Actually you can download it legally if you really want to, from mp3.com.
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From what I can tell from the entries so far the competition isn't for technical ideas. It is mostly social ideas, like starting a school program or helping out in a third world country. I would not expect to see their target audience submit an idea for developing a new video compression technique.
I personally would not bash Microsoft or Visa for this one. The aim is promote MSN and Visa, not a way to get ideas for free. Besides, I highly doubt Microsoft would be able to patent a method for paying off Grandma's medical bills.
It is unfortunate that in our society blond women (natural and more commonly unnatural) are labeled in such a way. I have observed that many blond women are quite smart, however, they often hide this under the vail of behavior expected of them as "blonds."
What makes this tough is figuring out how to correctly award the original creators of the "information." A movie is much more than just IP on a disk. There is a lot of work that goes into making the first copy.
The reoccuring theme, which I have trouble with in capitalism, is having people do hard work, while others ride along. In other words, how do you make sure the cast, crew, and other teams get compensated, while "the man" (stockholders and board members in XYZ Entertainment) don't get over-compensated for their investment.
What I'm beginning to realize is it is not them, so much as it is me in all of this. I choose to go to the movies providing income to the entertainment industry and I can also choose to invest my money in those companies so that income in part may come back to me. This system works great if you get started early and can accumulate a rather large amount of investments and wealth. If you are at the bottom of the US MLM type economy you loose in both directions. While at the same time, you work harder to the benefit of the owners of your business or your client.
It's the original Commodore 1084 monitor manufactured around 1987. My parents still have it and it works like a charm. See http://amiga.emugaming.com/monitors.html for a photo of one.
Wish I could mod up an AC post. But this is correct. The insulin would get broken down similar to protein. Insulin needs to be absorbed into the body . There is some talk of a nasal spray, but this causes a lot of unpleasant side affects and isn't very reliable. The same goes with insulin patches and other similar devices. Development is occuring, however, for some kind of artificial pacrease pouch that gets inserted under the skin every year and genetically produced cells that can produce insulin and be placed in the bloodstream.
It is nice to see that all the research money going into Diabetes is slowly showing some results. Hopefully they will all help make my life as well as millions of others with Diabetes better.
Ya, low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) can do some pretty strange things to your mind. From what I've been told and observed, you become less 'human' and primal instincts kick in when your blood sugar goes low. Sometimes when I'm programming and I go low, I just start saying "shit, shit,..." to myself. You have trouble thinking so you just want to tell everyone off until you get enough carbs to get back to normal.
A continuous method of monitoring blood sugar levels could certainly help put an end to these low sugar sessions and could certainly save me from future embarrassing situations.
To continue this off topic discussion. For me it all depends on the environment the Debian machine is in. For my home desktop machine, I run unstable and upgrade quite often to get the latest and greatest. For any servers I manage, I keep updates at a minimum for stability.
There are many good tools that have been around for a long time. CVS is the obvious example. Maybe what should be considered is enhancing these tools to match some of the capabilities of their commercial counterparts. A list of capabilities can probably be summarized by the discussion that follows.
Then again right now there could be so much data that extracting something useful or factual from the fray could be difficult. Some data probably ought to decompose (eg. a Hanson mp3).
A balance is best. I spend about 4 hours on weekends outside. The rest of my time I spend mostly indoors. Even then I try to involve myself in other activities other than just being on the Internet.
Still the Internet is a very useful tool that I would be hard pressed to do without. Is the usefulness of the Internet mean it is an addiction? I survive without a car, a job, and a lot of other things, but I find having them useful. They aren't what I consider an addiction.
The benefits of this survey goes well beyond any real numbers. It does a great job illustrating, in very simple terms, what open source is and what makes it possible.
You may want to share it with others outside the Slashdot/Open Source community.
Currently I am working on beginning a relationship with a university. They are looking to sell a program that was funded up to this point by mostly public money. Personally, I would like to see the program become open source, but considering their potential customer base (other universities and private research institutions) it may be difficult for them to get money if it is open source. The decision that needs to be made is more functionality over income. Many of their clients could become developers of the project, but they could be losing revenue.
