And the US economy has been *hot* ever since Clinton and Lewinsky got it on. So? What's your point?
Obviously, my point is that napseter has led me to buy a lot more CDs. I'm not saying this is the case with everyone, but it has been the case with me.
Normally, I, like most people, would buy CDs that I heard on the radio or from friends' collections. Now I hear a lot of stuff that would never get played on the radio, and that none of my friends are interested in. So I buy the CDs.
I never would have heard Ween. My interest in Toots and the Maytals wouldn't have been rekindled and I wouldn't have bought his box set. I wouldn't have had such regular reminders of how much I actually *like* Primus, and I wouldn't have bought the 4 primus discs I've since bought.
MP3 isn't even FM quality if you ask me, but I've not checked the audio specs. And since FM was previously pretty much the only means the record companies had of getting the songs heard by "consumers," I'd have to say that this is a HUGE new marketing channel for them that they never could have started on their own.
This has been my experience. Do NOT flame me with arguments stating that this isn't always the case. I'm not stating that it is, so you'll be wasting your breath. Or fingers. Or something.
We even had students create network seach engines so we could seach the network for mp3s. The nicest part was, the servers (on linux) would even allow you to get the samba share through http so you could still easily search and download from you linux box.
Well, that's exactly how Scour came about. And they're next:]
I mean, just stopping buying CDs isn't going to do it, we need some kind of way to elt them know that we're consciously choosing not to buy CDs because of their lameness quotient.
As I've posted before, my music budget has more than tripled (according to quicken) since napster came out. So they're definitely shooting themselves on this one.
Kinda like sending in the warranty card when you buy a "linux supported" game with LINUX written all over it, we need some way to let them know when and why we're not buying the CDs.
My music budget, both for CDs and live shows, has more than tripled since napster and scour.
There are reasons for this that I don't normally see come up in the legal debates:
1. The napster community, and especially the scour community, is totally inbred with incomplete files. User1 gets 75% of a song, which remains in his shared folder. Users2, 3, 4, 5 etc. all get 75% of the 75% file, and so forth. Diminishing returns.
2. MP3 sound quality, for the most part, SUCKS. I mean, I listen to them all the time because of their convenience, but if I get an mp3 of a band that I really like, I buy the CD to hear the cymbals, to hear the bass, etc.
To test this, get ahold of a CD and an mp3 of anything produced by Daniel Lanois, Robert Fripp or any Peter Gabriel album and listen to the differences... It's astronomical, really.
Music is audio, and quality is what matters. If it wasn't for gnutella and Scour i wouldn't have bought half of the cds or gone to half of the shows i've been to in the last 2 years.
That's not to say that I don't think the industry has the right to protect their stuff, I'm just saying theiy're going about it the wrong way and for the wrong reasons.
However, every now and again they claim some sort of journalistic status (check the story on cnet buying zdnet), and that claim becomes more absurd with every passing day.
Yeah, but they've got jon katz... JON F-ING KATZ... so they're journalists.
i mean, he writes for rolling stone... ROLLING F-ING STONE... so he must be a journalist.
the hordes need to be fed... if they're not sated, they get cranky. this kind of crap apparently makes the readers happy...
it's not ATI that'll bear the brunt of this, assuming that it's true...
it's the end-users who will be stuck with an ATI Rage Pro.
one of the main reasons i haven't been a fan of the recent macs is their insistence on including sub-standard 3d cards from ATI. especially when apple's marketing always lists them as the most amazing, "ultra-realistic" 3d you can get...
Maybe the Caldera move will actually enable us to call it UNIX, in the same way that Solaris, AIX and HPUX are all UNIX.
Somehow, I think that if the Unix trademark does come into play, it will apply to Caldera's distro only.
I don't say this because of any predisposition of Caldera behavior, I say it only because when a company gets ahold of a trademark, they don't usually hand it out to whoever wants to use it.
He meant if the "fraud" images were real, the Cube's existence itself was never in doubt.
I've been in the habit of keeping a linux server on every network I work on just because I like to be able to pull up a gnome desktop wherever I want to...
The ability to drop one of these cubes in somewhere and have aqua everywhere... hmmmmmm.....
MAPS, as well as orbs.org are really doing quite a service for the entire internet community.
After upgrading Exchange to sp6a (yes, 6, and yes, a. Ah, the life of an NT admin...), the server suddenly started relaying mail for outside machines, despite all of the changes I'd made to it pre-sp6a.
If I hadn't gotten the email, I wouldn't have known. MS never would have mentioned it, I had to dig for a day through their "KnowledgeBase" to find out what the problem was.
It's sad to see that companies are trying to stop these services from listing them.
