This was from memory, I was about an order of magnitude off, but we do kill many people every year. Something between 182,745 and 285,960 according to this site.
Most analogies don't hold up when used as an argument. In fact, many replies to analogy posts are diverts from the topic at hand and "corrections" to the analogies.
To sum it up in an analogy, using analogies as arguments to posts is like using cow dung as an aphrodisiac.
NASA has benefitted this country so much its sad to see Congress shoving it aside.
Although I hate to admit it, but I believe that defense spending and research has benefitted the average american more than NASA.
OTOH, its pretty sad that the US has had the most powerful defense by a longshot over anyone else, and most americans are still scared of boggie men coming to get us (commies, terrorists, insert current fear here).
Keep in mind that less than 3,000 died here on 9/11/2001. Keep in mind that the US kills more people every year than terrorists or any other government. In fact, I believe its something on order of 1 mil a year since 1960 or so.
1) Flash is bad because it is used for annoying animations that get in the way of website usability.
It is. Who wants to be annoyed? Your rebuttal says The web is full of websites that have annoying popup and popunder ads. I don't know what your talking about. I havn't seen a popup/under in 3 years. Who puts up with that today? Being that I don't load flash by default, and only do enable it by morbid curiosity. I can't think of a website that "requires" it. Oh, and the flash/javascript comparison. I don;t like javascript either, but I do enable it because it does seem to be required today. And the javascript popup/under thing is very fixed.
2) Flash is bad because it springs music on people without warning.
That is bad. So is any other technology that plays music on a website. I love music, but its annoying an unapropriate on a webpage.
3) It hogs the processor.
Yes it does, and that sucks. I use a laptop 99% of the time, and if I don't have to have my fan turn on or my battery run low because you want to get my attention and buy something from you, thats fine by me.
Flash is very cool technology. It simply does not belong on the web. I can download and run the flash in a helper app if need be for a game or something, but don't inline it with my html. Thanks.
Believe it or not, I don't need flash either. I've gone on rants here before about it and I think it still sucks. In fact, I disable ALL plugins by default, and only load them when I get a pretty much blank page and I'm for some reason, interested in the java or flash that they might have.
I think that all plugins are evil for browsers. Back in the damned plugin craze of the mid to late 90's that sucked. Every site had their own cute plugin that you had to install. Ha! Remember VRML? Havn't seen that in a while, and that was pretty cool as far as eye candy goes.
I especially don't like the new standards that people are working on for plugins in browsers. I see this as a possible reinvention of the plugin craze (probably the new form of spyware).
Now that I've bashed plugins and flash in general, I will have to say that flash is actually a cool multimedia toy. Its fairly easy to do really cool animations, games, etc. I'm shocked that flash has not made itself a pluginable thing via APIs as eye candy for windows apps. Instead of a silly dll animation, why not have a cooler flash one? You could have flash splash screens, etc.
But as far as the web goes, flash is unnecessary, and it (and all plugins) are in my opinion unwanted. I think that the fact that there are really only 2 plugins left that are commonly used (flash and java) says that the "market" does not want plugins. Java is hardly used anymore at all, and 99% of the time flash is used for ads. And they are the most annoying adds. They do not stop cycling like GIFs (doesn't your webbrowser stop them after 1 cycle?) They have the utter annoying feature that they sieze my keyboard input while I'm navigating a webpage via keyboard.
The 'R' in RIAA stands for 'Recording'. The RIAA isn't concerned with musicians that work for a living by playing music. Its a different game. I personally support bands by going to shows. I've been seeing the Dead family almost every year since 1988. And yeah, they make money. I've heard that last summer each original band member made over 2 mil.
I'm not sure how sensitive the data is, but I'm assuming its relatively low. (Please don't go on a tangent here, there is little to no security involved with paper files...)
The quickest/easiest/cheapest way would be to use a standard mag strip reader or an RFID tag with no pin/password etc, just a swipe, and someway to "logout".
If more security is needed or possibly variable security needed (maybe 1st screen is kinda public domain, but to get more details you need more authentication), then a smartcard that uses its serial number as a token like in the RFID or mag strip example I just gave, and then the user would have to put in a PIN to get the more sensitive data.
The fortunate thing is that all 3 technologies are pretty inexpensive and easy to work with.
I must admit interest in MS's claim that they're going to create a true database filesystem; while it is obviously technically feasible, it's just as stupid now as it was years ago when Be decided to back off theirs.
