Actually, the reason why the guy was fired was because he wrote a time-triggered event where at one time, there would be HUNDREDS of guys kissing.
This "Egg" even made national news, and Maxis offered to take the games back for replacement. Why they didn't just put "rated T for Teen" labels on the package instead is left to the ages.:)
The thing to understand here is that if you are making use of someone else's property, you should expect to abide by the conditions imposed on its use.
That's true. However, if I play music in my house, chances are that my family will be able to hear it. If I turn up the volume REALLY loud, my neighbors will probably be able to hear it. However, they haven't paid for the rights to listen to the music; I have. Can I call the cops on them for breaking the copyright -- before they call the cops on me for disturbing the peace?;)
Down in Tennessee gas is $1.25 and people are complaining about that.
Forgive the offtopic comment, but $1.25 is NOTHING. The average price for a gallon of unleaded gas around New York is $1.63. I saw on the news last night that the average price in Chicago is $2.06 per gallon. Not to mention that in most other countries the prices are often double that.
I guess it's all relative, but (back on topic) like the record industry, oil companies engage in price fixing. They set gas prices for areas as small as one block, based on economic surveys (how rich people are, how many of them drive big SUV's, etc). However, just like with record companies, the oil industry has once again come under investigation as to their pricing methods. With any luck, we'll be paying exactly what we owe in due time.
That's all well and good, but what happens when people who can spell try to search? Assuming that you've changed the ID3 tags (Napster can use those as well), people searching for "Metallica" and not "Mettalika" will find nothing. As far as they're concerned, all of the Metallica music on Napster is gone.
Not exactly. According to Microsoft, you only have one license if you purchase, say, Windows 3.1 + Win95 upgrade + Win98 upgrade. So you can't steal Win95 and buy the Windows 98 upgrade to legalize your copy. However, if you want to sell your license, you would in theory have to unload Windows 3.1, 95 upgrade, and 98 upgrade together.
Remember that in Windows, you can select an icon for an EXE file when you build one. So you can select the standard Windows Media Player MPG icon (or something similar) and Joe User won't know the difference.
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Now, I'm sure that a lot of software that's used on college campuses has been pirated. Most of it was when I was in college a decade ago, so I doubt it's only gotten worse.
While I'd be lying if I told you that there was no such thing as piracy on campus, companies like Microsoft have noticed that students don't want to pay (directly) for their software. So they sign a campus-wide site license. At my university, just agreeing to a license agreement allows me to download Windows 2000, Office 2000, and lots of other software products. Of course, I can't copy them for people who aren't students, and after I graduate I am required to purchase legitimate licenses for all my software (cough).
But hey, it's something. Pay nothing for a copy of Office 2000, or pay $x for WordPerfect Office 2000. If you were a Starving College Student, what would you pick?
I also installed Windows 98 after Linux. However, I read all the FAQ's that indicated that Windows 9x must be installed on the FIRST partition on the FIRST available drive.
Oh, and that OEMSETUP program you get from booting from the CD will assume that all you want is Windows.
I hate to tell you to RTFM after the fact, but, well...
Simple. They run those stories from the wire through a parser to crudely HTMLize them. Anything that starts with "http://" and/or "www." is a link. Any other address is not. www.valinux.com is a link by these standards. slashdot.org is not.
For years, services like AOL, Compuserve (before it was bought by AOL), and "Classic" Prodigy had content partners. When you wanted weather reports, stock quotes, or sports scores, you had two options: either seek out the information from the source of your choice (assuming you had Internet access with your on-line service) or use the content provider that won the bidding war with your service. For things like weather and sports, this is no big deal -- you get the same info with different presentation, and the cost is the same.
So now Excite@Home is doing this with audio/video services. Big whoop. You saw how miserably they've been doing financially: $1.5 billion in losses against $377 million in revenue. Hopefully these deals will encourage them not to go bankrupt and still provide Internet access. You don't _have_ to use their services, but they'll be made accessible to you as an instant-gratification option.
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I had an English teacher in ninth grade who insisted you could find the word "sex" in any alcohol print advertising. For example, it could be written in the copy text, or it could be much more subtle. For example, "S" would be the curvaceous woman standing there, "E" in the fingers of her hand, and "X" in her crossed legs. Or "S" in the name of the product, "E" in the copyright notice, and "X" in crossed girders in the background.
Now, thanks to Slashdot, I've found someone even nuttier than her. Wow.
While MP3 probably shouldn't have been named such, let's not exacerbate the mistake by making another one.
