The answer to this is not to cram a database into a music player. The job of a music player is to play music. The job of selecting files belongs to the file system. What we really need is a database file system.
XMMS2 is not an old school player. With command line and network modes, it shouldn't really even be called the "X" multimedia player anymore. They're trying to compete in the same space MPD is, which is a good thing, but significantly different from XMMS1.
If you want XMMS1 these days, you'll have to find a distro that carries GTK1.2. This is harder than it seems, AFAIK you can't apt-get XMMS on Debian anymore. The easiest alternative is Audacious, which is a nice XMMS clone based on GTK2.
Hey, if you want to bake the planet like ant under a magnifying glass, go for it. I'll be dead by the time it happens. I'm only here to warn you. Hope you don't care too much about what sort of world your grandchildren inherit.
I read about half of Dennet's book, and found it interesting and well-written. The thing about it though, is that it's completely unfalsifiable. If you read it, think at every stage: "How would I know if this were not true?" And you find that there is actually no way to know; there is no evidence that can prove his ideas wrong. This is in fact a weakness, not a strength.
Then it's on equal footing at least with religious philosophy. Given that Dennett's philosophy contains one fewer assumptions (namely the existence of god) than religious philosophy, Occam's razor tells us what to do.
Really, we're talking metaphysics here. There's no way to prove any of it wrong.
Why would I need to spend so much time thinking about a god who doesn't exist? I've been an atheist my entire adult life, and I don't see the need to read a book to tell me the obvious. I did read Bertrand Russel's "Why I am not a Christian", but that was more out of interest about Russel than metaphysics. I have read some Dennett, but not that one. His "Consciousness Explained" is an excellent deconstruction of why you would expect an evolved mechanistic conscious being to have subjective experiences.
If, however, I instead placed detailed, step-by-step instructions for how to perform that synthesis in a kitchen sink under those windshield wipers, then I would go to jail and make a lot of meth heads very happy.
You would not go to jail. It's entirely legal to publish easy to follow step by step instructions to do anything, including meth.
Eco-terrorists are becoming increasingly radicalized, they already do things like break into research centers and release all of the animals into the wild without care for the fact that the animals will then all have to be euthanized. Assuming a bad guy is going to act rationally or have the same values as most people is a really good way to get screwed by the bad guys
You assume that the eco-terrorists are the bad guys. Releasing a few research animals, or driving spikes into trees, or hell even committing their own 9/11 level terrorist attack is small potatos compared to what is going to happen to this world if the carbon sequestered in Alberta's oil sands. Those who continue policies of unrestrained growth are on track to cause the deaths of billions once the oil runs out and the sea rises 20 feet. That is the face of true evil.
Look, I don't really follow the Slashdot party line on this one; I think stealing from artists you respect is stupid, because they won't make you more stuff.
This is quite consistent with the "slashdot party line". You should reward the artists you like by spending as much as you can on them. Otherwise they're likely to find more lucrative employment. I don't remember anyone on/. ever saying that you shouldn't spend money on artists you value. Giving money to talented artists is extremely important, whether or not copyright is just.
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The answer to this is not to cram a database into a music player. The job of a music player is to play music. The job of selecting files belongs to the file system. What we really need is a database file system.
XMMS2 is not an old school player. With command line and network modes, it shouldn't really even be called the "X" multimedia player anymore. They're trying to compete in the same space MPD is, which is a good thing, but significantly different from XMMS1.
If you want XMMS1 these days, you'll have to find a distro that carries GTK1.2. This is harder than it seems, AFAIK you can't apt-get XMMS on Debian anymore. The easiest alternative is Audacious, which is a nice XMMS clone based on GTK2.
So much of the conflict and misery in the world is explained by the divisive nature of many of the world's most popular religions.
Again, I don't know why I need a book to tell me the obvious. The abdication of reason is obviously an extremely dangerous thing.
Hm, I guess that sea gate was a good idea after all.
WTF are you talking about? If you read my posts, I didn't justify anything. I simply compared magnitudes of evil.
Monty Python's Flying Circus!
Lots of people are shitty people.
Hey, if you want to bake the planet like ant under a magnifying glass, go for it. I'll be dead by the time it happens. I'm only here to warn you. Hope you don't care too much about what sort of world your grandchildren inherit.
Every site on the internet is threatened by this legislation.
I read about half of Dennet's book, and found it interesting and well-written. The thing about it though, is that it's completely unfalsifiable. If you read it, think at every stage: "How would I know if this were not true?" And you find that there is actually no way to know; there is no evidence that can prove his ideas wrong. This is in fact a weakness, not a strength.
Then it's on equal footing at least with religious philosophy. Given that Dennett's philosophy contains one fewer assumptions (namely the existence of god) than religious philosophy, Occam's razor tells us what to do.
Really, we're talking metaphysics here. There's no way to prove any of it wrong.
Why would I need to spend so much time thinking about a god who doesn't exist? I've been an atheist my entire adult life, and I don't see the need to read a book to tell me the obvious. I did read Bertrand Russel's "Why I am not a Christian", but that was more out of interest about Russel than metaphysics. I have read some Dennett, but not that one. His "Consciousness Explained" is an excellent deconstruction of why you would expect an evolved mechanistic conscious being to have subjective experiences.
If, however, I instead placed detailed, step-by-step instructions for how to perform that synthesis in a kitchen sink under those windshield wipers, then I would go to jail and make a lot of meth heads very happy.
You would not go to jail. It's entirely legal to publish easy to follow step by step instructions to do anything, including meth.
I have a disc, I have a computer. I have the right to use them as I see fit.
Eco-terrorists are becoming increasingly radicalized, they already do things like break into research centers and release all of the animals into the wild without care for the fact that the animals will then all have to be euthanized. Assuming a bad guy is going to act rationally or have the same values as most people is a really good way to get screwed by the bad guys
You assume that the eco-terrorists are the bad guys. Releasing a few research animals, or driving spikes into trees, or hell even committing their own 9/11 level terrorist attack is small potatos compared to what is going to happen to this world if the carbon sequestered in Alberta's oil sands. Those who continue policies of unrestrained growth are on track to cause the deaths of billions once the oil runs out and the sea rises 20 feet. That is the face of true evil.
The Streisand effect will ensure that the censored results are among the most widely read.
There is no line.
It's not Syndicate. It's a generic FPS.
I'm guessing he's a fan of the fat model PS2.
We should really create a month of Hextember and celebrate a holiday on the 19th.
Unintended root access is a vulnerability by definition.
It seems like one of those incredibly short-sighted ideas that does more harm than good.
There's no time to worry about that. We have quarterly projections to meet!
If you're done with a $60 game in a month, you got ripped off.
Look, I don't really follow the Slashdot party line on this one; I think stealing from artists you respect is stupid, because they won't make you more stuff.
This is quite consistent with the "slashdot party line". You should reward the artists you like by spending as much as you can on them. Otherwise they're likely to find more lucrative employment. I don't remember anyone on /. ever saying that you shouldn't spend money on artists you value. Giving money to talented artists is extremely important, whether or not copyright is just.
Lesson learned, upload movies from behind 7 proxies.