Chicagoans should go out of their way to act "suspicious" in front of these cameras if they want to prevent the onset of a nanny state.
These guys do exactly that in New York. They're called the "New York Surveillance Camera Players" and they've had their share of encounters with law enforcement doing what they do.... carrying out skits and plays in front of the cameras.
Bah, I then went on to read the FAQ from the Ubuntu site and found this:
Despite should be no big problem port it to run on ARM, the Nokia devices have proprietary parts that we can't have access so the port will be, at the best, incomplete. My take on that is, at least for now, if you have a Nokia N770 or N800, stick with Nokia's software
seems its more targeted at Intel processors:
Currently, the project is focused on x86 processors, using architectures created by Intel's [WWW] LPIA platform. The only tested device so far is the Samsung Q1 Ultra.
I think this is great. There is good support behind Ubuntu, and hopefully it will start to erode the monopoly of CE et, al. in the small device market.
I wonder if I could fit all of these books in my hand luggage....
I guess you'd be in enough trouble with just about any one of them.
Lists like that make me want to start collecting... I think i'd be best to have Amazon deliver to the empty section next door though,... or the neighbors house while they are away....
>>> You can make anything sound ridiculous if you take it out of context.
You don't even need to take it out of context... the good book seems to do a good job on its own...
"For I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever." (Jeremiah 3:12)
"Ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn forever." (Jeremiah 17:4)
"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid." (John 5:31)
"Jesus answered: Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid." (John 8:14)
"And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth." (Matthew 28:18)
"the whole world is under control of the evil one." (1 John 5:19)
And Jesus said, "For judgement I am come into this world." (John 9:39)
"I came not to judge the world" (John 12:47)
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16)
"Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 6:1)
"Jacob said, 'I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.'" (Genesis 32:30)
"No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18)
We should fear God (Matthew 10:28)
We should love God (Matthew 22:37)
There is no fear in love (1 John 4:18)
I was getting ready to go fishing with a colleague of mine a while back, and his neighbors kid had set up a lemonade stand at the front of their house. I watched the dad tell the kid (loudly) that he wanted his money 'Right now!'. The dad was demanding the kid pay the rent for the space of the stand, and the money he owed for the lemons and sugar he got from the house. "you have to pay your bills!!"
The dad is quite a big business man and appeared to be teaching the kid the lesson that you don't make money by selling lemonade, but by - leasing property, and selling commodities to people trying to make a living, for pumped up prices.
One day the kid will 'get it'.
Instead of trying to get your kid sister to buy you out, you could have had her work for a commission on each glass of lemonade sold, so she could buy more candy... You can then play with your friends, while still making money. Although, you might want to get her to sign a restraint of trade so she doesn't just leave the stand and set-up her own.....
>>>"- Lightsabre trap... to stop others from using it, make it look like the other end is the business end."
Jedi Training Manual, Page 54, Para 12:
1.322 When picking up an unfamiliar lightsaber for the first time, be aware that the lighty bit could come out either end.
>>> "The Free Software philosophy employs its own method of laptop theft countermeasures. If you install only linux on the laptop, the thief will be so confused, he'll return you your computer. Now that's what I call sneaky."
To be honest that is exactly my thoughts if someone was to break into my house and steals my Ubuntu based Mythtv. Best of luck to them. Not much use with a canceled shedulesdirect account, no wireless (keyring being pswd protected) or ability to boot from CD without the BIOS password.
Also, It might slow him down a bit if you put the PC in the main room of the house (near the living room). Although he's just going to 'rub one out' while you've gone to the shops.....
>>> "Most of the eye candy doesn't eat too much CPU...."
I agree 100%. I've been running the Compiz with heaps of features turned on, on my old machine which is a Athlon 1.9GHZ with 512 RAM and a GForce MX-440 graphics card. (see full specs here (see PC called Number2))
While the specs for my 'number2' machine are pretty good compared to what some people are running Linux on, there probably at the lower end of what 'the average Ubuntu user' has, or at least what is being sold with Ubuntu pre-installed.
I read a good review of Ubuntu a few weeks ago in a British PC Mag, and they'd compared the UI to Win-95. I think this was a little unfair seeing as it is so customizable. With Compiz enabled by default it might encourage those shallow Vista Fanboy reviewers that focus on the 'glossy', to actually give Ubuntu the praise it deserves...
