well, suse doesn't make.iso's of their latest distro available (i think 7.0 or 7.1 is the most recent that's available) but they do allow FTP installs and make individual programs/files/packages available for download. there's nothing preventing anyone from rolling their own distro out of suse parts (except the propriatery, "non-free" parts like YaST.) SuSE charges for being SuSE, not Bob's-SuSE-Based-Linux-Distrubution. YaST (and YaST2, et al) are part of what seperate SuSE from other distros.
well, suse is the distro most known and used (and made) in.de and IBM is the biggest company that promotes it (and they make A LOT of hardware), so it's not like IBM has their own distro anyway.
I'm a rabidly happy opera user, and while the/. article does sound a bit like an advertisement, I can honestly say it wouldn't surprise me at all if it were coming form a very happy user (like myself).
Tabbed (or windowed) browsing, a search box (deafulted to google, but you can change that,) in every window, skinnable, a hotlinks/bookmarks folder with stuff that's actually usefull and gestures; in addition to that you can magnify or resize the entire page...not just pictures or text, but the entire page (sometimes it looks like ass, true, but it comes in usefull when you're tired of looking at really small letters...can't tell you the amount of times I've set/. to 140% and sat a few feet further away from the old 19" monitor.
Opera has definitely made my browsing a much better experience. I happily shelled out 40$ today (even though I've been using the free version for like four months or so, I have been too broke to consider paying real $$ for software that is *quite* functional even with the ads....and a note about that: none of the ads were annoying blinking neon sex ads, either. In fact, if i recall correctly the last ad i saw before I payed up was an ad for User Friendly.
I can see how a user of Moz (and I have all 3 browsers on my machine, and I use all 3 regularly (although I really only use IE for windows update and on the rare occasions in which Opera does not render a page well. So far, this is the only page i've come across that doesn't render well.
Give it a try for a week before you knock it, it's way better than IE and at least as good as Moz (although I like it tons more than Mozilla, personally.)
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some bands do this with their live music -- unfortunately it's almost always one of the many jam bands, (like phish, medeski martin & wood, et al) but some other bands -- including electronic acts, like Coil vary their live performances of pieces GREATLY -- to the point where it might even be called a different song.
Frank Zappa did something quite similar with is bands: he would use hand signals to change a performance of a piece and make a rock song into a reggae song or a jazzier piece or what-have-you. In some ways, John Zorn's "game pieces" use this same method of improvisation (although Zorn's "games" really are games: there is a competition and winners are picked at the end of the performance.
nothing particularly groundbreaking about it
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cage did this, as the article points out. one of the main points behind his "silent" compositions -- aside from the obvious tongue in cheek 'let's mess with the critics' attitude it had -- was the use of ambient sound as part of the composition. brian eno was inpsired to make "music for airports" (for intents and purposes the first non-classical "ambient" record) when he was recovering from a car accident and asked a friend to put a harpsichord record on the turntable..but she didn't raise the volume high enough before she left so he had to put up with it at a very low volume, barely loud enough to hear over the rain on the windows in his room. the ultra-quietness of these recordings reminds me of heavy metal guitarists trying to out-"heavy" each other. these guys are just trying to out-"quiet" each other.
is that post-coital cigarette? from screwing everyone all the time?
a review of the review.
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...and bullshit like this is precisely why a pay version of slashdot is a bad idea. i wouldn't subscribe to a paper whose editors ignored serious stories in favor of publishing tripe like this; It'd be an insult. I mean, fine, fine, fine, you guys get your content from your audience and that's cool, cos ultimately this is a site about and for a unique audience with a singular focus (tech); but fucking putting this on the front page? "penultimate"? and you have the gall to ask for my money?
...especially considering they're getting essentially nothing now, any money is a major change. there was a recent article in rolling stone magazine about how the manager of some pretty big name acts (beck, no doubt, etc) had pulled his artists' songs from the RIAA-backed nonsense thing cos they weren't getting anything out of it. if this gives the artists anything resembling money, expect them to jump for it.
aphex twin/RDJ is quite the geek, making his own synths and coding some of his own software for use in his music....it's one of the reasons it takes him ages to get a fucking album out, apparently. there was a recent interview where he said he'd lost an mp3 player that was loaded with tons of his songs (and i think squarepusher demos too -- aphex and pusher are friends,) like two albums' worth of unreleased material he was sorting through....just left the player on a plane and that his paranoia over getting the songs released on the 'net was one impetus for releasing his latest album, druqks. more proof that mp3s have changed artists' modus operandi, even if it's not all artists.
