what songs do you have that you are trying to add to a playlist that you can't with iTunes? Im not sure I really follow what your asking for?
I imported all 4400 songs that I have in one music format or another into my library and can make playlists out of all of them. Sure they have to be in your iTunes library but what exactly is wrong with that? It seems like a simple enough requirement considering you have to build your playlist from some source don't you?
I didn't personally rip all 4400+ songs into mp3 format or whatever, but I have all of the files and iTunes doesn't care what machine I created them on, where I got them from, or how I put them on my computer/ipod/whatever.
Please explain a bit more so maybe someone here can help.
Stop being so damn cynical. Who really cares? Do you think the kids who are getting the new school care where they money came from? They will get a nice school and resources they may not (or may) have access to currently.
I think it is great someone, anyone, is helping improve our schools - even if it is just one school. Be happy for the kids and stop hating for one minute.
First off the reason so many posters think Linux is "more secure" is purely arrogance.
The primary reason Linux isn't more notoriously hacked is because more people Hate Microsoft.
Someday, if Linux succeeds as well as it has the potential to do - Linux will be the hated guy on the block and some new young OS will be the flavor du jour. Bad linux press will abound and the new OS will be touted as the greatest thing ever..
I have a personal blog domain that I use to keep my family and friends updated about my life. Since I have moved alot it has been a great way of keeping open the lines of communication.
However, recently, AOL has stopped letting my updates reach my 2 Aunts in Mass. And it is pretty annoying. I appreciate the fact that AOL is trying to cut down on SPAM - but damn! Gimme a break - let me SPAM their server first before they ban my domain. I only send about 2 emails a month (one to each aunt) to their servers.. Seems like AOL spent more effort blocking me than I did emailing their pop servers.
Put a lock on your mailbox. If you can't - then replace your mailbox with one you can lock. It should have a slot for mail to go in, and a lockable door for mail to go out through. A lot of identity theft is done via the theft of mail from insecure mailboxes. My elder brother is a cop in oregon and he said that mail/identity theft is one of their most reported crimes.
He strongly suggests people lock their mailboxes. Ideally you can have a slot in your home that mail is put into (so it lands right in your living room) but if you can't have that then a lockable mailbox is your next best alternative.
A lock is a small cost towards a potential huge savings in both time and money. Lock up your mail!
I have known David for quite a while, dating back to 1996, and he is a pretty bright guy. I have faith in his judgement and figure if he thinks this is the best course of action toward reaching the goals he was eyeballing so long ago then it probably is the best path for him to take at the moment.
I think his addition to the CreativeCommons team will be a great benifit to CreativeCommons and the Open[Anything] community.
the arrogance of everyone who has posted in response to this joking message is amazing. None of you know a thing about the guy who posted this. You lecture about how greedy and tyrannical the US is - you lecture about how OUR media is corrupt and in cahoots with our govt.
Perhaps you should look at your own nations. During the imperial age what nations were colonizing others? It wasn't the US (though to be fair we did have a couple small colonies.. the US actions pale in comparison to the oh so noble Europeans).
Even without finding NBC weapons in Iraq - the potential for a decent outcome is still there. Should the administration based their attack on the WMD card? Hell no - but they did and now they are suffering the political pain for it. But Hussein is out of power - and that can't be a wholly bad thing.
And to the french guy who questioned the E. Timor thing - and the US involvement in Iraq. What was france doing in Sierra Leon the whole time? Enforcing their own foreign policy on another country? For what reason? Was it anymore valid than the US in Iraq? Probably not.
Deal with it folks. A goverenments job is to, first and foremost, look out for its countries self interest. If they aren't then they are failing their people. The Kyoto treaty wasn't written in a way that would have made a difference since the major producers of green house gasses, developing countries, were excluded so why should the US have hamstrung itself with it? Why hasn't Britain jumped into adopting the Euro? It isn't in the interest of historic nationalism - some attachment to the pound - its due to economic self interest. If Germany could fix their crap economy maybe England would join them. But for now the English Govt has to look out for #1. That is its job. France is no different, nor is Germany, or anyone else. The only differnce is the US govt is bigger, and a more obvious target most of the time when people want to bitch about a govt. Instead of trying to fix our system - why don't you guys spend some time working on your own nation(s) and it's problems?
Be realists and drop the idealism for a bit. You might be amazed at what you see.
