How is it that the RIAA can see what songs you're sharing. Since all the information is located on your PC then them coming inside it to see what you have or do not have in iteself tresspassing. Also since they're not law enforcement acting on a judge signed search warrant they they're doubly breaking the law.
Breaking the law to catch law breakers does not make it right.
Another thing of note.. The RIAA claims filesharing is hurting their cd sales..
Well for the % of sales they've lost they've also released many times less the amount of cd's 4 years ago when this hubbub all started out. They've created their own sales problems not the filesharers.. I have friends who download songs they hear on the radio.. then get a few more the radio would never play so they get a idea if the cd is worth buying.. then they usually go out and buy the CD.
Apple can easily covert their system to Linux than writing for Windows from the ground up. The only reason it has not happened yet is becuase Windows is the more lucrative platform to do next. I'm sure a Linux version is planned and will be along shortly after they work out the Windows issues.
Software patents are bad ideas all around. It will not be long before some idiot is awarded a patent for A + B = C it seems. Maybe it's time for a SEC investigation into the patent office to check for bribery and other criminal actions.
It would be better for companies to defend their products as innovative, not the functions within them that make things work. Disney has done very well with copyright laws instead of resorting to patenting the process of stuffing winnie the poo dolls.
In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com's offerings you must be on a Windows Operating System using Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher.
Hmm well I guess I'm not ever using their service. I use Mozilla
If the service does not support MicroSoft alternatives then I wont be using them ever. I'm trying to get away from using a MS based OS not get trapped into it more and more.
Any company that's forcing their users to rely on a operating system and certian products of that operating system are just asking for trouble.
I'm sure if MS released it's code to these buymusic people then that poor girl would not of had that nightmare of the plugin crashing.
And any sysadmin worth their money knows how to get information off the expensive infrastructure..
It's the same as migrating from a Oracle db to MySql you can use the same process getting the relevant data off exchange servers and putting it into a Linux eqivalent.
Yes it takes time and a bit of money but hey in the long run you can fix it yourself.. You dont have to pay exorbant licensing fees and such either.
That none of the big 3 credit agencies know where I live and still show my employer from nearly 4 years ago.
I guess the funny thing is the feds would be better off calling me than going to my house if they had reason to want to talk to me. Since public databases are so innaccurate.
But what's not funny is the fact that a government agency working on bad/outdated information could very well surround a old lady's house and when she goes walking around with her big black maglite they open fire and killing poor grandma. Of course they'll use the same tired excuse of we had bad intel.
I'm sure the guy that dropped the bomb on the chinese embasy said the same thing.
"I currently use quite a few devices that require various size batteries and I feel horrible just tossing them when they die. I saw a recharger at a retail store today and was thinking to myself how much waste it would reduce by using rechargeable ones. Which units have you used happily and/or which units have you heard of/read about satisfying someone else? Are the more expensive units better? What chemical rechargeable batteries last the longest/recharge the most?"
Did this person realise that never said what the batteries are for and the last few sentences talking about satisfying someone else puts that whole paragraph into the realm of sex shop toys!?!
Anyone else find this funny?
On a serious note however I have never used recharable batteries on the fact that the dogma of them not having the life of regular batteries esp for things that are hard on the battteries themselves. I have had a battery powered plane a few years back and for 8 recharable D cells I only got about 3 minutes of use and 15 minutes of charge time. So it was necessary to learn how to run at less power/glide to stretch 3 batteries in a continous pattern of fun.
The government is just providing a means where we can say dont call us. Were not forced to put our numbers there. There have been laws for years that allow us to tell the telemarketer to stop calling us and providing a basis to sue them if they do not stop calling.
By providing my phone number I'm telling them all to quit calling me. I get at least 3 calls a day left on my answering machine that I dont want nor care about.
Linux does not need to revolve around Windows. Windows is not the center of the universe. As long as a host of applications run under Linux that satisfy the requirements of the user then there's nothing to complain about.
Almost every function with the exception of DirectX/Direct3D can be done in Linux as far as office productivity goes.
The 2 largest barriers for Linux hitting the desktop in large numbers seem to be adequate drivers and desktop applications/games. We've seen breakthroughs such as Nvidia's graphics card and Nforce2 chipset support along with Transmeta's WineX allowing more DirectX games to be played on Linux.
