I collect albums and also do a little DJing. I go vinyl hunting all the time, and I highly doubt vinyl will go away any time soon. Reason one is that some artists insist that their albums are pressed on vinyl. A lot of artists feel that vinyl is superior (which it is) and press records in addition to CDs so that us real music lovers can hear the music the way it is meant to be heard. This is especially true with punk rock (all true punk rockers have a turntable, as a lot of stuff is only available on vinyl), hip hop and electronic music. Reason two is that you can't DJ with CDs (well, you can, but people who do are weak). Reason three is that not all music comes from the RIAA. A lot of music that is predominantly on vinyl (punk and electronic mostly) does not come from an RIAA member, so it doesn't matter if the industry says "no". And finally if vinyl is eventually no longer produced, there are still millions of albums out there. You just have to know where to look. Just because Tower doesn't carry vinyls doesn't mean it is dead.
The problem is, how will you discover new music if you refuse to listen to broadcast, and net radio is gone forever. You will be SOL (unless you like going to small, local shows, I guess).
One thing I always wondered about is how the demos became known as the "environmental" party, seeing as how most built-up, polluted metro areas are the places with the highest concentration of liberal voters. Conservative voters typically populate rural areas, places that actually have an environment left. It's all the people driving around Los Angeles and San Francisco in their SUVs who claim to be the environmentalists. I'm not saying that it isn't true, I just think it's really curious how that works.
Oh and personally I believe republicans do a much better job at defending your personal freedoms (particularly freedom of speech) than the democrats. The demos answer for everything is to censor, ban, and outlaw anything they disagree with. Heaven forbid anyone says something that offends someone else. Better censor them.
Also it's kind of sad how many people such as yourself think that "church stuff" is "out dated morality". Even if you don't take Christian beliefs to heart (I myself am not a Christian), most of their "morality" is just basic human decency. It's discouraging that people think that being honest, kind, and respectful is "out dated".
One final note: People with spelling as bad as yours should not be allowed to vote
If every Slashdot reader donated $100 or so to some anti-MPAA fund, then we would really be a force to be reconed with. The problem I see is finding someone with enough integrity to give that $100 to, knowing that it would be spent wisely.
From GTA3: "Love Media, making sure that every radio in America sounds exactly the same".
I don't even know why Clear Channel bothers. Comapanies like Clear Channel offer no variety. Every single one of their stations falls into a genre, and every one of their stations in that genre plays the exact same songs and sound exactlly alike. It's kind of pointless for them to stream more than one of their stations from each genre since. They're all the same. The thing I love about net radio is you get to listen to music that Clear Channel wont let you hear. I've discovered some great music that wouldn't be played in a million years over traditional conglomorate owned broadcast stations. I wouldn't even miss internet radio that much if broadcast offered the kind of variety and personality that internet radio has. Tragically, the only people who can afford to broadcast are huge companies like Clear Channel. It really sucks how that as soon as a broadcast medium comes along that is accessable to everyone, the music industry destroys it.
Perhaps it won't be all bad. Even without the RIAA's crap, I will still be able to hear better music on net broadcasts than I hear on any of Clear Channel's stations.
I'm sure that your check would be cashed either way, if it was included though...
I've got it! Send them the check a day or so before the vote. Send it FedEx overnight with some kind of high priority thingie on it so you know they'll receive it in time. If the bill is rejected let them keep the money. If it passes however, call your bank and do a stop payment on the check. That'll show those fuckers. Gwahahaha!
Looking at the sample questions on LPIs website, the questions seem incredibly basic. Unlike RedHat's test which has some really in depth hands on tests (like setting up a Redhat server to a set of specs in 3 hours and fixing a broken server), this test seems to ask very simplistic questions like "Which command would you use to alter the permissions of a file". Anyone who has worked with Linux even a little would be able to pass the 101 test. The Level 2 sample questions don't look that much harder. Ususally low level (and practically unknown) certs like this will not help you get a job. What Linux really needs in the way of certs is something fairly high level that is not tied into a specific vendor.
