I am in the US, and I used the Amazon MP3 Downloader under Wine. It does indeed work just fine, with the odd peculiar function of trying to launch iTunes post-download, which fails but it does download the MP3's just fine.
I use Linux almost exclusively, and I checked it out. Initially I feared that to buy a whole album, I'd either have to wait for a Linux version of the download manager, or I would have to pay extra by downloading tracks individually. Luckily, it appears that the download manager works fine under Wine (although it tries to launch iTunes after the download, and that fails somewhat gracefully). I end up with my music in a directory under ~/Amazon\ MP3.
BTW, looking at the file with xxd, it appears the files are encoded with Lame 3.97.
A good reason to never use debit cards is the key difference between credit cards and debit cards. Although they both may say you are "protected", in case of fraud you are fighting to get your money BACK with a debit card. With a credit card, you are just refusing to pay the charges.
Well, they do have a pay model of sorts - that is emusic. Emusic charges $14.95/month, or $9.99/month, depending on the duration you sign up for (3 months / 12 months). MP3.com and Emusic are both owned by the same comapny (Universal, I believe).
Looking at countries like the US, and the frequency with which I hear the words "I want" whenever I am around American kids - I guess it is working beautifully.
Unfortunately, the phrase usually isn't even "I want", but rather, "I need". At least "I want" would reflect some realization that it isn't a necessity.
Well, since all religion is based on lies it's off to a bad start but in Lewis' case the lack of subtlety is the worst part: Tolkien got across many of the same moral and ethical values without jamming it down the reader's throat.
True Christianity is not about Religion, as in a bunch of rules to follow, and i's to dot, and other such nonsense. Many have said otherwise, and many will say otherwise, but you are right, those are lies. Christianity is truely about believing that Jesus Christ has saved you, and declaring him Lord. Period, that is it. Nothing else.
Most people who do believe in Christ, and I mean really believe in Christ, do their best to not sin, out of honor and love for Christ... but we definately do sin, that is the truth.
I am sorry that your experiences with religion have tainted the idea of Jesus Christ - but, accept this challenge: Think about Christ as Lord, and shedding His blood as payment for us. Maybe even ask God to open your heart to the possibility, and show you if it is the truth or not.... and then make your decision.
If you look at the table, snort looks like it was doing great, except that it somehow missed the SYN attack. So, based off that chart, none of the IDS corrected detected all of the attacks... however, you read on a bit further, and..
Snort was off the air at the time of the attack because of misconfiguration on our part.
I don't have a lot of confidence in their results.
A radio station can make up playlists ahead of time, so that you know when and what will be playing 24/7. You have an account with a streaming station, and via a "debit card" charge, you are are charged $1.5/hr of listening time. Assuming an average of 4 min/song, this is enough for the station to cover its RIAA costs + small profit.
With enough servers, you can synchronize up and listen (read, download and save a "perfect" copy of that song) to the specific songs you are looking for, for about $.10 per song. An easy way to grow your mp3 collection, albeit only in "real-time".
Elaborate ratings systems and restrictive codes eventually suffocated the comics' angry, biting spirit and made them as bland as network TV
IMO, what suffocated comics was not rating systems, but collectors. I remember reading comics such as X-Men, Spiderman, etc. back in elementary through high school. Towards the end, comics starting costing over $2 a pop, and kept on rising. It seemed as if every comic that came out had some sort of "gimic" to make it a "collector's" item, like a funky cover, or multiple covers, etc..
And ratings? Restrictive codes? Look at comics now - are they more "bland" in terms of edgy material? Or are they more "bland" because of all the edgy material... as if that makes up for innovation, or good writing.
"We are no longer reinventing the wheel, we are starting to create. But Marvin will soon be learning for himself, so he doesn't need his creator. We just have to decide the level to which you want to get rid of humans"
Ah! Get rid of humans? Why, this is a threat to Mother Earth! They obviously do not know what they are doing, they are foolishly tampering with the delicate balances of nature! I'm sure if something goes wrong, they won't have to means to make it right. Is this where the eco-terrorists step in?
Hey, makes about as much sense as torching car dealerships (which is to mean: none)
"Microsoft is not, as the new administration has made abuntantly clear, about to be broken up. It has cashed in on its enormously profitable near-monopolies for desktop and server software"
Near-monopoly? Now, I thought we were just talking about the evils of Microsoft as a monopoly... so now they are really just a "near-monopoly"... which means, of course, that they are not a monopoly. So why pursue them as such?
