Find small independent bands and movie directors/producers that share their stuff via torrents, and start seeding. Or find these people and ASK them if you can seed their stuff for free, over P2P networks. Make sure you get that in writing, though, the bit about them wanting you to seed the stuff.
Not sure what your plan is (surely, you must be a lawyer?), but I don't believe a non-copyright holder can take you to court over someone else's copyright. See the Righthaven case for more info.
They don't, but there's stuff like TuneCore that let's indie musicians put their stuff up. For about $30 a year, you can have a full length album out on iTunes US, CA, EU, and throw in Rhapsody + Spotify as well. You get yer 70%, modest sales reports, etc. Pretty easy hoops to jump through.
Dunno if you've been there, but that's how it is the US. Well, except for the knowing what sort of country they want to build, and what skills are necessary part.
Yeah, we do homeschool (er, well, the autodidactic learning variation, anyway). My daughter went through kindergarten before we pulled her out, and my son hasn't been to a day of school in his life. They both know they have the choice to go to school - it's up to them, really - but so far they're both emphatically choosing to learn on their own agenda.
The stranger danger thing is really funny. My youngest, 7, walks to his grandmother's house regularly to garden and cook with her. She lives 8 blocks away, and sometimes he takes a buck or so from his change jar to buy a candy bar on the way. He has some friends up to 5 years older who can't navigate a few blocks, and have difficulty making change and small purchases. I do get tired of the "what about real life" questions, because at age 7, my son is doing real life significantly better than school kids almost twice his age.
Heh, but "don't you want your kids to be adjusted to the real world?" You know, that artificial age-segmented force-fed prison system where all the answers are multiple choice?
Oops, you've got a typo in your sentence. Let me fix that:
"However, the size of the discrepancy is 1/60 or so. That's 1.6%, which was enough to change the outcome of some recent US elections. So is it of a significant size? Yes, it is."
Well, it sorta makes sense. How this could happen, anyway. Remember, the Zune team was supposed to be this upstart group inside Microsoft, with fresh ideas and no restrictions. The goal was to be an iPod killer.
To do this, they had the freedom to do their own DRM scheme. They wanted this, and needed it, since they had to be able to have Zune specific features like, ahem, squirting. If this were licensed technology, Zune would be another non-iPod player. They wanted it unique, so there would be no other licensees and they could differentiate their product from everything else.
This was a choice made by the Plays For Sure guys, who should have known better. They should have realized this was a dumb move, or been more aware of Zune so as not to confuse this loyalty. But, natch, they screwed it up. I bet we'll see a retraction or a further rename. Why?
Because partners, those that license the technology, just lost value in their investment. With the consumer confusion, expect Sandisk and others to start calling Microsoft about it.
Well, I have to call foul here. The MS solution doesn't require you to view ads - they're off by default. You turn them on for alumni or non-current students only.
However, *sigh*, you nailed everything else. Guess which one my CIO chose?
Well, you're fucking nuts. Once a Win32 machine reaches, oh, say 50 spyware processes (in addition to the basic 17 or so used by WinXP) it's not usable. So, people dont' use it. They send it to the shop or buy a new machine or reinstall windows.
You're full of shit if you think people have *thousands* (emphasis yours) of spyware apps running on a pc. Users aren't so dumb that they just let that go on. It just *doesn't* happen (emphasis mine).
We got two trial phones from our Sprint rep after the Nextel / Sprint merger. A PPC 6700 and a Treo 650. Personally, as a.Net developer, I was pulling for the PPC6700. It didn't cut it, even though it's a perfect fit for the Windows Mobile environment.
Why?
It's too much. They crammed everything they could into that phone and did it well. It serves as a phone (unlike Blackberry's). It's a reasonable wifi-enabled machine. A good email computer. Reasonable (not great) battery life. I tried this thing for a month, trying to justify that it could be our corporate standard. Then I tried the Treo.
