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I switched from slackware to SuSE a long time ago. around SuSE 6.1, so I guess you could say I "grew up" on SuSE and of course because its a Germant Distro KDE was the window manager of choise. This was because the non North American's weren't as caught up in the debate over wether it was politicaly correct to use the non-open Qt libary and therefore spent more time polishing.
On my new SuSE 8.1 tho I notice that the KDE is slow, sometime drifting off into LALA land, and sometimes not coming back I've had actual screen freezes that required pulling the plug and rebooting. Now that I've got a cable broadband connect it's time to do some serious updateing.
Gnome on the other hand seems to work a lot better for me does slowdown occasionaly but hasn't actualy frozen yet,(a lot of the slow downs seem to come from Mozilla and not realy Gnome) I miss the more familar KDE interface Gnome is very spartan in comparison.
One advantage I've really noticed is that Gnome bassed app run a lot better in KDE than KDE app run in Gnome. A good running KDE is a pretty good desktop I've notice that the look and feel of Windows XP seems to be the same as KDE 3, and of course everything in the KDE. I've noticed that when I'm on the wife Windows XP I start to do someting, and have to stop myself because the software isn't in there.
from the story. AquaPharm is keeping the identity of its MRSA-killing bacteria a closely guarded secret, and taken out patents on how they can be cultivated and used.
1 they are not patenting the bacteria, its identity is secret. therefore guess the bacteria and its yours legaly, steal the secret its not yours.
2 patents taken out cultivation, just use a different cultivation technic no problem.
3 patent taken out on use, probably no way around that one depending on for broad or narrow the patent is.
Aids has a cure it's death, that means AIDS is presently terminal. AIDS is also causative of death. Cold Sore are also terminal, but usualy doesn't cause death unless you have Aids also.
There are quite a few diseases that cause death more grusome than aids like Hepititis B, ever wonder why a Hepititus B vacination costs so much?
The main reason people don't understand Linux is, IMHO, the fact that every distribution does things differently from the other
Unfortunately I've gotten pretty good at "fixing" the Windows ME machine at work, now we gotten one Windows XP machine and everything I know about Windows ME don't mean squat in Windows XP the configuration interface differences between the two are much larger than the difference between two different linux distro's
Microsoft should simply build and distribute, for free, special versions of its software infected with destructive viruses
They don't need to really, I got the wife a new 'puter with WindowsXP on it, and the first thing it did was downloaded about 20 critical security related patches. Chinese with boot-legged Windows sure aren't likely to go to microsoft for patches. Even if they did require a password to get a patch down-loaded at a bit rate above a certain level say faster than 15KbS then "lose" the passwrd after so any down-loads and Email it to the Email used at registration scheme.
Kazaa, the chances of finding any software, images or music that isn't copyrighted is extremely low. My boss is a real KaZZaa fan so I jumped on a work machine that had it loaded, signed up and searched for some stuff to try. After finding some files that seemed amaturish by file names, I down loaded and looked at them, most were obivously illegal stuf and went to delete them and discoved that someone had already uploaded from the computer so I had become a NET act felon. there didn't seem to be anyway to tell if a file was copyrighted or not from the interface.
Excelent I wasn't sure if anyother person in the world understood that good and enjoyable are two seperate issues. There is a lot of music that is good that I don't like and music that I like that definately isn't good.
Curiously, most of the "country" music that I hear on the radio these days sounds just like the second rate rock music of the 1970s Often wondered what would happen if called the local country station and requested some Allman Bro's. or even better some Black Oak Arkansas.
Interesting this station country classics show on Sat/Sun mornings and its hosted by a DJ that's done the big-market rock/classic rock forever during the week and he plays more real country music than the country music DJ's play.
I believe music can at least partially be broken down mathematically, but that's just the underlying composition... not necessarily the tone, texture, or style of the vocals
Music is much more mathamatical than you would believe. Infact good musician usualy make good mathaticians and computer programmers. Breaking the mathematical rules is a sure way to make bad music, it'll sound odd. Of course just following the rules, at least the rules we know now make music that's a bit mechanical, a good artist has a feel for when to push a rule a little bit, maybe an off-key phrase or get a head of the beat a bit or lyrics about something not quite mainstream makes the music sound fresh.
