Try the combination of one person listening to the "local" ClearChannel country station (a match made in hell if ever there was one) and having The Star Spangled Banner as his (loud) ring tone.
My roommate gets nigh-hysterical at hearing a phone ring when he's concentrating on something computer-related. Personally, if I'm really focused, I don't even hear people when they're talking directly to me. Some part of my brain registers speech, but that's it. But I'm usually not so intense, and the rest of the time those background noises get seriously annoying. Whoever decided that AIM should have sounds on by default for every single message transaction should be slowly roasted alive.
Non-profit radio stations, e.g. most college stations where the programming is controlled by the students (unlike, say, JHU, where the administration sold the frequency out from under the students to NPR), will never have commercials. There are several reasons for this. First, it is illegal for non-profit radio stations (who get much better deals on the royalties we must pay to ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and now Soundexchange for online broadcasting) to have commercials. We _can_ have "underwriting", where we can tell you that this program was brought to you by Bob's Motors which is located at 10 Palm Lane, but that's about it. Sort of like public television.
But many stations wouldn't have commercials even if they could, because they tend to be run and staffed by people who are opposed to that sort of thing too. This is reflected in the music played, which granted isn't for everyone, but on a freeform station you can generally find at least a few shows you like.
At the very least, with most stations the music playing will be what the DJ would like to hear, which means it wasn't selected by some marketing suit based on its ability to sell advertising.
As for TV, I still watch SciFi, but only for Stargate SG-1 (the hour format is good for workouts). Adult Swim is enjoyable on Cartoon Network (except for the anime on weeknights, which I've already seen subbed). Comedy Central is still interesting, and the Food Network has some good programming (largely Good Eats and Iron Chef; avoid the scary ultra-suburbanite shows).
My radio in my car broke 5 years ago and I haven't bothered to get it fixed, since it can't tune in my own (Internet) station anyway. I use an MP3 discman to listen to stuff from the station's catalog, as well as CDs that I pick up at shows. I'm lucky enough to be able to bike to work, so I only use the car 2 or 3 days a week anyway.
Last I checked, you got 40 songs per month for $10. That's your 25 cents per song. VBR MP3, no DRM. Download clients for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Of course, your tastes might be more mainstream. But the artists that emusic carries, at least in the "Punk/Alternative" section, are largely on labels that are not affiliated with the RIAA. You might not have heard of them before, but chances are you'll find something you like, and you get to dodge the whole sordid mess and support labels who support their artists. They also carry RIAA-backed label artists too, so check before you buy.
No, I don't work for emusic; I work for a state university and freshmeat.net. But that state university also has a radio station (see the sig) that plays much of the stuff available on emusic. So I'm an advocate of that sort of music, and emusic seems like a great way to get it. You can often see 3 good bands for $5, but to the uninitiated, that can be hard to do.
Disgaea is a gamer's game, by gamers for gamers. If you thought that Final Fantasy Tactics could have been a bit more long and complicated, you will love Disgaea. Any game where you're the son of the Overlord of the Netherworld is starting out on the right foot.
The story and characters are good, and the dialogue is great in both the funny and serious spots. Best of all, there is a language option to use the English dub or the original Japanese voices. Oh, Squaresoft, why do you not have this option?
Combat is like Tactics, but with some EXCELLENT differences. You can pick up allies and enemies and throw them (different character types are better at throwing). With allies, you can continue this until you have a stack of your whole team, and throw across the whole board. In a turn, you can move and act, and do either first. If you accidentally move to the wrong spot before you act, you can cancel the move and do it again. Players next to an attacking player have a chance of joining in in a "team attack" with often amusing results.
And hey! It has _penguins_! Sadly, the penguins (Prinnies) explode when thrown, but they are very cute fighters ("Take this, dood!").
The Item World is excellent. Level up your items and defeat special monsters inside them to move them around and soup up one item with a ton of stats.
Like the "jobs" from Tactics, there are many humanoid (you're all demons, actually) classes, and each one has 7 levels. Characters "transmigrate" with all sorts of complicated rules.
