Gee, they actually made it MORE convenient and people are willing to pay for it. Compare this to what the movie/tv studios do on a regular basis. They make it harder to get the content and people tend to find alternative sources.
We already have laws that forbid and punish for tampering with the odometer. People who tamper with the odometer and change the mileage should be held accountable according to both the odemeter laws and tax evasion laws. We would corporately spend less money doing this than we would spend on a "second" sensor that tracks the same metric, but is "untamperable." Additionally, this would be a good way to spread the money. The county that collects the tax on behalf of the feds could keep a percentage of the money collected for doing the work and then forward the rest to the feds.
says that not every human (child, adult, whatever) learns the same way. What works well for one person may not work well for another. Some people learn by reading, some by doing, others by doing it wrong a thousand times. Go figure.
How about using legitimate business practices instead of LYING to your paying customers. Use "sales", free signups, advertising, etc. to get customer instead of representing that you have customers that you don't actually have.
Thanks. I found it. If you want to start at the Yahoo site, the link is http://music.yahoo.com/promos/norahjonesmp3/. By the way, I did purchase the song. It's not too bad. I just wanted to let them (RIAA, EMI, etc.) that I'm willing to pay for non-DRM'd music.
OK. I am willing to spend $0.99 on a DRM free song by Norah Jones just to "cast my vote" that I am willing to buy DRM-free music. Could someone please tell me which song it is? I can't seem to find that information anywhere.
Supply of the song might be infinite, but let's see you push an infinite number of songs through a finite resourse like a backbone connection. The more downloads for a song, the more bandwidth is required to support it. I know it seems like bandwidth is unlimited, but it's not. But, even with that said, I think you're more right than wrong, and prices should go down with popularity and up with obscurity. How much bandwidth would they have to add if ALL songs were $0.01 (one cent) each in order to feed the demand? Remember, they are providing a service, and there are costs associated with that service. While the costs may not be as high as the distribution of CD's, etc. they are still real and non-negligible.
In fact, I still have both my A1000 and my A4000/040. I've thought about trying to sell them on eBay, but I just can't seem to give them up. I have my old 1080 monitor hooked up to a DVD player in the bedroom and use it for watching movies while I'm falling asleep.
The U.S. politicians (I hate it when they are equated with the U.S. itself - there is a big difference) need to learn that in order for maintain good relations with other nations, everyone must follow the same set of rules.
Actually, everyone doesn't have to follow the same rules, they just have to agree to respect each other rules when differnt groups come in contact, whether that be in person, via the internet, during a business meeting, or whatever.
These things ran DOS and were actually quite sturdy. I developed some very nice CLIPPER apps (a dBase descendant) for these for use in manufacturing environments. They were quite nice. The batteries really did last a week under heavy use, or two weeks under light use. I wish I still had one.
OK.. The common response here is to install a hardware firewall. Most people spout a cost of $29-49 for such a device. That MUST be a cable/DSL router. Some statistics I read recently (sorry, I don't remember source) said that 40-50% of all US households are now on broadband. That means 50-60% are still on dialup. While Cable/DSL routers/firewalls are cheap and easy to come by, what is one supposed to do for clients on dialup? Software firewalls are generally the only option in this case from what I can see. If anyone has a better option, I'd like to know what it is. Hardware dialup firewalls are expensive. Software firewalls are vulnerable and problematic (I've had problems removing some before without trashing the system).
I could query this new directory for "Apple", get back a few matches including the obvious one I wanted, Apple Computers, get a mapping to their DNS domain apple.com, do an SRV lookup against apple.com for an HTTP service, and boom, I have Apple Computer's home page.
And who whould be in charge of running and maintaning this new database? Do I now have to pay them for inclusion of my paltry little personal site? If so, how much? What would their liability be if something was listed wrong? How would it handle Apple Drycleaners? I bet there's more than one of those.
... and third party software accounts for the vast majority of Windows crashes, but that doesn't stop people from calling Windows unstable.
Well, with Windows we really never know do we? At least with ANY open-source OS, it's possible to look a the code and see whether it's the base OS, a library, or the app.
1) Do what you can with Open Source 2) Use closed source for everything not covered by 1) 3) Over time, develop in-house open-source projects to replace the items covered by 2) 4) Release Open Source projects and gain 1000000 Whuffie points of credit. 4) Profit!
OK... I tried one of the superstitial ones on my dialup connection (49.2K). It took it several minutes to load, it played intermittantly while it loaded. It played in a window (not full screen). Sound played when video was active, and the sound and video were fairly well sync'd. I'm running SuSE 8.2 Pro using Konqueror as my browser.
Looks like I'll be putting every host.unicast.com into my/etc/hosts file with an address of 127.0.0.1... That should stop this non-sense.
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More than the other applicants.
Gee, they actually made it MORE convenient and people are willing to pay for it. Compare this to what the movie/tv studios do on a regular basis. They make it harder to get the content and people tend to find alternative sources.
