It's simple -- if a company doesn't give me what I want, I don't buy it from them. So I don't.
Of course, this was a troll, and it's pretty obvious because A) I didn't even mention RIAA, B) I didn't even mention Linux, and C) you are making points based on non-existent contexts ("Yet they claim the right to dictate how the RIAA does business") in a effort to cause controversy over something that, in fact, was never said.
Can we get rid of this expression? Please? It's, like totally, from the 1980's. It's so aniquated and cliche'd that's it's not funny (literally anf figuratively).
A better 21st century expression would probably "Bluetooth on a double-hit of Viagra".
"If you ever cancel the service, you lose access to all of the music you've downloaded."
That's the first dealbreaker, right there. Translated, this means that I'm not paying $9.99 a month to listen to music, I'm paying $9.99 * (infinity) to listen music because, assuming I cancel my service (either volentarily or involentarily), I loose everything.
This has philosophiclal problems, too, because they are trying to recast music from a saleable entity into a performance service -- you are licensing it's use, not buying it.
And yes, Portable downloads are essentially MP3s. But you have to use their player and the quality is.. lackluster, in my opinion (on par with 128kbps CBR mp3, from my tin-ear tests).
"People want the SONGS they want, at a low price, delivered through a digital medium."
Here is what I want:
The ability to download a low quality version of a song to see if I like it. If i like it, i am given the option to buy that track at a reasonable cost (I'd pay ~$1 USD, but demand a bulk discount for a whole CD): I want this track that I buy to be available NOW, in many popular formats including a lossless format suitable for burning. I want the right to copy this track to kingdom come, from my car to my home and portable.
The record companies will say that then users will take this files and exchange them all over with their friends but think about this: I have money and my time is worth money -- it it technically "cheaper" for me to pay $1 for a high-quality song and have it NOW than to spend 5 hours finding a low-quality and corrupted copy off some P2P service. As an extension of this, those who can't afford to pay for digital music cannot afford to buy the CD anyway, so no one is loosing a sale anyway.
Scientifically speaking, a "moon" is any planetary body that orbits a larger body and causes American students to turn to werewolves whilst visiting France.
Whatever you decide, prepare yourself to a fight. As a former AS/400 lackey, I can tell you that "Silverlake" partisans have the same ideological zeal toward the AS/400 that a lot of uses have toward Linux.
They are both "underground" systems (meaning not meanstream, though linix is becoming, blah, blah...), and so you're going to go up against people who are very commited.
Of course, maybe if you really want to, just get Linux to run on the Hardware and make the transition a little friendlier?
Comments about administration policy asside, I think that comparing the two isn't strictly fair. At least, not on absolute terms.
As a developer on both codebases, teh differences as I see them are basic: Ecore is about grouping and linking as sets, while lj is more about mass indexing of list-type data.
One of ecores main weekness is scalability, or lack thereof -- this is not a slam on teh code, but just an introspection on design. Because lj os more about this loose-linked list paradigm, it can easily scale and cluster on mutliple machine while ecore, with it's extreme data interlinking, is heaving right now with redesigns to allow that.
Of course, Ecore (or at least E2) has a much better XML interface, which is probably it's second strongest point. It's first strongest and most important is the concpet that everything is a node.
This is bad? Come on! We're been waiting for a real command line on a Mac for, like, 20 years, and now we need a lickable interface for a database engine?
From what I know, the majority of LCDs produced today are still made in Taiwan.. and that's a bad thing.
It's teh same problem that chip manufacturers are facing -- what happens when the majority of your compoinets are made in the same small area of land? should something catostophic happen, your supply could be completely wiped out.
Other's getting into the game is good for this so whouls something happen to Taiwan like a major earthquake (it is on the "ring of fire") you still have other suppliers in other places who can help take up the slack.
Remeber the Fire in a Taiwanese industial park a few years ago? One factory catching fire sent memory prices soarsing for a few weeks.. just think if a few factories where utterly destoyed?
Oi! Oi! The first cool Askslashdot question in a long time!
An idea, that is sort of like a button but not quite is to use those touch-sensetive lightswitch panels (the on/off kind, not dimmer kind) so you only need a very light touch to trigger the switch.
Of course, it's only "harassment" if you call repeatedly and wantonly.
If you want to be an ass legally, just call once. If everyon calls once, all (rand(bignum)) of us, it'll do the job you want better thatn 3 people calling hundereds of times.