I'm guessing that MP3 probably gained its name not so much because the standard was MPEG-I, layer 3 (or something like that) but because that's just the file extension. Even with FAT32 and NTFS supporting long filenames (knock on wood) Microsoft still pushes for 8.3 filenames, or 3-character extensions to say the least. To top it off, people like having easy-to-pronounce and -remember three-character abbreviations. (Why was the PlayStation abbreviated to PSX, instead of just PS?)
So you can keep calling it MPEG-4, but to most people it'll be MP4. And for some reason it'll show up in the Windows property sheet as "Windows Media File."
Napster is a public forum, not your house. You put a list of your MP3's on Napster _expecting_ people to search it. If you don't like it, set your share directory to/dev/null.
What you're saying about "illegal search" is like me dumping out a box of 100 CD's in the middle of the sidewalk, walking away to go do some shopping or chat with friends, and then run back and say "Hey! Don't look at those! They're mine! This is illegal search!"
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun." --(Best attribution for this quote, besides Ash, gets a cookie.)
Besides the "Army of Darkness" quote, this was also used as the intro sound effect in the classic MS-DOS shareware game "Megapede." Think Centipede, with cooler sound effects and cheesy music.
If you look more closely at auctions.msn.com, you'll find that MSN does not run its own auctions; rather it is a partner in an auction network where listings appear on multiple sites. I don't think Microsoft would make enough money off of listing fees (if any) to make this a worthwhile strategy.
Such idiocy -- I propose we be able to block Signal 11 immediately because he is moronic (note to Signal 11: you're not funny). Idiocy is inherent in Sig11's posts -- invariably how often Signal 11 is quoted is how often a post is labeled a troll (note to Signal 11: say something original!).
Please go away unless you have something substantive to add to a thread. Otherwise go back to using MSFT Windows in peace (note to Signal 11: Microsoft's stock symbol is not MSFS!).
Just a quick glance at pricewatch shows 64MB pc100 sticks as low as $35.
Pricewatch may be a decent price searching site, but you should never trust the lowest price (or any price within the first page, for that matter). Oddly enough, all of those really low prices come from Back-Of-The-Truck Enterprises, Inc., based in scenic Crown Heights, NY.
Decent RAM might not be $126/64MB, but don't believe every price you see.
I'm watching the NY-Boston game, here. Who else remembers when the sign behind the plate was "NO PEPPER"? Who actually buys stuff at Modell's just because they saw the sign behind Varitek?
I'm watching the same game (but I'm a Yankees fan who goes to school in Pittsburgh most of the year) and I remember that sign. However, as to your question about advertising...
Most advertising of that nature is just to get name recognition. You might not say "Hey, Modell's! Let's run out to Modell's right now because they bought ad space behind home plate." When you decide to buy a Derek Jeter jersey, though, you might consider going to Modell's because you know that they'll have Yankees jerseys. This is especially true if you're not from New York and don't know where to go to buy sporting goods.
Similarly, companies like General Electric and Siemens buy advertising that doesn't promote any of their products. The idea is to get a company's name out there. Incidentally, for companies like amazon.com and 1-800-FLOWERS (.com) where the name is the means of contact, it's also a way to score some impulse buyers or at least get a few hits/calls to generate interest.
One would think that the 12-16 year-olds that are the target market for this band would be wired and using napster... savvy enough to get the title on MP3. How does this fit into the equation?
The 12-16-year-olds that are the target market for this band use AOL, for the same reason they listen to 'NSync. (Everybody else does it, so it must be cool.) Over AOL, to download the entire 'NSync album would take untold hours, and the kids know that they can get it much more easily by begging their parents to drive them to the mall.
Most of the kids who are downloading lots of music are on fast and/or reliable connections, so they can rest assured that the songs they want will be downloaded promptly. Nevertheless, a quick search on Napster or Gnutella still reveals a LOT of 'NSync and Britney Spears songs being traded.
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Actually, the reason why the guy was fired was because he wrote a time-triggered event where at one time, there would be HUNDREDS of guys kissing.
:)
This "Egg" even made national news, and Maxis offered to take the games back for replacement. Why they didn't just put "rated T for Teen" labels on the package instead is left to the ages.
I guess what we really need to do is make a device that anylizes urine. Would'nt that be perfect at the office...
I'm sure my cubicle-neighbors would just love that.
"DEAR LORD, JASON WHY ARE YOU PEEING INTO THE COMPUTER?"
