What makes me laugh is that if you subscribe to a software mailing list for software support, you'll find many poorly written help requests from Indians names and Westerners helping them.
So basically the westerners are helping outsourced workers do the job they are not qualified for. The westerners are doing it for free.
It's people like me who have to clean up the mess people like you make because you'd rather use the hyped up tool than the tool that is suited to the job.
That's Apple and Apple hardware is not indicative of the rest of the personal computer world. It's ridiculously marked up PC components. You get more for your money when you buy PC components.
Why would you run AV on the machine that you think is infected?
I've met a lot of undergraduate 'security researchers', they have excessive egos and abilities that fall short of them. They know very little about writing good software, they're generally only concerned with breaking things. There are a lot of self-proclaimed computer wizards that reinstall on even the slightest problem because they don't know how to clean a PC.
The only malicious software I've been unable to remove was a rootkit with W32 Rammit. Most malware is easier to remove unless it's professional and it's unlikely a consumer will be hit my professional malware, like Stuxnet.
That's pretty low. You really ought to have some licence with Piriform and donate to the various individuals who write those utilities. You're making cash from the use of a free product that someone else has written and the customer could have run themselves.
It's called voting with your wallet. I don't agree with the price of the music, especially given that none of it goes to the artist. It funds RIAA and the execs with big cars. So I don't buy it or listen to it.
If I really want it, I'll buy it secondhand. In your analogy, it's more like me deciding not to work there and work at a competitor:-)
You don't understand it? It's not a dilemma. If you want new mainstream music, fair enough but don't kid yourself you're actually helping the artist which is what the OP was saying that musicians need to be supported but by buying new music owned by the media labels, you're helping nobody.
It's quite simple. The OP said that everything had a price and music has a price to produce it. That is true enough. However in case you have not noticed, an artist rarely makes an income based on sales, They often have a contracted amount they can earn. If you buy from an artist directly (which as it happens, you can only do through small artists.)
The buying small bands is what you should be doing if you actually want to help artists. How is that so hard to understand? Reading comprehension 101?
Of course there is a price. I'm just saying I don't agree with the price as it currently is and so I refuse to purchase it. There is no analogy there, just logic.
I don't need new music, I am not an illogical consumer who has to buy the very next album when it comes out. A audio CD is a digital recording, it makes no difference if you buy a secondhand copy or get it passed down to you. The music is still the same. If you must have your 'mainstream music' when it comes out, fair enough but you are not rewarding the artists and you're probably missing out on smaller bands who are trying to make a breakthrough.
Those two games are brilliant. There was so much thought in them. Shining Force is really good too. Some good modern games are Boktai 2 and Golden Sun (GBA).
There is plenty of music that is free and legally free. Find small artists that release MP3s then buy an album from them if you like enough (Edgen). Use Spotify if you can.
Buy second hand, RIAA gets nothing. I can live without new music. If you can't control your impulses, RIAA will never die. I'm waiting for the most recent Duran Duran album to get cheaper.
Divide the CO2 produced by the number of people on the bus.
It's more efficient if you have more people on bus. With nobody on a bus, it will generate X amount of CO2. Add more people to the bus and increase the CO2 maybe a little due to added weight but it's still more net efficient as those people share the CO2 contribution.
I'd hazard a guess that bus engines are so powerful that a couple of people would make little difference to CO2. People are not THAT heavy. When you compare full load versus no load then maybe you'll see a difference.
I imagine that the most important piece of information regarding the transaction is the supplier and a transaction number. The amount is worthless. How would you match an amount to a product, especially if more than one product is purchased? Many customers pay different amounts for the same product, how will they factor this in? They'd have to ask the supplier what was actually purchased with some kind of order number.
Some services are bought but not redeemed later in the future such as a flight or a cruise ship. They need to work out when a servie is actually utilised.
Somehow I think they'd be better of analysing public transport systems. Such as buses, trains, planes and traffic. If 10 people buy a bus ticket, the bus will expel the same amount of CO2 than if the bus was full. Same with trains, they are quite often under capacity.
