They are already screwed. We don't need "music companies", musicians don't need them, and music lovers don't either. They are a middle man whose time has passed.
How hard is it really to go a year without buying a single CD? It's not food. Or if you absolutely must - get the used ones on amazon or wherver. I haven't bought a CD in at least a year, seriously, they are a ripoff.
(though it's also because when you have small kids you don't have a lot of time for music shopping anymore:-) ).
Eli Lilly, just like any pharm company, makes or deals with a whole bunch of controlled substances (like narcotics or chemicals that can be used to produce them), not to mention the fact the research in antimicrobials requires access to various disease causing bacteria/vruses, so it would only make really good business sense for them to keep a close watch on their employees.
Interesting... So for jurisdictions where organs are not allowed, it must be the profundo bass in the choir.
Taking that a step further - do people with such low voices induce religious feelings in themselves when they practice their "low D" at home?
They both suck, but will live (like VB and Perl)
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Don't mean to sound like a troller - neither appeals to me. I've used Java extensively since 1995 back when it held a promise and felt new and exciting, but now it's kinda tired and the promise has not been delivered..Net I've only read about, since I'm not big on Windows.
For me - combination of Python and C does everything, I can be truly satisfied with my work, without having to always feel that the end solution is just not as good as it should really be due to some platform limitation. I always have this feeling with Java though.
1. Mail (which in itself contains lots of documents) 2. Other files (docs, mp3's, etc)
For mail - I used to have a server online at the ISP where I worked, when that job ended, I moved the server to a cable-modem connection.
I use FreeBSD on the server, I have a pretty extensive procmail filter which first runs things through spambayes, then puts every e-mail into:
a. A file in LISTS dir specific to a mailing list I'm subscribed to
2. A file in PEOPLE dir named with first letter of first name follwed by last name (or just whatever preceeds @ if no name is available). I also have the ability to adjust a specific e-mail address to a folder name. This is done via a Python script invoked from procmail. It shouldn't be hard to write one.
Mainly I use pine from command line, but I can always access the server via IMAP. I make sure that only SSL IMAP is enabled (this used to be done by making imapd listen on the loopback, but these days imapd supports that out-of-the-box)
The docs are kept in my home directory, organized by more or less understandable scheme.
I also have a CVS repository in my home directory, and I try to keep as much stuff as I can checked into it, but so far I've been lazy about that. Ultimately, I'd like to keep every doc in CVS, and perhaps copy the CVS tree to a CD every once in a while.
The mp3's are mostly on my laptop - I don't care if I loose them cause all of them are from my CD's or other recreatable sources.
Many (most?) people misunderstand the purpose of a signature.
The purpose of a signature is to be able for you to know that you signed it, not for someone else. I use different signatures at different times, but I know they are mine. To that extent, signing something with a mouse is just fine, for as long as you can tell _your_ signature appart from someone else's.
When a bank caches a check with your signature, they mostly don't look at the signature at all, and if they do, it's only a cautionary measure, since one cannot definitevely compare signatures.
If a thrid party wants to hold you based on your signature, they request a *notarized* signature, which is a whole different thing, because there you sign a document in front of a state-certified witness.
Here is my take on this. There are different IT jobs.
There are Microsoft certified VB programmers and Sun certified Java developers. Those are going overseas, sorry.
Then there are the real innovators, people who made things like Java happen in the first place. Those are staying here, and those will continue to be high paying jobs. The reason they are staying here is the same reason why finances are centered in NYC. The reason they are going to be high paid is because there is few people who can do this, and it's not a matter of public education, it's a "genetic" thing if you will. Real software development is a complex creative process, and nothing has changed in this respect. People in Russia and India of *that* level will find that they need to move to the US, because that's where it is (Silicon Valley especially, but a few other places too).
Additionally, sysadmin and network admin jobs are NOT going overseas, because they can't be done remotely. And really good sysadmins (those who can also code in C) and really good network admins (those who can turn up BGP) are hard to find, and those will remain to be highly paid.
I really hope this will help to turn public attention in the US to the issue of software patents.
The only US initiative I found was Nader's, and (you may not like it, but it's true) the guy has no political credibility whatsoever and only makes the issue worse.
