Heck, if legal crackdowns ended illicit behavior, we wouldn't have had any booze since the '20s and we wouldn't have a drug problem now.
EXACTLY! Awesome point that I think a LOT of people, espiecally mainstream media, do not understand. I've said similar things in previous posts. Basically, the RIAA will get rid of illegal music the day after the ATF and Coast Guard get rid of illegal drugs. So... uh... never.
Isn't this what domain squatting is? Now, EVERY single variation of a name is squatted, barring the few similar names that are legit. Crazy.
If Verisign somehow was incharge of POP3, then a wrong user name or wrong password would still log you in, but into a dummy account with spam for you to read.
Do yourself a favor and read the Demon Princes books (5 in all) and the Planet of Adventure series (4 books in all).
UNBELIEVABLE! Anyone who has read Vance's works, please feel free to tell me your favs as I look forward to reading many more, as I've just finished the last of the aforementioned books. I'll give you a million SVU and a bag of Purples for your efforts!:)
Also, it requires access to a working Exchange Server, which isn't exactly cheap...
Huh? EXPENSIVE? HOW ABOUT FREE! To quote Homer Simpson when he decided to steal cable television and Marge asked if they could afford it, "Zero dollars a month? Yeah, I think we can swing it!"
1) Download FREE three month full trial at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/
2) Install ontop of FREE Windows 2003 Server evaluation, inside your favorite free VMWare wanna-be emulator. Save image of clean install.
3) Enjoy. Feel free to reload saved clean install image for continuous testing on free Exchange server.
...or easy to get working in the first place.
4) If you can't get a default install of Exchange server running, you shouldn't be programming for it.
SCALE! When you say, "Does anyone protest when the menu guys flood your doorstep? No..." you should not think about one or two menu's that might appear at a dorm/appartment/house. Instead, think of having 100's of menus left at your doorstep every day. A dozen menus every hour, always appearing at your door. If that happened, you'd buy a gun and wait for the bastard.
Sorry, please don't take this the wrong way, but anyone running a box that GOT THE WORM should NOT be giving ANY advise about how to fix/avoid it. Go use Google and search for "Zonealarm" and then "Microsoft Baseline Security Scanner", then get back to us, ok?
Plus, people want to own the book and feel it in their hands
Heard it before! I used to hear back in the day, "Plus, people want to own the CD and feel it in their hands and have the cover art and little booklet."
But, FREE is a word that will quickly make you forget about how nice it feels to hold a paper book in your hands or what cover art looks like.
I'm replying to my post because I am surprised it got modded Funny and also because I am seriously curious, not Karma whoring or being my usually dry-wit-stupid self!:) If not FSF maybe some other somewhat-open licenses? Although probrably non, I'd imagine.
Thanks for the info. I'd take up your offer but I've decided that I'm going to spend the cash for the new Garmin IQ 3600. But it should move fast on Ebay.
How was your Streetpilot? I got a car yesterday and I want nav in it. Alpine or Kenwood systems are super sweet but cost $2500-$4000. I am now considering the Ique 3600 or the streetpilot you mentioned. My question is how well does it aquire sats while you are moving? Do you find it has all the addresses you want to go to? Thanks!
Forget all these open standards, FIRST START WITH USING STANDARD JACKS! WTF!?!?! Yes, I am screaming.
Why can't all audio jacks on cell phones for earpieces all utilize the SAME standard jacks such as on CD layers. And all power jacks should be the same, too. The ONLY reason to change the design every week is to force people to spend more money on home/office/car chargers, headphones, etc every time they get a new phone. It is nothing short of criminal. Cell phones are purposely designed to have different connectors to accessories for no good reason, other than extorting more money on the same accessories that need to be repurchased time and time again.
Get the fucking head phones and power cable standardized, THEN we'll talk about cameras/texting/keyboards and all that junk.
A stone carving will last even LONGER. Maybe I wasn't too clear, but by obsolete I mean in form, funtionality, convinence, usability, etc. I'll take a single iPod (or MP3's in general) over boxes and boxes of CD's any day.
Work though lunch. Eat and write code, or whatever. Then, for your lunch hour, WALK. Go outside and WALK for the hour. That's it. Do that for a month and you'll change, and if you wanted to add a bit of excersice when you get home, or on weekends, great. But start small and just do the WALKING one hour a day. No need to look silly and break a sweat at the office and stink all day. Walk slowly, but WALK. And don't forget to password protect your screensaver since you are going to be out of the office WALKING every day.
