How does this hurt the RIAA. This bill was going to forcibly reduce the royalties that these stations would have to pay. Now, with the bill blocked, they have to pay the higher rate or opt for the RIAA's "reduced" flat rate.
I'm not seeing how Helms, the 800 pound gorilla?, is benefitting the small broadcasters.
It appeared to me that SO often the yard had been seeded. In one show, the contestants were required to build a flying machine, low and behold a complete Cessna fuselage appeared on the top of the heap. Frequently things like brand new, whole rolls of wire would be "found" on the scrap heap, not to mention a large number of fully operational vehicles.
What kind of junk yard was being used in Junk Yard Wars and how often was it seeded?
Come on, people.
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Pay attention, this is a Troll that's actually building Karma with his trolls. Have a look at his user info, if you need to.
SearchKing has forums. I like this post best. It is from the SearchKing himself, Bob King. It is a defense of his actions. It seems that he's taking heat for this on his own site.
No, it's pathetic that Google actually will have to waste money defending against such a frivolous suite. I did find this funny though...
on the grounds the organization arbitrarily and purposefully devalued his companies' and his customers' web sites
So, it was an arbitrary ranking, that purposefully targeted him and his customers? I would have thought that arbitrary and purposeful targeting would be mutually exclusive.
I guess he never gave any thought to the possibility that his work sucks. It's always somebody else's fault, isn't it?
If $1700 is such a problem for your school perhaps, you should see about going to another school. It seems like an insignificant amount, even for a small school.
Mainstream labels market their artists. They don't rely on people digging for research on Shoucast to get the word out about a new band or album. They put the word in everybody's face, whether they like it or not.
The labels advertise with giant posters and billboards, everywhere. They get radio stations to play the songs incessantly, via payola or some other arm twisting or back scratching. The labels advertise on television. They make deals with the movie studios (sometimes the same people) to use and promote the artist in movies. They arrange and further promote concert tours.
When a label decides to promote a new artist, it is an all out media blitz. Everyone is going to see it, regardless of whether they want to or not, regardless of whether they think the music is great or sucks!
When an independent puts up a web site on some obscure corner of the internet, hardly anyone ever sees it and no one notices when it dies shortly there after.
There is an glimmer of truth to the article's line of argument but, the low cost and ease of publishing by the internet has long been touted as one of its major advantages. To an extent it certainly is true, the internet does empower the "little man". But, there is much more to it and Slashdotters seem unwilling to acknowledge this.
The fact is that publishers of art, specifically musicians need more than an inexpensive distribution channel. They need two other things, talent and, more so, marketing.
I'm sure that there are numerous extremely talented musicians out there that we will never hear of and it has nothing to do with the RIAA controlling streaming. Their obscurity will be because they lack a powerful marketing arm promoting their work. This marketing power is what the RIAA members or recording labels provide. Without the marketing power of the labels almost all musicians will fade into obscurity regardless of what distribution channels are available to them.
Regardless of anyone's willingness to accept this fact it is clearly born out today. For the past 5 to 10 years musicians have had the ability to publish and distribute their productions at a very low cost. Yet, there has yet to be a single artist who has achieved wide-spread popularity or fame through these channels.
Conversely, there are countless "artists", that are household names today, who haven't even a smidgen of talent. There are dozens of Top 10 performers that would still be growing corn in Kansas or washing cars in London if it weren't for the powerful marketing of the big labels.
Now be honest, could the Spice Girls have sold any significant number of albums had they gone it on their own and distributed through the internet? Would Brittney be flashing her belly button for Pepsi or, would she be doing Country & Western in some sleazy dive in Ohio for $8 an hour?
Obviously, it did freeze before shorting anything out. They would have to shut it down upon exhausting the coolant, so as not to overheat. Therefore, the condensation from the melting ice would not harm the board as there would be no power applied.
stealthchasers (those guys who sneak around secret USAF test bases in search of secret aircraft)
During the cold war they would have been known as spies. However, in the present they are classified as terrorists.
