...Could it have anything to do with the quality of new recorded material being too low to compel people to cough up $10-$30 for a new CD?
I'm not saying there isn't good music out there but the only new music that gets any attention is typically the latest boy-band or a fresh piece of lip-synching-jail-bait and that is simply not the material I want to part with my money for.
After twenty years of going to raves and concerts and using walkman headphones at 9.5-10, I defy anyone to create a file format that can overcome the constant ring of tinitis in my ears!
"IMPORTANT: READ CAREFULLY - These components, including any "online" or electronic documentation are subject to the terms and conditions of the agreement under which you have licensed the applicable product described below (each an "End User License Agreement" or "EULA") and the terms and conditions of this Supplemental EULA.
Peru said they won't allow _proprietary_ software. All companies like Microsoft have to do is make software that does not use proprietary code-- they can still keep their precious proprietary software and sell it in the consumer and private business markets.
Gozilla was a Tyrannosaurus Rex and Mozilla is clearly a Tenontosaurus.
Never mind *there* what about *here*?
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Look at what it's done to our generation! We're thoughtless and unoriginal, we turn to movie versions of TV shows and call it entertainment (Spiderman, Charlies Angels, The Brady Bunch Movie, The Flintstones, ad nauseum).
And has there ever been a time in the recording industry with as many cookie-cutter fabrications of music like 'NSync, Britney Spears and Limp Bizkit?
If we ever want to do right by other cultures, we should sort our own out first otherwise we'll just keep re-polluting them over and over again!
Why not get the project started before going GPL, get the basics in, i.e., the stuff you dreamed was going to be there. When you reach a critical point where contributions to the code are wanted/needed, then open up the code to the world-at-large.
With the personal head start you have on the program it might help you to maintain your focus and help evangelize to others what your goals are because you've already invested some time and energy in the project.
...Or you could do what I do when people try to take over my projects at work: spit on their keyboard and egg their S.U.V.
Some of the biggest e-commerce blunders have been allowing hackers to read credit card numbers, etc.
Sure, this new drive can protect existing data from destruction, but we need protection from the wrong people reading the information that's already in a website.
Try reading a few hobby mathematics books first like "The Code Book" by Simon(?) Singh or any of the selection of books you find next to this one. Most of the bigger bookstores around here don't mind you having a good look, so read the first chapter before leaving the store and make sure it turns your crank.
Hopefully after you get through a few books you'll have a better idea of what you want to focus on. Even if you do end up plonking down a few hundred bucks for a night course, at least you'll make better of it because it's covering the material you want to learn.
On the other hand, you may find that there's enough recreatinoal mathematics books out there to sate that thirst for knowledge instead. This way means you may still spend $500 on books, but it's deferred over several years and at a pace you choose.
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Who wouldn't like to see a Linux/Windows mine sweeper death match!
They already tried to pit Windows versus Linux in a chess match:
1) the Windows machine refused to make its first move-- Microsoft executives explained later that they shouldn't have to make the first move as this could lead to a compromise of it's security system, thereby leaving its horsey vulnerable to worm attacks.
2) Microsoft later on changed the rules of the chess game citing their freedom to 'innovate' chess, creating new game pieces like 'bazooka' and 'platypus'. Unfortunately, they wouldn't tell anybody else how to use the new pieces or even document that there _were_ new pieces. Once it became apparent that the new pieces were there the Linux camp asked to have them removed but Microsoft refused on the basis that removing the pieces would irretrievably 'break' the game of chess.
I mean, downloading that 4k spam degrades my connection.
Sure, an eensy-weensy 4k is no trouble for me, but what about the ISP that actually runs and maintains a POP server and a great deal of their clients are getting spammed?
I agree, any communication can be construed as a violaiton but most laws can only be applied if the _intent_ is prooved too.
Ergo (ooo! lookit me talking lawyer-speak!), if the spammer intends to send as many emails as possible to as many people as possible thereby sucking up bandwidth for honest consumers of bandwidth, then failure to recognize the impact this has on said 'honest consumers' would be negligence, hence they could be punished to the extent of this law.
"Sorry, this fridge does not accept cookies. If you want this fridge to accept cookies, please adjust your security settings, close the door and try again."
The only thing limiting SQL is competent implementers/programmers.
SQL is an excellent means of selecting or creating sets of data, it's based on algebraic theorems (remember your Venn diagrams from highschool? SQL begins right there), some of which have been around for about a century.
