Metallica S&M would run over $20 on this. I'd rather pay the $16 for the CD and be able to burn it in the for4mat of my choice. (i.e. ogg)
Metallica's not available from this service, as they're not technically part of a major label catalog.
Yes, their records in the US are distributed by Elektra, which is part of Warner Brothers Records (and AOLTW), but a corporation formed by the members of the band, their management (Q Prime), and Elektra owns the recordings. This is why Metallica's suit against Napster was separate from the RIAA's.
One thing I hope that they will do is have better integrated menus for GNOME and KDE programs. I ran KDE in Debian and always hated that by default, there was a "Debian" submenu for non-KDE programs. Ditto under GNOME. Programs ought to be grouped by task, not by desktop.
Mandrake has made the Debian menu system do just that. Perhaps the Debian developers may want to take a look?
not install a spreadsheet, word proccessor, hex editor, and powerpoint clone, when you tell dpkg or apt to install a / window manager/
I assume you refer to KDE and KOffice. Three of the big five distros (Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian) seem to have shitty packaging of KDE (how do SuSE and Slack package KDE?). In Red Hat's case, we have an emasculated KDE. In Mandrake's case, we have a development team that is willing to put in a shitload of broken Requires and Conflicts. I would have thought Debian could avoid these problems. Hmmm... if some of the smartest Linux developers can't package KDE with any degree of sanity, I think that could possibly indicate that KDE's design is fundamentally broken, in that it's quite impossible to break it down into independent modules.
Optimizing the kernel for a particular CPU model is almost certainly a win
glibc, X, and crypto libs would get a benefit from CPU optimization. If nothing else, the order of instructions might be changed to better support a superscalar architecture.
Mandrake accomplishes the glibc by having a/lib/i686 directory with i686 builds of the most intense glibc components. At runtime, the kernel is queried to determine the CPU and based on that, either the i586 builds in/lib or the i686 builds in/lib/i686 are used.
Of course, this doesn't work on VIA processors, as they are mistakenly id'd by the kernel as i686-compatible, when they really aren't.
The OSS community can make a desktop that is better than XP. In fact, all of the bits of the puzzle are already there, it's just that they are in different distributions! (Xandros, SUSE, RedHat, Lindows, Debian...)
I wouldn't be surprised if the Debian Desktop borrows Mandrake Control Center. After all, Mandrake uses the Debian menu system.
If it's BSD licensed to US citizens, then any US citizen could redistribute it to anyone else (the BSD License places essentially no restrictions on redistribution).
What about going at it from the other angle? Have a free library of movies available. Movies can not be removed from the library, similar to how libraries do not allow certain books to be taken home. The cafe would charge for use of the movie viewing equipment.
That doesn't get around it. The law's position (at least as interpreted by the courts) has essentially been that any time money changes hands and a movie plays more than an incidental part in the transaction constitutes sale of a viewing of a movie with the accompanying requirement of a license. Video stores do have to receive licenses from the studios to play movies at the store (though such licenses are generally part of the license to rent the film, as the studios have found that having the video playing in the store helps the rental revenue).
That's the reason that you get licenses from the distributors of the films. I would find out who holds the distribution rights in your country and ask them. Most likely, you will have to pay them a percentage (50% sounds likely) of every time the movie is shown, plus a fixed fee.
The simple fact is that this guy wants to exhibit films for profit (or to at least make money from the sale of viewing films; as far as the law is concerned, these are the same thing) and that's not covered by any definition of fair use.
If you get the licenses, they really can't sue you (unless you break the terms of the license, for instance saying that you only sold $100 worth of viewings while you really sold $10,000 worth); any suits would get laughed out of court. I would definitely have a lawyer present while negotiating the license, though, and might even consider having the lawyer draft all correspondence.
Anyone catch RMS on The Screen Savers [techtv.com] last night? He told a very interesting story of the night of fun he had recently at the Playboy mansion...
Just as long as RMS didn't get with any of the babes on The Screen Savers...
A question to the poster: Do you really feel that an opt-out system is adequate in this case? If so, how is it fundamentally different than opt-out spammers?
It's no different, assuming that the spammers do actually remove you from the lists fully and completely (this includes not putting your email address on a list of known live ones which are then sold).
