"So.. I ask you, linux based or not, what cool shit can you do with a PDA nowadays? Let's hear some real examples.. not 'theoretically you could do blah blah'."
It would suck if I had to turn in my Palm because it contains a copyright infringement. I have way too much important data on there. I would surely hope that Xerox doesn't issue a recall.
On the other hand (pun?), that could make my Palm a hot collector's item, much like my Vostok wristwatch that was made in the Soviet Union.
I just got a piece of UCE titled "Help The 9/11 Survivors". The thing went on to describe a 9/11 charity, and how they needed money to help those widowed/orphaned by the Taliban's cowardly attack on the US.
Normally I hate UCE. However, given the magnitude of what happened on 9/11, my patriotism overwhelmed my good judgement and I clicked on the link.
Suh-prise, suh-prise--'twas a porn site.
Needless to say, I wasted no time in filing an abuse report. That goes to show you just how low spammer scum can sink. Those "Remember me?" or "I sent this info per your request" UCEs are bad enough, but to exploit the first foreign invasion of the US since 1812 is enough to justify forcing such spammers to snort a load of anthrax. No kidding--I really believe that would be a suitable punishment.
I know...I've used it. I suppose it's best for charities and shit like that, but for business, it totally sucks a pig dick. At least set up some sort of snail mail address so's I can pay your arse with a money order, capiche?
Replace the TLD for your email address with ".su". The.su domain used to be assigned to the Soviet Union, and was retired when the Soviet Union went CCCPut (couldn't resist the pun, sorry). Take my personal email address--it ends with "links.am". There is a links.am, but there is not now and will probably never be a links.su domain.
Address harvesters will collect username@domain.su addresses, as.su is a valid ccTLD. But the mail won't go anywhere and definetly won't land in your IN box.
That's my.su-lution, and it works quite well. Back that up with a HotMail account for registrations, etc and you're pretty much spamproof.
I currently wear a 23-jewel Poljot chronograph made in the Russian Federation. All it does is give the time and date, as well as providing me with a built-in two button stopwatch and tachymeter. True, it has to be wound up daily, but what the hell--it's very precise and reliable.
It's time to ask yourselves--do you really NEED all this hi-tech stuff? A watch is to tell time, nothing more. Get over it.
Ever hear of country coded Top Level Domains (ccTLD)? Lots of 'em are open to the whole world; anyone can get one. Okay, some--like.se and.fi--are restricted, and some--like.uk and.au--require you to get a third-level domain (example.co.uk or example.net.au). Some others--Myanmar's.mm being the only one I know about--will charge you extra if you don't have an address in their country. But they are out there and there are DOZENS of 'em. Some--such as the USSR's.su and East Germany's.dd--are no longer being issued. But there are still plenty left.
If you want a complete listing of ccTLDs, check the following url: http://www.norid.no/domreg.html Okay, so yourbusinessname.am or yourpersonalsite.tv isn't as "sexy" as.com or.net. Who cares? It'll get your people there, and that's all that matters.
Whenever I change the batteries, the bloody thing resets itself and I have to do a HotSync. I also get "battery too low to recharge transmitter" messages a lot--even after I put fresh batteries in. If you can help me at all, email libertas "at" goldmail.ru
I understand (and I might be wrong) that the EU is gonna ban the MPAA from doing business there because of this region encoding shit. Is this correct?
I hope the WTO fries their arses. If I may quote the esteemed Dr. Touretzky: "I can think of no fairer use for media that I've purchased than using the content."
Jack Valenti makes the arsehole on the goatse site look positively tiny.
I rather like SPAM, and always have. It's got a nice, distinctive flavour
My guess would be that even if Hormel won, people would still refer to junk email as spam. How can you change/stop that?
Here's an example. Did you know that the word "aspirin" used to be a registered trademark? Now it's not. There are lots of cases of trademarks slopping over into public domain even before the 75-year trademark expiration date. Hormel has to be vigilant in protecting its trademark.
