1) google isn't perfect either
2) we can still search if google goes away...
3) um...i think this is a repeat.
Point is, google isn't forever either. I would support them, I think they are great stuff...if they got sued I'd hate whoever sued them, just like I hate the RIAA for napster. Do I buy CD's now?
The power of napster's public backing was not that the people would pay the court fees. it's that Napster pulled a hydra and grew some new heads, there are a million now and napster isn't even dead yet. The Point is that people HATE the RIAA now, they know that such a thing exists and that this RIAA thing took away their free music. Sales of music was up during hte time Napster was up. Now sales are down. I submit this to anyone who wants to repeat the error of the RIAA: napster cost them nothing, and it was _absolutely_ free promotion, but they killed it and made a reputation for being jerks...
I've brought this up to people. The now know. it's truth - it spreads, and the more CoS blows its horn the more people hear of its evil. *shrug* its' their funeral.
I wonder about this one. Sure, they say they have XX Billion dollars in the bank. ok...but who are their accountants? who checks them on this? Do we really trust more MS marketing (this time pointed towards selling stock, not another product)? I question the "piles of cash" theory - after all, something paid for IE's development, same with media player, and something is paying for developing operating systems. I just wonder.
um, he probably could set the ogg bitrate lower than his mp3 one, and get the same quality for less space. Theoretically it would work, although in actuality i bet you would lose data (going from lossy format to lossy format, like the first link says). i haven't tried the freshmeat script, so i have no idea...i don't have to play with some new toys tonight. I keep my old mp3's the way they are...just not enough time to homogenize everything. It's Ogg for the new stuff, though.
But yes, the best results would be in taking a full.wav file and running it through your ogg encoder. I _highly_ reccomend CDex for windows, and of course the usual ogg stuff for linux.
You buy music after checking it out on a P2P network, right? I'm fine with that. I do it myself.
That's what I do. However, I also keep some Mp3's, usually old stuff that isn't worth anything to anyone any more. Essentially, I follow this rule: If it's really good, i'll pay for it. If not...it'll get deleted when i clean off my hard drive...but it might stay for a while.
I bought more cd's when i was exposed to more music, via napster. However, because of the actions the RIAA has taken, I am turned off to the music industry and I have to really like a disc to "support the artist" by buying a cd.
But yeah...i think you are right. people who just keep a pile of music, with no intent of ever paying for it...they are stupid.
What is wrong with Ogg? It encodes much better than mp3, although ymmv. MP3 is something you have to pay for (or you should pay for...another topic). MP3 doesn't sound as good at a XYZ bitrate compared to other formats. it just doesn't. Ogg is free, and superior. so...yeah. I prefer it over mp3 and anything else. But then, that's just me.
Um, 1) this is slashdot. 2) How much of your cd's that you paid for went to the artist? And whatever happened to the right to share what you (or perhaps someone else) paid for? Just because the RIAA SAYS it is stealing doesn't make it so. I call it "sharing" and i think piracy is just a term they brought out to make it look bad. I buy what i like, but i don't buy crap that i don't know what is on the disc, unless I know the artist is that good.
Admit it or not, the music industry made money from napster, and they are getting screwed this time around because they fought thier customers.
*Mozilla: Ctrl+T, www.weather.com, waits.
I don't see any annoying anything. I have flash installed. What am i missing? Is it mozilla? is it linux? weather.com seems just fine to me. *shrug*.
mozilla, if you are using it, has by-site image blocking, which can cut down on bloat a lot. I don't use it much, on a school-provided (LAN) line, but on dialup from home it's great.
Preferences >> Privacy and Security>> Images
let's you configure stuff like when to load an image, Site image permissions, ask before downloading images, and accept images from original site only.
on another note, it's great for blocking ad's, but i only visit sites i like and I do read their ads.
PS- if you know that a site blows and you never want to go there, find "/etc/hosts" on your machine (yes even windows) and play with it some. This page might help. Set all the lousy hosts (like if you wanted to block all of ebay.com, "*.ebay.com") to a particular IP, like 127.0.0.1 which is local host.
