10. The recycle truck has already taken away your old p.c. 9. You're thankful for getting that Bush tax cut. 8. Bill Gates has never steered you wrong before. 7. A general willingness to bend over. 6. You will dance but wont, because people stare. 5. The liquid nitrogen for the cooling system has arrived. 4. You won't even ask for a reach around. 3. No back bone 2. Fat wallet 1. No Brain
If you want it to last for 100 years then use something that has been around for 100 years. Record players have, and if they should ever become totally obsolete it would not take too much engineering to recreate a record player which would have decent enough quality to do justice to granddad's voice.
Just try to imagine what it would take to recreate a cd player and the formats needed to play it.
Transfer your tapes to digital, clean them up and have some records pressed and pass them around to your family. Donate a few to historical societies or libraries. This is another important aspect of archiving, the more copies you have distributed the better chance there is of one surviving
CDs have not been around 100 years to back up that claim and from what I have seen a small amount of damage destroys the usefulness of the disk, unlike vinyl where one skip does not leave the record unplayable.
As a response to the MPAA and the general out of control nature of big entertainment I am not allowing myself to support any property controlled by them. This includes and is not limited to; Hollywood movies, Recorded music owned by large record companies, Subscribing to cable or satellite services and especially Micro$oft.
The profits of these corporations are only percentage of revenue and just a small reduction of revenue would severely impact them (well except M$ where they would need a really big hit, but that is possible too)
Read Lawrence Lessig's new book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. http://cyberlaw-temp.stanford.edu/fre eculture.pdf
Distributed legal actions could be carried out by masses of ISPs all with the their own records against one spammer ALL AT THE SAME TIME. 10 bucks per spam does not sound like a bad penalty when divided over thousands of ISPs and court cases.
"As general manager for platform strategies at Microsoft, Martin Taylor leads the software company's charge to contain and eventually eliminate open-source technology"
This is what happens when corporations are allowed to grow to a size that the individual becomes unimportant. These transnational corporations have become immortal monsters with there own survival is the only reason for being.
Bigger is not better. Large should always be regarded with suspicion. Please take a moment to examine this. If your needs are dependent on a large corporation you should re-evaluate your needs. The very people who built up the corporations are now cheaply replaceable so it will be done, hey its' good for the bottom line. Forget what you were promised, you're screwed and if you singed a NDA you might not even be able to get another job in your field (if there are any!)
So like sheep (freshly fleeced sheep at that) you can line up at the next WorldCom, Enron or Dell Support Center or you can break free and join the revolution. If you have to be a number be number 1.
Or; America is irrelevant. You no longer matter. You have started to use force to feed your appetite for foreign oil, food, whatever. Your biggest corporations are checking out and finding better places for its labour and its headquarters (Remember Tyco?) Your presidents come in Cracker Jack boxes. Your education level is going down. As soon as your bank accounts and your credit has been drained you WILL be the third world. (Scary isn't it?)
Excellent! If you were to take a look at your spam, how much of it originates from M$ machines? I would guess it would be over 50% for most servers, a quick test of mine turned over a 70% M$ born spam count for one day (and that was a very quick look, if I spent more time searching I am sure it would be higher).
Obviously the greatest reduction in spam would be to immediately shut down all Windows systems, since Uncle Fester (I like that one) would never admit that at least he could work on the right problem and not blow smoke up our asses with a lame idea like this one. He should be viewed as "Fester the Spammer" until his house is cleaned up.
If M$ were to clean up there act it would cause the Linux world to review our weaknesses and possibly tighten up our security and that could be what they fear most.
M$ should be spending the time and money preventing their mail servers from becoming compromised and finding ways for its desktops to not get so easily owned and that would prevent the majority of spam that comes to my systems.
This "spam filter" stuff when performed by M$ is an insult when it does little to address the problem which it has a contributed to.
--- Please stop discussing M$ fixes on/. Bill should pay for tech support if he wants to own the code.
I see this same idea again and again and I HATE it.
So, because something has worked for the last fifty to one hundred years that is how it must always be? Just keep a bad idea on life support for about a generation and that's it you can go to court and be declared a national necessity.
It is not the artist but the industry that has popped up to support the commercialization of music that are in trouble here and since they all have skills other than being artist they should be able to find work in other industries. End of story. Thanks music biz, it was nice knowing you but as of about now you are all dinosaurs. You have to do what so many others before you have done, go somewhere else and get a job.
