Not to discount what you said, but I thought this article was about Microsoft trying to keep people from moving to *Lindows* which, AFAIK, is a DESKTOP setup. You patted yourself on the back for replacing Microsoft servers.
Many people know that Free/opensource software can hack it on the server side, but many (myself included) need convincing that Free/opensource software can hack it BETTER than Windows on the desktop. (I would even say that, rather than just BETTER, it has to be much much better -- enough to make relearning many things worthwhile. Avoiding the occasional reboot is not worth it. Avoiding thousands of dollars of software licenses is not worth it. Avoiding the wrath of the BSA is not worth it. Getting your work done better and faster and making people say "Wow. That's awesome! How'd you do that?" will make it worthwhile.)
Right now, Microsoft and the software that runs on Windows is hacking it better, thus Microsoft can afford and be expected to do whatever it can (including lowering its prices) to keep their position.
It's more likely based on encoding things into the audio that you can't hear. Sort of like "encrypting" data into an image; steganography You could reduce the quality such that the watermark is no longer detectable, but what use is that? You'd get a crappy music file that you could trade freely with your friends, but they wouldn't want it. (Calling Dr. Felton!;-) )
Also, as the reviewer chose the Liquid Audio site, I thought that would mean that they would provide the tracks in LiquidAudio format, but it's WMA? When I try to listen to or buy a track on their site, it seems to suggest that the tracks are in LiquidAudio format.
For general downloading or purchasing music online, I personally would avoid Liquid altogether. WMA/Real are acceptable as a last resort. MP3s are better than either WMA, Liquid, or Real. OGG would be the best of the lossy formats. However, couldn't they at least provide SHN or FLAC files? The SHN files I've downloaded from Archive.org[Etree] and recompressed into FLACs generally get about 2:1 compression. That's not bad considering they are lossless, "CD-quality." Please note that my mini-review of the formats is NOT based on quality. I've checked out the OGG listening test at vorbis.com and could hear no difference in the files. My preferences are mostly based on ease-of-use. MP3, OGG, FLAC and SHN are easier to use from my current computer to any other computers I may have in the future.
Maybe the general populace doesn't care enough about the quality of music on their PCs. So far, they've been able to get it all for free. However, when they start to be able to pay a bit for a downloadable song, they will (hopefully) demand more of their online music store. (e.g. They'll demand that it be like their brick and mortar music store, but online).
And, where are the liner notes? Lossy music, crappy software, no artwork?! Uhh.. Some of my parents' old vinyl records have really neat artwork on them. It's as though, as production costs have decreased, so has the product quality.
Not that I think the music that these companies churn out is always that great, but there are certainly lots of intelligent people working behind the scenes that know how to market a product well. Where are they?
Here's what I mean WRT the marketing: I know people here love to make fun of Microsoft (what would a Slashdot story be, without Microsoft?) but, honestly, if you can find it, watch the "Ray of Light" commercial for WinXP where people jump and jump and eventually take off and are flying around. It's horribly hokey and easy to make fun of, but they really make you WANT Windows XP. Not that I think: "Ohh, if I had Windows XP, I'd fly!" but they make you think that it's actually going to give you the freedom that you always thought it would. Please read the word "think" with emphasis;-).
ssh into your box, su to root, then fsck your harddrive
I wouldn't be so pissed as long as the attacker did this often. It's such a hassle to wait for my system to do a monthly e2fsck when the partitions have readched their maximal mount count.
Like the other two people said, your problem with not being able to change resolution/refresh doesn't matter because it's in development code.
(I'm kidding, of course.)
Actually, that is a big problem with X. And they are right -- the code to resolve it is in development. However, that doesn't solve your problem now, which would be better.
Anyway, just thought say that the response to someone's complaining about a missing feature shouldn't be "Ah, the solution to your problem is in development, and therefore your problem is moot!" It just seems -- incourteous.
Ah well.. I've done nothing but add to the static.
Unfortunately, you're just going to have to wait for X 4.3 and support from your window manager of choice.
I presume you use optical media to play your CDs. I also presume that you use optical media to install software and such.
Optical media drives fail over time. When all of yours fail, and the only ones available are the ones that have copy-protection built-in, how will you install your OS (for instance) without increasing the population of copy-protection-compatible CDROM or DVDROM drives?
