What's wrong with gardening? Maintaining a varied garden with multiple bloom times is a tough thing to learn and takes quite a lot of skill and effort.
Hotblack Desiato also had a black spaceship that had a black interior. It had a black instrument panel with black buttons, and if you pushed one of those black buttons a black light would light up to indicate that you've changed something. Problem solved!
There is no "copyright tax" so I an only assume that you're full of shit. It's an invisible to the consumer levy that is included in the store price, before sales taxes.
Show me where you paid a "copyright tax" above and beyond sales taxes.
The noise removal filter in Cool Edit (now Adobe Audition) uses a pretty decent process: you "sample" the noise from the recording, in my case the dead air between tracks on vinyl record, and then subtract it from the full signal of the waveform. Works like a charm!
There's a more important point that seems to be lost on/. when it comes to the usual anti-copyright screeds that get posted here: what are the intentions of the copyright holder? I can retain copyright on, say, a song I've made, and give it away for free and tell people to give it to everyone they know, to help spread my music.
That's why I like going to see AHL teams, in my case The Marlies. Not only do they win more than the Maple Leafs, the hockey's better to watch and the tickets are only $20. Support minor league hockey!:)
The reason why it [the Linux Annoyances Guide] was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hacker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.
With apologies to Douglas Adams.:)
In all seriousness, wouldn't it really depend on the distro for a lot of that?
If you mean the 70s and 80s, back then an Album was generally 35 to 40 minutes long. Compare to today when they tend to be 60 to 70 minutes long. I don't think songcraft has gotten better in the intervening decades, so the filler comes because the customers (record company AND audience!) demands that their little discs are filled to the brim, rather than pare it down to just the best songs.
Let me let you in on a dirty little secret about computer geeks: they're mostly idiots. Granted, many are far more literate and intelligent than most people, but those tend to have a really bizarre streak of arrogant self importance that monkey-wrenches their ability to recognize their own fallibility.
What's funny is that there is some free downloadable Mac gaming program that uses Cider, and by opening up the.app package and adjusting a.plist or two, you can install other Windows games into the package and run them. I got an old Windows install of Deus Ex running fairly well, save games and all. Only problem is that it tends to hang when quitting, but that may have been an errant line in the.plist somewhere:) Oh, well, not like I have time to play with it these days anyway.
I don't know about that case, but don't you find you actually *miss* some of the defects?
Hell fucking no. Vinyl was the best we had at the time for mass consumer formats, and it's long since been surpassed. It had its day, and that day is over. I grew up with vinyl and tape, and couldn't wait to put all those crappy defects behind me. Nostalgia is no excuse for supporting a crappy format. And by god I was glad to stop having to move 400+ vinyl LPs around.
The ONLY thing vinyl has going for it IMO is the vast back catalog of songs that will NEVER ever get officially transferred to CD + other modern formats. To that end, I'm one of those freaks on Usenet who clean up old vinyl & post the MP3s to a waiting world, but never for stuff that's available on CD, because that's usually pointless.
More like they excluded OEM's and partners from offering anything BUT their web browser/media player/etc. in a default installation. That is by definition anti-competitive.
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Alex, what is cooler than bein' cool?
What's wrong with gardening? Maintaining a varied garden with multiple bloom times is a tough thing to learn and takes quite a lot of skill and effort.
Hotblack Desiato also had a black spaceship that had a black interior. It had a black instrument panel with black buttons, and if you pushed one of those black buttons a black light would light up to indicate that you've changed something. Problem solved!
There is no "copyright tax" so I an only assume that you're full of shit. It's an invisible to the consumer levy that is included in the store price, before sales taxes.
Show me where you paid a "copyright tax" above and beyond sales taxes.
Golly, sorry to hear that you're forced against your will to read these books and see these movies!
The noise removal filter in Cool Edit (now Adobe Audition) uses a pretty decent process: you "sample" the noise from the recording, in my case the dead air between tracks on vinyl record, and then subtract it from the full signal of the waveform. Works like a charm!
There's a more important point that seems to be lost on /. when it comes to the usual anti-copyright screeds that get posted here: what are the intentions of the copyright holder? I can retain copyright on, say, a song I've made, and give it away for free and tell people to give it to everyone they know, to help spread my music.
That's why I like going to see AHL teams, in my case The Marlies. Not only do they win more than the Maple Leafs, the hockey's better to watch and the tickets are only $20. Support minor league hockey! :)
That's the French influence in Canada showing.
I still have my HP11c, first given to me by my Dad sometime in grade 6 I think. I learned RPN, and couldn't go back to using normal calculators again!
Well, it's a lot better than the wonks I see giving demos of software like Flash and Dreamweaver and calling themselves "Sales Engineers."
The reason why it [the Linux Annoyances Guide] was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hacker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.
With apologies to Douglas Adams. :)
In all seriousness, wouldn't it really depend on the distro for a lot of that?
If you mean the 70s and 80s, back then an Album was generally 35 to 40 minutes long. Compare to today when they tend to be 60 to 70 minutes long. I don't think songcraft has gotten better in the intervening decades, so the filler comes because the customers (record company AND audience!) demands that their little discs are filled to the brim, rather than pare it down to just the best songs.
Let me let you in on a dirty little secret about computer geeks: they're mostly idiots. Granted, many are far more literate and intelligent than most people, but those tend to have a really bizarre streak of arrogant self importance that monkey-wrenches their ability to recognize their own fallibility.
There, I fixed that for ya.
Bollocks. You simply lack the imagination to use the custom parts to their fullest.
If they're not rounding up, they may have discalculia.
Inconceivable!
Yes, yes, all very well and good. But how tall is Imhotep?
What's that?
What's funny is that there is some free downloadable Mac gaming program that uses Cider, and by opening up the .app package and adjusting a .plist or two, you can install other Windows games into the package and run them. I got an old Windows install of Deus Ex running fairly well, save games and all. Only problem is that it tends to hang when quitting, but that may have been an errant line in the .plist somewhere :) Oh, well, not like I have time to play with it these days anyway.
You must be pretty clueless, since iTunes will rip to AIFF natively, and has since it was SoundJam.
Hell fucking no. Vinyl was the best we had at the time for mass consumer formats, and it's long since been surpassed. It had its day, and that day is over. I grew up with vinyl and tape, and couldn't wait to put all those crappy defects behind me. Nostalgia is no excuse for supporting a crappy format. And by god I was glad to stop having to move 400+ vinyl LPs around.
The ONLY thing vinyl has going for it IMO is the vast back catalog of songs that will NEVER ever get officially transferred to CD + other modern formats. To that end, I'm one of those freaks on Usenet who clean up old vinyl & post the MP3s to a waiting world, but never for stuff that's available on CD, because that's usually pointless.
Yeah, right, that's like saying all bus routes need to run on different roads.
Yes, Nature provides me with laptops and WiFi and delicious burritos for lunch and coffee in the morning.
More like they excluded OEM's and partners from offering anything BUT their web browser/media player/etc. in a default installation. That is by definition anti-competitive.