I found that I was more productive on the Treo because I wasn't dealing with configuration. The Treo did it's job and nothing more. The 650 is an appliance. You've either got data coverage or no. It doesn't waste my time trying to find wireless networks, trying to connect, trying to configure WPA or no. Much less "Soft resets" (although they still exist). It doesn't need to mess around with Exchange Activesync. In fact, the syncing -- which I need to do rarely -- doesn't interrupt my life the way ActiveSync does, always needing to sync the moment the crade and device touch. I mean, I can play NES games on the PPC 6700!!! That's awesome. I can't on the Treo 650.
And actually, that turned out to be better.
I don't spend that time glued to my phone pretending it's a game machine. Pretending it's a web kiosk. Pretending it's for MS Office production. The Treo gives me email, rich texting, and wireless web, exactly the information I need -- and nothing I don't want, no hassles, it works. It's the epitome of personal digital assistant, and it's a damn good phone, too.
Or Fort Lewis, WA or Fort Riley, KS. I work for a company that gets contracted jobs from military facilities, and if the contract doesn't specifically state you can access the phone lines or network... then you can't.
Exactly. When OOo came out, I noticed Microsoft started selling office as the "Office System" including SQL Server (or the MSDE) backend, Sharepoint, etc. Smart move, meant to further pull end users into Microsoft systems.
So what I want to see as the answer to your question, is the OpenOffice.org Collaboration Edition. Novell or IBM taking the project, and integrating it with wikis and RSS. Sure, maybe some web portal for versioning control, but you can also do that within the app interface.
I imagine using the RSS portion to "publish" the last tab of my Calc page, which has the budget summary for the company. Someone in Marketing is working on the Annual Report, and subscribes to my published tab summary in their Writer document, which is automatically updated with changes I make. Publishing this Anuual Report to an internal wiki will get notice and feedback, because it updates the RSS feeds in the File >> Open dialog. Anyone using OOo Writer will see something like "Recent Collaborative Documents... " when they click File >> New. So no need to hit up the Intranet to get this, it's app-integrated. But you can always visit the Wiki for more information or version control.
If you must have it, integrate Jabber into the sweet to feature-match Microsoft, and even use libjingle (from Google's GTalk) to do VOIP.
Anyway, using RSS and wiki's I think we could have a collaborative suite that's actually going to increase productivity.
Well, I'm not rabid about Office 2003, but the big feature that Microsoft seems to be pushing is the Office System. This is using Sharepoint with SQL Server (or MSDE, I know) on the backend to make "Workplaces" for collaboration and document versioning. It's integrated with MSN Messenger, so there's another invite to use Live Communications Server.
Which is not a bad idea, really. They've got all this stuff they make, why not integrate it and see if it actually does improve collaboration.
The way I want to see OOo compete here would be to use wikis and rss. Imagine if I have a Calc document on a file server, and I highlight my financial summary figures and hit the Syndicate button. It generates an embedded XML file, which others can see when they open the file.
Another user in another part of the company is writing a final report in Writer, and subscribes to that summary data. They embed that subscription right in the Writer document, only delinking it by publishing the final report in PDF. This user had up to the date figures without having to ask or bother the finance department because he got them automatically via RSS.
Or use Wiki's (okay, now you'd need some sort of server) for the collaboration. This would match Sharepoint on the feature list, but would probably go beyond Sharepoint's limited features. In addition, Sharepoint's forums aren't good collab tools. A wiki can be. It could possibly be a much better collaboration system than Microsoft's "Office System". Anyway, I'll stop ranting now.
My wife gave a month notice and was told she could go the next day. In Washington state, at least, she filed for unemployment and got it. Not the same thing, true, but since she was terminated before her resignation, she filed for UI and got it. It cost the company more, and helped us find a new job (this time me; I was an at home dad at the time) with a little more cushion if less luxury.
The article seems to point to Claria stuff already being installed, then MS AntiSpyware flagging it as Ignore. I'm going to try that on a machine at work later on.
Mostly agreed. Although I'm very interested in trying out Linux on PDA's just to scratch that goddamn itch, the current version is reasonably sound. I also have an X30, and the wifi, apps, and navigation is pretty sound.
