you are referring to the toricelli ammendment which stipulated we couldn't work with criminals, etc. had horible consequences. and of sen. torch, as he was known, was run out of town on corruption charges.
The artists should be the only ones (besides Apple) making money off the digital music sales.,/i>
i totally agree, except that most artists don't own the music. (like we're gonna "own" the music we buy, hell, if the artists don't own it...) the money goe to the owner, i.e. the company. the artist is paid for performing. now we know the "the day the music died". how i long for bands and albums. today, you make a few videos, sell some pimple cream, and get arrested. and everyone loves you, and doesn't even know WTF you do. you sound like everyone, and nobdy cares. oh, for the days of great bands, great albums. well, i still have mine, and you kow what, rush sounds as good today as ever!!!
since there was never a linux client for napster (?), i never used napster, and never even used kazaa, limewire, et al. actually never. in fact, the only mp3 i ever downloaded was actually for a graduate education class at csu northridge. the prof. wanted us to learn to use multimedia (okay, most of the teachers were technidiots, and my linux laptop floored them, anyways...) i hardly would call people who swap files pirates, as in the "arghh matey", eye-patch, peg-legged, crap. why?
one, digital medium present am entirely new economic paradigm. why? since i'm an econ major, i'll tell ya. there is no scarcity or opportunity cost. (econ 101) scarcity means there is not enough of anything, even bubble gum. if i make somehting, anything, it uses scarce resources, and there is a cost associated with it. if ford makes a new pick up truck, the cost is not making a new taurus. or, to society, the cost is the steel, the plastic, etc., that could have been used for any number of things. that is why, if i steal a car, ford can't "just replace it". the other thing about opportunity cost is that the cost is borne by someone, that the reosurces are gone. they can't be used over and over. somebody actually has to "pay" if you will.
however...
with digital music, or anything digital, if i make 1 copy, 1000 copies, or even 1,000,000 copies, the cost is actually borne by me, not the artist or record company. my time, my cpu, my cd-r's, my electricity, etc. now one might say that "but that means people aren't going to buy the albums". we can never kow that people would have bought the album, if they couldn't get the song. predicting consumer habits is mighty tough. and unless you can strong arm them like microsoft, oh, off topic,
the music industry has to face the facts that good artists sell cd's bad ones don't. plus, most cd's have 1-2 spongs on them worth a shit, the rest suck. so that is why apple is probably making a killing selling songs. i remember albums. when you listened to a whole one at home, in your car, knew all the words, the drum riffs, etc. it didn't matter if it was zep or sabbath, maiden or priest, or even parliament and george clinton. every song was good. the record insustry has been peddling crap. they want to blame us and call us pirates.
the biggest beneficiaries of "piracy" are the artists. they make money on the road, not off album sales. so "piracy" helps them distribute thei rmusic, and creates new fans. new fans that wouldn't have been if not for "piracy". but alas, that is what the record companies don't want. because they don't make much from the tours. which is why most of the bitching about "piracy" comes from execs, not artists.
and CNN, CBS, ABC are neutral? fox does give air time to republicans. but it gives equal time to democrats. that is the big shock. for so long, the news was all one sided. now it isn't. and, btw, soft money is fairly equal. it is clear that both partieas are purely whores. no doubt. just that it isn't fair to say it's only one sided.
The only difference is that the bribing in the US is done in open view (see Republican election funding).
this is true of both parties. but if you lok at FEC filings, the majority of BIG donors give to democrats. the vast majority of small donors, i.e. sub $2000, are republican.
I always thought the aim of education and particularly any discipline that considers itself a science was to teach skills and thinking which
as a teacher, an education is supposed to educate. i.e. pass on knowledge. training is different from education. it's simply knowing that (education) versus knowing how (training). we too often confuse the two.
one of the problems with books like this is their lack of backwards compatibility. i used to have a safari subscription, and had this book for a while. 1st edition was very good. however, many hosting services still use 4.0.X. and for those places, that operate on thin margins, they see no reason to upgrade. it's not a cost issue, but an adminissue. i can't say that i blame them. so, books should also have some backwards compatibiltiy discussion. for instance: $_POST vs. $HTTP_POST_VARS. this will screw up lots of people. you will develop your site locally, mirror it, and then, "holy crap", it doesn't work."
while i totally agree, and in fact am sometimes scared to death that some student who wants to "get back" because they failed or whatever, and says "he touched me...", or just says "he asked me...". there are alot of factors. like how much? hope fully there is some IP logging tocheckwhere it came from. how bout if there is some on work comp, AND at home. usually, the cops will investigate and be able to determine if this is a set up or the real deal.
this is so true. there is nothing wrong with porn. hell, when wife and i can dump the kids with auntie or grandma for the night, we get a hotel, and will usually rent a movie. but there is huge difference between adults and kids. damn shame some/.'ers can't see the diff. "privacy" doesn't mean i get to do anything if i don't get caught.
