You're probably just trolling (congrats for managing to slip in a "think of the children") but anyway... as you should know, there is little evidence to suggest that piracy is or ever has damaged sales of music, and plenty of evidence to suggest the opposite.
Here's something for you to consider. Maybe people aren't buying your music because it sucks?
Find a better business model. Get a real job. If you can't "feed your family" on your income from music, that's YOUR fault, not everyone else's.
Or just put it up on a website for download, once they've sent the floppies, perhaps...
Sure, they are being shitty about it, but they aren't technically violating the GPL or copyright law, so bombarding them and stopping them getting their work done is only going to give the free software community a reputation for being childish and silly...
Nice timing for this article for me, and an interesting read, as I'm due to see a doctor in a few days about some sleeping problems... namely sleep paralysis and possible sleep apnea, I seem to be having symptoms of both - about once a week I'll wake up with a pins-and-needles sensation all over me, completely frozen stiff, and unable to breathe. I think the pins-and-needles must be from lack of oxygen. But it takes me a while to start breathing again - it's quite a struggle. One time I had an intensely loud ringing in my ears as well as the pins-and-needles. I'm starting to wonder if I'm stopping breathing a lot during the night without waking up, as I am quite literally always tired, no matter how much sleep I get! I wonder if anyone of you has had the same thing? I'd be interested to hear what you discovered if so...
Am I the only one who thinks that this little rant of his is quite an insult to all the people who have worked so hard on MPlayer, Xine, Ogle etc to get video on Linux as far as it is today? Most of his criticisms are nonsense anyway, and I think it's pretty amazing that we now have the ability to play so many formats including codecs from Windows binaries, it's hardly a small feat.
Reading/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 123 video codecs
Tell me that's not impressive. Even the mighty Windows *cough* doesn't support that many codecs in one player, straight out of the box.
And I don't know what he's doing criticising others' code if he was responsible for the abomination that was Netscape 4. And how long did it take to get Mozilla to 1.0, hmm? Now it's there it's slow and bloated, and not only does it have skins but you can build whole fucking different applications in it (!?!??)
would say he should quit bitching and start coding, but I'd rather MPlayer didn't turn out as "good" as Netscape, thanks:P
Don't you think you should background your socket code into another thread? You'll avoid all those problems and keep the GUI responsive whatever else the program's doing.
You're quite right, and I have never had a virus in all 15 or so years of using computers, but not everyone's as smart and/or lucky. For a while I worked as a sysadmin at a large company, with about 3500 PCs across several sites, one of my responsibilities was keeping the antivirus systems updated across the network, making sure each PC was up to date. I could see all the "hits" the virus scanners had for the whole network and we're talking about 30 on a normal day, and over 100 when a new virus is released. Don't forget that most PC users in this instance aren't in IT related jobs, just use it for email and wordprocessing etc. This could be great for corporate desktops.
... is, who is doing the "trusting"? In Microsoft's vision of it it certainly isn't the end user, it's them. Or other copyright owners.
TCPA is fundamentally a sound technological concept, but wide open for abuse. If it could be used for the user's benefit to prevent against viruses etc, then that's great.
What I'm saying is that the owner of the computer should be able to override the trust relationships - assert that the code is trusted (by them). The owner of the computer should have the ultimate veto. After all, it is theirs. Does AMI's plans for a TCPA implementation have this in mind?
There are enough window managers that are highly configurable and extensible out there that you can surely make yourself a desktop that works as much or as little like Windows as you want.
Yes, KDE and GNOME mimic the Windows interface to some extent but you can reconfigure their look and feel. For instance I have no task bar or icons on the desktop, I bring up a task list by clicking on the desktop background, (or root window to give it its real name). I get the start menu equivalent by clicking the middle button.
Anyway, the Windows look and feel isn't a bad choice of ones to imitate, after all many people are happy with it, and I think KDE in particular has made a few improvements that MS would do well to take a look at.
