BTW does anybody knows of 'Leonard Kleinrock' described as "one of the original founders of the Internet" in the article and an expert witness ?"
Yeah, he used to beat the crap out of me . Of course I was a lowly green belt in Shotokan Karate, and he was a mightly black belt.
Seriously, he is a professor at UCLA and describes himself as "the Inventor of the Internet Technology". Not the inventor of the Internet itself mind you. Maybe think of him as the Heinrich Hertz of the Internet, not the Marconi.
Many posters have argued that government intervention into private software markets is bad, and that Europeans are foolish not to see how bad this really is
We already have government intervention into US-produced software. Europeans know full well about this, and are wise to push open source solutions.
Having another country's government spy on your citizens IS a proper concern of one's own government.
Everyone knows these are bogus! Come on, its not a real degree until you've been abused by a PhD candidate who's been trying for the last decade to get his Thesis approved!
The day I get spam offering this experience is the day I believe it is a real degree.
Of course, I'd have to add that until you can download dormitory food, it's not a bonafide online degree
I'm in an online degree program, and that may fit the bill. The hardest problem with juggling college & a career maybe isn't so the the amount of time as the lack of schedule flexibility traditional college requires. A traditional college education expects that you are able to take M-W-F classes in the middle of the afternoon, and are just hanging around campus all the time so you can meet professors and TAs at their convenience.
If you go for an on-line program, make sure it is from a bona-fide accredited university - no degree mills. Also keep in mind that your instructors are used to teaching "regular" courses and dealing with full time students much younger (and more naive than you). They will make unreasonable demands of your time, and many will treat you in the condescending fashion notorious at universities (and distasteful to anyone with actual professional accomplishments)
Real world experience makes understanding the concepts much easier - you may be given some abstract topic and think, "oh yeah, I worked on something like that on project XYZ" while the topic will be entirely unfamiliar to your typical 19 year old with no real work experience.
Last point - if you are running your own company, you will have some time flexibility. If you are an employee, make sure your company buys off on the time commitment. There's nothing like having to drop a class because you employer sends you to Timbuktu a week before final exams.
Some web filters (Websense, for one) have an explicit blocking category for political advocacy.
Political advocacy may cause excessive thinking on the job, dissension from commonplace views, dissatisfaction with society, and is known to foster a spirit of rebelliousness. Obviously as dangerous as porn.
And what does this mean to the Mac, based on PowerPC chips? Will Motorola have to license the Palladium technology? Will MacOS then have to support it (presumably by licensing MS patented "IP protection" software)?
Will this be the end of the Mac, or will it be the best reason to make the switch?
No... Offer soundclips that could be used as an alternate boot-up tune.
Seriously, make sure your touring info is completely up to date. Allow people to easily and reliably order your CD's on line. Maybe give folks who order on-line some sort of promotion for your next live gig (20% off, 2-for-one, free drink, etc.)
Understand the demographics of your fans, and center your Web presence around that. If your fans have some social, political, psychological, consumer interests, link to these sites and see if they will link to you.
Small thing - if you offer MP3s for download, make sure the file name includes the band, the CD, and the song.
Allow fans to get on a mailing list (a real honest to god snail mail list) and send really nice postcards and flyers announcing local shows, new CDs, etc.
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Just assume that everything you do there is under surveillance.
No joke. Employers always believe you belong to them. What you say and think is very important to them, and something they believe thay should be able to control. Consider this behavior from Ford Motors' personnel department in the 1930's:
...Intimidation and attacks by his "Servicemen" were commonplace, and a spy network within the factories kept Bennett well-informed. Inside and outside the plants, his men observed union meetings, followed suspected unionists and lurked outside their homes. They also eavesdropped on conservations on the shop floor and in taverns, groceries, restaurants and other public places.
1. This is nothing new. Employers have acted as petty tyrants for as long as they have existed.
2. The automobile workers were eventually able to do something about this, through concerted group action. Being treated like this at work is not inevitable.
Note that many employers block SSh at the firewall. Expect this practice to become more widespread. I'll bet a lot of content-filtering software will provide this by default.
Of course, that SSH traffic essential to the business will be allowed - with an escrowed key to permit snooping.