I have a meeting with them on Thursday. I may throw out the words, "Open Source," and see what happens.
As a recent graduate, I have seen first hand an increasing shift of universities towards becoming profit centers (shouldn't have used the 'p' word... revenue centers). This unfortunately can reduce the level of innovation, but at the same time can increase the immediate utility of the end product.
I really like the last sentence in the above post. If everyone actually ran a ligitamate operating system based upon their income level, we'd see a lot more of BSD/Linux/etc. out there. This would cause a lot more hurt for Microsoft than stealing their IP.
The same goes for the RIAA. By listening to independent artists rather than illegaly obtaining music, you would be reducing their (RIAA) power. Right now they could potentially bankrupt a large number of people with fines for stealing.
Interesting thought. Now if I can just stop listening to Britney Spears (joking of course).
Slashdot was not available for almost an hour this afternoon. The last posted story was about a switch to Banjo around 6:30pm tonight. Anybody know what that was all about?
That might put Apple in a tough spot. Especially considering their position in the digital content marketplace. I would not be surprised if they have to comply to DRMOS standards. As a result paying Microsoft for patent rights.
Of course everything is speculative at this point. The gap, however, continues to widen between those who enjoy providing and consuming free content and those who wish to make lots of money from content. For now we still have a choice as to what group we are in.
In the end we all need to survive. Artists need to survive as well. I think that was the original intent of copyright.
We are trying to adapt to a new society that is based on production of information rather than goods. The problem is trying to get information to fit into economic terms. That means creating artificial scarcity. That is the aim of technologies such as DRMOS.
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I was thinking about trying to get the same working. Let me know if you want some help with testing.
Actually you can download it legally if you really want to, from mp3.com.
From what I can tell from the entries so far the competition isn't for technical ideas. It is mostly social ideas, like starting a school program or helping out in a third world country. I would not expect to see their target audience submit an idea for developing a new video compression technique.
I personally would not bash Microsoft or Visa for this one. The aim is promote MSN and Visa, not a way to get ideas for free. Besides, I highly doubt Microsoft would be able to patent a method for paying off Grandma's medical bills.
eg. Trigger Happy TV.
What about anonymous sharing of information? Like Freenet.
It is unfortunate that in our society blond women (natural and more commonly unnatural) are labeled in such a way. I have observed that many blond women are quite smart, however, they often hide this under the vail of behavior expected of them as "blonds."
What makes this tough is figuring out how to correctly award the original creators of the "information." A movie is much more than just IP on a disk. There is a lot of work that goes into making the first copy.
The reoccuring theme, which I have trouble with in capitalism, is having people do hard work, while others ride along. In other words, how do you make sure the cast, crew, and other teams get compensated, while "the man" (stockholders and board members in XYZ Entertainment) don't get over-compensated for their investment.
What I'm beginning to realize is it is not them, so much as it is me in all of this. I choose to go to the movies providing income to the entertainment industry and I can also choose to invest my money in those companies so that income in part may come back to me. This system works great if you get started early and can accumulate a rather large amount of investments and wealth. If you are at the bottom of the US MLM type economy you loose in both directions. While at the same time, you work harder to the benefit of the owners of your business or your client.
It's the original Commodore 1084 monitor manufactured around 1987. My parents still have it and it works like a charm. See http://amiga.emugaming.com/monitors.html for a photo of one.
Wish I could mod up an AC post. But this is correct. The insulin would get broken down similar to protein. Insulin needs to be absorbed into the body . There is some talk of a nasal spray, but this causes a lot of unpleasant side affects and isn't very reliable. The same goes with insulin patches and other similar devices. Development is occuring, however, for some kind of artificial pacrease pouch that gets inserted under the skin every year and genetically produced cells that can produce insulin and be placed in the bloodstream.
