Real beer comes from the other side of the Atlantic. Or out of my fermenters.
Or from Ontario microbreweries. Try Conners, Sleemans or Creemore Springs (mmmmmmmmmmmmm).
Check out Michael Jackson's beer guide for Canadian beers some day. Nothing Molson is *really* beer, you know...:)
I've read through the copyright act (and related discussions) a fair bit, and it doesn't give a carte blanche for P2P.
You are allowed to make a personal copy from an original, meaning you can borrow an original from a friend or the library and burn or rip all you want ([Canadians] pay for it when we buy blank CD-Rs).
From what I understand, you CANNOT copy the copy. See this for some details.
So if that follows, you can legally download from P2P *only if* it's an original. Since you typically have to rip it, it's already one generation away from the original.
In addition: this seems to indicate the resulting copy *has to* be on a medium for which you have paid the levy. To quote:
If the music is put onto a blank CD, then it is not infringement. If the music is left on a computer hard-disk, it is currently considered infringement.
IANAL, and when it gets this complicated, I'm kinda glad for that...
Interestingly, the levy only applies to BLANK media. To sell a hard drive MP3 player, prerecord a little "welcome" tune on there, and you're off the hook.:)
I found my first Linux distro! I had forgotten what it was. It was xdenu. That got me into Slackware, later on.
Funny thing was, I copied fstab entries and LILO boot parameters *verbatim* off the 'Net (Gopher? Archie? I forget) and somehow... somehow... I got it up to a crosshatched screen with an "X" I could move around with my mouse. I figured it didn't work and scrapped it. Heh heh. That I got that far and didn't realize it still astounds me.
Win95 ran on DOS, though they hid it. So, it was more of an incremental change to Win 3.1. They clearly rewrote quite a bit, but it was certainly not "starting over".
NT 3.1 was the "completely starting over" part. And it wasn't too bad of a platform, really... Consider that 3.5,3.51,4,Win2k + 2 versions of XP are building on that foundation... And it is fairly stable. Since I got XP bundled with my machine, I haven't been desperate to reboot into Mandrake. It doesn't crash, it plays the games, and runs Mozilla and OOo very well...
The big problem is still their QA, really. If they fixed that up, they'd have a strong product.
Even the audio, though is fresh. Segues between songs, timing changes, whole stylistic changes (Which "Layla" do you remember?). Covers the band probably wouldn't record... Song & band intros, jokes, and so on.
I don't remember a concert for the costumes and dancing -- I must say lighting matters to me though. I hear it in my head for months/years...
Concerts are an experience. They're usually *different* from the recorded/packaged music, which I used to think was a bad thing.
However, the true human aspect of the music comes out, and I don't just mean errors - I mean improvisation, expansion, performance.
The true value is not the *music*, it's the *artist*. And you're never going to truly appreciate that if you only listen to one expression of the talent, that is, a single CD.
I recommend checking out smaller concerts first. a) they're cheaper, and b) sometimes you get the CD to relive the concert (though it's never quite the same). When you play that CD you always end up expounding to all within earshot about "how much better they were live"
When you hear something like that, a pure, no nonsense band (with naturally great pitch), it's pure excitement. It's REAL, and that's the excitement. I don't think people realize music can be that way.
To keep on the Canadian slant: Betcha Stan Rogers never had an autotuner. I saw Susie Arioli live in a club (Jordan Officer is so good it's scary). No autotuner, not necessary. Geddy Lee could use it...;) Naah.
Maybe if the hardware assistances weren't used, we'd see more clearly the difference between skill (art & virtuosity) and marketing.
You seem to think that c# is at the same level as java script.
No, I believe C# CAN be at the same level as JavaScript. You can do tons more, but you don't have to.
Have you ever sat down to solve a fairly simple problem like... hmm... rename all the files in a directory based on some simple criteria?
Yes, many times. That kinda thing screams PERL!! Then by the same standard you have to get involved with CVS and installations (even on Linux boxes Perl isn't standard, though it should be) and all that junk.
Want the same thing on Windows - install Perl. It's also not even a discussion. 20 minutes.
