The same thing happened with the TurboGrafix 16 system. The games available over here were really shitty and didn't sell well. In Japan, it was really big, competing neck and neck with the Super Famicom.
You can buy (or build) conversion slots for playing the Japanese HuCards on a North American system.
It's the same thing all over again, except that many people pirate PSX games with a mod chip. You can get anti-pirate mod chips though.
Alex Garland's book is quite possibly one of the coolest things I've ever read. The details of what's going on in Richard's head caused me to have trouble putting the book down. In fact, I missed an exam because of it. That's true. I highly recommend the book to anybody.
When I found out that Boyle was making a movie from it, I thought "great!" I loved Shallow Grave (not many people have seen it, which is sad) and Trainspotting. Ewan MacGregor was to play Richard. When I found out that DiCaprio replaced him, I was shocked. This moron?! Then I remembered The Basketball Diaries and was somewhat comforted... Somewhat.
Then I actually saw the thing. Cinematically, it's not hard to tell that Boyle was at the helm. The camera work is great, and has Boyle's unique visual style.
The events and characters captured by the cameras are another thing altogether. I know, I know, most people will hate a movie because it's "not like the book" if they had read it. I'm not that type. I didn't mind that Richard played Rampage on his Gameboy instead of Tetris. I was disappointed that that all of the changes were really badly chosen. I wanted to see Jed. How could they remove him? DiCaprio really played on the "I'm American" thing in a very bad way as well. How could you not hate him? He was a complete asshole. In the book, Richard did some stupid things, yes, but at least we could actually like him. When Leo got in front of the still camera and started acting like a complete idiot, I wanted to shoot him.
When he started fucking everything on two legs I couldn't help but feel that the book Richard's character, the one which made it famous, was indeed destroyed. The world at large will forever think of Richard as this little blond-haired jerk.
The choices were very bad, indeed. I really wanted to see the book's ending on the big screen, but got something completely different. I won't say anything about it deyond that it's extremely typical of Hollywood to change books in that manner.
As for Katz's statement about getting away from technology, I don't really think so. They welcomed technology on the beach. They played Gameboys, built houses, used technology to their advantage. They were trying to get away from traditional tourist crap. I'm the same way. I hate being a tourist, yet enjoy travelling. I'll be damned if I'm not going to bring along some electronic entertainment. Maybe you should watch it again (better yet, read the book). The scene where they go back for supplies shows this very clearly.
I'll be damned if I'm going to let some inane animated happy-go-lucky screen widget tell me how to do something in office.
I should have clarified.
I don't mean this for you or me, who hate such things (I haven't used any version of MS Office in 4 or 5 years), but for the kind of people who actually like that crap. The kind of people who would get frustrated at not being able to press enter twice. A little pop up that says, "Hey! you don't need to press enter twice" when you try to do it (making sure it doesn't steal focus of course).
As for the "learning wizard" I mean an interactive tutorial that shows how to do something and says, "now you try it." Those people will get pissed off and give up upon seeing a whole document like the current LyX tutorial (<nasty>god forbid they should learn to read before writing something...</nasty>) explaining the methods in LyX. You sort of have to trick them into learning. They won't know how long the tutorial is, and they won't mind once they're actually doing it.
After that crap is over, the way LyX works is already quite neat. Whenever you select a menu item or button, the status bar briefly shows what you did and the key-combo for it. Eventually the key-combos will be stuck in your mind and you'll rarely have to take your hands off the keyboard.
Oh yeah, another thing LyX needs is a more effective way to handle multiple open documents. Not MDI! We must let that horrible interface die. I prefer multiple windows (browser-style) but will happily settle for tabs. Actually, I like how tabs are used in Lotus WordPro, allowing one to quickly go to specific parts of one document.
However, I wouldn't imagine the average (as in "not you or I") user would be happy writing TeX code. Fortunately, there's LyX, which is absolutely fantastic. It does need a few things though. Specifically a good grammar checker and a nice wide range of templates for traditional office stuff. So far it's most useful for academic stuff and I've used it extensively for that.
