let's see, there are a million retail stores, new-napster, real music's service, MS's service, music websites a plenty, artists with their own websites selling their own wares on greenie-disk and otherwise... and Steve Jobs is the "only legal distribution channel?"
so Todd Rundgren's PatroNet site is against the law, even though it was up five years before the torrents?
do some research next time you vent, you are wrong, sir.
hey, the guy stepped up and did something.
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ought to be worth a half brownie-point at least. next time, VAX-in-a-handheld? the only problem would be the 8-inch boot floppy for VMS;)
they're the problem. they are not in control any more, customers are, and that's why they are running wild as wolves on crack in the courts trying to get some control.
they won't.
worst case is, we become a police state on rent to the RIAA, and the commercial music business completely dies out. you'll have your bar bands and individuals making their own music, no more supermegagroups and no more boy/girl band of the month bullshit.
best case is, the back libraries become fully availiable, every scratch and warped tape of it, in unlocked downloads for which the licensor (for there are no purchasers of music without all the suits on one end of the boardroom table and overwhelmed band members on the other) gets perpetual personal enjoyment for a half buck a track.
musicians, control your own back catalog, get it back from the pigopolists now. that way you get all the revenue. you don't need a label to catalog it, just a google search.
if you don't think Dell does it for you, go Apple, whitebox, closet scraping, whatever for your next peecee. if they don't catch on, they don't deserve to be around. witness compusa.
25 terabytes inside, between the potato salad and the stuff in the cool whip container (whatever it once was,) and gigabyte ethernet out to the rest of the house.
got that already, all I need is to put the network card in the icemaker slot...
the tip-off was the pioneer press online had this at late morning, even before slashdot.
all 4 stores in the twin cities are dussssstttt, dusssssttttt.
have to go to general nanosystems or tran micro, then, if you don't live on the right side of the tracks and getting to micro center is a RPA. and you'll be better off, frankly. both are about a half mile west of the university. in the anonymous poster's case, micro center in burnsville works.
one of those hired "going out of business, everything must GO! 5-12 percent off!" outfits with day-labor guys shaking signs on the corners, and so forth.
if you recognized anybody in there before, with one of these outfits, you won't, the outfit brings in all their own folks and rules.
which is why my outfit is always cautioning workers to avoid "riders," don't let anybody pretend to be your shadow flitting by as the door closes... unless you see their badge.
"hey, pard, where's your badge today?" costs nothing. adds 60,000 security persons to the force. even if half of them are just going through the motions day in and day out, it can stop a lot of riders.
countermeasures: use longer ident numbers when programming the things. put a GOOD camera above the door or use an IR detector and if somebody stays at the door for a minute, the guard should use the intercom and ask them if they want to sleep in another doorway, or if they need to talk to a sheriff's deputy.
moral: relying on any one layer of security is no security if somebody really wants in. multiple levels and somebody awake someplace who cares will fix every physical penetration attempt except wackos with bulldozers.
yahoo stock boards are full of stock pimps and shenanigans, as well as cranky posters and politics junkies.
I'd rather get stock touts from a street drunk than that board. you could probably do better pumping and dumping penny stocks mentioned in spam than using yahoo as your guide.
everybody, repeat after me. "Tech stocks are NOT bubble plays, they are lead balloons. there is ONE tech stock in a thousand that is a money rocket, the rest just plink along as no-brain speculators play with them."
trade if you must on the fundamentals, not on cool technology. cool technology lasts half a year, then it's trumped, and it costs 50 times as much to find the next breakthrough as the first one.
dark fiber stays under the street and along the railroad tracks and pipelines.
you fire more up, there is much better communication between central offices.
none of it gets to the household.
if you've got 16 hops to get to a peering point, you need to consider another ISP. DSL has two parts. one is carraige to an ISP, the DSL section. the next is the terminating ISP, internet service provider. if they're at the end of a chain of tier 2 and 3 ISPs and 120 mS away from a tier-1 provider sitting on the backbone, that's where THAT issue is broken. with DSL from the major telco players, you generally have a choice of ISPs. in the case of Qwest, there are about 50 ISPs on the Minnesota list alone you can have terminate your line. or you can go with their own ISP service. or any of the national outfits.
