How about rewarding uploads and charging by the download, so If you provide oodles of mp3 every month you don't pay a penny, but if your downloading buckets of pirated music you pay a small amount per download.
I can't imaging Napster paying YOU to upload music but I can imagine you having your subscription reduced towards and all the way to zero by providing a service.
This probably only sounds good to me 'cos I'm on broadband.:)
IE on solaris, used it abused it, played around with it, it sucked.
It crashed worse than Netscape and it displayed in this horrid shade of green in CDE. I ditched it and went back to Netscape in under a week.
Ran pretty well for a beta port on a low end SUN though...
Just for the record if any Microsoft employee is reading this (working on the next Halloween doc or something); I would buy Winux assuming DCOM support worked and MS Word was bundled with it. Also I would require as much compatability with the other distributions as is present within today's Linux distributions (say SuSE, Debian and Redhat). I would probably pay 100 - 150 GBP for this.
What would be really cool is this, I was thinking about it the other day:
The speed of sound in a medium is slightly effected by its frequency.
Do the following:
Emmit a frequency using your best directional technique (?)
Raise(/Lower) the frequency at a carefuly calculated rate.
All the waves will reach a certain point at the same time, this should (done properly) deliver quite a force at that point.
This won't work too well in air because of pressure differences, but in water things are a whole lot more calculable.
This has been brought to you by the great Transociter in the sky, in association with Brak-O-vision.
Also, US Navy sonar will most certainly detect something appraching underwater at over 250mph (and maybe they could do something about it, or maybe not...) but if a nuke is hidden on a ship then the Navy very well may allow them to dock.
Super-sonic torpedoes would be undetectable at the target site by sonar. (Before they hit obviously)
Sonar isn't radar, it uses sound and as such is limited by the speed of sound. If something is faster than light (yeah I know:) ) heading towards you, you can't see it before it hits you. Same applies to sound. A faster than sound projectile cannot be heard until it's sound wave hits you.
Consider jets in the sky. The sound appears to come from an angle apart from where the plane appears to be, determined by its distance from the observation point and its speed.
The net result of this is that a sonar net would have to be far-offshore to be of use on this one and also would need light speed comms to communicate to a torpedo station capable of destroying the projectile (ie. on the coast, preferably near the target).
I don't know how pervasive the US coastguard sonar net is, but I doubt they funded an offshore boey sonar net.
-Bye bye Karma!
Voxol
I've had 3 "lifetime" email addresses disapear thanks to the internet-advertising downturn, DoS attacks, etc.
I ended up buying a domain name, it's the only way to be remotely near sure.
On top of that, you can trace where spam/junk mailers got your address from, (enrole as slashdot@banksian.co.uk per se.)
for 1 GBP a night, I dont care. There aren't any DVDs I own that I've watched enough to justify buying them yet. Also, I'm a student so it's not a time issue.:)
I finally got around to reading something about this UCITA thing.
Geezuz-H-Christ!
Get rid of it, get rid of it!
It looks like a licence to screw the little guy.
IMO:
See, the problem with out-right capitalism is that it moves to turn everything into a commodity. Everything unfortunately includes information and legaslation.
Next thing, they'll start playing around with the constitution.
if the app is a user application (not run by root) and you use a source RPM then no executable code is run and you only need to examine a shell command or two because thats al that is run as root.
I think the problem is what your running as root. With a tgz distribution you can see exactly what is done by "make install" and in most cases can infact do the "make install" bit yourself on the command line.
In linux-dist X,/usr/local/bin does not appear in root's path. The untrusted apps are limited to user's accounts where they can't do too much damage.
I used my.mp3.com for a bit, and then bought my own server to do a much better job. I get a better selection now.
I really recommend 'edna' over at freshmeat, it streams mp3s into winamp (or whatever), generating playlists from directories full of mp3s. As far as I can tell its the only one that doesn't need an SQL database.
Deadlock shouldn't be a problem with a query system and inter-programmer communication.
If you're 'merging' together a product your going to get a quite a number of end-zone bug fixes. In a ticket based system like sablime, all recognised bugs are trackable to conclusion. This is partly because of locking.
In a merge situation, you have to wait for any outstanding development to find out if the bug fix was successful. To me, CVS seems like the half-assed solution.
