No it's not. But I wonder if Napster advertises exact file sizes. If so, it would be pretty easy to determine if it's the real song, if the file size is within, say, ±1%. You could even download the first few K and have an alogrithm to determine if the data has an MP3 header (would have to handle ID3v2 also) and if it creates the same (once again within some small percentage) sonic "fingerprint." Someone would have to work fairly hard to make bogus files that would get around such a filter. I just don't think that would happen.
I'm all for Napster. I don't think I'm all for sharing someone else's copyrighted materials. Someone recently mentioned that these record companies are sharing our personal info without our consent, so I suppose I'm still on the fence with the major labels. I certainly don't think people should be putting stuff like Ani Difranco up there who is a true independent unless she says it's OK.
Myself, I write software for its own sake. From "The Tao of Programming:"
Thus spake the master programmer: A well-written program is its own heaven; A poorly written program is its own hell
Personally, I strive to be a better programmer so I can be a better programmer. I enjoy books like "The Pragmatic Programmer," "Programming Pearls," "Code Complete," and "The Essentials of User Interface Design." (and any of the gospels according to O'Reilly) I would recommend focusing on understanding and writing good software that solves a problem elegantly and well and not getting too bogged down in a particular technology. Instead of learning Java, for example, learn OO and see how you can apply it to Java. Don't memorize syntax and details. That's why The Buddha gave us bookshelves. Certainly, don't get bogged down in "This OS/tool/paradigm/language/editor is better than that one." Each of the ten thousand things is not the true way. The way is the true way.
Just remember to have fun and find the flow. That's what is the real reward, IMO: the flow.
These are some excellent points. At the same time, however, there is a vast difference between "Tom Dooley" and the like and the latest from, say Pizzicato 5 or Chemical Brothers. One could argue that the infrastructure that has grown up around the industry has fostered an explosion in the varieties of music being created and distributed. Without vinyl/tapes, would we have had The Beatles? Jimi Hendrix? The Sex Pistols? The Spice Girls? (Don't answer that last one!)
I don't know how that relates to music piracy. I don't use Napster because I think it's disrepectful to the artists I respect. I may not care about BMI/Sony/Warner/etc., but I know people like Ani DiFranco and Bruce Cockburn are out there bustin' ass just to make a living as relatively independent/obscure artists and I try to support them with my dollars when I have a few.
Your philosophy seems to be, "it's OK to pay for an artist's work if they don't sell out, otherwise you're being lazy by going to the store and buying a CD"
Or, to be even more succint: "It's OK to give money to any artist that would not accept it."
Kinda reminds me of Groucho Marx's "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member."
Sandline appears to be incorporated in the Bahamas. If a private military can incorporate in the Bahamas and not have various governments breathing down its neck, maybe a freedom-inspired ISP can, too. Then again, when have governments ever favored freedom over state-sponsored violence in the long run?
Why wouldn't/. prevent submissions where the referrer is anything but slashdot.org? That would take care of this goofy (and somewhat amusing) thing.
Also, those of us with etrade accounts have little to fear. In order to make a trade, one has to explicitly type a password into the form. No cookie, no cache, etc. Also, your trading password can (should be) different from your login password.
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I'm surprised that a 3-tier solution wasn't chosen. Maybe it was looked at and found to be too complex. Sometimes throwing hardware at a solution does work.
3-tier slashcode - now that would be interesting. Watch out CORBA - here comes/.
I assumed when they talked about working with and funding the MySQL team to add "rollback capabilities," they were looking at full ACID support. Maybe I'm on ACID, though.
You know, just yesterday, Clippy got up real close to my monitor, looked around serendipitously, and tapped on the glass. He mumbled something about "Snow Crash" and asked me to click on this vial of crack. I clicked, the monitor turned to static, but I looked away just as the phone rang...
I don't think AI is going to be able to handle that very well. If I you tell me you want to swallow my carrot, I might be quite aroused and HAL, the webified-porn-detector might not even notice.
Actually, that was the name of a program (probably one of several) that allowed one to sync one's Newton Messagepad to MS Outlook. As it was the only way to keep mine and my wife's Newton's address books synced, I used it (thankfully, I got a free copy of Outlook98 at Comdex a few years ago). Worked well, actually.
Now that I think about it, Outlook is still the central DB for out pilots. We never actually open it, though. Anyone got any ideas how to sync our two pilots via Linux instead?
My 20+GB of MP3s wouldn't have to be locked up in my house. Be free, little songs, be free!