It'd be really nice if there existed a grassroots effort to abolish software patents in the US so that it wouldn't be a partisan issue.
MD5 (or any other secure hashing algorithm such as SHA) allows for identical hashes to be produced by definition, so that's not really a flaw.
IIRC the flaw is that it is supposed to be extremely difficult to arrive at a specific digest/signature by altering input, and MD5 has been shown to be a lot more predictable than was originally thought.
But I don't see how any of this applies to RIAA - using hashing to identify sound or video files is a retarded idea since slightest alterations in the files will produce radically different signatures (that's what secure hashing is), while my ear doesn't really care if one bit is off somewhere, it will sound just as good.
I've run qmail on my machine for almost a year. In the end I ended up switching back to sendmail - while it may be "unbroken", qmail is cumbersome to use and lacks many important features of sendmail.
A good way to justify your existense is to do stuff like change company name or split divisions. It generates a lot of work within the company in every department, your name becomes better recognized within the company (you get to make "the announcement" on a company-wide conf call), and in the meantime during all this commotion you continue to get a paycheck. Of course the reality is that company is going down the toilet.
I once worked in a company that changed its logo color from green to blue, and then spent a few months contemplating changing back to green, but decided not to.
Palm was a nice innovative company a few years back, but has now obviously succumbed to the executive incompetence plague that so many other companies in US, so unfortunately, are infected with...
While it may well be that the ice in the arctic ocean will melt, I find this study highly suspect.
First, it assumes that a rise in temperatures since 1978's constitute a trend. There has only been two and a half decades since, 2.5 datapoints, that is not enough to establish a trend IMHO.
Second, it makes a direct correlation of rise in temperature to CO2 emissions. But to the best of my knowledge we don't know for certain that CO2 indeed plays a direct role in Earth's temperature, and I think that to assume that human population can single-handedly affect amount of CO2 being emitted on the planet, much less have any control over climate is incorrect.
I think the main thing about studies such as this, is not to "freak-out" as someone suggested. The scientists are working on learning more about our planet, and that is a good thing. The the press and politicians signle out studies that can help them push their agenda and publish them as if it's the absolute truth, and that's a bad thing.
Why is it, for example, that any climate change is percieved as something to be fearful of? What if it's only going to be for the better?
I also wish that the environmental powers that be focused more on pollution in large metropolitan areas. More and more people are sick because of terrible air and water quality as well as improper disposal of all kinds of waste, especially in countries with weaker economies (e.g. eastern europe), but because it is not something of global proportions, we don't get to hear about it.
We haven't seen them yet, but I bet pretty soon we'll see PC's for sale that can only run Windows (this will be enforced by hardware) - don't know how that will affect the music business, but I am sure this is a card that Microsoft is waiting to play at the right time to make even more money.
P.S. In one of the questions in the article it says "should of" - isn't that, like, really bad English...?
For those too young to remember - PK are initials of late Phil Katz, the original author of PKZip, a pretty unusual character. Here's a link about how he died.
AFAIK the company is now run by his mom pretty much.
Those newly hired Yoga experts better not get too comfy - major us corporations are trying to outsource meditation to India where Yoga expertiese is higher and average Yoga expert salary is 5 loafs of bread per month.
Your friend should report his neighbors to the FCC because any 2.4GHz cordless phone is supposed to use spread-spectrum and therefore will not interfere with 802.11b.
I have this theory that the reason teclo prices have not changed is because of long term agreements. Back in my ISP days, we used to sign 7-year terms on T1's because they were cheapest and we knew we'd need them. This was in 96-97, so these agreements are in force until 2003-04... When time comes to renew this, noone in their right mind will pay, and we will see a drop in high-speed prices (and Verizon and MCI wining to congress probably).
But then why pick a pre-alpha version of Apache? Clearly they wanted to twist the facts. They could have gotten more visibility and a better reutation by analyzing Apache 2.0.46.
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This looks to me like someone pushing their political agenda.
How does this stuff make it to front page of
Somehow I suspect unicode support has something to do with this bug.
They are already screwed. We don't need "music companies", musicians don't need them, and music lovers don't either. They are a middle man whose time has passed.
