I have a question for you, I live in Dallas as well and have never been able to get the East/West Coast feeds from DirecTV because they offer locals here. I've begged many many times, but no luck. Do you have DTV, or is it another satellite service?
One of the primary benefits of Firefox given by it's users is the lack of pop ups. Lately I've been noticing more and more sites figuring out ways to get around this feature. Take suprnova.org for example, visit their page using Firefox and you get a pop up add. Does anyone know how sites like this are generating these pop ups? Is it only a matter of time until other sites catch on and the idea of a pop up blocker is history?
In an interview on the NPR show "Fresh Air", Matt Groening explained that when they created Krusty he was supposed to simply be a clown version of Homer. The irony being that Bart looked up to Krusty while having no respect for his father.
Groening went on to say that nobody really got the connection, so Krusty began to just take on a life of his own instead. You can listen to the archived shows on the NPR website.
Can someone tell me the origin of 'Hot Grits'? Seriously, I've always enjoyed Slashdot zeitgeist\fads and have seen 'Hot Grits' endure but can't place the origin.
Something everybody should keep in mind when dealing with other members of the open source community and/or world...
"For example, there was a period not long ago where much ado was made about the incredible enhancements to the KDE themes and icons while the HTML rendering engine was not yet bug-free. It seems these critics truly did not understand that the contributors working on the themes and icons have no greater ability to improve the Konqueror browser than, say, the critic does."
I enjoy the music from artists who "Get It" (tm). Artists who allow taping of their shows, and allow people distribute them via the internet.
Check out http://etree.org/, it's amazing. Countless hours of free, quality music, a typical show is ~1 GB
All of the artists that I download and listen to, are the same ones which I pay to go see in concert any time they are in town. This type of model completely bypasses the likes of the RIAA, but could be killed quite quickly with bandwidth caps.
Yes, and check out this quote towards the bottom of the article:
In contrast, current versions of the label-backed services, pressplay and MusicNet, wouldn't be affected. Their users only download music or stream it. And the services' restrictive plans would keep users well within bandwidth limitations.
What? So this won't affect users of the label backed services who "only download or stream it"?
The author seems to be attempting to assuage the records labels with this comment about their services. But I honestly don't see how "Their users only download" music is any different with respect to bandwidth consumption.
People will end up paying twice for their music indeed.
Proving to the record companies that paying $1 a song is a sucessful model doesn't seem like the consumer is going win in the end.
Say there are 12 songs in an album, so that's going to run $12 to download the whole thing. Maybe $4 to $5 savings from buying the CD in a store, but your not getting CD quality tracks, no jewel case and artwork, and if your harddrive crashes and burns, well you are SOL.
Not to mention, the artists are still getting screwed by going through the mega labels.
Now $1 per song directly from the artist, that would be a different story!
Your statements on fair use got me thinking about this concept from a different standpoint. Shouldn't the rules for fair use of content be determined by the author of said content?
Think about how the author of a piece of open source code gets to tell you what you can and/or can't do with the code via the license. If I compose a song, isn't it my right as the author to say what can be done with it?
If your answer is, "No, you can't restrict the freedoms of someone who acquires what you've produced through legitimate means" then why should I not be able to take a piece of GPL code, modify it, close the source, and sell it for profit without releasing my improvements?
The stories about "making the album available on the internet" are definitely being liberal with their definition of "freely available."
The album was available for a few months last fall, but you could only stream in in Quicktime directly from the site. Your technical skills had to way above average in order to "obtain" the album.
With some work, you could get a copy of the album. Or perhaps get it from a friend. But the copies that were floating around were in no way blessed by the band.
During their last tour, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) would tell people, "Yeah I know you all have found ways to get our album. But please buy it when it comes out."
Geesh, I've always heard what a backwards place College Station was. I guess that explains this email I recieved.
You have just received the "Aggie Virus"
As we don't have any programming experience, this virus works on the honor system. Please delete all the files from your hard drive and manually forward this virus to everyone on your mailing list.
Most Slashdotter's decry the AOL/TW bohemoth because of the monopolistic implications, I'm with you on that one, so don't flame me on this basis.
Just a thought related to an AOL client for Linux... Linux user's would never install the annoying AOL client on their box, but why not try to win the tech savvy Linux crowd over with an "AOL lite". $10 a month for your basic dial up essentials.
Yeah, it's not broadband. But remember that some of us either a.) can't afford broadband, or b.) can't get it. That's what our employer's pipes are for!;)
If the "reporters" like CmdrTaco can't be bother to check something so trivial before splattering such a sensationalistic item like a supermarket tabloid, then I see absolutely no sense in paying for the "service."
Poor Taco, getting bashed here for not taking the time to double check his facts. Gotta' take it easy on the engaged man, he doesn't have time for such things anymore.