That's what I call ease of use for a developer
We're clearly talking about two different things here. Developers don't often have to fuss around with renaming arbitrary files with scripts. Once in a blue moon when they change the naming standards, maybe. Administrators do all the time.
Now ease of use for Administrators, Linux has it hands down there. I don't care about pointy clicky things, it makes it easier to do one box. For a short period of time.
To me, MS still has the developers'. Again, I redundantly and tiresomely point to MSDN.
I really don't see why it's flaming overkill. It's being poised as the Windows scripting solution. You don't need to compose levels of classes, just run the thing.
I don't think running csc.exe on the file rates as a real hardship... who cares if it's compiled? Perl is (technically) compiled. And they're "pretty common syntax" as much as Perl is... curly brackets, semicolons. You ignored my comment that compared C# to JavaScript. JS is such a wonderful thing when writing XUL, but when you give it a ton more power and a bytecode compiler... oh yeah and MS's name on it... then it's anathema to usability...
Bash is the right tool? That's a joke. How would I have done my little XML-to-PGSQL script in bash???
Again, as far as ease of use you trimmed out the parts that matter the most. YES MS knows how to treat its developers. Is the complaint about VB that it's too hard to use? Never, it's that it's too easy to use. Now they're bringing the VB syntax, with true object orientation, and that same bytecode compiler to.NET, and it's still gonna be easy. And exactly as powerful as C#. Again, VB vs emacs, MDSN vs RTFM. And I don't see how paying money for any of this has anything to do with ease of use. Install.NET framework (free) set your PATH, and write those C# scripts.
I never even hinted that C# was a replacement for any language. That would be ridiculous. It is a perfectly viable scripting tool, with quite a lot of power AND EASE OF USE available.
Have you even tried C#? I have written a little XML to PostgreSQL import, and the best tool I found was.... C#. Perl was too dog slow, bash... well, nice try. Anyone who compares using C# to C++ for scripting purposes... Ridiculous.
It was just a simple script. Runs fast, works great. Complexity at about the JavaScript level.
Microsoft knows ease of use from the programmer's point of view better than anyone. Visual development tools... MSDN... vs. emacs and RTFM.
I love Linux. Can't wait for the revolution. At the same time I am really getting to like.NET, and am more impatient for Mono to go gold!!!
Try cooling the chipset. On my old ECS K7S5A Pro (I think) The chipset heatsink was stuck on with thermal tape, which actually *insulated* the thing. Twist it off, clean it really well and stick it back on with thermal grease and 4 tiny tiny drops of superglue on the corners.
I think the chipset impacts stability waaay more than the CPU...
True. "Usage and Abusage" warns that the absolute insistence on avoiding the trailing preposition can make matters worse. For example, tied up in grammatical loops one might say "with whom are you going to speak it.... with?"
It says:
In The Usage and Abusage Guide Dictionary, Eric Partridge states, "The legitimacy of the prepositional ending in literary English must be uncompromisingly maintained; in respect of elegance or inelegance, every example must be judged not by an arbitrary rule, but on its own merits, according to the impression it makes on the feeling of educated English readers" (Partridge 254). In many cases, not using a preposition at the end of a sentence can lead to worse grammatical errors. According to, The Longmans Guide of Usage, the book suggests that writers should avoid the use of a preposition at the end of a sentence in formal writing, if there is an alternative. However, for less formal usage one may end a sentence with a preposition.
This brings a better project to mind... I'd like to set up a CD-burning queue. Anyone know how to accept a stream and burn the CD off the server? Especially with a windows front-end...
The whoop-de-do-o-meter is bottoming out!!
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So he made a Lego BOX. I have some very young friends that could do the same. I'd help them out with the little person and the flower...
Seriously, what's the big deal? Why did it take "a long time" to come up with this, and "over a month" to build it?
And how can you use Lego bricks to fix a broken video connector?
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Real beer comes from the other side of the Atlantic. Or out of my fermenters. :)
Or from Ontario microbreweries. Try Conners, Sleemans or Creemore Springs (mmmmmmmmmmmmm).
Check out Michael Jackson's beer guide for Canadian beers some day. Nothing Molson is *really* beer, you know...
You are allowed to make a personal copy from an original, meaning you can borrow an original from a friend or the library and burn or rip all you want ([Canadians] pay for it when we buy blank CD-Rs).