What SQL is incapable of doing is overcoming shortsighted bottom-up database modelling. In other words, it doesn't matter how good the engine is, if the car's got square wheels, it ain't going anywhere.
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I'm not saying there isn't good music out there but the only new music that gets any attention is typically the latest boy-band or a fresh piece of lip-synching-jail-bait and that is simply not the material I want to part with my money for.
After twenty years of going to raves and concerts and using walkman headphones at 9.5-10, I defy anyone to create a file format that can overcome the constant ring of tinitis in my ears!
...It's the first case of assisted suicide on the x86 architecture.
With one of those babies on my desk and a set of headphones my boss will never know when I'm playing Icewind Dale II ;o)
I beg your pardon! The plural of virus is _not_ 'viruses'...
...It's Windows.
Oh my, you've been living in an different uni(x)verse for too long! You should have said "speed-demon" (no 'a').
Nice to see smaller companies standing up to the mega-money corporations instead of just allowing them to act irresponsibly...
Thank you and please enjoy your Mars bar."
...The "software choice" is theirs to make!
Gozilla was a Tyrannosaurus Rex and Mozilla is clearly a Tenontosaurus.
And has there ever been a time in the recording industry with as many cookie-cutter fabrications of music like 'NSync, Britney Spears and Limp Bizkit?
If we ever want to do right by other cultures, we should sort our own out first otherwise we'll just keep re-polluting them over and over again!
#!/bin/bash.sh
export $SHADE=/dark/brown
cat bread jam > $SHADE/toast
With the personal head start you have on the program it might help you to maintain your focus and help evangelize to others what your goals are because you've already invested some time and energy in the project.
Sure, this new drive can protect existing data from destruction, but we need protection from the wrong people reading the information that's already in a website.
...Until we get blip-verts a-la "Max Headroom"
Hopefully after you get through a few books you'll have a better idea of what you want to focus on. Even if you do end up plonking down a few hundred bucks for a night course, at least you'll make better of it because it's covering the material you want to learn.
On the other hand, you may find that there's enough recreatinoal mathematics books out there to sate that thirst for knowledge instead. This way means you may still spend $500 on books, but it's deferred over several years and at a pace you choose.
They already tried to pit Windows versus Linux in a chess match:
1) the Windows machine refused to make its first move-- Microsoft executives explained later that they shouldn't have to make the first move as this could lead to a compromise of it's security system, thereby leaving its horsey vulnerable to worm attacks.
2) Microsoft later on changed the rules of the chess game citing their freedom to 'innovate' chess, creating new game pieces like 'bazooka' and 'platypus'. Unfortunately, they wouldn't tell anybody else how to use the new pieces or even document that there _were_ new pieces. Once it became apparent that the new pieces were there the Linux camp asked to have them removed but Microsoft refused on the basis that removing the pieces would irretrievably 'break' the game of chess.
Sure, an eensy-weensy 4k is no trouble for me, but what about the ISP that actually runs and maintains a POP server and a great deal of their clients are getting spammed?
I agree, any communication can be construed as a violaiton but most laws can only be applied if the _intent_ is prooved too.
Ergo (ooo! lookit me talking lawyer-speak!), if the spammer intends to send as many emails as possible to as many people as possible thereby sucking up bandwidth for honest consumers of bandwidth, then failure to recognize the impact this has on said 'honest consumers' would be negligence, hence they could be punished to the extent of this law.
Now aren't we having fun?
Of course, there's still the "burden-of-proof", even in the case of spammers, but it would be nice to think there's a law that makes them vulnerable.
Notice on the first page how they put double-quotes around "industry standard" (read: "anti-competitive").
The Great Lakes are lakes because they're freshwater. They will never be "inland seas". The Black Sea is a sea because it is made of saltwater.
"Sorry, this fridge does not accept cookies. If you want this fridge to accept cookies, please adjust your security settings, close the door and try again."
And of course, being someone who makes up stories for a living in the movie industry, every word he says must be true.
The only thing limiting SQL is competent implementers/programmers. SQL is an excellent means of selecting or creating sets of data, it's based on algebraic theorems (remember your Venn diagrams from highschool? SQL begins right there), some of which have been around for about a century. What SQL is incapable of doing is overcoming shortsighted bottom-up database modelling. In other words, it doesn't matter how good the engine is, if the car's got square wheels, it ain't going anywhere.