Assuming these are mp3, at an average size of 3.5 MB per file, we're talking somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 GB. Correct me if my assumptions are unfounded. I'd call that "medium-big," but not huge.
Anyway, if you're looking for a good GTK jukebox (and yes, Rhythmbox totally blows), check out gmusicbrowser. Excellent browser, can use gstreamer or mpg321/ogg123/flac123 or mplayer as a backend, very adaptable interface, snappy as hell with my 80GB or so (mixed bag of flac/ogg/mp3), I can't speak for how well it'd hold up under a heavier load. It's initial scan with that much data takes a goddamn long time (start it before you go to bed), but once the files are scanned, you're golden. You can set it up to scan for new/deleted/changed files on startup, which is much faster and less processor-intensive than the initial scan, but even that can be turned off or done manually from the prefs menu. Enjoy!
if they could easily go get a better job, one would presume they'd have already done so.
Ain't necessarily so. I have the skills and experience to get a better job than I have. But I don't, and the reason is that I'm too goddamn busy doing my job to even look.
The reason (my reason, anyway) for cluing ppl toward the command-line rather than Synaptic (or Kpackage or Adept or what-have-you) is that the command-line is desktop-agnostic. I don't want to have to give a separate set of instructions for every GUI you may possibly be using, when I can just have you cut/paste "sudo apt-get install foo". Saves us both time.
Oh God yes. Qwest is a real gem with this one. I have to lie, or I get nowhere, they won't even talk to me if they know I'm running Linux. "I'm sorry, we do not support the Lee-nooks." Listen, lady, I fucking well know that. You support the godddamn internet, I'll handle the Lee-nooks.
the major labels won't even promote someone who's really ugly, even if he/she has an amazing voice, writes perfect songs, and plays awesome guitar.
I have often thought this myself. One of my all-time favorite artists, for instance, Meat Loaf, would absolutely never make Top 40 rotation in today's media climate. He's too fat, he's too eclectic, his songs are way too goddamn long. Really, all the success Meat Loaf achieved, he got in spite of a lot of major label resistance. After Bat Out of Hell, his career collapsed, he couldn't sell records, he had to go play bars, little clubs in Europe, anywhere that would take him. And slowly, slowly, he started picking up a new following. The crowds got bigger, the venues got bigger, and finally in the 90s he put out Bat II, and went platinum overnight. One of the greatest rock and roll comeback stories ever, and all with absolutely no help from a label.
Sure it isn't difficult to type that line, but it looks confusing and intimidating to the average person. And that answer is always slightly condescending too, implying someone is an idiot for not knowing the obvious solution.
I think you are being condescending in your assumption that the "average person" is too stupid to handle it. They aren't, of course, they're just trained to think they are, because it makes them better consumers. [Insert obligatory story about grandma/kid sister/roommate not pissing themselves when faced with a CLI]
Linux will not succeed anytime soon on the desktop market, because the geeks who make it don't respect the non-geeks who would use it.
Oh my, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't realize we were making it for them. I'll pass that memo up the chain.
I would say that this is usually true, but this is Wal-Mart. Geeks (myself very much included) aren't touching this one anyway. And when you look at it from that point of view, this decision almost makes sense. They're aiming at the lowest common denominator, because they're Wal-Mart and that's their demographic. And those people use IE.
there is no way that can be accomplished on 5,000 songs in "a few seconds" on anything disk based, simply because of the time required to open that many files.
Agreed. Also TBS games like Civilization, etc., translate extremely poorly to console controllers. I'll stop using Windows for games when they come out with a keyboard for my Playstation.
(That said, my XP machine is solely for games, it's name is "pariah," and it's not on my network.)
Near the start of the last century^W^W^Wthis century, we were given a good demonstration in Germany^WAmerica of how easy it is to corrupt a democratic system, so perhaps some additional safeguards are required.
Listen, I hear this repeated on Slashdot about twenty times in any conversation about any web browser. And I've never seen it in real life. I've got a copy of FF2.0 running at home right now (I'm at work), it's been running for over a fucking week, and it's consuming maybe 120MB of RAM. Which is about 20MB more than when I open it. It'll be at 120 when I get home, it'll be at 120 next week.
