I'm sure the companies can't fight these new tricks forever, they should embrace it:-).Like have their own Napster/Gnutella/whatever servers, where you can find all their cds, and you can download it for a very very low fee (not 1$ per song). Or you can pay some low subscription fee. They have to implement this, I really don't think there is any other way they can make good money on music. I know there are similar things out there already, but they key points are: much less than $1 per song, no timing-out, liquid-audio whatever screwy format, and not just the few demo tracks, but the good stuff, and not from noname artists, but music that is available on napster. ZD
Oh, thanks, didn't know that. you see I'm a Windows 98 / 2000 user, but they want to lure me into using their distro, they should not make it cumbersome to transfer files between them. If you say that I will be able to make ppp work on the system, I just need some work on it, then I will reinstall it:-). I was able to setup/ connect to the modem with Kppp but after dialing, the terminal windows says CONNECT38000 and right after that it crashes. Anyway, if that starts to work, it is a usable system, even for us dummies. Oh yeah, I have to stop this thing saying that fucking.wav after booting. Balazs
I tried both, I can confirm that the install for Corel is very easy IF it can work with your videocard / monitor. Otherwise you will have problems. But after installation I liked it. The way they put together the desktop, it just feels solid. The menu items are arranged in a logical way, it's not just some afterthought, they created the desktop layout, buttons, etc very well. Stromix - I really hated it. When you bootup the system, it plays some fucking wave file on the pc speaker, it is totally unneccessary and annoying. But I blew my top when I found out that I can't mount a FAT filesystem, and I cannot recompile to enable it.
I think just about any online forum, be that an audiophile newsgroup, cooking mailinglist, or knitting irc forum is full of these flamewars. The only difference with slashdot,is that you get to read cool news. If ESR would like to represent any online community the way he does with OpenSource (like a spokesperson for the Sewing Grannies Online) he would get just about the same amount of flame. It's simple, most people are stupid bastards. Zed
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I'm sure the companies can't fight these new tricks forever, they should embrace it:-).Like have their own Napster/Gnutella/whatever servers, where you can find all their cds, and you can download it for a very very low fee (not 1$ per song). Or you can pay some low subscription fee. They have to implement this, I really don't think there is any other way they can make good money on music. I know there are similar things out there already, but they key points are: much less than $1 per song, no timing-out, liquid-audio whatever screwy format, and not just the few demo tracks, but the good stuff, and not from noname artists, but music that is available on napster. ZD
Oh, thanks, didn't know that. you see I'm a Windows 98 / 2000 user, but they want to lure me into using their distro, they should not make it cumbersome to transfer files between them. If you say that I will be able to make ppp work on the system, I just need some work on it, then I will reinstall it:-). I was able to setup/ connect to the modem with Kppp but after dialing, the terminal windows says CONNECT38000 and right after that it crashes. Anyway, if that starts to work, it is a usable system, even for us dummies. Oh yeah, I have to stop this thing saying that fucking .wav after booting. Balazs
I tried both, I can confirm that the install for Corel is very easy IF it can work with your videocard / monitor. Otherwise you will have problems. But after installation I liked it. The way they put together the desktop, it just feels solid. The menu items are arranged in a logical way, it's not just some afterthought, they created the desktop layout, buttons, etc very well. Stromix - I really hated it. When you bootup the system, it plays some fucking wave file on the pc speaker, it is totally unneccessary and annoying. But I blew my top when I found out that I can't mount a FAT filesystem, and I cannot recompile to enable it.
Still works, I picked random 3 bigbig websites, haven't changed a thing though, it's too easy. Zed
I had the problem, now it is fixed. It's some other glitch, apparently. Zed
I think just about any online forum, be that an audiophile newsgroup, cooking mailinglist, or knitting irc forum is full of these flamewars. The only difference with slashdot,is that you get to read cool news. If ESR would like to represent any online community the way he does with OpenSource (like a spokesperson for the Sewing Grannies Online) he would get just about the same amount of flame. It's simple, most people are stupid bastards. Zed