If they took the sneaky way out, we would start seeing commercials with odd lengths. 22 seconds here, 43 seconds there, and if it got annoying enough, people would just deal with it rather than skip 11 seconds of Nash Bridges..
Lots of excellent electronica/techno/trance type music available to browse, which commercial radio completely ignores: 303Infinity, Astral Projection, Bassic, PPK, and many others.
On the more mainstream genre, Flickerstick is one of the bands in VH1's "Bands on the Run" series, and their music is surprisingly good.
I have been offering this file on my gnutella node for the last 3 or 4 days under the name "(alternate)cdfs.zip". As of now, several people have downloaded it, so it may be spreading on the network, and be more available to anyone on gnutella.
Actually, here I think you're better off designing a device to harness energy found naturally in methane gas. Think about it: If you're sitting all day on a chair, your body will generate a finite amount of methane gas, normally released uselessly into the air. If a device, perhaps a sort of anal probe, was designed to stick up from the center of the chair, a programmer could comfortably settle him or herself into the seat and work for hours. All electronic devices in the cubicle could then be powered by the output of a small methane-driven generator.
Programmers benefit from the small amount of sexual stimulation of the anal sphincter, as well as the improved security of being firmly planted in the chair with reduced likelyhood of sliding off the seat.
Corporations benefit from having employees remain in their cubes, hopefully producing productive code, as opposed to being engaged in such non-productive behavior as going to lunch, using the bathroom, and walking around.
This just means that someone will write a script that will randomly type in license plate addresses at high speed. Enough of this, and cars will randomly stop on the freeway, causing chaos and mayhem.
Another aspect here is that electronic music generally has no vocals or sampled vocals, which results in no visible personality for the record labels to market. The recording industry won't promote it if there's no one to show off at the MTV Music Video Awards/Blockbuster Awards/Grammy Awards/etc. Marketing machines work better if you have highly visible people ala Britney Spears/N-Sync to promote.
Electronic music is getting more popular all the time, but good luck finding it on the radio. Personally, I like mp3.com's current distribution model- lots of electronic music there (Astral Projection, Bassic, etc.) I hope Vivendi doesn't ruin it (but they probably will).
Go download your favorite Gnutella-based client program, connect, and do a search for the porn of your choice. It's so easy to amass gigabytes of mpegs that it's a wonder people will actually pay to visit x-rated websites. There are also centralized filesharing programs (FileNavigator) which will allow you to trade video with others who are also connecting to various OpenNap servers.
If a fairly major war broke out, Slashdot would be a primary source of information for the entire IT community, a bastion of crack (smoking) reporting:
Jon Katz blowing hot air about war being good for the moral fiber of society. (But bad for digestion.)
Way too many "All your base are belong to.." Time to move "zig" away from that laser-guided bomb.
Detailed analysis of those PS2 Beowulf Clusters currently in use by Iraqi military.
Rambus suing all parties involved for violating patents on DDR-SDRAM technology used in guidance systems.
RIAA threatens to bomb Belgrade again because the Serbs just can't keep their citizens from using Napster.
President of China, Jiang Zemin, suffers coronary after being forced to look at goatse.cx. Chinese Communist Party declares war on ICANN.
Refugees asked to log on to Rotten.com to identify pieces of loved ones.
50,000 CueCat "marital aids" sent to US Congress both as protest and as silly publicity to try to keep company afloat.
1st Amendment seen as violation of DMCA, repealed by Congress at behest of RIAA, MPAA for "benefit of war effort", and to "protect the children".
Outlook email worm takes out enemy high command, US Theater Command scratches collective head wondering what terrorist cell these "31337 d00ds" that "h4x0rs & 0wnz0rz the w0rld" belong to. Enemy command advised to download latest IE Service Pack.
Of course, AFAIK, YMMV because IANAL. OTOH, WYSIWHG, so get over it.
Wired ran a story about this a couple of months back, and I checked it out. It's as easy as replacing your ISP's DNS addresses with ones they provide (well, for me anyway).
It's not much use unless people start using it, but it opens your eyes as to how the system works. ICANN only has authority if people let them have it. Who said the internet needs to be forced into a top-down design model, anyway?
Slashdot Mirror
Fermat's Last Circumvention Device.
-j
If they took the sneaky way out, we would start seeing commercials with odd lengths. 22 seconds here, 43 seconds there, and if it got annoying enough, people would just deal with it rather than skip 11 seconds of Nash Bridges..
-j
Lots of excellent electronica/techno/trance type music available to browse, which commercial radio completely ignores: 303Infinity, Astral Projection, Bassic, PPK, and many others.