Of course, once we reaize that we're supposed to be adults here, we might find a more mature way of leveling justice.
that's right, that's what's comming next, the "free" cell phone.
How can they give away repackaged Nokias^H^H^H^H^H^H disposable phones? Easy, the "free" cell phone is AdWare!
Yes, it comes with a man in a monkey suit and whenever you're on a call to someone he hops around in front of you begging you to punch him and win $10.
Focus group studdies show that people just punch him and ignore the $10.
It could be an issue with the eMac being for eductional markets. Apple has had a long standing policy that resellers cannot sell Educational-market models to the general public, and so this could be where they were bitten. ( a good example is the "All-in-one G3" -- you can buy it from private sellers, of from eductional institiutions that are selling their, but you wuoudln't buy them from an Apple reseller unless you were and educator)
I can see why Zettabyte would not think this was an issue because Apple is selling them to the general public -- but they're still "educational products", methinks.
I have a second hand Armada 7800 series (7380DMT), And it' been remarkably solid for the amount of abuse I've put it through. I'd venture a guess and say that the models you're dealing with probably has the problem that many Vaios have where the screen hinge and other high-stress points are not reinforced with metal/enough metal.
My Armada, circa 1999, has only had issues with the rubber feet coming off (the glue is worthless) and the doors on PC Card slots breaking (broke within a week of my buying it, later last summer).
If I understand this right, and I'd like to think I do, it's a lot more simple than that..
ICANN is just a holding company -- you can think of them like a Record Label or soemthing -- where their job is simply to overview distribution of the product, domain names.
ICANN is an international orgainization and so it could be considered, by a stretch of the imagination, to be outside Canadian law.
The ruling here (again, if I'm understanding this issue correctly) is no that they overturned ICANNS decision as much as they simply made their own. They're not saying ICANN can't give Molson the domain as they are saying that Molson, as a Canadian company, is not allowed to own it.
This is a pretty big deal because A) it show that sometimes the small guy wins and B) that nations can express independant views from ICANN.
The page itself seems to be void of troubleshooting into, and I'm no C programmer, so I'm at a loss here.
I'm trying to use mod_blowchunks.c with apache 1.3.24 with DSO. When I execute
bin/apxs -i -a -c mod_blowchunks.c
It spits back:
gcc -DLINUX=22 -DUSE_HSREGEX -fpic -DSHARED_MODULE -I/usr/local/apache_1.3.24/include -c mod_blowchunks.c mod_blowchunks.c: In function `blowchunks_check_one_header': mod_blowchunks.c:5 1: `TRUE' undeclared (first use in this function) mod_blowchunks.c:51: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once mod_blowchunks.c:51: for each function it appears in.) mod_blowchunks.c:52: `FALSE' undeclared (first use in this function) mod_blowchunks.c: In function `blowchunks_post_read_request': mod_blowchunks.c: 58: `FALSE' undeclared (first use in this function) mod_blowchunks.c:61: `TRUE' undeclared (first use in this function) apxs:Break: Command failed with rc=1
The problem with this, if you didn't see it already, is not that it allows them to attack, it's that is gives them the ability to enforce the law.
It makes the copyright holder a law enforcer without all the nagging issues about due process.
If something like this is passed, how likely do you think it would be that is would include statues for just cause or disclosure? They could empy it just on the off chance they "think" something illegal is going on, and if they get in trouble they can plead ignorance. It could vary easily be used by companies against individuals or companies against companies.
A good example -- and one where I pick on microsoft too -- would be easy. Owing that this legislation simply says "copyrigth holders" and not "musical copyright holders", it could be used by anyone. So, suppose Microsoft wanted to buy some technology from a company, and the company didn't want play ball? Well, Microsoft could do around the clock DDOS attacks to tie up all ther bandwidth (which the company would be unable to stop, as it would be illegal under such a law), and cause the company to be able to do no business and as such go out of business -- and they could do this all under the guise of "well, they were using a pirated copy of Excel 97".
And suppose it doesn't lay out what kind of retaliation is allowed, or on what medium? Suppose ClearChannel Communications (who own 87% of all radio in the USA) "though" that some mom&pop station iun Bumsville, Iowa was inteding to rebroadcast one of their programs? There stand a good chance that CC would be allowed (under such a law) to jam the offending stations signal until they got satisfaction.
Ever play Shadowrun, a game where giant corporation war against each other?
