You already know no one (and I mean NO one) is going to use YouTube as an alternative to downloading an MP3. Let's see... choice of $0.99 to download the song and use it on your MP3 player, or have to go to a website, on your computer, and stream the video every time you want to listen to it. Yeah, people were DEFINITELY using YouTube to avoid buying music. Lots of lost sales there, yep!
I download all of my songs off of YouTube and then I just play the videos on my computer. If I want to load them to a digital music player, I can rip the audio.
Flash video files are excessively easy to manipulate once you get them. Getting them is no problem, either.
I also can't think of anyone who goes through the trouble of ripping the video from Youtube to rip out the low quality audio to put on their mp3 player.
Low quality? The quality is hardly "low". And the trouble isn't. Also, I just play the videos through a playlist and a disable video. It saves disk space, and if I want to view the videos, I have that option, too. It's quite trivial to download the video and rip the audio as well for my music players, or convert to the video-readable format..
And I get to circumvent broken links that happen because of the damn DMCA takedowns and site maintenance that happens during my normal awake hours.
I've had too much trouble with it for all but the simplest programs. I finally decided to go with a virtual machine. I finally don't have to reboot the computer just to use Windows-only programs.
What programs are you using? Usually `man {binary name}' will bring you to the program you are trying to configure. Then there should be a heading called "Files" which lists all the config files used by the program, usually in/etc.
I think we'd have to consider the logistical problems. Remote
electronic voting would alleviate many resource problems. But if we
can't allegedly make e-machines cast votes correctly, do we expect the
servers keeping the votes to keep them correctly? Also, what of
security problems? Should there be a paper trail of every vote to
physically prove something went one way or another? Also, what of bill
revision? It's "yes" or "no", not "kinda yes, but..." and vice versa.
However, I really agree wholeheartedly with you. The most the common
citizen can do is write to their congressman for federal matters.
Campaigning is too expensive and politics isn't for everyone. A direct
democracy would really increase citizen involvement.
Anyone who has fantasies of US citizens conducting an armed uprising is clearly dreaming.
Not necessarily. It depends: Does the government wage direct war or slowly deprive private firearms to be in circulation? Or does a heinous act start an uprising?
It mostly depends if a solid population of the military takes the people's side. However, other things like Guerilla warfare, IEDs, etc. are easy to come and go by as far as fighting is involved.
It would still be a stretch, but any significant amount of armed rebellion in the U.S. would most likely change the views of a current U.S.. It does not necessarily have to win in order to change people.
No, if I want to play games on the computer, I complain to the developer. Or
try to present them with cost-effective alternatives to persuade them into
leading current or future development in the direction of cross-platform,
preferably in a public forum where discussion and advocacy can commence.
I don't buy Windows.
It's like I want a stop sign on the corner of my street and I write and/or
gather people to petition.
Another option is to make the program in question compatible with the Wine API.
Normal development should be able to continue and give some of the more
technical users an easier time with cross-platform playing.
Wine isn't perfect, I understand, but better than nothing.
> Let me put it another way. Why give up a system where you can fly across the
> GUI, knowing precisely where everything is and have become totally accustomed
> to doing things quickly because of this knowledge, to another system where
> you basically have to relearn a large portion, JUST because of something
> trivial as the activation of XP?
Because I find command line faster an more intuitive than a GUI that crashes
all the time. As far as Bash is concerned. Although *nix GUIs tend to be a
bunch more stable than NT GUIs, and I do use Fluxbox. And it's usage security
of the computer where I am concerned. If Windows wonks up on me, I need a fast
way to go back to work, the two ways I know how are restore (wipe everything)
or use *nix. And if I could just use *nix, why don't I?
If I don't have a mouse, or don't even need it for simple operations, I don't
need a GUI to boot up and take so much time to load.
GUIs are good for user friendliness, I will admit. However, there's a point
where user friendliness dramatically decreases in the presence of hundreds of
buttons and menus. There's a point in CLI where user friendliness increases to
the long-time user, especially when I need a quick script to do a repetitive
task, such as test a filename using regexp and moving accordingly, or unzipping
every file in a folder individually to a different folder.
> High school physics focuses more on physical intuition and the understanding
> of the scientific method than on actual calculations.
Not mine. We don't do any lab reports at all and it is all about calculations.
Both Honors and AP Physics. Maybe my regular Physics course is more about
intuition, though. I don't seem to recall much math in that class as my
friends didn't complain about it.
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I download all of my songs off of YouTube and then I just play the videos on my computer. If I want to load them to a digital music player, I can rip the audio.
Flash video files are excessively easy to manipulate once you get them. Getting them is no problem, either.
Low quality? The quality is hardly "low". And the trouble isn't. Also, I just play the videos through a playlist and a disable video. It saves disk space, and if I want to view the videos, I have that option, too. It's quite trivial to download the video and rip the audio as well for my music players, or convert to the video-readable format..
And I get to circumvent broken links that happen because of the damn DMCA takedowns and site maintenance that happens during my normal awake hours.
Not everyone can get Wine running.
I've had too much trouble with it for all but the simplest programs. I finally decided to go with a virtual machine. I finally don't have to reboot the computer just to use Windows-only programs.
