I don't believe this one for a second. It takes about 10 minutes (maximum) and about 10 mouse clicks (maximum) to rip a CD with a program like GRIP or CDex. I seriously doubt that you could download the music with less effort than that. First you have to go to some website, or start up some p2p program. Then you have to search. Then you have to click on what you have found. Then you have to wait for it to download. Then you have to check if the download was actually the right thing, and that the quality doesn't suck. If it does you have to repeat the whole process. Where are you downloading your music from where it's easier to get than ripping.
The Pirate Bay.
Step 1) Browse to Pirate Bay Step 2) Type in "Led Zeppelin" Step 3) Click on appropriate link and let Azureus fire up. Step 4) Go away and do something else constructive.
That is it. You see, the thing is, I like to do other things with my time than sit at my PC and rip my CD collection. To me, my time is worth more than sitting in front of my PC and individually ripping each CD. To download, I don't have to be tied to my PC inserting disc after disc. I can actually go out running, biking, kayaking, or whatever the hell I feel like doing. Because I get paid to sit in front of a computer all day, I don't desire to sit in front of one ripping CD's when I can be doing something much more enjoyable.
And even if it takes more than a day to download the files? I don't really care. Because, again, I am using my time to do something else while my computer does the work for me. Ripping the CD's myself entails that I do the work, and that is not what I want. My computer is a tool, and I will use it in the most efficient way possible. If that means I can free up time to do other things, then so much the better.
I have better things to do with my time than sit in front of a computer and swap/rip discs. This is not the 1980s anymore.
So, next time you may want to save the trouble and download it right away... At least the label would listen you (and scream 'pirate', but will listen).
Here is the thing, I WANT to pay for the books. I want the authors to get some money, so more books come out. I DON'T want to pirate them, but they are giving me little choice.
Ripping a CD colledction may be much easier than you think... And you'll get a much better quality.
Ripping a CD is simple, but I must insert the disc, rip/encode it, and then move on to the next disc. I recently downloaded the entire Led Zeppelin collection, which I have on cd, from a torrent in the encoding format that I want, in about an hour. And, I did not even need to be near my computer to change discs while doing so. I just got the torrent, and I was done.
I love audio books, mostly because I work out, and learn stuff at the same time. I love my audible subscription, but after buying books from Audible that are DRM'ed, and running into extreme troubles playing them on one of my "non-approved" MP3 players, or running into trouble trying to convert the files into MP3 so I can actually use them in my car, I started downloading them off of bittorrent sites.
And that is the funny thing. I have been downloading the *EXACT* same books that I have paid Audible for from bittorrent. I have no problem buying Audio Books - but when I buy them, the DRM gets in my way, and I cannot always listen to the book I paid for in the manner I want. I *WANT* to pay for the books, I have no problem with that. I just want to be able to listen to them as I choose, not as the company controlling them chooses.
In the same way, I have found myself downloading MP3's of music that I already own on CD because it is faster for me to download the music that I already have, than to go through my CD collection and rip all the music.
I cannot see any of these industries surviving for long when they stand in the way of what consumers who are willing to pay for what actually want. The Barenaked ladies have it right. The author of this article is correct, we are being driven to piracy. At least I have never used Rhino.
Yes, it costs more than the Vx-Works models, but then it does *SO* much more. Plus, the V1.1 model can be flashed directly with the latest version of DD-WRT, without having to take the intermediate step of flashing with DD-WRT Mini first.
I am so impressed with mine, that I am considering buying two more. In all seriousness. (I can run Apache, Bittorrent etc on these things - and they consume far less power than a PC in doing so.)
And you *CAN* upgrade the memory. If you have a compatable linksys (check wikipedia, or google dd-wrt, which IMO is the best distro for a WRT54G). You can connect a flash card to some models to give up to 2 GB of added memory, or just use the SMB mount feature from DD-WRT and offload things to a remote machine for terabytes of storage.
Again, this will not work with all models, but DD-WRT is very impressive, in fact some of the new versions are purported to run on higher end Linksys hardware such as the Linksys RV082.
