Well, the message was primarily meant for artists in general. Really, I don't give a crap about Celine Dion, she sucks, and even if she was indie I still wouldn't buy her cd's or much less waste my bandwidth downloading a pirated mp3 of her music.
But there have been more and more grumblings from artists of nearly all music genres that the record labels view them as a commodity, and I'm sure some of you will say that technically they are, but the point is that (for most artists, maybe not Celine or Metallica) it's art, not business and art can't be 'manufactured' as a product.
Attention Celine Dion and all musicians: crashing your fans' computers is not a good business practice. No matter what your agent says.
The artists are pretty much powerless to this sort of underhanded behaviour, or so most of them think.
the warning should read: Attention musicians!!! Go for indie labels or produce your music yourself. Better profits, better control over YOUR work. You are not an indentured servant of the record labels!! Give your producer the finger! Go INDIE!
playing EQ gave him a tiny bit of happiness in an otherwise miserable existence.
While EQ, or any other game for that matter, can be a good stress reliever it can also be kinda stressful. So, it's hard to say whether playing the game was good or bad for his condition.
One thing is for sure, he most likely would have done the "eternal shutdown procedure" if he was playing EQ, Doom or even Pac-Man!
Most of the time, the reasons fans fail after using compressed air on them is that the dust and dirt either get blown into the bearing, or the fan is spun to an ultra-high speed past the bearing's rated speed, and the failure begins.
Yep, learned that one early on, now I hold the fan with my finger or a screwdriver before spraying air. I think it all comes down to dust being crammed into the bearings.
By the way, thanks for the tip. I think I'll try it out this weekend and see how high my annoyance threshold can get while f*cking around with that lock ring! I've dealt with those while working on cars, no sir, don't like 'em.
Speaking of which, it sounds a lot like repacking wheel bearings, but smaller and a lot less grease!
1. disassemble 1a. smash finger while disassembling 2. clean 2a. lose small parts while cleaning 3. re-assemble 3a. smash already swollen finger again while re-assembling. 4. pay mechanic to fix car while smashed fingers heal
With center-motor fans, after 3-4 months continuous usage the coils and bearings get clogged with dust/cigarette smoke/cat hair/etc. Eventually it slows the fan down, so all you need to do is blow the dust out with some compressed air, right? WRONG!
Every time I try to clean a case fan or cpu fan in this way it will fail completely within 5 days of cleaning. I don't know why, but at $15-20 a piece I just take the hit in the wallet and turn the other butt cheek:)
But, I suspect that with the motor on the outside, it won't be exposed to so much crap and might last a little longer.
An interesting side note: I finally got a motherboard that has cpu temp monitoring software and I've watched the temp gradually rise after a few months of use as the blades and motor collect all that crap I breathe on a daily basis!
Ok, smartass, so I left out the word 'bombs', you did see my reference to Fat Man and Little Boy, didn't you? Those were the names of the two BOMBS dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But, since you know all the facts, jackass, I guess I don't need to explain, do I? How can you say I came off as ignorant when you're merely pointing out a grammatical error? Or is it that you don't have anything important to say so you just look for faults?
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Commies ever dropped the Big One on NYC
Seriously, let's think about that for a sec...
We all pretty much know there would be widespread destruction, even if it were a relatively small bomb like Fat Man or Little Boy. But in light of the WTC tower collapse, imagine the entire area of NYC in the same ruins. If you were down in this bomb shelter and managed to survive both the explosion and the hundreds of buildings collapsing around you, would you even be able to get out.
And once you got out, think of all the debris, I mean an empty building being demolished on purpose is enough garbage, but then you'll have cars, buses, furniture, bodies, etc. Your average ICBM has a 5 - 6 megaton warhead, the two dropped over Japan were something like 50-60 kilotons, I expect even the the strongest building would be reduced to rubble.
The national guard would be completely helpless in any kind of rescue mission for survivors. And on top of all this, all you'd have to snack on would be some nasty crackers and sour candies! Of course, you could always resort to eating track rabbit like the homeless in the subways.
Of course, if you look purely at the numbers of astronauts killed versus the number that have lived, it's a far better ratio than flying in an airliner, driving a car, and possibly even better than walking down the street in a moderately crime ridden neighbourhood.
I'm not sure, but I think there is a fixed amount of money in the game. So, as people level up and hoard money, it would create a wider gap between the wealthy and the poor.
A Bolshevik revolution in Norrath, now that would be interesting!
Why the fuck did every second Voyager episode have to be in caves?!
Easier and cheaper to film a scene in a "cave" in a warehouse in Hollywood than to film a scene on the desert planet surface in the Badlands in Montana.
