That and I've been using Irate a lot lately and freaking loving it. Just today I got ten COMPLETELY LEGAL songs and I liked all of them but 2.
Thank you, thank you and thank you!:D I didn't know about this project, but I just downloaded it and I am on my third song... of which the two first was great, and this one will probably rate a "Not bad".
This is just so way cool, thanks again!
Now I'll just compile a list of some bands I know that provide free and legal MP3s and contribute some unless they haven't got them yet. Is there anyway, anywhere you can see what is already in the database? So as not to bother the maintainers unnecessarily...
Heh, maybe someone could set up a mirror site of these projects that just goes through all the docs and programs and moves the decimal point one step to the right, 0.2 -> 2.0 etc. Then you would point your boss to the mirror instead of the real one.
Actually, given how many companies treat version numbers, most people would be extremely impressed how great, bug free and mature TB is for being "only a 2.0 release". Quite an insane world.
In a way, maybe it is sad that OSS developers are so brutally honest. If they had the guts to boast a little wuith numbers and stuff, maybe that'd help taking over the market. OTOH, no developer ever wants to go gold, as soon as you stop calling it beta (no matter what actual status is), you kinda have to assume some responsibility... and that ruins all the fun.;-)
If this means the end of overdesigned, shiny and glittery flash sites, and sites that demand IE because they want to use Active X objects etc, then I'm all for it.
I'm not hostile to new technology and all that, but these technologies are so frequently abused so anything that will lessen it will be a good thing.
You could improve on it slightly if the encoder ignores the tags, and just go for the data. This means that any file shared could then be tracked around even if someone changes the tag info...
Even so, it sounds really impractical... unless they are trying to prove that "you got this file from that guy, that got it from that guy"...
Utterly useless in tryin to prove that any mp3 is in fact this or that song, without listening to it.
Tried it out last night, and the speedup was really noticeable. Didn't toy around with it too much, so I'm not sure if there was any new features as well. But speed and memory was indeed improved...
Doesn't really fly in my face, but I do disagree. Sitting an some AMD 1800 thingy, with only 256 MB memory. I do agree that pages display at about the same rate and such, the biggest problem is memory footprint, and especially when Mozilla gets swapped out (and that is very common).
I also like the leightweight of FireBird in other senses, it just does the bare minimum, does it well, and then I choose extensions instead. It is not the be-all, end-all, at least not yet, but it is indeed much more comfortable to use than the whole Mozilla package.
If I hauled my butt down to the store and got some more memory, maybe not. At least not as much.
Thunderbird OTOH is extremely impressive for being a 0.1 - but it isn't really faster. In this case, I just like to have a separate mail client that actually is not there when I don't use it. But, I just tried the thunderbird nightly (just installed it in another dir, so the real was still there just in case...). Thunderbird 0.2 is coming up anytime now, so the nightly was said to be very close to it. And this one is lots faster, with less memory footprint! Otherwise, I didn't notice a lot of difference, but now Thunderbird feels swift and fast too.
But I guess it all boils down to if you have the resources, and most importantly, if you want it all in one package or if you (like me) rather have several apps doing thier own little task. Philosophy, I guess.:)
For me, the offspring are the way to go. But Mozilla is good too, so I don't blame people for sticking to that... after all, that is what I used before and was happy with.
If nothing else, a Linux user can determine and control open ports, running services, and create firewalling rules. Windows users think a port is something a ship pulls into, and a firewall is something in their cars.
So, by installing Linux I somehow automatically learn how to do this? What a strange idea.
Either you are interested and learn how to do something, or you aren't and you don't - on any platform.
the user base for Linux is inherently more systems-savvy and internet-knowledgable than the Windows user base
Or so they would like to think...
I'm not so sure. There are lots of those savvy and knowledgable people on Windows, just as there are lots of "k3wl, I'm so 1337 d00d, because I run Linux and not M$ Winblows" amateurs out there.
I think you'll find the average Linux user to know a bit more about computers yes, but to make the assumption that Linux users are "inherently" more secure users is just begging for trouble.
And furthermore, lots and lots of Linux users are most likely too confident because they are so savvy and knowledgable. Hubris is dangerous on any platform.