YMMV depending on carrier. but check the ISP websites and see where their lines go, a quality outfit may just have their net statistics and maybe even wireouts to destinations posted in a noc.somebodys-isp.com page, and you can figure out who's closest to the backbone that you like the policies of.
someplace like new york city, where the infrastructure (wires and boxes 'o' bits and the like) is generally quite close to the subscribers, DSL is an easier play than in north dakota. the peturbations of the signal as the line gets longer deteriorate the possible speed you can deliver, and beyond about 18,000 feet, your line rate is about two bits per week. ADSL2+ gets you a little better, but the rule "inside" is that beyond 15,000 feet, service becomes tenuous.
it's too expensive to retrofit any of the bad-move 24 and 26 gauge wire that was put up in the 60s and 70s and 80s, and thinner wire makes it only worse. without equal footing between the competitors (telcos are highly regulated and every time they change light bulbs in the bathroom, they have to notify all potential competitors, and nobody else has to meet those standards,) stuff doesn't get placed unless there are basically guaranteed customers enough to pay for the expansions. that's a fact of life after the telecom bust of the turn of the century.
and for some silly reason, uptake of high-speed subscriber lines has been fitful at best, which means any equipment installed isn't filling up. you get the population wildly excited about something, they demand it, rip the walls off the corporate headquarters to sign up for it, and costs of all items come down with higher production and deployment.
the big one is distance, and getting around that engenders the cost issue.
in the US, folks like their elbow room and their freedom. overseas, where population densities are higher and the government decides through centrally-owned telcos what to push and basically what it should cost, it can be expected that high-speed like DSL is going to be more availiable and less costly.
with the bankers and the government working against it here, and distances making it tough, it's going to be harder to get. pure and simple.
penicillin was found the same way... contamination on the sample cells. instead of washing up, fleming looked further.
this probably means the coffee cups in cubicles will be allowed to grow another couple inches of fur, but to the delight of kid hackers everywhere... don't wash up.
they'll be cracked. FairPlay (apple iDRM) contravention may even be a retail product Real Soon Now. at least in the nordic countries.
the only way to make this stuff secure is to put it in a vault, fill the vault with hydraulic concrete, cut off all the wires into the vault and push 'em through the holes before the stuff cures, and site crew-served weapons all around the vault.
then it doesn't work. but it's secure.
you know, maybe HelliWood might just decide that since you can't duplicate analog to 200 generations, they'll bring back vinyl LPs, film, and they'll get their evil satisfactions by owning all the needle and projection-bulb companies.
until they do go retro, all they are doing with DRM and magic security boxes are royally pissing off the Joe Sixpacks out here that they want to sell stuff to. uhh, make that "rent limited private usage rights to." the only way you buy entertainment is with the suits on one side of the boardroom and the artists on the other side. history says the artists get the short end of the straw no matter what the media or the ultimate usage of the product.
lots of stuff doesn't work with vista, antivirus and firewall stuff being the best known examples. every time somebody patches a hole, somebody else's favorite app breaks.
the ubiquitous "grey card" from Kodak was long used in the chemical-photo world as a standard measurement of both distances and color density. you KNEW you had an 8x10 element in the photo.
