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So many things to try!-superboyac (December 22, 2009, 10:26 AM)
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...PCLinuxOS just blew me away with its professional appearance and hardware compatibility...Anybody use this distro?-sajman99 (December 21, 2009, 03:53 PM)
i wonder if this means there is room for a major search engine player that had a system similar to google's pageranking, but specifically spread negative scores based on sites actually selling products.. so a site selling products would spread it's negative energy to sites that link to it, etc.
this would penalize some good honest sites...-mouser (December 20, 2009, 01:43 PM)
some reviews may be, they're not illegal under current law.) I feel like you are me, only you've done everything a couple years before I have!-superboyac (December 21, 2009, 12:38 AM)
Tell me, what does the future hold for me?-superboyac (December 21, 2009, 12:38 AM)
The thing is, I'm sure all of these things can be fixed easily if you are familiar with the system. But I don't have the time at this point.-superboyac (December 21, 2009, 01:11 AM)
Flash IS crap. Not necessarily the software itself, but the installation, the update notices, all that is surrounding it. Such an obnoxious program.-superboyac (December 20, 2009, 10:24 PM)
))the problem of course is that there is much more money in what google does-mouser (December 20, 2009, 01:43 PM)
Let go of emotions, and be rational about the whole thing. After all, it's only software, there's no need to be emotionally tied to it.-superboyac (December 20, 2009, 05:11 PM)
) saying that. Motivation: for Making LoseThos:
1986: I had a book called, "Mapping the Commodore 64," when I was a teenager and it told what
every memory location did. I hooked-up Radio Shack photo-transistors to my paddle-port and
relays to another port.
than I have with any other book I've owned with the possible exception of Lord of the Rings. That book, plus a subscription to TPUG's marvelous Transactor magazine, and I was ready to do anything with my C64. Boy could you put that little "box of chips" to a lot of different uses. My biggie was a program I wrote (in FORTH supplemented with some assembly code) that let you use an inexpensive Casio keyboard to play musical notes directly through the SID chip. I later adapted it so that you could also input them into the Kawasaki Synthesizer program for playback. 35. Keep left at the fork, follow signs for 東京 and merge onto 常磐自動車道
Toll road
Sadly, our system is not set up to serve you, Mouser. Or the writers, or the poets. Or even the beer drinkers. It's set up to serve the money-lovers - capitalists.
Capitalism is extremely competitive, and will not suffer alternative systems of value to exist alongside of it. If an alternative system to capitalism produces anything of value, capitalism will consume that value until the alternative system is either destroyed or has transformed itself fully into a part of the capitalist system.-Jimdoria (December 11, 2009, 04:06 PM)
we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.[/i]-zridling (December 11, 2009, 12:09 AM)
Or you could do voice activated. I'm just afraid what would happen if I sneeze.-MilesAhead (December 10, 2009, 01:39 PM)
The internet is by its nature a not-for-profit model, where the goal is not defined as maximizing profits, but rather maximizing benefit for a fixed amount of grant or contribution (dollars).-phillfri (December 10, 2009, 04:11 PM)
How does everyone think we keep increasing economic productivity on a world wide level in the middle of a recession and super high un/under-employment? Its all about maximizing certain outputs for a set amount of dollar cost.-phillfri (December 10, 2009, 04:11 PM)
Firefox downloading has been causing problems for lots of people for several minor releases now. Go to the Mozilla forums and you'll be overwhelmed by all the downloading bug posts!-phillfri (December 10, 2009, 03:50 PM)
Hi everybody,
when I attended a conference about physiological research over the weekend in Holland, the attendants agreed to stay in touch and continue collaborating through the internet.
So it fell into my lap to start a forum on the net, something I have never done before.
Therefore I hope that with the combined brain power of our dear Donationcoder members, I will be able to whip something up in a jiffy.
Now in contrast to the "jiffy" thing is my tendency to be overly thorough and perfectionist as well as forward looking-brahman (December 10, 2009, 08:12 AM)
Looking at the program schedule, it appears that ECW Smash-Ups is going to be a regular feature every Tuesday @ 10:00pm going forward.-40hz (December 09, 2009, 06:01 PM)
Going forward? Where ya been? ECW has been in that time slot for the last two years.-Innuendo (December 09, 2009, 11:07 PM)
)Canadian Recording Industry Faces Massive Infringment Claims
posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Dec 2009 19:19 UTC
And we have news of yet another massive copyright infringement lawsuit in the music industry. This one takes place in Canada, and the infringed party is placing a truly massive claim on the infringing party: 50 million USD, with the possibility of it exceeding 60 billion USD. Bad news? Well, no, not really - you really need to consider the infringing party in this one. This is irony not even the ancient Greeks could imagine.
The infringed party in this particular case consists of, among others, Chet Baker, a leading jazz musician in the 1950, who played various instruments and died in 1988. His legacy is maintained by his estate, which owns the copyright on 50 of his works. The infringing party has already admitted the infringing behaviour, meaning they own at least 50 million USD.
Now, here's the real shocker: the infringing party is none other than... The Canadian music industry: Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG Music Canada, EMI Music Canada, and Universal Music Canada - the four main members of the Canadian Recording Industry Association.
And here comes that sweet, sweet taste of irony, a taste sprinkled in fairy dust and brought to you by pretty pixies riding on pink unicorns: the recording industry successfully argued in Canada that pirates have to pay 20000 USD per infringement, which means that the potential liability exceeds 60 billion USD. "These numbers may sound outrageous, yet they are based on the same rules that led the recording industry to claim a single file sharer is liable for millions in damages," says Michael Geist, Internet Law columnist at The Star. He also holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa.
"After years of claiming Canadian consumers disrespect copyright, the irony of having the recording industry face a massive lawsuit will not be lost on anyone, least of all the artists still waiting to be paid," Geist further details, "Indeed, they are also seeking punitive damages, arguing "the conduct of the defendant record companies is aggravated by their strict and unremitting approach to the enforcement of their copyright interests against consumers"."
People on forums who feel they need to reply to every single post in every single thread. Or in a similar instance, people who reply to every post in a post they initiate even when their input is not required.-Josh (December 09, 2009, 05:49 PM)
)That and they no longer show really good sci-fi.-Innuendo (December 09, 2009, 05:30 PM)
(Though Battlestar Galactica is one of the best TV shows you will *ever* watch...even if you hated the original version or even if you hate science fiction.)-Innuendo (December 09, 2009, 05:30 PM)