There's also a Dark Assembly (congress), complete with bribery. And if your proposal fails, you can "persuade by force". Proposals can open up new worlds, gain you triple experience for the next enemy killed, make the enemies stronger or weaker, or change the shops' inventories.
All in all, a great game. As the parent (and an NPC in the game) mentioned, you can "beat the game" while barely scratching the surface, but there's so much to do, and not just mindless leveling. The Dark Assembly is actually completely optional (at least, proposals that require voting).
If you buy one RPG this year, make it this one. FFX2? BAH.
Which nVidia drivers are the rest of you using? Did I fall out of some parallel universe yesterday?
Maybe it's the fact that I'm using Debian instead of Fedora, but getting the nVidia drivers working didn't even take me half an hour, and that was before their easy installer. Downloaded both the files, untarred, read the directions, and typed make in each directory.
And that's what I've done every time a new driver is released. I have simply not had any problems. Yes, acceleration is working perfectly. So I ask you...what are the rest of you doing?
I'm not some guru. I'm pretty good at Linux, good enough to be a good sysadmin, but I hadn't even heard of it before 1998. Most of my programs are PHP, and SQL (PostgreSQL if I can) or shell scripts. I spend much of my free time doing non-computer things. I don't understand what the problem is here.
Debian doesn't differentiate between the BSD and GPL licenses, as they are both DFSG-compliant and thus able to be included in the "main" (Free) section.
What you have are main, non-us, and non-free. Packages in main can be used by everyone and will always comply with the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines). They will also not depend on non-free packages.
Packages in non-us might not be OK for people to use in the US, or might have to be developed outside of the US, for various legal reasons. OpenSSH used to be in there.
non-free is for, well, packages that are not Free-as-in-RMS. Modules to allow the GIMP to process GIFs were in there (not sure if they still are). Netscape 4 is in there.
Debian also has a package which will download, compile, and install the nVidia drivers. They have something similar for the MS TTF fonts, PINE, and some of Dan Bernstein's software. RealPlayer too, IIRC.
I think that this is all very good. It provides a clear distinction, and you will never be in trouble (SCO aside) if you only use packages from main. If this is your home desktop and you don't care, simply tell the installer to include all of these APT sources, and you won't have to think about it again.
This is true. I suppose I should start qualifying, when I talk up eMusic, that what I'm referring to is the Punk/Alternative section. This section really is punk and alternative, and not "Blink 182 and Oasis." Most of the band you see there will be found on many college radio stations, and are not on RIAA-affiliated labels. But not everything is guaranteed to be RIAA-free.
When I sit down to a piano or bass, I'm usually playing jazz, so I guess it's ironic that I don't really listen to very much of it compared with other styles. Excellent artists like Dave Brubeck and Bruce Hornsby are generally on major labels, which is a shame. But I have a ton of used Brubeck records:)
I just realized that I might have implied that my own radio station was crap:)
What I meant to say was that independent music also has radio stations, distributors, labels, reviewers, etc. to sort out the wheat from the chaff. And yes, there's a lot of chaff, but the wheat is oh so good.
I see a lot of people complaining in this story about restricted formats, money still going to the RIAA, and Windows-only. None of you read the article.
eMusic gives you unrestricted VBR MP3s at well under a dollar per song. They deal largely with independent artists who are not beholden to the RIAA, which is a big part of why they can offer these distribution terms. They also explicitly support Linux, as well as Windows and Mac OS.
"But I don't like that music!" Well, you _should_:)
Yeah, it takes more effort to find music, but I've been on both sides of the fence and I've found the indie side to be far more rewarding. Bands like Enon, Quasi, El Guapo, Freezepop, Call and Response, Stereo Total...they will probably never hit mainstream radio, and there's absolutely no good reason why.
With a band like Freezepop, you don't even need an eMusic! Their CDs are cheap, and you can download full MP3s of many of their songs from their own site for free. Lifestyle, a side project of one of their members, has an entire album's worth of tracks that basically fall in between the first and upcoming second album. All for free.
