Y'know when you play a video game so much you find out the patterns behind it all, and can just whip through it with little to no effort? (Kind of like those videos of video games being beaten in less than 15 minutes...) I think I might be a little bit like that with my Debian installations (so, my opinion here might be a little hard to arrive at for others, who don't get through it all that well), but I have to say for myself that Debian has been the *easiest* installation I've ever come across. 1. Boot computer w/ CD 2. Answer obvious questions about which keyboards, timezones, etc. 3. Turn on net module for my motherboard 4. Choose advanced, just before the dselect part, and edit the sources by hand, uncommenting the apt sources 5. Choose advanced again, for actually using dselect 6. Do NOT use dselect, exit immediately 7. Log in as root 8. apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade, then apt-get dist-upgrade (it gets a li'l shady here, I'm not sure if it's ever been weird to me and I've had to apt-get upgrade more than once.... I usually just do it a few times, because pressing the up arrow key and enter isn't that hard)
From there I apt-get whatever software I need, leaving me with (as far as I can tell) a cruft-free installation. *shrug* Works for me.
When everything is switched over to IPv6, then the internet goes back to its original plan - where all computers are equal; they all have their own address, they can all do whatever they want (or, whatever they can, given the hardware inside of them) like run servers, etc. The big thing about IPv4 is that not all computers are equal - one IP goes to one broadband modem, and there's a NAT present in the event of more computers behind the one IP address. In this IPv4 situation, not every computer can do whatever they want (like run servers, etc); the computers behind IPv4 NATs are consumers. The computers behind IPv4 NATs aren't equal contributions to the internet, they're there to consumer services. I'd imagine the companies providing these (or any, for that matter) services are trying quite hard not to switch to IPv6, where, if us present-day-consumers don't like how they handle the services, or if the billing for these services isn't what we expect, we can simply do it ourselves and take them right out of the picture. With IPv6, the providers would be forced to listen to their customers or risk not being the providers any more.
whatever!
Microsoft is just a businness that the government lets go on (is behind, 100%) in order to get more money pumped into the military.
I'm not talking this whole "oooh, middle east" conspiracy theory, either... I'm jumping that and going straight to "technology we ain't never heard of before" theory. How many people out there think that the government has figured out the gravity problem?
Once in a while there comes a company that overtakes the rest, and completely buries everything remotely in its path. There are no words to describe the amount of money that MS has in cash, so I am forced to make up my own........... Scrumtrulescent.
Would having a company the size of Ford bring even more developers to the Linux community? If they were using Windows, they had a reason (duh), and that reason was the application(s) that they used. If those applications ran in Windows, they might need to be ported over to Linux. Unless, like an above post mentions, they're OS-independent applications, but even so, new applications they make might be written for the Linux OS. This could bring a whole lot of developers into the Linux community who previously hadn't taken the step...
Why not take all (or at least *some*) of Mandrake's desktop advancements and try to bring it into debian? It's already structured as a community-based OS, and it could really use a little (but not nearly as much, let's keep our wits about us) gui advancement. Well? Have at it...
Have a listen to anything by Aphex Twin, Richard D. James, or Polygon Window. If I remember correctly (and I probably don't, at least, not exactly) he would rewire electronics and/or bash them on a hard surface in order to get *just* the sound he wanted. Oh, all three of those people are the same person.
SoundClick - a little unstable, but free, and it's done me good SoulSeek - Windows, Mac & Linux, linux doesn't work perfectly but it's usable. Ninjatune's Forum - My choice label's forum, nice place to post "got any tunes for me to listen to?" because you're sure to get a lot of good music.
Personally, I prefer to fire up soulseek, hop in a chat room, sort the userlist by speed, and start at the top (browsing people's files). I usually keep it to one album per person, and I've noticed that the chat room names actually DO have a lot to do with what type of music you'll find inside.