Or you can get a different OS, such as one of the Linuxes.
You must have a good money and living plan to live on savings alone for 2-3 years.
What programs are you using? Usually `man {binary name}' will bring you to the program you are trying to configure. Then there should be a heading called "Files" which lists all the config files used by the program, usually in /etc.
/etc is that one place.
The command line may have a steep learning curve, but you only have to climb it once.
I personally like the command line. It's central enough to the system that there isn't GUI-only configuration setups like Windows.
P.S.: Use Google.
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=dual+display+linux&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f
Comparing hardware to an OS is comparing apples to oranges.
[...]the theory of what is causing it or whether it is outside the realm of natural cycle.
Clarify please. Scientific theory or colloquial speculation?
Why such the arbitrary number?
Make the kids (or parents) buy and own them, and you won't have to do any of the restriction and monitoring crap.
The learning curve is worth it, though. If you need to edit text quite a bit, it makes sense to make it efficient.
I personally recommend trying to learn Vim alongside with another editor, or using a GUI frontend like GVim.
Replace Vim or GVim with any editor of your choice.
I think we'd have to consider the logistical problems. Remote
electronic voting would alleviate many resource problems. But if we
can't allegedly make e-machines cast votes correctly, do we expect the
servers keeping the votes to keep them correctly? Also, what of
security problems? Should there be a paper trail of every vote to
physically prove something went one way or another? Also, what of bill
revision? It's "yes" or "no", not "kinda yes, but..." and vice versa.
However, I really agree wholeheartedly with you. The most the common
citizen can do is write to their congressman for federal matters.
Campaigning is too expensive and politics isn't for everyone. A direct
democracy would really increase citizen involvement.
Anyone who has fantasies of US citizens conducting an armed uprising is clearly dreaming.
Not necessarily. It depends: Does the government wage direct war or slowly deprive private firearms to be in circulation? Or does a heinous act start an uprising?
It mostly depends if a solid population of the military takes the people's side. However, other things like Guerilla warfare, IEDs, etc. are easy to come and go by as far as fighting is involved.
It would still be a stretch, but any significant amount of armed rebellion in the U.S. would most likely change the views of a current U.S.. It does not necessarily have to win in order to change people.
Imagine the video game lag...
Damn my HTML. Sorry.
delta 1degC == delta 1degK 1degC == 274.15degK As for 100 times colder, it sounds better than a change of 2.97degK.
I'm not trying to rationalize it. I am saying piracy and stealing are two
different things and should not be mixed up.
Piracy is not stealing.
Stealing requires someone to lose a tangible property, such as if I break into
a car and steal a CD, someone has lost something tangible.
However, if I copy a CD, nobody has lost anything tangible. You can argue
intangible losses all you want for businesses.
Piracy is piracy, stealing is stealing, but piracy is not stealing.
No, if I want to play games on the computer, I complain to the developer. Or
try to present them with cost-effective alternatives to persuade them into
leading current or future development in the direction of cross-platform,
preferably in a public forum where discussion and advocacy can commence.
I don't buy Windows.
It's like I want a stop sign on the corner of my street and I write and/or
gather people to petition.
Another option is to make the program in question compatible with the Wine API.
Normal development should be able to continue and give some of the more
technical users an easier time with cross-platform playing.
Wine isn't perfect, I understand, but better than nothing.
Why anyone would marry is beyond me. I'm against marriage. I am not going to
get married.
Whatever floats anyone's boat, but I guess that just makes all my sex amarital
sex.
Enforcers of the law aren't smart?
Yes. We read what businesses commonly refer to as "Word of mouth", AKA the best marketing advertisement ever.
> Let me put it another way. Why give up a system where you can fly across the
> GUI, knowing precisely where everything is and have become totally accustomed
> to doing things quickly because of this knowledge, to another system where
> you basically have to relearn a large portion, JUST because of something
> trivial as the activation of XP?
Because I find command line faster an more intuitive than a GUI that crashes
all the time. As far as Bash is concerned. Although *nix GUIs tend to be a
bunch more stable than NT GUIs, and I do use Fluxbox. And it's usage security
of the computer where I am concerned. If Windows wonks up on me, I need a fast
way to go back to work, the two ways I know how are restore (wipe everything)
or use *nix. And if I could just use *nix, why don't I?
If I don't have a mouse, or don't even need it for simple operations, I don't
need a GUI to boot up and take so much time to load.
GUIs are good for user friendliness, I will admit. However, there's a point
where user friendliness dramatically decreases in the presence of hundreds of
buttons and menus. There's a point in CLI where user friendliness increases to
the long-time user, especially when I need a quick script to do a repetitive
task, such as test a filename using regexp and moving accordingly, or unzipping
every file in a folder individually to a different folder.
They have their uses.
> High school physics focuses more on physical intuition and the understanding
> of the scientific method than on actual calculations.
Not mine. We don't do any lab reports at all and it is all about calculations.
Both Honors and AP Physics. Maybe my regular Physics course is more about
intuition, though. I don't seem to recall much math in that class as my
friends didn't complain about it.