We've all heard the dogmatic rantings about 'the record labels are bleeding the artists dry!' and 'those P2P users just want free music!' and whatnot. Considering the nature of the RIAA, and the politics of P2P software, how do you believe the average artist would feel about this topic?
If you use AIM, ICQ, Y!M, or MSN Messenger (or any combination thereof), you can connect to them with Jabber.
It's great if you have, say, family members on AIM, friends on ICQ, and co-workers on MSN.
It also has its own, internal protocol.
However, AIM and Jabber have a history of not working together all that well...so if you have to have AIM connectivity in your IM client, I'd go with Trillian if you use Windows, IMCI for Linux or FreeBSD, or Fire if you use OS X (which doesn't support MSN...but if you're on a Mac, you probably don't need it anyway).
>> IMO, the only valid reason to buy a P4 is Quake.
And that's a BAD thing?
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>> What I loved about Mononoke was that there was no clear good or evil.
Too bad you posted as an AC, because that comment deserves to be modded up.
Especially because I agree with it. Lady Eboshi was a truly impressive character...I mean, yeah, she could be considered the antagonist, but she was using her power to help diseased people and stuff. She wasn't a mustache-twirling "A HA!" villian, or even an "incompetent evil" villain like Doctor Evil. She was caring, trying to do the best she could for the people she was in charge of...like I imagine most modern-day villans are, if using the wrong choice of method.
You just don't see that in American movies and TV. And I find that rather sad.
All we have is a spammer apologist claiming that 'spam is only as bad as as direct-mail, telemarketers, or TV ads!'
Well, guess what? People hate telemarketers, but that's not the point. The point is that all three of those are (say it together, now) PAID FOR BY THE ADVERTISER.
Spam isn't. It gets paid for by the recepient, like postage-due junk mail.
And you don't even get the choice of refusing it.
If spammers were willing to pay all the costs of sending spam (not just the cost to click the 'Send' button), I think there'd be a lot less concern.
I know I'd be more willing to 'just delete it' in that case...as well as set up a bulk mail filter (I just depend on Sneakemail right now).
The Time: December 18th, 2002 The Place: A theater in New York City
Gandalf the White: "I come back to you now..." Some idiot's cell phone: RING RING RING!!! Usher (to idiot): "You're under arrest." Patrons: "Whoo-hoo!"
I don't know much about MySQL and PostgreSQL, except for usage with Internet message boards.
And there, Postgre kills MySQL.
That seems to fit with earlier claims of MySQL working better for read-intensive stuff...with message boards, you write to the DB almost as much as you read from it.
>> The US has killed over 800 innocent afghani civilians in their "war on terror". In my book >> thats just as bad as killing 800 american citizens.
Prove to me that America was intentionally trying to kill innocent civilians, and I'll listen to you.
I know this country is far from perfect, but people get killed in war. No matter how good a system you have, innocent deaths are inevitable.
And if you try to use that as an excuse for war, then you're just begging for Jack Warlord to take over this country because we won't fight back.
Trying to minimize civilian deaths is always a good thing, but at this time, they cannot be minimized to zero. However, the intent is there...the intent to kill as few innocents as possible.
Terrorists, on the other hand, go after civilians with the INTENT to kill them. They're killing innocents simply to create fear.
I don't know about you, but to me, that counts as evil.
Even the programmers feel that way. An interesting article got put up over on Player2Player, from one of the Morrowind developers. Among the problems with it are heavily compressed design times (all the faction quests had to be completed in three months, for example) and a lead designer who depended too much on real-life models (what was a Catholic Church clone doing in Tamriel, anyway?)
How is this on-topic? Well, perhaps it isn't. However, it still serves as a warning of how NOT to design your games. In the end, Morrowind is one of those games you'll look back on 5 years later and say "Man, that could have been SO good."
I just hope we don't end up feeling the same way about NWN.
The bias is pretty obvious, and having installed Windows XP and Red Hat both, I'd have to say that the actual install of XP was, in the end, simpler.
