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I'm signed up as an artist (and have one crappy mp3 of my own creation up there) and recieved a longer more detailed automated mail
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CNET Networks, Inc announced today that it has acquired certain assets of MP3.com, Inc.
Please be advised that on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 at 12:00 PM PST the MP3.com website will no longer be accessible in its current form.
Following a transition period, CNET Networks, Inc. plans to introduce new and enhanced artist services. If you would like to receive email updates on these new services and notification when they are available, as well as an invitation to their special artists-only preview, please sign up here.
Your personal information, music, images, related content or other information will not be transferred to CNET Networks, Inc. or any other third party.
MP3.com's content administration tools will remain available until the site is redirected on December 2, 2003. Please note, however, that promptly following the removal of the MP3.com website, all content will be deleted from our servers and all previously submitted tapes, CD-ROMs and other media in our possession will be destroyed. We recommend that you make alternative content hosting arrangements as soon as practicable.
Please remember to update or remove all links and references to the URL www.mp3.com. Additionally if you would like a historical record of your page, we recommend that you capture screen shots of the page as well as your artist statistics pages since they will no longer be available once the site goes offline.
MP3.com stopped collecting monthly fees for Gold and Platinum Artist Service subscriptions as of November 3, 2003. For any monthly Gold or Platinum Artist Service subscription fees MP3.com received during the period beginning October 13, 2003 and ending November 2, 2003, MP3.com will be issuing a refund that will be prorated to reflect a termination of the subscription as of November 2, 2003. For any previously paid annual Gold and Platinum subscription fees MP3.com has received during 2003, MP3.com will be issuing a refund that will be prorated to reflect a termination of the subscription as of November 2, 2003. Any artists who subscribed to the Platinum or Gold Artist Service after November 2, 2003 will receive a full refund of any fees paid.
If you subscribe to any other MP3.com services, you will receive separate email messages with specific information about refunds and service availability.
Participants in the truSONIC Business Music Service program will be receiving an email update about the process for their continued participation in that program.
All content uploads will cease immediately. Approvals of previously uploaded content will continue through Friday, November 14, 2003.
CDs will be available for purchase through Monday, November 17, 2003 at 12:00 PM PST.
MP3.com will perform a final artist accounting and check distribution on or around December 1, 2003. Any artist account with a balance of at least $25.00 will qualify to receive a payment in the final artist accounting (reduced from the usual requirement of $50.00). Payment of CD royalties will be included in the final artist accounting. If you anticipate a payment, please verify and update your artist account and contact information no later than November 20, 2003. Click here for help updating your contact information.
Please be sure to check the Sophie message board and System Service Report (SSR) for further updates.
On behalf of all of us at MP3.com we thank you for your patronage and continued support. It has been a privilege to host one of the largest and most diverse collections of music in the world. MP3.com wishes to express its sincere thanks to each of you for making our website an important part of your musical journey. We wish you continued success.
Sincerely, MP3.com
P.S. Remember that in order to receive email updates on CNET's new artist services, you should sign up here today.
Or just do what they did with the TV series and make a badly-remade cheapo version of the music which isn't quite the same (probably to save having to pay music royalties)
Well, as it's a college project, I'd assume they'd have site licences for the software - and probably the hardware used and the table belong to the college too
So he just had to spend $50 on top of what was already available (or would you complain to someone who said they'd spent $50 modding their computer, because they'd actually spent more money on actually buying the computer in the first place?)
Yes, Mozilla always has been open source, and the ability to spoof the user agent *does* exist, but there's more to browser support than a site just refusing access.
(I.e. sites designed to work on IE will often use stuff that just won't work on other browsers, no matter what browser they pretend to be)
Recently? Already at the time Commodore went belly up Amiga was starting to show its age. Doom was the game to show that Amigas "superior" chipsets wasn't so superior.
No, Doom just showed that companies were beginning to not want their games to run on the Amiga, or be bothered to port them. It took less than a week from the Doom sourcecode being released for playable ports of Doom to be released on the Amiga. (Running on the native chipset - something that many had said was impossible) It took about a month for these to be nicely optimised and fast running
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at pop3.iicinternet.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
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It's a reference to old unix terminal systems which would display ^H (control+H) when you pressed backspace, instead of actually removing the character on screen.
Company wide coding standards are implemented where I work, and whilst many people see them as an affront (i.e. "I'm already a good programmer - why should someone else tell me how to program) it does mean that code from other people is usually pretty easy to understand.