Now back to the artist, my friend is in a band that has been around for over twenty years. They have had a few "record deals" but have always kept ownership of the music. They tell me they have always made more money touring and selling from the fan club than any contract. Now with the internet they are making more money than ever and the fan club (paid members) is the largest it has ever been.
It is the opinion of this band that "music sharing" helps them because they would never get on the radio any way or not enough to help but when someone finds their music and likes it, it eventually leads them to the web site or a show and that, is what brings in the money.
So this proposed tax (and that is what it is, Canadian's have a problem being honest with taxation) will increase costs to the consumer, devalue what ever funds are collected (the cost to process this tax), and what little gets back will likely go into the wrong hands.
Now more bad effects, by propping up a dying system with tax dollars you not only put off the enviable but the wasted (now) tax dollars put a negative effect on the economy, exactly the opposite effect you were hoping for in the first place. Gee thanks.
Over at MicroVote they have a page for news about the company and its product at, http://www.microvote.com/html/news.htm
I bet this item will get pushed down the MicroVote memory hole in a hurry and if any effort is put into it, it will be by the PR and Marketing departments.
Had this been a free software, GNU style project this event would at least become a permanent record for others to learn from but a private company is motivated to hide the whole thing and make sure nobody ever hears about it again.
"Software that is essential to freedom must be free."
And we will push a tired processed image research has told us the board, middle class, slightly below average intelligence youth with disposable income market will accept as cool" That's it, just what the world needs more time spent on selling shit.
The perception of "Cool" has been co-opted by the advertising industry for so long that anyone with two synapses to rub together knows it is totally fake and only designed to separate you from your money, thats is all!
If everybody is doing it, how can it be cool? Ever seen someone who tries to buy cool, are they cool?
I world is a big place and there are infinite possibilities why take someone else's choice, especially when that person is only doing it to get your money.
Disney was obligated by Dali's trust to release a film or forever loose the rights those images. Now upon releasing the film Disney will lock up the rights forever (as copyright now stands) Notably this is the final year of that agreement.
I would love to see those Dali images but now they have been somewhat cheapened by the agenda of hordes of lawyers to own the world.
Disney was obligated by Dali's trust to release a film or forever loose the rights those images. Now upon releasing the film Disney will lock up the rights forever (as copyright now stands) Notably this is the final year of that agreement.
I would love to see those Dali images but now they have been somewhat cheapened by the agenda of hordes of lawyers to own the world.
I was traveling on business along the east coast last week and tried to use the hotel ethernet in my room to add some domestic flights to my schedule and found www.orbitz.com would not take my cards because they were out of country! Yea Orbitz you can't trust Diners Club and AMEX can you?
How could you go into court and say the current software art is stable enough that you could expect your plan to control the market through your programming to work in the first place, Microsoft?
In industry it is common for pieces of equipment that use a lot of supplies (e.g.. high end printers) for the manufacturer to discount the equipment in exchange for a contract to purchase a certain amount of supplies. You may buy supplies from another supplier but you must honor the contract for the amount of supplies to get the machine at a discount. In the Xbox case they want all your business and they don't want any competition.
Could an auto manufactuer sell a car that would only use its branded supplies and its branded parts? Would the law allow the manufacturer to go after those who decided to use Esso gas and oil or Walmart air filters?
A similar point was argued a few years ago when the auto makers were forced to recognize routine maintenance performed by independent auto service as valid for maintaining warranty protection. If you have warranty service done any licensed mechanic your warranty is valid, not just the factory mechanics.
----------------- -Saying Micro$oft has security problems is like running into a burning theater and yelling fire.
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Virgins who have had Bill Gates.
"Small, he's got bigger ideas"
It's my PDA,
it's my phone,
it runs all my old palm shit.
iSync it with PDF reader.
I read Free Culture on it.
Got Chonsky up next.
10. The recycle truck has already taken away your old p.c.
9. You're thankful for getting that Bush tax cut.
8. Bill Gates has never steered you wrong before.
7. A general willingness to bend over.
6. You will dance but wont, because people stare.
5. The liquid nitrogen for the cooling system has arrived.
4. You won't even ask for a reach around.
3. No back bone
2. Fat wallet
1. No Brain
If you want it to last for 100 years then use something that has been around for 100 years. Record players have, and if they should ever become totally obsolete it would not take too much engineering to recreate a record player which would have decent enough quality to do justice to granddad's voice.
