I definitely would not advocate violence as a solution. However, if I were on a jury, neither would I necessarily convict someone of fighting back physically when the broken legal system destroyed their life.
In any case, this is interesting. I find it peculiar that people's views of digital media is different than their views of older types of media, such as books, vinyl records, etc.
I don't think it's any different at all. If a book came with a big DON'T STEAL THIS BOOK! band around the cover, I'd cut it off and throw it away so that it doesn't annoy me. I also wouldn't give my kid an expensive but fragile book that becomes wholly unreadable if he so much as looks at it with peanut-butter covered fingers, but that's basically what a CD or DVD is. That's why literally every parent I know makes backups of their DVDs before letting the rugrats have at them.
Although I'm a blu-ray fan, I'm not really apologizing (problems are problems), I thought I'd clarify, especially the bit about the ps3. I wouldn't know anything first hand, I don't like either movie, and Fox tends to charge too much for their blu-ray movies anyway.
Translation: I have no counter-evidence to the published story, either first or second hand, but feel that I simply must speak up and say that everyone else is wrong.
Dude, seriously, I thought the other poster was joking about you working for Sony until I looked at your posting history. Now it seems like the simplest explanation for your writing, since no one is that into one company's products over another's without getting a little something from that company.
Breaking in *speakers* is completely true; they often will sound better if you run them reasonably hard for a few hours or days, because the speaker cone material and the surrounds and all that will loosen up a little and get more flexible and this does tend to improve the quality of the sound.
Assuming the effect is true (and that's a rather big ass-you-me), the resulting sound would be more distorted because the speaker cone would be accelerated more quickly in the center than at the edges, basically running a Gaussian blur over the waveform.
If you like that particular distorted sound, that's fine, but in no way is it "better" or "more accurate".
The Teleportation Tweak has a profound effect on the sound and is performed during a phone call to Machina Dynamica; the phone call can be made via landline or cell phone from any room in the house. The tweak itself takes about 30 seconds.
Having worked tech support, I could routinely perform the same miracle in five words:
"Is your computer plugged in?"
A good half the time, that phrase would miraculously cure the ills that had launched the profanity-filled tirade I had just finished listening to.
Audiophiles are in the same class of idiot as people who believe in homeopathy and copper bracelets. The only difference is that the audiophile isn't harming anything but his own obsessive-compulsiveness, and creates an efficient money transfer conduit from the stupid to the clever, namely the people who market this overpriced junk.
Audiophiles are also the ultimate disproof of the idea that "wealth equals intelligence", so when your dad asks why you why you aren't rich if you're so smart, you can tell him that at least you didn't spend $7,000 on speaker cable and the two of you can laugh about it over a beer. Just don't let him bring up the neon tubes and Arctic Silver conductive paste and water-cooled RAM in your own bedroom.
The installation should be handled by *one* script, that takes care of all components needed to create a fully functional mail server.
For anything end-user related, I agree with you. For the specific case of server software, I wholeheartedly disagree. There is no such thing as a "typical" server installation; there are certain decisions that you have to make in advance that simply can't be scripted. In this situation, I firmly approve of the way Debian et al handle this. It installs the software you want then leaves it up to you to set it up the way you need it to be.
I don't want to sound elitist, but if you don't know how to do this stuff, then you shouldn't be doing it. I would never tell a user that they need to be an expert in digital media before installing an MP3 player, but have no problem telling them to read up on server administration before letting them create an Internet-facing service.
One of my coworkers told me about this site, Slashdot, that had geeky stuff I might like reading about. I registered in one of the first few visits because it seemed like the thing to do, but if I'd known I'd be stuck with that same smartassed handle a decade and a million other accounts later, I probably would've put more thought into it.
Remember, there is a difference between Sony's hardware division that makes stuff that plays music, and Sony's music division that signs artists, and distributes music.
I'm not up on all this stuff, so could you tell me which Sony company makes money off hardware and which is the entertainment company, so that I can refuse to do business with the idiot corporation but still support the slightly less idiotic one? Because if you can't, in my opinion, that's exactly like giving me money to put in the checking account I share with my wife, but not liking her and refusing to give any money to her. It all ends up in the same place and will be distributed among the same people.
I was gonna upgrade to WordPress from MT, but this may be enough to make me not bother.
Go with Drupal. Get all the blogging goodness plus photo albums, iGoogle-like portal pages (that support iGoogle plugins!) and pretty much anything else you could ever possible want in a personal site. See my link above for an example.
Back then, a 1400 really meant something, and a "perfect" score was a one or two person thing.
I got 760 math and 670 verbal (1430 total, for those who got less than 300 in math) and a 34 on my ACT. Those looked great come scholarship time, but I wish they had a "you are an aimless slacker who will drop out of college after a semester" section - that would have saved a lot of heartache for all involved.
