Last time I looked, CDDB doesn't require an email address or your name for lookups. It has even less privacy issues than a web server without cookies or javascript.
BTW, you give an awful lot of credit to a company that went to great lengths to hide the information being sent, and whose first reaction to the Smith article was a lie("it's all CDDB's fault: they want an email address.")
There was no mention of this tracking in their privacy statement. Guess what? Their privacy statement was wrong. So now they say that they don't store the info and they expect everyone to believe them?
No, they chose not to DISCLOSE the information to the public. There's a difference between not mentioning something and deliberately trying to keep it a secret. Let's not jump the gun here.
Why is the key that is sent to Real encrypted in the registry? Why does the key include: your name, your email address, OS version, processor, what portable MP3 players you have, how many tracks you encoded....... The key is sent to Real in the HTTP get request. Apparently someone went to an awful lot of trouble "not mentioning" the tracking feature.
And why does the software send an update each day to Real, plus with each track you play? And when you select the sites menu ?
>> can't think of any reason they'd be interested in storing all of the artists and songs you listen to.
I'd think that would be very valuable marketing data. Your listening habits cross-referenced with your credit-card info , your email-address and your real-world address.
BTW, if it wasn't interesting, why would Real bother collecting it? So they could see how many people liked country? Come on...
I have winnie ( the mail server, dependable not so smart),tigger (my own machine, a bouncy Dual PII) and eeyore (the router/firewall, always complaining, and looking a bit morose) in domain poohcorner.
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If you system hard drive has no partitions on it and if your computer can boot directly from a CD-ROM drive (either ATAPI 1.2 compatible IDE or SCSI connected to Adaptec host adapter), you can literally install the full or OEM installation version of Windows 98 directly from a CD-ROM boot. Try THAT with Linux.
Redhat does that (at least from version 4.2 (1997) ), Mandrake, Suse.....
The overhead for a gig in a stadion is nothing like 30000 x $35 = ~$1000000.
In smaller venues (200-1000 seats), with your own promotion , you can get like 60-70% of the ticket price. Most smaller venues (round here at least) work with a fixed price anyway.
If you like tinkering, you can buy empty 2U rack-mount boxes for under $75 at an electronics store. Cut out a few holes in the front, (or not, if you want the Cisco look), install a PSU for NLX cases.
And what business software does MS produce? I don't know of any MS package that does accounting, stock control, POS.
So truly, MS doesn't know how to write business software. Last I looked they ran their business on AS/400. and jotted down sales numbers on little scrap of papers (DOJ trial)
Do you really really think that MS accountants "balance the books" in Access?
There is a reason why there are so many narrowly focused applications. It's the way this software works. You can't take a Hotel management application and use it in a supermarket... Domain specific knowledge is the value these packages offer.
So no, there is not "one single integrated solution for all of them". Not on Linux, AIX, Windows or a Palmpilot.
Any Microfocus Cobol application will run on Linux...Just use the SCO runtime. I think MF has a Linux runtime now, but I have several systems running accounting packages with the SCO runtime since 1997. It works great.....
Well, a chihuahua and a wolf are different species, sharing a common ancestor. Chihuahua probably weren't around 3000 years ago. So this solves your mystery of "cross-species evolution".
Are you saying that in all of this century, in all schools and universities, in all scientific publications, there has never been any implication that these theories are true and factual?
Of course these models (relativity, quantum mechanics, gravity) are presented as fact in school courses. It is a tradeoff between clarity and level of detail required. That's why it is called the "Law of gravity" when doing simple calculations like escape velocity for rockets in high school. It's called "Theory of gravity" when you are studying gravity.
We see no evidence of cross species evolution, only changes within each species, ie: survival of the fittest. We find a complete lack of transitional forms, which "should" grossly outnumber the existing forms.
And how would you define "transitional forms", a concept that is pretty unscientific, an artefact of classification of species. Oh BTW, you can classify MOST FOSSILS ever discovered as transitional. They aren't here anymore today, so they're...sort of.....transitional. And if you aren't satisfied until you have a full fossil record from a bacterium to an elephant, tough luck. The earth isn't a WORM drive.
Do you need to find fossils of every intermediary step between a wolf and a chihuahua before you accept that they ARE related (and in fact , depending on who you ask, the same species). Ditto for a domestic cat and a lion?
