that was the point. you don't have to buy anything, you already have a multitude of CD players more than likely, if not, many can be had for $10-$20, either from EBay or a pawn shop, etc.
so, nobody buys DRM compliant equipment. then what happens. i think just about everyone is pretty happy with their CD players. as long as only a few gullible/stupid people buy the DRM-encumbered crap, most music will still be available for the larger market.
from the story: personal, professional and online identities become transparent to one another.
maybe that's because they are all actually the same person. maybe people should stop trying to be different people at different times of the day. maybe people should just be themselves and not worry what other people might think about them if they read something they wrote in the 5th grade. maybe people should just grow up and realise, hey, this is the 21st century. most of the things I do are well known to just about anyone who cares enough to look. maybe I should stop being a little prissy bitch?
or just continue the farce of trying to be 1 person at home, 1 person at work, and 1 person on-line. yeah. one of those options is easier and makes a lot more sense than the other one.
but then again, who am I to talk? I don't go around introducing myself to other people as...
that really, really hurts. some people just can't be as cool as you, you might have to live with that. growing up on a farm in the middle of indiana, listening to radiohead is anything but "pedestrian", but hey, you must be ray charles or something, because the non-pedestrian vibes are just emanating from your post.
oh, my mistake. that's the foul stench of being a *tard.
How many bands that have gotten silly, filthy rich produced a good album afterwards?
red hot chili peppers. californication.
dave matthews band. broken stuff.
radiohead. amnesiac.
okay, that's all i can think of for now. but i'll agree there's not many. but i'll posit a different question: how many bands that have gotten silly, filthy rich produced a good album at all? you might find the same list of bands already mentioned here.
because a moderator reads it and thinks, "whoa, they knew what I was going to do before I did it. they must really be smart. I better do the opposite and mod UP."
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small, fast microkernel like L4 or Neutrino (think: not Mach).
small, fast framebuffer and accelerated GUI like DirectFB (think: not X).
atop DirectFB: Gimp, Mozilla, and OpenOffice.org.
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Yes, I am a Computer Scientist at GE Global Research.
i wish i were doing actual science, but they pay me too well to be a "software engineer":( nice problem to have, i guess, until you wake up unemployed and no smarter than you were when you left college.
RTP in north carolina is situated in the triangle resulting from connecting the universities of UNC, Duke, and NC State. it was designed that way. sometimes proximity to technical work force is fairly key.
that's why it is a short drive from the mountains (think skiing, snowboarding), and all KINDS of hiking/canoeing/fishing. there is more to life than dance clubs and date rape. for those of us who like the crisp outdoors over a musty dance floor, albany NY beats the CRAP outta LA.
all RTP needs are a few entrepreneurs to set up shop, collecting the ex-engineers from cisco, nortel, and IBM, and creating a product. i've often thought of doing this, but i've been lucky enough to keep my job (so far).
oh, i forgot, nobody is buying anything right now. it wouldn't really matter how many small employers were in RTP right now, the economy is just not strong enough to sustain the numbers of employees which are here. unless you know of someone in the area with venture capital, you won't be staying in small business for long, because nobody is buying, and you can't spend indefinitely without selling something.
I can't tell what you think I have been brainwashed into believing. Looking back at my comment, I'm not sure I can even tell which side of what story I was trying to explain.
iirc from history class, we not only invaded Indian land and warred against them, we slaughtered their entire food supply and left it to rot on the plains. oh, yeah, and we killed their women and children, and of course the men, because US cavalrymen for whatever reason liked the trophy of an Indian testicle sac over their saddle horn. look THAT one up. Americans have been seriously, seriously f*cked up. Maybe some day we'll get over ourselves.
so, if you want to be a net broadcaster, have a tiny little radio broadcast, even if it's over walkie-talkie, and follow into "duty free" webcasting. seriously, the thing about being "force fed" is entirely correct, I don't think it is right for the royalties to apply to streams like this, even from non-radio webcasters, which act for all intents and purposes like radio broadcasts. if they want these stupid royalties, keep them to the "play on demand" type downloads, not music streams.
wtf is wrong with you. Malda and his janitors are not the government. so any talk of "free speech" is a retarded topic with respect to Malda and his janitors, because they cannot put you in prison for saying something. get a life, visit a different website, do something.
there are actually 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (count 'em!) negatives in that sig.
1. least 2. un- 3. lack 4. not 5. avoid
let's deconstruct, shall we?
"you are the most intelligent person it has been"...
SIG FAULT. CORE DUMP.
ouch. those last 3 are a doozy. let's try with MORTAR COMBAT 2.0 this time.
"you are the most intelligent person it has been my profound displeasure"...