By "CD quality" I was being phesicious (sp), I meant merely higher quality. And, well, gee, how do you suppose you get the high fidelity sound out ot the world? By layering polyphonic channels. I never said "wav file". Never once.
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Grasp this concept:
"What I want" != "require conformation"
It's simple -- if a company doesn't give me what I want, I don't buy it from them. So I don't.
Of course, this was a troll, and it's pretty obvious because A) I didn't even mention RIAA, B) I didn't even mention Linux, and C) you are making points based on non-existent contexts ("Yet they claim the right to dictate how the RIAA does business") in a effort to cause controversy over something that, in fact, was never said.
Consider yourself debunked.
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Can we get rid of this expression? Please? It's, like totally, from the 1980's. It's so aniquated and cliche'd that's it's not funny (literally anf figuratively).
A better 21st century expression would probably "Bluetooth on a double-hit of Viagra".
"If you ever cancel the service, you lose access to all of the music you've downloaded."
That's the first dealbreaker, right there. Translated, this means that I'm not paying $9.99 a month to listen to music, I'm paying $9.99 * (infinity) to listen music because, assuming I cancel my service (either volentarily or involentarily), I loose everything.
This has philosophiclal problems, too, because they are trying to recast music from a saleable entity into a performance service -- you are licensing it's use, not buying it.
And yes, Portable downloads are essentially MP3s. But you have to use their player and the quality is.. lackluster, in my opinion (on par with 128kbps CBR mp3, from my tin-ear tests).
Here is what I want:
The ability to download a low quality version of a song to see if I like it. If i like it, i am given the option to buy that track at a reasonable cost (I'd pay ~$1 USD, but demand a bulk discount for a whole CD): I want this track that I buy to be available NOW, in many popular formats including a lossless format suitable for burning. I want the right to copy this track to kingdom come, from my car to my home and portable.
The record companies will say that then users will take this files and exchange them all over with their friends but think about this: I have money and my time is worth money -- it it technically "cheaper" for me to pay $1 for a high-quality song and have it NOW than to spend 5 hours finding a low-quality and corrupted copy off some P2P service. As an extension of this, those who can't afford to pay for digital music cannot afford to buy the CD anyway, so no one is loosing a sale anyway.
Scientifically speaking, a "moon" is any planetary body that orbits a larger body and causes American students to turn to werewolves whilst visiting France.
Whatever you decide, prepare yourself to a fight. As a former AS/400 lackey, I can tell you that "Silverlake" partisans have the same ideological zeal toward the AS/400 that a lot of uses have toward Linux.
They are both "underground" systems (meaning not meanstream, though linix is becoming, blah, blah...), and so you're going to go up against people who are very commited.
Of course, maybe if you really want to, just get Linux to run on the Hardware and make the transition a little friendlier?
Always remember that Journalism and the news media are the fourth branch of government that helps perfom checks and balances on the other three.
Comments about administration policy asside, I think that comparing the two isn't strictly fair. At least, not on absolute terms.
As a developer on both codebases, teh differences as I see them are basic: Ecore is about grouping and linking as sets, while lj is more about mass indexing of list-type data.
One of ecores main weekness is scalability, or lack thereof -- this is not a slam on teh code, but just an introspection on design. Because lj os more about this loose-linked list paradigm, it can easily scale and cluster on mutliple machine while ecore, with it's extreme data interlinking, is heaving right now with redesigns to allow that.
Of course, Ecore (or at least E2) has a much better XML interface, which is probably it's second strongest point. It's first strongest and most important is the concpet that everything is a node.
"the whole thing is command line only for now."
This is bad? Come on! We're been waiting for a real command line on a Mac for, like, 20 years, and now we need a lickable interface for a database engine?
Some of us dream in CLI, you know? :)
What part of the word "installed" are you having trouble with?
Installed != Purchased. Sorry.
From what I know, the majority of LCDs produced today are still made in Taiwan.. and that's a bad thing.
It's teh same problem that chip manufacturers are facing -- what happens when the majority of your compoinets are made in the same small area of land? should something catostophic happen, your supply could be completely wiped out.
Other's getting into the game is good for this so whouls something happen to Taiwan like a major earthquake (it is on the "ring of fire") you still have other suppliers in other places who can help take up the slack.
Remeber the Fire in a Taiwanese industial park a few years ago? One factory catching fire sent memory prices soarsing for a few weeks.. just think if a few factories where utterly destoyed?