Or, you can try some Weight Gainer 4000(TM) and bulk up! Say it with me now! Beef cake! Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!
Great... but why should everyone be FORCED to do the same, in a day and age when the Internet exists? Sure, I can buy a CD from amazon, but again, with the Internet, getting a physical medium and paying for shipping and waiting to receive it, all for a DIGITAL file, if fucking stupid IMO plain and simple.
-Did i miss the memo on CD obsolesence?
No... you can still buy an LP if you want. But having digital files stored on a physical medium, just for the sake of doing so, is idiotic IMO. What's better? 100 CD's on a shelf you have to search through and load the one you want to listen to, or having all of the music from those 100 CD's sorted in folders on a Hard Drive and Tagged with info for easy searching, etc? Which one? C'mon, are you really telling me having those 100 physical CD's make your music experience easier and better? Maybe "better" is very relative and you like the cover art, the nostalgic fealing of loading a "disk". I sure don't. Millions of others don't either.
-Simply rip everything you buy and use the CD's as nice convient backups.
Ok... here you DID miss the memo. CD's are more and more imune to ripping. Lots of CD's in europe, less in America but it is comming and comming fast. Soon the ripping option will be gone. By the way, how many Super Audio disks, the DVD audio ones, have YOU ripped? Think about not being able to Rip a disk, and then re-read your responses.
Overall, I get the idea of your responses. And they are good and valid. However, just because something works "ok" for you doesn't mean it will for millions of others. Same goes for me... far from all knowing I am too:) But with millions and millions of people using P2P to get music, I think a few people feel the same way about CD's.
What I want is to buy music, and be trusted to listen to it how and when I want without being treated like a thief. And I want my music fucking ***DIGITAL*** please. No plastic disks. Jesus, it's 2003. Why can't I just download a simple thing like Music when and where I want? iTunes is the only thing that comes close. I'd bet $$$ that when iTunes comes out for the PC, and they start selling a million songs a DAY, the whole idea of downloading music will be rocked to the fucking core.
1) I do not want to drive to a store and browse their horrific layout, surrounded with Nelly-wanna-be's and teeny-boppers.
2) I do not want to obtain an OBSOLETE medium for my music. CD's are out. Why should I be restricted to one artist, one albumn, per medium? CD = 8-track-tape in my mind. I want all my music in one place (think iPod).
3) I do not want to pay $16-$20 when all I want is one song from the Artist I would be willing to buy (yeah, that's what CD's go for around here. Here = New York City/Long Island). And many times the one song I want is not the "single" which is released at close to $8 regardless!
4) I do not want to be unable to backup my music. New CD's are starting to disallow reading in a computers CD drive. Pathetic.
5) I do not want to listen to one artist at a time! I only listen to my music via the playlists I have made. "Party Mix", "Smooth Mix", "Drunk Mix", "Stoned Mix", "Desert Combat Mod v0.38 Mix", etc.
Using IP6 for this thing, are they? Sounds hi-tech, but I hope it works for all the IPv6 users out there. Both of them!
As always, porn and music make the break into the leading edge of technology. First to stream, use Applets, P2P... Porn and music. That's where I want to go today!(TM)
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EXACTLY! Awesome point that I think a LOT of people, espiecally mainstream media, do not understand. I've said similar things in previous posts. Basically, the RIAA will get rid of illegal music the day after the ATF and Coast Guard get rid of illegal drugs. So... uh... never.
If Verisign somehow was incharge of POP3, then a wrong user name or wrong password would still log you in, but into a dummy account with spam for you to read.
UNBELIEVABLE! Anyone who has read Vance's works, please feel free to tell me your favs as I look forward to reading many more, as I've just finished the last of the aforementioned books. I'll give you a million SVU and a bag of Purples for your efforts! :)
Huh? EXPENSIVE? HOW ABOUT FREE! To quote Homer Simpson when he decided to steal cable television and Marge asked if they could afford it, "Zero dollars a month? Yeah, I think we can swing it!"
1) Download FREE three month full trial at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/
2) Install ontop of FREE Windows 2003 Server evaluation, inside your favorite free VMWare wanna-be emulator. Save image of clean install.
3) Enjoy. Feel free to reload saved clean install image for continuous testing on free Exchange server.
