Why would Apple design a 2 button mouse? Is that not insane? Wouldn't it make more sense to design at least a 3 button mouse with a wheel? What would really be gained by simply adding a second button?
In my opinion, yes. I have a 3 button logitech mouse with a scroll wheel, and it has worked flawlessly since the first time I plugged it in.
Aside from the lack of buttons and wheels, INMHO, I believe Apple has been downright stupid in their mice design for years. The hockey puck mice from the late 90s were a design nightmare. You could not easily tell tactilely or visually which way was up, literally. They were awkward to click, and just funny looking. To the left of me I have an "Apple Pro Mouse" that is a current offering from them. Someone gave it to me when I first got my powerbook, and its pretty horrible as well. Being that it is oblong, its easier to orient than the hockey puck guy, but instead of having 1, 2, or 3 buttons, they decided to have 0, and in some awkward motion your supposed to click with the whole forward half of the mouse. Another feature of this design is that the few times that I used it, it was not uncommon for the cable to get stuck underneath of the forward part that moved, and you could not click until you moved the cable away. Not to mention that none of the Apple mice have a scroll wheel. To be honest, I could care less about a scroll wheel. Scrolling by page either by the space bar or page up/down is fine, if not preferable at times. I use the scroll wheel because it is there under my finger, but I find it gets uncomfortable on my tendons with much use. The scroll thingy is handy for things like slashdot comment submission so that I can scroll down past the tacky ad while I'm trying to think and type.
What kills me about Apple's resistance for multibutton and scroll mice, is that they work so flawlessly and intuitively software wise in their OS. For example, the scroll wheel works very nicely in framed webpages. The right or secondary button is basically mapped to "Control+left click", which opens up a world of options. For example, if I right click on a downloaded item in the "Downloads" window in the Safari web browser, I have the options to open, show the file in the finder (file manager), copy the address or URL that the download came from (handy), and remove the download from the list. In GUI design, this is called "direct manipulation", like drag and drop, double clicking, etc. Its a good thing. I do wish that Apple would extend this further and add hooks to the context or "right click" menu in the finder like Windows does. Again, this adds to direct manipulation of the files. I love the fact that you can choose to enqueue a media file or play the file via the context menu in Windows. There is no such thing in Apple land.
Apple could get with the times and at least ship a multibuttion mouse, possibly with a scroll wheel, and simply have both buttons by default act as a normal "click" and the scroll wheel do nothing until the user changes the behavior in the preference panel. Its not that big of a deal, and it would work the same out of the box.
Apple gets a lot of grief here and I guess elsewhere for their 1970s or 1980s attitude towards mice design and usage, and I think they deserve every bit of it. Again, aside from design limitations in the finder, multibutton mice work flawlessly in the Mac OS. Having no official Apple hardware option whatsoever for this basic and time proven technology is stupid. However, Apple has held to their guns so long with their decision to keep the one button wonder alive, that an announcement from them to have multibutton will pretty much be taken as a joke by every computer user besides a current Mac user (if not them too).
Personally, I believe that they have waited so long, it really doesn't matter anymore. Its one of those things that Mac users have come to accept, and they simply know that they have to go to a 3rd party for a decent pointing device, and just put up with it when using someone else's Mac or a public machine.
What kind of torrents are allowed with this tracker?
- All torrents must have music related content.
- No torrent may distribute any official material. This includes, of course, OOP material and the separated audio part of VHS videos, Laserdisc videos, and DVD videos, too -- even if the recording is from a different source than the officially available material. Also not allowed are remixes/remasters of any officially available material and so called "bastard" mixes. One exception: The recording represents a complete show of which only minor parts are (or have been) officially available. In this case it's ok to keep those minor parts included to the recording. This applies not to compilations. No compilation may contain any officially available material!
- No torrent may distribute any material of artists respectively bands who do not agree to the electronic distribution of their inofficially recorded live shows. For a list of bands/artists see here.
- No torrent may distribute any lossy compressed music, i.e. MP3, VQF, OGG, so long as the material is known or expected to be available to the trading community in better quality.
