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Michael H. Collins | 1 May 2002 02:59
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter

A day of internet radio in silence.

* Hundreds of Internet radio stations* and channels across America are 
shutting off their music streams on Wednesday, May 1st, in a "Day of 
Silence" to highlight their concern over the upcoming U.S. Copyright 
Office ruling on royalty rates that may shut down or bankrupt the vast 
majority of the nascent Internet radio industry.

*The Librarian of Congress is required* to set "sound recordings 
performance royalty" rates for Internet radio stations by May 21st -- 
and an arbitration panel (a "CARP") working for that office has 
recommended a rate of $.0014 per listener per song (or $.0007 for 
broadcast simulcasts). Many webcasters say the proposed royalty rate is 
the equivalent of 200% or more of their revenues.

http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/042502/index.asp

Mike
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Collene Pearce | 1 May 2002 06:45

Re: Very OT: Concord digital camera and NT?


Someday, I'd like to meet Bill Gates -- just so I 
could tell him what I think of him and people like
him.  :-(

acp
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Jim Westbrook wrote:
> 
> NT doesn't do USB.  SOL on that front.
> 
> JimW
> 
> Collene Pearce wrote:
> >
> > I have Win NT installed on my Compaq Presario 1200XT
> > laptop.  It has one USB port,but I've never used it.
> >
> > I have a cheapie Concord Eye-Q digital camera, which
> > I'd like to use on my laptop.  I tried to install it,
> > using the Win98/ME/CE/whatever CD that came w/ the camera.
> > The processed barfed -- could not find the driver.
> >
> > So, does anyone have any idea how to get this thing
> > installed??  For all I know, I may not even have the USB
> > port working right.
> >
> > I've tried to find an NT driver for this camera, but
> > can't even find a website for the camera.
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Collene Pearce | 1 May 2002 06:59

Re: Very OT: Concord digital camera and NT?


Well, it's clear I missed something, recently.

I can't see that my question should have resulted
in this type of flame.  I have no idea who the
other of the "two women" is and I'm curious.  
AND -- I have no idea what additional postings
I've made, that prompt comments about "lameness".

It sound to me, like someone is just in a bad mood
today.  ;-)

As to the generous people who sent a legitimate 
reply to my question -- Thank You.  I had no idea
USB support was missing from NT.  Never having had
any USB peripherals, I've never tried to use it until
now.  

I'm not sure what I'll do about the situation -- perhaps
I should just accept defeat and not try to use USB w/ 
my laptop.  It's not as if I need to use my camera with
it, all the time and that would certainly be the easiest
path.  I could bite the bullet and buy a copy of Win2k
for it.  I probably need to do that anyway.  :-(
I will say, though that I'm plenty ticked at Billy Boy,
though.

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Debbie Tropiano | 1 May 2002 05:00

Re: Very OT: Concord digital camera and NT?

Collene -

>From the keyboard of Collene Pearce:
> Someday, I'd like to meet Bill Gates -- just so I 
> could tell him what I think of him and people like
> him.  :-(

Somehow I'd guess that he's already had this experience
(assuming that his body guards allowed it :-).

Debbie
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Clint Allen | 1 May 2002 05:51

Re: Very OT: Concord digital camera and NT?

I very rarely enter these flame-laden threads, but this time I have a burning
question to ask (just a question, not a flame).
Collene, if you are so upset with Bill Gates and your Microsoft operating
system, why would you buy another, more expensive Microsoft product?  Have you
tried a different OS with your camera?  A non-Microsoft one?  Linux, perhaps? 
It does have great USB support and by using it you won't be giving a dime to
"Billy Boy".

