Wasted cycles, who cares? But, more importantly, these wasted cycles also take _my time_ for them to render. I find window management more of a chore than necessary already, now I'm supposed to be entertained or something while things flip around in a 2d representation of 3d space?
Why can't companies like Sun focus on things that are important to computing that are real problems. What problem is this 3d stuff solving?
Here is a small list of things people:
- Uniform cut and paste and drag and drop in a windowing environment. - A way to install software (yes, its 2004 and there is no sane way to install 3rd party software) - Common APIs for common "desktop" tasks. Wanna "rule the desktop"? How about providing something new? Like a uniform spell checker that you can embed in all apps. Its annoying that I can't spell check this post. I have spell checkers, but I cant just do it. Why is it that I do a search in a web page, and then I spend more time searching the screen for the little highlighted word than it took me to initiate the search? This is broken that it take me more time to find something that the computer has already found. How about a "file centric" GUI instead of a GUI centric GUI? I prefer the commandline, why? Because it allows me to do anything I want to my files that are sitting in front of me. I can say "vi file", or "cp file somewhere", or "cmp file1 file2", "cc file", "ispell file", or even create a new file! etc. In a gui, I have a list of my files, but I can't do anything with them. If I'm in a file browser, what are my options? I can click on something, sort it differently, thats about it. How about something away from the "Apple or Start menu"? Take a look at LaunchBar for the Mac. At any time, all I have to do is hit "applethingy-space" and then start typing what I want to launch. I can launch any app faster than hunting it down and double clicking on it, or meandering through some menu. What about revision management in docs? Why can I find any document on the web in less than 30 secs, but it takes forever, if not impossible to find something on my computer or our LAN? I could go on and on. - How about software that instead of saying "No such file or directory", or "ls -M ls: illegal option -- M usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWabcdfghiklnoqrstu1] [file...]" I didn't make that up, that is what I cut and pasted from a FreeBSD box. But instead gives the user hints as to what to do. Perl does this to some extend. With its help in finding a runaway bracket or quote instead of saying "parse error".
I find my computing experience lacking day to day, but I never thought, "You know what? I need more eye candy to solve these problems". The WIMP/Desktop interface has pretty much not changed since the Xerox Star came out with it in what 1979.
Look at the iPod for inspiration. No its not perfect, but its significantly different from a slew of other devices that do the same thing, but for some reason people like the iPod better. Look at Apple with Expose and Rendezvous. Again, not perfect, but at least different.
Oh, and btw, Microsoft is actually getting it right with Longhorn. This appears to be a step towards a filecentric OS. Also, Microsoft has added many things to the file manager window such as "common tasks" or whatnot (I'm not a M$ customer, but I've seen these things).
Its clear. a/b/g are transmition protocols./i and/x are security protocols/a can be faster than/b, but not necessarily faster than/g/a is usually compatable with/b stuff,/g stuff is usually compatable with/a and/b. something labeled as/a or/b will probably work with a/g at some negotiated speed
I could care less about/i and/x, I do my own encryption, thank you very much
Thanks. Interesting, they seem to be exactly the same as the RIAA. Look at their "news" section and the "news" section at the RIAA. Also, their about pages are nearly the same.
I still cant figure out why other industy's trade organizations behave like the music's trade organizations. I guess that the rumors about the music industry just being sleezy is true.
Remember, frivilous lawsuits is a big business here in the US. We are familiar with the litigious bastards. We, believe it or not, actually have lawyers on TV telling uninteligent people that they will get them CA$H for any wrongdoing done to them.
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People, stop thinking of the RIAA as a company. They are not. They don't have any distribution or promotion methods. They do 2 things. They "give" labels to albums that have sold X numbers of copies (gold, platinum, etc), and they go to court. Don't believe me, read it from them.
If I were a lawyer, and couldn't get a real job, playing the RIAA game would certainly pay the bills.
I too only have a cell phone (actually its digital, but everyone calls them cell phones still).
I kinda doubt that hiding behind a mobile phone will not work much longer. With number portability, how can a phone spammer tell the difference between a mobile number and a line number?
