IANAL, obviosly (saying this feels redundant as even if I am I wouldn't admit it...), but is the following a way round it?
mp3.com are rightly busted for making the copies themselves, but how about if they provided a hosting service for mp3s that accepts uploads from their own ripping agent which has preconfigured settings and requires a real CD to rip.
All this agent has to do is rip and upload and since mp3.com will be using a whizzy file-system/database it just so happpens that they only have to store one copy of each track that gets uploaded.
Now, if the ripping agent is bandwidth friendly it will check before doing the upload whether or not the relevant mp3 is there already and since it is processor friendly it could make that check before ripping, so if someone has done the track before there's no effort on your part.
Add to that a 'user' with a large CD collection and a high bandwidth connection to mp3.com's server and you get what amounts to the current service...
(I'm sure there's a hole in this that is suitable for flying a 777 through, there has to be...)
The Beach is based on Alex Garland's excellent book of the same name.
Whetever you think of the movie, read the book as it's many times better -- the movie is a badly stripped down version of the plot without the inner workings of Richard's head. Plus the hero is English in the book;-)
This isn't "news for nerds". It's a suit using some speech for his own purpose -- be it a to get a discount from MS, join the bash MS bangwagon or whatever.
As it happens, groupware under Windows gets much better if you take a peep at Exchange 2000 or hire clueful developers to do cool things with Outlook...
Dell pays nothing like even "normal" OEM prices for Windows.
The money saved from not paying MS a few bucks is probably being used to recoup the outlay for adding support [testing, support engineer training etc.]
Sadly, it's already been broken (IIRC). Search the coderpunks archive for details. It's doesn't necessarily mean that someone can read your files, but there are some problems with how keys are stored which makes it much easier for someone to compromise the security of the keys.
It's not broken -- more a case of if you're really stupid (don't do what you're told) then it can be compromised. See this link.
It's several years since I last heard this suggestion (then fuelled by Gates buying a big house in a posh part of London).
Of course, it will be very costly to pick up the entire Redmond campus and drop it in the UK but as long as the appearance and sincerity is there then the DOJ's masters can't discount it as an outcome if they go in too hard...
Ok, it's not as large a service but the data entry on behalf of the customer (and no doubt the back end integration at the merchant end) is still something that is arguably chargable.
Firms already have to pay a percentage of revenues to the credit card companies for taking the order. This suggestion is basically the same thing.
If a start-up retailer has the choice of a percentage of sales or a huge one off investment in order to get up and running with such a system I'd say the percentage is preferable.
Ideally there would be a buy out option, but no doubt if youre big enough (Dell?) you can negotiate the percentage to something tiny or just pay a lump sum.
I don't blame people who didn't make it that far through, but it's the first reference to the author's own, unpublished, 1979 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that *finally* convinvced me of the merits of the proposal.
The paperclip is one of several "office assistants" you can choose from.
They act as an interface to the on-line help - they popping up with speech bubbles for you to type questions into, appearing with lightbulbs when they think you're doing something that can be done more easily.
Oh, they also have cute animations and generally kill productivity.
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So you'd be happy with Windows if it let you set security on key files and deny the execute permission to people?
If so, check out NT and 2000.
As others have noted, step 5 breaks down...
IANAL, obviosly (saying this feels redundant as even if I am I wouldn't admit it...), but is the following a way round it?
mp3.com are rightly busted for making the copies themselves, but how about if they provided a hosting service for mp3s that accepts uploads from their own ripping agent which has preconfigured settings and requires a real CD to rip.
All this agent has to do is rip and upload and since mp3.com will be using a whizzy file-system/database it just so happpens that they only have to store one copy of each track that gets uploaded.
Now, if the ripping agent is bandwidth friendly it will check before doing the upload whether or not the relevant mp3 is there already and since it is processor friendly it could make that check before ripping, so if someone has done the track before there's no effort on your part.
Add to that a 'user' with a large CD collection and a high bandwidth connection to mp3.com's server and you get what amounts to the current service...
(I'm sure there's a hole in this that is suitable for flying a 777 through, there has to be...)
The Beach is based on Alex Garland's excellent book of the same name.
;-)
Whetever you think of the movie, read the book as it's many times better -- the movie is a badly stripped down version of the plot without the inner workings of Richard's head. Plus the hero is English in the book
This isn't "news for nerds". It's a suit using some speech for his own purpose -- be it a to get a discount from MS, join the bash MS bangwagon or whatever.
As it happens, groupware under Windows gets much better if you take a peep at Exchange 2000 or hire clueful developers to do cool things with Outlook...
Remember: none is just another belief :)
No, "none" is the absence of any belief.
Look at the bottom of the page -- there's a graphics that says "pinsun production" with a mailto link.
The corresponding website is hardly religious material, though...
Oh, the clonaid.com whois record seems to check out, too.
Dell pays nothing like even "normal" OEM prices for Windows.
The money saved from not paying MS a few bucks is probably being used to recoup the outlay for adding support [testing, support engineer training etc.]
Sadly, it's already been broken (IIRC). Search the coderpunks archive for details. It's doesn't necessarily mean that someone can read your files, but there are some problems with how keys are stored which makes it much easier for someone to compromise the security of the keys.
It's not broken -- more a case of if you're really stupid (don't do what you're told) then it can be compromised. See this link.
I'm not sure if this prevents you from reading a file name, though.
It doesn't. (Although this can be restircted via file permissions)
How is 19/11/1999 any different than 3/1/1999 where all the digits are also odd?
They're both odd days so it's no different -- it's just that this is the last such day for a long time.
...and what would you expect it to be bargained up to?
subject says it all...
It's several years since I last heard this suggestion (then fuelled by Gates buying a big house in a posh part of London).
Of course, it will be very costly to pick up the entire Redmond campus and drop it in the UK but as long as the appearance and sincerity is there then the DOJ's masters can't discount it as an outcome if they go in too hard...
Ok, it's not as large a service but the data entry on behalf of the customer (and no doubt the back end integration at the merchant end) is still something that is arguably chargable.
Firms already have to pay a percentage of revenues to the credit card companies for taking the order. This suggestion is basically the same thing.
If a start-up retailer has the choice of a percentage of sales or a huge one off investment in order to get up and running with such a system I'd say the percentage is preferable.
Ideally there would be a buy out option, but no doubt if youre big enough (Dell?) you can negotiate the percentage to something tiny or just pay a lump sum.
I don't blame people who didn't make it that far through, but it's the first reference to the author's own, unpublished, 1979 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that *finally* convinvced me of the merits of the proposal.
>God, I hate having to log out every time I want to post on one of these.
:-)
You mean you don't have two computers in front of you?
The paperclip is one of several "office assistants" you can choose from.
They act as an interface to the on-line help - they popping up with speech bubbles for you to type questions into, appearing with lightbulbs when they think you're doing something that can be done more easily.
Oh, they also have cute animations and generally kill productivity.