In the forseeable future do you think that these barriers will continue the trend or will they be broken and things will get better for the Linux crowd?
you could easily pull this off with a laptop that can process the 802.11x signal and a verizon 3g RX1TT 144Kbps or EVDO 2Mbit+ connection. All major sporting events are sure to have extra coverage at the stadium. Verizon afaik rolls COW's Cell on Wheels to many sporting events and concerts to provide the extra capacity if needed.
that Microsoft plans to intergrate more and more functions covered by other companies. EG Antivirus when they bought out a leading Linux AV company. Incidentally they also said no further Linux versions would be released.
Yes we know 5% of the reports say that. What about application crashes? And what's the guesstimate of the who userbase not just the ones that report. I would tack another 10% on there at least if not more.
MicroSoft will continue to be a thorn in everyone's sides. I'm surprised there's no much fuss being made about the new motherboards that will have these super security functions. Microsoft is dictating not some group of standards bodies. Once again we'll see a division of computer hardware.
And the next thing you know you cannot access your bank or any government sites without running a MicroSoft approved secure system motherboard and their Longhorn software.
Someone also mentioned before this mess SCO's stock was below a dollar and now it's over 10 dollars per share. *Sigh* if that's true I could of made a pretty penny there:)
Either way IBM could buy them without even denting their profit margins by a percentage point.
"Nanotube based RAM, under development by Nantero, promises to deliver densities of over 1 terabit per cm^2, is non-volatile and faster than current DRAM. The Economist has a nice story. Forget about just kicking DRAM's and FLASH's butt, is this finally the end of magnetic storage as well?"
If they can get this down in price then I guess 20 years of trying to get this new perpendicular recording was just a waste. I'm not going to hold my breath but frankly I think it's high time to get into solid state storage and eliminate once and for all the wrost speed bottleneck on the pc.
Okay for the last 20 years they've been working on this. WHY are they not looking into solid state storage? There are plenty of companies within 2 years will have drives that will blow away current drives in speed and capacity. One such company is using nanotech to offer 1 terabit per cm2. And it'll run at 10x the speed of current memory.
I cant help to see how this is not wasted time trying to improve the platter drives in favor of pushing out solid state storage faster. The advantages alone overrule more development on platter systems. Imagine instead of 100mbps of bandwidth on the hard drive you would be getting 10gbps of throughtput, no moving parts and much less heat and a longer MTBF time along with size alone this would blow away the server markets..
Who would care about the 16Gig memory limit when you have a solid state hard drive that ran faster than the memory array? Then you can just modify the software to use the Solid State Array (Think I'm going to patent this!hehe) SSA drive as memory and storage thus DB servers would have serious improvements compared to platter systems.
Now I can sleep better knowing 2.5 people are watching some few million objects that can at any time impact the earth. Lets hope they're not as careless as NASA to convert imperial to metric when doing the calculations.
And how the hell does half a person watch asteroids? No way mini-me went and became a astronomer!
What is "our" government going to do about it. I hate to say it but it seems that the exportation of all our intellectual jobs overseas is a scary idea. What happens when a software engineer cannot find a job at a local McDonalds becuase he's overqualified?
It's not like these jobs are going to England where you could have the hope of just leaving the country in hopes of good work in the field you chosen. These jobs are moving to places notably hostile to Americans in particular so they cannot move there along with the fact that these people are being paid 1/4th of what were being paid. Lets not also mention the fact that "some" of these people may just help terrorism by providing the tech background to carry out more destructive tasks.
Another sick factor is the fact that our government is sponsoring visa's and in some cases paying these students tuition and where do they go? Back home thus there is no payback through a life of paying taxes in the US.
It's high time we've added a tax to software imports to make the US competitive with other countries for jobs. If you make it expensive to develop programs overseas then the jobs will come back.
I dont care of mohammaed, abdul, or shrif gets a job with IBM, as long as it's in the US and I've got a chance in the running.
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Today I was browsing the network neighborhood to remap a drive to a new server and I did notice
MDKGROUP
So I'm pretty sure someone out there has a Mandrake install running on the network.
How is it that the RIAA can see what songs you're sharing. Since all the information is located on your PC then them coming inside it to see what you have or do not have in iteself tresspassing. Also since they're not law enforcement acting on a judge signed search warrant they they're doubly breaking the law.
Breaking the law to catch law breakers does not make it right.
Another thing of note.. The RIAA claims filesharing is hurting their cd sales..