Here are some of the key points in ours:
function headers: put a description of the function, and what its inputs/outputs are/do, the original author and the date of creation. Anyone who modifies this function in the future (beyond very basic changes) should add their name and the current date, plus a quick description of what they changed
variable naming: adopt a standardised and logical hungarian notation for the variables, and try to avoid abbreviating when the full word would do. "nCount" is far more descriptive than "cnt"
Other things, such as always including { and } in C, and putting them alone on their own line makes the code much easier to read (though longer, but I'd rather read long meaningful code to compact confusing code) and putting plenty of bracketing in equations
You need to download refupdate which will download the latest adaware datafiles for you. It's good practice to run this at least once a week to keep the datafiles up to date (and run adaware straight after, of course)
I'd imagine the worst hit will be those who pay per the megabyte for their bandwidth. I'm guessing that the altnet client will install itself to run in the background all the time even when KaZaA isn't open, meaning if someone leaves their PC on all the time, without KaZaA running, they may suddenly be faced with a big bandwidth bill thanks to altnet using all of their "free" bandwidth
From what I understand, the altnet stuff comes (will come?) piggybacked on the "b3d projector" advert program that the KaZaA installer automatically installs for you (without prompting if this is ok). You can see it briefly at the end of the installer when it pops up its own installation window in the top left of the screen for about half a second.
KaZaA lite doesn't install this (but it'll still be there if you haven't fully purged an old version of KaZaA from your system. Get adaware for that)
But I really doubt the artist sees more money from radio plays than they do from cd sales.
The whole argument here is that the artist gets little to no money from people listening to their downloaded tracks, which makes no difference to the little or no money they recieve from their tracks being played on the radio.
But having their music played means people want to buy their cds, which will make them money (no matter how little)
"Most people I know who listen to a lot of MP3s will download a lot of different songs. And if they like the song, they'll go out and buy the album. The record company doesn't want me to say this, but out of the millions of MP3 files that are out there, if someone chooses to download one of my songs or an album of mine, I'm very flattered."
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I'm signed up as an artist (and have one crappy mp3 of my own creation up there) and recieved a longer more detailed automated mail
--
CNET Networks, Inc announced today that it has acquired certain assets of MP3.com, Inc.
Please be advised that on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 at 12:00 PM PST the MP3.com website will no longer be accessible in its current form.
Following a transition period, CNET Networks, Inc. plans to introduce new and enhanced artist services. If you would like to receive email updates on these new services and notification when they are available, as well as an invitation to their special artists-only preview, please sign up here.
Your personal information, music, images, related content or other information will not be transferred to CNET Networks, Inc. or any other third party.
MP3.com's content administration tools will remain available until the site is redirected on December 2, 2003. Please note, however, that promptly following the removal of the MP3.com website, all content will be deleted from our servers and all previously submitted tapes, CD-ROMs and other media in our possession will be destroyed. We recommend that you make alternative content hosting arrangements as soon as practicable.
Please remember to update or remove all links and references to the URL www.mp3.com. Additionally if you would like a historical record of your page, we recommend that you capture screen shots of the page as well as your artist statistics pages since they will no longer be available once the site goes offline.
MP3.com stopped collecting monthly fees for Gold and Platinum Artist Service subscriptions as of November 3, 2003. For any monthly Gold or Platinum Artist Service subscription fees MP3.com received during the period beginning October 13, 2003 and ending November 2, 2003, MP3.com will be issuing a refund that will be prorated to reflect a termination of the subscription as of November 2, 2003. For any previously paid annual Gold and Platinum subscription fees MP3.com has received during 2003, MP3.com will be issuing a refund that will be prorated to reflect a termination of the subscription as of November 2, 2003. Any artists who subscribed to the Platinum or Gold Artist Service after November 2, 2003 will receive a full refund of any fees paid.
If you subscribe to any other MP3.com services, you will receive separate email messages with specific information about refunds and service availability.
Participants in the truSONIC Business Music Service program will be receiving an email update about the process for their continued participation in that program.
All content uploads will cease immediately. Approvals of previously uploaded content will continue through Friday, November 14, 2003.
CDs will be available for purchase through Monday, November 17, 2003 at 12:00 PM PST.
MP3.com will perform a final artist accounting and check distribution on or around December 1, 2003. Any artist account with a balance of at least $25.00 will qualify to receive a payment in the final artist accounting (reduced from the usual requirement of $50.00). Payment of CD royalties will be included in the final artist accounting. If you anticipate a payment, please verify and update your artist account and contact information no later than November 20, 2003. Click here for help updating your contact information.
Please be sure to check the Sophie message board and System Service Report (SSR) for further updates.
On behalf of all of us at MP3.com we thank you for your patronage and continued support. It has been a privilege to host one of the largest and most diverse collections of music in the world. MP3.com wishes to express its sincere thanks to each of you for making our website an important part of your musical journey. We wish you continued success.
Sincerely,
MP3.com
P.S. Remember that in order to receive email updates on CNET's new artist services, you should sign up here today.
