It doesn't. If the artists want money from these sales, their labels must sign up with the ROMS (http://www.roms.ru/ - Note most sections not translated to English -- they have been like that for at least five months now). I work for an independent music distribution and a while back we discovered half of our catalog on a couple different Russian music download sites. We discussed this with our labels to see if any of them had any idea about this, and of course none did.
After some research we discovered that by joining ROMS one could theoretically get their portion of the sales. We emailed ROMS on a couple different occasions many (four or so) months ago and to this day we have received no response. One of our labels put it best:
Being that this is a Russian based website, would you honestly give them your credit card number?:)
Male Nibblonian: For a thousand years, the evil brains have been constructing the giant Infosphere, a giant memory bank twice the size of three ordinary memory banks.
Fry: What's so evil about that?
Female Nibblonian: They plan to collect all the information in the universe and store it in the sphere.
Fry: So they're trying to learn things?
Female Nibblonian: Right.
Fry: Those bastards!
Nibbler: Being brains, they feel compelled to know everything. And soon they will.
Fry: I'm as mad as I've ever been.
Male Nibblonian: Once their task is complete, they will ensure no new information arises in the only way possible: by destroying the universe.
What worries me more than crashes of MySQL is the fear that it will do something I don't expect.
That's another thing I seem to see on occasion with little elboration. What exactly do you mean by "something you don't expect?" And why do you think it is more likely to do that than any other database?
It would seem that personal experience is the most common reasoning behind people's dislike of MySQL. But it also appears that a lot of people's experiences come from a while back (e.g. grandparent), and have prompted them to not try it again as it has developed.
personally i would never use mysql for data that i didn't want to risk losing
I hear that a lot without much to say beyond it. But it seems like everytime MySQL and pgSQL come up it's hard to wade through all the zealotry and bs to find any real answers. What exactly do you (and presumably others) base your lack of trust in MySQL's data storage on? I've seen a few personal accounts about how MySQL has f'ed up and lost people's data, but do you know what kinds of things lead up to that? Or, why it would be more likely under MySQL than any other database?
Could it just be that the search engine has determined these domains to hold the best results and just returned these images?
Should the search engine determine which domain has the best pictures, or should I be able to get *all* the results and determine that myself?
I do agree that basing a conclusion on a single search result is a bad idea (and that the cache has a ways to go), but if your reasoning is true that's a good reason not to use MSN's search. Along the lines of "determining the best domains," how would we know if these domains' owners haven't payed MS a little cash to "determine" this? Either way, I'd rather make that decision on my own.
I gave mklinux, Yellow Dog, and I believe a flavor of BSD a try. All came up short ): I even tried all the crazy rituals like removing the battery for 20 minutes to reset the firmware (or something). I was unable to find any AIX CDs on eBay or elsewhere and I have been checking occasionally with no luck. From what I recall booting the CDs can be just as flakey as the multiple diskettes. I want to revisit them one day, I'd love to have the things humming away in my apartment (:
I actually own two of those, both fully updated and maxed out in hard drive space. But for the fucking life of me I could never get either to boot to anything except firmware ): They are currently being used as the legs of a table in my parents house. *sigh*
So because the opinions of people who rate games on that website don't line up with yours, it's "vote-rigging?" Come on now. I agree that Risk, Monopoly, and Chess are probably better games than this, but that doesn't mean I assume anyone who thinks otherwise can't be trusted.
(Note: Every time I sit down at my Mac to work with Maya, the first thing I do is plug in a three-button mouse with scroll wheel -- and so does everybody else.)
And the fact that you can do that 99% of the time with zero hassle from drivers or legacy or yadda yadda is why I (as an Apple customer) don't really care what mouse Apple chooses to ship with my shinny new computer (:
Uh, why did you link to a story about a skiier dying after being hit by a snowmobile? It mentions headphones in one paragraph but immeadiately rules them out. I'm sure there are some much better examples of driver distraction accidents.
Sure, you could argue customers will hold off buying products if they know the next generation is around the corner, but I tell ya....you're an idiot to buy ANY Apple products directly before a MacWorld expo.
So any single person who bought an Apple product a week before yesterday is an idoit? Why? Because they are not total geeks and didn't know a dman thing about this "MacWorld." Come on.
I'm being a bit sarcastic here, but I've heard from too many people that punching out code all day at work makes them very hesitant to even touch a computer at home. For those who are currently computer programmers/engineers, would you say you really enjoy your job, or does it get extremely old and tedious after awhile?
