Not to be rude, but you're out of your mind. Yes, hardware in consoles is sold at a loss. But at maybe a $100 loss per unit, not $500ish. I mean, come on, a 1ghz machine with a DVD drive and 64 megs of RAM for $150? I want some of what their sources are on.
It's bullshit. There's no way it can happen in any sort of short term.
Go back about 5 years, replace "Win2000" with "Windows 95", and we have the SAME EXACT situation all over again. (Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.)
Please tell me how 3.1 was better than 95. Granted, I imagine initially there were problems due to hardware, drivers not being written for 95, etc... but 5 years on, I know which I would pick. Of course, I'd take 98 over both. No, really.
Would you buy a car with 30000 defects? 3000? 300?
I own a 1993 Eagle Talon.
Even so, how many parts are inside my car? How many functions do they perform? How many things can go wrong? The show stoppers are the ones that I really care about.
Hell, it's still running under DOS. Like it or not windows is just a nice GUI front end for DOS.
Um, no... any NT core products are in fact NOT running DOS. That's the whole point. Thanks for the FUD, though. Now if only I had a garden to spread it over.
UNT (University of North Texas) has a radio station in Denton, Texas. It's KNTU, left over from when they were NTSU (NT State U).
They play jazz all day. Bad jazz. It sucks horribly. And they won't let students volunteer if they want to play something other than jazz. It's school run, not student run. Which is why I'm thrilled about this whole thing.
I've seen a couple posts from people excited about the possibility of setting up their own radio station and playing music they like. Unfortunately, you can't just play your CDs on the air like that. CDs contain copyrighted material, and broadcasting the music over the air constitutes a copyright violation. Radio stations are licensed (probably by the RIAA or a similar group) to play CDs on the air. It's very difficult, if not impossible, for a single person to get such a license.
The best you can do is play material from small, local bands that you or they have recorded themselves. If a band has a CD produced by some production company, then the band doesn't have the right to authorize you to play those CD's (yes, it's the band's music, but the production company owns that particular recording). You'll need to get an original recording of the band, and in many cases, the band has signed an agreement with the label which prevents them from recording their songs for someone else, so you're back to square one.
Yeah, it's screwy, but there's a reason for it. All of these restrictions are intended to prevent a band from releasing their songs with two different labels.
Your understanding is screwy - it has nothing to do with two labels at all. Beck is the biggest example I can think of where he has released for multiple labels at one time.
It's not the RIAA, it's BMI and ASCAP (or SESAC). And it's not hard at all to get licensed by them, they love to take your money, it's their job. Every place that plays music publically is supposed to have a license.
Then there's the "production company" thing. You mean like if the band has a producer work with them on an album? I run a tiny record label, but um, you're way wrong. Only big name producers (Butch Vig, Steve Albini, etc) get to put their fingers in the pie cause the major label lets em. You go to a producer, you record your music, and you pay them for their time. You walk out with the masters or what have you, and you own the copyright (or the label does). The producer has little to do with it. Of course, in the world of major labels and such, these things can change without warning. Always read the contract.
Group Status, in any urban area, probably means membership in any of the current protected-class false communities: gays, non-whites, immigrants, or other left-wing sanctioned groups. You can just about forget doing it if you're not in one of those groups, unless you live in a rural area, and then who's going to hear your signal?
Yeah right. I'm probably one of the few homos in my area that actually gives a shit about this whole deal... the rest are too busy hitting the bars. Of course, I live in the Dallas area.:)
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The problem with an unofficial information being made available on a website is that even if you provide detailed instructions, some amount of clueless endusers will want help or a walkthrough.
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Banning Windows would be an effective, though not politically correct solution.
Gosh, I can see the target market for such a service now - Linux zealots who don't like to pay for anything. And in any given geographical area, there's maybe 3 of them. Plus Mac people. What a way to make money. Sorry people target Windows users, but there are MORE of them, even if they are dumber/less 3l33t. When you're selling something, your goal is typically to sell a lot of them so you can eat.
Legit uses for port 25 exist, quite clearly. I have a domain that I have hosted with someone else (DSL contract says no hosting, not ready to run Linux cuz I like my free time, etc), so if I want to send mail through there - port 25. I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation.