It's all about china patterns, wedding invitations, caterers, formal wear, etc... etc... Hang in there big guy!! {*grin*}
You mentioned sound, which brings up another thing to think about when comparing a thin client to a lab PC.
College kids spend a lot of time in the lab working on their various projects (coding, case studies, etc.) CD drives are always nice to have because you can bring your CDRs and listen to your personal tunes, instead of the noise around you.
Definitely not a requirement, but creature comforts are always smiled upon.
It's also interesting that her user number is 570, and she's only posted two comments ever (both to this story).
I can totally picture the conversation between her and Taco years back when Slashdot was in it's infancy...
Him: "Come on please, it will be cool. Just sign up for an account on my website."
Her: "Fine, just quit bothering all of my friends to sign up for this 'Slashdot' thing."
I use Y! mail (free version), and I'm not really insterested in paying extra for more disc space which they offer as a premium service. But... if along with the extra disc space they gave you an advertisment free, and perhaps skinable interface, I would cough up the $$ in a second.
It's not like I need to look at an ad for a webcam or other things which I'm not interesreted in 25 times a day. You hear me Yahoo?? Inverse advertising, I'll pay you to make all of the garbage go away.
I wonder if they make more from advertisers by showing me ads that I don't care about than they would make it I just gave them ~ $45 yr.?
Slashdot Mirror
I have a question for you, I live in Dallas as well and have never been able to get the East/West Coast feeds from DirecTV because they offer locals here. I've begged many many times, but no luck. Do you have DTV, or is it another satellite service?
suprnova.org has a pop-up window that somehow gets around the Firefox pop-up blocker.
One of the primary benefits of Firefox given by it's users is the lack of pop ups. Lately I've been noticing more and more sites figuring out ways to get around this feature. Take suprnova.org for example, visit their page using Firefox and you get a pop up add. Does anyone know how sites like this are generating these pop ups? Is it only a matter of time until other sites catch on and the idea of a pop up blocker is history?
How come Homer and Krusty look like clones?
In an interview on the NPR show "Fresh Air", Matt Groening explained that when they created Krusty he was supposed to simply be a clown version of Homer. The irony being that Bart looked up to Krusty while having no respect for his father. Groening went on to say that nobody really got the connection, so Krusty began to just take on a life of his own instead. You can listen to the archived shows on the NPR website.
http://freshair.npr.org/
What would the spoiler be? You can't hear one word of what he says.
Sure they are.... Suse needed to raise the price to cover the ludicrous costs of having Robert Deniro as their spokesman.
a ge s/sld_banner.jpg
http://www.suse.com/en/business/products/sld/im
Can someone tell me the origin of 'Hot Grits'? Seriously, I've always enjoyed Slashdot zeitgeist\fads and have seen 'Hot Grits' endure but can't place the origin.
Thanks....
Sure. Just make sure those same minors don't:
... you get the point.
* Drive on the city streets
* Drink from the public water supply
* Play in the city parks
* Call 911 and expect someone to show up
Something everybody should keep in mind when dealing with other members of the open source community and/or world...
"For example, there was a period not long ago where much ado was made about the incredible enhancements to the KDE themes and icons while the HTML rendering engine was not yet bug-free. It seems these critics truly did not understand that the contributors working on the themes and icons have no greater ability to improve the Konqueror browser than, say, the critic does."
It's all about even distribution off talent...
The user comments at download.com make for a very entertaining read
Yes they do. Especially this insightful gem from Rob Malda - about 35 comments down.
"read the other comments"
they speak for themselves
Thanks for the tip Rob!! I almost forgot what I was doing while reading the comments.
Hell, I pull down 4-5 GB a week.
Illegal mp3's, software, or movies?? Not quite...
I enjoy the music from artists who "Get It" (tm). Artists who allow taping of their shows, and allow people distribute them via the internet.
Check out http://etree.org/, it's amazing. Countless hours of free, quality music, a typical show is ~1 GB
All of the artists that I download and listen to, are the same ones which I pay to go see in concert any time they are in town. This type of model completely bypasses the likes of the RIAA, but could be killed quite quickly with bandwidth caps.
Yes, and check out this quote towards the bottom of the article:
In contrast, current versions of the label-backed services, pressplay and MusicNet, wouldn't be affected. Their users only download music or stream it. And the services' restrictive plans would keep users well within bandwidth limitations.
What? So this won't affect users of the label backed services who "only download or stream it"?
The author seems to be attempting to assuage the records labels with this comment about their services. But I honestly don't see how "Their users only download" music is any different with respect to bandwidth consumption.
People will end up paying twice for their music indeed.
