The add changes, for example I saw a different one. The plus side to Napster for this is that they'll be able to have their songs play on an iPod... interesting no?:)
Going after people who are making money selling other peoples works without permission are exactly what copyright laws were established to do, protect the artist. So as long as they are clear that they aren't cops, I don't see a huge problem with this.
I'm in Canada. Last I heard, copying music is 'legal' so as long as you aren't distributing it.
That aside, I don't copy music but I still strongly disagree with the RIAA's tactics in suing hundreds upon hundreds of people. When half the population of a country is classified as a 'criminal', don't you think it's time to take a better look at those laws?
The problem with that is that they are CUSTOMERS meaning that they are right most of the time, or at least that is what we tell them.
A lot of our demographic that contacts us for assistance (not our target demo) because they lack knowledge are older folks, and for them AOL is the internet. Give them dial-up networking and Eudora and you'd confuse the hell out of them.
As I state in many of my posts, I work for a medium-large size software company.
We have a website, and about 1 million customers (not sure how many active..) have accounts on our website to download updates, patches, etc.
When they forget a password, they choose can option to have their password sent to them.
They can also request technical support via e-mail.
The forms sent out for both of those are very similar and AOL appears to 'randomly' block many of these e-mails. Sometimes they'll go through, sometimes they won't. We can trace the e-mail to aol's server, watch it be accepted but never have the customer on the phone recieve it.
They're 'spam prevention' isn't as great as it could be, especially since we've contacted them and they've promised to 'look in to it'.
>>> The vast majority of DVD drives (all?) will >>> read both +R and -R,
Some older DVD-ROM drives are not capable of reading recordable DVD media. While some manufactureres offered firmware updates to add support, others did not.
The OEM doesn't pay much more then that quite likely. I work for a medium sized software company that has many OEMS, including Dell.
Those companies pay between $0.50 to $1.50 to include our software, depending on which title.
The OEM agreement states you are provided that software, at the price, with no support from us, to ship with your hardware. They are not authorized in any way to sell our software seperately and for you to expect them to do so doesn't make sense. If they pay $10 for it, which seems reasonable, and you don't want it, then they're offering you $10. When you see $400 PCs coming with WindowsXP, do you honestly think they pay $50 for Windows? No. They do not.
After browsing around with my girlfriend for her birthday present, that is the exact same model of player she got. The ability to hold 700MB as opposed to other players which hold a few hundred megs (but are smaller), are also much more expensive.
If the new ipod was around at the time, it would have gotten our purchase.
>> Or maybe this isn't as big a problem as >> everyone makes it seem...
Looking back at the development of WI-FI, no one imaged it could have possibly been such a security risk and the security problems have seriously hurt adpation of this technology.
Where there is potential for abuse in a technology product, it will be abused. Why not take a moment and think they 'hey, maybe there IS some potential for damage' here instead of just playing things by ear which didn't do well for WI-FI.
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>> And don't forget Tom Green.
We are trying to forget him. Please don't remind us.
>> Next time, maybe you can include Neil Young >> and and Joni Mitchel if you want to show off >> Canadian talent.
Hey, if you like Neil Young, please take him.
>>-Basketball (yes, we did invent basketball) >>Was Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace >>of basketball, once part of Canada?
James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian Cllege in Montreal. He was a Canadian, regardless of where he invented it. If he invented it on the moon, it would have still been invented by a Canadian.
>> Was Boston, the place where the telephone was >> invented, once part of Canada?
Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired mother in Canada.
The idea was born in Canada, and he himself is not an American, he is from Scotland.
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>> You don't think the napster Ad nex
:)
The add changes, for example I saw a different one. The plus side to Napster for this is that they'll be able to have their songs play on an iPod... interesting no?
Actually with only SP1 you can enable IPV6
however the people who recieved the memo were not all of IBM, it was addressed to specific groups within IBM.
I believe this was taken out of context.
IBM is a thousand companies within another. Each with seperate financials, goals, etc, etc...
This memo was issues to a select number of small groups within the company and was not indicitive of a company wide shift.
Around the campfire sat the founders of Google when someone came around and tried to scare them with a SCOst story..
>> (80% of their incidents are against Hispanics >> and the "officer" interviewed had choice
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>> words)?
The RIAA hates everyone, if they happen to find that 80% of the people they see selling pirates wares are Hispanics, they 80% are.
(RIAA Goon 1) Hey dude, theres a spic selling dvds!
(RIAA Goon 2) Naw, we're at our quota of hispanics, lets go find a german guy!
(RIAA Goon 1)
Secondly, RTFA! They didn't say 80% of pirates are hispanics, they said:
"A large percentage [of the vendors] are of a Hispanic nature," Langley said.