There's plenty of crap in indie too, of course. Here, I'll have to give a blatant plug to the site linked in my sig, wmbc.umbc.edu. We are currently on hiatus until the spring, but you can listen to the automated music stream that usually fills in between live DJs. You can also look at our Top 30 chart, which is actually a representation of the 30 albums the DJs chose to play the most, not a pre-mandated playlist. And hey, we use Debian! And our music database software is available on freshmeat!
See, you can discover independent music the same way you used to discover mainstream. There are many other stations like ours (and I'll admit that some are probably better). You could also take eMusic up on their 50 free tracks offer, or check out cmj.com, where most college stations report their top 30. I'm almost positive you'll find something you like, and you don't have to feel bad for buying it.
You obviously want to buy your music through eMusic, which is one of the services covered in the article. They work with independent artists, which should be obvious when you see that they distribute the music as unrestricted VBR MP3s.
Their service also allows non-US users and explicitly supports Linux.
One of the indie music directors from the online college radio station linked below in my sig has bought tons of music from eMusic. If you've ever known someone in that position, I don't think I need to say anything else.
You shouldn't "hope" you're not buying RIAA-backed CDs. It's pretty easy to tell at many concerts; if the band is good and their CD is between $5 and $10 (or even $15), it's not from the RIAA because they wouldn't be allowed to charge that little.
(I read the article earlier today and emailed some corrections, but I read BBspot every day).
The fact that you're not sure whether the kids went bowling that day or not is part of the point: that this has just as much to do with them killing their classmates as goth music.
If you get an MP3 discman and an adaptor, which is what I went with. My Philips player was around $120 a few years ago, IIRC.
Of course, I would love for people to do this, since the site linked in my sig is a Shoutcast (well, icecast) stream:) We're currently on hiatus until the spring semester, but you can still get a good day's worth of unique music out of the DJ-TRON 3000.
[Sorry, it's 64k stereo until we move it to the nicer server room; should be this winter. I don't think it sounds awful though, and I was a music major (with emphasis on recording for a while).]
This was mind-blowing animation, and the story/characters were not bad (Roger Ebert liked it too). However, as with Titan A.E. (which I thought was just kind of OK), the studio was basically destroyed in the process.
I thought that The Iron Giant was a really excellent movie, though perhaps the animation wasn't as flashily spectacular as Pixar. It certainly wasn't _bad_.
I thought that the mini-series was truer to the original story (except for the whole Emperor's daughter actually having a role thing), but the acting was far weaker. The short version of the Lynch film was certainly crap, and I wasn't a huge fan of the "weirding modules", but I enjoyed the darker alternate imagery, and Kyle MacLachlan was definitely a much better Paul than the Luke-Skywalker-wannabe they got for the miniseries. And then you have Patrick Stewart, Alicia Witt, and Sting...
I agree. Sure, he's rich. I'm sure many in the "business world" consider him to be "successfull". But is he happy? Are the people around him happy that he's there? Is someone's life better because of him? That's my definition of success.
I don't even know what America's Cup is, and I'd rather have true friends than a MiG.
It started (IIRC) as a channel showing any movie that they could buy for $20. Eventually it grew into what it is today. Now, IMHO, they hit a peak with Farscape and have gone down slightly since then, but I'm optimistic enough to think that that was just "a peak" and not "the peak." I think Stargate SG-1 is a good series (but that started a while ago, as it's in the middle of season 7), and their "You are watching SciFi" spots are entertaining (the new ones for the Food Network are good too). But UFO investigations with BRYANT GUMBEL? Eep. And Scare Tactics is just dumb.
You're affected by Windows machines getting owned and used as spam relays or DDoS clients. You're obviously affected if you're the victim of either of these, but also take into account the increase in Internet traffic, which will affect your usage and probably increase costs in the long run.
There's also the issue of "background Internet radiation":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/34527.ht ml
Not to mention the fact that you probably have to deal with attachments in.doc format.
For my part, I hope that they've incorporated some of what this tool does, which claims the same goal as some of their changes:
http://www.pivx.com/qwikfix/guide/usageguide.htm l
"mitigate" is just fine, but there's no reason to say "mitigate against". "Reduce the severity of against malicious attacks"? No.
