I want options so I can figure out my OWN solutions (ie my needs are that of a geek, not the average 'i want it to just work' user)
As a music producer/ex-geek, I relish the availability of the "Terminal" whenever the Mac OS and/or my KORG Triton Extreme misbehaves so I can dmesg, less the various/var/log/* files, and script in perl, bash to determine the cause and fix it. Quickly. Then go back to being a music producer again quickly so I can (What?) produce music. Who-the-fuck-ever thought I could actually use a computer to produce 130 cover and original recordings of my own instrumentation since February. That doesn't include the shit I've archived.
We're debating this because the intuitive realize the computer is a device that was created to make people more productive; it hasn't. We use them to update themselves and rid themselves of viruses. What's been produced from these time-consuming activities? A novel? A song/album/movie? Nope. A machine that will theoretically behave long enough to enable it's user to "produce" something during the time the machine doesn't malfunction again requiring yet another "update" or "service pack." Fine; rhetoric.
I started using the computer in '84 to compose tunes on a Commodore 128. Wrote a little over a hundred tunes until around '91 when I started using Win 3.0 and produced some more. Then Win95 came along and curtailed those activities and related product for a decade. WinXP almost worked and somewhat solved the mpu-401 issues and I got 3, or 4 songs done until WinXP decided my 80G data drive with all my product for 2 years was no longer recognizeable. I stuck it in my old-ass Linux server and copied my 76 G of protools data to the IMac G5 I use and "am productive" with now. I stuck that same wdc drive into 3 different windoze boxes with the same unrecognizeable results. Guess I could have thrown it into a Linux box running ProTools, but alas that ain't no option. I just formatted it and use it as a 2nd backup drive in my Linux samba server. Works great!
Sure Mac OS isn't open, but it allows you to run whatever you want on it from the *n*x world, like Audacity, perl, mysql, whatever. I actually just use it to produce music; and surf the web and check e-mail. Okay, iTunes for my iPod, too; why not? I'm a musician most the time now. Just finished a gig... And, your doing what? Debating why we're still "debating this." So, is there a point to the "right tool for the right job" argument? Probably. I played live in front of 75+ people tonight and had a great time; the show largely derived from an iMac (without much support from Apple). What did you do?
I wouldn't have chimed in, but gigging live usually leaves me a bit energized and I couldn't sleep. I thought your comment could use a relevant reply.
It's not my giraffe fetish I'm concerned about. It's my giraffe's tranny fetish. I love her dearly and since she's an animal she has just as few rights as Americans do, now and I'm very concerned she won't get prosecuted for her Internet surfing habits.
And, don't get me started on cross-species marital rights. We don't need to go their either. Sheesh!!
Exactly right! If men would start doing the responsible thing and replacing a fine dinner and movie as foreplay with a proper interview, including examination of identification documents (id, passport {in your case}), and notarized testaments to age, we'd have no reason to worry about getting arrested for statutory rape.
We're well on our way down the slippery slope. We started down that slope in October 01 and we're continuing in that direction and increasing speed. ("We" being those who've enacted legislation as our proxies, not "We the People," which should be amended to "We the Corporations that Fund this Country's Leadership.")
Your remarks don't point out that the most severe damage here is to our liberties, not privacy:
1) Free Speech: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
4) Illegal Search & Seizure: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
6) Speedy Trial in Jurisdiction Crime Committed and Confrontation by Accusers: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."
I'm all for catching the bad guys,...
This legislation does not help us catch bad guys. It's helped us put more pot-smokers in jail. Last check, I have no knowlege of Cheech & Chong supporters trying to hi-jack a plane, or launch a holy jihaad against non-potsmokers, but perhaps I missed a reference somewhere.
3. Censorship on sites they don't like. Are they going to determine that any music site, whether legitimate or not, that they don't control is 'illegal'? One legitimate use is independent music artists/bands and film makers deploying their own content. Prohibition of these types of sites is something we should all be very concerned about.
