Jeeze, what a bunch of whiners. Waah, the system is against me! I want a better system! If you think you know how to create a better system you're fooling yourself. If you're that smart you should figure out how to make this one work for you.
Bullshit back at you. If you're proposing that a public releations campaign to get parents to treat their kids better is going to keep this from happening again you're dreaming. The parents that matter are the bottom of the barrel, and you'll never change them. Your campaign sure as hell isn't going to solve the problems of the people who have to ``sneak home from school'' (as seen elsewhere in this thread.)
If you're in high school, know this: for almost everybody, even the kids that look popular and happy, high school is just the most miserable time of your life. The reason is that high school kids treat each other like crap. Its just the way they are. Its the root of this problem, and there's probably nothing that can be done about it.
If you can get over it, things almost always get better.
Everyone believes its a law of nature that all software is susceptible to viruses like this. Even word processor documents! Why is it so impossible to explain to people that the outrage is MS-Word, not the Melissa virus!
Interesting points. However, both you and Mr. Cuban have the issue completely turned around. For better or worse, nobody has to pay for mp3s, its the erstwhile successor that will have to be paid for. Are people going to pay for it? Only if it gives them a lot more than mp3 does. Its difficult to see how to stop people from making mp3s out of anything they can send to the audio outputs of their amplifiers. Its also difficult to see how improved sound quality will overcome the zero dollar barrier. And improved compression rapidly becomes a non-issue. So what is this new format going to give us? Obviously Mr. Cuban doesn't know, or he certainly would have mentioned it.
The music industry may suffer as a result of the mp3 craze. But the average musician is already suffering, and the successful ones are too successful by half.
For this reason the music industry will stop making CDs as soon as it can. Howver, I suspect you will always be able to encode the analog signal coming out of your preamplifier - maybe the home audio industry will outlaw selling separate preamp and amp?
Real audio is a secret and proprietary format. You pay because you listen at the pleasure of the company that controls that format. You pay because the servers and encoders are not free, so whoever is sending to you has to charge. You pay in aggravation caused by buggy software that you can't fix and that is never up to date.
Real Networks is not a charitable organization. They can be found on the nasdaq stock exchange, symbol RNWK. I have no objection to them trying to make money, what I object to is how much they and their products suck. There are free alternatives out there, but people who should know better persist in patronizing this format.
We'll be swimming in storage space and bandwidth in a few years. And you'll always be able to make a good enough digital copy of any piece of music from the analog outputs of a decent hi-fi.
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Jeeze, what a bunch of whiners. Waah, the system is against me! I want a better system! If you think you know how to create a better system you're fooling yourself. If you're that smart you should figure out how to make this one work for you.
Bullshit back at you. If you're proposing that a public releations campaign to get parents to treat their kids better is going to keep this from happening again you're dreaming. The parents that matter are the bottom of the barrel, and you'll never change them. Your campaign sure as hell isn't going to solve the problems of the people who have to ``sneak home from school'' (as seen elsewhere in this thread.)
If you're in high school, know this: for almost everybody, even the kids that look popular and happy, high school is just the most miserable time of your life. The reason is that high school kids treat each other like crap. Its just the way they are. Its the root of this problem, and there's probably nothing that can be done about it.
If you can get over it, things almost always get better.
Sad, but there's no rescuing it. Its been dead for years.
The RPM program is compatible, but each system's files are set differently, so the contents of the RPMs each system comes with are not compatible.
Its smaller than fairly small.
Instructions for patching rvplayer 5.0 are included in the documentation that comes with the 2.2.x kernel source.
Everyone believes its a law of nature that all software is susceptible to viruses like this. Even word processor documents! Why is it so impossible to explain to people that the outrage is MS-Word, not the Melissa virus!
the numbers for the minimal set of packages necessary to build and run the OS.
Interesting points. However, both you and Mr. Cuban have the issue completely turned around. For better or worse, nobody has to pay for mp3s, its the erstwhile successor that will have to be paid for. Are people going to pay for it? Only if it gives them a lot more than mp3 does. Its difficult to see how to stop people from making mp3s out of anything they can send to the audio outputs of their amplifiers. Its also difficult to see how improved sound quality will overcome the zero dollar barrier. And improved compression rapidly becomes a non-issue. So what is this new format going to give us? Obviously Mr. Cuban doesn't know, or he certainly would have mentioned it.
The music industry may suffer as a result of the mp3 craze. But the average musician is already suffering, and the successful ones are too successful by half.
For this reason the music industry will stop making CDs as soon as it can. Howver, I suspect you will always be able to encode the analog signal coming out of your preamplifier - maybe the home audio industry will outlaw selling separate preamp and amp?
I'm beating on an SMP system with APM enabled
and video and sound and its all working well.
Oh, cdparanoia just seg faulted. That's better
than before, anyway.
This is an issue of no importance.
Real audio is a secret and proprietary format. You pay because you listen at the pleasure of the company that controls that format. You pay because the servers and encoders are not free, so whoever is sending to you has to charge. You pay in aggravation caused by buggy software that you can't fix and that is never up to date.
Real Networks is not a charitable organization. They can be found on the nasdaq stock exchange, symbol RNWK. I have no objection to them trying to make money, what I object to is how much they and their products suck. There are free alternatives out there, but people who should know better persist in patronizing this format.
Their player is the worst, and their support is the worst.
UCB logo might be a good place to start. I was thinking about putting a front end on it for really young kids - like kids too young to read.
That's the whole point of our system of checks and balances, to function in the presence of imperfect people.
I guess.
The benefits of 2.2 are too great to wait long.
Do you doubt that the next version of redhat will be numbered 6.0 and will include the 2.2 kernel?
We'll be swimming in storage space and bandwidth in a few years. And you'll always be able to make a good enough digital copy of any piece of music from the analog outputs of a decent hi-fi.
AOL falls into this catagory. And yes, it is an ISP, I've seen people use the internet from AOL.