I'm with you. It seems that this type of site would have major bandwith costs. How would they recover such costs... let's review:
What I find interesting is that there are literally thousands of free bands out there that are more than worthy of listening too. Free as in they have not sold their souls (not to mention music rights) away to the devils of the music industry.
I'll take this to mean 'free' as in will allow their music to be distributed for free.
But how does one get to listen to these pioneers of music? The solution could be sites like mp3.com (until the mp3 royalties are forced).
Easy: Ogg Vorbis
But what people want is a locals only site that streams, guess what, the music from free local bands only. Not just for your community but local bands from all over the US (and the world).
Does this seem contradictory to anyone else? Only want local bands, but want all bands? I guess I can see something like an Amazon.com system. If you like this band, you might also like... but then we get into the expense issue again.
We need a site that collects these bands and we need a streamer that plays them.
Onced again, Ogg Vorbis
No CARP royalty problems since these bands are unsigned and own the music themselves. Make it so that the artists can hopefully sell their own CD's or single songs from the same site.
In this, I might see a solution, that solution being charging some sort of a percent of sales. It would then be in the sites interest to promote the most selling bands in the most selling areas. But isn't this a variant of the RIAA group?
Anyway, mix and bake at multiple bit rates and you have a solution to the copy protected CD (I haven't bought one yet from an Indie Band). The big guys go down because they can't compete with free, better than great music on the web with a low cost distribution.
I have a problem with this... the music isn't free! It costs in terms of time, bandwith, advertising, and a whole host of other issues. It -might- be free to then end user to download, but it is definitely not free.
So, where is this utopia? Oh! And dump the necessary registration required to listen (are you listening mp3.com?)."
Ok, allowing some one to browse a site with no reg. I'm in, that's easy enough to do.
Hmm... well, actually, I drink coffee (no soda), I live with my girlfriend (thus no need for nudie-mags, I have real life), and no ISA cards. I threw them all away. I do have an open 90 pentium sitting on the floor right now, but not an ISA card in sight.
Sorry. =)
Re:Doom III patch
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· Score: 5, Informative
The patch:
What's new?:
Removed binary for loading intro. To watch video:type: map e3/intro at the console
Removed flashlight3.tga and pointed the doomconfig entry to the existing flashlight2 changed flashlight lag so it is more responsive
added F5 and F6 keymapping for recordDemo and stoprecording
bumped up number of speakers to 6 and enabled stereo. Conflicting stories of whether this works or not.
changed r_useNV30 back to 0 since noone should have one of these yet
added give_weapon_flare to F12 weapon bind. (Use 0 to pick flares)
Side note, and definately OT... we currently have 3 cats in the house. Two are a few years old, but this year we adopted a kitten... and my girlfriend taught the damn cat how to fetch. I'm doing this as I type... with pipe-cleaners. Toss the pipe cleaner (I wrap it into a helix around my finger so I can get more distance) and the cat runs, graps it, and immediately comes back. A fetching cat. I'd be curious to see if anyone else has a cat that will fetch?
Never whine about a patch. I know whining works with a lot of people ("Oh, for chrissake, I'll just do it to get him off my back") but it works remarkably badly with me. Trust me on this.
I think this says it all... don't whine... DO! If you want something in Linux, for god sakes, make a useful, meaniful contribution... don't whine about it on some out of the way, hole in the ground area...
Before long we will have the ability to render even sophisticated armies totally obsolete. I think this is a good thing. We'll turn opposing officers and armor into cinders in the first fifteen minutes of any engagement, sparing not only civilian bystanders but the great majority of the troops.
Thirty years from now, the greatest challenge to our armed forces will be how to deal with the POWs. No power on Earth will be able to oppose us when we decide to bend other nations to our will.
This, to me, is probably the more insightful thoughts into the future of military warfare I've heard lately...
The problem is, it doesn't apply to unconventional warfare. What good does a laser artillery zapper do against a plane flying into a building???
Devil's Advocate.
I agree. For soldiers on a standard battle field, POWs will be problem... but they always have been. Look at the gulf war.
The new problem we face is terrorism. And I don't buy into the terror crap George W. talks about. His talk is political talk. Reality is different.
