I just have to reply with a "here, here!" because I don't have mod points today. Fuck yes, you are exactly right. Fuck Sony, Apple, and all other corporations that would slow the progress of an entire species for small immediate capital gains. It's just embarrassing to be made of the same genes as these morons.
...Complete with awesome audio tape storage setup.
I wrote little basic games where the X has to avoid bouncing O's. Then I moved up to a TRS-80 (lovingly called the trash 80, and wrote games where an ASCII tank avoided bouncing O's, but also had the ability to shoot. I even wrote a long adventure game with dirty sequences, and got in trouble. 7.5 floppies forever baby!!!
rhY
PS I just put together a new machine (AMD x64, 1 gb ram, 6600gt, DVD burner, and x-fi soundcard). Technology has definitely moved along over the course of my short life. (Remember BBS? FIDOnet? LOL)
So I think there should be a program to resynthesize the "learned" words into the most exact average of any given way to say it. I'd love to hear the results, that would be fascinating.
Doing what you love is fine. If it's marketable. The real trick is becoming valuable to the market at what you love. As a musician, this is particularly true, however I'm quite sure it applies to any range of proffesions.
The other fact to consider is that currently (though I imagine automation, computers, and nanotech WILL change this eventually) there are some very marketable skills that I can't imagine ANYBODY loves. Garbage collection and waste recycling just two that come to mind, but I could name an almost infinite list. Everyone here seen "The Office" for instance?
As a webmaster, if someone has a problem with my site(s), I tell them to switch to Firefox. Then I ask them if they still get ice from a vendor for an icebox, or if they prefer the wonders of electrified refrigeration. Just me being a prick like that I'm sure has changed a couple of people over.
I'm tired of being "nice" to IE users. Call a retard a retard, and maybe they'll want to change, or maybe they'll get all huffy and leave. Either way, eventually nobody is gonna use the icebox and vendor anymore.
Well they are both usable. It's just not worth the extra time, and lag for most people. I didn't mean to compare their current usability to each other, so much as to the usability and actual use that people are doing, or would do given the sacrifices.
I love the IDEA of Tor. I also love the idea of FreeNet. Neither one seems to work at all well (or quickly) in their current iterations however. Until these things are solved, for most people the trade-offs are just not worth it. Especially when so much is achievable under the mere guise of the millions of people involved. Until the RIAA hires MILLIONS of lawyers to sue MILLIONS of customers per year, people won't mind thumbing their nose at them and playing the numbers game. The same is CERTAINLY true for surfing and IM.
I am not a physicist, but, it seems obvious to me that every action has an observable reaction in this universe, and that all things naturally observed are a cycle:
Therefore:
As the universe continues to expand, eventually Entropy will slow down measurably (perhaps not for many millenia, who can say how time works relevant to our current reality? We already know that it is not a constant, but relative.) This will have the effect rather catastrophically of altering everything in reality immediately, and triggering the eventual collapse of the universe, as the end result of the current cycle of expansion.
If the universe is as ordered and logical as we have thus far witnessed, it seems to be likely anyway.
How about making INTERESTING predictions. Who really cares that Sun is dieing and will continue, along with AOL, Intel, and eventually Apple and MS? This is all common law to anyone who has any FOSS experience. Tell us something we actually care about. Like more details on why wimax is still 12 months out. What the killer app for wimax is anyway, and who's going to release a truly encrypted system to handle p2p, which WILL happen eventually, and really show all this RIAA stuff for exactly what it is: Ridiculous, backwards thinking nonsense by people who still haven't caught up with the realities of living in the modern age.
Here's my predictions:
Somebody (Dell, HP, A new firm that will kick their ass) releases Ubuntu prebundled on super cheap laptops, with all the applications that people need pre installed. This company makes huge strides in the market as WINE improves and even San Andreas starts running on a cheap plentiful laptop that makes Ubuntu upiquitous.
Paul continues to throw chairs, Steve continues to make money by selling old ideas with about 10% more quality control than the competition, and Bill continues to look philanthropical, even though he's clearly the landlord baron of our times.
Slashdot improves it's editing.
Wikipedia invalidates pretty much every other encyclopedia, if they haven't already.
Jesus comes back and smacks GWB in the face with a libel lawsuit.
Jules Verne is one example of somebody who did pretty damn well. I'm sure there are others. I do agree to some extent though that any "foresight" is kind of pointless, since our species seems more reactive that proactive, in general and individually.
What kind of foods might, ""Activate the Keap1/Nrf2 Pathway for Neuroprotection by Electrophilic Phase II Inducers." Or what kind of food has phase II inducers? What are we humans not getting enough of in our diet that inhibits us from destroying enough glutamate? Or is there something IN our diet that simply produces too much? These are more relevant and interesting questions to me.
hard working honest family types? Like Fiddy Cent and Puff Daddy? I mean, technically they have families and probably work hard, but really, stealing from those thugs makes me feel like Robin Hood.