Many workplaces (like mine) have no sense of humor when it comes to "pornography" (broadly define). Folks with the bad luck to be on the recieving end of this unsolicited traffic have been in very serious trouble. As prior Slashdot posters have stated, your employer owns your time, when you are at work you have no rights, etc.
Of course, if your employer has such a system, you immediately have a way to enact revenge against the pompous brown-noser in the cubicle next to you.
Forrester Research recently posted a summary of one of their research reports indicating quite the opposite.
Quoting:
Labels are in trouble, and it's not from file sharing. To tap into $2 billion in new revenues, they must let people find, copy, and pay for music on their own terms.
Yes, I've posted this gem before, but I thought it bears repeating. Forrester has a very high credibility with corporate management - one of the pundits they rely on for intelligence.
Yes, the full report costs $495. But I figure that's less than I've spent on CDs that I bought as a result of being able to download samples for free.
Of course you are completely wrong in this coloquialism. It is not a reference to the People's Temple suicide pact but Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [dragonet.es].
So right now some Libertarian is watching the wallpaper turn colors and melt?
You sound like a Libertarian, so I will ask a question of you and other LIbertarians:
What's the Libertarian position on national defense issues? Do you support more spending on defense (a typical Republican position)? A missile defense system? An invasion of Iraq?
Or do you support a more isolationist position - defend the territorial boundaries of the USA but basically keep out of other's business?
Is the military regarded as being as "oppressive" as other arms of the government, hence it should be minimal?
You know you're a redneck-geek when you have to move the lawn to find your old computer.
You know you're a redneck-geek when the monitor falls over and six yeller dogs are killed.
Well, there's a difference between owning a cheap $20 reproduction of a Van Gogh, and the original that's heavily guarded in a museum and would sell for many millions.
There's some value in owning the original tangible object that expresses the artist's intent (sort of) even if an inferior replica is available for free
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Much of this is based on a study conducted by Forrester Research, "Downloads Save The Music Business. Forrester has high credibility with corporate types. A good article to send your congress-critters, keep in your file, etc.
Quoting the introduction:
"Labels are in trouble, and it's not from file sharing. To tap into $2 billion in new revenues, they must let people find, copy, and pay for music on their own terms."
Free as in speech, but not as in beer. Not that beer is ever really free...
I appears you had a law firm (Oppedahl & Larson LLP ) working very closely with you, as an early and active participant in this experiment.
Other communities trying to replicate your experience may not be so lucky. Do you have any advice on how to get legal assistance, for groups not having law firms as among their early members?
Did local government help, hinder, or just keep out of the way?
Likewise, would positive support from applicable local governments really have benefited your project?
I would guess you folks are in an unicorporated area of the County, with few onerous restrictions on this typs of activity, however with no local government to provide support (facilities, funding, political support, etc.)
Did any of your members have prior experience either as members or organizers of a co-op (e.g., housing, food, etc.)?
And if they did, how beneficial was their prior experience?
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Yeah, he used to beat the crap out of me . Of course I was a lowly green belt in Shotokan Karate, and he was a mightly black belt.
Seriously, he is a professor at UCLA and describes himself as "the Inventor of the Internet Technology". Not the inventor of the Internet itself mind you. Maybe think of him as the Heinrich Hertz of the Internet, not the Marconi.
I'm sure a good chunk of the price consists of taxes supporting our European friends.
Many posters have argued that government intervention into private software markets is bad, and that Europeans are foolish not to see how bad this really is
We already have government intervention into US-produced software. Europeans know full well about this, and are wise to push open source solutions.
Having another country's government spy on your citizens IS a proper concern of one's own government.
The day I get spam offering this experience is the day I believe it is a real degree.
Of course, I'd have to add that until you can download dormitory food, it's not a bonafide online degree
If you go for an on-line program, make sure it is from a bona-fide accredited university - no degree mills. Also keep in mind that your instructors are used to teaching "regular" courses and dealing with full time students much younger (and more naive than you). They will make unreasonable demands of your time, and many will treat you in the condescending fashion notorious at universities (and distasteful to anyone with actual professional accomplishments)
Real world experience makes understanding the concepts much easier - you may be given some abstract topic and think, "oh yeah, I worked on something like that on project XYZ" while the topic will be entirely unfamiliar to your typical 19 year old with no real work experience.
