Hmm. One of the things I hate about my Fender is the weight, so perhaps the MusicMan isn't a great choice. I've also looked at the Carvin - how bad is it, weight-wise? I know they list the weight in the catalog, but two instruments weighing the same can feel radically different depending on their balance, so what's your opinion?
The main advantage is that Windows running under Win4Lin or VMWare is more stable. Well, not so much that it's more stable, as that if the Windows virtual machine crashes, Linux stays up.
Also, these tools let you migrate to Linux slowly while keeping your Windows apps available. You don't have to run the Windows session until you need the Windows app; the rest of the time you can use native Linux apps. In fact, you could run Linux and use its apps for email, web, whatever, use Wine to run some apps that work properly under Wine, and keep Win4Lin or VMWare as the 'last resort' tool to run a particularly picky Win app.
Cool. I've been thinking about ditching my Fender Jazz 5-string. I'll definitely check out the MusicMan basses. Do you have a 5? How are their B strings? The Fender's is flabby, and I'm tired of having to try to find string sets with ridiculously huge strings to try to overcome the lack of tone.
Perhaps Wine isn't the tool you are looking for. If you are wanting to migrate to Linux, and still be able to run the Macromedia apps, there are other solutions. Look into Win4Lin or VMWare. They're commercial, so you'll have to pay for them, and you'll need a licensed copy of Windows (which you apparently already have), but their compatibility is nearly flawless.
Unfortunately they don't integrate into Linux quite as tightly as Wine does, but you might be willing to make that small sacrifice to get the compatibility.
No, the Power Slinkys suck. The unwound strings are beefy, but the wound strings are smaller than in the Regular Slinkys (I think the P.S. low E is like a.046 or something). If you really want 'power', get the.010 -.052 set (I forget what their marketing name is). Easier to play lead on the high strings, better tone on the low strings.
Now if he had switched out of his own initiative, then this would never have happened, and this would be more of a triumph for OSS rather than it being seen as a company being essentially forced down the road.
True, except for two points: 1) It wouldn't have attracted nearly as much interest 2) The stories would have only been able to focus on the cost of the migration and the savings of the commercial software license fees - the cost of a BSA raid and absurd fines would not have been in the picture.
Other than Coors beer, all the commercial beers contain the same alcohol as a 3.2 beer.
Wrong! In some states, beers are limited to 3.2%, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Even in Alabama, I can go to the grocery store and buy A-B's Natural Ice, which is 5.9%. Of course, it tastes like ass, but that wasn't the point. Oh, and I can't go buy it today, because the stores can't sell alcohol on Sundays unless I drive to another county. But that wasn't the point either.
By the way, what would have made you think that Coors had some magical exemption to this imaginary 3.2% rule?
Ooh, and one which has all the destructive qualities of microwave technology, but this time, in the hands of children with still developing brains.
Oh, come now. Bluetooth is not powerful enough to have any detrimntal affects on the children. Look at meee, my Plam and cellfoan have Blootueth, and there'sss nottthiiingg wrng wittth miiy brane yeeet....
I have a T|T and a Nokia 6310i, and I am so glad I did *not* get an all-in-one device. I can leave one or the other behind. I can upgrade one without upgrading the other. I can play Bejeweled while talking on the phone. And, the pair cost less than a Treo*, which wouldn't be as good a PDA as the T|T or as good a phone as the Nokia.
* - I already had T-Mobile service, so no subsidies available on the Treo. Full retail price I'd have had to pay.
Last time I bought 50 blank CD's at Staples, they were $9.99, before the $10 rebate. So with the 8%sales tax, I paid $0.79 for the whole spindle. Beat that, ya hoser!
On the other hand, my HMO is giving me fits about paying for an $800 ER visit, so Canada looks pretty good in that regard.
This is exactly why you should all get your insurance IDs changed to a non-SSN based number. For their convenience most insurance companies use your SSN as all or most of your ID number. They are obligated to change this is you request it.
If you're doing this with your health insurance company, please do it before visiting the doctor and/or filing claims if possible. I have yet to see a healthcare system that doesn't use the member ID number directly to tie claims data to the member data - they're are all way too old to have a good RDBMS. So if, like us, your HMO had a contract programmer write the process that changes the member ID number in all the other data, there's always a possiblity of your data getting lost or corrupted.
Oh, and don't get mad at the customer service folks. They've probably just gotten off the phone with someone demanding that their boob job be covered. Honestly, it was a medical necessity!
That sucks. One more reason not to use DRM-encumbered files. If I set up a PC in the living room to play music, I want to be able to use a S/PDIF to my receiver and use its (far superior to my sound card) DACs. Folks with USB speakers are probably left out in the cold too, since that's digital.
