There's no incentive for any one artist to go shorter.
Not necessarily. Take 2112 by Rush for example, a 20 minute song. It would make sense to break it up into its scenes (Overture, The Temples of Syrinx, etc.) for more money. (Thankfully that they haven't as the poor shuffle only free Spotify accounts would suck even more.) An album may also have more numerous shorter tracks and get more money per full listen. The big record labels get money regardless of which of their artists gets played. It's a good chance that the next thing you play is under the same label.
Ad supported streaming services that I have seen simply display ads on the screen in the player not interrupt the music.
Spotify free accounts inject audio ads between tracks after some timeout is exceeded, usually between 1 to 3 tracks depending on track length. You aren't looking at your phone screen when listening to music and your phone is in your pocket. I assume other free streaming services do similar.
Personally I don't reboot more than every month or two because I don't like having to go through making sure everything is saved in the programs that won't fully restore, and then waste a few more minutes waiting for the reboot process to finish and opening up whichever items again and entering my password a few times for things. Rebooting is simply unpleasant.
This is why we need some hiberboot shutdown option that is a hybrid between hibernate and reboot. I usually hibernate when I want to switch between Linux and Windows but would prefer to not have to push the power button and wait the additional delay that cold boot adds vs. warm reboot.
Note that you should not mount a hibernated Windows NTFS partition in Linux, sharing files would have to happen some other way.
Everyone in this entire comments section seems to be hell-bent certain that this mystery suggestion was to add something like the MS Office ribbon bar to systemd-emacsd.
Let's take a far simpler feature example, like when the tar utility added the xz compression flag -J. It didn't ruin everyone's work-flows. Backup scripts running since 1970 were not affected since good old pipes still work. The code was minimally increased to add the option that made the call to the external utility.
What if the poster suggested that tar add support for lz4 via a long opt --lz4?
In peoples defence, the box has a dozen dot points touting random security protocols (SSH, SSL, HTTPS, Radius, SSL, PPTP, L2TP, did we mention SSL). They never disclose the root:root user/pass on an unsecured Telnet back-door left over by the developers. # flash_erase/dev/mtd0 0 0 it's for the best.
I suspect that they are overcalling beyond actual capacity to put their people on the incoming calls. It would be cheaper to have dead calls than to leave their agents idle.
If you have 30 agents and place 50 calls in the autodialer. Say that 15 of the calls don't get answered, the first 30 get a telemarketer leaving 5 with silence. Less idle time then if they made the calls only after the last one finished and having to wait for grandma to make it down the stairs. You may notice that sometimes you get an answer after a couple of seconds because someone has been freed.
Having never reached the remote desktop stage I have always wanted to mess around with them in a virtual machine and contort the desktop resolution to some insanely short resolution and claim I have an ultra wide screen. There should be barely enough space to see the content of the window between toolbars.
Their scripts probably can't handle the victim using a Mac, let alone FreeBSD.
This looks interesting but I can't find any information on whether it can run an SSH server or HTTPS on their site or through google. Does anyone know if it would be possible to port something Dropbear SSH to NuttX (assuming the CPU can handle it)? They claim they have a POSIX-like system, which Dropbear needs so it should be possible, but has anyone done it yet?
Placing the charging position in the high corrosion area against the skin seems like a bad idea.
Good point. I notice that the charging pins are indented to avoid direct contact with the skin, though whether that is enough to reduce corrosion I can not say. Arm hairs can still deposit corrosive oils.
This would be great if it could use inductive charging instead. Coils in the wrist strap maybe?
You have to include the $30 line rental or compare the Naked ADSL prices in your comparison.
The whole point of NBN other than fast speeds, is that gets rid of the broadband lottery. So that 25/5Mbps plan gives you 25/5Mbps, not 1.8Mbps. The opposition's FTTN will not with download speeds varying depending on how far you live from the node.
Quite honestly most people who oppose the NBN oppose it because it's a Labor project and would just as readily oppose FTTN it if the parties' chosen technologies were reversed and Abbot/Turnbull were going to switch to FTTP.
In a the magical free market the profits are meant to be squeezed down by healthy competition. In this case the only competition is importing from the USA, losing all consumer protections granted under Australian laws.
As everyone here knows, there is no such thing as a free market. When there is a distribution network filled with exclusivity contracts that prevents parallel imports and DRM that makes your licensed software deactivate itself when they discover your an Aussie you can't call that a success of capitalism.
