last.fm is located in the U.K. and is not affected by the streaming royalties. In any case, I believe that is being looked at again. Hopefully, we can get some sanity in that process. But sometimes we might have to sink to the bottom in order to get things better. Once they lose enough money and it is shown that they are attacking even legitimate businesses, they will deserve the death they so richly deserve. Businesses who can't evolve with the market deserve to die. I hope to God that the U.S. government doesn't interfere and recognize that entertainment will always be around. We've had it since the dawn of man; hell even monkeys know how to entertain themselves.:-)
I don't know. Websites like last.fm which not only can expose you to unknown music but it can also tell you when they are coming to town, let you meet up with other people also attending the concert. Last.fm is what the record store used to be. Even though RIAA probably killed the industry, last.fm is showing how online music can be done and done correctly by keeping things open.
On that note, I hope they don't get bought out by some record label. I think it is important that they use their market power and grow themselves into a force for change in the record industry similar to what Apple has been doing with iTunes.
I never quite understood this. If hemp is so great, how come third world countries haven't started growing it? Why can't they grow hemp and make clothes, fuel and what not? Seems like one could really boost the economy by doing so.
You're going to hate where X is going with more autoconfig stuff being written, you'll not be seeing much of the xorg.conf file. This is probably especially true with the open source intel graphics drivers. So in the future, you're not going to see a lot of config options in xorg.conf.
> It should be noted that "turn the other cheek" would not have meant the same thing >in Jesus' setting as you probably believe it to (see here). That being said, Jesus >(the mythological character presented in the New Testament) definitely suffers from >some form of intellectual deficiency, as becomes apparent when Jesus' life is
I think a number of people will disagree with you that Jesus was a mythological character.:-) After all, our whole Gregorian calendar is based on his birth.
>contrasted with the more historical and far less mythological Mohammed (Jesus: >killed 0 people, marryed/slept with 0/1 women, led 0 armies into war, conquered 0 >land, was complicit in his own murder; Mohammed: killed many people, married and >slept with many women, led meny armies to victory, conquered much land and many >people, was not crucified). Furthermore, the influence of Jesus' illconceived ideas
I'm uncertain on what you're point is on this history lesson. Mohmmed sounds like any number of conquerors down through the ages. Whether anointed with the light of Heaven or not.
>upon modern faux liberal thought (not to be confused with classical liberalism, or >"liberalism" up to and including JFK, but preceding the rise of Carter) is quite >apparent, leading me (and I assume others) to cheer the left's de-Christianization >policies.
I disagree, I think you'll find the whole "be kind of to others" is in most of the major religions. The reason is that doing good unto others creates a very good feeling within you. I think it's just a logical extension to codify that feeling as something that is close to God into a religious text. Most of what Jesus teaches makes sense to me from a emotional gratification angle.
> Oooh, a war condemned by three unelected pompous theocrats (including the UN Sec. > Gen.). If the war in Iraq was truly illegal (as you assert) and not just poorly > thought out and executed, you would not find the need to invoke the name of the > aforementioned three theocrats, but could instead produce a logical argument for > its very illegailty.
The war was not "illegal" in the sense that Bush did get authorization to go to war with Iraq. But remember he manipulated everyone to achieve that end. That doesn't make it right does it? The evidence that Iraq had anything that was a threat to the United States was sketchy at best. Do you remember when Colin Powell told us and the world that he knows exactly where those weapons of mass destruction is. None of which were true, and a country paid the price and eventually the U.S. did as well for other reasons. But you don't attack a soveriegn nation without ample evidence of wrong doing if you want to at least show moral leadership.
There was no logical link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda without a lot of hand waving. Even today, the Govt has not presented Congress with it's full findings on the matter. That speaks volumes in my book on what the threat really was. So let's not talk about the legality of the war, it was legal from a U.S. standpoint but nobody else in the world thinks so.
And to invoke Godwin's law, I will submit to you that Hitler's invasion of Austria was also deemed legal since it went through the proper legal channels. Arguing whether something is legal or not is not always the perfect litmus test.
