lol... wow, certainly didn't expect a response like this one - but I suppose I'll bite.
"My fear mongering"? "Authoritarian agenda"? Geez dude, lighten up. All I was saying was that it's apparent Jack Thompson is feeling threatened and since he lives in Florida he could now legally pull out a gun and shoot those whom he feels are threatening his safety. My lighthearted "warning" was aimed at anyone who might decide to wear an "I hate Jack Thompson" t-shirt.
Do I think Jack will shoot anyone? No. Am I trying to push some ulterior agenda by striking fear into the hearts of citizens? No. Am I trying to tell anyone they can't/shouldn't buy a gun? No. Am I trying to tell anyone they should buy a gun? No. Am I arguing the finer points of the United States Constitution? No. Was I just killing (hehehe) a few minutes of my afternoon on Slashdork with a humorous anecdote? Yes.
Step away from the computer... step away from the computer...
Now let's consider this comment of yours: "the same people wanting to ban video games are typically the same who want to ban guns and self defence..."
This is interesting to me for a couple reasons. First of all, do you have any facts to back this up? Because without taking any time to look into this further, I might suggest the opposite. The Right likes to harp on violent video games just as much (or more) as anyone on the Left, but the Right also seems to hold their right to bear arms quite dear in the same breath.
Also, I like the way you try to subtly blur the line between a gun and self defense. Sure, there are people who would like ban guns, but who wants to ban "self defense"?? That notion is absurd. If anyone is guilty of insinuation or hidden agendas here it is you.
And finally, what is this:"The constitution give Americans BOTH the right to free speech and the right to bear arms."?
When did I ever attack free speech (or the right to bear arms, for that matter)? I'm calling "strawman-igans" on that one.
Shit man, be careful - there's a new law on the books in Florida that ensures a Floridian with a permit to carry a concealed weapon even more leeway in the right to use deadly force if they feel threatened.
FYI, the Sony Connect service only supports Windows.
From the Download page:
We're sorry.
We know you are interested in using the Connect music store. Unfortunately SonicStage only works on Windows 98SE and above.
We have no immediate plans to support other operating systems at this time. However, we believe this is an important user base and we hope to support it in the future.
I'm rather unimpressed by the music they are currently offering.
Sure, most of those artists listed below are considered jazz and therefore not "popular" - but none of them are obscure, and many are no less than legendary masters. In fact, certain artists listed even have huge followings among young, twentysomething music fans.
When requested "charlie hunter" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "melvin sparks" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "medeski martin wood" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "g love and special sauce" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "richard groove holmes" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "soulive" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "pernice brothers" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "don caballero" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "clifford brown" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "dexter gordon" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "pat martino" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "karl denson" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "fela kuti" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "joey defrancesco" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "dave douglas" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "fred anderson" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "cannonball adderly" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "maceo parker" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "ron miles" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "stanton moore" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "madlib" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "tortoise" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "shuggie otis" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "sugarman 3" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "the bad plus" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "sex mob" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "modern jazz quartet" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "les mccann" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "robert walter" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "don byron" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "john scofield" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "jimmy smith" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "kenny burrell" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "lee morgan" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "sonny clark" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "sebadoh" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "zony mash" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "old 97s" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "jon spencer" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "r.l. burnside" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "antibalas" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "st germain" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "grant green" the search engine found 0 documents
The other reason for more sales would be online music shops that keep prices low.
Does anyone else remember when cds first hit the stores and you could buy them for around $11 USD? What happened? Why have prices gone up instead of down?
I simply will not pay more than $15 for a cd anymore, and even then I balk if it's more than $12.
maybe the explanation is as simple as that: artists creating better music
Consumers are not just mindless fools who dumbly follow economic up and downturns: they are downloading more AND buying
What?! You've got to be kidding right? How the hell do people like Britney f*ing Spears and Jennifer Lopez (or 90% of "artists" in the Top 40 for that matter) sell albums if people aren't mindless consumers that believe the MTV and radio hype?
Seriously, the only reason most bands actually sell albums is because Joe Consumer doesn't realize music outside corporate radio exists.
Somebody else tells him it's cool and he believes it. It's all he hears all day long, eventually he starts to like it. Score one for the RIAA and the record labels that pump out trite by the wagon load.