That's right, if you got bugged during dinner by someone selling you one of their credit cards, I wrote the Informix-4GL app that guided the agent through the sale.
Fuck you. At least it seems as though you don't do it any more.
I'm not that strong with anyone except those that invade my personal space during my personal time asking me for money.
In case you or anyone like you did not get the message clearly, Fuck off!
You are parasites, just like spammers, go get a real job.
Is it just me or do these issues only seem to happen when some no-name corporation "remembers" that they somehow invented a wide-sweeping technology?
Yeah, that seems about right. Patents are simply broken. Their intention was to promote innovation, yet I cannot think of an example recently (past 50-75 years) where innovation happens as a result of patenting something. If anything, it actually hinders innovation.
The infamous laser patent went on for almost 20 years. I don't know of the benefits Gould got by winning the patent, but lasers have become ubiquitous. Look at how many things we use every day that have lasers in them. Bar code scanners, CD players/burners, fiber optics, laser pointers, etc etc. How much innovation would have come from lasers if there were some large tax on the technology?
Also, it seems as though the stupid patents are also the most profitable. Like the "one click" thingy, or Symbol's patent on a "bar code reader with a trigger". Yes, the next time you are at a store and you see a barcode reader with a trigger, odds are its a Symbol product. If not, the "technology" is licensed from Symbol. I used to work with hand held barcode scanners, and I've only used one that was not a Symbol. I don't see too much innovation in the "one click" or "triggered barcode scanners".
Another problem with patents, is that they do nothing to the "little guy" who patents something. First, the little guy probably has no means to mass produce the patented item, so what the hell is he innovating? Thinking of something and doing something are two different things. Also, if the little guy has a patent on something, it is up to them to defend it. This costs big bucks and takes considerable amount of time, two things a little guy does not have to spare. I laugh at those comercials where the people say "If I had a patent I'd be rich!" I doubt it. Most "self made" rich people are those that start their own business, bust their ass, and make it work (independant of patents).
I havn't gotten a single cold call since I got rid of my land line phone about a year ago. Before that, it was at least one a day, not including voice mail spam. I also have not paid a phone bill either (my work pays for my cell).
You know what? Its better this way. I would get most pissed off when I would get telemarkers looking for "Philip Wong" (I am not asian), some of them only spoke Chinese. I got my phone spam, and his for 2 years.
All they can do is raise the level of difficulty so high that the average individual won't be able to do it.
I would describe John Hinckley, as average at best, and he stepped forward from a crowd of television reporters and fired six shots hitting the President (Reagan) and others.
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What features does Windows offer Iraq that Linux doesn't?
Easily downloading and installing software, maybe? (Maybe, its too easy on windows)
Redundant post, so I'll redundantly post my reply to the original.
Is that this was one huge tax write off for the RIAA. They get to declare full retail price on these CD's on taxes, AND they clear out inventory
Huh? What CDs? What inventory? The RIAA is just an industry trade association like the American Plastics Council, or the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. I don't think the plastics council nor the beef council have inventories of beef, plastic, or CDs.
When are people going to realize that the RIAA does not really exist? They are merely a bunch of lawyers that can't get a real job, so they create this thing called the RIAA and guess what? They get paid either way. For a lawsuit against them, for all of these bogus lawsuits against everybody, the lawyers (aka RIAA) will get paid win, lose, or draw.
If I get contaminated beef, who would I sue? Not the beef's trade association, it would be the store or the beef plant that made the bad product.
If I get caught stealing something from the store, the store does not take me to court, they report it to the "proper authorities", and the store people only show up as a witness. I would doubt that there would ever be a trade organization involved.
If I get caught "stealing" music (yes, go on a tangent about this, I dare you), some group of lawyers (RIAA) come after me. Why can't they just report it to the "proper authorities"? I mean, on every movie I have watched at home the fucking FBI says that they will practically kill me if I do anything that violates the copyright on the video. How difficult is it just to turn over the people? That is what everyone else does.
Huh? What product? The RIAA is just an industry trade association like the American Plastics Council.