Mandrake's RPM system (since 8.0??) has a nice little feature called "Mandrake Update" that can check for a) security problems, b) updated software, or c) bugfixes, or an combination. I just run that every few weeks. Your request is fixed, depending on what package manager you use.
Here's my point:
Start from the other side. Use the alternatives yourself. I'm gonna keep openoffice, Mozilla, *IM, Divx, Filzip, Xnview, etc. on a disk , that i can share with my friends. When the next MS virus hits (is it only a matter of time?) the product that gets affected i will replace with one of mine. when a friend of mine needs a new office suite, i will submit OO and they will probably appreciate it. If a major XP virus hits, and everyone's computer dies...I always have my linux. and all the products I mention are free or free+open, and only get better, faster, and stabler.
The point is, don't make MS change, but change it from the other end. if Microsofty products aren't superior, use your bandwidth and a cdr, and spread some goodness...right?
BTW, a quick plug for some apps i find useful: filzip is a great zip program for windows, and Xnview opens & converts almost any kind of image. try them. you might like them.
Hey tony, when you gonna start building? I need a new "experience," my old house just up and collapsed yesterday, I think the integrated car exploded and that took down the whole building.
Sell windows 98 - (IE, media player, etc) and call it "windows stripped down edition" and there you go. it does what you want and its a peice of crap. ha ha ha... : |
I believe that's because it uses the old MS trick of pre-loading a lot of its stuff. unless you've turned that off...in which case i couldn't tell you why its faster.
Maybe he's trying to get rid of the dope-smoking peace-loving flower waiving hippie look that some people think exemplifies UNIX hackers. Maybe he just likes guns and likes to talk about them. He's not perfect, but you aren't getting reviewed on ZDnet...so cut him some slack maybe?
i swear, all these people on slashdot complaing about how speakers don't write code, or how RMS is weird, but all the whiners do is whine...
It might help to point out that Sun isn't really stealing hte work of Open Source guys that much. they own the software, unless i'm mistaken, and released it to openoffice. They also put their name, and some polish, on OO and label it SO. People pay for a name and the peace of mind brought by being able to say, "It's not my fault, I paid Sun for it!"
Though everone here on slashdot knows that OO and SO aren't that much different, Average Bob Business Owner doesn't. He hears about this SO thing, it works well and is a lot cheaper than microsoft...why not try it out? That is what Sun's betting on. I think it will work. I sure hope it does...
shoot it into space. take all your buckets of waste and launch them out of orbit into the vast unknown. seriously...in 5 years who's to say we can't do this all the time? Maybe in 5 years we can just recycle it all.
"Buy Office 200!" "Why?" "To get rid of the damn paperclip!" "Well, ok..."
"Buy Office XP!" "Why?" "Well, uh, it has better, uh, marco support, and it's, um, more tightly integrated. Yeah, better integration!" "Well, I guess..."
"Buy Office XP^2!" "Why?" "Well, uh...just buy it, dammit." "Um, no."
LOL. that is good stuff.
but if www.wehavethewayout.com is being served by apache from a BSD box, and they are using JSP for their web community...it would be a mistake to declare Microsoft defeated, but this gave me a very warm feeling.
again. good stuff. it gives me a warm feeling. and a "ha-ha, they suck!" feeling too. thanks for a good laugh, and a well-written post.
a hard-core year might do it. I'll have about 20 CSE courses under my belt when i graduate MSU. then i'll be what i call a "junior engineer." you can take that many in a year, maybe. 6/semester, take some in the summer. But I still wouldn't be a *good*, experienced engineer. and I doubt he's taking 20 hours of university courses in that period.
Slashdot Mirror
And there are no other three keys on the key board that are farther from each other
...
um.
1. Esc.
2. ":"
3. "q"
4. "!"
(looks at keyboard. hmm...q, !, Esc.)
ok so other than those three yeah they are farther apart.
Sorry just couldn't stop myself from respoding in defense of vi : )
1) google isn't perfect either
2) we can still search if google goes away...
3) um...i think this is a repeat.