I think the KDE guys should be concentrating on LyX rather than KWord (ho-hum, seen it before). One nice thing would be making it easier for new users to pick up. As much as I hate to admit it, a "paperclip" would be useful to quickly explain why you can't press the enter key twice, etc. How about a "wizard" tutorial instead of the text document (typical users *hate* that kind of stuff)?
I only have 10GB of hard drive space. That couldn't hold my 300+ CD collection. The space is used for things like software, source code, information and work on various projects, etc.
It takes much longer to rip a CD than use Beam-It. The most outdated piece in my computer is the 4x CD-ROM that I bought many years ago specifically so that I could use Slackware CDs instead of downloading at 2400bps. I have had absolutely no reason to buy a new CD-ROM, concentrating my budget on processors, hard drives, video, and sound cards.
With a large CD collection, it gets annoying to be constantly swapping CDs. With Beam-It, I simply leave a browser window open and play arbitrary CDs easily.
You mention errors. It has never skipped on me yet, the performance is great. The quality is also really good.
As for privacy, this isn't that much different than buying CDs from a "club." They're not grabbing financial information, email, Netscape history, etc. Them knowing what CDs I have is integral to the system, and I'm comfortable with that.
An in-phase beam means a `0', while an in-phase beam means `1'.
I had a Sony CD-ROM at a previous job that apparently worked just like this!
Seriously though, despite the current DVD bullshit, this (the FMD, I mean) does not make much sense at this time.
There is a fairly large base of DVD players in the homes of consumers (I have one, but I haven't used it in about a month, for fairly obvious reasons).
Basically, we *have* to get the DVD people to play nice or we're pretty much screwed. Good luck getting a more open format in...
This is four wires we're talking about here, not a programming language.
Crash course in network wiring:
1. There are two possible types of twisted-pair Ethernet cables: 1) straight through (for connecting a card to a hub), and 2) crossover, or null (for connecting 2 NICs together, this is the same thing as crossing over Rx and Tx to allow two DTEs to communicate)
2. This new chip can automatically detect which cable is being used, and set itself up automagically. Now you can use both correct types of cable interchangably. Eventually (hopefully), we can simply just buy straight-through cable all the time, for all situations.
This also makes upgrading from a PC-to-PC network to a hub network very simple as you won't have to completely recable.
It's more of an interoperability thing if you ask me.
He is not exactly a geek, yet his writing is often very interesting (hilarious) to geeks. If you don't know about this, go back and read "Read This First!," (it's in the sci.electronics FAQ) his review of Independence Day (pointing out, in a humourous manner, the one part that made geeks everywhere groan loudly), "Dave Barry's Guide to Guys," and many other interesting-to-geeks writings.
He even tackled EULAs. Check out this link for a good geeky laugh.
I'm doubt Slashdot would actually hire him, though... Maybe they can, with all of that IPO money. It would definitely attract readers and he would be a good guy to have "on our side." He's made fun of M$ before, for the same reasons we tend to hate them.
My father is a truck driver who has been going down to the States a lot lately. He tells me that many truckstops have hookups for satellite TV and high bandwidth net access (yes, truckers use the net a *lot*). It's basically for drivers, like my father, who stays in the truck and has a TV and possibly a notebook computer. Many truckers use the net to find out where to go next, etc.
I'm not sure if they'll let non-truckers purchase the use of those facilities, but it's certainly worth a look if cell coverage is awful over certain parts fo the US.
By the way, `Canada' didn't exist in those days, in the sense you seem to mean: it was still part of the British Empire.
Actually, Canada was independant of both England and France in the late 1800's.
You're probably thinking of Newfoundland, where I live, which didn't join Canada until the late 1940's. We (Newfoundland) fought in the wars under Britain. The rest of Canada fought in the same way that a little brother helps out an older brother (sorry, can't think of a better analogy than that right now).
My system ground to a standstill. I couldn't even check out the running processes. I have 96MB ram/130MB swap on a K6-400.
