Can't find the final numbers but 900 000 albums were sold in the first week, it was nominated for Mercury Music Prize and Grammy and was no. 17 in the 2006 billboard top independent album list. during the seven years since his solo album he released two albums with Radiohead and one with his new band atoms for peace which is headlining festivals across Europe at the moment. Seems like you have absolutely no idea who Thom Yorke is but you decided to talk crap anyway...
Nobody gives a shit about his solo music? what rock have you been living under? also his solo album (the eraser) was released 7 years ago and "The album debuted at #3 on the UK Albums Chart and at #2 on the Billboard 200 in the United State" (wikipedia). But yeah no-one gives a shit about his solo music, or radiohead, or atoms for peace...
Sure, but when you spend it on spotify or itunes or such you're not actually paying the musicians. 90% (number out of my ass ofcourse) of that money goes to the production company and the service that provides the download. As a musician, you're the one who's making 90% of the work.
Just to clarify by "musicians" I mean real musicians not the industry-produced starlets. With them, well, someone has to pay the 5 people that wrote that shitty songs of theirs (well, they're not even their, they just sing them)...
If you have good provisioning (cobbler+puppet FTW) you can cruise control as root;). The main reason to use users+sudo is in environment with multiple administrators. you have better control and log over who runs what. if everyone logs in as root through a certificate/shared password you have a recipe for a disaster.
however viruses require "active" cooperation of the user. you don't have good attack possibilities to infect servers. Windows servers are not a huge part of botnets, it's the windows workstations (and a lot of them are using illegal copies so they're not properly updated). Targeting linux workstations would be "easier" in that regard however desktop usage of linux is still not high enough (and the users tend to be more computer literate) to be feasible. add the diversity to it and you'll realize you have much better chance of success (and larger possible profit) targeting windows or android...
If software (and generally computer) business worked like Richard Stallmann envisions it we wouldn't be even half way where we are now. Still waiting for GNU Hurd...
Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Slashdot, and then Slashdot goes out... and the corporations sit there in their... in their corporation buildings, and... and, and see, they're all corporation-y... and they make money.
being obsessed with a tv show/movie/band - not ok - and it doesn't matter whether the show is MLP or Star Trek. I don't see a difference between a brony singing the MLP theme song in public and a Trekkie going grocery shopping in full Klingon mask...
While I don't use linux on desktop anymore I still check linux compatibility on all the HW I buy - you never know when you'll need TRK or backtrack. Not to mention if steam for linux/steam box kicks game producers into providing linux ports I might even return to linux desktop some day (in the time of lots of ram and multi-core CPUs it's not such a problem to run windows in a VM for win-only stuff).
I have a NSD powerball (250Hz) and a Prohands Pro medium finger exerciser (tension of 7lb per finger). I use the powerball when I feel my wrists are getting sore (after all day behind the computer or playing the guitar) and the finger exerciser when I'm thinking at work (I'm a programmer so I do a lot of that:) ).
> It's not blocking foreign businesses. Don't do bad things and you don't get to pay fines.
So if I own a restaurant I should promote the menu of the restaurant across the street to avoid antitrust cases?
it's not just the no numbers. the way the hours are marked, the hands look EXACTLY the same... Not to mention it awfully looks like the clocks we used to have at school that was built during communist era in Czechoslovakia (except the red second hand - it didn't have the circle at its tip)
> Seriously though, if you didn't set up your Grandma's machine to be remotely administered by you when you installed it, then you probably aren't qualified to be using slashdot.
yes because my time is abundant and I can take care of a wide network of computers for friends and family... I'm always thrilled when I see the linux crowd oscillating from "it's for everyone" to "but not so much".
> Windows crapware
But I remove the crapware at the beginning, give her limited user rights and am set... The crapware on windows computers is usually "value-ware" from the manufacturer of the computer. Clear install of windows 7/8 has no crapware and mainly, windows DOESN'T install crapware as part of a regular system update...
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TIL 20+ billion net income and steady growth over the last few years means "not doing well". who is doing well then?
what other comments?
They probably have reach to the US CAs so they can probably coerce them into giving them the certificates
cinky puts on his tinfoil hat
Can't find the final numbers but 900 000 albums were sold in the first week, it was nominated for Mercury Music Prize and Grammy and was no. 17 in the 2006 billboard top independent album list. during the seven years since his solo album he released two albums with Radiohead and one with his new band atoms for peace which is headlining festivals across Europe at the moment. Seems like you have absolutely no idea who Thom Yorke is but you decided to talk crap anyway...