I basically do code all day long, except when I have sysadmin and support duties. I work in a small company of about 25 employees so the sysadmin and tech stuff really isn't much. I've been here for a little over five months and I must say its' been very rare that I've dreaded coming to work. I think every once in a while the constant coding catches up with me and I will have a day where I just can't stand it. But those times are so few that I'd have to say overall I LOVE my work.
Two hitches for me are A) Five months isn't really a long time in the broader scope of things, as I plan to be here for at least five years. And B) I *rarely* ever code at home anymore. This, for me, has been both a good thing and a bad thing. I certainly do miss working on personal projects in my free time, but I feel like my enjoyment of coding is well fulfilled here at work.
I'd have to say the best thing that having a job in coding has done for me, is cause me to code less in my free time and find other things that interest me. In the past five months, I have discovered a love for reading, bike riding, backpacking, and other activities that I never really thought about before. I have even gone as far as to change my major (doing part time schooling) to a liberal arts degree in English.
That's what's great about livejournal. You can say anything you want, it's only one side of the story, and everyone on your friends list will kiss up to you and agree.
How exactly is that any different from the internet itself? I could just as easily register a domain, put up a page full of gossip, generate hits from people likely to agree, slander without names, etc etc. If the problem with blogs is the ability to "say anything," isn't the internet just as flawed?
It seems to be the norm here that people dislike blogs that don't have a "purpose." What exactly is the problem with these? Is anyone here being forced to read blogs about random nonesense? Does it cause some sort of serious problem? If you want to complain about blogs, complain about the ones run by pseudo-intellectuals who feel they should have some sort of say in the world. Most of the livejournal community are just people interested in social networking. Yes, many blogs will just be random bullshit that no one except the poster will ever care about. But, so what? The people flaming blogging in general probably just need somewhere to vent outside of slashdot, a blog maybe?
I apoligize if you were confused. The sentence is misleading, although I imagine most people (on slash at least) understand that voicemail has nothing to do with the phone.
At the time, all of those other phones would've cost me more than $0.00, so none of them were worth consideration. Believe me, I did my research, found the cheapest possible plan/phone combination, and it still has more ussless shit than i'll ever need.
I wonder if a bare-bones plan with simple, easy to use phones (not glorified PDA's/cameras/gaming consoles) would actually do quite well in today's market for people like me that don't need all of the frills.
Amen to that. I would kill for simple plan, with a couple hundred minutes per month and basic cell phone with contact list and call log.
After losing a cell phone I had for ages I avoided getting a new one for a few years until I moved to take a job and got the cheapest plan I could find from AT&T. I was forced to get a tiny little flip phone with full color and a million features (at least it was free) which I absolutely hate. Once I finally started using it regularly (after a few months or so) I realized the freaking voicemail service doesn't even tell me the time and date of a message. This was a feature I had in my old ass nokia 5 frekain years go! At that point I could not cancel without paying some outrageous fee and basically got the run around for AT&T as to why they couldn't provide such a simple service.
Anyway, enough ranting. I would kill for a damn simple plan.
I'll get my ticket, I'll see the movie, I'll be disappointed, and, you know, whatever. And so will you.
I sure won't. I got my ticket, saw Episode I, was dissapointed, didn't buy the DVD, and haven't seen Episode II. If you don't want people like Lucas to pull crap like this, why do you pay to see movies you know won't live up to your expectations?
Last I checked piracy was still piracy. What gives you the right to faciliate piracy?
So, they should shut down automakers for facilitating speeding? And knife makers for facilitating murder?
This is a bunch of FUD. I've used torrents before across suprnova and others for perfectly legal downloads. Because the site can be used for pirating of movies, music, and the like does mean that they are at fault.
Should the internet be shut down because it facilitates piracy?
According to the article he was arrested because he knew the video was there and did not have it removed.
If the CEO of a railway company knew of a specific railcar being used to transport criminals and had the power to stop it but did not, he should be arrested on the spot.
Wouldn't FreeBSD be considered a BSD distro? Like OpenBSD or NetBSD? Pardon me if that's inaccurate, I've never really used any BSD (unless OS X counts).
You should check out http://www.dotdeb.org if you use Debian. The maintainer does an excellent job of keeping up-to-date php(4&5) and mysql packages. You can install the base package (apt-get install php5) and then any additional modules you need (apt-get install php5-gd php5-mcrypt etc). It's a great way to keep things updated smoothly.
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It doesn't. If the artists want money from these sales, their labels must sign up with the ROMS (http://www.roms.ru/ - Note most sections not translated to English -- they have been like that for at least five months now). I work for an independent music distribution and a while back we discovered half of our catalog on a couple different Russian music download sites. We discussed this with our labels to see if any of them had any idea about this, and of course none did.
