The employee had freedom of speech, but Microsoft also has freedom to fire him. Unless you have a n employment contract that specifies the length of your employment, you're an "at will" employee. You can leave at any time, and you can be fired at any time. Maybe you don't like how freedom tastes.
Think of the millions of dollars that Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Mariah Carey were given the last time they re-signed their contracts. Then look at the shit they've put out since that djs won't play for cash.
The RIAA and record companies are a bunch of back-room good old boys, out of touch with reality. Any accountant could have told them that trying to sustain over-the-hill has beens wasn't a wise investment.
The RIAA convinced congress to pass a law making sharing copyrighted music punishable in civil court at thousands of dollars per song.
What is the true cost of the infringement?
Well, iTunes and other services sell downloads for $0.99 each, of which the RIAA, music labels, artists, etc. get about $0.60.
Gentleman, I am reminded of the 1980s hacker cases where ATT claimed millions of dollars worth of damages when hackers accessed private tech manuals. IIRC, the court bitchslapped them when the defense attorneys revealed that they sold the same manual for $100.
I hope they mean GB. I got a 64mb flash-based MUVO mp3 player. The thing weighs almost nothing, but I had a hard time finding a CD short enough that I could fit all the songs onto it. 20 mb means your songs will sound like shit, or a 3-song limit.
strictly speaking, since the ISP tech rep is (or should be) more knowledgable about the service than you, anything he tells you is warrantied under fitness of service. Not that it means anything when it doesn't work.
I have power toys, but I don't care for how the desktop vm works. You have 4 virtual desktops, but windows aren't confined to their desktop. If you open mozilla in desktop 2, switch to desktop 1, then alt-tab to mozilla, mozilla will appear in desktop 1.
In beos, switching to a window switched to that window's desktop. (the programmer could also set the window to appear in all desktops). You could send a window to a desktop by switching desktops while clicked in the window title bar.
Also, each BeOS desktop could have its own screen size, refresh rate, and depth.
if you want pdfs that don't look like goatse's asshole after being ham-slammed, the only choice is (La)TeX. There are 3 options:
use PDFLaTeX, which produces PDF files rather than DVI files.
use (La)TeX to produce DVI files, convert to postscript (dvips), then convert to pdf
use (La)Tex to produce DVI files, then use dvipdfm to convert to PDF.
dvipdfm is well documented and FREE, so you should be able to see how to create a PDF file. Of course, the PDF file format is also well documented by Adobe. That's the best source of information on writing pdf files.
This is slashdot, where being accused of violating the GPL is punishable by death, but violating the microsoft EULA is your civic duty, so it's the justification of p2p file sharing services isn't surprising.
Ignoring the legal issues, iTunes (and the other services) do have advantages. iTMS provides a large selection of music, consistent quality, fast downloads, and 30-second previews. p2p is generally a wasteland of mislabled files, corrupted downloads, poor encoding, audio glitches, and slow download times, if you can even find what you're looking for. There are some specialized cases where p2p or binary newsgroups are better (bootlegs, studio outtakes, live recordings, etc), but for commercial music, iTunes, musicmatch, etc. offer a more user-friendly experience.
How many audio tools can work with AAC (DRM or otherwise)? iTunes, iPod, and QuickTime can play AAC, but those are all Apple offerings. Ogg has limited support as well (although the specs and sample implementation are freely available), which is why I'm stuck using raw wav files are mp3s since they're better supported.
... is if the company will be in business next month. Apple has been around over 20 years, so AAC is likely to be useable next year (MS has been around, so WMA will probably be around as well).
Musicmatch, napster 2, etc are startups with no track record. How long they last may depend on their burn rate. Best Buy (buymusic.com) is the only other player that's not wet behind the ears, but their committment to eMusic is unknown.
ok, you don't trust what closed source software might do with your data. Fair enough.
Are you really going to look through (and understand) every line of code in RH9? After all, trojans, bugs, and dubious "features" have been found in Open Source software. And will you recompile every utility, or use the binaries red hat gives you? How do you know they weren't altered in some way? The GNU ftp server was compromised earlier this year. shit does happen. Disgruntled employees do things. Open Source by itself doesn't solve your distrust problems.
intermec uses IPL, the Intermec programming language. It's 7-bit clean for text and control characters, and images/fonts are nibbleized down to 7bits before sending.
One major feature of the AlphaServer line will live on: the OpenVMS operating system. That software, born more than 25 years ago as VMS (Virtual Memory System), is being moved to the Itanium processor.
It's nice that HP managed to NOT fuck something up:) I work with OpenVMS machines. The company I work for prefers them. As in, "you want our software? Then you'll run it on an OpenVMS machine." Despite advances in other OSes, there are still a LOT of things OpenVMS does better. If OpenVMS had been dropped, our business would migrate to IBM/AIX or Windows 2k Advanced data Server (probably not compaq either)
The music in your headphones is drowned out by the thump-thump-thump of a head being banged on a desk, as well as the words "cocksucker" and "motherfucker", at a range of at least six cubicles.
