... because AllofMP3 does what Napster and Rhapsody and iTunes cannot: offer a comprehensive music catalog at reasonable rates
When I pay for my music, it is with the knowledge that everyone who had a part in getting that music into my hands gets a piece of the pie. I may not completely agree with the amounts, but I know that the artists, managers, publicists, distributors, riaa (shudder), labels, and various others get a little bit of it. When you pay for music, you are only giving money to the distributor. Bittorrent is a distributor too, though.
I'm not trying to flame you for not paying the artist. The legality is a totally seperate question. But the way I see it, in your market, you have three main sources to get your music from: 1)the labels (about a dollar a song), 2)allofMP3 (about 10 cents a song, if I remember correctly), or 3)Peer to Peer (eg: bittorrent - free). My question for you is this - you are obviously concerned with price if you already decided that the labels are too expensive, so why aren't you using bittorrent. It is no less legal than allofmp3, it's cheaper (free), just as fast, has higher quality rips, and still only supports the distributor (who can provide it to you for free because their marginal cost is nothing). Why, when going for cheaper items, did you stop at 10 cents when there is an equal or better product for free?
have you installed a copy of IE7? It has integrated WGA. I had to do it at work on a bunch of computers, and while it didn't require any input, it was still a bit of a bother.
They're waaaaaay ahead of you, except they decided to do it at a frequency everyone can hear (as nearly as possible) and at 150 dBSPL. Plus, it's already in use. From wikipedia:
The device is currently being tested in regions of Baghdad, Fallujah, and other regions of Iraq. The device was also used by police in New York City during protests of the 2004 Republican National Convention.
I would hope so, but the problem is that there have been plenty of things like this before, and no legal repercussions. MMOs like WoW deactivate accounts all the time for cheating, which is just a violation of the EULA, not blatant stealing. Valve does it frequently as well. The sad state is that this may be the future. I hope not.
With the newly updated, high-resolution images of the region, they can see river discoloration which could be the product of sedimentation and pollution from a nearby mine. They are able to use these images to find the smallest gold mine."
One thing I don't get is how Google Earth has the resolution or frequency of updates that you'd need to monitor anything.
I live in a major urban area in California, and while the resolution is easily up to snuff for IDing swimming pools, cars, and the occasional frisbee, the image data is easily over 3 years old (denoted by the fact that my neighbor still has his doughboy swimming pool in their pictures, which I personally helped him uninstall long ago). In addition, once you leave the urban areas on this map, the resolution goes to crap.
This seems odd to me, so my question is: does Google, for some odd reason update images of the Amazon more often than they update major metropolitan areas (or at least mine)? Is the resolution of their land good enough? If so, can somebody explain to me what sort of incentive they have for this sort of thing?
Aha! That assertion would be correct, if we were good at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which we suck at. We tend to set records every single year for greenhouse gas emissions, and lucky for you, a study just out shows that to be true with 2005 as well.
In addition, the system is EXTREMELY complex, and even if we were good at emitting fewer greenhouse gases (which, I reiterate, we suck at), it could take many decades to return to previous levels, assuming we haven't crossed any critical thresholds, in which case it may take centuries or millenia - nobody really knows, we just know that the system takes a long time to respond. This is partially because the oceans are such a huge buffer of CO2, but there are so many unknown factors. It's a chaotic system.
I agree about that. I am only two years older, and I obtained my job by having a portfolio of projects I had worked on. A few of them were comissioned by people I know, and a few by myself.
Suggestions:
Create diverse long-term projects, such as designing some sort of system that is useful for you, or contributing to another team's project - this will help build a portfolio, and teach you practical skills
Be very skilled in at least one language, but be able to read documentation on others to start programming in them quickly
If you plan on college, student jobs websites are often provided by schools - not all of them have horrible pay. If you don't, get your name out there by doing work for those you know or by applying to companies that do work similar to what you have in your portfolio
Make sure you know how to have your programs use databases, whichever language you're working in. Learn how to write efficient SQL queries and efficient methods of data storage in the database. They are becoming more and more important, depending on what sort of jobs you are doing.
