Take your CD player that WILL play the CD, take the line out from the "phones" run a male to male connecter from it to the line-in on your sound card. Use Broadcast 2000 to record an unlimited wave file. Record each song and use lame to wav -> mp3.
I'm questioning if this thing they are trying to do can EVER be done perfectly?
I agree with you wholeheartedly on protecting our civil liberties.
You are wrong about Vietnam. You realize why America was over there? To prevent the Communist North Vietnamese from taking over the "Free" South Vietnamese, and initiating the usual "reign of terror" that accompanies communist dictatorships. The problem was that congress couldn't stand to support the President in doing his job. And that is the same problem that Bush is facing now!
You have a Senate Majority Leader and a bunch of liberals in the media who cannot stand to give support to the President in this time of crisis. Take a look at this and this and also this
The constitution is full of checks and balances to keep different branches in order -- e.g. The executive branch must appoint the judges, but the judges can be recalled by congress.
The framers knew that weapons in the hands of the masses were the final check and balance on the entire government.
I hope someone from SUN sees this.
You guys need to make it innexpensive & easy for OEMS to include the JRE. If Java is going to win in the end, you will have to sacrifice a little.
What offends Microsoft most about the GPL is that it keeps all of us from working for them. They would be happy if they could steal our work and put it into their software, add their own innovations and then sell it for big $$$. But that darn GPL makes it impossible to legally steal the work (like they did for the BSD network layer stuff). They'd have to re-write it and it would be too expensive.
So we should all thank the GPL for keeping us from becoming Microsoft Employee's.
Here is what you can do to really make money on this thing: Since internet traffic usage is dynamic and not static anyway, why not set up a central station that has a bunch of these satellite do-hickeys on it (or a high bandwidth satellite) all switched together and then make it a DSLAM and provide DSL to your small towns.
Since most users want to download and not upload it would be fine. Some users however really need to upload... (i.e. 128k or 256k is not going to cut it.) for these people the amalgamated bandwidth could serve the purpose.
Then you can be like cable-modem companies and add more subscribers than you actually have satelites for -- because only a percentage of the people will be on the network at any one time.
You can charge the people lots of money and make millions -- because you will be the lone provider of broadband.
This would work great for small towns and communities, but for those people who live 3 miles out in the middle of nowhere -- gotta get your own dish. Maybe you could use wireless to them?
I think Red Hat has done a spectacular job exploring the open source type of business model. Breaking even is just the first step to turning a profit, and I believe they will eventually be a profitable company. According to statements recently made on/. by a Red Hat executive, they continue to meet their quarterly objectives for growth and improvement.
It has been a learning experience for a lot of people to market open source products. A lot of old "Cathedral" type notions have had to be dismissed. I think Red Hat has also done much for the business world to accept the Linux community and the business model, and I thank them for it.
The thing I would like to know is what does AOL gain by having the userbase to AIM?
They have tenaciously guarded their "sole ownership" to the messaging content: Remember a while back when M$N Instant messenger was released they announced it could talk with AIM and it was the techs at AOL vs the techs at Microsoft. (There was a few iterations of the MSN messenger to keep up with the system changes AOL made to block them.)
The big question I have is, where is AOL making money on this that makes it even a little deal for them?
I think you can experience that pretty much everywhere in Europe.
Where in Europe other than Switzerland can I own a firearm to protect myself family from the "lower crime rate" they have?
Don't call free that which is not free.
An additional thing in response to the original reply: Even if they can't monitor ALL trafic, the fact that the treaty says it makes them think it's ok to monitor whatever traffic they want -- WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE!
This is very invasive and utterly repugnant to the U.S. Constitution.
Hey take this article and combine it with this one
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/08/003624 7
Wammo: XBox = Low cost radio station, music server.
Wherein lies their problem? I would have to think more sales would be better -- unless they pay 50 cents in warehousing and machines to make a sale worth 35 cents.
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Wide but not too wide though. As an architect you still have to fit through the door.
Take your CD player that WILL play the CD, take the line out from the "phones" run a male to male connecter from it to the line-in on your sound card. Use Broadcast 2000 to record an unlimited wave file. Record each song and use lame to wav -> mp3.
I'm questioning if this thing they are trying to do can EVER be done perfectly?
Check this out if you think the ad on Salon.com is annoying.
They do add new stuff though. Mandrake 8.1 has a dynamic dev directory using devfs.