I know that post was a joke, but it can almost be taken seriously, as well... I have a pair of Technics 1200 M3D turntables, and Final Scratch... I don't buy cds, I can make those myself. Instead, I buy the vinyl of artists I really care about (almost anything on Ninjatune, especially Amon Tobin, Mr. Scruff, Coldcut and DJ Food), and vinyl that I can get for $1 to $4. Everything else is downloaded and either burned, if it's good enough to take around with me, put on my music hard drive for replay while in front of my computer, or brought over to my windows computer and edited, then toyed with in Final Scratch. This way, I support the artists I feel should get support, I get the music in the format that I want it in, and I use all music I come across to make my own art. Damn fun, too.:-D
I don't have my computer history down... where was the competition in the beginning? It was an Apple/Windows thing, wasn't it? Why didn't anyone take the platform Windows was using and do their own thing then? The history of computers/OS' as I know it is first the Apple, then Microsoft, with little to no others until Linux. I'd rather focus on customer-type computer info, rather than the server-type... it has more to do with what's going on today, I think.
Maybe its first steps are Eminem / Photoshop Plug-Ins / pr0n delivery, and the next few are truth, and justice (imo, american way has gone the way of large corporations, so i'm looking for a way other than the american one), then alright, bring on the pr0ninem, Photo delivery, and Emi-Ins.
I used to think that huge corporations would eventually "beat" out the government, in a way. Kind of like how the Church used to be the ruling force of the land, and is now, not. I've since decided, however, that huge corporations are already in control. I just hope that they don't take the masses too far, y'know? Ugh, more work....
Here's some sage advice (from here [slashdot.org] originally): "If you really want a change, don't vote for either party -- vote Libertarian if you're on the right, Green Party if you're on the left, and independant otherwise. Both parties are in the pockets of big business, and that's bad both for those who advocate freedom from the government as well as those who despise deregulation.
I forget where I read this, but it goes something like "If you find yourself agreeing with the majority, it's time to step back and think about your ideals." That is to say that today a progressive step is Libertarian/Green Party/Independant, but not necessarily tomorrow.
I'm totally supportive of the idea of people making music "in their basement", so to speak. There have been bands doing this for quite a few years, along with a burgeoning hobbyist music industry that sell billions of keyboards, multitrack recorders, and computer recording software yearly. Strangely, though, the second the band starts to get exposure is the second that they start petitoining to be picked up by a big label. Although they have the ability to just tour small cities and sell their CDs out of the tailgate of their truck, to most that is just a stepping stone to getting signed.
I think it really depends on who they want to be signed by(or is it to?). If someone "suddenly" petitions to be picked up by a label that wholeheartedly supports the RIAA and everything they're doing right now, then that artist was a sham to begin with. If they're looking to get picked up by people like Ninjatune, or to go along with Chuck D's idea... well, one of these somebodys is an artist, looking to further and better the art, and the other is looking to make money off of it.
Here's Chuck D's idea (or at least a portion of it), taken from Signal To Noise (Fall 2002, Issue 27):
Chuck has suggested that in the future, artists are going to have to give music away. He's even gone so far as to predict that within two years, 85% of all music will be free. Artists seeking the revenue stream under such a scenario will have to approach a recording as a purely promotional enterprise and make their money by performing. "As far as file sharing is concerned, you're going to have to develop your business model by getting people music. 'Cause people's first goals are to get music, not to buy music. And my whole thing is that, okay, if buying music is out of the equation, maybe I can just develop artists and give people the art and make people just be a fanatic for the artist instead of a fanatic for the art, because when you're a fanatic for the art, then, of course you would just download because the artist don't mean nothing to you; but if I can actually deliver a million songs to a million people online, I can build a fan base somewhere there and develop my business model on the back end. But you can't do it unless you develop an artist that people have a connection to. So it ain't going to be like, 'one, two, three, we're going to be gettin' money by being in the music business.' Them days are over."
The fact is, people can make music in their own homes now. People can make albums in their own homes. In previous years, you couldn't do that, you had to go to a record company for "the big break" (the chance to make an album).