What's that? They will be cheap enough to buy without buying the music? Ah, but then, your CDROM/DVDROM drive will be capable of playing those copy-protected CDs. When one comes out that you REALLY want, and you see it in the store and you've got the cash to spare, how will you keep yourself from giving in "just this once" ?
I dunno, all this talk of "They're goin' DOWN MAN! I predict two to three years TOPS and RIAA/MPAA/Microsoft is DEAD!" seems silly to me. No, I'm not some corpobot, I hate them, too. However, they are very wealthy groups. Someone earlier mentioned Phil Collins, Madonna, and Elton John as people that would cause the music industry to (paraphrase) "collapse like a house of cards". Uhh, "HEADLINE: Phil Collins says Phuk You to RIAA; Populace says *YAWN*". Elton John... GAY (not that there's anything wrong with that, but this is Big Business we're talking about. I don't think it would matter too much to them if he left). And Madonna? That freak? You're trying to say that Ford will collapse because they're losing the Focus? B.Spears and friends are akin to the automotive industrys SUVs -- the "bread and butter" of the industry. Okay, if Spears/Shakira/Aguilera/BS Boys/N'Sync went off and did their thing on their own, that would be a kick in the nuts to Rosen. But, then they'd just have another American Idol or Making of the Band competition and replace them with "new, fresh faces". And all of the little kiddies would have new whores to idolize.
Anyway, I don't think it is going to be as easy as one event to cause them to crumble, if "we" don't before they do.
(And now I'll go off and do my penance for naming all of those pop stars off the top of my head.)
Libraries are the original "file"-sharing service (payed for by your taxes!)
They have tons of books, tapes, CDs and even DVDs ripe for the "borrowing"! *nudge nudge*
All you need is a card (free!) and you can borrow (or "check out") the stuff. Unfortunately, many of them have limited bandwidth and you can only check out a limited number of items at once. You also have to return the original media *wink wink*:-)
Just curious... Did you type this all up or is there somewhere that you can get 2600 online? I do buy them, but it would be nice if there was someplace online that one could direct friends and such when there's an interesting article.
BTW. You might want to watch it reposting stuff from them without permission. Emmanual gets pretty pissed when people do that;-)*.
[*] For those who don't keep up with 2600, they encourage the copying of their goods. For instance, the box of Freedom Downtime says "Free and unaltered broadcasting, netcasting, and copying are encouraged." And yet, I still can't find it online:-/.
traceroute (or tracert on Windows) is your friend here. warez.slashdot.org actually points to the loopback for your own PC. Replace that with the host (brak.slashdot.org or www.slashdot.org).
Also, using Linux is not a prerequisite for using Slashdot.
I got the last image from your compressed copies. I was going to put up page 2, but you saved it with Mozilla, which rewrites the HTML so it works with the directories it makes. I was feeling too lazy to go to the trouble of rewriting it back the way it should be. In the future, I'd recommend wget -r [URL] But be careful! The Internet is very large. Just ask these guys!
Nevertheless, I'll forego my schoolwork and see what I can do;-).
Thank you for saying what I was going to say so I don't have to say it.
BTW. They say "could care less":-).
Now, how about "The [noun] was all but [verb]." ? As in: "The town was all but flooded."... So... the town was on fire, icey, and dry... it wasn't flooded? Huh?
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Not to discount what you said, but I thought this article was about Microsoft trying to keep people from moving to *Lindows* which, AFAIK, is a DESKTOP setup. You patted yourself on the back for replacing Microsoft servers.
Many people know that Free/opensource software can hack it on the server side, but many (myself included) need convincing that Free/opensource software can hack it BETTER than Windows on the desktop. (I would even say that, rather than just BETTER, it has to be much much better -- enough to make relearning many things worthwhile. Avoiding the occasional reboot is not worth it. Avoiding thousands of dollars of software licenses is not worth it. Avoiding the wrath of the BSA is not worth it. Getting your work done better and faster and making people say "Wow. That's awesome! How'd you do that?" will make it worthwhile.)
Right now, Microsoft and the software that runs on Windows is hacking it better, thus Microsoft can afford and be expected to do whatever it can (including lowering its prices) to keep their position.