I ran it on my desktop because I was a little wary of running it on my server without knowing anything about it. My mouse all but stopped. I moved it northeast about a centimeter and the pointer was still moving, a tiny bit at a time, with a huge interval, 5 minutes later. My HD light didn't stop. I gave up waiting and came back later to find the following output:
checking/tmp... checking/... killed
Strange. Needless to say I deleted the software and didn't bother running it on my server, which is less endowed than my desktop. That binary is way too large to do nothing but simple checks.
Then I remembered, "hey, this is the US Government, they can't do anything right!"
Never attribute to malevolence that which can be achieved through incompetence...
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It uses version "7 basic" of realplayer
Where did you find that out? It says "5.0 or higher" on the website.
Ouch. While I really like Due South, I generally hate sci-fi television. For some *really* good Canadian television, check out The Newsroom, Twitch City, or Made in Canada. I'm even known to sit down and laugh my ass of at Butch Patterson ("Money troubles?" "Ah, nothing a video camera and some runaways can't fix.") or Kevin Spencer.
That guy is hilarious. I saw him in the Canadian Improv Championships, which was pretty funny.
Has anyone else seen the new shorts he's in that come on the Canadian Comedy Network late at night? It's this really cheesy thing about two hippy, stoner, conspiracy guys who happen to find Hanger 18 and end up getting abducted by aliens. It's basically dolls and props getting moved around with strings (like Fireball XL-5, only in colour with less production quality). I've seen two episodes so far. When they found hanger 18, there was all kinds of aliens in jars labelled "Property of C. Carter." They also get anal probes and smoke a lot of weed. It's quite funny.
Are you sure about that. I couldn't find a 6b RPM for any version of SuSE (I'm running 6.3).
I manually installed it from the Red Hat RPM into a different directory. It works ok now, but everything else is linked to 6a, making a real upgrade a real pain.
Before I bothered with this web stuff, the Internet to me was archie, telnet, ftp and USENET.
If I was looking for specific information, I would first find the newsgroup(s) related to what I was looking for, ftp to rtfm.mit.edu to look at the FAQ, if it existed, then lurk lurk the newsgroup to see if it was being discussed. Failing that I would post a question and it would be answered in 24 hours.
At that time, spam was non-existent. Traffic was low enough that I could read all of my subscribed newsgroups every day, as most of the posts were informative. The rest were flames, not spam.
Then I broke down and started using HTTP.
I remember a few years ago, I went on alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt and saw somebody ask a question which had not yet been answered. I wrote a detailed answer to the question and posted it. I then got an email from an automated anti-spam program which had deleted my post, as it thought is was spam (I am still unsure what triggered it).
I gave up.
Nowadays, I only subscribe to local newsgroups such as nf.wanted, and the groups for my cable modem ISP. They are low traffic and informative with minimal spam.
Sci.electronics.* is pretty much a writeoff, IMO, as are a lot of other "world" newsgroups.
Nowadays, I subscribe to mailing lists instead. They are much better, I think, for handling spam. Sure, I get ~250 email a day, but I can go through them quickly, and it sorta forces me to read them, because I can get lazy on the newsgroups. I can also feel safe in using my real email address without the threat of spam. I hate those "user@NOSPAM.whatever.org" addresses and I don't want to have to put crap like that into mine. Slashdot, so far, has been completely safe, as I almost never get spam. The spam I do get is a result of putting my full address in USENET messages for "world" groups, years ago.
This is why I hang out here. It's sort of like what USENET used to be, with neat self-moderation features.
What we need is to make sure that the artists get paid for their work while admitting that there's no way to make a secure audio system.
Artists make their money from:
Live shows
Royalties from the mass media (TV shows, commercials, etc)
CD sales won't make artists rich. That's why most of them don't really care whether people use MP3. Many encourage, it. They understand mindshare like we do.
