The RIAA doesn't have a monopoly on online music the way it does with physical CDs, which it maintains by being the only group with access to the stores that sell them. This isn't price fixing, it is just pricing. They are allowed to raise the price they ask for their music and we are allowed to buy something else since they don't have a monopoly in online music.
The Gap also has normal colored denim jeans. I just bought some. Step in to the Gap before you tell people to get out of the Gap. IMHO the Gap is one of the few stores that consistantly stocks mostly stylish clothes. Shop for your jeans at Walmart and you might find yourself wearing "Grandma Jeans" although I guess they probably won't be stonewash bleached. If you haven't been to the Gap in a while, check it out and try a few things on. You might be surprised.
I don't normally shill for corporations but I thought little tip on dressing well may be more useful to the Slashdot crowd than a discertation on why Linux is better than Windows.
The method in which this trojan infects isn't new: Windows viruses often hide their true extension in the same way as this empty-payload Mac OS X trojan.
If I'm not mistaken this program had a.mp3 extension. In windows, it is not possible for a.mp3 file to execute as a program. Most people who know what's up view file extensions and nothing is more obvious than a.mp3.exe; although viewing the extension for known filetypes is disabled by default. In conclusion, Windows users uncheck hide extension for known filetypes and your machine will be more secure (at least in this aspect) than a Mac. w00t.
2 players on one calc. It took a little discipline to play because unlike in assembly (which I still haven't learned) in BASIC if you hit more than one key at a time either only one key or neither keystroke is recognized.
I'll admit that many anti-abortionist are Christian fundamentalists
It's funny that most (not all) "pro-life" Christians would argue that providing childcare to single mothers encourages immoral behavior and should be opposed. These people just don't seem to understand that if you want to build a culture that is open to life, it must first in fact be open to life. That means free childcare for everyone that needs it and it means not giving single mothers dirty looks on your way to church.
At UTDallas every freshman says they are studying Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. By sophomore year its more like this: I was a Computer Science major, but then I hate programming, only playing Counterstrike. Now I am a Business major. But wait I hate accounting. Now I am a (insert easy major) major.
It's easy to tell the real CS majors (When do we learn Perl?) from the wannabes (Why would I take UNIX if it's not required?).
At UTDallas every freshman says they are studying Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. By sophomore year its more like this: I was a Computer Science major, but then I hate programming, only playing Counterstrike. Now I am a Business major. But wait I hate accounting. Now I am a (insert easy major) major.
It's easy to tell the real CS majors (When do we learn Perl?) from the wannabes (Why would I take UNIX if it's not required?).
Wow... It's like competing in the software market means more than suing the monopoly.
Netscape didn't fail because of Internet Explorer. Netscape failed because it took (and still does take) too long to load as opposed to IE or Opera which load much faster. Real Networks will not fail because of Microsoft, they will fail because they are a sleazy company with a product which has advanced more in its capabilities to deliver ads than in its features and interface. Both of those companies spent too much time complaining, and not enough time improveing. If you don't like Microsoft's software you can just download something else and use it instead, thanks to the fact that Internet Explorer comes bundled with Windows. I actually tried to find a media player that was better for video than Windows Media Player but simply wasn't able to. For mp3s on the other hand Winamp kicks Media Player's (and the llama's) ass and so you can find it installed on many computers. IMO it is actually quite simple to beat Microsoft; just make a better product. Opera was founded after the "browser wars". In a time when every computer already came with a web browser built in they asked people to pay for one or put up with an advertisement in the corner. While they don't have a huge market share they are a successful company. To my knowledge Opera has never publicly complained about Microsoft's practices.
Downloading alternative players and installing them takes time and effort. This may not be much for an individual but for a company with 10,000 seats its time and money.
Couldn't they just email the employees a link to the file? I personally haven't found a better media player yet anyway. Until there is better competition there is no competition.