From what I understand, you CANNOT copy the copy. See this for some details.
So if that follows, you can legally download from P2P *only if* it's an original. Since you typically have to rip it, it's already one generation away from the original.
In addition: this seems to indicate the resulting copy *has to* be on a medium for which you have paid the levy. To quote:
IANAL, and when it gets this complicated, I'm kinda glad for that...
Interestingly, the levy only applies to BLANK media. To sell a hard drive MP3 player, prerecord a little "welcome" tune on there, and you're off the hook.
Romping is fine. Just NO SNORTING!!!
A dream back then.
It would be fun to see it now, and note the reaction.
I remember when IBM PCs working from floppies was "tolerable". No more, alas, no more.
I found my first Linux distro! I had forgotten what it was. It was xdenu. That got me into Slackware, later on.
Funny thing was, I copied fstab entries and LILO boot parameters *verbatim* off the 'Net (Gopher? Archie? I forget) and somehow... somehow... I got it up to a crosshatched screen with an "X" I could move around with my mouse. I figured it didn't work and scrapped it. Heh heh. That I got that far and didn't realize it still astounds me.
This is a very cool library for us oldies.
I love "The Moon..." it is my favorite by far. I wouldn't call it funny though...
Actually, "Gentlemen, Be Seated" ranks up there as one of my favorites, and it's DEFINITELY funny...
That's not how I remember it...
Win95 ran on DOS, though they hid it. So, it was more of an incremental change to Win 3.1. They clearly rewrote quite a bit, but it was certainly not "starting over".
NT 3.1 was the "completely starting over" part. And it wasn't too bad of a platform, really... Consider that 3.5,3.51,4,Win2k + 2 versions of XP are building on that foundation... And it is fairly stable. Since I got XP bundled with my machine, I haven't been desperate to reboot into Mandrake. It doesn't crash, it plays the games, and runs Mozilla and OOo very well...
The big problem is still their QA, really. If they fixed that up, they'd have a strong product.
It's the next version. It just happens to be split out into different apps.
I miss the little launchbar on the bottom of Moz though...
Even the audio, though is fresh. Segues between songs, timing changes, whole stylistic changes (Which "Layla" do you remember?). Covers the band probably wouldn't record... Song & band intros, jokes, and so on.
I don't remember a concert for the costumes and dancing -- I must say lighting matters to me though. I hear it in my head for months/years...
It can, it's just another one-off though. You have to see it (experience it) to know though.
Concerts are an experience. They're usually *different* from the recorded/packaged music, which I used to think was a bad thing.
However, the true human aspect of the music comes out, and I don't just mean errors - I mean improvisation, expansion, performance.
The true value is not the *music*, it's the *artist*. And you're never going to truly appreciate that if you only listen to one expression of the talent, that is, a single CD.
I recommend checking out smaller concerts first. a) they're cheaper, and b) sometimes you get the CD to relive the concert (though it's never quite the same). When you play that CD you always end up expounding to all within earshot about "how much better they were live"
THANK YOU!!!
;) Naah.
When you hear something like that, a pure, no nonsense band (with naturally great pitch), it's pure excitement. It's REAL, and that's the excitement. I don't think people realize music can be that way.
To keep on the Canadian slant: Betcha Stan Rogers never had an autotuner. I saw Susie Arioli live in a club (Jordan Officer is so good it's scary). No autotuner, not necessary. Geddy Lee could use it...
Maybe if the hardware assistances weren't used, we'd see more clearly the difference between skill (art & virtuosity) and marketing.
It's a bit frustrating, but a highly principled response. I respect that.
I think we've just discovered what "3) ???" is!!
You seem to think that c# is at the same level as java script.
No, I believe C# CAN be at the same level as JavaScript. You can do tons more, but you don't have to.
Have you ever sat down to solve a fairly simple problem like... hmm... rename all the files in a directory based on some simple criteria?
Yes, many times. That kinda thing screams PERL!! Then by the same standard you have to get involved with CVS and installations (even on Linux boxes Perl isn't standard, though it should be) and all that junk.
Want the same thing on Windows - install Perl. It's also not even a discussion. 20 minutes.
