My wife and many of her friends work in the music industry. I don't know anyone who works in the industry who doesn't get free "promo" albums, often more than they can listen to, every month from friends, collegues, and their own employer.
Those records cost the artist money. Labels bill the artist for them -- and not the $1 it costs the label.
It's irritating to see people who get free music in a way that costs artists money complain about people who get free music in a way that doesn't cost artists money. Then those same industry people gouge the artists again by getting on the guest list for concerts then standing in the back of the club gossiping over the music I paid $20 to hear.
I recommend the Adiposity 101 page, http://www.omen.com/adipos.html, by Chuck Fosberg (inventor of ZModem protocol). He has really researched all the theories of dieting and presents detailed information on all of them.
I loose weight easily on a low-carb diet but I find it difficult to concentrate when I'm not eating grains. Any ideas?
In spy movies it's common to run the shower and muffle the sound to evade listening devices.
Any analog watermark is going to have to be quiet enough so that listeners can't hear the watermark tones when listening to the radio -- but loud enough that any recorder can hear them.
Wouldn't it be possible to watermark a recording of silence and play it loud enough to disrupt all recordings for miles?
Amendment III No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
I would like to see a 3rd amendment challenge to this.
I saw Thad Starner demonstrate a Charmed prototype last year.
I really want one. When the color display becomes affordable I'll buy one.
What makes a wearable computer different from a palm or laptop computer is that you don't have to look away from the real world to see the display. The display appears to float within the real world. Wearable computers have long battery life and keyboards that allow you to type at near full speed while walking.
If you only use your wearable computer to run regular programs or play music it isn't worth the extra money. The only benefit is an extra half hour to do email as you walk to your office.
The target audience for the Charmed kit is people working on wearable-only applications, like the "remembrance agent" or "augmented reality."
What's needed is a program that monitors installation programs and reports if they are attempting to do something shoddy.
Sort of a 'ZoneAlarm' for setup.exe files, which monitors nasty registry changes, DLL overwrites, etc.
It's not impossible for a Win32 'debugger' to control and watch an install program. I know there are trace programs, and Bounds Checker, but none seem designed for the person who just wants a button to kill and undo an installation that touches, for example, the winsock DLL.
It appears that all Motorola US Java phones work only through Nextel Communications, Southern LINC, Pacific Wireless Technologies Inc.
From the Nextel developer page, there are some combo rates or you can keep your existing rate and pay $20/month for 450kb of "Tethered Packet Data (Routable IP)", with an eight cent charge per kb after that.
Question: Those 'hoops' you mention (five day wait, yadda yadda), do they apply just to developers or to all data customers? If I join the program, can I write code and "sign it" and allow non-developer Motorola phones with Nextel data plans to run my code?
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Google indexes two billion web pages, which isn't far from your nine trillion combinations.
You have forgotten that a single page might contain more than one two word combination. There are many web pages out there which contain entire dictionaries and therefore every two word combination which can be generated from the dictionary.
No one would tolerate a soldier living in their house preventing them from breaking the law. Why should we tolerate license management enforcement technologies?
US Constitution, Amendment III:
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Windows is easier to use than the Mac because 95% of your friends are on Windows and can help you with Windows problems and share commercial software with you.
If computers were easy to troubleshoot and software was harder to pirate then ease-of-use and uptime might be more important. Right now those considerations are dwarfed by the *social* advantage that Windows has.
I would pay extra if my cable provider offered a service to detach my machine from the net once it was obviously compromised.
Sure, if I'm at home in front of the console I might be willing to live with a gaping back door while I'm struggling with isolating the exploit. But most of the time I'm asleep or at work and I don't want my zombified machine out on the 'net getting into trouble.
GUI tools are wonderful for tasks like creating user interfaces. Most GUI tools don't scale very well, though. When I build user interfaces in Java I code all of the layout manager stuff by hand rather than using the tool in Symantec's expensive environment -- it isn't good enough. Glade http://glade.gnome.org/is good enough. It's wonderful. Does anyone write libglade XML by hand?
I also like having an editor that respects my breakpoints and adjusts them when I move code around. I learned how to program in assembly language and it seems natural to me to inspect registers/variables and change code while it is running.
Color syntax highlighting, dialogs to set compiler options, integrated icon editing, these features I don't *need* but I don't mind a pretty environment as long as it is designed as a view into the command line tools rather than a replacement.
Another source for quiet PC equipment is http://www.noisecontrol.de/. (Mostly in German).
In addition to the stuff you can get on quietpc.com they sell hard drive "enclosures" which hold the drives in rubber bands rather than actually enclosing them. (Probably doesn't help as much for noise, no cooling problem, some drives don't like being in a non-stiff environment.)
I have one of the tower cases as well. The case kit includes cork board cut to dampen the noise. The best part is the sliding door which lets you keep the CD-ROM behind cork but provides quick access when you need it.
If I had to do it again I would buy a heavier case and cut the cork board myself though.
