As for the Vince Guaraldi and Bach, "some time tomorrow" and "days and days of patience". To save $1.98?
To each his own. I don't claim to hear the small differences (if they even exist in the human range of hearing) between bitrates, file formats, and "original studio recordings" because I take a pragmatic view of music. P2P is like radio. You want premium? Go buy it. Same end result in my eyes so I'll take the free one.
I think they have the right to say "No, you can't listen to my song until you pay me." If you don't like that, then don't listen to their song.
Too bad, I already do listen to "their" song. There are plenty of ways to pay artists without direct consumer funds. The radio is a classic example of a business model that works quite well.
Okay, getting really fucking tired of replies like your's. There's got to be ten of them in this article already. And I don't much care about karma anymore as the moderations in this article seem to be based on modding up what the mods agree with and modding down what they don't. Keep in mind, that's entirely against the rules according to the mod handbook. See you bastards in Metamod.;)
To answer your questions, I just made the following searches on Kazaa for you.
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue: 135 files in 2 minutes. I downloaded the song at 128kbps in 3 minutes, 23 seconds. I'd call that pretty instant.
As for your picky album and bitrate, with more patience I'm sure you can find "the original" as if it's that much different. As for the bitrate, I saw a 256 on my list when I did my 2 minute search. If bitrate is that important to you, you're a fucking audiophile.
Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time Is Here: 5 results. Based on the bandwidth of the people who have it at the moment, I'll probably have it by this time tomorrow.
Bach's Cantata no. 80: It's difficult to find thigs that are obscure in comparison to other things on P2P services. Bach's Cantatas certainly qualify in that department. After several searches, I found number 80 (140 came up in abundance). I've had to go after unpopular stuff before. It takes days and days of patience. But it's still free and IMHO it's still better than paying for it.
And as for branding me a thief, go fuck yourself. P2P is copyright infringement, not stealing. Despite what that certain other post in this thread may have you believe. And copyright law is damn well broken. You shouldn't have to pay any price to appreciate art. Stealing it would be taking it and claiming it to be your own creation, which I do not.
Oh, and thanks for the musical recommendations. I appreciate it.
The Internet is full of people who will tell you that they are boycotting the RIAA and send money to the artist for all the songs that they download. If you're one of them, the more power to you. However, if you're one of the majority that never quite gets around to sending out that ten-spot, then congratulations on your ability to sleep at night.
Don't make me laugh. I'm not boycotting RIAA corruption, I'm boycotting the entire concept of buying music. Now, I want to see artists get paid as much as anyone else; a free and open P2P system in which ad revanue is distributed directly to artists would be nice. But since the RIAA and whoever else makes these calls hasn't opted into that one yet, too bad for them. And the artists. Because I'm using P2P and getting free music whether or not they want me to. Despite the crudeness of this argument, I suspect something around 60+ million Americans agree with me. And let's not forget the rest of the world.
Honestly IMHO that's a bunch of nonsence. EQ was the first truly 3d MMORPG which gave it it's initial huge player base. Since MMORPGs are addictive, people stick with'm. And since MMORPGs are about the MMO part, people flock to popular ones. Yes a big part of EQ's success is that it has stayed current, but if EQ was released only 2 years later, someone else would be leading the race.
BTW, FFXI is catching up fast.
(Disclaimer, I play UO... on emulated (free) servers:p)
Kazaa sure has a LOT of music out there. But it is not in a quick accessible format like the iTMS. I can search, sample, and buy hundreds of songs very quickly.
Yeah, for hundreds of dollars. All you're paying for is convenience. A patient man on Kazaa strikes a better bargain.
In SOVIET RUSSIA (Score:1, Funny) All your e-mail belong to government.
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Good God man! I pity the man who modded you as funny! 1. Use cliched Slashdot joke 2. Mess up formatting 3. ??? 4. Profit!!
There are two ways to interpret your attempt. You could have been going for a Soviet Russia joke, which could have been better worded as "In SOVIET RUSSIA, spam law makes YOU!"
Or you could have been going for the all your base parody which could have been worded as "All your email are belong to U.S.!"
In either case, respectfully, YOU FAIL IT.
(Anyone with karma to burn want to count how many cliches I've used?)
I agree, but if everyone did switch to it, it would virtually stop all spam. Anyone who did spam you could be positively ID'd based on what domain they came form and a complaint could be filed against that domain name. Wouldn't be perfect but it would be a hell of a lot better than the way things are now.
Yes, but under the new protocall, it would be impossible to forge an email address because the email address sending the mail would have to be able to recieve mail in order to send or it would be automatically deleted.
