In addition to defeating this "technology" I'd like to see a list of CD's that incorporate this technology published. Then using this list I can inquire at every music store I frequent if they are aware of they have the "damaged" version of the CD. I will also be able to notify artist management, promotors, and tour sponsors of my inabliity to support the recorded works of those artists that are releasing "substandard recordings"
bullshit walks money talks
The only reason Steve Gibson got his undies in a bunch about this was because now HOME USERS will have STANDARD TCP/IP stacks that they can EXPLOIT.
I thought the reason Gibson was bitchin about the TCP/IP stack is not that HOME USERS will be EXPLOITING their stacks, but rather script kiddies will now be able to more effectivley exploit those machines that are connected 24/7.
Well you could always transfer to a different registrar. There are several around willing to renew your domain for a low low price. www.godaddy.com will do it for around $8.95
Just don't wait till the last minute to do this. No later than 3 or 4 months before your reg is up, initiate a transfer. I would also be sure you don't need to do any modifications on your account after the transfer has been initiated.
I have used the same CD/key of Office 2K on 4 different computers. Each time it has required activation. It has never required dialing the 800 number. On my primary computer I have added ram changed CD drives changed harddrives multiple times(adding etc.) changed video cards rtemoved modems added lan cards...blah blah blah...
Mine was the educational version so your milage may vary..
I've decided that I will begin to let my three year old install software, as a minor who can't read he can't possibly agree to or become a party to a legal contract.
Try here for the changelog since the one up top seems to be overused.
I was going to include the changes in the post but "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted."
now they tell me that "Easy does it!
This comment has been submitted already, 276111 hours , 11 minutes ago. No need to try again.
This reply is tottally off topic and will probably get hit but if you go to Apple.com you will see that the stated reason for Apple opening its own retail stores is so that it can double is market share
Apple is opening retail stores. Here's why:
Apple currently has around 5% market share in personal computers. This means that out of one hundred computer users, five of them use Macs. While that may not sound like a lot, it is actually higher than both BMW's and Mercedes-Benz's share of the automotive market. And it equals 25 million customers around the world using Macs.
But that's not enough for us. We want to convince those other 95 people that Macintosh offers a much simpler, richer and more human-centric computing experience. ...[snip]...
Because if only 5 of those remaining 95 people switch to Macs, we'll double our market share and, more importantly, earn the chance to delight another 25 million customers.
Here we go...
In other tottaly unreleated Apple news the prices on the flat panels are dropping again
Apple Cinema Display (22" flat panel)
$2,499.00 Apple Studio Display (17" flat panel)
$999.00 Apple Studio Display (15" flat panel)
$599.00
I'm no expert but at the kde website in the FAQ it says this
Is KDE free software?
Yes, KDE is free software according to the GNU General Public License. All KDE libraries are available under the LGPL making commercial software development for the KDE desktop possible, but all KDE applications are licensed under the GPL.
KDE uses the Qt C++ crossplatform toolkit, which is also released (since version 2.2) under the GPL.
It is absolutely legal to make KDE and Qt available on CD-ROM free of charge. No runtime fees of any kind are incurred.
The Qt Free Edition (version 2.2 and later) is released under the Open Source license
QPL, and GPL. The Qt Free Edition may be freely copied and distributed, put on ftp-sites and CD-ROMs etc. Qt Free Edition is provided with no warranty and no support.
And just in case you think they might change their minds later and try to close it back up and make it nonfree there is this
Should Trolltech ever discontinue the Qt Free Edition for any reason including, but not limited to, a buyout of Trolltech, a merger or bankruptcy, the latest version of the Qt Free Edition will be released under the BSD license.
Furthermore, should Trolltech cease continued development of Qt, as assessed by a majority of the KDE Free Qt Foundation, and not release a new version at least every 12 months, the Foundation has the right to release the Qt Free Edition under the BSD License.
Interestingly enough most of the Southern States here in the US have "right to work" laws". YMMV from state to state the laws are different but the essence is that you can't be forced to join a union in order to have a job. This doesn't mean that unions don't exist, or that by not joining a union you arn't affected by collective barganing etc..