On another note, CompTIA now has a low level Linux cert called Linux+. I haven't seen any questions from it, but if it is anything like CompTIAs other certs, anyone with two IQ points to rub together should be able to pass it.
I know exactly how you feel. Dicky's Rockin' Radio, a real rockin' punk/ska Shoutcast station, has been a revelation for me. I have discovered some really great bands by tuning into Dicky's and other excellent punk Shoutcast streams, and I have made many purchases based on what I have heard. I always kinda liked punk rock, but there is absolutely NO punk or ska on regular radio anymore, unless you count pseudo-punk crap like Blink 182. Before Shoutcast, I had virtually no way of discovering new punk bands. Every radio station in the Bay Area that used to play punk has become yet another giant advertisement for crap like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit (how bands like that became popular I will never know). It's great to have a place to discover new bands from a genre I actually like. I just wish I could listen to Shoutcast in the car. I would be devistated if the RIAA took away my only way of hearing new punk rock.
A 600E is a good laptop, even by todays standards. The later 600Es (before they became the T series) had Pentium IIs up to 400Mhz, and supported up to 512MB memory if I recall correctly. They are nice a slim, very portable, but still have a built in CD or DVD rom. And it's an IBM, the king of laptops IMHO. I wouldn't disregard a 600E as a antiquated piece of crap just yet.
I was fortunate enough to catch Welcome to Eltinville, and I must say it was absolutly brilliant. At the top of the article, it mentions the show and how many people wrote in asking when more episodes would be on, but there is no mention of the show anywhere in the lineup. What's up with that? Besides Sealab 2021, this is probably the best thing I have seen on Cartoon Network. I hope CN has some plans for new episodes and that it wasn't one of those one time deals.
I dunno. The movie industry is pretty worthless to California compared to the tech industry. If the tech industry went under California would suffer a lot more than if the movie industry went under. Also the tech industry is a LOT richer (i.e. more donations). If Boxer had two IQ points to rub together, she wouldn't give a flying fuck about what the movie industry wants.
One of my local PBS stations (KTEH San Jose) shows unedited, subtitled anime from time to time (usually Sunday nights). They have in the past shown the whole Evangelion series completely unedited, and are currently running Dirty Pair, but unfortunatly they have been very inconsistant with running Anime. But still, they seem to be the only "network" willing to show pure uncensored anime. They might be our only hope for the time being. It wouldn't hurt to write or call your local PBS station to ask for some anime programs. The only bad part about PBS is the constant begging for money.
Naturally, though, since the DoJ has dropped the ball on Microsoft, this sort of thing will only get worse. Get used to it, and vote Democratic in 2004
I always find comments like this interesting. What makes anyone think that the Democrats are any better at protecting "Your Rights Online"? Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the DMCA passed under a Democrat president, and mostly supported by Democrats? Also, isn't the SSSCA being touted by a Democrat senator and has mostly Democratic support, while the Repulicans oppose the law? I really try not to be partisan, but to be honest, I think the Republicans are your best bet for protecting your online rights, not so much because of their politics, but because they are in the back pockets of companies that oppose oppresive computer legislation. Sure Microsoft is one of the companies that owns them, but Microsoft, IMHO, is a lot less evil than the MPAA/RIAA crew, and the Democrats seem to be the bitches of the entertainment industry.
But it wasn't great. I much prefer the case mod that the guy made out of an old IBM 5150. Now that was a mod. This case mod, while it did require a cut or two, is basically just taking out the SGI motherboard and putting an Intel one in instead. The Indigo case doesn't even look that cool.
This is same thing as Logical Partitoning (LPAR), right? I've never worked with any of IBM's zSeries (S/390) servers, or Linux on an IBM mainframe, but I do know a little bit about iSeries (AS/400). My company has one 400 LPARed into two systems each running a seperate installation of OS/400, running different applications, and each having their own DASD. One thing I always wondered about this is when you LPAR a system, when one partition is running a highly CPU intensive job, does it eat into the other system's CPU, or does each system have a set ammount of CPU time it can use? If the prior, it seems like kind of a crappy idea, as if both systems were trying to run CPU heavy jobs at the same time it would slow them both to a halt. If the latter, it still seems like a crappy idea as neither system would be able to use the full potental of the machine. How exactally does logical partitioning deal with this?
