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I guess that takes care of that...
If you stream your illegal MP3's - and what else do most people have (leaving out legally ripped MP3's), you're in violation of the law - and if you breathe on their software, you're in violation of the DMCA...
"over the course of an hour, the service won't let you stream any more than four songs from the same artist"...I won't become "Radio Corrs" if I use this...:-)
Maybe I'll become "Radio Tori Amos and the Corrs"...
I know - I'll become "Radio Transhuman"...:-)
What do Clannad, Enya, the Corrs, Tori Amos, Enigma, Loreena McKennit, Peter Gabriel - and the Sisters of Mercy have in common?
when one should not bother reading a/. article at all.
This is much more significant than the RFID cracking "dupe"...
This is just plain stupid.
The "Shroud of Turin" is bullshit, if for no other reason than all the evidence is that Jesus was never crucified in the first place. It was a scam organized by his wealthy followers with the Romans to allow him to go underground provided he gave up trying to start an insurgency. Judas was his own twin brother (according to some accounts and interpretations thereof) and was assigned the task of being the "traitor" by Jesus himself.
Given that the entire Christian church was a scam run by a Roman double-agent named Paul who was run out of Jerusalem by Jesus' own followers, I find it hard to put any credibility in the Roman church's attempts to establish Jesus as their divinity based on a supposed shroud. Not to mention the fact that during the time of Constantine, the Church actually DISOWNED Jesus by declaring that Constantine and Constantine ALONE was the "Savior" of the Christian religion...
So now we have a bunch of retards proclaiming religious bullcrap in the pages of/. - "News for geeks. Stuff that matters."
If you don't like/. - and there are plenty of reasons not to like it, mostly involving the whiney morons who post here about just this sort of thing - then fuck off!
Gee, don't I sound like rightwing "love it or leave it" fucktards? Plenty of those on/., too - another reason to dislike it which is more significant than the frequent dupes.
This article isn't the same as the one yesterday. And no, saying you can follow a train of links to this same piece FROM the article yesterday does NOT make it the same article.
How many stupid pieces did this site run during the pre-election "politics" phase? Like anybody cared...
You can't tell what a dupe is, you're an idiot. You don't know enough to not read an article you don't care about, then fuck off.
I have tons of utility software - some of which goes on a Bart's PE, some of which is based on Linux live CDs, some of which is stand-alone. My biggest problem is remembering which tool does which.
I used to have a boss who would say that we didn't need 100%, just 80%. I used to tell him that if you didn't strive for 100%, you'd end up with 15%, not 80%.
And a lot of software out there bears that out.
Things are hard enough to do in the first place without trying not to do them at all.
Worse are the consultants who use their communication skills to cover over bad technical decisions that will ultimately cost the client more in the long run than doing it right the first time.
This is a guy who is absolutely brilliant at some technical subject - but has absolutely no common sense when it comes to anything else about the subject (end-user interface, security, whatever).
Which is most of the people at Microsoft, apparently, and a hell of a lot of people working in OSS as well.
There's also the difference between being a technical person with no communication skills and being a technical person who covers up bad technical decisions with communication skills.
I'd rather be the former than the latter. If you're not correct, you're not communicating no matter how much "warm fuzzies" the client feels.
As Napoleon once said, the general must resign rather than being the one to lead his country into defeat on the bad orders of his superiors. (Something the morons at the Pentagon today are going to learn the hard way in Iraq.)
I charge very little since I'm just starting out. However, I also have a policy of "no fix, no charge."
I got a call from a client whose four-PC network connected to the Net via a Belkin DSL router I'd installed just stopped working. I spent about an hour on the phone with them trying various things, none of which worked. Just before I decided to go out there to deal with it, the customer went to one of the PCs, started up IE and suddenly everything worked. He wanted to pay me for the hour on the phone. I said no, since I hadn't actually fixed anything.
Another time, this same client had a SCSI scanner that wasn't working. I spent two or three hours trying to get it to work, and eventually concluded that either the SCSI board in the box had died or the electronics in the scanner itself had died. Since I couldn't fix it, no charge for the time. If I had a utility that would have proven that the cause was a dead board, I'd have charged for the time, but since I didn't, I ate it.
Needless to say, they like me over there...:-)
OTOH, if I was dealing with a larger company who could afford it (this was a tiny 3-person outfit), I might have been inclined to charge for at least some of the phone support or on-site time.
I'm a computer user and I hate it when stuff doesn't work. So I feel for small outfits and home users when their stuff doesn't work and it's going to cost the earth to fix it. I don't mind charging for things I actually do, but I don't feel right about charging for unsuccessful efforts or screwing around inefficiently or having to leave a spyware removal job half done because the home user can only afford to pay for an hour or so of work.