Clear Channel (radio stations) aren't allowed/aren't given payola to play unsigned artists. The RIAA is facing competition from P2P and (and they have no way to determine this impact) independent artists who sell they're CDs exclusively from their web-sites since they can't get them on the shelf of Virgin Megastores. Fortunately, my site's moving to a T-3 location where consumer ISP service dictates don't apply, but that's not where most indie content is distributed.
The internet has the potential to re-open this content distribution door and in many ways it already has, but the Labels continue to find ways to dilute these channels: mp3.com getting bought by Vivendi; MSN and it's DRM-laden distribution contracts with GarageBand.com and whoever else they're trying to sign on. I don't think many people realize how informed the RIAA and MPAA are about how people actually do consume digital content. If all content goes independent due to the obsolescing of the middle-man, what happens to these organizations? That's right; they go away and consumers get more direct channels to songs/albums/films. The benefit to the consumer should be pretty obvious.
Will the RIAA/MPAA succeed in sustaining their existence with tactics such as this? I hope not...
I agree that Weed doesn't look like any more viable an option to generate interest in a band/artist's music than mp3.com was and other p2p systems are saturated with signed music so as to lose most/all indie music in that noise. I set up a pc to share all my self-produced mp3s for about 6 days once and received a million search hits without a single download. I don't know what that tells me, but people on p2p networks appear to be going after music that's commercially available, elsewhere; perhaps to sample before buying, download to cover in their own project, or just steal. Who knows? I ceased the process as a means to distribute my own stuff.
As far as the web-site, there are many ways indies can use them for promotion and I hope more artists/bands start using them more effectively and get better reach. $50/mo for 500 gigs is very reasonable. I've never gone over 6 gigs on my $50/mo cable which comes to somewhere around 25,000 mp3 downloads/streams. Perhaps this is what the "Industry" is afraid of?
It's unfortunate RedHat has acquired Windows' weak security posture in it's effort to attract Windows server market share. I've personally had to administer 3 compromised Redhat boxes, and this after converting that client over from Windows due to a compromise.
But, RH isn't Linux. Linux is many distributions, some good, some not so good, but if you take the pool of Linux administrators against the pool of Windows administrators, you'll find Linux administrators are more knowledgeable about their systems and do smarter things in securing them. This isn't as true as it was a few years ago before the reluctant Windows administrative masses took refuge in RedHat, but you won't see _any_, not even one Linux defector to Windows. Perhaps BSD, but definitely _not_ Windows!
I've never seen one of my Slackware servers (running sendmail, _even_ and FrontPage extensions with PHP on the Apache server) compromised. It's never happened in the 10 years I've been using them.
I've been wasting a lot of time lately poring through logs for a new project and it's ludicrous how much additional coding I've had to put into my Perl scripts to make allowances for compromised Windows boxes that have inundated my web server with traffic during their Code Red and Slammer compromises, not to mention all the other little oddities Windows clients do when downloading mp3s from the server, such as client caching and sending 32k+ search strings in the URL. It creates work to have these obnoxiously configured client machines on the Internet.
I'm not going to complain too loudly since without all these Windows users on the Internet surfing my site, there wouldn't be much of interest to process in these logs, but to assert Windows as more secure than Linux?! Really....
Could someone please post the name of which Micro$oft C?O's budget backed this study, so we can move on to a more interesting and valid discussion?
When was the last time you got spam from AOL users? You have Carl to thank.
Where the hell was Carl from 1995 - 2000 when AOL was developing it's mighty subscriber base along with it's unindoctrinated users who were one of the main sources of spam to begin with?
Now, the biggest ISP can dictate if my users can send their users e-mail? This is because the owner of my block didn't set up reverses for it's range and won't do so any time soon.
At a minimum, they should respond to removal requests from responsible administrators. They currently do not respond to any administrators; they just automate the black-listing of ip addresses and turn way when someone inquires about it. This is irresponsible internet behavior (the Internet was created by scientists and educators for free for all to use, not just for AOL/Time Warner to usurp it exclusively for their profit).
For Carl to entertain for 1 second that advocating a solution at the ISP level to block outgoing mail is single cell thinking behavior. Spam originates from untended / unmanaged machines. There is no one watching or paying attention who can take responsible action. And, who in hell is policing the addresses ranges of Asia?