For that matter, the layout of the TechNet site is awful. Who thought it was a good idea to make the menu items on the right non-wrapping? At 1280 x 1024, I have to make the menu take up half the screen in order to read it properly.
At first I thought this was a Mozilla issue, but Mozilla is only slightly worse than IE 6 (the body text doesn't wrap either in Mozilla).
Switch between tabs in Mozilla using Ctrl-PageUp and Ctrl-PageDown. For most people with only two hands, this means not having to take a hand off the keyboard, and is much more efficient.
I can't count the number of times where I've had to use IE for whatever reason (usually someone else's machine) and found myself hitting / or Ctrl-T and wondering why it wasn't working.
I'm sorry, but what kind of logic is that? You "love" the fact that a pop-up window has disrupted your browsing to tell you about another pop-up window, and are then happy about having avoided the second one?
The Mozilla team is apparently working on moving pop-up error/info messages into the browser window itself, because they recognize that this sort of UI is disruptive. If I'm Ctrl-clicking (Windows) or middle-clicking (Linux) on a stack of links to load in the background, I don't want to be interrupted when one of them times out, wants to set a cookie, uses/doesn't use SSL, etc. But I still want to be made aware of these things.
With Mozilla, you can also specify sites which are allowed to use pop-ups, though not interactively.
You can probably get one for $100. I have two of them. They are probably a bit smaller than a "small" pizza box.
They have 1 or 2 PCI slots, 2 PCMCIA slots (yes, really), integrated sound, video, and network, and use a PS/2 keyboard/mouse. They can use a SCSI disk or a laptop IDE disk, and have external SCSI and serial too.
You can run NT 4, DEC Unix, Linux, or a BSD variant. The main issue is that they require parity SIMMs and might only be able to address a smallish hard drive. Many of them don't come with floppy drives either, but they can netboot.
His goal is to incite hatred of the United States. Blind, unwavering hatred of the sort that causes his followers to gladly give their lives so that the lives of US citizens will also be lost. Would it look good for his cause to say that the United States supported him in the past? That he took help from such a den of inequity and filth?
bin Laden has warped other parts of the religion he claims to follow into something unrecognizable. I can't trust that he's not lying (or even convincing himself of things that are untrue). I'd feel the same about anyone who would go to such extremes.
No wait, "Unix" was that funky GUI in Jurassic Park, right? The little girl said so!
Seriously, Unix has invaded the American home in the form of the Tivo, and most Tivo owners have no idea. But that just showcases the strength of Linux: flexibility. It can be easier to use than Windows with the right interface, and everything else about it is (IMHO) already an improvement.
You're right, though, in that mainstream folks will never have _control_ over Unix, but they weren't even writing BAT files back when home computers used DOS. I think that Unix will come into the mainstream home, but like Tivo, people won't necessarily recognize it. Some argue that most people don't really know Windows is there, and just care about the applications, and I certainly see some truth to that.
Just because "nerdy" things happen to be popular at the moment doesn't make everyone "a nerd".
Some would say that the thing that connects all nerds is heaps of knowledge or intelligence, but there are certainly counter-examples for this. Plenty of doctors are not nerds.
What about the strong desire to investigate how things work, to learn, to take apart? There are plenty of people that seem content to take the world at face value and watch TV for their entertainment, but I know a lot of mechanics who like to take things apart to see how they work. Do they count as nerds? Do archaologists?
As the article said, it's a tough label to pin down. But is that bad?
I never had a problem getting service packs as a single file; I just follow the link to where it says "If you're a network administrator who would like to install this on multiple machines..." or something similar. Didn't seem hidden to me.
Oh, and here's something interesting I found recently which should be easy to keep around:
http://www.pivx.com/qwikfix/guide/usageguide.htm l
Basically, a security firm said "How much of Windows' dangerous behaviour can we possibly disable without impacting usability for most people?" Finally, something that helps you avoid the holes rather than patching them post-discovery.