There is some algorithms that let you identify music after pre-processing a large number of songs in a database. That's how those TrackID(tm) and Apple Iphone apps work. I think they fingerprint the song and ask the server for a positive match.
If I were designing the clientside application, it would start fingerprint the song block by block (say 5 second blocks) on your PC and send it to Google. Almost like streaming but not the actual audio data as that would be expensive.
Some of those music identification algorithms can detect music played with lots of noise (like in a nightclub) through speech quality microphones.
Our society and economy is so messed up as a waste production economy I can see this actually happening. You are spot on that entire industries will form because of this decision. While it "creates jobs" it's depressing. What ever happened to genuine production of value? I can't be the only one who thinks this tower of interdependent jobs is artificial and unsustainable... Artificial market.
I'd be surprised if it actually stores the file you upload to it. Or if you even upload it (I haven't RTFA). Otherwise they would have so much data to store and duplicate files for the same song. I suppose Google can afford it.
I would design it so that it merely identifies the song (locally or remotely) and then adds a standard version of that song to your account. No need to store anything. Everyone uses the same file on the Google server. That's probably how Spotify works when you add your MP3s.
I would like to know how you imploded and how did you cope? Did any health problems creep up on you like RSI or carpal syndrome?
I feel as if I am on a treadmill (the prisoner of hype is so true!) that won't ever stop or get easier. My knowledge may be obsolete in so many years time but not my skills or experience. Humans generally like stability, curiosity and exploration. Unfortunately we all jump from one technology to another without really thinking about it.
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What makes me laugh is that if you subscribe to a software mailing list for software support, you'll find many poorly written help requests from Indians names and Westerners helping them.
So basically the westerners are helping outsourced workers do the job they are not qualified for. The westerners are doing it for free.
'Stuck in their ways?'
It's people like me who have to clean up the mess people like you make because you'd rather use the hyped up tool than the tool that is suited to the job.
You are a prisoner of hype.
That's Apple and Apple hardware is not indicative of the rest of the personal computer world. It's ridiculously marked up PC components. You get more for your money when you buy PC components.
Why would you run AV on the machine that you think is infected?
I've met a lot of undergraduate 'security researchers', they have excessive egos and abilities that fall short of them. They know very little about writing good software, they're generally only concerned with breaking things. There are a lot of self-proclaimed computer wizards that reinstall on even the slightest problem because they don't know how to clean a PC.
The only malicious software I've been unable to remove was a rootkit with W32 Rammit. Most malware is easier to remove unless it's professional and it's unlikely a consumer will be hit my professional malware, like Stuxnet.
You use freeware software for commercial use?
That's pretty low. You really ought to have some licence with Piriform and donate to the various individuals who write those utilities. You're making cash from the use of a free product that someone else has written and the customer could have run themselves.
I find it hard to believe you are a real person and not a shill. Criminal punishment from buying secondhand? Seriously? Who are you fooling?
Do you buy it full price from the store, if so, why?
It's called voting with your wallet. I don't agree with the price of the music, especially given that none of it goes to the artist. It funds RIAA and the execs with big cars. So I don't buy it or listen to it.
If I really want it, I'll buy it secondhand. In your analogy, it's more like me deciding not to work there and work at a competitor :-)
You don't understand it? It's not a dilemma.
If you want new mainstream music, fair enough but don't kid yourself you're actually helping the artist which is what the OP was saying that musicians need to be supported but by buying new music owned by the media labels, you're helping nobody.
It's quite simple. The OP said that everything had a price and music has a price to produce it. That is true enough. However in case you have not noticed, an artist rarely makes an income based on sales, They often have a contracted amount they can earn. If you buy from an artist directly (which as it happens, you can only do through small artists.)
The buying small bands is what you should be doing if you actually want to help artists. How is that so hard to understand? Reading comprehension 101?
I replied to your AC comment.
Of course there is a price. I'm just saying I don't agree with the price as it currently is and so I refuse to purchase it. There is no analogy there, just logic.
