People seem to be arguing about how accurate these results are, but how about opinions about the actual music on the list, and whether or not you think it's worthwhile?
As for me, here are the albums off their list that I already own and think are great: The White Stripes - Elephant (Dear Detroit, please don't send Jack White to jail for that fight, so that he can make more music like this) Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Radiohead - Hail to the Thief The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell The Strokes - Room On Fire 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin' The Postal Service - Give Up (And don't forget their great remix on that last Flaming Lips EP) The Rapture - Echoes Jay-Z - The Black Album Blur - Think Tank
Albums I don't yet have, but am interested in: Missy Elliott - This Is Not a Test! The Darkness - Permission to Land
Albums I have absolutely no interest in: Rufus Wainwright - Want One (Last album was weak) R. Kelly - Chocolate Factory (You have to be kidding me)
I find it interesting that some people have no problem spending $20 on a 1.5 hour movie that one gets to watch passively ($30 if you're buying snacks, probably), but won't spend $50 on a game that may take 10-25 hours to complete and enjoy interactively. I used to think that $50 was a little high as well, but then I did the math as far as the enjoyment per hour was concerned, and I think that if the game is decent, it's a much better value. Plus you end up with something you can trade in or sell when you're done with it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing movies, as I spend quite a bit on those as well, just trying to address the perception that $50 for a game is high.
You know, a week ago I would have had no idea who you were talking about, but now, thanks to a friend of my fiancee who sent us some local music scene CDs from Canada, I must say that the Joel Plaskett Emergency is not bad at all. I haven't listened to Truthfully Truthfully enough yet to know if I really like it, but there are definitely some catchy moments on my first listen through it. Matt Mays and Wintersleep seem to be decent also - perhaps one of these three will be your next big US export, ala Barenaked Ladies.
Thanks, that definitely illustrates the problem. It looks like the URL in right-click > Properties does not have the same issue, and does display both the bad character and the rest of the URL. I'll be sure to be confirming addresses of important sites until a patch is released using this method.
Darn it, should have proofread that a little better. That was obviously supposed to be either "not guilty" or "innocent". Thanks for pointing it out anyway.
I am writing this note to let you know that I am strongly opposed to House Bill #179, specifically its provision about motion picture recording. Although I do not support piracy, the wording of this law is far too imprecise, and I believe will lead to wrongful convictions and problems for citizens who are not innocent of any crime. There is a world of difference between someone sneaking in a video camera into a movie theater for the purpose of making a bootleg tape, and someone innocently using the record function of a device at a store where a movie may or may not even be shown. I believe trying to sneak this provision in among others is deceitful, and I would strongly oppose anyone supporting this bill in its current form at the next election. Thank you.
The reason you have no sympathy is because I am guessing you've never created anything that people still want to buy, or listen to, or watch, many years after you have created it. If you did come up with something great, and were able to make a living off of it, until someone started giving out free copies of it to everyone, you might be a little mad as well.
I don't understand why everyone falls back on touring as something that artists should be required to do if they want to make any money. What if they don't want to? We don't require authors to constantly travel the country and do readings to make money because nobody is willing to pay for their books. Instead, they can spend a little time promoting and then concentrate on creating the next book. Similarly, artists may want studio time to create the next album.
To rephase your post, "relying on stealing music for a while is a nice idea, but if it doesn't work, then the consumer should stop complaining and start paying."
I think that argument is pretty flawed. The MP3 quality is obviously good enough for millions of people, as everybody who's downloading music is not rushing out to buy CDs because their ears are bleeding. A lot of people can't tell any difference between a CD and a 160/192k encoded file. To say that it's OK to get this music for free because it does not sound as good is to still avoid the basic question of whether it's legal. Which, whether or not you disagree with the law, it's not.
It's total and complete FUD because it seeks to place Fear Uncertainty and Doubt in the minds of people who would support the Mono project. Perhaps you should go look up what FUD means. This article is empty speculation based on absolutely no facts. It simply paints a reaaaally scaaaary future where Microsoft somehow has the power to crush Linux development. Miguel refutes most of the points in this article, and obviously he and his team have already spent plenty of time thinking about these issues - they're not idiots.
Of course, Slashdot moderators have wasted no time in censoring the few people who immediately saw this article for what it is, so I doubt the post that even originated this thread will stick around - it's currently at 1.
Comments like this completely baffle me. If you don't trust Microsoft to implement something, then how can you be using their development platform? You know that framework that you're using with every call and that compiler that builds your code? Yeah, they implemented all of those. Anyway, if you don't trust them, write your own generator - the CodeDOM and templated approached have allowed many to do so. Target it towards the OLEDB provider instead of SQL Native and then you won't have to worry about it working with other database vendors.
