But Ximian is a company, they have rent to pay, and they're writing the book on Mono. I like to know that standards are been created by the people that want to use them, without having to worry about who's pulling the strings.
If only there was some way to make the batteries removable. I mean, I'm getting tired of returning my digital camera to the Kodak service department every time the batteries run out.
Any hints for getting MOO 2 running under wine? I can install it with wine, but when I run the Orion95.exe, all I get is my desktop resolution set to 640x480, with a black screen overlay. Are we talking wine or winex here?
Build up a reputation on eBay selling any old junk.
Stop delivering and wait for a negative feedback.
Sue eBay for $2.5 million
Profit!
All these years, I've wondered what step 3 could be. I should have realised that the only people that every profited from the.com boom were lawyers. We humans can learn much by observing their strange behaviour.
Changed by massive civil disobedience. See also equal rights for them uppity nigras that haunt Strom's dreams, abortion, gay rights, the Vietnam draft, uh, British colonial rule. See a pattern?
Point taken again. I'd be interested to see a decent study into how much crossover there is between big and small labels, that includes both hardware and wetware, e.g. recording and editing studios, the techies to run them, session performers, CD pressing plants, the whole works. Know of anything like that?
I have no doubt that albums like britney spears cost 1mil to produce. You need to hire session musicians (drums, bass, keyboard, backup vocalists, string players, guitar). Then you need support staff like vocal coaches, multiple engineers, multiple songwriters, etc etc.
OK, good retort, I rather lost my way at the end there. However, there will be a limited amount of cross-pollination in the production chain, with some of the mad money from "Shake My Titties" filtering through to indie labels, even if it's only in the form of keeping a recording studio open for them to use, or driving down the cost of their own recording gear through economies-of-scale manufacturing.
Interesting idea. How about a DVD and a (Red Book) CD sold together? The DVD has all the audio tracks, plus the bouncing titties videos, plus the "making of" the bouncing titties videos. The CD just has the music so that you can play it in your car, or if (gasp) you haven't got a DVD player (yet).
Seems to me that you've got a good point there. Much of the cost of selling an audio CD is in making the singles videos to promote it. It's strange that the music business hasn't thought about trying to sell them as content.
the line between downloading and providing uploads for others is blurred, if not eliminated
I suspect that they'd have a hard time proving that merely listing files as available breaches copyright, which is why I suspect that the "600 files in a day" is probably the number (complete or partial) that they downloaded from Joe.
And here they do have a clear breach of copyright. All they did was say "Hey, Joe, make a copy of that song", and it was Joe's machine that chose to actually duplicate the data and send it down the wire. If that is the case, it kills two birds with one stone. It removes the ambiguity about whether Joe actually made a copy (he did), and it also avoids the "friends and family" fair use argument because it's demonstrable that Joe had no idea who he was making copies for.
Hmm, I'm beginning to wonder if I should prefix "Contact me to request - " to all of my shared files, and allow listing but not sharing for all users by default.
The box office data for Signs shows that it cost USD $64 million to make and to date has made USD $390 million (or more, depending on how you interpret the figures) at the box office alone. Now, you'll be aware that movie theatres make minimal profit on the tickets; all their money comes from concessions. Signs probably made about USD $300 million gross profit for the distributors. I'm not making a point here, just clarifying.
The average album sells 33,600 copies. At about $15 retail cost, that's USD $0.5 million, give or take, per album. Wow, that's a lot, eh?
Well, it is until you think how many people it takes to write, score, perform, record, edit, manufacture, distribute and market that album. Now, theoretically, one artist could do all of that themselves, but how much would Joe Unknown have to spend on marketing to rake in half a million bucks of sales?
Think of it this way. Every time some mall rat pays $15 for "Shake My Titties One More Time", it pays for the loss the record company takes on the special interest $15 Cajun folk album sitting next to it, or a Bach album, or a spoken word reading.
Frankly I'm delighted that mall rats keep paying enough so that special interest recordings can be made. More power to the pimply faced ones and their herd instinct, says I.
Um, there are various versions of that story flying around, but the most clued ones (written by actual tech correspondants) seem to say that they're after someone who was sharing 600 files, or from whom they downloaded 600 files in a day, not from someone who downloaded 600 files in a day.
Think about it; how would they know that Joe Defendant had downloaded 600 files in a day? Unless he downloaded them all from their honeypot, which seems unlikely.
So you've sent $1 to the artist. Well done. Given that average album sells only 33,600 copies, and that most artists produce at most one album a year, then that gives a living wage to one artist... who has written, performed, recorded, edited and distributed her own music.
The silver dots are for head tracking systems that use a camera to look for gross head movements (gross by comparison with eye movements). It's been given the Slashdot treatment, IIRC, and the verdict was: great, if it's the only way you can control a computer.
I believe he's talking about intercepting it in the air and turning it into scrap a good distance from the target, in much the same way that Patriot's currently don't.
Now, you tell me how many "emails" I've sent in the past 8 hours from my machine at work over an encrypted SSL link to sendmail running on a non-standard port on my server at home and being sent to a group of recipients on ISP's worldwide, some of whom run their own mailservers.
No, you don't get any of my IP addresses to help you. And no, this isn't a rhetorical question. If you can't answer it, your solution is sophomoric.
Sounds great, but it's trivially detectable by trying to use the relay to mail one of your hotmail accounts.
I do take the point that many spammers are simply too dumb and lazy to do that, but I expect there's evolution in action amongst them and we can't expect that situation to last forever.
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But Ximian is a company, they have rent to pay, and they're writing the book on Mono. I like to know that standards are been created by the people that want to use them, without having to worry about who's pulling the strings.
