okay, but when's the last time you actually used the yellow pages? All I ever use is Yahoo Yellow Pages unless I don't have an internet connection for some reason (Isabel). Yahoo YP is far more useful; it gives maps, links to websites when available, and best of all: it's searchable. Google came along and beat yahoo's search engine, now they have a contender for yahoo's yellow pages.
Okay, so maybe it only takes 10 minutes a year to change lightbulbs in a given household. There's somewhere around 100 million households in the US, so that's about a billion minutes spent changing lightbulbs. Now if 20 million of those households are online, that means we're losing 200 million minutes worth of slashdot posts due to people changing lightbulbs! I'd say better lightbulbs should be our top priority!
What's the difference between some music being shared on a P2P network and someone quoting some lyrics (or literature) in a forum? Suddenly that post has "copyrighted content." Do they plan on banning forums too?
All I have to say is: You gotta fight for your right to party!
I came across an interesting article on news.com. Basically, a professor named Peter Usher posted a personal mp3 on a Penn State ftp, which R*AA's scanners mistook for a copyright infringment.
By way of additional apology, the RIAA said it will send Peter Usher an Usher CD and T-shirt "in appreciation of his understanding."
All we have to do is create some legal mp3's, rename them to the cd's we want, post them on personal ftp sites, then just sit back and wait for all the free cd's!
If all of the metadata is stored in directories, then copying the directories and all of their contained files would naturally include the metadata.
Right, but now the filesystem and mp3 tag data are tightly coupled. In case where you're copying between different filesystem types, the destination machine has to have a filesystem that understands the source filesystem's format. If the destination filesystem doesn't know the tag data is stored elsewhere, the tag data is useless. IMHO, that makes mp3's a lot less portable and portability was basically the whole point, wasn't it?
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maybe this can't cut it in the big enterprise just yet, but there's tons of small businesses that don't need or can live without the advanced features of exchange. Especially when an exchange solution costs (I'm sure I could find it cheaper, but I'm lazy) $1199 for win2k server + ($700 || $4000) for exchange + ($67 * #users) for client licenses. For a company with only 10 employees, that's a minimum of $2570 for email software costs alone (since exchange is typically run on a dedicated machine).
Sure the ipaq is great -- if you have an extra $700 laying around. Last I checked, the Dell Axim was less than $300. Add a compactflash wireless card for $70 and you've got a PDA with more memory and better options for expandability (IMHO) than the IPAQ -- at about half the price.
It is a service. But that's not the service the government is there to provide. If they happen to provide us with free software while (say) tracking school funding, fine, but if there's better commercial software for doing it, they should be free to purchase that instead (if it's within their budget, etc, etc).
The choice should not be merely what's best for that body, but what's best for the people who are funding that body. It could be argued that the public should have a right to use software that they have funded.
But the government's purpose isn't to provide us with software, it's to provide us a service. They should purchase whatever software best enables them to provide us that service, whether it's open source or not.
Actually, this makes complete sense from the MS business point of view. MS is in the business of making money. One of the ways they make money is by selling software, so of course, they want to sell as many copies of the most expensive software as possible. So it makes perfect sense that if you're going to set up a fileserver, MS wants you to pay the extra money and buy their server product. Is there a difference in the filesharing capabilities of the products? Probably not, but there is a difference in the licenses to enfore the fact that XP Pro is meant for desktop/client use only.
looks like sun is going for the underdog in both the os and chip markets with a linux/amd combo. could this be in response to some beliefs that sun is fading? obviously this is good for amd and linux, but what if sun really does go away? will people blame amd hw and/or linux sw?
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I can see where they're going by trying to make spamming less of a money maker. However, $500 anually for access to the list is nothing compared to what a hard core spammer can make in a week. Plus, they can still spam people who are on the list, they just can't spam them enough that it becomes worth their while (the spammee) at $10 per message to take the company to court.
"On launch day, a piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank came off during liftoff and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle. NASA said as late as Friday that the damage to the thermal tiles was believed to be minor and posed no safety concern during the fiery decent through the atmosphere."
Could it be that the fuel tank overheated and exploded during re-entry?