I disagree. I believe that true database filesystems will be a big thing for desktops/business environments in the future.
Problem: We have bunches of word processor files, spreadsheets, etc. Google could have found them in less than 1 sec if they were on the web, but we have to wait long times to find them on our computer, and longer times if they are somewhere else on our LAN.
This is a real problem that needs some kind of solution. Rumor has it that Google will sell you client/server software to make this happen on your LAN. MS is doing this with WinFS, Others are doing nothing.
The key to making this work is to have it as _extra_ data available to a file, and the ability to completely turn it off. I belive that WinFS has these 2 features.
What is wrong with having the option to have an automatically updated and searchable filesystem data on your machine or better your LAN?
This will be even hotter if there are APIs to add custom hooks for certain files.
To me this is the best (only?) inovation that MS has come up with, and I believe that this will be a _big_ feature that will be promptly replicated by the open source community and by Apple.
Consumers don't care what language there application is written in as long as it does what is requested.
Well, not to flame but in my experience java sucks, and always has sucked. Forturnately, the marketing people at Sun have convinced them to follow the Solaris versioning and jump from 1.4 to 5.
I guess I have to be more specific with its suckiness. Back when java was newer Netscape on Linux + Java = long lag & loadtime, then crash. This was back when Java was pushed as _the_ GUI app, because you could "Write once, run anywhere". Then the awt toolkit was not as crossplatform as hoped, then came swing, and then people stopped writing GUIs for java (for the most part). Then a little later, I was tasked to install Oracle on an NT box (or some other MS server, don't remember). It was the Java "Universal installer". It randomly hung, and just didn't work. Later I found out that I had to reboot the machine in 16 colors so the java installer would install. Then Sun ships things with their "webinstaller", which is actually the "javainstaller", but the marketing people were on vaction during that naming process. Anyhow, I've seen these guys fail to start if you launched them with the full path (complete with a traceback with linenumbers, etc, w00t!). Of course, it could find the classpaths if I ran it with./application instead of/full/path/applicaton. Other webinstallers have failed in random places (again with complete tracebacks!). I've had certain versions of matlab that failed to start over remote X sessions because of jvm versions. A student I work with is doing a project in Java and he's still having problems in certain browsers, etc.
These are all off the top of my head.
Again, I'm not flaming, just stating my obvservations. I've programmed and run some java stuff on very small embedded systems like smartcards and iButtons with no real issues, but these were just toy projects that did not go into production.
Now java seems most happy as a middleware language (application services or whatnot) on 3 tier web services, and having competition from.NET.
Also, it has become the marketing puppet for Sun. Java desktop, Java this, java that.
So yeah, as far as _this_ consumer goes, I care, and loathe running anything that is java.
I'm not sure what is true in the article. It says:
Today, Intel's processors are twice as fast as SPARC chips, and McNealy admits that his biggest regret is "not putting Solaris on [Intel's chips] six or seven years ago."
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Actually, I work with a former Soviet citizen, and both of us grew up during the "Cold War". She said that they did not share our fear of nuclear war. Their press and media did not share the same attitude that we had where "At any minute, one of those crazy Commie Russians is gonna push the button and poof the world will be over".
I grew up with this fear. Movies like Red Dawn and The Day After scared the shit out of me.
Back then the Olympics were almost like a war. It was us against them. The highlight was the 1980 US/USSR hockey match for the gold medal.
Then, one day, poof... No more USSR.
Now the government has invented a better enemy. One without borders. One without a clear identity. Gasp, Terrorists.
Now we have a war on terrrorism. WTF? As if there is anything that anyone can do to prevent a bombing. How difficult is it to simply walk across the US/Mexico border or even easier the US/Canada border?
I wonder why the RIAA felt the need to write a long winded (and as I read it again, childish sounding) letter to every senator?
What else do they have to do? The RIAA's job is 3 fold. 1) It labels records as gold, platinum, etc 2) It does PR stuff like Parental Warnings, etc, and 3) it does legal copyright stuff.
For the most part, the RIAA is a bunch of lawyers that cannot get a real job. The childish sounding letter demonstrates this well. And again, if you were a lawyer that couldn't get a real job, and you were on this RIAA bandwagon, wouldn't you do whatever stunts like this to prove that your worthy to work another week?
