God, it's good to live in a state with the 3rd lowest cost of living. My house is in a highly desirable part of a highly desirable city (on a cul-de-sac to boot) and has your pick of cable or DSL and cost less than $80,000 . .. ---
so turn it off... I don't like it much, but I think it is a good idea for computer novices and removes one of the troubling interface aspects of programs in later versions like office "feature creep" (or bloat) making a good interface WAY too complicated and intimidating. ---
Porn freaks -- they drive just about every other technological invention down in price (think CD-ROMs, VCR's, etc., God bless their pervert brains and sweaty palms! P.S. -- I think gaming could be pretty cool on this, too. ---
... and of course, a big reason why Office dominates it's sector and AOL is the world's largest internet provider. It's tough to go wrong playing to the stupidest, lowest common denominator. ---
I've been fairly impressed with the Jump Start series of educational software for my son (now almost 6). He's had a couple of them. The latest is jump start phonics, which features a limited version of IBM's via voice speech recognition. My son plays it, 'cause the novelty of saying your answers appeals to him. Note to Mac users: Had to install this on on my pc rather than my son's mac because the Mac version doesn't have the speech.
It actually works pretty well and has done a good job of getting progressively harder as he improves. I can tell, too, that it does little things like keep drilling him on letter combinations/sounds he has trouble with. Also, when it's doing this and he gets several wrong in a row, it'll drop back to easier stuff (or ones that he knows) so he doesn't get too frustrated at getting like five in a row wrong. ---
I agree. By/. using the columbine posts without the posters permission, I think they set themselves up. They seem to be saying in one case, "it's our content, we'll do with it what we want" and then saying "whoa, mr. lawyer, we're just a carrier, all comments are owned by the poster!" ---
Bullcrap! You have to teach people to use 3 different word processors! You have to support them when they go south... As for different versions of word, they all basically work the same way, but even so, no corporate IS dept. worth there salt would allow even that.... this is why office 2k sales have been slow. ---
I just started this policy, but I plan on sending Natalie Merchant $5 and the note. I'm just gona put cash in it in a security envelope and hop it gets there. Obviously, this isn't a long term-solution.
I'd like to see a site that would take money and forward it to the artist. I got an email from someone who said they had registered paytheartists.com and haven't heard from them again. The problem is: How do you do this anonymously? ---
It's obvious you just "don't get it" why people are upset you are suing napster. You see, napster is just a program. It's not centralized. It cannot, once users download the program, control what people do.
When someone in the chat asked if you had ever used Napster you said "I've never been to one of those sites." It's not a web site. It's a program a user runs on their computer. They can share whatever files they want.
Would you sue to shut down the phone company if people were calling each other up and playing metallica songs for each other over the phone, taping the result at the other end and getting free Metallica songs? Deprive everyone of a phone... That's the equivalent of what you are doing now by trying to shut Napster down.
I happen to know people who use Napster to trade music that is NOT copyrighted or to preview music before buying the CD or deleting the tracks. (Not me, I have a new policy: I pirate the CD's and then send the artist $5, far more than they get per CD from their label. and BTW, I don't use Napster. There are about 5 other methods to get any MP3 you want that have nothing to do with Napster, or web sites, for that matter).
Good to see some response on this. I'm 100% serious. I've bought my last albumn in the "traditional" way.
Points raised: 1: The "how do you discover new music" thing. Well, I thought about this last night. Granted, the labels do promote the music. But you still hear new tunes on the radio. Particulary with 'net broadcasts, you can get some innovative radio, even if (like me) you live in a pathetic radio market. Realistically, if some folks start doing this, it's at best a "statement" thing designed to change.
2: Agreed, cash through the mail is a bad idea. I wonder if you could get a money order made out to the band. As noted, checks aren't anonymous.
3: a paytheartists.org web site was mentioned. I'd be happy to help out. Email me. ---
Why should I bother trying to buy music if something as legitimate as my.mp3.com is getting sued. F*ck 'em. The record companies get most of the money anyways. Any new albums I wish to buy, I'm gonna go straight to IRC/Napster/Hotline/USENET whatever and download the whole thing, burn it, stick a US$5 bill in an unmarked envelope and mail it straight to the band with a note that says:
"I pirated your new album and really liked it. Here's five bucks. This is way more of a cut than you would have gotten from the record company. See how this could work? Now go tell your label they're moronic dinasaurs and your're sick of them picking at your and your fans' carcasses!"