I've always wondered how a spam filter system based on authorization might work. Your mail server could automatically send out a verification request to the email address that sent the email, then if the email address exists, an authorization would be sent back to your mail server. All mails that weren't confirmed by a returned authorization could be automatically deleted. This way, you could only get mail from active email addresses. Could cut down on email spoofing because anyone spamming you would have to use a real email address which would allow you to complain to the domain owner. Of course, all mail servers in the world would have to be upgraded to this new protocall for it to work, or everything would be considered spam.
'Less I'm mistaken, this means that people will be able to develop fully functional simple Windows executables by writing a few lines of script in XAML? I think that's a good idea. Sure we still need stuff like C for large projects, but why waste your time coding in C when all you want to develop is something like a simple caculator?
There's nothing illegal about writing an emulator. They do, however, violate the EA liscence agreement you agree to when you buy and subscribe to UO. So if you participate in a free server or participate in developing an emulator, you can be banned from the official service.
Though, EA has never needed a reason to ban people in the past. It also says in that in their TOS.
Ultima Online Patch Introduces Economy-Wrecking Bug?
It was a publish, not a patch. A patch denotes a bug in the client while a publish denotes a bug in the server. This means that this bug can only be exploited on EA servers; the player run UO server community remains unaffected because they use such server emulators as Sphere or RunUO which EA has no control over. FYI, player run communities use EA patched clients, so new client bugs affect the player run community just as badly. But not these publishes. Publishes are the pay to play players' problems.
Just read that Stratics thread. All the players are going apeshit on something that really doesn't matter. But you know what? Suddenly it does matter because they're shelling out $13 a month for that game. Money does funny things to people. Just read the damn thread. People talking about wiping everyone's money, other people begging and pleading not to do that, god. And look at the first post in that thread. The moderator is participating in active censorship, as if talking about the exploit is going to damage the "community" beyond repair.
Before you go flaming me and modding me down, I speak as a former participant of that exact community. I left Stratics and stopped playing UO for many reasons, but the fanatical obsessive player community was high on the list. There was a time when you could have an intelligent discussion on those boards. You could even freely speak of exploits and even post screenshots of yourself using exploits. But ever since EA made Stratics into the official forums for UO, it's gone downhill.
It's like a Nazi state. Active censorship and a fanatical frantic population willing to do drastic things to save a lost cause.
Come now. Running applications in GTK, running applications in QT, really does it matter? This whole toolkit integration war is causing more problems than it's solving! Instead of rewriting apps so that they integrate better in KDE or GNOME, we should be concentrating on things that really matter... you know, like a package management system that doesn't suck or an in installer that doesn't suck?
Why can't console makers start making their high profile games for the PC? I'd love to be able to play Metroid Prime or Final Fantasy 10 on my computer and no matter how good those games are I'd never buy a game console. They're too limiting. I realize that I'm in the minority, but I think there'd be profit in this.
Am I the only one who sees this as a waste of time? KDE already works. OO.org already works. OO.org already works in KDE. All this time spent on making it look better could be used in giving Linux some real features that it really needs.
Yep. That's the one I was talking about. I have two of'm. That mouse is one thing Microsoft not only did right, but did very-fucking-well(tm). I feel limited when I use any other. I particularly love binding the farleft and farright buttons in games.
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You might try looking into Open Cascade with regards to industrial computer-aided drafting.
Obviously, but you don't get electricity, food, running water, open source software, and the internet without a stable government.
As much as I would like to see O/S everywhere in the world, I think that what Iraq needs before anything else at the moment is a stable government.
Okay, getting really fucking tired of replies like your's. There's got to be ten of them in this article already. And I don't much care about karma anymore as the moderations in this article seem to be based on modding up what the mods agree with and modding down what they don't. Keep in mind, that's entirely against the rules according to the mod handbook. See you bastards in Metamod. ;)
To answer your questions, I just made the following searches on Kazaa for you.
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue: 135 files in 2 minutes. I downloaded the song at 128kbps in 3 minutes, 23 seconds. I'd call that pretty instant.
As for your picky album and bitrate, with more patience I'm sure you can find "the original" as if it's that much different. As for the bitrate, I saw a 256 on my list when I did my 2 minute search. If bitrate is that important to you, you're a fucking audiophile.
Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time Is Here: 5 results. Based on the bandwidth of the people who have it at the moment, I'll probably have it by this time tomorrow.
Bach's Cantata no. 80: It's difficult to find thigs that are obscure in comparison to other things on P2P services. Bach's Cantatas certainly qualify in that department. After several searches, I found number 80 (140 came up in abundance). I've had to go after unpopular stuff before. It takes days and days of patience. But it's still free and IMHO it's still better than paying for it.
And as for branding me a thief, go fuck yourself. P2P is copyright infringement, not stealing. Despite what that certain other post in this thread may have you believe. And copyright law is damn well broken. You shouldn't have to pay any price to appreciate art. Stealing it would be taking it and claiming it to be your own creation, which I do not.