Weird. I don't know why the girl that lives next door would be calling verisign in the middle of the night, though.
I bet it performs like CmdrTaco on his wedding night.
I've had 3 maxtor drives shit out on me, and seen them shit out on 4 or 5 other people as well. I sure wouldn't trust them with 300 GB (rather 250 due to their fraudulent measurements) of GNAA posts.
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The employee had freedom of speech, but Microsoft also has freedom to fire him. Unless you have a n employment contract that specifies the length of your employment, you're an "at will" employee. You can leave at any time, and you can be fired at any time. Maybe you don't like how freedom tastes.
The RIAA and record companies are a bunch of back-room good old boys, out of touch with reality. Any accountant could have told them that trying to sustain over-the-hill has beens wasn't a wise investment.
Or do they not see ita t all since ads are filtered?
What is the true cost of the infringement?
Well, iTunes and other services sell downloads for $0.99 each, of which the RIAA, music labels, artists, etc. get about $0.60.
Gentleman, I am reminded of the 1980s hacker cases where ATT claimed millions of dollars worth of damages when hackers accessed private tech manuals. IIRC, the court bitchslapped them when the defense attorneys revealed that they sold the same manual for $100.
This injustice cannot stand.
I hope they mean GB. I got a 64mb flash-based MUVO mp3 player. The thing weighs almost nothing, but I had a hard time finding a CD short enough that I could fit all the songs onto it. 20 mb means your songs will sound like shit, or a 3-song limit.
strictly speaking, since the ISP tech rep is (or should be) more knowledgable about the service than you, anything he tells you is warrantied under fitness of service. Not that it means anything when it doesn't work.
In beos, switching to a window switched to that window's desktop. (the programmer could also set the window to appear in all desktops). You could send a window to a desktop by switching desktops while clicked in the window title bar.
Also, each BeOS desktop could have its own screen size, refresh rate, and depth.
a: you would too if you had pubic hair on your head!
q: Why are kobe bryant's eyes red after sex?
a: mace!
- use PDFLaTeX, which produces PDF files rather than DVI files.
- use (La)TeX to produce DVI files, convert to postscript (dvips), then convert to pdf
- use (La)Tex to produce DVI files, then use dvipdfm to convert to PDF.
dvipdfm is well documented and FREE, so you should be able to see how to create a PDF file. Of course, the PDF file format is also well documented by Adobe. That's the best source of information on writing pdf files.Ignoring the legal issues, iTunes (and the other services) do have advantages. iTMS provides a large selection of music, consistent quality, fast downloads, and 30-second previews. p2p is generally a wasteland of mislabled files, corrupted downloads, poor encoding, audio glitches, and slow download times, if you can even find what you're looking for. There are some specialized cases where p2p or binary newsgroups are better (bootlegs, studio outtakes, live recordings, etc), but for commercial music, iTunes, musicmatch, etc. offer a more user-friendly experience.
How many audio tools can work with AAC (DRM or otherwise)? iTunes, iPod, and QuickTime can play AAC, but those are all Apple offerings. Ogg has limited support as well (although the specs and sample implementation are freely available), which is why I'm stuck using raw wav files are mp3s since they're better supported.
Musicmatch, napster 2, etc are startups with no track record. How long they last may depend on their burn rate. Best Buy (buymusic.com) is the only other player that's not wet behind the ears, but their committment to eMusic is unknown.
where can i steal it?
Are you really going to look through (and understand) every line of code in RH9? After all, trojans, bugs, and dubious "features" have been found in Open Source software. And will you recompile every utility, or use the binaries red hat gives you? How do you know they weren't altered in some way? The GNU ftp server was compromised earlier this year. shit does happen. Disgruntled employees do things. Open Source by itself doesn't solve your distrust problems.
intermec uses IPL, the Intermec programming language. It's 7-bit clean for text and control characters, and images/fonts are nibbleized down to 7bits before sending.
Usually, when I fuck up insertion, my bitch screams and tells me that she doesn't do anal.
It's nice that HP managed to NOT fuck something up :) I work with OpenVMS machines. The company I work for prefers them. As in, "you want our software? Then you'll run it on an OpenVMS machine." Despite advances in other OSes, there are still a LOT of things OpenVMS does better. If OpenVMS had been dropped, our business would migrate to IBM/AIX or Windows 2k Advanced data Server (probably not compaq either)
A: Half an hour later, you're horny again!
Weird. I don't know why the girl that lives next door would be calling verisign in the middle of the night, though.
snail mail does require encoding binary data into text (base64 or uuencode) which adds an extra 15% overhead or so.
I've had 3 maxtor drives shit out on me, and seen them shit out on 4 or 5 other people as well. I sure wouldn't trust them with 300 GB (rather 250 due to their fraudulent measurements) of GNAA posts.
I'll just download games off kazaa. If it uses copy protection, I won't pirate it. I'll only pirate games that don't have copy protection.
maybe thye culd use disributed computingto fix all teh speling errors on salshfot!