AOL is an example of the bully in the playground who started the fight, then called the police to narc on the kid who threw the first self-defense swing. Thank Carl for what?!
I am a musician, I work and create music, I get paid by selling my music. Simple concept.
I am a musician, I work and create music, I may get paid somehow through these efforts. I am a musician, I work and create music, I may get paid somehow through these efforts. I am a musician, I work and create music, I may get paid somehow through these efforts. I am a musician, I work and create music, I may get paid...
I get paid by selling my music. Question... How much would that be so far?
Then what's wrong with firewalling (or portsentry-ing) port 22 and just giving them webmail? Is there something else local users would need to do on the box that requires a shell?
Especially offensive is an accusation from arguably the best defined capitalist on the planet that artists (who are by definition socialist) require an incentive to create art, music, movies, or anything, for that matter. Since he's devoid of any self-generative capacity and merely exploits innovation he observes, he couldn't possibly comprehend that Mozart created from self-initiative.
What continues to bother me about capitalist justifications of copyright manifestos is that the end result is to protect the rights of those who capitalize on the rights of those who created these works to begin with. And, what further offends any who create such works, is that the capitalist system that's been designed and maintained is now trying to legislate control of those rights in perpetuity to those opportunists and permanently exclude the right of the creators of these works from entering such works into the public domain outside the parameters of the capitalistic distribution system.
Musicians and movie makers (the ones who actually make them) just want to get their works out into the space (and, don't necessarily care if it's at Carnegie Hall, or the park in the local community). Patents, copyrights, and DRM are about money: capitalistic activities. Capitalists have an incentive to accuse social-minded content creators of being communists.
Perhaps FireFox users are more savvy and know better than to click on ads. I think the problem is more systemic and the explanation can be found in why Windows is so damn popular despite all the viruses, bugs, and spam. People do not want to be bothered with the details of using their computer any more than they want to be bothered with the way a car engine works. You put gas in, turn the key and drive somewhere. The devil's in the details.
Computer users are no different; after all, the same people using computers are the ones who have been driving cars all along. Their thought patterns and ways of doing things are no different. They'll no sooner read an EULA than open the glove box and read the owner's manual for their Honda.
But, the way Windows has been designed puts the details into an automated self-fixing paradigm that the user is unaware of. ActiveX controls automatically download new components for IE and the user just clicks the certificate because that's what they always do. Not reading it first, of course, since that's not in their nature.
These same automated functions in Windows also provide advertisers with automatic ad imprints because the browser software clicks the ad for them via pop-ups, ActiveX and/or client-side VBScript-designed web-sites. The user is just a passive bystander while the browser does all the "clicking" for them.
FireFox users may very well be the same end-user, but there is no ActiveX, pop-ups, or client VBScript; the person has to take action for anything to happen.
It's not the person, it's the browser. It's probably a good thing that end-users will have to be more proactive in their use of the Web; just the same as people have to be proactive when they turn their car left. It may not be a good thing for the advertisers, but I don't think advertising in the form we currently experience it is of any value, anyway. I do quite fine without viagra.
My current project is sitting on an HD system on a Mac in Phoenix with 1 track on a TDM system in Gilbert, AZ. I've spent about $8,000 hiring musicians and paying these two sound guys to record and mix my stuff. There's a lot to be said for the pervasiveness of PT when I can bring a DVD with sessions from one studio to another without losing the mix / levels / plug-ins.
I agree in principle, but sometimes it's helpful to consider the practical implications of the tools (i.e. being somewhat standard in the industry) over the technical preferences of the sound guy.
And, at $800, I thought my DIGI-001 and LE 5.3.1 was a steal. I get a lot done with this painlessly.
Some slack users aren't necessarily trying to remain the same, but merely recognize that once their tool is installed, secured, configured and being used it makes no sense to make changes that do not add value. There's absolutely nothing sexy about a web-server. The web-sites that run on it might be hugely sexy, but that's the job of the content creator and the substance of the content.
The server should never get in the way of distributing that content, and Slack does and always has done this job reliably and securely. Low maintenance tool; that's it. I hope the distro continues to evolve, despite it's absense from this "poll."