When are people going to realize that the RIAA does not really exist? They are merely a bunch of lawyers that can't get a real job, so they create this thing called the RIAA and guess what? They get paid either way. For a lawsuit against them, for all of these bogus lawsuits against everybody, the lawyers (aka RIAA) will get paid win, lose, or draw.
If I get contaminated beef, who would I sue? Not the beef's trade association, it would be the store or the beef plant that made the bad product.
If I get caught stealing something from the store, the store does not take me to court, they report it to the "proper authorities", and the store people only show up as a witness. I would doubt that there would ever be a trade organization involved.
If I get caught "stealing" music (yes, go on a tangent about this, I dare you), some group of lawyers (RIAA) come after me. Why can't they just report it to the "proper authorities"? I mean, on every movie I have watched at home the fucking FBI says that they will practically kill me if I do anything that violates the copyright on the video. How difficult is it just to turn over the people? That is what everyone else does.
Wahoo! screen is the trick. I havn't used it in years, and I just prefer to login with different windows vs stacking them in a screen session, but thats my pref.
Anyway, to background it just do screen bittorent_app --bittorent_options file.torrent then do Control-A, and d to detach the app, you can then logout. To reattach do screen -x or if you have many running do screen --list to find the guy you want.
I regularly use 2 kinds of gui apps, web browsers and the MacOS finder.
I prefer the power of the commandline and I can do the same things with the same commands on just about any OS beit my Mac, Linux, or Solaris.
For torrents I use Bittornado. I have a better question, how do you run a program that is determined to be run from a tty in the background? Bittornado in the background says something like "tty suspended" or somehting when I background it. Please provide any insights into this.
I have burned CDs for years using cdrecord under Linux, Windows, and my Mac. To me its the best way to burn a cd.
Ghesh, I could go on for hours with all of the little terminal apps that I use, including my aliases, shell functions, and scripts.
Completely unnecessary. Considering they "needed" the data so that they could test whether their computer programs could detect terrorists out of the million and half people who fly daily.
Thats fucking bullshit! A) That is a stupid test unless they already knew that there were terrorists in that data, and still its a stupid test B) If a bozo can write a program that finds terrorists from "phone numbers, credit card numbers and health data", they can certainly cook up their own data with known results to test the program.
The more added features that come into our government as a result of the infamous date of 9/11 (pretty soon we will forget the year, and couldn't there be a better name for the event, I've never heard of a something only refered to by 2 numbers indicating a month and a day, anyway..).
Being that the government and the oil companies have gained much from these events, it might be wise to follow the money and power to see who actually planned and funded the stuff. What did these "attacks" benefit the al Queda?
They are not a law enforcement agency, can they say that the laws regarding copyright don't apply to us since we own the copyright?
I've been trying to figure out who the RIAA really is. No, they are not a law enforcement agency. And to my knowledge, they are _not_ the copyright holders either. Their members are the copyright holders. These members pay a voluntary fee (tax if you will) to the RIAA. The RIAA is an industry trade group. Other industry trade groups that you might be familiar with in the US are the National Cattlemens's Beef Association (the "Beef, it's what's for dinner" people) and the American Plastics Counccil.
Note that the latter two orginizations end in.org, while the RIAA ends in.com. In fact, the RIAA has bought the riaa.org domain, and it redirects you to the.com domain.
If you look at the pres releases by the RIAA, they have been into this suing thing for a long time, or at least back to 1996 where their archives begin.
I believe that the RIAA does quite well financially, and they actually probably like piracy and whatnot, becauase it gives them something to do. Otherwise they would just be the people making parental warnings and issuing awards for high selling albums. Think of which makes more money. Lawsuits or warnings and awards. Remember, the lawyers get paid if they win, loose, go to court or not.
If the RIAA were interested in music and getting people to buy music, then they would change their product. I mean remember the beany baby phenominon? People will buy just about anything. People obviously want music, they download it, right? Also, these people have no emotional attachment to their mp3 collection. I would be that the percentage of people do not have backups of their mp3s, nor would care to terribly much if they lost them all in a hard drive failure. I know of people that have been very upset when their CD collection was stolen or otherwise lost.