Of course, since we all want to feel special and look down on some other group and be "better" than them, that is not what people want to hear around here.
And even more so, in the way they apparently used his company in their scare-campaign ads, potentially forever giving his company a bad reputation as evil pirates.
So did the monorail salesman, or was it even more? Of course, the towns that bought it were literary obliterated as the result - but he still managed to continue selling them.:)
You miss the point. If they win, it isn't because SCO claims it is invalid anymore. It will be ruled invalid.
There is quite a lot invested in the hope and beleif that GPL is indeed valid. Winning such a case would not be a good thing at all.
I'm sure some other solution would come up, but you can just imagine the effect when people discover that all this code is under a licesne that isn't good in court...
If people are too dumb to patch their system with the existing Window Update, how in the hell are they going to diagnose problems when its being done without their knowledge?
You make it sound like they would ever be able to diagnose a problem.
A user of this class will not be able (or even try) to diagnose the problem, whether they have a machine that has never been patched, or if they now-and-then click through windows update (they never read any of the information there anyways) or if the patches are installed without them knowing.
All they know is that the computer behaves odd or stops working. Then they call someone.
Maybe some patches will break their computers. I'd rather have that then another stupid worm running around hogging my precious bandwidth.;)
... CowboyNeal's lap. That's what you meant, yes?;-)
And oh, in such a poll it would be nice to have some odd choices, like Commodore C=64 and Nintento 8-bit. Some of those games still blow most of todays crap out of the water when it comes to gameplay, and I have one friend that still plays Super Mario on his old Nintendo rather than buying some new console.
Slashdot Mirror
Bah. You are pretty google yourself!
That and I've been using Irate a lot lately and freaking loving it. Just today I got ten COMPLETELY LEGAL songs and I liked all of them but 2.
:D I didn't know about this project, but I just downloaded it and I am on my third song... of which the two first was great, and this one will probably rate a "Not bad".
Thank you, thank you and thank you!
This is just so way cool, thanks again!
Now I'll just compile a list of some bands I know that provide free and legal MP3s and contribute some unless they haven't got them yet. Is there anyway, anywhere you can see what is already in the database? So as not to bother the maintainers unnecessarily...
I'd like to think of it as being "natural".
Heh, maybe someone could set up a mirror site of these projects that just goes through all the docs and programs and moves the decimal point one step to the right, 0.2 -> 2.0 etc. Then you would point your boss to the mirror instead of the real one.
;-)
Actually, given how many companies treat version numbers, most people would be extremely impressed how great, bug free and mature TB is for being "only a 2.0 release". Quite an insane world.
In a way, maybe it is sad that OSS developers are so brutally honest. If they had the guts to boast a little wuith numbers and stuff, maybe that'd help taking over the market. OTOH, no developer ever wants to go gold, as soon as you stop calling it beta (no matter what actual status is), you kinda have to assume some responsibility... and that ruins all the fun.
Duh. RIAA didn't hack any computer, there's your difference.
As everyone *should* have Perl installed ;-)
>perl -MLWP::Simple -e "get q(http://www.thebulkclub.com/) while 1"
(Just adjust quotes as per what your platform likes)
YHL. HAND.
If this means the end of overdesigned, shiny and glittery flash sites, and sites that demand IE because they want to use Active X objects etc, then I'm all for it.
I'm not hostile to new technology and all that, but these technologies are so frequently abused so anything that will lessen it will be a good thing.
You could improve on it slightly if the encoder ignores the tags, and just go for the data. This means that any file shared could then be tracked around even if someone changes the tag info...
Even so, it sounds really impractical... unless they are trying to prove that "you got this file from that guy, that got it from that guy"...
Utterly useless in tryin to prove that any mp3 is in fact this or that song, without listening to it.
Tried it out last night, and the speedup was really noticeable. Didn't toy around with it too much, so I'm not sure if there was any new features as well. But speed and memory was indeed improved...
viola.
;-)
It does not pay to fiddle around when posting to slashdot.
Doesn't really fly in my face, but I do disagree. Sitting an some AMD 1800 thingy, with only 256 MB memory. I do agree that pages display at about the same rate and such, the biggest problem is memory footprint, and especially when Mozilla gets swapped out (and that is very common).