For those of you who don't like SPAM, to each his own. Ever try a slice of SPAM with lettuce, tomato, onion and mustard on a lightly toasted sesame seed roll? Dee-leesh! SPAM is a bit like vodka that way--it really does need to be combined with something else for full enjoyment.
Go ahead. Eat your SPAM. Order the SPAMburger Hamburger football. Just don't spam me!
It's called "Opera" and it works very well. Go to www.opera.com for more information--and yes, they do have a Linux version. It's not arranged like MicroSchitt or NetScrape, but it does the job very nicely. (No, I am NOT getting paid to tell you about it.)
Check out some of the indie bands out there--I think you'll be amazed at many of them. Ever hear of Elwood, Helen Foley, 4Christ or *Blessed*? Even established artists like Motley Crue and Pete Townshend are cool with trading/"piracy". Just stick with those artists and forget MegreedicA.
Firstly, I must admit for the record that I'm not an expert on anything pertinent to this debate. I gladly accept all correction/instruction from those more knowledgeable than I.
I don't understand why MPAA wants to shut out the Linux people. Given the fact that Linux is so popular now, it seems to me that someone could make a killing selling regionless DVD players to the Linux community. It should be blindingly obvious that Linux's users WANT DVD--they're even going so far as to get a quasi-illegal programme to get DVD. The lawsuit is just plain crazy--speaking of fair use, as Dr. Touretzky stated, there is no fairer use than to play back content that you purchased. That's like Ford saying "you may buy our cars, but not drive them" or--horror of horrors!--the folks at Corona saying "you may buy our beer, but not drink it". Insane. Flat-out insane. Is it the "hacker" image that a lot of folks have about Linux? Really!
I have WinMe myself (see, I said that I'm no expert) and I can use DVD. Is M$ paying off the MPAA? My wise, cool old great-grandpa (RIP 1899-1993) had a saying, "If it looks stupid but makes money, it's not stupid.". I don't blame the MPAA for making money, or wanting to make more. But why should the MPAA care about what I use to play back my copy of Dr. No? After all, it's not like Corona cares which bottle opener I use to get at that ice-cold, sweet ambrosia, or who sells the lime wedge that I add to the ambrosia.
I see a historical parallel here. Remember Standard Oil, back in the 1880s? They were shot down hard because of their price-fixing (let's face it, region coding is price-fixing). Is this really any different?
It smells--no, stinks--like a power-grab to me. Sue, sue, and sue again to maintain power. It was said in George Orwell's 1984 that the purpose of seeking power was for power's own sake--not for money, love or anything like that--just power and dominance. Perhaps it's time for us to pool our funds and form our own coalition--call it the Linux Movie Coalition or whatever--and start pressuring Congress.
A few years ago, here in DC, the streets were torn up in order to lay some cable. It facked up traffic horribly. Ugh, don't wanna go through that again--and I can understand how the New York Soviet Socialist Republic would want to avoid that.
I remember, several years ago, a water pipe system laid back in 1912 finally broke wide open, leaving a few neighbourhoods without water for days. The arseholes on the City Council just assumed that since the pipes worked for so long, they'd work forever. I can't help but seeing the same thing with these cables. Remember, this system is 100 years old. Yeah, I know, leave it up to the engineers--but I can't help but see a potential disaster in the making.
Incidentally, do you know where I can buy one of the capsules that were used to carry the mail? That would look so cool in my living room. I already lots of long-defunct city equipment laying about here--old call boxes, etc (DC doesn't give an airborne fack if you take 'em out--you're doing them a favour by removing those eyesores).
Let's say I had a habit of ramming my car into brick walls. Would it last that long?
Suppose I had a habit of slamming my CPU with a sledgehammer. Who's to blame for when the thing no longer works?
It's the same thing with ALL CDs, not just DVDs. I have an Amy Grant CD with two corrupted tracks. Yanno how they got that way? It fell to the floor of my closet amongst the dust bunnies, and stayed there unnoticed for two years. You really do have to take care of your CDs if you want them to take care of you.