We already have laws that forbid and punish for tampering with the odometer. People who tamper with the odometer and change the mileage should be held accountable according to both the odemeter laws and tax evasion laws. We would corporately spend less money doing this than we would spend on a "second" sensor that tracks the same metric, but is "untamperable." Additionally, this would be a good way to spread the money. The county that collects the tax on behalf of the feds could keep a percentage of the money collected for doing the work and then forward the rest to the feds.
Wouldn't PI day (in the US) really be 7/22 (July 22nd)?
says that not every human (child, adult, whatever) learns the same way. What works well for one person may not work well for another. Some people learn by reading, some by doing, others by doing it wrong a thousand times. Go figure.
How about using legitimate business practices instead of LYING to your paying customers. Use "sales", free signups, advertising, etc. to get customer instead of representing that you have customers that you don't actually have.
Pluto officially defined as Pluto.
Eris officially seen as similar to Pluto.
Who really gives a flip?
There are objects out there of every size shape and configuration possible.
Thanks. I found it. If you want to start at the Yahoo site, the link is http://music.yahoo.com/promos/norahjonesmp3/. By the way, I did purchase the song. It's not too bad. I just wanted to let them (RIAA, EMI, etc.) that I'm willing to pay for non-DRM'd music.
OK. I am willing to spend $0.99 on a DRM free song by Norah Jones just to "cast my vote" that I am willing to buy DRM-free music. Could someone please tell me which song it is? I can't seem to find that information anywhere.
Supply of the song might be infinite, but let's see you push an infinite number of songs through a finite resourse like a backbone connection. The more downloads for a song, the more bandwidth is required to support it. I know it seems like bandwidth is unlimited, but it's not. But, even with that said, I think you're more right than wrong, and prices should go down with popularity and up with obscurity. How much bandwidth would they have to add if ALL songs were $0.01 (one cent) each in order to feed the demand? Remember, they are providing a service, and there are costs associated with that service. While the costs may not be as high as the distribution of CD's, etc. they are still real and non-negligible.
In fact, I still have both my A1000 and my A4000/040. I've thought about trying to sell them on eBay, but I just can't seem to give them up. I have my old 1080 monitor hooked up to a DVD player in the bedroom and use it for watching movies while I'm falling asleep.
I installed it. Seemed OK until I tried to check WindowsUpdate. Browser stopped cold until I turned it off.
Why can't OO embrace and extend the .doc format, rather than inventing something new?
.doc format is (or soon will be) PATENTED.
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the first gmail account goes up for auction on eBay. I searched eBay a little earlier, but couldn't find any.
Volunteer #1 right here... You line up the funding, and I'll go.
OK, I can't resist... In my college frat the President's name was Chip, and the VP (my Big Brother) was Dale.
Yes, we had Chip and Dale leading the frat...
Actually, everyone doesn't have to follow the same rules, they just have to agree to respect each other rules when differnt groups come in contact, whether that be in person, via the internet, during a business meeting, or whatever.
These things ran DOS and were actually quite sturdy. I developed some very nice CLIPPER apps (a dBase descendant) for these for use in manufacturing environments. They were quite nice. The batteries really did last a week under heavy use, or two weeks under light use. I wish I still had one.
OK.. The common response here is to install a hardware firewall. Most people spout a cost of $29-49 for such a device. That MUST be a cable/DSL router. Some statistics I read recently (sorry, I don't remember source) said that 40-50% of all US households are now on broadband. That means 50-60% are still on dialup. While Cable/DSL routers/firewalls are cheap and easy to come by, what is one supposed to do for clients on dialup? Software firewalls are generally the only option in this case from what I can see. If anyone has a better option, I'd like to know what it is. Hardware dialup firewalls are expensive. Software firewalls are vulnerable and problematic (I've had problems removing some before without trashing the system).
Yes, that's my first reaction too... That's why I'm specifically interested in actual experiences with the company.
And who whould be in charge of running and maintaning this new database? Do I now have to pay them for inclusion of my paltry little personal site? If so, how much? What would their liability be if something was listed wrong? How would it handle Apple Drycleaners? I bet there's more than one of those.
... and third party software accounts for the vast majority of Windows crashes, but that doesn't stop people from calling Windows unstable.
Well, with Windows we really never know do we? At least with ANY open-source OS, it's possible to look a the code and see whether it's the base OS, a library, or the app.
1) Do what you can with Open Source
2) Use closed source for everything not covered by 1)
3) Over time, develop in-house open-source projects to replace the items covered by 2)
4) Release Open Source projects and gain 1000000 Whuffie points of credit.
4) Profit!
Actually, I think I'll just go back to using lynx or some other text only browser... I doubt that these ads will display on that.
OK... I tried one of the superstitial ones on my dialup connection (49.2K). It took it several minutes to load, it played intermittantly while it loaded. It played in a window (not full screen). Sound played when video was active, and the sound and video were fairly well sync'd. I'm running SuSE 8.2 Pro using Konqueror as my browser.
/etc/hosts file with an address of 127.0.0.1... That should stop this non-sense.
Looks like I'll be putting every host.unicast.com into my
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