I got a hunch that this analysis program is going to end up used more to "fingerprint" music to search for simular music so that they can persue copyright violation cases more readily.
Real cool expand it a little and after it was done analysing the "rules" of "good" music, use those rules to artificialy create more "good" music. The Labels could even get their software people involved and patent their own rules for "good" Music. Taken to the extreme, query a user at the website/computer terminal as to what they like in music. artists, individual songs ect.. and the by analysis Determine how an individual weighes the importance of a group of rules and use it to create custom "good" music for that individual complete with computer generated lyrics, voices, and instrumental tracts. Just think music with no creative talent to share profits with, the RIAA will love this. Of course interim methods would inclued humans for playing instruments and for vocals until the technology matures into a commercialy viable form.
liceince is given to use this post for art priori defnses of patent infringement for the above methods for when the Labels actualy do this.
I like radio a whole lot better back in the old days when they actualy played some bad music. No bad music also means no good music, it'll all be bland.
Yes we waged a war against Iraq for invading Kuwait, and yes we stopped because Iraq agreed to certain terms. Iraq has not met those terms so we are not starting a new war, we are continuing the exsisting war. Just because we gave them more than enough opertunity to comply doesn't mean we have to continue to wait.
What I really fear is when its over will the Iraqis ask us why we waited so long like the holocast survivers asking us why we didn't bomb the concetration camps durring WW II?
I don't need any "proof" of WMD, I've seen pictures of Iranian soldiers in a hospital with the skin peeling of their bodies and blisters the size of grapefruit because of Iraqi mustard gas attacks.This was back when Iraq was our "friend" because they were fighting the evil Iranians. If Saddam does this to fellow Muslums, what would he do to infidels like us?
Microsoft gets exclusive US Military contract for $700 Million". Dude the US Military runs on Microsoft software. Sure there is a dab of Linux or Solaris or IRIX in the training simulators and I think a lot of Army websites run on Mac servers here and there but the VAST majority of software used by the military is Microsoft. Weapons systems may have some oddball stuff as an embeded system but when the Gerneral gives an order, its typed out in Word and sent out through Outlook.
I think You got it slightly wrong, if you want the premium anti-spam bolcker its only $3.95 a month extra and includes a 30 Mb mailbox. The premium service works extreemly well because the same people selling the service are sending the SPAM. Imagine Robert De Niro in a TV ad saying "You want protection, We got Protection!
Microsoft in the past was very resonsive toward UCE sent by MSN and Hotmail accounts, and even if the spam wasn't sent by the actual MSN^Hotmail user but mearly for the benefit of one, the accounts were suspended very quickly.
That's probably why I thought very ammusing when I got a SPAM advertising some kind of a.NET thing being sold by Microsoft itself and could report it to them as SPAM. I've only gotten 1 real SPAm from Microsoft ever
Yah wonder how much of that 132 mil tha Sony records lost was because of fees paid to Sony Distributing? When the bands pay expenses there isn't too much incentive to collect bids from competitors, rather than another subsidiary of your parent company.
Reminds me of the old tube vs. transister debate, the oldsters always insisted that the tube type amp systems sounded better because the inevitable distortion that an amp inserts into the sound was more pleasing to the ear coming from tubes than from transistors. Eventualy as tube type equipment became more dificult to find the electronic mags started home-brew projects called tube heads, a tube type transistor pre-amp inserted into the audio stream to get that pleasing sound. A couple of 12AT6's are a lot easier to find than a couple of serious power amp tube that even the Rusians stoped making 20 years ago are.