How hard is it really to go a year without buying a single CD? It's not food. Or if you absolutely must - get the used ones on amazon or wherver. I haven't bought a CD in at least a year, seriously, they are a ripoff.
:-) ).
(though it's also because when you have small kids you don't have a lot of time for music shopping anymore
Eli Lilly, just like any pharm company, makes or deals with a whole bunch of controlled substances (like narcotics or chemicals that can be used to produce them), not to mention the fact the research in antimicrobials requires access to various disease causing bacteria/vruses, so it would only make really good business sense for them to keep a close watch on their employees.
Interesting... So for jurisdictions where organs are not allowed, it must be the profundo bass in the choir.
Taking that a step further - do people with such low voices induce religious feelings in themselves when they practice their "low D" at home?
Don't mean to sound like a troller - neither appeals to me. I've used Java extensively since 1995 back when it held a promise and felt new and exciting, but now it's kinda tired and the promise has not been delivered. .Net I've only read about, since I'm not big on Windows.
For me - combination of Python and C does everything, I can be truly satisfied with my work, without having to always feel that the end solution is just not as good as it should really be due to some platform limitation. I always have this feeling with Java though.
I remember reading about this idea a few years ago, it may have been on /. If it didn't catch on then, it probably won't now.
BTW - there is an operating system that uses a database instead of a file system, it's called IBM OS/400.
There are two things to organize:
1. Mail (which in itself contains lots of documents)
2. Other files (docs, mp3's, etc)
For mail - I used to have a server online at the ISP where I worked, when that job ended, I moved the server to a cable-modem connection.
I use FreeBSD on the server, I have a pretty extensive procmail filter which first runs things through spambayes, then puts every e-mail into:
a. A file in LISTS dir specific to a mailing list I'm subscribed to
2. A file in PEOPLE dir named with first letter of first name follwed by last name (or just whatever preceeds @ if no name is available). I also have the ability to adjust a specific e-mail address to a folder name. This is done via a Python script invoked from procmail. It shouldn't be hard to write one.
Mainly I use pine from command line, but I can always access the server via IMAP. I make sure that only SSL IMAP is enabled (this used to be done by making imapd listen on the loopback, but these days imapd supports that out-of-the-box)
The docs are kept in my home directory, organized by more or less understandable scheme.
I also have a CVS repository in my home directory, and I try to keep as much stuff as I can checked into it, but so far I've been lazy about that. Ultimately, I'd like to keep every doc in CVS, and perhaps copy the CVS tree to a CD every once in a while.
The mp3's are mostly on my laptop - I don't care if I loose them cause all of them are from my CD's or other recreatable sources.
Many (most?) people misunderstand the purpose of a signature.
The purpose of a signature is to be able for you to know that you signed it, not for someone else. I use different signatures at different times, but I know they are mine. To that extent, signing something with a mouse is just fine, for as long as you can tell _your_ signature appart from someone else's.
When a bank caches a check with your signature, they mostly don't look at the signature at all, and if they do, it's only a cautionary measure, since one cannot definitevely compare signatures.
If a thrid party wants to hold you based on your signature, they request a *notarized* signature, which is a whole different thing, because there you sign a document in front of a state-certified witness.
Here is my take on this. There are different IT jobs.
There are Microsoft certified VB programmers and Sun certified Java developers. Those are going overseas, sorry.
Then there are the real innovators, people who made things like Java happen in the first place. Those are staying here, and those will continue to be high paying jobs. The reason they are staying here is the same reason why finances are centered in NYC. The reason they are going to be high paid is because there is few people who can do this, and it's not a matter of public education, it's a "genetic" thing if you will. Real software development is a complex creative process, and nothing has changed in this respect. People in Russia and India of *that* level will find that they need to move to the US, because that's where it is (Silicon Valley especially, but a few other places too).
Additionally, sysadmin and network admin jobs are NOT going overseas, because they can't be done remotely. And really good sysadmins (those who can also code in C) and really good network admins (those who can turn up BGP) are hard to find, and those will remain to be highly paid.
I really hope this will help to turn public attention in the US to the issue of software patents.
The only US initiative I found was Nader's, and (you may not like it, but it's true) the guy has no political credibility whatsoever and only makes the issue worse.