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Try the combination of one person listening to the "local" ClearChannel country station (a match made in hell if ever there was one) and having The Star Spangled Banner as his (loud) ring tone.
My roommate gets nigh-hysterical at hearing a phone ring when he's concentrating on something computer-related. Personally, if I'm really focused, I don't even hear people when they're talking directly to me. Some part of my brain registers speech, but that's it. But I'm usually not so intense, and the rest of the time those background noises get seriously annoying. Whoever decided that AIM should have sounds on by default for every single message transaction should be slowly roasted alive.
Non-profit radio stations, e.g. most college stations where the programming is controlled by the students (unlike, say, JHU, where the administration sold the frequency out from under the students to NPR), will never have commercials. There are several reasons for this. First, it is illegal for non-profit radio stations (who get much better deals on the royalties we must pay to ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and now Soundexchange for online broadcasting) to have commercials. We _can_ have "underwriting", where we can tell you that this program was brought to you by Bob's Motors which is located at 10 Palm Lane, but that's about it. Sort of like public television.
But many stations wouldn't have commercials even if they could, because they tend to be run and staffed by people who are opposed to that sort of thing too. This is reflected in the music played, which granted isn't for everyone, but on a freeform station you can generally find at least a few shows you like.
At the very least, with most stations the music playing will be what the DJ would like to hear, which means it wasn't selected by some marketing suit based on its ability to sell advertising.
As for TV, I still watch SciFi, but only for Stargate SG-1 (the hour format is good for workouts). Adult Swim is enjoyable on Cartoon Network (except for the anime on weeknights, which I've already seen subbed). Comedy Central is still interesting, and the Food Network has some good programming (largely Good Eats and Iron Chef; avoid the scary ultra-suburbanite shows).
My radio in my car broke 5 years ago and I haven't bothered to get it fixed, since it can't tune in my own (Internet) station anyway. I use an MP3 discman to listen to stuff from the station's catalog, as well as CDs that I pick up at shows. I'm lucky enough to be able to bike to work, so I only use the car 2 or 3 days a week anyway.
Last I checked, you got 40 songs per month for $10. That's your 25 cents per song. VBR MP3, no DRM. Download clients for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Of course, your tastes might be more mainstream. But the artists that emusic carries, at least in the "Punk/Alternative" section, are largely on labels that are not affiliated with the RIAA. You might not have heard of them before, but chances are you'll find something you like, and you get to dodge the whole sordid mess and support labels who support their artists. They also carry RIAA-backed label artists too, so check before you buy.
No, I don't work for emusic; I work for a state university and freshmeat.net. But that state university also has a radio station (see the sig) that plays much of the stuff available on emusic. So I'm an advocate of that sort of music, and emusic seems like a great way to get it. You can often see 3 good bands for $5, but to the uninitiated, that can be hard to do.
Disgaea is a gamer's game, by gamers for gamers. If you thought that Final Fantasy Tactics could have been a bit more long and complicated, you will love Disgaea. Any game where you're the son of the Overlord of the Netherworld is starting out on the right foot.
The story and characters are good, and the dialogue is great in both the funny and serious spots. Best of all, there is a language option to use the English dub or the original Japanese voices. Oh, Squaresoft, why do you not have this option?
Combat is like Tactics, but with some EXCELLENT differences. You can pick up allies and enemies and throw them (different character types are better at throwing). With allies, you can continue this until you have a stack of your whole team, and throw across the whole board. In a turn, you can move and act, and do either first. If you accidentally move to the wrong spot before you act, you can cancel the move and do it again. Players next to an attacking player have a chance of joining in in a "team attack" with often amusing results.
And hey! It has _penguins_! Sadly, the penguins (Prinnies) explode when thrown, but they are very cute fighters ("Take this, dood!").
The Item World is excellent. Level up your items and defeat special monsters inside them to move them around and soup up one item with a ton of stats.
Like the "jobs" from Tactics, there are many humanoid (you're all demons, actually) classes, and each one has 7 levels. Characters "transmigrate" with all sorts of complicated rules.