Integrate something like this with Wine so Linux users can install Windows programs from the package manager and you just may have an application that could help get Linux onto J. Random User's desktop.
Imagine - "Linux runs everything."
I'm not implying there are dozens of programs solely for Windows that Linux users are dying for, but some people are married to one app or the other, and that keeps them from trying Linux.
One day (soon hopefully), american Democrats will pull their heads out of their asses and aggressively pursue the Republican's international war crimes the way they pursued the Clinton cigar story.
One day (soon hopefully) the U.S. voting public will pull their heads out of their asses and put someone in the White House who is not from either of those parties.
That is assuming that Amazon has EVERY page of every book available to the service, which I doubt.
According to the Welcome Letter (mirror) on the front page of amazon.com from Jeff Bezos, Amazon has indexed every word of more than 120,000 books for searching.
Check TopoZone.com and University of Texas at Austin online library for USGS and topos. I just found those two links earlier today while looking for quality maps.
You can buy that great water-proof, tear-resistant material that National Geographic prints their "Trails Illustrated" topos on for use in ink-jet printers as well. A quick googling shows at least one link for that stuff.
While on the subject, is anybody still running old DOS programs in a DOS box on a Windows machine (e.g. a database) because your company is too poor/cheap to upgrade or doesn't want to bother with any free alternatives?"
The company I work for still uses Paradox version 4.0 in a DOS window on Windows 98 to generate reports and process data. I believe Paradox is still actively developed and they're up to version 9 now.
I've actually spent a bit of time getting Paradox to run under Dosemu / FreeDOS on RedHat 9 so we can ditch the Windows machines.
Those Paradox machines just sit there all day long and churn out reports so management types can print them out on dead trees, maybe look at them once, and throw them away. Sad as it is, I suppose having a hard copy in their hands is some sort of proof that actual work is being done.
More than a couple people's lives in the office revolve around whether or not Paradox is functioning that day.
Paradox was the last W32/DOS application I had to find either a suitable Free Software replacement for, or find some way to run under Linux in order to convert our office to Open Source solutions.
I'd sure like to see the source of this new worm. How is anyone to know for sure that it's only intentions are good until a full analysis has been done?
And if it is a "good virus" then why is it not open source? It should have nothing to hide, right?
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"My fear mongering"? "Authoritarian agenda"? Geez dude, lighten up. All I was saying was that it's apparent Jack Thompson is feeling threatened and since he lives in Florida he could now legally pull out a gun and shoot those whom he feels are threatening his safety. My lighthearted "warning" was aimed at anyone who might decide to wear an "I hate Jack Thompson" t-shirt.
Do I think Jack will shoot anyone? No. Am I trying to push some ulterior agenda by striking fear into the hearts of citizens? No. Am I trying to tell anyone they can't/shouldn't buy a gun? No. Am I trying to tell anyone they should buy a gun? No. Am I arguing the finer points of the United States Constitution? No. Was I just killing (hehehe) a few minutes of my afternoon on Slashdork with a humorous anecdote? Yes.
Step away from the computer... step away from the computer...
Now let's consider this comment of yours: "the same people wanting to ban video games are typically the same who want to ban guns and self defence..."
This is interesting to me for a couple reasons. First of all, do you have any facts to back this up? Because without taking any time to look into this further, I might suggest the opposite. The Right likes to harp on violent video games just as much (or more) as anyone on the Left, but the Right also seems to hold their right to bear arms quite dear in the same breath.
Also, I like the way you try to subtly blur the line between a gun and self defense. Sure, there are people who would like ban guns, but who wants to ban "self defense"?? That notion is absurd. If anyone is guilty of insinuation or hidden agendas here it is you.
And finally, what is this:"The constitution give Americans BOTH the right to free speech and the right to bear arms."?
When did I ever attack free speech (or the right to bear arms, for that matter)? I'm calling "strawman-igans" on that one.
Shit man, be careful - there's a new law on the books in Florida that ensures a Floridian with a permit to carry a concealed weapon even more leeway in the right to use deadly force if they feel threatened.
From the Download page:
We're sorry.