Last point - if you are running your own company, you will have some time flexibility. If you are an employee, make sure your company buys off on the time commitment. There's nothing like having to drop a class because you employer sends you to Timbuktu a week before final exams.
Political advocacy may cause excessive thinking on the job, dissension from commonplace views, dissatisfaction with society, and is known to foster a spirit of rebelliousness. Obviously as dangerous as porn.
Just do your work and don't worry about it.
Will this be the end of the Mac, or will it be the best reason to make the switch?
Seriously, make sure your touring info is completely up to date. Allow people to easily and reliably order your CD's on line. Maybe give folks who order on-line some sort of promotion for your next live gig (20% off, 2-for-one, free drink, etc.)
Understand the demographics of your fans, and center your Web presence around that. If your fans have some social, political, psychological, consumer interests, link to these sites and see if they will link to you.
Small thing - if you offer MP3s for download, make sure the file name includes the band, the CD, and the song.
Allow fans to get on a mailing list (a real honest to god snail mail list) and send really nice postcards and flyers announcing local shows, new CDs, etc.
"You'll never look at an apple tree again!"
No joke. Employers always believe you belong to them. What you say and think is very important to them, and something they believe thay should be able to control. Consider this behavior from Ford Motors' personnel department in the 1930's:
This is from The Walter Reuther Library at Wayne State UniversityLessons here:
1. This is nothing new. Employers have acted as petty tyrants for as long as they have existed.
2. The automobile workers were eventually able to do something about this, through concerted group action. Being treated like this at work is not inevitable.
Of course, that SSH traffic essential to the business will be allowed - with an escrowed key to permit snooping.
Many workplaces (like mine) have no sense of humor when it comes to "pornography" (broadly define). Folks with the bad luck to be on the recieving end of this unsolicited traffic have been in very serious trouble. As prior Slashdot posters have stated, your employer owns your time, when you are at work you have no rights, etc.
Of course, if your employer has such a system, you immediately have a way to enact revenge against the pompous brown-noser in the cubicle next to you.
Didn't the Iron Lady manage to make socialism impossible in the UK?
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Yes, I've posted this gem before, but I thought it bears repeating. Forrester has a very high credibility with corporate management - one of the pundits they rely on for intelligence.Yes, the full report costs $495. But I figure that's less than I've spent on CDs that I bought as a result of being able to download samples for free.
OK.
So right now some Libertarian is watching the wallpaper turn colors and melt?
What's the Libertarian position on national defense issues? Do you support more spending on defense (a typical Republican position)? A missile defense system? An invasion of Iraq?
Or do you support a more isolationist position - defend the territorial boundaries of the USA but basically keep out of other's business?
Is the military regarded as being as "oppressive" as other arms of the government, hence it should be minimal?
Are Libertarians basically pacifists?
You know you're a redneck when you have to mow the lawn to find your car
Get it now??
You know you're a redneck-geek when you have to move the lawn to find your old computer. You know you're a redneck-geek when the monitor falls over and six yeller dogs are killed.
There's some value in owning the original tangible object that expresses the artist's intent (sort of) even if an inferior replica is available for free
Quoting the introduction:
"Labels are in trouble, and it's not from file sharing. To tap into $2 billion in new revenues, they must let people find, copy, and pay for music on their own terms."
Free as in speech, but not as in beer. Not that beer is ever really free...
Other communities trying to replicate your experience may not be so lucky. Do you have any advice on how to get legal assistance, for groups not having law firms as among their early members?
Did local government help, hinder, or just keep out of the way? Likewise, would positive support from applicable local governments really have benefited your project? I would guess you folks are in an unicorporated area of the County, with few onerous restrictions on this typs of activity, however with no local government to provide support (facilities, funding, political support, etc.)
Did any of your members have prior experience either as members or organizers of a co-op (e.g., housing, food, etc.)? And if they did, how beneficial was their prior experience?
If so were they helpful?