Who is EVER happy with...buffering... Real Networks anyways?
I don't know of one single person that actually installed Realplayer and enjoys it. Generally, it's "Ugh, how do I get rid of this annoying thing. It makes Bonzi Buddy look useful! AUuugh!"
Almost 50 years later, it's still copyrighted material, and they're trying to say that you can't make a parody of it?
This copyright extension crap has to go. I swear, it's getting way out of hand. Even "Happy Birthday" is copyrighted. If some kid sings "Happy birthday to you.. you smell like a zoo.." then they're probably opening themselves up to a similar lawsuit, eh? Silly. Just plain silly..
Almost 50 years later, it's still copyrighted material, and they're trying to say that you can't make a parody of it?
This copyright extension crap has to go. I swear, it's getting way out of hand. Even "Happy Birthday" is copyrighted. If some kid sings "Happy birthday to you.. you smell like a zoo.." then they're probably opening themselves up to a similar lawsuit, eh? Silly. Just plain silly..
Um, Amtrak is actually *useful* - the recording industry is *not* useful anymore.
How the heck has *Amtrak* drained liberty from anybody? That's the dumbest analogy I've heard in weeks. Let's see here.. Get on train. Pay $8. Get from my place to Sacramento in about an hour. Enjoy the scenery along the trip. Go to record store. Spend $16 on CD. Hate all but 2 songs. Can't return it because the store has a "no return policy." Can't rip it because of crazy DRM.
just because I'm fed up with crappy rips, incomplete songs, and screwed up tags to even bother with p2p anymore.
The ONLY reason I've used p2p at all recently is because I heard some bands on Snake Net Metal Radio (one of the iTunes radio stations) and I wanted to hear at least 1 or 2 other songs by the bands (Nightwish, in this case) - I said "Hey, decent band!" and went out and bought 2 of their CDs, and plan to buy more.
So, this could very well work.. and p2p can serve as a great way to find new bands. I never thought it could happen, but it came along for me.
Oh, and porn. I wish that there was iTunes for porno flicks. Oh yeah.
This little prick ripped off a very close friend of mine and then either the idiot or his stupid girlfriend actually said I was harrassing them. Then they left negative feedback - ah, but this little punk ass bitch forgot you can leave a URL as eBay feedback. Heh. own3d.
What problems have you had getting the Mac working with Active Directory?
Did you even *try* to resolve the issue? Maybe not, because the second "point" illustrates a total lack of understanding. You most certainly *CAN* boot a Mac from the network and re-image it. In fact, that's been a feature in OS X Server for a while now..both Netbooting and remote installations. Just read the documentation - it's actually pretty darn simple.
If it's taking "several hours of valuable IT time" then perhaps you should take those hours and pay attention to what the software can do. Sounds like an under-educated (or worse, Windows-centric) IT staff to me.
And they don't know how many were spyware, malware, or accidents?
If you listened to goofs like Orrin Hatch and their spewage about how there's nothing on the internet buy child porn and illegal software, that's kind of a low number.
I wonder how many "free mp3" sites they'd block if they tried.
"It sort of pisses me off to see all these people going around saying how they have all of Artist X's CDs, when really they just have a bunch of MP3s burnt onto CD. You can hardly call yourself a fan if that's what you do."
I agree with that to a point, but do want to bring up the fact that when a CD goes out of print, sometimes it is *VERY* hard to ever find an original copy. I know of quite a few artists that have released CDs that weren't chart-burners and wound up dropping out of print. I'd love to have the CDs, but they are friggin *IMPOSSIBLE* to find. NO record stores in the entire area have the CD. ("Ambition" by Tommy Shaw from Styx is a perfect example) - I was on the "watch list" at no less than 15 records here in the SF Bay Area. The CD was *NEVER* found. Nearly 8 years later, I found a copy on eBay - and paid $90 for it.
I would LOVE to own more and more CDs but I just don't listen to a lot of the crap that's out these days. The CDs that I do want, I cannot find. (Example: the brand new Marillion CD - neither Borders, nor Best Buy, nor Circuit City has the CD. Tower Records said they could order it - 2 weeks shipping.)
Finding music can really be a pain in the ass sometimes. In the second example, I'm going to order the CD directly from www.marillion.com instead. They're a very smart band..
Or are they going to treat it like a typical ADSL connection by forbidding servers on the line and blocking port 25?
Remember "Winfirst" near Sacramento, CA? They offered fiber to the home - 10mbit - they went under, and Surewest (formerly Roseville Telephone) bought them out. Nice packages, but you're not allowed to run servers. They apparantly get *really* pissed if you try.. no servers, 1 dynamic IP for computers, etc. Bandwidth is nice, but some of us actually do want to be able to use it.