Do I have answers? Nope. And I'd say this, too... lasers for artillery aren't a bad idea. But we have to look at exactly what they can accomplish and not be delusioned by what they can do.
The new warfare is unconventional. It is not based on lasers, artillary, troops on the ground, tanks, mines, etc... the new war is North Korea with nuclear weapons, or the question of whether or not Iraq does, or who is willing to take control of an airplane and fly it into something (building, ship, or otherwise).
The possibilities are large. The consequence are bigger. This is a concept to be reckoned with.
Compatiability with a specific package is a feature. The general point of AutoCad is to do electronic design, drafting, etc etc. Can you do that with MS? Absolutely. It might be harder, or more expensive, or a little bit less documented or whatever, but if you want to, I guarantee you can do it without MS.
Woah... hang on there, buddy... what product does microsoft produce that can do anything near what AutoCAD can do?
Having personally administrator a set of 20 drafters and architects who use autocad on a very daily basis, I KNOW that autocad is very deep in it's abilities... and there is nothing, NOTHING, that MS puts out that comes any where close to what AutoCAD does.
I'm willing to say this: you CAN NOT do with MS software what you CAN DO with AutoCAD. Period.
Ahh... I'm with you. We have one of those 'tub sized' hard drivers sitting on display here at the university I work with. It's fun to walk up to it and campare it to a SD style 1 gig drive. Now that's progress!
That makes sense. Take a situation where you set up one system to (near) perfection and then clone it a bunch to make a cluster. Why not use linux (or something else free?). Even if it takes more time to setup the first machine when using linux, you easily make up the cost by not having to by license for the OS and other software for each clone.
I'm curious, as a person who does the open-source thing, but also uses and like MS SQL 2000 at work, what problems did you have?
I've found SQL server to be a work horse, fairly easy to use, and, yes, like any other piece of software (esp. MS) a little quirky in some places. I was a major advocate of replacing Oracle with MS where I work... for many reasons. Maybe you can teach me something.
I have a car capable of going 143 miles per hour. However, I have only driven it that fast once, and most times I hover around 70 mph. The car is designed to perform for a long time when well maintained and driven at sane speeds. The same can be said for people. An employee can work 80 hours a week as fast as they can, but it is the equivalent of driving a car too damn fast for too damn long. On an average work day, I work at 70%. It's not that the other 30 percent is wasted, it is just extremely flexible. I'm currently using my extra 30% to refactor some stuff, read some good programing books, look at new technology and what not... all stuff I can drop at a moments notice so I can devote that extra 30% to something else.
Using the 30% as I want keeps me interesting and happy.
The false perception is that the 30% is lost. It is not.
Re:Adding programmers to a late project ...
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You totally missed it. Instead of adding new people, you:
Ensure that people have 'slack' where if they need to increase productivity for a short period of time, they can.
Don't add new people, keep the 'old' people happy so they don't need to be replaced or added too (esp. in project).
You're right. I can not prove that there is no God. Additionally, I can't prove any negative. The catch to the situation is that while you're busy looking for things that might exist solely on the premise that no one can say they don't, science is busy cataloging those things that can be proven to exist. One of these activities leads someone, and the other... well...
You'll have to pardon me, I'm going out to look for all those invisible unicorns every keeps telling me don't exist...
Yes, fresh water is low, but the fuel cells don't run on water, they run on Hydrogen, often taken from such things as natural gas. Yes, you can use electrolsys to get the h from h20, but it more expensive.
How do you propose we are going to change the salinity of the oceans? See above.
Umm... in this case, the reaction is perfect... if you don't use the hydrogen, you don't get the electron... although there will be some leakage of the tanks, I'm sure... but there's already h2 in the air, it nature does just a fine job of using it.
Listen to police band. -- illegal when it is encrypted
Listen to cell phone. -- illegal
Listen to XM radio -- illegal
Listen to satelite transmissions -- may be illegal, depending on what you are listening to
Listen to military communications? -- illegal
I guess I don't know if this is true, but it's exactly what I'm talking about. And, saying they are illegal, where does this software stand? If all the work is done by software, it will be easy to distribute the code that allows the illegal actions to take place. And I'm not quite sure if there would be ANY legal use for someone to claim 'fair-use' under.