Take a look at this PDF form. Its from BMI to license music. Its independant of the RIAA, its a broadcast license for a "facility" (a house, apartment, or dorm will suffice) to play music (even recorded music) for less than 10,000 people. Specifically, for less than 250 people (which most of us would fall under) it costs $15 for a blanket license of music which includes recorded music.
While we are at it lets look at what sold in 2000 and 2003.
I don't listen to the radio or pop music in general, but let me guess which of the 7 top 10 albums from 2000 broke 5mil units. 1) Nsync "No strings attached" 2) Santana "Supernatural" (also one of the best selling albums of all time) 3) m&m "The Marshall Mathers LP" 4) BS "Oops I did it again" 5) Creed "Human Clay" 6) Celine Dion "All The Way...A Decade Of Song" 7) Christina Aguilera "Christina Aguilera"
Summary: 2 boy bands (they sell, what other music will 11 year old girls buy?) 1 famous musician that has been around over 30 years and had one of the best selling albums of all time (santana) 2 bimbo chicks (that sell to 11 year old girls and boys up to 14) and Celine Dion just sells, noone knows who buys it, but somebody does.
OK, 2003 which 2 sold 5mil units? I guess 50 Cent's "Get rich or die tryin'" and I dunno its a tossup for the otherone, it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, I can see why the sales have dropped by almost 1/2. No boy bands, no blond bimbos, and the rest is pretty much marginal popy stuff.
Its worth noting that concert sales are way down this year. Lollipoluza (sp?) had to cancel because of a lack of interest. I guess all the kids think that sitting in front of their computer listening to MP3s on small computer speakers is comparable to a concert.... Or maybe there isn't stuff to see?
The '=' sign prefixed to a command means do the raw command from the path and not an alias or whatnot. Its a feature that I also use to 'unalias' things when I want to undo my default flags (I use it for 'ls' all the time).
If your interested, put some kind of reply so that I can get in direct contact with you.
I use openpbs (patched out the wazoo) with maui as the scheduler. The scheduler that comes with pbs sucks. Bad.
PBS can do dependancies, and you can set up node properties for heterogenous environments.
I hate to say this, but buying faster and cheaper machines may help too. Sun/Solaris is slow. No flames intended, but its a fact. Fortunately your not using solaris 9 with its 30% decrease in TCP/IP performance vs 7. I'm not sure how robust 8 is, but 9 has too many "features" (read bugs) for my taste.
Maui also works with other resource managers. The maui people have also forked off OpenPBS to something that is "better", YMMV. Maui also has a text based interface called wiki that you can make your own resource manager.
The info in your problem description is kinda lacking, but there should be a reasonable solution to your problem.
Learn something new everyday. But for me its a day late and a dollar short. But bash still does not expand '!commandTAB' so that you can go back and edit it. Also bash has wierd backtick stuff with '!'s. I do this all the time, and bash just complains.
for i in `!ls` bash: !ls`: event not found
Grrr. I guess one could argue that bash is doing the 'right' thing, but zsh just has more utility for me. Again, zsh can do anything any other shell can do, and more.
Why can't music companies sell the music (and make money) in the way they wish?
Oh, they can. But don't come crying to me if your next on the RIAA shitlist and get a subpoena. (Note: this is independant of your trading files or not)
I said: the only shell that supports working 'vi' style history editing
you said: Are you talking about something beyond what I can get with "set -o vi"?
Yes, you missed the key word "working". By this I mean multiple line support the whole deal. Trust me, I've tried them all, there is something in each shell that is not quite right.
Until someone steals your ssh key. Then they will be godlike too.
Sure, ssh keys are convenient, but they don't always replace passwords.
Passwords suck. Oh, and I have a 10 character passphrase on my privatekey that sits on my password protected computer.
I would guestimate that the liklihood that a password has been found or guessed or shown up in a plain text file (my ISP used to have a world readable radius logfile that had passwords in it) or sniffed is much greater than someone logging into my laptop (I have no remote services running) or physically beating me up and getting my key and passphrase from me.
I love the classic:
sj (misstyped su)
followed by the root password in plaintext. Gotta love that!