I am moving into a new house and am planning to have any song available in any room at any time. I was thinking of a little touchscreen interface, but now I think I'm going voice-activated. Woohoo!
The "embedded screen in glasses" are built by MicroOptical and are currently unavailable to the general public. Development was funded by DARPA and they are still being developed. There are various clip on and other borg-like things, but you wouldn't want to wear them to Easter dinner.
The keyboard most wearable computing folks use is called the Twiddler. Don't know about power generation. You'd have to type a lot to generate enough for wireless IP PLUS hard drive PLUS "additional storage". I guess you did say a 9 volt battery. I'd be interested to see your power budget.
You should look at the StrongARM chip. Unless you want to run Windows, there's no need for x86 compatibility. Might as well go right for the lower-power ARM if you're running Linux.
I had newtons for years (since the MP100). Wrote all over the place. Never scratched it up much at all. I think I had one scratch over the life of 3 Newtons. I don't think silkscreen is necessarily better or worse. I suppose the palm is a bit better because you can put a write-right over just the graffiti area (which I do) and then the visibility remains unaffected.
Wearable voice-activated computing would be excellent. Dictating lyrics to my next song while riding my bike down the street. With an integrated cell phone you would just say "call looie" while riding your bike down the street. Why would I always want to look at my computer?
There are apparently several. I have used SLab and it's quite decent. Certainly full featured. I haven't used it enough to know if it's ready for primetime, but if it's not, it must indeed be close.
I'm running Junkbuster on a 486 w/ 20MB RAM. Junkbuster is currently using 1.3 MB. I suppose that's not chicken feed, but it shouldn't kill ya, either.
Whatever it is that you don't like about Junkbuster, you can turn off. I use it only for blocking cookies. Not being sufficiently anarchist nor socialist (in the strictest senses of those words), I still look at ads - we wouldn't have/. without ads. I also have it alter the referrer, but any or all of this could be turned off.
Slashdot Mirror
Or course, ironchef.com was not actually removed.
To paraphrase this article:
I heard of this dude once who did something and then their ISP was real mean and kicked them off! What an outrage!
C'mon! Where are the details? The ISPs name? The person's direct account of the event? This smells worse than the daily paper I usually avoid.
No it's not. But I wonder if Napster advertises exact file sizes. If so, it would be pretty easy to determine if it's the real song, if the file size is within, say, ±1%. You could even download the first few K and have an alogrithm to determine if the data has an MP3 header (would have to handle ID3v2 also) and if it creates the same (once again within some small percentage) sonic "fingerprint." Someone would have to work fairly hard to make bogus files that would get around such a filter. I just don't think that would happen.
I'm all for Napster. I don't think I'm all for sharing someone else's copyrighted materials. Someone recently mentioned that these record companies are sharing our personal info without our consent, so I suppose I'm still on the fence with the major labels. I certainly don't think people should be putting stuff like Ani Difranco up there who is a true independent unless she says it's OK.
Myself, I write software for its own sake. From "The Tao of Programming:"
Thus spake the master programmer:
A well-written program is its own heaven;
A poorly written program is its own hell
Personally, I strive to be a better programmer so I can be a better programmer. I enjoy books like "The Pragmatic Programmer," "Programming Pearls," "Code Complete," and "The Essentials of User Interface Design." (and any of the gospels according to O'Reilly) I would recommend focusing on understanding and writing good software that solves a problem elegantly and well and not getting too bogged down in a particular technology. Instead of learning Java, for example, learn OO and see how you can apply it to Java. Don't memorize syntax and details. That's why The Buddha gave us bookshelves. Certainly, don't get bogged down in "This OS/tool/paradigm/language/editor is better than that one." Each of the ten thousand things is not the true way. The way is the true way.
Just remember to have fun and find the flow. That's what is the real reward, IMO: the flow.
These are some excellent points. At the same time, however, there is a vast difference between "Tom Dooley" and the like and the latest from, say Pizzicato 5 or Chemical Brothers. One could argue that the infrastructure that has grown up around the industry has fostered an explosion in the varieties of music being created and distributed. Without vinyl/tapes, would we have had The Beatles? Jimi Hendrix? The Sex Pistols? The Spice Girls? (Don't answer that last one!)
I don't know how that relates to music piracy. I don't use Napster because I think it's disrepectful to the artists I respect. I may not care about BMI/Sony/Warner/etc., but I know people like Ani DiFranco and Bruce Cockburn are out there bustin' ass just to make a living as relatively independent/obscure artists and I try to support them with my dollars when I have a few.
