I used to drive a Saab 9-3. When GM took over, I did not buy another Saab, because I did not like what they did to the brand. I held onto it for as long as I could, then changed brands entirely. GM will never get my money specifically because of what they did to Saab.
The same will happen here. If at some point I can't get Slashdot without it looking more or less like Beta does, I'm probably just going to stop bothering with the site altogether. Lose the pictures. Don't make me click "more" to RTFA. Use the whole screen for content; if I want a big margin, I can resize my browser.
Mandatory titles on replies and random ACs when I used to read at +4? I'm not sure what improvements they think happened, but so far, no thanks.
I'm a lot happier with two computers. Mac for email/iTunes/web/irc/ircd/etc, Windows box for games. That way, whatever happens to the gaming box does not affect anything important. No way would I want to have to reboot to play a game. Plus, a bunch of people would wonder where their irc server went..:)
The only reason I'd run Windows on a PPC box would be if it made a better gaming platform.
Apple's had three levels of iPod for quite a while, costing $3/4/500. Currently they just have two. I'm guessing there was a delay getting the 60G drives, and they'll just release it as the $500 model.
I've got a Microsoft Trackball Optical 1.0. The buttons are pretty quiet on it, partly because it's been used heavily for a year, but I remember it was fairly quiet when I got it new. Their mice probably have similar buttons.
Some of the things I do with the 12,000 songs I have ripped from my own cds:
Play nothing but instrumental stuff like Tangerine Dream while playing roleplaying games. Play all speed metal while doing boring coding tasks. Play random gothic progressive while doing creative coding design. Play all ska when I feel like having something energetic, or blues when I want to practice guitar. Etc. Different music for different situations.
Why am I not a "legitimate music user"?
I will grant that I'm not a typical music user; I don't spend anything at all on movies, going out, etc, and a large part of the collection was acquired when I had no car payments and a series of good contracting jobs.
I'll also grant that to someone who can be satisfied with a week's worth of music, much of mine may strike you as in bad taste, as much of it is not very mainstream, but what this has to do with honor is a bit unclear.
Live365 is working well for me, too. The original poster doesn't say what he is looking for, but I've found several good stations that play bands I've only heard of, and many I've never heard of, in many different genres I'm reasonably familiar with (progressive rock, ska, new wave of British heavy metal). It works on OS X as well as Windows, straight from IE or Mozilla. No software install required. There's also a wishlist feature, so you can keep track of stuff you want to hunt down later.
I searched the station playlists for Molly Hatchet and came up with a couple good Southern rock stations and learned about a bunch of bands. Also looked for Witchfinder General and learned about Armored Saint, Witchfynde, etc.
And it never hurts to look interesting stuff up in AMG. It's a great way to find out what else went on in whatever musical movements you are interested in.
Also, look for a band you like on mp3.com and see if anyone who claims to be like them is to your taste. I found some gothic rock I really like that way.
I had an Armada 7800, I think. I cracked the case in a couple different places because I was living in a hotel with a little round table, and I tended to have the laptop on the table and sometimes rest my hand on the corner, which didn't have table under it. Sounds kind of stupid, but also I was a bit surprised about how little force it took to do that.
Seriously, when I decided it was time to get into Linux, I just read every Slashdot article that looked like it might spawn a discussion of distributions. From this I made my decisions, started with SuSE (I'm too contrary to pick Red Hat..mustn't pick frontrunner) and moved to Debian just recently.
I think it came out well. SuSE was easy enough to deal with for a newbie (the book is quite helpful, to me), and it got me used to Linux enough that I'm managing with Debian, which I had heard is difficult to install (agreed) and lovely once it is running.
My reasons for switching: SuSE is very KDE-oriented. You get minimal support for Enlightenment, and GTK themes just don't seem to work right. The KDE stuff works fine, but I prefer Gnome, and decided a Gnome-centric distribution would be useful. The other reason for switching: every time I wanted to update the system, I had to manually walk it through getting the package list. There's no fire-and-forget method. It's not difficult, but the allure of a single command to update was too strong to resist.
I've had my laptop die on me several times due to not noticing that I'd somehow yanked the power cord (sounds dumb, but happens) and not had any trouble with the file system. It detects the improper shutdown, scans the disk, and never has caused any trouble...
I haven't had any dependency problems that seem difficult compared to Windows registry hassles. Mostly, rpm (and rpmfind) have been pretty easy to deal with.
I have had the odd compilation problems here and there, but I think I got them all resolved. I guess your mileage is varying.:)
It changed mine. When I worked for the phone company, I ripped several hard-to-find cds just so that the people who wanted to get into that sort of music had a chance to hear it.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but..
