I didn't say that they were wrong for being extreme wanting a pure distribution, license wise. That being said, one can't deny that the organization is very political. It's what the organization is known for. You say Debian is dogmatic. Our characterizations aren't that far apart, now are they?
You're kidding right? No, seriously? The debian project's extreme politics is what caused this and the user base isn't going to cause a mainstream fork, nor will it impact the Firefox user base by a noticeable percentage. The sky isn't falling.
Gotta second this. Of course you could be obsessive compulsive about music like I am too and have to buy every album of any band you're into. *sigh* Too bad one cant get too much money selling cd's. I could probably afford a new computer if I could sell them... Have had the impulse to do that once or twice after re-ripping (mp3->ogg->mp3->m4p)... I've gotten pretty good at ripping dvd's in an organized fashion:-D
In my office, there is a guy who has a really good job security... being friends with one of the owners. This guy has solitaire up on his computer so often it's the running joke in the office. It's really shocking to walk by his open office door without seeing solitaire up on his screen.
I for one appreciate the foreign contribution to the internet. I mean just look what Nigeria gave us... a whole Internet sub culture where serious criminals will put loaves of bread on their head. Not to mention the serious amount of network security tests performed by the Chinese, Russians, and eastern Europeans. And how can we forget all those infected Windows machines which act as good little DDoS drones and are found all across asia.
Yup, the Internet has massively dwarfed what the US brought to the table.
I've been using Firefox for quite some time now, but I decided to give oepra a go since my biggest complaint was the cost. I can't see paying for a browser without built in advertisements when I can download a very good one for free.
This is a good marketing move on the part of Opera. I can now evaluate it without being turned off by the ads. Also now that I have a regged copy, I'll do more to make sure that my sites will render correctly in Opera.
I don't know if this will add to Opera's bottom line, but it does open the market share up, even if a small bit.
Not that I'm advocating its use, but my OS/X box has a free Windows Media Player that's native to the OS. So, I suspect that narrows the list to *NIX based systems as being unsupported.
Sell out? I'd agree if I ever spotted him saying "M$ is evil, and I'll never work there."
He took a job, he left his intellectual property interests in Gentoo to the Gentoo community. I think he did a great thing for the Gentoo community when he created the distro, and when he gave everything about it that was his to the community.
I wish him the best of luck. I don't know his values well enough to state that he sold out, since to me, selling out is sacrificing your values for money.
The design was done by Emily and Omar at TinySofa.org. As far as I know nothing was stolen from another site, and until this post, I don't think anyone connected the similar appearances. Nothing was borrowed or stolen.
So you're saying they're hiding from the secret service? If so, that's just silly because one court order could open up the records of the registrar as to who purchased the domain. The implication of my post was that they hide who they are from the general public while publishing personal contact information for individual citizens under the context of free speech and that our society is under Uncle Sam's boot when it comes to privacy. That what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander. If they published other peoples home contact information, why won't the publish their own?
Because they know what they did was wrong, that they are criminals, and they violated peoples privacy. Because they know those people will be pissed. Because they know that they are intellectually dishonest.
What i think is humorous is that rncdelegates.com goes to lengths to hide the contact information only providing a hush mail account, on a seperate linked site no less, when they make this claim as justification for providing home contact information for delegates: "Where is the privacy of citizens when the USA PATRIOT Act is the law of the land? Where is privacy when "Big Brother" in the form of government and corporations worms his way ever further into our lives?" Where's their dncdelegates.com site? I'm all for free political speech and contacting representatives, but isn't this a bit hypocritical and biased?
* burn your downloaded aac encoded to cd and then re-rip to avoid drm issues. * I said music related products, I'm sure their profits on the ipods are much higher than the music store.
I am writing you due to the story that I read at the New York Post that you are considering raising the price for songs and albums at the iTunes Music Store (http://www.nypost.com/business/20309.htm). Let me first explain that I am what I would consider your average or target user. I own both a 10 gig and 40 gig iPod, both multiple pcs with iTunes and a G4 running OS/X. I bought my original 10 gig iPod *because* of the music store. I bought my 40 gig iPod yesterday because I ran out of room on the 10 gig and frankly iTunes doesn't make dealing with deselecting large amounts of music to be copied to the iPod easy. I have also purchased somewhere between five and ten albums at the music store, and even purchased an EP today. Granted that's not a huge amount but by my tally, I've spent over $1,000 on your music related offerings all together. I am also an Apple stock holder.