Now, if you want sexy: G5 Mac running Pro-Tools TDM system. That's sexy as hell!
I wish the volume of this type of argument were higher in the current election rhetoric. It's a great point! Most of the constituency probably likes to just hear the bullet-point version of each bill, i.e. "Strengthen the Borders," "Stop the Terrorists," "Curtail Theft of Copyrighted Material," but the bullet-point versions never hilite the specifics of these bills.
Each of the 200 senators (and all of the Reps) have to negotiate their personal positions on each point within each bill against the aggregate positions of their constituents on these bills and then conclude with a "yea," or "nay." This process is fine until someone picks apart the aggregate of votes of all bills this or that Congress-critter has participated in and finds the votes tended in different directions based on bullet-point labels exclusively.
I don't think this dynamic releases Kerry from scrutiny on the DMCA bill, since most of us here read it in detail since it directly affected our industry. It was entirely motivated and enacted through lobbyist actions that conned the Congress into a unanimous vote by the Industry devoid of representation of the People. Kerry was party to this as indicated by one of the unanimous "ayes," in the vote, so don't think for a second he'd retract that or even care to. He's merely being political in giving a sound byte to it during this campaign.
But, regarding the other legislation he's "flip-flopped" on, people need to keep in mind that the "$87 Billion" "nay" vote was subsequent to several funding bills to help finance the rising costs of the Iraqi effort. Remember that Bush originally budgeted $26 Billion for the effort and it's at close to $200 Billion now due to these subsequent bills. And, _we_ (in the U.S. anyway) are paying this bill, even though we're too broke to do so. Think about this when the Rep. camp keeps decrying the "no" vote on this $87 Billion additional appropriation.
But, don't think for a second Kerry gives 2 shits about the DMCA issue. There are way too many other issues much higher on his radar...
I applaud your arguments, very much like the Tea Party that created a once great country. Unfortunately, back then, they didn't have Pepsi, Starbucks, General-Electric, Universal & Vivendi, and now the Tea party only serves to fill up some jail cells.
Understand that while the RIAA and it's ilk decry the piracy rampant on Kazaa and Gnutella, they also use statistics from those activities to determine what's popular in mainstream "art" and further target audiences with those stats; you're still helping the enemy.
Get off Britney's and Lars' offerings and do something to bring that day where the independent artist, devoid of commercial ambitions in pursuing his/her art to fruition earlier. Put those download stats ahead of "Oops! I did it again." You'll be amazed at the reaction of the Industry when their beloved "artists" start to lose mindshare to something created out of the love for art.
Simple question and I believe the most important. If Americans aren't working, they aren't paying taxes. If they're not paying taxes, there are less funds to support the military budget, education, and health care.
Why is outsourcing not being discussed in the current election rhetoric? Is it because neither candidate has any specialized education on economics? Remember that IT workers require many years of specialized education, which they paid for and are no longer able to find compensation in these fields. They give up and go after jobs others with less skills historically have occupied. You've given educated people a lower-skilled job and put less educated people in a position where there's nowhere else to turn, but perhaps crime?
I'm confused this issue hasn't received more attention during "Decision 2004." Paying bills is the most basic human task; having a job is the most obvious means of doing so. Middle-class America pays the bills. The upper-class in America needs the middle-class if they wish to continue evading contributions to social programs and financing America's wars.
Why aren't the candidates working harder to stop the outsourcing of our jobs and get Americans back to work? Where will they work once America has no one left to "represent?"
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Men At Work - picked up on a whim when I saw "Overkill" performed on Scrubs.
Colin Hay's best rendition!
ur not the only techie who also plays music
Point taken. Thanks for pointing it out.
I want options so I can figure out my OWN solutions (ie my needs are that of a geek, not the average 'i want it to just work' user)
/var/log/* files, and script in perl, bash to determine the cause and fix it. Quickly. Then go back to being a music producer again quickly so I can (What?) produce music. Who-the-fuck-ever thought I could actually use a computer to produce 130 cover and original recordings of my own instrumentation since February. That doesn't include the shit I've archived.