Oi! Oi! The first cool Askslashdot question in a long time!
An idea, that is sort of like a button but not quite is to use those touch-sensetive lightswitch panels (the on/off kind, not dimmer kind) so you only need a very light touch to trigger the switch.
If you want to be an ass legally, just call once. If everyon calls once, all (rand(bignum)) of us, it'll do the job you want better thatn 3 people calling hundereds of times.
Of course, once we reaize that we're supposed to be adults here, we might find a more mature way of leveling justice.
Please, be gentle to this mirror I made of the pictures as well.
"Light powered fully self-motive Slinky" is totaly on the top of my Christmas Wish List this year. Finally we can have a Slinky that climbs UP stairs.
We (my company, that is) uses this. It's web based totally and extensible with perl.
that's right, that's what's comming next, the "free" cell phone.
How can they give away repackaged Nokias^H^H^H^H^H^H disposable phones? Easy, the "free" cell phone is AdWare!
Yes, it comes with a man in a monkey suit and whenever you're on a call to someone he hops around in front of you begging you to punch him and win $10.
Focus group studdies show that people just punch him and ignore the $10.
It could be an issue with the eMac being for eductional markets. Apple has had a long standing policy that resellers cannot sell Educational-market models to the general public, and so this could be where they were bitten. ( a good example is the "All-in-one G3" -- you can buy it from private sellers, of from eductional institiutions that are selling their, but you wuoudln't buy them from an Apple reseller unless you were and educator)
I can see why Zettabyte would not think this was an issue because Apple is selling them to the general public -- but they're still "educational products", methinks.
I have a second hand Armada 7800 series (7380DMT), And it' been remarkably solid for the amount of abuse I've put it through. I'd venture a guess and say that the models you're dealing with probably has the problem that many Vaios have where the screen hinge and other high-stress points are not reinforced with metal/enough metal.
My Armada, circa 1999, has only had issues with the rubber feet coming off (the glue is worthless) and the doors on PC Card slots breaking (broke within a week of my buying it, later last summer).
If I understand this right, and I'd like to think I do, it's a lot more simple than that..
ICANN is just a holding company -- you can think of them like a Record Label or soemthing -- where their job is simply to overview distribution of the product, domain names.
ICANN is an international orgainization and so it could be considered, by a stretch of the imagination, to be outside Canadian law.
The ruling here (again, if I'm understanding this issue correctly) is no that they overturned ICANNS decision as much as they simply made their own. They're not saying ICANN can't give Molson the domain as they are saying that Molson, as a Canadian company, is not allowed to own it.
This is a pretty big deal because A) it show that sometimes the small guy wins and B) that nations can express independant views from ICANN.
Brilliant, it works.
Cheers,eh.
I'm trying to use mod_blowchunks.c with apache 1.3.24 with DSO. When I execute
It spits back:
can anyone offer any guidance?
The problem with this, if you didn't see it already, is not that it allows them to attack, it's that is gives them the ability to enforce the law.
It makes the copyright holder a law enforcer without all the nagging issues about due process.
If something like this is passed, how likely do you think it would be that is would include statues for just cause or disclosure? They could empy it just on the off chance they "think" something illegal is going on, and if they get in trouble they can plead ignorance. It could vary easily be used by companies against individuals or companies against companies.
A good example -- and one where I pick on microsoft too -- would be easy. Owing that this legislation simply says "copyrigth holders" and not "musical copyright holders", it could be used by anyone. So, suppose Microsoft wanted to buy some technology from a company, and the company didn't want play ball? Well, Microsoft could do around the clock DDOS attacks to tie up all ther bandwidth (which the company would be unable to stop, as it would be illegal under such a law), and cause the company to be able to do no business and as such go out of business -- and they could do this all under the guise of "well, they were using a pirated copy of Excel 97".
And suppose it doesn't lay out what kind of retaliation is allowed, or on what medium? Suppose ClearChannel Communications (who own 87% of all radio in the USA) "though" that some mom&pop station iun Bumsville, Iowa was inteding to rebroadcast one of their programs? There stand a good chance that CC would be allowed (under such a law) to jam the offending stations signal until they got satisfaction.
Ever play Shadowrun, a game where giant corporation war against each other?
By "CD quality" I was being phesicious (sp), I meant merely higher quality. And, well, gee, how do you suppose you get the high fidelity sound out ot the world? By layering polyphonic channels. I never said "wav file". Never once.