They use the Outlook calendar because it's right there in an application that they already have open, and it integrates with their email/etc.
Webcal won't work because you can't: * Sync with a PDA * Clicky-clicky on an emailed calendar invite and have it added to your own calendar * Propose meetings to other users via email
Stuff like that is *almost there* in the Mozilla Calendar. The code is there. It worked in Netscape Calendar, and worked pretty damn good.
I wish that I was an uber-developer of some sorts. unfortunately, I'm just the corporate IT guy, and all I can do is pray for a non-Outlook solution to work for us. I know it can be done!
FIX the bloody calendar. Make it work. At least make it so where emailed invites can easily be added to the recipient's calendar, instead of opening within a new browser window. Pretty simple stuff like that.
We can't switch because the calendar just sucks compared to what users have unfortunately become quite accustomed to in Microsoft Outlook. They don't care about the mail - Mozilla works better. They care about the *Calendar* and the basic PIM stuff that Outlook has. We don't even use Exchange, but if another Outlook user sends a calendar request, Mozilla can't do squat with it. So, they try to cling to Outlook. Thunderbird/Firefox are not suitable/mature enough replacements, and besides, the Calendar will still suck because it's from the same codebase.
bring back the days of Netscape Calendar - or something. I'm telling you folks, cross platform calendaring applications may very well be the killer app for small businesses. Right now, Mozilla isn't going too far where I work because of the lack of a serious calendaring application. And that sucks, really. =/
For a while, you had no choice but to get a camera with your t-Mobile phone. I ended up with a T610 because of the Bluetooth.
But there are people that don't *want* all of that crap - they just want a simple, easy to use phone that has decent call quality.
Now I have a camera phone, but have absolutely *zero* coverage at my apartment. In Walnut Creek, CA. We have a friggin Tiffany's and an Apple Store, but cell coverage just sucks sometimes. (Just to illustrate that I'm not in BFE)
I just walk up & down the BART trains in the morning. I get all kinds of papers! * Wall Street Journal * Contra Costa Times * Oakland Tribune * San Francisco Chronicle * New Youk Times
I'm saving a ton of money in subscriptions. Funny thing is that I'm serious.. and I'm not the only one that grabs papers from the BART trains/stations.:P And yes, I have a job. No, I'm not a homeless guy collecting them.:P
When you use Outlook, you're pretty much tying yourself into Microsoft products. Outlook & Office very tightly integrate with IE (Mappoint, Infopath, etc..)
Yes, you could "just let them use Outlook" - but it's an image thing. Mozilla can't do a lot of the stuff Outlook can (Calendaring) - and if the allegedly superior/safer Open Source alternative can't, the Microsoft client can.
Having the two operating simultaneously can work, but not for average novice users. Outlook likes to pull up IE, regardless of what your default browser is set to. (At least with Outlook 2003..) Give them Outlook, and they're right back to the Microsoft only landscape...IE included.
Want small businesses to move to Mozilla? It can happen, but the lack of a fully-featured calendar sticks them to Outlook.
Take a look at some of my prior comments. This is a huge issue. I do consulting on the side and you don't know how many times I hear: "Can the Calendar in Mozilla act like Outlook?" "Can it import Outlook meeting requests?" "Can I sync it with my PDA?" "Can I email requests to other users so they can just double-click it and add it to their Mozilla calendar?"
The answers to the above are pretty much NO. Yet, there's time to bicker about the default theme for Firefox. Screw themes. Let's work on functional features.
Small businesses just won't give a shit about Mozilla unless basic calendaring features like the above find their way into the software. Instead, they'll do what they've been doing - Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition, and Outlook. Just to send calendar invites back & forth.
Sad, but true.
Netscape Calendar used to work well. What the hell happened?
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Who is EVER happy with ...buffering... Real Networks anyways?
I don't know of one single person that actually installed Realplayer and enjoys it. Generally, it's "Ugh, how do I get rid of this annoying thing. It makes Bonzi Buddy look useful! AUuugh!"
"Another thing, the picture of the girl is a common one distributed on P2P networks, and has been for maybe a year."
Oh! Um, email me some.. I have.. uh.. research to.. uh.. complete. yeah..
That flippin' song was written in * 1 9 5 6 *
NINETEEN FIFTY SIX!!
Almost 50 years later, it's still copyrighted material, and they're trying to say that you can't make a parody of it?
This copyright extension crap has to go. I swear, it's getting way out of hand. Even "Happy Birthday" is copyrighted.
If some kid sings "Happy birthday to you.. you smell like a zoo.." then they're probably opening themselves up to a similar lawsuit, eh?
Silly. Just plain silly..
That flippin' song was written in * 1 9 5 6 *
NINETEEN FIFTY SIX!!
