"...approved routes for the 500kph maglev trains..."
What the hell kind of unit is kph? kilos per hour? What is that supposed to mean? I appreciate trying to use SI units, but this is just silly. How hard is it to do km h[sup]-1[/sup]?
(obviously make the [sup] bit an HTML tag./. seems to eat it when I use it)
The website was pretty well made, and they had Bomb The Music Industry! signed. Silly name aside, they are a really marvelous blend of punk, twee, and brass, something I could normally never appreciate
They gave away stencils and cds at shows for free, so that fans could make their own t-shirts. They've got a brilliant DIY ethic going on, and they became something of an underground hit without even properly releasing a CD.
So I don't know who tagged this "andnothingofvaluewaslost", but you don't know what you're talking about.
It's very easy to complain about how the RIAA does things, but you need to think up solutions, as well as identifying problems, or you're just being annoying. Quote Unquote make the perfectly valid point that some artists aren't interested in wealth, and can get by on donations alone. Obviously it suits some bands better than others, but it's _a_ solution, not the only solution
So somebody is a "wack-job" just because they have a slightly different view on the interpretation of the Bible than yours (believing in a literal interpretation of the Bible)?
Well, duh. They're on the exact same level of wack-job as someone who believes that Harry Potter is real. Probably worse because they get into office. I'd much prefer hearing that harry potter should be saluted as our lord and savior than hear that ALL of modern biology is wrong.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. I'm in the same situation, installed ubuntu 64-bit and installing and running flash is a complete non-issue... It's never crashed or locked up firefox:/. No idea what problem the original poster (and grandparent) are experiencing that a check of documentation of a reinstall of flash can't fix.
What? That's all very well if it didn't affect anyone else, but it does. Lapses in concentration can and do cause injuries and death. On your own property, do whatever the fuck you like in your car. But other people use public roads, so your actions affect more than just yourself.
Well, not really. If you're saying it's the coldest/warmest day on record then you're comparing it to previous data points. Of course this only works when there are previous points on record, but you wouldn't really be saying it if there weren't, unless you're Captain Spin.
No, not really. A lot of the argument against factory farming is that when the demand decreases, farmers won't breed as many animals. Less animals in factory farms means less animals suffering overall. While most ethical vegetarians are of course concerned about the here and now, and exposing bad conditions in certain farms (something PETA is well known and widely hated for).
Personally I find the whole suffering/not suffering argument a bit... well, it depends on your point of view. The way I look at it is "is this in the animal's best interest?". While animals can be killed with no pain, I'd still rather a much deminished population lived healthy lives on free range farms or infact in the wild, where possible. That's still subject to POV, but the range of opinions as to what is in the animal's best interest is a bit narrower.
Not easy enough. First up, you're transcoding. iTunes songs are hardly high-quality when they're DRMed. if you start re-encoding them, they will sound like utter shite. Why do you think the hymn website puts the "with no loss of quality" bit so prominently at the top in italics? It's important!
You have the added bonus that recording from wave out is always lower quality than the input. Certainly my sound card is such that the output quality is a bunch lower than any input. Try it yourself; get a nice lossless file, follow your steps, compare the new version with the old. it'll sound noticably worse unless you have some pretty funky hardware.
Finally, it's bloody annoying. I mean I have upwards of 30,000 music tracks on my computer, what if I had to do that with all of them? With a couple of months of music, I could easily see me spending all my free time for years getting this done. Sorry, but that's not acceptable.
You and those who agree with you are the reason we are all losing our rights to free speech. He did absolutely nothing wrong. He exercised his First Amendment rights and you somehow defend the employer who revokes his living as punishment. You, sir, are an enjoyer (and abuser) of the rights gained by people who did exactly what this guy did--speak up against authority. How dare you decry his actions? If you hate freedom so much, how about you go to North Korea and then get back to us how nice it is to submit to immoral authority?
Graaawwwwklsfnh!! Do you people even know what the US constitution says?! Free speech cannot be infringed by congress. CNN were well within their rights with firing him, they're allowed to do so under whatever contract they have with him.
