Maybe we can eliminate eVoting and voting entirely and have some university researchers tell us who will win. That would save everyone a lot of hassle.
I saw some ads for this movie last night that also called the film "ground breaking."
Filmed in front of a blue screen is groundbreaking? Spy Kids 3D was also filmed this way. My kids liked it, but I'd never mention it on/. Um, oops, I think I just did.
If you think the bugs-fixed list is long, check out the list of "programs that may behave 'differently'." Differently seems to be a euphamism for "no longer work."
I'm just wondering, since this bozo "doesn't have a government-issued ID", how does he:
drive a car
apply for a job
buy beer
open a bank account (and, therefore, buy anything)
Come to think of it, without the above (a job, therefore money), how would he buy an airline ticket in the first place?
Seriously. This is just (another) bogus example of someone attempting to construct a problem and therefore a legal remedy out of thin air. This would be the definition of a frivilous lawsuit.
OK, this proves the RIAA is completely clueless. So, they are trying to restrict copying by eliminating the ability to copy a copied CD.
In order to copy a CD in the first place, you have to rip the tracks (to your hard drive), right? So, once you've done that, you can burn as many as you like. There is no technology that could restrict that...well maybe a Windows upgrade.
Once you have the tracks on your hard drive, you could also create a data disc, or an MP3 disc and share that with your friends, again, without the possibility of restriction.
The fact remains that their industry has made scads of money, producing and promoting a lot of mediocre music, and they feel like *they're* the ones being ripped off. Which is the ultimate irony...
I'm no religious zealot--well, maybe I am--but all the furor about stem cell research was that it would offer promise of repairing spinal cord injuries or brain diseases like Parkinson's. You should keep in mind that stem cells are "harvested" from dead human embryos.
And no matter where you stand on the "when does life begin question," I doubt that anyone would think a dead human embryo is a fair price for giving a hockey player a better smile.
Caffeine is a drug, and all drugs have a lethal dose. According to this site, the lethal dose of caffeine "appears to be" between 5 and 10 grams. So, coffee is around 100 mg per cup, so, 100 cups = 10,000 mg = 10 grams. So that should do it. Of course, you'd have to consume these very quickly to get the full "effect".
This just proves the point: Californian's don't care about baseball! Why on earth would one want to have WiFi at a ball park? If you spend the 20 bucks to see a game, maybe you should, I dunno, WATCH the game?
This is great. Now I can listen to all those surround sound albums from my favorite groups like, um, er, well, and there's uh...
Is there anyone recording music in surround sound? Certainly there's no CD spec for this yet...and when there is you can bet it'll be equipped with DRM shackles...
Obviously if there were an open source (read: FREE) alternative, these independent developers wouldn't have shelled-out the 2000 clams.
So, I assume that the guy who submitted this, and all of you in agreement w/ him, are going to start writing an accounting package right away. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness, right?!:-)
Maybe it's just me, but: I don't want to download tunes to listen to them on my iPod, or any portable device. I want to listen to them on my PC, or in my car MP3/CD player. Transferring to an iPod or Samsung thingee just aren't what I want.
Another limitation of iTunes is complete lack of support for internet proxies or firewalls. Which means I can't use it at work. I don't know about you, but I spend most of my computer time (and therefore, my uninterrupted music listening time) at work.
I downloaded both iTunes and MusicMatch 8.1. Musicmatch has a "free" radio station feature, (by genre), that allows you to listen to and buy tunes. Pretty nice...and it works in my company's firewall/proxy/internet-nazi environment.
iTunes also lacks some of the nice jukebox features that MusicMatch has (like AutoDJ).
As for whether a music library has x00,000 songs or y00,000 songs--who cares? I want to know if it has the songs I'm looking for. Number of songs in a library is a meaningless metric.
OK, I had to go check this out. I found an article at the Indianapolis Star about this case. It seems that Mr. Berry was selling mixed CDs, and it was the police who raided his place, and, one has to presume, they did indeed have a warrant to do so.
So, the guy was selling CDs that he or others had burned, containing songs that other people had written and performed. Sounds pretty much like stealing to me.
Call me skeptical, but if you owned a store and somebody came in and started confiscating your products, wouldn't you call the police? I can't for a moment believe that some guys showed up at a record store, said, "Hi, we're from the RIAA" and started emptying the shelves and the store owner wouldn't call the cops.
There must be something more to these stories, dontcha think?
In my area, Washington, DC, the Smithsonian Air & Space museum is a good bet.
In Florida, you HAVE to go to the Kennedy Space Flight Center. Awesome tour there!