Grrr. Yeah, really ridiculous, as I sit here doing a backup so that I can reinstall Windows ME on my wifes compaq for the second time this year.
Well it's your own damn fault for running Windows ME. Anyone will tell you that ME sucks. Windows 98 sucked too, but still not as much as ME. I've been using Windows XP since November, and used 2000 for over a year and a half before that. Not a single reinstall. Of course when I ran Windows 98, a reinstall was necessary every now and then.
Believe it or not 2000 and XP are good operating systems. Really! Not great, but good.
On a side note, my parents have an iMac running OS 8.6, and it is a worthless peice of crap. Your lucky if you can go 10 minutes without the whole system freezing up. And it's not like Windows2K or Linux where if one app freezes you can end it and gracefully recover. On old MacOS, your screwed. Of course they have had it for 3 years and only required 2 OS reinstalls. That's better than Windows 98.
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Uh... arent there Doom binaries for Linux?... And Windows (Ultimate Doom I believe it was called)?
Last time I checked, it isn't just nerds who like TV. And it isn't just nerds who buy TV shows on DVD. So it's fair to assume that it isn't just nerds who would like the oppertunity to buy their favorite shows on DVD.
I tried to cancel about two months after I got it (July 2001), and they said I had to call to cancel it then. I never got around to it though. I'm sure a lot of people "don't get around to it" and therefore never cancel. However when I canceled in January 2002 there was no phone call required, just a lot of "Are you sure" pages (like 3 or 4 I think) before you could actually cancel. I don't know why it changed. Maybe they figured that even though requiring a phone call makes people less likely to cancel (like it did in my case), it requires you to have more customer service employees to pay. Who knows?
Probably my favourite bit of Monkey Island was where you fell off the cliff and it brought up a 'Kings Quest' style game over sequence before revealing that it was, of course, just another gag.
Where the hell was that? Was that in MI1? I've played through that game many times but I've never seen that. I thought the only way you could die was to drown yourself by staying underwater for 10 minutes.
Flushed with a sense of accomplishment from landing a cushy job getting cussed at, spit on, and occasionally having to duck bullets for the princely sum of $18,000/year
When I was looking for a job a few months ago, I was looking through the classifieds in the paper and notices a job posting for a police officer in my home town of Half Moon Bay, CA, a small, quiet costal town south of San Francisco. A town where there is very little crime, no guns, no bullets to dogde, and actually no real work to do besides writing tickets. I was pulled over 3 times by the HMB PD, and for the stupidest crap too.
Anyways they were looking for entry level officers. Their pay? $50,000/year! And thats for entry level! Granted that's not a lot, but it's not too shabby either, and significantly more than the $18k you stated. It's really not bad for eating donuts, writing tickets, and never having to worry about being shot at.
Well excuse me, but...
1. Morpheus may not be spyware, but Kaaza is.
2. Okay bloatware is a little bit of an overstatement, but WinMX and eDonkey2000 are half that size. How big does a stupid file sharing program need to be?
3. Sometimes I have better luck than other times. Still I have a hard time finding a lot of not too unusal songs.
4. I have many Descendents vinyls. In fact I have more vinyls than CDs. Unfortunatly making mp3s out of vinyls is a PITA and don't sound too good. I think I am legally entitled to d/l mp3s from an album I have purchased.
5. Chemical is not ammused.
1) Even if the stupid Kaaza client is no longer available, Morpheus still is, and is a lot more popular a client anyways. That's like trying to shut down the WWW by banning Netscape.