That's what I call ease of use for a developer
We're clearly talking about two different things here. Developers don't often have to fuss around with renaming arbitrary files with scripts. Once in a blue moon when they change the naming standards, maybe. Administrators do all the time.
Now ease of use for Administrators, Linux has it hands down there. I don't care about pointy clicky things, it makes it easier to do one box. For a short period of time.
To me, MS still has the developers'. Again, I redundantly and tiresomely point to MSDN.
I really don't see why it's flaming overkill. It's being poised as the Windows scripting solution. You don't need to compose levels of classes, just run the thing.
.NET, and it's still gonna be easy. And exactly as powerful as C#. Again, VB vs emacs, MDSN vs RTFM. And I don't see how paying money for any of this has anything to do with ease of use. Install .NET framework (free) set your PATH, and write those C# scripts.
I don't think running csc.exe on the file rates as a real hardship... who cares if it's compiled? Perl is (technically) compiled. And they're "pretty common syntax" as much as Perl is... curly brackets, semicolons. You ignored my comment that compared C# to JavaScript. JS is such a wonderful thing when writing XUL, but when you give it a ton more power and a bytecode compiler... oh yeah and MS's name on it... then it's anathema to usability...
Bash is the right tool? That's a joke. How would I have done my little XML-to-PGSQL script in bash???
Again, as far as ease of use you trimmed out the parts that matter the most. YES MS knows how to treat its developers. Is the complaint about VB that it's too hard to use? Never, it's that it's too easy to use. Now they're bringing the VB syntax, with true object orientation, and that same bytecode compiler to
I never even hinted that C# was a replacement for any language. That would be ridiculous. It is a perfectly viable scripting tool, with quite a lot of power AND EASE OF USE available.
Have you even tried C#? I have written a little XML to PostgreSQL import, and the best tool I found was.... C#. Perl was too dog slow, bash... well, nice try. Anyone who compares using C# to C++ for scripting purposes... Ridiculous.
.NET, and am more impatient for Mono to go gold!!!
It was just a simple script. Runs fast, works great. Complexity at about the JavaScript level.
Microsoft knows ease of use from the programmer's point of view better than anyone. Visual development tools... MSDN... vs. emacs and RTFM.
I love Linux. Can't wait for the revolution. At the same time I am really getting to like
Try cooling the chipset. On my old ECS K7S5A Pro (I think) The chipset heatsink was stuck on with thermal tape, which actually *insulated* the thing. Twist it off, clean it really well and stick it back on with thermal grease and 4 tiny tiny drops of superglue on the corners.
I think the chipset impacts stability waaay more than the CPU...
It's not sterilization you need to worry about, it's the mutant children.
But then again...
(searching memory) ...wasn't NTFS based on HPFS from the OS/2 days?
:)
Uh oh, smell another IBM lawsuit coming?
They now intend to call it Microsoft Firebird (TM)
True. "Usage and Abusage" warns that the absolute insistence on avoiding the trailing preposition can make matters worse. For example, tied up in grammatical loops one might say "with whom are you going to speak it.... with?"
Ideally, however; It's not Required
It says:
In The Usage and Abusage Guide Dictionary, Eric Partridge states, "The legitimacy of the prepositional ending in literary English must be uncompromisingly maintained; in respect of elegance or inelegance, every example must be judged not by an arbitrary rule, but on its own merits, according to the impression it makes on the feeling of educated English readers" (Partridge 254). In many cases, not using a preposition at the end of a sentence can lead to worse grammatical errors. According to, The Longmans Guide of Usage, the book suggests that writers should avoid the use of a preposition at the end of a sentence in formal writing, if there is an alternative. However, for less formal usage one may end a sentence with a preposition.
WAAAY off topic, I know, I know...
This brings a better project to mind... I'd like to set up a CD-burning queue. Anyone know how to accept a stream and burn the CD off the server? Especially with a windows front-end...
So he made a Lego BOX. I have some very young friends that could do the same. I'd help them out with the little person and the flower...
Seriously, what's the big deal? Why did it take "a long time" to come up with this, and "over a month" to build it?
And how can you use Lego bricks to fix a broken video connector?