Mentor Graphics had this same thing a long time ago - you could use various strokes (I believe that is what they were called) to perform various actions in their VLSI program. Most people I knew relied on this heavily - once you got the hang of it, it was very efficient.
Someone I knew at Purdue had started incorporating something like this in FVWM, I believe, but I don't know how far he got (this was several years ago)
Hmmm... I'd like to see some features like this incorporated in KDE/GNOME (maybe even Windows XP.. er, scratch that thought).
Perhaps the point of my comment was lost - I know that my statement could be interpreted as correct, just like his could be. But it is obvious the connotation is meant to be something different. I was poking fun at CmdrTaco. It's not a big deal, I just found it funny the way he phrased it - it sounds like so much posturing I see in the technical field, where I've seen people phrase things just like that, to appear to be the "expert" (playing on connotation rather than denotation).
Google has been my search engine of choice for years now, and this is an interesting window into what's happening back there. I find it interesting that people angrily submit stories constantly about Google "selling out" whenever something that looks like it might generate revenue appears. That means more then a lot of people realize: it means people care. So many websites are so bloated with ads that already can't be taken seriously. Google is special: I'm not opposed to seeing ads on it (frankly I'm amazed they made it this long considering the kind of bandwidth and hardware they need) I just hate seeing ads the way the vast majority of mainstream sites do it (hundreds of little banners everywhere blurring the lines between content and commercials). And hell, they run Linux.
(Above included in case the story changes) How many years has CmdrTaco been using google? It's inception date was 1998, according to the article.
Good points. I like Linux, but I have a hard time being energized about a fight for the freedom of DVDs and MP3s. I wonder what it must be like to have the major cause and purpose in your life to be able to watch DVD movies, and whine about people (companies are made of people) creating closed-source projects.
I like open-source. I think it is an effective model. I think it is great that people write open-soruce software. I think it is pathetic when they cry oppression when someone else doesn't write open-source software.
Now, i view kiddie porn as free speach. Please don't take this wrong however. Porn, especially kiddie porn is wrong, and takes advantage of people who do not know better. Seeing how this country is supposed to be free though, i see it perfectly ok if you want to corrupt your mind that way.
So, kiddie porn is "perfectly ok if you want to corrupt your mind", but posting IP addresses is not?! Oh, is it because you are afraid posting IP addresses may hurt somebody? What do you think kiddie porn does? It is not some innocent, victimless crime - kiddie porn is evidence of child abuse. The very existence of kiddie porn means some child was abused - but that is "perfectly ok" huh, since it is somehow "free speach" [sic]. Yeah.
I find it amazing that someone can defend kiddie porn as "free speach" [sic], and then complain about somebody using free speech to post IP addresses of people searching their hard drives. Amazing, and very pathetic.
I like open-source... I think Linux is great. I'd like to see it be a standard way of doing software. I just don't think that governments, or anybody else, should force people to write open-source, versus proprietary, software.
Your arguments are based on why you believe in open-source, which is fine. But my original argument was not for/against open-source, it was against forced open-source.
Haha... that is the most pathetic argument I have *ever* heard.
Why don't you post all your financial information here? I mean, it's money you made using building blocks from other people. Those tax forms were prepared with software other people wrote. Or with paper that other people made. We should all have the right to see it.
You forgot to mention that those things were created because they had the opportunity to be proprietary, and that companies made money off of those things - what, you think that Intel makes CPUs out of the goodness of their own heart? They sell them, with the intent to make money.
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I am in the US, and I used the Amazon MP3 Downloader under Wine. It does indeed work just fine, with the odd peculiar function of trying to launch iTunes post-download, which fails but it does download the MP3's just fine.
I use Linux almost exclusively, and I checked it out. Initially I feared that to buy a whole album, I'd either have to wait for a Linux version of the download manager, or I would have to pay extra by downloading tracks individually. Luckily, it appears that the download manager works fine under Wine (although it tries to launch iTunes after the download, and that fails somewhat gracefully). I end up with my music in a directory under ~/Amazon\ MP3. BTW, looking at the file with xxd, it appears the files are encoded with Lame 3.97.