Well, with disney money, I get the gut feeling that it'll be utterly sanitised and americanised
*sigh*
I looked him up on IMDb and I'm none the wiser.
I wonder if he'll be doing a Peter Jones impression, or if they'll just explain it away as an upgrade to the book's firmware, or something
Or just do what they did with the TV series and make a badly-remade cheapo version of the music which isn't quite the same (probably to save having to pay music royalties)
Sounds like an interesting experiment.
Probably the easiest way would be to setup a webcam on a cat flap (I'm sure I've seen this done somewhere else)
Well, in the UK, cellphones have a non-regional dialing code.
Normal regional codes start 01 or 02, whereas mobile numbers start with 07
Well, as it's a college project, I'd assume they'd have site licences for the software - and probably the hardware used and the table belong to the college too
So he just had to spend $50 on top of what was already available (or would you complain to someone who said they'd spent $50 modding their computer, because they'd actually spent more money on actually buying the computer in the first place?)
erm
Yes, Mozilla always has been open source, and the ability to spoof the user agent *does* exist, but there's more to browser support than a site just refusing access.
(I.e. sites designed to work on IE will often use stuff that just won't work on other browsers, no matter what browser they pretend to be)
Recently? Already at the time Commodore went belly up Amiga was starting to show its age. Doom was the game to show that Amigas "superior" chipsets wasn't so superior.
No, Doom just showed that companies were beginning to not want their games to run on the Amiga, or be bothered to port them. It took less than a week from the Doom sourcecode being released for playable ports of Doom to be released on the Amiga. (Running on the native chipset - something that many had said was impossible) It took about a month for these to be nicely optimised and fast running
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at pop3.iicinternet.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
:
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
...etc
"trustno1" was Mulder's password in the X-Files
It's a reference to old unix terminal systems which would display ^H (control+H) when you pressed backspace, instead of actually removing the character on screen.
e.g. Microsoft are Bast^H^H^H^HVery nice people
Company wide coding standards are implemented where I work, and whilst many people see them as an affront (i.e. "I'm already a good programmer - why should someone else tell me how to program) it does mean that code from other people is usually pretty easy to understand.
Here are some of the key points in ours:
function headers:
put a description of the function, and what its inputs/outputs are/do, the original author and the date of creation. Anyone who modifies this function in the future (beyond very basic changes) should add their name and the current date, plus a quick description of what they changed
variable naming:
adopt a standardised and logical hungarian notation for the variables, and try to avoid abbreviating when the full word would do. "nCount" is far more descriptive than "cnt"
Other things, such as always including { and } in C, and putting them alone on their own line makes the code much easier to read (though longer, but I'd rather read long meaningful code to compact confusing code) and putting plenty of bracketing in equations
I guess you've never heard of the decimal point
He got modded up as flamebait instead :-/
It's a symultaneous release, meaning we (in the UK) will get it 5 hours earlier than the US (though the Aussies will get it 9 hours earlier than us)
It'd be much easier to just double or triple glaze all of your windows (since its the air pocket that does the insulating)
You need to download refupdate which will download the latest adaware datafiles for you. It's good practice to run this at least once a week to keep the datafiles up to date (and run adaware straight after, of course)
I'd imagine the worst hit will be those who pay per the megabyte for their bandwidth. I'm guessing that the altnet client will install itself to run in the background all the time even when KaZaA isn't open, meaning if someone leaves their PC on all the time, without KaZaA running, they may suddenly be faced with a big bandwidth bill thanks to altnet using all of their "free" bandwidth
From what I understand, the altnet stuff comes (will come?) piggybacked on the "b3d projector" advert program that the KaZaA installer automatically installs for you (without prompting if this is ok). You can see it briefly at the end of the installer when it pops up its own installation window in the top left of the screen for about half a second.
KaZaA lite doesn't install this (but it'll still be there if you haven't fully purged an old version of KaZaA from your system. Get adaware for that)
And coming soon to DVD, according to bttfmovie.com
:-)
Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts and Windows and uncheck "Open unrequested windows" (and any others that take your fancy)
But I really doubt the artist sees more money from radio plays than they do from cd sales.
The whole argument here is that the artist gets little to no money from people listening to their downloaded tracks, which makes no difference to the little or no money they recieve from their tracks being played on the radio.
But having their music played means people want to buy their cds, which will make them money (no matter how little)
"Most people I know who listen to a lot of MP3s will download a lot of different songs. And if they like the song, they'll go out and buy the album. The record company doesn't want me to say this, but out of the millions of MP3 files that are out there, if someone chooses to download one of my songs or an album of mine, I'm very flattered."
-- Moby, Macaddict.com
Yes, but they get money (I hope) from the sales of CDs from the people who listened to their downloaded tracks and thought "I like this music".
In other words, the same way radio works.