It's amazing to me how quicky ignorance rears its ugly head when hate something.. what is the point of this post other than to show that you don't know what your talking about?
not a real life view of computing - your right nobody uses Windows & x86 processors in real life - its all just a figment of Bill Gates's fabulous imagination.
Wow your pretty heated in your disdain for MS and the MPAA it seems.
I guess Im just not seeing this from the same angle you are. Sure there is plenty of things MS does that I don't like as a company - but some of their software is useful - even if they did just buy another company to make it - The software industry isn't the only one that works like that.
Im just not as opinionated about these issues as you are and frankly I don't think MS = Nazi. That is just plain extreme. There is no real correlation you can make between the actions of MS and Nazi Germany to support that statement.
MS may be a dirty cheating backstabbing company - but they dont kill people, practice genocide, or genomic cleansing. They make software/hardware or buy other companies that do it better. That is about it.
I would bet that there are plenty of US citizens or residents who frequent this site as well.
You are in India and are free eh? Well feel free to ignore articles that you don't care about. It shouldn't be too tough for you. Just scroll right by.
Why doesn't it suprise me that you posted this flaming troll shit as an anonymous coward?
My local YMCA has had things like this for years now. One is a tank game where you peddle to move the tank. Another is attached to a rowing machine and simulates a rowing race.
The bike has more options, the tank bit, a bike race, and some car thing that I barely remember. The graphics were horrible but the concept was good and the tank battle thing was decent enough to take my mind off of the tedium of peddaling a stationary bike.
This wouldn't be an issue at all if people didn't "steal" these movies and songs. If
People didn't give away copies of things they have no right to the industry wouldn't have anything to gripe about.
However, saying copyright is theft is factually inaccurate. Im going to quote someone more qualified than I on this though:
" This is not a matter
of opinion, but rather of law. Copyright violation is a tort, i.e., a
claimed business wrong that can be settled as a matter of civil law
between the two parties. There are sundry defences and exceptions that
might apply. One's local public prosecutors won't pay for the
investigation or lawsuit -- because they do that only for matters of
criminal law. Which brings us to:
Making a copy of an abstract property over which legislated monopoly
exists does not qualify as "theft": Theft is a concept in _criminal_
law, under whose provisions it applies only to tangible property (and
therefore not to [downloaded songs or movies]). Crimes are wrongful acts that are considered
injurious to _society_, unlike civil torts, which are private disputes
that can be settled in court. Criminal cases are underwritten and
paid for by the state. Proof must be shown beyond any reasonable doubt,
instead of a mere preponderance of the evidence (as in civil cases).
The claimed victim can't get "damages", unlike in civil law -- as the
dispute is between the accused and the state, not the accused and the
claimed victim. Last, the accused can be imprisoned, instead of just
being subject to monetary awards and court orders." Rick Moen (Linux Mafia - posted this on the rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan newsgroup about "theft" of an e-book. However, its applicability here is obvious.
Course, I tend to forget that the/. crowd likes to lean toward the everything should be free mentality and we all should live in Shangri La where everyone can get whatever they want without consideration of the people who actually created the product.
Finally, just because a company is based in the US it doesn't mean they have no legal complaint in other nations. Many companies hold both US and international patents and copyrights in other nations. With the economy being as global as it is doesn't only make sense to protect your property as much as possible in all of your markets?
Bitch all you want, but if these companies hadn't been publishing the movies/music all these years none of you would have anything to steal/share. This doesn't make those companies infallibe in my eyes but their actions don't make them the hand of the devil either. They are a business protecting their interests - just like you guys contacting ISPs to encourage them to do nothing are trying to protect yours.
Oddly enough though, I imagine if you were the president of one of those same companies I imagine your view would change pretty quickly. People are notoriosly willing to be careless with other peoples money.
it was cool of some of you to put the URLS here, I wasn't that generous and had made my own stupid little html page so I could grab the files.
Of course, after the first two had downloaded, and the comments on this topic had jumped from 2 to 100+ the speed with which they were DLing dropped significantly.
Damn you/.
as a few others here have posted these have been in use at larger places for quite some time - and in many independant pharmacies.
In fact, Rite-Aid uses them in their high volume pharmacies and have been for at least 2 years now. There is one fairly close to my hometown.
