Napster is primarily a search engine, meaning that people already now what they are looking for when they use Napster.
So you've never done a search for "comedy", "punk", "alternative", "techno"...etc and looked at what turned up? Wow I am suprised. I just introduced one of my non computer savy friends to napster. The first thing he did was go out and download his favorite songs from from CDs that had been stolen from him. Ever since then he's done searches for "techno" and other generes.
True but that would also drop queries for Metallica parodies, live proformances, or even this interview if it was in MP3 format. All it would force people to do is rename and change the ID tag to read "Mtallica" or some other variation. If they banned stuff with certain checksums, just encode a second of silence. Its not easy to mess with something so open, you'd add way more overhead to Napster.
Does anyone else remember the article in the Aug. 96 Discover magazine that used flywheels in a vacuum as energy storage for cars? I remember being really impressed all around by that article. Wish I knew what happened to that whole project, unlike most promises this one actually seemed a lot more the vaporware.
...out of a relationship? My cousin told his girlfriend that her sister was "a nice piece of ass" after a quarter of a bottle on New Years, he then grabbed the sister's butt. 20 mins later he passed out in a chair.
(That was in regard to the toilet paper.... no joke there was a little issue at my friends dorm a month ago, they ended up stealing it from a public restroom)
Yeah I watched it and even taped it for a friend. I thought it was ok, nothing really special. It did deal a bit with AI but not overtly. All in all I thought it was a nice change from the ones I'd seen before, no major conspiricy or government coverup. I did find how they treated technology questionable.... did anyone else notice that the one guy plugged power into the data pins of a device? (I think I was only half watching) Or the fact they couldn't just kill power to the whole building to save Mulder.
Sorry for asking but how exactly would I hook up something that amplified the signal of these devices to make it work over a mile or so?
See the situation is like this, I can get ADSL (I'm right at the service edge) But my cousin who lives about a mile or so down the street can't get it. If we could hook him up under my ADSL it would be a great solution especially if I could do it under linux. He's been begging me to find some solution to his problem. So I'm intrested in the cost of the equipment and how the setup would actually work. (The hardware end, I have a few spare IPs).
First lets recap on who controls the MPAA, from their website http://www.mpaa.org/about/ it's controlled by:
Walt Disney Company; Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.; Universal Studios, Inc.; and Warner Bros.
After looking at a few of their stock prices and outstanding shares it seems the best effort would be applied by buying MGM stock. They're trading at 22.5 dollars a share with 150,902,000 shares outstanding. How many shares do we want and how much support can we get? Lets say we get 10,000 shares bought with this money. That's only.00006% of the company. How much influence would that have? Granted I'm looking at this from the standpoint of influencing the company rather then having a voice at a shareholders meeting. I suppose it would have no real effect other then a publicity stunt. If we could get 1 percent of the company that might have some major impact. But that would take 1,509,020 shares of stock, or contributions equaling 33,952,950.
If it's a go, I'll contribute a few shares but I don't expect much more then a very loud voice at a shareholders meeting.
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No joke, my friend's Geography class at a local public ohio college has him coloring in a map of Ohio (the counties based on differences in population or something similar) and writing a small essay. WTF? I thought this was World Geography not lets play with colored pencils and crayons.
The thing I keep wondering about is how we can get the news to report the facts in this case?
It seems like most of the press I've seen is very negative and filled with blatent lies. (A while back on CNN I heard them say that you couldn't copy DVDs before this was released).
So how can we get the news shows and papers to report facts instead of what the MPAA tells them? I don't see much research going into the news stories, so its up to us to provide the facts.
Thanks for the positive side of the story, as I posted elsewhere I've had several clients that have tried to get support and been told upfront that it would cost them just to tell them the problem.
Last time I heard it was over $100.00, I don't know how much or for what but I had a client with a problem who called microsoft and she told me later that they wanted to charge "Over 100.00"
M$-Myth #5. This latest patch will fix all the bugs. M$-Myth #6 We test our products. M$-Myth #7 We use industry standards. And you forgot their great marketing slogan to retailers about windows 95 "Faster and easier, new possibilites, fun!" (I must have heard that a few dozen times at an MS brainwashi^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H meeting"
"The very definition of Linux as an Open Software effort means that commercial companies like Red Hat will make money by charging for services. Therefore, commercial support services for Linux will be fee-based and will likely be priced at a premium. These costs have to be factored into the total cost model."
And microsoft's policy of charging for support is any different? Well ok it is, you pay for the product and then the support:-)
Actually I've found the exact opposite to be true. At the university I work at, most of the professors are running linux on their machines. Some professors don't even know how to reboot into win9x even though they have it on their machine too. Linux is all they need for the most part. The cost savings from using "free" software leaves us with more left over in the budget for faster hardware in the labs.
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Damned submit button right next to preview, I was going to clean that up a bit more, oh well, at least the italics worked
Napster is primarily a search engine, meaning that people already now what they are looking for when they use Napster.
...etc and looked at what turned up? Wow I am suprised. I just introduced one of my non computer savy friends to napster. The first thing he did was go out and download his favorite songs from from CDs that had been stolen from him. Ever since then he's done searches for "techno" and other generes.