Why cant the RIAA do things like making meaningful reissues of older material? Things that come with books, extra tracks, live material, etc, etc? Kinda like SCO. They could a) sell a product or b) make money through lawsuits and press releases.
Most ISPs don't block ports to prevent their users from doing something they don't want to do. Why? Because its trivial to move any given service to another port.
This has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I have heard in a while. It really sounds like a push from some wifi startup or something to suck government funds.
What percentage of sleepy people are there going to be on the road traveling in Texas that have a computer on them with wifi access and really want to stop to use it? Dunno, but probably not many.
What percentage of sleepy people are there going to be on the road traveling in Texas that want to stop at a rest stop every once and a while that has clean bathrooms, palatable water (ie, not that recycled toilet water), and maybe a free, or affordable cup of coffee that is palatable? I'd guess about 100. Anything below 100 is for those that don't drink coffee.
This is the best "news", I believe that I have experienced in my lifetime since the launch of the 1st space shuttle. No, I do not consider wars and killings as news. My life is not really affected by them. Sorry.
My life has been affected by explorers that came to this country (USA), and by those who have gone into space. Both war/killing and exploration provide an idiology for rustling up resources to get a common goal accomplished, but I kinda prefer the latter.
One thing to note is that the X Prize will be awarded to "the first privately funded group to send three people on a suborbital flight 62.5miles (100.6 kilometers) high and repeat the feat within two weeks using the same vehicle."
That is a pretty high goal, because I do not know of any space vehicle that has accomplished this (am I wrong?).
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Wasted cycles, who cares? But, more importantly, these wasted cycles also take _my time_ for them to render. I find window management more of a chore than necessary already, now I'm supposed to be entertained or something while things flip around in a 2d representation of 3d space?
...]" I didn't make that up, that is what I cut and pasted from a FreeBSD box. But instead gives the user hints as to what to do. Perl does this to some extend. With its help in finding a runaway bracket or quote instead of saying "parse error".
Why can't companies like Sun focus on things that are important to computing that are real problems. What problem is this 3d stuff solving?
Here is a small list of things people:
- Uniform cut and paste and drag and drop in a windowing environment.
- A way to install software (yes, its 2004 and there is no sane way to install 3rd party software)
- Common APIs for common "desktop" tasks. Wanna "rule the desktop"? How about providing something new? Like a uniform spell checker that you can embed in all apps. Its annoying that I can't spell check this post. I have spell checkers, but I cant just do it. Why is it that I do a search in a web page, and then I spend more time searching the screen for the little highlighted word than it took me to initiate the search? This is broken that it take me more time to find something that the computer has already found. How about a "file centric" GUI instead of a GUI centric GUI? I prefer the commandline, why? Because it allows me to do anything I want to my files that are sitting in front of me. I can say "vi file", or "cp file somewhere", or "cmp file1 file2", "cc file", "ispell file", or even create a new file! etc. In a gui, I have a list of my files, but I can't do anything with them. If I'm in a file browser, what are my options? I can click on something, sort it differently, thats about it. How about something away from the "Apple or Start menu"? Take a look at LaunchBar for the Mac. At any time, all I have to do is hit "applethingy-space" and then start typing what I want to launch. I can launch any app faster than hunting it down and double clicking on it, or meandering through some menu. What about revision management in docs? Why can I find any document on the web in less than 30 secs, but it takes forever, if not impossible to find something on my computer or our LAN? I could go on and on.
- How about software that instead of saying "No such file or directory", or "ls -M
ls: illegal option -- M
usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWabcdfghiklnoqrstu1] [file
I find my computing experience lacking day to day, but I never thought, "You know what? I need more eye candy to solve these problems". The WIMP/Desktop interface has pretty much not changed since the Xerox Star came out with it in what 1979.
Look at the iPod for inspiration. No its not perfect, but its significantly different from a slew of other devices that do the same thing, but for some reason people like the iPod better. Look at Apple with Expose and Rendezvous. Again, not perfect, but at least different.
Oh, and btw, Microsoft is actually getting it right with Longhorn. This appears to be a step towards a filecentric OS. Also, Microsoft has added many things to the file manager window such as "common tasks" or whatnot (I'm not a M$ customer, but I've seen these things).