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During the Great Depression farmers would pour milk on the street rather than sell it to starving people for a price perceived as being 'low.'
Pundits talk about how far behind developers are at meeting the software needs of users. Yet every single day companies large and small orphan man-years of software --some of it still in use -- rather than sell it cheaply or open source it.
Until it becomes culturally unacceptable to hoard intellectual property and whole businesses go open-source I don't see employers allowing their employees to volunteer community service on software projects.
Where I work there is a real worry that I'll write a nice piece of code and contribute it to a GPLed projects, then write a very similar piece of code for a proprietary project. Everyone re-uses their own IP! The singer John Fogerty was sued for infringing his own songs and lost! How could I possibly convince my employer I wouldn't accidently leave the barn door open and let the GPL in -- not by borrowing another's code, but by borrowing my own?
I applaud the EFFs efforts to create a digital commons.
Perhaps there isn't a demand for this license in the mp3.com/Napster domain, but in specialized fields this could be valuable.
Getting reusable/repackagable musical jingles for open-source games has always been difficult. For example, the great public domain game Abuse
(being ported to the SDL) has only sound effects -- no music --
because of license restrictions the music from the Electronic Arts version can't be used.
Many publishers put out material expecting to lose money on the material itself. Think about religious material, for example. Or outsider musicians
like Jandek.
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The United States Codes under Title 18, Chapter 17, and Section 331, "prohibits the mutilation, diminution and falsification of United States coinage." This law was designed to catch forgers and "clippers" (who used to clip bits of silver off coins and sell them for bullion.)
See http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/ch17.html
But also see http://www.wcmassey.com/lep/geninfo2.htm
There is a small industry devoted to making "elongated" cents as souvenirs at carnivals, etc. There is are also a folk artform where designs are hand carved into coins. Do an eBay search for "love token". The most famous love token is the "hobo nickel", a Buffalo nickel recut to look like a hobo, made during the US Depression of the 1930s.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.freedesktop.org/ works.
My wife and many of her friends work in the music industry. I don't know anyone who works in the industry who doesn't get free "promo" albums, often more than they can listen to, every month from friends, collegues, and their own employer.
Those records cost the artist money. Labels bill the artist for them -- and not the $1 it costs the label.
It's irritating to see people who get free music in a way that costs artists money complain about people who get free music in a way that doesn't cost artists money. Then those same industry people gouge the artists again by getting on the guest list for concerts then standing in the back of the club gossiping over the music I paid $20 to hear.
I loose weight easily on a low-carb diet but I find it difficult to concentrate when I'm not eating grains. Any ideas?
In spy movies it's common to run the shower and muffle the sound to evade listening devices.
Any analog watermark is going to have to be quiet enough so that listeners can't hear the watermark tones when listening to the radio -- but loud enough that any recorder can hear them.
Wouldn't it be possible to watermark a recording of silence and play it loud enough to disrupt all recordings for miles?
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
I would like to see a 3rd amendment challenge to this.
I saw Thad Starner demonstrate a Charmed prototype last year.
I really want one. When the color display becomes affordable I'll buy one.
What makes a wearable computer different from a palm or laptop computer is that you don't have to look away from the real world to see the display. The display appears to float within the real world. Wearable computers have long battery life and keyboards that allow you to type at near full speed while walking.
If you only use your wearable computer to run regular programs or play music it isn't worth the extra money. The only benefit is an extra half hour to do email as you walk to your office.
The target audience for the Charmed kit is people working on wearable-only applications, like the "remembrance agent" or "augmented reality."
I live in NYC. I have no need of a car, but I do need a GPS unit and a wireless modem. Sweeter!
Don't name an agency "Do It" and expect them to be careful strategists.
What's needed is a program that monitors installation programs and reports if they are attempting to do something shoddy.
Sort of a 'ZoneAlarm' for setup.exe files, which monitors nasty registry changes, DLL overwrites, etc.
It's not impossible for a Win32 'debugger' to control and watch an install program. I know there are trace programs, and Bounds Checker, but none seem designed for the person who just wants a button to kill and undo an installation that touches, for example, the winsock DLL.
Thanks.
It appears that all Motorola US Java phones work only through Nextel Communications, Southern LINC, Pacific Wireless Technologies Inc.
From the Nextel developer page, there are some combo rates or you can keep your existing rate and pay $20/month for 450kb of "Tethered Packet Data (Routable IP)", with an eight cent charge per kb after that.
Question: Those 'hoops' you mention (five day wait, yadda yadda), do they apply just to developers or to all data customers? If I join the program, can I write code and "sign it" and allow non-developer Motorola phones with Nextel data plans to run my code?
Google indexes two billion web pages, which isn't far from your nine trillion combinations.
You have forgotten that a single page might contain more than one two word combination. There are many web pages out there which contain entire dictionaries and therefore every two word combination which can be generated from the dictionary.