Another poser is this: my workplace used to provide dialup through a client. That client went away and stopped providing dialup. So I had to go buy dialup access so I could access my shell account (network blocks telnet, and no they don't care if I like it). There's also issue with using SMTP on our network at work. (Recently, it started working with my GTE account. I haven't told anyone, for a reason.) So I had to go looking for dialup access. Since this was for a very slight purpose, I didn't really want to spend a lot of money. I decided to go with a large "freeish" ISP. I couldn't send mail through my domain or GTE. When I found this to not be working, I called their tech support desk and asked if they were blocking port 25. "We prevent spamming." was the response. Great, but I'm not using your servers, I have a legit right to use these servers, and I want to do so. Are you blocking that? They didn't know. Maybe the main office will know. I had them cancel my account. "Don't you want to ask the main office first?" It was late in the day, so I would have had to call them the next day. Um, no. I'll just go to one of roughly 100 dialup providers in Dallas, thanks. I think I was with them for an hour.
Forgive me my rambling, I'm sick. No, with the flu or something similar.
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Very appropriate.
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I didn't use mp3.lycos.com when I issued my challenge due to the recent suckiness of it. Scratch that, it's sucked pretty much from the start. I did check AudioGalaxy and Napster and found none of the things I mentioned.
Sure, you can find any MP3 you want, but if your music taste sucks or matches that of millions of other white people, then great. For those of us where that is not the case, your point is less valid.
That's a great idea, if your band has 6 members. The band I was talking about had 1 at the time. And I'm the label. So it's not always as easy as you might think.
Well, this is a nice theory, except the price I'm quoting for studio time does not scale. Major label bands putting out music for normal people spend more in the studio because those studios have nicer equipment, better paid producers, other perks. I'm talking about lo-fi DIY bands from Denton. They are not bad, but they're not the type you hear on corporate radio stations or see on MTV, or that sells more than say 50,000 copies of an album.
I don't know what these studios are charging in Baton Rouge, but I know in Denton one of my artists wanted to book some studio time and was looking at a few hundred to finish a whole session. That's not zero. Especially when you're starting out and expect to press 1000 copies of something.
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You didn't provide contact info, so i hope you see this and contact me. Please find me the following:
MP3s by Cylob (not remixes of Aphex Twin) Old 97's - "Jagged" Squarepusher's _Selection Sixteen_ EP/minialbum any Bochum Welt
The cores of the clients (eg the parts that decypher or do the main work) are open source, and your encouraged to modify them. That's how the MMX cores came about. That's how the G4 cores look to be coming about. That's how there should already frigging be AMD specific cores for 3dNow and Athlons already instead of not...
We'll probably be releasing the final clients in the next week or two, and at that point, our rate will be large enough that we should be able to exhaust the entire keyspace in a few weeks.
Are those weeks real time, or DNET time? Because if they're DNET time, we're looking at months. While I will continue to support DNET, I can understand dissatisfaction with how things work.
On the other hand, it looks as if dcypher.net was made out of complaints about SETI's client. In which case, why didn't they just code cores for distributed and offer them up? It may have taken some time to get the core into the distributed.net client, but it would've been a better thing to do, IMHO.
And the website is eerily similar. It's kinda spooky. My main objection to the whole thing was their not saying how much of the prize money would go to the finder of the key. Now that they've done that, hmm.
I support a bunch of serial devices in my job, and some of them don't have USB versions. And we don't support running them through adapters. For example, I support some digital cameras. Some of them were serial only (Mac or PC). We get iMac (and G3) because they can't plug it in and it said "For Macintosh". Well, when it was released, the Macs still had serial ports, guys. Sorry you're buying an old camera. And we don't support running it through an adapter. And the floppy adapter doesn't work because... no floppy. Nope, doesn't work on anything other than a standard floppy drive. Whee!
Hell, I get calls on a PCMCIA only camera we have where people are confused as to why it won't work with their desktops... "How was I to know it wouldn't work? "On the box it should have said PCMCIA." "How am I supposed to know whether my computer has that?" - actual conversation I had with a customer. I explained to him that it's his job to know the capabilities and features of his own computer.
But expect a flood of calls from end users as a tech for either the OEM or the device, because "Where does it plug in?"
How does Linux + BSD + Novell + Commercial UNIX + BeOS + MacOS = a permanent monopoly on the part of Microsoft in PC operating systems?
Check the market share of those OSes in the desktop market. No, really. We'll wait. With the exception of MacOS, they are not significant. Yes, Slashdot users like alternative OSes, but the majority of America is not Slashdot. Thank you, drive through.
A book which I don't think many people other than myself have read, but which is extremely geeky, is called The Planiverse, by A.K. Dewdney. Dewdney, being a CS professor himself, does a good job of writing an entertaining story ala Flatland, interspersed with little tidbits on 2D physics, physiology, architecture, and the like.