2) Morpehus/Kaaza suck anyways. Even though the idea behind it is pretty genius, in practice their software sucks. Besides crashing constantly, being spyware, bloatware, and every other type of negative ware there is, and just plain being a crappy client, there is no friggin music on their network. I try searching for something somewhat well known but not quite mainstream, say "The Descendents", and I get 0 results back. And any results I do get download at 1.1 k/sec, despite claiming the user has a bandwith of "300" whatever that means. Worst of all you can only get mp3s of up to 128kpbs. I'll stick with WinMX or eDonkey2000 for now. There are plenty of alternatives to Kaaza/Morpheus that don't suck ass.
I don't even get the SciFi network. I'm talking about Fox and NBC and other major broadcast networks. I swear to god that an ad for this movie is aired durring every single commercial break. Of course it might have something to do with the time I'm usually watch TV (11pm-1am usually).
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I collect albums and also do a little DJing. I go vinyl hunting all the time, and I highly doubt vinyl will go away any time soon. Reason one is that some artists insist that their albums are pressed on vinyl. A lot of artists feel that vinyl is superior (which it is) and press records in addition to CDs so that us real music lovers can hear the music the way it is meant to be heard. This is especially true with punk rock (all true punk rockers have a turntable, as a lot of stuff is only available on vinyl), hip hop and electronic music. Reason two is that you can't DJ with CDs (well, you can, but people who do are weak). Reason three is that not all music comes from the RIAA. A lot of music that is predominantly on vinyl (punk and electronic mostly) does not come from an RIAA member, so it doesn't matter if the industry says "no". And finally if vinyl is eventually no longer produced, there are still millions of albums out there. You just have to know where to look. Just because Tower doesn't carry vinyls doesn't mean it is dead.
The problem is, how will you discover new music if you refuse to listen to broadcast, and net radio is gone forever. You will be SOL (unless you like going to small, local shows, I guess).
One thing I always wondered about is how the demos became known as the "environmental" party, seeing as how most built-up, polluted metro areas are the places with the highest concentration of liberal voters. Conservative voters typically populate rural areas, places that actually have an environment left. It's all the people driving around Los Angeles and San Francisco in their SUVs who claim to be the environmentalists. I'm not saying that it isn't true, I just think it's really curious how that works.
Oh and personally I believe republicans do a much better job at defending your personal freedoms (particularly freedom of speech) than the democrats. The demos answer for everything is to censor, ban, and outlaw anything they disagree with. Heaven forbid anyone says something that offends someone else. Better censor them.
Also it's kind of sad how many people such as yourself think that "church stuff" is "out dated morality". Even if you don't take Christian beliefs to heart (I myself am not a Christian), most of their "morality" is just basic human decency. It's discouraging that people think that being honest, kind, and respectful is "out dated".
One final note: People with spelling as bad as yours should not be allowed to vote
If every Slashdot reader donated $100 or so to some anti-MPAA fund, then we would really be a force to be reconed with. The problem I see is finding someone with enough integrity to give that $100 to, knowing that it would be spent wisely.
I don't even know why Clear Channel bothers. Comapanies like Clear Channel offer no variety. Every single one of their stations falls into a genre, and every one of their stations in that genre plays the exact same songs and sound exactlly alike. It's kind of pointless for them to stream more than one of their stations from each genre since. They're all the same. The thing I love about net radio is you get to listen to music that Clear Channel wont let you hear. I've discovered some great music that wouldn't be played in a million years over traditional conglomorate owned broadcast stations. I wouldn't even miss internet radio that much if broadcast offered the kind of variety and personality that internet radio has. Tragically, the only people who can afford to broadcast are huge companies like Clear Channel. It really sucks how that as soon as a broadcast medium comes along that is accessable to everyone, the music industry destroys it.
Perhaps it won't be all bad. Even without the RIAA's crap, I will still be able to hear better music on net broadcasts than I hear on any of Clear Channel's stations.
I've got it! Send them the check a day or so before the vote. Send it FedEx overnight with some kind of high priority thingie on it so you know they'll receive it in time. If the bill is rejected let them keep the money. If it passes however, call your bank and do a stop payment on the check. That'll show those fuckers. Gwahahaha!