Cons? Sure. The cheapo speaker blew out on my when I had Beta Player cranking up the tunes. Battery life on wifi is really short. The bluetooth keyboard I got took a pairing, backup, hard reset, restore, pairing, to get it working.
But in a Microsoft shop, this is a pretty slick device. Syncing with Exchange Activesync or wirelessly to my notebook is flawless; moving 'twixt wifi spots is really smooth too. It works well enough as a media player that I take it for playing music while running (using Beta Player, not Windows Media Player).
Linux may commoditize windows on servers (and soon desktops), but the price / performance of the X30 is really well done.
Agreed. Pocket PC 2003, Outlook 2003 on my laptop. Wireless at work, and wifi on my Dell Axim X30.
I rarely need to open my notebook away from work anymore. I get a call (dentist appt reminder, whatnot) and I jot it down in my PDA. The roaming Exchange Activesync is actually quite nice. I don't use my cradle at work for syncing, only for charging. The PDA syncs wirelessly every 30 minutes at work, and when I'm on my notebook I get those reminders. When I'm out and about, the audio alarm sounds to let me know when I should be somewhere else.
The main trick is to keep dropping it in the cradle to charge it; other than that, the combo of wifi and seamless syncing really is killer.
PS: I secretly run SUSE 9.1 on a second partion on my notebook. Don't tell my boss! He hates OSS.
Slashdot Mirror
Bingo. Wish I had mod points.
Find small independent bands and movie directors/producers that share their stuff via torrents, and start seeding. Or find these people and ASK them if you can seed their stuff for free, over P2P networks. Make sure you get that in writing, though, the bit about them wanting you to seed the stuff.
Not sure what your plan is (surely, you must be a lawyer?), but I don't believe a non-copyright holder can take you to court over someone else's copyright. See the Righthaven case for more info.
They don't, but there's stuff like TuneCore that let's indie musicians put their stuff up. For about $30 a year, you can have a full length album out on iTunes US, CA, EU, and throw in Rhapsody + Spotify as well. You get yer 70%, modest sales reports, etc. Pretty easy hoops to jump through.
Dunno if you've been there, but that's how it is the US. Well, except for the knowing what sort of country they want to build, and what skills are necessary part.
Yeah, we do homeschool (er, well, the autodidactic learning variation, anyway). My daughter went through kindergarten before we pulled her out, and my son hasn't been to a day of school in his life. They both know they have the choice to go to school - it's up to them, really - but so far they're both emphatically choosing to learn on their own agenda.
The stranger danger thing is really funny. My youngest, 7, walks to his grandmother's house regularly to garden and cook with her. She lives 8 blocks away, and sometimes he takes a buck or so from his change jar to buy a candy bar on the way. He has some friends up to 5 years older who can't navigate a few blocks, and have difficulty making change and small purchases. I do get tired of the "what about real life" questions, because at age 7, my son is doing real life significantly better than school kids almost twice his age.
Heh, but "don't you want your kids to be adjusted to the real world?" You know, that artificial age-segmented force-fed prison system where all the answers are multiple choice?
Oops, you've got a typo in your sentence. Let me fix that:
"However, the size of the discrepancy is 1/60 or so. That's 1.6%, which was enough to change the outcome of some recent US elections. So is it of a significant size? Yes, it is."
Well, it sorta makes sense. How this could happen, anyway. Remember, the Zune team was supposed to be this upstart group inside Microsoft, with fresh ideas and no restrictions. The goal was to be an iPod killer.
To do this, they had the freedom to do their own DRM scheme. They wanted this, and needed it, since they had to be able to have Zune specific features like, ahem, squirting. If this were licensed technology, Zune would be another non-iPod player. They wanted it unique, so there would be no other licensees and they could differentiate their product from everything else.
This was a choice made by the Plays For Sure guys, who should have known better. They should have realized this was a dumb move, or been more aware of Zune so as not to confuse this loyalty. But, natch, they screwed it up. I bet we'll see a retraction or a further rename. Why?
