This can only promote creativity. Ship an album with 2 good tracks and the rest fillers and crap songs and you'll only sell the 2 good tracks. Ship an album with 9 good tracks out of 10 and you'll sell 9 tracks like hotcakes. Oh well, I guess the album is dead anyway. This can only be bad for crappy artists with hits: They put 1 or 2 'hits' on MTV and you like them, you go buy the album and end up dissapointed, because all the other 8 tracks are complete crap.
What puzzles me is why Radiohead is agaist this practice? Most of their songs are good, so they will probably get bought. WTF?!
I have a some full albums from artists that don't force me to skip tracks. Of course some songs are 'better' but that depends on personal taste. As most of their songs are good I'll most likely go ahead and buy the full album.
This is as worse as CD distribution by the record labels. Apple should've striked deals directly with the artists. Hm, if the artists got say.60, then they'd have to sell 5 times as little as they sell now to get the same amount of money. This is bloody ripoff.
On the other hand it also costs as much as regular CDs. You get like ~10-15 songs on a regular CD, which is around $15. If you download 15 songs from Apple, you also end up spending $15, as much as you spent for the CD. Maybe a little cheaper because a CD doesn't always have 15 songs on it. But still.
Ripoff! First, the artists are ripped off, then you, the consumer. I mean it's somehow fair for Apple to get.40 out of it, but the record labels and the publisher? Give me a break!
The record labels are the media intrustry's dinosaurs. And Dinosaurs will die.
Why not just imerse the whole PC into some kind of non-conductive liquid and circulate the liquid through a big surface radiator?
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> WinXP activation fiasco, and I say that because it makes it near impossible for pirate users
Heh, that's silly, there are lots of copies of cracked Windows XP (without silly activation) floating around. The pirates are doing just fine. The real paying customers are those who are having problems. Looks to me Microsoft is actually encouraging piracy -- it's less painful to run a pirated version on WinXP than a legit one.
Hey. What if someone makes an *encrypted* P2P distribution application. It would be illegal for them to crack the encryption in the first place and obtain proof that you are indeed distributing illegal content.
SCO told a lot of lies, they even took some quotes out of context and quoted open-source advocates (RMS, Bruce Perens) on their website. Now thay're claiming IBM customers will lose their AIX licenses. I guess anyone can sue them for libel now. But what good will it do? They're already ancient history.
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer! 'Nuff said. Your country is already a fascist police state. You gave away your freedoms. Your country invaded Iraq for oil. Weapons of mass destruction my ass. They didn't find any. Oh, maybe they found a rocket or two. Maybe they put it there themselves.
Just my brain quircks I guess. Well, on some systems I have/var mounted as noexec,nosuid,nonothing so, qmail can't execute then and I don't really want to hack-the-path or anything. No, Postfix isn't as flexible as qmail imho but it just works fine for me. Exim seems more flexible as well, as stated above by someone. Plus I really don't like this new DJB fashion with/prog and/admin and/service and a lot of dirs that cripple my standard *nix directory hierarchy. I can understand the reasons, it's a good solution (to have different versions of the same program installed in a logical dir structure) but it doesn't have to be in the root directory, thank you. Kudos to Fefe for not enforcing this in his programs.
Full disclosure only stimulates vendors to come up with a patch quickly. It's their fault in the first place there was an exploitable bug. We don't need a law to regulate bug disclosure. This is security through obscurity and it doesn't work. Information will leak and a limited number of people will take advantage of it anyway, while I, the use won't know to shut that buggy service down.
Ever tried this? Does exactly that. It could help reduce the amount of viruses received better than any expensive anti virus software.
Hm, if it woldn't have been for Microsoft, McAfee and other anti virus software makers would go out of business. Viruses and insecure OSes keeps them in business, the economy goes well and everybody's happy.
I tried to use Winamp2 for ogg vorbit. Now 2.92 is going to have that so I guess I'll downgrade. Winamp3 is bloated and sucks. Hmm I still miss that crossfade plugin tho.
Yes. I've used qmail, Exim, Postfix and all of them perfomed better and delivered mail faster than sendmail. They're also easier to configure. I'm using Postfix now because I can't cope with/var/qmail and well Exim was pretty damn good too, but I got too used to Postfix. Haven't tried 4.x yet, but I was very pleased with Exim 3.x when I used it. I've also heard that zmailer performs well too. With the recent root compromise bug, Sendmail is not an option. Blah blah, it has new features and everything but it's still the same old crappy sh^H^H sendmail.
Slashdot Mirror
There is still an archive from the 4th of July 2002 at the Wayback Machine. Mirror it and make a Freesite on Freenet.
This can only promote creativity. Ship an album with 2 good tracks and the rest fillers and crap songs and you'll only sell the 2 good tracks. Ship an album with 9 good tracks out of 10 and you'll sell 9 tracks like hotcakes. Oh well, I guess the album is dead anyway. This can only be bad for crappy artists with hits: They put 1 or 2 'hits' on MTV and you like them, you go buy the album and end up dissapointed, because all the other 8 tracks are complete crap.