1) programable tab completion - yes folks there is more to tab completion besides beeping all the time. When I hit cd fooTAB the list of completions only shows _directories_ beginning with foo
2) sane invocation - zsh is the only shell that has one file that is sourced _on all invocations of the shell_ so you can do stuff like have a consistant PATH and other env stuff
3) global aliases - zsh provides an alias that works _anywhere on the commandline_ I have 'G' mapped to '| grep -i', I have 'L' mapped to '| less' and 'vi' mapped to 'vim' (why? So sudo vi FILE gives me vim if the system has vim), etc, etc
4) the only shell that supports working 'vi' style history editing
5) multiple commandline commands are not rewritten as commands with ';' in them (what I typed is what I get, see 4)
6) too many features to name. Like I said, my shell can do anything your shell can do, but better.
su -- better sudo keeps your root password better kept, does more logging, etc
more -- better less (Its not the 70s anymore people, you can search and go backwards in files since less first came about in the mid 80s. With the LESSOPEN varible set to something useful you can "browse" many, many filetypes too).
bash -- better zsh My shell can do anything your shell can do, but better!
Also, it kills me to see *NIX people still using passwords all the damn time. CVS + ssh keys = godlike.
Things I do. syslog to a common place. I have cloning scripts to dup a machine to a basic setup (poor mans jumpstart but faster and easier).
Perl and sed come in handy. Rsync (again with ssh keys) is good.
Oh yeah,/usr/local over nfs is good too. The only issue is that you may have to configure some packages to use a local filesystem for configuration files, keys, etc.
With these tips and tricks I can do whatever I need to do over a dialup connection anywhere in the world (I've only tested this from coast to coast in the US thought, but I believe it will scale worlwide:)
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This was from memory, I was about an order of magnitude off, but we do kill many people every year. Something between 182,745 and 285,960 according to this site.
Most analogies don't hold up when used as an argument. In fact, many replies to analogy posts are diverts from the topic at hand and "corrections" to the analogies.
To sum it up in an analogy, using analogies as arguments to posts is like using cow dung as an aphrodisiac.
NASA has benefitted this country so much its sad to see Congress shoving it aside.
Although I hate to admit it, but I believe that defense spending and research has benefitted the average american more than NASA.
OTOH, its pretty sad that the US has had the most powerful defense by a longshot over anyone else, and most americans are still scared of boggie men coming to get us (commies, terrorists, insert current fear here).
... killing ... occasional Iraqi civilians
Hmm, its somewhere between 11,000 and 13,000 civilians killed.
Keep in mind that less than 3,000 died here on 9/11/2001. Keep in mind that the US kills more people every year than terrorists or any other government. In fact, I believe its something on order of 1 mil a year since 1960 or so.
Rebutal to your rebuttal:
1) Flash is bad because it is used for annoying animations that get in the way of website usability.
It is. Who wants to be annoyed? Your rebuttal says The web is full of websites that have annoying popup and popunder ads. I don't know what your talking about. I havn't seen a popup/under in 3 years. Who puts up with that today? Being that I don't load flash by default, and only do enable it by morbid curiosity. I can't think of a website that "requires" it. Oh, and the flash/javascript comparison. I don;t like javascript either, but I do enable it because it does seem to be required today. And the javascript popup/under thing is very fixed.
2) Flash is bad because it springs music on people without warning.
That is bad. So is any other technology that plays music on a website. I love music, but its annoying an unapropriate on a webpage.
3) It hogs the processor.
Yes it does, and that sucks. I use a laptop 99% of the time, and if I don't have to have my fan turn on or my battery run low because you want to get my attention and buy something from you, thats fine by me.
Flash is very cool technology. It simply does not belong on the web. I can download and run the flash in a helper app if need be for a game or something, but don't inline it with my html. Thanks.
Believe it or not, I don't need flash either. I've gone on rants here before about it and I think it still sucks. In fact, I disable ALL plugins by default, and only load them when I get a pretty much blank page and I'm for some reason, interested in the java or flash that they might have.
I think that all plugins are evil for browsers. Back in the damned plugin craze of the mid to late 90's that sucked. Every site had their own cute plugin that you had to install. Ha! Remember VRML? Havn't seen that in a while, and that was pretty cool as far as eye candy goes.
I especially don't like the new standards that people are working on for plugins in browsers. I see this as a possible reinvention of the plugin craze (probably the new form of spyware).
Now that I've bashed plugins and flash in general, I will have to say that flash is actually a cool multimedia toy. Its fairly easy to do really cool animations, games, etc. I'm shocked that flash has not made itself a pluginable thing via APIs as eye candy for windows apps. Instead of a silly dll animation, why not have a cooler flash one? You could have flash splash screens, etc.