My point in this email is to let you know that I will discontinue use of the Music Store should you raise the rates. The 0.99 price point and the $10 or under album prices is *what is appealing* despite the numerous disadvantages including only being able to download once. If I'm going to pay more than $10 for an album I will go to the store and buy it. That way I get the original artwork, album notes, and something tangible that I don't have to burn to cd to have a backup of. I also expect your sales volume to decrease steadily if you should raise the rates.
From my perspective the music industry wants it both ways, a steady price for the consumption of music, regardless of production costs. Lets just assume that the price of CD's in the market today is not a product of collusion and price fixing. There are tangible costs beyond that of the artists, producers, and engineers. There is the cost to duplicate the media, provide the jewel case, the artwork, inserts, packaging, shipping, and distribution. Ideally iTunes Music Store provides a way for the fans to get what they want cheaper, and for the Music Industry to get more return on their money because of the lack of cost associated with the distribution of the content. Apple conceivably wins in this scenario also because of the overall brand imagine enhancement which entices iTunes Music Store users to buy iPods, macs, and OS/X upgrades.
I hope that my letter is not falling on deaf ears, and Apple doesn't forget what made the iPod and iTunes Music store offering popular in the first place.
A project that I've been actively developing for quite some time is scheduled to be released this week ironically. Framewerk Weblog is designed to be an easy to use, secure, extendable, and is an entry level offering which will be paired with Framewerk CMS and Framewerk Community. More information can be found at http://blog.framewerk.org and http://www.framewerk.org.
Of course the ultimate solution to this particular "problem" is to use $_GET, $_POST, or $_REQUEST, instead of relying on register_globals, and in the case of source.php that would be what, a 2 minute fix?
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That's like putting a Volkswagen Bug body on top of a tank ;-)
No one ever loses their data on their PC.
I didn't say that they were wrong for being extreme wanting a pure distribution, license wise. That being said, one can't deny that the organization is very political. It's what the organization is known for. You say Debian is dogmatic. Our characterizations aren't that far apart, now are they?
You're kidding right? No, seriously? The debian project's extreme politics is what caused this and the user base isn't going to cause a mainstream fork, nor will it impact the Firefox user base by a noticeable percentage. The sky isn't falling.
Wow, I need to drink my coffee. More clear. More clear... To think I even previewed and reread it.
$query = $pdoInstance->prepare('INSERT INTO myTable VALUES ( :foo, :bar:, :val );');
$query->bindParam(':foo', $foo);
$query->bindParam(':bar', $bar);
$query->bindParam(':val', $val);
$query->execute();
I don't see how that could be any less clear.
Gotta love the Shatinator for the camp value.
I've not noticed any lag issues on my setup.. I dont know if it's due to windows vrs osx versions or not.
Gotta second this. Of course you could be obsessive compulsive about music like I am too and have to buy every album of any band you're into. *sigh* Too bad one cant get too much money selling cd's. I could probably afford a new computer if I could sell them... Have had the impulse to do that once or twice after re-ripping (mp3->ogg->mp3->m4p)... I've gotten pretty good at ripping dvd's in an organized fashion :-D
9k songs here. I use iTunes. Memory is cheap... If you can afford to own a big music collection *chuckle*... then you can shell out for the memory ;-)
If you're looking for a script to display your iTunes xml db feel free to abuse my server and grab a php for displaying it @ http://ehpg.net/~gmr/library.php (Source at http://ehpg.net/~gmr/library.phps) This will take a bit to load and is a very large page.
In my office, there is a guy who has a really good job security... being friends with one of the owners. This guy has solitaire up on his computer so often it's the running joke in the office. It's really shocking to walk by his open office door without seeing solitaire up on his screen.
I for one appreciate the foreign contribution to the internet. I mean just look what Nigeria gave us... a whole Internet sub culture where serious criminals will put loaves of bread on their head. Not to mention the serious amount of network security tests performed by the Chinese, Russians, and eastern Europeans. And how can we forget all those infected Windows machines which act as good little DDoS drones and are found all across asia.
Yup, the Internet has massively dwarfed what the US brought to the table.
I've been using Firefox for quite some time now, but I decided to give oepra a go since my biggest complaint was the cost. I can't see paying for a browser without built in advertisements when I can download a very good one for free.
This is a good marketing move on the part of Opera. I can now evaluate it without being turned off by the ads. Also now that I have a regged copy, I'll do more to make sure that my sites will render correctly in Opera.
I don't know if this will add to Opera's bottom line, but it does open the market share up, even if a small bit.
