So is plumbing. Anyone who charges for plumbing work is pure evil, and plain greedy. All plumbing should be done for free.
Your analogy sucks. What's going on here is more like if only one company could make pipes, and they keeped changing the thread size every three years so you need to replace your entire plumbing if you want to add a new sink.
OK, so, who's going to set up a free service that duplicates what DidTheyReadIt does. It uses almost no bandwidth (you're only loading a 1x1 pixel image off a webserver). I'd do it if I had any hosting capability whatsoever.
The entire point of a free service would be 1) to educate people as to why this is pointless and 2) to make it unprofitable and drive these people out of business.
Will political interests infiltrate EVERYTHING in life?
They will if Bush gets re-elected. That's why we need to elect Kerry, a man so boring he shouldn't even be allowed on the radio during rush hour due to the risk of putting drivers to sleep.
Just like people voted for Bush because they saw it as a way to "restore dignity to the White House", they'll have to vote for Kerry to "restore boredom to presidential politics"
The entire point was that due to the variable font sizes, there is a smaller number of words that can fit exactly in the given space. If it were fixed-width font, it could be any n-letter word.
Although, I would think that this method requires the blacking out to begin and end exactly at the edge of the blacked-out word. I think this is rarely the case. This was done within "three pixels" according to the article, and I have to believe there's more variance than that for the government stooge with a black Sharpie that's going over these things.
You know what would be useful? A picture of this thing where you can actually like.. see detail. I haven't been able to find a picture yet where you can actually make anything out.
Scoble complains to Mozilla about their code ---> Mozilla developers code out of the goodness of their hearts ---> complaining about such code not supporing your product is absurd because you are implying that volunteers should devote their time to your profitable gain, for free.
It wasn't a complaint, it was a suggestion, which developers generally welcome. However, it was a stupid suggestion, so it's going to be ignored.
Couldn't the same be said for people who didn't do it? A lot of people take guilty pleas who were innocent rather than running the risk of receiving a full sentence, especially if the plea is for $3000. It would cost more than $3000 just for a retainer to get a lawyer.
Well, I'm not suggesting RCA plugs for a real solution. There's no reason you need to use a connector that's larger, just more reliable. Perhaps something more like a DC power plug.
Whether or not their arguments have any legitimacy is irrelevant. They want the money.
I think there's a lot of prejudice in these cases, even for judges, assuming "these people don't want to pay their fair share", rather than investigating the possibility that he is paying his fair share, and everyone else is getting ripped off.
Either they're trying to prevent filesharing by making crap that nobody would ever bother to download...... or they're trying to defeat the RIAA by creating "music" that sounds just like the deliberately corrupted mp3's on KaZaA.
It doesn't matter how long it takes to make it, it still sounds like absolute shit.
I can spend four hours gluing sequins on a kazoo, it's not going to help.
Tree wave does something similar to this with a C64, atari 2600, compaq portable and a epson dot matrix printer.. but it actually sounds like.. music, sort of. It has like.. notes and stuff.
What's the deal with that anyway? I see RIAA-labeled bands selling CD's at shows. Is the money still divided up the same way as it is when buying from a retail store?
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I disliked it quite a bit. It was like a meat pancake taped to a corset.
I've seen better tits in National Geographic.
Apparently, since Lexis-Nexis likes the New York Times so much, they charge $100 per search, rather than the $7 they charge everyone else.
$563 is cheap?
So is plumbing. Anyone who charges for plumbing work is pure evil, and plain greedy. All plumbing should be done for free.
Your analogy sucks. What's going on here is more like if only one company could make pipes, and they keeped changing the thread size every three years so you need to replace your entire plumbing if you want to add a new sink.
Yeah, and anyone who wants to spam you can just run sed 's/+.*@//g'.
OK, so, who's going to set up a free service that duplicates what DidTheyReadIt does. It uses almost no bandwidth (you're only loading a 1x1 pixel image off a webserver). I'd do it if I had any hosting capability whatsoever.