I expect to get a lot more business when people realize I don't cost $75 just to come to their door plus another $75 per 15-30 minutes for the work.
Of course, once I'm booked up, I expect to charge more. But until I'm doing serious work for larger companies who can afford it, I don't expect to charge the kind of rates I see other people charge.
Part of this is that in the last twenty years in the IT business, I've had a lot of jobs where "consultants" came in and charged fifty thousand dollars to develop software that the company then had to hire me for $9/hour (or via a body broker who rented me out at $30/hour while paying me half) to fix.
I've long said that all I ever wanted in life was to screw up a project for fifty thousand dollars...:-)
And tomorrow will be a sad day for you right-wing fanatics when the new Iraqi government tells the US to fuck off - and when the US doesn't (since we're really there for oil and permanent military presence in the Middle East to help Israel), the Iraqis will hand the US the worst military defeat in its history.
I can't wait to see five or ten thousand dead US troops on CNN. I can't wait to see how Rush will spin that one. College hi-jinks on the Iraqis part, perhaps?
I don't think there's a contradiction between Bush being a "born again" freak and also a corrupt, greedy, power-hungry bastard.
Plenty of "Christians" have been both for centuries.
Hypocrisy is the hallmark of Christianity from the beginning - when Paul, a double-agent for the Romans, hijacked a Jewish prophet and founded his own religion on that basis. Jesus' own brother denounced him, and he was driven from Jerusalem under Roman guard by Jesus' own followers.
Now they expect us to believe the Pope and Jerry Falwell that none of that is true.
Oh, I agree that there are lots of things that need to be developed to run on Linux in order to match the availability of vertical market solutions on Windows.
However, as you point out, this is not an insurmountable task and will be addressed over time just like it was on Windows. After all, Windows didn't spring full-blown with scores of thousands of applications. All of those business apps had to be converted from DOS to use the GUI and that was done in the usual manner - somebody contracted to do it, then it was resold to everybody else. That is happening in Linux as well.
I have a client who is a sign-making shop who is still running a sign-cutting machine on Windows 95 because the company that made the software went out of business and no one has converted the software to a later version of Windows. So the same problem can happen even within Windows.
It's not a show-stopper for conversion. It just has to be planned for, either by budgeting the funds for converting software over time, or by retaining a Windows machine to run unconvertable software until a Linux equivalent exists.
Meanwhile, as someone said, it's a business opportunity for anyone who can convert software to run on Linux. Pick something and do it. Looks like the 80,000 or so SourceForge projects are a result.
According to studies, their regulations impede the progress of health care so much that an extra hundred thousand people die every year that probably wouldn't have if the FDA went away.
This reminds of the guy in the Bush administration that said something to the effect that "reality-based people" don't have any effect in the "real" world - just all those "faith-based people" in the administration.
Which is actually true. Even Seymour Hersh said it on the Daily Show interview I just watched a few minutes ago - that regardless of what he writes, or the NYT writes or anybody else - the administration is going to do whatever they want - including invading Iran and getting hundreds of thousands more people killed.
And that's true about Microsoft and anything Microsoft says - it's all going to be total bullshit and deliberate lies and that's the caliber of the people working there - but they're going to do it anyway.
Time to ignore them and just get on with it. As Abbie Hoffman once said, "Do Your Own Thing and Only Your Own Thing".
Or as William Burroughs said, "Never let the critic teach you the cloth" (as they say in bullfighting).
1) They hire 24-year-olds out of college who have no real-world clue.
2) Bill Gates doesn't give a shit. And as a columnist in one of the trade journals said last week, the fact that Ballmer is CEO is totally irrelevant at MS - Gates is still running the show. And if it isn't about money, Gates doesn't care.
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Publish advance program guides or use other means to pre-announce when particular sound recordings will be streamed or the order in which they will be streamed
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Disable any identification or technological protection information included in the sound recording (if any)
Violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law (including without limitation the DMCA)
I guess that takes care of that...
If you stream your illegal MP3's - and what else do most people have (leaving out legally ripped MP3's), you're in violation of the law - and if you breathe on their software, you're in violation of the DMCA...
Doesn't look like such fun now, does it?
"over the course of an hour, the service won't let you stream any more than four songs from the same artist" ...I won't become "Radio Corrs" if I use this...:-)
Maybe I'll become "Radio Tori Amos and the Corrs"...
I know - I'll become "Radio Transhuman"...:-)
What do Clannad, Enya, the Corrs, Tori Amos, Enigma, Loreena McKennit, Peter Gabriel - and the Sisters of Mercy have in common?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Wait, wait...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Ohmygod...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I can't...I can't...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Ohithurts...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
ThisislikeGeorgeBushbelievesinfreedom...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
when one should not bother reading a
This is much more significant than the RFID cracking "dupe"...