Point is, google isn't forever either. I would support them, I think they are great stuff...if they got sued I'd hate whoever sued them, just like I hate the RIAA for napster. Do I buy CD's now?
The power of napster's public backing was not that the people would pay the court fees. it's that Napster pulled a hydra and grew some new heads, there are a million now and napster isn't even dead yet. The Point is that people HATE the RIAA now, they know that such a thing exists and that this RIAA thing took away their free music. Sales of music was up during hte time Napster was up. Now sales are down. I submit this to anyone who wants to repeat the error of the RIAA: napster cost them nothing, and it was _absolutely_ free promotion, but they killed it and made a reputation for being jerks...
I've brought this up to people. The now know. it's truth - it spreads, and the more CoS blows its horn the more people hear of its evil. *shrug* its' their funeral.
all their money
I wonder about this one. Sure, they say they have XX Billion dollars in the bank. ok...but who are their accountants? who checks them on this? Do we really trust more MS marketing (this time pointed towards selling stock, not another product)? I question the "piles of cash" theory - after all, something paid for IE's development, same with media player, and something is paying for developing operating systems. I just wonder.
um, he probably could set the ogg bitrate lower than his mp3 one, and get the same quality for less space. Theoretically it would work, although in actuality i bet you would lose data (going from lossy format to lossy format, like the first link says). i haven't tried the freshmeat script, so i have no idea...i don't have to play with some new toys tonight. I keep my old mp3's the way they are...just not enough time to homogenize everything. It's Ogg for the new stuff, though.
.wav file and running it through your ogg encoder. I _highly_ reccomend CDex for windows, and of course the usual ogg stuff for linux.
But yes, the best results would be in taking a full
You buy music after checking it out on a P2P network, right? I'm fine with that. I do it myself.
That's what I do. However, I also keep some Mp3's, usually old stuff that isn't worth anything to anyone any more. Essentially, I follow this rule: If it's really good, i'll pay for it. If not...it'll get deleted when i clean off my hard drive...but it might stay for a while.
I bought more cd's when i was exposed to more music, via napster. However, because of the actions the RIAA has taken, I am turned off to the music industry and I have to really like a disc to "support the artist" by buying a cd.
But yeah...i think you are right. people who just keep a pile of music, with no intent of ever paying for it...they are stupid.
"Besides, some people prefer the sound of ogg."
Who the deaf?
What is wrong with Ogg? It encodes much better than mp3, although ymmv. MP3 is something you have to pay for (or you should pay for...another topic). MP3 doesn't sound as good at a XYZ bitrate compared to other formats. it just doesn't. Ogg is free, and superior. so...yeah. I prefer it over mp3 and anything else. But then, that's just me.
Um, 1) this is slashdot. 2) How much of your cd's that you paid for went to the artist? And whatever happened to the right to share what you (or perhaps someone else) paid for? Just because the RIAA SAYS it is stealing doesn't make it so. I call it "sharing" and i think piracy is just a term they brought out to make it look bad. I buy what i like, but i don't buy crap that i don't know what is on the disc, unless I know the artist is that good.
Admit it or not, the music industry made money from napster, and they are getting screwed this time around because they fought thier customers.
hotbar. My GF has it. And it works allright for her, i guess...but no doubt it wastes CPU and ram, and it also tracks where she goes. *sigh*.
why do people want linux to be mainstream...
mods: this is not offtopic. if you don't get it, don't mod me down.
*Mozilla: Ctrl+T, www.weather.com, waits.
I don't see any annoying anything. I have flash installed. What am i missing? Is it mozilla? is it linux? weather.com seems just fine to me. *shrug*.
Is it just me, or does that page not display in Moz 9.8? Anyone else try it?
mozilla, if you are using it, has by-site image blocking, which can cut down on bloat a lot. I don't use it much, on a school-provided (LAN) line, but on dialup from home it's great.
Preferences >> Privacy and Security>> Images
let's you configure stuff like when to load an image, Site image permissions, ask before downloading images, and accept images from original site only.
on another note, it's great for blocking ad's, but i only visit sites i like and I do read their ads.