I for one agree with you. I don't quite understand the troll mod, but unfortunately I don't have mod points to put you insightful. However, these days a mark of your smartness is getting a degree. My employer will not hire anybody without a college degree. So what do you about that? I would like to do study at home or something for my kids so that I can educate them fairly (educate as opposed to indoctronate I suppose.:-)
Also recognize those were the old days, we don';t have it good like that anymore.
What would be cool is if we could add a gps to our mp3 player. So it looks like we're listening to music but what's really happening is that we're getting directions.:)
The problem is that from here on in, Canonical will be supporting each release for 5 years. Having two releases would take a lot of extra support that you don't want. They are going "enterprise" with this release including "enterprise support".
What about the fact that the difference in pay scale is then used to pay executives exhorbitant salaries. I mean they get paid a lot. You get companies that have "record" growth but won't pass that on to it's engineers or whatever, but to their executives. That doesn't make any sense.
In any case, it'll be self defeating I think. Eventually, they'll be a shakeout, and I'm hoping some executives really get some of hteir salaries cut because frankly they are being paid too much for makking questionable decsions.
Dude, let them. I think you'll find that they'll slit their own throat if they create the "cornered rat" scenario. Part of the teenage culture has always been about sharing stuff like music, games, and whatever else.
If that part gets complicated there will be much greater pressure to deliver a better product. In a lot of ways, easy copying allows industries like the RIAA a greater pass. Once you raise the barrier, consumers are going to have greater scrutiny of what kind of music they buy. They'll find that they'll be making a lot less money and morever they can't blame piracy. Who will be their boogey man now?
They'd literally give the market to those who can produce music cheaply and without DRM. In fact I think this has happened before in the late 80s after the software industry largely gave up on on copy protection after it proved that the money spent on copy protection wasn't giving a return of greater sales.
Let them do it. I don't think consumers are that dumb. Nobody likes being controlled. If they get that impression the industry will suddenly have a big magnifying glass over their heads. I think they aren't going to like it.
As for open source, I think closed source people will have accept open source like linux. It's already a huge market, you cannot ignore it or prevent it from being runned on computers. I don't think people really understand how powerful it is. Most of the web is on apache running linux/bsd. Perl/Python are standards in a lot of engineering companies. Linux is used cheaply to create movie/digital effects. Hollywood lose a lot of money if movies suddenly jumped in price because they had to use windows to do special effect. They'll probably be forced to offshore that stuff to foreign countries who do allow linux to boot on their computers. It'll be fun watching, get popcorn.
If you don't think so, better get to work, the only way is to provide a better product than windows and mac. Help out the GNOME and KDE products, make that Linux desktop awesome. Make X work out the box. Create UAC (user action committees) to force hardware manufacturers to support drivers for linux. Become a political force. That's the only way to get them to do things. Become the market!
I'm trying to figure out why this is "interesting"? Xgl is part of Xorg, how the hell is that supposed to screw KDE? KDE already knows how to use compositing, kwin already does compositing internally like compwiz does. KDE already knows how to use compositing in X windows. We need to take your tin hat away.:-)
No, I'll tell you the real reason. The real reason is to screw XFCE. As you know XFCE has been breathing down GNOME's neck for quite some time taking away their mindshare both in developers and in users. Afterall they use the same toolkit. I have secret papers from Nat that tells me that the threat of XFCE achieving world domination is too big to ignore. This Xgl thing and compwiz is specifically targed at XFCE. He and oGo concocted this plan together.
Slashdot Mirror
last.fm is located in the U.K. and is not affected by the streaming royalties. In any case, I believe that is being looked at again. Hopefully, we can get some sanity in that process. But sometimes we might have to sink to the bottom in order to get things better. Once they lose enough money and it is shown that they are attacking even legitimate businesses, they will deserve the death they so richly deserve. Businesses who can't evolve with the market deserve to die. I hope to God that the U.S. government doesn't interfere and recognize that entertainment will always be around. We've had it since the dawn of man; hell even monkeys know how to entertain themselves. :-)
sri
I don't know. Websites like last.fm which not only can expose you to unknown music but it can also tell you when they are coming to town, let you meet up with other people also attending the concert. Last.fm is what the record store used to be. Even though RIAA probably killed the industry, last.fm is showing how online music can be done and done correctly by keeping things open.