Interestingly enough, the searchking ceo claims that the big issue is the existence of spider-based search engines, for he claims that they are illegally using intellectual property without an agreement.
It's obvious that Google and SearchKing do not have such an agreement, so I say Google should just refuse to follow links to.searchking.com. Guess what that makes SearchKing's pagerank?
Holy shit. Mr. King is even stupider than I originally thought. I'll let him speak for himself.
Does an unspoken contract exist between search services and webmasters that allow a search engine to legally build it's business using the content of webmasters without express permission?
It's called robots.txt. Learn it. Use it.
Those are just a few of the questions that I personally believe every search service on the net may be liable for. These are questions that have never been asked. There is no precedence for and they have never been challenged. Now we all live with an internet that is riddled with mistrust, misconceptions and misunderstandings. It is a shame.
Oh, so now you want to destroy search engines themselves. Except for yours. Yeah... um... riiiiiight...
For the sake of time and in consideration of limited finanacial resources, this case has to be about only one or two things at this time. I can't sue on behalf of all the portals. I don't have permission from everyone. It seems that most people are forgetting that SK is one thing and the portals are something else. It seems no one wants to see that the portals are all independent, but no matter what anyone sees, they are independent and that would have to be something more like a class action suit and I'm not even sure what that entails and could die a happy man if I never have to learn.
So not even your link spamming buddies are willing to support you. You know you've got it bad when even the pr0n sites and casinos that googlebomb look down on you.
Actually, this guy has been using a "system" for some time now. This is a new account but he follows a similar modus operandi while juggling various accounts (cf. PhysicsGenius and Professor%20Collins, to name a few). Once he gets santioned for the troll he is, he starts a new account to build up some karma. Positive karma accounts lie in wait so he can moderate up other troll accounts. This is the source of Insightful and Interesting mods. Of course, the Funny mods can be anyone; you have to admit some of the technobabble is pretty hilarious.
If you really want to fight this behavior, do your metamoderation with an eye for the "trolls modding trolls" abuse.
Here's a project for you, Mr. AC: s/troll/jew/
Does that change your view of the bigoted words you write?
That reminds me of the time I got a letter which said "Darling, I love you and I cannot live without you. Marry me or I will kill myself." I was a bit taken aback, until I checked the envelope. It was addressed to "Occupant".
B ill Gates owns a mansian made out of solid steel and if yuo brake into his house without dying he will gives yuo $5.5 million. his robots run on Microsoft Oragami XT so all yuo have to do si sends them teh jabbascript and they'll CRASH INTO A WALL!!!
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Lunix Torvavvavlids invented open sours but he didant make any big moneys becuase Micorsoft stole his car and sold it to Denmark for a prince's ransom. ALso Lunix si free whitch is a bad marketing decisian from a buisnisess standpoint because teh only free things are Bonzi Buddy and Comet Cursor and we all see how grate those dirt naps are!
Being a poor college student, my production machine isn't that mission critical (it's just a workstation), but I lack a testbed. Hopefully, on obtaining sufficient dough to upgrade my creaky Duron 650, I'll have a decent testing machine.
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Am I the only one who thinks that the Loads are better than the black album?
Metallica's not available from this service, as they're not technically part of a major label catalog.
Yes, their records in the US are distributed by Elektra, which is part of Warner Brothers Records (and AOLTW), but a corporation formed by the members of the band, their management (Q Prime), and Elektra owns the recordings. This is why Metallica's suit against Napster was separate from the RIAA's.
That has nothing to do with its status as the most powerful force in the universe [!!!!!]. Evil and power are orthogonal.
Mandrake has made the Debian menu system do just that. Perhaps the Debian developers may want to take a look?
I assume you refer to KDE and KOffice. Three of the big five distros (Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian) seem to have shitty packaging of KDE (how do SuSE and Slack package KDE?). In Red Hat's case, we have an emasculated KDE. In Mandrake's case, we have a development team that is willing to put in a shitload of broken Requires and Conflicts. I would have thought Debian could avoid these problems. Hmmm... if some of the smartest Linux developers can't package KDE with any degree of sanity, I think that could possibly indicate that KDE's design is fundamentally broken, in that it's quite impossible to break it down into independent modules.