As a music producer/ex-geek, I relish the availability of the "Terminal" whenever the Mac OS and/or my KORG Triton Extreme misbehaves so I can dmesg, less the various
We're debating this because the intuitive realize the computer is a device that was created to make people more productive; it hasn't. We use them to update themselves and rid themselves of viruses. What's been produced from these time-consuming activities? A novel? A song/album/movie? Nope. A machine that will theoretically behave long enough to enable it's user to "produce" something during the time the machine doesn't malfunction again requiring yet another "update" or "service pack." Fine; rhetoric.
I started using the computer in '84 to compose tunes on a Commodore 128. Wrote a little over a hundred tunes until around '91 when I started using Win 3.0 and produced some more. Then Win95 came along and curtailed those activities and related product for a decade. WinXP almost worked and somewhat solved the mpu-401 issues and I got 3, or 4 songs done until WinXP decided my 80G data drive with all my product for 2 years was no longer recognizeable. I stuck it in my old-ass Linux server and copied my 76 G of protools data to the IMac G5 I use and "am productive" with now. I stuck that same wdc drive into 3 different windoze boxes with the same unrecognizeable results. Guess I could have thrown it into a Linux box running ProTools, but alas that ain't no option. I just formatted it and use it as a 2nd backup drive in my Linux samba server. Works great!
Sure Mac OS isn't open, but it allows you to run whatever you want on it from the *n*x world, like Audacity, perl, mysql, whatever. I actually just use it to produce music; and surf the web and check e-mail. Okay, iTunes for my iPod, too; why not? I'm a musician most the time now. Just finished a gig... And, your doing what? Debating why we're still "debating this." So, is there a point to the "right tool for the right job" argument? Probably. I played live in front of 75+ people tonight and had a great time; the show largely derived from an iMac (without much support from Apple). What did you do?
I wouldn't have chimed in, but gigging live usually leaves me a bit energized and I couldn't sleep. I thought your comment could use a relevant reply.
Peace out.
Van
It's not my giraffe fetish I'm concerned about. It's my giraffe's tranny fetish. I love her dearly and since she's an animal she has just as few rights as Americans do, now and I'm very concerned she won't get prosecuted for her Internet surfing habits.
And, don't get me started on cross-species marital rights. We don't need to go their either. Sheesh!!
Exactly right! If men would start doing the responsible thing and replacing a fine dinner and movie as foreplay with a proper interview, including examination of identification documents (id, passport {in your case}), and notarized testaments to age, we'd have no reason to worry about getting arrested for statutory rape.
Romantic, n'est-ce pas?
I hate to cry "slippery slope,"
We're well on our way down the slippery slope. We started down that slope in October 01 and we're continuing in that direction and increasing speed. ("We" being those who've enacted legislation as our proxies, not "We the People," which should be amended to "We the Corporations that Fund this Country's Leadership.")
Your remarks don't point out that the most severe damage here is to our liberties, not privacy:
1) Free Speech: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
4) Illegal Search & Seizure: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
6) Speedy Trial in Jurisdiction Crime Committed and Confrontation by Accusers: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."
I'm all for catching the bad guys,...
This legislation does not help us catch bad guys. It's helped us put more pot-smokers in jail. Last check, I have no knowlege of Cheech & Chong supporters trying to hi-jack a plane, or launch a holy jihaad against non-potsmokers, but perhaps I missed a reference somewhere.
Mod this up. Sounds like words from a soldier who hasn't been looking through the same rose-colored glasses many others have been.
America's proud; but from freedom!
The Constitution, you see.
Don't suggest that without these amendments
We'll be safer, or any more free.
3. Censorship on sites they don't like. Are they going to determine that any music site, whether legitimate or not, that they don't control is 'illegal'?
One legitimate use is independent music artists/bands and film makers deploying their own content. Prohibition of these types of sites is something we should all be very concerned about.
Clear Channel (radio stations) aren't allowed/aren't given payola to play unsigned artists. The RIAA is facing competition from P2P and (and they have no way to determine this impact) independent artists who sell they're CDs exclusively from their web-sites since they can't get them on the shelf of Virgin Megastores. Fortunately, my site's moving to a T-3 location where consumer ISP service dictates don't apply, but that's not where most indie content is distributed.