Sneaking around secret USAF test bases in search of secret aircraft is a great way to have your citizenship status abruptly changed to "Enemy combatant", enjoying all of the privilleges that such a title brings.
What happens if entity A has a patent pending on something, and during this period, entity B files for a patent, or infringes on what would eventually become a patent?
When two parties file for patents on the same technology, the patent is awarded to whomever filed first, unless prior art can be proven.
As for infringement, the proud owner of the new patent has their lawyer send the infringer a cease and desist order. If the infringer honors the order hopefully, that is the end of it. If however, the infringer has made significant moneys AND the patent holders lawyers are good there may be some punitive damages awarded against the infringer.
As I said, I was not trying to flame or insult you, or anyone else. Despite my disclaimer, I still got a few flames (I love Slashdotters):^)
But, thanks for your answer, I appreciate your time. I really wanted to know what your personal motivation was, and now I know. I do agree with your views regarding MS and their licensing. As for what I am doing about it, I'm NOT purchasing their products. They can take Licensing 6.0 and stuff it!
Really. I'd love to replace my present systems with smaller ones such as these and even ad a few more, since I'll have the room. But, my concern is noise. With a P4/2400 this baby will get hot. That means that it's probably going to have a couple of those 1 inch high-speed fans that typically howl like a jet engine.
What I really want is small like this with a similar processor but, no fans. As in silent. the I really could imagine the beowolf cluster (shaddap trolls). Yeah, I know that I could build such a beast and water cool it but, that's a bit too hacked up for me. Just don't have the balls to run a hacked up water cooled cluster.
This post is not meant as a flame or insult, I'm genuinely curious.
There are a few possible reasons for this hack: It's cool. Because it's there. Because you want to piss off M$. You didn't have anything better to do.
But, using the XBox as a cheap Linux PC isn't one of them as PCs can be found for $199. So, my question is; what is your motivation to spend so much time hacking the XBox?
Let's face it, I can use a two or three pronged power cord and power nearly every device made by simply plugging it into the wall, in almost any coutry in the world.
Sure there are some countries that use a different system, in which case you need an adapter or equipment that was manufactured for use in that part of the world.
But, in no country that I know of, will you have a problem if your device/power cord works in one location. You will never encounter a problem going to the next building and not being able to use the same cord!
Universal powersupply is already WELL established.
Novell's Zenworks for Servers and Zenworks for Desktops are awesome management packages. Sadly they focus their support on Novell servers (only natural) and Windows Desktops.
While it is true that Zenworks for Servers does support Solaris and Linux servers, the support is fairly limited, pretty much just starting and stopping services. The Zenworks for Desktops package supports Windows destops and offers some limited support for PDAs but not for Linux.
Now, if Zenwoks for Desktops fully supported Linux desktops, that would be perhaps the most amazing management app for Linux.
I would kill to have Novell's Snapshot utility on Linux. With Snapshot, you scan a system, then you install and configure your application. Next you scan the system again and Snapshot identifies all configuration and file changes or changes in the registry and then builds them into a "package". This package can then be distributed and installed, repaired, or uninstalled on any and all specified systems by just a few clicks in NDS. M$ SMS offers a similar system but Snapshot from Novell is a lot easier to work with and seems a fair bit faster to me.
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How does this hurt the RIAA. This bill was going to forcibly reduce the royalties that these stations would have to pay. Now, with the bill blocked, they have to pay the higher rate or opt for the RIAA's "reduced" flat rate.
I'm not seeing how Helms, the 800 pound gorilla?, is benefitting the small broadcasters.
It appeared to me that SO often the yard had been seeded. In one show, the contestants were required to build a flying machine, low and behold a complete Cessna fuselage appeared on the top of the heap. Frequently things like brand new, whole rolls of wire would be "found" on the scrap heap, not to mention a large number of fully operational vehicles.