On the more mainstream genre, Flickerstick is one of the bands in VH1's "Bands on the Run" series, and their music is surprisingly good.
-j
I have been offering this file on my gnutella node for the last 3 or 4 days under the name "(alternate)cdfs.zip". As of now, several people have downloaded it, so it may be spreading on the network, and be more available to anyone on gnutella.
-j
Actually, here I think you're better off designing a device to harness energy found naturally in methane gas. Think about it: If you're sitting all day on a chair, your body will generate a finite amount of methane gas, normally released uselessly into the air. If a device, perhaps a sort of anal probe, was designed to stick up from the center of the chair, a programmer could comfortably settle him or herself into the seat and work for hours. All electronic devices in the cubicle could then be powered by the output of a small methane-driven generator.
Programmers benefit from the small amount of sexual stimulation of the anal sphincter, as well as the improved security of being firmly planted in the chair with reduced likelyhood of sliding off the seat.
Corporations benefit from having employees remain in their cubes, hopefully producing productive code, as opposed to being engaged in such non-productive behavior as going to lunch, using the bathroom, and walking around.
This has potential!
This just means that someone will write a script that will randomly type in license plate addresses at high speed. Enough of this, and cars will randomly stop on the freeway, causing chaos and mayhem.
I've begun noticing a pattern with your posts lately; I think you're becoming something of a technophobe (or a Luddite..)
:o)
Just my $0.02... not meant to be a flame.
Another aspect here is that electronic music generally has no vocals or sampled vocals, which results in no visible personality for the record labels to market. The recording industry won't promote it if there's no one to show off at the MTV Music Video Awards/Blockbuster Awards/Grammy Awards/etc. Marketing machines work better if you have highly visible people ala Britney Spears/N-Sync to promote.
Electronic music is getting more popular all the time, but good luck finding it on the radio. Personally, I like mp3.com's current distribution model- lots of electronic music there (Astral Projection, Bassic, etc.) I hope Vivendi doesn't ruin it (but they probably will).
I think John Candy had a set of these in "Who's Harry Crumb?" but I'm not 100% sure.
Go download your favorite Gnutella-based client program, connect, and do a search for the porn of your choice. It's so easy to amass gigabytes of mpegs that it's a wonder people will actually pay to visit x-rated websites. There are also centralized filesharing programs (FileNavigator) which will allow you to trade video with others who are also connecting to various OpenNap servers.
Very informative peer-to-peer links:
www.clip2.com
www.infoanarchy.org
From these places you can audit various downloadables as well as read the latest p2p news.
If a fairly major war broke out, Slashdot would be a primary source of information for the entire IT community, a bastion of crack (smoking) reporting:
Jon Katz blowing hot air about war being good for the moral fiber of society. (But bad for digestion.)
Way too many "All your base are belong to.." Time to move "zig" away from that laser-guided bomb.
Detailed analysis of those PS2 Beowulf Clusters currently in use by Iraqi military.
Rambus suing all parties involved for violating patents on DDR-SDRAM technology used in guidance systems.
RIAA threatens to bomb Belgrade again because the Serbs just can't keep their citizens from using Napster.
President of China, Jiang Zemin, suffers coronary after being forced to look at goatse.cx. Chinese Communist Party declares war on ICANN.
Refugees asked to log on to Rotten.com to identify pieces of loved ones.
50,000 CueCat "marital aids" sent to US Congress both as protest and as silly publicity to try to keep company afloat.
1st Amendment seen as violation of DMCA, repealed by Congress at behest of RIAA, MPAA for "benefit of war effort", and to "protect the children".
Outlook email worm takes out enemy high command, US Theater Command scratches collective head wondering what terrorist cell these "31337 d00ds" that "h4x0rs & 0wnz0rz the w0rld" belong to. Enemy command advised to download latest IE Service Pack.
Of course, AFAIK, YMMV because IANAL. OTOH, WYSIWHG, so get over it.
I say we grant them H1-B visas and put them to work for Transmeta..
What else? Just fire up your favorite Gnutella client and download away...
Wired ran a story about this a couple of months back, and I checked it out. It's as easy as replacing your ISP's DNS addresses with ones they provide (well, for me anyway).
http://www.youcann.org
It's not much use unless people start using it, but it opens your eyes as to how the system works. ICANN only has authority if people let them have it. Who said the internet needs to be forced into a top-down design model, anyway?
This is simply an example of (very) badly written fiction.
Sig removed on account of being found to be in violation of the DMCA.