at first i wondered why this was posted to slashdot, but I slowly came to the realisation that this is a subtle bid to get rid of the recently added advertisements to slashdot.
many music magazines have been doing this for ages (c.f. CMJ's New Music Monthly, for example,) and various music-making magazines (future music, computer music journal,) include data CDs with audio samples for music production. CMJ/NMM used to include the cds in cardboard sleeves but has recently switched to plastic sleeves. there's nothing new about this.
whether MS's browser monopoly is legal or not, this shows the hidden costs of monopolies in general. A lot of webpage serving is done on *nix boxes running apache -- machines that could surf the websites they're serving, because IE isn't available on that platform -- and because MS's monopoly of browsers (even fucking slashdot shows most readers use IE,) this puts MS in a powerful position to dictate what they consider important and proper. This isn't even about money, although I'm sure it'll cost a lot of money to pay to get various sites to comply, this is about effort and choices. As a webmaster, I don't want someone else dictating when I have to change my site's design, and I certainly don't want someone telling me that I have to do something. This is probably just the contrarian in me, and for all I know, p3p is the wave of the future and The One True Way and I'm a fool for not having done it already, but hey, it's my website and I'd like to fucking make decisions all on my own, thanks anyway, MS.
Support alternate browsers (like opera and mozilla,) if you're a Windows user.
using the statistics of demand for pricing has a parallel that should be obvious: as anyone who's run a website that's been slashdotted or had their website run up some high bandwidth bills can probably tell you, getting charged for being popular is NOT fun. The real problem is not that webcasters are in trouble, it's that the RIAA _wants_ them in trouble so that they can take over the webcasters' market.
Re:No no no... you don't understand!!!
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Marketing information has clearly shown that people who work with computer equipment WANT to be in pain.
An example is that there was a drink that was supposed to be sake in an episode of DBZ, and they ended up making it milk or something. This is all fine and good, but this is a series that features huge muscled guys blowing eachother up with high powered energy attacks. I guess it is
important that we sheild Junior from alcohol, but
but that's really to convince kids to drink milk!
"Kids! Want to be strong and blow people up? Drink Milk!"
what were they going to do, say "please don't steal music^H^H^H^H^H^H and just pay us?"
The RIAA/MPAA has conclusively proved (to lawmakers in their pocket, anyway,) that you can't trust people to do the right thing, and you must force them, by any means necessary.
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well, suse doesn't make .iso's of their latest distro available (i think 7.0 or 7.1 is the most recent that's available) but they do allow FTP installs and make individual programs/files/packages available for download. there's nothing preventing anyone from rolling their own distro out of suse parts (except the propriatery, "non-free" parts like YaST.) SuSE charges for being SuSE, not Bob's-SuSE-Based-Linux-Distrubution. YaST (and YaST2, et al) are part of what seperate SuSE from other distros.
well, suse is the distro most known and used (and made) in .de and IBM is the biggest company that promotes it (and they make A LOT of hardware), so it's not like IBM has their own distro anyway.
Tabbed (or windowed) browsing, a search box (deafulted to google, but you can change that,) in every window, skinnable, a hotlinks/bookmarks folder with stuff that's actually usefull and gestures; in addition to that you can magnify or resize the entire page...not just pictures or text, but the entire page (sometimes it looks like ass, true, but it comes in usefull when you're tired of looking at really small letters...can't tell you the amount of times I've set /. to 140% and sat a few feet further away from the old 19" monitor.
Opera has definitely made my browsing a much better experience. I happily shelled out 40$ today (even though I've been using the free version for like four months or so, I have been too broke to consider paying real $$ for software that is *quite* functional even with the ads....and a note about that: none of the ads were annoying blinking neon sex ads, either. In fact, if i recall correctly the last ad i saw before I payed up was an ad for User Friendly.
I can see how a user of Moz (and I have all 3 browsers on my machine, and I use all 3 regularly (although I really only use IE for windows update and on the rare occasions in which Opera does not render a page well. So far, this is the only page i've come across that doesn't render well.
Give it a try for a week before you knock it, it's way better than IE and at least as good as Moz (although I like it tons more than Mozilla, personally.)
some bands do this with their live music -- unfortunately it's almost always one of the many jam bands, (like phish, medeski martin & wood, et al) but some other bands -- including electronic acts, like Coil vary their live performances of pieces GREATLY -- to the point where it might even be called a different song.
