To the mod who modded me troll. Thanks for validating my point and thoughts on the matter. Can't substantiate an arguement so you act like a five year old and S/N it out.
Well if you ever wonder why the rest of the world doesn't treat you guys with respect when you try to raise issues... this is why.
People who can effortlessly make anything [software, art, music, sex] of quality are few and far between.
Just like any other field quality product almost always requires quality amount of time.
I don't know if you've been to an art museum before but last I went to the Canadian one near Ottawa [Canada] it had the "voice of fire" and a mock up of a bedroom that was torn to bits. To me that's not art. Or at least certainly not worth the millions they pay for it.
You want to put a messy room on display for a period? Sure go ahead. Just do it for less than a grand, thank you very much.
I'm sure the students using 30 yr old ripped copies of hamlet and the homeless certainly appreciate the "fine quality art" found in Museums today...
Ok put it this way. When I was in high school I read copies of Hamlet that had dates/names from the students in my cousins class.... My cousins are nearly 15 years older than I am!!!
Fuck off already. When you're in public.... YOU'RE IN PUBLIC!
Stop posting these fucking articles already. They're retarded.
If anything why not concentrate on what a WASTE OF MONEY such projects turn out to be. They're certainly not a violation of your privacy as you are in PUBLIC when they observe you.
People like the/. editors and the article submitter are why legitimate claims against such systems do not get the attention they deserve.
The problem is to discern people who don't capture the essence of the era. I mean how many artists slap something together without much research or thought and then call it "art".
I good piece of art is one where you can look back on it and say "this depicts how people were back then" or something. It speaks for them.
Fuck if my theoretical [if I paid taxes] tax dollars went to the art it should at least represent me!
Well I didn't RTFA but I thought I would contribute this little bit...
How's about they stop trying to aim the entire museum [art, science, history] to 8 yr olds? I mean sure it's good to get kids into it but an entire museum that is just "ooh look, some teletubby speaking about physics!" is just pathetic and annoying.
Look, adults have money, kids don't. You want to make money for museum address the money.
As for art museums... STOP BUYING TRASH OF NO VALUE! Just cuz he has a goatee and a french cabaret doesn't mean he's an artist.
While I agree there are academic pricks out there that want nothing more than $$$ and face-time with media....
There is a reason why new theories have to be "defended" [hence a thesis requires a defense]. If every nutjob amateur and their brother was unquestioned in their theories we wouldn't have much useful science at all.
In this case Cold Fusion has repeatedly failed to be reproduced. In particular people seeking funds [often illegitimately] to pay for the procedure.
Much like the "broadband over copper" scams that involved coax, tvs and vcrs...
Like any form of "power" it can be abused which is why there are balance and checks. Specifically for journals where the referees most often than not do horrible jobs reading the submitted papers.
That being said I too agree that politics really ought to stick it's nose out science entirely. people like Bush who pass blanket medical laws just piss me off to no end...
The local library where I live only gets 12yr olds because that's basically the age group they target. They have put in computers with net access but mostly it's the parents of the 12 yr olds that use them.
Here's a tip, want to keep visitor nerds-types like me? Keep relatively modern books and journals. Nothing like seeing "how computers work" published in 1985 as the only computer related book they have....
Doubt that. There are many many many people behind the scenes of Gentoo. Specifically each package you see there has at least one maintainer [most maintainers handle a slew of stuff].
Thought yeah some central authority to guide the project is required asap to keep the momentum.
Too much low quality, mis-labled, garbage files make 0.99 per track seem "reasonable".
It's like being given the choice of buying chocolate bars in a store with Air conditioning or in a store on top of mount everest and claiming it's the AC that makes the sales...
No, it's the ease of finding tunes of good quality fast for cheap.
Sure, DRM may have made the RIAA execs allow the thing to exist but the reason why Apple has customers is solely based on ease/affordability.
I never said titney spears doesn't have a right to perform the crap she does. I'm just saying if the RIAA spent half as much on training the stupid yuppies as they did on suing people [or buying crappy DRM that costs millions] the music scene would be 10x better.
You can't tell me titney isn't a total sell out. Her first videos were all "look I'm a teenage tit-star" dancing around in a school with tight clothing etc...
Hey, how about this, if she's really not just some tit-bag sleeze show "artist" let's see a music video where she wears stylish and *non-revealing* clothing? E.g. cover the cleavage, dress/pants/etc that go down to the knees [at least] and a song not about "do it to me rough oh baby yeah one more time, oops I did it again" etc...