A good reason to never use debit cards is the key difference between credit cards and debit cards. Although they both may say you are "protected", in case of fraud you are fighting to get your money BACK with a debit card. With a credit card, you are just refusing to pay the charges.
Well, they do have a pay model of sorts - that is emusic. Emusic charges $14.95/month, or $9.99/month, depending on the duration you sign up for (3 months / 12 months). MP3.com and Emusic are both owned by the same comapny (Universal, I believe).
Uh, has anyone explored the *rest* of his site?
n dex.html
o logie/picts1.html
o logie/Logologi.faq
This is interesting:
"CYBERYOGI Christian Oliver(=CO=) Windler (teachmaster of LOGOLOGIE - the first cyberage-religion!)"
And
"I am a cyberage-child - born in the year of Pong"
As a matter of fact, his main page is dedicated to Logologie:
http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/e_i
Hmmmm:
http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Log
This is the real nail in the coffin, however: http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Log
I was dubious of generic laptops, and thus when I saw this on the Power Notebooks site, I was intrigued:
http://www.powernotebooks.com/Name_Brand.php3
Looking at countries like the US, and the frequency with which I hear the words "I want" whenever I am around American kids - I guess it is working beautifully.
Unfortunately, the phrase usually isn't even "I want", but rather, "I need". At least "I want" would reflect some realization that it isn't a necessity.
Well, since all religion is based on lies it's off to a bad start but in Lewis' case the lack of subtlety is the worst part: Tolkien got across many of the same moral and ethical values without jamming it down the reader's throat.
True Christianity is not about Religion, as in a bunch of rules to follow, and i's to dot, and other such nonsense. Many have said otherwise, and many will say otherwise, but you are right, those are lies. Christianity is truely about believing that Jesus Christ has saved you, and declaring him Lord. Period, that is it. Nothing else.
Most people who do believe in Christ, and I mean really believe in Christ, do their best to not sin, out of honor and love for Christ... but we definately do sin, that is the truth.
I am sorry that your experiences with religion have tainted the idea of Jesus Christ - but, accept this challenge: Think about Christ as Lord, and shedding His blood as payment for us. Maybe even ask God to open your heart to the possibility, and show you if it is the truth or not.... and then make your decision.
Take care,
jtc
If you look at the table, snort looks like it was doing great, except that it somehow missed the SYN attack. So, based off that chart, none of the IDS corrected detected all of the attacks... however, you read on a bit further, and..
Snort was off the air at the time of the attack because of misconfiguration on our part.
I don't have a lot of confidence in their results.
Ok, perhaps I am way off base here.
A radio station can make up playlists ahead of time, so that you know when and what will be playing 24/7. You have an account with a streaming station, and via a "debit card" charge, you are are charged $1.5/hr of listening time. Assuming an average of 4 min/song, this is enough for the station to cover its RIAA costs + small profit.
With enough servers, you can synchronize up and listen (read, download and save a "perfect" copy of that song) to the specific songs you are looking for, for about $.10 per song. An easy way to grow your mp3 collection, albeit only in "real-time".
Just a thought... probably a malformed one.
Try gpgoe (plugin for Outlook Express), if that is good enough for your needs:
http://www.winpt.org/gpgoe.html
Elaborate ratings systems and restrictive codes eventually suffocated the comics' angry, biting spirit and made them as bland as network TV
IMO, what suffocated comics was not rating systems, but collectors. I remember reading comics such as X-Men, Spiderman, etc. back in elementary through high school. Towards the end, comics starting costing over $2 a pop, and kept on rising. It seemed as if every comic that came out had some sort of "gimic" to make it a "collector's" item, like a funky cover, or multiple covers, etc..
And ratings? Restrictive codes? Look at comics now - are they more "bland" in terms of edgy material? Or are they more "bland" because of all the edgy material... as if that makes up for innovation, or good writing.
Ah well, I'm an old fart at 28.
"We are no longer reinventing the wheel, we are starting to create. But Marvin will soon be learning for himself, so he doesn't need his creator. We just have to decide the level to which you want to get rid of humans"
Ah! Get rid of humans? Why, this is a threat to Mother Earth! They obviously do not know what they are doing, they are foolishly tampering with the delicate balances of nature! I'm sure if something goes wrong, they won't have to means to make it right. Is this where the eco-terrorists step in?
Hey, makes about as much sense as torching car dealerships (which is to mean: none)
Just for the record, I was guilty of the same thing... I posted questions for the interview, as well...