Of course, Linux is (at least right now) not designed for the level of ease-of-use that XP was...Microsoft basically 'dumbed down' Win2K. (How else would you explain the Fisher-Price color scheme?)
That said, Linux still has potential...but we're our own worst enemy as acceptance goes. The more we insist on being able to tinker with each and every nuance, the more intimidating Linux becomes to the computer newbie.
(And let's not even get started on the Linux zealots.)
This guy just gives me more and more reasons to vote Libertarian. The more I see the Bush admininstration trampling our rights, the more I hate this government.
Not that Gore would have been much better, with Senator Joe "Blacklist America" Lieberman as veep and all.
Sigh...I think I'll flee this country in terror before too much longer.
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We've all heard the dogmatic rantings about 'the record labels are bleeding the artists dry!' and 'those P2P users just want free music!' and whatnot. Considering the nature of the RIAA, and the politics of P2P software, how do you believe the average artist would feel about this topic?
Think about what you're saying here.
Most wireless LANs can be found in places like Starbucks, shopping malls, and airports.
I don't know about you, but I don't expect the idiot who can't understand what a latte is to properly configure a LAN firewall.
Jabber is, simply put, a universal IM client.
If you use AIM, ICQ, Y!M, or MSN Messenger (or any combination thereof), you can connect to them with Jabber.
It's great if you have, say, family members on AIM, friends on ICQ, and co-workers on MSN.
It also has its own, internal protocol.
However, AIM and Jabber have a history of not working together all that well...so if you have to have AIM connectivity in your IM client, I'd go with Trillian if you use Windows, IMCI for Linux or FreeBSD, or Fire if you use OS X (which doesn't support MSN...but if you're on a Mac, you probably don't need it anyway).
I'm not supposed to put weight on it!
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We are keeping Internet logs.
(We are at war with Eurasia.)
We have always kept Internet logs.
(We have always been at war with Eurasia.)
Ignorance Is Strength? Maybe.
But who is made the stronger through ignorance?
>> IMO, the only valid reason to buy a P4 is Quake.
And that's a BAD thing?
>> What I loved about Mononoke was that there was no clear good or evil.
Too bad you posted as an AC, because that comment deserves to be modded up.
Especially because I agree with it. Lady Eboshi was a truly impressive character...I mean, yeah, she could be considered the antagonist, but she was using her power to help diseased people and stuff. She wasn't a mustache-twirling "A HA!" villian, or even an "incompetent evil" villain like Doctor Evil. She was caring, trying to do the best she could for the people she was in charge of...like I imagine most modern-day villans are, if using the wrong choice of method.
You just don't see that in American movies and TV. And I find that rather sad.
Can I mod this article -1, Flamebait, please?
All we have is a spammer apologist claiming that 'spam is only as bad as as direct-mail, telemarketers, or TV ads!'
Well, guess what? People hate telemarketers, but that's not the point. The point is that all three of those are (say it together, now) PAID FOR BY THE ADVERTISER.
Spam isn't. It gets paid for by the recepient, like postage-due junk mail.
And you don't even get the choice of refusing it.
If spammers were willing to pay all the costs of sending spam (not just the cost to click the 'Send' button), I think there'd be a lot less concern.
I know I'd be more willing to 'just delete it' in that case...as well as set up a bulk mail filter (I just depend on Sneakemail right now).
Given how much storage space two years of ISP logs could take up, the amount of storage hard drives can hold is quite likely to go up VERY fast.
:)
Of course, whether or not that's so good a thing when you take into consideration the privacy concerns can be a rather complex debate.
At least we'll have more room for pr0n!
"Fasten seatbelts tight
Your seat cushions float gently
Headsets five dollars."
>> It all started when "The Madness of King George II" was renamed simply "The Madness of King
>> George" lest people should think it were a sequel.
That is incorrect.
>> This is a common problem with VCs who own 95% of your company and make decisions for you.
Once again, short-term thinking screws over the private sector.
