Here in Glasgow most of the kids use Yahoo. Mostly it was so they could set up local rooms eg "young fleeto room", but AFAIK yahoo stopped this facility. The Yahoo chatroom logs were used in a couple of murder & attempted murder trials. kids bragging etc...
can I point you to this article about Joe Foster. He was one half of Creation Records and now runs the Rev-Ola label:
"Of course, Rev-Ola makes money for me. Don't listen to the major corporations - the record business is very profitable. Where you lose money is if you spend it on foolish things. That's what they do; they spend two million to make an album. It doesn't cost two million to make an album. I've made loads of albums, and none of them cost that much, and some of them sold zillions and everybody made a few bucks."
I think the key phrase here is "Everybody makes a few bucks"
I like the free POP3. Lycos used to have that as well, but i guess people were hammering it and it stopped.
Totally off topic but....
What's with the Lycos mail "SSL" link? In Yahoo if you choose secure connection the firefox address bar goes yellow and it's a https connection... with Lycos mail you tick the "SSL" box but nothing different seems to happen. Are they having a laugh, or am I just dumber than I thought i was?
>>Maybe artists can pressure their labels into getting rid of this crap?
*hmm* maybe U2 can. But your average band on most contracts won't have that much clout with their label. Especially new bands. You're in a band, a label offers you a 5 album deal. The deal maybe mentions (or doesn't) DRM. yer not gonna knock back the deal or kick up that much of a fuss, are you? ok *you* might think you will sitting in yer mums basement/attic making generic house with a warezed copy of reason...
Apparently you and I are the only people in the world who require gapless playback... well, if you believe the twats on/.
It's the reason I haven't bought an mp3 player yet. I'm holding out for the chroma - But going by the Rio offerings since the karma i'm not gonna get it.
Due an upgrade on my phone soon, so i guess i'll just get a phone with a uilt in player.
In our library we use the Netloan Booking system. We can then find out who was using what pc at what time as you have to book on with card/pin. The acceptable use policy says you are responsible for what happens on the pc in your time. Don't think we really need any more than that...
I work in a public library and it's our council I.T. dept who purchase ALL our machines and at the end of the day tell us what we can and can't do. It's the same for the schools locally.
Our I.T. dept won't support a mac, so i can't see them supporting linux anytime in the future. I know it's because they don't have anyone employed who knows how to "fix" them - macs that is - so even suggesting Linux and/or OSS on windows would be an exercise in futility.
It took a LOT of persuasion to allow us to use putty, including signing a document that said we wouldn't ask for support for it...
parents had a friend in the merchant navy who brought me back a remote control tank from Japan. This was in the early/mid seventies before they were out here.
I cut out some wires so my actionman would fit in... *doh*
You have a point. Though the summary of the article points out that you can use cheap ink. Though if you want to keep the photos you print out you may need to buy the printer vendors ink carts.
The Epson printer mentioned (r800?) has IIRC 8 cartridges - I saw them for £7 which i didn't think was too bad. Mind you i don't do a lot of high colour print outs.
and you've never watched amateur pr0n either have you?
cause we all know both parties ALWAYS agree to that being put on the internet... but as another poster said - be careful with tapes you make of yourself. That includes you Abi/Paris/Kate...
Display Song, Artist and Album Info in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian
from this page: Many music CDs contain songs that blend into each other, and importing them to iTunes may create a small gap between songs that interrupts the flow. If you use the iTunes Join Tracks feature, the program melds two or more songs into one, continuous gap-free track. So now you can enjoy listening to classical music, concept rock albums and extended dance mixes without the silent treatment.
ok - to be fair my first example is from an iPod specs page and the second is from an iTunes page, but surely most people expect both iPod & iTunes to play music in the same way?
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Here in Glasgow most of the kids use Yahoo. Mostly it was so they could set up local rooms eg "young fleeto room", but AFAIK yahoo stopped this facility. The Yahoo chatroom logs were used in a couple of murder & attempted murder trials. kids bragging etc...
*hmmm*
Must remember to patent the idea of trojan/virus that uses visualisation to run a spam/DOS server
in a Windows environment...
Rubs hands with glee as he tries to sell the idea on IRC.
from the sshh-don't-tell-anyone dept.
You need the new version of open sshh to access the *real* secret stuff...
My last phone was a SE Z600, my current phone is a SE K750i.
Both phones crash if you try to navigate thru the GUI too quickly.
Does this happen on their symbian phones?
I like the phones and the specs, The phone hanging is annoying tho.
can I point you to this article about Joe Foster. He was one half of Creation Records and now runs the Rev-Ola label:
"Of course, Rev-Ola makes money for me. Don't listen to the major corporations - the record business is very profitable. Where you lose money is if you spend it on foolish things. That's what they do; they spend two million to make an album. It doesn't cost two million to make an album. I've made loads of albums, and none of them cost that much, and some of them sold zillions and everybody made a few bucks."