Every time a friend of mine has a problem with a dell, I reformat it and fail to include all the preinstalled garbage that dell foisted on them from the get go. Every time the friend is astonished that their computer actually works now, can play games, run other software etc., and over all feels like "A brand new computer!!!".
I explain it to everyone all the time. Dell and other companies that install their garbage should jump on the clue train and only install a fresh clean install of windows, and maybe firefox so that people don't get virii as easily.
The average user doesn't NEED symantec etc. if they are just trained properly or even half-ass on firefox.
Um, Ok, how bout this, Adam Sandler, is like in love with some girl, but then it turns out, that the girl is actually a golden retriever, or something.
No matter WHAT. You plain can't see any flash with adblock on, no matter that the flash content is not blocked. Torturous for people buried in flash constructions...
There are still a couple of significant gaps in the FOSS world. I try to keep really good tabs on what's available and how it stacks up to the competition, and here's my current list of software that is not FOSS that I'd still like to replace, but haven't found a good replacement for yet:
Winamp I've tried a dozen other players. Winamp is still king. Get us something that can run milk drop and has as good of sound, and an identical interface. You really still can't get better than winamp, though I do give a cute nod to foobar and zinf for trying to get it going.
Nero There is still no dvd/cd app that is FOSS that is even in the same world of ease and quality as nero. This is probably the biggest single thing keeping my computer tainted with non FOSS. How hard can it be? I just want to drag and drop files to burn CDs and DVDs at the highest speed possible without making coasters. If anyone's got a suggestion, let me know.
Sibelius For music notation it is vastly superior to any other commercial or FOSS alternative. It's really a shame to see all music composers tied to incompatible proprietary formats too. Somebody should really help us with this, and yes, I've tried Lillypond, and it just sucks compared to Sibelius. Not every composer is also a programmer.
Vsampler For using a midi keyboard and soundfonts, I actually hate this program, but it's all I've found that "just works" albeit with a torturous interface that takes hours to coax into usability. This kind of software would be a no-brainer to replace with a quick little FOSS app that just loaded a list of soundfonts and then hooked them up to the keyboard. Just throwing the idea around for any of you geeks that lack any street cred at the moment.
Adaware It just works, when a lot of other stuff doesn't. Clamwin is really promising these days, though, albeit it's primary function is slightly different.
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Truth be told, until this runs on linux, I'll probably always have a windows partition stowed around somewhere.
Other than that my PC is completely FOSS, and I'm ecstatic. Besides FOSS software in general being more reliable, more resource efficient, more ergonomic and free, it's success and development are not tied to a financial model, which makes it future proof, and I don't have to relearn to use new programs every few years. I see this as the biggest benefit. Having been working on and around computers for 2 decades, it's really amazing how many different apps I've had to relearn as some new company takes the crown in their market from somebody else. I don't see this happening to any of these programs, which in general I already like as much or better than their commercial counterparts:
Nvu Abiword Shareaza The Gimp Audacity Firefox Thunderbird VLC Media Player Classic Ghostscript/Ghostwrite Gaim (can't wait for 2.0 and google talk integration, WOO HOO!!! On a side note, Sean's a real nice guy.) K-Lite codec pak (not really sure it's open source, but it's got real alternative quicktime alternative, mpc, and most of the codecs you need to open stuff right out of the box, so to speak). Zsnes (the roms aren't open source, but this trumps 98% of the other quick little arcade games you can get for windows, now I wish they would use the standard gtk window or something instead of the hiddeous purple thing). 1964 (People are astounded to play Super Mario 64 in high def on my rig) Quake 2 Evolved (Death match at it's best!) Filezilla (though now I just use Nvu 99% of the time instead..)
Anyway, if I've got some gaps or there are some programs that truly are as good or better than that list of non FOSS crap, let me know.....
This is what I've been saying the whole time, and it's all a good thing. Puff daddy shouldn't be in business anyway, so any diminished sales for him and brittney are a good thing, while real artists like jazz singers and such get plenty of new listeners, even though the radio and mtv are too busy rehashing songs that everyone has heard a gajillion times. This is all a good thing.
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I just have to reply with a "here, here!" because I don't have mod points today. Fuck yes, you are exactly right. Fuck Sony, Apple, and all other corporations that would slow the progress of an entire species for small immediate capital gains. It's just embarrassing to be made of the same genes as these morons.
rhY
I'll show you my awesome web based feed aggregation tool, if you show me yours.
...Complete with awesome audio tape storage setup.
