I don't know much about the physics of such things, but I read an article once arguing that such cordoning off of parts of the spectrum for different radio stations is unnecessary and counter-productive (this was about FM radio, not the rest of that stuff).
It basically said that radio receivers are dumb and will pick up everything on a certain frequency, so nobody else can broadcast on that frequency. It likened that to something programmed to find a person in a green shirt in New York City, so that person was the only one who was allowed to wear a green shirt.
The argument was that such things can be done better digitally, where the receiver picks up only those transmissions that "match" the station being listened to, and ignores others on the same frequency. Apparently the risk of physical interference with radio waves is much too small to be a problem.
Yeah, that's the bad thing about all this RIAA press, nobody's really sure what's considered fair use anymore.
I would say that kids bringing in CDs and ripping them to the computer lab's drive for in-lab listening would be under fair use. It'd be like a kid borrowing a friend's CD for a car trip, even though the music is on the friend's computer. They're not taking a copy for themselves to keep, they're just listening to it while they're in the lab (or in the car).
The original poster doesn't say if those kids can then burn those songs to their CDs and take them home, thus creating a giant P2P network where everyone in the lab gets a copy of everyone else's CDs. I would say that would be infringement.
I've been playing SWG for a couple weeks now (I know, newbie), and my biggest complaint would have to be the lack of a "larger" atmosphere. When I play, I don't feel like a small covert rebel pawn in a giant ongoing civil war between Rebels and Imperials. I just feel like a fish-eyed guy running around killing butterflies.
While yes, WWII Online sucked (graphics, stability, realism v. playability), it had that mid-war atmosphere. Every time you logged on, you got a map showing front lines, enemy & allied positions, mission rosters, etc. On their website they had constantly-updated strategic maps, a constant news feed about which cities were being contested by which groups, etc.
SWG doesn't really have that. It just feels kind of... empty. Of course, I am a wet-footed newbie, so maybe I'll find my strategic stride.
I guess from what you're saying is that you want a parsing & validating browser. AFAIK, the closest thing to that is the W3C's Amaya browser, and that's almost painful to use.
It would be cool if Mozilla had a "strict" mode, though.
That's what projects like LSB and FHS are for. Theoretically, if your distribution complies with these standards, a standards-compliant package will integrate beautifully into your system.
But that day is still a long way off, it seems. Right now, at least, I think our collective job is to be vocal to our various distributions that LSB/FHS compliance is important to us, and that if it doesn't agree, some other distro does.
"So, if you are writing a.NET application you are best advised to use GTK# - this is true even if you are writing a program meant for Windows..."
But won't your app just look like a GTK app, not a Win32 app? I despise things made with GTK on Windows, simply because they don't blend in to the look-and-feel I'm used to.
Java can re-use native widgets, so Java apps are becoming less of a problem.
"Andrews hasn't upgraded his PC from Windows 98 or Office 2000. 'I'd just as soon have a stable operating system--my time is more important.'"
It's an interview with another individual, illustrating the unwillingness to go through the hassle of upgrading when the current system is adequate.
"I have to reboot every morning and it takes 10 minutes? Duh. You're using 98."
10 minutes is an exaggeration used to make a point, and is perfectly acceptable. The time to save work, close applications, reboot, and get back to where you were before could well take several minutes. Oh, and he's using Office 2003, which doesn't run on Windows 98.
"Or how about Wal-mart putting out a PC with Sun Linux?"
"If I can download the music and burn it to a CD for only a few cents, why would I buy a CD?"
Less work: just go down to the cd shop and pick up a copy
Longevity: hard drives fail, cd-rs die, CDs (arguably) last longer and are of higher quality
Art: you don't get the album art, a nice cd, and an insert when you burn; you just get a cd-r with the title scrawled across it with a Sharpie (or, at best, a stick-on printable label)
Extras: some CDs come with keys that let you log in and unlock live tracks, extra download, ticket discounts, etc.
