Interesting, my allofmp3.com stats page shows that I've downloaded 142 songs so far. They were all high quality, DRM-less mp3's. The total cost of this was less then $10, and that was without any discounts or promotions. I just don't understand why people keep feeding services like itms and the RIAA. And yes, artist *do* get royalties from allofmp3.
What about a Diamon Katana? I can live with that. Elegant, fast, efficient, constant speed propeller. I'll take it anytime if they would just acknowledge that I am not the medical wreck they make me with their regulations.
You cannot get stoned from a modern anti depressant (SSRI). They regulate the serotonine levels in the brain. They make a person more emotionally stable. It's drugs and alcohol that are dangerous, not well known regulated medication.
In Europe, the medical requirements (JAR-FCL) are horrible. You need to be superman to be allowed even the most simple license. I've been fighting the rules for some years now. One requirement is that there can no be more than 5 dioptry between both eyes. My left eye is slightly over +5 and my right eye is normal. Although my optometrist has confirmed that my vision is normal and my stereopsis is normal, I'm out. If my right eye would get worse to, say, +2, I would be allowed to fly.
One other issue that needs adressing is anti depressants. I'm not sure if this new law covers anti depressants in the US, but I know there's talk about legalising their usage for pilots. Many modern antidepressants cause no threat to your flying abbilities. What does cause a threat is pilots flying around with untreated depressions because they will be grounded if they seek help. I've been on paxil for over 5 years and I never ever noticed any change in my abbilities to fly or drive.
Really, these regulations should be relaxed. I accept being picky about choosing people to fly +400 people airliners, but please leave people alone who want to have some fun in a tiny 152.
The labels do not own the rights in all countries. In Russia, the copyrights are enforced by ROMS. This is the authority that collects money and pays artists. ROMS has acknowledged the legality of allofmp3 and has acknowledged recieving royalties. Wether or not you believe ROMS pays to artists is up to you, but it is the major copyright authority is Russia. ROMS confirms that allofmp3 is a legit content distributor by Russian law. Buying content there is as legal as buying a CD in Russia and importing it into your home country. Note that you maybe required to pay import fees, but for now no country has imposed import fees on digital content distributed via internet. For me, allofmp3 is the only way to show support to artists without paying extortion fees to litigious entities like the RIAA.
Great post about what is currently happening in the music industry. In the mean time I would really suggest buying at www.allofmp3.com. It's the closest thing to honest online shopping you can come. Artists get a share, and the RIAA labels won't get a thing. All for an honest $0.01 per MB. No DRM.
But is it really that less wasteful? Launching into orbit takes energy in 3 forms: - Gaining altitude: You still need the same energy in the space elevator - Gaining orbital speed: This will have to be compensated by propulsion at the top of the elevator, but is also the same as in a regular loss. - Atmospheric drag: This will be less because the cargo can move slower than a rocket. But still, must of the dynamic pressure experienced in a rocket is during the first minute of launch. After this, there's not much left.
I guess most of the energy during conventional launch is lost because propellant has to be carried up. However, I think you will still need a fair amount of propellant at the top of the elevator to compensate for the loss of speed due to cargo being lifted up. This propellant somehow has to be transported up too, costing a lot of propellent itself. So will this really be much less wasteful?
Something I never heared anybody about: Where does the kinetic energy come from that the cargo gains when ascending into orbit? Somehow the cargo needs to gain a huge amount of kinetic energy, because the top of the elevator moves several km/s faster then the bottom. If nothing compensates for this energy, the counter weight would gradually slow down and deorbit, so there must be some kind of propulsion in the counterweight, pushing it prograde whenever cargo ascends and pushing retrograde when cargo descends. Anybody got more info on this?
Just spend your money on allofmp3.com! You'll get at least 20x the amount of music for your money than on itunes. Also, allofmp3 pays artist, but doesn't pay the RIAA. You can download legally, without worrying that you're paying for legal battles against your fellow music downloaders.
This makes me wonder what the fastest connection available to normal houses is. I have an 8 Mbit ADSL connection. I've seen 16 Mbit, but it requires 2 telephone wire pairs. Anyone else got more?
SCO announces special rebates for third world countries.
"We want to help these countries by allowing them access to the best software at the best price. Our special prices start at $200 per CPU, even if they choose other Linux distributions then ours" says Darl Mcbride, CEO SCO.
An open letter to Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, responding to remarks at Sun's February 2004 analyst meeting.