Not really. I'm actually quite open to the possibility of there being a god. But taking the story of creation in the bible literally as the truth is just stupid, there is no logical basis for it at all. I don't believe in god, I simply see no real evidence for the existance of one. I don't passionately believe that there is no god either. As you say, it's a possibility. Show me some evidence and I'll consider it (and no, the "evidence is all around us" bit doesn't count).
Well, assuming your post was not a joke, you clearly don't really have a good grasp of just quite how big the universe is, both in terms of amount of space and length of time, for this to happen in.
The universe is big. Very big. (Read HHGTG for a more in depth analysis of this;) ) - there is a lot of mass, a lot of energy. It's chaotic. The possibilities are vast. The conditions for organic life (as we are familiar with it) forming are specific, yes, but not really anything that special. In such a big space and time frame, the probability of it happening somewhere is pretty much a certainty. And evolution is not so unbelievable either, again, consider the vast amount of time that it has taken place over. And not all the genetic defects turn out to be really good. Most of them don't. The ones that do, propagate. It's called natural selection.
Put the bible down and pick up some science textbooks. And that goes for all of you creationist nutcases. God isn't the answer to everything.
My project, DNHTTPD, is a pretty full featured web server in about 1100 lines of Perl. Virtual hosts, CGIs, SSL, even preliminary Apache-like SSI parsing:)
It's not finished, still suffers from some serious b0rkage in places, and I'm not exactly working on it full time, but feel free to take a look. It does the job for most simple purposes.
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Who cares? :P
You're probably just trolling (congrats for managing to slip in a "think of the children") but anyway... as you should know, there is little evidence to suggest that piracy is or ever has damaged sales of music, and plenty of evidence to suggest the opposite.
Here's something for you to consider. Maybe people aren't buying your music because it sucks?
Find a better business model. Get a real job. If you can't "feed your family" on your income from music, that's YOUR fault, not everyone else's.
They should sue the artists, after all, they're the ones making the music that's being stolen. They're at the root of everything!
You're American, right?
:P
This is a pound sign: £
# is not. It's a hash. Most Americans seem to be confused on this, I hope this post clears it up
Besides, "C Pound" just sounds stupid.
Or just put it up on a website for download, once they've sent the floppies, perhaps...
Sure, they are being shitty about it, but they aren't technically violating the GPL or copyright law, so bombarding them and stopping them getting their work done is only going to give the free software community a reputation for being childish and silly...
Fuck off, asshole. Bush is an evangelical christian.
Heh, that's even worse...
Whatever. Unix had remote display and remote audio years before Microsoft pretended to have invented it.
Nice timing for this article for me, and an interesting read, as I'm due to see a doctor in a few days about some sleeping problems... namely sleep paralysis and possible sleep apnea, I seem to be having symptoms of both - about once a week I'll wake up with a pins-and-needles sensation all over me, completely frozen stiff, and unable to breathe. I think the pins-and-needles must be from lack of oxygen. But it takes me a while to start breathing again - it's quite a struggle. One time I had an intensely loud ringing in my ears as well as the pins-and-needles. I'm starting to wonder if I'm stopping breathing a lot during the night without waking up, as I am quite literally always tired, no matter how much sleep I get! I wonder if anyone of you has had the same thing? I'd be interested to hear what you discovered if so...
Tell me that's not impressive. Even the mighty Windows *cough* doesn't support that many codecs in one player, straight out of the box.
And I don't know what he's doing criticising others' code if he was responsible for the abomination that was Netscape 4. And how long did it take to get Mozilla to 1.0, hmm? Now it's there it's slow and bloated, and not only does it have skins but you can build whole fucking different applications in it (!?!??)
would say he should quit bitching and start coding, but I'd rather MPlayer didn't turn out as "good" as Netscape, thanks
Hey Ballmer, didn't you you read Slashdot. How long have you been here? How's it working out for you? :D
Don't you think you should background your socket code into another thread? You'll avoid all those problems and keep the GUI responsive whatever else the program's doing.