These are a few things that have really helped me personally, however computer science is not my field, so my jobs are not necessarily as high level in CS type stuff as ones you may be looking for.
Sounds like we'll be invading the UK then. A bunch of friends of mine who visited there in Summer of 2003 saw a billboard while leaving the airport that was just two bare breasts with the phrase "Weapons of Mass Distraction."
I disagree. If you read PC Gamer (US, I know little about PC Gamer UK), you would know that most (if not all) of the editorial staff members have degrees in journalism, and plenty of experience in gaming. In addition, they have not hesitated to be harsh on a game that has bought substantial ad space in their magazine.
However, your point about personal interest is valid, but only on their podcast where personal interests are allowed.
the flanders children? I say, let them eat dirt and get hurt now so they don't all die of the common cold or cry because they broke their arm when they're 37. It truly works. Just look at how long civilization has lasted.
anyone else reminded of when facebook made the news feed, and everyone complained about their information being too accessible. Simple answer to both problems: If you don't want people to see it, you shouldn't put it on the internet.
personally, I'd rather have this over some other sort of dreaded copy protection scheme where the game doesn't work or my whole computer gets security holes blown in it, but that's just my preference.
also, there are many ways to get steam to not run at startup, one of which is a setting withing the software, the others involve msconfig, or editing your registry. Take a look around, you'll be pleasantly suprised.
The upside of adsense is that maybe it will keep youtube in the black, keeping around a service that is actually rather handy. There has been a lot of talk about youtube not making enough money for its bandwidth bills, and maybe the guys over in google's adsense dept can help fix that.
this isn't to be meanspirited, because I think you're making an excellent point, but what you said made me think of future postings from people playing spore talking about how they ran out of evolution points and it made them realize just how much they love their right arm.
Only an idiot would believe this service gives them "an electronic communications channel that leaves not a trace of its contents or the identities of the participants."
Sounds like a government contract is in order then!
Maybe XP is "a pretty good OS", the trouble is, it's not significantly different from the OSs that preceded it, and that's because the Windows monopoly is acting as a huge roadblock across progress in the field.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Windows XP has stability whereas 9x was severely lacking. WinXP SP2 has a modest attempt at built in security (though it could be better - still 9x had nil). WinXP has broadband support natively whereas 9x and even ME had none (I realize that broadband was rare then, but it is still an advancement). Remote Desktop, System Restore, easy hardware installation, a halfway decent media player, DirectX 8 and 9, NTFS, and the list goes on.
Computer users should be able to run their applications of choice on the OS of their choice, running on the hardware of their choice.
Exactly what windows DOES allow users to do. I don't use Windows Media Player, I use Winamp. I don't use Outlook Express, I use Thunderbird. I don't use IE, I use Firefox. Ok, I do use Remote Desktop, but that's because I think it's better than VNC in many respects (but I could use it). I use my own backups in conjunction with the excellent system restore, and many games I play use OpenGL instead of DirectX. In addition, most of these things that I personally use can be set as defaults overriding the use of microsoft's own applications. However, by bundling their own applications, they give me a functional and diverse OS straight out of the box. As far as the "hardware of my choice" - I have upgraded almost everything in my computer since I bought it and kept the same WinXP install. I have a different motherboard, hard drive, and video card than when I originally installed, and have added and removed various expansion cards. All installed quickly and painlessly from plugin to use.
The operating system should be a fairly minor part of our computing experience - fundamentally, all it is is a way of getting our applications to run
While that philosophy may still be held by some, it is fading with most (except some Linux distros) - however, the most common Linux distributions, plus Mac OS and Windows all are including more and more, because that's what the users want.
The computer industry should be planning for a future where that waste will not repeated, where users can take the applications they've purchased and use them on any new platforms which offer better performance.
