It's a shame those poor "Artists" are going to have to start being "artists" again, performing. That's where the money is, anyway. not the Albums.
The fact that 2006 US music sales included 588.2 million albums and 581.9 million digital tracks indicates that there is perhaps a bit of money in the field of selling albums and music, and not just performing.
When it is so patently obvious that owning music is worth quite a bit to hundreds of millions of people, the old argument that recorded music "should" just be used to draw people to concerts seems more than a little self-serving.
Subtract Pluto from them, and you've got 13. Do you *REALLY* want your kids' schoolbooks to list 22 planets (or 23 if Pluto and Charon are counted separately)?
While I don't care much either way, basing a scientific classification on how long the list in a textbook is going to be seems rather silly.
Of course, if I was asked to solve the problem, I would say that a planet in our solar system is defined to be a body named Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. But I guess that's a little too direct for some people.
As a leftie, and a free software advocate, I find this pretty puzzling.
There is a big, big difference between being a free software "advocate" and a free software "user." Those who take a personal stand to advocate free software usually tend to be on the left. But unless you're someone who believes that "stupid Republicans are too dumb to use Linux," then it shouldn't surprise you that the users of free software -- the ones who find it to be useful them -- tend to split right down the middle, like you would expect from pretty much any random sample of the population.
The tags system is nothing but an extra way to add snarky comments mirroring the slashdot groupthink to the front page. If anything, it's the one that's defectivebydesign.
It sounds like bug 104956 in Kmail will cause it to lose messages -- in some cases, even entire folders full of messages -- if there are network problems or the program gets disconnected at the wrong time. Several people posted in there that they had lost mail folders that way, so it's obviously not terribly uncommon. To be honest, I would say that this sounds at least as bad as Microsoft's bug -- a network hiccup or a kicked cable could result in you losing your messages -- but insert standard comment about how it's OK for free software to have bugs here.
What I would be interested to know about the antivirus bug is why the program is deleting the mail folders in some cases. From the comments, it usually quarantines the file, but apparently sometimes deletes it completely. That's the real serious problem here -- why is the antivirus deleting files without intervention from the user? (Unless, of course, the users have selected some options that force that to happen -- in which case it's their own fault.)
A LOT of the fuel in the laptop market is aimed at college students and young professionals. So yes, I think it's a reasonable statement to make.
I think you overestimate the number of "college students and young professionals" that own a DS, and underestimate the prevalance of laptops among other segments of the market. It may seem like everyone has a DS to a high school or college student, but outside of that social circle playing handheld video games is just not a common pasttime for adults. On the other hand, laptop sales are higher than sales of desktops, especially for personal use -- and several times as many laptops are shipped in the US each year than DS's. The best numbers I could find were roughly 30-40 million laptops a year in the US, compared to 6-7 million lifetime DS sales -- and keep in mind that many, probably most of those DS sales are to children who aren't part of your student and young professional group.
So, no, I don't think that "literally almost everyone" is a reasonable statement to make. "Many" might be defensible, but frankly, I tend to doubt that even that would hold up to a real analysis of the markets.
Literally almost everyone who's going to be in this market already has a DS
You think that the market for a high-priced, low-powered machine primarily for word processing and other office applications is the same as the market for the current generation of the game boy?
Students who oppose the change have been quick to blame the university ITS department, when really this is a product of their student government (ASUI) and the state's yearly budget cuts to the University.
Well, it certainly is the fault of the IT department that students aren't allowed to either forward their e-mail, or specify an address of their choice for official university communication. Neither one of those cost anything, and would solve these problems.
Um, is that a trick question? If someone in your employ commits criminal acts to advance your interests, damn right you go to jail, or at least will be investigated very closely for your level for involvement.
That is a moronic statement. If I pay someone to do something illegal, then I should be punished for that. If I pay someone to do something legal, and they do something illegal on the way, then it's their responsibility, not mine -- regardless of whether the illegal act was to "advance my interests" or not.
If you own stock in a corporation you are only liable to the extent that you have invested, you won't go to jail for something it does.
And this makes perfect sense. Why should I go to jail because I invested money in a company, and some of the people employed by it do something illegal? I should be held accountable for my own actions, not for somebody else's.
I will have to agree that 10.2-10.3 is a dog, but 10.49 runs pretty sweet even on a 1.5 PPC on a Mac mini for basic operations.
I don't actually use OSX, so I can't comment on how true that is, but do you know how many times from the Mac supporters on slashdot we heard that 10.0 (or whatever it was called) was really slow, but 10.2 solved all of the performance problems? (And ditto for every release of OSX?) It seems to me that either old versions of OSX get slow in their old age, or we are approaching the time when the OS will have to start finishing things before they start.
They are purported to have been recorded between 1989 and 2006. If I understand correctly, they were all released in the last 2-3 years.
Consulting Wikipedia, it looks like you're right and I was mistaken -- the earliest date for a CD listed there is 2002. That does make the "she didn't know anything" seem at least somewhat believable, if perhaps she was kept mostly at home during the last few years of her life. It still don't really buy into the notion that we can assume that it wasn't her idea because "real artists don't do that."
I suspect her husband told her that he would touch up her recordings to make them sound better. I doubt she wanted this, but who knows?
This comment strikes me as kind of funny. Sure, he could have done this, but she certainly had the opportunity to do this stuff as well. The articles say that these CDs were released starting in 1989 until 2006 -- more than fifteen years. The idea that her husband could have pulled this off for that long without her knowledge is a bit unbelievable, given that the recordings seem to have made her rather famous among followers of classical piano. Unless he kept her in complete isolation (possible, but I would think that people would have noticed it earlier), she almost certainly would have had to know at least something about it.
