Apple Mail has a great filter that can redirect mail to the trash based on words in the header, e.g. enlargement, size, pill, farm sex, girl on girl, etc.
Having worked in shipping and now for a state office that often has to ship computer and computer equipment by UPS I would say that Murphy's law of packing is: "If UPS can damage your package they will."
The lesson is to use lots of peanuts and or bubble wrap, even it means the box is twice as big as what you are shipping. Obviously the people moving boxes around at UPS terminals are either illiterate or illegal immigrants, since English terms like up, down, fragile, breakable, etc. are not understood by them.
Now they are "embracing standards?" Why didn't they do this years ago by making a browser which was compatible with JavaScript? Why all the fuss over Java? Why put out a mail client that allows the spread of e-mail viruses.
Gates has become rich by selling CD's that cost $.50 to manufacture for $200 and up. Don't trust him.
"Try learning Java and make all your projects open-source."
Java is hard all that class and object stuff. I much prefer Perl, quick and dirty. If Java is Felix Unger than Perl is Oscar Madison. I prefer the Oscar approach, even if debugging means having to dig through dirty laundry on the floor. Besides with Java you have to put up with all the coffee jokes.
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Getting back to the root of the whole publishing thing. First of all its the publishing rights to the songs written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon up until the time the group split in the early 70s. Songs written by George or Ringo are not included in the catalog that Michael Jackson owns with Sony.
This all started while the Beatles were at the height of their popularity in the early 60s. Their manager Brian Epstein realized that he was not getting any of the money from the publishing of John's and Paul's songs. Every time a song is sold on a record, CD or tape, played on the radio or played in public the song writer is paid a few cents. For major hits this quickly adds up. Epstein suggested that John and Paul form a public company and sell stock in their songs. This makes little sense, since stock is usually sold to buy assets to form a company. There is little required to write songs, you don't need a factory or a design team of engineers. There does seem to have been some tax benefit to this scheme, but the main reason for forming the company was that Epstein would get 5% of the stock.
The company formed was called Northern Songs.
After Epstein died, the Beatles decided to manage their own affairs and formed Apple Records. At some point, around 1968, the Beatles needed cash to run Apple, they unwisely decided to sell their stock in Northern Songs. Johns argument was that in a few years no one would be listening to or playing Beatle songs so the stock would soon be worthless anyway. Well he was wrong. Paul never forgave him for this and tried to buy back the company later. This is where Jackson came in. (see previous posts.)
And in the end the cash you make is equal to the cash you loose in lawsuits.
In other news, China has posted stories to Slashdot about Taiwan's major internet sites. These sites have been effecively shut down due to the "slashdot effect." Film at 11.
I would like to see statistics on how much of the music that people download is Top 40. I think that the greatest fear of the music industry is not that people are "stealing" their music but that the net give people a chance to hear music that hasn't been shoved down their throats by MTV and Top 40 radio.
The great thing about music on the net is that any band can make its music available to the whole world without going through a record company.
For example
http://http://www.funkyside.com/ has music available for free from Donna the Buffalo and other bands that seems to be making a pretty good living from tours and CD sales, while allowing for recording and distribution of their live music.
The web is a great experiment in the open distribution of creativity. If CD sales are down it may be that people are finding better music that what is offered by the big record companies.
Oh well another day as Mac administrator for my office. Wonder what's going on, lets see whats on Slashdot. Oh another computer worm that only affects Windows machines, ho hum, well our Mac Mail doesn't run scripts so no problem there. Hmm another MS security update, yawn, got all the Macs here running software update, nothing for me to do here. Well, I guess I'll go back to reading "Star Wars: Dark Force Rising", ho hum....
Tried the new Mozilla on OSX, but I didn't like the "look and feel" and it didn't import my bookmarks from Chimera. So I got Camino which is what I am typing this on. Seems to work as well as Chimera, not sure why the name change. Will run it for a while. Chimera had a way of crashing unexpectedly, only every few days or so, will see if Camino does any better. According to freetranslation.com Camino means road, sorry to see the mythological creature motif go. Griffin might have been good if they had to get rid of Chimera for some sort of copyright infringement.
Well, that reflects the use of browsers in Germany or by German speakers, not their use world-wide or in the US. Germans tend to be better educated and would be more likely to use a faster, better, cheaper browser.
Does this mean that I can go to a web site and get actual information instead of waiting for an annoying Flash or Java applet to download and play through. If so, then I'm all for it. Most Flash is wasted on useless visuals of the company logo flying around or other nonsense.
OK, morning rant over, back to designing real web pages.