I wrote little basic games where the X has to avoid bouncing O's. Then I moved up to a TRS-80 (lovingly called the trash 80, and wrote games where an ASCII tank avoided bouncing O's, but also had the ability to shoot. I even wrote a long adventure game with dirty sequences, and got in trouble. 7.5 floppies forever baby!!!
rhY
PS I just put together a new machine (AMD x64, 1 gb ram, 6600gt, DVD burner, and x-fi soundcard). Technology has definitely moved along over the course of my short life. (Remember BBS? FIDOnet? LOL)
So I think there should be a program to resynthesize the "learned" words into the most exact average of any given way to say it. I'd love to hear the results, that would be fascinating.
Doing what you love is fine. If it's marketable. The real trick is becoming valuable to the market at what you love. As a musician, this is particularly true, however I'm quite sure it applies to any range of proffesions.
The other fact to consider is that currently (though I imagine automation, computers, and nanotech WILL change this eventually) there are some very marketable skills that I can't imagine ANYBODY loves. Garbage collection and waste recycling just two that come to mind, but I could name an almost infinite list. Everyone here seen "The Office" for instance?
rhY
Seriously FreeNet does not work. Somebody fix this, or provide an encryption system for Shareaza or something!
rhY
As a webmaster, if someone has a problem with my site(s), I tell them to switch to Firefox. Then I ask them if they still get ice from a vendor for an icebox, or if they prefer the wonders of electrified refrigeration. Just me being a prick like that I'm sure has changed a couple of people over.
I'm tired of being "nice" to IE users. Call a retard a retard, and maybe they'll want to change, or maybe they'll get all huffy and leave. Either way, eventually nobody is gonna use the icebox and vendor anymore.
rhY
Well they are both usable. It's just not worth the extra time, and lag for most people. I didn't mean to compare their current usability to each other, so much as to the usability and actual use that people are doing, or would do given the sacrifices.
rhY
I love the IDEA of Tor. I also love the idea of FreeNet. Neither one seems to work at all well (or quickly) in their current iterations however. Until these things are solved, for most people the trade-offs are just not worth it. Especially when so much is achievable under the mere guise of the millions of people involved. Until the RIAA hires MILLIONS of lawyers to sue MILLIONS of customers per year, people won't mind thumbing their nose at them and playing the numbers game. The same is CERTAINLY true for surfing and IM.
rhY
I am not a physicist, but, it seems obvious to me that every action has an observable reaction in this universe, and that all things naturally observed are a cycle:
Therefore:
As the universe continues to expand, eventually Entropy will slow down measurably (perhaps not for many millenia, who can say how time works relevant to our current reality? We already know that it is not a constant, but relative.) This will have the effect rather catastrophically of altering everything in reality immediately, and triggering the eventual collapse of the universe, as the end result of the current cycle of expansion.
If the universe is as ordered and logical as we have thus far witnessed, it seems to be likely anyway.
rhY
How about making INTERESTING predictions. Who really cares that Sun is dieing and will continue, along with AOL, Intel, and eventually Apple and MS? This is all common law to anyone who has any FOSS experience. Tell us something we actually care about. Like more details on why wimax is still 12 months out. What the killer app for wimax is anyway, and who's going to release a truly encrypted system to handle p2p, which WILL happen eventually, and really show all this RIAA stuff for exactly what it is: Ridiculous, backwards thinking nonsense by people who still haven't caught up with the realities of living in the modern age.
Here's my predictions:
Somebody (Dell, HP, A new firm that will kick their ass) releases Ubuntu prebundled on super cheap laptops, with all the applications that people need pre installed. This company makes huge strides in the market as WINE improves and even San Andreas starts running on a cheap plentiful laptop that makes Ubuntu upiquitous.
Paul continues to throw chairs, Steve continues to make money by selling old ideas with about 10% more quality control than the competition, and Bill continues to look philanthropical, even though he's clearly the landlord baron of our times.
Slashdot improves it's editing.
Wikipedia invalidates pretty much every other encyclopedia, if they haven't already.
Jesus comes back and smacks GWB in the face with a libel lawsuit.
rhY
Jules Verne is one example of somebody who did pretty damn well. I'm sure there are others. I do agree to some extent though that any "foresight" is kind of pointless, since our species seems more reactive that proactive, in general and individually.