It is nice to see that all the research money going into Diabetes is slowly showing some results. Hopefully they will all help make my life as well as millions of others with Diabetes better.
Ya, low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) can do some pretty strange things to your mind. From what I've been told and observed, you become less 'human' and primal instincts kick in when your blood sugar goes low. Sometimes when I'm programming and I go low, I just start saying "shit, shit,..." to myself. You have trouble thinking so you just want to tell everyone off until you get enough carbs to get back to normal.
A continuous method of monitoring blood sugar levels could certainly help put an end to these low sugar sessions and could certainly save me from future embarrassing situations.
To continue this off topic discussion. For me it all depends on the environment the Debian machine is in. For my home desktop machine, I run unstable and upgrade quite often to get the latest and greatest. For any servers I manage, I keep updates at a minimum for stability.
There are many good tools that have been around for a long time. CVS is the obvious example. Maybe what should be considered is enhancing these tools to match some of the capabilities of their commercial counterparts. A list of capabilities can probably be summarized by the discussion that follows.
Then again right now there could be so much data that extracting something useful or factual from the fray could be difficult. Some data probably ought to decompose (eg. a Hanson mp3).
Typo, it should be 1943.
IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1993
A balance is best. I spend about 4 hours on weekends outside. The rest of my time I spend mostly indoors. Even then I try to involve myself in other activities other than just being on the Internet.
Still the Internet is a very useful tool that I would be hard pressed to do without. Is the usefulness of the Internet mean it is an addiction? I survive without a car, a job, and a lot of other things, but I find having them useful. They aren't what I consider an addiction.
Did Miguel write a response to RMS & the article in the Register? If so, what is the link to that article.
The benefits of this survey goes well beyond any real numbers. It does a great job illustrating, in very simple terms, what open source is and what makes it possible.
You may want to share it with others outside the Slashdot/Open Source community.
Isn't that their next task?
Currently I am working on beginning a relationship with a university. They are looking to sell a program that was funded up to this point by mostly public money. Personally, I would like to see the program become open source, but considering their potential customer base (other universities and private research institutions) it may be difficult for them to get money if it is open source. The decision that needs to be made is more functionality over income. Many of their clients could become developers of the project, but they could be losing revenue.
I have a meeting with them on Thursday. I may throw out the words, "Open Source," and see what happens.
As a recent graduate, I have seen first hand an increasing shift of universities towards becoming profit centers (shouldn't have used the 'p' word... revenue centers). This unfortunately can reduce the level of innovation, but at the same time can increase the immediate utility of the end product.
I really like the last sentence in the above post. If everyone actually ran a ligitamate operating system based upon their income level, we'd see a lot more of BSD/Linux/etc. out there. This would cause a lot more hurt for Microsoft than stealing their IP.
The same goes for the RIAA. By listening to independent artists rather than illegaly obtaining music, you would be reducing their (RIAA) power. Right now they could potentially bankrupt a large number of people with fines for stealing.
Interesting thought. Now if I can just stop listening to Britney Spears (joking of course).
That still doesn't prevent it from doing other damage. Even if the whole machine doesn't go up in flames, you still have quite a mess.
Slashdot was not available for almost an hour this afternoon. The last posted story was about a switch to Banjo around 6:30pm tonight. Anybody know what that was all about?
That might put Apple in a tough spot. Especially considering their position in the digital content marketplace. I would not be surprised if they have to comply to DRMOS standards. As a result paying Microsoft for patent rights.
Of course everything is speculative at this point. The gap, however, continues to widen between those who enjoy providing and consuming free content and those who wish to make lots of money from content. For now we still have a choice as to what group we are in.
In the end we all need to survive. Artists need to survive as well. I think that was the original intent of copyright.
We are trying to adapt to a new society that is based on production of information rather than goods. The problem is trying to get information to fit into economic terms. That means creating artificial scarcity. That is the aim of technologies such as DRMOS.
The latest builds of Gnome have the same feature for the task bar. See screenshot (133kb).