The way I understand it if an IDE drive get a request for tracks 1,7,3,5,4 it reads 1, crosses six track to read 7, crosses four trqacks to read 3, crosses two trackes to read 5, the crosses one track to read 4 for a total of 13 tracks crossed.
on the other hand a SCSSI drive gets the same request and reads 1, crosses two to read 3 crosses one to read 4, crosses one track to read 5 and crosses two trackes to read 7 for a total of 6 tracks crossed.
the SCSSI disk using the elevator technique allways win when all other things are equal; and usualy the SCSSI disk is built with other advantages.
and patents only apply to commercial use anyways so be because I'm only using a $1459.00 program to balance my personal checkbook they can't touch me HAHA!
And more importantly, they'd end up losing money on the deal.
I don't get it if the x-box linux pays the same fee's as say EA pays, how would Microsoft loss money? Seriously the easiest way to kill X-box Linux is to license and sign and see if they have the balls to pay with the big boys. My freinds older brothers didn't want to play with us, the easiest way for 15 year olds to get rid of pesty 10 year olds is to hip check them into the boards like they were equals.
I really like to rake B.G. over the coals and such, just look at my sig, but that just doesn't sound like Bill Gates to me. Bill Gates is much smoother, in this interview he sounded all most spitefull. If that was B.G. I wonder what kind of abuse he endured to get himself to the point where he came accrost so testy. B.G. has been interviewed enough so that he'd know how to say those things but make them sound nice.
B.G and Microsoft et. al. maybe the evil coporate Satan incarnate, but you'd never know it from talking to them. My hookey meter is off the scale on this one. ( Sheesh I'm defending Bill Gates, who da thunk)
And this has nothing to do with the Columbia, the trash is in a totally different part of the atmosphere. I don't read it this way, firstly the junk isn't all in nice clean circlular orbits, lots get knocked into highly eliptical orbits and some starts out in highly eliptical polar orbits. Eventualy almost all will re-enter or escape, the stuff re-entering is coming down out of the safer junk-belt toward the travel belts. and lastly if the Columbia broke-up due to foriegn object impact, the impact may have occured quite a distance and time from where the break-up occured.
I think its time we reconsidered send living astronauts into space to do second rate science that's better accomlished by unmanned vehicles.
shuttle pilots need to be better trained in shuttle operation in general not just specific missions and have a way to fix things in orbit. Actualy I think it's time to hold some feet to the fire and start working on a next gerenation vehicle rather than having NASA and DOD argueing over spec's
A lot of the music I recomended to people were the bands that were basicaly local garage bands for me people like Segar and Nugent for example; basicaly Detroit area bands. Others recomended band to me from other area; sure some of it was great and some of it sucked. That's want I don't like about our modern mega-corperate entertainment industry, nothing's great and nothing suckes it's all kind of blah. A lot of kids today have a pretty eclectic music taste and are listening to some of the stuff I lestened to 30 years ago as well as new stuff; just the kind of people that would use such a service to get some of the out-of-print music
I spent christmas with my son in Hawaii and almost every building/home used solar for hot water heating. The water was reasonably hot even for someone not used to it, the only problem with it was forgetting to turn off the circulating pump at night resulting in no hot water in the morning, but I expect that a lot of the units are automated
Anyone who covers their building with solar cells right now is doing it more to make a statement than to get power.
When I first started using Linux it wasn't commercialy-viable but I saw it had potential. Sure I was concidered some kind of bizzaro geek for using it at the time but look at it now. No new technology is an instant commercial success and needs a few early-adopters who are able to look past the warts and spur continued developement until it's polished for greater consumption. Photovoltaics will never replace our present electric system, but they might allow a few less generating plants to be required.
at my workplace. We created a couple of "secret" shares on a server, and everyone dumps their pr0n & mp3s into the same repository Good move, now your workplace is condoning illegal file share and sexual harrassment.
>AOL is almost a complete Operating System
Well I don't know if its a complete but they like DirectPC have put a lot of programming effort to replicate things that Linux users have come to have taken for granted like proxying. I've always wondered why they didn't just build a box with an embeded app with linux all preconfigured to connect to their service? plug one end into the phone and the other end to the computer via ethernet and turn it on.
