You know, the best thing to do would increase the price on old music and decrease the price of new music
It's not as simple as that. For classics, sure, you can charge more (Pink Floyd's The Wall, for example. At some brick-and-mortar store the CD album even sold for more than the DVD version!).
For old but less popular songs, you might want to drop the price -- let more listeners discover old songs, and maximize the use of your old catalog. You're already paying for encoding and storage anyway.
I agree with parent that there are valid reasons for voiding warranties due to a different OS being installed on the machine (I had an HP laptop with bad power management on Linux, that eventually died a few months short of two years after purchase), but in this case, since the damage is very unlikely to be caused by Gentoo, why shouldn't the owner just back his data up, replace Gentoo with Vista, and send his laptop back for repair?
Unless they have taken down your name and serial number and blacklisted you. In which case, threatening to sue might be the only way to get your computer serviced.
Which laptop is that? The largest vendors in the States tend to offer either Atheros + Intel (Lenovo), Broadcom + Intel (Dell), or just Broadcom (HP's AMD laptop line, perhaps Dell's as well). Sony Vaios are all-Intel.
Asus, perhaps? I bought my dad an Acer recently and that one is all-Intel as well.
So basically the driver is not ported to the new wireless stack, or does not have the facility to report measurements? NetworkManager is driver-agnostic, as far as I can tell.
I might consider it -- getting annoyed of having to pull in atheros drivers (and recompile everytime there is a new kernel, unless I happen to be on openSUSE, which is pretty conservative in not breaking APIs during a release lifecycle). Any reliable way of knowing which card is Ralink inside? Will consider PCI, PCMCIA and Expresscard.
They are going one step further than nVidia (good binary drivers, documentation lacking). This looks like it is aimed more at redressing AMD/ATi's current shortcomings vis-a-vis Intel: with a 3D-accelerated open-source graphics driver, the only thing missing from an AMD-on-laptop equation is reliably-open Wi-Fi.
And no, Atheros does not count. I refer to the pre-n fiasco, which took months before the only open-soure developer with NDA access was able to come up with specifications. Perhaps AMD should come up with a wireless NIC next?
I still giggle a little every time I am behind one of those Honda CRV's with the little decal that says "Real-time 4WD"
Maybe it's inspired by real-time systems; they have a guarantee that the 4WD system will kick in within a given time period? Ask them whether it's hard or soft real-time:)
Normalizing within a genre, then. It works if you normalize your compilation albums before you burn them, provided you don't mix rock and classical music!
Isn't there a problem, for people too accustomed to hearing pre-recorded music, that they will be conditioned not to look for the missing dynamics? What are the long-term effects on one's hearing?
Thank goodness for software solutions that at least lets you normalize your music collection.
The UK has sacrificed part of its rebate, but the UK government said it had to do this in order to pay its fair share of the costs of enlargement. And even though it has given up more of the rebate than it originally wanted to, it has engineered a situation where the UK, France and Italy will be making a roughly equivalent net contributions to the EU budget from 2007 onwards. In the past, the UK's net contribution has been much higher.
And anyway, nobody is forcing Britain to stays in the EU. They could go back to the EEA and still have access to the Common Market anyway.
Esperanto? It is very regular, use Latinate roots for ease of learning, and might -- just might -- be adopted by the EU as an official language, if/when they get tired of sending money to Britain to pay for translators.
In fact, the corrected study shows that half of the 10 warmest years on record occurred before World War II.
So that means that the other half occured after WWII, which is worrying enough. There are global warming alarmists, but just because they exaggerate does not mean the problem does not exist.
If this clown violated a ton of US Code, it's Club Fed time. Justice is in deed blind, and regardless of your dripping venom for Bush, people who violate US Code for their personal agenda (gee isn't that what you want Bush impeached for?) need to face the music for their endangerment of gaing intelligence against a sworn enemy of the US.
Even those in the military chain-of-command are obligated to refuse to obey unlawful orders. Executive abuse in the name of national security is illegal -- even the Roman Republic only gave their dictators free reign for renewable one-year periods.
I have worked with many distributions over the years and Ubuntu and I just clicked, I don't see a purpose for the others anymore.
Err.. better font rendering? (Both Fedora/RHEL and openSUSE/SLED. Mandriva also, but have not seen much of it recently). The different distributions are experimenting with their user interface, which is good (Fedora with the GNOME Online Desktop, SUSE with SLAB (GNOME) and their custom KDE menu, Mandriva with their 3-D Matisse desktop). You don't want to replace Microsoft's monopoly with a single Linux distribution, surely.