How can you make sure that it works now? How about testing, that's done well for me so far in my career.
I can't imagine why they would give you a 30 day activation period since most people would have finished the game long before then, unlike WinXP which can never be finished (unfortunatly).
Umm, perhaps it's because people are still playing CounterStrike 5 years after Half-Life has been released, which required the full retail copy of HL until it was released as a standalone product commercially? Or any other popular HL mods. The single-player portion might be over for most in less than 30 days, but that doesn't meant anything for multiplayer. Not to mention, if it's as good as it looks, I'll probably be playing it through multiple times.
I don't understand how that is different from VS.NET and its IntelliSense. When I hit the . after cmd, the popup list of all the methods and properties comes up, so if I hit P and then., then it types Parameters for me, just like this Anjuta. Same thing for the enum (SqlDbType) - although in C# this is not as easy, VB.NET has great enum completion, where the whole enum pops up and you can hit the arrows to select the one you want instead of typing. The IntelliSense is even better now in VS.NET 2003, as it's been extended to the Command Window, which one uses quite a bit in debugging.
And if you're typing up parameter add statements 100 times, then you obviously haven't seen some of the data layer generators out there for.NET that save you a ton of time, like Microsoft Olymars and nTierGen. Or just write your own to generate the code for you - have you looked up SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters?
It didn't truncate your post. See how there's a little link at the end of the original post that says "Read the rest of this comment..."? That's where the rest of it went.
On another note though, do you really think this guy will need to buy $700 NTFS recovery before he even makes any money? Most of his customers are going to be running 9X and perhaps a few on 2000/XP, and most of those are still going to use FAT. I have not seen many OEMs shipping NTFS formatted hard drives even on OSs that support them, and most of the machines for home users are going to be either overpriced OEM machines or gray boxes from some local reseller that also don't want to mess with NTFS for customers. Just my opinion, though.
How is that different from any other performance or recording by Evanescence? If only the god-awful movie that created their breakthrough (Daredevil) and they would vanish from the face of the earth.
I guess I was saying, more simply, that the OS can potentially only auto-download updates when it knows it's on a broadband or LAN connection, which it can easily determine. If on dial-up, it can then give you the option to either only do updates manually, or schedule them to be done during an idle time of your choosing. In other words, it doesn't have to be an "all or nothing" solution that affects dialup users negatively.
Also, I would not consider IE a security patch, nor do I think that those 23MB you downloaded were all patches. Hopefully we're talking about small files here, not entire service packs or applications. MS usually makes a hotfix available to users so that patching a security issue does not require the whole service pack. Those hotfixes are then rolled up into the SP so that one can get them all at once.
Well, backing up system state can definitely be done to disk, and closing all programs is very easy for the OS to do (hmm, unless you have an unsaved document, oh oh). Updating your system repair disk can be done to an image as well, which can be written to an actual floppy at some later point.
Anyway, the update can be downloaded and installed, and then the user can be required to do all these tasks before the system is rebooted. Heck, bring up a wizard for all 3 to make it easy so that the user is not forced to go through it manually. There are definitely ways of making it easy.
So in other words, you don't think the operation system could be smart enough to determine that you're on a dial-up instead of broadband, and schedule updates to be downloaded during off-hours, and only when it's detected that the computer has been idle for several hours? Yours is like the 3rd post to think that it will start downloading exactly when you're in the middle of something important - MS's usability engineers are not that dumb, no matter what Slashdrones say. Anyway, how do you get your updates now? You do get updates, don't you?
What do you mean, they bury it where no one looks? Every install of XP I've ever done, the Auto Update icon shows up on the start bar after using it a short while, and prompts you to run the Automatic Update Wizard. The wizard gives you the option to automatically download updates and prompt you to install them, which is the default behavior and the one I prefer as well. Or you can just have it auto-install them.
So, no one really has to look for it, unless they wish to change their wizard selections. If they do, it's on the auto updates tab in Control Panel > System.
This post is actually pretty interesting, I'm surprised it's not moderated higher. Except that I can't find any mention online of return addresses being required now. This page recommends it, but says that only certain mailing services require it. I guess I'll have to ask someone the next time I actually go to the post office.
Exclusive for Xbox? What are you talking about? They have a site just for their Gamecube games. If they were really exclusive, I'd be able to get Super Monkey Ball and Sonic for my Xbox. Not that I'm complaining too much, we've gotten a lot of great Sega releases for the platform - JSRF, Crazy Taxi 3, Panzer Dragoon Orta, etc.
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As referenced by another post, that appears to be Adultdex. Since I'm at work, I'm not about to verify whether that link is correct though :-)
People seem to be arguing about how accurate these results are, but how about opinions about the actual music on the list, and whether or not you think it's worthwhile?