SIG FAULT. CORE DUMP.
hrm. one more try with MORTAR COMBAT 3.0.
"you are the most intelligent person it has been my profound displeasure to be able to meet."
you're right. just because we can eventually parse the sentence, doesn't mean it should be used. and who knows what they are actually trying to say, anyway.
After all, is it free speech if everytime you say something you are drowned out in a flood of shouts?
Yes. It is free speech unless the government locks you up for what you say. Being drowned out in a flood of shouts is not the same as the government locking you up for saying something.
... it ain't just the spice of life. when i was a kid, we played "number munchers", "math blaster", etc, because those were the only games available to us on our apple ][. now kids have "Kill a Hooker part 3" on their PlayCubeBox 3. how is "math blaster" going to compete with that.
and don't try suggesting that parents shouldn't get "Kill a Hooker part 3" for their kids. Because the parents know that the kids will stop loving them if they don't buy them all the things they want.
construction-type games are a limited market, because they have to compete with the promises of instant gratification which other games provide. why spend hours constructing something when you can press the power button and be killing cops in less than a minute?
If it works, and does what they want it to do, why switch?
Because in Peru, they are trying to put a lot of the government on-line. With Microsoft.NET, you have to be running Windows to access the.NET servers. So the government would have to ensure that every single Peruvian citizen has a computer capable of running Microsoft Windows.NET, as well as a license for Microsoft Windows.NET. With a large population (about 30 million), the licensing fees alone are over $1 billion US dollars.
That's a reason. This is not a company with 200 employees. This is a government, trying to run on-line. This means all citizens must have access. $200 Microsoft Windows.NET licenses for 30 million people is NOT AN OPTION.
i am an official MORON. but again, buying a CD from one of the distributors is fine, but again, how to directly contribute to the project financially? i'd rather my $9.99 would go directly to OpenOffice.org than through some CD distributor.
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of buying non-DRM equipment.
that was the point. you don't have to buy anything, you already have a multitude of CD players more than likely, if not, many can be had for $10-$20, either from EBay or a pawn shop, etc.
DRM compliant equipment
so, nobody buys DRM compliant equipment. then what happens. i think just about everyone is pretty happy with their CD players. as long as only a few gullible/stupid people buy the DRM-encumbered crap, most music will still be available for the larger market.
OpenOffice.org hit 1.0.1 about a week ago. Release notes, etc, changelog, etc, available also.
from the story: personal, professional and online identities become transparent to one another.
maybe that's because they are all actually the same person. maybe people should stop trying to be different people at different times of the day. maybe people should just be themselves and not worry what other people might think about them if they read something they wrote in the 5th grade. maybe people should just grow up and realise, hey, this is the 21st century. most of the things I do are well known to just about anyone who cares enough to look. maybe I should stop being a little prissy bitch?
or just continue the farce of trying to be 1 person at home, 1 person at work, and 1 person on-line. yeah. one of those options is easier and makes a lot more sense than the other one.
but then again, who am I to talk? I don't go around introducing myself to other people as...
that really, really hurts. some people just can't be as cool as you, you might have to live with that. growing up on a farm in the middle of indiana, listening to radiohead is anything but "pedestrian", but hey, you must be ray charles or something, because the non-pedestrian vibes are just emanating from your post.
oh, my mistake. that's the foul stench of being a *tard.
it isn't illegal to modify that property. it is illegal to modify that property, and then tell other people how to do it.
great country, isn't it, sometimes.
How many bands that have gotten silly, filthy rich produced a good album afterwards?
red hot chili peppers. californication.
dave matthews band. broken stuff.
radiohead. amnesiac.
okay, that's all i can think of for now. but i'll agree there's not many. but i'll posit a different question: how many bands that have gotten silly, filthy rich produced a good album at all? you might find the same list of bands already mentioned here.
because a moderator reads it and thinks, "whoa, they knew what I was going to do before I did it. they must really be smart. I better do the opposite and mod UP."
small, fast microkernel like L4 or Neutrino (think: not Mach).
small, fast framebuffer and accelerated GUI like DirectFB (think: not X).
atop DirectFB: Gimp, Mozilla, and OpenOffice.org.
Yes, I am a Computer Scientist at GE Global Research.