In the projects I've worked on, I haven't found locking to be restrictive at all. The one time I wanted access to a file someone else was using, I emailed them and was working on the file by the end of the day. (This was over 9 months of interrupted work - holidays:).)
I agree entirely about the binary data files. You've got me thinking about plug-ins now.:)
I'm doing my dissertation on SCM software, so I've done research;)
I don't like CVS; this is my own opinion and I'm saying so now, so don't flame me:) . The unreservered checkout model is a pain with any project larger than the average GPL hobby-kit. The more programmers you get the more merges need to be done. A merge requires knowledge of all changes under consideration, so the person merging needs knowledge of the entire project. As the goal of an SCM is to distribute the work, it is a failure in this situation.
I think locking is a better model. In my SCM, I'm allowing locking of individual functions/classes by clients. In addition, CORBA networking and XML-based storage are features.
Thanks for the bullet points, Node renaming was on my early lists, but I had forgotten it.:)
Personally, my favorite so far has been sablime( Link; rigid locking, SQL queries and can handle HUGE teams and documentation.
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How about rewarding uploads and charging by the download, so If you provide oodles of mp3 every month you don't pay a penny, but if your downloading buckets of pirated music you pay a small amount per download.
:)
I can't imaging Napster paying YOU to upload music but I can imagine you having your subscription reduced towards and all the way to zero by providing a service.
This probably only sounds good to me 'cos I'm on broadband.
Side note:
IE on solaris, used it abused it, played around with it, it sucked.
It crashed worse than Netscape and it displayed in this horrid shade of green in CDE. I ditched it and went back to Netscape in under a week.
Ran pretty well for a beta port on a low end SUN though...
Just for the record if any Microsoft employee is reading this (working on the next Halloween doc or something); I would buy Winux assuming DCOM support worked and MS Word was bundled with it. Also I would require as much compatability with the other distributions as is present within today's Linux distributions (say SuSE, Debian and Redhat). I would probably pay 100 - 150 GBP for this.
What would be really cool is this, I was thinking about it the other day:
The speed of sound in a medium is slightly effected by its frequency.
Do the following:
Emmit a frequency using your best directional technique (?)
Raise(/Lower) the frequency at a carefuly calculated rate.
All the waves will reach a certain point at the same time, this should (done properly) deliver quite a force at that point.
This won't work too well in air because of pressure differences, but in water things are a whole lot more calculable.
This has been brought to you by the great Transociter in the sky, in association with Brak-O-vision.
Also, US Navy sonar will most certainly detect something appraching underwater at over 250mph (and maybe they could do something about it, or maybe not...) but if a nuke is hidden on a ship then the Navy very well may allow them to dock.
Super-sonic torpedoes would be undetectable at the target site by sonar. (Before they hit obviously)
Sonar isn't radar, it uses sound and as such is limited by the speed of sound. If something is faster than light (yeah I know :) ) heading towards you, you can't see it before it hits you. Same applies to sound. A faster than sound projectile cannot be heard until it's sound wave hits you.
Consider jets in the sky. The sound appears to come from an angle apart from where the plane appears to be, determined by its distance from the observation point and its speed.
The net result of this is that a sonar net would have to be far-offshore to be of use on this one and also would need light speed comms to communicate to a torpedo station capable of destroying the projectile (ie. on the coast, preferably near the target).
I don't know how pervasive the US coastguard sonar net is, but I doubt they funded an offshore boey sonar net. -Bye bye Karma! Voxol
I've had 3 "lifetime" email addresses disapear thanks to the internet-advertising downturn, DoS attacks, etc.
I ended up buying a domain name, it's the only way to be remotely near sure.
On top of that, you can trace where spam/junk mailers got your address from, (enrole as slashdot@banksian.co.uk per se.)
I mostly rent DVDs now anyway.
:)
for 1 GBP a night, I dont care. There aren't any DVDs I own that I've watched enough to justify buying them yet. Also, I'm a student so it's not a time issue.
Take a look here:
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Three dead trolls in a baggie's sketch on Tech Support
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/698/698011.
(I'm not HTML-ing on goatse grounds)
IANAA:
I finally got around to reading something about this UCITA thing.
Geezuz-H-Christ!