As for me, here are the albums off their list that I already own and think are great:
The White Stripes - Elephant (Dear Detroit, please don't send Jack White to jail for that fight, so that he can make more music like this)
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
The Strokes - Room On Fire
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
The Postal Service - Give Up (And don't forget their great remix on that last Flaming Lips EP)
The Rapture - Echoes
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Blur - Think Tank
Albums I don't yet have, but am interested in:
Missy Elliott - This Is Not a Test!
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Albums I have absolutely no interest in:
Rufus Wainwright - Want One (Last album was weak)
R. Kelly - Chocolate Factory (You have to be kidding me)
I find it interesting that some people have no problem spending $20 on a 1.5 hour movie that one gets to watch passively ($30 if you're buying snacks, probably), but won't spend $50 on a game that may take 10-25 hours to complete and enjoy interactively. I used to think that $50 was a little high as well, but then I did the math as far as the enjoyment per hour was concerned, and I think that if the game is decent, it's a much better value. Plus you end up with something you can trade in or sell when you're done with it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing movies, as I spend quite a bit on those as well, just trying to address the perception that $50 for a game is high.
You know, a week ago I would have had no idea who you were talking about, but now, thanks to a friend of my fiancee who sent us some local music scene CDs from Canada, I must say that the Joel Plaskett Emergency is not bad at all. I haven't listened to Truthfully Truthfully enough yet to know if I really like it, but there are definitely some catchy moments on my first listen through it. Matt Mays and Wintersleep seem to be decent also - perhaps one of these three will be your next big US export, ala Barenaked Ladies.
Thanks, that definitely illustrates the problem. It looks like the URL in right-click > Properties does not have the same issue, and does display both the bad character and the rest of the URL. I'll be sure to be confirming addresses of important sites until a patch is released using this method.
Darn it, should have proofread that a little better. That was obviously supposed to be either "not guilty" or "innocent". Thanks for pointing it out anyway.
My note reads:
I am writing this note to let you know that I am strongly opposed to House Bill #179, specifically its provision about motion picture recording. Although I do not support piracy, the wording of this law is far too imprecise, and I believe will lead to wrongful convictions and problems for citizens who are not innocent of any crime. There is a world of difference between someone sneaking in a video camera into a movie theater for the purpose of making a bootleg tape, and someone innocently using the record function of a device at a store where a movie may or may not even be shown. I believe trying to sneak this provision in among others is deceitful, and I would strongly oppose anyone supporting this bill in its current form at the next election. Thank you.
The reason you have no sympathy is because I am guessing you've never created anything that people still want to buy, or listen to, or watch, many years after you have created it. If you did come up with something great, and were able to make a living off of it, until someone started giving out free copies of it to everyone, you might be a little mad as well.
I don't understand why everyone falls back on touring as something that artists should be required to do if they want to make any money. What if they don't want to? We don't require authors to constantly travel the country and do readings to make money because nobody is willing to pay for their books. Instead, they can spend a little time promoting and then concentrate on creating the next book. Similarly, artists may want studio time to create the next album.
To rephase your post, "relying on stealing music for a while is a nice idea, but if it doesn't work, then the consumer should stop complaining and start paying."
I think that argument is pretty flawed. The MP3 quality is obviously good enough for millions of people, as everybody who's downloading music is not rushing out to buy CDs because their ears are bleeding. A lot of people can't tell any difference between a CD and a 160/192k encoded file. To say that it's OK to get this music for free because it does not sound as good is to still avoid the basic question of whether it's legal. Which, whether or not you disagree with the law, it's not.
It's total and complete FUD because it seeks to place Fear Uncertainty and Doubt in the minds of people who would support the Mono project. Perhaps you should go look up what FUD means. This article is empty speculation based on absolutely no facts. It simply paints a reaaaally scaaaary future where Microsoft somehow has the power to crush Linux development. Miguel refutes most of the points in this article, and obviously he and his team have already spent plenty of time thinking about these issues - they're not idiots.
Of course, Slashdot moderators have wasted no time in censoring the few people who immediately saw this article for what it is, so I doubt the post that even originated this thread will stick around - it's currently at 1.
Comments like this completely baffle me. If you don't trust Microsoft to implement something, then how can you be using their development platform? You know that framework that you're using with every call and that compiler that builds your code? Yeah, they implemented all of those. Anyway, if you don't trust them, write your own generator - the CodeDOM and templated approached have allowed many to do so. Target it towards the OLEDB provider instead of SQL Native and then you won't have to worry about it working with other database vendors.
How can you make sure that it works now? How about testing, that's done well for me so far in my career.
The link works fine for me and loads up what looks to be a nicely done Flash site. Sounds like a user issue.