No. But you may be the only one who doesn't understand why everyone is upset with Taco's comment.
I'm up to speed on the whole "cheating is lying and lying is wrong" deal. I was just observing that a whole slew of/. readers started spouting off like Taco was implying that it's ok to cheat.
When someone is taking a CS course, or taking a job in the IT field for that matter, you need to be sure that the person has a firm grasp on the concepts being taught/used. So, naturally that should come first. But there are easier, more foolproof ways to find out if someone understands a particular concept and can exercise that knowledge.
It just seems that a program to "detect" cheating is probably fairly easy to bypass and is really a lazy method of teaching. But to really make the effort to teach a group of people and make sure they ALL understand the concept being taught requires one to think and work instead of spouting facts from a text book.
There may be several ways to code a particular program, but if your class consists of 30-40 people, there may not be 30-40 completely different ways to code that program.
It's like Napster, they weren't the ones actually ripping the tracks and distributing mp3's, but they were providing the method of distribution, so they were held responsible.
Still pretty disturbing that a rogue lawyer can act on an alleged copyright infringement without the consent of the copyright holder. The whole crayon/krayon thing is fringe anyway. Would I be violating a copyright by using the word "vindows" simply because it looks or sounds like "windows"
Besides, isn't the company name "Crayola", crayon is a dictionary term, right? I'm not sure, seeing as I haven't been keeping up with the whole "crayon" scene since 3rd or 4th grade.
Jeez, seems the law industry is full of scumbags no matter what country you're in!
One question, though... Why the hell is SuSE, or any other distribution for that matter, being held responsible? What about the developer of the individual app, Krayon? Not that I wish any harm to come to them by this scumbag Greedenheimer, or whatever his name is.
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Well, the message was primarily meant for artists in general. Really, I don't give a crap about Celine Dion, she sucks, and even if she was indie I still wouldn't buy her cd's or much less waste my bandwidth downloading a pirated mp3 of her music.
But there have been more and more grumblings from artists of nearly all music genres that the record labels view them as a commodity, and I'm sure some of you will say that technically they are, but the point is that (for most artists, maybe not Celine or Metallica) it's art, not business and art can't be 'manufactured' as a product.
Attention Celine Dion and all musicians: crashing your fans' computers is not a good business practice. No matter what your agent says.
The artists are pretty much powerless to this sort of underhanded behaviour, or so most of them think.
the warning should read:
Attention musicians!!! Go for indie labels or produce your music yourself. Better profits, better control over YOUR work. You are not an indentured servant of the record labels!! Give your producer the finger! Go INDIE!
to get up in front of a bunch of strangers and sound like a jackass?
playing EQ gave him a tiny bit of happiness in an otherwise miserable existence.
While EQ, or any other game for that matter, can be a good stress reliever it can also be kinda stressful. So, it's hard to say whether playing the game was good or bad for his condition.
One thing is for sure, he most likely would have done the "eternal shutdown procedure" if he was playing EQ, Doom or even Pac-Man!
Hmm, didn't know that. I thought Saturn V was LOX/LH2 all the way, my bad.
I was also under the impression that kerosine was too heavy for use in large rockets, i.e. large quantities of fuel > thrust.
Soviet progress before logic. Man, these guys were hard up. I mean, kerosene and LOX? On 30 engines!?!?!?
Most of the time, the reasons fans fail after using compressed air on them is that the dust and dirt either get blown into the bearing, or the fan is spun to an ultra-high speed past the bearing's rated speed, and the failure begins.
Yep, learned that one early on, now I hold the fan with my finger or a screwdriver before spraying air. I think it all comes down to dust being crammed into the bearings.
By the way, thanks for the tip. I think I'll try it out this weekend and see how high my annoyance threshold can get while f*cking around with that lock ring! I've dealt with those while working on cars, no sir, don't like 'em.
Speaking of which, it sounds a lot like repacking wheel bearings, but smaller and a lot less grease!
1. disassemble
1a. smash finger while disassembling
2. clean
2a. lose small parts while cleaning
3. re-assemble
3a. smash already swollen finger again while re-assembling.
4. pay mechanic to fix car while smashed fingers heal
With center-motor fans, after 3-4 months continuous usage the coils and bearings get clogged with dust/cigarette smoke/cat hair/etc.
:)
Eventually it slows the fan down, so all you need to do is blow the dust out with some compressed air, right? WRONG!
Every time I try to clean a case fan or cpu fan in this way it will fail completely within 5 days of cleaning. I don't know why, but at $15-20 a piece I just take the hit in the wallet and turn the other butt cheek
But, I suspect that with the motor on the outside, it won't be exposed to so much crap and might last a little longer.