On that note, I hope they don't get bought out by some record label. I think it is important that they use their market power and grow themselves into a force for change in the record industry similar to what Apple has been doing with iTunes.
sri
Sounds more like a Lord of the Rings parallel
We need the One Core! Kudos for someone to write the poem from LoTR.
sri
I never quite understood this. If hemp is so great, how come third world countries haven't started growing it? Why can't they grow hemp and make clothes, fuel and what not? Seems like one could really boost the economy by doing so.
sri
So Ronald Reagan finally got his Star Wars technology eh? Queue the Star Wars music!
sri
I'd like to nominate George W. Bush! He'd make an excellent dude in Mars. Besides I suspect he's from Mars anyways. It'll almost be like coming home.
sri
You're going to hate where X is going with more autoconfig stuff being written, you'll not be seeing much of the xorg.conf file. This is probably especially true with the open source intel graphics drivers. So in the future, you're not going to see a lot of config options in xorg.conf.
sri
Funny, I think the British thought the same thing. Look what happened to them, eh? Americans can kick ass when we want to.
sri
I hear her name is Toothakhamen!
sri
Wii Will Wii Will Rock you! :-)
Wii Will Wii Will Rock you!
sri
Intel announces "Motherfuckin Lasers on a Motherfuckin chip"
sri
Um.. to err is human. Let's not be exacting vengeance. Let the courts deal with part of giving justice. Thanks.
sri
OK, I'll bite. :-)
:-) After all, our whole Gregorian calendar is based on his birth.
> It should be noted that "turn the other cheek" would not have meant the same thing
>in Jesus' setting as you probably believe it to (see here). That being said, Jesus
>(the mythological character presented in the New Testament) definitely suffers from
>some form of intellectual deficiency, as becomes apparent when Jesus' life is
I think a number of people will disagree with you that Jesus was a mythological character.
>contrasted with the more historical and far less mythological Mohammed (Jesus:
>killed 0 people, marryed/slept with 0/1 women, led 0 armies into war, conquered 0
>land, was complicit in his own murder; Mohammed: killed many people, married and
>slept with many women, led meny armies to victory, conquered much land and many
>people, was not crucified). Furthermore, the influence of Jesus' illconceived ideas
I'm uncertain on what you're point is on this history lesson. Mohmmed sounds like any number of conquerors down through the ages. Whether anointed with the light of Heaven or not.
>upon modern faux liberal thought (not to be confused with classical liberalism, or
>"liberalism" up to and including JFK, but preceding the rise of Carter) is quite
>apparent, leading me (and I assume others) to cheer the left's de-Christianization
>policies.
I disagree, I think you'll find the whole "be kind of to others" is in most of the major religions. The reason is that doing good unto others creates a very good feeling within you. I think it's just a logical extension to codify that feeling as something that is close to God into a religious text. Most of what Jesus teaches makes sense to me from a emotional gratification angle.
> Oooh, a war condemned by three unelected pompous theocrats (including the UN Sec.
> Gen.). If the war in Iraq was truly illegal (as you assert) and not just poorly
> thought out and executed, you would not find the need to invoke the name of the
> aforementioned three theocrats, but could instead produce a logical argument for
> its very illegailty.
The war was not "illegal" in the sense that Bush did get authorization to go to war with Iraq. But remember he manipulated everyone to achieve that end. That doesn't make it right does it? The evidence that Iraq had anything that was a threat to the United States was sketchy at best. Do you remember when Colin Powell told us and the world that he knows exactly where those weapons of mass destruction is. None of which were true, and a country paid the price and eventually the U.S. did as well for other reasons. But you don't attack a soveriegn nation without ample evidence of wrong doing if you want to at least show moral leadership.
There was no logical link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda without a lot of hand waving. Even today, the Govt has not presented Congress with it's full findings on the matter. That speaks volumes in my book on what the threat really was. So let's not talk about the legality of the war, it was legal from a U.S. standpoint but nobody else in the world thinks so.