- No torrent may contain compressed archive files, i.e. RAR, ZIP, GZ. For content allowed with this tracker it doesn't make much sense to pack it in compressed archives. Thus, we assume that the torrent uploader wants to hide impermissible content in case a torrent contains such files.
- No torrent may contain losseless compressed but platform dependent files like MKW. It's contra bonos mores of live music trading to exclude users of other platforms from the download!
- No torrent may contain uncompressed PCM audio files like WAV, AIFF. Including such files to a torrent is a huge waste of bandwidth -- both, on seeder's side and downloader's side.
- Microsoft Windows executables like EXE, COM are not allowed in a torrent because of the risk of carrying viruses.
- Torrents without a self-explanatory title or detailed description indicating the contents, as well as torrented data not containing an info-file in plain text format (file extensions.txt or.asc) with a content's description will be considered as contra bonos mores of live music trading and are not allowed on EZT.
If you are not sure if your torrent will adhere to these rules, please ask the moderators first. Torrents violating the rules or contra bonos mores of live music trading will be banned without further notice.
Etree.org welcomes lovers of all types of music. We support the discussion and trading of the highest quality recordings of: live performances;
by bands/performers that allow taping and trading;
in a lossless compression format.
Many bands are very clear in their support of taping and trading: Grateful Dead, Phish and Dave Matthews Band, for example, all have written policies on taping and trading. http://www.etree.org/thebands.html has information on many other taper-friendly bands. There are also links on that page to other information on bands that allow taping and trading. You may use the appropriate etree.org mailing list to discuss any band or performer that allows taping and trading.
Conversely, there are performers who are notoriously against taping and trading (Bob Dylan and Live, to name only two). You may not use the etree.org mailing lists to discuss such artists. Solicitations to exchange music by these artists are prohibited and will not be tolerated.
There will always be performers whose views on taping and trading are unknown, or unclear. If you would like to trade music by such a performer,
Read about the California Gold Rush, and mentally timeshift the dates and where appropriate substitute gold oriented things with computers.
The biggest difference between the two is that California was not settled at the time and it was most difficult to get basic necessities. Otherwise, same shit different day. People think they can get something for nothing.
I guess Tivo has an advantage if its having Linux inside of it makes you feel that much better, but as for me and my Motorola HDDVR provided from my cable company, the only possible feature that the Tivo has over my box is maybe the 30 sec skip function. But my box has 3 fast forward speeds, and accounts for reaction time when hitting play and its trivial to skip commercials. Even those that are not exactly 30 seconds long.
I can't really think of a single reason not to legalize pot.
The best "reason" is because its illegal. Actually, when you think about it most all of the "problems" associated with marijuana and other drugs all stem from them being illegal. However, so many jobs are dependent upon drugs being illegal. Think about it. Most of the legal system from defense and prosecuting lawyers, judges, law enforcement, DEA, and prison employees will have at least an 80% decrease in their needs. The thing that would suck would be the 80% or so of the inmates that are incarcerated due to drugs, and now having drugs be legal, and still have to serve their sentence. That would hurt.
"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Is there any form of an authoritative definition of internet addiction?
Yes. Its you. If you find that you cannot achieve other things in life that you want because you are online and you cannot stop being online, then there you go.
I'm not much into the word addiction personally, but it all centers around you and what you want.
Addiction is merely a manifestation of some kind of avoidance to some kind of personal problem.
Trust me, I know personally what I am talking about.
People don't get addicted to things that don't have a relatively short to immediate form of positive reinforcement. Its not that big of a deal until it becomes a big deal. If your able to be happy and eat and have a place to stay and MUD for 23 hours a day. Go for it. If there are other things that you want to do and achieve (hence unhappiness) then go for that.
I think "addiction"s are so blown out of proportion. So much effort is wasted treating the addiction, that the real problems never get addressed. Addictions are merely symptoms of problems. They are rarely ever serious problems except when one is physically in danger. Its common for people to have an addiction at some point of time in their lives. Even for the middle school girl that obsessively writes the boy's name that she is "going with" over and over again on her notebook. Its fairly normal.