There's also a Dark Assembly (congress), complete with bribery. And if your proposal fails, you can "persuade by force". Proposals can open up new worlds, gain you triple experience for the next enemy killed, make the enemies stronger or weaker, or change the shops' inventories.
All in all, a great game. As the parent (and an NPC in the game) mentioned, you can "beat the game" while barely scratching the surface, but there's so much to do, and not just mindless leveling. The Dark Assembly is actually completely optional (at least, proposals that require voting).
If you buy one RPG this year, make it this one. FFX2? BAH.
Which nVidia drivers are the rest of you using? Did I fall out of some parallel universe yesterday?
Maybe it's the fact that I'm using Debian instead of Fedora, but getting the nVidia drivers working didn't even take me half an hour, and that was before their easy installer. Downloaded both the files, untarred, read the directions, and typed make in each directory.
And that's what I've done every time a new driver is released. I have simply not had any problems. Yes, acceleration is working perfectly. So I ask you...what are the rest of you doing?
I'm not some guru. I'm pretty good at Linux, good enough to be a good sysadmin, but I hadn't even heard of it before 1998. Most of my programs are PHP, and SQL (PostgreSQL if I can) or shell scripts. I spend much of my free time doing non-computer things. I don't understand what the problem is here.
Debian doesn't differentiate between the BSD and GPL licenses, as they are both DFSG-compliant and thus able to be included in the "main" (Free) section.
What you have are main, non-us, and non-free. Packages in main can be used by everyone and will always comply with the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines). They will also not depend on non-free packages.
Packages in non-us might not be OK for people to use in the US, or might have to be developed outside of the US, for various legal reasons. OpenSSH used to be in there.
non-free is for, well, packages that are not Free-as-in-RMS. Modules to allow the GIMP to process GIFs were in there (not sure if they still are). Netscape 4 is in there.
Debian also has a package which will download, compile, and install the nVidia drivers. They have something similar for the MS TTF fonts, PINE, and some of Dan Bernstein's software. RealPlayer too, IIRC.
I think that this is all very good. It provides a clear distinction, and you will never be in trouble (SCO aside) if you only use packages from main. If this is your home desktop and you don't care, simply tell the installer to include all of these APT sources, and you won't have to think about it again.
This is true. I suppose I should start qualifying, when I talk up eMusic, that what I'm referring to is the Punk/Alternative section. This section really is punk and alternative, and not "Blink 182 and Oasis." Most of the band you see there will be found on many college radio stations, and are not on RIAA-affiliated labels. But not everything is guaranteed to be RIAA-free.
:)
When I sit down to a piano or bass, I'm usually playing jazz, so I guess it's ironic that I don't really listen to very much of it compared with other styles. Excellent artists like Dave Brubeck and Bruce Hornsby are generally on major labels, which is a shame. But I have a ton of used Brubeck records
I just realized that I might have implied that my own radio station was crap
What I meant to say was that independent music also has radio stations, distributors, labels, reviewers, etc. to sort out the wheat from the chaff. And yes, there's a lot of chaff, but the wheat is oh so good.
I see a lot of people complaining in this story about restricted formats, money still going to the RIAA, and Windows-only. None of you read the article.
eMusic gives you unrestricted VBR MP3s at well under a dollar per song. They deal largely with independent artists who are not beholden to the RIAA, which is a big part of why they can offer these distribution terms. They also explicitly support Linux, as well as Windows and Mac OS.
"But I don't like that music!" Well, you _should_
Yeah, it takes more effort to find music, but I've been on both sides of the fence and I've found the indie side to be far more rewarding. Bands like Enon, Quasi, El Guapo, Freezepop, Call and Response, Stereo Total...they will probably never hit mainstream radio, and there's absolutely no good reason why.
With a band like Freezepop, you don't even need an eMusic! Their CDs are cheap, and you can download full MP3s of many of their songs from their own site for free. Lifestyle, a side project of one of their members, has an entire album's worth of tracks that basically fall in between the first and upcoming second album. All for free.
