You know... I just followed the link to the older story, and I know it has to be pretty old, since it had the threads stripped out, and was missing it's moderation info (other than the number of points). That got me thinking... I know it's from July 26th, but I doubt it was this year, since that was a few weeks ago. It would be REALLY sweet if slashdot listed the year that a story was posted! It could be up in the title near the date and time.
If there's already a way to find the year, could someone please point me in that direction? It would be cool to know. Thanks!
Along these same lines, but far more specialized, is MoviX, which allows you to customize it with any media files you like, then burn a liveCD that will play your movies/music on most any computer. I really love all these great innovations coming out these days! Another cool feature with MoviX, depending on the version you download, is that it can load the entire OS into memory, then you remove the disk and put a dvd in the drive to watch. fun times! =D
Well, I've got one more feature to ask for, while we're asking. I want more games on it. It doesn't have enough (any?). I want it to have the full version of Neverwinter Nights (plus expansion) or it, as well as Unreal Tournament 2003 for when I feel like fragging. It still needs to fit on the mini-cd that you just wave in front of the computer though;)
and if they tied it into a discount if you purchase the DVD...
You just gave me an idea I think I really like. The main reason that no one I know buys movies online is because you can find the same thing in a store at a similar price and watch it right away. What if you coupled this service with a dvd/vhs sales service.... you buy the movie and can watch it right away, while they ship you a copy of it. Instant gratification, and you get the hard copy that lasts as well!
Very true. But you forgot to mention that fact that just because you downloaded a song doesn't mean you weren't going to buy the cd. Heck, it doesn't mean you don't already own the cd. I've misplaced CDs that I legally bought, so I downloaded high quality mp3s of all the songs, burned a new cd, and used that until I found the original. Also, I've downloaded songs from bands that I've never heard of, and wouldn't have gone out to buy the cd, only to find that I really like their music and them go and buy all their cds. My downloading their music helped their sales.
I think Courtney love said it best (you can find this and many other good quotes here in google cache):
Stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no-one is looking is piracy. It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion downloads last year but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It's not. The only people who are scared of Napster are the people who have filler on their albums and are scared that if people hear more than one single they're not going to buy the album. --Courtney Love, NME, 6/29/2000
I use so many programs on a daily basis that were just thrown together (by me or someone else). They are not extensible, they have a limited set of features, and they'd be a pain to maintain, but they do what I need them to do now, and no one else really uses them.
A new smartphone from Finland lets users scroll and zoom simply by using their hands
Seems that I can do that with my *old* phone... just use my hands to push the scroll button!!
Seriously though, you have to push a button corresponding to the motion you're about to do if you want it to recognize the motion (assuming I understood the article). Now if you have to push the button anyway, why bother moving the phone? Just to look cool? I mean, you're already pushing a button, why not just make it the scroll of zoom button?
Yeah, that might work out well. If I had more info on how they actually conduct business I'd gladly share it, but as I said, it's my brother's job. I'm a sys admin;). He's started to explain this stuff to me a few times before, but he stopped when my snoring interrupted him.
very nice point, but where it says "arrange to provide goods or services to consumers" it does mention "in exchange for payment". they give the service (demonstration) for free. Just trying to promote a discussion on this, you could be quite right;)
I'd have to disagree with you. If a server is working, and doing well, there's no reason to upgrade. Any half way intelligent sys admin makes regular backups of servers, so if it dies you can restore it. Also, who's to say that because you have an NT4 server, you can't also have 2k servers and linux servers and Tru64 servers and VMS servers, like we do where I work? You use the right tool for the job. If the NT4 server is doing well at what it needs to do, or if your company needs to support an older project it did, that was compiled on an NT4 system (since we make rail road software, we need to keep good support, and rail roads don't upgrade too darn often), you may have to keep some older servers up and running. We recently bought a new VAX from the late 80's and are setting it up with VMS 7.3. It's old as hell, but it's the tool we need for this job. Don't try and use a sledge hammer when all you need is a screwdriver.
He hates his job, but it pays him... They get around the do not call list because they're not "technically" telemarketing. They give away something for free. Free demonstrations.;-) All that they do over the phone is try and get people to accept a free demonstration of some product. The sales people who go do the demo are the ones trying to sell stuff. I wonder if many other companies will be using techniques like this now?