It'd be really nice if there existed a grassroots effort to abolish software patents in the US so that it wouldn't be a partisan issue.
Alas, there is none...
MD5 (or any other secure hashing algorithm such as SHA) allows for identical hashes to be produced by definition, so that's not really a flaw.
IIRC the flaw is that it is supposed to be extremely difficult to arrive at a specific digest/signature by altering input, and MD5 has been shown to be a lot more predictable than was originally thought.
But I don't see how any of this applies to RIAA - using hashing to identify sound or video files is a retarded idea since slightest alterations in the files will produce radically different signatures (that's what secure hashing is), while my ear doesn't really care if one bit is off somewhere, it will sound just as good.
I've run qmail on my machine for almost a year. In the end I ended up switching back to sendmail - while it may be "unbroken", qmail is cumbersome to use and lacks many important features of sendmail.
A good way to justify your existense is to do stuff like change company name or split divisions. It generates a lot of work within the company in every department, your name becomes better recognized within the company (you get to make "the announcement" on a company-wide conf call), and in the meantime during all this commotion you continue to get a paycheck. Of course the reality is that company is going down the toilet.
I once worked in a company that changed its logo color from green to blue, and then spent a few months contemplating changing back to green, but decided not to.
Palm was a nice innovative company a few years back, but has now obviously succumbed to the executive incompetence plague that so many other companies in US, so unfortunately, are infected with...
Will target windowsupdate.microsoft.com - what will they do then?
While it may well be that the ice in the arctic ocean will melt, I find this study highly suspect.
First, it assumes that a rise in temperatures since 1978's constitute a trend. There has only been two and a half decades since, 2.5 datapoints, that is not enough to establish a trend IMHO.
Second, it makes a direct correlation of rise in temperature to CO2 emissions. But to the best of my knowledge we don't know for certain that CO2 indeed plays a direct role in Earth's temperature, and I think that to assume that human population can single-handedly affect amount of CO2 being emitted on the planet, much less have any control over climate is incorrect.
I think the main thing about studies such as this, is not to "freak-out" as someone suggested. The scientists are working on learning more about our planet, and that is a good thing. The the press and politicians signle out studies that can help them push their agenda and publish them as if it's the absolute truth, and that's a bad thing.
Why is it, for example, that any climate change is percieved as something to be fearful of? What if it's only going to be for the better?
I also wish that the environmental powers that be focused more on pollution in large metropolitan areas. More and more people are sick because of terrible air and water quality as well as improper disposal of all kinds of waste, especially in countries with weaker economies (e.g. eastern europe), but because it is not something of global proportions, we don't get to hear about it.
We haven't seen them yet, but I bet pretty soon we'll see PC's for sale that can only run Windows (this will be enforced by hardware) - don't know how that will affect the music business, but I am sure this is a card that Microsoft is waiting to play at the right time to make even more money.
P.S. In one of the questions in the article it says "should of" - isn't that, like, really bad English...?
For those too young to remember - PK are initials of late Phil Katz, the original author of PKZip, a pretty unusual character. Here's a link about how he died.
AFAIK the company is now run by his mom pretty much.
...send a courriel to the government... Oh, wait, that's French...
Thank God I don't live in Europe!
Those newly hired Yoga experts better not get too comfy - major us corporations are trying to outsource meditation to India where Yoga expertiese is higher and average Yoga expert salary is 5 loafs of bread per month.
Doesn't MS-Word actually already run in a semi-interpreted Java-like language they developed back in the early 90's?
You mean Visual Basic?
Your friend should report his neighbors to the FCC because any 2.4GHz cordless phone is supposed to use spread-spectrum and therefore will not interfere with 802.11b.
I have this theory that the reason teclo prices have not changed is because of long term agreements. Back in my ISP days, we used to sign 7-year terms on T1's because they were cheapest and we knew we'd need them. This was in 96-97, so these agreements are in force until 2003-04... When time comes to renew this, noone in their right mind will pay, and we will see a drop in high-speed prices (and Verizon and MCI wining to congress probably).
But then why pick a pre-alpha version of Apache? Clearly they wanted to twist the facts. They could have gotten more visibility and a better reutation by analyzing Apache 2.0.46.