I can't imagine why they would give you a 30 day activation period since most people would have finished the game long before then, unlike WinXP which can never be finished (unfortunatly).
Umm, perhaps it's because people are still playing CounterStrike 5 years after Half-Life has been released, which required the full retail copy of HL until it was released as a standalone product commercially? Or any other popular HL mods. The single-player portion might be over for most in less than 30 days, but that doesn't meant anything for multiplayer. Not to mention, if it's as good as it looks, I'll probably be playing it through multiple times.
I don't understand how that is different from VS.NET and its IntelliSense. When I hit the . after cmd, the popup list of all the methods and properties comes up, so if I hit P and then ., then it types Parameters for me, just like this Anjuta. Same thing for the enum (SqlDbType) - although in C# this is not as easy, VB.NET has great enum completion, where the whole enum pops up and you can hit the arrows to select the one you want instead of typing. The IntelliSense is even better now in VS.NET 2003, as it's been extended to the Command Window, which one uses quite a bit in debugging.
.NET that save you a ton of time, like Microsoft Olymars and nTierGen. Or just write your own to generate the code for you - have you looked up SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters?
And if you're typing up parameter add statements 100 times, then you obviously haven't seen some of the data layer generators out there for
It didn't truncate your post. See how there's a little link at the end of the original post that says "Read the rest of this comment..."? That's where the rest of it went.
On another note though, do you really think this guy will need to buy $700 NTFS recovery before he even makes any money? Most of his customers are going to be running 9X and perhaps a few on 2000/XP, and most of those are still going to use FAT. I have not seen many OEMs shipping NTFS formatted hard drives even on OSs that support them, and most of the machines for home users are going to be either overpriced OEM machines or gray boxes from some local reseller that also don't want to mess with NTFS for customers. Just my opinion, though.
How is that different from any other performance or recording by Evanescence? If only the god-awful movie that created their breakthrough (Daredevil) and they would vanish from the face of the earth.
I guess I was saying, more simply, that the OS can potentially only auto-download updates when it knows it's on a broadband or LAN connection, which it can easily determine. If on dial-up, it can then give you the option to either only do updates manually, or schedule them to be done during an idle time of your choosing. In other words, it doesn't have to be an "all or nothing" solution that affects dialup users negatively.
Also, I would not consider IE a security patch, nor do I think that those 23MB you downloaded were all patches. Hopefully we're talking about small files here, not entire service packs or applications. MS usually makes a hotfix available to users so that patching a security issue does not require the whole service pack. Those hotfixes are then rolled up into the SP so that one can get them all at once.
Well, backing up system state can definitely be done to disk, and closing all programs is very easy for the OS to do (hmm, unless you have an unsaved document, oh oh). Updating your system repair disk can be done to an image as well, which can be written to an actual floppy at some later point.
Anyway, the update can be downloaded and installed, and then the user can be required to do all these tasks before the system is rebooted. Heck, bring up a wizard for all 3 to make it easy so that the user is not forced to go through it manually. There are definitely ways of making it easy.
So in other words, you don't think the operation system could be smart enough to determine that you're on a dial-up instead of broadband, and schedule updates to be downloaded during off-hours, and only when it's detected that the computer has been idle for several hours? Yours is like the 3rd post to think that it will start downloading exactly when you're in the middle of something important - MS's usability engineers are not that dumb, no matter what Slashdrones say. Anyway, how do you get your updates now? You do get updates, don't you?
Apparently Outlook Express development hasn't really ended. Check out this BetaNews article: MS Backtracks on Demise of Outlook Express.
What do you mean, they bury it where no one looks? Every install of XP I've ever done, the Auto Update icon shows up on the start bar after using it a short while, and prompts you to run the Automatic Update Wizard. The wizard gives you the option to automatically download updates and prompt you to install them, which is the default behavior and the one I prefer as well. Or you can just have it auto-install them.
So, no one really has to look for it, unless they wish to change their wizard selections. If they do, it's on the auto updates tab in Control Panel > System.
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Can't believe this isn't moderated higher - that's a really great 2 part video of it.
This post is actually pretty interesting, I'm surprised it's not moderated higher. Except that I can't find any mention online of return addresses being required now. This page recommends it, but says that only certain mailing services require it. I guess I'll have to ask someone the next time I actually go to the post office.
Did you not read the post? He actually turned down free delivery from the dealer, making his efforts even more useless.
Exclusive for Xbox? What are you talking about? They have a site just for their Gamecube games. If they were really exclusive, I'd be able to get Super Monkey Ball and Sonic for my Xbox. Not that I'm complaining too much, we've gotten a lot of great Sega releases for the platform - JSRF, Crazy Taxi 3, Panzer Dragoon Orta, etc.