It's bad enough that our jails are so full of consenual criminal that rapists, murders, and other deviants get to go free in less than four years. Now we're going to add to the overcrowding!?!?! Intellectual property is going to lead to very oppressive laws if it is not stopped!
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
who not too long ago called the internet a fad and likened it to the "cb radio of the 90s". now all of the sudden he's here refusing to pay the price for his ignorance. if i were a record company, i would have tried to secure first mover advantage by turning my whole catalog into mp3 and then opening up a killer site with artist and fan participation and MORE MERCHANDISE. all you'd have to do to have full access to the catalog was pay 19.95 a month. and as more and more things like stereos, car stereos, and television got internet aware, i'd have made a KILLING. that's what i would have done.
i'm not even saying that this would have worked but that's one approach off the top of my head. what pisses me off about these companies is that none of them are fighting this off with CREATIVITY. none of them are trying to create incentives to buy the "real thing". there are plenty and none of these companies are even emphasizing them. they just want to fight a corporate war over their own consumers like they do against other companies. this will spell their doom. mp3 is the recording industry's vietnam.
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
Last week, I got a fan letter. Someone liked my music. That was fucking awesome. I am also nowhere near making any sort of a living at this.
as dead republican i was able to push about 150 tapes over the internet. i actually got a few letters and was reviewed in gajoob. this was about four years ago and before mp3.
anyway, my point is, i was able to sell alot more tapes over the internet than i could have in "real life". i do see legitimate bands who havent gotten a fair shake from the major labels seeing this as an opportunity to get heard. it worked for me and i never played out. not like 150 makes me a star but to me it was an acheivement.
alot of bands don't realize the potential and still chase these slave masters because they see it as the only way. but i think word of mouth and internet distribution will take alot of them farther than any record company ever could.
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
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how can i get that font? that's sweet! what's it called?
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
think about it. we all know that metallica corporation does not make the majority of its money through album sales. especially not the last two or three pitiful ones (s&m was OKAY but they could have done away with all the load and reload crap on it). it just makes no sense for them to fight so hard to keep mp3s off the internet. they really have no vested stake in doing so. in fact, it would be great for them for their music to spread around the world just as it was great for them when their underground tape spread around the world. none of this makes sense... until you put two and two together. it's the riaa who has the most to gain from all this and the most to lose if musicians actually break free from their clutches and start to promote themselves in more creative (and likely more effective) ways. god forbid that these groups start developing DIRECT relationships with their fans and start learning things like incremental sales. god forbid licensing revenues for commericial and movies go directly to the creators. luckily (for the riaa), they saw that metallica was quite content sucking the dick of corporate america and very ignorant of all of these possibilities. so the riaa offers them cash to file suit against napster (god forbid metallica make money by creating QUALITY heavy metal again). now the riaa has a high profile act saying that napster is uncool and gives its campaign legitimacy. nice idea but it's a losing battle. fans are going to trade napster or no napster and all metallica is doing is making some short term cash while cutting its longevity short. i can't say that i'll miss them. ever since load, i've been hoping something would put them out of their misery. they sound so sad. at least there's a chance for that! --...And Justice for none: Why Metallica Corporation is DEAD WRONG about Napster
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
what i can't wait to see is a security analysis of kerberos, even if it does break the license. you are allowed to discuss it with other people that have seen the license so there's a work around. but i would really love to see what someone like scheiner has to say about it.
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
Thank you for illustrating my point about the public's ignorance. Outlook does not execute random code either. Outlook sees the ILOVEYOU trojan as a data attachment, just like a jpeg file. The code only executes if the user double-clicks on it to run it, and ignores a warning message about running untrusted code.
in preview mode, a word document could have run automatically. i'm not sure if ILOVEYOU could have but it's very easy to write code that will automatically execute embedded code. activex with the settings that microsoft wants you to have can also run system code!
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
Say for an example you have 3 different Word Processors with the same file format. You've just trippled your training budget for Word processors. Your tech support staff now has to support 3 times as many products
this nonsense argument always bugs me. if there were choices between interfaces, most people would pick the one that's easiest to use. a company can easily say this is the interface we support while allowing other interfaces. which by the way, is exactly what i do now. the company has its standard but i use the products i work better with. since i can produce compatible files, they never know the difference.