You seriously think you're protecting free speech by incorrectly interpreting the US constitution? It's not even interpretting, it's written there in simple prose. Get a bloody clue and maybe the people who try to push unconstitutional laws will take you slightly seriously.
Finally, don't go comparing your "freedoms" to those of other countries. Last time I checked, it was the USA controlling gitmo, not North Korea.
That depends. If you own the work, that is, you hold all the rights to it and it hasn't been licensed to you, then you can do whatever you want with it. If someone takes a photo, it's your decision to take him to court, not someone else's. If it's been licensed to you, and in the terms it says "You may not distribute copies" etc (like a standard CD license), then you might be in trouble. I guess it might fall under "public performance" or something.
It's apples and oranges mostly. If people fully understood the issues at hand here, we wont need to make all these car analogies and whatnot. Copyright infringement is a ball game seperate to other laws, including theft. Don't suggest alternative analogies, just concentrate on the facts. If people did that, rather than trying to woo the public with "You wouldn't steal a car...", we'd have sensible IP laws and the record industry would have accepted defeat already.
Also, someone said that you could add Flash just by going to a web site that required it and clicking on "add plugin." Well, I tried that, and I had to manually install it, myself...it wasn't hard, but it took me about 15 - 30 minutes of reading some "how to" forums before I got it installed.
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Or use synaptic to locate and install it, search for "flash".
Also, I found windows to have these rough edges when I did my first install in a few years. I actually have to open a web browser to install software? Madness.
The listing of nine items just makes it seem more complicated than it is. Infact this is a bunch simpler than the shopping cart model. It just eliminates the shopping cart altogether and procedes straight to checkout. How is this particularly innovative? The shopping cart system came along and was considered innovative, now taking it away is innovative? Get a grip.
I know this may be a little controversial, but can we just skip all the "In Soviet Russia..." jokes? Regulars don't find them funny. They're only modded up by people who've just got mod points for the first time and want to fit in. Come on, be original!
Check out the admin panel. The error message is a zope.org message. Zope is licensed under their own OSS license. Now who's breaking copyright licenses?:)
Your post would be completely accurate a few years ago. Back then, flash was new and shiny and everyone wanted a piece of the cake. Of course usability suffered, but back then it was the trend. Today's accessibility trend moves away from that, at least most modern developers (not ye olde dot-com-boom devs).
All you seem to be focusing on is linking, and that's not how indexing gets done; Meta tags, content, image titles, ALT text.
Uhhhggg... sort of. Linking is actually a very important part (and, unfortunately, one that can be abused). A link from a high-traffic website to yours, with the content "Metallica" or whatever will boost your search ranks a great deal; this is the whole basis of google's algorithms. META tags? Pfft. Barely useful, if at all. Your other points are fair, but miss out on the bigger picture:
The word webpage hasn't lost all meaning - a webpage should still be viewed as a page - a document. It should have a title, and a structure that best fits its content. That means enclosing the "Google" image in header tags, using lists, and so forth. As soon as you nail down this basic, web devving becomes a bunch easier because every decision is an easy one. HTML was initially designed to be like this, but the browser wars screwed things up. It's only now that people are taking a critical eye.
In summary: Search engines read webpages the same way you'd read the source code - it identifies headers, lists, links, etc. Having a shit load of embedded table cells is unreadable to humans, let alone bots. Designing with your source structure in mind scores you good search engine ranks. Every other optimization compared to this is nothing. Don't beleive the SEO people.
<Nash> YES!they caught the bastard who made the blaster virus <Nash> looks like he will be getting 10 yrs max in prison <DDR4life> serves him right <DROSS> Someone is soon going to discover how strangely painful the shower hour in prison is <FiringSquad> He'll probably catch a different type of virus in prison <LexiusTheGenuis> poor kids virginity is going to the recycle bin <Sczoyd> cellmates will probably be giving him some rather large uploads <Antibig> theyll be installing some new hardware in his rectum <FiringSquad> looks like his unprotected port is going to be probed <Sczoyd> I hope he doesnt mind other men using his hard drive <JSP> a roll like him is going to get rolled a lot <Sczoyd> his prison mates are going to have a lot of fun with their new laptop <ShinKurro> someone will find out a new way to spread viruses <Nash> okay, that wasn't really called for.