I'm not one of those people (cough-journalists-cough) that simply sits around wondering if Linux will become the #1 OS while browsing Slashdot with IE under Win98. I've been using it since 1993. It wouldn't really make sense to just drop it and start using Win2K. I can actually get work done on my computer. I remember working for a while at an NT shop and discovering that Linux has spoiled me. If I try to use it in the same way I use X, the damn thing crashes, running less applications at the same time, with more memory.
There's also little things, like the way Windows resets the position of a document when I'm dragging a scrollbar and let the mouse stray a dozen pixels to the left or right. Windows users are used to that. I'm not.
Though the major reason why I'm sticking with it is that the apps can only get better. I've been playing with KDE2 cvsups, and Konqueror is the first ever filemanager that makes me rethink using mc (not the disappointing gmc) for absolutely everything (wow, I remember when it was called 'Mouseless Commander," I feel old).
Ok, so I have a small W98 partition on my hard drive. It's not bootable, though. I'll never actually use it. It's there just in case I need to use Wine for something and want to use the MS libraries, which appears to be very rare for me. I had to use it to get some some entries from someone's address book application when his power supply failed. I plugged it into mine, and ran the app. Then I backed up his data. It didn't screw up my system, my "drive letters" didn't change, it used the registry on his Windows partition, not mine.
I'm not a zealot or anything. Linux simply makes more sense for me. I'm not deleting it from my desktop anytime soon.
Now all I have to do is get this Kurta 12x17 digitizer I just got sans documentation to work in X...
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The same thing happened with the TurboGrafix 16 system. The games available over here were really shitty and didn't sell well. In Japan, it was really big, competing neck and neck with the Super Famicom.
You can buy (or build) conversion slots for playing the Japanese HuCards on a North American system.
It's the same thing all over again, except that many people pirate PSX games with a mod chip. You can get anti-pirate mod chips though.
Alex Garland's book is quite possibly one of the coolest things I've ever read. The details of what's going on in Richard's head caused me to have trouble putting the book down. In fact, I missed an exam because of it. That's true. I highly recommend the book to anybody.
When I found out that Boyle was making a movie from it, I thought "great!" I loved Shallow Grave (not many people have seen it, which is sad) and Trainspotting. Ewan MacGregor was to play Richard. When I found out that DiCaprio replaced him, I was shocked. This moron?! Then I remembered The Basketball Diaries and was somewhat comforted... Somewhat.
Then I actually saw the thing. Cinematically, it's not hard to tell that Boyle was at the helm. The camera work is great, and has Boyle's unique visual style.
The events and characters captured by the cameras are another thing altogether. I know, I know, most people will hate a movie because it's "not like the book" if they had read it. I'm not that type. I didn't mind that Richard played Rampage on his Gameboy instead of Tetris. I was disappointed that that all of the changes were really badly chosen. I wanted to see Jed. How could they remove him? DiCaprio really played on the "I'm American" thing in a very bad way as well. How could you not hate him? He was a complete asshole. In the book, Richard did some stupid things, yes, but at least we could actually like him. When Leo got in front of the still camera and started acting like a complete idiot, I wanted to shoot him.
When he started fucking everything on two legs I couldn't help but feel that the book Richard's character, the one which made it famous, was indeed destroyed. The world at large will forever think of Richard as this little blond-haired jerk.
The choices were very bad, indeed. I really wanted to see the book's ending on the big screen, but got something completely different. I won't say anything about it deyond that it's extremely typical of Hollywood to change books in that manner.
As for Katz's statement about getting away from technology, I don't really think so. They welcomed technology on the beach. They played Gameboys, built houses, used technology to their advantage. They were trying to get away from traditional tourist crap. I'm the same way. I hate being a tourist, yet enjoy travelling. I'll be damned if I'm not going to bring along some electronic entertainment. Maybe you should watch it again (better yet, read the book). The scene where they go back for supplies shows this very clearly.
I'll be damned if I'm going to let some inane animated happy-go-lucky screen widget tell me how to do something in office.
I should have clarified.