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let's see, there are a million retail stores, new-napster, real music's service, MS's service, music websites a plenty, artists with their own websites selling their own wares on greenie-disk and otherwise... and Steve Jobs is the "only legal distribution channel?"
so Todd Rundgren's PatroNet site is against the law, even though it was up five years before the torrents?
do some research next time you vent, you are wrong, sir.
ought to be worth a half brownie-point at least. next time, VAX-in-a-handheld? the only problem would be the 8-inch boot floppy for VMS ;)
they are bound and determined to kill themselves. and are hard on the right path.
they're the problem. they are not in control any more, customers are, and that's why they are running wild as wolves on crack in the courts trying to get some control.
they won't.
worst case is, we become a police state on rent to the RIAA, and the commercial music business completely dies out. you'll have your bar bands and individuals making their own music, no more supermegagroups and no more boy/girl band of the month bullshit.
best case is, the back libraries become fully availiable, every scratch and warped tape of it, in unlocked downloads for which the licensor (for there are no purchasers of music without all the suits on one end of the boardroom table and overwhelmed band members on the other) gets perpetual personal enjoyment for a half buck a track.
musicians, control your own back catalog, get it back from the pigopolists now. that way you get all the revenue. you don't need a label to catalog it, just a google search.
if you don't think Dell does it for you, go Apple, whitebox, closet scraping, whatever for your next peecee. if they don't catch on, they don't deserve to be around. witness compusa.
25 terabytes inside, between the potato salad and the stuff in the cool whip container (whatever it once was,) and gigabyte ethernet out to the rest of the house.
got that already, all I need is to put the network card in the icemaker slot...
the tip-off was the pioneer press online had this at late morning, even before slashdot.
all 4 stores in the twin cities are dussssstttt, dusssssttttt.
have to go to general nanosystems or tran micro, then, if you don't live on the right side of the tracks and getting to micro center is a RPA. and you'll be better off, frankly. both are about a half mile west of the university. in the anonymous poster's case, micro center in burnsville works.
one of those hired "going out of business, everything must GO! 5-12 percent off!" outfits with day-labor guys shaking signs on the corners, and so forth.
if you recognized anybody in there before, with one of these outfits, you won't, the outfit brings in all their own folks and rules.
look, ma, it's raining bones!
look away, child, it's a hegemonist net surfer....
which is why my outfit is always cautioning workers to avoid "riders," don't let anybody pretend to be your shadow flitting by as the door closes... unless you see their badge.
"hey, pard, where's your badge today?" costs nothing. adds 60,000 security persons to the force. even if half of them are just going through the motions day in and day out, it can stop a lot of riders.
until you stop the toy when the door lock clicks.
countermeasures: use longer ident numbers when programming the things. put a GOOD camera above the door or use an IR detector and if somebody stays at the door for a minute, the guard should use the intercom and ask them if they want to sleep in another doorway, or if they need to talk to a sheriff's deputy.
moral: relying on any one layer of security is no security if somebody really wants in. multiple levels and somebody awake someplace who cares will fix every physical penetration attempt except wackos with bulldozers.
yahoo chat boards are entertainment, not authoritative.
any news article that doesn't distinguish the difference is spurious.
even from reuters financial services, which is the formal name of the outfit that operates the reuters news wire.
freakin' preposterous.
yahoo stock boards are full of stock pimps and shenanigans, as well as cranky posters and politics junkies.
I'd rather get stock touts from a street drunk than that board. you could probably do better pumping and dumping penny stocks mentioned in spam than using yahoo as your guide.
everybody, repeat after me. "Tech stocks are NOT bubble plays, they are lead balloons. there is ONE tech stock in a thousand that is a money rocket, the rest just plink along as no-brain speculators play with them."
trade if you must on the fundamentals, not on cool technology. cool technology lasts half a year, then it's trumped, and it costs 50 times as much to find the next breakthrough as the first one.
It looks like you want to fire a torpedo at an incoming torpedo. How may I help you?
This command will swing a launch tube off its rest. Do you really want to do this?