OK, I understand that there is some dramatic license allowed in SciFi movies and TV shows, but what happened to the third dimension? In a recent episode of Andromenda the Commonwealth forces supposedly surrounded another force with a circular ring of space ships. Couldn't the enemy forces escape by going up or down? And why are ships shown having battles a few feet from each other? Even in modern dog fights between fighter planes within the Earth's atmosphere it is rare for jets to make visual contact, let alone be a few feet away from each other. The pilots see a blip on their radar screen and fire a missile. The likelihood of two space ships being a few feet apart in future combat is very unlikely. At least now the ships move relative to each other. On the old Star Trek show two ships in a battle would just sit there and fire rays at each other. And what about orbital mechanics, this isn't taken into account in any show.
SciFi in its written form has traditionally been an extrapolation of present technology to sometime in the future. We are now seeing the science fiction of the 50's and 60's becoming reality. Robots, clones and portable computers were predicated in the stories of Asimov, Clarke and P.K.Dick. Although movies and TV shows have to appeal to a wider audience they can be written in an imaginative way that is still dramatic. I don't see this happening anytime soon, but maybe in the future . . .
From the CNN.com article:
SIRTF's detectors are incredibly sensitive. If you could put a common household television remote control in deep space SIRTF could detect it at a distance of 25,000 miles.
Considering that taxpayers put up 1.9 billion for the observatory, do you think they could use it to find the remote cotrol that I lost in my living room?
I've been the IT specialist for a government organization for five years. All our computers are Macs. In those five years we have never gotten a virus that has caused one day of lost productivity. I have lost work time however posting messages to Slashdot bragging about this every time another e-mail worm or virus hits.
Cringely just had a column on the cost benefit of using Macs: I Cringely
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Apple Mail has a great filter that can redirect mail to the trash based on words in the header, e.g. enlargement, size, pill, farm sex, girl on girl, etc.
Having worked in shipping and now for a state office that often has to ship computer and computer equipment by UPS I would say that Murphy's law of packing is: "If UPS can damage your package they will."
The lesson is to use lots of peanuts and or bubble wrap, even it means the box is twice as big as what you are shipping. Obviously the people moving boxes around at UPS terminals are either illiterate or illegal immigrants, since English terms like up, down, fragile, breakable, etc. are not understood by them.
Now they are "embracing standards?" Why didn't they do this years ago by making a browser which was compatible with JavaScript? Why all the fuss over Java? Why put out a mail client that allows the spread of e-mail viruses.
Gates has become rich by selling CD's that cost $.50 to manufacture for $200 and up. Don't trust him.
Their slogan could be "Big Brother Dubya is watching you."
Meanwhile I am stuck here in Florida in my office cubicle at the Ministry of Truth working for Little Brother Jeb.
"Try learning Java and make all your projects open-source."
Java is hard all that class and object stuff. I much prefer Perl, quick and dirty. If Java is Felix Unger than Perl is Oscar Madison. I prefer the Oscar approach, even if debugging means having to dig through dirty laundry on the floor. Besides with Java you have to put up with all the coffee jokes.
Is there any college in the U.S. with 70 virgins?
There are only two great tragedies in life; One is getting what you want, the other is not getting what want.
--Oscar Wilde
I wanted to be first post.
As I recall from my days in shipping, UPS automatically insures everything for up to $100, so you should be able to atleast get that back.
You pay your credit cards?
But $20 can buy you a good time.
Getting back to the root of the whole publishing thing. First of all its the publishing rights to the songs written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon up until the time the group split in the early 70s. Songs written by George or Ringo are not included in the catalog that Michael Jackson owns with Sony.
This all started while the Beatles were at the height of their popularity in the early 60s. Their manager Brian Epstein realized that he was not getting any of the money from the publishing of John's and Paul's songs. Every time a song is sold on a record, CD or tape, played on the radio or played in public the song writer is paid a few cents. For major hits this quickly adds up. Epstein suggested that John and Paul form a public company and sell stock in their songs. This makes little sense, since stock is usually sold to buy assets to form a company. There is little required to write songs, you don't need a factory or a design team of engineers. There does seem to have been some tax benefit to this scheme, but the main reason for forming the company was that Epstein would get 5% of the stock. The company formed was called Northern Songs.
After Epstein died, the Beatles decided to manage their own affairs and formed Apple Records. At some point, around 1968, the Beatles needed cash to run Apple, they unwisely decided to sell their stock in Northern Songs. Johns argument was that in a few years no one would be listening to or playing Beatle songs so the stock would soon be worthless anyway. Well he was wrong. Paul never forgave him for this and tried to buy back the company later. This is where Jackson came in. (see previous posts.)