An interesting side note: I finally got a motherboard that has cpu temp monitoring software and I've watched the temp gradually rise after a few months of use as the blades and motor collect all that crap I breathe on a daily basis!
That color just simply won't go with my new pumps!
where the younger Pete and Pit-stain race down the school hallways by pouring floor wax on themselves.
But seriously, how are the cops going to arrest people if they're covered in greased owl-shit?
Ok, smartass, so I left out the word 'bombs', you did see my reference to Fat Man and Little Boy, didn't you? Those were the names of the two BOMBS dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But, since you know all the facts, jackass, I guess I don't need to explain, do I? How can you say I came off as ignorant when you're merely pointing out a grammatical error? Or is it that you don't have anything important to say so you just look for faults?
Commies ever dropped the Big One on NYC
Seriously, let's think about that for a sec...
We all pretty much know there would be widespread destruction, even if it were a relatively small bomb like Fat Man or Little Boy. But in light of the WTC tower collapse, imagine the entire area of NYC in the same ruins. If you were down in this bomb shelter and managed to survive both the explosion and the hundreds of buildings collapsing around you, would you even be able to get out.
And once you got out, think of all the debris, I mean an empty building being demolished on purpose is enough garbage, but then you'll have cars, buses, furniture, bodies, etc. Your average ICBM has a 5 - 6 megaton warhead, the two dropped over Japan were something like 50-60 kilotons, I expect even the the strongest building would be reduced to rubble.
The national guard would be completely helpless in any kind of rescue mission for survivors. And on top of all this, all you'd have to snack on would be some nasty crackers and sour candies! Of course, you could always resort to eating track rabbit like the homeless in the subways.
I don't think we need to make it any easier to reporduce. We should be thinking of ways to reduce the population.
Can you say "soylent green"?
silicon? industrial lubricant?
Why not make a standardized protocol to handle IM traffic? Why does AOL have to "own" the protocol?
And for that matter, why are all of these big ass companies so freakin greedy? Don't they know they are just holding back progress?
Of course, if you look purely at the numbers of astronauts killed versus the number that have lived, it's a far better ratio than flying in an airliner, driving a car, and possibly even better than walking down the street in a moderately crime ridden neighbourhood.
I'm not sure, but I think there is a fixed amount of money in the game. So, as people level up and hoard money, it would create a wider gap between the wealthy and the poor.
A Bolshevik revolution in Norrath, now that would be interesting!
Damn, and I was just about to spoof-bid his car!
His critics claim that he is driving away any chance of a significant economy
If he drives the chance of a significant economy to my neck of the woods, it's ok by me!
Why the fuck did every second Voyager episode have to be in caves?!
Easier and cheaper to film a scene in a "cave" in a warehouse in Hollywood than to film a scene on the desert planet surface in the Badlands in Montana.
Maybe something like the mobile construction site vehicles in C&C Red Alert.
No. But you may be the only one who doesn't understand why everyone is upset with Taco's comment.
/. readers started spouting off like Taco was implying that it's ok to cheat.
I'm up to speed on the whole "cheating is lying and lying is wrong" deal. I was just observing that a whole slew of
When someone is taking a CS course, or taking a job in the IT field for that matter, you need to be sure that the person has a firm grasp on the concepts being taught/used. So, naturally that should come first. But there are easier, more foolproof ways to find out if someone understands a particular concept and can exercise that knowledge.
It just seems that a program to "detect" cheating is probably fairly easy to bypass and is really a lazy method of teaching. But to really make the effort to teach a group of people and make sure they ALL understand the concept being taught requires one to think and work instead of spouting facts from a text book.
There may be several ways to code a particular program, but if your class consists of 30-40 people, there may not be 30-40 completely different ways to code that program.
Am I the only one that recognized Taco's "real world" comment as sarcasm?
Ahh, I understand...
It's like Napster, they weren't the ones actually ripping the tracks and distributing mp3's, but they were providing the method of distribution, so they were held responsible.
Still pretty disturbing that a rogue lawyer can act on an alleged copyright infringement without the consent of the copyright holder. The whole crayon/krayon thing is fringe anyway. Would I be violating a copyright by using the word "vindows" simply because it looks or sounds like "windows"
Besides, isn't the company name "Crayola", crayon is a dictionary term, right? I'm not sure, seeing as I haven't been keeping up with the whole "crayon" scene since 3rd or 4th grade.
Jeez, seems the law industry is full of scumbags no matter what country you're in!
One question, though... Why the hell is SuSE, or any other distribution for that matter, being held responsible? What about the developer of the individual app, Krayon? Not that I wish any harm to come to them by this scumbag Greedenheimer, or whatever his name is.