On another note, CompTIA now has a low level Linux cert called Linux+. I haven't seen any questions from it, but if it is anything like CompTIAs other certs, anyone with two IQ points to rub together should be able to pass it.
I know exactly how you feel. Dicky's Rockin' Radio, a real rockin' punk/ska Shoutcast station, has been a revelation for me. I have discovered some really great bands by tuning into Dicky's and other excellent punk Shoutcast streams, and I have made many purchases based on what I have heard. I always kinda liked punk rock, but there is absolutely NO punk or ska on regular radio anymore, unless you count pseudo-punk crap like Blink 182. Before Shoutcast, I had virtually no way of discovering new punk bands. Every radio station in the Bay Area that used to play punk has become yet another giant advertisement for crap like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit (how bands like that became popular I will never know). It's great to have a place to discover new bands from a genre I actually like. I just wish I could listen to Shoutcast in the car. I would be devistated if the RIAA took away my only way of hearing new punk rock.
A 600E is a good laptop, even by todays standards. The later 600Es (before they became the T series) had Pentium IIs up to 400Mhz, and supported up to 512MB memory if I recall correctly. They are nice a slim, very portable, but still have a built in CD or DVD rom. And it's an IBM, the king of laptops IMHO. I wouldn't disregard a 600E as a antiquated piece of crap just yet.
I was fortunate enough to catch Welcome to Eltinville, and I must say it was absolutly brilliant. At the top of the article, it mentions the show and how many people wrote in asking when more episodes would be on, but there is no mention of the show anywhere in the lineup. What's up with that? Besides Sealab 2021, this is probably the best thing I have seen on Cartoon Network. I hope CN has some plans for new episodes and that it wasn't one of those one time deals.
It's still on. It's on Sunday at 2:00pm et/pt I believe.
I dunno. The movie industry is pretty worthless to California compared to the tech industry. If the tech industry went under California would suffer a lot more than if the movie industry went under. Also the tech industry is a LOT richer (i.e. more donations). If Boxer had two IQ points to rub together, she wouldn't give a flying fuck about what the movie industry wants.
One of my local PBS stations (KTEH San Jose) shows unedited, subtitled anime from time to time (usually Sunday nights). They have in the past shown the whole Evangelion series completely unedited, and are currently running Dirty Pair, but unfortunatly they have been very inconsistant with running Anime. But still, they seem to be the only "network" willing to show pure uncensored anime. They might be our only hope for the time being. It wouldn't hurt to write or call your local PBS station to ask for some anime programs. The only bad part about PBS is the constant begging for money.
I always find comments like this interesting. What makes anyone think that the Democrats are any better at protecting "Your Rights Online"? Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the DMCA passed under a Democrat president, and mostly supported by Democrats? Also, isn't the SSSCA being touted by a Democrat senator and has mostly Democratic support, while the Repulicans oppose the law? I really try not to be partisan, but to be honest, I think the Republicans are your best bet for protecting your online rights, not so much because of their politics, but because they are in the back pockets of companies that oppose oppresive computer legislation. Sure Microsoft is one of the companies that owns them, but Microsoft, IMHO, is a lot less evil than the MPAA/RIAA crew, and the Democrats seem to be the bitches of the entertainment industry.
But it wasn't great. I much prefer the case mod that the guy made out of an old IBM 5150. Now that was a mod. This case mod, while it did require a cut or two, is basically just taking out the SGI motherboard and putting an Intel one in instead. The Indigo case doesn't even look that cool.
This is same thing as Logical Partitoning (LPAR), right? I've never worked with any of IBM's zSeries (S/390) servers, or Linux on an IBM mainframe, but I do know a little bit about iSeries (AS/400). My company has one 400 LPARed into two systems each running a seperate installation of OS/400, running different applications, and each having their own DASD. One thing I always wondered about this is when you LPAR a system, when one partition is running a highly CPU intensive job, does it eat into the other system's CPU, or does each system have a set ammount of CPU time it can use? If the prior, it seems like kind of a crappy idea, as if both systems were trying to run CPU heavy jobs at the same time it would slow them both to a halt. If the latter, it still seems like a crappy idea as neither system would be able to use the full potental of the machine. How exactally does logical partitioning deal with this?
