Just as it does the auto industry. Only the largest corporations can afford to absorb risks and mitigate them.
Yep. People bitch about large corporations running over the little guy. Well, laws like this proposed one are the reason. The smaller companies can't afford the teams of lawyers they need to help them navigate the legal minefields.
It's not possible to legislate quality anyway. Talk about your counterproductive laws.
Yep. I ran a newspaper site with open forums, and it devolved into a cesspool of libelous acrimony. It became a lawsuit waiting to happen. I don't think any lawsuit against the paper would have succeeded, but the forums were really pissing off a lot of people - parents, and some members of the community who had been maligned in them. So, considering not only the legal risks but the fact that the forums were no longer contributing anything positive to the paper or community, we shut 'em down.
and it will never go flat a long as your arms work!
Hehe. Sadly, that's the story of my life.
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I'm running KDE 2.2 on a P4-1.5GHz w/256M RAM, and it's slow as a frigging lazy dog. I'm really looking forward to upgrading, but I can't afford to hose my only desktop machine, nor can I afford to lose the use of Quanta. So, I will wait until I upgrade my distro.
I'll leave you with this thought: Consider the plight of the non-believer, surrounded 24/7 by people who actually believe this stuff; surrounded by a population of which 65% honestly believe there are angels flying around them throughout the day. It's literally like being trapped inside of a mad-house for your entire life.
I don't think I've ever heard it put quite that well.
It drives me absolutely nuts too. It would not bother me so much if it wasn't in my face everywhere I go, all day long.
This is really of relevance to me. The other day I had a client call to let me know her trial version of PGP for MacOS had expired. So, I went to register it, and found out that was no longer possible. Now we need to find a replacement which will work with Eudora under MacOS 8/9, and will not expire. Any suggestions? (No, we are not replacing her desktop machine with Linux)
Cool. If I'm not mistaken, my friend from Schloss Tegal did the soundtrack for some of the levels. You can check out some of his music here. He makes some dark, creepy stuff - perfect for Unreal.
I deployed the previous version of the Bynari product (which is based on the Exim mailer), ran into many problems, and ended up switching back to Sendmail. Oh well. I haven't tried the latest version - maybe it's better.
I haven't used Cofax but I've studied it to an extent. We considered deploying it at one point, but opted instead to roll our own (linked in sig). While I of course can't resist plugging ours, I realize that not every one is looking for something written in PHP. So, you might find the list of other news site CMS's on this page useful.
Internet radio is nice to have in places where a stereo system would be overkill. It allows you to *gasp* multi-task!
Hell, Internet radio is the centerpiece of my stereo setup. I have a pretty decent sound card feeding my receiver. Occasionally I listen to a CD or record, but for the most part I stay tuned in to net radio stations. For example, I'm listening to Groovetech right now. Wish the sound quality was as good as CD though...
Yeah, I'm fairly serious. I've seen free music distribution work - once in the Grateful Dead scene, and again, albeit a little differently, in the techno music scene.
I meant all that in light of globalization and the rise of the Internet, both of which are in their early stages. Hell, recorded music has only been around for less than a century.
Keep in mind, though, that large sections of the world do not have a copyright system for music like ours, or do not enforce it at all. From what I understand, many parts of China and Eastern Europe have open bazaars where music is sold in open markets on burned CD's. I would not be surprised if those areas become known as hotbeds of artistic activity, and give birth to innovative new economic models for music distribution.
Despite pressure from the U.S. gov't, I don't see China or the Russian Federation going to great lengths to enforce U.S. copyright laws for the benefit of the RIAA.
So, we can wallow in our own litigious culture of red tape in the U.S., but in the meantime other countries across the globe are conducting an economic experiment which may make us look stupid, and force us to rethink our approach.
Um, all the stations in my area (near two major metro markets) play commercial crap music. It's all really, really bad. I listen to experimental hip-hop, IDM and drum & bass all day on the Internet while I work. There's nothing like that on my FM dial. Radio sucks. My $2.25 radio is worthless to me. You want it?
From the interview: Well, now, when the fees suddenly go up to $350,000 a year or more, then it means basically that there's no way that a lot of stations can continue broadcasting. Their alternative is to move to start playing music purely by just unsigned artists.
That's one option. Another option is to stream only music released under the Open Audio License, or a similar license.
The economics of Internet music distribution make the royalty business model weaker. I expect many artists will begin distributing their music for free, and making their living from live shows, special events, collectibles, etc.
Of course, I could be wrong. I've been wrong before.
Naturally, though, since the DoJ has dropped the ball on Microsoft, this sort of thing will only get worse. Get used to it, and vote Democratic in 2004.
Not to point out obvious stuff, but if producers of Windows compatible motherboards consistently take longer to deliver product and charge more to cover their R&D and production expenses because of incompatibilities like these, it means that Linux-only mobos are gonna come to market faster and cheaper. In other words, it adds one more reason that it's cheaper and more efficient to run Linux instead of 'doze. That's just gonna hurt MS in the long run. DOJ action is entirely unnecessary.
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Just as it does the auto industry. Only the largest corporations can afford to absorb risks and mitigate them.
Yep. People bitch about large corporations running over the little guy. Well, laws like this proposed one are the reason. The smaller companies can't afford the teams of lawyers they need to help them navigate the legal minefields.
It's not possible to legislate quality anyway. Talk about your counterproductive laws.
Yep, supposedly there's more vinyl being sold
now than at any point in history. Long live vinyl.