Well for the % of sales they've lost they've also released many times less the amount of cd's 4 years ago when this hubbub all started out. They've created their own sales problems not the filesharers.. I have friends who download songs they hear on the radio.. then get a few more the radio would never play so they get a idea if the cd is worth buying.. then they usually go out and buy the CD.
Werent vibrators invented long before Immersions's time?
Probably not the best example but I'm sure there's plenty of prior art hehe on something like this..
Howard stern had one that could be activated by whistling..
Apple can easily covert their system to Linux than writing for Windows from the ground up. The only reason it has not happened yet is becuase Windows is the more lucrative platform to do next. I'm sure a Linux version is planned and will be along shortly after they work out the Windows issues.
Software patents are bad ideas all around. It will not be long before some idiot is awarded a patent for A + B = C it seems. Maybe it's time for a SEC investigation into the patent office to check for bribery and other criminal actions.
It would be better for companies to defend their products as innovative, not the functions within them that make things work. Disney has done very well with copyright laws instead of resorting to patenting the process of stuffing winnie the poo dolls.
In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com's offerings you must be on a Windows Operating System using Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher.
Hmm well I guess I'm not ever using their service.
I use Mozilla
If the service does not support MicroSoft alternatives then I wont be using them ever. I'm trying to get away from using a MS based OS not get trapped into it more and more.
Any company that's forcing their users to rely on a operating system and certian products of that operating system are just asking for trouble.
I'm sure if MS released it's code to these buymusic people then that poor girl would not of had that nightmare of the plugin crashing.
And any sysadmin worth their money knows how to get information off the expensive infrastructure..
It's the same as migrating from a Oracle db to MySql you can use the same process getting the relevant data off exchange servers and putting it into a Linux eqivalent.
Yes it takes time and a bit of money but hey in the long run you can fix it yourself.. You dont have to pay exorbant licensing fees and such either.
And in most cases it's secure.
That none of the big 3 credit agencies know where I live and still show my employer from nearly 4 years ago.
I guess the funny thing is the feds would be better off calling me than going to my house if they had reason to want to talk to me. Since public databases are so innaccurate.
But what's not funny is the fact that a government agency working on bad/outdated information could very well surround a old lady's house and when she goes walking around with her big black maglite they open fire and killing poor grandma. Of course they'll use the same tired excuse of we had bad intel.
I'm sure the guy that dropped the bomb on the chinese embasy said the same thing.
"I currently use quite a few devices that require various size batteries and I feel horrible just tossing them when they die. I saw a recharger at a retail store today and was thinking to myself how much waste it would reduce by using rechargeable ones. Which units have you used happily and/or which units have you heard of/read about satisfying someone else? Are the more expensive units better? What chemical rechargeable batteries last the longest/recharge the most?"
Did this person realise that never said what the batteries are for and the last few sentences talking about satisfying someone else puts that whole paragraph into the realm of sex shop toys!?!
Anyone else find this funny?
On a serious note however I have never used recharable batteries on the fact that the dogma of them not having the life of regular batteries esp for things that are hard on the battteries themselves. I have had a battery powered plane a few years back and for 8 recharable D cells I only got about 3 minutes of use and 15 minutes of charge time. So it was necessary to learn how to run at less power/glide to stretch 3 batteries in a continous pattern of fun.
And they're expensive
The government is just providing a means where we can say dont call us. Were not forced to put our numbers there. There have been laws for years that allow us to tell the telemarketer to stop calling us and providing a basis to sue them if they do not stop calling.
By providing my phone number I'm telling them all to quit calling me. I get at least 3 calls a day left on my answering machine that I dont want nor care about.
Linux does not need to revolve around Windows. Windows is not the center of the universe. As long as a host of applications run under Linux that satisfy the requirements of the user then there's nothing to complain about.
/Direct3D can be done in Linux as far as office productivity goes.
Almost every function with the exception of DirectX
The 2 largest barriers for Linux hitting the desktop in large numbers seem to be adequate drivers and desktop applications/games. We've seen breakthroughs such as Nvidia's graphics card and Nforce2 chipset support along with Transmeta's WineX allowing more DirectX games to be played on Linux.
In the forseeable future do you think that these barriers will continue the trend or will they be broken and things will get better for the Linux crowd?
They had something like this to insert into the potential drunks teeth to signal a computer to call them a cab.
you could easily pull this off with a laptop that can process the 802.11x signal and a verizon 3g RX1TT 144Kbps or EVDO 2Mbit+ connection. All major sporting events are sure to have extra coverage at the stadium. Verizon afaik rolls COW's Cell on Wheels to many sporting events and concerts to provide the extra capacity if needed.