Thanks so much. I've read this book. I'm sure it's hard as hell to find, but it's great... a total mind bender. He presents it in this realistic tone, as if everything really happened, and you come away from it wondering if maybe it really did. Excellent book, stole it from my mom's collection and kept it hidden. The other book I did that with was *drumroll*... _Snow Crash_.:)
Mr. Gates, as far as I know, never did anything anarchistic.
Except for going to construction sites, hijacking bulldozers, and racing them? Driving like a maniac? I'm sure there are others... that's just what comes to mind after reading a few books about him in the past 6 months or so.
and by far the most efficient, productive email program for me is Pine!
I think you mean elm.:) But the point raised below about Outlook having features like scheduling... email is email. My email reader should read email and not much else, I think.
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Not to be rude, but you're out of your mind. Yes, hardware in consoles is sold at a loss. But at maybe a $100 loss per unit, not $500ish. I mean, come on, a 1ghz machine with a DVD drive and 64 megs of RAM for $150? I want some of what their sources are on.
It's bullshit. There's no way it can happen in any sort of short term.
Go back about 5 years, replace "Win2000" with "Windows 95", and we have the SAME EXACT situation all over again. (Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.)
Please tell me how 3.1 was better than 95. Granted, I imagine initially there were problems due to hardware, drivers not being written for 95, etc... but 5 years on, I know which I would pick. Of course, I'd take 98 over both. No, really.
I own a 1993 Eagle Talon.
Even so, how many parts are inside my car? How many functions do they perform? How many things can go wrong? The show stoppers are the ones that I really care about.
Um, sez you. I'm a homo. I haven't been very vocal about it here though, since I haven't been feeling very militant lately.
Um, no... any NT core products are in fact NOT running DOS. That's the whole point. Thanks for the FUD, though. Now if only I had a garden to spread it over.
UNT (University of North Texas) has a radio station in Denton, Texas. It's KNTU, left over from when they were NTSU (NT State U).
They play jazz all day. Bad jazz. It sucks horribly. And they won't let students volunteer if they want to play something other than jazz. It's school run, not student run. Which is why I'm thrilled about this whole thing.
Radio stations are licensed (probably by the RIAA or a similar group) to play CDs on the air. It's very difficult, if not impossible, for a single person to get such a license.
The best you can do is play material from small, local bands that you or they have recorded themselves. If a band has a CD produced by some production company, then the band doesn't have the right to authorize you to play those CD's (yes, it's the band's music, but the production company owns that particular recording). You'll need to get an original recording of the band, and in many cases, the band has signed an agreement with the label which prevents them from recording their songs for someone else, so you're back to square one.
Yeah, it's screwy, but there's a reason for it. All of these restrictions are intended to prevent a band from releasing their songs with two different labels.
Your understanding is screwy - it has nothing to do with two labels at all. Beck is the biggest example I can think of where he has released for multiple labels at one time.
It's not the RIAA, it's BMI and ASCAP (or SESAC). And it's not hard at all to get licensed by them, they love to take your money, it's their job. Every place that plays music publically is supposed to have a license.
Then there's the "production company" thing. You mean like if the band has a producer work with them on an album? I run a tiny record label, but um, you're way wrong. Only big name producers (Butch Vig, Steve Albini, etc) get to put their fingers in the pie cause the major label lets em. You go to a producer, you record your music, and you pay them for their time. You walk out with the masters or what have you, and you own the copyright (or the label does). The producer has little to do with it. Of course, in the world of major labels and such, these things can change without warning. Always read the contract.
Seriously though, what are you on about?
Yeah right. I'm probably one of the few homos in my area that actually gives a shit about this whole deal... the rest are too busy hitting the bars. Of course, I live in the Dallas area.
The problem with an unofficial information being made available on a website is that even if you provide detailed instructions, some amount of clueless endusers will want help or a walkthrough.
Gosh, I can see the target market for such a service now - Linux zealots who don't like to pay for anything. And in any given geographical area, there's maybe 3 of them. Plus Mac people. What a way to make money. Sorry people target Windows users, but there are MORE of them, even if they are dumber/less 3l33t. When you're selling something, your goal is typically to sell a lot of them so you can eat.
Legit uses for port 25 exist, quite clearly. I have a domain that I have hosted with someone else (DSL contract says no hosting, not ready to run Linux cuz I like my free time, etc), so if I want to send mail through there - port 25. I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation.