The internet has the potential to re-open this content distribution door and in many ways it already has, but the Labels continue to find ways to dilute these channels: mp3.com getting bought by Vivendi; MSN and it's DRM-laden distribution contracts with GarageBand.com and whoever else they're trying to sign on. I don't think many people realize how informed the RIAA and MPAA are about how people actually do consume digital content. If all content goes independent due to the obsolescing of the middle-man, what happens to these organizations? That's right; they go away and consumers get more direct channels to songs/albums/films. The benefit to the consumer should be pretty obvious.
Will the RIAA/MPAA succeed in sustaining their existence with tactics such as this? I hope not...
I agree that Weed doesn't look like any more viable an option to generate interest in a band/artist's music than mp3.com was and other p2p systems are saturated with signed music so as to lose most/all indie music in that noise. I set up a pc to share all my self-produced mp3s for about 6 days once and received a million search hits without a single download. I don't know what that tells me, but people on p2p networks appear to be going after music that's commercially available, elsewhere; perhaps to sample before buying, download to cover in their own project, or just steal. Who knows? I ceased the process as a means to distribute my own stuff.
As far as the web-site, there are many ways indies can use them for promotion and I hope more artists/bands start using them more effectively and get better reach. $50/mo for 500 gigs is very reasonable. I've never gone over 6 gigs on my $50/mo cable which comes to somewhere around 25,000 mp3 downloads/streams. Perhaps this is what the "Industry" is afraid of?
It's unfortunate RedHat has acquired Windows' weak security posture in it's effort to attract Windows server market share. I've personally had to administer 3 compromised Redhat boxes, and this after converting that client over from Windows due to a compromise.
But, RH isn't Linux. Linux is many distributions, some good, some not so good, but if you take the pool of Linux administrators against the pool of Windows administrators, you'll find Linux administrators are more knowledgeable about their systems and do smarter things in securing them. This isn't as true as it was a few years ago before the reluctant Windows administrative masses took refuge in RedHat, but you won't see _any_, not even one Linux defector to Windows. Perhaps BSD, but definitely _not_ Windows!
I've never seen one of my Slackware servers (running sendmail, _even_ and FrontPage extensions with PHP on the Apache server) compromised. It's never happened in the 10 years I've been using them.
I've been wasting a lot of time lately poring through logs for a new project and it's ludicrous how much additional coding I've had to put into my Perl scripts to make allowances for compromised Windows boxes that have inundated my web server with traffic during their Code Red and Slammer compromises, not to mention all the other little oddities Windows clients do when downloading mp3s from the server, such as client caching and sending 32k+ search strings in the URL. It creates work to have these obnoxiously configured client machines on the Internet.
I'm not going to complain too loudly since without all these Windows users on the Internet surfing my site, there wouldn't be much of interest to process in these logs, but to assert Windows as more secure than Linux?! Really....
Could someone please post the name of which Micro$oft C?O's budget backed this study, so we can move on to a more interesting and valid discussion?
The know damn well they wont be back the next term.
At this rate, how certain are you that you'll be legally able to vote for any other party?
It came from fbipressrelease723@hotmail.com
Not according to my logs:
9943 17.58% msnbot/0.3 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
6398 11.31% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/
6105 10.79% YahooSeeker/1.2 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; yahooseek
1674 2.96% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
1664 2.94% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.co
1523 2.69% msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
Looks like msn comes by quite a bit.
When was the last time you got spam from AOL users? You have Carl to thank.
Where the hell was Carl from 1995 - 2000 when AOL was developing it's mighty subscriber base along with it's unindoctrinated users who were one of the main sources of spam to begin with?
Now, the biggest ISP can dictate if my users can send their users e-mail? This is because the owner of my block didn't set up reverses for it's range and won't do so any time soon.
At a minimum, they should respond to removal requests from responsible administrators. They currently do not respond to any administrators; they just automate the black-listing of ip addresses and turn way when someone inquires about it. This is irresponsible internet behavior (the Internet was created by scientists and educators for free for all to use, not just for AOL/Time Warner to usurp it exclusively for their profit).