As for supporting local muscians... admitedly I'm not big in the local scene. Lack of money for music being a big reason. When bands play my school I buy their CDs even if they're only so-so but that's about it.
I never said it's ok to steal it. I said they spend too much time/money worrying about sales and not enough about quality.
Personally I find modern music [well the big labels] to be promoting "crap in, crap out". Sure there is modern music out there I would want to buy. That's not quite the point though.
As for suing the kids well ok not kids but what do you think the DMCA C&D would have resulted in if they didn't pull it?
Last I checked free-speech wasn't running rampant in the US either. Can't say that, DMCA. Can't say this, un-patriotic....
What I don't get about companies like the RIAA, Apple, Sony, etc...
STOP USING DRM!! IT'S FLAWED LOGIC THAT WON'T WORK!!!
Yet they keep trying, over and over and over. Then they scream bloody murder when it gets rolled on.
Why not spend money on getting some artists some real music lessons [e.g. less titney spears, more composers, real music!] more music on better technology [e.g. more capacity, better fidelity, more resilient to damage] and such instead of trying to sue 12 year olds for ripping CDs they bought.
We got to the point where content is moot and distribution is everything. Sure making money is cool but at what cost?
I mean look at the top 10 CD section of your local walmart. Try to guess how many of them studied music [e.g. conservatory, university, etc...] professionally? Now guess how many of them are just tit-bags who spend 98% of their day shopping and looking stupid-happy on MTV?
Just once I'd love to see a classical piece make the top of an MTV or MuchMusic call-in demand show. I'm sure teenage kids listen to and would like classical music if they were exposed to it.
I'm not saying classical music is the only music and yes I'm wickedly off topic at this point... My point though is that stupid technologies are more important than what they put on the damn things. It's really tragic.
sending files... Well when I talk with my boss online and he wants files it takes me all of three seconds to zip them up [optionally gpg] and throw them on my local webserver. Not exactly challenging.
Of course that would require using the technology for what it is meant. email/IM for messages, ftp/http for files.
As for resources....Actually in windows AIM and GAIM take about the same memory. Neither require any cpu time. I mean sure if you're running a 16Mhz 386 it's prolly a little laggy but then so would notepad be.
As for the windows... the bottom type part is resizable... I just opened a chat dialog [full screen] and I would guess that a good 75-80% of the screen is the history buffer. Certainly enough to follow a discussion of depth. Of course I have multiple desktops;-)
Anyways.... lame rants... Why not bitch that the Linux kernel doesn't have mp3 decoding built-in!!!????
How about's ya stop spending billions commiting warcrimes [that are so blatant that the daily show makes fun of on a.... daily basis!] and say.... invest the money into industries OTHER than munitions?
Just a thought... me thinks if you didn't spend 5x the money you spend on education each year on war you wouldn't have 10k/year tuition, no healthcare or such....
I know the concept of "not being a war nation" is new to most politicians but really it's about time you give it a chance. I'd love to see the US have a military of say 100k max... that would put things into perspective...
third party? Liar. CNN tells me what I need to know. There are the democrats [Bush] and Republicans [Kerry]. And that's all there is to it. CNN is NEAT!
What people? Both sides of the fence want to randomly tax things to see how much money they can get [to ultimately commit more warcrimes with poorly educated peeps] while alienating their voting public the least.
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To the mod who modded me troll. Thanks for validating my point and thoughts on the matter. Can't substantiate an arguement so you act like a five year old and S/N it out.
Well if you ever wonder why the rest of the world doesn't treat you guys with respect when you try to raise issues... this is why.
Tom
People who can effortlessly make anything [software, art, music, sex] of quality are few and far between.
Just like any other field quality product almost always requires quality amount of time.
I don't know if you've been to an art museum before but last I went to the Canadian one near Ottawa [Canada] it had the "voice of fire" and a mock up of a bedroom that was torn to bits. To me that's not art. Or at least certainly not worth the millions they pay for it.
You want to put a messy room on display for a period? Sure go ahead. Just do it for less than a grand, thank you very much.
I'm sure the students using 30 yr old ripped copies of hamlet and the homeless certainly appreciate the "fine quality art" found in Museums today...
Ok put it this way. When I was in high school I read copies of Hamlet that had dates/names from the students in my cousins class.... My cousins are nearly 15 years older than I am!!!
Tom
Fuck off already. When you're in public.... YOU'RE IN PUBLIC!