Why not make a DVD that you could only copy once? The CSS or whatever wouldn't kick in until after the copy has been made--and both the copy and the original would have CSS on it. That would enforce copyright, whilst allowing fair use copying.
Firstly, are those tubes still in good condition? They've been unused for decades--they might be full of rainwater, sewage, etc.
Secondly, would the tubes have to be converted in any way at all? Remember, the tubes are dead tech now. They weren't designed for cable, as that was still decades away.
Thirdly, are the tubes still readily accessible? Right now, I'm thinking of the old subway tunnels in the District of Columbia and New York City. Some of them are still down there, but the entrances/exits have long been sealed.
If a service was meant to be free (like links.am, yahoo.com, weblist.ru or whatever) then your use of it doesn't make you a leecher. But blocking banner ads and cookies, leeching MP3s to avoid buying the danged CD, ad nauseam, that sort of thing hurts the e-conomy.
I believe the free-stuff site is going to die. People have become immune to ads. Think about your favourite free-stuff area. Would you pay a modest fee--like a one-shot $10 fee or whatever--to get that same content with NO ADS? I don't know about you, but I would. I'd pay $10 to get Netscape SmartDownload with no ads. I'd pay $10 to get my mail with no ads.
There are lots of examples of this. Take Eudora, which I'm sure a lot of you use. You can get Eudora Sponsored (free, but with ads) or you can pay for your copy (same content, no ads). Take Juno--get that ISP free with an ad banner, or $20/month with no banner.
The "leechers", as I define them, are people who don't/won't understand that SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU USE. If you don't pay, who does? That's right--the advertisers. It's leechers that are killing paid-to-browse companies like AllAdvantage or ClickDough. It's leechers that block banners and popups which lead advertisers to ask, "since your users are using WebWasher, Guidescope, or whatever to block our ads, why should we pay you to have them up?"
The free-stuff site can survive -IF- the people who use them co-operate with the advertisers. Click those banners! Fill out forms! Above all, buy from the advertisers if you see something you like! My Palm VII, my wristwatch, my software, and even the computer I'm typing on right now were all purchased on the internet through banner ads. You don't like ads? Contact the free-stuff area and indicate your willingness to pay for the content.
The First Amendment allows freedom of speech. It does NOT, and never has, allowed you to force others to bear your advertising costs, as spam does.
Put it this way: If I were to drive through a residential area blasting that gawdawful rap crap on my car's stereo, I'd get busted for noise pollution and disturbing the peace--and rightly so. The First Amendment would provide no refuge in that case. Suppose I went to your home, wrote an ad on a brick, and heaved it through your window--protected speech or vandalism?
It's the same with spam, really. Spam makes the signal to noise ratio in my IN box even worse.
Now, you may argue that the people with free accounts (like my mail.links.am account) shouldn't mind spam, as we already see ads when we sign into our accounts. The difference is that those banners and popups pay for our accounts. That bandwith has to come from somewhere--someone has to pay for it. If you're not paying, who is? The advertisers. The spammers just suck up the bandwith without making any meaningful contribution/compensation.
Spamming--like telemarketing--is vandalism, not free expression. Your rights stop where my nose begins.
Lemme throw a clue out to htwright...Linux is SUPPOSED to be free. The designers specifically made it that way. It's impossible to buy Linux for the same reason why it's impossible to buy a free newspaper. The people who made Linux are giving it away for free. It's not that hard, geddit?
How much do you people want to bet that htwright is a West Palm Beach voter?
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"So.. I ask you, linux based or not, what cool shit can you do with a PDA nowadays? Let's hear some real examples.. not 'theoretically you could do blah blah'."
http://www.refalo.com/palm/interactive.htm
http://infocom.gerf.org
Download a few IF games. You'll be addicted instantly.