Well, as another poster said they may not donate cash flowage, but that doesn't mean that they can't donate anything. First off, the article mentions that they plan to have a free download available. Also, I'm fairly sure that their software is GPL'd, but correct me if I'm wrong. That means that they'll be donating code to the OSS community. That helps a great deal too. One last thing that they plan to "donate" is tech support. They said that every $199 pc comes with 24/7 tech support. That's more than you can get from most any other linux company. A decent PC, an OS, and 'round the clock tech support. They also mentioned selling the distro for $20, and I'd assume that comes with the same tech support. That's something that this community really needs if we plan to get "Joe Six-pack" to switch.
it sounds much more plausible that the artists are mum about file trading because they don't want the backlash from P2Pers that 'metallicunt' suffered when they went on the offensive.
Well, It seems that some artists have said otherwise. I know, this is a bit old, but I really enjoyed reading it. Seems funny to me that Madonna had said that she thought it was good because people could hear her music, then she later goes to release the "what the fuck do you think you're doing" tracks.
I emailed this link to the host of my favorite morning radio show last night before I went to bed, and when my alarm clock radio went off at 5:50 this morning, I heard him reading it on the air. Jim Quinn (host) had talked about Senator Hatch's plans before, and (like many of us) had found it very ironic that this man enploys pirates to do his web site.
You know, if I had mod points, I'd give you a +1 interesting. That's something that never would have crossed my mind. I suppose part of the reason it wouldn't have occured to me is because I didn't know (read: wasn't infected, didn't care) what exactly slammer did. I think I was playing paint ball the weekend it hit hard;).
If the reason behind it had anything to do with getting people to patch more, or making people more aware of security holes, then I'd have to say I support this sort of worms. I'm relatively new to the "security" community, but it's all very intriguing (sp?) to me. I don't see how so very many people can be so very dumb/naive and leave glaring holes all over the place. Oh well, mine is not to ask questions. =D
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You know... I just followed the link to the older story, and I know it has to be pretty old, since it had the threads stripped out, and was missing it's moderation info (other than the number of points). That got me thinking... I know it's from July 26th, but I doubt it was this year, since that was a few weeks ago. It would be REALLY sweet if slashdot listed the year that a story was posted! It could be up in the title near the date and time.
If there's already a way to find the year, could someone please point me in that direction? It would be cool to know. Thanks!
Along these same lines, but far more specialized, is MoviX, which allows you to customize it with any media files you like, then burn a liveCD that will play your movies/music on most any computer. I really love all these great innovations coming out these days! Another cool feature with MoviX, depending on the version you download, is that it can load the entire OS into memory, then you remove the disk and put a dvd in the drive to watch. fun times! =D
Well, I've got one more feature to ask for, while we're asking. I want more games on it. It doesn't have enough (any?). I want it to have the full version of Neverwinter Nights (plus expansion) or it, as well as Unreal Tournament 2003 for when I feel like fragging. It still needs to fit on the mini-cd that you just wave in front of the computer though ;)
did anyone else see the title of this story and think of a mud?
and if they tied it into a discount if you purchase the DVD...
You just gave me an idea I think I really like. The main reason that no one I know buys movies online is because you can find the same thing in a store at a similar price and watch it right away. What if you coupled this service with a dvd/vhs sales service.... you buy the movie and can watch it right away, while they ship you a copy of it. Instant gratification, and you get the hard copy that lasts as well!
You mean you can't read this from the Texas version? It's plenty big, it's just that the user interface sucks.
Shhhhhh!!!! You want thinkgeek.com to go out of business, don't you?
Will it have broadband?
Very true. But you forgot to mention that fact that just because you downloaded a song doesn't mean you weren't going to buy the cd. Heck, it doesn't mean you don't already own the cd. I've misplaced CDs that I legally bought, so I downloaded high quality mp3s of all the songs, burned a new cd, and used that until I found the original. Also, I've downloaded songs from bands that I've never heard of, and wouldn't have gone out to buy the cd, only to find that I really like their music and them go and buy all their cds. My downloading their music helped their sales.
I think Courtney love said it best (you can find this and many other good quotes here in google cache):
Stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no-one is looking is piracy. It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion downloads last year but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It's not. The only people who are scared of Napster are the people who have filler on their albums and are scared that if people hear more than one single they're not going to buy the album.