There's plenty of crap in indie too, of course. Here, I'll have to give a blatant plug to the site linked in my sig, wmbc.umbc.edu. We are currently on hiatus until the spring, but you can listen to the automated music stream that usually fills in between live DJs. You can also look at our Top 30 chart, which is actually a representation of the 30 albums the DJs chose to play the most, not a pre-mandated playlist. And hey, we use Debian! And our music database software is available on freshmeat!
See, you can discover independent music the same way you used to discover mainstream. There are many other stations like ours (and I'll admit that some are probably better). You could also take eMusic up on their 50 free tracks offer, or check out cmj.com, where most college stations report their top 30. I'm almost positive you'll find something you like, and you don't have to feel bad for buying it.
You obviously want to buy your music through eMusic, which is one of the services covered in the article. They work with independent artists, which should be obvious when you see that they distribute the music as unrestricted VBR MP3s.
Their service also allows non-US users and explicitly supports Linux.
One of the indie music directors from the online college radio station linked below in my sig has bought tons of music from eMusic. If you've ever known someone in that position, I don't think I need to say anything else.
You shouldn't "hope" you're not buying RIAA-backed CDs. It's pretty easy to tell at many concerts; if the band is good and their CD is between $5 and $10 (or even $15), it's not from the RIAA because they wouldn't be allowed to charge that little.
(I read the article earlier today and emailed some corrections, but I read BBspot every day).
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/wackoattacko/
The fact that you're not sure whether the kids went bowling that day or not is part of the point: that this has just as much to do with them killing their classmates as goth music.
If you get an MP3 discman and an adaptor, which is what I went with. My Philips player was around $120 a few years ago, IIRC.
:) We're currently on hiatus until the spring semester, but you can still get a good day's worth of unique music out of the DJ-TRON 3000.
Of course, I would love for people to do this, since the site linked in my sig is a Shoutcast (well, icecast) stream
[Sorry, it's 64k stereo until we move it to the nicer server room; should be this winter. I don't think it sounds awful though, and I was a music major (with emphasis on recording for a while).]
This was mind-blowing animation, and the story/characters were not bad (Roger Ebert liked it too). However, as with Titan A.E. (which I thought was just kind of OK), the studio was basically destroyed in the process.
I thought that The Iron Giant was a really excellent movie, though perhaps the animation wasn't as flashily spectacular as Pixar. It certainly wasn't _bad_.
I thought that the mini-series was truer to the original story (except for the whole Emperor's daughter actually having a role thing), but the acting was far weaker. The short version of the Lynch film was certainly crap, and I wasn't a huge fan of the "weirding modules", but I enjoyed the darker alternate imagery, and Kyle MacLachlan was definitely a much better Paul than the Luke-Skywalker-wannabe they got for the miniseries. And then you have Patrick Stewart, Alicia Witt, and Sting...
I agree. Sure, he's rich. I'm sure many in the "business world" consider him to be "successfull". But is he happy? Are the people around him happy that he's there? Is someone's life better because of him? That's my definition of success.
I don't even know what America's Cup is, and I'd rather have true friends than a MiG.
It started (IIRC) as a channel showing any movie that they could buy for $20. Eventually it grew into what it is today. Now, IMHO, they hit a peak with Farscape and have gone down slightly since then, but I'm optimistic enough to think that that was just "a peak" and not "the peak." I think Stargate SG-1 is a good series (but that started a while ago, as it's in the middle of season 7), and their "You are watching SciFi" spots are entertaining (the new ones for the Food Network are good too). But UFO investigations with BRYANT GUMBEL? Eep. And Scare Tactics is just dumb.
You're affected by Windows machines getting owned and used as spam relays or DDoS clients. You're obviously affected if you're the victim of either of these, but also take into account the increase in Internet traffic, which will affect your usage and probably increase costs in the long run.
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There's also the issue of "background Internet radiation":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/34527.h
Not to mention the fact that you probably have to deal with attachments in
For my part, I hope that they've incorporated some of what this tool does, which claims the same goal as some of their changes:
http://www.pivx.com/qwikfix/guide/usageguide.ht
"mitigate" is just fine, but there's no reason to say "mitigate against". "Reduce the severity of against malicious attacks"? No.