I don't mean this for you or me, who hate such things (I haven't used any version of MS Office in 4 or 5 years), but for the kind of people who actually like that crap. The kind of people who would get frustrated at not being able to press enter twice. A little pop up that says, "Hey! you don't need to press enter twice" when you try to do it (making sure it doesn't steal focus of course).
As for the "learning wizard" I mean an interactive tutorial that shows how to do something and says, "now you try it." Those people will get pissed off and give up upon seeing a whole document like the current LyX tutorial (<nasty>god forbid they should learn to read before writing something...</nasty>) explaining the methods in LyX. You sort of have to trick them into learning. They won't know how long the tutorial is, and they won't mind once they're actually doing it.
After that crap is over, the way LyX works is already quite neat. Whenever you select a menu item or button, the status bar briefly shows what you did and the key-combo for it. Eventually the key-combos will be stuck in your mind and you'll rarely have to take your hands off the keyboard.
Oh yeah, another thing LyX needs is a more effective way to handle multiple open documents. Not MDI! We must let that horrible interface die. I prefer multiple windows (browser-style) but will happily settle for tabs. Actually, I like how tabs are used in Lotus WordPro, allowing one to quickly go to specific parts of one document.
Ok, I'll stop rambling...
Damn, I was gonna say that :-)*
However, I wouldn't imagine the average (as in "not you or I") user would be happy writing TeX code. Fortunately, there's LyX, which is absolutely fantastic. It does need a few things though. Specifically a good grammar checker and a nice wide range of templates for traditional office stuff. So far it's most useful for academic stuff and I've used it extensively for that.
I think the KDE guys should be concentrating on LyX rather than KWord (ho-hum, seen it before). One nice thing would be making it easier for new users to pick up. As much as I hate to admit it, a "paperclip" would be useful to quickly explain why you can't press the enter key twice, etc. How about a "wizard" tutorial instead of the text document (typical users *hate* that kind of stuff)?
Oh well, I've ranted enough.
You're forgetting a few things.
I only have 10GB of hard drive space. That couldn't hold my 300+ CD collection. The space is used for things like software, source code, information and work on various projects, etc.
It takes much longer to rip a CD than use Beam-It. The most outdated piece in my computer is the 4x CD-ROM that I bought many years ago specifically so that I could use Slackware CDs instead of downloading at 2400bps. I have had absolutely no reason to buy a new CD-ROM, concentrating my budget on processors, hard drives, video, and sound cards.
With a large CD collection, it gets annoying to be constantly swapping CDs. With Beam-It, I simply leave a browser window open and play arbitrary CDs easily.
You mention errors. It has never skipped on me yet, the performance is great. The quality is also really good.
As for privacy, this isn't that much different than buying CDs from a "club." They're not grabbing financial information, email, Netscape history, etc. Them knowing what CDs I have is integral to the system, and I'm comfortable with that.
I had a Sony CD-ROM at a previous job that apparently worked just like this!
Seriously though, despite the current DVD bullshit, this (the FMD, I mean) does not make much sense at this time.
There is a fairly large base of DVD players in the homes of consumers (I have one, but I haven't used it in about a month, for fairly obvious reasons).
Basically, we *have* to get the DVD people to play nice or we're pretty much screwed. Good luck getting a more open format in...
This is four wires we're talking about here, not a programming language.
Crash course in network wiring:
1. There are two possible types of twisted-pair Ethernet cables: 1) straight through (for connecting a card to a hub), and 2) crossover, or null (for connecting 2 NICs together, this is the same thing as crossing over Rx and Tx to allow two DTEs to communicate)
2. This new chip can automatically detect which cable is being used, and set itself up automagically. Now you can use both correct types of cable interchangably. Eventually (hopefully), we can simply just buy straight-through cable all the time, for all situations.
This also makes upgrading from a PC-to-PC network to a hub network very simple as you won't have to completely recable.
It's more of an interoperability thing if you ask me.
Definitely Dave Barry.
He is not exactly a geek, yet his writing is often very interesting (hilarious) to geeks. If you don't know about this, go back and read "Read This First!," (it's in the sci.electronics FAQ) his review of Independence Day (pointing out, in a humourous manner, the one part that made geeks everywhere groan loudly), "Dave Barry's Guide to Guys," and many other interesting-to-geeks writings.