If I have a 10MB gz file that gets downloaded a thousand times, that's 10GB transfer. I could also store an 8MB bz2 version of the same thing, and if half of the people get that one instead of the 10MB version, that's only 9GB transfer. Since storage is cheap versus transfer, and since my storage:transfer ratio is going to be low, it makes much more sense to "waste" some extra disk space to save myself as much bandwidth as possible. Also from a server-load point of view, I can serve 111 more files in the same amount of time if I make both available, since i'm essentially saving 10% of transfer time too.
I agree. I thought about that as I was typing my response, but my advice is to make available.zip's if the target is for windows or macs, a tar.gz for the other people.
Being that you cannot predict if anyone on this planet will even want to download your content, its premature to grobble about 2-10% savings in bandwidth. Also, if it becomes popular, then you should be able to find someone to help with the bandwidth. Its akin to that "premature optimization" quote.
If worse comes to worse, you could just dump the file on sourceforge. They seem to have OK bandwidth, and they don't even charge (for now). Thats what I do.
But stick to something sane like zip or gzip (or possibly bzip if your into it). Using 7zip, being that today is the first time I've heard of it, is pointless. There are more than enough compression types as it is, just pick one.
If this sort of thing is allowed to continue, how long before I can be convicted under some foreign dictatorship's censorship laws for something I said a thousand miles away?
The difference is that this is a civil matter between people, not a criminal matter between a government and a person.
If someone in Canada, Honduras, or anywhere else in the world publicly stated false information about me that caused me significant harm, I too would like the ability to be able to pursue those people.
There is something more rewarding about having an LP or a CD as opposed to pointing to a folder which represents a a few sectors of your hard drive...
Granted, there is value of a physical LP, but I would believe that fewer than 1% of the US population believes there is some kind of value to a CD.
For LPs, things are different. You have a large 12"x12" cover with good artwork. There are different colored vinyl releases. Typically, the quality of both the physical record and sleeve degrades with time and misuse, so older records that are in better shape have more value. Sometimes there are posters or other goodies in records.
CDs have none of these features. Most people I know don't even keep the cases and "artwork" that come with the CDs. They put the CDs in CD cases, and thats it. The only CDs that I know of that were tried to be collector items were the first issues of the Beatle's White Album where they stamped some number on them. I have not heard that these are any kind of collector item at all. I have seen an imported White Album from Russia that was on white vinyl that sold for $30 to $50 10 or 15 years ago, that was cool. Personally, I sold my While Album CD to someone when I was broke so that I could get some money to see the Grateful Dead.
I no longer own any vinyl. As far as a collector item, I think vinyl is cool. As far as a musical reproduction item, I think vinyl sucks. Yeah, there are arguments that vinyl can sound better than CD. I'll give you that much with no rebuttal. However, vinyl has so many things against it for playback, I don't find its worth the time or effort. Records do not fit into my car stereo, they do not fit in my boom box, they do not fit into my other portable items like a CD does. A record at most has like 25 or so minutes of music on one side before you have to physically get up off of the couch and flip the thing over. Want to skip a track on an album? Again you have to get off the couch and carefully lift the needle and go to the next track (yes, I know there are a minority of turntables that can almost always skip to the next track, I've owned one). Want to copy the record so that you can put it on your computer or another portable device or make a mix? Its not easy. At the very minimum it will take realtime to achieve the transcription to another medium. Vinyl and children do not mix.
I could probably give another half dozen or so reasons.
Don't get me wrong LPs are cool, and I love looking at someone's record collection and go to record shops and whatnot. I doubt I will ever love looking at someone's CD collection. I doubt that it was ever thought of with the advent of CDs that they were going to be basically worthless pieces of aluminum and plastic, but this has happened. I have probably bought maybe 5 CDs in the past 3 years. Most if not all of them were gifts for my father. I download live (legal) shows off of the internet and burn them to CD at a rate higher than I can afford disk space for. Sometimes I would like to have studio quality recordings for a change. But I cannot afford to buy CDs at my rate of appetite, nor is there enough material out there. I am much more likely to buy a music DVD than an audio CD. That is worth my time and money, and I get more value from it.