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I switched from slackware to SuSE a long time ago. around SuSE 6.1, so I guess you could say I "grew up" on SuSE and of course because its a Germant Distro KDE was the window manager of choise. This was because the non North American's weren't as caught up in the debate over wether it was politicaly correct to use the non-open Qt libary and therefore spent more time polishing.
On my new SuSE 8.1 tho I notice that the KDE is slow, sometime drifting off into LALA land, and sometimes not coming back I've had actual screen freezes that required pulling the plug and rebooting. Now that I've got a cable broadband connect it's time to do some serious updateing.
Gnome on the other hand seems to work a lot better for me does slowdown occasionaly but hasn't actualy frozen yet,(a lot of the slow downs seem to come from Mozilla and not realy Gnome) I miss the more familar KDE interface Gnome is very spartan in comparison.
One advantage I've really noticed is that Gnome bassed app run a lot better in KDE than KDE app run in Gnome. A good running KDE is a pretty good desktop I've notice that the look and feel of Windows XP seems to be the same as KDE 3, and of course everything in the KDE. I've noticed that when I'm on the wife Windows XP I start to do someting, and have to stop myself because the software isn't in there.
from the story. AquaPharm is keeping the identity of its MRSA-killing bacteria a closely guarded secret, and taken out patents on how they can be cultivated and used.
1 they are not patenting the bacteria, its identity is secret. therefore guess the bacteria and its yours legaly, steal the secret its not yours.
2 patents taken out cultivation, just use a different cultivation technic no problem.
3 patent taken out on use, probably no way around that one depending on for broad or narrow the patent is.
Aids has a cure it's death, that means AIDS is presently terminal. AIDS is also causative of death. Cold Sore are also terminal, but usualy doesn't cause death unless you have Aids also.
There are quite a few diseases that cause death more grusome than aids like Hepititis B, ever wonder why a Hepititus B vacination costs so much?
The main reason people don't understand Linux is, IMHO, the fact that every distribution does things differently from the other
Unfortunately I've gotten pretty good at "fixing" the Windows ME machine at work, now we gotten one Windows XP machine and everything I know about Windows ME don't mean squat in Windows XP the configuration interface differences between the two are much larger than the difference between two different linux distro's
Microsoft should simply build and distribute, for free, special versions of its software infected with destructive viruses
They don't need to really, I got the wife a new 'puter with WindowsXP on it, and the first thing it did was downloaded about 20 critical security related patches. Chinese with boot-legged Windows sure aren't likely to go to microsoft for patches. Even if they did require a password to get a patch down-loaded at a bit rate above a certain level say faster than 15KbS then "lose" the passwrd after so any down-loads and Email it to the Email used at registration scheme.
Kazaa, the chances of finding any software, images or music that isn't copyrighted is extremely low.
My boss is a real KaZZaa fan so I jumped on a work machine that had it loaded, signed up and searched for some stuff to try. After finding some files that seemed amaturish by file names, I down loaded and looked at them, most were obivously illegal stuf and went to delete them and discoved that someone had already uploaded from the computer so I had become a NET act felon. there didn't seem to be anyway to tell if a file was copyrighted or not from the interface.
Excelent I wasn't sure if anyother person in the world understood that good and enjoyable are two seperate issues. There is a lot of music that is good that I don't like and music that I like that definately isn't good.
Curiously, most of the "country" music that I hear on the radio these days sounds just like the second rate rock music of the 1970s
Often wondered what would happen if called the local country station and requested some Allman Bro's. or even better some Black Oak Arkansas.
Interesting this station country classics show on Sat/Sun mornings and its hosted by a DJ that's done the big-market rock/classic rock forever during the week and he plays more real country music than the country music DJ's play.
I believe music can at least partially be broken down mathematically, but that's just the underlying composition... not necessarily the tone, texture, or style of the vocals
Music is much more mathamatical than you would believe. Infact good musician usualy make good mathaticians and computer programmers. Breaking the mathematical rules is a sure way to make bad music, it'll sound odd. Of course just following the rules, at least the rules we know now make music that's a bit mechanical, a good artist has a feel for when to push a rule a little bit, maybe an off-key phrase or get a head of the beat a bit or lyrics about something not quite mainstream makes the music sound fresh.