Because partners, those that license the technology, just lost value in their investment. With the consumer confusion, expect Sandisk and others to start calling Microsoft about it.
Well, I have to call foul here. The MS solution doesn't require you to view ads - they're off by default. You turn them on for alumni or non-current students only.
However, *sigh*, you nailed everything else. Guess which one my CIO chose?
That's pretty cool - too bad re: Apple legal, though. Guess it's harder to sue if you put Fake as the first word in the title.
Where does it say the program is in Beta? Everything on that page looks pretty official.
That resonates well with me. Thank you for voicing an umpopular opinion.
This is absolutely not an answer to his question. Using WINE is so very very different from what you said one post ago.
Well, you're fucking nuts. Once a Win32 machine reaches, oh, say 50 spyware processes (in addition to the basic 17 or so used by WinXP) it's not usable. So, people dont' use it. They send it to the shop or buy a new machine or reinstall windows.
You're full of shit if you think people have *thousands* (emphasis yours) of spyware apps running on a pc. Users aren't so dumb that they just let that go on. It just *doesn't* happen (emphasis mine).
I did hear of it, and I didn't like it.
.Net developer, I was pulling for the PPC6700. It didn't cut it, even though it's a perfect fit for the Windows Mobile environment.
We got two trial phones from our Sprint rep after the Nextel / Sprint merger. A PPC 6700 and a Treo 650. Personally, as a
Why?
It's too much. They crammed everything they could into that phone and did it well. It serves as a phone (unlike Blackberry's). It's a reasonable wifi-enabled machine. A good email computer. Reasonable (not great) battery life. I tried this thing for a month, trying to justify that it could be our corporate standard. Then I tried the Treo.
I found that I was more productive on the Treo because I wasn't dealing with configuration. The Treo did it's job and nothing more. The 650 is an appliance. You've either got data coverage or no. It doesn't waste my time trying to find wireless networks, trying to connect, trying to configure WPA or no. Much less "Soft resets" (although they still exist). It doesn't need to mess around with Exchange Activesync. In fact, the syncing -- which I need to do rarely -- doesn't interrupt my life the way ActiveSync does, always needing to sync the moment the crade and device touch. I mean, I can play NES games on the PPC 6700!!! That's awesome. I can't on the Treo 650.
And actually, that turned out to be better.
I don't spend that time glued to my phone pretending it's a game machine. Pretending it's a web kiosk. Pretending it's for MS Office production. The Treo gives me email, rich texting, and wireless web, exactly the information I need -- and nothing I don't want, no hassles, it works. It's the epitome of personal digital assistant, and it's a damn good phone, too.
Yeah, I got the memo ... I'm just dreading changing my username to 'thepinkdeer'. But, you know management ...
Or Fort Lewis, WA or Fort Riley, KS. I work for a company that gets contracted jobs from military facilities, and if the contract doesn't specifically state you can access the phone lines or network ... then you can't.
Exactly. When OOo came out, I noticed Microsoft started selling office as the "Office System" including SQL Server (or the MSDE) backend, Sharepoint, etc. Smart move, meant to further pull end users into Microsoft systems.
... " when they click File >> New. So no need to hit up the Intranet to get this, it's app-integrated. But you can always visit the Wiki for more information or version control.
So what I want to see as the answer to your question, is the OpenOffice.org Collaboration Edition. Novell or IBM taking the project, and integrating it with wikis and RSS. Sure, maybe some web portal for versioning control, but you can also do that within the app interface.
I imagine using the RSS portion to "publish" the last tab of my Calc page, which has the budget summary for the company. Someone in Marketing is working on the Annual Report, and subscribes to my published tab summary in their Writer document, which is automatically updated with changes I make. Publishing this Anuual Report to an internal wiki will get notice and feedback, because it updates the RSS feeds in the File >> Open dialog. Anyone using OOo Writer will see something like "Recent Collaborative Documents
If you must have it, integrate Jabber into the sweet to feature-match Microsoft, and even use libjingle (from Google's GTalk) to do VOIP.