... increase the size of your storage to handle 2 or 3 of the more popular and widely available formats (zip, rar, tar.(gz|bz2)
That is amusing. I've thought about having a.sig that says "bzip2, saving disk space on servers by using twice the disk space". Yes, bzip2 is a better compressor, but is it really significant today? I rarely if ever come across bandwidth problems. Disk space on my end is cheap. Bandwidth on my end is cheap. In fact, I don't keep commonly available archives on my computer any more in any compression format. Odds are if I need the copy again, I can download and have it on my harddisk in less than 5 minutes either at home or work. Many times the copy will be updated and new and improved.
Back to the original question. It depends on the target audience. If its windows land predominately or even significantly use zip. If its pretty much a *NIX land, use tar.gz. But under no circumstances should you ever use stuffit. My god, that is the worst ever. I can't tell you how many times I've "unstuffed" something, and then spend a few minutes trying to find what came out of the archive. Its difficult to "take a peak" at a stuffit archive to see what is in there, blah, blah. That is one program that kept me off of macs for 10 or so years. Arggg.
Thats easy. Just click on my foe list. about 90% of them are willing to give you a free iPod after they get one first and you pay money (their version of free, not mine) and register for a bunch of spam and other marketing ploys (again, their version of free not mine), and then you are the low man in the pyramid and you have to then sucker others to be the new low people.
Yes, people, if you have a free anything in your sig that is not free, I will foe you and filter you just like I do with my email. I do not like nor do I support spam.
I have no experience with 3ware, but I've heard that they are not that great, and that they are basically software RAID that depends on the drivers to do the work for you. This is probably why the system is unresponsive during a large write.
OTOH, I have an Apple Xserve RAID that uses SATA drives with a fibre channel interface. In using it, I cannot tell its not a SCSI system.
It was the regular stuff. This was about a year ago, but hearing about the truncated downloads or just truncated files that is still going on is enough for me to not bother with them. Also, at the time you could only download 2 to 4 or so files at a time and you got emails when the encoding was done. I had to write a perl script to parse the emails and parallel download the files within their concurrent limit.
For me the whole experience wasn't significantly better than a normal p2p download. The only music I download is the really free stuff from bands that allow you to trade their music. The other stuff is simply too random to be worth my time, including allofmp3.com .
The only problems I've ever had with AllOfMp3 (I've gotten a lot of music from them) is some downloads chop off at the end.
That and mislabeled files as well.
I found that just as unacceptable as downloading the stuff elsewhere, and I quit using them after getting something like $20 worth of music. All in all I was disappointed with the service. I guess I'm in the minority, but I didn't think it was that great.
I've got one of these, and it does everything that the article mentions lacking in the products he used. I'm not sure if it goes weeks into the future with the guide, I've never tried. Oh, one thing it does not have is 30sec skip, but it has 3 or 4 levels of fast forward, and it accounts for human reaction time when hitting play. I always get exactly to the end of a commercial break, sometimes I get the last 5 or 10 secs of the commercial.
It has all of the Season Pass features of a Tivo, and all in all its a great device, plus its HD. Oh, it also has two tuners so I can watch and record a show at the same time. The equivalent media PC would cost much more than I pay for this device, and not be as good. A Tivo is close, but no HD. I was pleasantly surprised with this device.
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Why would Apple design a 2 button mouse? Is that not insane? Wouldn't it make more sense to design at least a 3 button mouse with a wheel? What would really be gained by simply adding a second button?
In my opinion, yes. I have a 3 button logitech mouse with a scroll wheel, and it has worked flawlessly since the first time I plugged it in.