It would suck if I had to turn in my Palm because it contains a copyright infringement. I have way too much important data on there. I would surely hope that Xerox doesn't issue a recall.
On the other hand (pun?), that could make my Palm a hot collector's item, much like my Vostok wristwatch that was made in the Soviet Union.
I just got a piece of UCE titled "Help The 9/11 Survivors". The thing went on to describe a 9/11 charity, and how they needed money to help those widowed/orphaned by the Taliban's cowardly attack on the US.
Normally I hate UCE. However, given the magnitude of what happened on 9/11, my patriotism overwhelmed my good judgement and I clicked on the link.
Suh-prise, suh-prise--'twas a porn site.
Needless to say, I wasted no time in filing an abuse report. That goes to show you just how low spammer scum can sink. Those "Remember me?" or "I sent this info per your request" UCEs are bad enough, but to exploit the first foreign invasion of the US since 1812 is enough to justify forcing such spammers to snort a load of anthrax. No kidding--I really believe that would be a suitable punishment.
Piss on spammers.
I know...I've used it. I suppose it's best for charities and shit like that, but for business, it totally sucks a pig dick. At least set up some sort of snail mail address so's I can pay your arse with a money order, capiche?
Replace the TLD for your email address with ".su". The .su domain used to be assigned to the Soviet Union, and was retired when the Soviet Union went CCCPut (couldn't resist the pun, sorry). Take my personal email address--it ends with "links.am". There is a links.am, but there is not now and will probably never be a links.su domain.
.su is a valid ccTLD. But the mail won't go anywhere and definetly won't land in your IN box.
.su-lution, and it works quite well. Back that up with a HotMail account for registrations, etc and you're pretty much spamproof.
Address harvesters will collect username@domain.su addresses, as
That's my
I currently wear a 23-jewel Poljot chronograph made in the Russian Federation. All it does is give the time and date, as well as providing me with a built-in two button stopwatch and tachymeter. True, it has to be wound up daily, but what the hell--it's very precise and reliable.
It's time to ask yourselves--do you really NEED all this hi-tech stuff? A watch is to tell time, nothing more. Get over it.
Ever hear of country coded Top Level Domains (ccTLD)? Lots of 'em are open to the whole world; anyone can get one. Okay, some--like .se and .fi--are restricted, and some--like .uk and .au--require you to get a third-level domain (example.co.uk or example.net.au). Some others--Myanmar's .mm being the only one I know about--will charge you extra if you don't have an address in their country. But they are out there and there are DOZENS of 'em. Some--such as the USSR's .su and East Germany's .dd--are no longer being issued. But there are still plenty left.
.com or .net. Who cares? It'll get your people there, and that's all that matters.
If you want a complete listing of ccTLDs, check the following url: http://www.norid.no/domreg.html Okay, so yourbusinessname.am or yourpersonalsite.tv isn't as "sexy" as
Whenever I change the batteries, the bloody thing resets itself and I have to do a HotSync. I also get "battery too low to recharge transmitter" messages a lot--even after I put fresh batteries in. If you can help me at all, email libertas "at" goldmail.ru
I understand (and I might be wrong) that the EU is gonna ban the MPAA from doing business there because of this region encoding shit. Is this correct? I hope the WTO fries their arses. If I may quote the esteemed Dr. Touretzky: "I can think of no fairer use for media that I've purchased than using the content." Jack Valenti makes the arsehole on the goatse site look positively tiny.
I appreciate your pointing that out, thanks. I must have gotten my terms mixed up.
I rather like SPAM, and always have. It's got a nice, distinctive flavour
My guess would be that even if Hormel won, people would still refer to junk email as spam. How can you change/stop that?
Here's an example. Did you know that the word "aspirin" used to be a registered trademark? Now it's not. There are lots of cases of trademarks slopping over into public domain even before the 75-year trademark expiration date. Hormel has to be vigilant in protecting its trademark.