is not just silly but shows how resistant to change the recording industry really is
Boy even I want an edit button now. Purely for your sake, ya know? I just feel kinda sorry for you. "Phonograph" has some ancient origins. I understand that you (and, understandably many other nerds) would render it "pornographic", but who cares? This is a serious company, not one that tries to associate with youth with catchy slogans, endorsements from skateboarders and advertisements that use the feel good hit of the summer (pun intended, !!! fans)
These people deal with courts and big business. Using a technically correct name doesn't add a damper on anything; they need to be taken seriously in their trade. Feel free to laugh. Did you also know that 8008135 renders "BOOBIES" when turned upside-down on your calculator? Oh the fun to be had.
I mean when was the last time you actually saw let alone played a Phonograph?
Most recorded music is regarded as phonographic. Anyway, I have a turntable and do use it for the odd record. Some records just sound better on vinyl.
The phonograph was the first device for recording and replaying sound. The term phonograph ("sound writer") is derived from the Greek words (meaning "sound" or "voice" and transliterated as phone) and (meaning "writing" and transliterated as graphe). Similar related terms gramophone and graphophone have similar root meanings. The coinage, particularly the use of the -graph root, may have been influenced by the then-existing words phonographic and phonography, which referred to a system of phonetic shorthand; in 1852 The New York Times carried an advertisement for "Professor Webster's phonographic class", and in 1859 the New York State Teachers' Association tabled a motion to "employ a phonographic recorder" to record its meetings.
F. B. Fenby was the original author of the word phonograph. An inventor in Worcester, Massachusetts, he was granted a patent in 1863 for an unsuccessful device called the "Electro-Magnetic Phonograph".[1] His concept detailed a system that would record a sequence of keyboard strokes onto paper tape. Although no model or workable device was ever made, it is often seen as a link to the concept of punched paper for player piano rolls (1880s), as well as Herman Hollerith's punch card tabulator (used in the 1890 census), a distant precursor of the modern computer.
Nine Inch Nails were never on the "other ship". Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) publicly hates his label, and has leaked every NiN release so far. This isn't some sudden turn about. Check out quoteunquoterecords.com for another example (donations based).
I hear a lot of shit on the radio that "this would never work for lesser-known artists", which is a total load of rubbish. The independent artists have been doing this more than the big bands. Of course I'm happy that we're moving away from the fat cats to a clearer artist/listener relationship, and I'm also a radiohead fan, but this whole thing is totally overegged.
Oh come now, you and I both know that this is a load of rubbish.
- web surfing
Covered below
- email
Evolution, yo. Personally I use gmail, but my friend went from outlook to evolution with no issues.
- Word documents
Covered below
- and probably sync their address book with their phone
See below
- manage their photos
F-Spot... And probably a bunch of other editors
- listen to music
Rhythmbox... AmaroK... I use Sonata/mpd. Again, not a problem.
- watch DVDs
Install the css stuff, and VLC supports em straight off. Easier than going through all the shitty windows players packages with your DVD drive.
Web surfing requires:
- A recent browser
Like say, firefox?
- Acrobat PDF plugin
Evince is superior and generally rocks my socks
- Flash plugin (+ Shockwave if they have kids)
Flash is easy. I didn't think anyone actually used shockwave anymore? I haven't seen shockwave in years...
- Quicktime (or Quicktime Alternative)
Covered by our infinite amount of media players
- Real (or Real Alt.)
Works fine under linux.
Word documents requires Office. One would think that could be OpenOffice, but people start sending Office 2007.docx documents around. These simple people with simple computer needs expect to be able to open them and edit them. So they may very soon really need Office 2007
I wouldn't say so. People are going to be using.doc for an awfully long time yet. My school still saves in Office 97 compatibility mode, so just forget about 2007. It will take a long while.
For syncing with their phone, they probably need Outlook anyway
I can't really speak for all phones here, but mine was a total non-issue. Synce and multisync got things working fine
In the end, they need a recent and fast machine, and probably really want Windows and the latest Office on it.