This isn't strictly "geek", but since you'll probably get to California at some point, go and see Sequoia National Forest. There are trees there that are 2,000 years old, and GIGANTIC. For me, being there a few years back helped me regain perspective (name one gadget you have now that will still be operational in 2,000 years!).
If we have to first agree that copying music is a crime (regardless of what you think of the music industry, the RIAA, the MPAA, the DCMA, etc.), you have to agree that copying music you didn't buy is a crime.
Now, I'll be the first to say that music industry should long ago have tapped the appetite that has led to P2P sharing. But they haven't (neither have you or I, by the way!). And, at this point in time, copying music is a crime.
Since that's the case, then shouldn't facilitating the copying of music be a BIGGER crime? If you store music on your computer, and allow others to freely copy it, your crime is clearly bigger than theirs.
So, in this light, something like this makes sense.
I think this guy is on to something. Let's consider what's wrong with FM radio:
-lame playlists -commercials -you hear a song, then it's gone -no way to buy a song you just heard, learn more about the group, yadda yadda
If your radio station could provide options that address these things, you might score a winner.
1. What if you agreed to provide airtime on your station to bands, and give listeners the ability to download and purchase tracks they just heard (or by name). 2. You could fund the station by a small percentage of sales, instead of running ads for The Gap. Alternatively, you could run ads in the player window if they were COOL (not on-line casino) and unobtrusive. 3. Free downloads. Each day you could provide a free download of the day. 4. Provide options. A lot of people will want to buy just a song.
Some might want links to similar songs, or see what listeners who bought that song also bought. Or see what songs listeners like (you could have people vote for songs). Look at the way Amazon and CDNOW try to steer you to buying another album or book.
Some people will want to buy a whole album.
Some people might want lyrics, guitar tabs, even sheet music.
Obviously, links to band websites, and fansites would be a must.
You also should be able to see where the band is performing next. 5. It's about the music. Ultimately, this thing will take off only if the music is good. As much as I might gripe about lame, limited FM radio playlists, record companies, etc., you have to provide a viable alternative, musically. If the music on your station isn't good--really good--it'll be hard to make a dent. You need someone with a good ear, who can pick songs that have wide appeal. Call me.:-)
...but the article makes it sound like: a) Opera is the obvious choice as best browser, and b) Netscape hasn't released anything since 4.x
As for (a), clearly Mozilla and Netscape 7.1 (see below) win that race hands down. Tabbed browsing, junk mail and popup controls are THE features most of us really want in our NEXT browser.
With regard to (b), well Netscape 6.x was very good, and with the release of 7.1, Netscape is now in-sync with Mozilla.
Once word gets out--and it is--tabbed browsing will be the thing that puts Netscape and/or Mozilla on top.
I think the number you here from RIAA sources includes stuff like advances to the band, producing videos, etc. They charge all of that back to the band.
The local bands y'all know who've made their own CDs don't have videos, or all those "distribution costs."
Well, I have to say I disagree with the author here (by his own description, a 24 year old college student working in a cyber cafe).
1. Why do we make people save their documents manually? Because they don't always want to save their changes. Duh!
2. Why do we "punish" users by making them explicitly quit or exit a program? Um, otherwise all programs they've ever run would always be running, and eventually system resources would be compromised.
3. Why do we still make people use file pickers? Well, it's an alternative to drag and drop. In most apps, you can drag and drop, or use the app's file picker. It's your choice. Drag and drop, while "cool," has disadvantages. Number one is screen real estate. Few people have 1600x1280 (or higher res) screens where thay can actually see the file manager and their other apps at the same time. This means to use drag and drop, you have to flip back and forth, move windows, etc. In the end, it is easier to use a file picker sometimes.
4. Why do subdirectory structures exist? Well, sonny, let's see you organize the 1,000's of files on your hard disk without a subdirectory structure. The idea of using subdirectories is exactly like that in the physical world (filing cabinets, with dividers and folder). It is a system that works quite well for organizing large collections of documents.
The naive te of this article is really astounding!
Under the supposed "logic" guiding this decision, we'd have to say that the Constitution is unconstitutional, since it says "...all men are endowed by their Creator...".
Think about that, the Constitution is unconstitutional...{infinite loop detected, shutting down process}
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Maybe we can eliminate eVoting and voting entirely and have some university researchers tell us who will win. That would save everyone a lot of hassle.
I saw some ads for this movie last night that also called the film "ground breaking."
/. Um, oops, I think I just did.