:)
After some research we discovered that by joining ROMS one could theoretically get their portion of the sales. We emailed ROMS on a couple different occasions many (four or so) months ago and to this day we have received no response. One of our labels put it best:
Being that this is a Russian based website, would you honestly give them your credit card number?
HELLLL NOOOO
Hm, the second link the article, titled "nice graphics depicting the roadmap," has all the roadmaps on it...
Male Nibblonian: For a thousand years, the evil brains have been constructing the giant Infosphere, a giant memory bank twice the size of three ordinary memory banks.
Fry: What's so evil about that?
Female Nibblonian: They plan to collect all the information in the universe and store it in the sphere.
Fry: So they're trying to learn things?
Female Nibblonian: Right.
Fry: Those bastards!
Nibbler: Being brains, they feel compelled to know everything. And soon they will.
Fry: I'm as mad as I've ever been.
Male Nibblonian: Once their task is complete, they will ensure no new information arises in the only way possible: by destroying the universe.
Fry: Now it's personal.
Yanked from here. Gotta love Futurama (:
I live in Toledo, OH and msn serach "Near Me" puts me in Southfield, MI which is 67 miles from me, hardly "near."
What worries me more than crashes of MySQL is the fear that it will do something I don't expect.
That's another thing I seem to see on occasion with little elboration. What exactly do you mean by "something you don't expect?" And why do you think it is more likely to do that than any other database?
It would seem that personal experience is the most common reasoning behind people's dislike of MySQL. But it also appears that a lot of people's experiences come from a while back (e.g. grandparent), and have prompted them to not try it again as it has developed.
personally i would never use mysql for data that i didn't want to risk losing
I hear that a lot without much to say beyond it. But it seems like everytime MySQL and pgSQL come up it's hard to wade through all the zealotry and bs to find any real answers. What exactly do you (and presumably others) base your lack of trust in MySQL's data storage on? I've seen a few personal accounts about how MySQL has f'ed up and lost people's data, but do you know what kinds of things lead up to that? Or, why it would be more likely under MySQL than any other database?
Could it just be that the search engine has determined these domains to hold the best results and just returned these images?
Should the search engine determine which domain has the best pictures, or should I be able to get *all* the results and determine that myself?
I do agree that basing a conclusion on a single search result is a bad idea (and that the cache has a ways to go), but if your reasoning is true that's a good reason not to use MSN's search. Along the lines of "determining the best domains," how would we know if these domains' owners haven't payed MS a little cash to "determine" this? Either way, I'd rather make that decision on my own.
I gave mklinux, Yellow Dog, and I believe a flavor of BSD a try. All came up short ): I even tried all the crazy rituals like removing the battery for 20 minutes to reset the firmware (or something). I was unable to find any AIX CDs on eBay or elsewhere and I have been checking occasionally with no luck. From what I recall booting the CDs can be just as flakey as the multiple diskettes. I want to revisit them one day, I'd love to have the things humming away in my apartment (:
I actually own two of those, both fully updated and maxed out in hard drive space. But for the fucking life of me I could never get either to boot to anything except firmware ): They are currently being used as the legs of a table in my parents house. *sigh*
So because the opinions of people who rate games on that website don't line up with yours, it's "vote-rigging?" Come on now. I agree that Risk, Monopoly, and Chess are probably better games than this, but that doesn't mean I assume anyone who thinks otherwise can't be trusted.
(Note: Every time I sit down at my Mac to work with Maya, the first thing I do is plug in a three-button mouse with scroll wheel -- and so does everybody else.)
And the fact that you can do that 99% of the time with zero hassle from drivers or legacy or yadda yadda is why I (as an Apple customer) don't really care what mouse Apple chooses to ship with my shinny new computer (:
Uh, why did you link to a story about a skiier dying after being hit by a snowmobile? It mentions headphones in one paragraph but immeadiately rules them out. I'm sure there are some much better examples of driver distraction accidents.
Sure, you could argue customers will hold off buying products if they know the next generation is around the corner, but I tell ya....you're an idiot to buy ANY Apple products directly before a MacWorld expo.
So any single person who bought an Apple product a week before yesterday is an idoit? Why? Because they are not total geeks and didn't know a dman thing about this "MacWorld." Come on.
I'm being a bit sarcastic here, but I've heard from too many people that punching out code all day at work makes them very hesitant to even touch a computer at home. For those who are currently computer programmers/engineers, would you say you really enjoy your job, or does it get extremely old and tedious after awhile?
I basically do code all day long, except when I have sysadmin and support duties. I work in a small company of about 25 employees so the sysadmin and tech stuff really isn't much. I've been here for a little over five months and I must say its' been very rare that I've dreaded coming to work. I think every once in a while the constant coding catches up with me and I will have a day where I just can't stand it. But those times are so few that I'd have to say overall I LOVE my work.
Two hitches for me are A) Five months isn't really a long time in the broader scope of things, as I plan to be here for at least five years. And B) I *rarely* ever code at home anymore. This, for me, has been both a good thing and a bad thing. I certainly do miss working on personal projects in my free time, but I feel like my enjoyment of coding is well fulfilled here at work.
I'd have to say the best thing that having a job in coding has done for me, is cause me to code less in my free time and find other things that interest me. In the past five months, I have discovered a love for reading, bike riding, backpacking, and other activities that I never really thought about before. I have even gone as far as to change my major (doing part time schooling) to a liberal arts degree in English.
That's what's great about livejournal. You can say anything you want, it's only one side of the story, and everyone on your friends list will kiss up to you and agree.
How exactly is that any different from the internet itself? I could just as easily register a domain, put up a page full of gossip, generate hits from people likely to agree, slander without names, etc etc. If the problem with blogs is the ability to "say anything," isn't the internet just as flawed?
It seems to be the norm here that people dislike blogs that don't have a "purpose." What exactly is the problem with these? Is anyone here being forced to read blogs about random nonesense? Does it cause some sort of serious problem? If you want to complain about blogs, complain about the ones run by pseudo-intellectuals who feel they should have some sort of say in the world. Most of the livejournal community are just people interested in social networking. Yes, many blogs will just be random bullshit that no one except the poster will ever care about. But, so what? The people flaming blogging in general probably just need somewhere to vent outside of slashdot, a blog maybe?
I apoligize if you were confused. The sentence is misleading, although I imagine most people (on slash at least) understand that voicemail has nothing to do with the phone.
At the time, all of those other phones would've cost me more than $0.00, so none of them were worth consideration. Believe me, I did my research, found the cheapest possible plan/phone combination, and it still has more ussless shit than i'll ever need.
Don't confuse your assumptions with fact.
The robot, about the size of three refrigerators strapped together...
That sounds large, how many Burning Libraries Of Congress is that?
I wonder if a bare-bones plan with simple, easy to use phones (not glorified PDA's/cameras/gaming consoles) would actually do quite well in today's market for people like me that don't need all of the frills.
Amen to that. I would kill for simple plan, with a couple hundred minutes per month and basic cell phone with contact list and call log.
After losing a cell phone I had for ages I avoided getting a new one for a few years until I moved to take a job and got the cheapest plan I could find from AT&T. I was forced to get a tiny little flip phone with full color and a million features (at least it was free) which I absolutely hate. Once I finally started using it regularly (after a few months or so) I realized the freaking voicemail service doesn't even tell me the time and date of a message. This was a feature I had in my old ass nokia 5 frekain years go! At that point I could not cancel without paying some outrageous fee and basically got the run around for AT&T as to why they couldn't provide such a simple service.
Anyway, enough ranting. I would kill for a damn simple plan.
I'll get my ticket, I'll see the movie, I'll be disappointed, and, you know, whatever. And so will you.
I sure won't. I got my ticket, saw Episode I, was dissapointed, didn't buy the DVD, and haven't seen Episode II. If you don't want people like Lucas to pull crap like this, why do you pay to see movies you know won't live up to your expectations?
...I use the term 'magic' to explain to my parents how technology works.
Just your parents? Hell I use that explination on my co-workers (:
Last I checked piracy was still piracy. What gives you the right to faciliate piracy?
So, they should shut down automakers for facilitating speeding? And knife makers for facilitating murder?
This is a bunch of FUD. I've used torrents before across suprnova and others for perfectly legal downloads. Because the site can be used for pirating of movies, music, and the like does mean that they are at fault.
Should the internet be shut down because it facilitates piracy?
According to the article he was arrested because he knew the video was there and did not have it removed.
If the CEO of a railway company knew of a specific railcar being used to transport criminals and had the power to stop it but did not, he should be arrested on the spot.
Wouldn't FreeBSD be considered a BSD distro? Like OpenBSD or NetBSD? Pardon me if that's inaccurate, I've never really used any BSD (unless OS X counts).
You should check out http://www.dotdeb.org if you use Debian. The maintainer does an excellent job of keeping up-to-date php(4&5) and mysql packages. You can install the base package (apt-get install php5) and then any additional modules you need (apt-get install php5-gd php5-mcrypt etc). It's a great way to keep things updated smoothly.