I should add that having a flashy GUI tends to convince a PHB that the server is "working better". So, if I can demo the apps on the local machine in X, it is far more likely that I can get a Linux system installed at the client site.
Yes, I run the servers headless. Usually. It depends on what the PHB of the corporation I am being contracted for wants. I use Putty and Cygwin most of the time, pretty much like everyone else. Trouble with being a contractor, is that the people at the other end sometimes have weird demands. Some of them want "a hands on" windows environment for their servers and software, so I give it to them, hell, they pay me either way.
Yes, because I want to make an oracle 10g install harder by turning off X.... never mind that some enterprise software does use X. Not everyone runs a server with just apache and qmail. Granted, I use SSH/bash most of the time, but there are apps on some of the servers that I use that require X.
is Hawking a real physicist?...If he is, why would he be using the term "zero gee"? The submitter, I can understand...
I would guess he is using the term "zero gee" so those who are not aware of his status as a physicist, or physics in general get the basic meaning. Not to say that you don't know that is is a real physicist or anything. I mean, holding the same office as that Newton guy probably does not mean much.;)
Oh yeah. Fight back. Great idea. Unless those doing the fighing are a group of seven like what happened to me in Elementary school. Oh, and when I did fight back? I got detention for standing up for myself. It was a great system. Now, as an adult some of my friends wonder why I have studied martial arts for over 13 years. I can certanly fight back now, but I would not get detention for it. Hell, I nearly got suspended for fighting back.
Not that I believe that there should be laws against this behavior - as a libertarian I think that the entire school system needs reforming, and those who don't want to go to school (also the same people that attacked me) should be allowed not to go, and develop their McDonald's staff career.
I agree that there is a great deal going on in each conversation - I just had a great date last night, and I was noticing all the little social signals from my date, and it was driving me nuts that I noticed. I am more comfortable when I don't. But having studied Biology and Anthropology I can' help BUT notice those things now.
Still, you are correct, the book won't help people far along the spectrum, but it will certanly help those who are not even aware of how to get started in better social interaction.
I think your post was great. While I probably don't have aspergers, I was certanly extremely socially akward while younger. Some people say it is ADHD. Maybe, maybe somethine else. However, your point:
You can study that with scientific rigor - and whilst it won't ever be a 'natural' thing - you'll be able to fake it pretty well. I don't feel comfortable in idle chit-chat - but I can fake it well enough to get by without coming off as being completely weirdo (or at least I think I can - maybe there are subliminal cues that I'm completely missing that say that I can't!).
Is dead on. Therefore, I must recommend to all slashdot geeks who feel socially akward, or wonder if they don't fit in, and wonder what they can do to read Dale Carnagies book: "How to Win Friends and Influence People."* If you are any sort of geek, you will devour the book, and start to take advantage of the information inside. I read it four times in a row as it pointed out things to me that I was previously unaware of. After reading it, I started taking a deep interest in people and personal interaction as you do in classic cars. I am now deeply interested in social interaction, and as a wonderful side effect, I have been told by a number of people that I am socially aware. Which I find amusing, as I certanly was not only a few years ago. But then, I have had to work at it.
I now feel comfortable with idle chit-chat, enough so that I can actually manage to go out on first dates and enjoy them without a feeling of abject terror as I once experienced.
* No, it is not a book on how to manipulate people. Pick it up and read it for yourself. If you don't get social skills, this is a great place to start.
To me, the fact that he took the fall for it is an ironic sign of good leadership. Not many at the top would allow themselves to be taken out over an incident like this. It probably means that he is a good leader, and understands responsiblity, and stepped up to take the heat.
The irony is that this is just the sort of person you actually want at the top, and now he is gone.
STFU already! How many times do we have to hear this quote, when it's irrelevant to the story, anyway? Sheesh, anyone would think people who read slashdot are morons... oh, wait.
Young Lady, in this house we obey the laws of duplicate posts!
"Researchers tested the first tactical biorefinery prototype in November and found that it produced approximately 90 percent more energy than it consumed."
Young Lady, in this house we obey the rules of thermodynamics!
It is not an issue of property, but an issue of privacy. My government requires access to those records because they provide health care. The U.S. Government does not provide me with anything requiring them to posess my medical records, although they seem to think so.