/. editors and the article submitter are why legitimate claims against such systems do not get the attention they deserve.
Stop posting these fucking articles already. They're retarded.
If anything why not concentrate on what a WASTE OF MONEY such projects turn out to be. They're certainly not a violation of your privacy as you are in PUBLIC when they observe you.
People like the
Tom
W.h.y. d.0.!!!y.0.u....T.H.1.n.k..t.h.3.y. @.r.e. t.r.y.i.n.g. t0 g3t t.h.r.o.u.g.h. y.0.u.r. s.p.4.m. f.1.1.t.3.r.z.???? ;-)
The problem is to discern people who don't capture the essence of the era. I mean how many artists slap something together without much research or thought and then call it "art".
I good piece of art is one where you can look back on it and say "this depicts how people were back then" or something. It speaks for them.
Fuck if my theoretical [if I paid taxes] tax dollars went to the art it should at least represent me!
Tom
Well I didn't RTFA but I thought I would contribute this little bit...
How's about they stop trying to aim the entire museum [art, science, history] to 8 yr olds? I mean sure it's good to get kids into it but an entire museum that is just "ooh look, some teletubby speaking about physics!" is just pathetic and annoying.
Look, adults have money, kids don't. You want to make money for museum address the money.
As for art museums... STOP BUYING TRASH OF NO VALUE! Just cuz he has a goatee and a french cabaret doesn't mean he's an artist.
Tom
Surperior in what sense? ECC is typically slower [though not by a wide margin] on desktop processors where multiplication is not that expensive.
;-)
Sure ECC has the size thing beat and is better suited for smaller machines, oh and is neater math, but that's about it
Tom
Trillian replace with Gaim
Replace WinRar with WinIMP
But normally my install procedure works like this
1. Turn off retarded services that are buggy
2. Install all patches, updates, drivers
3. Install a free virus scanner
Then
4. Turn off attachments and HTML preview in OE
5. Add googlebar and turn on popup blocker
6. Install Cygwin, Winamp and Gaim
Then at this point I'm normally bored and go do something else.
While I agree there are academic pricks out there that want nothing more than $$$ and face-time with media....
There is a reason why new theories have to be "defended" [hence a thesis requires a defense]. If every nutjob amateur and their brother was unquestioned in their theories we wouldn't have much useful science at all.
In this case Cold Fusion has repeatedly failed to be reproduced. In particular people seeking funds [often illegitimately] to pay for the procedure.
Much like the "broadband over copper" scams that involved coax, tvs and vcrs...
Like any form of "power" it can be abused which is why there are balance and checks. Specifically for journals where the referees most often than not do horrible jobs reading the submitted papers.
That being said I too agree that politics really ought to stick it's nose out science entirely. people like Bush who pass blanket medical laws just piss me off to no end...
Tom
I second that motion. My kernel has been tainted by... oh highly optimized nvidia drivers... ;-)
Tom
Um ... no.
I don't mean the latest craze "how to program Pubython in 21 days" I mean.... say TAOCP, books by Koblitz, etc...
e.g. the classics...
Tom
The local library where I live only gets 12yr olds because that's basically the age group they target. They have put in computers with net access but mostly it's the parents of the 12 yr olds that use them.
Here's a tip, want to keep visitor nerds-types like me? Keep relatively modern books and journals. Nothing like seeing "how computers work" published in 1985 as the only computer related book they have....
Tom
Whatever mike. And you're never seeing your fucking lunch money neither.
Doubt that. There are many many many people behind the scenes of Gentoo. Specifically each package you see there has at least one maintainer [most maintainers handle a slew of stuff].
Thought yeah some central authority to guide the project is required asap to keep the momentum.
Tom
A free distro?
;-)
What?
A free distro?
Oh right, yeah. But beside that, what has he given us?
Technical support?
Oh yeah, that goes without saying...
Infrastructure?
Yeah, oh yeah it was much worse before...
Ok ok, beside a free distro, technical support and infrastructure what has he given us? That's right, nothing...
The copyrights to the distro?
Oh shut up you!
Maybe if you run everything from IRAM or ERAM you'd find this useful... Let's not forget that the ROM bus is dog-slow.
No because P2P networks are useless?
Too much low quality, mis-labled, garbage files make 0.99 per track seem "reasonable".
It's like being given the choice of buying chocolate bars in a store with Air conditioning or in a store on top of mount everest and claiming it's the AC that makes the sales...