I too recently developed twinges in my Mouse hand. This I traced back to a chair without adjustable armrests and a tendancy of mine to rest my forearm on the arm of the chair and the heel of my palm/ wrist flat on the mousepad. My course of action was on several fronts.
Change chairs to one with an adjustable armrest.
change keyboards to one with one of those little trackpoints
Wear a wrist support glove.
Personally I still am not satisfied. I really would like to try a ergonomic keyboard with a trackball between the two banks of keys. Just havn't found one yet.
When I went looking a few months ago I was presented with the following choice, $299.00 for a 30 hour Replay (Showstopper) unit vs aprox 299.00 for a Tivo unit. It was a no brainer for me I went with the Showstopper specifically because I have no desire to pay for any monthly subscription cost, or Lifetime sub..(Actually I considered the Tivo and the lifetime sub until I discovered that the Lifetime sub is for the lifetime of the Tivo recorder and NOT for my physical form.)
Our whole society is revolving into a subscription, Think about all the things that you pay for on a revolving subscription basis today, then ask did these things exist or require a subscription 20 years ago? Sure somethings may improve your quality of life but the concept of owning physical products that you pay for once and use is going away. Every manufactorer seems to be trying to get you hooked on some sort of subscription revenue stream.
At school they put in a "state of the art" computer lab. Which used dell systems and some flat panels. I never could get used to the way the flat panels scrolled a web page, It seemed real jerky and chunky. The only reason I still want one is for the pivot ability of some models. I don't understand why this feature isn't available on standard crt's, (seemingly so anyway, Portrait is a company that has a software solution and monitors). I haven't tried turning one of my monitors upright.(not sure if it will work with my old duet duel-head card, and don't know how stable the crt will be balancing on its side. Anyone have a clue if this will work?
The only reason I ask is it seems that 70 to 80 percent of the time I scroll down a page rarely do I scroll across. On the internet even with my piddly 1024 by 768 there seems to be many a site that assumes I like a big giant white space to the right of my screen.
Um... Yes if you read to the bottom you find out that
According to one document, Clark earned about $50,000 last year for songs added to the playlist at
Portland, Ore.'s KINK-FM, a division of Viacom-owned Infinity Broadcasting. The bank lists every time KINK aired a song followed by a specific dollar amount and the name of the label Clark billed for the play time.
For example, after KINK added a song by Fiona Apple on Jan. 17, Sony's 550 label paid Clark $1,000, the bank says. Vivendi Universal's Mercury label paid Clark $1,000 on Feb. 14 after KINK added a song by Kim Richey. Bertelsmann's Windham Hill label, EMI Group's Capitol label and AOL Time Warner's Giant label each paid about the same fee for songs by Janis Ian, Shivaree and Steely Dan, according to the bank.
Another document, titled "non-money stuff," shows a list of songs played by KINK and a corresponding list of products or services, including concert tickets and a promise that certain acts might appear later at a station benefit.
Damn I had to endure the 13 cookies and two pop up windows a second time...
If you read all the way to the end of the article there is a link to another article about this chipset. This article starts out with a little background history then moves on to details about the chipset.
High bandwidth HyperTransport interface as connection to the IGP.
Dual ATA100 IDE controller
NVIDIA APU (Audio Processing Unit) sound device with a huge feature set, including Dolby Digital encoding for AC3-output.
Full networking feature set, including FastEthernet 100/10 Mbit, HomePNA 2.0 (home phone line networking) and SoftModem
Six concurrent USB-ports with 2 USB-hubs
SteamThru, allowing high bandwidth and guaranteed real time memory access of all devices connected to the MCP, as typically required by video or audio broadcasting from disk, CD, DVD, LAN, WAN, IEEE1394 or when burning a CDROM.
to address part of your question about directx, directly here is a link to the page about the audio processing unit.