And for "willing to pay more". It's not like deciding between a $5 HDMI cable and a $120 one where the consumer made a choice to pay more. There is only one company that makes this particular movie, game or software. How can one be willing to pay more for a necessity in the case of MS Windows/Office. This makes as much sense as people willing to pay $5 per litre for petrol if the oil companies so wished.
Interesting point. With the NES however, I'm sure it's all down to the CIC chip that Nintendo used to act as gatekeeper (like Apple's app store) to prevent the problems that led to the video game market crash back in the 80s (didn't prevent shitty games though).
Which brings up another point I should have touched on in my earlier post. You can't make a console game without the blessing of Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony, then or now. This usually does keep most of the terrible indie games off the market but does nothing to shitty big budget ones and it completely locks out those rare great ideas like Minecraft from ever starting off on a console.
The NES and SNES aren't so innocent since they still had the form of DRM known as region locking. The PAL/NTSC limitation is complete bullshit when the digital game ROM has no analog video signalling components.
At least my old games still work on those old consoles. The future is pretty bleak as to the longevity of current games with activation servers going offline after they become an expense. Cracking teams are our only hope of preserving our gaming history.
Hell, you couldn't install Win95 on a brand new PC without resorting to some kind of USB boot disk trickery because most new machines don't even have floppy drives anymore.
Floppy drives? I'm sure you will be hard pressed trying to find a Core2duo era motherboard with a floppy controller. New Ivy Bridge boards don't even have IDE controllers any more.
My favourite example of #2 is when my brother preordered Skyrim from Playasia. Playasia sent him a notice that the game may not be playable from Australia as Bethesda used geo-IP region locking to enforce regional pricing (and Valve are guilty for implementing the code for it). We are talking $55 (including shipping) vs $89 full retail. Playasia offered a refund and we went to EBgames to pay full retail.
I hope the government restricts the use of geo-IP price discrimination when it comes to online licence validation.
This is how I think things would probably happen in real life.
When an attacker cracks passwords in the hash table from some insecure forum they don't instantly get your bank account since (if it works like my bank) you aren't logging in with your usual online username or email address to the internet banking sites. The forum has your username, hashed password (now assumed to be cracked) and the email you registered with. The email account has to be sharing the same password (working out if users are prefixing "psn_" isn't worth the hackers time when there are thousands of other suckers who don't). With the email account now compromised the hacker has access to all your archived emails and knows of all the sites that you have registered for and can even reset your passwords if they wish to. Steam, WOW, ect. with access to the email account they can change the email account associated with it and sell if off.
Now if the victim happens to receive transaction statements in that same email account then now the hacker does have the bank and customer/account numbers needed to log on. Provided that the user has done all the wrong things (top500 password, reusing password on all sites) they are screwed. Sadly, as TFA argues, enough users do all the wrong things to make this highly profitable for the bad guys.
I have never downloaded a torrent other than using the command line client on a screen session running on a 24x7 monster file server. However, the family gets unhappy when I use up all the BW in and out of the house while they're home. I've always had throttle-able settings in clients even in the oldest suprnova days. But I want a semi-intelligent auto configuring client such that it cranks wide open from midnight to 5 am, then down to 20% or less during morning time, then wide open during work days of the week but slow on weekends and holidays etc etc.
Consider trying the Transmission-cli Bittorrent client instead of rtorrent (which it sounds like you are using). It runs as a daemon that can be connected to via a web page or an RPC client (apt-get install transmission-qt transmission-remote-cli).
You can then use cron to send commands to the daemon when you want to throttle the torrents.
Try to use HTML entities. € should be substituted for € But then again, this is Slashdot. Game, Steam, NotSteam Skyrim, €25(sale), €21 Duke Nukem Forever, €20, €6 Dishonoured, €25(sale), €18.43 Bioshock 2, €20, €3.30
I suppose I should have wrote more details. You are right about condensing heating up. The refrigerator I'm thinking of would be a system with an evaporative cooler on one end, and this material on the other. A low power heat pump fuelled only by fans.
(Speaking of heating up, can you make a mug out of it to keep my coffee hot?)
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There's no incentive for any one artist to go shorter.
Not necessarily. Take 2112 by Rush for example, a 20 minute song. It would make sense to break it up into its scenes (Overture, The Temples of Syrinx, etc.) for more money. (Thankfully that they haven't as the poor shuffle only free Spotify accounts would suck even more.)