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Its clear. a/b/g are transmition protocols. /i and /x are security protocols /a can be faster than /b, but not necessarily faster than /g /a is usually compatable with /b stuff, /g stuff is usually compatable with /a and /b. something labeled as /a or /b will probably work with a /g at some negotiated speed
/i and /x, I do my own encryption, thank you very much
I could care less about
Thanks. Interesting, they seem to be exactly the same as the RIAA. Look at their "news" section and the "news" section at the RIAA. Also, their about pages are nearly the same.
I still cant figure out why other industy's trade organizations behave like the music's trade organizations. I guess that the rumors about the music industry just being sleezy is true.
I don't care that you were a developer or a janitor or just the girl that gave blowjobs in the back room.
Your job at the time irritated and pissed off thousands if not millions of people.
Can a canadian or someone who knows fill us in if there is a parallel to the RIAA in that country (or any other country).
The closest thing I could find was Canadian Country Music Association. However their about us page differs greatly from RIAA's about us page.
Remember, frivilous lawsuits is a big business here in the US. We are familiar with the litigious bastards. We, believe it or not, actually have lawyers on TV telling uninteligent people that they will get them CA$H for any wrongdoing done to them.
People, stop thinking of the RIAA as a company. They are not. They don't have any distribution or promotion methods. They do 2 things. They "give" labels to albums that have sold X numbers of copies (gold, platinum, etc), and they go to court. Don't believe me, read it from them.
If I were a lawyer, and couldn't get a real job, playing the RIAA game would certainly pay the bills.
I will implement a FM trasmitter, its too cheap and utilitarian not to. But, I also want a high quality connection as well.
From the government's perspective, anyone who engages in model rocketry could be capable of doing something more dangerous.
I feel soooo much safer knowing that all of the rocket using terrorists spend 3 to 4 months get fingerprinted and background checked.
As far as I know, portability only works between mobile phones, not from a landline to a mobile phone.
nope.
Imagine that, an Anonymous Coward admitting that they are a phone spammer. A person that NOBODY likes.
And you have the balls to bitch about how difficult it is to annoy people during dinner.
Fuck off, get a real job. Hopefully, it will be increasingly difficult for you to "do your job".
I too only have a cell phone (actually its digital, but everyone calls them cell phones still).
I kinda doubt that hiding behind a mobile phone will not work much longer. With number portability, how can a phone spammer tell the difference between a mobile number and a line number?
That's right, if you got bugged during dinner by someone selling you one of their credit cards, I wrote the Informix-4GL app that guided the agent through the sale.
Fuck you. At least it seems as though you don't do it any more.
I'm not that strong with anyone except those that invade my personal space during my personal time asking me for money.
In case you or anyone like you did not get the message clearly, Fuck off!
You are parasites, just like spammers, go get a real job.
Is it just me or do these issues only seem to happen when some no-name corporation "remembers" that they somehow invented a wide-sweeping technology?
Yeah, that seems about right. Patents are simply broken. Their intention was to promote innovation, yet I cannot think of an example recently (past 50-75 years) where innovation happens as a result of patenting something. If anything, it actually hinders innovation.
The infamous laser patent went on for almost 20 years. I don't know of the benefits Gould got by winning the patent, but lasers have become ubiquitous. Look at how many things we use every day that have lasers in them. Bar code scanners, CD players/burners, fiber optics, laser pointers, etc etc. How much innovation would have come from lasers if there were some large tax on the technology?
Also, it seems as though the stupid patents are also the most profitable. Like the "one click" thingy, or Symbol's patent on a "bar code reader with a trigger". Yes, the next time you are at a store and you see a barcode reader with a trigger, odds are its a Symbol product. If not, the "technology" is licensed from Symbol. I used to work with hand held barcode scanners, and I've only used one that was not a Symbol. I don't see too much innovation in the "one click" or "triggered barcode scanners".