Hardware DirectX8 audio processor (the first of its kind)
Up to 256 different stereo voices, of which 192 are 2D-voices and 64 are 3D-voices
Dolby Digital 5.1 Encoder
DSL2-acceleration (Downloadable Sample Version 2)
32 bin mixer, with 8 voice volumes mixed to each bin (to get to 256)
As it appears that this chipset is an outgrowth of the Xbox development I can imagine that integration with directx* will be pretty much a given.
As far as earlier comments about drivers go, this second article mentions that "A motherboard with nForce chipset will be installed with ONE driver"
Obviously this type of chipset won't appeal to everyone, but hey for me it sounds great. No more Nic, audio card, graphics card etc to buy. The only thing they missed was integrating 128 MB or system RAM into the mix..
Sometimes there are some good things that arrive posthumously but mostly we the fan/consumer get served up the dregs of the earth. I personally would pee all over myself if some unpublished Robert Heinlen were to appear one day. Lord knows that J.R.R. Tolkien has had more books released after his death than ever appeared while he was alive.
Probably the grandaddy of them all as far as milking it has to be Hendrix.
Q: How many albums did Jimi Hendrix release while he was alive?
A: 5 actually 3 is all that should count cause one is a hits collection and the other is a contractual obligation album
Are You Experienced (1967)
Axis:Bold as Love(1967)
Electric Ladyland(1968)
Smash Hits(1969)
Band Of Gypsies(1970)
There were also two Curtis Knight LP's but Jimi really wasn't much more than a sideman on those so I didn't count them.
Q: How many different variations and compilations have been released since his death?
A: > 40 plus many an assorted bootleg
Remember, there are a lot of people making money on MSFT stock.
Hell yeah! Monopolies are great places to invest
I dont know how good of an investment Miscrosoft would be considered now, but back when it went public if you had purchased a few hundred shares you would be set for life now. Replace Microsoft's name with any of the following and having a crstal ball and buying shares at IPO time and holding would generally make you very wealthy.
Rumors that Hilton hotels had been thinking along the same lines was discussed here on Slashdot back in September of 1999. This was revealed to be false several days later here on slashdot
3m has a pistol grip mouse, no trackball on top though. It goes by the name of 3m Renaissance mouse.
I've been searching for mouse alternatives today, due to a bout of carpal tunnel syndrome. 3m offers a money back gtd. so I will try them first and if that doesnt work, I plan on giving the whale mouse a try.
Blind Mans Bluff is the title of the book available through fine bookstores most everywhere, Harperperennial Library; ISBN: 006103004X. When it first came out in Hardcover I skimmed through it at the bookstore, seemed like it might be an interesting read but decided towait on the paperback. From the review on Amazon.com
"about American submarine espionage during the Cold War"..."The most interesting chapter reveals how an American sub secretly tapped Soviet communications cables beneath the waves"
A very brief biography of the author can be found here
I cant see spending almost a grand for something with a puny HD. I have over 100 CDR's of mp3's I have ripped from CD's I owned and would like to have a small quiet interface to my stereo. I would like to just leave the MP3's on the PC and use ethernet to connect to the unit by the stereo.
The closest thing I can find so far is the Audiotron from turle beach. It seems to be basicly a windows only interface but from the faq
As a reminder, we do not support any networking or configuration issues other
than Windows, but here's a configuration that we've used with the AudioTron
successfully. We did not notice any hicupps or sharing issues.
We have successfully used the audiotron with Redhat 7.0,
samba version 2.0.6 and dhcp 2.0pl5.
it looks like you can interface to linux as well. This is the device that appears rebranded by several other manufactorers. Think Geek has them here The audiotron runs around 300.00 bucks and I could throw a 60 gig drive in the puter and be set for only around $400.00-500.
Your right speed doesn't matter anymore, so why did you upgrade 3 times in 2 years?