--Courtney Love, NME, 6/29/2000
I use so many programs on a daily basis that were just thrown together (by me or someone else). They are not extensible, they have a limited set of features, and they'd be a pain to maintain, but they do what I need them to do now, and no one else really uses them.
*coughwindowscough*
A new smartphone from Finland lets users scroll and zoom simply by using their hands
Seems that I can do that with my *old* phone... just use my hands to push the scroll button!!
Seriously though, you have to push a button corresponding to the motion you're about to do if you want it to recognize the motion (assuming I understood the article). Now if you have to push the button anyway, why bother moving the phone? Just to look cool? I mean, you're already pushing a button, why not just make it the scroll of zoom button?
Yeah, that might work out well. If I had more info on how they actually conduct business I'd gladly share it, but as I said, it's my brother's job. I'm a sys admin ;). He's started to explain this stuff to me a few times before, but he stopped when my snoring interrupted him.
very nice point, but where it says "arrange to provide goods or services to consumers" it does mention "in exchange for payment". they give the service (demonstration) for free. Just trying to promote a discussion on this, you could be quite right ;)
I'd have to disagree with you. If a server is working, and doing well, there's no reason to upgrade. Any half way intelligent sys admin makes regular backups of servers, so if it dies you can restore it. Also, who's to say that because you have an NT4 server, you can't also have 2k servers and linux servers and Tru64 servers and VMS servers, like we do where I work? You use the right tool for the job. If the NT4 server is doing well at what it needs to do, or if your company needs to support an older project it did, that was compiled on an NT4 system (since we make rail road software, we need to keep good support, and rail roads don't upgrade too darn often), you may have to keep some older servers up and running. We recently bought a new VAX from the late 80's and are setting it up with VMS 7.3. It's old as hell, but it's the tool we need for this job. Don't try and use a sledge hammer when all you need is a screwdriver.
He hates his job, but it pays him... They get around the do not call list because they're not "technically" telemarketing. They give away something for free. Free demonstrations. ;-) All that they do over the phone is try and get people to accept a free demonstration of some product. The sales people who go do the demo are the ones trying to sell stuff. I wonder if many other companies will be using techniques like this now?
oh, here are more cool Zaurus server packages... web servers, MySql servers, samba servers.. you name it ;)
The REALLY funny part about your post is that there is a port of Apache!!! =D
Well, as another poster said they may not donate cash flowage, but that doesn't mean that they can't donate anything. First off, the article mentions that they plan to have a free download available. Also, I'm fairly sure that their software is GPL'd, but correct me if I'm wrong. That means that they'll be donating code to the OSS community. That helps a great deal too. One last thing that they plan to "donate" is tech support. They said that every $199 pc comes with 24/7 tech support. That's more than you can get from most any other linux company. A decent PC, an OS, and 'round the clock tech support. They also mentioned selling the distro for $20, and I'd assume that comes with the same tech support. That's something that this community really needs if we plan to get "Joe Six-pack" to switch.
;)
just my two sense
does it have a scanner???
it sounds much more plausible that the artists are mum about file trading because they don't want the backlash from P2Pers that 'metallicunt' suffered when they went on the offensive.
Well, It seems that some artists have said otherwise. I know, this is a bit old, but I really enjoyed reading it. Seems funny to me that Madonna had said that she thought it was good because people could hear her music, then she later goes to release the "what the fuck do you think you're doing" tracks.
I emailed this link to the host of my favorite morning radio show last night before I went to bed, and when my alarm clock radio went off at 5:50 this morning, I heard him reading it on the air. Jim Quinn (host) had talked about Senator Hatch's plans before, and (like many of us) had found it very ironic that this man enploys pirates to do his web site.
definitely high.
...but this is really cool!!
You know, if I had mod points, I'd give you a +1 interesting. That's something that never would have crossed my mind. I suppose part of the reason it wouldn't have occured to me is because I didn't know (read: wasn't infected, didn't care) what exactly slammer did. I think I was playing paint ball the weekend it hit hard ;).
If the reason behind it had anything to do with getting people to patch more, or making people more aware of security holes, then I'd have to say I support this sort of worms. I'm relatively new to the "security" community, but it's all very intriguing (sp?) to me. I don't see how so very many people can be so very dumb/naive and leave glaring holes all over the place. Oh well, mine is not to ask questions. =D
Go for the eyes Blue! Go for the eyes!!!