The mistake most people make is to think the pharmacists main role is to put pills in the bottle. In the old days his/her job was to often make medicines for their patients and to advise them on the drugs benifits/side effects. My father in law is a pharmacist and he often tells me tales of the wierd drugs he used to have to make. He owned his own independant until the early 90s and up till then he was still regularly referred patients who needed something special made.
Thats part of why a pharmacist has to know so much about Chemistry and is a core part of their cirriculum (or it once was, im not sure anymore). Now however the pharmacist is the last line of defense to make sure the patient is taking meds safely and only take meds they should be taking.
Pharmacists can also be held liable if false perscriptions are filled - which can lead to a world of legal trouble for the pharmacist. Especially when dealing with controlled substances.
I know in my father-in-laws Rite-Aid pharm techs do most of the bottle filling and labelling. He checks their work and talks to the patient. Finally he is the one who has to put the label on the bottle - its the last sanity check on the Rx to make sure it is correct.
the page still works, i just noticed the javascript error and thought it was funny. thanksf or the info on the PNG stuff though. I was unaware of that problem in IE.
not trolling. Im using IE6 and I have my browser always show me JS errors. Look for the annoying yellow exlamation..
why the hell would I troll anyway?
Or, better yet, try to visit the file listed in the iesuckssohard.htc url..
I get the javascript error on every page of the lnx-bbc site
using IE 6.0.2800.1106
while many of you probably hate IE as well I thought some might find this humorous..
if you visit the BBC home with IE a JS error occurs pointing to a permission error on the file at:
http://www.lnx-bbc.org/iesuckssohard.htc
Im glad they dont mind annoying some of the people that come to their site to help or learn more about what they are doing.
I know, the haters are probably saying, if you are using Linux you wouldn't be using IE anyway - well when Im using a non-linux machine I will keep using IE until I see a compelling reason to switch (and a tabbed interface isn't one) or when my customers all switch to something else...
uhh, I think it mentioned the discount for things published by gnu press - as in books.
yep here is the actual message from their page:
20% Discount on GNU Press Purchases
You will receive a 20% discount on all purchases of FSF's GNU Press merchandise. This discount includes all products sold by FSF -- from books to CDs to clothing.
Slashdot Mirror
i think the subject of this post speaks for itself. I was hoping for a bit more... oh well, I hope the movie has more to it
what songs do you have that you are trying to add to a playlist that you can't with iTunes? Im not sure I really follow what your asking for? I imported all 4400 songs that I have in one music format or another into my library and can make playlists out of all of them. Sure they have to be in your iTunes library but what exactly is wrong with that? It seems like a simple enough requirement considering you have to build your playlist from some source don't you? I didn't personally rip all 4400+ songs into mp3 format or whatever, but I have all of the files and iTunes doesn't care what machine I created them on, where I got them from, or how I put them on my computer/ipod/whatever. Please explain a bit more so maybe someone here can help.
I always enjoy my time at the inner harbor when in Baltimore. Now I can get work done while I lounging as well. I like it.
i tried that link and it didn't work. maybe this one will http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx? pf=&ID=36606&decrypt=y&log=
i like your sig - subtle yet bold.
Stop being so damn cynical. Who really cares? Do you think the kids who are getting the new school care where they money came from? They will get a nice school and resources they may not (or may) have access to currently. I think it is great someone, anyone, is helping improve our schools - even if it is just one school. Be happy for the kids and stop hating for one minute.
First off the reason so many posters think Linux is "more secure" is purely arrogance. The primary reason Linux isn't more notoriously hacked is because more people Hate Microsoft. Someday, if Linux succeeds as well as it has the potential to do - Linux will be the hated guy on the block and some new young OS will be the flavor du jour. Bad linux press will abound and the new OS will be touted as the greatest thing ever..
I have a personal blog domain that I use to keep my family and friends updated about my life. Since I have moved alot it has been a great way of keeping open the lines of communication. However, recently, AOL has stopped letting my updates reach my 2 Aunts in Mass. And it is pretty annoying. I appreciate the fact that AOL is trying to cut down on SPAM - but damn! Gimme a break - let me SPAM their server first before they ban my domain. I only send about 2 emails a month (one to each aunt) to their servers.. Seems like AOL spent more effort blocking me than I did emailing their pop servers.