I got a hunch that this analysis program is going to end up used more to "fingerprint" music to search for simular music so that they can persue copyright violation cases more readily.
Real cool expand it a little and after it was done analysing the "rules" of "good" music, use those rules to artificialy create more "good" music. The Labels could even get their software people involved and patent their own rules for "good" Music. Taken to the extreme, query a user at the website/computer terminal as to what they like in music. artists, individual songs ect.. and the by analysis Determine how an individual weighes the importance of a group of rules and use it to create custom "good" music for that individual complete with computer generated lyrics, voices, and instrumental tracts. Just think music with no creative talent to share profits with, the RIAA will love this. Of course interim methods would inclued humans for playing instruments and for vocals until the technology matures into a commercialy viable form.
liceince is given to use this post for art priori defnses of patent infringement for the above methods for when the Labels actualy do this.
I like radio a whole lot better back in the old days when they actualy played some bad music. No bad music also means no good music, it'll all be bland.
Yes we waged a war against Iraq for invading Kuwait, and yes we stopped because Iraq agreed to certain terms. Iraq has not met those terms so we are not starting a new war, we are continuing the exsisting war. Just because we gave them more than enough opertunity to comply doesn't mean we have to continue to wait.
What I really fear is when its over will the Iraqis ask us why we waited so long like the holocast survivers asking us why we didn't bomb the concetration camps durring WW II?
I don't need any "proof" of WMD, I've seen pictures of Iranian soldiers in a hospital with the skin peeling of their bodies and blisters the size of grapefruit because of Iraqi mustard gas attacks.This was back when Iraq was our "friend" because they were fighting the evil Iranians. If Saddam does this to fellow Muslums, what would he do to infidels like us?
Microsoft gets exclusive US Military contract for $700 Million". Dude the US Military runs on Microsoft software. Sure there is a dab of Linux or Solaris or IRIX in the training simulators and I think a lot of Army websites run on Mac servers here and there but the VAST majority of software used by the military is Microsoft. Weapons systems may have some oddball stuff as an embeded system but when the Gerneral gives an order, its typed out in Word and sent out through Outlook.
I think You got it slightly wrong, if you want the premium anti-spam bolcker its only $3.95 a month extra and includes a 30 Mb mailbox. The premium service works extreemly well because the same people selling the service are sending the SPAM.
Imagine Robert De Niro in a TV ad saying "You want protection, We got Protection!
Microsoft in the past was very resonsive toward UCE sent by MSN and Hotmail accounts, and even if the spam wasn't sent by the actual MSN^Hotmail user but mearly for the benefit of one, the accounts were suspended very quickly.
.NET thing being sold by Microsoft itself and could report it to them as SPAM. I've only gotten 1 real SPAm from Microsoft ever
That's probably why I thought very ammusing when I got a SPAM advertising some kind of a
Yah wonder how much of that 132 mil tha Sony records lost was because of fees paid to Sony Distributing? When the bands pay expenses there isn't too much incentive to collect bids from competitors, rather than another subsidiary of your parent company.
Reminds me of the old tube vs. transister debate, the oldsters always insisted that the tube type amp systems sounded better because the inevitable distortion that an amp inserts into the sound was more pleasing to the ear coming from tubes than from transistors. Eventualy as tube type equipment became more dificult to find the electronic mags started home-brew projects called tube heads, a tube type transistor pre-amp inserted into the audio stream to get that pleasing sound. A couple of 12AT6's are a lot easier to find than a couple of serious power amp tube that even the Rusians stoped making 20 years ago are.