Good vibes: some feel better picking up an official CD then downloading 10 tracks and burning them; they actually have something of value
Quality: most music you can download online is in a lossy format; you don't get the same quality you do with a CD
Legality: you support the artist (if only just a few pennies on the dollar) and you add to his/her popularity; you vote with your wallet for that artist
Freedom: no DRM, and it's still legal
So maybe some of those reasons are crap. I listed a lot, though.
Dude, I saw Kill Bill Vol. 1 for the first time a couple months ago, and I loved it. So I bought the soundtrack because I dug the music. I'd see it again in a heartbeat.
Check out Star Wars Galaxies. You can sell your copy, but it wouldn't do anybody any good, because the cd-key is permanently tied to your station.com account.
The only way around it is if Sony/LucasArts sold keys without the media, but they don't. I guess you could sell your entire account, but that would be idiotic.
"And debian is the only distro which in my experience does the upgrade of existing systems right."
Yeah, definitely, although Gentoo is still better, at least for like-to-stay-current desktop users. Who wants to wait for the next full release to get an updated official Mozilla package, anyway?
Not trying to start a flame war or anything, I just thought I'd point these out.
"With Gentoo I'd be afraid to even start installing unless I had another computer open beside the target machine so I could tentatively proceed one step at a time."
That's true, although you don't need another computer. The manual's on the CD, just switch VTs and open it in links.
"After all, it could probably boot into a graphical or menu driven installer just like other dists, but with the difference that it additionally builds some packages instead of copying the binaries."
Although I did notice that when I installed Firefox 0.8 on Windows XP and set it to be the default browser, it re-associated all my image files as well. And I can't figure out how to re-associate them, save going deep into Windows' file types preferences and doing it manually.
Come on guys, this is the kind of thing everybody hates Real for.
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I don't know much about the physics of such things, but I read an article once arguing that such cordoning off of parts of the spectrum for different radio stations is unnecessary and counter-productive (this was about FM radio, not the rest of that stuff).
It basically said that radio receivers are dumb and will pick up everything on a certain frequency, so nobody else can broadcast on that frequency. It likened that to something programmed to find a person in a green shirt in New York City, so that person was the only one who was allowed to wear a green shirt.
The argument was that such things can be done better digitally, where the receiver picks up only those transmissions that "match" the station being listened to, and ignores others on the same frequency. Apparently the risk of physical interference with radio waves is much too small to be a problem.
Just a thought.
"...leading to crime and babies."
It's funny how "crime" and "babies" have the same inflection in that sentence.
Yeah, that's the bad thing about all this RIAA press, nobody's really sure what's considered fair use anymore.
I would say that kids bringing in CDs and ripping them to the computer lab's drive for in-lab listening would be under fair use. It'd be like a kid borrowing a friend's CD for a car trip, even though the music is on the friend's computer. They're not taking a copy for themselves to keep, they're just listening to it while they're in the lab (or in the car).
The original poster doesn't say if those kids can then burn those songs to their CDs and take them home, thus creating a giant P2P network where everyone in the lab gets a copy of everyone else's CDs. I would say that would be infringement.
I've been playing SWG for a couple weeks now (I know, newbie), and my biggest complaint would have to be the lack of a "larger" atmosphere. When I play, I don't feel like a small covert rebel pawn in a giant ongoing civil war between Rebels and Imperials. I just feel like a fish-eyed guy running around killing butterflies.
While yes, WWII Online sucked (graphics, stability, realism v. playability), it had that mid-war atmosphere. Every time you logged on, you got a map showing front lines, enemy & allied positions, mission rosters, etc. On their website they had constantly-updated strategic maps, a constant news feed about which cities were being contested by which groups, etc.
SWG doesn't really have that. It just feels kind of... empty. Of course, I am a wet-footed newbie, so maybe I'll find my strategic stride.
I guess from what you're saying is that you want a parsing & validating browser. AFAIK, the closest thing to that is the W3C's Amaya browser, and that's almost painful to use.