For Carl to entertain for 1 second that advocating a solution at the ISP level to block outgoing mail is single cell thinking behavior. Spam originates from untended / unmanaged machines. There is no one watching or paying attention who can take responsible action. And, who in hell is policing the addresses ranges of Asia?
AOL is an example of the bully in the playground who started the fight, then called the police to narc on the kid who threw the first self-defense swing. Thank Carl for what?!
I am a musician, I work and create music, I get paid by selling my music. Simple concept.
I am a musician, I work and create music, I may get paid somehow through these efforts. I am a musician, I work and create music, I may get paid somehow through these efforts. I am a musician, I work and create music, I may get paid somehow through these efforts. I am a musician, I work and create music, I may get paid...
I get paid by selling my music. Question... How much would that be so far?
Then what's wrong with firewalling (or portsentry-ing) port 22 and just giving them webmail? Is there something else local users would need to do on the box that requires a shell?
Especially offensive is an accusation from arguably the best defined capitalist on the planet that artists (who are by definition socialist) require an incentive to create art, music, movies, or anything, for that matter. Since he's devoid of any self-generative capacity and merely exploits innovation he observes, he couldn't possibly comprehend that Mozart created from self-initiative.
What continues to bother me about capitalist justifications of copyright manifestos is that the end result is to protect the rights of those who capitalize on the rights of those who created these works to begin with. And, what further offends any who create such works, is that the capitalist system that's been designed and maintained is now trying to legislate control of those rights in perpetuity to those opportunists and permanently exclude the right of the creators of these works from entering such works into the public domain outside the parameters of the capitalistic distribution system.
Musicians and movie makers (the ones who actually make them) just want to get their works out into the space (and, don't necessarily care if it's at Carnegie Hall, or the park in the local community). Patents, copyrights, and DRM are about money: capitalistic activities. Capitalists have an incentive to accuse social-minded content creators of being communists.
Perhaps FireFox users are more savvy and know better than to click on ads. I think the problem is more systemic and the explanation can be found in why Windows is so damn popular despite all the viruses, bugs, and spam. People do not want to be bothered with the details of using their computer any more than they want to be bothered with the way a car engine works. You put gas in, turn the key and drive somewhere. The devil's in the details.
Computer users are no different; after all, the same people using computers are the ones who have been driving cars all along. Their thought patterns and ways of doing things are no different. They'll no sooner read an EULA than open the glove box and read the owner's manual for their Honda.
But, the way Windows has been designed puts the details into an automated self-fixing paradigm that the user is unaware of. ActiveX controls automatically download new components for IE and the user just clicks the certificate because that's what they always do. Not reading it first, of course, since that's not in their nature.
These same automated functions in Windows also provide advertisers with automatic ad imprints because the browser software clicks the ad for them via pop-ups, ActiveX and/or client-side VBScript-designed web-sites. The user is just a passive bystander while the browser does all the "clicking" for them.
FireFox users may very well be the same end-user, but there is no ActiveX, pop-ups, or client VBScript; the person has to take action for anything to happen.
It's not the person, it's the browser. It's probably a good thing that end-users will have to be more proactive in their use of the Web; just the same as people have to be proactive when they turn their car left. It may not be a good thing for the advertisers, but I don't think advertising in the form we currently experience it is of any value, anyway. I do quite fine without viagra.
Most, if not nearly all.
So, then you actually want FireFox to do the exact thing IE does that makes people run to FireFox in the first place?
Doooooood...
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My current project is sitting on an HD system on a Mac in Phoenix with 1 track on a TDM system in Gilbert, AZ. I've spent about $8,000 hiring musicians and paying these two sound guys to record and mix my stuff. There's a lot to be said for the pervasiveness of PT when I can bring a DVD with sessions from one studio to another without losing the mix / levels / plug-ins.
I agree in principle, but sometimes it's helpful to consider the practical implications of the tools (i.e. being somewhat standard in the industry) over the technical preferences of the sound guy.