I think the key phrase here is "Everybody makes a few bucks"
I like the free POP3.
Lycos used to have that as well, but i guess people were hammering it and it stopped.
Totally off topic but....
What's with the Lycos mail "SSL" link?
In Yahoo if you choose secure connection the firefox address bar goes yellow and it's a https connection...
with Lycos mail you tick the "SSL" box but nothing different seems to happen. Are they having a laugh, or am I just dumber than I thought i was?
I dunno about that.
I had a pre release of the latest Daft Punk CD.
Ubuntu & Slack wouldn't let me read the cd. It kept hanging when trying to Rip/Play.
My windows partition wouldn't let me play it in a cd player or rip it. I could copy it tho... strange.
>>Maybe artists can pressure their labels into getting rid of this crap?
*hmm* maybe U2 can. But your average band on most contracts won't have that much clout with their label. Especially new bands. You're in a band, a label offers you a 5 album deal. The deal maybe mentions (or doesn't) DRM. yer not gonna knock back the deal or kick up that much of a fuss, are you? ok *you* might think you will sitting in yer mums basement/attic making generic house with a warezed copy of reason...
But when it comes down to it...
I wonder if the european edition will be released that day. Look at the PSP... Release date put back so they could sell more to the USA.
>>I looked up and saw what I thought was Outlook Express. I went over to tell him the virtues of Firefox
why did you do that? Firefox is a web browser. You would of been better trying to show him Thunderbird...
Apparently you and I are the only people in the world who require gapless playback... /.
well, if you believe the twats on
It's the reason I haven't bought an mp3 player yet.
I'm holding out for the chroma - But going by the Rio offerings since the karma i'm not gonna get it.
Due an upgrade on my phone soon, so i guess i'll just get a phone with a uilt in player.
>>funded and run by the local political system
or underfunded in the case of my employer...
The head of our council is quoted as saying:
"Book fund! why do they need a book fund? they've a building full of books."
In our library we use the Netloan Booking system.
We can then find out who was using what pc at what time as you have to book on with card/pin. The acceptable use policy says you are responsible for what happens on the pc in your time. Don't think we really need any more than that...
>> My wife wouldn't pull that kind of bullshit... girlfriends that do don't stand much chance of getting upgrade to wife any time soon ;)
Your wife is very understanding. Girlfriends? she allows that? Oh and marrying a g/f would be bigamy. Do you live in Utah?
I work in a public library and it's our council I.T. dept who purchase ALL our machines and at the end of the day tell us what we can and can't do. It's the same for the schools locally.
Our I.T. dept won't support a mac, so i can't see them
supporting linux anytime in the future. I know it's because they don't have anyone employed who knows how to "fix" them - macs that is - so even suggesting Linux and/or OSS on windows would be an exercise in futility.
It took a LOT of persuasion to allow us to use putty, including signing a document that said we wouldn't ask for support for it...
I think ubuntu does, but i could be wrong....
parents had a friend in the merchant navy who brought me back a remote control tank from Japan. This was in the early/mid seventies before they were out here.
I cut out some wires so my actionman would fit in... *doh*
and not shipping outside the us or canada.
If I post my credit card details can someone get me one and send it to the uk?
>>minxing in iTunes. you minx you!
You have a point. Though the summary of the article points out that you can use cheap ink. Though if you want to keep the photos you print out you may need to buy the printer vendors ink carts.
The Epson printer mentioned (r800?) has IIRC 8 cartridges - I saw them for £7 which i didn't think was too bad. Mind you i don't do a lot of high colour print outs.
so how do i go about encrypting my sms messages?
I made my entry in Photoshop....
and you've never watched amateur pr0n either have you?
cause we all know both parties ALWAYS agree to that being put on the internet... but as another poster said - be careful with tapes you make of yourself. That includes you Abi/Paris/Kate...
My apologies. I was at an Ian Brown gig last night and my tiredness/hangover got the better of me. Rattlin' they call it in these here parts...
from this page:
Display Song, Artist and Album Info in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian
from this page:
Many music CDs contain songs that blend into each other, and importing them to iTunes may create a small gap between songs that interrupts the flow. If you use the iTunes Join Tracks feature, the program melds two or more songs into one, continuous gap-free track. So now you can enjoy listening to classical music, concept rock albums and extended dance mixes without the silent treatment.
ok - to be fair my first example is from an iPod specs page and the second is from an iTunes page, but surely most people expect both iPod & iTunes to play music in the same way?
Didn't know that, thanks.
I don't have any wma's either. I was just saying i didn't care what the format was - as long as it plays seamlessly.