Aside from the lack of buttons and wheels, INMHO, I believe Apple has been downright stupid in their mice design for years. The hockey puck mice from the late 90s were a design nightmare. You could not easily tell tactilely or visually which way was up, literally. They were awkward to click, and just funny looking. To the left of me I have an "Apple Pro Mouse" that is a current offering from them. Someone gave it to me when I first got my powerbook, and its pretty horrible as well. Being that it is oblong, its easier to orient than the hockey puck guy, but instead of having 1, 2, or 3 buttons, they decided to have 0, and in some awkward motion your supposed to click with the whole forward half of the mouse. Another feature of this design is that the few times that I used it, it was not uncommon for the cable to get stuck underneath of the forward part that moved, and you could not click until you moved the cable away. Not to mention that none of the Apple mice have a scroll wheel. To be honest, I could care less about a scroll wheel. Scrolling by page either by the space bar or page up/down is fine, if not preferable at times. I use the scroll wheel because it is there under my finger, but I find it gets uncomfortable on my tendons with much use. The scroll thingy is handy for things like slashdot comment submission so that I can scroll down past the tacky ad while I'm trying to think and type.
What kills me about Apple's resistance for multibutton and scroll mice, is that they work so flawlessly and intuitively software wise in their OS. For example, the scroll wheel works very nicely in framed webpages. The right or secondary button is basically mapped to "Control+left click", which opens up a world of options. For example, if I right click on a downloaded item in the "Downloads" window in the Safari web browser, I have the options to open, show the file in the finder (file manager), copy the address or URL that the download came from (handy), and remove the download from the list. In GUI design, this is called "direct manipulation", like drag and drop, double clicking, etc. Its a good thing. I do wish that Apple would extend this further and add hooks to the context or "right click" menu in the finder like Windows does. Again, this adds to direct manipulation of the files. I love the fact that you can choose to enqueue a media file or play the file via the context menu in Windows. There is no such thing in Apple land.
Apple could get with the times and at least ship a multibuttion mouse, possibly with a scroll wheel, and simply have both buttons by default act as a normal "click" and the scroll wheel do nothing until the user changes the behavior in the preference panel. Its not that big of a deal, and it would work the same out of the box.
Apple gets a lot of grief here and I guess elsewhere for their 1970s or 1980s attitude towards mice design and usage, and I think they deserve every bit of it. Again, aside from design limitations in the finder, multibutton mice work flawlessly in the Mac OS. Having no official Apple hardware option whatsoever for this basic and time proven technology is stupid. However, Apple has held to their guns so long with their decision to keep the one button wonder alive, that an announcement from them to have multibutton will pretty much be taken as a joke by every computer user besides a current Mac user (if not them too).
Personally, I believe that they have waited so long, it really doesn't matter anymore. Its one of those things that Mac users have come to accept, and they simply know that they have to go to a 3rd party for a decent pointing device, and just put up with it when using someone else's Mac or a public machine.
Software piracy is victimless theft.
So is taking $20 from someone's wallet if they don't notice.
A lot of that music is also illegeal.
.txt or .asc) with a content's description will be considered as contra bonos mores of live music trading and are not allowed on EZT.
I normally don't respond to an AC, but this is incorrect.
From http://www.easytree.org/extras-faq.php#faq6
What kind of torrents are allowed with this tracker?
- All torrents must have music related content.
- No torrent may distribute any official material. This includes, of course, OOP material and the separated audio part of VHS videos, Laserdisc videos, and DVD videos, too -- even if the recording is from a different source than the officially available material. Also not allowed are remixes/remasters of any officially available material and so called "bastard" mixes. One exception: The recording represents a complete show of which only minor parts are (or have been) officially available. In this case it's ok to keep those minor parts included to the recording. This applies not to compilations. No compilation may contain any officially available material!
- No torrent may distribute any material of artists respectively bands who do not agree to the electronic distribution of their inofficially recorded live shows. For a list of bands/artists see here.
- No torrent may distribute any lossy compressed music, i.e. MP3, VQF, OGG, so long as the material is known or expected to be available to the trading community in better quality.
- No torrent may contain compressed archive files, i.e. RAR, ZIP, GZ. For content allowed with this tracker it doesn't make much sense to pack it in compressed archives. Thus, we assume that the torrent uploader wants to hide impermissible content in case a torrent contains such files.
- No torrent may contain losseless compressed but platform dependent files like MKW. It's contra bonos mores of live music trading to exclude users of other platforms from the download!
- No torrent may contain uncompressed PCM audio files like WAV, AIFF. Including such files to a torrent is a huge waste of bandwidth -- both, on seeder's side and downloader's side.