We're on the edge of all sorts of software becoming illegal... and after that, I fear things like 'right-to-read' and what not.
I'm thought something along the same lines... used to be that any RF that came into a person's airspace was fair game... now that's not true. It can be illegal just to 'listen in' (esp. if it involves decrypting the signal).
It seems to me we're moving the complexity away from expense to duplicate hardware into 'free' to duplicate software. With the increase in power and decrease in cost of general purpose (programable) electronics (i.e. CPU, radio recievers, ADCs, etc), one person can write complex software that can then be used to utilize the (relativiely) inexpensive hardware.
Once you have the hardware setup, you can change the software and:
Slashdot Mirror
I'm with you. It seems that this type of site would have major bandwith costs. How would they recover such costs... let's review:
I'll take this to mean 'free' as in will allow their music to be distributed for free.
Easy: Ogg Vorbis
Does this seem contradictory to anyone else? Only want local bands, but want all bands? I guess I can see something like an Amazon.com system. If you like this band, you might also like... but then we get into the expense issue again.
Onced again, Ogg Vorbis
In this, I might see a solution, that solution being charging some sort of a percent of sales. It would then be in the sites interest to promote the most selling bands in the most selling areas. But isn't this a variant of the RIAA group?
I have a problem with this... the music isn't free! It costs in terms of time, bandwith, advertising, and a whole host of other issues. It -might- be free to then end user to download, but it is definitely not free.
Ok, allowing some one to browse a site with no reg. I'm in, that's easy enough to do.
Hmm... well, actually, I drink coffee (no soda), I live with my girlfriend (thus no need for nudie-mags, I have real life), and no ISA cards. I threw them all away. I do have an open 90 pentium sitting on the floor right now, but not an ISA card in sight.
Sorry. =)
The patch:
What's new? :
There you have it.
Hey, "frank of earth", checked out your pics of the cat fetching the penny. Very nice.
Or on top of a warm laptop.
Side note, and definately OT... we currently have 3 cats in the house. Two are a few years old, but this year we adopted a kitten... and my girlfriend taught the damn cat how to fetch. I'm doing this as I type... with pipe-cleaners. Toss the pipe cleaner (I wrap it into a helix around my finger so I can get more distance) and the cat runs, graps it, and immediately comes back. A fetching cat. I'd be curious to see if anyone else has a cat that will fetch?
Anyone? Hello? Fetching cats?
Agreed. Crap... we'll I guess I'll look around: beer cans, laptop, Seinfeld on the TV, unassemble stepper motor assembly, beer cans, random power supplies, clothes, candles, stereo, dishwasher, cat, cat, cat, cat toy, fishing rod, window, couch, chair, desk, desk, desk, VCR parts, motors, power supply, wires, soldering iron, solder, canned air...
Ack...
I need to clean.
I don't like to look around. I am now going back into introvert mode. Ahhh, yeah.... only the laptop screen exists... ahh... much better.
Well at 9:50 central time it was:
There you have it!
Quoting Linux from his post:
I think this says it all... don't whine... DO! If you want something in Linux, for god sakes, make a useful, meaniful contribution... don't whine about it on some out of the way, hole in the ground area...
This, to me, is probably the more insightful thoughts into the future of military warfare I've heard lately...
The problem is, it doesn't apply to unconventional warfare. What good does a laser artillery zapper do against a plane flying into a building???
Devil's Advocate.
I agree. For soldiers on a standard battle field, POWs will be problem... but they always have been. Look at the gulf war.
The new problem we face is terrorism. And I don't buy into the terror crap George W. talks about. His talk is political talk. Reality is different.
Do I have answers? Nope. And I'd say this, too... lasers for artillery aren't a bad idea. But we have to look at exactly what they can accomplish and not be delusioned by what they can do.
The new warfare is unconventional. It is not based on lasers, artillary, troops on the ground, tanks, mines, etc... the new war is North Korea with nuclear weapons, or the question of whether or not Iraq does, or who is willing to take control of an airplane and fly it into something (building, ship, or otherwise).
The possibilities are large. The consequence are bigger. This is a concept to be reckoned with.
Yeah, and Windows specifically has a 'hide porn' option...
NOT!