Then AMD began competing heavily and forced a shortening of the product cycle... Was this truly good for consumers? I ended up upgrading my system three times in two years. It gets expensive after a while, and with OS vendors all too happy to force consumers onto new hardware
Sure its good for consumers, Nobody is forceing you to upgrade 3 times in two years. Its all about choice, if AMD wasn't digging at Intel we wouldn't be blessed like we are now. If you want to live out on the edge, you pay the price. Me I've only upgraded 4 times in twelve years. Each time I get more for less money than the previous system cost. Lets see I went from 286 to 486-25 to pentium 166 to celeron 566. Maybe I'm weird but i tend to buy the bottom of the barrel as opposed to the bleeding edge, When your 1.2 GHZ Athlon is the entry level CPU I might get one of those machine or hold out for the next level of entry, (64 bit systems ?).
Memory is cheap now I think most people would be better served maxing out their memory rather than seeking faster CPU's.
UGO Networks Raises $13 Million; Closes A New Round of Funding with $23 million
New Proceeds will be Used to Grow
its Technology Business and Develop Advertising Sponsorships Packages
New York, NY March 5th, 2001 - UGO Networks, a leading entertainment company for 18-34 year old males, announced today that it raised $13 million dollars, closing a new round of funding with a total of $23 million. Lead Investors are GRP and Missouri-based Gryphon Holdings II, LLP Inc. and their investment partners. UGO Networks has raised in total $80 million.
UGO Networks consists of UnderGroundOnline (www.ugo.com), a network comprised of 350 affiliated sites which feature content in animation, music, games, wrestling, technology, TV & film, celebrities and UGO Networks Technology Solutions, which provides Web hosting and other professional services to UnderGroundOnline affiliates, strategic partners, and third parties. Board members include Strauss Zelnick, Former President and CEO of BMG Entertainment and Yves Sisteron, Managing Partner of GRP.
"UGO Networks' strength lies not only in the size and composition of its audience, 18- 34 year old males, but in the way in which its unique business model enables multiple revenue streams," said John Wehrle, Managing Partner of Gryphon Investments. "The Company's management team has proven to be extremely adept at leveraging and maximizing all of its internal resources."
"UGO Networks has demonstrated the ability and business acumen not only to survive but to succeed in today's market environment," said Yves Sisteron, Managing Partner of GRP. "The management team is highly adept at both managing cash and generating revenue. The company has had tremendous success in building a base of blue chip advertisers and technology clients."
UGO Networks has overall annual revenues of $15 million.
"UGO Networks will use the new funding to continue operations until our breakeven which will happen before the end of calendar year 2001," said UGO President and CEO, J Moses. "To this end, we are taking cost cutting measures to increase efficiencies in our business."
UGO Networks will use the new proceeds to grow UGO Technology Solutions, its technology business and to develop and sell advertising sponsorship packages.
"As a well funded company, we are looking to leverage our cash position to explore potential strategic partners. An ideal partner would enhance our market position and leverage the Company's core assets," said Joe Robinson, Chairman and Founder, UGO Networks.
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Why don't you just use the same address for tivo that you use for directv or buy a replaytv unit that doesn't require a subscription
In addition to defeating this "technology" I'd like to see a list of CD's that incorporate this technology published. Then using this list I can inquire at every music store I frequent if they are aware of they have the "damaged" version of the CD. I will also be able to notify artist management, promotors, and tour sponsors of my inabliity to support the recorded works of those artists that are releasing "substandard recordings" bullshit walks money talks
Well you could always transfer to a different registrar. There are several around willing to renew your domain for a low low price. www.godaddy.com will do it for around $8.95
Just don't wait till the last minute to do this. No later than 3 or 4 months before your reg is up, initiate a transfer. I would also be sure you don't need to do any modifications on your account after the transfer has been initiated.
I have used the same CD/key of Office 2K on 4 different computers. Each time it has required activation. It has never required dialing the 800 number. On my primary computer I have added ram changed CD drives changed harddrives multiple times(adding etc.) changed video cards rtemoved modems added lan cards...blah blah blah... Mine was the educational version so your milage may vary..
I've decided that I will begin to let my three year old install software, as a minor who can't read he can't possibly agree to or become a party to a legal contract.
now they tell me that "Easy does it! This comment has been submitted already, 276111 hours , 11 minutes ago. No need to try again.