This I agree with. It would be very nice to see more of this. We do see some efforts toward this with things like Wine, but even that isn't really cross-platform compatibility. Interpreted languages are excellent for this, and there are many full-scale apps that will run cross-platform because they were written in Java and not C. The internet itself practically runs on portable code, what with html, css, apache, perl, php, ruby, python, etc. Unless you include a platform specific module in your code, it is all cross-platform.
Sadly, instead, the software industry is gearing itself towards selling their customers the same application over and over again.
Well, that is the basic premise of an OS. If you'd like, you can keep running on DOS or Win 3.1 which will do, as you say, the basic tasks of "getting our applications to run" - However, if Microsoft wants to sell me the same application over and over again, but with all of the functions I listed above added in, I'll gladly pay for the new features. People have been critical of Vista for being very similar to WinXP - I cannot argue for or against since I have no hands-on experience with Vista - but it doesn't matter in the context of this discussion.
I wholeheartedly disagree, especially in this instance. Why would someone even BOTHER putting that information online if they didn't want someone else to see it. Facebook is simply a mechanism by which people present their information to others. They simply started doing their job more efficiently. Facebook has a decent set of privacy settings and if people don't like these new features, then they can use those settings.
As a student and facebook user, I think it's a great idea. They have a massive amount of data sitting around, and they started giving it to people in a way that is useful to the user and makes sense. If it's a little too useful for stalkers, that is the poster's fault. Even IF facebook didn't have this ability, I could, using facebook's API, write the exact same thing so that people could find out the same information, maybe even in more specific and stalker-useful ways. If the API didn't exist, a page-scraper could be used. If the information is there, people will find useful ways of accessing it.
The fact is, ANYTHING posted on the internet is "publicly announced" unless a concerted effort is made to lock that information down. A look at recent events regarding AOL's user data will show that - they didn't announce that they'd posted the data in any traditional sense (and if they did, that's not what got the attention) - it was when a blogger found it that people started getting angry, and that same possibility exists for any data. On facebook, the consequences may be more along the lines of someone starting to spread that information offline in undesired ways, but that is still the fault of the person who made the information available in the first place (hint: it's not facebook).
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When I pay for my music, it is with the knowledge that everyone who had a part in getting that music into my hands gets a piece of the pie. I may not completely agree with the amounts, but I know that the artists, managers, publicists, distributors, riaa (shudder), labels, and various others get a little bit of it. When you pay for music, you are only giving money to the distributor. Bittorrent is a distributor too, though.
I'm not trying to flame you for not paying the artist. The legality is a totally seperate question. But the way I see it, in your market, you have three main sources to get your music from: 1)the labels (about a dollar a song), 2)allofMP3 (about 10 cents a song, if I remember correctly), or 3)Peer to Peer (eg: bittorrent - free). My question for you is this - you are obviously concerned with price if you already decided that the labels are too expensive, so why aren't you using bittorrent. It is no less legal than allofmp3, it's cheaper (free), just as fast, has higher quality rips, and still only supports the distributor (who can provide it to you for free because their marginal cost is nothing). Why, when going for cheaper items, did you stop at 10 cents when there is an equal or better product for free?
have you installed a copy of IE7? It has integrated WGA. I had to do it at work on a bunch of computers, and while it didn't require any input, it was still a bit of a bother.
EXACTLY - I think that too much is labeled as fud on slashdot, but this CERTAINLY is fud.
I think you can also get it for like 10 bucks in one of those cheapo plug-the-joystick-into-the-tv-and-the-game-runs things.
But i know nothing about the game
I would hope so, but the problem is that there have been plenty of things like this before, and no legal repercussions. MMOs like WoW deactivate accounts all the time for cheating, which is just a violation of the EULA, not blatant stealing. Valve does it frequently as well. The sad state is that this may be the future. I hope not.
wait wait wait. Maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he just hasn't seen the prequels yet.
Nevermind, while I was posting, someone answered my question above.
From TFA:
One thing I don't get is how Google Earth has the resolution or frequency of updates that you'd need to monitor anything.