So you've never done a search for "comedy", "punk", "alternative", "techno"
True but that would also drop queries for Metallica parodies, live proformances, or even this interview if it was in MP3 format. All it would force people to do is rename and change the ID tag to read "Mtallica" or some other variation. If they banned stuff with certain checksums, just encode a second of silence. Its not easy to mess with something so open, you'd add way more overhead to Napster.
Does anyone else remember the article in the Aug. 96 Discover magazine that used flywheels in a vacuum as energy storage for cars? I remember being really impressed all around by that article. Wish I knew what happened to that whole project, unlike most promises this one actually seemed a lot more the vaporware.
...out of a relationship? My cousin told his girlfriend that her sister was "a nice piece of ass" after a quarter of a bottle on New Years, he then grabbed the sister's butt. 20 mins later he passed out in a chair.
Akron U are you listening?
(That was in regard to the toilet paper.... no joke there was a little issue at my friends dorm a month ago, they ended up stealing it from a public restroom)
Yeah I watched it and even taped it for a friend. I thought it was ok, nothing really special. It did deal a bit with AI but not overtly. All in all I thought it was a nice change from the ones I'd seen before, no major conspiricy or government coverup. I did find how they treated technology questionable.... did anyone else notice that the one guy plugged power into the data pins of a device? (I think I was only half watching) Or the fact they couldn't just kill power to the whole building to save Mulder.
Sorry for asking but how exactly would I hook up something that amplified the signal of these devices to make it work over a mile or so?
See the situation is like this, I can get ADSL (I'm right at the service edge) But my cousin who lives about a mile or so down the street can't get it. If we could hook him up under my ADSL it would be a great solution especially if I could do it under linux. He's been begging me to find some solution to his problem. So I'm intrested in the cost of the equipment and how the setup would actually work. (The hardware end, I have a few spare IPs).
First lets recap on who controls the MPAA, from their website http://www.mpaa.org/about/ it's controlled by:
.00006% of the company. How much influence would that have? Granted I'm looking at this from the standpoint of influencing the company rather then having a voice at a shareholders meeting. I suppose it would have no real effect other then a publicity stunt. If we could get 1 percent of the company that might have some major impact. But that would take 1,509,020 shares of stock, or contributions equaling 33,952,950.
Walt Disney Company;
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.;
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.;
Paramount Pictures Corporation;
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.;
Universal Studios, Inc.; and
Warner Bros.
After looking at a few of their stock prices and outstanding shares it seems the best effort would be applied by buying MGM stock. They're trading at 22.5 dollars a share with 150,902,000 shares outstanding. How many shares do we want and how much support can we get? Lets say we get 10,000 shares bought with this money. That's only
If it's a go, I'll contribute a few shares but I don't expect much more then a very loud voice at a shareholders meeting.
No joke, my friend's Geography class at a local public ohio college has him coloring in a map of Ohio (the counties based on differences in population or something similar) and writing a small essay. WTF? I thought this was World Geography not lets play with colored pencils and crayons.
Aol Chat rooms used to be able to do this... Imagine the fun :-) Lots of weird conversations.
It's not true. ;-)
It's not true.
It's not true.
It's not true.
It's not true.
It's not true.
....etc
(You get the idea)
Come on everyone needs a little Tolkien Hobbit humor in their night.
The thing I keep wondering about is how we can get the news to report the facts in this case?
It seems like most of the press I've seen is very negative and filled with blatent lies. (A while back on CNN I heard them say that you couldn't copy DVDs before this was released).
So how can we get the news shows and papers to report facts instead of what the MPAA tells them? I don't see much research going into the news stories, so its up to us to provide the facts.
Any ideas?
I don't think it works with win.com now, maybe ntkern though.
You'd win too, the newsaskew site has a retraction on it last time I checked.
Thanks for the positive side of the story, as I posted elsewhere I've had several clients that have tried to get support and been told upfront that it would cost them just to tell them the problem.
JC
Last time I heard it was over $100.00, I don't know how much or for what but I had a client with a problem who called microsoft and she told me later that they wanted to charge "Over 100.00"
JC
M$-Myth #5. This latest patch will fix all the bugs. M$-Myth #6 We test our products. M$-Myth #7 We use industry standards. And you forgot their great marketing slogan to retailers about windows 95 "Faster and easier, new possibilites, fun!" (I must have heard that a few dozen times at an MS brainwashi^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H meeting"
My favorite quote:
:-)
"The very definition of Linux as an Open Software effort means that commercial companies like Red Hat will make money by charging for services. Therefore, commercial support services for Linux will be fee-based and will likely be priced at a premium. These costs have to be factored into the total cost model."
And microsoft's policy of charging for support is any different? Well ok it is, you pay for the product and then the support
.... but whatever did happen to the BOFH? I noticed in about two months ago it wasn't going to be published for a while and it never came back.
Yep. They just quickly learned what not to do to their fresh linux install.
Actually I've found the exact opposite to be true. At the university I work at, most of the professors are running linux on their machines. Some professors don't even know how to reboot into win9x even though they have it on their machine too. Linux is all they need for the most part. The cost savings from using "free" software leaves us with more left over in the budget for faster hardware in the labs.
"Lets install one in ...."
Hey I happen to like brie :-) it's a good thing I don't admit it too often in the math lab, I might get my access number taken away.