The best solution I've found for this is Monkey's Audio. You can rip an album as an.ape and.cue combo (with Exact Audio Copy, which supports Monkey natively), then use Monkey's splitter to create.apl files (which are actually just 'pointers' to tracks within the big.ape file). Best of both worlds, you can listen to individual tracks or the whole album.
Oh, and it's lossless, so you can re-create the source CD exactly. I think something similar can be done with FLAC, but I haven't played with it enough to say for certain.
Now, if someone would create a music store with downloadable.apes, that would totally rock!
If your sound card has S/PDIF out and in, you could skip the DAC, 1/8" cable, and ADC parts of the process. Unless WMP somehow disables the digital outputs for DRM-protected files. Anyone know if that's the case?
ie and its competitors are not fully compatible. If something works in IE, it won't always work in other browsers.
If a web site is written to be standards-compliant, it will work in IE and Mozilla and Konqueror and Opera. It might not be pixel-by-pixel identical in all of them, but the functionality should be there.
IMHO it is much more likely to be: "OK, we have the IE functionality written, it is going to take XXX more hours to write functionality for netscape, and XXX hours for each after that. Of course 9x% of our potential users are using IE so is teh $$$$ really worth it? Nah"
Exactly. But that just shows that we shouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Had they started from the premise that the site should be standards-compliant HTML, they would not have written "IE functionality", they would have written good HTML, and IE as well as the other browsers would have worked by default.
Personally I am waiting for some to do something with MP3's. I don't like DRM, it's my music I can do what I want with it.
Have you tried EMusic? They don't carry the latest Top 40 crap-ola, but they do have lots of cool stuff. All the MP3s you want for $9.99/month. I typically grab several albums' worth a month, so it's well worth the money. Some of their stuff is 128k, some is higher quality (don't remember the bitrate off-hand).
Bull poop. In fact, that's a stupid idea. An ActiveX control running on the client can be hacked (in theory). They should be controlling access with server-side technologies. Then the client's web browser doesn't matter.
BUT... if you queue up all the individual tracks, will they play without any gaps in between? You can't listen to Floyd track-by-track, it needs to flow seamlessly from one end to the other. Well, you can have one gap in the middle, where you would have flipped the record over back in the day.
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Hmm. One of the things I hate about my Fender is the weight, so perhaps the MusicMan isn't a great choice. I've also looked at the Carvin - how bad is it, weight-wise? I know they list the weight in the catalog, but two instruments weighing the same can feel radically different depending on their balance, so what's your opinion?
The main advantage is that Windows running under Win4Lin or VMWare is more stable. Well, not so much that it's more stable, as that if the Windows virtual machine crashes, Linux stays up.
Also, these tools let you migrate to Linux slowly while keeping your Windows apps available. You don't have to run the Windows session until you need the Windows app; the rest of the time you can use native Linux apps. In fact, you could run Linux and use its apps for email, web, whatever, use Wine to run some apps that work properly under Wine, and keep Win4Lin or VMWare as the 'last resort' tool to run a particularly picky Win app.
Cool. I've been thinking about ditching my Fender Jazz 5-string. I'll definitely check out the MusicMan basses. Do you have a 5? How are their B strings? The Fender's is flabby, and I'm tired of having to try to find string sets with ridiculously huge strings to try to overcome the lack of tone.
Perhaps Wine isn't the tool you are looking for. If you are wanting to migrate to Linux, and still be able to run the Macromedia apps, there are other solutions. Look into Win4Lin or VMWare. They're commercial, so you'll have to pay for them, and you'll need a licensed copy of Windows (which you apparently already have), but their compatibility is nearly flawless.
Unfortunately they don't integrate into Linux quite as tightly as Wine does, but you might be willing to make that small sacrifice to get the compatibility.
No, the Power Slinkys suck. The unwound strings are beefy, but the wound strings are smaller than in the Regular Slinkys (I think the P.S. low E is like a .046 or something). If you really want 'power', get the .010 - .052 set (I forget what their marketing name is). Easier to play lead on the high strings, better tone on the low strings.
Now if he had switched out of his own initiative, then this would never have happened, and this would be more of a triumph for OSS rather than it being seen as a company being essentially forced down the road.
True, except for two points:
1) It wouldn't have attracted nearly as much interest
2) The stories would have only been able to focus on the cost of the migration and the savings of the commercial software license fees - the cost of a BSA raid and absurd fines would not have been in the picture.
they can audit you at the request of a disgruntled employee (avoid gruntling your employees! :) )
No, avoid disgruntling your employees. The gruntled ones don't turn you in!
it's about the same as consuming a pound or two (0.5-1kg) of pot. Not likely to happen with recreational use.
Hah! You must not hang around with musicians. Especially drummers.
Other than Coors beer, all the commercial beers contain the same alcohol as a 3.2 beer.
Wrong! In some states, beers are limited to 3.2%, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Even in Alabama, I can go to the grocery store and buy A-B's Natural Ice, which is 5.9%. Of course, it tastes like ass, but that wasn't the point. Oh, and I can't go buy it today, because the stores can't sell alcohol on Sundays unless I drive to another county. But that wasn't the point either.