- Microsoft Windows executables like EXE, COM are not allowed in a torrent because of the risk of carrying viruses.
- Torrents without a self-explanatory title or detailed description indicating the contents, as well as torrented data not containing an info-file in plain text format (file extensions
If you are not sure if your torrent will adhere to these rules, please ask the moderators first. Torrents violating the rules or contra bonos mores of live music trading will be banned without further notice.
And similarly for bt.etree.org:
From http://etree.org/legal.html
Etree.org welcomes lovers of all types of music. We support the discussion and trading of the highest quality recordings of:
live performances;
by bands/performers that allow taping and trading;
in a lossless compression format.
Many bands are very clear in their support of taping and trading: Grateful Dead, Phish and Dave Matthews Band, for example, all have written policies on taping and trading. http://www.etree.org/thebands.html has information on many other taper-friendly bands. There are also links on that page to other information on bands that allow taping and trading. You may use the appropriate etree.org mailing list to discuss any band or performer that allows taping and trading.
Conversely, there are performers who are notoriously against taping and trading (Bob Dylan and Live, to name only two). You may not use the etree.org mailing lists to discuss such artists. Solicitations to exchange music by these artists are prohibited and will not be tolerated.
There will always be performers whose views on taping and trading are unknown, or unclear. If you would like to trade music by such a performer,
I have one computer with a 10k RPM RAID-5 setup and another with twelve IDE drives.
Most people have 10 to 11 fewer drives than you do.
Read about the California Gold Rush, and mentally timeshift the dates and where appropriate substitute gold oriented things with computers.
The biggest difference between the two is that California was not settled at the time and it was most difficult to get basic necessities. Otherwise, same shit different day. People think they can get something for nothing.
...Cable has an advantage?
I guess Tivo has an advantage if its having Linux inside of it makes you feel that much better, but as for me and my Motorola HDDVR provided from my cable company, the only possible feature that the Tivo has over my box is maybe the 30 sec skip function. But my box has 3 fast forward speeds, and accounts for reaction time when hitting play and its trivial to skip commercials. Even those that are not exactly 30 seconds long.
I can't really think of a single reason not to legalize pot.
The best "reason" is because its illegal. Actually, when you think about it most all of the "problems" associated with marijuana and other drugs all stem from them being illegal. However, so many jobs are dependent upon drugs being illegal. Think about it. Most of the legal system from defense and prosecuting lawyers, judges, law enforcement, DEA, and prison employees will have at least an 80% decrease in their needs. The thing that would suck would be the 80% or so of the inmates that are incarcerated due to drugs, and now having drugs be legal, and still have to serve their sentence. That would hurt.
"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
-- Abraham Lincoln
Also worth checking out is http://www.drugwarfacts.org/
I don't know about you, but I'm taxed directly from my paycheck before I even receive it.
- Your camcorder
- MP3 player
- digital camera
- PDA
- Personal video player
- Personal tv
- Cellphone
Or, you could just take your:- Cellphone
Or you could just relax and enjoy nature for a change.Is there any form of an authoritative definition of internet addiction?
Yes. Its you. If you find that you cannot achieve other things in life that you want because you are online and you cannot stop being online, then there you go.
I'm not much into the word addiction personally, but it all centers around you and what you want.
Addiction is merely a manifestation of some kind of avoidance to some kind of personal problem.
Trust me, I know personally what I am talking about.
People don't get addicted to things that don't have a relatively short to immediate form of positive reinforcement. Its not that big of a deal until it becomes a big deal. If your able to be happy and eat and have a place to stay and MUD for 23 hours a day. Go for it. If there are other things that you want to do and achieve (hence unhappiness) then go for that.
I think "addiction"s are so blown out of proportion. So much effort is wasted treating the addiction, that the real problems never get addressed. Addictions are merely symptoms of problems. They are rarely ever serious problems except when one is physically in danger. Its common for people to have an addiction at some point of time in their lives. Even for the middle school girl that obsessively writes the boy's name that she is "going with" over and over again on her notebook. Its fairly normal.