this isn't just pr0n, but child porn. big difference. let's say you found emails, etc., that the guy was running a drug ring, selling crank to kids down at the local school yard. or that he was funneling money to al qaida or something. where do yo draw the line. maybe i'm biased. i have two children and i teach seventh grade (12-13 yr olds). child porn is a pernicious offense and offenders should be pubished. you think he jsut say, gee thanks, i won't do that any more. look at the research on child molestors. they are habitual. they cannot be "cured". actually true of most sex offenders. but towards children especially.
i'm not talking about some 17 year old tittie, or some 18 year old drerssed in a school uni. hell, if i'd found the stuff on his computer, i'd probably just take the guy out back and beat him fucking senseless.
should have and can have are two different things. i am talking specifically, legally, about running something, not whether it is right, but whether it is possible. free software is great for so many things and can not only compete, but beat, proprietary software. but UI's are not always their strongest suit. let's face it, X was developed by engineers. so it has engieneer features. Aqua was built with millions in UI research, and thus was built accordingly. yes, works great. but it's archtitecture was not built with the single user desktopin mind. if free software can't meet that need but prop. can, then we either catch up, or not. big deal. at least the user has CHOICE.
why is linux so beholden to X? yeah, i love it's network transparent features ( i use in my class every day), but, look at what apple did with essentially a kernel and subsystem. they could port aqua to linux, since it already compiled under gcc anyways. that might be a huge commercial ticket for linux. certainly there is nothing that says you can't run a proprietary windowing system on top of the kernel, is there? app compatibility would be a huge issue, but like apple's X11, it could run rootless, and almost be unnoticable (except for the widgets).
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yes, there is a ~$200 price difference for a similar dell. but the differences from quality hardware to softeare is more than worth it. everything really just works. i have an ibook, and wouldn't trade it for anything. i plug in my dv camera, zip drive, anything. plus, i can keep it on my lap for hours and not have roasted chestnuts.
it's not like you can hose the hard drive of a dell and install os x like you can with linux. macs cost more, but it's not apples to apples. if price is that big a deal, get a dell, hose the drive and take one for the team, courtesy of billy g.
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here's what you do:
.hidden. (real tricky). delete all directories you want to see in finder.
open a terminal. in the root directory, there is a file called
you are referring to the toricelli ammendment which stipulated we couldn't work with criminals, etc. had horible consequences. and of sen. torch, as he was known, was run out of town on corruption charges.
The artists should be the only ones (besides Apple) making money off the digital music sales.,/i>
i totally agree, except that most artists don't own the music. (like we're gonna "own" the music we buy, hell, if the artists don't own it...) the money goe to the owner, i.e. the company. the artist is paid for performing. now we know the "the day the music died". how i long for bands and albums. today, you make a few videos, sell some pimple cream, and get arrested. and everyone loves you, and doesn't even know WTF you do. you sound like everyone, and nobdy cares. oh, for the days of great bands, great albums. well, i still have mine, and you kow what, rush sounds as good today as ever!!!
since there was never a linux client for napster (?), i never used napster, and never even used kazaa, limewire, et al. actually never. in fact, the only mp3 i ever downloaded was actually for a graduate education class at csu northridge. the prof. wanted us to learn to use multimedia (okay, most of the teachers were technidiots, and my linux laptop floored them, anyways...) i hardly would call people who swap files pirates, as in the "arghh matey", eye-patch, peg-legged, crap. why?
one, digital medium present am entirely new economic paradigm. why? since i'm an econ major, i'll tell ya. there is no scarcity or opportunity cost. (econ 101) scarcity means there is not enough of anything, even bubble gum. if i make somehting, anything, it uses scarce resources, and there is a cost associated with it. if ford makes a new pick up truck, the cost is not making a new taurus. or, to society, the cost is the steel, the plastic, etc., that could have been used for any number of things. that is why, if i steal a car, ford can't "just replace it". the other thing about opportunity cost is that the cost is borne by someone, that the reosurces are gone. they can't be used over and over. somebody actually has to "pay" if you will. however...
with digital music, or anything digital, if i make 1 copy, 1000 copies, or even 1,000,000 copies, the cost is actually borne by me, not the artist or record company. my time, my cpu, my cd-r's, my electricity, etc. now one might say that "but that means people aren't going to buy the albums". we can never kow that people would have bought the album, if they couldn't get the song. predicting consumer habits is mighty tough. and unless you can strong arm them like microsoft, oh, off topic,
the music industry has to face the facts that good artists sell cd's bad ones don't. plus, most cd's have 1-2 spongs on them worth a shit, the rest suck. so that is why apple is probably making a killing selling songs. i remember albums. when you listened to a whole one at home, in your car, knew all the words, the drum riffs, etc. it didn't matter if it was zep or sabbath, maiden or priest, or even parliament and george clinton. every song was good. the record insustry has been peddling crap. they want to blame us and call us pirates.
the biggest beneficiaries of "piracy" are the artists. they make money on the road, not off album sales. so "piracy" helps them distribute thei rmusic, and creates new fans. new fans that wouldn't have been if not for "piracy". but alas, that is what the record companies don't want. because they don't make much from the tours. which is why most of the bitching about "piracy" comes from execs, not artists.
and CNN, CBS, ABC are neutral? fox does give air time to republicans. but it gives equal time to democrats. that is the big shock. for so long, the news was all one sided. now it isn't. and, btw, soft money is fairly equal. it is clear that both partieas are purely whores. no doubt. just that it isn't fair to say it's only one sided.