The open-source community has been hearing reports that you have recently said of Sun Microsystem's strategy "The open-source model is our friend". We're glad to hear that, and Sun's support of OpenOffice.org certainly puts some weight behind the claim. But that support is curiously inconsistent, spotty in ways which suggests that Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source strategy.
That confusion is evident in another of your quotes. Many of us think you are right on when you say that "Sun [...] is less threatened by a zero-revenue model for software than just about anybody out there." We agree that the potential for you in using open-source software as a value multiplier for Sun's hardware business is huge. This wouldn't even be a novel move for Sun; your release of the NFS standards in 1984 was possibly the single most successful market-shaping maneuver in your company's history, and we'd love to help you repeat it.
But the casual equation between "open source" and "zero revenue" suggests that on another level you don't really know what you're talking about. Open source is hardly a zero-revenue model; ask Red Hat, which had a share price over triple Sun's when I just checked. Or ask IBM, which is using Linux as a lever to build a huge systems-integration business in markets like financial services that Sun has historically owned.
It doesn't have to be this way. If Sun were prepared to go all the way with open source it could seize back its position of industry leadership. Sun is one of a small handful of companies that would both have the smarts and the street cred to do even better than IBM has from a full-fledged alliance with the open-source community. Indeed, on historical grounds you might do better; many of the senior people in the movement are old-time Unix hackers who remember that Sun was founded by geeks like us at a time when IBM was the Great Satan.
But Sun has done other things that make us wonder if the vision and courage to choose the open-source path are really there. The suspicion persists that OpenOffice.org is just an expedient way to poke Microsoft in the eye, not the cutting edge of a open-source-friendly strategy that will position Sun for the future. Matters aren't helped by the fact that Sun appears, with Microsoft, to be one of the two companies doing most to stuff SCO's war chest for its attack on Linux.
In 1987, three years after the success of NFS, Sun lost the war to define the standard graphics interface for the next generation. The winner, the X Window System, was technically inferior to Sun's NeWS offering. But X had one critical advantage; it was open source. Ten years later in 1997, when Bill Joy came to a Linux conference to push Jini as a universal network-service protocol, we in the open-source community told him straight up "You can have ubiquity or you can have control. Pick one." He picked control, and Jini failed in its promise. The contrast with NFS could hardly be more stark.
Today, the big issue is Java. Sun's insistence on continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the language in the open-source community, ceding the field (and probably the future) to scripting-language competitors like Python and Perl. Once again the choice is between control and ubiquity, and despite your claim that "open source is our friend" Sun appears to be choosing control. Sun's terms are so restrictive that Linux distributions cannot even include Java binaries for use as a browser plugin, let alone as a standalone development tool.
Mr. CEO, tear down that wall. You have millions of potential allies out here in the open-source community who would love to become Java developers and users if it didn't mean ceding control of their future to Sun. If you're serious about being a friend of open source, if you're serious about preparing Sun for the future we can all see coming in which code secrecy and proprietary lock-in will no longer be viable strategies, prove it. Let Java go.
Eric S, Raymond President, Open Source Initiative 12 Feb 2004
More evil is that templates push the grammars into the Chomsky-0 type making secure (=100%) correctness checking impossible.
Chomsky-0 and 1 grammers cannot be parsed by the common LALR parsers, like the once generated by YACC. If your statement were true, there would be an enormous effort needed to adjust the java compilers to accomodate the new grammer.
In the Netherlands it's quite easy. They sell poorly encrypted CD's with all phone numbers. You just extract them and put them in the DB and put an index on the phone number. There are 6.5 million entries at this moment.
I've had this display for over 3 years. I placed it in the living room with a long rs232 cable. You can run the power through the rs232 cable, so you don't need an external adapter. When someone calls, the server runs the phone number through a mysql DB with all phone numbers in the country and then forwards the result to another PC in the living room. It then sends the info to the matrix orbital VFD. Of course there's a remote control that lets you scroll through the entries and lets you select MP3's to play. That's a lot more usefull than mounting it inside your PC case.
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Interesting, my allofmp3.com stats page shows that I've downloaded 142 songs so far. They were all high quality, DRM-less mp3's. The total cost of this was less then $10, and that was without any discounts or promotions. I just don't understand why people keep feeding services like itms and the RIAA. And yes, artist *do* get royalties from allofmp3.
What about a Diamon Katana? I can live with that. Elegant, fast, efficient, constant speed propeller. I'll take it anytime if they would just acknowledge that I am not the medical wreck they make me with their regulations.
You cannot get stoned from a modern anti depressant (SSRI). They regulate the serotonine levels in the brain. They make a person more emotionally stable. It's drugs and alcohol that are dangerous, not well known regulated medication.