This is just plain stupid.
The "Shroud of Turin" is bullshit, if for no other reason than all the evidence is that Jesus was never crucified in the first place. It was a scam organized by his wealthy followers with the Romans to allow him to go underground provided he gave up trying to start an insurgency. Judas was his own twin brother (according to some accounts and interpretations thereof) and was assigned the task of being the "traitor" by Jesus himself.
Given that the entire Christian church was a scam run by a Roman double-agent named Paul who was run out of Jerusalem by Jesus' own followers, I find it hard to put any credibility in the Roman church's attempts to establish Jesus as their divinity based on a supposed shroud. Not to mention the fact that during the time of Constantine, the Church actually DISOWNED Jesus by declaring that Constantine and Constantine ALONE was the "Savior" of the Christian religion...
So now we have a bunch of retards proclaiming religious bullcrap in the pages of
Yeah, right...
"There is no evidence that homosexuality as we understand it is common in any species."
Bullshit.
ANY behavior occurs across a wide spectrum in ANY species.
Of course, some religious moron who doesn't comprehend how evolution works wouldn't understand that.
HEY!
If you don't like
Gee, don't I sound like rightwing "love it or leave it" fucktards? Plenty of those on
This article isn't the same as the one yesterday. And no, saying you can follow a train of links to this same piece FROM the article yesterday does NOT make it the same article.
How many stupid pieces did this site run during the pre-election "politics" phase? Like anybody cared...
You can't tell what a dupe is, you're an idiot. You don't know enough to not read an article you don't care about, then fuck off.
Have a nice day.
You're close.
I have tons of utility software - some of which goes on a Bart's PE, some of which is based on Linux live CDs, some of which is stand-alone. My biggest problem is remembering which tool does which.
And I charge half what you do...
There's a downside to that as well.
I used to have a boss who would say that we didn't need 100%, just 80%. I used to tell him that if you didn't strive for 100%, you'd end up with 15%, not 80%.
And a lot of software out there bears that out.
Things are hard enough to do in the first place without trying not to do them at all.
Worse are the consultants who use their communication skills to cover over bad technical decisions that will ultimately cost the client more in the long run than doing it right the first time.
OTOH, then you have what I call the "Geek Moron".
This is a guy who is absolutely brilliant at some technical subject - but has absolutely no common sense when it comes to anything else about the subject (end-user interface, security, whatever).
Which is most of the people at Microsoft, apparently, and a hell of a lot of people working in OSS as well.
There's also the difference between being a technical person with no communication skills and being a technical person who covers up bad technical decisions with communication skills.
I'd rather be the former than the latter. If you're not correct, you're not communicating no matter how much "warm fuzzies" the client feels.
As Napoleon once said, the general must resign rather than being the one to lead his country into defeat on the bad orders of his superiors. (Something the morons at the Pentagon today are going to learn the hard way in Iraq.)
"Incorporate. Protect your savings, house, car, etc., if there's a disaster."
See, this is where I have the advantage - since I don't have any of those things to protect, I can undercut almost anybody in price...:-)
I may not know as much as somebody else, but I can find out in due time and still charge less for the work.
Modded "interesting"?
Gimme a break. This moron never bothered to read anything else on the site.
If he had, he'd see there is a ton of technical articles there and and the author writes them for tech journals.
I agree.
I charge very little since I'm just starting out. However, I also have a policy of "no fix, no charge."
I got a call from a client whose four-PC network connected to the Net via a Belkin DSL router I'd installed just stopped working. I spent about an hour on the phone with them trying various things, none of which worked. Just before I decided to go out there to deal with it, the customer went to one of the PCs, started up IE and suddenly everything worked. He wanted to pay me for the hour on the phone. I said no, since I hadn't actually fixed anything.
Another time, this same client had a SCSI scanner that wasn't working. I spent two or three hours trying to get it to work, and eventually concluded that either the SCSI board in the box had died or the electronics in the scanner itself had died. Since I couldn't fix it, no charge for the time. If I had a utility that would have proven that the cause was a dead board, I'd have charged for the time, but since I didn't, I ate it.
Needless to say, they like me over there...:-)
OTOH, if I was dealing with a larger company who could afford it (this was a tiny 3-person outfit), I might have been inclined to charge for at least some of the phone support or on-site time.
I'm a computer user and I hate it when stuff doesn't work. So I feel for small outfits and home users when their stuff doesn't work and it's going to cost the earth to fix it. I don't mind charging for things I actually do, but I don't feel right about charging for unsuccessful efforts or screwing around inefficiently or having to leave a spyware removal job half done because the home user can only afford to pay for an hour or so of work.