I am all for our government selecting the best bidder for a project to host the records. I am not for having private Canadian medical records in a position that can be accessed by another government. It is as simple as that.
The question is can I, as a Canadian living in BC put up a similar "FUCK YOU" banner on my Medical Records which were held by an American Company, and thus subject to inspection and copying (without notice of any kind) due to the Patriot Act?
Granted, that is old news, and I don't know how it panned out. The latest story I am aware of is here: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2004/07/24/bc_priva cy040724.html Of course, the records could have been copied long ago. House pictures is one thing. Having my medical records siezed by a foreign power worries me more.
Where I am currently staying there is a similar network for free wi-fi at my hotel. Which is nice, because the hotel charges for their internet service (bastards).
Sadly, my Mac can't seem to respond to the netbios requests... At least I have lots of fun with kismac around here.:)
I know France is used as an insult, but if they protect their middle class rather than let the greedheads in corporate management gut their job base for their short term gain before ejecting with their golden parachutes onto their next abomination, maybe its not so bad.
What actually surprises me is that there are golden parachutes in the first place. Any serious investor does not want the CEO to have one. If I am an investor, then the corporate management are my employees. I don't want my employees to make money at the expense of my investment.
I am not certain how that golden parachute came about, but I do know I never personally invest in a company that has head management with golden parachutes. I prefer higher staff having a mindset like Buffett.
your arrogance of 'prove it' shows you have no compassion for your own fellow US workers.
In defense of the GP poster, I am 35, and it it has happened to me. However, I, like the grandparent poster probably does, I believe in being responsible for my own welfare.
When I was replaced by Indian labour (because as lead sysadmin I was the highest paid) I could have bitched about it, and whined and cried. I just said 'ok' and moved on. Picked up the pieces and went on with my life.
But then again, I am the type of person who has been working hard on self-reliance. Stuff like a lack of debt, an emergency backup fund etc.
Downsizing is not nice, but it is a fact of business in a capitalist system. It is this same system that brings us such inexpensive commodities. You don't have to like it, but it is the way that the system works.
So, IMO, the grandparent poster is not being arrogant, but rather observant. I am always looking to keep myself in a position where if I become downsized I can say "ok, no problem, thanks for that job, I am moving on now." But that was a choice I made in my 20's after being downsized the first time.
Would you be against a ban of mercury in food as a seasoning?
I would be. As a seasoning it is far too hot and dry. Also, it tends to take up much more of your plate. I find Europa far more suited to seasoning IMO.
The temp increase is the method to cause the clock to skew as the chip heats up due to added server load. The heat itself is not detected, so the summary is very misleading. The idea is to load the server enough so that the timestamps begin to change, and these changes can be detected.
Of course, the defense to this attack is probably something along the lines of:
1. If a researcher looses a monopoly on one patent, but in turn gains access to 10 million other patents - then that is a net gain for invention and for business, not a net loss. The facts bear that out. For example, how most the new drug innovation was happening in India where they don't have patents on drugs, or the less proprietary x86 architecture that took the market by storm in spite of it's design flaws.
Under the assumption that the patents that they gain are worthwhile. If you read many of the patents out there, many of them are worthless.
2. Patents do not change the demand for invention and R&D, they only distort the market and cause it to center around invention controls instead of invention related services. Well, large companies, lawyers, and government are good at controlling things. Inventors are good at inventing things, so patents do really not help inventors or small lean innovators.
Most inventors licence their inventions, and use patents to protect themselves. The usual fee for a licencing deal is 5% of the gross from the company to which they licence too. Patents were originally created to help inventors. That is no so much the case now, but that was their original intent.
3. To control inventions requires physical coercion and violence, and patents are very violent. Like how they arguably held back safety devices in cars for 20 years while millions died needlessly, and like how attempts of patent enforcement in Africa have likely led to over a million unneeded AIDS related deaths. Also, DDT was banned within months of its patent running out, freon too, to make room for bigger markets. But at least the freon one can't be attributed to 50 million malaria deaths.