Codecs not verified to run on Linux listed here (http://soggie.soti.org/linux/linux-codecs/), here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_ codecs#Operating_system_support) and here (http://labs.divx.com/DivXLinuxCodec) are illegal to use without owning Windows
Fluendo sells codecs for quite a few patent-encumbered video formats.
Star wars, the program not the movie, was short sighted and stupid
is, not was. Remember the ABM interceptor tests where the target was only hit when they fitted a beacon on it? Forget about sifting through decoys, they had a hard time hitting even a single target.
Conversely, could they be trying to kill the format?
Mod parent insightful!
It stands to reason that if they make it illegal to copy DVDs (leading to it being less likely that people will be able to do it effectively), then it loses one of its best selling points over the high-definition formats (which to the average user are difficult to copy)
The HD-DVD standard actually requires the ability to make a digital backup of the disc's content (the backup is copy-protected, however), so this ban will make HD-DVD much more attractive in comparison with standard DVDs (minus the larger amount of disk space required to perform a backup).
Blu-Ray discs, on the other hand, do not necessarily allow back-ups. Hopefully Sony won't manage to carve up the market with their abominable PS3s.
Yes there is. ZFS is licensed under CDDL, which is not GPL2 compatible. Linus has so far refused to move to GPL3 when it comes out, so before that happens, there is a licensing issue.
Medical devices? Not on your life; Windows is not known for security and stability, do you really want a neurosurgeon using robotics based on WinCE operating on your brain if you get into an accident? I didn't think so.
We are closer to that situation than you thought. Some non-critical equipments such as ultrasonographs are powered by Windows (an Italian company, Esaote, used Windows NT in the past, and are now using Windows XP)
That would be nice, but.. as I understand it, due to the ease of overtaking, the length of the race and the frequency of yellow flags, qualifying position in Indy is relatively unimportant. So Al Unser might storm from the back, but Moreno has not been in Indy for several years, and if you notice most of the Panoz-Honda cars qualify quite low, which might indicate that it is not necessarily the best chassis to have..
So you mean its just a copy of something from Europe?
Well, yes, oval racing traces its heritage to chariot races started by the Greeks. Not exactly oval, but they have two sharp turns at either ends of the race track.
CART also races on road courses, last time I checked, whereas IRL is oval-only. Note that the terminology is different in F1-speak: a street course in F1 is one that is at least partly based on normal roads, compared to special-purpose race tracks. Most F1 races are on specially-constructed tracks, but these tracks are not oval in shape, incorporating various kinds of turns (even when they race in Indianapolis, they used only two stretches of the oval track joined together with a specially-built inside course)
Remember how after Microsoft first bought Hotmail, they tried moving the servers from FreeBSD to Windows (NT at that time, I think), and found out to their embarrassment that FBSD handled the load better? The switch-over was not accomplished for quite a while, i believe.
Imagine the support cost on that too. Unless future computers come with IBM mainframe-like diagnostic panels in the front that indicate if, say, the network card has failed, trying to help an end-user diagnose a non-trivial problem remotely is near-impossible, short of just asking them to send the whole unit for repair.
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It's not as simple as that. For classics, sure, you can charge more (Pink Floyd's The Wall, for example. At some brick-and-mortar store the CD album even sold for more than the DVD version!).
For old but less popular songs, you might want to drop the price -- let more listeners discover old songs, and maximize the use of your old catalog. You're already paying for encoding and storage anyway.
I agree with parent that there are valid reasons for voiding warranties due to a different OS being installed on the machine (I had an HP laptop with bad power management on Linux, that eventually died a few months short of two years after purchase), but in this case, since the damage is very unlikely to be caused by Gentoo, why shouldn't the owner just back his data up, replace Gentoo with Vista, and send his laptop back for repair?
Unless they have taken down your name and serial number and blacklisted you. In which case, threatening to sue might be the only way to get your computer serviced.
Which laptop is that? The largest vendors in the States tend to offer either Atheros + Intel (Lenovo), Broadcom + Intel (Dell), or just Broadcom (HP's AMD laptop line, perhaps Dell's as well). Sony Vaios are all-Intel.
Asus, perhaps? I bought my dad an Acer recently and that one is all-Intel as well.
So basically the driver is not ported to the new wireless stack, or does not have the facility to report measurements? NetworkManager is driver-agnostic, as far as I can tell.
I might consider it -- getting annoyed of having to pull in atheros drivers (and recompile everytime there is a new kernel, unless I happen to be on openSUSE, which is pretty conservative in not breaking APIs during a release lifecycle). Any reliable way of knowing which card is Ralink inside? Will consider PCI, PCMCIA and Expresscard.