It would be cool if Mozilla had a "strict" mode, though.
This is a great feature, but it's not limited to Opera (on Linux, anyway). Galeon (every time) and Epiphany (on a crash) do it too.
That's what projects like LSB and FHS are for. Theoretically, if your distribution complies with these standards, a standards-compliant package will integrate beautifully into your system.
But that day is still a long way off, it seems. Right now, at least, I think our collective job is to be vocal to our various distributions that LSB/FHS compliance is important to us, and that if it doesn't agree, some other distro does.
There, since everyone was complaining, I created a list of commercial Linux games.
Enjoy.
"So, if you are writing a .NET application you are best advised to use GTK# - this is true even if you are writing a program meant for Windows..."
But won't your app just look like a GTK app, not a Win32 app? I despise things made with GTK on Windows, simply because they don't blend in to the look-and-feel I'm used to.
Java can re-use native widgets, so Java apps are becoming less of a problem.
If you use a browser that an import and export Netscape-style bookmarks, you can use Yahoo! Bookmarks to sync.
"I stayed with Windows 98 for its stability?
"Andrews hasn't upgraded his PC from Windows 98 or Office 2000. 'I'd just as soon have a stable operating system--my time is more important.'"
It's an interview with another individual, illustrating the unwillingness to go through the hassle of upgrading when the current system is adequate.
"I have to reboot every morning and it takes 10 minutes? Duh. You're using 98."
10 minutes is an exaggeration used to make a point, and is perfectly acceptable. The time to save work, close applications, reboot, and get back to where you were before could well take several minutes. Oh, and he's using Office 2003, which doesn't run on Windows 98.
"Or how about Wal-mart putting out a PC with Sun Linux?"
Sun Java Desktop Systems
Any more examples of points "supported by... B.S."?
So maybe some of those reasons are crap. I listed a lot, though.
I'll back you up on this one. I thought he meant "they" too.
Dude, I saw Kill Bill Vol. 1 for the first time a couple months ago, and I loved it. So I bought the soundtrack because I dug the music. I'd see it again in a heartbeat.
"school me like a noob"
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new (slightly humorous) figure of speech (but only if you don't say the entire "b").
Check out Star Wars Galaxies. You can sell your copy, but it wouldn't do anybody any good, because the cd-key is permanently tied to your station.com account.
The only way around it is if Sony/LucasArts sold keys without the media, but they don't. I guess you could sell your entire account, but that would be idiotic.
"And debian is the only distro which in my experience does the upgrade of existing systems right."
Yeah, definitely, although Gentoo is still better, at least for like-to-stay-current desktop users. Who wants to wait for the next full release to get an updated official Mozilla package, anyway?
Even Linspire has that part right.
I think people are trying to get you to give us an example of a card with available specs.
If it's obsolete and unusable for modern applications, then it doesn't matter how available the specs are.
Why does Slackware need its own GNOME? Or are they just Slack packages?
Not trying to start a flame war or anything, I just thought I'd point these out.
"With Gentoo I'd be afraid to even start installing unless I had another computer open beside the target machine so I could tentatively proceed one step at a time."
That's true, although you don't need another computer. The manual's on the CD, just switch VTs and open it in links.
"After all, it could probably boot into a graphical or menu driven installer just like other dists, but with the difference that it additionally builds some packages instead of copying the binaries."
It's being done: Gentoo Installer Project
"Citibank ... has a warning on their website about how IE might not render their site correctly because it (IE) is broken."
Where? Buried in their site, or in a popular, highly-visible location?
Or Windows' built-in automatic update client.
Taskbar auto-updater, perhaps?
Just a guess.
Although I did notice that when I installed Firefox 0.8 on Windows XP and set it to be the default browser, it re-associated all my image files as well. And I can't figure out how to re-associate them, save going deep into Windows' file types preferences and doing it manually.
Come on guys, this is the kind of thing everybody hates Real for.
Do we have an embeddable Mozilla? If not, why?