4) If you can't get a default install of Exchange server running, you shouldn't be programming for it.
I'll do that right now. All I need to do is click h...ATA$#JK@*%#!*#H$#$#[NO CARRIER]
Who the hell is "we"!? ;)
Try "them" ---> http://www.apple.com
Heard it before! I used to hear back in the day, "Plus, people want to own the CD and feel it in their hands and have the cover art and little booklet."
But, FREE is a word that will quickly make you forget about how nice it feels to hold a paper book in your hands or what cover art looks like.
Good luck to whereever you're going, too!
Such as security and stability? That would sure be nice.
I'm impressed! :)
So, what's your IP? WoOt!
Why can't all audio jacks on cell phones for earpieces all utilize the SAME standard jacks such as on CD layers. And all power jacks should be the same, too. The ONLY reason to change the design every week is to force people to spend more money on home/office/car chargers, headphones, etc every time they get a new phone. It is nothing short of criminal. Cell phones are purposely designed to have different connectors to accessories for no good reason, other than extorting more money on the same accessories that need to be repurchased time and time again.
Get the fucking head phones and power cable standardized, THEN we'll talk about cameras/texting/keyboards and all that junk.
That's going to keep me laughing all night! Thanks :)
2 and a half people? Cool. I wonder what the midget does.
Or, you can try some Weight Gainer 4000(TM) and bulk up! Say it with me now! Beef cake! Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!
Great... but why should everyone be FORCED to do the same, in a day and age when the Internet exists? Sure, I can buy a CD from amazon, but again, with the Internet, getting a physical medium and paying for shipping and waiting to receive it, all for a DIGITAL file, if fucking stupid IMO plain and simple.
-Did i miss the memo on CD obsolesence?
No... you can still buy an LP if you want. But having digital files stored on a physical medium, just for the sake of doing so, is idiotic IMO. What's better? 100 CD's on a shelf you have to search through and load the one you want to listen to, or having all of the music from those 100 CD's sorted in folders on a Hard Drive and Tagged with info for easy searching, etc? Which one? C'mon, are you really telling me having those 100 physical CD's make your music experience easier and better? Maybe "better" is very relative and you like the cover art, the nostalgic fealing of loading a "disk". I sure don't. Millions of others don't either.
-Simply rip everything you buy and use the CD's as nice convient backups.
Ok... here you DID miss the memo. CD's are more and more imune to ripping. Lots of CD's in europe, less in America but it is comming and comming fast. Soon the ripping option will be gone. By the way, how many Super Audio disks, the DVD audio ones, have YOU ripped? Think about not being able to Rip a disk, and then re-read your responses.
Overall, I get the idea of your responses. And they are good and valid. However, just because something works "ok" for you doesn't mean it will for millions of others. Same goes for me... far from all knowing I am too :) But with millions and millions of people using P2P to get music, I think a few people feel the same way about CD's.
What I want is to buy music, and be trusted to listen to it how and when I want without being treated like a thief. And I want my music fucking ***DIGITAL*** please. No plastic disks. Jesus, it's 2003. Why can't I just download a simple thing like Music when and where I want? iTunes is the only thing that comes close. I'd bet $$$ that when iTunes comes out for the PC, and they start selling a million songs a DAY, the whole idea of downloading music will be rocked to the fucking core.
1) I do not want to drive to a store and browse their horrific layout, surrounded with Nelly-wanna-be's and teeny-boppers.
2) I do not want to obtain an OBSOLETE medium for my music. CD's are out. Why should I be restricted to one artist, one albumn, per medium? CD = 8-track-tape in my mind. I want all my music in one place (think iPod).
3) I do not want to pay $16-$20 when all I want is one song from the Artist I would be willing to buy (yeah, that's what CD's go for around here. Here = New York City/Long Island). And many times the one song I want is not the "single" which is released at close to $8 regardless!
4) I do not want to be unable to backup my music. New CD's are starting to disallow reading in a computers CD drive. Pathetic.
5) I do not want to listen to one artist at a time! I only listen to my music via the playlists I have made. "Party Mix", "Smooth Mix", "Drunk Mix", "Stoned Mix", "Desert Combat Mod v0.38 Mix", etc.
As always, porn and music make the break into the leading edge of technology. First to stream, use Applets, P2P... Porn and music. That's where I want to go today!(TM)