For those of you who don't like SPAM, to each his own. Ever try a slice of SPAM with lettuce, tomato, onion and mustard on a lightly toasted sesame seed roll? Dee-leesh! SPAM is a bit like vodka that way--it really does need to be combined with something else for full enjoyment.
Go ahead. Eat your SPAM. Order the SPAMburger Hamburger football. Just don't spam me!
Just a thought...
It's called "Opera" and it works very well. Go to www.opera.com for more information--and yes, they do have a Linux version. It's not arranged like MicroSchitt or NetScrape, but it does the job very nicely. (No, I am NOT getting paid to tell you about it.)
Check out some of the indie bands out there--I think you'll be amazed at many of them. Ever hear of Elwood, Helen Foley, 4Christ or *Blessed*? Even established artists like Motley Crue and Pete Townshend are cool with trading/"piracy". Just stick with those artists and forget MegreedicA.
IANAL, but in Virginia, a felon--even one with fully restored rights--may NOT touch a firearm, lockback knife, crossbow, or BBgun.
Firstly, I must admit for the record that I'm not an expert on anything pertinent to this debate. I gladly accept all correction/instruction from those more knowledgeable than I.
:)
I don't understand why MPAA wants to shut out the Linux people. Given the fact that Linux is so popular now, it seems to me that someone could make a killing selling regionless DVD players to the Linux community. It should be blindingly obvious that Linux's users WANT DVD--they're even going so far as to get a quasi-illegal programme to get DVD. The lawsuit is just plain crazy--speaking of fair use, as Dr. Touretzky stated, there is no fairer use than to play back content that you purchased. That's like Ford saying "you may buy our cars, but not drive them" or--horror of horrors!--the folks at Corona saying "you may buy our beer, but not drink it". Insane. Flat-out insane. Is it the "hacker" image that a lot of folks have about Linux? Really!
I have WinMe myself (see, I said that I'm no expert) and I can use DVD. Is M$ paying off the MPAA? My wise, cool old great-grandpa (RIP 1899-1993) had a saying, "If it looks stupid but makes money, it's not stupid.". I don't blame the MPAA for making money, or wanting to make more. But why should the MPAA care about what I use to play back my copy of Dr. No? After all, it's not like Corona cares which bottle opener I use to get at that ice-cold, sweet ambrosia, or who sells the lime wedge that I add to the ambrosia.
I see a historical parallel here. Remember Standard Oil, back in the 1880s? They were shot down hard because of their price-fixing (let's face it, region coding is price-fixing). Is this really any different?
It smells--no, stinks--like a power-grab to me. Sue, sue, and sue again to maintain power. It was said in George Orwell's 1984 that the purpose of seeking power was for power's own sake--not for money, love or anything like that--just power and dominance. Perhaps it's time for us to pool our funds and form our own coalition--call it the Linux Movie Coalition or whatever--and start pressuring Congress.
I'm interested in hearing replies.
A few years ago, here in DC, the streets were torn up in order to lay some cable. It facked up traffic horribly. Ugh, don't wanna go through that again--and I can understand how the New York Soviet Socialist Republic would want to avoid that.
I remember, several years ago, a water pipe system laid back in 1912 finally broke wide open, leaving a few neighbourhoods without water for days. The arseholes on the City Council just assumed that since the pipes worked for so long, they'd work forever. I can't help but seeing the same thing with these cables. Remember, this system is 100 years old. Yeah, I know, leave it up to the engineers--but I can't help but see a potential disaster in the making.
Incidentally, do you know where I can buy one of the capsules that were used to carry the mail? That would look so cool in my living room. I already lots of long-defunct city equipment laying about here--old call boxes, etc (DC doesn't give an airborne fack if you take 'em out--you're doing them a favour by removing those eyesores).
Let's say I had a habit of ramming my car into brick walls. Would it last that long?
Suppose I had a habit of slamming my CPU with a sledgehammer. Who's to blame for when the thing no longer works?