In Europe, the medical requirements (JAR-FCL) are horrible. You need to be superman to be allowed even the most simple license. I've been fighting the rules for some years now. One requirement is that there can no be more than 5 dioptry between both eyes. My left eye is slightly over +5 and my right eye is normal. Although my optometrist has confirmed that my vision is normal and my stereopsis is normal, I'm out. If my right eye would get worse to, say, +2, I would be allowed to fly.
One other issue that needs adressing is anti depressants. I'm not sure if this new law covers anti depressants in the US, but I know there's talk about legalising their usage for pilots. Many modern antidepressants cause no threat to your flying abbilities. What does cause a threat is pilots flying around with untreated depressions because they will be grounded if they seek help. I've been on paxil for over 5 years and I never ever noticed any change in my abbilities to fly or drive.
Really, these regulations should be relaxed. I accept being picky about choosing people to fly +400 people airliners, but please leave people alone who want to have some fun in a tiny 152.
The labels do not own the rights in all countries. In Russia, the copyrights are enforced by ROMS. This is the authority that collects money and pays artists. ROMS has acknowledged the legality of allofmp3 and has acknowledged recieving royalties. Wether or not you believe ROMS pays to artists is up to you, but it is the major copyright authority is Russia. ROMS confirms that allofmp3 is a legit content distributor by Russian law. Buying content there is as legal as buying a CD in Russia and importing it into your home country. Note that you maybe required to pay import fees, but for now no country has imposed import fees on digital content distributed via internet. For me, allofmp3 is the only way to show support to artists without paying extortion fees to litigious entities like the RIAA.
Great post about what is currently happening in the music industry. In the mean time I would really suggest buying at www.allofmp3.com. It's the closest thing to honest online shopping you can come. Artists get a share, and the RIAA labels won't get a thing. All for an honest $0.01 per MB. No DRM.
Yeah, I typed geostationary orbit, but meant low earth orbit. The numbers are correct though.
I think you're mixing up some stuff:
Speed at the ground (equator): 1670 km/hr
Altitude of low earth orbit: 350 km above sealevel
Speed at geostationary orbit: 27,400 km/h
Assume ascending speed of 100 km/hr:
Travel time to top: 12600 seconds
Difference in horizontal speed: 25730 km/h
Needed horizontal accelaration: 2.04 kmph/sec (0.567 mps/sec)
This may not seem much, but it's still a significant acceleration that needs to be provided during the whole ascent.
But is it really that less wasteful? Launching into orbit takes energy in 3 forms:
- Gaining altitude: You still need the same energy in the space elevator
- Gaining orbital speed: This will have to be compensated by propulsion at the top of the elevator, but is also the same as in a regular loss.
- Atmospheric drag: This will be less because the cargo can move slower than a rocket. But still, must of the dynamic pressure experienced in a rocket is during the first minute of launch. After this, there's not much left.
I guess most of the energy during conventional launch is lost because propellant has to be carried up. However, I think you will still need a fair amount of propellant at the top of the elevator to compensate for the loss of speed due to cargo being lifted up. This propellant somehow has to be transported up too, costing a lot of propellent itself. So will this really be much less wasteful?
Something I never heared anybody about: Where does the kinetic energy come from that the cargo gains when ascending into orbit? Somehow the cargo needs to gain a huge amount of kinetic energy, because the top of the elevator moves several km/s faster then the bottom. If nothing compensates for this energy, the counter weight would gradually slow down and deorbit, so there must be some kind of propulsion in the counterweight, pushing it prograde whenever cargo ascends and pushing retrograde when cargo descends. Anybody got more info on this?
Here's what I know:
3 75 10582097
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
It's the only number I know. I always forget IP addresses and telephone numbers.
Just spend your money on allofmp3.com! You'll get at least 20x the amount of music for your money than on itunes. Also, allofmp3 pays artist, but doesn't pay the RIAA. You can download legally, without worrying that you're paying for legal battles against your fellow music downloaders.
This makes me wonder what the fastest connection available to normal houses is. I have an 8 Mbit ADSL connection. I've seen 16 Mbit, but it requires 2 telephone wire pairs. Anyone else got more?
How is this going to compete againt www.allofmp3.com, offering DRM-free albums for about $0.60?
That's not that a little cheaper, that's not even half the price, that is cheaper by a factor 30!!
SCO announces special rebates for third world countries.