Anyway, using RSS and wiki's I think we could have a collaborative suite that's actually going to increase productivity.
ralph hogaboom
Well, I'm not rabid about Office 2003, but the big feature that Microsoft seems to be pushing is the Office System. This is using Sharepoint with SQL Server (or MSDE, I know) on the backend to make "Workplaces" for collaboration and document versioning. It's integrated with MSN Messenger, so there's another invite to use Live Communications Server.
Which is not a bad idea, really. They've got all this stuff they make, why not integrate it and see if it actually does improve collaboration.
The way I want to see OOo compete here would be to use wikis and rss. Imagine if I have a Calc document on a file server, and I highlight my financial summary figures and hit the Syndicate button. It generates an embedded XML file, which others can see when they open the file.
Another user in another part of the company is writing a final report in Writer, and subscribes to that summary data. They embed that subscription right in the Writer document, only delinking it by publishing the final report in PDF. This user had up to the date figures without having to ask or bother the finance department because he got them automatically via RSS.
Or use Wiki's (okay, now you'd need some sort of server) for the collaboration. This would match Sharepoint on the feature list, but would probably go beyond Sharepoint's limited features. In addition, Sharepoint's forums aren't good collab tools. A wiki can be. It could possibly be a much better collaboration system than Microsoft's "Office System". Anyway, I'll stop ranting now.
ralphhogaboom
My wife gave a month notice and was told she could go the next day. In Washington state, at least, she filed for unemployment and got it. Not the same thing, true, but since she was terminated before her resignation, she filed for UI and got it. It cost the company more, and helped us find a new job (this time me; I was an at home dad at the time) with a little more cushion if less luxury.
ralphhogaboom
Mozilla Team: "Well guys, we got our goal. PC World #1 spot. Close the web site down; we're satisfied with a job well done."
Gracefully accepted. It's rare to see that. Keep it up.
ralphhogaboom
With MS AntiSpyware already installed, it does detect Claria (actually PrecisionTime, in this case) as Moderate threat. I put some quick notes down on my blog (shameless plug!) @ http://ralph.hogaboom.org/blog/archives/2005_07_01 _archive.html#112074529840613352.
The article seems to point to Claria stuff already being installed, then MS AntiSpyware flagging it as Ignore. I'm going to try that on a machine at work later on.
ralphhogaboom
Mostly agreed. Although I'm very interested in trying out Linux on PDA's just to scratch that goddamn itch, the current version is reasonably sound. I also have an X30, and the wifi, apps, and navigation is pretty sound.
Cons? Sure. The cheapo speaker blew out on my when I had Beta Player cranking up the tunes. Battery life on wifi is really short. The bluetooth keyboard I got took a pairing, backup, hard reset, restore, pairing, to get it working.
But in a Microsoft shop, this is a pretty slick device. Syncing with Exchange Activesync or wirelessly to my notebook is flawless; moving 'twixt wifi spots is really smooth too. It works well enough as a media player that I take it for playing music while running (using Beta Player, not Windows Media Player).
Linux may commoditize windows on servers (and soon desktops), but the price / performance of the X30 is really well done.
ralphhogaboom
Agreed. Pocket PC 2003, Outlook 2003 on my laptop. Wireless at work, and wifi on my Dell Axim X30.
I rarely need to open my notebook away from work anymore. I get a call (dentist appt reminder, whatnot) and I jot it down in my PDA. The roaming Exchange Activesync is actually quite nice. I don't use my cradle at work for syncing, only for charging. The PDA syncs wirelessly every 30 minutes at work, and when I'm on my notebook I get those reminders. When I'm out and about, the audio alarm sounds to let me know when I should be somewhere else.
The main trick is to keep dropping it in the cradle to charge it; other than that, the combo of wifi and seamless syncing really is killer.
PS: I secretly run SUSE 9.1 on a second partion on my notebook. Don't tell my boss! He hates OSS.