Personally, I think it was a good move and puts Ubuntu that much closer to playing with the big-boys in the home desktop arena. I mean, if you're after glossy on your home PC, why pay for Vista when you can get Ubuntu for free?
Having just reviewed the Microsoft XPE OEM and Runtime licenses and a whole bunch of 'off-the-shelf' commercial software for some work I'm doing, navigating what you can and can't do with the software is not all that easy.... (vs what you are required to do under many FOSS licenses). Imagine the worst EULA you've ever seen, then change it randomly and apply a different restrictions to each application you're using with completely different conditions. Then put them all on one system.
The whole time I was thinking to myself this would be all so much easier if all this was under GPL....
(I'm no lawyer, (I don't even play one on TV) I was just looking at 'does our implementation make us subject to clause x'... etc.)
A one hit wonder used to bring in $12-20 in revenue, now they are only bringing in a dollar. More people will buy the $1 hit, but I am sure that 10x as many people will not, so the record companies are looking at significant losses of revenue.
I'd have to argue that their distribution costs are way less with a 'click-n-buy' model than the traditional 'obtain_media-stamp-print-package-wrap-ship-stock- sell_over_the_counter' method. Because they're not in the business of losing money, they would have done the appropriate analysis on the best pricing for single tracks to consider this (seeing as what you mention is likely their most obvious consideration - and if they didn't then their managers are not worth the paper their degree is printed on).
There is NO WAY IN HELL they would let on-line sales lose them money compared to traditional distribution mediums. (As a side note: I also believe that some artists on older contracts aren't getting their royalties for online distribution, so that is essentially pure profit for the record company, but shouldn't be part of the cost/profit equation). They would certainly have modeled the cost and priced on-line single track sales at they're best estimates for making the same revenue, if not more, than a CD - based on exactly the point you raise of e.g single sales vs album sales.
I'd also go as far to estimate the equivalent is not 1 for 1 - i.e an album of 10 tracks is not worth 10 singles, its probably more in the order of 1 to 3 (essentially meaning 5 of the tracks on an album are 'freebies' anyway that the record company never expected to make them money, they're just 'fillers').
You also have to consider that people still tend to spend their same allocation on music, but chose 12 different tracks from 12 different artists, instead of 1 album which has 1 great song. (This is great added value for the customer, but at no real cost to the record company - assuming the customer never has more or less to spend on music.)
While all of these points to form part of the equation, the record labels (or RIAA as their representative) are not showing all the numbers. And I'm 100% certain they know every number and every statistic.
Until the RIAA can demonstrate (through a truly independant study) a decrease in TOTAL sales INCLUDING all legitimate on-line sales leading to a decrease in revenue (considering their lower distribution costs), they will not get any sympathy from me. For an organization that is suing people left-right-and center, and wanting the Government to change the LAW OF THE LAND to meet their needs, they need to be more open. Not forgetting that the Government is supposed to represent the people.
One of the big problems I see with these studies is they don't consider legitimate on-line sales in their argument. They focus on "CD sales", and "Album sales".
They argue:
CD sales are down,
Cassette sales are down,
Album sales are down,
Record stores are hurting ...therefore revenue is down
However:
iTunes just sold their 3 billionth track.
wallmart and other stores now sell online
LEGITIMATE online sales are increasing.
I've found graphs online that show the increase then decline of vinyl sales as Cassettes became popular, then the increase of and decrease of Cassettes, then the increase and now decrease of CD sales... each hump bigger than the last... What these graphs nearly always fail to show is legitimate downloaded music sales.
This paper touches on the total sales but i don't think adequately addresses online sales. Interestingly it points out that there is a direct correlation between New Music Releases and sales.... and shows that there was a downward turn in new music that directly affected said sales. Just because the music world chose to heavily promote a handful of crap artists (i.e KFed - and who the fuck recorded that Paris Hilton album? - no not the pr0n, the album) and promote the hell of these half baked untalented hacks, they shouldn't blame US for their lack of sales (if indeed sales have gone down.)
Personally, I need to see an independent study of what the ACTUAL sales are that INCLUDES legitimate online sales INCLUDING singles, before I believe any more of the drivel coming from the RIAA et al.
because i my income is below 3k a year doesnt mean i cannot steal a car worth 50k.
that does not mean i am on the side of RIAA or something, but thats just the point.
That is not the argument, you need to extend it one more step: "Does that mean you would have otherwise purchased that $50K car if you hadn't stolen it?
well, i was considering getting out of bed... but if China's going to steal all my ideas... what's the point. I may as well get some more sleep / watch tv.