What puzzles me is why Radiohead is agaist this practice? Most of their songs are good, so they will probably get bought. WTF?!
I have a some full albums from artists that don't force me to skip tracks. Of course some songs are 'better' but that depends on personal taste. As most of their songs are good I'll most likely go ahead and buy the full album.
This is as worse as CD distribution by the record labels. Apple should've striked deals directly with the artists. Hm, if the artists got say .60, then they'd have to sell 5 times as little as they sell now to get the same amount of money. This is bloody ripoff.
On the other hand it also costs as much as regular CDs. You get like ~10-15 songs on a regular CD, which is around $15. If you download 15 songs from Apple, you also end up spending $15, as much as you spent for the CD. Maybe a little cheaper because a CD doesn't always have 15 songs on it. But still.
Ripoff! First, the artists are ripped off, then you, the consumer. I mean it's somehow fair for Apple to get .40 out of it, but the record labels and the publisher? Give me a break!
The record labels are the media intrustry's dinosaurs. And Dinosaurs will die.
Why not just imerse the whole PC into some kind of non-conductive liquid and circulate the liquid through a big surface radiator?
> WinXP activation fiasco, and I say that because it makes it near impossible for pirate users
Heh, that's silly, there are lots of copies of cracked Windows XP (without silly activation) floating around. The pirates are doing just fine. The real paying customers are those who are having problems. Looks to me Microsoft is actually encouraging piracy -- it's less painful to run a pirated version on WinXP than a legit one.
Proof here: http://www.levenez.com/unix/ -- the UNIX family tree. See page 12, check the arrows from Linux to UnixWare.
Hey. What if someone makes an *encrypted* P2P distribution application. It would be illegal for them to crack the encryption in the first place and obtain proof that you are indeed distributing illegal content.
Finally a law everyone will break. Bad laws are there to break them, until the idiots who made them realize they are just, well, bad.
because Apple has better access to the underlying operating system
*Right*. Last I looked, the underlying OS was open source.
Wtf is wrong with matroxfb? It stopped working in 2.4.21!
What release candidate are you talking about? This is an *official* kernel release. It's not like 2.4.15 or anything. Go figgure.
SCO told a lot of lies, they even took some quotes out of context and quoted open-source advocates (RMS, Bruce Perens) on their website. Now thay're claiming IBM customers will lose their AIX licenses. I guess anyone can sue them for libel now. But what good will it do? They're already ancient history.
Doesn't IBM have the UNIX license from the Open Group?
FreeBSD uses some linux libraries and such for Linux emulation. Stuff from RedHat I think. They're distributed under GPL and it's an optional package.
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer! 'Nuff said. Your country is already a fascist police state. You gave away your freedoms. Your country invaded Iraq for oil. Weapons of mass destruction my ass. They didn't find any. Oh, maybe they found a rocket or two. Maybe they put it there themselves.
Just my brain quircks I guess. Well, on some systems I have /var mounted as noexec,nosuid,nonothing so, qmail can't execute then and I don't really want to hack-the-path or anything. No, Postfix isn't as flexible as qmail imho but it just works fine for me. Exim seems more flexible as well, as stated above by someone. Plus I really don't like this new DJB fashion with /prog and /admin and /service and a lot of dirs that cripple my standard *nix directory hierarchy. I can understand the reasons, it's a good solution (to have different versions of the same program installed in a logical dir structure) but it doesn't have to be in the root directory, thank you. Kudos to Fefe for not enforcing this in his programs.
I taught they're trying to lobby for another law, sorry, misunderstood.
Full disclosure only stimulates vendors to come up with a patch quickly. It's their fault in the first place there was an exploitable bug. We don't need a law to regulate bug disclosure. This is security through obscurity and it doesn't work. Information will leak and a limited number of people will take advantage of it anyway, while I, the use won't know to shut that buggy service down.
Ever tried this? Does exactly that. It could help reduce the amount of viruses received better than any expensive anti virus software.
Hm, if it woldn't have been for Microsoft, McAfee and other anti virus software makers would go out of business. Viruses and insecure OSes keeps them in business, the economy goes well and everybody's happy.
Automatic updates + DNS hijacking (pointing users at my server rather than microsoft.com) = all your windoze boxes are belong to us
I tried to use Winamp2 for ogg vorbit. Now 2.92 is going to have that so I guess I'll downgrade. Winamp3 is bloated and sucks. Hmm I still miss that crossfade plugin tho.
Just wrap your GPS in aluminium foil.
Can't you jam the GPS to send bogus data to the base station?
Nullmailer is okay for most of the workstations. Yes, you have a point.
Yes. I've used qmail, Exim, Postfix and all of them perfomed better and delivered mail faster than sendmail. They're also easier to configure. I'm using Postfix now because I can't cope with /var/qmail and well Exim was pretty damn good too, but I got too used to Postfix. Haven't tried 4.x yet, but I was very pleased with Exim 3.x when I used it. I've also heard that zmailer performs well too. With the recent root compromise bug, Sendmail is not an option. Blah blah, it has new features and everything but it's still the same old crappy sh^H^H sendmail.