If I have a 10MB gz file that gets downloaded a thousand times, that's 10GB transfer. I could also store an 8MB bz2 version of the same thing, and if half of the people get that one instead of the 10MB version, that's only 9GB transfer. Since storage is cheap versus transfer, and since my storage:transfer ratio is going to be low, it makes much more sense to "waste" some extra disk space to save myself as much bandwidth as possible. Also from a server-load point of view, I can serve 111 more files in the same amount of time if I make both available, since i'm essentially saving 10% of transfer time too.
.zip's if the target is for windows or macs, a tar.gz for the other people.
I agree. I thought about that as I was typing my response, but my advice is to make available
Being that you cannot predict if anyone on this planet will even want to download your content, its premature to grobble about 2-10% savings in bandwidth. Also, if it becomes popular, then you should be able to find someone to help with the bandwidth. Its akin to that "premature optimization" quote.
If worse comes to worse, you could just dump the file on sourceforge. They seem to have OK bandwidth, and they don't even charge (for now). Thats what I do.
But stick to something sane like zip or gzip (or possibly bzip if your into it). Using 7zip, being that today is the first time I've heard of it, is pointless. There are more than enough compression types as it is, just pick one.
If this sort of thing is allowed to continue, how long before I can be convicted under some foreign dictatorship's censorship laws for something I said a thousand miles away?
The difference is that this is a civil matter between people, not a criminal matter between a government and a person.
If someone in Canada, Honduras, or anywhere else in the world publicly stated false information about me that caused me significant harm, I too would like the ability to be able to pursue those people.
Wouldn't you?
There is something more rewarding about having an LP or a CD as opposed to pointing to a folder which represents a a few sectors of your hard drive...
Granted, there is value of a physical LP, but I would believe that fewer than 1% of the US population believes there is some kind of value to a CD.
For LPs, things are different. You have a large 12"x12" cover with good artwork. There are different colored vinyl releases. Typically, the quality of both the physical record and sleeve degrades with time and misuse, so older records that are in better shape have more value. Sometimes there are posters or other goodies in records.
CDs have none of these features. Most people I know don't even keep the cases and "artwork" that come with the CDs. They put the CDs in CD cases, and thats it. The only CDs that I know of that were tried to be collector items were the first issues of the Beatle's White Album where they stamped some number on them. I have not heard that these are any kind of collector item at all. I have seen an imported White Album from Russia that was on white vinyl that sold for $30 to $50 10 or 15 years ago, that was cool. Personally, I sold my While Album CD to someone when I was broke so that I could get some money to see the Grateful Dead.
I no longer own any vinyl. As far as a collector item, I think vinyl is cool. As far as a musical reproduction item, I think vinyl sucks. Yeah, there are arguments that vinyl can sound better than CD. I'll give you that much with no rebuttal. However, vinyl has so many things against it for playback, I don't find its worth the time or effort. Records do not fit into my car stereo, they do not fit in my boom box, they do not fit into my other portable items like a CD does. A record at most has like 25 or so minutes of music on one side before you have to physically get up off of the couch and flip the thing over. Want to skip a track on an album? Again you have to get off the couch and carefully lift the needle and go to the next track (yes, I know there are a minority of turntables that can almost always skip to the next track, I've owned one). Want to copy the record so that you can put it on your computer or another portable device or make a mix? Its not easy. At the very minimum it will take realtime to achieve the transcription to another medium. Vinyl and children do not mix.
I could probably give another half dozen or so reasons.
Don't get me wrong LPs are cool, and I love looking at someone's record collection and go to record shops and whatnot. I doubt I will ever love looking at someone's CD collection. I doubt that it was ever thought of with the advent of CDs that they were going to be basically worthless pieces of aluminum and plastic, but this has happened. I have probably bought maybe 5 CDs in the past 3 years. Most if not all of them were gifts for my father. I download live (legal) shows off of the internet and burn them to CD at a rate higher than I can afford disk space for. Sometimes I would like to have studio quality recordings for a change. But I cannot afford to buy CDs at my rate of appetite, nor is there enough material out there. I am much more likely to buy a music DVD than an audio CD. That is worth my time and money, and I get more value from it.