Well, I guess I may be a little bitter. ;-)
;-)
You, bitter? Who woulda thunk it?
Yep. I ran a newspaper site with open forums, and it devolved into a cesspool of libelous acrimony. It became a lawsuit waiting to happen. I don't think any lawsuit against the paper would have succeeded, but the forums were really pissing off a lot of people - parents, and some members of the community who had been maligned in them.
So, considering not only the legal risks but the fact that the forums were no longer contributing anything positive to the paper or community, we shut 'em down.
and it will never go flat a long as your arms work!
Hehe. Sadly, that's the story of my life.
I'm running KDE 2.2 on a P4-1.5GHz w/256M RAM, and it's slow as a frigging lazy dog. I'm really looking forward to upgrading, but I can't afford to hose my only desktop machine, nor can I afford to lose the use of Quanta. So, I will wait until I upgrade my distro.
Write a quick custom app using Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP
Easy as cake.
I'll leave you with this thought: Consider the plight of the non-believer, surrounded 24/7 by people who actually believe this stuff; surrounded by a population of which 65% honestly believe there are angels flying around them throughout the day. It's literally like being trapped inside of a mad-house for your entire life.
I don't think I've ever heard it put quite that well.
It drives me absolutely nuts too. It would not bother me so much if it wasn't in my face everywhere I go, all day long.
This is really of relevance to me. The other day I had a client call to let me know her trial version of PGP for MacOS had expired. So, I went to register it, and found out that was no longer possible. Now we need to find a replacement which will work with Eudora under MacOS 8/9, and will not expire. Any suggestions? (No, we are not replacing her desktop machine with Linux)
Cool. If I'm not mistaken, my friend from Schloss Tegal did the soundtrack for some of the levels. You can check out some of his music here. He makes some dark, creepy stuff - perfect for Unreal.
I deployed the previous version of the Bynari product (which is based on the Exim mailer), ran into many problems, and ended up switching back to Sendmail. Oh well. I haven't tried the latest version - maybe it's better.
did that headline remind anyone else of Netscape 3.0 GOLD?
No. It did not.
:)
I haven't used Cofax but I've studied it to an extent. We considered deploying it at one point, but opted instead to roll our own (linked in sig). While I of course can't resist plugging ours, I realize that not every one is looking for something written in PHP. So, you might find the list of other news site CMS's on this page useful.
For newspaper / magazine / journal / news sites, consider PROPS. PHP/MySQL/GPL.
Internet radio is nice to have in places where a stereo system would be overkill. It allows you to *gasp* multi-task!
Hell, Internet radio is the centerpiece of my stereo setup. I have a pretty decent sound card feeding my receiver. Occasionally I listen to a CD or record, but for the most part I stay tuned in to net radio stations. For example, I'm listening to Groovetech right now. Wish the sound quality was as good as CD though...
Yeah, I'm fairly serious. I've seen free music distribution work - once in the Grateful Dead scene, and again, albeit a little differently, in the techno music scene.
I meant all that in light of globalization and the rise of the Internet, both of which are in their early stages. Hell, recorded music has only been around for less than a century.
You're right, of course.
Keep in mind, though, that large sections of the world do not have a copyright system for music like ours, or do not enforce it at all. From what I understand, many parts of China and Eastern Europe have open bazaars where music is sold in open markets on burned CD's. I would not be surprised if those areas become known as hotbeds of artistic activity, and give birth to innovative new economic models for music distribution.
Despite pressure from the U.S. gov't, I don't see China or the Russian Federation going to great lengths to enforce U.S. copyright laws for the benefit of the RIAA.
So, we can wallow in our own litigious culture of red tape in the U.S., but in the meantime other countries across the globe are conducting an economic experiment which may make us look stupid, and force us to rethink our approach.
Um, all the stations in my area (near two major metro markets) play commercial crap music. It's all really, really bad. I listen to experimental hip-hop, IDM and drum & bass all day on the Internet while I work. There's nothing like that on my FM dial. Radio sucks. My $2.25 radio is worthless to me. You want it?
From the interview: Well, now, when the fees suddenly go up to $350,000 a year or more, then it means basically that there's no way that a lot of stations can continue broadcasting. Their alternative is to move to start playing music purely by just unsigned artists.
That's one option. Another option is to stream only music released under the Open Audio License, or a similar license.
The economics of Internet music distribution make the royalty business model weaker. I expect many artists will begin distributing their music for free, and making their living from live shows, special events, collectibles, etc.
Of course, I could be wrong. I've been wrong before.
You will experience Deja Vu.
You will experience Deja Vu.
Hope it works, because Mandrake is our last, best hope to break the MS stranglehold on the desktop...
Dunno about that... I'm anxious to see what the initial release of Xandros is like.
on various smaller networks, i've had the following naming schemes:
inky, blinky, pinky and clyde
mufasa, simba, puumba, timon, and rafiki
pooh and eeyore
bitchass and stankass
Naturally, though, since the DoJ has dropped the ball on Microsoft, this sort of thing will only get worse. Get used to it, and vote Democratic in 2004.
Not to point out obvious stuff, but if producers of Windows compatible motherboards consistently take longer to deliver product and charge more to cover their R&D and production expenses because of incompatibilities like these, it means that Linux-only mobos are gonna come to market faster and cheaper. In other words, it adds one more reason that it's cheaper and more efficient to run Linux instead of 'doze. That's just gonna hurt MS in the long run. DOJ action is entirely unnecessary.