Or, to be even more succint: "It's OK to give money to any artist that would not accept it."
Kinda reminds me of Groucho Marx's "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member."
Sandline appears to be incorporated in the Bahamas. If a private military can incorporate in the Bahamas and not have various governments breathing down its neck, maybe a freedom-inspired ISP can, too. Then again, when have governments ever favored freedom over state-sponsored violence in the long run?
Why wouldn't /. prevent submissions where the referrer is anything but slashdot.org? That would take care of this goofy (and somewhat amusing) thing.
Also, those of us with etrade accounts have little to fear. In order to make a trade, one has to explicitly type a password into the form. No cookie, no cache, etc. Also, your trading password can (should be) different from your login password.
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I'm surprised that a 3-tier solution wasn't chosen. Maybe it was looked at and found to be too complex. Sometimes throwing hardware at a solution does work.
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3-tier slashcode - now that would be interesting. Watch out CORBA - here comes
Guess you'd need a bit of OO Perl for that
I assumed when they talked about working with and funding the MySQL team to add "rollback capabilities," they were looking at full ACID support. Maybe I'm on ACID, though.
You know, just yesterday, Clippy got up real close to my monitor, looked around serendipitously, and tapped on the glass. He mumbled something about "Snow Crash" and asked me to click on this vial of crack. I clicked, the monitor turned to static, but I looked away just as the phone rang...
I don't think AI is going to be able to handle that very well. If I you tell me you want to swallow my carrot, I might be quite aroused and HAL, the webified-porn-detector might not even notice.
Actually, that was the name of a program (probably one of several) that allowed one to sync one's Newton Messagepad to MS Outlook. As it was the only way to keep mine and my wife's Newton's address books synced, I used it (thankfully, I got a free copy of Outlook98 at Comdex a few years ago). Worked well, actually.
Now that I think about it, Outlook is still the central DB for out pilots. We never actually open it, though. Anyone got any ideas how to sync our two pilots via Linux instead?
Guess I'm getting a bit OT here.
Indeed, this virus intends to "weap what it has sewn."
Any chance you'd want to post those PHP scripts, etc? C'mon, now - share and share alike... (see Stallman interview below for inspiration ;-)
Indeed, I chuckled reading about MP3 complession.
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Seriously, this would be the shit
My 20+GB of MP3s wouldn't have to be locked up in my house. Be free, little songs, be free!
I am moving into a new house and am planning to have any song available in any room at any time. I was thinking of a little touchscreen interface, but now I think I'm going voice-activated. Woohoo!
The "embedded screen in glasses" are built by MicroOptical and are currently unavailable to the general public. Development was funded by DARPA and they are still being developed. There are various clip on and other borg-like things, but you wouldn't want to wear them to Easter dinner.
The keyboard most wearable computing folks use is called the Twiddler. Don't know about power generation. You'd have to type a lot to generate enough for wireless IP PLUS hard drive PLUS "additional storage". I guess you did say a 9 volt battery. I'd be interested to see your power budget.
You should look at the StrongARM chip. Unless you want to run Windows, there's no need for x86 compatibility. Might as well go right for the lower-power ARM if you're running Linux.
Anyway, I think if this were possible, the folks at MIT's Wearable Computing Group would have done it already.
Don't let me discourage you, however. Good luck and let us know when you have something. I'll shell out the $, that's for sure.
I had newtons for years (since the MP100). Wrote all over the place. Never scratched it up much at all. I think I had one scratch over the life of 3 Newtons. I don't think silkscreen is necessarily better or worse. I suppose the palm is a bit better because you can put a write-right over just the graffiti area (which I do) and then the visibility remains unaffected.
Wearable voice-activated computing would be excellent. Dictating lyrics to my next song while riding my bike down the street. With an integrated cell phone you would just say "call looie" while riding your bike down the street. Why would I always want to look at my computer?
There are apparently several. I have used SLab and it's quite decent. Certainly full featured. I haven't used it enough to know if it's ready for primetime, but if it's not, it must indeed be close.
I'm running Junkbuster on a 486 w/ 20MB RAM. Junkbuster is currently using 1.3 MB. I suppose that's not chicken feed, but it shouldn't kill ya, either.
Whatever it is that you don't like about Junkbuster, you can turn off. I use it only for blocking cookies. Not being sufficiently anarchist nor socialist (in the strictest senses of those words), I still look at ads - we wouldn't have /. without ads. I also have it alter the referrer, but any or all of this could be turned off.