Another problem with patents, is that they do nothing to the "little guy" who patents something. First, the little guy probably has no means to mass produce the patented item, so what the hell is he innovating? Thinking of something and doing something are two different things. Also, if the little guy has a patent on something, it is up to them to defend it. This costs big bucks and takes considerable amount of time, two things a little guy does not have to spare. I laugh at those comercials where the people say "If I had a patent I'd be rich!" I doubt it. Most "self made" rich people are those that start their own business, bust their ass, and make it work (independant of patents).
I havn't gotten a single cold call since I got rid of my land line phone about a year ago. Before that, it was at least one a day, not including voice mail spam. I also have not paid a phone bill either (my work pays for my cell).
You know what? Its better this way. I would get most pissed off when I would get telemarkers looking for "Philip Wong" (I am not asian), some of them only spoke Chinese. I got my phone spam, and his for 2 years.
I don't miss it.
All they can do is raise the level of difficulty so high that the average individual won't be able to do it.
I would describe John Hinckley, as average at best, and he stepped forward from a crowd of television reporters and fired six shots hitting the President (Reagan) and others.
What features does Windows offer Iraq that Linux doesn't?
Easily downloading and installing software, maybe? (Maybe, its too easy on windows)
Redundant post, so I'll redundantly post my reply to the original.
Is that this was one huge tax write off for the RIAA. They get to declare full retail price on these CD's on taxes, AND they clear out inventory
Huh? What CDs? What inventory? The RIAA is just an industry trade association like the American Plastics Council, or the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. I don't think the plastics council nor the beef council have inventories of beef, plastic, or CDs.
When are people going to realize that the RIAA does not really exist? They are merely a bunch of lawyers that can't get a real job, so they create this thing called the RIAA and guess what? They get paid either way. For a lawsuit against them, for all of these bogus lawsuits against everybody, the lawyers (aka RIAA) will get paid win, lose, or draw.
If I get contaminated beef, who would I sue? Not the beef's trade association, it would be the store or the beef plant that made the bad product.
If I get caught stealing something from the store, the store does not take me to court, they report it to the "proper authorities", and the store people only show up as a witness. I would doubt that there would ever be a trade organization involved.
If I get caught "stealing" music (yes, go on a tangent about this, I dare you), some group of lawyers (RIAA) come after me. Why can't they just report it to the "proper authorities"? I mean, on every movie I have watched at home the fucking FBI says that they will practically kill me if I do anything that violates the copyright on the video. How difficult is it just to turn over the people? That is what everyone else does.
tax write-off on unsold product
Huh? What product? The RIAA is just an industry trade association like the American Plastics Council.
When are people going to realize that the RIAA does not really exist? They are merely a bunch of lawyers that can't get a real job, so they create this thing called the RIAA and guess what? They get paid either way. For a lawsuit against them, for all of these bogus lawsuits against everybody, the lawyers (aka RIAA) will get paid win, lose, or draw.
If I get contaminated beef, who would I sue? Not the beef's trade association, it would be the store or the beef plant that made the bad product.
If I get caught stealing something from the store, the store does not take me to court, they report it to the "proper authorities", and the store people only show up as a witness. I would doubt that there would ever be a trade organization involved.
If I get caught "stealing" music (yes, go on a tangent about this, I dare you), some group of lawyers (RIAA) come after me. Why can't they just report it to the "proper authorities"? I mean, on every movie I have watched at home the fucking FBI says that they will practically kill me if I do anything that violates the copyright on the video. How difficult is it just to turn over the people? That is what everyone else does.
Wahoo! screen is the trick. I havn't used it in years, and I just prefer to login with different windows vs stacking them in a screen session, but thats my pref.
Anyway, to background it just do screen bittorent_app --bittorent_options file.torrent then do Control-A, and d to detach the app, you can then logout. To reattach do screen -x or if you have many running do screen --list to find the guy you want.
Console is different than a terminal.
I regularly use 2 kinds of gui apps, web browsers and the MacOS finder.
I prefer the power of the commandline and I can do the same things with the same commands on just about any OS beit my Mac, Linux, or Solaris.
For torrents I use Bittornado. I have a better question, how do you run a program that is determined to be run from a tty in the background? Bittornado in the background says something like "tty suspended" or somehting when I background it. Please provide any insights into this.