It's more likely based on encoding things into the audio that you can't hear. Sort of like "encrypting" data into an image; steganography You could reduce the quality such that the watermark is no longer detectable, but what use is that? You'd get a crappy music file that you could trade freely with your friends, but they wouldn't want it. (Calling Dr. Felton! ;-) )
;-).
Also, as the reviewer chose the Liquid Audio site, I thought that would mean that they would provide the tracks in LiquidAudio format, but it's WMA? When I try to listen to or buy a track on their site, it seems to suggest that the tracks are in LiquidAudio format.
For general downloading or purchasing music online, I personally would avoid Liquid altogether. WMA/Real are acceptable as a last resort. MP3s are better than either WMA, Liquid, or Real. OGG would be the best of the lossy formats. However, couldn't they at least provide SHN or FLAC files? The SHN files I've downloaded from Archive.org[Etree] and recompressed into FLACs generally get about 2:1 compression. That's not bad considering they are lossless, "CD-quality." Please note that my mini-review of the formats is NOT based on quality. I've checked out the OGG listening test at vorbis.com and could hear no difference in the files. My preferences are mostly based on ease-of-use. MP3, OGG, FLAC and SHN are easier to use from my current computer to any other computers I may have in the future.
Maybe the general populace doesn't care enough about the quality of music on their PCs. So far, they've been able to get it all for free. However, when they start to be able to pay a bit for a downloadable song, they will (hopefully) demand more of their online music store. (e.g. They'll demand that it be like their brick and mortar music store, but online).
And, where are the liner notes? Lossy music, crappy software, no artwork?! Uhh.. Some of my parents' old vinyl records have really neat artwork on them. It's as though, as production costs have decreased, so has the product quality.
Not that I think the music that these companies churn out is always that great, but there are certainly lots of intelligent people working behind the scenes that know how to market a product well. Where are they?
Here's what I mean WRT the marketing: I know people here love to make fun of Microsoft (what would a Slashdot story be, without Microsoft?) but, honestly, if you can find it, watch the "Ray of Light" commercial for WinXP where people jump and jump and eventually take off and are flying around. It's horribly hokey and easy to make fun of, but they really make you WANT Windows XP. Not that I think: "Ohh, if I had Windows XP, I'd fly!" but they make you think that it's actually going to give you the freedom that you always thought it would. Please read the word "think" with emphasis
Disclaimer: I have never built a cluster before.
You are in good company here on Slashdot.
s/readched/reached/
ssh into your box, su to root, then fsck your harddrive
I wouldn't be so pissed as long as the attacker did this often. It's such a hassle to wait for my system to do a monthly e2fsck when the partitions have readched their maximal mount count.
Like the other two people said, your problem with not being able to change resolution/refresh doesn't matter because it's in development code.
(I'm kidding, of course.)
Actually, that is a big problem with X. And they are right -- the code to resolve it is in development. However, that doesn't solve your problem now, which would be better.
Anyway, just thought say that the response to someone's complaining about a missing feature shouldn't be "Ah, the solution to your problem is in development, and therefore your problem is moot!" It just seems -- incourteous.
Ah well.. I've done nothing but add to the static.
Unfortunately, you're just going to have to wait for X 4.3 and support from your window manager of choice.
Shut up! :-P
;-)
I know of companies that have vaults of these tapes but no tape machines. What's the point of that?
Someone might. That someone might not have good intentions. Maybe it's cheaper to just store them, rather than have them destroyed.
Making links is not hard.
<href="http://url.goes.here/">This will become a link.</a>
I presume you use optical media to play your CDs. I also presume that you use optical media to install software and such.
Optical media drives fail over time. When all of yours fail, and the only ones available are the ones that have copy-protection built-in, how will you install your OS (for instance) without increasing the population of copy-protection-compatible CDROM or DVDROM drives?
What's that? They will be cheap enough to buy without buying the music? Ah, but then, your CDROM/DVDROM drive will be capable of playing those copy-protected CDs. When one comes out that you REALLY want, and you see it in the store and you've got the cash to spare, how will you keep yourself from giving in "just this once" ?
