Actually, Sinead O'Connor (er, Prince's) song is actually titled "Nothing Compares 2 U".:-)
And on my computer, I would name that file: Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - 06 - Nothing Compares 2 U.mp3. Here are some more examples:
Great White Hype - Bringin' to ya 20 rap house greats - 15 - Blood on the floor, the wall, and yah bitch.mp3
Great White Hype - Bringin' to ya 20 rap house greats - 16 - Music from the PiMp factory.mp3
Great White Hype - Bringin' to ya 20 rap house greats - 17 - Zyklon be off the Heazy!.mp3
I think you're right about Napster being better in the good ol' days. When its primary users were computer and music geeks, you know they will be careful to create good rips and properly categorize/name the files. Today Napster is flooded by AOL users who can't figure out in which directory Microsoft Word saved their homework.:-(
I too would pay ~$15/month for unlimited, quality MP3 downloads, if they included lots of artists. I have an eclectic taste in music.;-)
I think this model would work great if it allowed access to *every* song made. A SuperJukebox, or an Jukebox Super Highway if you will.
I would never pay for Napster.. in its current form. If I'm paying money, I want to ensure I can find cool songs and that the sound quality is good and the files are properly named. I'm tired of downloading poorly ripped mp3s that have filenames that don't include the album name, track number, or even the artist's name!
Plus Napster is buggy. What version are that up to now.. Beta 9?!?! And it still sucks! It crashes, it freezes, it has an inflexible and intrusive UI, and it lacks useful playlist features. I guess Napster is an example of how "good enough" is better than well-designed..
Why do they call it IPv6 instead of IP6? Nobody talks about Linux v2.4, Windows v2000, or Solaris v8. IP6 is more elegant and easier to pronounce than "eye pee vee six."
"Encrypting" something with your private key is of no use. Since your public key is well known, anyone can read your email. This is actually called signing. And most digital signatures don't actually munge the messagey body. They typically encrypt/sign a message digest (MD5 or SHA1) of the message and send the message in plaintext. That way mail reader can read the plaintext message, but a crypto-enabled mail reader can also verify the email's digital signature.
how many high-traffic web servers run OpenBSD? How do they overcome the lack of SMTP botteneck? Or do the majority of high-traffic web sites use an SMTP-capable version of BSD?
SMTP = Simple Mail Transport/Transfer Protocol. SMP = Symmetric Multi-Processor. And a "lack of STMP [sic] bottleneck" would be a good thing! No need to overcome it..
Chuck Fry, one of Remote Agent's developers, says:
"The bad news: the Remote Agent modules are all being ported to C++ anyway, as C++ is seen as more "saleable" to risk-averse flight software management. This despite the fact C++ was bumped from Deep Space One because the compiler technology wasn't mature, which the Remote Agent planner/scheduler team learned to its dismay."
I am so turned off when I think of steak and hamburgers now, that I can barely order and wolf down a Big Mac or prime rib any more.
Then why don't you become a vegetarian? It's easier than you think and it gets easier every day. And vegetarians do eat more than just salads. You can find veggie-friendly food at practically any restaurant. VegSource.com is a good resource for beginning vegetarians.
Sorry, but your Flash phone book is less useful than a simple alphabetical list of names in HTML. A user cannot scan the names or search for someone's first name only. What if you don't know what department someone works in? In your design, the person must manually open, visually scan (no Find In Page searches allowed here!), and close each job department! What if a user doesn't have Flash installed?
Isn't it strange that Java the Write-Once-Run-Anywhere(tm) Technology is plaqued with portability problems, yet Perl has no problem running on disparate OS and CPU platforms? Why isn't Larry Wall working on a PerlCPU(tm) to create market lock-in and address Perl's portability woes?
What is it called so I can use it. Funny, I installed Red Hat 7.1 this weekend. It's settings were NOT centralized in one GUI. Gnome has its own control panel. Sawfish has a control panel of its own. Buried in the Gnome menu somewhere was a tool to change my IP address. I couldn't find where to change my screen resolution.
Ebay's model is likely to be more profitable - the customers do almost everything themselves. E-bay just helps with the information - the very thing the WWW is good for.
btw, Ebay has been profitable since its first quarter.
This problem already exists. This is why (some) people get excited about zero-copy network code for Linux. If your network is 1 Gbps, but the bus between your computer's CPU and RAM (say) 400 Mbps, if you copy your data once, then you have effectively halved your network throughput.
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Actually, Sinead O'Connor (er, Prince's) song is actually titled "Nothing Compares 2 U". :-)
And on my computer, I would name that file: Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - 06 - Nothing Compares 2 U.mp3. Here are some more examples:
Great White Hype - Bringin' to ya 20 rap house greats - 15 - Blood on the floor, the wall, and yah bitch.mp3
Great White Hype - Bringin' to ya 20 rap house greats - 16 - Music from the PiMp factory.mp3
Great White Hype - Bringin' to ya 20 rap house greats - 17 - Zyklon be off the Heazy!.mp3
I think you're right about Napster being better in the good ol' days. When its primary users were computer and music geeks, you know they will be careful to create good rips and properly categorize/name the files. Today Napster is flooded by AOL users who can't figure out in which directory Microsoft Word saved their homework.