I expect to get a lot more business when people realize I don't cost $75 just to come to their door plus another $75 per 15-30 minutes for the work.
Of course, once I'm booked up, I expect to charge more. But until I'm doing serious work for larger companies who can afford it, I don't expect to charge the kind of rates I see other people charge.
Part of this is that in the last twenty years in the IT business, I've had a lot of jobs where "consultants" came in and charged fifty thousand dollars to develop software that the company then had to hire me for $9/hour (or via a body broker who rented me out at $30/hour while paying me half) to fix.
I've long said that all I ever wanted in life was to screw up a project for fifty thousand dollars...:-)
And tomorrow will be a sad day for you right-wing fanatics when the new Iraqi government tells the US to fuck off - and when the US doesn't (since we're really there for oil and permanent military presence in the Middle East to help Israel), the Iraqis will hand the US the worst military defeat in its history.
I can't wait to see five or ten thousand dead US troops on CNN. I can't wait to see how Rush will spin that one. College hi-jinks on the Iraqis part, perhaps?
Have a nice day.
I don't think there's a contradiction between Bush being a "born again" freak and also a corrupt, greedy, power-hungry bastard.
Plenty of "Christians" have been both for centuries.
Hypocrisy is the hallmark of Christianity from the beginning - when Paul, a double-agent for the Romans, hijacked a Jewish prophet and founded his own religion on that basis. Jesus' own brother denounced him, and he was driven from Jerusalem under Roman guard by Jesus' own followers.
Now they expect us to believe the Pope and Jerry Falwell that none of that is true.
Oh, I agree that there are lots of things that need to be developed to run on Linux in order to match the availability of vertical market solutions on Windows.
However, as you point out, this is not an insurmountable task and will be addressed over time just like it was on Windows. After all, Windows didn't spring full-blown with scores of thousands of applications. All of those business apps had to be converted from DOS to use the GUI and that was done in the usual manner - somebody contracted to do it, then it was resold to everybody else. That is happening in Linux as well.
I have a client who is a sign-making shop who is still running a sign-cutting machine on Windows 95 because the company that made the software went out of business and no one has converted the software to a later version of Windows. So the same problem can happen even within Windows.
It's not a show-stopper for conversion. It just has to be planned for, either by budgeting the funds for converting software over time, or by retaining a Windows machine to run unconvertable software until a Linux equivalent exists.
Meanwhile, as someone said, it's a business opportunity for anyone who can convert software to run on Linux. Pick something and do it. Looks like the 80,000 or so SourceForge projects are a result.
I think you're thinking of Cate Blanchett...
Did you know that most people who use "cinverstation" in writing and CONVERSATION (with incorrect punctuation ",") are idiots?
"Next up -- seriously -- the researchers want to run the same test on Joe Sixpack..."
Seriously.
"They don't want people to hate them anymore. They've learned from their mistakes."
But, then, nothing else Microsoft does (or makes) works, either, so that's no surprise...
it wasn't Tony Blair?
Ask George.
Personally I think Liz Hurley ought to be declared "Greatest Briton"... (Or maybe Keira Knightley...or Kate Beckinsale...or Kate Winslet...or...)
Well, maybe Jordan, who really IS "Greatest Briton"...
And we all know how well the FDA works.
According to studies, their regulations impede the progress of health care so much that an extra hundred thousand people die every year that probably wouldn't have if the FDA went away.
This reminds of the guy in the Bush administration that said something to the effect that "reality-based people" don't have any effect in the "real" world - just all those "faith-based people" in the administration.
Which is actually true. Even Seymour Hersh said it on the Daily Show interview I just watched a few minutes ago - that regardless of what he writes, or the NYT writes or anybody else - the administration is going to do whatever they want - including invading Iran and getting hundreds of thousands more people killed.
And that's true about Microsoft and anything Microsoft says - it's all going to be total bullshit and deliberate lies and that's the caliber of the people working there - but they're going to do it anyway.
Time to ignore them and just get on with it. As Abbie Hoffman once said, "Do Your Own Thing and Only Your Own Thing".
Or as William Burroughs said, "Never let the critic teach you the cloth" (as they say in bullfighting).
Not only that, they don't know because it's missing from Windows, too...
Two simple reasons:
1) They hire 24-year-olds out of college who have no real-world clue.
2) Bill Gates doesn't give a shit. And as a columnist in one of the trade journals said last week, the fact that Ballmer is CEO is totally irrelevant at MS - Gates is still running the show. And if it isn't about money, Gates doesn't care.