And, at $800, I thought my DIGI-001 and LE 5.3.1 was a steal. I get a lot done with this painlessly.
My $0.02.
Some slack users aren't necessarily trying to remain the same, but merely recognize that once their tool is installed, secured, configured and being used it makes no sense to make changes that do not add value. There's absolutely nothing sexy about a web-server. The web-sites that run on it might be hugely sexy, but that's the job of the content creator and the substance of the content.
The server should never get in the way of distributing that content, and Slack does and always has done this job reliably and securely. Low maintenance tool; that's it. I hope the distro continues to evolve, despite it's absense from this "poll."
Now, if you want sexy: G5 Mac running Pro-Tools TDM system. That's sexy as hell!
I wish the volume of this type of argument were higher in the current election rhetoric. It's a great point! Most of the constituency probably likes to just hear the bullet-point version of each bill, i.e. "Strengthen the Borders," "Stop the Terrorists," "Curtail Theft of Copyrighted Material," but the bullet-point versions never hilite the specifics of these bills.
Each of the 200 senators (and all of the Reps) have to negotiate their personal positions on each point within each bill against the aggregate positions of their constituents on these bills and then conclude with a "yea," or "nay." This process is fine until someone picks apart the aggregate of votes of all bills this or that Congress-critter has participated in and finds the votes tended in different directions based on bullet-point labels exclusively.
I don't think this dynamic releases Kerry from scrutiny on the DMCA bill, since most of us here read it in detail since it directly affected our industry. It was entirely motivated and enacted through lobbyist actions that conned the Congress into a unanimous vote by the Industry devoid of representation of the People. Kerry was party to this as indicated by one of the unanimous "ayes," in the vote, so don't think for a second he'd retract that or even care to. He's merely being political in giving a sound byte to it during this campaign.
But, regarding the other legislation he's "flip-flopped" on, people need to keep in mind that the "$87 Billion" "nay" vote was subsequent to several funding bills to help finance the rising costs of the Iraqi effort. Remember that Bush originally budgeted $26 Billion for the effort and it's at close to $200 Billion now due to these subsequent bills. And, _we_ (in the U.S. anyway) are paying this bill, even though we're too broke to do so. Think about this when the Rep. camp keeps decrying the "no" vote on this $87 Billion additional appropriation.
But, don't think for a second Kerry gives 2 shits about the DMCA issue. There are way too many other issues much higher on his radar...
I applaud your arguments, very much like the Tea Party that created a once great country. Unfortunately, back then, they didn't have Pepsi, Starbucks, General-Electric, Universal & Vivendi, and now the Tea party only serves to fill up some jail cells.
Understand that while the RIAA and it's ilk decry the piracy rampant on Kazaa and Gnutella, they also use statistics from those activities to determine what's popular in mainstream "art" and further target audiences with those stats; you're still helping the enemy.
Get off Britney's and Lars' offerings and do something to bring that day where the independent artist, devoid of commercial ambitions in pursuing his/her art to fruition earlier. Put those download stats ahead of "Oops! I did it again." You'll be amazed at the reaction of the Industry when their beloved "artists" start to lose mindshare to something created out of the love for art.
Now, go download those indie films and tunes!
Simple question and I believe the most important. If Americans aren't working, they aren't paying taxes. If they're not paying taxes, there are less funds to support the military budget, education, and health care.
Why is outsourcing not being discussed in the current election rhetoric? Is it because neither candidate has any specialized education on economics? Remember that IT workers require many years of specialized education, which they paid for and are no longer able to find compensation in these fields. They give up and go after jobs others with less skills historically have occupied. You've given educated people a lower-skilled job and put less educated people in a position where there's nowhere else to turn, but perhaps crime?
I'm confused this issue hasn't received more attention during "Decision 2004." Paying bills is the most basic human task; having a job is the most obvious means of doing so. Middle-class America pays the bills. The upper-class in America needs the middle-class if they wish to continue evading contributions to social programs and financing America's wars.
Why aren't the candidates working harder to stop the outsourcing of our jobs and get Americans back to work? Where will they work once America has no one left to "represent?"