He even tackled EULAs. Check out this link for a good geeky laugh.
I'm doubt Slashdot would actually hire him, though... Maybe they can, with all of that IPO money. It would definitely attract readers and he would be a good guy to have "on our side." He's made fun of M$ before, for the same reasons we tend to hate them.
Man, would that ever be cool...
I don't know if this will help, but...
My father is a truck driver who has been going down to the States a lot lately. He tells me that many truckstops have hookups for satellite TV and high bandwidth net access (yes, truckers use the net a *lot*). It's basically for drivers, like my father, who stays in the truck and has a TV and possibly a notebook computer. Many truckers use the net to find out where to go next, etc.
I'm not sure if they'll let non-truckers purchase the use of those facilities, but it's certainly worth a look if cell coverage is awful over certain parts fo the US.
By the way, `Canada' didn't exist in those days, in the sense you seem to mean: it was still part of the British Empire.
Actually, Canada was independant of both England and France in the late 1800's.
You're probably thinking of Newfoundland, where I live, which didn't join Canada until the late 1940's. We (Newfoundland) fought in the wars under Britain. The rest of Canada fought in the same way that a little brother helps out an older brother (sorry, can't think of a better analogy than that right now).
My system ground to a standstill. I couldn't even check out the running processes. I have 96MB ram/130MB swap on a K6-400.
/tmp... /...
I ran it on my desktop because I was a little wary of running it on my server without knowing anything about it. My mouse all but stopped. I moved it northeast about a centimeter and the pointer was still moving, a tiny bit at a time, with a huge interval, 5 minutes later. My HD light didn't stop. I gave up waiting and came back later to find the following output:
checking
checking
killed
Strange. Needless to say I deleted the software and didn't bother running it on my server, which is less endowed than my desktop. That binary is way too large to do nothing but simple checks.
Then I remembered, "hey, this is the US Government, they can't do anything right!"
Never attribute to malevolence that which can be achieved through incompetence...
It uses version "7 basic" of realplayer
Where did you find that out? It says "5.0 or higher" on the website.
I just tried to listen in and the G2 Alpha (Linux) claims that there is no renderer for the file type.
5.0 or higher, huh? Anybody else getting this?
Does this mean I have to downgrade? That's sort of moronic.
Ouch. While I really like Due South, I generally hate sci-fi television. For some *really* good Canadian television, check out The Newsroom, Twitch City, or Made in Canada. I'm even known to sit down and laugh my ass of at Butch Patterson ("Money troubles?" "Ah, nothing a video camera and some runaways can't fix.") or Kevin Spencer.
That guy is hilarious. I saw him in the Canadian Improv Championships, which was pretty funny.
Has anyone else seen the new shorts he's in that come on the Canadian Comedy Network late at night? It's this really cheesy thing about two hippy, stoner, conspiracy guys who happen to find Hanger 18 and end up getting abducted by aliens. It's basically dolls and props getting moved around with strings (like Fireball XL-5, only in colour with less production quality). I've seen two episodes so far. When they found hanger 18, there was all kinds of aliens in jars labelled "Property of C. Carter." They also get anal probes and smoke a lot of weed. It's quite funny.
Um, we have both.
At least they are both on my computer. Granted, G2 is a crappy alpha version and Flash doesn't work as well as I would like.
It is there, though.
Are you sure about that. I couldn't find a 6b RPM for any version of SuSE (I'm running 6.3).
I manually installed it from the Red Hat RPM into a different directory. It works ok now, but everything else is linked to 6a, making a real upgrade a real pain.
That's the only beef I have about SuSE, though.
Before I bothered with this web stuff, the Internet to me was archie, telnet, ftp and USENET.
If I was looking for specific information, I would first find the newsgroup(s) related to what I was looking for, ftp to rtfm.mit.edu to look at the FAQ, if it existed, then lurk lurk the newsgroup to see if it was being discussed. Failing that I would post a question and it would be answered in 24 hours.