He strongly suggests people lock their mailboxes. Ideally you can have a slot in your home that mail is put into (so it lands right in your living room) but if you can't have that then a lockable mailbox is your next best alternative.
A lock is a small cost towards a potential huge savings in both time and money. Lock up your mail!
I have known David for quite a while, dating back to 1996, and he is a pretty bright guy. I have faith in his judgement and figure if he thinks this is the best course of action toward reaching the goals he was eyeballing so long ago then it probably is the best path for him to take at the moment. I think his addition to the CreativeCommons team will be a great benifit to CreativeCommons and the Open[Anything] community.
the arrogance of everyone who has posted in response to this joking message is amazing. None of you know a thing about the guy who posted this. You lecture about how greedy and tyrannical the US is - you lecture about how OUR media is corrupt and in cahoots with our govt. Perhaps you should look at your own nations. During the imperial age what nations were colonizing others? It wasn't the US (though to be fair we did have a couple small colonies .. the US actions pale in comparison to the oh so noble Europeans).
Even without finding NBC weapons in Iraq - the potential for a decent outcome is still there. Should the administration based their attack on the WMD card? Hell no - but they did and now they are suffering the political pain for it. But Hussein is out of power - and that can't be a wholly bad thing.
And to the french guy who questioned the E. Timor thing - and the US involvement in Iraq. What was france doing in Sierra Leon the whole time? Enforcing their own foreign policy on another country? For what reason? Was it anymore valid than the US in Iraq? Probably not.
Deal with it folks. A goverenments job is to, first and foremost, look out for its countries self interest. If they aren't then they are failing their people. The Kyoto treaty wasn't written in a way that would have made a difference since the major producers of green house gasses, developing countries, were excluded so why should the US have hamstrung itself with it? Why hasn't Britain jumped into adopting the Euro? It isn't in the interest of historic nationalism - some attachment to the pound - its due to economic self interest. If Germany could fix their crap economy maybe England would join them. But for now the English Govt has to look out for #1. That is its job. France is no different, nor is Germany, or anyone else. The only differnce is the US govt is bigger, and a more obvious target most of the time when people want to bitch about a govt. Instead of trying to fix our system - why don't you guys spend some time working on your own nation(s) and it's problems?
Be realists and drop the idealism for a bit. You might be amazed at what you see.
I hear that - smack is half the fun of foosball - the other is letting other people pay for your evening entertainment :O)
It's amazing to me how quicky ignorance rears its ugly head when hate something.. what is the point of this post other than to show that you don't know what your talking about?
not a real life view of computing - your right nobody uses Windows & x86 processors in real life - its all just a figment of Bill Gates's fabulous imagination.
Wow your pretty heated in your disdain for MS and the MPAA it seems. I guess Im just not seeing this from the same angle you are. Sure there is plenty of things MS does that I don't like as a company - but some of their software is useful - even if they did just buy another company to make it - The software industry isn't the only one that works like that. Im just not as opinionated about these issues as you are and frankly I don't think MS = Nazi. That is just plain extreme. There is no real correlation you can make between the actions of MS and Nazi Germany to support that statement. MS may be a dirty cheating backstabbing company - but they dont kill people, practice genocide, or genomic cleansing. They make software/hardware or buy other companies that do it better. That is about it.
Or maybe you got lucky (and are just grumpy) since plenty of other people have found the site to be suffering the /. effect..
Of course, your whole post kinda has a grumpy feel to it.. Even your compliment is balanced with a gripe. sheesh.
I would bet that there are plenty of US citizens or residents who frequent this site as well. You are in India and are free eh? Well feel free to ignore articles that you don't care about. It shouldn't be too tough for you. Just scroll right by. Why doesn't it suprise me that you posted this flaming troll shit as an anonymous coward?
The bike has more options, the tank bit, a bike race, and some car thing that I barely remember. The graphics were horrible but the concept was good and the tank battle thing was decent enough to take my mind off of the tedium of peddaling a stationary bike.