Take a glimpse at what would be possible without the RIAA getting in the way (and yes, with the technology of today, at everyone's fingertips, they are getting in the way): 90.1 FM WRUV Burlington Bring The Noise! (note Sat. Oct 26th show) Ninjatune
Anyone else have links to share with this fellow on how unsigned, unbig-business music can work? ((on a side note I just realized how silly it is for people using linux, a fairly (some might say very) non-big-business thing, to say that non-big-business models can't be adapted in other places))
90.1 WRUV Burlington (Vermont) is a good model to follow. I believe there's a webcast as well, if you'd like to tune in some time. Basically, they only play music that does not fall in any of these categories:
Any artist that has ever been in regular rotation on commercial radio stations in the state of Vermont (excluding Vermont Public Radio).
Any artist that has ever been on the Billboard Top 40 Album or Singles charts.
Any artist who has ever been in regular rotation on MTV. This excludes specialty programs such as 120 Minutes and Direct Effect.
Any artist that breaks any one of the above criteria and is in a new band.
>> I (pretend to think I (and I can admit that (as I just did))) Are you a Lisp programmer or do you just lisp when you type?
Heh, I've never programmed in Lisp. It's just that I've read a lot of posts (and conversations within these posts), and I've noticed that most of the slashdot community is picky about how something is said/which words are used. I don't post that often, but when I do I'm very careful about how I say what I do (not to mention my amusement of parenthesis). I used them so much in that first post because I wanted to make it very clear that, in reality, I don't know what we're sitting on.
It figures, the longest post I've made is about parenthesis...
Slashdot Mirror
Democraticunderground.com Forum Post
More Data (link also available within the above forum post)
Whatever it is, we can be sure it's not coming from Russia.
Y'know when you play a video game so much you find out the patterns behind it all, and can just whip through it with little to no effort? (Kind of like those videos of video games being beaten in less than 15 minutes...) I think I might be a little bit like that with my Debian installations (so, my opinion here might be a little hard to arrive at for others, who don't get through it all that well), but I have to say for myself that Debian has been the *easiest* installation I've ever come across.
1. Boot computer w/ CD
2. Answer obvious questions about which keyboards, timezones, etc.
3. Turn on net module for my motherboard
4. Choose advanced, just before the dselect part, and edit the sources by hand, uncommenting the apt sources
5. Choose advanced again, for actually using dselect
6. Do NOT use dselect, exit immediately
7. Log in as root
8. apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade, then apt-get dist-upgrade (it gets a li'l shady here, I'm not sure if it's ever been weird to me and I've had to apt-get upgrade more than once.... I usually just do it a few times, because pressing the up arrow key and enter isn't that hard)
From there I apt-get whatever software I need, leaving me with (as far as I can tell) a cruft-free installation.
*shrug*
Works for me.
When everything is switched over to IPv6, then the internet goes back to its original plan - where all computers are equal; they all have their own address, they can all do whatever they want (or, whatever they can, given the hardware inside of them) like run servers, etc. The big thing about IPv4 is that not all computers are equal - one IP goes to one broadband modem, and there's a NAT present in the event of more computers behind the one IP address. In this IPv4 situation, not every computer can do whatever they want (like run servers, etc); the computers behind IPv4 NATs are consumers. The computers behind IPv4 NATs aren't equal contributions to the internet, they're there to consumer services.
I'd imagine the companies providing these (or any, for that matter) services are trying quite hard not to switch to IPv6, where, if us present-day-consumers don't like how they handle the services, or if the billing for these services isn't what we expect, we can simply do it ourselves and take them right out of the picture. With IPv6, the providers would be forced to listen to their customers or risk not being the providers any more.
Kinda like Ms Pinky, if I'm correct.
Erm ... that's audio
whatever! Microsoft is just a businness that the government lets go on (is behind, 100%) in order to get more money pumped into the military. I'm not talking this whole "oooh, middle east" conspiracy theory, either ... I'm jumping that and going straight to "technology we ain't never heard of before" theory. How many people out there think that the government has figured out the gravity problem?