Just try to imagine what it would take to recreate a cd player and the formats needed to play it.
Transfer your tapes to digital, clean them up and have some records pressed and pass them around to your family. Donate a few to historical societies or libraries. This is another important aspect of archiving, the more copies you have distributed the better chance there is of one surviving
CDs have not been around 100 years to back up that claim and from what I have seen a small amount of damage destroys the usefulness of the disk, unlike vinyl where one skip does not leave the record unplayable.
As a response to the MPAA and the general out of control nature of big entertainment I am not allowing myself to support any property controlled by them. This includes and is not limited to; Hollywood movies, Recorded music owned by large record companies, Subscribing to cable or satellite services and especially Micro$oft.
e eculture.pdf
The profits of these corporations are only percentage of revenue and just a small reduction of revenue would severely impact them (well except M$ where they would need a really big hit, but that is possible too)
Read Lawrence Lessig's new book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.
http://cyberlaw-temp.stanford.edu/fr
If you must run windows, this thread (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1 0/2003/08/4/85251) appears to be the only close to safe way.
Distributed legal actions could be carried out by masses of ISPs all with the their own records against one spammer ALL AT THE SAME TIME. 10 bucks per spam does not sound like a bad penalty when divided over thousands of ISPs and court cases.
"As general manager for platform strategies at Microsoft, Martin Taylor leads the software company's charge to contain and eventually eliminate open-source technology"
This is what happens when corporations are allowed to grow to a size that the individual becomes unimportant. These transnational corporations have become immortal monsters with there own survival is the only reason for being.
Bigger is not better. Large should always be regarded with suspicion. Please take a moment to examine this. If your needs are dependent on a large corporation you should re-evaluate your needs. The very people who built up the corporations are now cheaply replaceable so it will be done, hey its' good for the bottom line. Forget what you were promised, you're screwed and if you singed a NDA you might not even be able to get another job in your field (if there are any!)
So like sheep (freshly fleeced sheep at that) you can line up at the next WorldCom, Enron or Dell Support Center or you can break free and join the revolution. If you have to be a number be number 1.
Or; America is irrelevant. You no longer matter. You have started to use force to feed your appetite for foreign oil, food, whatever. Your biggest corporations are checking out and finding better places for its labour and its headquarters (Remember Tyco?) Your presidents come in Cracker Jack boxes. Your education level is going down. As soon as your bank accounts and your credit has been drained you WILL be the third world. (Scary isn't it?)
"When I got the 17' Powerbook"
Wow a 17 foot Powerbook. How about a beowulf cluster of these!
To prevent monolopies abusing power in the future, EU software patents must be squashed now.
Excellent! If you were to take a look at your spam, how much of it originates from M$ machines? I would guess it would be over 50% for most servers, a quick test of mine turned over a 70% M$ born spam count for one day (and that was a very quick look, if I spent more time searching I am sure it would be higher).
Obviously the greatest reduction in spam would be to immediately shut down all Windows systems, since Uncle Fester (I like that one) would never admit that at least he could work on the right problem and not blow smoke up our asses with a lame idea like this one. He should be viewed as "Fester the Spammer" until his house is cleaned up.
If M$ were to clean up there act it would cause the Linux world to review our weaknesses and possibly tighten up our security and that could be what they fear most.
Would you be happier if they were called electrical powered differential reduction resistive temperature devices?
M$ should be spending the time and money preventing their mail servers from becoming compromised and finding ways for its desktops to not get so easily owned and that would prevent the majority of spam that comes to my systems.
/. Bill should pay for tech support if he wants to own the code.
This "spam filter" stuff when performed by M$ is an insult when it does little to address the problem which it has a contributed to.
---
Please stop discussing M$ fixes on
I see this same idea again and again and I HATE it.
So, because something has worked for the last fifty to one hundred years that is how it must always be? Just keep a bad idea on life support for about a generation and that's it you can go to court and be declared a national necessity.