PS- if you know that a site blows and you never want to go there, find "/etc/hosts" on your machine (yes even windows) and play with it some. This page might help. Set all the lousy hosts (like if you wanted to block all of ebay.com, "*.ebay.com") to a particular IP, like 127.0.0.1 which is local host.
Mandrake's RPM system (since 8.0??) has a nice little feature called "Mandrake Update" that can check for a) security problems, b) updated software, or c) bugfixes, or an combination. I just run that every few weeks. Your request is fixed, depending on what package manager you use.
this is an old troll...i've read this at least 3 times.
Laugh out loud funny, that is good stuff. VNC is GPL...but we have the way out!
Here's my point: Start from the other side. Use the alternatives yourself. I'm gonna keep openoffice, Mozilla, *IM, Divx, Filzip, Xnview, etc. on a disk , that i can share with my friends. When the next MS virus hits (is it only a matter of time?) the product that gets affected i will replace with one of mine. when a friend of mine needs a new office suite, i will submit OO and they will probably appreciate it. If a major XP virus hits, and everyone's computer dies...I always have my linux. and all the products I mention are free or free+open, and only get better, faster, and stabler.
The point is, don't make MS change, but change it from the other end. if Microsofty products aren't superior, use your bandwidth and a cdr, and spread some goodness...right?
BTW, a quick plug for some apps i find useful: filzip is a great zip program for windows, and Xnview opens & converts almost any kind of image. try them. you might like them.
Hey tony, when you gonna start building? I need a new "experience," my old house just up and collapsed yesterday, I think the integrated car exploded and that took down the whole building.
Good post man, good post.
Sell windows 98 - (IE, media player, etc) and call it "windows stripped down edition" and there you go. it does what you want and its a peice of crap. ha ha ha... : |
Thanks man. good mirror.
I believe that's because it uses the old MS trick of pre-loading a lot of its stuff. unless you've turned that off...in which case i couldn't tell you why its faster.
Maybe he's trying to get rid of the dope-smoking peace-loving flower waiving hippie look that some people think exemplifies UNIX hackers. Maybe he just likes guns and likes to talk about them. He's not perfect, but you aren't getting reviewed on ZDnet...so cut him some slack maybe?
i swear, all these people on slashdot complaing about how speakers don't write code, or how RMS is weird, but all the whiners do is whine...
It might help to point out that Sun isn't really stealing hte work of Open Source guys that much. they own the software, unless i'm mistaken, and released it to openoffice. They also put their name, and some polish, on OO and label it SO. People pay for a name and the peace of mind brought by being able to say, "It's not my fault, I paid Sun for it!"
Though everone here on slashdot knows that OO and SO aren't that much different, Average Bob Business Owner doesn't. He hears about this SO thing, it works well and is a lot cheaper than microsoft...why not try it out? That is what Sun's betting on. I think it will work. I sure hope it does...
shoot it into space. take all your buckets of waste and launch them out of orbit into the vast unknown. seriously...in 5 years who's to say we can't do this all the time? Maybe in 5 years we can just recycle it all.
"Buy Office 200!" "Why?" "To get rid of the damn paperclip!" "Well, ok..."
"Buy Office XP!" "Why?" "Well, uh, it has better, uh, marco support, and it's, um, more tightly integrated. Yeah, better integration!" "Well, I guess..."
"Buy Office XP^2!" "Why?" "Well, uh...just buy it, dammit." "Um, no."
LOL. that is good stuff.
but if www.wehavethewayout.com is being served by apache from a BSD box, and they are using JSP for their web community...it would be a mistake to declare Microsoft defeated, but this gave me a very warm feeling.
again. good stuff. it gives me a warm feeling. and a "ha-ha, they suck!" feeling too. thanks for a good laugh, and a well-written post.
a hard-core year might do it. I'll have about 20 CSE courses under my belt when i graduate MSU. then i'll be what i call a "junior engineer." you can take that many in a year, maybe. 6/semester, take some in the summer. But I still wouldn't be a *good*, experienced engineer. and I doubt he's taking 20 hours of university courses in that period.