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There is a programming environment that works much like that, called Labview. They call it a "dataflow" language, and the design is all graphical, building components and connecting them together with "wires". Piping things off to other processes (within the environment, but it was multi-tasking) was really easy. It'd be hell to write a browser in, since it is built for real-time test and measurement, but I got it to do some fairly useful stuff, including some disk-based communication to get around whiny IS types.
I care. Means that sampling at whatever corresponds to MP3 at 320 will require fewer hard disks when I want to put tracks from several hundred cds on my system.
Whether anyone else that can see them over a Napsterish thing turns up his nose because it's not done with MP3 isn't really my concern. In fact, my guess is that perhaps it'll split the online music crowd into mainstream and higher-powered less mainstream.
And don't forget Ritchie Blackmore, who has been fusing hard rock and classical for about thirty years, starting (I think) with Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra. Blackmore and Lord both put classical solos in the live shows.
Several of the tracks on Malmsteen's _Inspiration_ cd are DP or Rainbow, which brings this a little closer to metal, anyway.
And there's always Lost In Twilight, a super-fast classicalish metal band on MP3.com.
I don't think so. The metal/punk store I go to in Madison, Earwax, told me they were too small to order from major labels, as they never had big enough order quantities. They couldn't order Helloween's later stuff, as it was on something large. They ordered me plenty of Blind Guardian on Century Media and Hammerfall on Nuclear Blast, however. That store is a great source of independent music.
I believe MAME's primary intent is to provide as much accurate emulation of as many games as they can. It's more of a historical endeavor than anything else.
The fact that stuff generally turns out to be playable is a nice bonus, though.
I like TextPad too. I'm writing Perl scripts in Windows and need to know line numbers sometimes. Beats hell out of counting lines in Notepad or trying to wean myself off c and v, which Edit doesn't support.
CodeWright was nice too, though it liked to crash now and then.
Doesn't it make you wonder what the MS folks use in-house to edit text? I doubt they're limping along with notepad..
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A stock photo blocker would be the best thing ever.
I used to drive a Saab 9-3. When GM took over, I did not buy another Saab, because I did not like what they did to the brand. I held onto it for as long as I could, then changed brands entirely. GM will never get my money specifically because of what they did to Saab.
The same will happen here. If at some point I can't get Slashdot without it looking more or less like Beta does, I'm probably just going to stop bothering with the site altogether. Lose the pictures. Don't make me click "more" to RTFA. Use the whole screen for content; if I want a big margin, I can resize my browser.
Mandatory titles on replies and random ACs when I used to read at +4? I'm not sure what improvements they think happened, but so far, no thanks.
I'm a lot happier with two computers. Mac for email/iTunes/web/irc/ircd/etc, Windows box for games. That way, whatever happens to the gaming box does not affect anything important. No way would I want to have to reboot to play a game. Plus, a bunch of people would wonder where their irc server went.. :)
The only reason I'd run Windows on a PPC box would be if it made a better gaming platform.
Apple's had three levels of iPod for quite a while, costing $3/4/500. Currently they just have two. I'm guessing there was a delay getting the 60G drives, and they'll just release it as the $500 model.
I've got a Microsoft Trackball Optical 1.0. The buttons are pretty quiet on it, partly because it's been used heavily for a year, but I remember it was fairly quiet when I got it new. Their mice probably have similar buttons.
Some of the things I do with the 12,000 songs I have ripped from my own cds:
Play nothing but instrumental stuff like Tangerine Dream while playing roleplaying games. Play all speed metal while doing boring coding tasks. Play random gothic progressive while doing creative coding design. Play all ska when I feel like having something energetic, or blues when I want to practice guitar. Etc. Different music for different situations.
Why am I not a "legitimate music user"?
I will grant that I'm not a typical music user; I don't spend anything at all on movies, going out, etc, and a large part of the collection was acquired when I had no car payments and a series of good contracting jobs.
I'll also grant that to someone who can be satisfied with a week's worth of music, much of mine may strike you as in bad taste, as much of it is not very mainstream, but what this has to do with honor is a bit unclear.
Live365 is working well for me, too. The original poster doesn't say what he is looking for, but I've found several good stations that play bands I've only heard of, and many I've never heard of, in many different genres I'm reasonably familiar with (progressive rock, ska, new wave of British heavy metal). It works on OS X as well as Windows, straight from IE or Mozilla. No software install required. There's also a wishlist feature, so you can keep track of stuff you want to hunt down later.