4. In the future, technology is likely to bring production back into the home thru 3d printers and nanotechnology. IMHO, patents will require more violence and more government micro-regulation than ever in order to be secured.
I don't see where you are going here. Very few patent disputes break out into violence...
5. A side effect of the patent system is that researchers who share research and innovation between companies are punished. It creates a strong disincentive against collaboration. It forces innovators to spend orders of magnitude more on R&D and causes them and their research to be micromanaged. So patents drive up the cost of R&D by orders of magnitude, drive down quality, and then now they say "well, we need patent monopolies to recover all these costs".
I guess I am not following this point...
6. People tend to think that having all these incompatible parts and all these incompatible interfaces on every single car, cell phone, and consumer product - is just a normal part of a free market economy. I speculate that it is not, and that patents encourage these distortions in addition to all the waste and unneeded obsolescence that goes with it.
I don't think people think that. I think that they don't know, and don't actually care. A "Lasse Faire" market (which I prefer) would only use patents to protect the developers. They are now used in a different fashion from their inital intent.
7. People tend to think that having expensive pharmaceuticals with all sorts of strange chemical side effects is just a normal part of a free market economy. In addition they think that the shunning natural cures, herbs, and vitamins is a normal function of modern medicine and science. I speculate that it also is not, but another distortion caused by patents.
I don't know where this comes from, or how it is related to patents. Yes the medical industry makes a killing off of their drugs. However, the current move to "natural" cures is just the "fad du jour". It will eventurally wane. However, now there is huge money to be made in the alt
Slashdot Mirror
The Pirate Bay.
Step 1) Browse to Pirate Bay
Step 2) Type in "Led Zeppelin"
Step 3) Click on appropriate link and let Azureus fire up.
Step 4) Go away and do something else constructive.
That is it. You see, the thing is, I like to do other things with my time than sit at my PC and rip my CD collection. To me, my time is worth more than sitting in front of my PC and individually ripping each CD. To download, I don't have to be tied to my PC inserting disc after disc. I can actually go out running, biking, kayaking, or whatever the hell I feel like doing. Because I get paid to sit in front of a computer all day, I don't desire to sit in front of one ripping CD's when I can be doing something much more enjoyable.
And even if it takes more than a day to download the files? I don't really care. Because, again, I am using my time to do something else while my computer does the work for me. Ripping the CD's myself entails that I do the work, and that is not what I want. My computer is a tool, and I will use it in the most efficient way possible. If that means I can free up time to do other things, then so much the better.
I have better things to do with my time than sit in front of a computer and swap/rip discs. This is not the 1980s anymore.
Here is the thing, I WANT to pay for the books. I want the authors to get some money, so more books come out. I DON'T want to pirate them, but they are giving me little choice.
Ripping a CD is simple, but I must insert the disc, rip/encode it, and then move on to the next disc. I recently downloaded the entire Led Zeppelin collection, which I have on cd, from a torrent in the encoding format that I want, in about an hour. And, I did not even need to be near my computer to change discs while doing so. I just got the torrent, and I was done.
I love audio books, mostly because I work out, and learn stuff at the same time. I love my audible subscription, but after buying books from Audible that are DRM'ed, and running into extreme troubles playing them on one of my "non-approved" MP3 players, or running into trouble trying to convert the files into MP3 so I can actually use them in my car, I started downloading them off of bittorrent sites.
And that is the funny thing. I have been downloading the *EXACT* same books that I have paid Audible for from bittorrent. I have no problem buying Audio Books - but when I buy them, the DRM gets in my way, and I cannot always listen to the book I paid for in the manner I want. I *WANT* to pay for the books, I have no problem with that. I just want to be able to listen to them as I choose, not as the company controlling them chooses.
In the same way, I have found myself downloading MP3's of music that I already own on CD because it is faster for me to download the music that I already have, than to go through my CD collection and rip all the music.
I cannot see any of these industries surviving for long when they stand in the way of what consumers who are willing to pay for what actually want. The Barenaked ladies have it right. The author of this article is correct, we are being driven to piracy. At least I have never used Rhino.
