Exactly. The deal in short it like this: - you pay a multiple of $10 in advance (every $10 is a 'part') - once the artist reaches $50K (5000 parts) they get to record the cd - once the cd is done you will receive one "limited edition" cd for every part you bought - you can also choose (one time only) to have your cd or some of your cds sold through the store in stead of getting it sent home - 3 of the songs will be available for for free download, DRM-free, for anyone - all of the songs will be available for free download, DRM-free, for those who bought at least one part in the artist - besides the limited edition cd, regular cds will be available through the sellaband.com website and regular stores, including amazon.co.uk - for every part you bought, you will also get back some advertisement income and a share of the paid downloads/cd sales.
I've been very happy with the cds released so far, there's ofcourse differences in musical quality and also in length (shortest SAB cd so far has 7 songs and I think about 25 minutes of music). Money wise (return on investment) it has yet to prove itself, there hasn't been a big breakthrough yet so it's more like cents per part than dollars what I got back so far (still, the cds I have now are already worth their $10 and they can only get cheaper from the returns I get)
Well, there is an optical lp player: http://www.audioturntable.com/ and there has been a previous slashdot article about the 'digital needle': http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
I have a 300D since last week and took it to a rock festival last weekend. It worked great. Only one time I had to wait for the buffer to clear before I could take another (RAW) shot. I didn't notice any other problems (like the louder mirror slap) and the weight and plastic body felt good (with a Sigma 70-200/2.8 EX HSM). I didn't want to spend the extra 600 Euros on a 10D and so far I'm glad I haven't. Maybe when the 10D Mk2 comes out I will buy it and leave the 300D as a backup body. I haven't updated the firmware yet, maybe when I feel like I really need it...
I agree, it looks like a woman with way too much make-up on ('powdered' for a play or tv-show, maybe?:). They probably did use fairly accurate measurements of the surface imperfections (bumps/wrinkles) but it sure does look fake to me.
Distro vendors can mix GPL stuff (Linux kernel, GNU tools,...) and their own commercial programs and trade marks, so you can't just go and copy any Linux distro and sell it yourself. You can use the GPL'ed parts and sell them yourself, though.
there's probably more script kiddies out there who could create a 'new' virus from the source code than there are antivirus analyzers who have trouble unpacking & disassembling a new virus.
About not updating antivirus, well when people get a Norton Antivirus (with 60-day subscription) with their new pc, they're bound to assume it will still do its job after those 60 days.
The good thing is that more and more ISPs are using scanners like ClamAV to scan mails before they reach the customer.
It would slightly corrupt the disk, in order to trick the AmigaOS into starting the disk-validator, which itself was infected. Very clever trick, as it didn't require running a program or booting from a disk.
I agree about the criminality of writing/releasing viruses, but still I can see cases where 'falling victim to a criminal attack' indicates that you are yourself also engaging in criminal behaviour, namely posing a risk to other people. Admitted, in the common story it's just an ignorant and/or stupid user who deserves to be flamed and not much else.
I wasn't talking about people thinking that virus writers=Linux users, and I think there's no such association to be made. I also don't think many people will actually think that all or most Windows viruses will be created by Linux users. In the case of MyDoom it's easy to see how one could think it was made by a Linux zealot, but in general it's much more obvious that the virus writers are Windows users themselves. People don't create viruses to piss off users of 'the other OS', but for the fun,excitement,a feeling of achievement,power, and apparently for hacking and spam purposes (which would be less obvious for common non-techie people).
you have a car. a car that's supposed to be driven on roads, and controlled using the steering wheel, pedals, etc. It's a nice car, most of the time.
it is well-known that this type of car can become uncontrollable at random, and that certain types of fuel can disable the brakes. This fuel is being sold by people who look like real gas station attendants, at common gas stations, even those that you go to every week.
You've heard about it, maybe it even happened to you once or twice, and you know there are cars that don't have the problem (but you need to add the seats yourself or buy it at the store that's more than 2 blocks away from your home), and you know there are ways to check if you have the bad fuel, or to see if the fuel you want is bad.
Still, you tank it full every week without checking the stuff or if the guy is for real. You go around the city driving happily. But then your car runs wild and creates some damage to other people's property.
Is it still ONLY the responsibility of the people who create and sell the bad fuel?
What if you're responsible for buying these cars for the police? or for the transport of radioactive material? or for blood transport?
When companies knowingly keep their customers at risk because they can't be bothered to fix things, some responsibility should be with them.
