On ebay, there are three mission programs currently going for ~$60 with 4 days left. There is one STS-107 mission patch which has a current bid of over $200 with days left.
People, people, people, realize that if there is a fire in your house that takes out your local copy of "The Sims Hot Date", then it is also going to burn up your serial number. Be sure when you send me your iso's that you include a text file with your serial numbers...for archival purposes.
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Because of the intense bandwidth being consumed at universities across the nation for uploads and downloads thru the Kazaa ports, many schools are cracking down on fileswappers (not for copyright, but to keep the network traffic managable). In that way, a lot of college students will leech because if they spike the upload bandwidth, the IT police knock on their door and terminate their in-room connection. This has been covered here at slashdot before.
Easy CD-DA Extractor is a fairly cheap and useful ripper. A lot of people I know have had good experience with it. It'll do a ton more formats than musicmatch. There are others, but they're a lot more expensive and are a little more for high-end audio-editing and mixing.
Of course, I assume you're looking for a PC alternative. If you're using a Mac and you're not using iTunes, I can't help you.
The next generation is already here. Kazaa (and thereby Kazaa Lite) already have a grading scheme as recognized by another poster earlier in the comments. It's the right file? Mod it "excellent". Want to download something? See how many "excellents" are given for that title.
But if they start doing this for songs with only two or three copies found on the network, they might have something. Of course, then you're just blocking me from downloading Wierd Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero". Don't worry, quality music like Britney Spears and NSync will be untainted by this method for all time.
3D Realms, maker of the Duke Nukem line of games, had only this to say on the matter:
This bill, and not our inability to code, is why Duke Nukem Forever is taking so long to release. We want to be sure that our core target audience will be old enough to purchase the game if this bill were to take effect.
I made a leap of logic and figured that maybe minors would be forbidden by this law to work that kind of position (retail checkout)
Too big of a leap. For example, almost everywhere in the US, there is a lower age-of-seller/server than the age-of-consumer for alcohol. IOW, you don't have to be 21 to serve alcohol, just to drink it.
X-Men fans should stop whining and go play with their dolls.
Not dolls. Toys. Didn't you read the article at all?:)
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- Macromedia Flash web sites? - mice with more than 2 buttons? - LCD screens? - digital cameras capable of more than 10 Megapixels? - mouse gestures for website navigation? - google.com?
Ever since Kazaa has put out their 2.0 and onward line of clients (and Kazaa Lite as well by extension of it) there is a Quality Vote feature for all of your files. If a file is shared by 58 users and they all gave the file Excellent rating, you can feel self-assured that the file is what it says it is. I doubt 58 people would go out of the way to vote a garbled/garbage file as Excellent to propogate an RIAA/IFIA spoof file (note that the rating does not follow the copy of the file to your computer).
As long as people are honest about the file's integrity in their voting (what motive would 3/4 of those serving the file have to lie?), then this sort of RIAA/IFIA subterfuge will be sunk.
The mod guide indicates that a moderator should surf with posts of 0 or -1 being displayed. This does not have anything to do with the karma bonus level which has now been instituted and does not have a bearing on which post subjects are shown in the comment list. It only changes the score of those posts written by people with excellent karma. This is a complication to the modding system which was not previously present and hasn't fully been thought through (would be my guess).
Don't forget to click the "save" button at the bottom of the page once you've decided what bonus you want to give.
In the meantime, I was wondering what this will do to moderation. If I'm surfing with a karma bonus of 3 and there's a post (+1) from an excellent karma (+3) that's been modded insightful twice (+2)...will the post show up with a score of 6? If it still stops at 5 like it used to, then if I surf at bonus of 4, who would I mod up? They're all already at five, or do I mod up the good posts (as a good mod should) but then, that's a wasted mod if everyone mods the first few good posts and we end up with posts getting 16 mods, since you have to mod it up because its good and you don't know what threshold someone is surfing at to let everyone know it's good.
In the other meantime, I think the mod system needs a ton of work. The biggest problem is lazy mods that don't skim through at a lower browsing level. If you want to get modded up to the point that your posts hold more weight (more than 1 or 2 points above a SOVIET UNION or Stephen King is dead post) then you have to get to the discussion early and catch a modder's eye, instead of waiting until there are already 300 posts and you fall into that oblivion of post titles at the bottom of the discussion that nobody responds to or reads.
This is exactly my point. I'm a graduate student in the field of bioinformatics and I watch this sort of "passing in the rye" happen all of the time. Huge biological problems that could be sorted out by a little perl script or java app. Programmers trying to solve extremely intensive mathematical problems with no solution with thousands of lines of code. If they just got their chocolate in the other's peanut butter, then they'd solve quite a few problems for both of them.