For that matter, the layout of the TechNet site is awful. Who thought it was a good idea to make the menu items on the right non-wrapping? At 1280 x 1024, I have to make the menu take up half the screen in order to read it properly.
At first I thought this was a Mozilla issue, but Mozilla is only slightly worse than IE 6 (the body text doesn't wrap either in Mozilla).
Switch between tabs in Mozilla using Ctrl-PageUp and Ctrl-PageDown. For most people with only two hands, this means not having to take a hand off the keyboard, and is much more efficient.
I can't count the number of times where I've had to use IE for whatever reason (usually someone else's machine) and found myself hitting / or Ctrl-T and wondering why it wasn't working.
I'm sorry, but what kind of logic is that? You "love" the fact that a pop-up window has disrupted your browsing to tell you about another pop-up window, and are then happy about having avoided the second one?
The Mozilla team is apparently working on moving pop-up error/info messages into the browser window itself, because they recognize that this sort of UI is disruptive. If I'm Ctrl-clicking (Windows) or middle-clicking (Linux) on a stack of links to load in the background, I don't want to be interrupted when one of them times out, wants to set a cookie, uses/doesn't use SSL, etc. But I still want to be made aware of these things.
With Mozilla, you can also specify sites which are allowed to use pop-ups, though not interactively.
You can probably get one for $100. I have two of them. They are probably a bit smaller than a "small" pizza box.
They have 1 or 2 PCI slots, 2 PCMCIA slots (yes, really), integrated sound, video, and network, and use a PS/2 keyboard/mouse. They can use a SCSI disk or a laptop IDE disk, and have external SCSI and serial too.
You can run NT 4, DEC Unix, Linux, or a BSD variant. The main issue is that they require parity SIMMs and might only be able to address a smallish hard drive. Many of them don't come with floppy drives either, but they can netboot.
His goal is to incite hatred of the United States. Blind, unwavering hatred of the sort that causes his followers to gladly give their lives so that the lives of US citizens will also be lost. Would it look good for his cause to say that the United States supported him in the past? That he took help from such a den of inequity and filth?
bin Laden has warped other parts of the religion he claims to follow into something unrecognizable. I can't trust that he's not lying (or even convincing himself of things that are untrue). I'd feel the same about anyone who would go to such extremes.
No wait, "Unix" was that funky GUI in Jurassic Park, right? The little girl said so!
Seriously, Unix has invaded the American home in the form of the Tivo, and most Tivo owners have no idea. But that just showcases the strength of Linux: flexibility. It can be easier to use than Windows with the right interface, and everything else about it is (IMHO) already an improvement.
You're right, though, in that mainstream folks will never have _control_ over Unix, but they weren't even writing BAT files back when home computers used DOS. I think that Unix will come into the mainstream home, but like Tivo, people won't necessarily recognize it. Some argue that most people don't really know Windows is there, and just care about the applications, and I certainly see some truth to that.
Just because "nerdy" things happen to be popular at the moment doesn't make everyone "a nerd".
Some would say that the thing that connects all nerds is heaps of knowledge or intelligence, but there are certainly counter-examples for this. Plenty of doctors are not nerds.
What about the strong desire to investigate how things work, to learn, to take apart? There are plenty of people that seem content to take the world at face value and watch TV for their entertainment, but I know a lot of mechanics who like to take things apart to see how they work. Do they count as nerds? Do archaologists?
As the article said, it's a tough label to pin down. But is that bad?
I never had a problem getting service packs as a single file; I just follow the link to where it says "If you're a network administrator who would like to install this on multiple machines..." or something similar. Didn't seem hidden to me.
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Oh, and here's something interesting I found recently which should be easy to keep around:
http://www.pivx.com/qwikfix/guide/usageguide.ht
Basically, a security firm said "How much of Windows' dangerous behaviour can we possibly disable without impacting usability for most people?" Finally, something that helps you avoid the holes rather than patching them post-discovery.