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They are going one step further than nVidia (good binary drivers, documentation lacking). This looks like it is aimed more at redressing AMD/ATi's current shortcomings vis-a-vis Intel: with a 3D-accelerated open-source graphics driver, the only thing missing from an AMD-on-laptop equation is reliably-open Wi-Fi.
And no, Atheros does not count. I refer to the pre-n fiasco, which took months before the only open-soure developer with NDA access was able to come up with specifications. Perhaps AMD should come up with a wireless NIC next?
Maybe it's inspired by real-time systems; they have a guarantee that the 4WD system will kick in within a given time period? Ask them whether it's hard or soft real-time
... to criticize the business strategy of one of the few remaining countries that toe the line on abortion, eh?
Normalizing within a genre, then. It works if you normalize your compilation albums before you burn them, provided you don't mix rock and classical music!
Isn't there a problem, for people too accustomed to hearing pre-recorded music, that they will be conditioned not to look for the missing dynamics? What are the long-term effects on one's hearing?
Thank goodness for software solutions that at least lets you normalize your music collection.
not anymore:
And anyway, nobody is forcing Britain to stays in the EU. They could go back to the EEA and still have access to the Common Market anyway.
Esperanto? It is very regular, use Latinate roots for ease of learning, and might -- just might -- be adopted by the EU as an official language, if/when they get tired of sending money to Britain to pay for translators.
So that means that the other half occured after WWII, which is worrying enough. There are global warming alarmists, but just because they exaggerate does not mean the problem does not exist.
Even those in the military chain-of-command are obligated to refuse to obey unlawful orders. Executive abuse in the name of national security is illegal -- even the Roman Republic only gave their dictators free reign for renewable one-year periods.
Err.. better font rendering? (Both Fedora/RHEL and openSUSE/SLED. Mandriva also, but have not seen much of it recently). The different distributions are experimenting with their user interface, which is good (Fedora with the GNOME Online Desktop, SUSE with SLAB (GNOME) and their custom KDE menu, Mandriva with their 3-D Matisse desktop). You don't want to replace Microsoft's monopoly with a single Linux distribution, surely.
Fluendo sells codecs for quite a few patent-encumbered video formats.
is, not was. Remember the ABM interceptor tests where the target was only hit when they fitted a beacon on it? Forget about sifting through decoys, they had a hard time hitting even a single target.
Mod parent insightful!
The HD-DVD standard actually requires the ability to make a digital backup of the disc's content (the backup is copy-protected, however), so this ban will make HD-DVD much more attractive in comparison with standard DVDs (minus the larger amount of disk space required to perform a backup).
Blu-Ray discs, on the other hand, do not necessarily allow back-ups. Hopefully Sony won't manage to carve up the market with their abominable PS3s.
Yes there is. ZFS is licensed under CDDL, which is not GPL2 compatible. Linus has so far refused to move to GPL3 when it comes out, so before that happens, there is a licensing issue.
We are closer to that situation than you thought. Some non-critical equipments such as ultrasonographs are powered by Windows (an Italian company, Esaote, used Windows NT in the past, and are now using Windows XP)
That would be nice, but .. as I understand it, due to the ease of overtaking, the length of the race and the frequency of yellow flags, qualifying position in Indy is relatively unimportant. So Al Unser might storm from the back, but Moreno has not been in Indy for several years, and if you notice most of the Panoz-Honda cars qualify quite low, which might indicate that it is not necessarily the best chassis to have..
Well, yes, oval racing traces its heritage to chariot races started by the Greeks. Not exactly oval, but they have two sharp turns at either ends of the race track.
CART also races on road courses, last time I checked, whereas IRL is oval-only. Note that the terminology is different in F1-speak: a street course in F1 is one that is at least partly based on normal roads, compared to special-purpose race tracks. Most F1 races are on specially-constructed tracks, but these tracks are not oval in shape, incorporating various kinds of turns (even when they race in Indianapolis, they used only two stretches of the oval track joined together with a specially-built inside course)
OMG! They patented FUD!
Remember how after Microsoft first bought Hotmail, they tried moving the servers from FreeBSD to Windows (NT at that time, I think), and found out to their embarrassment that FBSD handled the load better? The switch-over was not accomplished for quite a while, i believe.
Imagine the support cost on that too. Unless future computers come with IBM mainframe-like diagnostic panels in the front that indicate if, say, the network card has failed, trying to help an end-user diagnose a non-trivial problem remotely is near-impossible, short of just asking them to send the whole unit for repair.