What kind of junk yard was being used in Junk Yard Wars and how often was it seeded?
Pay attention, this is a Troll that's actually building Karma with his trolls. Have a look at his user info, if you need to.
SearchKing has forums. I like this post best. It is from the SearchKing himself, Bob King. It is a defense of his actions. It seems that he's taking heat for this on his own site.
Care to give him your take on it?
No, it's pathetic that Google actually will have to waste money defending against such a frivolous suite. I did find this funny though...
on the grounds the organization arbitrarily and purposefully devalued his companies' and his customers' web sites
So, it was an arbitrary ranking, that purposefully targeted him and his customers? I would have thought that arbitrary and purposeful targeting would be mutually exclusive.
I guess he never gave any thought to the possibility that his work sucks. It's always somebody else's fault, isn't it?
If $1700 is such a problem for your school perhaps, you should see about going to another school. It seems like an insignificant amount, even for a small school.
Go to the new and improved shoutcast
Mainstream labels market their artists. They don't rely on people digging for research on Shoucast to get the word out about a new band or album. They put the word in everybody's face, whether they like it or not.
The labels advertise with giant posters and billboards, everywhere. They get radio stations to play the songs incessantly, via payola or some other arm twisting or back scratching. The labels advertise on television. They make deals with the movie studios (sometimes the same people) to use and promote the artist in movies. They arrange and further promote concert tours.
When a label decides to promote a new artist, it is an all out media blitz. Everyone is going to see it, regardless of whether they want to or not, regardless of whether they think the music is great or sucks!
When an independent puts up a web site on some obscure corner of the internet, hardly anyone ever sees it and no one notices when it dies shortly there after.
I'll get moderated to hell for this, but.....
There is an glimmer of truth to the article's line of argument but, the low cost and ease of publishing by the internet has long been touted as one of its major advantages. To an extent it certainly is true, the internet does empower the "little man". But, there is much more to it and Slashdotters seem unwilling to acknowledge this.
The fact is that publishers of art, specifically musicians need more than an inexpensive distribution channel. They need two other things, talent and, more so, marketing.
I'm sure that there are numerous extremely talented musicians out there that we will never hear of and it has nothing to do with the RIAA controlling streaming. Their obscurity will be because they lack a powerful marketing arm promoting their work. This marketing power is what the RIAA members or recording labels provide. Without the marketing power of the labels almost all musicians will fade into obscurity regardless of what distribution channels are available to them.
Regardless of anyone's willingness to accept this fact it is clearly born out today. For the past 5 to 10 years musicians have had the ability to publish and distribute their productions at a very low cost. Yet, there has yet to be a single artist who has achieved wide-spread popularity or fame through these channels.
Conversely, there are countless "artists", that are household names today, who haven't even a smidgen of talent. There are dozens of Top 10 performers that would still be growing corn in Kansas or washing cars in London if it weren't for the powerful marketing of the big labels.
Now be honest, could the Spice Girls have sold any significant number of albums had they gone it on their own and distributed through the internet? Would Brittney be flashing her belly button for Pepsi or, would she be doing Country & Western in some sleazy dive in Ohio for $8 an hour?
Obviously, it did freeze before shorting anything out. They would have to shut it down upon exhausting the coolant, so as not to overheat. Therefore, the condensation from the melting ice would not harm the board as there would be no power applied.
I'm sure the soldered joints have no problem at all with the MASSIVE and abrupt temperature changes here.
When can we expect this on fuel cell powered laptops?
WIN2KSP3.exe 124.68MB
GW6SP2M.EXE 302.10MB
Favorite_ISO.zip.exe 700MB
stealthchasers (those guys who sneak around secret USAF test bases in search of secret aircraft)
During the cold war they would have been known as spies. However, in the present they are classified as terrorists.
Sneaking around secret USAF test bases in search of secret aircraft is a great way to have your citizenship status abruptly changed to "Enemy combatant", enjoying all of the privilleges that such a title brings.
