 people are killed by firearms in the states a year, that would mean 20,000+ gun suicides... Both are rather tragic figures (and in this regard, I'm by no means suggesting America is alone)...
2. The population is smaller... but I was talking ratios, and what population there is is reasonably concentrated...
3. No on the second point... we do have organisations similar, but definitely not with the clout of the NRA...
Drugs? We're having the same issues... it's easier to buy heroin on the streets than marijuana... our WarOnDrugs is failing about as completely as yours :)
Specifically, fully automatic weapons are banned. Completely.
Semi-automatic weapons were also nearly totally banned.
Pistols require strict licencing.
Even rifles are very tightly controlled.
Is this what you meant by fewer laws? The kind that mean in America you are almost TWENTY times more likely to die as a result of gun homicide than Australia? Thanks, I think I prefer fewer gun laws.
And it's not recent. It was four years ago. I actually live in Austraila. I know when the gun laws were enacted.
US Center for Disease Control.
AUSTRA LIA UNITED STATES
Population18,173,600 254,250,000
Annual Gun Deaths 596 38,317
Gun Homicides85 17,971
Or is that not solid enough a "fact" for you?
I'm going to get moderated to hell down on this, but what do I care:
You're a fucking idiot.
Fact: In America you are allowed to own guns. In Australia, for the most part, you aren't. Why, if this is the case, is Australia's homicide rate only *8%* of America's?
Simple answer to that was that one should have had Metallica in the Artist field, and the other in the Title.
Probably too convenient an answer. To claim Napster is intended to be for unsigned music is hoping for extreme naivety/gullibility in the eyes of the public. The mere fact that mention was made of the analysis of user's query and "selling content" based on this would mean that Napster would *have* to at least passively/tacitly allow such queries, if not explicitly, in order to get the data they're going to be wanting.
So they're kinda stuck, either way I see it. If this "selling content" based on queries is true, there's also the issue of who in the music industry will be willing to deal with them...
I use Outlook too. Notes. It's called a corporate standard. Then I go home and use Pine and Netscape Mail. Your point? If my workplace insisted I use FrontPage for webdesign (thankfully, it doesn't!), does that ruin the credibility of my freelancing as a webdesigner?
The issue of those annoying twats who put everything in the Title field of the ID3 is another matter.That really annoys me.
On 3 - do you know who the author is? He's written *the* most comprehensive guide to securing Red Hat that exists... (it's also generic enough for most distros)... He could probably claim - accurately - to be "some sort of Expert"
Says quite a lot, unfortunately, about your average Slashdotter. :(
You can get nice new digital answering machines with good clarity :)
Heh, I used to work for HP in middle eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Tracerouting my home machine (in outer eatern suburbs) meant a trip to Palo Alto and back. Though, being fair, this was HP's networking setup, and not a connectivity issue...
Interesting, I have a .cx domain, and I know www.nic.cx used to be hosted in .au... oh well :)
Say you surf pr0n... do you trust yourself with your children now?
Pop quiz, "pry the gun out of my cold dead fingers": Why is Australia's murder rate EIGHT PERCENT that of the US? Why is it that for a murder to get mentioned on TV or in the papers in the US, there has to be a special angle on it? In AU, if you're murdered, I can pretty much guarantee you a spot on the front page. Why do most polls indicate that a majority of the AU population are happy with gun control here? (The answer is not "because they are clueless").
*sigh*