The only difference is that the bribing in the US is done in open view (see Republican election funding).
this is true of both parties. but if you lok at FEC filings, the majority of BIG donors give to democrats. the vast majority of small donors, i.e. sub $2000, are republican.
why let attackers get so close. just get yourself a snubby .357, ah hell, just get yourself a .45.
I always thought the aim of education and particularly any discipline that considers itself a science was to teach skills and thinking which
as a teacher, an education is supposed to educate. i.e. pass on knowledge. training is different from education. it's simply knowing that (education) versus knowing how (training). we too often confuse the two.
only on their for download distro. but the enterprise stuff, there is lots of prop. software
one of the problems with books like this is their lack of backwards compatibility. i used to have a safari subscription, and had this book for a while. 1st edition was very good. however, many hosting services still use 4.0.X. and for those places, that operate on thin margins, they see no reason to upgrade. it's not a cost issue, but an adminissue. i can't say that i blame them. so, books should also have some backwards compatibiltiy discussion. for instance: $_POST vs. $HTTP_POST_VARS. this will screw up lots of people. you will develop your site locally, mirror it, and then, "holy crap", it doesn't work."
while i totally agree, and in fact am sometimes scared to death that some student who wants to "get back" because they failed or whatever, and says "he touched me...", or just says "he asked me...". there are alot of factors. like how much? hope fully there is some IP logging tocheckwhere it came from. how bout if there is some on work comp, AND at home. usually, the cops will investigate and be able to determine if this is a set up or the real deal.
this is so true. there is nothing wrong with porn. hell, when wife and i can dump the kids with auntie or grandma for the night, we get a hotel, and will usually rent a movie. but there is huge difference between adults and kids. damn shame some /.'ers can't see the diff. "privacy" doesn't mean i get to do anything if i don't get caught.
this isn't just pr0n, but child porn. big difference. let's say you found emails, etc., that the guy was running a drug ring, selling crank to kids down at the local school yard. or that he was funneling money to al qaida or something. where do yo draw the line. maybe i'm biased. i have two children and i teach seventh grade (12-13 yr olds). child porn is a pernicious offense and offenders should be pubished. you think he jsut say, gee thanks, i won't do that any more. look at the research on child molestors. they are habitual. they cannot be "cured". actually true of most sex offenders. but towards children especially.
i'm not talking about some 17 year old tittie, or some 18 year old drerssed in a school uni. hell, if i'd found the stuff on his computer, i'd probably just take the guy out back and beat him fucking senseless.
X11 needs to be brought back to life.
guess you didn't read yesterdays story
It says things like, we should have a...
should have and can have are two different things. i am talking specifically, legally, about running something, not whether it is right, but whether it is possible. free software is great for so many things and can not only compete, but beat, proprietary software. but UI's are not always their strongest suit. let's face it, X was developed by engineers. so it has engieneer features. Aqua was built with millions in UI research, and thus was built accordingly. yes, works great. but it's archtitecture was not built with the single user desktopin mind. if free software can't meet that need but prop. can, then we either catch up, or not. big deal. at least the user has CHOICE.
why is linux so beholden to X? yeah, i love it's network transparent features ( i use in my class every day), but, look at what apple did with essentially a kernel and subsystem. they could port aqua to linux, since it already compiled under gcc anyways. that might be a huge commercial ticket for linux. certainly there is nothing that says you can't run a proprietary windowing system on top of the kernel, is there? app compatibility would be a huge issue, but like apple's X11, it could run rootless, and almost be unnoticable (except for the widgets).
dude, that vbscript trick is the collest piece of code. i think i'm going to put it on every page on my school's web site. (i am the webmaster)
i forogt the damn less than sign thing.
#include <financials/poor.h>
#include
bool lawsuit(int dollars){
if(dollars == 0){
return true;
}
else{
return true;
}
yes, there is a ~$200 price difference for a similar dell. but the differences from quality hardware to softeare is more than worth it. everything really just works. i have an ibook, and wouldn't trade it for anything. i plug in my dv camera, zip drive, anything. plus, i can keep it on my lap for hours and not have roasted chestnuts.
it's not like you can hose the hard drive of a dell and install os x like you can with linux. macs cost more, but it's not apples to apples. if price is that big a deal, get a dell, hose the drive and take one for the team, courtesy of billy g.
hmmm, irony?
i hear this guy was offered a job at microsoft to head their server division.
bought my macromedia, and shitcanned. it was a good ide for windows. eclipse is great, but a litle heavy. for overall use, try jedit
bummer
warez, dude, warez!!!