Tax status is not an insurmountable problem and even the tax-free weekends come with some regularity (beginning of school year). Someone wrote the tax law to apply to a specific state, zip code, area code, etc. and therefore by knowing that bit of information, you'd be able to calculate the correct tax status. The wierdest places like individual burroughs would need the most intense coding, but really, that's why they call people "programmers". Think sales tax is hard to figure out? Try income tax. There are whole businesses setup to figure out income tax for that one farmer with 40 acres, a mule, a dead wife, a divorced second wife with child support payments, an inherited yacht from his dead rich uncle, and 20,000$ in charitable donations (mainly proceeds from the yacht). I can't imagine that a few nerds couldn't punch out a tool to handle correctly calculating sales tax.
If internet taxation is so imminent, then a few nerds starting now would either beat it to the punch and just have to wait for the calls to roll in or be just in time to head up the first wave of other nerds who waited for that other shoe to finally drop. But don't be stuck after it's already happened, or amazon et al may just make their own in-house nerds work on the project and not buy your project instead.
It is unreasonable to require each retaler to file and keep track of all 50 states rules/laws/tax amounts....which is why instead of griping about sales tax, a few of us nerds should organize a small web application which would keep track of such things with annual/semi-annual updates to be downloaded from our website. You'd be able to see this to all of the big guys and most of the little guys and as long as you developed something that was fairly integratable with each system, you'd make a good sum of cash and the updating would be the only persistent thing.
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Space.com has a series of pictures put together with captions that were taken during the past 2 weeks on board the shuttle.
You can also find a copy of the mission patch and an explanation at spaceflight.nasa.gov (don't remember the direct link, sorry).
On ebay, there are three mission programs currently going for ~$60 with 4 days left. There is one STS-107 mission patch which has a current bid of over $200 with days left.
People, people, people, realize that if there is a fire in your house that takes out your local copy of "The Sims Hot Date", then it is also going to burn up your serial number. Be sure when you send me your iso's that you include a text file with your serial numbers...for archival purposes.
No kidding...
PING slashdot.org (66.35.250.150): 56 data bytes
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5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
I only got here through news.google.com links...
Because of the intense bandwidth being consumed at universities across the nation for uploads and downloads thru the Kazaa ports, many schools are cracking down on fileswappers (not for copyright, but to keep the network traffic managable). In that way, a lot of college students will leech because if they spike the upload bandwidth, the IT police knock on their door and terminate their in-room connection. This has been covered here at slashdot before.
Someone should have let MTV know they couldn't use it...
http://download.com.com/3000-2140-10172876.html
Easy CD-DA Extractor is a fairly cheap and useful ripper. A lot of people I know have had good experience with it. It'll do a ton more formats than musicmatch. There are others, but they're a lot more expensive and are a little more for high-end audio-editing and mixing.
Of course, I assume you're looking for a PC alternative. If you're using a Mac and you're not using iTunes, I can't help you.
(patent for)...producing a digital music file by deteriorating or damaging the sound quality of an original music file
I'm sorry but MusicMatch Jukebox has been doing this to music files for years with its ripper.
The next generation is already here. Kazaa (and thereby Kazaa Lite) already have a grading scheme as recognized by another poster earlier in the comments. It's the right file? Mod it "excellent". Want to download something? See how many "excellents" are given for that title.
But if they start doing this for songs with only two or three copies found on the network, they might have something. Of course, then you're just blocking me from downloading Wierd Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero". Don't worry, quality music like Britney Spears and NSync will be untainted by this method for all time.
Anton Nilsson, assistant editor in chief of Nordic Hardware writes, in contrast,
"...Still that doesn't make up a fair excuse in my opinion."
Ahem...you gangrenous basement dweller.
Thank goodness I use 256 MB DDR chips. For a second there, I thought I might be helping to kill the earth.
3D Realms, maker of the Duke Nukem line of games, had only this to say on the matter:
This bill, and not our inability to code, is why Duke Nukem Forever is taking so long to release. We want to be sure that our core target audience will be old enough to purchase the game if this bill were to take effect.
I made a leap of logic and figured that maybe minors would be forbidden by this law to work that kind of position (retail checkout)
Too big of a leap. For example, almost everywhere in the US, there is a lower age-of-seller/server than the age-of-consumer for alcohol. IOW, you don't have to be 21 to serve alcohol, just to drink it.
What about giving the games away for free? What about violent freeware games?