Another poser is this: my workplace used to provide dialup through a client. That client went away and stopped providing dialup. So I had to go buy dialup access so I could access my shell account (network blocks telnet, and no they don't care if I like it). There's also issue with using SMTP on our network at work. (Recently, it started working with my GTE account. I haven't told anyone, for a reason.) So I had to go looking for dialup access. Since this was for a very slight purpose, I didn't really want to spend a lot of money. I decided to go with a large "freeish" ISP. I couldn't send mail through my domain or GTE. When I found this to not be working, I called their tech support desk and asked if they were blocking port 25. "We prevent spamming." was the response. Great, but I'm not using your servers, I have a legit right to use these servers, and I want to do so. Are you blocking that? They didn't know. Maybe the main office will know. I had them cancel my account. "Don't you want to ask the main office first?" It was late in the day, so I would have had to call them the next day. Um, no. I'll just go to one of roughly 100 dialup providers in Dallas, thanks. I think I was with them for an hour.
Forgive me my rambling, I'm sick. No, with the flu or something similar.
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I didn't use mp3.lycos.com when I issued my challenge due to the recent suckiness of it. Scratch that, it's sucked pretty much from the start. I did check AudioGalaxy and Napster and found none of the things I mentioned.
Sure, you can find any MP3 you want, but if your music taste sucks or matches that of millions of other white people, then great. For those of us where that is not the case, your point is less valid.
That's a great idea, if your band has 6 members. The band I was talking about had 1 at the time. And I'm the label. So it's not always as easy as you might think.
Well, this is a nice theory, except the price I'm quoting for studio time does not scale. Major label bands putting out music for normal people spend more in the studio because those studios have nicer equipment, better paid producers, other perks. I'm talking about lo-fi DIY bands from Denton. They are not bad, but they're not the type you hear on corporate radio stations or see on MTV, or that sells more than say 50,000 copies of an album.
I don't know what these studios are charging in Baton Rouge, but I know in Denton one of my artists wanted to book some studio time and was looking at a few hundred to finish a whole session. That's not zero. Especially when you're starting out and expect to press 1000 copies of something.
You didn't provide contact info, so i hope you see this and contact me. Please find me the following:
MP3s by Cylob (not remixes of Aphex Twin)
Old 97's - "Jagged"
Squarepusher's _Selection Sixteen_ EP/minialbum
any Bochum Welt
You've got 5 minutes from when you see this.
The cores of the clients (eg the parts that decypher or do the main work) are open source, and your encouraged to modify them. That's how the MMX cores came about. That's how the G4 cores look to be coming about. That's how there should already frigging be AMD specific cores for 3dNow and Athlons already instead of not...
Are those weeks real time, or DNET time? Because if they're DNET time, we're looking at months. While I will continue to support DNET, I can understand dissatisfaction with how things work.
On the other hand, it looks as if dcypher.net was made out of complaints about SETI's client. In which case, why didn't they just code cores for distributed and offer them up? It may have taken some time to get the core into the distributed.net client, but it would've been a better thing to do, IMHO.
And the website is eerily similar. It's kinda spooky. My main objection to the whole thing was their not saying how much of the prize money would go to the finder of the key. Now that they've done that, hmm.
I support a bunch of serial devices in my job, and some of them don't have USB versions. And we don't support running them through adapters. For example, I support some digital cameras. Some of them were serial only (Mac or PC). We get iMac (and G3) because they can't plug it in and it said "For Macintosh". Well, when it was released, the Macs still had serial ports, guys. Sorry you're buying an old camera. And we don't support running it through an adapter. And the floppy adapter doesn't work because... no floppy. Nope, doesn't work on anything other than a standard floppy drive. Whee!
Hell, I get calls on a PCMCIA only camera we have where people are confused as to why it won't work with their desktops... "How was I to know it wouldn't work? "On the box it should have said PCMCIA." "How am I supposed to know whether my computer has that?" - actual conversation I had with a customer. I explained to him that it's his job to know the capabilities and features of his own computer.
But expect a flood of calls from end users as a tech for either the OEM or the device, because "Where does it plug in?"
Check the market share of those OSes in the desktop market. No, really. We'll wait. With the exception of MacOS, they are not significant. Yes, Slashdot users like alternative OSes, but the majority of America is not Slashdot. Thank you, drive through.
I'll never be able to get my nick on IRC again. And then I'll get asked if I'm Japanese. *sigh*
Thanks so much. I've read this book. I'm sure it's hard as hell to find, but it's great... a total mind bender. He presents it in this realistic tone, as if everything really happened, and you come away from it wondering if maybe it really did. Excellent book, stole it from my mom's collection and kept it hidden. The other book I did that with was *drumroll*... _Snow Crash_. :)
Except for going to construction sites, hijacking bulldozers, and racing them? Driving like a maniac? I'm sure there are others... that's just what comes to mind after reading a few books about him in the past 6 months or so.
I think you mean elm.