So why do people (and it's not just you, judging from the comments) assume that she wouldn't have been involved? Because she was a woman, or because she was an artist? Or is it because she was ill?
I understand now! Global warming is a Republican plot to get kids to play outside more, thus putting the devil-worshipping, anti-authoritarian popular video game producers out of business.
I do not dispute that some of the entries on Buddika's page are opinion, but you cannot deny that a number of the exposed claims from Hovind are demonstratable lies.
And this was my point. I only skimmed through the first page of stuff, because I don't care enough to try to sort through Buddika's ranting to try to find the useful information -- and so, of course, I never made it to the Cytochrome gene stuff. Nobody who doesn't already have an anti-creationist axe to grind is going to bother reading it when there are dozens of good, professional, well-written and organized sites out there.
Like I said, there are some good points there, but the presentation is so poor that I have no confidence in the author.
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The fact that 2006 US music sales included 588.2 million albums and 581.9 million digital tracks indicates that there is perhaps a bit of money in the field of selling albums and music, and not just performing.
When it is so patently obvious that owning music is worth quite a bit to hundreds of millions of people, the old argument that recorded music "should" just be used to draw people to concerts seems more than a little self-serving.
"The MONARCH zaps itself with a wand of polymorph. The arch-lich hits! Oh no, it's using the touch of death! You die..."
Wow. Right now, I really wish there was a moderation option for "-1, Way Too Full of Himself."
And the reason why Slashdot is reporting on this is?...
It's one thing to cover major political stories here, but this is silly.
Don't forget "stupidquestion", which I use to tag every stupid question.
While I don't care much either way, basing a scientific classification on how long the list in a textbook is going to be seems rather silly.
Of course, if I was asked to solve the problem, I would say that a planet in our solar system is defined to be a body named Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. But I guess that's a little too direct for some people.
There is a big, big difference between being a free software "advocate" and a free software "user." Those who take a personal stand to advocate free software usually tend to be on the left. But unless you're someone who believes that "stupid Republicans are too dumb to use Linux," then it shouldn't surprise you that the users of free software -- the ones who find it to be useful them -- tend to split right down the middle, like you would expect from pretty much any random sample of the population.
The tags system is nothing but an extra way to add snarky comments mirroring the slashdot groupthink to the front page. If anything, it's the one that's defectivebydesign.
You are apparently wrong. Check out the link: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104956 Around comments 35-36, they state that the copy on the server is deleted.
It sounds like bug 104956 in Kmail will cause it to lose messages -- in some cases, even entire folders full of messages -- if there are network problems or the program gets disconnected at the wrong time. Several people posted in there that they had lost mail folders that way, so it's obviously not terribly uncommon. To be honest, I would say that this sounds at least as bad as Microsoft's bug -- a network hiccup or a kicked cable could result in you losing your messages -- but insert standard comment about how it's OK for free software to have bugs here.
What I would be interested to know about the antivirus bug is why the program is deleting the mail folders in some cases. From the comments, it usually quarantines the file, but apparently sometimes deletes it completely. That's the real serious problem here -- why is the antivirus deleting files without intervention from the user? (Unless, of course, the users have selected some options that force that to happen -- in which case it's their own fault.)
I think you overestimate the number of "college students and young professionals" that own a DS, and underestimate the prevalance of laptops among other segments of the market. It may seem like everyone has a DS to a high school or college student, but outside of that social circle playing handheld video games is just not a common pasttime for adults. On the other hand, laptop sales are higher than sales of desktops, especially for personal use -- and several times as many laptops are shipped in the US each year than DS's. The best numbers I could find were roughly 30-40 million laptops a year in the US, compared to 6-7 million lifetime DS sales -- and keep in mind that many, probably most of those DS sales are to children who aren't part of your student and young professional group.
So, no, I don't think that "literally almost everyone" is a reasonable statement to make. "Many" might be defensible, but frankly, I tend to doubt that even that would hold up to a real analysis of the markets.
It would be marginally funny instead of just lame ... if the site hadn't already been linked to in the summary.
You apparently missed the last two even-numbered Trek movies.
This comment strikes me as kind of funny. Sure, he could have done this, but she certainly had the opportunity to do this stuff as well. The articles say that these CDs were released starting in 1989 until 2006 -- more than fifteen years. The idea that her husband could have pulled this off for that long without her knowledge is a bit unbelievable, given that the recordings seem to have made her rather famous among followers of classical piano. Unless he kept her in complete isolation (possible, but I would think that people would have noticed it earlier), she almost certainly would have had to know at least something about it.
So why do people (and it's not just you, judging from the comments) assume that she wouldn't have been involved? Because she was a woman, or because she was an artist? Or is it because she was ill?
I understand now! Global warming is a Republican plot to get kids to play outside more, thus putting the devil-worshipping, anti-authoritarian popular video game producers out of business.
President Bush is a genius.
And this was my point. I only skimmed through the first page of stuff, because I don't care enough to try to sort through Buddika's ranting to try to find the useful information -- and so, of course, I never made it to the Cytochrome gene stuff. Nobody who doesn't already have an anti-creationist axe to grind is going to bother reading it when there are dozens of good, professional, well-written and organized sites out there.
Like I said, there are some good points there, but the presentation is so poor that I have no confidence in the author.