No, my single data point proves nothing, but neither does yours.
No, you silly butthole! Open Document is a "standard.".doc, closed and undocumented as it is, and as others cannot reliably implement it (as you yourself said), cannot possibly be a "standard." It runs contrary to the definition of the word.
And for the record, OpenOffice, KOffice, and Abiword all open older MS Office ('97 and pre-) documents more reliably and consistently than any newer version of MS Office. Take your made-up standards and shove them up your ass.
* Where should I save my work ? In/home/username, where every Linux desktop app I've ever used goes by default.
* How do I read files from a CD ? I click the CD icon. What do you Windows people do?
* When I install programs, where do they go ? You know what, I've never even needed to know. I go to Synaptic and install something, and there it is in my menu. I don't want it anymore, I go back and remove it and it's gone. I don't need to "know where they go," my system does that for me. Revolutionary, huh?
* Speaking of which, how do I install something ? See above.
In closing, you're either making assumptions based on grossly outdated information, or you're a troll, or you're just a gibbering idiot. Good day to you.
You're Big Music. You spend multi-millions every year telling the teenage demographic "All your friends already have this, you know you want it, it'll make you smarter, funnier, and more attractive to the opposite sex," then price it out of their range (most of them, at any rate), and then have the gall to be shocked - SHOCKED - when they take the illegal (not to mention easier and more reliable) route?!
This economic model is dead! Deceased! It has ceased to be!
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Assuming these are mp3, at an average size of 3.5 MB per file, we're talking somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 GB. Correct me if my assumptions are unfounded. I'd call that "medium-big," but not huge.
Anyway, if you're looking for a good GTK jukebox (and yes, Rhythmbox totally blows), check out gmusicbrowser. Excellent browser, can use gstreamer or mpg321/ogg123/flac123 or mplayer as a backend, very adaptable interface, snappy as hell with my 80GB or so (mixed bag of flac/ogg/mp3), I can't speak for how well it'd hold up under a heavier load. It's initial scan with that much data takes a goddamn long time (start it before you go to bed), but once the files are scanned, you're golden. You can set it up to scan for new/deleted/changed files on startup, which is much faster and less processor-intensive than the initial scan, but even that can be turned off or done manually from the prefs menu. Enjoy!
if they could easily go get a better job, one would presume they'd have already done so.
Ain't necessarily so. I have the skills and experience to get a better job than I have. But I don't, and the reason is that I'm too goddamn busy doing my job to even look.
The reason (my reason, anyway) for cluing ppl toward the command-line rather than Synaptic (or Kpackage or Adept or what-have-you) is that the command-line is desktop-agnostic. I don't want to have to give a separate set of instructions for every GUI you may possibly be using, when I can just have you cut/paste "sudo apt-get install foo". Saves us both time.
But I understand what you're saying.
what with the gay naming? (emphasis mine, bigotry yours)
Fuck you, asshole.
"What version of Windows are you using?"
Oh God yes. Qwest is a real gem with this one. I have to lie, or I get nowhere, they won't even talk to me if they know I'm running Linux. "I'm sorry, we do not support the Lee-nooks." Listen, lady, I fucking well know that. You support the godddamn internet, I'll handle the Lee-nooks.
GP post is an excellent example of someone refuting faulty arguments. Parent post is an excellent example of someone who can't.
the major labels won't even promote someone who's really ugly, even if he/she has an amazing voice, writes perfect songs, and plays awesome guitar.
I have often thought this myself. One of my all-time favorite artists, for instance, Meat Loaf, would absolutely never make Top 40 rotation in today's media climate. He's too fat, he's too eclectic, his songs are way too goddamn long. Really, all the success Meat Loaf achieved, he got in spite of a lot of major label resistance. After Bat Out of Hell, his career collapsed, he couldn't sell records, he had to go play bars, little clubs in Europe, anywhere that would take him. And slowly, slowly, he started picking up a new following. The crowds got bigger, the venues got bigger, and finally in the 90s he put out Bat II, and went platinum overnight. One of the greatest rock and roll comeback stories ever, and all with absolutely no help from a label.
Like hell you weren't. You were talking about "people who jail dissidents." No straw in those men.
Praising people who regularly jail dissidents for loving freedom just makes my stomach turn.