The entire point of a free service would be 1) to educate people as to why this is pointless and 2) to make it unprofitable and drive these people out of business.
Will political interests infiltrate EVERYTHING in life?
They will if Bush gets re-elected. That's why we need to elect Kerry, a man so boring he shouldn't even be allowed on the radio during rush hour due to the risk of putting drivers to sleep.
Just like people voted for Bush because they saw it as a way to "restore dignity to the White House", they'll have to vote for Kerry to "restore boredom to presidential politics"
Bosch. He needs spark plugs for his gas-powered computer.
The entire point was that due to the variable font sizes, there is a smaller number of words that can fit exactly in the given space. If it were fixed-width font, it could be any n-letter word.
Although, I would think that this method requires the blacking out to begin and end exactly at the edge of the blacked-out word. I think this is rarely the case. This was done within "three pixels" according to the article, and I have to believe there's more variance than that for the government stooge with a black Sharpie that's going over these things.
You know what would be useful? A picture of this thing where you can actually like.. see detail. I haven't been able to find a picture yet where you can actually make anything out.
Scoble complains to Mozilla about their code ---> Mozilla developers code out of the goodness of their hearts ---> complaining about such code not supporing your product is absurd because you are implying that volunteers should devote their time to your profitable gain, for free.
It wasn't a complaint, it was a suggestion, which developers generally welcome. However, it was a stupid suggestion, so it's going to be ignored.
Generally, when this happens, the spam files have 50+ copies and the real files have 1 or 2.
Unless they manage to come up with a content delivery system that bypasses the need for ears and eyeballs, the analog path will always exist.
I'm assuming he's confusing it with the Washington Times, which is a right-wing paper, but also in which said article does not appear.
It ought to be required by law that any rights-restricted CD be labeled as such in the store, just as it would be for having "explicit lyrics."
DRM bothers me a lot more than some guy saying "Fuck" a few times. It certainly has made ME say it quite a bit.
Is the actual legal filing available anywhere? So anyone who sees their IP mentioned can burn their mp3's to DVD and move them offsite :)
Couldn't the same be said for people who didn't do it? A lot of people take guilty pleas who were innocent rather than running the risk of receiving a full sentence, especially if the plea is for $3000. It would cost more than $3000 just for a retainer to get a lawyer.
I've decided to skip the 4-blade generation. I'll wait until they make one with 5 blades.
Well, I'm not suggesting RCA plugs for a real solution. There's no reason you need to use a connector that's larger, just more reliable. Perhaps something more like a DC power plug.
Yeah. I have had this problem sooner or later with EVERYTHING that uses a 1/8" phono jack, without exception.
Personally, if at all possible, I like to desolder the 1/8" jack from any sort of electronic device and replace them with RCA.
There's absolutely no reason why we should still be using these inferior connectors.
Whether or not their arguments have any legitimacy is irrelevant. They want the money.
I think there's a lot of prejudice in these cases, even for judges, assuming "these people don't want to pay their fair share", rather than investigating the possibility that he is paying his fair share, and everyone else is getting ripped off.
I can't tell what's going on here.
... or they're trying to defeat the RIAA by creating "music" that sounds just like the deliberately corrupted mp3's on KaZaA.
Either they're trying to prevent filesharing by making crap that nobody would ever bother to download...
It doesn't matter how long it takes to make it, it still sounds like absolute shit.
I can spend four hours gluing sequins on a kazoo, it's not going to help.
Tree wave does something similar to this with a C64, atari 2600, compaq portable and a epson dot matrix printer.. but it actually sounds like.. music, sort of. It has like.. notes and stuff.
What's the deal with that anyway? I see RIAA-labeled bands selling CD's at shows. Is the money still divided up the same way as it is when buying from a retail store?
That picture of the square on inverted catenaries has been a standard demo animation in Mathematica since I took freshman physics in 1996.
In fact, before I even looked at the article, that had already popped into my head.