well, I agree with you, that's not very neat OR mantainable. I didn't even know you could do it in VB. I've seen it in access. One of the things with Vb is it is such a HUGE language. It has tons of commands that are holdovers/whatever that you never use. I guess it is fairly impressive that you can almost always open a Vb 4 or 5 app in 6 and recompile and you're fine, but I wish they'd sacrifice a LITTLE backward compatiblity and get rid of some crud. ---
This blew me away when I first saw it: in Perl you can have a function such as selectSQL() that you can pass an optional number of values to it and it reads them in as an array! from MSDN ParamArray Optional. Used only as the last argument in arglist to indicate that the final argument is an Optional array of Variant elements. The ParamArray keyword allows you to provide an arbitrary number of arguments. It may not be used with ByVal, ByRef, or Optional. ---
Good point. You can even turn off those "safety" features in the VB compiler if speed is premium (remove array bounds checks, remove FP checks, ect.) ---
Man, you are WAY off on your VB knowledge. For one thing, there is already a way to get to non-relational data. OLEDB bypasses ODBC (although you can still use the OLEDB/ODBC bridge). Also, unless I'm way off, the "!" is for VBA and doesn't work in VB (at least, I've never SEEN anyone use it.) ---
OK, good point, I guess, but I would say, "not very long". Malicious exploits found a a cracker dude are quickly shared....
Like I said, you have a point. I was really going off on the "$80 for a service pack" win98/SE thing. The fact is, if you're stupid enough to actually pay for it, that's your problem. The company is there to make money. If they can get you to fork over $80 for it, fine. ---
OK, I was pretty sure he was the drummer. I was just trying to pre-empt the flamage:) My wife, I'm ashamed to admit is a Metallica fan. Thery're not really all that bad, actually. ---
Umm, for sql server, look at msdn... Oracle calls 'em something similar. I'm sure you can find stuff on other sites. Sorry, my SQL experience is limited to those two (and very little of the latter.) I know personally you can do a lot with TSQL on m$ offering. Plus, even a select query is good in a SP if you use it all the time, 'cause the execution plan is pre-compiled and the overhead is lower. Plus, if you want to change the damn query, you just change it once. SP's and the like (I think just about any decent RDBMS will have 'em) get you a lot of the benefits of 3-tier (offload CPU/Disk access off web server, logic only in one place) without the complexity. ---
I mean geez think of his employement prospects.... what's on his resume?
Spent last 15 years being drummer (I think, I'm not a metallica fan, don't flame me, 'cause I don't care if I know what he plays).
Duties included:
Picking set list from vast array of songs that sound exactly the same. Management of extensive set of drumsticks (Note: drums actually responsibility of roadie, although I did manage him). Epressed synergy with teammates by coming up with original and innovative ideas like "black album" concept, as well as -- A ROCK BAND PLAYING WITH A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA! Banged head, kicked ass. Responsible for personnel selection -- picked groupies for post-concert orgies.
Slashdot Mirror
This is the one I have bookmarked.
According to it, I'd have to go from 50K to 106K to live the same lifestyle.
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God, it's good to live in a state with the 3rd lowest cost of living. My house is in a highly desirable part of a highly desirable city (on a cul-de-sac to boot) and has your pick of cable or DSL and cost less than $80,000 . . .
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so turn it off... I don't like it much, but I think it is a good idea for computer novices and removes one of the troubling interface aspects of programs in later versions like office "feature creep" (or bloat) making a good interface WAY too complicated and intimidating.
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I mean, everyone (me included) really hates getting that IE think for free! Thank God the Government got involved!
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Porn freaks -- they drive just about every other technological invention down in price (think CD-ROMs, VCR's, etc., God bless their pervert brains and sweaty palms! P.S. -- I think gaming could be pretty cool on this, too.
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... and of course, a big reason why Office dominates it's sector and AOL is the world's largest internet provider. It's tough to go wrong playing to the stupidest, lowest common denominator.
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The thing that should scare all the Linux-heads here is... it's just more market share for Word!
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I've been fairly impressed with the Jump Start series of educational software for my son (now almost 6). He's had a couple of them. The latest is jump start phonics, which features a limited version of IBM's via voice speech recognition. My son plays it, 'cause the novelty of saying your answers appeals to him. Note to Mac users: Had to install this on on my pc rather than my son's mac because the Mac version doesn't have the speech.
It actually works pretty well and has done a good job of getting progressively harder as he improves. I can tell, too, that it does little things like keep drilling him on letter combinations/sounds he has trouble with. Also, when it's doing this and he gets several wrong in a row, it'll drop back to easier stuff (or ones that he knows) so he doesn't get too frustrated at getting like five in a row wrong.
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I agree. By /. using the columbine posts without the posters permission, I think they set themselves up. They seem to be saying in one case, "it's our content, we'll do with it what we want" and then saying "whoa, mr. lawyer, we're just a carrier, all comments are owned by the poster!"
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Bullcrap! You have to teach people to use 3 different word processors! You have to support them when they go south... As for different versions of word, they all basically work the same way, but even so, no corporate IS dept. worth there salt would allow even that.... this is why office 2k sales have been slow.
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And we all know M$ security blunders never make it on the front page right?
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I just started this policy, but I plan on sending Natalie Merchant $5 and the note. I'm just gona put cash in it in a security envelope and hop it gets there. Obviously, this isn't a long term-solution.
I'd like to see a site that would take money and forward it to the artist. I got an email from someone who said they had registered paytheartists.com and haven't heard from them again. The problem is: How do you do this anonymously?