An album may also have more numerous shorter tracks and get more money per full listen.
The big record labels get money regardless of which of their artists gets played. It's a good chance that the next thing you play is under the same label.
Ad supported streaming services that I have seen simply display ads on the screen in the player not interrupt the music.
Spotify free accounts inject audio ads between tracks after some timeout is exceeded, usually between 1 to 3 tracks depending on track length. You aren't looking at your phone screen when listening to music and your phone is in your pocket. I assume other free streaming services do similar.
This is why we need some hiberboot shutdown option that is a hybrid between hibernate and reboot. I usually hibernate when I want to switch between Linux and Windows but would prefer to not have to push the power button and wait the additional delay that cold boot adds vs. warm reboot.
Note that you should not mount a hibernated Windows NTFS partition in Linux, sharing files would have to happen some other way.
Everyone in this entire comments section seems to be hell-bent certain that this mystery suggestion was to add something like the MS Office ribbon bar to systemd-emacsd.
Let's take a far simpler feature example, like when the tar utility added the xz compression flag -J. It didn't ruin everyone's work-flows. Backup scripts running since 1970 were not affected since good old pipes still work. The code was minimally increased to add the option that made the call to the external utility.
What if the poster suggested that tar add support for lz4 via a long opt --lz4?
In peoples defence, the box has a dozen dot points touting random security protocols (SSH, SSL, HTTPS, Radius, SSL, PPTP, L2TP, did we mention SSL). /dev/mtd0 0 0 it's for the best.
They never disclose the root:root user/pass on an unsecured Telnet back-door left over by the developers.
# flash_erase
I suspect that they are overcalling beyond actual capacity to put their people on the incoming calls. It would be cheaper to have dead calls than to leave their agents idle.
If you have 30 agents and place 50 calls in the autodialer. Say that 15 of the calls don't get answered, the first 30 get a telemarketer leaving 5 with silence. Less idle time then if they made the calls only after the last one finished and having to wait for grandma to make it down the stairs. You may notice that sometimes you get an answer after a couple of seconds because someone has been freed.
Having never reached the remote desktop stage I have always wanted to mess around with them in a virtual machine and contort the desktop resolution to some insanely short resolution and claim I have an ultra wide screen. There should be barely enough space to see the content of the window between toolbars.
Their scripts probably can't handle the victim using a Mac, let alone FreeBSD.
This looks interesting but I can't find any information on whether it can run an SSH server or HTTPS on their site or through google. Does anyone know if it would be possible to port something Dropbear SSH to NuttX (assuming the CPU can handle it)?
They claim they have a POSIX-like system, which Dropbear needs so it should be possible, but has anyone done it yet?
Placing the charging position in the high corrosion area against the skin seems like a bad idea.
Good point. I notice that the charging pins are indented to avoid direct contact with the skin, though whether that is enough to reduce corrosion I can not say. Arm hairs can still deposit corrosive oils.
This would be great if it could use inductive charging instead. Coils in the wrist strap maybe?
You have to include the $30 line rental or compare the Naked ADSL prices in your comparison.
The whole point of NBN other than fast speeds, is that gets rid of the broadband lottery. So that 25/5Mbps plan gives you 25/5Mbps, not 1.8Mbps. The opposition's FTTN will not with download speeds varying depending on how far you live from the node.
Quite honestly most people who oppose the NBN oppose it because it's a Labor project and would just as readily oppose FTTN it if the parties' chosen technologies were reversed and Abbot/Turnbull were going to switch to FTTP.
In a the magical free market the profits are meant to be squeezed down by healthy competition. In this case the only competition is importing from the USA, losing all consumer protections granted under Australian laws.
As everyone here knows, there is no such thing as a free market. When there is a distribution network filled with exclusivity contracts that prevents parallel imports and DRM that makes your licensed software deactivate itself when they discover your an Aussie you can't call that a success of capitalism.
And for "willing to pay more". It's not like deciding between a $5 HDMI cable and a $120 one where the consumer made a choice to pay more. There is only one company that makes this particular movie, game or software.
How can one be willing to pay more for a necessity in the case of MS Windows/Office. This makes as much sense as people willing to pay $5 per litre for petrol if the oil companies so wished.
Interesting point. With the NES however, I'm sure it's all down to the CIC chip that Nintendo used to act as gatekeeper (like Apple's app store) to prevent the problems that led to the video game market crash back in the 80s (didn't prevent shitty games though).