And about the geologist: get a good refernce work on dating and you'll see that his explanation is basically correct.
So in true Unix style, the only answer to your questions is: RTFM. These are newbie questions, easily researchable on the net.
>>why aren't the overwhelming majority of large >>species hermaphrodites?
Well finding a mate is not that much of a problem for most animals, so why bother? The male/female dichotomy extends all the way back from mammals to at least insects , so it is a basic pattern.
I don't understand the parallel between a puzzle and the big bang.
>>It seems that it's easier to not even consider >>the possibility that a far greater intelligence >> created us
On the contrary, it is easier to consider a Creator: it means you can attribute everything you don't understand to a Creator.
I know of at least one site that went from a response time of 5seconds (ASP) to instantaneous (PHP). They switched web servers at the same time (iiS to Apache).
Borland C++ for OS/2 was the one I meant of course. There never was a thing like TP for OS/2.
Funny thing: Borland never managed to produce a Turbo Pascal for OS/2, while two guys (in Germany I believe) wrote a full clone of Turbo Pascal with IDE and Delphi compatibility.
I'd love to see a Delphi/Linux. But let's face it: Borland has a terrible track record porting their software anywhere. They are a Windows-only shop.
Turbo Pascal for OS/2 anyone? I can't remember any other non-Windows product from Borland. (except for Interbase, which was Unix-based when they bought it)
Server: runs custom accounting package with 10 users + mail + print spooler + SAMBA + DNS + light HTTP + routing + fax server + monitoring. No special hardware.
Uptime: except for the one occasion where the drives shut down because the airco failed, it's been in continuous use for almost 2 years. No unscheduled downtime at all.
It was a replacement for an SCO Unix box. It never went down either.
These experiences are typical. So when I sell a Linux box to a customer, I guarantee that it will stay up indefinitely (given enough money for adequate cooling, UPS's and so on) . I know that it doesn't cost me anything to guarantee this.
BTW, 99.9% uptime is a joke. Continuous uptime, with no unscheduled maintenance is the target.
There is still a lot of life left in OS/2. If IBM would port the WPS, the WinOS/2 subsystem and create a Linux/2, it would be the best of two worlds: rock solid kernel and a great desktop.
As an alternative, KDE and Gnome could become more WPS like, but KDE is going the Win95 route (an overextended file manager with no single conceptual model) and Gnome is more concerned with snazzy themes.
It's one of the designs I like to toy with : a super-WPS , written in Python+some toolkit. If only the days had 30 hours.
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Last time I looked, CDDB doesn't require an email address or your name for lookups. It has even less privacy issues than a web server without cookies or javascript.
BTW, you give an awful lot of credit to a company that went to great lengths to hide the information being sent, and whose first reaction to the Smith article was a lie("it's all CDDB's fault: they want an email address.")
There was no mention of this tracking in their privacy statement. Guess what? Their privacy statement was wrong. So now they say that they don't store the info and they expect everyone to believe them?
And why does the software send an update each day to Real, plus with each track you play? And when you select the sites menu ?
>> can't think of any reason they'd be interested in storing all of the artists and songs you listen to.
I'd think that would be very valuable marketing data. Your listening habits cross-referenced with your credit-card info , your email-address and your real-world address.
BTW, if it wasn't interesting, why would Real bother collecting it? So they could see how many people liked country? Come on...
I have winnie ( the mail server, dependable not so smart) ,tigger (my own machine, a bouncy Dual PII) and eeyore (the router/firewall, always complaining, and looking a bit morose) in domain poohcorner.
The overhead for a gig in a stadion is nothing like 30000 x $35 = ~$1000000.
In smaller venues (200-1000 seats), with your own promotion , you can get like 60-70% of the ticket price. Most smaller venues (round here at least) work with a fixed price anyway.
What you don't get with MS:
cross-platform compatibility.
source code.
Part of the cost of the toolkit is borne by the user. So the user has to pay a runtime fee of $(license cost of Win9x,WinNT)
Real support (this costs losta $$$ extra)
If you like tinkering, you can buy empty 2U rack-mount boxes for under $75 at an electronics store. Cut out a few holes in the front, (or not, if you want the Cisco look), install a PSU for NLX cases.