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It's obvious you just "don't get it" why people are upset you are suing napster. You see, napster is just a program. It's not centralized. It cannot, once users download the program, control what people do.
When someone in the chat asked if you had ever used Napster you said "I've never been to one of those sites." It's not a web site. It's a program a user runs on their computer. They can share whatever files they want.
Would you sue to shut down the phone company if people were calling each other up and playing metallica songs for each other over the phone, taping the result at the other end and getting free Metallica songs? Deprive everyone of a phone... That's the equivalent of what you are doing now by trying to shut Napster down.
I happen to know people who use Napster to trade music that is NOT copyrighted or to preview music before buying the CD or deleting the tracks. (Not me, I have a new policy: I pirate the CD's and then send the artist $5, far more than they get per CD from their label. and BTW, I don't use Napster. There are about 5 other methods to get any MP3 you want that have nothing to do with Napster, or web sites, for that matter).
Thanks for your time.
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Welll. I'm in Oklahoma City. These days, I mostly listen to the Point out of St. Louis (and a few others).
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Good to see some response on this. I'm 100% serious. I've bought my last albumn in the "traditional" way.
Points raised:
1: The "how do you discover new music" thing. Well, I thought about this last night. Granted, the labels do promote the music. But you still hear new tunes on the radio. Particulary with 'net broadcasts, you can get some innovative radio, even if (like me) you live in a pathetic radio market. Realistically, if some folks start doing this, it's at best a "statement" thing designed to change.
2: Agreed, cash through the mail is a bad idea. I wonder if you could get a money order made out to the band. As noted, checks aren't anonymous.
3: a paytheartists.org web site was mentioned. I'd be happy to help out. Email me.
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"I pirated your new album and really liked it. Here's five bucks. This is way more of a cut than you would have gotten from the record company. See how this could work? Now go tell your label they're moronic dinasaurs and your're sick of them picking at your and your fans' carcasses!"
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. . . or you could just whack out a frontal lobe, and achieve the same effect!
I'm out.
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well, I agree with you, that's not very neat OR mantainable. I didn't even know you could do it in VB. I've seen it in access. One of the things with Vb is it is such a HUGE language. It has tons of commands that are holdovers/whatever that you never use. I guess it is fairly impressive that you can almost always open a Vb 4 or 5 app in 6 and recompile and you're fine, but I wish they'd sacrifice a LITTLE backward compatiblity and get rid of some crud.
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This blew me away when I first saw it: in Perl you can have a function such as selectSQL() that you can pass an optional number of values to it and it reads them in as an array!
from MSDN ParamArray Optional. Used only as the last argument in arglist to indicate that the final argument is an Optional array of Variant elements. The ParamArray keyword allows you to provide an arbitrary number of arguments. It may not be used with ByVal, ByRef, or Optional.
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Good point. You can even turn off those "safety" features in the VB compiler if speed is premium (remove array bounds checks, remove FP checks, ect.)
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Man, you are WAY off on your VB knowledge. For one thing, there is already a way to get to non-relational data. OLEDB bypasses ODBC (although you can still use the OLEDB/ODBC bridge). Also, unless I'm way off, the "!" is for VBA and doesn't work in VB (at least, I've never SEEN anyone use it.)
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OK, good point, I guess, but I would say, "not very long". Malicious exploits found a a cracker dude are quickly shared.... Like I said, you have a point. I was really going off on the "$80 for a service pack" win98/SE thing. The fact is, if you're stupid enough to actually pay for it, that's your problem. The company is there to make money. If they can get you to fork over $80 for it, fine.
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OK, I was pretty sure he was the drummer. I was just trying to pre-empt the flamage :) My wife, I'm ashamed to admit is a Metallica fan. Thery're not really all that bad, actually.
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Umm, for sql server, look at msdn... Oracle calls 'em something similar. I'm sure you can find stuff on other sites. Sorry, my SQL experience is limited to those two (and very little of the latter.) I know personally you can do a lot with TSQL on m$ offering. Plus, even a select query is good in a SP if you use it all the time, 'cause the execution plan is pre-compiled and the overhead is lower. Plus, if you want to change the damn query, you just change it once. SP's and the like (I think just about any decent RDBMS will have 'em) get you a lot of the benefits of 3-tier (offload CPU/Disk access off web server, logic only in one place) without the complexity.
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I mean geez think of his employement prospects.... what's on his resume?
Spent last 15 years being drummer (I think, I'm not a metallica fan, don't flame me, 'cause I don't care if I know what he plays).
Duties included:
Picking set list from vast array of songs that sound exactly the same.
Management of extensive set of drumsticks (Note: drums actually responsibility of roadie, although I did manage him).
Epressed synergy with teammates by coming up with original and innovative ideas like "black album" concept, as well as -- A ROCK BAND PLAYING WITH A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA!
Banged head, kicked ass.
Responsible for personnel selection -- picked groupies for post-concert orgies.
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