I don't need new music, I am not an illogical consumer who has to buy the very next album when it comes out. A audio CD is a digital recording, it makes no difference if you buy a secondhand copy or get it passed down to you. The music is still the same. If you must have your 'mainstream music' when it comes out, fair enough but you are not rewarding the artists and you're probably missing out on smaller bands who are trying to make a breakthrough.
Most of my music has been passed down to me by my family who have purchased it. That's not pirating although the RIAA would want you to think it is.
What those artists don't realise is that the money RIAA wins never returns back to the artist.
Don't buy premium.
Why should Apple profit from such an amazing game?
Those two games are brilliant. There was so much thought in them. Shining Force is really good too. Some good modern games are Boktai 2 and Golden Sun (GBA).
There is plenty of music that is free and legally free. Find small artists that release MP3s then buy an album from them if you like enough (Edgen). Use Spotify if you can.
Buy second hand, RIAA gets nothing. I can live without new music. If you can't control your impulses, RIAA will never die. I'm waiting for the most recent Duran Duran album to get cheaper.
Have you no self-respect?
Shill.
New media strategies? Your job sucks and you are a pathetic person. You're the cause for many of our societies' problems.
Divide the CO2 produced by the number of people on the bus.
It's more efficient if you have more people on bus. With nobody on a bus, it will generate X amount of CO2. Add more people to the bus and increase the CO2 maybe a little due to added weight but it's still more net efficient as those people share the CO2 contribution.
I'd hazard a guess that bus engines are so powerful that a couple of people would make little difference to CO2. People are not THAT heavy. When you compare full load versus no load then maybe you'll see a difference.
I imagine that the most important piece of information regarding the transaction is the supplier and a transaction number. The amount is worthless. How would you match an amount to a product, especially if more than one product is purchased? Many customers pay different amounts for the same product, how will they factor this in? They'd have to ask the supplier what was actually purchased with some kind of order number.
Some services are bought but not redeemed later in the future such as a flight or a cruise ship. They need to work out when a servie is actually utilised.
Somehow I think they'd be better of analysing public transport systems. Such as buses, trains, planes and traffic. If 10 people buy a bus ticket, the bus will expel the same amount of CO2 than if the bus was full. Same with trains, they are quite often under capacity.
They probably depend on collectors such as yourself to subsidize making more! Whopee!
There is some algorithms that let you identify music after pre-processing a large number of songs in a database. That's how those TrackID(tm) and Apple Iphone apps work. I think they fingerprint the song and ask the server for a positive match.
If I were designing the clientside application, it would start fingerprint the song block by block (say 5 second blocks) on your PC and send it to Google. Almost like streaming but not the actual audio data as that would be expensive.
Some of those music identification algorithms can detect music played with lots of noise (like in a nightclub) through speech quality microphones.
Our society and economy is so messed up as a waste production economy I can see this actually happening. You are spot on that entire industries will form because of this decision. While it "creates jobs" it's depressing. What ever happened to genuine production of value? I can't be the only one who thinks this tower of interdependent jobs is artificial and unsustainable... Artificial market.
I'd be surprised if it actually stores the file you upload to it. Or if you even upload it (I haven't RTFA). Otherwise they would have so much data to store and duplicate files for the same song. I suppose Google can afford it.
I would design it so that it merely identifies the song (locally or remotely) and then adds a standard version of that song to your account. No need to store anything. Everyone uses the same file on the Google server. That's probably how Spotify works when you add your MP3s.
I would like to know how you imploded and how did you cope? Did any health problems creep up on you like RSI or carpal syndrome?
I feel as if I am on a treadmill (the prisoner of hype is so true!) that won't ever stop or get easier. My knowledge may be obsolete in so many years time but not my skills or experience. Humans generally like stability, curiosity and exploration. Unfortunately we all jump from one technology to another without really thinking about it.
Apologies for this expression I just Googled it and regret my wording.
Just meant to imply it would be a massive orgy of corporate interests and expensive litigation.