It is not the artist but the industry that has popped up to support the commercialization of music that are in trouble here and since they all have skills other than being artist they should be able to find work in other industries. End of story. Thanks music biz, it was nice knowing you but as of about now you are all dinosaurs. You have to do what so many others before you have done, go somewhere else and get a job.
Now back to the artist, my friend is in a band that has been around for over twenty years. They have had a few "record deals" but have always kept ownership of the music. They tell me they have always made more money touring and selling from the fan club than any contract. Now with the internet they are making more money than ever and the fan club (paid members) is the largest it has ever been.
It is the opinion of this band that "music sharing" helps them because they would never get on the radio any way or not enough to help but when someone finds their music and likes it, it eventually leads them to the web site or a show and that, is what brings in the money.
So this proposed tax (and that is what it is, Canadian's have a problem being honest with taxation) will increase costs to the consumer, devalue what ever funds are collected (the cost to process this tax), and what little gets back will likely go into the wrong hands.
Now more bad effects, by propping up a dying system with tax dollars you not only put off the enviable but the wasted (now) tax dollars put a negative effect on the economy, exactly the opposite effect you were hoping for in the first place. Gee thanks.
Me too, on Win2000. I Boot Knoppix and put the compressed image on the network. DD works so well I also use to rotate the drives.
Over at MicroVote they have a page for news about the company and its product at, http://www.microvote.com/html/news.htm
I bet this item will get pushed down the MicroVote memory hole in a hurry and if any effort is put into it, it will be by the PR and Marketing departments.
Had this been a free software, GNU style project this event would at least become a permanent record for others to learn from but a private company is motivated to hide the whole thing and make sure nobody ever hears about it again.
"Software that is essential to freedom must be free."
Virus victims put a bounty on Bill Gates.
To ensure the safety of the world lets just put all Windoze programmers in jail.
"If you can't do the time don't code for Bill"
And we will push a tired processed image research has told us the board, middle class, slightly below average intelligence youth with disposable income market will accept as cool" That's it, just what the world needs more time spent on selling shit.
The perception of "Cool" has been co-opted by the advertising industry for so long that anyone with two synapses to rub together knows it is totally fake and only designed to separate you from your money, thats is all!
If everybody is doing it, how can it be cool?
Ever seen someone who tries to buy cool, are they cool?
I world is a big place and there are infinite possibilities why take someone else's choice, especially when that person is only doing it to get your money.
http://www.e-smith.org/
Looks like it does all the same things plus apple file sharing.
E-smith has a user/developer community at http://www.e-smith.org/bboard/index.php
E-smith has a nice nice list of developed add on packages at http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgi
Disney was obligated by Dali's trust to release a film or forever loose the rights those images. Now upon releasing the film Disney will lock up the rights forever (as copyright now stands) Notably this is the final year of that agreement.
I would love to see those Dali images but now they have been somewhat cheapened by the agenda of hordes of lawyers to own the world.
Disney was obligated by Dali's trust to release a film or forever loose the rights those images. Now upon releasing the film Disney will lock up the rights forever (as copyright now stands) Notably this is the final year of that agreement.
I would love to see those Dali images but now they have been somewhat cheapened by the agenda of hordes of lawyers to own the world.
I was traveling on business along the east coast last week and tried to use the hotel ethernet in my room to add some domestic flights to my schedule and found www.orbitz.com would not take my cards because they were out of country! Yea Orbitz you can't trust Diners Club and AMEX can you?
Has system software ever shown to be perfect?
How could you go into court and say the current software art is stable enough that you could expect your plan to control the market through your programming to work in the first place, Microsoft?
In industry it is common for pieces of equipment that use a lot of supplies (e.g.. high end printers) for the manufacturer to discount the equipment in exchange for a contract to purchase a certain amount of supplies. You may buy supplies from another supplier but you must honor the contract for the amount of supplies to get the machine at a discount. In the Xbox case they want all your business and they don't want any competition.
Could an auto manufactuer sell a car that would only use its branded supplies and its branded parts? Would the law allow the manufacturer to go after those who decided to use Esso gas and oil or Walmart air filters?
A similar point was argued a few years ago when the auto makers were forced to recognize routine maintenance performed by independent auto service as valid for maintaining warranty protection. If you have warranty service done any licensed mechanic your warranty is valid, not just the factory mechanics.
-----------------
-Saying Micro$oft has security problems is like running into a burning theater and yelling fire.