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
It's called size you dude. For every HTML tag on a page you need at least 7 bytes, you have two ', one / and at least two letters. In a binary document format you have only a single byte to specify a text format and then one to end it, two bytes is alot better than a minimum of 7. If you were typing up a really neat looking many-page document that you need to send over a network, every byte you save on size is less monet it costs to transmit the document. For one person on a fat pipe it isn't that big a deal but with lots of people the pipe gets alot smaller. Word doesn't exactly save space but a well designed binary format would save alot of space.
that they will be competing with thousands of other artist that will allow their music to be distributed freely. even if they were successful in removing their stuff of the napster network, they'd only succeed in limiting their exposure to a potential fanbase.
sure, you can argue they are protecting their intellectual property and maybe you're right. personally, i think they are just being lazy. there are ways to make incremental money off of your fanbase even if you're not making money off of your music. for instance, licensing (i.e. the use of your song in a movie, commercial, or tv show), merchandising (t-shirts, books, videos), and shows. if their art is as good as they think it is, they should have no problem figuring out how to make money off of it. trying to fight this losing battle is a waste of their time.
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
Second, QNX is not the undisputed king of the embedded market. There is a whole bunch of embedded OSes and QNX is just one medium-big fish in a pond. Besides, that particular pond already has a so-far-not-very-big great white swimming in it: Windows CE. Despite being a flop on handhelds, WinCE is doing very well in the embedded market. From what I've heard it's actually a decent OS (which has nothing to do with suitability of Windows GUI to handhelds).
Wind River Systems would disagree with you on qnx being the undisputed king of embedded. they just bought their second place competitor and are the market leader in embedded operating systems.
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
very buggy installation.... critical libraries and header files were missing out of the base set... and i ran into a bunch of other incompatibilities. after that i just gave up and went with suse! it's too bad because i really liked the idea of stampede.... too bad it didn't work out.
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
This basically shows how out of touch with reality Microsoft is. First of all, they need to lobby the candidate most likely to win, and that is Al Gore whether you like it or not. It would take a MAJOR CRASH in the stock market for Al Gore to lose. Otherwise, he's a shoe-in.
Secondly, they pick a man who's basically been labelled as an extremist lumped in with the likes of Pat Buchanan and David Duke and expect public support.
Let's not ignore that it's totally blatant. They're nuts if they think this is going to help them in any way!
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
They told me i couldn't link to them since I had pornography on another page. The funny thing is that it's probably one of the lamest pornography pages on the 'net. But anyway, I removed the link not because they threatened me but because a company this clueless doesn't deserve the benefits associated with being on the net. The net is the ultimate in free customer referral. If they don't want customers passed on to them, fine. Let them rot in hell. I do just fine with my healthy quarterly Amazon checks!
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
actually it just hit me! doesn't this mean that we as programmers can demand the software from mattel since it is under gpl? can't "we" now sue mattel for the source code. they are preventing us from obtaining the source code with their actions, a clear violation of the gpl!
-- J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
I love how everytime some company besides Microsoft does something it's this big innovative thing. But Microsoft has been doing this for quite a while already through transpoint which is an obviously superior design and execution.
ummmmm.... i don't see anywhere where it shows you your money bill like yahoo and paytrust do! microsoft's expedia is very good though.
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i forgot to add why i think banks suck for online banking and paytrust doesn't. one of my main beefs with banks' online banking is that they withdraw the money before the check clears. if you're check doesn't reach its destination, you have to go through tons of gymnastics to get the issue resolved. first you have to explain to your biller what happenned and then you have to prove to your bank that the money didn't reach its destination which was a headache because the ones i dealt with didnt even have immediate access to that information (perhaps they were paying someone else to handle it)! the process could take as long as two weeks! after three times of going through this i went back to writing checks by hand.