Slashdot Mirror
Bah... didnt preview... here is the URL: for the New York Surveillance Camera Players
"Well thurs your problem!"
seems its more targeted at Intel processors:
Still good though.
Ubuntu FTW!!!
Ubuntu are coming close with their Mobile and Embedded Version, however it appears to be not specifically aimed at phones but "the emerging class of ultra mobile, small handheld devices which are Internet-enabled. (and the author gives the Nokia N800 as an example.)
I think this is great. There is good support behind Ubuntu, and hopefully it will start to erode the monopoly of CE et, al. in the small device market.
>>>"Which is exactly why we need to detain anybody reading a book in a foreign language!"
So I guess 'foreign language' means any that are not listed here:
Navajo, Dakota, Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Cherokee, Western Apache, Pima, Choctaw, Keres, Zuni, Ojibwe, Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro, Carolinian, English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Tagalog, Ilocano, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Gullah , African-American Vernacular English, Hawaiian Creole, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, American Sign Language , Black American Sign Language, Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language, & Esperanto.
If your language aint on that list, then its foreign and you shall be detained!!
I wonder if I could fit all of these books in my hand luggage....
I guess you'd be in enough trouble with just about any one of them.
Lists like that make me want to start collecting... I think i'd be best to have Amazon deliver to the empty section next door though,... or the neighbors house while they are away....
You don't even need to take it out of context... the good book seems to do a good job on its own...
I was getting ready to go fishing with a colleague of mine a while back, and his neighbors kid had set up a lemonade stand at the front of their house. I watched the dad tell the kid (loudly) that he wanted his money 'Right now!'. The dad was demanding the kid pay the rent for the space of the stand, and the money he owed for the lemons and sugar he got from the house. "you have to pay your bills!!"
The dad is quite a big business man and appeared to be teaching the kid the lesson that you don't make money by selling lemonade, but by - leasing property, and selling commodities to people trying to make a living, for pumped up prices.
One day the kid will 'get it'.
Instead of trying to get your kid sister to buy you out, you could have had her work for a commission on each glass of lemonade sold, so she could buy more candy... You can then play with your friends, while still making money. Although, you might want to get her to sign a restraint of trade so she doesn't just leave the stand and set-up her own.....
Sounds like this computer approaches what you're talking about...
>>>"- Lightsabre trap... to stop others from using it, make it look like the other end is the business end."
Jedi Training Manual, Page 54, Para 12:
1.322 When picking up an unfamiliar lightsaber for the first time, be aware that the lighty bit could come out either end.
Don't you know anything???
Agree. Just don't think the average home-break-in thug knows how.
>>> "The Free Software philosophy employs its own method of laptop theft countermeasures. If you install only linux on the laptop, the thief will be so confused, he'll return you your computer. Now that's what I call sneaky."
To be honest that is exactly my thoughts if someone was to break into my house and steals my Ubuntu based Mythtv. Best of luck to them. Not much use with a canceled shedulesdirect account, no wireless (keyring being pswd protected) or ability to boot from CD without the BIOS password.
>>> "At what point exactly did they tell him he was under arrest?"
So if they were not arresting him, but forcibly escorting him from the building, could he hit them up for attempted kidnapping?
... removing temptation? How? A quick hand shandy from mom in the morning? ewwwww....
"I had a bunch of friends who had ssh servers... "
Chances are you needed the pr0n 'cos i get the feeling you weren't hanging out with any chicks...
Exactly.
Also, It might slow him down a bit if you put the PC in the main room of the house (near the living room). Although he's just going to 'rub one out' while you've gone to the shops.....
>>> "Most of the eye candy doesn't eat too much CPU...."
I agree 100%. I've been running the Compiz with heaps of features turned on, on my old machine which is a Athlon 1.9GHZ with 512 RAM and a GForce MX-440 graphics card. (see full specs here (see PC called Number2))
While the specs for my 'number2' machine are pretty good compared to what some people are running Linux on, there probably at the lower end of what 'the average Ubuntu user' has, or at least what is being sold with Ubuntu pre-installed.
I read a good review of Ubuntu a few weeks ago in a British PC Mag, and they'd compared the UI to Win-95. I think this was a little unfair seeing as it is so customizable. With Compiz enabled by default it might encourage those shallow Vista Fanboy reviewers that focus on the 'glossy', to actually give Ubuntu the praise it deserves...