Nobody gives a shit about his solo music? what rock have you been living under? also his solo album (the eraser) was released 7 years ago and "The album debuted at #3 on the UK Albums Chart and at #2 on the Billboard 200 in the United State" (wikipedia). But yeah no-one gives a shit about his solo music, or radiohead, or atoms for peace...
Sure, but when you spend it on spotify or itunes or such you're not actually paying the musicians. 90% (number out of my ass ofcourse) of that money goes to the production company and the service that provides the download. As a musician, you're the one who's making 90% of the work.
Just to clarify by "musicians" I mean real musicians not the industry-produced starlets. With them, well, someone has to pay the 5 people that wrote that shitty songs of theirs (well, they're not even their, they just sing them)...
Yup, I bough "In Rainbows" for $20 just to show support for such actions.
yeah GNU Hurd is a nice example on how it works in the real world :)
but he is a cranky old, "get off my lawn", impractical hard liner. What exactly would be the difference if we did it the "RMS way"?
I felt cheated when I had some problems with almost every AMD chip I ever owned...
when I run something as root I always triple check. One of my dumbest mistakes was a typo in a script (that was completely stupidly written anyway)
rm -rf $PATHTYPO/*
...yeah... luckily I was not root but if I were... boy...
If you have good provisioning (cobbler+puppet FTW) you can cruise control as root ;). The main reason to use users+sudo is in environment with multiple administrators. you have better control and log over who runs what. if everyone logs in as root through a certificate/shared password you have a recipe for a disaster.
I prefer using ghostery to block some ads/trackers/beacons
however viruses require "active" cooperation of the user. you don't have good attack possibilities to infect servers. Windows servers are not a huge part of botnets, it's the windows workstations (and a lot of them are using illegal copies so they're not properly updated). Targeting linux workstations would be "easier" in that regard however desktop usage of linux is still not high enough (and the users tend to be more computer literate) to be feasible. add the diversity to it and you'll realize you have much better chance of success (and larger possible profit) targeting windows or android...
and you completely free to use noscript. but don't expect my source code. no, you're not entitled to it, period...
If software (and generally computer) business worked like Richard Stallmann envisions it we wouldn't be even half way where we are now. Still waiting for GNU Hurd...
Or, you know, you can NOT use my site if you don't like my javascript... that's the only thing you're entitled to...
Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Slashdot, and then Slashdot goes out... and the corporations sit there in their... in their corporation buildings, and... and, and see, they're all corporation-y... and they make money.
enjoying a tv show/movie/band - ok
being obsessed with a tv show/movie/band - not ok - and it doesn't matter whether the show is MLP or Star Trek. I don't see a difference between a brony singing the MLP theme song in public and a Trekkie going grocery shopping in full Klingon mask...
something that would be unlikely to happen with alcohol.
yeah, because alcoholism isn't destroying families every day...
While I don't use linux on desktop anymore I still check linux compatibility on all the HW I buy - you never know when you'll need TRK or backtrack. Not to mention if steam for linux/steam box kicks game producers into providing linux ports I might even return to linux desktop some day (in the time of lots of ram and multi-core CPUs it's not such a problem to run windows in a VM for win-only stuff).
I have a NSD powerball (250Hz) and a Prohands Pro medium finger exerciser (tension of 7lb per finger). I use the powerball when I feel my wrists are getting sore (after all day behind the computer or playing the guitar) and the finger exerciser when I'm thinking at work (I'm a programmer so I do a lot of that :) ).
> It's not blocking foreign businesses. Don't do bad things and you don't get to pay fines. So if I own a restaurant I should promote the menu of the restaurant across the street to avoid antitrust cases?
it's not just the no numbers. the way the hours are marked, the hands look EXACTLY the same... Not to mention it awfully looks like the clocks we used to have at school that was built during communist era in Czechoslovakia (except the red second hand - it didn't have the circle at its tip)
> Seriously though, if you didn't set up your Grandma's machine to be remotely administered by you when you installed it, then you probably aren't qualified to be using slashdot. yes because my time is abundant and I can take care of a wide network of computers for friends and family... I'm always thrilled when I see the linux crowd oscillating from "it's for everyone" to "but not so much". > Windows crapware But I remove the crapware at the beginning, give her limited user rights and am set... The crapware on windows computers is usually "value-ware" from the manufacturer of the computer. Clear install of windows 7/8 has no crapware and mainly, windows DOESN'T install crapware as part of a regular system update...