Proving to the record companies that paying $1 a song is a sucessful model doesn't seem like the consumer is going win in the end.
Say there are 12 songs in an album, so that's going to run $12 to download the whole thing. Maybe $4 to $5 savings from buying the CD in a store, but your not getting CD quality tracks, no jewel case and artwork, and if your harddrive crashes and burns, well you are SOL.
Not to mention, the artists are still getting screwed by going through the mega labels.
Now $1 per song directly from the artist, that would be a different story!
Your statements on fair use got me thinking about this concept from a different standpoint. Shouldn't the rules for fair use of content be determined by the author of said content?
Think about how the author of a piece of open source code gets to tell you what you can and/or can't do with the code via the license. If I compose a song, isn't it my right as the author to say what can be done with it?
If your answer is, "No, you can't restrict the freedoms of someone who acquires what you've produced through legitimate means" then why should I not be able to take a piece of GPL code, modify it, close the source, and sell it for profit without releasing my improvements?
The stories about "making the album available on the internet" are definitely being liberal with their definition of "freely available."
The album was available for a few months last fall, but you could only stream in in Quicktime directly from the site. Your technical skills had to way above average in order to "obtain" the album.
With some work, you could get a copy of the album. Or perhaps get it from a friend. But the copies that were floating around were in no way blessed by the band.
During their last tour, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) would tell people, "Yeah I know you all have found ways to get our album. But please buy it when it comes out."
Surely out of the 20,000+ people in attendence last weekend in Pelham, some were Slashdotters. Maybe....?
Well if you were there, I bet the phrase "Bridge not designed for pedestrians dancing" brought back the fear of death for you.
If you weren't there, this isn't offtopic. Seriously.
Geesh, I've always heard what a backwards place College Station was. I guess that explains this email I recieved.
You have just received the "Aggie Virus"
As we don't have any programming experience, this virus works on
the honor system. Please delete all the files from your hard drive
and manually forward this virus to everyone on your mailing list.
Thanks for your cooperation,
Texas A & M Computer Engineering Dept
Most Slashdotter's decry the AOL/TW bohemoth because of the monopolistic implications, I'm with you on that one, so don't flame me on this basis.
;)
Just a thought related to an AOL client for Linux... Linux user's would never install the annoying AOL client on their box, but why not try to win the tech savvy Linux crowd over with an "AOL lite". $10 a month for your basic dial up essentials.
Yeah, it's not broadband. But remember that some of us either a.) can't afford broadband, or b.) can't get it. That's what our employer's pipes are for!
If the "reporters" like CmdrTaco can't be bother to check something so trivial before splattering such a sensationalistic item like a supermarket tabloid, then I see absolutely no sense in paying for the "service."
Poor Taco, getting bashed here for not taking the time to double check his facts. Gotta' take it easy on the engaged man, he doesn't have time for such things anymore.
It's all about china patterns, wedding invitations, caterers, formal wear, etc... etc... Hang in there big guy!! {*grin*}
You mentioned sound, which brings up another thing to think about when comparing a thin client to a lab PC.
College kids spend a lot of time in the lab working on their various projects (coding, case studies, etc.) CD drives are always nice to have because you can bring your CDRs and listen to your personal tunes, instead of the noise around you.
Definitely not a requirement, but creature comforts are always smiled upon.
And if you did get your hands on the code, what would you do with it?"
Well something about Mordor and The Cracks of Doom keeps coming to mind.
It's also interesting that her user number is 570, and she's only posted two comments ever (both to this story).
I can totally picture the conversation between her and Taco years back when Slashdot was in it's infancy...
Him: "Come on please, it will be cool. Just sign up for an account on my website."
Her: "Fine, just quit bothering all of my friends to sign up for this 'Slashdot' thing."
Seriously though, congrats y'all.
No kidding! Slightly offtopic but...
I use Y! mail (free version), and I'm not really insterested in paying extra for more disc space which they offer as a premium service. But... if along with the extra disc space they gave you an advertisment free, and perhaps skinable interface, I would cough up the $$ in a second.
It's not like I need to look at an ad for a webcam or other things which I'm not interesreted in 25 times a day. You hear me Yahoo?? Inverse advertising, I'll pay you to make all of the garbage go away.
I wonder if they make more from advertisers by showing me ads that I don't care about than they would make it I just gave them ~ $45 yr.?
A few posts have mentioned the idea of wiping your disks mutiple times to safely get rid of data.
For a more complete and viable explanation of this method check out the following paper published on this subject here
and i dont even think there is any cube database products in the opensource area...
Actually, Hyperion has been supporting Essbase on Red Hat since early last year. You can read the press release here
Performance (at least on the testing I've done) is comparable to the Solaris release, both outperforming NT/2000 by up to 20% on complex calc scripts.