Another poster has mentioned this, but you want the WRT54GL. I just helped a Co-worker buy one from NCIX.com and I flashed it with DD-WRT v.23 SP2.
v pn=WRT54GL&manufacture=Linksys
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17408&
Yes, it costs more than the Vx-Works models, but then it does *SO* much more. Plus, the V1.1 model can be flashed directly with the latest version of DD-WRT, without having to take the intermediate step of flashing with DD-WRT Mini first.
I am so impressed with mine, that I am considering buying two more. In all seriousness. (I can run Apache, Bittorrent etc on these things - and they consume far less power than a PC in doing so.)
And you *CAN* upgrade the memory. If you have a compatable linksys (check wikipedia, or google dd-wrt, which IMO is the best distro for a WRT54G). You can connect a flash card to some models to give up to 2 GB of added memory, or just use the SMB mount feature from DD-WRT and offload things to a remote machine for terabytes of storage.
Again, this will not work with all models, but DD-WRT is very impressive, in fact some of the new versions are purported to run on higher end Linksys hardware such as the Linksys RV082.
I should add that having a flashy GUI tends to convince a PHB that the server is "working better". So, if I can demo the apps on the local machine in X, it is far more likely that I can get a Linux system installed at the client site.
Yes, I run the servers headless. Usually. It depends on what the PHB of the corporation I am being contracted for wants. I use Putty and Cygwin most of the time, pretty much like everyone else. Trouble with being a contractor, is that the people at the other end sometimes have weird demands. Some of them want "a hands on" windows environment for their servers and software, so I give it to them, hell, they pay me either way.
Yes, because I want to make an oracle 10g install harder by turning off X.... never mind that some enterprise software does use X. Not everyone runs a server with just apache and qmail. Granted, I use SSH/bash most of the time, but there are apps on some of the servers that I use that require X.
I would guess he is using the term "zero gee" so those who are not aware of his status as a physicist, or physics in general get the basic meaning. Not to say that you don't know that is is a real physicist or anything. I mean, holding the same office as that Newton guy probably does not mean much.
Oh yeah. Fight back. Great idea. Unless those doing the fighing are a group of seven like what happened to me in Elementary school. Oh, and when I did fight back? I got detention for standing up for myself. It was a great system. Now, as an adult some of my friends wonder why I have studied martial arts for over 13 years. I can certanly fight back now, but I would not get detention for it. Hell, I nearly got suspended for fighting back.
Not that I believe that there should be laws against this behavior - as a libertarian I think that the entire school system needs reforming, and those who don't want to go to school (also the same people that attacked me) should be allowed not to go, and develop their McDonald's staff career.
I agree that there is a great deal going on in each conversation - I just had a great date last night, and I was noticing all the little social signals from my date, and it was driving me nuts that I noticed. I am more comfortable when I don't. But having studied Biology and Anthropology I can' help BUT notice those things now.
Still, you are correct, the book won't help people far along the spectrum, but it will certanly help those who are not even aware of how to get started in better social interaction.
Is dead on. Therefore, I must recommend to all slashdot geeks who feel socially akward, or wonder if they don't fit in, and wonder what they can do to read Dale Carnagies book: "How to Win Friends and Influence People."* If you are any sort of geek, you will devour the book, and start to take advantage of the information inside. I read it four times in a row as it pointed out things to me that I was previously unaware of. After reading it, I started taking a deep interest in people and personal interaction as you do in classic cars. I am now deeply interested in social interaction, and as a wonderful side effect, I have been told by a number of people that I am socially aware. Which I find amusing, as I certanly was not only a few years ago. But then, I have had to work at it.
I now feel comfortable with idle chit-chat, enough so that I can actually manage to go out on first dates and enjoy them without a feeling of abject terror as I once experienced.
* No, it is not a book on how to manipulate people. Pick it up and read it for yourself. If you don't get social skills, this is a great place to start.
To me, the fact that he took the fall for it is an ironic sign of good leadership. Not many at the top would allow themselves to be taken out over an incident like this. It probably means that he is a good leader, and understands responsiblity, and stepped up to take the heat.
The irony is that this is just the sort of person you actually want at the top, and now he is gone.
"Researchers tested the first tactical biorefinery prototype in November and found that it produced approximately 90 percent more energy than it consumed."