The way I understand it if an IDE drive get a request for tracks 1,7,3,5,4 it reads 1, crosses six track to read 7, crosses four trqacks to read 3, crosses two trackes to read 5, the crosses one track to read 4 for a total of 13 tracks crossed.
on the other hand a SCSSI drive gets the same request and reads 1, crosses two to read 3 crosses one to read 4, crosses one track to read 5 and crosses two trackes to read 7 for a total of 6 tracks crossed.
the SCSSI disk using the elevator technique allways win when all other things are equal; and usualy the SCSSI disk is built with other advantages.
and patents only apply to commercial use anyways so be because I'm only using a $1459.00 program to balance my personal checkbook they can't touch me HAHA!
And more importantly, they'd end up losing money on the deal.
I don't get it if the x-box linux pays the same fee's as say EA pays, how would Microsoft loss money? Seriously the easiest way to kill X-box Linux is to license and sign and see if they have the balls to pay with the big boys. My freinds older brothers didn't want to play with us, the easiest way for 15 year olds to get rid of pesty 10 year olds is to hip check them into the boards like they were equals.
I really like to rake B.G. over the coals and such, just look at my sig, but that just doesn't sound like Bill Gates to me. Bill Gates is much smoother, in this interview he sounded all most spitefull. If that was B.G. I wonder what kind of abuse he endured to get himself to the point where he came accrost so testy. B.G. has been interviewed enough so that he'd know how to say those things but make them sound nice.
B.G and Microsoft et. al. maybe the evil coporate Satan incarnate, but you'd never know it from talking to them. My hookey meter is off the scale on this one. ( Sheesh I'm defending Bill Gates, who da thunk)
And this has nothing to do with the Columbia, the trash is in a totally different part of the atmosphere.
I don't read it this way, firstly the junk isn't all in nice clean circlular orbits, lots get knocked into highly eliptical orbits and some starts out in highly eliptical polar orbits. Eventualy almost all will re-enter or escape, the stuff re-entering is coming down out of the safer junk-belt toward the travel belts. and lastly if the Columbia broke-up due to foriegn object impact, the impact may have occured quite a distance and time from where the break-up occured.
I think its time we reconsidered send living astronauts into space to do second rate science that's better accomlished by unmanned vehicles.
shuttle pilots need to be better trained in shuttle operation in general not just specific missions and have a way to fix things in orbit. Actualy I think it's time to hold some feet to the fire and start working on a next gerenation vehicle rather than having NASA and DOD argueing over spec's
A lot of the music I recomended to people were the bands that were basicaly local garage bands for me people like Segar and Nugent for example; basicaly Detroit area bands. Others recomended band to me from other area; sure some of it was great and some of it sucked. That's want I don't like about our modern mega-corperate entertainment industry, nothing's great and nothing suckes it's all kind of blah. A lot of kids today have a pretty eclectic music taste and are listening to some of the stuff I lestened to 30 years ago as well as new stuff; just the kind of people that would use such a service to get some of the out-of-print music
I spent christmas with my son in Hawaii and almost every building/home used solar for hot water heating. The water was reasonably hot even for someone not used to it, the only problem with it was forgetting to turn off the circulating pump at night resulting in no hot water in the morning, but I expect that a lot of the units are automated
Anyone who covers their building with solar cells right now is doing it more to make a statement than to get power.
When I first started using Linux it wasn't commercialy-viable but I saw it had potential. Sure I was concidered some kind of bizzaro geek for using it at the time but look at it now. No new technology is an instant commercial success and needs a few early-adopters who are able to look past the warts and spur continued developement until it's polished for greater consumption. Photovoltaics will never replace our present electric system, but they might allow a few less generating plants to be required.
at my workplace. We created a couple of "secret" shares on a server, and everyone dumps their pr0n & mp3s into the same repository Good move, now your workplace is condoning illegal file share and sexual harrassment.
>AOL is almost a complete Operating System
Well I don't know if its a complete but they like DirectPC have put a lot of programming effort to replicate things that Linux users have come to have taken for granted like proxying. I've always wondered why they didn't just build a box with an embeded app with linux all preconfigured to connect to their service? plug one end into the phone and the other end to the computer via ethernet and turn it on.