Woah... hang on there, buddy... what product does microsoft produce that can do anything near what AutoCAD can do?
Having personally administrator a set of 20 drafters and architects who use autocad on a very daily basis, I KNOW that autocad is very deep in it's abilities... and there is nothing, NOTHING, that MS puts out that comes any where close to what AutoCAD does.
I'm willing to say this: you CAN NOT do with MS software what you CAN DO with AutoCAD. Period.
Ahh... I'm with you. We have one of those 'tub sized' hard drivers sitting on display here at the university I work with. It's fun to walk up to it and campare it to a SD style 1 gig drive. Now that's progress!
Umm... how about 20MB? That was my first HD, and it was pretty spendy.
And by posting to this article, you cancelled your own mod point! Oh, the irony....
Unless, of course, you have more than one /. account... but that won't be fair? right? hello? right?
Uh... yeah.
Do I read this right? I can buy and run Solaris 9 for only 99 bucks? Is anyone doing this?
Is there a catch?
You had to have someone else install windows for you???
Well, ok then.
That makes sense. Take a situation where you set up one system to (near) perfection and then clone it a bunch to make a cluster. Why not use linux (or something else free?). Even if it takes more time to setup the first machine when using linux, you easily make up the cost by not having to by license for the OS and other software for each clone.
I'm curious, as a person who does the open-source thing, but also uses and like MS SQL 2000 at work, what problems did you have?
I've found SQL server to be a work horse, fairly easy to use, and, yes, like any other piece of software (esp. MS) a little quirky in some places. I was a major advocate of replacing Oracle with MS where I work... for many reasons. Maybe you can teach me something.
I have a car capable of going 143 miles per hour. However, I have only driven it that fast once, and most times I hover around 70 mph. The car is designed to perform for a long time when well maintained and driven at sane speeds. The same can be said for people. An employee can work 80 hours a week as fast as they can, but it is the equivalent of driving a car too damn fast for too damn long. On an average work day, I work at 70%. It's not that the other 30 percent is wasted, it is just extremely flexible. I'm currently using my extra 30% to refactor some stuff, read some good programing books, look at new technology and what not... all stuff I can drop at a moments notice so I can devote that extra 30% to something else.
Using the 30% as I want keeps me interesting and happy.
The false perception is that the 30% is lost. It is not.
You totally missed it. Instead of adding new people, you:
No mystic man months here. Move along.
You're right. I can not prove that there is no God. Additionally, I can't prove any negative. The catch to the situation is that while you're busy looking for things that might exist solely on the premise that no one can say they don't, science is busy cataloging those things that can be proven to exist. One of these activities leads someone, and the other... well...
You'll have to pardon me, I'm going out to look for all those invisible unicorns every keeps telling me don't exist...
I'll be brief: nope, you're wrong.
Yes, fresh water is low, but the fuel cells don't run on water, they run on Hydrogen, often taken from such things as natural gas. Yes, you can use electrolsys to get the h from h20, but it more expensive.
How do you propose we are going to change the salinity of the oceans? See above.
Umm... in this case, the reaction is perfect... if you don't use the hydrogen, you don't get the electron... although there will be some leakage of the tanks, I'm sure... but there's already h2 in the air, it nature does just a fine job of using it.
I forget that Jackson was even black... anyway, had to jump in becuase of my sig, of course...
To quote the parent AC -
I guess I don't know if this is true, but it's exactly what I'm talking about. And, saying they are illegal, where does this software stand? If all the work is done by software, it will be easy to distribute the code that allows the illegal actions to take place. And I'm not quite sure if there would be ANY legal use for someone to claim 'fair-use' under.
We're on the edge of all sorts of software becoming illegal... and after that, I fear things like 'right-to-read' and what not.
I'm thought something along the same lines... used to be that any RF that came into a person's airspace was fair game... now that's not true. It can be illegal just to 'listen in' (esp. if it involves decrypting the signal).
It seems to me we're moving the complexity away from expense to duplicate hardware into 'free' to duplicate software. With the increase in power and decrease in cost of general purpose (programable) electronics (i.e. CPU, radio recievers, ADCs, etc), one person can write complex software that can then be used to utilize the (relativiely) inexpensive hardware.
Once you have the hardware setup, you can change the software and: