I know why there are so many businesses that won't upgrade from IE6, with their legacy web apps that they refuse to upgrade, but for God's sake, IE8 has compatibility mode. For the good of humanity, upgrade!
If by compatibibility mode, you mean compatibility view, according to Microsoft it will "display the website as viewed in Internet Explorer 7", not ie6.
Yes, I used soulseek for some time. I've found there very interesting stuff, though not always with the expected quality. I still come back once in a while (at the old server), specially to find old stuff I cannot find in the scene -in both places I use another nick, just FYI.
I've also found and bought some vinyls in gemm, ebay, musicstack, cdandlp, at record fairs, music stores... I buy new music on a weekly basis, mainly at cdbaby, interpunk and straight from the labels/artists. And, finally, I dl on average 4500 mp3s per month.
To keep track of this huge amount of music I've made an application to rate, query and organize my own music.
All in all, there's still music I cannot obtain. But not only me: every person passionate about music I know has his own wanted list. As a slsk user, you should know it. And the records exists, and we have the technical means to make them available to everybody. If it's not happening it's because an obsolete industry it's keeping us from achieving it. They are not stopping people to share music, this is a fact. Instead, as a collateral damage, they are preventing the possibility to preserve and organize forever our musical heritage. The scene is doing an excellent job in that way, but, as long as it remains in the clandestine underground, very few people have access to it and, at the end, the rarest music get poorly disseminated and is not taking in any hard drive connected to a given network.
Maybe it's about time to start talking about the quality (tags, encoding...) of the music is circulating in the p2p networks, and not about the cds the major labels are not supposedly selling because of them. By the way, you don't measure the health of the actual music panorama on cds sales. Perhaps you could do it on musical instruments sales, but on cds sales? It's plain ridiculous.
Anyway... thanks for your reply, mate.:)
Not for me. Despite the 210k mp3s I have in my hard drives, the p2p networks, music streaming sites and online and traditional music stores, I have lists of hundreds of albums I cannot find anywhere.
Not only that, part of the music I own* doesn't meet what I consider a minimum of quality. But I cannot obtain it with a better encoding.
Music is a form of art and, as such, it should be considered, if not a patrimony of the humanity, at least something culturally valuable.
So it is significant how you store the data, how you rip, encode, tag and sort the music, in order to make it accessible and preserve its quality.
* I can manipulate it, delete it and listen to it whenever and wherever I want.
On pre-Vista Windows boxes, most people ran their default account with godlike administrator privileges. It's either that or:
Run a restricted account
Any time you want to install software
DO:
log out of your restricted account
log into the admin account
install the software
then go back to your restricted account.
REPEAT
At least in w2k and xp, you have a run as... in your context menue
Your wonderful little Digg isn't looking so wonderful now - is it?" It's been a while since i didn't visit Digg, but i still have the link in my start page. Yesterday i got curious when i saw that a story named "spread the number" had more than 12k hits. So i click on it and have to admit that i was quite amazed how fast and intense was the response of the digg comunity against the MPAA, the DMCA, censorship, blackmail, etc... I admit it, i was moved. Then a few hours later i checked again, and the story had been removed. The user that submitted it, banned. I started digging all the upcomming stories related with the number and the censorship, but none of them (depite their diggs) made it to the front page. They were sistematically banned. Then Slashdot published the story about the censorship at Digg... In the very first post there was even included the fateful number. Great. I felt better, but still sorry for the Digg community... No matter how they tried to speak out against the censorship, they got banned and their stories removed...
Today i woke up and the first thing i've done is to check digg. All the stories in the front page were related with the infamous number and the censorship! With several thousands of diggs each one. Not only that, but the number had been spread in the whole www, so there a lot more sites speaking about the number, the mpaa, the dmca... I felt great again. So kudos from this 37 old prick to the "five thousand 12-year-olds" that, in some way, managed to do it.
btw, the at the moment (08:46 GMT+1) digg.com is down ("Digg will be down for a brief period, while we make some changes")...:-)
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This feature is already in the latest Canary build of Google Chrome.
I know why there are so many businesses that won't upgrade from IE6, with their legacy web apps that they refuse to upgrade, but for God's sake, IE8 has compatibility mode. For the good of humanity, upgrade!
If by compatibibility mode, you mean compatibility view, according to Microsoft it will "display the website as viewed in Internet Explorer 7", not ie6.
Yes, it didn't used to, but It's been working for me for awhile also, maybe a month. The gadget's iframe address uses https.
And atop of everything, there's internet. TCP/IP can't tell apart copyrighted data and non copyrighted data. That's it.
TFA: "Ligesh [from LxLabs] was also still coming to terms with the suicides by hanging of his sister and mother five years ago."
I suspect that this was the result of a lot of bad things going on in his life, and not just because of the software issues.
And very likely a genetic predisposition to suicide as well.
Yes, I used soulseek for some time. I've found there very interesting stuff, though not always with the expected quality. I still come back once in a while (at the old server), specially to find old stuff I cannot find in the scene -in both places I use another nick, just FYI. :)
I've also found and bought some vinyls in gemm, ebay, musicstack, cdandlp, at record fairs, music stores... I buy new music on a weekly basis, mainly at cdbaby, interpunk and straight from the labels/artists. And, finally, I dl on average 4500 mp3s per month.
To keep track of this huge amount of music I've made an application to rate, query and organize my own music.
All in all, there's still music I cannot obtain. But not only me: every person passionate about music I know has his own wanted list. As a slsk user, you should know it. And the records exists, and we have the technical means to make them available to everybody. If it's not happening it's because an obsolete industry it's keeping us from achieving it. They are not stopping people to share music, this is a fact. Instead, as a collateral damage, they are preventing the possibility to preserve and organize forever our musical heritage. The scene is doing an excellent job in that way, but, as long as it remains in the clandestine underground, very few people have access to it and, at the end, the rarest music get poorly disseminated and is not taking in any hard drive connected to a given network.
Maybe it's about time to start talking about the quality (tags, encoding...) of the music is circulating in the p2p networks, and not about the cds the major labels are not supposedly selling because of them. By the way, you don't measure the health of the actual music panorama on cds sales. Perhaps you could do it on musical instruments sales, but on cds sales? It's plain ridiculous.
Anyway... thanks for your reply, mate.
Obtaining and storing the data is trivial.
Not for me. Despite the 210k mp3s I have in my hard drives, the p2p networks, music streaming sites and online and traditional music stores, I have lists of hundreds of albums I cannot find anywhere.
Not only that, part of the music I own* doesn't meet what I consider a minimum of quality. But I cannot obtain it with a better encoding.
Music is a form of art and, as such, it should be considered, if not a patrimony of the humanity, at least something culturally valuable.
So it is significant how you store the data, how you rip, encode, tag and sort the music, in order to make it accessible and preserve its quality.
* I can manipulate it, delete it and listen to it whenever and wherever I want.
On pre-Vista Windows boxes, most people ran their default account with godlike administrator privileges. It's either that or:
Run a restricted account
Any time you want to install software
DO:
log out of your restricted account
log into the admin account
install the software
then go back to your restricted account.
REPEAT
At least in w2k and xp, you have a run as... in your context menue
indeed. http://punxter.com/pic/Piracy_Up,_Global_Warming_Down
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
Today i woke up and the first thing i've done is to check digg. All the stories in the front page were related with the infamous number and the censorship! With several thousands of diggs each one. Not only that, but the number had been spread in the whole www, so there a lot more sites speaking about the number, the mpaa, the dmca... I felt great again. So kudos from this 37 old prick to the "five thousand 12-year-olds" that, in some way, managed to do it. btw, the at the moment (08:46 GMT+1) digg.com is down ("Digg will be down for a brief period, while we make some changes")...