We are giving you product X with the purchase of product Y, and not only can you not remove product Y from your machine (as it is an integral part of the operating system), but we have taken special precautions to make sure that only product Y has access to features of product X that make it particularly useful;
In your first part of the sencence product X would be Media Player and product Y would be Windows, right? Substituting the variables in your second part it reads, "and not only can you not remove product Windows from your machine...". I'm going to assume you meant remove Media Player from a Windows machine. Anyway you may not be able to remove it but Microsft does not (but could) prevent you from changing the default program for media files. In fact one of the new patches puts an icon in your start menu to do just that, probably on account of past legal troubles. The icon may be new but anyone who knows what they are doing enough to take back control of their computer after some program sets itself as the default prog. for every extension it can has been able to do this forever. What I am getting at is that while you can't remove media player from windows you don't ever have to see it if you don't want to. Just install Real Player (express install) to see what I mean. I don't see the difference between uninstalling and never using as being a very big deal.
Most name brand computers do come bundled with alot of software. Every time I use my recovery CD on my Compaq laptop I have to spend at least an hour uninstalling tons of bundled non-microsoft software that quite simply sucks. Most of this is stuff like online services and real player. I have started to keep real player because so many sites use it and the newer versions are intrusive to the point of being unusable. I have heard (and believe) that Microsoft engages in these practices but I personally think their prevalence and impact have been vastly overblown.
Netscape didn't fail because of Internet Explorer. Netscape failed because it took (and still does take) 40 seconds to load as opposed to IE or Opera which load much faster. Real Networks will not fail because of Microsoft, they will fail because they are a sleazy company with a product which has advanced more in its capabilities to deliver ads than in its features and interface. Both of those companies spent too much time complaining, and not enough time improveing. If you don't like Microsoft's software you can just download something else and use it instead, thanks to the fact that Internet Explorer comes bundled with Windows. I actually tried to find a media player that was better for video than Windows Media Player but simply wasn't able to. For mp3s on the other hand Winamp kicks kicks Media Player's (and the llama's) ass and so you can find it installed on many computers. IMO it is actually quite simple to beat Microsoft; just make a better product. Opera was founded after the "browser wars". In a time when every computer already came with a web browser built in they asked people do pay for one or put up with an advertisement in the corner. While they don't have a huge market share they are a successful company. To my knowledge Opera has never publicly complained about Microsoft's practices.
In what way? How is ISS going to teach us something that over a hundred shuttle flights, dozens and dozens of capsule missions, Mir, and Skylab didn't?
Manned space flight is still in its infancy. I would liken it to where airplanes were when pressurized cockpits were first introduced. You might say, congratulations on being able to fly to 39000 ft. but what is the point of doing it 3000 times just for fun and research? Think about that the next time you cruise at 39000 ft. with 500 other passengers.
The unmanned exploration program results in more knowledge than joy riding in the shuttle does.
It's not the destination, It's the journey. The ability to consistantly and reliably take humans to and from space requires such technical prowess that only three nations have done it successfully so far. Is it any coincidence that these nations are also among the most technologically advanced on the planet? Hubble may provide more information for astronomy textbooks than than manned space flight but pictures of stars are far less usefull for mankind than the experienced gained from sending people to explore what has previously only been photographed.
Hubble is telling us which stars have planets we might want to visit - kinda useful for colonization eh?
We can't colonize far away planets if we can't land on Mars. We can't land on Mars if we don't develop our manned space exploration skills. The Shuttel and the ISS (which is not finished and requires more shttle launches before it is complete) do more to develop these skills than Hubble ever could.
Suggest a more credible theory that is consistent with the facts.
My theory is that Hubble simply isn't a high enough priority for NASA to justify the expense and risk of a Shuttle launch, especially when the ISS has modules waiting on the ground. Religous nutcases don't bother messing with NASA satellites to promote their agenda. The evidence that disproves creationism is abundent on earth and any insight gained from Hubble doesn't add that much to the case against them, after all there are other telescopes. Creationists concentrate their efforts on schools trying to breed ignorance in children so that they may become ignorant adults who believe that religon is science.