By the way, what would have made you think that Coors had some magical exemption to this imaginary 3.2% rule?
Ooh, and one which has all the destructive qualities of microwave technology, but this time, in the hands of children with still developing brains.
Oh, come now. Bluetooth is not powerful enough to have any detrimntal affects on the children. Look at meee, my Plam and cellfoan have Blootueth, and there'sss nottthiiingg wrng wittth miiy brane yeeet....
I have a T|T and a Nokia 6310i, and I am so glad I did *not* get an all-in-one device. I can leave one or the other behind. I can upgrade one without upgrading the other. I can play Bejeweled while talking on the phone. And, the pair cost less than a Treo*, which wouldn't be as good a PDA as the T|T or as good a phone as the Nokia.
* - I already had T-Mobile service, so no subsidies available on the Treo. Full retail price I'd have had to pay.
How do they do that? I thought in England, the electrons went on the left side of the wire!
Last time I bought 50 blank CD's at Staples, they were $9.99, before the $10 rebate. So with the 8%sales tax, I paid $0.79 for the whole spindle. Beat that, ya hoser!
On the other hand, my HMO is giving me fits about paying for an $800 ER visit, so Canada looks pretty good in that regard.
Nah, just s/ia//. it's easier that way.
You'd better buy a share of Exxon or BP to go with that!
This is exactly why you should all get your insurance IDs changed to a non-SSN based number. For their convenience most insurance companies use your SSN as all or most of your ID number. They are obligated to change this is you request it.
If you're doing this with your health insurance company, please do it before visiting the doctor and/or filing claims if possible. I have yet to see a healthcare system that doesn't use the member ID number directly to tie claims data to the member data - they're are all way too old to have a good RDBMS. So if, like us, your HMO had a contract programmer write the process that changes the member ID number in all the other data, there's always a possiblity of your data getting lost or corrupted.
Oh, and don't get mad at the customer service folks. They've probably just gotten off the phone with someone demanding that their boob job be covered. Honestly, it was a medical necessity!
That sucks. One more reason not to use DRM-encumbered files. If I set up a PC in the living room to play music, I want to be able to use a S/PDIF to my receiver and use its (far superior to my sound card) DACs. Folks with USB speakers are probably left out in the cold too, since that's digital.
Or maybe "Doom ]|[: When Hell freezes over"
They could borrow some of the ice and snow textures from that god-awful South Park game.
How quickly you guys all forgot Catacomb Abyss and its cutting-edge EGA graphics!
The best solution I've found for this is Monkey's Audio. You can rip an album as an .ape and .cue combo (with Exact Audio Copy, which supports Monkey natively), then use Monkey's splitter to create .apl files (which are actually just 'pointers' to tracks within the big .ape file). Best of both worlds, you can listen to individual tracks or the whole album.
.apes, that would totally rock!
Oh, and it's lossless, so you can re-create the source CD exactly. I think something similar can be done with FLAC, but I haven't played with it enough to say for certain.
Now, if someone would create a music store with downloadable
If your sound card has S/PDIF out and in, you could skip the DAC, 1/8" cable, and ADC parts of the process. Unless WMP somehow disables the digital outputs for DRM-protected files. Anyone know if that's the case?
ie and its competitors are not fully compatible. If something works in IE, it won't always work in other browsers.
If a web site is written to be standards-compliant, it will work in IE and Mozilla and Konqueror and Opera. It might not be pixel-by-pixel identical in all of them, but the functionality should be there.
IMHO it is much more likely to be: "OK, we have the IE functionality written, it is going to take XXX more hours to write functionality for netscape, and XXX hours for each after that. Of course 9x% of our potential users are using IE so is teh $$$$ really worth it? Nah"
Exactly. But that just shows that we shouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Had they started from the premise that the site should be standards-compliant HTML, they would not have written "IE functionality", they would have written good HTML, and IE as well as the other browsers would have worked by default.
Personally I am waiting for some to do something with MP3's. I don't like DRM, it's my music I can do what I want with it.
Have you tried EMusic? They don't carry the latest Top 40 crap-ola, but they do have lots of cool stuff. All the MP3s you want for $9.99/month. I typically grab several albums' worth a month, so it's well worth the money. Some of their stuff is 128k, some is higher quality (don't remember the bitrate off-hand).
Bull poop. In fact, that's a stupid idea. An ActiveX control running on the client can be hacked (in theory). They should be controlling access with server-side technologies. Then the client's web browser doesn't matter.
BUT... if you queue up all the individual tracks, will they play without any gaps in between? You can't listen to Floyd track-by-track, it needs to flow seamlessly from one end to the other. Well, you can have one gap in the middle, where you would have flipped the record over back in the day.