Not that I'm advocating its use, but my OS/X box has a free Windows Media Player that's native to the OS. So, I suspect that narrows the list to *NIX based systems as being unsupported.
Sell out? I'd agree if I ever spotted him saying "M$ is evil, and I'll never work there."
He took a job, he left his intellectual property interests in Gentoo to the Gentoo community. I think he did a great thing for the Gentoo community when he created the distro, and when he gave everything about it that was his to the community.
I wish him the best of luck. I don't know his values well enough to state that he sold out, since to me, selling out is sacrificing your values for money.
Err make that TinySofa.com.
The design was done by Emily and Omar at TinySofa.org. As far as I know nothing was stolen from another site, and until this post, I don't think anyone connected the similar appearances. Nothing was borrowed or stolen.
2nd'ed :)
So you're saying they're hiding from the secret service? If so, that's just silly because one court order could open up the records of the registrar as to who purchased the domain. The implication of my post was that they hide who they are from the general public while publishing personal contact information for individual citizens under the context of free speech and that our society is under Uncle Sam's boot when it comes to privacy. That what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander. If they published other peoples home contact information, why won't the publish their own?
Because they know what they did was wrong, that they are criminals, and they violated peoples privacy. Because they know those people will be pissed. Because they know that they are intellectually dishonest.
What i think is humorous is that rncdelegates.com goes to lengths to hide the contact information only providing a hush mail account, on a seperate linked site no less, when they make this claim as justification for providing home contact information for delegates: "Where is the privacy of citizens when the USA PATRIOT Act is the law of the land? Where is privacy when "Big Brother" in the form of government and corporations worms his way ever further into our lives?" Where's their dncdelegates.com site? I'm all for free political speech and contacting representatives, but isn't this a bit hypocritical and biased?
Yes, I'm using it right now.
To address a few points:
* burn your downloaded aac encoded to cd and then re-rip to avoid drm issues.
* I said music related products, I'm sure their profits on the ipods are much higher than the music store.
Cheers,
Gavin
Dear Apple,
I am writing you due to the story that I read at the New York Post that you are considering raising the price for songs and albums at the iTunes Music Store (http://www.nypost.com/business/20309.htm). Let me first explain that I am what I would consider your average or target user. I own both a 10 gig and 40 gig iPod, both multiple pcs with iTunes and a G4 running OS/X. I bought my original 10 gig iPod *because* of the music store. I bought my 40 gig iPod yesterday because I ran out of room on the 10 gig and frankly iTunes doesn't make dealing with deselecting large amounts of music to be copied to the iPod easy. I have also purchased somewhere between five and ten albums at the music store, and even purchased an EP today. Granted that's not a huge amount but by my tally, I've spent over $1,000 on your music related offerings all together. I am also an Apple stock holder.
My point in this email is to let you know that I will discontinue use of the Music Store should you raise the rates. The 0.99 price point and the $10 or under album prices is *what is appealing* despite the numerous disadvantages including only being able to download once. If I'm going to pay more than $10 for an album I will go to the store and buy it. That way I get the original artwork, album notes, and something tangible that I don't have to burn to cd to have a backup of. I also expect your sales volume to decrease steadily if you should raise the rates.
From my perspective the music industry wants it both ways, a steady price for the consumption of music, regardless of production costs. Lets just assume that the price of CD's in the market today is not a product of collusion and price fixing. There are tangible costs beyond that of the artists, producers, and engineers. There is the cost to duplicate the media, provide the jewel case, the artwork, inserts, packaging, shipping, and distribution. Ideally iTunes Music Store provides a way for the fans to get what they want cheaper, and for the Music Industry to get more return on their money because of the lack of cost associated with the distribution of the content. Apple conceivably wins in this scenario also because of the overall brand imagine enhancement which entices iTunes Music Store users to buy iPods, macs, and OS/X upgrades.
I hope that my letter is not falling on deaf ears, and Apple doesn't forget what made the iPod and iTunes Music store offering popular in the first place.
Respectfully,
Gavin M. Roy
A project that I've been actively developing for quite some time is scheduled to be released this week ironically. Framewerk Weblog is designed to be an easy to use, secure, extendable, and is an entry level offering which will be paired with Framewerk CMS and Framewerk Community. More information can be found at http://blog.framewerk.org and http://www.framewerk.org.
Of course the ultimate solution to this particular "problem" is to use $_GET, $_POST, or $_REQUEST, instead of relying on register_globals, and in the case of source.php that would be what, a 2 minute fix?