And what business software does MS produce? I don't know of any MS package that does accounting, stock control, POS.
So truly, MS doesn't know how to write business software. Last I looked they ran their business on AS/400. and jotted down sales numbers on little scrap of papers (DOJ trial)
Do you really really think that MS accountants "balance the books" in Access?
There is a reason why there are so many narrowly focused applications. It's the way this software works. You can't take a Hotel management application and use it in a supermarket... Domain specific knowledge is the value these packages offer.
So no, there is not "one single integrated solution for all of them". Not on Linux, AIX, Windows or a Palmpilot.
Any Microfocus Cobol application will run on Linux...Just use the SCO runtime. I think MF has a Linux runtime now, but I have several systems running accounting packages with the SCO runtime since 1997. It works great.....
And where would you store the key to unencrypt these FS's?
So you'd have to put the key on a smartcard. Of which there would be copies (can't have the company go down because someone lost a smartcard)
It is connected via a UUNET link.
The Long March rocket predates Iridium by quite a bit.
Well, a chihuahua and a wolf are different species, sharing a common ancestor. Chihuahua probably weren't around 3000 years ago. So this solves your mystery of "cross-species evolution".
Do you need to find fossils of every intermediary step between a wolf and a chihuahua before you accept that they ARE related (and in fact , depending on who you ask, the same species). Ditto for a domestic cat and a lion?
And about the geologist: get a good refernce work on dating and you'll see that his explanation is basically correct.
So in true Unix style, the only answer to your questions is: RTFM. These are newbie questions, easily researchable on the net.
>>why aren't the overwhelming majority of large >>species hermaphrodites?
Well finding a mate is not that much of a problem for most animals, so why bother? The male/female dichotomy extends all the way back from mammals to at least insects , so it is a basic pattern.
I don't understand the parallel between a puzzle and the big bang.
>>It seems that it's easier to not even consider >>the possibility that a far greater intelligence >> created us
On the contrary, it is easier to consider a Creator: it means you can attribute everything you don't understand to a Creator.
I don't know. The server crapped out with "too many connections" on perhaps 10% of queries, although there was ample bandwidth.
Big relief when they switched to PHP: zippy and stable. Haven't had an error since.
I know of at least one site that went from a response time of 5seconds (ASP) to instantaneous (PHP). They switched web servers at the same time (iiS to Apache).
Borland C++ for OS/2 was the one I meant of course. There never was a thing like TP for OS/2.
Funny thing: Borland never managed to produce a Turbo Pascal for OS/2, while two guys (in Germany I believe) wrote a full clone of Turbo Pascal with IDE and Delphi compatibility.
I'd love to see a Delphi/Linux. But let's face it: Borland has a terrible track record porting their software anywhere. They are a Windows-only shop.
Turbo Pascal for OS/2 anyone? I can't remember any other non-Windows product from Borland. (except for Interbase, which was Unix-based when they bought it)
Cheap and old CD drives read CDDA single-speed.
Get a SCSI CD-ROM: CPU usage while ripping is dramatically lower. If you encode while ripping, it makes a HUGE difference.
Some evidence?
Server: runs custom accounting package with 10 users + mail + print spooler + SAMBA + DNS + light HTTP + routing + fax server + monitoring. No special hardware.
Uptime: except for the one occasion where the drives shut down because the airco failed, it's been in continuous use for almost 2 years. No unscheduled downtime at all.
It was a replacement for an SCO Unix box. It never went down either.
These experiences are typical. So when I sell a Linux box to a customer, I guarantee that it will stay up indefinitely (given enough money for adequate cooling, UPS's and so on) . I know that it doesn't cost me anything to guarantee this.
BTW, 99.9% uptime is a joke. Continuous uptime, with no unscheduled maintenance is the target.
There is still a lot of life left in OS/2. If IBM would port the WPS, the WinOS/2 subsystem and create a Linux/2, it would be the best of two worlds: rock solid kernel and a great desktop.
As an alternative, KDE and Gnome could become more WPS like, but KDE is going the Win95 route (an overextended file manager with no single conceptual model) and Gnome is more concerned with snazzy themes.
It's one of the designs I like to toy with : a super-WPS , written in Python+some toolkit. If only the days had 30 hours.