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Why do you guys bother with the myths that you are obviously going to bust? For example, trying various ways to fool breathalyzers, or trying to fool radar detectors. Even if you did confirm one of these types of myths, for example finding a way to fool a breathalyzer, it's not like it would ever go to air anyway. I can't image a sitation where you'd be able to air a confirmed method of getting around any of these laws. So why bother?
Legal? Maybe, but most likely not. I don't care; i'll still buy the actual CD if it's a CD worth having. but here you get the music in the format you want, at the compression you want, and DRM free. No browser issues, either (as far as i can tell, i've only tried IE6 and FireFox). None of the risks of downloading what may or may not be what you want off the file-sharing services. And all for a penny a MB.
I've been using it for a couple of weeks, and have put about $20 into it. I don't know about the legalities of the whole service, but i'm willing to pay their price just so i don't have to deal with all the negatives of kazaa and similar services - corrupted & mislabelled files, slow downloading speed, uploading to other people, etc. The additional features of chosing your own encoding and bitrate are just icing on the cake.
That being said, the allofmp3 site sure *feels* legitimate, give or take the odd translation oddity from russian on the english site. It's a clean interface, well set up, and not full of ads or pop ups or whatnot. I did pay via paypal. Altho that's not my first choice, I do trust them with my credit card a little more than some random russian who-knows-what running the website.
The only thing that set of bells in my head was their "Wanted" program. Basically, if there's a CD out there they want but don't have, you get credit if you use their program to upload a high quality digital version of it to them. That can't be legal, unless they then go out and obtain their copyright after?
In a nutshell, if they have what I need, I'm now passing on the less-legal ways to download mp3s. So far, I've been impressed with these guys. I do wonder how long it will be before the RIAA trys to shut them down.
I telecommute part-time. My employer is about 4 hours away from where I currently reside. When I was first hired on, I moved out there, and got the job done. I but I quickly realized I didn't need to be there. I'm a software developer (the only developer) for a very small company, and i'd often be the only person in the office. I'm *much* happier being closer to my friends/family/loved ones, so i now split my time between the two cities, using my work laptop and my own broadband connection and cellphone to get the job done when i'm not in the office. I make enough to afford to live in both places, and I consider the extra cost the price of happiness. If i didn't want to do it, I wouldn't have to, I could be in the office full time if need be.
I realize this situation wouldn't work for most companies, but it does work for us, and i'm happy with it. However, I actually find it harder to be motivated at home. It's easier to be distracted with errands, laundry, and other daytime activities, or to just sleep in occasionally. I'm not usually home during the evenings, so it's very rare that i work excessive hours extending past the dinner hour.
In my current project, I've spent the last two months wishing I could remember more of my calculus courses. I never would've thought trying to determine the most effective way to feed farmed fish would be so complicated, and require so much math. I've gone through about half a dozen scratch plans trying to figure formulas and the like out.
On a personal note, I've worked on my own projects that I had to finally take to a former math prof. I simply couldn't figure out how to solve a particular problem. But in this case, I'm probably the exception, not the rule.
If you're just making buttons pretty, you don't need the math. But once you get into the guts of an engine,whether it be graphics or something more specialized (like feeding fish) there's going to be some math in there, somewhere.
(well, yeah, that too, but i really am talking spam here... =))
I have 4 email accounts I keep. One is strictly work related, and is provided by my employer. One is my personal account, provided by a third party (i.e. not my well known ISP). One is a hotmail account that i use for mailing lists. And the other is a yahoo account that is used solely for spam, online forms, etc. And you know what? The only account that gets any serious spam is the spam account. My hotmail account - it receives maybe 1 or 2 a spam messages day, scattered between hundreds of other mailing list emails. My personal account - 1 or 2 pieces a week, max. My work account gets none, altho my bosses's similar account gets flooded. I don't use external software to filter any of my accounts. However, I am very very anal about where my email addresses go, and I think my lack of spam is partly due to that, and partly luck. Who knows. I'm not complaining.
I'm one of those people who would be more pissed off at having to change my primary email address than my phone number. In a smilar vein, i *think* i'd rather give up my phone than email with broadband. Sad and pathetic I know, but it's the way the my world works.
I bought (what is now an older) 20 Gig MP3 recorder/jukebox made by Archos. I haven't RTFA, but going by past experiences with my recorder and what i've heard from others, i'm guessing the firmware will be junk. Thank god for open source and the good people at Rockbox. These guys have made my MP3 player useable, and continue to develop a darn fine product.
... to get a job. It's truely bizarre, but after being an unemployed software developer for almost a year in the Vancouver area, I ended up with a development position in a small town (less than 20,000 people) on Vancouver Island. Most people are jealous, but I actually prefer the city; i'm not cut out for small town life. But it pays the bills. I actually telecommute when I can from the city to the office in booneyland.