Here's a site that I check out pretty regularly on the Honda Insight hybrid. It's a "personal log" kind of thing, with loads of honest personal experiences from a bunch of people who've been living with the car for a while now.
I'd love one for commuting, but I probably couldn't even bring my briefcase with me for fear of carrying too much weight.
Even IBM's new monster machine couldn't sort through all of the spam that earthlink gets fast enough to not slow the service down.
Every single day it's "Find Out About Anyone Fast!" or "Find [Out] About (Anyone) Fast!"
You can't even add rules to outlook fast enough to keep up with it all. It'd be a full-time job.
Hmmm... There's already talk about CPO, Chief Privacy Officer, how about a CSO - Chief Spam Officer... Somebody who sets the spam rules for an entire corporation...
What's with the "Officer" anyway? We're not in the military...
It clears up your thought processes, and lets you finish more complex thoughts.
It's been proven that infants and children who listen to classical music can compelte longer, more complex thoughts. This obviously gives them advantages.
It would seem that this constant barrage of information that we're being flailed with (or flailing ourselves with) during all of our waking hours could very well have the opposite effect. I've got 9 desktops on my machine, and I monitor at least 20 other machines at work, plus 4 or 5 at home, plus constant bug reports, security issues, general news....
Welcome to Short Attention Span Theatre. It's no wonder so many people these days have the attention span of a ferret on a double espresso.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, Scour does require a login, so it must be using a central server somewhere.
And the US economy has been *hot* ever since Clinton and Lewinsky got it on. So? What's your point?
Obviously, my point is that napseter has led me to buy a lot more CDs. I'm not saying this is the case with everyone, but it has been the case with me.
Normally, I, like most people, would buy CDs that I heard on the radio or from friends' collections. Now I hear a lot of stuff that would never get played on the radio, and that none of my friends are interested in. So I buy the CDs.
I never would have heard Ween. My interest in Toots and the Maytals wouldn't have been rekindled and I wouldn't have bought his box set. I wouldn't have had such regular reminders of how much I actually *like* Primus, and I wouldn't have bought the 4 primus discs I've since bought.
MP3 isn't even FM quality if you ask me, but I've not checked the audio specs. And since FM was previously pretty much the only means the record companies had of getting the songs heard by "consumers," I'd have to say that this is a HUGE new marketing channel for them that they never could have started on their own.
This has been my experience. Do NOT flame me with arguments stating that this isn't always the case. I'm not stating that it is, so you'll be wasting your breath. Or fingers. Or something.
We even had students create network seach engines so we could seach the network for mp3s. The nicest part was, the servers (on linux) would even allow you to get the samba share through http so you could still easily search and download from you linux box.
:]
Well, that's exactly how Scour came about. And they're next
I mean, just stopping buying CDs isn't going to do it, we need some kind of way to elt them know that we're consciously choosing not to buy CDs because of their lameness quotient.
As I've posted before, my music budget has more than tripled (according to quicken) since napster came out. So they're definitely shooting themselves on this one.
Kinda like sending in the warranty card when you buy a "linux supported" game with LINUX written all over it, we need some way to let them know when and why we're not buying the CDs.
Any suggestions?
ummmm.... I'd be willing to bet that if not the majority, at least a large percentage of the people reading slashdot are doing it from Windows.
I personally run 12 linux boxes, but I've never viewed slashdot from any of them.
I did also link mersenne.org, which has LOADS of other distributed projects linked.
Have I mentioned that you can put down your guns?
Your weapons don't work against me.
Or, since there might be, oh, say, one or two math geeks out there...
Check out PiHex at http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pi hex/pihex.html
Calculate pi further and further and further and further...
And yes, they even have a "top producers" thing for you crunchers.
There's also http://www.mersenne.org/ with a list of distributed projects...
We're looking at paying our Oracle tax in a few months, and I'm not looking forward to it.
We're building a portal on EJB, and we need a rock-solid backend. Everyone of course trusts Oracle, but my GOD do you ever pay for it.
What've been people's experiences so far with this DB?
My music budget, both for CDs and live shows, has more than tripled since napster and scour.
There are reasons for this that I don't normally see come up in the legal debates:
1. The napster community, and especially the scour community, is totally inbred with incomplete files. User1 gets 75% of a song, which remains in his shared folder. Users2, 3, 4, 5 etc. all get 75% of the 75% file, and so forth. Diminishing returns.
2. MP3 sound quality, for the most part, SUCKS. I mean, I listen to them all the time because of their convenience, but if I get an mp3 of a band that I really like, I buy the CD to hear the cymbals, to hear the bass, etc.
