"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
"In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
Spotify offers all you can eat for the price of listening to the odd commercial. [...] Yet despite these, we've not seen any dip in piracy.
I only have personal anecdotal evidence to back me up, but I know of a handful of people who previously used Limewire and TPB to download music and who now see anything other than Spotify as "too much like hard work". For those who want to listen to a specific track from their past or who want to do a "try before you buy" on a recommended artist, Spotify truly is the mutt's nuts - search, click, listen almost instantly.
Now, I don't know what percentage of current TPB users fall into that category of music listeners/lovers. Perhaps the vast majority do in fact just want "free stuff". On the other hand, in my small social circle, Spotify has changed the game in big ways. I'd be very interested to see the effect on global P2P music sharing figures if the service was extended worldwide.
You'd need an upper-case 'Y', 'H' and 'W' for YHWH.
Interestingly, whilst this is often pronounced "Yahweh" or "Jehovah", written Hebrew doesn't actually supply any indication of what vowels should be inserted between the consonants. This means that the Abrahamic deity might actually have been called "Yahoo Wahoo" by His parents (or, seeing as this is a tech site - "Yahoo! Wahoo!").
My only other concern is drivers. If I have an old enough ATI card, will there by some kind of accelerated driver for it?
Using the Beta of 9.04, I could only get 640x480 or 800x600 on my ATI chipset. Booting from the Live CD will tell you all you need to know about your specific system.
If I have to manually edit xorg.conf to get decent resolutions then 2009 is NOT the year of Ubuntu on the desktop.
I had a trawl through the Ubuntu forums and found that other people had reported the same bug (ATI Rage Mobility M4 chipset). I'll certainly be trying the final release of 9.04 (the Wi-Fi functionality was a very pleasant surprise) to see if the graphics issue is cured. If not, I'm just going to revert that machine back to completely XP, rather than Win/Lin dual-boot.
Ubuntu 9.04 works out of the box with my USB Wi-Fi dongle but now I can't get the proper resolution on my laptop's screen (I get to choose 640x480 or 800x600 on a machine capable of 1440 x 1050). The situation was reversed in 7.10 - the screen worked straight out the box whereas I had to recompile ndiswrapper to get the Wi-Fi working. Bag of shite, mate !
Seriously, I (and many colleagues, friends and relatives) have discovered the delights of simply running Windows as a Limited User. No more signature file downloads. No more zero-day exploits as a result of out-of-date signature files. No more background scanning bogging down your machine. Just a nice, clean system that can only really be compromised as a result of user interaction (trojans, phishing, user-permitted privilege escalation, etc.). My current Windows XP system has been running this way for 2 1/2 years without any infection. AV vendors can f*** right off as far as I'm concerned.
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Of course, it sounds and sells better if you stick a gee-whizz sticker on the box ...
"Windows Vista Capable" ?
I, for one, would welcome them !
As Michael Crichton said:
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
"In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
I thought it said "May Pave the Way for Retarded Content".
metric crap ton
That's metric crap tonne. Interestingly enough, this weighs precisely the same as a metric My Little Pony tonne.
Spotify offers all you can eat for the price of listening to the odd commercial. [...] Yet despite these, we've not seen any dip in piracy.
I only have personal anecdotal evidence to back me up, but I know of a handful of people who previously used Limewire and TPB to download music and who now see anything other than Spotify as "too much like hard work". For those who want to listen to a specific track from their past or who want to do a "try before you buy" on a recommended artist, Spotify truly is the mutt's nuts - search, click, listen almost instantly.
Now, I don't know what percentage of current TPB users fall into that category of music listeners/lovers. Perhaps the vast majority do in fact just want "free stuff". On the other hand, in my small social circle, Spotify has changed the game in big ways. I'd be very interested to see the effect on global P2P music sharing figures if the service was extended worldwide.
I used to be a member of the ADB.
There was also this.
Fotze
Is that the German Goatse man ?
You'd need an upper-case 'Y', 'H' and 'W' for YHWH.
Interestingly, whilst this is often pronounced "Yahweh" or "Jehovah", written Hebrew doesn't actually supply any indication of what vowels should be inserted between the consonants. This means that the Abrahamic deity might actually have been called "Yahoo Wahoo" by His parents (or, seeing as this is a tech site - "Yahoo! Wahoo!").
Mod +1 Funny.
Well, it made me LOL.
Mod +3: Informative
Thanks for that info. I've been looking for solid reasons for broken ATI drivers over the past few days and came up empty.
Swedish jails are more like holiday camps anyway.
I'm a free man and I haven't had a conjugal visit in six months.
This user-generated level, "4Chan of Heroes" was brought to you by Anonymous Coward.
The desktop will have a designer's fingerprints all over it.
Like this ?
My only other concern is drivers. If I have an old enough ATI card, will there by some kind of accelerated driver for it?
Using the Beta of 9.04, I could only get 640x480 or 800x600 on my ATI chipset. Booting from the Live CD will tell you all you need to know about your specific system.
If I have to manually edit xorg.conf to get decent resolutions then 2009 is NOT the year of Ubuntu on the desktop.
I had a trawl through the Ubuntu forums and found that other people had reported the same bug (ATI Rage Mobility M4 chipset). I'll certainly be trying the final release of 9.04 (the Wi-Fi functionality was a very pleasant surprise) to see if the graphics issue is cured. If not, I'm just going to revert that machine back to completely XP, rather than Win/Lin dual-boot.
Ubuntu 9.04 works out of the box with my USB Wi-Fi dongle but now I can't get the proper resolution on my laptop's screen (I get to choose 640x480 or 800x600 on a machine capable of 1440 x 1050). The situation was reversed in 7.10 - the screen worked straight out the box whereas I had to recompile ndiswrapper to get the Wi-Fi working. Bag of shite, mate !
Seriously, I (and many colleagues, friends and relatives) have discovered the delights of simply running Windows as a Limited User. No more signature file downloads. No more zero-day exploits as a result of out-of-date signature files. No more background scanning bogging down your machine. Just a nice, clean system that can only really be compromised as a result of user interaction (trojans, phishing, user-permitted privilege escalation, etc.). My current Windows XP system has been running this way for 2 1/2 years without any infection. AV vendors can f*** right off as far as I'm concerned.
Who the hell would want to graduate from FU?
Someone who was about to graduate from South Tennessee Facebook University ?
Thinking that getting lower grades makes you cool isn't normal. ...but on Meth it is !
Don't worry scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now.
Marijuana motivates me to raid the fridge and listen to Pink Floyd.
and there's many third variables that need to be studied
So there's a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc.......variable that needs to be studied.
The above link will bork your browser
That is the game, you insensitive clod !