Filmed in front of a blue screen is groundbreaking? Spy Kids 3D was also filmed this way. My kids liked it, but I'd never mention it on
If you think the bugs-fixed list is long, check out the list of "programs that may behave 'differently'." Differently seems to be a euphamism for "no longer work."
- drive a car
- apply for a job
- buy beer
- open a bank account (and, therefore, buy anything)
Come to think of it, without the above (a job, therefore money), how would he buy an airline ticket in the first place?Seriously. This is just (another) bogus example of someone attempting to construct a problem and therefore a legal remedy out of thin air. This would be the definition of a frivilous lawsuit.
OK, this proves the RIAA is completely clueless. So, they are trying to restrict copying by eliminating the ability to copy a copied CD.
In order to copy a CD in the first place, you have to rip the tracks (to your hard drive), right? So, once you've done that, you can burn as many as you like. There is no technology that could restrict that...well maybe a Windows upgrade.
Once you have the tracks on your hard drive, you could also create a data disc, or an MP3 disc and share that with your friends, again, without the possibility of restriction.
The fact remains that their industry has made scads of money, producing and promoting a lot of mediocre music, and they feel like *they're* the ones being ripped off. Which is the ultimate irony...
I'm no religious zealot--well, maybe I am--but all the furor about stem cell research was that it would offer promise of repairing spinal cord injuries or brain diseases like Parkinson's. You should keep in mind that stem cells are "harvested" from dead human embryos.
And no matter where you stand on the "when does life begin question," I doubt that anyone would think a dead human embryo is a fair price for giving a hockey player a better smile.
1. Mozilla
2. Filezilla
3. Token 2
4. WinSQL
5. Cygwin
6. WinMerge
7. WinCVS
8. JAJC
9. iTunes
10. PHPTriad
Caffeine is a drug, and all drugs have a lethal dose. According to this site, the lethal dose of caffeine "appears to be" between 5 and 10 grams. So, coffee is around 100 mg per cup, so, 100 cups = 10,000 mg = 10 grams. So that should do it. Of course, you'd have to consume these very quickly to get the full "effect".
This just proves the point: Californian's don't care about baseball! Why on earth would one want to have WiFi at a ball park? If you spend the 20 bucks to see a game, maybe you should, I dunno, WATCH the game?
This is great. Now I can listen to all those surround sound albums from my favorite groups like, um, er, well, and there's uh...
Is there anyone recording music in surround sound? Certainly there's no CD spec for this yet...and when there is you can bet it'll be equipped with DRM shackles...
Is it just me, or did this guy just write a 21-page document rationalizing the fact that he did not get the job? Yes, he does sound defensive.
"This couldn't happen if Appgen was Open Source."
:-)
Obviously if there were an open source (read: FREE) alternative, these independent developers wouldn't have shelled-out the 2000 clams.
So, I assume that the guy who submitted this, and all of you in agreement w/ him, are going to start writing an accounting package right away. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness, right?!
Maybe it's just me, but:
I don't want to download tunes to listen to them on my iPod, or any portable device. I want to listen to them on my PC, or in my car MP3/CD player. Transferring to an iPod or Samsung thingee just aren't what I want.
Another limitation of iTunes is complete lack of support for internet proxies or firewalls. Which means I can't use it at work. I don't know about you, but I spend most of my computer time (and therefore, my uninterrupted music listening time) at work.
I downloaded both iTunes and MusicMatch 8.1. Musicmatch has a "free" radio station feature, (by genre), that allows you to listen to and buy tunes. Pretty nice...and it works in my company's firewall/proxy/internet-nazi environment.
iTunes also lacks some of the nice jukebox features that MusicMatch has (like AutoDJ).
As for whether a music library has x00,000 songs or y00,000 songs--who cares? I want to know if it has the songs I'm looking for. Number of songs in a library is a meaningless metric.
Ok, I have to get back to "work" now.
OK, I had to go check this out. I found an article at the Indianapolis Star about this case. It seems that Mr. Berry was selling mixed CDs, and it was the police who raided his place, and, one has to presume, they did indeed have a warrant to do so. So, the guy was selling CDs that he or others had burned, containing songs that other people had written and performed. Sounds pretty much like stealing to me.
Call me skeptical, but if you owned a store and somebody came in and started confiscating your products, wouldn't you call the police? I can't for a moment believe that some guys showed up at a record store, said, "Hi, we're from the RIAA" and started emptying the shelves and the store owner wouldn't call the cops.
There must be something more to these stories, dontcha think?
I suggest that if his students are struggling to use JSP, then they should blame the instructor. Oh, wait, he IS the instructor.
In my area, Washington, DC, the Smithsonian Air & Space museum is a good bet.