If only there was some way to make the batteries removable. I mean, I'm getting tired of returning my digital camera to the Kodak service department every time the batteries run out.
No, I agree. If by "arena" you mean "trampoline"
Sorry, I meant "added appeal to sheep".
If Starcraft is the RTS equivelant of Olympic fencing, then Warcraft III is a bunch of grade schoolers playing at WWF.
Any hints for getting MOO 2 running under wine? I can install it with wine, but when I run the Orion95.exe, all I get is my desktop resolution set to 640x480, with a black screen overlay. Are we talking wine or winex here?
All these years, I've wondered what step 3 could be. I should have realised that the only people that every profited from the .com boom were lawyers. We humans can learn much by observing their strange behaviour.
Changed by massive civil disobedience. See also equal rights for them uppity nigras that haunt Strom's dreams, abortion, gay rights, the Vietnam draft, uh, British colonial rule. See a pattern?
Point taken again. I'd be interested to see a decent study into how much crossover there is between big and small labels, that includes both hardware and wetware, e.g. recording and editing studios, the techies to run them, session performers, CD pressing plants, the whole works. Know of anything like that?
And a lead vocalist.
Welcome to earth, where we have this strange custom called "hew more"
Real Soon Now
Which is an oxymoron, but hey, we're about to go to war based on "military intelligence", so what do I know?
OK, good retort, I rather lost my way at the end there. However, there will be a limited amount of cross-pollination in the production chain, with some of the mad money from "Shake My Titties" filtering through to indie labels, even if it's only in the form of keeping a recording studio open for them to use, or driving down the cost of their own recording gear through economies-of-scale manufacturing.
Interesting idea. How about a DVD and a (Red Book) CD sold together? The DVD has all the audio tracks, plus the bouncing titties videos, plus the "making of" the bouncing titties videos. The CD just has the music so that you can play it in your car, or if (gasp) you haven't got a DVD player (yet).
Seems to me that you've got a good point there. Much of the cost of selling an audio CD is in making the singles videos to promote it. It's strange that the music business hasn't thought about trying to sell them as content.
I suspect that they'd have a hard time proving that merely listing files as available breaches copyright, which is why I suspect that the "600 files in a day" is probably the number (complete or partial) that they downloaded from Joe.
And here they do have a clear breach of copyright. All they did was say "Hey, Joe, make a copy of that song", and it was Joe's machine that chose to actually duplicate the data and send it down the wire. If that is the case, it kills two birds with one stone. It removes the ambiguity about whether Joe actually made a copy (he did), and it also avoids the "friends and family" fair use argument because it's demonstrable that Joe had no idea who he was making copies for.
Hmm, I'm beginning to wonder if I should prefix "Contact me to request - " to all of my shared files, and allow listing but not sharing for all users by default.
The box office data for Signs shows that it cost USD $64 million to make and to date has made USD $390 million (or more, depending on how you interpret the figures) at the box office alone. Now, you'll be aware that movie theatres make minimal profit on the tickets; all their money comes from concessions. Signs probably made about USD $300 million gross profit for the distributors. I'm not making a point here, just clarifying.
The average album sells 33,600 copies. At about $15 retail cost, that's USD $0.5 million, give or take, per album. Wow, that's a lot, eh?
Well, it is until you think how many people it takes to write, score, perform, record, edit, manufacture, distribute and market that album. Now, theoretically, one artist could do all of that themselves, but how much would Joe Unknown have to spend on marketing to rake in half a million bucks of sales?
Think of it this way. Every time some mall rat pays $15 for "Shake My Titties One More Time", it pays for the loss the record company takes on the special interest $15 Cajun folk album sitting next to it, or a Bach album, or a spoken word reading.
Frankly I'm delighted that mall rats keep paying enough so that special interest recordings can be made. More power to the pimply faced ones and their herd instinct, says I.
Um, there are various versions of that story flying around, but the most clued ones (written by actual tech correspondants) seem to say that they're after someone who was sharing 600 files, or from whom they downloaded 600 files in a day, not from someone who downloaded 600 files in a day.
Think about it; how would they know that Joe Defendant had downloaded 600 files in a day? Unless he downloaded them all from their honeypot, which seems unlikely.
So you've sent $1 to the artist. Well done. Given that average album sells only 33,600 copies, and that most artists produce at most one album a year, then that gives a living wage to one artist... who has written, performed, recorded, edited and distributed her own music.
Still think $1 an album pays for all that?
Good point, but how much time does a modern tree lizard spend on the ground?
"USian" is pretty respectful to the couple of hundred million people in the America's who aren't in the USA.
The silver dots are for head tracking systems that use a camera to look for gross head movements (gross by comparison with eye movements). It's been given the Slashdot treatment, IIRC, and the verdict was: great, if it's the only way you can control a computer.
I believe he's talking about intercepting it in the air and turning it into scrap a good distance from the target, in much the same way that Patriot's currently don't.
This is Slashdot. If it's not quoted, it doesn't exist.
Great! Where do I find those options in telnet?
Or would you care to specify what mail client your sage advice applies to.
Great idea!
Now, you tell me how many "emails" I've sent in the past 8 hours from my machine at work over an encrypted SSL link to sendmail running on a non-standard port on my server at home and being sent to a group of recipients on ISP's worldwide, some of whom run their own mailservers.
No, you don't get any of my IP addresses to help you. And no, this isn't a rhetorical question. If you can't answer it, your solution is sophomoric.
Got the answer yet?
Sounds great, but it's trivially detectable by trying to use the relay to mail one of your hotmail accounts.
I do take the point that many spammers are simply too dumb and lazy to do that, but I expect there's evolution in action amongst them and we can't expect that situation to last forever.