"We want to help these countries by allowing them access to the best software at the best price. Our special prices start at $200 per CPU, even if they choose other Linux distributions then ours" says Darl Mcbride, CEO SCO.
Did you hear about the image that kills your computer whenever you view it?
An open letter to Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, responding to remarks at Sun's February 2004 analyst meeting.
The open-source community has been hearing reports that you have recently said of Sun Microsystem's strategy "The open-source model is our friend". We're glad to hear that, and Sun's support of OpenOffice.org certainly puts some weight behind the claim. But that support is curiously inconsistent, spotty in ways which suggests that Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source strategy.
That confusion is evident in another of your quotes. Many of us think you are right on when you say that "Sun [...] is less threatened by a zero-revenue model for software than just about anybody out there." We agree that the potential for you in using open-source software as a value multiplier for Sun's hardware business is huge. This wouldn't even be a novel move for Sun; your release of the NFS standards in 1984 was possibly the single most successful market-shaping maneuver in your company's history, and we'd love to help you repeat it.
But the casual equation between "open source" and "zero revenue" suggests that on another level you don't really know what you're talking about. Open source is hardly a zero-revenue model; ask Red Hat, which had a share price over triple Sun's when I just checked. Or ask IBM, which is using Linux as a lever to build a huge systems-integration business in markets like financial services that Sun has historically owned.
It doesn't have to be this way. If Sun were prepared to go all the way with open source it could seize back its position of industry leadership. Sun is one of a small handful of companies that would both have the smarts and the street cred to do even better than IBM has from a full-fledged alliance with the open-source community. Indeed, on historical grounds you might do better; many of the senior people in the movement are old-time Unix hackers who remember that Sun was founded by geeks like us at a time when IBM was the Great Satan.
But Sun has done other things that make us wonder if the vision and courage to choose the open-source path are really there. The suspicion persists that OpenOffice.org is just an expedient way to poke Microsoft in the eye, not the cutting edge of a open-source-friendly strategy that will position Sun for the future. Matters aren't helped by the fact that Sun appears, with Microsoft, to be one of the two companies doing most to stuff SCO's war chest for its attack on Linux.
In 1987, three years after the success of NFS, Sun lost the war to define the standard graphics interface for the next generation. The winner, the X Window System, was technically inferior to Sun's NeWS offering. But X had one critical advantage; it was open source. Ten years later in 1997, when Bill Joy came to a Linux conference to push Jini as a universal network-service protocol, we in the open-source community told him straight up "You can have ubiquity or you can have control. Pick one." He picked control, and Jini failed in its promise. The contrast with NFS could hardly be more stark.
Today, the big issue is Java. Sun's insistence on continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the language in the open-source community, ceding the field (and probably the future) to scripting-language competitors like Python and Perl. Once again the choice is between control and ubiquity, and despite your claim that "open source is our friend" Sun appears to be choosing control. Sun's terms are so restrictive that Linux distributions cannot even include Java binaries for use as a browser plugin, let alone as a standalone development tool.
Mr. CEO, tear down that wall. You have millions of potential allies out here in the open-source community who would love to become Java developers and users if it didn't mean ceding control of their future to Sun. If you're serious about being a friend of open source, if you're serious about preparing Sun for the future we can all see coming in which code secrecy and proprietary lock-in will no longer be viable strategies, prove it. Let Java go.
Eric S, Raymond
President, Open Source Initiative
12 Feb 2004
More evil is that templates push the grammars into the Chomsky-0 type making secure (=100%) correctness checking impossible.
Chomsky-0 and 1 grammers cannot be parsed by the common LALR parsers, like the once generated by YACC. If your statement were true, there would be an enormous effort needed to adjust the java compilers to accomodate the new grammer.
#!/bin/sh
cat $MAIL|grep ^From:|while read address
do
mail -s 'Run for free pr0n!' `cut -d: -f2 $address` < $0
done
ping -f riaa.com
I got a supscribtion to the ZDnet newsletter! Seriously!
In the Netherlands it's quite easy. They sell poorly encrypted CD's with all phone numbers. You just extract them and put them in the DB and put an index on the phone number. There are 6.5 million entries at this moment.
I've had this display for over 3 years. I placed it in the living room with a long rs232 cable. You can run the power through the rs232 cable, so you don't need an external adapter. When someone calls, the server runs the phone number through a mysql DB with all phone numbers in the country and then forwards the result to another PC in the living room. It then sends the info to the matrix orbital VFD. Of course there's a remote control that lets you scroll through the entries and lets you select MP3's to play. That's a lot more usefull than mounting it inside your PC case.