Frank Zappa did something quite similar with is bands: he would use hand signals to change a performance of a piece and make a rock song into a reggae song or a jazzier piece or what-have-you. In some ways, John Zorn's "game pieces" use this same method of improvisation (although Zorn's "games" really are games: there is a competition and winners are picked at the end of the performance.
cage did this, as the article points out. one of the main points behind his "silent" compositions -- aside from the obvious tongue in cheek 'let's mess with the critics' attitude it had -- was the use of ambient sound as part of the composition. brian eno was inpsired to make "music for airports" (for intents and purposes the first non-classical "ambient" record) when he was recovering from a car accident and asked a friend to put a harpsichord record on the turntable..but she didn't raise the volume high enough before she left so he had to put up with it at a very low volume, barely loud enough to hear over the rain on the windows in his room. the ultra-quietness of these recordings reminds me of heavy metal guitarists trying to out-"heavy" each other. these guys are just trying to out-"quiet" each other.
is that post-coital cigarette? from screwing everyone all the time?
...and bullshit like this is precisely why a pay version of slashdot is a bad idea. i wouldn't subscribe to a paper whose editors ignored serious stories in favor of publishing tripe like this; It'd be an insult. I mean, fine, fine, fine, you guys get your content from your audience and that's cool, cos ultimately this is a site about and for a unique audience with a singular focus (tech); but fucking putting this on the front page? "penultimate"? and you have the gall to ask for my money?
In the words of cartman: That is mighty weak.
...especially considering they're getting essentially nothing now, any money is a major change. there was a recent article in rolling stone magazine about how the manager of some pretty big name acts (beck, no doubt, etc) had pulled his artists' songs from the RIAA-backed nonsense thing cos they weren't getting anything out of it. if this gives the artists anything resembling money, expect them to jump for it.
aphex twin/RDJ is quite the geek, making his own synths and coding some of his own software for use in his music....it's one of the reasons it takes him ages to get a fucking album out, apparently. there was a recent interview where he said he'd lost an mp3 player that was loaded with tons of his songs (and i think squarepusher demos too -- aphex and pusher are friends,) like two albums' worth of unreleased material he was sorting through....just left the player on a plane and that his paranoia over getting the songs released on the 'net was one impetus for releasing his latest album, druqks. more proof that mp3s have changed artists' modus operandi, even if it's not all artists.
"I find your lack of faith in the DCMA....disturbing." quoth the MPAA lawyers
at first i wondered why this was posted to slashdot, but I slowly came to the realisation that this is a subtle bid to get rid of the recently added advertisements to slashdot.
There's a patch available for that.
Removing them would result in a slower, much-less user friendly Windows that would be a support nightmare."
as opposed to what? the fast and easy windows systems we have now?
...they just want bigger bribes in from the music/movies companies.
many music magazines have been doing this for ages (c.f. CMJ's New Music Monthly, for example,) and various music-making magazines (future music, computer music journal,) include data CDs with audio samples for music production. CMJ/NMM used to include the cds in cardboard sleeves but has recently switched to plastic sleeves. there's nothing new about this.
whether MS's browser monopoly is legal or not, this shows the hidden costs of monopolies in general. A lot of webpage serving is done on *nix boxes running apache -- machines that could surf the websites they're serving, because IE isn't available on that platform -- and because MS's monopoly of browsers (even fucking slashdot shows most readers use IE,) this puts MS in a powerful position to dictate what they consider important and proper. This isn't even about money, although I'm sure it'll cost a lot of money to pay to get various sites to comply, this is about effort and choices. As a webmaster, I don't want someone else dictating when I have to change my site's design, and I certainly don't want someone telling me that I have to do something. This is probably just the contrarian in me, and for all I know, p3p is the wave of the future and The One True Way and I'm a fool for not having done it already, but hey, it's my website and I'd like to fucking make decisions all on my own, thanks anyway, MS.
Support alternate browsers (like opera and mozilla,) if you're a Windows user.
isn't boron the new AMD chip they're working on?
maybe he means something to correct misspellings.
a novel thought, but it still has no use for slashdot readers.
a duplicate-story checker, now...
using the statistics of demand for pricing has a parallel that should be obvious: as anyone who's run a website that's been slashdotted or had their website run up some high bandwidth bills can probably tell you, getting charged for being popular is NOT fun. The real problem is not that webcasters are in trouble, it's that the RIAA _wants_ them in trouble so that they can take over the webcasters' market.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
There's nine hundred million of them in the world today.
You'd better learn to like them; that's what I say.
but that's really to convince kids to drink milk!
"Kids! Want to be strong and blow people up? Drink Milk!"
what were they going to do, say "please don't steal music^H^H^H^H^H^H and just pay us?"
The RIAA/MPAA has conclusively proved (to lawmakers in their pocket, anyway,) that you can't trust people to do the right thing, and you must force them, by any means necessary.