I've got a 17" Mag LT765 Monitor.
Res is at 1280x1024 and when I switch over to 1024x768 it's about the demensions he mentions..
Furthermore you can adjust font sizes in Linux easily for most applications.
So I'm really not seeing his point here?
Just make sure you have ironclad proof you own them.
:)
Such as store video of you arriving at the store.
Store video of the purchase.
Store video of you leaving.
that Microsoft plans to intergrate more and more functions covered by other companies. EG Antivirus when they bought out a leading Linux AV company. Incidentally they also said no further Linux versions would be released.
Yes we know 5% of the reports say that. What about application crashes? And what's the guesstimate of the who userbase not just the ones that report. I would tack another 10% on there at least if not more.
MicroSoft will continue to be a thorn in everyone's sides. I'm surprised there's no much fuss being made about the new motherboards that will have these super security functions. Microsoft is dictating not some group of standards bodies. Once again we'll see a division of computer hardware.
And the next thing you know you cannot access your bank or any government sites without running a MicroSoft approved secure system motherboard and their Longhorn software.
Now what if the person already owned the CD's and could prove it with saved receipts? I'm pretty sure that will slow down the RIAA a bit hehe.
IIRC SCO's market cap is 182Million..
:)
Someone also mentioned before this mess SCO's stock was below a dollar and now it's over 10 dollars per share. *Sigh* if that's true I could of made a pretty penny there
Either way IBM could buy them without even denting their profit margins by a percentage point.
Ring Ring!
Oh A customer!
(picks up phone)
Ni!
Tell them we want laws to forbit companies to hire outside of the US for less than what they would of paid here.
"Nanotube based RAM, under development by Nantero, promises to deliver densities of over 1 terabit per cm^2, is non-volatile and faster than current DRAM. The Economist has a nice story. Forget about just kicking DRAM's and FLASH's butt, is this finally the end of magnetic storage as well?"
If they can get this down in price then I guess 20 years of trying to get this new perpendicular recording was just a waste. I'm not going to hold my breath but frankly I think it's high time to get into solid state storage and eliminate once and for all the wrost speed bottleneck on the pc.
Okay for the last 20 years they've been working on this. WHY are they not looking into solid state storage? There are plenty of companies within 2 years will have drives that will blow away current drives in speed and capacity. One such company is using nanotech to offer 1 terabit per cm2. And it'll run at 10x the speed of current memory.
I cant help to see how this is not wasted time trying to improve the platter drives in favor of pushing out solid state storage faster. The advantages alone overrule more development on platter systems. Imagine instead of 100mbps of bandwidth on the hard drive you would be getting 10gbps of throughtput, no moving parts and much less heat and a longer MTBF time along with size alone this would blow away the server markets..
Who would care about the 16Gig memory limit when you have a solid state hard drive that ran faster than the memory array? Then you can just modify the software to use the Solid State Array (Think I'm going to patent this!hehe) SSA drive as memory and storage thus DB servers would have serious improvements compared to platter systems.
Now I can sleep better knowing 2.5 people are watching some few million objects that can at any time impact the earth. Lets hope they're not as careless as NASA to convert imperial to metric when doing the calculations.
And how the hell does half a person watch asteroids? No way mini-me went and became a astronomer!
What is "our" government going to do about it. I hate to say it but it seems that the exportation of all our intellectual jobs overseas is a scary idea. What happens when a software engineer cannot find a job at a local McDonalds becuase he's overqualified?
It's not like these jobs are going to England where you could have the hope of just leaving the country in hopes of good work in the field you chosen. These jobs are moving to places notably hostile to Americans in particular so they cannot move there along with the fact that these people are being paid 1/4th of what were being paid. Lets not also mention the fact that "some" of these people may just help terrorism by providing the tech background to carry out more destructive tasks.
Another sick factor is the fact that our government is sponsoring visa's and in some cases paying these students tuition and where do they go? Back home thus there is no payback through a life of paying taxes in the US.
It's high time we've added a tax to software imports to make the US competitive with other countries for jobs. If you make it expensive to develop programs overseas then the jobs will come back.
I dont care of mohammaed, abdul, or shrif gets a job with IBM, as long as it's in the US and I've got a chance in the running.