Apple Cinema Display (22" flat panel) $2,499.00
Apple Studio Display (17" flat panel) $999.00
Apple Studio Display (15" flat panel) $599.00
And just in case you think they might change their minds later and try to close it back up and make it nonfree there is this
Interestingly enough most of the Southern States here in the US have "right to work" laws". YMMV from state to state the laws are different but the essence is that you can't be forced to join a union in order to have a job. This doesn't mean that unions don't exist, or that by not joining a union you arn't affected by collective barganing etc..
For Lossless Compression what about .ape from monkey's audio.
Change chairs to one with an adjustable armrest.
change keyboards to one with one of those little trackpoints
Wear a wrist support glove.
Personally I still am not satisfied. I really would like to try a ergonomic keyboard with a trackball between the two banks of keys. Just havn't found one yet.
Our whole society is revolving into a subscription, Think about all the things that you pay for on a revolving subscription basis today, then ask did these things exist or require a subscription 20 years ago?
Sure somethings may improve your quality of life but the concept of owning physical products that you pay for once and use is going away. Every manufactorer seems to be trying to get you hooked on some sort of subscription revenue stream.
The only reason I still want one is for the pivot ability of some models. I don't understand why this feature isn't available on standard crt's, (seemingly so anyway, Portrait is a company that has a software solution and monitors).
I haven't tried turning one of my monitors upright.(not sure if it will work with my old duet duel-head card, and don't know how stable the crt will be balancing on its side. Anyone have a clue if this will work?
The only reason I ask is it seems that 70 to 80 percent of the time I scroll down a page rarely do I scroll across. On the internet even with my piddly 1024 by 768 there seems to be many a site that assumes I like a big giant white space to the right of my screen.
Damn I had to endure the 13 cookies and two pop up windows a second time...
to address part of your question about directx, directly here is a link to the page about the audio processing unit.
As it appears that this chipset is an outgrowth of the Xbox development I can imagine that integration with directx* will be pretty much a given.
As far as earlier comments about drivers go, this second article mentions that "A motherboard with nForce chipset will be installed with ONE driver"
Obviously this type of chipset won't appeal to everyone, but hey for me it sounds great. No more Nic, audio card, graphics card etc to buy. The only thing they missed was integrating 128 MB or system RAM into the mix..
I personally would pee all over myself if some unpublished Robert Heinlen were to appear one day. Lord knows that J.R.R. Tolkien has had more books released after his death than ever appeared while he was alive.
Probably the grandaddy of them all as far as milking it has to be Hendrix.
Q: How many albums did Jimi Hendrix release while he was alive?
A: 5 actually 3 is all that should count cause one is a hits collection and the other is a contractual obligation album
Are You Experienced (1967)
Axis:Bold as Love(1967)
Electric Ladyland(1968)
Smash Hits(1969)
Band Of Gypsies(1970)
There were also two Curtis Knight LP's but Jimi really wasn't much more than a sideman on those so I didn't count them.
Q: How many different variations and compilations have been released since his death?
A: > 40 plus many an assorted bootleg
Are You Experienced
Axis Bold As Love
Axis: Bold As Love
Band Of Gypsies 2
Band Of Gypsys
Blues
BBC Sesions
Cornerstones
Crash Landing
Cry Of Love
Electric Hendrix
Electric Ladyland
Experience
First Rays Of The New Rising Sun
Footlights
Gloria
Hendrix Speaks
In The West
Isle Of Wight
Lifelines
Live And Unreleased The Radio Show
Live At Winterland
Live At Winterland Plus 3
Live At Winterland mini
Loose Ends
Monterey
Nine To The Universe
Radio One
Rainbow Bridge
Red House Variations On A Theme
Sacred Sources 1: Live Forever
Setting The Record Straight
Smash Hits
Stages
The Essential Jimi Hendrix
The First Rays Of The New Rising Sun
The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
The Singles Album
The Ultimate Experience
Voodoo Soup
War Heroes
Winterland 3
Woodstock
Woodstock 25
Woodstock box
I dont know how good of an investment Miscrosoft would be considered now, but back when it went public if you had purchased a few hundred shares you would be set for life now. Replace Microsoft's name with any of the following and having a crstal ball and buying shares at IPO time and holding would generally make you very wealthy.