To test this, get ahold of a CD and an mp3 of anything produced by Daniel Lanois, Robert Fripp or any Peter Gabriel album and listen to the differences... It's astronomical, really.
Music is audio, and quality is what matters. If it wasn't for gnutella and Scour i wouldn't have bought half of the cds or gone to half of the shows i've been to in the last 2 years.
That's not to say that I don't think the industry has the right to protect their stuff, I'm just saying theiy're going about it the wrong way and for the wrong reasons.
However, every now and again they claim some sort of journalistic status (check the story on cnet buying zdnet), and that claim becomes more absurd with every passing day.
Yeah, but they've got jon katz... JON F-ING KATZ... so they're journalists.
i mean, he writes for rolling stone... ROLLING F-ING STONE... so he must be a journalist.
the hordes need to be fed... if they're not sated, they get cranky. this kind of crap apparently makes the readers happy...
i didn't say "high-end users" i just said "end-users."
it's not ATI that'll bear the brunt of this, assuming that it's true...
it's the end-users who will be stuck with an ATI Rage Pro.
one of the main reasons i haven't been a fan of the recent macs is their insistence on including sub-standard 3d cards from ATI. especially when apple's marketing always lists them as the most amazing, "ultra-realistic" 3d you can get...
Maybe the Caldera move will actually enable us to call it UNIX, in the same way that Solaris, AIX and HPUX are all UNIX.
Somehow, I think that if the Unix trademark does come into play, it will apply to Caldera's distro only.
I don't say this because of any predisposition of Caldera behavior, I say it only because when a company gets ahold of a trademark, they don't usually hand it out to whoever wants to use it.
Parts of the brain long viewed as little more than the glue that holds neurons together might be more important than we think.
So does this all mean that we should sniff more glue?
He meant if the "fraud" images were real, the Cube's existence itself was never in doubt.
I've been in the habit of keeping a linux server on every network I work on just because I like to be able to pull up a gnome desktop wherever I want to...
The ability to drop one of these cubes in somewhere and have aqua everywhere... hmmmmmm.....
cancel panic, I'm a moron.
I see nothing in the article statin that it's RW, only R...
heh... ok, works for me.
at a maximum of, say, 12 posts per day, each one being a paragraph, or 4 lines at most, the "wasting our time" argument is a bit weak.
As far as I know, Slashdot does not exist in order to save a few people time by wasting a great many people's time.
It's your decision to read it. Wander off quietly if you've got a problem.
Jesus, people are bitchy today.
MAPS, as well as orbs.org are really doing quite a service for the entire internet community.
After upgrading Exchange to sp6a (yes, 6, and yes, a. Ah, the life of an NT admin...), the server suddenly started relaying mail for outside machines, despite all of the changes I'd made to it pre-sp6a.
If I hadn't gotten the email, I wouldn't have known. MS never would have mentioned it, I had to dig for a day through their "KnowledgeBase" to find out what the problem was.
It's sad to see that companies are trying to stop these services from listing them.
Here's a site that I check out pretty regularly on the Honda Insight hybrid. It's a "personal log" kind of thing, with loads of honest personal experiences from a bunch of people who've been living with the car for a while now.
I'd love one for commuting, but I probably couldn't even bring my briefcase with me for fear of carrying too much weight.
Even IBM's new monster machine couldn't sort through all of the spam that earthlink gets fast enough to not slow the service down.
Every single day it's "Find Out About Anyone Fast!" or "Find [Out] About (Anyone) Fast!"
You can't even add rules to outlook fast enough to keep up with it all. It'd be a full-time job.
Hmmm... There's already talk about CPO, Chief Privacy Officer, how about a CSO - Chief Spam Officer... Somebody who sets the spam rules for an entire corporation...
What's with the "Officer" anyway? We're not in the military...
of most of the media reviewers.
Wow, free RedHat.
I've built at least 15 redhat servers over the years, db, web, ftp, irc, hotline, firewalls, proxies... Never spent a penny on software.
What exactly would they be getting in return for fixed reviews again?
It clears up your thought processes, and lets you finish more complex thoughts.
It's been proven that infants and children who listen to classical music can compelte longer, more complex thoughts. This obviously gives them advantages.
It would seem that this constant barrage of information that we're being flailed with (or flailing ourselves with) during all of our waking hours could very well have the opposite effect. I've got 9 desktops on my machine, and I monitor at least 20 other machines at work, plus 4 or 5 at home, plus constant bug reports, security issues, general news....
Welcome to Short Attention Span Theatre. It's no wonder so many people these days have the attention span of a ferret on a double espresso.
My job I enjoy, and it is part of my life. NOT my whole life
Exactly. One of my "mantras" is "My job is not my life. My life is not my job."