In Florida, you HAVE to go to the Kennedy Space Flight Center. Awesome tour there!
This isn't strictly "geek", but since you'll probably get to California at some point, go and see Sequoia National Forest. There are trees there that are 2,000 years old, and GIGANTIC. For me, being there a few years back helped me regain perspective (name one gadget you have now that will still be operational in 2,000 years!).
OK, this is gonna be unpopular, but, here goes.
If we have to first agree that copying music is a crime (regardless of what you think of the music industry, the RIAA, the MPAA, the DCMA, etc.), you have to agree that copying music you didn't buy is a crime.
Now, I'll be the first to say that music industry should long ago have tapped the appetite that has led to P2P sharing. But they haven't (neither have you or I, by the way!). And, at this point in time, copying music is a crime.
Since that's the case, then shouldn't facilitating the copying of music be a BIGGER crime? If you store music on your computer, and allow others to freely copy it, your crime is clearly bigger than theirs.
So, in this light, something like this makes sense.
I think this guy is on to something. Let's consider what's wrong with FM radio:
:-)
-lame playlists
-commercials
-you hear a song, then it's gone
-no way to buy a song you just heard, learn more about the group, yadda yadda
If your radio station could provide options that address these things, you might score a winner.
1. What if you agreed to provide airtime on your station to bands, and give listeners the ability to download and purchase tracks they just heard (or by name).
2. You could fund the station by a small percentage of sales, instead of running ads for The Gap. Alternatively, you could run ads in the player window if they were COOL (not on-line casino) and unobtrusive.
3. Free downloads. Each day you could provide a free download of the day.
4. Provide options. A lot of people will want to buy just a song.
Some might want links to similar songs, or see what listeners who bought that song also bought. Or see what songs listeners like (you could have people vote for songs). Look at the way Amazon and CDNOW try to steer you to buying another album or book.
Some people will want to buy a whole album.
Some people might want lyrics, guitar tabs, even sheet music.
Obviously, links to band websites, and fansites would be a must.
You also should be able to see where the band is performing next.
5. It's about the music. Ultimately, this thing will take off only if the music is good. As much as I might gripe about lame, limited FM radio playlists, record companies, etc., you have to provide a viable alternative, musically. If the music on your station isn't good--really good--it'll be hard to make a dent. You need someone with a good ear, who can pick songs that have wide appeal. Call me.
...but the article makes it sound like:
a) Opera is the obvious choice as best browser, and
b) Netscape hasn't released anything since 4.x
As for (a), clearly Mozilla and Netscape 7.1 (see below) win that race hands down. Tabbed browsing, junk mail and popup controls are THE features most of us really want in our NEXT browser.
With regard to (b), well Netscape 6.x was very good, and with the release of 7.1, Netscape is now in-sync with Mozilla.
Once word gets out--and it is--tabbed browsing will be the thing that puts Netscape and/or Mozilla on top.
Cool. All they need is the iLoo, and you'd be all set. 8-)~
I think the number you here from RIAA sources includes stuff like advances to the band, producing videos, etc. They charge all of that back to the band.
The local bands y'all know who've made their own CDs don't have videos, or all those "distribution costs."
Well, I have to say I disagree with the author here (by his own description, a 24 year old college student working in a cyber cafe).
1. Why do we make people save their documents manually? Because they don't always want to save their changes. Duh!
2. Why do we "punish" users by making them explicitly quit or exit a program? Um, otherwise all programs they've ever run would always be running, and eventually system resources would be compromised.
3. Why do we still make people use file pickers? Well, it's an alternative to drag and drop. In most apps, you can drag and drop, or use the app's file picker. It's your choice. Drag and drop, while "cool," has disadvantages. Number one is screen real estate. Few people have 1600x1280 (or higher res) screens where thay can actually see the file manager and their other apps at the same time. This means to use drag and drop, you have to flip back and forth, move windows, etc. In the end, it is easier to use a file picker sometimes.
4. Why do subdirectory structures exist? Well, sonny, let's see you organize the 1,000's of files on your hard disk without a subdirectory structure. The idea of using subdirectories is exactly like that in the physical world (filing cabinets, with dividers and folder). It is a system that works quite well for organizing large collections of documents.
The naive te of this article is really astounding!
Yeah, just as soon as I can get reliable cell phone service all across the country, I'll believe they will build a wireless data network.
Under the supposed "logic" guiding this decision, we'd have to say that the Constitution is unconstitutional, since it says "...all men are endowed by their Creator...".
Think about that, the Constitution is unconstitutional...{infinite loop detected, shutting down process}