No, it's the ease of finding tunes of good quality fast for cheap.
Sure, DRM may have made the RIAA execs allow the thing to exist but the reason why Apple has customers is solely based on ease/affordability.
Tom
I never said titney spears doesn't have a right to perform the crap she does. I'm just saying if the RIAA spent half as much on training the stupid yuppies as they did on suing people [or buying crappy DRM that costs millions] the music scene would be 10x better.
You can't tell me titney isn't a total sell out. Her first videos were all "look I'm a teenage tit-star" dancing around in a school with tight clothing etc...
Hey, how about this, if she's really not just some tit-bag sleeze show "artist" let's see a music video where she wears stylish and *non-revealing* clothing? E.g. cover the cleavage, dress/pants/etc that go down to the knees [at least] and a song not about "do it to me rough oh baby yeah one more time, oops I did it again" etc...
As for supporting local muscians... admitedly I'm not big in the local scene. Lack of money for music being a big reason. When bands play my school I buy their CDs even if they're only so-so but that's about it.
Tom
I never said it's ok to steal it. I said they spend too much time/money worrying about sales and not enough about quality.
Personally I find modern music [well the big labels] to be promoting "crap in, crap out". Sure there is modern music out there I would want to buy. That's not quite the point though.
As for suing the kids well ok not kids but what do you think the DMCA C&D would have resulted in if they didn't pull it?
Tom
Um iTunes is not a success because of DRM. It's a success in SPITE of it. Basically the price is right.
You can still pirate the audio [rather easily] yet that doesn't seem to be too rampant... hmm wonder why...
Tom
Last I checked free-speech wasn't running rampant in the US either. Can't say that, DMCA. Can't say this, un-patriotic....
What I don't get about companies like the RIAA, Apple, Sony, etc...
STOP USING DRM!! IT'S FLAWED LOGIC THAT WON'T WORK!!!
Yet they keep trying, over and over and over. Then they scream bloody murder when it gets rolled on.
Why not spend money on getting some artists some real music lessons [e.g. less titney spears, more composers, real music!] more music on better technology [e.g. more capacity, better fidelity, more resilient to damage] and such instead of trying to sue 12 year olds for ripping CDs they bought.
We got to the point where content is moot and distribution is everything. Sure making money is cool but at what cost?
I mean look at the top 10 CD section of your local walmart. Try to guess how many of them studied music [e.g. conservatory, university, etc...] professionally? Now guess how many of them are just tit-bags who spend 98% of their day shopping and looking stupid-happy on MTV?
Just once I'd love to see a classical piece make the top of an MTV or MuchMusic call-in demand show. I'm sure teenage kids listen to and would like classical music if they were exposed to it.
I'm not saying classical music is the only music and yes I'm wickedly off topic at this point... My point though is that stupid technologies are more important than what they put on the damn things. It's really tragic.
Tom
sending files... Well when I talk with my boss online and he wants files it takes me all of three seconds to zip them up [optionally gpg] and throw them on my local webserver. Not exactly challenging.
;-)
Of course that would require using the technology for what it is meant. email/IM for messages, ftp/http for files.
As for resources....Actually in windows AIM and GAIM take about the same memory. Neither require any cpu time. I mean sure if you're running a 16Mhz 386 it's prolly a little laggy but then so would notepad be.
As for the windows... the bottom type part is resizable... I just opened a chat dialog [full screen] and I would guess that a good 75-80% of the screen is the history buffer. Certainly enough to follow a discussion of depth. Of course I have multiple desktops
Anyways.... lame rants... Why not bitch that the Linux kernel doesn't have mp3 decoding built-in!!!????
Tom
How about's ya stop spending billions commiting warcrimes [that are so blatant that the daily show makes fun of on a.... daily basis!] and say.... invest the money into industries OTHER than munitions?
... that would put things into perspective...
Just a thought... me thinks if you didn't spend 5x the money you spend on education each year on war you wouldn't have 10k/year tuition, no healthcare or such....
I know the concept of "not being a war nation" is new to most politicians but really it's about time you give it a chance. I'd love to see the US have a military of say 100k max
Tom
third party? Liar. CNN tells me what I need to know. There are the democrats [Bush] and Republicans [Kerry]. And that's all there is to it. CNN is NEAT!
Tom
What people? Both sides of the fence want to randomly tax things to see how much money they can get [to ultimately commit more warcrimes with poorly educated peeps] while alienating their voting public the least.