And in the end the cash you make is equal to the cash you loose in lawsuits.
In other news, China has posted stories to Slashdot about Taiwan's major internet sites. These sites have been effecively shut down due to the "slashdot effect." Film at 11.
The ape-people did take over. We just didn't tell the dumb humans that we enslaved ... ohh um never mind.
Actually Hendrix was at the height of his popularity when he died, so it wasn't such a good career move. It did provide some material for Spinal Tap.
The phrase was first applied to Elvis. When he died he hadn't had a hit single for many years.
I would like to see statistics on how much of the music that people download is Top 40. I think that the greatest fear of the music industry is not that people are "stealing" their music but that the net give people a chance to hear music that hasn't been shoved down their throats by MTV and Top 40 radio.
The great thing about music on the net is that any band can make its music available to the whole world without going through a record company.
For example http://http://www.funkyside.com/ has music available for free from Donna the Buffalo and other bands that seems to be making a pretty good living from tours and CD sales, while allowing for recording and distribution of their live music.
The web is a great experiment in the open distribution of creativity. If CD sales are down it may be that people are finding better music that what is offered by the big record companies.
Oh well another day as Mac administrator for my office. Wonder what's going on, lets see whats on Slashdot. Oh another computer worm that only affects Windows machines, ho hum, well our Mac Mail doesn't run scripts so no problem there. Hmm another MS security update, yawn, got all the Macs here running software update, nothing for me to do here. Well, I guess I'll go back to reading "Star Wars: Dark Force Rising", ho hum ....
Ya like Astrix the Gaul, he could kick Spiderman's but anyday.
Tried the new Mozilla on OSX, but I didn't like the "look and feel" and it didn't import my bookmarks from Chimera. So I got Camino which is what I am typing this on. Seems to work as well as Chimera, not sure why the name change. Will run it for a while. Chimera had a way of crashing unexpectedly, only every few days or so, will see if Camino does any better. According to freetranslation.com Camino means road, sorry to see the mythological creature motif go. Griffin might have been good if they had to get rid of Chimera for some sort of copyright infringement.
Well, that reflects the use of browsers in Germany or by German speakers, not their use world-wide or in the US. Germans tend to be better educated and would be more likely to use a faster, better, cheaper browser.
Does this mean that I can go to a web site and get actual information instead of waiting for an annoying Flash or Java applet to download and play through. If so, then I'm all for it. Most Flash is wasted on useless visuals of the company logo flying around or other nonsense.
OK, morning rant over, back to designing real web pages.
From CNN.com's story on Mars:About every 26 months, the two planets pass relatively close to one another, during periods now known as opposition.
So what was it know as before? Realcloseness?
How can you know how good you have it if it's not even possible to have it any other way?
In other words: I don't use a Mac because I dislike Microsoft, I dislike Microsoft because I have used a Mac.
OK, I understand that there is some dramatic license allowed in SciFi movies and TV shows, but what happened to the third dimension? In a recent episode of Andromenda the Commonwealth forces supposedly surrounded another force with a circular ring of space ships. Couldn't the enemy forces escape by going up or down? And why are ships shown having battles a few feet from each other? Even in modern dog fights between fighter planes within the Earth's atmosphere it is rare for jets to make visual contact, let alone be a few feet away from each other. The pilots see a blip on their radar screen and fire a missile. The likelihood of two space ships being a few feet apart in future combat is very unlikely. At least now the ships move relative to each other. On the old Star Trek show two ships in a battle would just sit there and fire rays at each other. And what about orbital mechanics, this isn't taken into account in any show.
SciFi in its written form has traditionally been an extrapolation of present technology to sometime in the future. We are now seeing the science fiction of the 50's and 60's becoming reality. Robots, clones and portable computers were predicated in the stories of Asimov, Clarke and P.K.Dick. Although movies and TV shows have to appeal to a wider audience they can be written in an imaginative way that is still dramatic. I don't see this happening anytime soon, but maybe in the future . . .
From the CNN.com article:
SIRTF's detectors are incredibly sensitive. If you could put a common household television remote control in deep space SIRTF could detect it at a distance of 25,000 miles.
Considering that taxpayers put up 1.9 billion for the observatory, do you think they could use it to find the remote cotrol that I lost in my living room?
I've been the IT specialist for a government organization for five years. All our computers are Macs. In those five years we have never gotten a virus that has caused one day of lost productivity. I have lost work time however posting messages to Slashdot bragging about this every time another e-mail worm or virus hits.
Cringely just had a column on the cost benefit of using Macs: I Cringely