then along came paytrust, who takes your bills in, allows you to view it online and approve the payment. but the best part is that they don't withdraw your money until the check clears which means they probably issue a check with your routing information for the ones they mail. but like i said for $7 its worth it. i can't stand sitting down writing checks licking envelops hoping i have enough stamps etc etc etc. like i said banks should have thought of this first. this girl tells me in spain, you get your bills sent to the bank... is that true?
have started doing a long time ago. They give you a tool to actually manage your bills online. I use Quicken religiously but it frustrates me that I can't truly use it on the web. I like that I can go to a website click on the bills I want to pay and be done with it. MAJOR time saver! For $6.95, it's totally worth it! I'd pay an extra few bucks to have it manage my checkbook as well!
out of all the ides i used, netbeans/forte was the absolute WORST! it doesn't let you add code where you want and it's overall the most restrictive. personally, i've given up on ides... even for gui development! jikes and jedit... all i need!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
or are they just trying to shut down business on the internet? affliate programs are win/win systems for both the webmaster and the company. i think it's pretty obvious that people should be rewarded for sending people a company's way. i make about $50 a quarter from various affiliate programs on my site. it's not much but i say every little bit helps. can't clickthroughs be consider prior use?? how about the fact that other people accepted payment for directing traffic to others' sites. this seems like a bogus patent to me. sorry for rambling on but i'm PISSED!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
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use jikes. i disagree anyway.
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
It's bad enough that our jails are so full of consenual criminal that rapists, murders, and other deviants get to go free in less than four years. Now we're going to add to the overcrowding!?!?! Intellectual property is going to lead to very oppressive laws if it is not stopped!
--
J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
i'm not even saying that this would have worked but that's one approach off the top of my head. what pisses me off about these companies is that none of them are fighting this off with CREATIVITY. none of them are trying to create incentives to buy the "real thing". there are plenty and none of these companies are even emphasizing them. they just want to fight a corporate war over their own consumers like they do against other companies. this will spell their doom. mp3 is the recording industry's vietnam.
--
J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
as dead republican i was able to push about 150 tapes over the internet. i actually got a few letters and was reviewed in gajoob. this was about four years ago and before mp3.
anyway, my point is, i was able to sell alot more tapes over the internet than i could have in "real life". i do see legitimate bands who havent gotten a fair shake from the major labels seeing this as an opportunity to get heard. it worked for me and i never played out. not like 150 makes me a star but to me it was an acheivement.
alot of bands don't realize the potential and still chase these slave masters because they see it as the only way. but i think word of mouth and internet distribution will take alot of them farther than any record company ever could.
--
J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
oh great! NOW they decide to stand up to the nazis!! where were they in the 1930s??
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
think about it. we all know that metallica corporation does not make the majority of its money through album sales. especially not the last two or three pitiful ones (s&m was OKAY but they could have done away with all the load and reload crap on it). it just makes no sense for them to fight so hard to keep mp3s off the internet. they really have no vested stake in doing so. in fact, it would be great for them for their music to spread around the world just as it was great for them when their underground tape spread around the world. none of this makes sense... until you put two and two together. it's the riaa who has the most to gain from all this and the most to lose if musicians actually break free from their clutches and start to promote themselves in more creative (and likely more effective) ways. god forbid that these groups start developing DIRECT relationships with their fans and start learning things like incremental sales. god forbid licensing revenues for commericial and movies go directly to the creators. luckily (for the riaa), they saw that metallica was quite content sucking the dick of corporate america and very ignorant of all of these possibilities. so the riaa offers them cash to file suit against napster (god forbid metallica make money by creating QUALITY heavy metal again). now the riaa has a high profile act saying that napster is uncool and gives its campaign legitimacy. nice idea but it's a losing battle. fans are going to trade napster or no napster and all metallica is doing is making some short term cash while cutting its longevity short. i can't say that i'll miss them. ever since load, i've been hoping something would put them out of their misery. they sound so sad. at least there's a chance for that! -- ...And Justice for none: Why Metallica Corporation is DEAD WRONG about Napster
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
I couldn't get to that one but there's another one here. By the way, is there any way to save a flash animation?
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
what i can't wait to see is a security analysis of kerberos, even if it does break the license. you are allowed to discuss it with other people that have seen the license so there's a work around. but i would really love to see what someone like scheiner has to say about it.