What happens if entity A has a patent pending on something, and during this period, entity B files for a patent, or infringes on what would eventually become a patent?
When two parties file for patents on the same technology, the patent is awarded to whomever filed first, unless prior art can be proven.
As for infringement, the proud owner of the new patent has their lawyer send the infringer a cease and desist order. If the infringer honors the order hopefully, that is the end of it. If however, the infringer has made significant moneys AND the patent holders lawyers are good there may be some punitive damages awarded against the infringer.
In order of likelyhood.
1.) Microsoft has already filed patent applications for this process (pretty likely, I think), in which case Lucky Green will be too late.
2.) Green gets patent. Microsoft uses Palladium for license enforcement. Green gets rich!! Consumer is stuck with Palladium licensing.
3.) Green gets patent, enforces cease and desist on Microsoft, Microsoft finds another way.
As I said, I was not trying to flame or insult you, or anyone else. Despite my disclaimer, I still got a few flames (I love Slashdotters) :^)
But, thanks for your answer, I appreciate your time. I really wanted to know what your personal motivation was, and now I know. I do agree with your views regarding MS and their licensing. As for what I am doing about it, I'm NOT purchasing their products. They can take Licensing 6.0 and stuff it!
Really. I'd love to replace my present systems with smaller ones such as these and even ad a few more, since I'll have the room. But, my concern is noise. With a P4/2400 this baby will get hot. That means that it's probably going to have a couple of those 1 inch high-speed fans that typically howl like a jet engine.
What I really want is small like this with a similar processor but, no fans. As in silent. the I really could imagine the beowolf cluster (shaddap trolls). Yeah, I know that I could build such a beast and water cool it but, that's a bit too hacked up for me. Just don't have the balls to run a hacked up water cooled cluster.
Webmin IS great, provided you secure it properly. But, Webmin cannot configure your kernel for compilation, which is what this tool does.
This post is not meant as a flame or insult, I'm genuinely curious.
There are a few possible reasons for this hack:
It's cool.
Because it's there.
Because you want to piss off M$.
You didn't have anything better to do.
But, using the XBox as a cheap Linux PC isn't one of them as PCs can be found for $199. So, my question is; what is your motivation to spend so much time hacking the XBox?
Arent Fox
Why not drop them a line.
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I'd suggest that Peng move to the domain and tell AOL what they really think.
BTW, seeing as Peng is French, are there any Nazi references or links on AOL? Let's hope not for AOL's sake.
George Schmaltzki's turtle!!! Yea!!!
I'm not sure why this is an Ask Slashdot.
Is this better than say, Group Compiler?
Let's face it, I can use a two or three pronged power cord and power nearly every device made by simply plugging it into the wall, in almost any coutry in the world.
Sure there are some countries that use a different system, in which case you need an adapter or equipment that was manufactured for use in that part of the world.
But, in no country that I know of, will you have a problem if your device/power cord works in one location. You will never encounter a problem going to the next building and not being able to use the same cord!
Universal powersupply is already WELL established.
Novell's Zenworks for Servers and Zenworks for Desktops are awesome management packages. Sadly they focus their support on Novell servers (only natural) and Windows Desktops.
While it is true that Zenworks for Servers does support Solaris and Linux servers, the support is fairly limited, pretty much just starting and stopping services. The Zenworks for Desktops package supports Windows destops and offers some limited support for PDAs but not for Linux.
Now, if Zenwoks for Desktops fully supported Linux desktops, that would be perhaps the most amazing management app for Linux.
I would kill to have Novell's Snapshot utility on Linux. With Snapshot, you scan a system, then you install and configure your application. Next you scan the system again and Snapshot identifies all configuration and file changes or changes in the registry and then builds them into a "package". This package can then be distributed and installed, repaired, or uninstalled on any and all specified systems by just a few clicks in NDS. M$ SMS offers a similar system but Snapshot from Novell is a lot easier to work with and seems a fair bit faster to me.