I too would pay ~$15/month for unlimited, quality MP3 downloads, if they included lots of artists. I have an eclectic taste in music.
I think this model would work great if it allowed access to *every* song made. A SuperJukebox, or an Jukebox Super Highway if you will.
I would never pay for Napster.. in its current form. If I'm paying money, I want to ensure I can find cool songs and that the sound quality is good and the files are properly named. I'm tired of downloading poorly ripped mp3s that have filenames that don't include the album name, track number, or even the artist's name!
Plus Napster is buggy. What version are that up to now.. Beta 9?!?! And it still sucks! It crashes, it freezes, it has an inflexible and intrusive UI, and it lacks useful playlist features. I guess Napster is an example of how "good enough" is better than well-designed..
Why do they call it IPv6 instead of IP6? Nobody talks about Linux v2.4, Windows v2000, or Solaris v8. IP6 is more elegant and easier to pronounce than "eye pee vee six."
"Encrypting" something with your private key is of no use. Since your public key is well known, anyone can read your email. This is actually called signing. And most digital signatures don't actually munge the messagey body. They typically encrypt/sign a message digest (MD5 or SHA1) of the message and send the message in plaintext. That way mail reader can read the plaintext message, but a crypto-enabled mail reader can also verify the email's digital signature.
From whom did Microsoft purchase OE or NT? Microsoft hired DEC developers working on DEC's (canceled) Prism OS to create NT.
I read that Ewan Mcgregor and Nicole Kidman's voices were digitally pitch corrected because they can't actually sing very well.
how many high-traffic web servers run OpenBSD? How do they overcome the lack of SMTP botteneck? Or do the majority of high-traffic web sites use an SMTP-capable version of BSD?
SMTP = Simple Mail Transport/Transfer Protocol. SMP = Symmetric Multi-Processor. And a " lack of STMP [sic] bottleneck" would be a good thing! No need to overcome it..
Remote Agent, written in Common Lisp, wins NASA's Software of the Year 1999. Dissatisfied, NASA management decides the entire project should be ported to C++ !!?
Chuck Fry, one of Remote Agent's developers, says:
"The bad news: the Remote Agent modules are all being ported to C++ anyway, as C++ is seen as more "saleable" to risk-averse flight software management. This despite the fact C++ was bumped from Deep Space One because the compiler technology wasn't mature, which the Remote Agent planner/scheduler team learned to its dismay."
Don't forget that Microsoft does give away (some) of its valuable IP, such as IE.
"At this moment my mother is heating cauldrons for your bones.. bEyOtCh !!! "
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I just really hate vegetables.
I am so turned off when I think of steak and hamburgers now, that I can barely order and wolf down a Big Mac or prime rib any more.
Then why don't you become a vegetarian? It's easier than you think and it gets easier every day. And vegetarians do eat more than just salads. You can find veggie-friendly food at practically any restaurant. VegSource.com is a good resource for beginning vegetarians.
Sorry, but your Flash phone book is less useful than a simple alphabetical list of names in HTML. A user cannot scan the names or search for someone's first name only. What if you don't know what department someone works in? In your design, the person must manually open, visually scan (no Find In Page searches allowed here!), and close each job department! What if a user doesn't have Flash installed?
With the whirlwind of BSD articles and posts on Slashdot, I hardly have any time get any work done.
Isn't it strange that Java the Write-Once-Run-Anywhere(tm) Technology is plaqued with portability problems, yet Perl has no problem running on disparate OS and CPU platforms? Why isn't Larry Wall working on a PerlCPU(tm) to create market lock-in and address Perl's portability woes?
We have always been at war with Oceania, I mean, Eurasia.
I use @home and my ping times between ~8o and 55836514768147533222218 milliseconds. Is this usual for @home to have such a high latency?
Can this simple computer multitask? My computer is handling 22 processes right now. That can be a lot for just one computer..
There are patches to use Python or Perl with AOLserver, but I don't know how well they are supported. PHP 4.05 supports "out of the box": server API versions for Apache, AOLserver, ISAPI and NSAPI.
Where did you find the mod point total (28) for this post? Just curious..
Where did you find the mod points for this post? Just curious..
What is it called so I can use it. Funny, I installed Red Hat 7.1 this weekend. It's settings were NOT centralized in one GUI. Gnome has its own control panel. Sawfish has a control panel of its own. Buried in the Gnome menu somewhere was a tool to change my IP address. I couldn't find where to change my screen resolution.
Ebay's model is likely to be more profitable - the customers do almost everything themselves. E-bay just helps with the information - the very thing the WWW is good for.
btw, Ebay has been profitable since its first quarter.
This problem already exists. This is why (some) people get excited about zero-copy network code for Linux. If your network is 1 Gbps, but the bus between your computer's CPU and RAM (say) 400 Mbps, if you copy your data once, then you have effectively halved your network throughput.