It's the same thing with ALL CDs, not just DVDs. I have an Amy Grant CD with two corrupted tracks. Yanno how they got that way? It fell to the floor of my closet amongst the dust bunnies, and stayed there unnoticed for two years. You really do have to take care of your CDs if you want them to take care of you.
Why not make a DVD that you could only copy once? The CSS or whatever wouldn't kick in until after the copy has been made--and both the copy and the original would have CSS on it. That would enforce copyright, whilst allowing fair use copying.
Firstly, are those tubes still in good condition? They've been unused for decades--they might be full of rainwater, sewage, etc.
Secondly, would the tubes have to be converted in any way at all? Remember, the tubes are dead tech now. They weren't designed for cable, as that was still decades away.
Thirdly, are the tubes still readily accessible? Right now, I'm thinking of the old subway tunnels in the District of Columbia and New York City. Some of them are still down there, but the entrances/exits have long been sealed.
Cool idea, but due diligence needs to be done.
If a service was meant to be free (like links.am, yahoo.com, weblist.ru or whatever) then your use of it doesn't make you a leecher. But blocking banner ads and cookies, leeching MP3s to avoid buying the danged CD, ad nauseam, that sort of thing hurts the e-conomy.
::getting off soapbox::
I believe the free-stuff site is going to die. People have become immune to ads. Think about your favourite free-stuff area. Would you pay a modest fee--like a one-shot $10 fee or whatever--to get that same content with NO ADS? I don't know about you, but I would. I'd pay $10 to get Netscape SmartDownload with no ads. I'd pay $10 to get my mail with no ads.
There are lots of examples of this. Take Eudora, which I'm sure a lot of you use. You can get Eudora Sponsored (free, but with ads) or you can pay for your copy (same content, no ads). Take Juno--get that ISP free with an ad banner, or $20/month with no banner.
The "leechers", as I define them, are people who don't/won't understand that SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU USE. If you don't pay, who does? That's right--the advertisers. It's leechers that are killing paid-to-browse companies like AllAdvantage or ClickDough. It's leechers that block banners and popups which lead advertisers to ask, "since your users are using WebWasher, Guidescope, or whatever to block our ads, why should we pay you to have them up?"
The free-stuff site can survive -IF- the people who use them co-operate with the advertisers. Click those banners! Fill out forms! Above all, buy from the advertisers if you see something you like! My Palm VII, my wristwatch, my software, and even the computer I'm typing on right now were all purchased on the internet through banner ads. You don't like ads? Contact the free-stuff area and indicate your willingness to pay for the content.
Here's the link:
http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
The First Amendment allows freedom of speech. It does NOT, and never has, allowed you to force others to bear your advertising costs, as spam does.
Put it this way: If I were to drive through a residential area blasting that gawdawful rap crap on my car's stereo, I'd get busted for noise pollution and disturbing the peace--and rightly so. The First Amendment would provide no refuge in that case. Suppose I went to your home, wrote an ad on a brick, and heaved it through your window--protected speech or vandalism?
It's the same with spam, really. Spam makes the signal to noise ratio in my IN box even worse.
Now, you may argue that the people with free accounts (like my mail.links.am account) shouldn't mind spam, as we already see ads when we sign into our accounts. The difference is that those banners and popups pay for our accounts. That bandwith has to come from somewhere--someone has to pay for it. If you're not paying, who is? The advertisers. The spammers just suck up the bandwith without making any meaningful contribution/compensation.
Spamming--like telemarketing--is vandalism, not free expression. Your rights stop where my nose begins.
Here ya go, bunky. http://www.observers.net/AD-lessAIM.html It works on Win95 and WinMe--I speak from experience.
Lemme throw a clue out to htwright...Linux is SUPPOSED to be free. The designers specifically made it that way. It's impossible to buy Linux for the same reason why it's impossible to buy a free newspaper. The people who made Linux are giving it away for free. It's not that hard, geddit?
How much do you people want to bet that htwright is a West Palm Beach voter?