I have burned CDs for years using cdrecord under Linux, Windows, and my Mac. To me its the best way to burn a cd.
Ghesh, I could go on for hours with all of the little terminal apps that I use, including my aliases, shell functions, and scripts.
Completely unnecessary. Considering they "needed" the data so that they could test whether their computer programs could detect terrorists out of the million and half people who fly daily.
Thats fucking bullshit! A) That is a stupid test unless they already knew that there were terrorists in that data, and still its a stupid test B) If a bozo can write a program that finds terrorists from "phone numbers, credit card numbers and health data", they can certainly cook up their own data with known results to test the program.
The more added features that come into our government as a result of the infamous date of 9/11 (pretty soon we will forget the year, and couldn't there be a better name for the event, I've never heard of a something only refered to by 2 numbers indicating a month and a day, anyway..).
Being that the government and the oil companies have gained much from these events, it might be wise to follow the money and power to see who actually planned and funded the stuff. What did these "attacks" benefit the al Queda?
They are not a law enforcement agency, can they say that the laws regarding copyright don't apply to us since we own the copyright?
.org, while the RIAA ends in .com. In fact, the RIAA has bought the riaa.org domain, and it redirects you to the .com domain.
I've been trying to figure out who the RIAA really is. No, they are not a law enforcement agency. And to my knowledge, they are _not_ the copyright holders either. Their members are the copyright holders. These members pay a voluntary fee (tax if you will) to the RIAA. The RIAA is an industry trade group. Other industry trade groups that you might be familiar with in the US are the National Cattlemens's Beef Association (the "Beef, it's what's for dinner" people) and the American Plastics Counccil.
Note that the latter two orginizations end in
If you look at the pres releases by the RIAA, they have been into this suing thing for a long time, or at least back to 1996 where their archives begin.
I believe that the RIAA does quite well financially, and they actually probably like piracy and whatnot, becauase it gives them something to do. Otherwise they would just be the people making parental warnings and issuing awards for high selling albums. Think of which makes more money. Lawsuits or warnings and awards. Remember, the lawyers get paid if they win, loose, go to court or not.
If the RIAA were interested in music and getting people to buy music, then they would change their product. I mean remember the beany baby phenominon? People will buy just about anything. People obviously want music, they download it, right? Also, these people have no emotional attachment to their mp3 collection. I would be that the percentage of people do not have backups of their mp3s, nor would care to terribly much if they lost them all in a hard drive failure. I know of people that have been very upset when their CD collection was stolen or otherwise lost.
Why cant the RIAA do things like making meaningful reissues of older material? Things that come with books, extra tracks, live material, etc, etc? Kinda like SCO. They could a) sell a product or b) make money through lawsuits and press releases.
Most ISPs don't block ports to prevent their users from doing something they don't want to do. Why? Because its trivial to move any given service to another port.
Moderators, think before you mod.
This has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I have heard in a while. It really sounds like a push from some wifi startup or something to suck government funds.
What percentage of sleepy people are there going to be on the road traveling in Texas that have a computer on them with wifi access and really want to stop to use it? Dunno, but probably not many.
What percentage of sleepy people are there going to be on the road traveling in Texas that want to stop at a rest stop every once and a while that has clean bathrooms, palatable water (ie, not that recycled toilet water), and maybe a free, or affordable cup of coffee that is palatable? I'd guess about 100. Anything below 100 is for those that don't drink coffee.
I vote put the wifi in!
This is the best "news", I believe that I have experienced in my lifetime since the launch of the 1st space shuttle. No, I do not consider wars and killings as news. My life is not really affected by them. Sorry.
My life has been affected by explorers that came to this country (USA), and by those who have gone into space. Both war/killing and exploration provide an idiology for rustling up resources to get a common goal accomplished, but I kinda prefer the latter.
One thing to note is that the X Prize will be awarded to "the first privately funded group to send three people on a suborbital flight 62.5miles (100.6 kilometers) high and repeat the feat within two weeks using the same vehicle."
That is a pretty high goal, because I do not know of any space vehicle that has accomplished this (am I wrong?).