That said, people who should know that using a specific operating system is risky and don't act accordingly, are just as responsible.
if you would shoot me just because the manual that came with the gun you found in your mailbox this morning asked you to, you can be sure you'd have a problem.
apparently not. Some farmers still use wooden shoes though, but you won't see wooden shoes next to Nikes in the shop:) You can't buy wooden shoes at shoe shops, you'll have to go to specialised farmers' shops or to the few craftsmen themselves who still make 'klompen'.
"ADSL Power can reach a download speed as fast as 2-8 Mbps. It is ideal for heavy users and small businesses, for example if you have an office or practice at home. This lightning-fast service uses the bbned DSL network."
windows are vensters, or the glass ones are commonly referred to as 'ramen'. If you ask a Dutch person _in Dutch_ if he has windows, he will surely think you're talking about the operating system made by Microsoft. 'dragging a window' would most likely translate to 'een venster verslepen' and not 'een window verslepen' even though some people might. (quite a few people have the UK version of Windows as opposed to the NL version.)
My sentiments exactly. If you want the program, buy it and/or let the guy work on it during working hours. If you don't want it, let him keep it and pay him for what he does during working hours.
Where I live, most people have x-hours contracts, like 32,36,40.. and they're supposed to do their job in those hours and if they don't work hard (or good) enough they get fired. Some have 0-hour contracts which means they can go whenever they like and be sent off whenever the employer likes to, but still get paid for every hour they did work. Then there's people who take on assignments and charge whatever they think is needed to do the job, which can also be by the hour. It looks like your options are different from ours, is that right?
If my (new) employer would present additional demands after signing the contract and I wasn't happy with those demands, I'd refuse and they'd have to take it or let me go with at least a month notice and in many cases with more than that. Then I'd have to find a new job, sure. But at least I'd not have my life taken hostage by some company.
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Do you think it's a proper role for the tax agency to decide what is and is not a "religion"? Apparently in the US they do think it matters.
You can't be sure with DNS these days...
Exactly. The deal in short it like this:
- you pay a multiple of $10 in advance (every $10 is a 'part')
- once the artist reaches $50K (5000 parts) they get to record the cd
- once the cd is done you will receive one "limited edition" cd for every part you bought
- you can also choose (one time only) to have your cd or some of your cds sold through the store in stead of getting it sent home
- 3 of the songs will be available for for free download, DRM-free, for anyone
- all of the songs will be available for free download, DRM-free, for those who bought at least one part in the artist
- besides the limited edition cd, regular cds will be available through the sellaband.com website and regular stores, including amazon.co.uk
- for every part you bought, you will also get back some advertisement income and a share of the paid downloads/cd sales.
I've been very happy with the cds released so far, there's ofcourse differences in musical quality and also in length (shortest SAB cd so far has 7 songs and I think about 25 minutes of music).
Money wise (return on investment) it has yet to prove itself, there hasn't been a big breakthrough yet so it's more like cents per part than dollars what I got back so far (still, the cds I have now are already worth their $10 and they can only get cheaper from the returns I get)
Yes, that's the one I remembered. Basicode for MSX.
Well, there is an optical lp player: http://www.audioturntable.com/
and there has been a previous slashdot article about the 'digital needle':
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
Basicode (Hobbyscoop) was distributed on flexi discs..
I have a 300D since last week and took it to a rock festival last weekend. It worked great. Only one time I had to wait for the buffer to clear before I could take another (RAW) shot. I didn't notice any other problems (like the louder mirror slap) and the weight and plastic body felt good (with a Sigma 70-200/2.8 EX HSM). I didn't want to spend the extra 600 Euros on a 10D and so far I'm glad I haven't. Maybe when the 10D Mk2 comes out I will buy it and leave the 300D as a backup body.
I haven't updated the firmware yet, maybe when I feel like I really need it...
probably buffer size, and construction of mirror and/or shutter
I agree, it looks like a woman with way too much make-up on ('powdered' for a play or tv-show, maybe? :). They probably did use fairly accurate measurements of the surface imperfections (bumps/wrinkles) but it sure does look fake to me.
Distro vendors can mix GPL stuff (Linux kernel, GNU tools, ...) and their own commercial programs and trade marks, so you can't just go and copy any Linux distro and sell it yourself. You can use the GPL'ed parts and sell them yourself, though.
..and during scandisk tells you to shut down from the start menu next time, even though you obviously couldn't.
there's probably more script kiddies out there who could create a 'new' virus from the source code than there are antivirus analyzers who have trouble unpacking & disassembling a new virus.
About not updating antivirus, well when people get a Norton Antivirus (with 60-day subscription) with their new pc, they're bound to assume it will still do its job after those 60 days.
The good thing is that more and more ISPs are using scanners like ClamAV to scan mails before they reach the customer.