Oh, and maybe a "unlikelihood of being able to tolerate life in the military after joining in youthful rebellion" score. That would have been pretty useful.
No not the bs they include (I'm sorry when I can type faster than the fucking shell that's a problem, and one problem I haven't had since like 91-92 on dialup:P
On a 1.2GHz G4 eMac:
$ find / >/tmp/foo $ wc/tmp/foo 636858 1061869 59578401/tmp/foo $ time cat/tmp/foo cat/tmp/foo 0.00s user 1.45s system 2% cpu 49.424 total
I cannot quite type 1.2MB per second for more than a short burst, so I'll defer to your presumably superior typing skills and admit that I may not be as finicky as you deservedly are. Still, I would suppose that even one such as yourself would find Terminal.app to be at least, say, decent?
Assembler programmers used to make the same claim.
Ignoring, of course, that assembler still sits comfortably above machine language and microcode, both of which are at a much higher level than the gate logic that defines them. All this whining about "your arbitrary abstraction level is clearly inferior to my arbitrary abstraction level" is just silly.
I don't think so. They used what basically amounted to a stock photo according to its license. Were they supposed to personally vet all parties involved? Do you personally vet everyone in stock photos you use? Or audit all the software on your machine to ensure that the people who licensed it to you really had permission to do so?
At some point, you have to be able to trust that your sources are legitimately representing themselves. IANAL, but this seems like one of those "good faith" dealings, and Virgin didn't have any reason to think that the photographer was illegally offering his work. They obeyed their license with him, and it was his job to make sure he was allowed to offer it.
Since AT&T doesn't cover where I live, I guess I'd have to say compatibility with another carrier. Until then it could offer unlimited free music and movie downloads and it'd still be useless for me.
Will downgrade new machines from Vista to XP [...]
Nothing personal, it's just that your post is the one I finally decided to comment on. Folks, the subject line is meant to be a terse summary of your post. It is not meant to be the first part of the first sentence in your post.
I had to re-read the sentence fragment above a few times to realize that it was a continuation of what you'd typed in the subject. Many people won't bother and will take that as poor grammar before skipping on to the next message. Free advice: if you want your message to get out, don't do that.
I've been seeing this quite a bit lately and it's irksome. Slashdot has traditionally loosely followed the metaphor of a mailing list, mainly because the crowd that originally made it popular was used to that. There's still a strong influence in that direction. There's no law or rule or FAQ that says it has to be this way, but roughly a decade of practice has made it standard.
I can't imagine Dell requiring open-source drivers. Even if to support their Linux offerings. [...] You release the hardware specs (or better yet, a real working driver) and you now enable somebody to duplicate all that work in a couple of weeks just reusing (yes, stealing) the software. No R&D time. Much, much cheaper product.
Yes, I can hardly imagine Dell wanting to see their suppliers in a price war. I'm sure it would break their heart if all their components were suddenly "much, much cheaper".
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No, the other ninety degrees: oo.
...or if you rotate the 8 90 degrees.
I definitely would not advocate violence as a solution. However, if I were on a jury, neither would I necessarily convict someone of fighting back physically when the broken legal system destroyed their life.
I don't think it's any different at all. If a book came with a big DON'T STEAL THIS BOOK! band around the cover, I'd cut it off and throw it away so that it doesn't annoy me. I also wouldn't give my kid an expensive but fragile book that becomes wholly unreadable if he so much as looks at it with peanut-butter covered fingers, but that's basically what a CD or DVD is. That's why literally every parent I know makes backups of their DVDs before letting the rugrats have at them.
Translation: I have no counter-evidence to the published story, either first or second hand, but feel that I simply must speak up and say that everyone else is wrong.
Dude, seriously, I thought the other poster was joking about you working for Sony until I looked at your posting history. Now it seems like the simplest explanation for your writing, since no one is that into one company's products over another's without getting a little something from that company.
Assuming the effect is true (and that's a rather big ass-you-me), the resulting sound would be more distorted because the speaker cone would be accelerated more quickly in the center than at the edges, basically running a Gaussian blur over the waveform.
If you like that particular distorted sound, that's fine, but in no way is it "better" or "more accurate".
Having worked tech support, I could routinely perform the same miracle in five words:
"Is your computer plugged in?"
A good half the time, that phrase would miraculously cure the ills that had launched the profanity-filled tirade I had just finished listening to.
Audiophiles are in the same class of idiot as people who believe in homeopathy and copper bracelets. The only difference is that the audiophile isn't harming anything but his own obsessive-compulsiveness, and creates an efficient money transfer conduit from the stupid to the clever, namely the people who market this overpriced junk.