However, saying copyright is theft is factually inaccurate. Im going to quote someone more qualified than I on this though:
" This is not a matter of opinion, but rather of law. Copyright violation is a tort, i.e., a claimed business wrong that can be settled as a matter of civil law between the two parties. There are sundry defences and exceptions that might apply. One's local public prosecutors won't pay for the investigation or lawsuit -- because they do that only for matters of criminal law. Which brings us to:
Making a copy of an abstract property over which legislated monopoly exists does not qualify as "theft": Theft is a concept in _criminal_ law, under whose provisions it applies only to tangible property (and therefore not to [downloaded songs or movies]). Crimes are wrongful acts that are considered injurious to _society_, unlike civil torts, which are private disputes that can be settled in court. Criminal cases are underwritten and paid for by the state. Proof must be shown beyond any reasonable doubt, instead of a mere preponderance of the evidence (as in civil cases). The claimed victim can't get "damages", unlike in civil law -- as the dispute is between the accused and the state, not the accused and the claimed victim. Last, the accused can be imprisoned, instead of just being subject to monetary awards and court orders." Rick Moen (Linux Mafia - posted this on the rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan newsgroup about "theft" of an e-book. However, its applicability here is obvious.
Course, I tend to forget that the /. crowd likes to lean toward the everything should be free mentality and we all should live in Shangri La where everyone can get whatever they want without consideration of the people who actually created the product.
Finally, just because a company is based in the US it doesn't mean they have no legal complaint in other nations. Many companies hold both US and international patents and copyrights in other nations. With the economy being as global as it is doesn't only make sense to protect your property as much as possible in all of your markets?
Bitch all you want, but if these companies hadn't been publishing the movies/music all these years none of you would have anything to steal/share. This doesn't make those companies infallibe in my eyes but their actions don't make them the hand of the devil either. They are a business protecting their interests - just like you guys contacting ISPs to encourage them to do nothing are trying to protect yours.
Oddly enough though, I imagine if you were the president of one of those same companies I imagine your view would change pretty quickly. People are notoriosly willing to be careless with other peoples money.
it was cool of some of you to put the URLS here, I wasn't that generous and had made my own stupid little html page so I could grab the files. Of course, after the first two had downloaded, and the comments on this topic had jumped from 2 to 100+ the speed with which they were DLing dropped significantly. Damn you /.
as a few others here have posted these have been in use at larger places for quite some time - and in many independant pharmacies. In fact, Rite-Aid uses them in their high volume pharmacies and have been for at least 2 years now. There is one fairly close to my hometown. The mistake most people make is to think the pharmacists main role is to put pills in the bottle. In the old days his/her job was to often make medicines for their patients and to advise them on the drugs benifits/side effects. My father in law is a pharmacist and he often tells me tales of the wierd drugs he used to have to make. He owned his own independant until the early 90s and up till then he was still regularly referred patients who needed something special made. Thats part of why a pharmacist has to know so much about Chemistry and is a core part of their cirriculum (or it once was, im not sure anymore). Now however the pharmacist is the last line of defense to make sure the patient is taking meds safely and only take meds they should be taking. Pharmacists can also be held liable if false perscriptions are filled - which can lead to a world of legal trouble for the pharmacist. Especially when dealing with controlled substances. I know in my father-in-laws Rite-Aid pharm techs do most of the bottle filling and labelling. He checks their work and talks to the patient. Finally he is the one who has to put the label on the bottle - its the last sanity check on the Rx to make sure it is correct.
the page still works, i just noticed the javascript error and thought it was funny. thanksf or the info on the PNG stuff though. I was unaware of that problem in IE.
not trolling. Im using IE6 and I have my browser always show me JS errors. Look for the annoying yellow exlamation.. why the hell would I troll anyway? Or, better yet, try to visit the file listed in the iesuckssohard.htc url.. I get the javascript error on every page of the lnx-bbc site using IE 6.0.2800.1106
while many of you probably hate IE as well I thought some might find this humorous.. if you visit the BBC home with IE a JS error occurs pointing to a permission error on the file at: http://www.lnx-bbc.org/iesuckssohard.htc Im glad they dont mind annoying some of the people that come to their site to help or learn more about what they are doing. I know, the haters are probably saying, if you are using Linux you wouldn't be using IE anyway - well when Im using a non-linux machine I will keep using IE until I see a compelling reason to switch (and a tabbed interface isn't one) or when my customers all switch to something else...
uhh, I think it mentioned the discount for things published by gnu press - as in books. yep here is the actual message from their page: 20% Discount on GNU Press Purchases You will receive a 20% discount on all purchases of FSF's GNU Press merchandise. This discount includes all products sold by FSF -- from books to CDs to clothing.