At that time, spam was non-existent. Traffic was low enough that I could read all of my subscribed newsgroups every day, as most of the posts were informative. The rest were flames, not spam.
Then I broke down and started using HTTP.
I remember a few years ago, I went on alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt and saw somebody ask a question which had not yet been answered. I wrote a detailed answer to the question and posted it. I then got an email from an automated anti-spam program which had deleted my post, as it thought is was spam (I am still unsure what triggered it).
I gave up.
Nowadays, I only subscribe to local newsgroups such as nf.wanted, and the groups for my cable modem ISP. They are low traffic and informative with minimal spam.
Sci.electronics.* is pretty much a writeoff, IMO, as are a lot of other "world" newsgroups.
Nowadays, I subscribe to mailing lists instead. They are much better, I think, for handling spam. Sure, I get ~250 email a day, but I can go through them quickly, and it sorta forces me to read them, because I can get lazy on the newsgroups. I can also feel safe in using my real email address without the threat of spam. I hate those "user@NOSPAM.whatever.org" addresses and I don't want to have to put crap like that into mine. Slashdot, so far, has been completely safe, as I almost never get spam. The spam I do get is a result of putting my full address in USENET messages for "world" groups, years ago.
This is why I hang out here. It's sort of like what USENET used to be, with neat self-moderation features.
Listening to the stream right now (4:41 Newfoundland Time, GMT -3:30).
Whoever put on King of the World by Steely Dan is my favourite person in the world!
Last time I checked it was dead air. I went away for a while, then came back to this amazing tune.
Too bad it's a little broken up...
Artists make their money from:
CD sales won't make artists rich. That's why most of them don't really care whether people use MP3. Many encourage, it. They understand mindshare like we do.
Pretty much my exact thoughts.
I'm not one of those people (cough-journalists-cough) that simply sits around wondering if Linux will become the #1 OS while browsing Slashdot with IE under Win98. I've been using it since 1993. It wouldn't really make sense to just drop it and start using Win2K. I can actually get work done on my computer. I remember working for a while at an NT shop and discovering that Linux has spoiled me. If I try to use it in the same way I use X, the damn thing crashes, running less applications at the same time, with more memory.
There's also little things, like the way Windows resets the position of a document when I'm dragging a scrollbar and let the mouse stray a dozen pixels to the left or right. Windows users are used to that. I'm not.
Though the major reason why I'm sticking with it is that the apps can only get better. I've been playing with KDE2 cvsups, and Konqueror is the first ever filemanager that makes me rethink using mc (not the disappointing gmc) for absolutely everything (wow, I remember when it was called 'Mouseless Commander," I feel old).
Ok, so I have a small W98 partition on my hard drive. It's not bootable, though. I'll never actually use it. It's there just in case I need to use Wine for something and want to use the MS libraries, which appears to be very rare for me. I had to use it to get some some entries from someone's address book application when his power supply failed. I plugged it into mine, and ran the app. Then I backed up his data. It didn't screw up my system, my "drive letters" didn't change, it used the registry on his Windows partition, not mine.
I'm not a zealot or anything. Linux simply makes more sense for me. I'm not deleting it from my desktop anytime soon.
Now all I have to do is get this Kurta 12x17 digitizer I just got sans documentation to work in X...
I got the same thing. They didn't even mention it for tomorrow's broadcast.
Methinks they may have pulled the story. In a way that's a good thing, because ABC/diz-nee are afraid that the truth will hurt them.
You might want to add mkisofs to that list.
I run all manners of i686 builds for various software (including Mozilla) on my K6-450. I've had no trouble with that.
Go ahead and download it. It should work. If you want, just get the source and compile it from scratch.
They turned down a lot of money.
They are artists. They expressed themselves.
You appear to be offended by offensive language. I am not. It's expression and I'm going to defend their right to do it.
I'm sorry, but your Tipper Gore attitude is not going to win me over, especially since I'm a musician.