No, those have to stay available for obvious reason.
it sits higher above ground so I feel more "in control"
That's why they make those NASCAR and F1 SUVs: to get "more control" in the 180 MPH curves...
Your Civic has more control than probably 85% of the regular car market.
X-Men fans should stop whining and go play with their dolls.
:)
Not dolls. Toys. Didn't you read the article at all?
- Macromedia Flash web sites?
- mice with more than 2 buttons?
- LCD screens?
- digital cameras capable of more than 10 Megapixels?
- mouse gestures for website navigation?
- google.com?
The Wayback Machine has this in their archive.
Ever since Kazaa has put out their 2.0 and onward line of clients (and Kazaa Lite as well by extension of it) there is a Quality Vote feature for all of your files. If a file is shared by 58 users and they all gave the file Excellent rating, you can feel self-assured that the file is what it says it is. I doubt 58 people would go out of the way to vote a garbled/garbage file as Excellent to propogate an RIAA/IFIA spoof file (note that the rating does not follow the copy of the file to your computer).
As long as people are honest about the file's integrity in their voting (what motive would 3/4 of those serving the file have to lie?), then this sort of RIAA/IFIA subterfuge will be sunk.
The mod guide indicates that a moderator should surf with posts of 0 or -1 being displayed. This does not have anything to do with the karma bonus level which has now been instituted and does not have a bearing on which post subjects are shown in the comment list. It only changes the score of those posts written by people with excellent karma. This is a complication to the modding system which was not previously present and hasn't fully been thought through (would be my guess).
Don't forget to click the "save" button at the bottom of the page once you've decided what bonus you want to give.
In the meantime, I was wondering what this will do to moderation. If I'm surfing with a karma bonus of 3 and there's a post (+1) from an excellent karma (+3) that's been modded insightful twice (+2)...will the post show up with a score of 6? If it still stops at 5 like it used to, then if I surf at bonus of 4, who would I mod up? They're all already at five, or do I mod up the good posts (as a good mod should) but then, that's a wasted mod if everyone mods the first few good posts and we end up with posts getting 16 mods, since you have to mod it up because its good and you don't know what threshold someone is surfing at to let everyone know it's good.
In the other meantime, I think the mod system needs a ton of work. The biggest problem is lazy mods that don't skim through at a lower browsing level. If you want to get modded up to the point that your posts hold more weight (more than 1 or 2 points above a SOVIET UNION or Stephen King is dead post) then you have to get to the discussion early and catch a modder's eye, instead of waiting until there are already 300 posts and you fall into that oblivion of post titles at the bottom of the discussion that nobody responds to or reads.
'kay. That is all.
Open-sourced banana on the web.
There is no mention as to whether it is GPL or BSD.
This is exactly my point. I'm a graduate student in the field of bioinformatics and I watch this sort of "passing in the rye" happen all of the time. Huge biological problems that could be sorted out by a little perl script or java app. Programmers trying to solve extremely intensive mathematical problems with no solution with thousands of lines of code. If they just got their chocolate in the other's peanut butter, then they'd solve quite a few problems for both of them.
Tax status is not an insurmountable problem and even the tax-free weekends come with some regularity (beginning of school year). Someone wrote the tax law to apply to a specific state, zip code, area code, etc. and therefore by knowing that bit of information, you'd be able to calculate the correct tax status. The wierdest places like individual burroughs would need the most intense coding, but really, that's why they call people "programmers". Think sales tax is hard to figure out? Try income tax. There are whole businesses setup to figure out income tax for that one farmer with 40 acres, a mule, a dead wife, a divorced second wife with child support payments, an inherited yacht from his dead rich uncle, and 20,000$ in charitable donations (mainly proceeds from the yacht). I can't imagine that a few nerds couldn't punch out a tool to handle correctly calculating sales tax.
If internet taxation is so imminent, then a few nerds starting now would either beat it to the punch and just have to wait for the calls to roll in or be just in time to head up the first wave of other nerds who waited for that other shoe to finally drop. But don't be stuck after it's already happened, or amazon et al may just make their own in-house nerds work on the project and not buy your project instead.
And then the ocean becomes one big bottle of seltzer...what clown came up with this idea?
It is unreasonable to require each retaler to file and keep track of all 50 states rules/laws/tax amounts. ...which is why instead of griping about sales tax, a few of us nerds should organize a small web application which would keep track of such things with annual/semi-annual updates to be downloaded from our website. You'd be able to see this to all of the big guys and most of the little guys and as long as you developed something that was fairly integratable with each system, you'd make a good sum of cash and the updating would be the only persistent thing.