Well it's your own damn fault for running Windows ME. Anyone will tell you that ME sucks. Windows 98 sucked too, but still not as much as ME. I've been using Windows XP since November, and used 2000 for over a year and a half before that. Not a single reinstall. Of course when I ran Windows 98, a reinstall was necessary every now and then.
Believe it or not 2000 and XP are good operating systems. Really! Not great, but good.
On a side note, my parents have an iMac running OS 8.6, and it is a worthless peice of crap. Your lucky if you can go 10 minutes without the whole system freezing up. And it's not like Windows2K or Linux where if one app freezes you can end it and gracefully recover. On old MacOS, your screwed. Of course they have had it for 3 years and only required 2 OS reinstalls. That's better than Windows 98.
No, the real reason for FreeDOS would be Heretic.
Last time I checked, it isn't just nerds who like TV. And it isn't just nerds who buy TV shows on DVD. So it's fair to assume that it isn't just nerds who would like the oppertunity to buy their favorite shows on DVD.
I tried to cancel about two months after I got it (July 2001), and they said I had to call to cancel it then. I never got around to it though. I'm sure a lot of people "don't get around to it" and therefore never cancel. However when I canceled in January 2002 there was no phone call required, just a lot of "Are you sure" pages (like 3 or 4 I think) before you could actually cancel. I don't know why it changed. Maybe they figured that even though requiring a phone call makes people less likely to cancel (like it did in my case), it requires you to have more customer service employees to pay. Who knows?
Where the hell was that? Was that in MI1? I've played through that game many times but I've never seen that. I thought the only way you could die was to drown yourself by staying underwater for 10 minutes.
When I was looking for a job a few months ago, I was looking through the classifieds in the paper and notices a job posting for a police officer in my home town of Half Moon Bay, CA, a small, quiet costal town south of San Francisco. A town where there is very little crime, no guns, no bullets to dogde, and actually no real work to do besides writing tickets. I was pulled over 3 times by the HMB PD, and for the stupidest crap too.
Anyways they were looking for entry level officers. Their pay? $50,000/year! And thats for entry level! Granted that's not a lot, but it's not too shabby either, and significantly more than the $18k you stated. It's really not bad for eating donuts, writing tickets, and never having to worry about being shot at.
Well excuse me, but...
1. Morpheus may not be spyware, but Kaaza is.
2. Okay bloatware is a little bit of an overstatement, but WinMX and eDonkey2000 are half that size. How big does a stupid file sharing program need to be?
3. Sometimes I have better luck than other times. Still I have a hard time finding a lot of not too unusal songs.
4. I have many Descendents vinyls. In fact I have more vinyls than CDs. Unfortunatly making mp3s out of vinyls is a PITA and don't sound too good. I think I am legally entitled to d/l mp3s from an album I have purchased.
5. Chemical is not ammused.
1) Even if the stupid Kaaza client is no longer available, Morpheus still is, and is a lot more popular a client anyways. That's like trying to shut down the WWW by banning Netscape.
2) Morpehus/Kaaza suck anyways. Even though the idea behind it is pretty genius, in practice their software sucks. Besides crashing constantly, being spyware, bloatware, and every other type of negative ware there is, and just plain being a crappy client, there is no friggin music on their network. I try searching for something somewhat well known but not quite mainstream, say "The Descendents", and I get 0 results back. And any results I do get download at 1.1 k/sec, despite claiming the user has a bandwith of "300" whatever that means. Worst of all you can only get mp3s of up to 128kpbs. I'll stick with WinMX or eDonkey2000 for now. There are plenty of alternatives to Kaaza/Morpheus that don't suck ass.
I don't even get the SciFi network. I'm talking about Fox and NBC and other major broadcast networks. I swear to god that an ad for this movie is aired durring every single commercial break. Of course it might have something to do with the time I'm usually watch TV (11pm-1am usually).