I've just had longer to think about it, which is why I made that comment.
Is this some sort of cruel fun, to take somebody with obvious mental problems, and gather around them to make fun of them?
Seems just, well, mean.
"Microsoft is not, as the new administration has made abuntantly clear, about to be broken up. It has cashed in on its enormously profitable near-monopolies for desktop and server software" Near-monopoly? Now, I thought we were just talking about the evils of Microsoft as a monopoly... so now they are really just a "near-monopoly"... which means, of course, that they are not a monopoly. So why pursue them as such?
Alex, your web page states:
"If you are not satisfied with the products, you have 90 days to refund them"
How am I supposed to know within 90 days if the immortality ring works?
Mentor Graphics had this same thing a long time ago - you could use various strokes (I believe that is what they were called) to perform various actions in their VLSI program. Most people I knew relied on this heavily - once you got the hang of it, it was very efficient.
Someone I knew at Purdue had started incorporating something like this in FVWM, I believe, but I don't know how far he got (this was several years ago)
Hmmm... I'd like to see some features like this incorporated in KDE/GNOME (maybe even Windows XP.. er, scratch that thought).
Perhaps the point of my comment was lost - I know that my statement could be interpreted as correct, just like his could be. But it is obvious the connotation is meant to be something different. I was poking fun at CmdrTaco. It's not a big deal, I just found it funny the way he phrased it - it sounds like so much posturing I see in the technical field, where I've seen people phrase things just like that, to appear to be the "expert" (playing on connotation rather than denotation).
Google has been my search engine of choice for years now, and this is an interesting window into what's happening back there. I find it interesting that people angrily submit stories constantly about Google "selling out" whenever something that looks like it might generate revenue appears. That means more then a lot of people realize: it means people care. So many websites are so bloated with ads that already can't be taken seriously. Google is special: I'm not opposed to seeing ads on it (frankly I'm amazed they made it this long considering the kind of bandwidth and hardware they need) I just hate seeing ads the way the vast majority of mainstream sites do it (hundreds of little banners everywhere blurring the lines between content and commercials). And hell, they run Linux.
(Above included in case the story changes) How many years has CmdrTaco been using google? It's inception date was 1998, according to the article.
Good points. I like Linux, but I have a hard time being energized about a fight for the freedom of DVDs and MP3s. I wonder what it must be like to have the major cause and purpose in your life to be able to watch DVD movies, and whine about people (companies are made of people) creating closed-source projects.
I like open-source. I think it is an effective model. I think it is great that people write open-soruce software. I think it is pathetic when they cry oppression when someone else doesn't write open-source software.
Amen! You are dead on - which, of course, means that you will be attacked by those men of zeal, who think that having source code means being free.
Now, i view kiddie porn as free speach. Please don't take this wrong however. Porn, especially kiddie porn is wrong, and takes advantage of people who do not know better. Seeing how this country is supposed to be free though, i see it perfectly ok if you want to corrupt your mind that way.
So, kiddie porn is "perfectly ok if you want to corrupt your mind", but posting IP addresses is not?! Oh, is it because you are afraid posting IP addresses may hurt somebody? What do you think kiddie porn does? It is not some innocent, victimless crime - kiddie porn is evidence of child abuse. The very existence of kiddie porn means some child was abused - but that is "perfectly ok" huh, since it is somehow "free speach" [sic]. Yeah.
I find it amazing that someone can defend kiddie porn as "free speach" [sic], and then complain about somebody using free speech to post IP addresses of people searching their hard drives. Amazing, and very pathetic.
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I like open-source... I think Linux is great. I'd like to see it be a standard way of doing software. I just don't think that governments, or anybody else, should force people to write open-source, versus proprietary, software.
Your arguments are based on why you believe in open-source, which is fine. But my original argument was not for/against open-source, it was against forced open-source.
Haha... that is the most pathetic argument I have *ever* heard.
Why don't you post all your financial information here? I mean, it's money you made using building blocks from other people. Those tax forms were prepared with software other people wrote. Or with paper that other people made. We should all have the right to see it.
You forgot to mention that those things were created because they had the opportunity to be proprietary, and that companies made money off of those things - what, you think that Intel makes CPUs out of the goodness of their own heart? They sell them, with the intent to make money.
Posting as an AC after moderating me down, eh?