Don't be a dink, man.
We are all upset about what the Terrorists did. But you don't have to be a wiener to a bunch of innocent people.
Richard,
I agree with you wholeheartedly on protecting our civil liberties.
You are wrong about Vietnam. You realize why America was over there? To prevent the Communist North Vietnamese from taking over the "Free" South Vietnamese, and initiating the usual "reign of terror" that accompanies communist dictatorships. The problem was that congress couldn't stand to support the President in doing his job. And that is the same problem that Bush is facing now!
You have a Senate Majority Leader and a bunch of liberals in the media who cannot stand to give support to the President in this time of crisis. Take a look at this and this and also this
The constitution is full of checks and balances to keep different branches in order -- e.g. The executive branch must appoint the judges, but the judges can be recalled by congress.
The framers knew that weapons in the hands of the masses were the final check and balance on the entire government.
Enough said.
I hope someone from SUN sees this. You guys need to make it innexpensive & easy for OEMS to include the JRE. If Java is going to win in the end, you will have to sacrifice a little.
I wasn't paying attention. ;)
With this new tactic, will they be changing to the product name from OpenLinux to MostlyOpenLinux?
What offends Microsoft most about the GPL is that it keeps all of us from working for them. They would be happy if they could steal our work and put it into their software, add their own innovations and then sell it for big $$$. But that darn GPL makes it impossible to legally steal the work (like they did for the BSD network layer stuff). They'd have to re-write it and it would be too expensive.
So we should all thank the GPL for keeping us from becoming Microsoft Employee's.
Maybe they are going to migrate to a MS written TCP/IP stack ... uhh yeah ... just like they migrated Hotmail to be purely Microsoft.
Here is what you can do to really make money on this thing: Since internet traffic usage is dynamic and not static anyway, why not set up a central station that has a bunch of these satellite do-hickeys on it (or a high bandwidth satellite) all switched together and then make it a DSLAM and provide DSL to your small towns.
... (i.e. 128k or 256k is not going to cut it.) for these people the amalgamated bandwidth could serve the purpose.
Since most users want to download and not upload it would be fine. Some users however really need to upload
Then you can be like cable-modem companies and add more subscribers than you actually have satelites for -- because only a percentage of the people will be on the network at any one time.
You can charge the people lots of money and make millions -- because you will be the lone provider of broadband.
This would work great for small towns and communities, but for those people who live 3 miles out in the middle of nowhere -- gotta get your own dish. Maybe you could use wireless to them?
I think Red Hat has done a spectacular job exploring the open source type of business model. Breaking even is just the first step to turning a profit, and I believe they will eventually be a profitable company. According to statements recently made on /. by a Red Hat executive, they continue to meet their quarterly objectives for growth and improvement.
It has been a learning experience for a lot of people to market open source products. A lot of old "Cathedral" type notions have had to be dismissed. I think Red Hat has also done much for the business world to accept the Linux community and the business model, and I thank them for it.
Still not enough to get me to buy a P4 yet. But I have to admit, the gap is getting a little closer.
A good hardware site that has independant benchmarks is Here
Looks like P4 is still the premium processor for Quake 3 Arena -- if your life revolves around that game..
The thing I would like to know is what does AOL gain by having the userbase to AIM?
They have tenaciously guarded their "sole ownership" to the messaging content: Remember a while back when M$N Instant messenger was released they announced it could talk with AIM and it was the techs at AOL vs the techs at Microsoft. (There was a few iterations of the MSN messenger to keep up with the system changes AOL made to block them.)
The big question I have is, where is AOL making money on this that makes it even a little deal for them?
N-i-g-h-t-m-a-r-e. Don't get me wrong, the concept is really cool though!
I think you can experience that pretty much everywhere in Europe. Where in Europe other than Switzerland can I own a firearm to protect myself family from the "lower crime rate" they have? Don't call free that which is not free.
An additional thing in response to the original reply: Even if they can't monitor ALL trafic, the fact that the treaty says it makes them think it's ok to monitor whatever traffic they want -- WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE! This is very invasive and utterly repugnant to the U.S. Constitution.
Hey take this article and combine it with this one http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/08/003624 7
Wammo: XBox = Low cost radio station, music server.
Wherein lies their problem? I would have to think more sales would be better -- unless they pay 50 cents in warehousing and machines to make a sale worth 35 cents.