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I for one welcome our new karma distributing overlords.
okay, but when's the last time you actually used the yellow pages? All I ever use is Yahoo Yellow Pages unless I don't have an internet connection for some reason (Isabel). Yahoo YP is far more useful; it gives maps, links to websites when available, and best of all: it's searchable. Google came along and beat yahoo's search engine, now they have a contender for yahoo's yellow pages.
I'm a massive rock, you insensitive clod!
Okay, so maybe it only takes 10 minutes a year to change lightbulbs in a given household. There's somewhere around 100 million households in the US, so that's about a billion minutes spent changing lightbulbs. Now if 20 million of those households are online, that means we're losing 200 million minutes worth of slashdot posts due to people changing lightbulbs! I'd say better lightbulbs should be our top priority!
hunter 1: "I got a 12 point buck!"
hunter 2: "that's nothin..."
*takes off his belt*
in other news, McDonald's stock falls 20%.
All I have to say is: You gotta fight for your right to party!
let's ban driving and nursing.
just because some people use p2p networks illegally, doesn't mean everyone does.
By way of additional apology, the RIAA said it will send Peter Usher an Usher CD and T-shirt "in appreciation of his understanding."
All we have to do is create some legal mp3's, rename them to the cd's we want, post them on personal ftp sites, then just sit back and wait for all the free cd's!
Right, but now the filesystem and mp3 tag data are tightly coupled. In case where you're copying between different filesystem types, the destination machine has to have a filesystem that understands the source filesystem's format. If the destination filesystem doesn't know the tag data is stored elsewhere, the tag data is useless. IMHO, that makes mp3's a lot less portable and portability was basically the whole point, wasn't it?
maybe this can't cut it in the big enterprise just yet, but there's tons of small businesses that don't need or can live without the advanced features of exchange. Especially when an exchange solution costs (I'm sure I could find it cheaper, but I'm lazy) $1199 for win2k server + ($700 || $4000) for exchange + ($67 * #users) for client licenses. For a company with only 10 employees, that's a minimum of $2570 for email software costs alone (since exchange is typically run on a dedicated machine).
Yeah, they're not that bad. I'm sure they held on to the real conspiracy memos ;)
Sure the ipaq is great -- if you have an extra $700 laying around. Last I checked, the Dell Axim was less than $300. Add a compactflash wireless card for $70 and you've got a PDA with more memory and better options for expandability (IMHO) than the IPAQ -- at about half the price.
It is a service. But that's not the service the government is there to provide. If they happen to provide us with free software while (say) tracking school funding, fine, but if there's better commercial software for doing it, they should be free to purchase that instead (if it's within their budget, etc, etc).
But the government's purpose isn't to provide us with software, it's to provide us a service. They should purchase whatever software best enables them to provide us that service, whether it's open source or not.
CA tried this a while ago too.
...because firing an ak-47 is oh so boring.
Actually, this makes complete sense from the MS business point of view. MS is in the business of making money. One of the ways they make money is by selling software, so of course, they want to sell as many copies of the most expensive software as possible. So it makes perfect sense that if you're going to set up a fileserver, MS wants you to pay the extra money and buy their server product. Is there a difference in the filesharing capabilities of the products? Probably not, but there is a difference in the licenses to enfore the fact that XP Pro is meant for desktop/client use only.
although fsck isn't irrelevant to its purpose; fsck is an acronym for FileSystem ChecK. still the funniest one yet tho :)
looks like sun is going for the underdog in both the os and chip markets with a linux/amd combo. could this be in response to some beliefs that sun is fading? obviously this is good for amd and linux, but what if sun really does go away? will people blame amd hw and/or linux sw?
shr...shr...mov...jmp! jmp!
(system crashes)
damn register boss!
I can see where they're going by trying to make spamming less of a money maker. However, $500 anually for access to the list is nothing compared to what a hard core spammer can make in a week. Plus, they can still spam people who are on the list, they just can't spam them enough that it becomes worth their while (the spammee) at $10 per message to take the company to court.
"On launch day, a piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank came off during liftoff and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle. NASA said as late as Friday that the damage to the thermal tiles was believed to be minor and posed no safety concern during the fiery decent through the atmosphere."
Could it be that the fuel tank overheated and exploded during re-entry?