:( nice problem to have, i guess, until you wake up unemployed and no smarter than you were when you left college.
i wish i were doing actual science, but they pay me too well to be a "software engineer"
RTP in north carolina is situated in the triangle resulting from connecting the universities of UNC, Duke, and NC State. it was designed that way. sometimes proximity to technical work force is fairly key.
that's why it is a short drive from the mountains (think skiing, snowboarding), and all KINDS of hiking/canoeing/fishing. there is more to life than dance clubs and date rape. for those of us who like the crisp outdoors over a musty dance floor, albany NY beats the CRAP outta LA.
all RTP needs are a few entrepreneurs to set up shop, collecting the ex-engineers from cisco, nortel, and IBM, and creating a product. i've often thought of doing this, but i've been lucky enough to keep my job (so far).
oh, i forgot, nobody is buying anything right now. it wouldn't really matter how many small employers were in RTP right now, the economy is just not strong enough to sustain the numbers of employees which are here. unless you know of someone in the area with venture capital, you won't be staying in small business for long, because nobody is buying, and you can't spend indefinitely without selling something.
you've got it all wrong.
microsoft gets the patent, then charges a penny per JPG viewed in Mozilla. IE remains free.
this begs the question, would it be cheaper to buy their patent, or simply buy their whole company?
I can't tell what you think I have been brainwashed into believing. Looking back at my comment, I'm not sure I can even tell which side of what story I was trying to explain.
iirc from history class, we not only invaded Indian land and warred against them, we slaughtered their entire food supply and left it to rot on the plains. oh, yeah, and we killed their women and children, and of course the men, because US cavalrymen for whatever reason liked the trophy of an Indian testicle sac over their saddle horn. look THAT one up. Americans have been seriously, seriously f*cked up. Maybe some day we'll get over ourselves.
isn't 7.14 MHz equals to 0.00714 GHz, not 0.000714 GHz?
1000 MHz == 1.0 GHz
100 MHz == 0.1 GHz
10 MHz == 0.01 GHz
7.14 MHz == 0.00714 GHz
1 MHz == 0.001 GHz
i dunno, maybe my brain is dead today and i can't do basic math...
so, if you want to be a net broadcaster, have a tiny little radio broadcast, even if it's over walkie-talkie, and follow into "duty free" webcasting. seriously, the thing about being "force fed" is entirely correct, I don't think it is right for the royalties to apply to streams like this, even from non-radio webcasters, which act for all intents and purposes like radio broadcasts. if they want these stupid royalties, keep them to the "play on demand" type downloads, not music streams.
wtf is wrong with you. Malda and his janitors are not the government. so any talk of "free speech" is a retarded topic with respect to Malda and his janitors, because they cannot put you in prison for saying something. get a life, visit a different website, do something.
there are actually 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (count 'em!) negatives in that sig.
1. least
2. un-
3. lack
4. not
5. avoid
let's deconstruct, shall we?
"you are the most intelligent person it has been"...
SIG FAULT. CORE DUMP.
ouch. those last 3 are a doozy. let's try with MORTAR COMBAT 2.0 this time.
"you are the most intelligent person it has been my profound displeasure"...
SIG FAULT. CORE DUMP.
hrm. one more try with MORTAR COMBAT 3.0.
"you are the most intelligent person it has been my profound displeasure to be able to meet."
you're right. just because we can eventually parse the sentence, doesn't mean it should be used. and who knows what they are actually trying to say, anyway.
After all, is it free speech if everytime you say something you are drowned out in a flood of shouts?
Yes. It is free speech unless the government locks you up for what you say. Being drowned out in a flood of shouts is not the same as the government locking you up for saying something.
... it ain't just the spice of life. when i was a kid, we played "number munchers", "math blaster", etc, because those were the only games available to us on our apple ][. now kids have "Kill a Hooker part 3" on their PlayCubeBox 3. how is "math blaster" going to compete with that.
and don't try suggesting that parents shouldn't get "Kill a Hooker part 3" for their kids. Because the parents know that the kids will stop loving them if they don't buy them all the things they want.
construction-type games are a limited market, because they have to compete with the promises of instant gratification which other games provide. why spend hours constructing something when you can press the power button and be killing cops in less than a minute?
If it works, and does what they want it to do, why switch?
.NET, you have to be running Windows to access the .NET servers. So the government would have to ensure that every single Peruvian citizen has a computer capable of running Microsoft Windows .NET, as well as a license for Microsoft Windows .NET. With a large population (about 30 million), the licensing fees alone are over $1 billion US dollars.
.NET licenses for 30 million people is NOT AN OPTION.
Because in Peru, they are trying to put a lot of the government on-line. With Microsoft
That's a reason. This is not a company with 200 employees. This is a government, trying to run on-line. This means all citizens must have access. $200 Microsoft Windows
yup, just saw it, on the right side of the page:
link
i am an official MORON. but again, buying a CD from one of the distributors is fine, but again, how to directly contribute to the project financially? i'd rather my $9.99 would go directly to OpenOffice.org than through some CD distributor.