Yeah, mine too.
Sure it isn't difficult to type that line, but it looks confusing and intimidating to the average person. And that answer is always slightly condescending too, implying someone is an idiot for not knowing the obvious solution.
I think you are being condescending in your assumption that the "average person" is too stupid to handle it. They aren't, of course, they're just trained to think they are, because it makes them better consumers. [Insert obligatory story about grandma/kid sister/roommate not pissing themselves when faced with a CLI]
Linux will not succeed anytime soon on the desktop market, because the geeks who make it don't respect the non-geeks who would use it.
Oh my, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't realize we were making it for them. I'll pass that memo up the chain.
The content creators don't agree, and you have to abide by their terms.
You misspelled "lawyers."
I would say that this is usually true, but this is Wal-Mart. Geeks (myself very much included) aren't touching this one anyway. And when you look at it from that point of view, this decision almost makes sense. They're aiming at the lowest common denominator, because they're Wal-Mart and that's their demographic. And those people use IE.
there is no way that can be accomplished on 5,000 songs in "a few seconds" on anything disk based, simply because of the time required to open that many files.
Bullshit. My 60GB iAudio X5 does exactly that.
I call bullshit. I download all my Linux ISOs from Isohunt. They have more trackers, more peers, more seeders than any other source I've found.
I work at an architectural firm (I'm a contractor so I can talk shit), and I shit you not a bit, they do that here. In 2007.
Agreed. Also TBS games like Civilization, etc., translate extremely poorly to console controllers. I'll stop using Windows for games when they come out with a keyboard for my Playstation.
(That said, my XP machine is solely for games, it's name is "pariah," and it's not on my network.)
Something that guarantees something is called a guarantor. Thought you'd want to know.
Great post, by the way, I'd mod you up if I could.
Near the start of the last century^W^W^Wthis century, we were given a good demonstration in Germany^WAmerica of how easy it is to corrupt a democratic system, so perhaps some additional safeguards are required.
Fixed that for you.
My god, they're trotting this old whore out.
Listen, I hear this repeated on Slashdot about twenty times in any conversation about any web browser. And I've never seen it in real life. I've got a copy of FF2.0 running at home right now (I'm at work), it's been running for over a fucking week, and it's consuming maybe 120MB of RAM. Which is about 20MB more than when I open it. It'll be at 120 when I get home, it'll be at 120 next week.
No, my single data point proves nothing, but neither does yours.
If you want full-service, paid support, there is a link on the front page of ubuntu.com. Here, I'll give you this one for nothing:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
Your options from this point are as follows:
1. Do it yourself
2. Stop being a cheap-ass
3. STFU
I have it in 2.0. Maybe the option wasn't compiled into your package?
No, you silly butthole! Open Document is a "standard." .doc, closed and undocumented as it is, and as others cannot reliably implement it (as you yourself said), cannot possibly be a "standard." It runs contrary to the definition of the word.
And for the record, OpenOffice, KOffice, and Abiword all open older MS Office ('97 and pre-) documents more reliably and consistently than any newer version of MS Office. Take your made-up standards and shove them up your ass.
You silly bastard, Linux comes with an office suite! That's five fewer steps! Zero steps, none steps!
You've got to be kidding.
/home/username, where every Linux desktop app I've ever used goes by default.
* Where should I save my work ?
In
* How do I read files from a CD ?
I click the CD icon. What do you Windows people do?
* When I install programs, where do they go ?
You know what, I've never even needed to know. I go to Synaptic and install something, and there it is in my menu. I don't want it anymore, I go back and remove it and it's gone. I don't need to "know where they go," my system does that for me. Revolutionary, huh?
* Speaking of which, how do I install something ?
See above.
In closing, you're either making assumptions based on grossly outdated information, or you're a troll, or you're just a gibbering idiot. Good day to you.
You're Big Music. You spend multi-millions every year telling the teenage demographic "All your friends already have this, you know you want it, it'll make you smarter, funnier, and more attractive to the opposite sex," then price it out of their range (most of them, at any rate), and then have the gall to be shocked - SHOCKED - when they take the illegal (not to mention easier and more reliable) route?!
This economic model is dead! Deceased! It has ceased to be!