Cancelling the space station program would free up plenty of cash in the NASA budget. The science return on Hubble is vastly greater than any expected from the station and a manned trip to mars combined.
Yeah, maybe one day humans will be able to colonize pictures of stars.
You do know that the Christian right started complaining about Hubble as soon as it started to show images that might conflict with creationism? Its like the 9/11 thing, catastrophe happens, the immediate Bush response is 'how can we take advantage of this for our own political ends'. The economy goes into recession: 'how can we use this for tax cuts'. The Columbia disaster: 'how can we use this to kill Hubble'.
Not that I would put it past the Christian far right to try something like this, but where did you get this conspiracy theory from? It sounds like something out of science fiction comedy.
Yes, but WHY Glenn? If NASA was truly interested in studying the effects of space travel on the elderly, they would have picked someone with more space experience and better qualifications than Glenn. Matter-of-fact, they could have picked almost *any* astronaut retired or not and they would have been a better test subject.
Im sure that someone who once piloted a spacecraft by himselfis qualified to serve as passenger on another spacecraft. Mission Successful. First American in orbit. Total time weightless 4 hours 48min 27sec.
This is what all the fuss is about from wired.
The Grey Album, which mixes music from the Beatles' White Album with lyrics from rapper Jay-Z's Black Album, is being hailed as a classic. EMI thinks it's a classic, too -- a classic case of copyright violation.
This is a badass album. It is seriously one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard, truly greater than the sum of its parts.
Does anyone think it's really going to be that many years before hotels that currently provide broadband for $10/night give it away for free? The up front installation may be expensive, but once it's paid for itself the service is really cheap.
I recently worked at a pretty nice hotel ($70+/night) that actually charged $.50 per phone call from your room. Im sure this technology is only going to get cheaper and more available, but the only way free Wi-Fi in hotels will ever catch on is if people demand it. Don't count on hotels of all places to be willing to provide something for free if they can get away with charging you for it.
Yeah, and Unix, C, C++, Perl, ftp, Java, GNU, and just about everything else was developed in the USA. Your point?
Taking one example: C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup, who is Danish. You, sir, are an idiot... ...C++ was developed at Bell Laboratories in the United States.
I assume that mp3.com (if it still existed) or similar would be a far better place as in the file sharing networks there is such a massive load of stuff available that you have to search specific things which i seldom beleive will be nothing but specific titles of copyrighted albums, movies, games etc.
One technique which I used to get alot of music was to search for for songs that I liked and browse the libraries of users that had it. As a result I downloaded alot of music I had never heard of and which may not have even been copyrighted. This was a fairly common practice on Napster, and many people would even go so far as to send you a message thanking you for sharing a good library. This was of course before the RIAA made such libraries too dangerous to be practical (at least in countries run by corporations, not people). Nowadays I don't even use a screename on fileshareing services and I only share my most recently downloaded files in the hopes of being less conspicuous. Its a shame that p2p has devolved into a mess of mislabeled files, RIAA pollution, and corporate intimidation.
I will probably never buy a phone that has a camera built in, and quite frankly think that it is really just kind of a gimmicky thing that will probably be used for more bad purposes than good, but that may just be the cynic in me.
I can definately see the potential for abuse that a built-in camera on a cell phone could have but there are also lots of other cool uses that I think make it worthwhile in a cell phone. I have a SonyEricson t616 and it is the coolest gadget I have ever owned. The very first thing I did with my phone was take a picture of an LP cover(2001 a Space Odyssey Soundtrack) that I have hanging on my wall and set it as the phone's background. Since then I have taken more pictures of objects than people. The perception that having a camera on a phone implies at least the capability to spy on others bothers me though, and thats why it doesn't make sense that the phone didn't come with a lense cover to both protect the camera and make it clear that I am not takeing anyone's picture.
This seems as good a time as any to introduce my new screename. Im not worried about being sued because old-school Napster never cared about copyrights.
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The RIAA doesn't have a monopoly on online music the way it does with physical CDs, which it maintains by being the only group with access to the stores that sell them. This isn't price fixing, it is just pricing. They are allowed to raise the price they ask for their music and we are allowed to buy something else since they don't have a monopoly in online music.