Get rid of it, get rid of it!
It looks like a licence to screw the little guy.
IMO:
See, the problem with out-right capitalism is that it moves to turn everything into a commodity. Everything unfortunately includes information and legaslation.
Next thing, they'll start playing around with the constitution.
I apologise it was :
"88.2% of statistics are made up on the spot." - Vic Reeves
(With apologies to Sturgeon, who said 94% of everything was crap, and the .sig I saw that said he was an optimist)
And it seems even the remaining 6% should also be treated with caution.
"Ender knew he wouldn't just win this fight, but ALL the fights."
Ender learn't to defend himself, and look at him.
80% of statistics are made up.
-Vic Reeves
cgi-lib.pl: Request to receive too much data: 521614 bytes
ooops....
It used to be VERY possible to skip commercials.
An inaudible beep was played trailing and preceding advert breaks (at least in the UK).
I assume they've removed this 'feature' since then.
The interesting thing about fastforwarding through the breaks is that adverts are now desgined to be watched in fast forward.
Never heard of it. (UK)
not so:
if the app is a user application (not run by root) and you use a source RPM then no executable code is run and you only need to examine a shell command or two because thats al that is run as root.
I think the problem is what your running as root. With a tgz distribution you can see exactly what is done by "make install" and in most cases can infact do the "make install" bit yourself on the command line.
/usr/local/bin does not appear in root's path. The untrusted apps are limited to user's accounts where they can't do too much damage.
In linux-dist X,
I used my.mp3.com for a bit, and then bought my own server to do a much better job. I get a better selection now.
I really recommend 'edna' over at freshmeat, it streams mp3s into winamp (or whatever), generating playlists from directories full of mp3s. As far as I can tell its the only one that doesn't need an SQL database.
Deadlock shouldn't be a problem with a query system and inter-programmer communication.
:) .)
:)
If you're 'merging' together a product your going to get a quite a number of end-zone bug fixes. In a ticket based system like sablime, all recognised bugs are trackable to conclusion. This is partly because of locking.
In a merge situation, you have to wait for any outstanding development to find out if the bug fix was successful. To me, CVS seems like the half-assed solution.
In the projects I've worked on, I haven't found locking to be restrictive at all. The one time I wanted access to a file someone else was using, I emailed them and was working on the file by the end of the day. (This was over 9 months of interrupted work - holidays
I agree entirely about the binary data files. You've got me thinking about plug-ins now.
I'm doing my dissertation on SCM software, so I've done research ;)
I don't like CVS; this is my own opinion and I'm saying so now, so don't flame me :) . The unreservered checkout model is a pain with any project larger than the average GPL hobby-kit. The more programmers you get the more merges need to be done. A merge requires knowledge of all changes under consideration, so the person merging needs knowledge of the entire project. As the goal of an SCM is to distribute the work, it is a failure in this situation.
I think locking is a better model. In my SCM, I'm allowing locking of individual functions/classes by clients. In addition, CORBA networking and XML-based storage are features.
Thanks for the bullet points, Node renaming was on my early lists, but I had forgotten it. :)
Personally, my favorite so far has been sablime( Link; rigid locking, SQL queries and can handle HUGE teams and documentation.
www.projectmayo.com, theres your link... :)
I heard that made it worse, acted like an aerial. Of course the person saying thought electrons had something to do with Florida, but still...
What *I* Don't like is the lack of knowledge of when I'm actually being filmed.
If they want to deter crime rather than just catch criminals shouldn't they put up signs 'You're on candid camera'.
>Nope, you're just SELFISH
Umm.. this *IS* a capitalism!
That means it's *OK* to be selfish!
In-fact it's often encouraged!
A few problems with this,
Seen those CD soundtrack vending machines in cinemas?
Ever seen anyone using one?
I dont trust more that a £1 to a machine.
Personally I don't have a mobile because theres nothing I want to know about thats important enough to bother me when I'm out.
I dont even have an answer machine because I find them insulting to the caller.
If I'm not in, I expect them to use email.
What happened to the health issues with mobile phones, brain cancer anyone?
Buggrit.
-
Voxol
Doesn't it look just like a white Lynx?
Maybe a bit thinner and smaller, but I think there's a definite resembelence in the layout