If you issue that command, a hatch cover will be lost forever at great cost. Are you sure
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not, of course, that there is anything wrong with virus companies and universities developing hacks and cracks, but
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dark fiber stays under the street and along the railroad tracks and pipelines.
you fire more up, there is much better communication between central offices.
none of it gets to the household.
if you've got 16 hops to get to a peering point, you need to consider another ISP. DSL has two parts. one is carraige to an ISP, the DSL section. the next is the terminating ISP, internet service provider. if they're at the end of a chain of tier 2 and 3 ISPs and 120 mS away from a tier-1 provider sitting on the backbone, that's where THAT issue is broken. with DSL from the major telco players, you generally have a choice of ISPs. in the case of Qwest, there are about 50 ISPs on the Minnesota list alone you can have terminate your line. or you can go with their own ISP service. or any of the national outfits.
YMMV depending on carrier. but check the ISP websites and see where their lines go, a quality outfit may just have their net statistics and maybe even wireouts to destinations posted in a noc.somebodys-isp.com page, and you can figure out who's closest to the backbone that you like the policies of.
no such choices with cable, for instance.
someplace like new york city, where the infrastructure (wires and boxes 'o' bits and the like) is generally quite close to the subscribers, DSL is an easier play than in north dakota. the peturbations of the signal as the line gets longer deteriorate the possible speed you can deliver, and beyond about 18,000 feet, your line rate is about two bits per week. ADSL2+ gets you a little better, but the rule "inside" is that beyond 15,000 feet, service becomes tenuous.
it's too expensive to retrofit any of the bad-move 24 and 26 gauge wire that was put up in the 60s and 70s and 80s, and thinner wire makes it only worse. without equal footing between the competitors (telcos are highly regulated and every time they change light bulbs in the bathroom, they have to notify all potential competitors, and nobody else has to meet those standards,) stuff doesn't get placed unless there are basically guaranteed customers enough to pay for the expansions. that's a fact of life after the telecom bust of the turn of the century.
and for some silly reason, uptake of high-speed subscriber lines has been fitful at best, which means any equipment installed isn't filling up. you get the population wildly excited about something, they demand it, rip the walls off the corporate headquarters to sign up for it, and costs of all items come down with higher production and deployment.
the big one is distance, and getting around that engenders the cost issue.
in the US, folks like their elbow room and their freedom. overseas, where population densities are higher and the government decides through centrally-owned telcos what to push and basically what it should cost, it can be expected that high-speed like DSL is going to be more availiable and less costly.
with the bankers and the government working against it here, and distances making it tough, it's going to be harder to get. pure and simple.
penicillin was found the same way... contamination on the sample cells. instead of washing up, fleming looked further.
this probably means the coffee cups in cubicles will be allowed to grow another couple inches of fur, but to the delight of kid hackers everywhere... don't wash up.
they'll be cracked. FairPlay (apple iDRM) contravention may even be a retail product Real Soon Now. at least in the nordic countries.
the only way to make this stuff secure is to put it in a vault, fill the vault with hydraulic concrete, cut off all the wires into the vault and push 'em through the holes before the stuff cures, and site crew-served weapons all around the vault.
then it doesn't work. but it's secure.
you know, maybe HelliWood might just decide that since you can't duplicate analog to 200 generations, they'll bring back vinyl LPs, film, and they'll get their evil satisfactions by owning all the needle and projection-bulb companies.
until they do go retro, all they are doing with DRM and magic security boxes are royally pissing off the Joe Sixpacks out here that they want to sell stuff to. uhh, make that "rent limited private usage rights to." the only way you buy entertainment is with the suits on one side of the boardroom and the artists on the other side. history says the artists get the short end of the straw no matter what the media or the ultimate usage of the product.
lots of stuff doesn't work with vista, antivirus and firewall stuff being the best known examples. every time somebody patches a hole, somebody else's favorite app breaks.
the ubiquitous "grey card" from Kodak was long used in the chemical-photo world as a standard measurement of both distances and color density. you KNEW you had an 8x10 element in the photo.
if a power supply doesn't do it, pop out the drive and put in a new chassis.
is Dell that bad at support nowadays? or is it just another "call me Bob" who has no clue who he's working for this month overseas and doesn't care?
finally, somebody in the business had a shot of insight.
write to steveb@microsoft.com, I'm sure he'll let you have the video ;)