And to invoke Godwin's law, I will submit to you that Hitler's invasion of Austria was also deemed legal since it went through the proper legal channels. Arguing whether something is legal or not is not always the perfect litmus test.
sri
I for one agree with you. I don't quite understand the troll mod, but unfortunately I don't have mod points to put you insightful. However, these days a mark of your smartness is getting a degree. My employer will not hire anybody without a college degree. So what do you about that? I would like to do study at home or something for my kids so that I can educate them fairly (educate as opposed to indoctronate I suppose. :-)
Also recognize those were the old days, we don';t have it good like that anymore.
sri
What would be cool is if we could add a gps to our mp3 player. So it looks like we're listening to music but what's really happening is that we're getting directions. :)
sri
"I'm not dead yet!"
quote monty python
sri
I think you're totally right.
sri
Calm down dude. Ubuntu replace GNOME's menu editor with their own. GNOME's had a menu editor for two releases now.
I believe it's called SMEG or gmenu-simple-edit. But Ala Carte works well.
sri
The problem is that from here on in, Canonical will be supporting each release for 5 years. Having two releases would take a lot of extra support that you don't want. They are going "enterprise" with this release including "enterprise support".
sri
What about the fact that the difference in pay scale is then used to pay executives exhorbitant salaries. I mean they get paid a lot. You get companies that have "record" growth but won't pass that on to it's engineers or whatever, but to their executives. That doesn't make any sense.
In any case, it'll be self defeating I think. Eventually, they'll be a shakeout, and I'm hoping some executives really get some of hteir salaries cut because frankly they are being paid too much for makking questionable decsions.
sri
Dude, let them. I think you'll find that they'll slit their own throat if they create the "cornered rat" scenario. Part of the teenage culture has always been about sharing stuff like music, games, and whatever else.
If that part gets complicated there will be much greater pressure to deliver a better product. In a lot of ways, easy copying allows industries like the RIAA a greater pass. Once you raise the barrier, consumers are going to have greater scrutiny of what kind of music they buy. They'll find that they'll be making a lot less money and morever they can't blame piracy. Who will be their boogey man now?
They'd literally give the market to those who can produce music cheaply and without DRM. In fact I think this has happened before in the late 80s after the software industry largely gave up on on copy protection after it proved that the money spent on copy protection wasn't giving a return of greater sales.
Let them do it. I don't think consumers are that dumb. Nobody likes being controlled. If they get that impression the industry will suddenly have a big magnifying glass over their heads. I think they aren't going to like it.
As for open source, I think closed source people will have accept open source like linux. It's already a huge market, you cannot ignore it or prevent it from being runned on computers. I don't think people really understand how powerful it is. Most of the web is on apache running linux/bsd. Perl/Python are standards in a lot of engineering companies. Linux is used cheaply to create movie/digital effects. Hollywood lose a lot of money if movies suddenly jumped in price because they had to use windows to do special effect. They'll probably be forced to offshore that stuff to foreign countries who do allow linux to boot on their computers. It'll be fun watching, get popcorn.
If you don't think so, better get to work, the only way is to provide a better product than windows and mac. Help out the GNOME and KDE products, make that Linux desktop awesome. Make X work out the box. Create UAC (user action committees) to force hardware manufacturers to support drivers for linux. Become a political force. That's the only way to get them to do things. Become the market!
sri
They are already here. They're called Republicans. :-)
Ann Coulter, if you're reading this, I was just kidding!
sri
Sounds like Iraq...
You know the one with the insurgencies in it's last throes?
sri
I'm trying to figure out why this is "interesting"? Xgl is part of Xorg, how the hell is that supposed to screw KDE? KDE already knows how to use compositing, kwin already does compositing internally like compwiz does. KDE already knows how to use compositing in X windows. We need to take your tin hat away. :-)
No, I'll tell you the real reason. The real reason is to screw XFCE. As you know XFCE has been breathing down GNOME's neck for quite some time taking away their mindshare both in developers and in users. Afterall they use the same toolkit. I have secret papers from Nat that tells me that the threat of XFCE achieving world domination is too big to ignore. This Xgl thing and compwiz is specifically targed at XFCE. He and oGo concocted this plan together.