What a waste of recent/fast hardware, when they could be running Compiz Fusion with AWN, etc etc.
Slashdot Mirror
No. Slashdot editors aren't limited to the same markup restrictions as regular users. What would be the point of that?
"...approved routes for the 500kph maglev trains..."
/. seems to eat it when I use it)
What the hell kind of unit is kph? kilos per hour? What is that supposed to mean? I appreciate trying to use SI units, but this is just silly. How hard is it to do km h[sup]-1[/sup]?
(obviously make the [sup] bit an HTML tag.
The website was pretty well made, and they had Bomb The Music Industry! signed. Silly name aside, they are a really marvelous blend of punk, twee, and brass, something I could normally never appreciate
They gave away stencils and cds at shows for free, so that fans could make their own t-shirts. They've got a brilliant DIY ethic going on, and they became something of an underground hit without even properly releasing a CD.
So I don't know who tagged this "andnothingofvaluewaslost", but you don't know what you're talking about.
It's very easy to complain about how the RIAA does things, but you need to think up solutions, as well as identifying problems, or you're just being annoying. Quote Unquote make the perfectly valid point that some artists aren't interested in wealth, and can get by on donations alone. Obviously it suits some bands better than others, but it's _a_ solution, not the only solution
Well, duh. They're on the exact same level of wack-job as someone who believes that Harry Potter is real. Probably worse because they get into office. I'd much prefer hearing that harry potter should be saluted as our lord and savior than hear that ALL of modern biology is wrong.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. I'm in the same situation, installed ubuntu 64-bit and installing and running flash is a complete non-issue... It's never crashed or locked up firefox :/. No idea what problem the original poster (and grandparent) are experiencing that a check of documentation of a reinstall of flash can't fix.
What? That's all very well if it didn't affect anyone else, but it does. Lapses in concentration can and do cause injuries and death. On your own property, do whatever the fuck you like in your car. But other people use public roads, so your actions affect more than just yourself.
Well, not really. If you're saying it's the coldest/warmest day on record then you're comparing it to previous data points. Of course this only works when there are previous points on record, but you wouldn't really be saying it if there weren't, unless you're Captain Spin.
Even so, this still doesn't indicate a trend.
No, not really. A lot of the argument against factory farming is that when the demand decreases, farmers won't breed as many animals. Less animals in factory farms means less animals suffering overall. While most ethical vegetarians are of course concerned about the here and now, and exposing bad conditions in certain farms (something PETA is well known and widely hated for).
Personally I find the whole suffering/not suffering argument a bit... well, it depends on your point of view. The way I look at it is "is this in the animal's best interest?". While animals can be killed with no pain, I'd still rather a much deminished population lived healthy lives on free range farms or infact in the wild, where possible. That's still subject to POV, but the range of opinions as to what is in the animal's best interest is a bit narrower.
One of his associates also uploaded Volume 1 to a bunch of torrent trackers, which is pretty cool, especially as a few of them were quite exclusive.
Not easy enough. First up, you're transcoding. iTunes songs are hardly high-quality when they're DRMed. if you start re-encoding them, they will sound like utter shite. Why do you think the hymn website puts the "with no loss of quality" bit so prominently at the top in italics? It's important!
You have the added bonus that recording from wave out is always lower quality than the input. Certainly my sound card is such that the output quality is a bunch lower than any input. Try it yourself; get a nice lossless file, follow your steps, compare the new version with the old. it'll sound noticably worse unless you have some pretty funky hardware.
Finally, it's bloody annoying. I mean I have upwards of 30,000 music tracks on my computer, what if I had to do that with all of them? With a couple of months of music, I could easily see me spending all my free time for years getting this done. Sorry, but that's not acceptable.
You seriously think you're protecting free speech by incorrectly interpreting the US constitution? It's not even interpretting, it's written there in simple prose. Get a bloody clue and maybe the people who try to push unconstitutional laws will take you slightly seriously.
Finally, don't go comparing your "freedoms" to those of other countries. Last time I checked, it was the USA controlling gitmo, not North Korea.