Young Lady, in this house we obey the rules of thermodynamics!
It is not an issue of property, but an issue of privacy. My government requires access to those records because they provide health care. The U.S. Government does not provide me with anything requiring them to posess my medical records, although they seem to think so.
I am all for our government selecting the best bidder for a project to host the records. I am not for having private Canadian medical records in a position that can be accessed by another government. It is as simple as that.
The question is can I, as a Canadian living in BC put up a similar "FUCK YOU" banner on my Medical Records which were held by an American Company, and thus subject to inspection and copying (without notice of any kind) due to the Patriot Act?
a cy040724.html Of course, the records could have been copied long ago. House pictures is one thing. Having my medical records siezed by a foreign power worries me more.
http://www.nupge.ca/news_2004/n28oc04d.htm
Granted, that is old news, and I don't know how it panned out. The latest story I am aware of is here: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2004/07/24/bc_priv
I've honestly never seen an honest-to-god HP spoiler. Where do you find them?
I unfortunately found mine in some insensitive clod's slashdot comment where he mentioned that Dumbledore died...
But seriously, that was how I unfortunately found out, some clod had that factoid in their sig. Really ruined the last book for me.
This time I avoid the intarwebs and buy the book within the first few days.
Where I am currently staying there is a similar network for free wi-fi at my hotel. Which is nice, because the hotel charges for their internet service (bastards).
:)
Sadly, my Mac can't seem to respond to the netbios requests... At least I have lots of fun with kismac around here.
What actually surprises me is that there are golden parachutes in the first place. Any serious investor does not want the CEO to have one. If I am an investor, then the corporate management are my employees. I don't want my employees to make money at the expense of my investment.
I am not certain how that golden parachute came about, but I do know I never personally invest in a company that has head management with golden parachutes. I prefer higher staff having a mindset like Buffett.
In defense of the GP poster, I am 35, and it it has happened to me. However, I, like the grandparent poster probably does, I believe in being responsible for my own welfare.
When I was replaced by Indian labour (because as lead sysadmin I was the highest paid) I could have bitched about it, and whined and cried. I just said 'ok' and moved on. Picked up the pieces and went on with my life.
But then again, I am the type of person who has been working hard on self-reliance. Stuff like a lack of debt, an emergency backup fund etc.
Downsizing is not nice, but it is a fact of business in a capitalist system. It is this same system that brings us such inexpensive commodities. You don't have to like it, but it is the way that the system works.
So, IMO, the grandparent poster is not being arrogant, but rather observant. I am always looking to keep myself in a position where if I become downsized I can say "ok, no problem, thanks for that job, I am moving on now." But that was a choice I made in my 20's after being downsized the first time.
I would be. As a seasoning it is far too hot and dry. Also, it tends to take up much more of your plate. I find Europa far more suited to seasoning IMO.
The temp increase is the method to cause the clock to skew as the chip heats up due to added server load. The heat itself is not detected, so the summary is very misleading. The idea is to load the server enough so that the timestamps begin to change, and these changes can be detected.
Of course, the defense to this attack is probably something along the lines of:
$ man nice
Under the assumption that the patents that they gain are worthwhile. If you read many of the patents out there, many of them are worthless.
Most inventors licence their inventions, and use patents to protect themselves. The usual fee for a licencing deal is 5% of the gross from the company to which they licence too. Patents were originally created to help inventors. That is no so much the case now, but that was their original intent.
I don't see where you are going here. Very few patent disputes break out into violence...
I guess I am not following this point...
I don't think people think that. I think that they don't know, and don't actually care. A "Lasse Faire" market (which I prefer) would only use patents to protect the developers. They are now used in a different fashion from their inital intent.
I don't know where this comes from, or how it is related to patents. Yes the medical industry makes a killing off of their drugs. However, the current move to "natural" cures is just the "fad du jour". It will eventurally wane. However, now there is huge money to be made in the alt
You know, Slashdot should start selling a "first post" in a box. Given how much people seem to want it, they might just sell them for $15,000 a piece.
The question would be, if the box comes with Cowboyneal inside....