It's hardly a failing of FLTK really...?
Or maybe this is the evil one.
You're quite right, and I have never had a virus in all 15 or so years of using computers, but not everyone's as smart and/or lucky. For a while I worked as a sysadmin at a large company, with about 3500 PCs across several sites, one of my responsibilities was keeping the antivirus systems updated across the network, making sure each PC was up to date. I could see all the "hits" the virus scanners had for the whole network and we're talking about 30 on a normal day, and over 100 when a new virus is released. Don't forget that most PC users in this instance aren't in IT related jobs, just use it for email and wordprocessing etc. This could be great for corporate desktops.
... is, who is doing the "trusting"? In Microsoft's vision of it it certainly isn't the end user, it's them. Or other copyright owners.
TCPA is fundamentally a sound technological concept, but wide open for abuse. If it could be used for the user's benefit to prevent against viruses etc, then that's great.
What I'm saying is that the owner of the computer should be able to override the trust relationships - assert that the code is trusted (by them). The owner of the computer should have the ultimate veto. After all, it is theirs. Does AMI's plans for a TCPA implementation have this in mind?
If it doesn't support Ogg Vorbis, then the terrorists have already won!
There are enough window managers that are highly configurable and extensible out there that you can surely make yourself a desktop that works as much or as little like Windows as you want.
Yes, KDE and GNOME mimic the Windows interface to some extent but you can reconfigure their look and feel. For instance I have no task bar or icons on the desktop, I bring up a task list by clicking on the desktop background, (or root window to give it its real name). I get the start menu equivalent by clicking the middle button.
Anyway, the Windows look and feel isn't a bad choice of ones to imitate, after all many people are happy with it, and I think KDE in particular has made a few improvements that MS would do well to take a look at.
Erm... "reg required"? What is this!? Where's my "yadda"s? I feel cheated! If I subscribed I would have cancelled by now!
Because we can!
What about RAM-RAID?
That's what I do when I want a faster computer.
Not really. I'm actually quite open to the possibility of there being a god. But taking the story of creation in the bible literally as the truth is just stupid, there is no logical basis for it at all. I don't believe in god, I simply see no real evidence for the existance of one. I don't passionately believe that there is no god either. As you say, it's a possibility. Show me some evidence and I'll consider it (and no, the "evidence is all around us" bit doesn't count).
Well, assuming your post was not a joke, you clearly don't really have a good grasp of just quite how big the universe is, both in terms of amount of space and length of time, for this to happen in.
;) ) - there is a lot of mass, a lot of energy. It's chaotic. The possibilities are vast. The conditions for organic life (as we are familiar with it) forming are specific, yes, but not really anything that special. In such a big space and time frame, the probability of it happening somewhere is pretty much a certainty. And evolution is not so unbelievable either, again, consider the vast amount of time that it has taken place over. And not all the genetic defects turn out to be really good. Most of them don't. The ones that do, propagate. It's called natural selection.
The universe is big. Very big. (Read HHGTG for a more in depth analysis of this
Put the bible down and pick up some science textbooks. And that goes for all of you creationist nutcases. God isn't the answer to everything.
Heh, how wierd is that? That's what I thought for a sec as well... I wonder what this says about the mind of the average Slashdotter? ;)
Perhaps you're right, but perhaps the rest of the world knows more about US culture than the US knows about the rest of the world's culture?
With the American bias of a lot of the internet and TV as well, it's kind of hard not to pick it up, at least here in the UK anyway.
Luckily though I noticed I was on E
;)
Yeah, that seems like the only way to make buying records bearable in your part of the world
Did you say small web servers?
:)
My project, DNHTTPD, is a pretty full featured web server in about 1100 lines of Perl. Virtual hosts, CGIs, SSL, even preliminary Apache-like SSI parsing
It's not finished, still suffers from some serious b0rkage in places, and I'm not exactly working on it full time, but feel free to take a look. It does the job for most simple purposes.