But as far as the web goes, flash is unnecessary, and it (and all plugins) are in my opinion unwanted. I think that the fact that there are really only 2 plugins left that are commonly used (flash and java) says that the "market" does not want plugins. Java is hardly used anymore at all, and 99% of the time flash is used for ads. And they are the most annoying adds. They do not stop cycling like GIFs (doesn't your webbrowser stop them after 1 cycle?) They have the utter annoying feature that they sieze my keyboard input while I'm navigating a webpage via keyboard.
Summary: tech good, tech in browser bad
The 'R' in RIAA stands for 'Recording'. The RIAA isn't concerned with musicians that work for a living by playing music. Its a different game. I personally support bands by going to shows. I've been seeing the Dead family almost every year since 1988. And yeah, they make money. I've heard that last summer each original band member made over 2 mil.
Oh yeah, and there's more dead music here.
I'm not sure how sensitive the data is, but I'm assuming its relatively low. (Please don't go on a tangent here, there is little to no security involved with paper files...)
The quickest/easiest/cheapest way would be to use a standard mag strip reader or an RFID tag with no pin/password etc, just a swipe, and someway to "logout".
If more security is needed or possibly variable security needed (maybe 1st screen is kinda public domain, but to get more details you need more authentication), then a smartcard that uses its serial number as a token like in the RFID or mag strip example I just gave, and then the user would have to put in a PIN to get the more sensitive data.
The fortunate thing is that all 3 technologies are pretty inexpensive and easy to work with.
I must admit interest in MS's claim that they're going to create a true database filesystem; while it is obviously technically feasible, it's just as stupid now as it was years ago when Be decided to back off theirs.
I disagree. I believe that true database filesystems will be a big thing for desktops/business environments in the future.
Problem: We have bunches of word processor files, spreadsheets, etc. Google could have found them in less than 1 sec if they were on the web, but we have to wait long times to find them on our computer, and longer times if they are somewhere else on our LAN.
This is a real problem that needs some kind of solution. Rumor has it that Google will sell you client/server software to make this happen on your LAN. MS is doing this with WinFS, Others are doing nothing.
The key to making this work is to have it as _extra_ data available to a file, and the ability to completely turn it off. I belive that WinFS has these 2 features.
What is wrong with having the option to have an automatically updated and searchable filesystem data on your machine or better your LAN?
This will be even hotter if there are APIs to add custom hooks for certain files.
To me this is the best (only?) inovation that MS has come up with, and I believe that this will be a _big_ feature that will be promptly replicated by the open source community and by Apple.
Consumers don't care what language there application is written in as long as it does what is requested.
./application instead of /full/path/applicaton. Other webinstallers have failed in random places (again with complete tracebacks!). I've had certain versions of matlab that failed to start over remote X sessions because of jvm versions. A student I work with is doing a project in Java and he's still having problems in certain browsers, etc.
.NET.
Well, not to flame but in my experience java sucks, and always has sucked. Forturnately, the marketing people at Sun have convinced them to follow the Solaris versioning and jump from 1.4 to 5.
I guess I have to be more specific with its suckiness. Back when java was newer Netscape on Linux + Java = long lag & loadtime, then crash. This was back when Java was pushed as _the_ GUI app, because you could "Write once, run anywhere". Then the awt toolkit was not as crossplatform as hoped, then came swing, and then people stopped writing GUIs for java (for the most part). Then a little later, I was tasked to install Oracle on an NT box (or some other MS server, don't remember). It was the Java "Universal installer". It randomly hung, and just didn't work. Later I found out that I had to reboot the machine in 16 colors so the java installer would install. Then Sun ships things with their "webinstaller", which is actually the "javainstaller", but the marketing people were on vaction during that naming process. Anyhow, I've seen these guys fail to start if you launched them with the full path (complete with a traceback with linenumbers, etc, w00t!). Of course, it could find the classpaths if I ran it with
These are all off the top of my head.
Again, I'm not flaming, just stating my obvservations. I've programmed and run some java stuff on very small embedded systems like smartcards and iButtons with no real issues, but these were just toy projects that did not go into production.
Now java seems most happy as a middleware language (application services or whatnot) on 3 tier web services, and having competition from
Also, it has become the marketing puppet for Sun. Java desktop, Java this, java that.
So yeah, as far as _this_ consumer goes, I care, and loathe running anything that is java.