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:59:18 -0700
Collene Pearce <collene@...> wrote:
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> Well, it's clear I missed something, recently.
> 
> I can't see that my question should have resulted
> in this type of flame.  I have no idea who the
> other of the "two women" is and I'm curious.  
> AND -- I have no idea what additional postings
> I've made, that prompt comments about "lameness".
> 
> It sound to me, like someone is just in a bad mood
> today.  ;-)
> 
> As to the generous people who sent a legitimate 
> reply to my question -- Thank You.  I had no idea
> USB support was missing from NT.  Never having had
> any USB peripherals, I've never tried to use it until
> now.  
> 
> I'm not sure what I'll do about the situation -- perhaps
> I should just accept defeat and not try to use USB w/
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David McNett | 1 May 2002 05:57

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On 30-Apr-2002, Collene Pearce wrote:
> Someday, I'd like to meet Bill Gates -- just so I 
> could tell him what I think of him and people like
> him.  :-(

While I'm sure that this cheap shot was cathartic, I fail to see what
point you could possibly have.  Windows NT4 dates back to the summer 
of 1996 which is pretty far back on the USB timescale.  If you wanted
USB support in 1996, you pretty much had to run Win95.

Support for USB didn't hit the NT code tree until the release of Win2K
in 2000.  This is, quite conincidently, right around the same time that
Linux found support for USB, too.  I suppose that was Bill Gates' fault,
too?

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Collene Pearce | 1 May 2002 07:58

Re: Very OT: Concord digital camera and NT?


I tried running 4 (or more) distros of Linux on this laptop, 
when I bought it.  It was VERY frustrating.    I could never
find one that would support all 3 of the soundboard, 
graphics adapter, modem, at the same time.
The machine is a Compaq and for various reasons, I'll 
never make that mistake again.   ;-)

As to why I'm irritated w/ Gates -- because he's a sleezy
business man.  I hate "planned obscelescence".  I hate that
he "relanguaged" this industry, just to trap customers into
staying w/ his "below par" OSes.
He reminds me of those evil "robber barons" the govt. 
tried to slap down, around the turn of the 19/20th century. 
(Std. Oil, etc.)

I have 2 linux boxes at home, btw -- neither of them a 
laptop.

Another reason I need a Win2k box at home is that I must
work with it at the office.  I must do this because some
businesses, who should be smart enough to know better, 
have actually installed WinXX servers to run websites, etc.

acp
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Clint Allen wrote:
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> I very rarely enter these flame-laden threads, but this time I have a burning
> question to ask (just a question, not a flame).
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Kevin E. Ivey | 1 May 2002 06:18

Cool: was Very OT: Concord digital camera and NT?

Collene Pearce wrote:
> 
> I tried running 4 (or more) distros of Linux on this laptop,
> when I bought it.  It was VERY frustrating.    I could never
> find one that would support all 3 of the soundboard,
> graphics adapter, modem, at the same time.

Curious, could you list them?

> The machine is a Compaq and for various reasons, I'll
> never make that mistake again.   ;-)

I used to say that, too.  Recently they have been much more compiant...

> 
> As to why I'm irritated w/ Gates -- because he's a sleezy
> business man.  I hate "planned obscelescence".  I hate that
> he "relanguaged" this industry, just to trap customers into
> staying w/ his "below par" OSes.

Absolutely correct!!  Remember all those idiots buying Win95 who didn't
even own a computer?

> He reminds me of those evil "robber barons" the govt.
> tried to slap down, around the turn of the 19/20th century.
> (Std. Oil, etc.)
> 
> I have 2 linux boxes at home, btw -- neither of them a
> laptop.
>
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Joe Barr | 1 May 2002 13:58
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Thoroughly off-topic spam


Essential additions for the workplace :

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
 missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on
 everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
 advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream
only to get screwed and die in the end.

CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube
farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
potato.

SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies
turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay
home with the kids.

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiney.
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Michael H. Collins | 1 May 2002 14:42
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Re: Cool: was Very OT: Concord digital camera and NT?

I  guess I better find another Linux list to join.   I get flamed all to
hell for Talking about Plan9,  which is at least OpenSource,  but it is
perfectly OK to get trolled into rambling on about Microsoft operating
systems.  Again.  And we have been all over the "4 distros don't work"
discussion at least 3 times.  

I guess I am still in a bad mood, right.   hehehehe

Outa here.
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