This is a process wherein data might be collected from users of a web site by having them fill out an electronic "form." It includes a means to ensure the form is filled out correctly, a means to "tag" the browser of the user so he/she may be tracked later, a means to store user data for quick and convenient access by administrators, a means to cross-reference user interests from the form data with web site activity, and a means to ensure data is current by verifying users' email addresses through periodic emails sent to users' mailboxes.
I'd have big trouble paying Napster monthly, without knowing how that money would get to the particular artists' whose tracks I've downloaded.
There's also the issue of simply listening: isn't that free? Can't you turn on the radio and hear music for nothing? The problem with the radio, however, is that the songs that are played are those which are being pushed by the various record companies. Napster gives me the freedom to download anybody's music and listen to it. If want to support the band (and thus have more of their music), I'll buy the CD, or support them financially in some other way.
The point is that the consumer should have the power to choose what music he or she wants, where he or she gets it, and how to support the artist. Frankly, I'd like more of the $12-20 I spend on a CD to go to the artist.
I've been using XOSL for a while now, and it's ten times better than LILO. It can be installed on a DOS partition as well as a partition of its own, so if you dual boot Windows and Linux, you don't have to worry so much if your MBR gets hosed.
Not to mention, of course, that it's a mouse-driven, GUI bootloader that is not only pretty, but GPL-ed.
It really bugs me when people take this particular pot-shot at religion: And why put this discussion in the hands of scientists and members of organized religion -- the latter probably responsible for more hatred, bloodshed and cruelty than any other single force in human history? Please, get your facts straight. The 20th Century atrocities of Hitler, Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, et. al., far, far surpass anything, including the Inquisition, that religion has ever done throughout history. And most Christians would tell you that things like the Inquisition and the Crusades were not representative of Christianity at-large, but rather isolated incidents done by a few who perhaps didn't think things through very clearly. Religious people are also human beings. That means they'll not always act according to their belief system, though that's what they strive for.
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...Assuming you survive the ensuing beating, that is.
This is a process wherein data might be collected from users of a web site by having them fill out an electronic "form." It includes a means to ensure the form is filled out correctly, a means to "tag" the browser of the user so he/she may be tracked later, a means to store user data for quick and convenient access by administrators, a means to cross-reference user interests from the form data with web site activity, and a means to ensure data is current by verifying users' email addresses through periodic emails sent to users' mailboxes.
There's also the issue of simply listening: isn't that free? Can't you turn on the radio and hear music for nothing? The problem with the radio, however, is that the songs that are played are those which are being pushed by the various record companies. Napster gives me the freedom to download anybody's music and listen to it. If want to support the band (and thus have more of their music), I'll buy the CD, or support them financially in some other way.
The point is that the consumer should have the power to choose what music he or she wants, where he or she gets it, and how to support the artist. Frankly, I'd like more of the $12-20 I spend on a CD to go to the artist.
Not to mention, of course, that it's a mouse-driven, GUI bootloader that is not only pretty, but GPL-ed.
It really bugs me when people take this particular pot-shot at religion: And why put this discussion in the hands of scientists and members of organized religion -- the latter probably responsible for more hatred, bloodshed and cruelty than any other single force in human history? Please, get your facts straight. The 20th Century atrocities of Hitler, Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, et. al., far, far surpass anything, including the Inquisition, that religion has ever done throughout history. And most Christians would tell you that things like the Inquisition and the Crusades were not representative of Christianity at-large, but rather isolated incidents done by a few who perhaps didn't think things through very clearly. Religious people are also human beings. That means they'll not always act according to their belief system, though that's what they strive for.