"Relax. I just want to hear some music. I'm also signing in to post things on Slashdot."
(confused employee runs away terrified, notifies security)
The thing to understand here is that if you are making use of someone else's property, you should expect to abide by the conditions imposed on its use.
;)
That's true. However, if I play music in my house, chances are that my family will be able to hear it. If I turn up the volume REALLY loud, my neighbors will probably be able to hear it. However, they haven't paid for the rights to listen to the music; I have. Can I call the cops on them for breaking the copyright -- before they call the cops on me for disturbing the peace?
Down in Tennessee gas is $1.25 and people are complaining about that.
Forgive the offtopic comment, but $1.25 is NOTHING. The average price for a gallon of unleaded gas around New York is $1.63. I saw on the news last night that the average price in Chicago is $2.06 per gallon. Not to mention that in most other countries the prices are often double that.
I guess it's all relative, but (back on topic) like the record industry, oil companies engage in price fixing. They set gas prices for areas as small as one block, based on economic surveys (how rich people are, how many of them drive big SUV's, etc). However, just like with record companies, the oil industry has once again come under investigation as to their pricing methods. With any luck, we'll be paying exactly what we owe in due time.
That's all well and good, but what happens when people who can spell try to search? Assuming that you've changed the ID3 tags (Napster can use those as well), people searching for "Metallica" and not "Mettalika" will find nothing. As far as they're concerned, all of the Metallica music on Napster is gone.
Yes, I found it here. It was linked to in the original thread.
You have a proof that you bought a license to use the software. Good for you.
Not exactly. According to Microsoft, you only have one license if you purchase, say, Windows 3.1 + Win95 upgrade + Win98 upgrade. So you can't steal Win95 and buy the Windows 98 upgrade to legalize your copy. However, if you want to sell your license, you would in theory have to unload Windows 3.1, 95 upgrade, and 98 upgrade together.
Remember that in Windows, you can select an icon for an EXE file when you build one. So you can select the standard Windows Media Player MPG icon (or something similar) and Joe User won't know the difference.
Now, I'm sure that a lot of software that's used on college campuses has been pirated. Most of it was when I was in college a decade ago, so I doubt it's only gotten worse.
While I'd be lying if I told you that there was no such thing as piracy on campus, companies like Microsoft have noticed that students don't want to pay (directly) for their software. So they sign a campus-wide site license. At my university, just agreeing to a license agreement allows me to download Windows 2000, Office 2000, and lots of other software products. Of course, I can't copy them for people who aren't students, and after I graduate I am required to purchase legitimate licenses for all my software (cough).
But hey, it's something. Pay nothing for a copy of Office 2000, or pay $x for WordPerfect Office 2000. If you were a Starving College Student, what would you pick?
I also installed Windows 98 after Linux. However, I read all the FAQ's that indicated that Windows 9x must be installed on the FIRST partition on the FIRST available drive.
Oh, and that OEMSETUP program you get from booting from the CD will assume that all you want is Windows.
I hate to tell you to RTFM after the fact, but, well...
Go to E*TRADE and select "After Hours Quotes" on MSFT. You may need to log in / have an account to get the most current info.
...when will the breakup finally happen? Can Microsoft buy enough lawyers, appeals, and Congressmen to turn this around?
Simple. They run those stories from the wire through a parser to crudely HTMLize them. Anything that starts with "http://" and/or "www." is a link. Any other address is not. www.valinux.com is a link by these standards. slashdot.org is not.
For years, services like AOL, Compuserve (before it was bought by AOL), and "Classic" Prodigy had content partners. When you wanted weather reports, stock quotes, or sports scores, you had two options: either seek out the information from the source of your choice (assuming you had Internet access with your on-line service) or use the content provider that won the bidding war with your service. For things like weather and sports, this is no big deal -- you get the same info with different presentation, and the cost is the same.
So now Excite@Home is doing this with audio/video services. Big whoop. You saw how miserably they've been doing financially: $1.5 billion in losses against $377 million in revenue. Hopefully these deals will encourage them not to go bankrupt and still provide Internet access. You don't _have_ to use their services, but they'll be made accessible to you as an instant-gratification option.
I had an English teacher in ninth grade who insisted you could find the word "sex" in any alcohol print advertising. For example, it could be written in the copy text, or it could be much more subtle. For example, "S" would be the curvaceous woman standing there, "E" in the fingers of her hand, and "X" in her crossed legs. Or "S" in the name of the product, "E" in the copyright notice, and "X" in crossed girders in the background.