We know you are interested in using the Connect music store. Unfortunately SonicStage only works on Windows 98SE and above.
We have no immediate plans to support other operating systems at this time. However, we believe this is an important user base and we hope to support it in the future.
Thank you for your interest.
Sure, most of those artists listed below are considered jazz and therefore not "popular" - but none of them are obscure, and many are no less than legendary masters. In fact, certain artists listed even have huge followings among young, twentysomething music fans.
When requested "charlie hunter" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "melvin sparks" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "medeski martin wood" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "g love and special sauce" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "richard groove holmes" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "soulive" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "pernice brothers" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "don caballero" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "clifford brown" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "dexter gordon" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "pat martino" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "karl denson" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "fela kuti" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "joey defrancesco" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "dave douglas" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "fred anderson" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "cannonball adderly" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "maceo parker" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "ron miles" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "stanton moore" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "madlib" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "tortoise" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "shuggie otis" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "sugarman 3" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "the bad plus" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "sex mob" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "modern jazz quartet" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "les mccann" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "robert walter" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "don byron" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "john scofield" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "jimmy smith" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "kenny burrell" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "lee morgan" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "sonny clark" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "sebadoh" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "zony mash" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "old 97s" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "jon spencer" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "r.l. burnside" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "antibalas" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "st germain" the search engine found 0 documents
When requested "grant green" the search engine found 0 documents
Are question marks something I would really want to use? Who would actually use question marks while writing? Why use punctuation at all?
Does anyone else remember when cds first hit the stores and you could buy them for around $11 USD? What happened? Why have prices gone up instead of down?
I simply will not pay more than $15 for a cd anymore, and even then I balk if it's more than $12.
Consumers are not just mindless fools who dumbly follow economic up and downturns: they are downloading more AND buying
What?! You've got to be kidding right? How the hell do people like Britney f*ing Spears and Jennifer Lopez (or 90% of "artists" in the Top 40 for that matter) sell albums if people aren't mindless consumers that believe the MTV and radio hype?
Seriously, the only reason most bands actually sell albums is because Joe Consumer doesn't realize music outside corporate radio exists.
Somebody else tells him it's cool and he believes it. It's all he hears all day long, eventually he starts to like it. Score one for the RIAA and the record labels that pump out trite by the wagon load.
Jeez, people - get it right. You should be looking for Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis, Jr, Peter Lawford, etc.
A much better cast and a much better movie.
Imagine - "Linux runs everything."
I'm not implying there are dozens of programs solely for Windows that Linux users are dying for, but some people are married to one app or the other, and that keeps them from trying Linux.
One day (soon hopefully) the U.S. voting public will pull their heads out of their asses and put someone in the White House who is not from either of those parties.
According to the Welcome Letter (mirror) on the front page of amazon.com from Jeff Bezos, Amazon has indexed every word of more than 120,000 books for searching.
Check TopoZone.com and University of Texas at Austin online library for USGS and topos. I just found those two links earlier today while looking for quality maps.
You can buy that great water-proof, tear-resistant material that National Geographic prints their "Trails Illustrated" topos on for use in ink-jet printers as well. A quick googling shows at least one link for that stuff.
The company I work for still uses Paradox version 4.0 in a DOS window on Windows 98 to generate reports and process data. I believe Paradox is still actively developed and they're up to version 9 now.
I've actually spent a bit of time getting Paradox to run under Dosemu / FreeDOS on RedHat 9 so we can ditch the Windows machines.
Those Paradox machines just sit there all day long and churn out reports so management types can print them out on dead trees, maybe look at them once, and throw them away. Sad as it is, I suppose having a hard copy in their hands is some sort of proof that actual work is being done.
More than a couple people's lives in the office revolve around whether or not Paradox is functioning that day.
Paradox was the last W32/DOS application I had to find either a suitable Free Software replacement for, or find some way to run under Linux in order to convert our office to Open Source solutions.
I'd sure like to see the source of this new worm. How is anyone to know for sure that it's only intentions are good until a full analysis has been done?
And if it is a "good virus" then why is it not open source? It should have nothing to hide, right?
I don't consider a buffer overflow that allows for execution of arbitrary code to be "mostly harmless".