Oh, and thanks for the musical recommendations. I appreciate it.
Maybe you're right. But even if so, they make my position that much stronger. ;)
Honestly IMHO that's a bunch of nonsence. EQ was the first truly 3d MMORPG which gave it it's initial huge player base. Since MMORPGs are addictive, people stick with'm. And since MMORPGs are about the MMO part, people flock to popular ones. Yes a big part of EQ's success is that it has stayed current, but if EQ was released only 2 years later, someone else would be leading the race.
:p)
BTW, FFXI is catching up fast.
(Disclaimer, I play UO... on emulated (free) servers
In SOVIET RUSSIA (Score:1, Funny)
All your e-mail belong to government.
-----
Good God man! I pity the man who modded you as funny!
1. Use cliched Slashdot joke
2. Mess up formatting
3. ???
4. Profit!!
There are two ways to interpret your attempt. You could have been going for a Soviet Russia joke, which could have been better worded as "In SOVIET RUSSIA, spam law makes YOU!"
Or you could have been going for the all your base parody which could have been worded as "All your email are belong to U.S.!"
In either case, respectfully, YOU FAIL IT.
(Anyone with karma to burn want to count how many cliches I've used?)
that there's actually a part of the galaxy Star Trek hasn't explored yet? Good! Time for a new series instead of the prequel! ;)
I agree, but if everyone did switch to it, it would virtually stop all spam. Anyone who did spam you could be positively ID'd based on what domain they came form and a complaint could be filed against that domain name. Wouldn't be perfect but it would be a hell of a lot better than the way things are now.
Yes, but under the new protocall, it would be impossible to forge an email address because the email address sending the mail would have to be able to recieve mail in order to send or it would be automatically deleted.
I've always wondered how a spam filter system based on authorization might work. Your mail server could automatically send out a verification request to the email address that sent the email, then if the email address exists, an authorization would be sent back to your mail server. All mails that weren't confirmed by a returned authorization could be automatically deleted. This way, you could only get mail from active email addresses. Could cut down on email spoofing because anyone spamming you would have to use a real email address which would allow you to complain to the domain owner. Of course, all mail servers in the world would have to be upgraded to this new protocall for it to work, or everything would be considered spam.
Does any of this make sense?
'Less I'm mistaken, this means that people will be able to develop fully functional simple Windows executables by writing a few lines of script in XAML? I think that's a good idea. Sure we still need stuff like C for large projects, but why waste your time coding in C when all you want to develop is something like a simple caculator?
There's nothing illegal about writing an emulator. They do, however, violate the EA liscence agreement you agree to when you buy and subscribe to UO. So if you participate in a free server or participate in developing an emulator, you can be banned from the official service.
Though, EA has never needed a reason to ban people in the past. It also says in that in their TOS.
Just read that Stratics thread. All the players are going apeshit on something that really doesn't matter. But you know what? Suddenly it does matter because they're shelling out $13 a month for that game. Money does funny things to people. Just read the damn thread. People talking about wiping everyone's money, other people begging and pleading not to do that, god. And look at the first post in that thread. The moderator is participating in active censorship, as if talking about the exploit is going to damage the "community" beyond repair.
Before you go flaming me and modding me down, I speak as a former participant of that exact community. I left Stratics and stopped playing UO for many reasons, but the fanatical obsessive player community was high on the list. There was a time when you could have an intelligent discussion on those boards. You could even freely speak of exploits and even post screenshots of yourself using exploits. But ever since EA made Stratics into the official forums for UO, it's gone downhill.
It's like a Nazi state. Active censorship and a fanatical frantic population willing to do drastic things to save a lost cause.
Come now. Running applications in GTK, running applications in QT, really does it matter? This whole toolkit integration war is causing more problems than it's solving! Instead of rewriting apps so that they integrate better in KDE or GNOME, we should be concentrating on things that really matter... you know, like a package management system that doesn't suck or an in installer that doesn't suck?
Why can't console makers start making their high profile games for the PC? I'd love to be able to play Metroid Prime or Final Fantasy 10 on my computer and no matter how good those games are I'd never buy a game console. They're too limiting. I realize that I'm in the minority, but I think there'd be profit in this.
Am I the only one who sees this as a waste of time? KDE already works. OO.org already works. OO.org already works in KDE. All this time spent on making it look better could be used in giving Linux some real features that it really needs.
Yep. That's the one I was talking about. I have two of'm. That mouse is one thing Microsoft not only did right, but did very-fucking-well(tm). I feel limited when I use any other. I particularly love binding the farleft and farright buttons in games.
5 button miscrosoft mouse w/scrollwheel > * (note: i use this mouse in linux ;)
That's a cop-out excuse and you know it.