I live in a major urban area in California, and while the resolution is easily up to snuff for IDing swimming pools, cars, and the occasional frisbee, the image data is easily over 3 years old (denoted by the fact that my neighbor still has his doughboy swimming pool in their pictures, which I personally helped him uninstall long ago). In addition, once you leave the urban areas on this map, the resolution goes to crap.
This seems odd to me, so my question is: does Google, for some odd reason update images of the Amazon more often than they update major metropolitan areas (or at least mine)? Is the resolution of their land good enough? If so, can somebody explain to me what sort of incentive they have for this sort of thing?
Aha! That assertion would be correct, if we were good at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which we suck at. We tend to set records every single year for greenhouse gas emissions, and lucky for you, a study just out shows that to be true with 2005 as well.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
In addition, the system is EXTREMELY complex, and even if we were good at emitting fewer greenhouse gases (which, I reiterate, we suck at), it could take many decades to return to previous levels, assuming we haven't crossed any critical thresholds, in which case it may take centuries or millenia - nobody really knows, we just know that the system takes a long time to respond. This is partially because the oceans are such a huge buffer of CO2, but there are so many unknown factors. It's a chaotic system.
- Create diverse long-term projects, such as designing some sort of system that is useful for you, or contributing to another team's project - this will help build a portfolio, and teach you practical skills
- Be very skilled in at least one language, but be able to read documentation on others to start programming in them quickly
- If you plan on college, student jobs websites are often provided by schools - not all of them have horrible pay. If you don't, get your name out there by doing work for those you know or by applying to companies that do work similar to what you have in your portfolio
- Make sure you know how to have your programs use databases, whichever language you're working in. Learn how to write efficient SQL queries and efficient methods of data storage in the database. They are becoming more and more important, depending on what sort of jobs you are doing.
These are a few things that have really helped me personally, however computer science is not my field, so my jobs are not necessarily as high level in CS type stuff as ones you may be looking for.no, alt+F4 works well too
Sounds like we'll be invading the UK then. A bunch of friends of mine who visited there in Summer of 2003 saw a billboard while leaving the airport that was just two bare breasts with the phrase "Weapons of Mass Distraction."
I disagree. If you read PC Gamer (US, I know little about PC Gamer UK), you would know that most (if not all) of the editorial staff members have degrees in journalism, and plenty of experience in gaming. In addition, they have not hesitated to be harsh on a game that has bought substantial ad space in their magazine. However, your point about personal interest is valid, but only on their podcast where personal interests are allowed.
"We know, but those laws blow"
I work for a large Internet company that you've heard of
...or google
You work for a porn site????
I kind of want to cry...
but in a good way.
the flanders children? I say, let them eat dirt and get hurt now so they don't all die of the common cold or cry because they broke their arm when they're 37. It truly works. Just look at how long civilization has lasted.
anyone else reminded of when facebook made the news feed, and everyone complained about their information being too accessible. Simple answer to both problems: If you don't want people to see it, you shouldn't put it on the internet.
personally, I'd rather have this over some other sort of dreaded copy protection scheme where the game doesn't work or my whole computer gets security holes blown in it, but that's just my preference.
also, there are many ways to get steam to not run at startup, one of which is a setting withing the software, the others involve msconfig, or editing your registry. Take a look around, you'll be pleasantly suprised.
The upside of adsense is that maybe it will keep youtube in the black, keeping around a service that is actually rather handy. There has been a lot of talk about youtube not making enough money for its bandwidth bills, and maybe the guys over in google's adsense dept can help fix that.
this isn't to be meanspirited, because I think you're making an excellent point, but what you said made me think of future postings from people playing spore talking about how they ran out of evolution points and it made them realize just how much they love their right arm.
Only an idiot would believe this service gives them "an electronic communications channel that leaves not a trace of its contents or the identities of the participants."
Sounds like a government contract is in order then!