I'm not sure what is true in the article. It says:
- 1 213 users 2650181 Sep 9 1998 GNUgroff.1.11.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tgz- - 1 213 users 1184 Sep 1 1998 xtitle.1.0.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tgz- 1 213 users 177963 Jul 25 1998 GNUflex.2.5.4a.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tgzr -- 1 213 users 165997 Jul 25 1998 GNUm4.1.4.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tgz- r-- 1 213 users 1105988 Feb 9 1997 rcs.5.7.i86pc.Solaris.2.5.1.pkg.tgz ...packages/solaris/i86pc >
Today, Intel's processors are twice as fast as SPARC chips, and McNealy admits that his biggest regret is "not putting Solaris on [Intel's chips] six or seven years ago."
Look at the dates here:
-rw-r--r-- 1 213 users 213275 Oct 3 1998 jpeg.6b.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 213 users 48524 Oct 3 1998 zlib.1.1.3.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 213 users 3153437 Sep 17 1998 perl5.004.04.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tgz
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-rw-r--r-- 1 213 users 153600 Jul 25 1998 GNUzip.1.2.4.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tar
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-rw-r--r-- 1 213 users 38548534 Jul 9 1998 X11R6.3.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 213 users 914888 Dec 18 1997 pbmplus.10dec91.i86pc.Solaris.2.6.pkg.tgz
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ncftp
Hmm...
Actually, I work with a former Soviet citizen, and both of us grew up during the "Cold War". She said that they did not share our fear of nuclear war. Their press and media did not share the same attitude that we had where "At any minute, one of those crazy Commie Russians is gonna push the button and poof the world will be over".
I grew up with this fear. Movies like Red Dawn and The Day After scared the shit out of me.
Back then the Olympics were almost like a war. It was us against them. The highlight was the 1980 US/USSR hockey match for the gold medal.
Then, one day, poof... No more USSR.
Now the government has invented a better enemy. One without borders. One without a clear identity. Gasp, Terrorists.
Now we have a war on terrrorism. WTF? As if there is anything that anyone can do to prevent a bombing. How difficult is it to simply walk across the US/Mexico border or even easier the US/Canada border?
regarding the senseless murder of thousands of innocent lives
I wonder why the RIAA felt the need to write a long winded (and as I read it again, childish sounding) letter to every senator?
What else do they have to do? The RIAA's job is 3 fold. 1) It labels records as gold, platinum, etc 2) It does PR stuff like Parental Warnings, etc, and 3) it does legal copyright stuff.
For the most part, the RIAA is a bunch of lawyers that cannot get a real job. The childish sounding letter demonstrates this well. And again, if you were a lawyer that couldn't get a real job, and you were on this RIAA bandwagon, wouldn't you do whatever stunts like this to prove that your worthy to work another week?
Take a look at this PDF form. Its from BMI to license music. Its independant of the RIAA, its a broadcast license for a "facility" (a house, apartment, or dorm will suffice) to play music (even recorded music) for less than 10,000 people. Specifically, for less than 250 people (which most of us would fall under) it costs $15 for a blanket license of music which includes recorded music.
Is this a viable loophole to bypass the RIAA?
While we are at it lets look at what sold in 2000 and 2003.
I don't listen to the radio or pop music in general, but let me guess which of the 7 top 10 albums from 2000 broke 5mil units. 1) Nsync "No strings attached" 2) Santana "Supernatural" (also one of the best selling albums of all time) 3) m&m "The Marshall Mathers LP" 4) BS "Oops I did it again" 5) Creed "Human Clay" 6) Celine Dion "All The Way...A Decade Of Song" 7) Christina Aguilera "Christina Aguilera"
Summary: 2 boy bands (they sell, what other music will 11 year old girls buy?) 1 famous musician that has been around over 30 years and had one of the best selling albums of all time (santana) 2 bimbo chicks (that sell to 11 year old girls and boys up to 14) and Celine Dion just sells, noone knows who buys it, but somebody does.
OK, 2003 which 2 sold 5mil units? I guess 50 Cent's "Get rich or die tryin'" and I dunno its a tossup for the otherone, it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, I can see why the sales have dropped by almost 1/2. No boy bands, no blond bimbos, and the rest is pretty much marginal popy stuff.