Food for thought.
glibc, X, and crypto libs would get a benefit from CPU optimization. If nothing else, the order of instructions might be changed to better support a superscalar architecture.
Mandrake accomplishes the glibc by having a /lib/i686 directory with i686 builds of the most intense glibc components. At runtime, the kernel is queried to determine the CPU and based on that, either the i586 builds in /lib or the i686 builds in /lib/i686 are used.
Of course, this doesn't work on VIA processors, as they are mistakenly id'd by the kernel as i686-compatible, when they really aren't.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Debian Desktop borrows Mandrake Control Center. After all, Mandrake uses the Debian menu system.
e: The Most Powerful Force in the Universe!
Not that it matters a damn.
If it's BSD licensed to US citizens, then any US citizen could redistribute it to anyone else (the BSD License places essentially no restrictions on redistribution).
That doesn't get around it. The law's position (at least as interpreted by the courts) has essentially been that any time money changes hands and a movie plays more than an incidental part in the transaction constitutes sale of a viewing of a movie with the accompanying requirement of a license. Video stores do have to receive licenses from the studios to play movies at the store (though such licenses are generally part of the license to rent the film, as the studios have found that having the video playing in the store helps the rental revenue).
That's the reason that you get licenses from the distributors of the films. I would find out who holds the distribution rights in your country and ask them. Most likely, you will have to pay them a percentage (50% sounds likely) of every time the movie is shown, plus a fixed fee.
The simple fact is that this guy wants to exhibit films for profit (or to at least make money from the sale of viewing films; as far as the law is concerned, these are the same thing) and that's not covered by any definition of fair use.
If you get the licenses, they really can't sue you (unless you break the terms of the license, for instance saying that you only sold $100 worth of viewings while you really sold $10,000 worth); any suits would get laughed out of court. I would definitely have a lawyer present while negotiating the license, though, and might even consider having the lawyer draft all correspondence.
If only TinyDNS was free software...
Just as long as RMS didn't get with any of the babes on The Screen Savers...
In addition, mining/extraction industries are some of the industries that have the most to gain from large governments.
As your post has shown, your teachers cannot be trusted with teaching you spelling.
It's no different, assuming that the spammers do actually remove you from the lists fully and completely (this includes not putting your email address on a list of known live ones which are then sold).
Interestingly enough, the searchking ceo claims that the big issue is the existence of spider-based search engines, for he claims that they are illegally using intellectual property without an agreement.
It's obvious that Google and SearchKing do not have such an agreement, so I say Google should just refuse to follow links to .searchking.com. Guess what that makes SearchKing's pagerank?
Holy shit. Mr. King is even stupider than I originally thought. I'll let him speak for himself.
It's called robots.txt. Learn it. Use it.
Oh, so now you want to destroy search engines themselves. Except for yours. Yeah... um... riiiiiight...
So not even your link spamming buddies are willing to support you. You know you've got it bad when even the pr0n sites and casinos that googlebomb look down on you.
Here's a project for you, Mr. AC: s/troll/jew/
Does that change your view of the bigoted words you write?
That reminds me of the time I got a letter which said "Darling, I love you and I cannot live without you. Marry me or I will kill myself." I was a bit taken aback, until I checked the envelope. It was addressed to "Occupant".
If I could mod you, Insightful, my dear AC, I most definitely would.
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B ill Gates owns a mansian made out of solid steel and if yuo brake into his house without dying he will gives yuo $5.5 million. his robots run on Microsoft Oragami XT so all yuo have to do si sends them teh jabbascript and they'll CRASH INTO A WALL!!!
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Lunix Torvavvavlids invented open sours but he didant make any big moneys becuase Micorsoft stole his car and sold it to Denmark for a prince's ransom. ALso Lunix si free whitch is a bad marketing decisian from a buisnisess standpoint because teh only free things are Bonzi Buddy and Comet Cursor and we all see how grate those dirt naps are!
The answer in a moment...
Being a poor college student, my production machine isn't that mission critical (it's just a workstation), but I lack a testbed. Hopefully, on obtaining sufficient dough to upgrade my creaky Duron 650, I'll have a decent testing machine.
Because I'm only able to install it on a production machine, I can't totally throw caution to the wind.