I searched the station playlists for Molly Hatchet and came up with a couple good Southern rock stations and learned about a bunch of bands. Also looked for Witchfinder General and learned about Armored Saint, Witchfynde, etc.
And it never hurts to look interesting stuff up in AMG. It's a great way to find out what else went on in whatever musical movements you are interested in.
Also, look for a band you like on mp3.com and see if anyone who claims to be like them is to your taste. I found some gothic rock I really like that way.
I had an Armada 7800, I think. I cracked the case in a couple different places because I was living in a hotel with a little round table, and I tended to have the laptop on the table and sometimes rest my hand on the corner, which didn't have table under it. Sounds kind of stupid, but also I was a bit surprised about how little force it took to do that.
You're reading it.
Seriously, when I decided it was time to get into Linux, I just read every Slashdot article that looked like it might spawn a discussion of distributions. From this I made my decisions, started with SuSE (I'm too contrary to pick Red Hat..mustn't pick frontrunner) and moved to Debian just recently.
I think it came out well. SuSE was easy enough to deal with for a newbie (the book is quite helpful, to me), and it got me used to Linux enough that I'm managing with Debian, which I had heard is difficult to install (agreed) and lovely once it is running.
My reasons for switching: SuSE is very KDE-oriented. You get minimal support for Enlightenment, and GTK themes just don't seem to work right. The KDE stuff works fine, but I prefer Gnome, and decided a Gnome-centric distribution would be useful. The other reason for switching: every time I wanted to update the system, I had to manually walk it through getting the package list. There's no fire-and-forget method. It's not difficult, but the allure of a single command to update was too strong to resist.
I've had my laptop die on me several times due to not noticing that I'd somehow yanked the power cord (sounds dumb, but happens) and not had any trouble with the file system. It detects the improper shutdown, scans the disk, and never has caused any trouble...
:)
I haven't had any dependency problems that seem difficult compared to Windows registry hassles. Mostly, rpm (and rpmfind) have been pretty easy to deal with.
I have had the odd compilation problems here and there, but I think I got them all resolved. I guess your mileage is varying.
Now that I'm making more, I finally have donated to Valley of the Kings Sanctuary & Retreat.
There is a programming environment that works much like that, called Labview. They call it a "dataflow" language, and the design is all graphical, building components and connecting them together with "wires". Piping things off to other processes (within the environment, but it was multi-tasking) was really easy. It'd be hell to write a browser in, since it is built for real-time test and measurement, but I got it to do some fairly useful stuff, including some disk-based communication to get around whiny IS types.
It was actually a lot of fun to program in.
I care. Means that sampling at whatever corresponds to MP3 at 320 will require fewer hard disks when I want to put tracks from several hundred cds on my system.
Whether anyone else that can see them over a Napsterish thing turns up his nose because it's not done with MP3 isn't really my concern. In fact, my guess is that perhaps it'll split the online music crowd into mainstream and higher-powered less mainstream.
Boy band fans won't know what Ogg is.
I can live with that.
Day 1 with new (used) laptop with preinstalled Windows: kill second of two 2G partitions, install Suse.
/home.
Day 8 or so: Hmm, this Windows partition that I never use at all would be much more useful as
Given a choice between running Windows and needing more disk space for Linux apps, Windows has been deleted.
Flamebait?
:)
I'd like to see someone "generate" something like old Neil Young, Violent Femmes, Mark Knopfler, Junior Wells, etc.
On the other hand, I can see this as an accurate description of MIDI.
And don't forget Ritchie Blackmore, who has been fusing hard rock and classical for about thirty years, starting (I think) with Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra. Blackmore and Lord both put classical solos in the live shows.
Several of the tracks on Malmsteen's _Inspiration_ cd are DP or Rainbow, which brings this a little closer to metal, anyway.
And there's always Lost In Twilight, a super-fast classicalish metal band on MP3.com.
I haven't seen anyone mention World Serpent Distribution or Soleilmoon Records yet. Home of the Legendary Pink Dots.
Are you kidding? It's the best place to get Perl help. Imported from Sweden, yet.
"An overexposed morass of self-importance and violins." (Ratings, Rock Stars With One Name (all of which got a C-, heh))
I bet gordonwhateverhislastnameis.com is available...
The fact that stuff generally turns out to be playable is a nice bonus, though.
I like TextPad too. I'm writing Perl scripts in Windows and need to know line numbers sometimes. Beats hell out of counting lines in Notepad or trying to wean myself off c and v, which Edit doesn't support.
CodeWright was nice too, though it liked to crash now and then.
Doesn't it make you wonder what the MS folks use in-house to edit text? I doubt they're limping along with notepad..