CDs are dead.
... increase the size of your storage to handle 2 or 3 of the more popular and widely available formats (zip, rar, tar.(gz|bz2)
.sig that says "bzip2, saving disk space on servers by using twice the disk space". Yes, bzip2 is a better compressor, but is it really significant today? I rarely if ever come across bandwidth problems. Disk space on my end is cheap. Bandwidth on my end is cheap. In fact, I don't keep commonly available archives on my computer any more in any compression format. Odds are if I need the copy again, I can download and have it on my harddisk in less than 5 minutes either at home or work. Many times the copy will be updated and new and improved.
That is amusing. I've thought about having a
Back to the original question. It depends on the target audience. If its windows land predominately or even significantly use zip. If its pretty much a *NIX land, use tar.gz. But under no circumstances should you ever use stuffit. My god, that is the worst ever. I can't tell you how many times I've "unstuffed" something, and then spend a few minutes trying to find what came out of the archive. Its difficult to "take a peak" at a stuffit archive to see what is in there, blah, blah. That is one program that kept me off of macs for 10 or so years. Arggg.
*unless you get a free one!
Thats easy. Just click on my foe list. about 90% of them are willing to give you a free iPod after they get one first and you pay money (their version of free, not mine) and register for a bunch of spam and other marketing ploys (again, their version of free not mine), and then you are the low man in the pyramid and you have to then sucker others to be the new low people.
Yes, people, if you have a free anything in your sig that is not free, I will foe you and filter you just like I do with my email. I do not like nor do I support spam.
with a hal abstraction layer
Just to be clear, that is a hardware abstraction layer abstraction layer.
I find it amusing when acronyms require some of the meaning within the acronym in order to use the acronym.
He is using linux on mac hardware that was given to him. Wouldn't you?
Actually, he ran linux on a DEC and another PPC for at least 7 or 8 years ago. They were both given to him when he was still in Helsinki.
This is merely another misleading slashdot headline to provoke some kind of flamewar. It would be different if he really switched an was using OSX.
Nothing to see here, please move along.....
I have no experience with 3ware, but I've heard that they are not that great, and that they are basically software RAID that depends on the drivers to do the work for you. This is probably why the system is unresponsive during a large write.
OTOH, I have an Apple Xserve RAID that uses SATA drives with a fibre channel interface. In using it, I cannot tell its not a SCSI system.
It was the regular stuff. This was about a year ago, but hearing about the truncated downloads or just truncated files that is still going on is enough for me to not bother with them. Also, at the time you could only download 2 to 4 or so files at a time and you got emails when the encoding was done. I had to write a perl script to parse the emails and parallel download the files within their concurrent limit.
For me the whole experience wasn't significantly better than a normal p2p download. The only music I download is the really free stuff from bands that allow you to trade their music. The other stuff is simply too random to be worth my time, including allofmp3.com .
The only problems I've ever had with AllOfMp3 (I've gotten a lot of music from them) is some downloads chop off at the end.
That and mislabeled files as well.
I found that just as unacceptable as downloading the stuff elsewhere, and I quit using them after getting something like $20 worth of music. All in all I was disappointed with the service. I guess I'm in the minority, but I didn't think it was that great.
These hacks do not work with my particular model/firmware/remote or whatever. Believe me I tried.
I've got one of these, and it does everything that the article mentions lacking in the products he used. I'm not sure if it goes weeks into the future with the guide, I've never tried. Oh, one thing it does not have is 30sec skip, but it has 3 or 4 levels of fast forward, and it accounts for human reaction time when hitting play. I always get exactly to the end of a commercial break, sometimes I get the last 5 or 10 secs of the commercial.
It has all of the Season Pass features of a Tivo, and all in all its a great device, plus its HD. Oh, it also has two tuners so I can watch and record a show at the same time. The equivalent media PC would cost much more than I pay for this device, and not be as good. A Tivo is close, but no HD. I was pleasantly surprised with this device.
a better free ipod link
Give me a break. If the things were really free then 1) why wouldn't everyone have one and 2) how could one free link be better than another?
Asshole spammer.