It was called the Saddam virus (and now we finally 'got him' ;-)
c atalog/a miga/html/saddamor.htm
See:
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/
It would slightly corrupt the disk, in order to trick the AmigaOS into starting the disk-validator, which itself was infected. Very clever trick, as it didn't require running a program or booting from a disk.
round housings are probably stronger, so maybe it is done to prevent exploding batteries. Or it might just be so much easier to produce?
I agree about the criminality of writing/releasing viruses, but still I can see cases where 'falling victim to a criminal attack' indicates that you are yourself also engaging in criminal behaviour, namely posing a risk to other people. Admitted, in the common story it's just an ignorant and/or stupid user who deserves to be flamed and not much else.
I wasn't talking about people thinking that virus writers=Linux users, and I think there's no such association to be made. I also don't think many people will actually think that all or most Windows viruses will be created by Linux users.
In the case of MyDoom it's easy to see how one could think it was made by a Linux zealot, but in general it's much more obvious that the virus writers are Windows users themselves. People don't create viruses to piss off users of 'the other OS', but for the fun,excitement,a feeling of achievement,power, and apparently for hacking and spam purposes (which would be less obvious for common non-techie people).
okay, let's change the analogy a bit.
you have a car. a car that's supposed to be driven on roads, and controlled using the steering wheel, pedals, etc. It's a nice car, most of the time.
it is well-known that this type of car can become uncontrollable at random, and that certain types of fuel can disable the brakes. This fuel is being sold by people who look like real gas station attendants, at common gas stations, even those that you go to every week.
You've heard about it, maybe it even happened to you once or twice, and you know there are cars that don't have the problem (but you need to add the seats yourself or buy it at the store that's more than 2 blocks away from your home), and you know there are ways to check if you have the bad fuel, or to see if the fuel you want is bad.
Still, you tank it full every week without checking the stuff or if the guy is for real. You go around the city driving happily. But then your car runs wild and creates some damage to other people's property.
Is it still ONLY the responsibility of the people who create and sell the bad fuel?
What if you're responsible for buying these cars for the police? or for the transport of radioactive material? or for blood transport?
When companies knowingly keep their customers at risk because they can't be bothered to fix things, some responsibility should be with them.
That said, people who should know that using a specific operating system is risky and don't act accordingly, are just as responsible.
if you would shoot me just because the manual that came with the gun you found in your mailbox this morning asked you to, you can be sure you'd have a problem.
I wonder if "it's" should be counted as two words :)
http://www.bartleby.com/61/51/S0005100.html
:)
apparently not.
Some farmers still use wooden shoes though, but you won't see wooden shoes next to Nikes in the shop
You can't buy wooden shoes at shoe shops, you'll have to go to specialised farmers' shops or to the few craftsmen themselves who still make 'klompen'.
http://www.xs4all.nl/uk/adsl/deabonnementen.php
"ADSL Power can reach a download speed as fast as 2-8 Mbps. It is ideal for heavy users and small businesses, for example if you have an office or practice at home. This lightning-fast service uses the bbned DSL network."
X, X Windows, 'X Window System' ;-)
windows are vensters, or the glass ones are commonly referred to as 'ramen'. If you ask a Dutch person _in Dutch_ if he has windows, he will surely think you're talking about the operating system made by Microsoft. 'dragging a window' would most likely translate to 'een venster verslepen' and not 'een window verslepen' even though some people might. (quite a few people have the UK version of Windows as opposed to the NL version.)
> Best I can tell, these oprichters are building
:) oprichters are founders, and kastjes are small boxes ('kast' is usually translated as closet, but a pc housing can also be called a 'kast')
> some kind of kastjes.
Indeed
So they made something interesting for people with DSL or cable connections (i.e. high bandwidth internet at home)
My sentiments exactly. If you want the program, buy it and/or let the guy work on it during working hours. If you don't want it, let him keep it and pay him for what he does during working hours.
Where I live, most people have x-hours contracts, like 32,36,40.. and they're supposed to do their job in those hours and if they don't work hard (or good) enough they get fired. Some have 0-hour contracts which means they can go whenever they like and be sent off whenever the employer likes to, but still get paid for every hour they did work. Then there's people who take on assignments and charge whatever they think is needed to do the job, which can also be by the hour. It looks like your options are different from ours, is that right?
If my (new) employer would present additional demands after signing the contract and I wasn't happy with those demands, I'd refuse and they'd have to take it or let me go with at least a month notice and in many cases with more than that. Then I'd have to find a new job, sure. But at least I'd not have my life taken hostage by some company.