Its worth noting that concert sales are way down this year. Lollipoluza (sp?) had to cancel because of a lack of interest. I guess all the kids think that sitting in front of their computer listening to MP3s on small computer speakers is comparable to a concert.... Or maybe there isn't stuff to see?
The '=' sign prefixed to a command means do the raw command from the path and not an alias or whatnot. Its a feature that I also use to 'unalias' things when I want to undo my default flags (I use it for 'ls' all the time).
If your interested, put some kind of reply so that I can get in direct contact with you.
I use openpbs (patched out the wazoo) with maui as the scheduler. The scheduler that comes with pbs sucks. Bad.
PBS can do dependancies, and you can set up node properties for heterogenous environments.
I hate to say this, but buying faster and cheaper machines may help too. Sun/Solaris is slow. No flames intended, but its a fact. Fortunately your not using solaris 9 with its 30% decrease in TCP/IP performance vs 7. I'm not sure how robust 8 is, but 9 has too many "features" (read bugs) for my taste.
Maui also works with other resource managers. The maui people have also forked off OpenPBS to something that is "better", YMMV. Maui also has a text based interface called wiki that you can make your own resource manager.
The info in your problem description is kinda lacking, but there should be a reasonable solution to your problem.
Learn something new everyday. But for me its a day late and a dollar short. But bash still does not expand '!commandTAB' so that you can go back and edit it. Also bash has wierd backtick stuff with '!'s. I do this all the time, and bash just complains.
for i in `!ls`
bash: !ls`: event not found
Grrr. I guess one could argue that bash is doing the 'right' thing, but zsh just has more utility for me. Again, zsh can do anything any other shell can do, and more.
Why can't music companies sell the music (and make money) in the way they wish?
Oh, they can. But don't come crying to me if your next on the RIAA shitlist and get a subpoena. (Note: this is independant of your trading files or not)
I said: the only shell that supports working 'vi' style history editing
you said: Are you talking about something beyond what I can get with "set -o vi"?
Yes, you missed the key word "working". By this I mean multiple line support the whole deal. Trust me, I've tried them all, there is something in each shell that is not quite right.
Until someone steals your ssh key. Then they will be godlike too.
Sure, ssh keys are convenient, but they don't always replace passwords.
Passwords suck. Oh, and I have a 10 character passphrase on my privatekey that sits on my password protected computer.
I would guestimate that the liklihood that a password has been found or guessed or shown up in a plain text file (my ISP used to have a world readable radius logfile that had passwords in it) or sniffed is much greater than someone logging into my laptop (I have no remote services running) or physically beating me up and getting my key and passphrase from me.
I love the classic:
sj (misstyped su)
followed by the root password in plaintext. Gotta love that!
what are the advatages of zsh over bash
1) programable tab completion - yes folks there is more to tab completion besides beeping all the time. When I hit cd fooTAB the list of completions only shows _directories_ beginning with foo
2) sane invocation - zsh is the only shell that has one file that is sourced _on all invocations of the shell_ so you can do stuff like have a consistant PATH and other env stuff
3) global aliases - zsh provides an alias that works _anywhere on the commandline_ I have 'G' mapped to '| grep -i', I have 'L' mapped to '| less' and 'vi' mapped to 'vim' (why? So sudo vi FILE gives me vim if the system has vim), etc, etc
4) the only shell that supports working 'vi' style history editing
5) multiple commandline commands are not rewritten as commands with ';' in them (what I typed is what I get, see 4)
6) too many features to name. Like I said, my shell can do anything your shell can do, but better.
su -- better sudo keeps your root password better kept, does more logging, etc
more -- better less (Its not the 70s anymore people, you can search and go backwards in files since less first came about in the mid 80s. With the LESSOPEN varible set to something useful you can "browse" many, many filetypes too).
bash -- better zsh My shell can do anything your shell can do, but better!
Also, it kills me to see *NIX people still using passwords all the damn time. CVS + ssh keys = godlike.
/usr/local over nfs is good too. The only issue is that you may have to configure some packages to use a local filesystem for configuration files, keys, etc.
:)
Things I do. syslog to a common place. I have cloning scripts to dup a machine to a basic setup (poor mans jumpstart but faster and easier).
Perl and sed come in handy. Rsync (again with ssh keys) is good.
Oh yeah,
With these tips and tricks I can do whatever I need to do over a dialup connection anywhere in the world (I've only tested this from coast to coast in the US thought, but I believe it will scale worlwide