So I did a little more research and they seem to suggest turmeric and green tea. I'm half way there, now pass the curry!
rhY
What kind of foods might, ""Activate the Keap1/Nrf2 Pathway for Neuroprotection by Electrophilic Phase II Inducers." Or what kind of food has phase II inducers? What are we humans not getting enough of in our diet that inhibits us from destroying enough glutamate? Or is there something IN our diet that simply produces too much? These are more relevant and interesting questions to me.
rhY
But will it play San Andreas?
hard working honest family types? Like Fiddy Cent and Puff Daddy? I mean, technically they have families and probably work hard, but really, stealing from those thugs makes me feel like Robin Hood.
rhY
Every time a friend of mine has a problem with a dell, I reformat it and fail to include all the preinstalled garbage that dell foisted on them from the get go. Every time the friend is astonished that their computer actually works now, can play games, run other software etc., and over all feels like "A brand new computer!!!".
I explain it to everyone all the time. Dell and other companies that install their garbage should jump on the clue train and only install a fresh clean install of windows, and maybe firefox so that people don't get virii as easily.
The average user doesn't NEED symantec etc. if they are just trained properly or even half-ass on firefox.
rhY
It's called the Awesome-O 4000:
Um, Ok, how bout this, Adam Sandler, is like in love with some girl, but then it turns out, that the girl is actually a golden retriever, or something.
I do not think this word means what you think it means.
You mean MS declares financial war on yet another 3rd world country.....
No matter WHAT. You plain can't see any flash with adblock on, no matter that the flash content is not blocked. Torturous for people buried in flash constructions...
rhY
These ideas are all a part of my presidential campaign for 2012.
http://www.leperkhanz.com/president
Enjoy
10 print "hello"
20 goto 10
Watch how fast that shit runs!
There are still a couple of significant gaps in the FOSS world. I try to keep really good tabs on what's available and how it stacks up to the competition, and here's my current list of software that is not FOSS that I'd still like to replace, but haven't found a good replacement for yet:
Winamp I've tried a dozen other players. Winamp is still king. Get us something that can run milk drop and has as good of sound, and an identical interface. You really still can't get better than winamp, though I do give a cute nod to foobar and zinf for trying to get it going.
Nero There is still no dvd/cd app that is FOSS that is even in the same world of ease and quality as nero. This is probably the biggest single thing keeping my computer tainted with non FOSS. How hard can it be? I just want to drag and drop files to burn CDs and DVDs at the highest speed possible without making coasters. If anyone's got a suggestion, let me know.
Sibelius For music notation it is vastly superior to any other commercial or FOSS alternative. It's really a shame to see all music composers tied to incompatible proprietary formats too. Somebody should really help us with this, and yes, I've tried Lillypond, and it just sucks compared to Sibelius. Not every composer is also a programmer.
Vsampler For using a midi keyboard and soundfonts, I actually hate this program, but it's all I've found that "just works" albeit with a torturous interface that takes hours to coax into usability. This kind of software would be a no-brainer to replace with a quick little FOSS app that just loaded a list of soundfonts and then hooked them up to the keyboard. Just throwing the idea around for any of you geeks that lack any street cred at the moment.
Adaware It just works, when a lot of other stuff doesn't. Clamwin is really promising these days, though, albeit it's primary function is slightly different.
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Truth be told, until this runs on linux, I'll probably always have a windows partition stowed around somewhere.
Other than that my PC is completely FOSS, and I'm ecstatic. Besides FOSS software in general being more reliable, more resource efficient, more ergonomic and free, it's success and development are not tied to a financial model, which makes it future proof, and I don't have to relearn to use new programs every few years. I see this as the biggest benefit. Having been working on and around computers for 2 decades, it's really amazing how many different apps I've had to relearn as some new company takes the crown in their market from somebody else. I don't see this happening to any of these programs, which in general I already like as much or better than their commercial counterparts:
Nvu
Abiword
Shareaza
The Gimp
Audacity
Firefox
Thunderbird
VLC
Media Player Classic
Ghostscript/Ghostwrite
Gaim (can't wait for 2.0 and google talk integration, WOO HOO!!! On a side note, Sean's a real nice guy.)
K-Lite codec pak (not really sure it's open source, but it's got real alternative quicktime alternative, mpc, and most of the codecs you need to open stuff right out of the box, so to speak).
Zsnes (the roms aren't open source, but this trumps 98% of the other quick little arcade games you can get for windows, now I wish they would use the standard gtk window or something instead of the hiddeous purple thing).
1964 (People are astounded to play Super Mario 64 in high def on my rig)
Quake 2 Evolved (Death match at it's best!)
Filezilla (though now I just use Nvu 99% of the time instead..)
Anyway, if I've got some gaps or there are some programs that truly are as good or better than that list of non FOSS crap, let me know.....
rhY
This is what I've been saying the whole time, and it's all a good thing. Puff daddy shouldn't be in business anyway, so any diminished sales for him and brittney are a good thing, while real artists like jazz singers and such get plenty of new listeners, even though the radio and mtv are too busy rehashing songs that everyone has heard a gajillion times. This is all a good thing.
rhY
www.leperkhanz.com