The Gap also has normal colored denim jeans. I just bought some. Step in to the Gap before you tell people to get out of the Gap. IMHO the Gap is one of the few stores that consistantly stocks mostly stylish clothes. Shop for your jeans at Walmart and you might find yourself wearing "Grandma Jeans" although I guess they probably won't be stonewash bleached. If you haven't been to the Gap in a while, check it out and try a few things on. You might be surprised.
I don't normally shill for corporations but I thought little tip on dressing well may be more useful to the Slashdot crowd than a discertation on why Linux is better than Windows.
The method in which this trojan infects isn't new: Windows viruses often hide their true extension in the same way as this empty-payload Mac OS X trojan.
.mp3 extension. In windows, it is not possible for a .mp3 file to execute as a program. Most people who know what's up view file extensions and nothing is more obvious than a .mp3.exe; although viewing the extension for known filetypes is disabled by default. In conclusion, Windows users uncheck hide extension for known filetypes and your machine will be more secure (at least in this aspect) than a Mac. w00t.
If I'm not mistaken this program had a
2 players on one calc. It took a little discipline to play because unlike in assembly (which I still haven't learned) in BASIC if you hit more than one key at a time either only one key or neither keystroke is recognized.
I wrote a fully functional 2 player Pong game on a TI-89. I failed alot more than my math class in the process but it was totally worth it.
Computer Science rules!
I'll admit that many anti-abortionist are Christian fundamentalists
It's funny that most (not all) "pro-life" Christians would argue that providing childcare to single mothers encourages immoral behavior and should be opposed. These people just don't seem to understand that if you want to build a culture that is open to life, it must first in fact be open to life. That means free childcare for everyone that needs it and it means not giving single mothers dirty looks on your way to church.
At UTDallas every freshman says they are studying Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. By sophomore year its more like this:
I was a Computer Science major, but then I hate programming, only playing Counterstrike. Now I am a Business major. But wait I hate accounting. Now I am a (insert easy major) major.
It's easy to tell the real CS majors (When do we learn Perl?) from the wannabes (Why would I take UNIX if it's not required?).
At UTDallas every freshman says they are studying Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. By sophomore year its more like this:
I was a Computer Science major, but then I hate programming, only playing Counterstrike. Now I am a Business major. But wait I hate accounting. Now I am a (insert easy major) major.
It's easy to tell the real CS majors (When do we learn Perl?) from the wannabes (Why would I take UNIX if it's not required?).
Wow... It's like competing in the software market means more than suing the monopoly.
Netscape didn't fail because of Internet Explorer. Netscape failed because it took (and still does take) too long to load as opposed to IE or Opera which load much faster. Real Networks will not fail because of Microsoft, they will fail because they are a sleazy company with a product which has advanced more in its capabilities to deliver ads than in its features and interface. Both of those companies spent too much time complaining, and not enough time improveing. If you don't like Microsoft's software you can just download something else and use it instead, thanks to the fact that Internet Explorer comes bundled with Windows. I actually tried to find a media player that was better for video than Windows Media Player but simply wasn't able to. For mp3s on the other hand Winamp kicks Media Player's (and the llama's) ass and so you can find it installed on many computers. IMO it is actually quite simple to beat Microsoft; just make a better product. Opera was founded after the "browser wars". In a time when every computer already came with a web browser built in they asked people to pay for one or put up with an advertisement in the corner. While they don't have a huge market share they are a successful company. To my knowledge Opera has never publicly complained about Microsoft's practices.
Downloading alternative players and installing them takes time and effort. This may not be much for an individual but for a company with 10,000 seats its time and money.
Couldn't they just email the employees a link to the file? I personally haven't found a better media player yet anyway. Until there is better competition there is no competition.