If that is the case, then it is. I blame the RIAA for a lot of things, but because the vendors are Hispanic is not one of them.
First, remember opinion != troll.
Going after people who are making money selling other peoples works without permission are exactly what copyright laws were established to do, protect the artist. So as long as they are clear that they aren't cops, I don't see a huge problem with this.
>> I hear that to get it to work with XP you need
>> to upgrade to Duke Nukem Forever.
It's just called Duke Nukem now. It was a misquote from a developer Q&A session, the 'Forever' was referring to the ETA until release.
ugh, you sound exactly like my ISP tech support.
As for legally..
I'm in Canada. Last I heard, copying music is 'legal' so as long as you aren't distributing it.
That aside, I don't copy music but I still strongly disagree with the RIAA's tactics in suing hundreds upon hundreds of people. When half the population of a country is classified as a 'criminal', don't you think it's time to take a better look at those laws?
Nice to know we're not the only one!
The problem with that is that they are CUSTOMERS meaning that they are right most of the time, or at least that is what we tell them.
A lot of our demographic that contacts us for assistance (not our target demo) because they lack knowledge are older folks, and for them AOL is the internet. Give them dial-up networking and Eudora and you'd confuse the hell out of them.
not even slightly funny.
As I state in many of my posts, I work for a medium-large size software company.
We have a website, and about 1 million customers (not sure how many active..) have accounts on our website to download updates, patches, etc.
When they forget a password, they choose can option to have their password sent to them.
They can also request technical support via e-mail.
The forms sent out for both of those are very similar and AOL appears to 'randomly' block many of these e-mails. Sometimes they'll go through, sometimes they won't. We can trace the e-mail to aol's server, watch it be accepted but never have the customer on the phone recieve it.
They're 'spam prevention' isn't as great as it could be, especially since we've contacted them and they've promised to 'look in to it'.
Yes, was it the crappy NEC 1100A? They released a firmware update to fix most of the problems, but they're still a terrible drive.
>>> The vast majority of DVD drives (all?) will
>>> read both +R and -R,
Some older DVD-ROM drives are not capable of reading recordable DVD media. While some manufactureres offered firmware updates to add support, others did not.
The OEM doesn't pay much more then that quite likely. I work for a medium sized software company that has many OEMS, including Dell.
Those companies pay between $0.50 to $1.50 to include our software, depending on which title.
The OEM agreement states you are provided that software, at the price, with no support from us, to ship with your hardware. They are not authorized in any way to sell our software seperately and for you to expect them to do so doesn't make sense. If they pay $10 for it, which seems reasonable, and you don't want it, then they're offering you $10. When you see $400 PCs coming with WindowsXP, do you honestly think they pay $50 for Windows? No. They do not.
I figured it had a sex change operation and Earth is now a woman.
After browsing around with my girlfriend for her birthday present, that is the exact same model of player she got. The ability to hold 700MB as opposed to other players which hold a few hundred megs (but are smaller), are also much more expensive.
If the new ipod was around at the time, it would have gotten our purchase.
It is based on a dual-NIC VIA EPIA mainboard and a Travla case, along with Red Hat 8, zebra, FreeS/WAN, IP-tables...
Yes.
Does it run Linux? :)
>> Or maybe this isn't as big a problem as
>> everyone makes it seem...
Looking back at the development of WI-FI, no one imaged it could have possibly been such a security risk and the security problems have seriously hurt adpation of this technology.
Where there is potential for abuse in a technology product, it will be abused. Why not take a moment and think they 'hey, maybe there IS some potential for damage' here instead of just playing things by ear which didn't do well for WI-FI.
>> And don't forget Tom Green.
We are trying to forget him. Please don't remind us.
>> Next time, maybe you can include Neil Young
>> and and Joni Mitchel if you want to show off
>> Canadian talent.
Hey, if you like Neil Young, please take him.
>>-Basketball (yes, we did invent basketball)
>>Was Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace
>>of basketball, once part of Canada?
James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian Cllege in Montreal. He was a Canadian, regardless of where he invented it. If he invented it on the moon, it would have still been invented by a Canadian.
>> Was Boston, the place where the telephone was
>> invented, once part of Canada?
Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for
inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as
a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea
of "electronic speech" while visiting his
hearing-impaired mother in Canada.
The idea was born in Canada, and he himself is not an American, he is from Scotland.
until a virus burns your house down, or turns the gas on the stove on and it doesn't light, then no one notices...
:)
Although it'd be worth if if the fridge has an auto-update
It is however within the authors rights to release a non-GPL version of the software that doesn't have the same bug or exploit.