:)
I also like the leightweight of FireBird in other senses, it just does the bare minimum, does it well, and then I choose extensions instead. It is not the be-all, end-all, at least not yet, but it is indeed much more comfortable to use than the whole Mozilla package.
If I hauled my butt down to the store and got some more memory, maybe not. At least not as much.
Thunderbird OTOH is extremely impressive for being a 0.1 - but it isn't really faster. In this case, I just like to have a separate mail client that actually is not there when I don't use it. But, I just tried the thunderbird nightly (just installed it in another dir, so the real was still there just in case...). Thunderbird 0.2 is coming up anytime now, so the nightly was said to be very close to it. And this one is lots faster, with less memory footprint! Otherwise, I didn't notice a lot of difference, but now Thunderbird feels swift and fast too.
But I guess it all boils down to if you have the resources, and most importantly, if you want it all in one package or if you (like me) rather have several apps doing thier own little task. Philosophy, I guess.
For me, the offspring are the way to go. But Mozilla is good too, so I don't blame people for sticking to that... after all, that is what I used before and was happy with.
If nothing else, a Linux user can determine and control open ports, running services, and create firewalling rules. Windows users think a port is something a ship pulls into, and a firewall is something in their cars.
So, by installing Linux I somehow automatically learn how to do this? What a strange idea.
Either you are interested and learn how to do something, or you aren't and you don't - on any platform.
the user base for Linux is inherently more systems-savvy and internet-knowledgable than the Windows user base
Or so they would like to think...
I'm not so sure. There are lots of those savvy and knowledgable people on Windows, just as there are lots of "k3wl, I'm so 1337 d00d, because I run Linux and not M$ Winblows" amateurs out there.
I think you'll find the average Linux user to know a bit more about computers yes, but to make the assumption that Linux users are "inherently" more secure users is just begging for trouble.
And furthermore, lots and lots of Linux users are most likely too confident because they are so savvy and knowledgable. Hubris is dangerous on any platform.
Of course, since we all want to feel special and look down on some other group and be "better" than them, that is not what people want to hear around here.
"Pffft, geniuses. What do they know." - Homer J. Simpson ;-)
but in the way the BSA raided his company
And even more so, in the way they apparently used his company in their scare-campaign ads, potentially forever giving his company a bad reputation as evil pirates.
So did the monorail salesman, or was it even more? Of course, the towns that bought it were literary obliterated as the result - but he still managed to continue selling them. :)
Don't tell me you people actually use that protocol (in any original or clone IM).
Nope, you missed the point. The original post was a joke :P
Boy, do you need to practice.
You miss the point. If they win, it isn't because SCO claims it is invalid anymore. It will be ruled invalid.
There is quite a lot invested in the hope and beleif that GPL is indeed valid. Winning such a case would not be a good thing at all.
I'm sure some other solution would come up, but you can just imagine the effect when people discover that all this code is under a licesne that isn't good in court...
And then the Samba team wins... then what? ;-)
What ever happened to the idea of building a better mouse-trap?
It was bought out and supressed by Disney, before one of their characters had an accident.
If people are too dumb to patch their system with the existing Window Update, how in the hell are they going to diagnose problems when its being done without their knowledge?
;)
You make it sound like they would ever be able to diagnose a problem.
A user of this class will not be able (or even try) to diagnose the problem, whether they have a machine that has never been patched, or if they now-and-then click through windows update (they never read any of the information there anyways) or if the patches are installed without them knowing.
All they know is that the computer behaves odd or stops working. Then they call someone.
Maybe some patches will break their computers. I'd rather have that then another stupid worm running around hogging my precious bandwidth.
"Sir, if you don't lock your car, someone could steal your stereo."
"Officer! Arrest this man! He has figured out a way to steal my stereo!"
Sign. Some people are just too stupid to live.
... CowboyNeal's lap. That's what you meant, yes? ;-)
And oh, in such a poll it would be nice to have some odd choices, like Commodore C=64 and Nintento 8-bit. Some of those games still blow most of todays crap out of the water when it comes to gameplay, and I have one friend that still plays Super Mario on his old Nintendo rather than buying some new console.