Maybe XP is "a pretty good OS", the trouble is, it's not significantly different from the OSs that preceded it, and that's because the Windows monopoly is acting as a huge roadblock across progress in the field.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Windows XP has stability whereas 9x was severely lacking. WinXP SP2 has a modest attempt at built in security (though it could be better - still 9x had nil). WinXP has broadband support natively whereas 9x and even ME had none (I realize that broadband was rare then, but it is still an advancement). Remote Desktop, System Restore, easy hardware installation, a halfway decent media player, DirectX 8 and 9, NTFS, and the list goes on.
Computer users should be able to run their applications of choice on the OS of their choice, running on the hardware of their choice.
Exactly what windows DOES allow users to do. I don't use Windows Media Player, I use Winamp. I don't use Outlook Express, I use Thunderbird. I don't use IE, I use Firefox. Ok, I do use Remote Desktop, but that's because I think it's better than VNC in many respects (but I could use it). I use my own backups in conjunction with the excellent system restore, and many games I play use OpenGL instead of DirectX. In addition, most of these things that I personally use can be set as defaults overriding the use of microsoft's own applications. However, by bundling their own applications, they give me a functional and diverse OS straight out of the box. As far as the "hardware of my choice" - I have upgraded almost everything in my computer since I bought it and kept the same WinXP install. I have a different motherboard, hard drive, and video card than when I originally installed, and have added and removed various expansion cards. All installed quickly and painlessly from plugin to use.
The operating system should be a fairly minor part of our computing experience - fundamentally, all it is is a way of getting our applications to run
While that philosophy may still be held by some, it is fading with most (except some Linux distros) - however, the most common Linux distributions, plus Mac OS and Windows all are including more and more, because that's what the users want.
The computer industry should be planning for a future where that waste will not repeated, where users can take the applications they've purchased and use them on any new platforms which offer better performance.
This I agree with. It would be very nice to see more of this. We do see some efforts toward this with things like Wine, but even that isn't really cross-platform compatibility. Interpreted languages are excellent for this, and there are many full-scale apps that will run cross-platform because they were written in Java and not C. The internet itself practically runs on portable code, what with html, css, apache, perl, php, ruby, python, etc. Unless you include a platform specific module in your code, it is all cross-platform.
Sadly, instead, the software industry is gearing itself towards selling their customers the same application over and over again.
Well, that is the basic premise of an OS. If you'd like, you can keep running on DOS or Win 3.1 which will do, as you say, the basic tasks of "getting our applications to run" - However, if Microsoft wants to sell me the same application over and over again, but with all of the functions I listed above added in, I'll gladly pay for the new features. People have been critical of Vista for being very similar to WinXP - I cannot argue for or against since I have no hands-on experience with Vista - but it doesn't matter in the context of this discussion.
I wholeheartedly disagree, especially in this instance. Why would someone even BOTHER putting that information online if they didn't want someone else to see it. Facebook is simply a mechanism by which people present their information to others. They simply started doing their job more efficiently. Facebook has a decent set of privacy settings and if people don't like these new features, then they can use those settings.
As a student and facebook user, I think it's a great idea. They have a massive amount of data sitting around, and they started giving it to people in a way that is useful to the user and makes sense. If it's a little too useful for stalkers, that is the poster's fault. Even IF facebook didn't have this ability, I could, using facebook's API, write the exact same thing so that people could find out the same information, maybe even in more specific and stalker-useful ways. If the API didn't exist, a page-scraper could be used. If the information is there, people will find useful ways of accessing it.
The fact is, ANYTHING posted on the internet is "publicly announced" unless a concerted effort is made to lock that information down. A look at recent events regarding AOL's user data will show that - they didn't announce that they'd posted the data in any traditional sense (and if they did, that's not what got the attention) - it was when a blogger found it that people started getting angry, and that same possibility exists for any data. On facebook, the consequences may be more along the lines of someone starting to spread that information offline in undesired ways, but that is still the fault of the person who made the information available in the first place (hint: it's not facebook).