I dunno, all this talk of "They're goin' DOWN MAN! I predict two to three years TOPS and RIAA/MPAA/Microsoft is DEAD!" seems silly to me. No, I'm not some corpobot, I hate them, too. However, they are very wealthy groups. Someone earlier mentioned Phil Collins, Madonna, and Elton John as people that would cause the music industry to (paraphrase) "collapse like a house of cards". Uhh, "HEADLINE: Phil Collins says Phuk You to RIAA; Populace says *YAWN*". Elton John... GAY (not that there's anything wrong with that, but this is Big Business we're talking about. I don't think it would matter too much to them if he left). And Madonna? That freak? You're trying to say that Ford will collapse because they're losing the Focus? B.Spears and friends are akin to the automotive industrys SUVs -- the "bread and butter" of the industry. Okay, if Spears/Shakira/Aguilera/BS Boys/N'Sync went off and did their thing on their own, that would be a kick in the nuts to Rosen. But, then they'd just have another American Idol or Making of the Band competition and replace them with "new, fresh faces". And all of the little kiddies would have new whores to idolize.
Anyway, I don't think it is going to be as easy as one event to cause them to crumble, if "we" don't before they do.
(And now I'll go off and do my penance for naming all of those pop stars off the top of my head.)
Libraries are the original "file"-sharing service (payed for by your taxes!)
:-)
They have tons of books, tapes, CDs and even DVDs ripe for the "borrowing"! *nudge nudge*
All you need is a card (free!) and you can borrow (or "check out") the stuff. Unfortunately, many of them have limited bandwidth and you can only check out a limited number of items at once. You also have to return the original media *wink wink*
(Don't steal music!)
Just curious... Did you type this all up or is there somewhere that you can get 2600 online? I do buy them, but it would be nice if there was someplace online that one could direct friends and such when there's an interesting article.
;-)*.
:-/.
BTW. You might want to watch it reposting stuff from them without permission. Emmanual gets pretty pissed when people do that
[*] For those who don't keep up with 2600, they encourage the copying of their goods. For instance, the box of Freedom Downtime says "Free and unaltered broadcasting, netcasting, and copying are encouraged." And yet, I still can't find it online
Tell me Mr. gruntvald -- What good is a posting if you have no fingers ?
***gruntvald gets increasingly anxious as his fingers grow together***
*Sigh* Boy was that lame.
I could care less about AbiWord tipjar.
You could? Good. Please do so.
Perhaps you mean you couldn't care less.
traceroute (or tracert on Windows) is your friend here. warez.slashdot.org actually points to the loopback for your own PC. Replace that with the host (brak.slashdot.org or www.slashdot.org).
Also, using Linux is not a prerequisite for using Slashdot.
You mean S&M?
(Also, what's with XML-Journal's claim the article has three pages when it only has two?)
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That's nothing. The real shocker comes on page 3000065876586578656587658586576873587398763457692
This is going to be big!
That's not so ironic. The 5 moderators didn't read the article, either!
The articles are mostly justification for discussing a particular topic.
Without the articles, we'd just be a bunch of blathering idiots.
Errr..
I got the last image from your compressed copies. I was going to put up page 2, but you saved it with Mozilla, which rewrites the HTML so it works with the directories it makes. I was feeling too lazy to go to the trouble of rewriting it back the way it should be. In the future, I'd recommend wget -r [URL] But be careful! The Internet is very large. Just ask these guys!
;-).
Nevertheless, I'll forego my schoolwork and see what I can do
:-)
Nice to see that the Digital Convergence lawyers are back at work.
Thanks to another user hosting compressed copies, drvplan.jpg is now in place.
Page 2, however, is not. Oh well, be happy you got page 1!
All I'm missing is the last file, drvplan.jpg, but here you go anyway: http://www.osuweb.net/~ahaning/www.phantasmechanic s.com/darkride/
*ahaning throws the URL at the rabid users and gets out of the way as quickly as possible... as if feeding starved dogs*
Perhaps your problem was that Linux's ACPI support sucks? Or maybe the hardware support for your particular setup isn't that great.
Thank you for saying what I was going to say so I don't have to say it.
:-).
... So... the town was on fire, icey, and dry... it wasn't flooded? Huh?
BTW. They say "could care less"
Now, how about "The [noun] was all but [verb]." ? As in: "The town was all but flooded."
I think it should be recorded, MP3 encoded, CSS encrypted, Region coded for China (3?), and then distributed all over the internet, via gnutella.
Hey, why waste your time killing 4 birds with 4 stones when you can get them all with just one?