IBM
AOL
DELL
Berkshire Hathaway
ebay
This was revealed to be false several days later here on slashdot
I doubt If I see it in my lifetime...
I've been searching for mouse alternatives today, due to a bout of carpal tunnel syndrome. 3m offers a money back gtd. so I will try them first and if that doesnt work, I plan on giving the whale mouse a try.
The closest thing I can find so far is the Audiotron from turle beach. It seems to be basicly a windows only interface but from the faq
it looks like you can interface to linux as well. This is the device that appears rebranded by several other manufactorers. Think Geek has them here The audiotron runs around 300.00 bucks and I could throw a 60 gig drive in the puter and be set for only around $400.00-500.Sure its good for consumers, Nobody is forceing you to upgrade 3 times in two years. Its all about choice, if AMD wasn't digging at Intel we wouldn't be blessed like we are now. If you want to live out on the edge, you pay the price. Me I've only upgraded 4 times in twelve years. Each time I get more for less money than the previous system cost. Lets see I went from 286 to 486-25 to pentium 166 to celeron 566. Maybe I'm weird but i tend to buy the bottom of the barrel as opposed to the bleeding edge, When your 1.2 GHZ Athlon is the entry level CPU I might get one of those machine or hold out for the next level of entry, (64 bit systems ?).
Memory is cheap now I think most people would be better served maxing out their memory rather than seeking faster CPU's.
Even better, you could follow in the footsteps of Cary Grant who was the ultimate suave sophisticated cat burglar in To Catch a Thief
UGO PRESS RELEASES
UGO Networks Raises $13 Million; Closes A New Round of Funding with $23 million
New Proceeds will be Used to Grow its Technology Business and Develop Advertising Sponsorships Packages
New York, NY March 5th, 2001 - UGO Networks, a leading entertainment company for 18-34 year old males, announced today that it raised $13 million dollars, closing a new round of funding with a total of $23 million. Lead Investors are GRP and Missouri-based Gryphon Holdings II, LLP Inc. and their investment partners. UGO Networks has raised in total $80 million. UGO Networks consists of UnderGroundOnline (www.ugo.com), a network comprised of 350 affiliated sites which feature content in animation, music, games, wrestling, technology, TV & film, celebrities and UGO Networks Technology Solutions, which provides Web hosting and other professional services to UnderGroundOnline affiliates, strategic partners, and third parties. Board members include Strauss Zelnick, Former President and CEO of BMG Entertainment and Yves Sisteron, Managing Partner of GRP.
"UGO Networks' strength lies not only in the size and composition of its audience, 18- 34 year old males, but in the way in which its unique business model enables multiple revenue streams," said John Wehrle, Managing Partner of Gryphon Investments. "The Company's management team has proven to be extremely adept at leveraging and maximizing all of its internal resources."
"UGO Networks has demonstrated the ability and business acumen not only to survive but to succeed in today's market environment," said Yves Sisteron, Managing Partner of GRP. "The management team is highly adept at both managing cash and generating revenue. The company has had tremendous success in building a base of blue chip advertisers and technology clients."
UGO Networks has overall annual revenues of $15 million.
"UGO Networks will use the new funding to continue operations until our breakeven which will happen before the end of calendar year 2001," said UGO President and CEO, J Moses. "To this end, we are taking cost cutting measures to increase efficiencies in our business."
UGO Networks will use the new proceeds to grow UGO Technology Solutions, its technology business and to develop and sell advertising sponsorship packages.
"As a well funded company, we are looking to leverage our cash position to explore potential strategic partners. An ideal partner would enhance our market position and leverage the Company's core assets," said Joe Robinson, Chairman and Founder, UGO Networks.
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