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
in preview mode, a word document could have run automatically. i'm not sure if ILOVEYOU could have but it's very easy to write code that will automatically execute embedded code. activex with the settings that microsoft wants you to have can also run system code!
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
this nonsense argument always bugs me. if there were choices between interfaces, most people would pick the one that's easiest to use. a company can easily say this is the interface we support while allowing other interfaces. which by the way, is exactly what i do now. the company has its standard but i use the products i work better with. since i can produce compatible files, they never know the difference.
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
considering that a minimum word document is 19k, i think your point is moot!
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
sure, you can argue they are protecting their intellectual property and maybe you're right. personally, i think they are just being lazy. there are ways to make incremental money off of your fanbase even if you're not making money off of your music. for instance, licensing (i.e. the use of your song in a movie, commercial, or tv show), merchandising (t-shirts, books, videos), and shows. if their art is as good as they think it is, they should have no problem figuring out how to make money off of it. trying to fight this losing battle is a waste of their time.
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
Wind River Systems would disagree with you on qnx being the undisputed king of embedded. they just bought their second place competitor and are the market leader in embedded operating systems.
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
very buggy installation.... critical libraries and header files were missing out of the base set... and i ran into a bunch of other incompatibilities. after that i just gave up and went with suse! it's too bad because i really liked the idea of stampede.... too bad it didn't work out.
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
Secondly, they pick a man who's basically been labelled as an extremist lumped in with the likes of Pat Buchanan and David Duke and expect public support.
Let's not ignore that it's totally blatant. They're nuts if they think this is going to help them in any way!
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
http://w3.nai.net/~perfecto/ejercisio/asimba.html
They told me i couldn't link to them since I had pornography on another page. The funny thing is that it's probably one of the lamest pornography pages on the 'net. But anyway, I removed the link not because they threatened me but because a company this clueless doesn't deserve the benefits associated with being on the net. The net is the ultimate in free customer referral. If they don't want customers passed on to them, fine. Let them rot in hell. I do just fine with my healthy quarterly Amazon checks!
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
ummmm.... if someone buys of the ticketmaster site, doesn't ticketmaster make money??? what is their problem?
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
actually it just hit me! doesn't this mean that we as programmers can demand the software from mattel since it is under gpl? can't "we" now sue mattel for the source code. they are preventing us from obtaining the source code with their actions, a clear violation of the gpl!
--
J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
Ejercisio Perfecto: from Geek to GOD in WEEKS!
ummmmm.... i don't see anywhere where it shows you your money bill like yahoo and paytrust do! microsoft's expedia is very good though.
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J Perry Fecteau
5-time Mr. Internet
then along came paytrust, who takes your bills in, allows you to view it online and approve the payment. but the best part is that they don't withdraw your money until the check clears which means they probably issue a check with your routing information for the ones they mail. but like i said for $7 its worth it. i can't stand sitting down writing checks licking envelops hoping i have enough stamps etc etc etc. like i said banks should have thought of this first. this girl tells me in spain, you get your bills sent to the bank... is that true?
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J Perry Fecteau
5-time Mr. Internet
have started doing a long time ago. They give you a tool to actually manage your bills online. I use Quicken religiously but it frustrates me that I can't truly use it on the web. I like that I can go to a website click on the bills I want to pay and be done with it. MAJOR time saver! For $6.95, it's totally worth it! I'd pay an extra few bucks to have it manage my checkbook as well!
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J Perry Fecteau
5-time Mr. Internet
out of all the ides i used, netbeans/forte was the absolute WORST! it doesn't let you add code where you want and it's overall the most restrictive. personally, i've given up on ides... even for gui development! jikes and jedit... all i need!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
or are they just trying to shut down business on the internet? affliate programs are win/win systems for both the webmaster and the company. i think it's pretty obvious that people should be rewarded for sending people a company's way. i make about $50 a quarter from various affiliate programs on my site. it's not much but i say every little bit helps. can't clickthroughs be consider prior use?? how about the fact that other people accepted payment for directing traffic to others' sites. this seems like a bogus patent to me. sorry for rambling on but i'm PISSED!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."