We are giving you product X with the purchase of product Y, and not only can you not remove product Y from your machine (as it is an integral part of the operating system), but we have taken special precautions to make sure that only product Y has access to features of product X that make it particularly useful;
In your first part of the sencence product X would be Media Player and product Y would be Windows, right? Substituting the variables in your second part it reads, "and not only can you not remove product Windows from your machine...". I'm going to assume you meant remove Media Player from a Windows machine. Anyway you may not be able to remove it but Microsft does not (but could) prevent you from changing the default program for media files. In fact one of the new patches puts an icon in your start menu to do just that, probably on account of past legal troubles. The icon may be new but anyone who knows what they are doing enough to take back control of their computer after some program sets itself as the default prog. for every extension it can has been able to do this forever. What I am getting at is that while you can't remove media player from windows you don't ever have to see it if you don't want to. Just install Real Player (express install) to see what I mean. I don't see the difference between uninstalling and never using as being a very big deal.
Most name brand computers do come bundled with alot of software. Every time I use my recovery CD on my Compaq laptop I have to spend at least an hour uninstalling tons of bundled non-microsoft software that quite simply sucks. Most of this is stuff like online services and real player. I have started to keep real player because so many sites use it and the newer versions are intrusive to the point of being unusable. I have heard (and believe) that Microsoft engages in these practices but I personally think their prevalence and impact have been vastly overblown.
Netscape didn't fail because of Internet Explorer. Netscape failed because it took (and still does take) 40 seconds to load as opposed to IE or Opera which load much faster. Real Networks will not fail because of Microsoft, they will fail because they are a sleazy company with a product which has advanced more in its capabilities to deliver ads than in its features and interface. Both of those companies spent too much time complaining, and not enough time improveing. If you don't like Microsoft's software you can just download something else and use it instead, thanks to the fact that Internet Explorer comes bundled with Windows. I actually tried to find a media player that was better for video than Windows Media Player but simply wasn't able to. For mp3s on the other hand Winamp kicks kicks Media Player's (and the llama's) ass and so you can find it installed on many computers. IMO it is actually quite simple to beat Microsoft; just make a better product. Opera was founded after the "browser wars". In a time when every computer already came with a web browser built in they asked people do pay for one or put up with an advertisement in the corner. While they don't have a huge market share they are a successful company. To my knowledge Opera has never publicly complained about Microsoft's practices.
In what way? How is ISS going to teach us something that over a hundred shuttle flights, dozens and dozens of capsule missions, Mir, and Skylab didn't?
Manned space flight is still in its infancy. I would liken it to where airplanes were when pressurized cockpits were first introduced. You might say, congratulations on being able to fly to 39000 ft. but what is the point of doing it 3000 times just for fun and research? Think about that the next time you cruise at 39000 ft. with 500 other passengers.
The unmanned exploration program results in more knowledge than joy riding in the shuttle does.
It's not the destination, It's the journey. The ability to consistantly and reliably take humans to and from space requires such technical prowess that only three nations have done it successfully so far. Is it any coincidence that these nations are also among the most technologically advanced on the planet? Hubble may provide more information for astronomy textbooks than than manned space flight but pictures of stars are far less usefull for mankind than the experienced gained from sending people to explore what has previously only been photographed.
Hubble is telling us which stars have planets we might want to visit - kinda useful for colonization eh?
We can't colonize far away planets if we can't land on Mars. We can't land on Mars if we don't develop our manned space exploration skills. The Shuttel and the ISS (which is not finished and requires more shttle launches before it is complete) do more to develop these skills than Hubble ever could.
Suggest a more credible theory that is consistent with the facts.
My theory is that Hubble simply isn't a high enough priority for NASA to justify the expense and risk of a Shuttle launch, especially when the ISS has modules waiting on the ground. Religous nutcases don't bother messing with NASA satellites to promote their agenda. The evidence that disproves creationism is abundent on earth and any insight gained from Hubble doesn't add that much to the case against them, after all there are other telescopes. Creationists concentrate their efforts on schools trying to breed ignorance in children so that they may become ignorant adults who believe that religon is science.