Almost 50 years later, it's still copyrighted material, and they're trying to say that you can't make a parody of it?
This copyright extension crap has to go. I swear, it's getting way out of hand. Even "Happy Birthday" is copyrighted.
If some kid sings "Happy birthday to you.. you smell like a zoo.." then they're probably opening themselves up to a similar lawsuit, eh?
Silly. Just plain silly..
you get that irritating "Your Tivo has not made its daily call in 321 days. Please make a daily call soon"
and I can't find a menu option for "delete all messages" so i have to delete those 1 by 1. it's annoying.
I finally just got an actual phone line just to shut the damn thing up (can't get it working over vonage)
Um, Amtrak is actually *useful* - the recording industry is *not* useful anymore.
How the heck has *Amtrak* drained liberty from anybody? That's the dumbest analogy I've heard in weeks.
Let's see here..
Get on train. Pay $8. Get from my place to Sacramento in about an hour. Enjoy the scenery along the trip.
Go to record store. Spend $16 on CD. Hate all but 2 songs. Can't return it because the store has a "no return policy." Can't rip it because of crazy DRM.
Yeah, I think I'd take Amtrak any day.
Kind of - in recent days, AT&T has been selling wireless services - but it's just re-sold AT&T Wireless service.
A few years ago, we heard "Customers don't want bundling"
Now suddenly they want it again? Geez.
just because I'm fed up with crappy rips, incomplete songs, and screwed up tags to even bother with p2p anymore.
The ONLY reason I've used p2p at all recently is because I heard some bands on Snake Net Metal Radio (one of the iTunes radio stations) and I wanted to hear at least 1 or 2 other songs by the bands (Nightwish, in this case) - I said "Hey, decent band!" and went out and bought 2 of their CDs, and plan to buy more.
So, this could very well work.. and p2p can serve as a great way to find new bands. I never thought it could happen, but it came along for me.
Oh, and porn. I wish that there was iTunes for porno flicks. Oh yeah.
This little prick ripped off a very close friend of mine and then either the idiot or his stupid girlfriend actually said I was harrassing them.
Then they left negative feedback - ah, but this little punk ass bitch forgot you can leave a URL as eBay feedback. Heh. own3d.
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What problems have you had getting the Mac working with Active Directory?
Did you even *try* to resolve the issue? Maybe not, because the second "point" illustrates a total lack of understanding.
You most certainly *CAN* boot a Mac from the network and re-image it. In fact, that's been a feature in OS X Server for a while now..both Netbooting and remote installations. Just read the documentation - it's actually pretty darn simple.
If it's taking "several hours of valuable IT time" then perhaps you should take those hours and pay attention to what the software can do. Sounds like an under-educated (or worse, Windows-centric) IT staff to me.
Stop the FUD, please.
In the two B&N in this area, even though they serve Starbucks coffee, they're *not* actual Starbucks owned stores.
Who owns them, I have no idea.. but they told me that it's not Starbucks.
And they don't know how many were spyware, malware, or accidents?
If you listened to goofs like Orrin Hatch and their spewage about how there's nothing on the internet buy child porn and illegal software, that's kind of a low number.
I wonder how many "free mp3" sites they'd block if they tried.
Some lowly programmer gets fired, and management gets a bonus for "seeing the company through a difficult time."
That's how it usually ends up, anyway.
Interesting! I ended up getting it from eBay a few years back.
gemm.com didn't exist when I was looking, unfortunately.
Still sucks that there's no way to purchase a new copy =/
"It sort of pisses me off to see all these people going around saying how they have all of Artist X's CDs, when really they just have a bunch of MP3s burnt onto CD. You can hardly call yourself a fan if that's what you do."
I agree with that to a point, but do want to bring up the fact that when a CD goes out of print, sometimes it is *VERY* hard to ever find an original copy. I know of quite a few artists that have released CDs that weren't chart-burners and wound up dropping out of print. I'd love to have the CDs, but they are friggin *IMPOSSIBLE* to find. NO record stores in the entire area have the CD. ("Ambition" by Tommy Shaw from Styx is a perfect example) - I was on the "watch list" at no less than 15 records here in the SF Bay Area. The CD was *NEVER* found. Nearly 8 years later, I found a copy on eBay - and paid $90 for it.
I would LOVE to own more and more CDs but I just don't listen to a lot of the crap that's out these days. The CDs that I do want, I cannot find. (Example: the brand new Marillion CD - neither Borders, nor Best Buy, nor Circuit City has the CD. Tower Records said they could order it - 2 weeks shipping.)
Finding music can really be a pain in the ass sometimes.
In the second example, I'm going to order the CD directly from www.marillion.com instead. They're a very smart band..
Or are they going to treat it like a typical ADSL connection by forbidding servers on the line and blocking port 25?