Personally, I think it was a good move and puts Ubuntu that much closer to playing with the big-boys in the home desktop arena. I mean, if you're after glossy on your home PC, why pay for Vista when you can get Ubuntu for free?
>>> ""In other news, man with quantum computer reported missing....""
From the account of witnesses, Police believe the man may be traveling inside a box and there is a possibility he is now dead, and alive.
Having just reviewed the Microsoft XPE OEM and Runtime licenses and a whole bunch of 'off-the-shelf' commercial software for some work I'm doing, navigating what you can and can't do with the software is not all that easy.... (vs what you are required to do under many FOSS licenses). Imagine the worst EULA you've ever seen, then change it randomly and apply a different restrictions to each application you're using with completely different conditions. Then put them all on one system.
The whole time I was thinking to myself this would be all so much easier if all this was under GPL....
(I'm no lawyer, (I don't even play one on TV) I was just looking at 'does our implementation make us subject to clause x'... etc.)
I'd have to argue that their distribution costs are way less with a 'click-n-buy' model than the traditional 'obtain_media-stamp-print-package-wrap-ship-stock
There is NO WAY IN HELL they would let on-line sales lose them money compared to traditional distribution mediums. (As a side note: I also believe that some artists on older contracts aren't getting their royalties for online distribution, so that is essentially pure profit for the record company, but shouldn't be part of the cost/profit equation). They would certainly have modeled the cost and priced on-line single track sales at they're best estimates for making the same revenue, if not more, than a CD - based on exactly the point you raise of e.g single sales vs album sales.
I'd also go as far to estimate the equivalent is not 1 for 1 - i.e an album of 10 tracks is not worth 10 singles, its probably more in the order of 1 to 3 (essentially meaning 5 of the tracks on an album are 'freebies' anyway that the record company never expected to make them money, they're just 'fillers').
You also have to consider that people still tend to spend their same allocation on music, but chose 12 different tracks from 12 different artists, instead of 1 album which has 1 great song. (This is great added value for the customer, but at no real cost to the record company - assuming the customer never has more or less to spend on music.)
While all of these points to form part of the equation, the record labels (or RIAA as their representative) are not showing all the numbers. And I'm 100% certain they know every number and every statistic.
Until the RIAA can demonstrate (through a truly independant study) a decrease in TOTAL sales INCLUDING all legitimate on-line sales leading to a decrease in revenue (considering their lower distribution costs), they will not get any sympathy from me. For an organization that is suing people left-right-and center, and wanting the Government to change the LAW OF THE LAND to meet their needs, they need to be more open. Not forgetting that the Government is supposed to represent the people.
One of the big problems I see with these studies is they don't consider legitimate on-line sales in their argument. They focus on "CD sales", and "Album sales".
...therefore revenue is down
They argue:
CD sales are down,
Cassette sales are down,
Album sales are down,
Record stores are hurting
However:
iTunes just sold their 3 billionth track.
wallmart and other stores now sell online
LEGITIMATE online sales are increasing.
I've found graphs online that show the increase then decline of vinyl sales as Cassettes became popular, then the increase of and decrease of Cassettes, then the increase and now decrease of CD sales... each hump bigger than the last... What these graphs nearly always fail to show is legitimate downloaded music sales.
This paper touches on the total sales but i don't think adequately addresses online sales. Interestingly it points out that there is a direct correlation between New Music Releases and sales.... and shows that there was a downward turn in new music that directly affected said sales. Just because the music world chose to heavily promote a handful of crap artists (i.e KFed - and who the fuck recorded that Paris Hilton album? - no not the pr0n, the album) and promote the hell of these half baked untalented hacks, they shouldn't blame US for their lack of sales (if indeed sales have gone down.)
Personally, I need to see an independent study of what the ACTUAL sales are that INCLUDES legitimate online sales INCLUDING singles, before I believe any more of the drivel coming from the RIAA et al.
That is not the argument, you need to extend it one more step: "Does that mean you would have otherwise purchased that $50K car if you hadn't stolen it?
well, i was considering getting out of bed... but if China's going to steal all my ideas... what's the point. I may as well get some more sleep / watch tv.
jk....
>>> What matters is how fast you are creating wealth....
I'm no economist, but I know there is a difference between investment and consumption.
And, (here's the kicker) consumption does not generally create wealth.
(Unless, of course, you can find someone to BUY your trash instead of having to PAY them to take it / bury it / what ever..)