Cancelling the space station program would free up plenty of cash in the NASA budget. The science return on Hubble is vastly greater than any expected from the station and a manned trip to mars combined.
Yeah, maybe one day humans will be able to colonize pictures of stars.
You do know that the Christian right started complaining about Hubble as soon as it started to show images that might conflict with creationism? Its like the 9/11 thing, catastrophe happens, the immediate Bush response is 'how can we take advantage of this for our own political ends'. The economy goes into recession: 'how can we use this for tax cuts'. The Columbia disaster: 'how can we use this to kill Hubble'.
Not that I would put it past the Christian far right to try something like this, but where did you get this conspiracy theory from? It sounds like something out of science fiction comedy.
Maybe he was talking about the ~80% of CS students who are male. Or maybe he was talking about these guys.
Yes, but WHY Glenn? If NASA was truly interested in studying the effects of space travel on the elderly, they would have picked someone with more space experience and better qualifications than Glenn. Matter-of-fact, they could have picked almost *any* astronaut retired or not and they would have been a better test subject.
Im sure that someone who once piloted a spacecraft by himselfis qualified to serve as passenger on another spacecraft.
Mission Successful. First American in orbit. Total time weightless 4 hours 48min 27sec.
DJ Danger Mouse Grey Album .torrent
This is what all the fuss is about from wired.
The Grey Album, which mixes music from the Beatles' White Album with lyrics from rapper Jay-Z's Black Album, is being hailed as a classic. EMI thinks it's a classic, too -- a classic case of copyright violation.
This is a badass album. It is seriously one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard, truly greater than the sum of its parts.
Does anyone think it's really going to be that many years before hotels that currently provide broadband for $10/night give it away for free? The up front installation may be expensive, but once it's paid for itself the service is really cheap.
I recently worked at a pretty nice hotel ($70+/night) that actually charged $.50 per phone call from your room. Im sure this technology is only going to get cheaper and more available, but the only way free Wi-Fi in hotels will ever catch on is if people demand it. Don't count on hotels of all places to be willing to provide something for free if they can get away with charging you for it.
Yeah, and Unix, C, C++, Perl, ftp, Java, GNU, and just about everything else was developed in the USA. Your point?
...C++ was developed at Bell Laboratories in the United States.
Taking one example: C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup, who is Danish. You, sir, are an idiot...
I assume that mp3.com (if it still existed) or similar would be a far better place as in the file sharing networks there is such a massive load of stuff available that you have to search specific things which i seldom beleive will be nothing but specific titles of copyrighted albums, movies, games etc.
One technique which I used to get alot of music was to search for for songs that I liked and browse the libraries of users that had it. As a result I downloaded alot of music I had never heard of and which may not have even been copyrighted. This was a fairly common practice on Napster, and many people would even go so far as to send you a message thanking you for sharing a good library. This was of course before the RIAA made such libraries too dangerous to be practical (at least in countries run by corporations, not people). Nowadays I don't even use a screename on fileshareing services and I only share my most recently downloaded files in the hopes of being less conspicuous. Its a shame that p2p has devolved into a mess of mislabeled files, RIAA pollution, and corporate intimidation.
I will probably never buy a phone that has a camera built in, and quite frankly think that it is really just kind of a gimmicky thing that will probably be used for more bad purposes than good, but that may just be the cynic in me.
I can definately see the potential for abuse that a built-in camera on a cell phone could have but there are also lots of other cool uses that I think make it worthwhile in a cell phone. I have a SonyEricson t616 and it is the coolest gadget I have ever owned. The very first thing I did with my phone was take a picture of an LP cover(2001 a Space Odyssey Soundtrack) that I have hanging on my wall and set it as the phone's background. Since then I have taken more pictures of objects than people. The perception that having a camera on a phone implies at least the capability to spy on others bothers me though, and thats why it doesn't make sense that the phone didn't come with a lense cover to both protect the camera and make it clear that I am not takeing anyone's picture.
This seems as good a time as any to introduce my new screename. Im not worried about being sued because old-school Napster never cared about copyrights.