Now, thanks to Slashdot, I've found someone even nuttier than her. Wow.
While MP3 probably shouldn't have been named such, let's not exacerbate the mistake by making another one.
I'm guessing that MP3 probably gained its name not so much because the standard was MPEG-I, layer 3 (or something like that) but because that's just the file extension. Even with FAT32 and NTFS supporting long filenames (knock on wood) Microsoft still pushes for 8.3 filenames, or 3-character extensions to say the least. To top it off, people like having easy-to-pronounce and -remember three-character abbreviations. (Why was the PlayStation abbreviated to PSX, instead of just PS?)
So you can keep calling it MPEG-4, but to most people it'll be MP4. And for some reason it'll show up in the Windows property sheet as "Windows Media File."
Sorry, that wasn't a valid Haiku. Here it is, broken down:
Five Sev-En Five Is Cool (6)
We Love To Read His Hai-Kus (7)
Please Keep Them Com-Ing (5)
So the first line was more than five syllables. Oh well.
Napster is a public forum, not your house. You put a list of your MP3's on Napster _expecting_ people to search it. If you don't like it, set your share directory to /dev/null.
What you're saying about "illegal search" is like me dumping out a box of 100 CD's in the middle of the sidewalk, walking away to go do some shopping or chat with friends, and then run back and say "Hey! Don't look at those! They're mine! This is illegal search!"
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."
--(Best attribution for this quote, besides Ash, gets a cookie.)
Besides the "Army of Darkness" quote, this was also used as the intro sound effect in the classic MS-DOS shareware game "Megapede." Think Centipede, with cooler sound effects and cheesy music.
Megapede -- from Cheezy Software!
Thank you.
If you look more closely at auctions.msn.com, you'll find that MSN does not run its own auctions; rather it is a partner in an auction network where listings appear on multiple sites. I don't think Microsoft would make enough money off of listing fees (if any) to make this a worthwhile strategy.
Such idiocy -- I propose we be able to block Signal 11 immediately because he is moronic (note to Signal 11: you're not funny). Idiocy is inherent in Sig11's posts -- invariably how often Signal 11 is quoted is how often a post is labeled a troll (note to Signal 11: say something original!).
Please go away unless you have something substantive to add to a thread. Otherwise go back to using MSFT Windows in peace (note to Signal 11: Microsoft's stock symbol is not MSFS!).
Ah, these lazy three-day weekends...
Just a quick glance at pricewatch shows 64MB pc100 sticks as low as $35.
Pricewatch may be a decent price searching site, but you should never trust the lowest price (or any price within the first page, for that matter). Oddly enough, all of those really low prices come from Back-Of-The-Truck Enterprises, Inc., based in scenic Crown Heights, NY.
Decent RAM might not be $126/64MB, but don't believe every price you see.
I'm watching the NY-Boston game, here. Who else remembers when the sign behind the plate was "NO PEPPER"? Who actually buys stuff at Modell's just because they saw the sign behind Varitek?
:)
I'm watching the same game (but I'm a Yankees fan who goes to school in Pittsburgh most of the year) and I remember that sign. However, as to your question about advertising...
Most advertising of that nature is just to get name recognition. You might not say "Hey, Modell's! Let's run out to Modell's right now because they bought ad space behind home plate." When you decide to buy a Derek Jeter jersey, though, you might consider going to Modell's because you know that they'll have Yankees jerseys. This is especially true if you're not from New York and don't know where to go to buy sporting goods.
Similarly, companies like General Electric and Siemens buy advertising that doesn't promote any of their products. The idea is to get a company's name out there. Incidentally, for companies like amazon.com and 1-800-FLOWERS (.com) where the name is the means of contact, it's also a way to score some impulse buyers or at least get a few hits/calls to generate interest.
Whoops, the game's back on. Go Yanks!
One would think that the 12-16 year-olds that are the target market for this band would be wired and using napster... savvy enough to get the title on MP3. How does this fit into the equation?
The 12-16-year-olds that are the target market for this band use AOL, for the same reason they listen to 'NSync. (Everybody else does it, so it must be cool.) Over AOL, to download the entire 'NSync album would take untold hours, and the kids know that they can get it much more easily by begging their parents to drive them to the mall.
Most of the kids who are downloading lots of music are on fast and/or reliable connections, so they can rest assured that the songs they want will be downloaded promptly. Nevertheless, a quick search on Napster or Gnutella still reveals a LOT of 'NSync and Britney Spears songs being traded.