I'm lucky I bought my video card from Chaintech.
The Time: December 18th, 2002
The Place: A theater in New York City
Gandalf the White: "I come back to you now..."
Some idiot's cell phone: RING RING RING!!!
Usher (to idiot): "You're under arrest."
Patrons: "Whoo-hoo!"
I don't know much about MySQL and PostgreSQL, except for usage with Internet message boards.
And there, Postgre kills MySQL.
That seems to fit with earlier claims of MySQL working better for read-intensive stuff...with message boards, you write to the DB almost as much as you read from it.
Finally, a judge wakes up and realizes 'hey, maybe the people who will be affected by this decision should have a voice in it'.
:)
Every time I consider fleeing this country in terror, something like this happens that makes me reconsider.
Plus, it probably has the *AA foaming at the mouth, which is always a good thing.
>> The US has killed over 800 innocent afghani civilians in their "war on terror". In my book
>> thats just as bad as killing 800 american citizens.
Prove to me that America was intentionally trying to kill innocent civilians, and I'll listen to you.
I know this country is far from perfect, but people get killed in war. No matter how good a system you have, innocent deaths are inevitable.
And if you try to use that as an excuse for war, then you're just begging for Jack Warlord to take over this country because we won't fight back.
Trying to minimize civilian deaths is always a good thing, but at this time, they cannot be minimized to zero. However, the intent is there...the intent to kill as few innocents as possible.
Terrorists, on the other hand, go after civilians with the INTENT to kill them. They're killing innocents simply to create fear.
I don't know about you, but to me, that counts as evil.
Morrowind's fun, I'll grant you that.
Until you get to the end.
Even the programmers feel that way. An interesting article got put up over on Player2Player, from one of the Morrowind developers. Among the problems with it are heavily compressed design times (all the faction quests had to be completed in three months, for example) and a lead designer who depended too much on real-life models (what was a Catholic Church clone doing in Tamriel, anyway?)
How is this on-topic? Well, perhaps it isn't. However, it still serves as a warning of how NOT to design your games. In the end, Morrowind is one of those games you'll look back on 5 years later and say "Man, that could have been SO good."
I just hope we don't end up feeling the same way about NWN.
The bias is pretty obvious, and having installed Windows XP and Red Hat both, I'd have to say that the actual install of XP was, in the end, simpler.
Of course, Linux is (at least right now) not designed for the level of ease-of-use that XP was...Microsoft basically 'dumbed down' Win2K. (How else would you explain the Fisher-Price color scheme?)
That said, Linux still has potential...but we're our own worst enemy as acceptance goes. The more we insist on being able to tinker with each and every nuance, the more intimidating Linux becomes to the computer newbie.
(And let's not even get started on the Linux zealots.)
>> Linux should be confined to 8 year old 286 boxes with 384KB RAM.
That would make a pretty sad server.
Of course, if you were on dial-up, you probably couldn't tell the difference.
That is where you fail.
You confuse the act with the technology behind the act.
Cars can be used in bank robberies. By your logic, the government should ban cars.
Sure, P2P stuff gets used a lot in piracy...I'm not arguing that. So does IRC. Should the government ban IRC?
So, being a McCarthy wannabe isn't enough for Ashcroft, I see.
This guy just gives me more and more reasons to vote Libertarian. The more I see the Bush admininstration trampling our rights, the more I hate this government.
Not that Gore would have been much better, with Senator Joe "Blacklist America" Lieberman as veep and all.
Sigh...I think I'll flee this country in terror before too much longer.
Well, what else are you going to call the RIAA versus AOL? ;)
Ah, the ethical quandaries of cyberpunk.
What about installing a coffee maker?
>> PS - E-Mail the Alexis Park letting them know their site isn't cross-browser compatible. Not ;)"
>> everyone uses IE and NS
There's a deep irony in the home of DefCon not working with Opera.
I think it's somewhere along the lines of the Microsoft website wsorking best with Netscape.