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Why do you guys bother with the myths that you are obviously going to bust? For example, trying various ways to fool breathalyzers, or trying to fool radar detectors. Even if you did confirm one of these types of myths, for example finding a way to fool a breathalyzer, it's not like it would ever go to air anyway. I can't image a sitation where you'd be able to air a confirmed method of getting around any of these laws. So why bother?
... and i'll pimp it again.
allofmp3.com
Legal? Maybe, but most likely not. I don't care; i'll still buy the actual CD if it's a CD worth having. but here you get the music in the format you want, at the compression you want, and DRM free. No browser issues, either (as far as i can tell, i've only tried IE6 and FireFox). None of the risks of downloading what may or may not be what you want off the file-sharing services. And all for a penny a MB.
I've been using it for a couple of weeks, and have put about $20 into it. I don't know about the legalities of the whole service, but i'm willing to pay their price just so i don't have to deal with all the negatives of kazaa and similar services - corrupted & mislabelled files, slow downloading speed, uploading to other people, etc. The additional features of chosing your own encoding and bitrate are just icing on the cake.
That being said, the allofmp3 site sure *feels* legitimate, give or take the odd translation oddity from russian on the english site. It's a clean interface, well set up, and not full of ads or pop ups or whatnot. I did pay via paypal. Altho that's not my first choice, I do trust them with my credit card a little more than some random russian who-knows-what running the website.
The only thing that set of bells in my head was their "Wanted" program. Basically, if there's a CD out there they want but don't have, you get credit if you use their program to upload a high quality digital version of it to them. That can't be legal, unless they then go out and obtain their copyright after?
In a nutshell, if they have what I need, I'm now passing on the less-legal ways to download mp3s. So far, I've been impressed with these guys. I do wonder how long it will be before the RIAA trys to shut them down.
I telecommute part-time. My employer is about 4 hours away from where I currently reside. When I was first hired on, I moved out there, and got the job done. I but I quickly realized I didn't need to be there. I'm a software developer (the only developer) for a very small company, and i'd often be the only person in the office. I'm *much* happier being closer to my friends/family/loved ones, so i now split my time between the two cities, using my work laptop and my own broadband connection and cellphone to get the job done when i'm not in the office. I make enough to afford to live in both places, and I consider the extra cost the price of happiness. If i didn't want to do it, I wouldn't have to, I could be in the office full time if need be.
I realize this situation wouldn't work for most companies, but it does work for us, and i'm happy with it. However, I actually find it harder to be motivated at home. It's easier to be distracted with errands, laundry, and other daytime activities, or to just sleep in occasionally. I'm not usually home during the evenings, so it's very rare that i work excessive hours extending past the dinner hour.
In my current project, I've spent the last two months wishing I could remember more of my calculus courses. I never would've thought trying to determine the most effective way to feed farmed fish would be so complicated, and require so much math. I've gone through about half a dozen scratch plans trying to figure formulas and the like out.
On a personal note, I've worked on my own projects that I had to finally take to a former math prof. I simply couldn't figure out how to solve a particular problem. But in this case, I'm probably the exception, not the rule.
If you're just making buttons pretty, you don't need the math. But once you get into the guts of an engine,whether it be graphics or something more specialized (like feeding fish) there's going to be some math in there, somewhere.
(well, yeah, that too, but i really am talking spam here... =))
I have 4 email accounts I keep. One is strictly work related, and is provided by my employer. One is my personal account, provided by a third party (i.e. not my well known ISP). One is a hotmail account that i use for mailing lists. And the other is a yahoo account that is used solely for spam, online forms, etc. And you know what? The only account that gets any serious spam is the spam account. My hotmail account - it receives maybe 1 or 2 a spam messages day, scattered between hundreds of other mailing list emails. My personal account - 1 or 2 pieces a week, max. My work account gets none, altho my bosses's similar account gets flooded. I don't use external software to filter any of my accounts. However, I am very very anal about where my email addresses go, and I think my lack of spam is partly due to that, and partly luck. Who knows. I'm not complaining.
I'm one of those people who would be more pissed off at having to change my primary email address than my phone number. In a smilar vein, i *think* i'd rather give up my phone than email with broadband. Sad and pathetic I know, but it's the way the my world works.
I bought (what is now an older) 20 Gig MP3 recorder/jukebox made by Archos. I haven't RTFA, but going by past experiences with my recorder and what i've heard from others, i'm guessing the firmware will be junk. Thank god for open source and the good people at Rockbox. These guys have made my MP3 player useable, and continue to develop a darn fine product.
... to get a job. It's truely bizarre, but after being an unemployed software developer for almost a year in the Vancouver area, I ended up with a development position in a small town (less than 20,000 people) on Vancouver Island. Most people are jealous, but I actually prefer the city; i'm not cut out for small town life. But it pays the bills. I actually telecommute when I can from the city to the office in booneyland.