Audiophiles are also the ultimate disproof of the idea that "wealth equals intelligence", so when your dad asks why you why you aren't rich if you're so smart, you can tell him that at least you didn't spend $7,000 on speaker cable and the two of you can laugh about it over a beer. Just don't let him bring up the neon tubes and Arctic Silver conductive paste and water-cooled RAM in your own bedroom.
For anything end-user related, I agree with you. For the specific case of server software, I wholeheartedly disagree. There is no such thing as a "typical" server installation; there are certain decisions that you have to make in advance that simply can't be scripted. In this situation, I firmly approve of the way Debian et al handle this. It installs the software you want then leaves it up to you to set it up the way you need it to be.
I don't want to sound elitist, but if you don't know how to do this stuff, then you shouldn't be doing it. I would never tell a user that they need to be an expert in digital media before installing an MP3 player, but have no problem telling them to read up on server administration before letting them create an Internet-facing service.
Yeah, because nothing says "signal" like Natalie Portman, naked and petrified with hot grits.
When exactly was this halcyon time you seem to be misremembering?
One of my coworkers told me about this site, Slashdot, that had geeky stuff I might like reading about. I registered in one of the first few visits because it seemed like the thing to do, but if I'd known I'd be stuck with that same smartassed handle a decade and a million other accounts later, I probably would've put more thought into it.
I'm not up on all this stuff, so could you tell me which Sony company makes money off hardware and which is the entertainment company, so that I can refuse to do business with the idiot corporation but still support the slightly less idiotic one? Because if you can't, in my opinion, that's exactly like giving me money to put in the checking account I share with my wife, but not liking her and refusing to give any money to her. It all ends up in the same place and will be distributed among the same people.
Go with Drupal. Get all the blogging goodness plus photo albums, iGoogle-like portal pages (that support iGoogle plugins!) and pretty much anything else you could ever possible want in a personal site. See my link above for an example.
Konqueror*.
*The Konqueror UA switcher works perfectly on the only site
You know, it's OK if you mom wants to use Konqueror. You really don't have to justify it. :-)
I much prefer "ME2", which associates with both Windows ME and the taint of AOL.
I got 760 math and 670 verbal (1430 total, for those who got less than 300 in math) and a 34 on my ACT. Those looked great come scholarship time, but I wish they had a "you are an aimless slacker who will drop out of college after a semester" section - that would have saved a lot of heartache for all involved.
Oh, and maybe a "unlikelihood of being able to tolerate life in the military after joining in youthful rebellion" score. That would have been pretty useful.
On a 1.2GHz G4 eMac:
I cannot quite type 1.2MB per second for more than a short burst, so I'll defer to your presumably superior typing skills and admit that I may not be as finicky as you deservedly are. Still, I would suppose that even one such as yourself would find Terminal.app to be at least, say, decent?
Ignoring, of course, that assembler still sits comfortably above machine language and microcode, both of which are at a much higher level than the gate logic that defines them. All this whining about "your arbitrary abstraction level is clearly inferior to my arbitrary abstraction level" is just silly.
I don't think so. They used what basically amounted to a stock photo according to its license. Were they supposed to personally vet all parties involved? Do you personally vet everyone in stock photos you use? Or audit all the software on your machine to ensure that the people who licensed it to you really had permission to do so?
At some point, you have to be able to trust that your sources are legitimately representing themselves. IANAL, but this seems like one of those "good faith" dealings, and Virgin didn't have any reason to think that the photographer was illegally offering his work. They obeyed their license with him, and it was his job to make sure he was allowed to offer it.
Since AT&T doesn't cover where I live, I guess I'd have to say compatibility with another carrier. Until then it could offer unlimited free music and movie downloads and it'd still be useless for me.
I admit that I'm very full of myself, but still generally happy.
How could anyone mod that pathetic diatribe as insightful?Think that was a diatribe? Get me started on something interesting like Python and whitespace.
Ugh, yes. Oh, for pattern-matching killfiles on Slashdot. Or for it to get ported to Usenet - either way. :-)
Well, except that Ferraris are small and lean and desirable. Other than that, sure.
Nothing personal, it's just that your post is the one I finally decided to comment on. Folks, the subject line is meant to be a terse summary of your post. It is not meant to be the first part of the first sentence in your post.
I had to re-read the sentence fragment above a few times to realize that it was a continuation of what you'd typed in the subject. Many people won't bother and will take that as poor grammar before skipping on to the next message. Free advice: if you want your message to get out, don't do that.
I've been seeing this quite a bit lately and it's irksome. Slashdot has traditionally loosely followed the metaphor of a mailing list, mainly because the crowd that originally made it popular was used to that. There's still a strong influence in that direction. There's no law or rule or FAQ that says it has to be this way, but roughly a decade of practice has made it standard.
Thanks.
Yes, I can hardly imagine Dell wanting to see their suppliers in a price war. I'm sure it would break their heart if all their components were suddenly "much, much cheaper".