That depends. If you own the work, that is, you hold all the rights to it and it hasn't been licensed to you, then you can do whatever you want with it. If someone takes a photo, it's your decision to take him to court, not someone else's. If it's been licensed to you, and in the terms it says "You may not distribute copies" etc (like a standard CD license), then you might be in trouble. I guess it might fall under "public performance" or something.
It's apples and oranges mostly. If people fully understood the issues at hand here, we wont need to make all these car analogies and whatnot. Copyright infringement is a ball game seperate to other laws, including theft. Don't suggest alternative analogies, just concentrate on the facts. If people did that, rather than trying to woo the public with "You wouldn't steal a car...", we'd have sensible IP laws and the record industry would have accepted defeat already.
You're posting to /. from the womb? I'm impressed.
Or use synaptic to locate and install it, search for "flash".
Also, I found windows to have these rough edges when I did my first install in a few years. I actually have to open a web browser to install software? Madness.
The listing of nine items just makes it seem more complicated than it is. Infact this is a bunch simpler than the shopping cart model. It just eliminates the shopping cart altogether and procedes straight to checkout. How is this particularly innovative? The shopping cart system came along and was considered innovative, now taking it away is innovative? Get a grip.
Are you being serious?
I know this may be a little controversial, but can we just skip all the "In Soviet Russia..." jokes? Regulars don't find them funny. They're only modded up by people who've just got mod points for the first time and want to fit in. Come on, be original!
Check out the admin panel. The error message is a zope.org message. Zope is licensed under their own OSS license. Now who's breaking copyright licenses? :)
The word webpage hasn't lost all meaning - a webpage should still be viewed as a page - a document. It should have a title, and a structure that best fits its content. That means enclosing the "Google" image in header tags, using lists, and so forth. As soon as you nail down this basic, web devving becomes a bunch easier because every decision is an easy one. HTML was initially designed to be like this, but the browser wars screwed things up. It's only now that people are taking a critical eye.
In summary: Search engines read webpages the same way you'd read the source code - it identifies headers, lists, links, etc. Having a shit load of embedded table cells is unreadable to humans, let alone bots. Designing with your source structure in mind scores you good search engine ranks. Every other optimization compared to this is nothing. Don't beleive the SEO people.
<Nash> YES!they caught the bastard who made the blaster virus
<Nash> looks like he will be getting 10 yrs max in prison
<DDR4life> serves him right
<DROSS> Someone is soon going to discover how strangely painful the shower hour in prison is
<FiringSquad> He'll probably catch a different type of virus in prison
<LexiusTheGenuis> poor kids virginity is going to the recycle bin
<Sczoyd> cellmates will probably be giving him some rather large uploads
<Antibig> theyll be installing some new hardware in his rectum
<FiringSquad> looks like his unprotected port is going to be probed
<Sczoyd> I hope he doesnt mind other men using his hard drive
<JSP> a roll like him is going to get rolled a lot
<Sczoyd> his prison mates are going to have a lot of fun with their new laptop
<ShinKurro> someone will find out a new way to spread viruses
<Nash> okay, that wasn't really called for.
These people deal with courts and big business. Using a technically correct name doesn't add a damper on anything; they need to be taken seriously in their trade. Feel free to laugh. Did you also know that 8008135 renders "BOOBIES" when turned upside-down on your calculator? Oh the fun to be had.
Most recorded music is regarded as phonographic. Anyway, I have a turntable and do use it for the odd record. Some records just sound better on vinyl.
Quoth wikipedia:
Nine Inch Nails were never on the "other ship". Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) publicly hates his label, and has leaked every NiN release so far. This isn't some sudden turn about. Check out quoteunquoterecords.com for another example (donations based).
I hear a lot of shit on the radio that "this would never work for lesser-known artists", which is a total load of rubbish. The independent artists have been doing this more than the big bands. Of course I'm happy that we're moving away from the fat cats to a clearer artist/listener relationship, and I'm also a radiohead fan, but this whole thing is totally overegged.
You'd think they'd just be a shitty band with a great stance/name, but their music rocks my socks :D