What Java phones can I get in the US now? The Motorola i85?
Do any US Java phones let me send my own custom packets? Meaning, could I write a wireless tic-tac-toe game once I learn midlet programming?
If the human listened to, say, 10 audio streams at once, wouldn't he or she still be able to hear the distinctive cry of the woodpecker?
No one would tolerate a soldier living in their house preventing them from breaking the law. Why should we tolerate license management enforcement technologies?
US Constitution, Amendment III:
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
3rd Amendment
The foil hat is the basic prop of those who believe in CIA mind control rays or electrical sensitivity.
Who was the first nut to think of this? Was it in a well-known movie? Seriously, why do so many nuts believe foil is the answer?
Windows is easier to use than the Mac because 95% of your friends are on Windows and can help you with Windows problems and share commercial software with you.
If computers were easy to troubleshoot and software was harder to pirate then ease-of-use and uptime might be more important. Right now those considerations are dwarfed by the *social* advantage that Windows has.
Don't shoot me, I mostly use Linux.
All large programs have bugs. Releasing the source code makes it easy to find (and fix) the bugs.
The old bugs would not only be a public-relations problem for the company but could open the doors to serious product liability threats.
The copyright holder should at least be indemnified against such liability upon release of the source code.
Let us see the Unicode spellings for Taliban, Osama, and Al Qaida in Arabic or the Afghan script?
I would pay extra if my cable provider offered a service to detach my machine from the net once it was obviously compromised.
Sure, if I'm at home in front of the console I might be willing to live with a gaping back door while I'm struggling with isolating the exploit. But most of the time I'm asleep or at work and I don't want my zombified machine out on the 'net getting into trouble.
GUI tools are wonderful for tasks like creating user interfaces. Most GUI tools don't scale very well, though. When I build user interfaces in Java I code all of the layout manager stuff by hand rather than using the tool in Symantec's expensive environment -- it isn't good enough. Glade http://glade.gnome.org/ is good enough. It's wonderful. Does anyone write libglade XML by hand?
I also like having an editor that respects my breakpoints and adjusts them when I move code around. I learned how to program in assembly language and it seems natural to me to inspect registers/variables and change code while it is running.
Color syntax highlighting, dialogs to set compiler options, integrated icon editing, these features I don't *need* but I don't mind a pretty environment as long as it is designed as a view into the command line tools rather than a replacement.
Another source for quiet PC equipment is http://www.noisecontrol.de/. (Mostly in German).
In addition to the stuff you can get on quietpc.com they sell hard drive "enclosures" which hold the drives in rubber bands rather than actually enclosing them. (Probably doesn't help as much for noise, no cooling problem, some drives don't like being in a non-stiff environment.)
I have one of the tower cases as well. The case kit includes cork board cut to dampen the noise. The best part is the sliding door which lets you keep the CD-ROM behind cork but provides quick access when you need it.
If I had to do it again I would buy a heavier case and cut the cork board myself though.
That URL shouldn't have a space. Try http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/eduref/sradar/cha p3/c3p7_g2e.html.
During the Great Depression farmers would pour milk on the street rather than sell it to starving people for a price perceived as being 'low.'
Pundits talk about how far behind developers are at meeting the software needs of users. Yet every single day companies large and small orphan man-years of software --some of it still in use -- rather than sell it cheaply or open source it.
Until it becomes culturally unacceptable to hoard intellectual property and whole businesses go open-source I don't see employers allowing their employees to volunteer community service on software projects.
Where I work there is a real worry that I'll write a nice piece of code and contribute it to a GPLed projects, then write a very similar piece of code for a proprietary project. Everyone re-uses their own IP! The singer John Fogerty was sued for infringing his own songs and lost! How could I possibly convince my employer I wouldn't accidently leave the barn door open and let the GPL in -- not by borrowing another's code, but by borrowing my own?
I applaud the EFFs efforts to create a digital commons.
Perhaps there isn't a demand for this license in the mp3.com/Napster domain, but in specialized fields this could be valuable.
Getting reusable/repackagable musical jingles for open-source games has always been difficult. For example, the great public domain game Abuse (being ported to the SDL) has only sound effects -- no music -- because of license restrictions the music from the Electronic Arts version can't be used.
Many publishers put out material expecting to lose money on the material itself. Think about religious material, for example. Or outsider musicians like Jandek.
The United States Codes under Title 18, Chapter 17, and Section 331, "prohibits the mutilation, diminution and falsification of United States coinage." This law was designed to catch forgers and "clippers" (who used to clip bits of silver off coins and sell them for bullion.)
See http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/ch17.html
But also see http://www.wcmassey.com/lep/geninfo2.htm
There is a small industry devoted to making "elongated" cents as souvenirs at carnivals, etc. There is are also a folk artform where designs are hand carved into coins. Do an eBay search for "love token". The most famous love token is the "hobo nickel", a Buffalo nickel recut to look like a hobo, made during the US Depression of the 1930s.