Which brings up another point I should have touched on in my earlier post. You can't make a console game without the blessing of Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony, then or now. This usually does keep most of the terrible indie games off the market but does nothing to shitty big budget ones and it completely locks out those rare great ideas like Minecraft from ever starting off on a console.
The NES and SNES aren't so innocent since they still had the form of DRM known as region locking. The PAL/NTSC limitation is complete bullshit when the digital game ROM has no analog video signalling components.
At least my old games still work on those old consoles. The future is pretty bleak as to the longevity of current games with activation servers going offline after they become an expense. Cracking teams are our only hope of preserving our gaming history.
Sony's stock jumps 9% during Xbox One announcement.
Hell, you couldn't install Win95 on a brand new PC without resorting to some kind of USB boot disk trickery because most new machines don't even have floppy drives anymore.
Floppy drives? I'm sure you will be hard pressed trying to find a Core2duo era motherboard with a floppy controller. New Ivy Bridge boards don't even have IDE controllers any more.
My favourite example of #2 is when my brother preordered Skyrim from Playasia. Playasia sent him a notice that the game may not be playable from Australia as Bethesda used geo-IP region locking to enforce regional pricing (and Valve are guilty for implementing the code for it). We are talking $55 (including shipping) vs $89 full retail. Playasia offered a refund and we went to EBgames to pay full retail.
I hope the government restricts the use of geo-IP price discrimination when it comes to online licence validation.
And yet if I was to go overseas and buy as many copies of Photoshop as I can fit in my bag, jet back to Oz and resell them it is illegal.
This is how I think things would probably happen in real life.
When an attacker cracks passwords in the hash table from some insecure forum they don't instantly get your bank account since (if it works like my bank) you aren't logging in with your usual online username or email address to the internet banking sites.
The forum has your username, hashed password (now assumed to be cracked) and the email you registered with.
The email account has to be sharing the same password (working out if users are prefixing "psn_" isn't worth the hackers time when there are thousands of other suckers who don't). With the email account now compromised the hacker has access to all your archived emails and knows of all the sites that you have registered for and can even reset your passwords if they wish to. Steam, WOW, ect. with access to the email account they can change the email account associated with it and sell if off.
Now if the victim happens to receive transaction statements in that same email account then now the hacker does have the bank and customer/account numbers needed to log on. Provided that the user has done all the wrong things (top500 password, reusing password on all sites) they are screwed. Sadly, as TFA argues, enough users do all the wrong things to make this highly profitable for the bad guys.
I have never downloaded a torrent other than using the command line client on a screen session running on a 24x7 monster file server. However, the family gets unhappy when I use up all the BW in and out of the house while they're home. I've always had throttle-able settings in clients even in the oldest suprnova days. But I want a semi-intelligent auto configuring client such that it cranks wide open from midnight to 5 am, then down to 20% or less during morning time, then wide open during work days of the week but slow on weekends and holidays etc etc.
Consider trying the Transmission-cli Bittorrent client instead of rtorrent (which it sounds like you are using). It runs as a daemon that can be connected to via a web page or an RPC client (apt-get install transmission-qt transmission-remote-cli).
You can then use cron to send commands to the daemon when you want to throttle the torrents.
We use Base10 instead of Base20 because most of us wear shoes these days.
Try to use HTML entities. € should be substituted for €
But then again, this is Slashdot.
Game, Steam, NotSteam
Skyrim, €25(sale), €21
Duke Nukem Forever, €20, €6
Dishonoured, €25(sale), €18.43
Bioshock 2, €20, €3.30
$484 thousand million.
484 G$
This is a metric topic after all.
I really hope that we can also use this port on other Linux ARM boards such as all the A10 platforms that are ever so popular and my old Nokia N900.
I ordered a Cubieboard (mostly for SATA and real Ethernet) and would love to have it run Minecraft when it finaly arrives.
The question is, will binaries compiled for the Broardcom chip's armv6 and FPU work on other chips?
If it is the case, maybe it will also work on the N900 (also 256 MB RAM).
I suppose I should have wrote more details. You are right about condensing heating up. The refrigerator I'm thinking of would be a system with an evaporative cooler on one end, and this material on the other. A low power heat pump fuelled only by fans.
(Speaking of heating up, can you make a mug out of it to keep my coffee hot?)
Water has a specific heat vaporisation of 2260kJ/kg. So can we make a slow working refrigerator without the need for a compressor from this?