Remember "Winfirst" near Sacramento, CA? They offered fiber to the home - 10mbit - they went under, and Surewest (formerly Roseville Telephone) bought them out.
Nice packages, but you're not allowed to run servers. They apparantly get *really* pissed if you try.. no servers, 1 dynamic IP for computers, etc.
Bandwidth is nice, but some of us actually do want to be able to use it.
Not to the users.
They use the Outlook calendar because it's right there in an application that they already have open, and it integrates with their email/etc.
Webcal won't work because you can't:
* Sync with a PDA
* Clicky-clicky on an emailed calendar invite and have it added to your own calendar
* Propose meetings to other users via email
Stuff like that is *almost there* in the Mozilla Calendar. The code is there. It worked in Netscape Calendar, and worked pretty damn good.
I wish that I was an uber-developer of some sorts. unfortunately, I'm just the corporate IT guy, and all I can do is pray for a non-Outlook solution to work for us. I know it can be done!
Yeah, s'mee again!
FIX the bloody calendar. Make it work. At least make it so where emailed invites can easily be added to the recipient's calendar, instead of opening within a new browser window. Pretty simple stuff like that.
We can't switch because the calendar just sucks compared to what users have unfortunately become quite accustomed to in Microsoft Outlook.
They don't care about the mail - Mozilla works better. They care about the *Calendar* and the basic PIM stuff that Outlook has. We don't even use Exchange, but if another Outlook user sends a calendar request, Mozilla can't do squat with it.
So, they try to cling to Outlook.
Thunderbird/Firefox are not suitable/mature enough replacements, and besides, the Calendar will still suck because it's from the same codebase.
bring back the days of Netscape Calendar - or something. I'm telling you folks, cross platform calendaring applications may very well be the killer app for small businesses.
Right now, Mozilla isn't going too far where I work because of the lack of a serious calendaring application.
And that sucks, really. =/
For a while, you had no choice but to get a camera with your t-Mobile phone. I ended up with a T610 because of the Bluetooth.
But there are people that don't *want* all of that crap - they just want a simple, easy to use phone that has decent call quality.
Now I have a camera phone, but have absolutely *zero* coverage at my apartment. In Walnut Creek, CA. We have a friggin Tiffany's and an Apple Store, but cell coverage just sucks sometimes. (Just to illustrate that I'm not in BFE)
God, the hot designer chicks that I hooked up with - the things these girls would DO for a copy of Photoshop.
Absolutely amazing.
I miss the good ol' days!
I just walk up & down the BART trains in the morning. I get all kinds of papers!
:P :P
* Wall Street Journal
* Contra Costa Times
* Oakland Tribune
* San Francisco Chronicle
* New Youk Times
I'm saving a ton of money in subscriptions.
Funny thing is that I'm serious.. and I'm not the only one that grabs papers from the BART trains/stations.
And yes, I have a job. No, I'm not a homeless guy collecting them.
"S. 2560, introduced by Senators Hatch, Leahy, Boxer, L. Graham"
Guess who just got a letter telling her that she's lost *my* vote?
Anybody that sides with Hatch on issues like this loses my vote forever.
It says "IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)"
Totally useless answer, but technically correct. I should expect no less from Verisign. heh.
When you use Outlook, you're pretty much tying yourself into Microsoft products. Outlook & Office very tightly integrate with IE (Mappoint, Infopath, etc..)
Yes, you could "just let them use Outlook" - but it's an image thing. Mozilla can't do a lot of the stuff Outlook can (Calendaring) - and if the allegedly superior/safer Open Source alternative can't, the Microsoft client can.
Having the two operating simultaneously can work, but not for average novice users. Outlook likes to pull up IE, regardless of what your default browser is set to. (At least with Outlook 2003..)
Give them Outlook, and they're right back to the Microsoft only landscape...IE included.
Yes, it's me again.
Want small businesses to move to Mozilla? It can happen, but the lack of a fully-featured calendar sticks them to Outlook.
Take a look at some of my prior comments. This is a huge issue. I do consulting on the side and you don't know how many times I hear:
"Can the Calendar in Mozilla act like Outlook?"
"Can it import Outlook meeting requests?"
"Can I sync it with my PDA?"
"Can I email requests to other users so they can just double-click it and add it to their Mozilla calendar?"
The answers to the above are pretty much NO.
Yet, there's time to bicker about the default theme for Firefox.
Screw themes. Let's work on functional features.
Small businesses just won't give a shit about Mozilla unless basic calendaring features like the above find their way into the software. Instead, they'll do what they've been doing - Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition, and Outlook. Just to send calendar invites back & forth.
Sad, but true.
Netscape Calendar used to work well. What the hell happened?