Once in a while there comes a company that overtakes the rest, and completely buries everything remotely in its path. There are no words to describe the amount of money that MS has in cash, so I am forced to make up my own ........... Scrumtrulescent.
what was the change you made?.......
Would having a company the size of Ford bring even more developers to the Linux community? If they were using Windows, they had a reason (duh), and that reason was the application(s) that they used. If those applications ran in Windows, they might need to be ported over to Linux. Unless, like an above post mentions, they're OS-independent applications, but even so, new applications they make might be written for the Linux OS. This could bring a whole lot of developers into the Linux community who previously hadn't taken the step...
How do you find new music, then? I get mine here: 90.1 WRUV FM Burlington
Why not take all (or at least *some*) of Mandrake's desktop advancements and try to bring it into debian? It's already structured as a community-based OS, and it could really use a little (but not nearly as much, let's keep our wits about us) gui advancement. Well? Have at it...
Have a listen to anything by Aphex Twin, Richard D. James, or Polygon Window. If I remember correctly (and I probably don't, at least, not exactly) he would rewire electronics and/or bash them on a hard surface in order to get *just* the sound he wanted. Oh, all three of those people are the same person.
Do you still have it?
SoulSeek - Windows, Mac & Linux, linux doesn't work perfectly but it's usable.
Ninjatune's Forum - My choice label's forum, nice place to post "got any tunes for me to listen to?" because you're sure to get a lot of good music.
Personally, I prefer to fire up soulseek, hop in a chat room, sort the userlist by speed, and start at the top (browsing people's files). I usually keep it to one album per person, and I've noticed that the chat room names actually DO have a lot to do with what type of music you'll find inside.
I know that post was a joke, but it can almost be taken seriously, as well... ... I don't buy cds, I can make those myself. Instead, I buy the vinyl of artists I really care about (almost anything on Ninjatune, especially Amon Tobin, Mr. Scruff, Coldcut and DJ Food), and vinyl that I can get for $1 to $4. Everything else is downloaded and either burned, if it's good enough to take around with me, put on my music hard drive for replay while in front of my computer, or brought over to my windows computer and edited, then toyed with in Final Scratch. This way, I support the artists I feel should get support, I get the music in the format that I want it in, and I use all music I come across to make my own art. Damn fun, too. :-D
I have a pair of Technics 1200 M3D turntables, and Final Scratch
I don't have my computer history down ... where was the competition in the beginning? It was an Apple/Windows thing, wasn't it? ... it has more to do with what's going on today, I think.
Why didn't anyone take the platform Windows was using and do their own thing then?
The history of computers/OS' as I know it is first the Apple, then Microsoft, with little to no others until Linux. I'd rather focus on customer-type computer info, rather than the server-type
I got that link from a story ran on slashdot a while back you can read through that here if you'd like.
I have to point to this:
to authors and inventors
In other words: NOT to the people who make mony off of the authors and inventors.
Maybe its first steps are Eminem / Photoshop Plug-Ins / pr0n delivery, and the next few are truth, and justice (imo, american way has gone the way of large corporations, so i'm looking for a way other than the american one), then alright, bring on the pr0ninem, Photo delivery, and Emi-Ins.
I used to think that huge corporations would eventually "beat" out the government, in a way. Kind of like how the Church used to be the ruling force of the land, and is now, not.
I've since decided, however, that huge corporations are already in control. I just hope that they don't take the masses too far, y'know?
Ugh, more work....
Here's some sage advice (from here [slashdot.org] originally): "If you really want a change, don't vote for either party -- vote Libertarian if you're on the right, Green Party if you're on the left, and independant otherwise. Both parties are in the pockets of big business, and that's bad both for those who advocate freedom from the government as well as those who despise deregulation.
I forget where I read this, but it goes something like "If you find yourself agreeing with the majority, it's time to step back and think about your ideals." That is to say that today a progressive step is Libertarian/Green Party/Independant, but not necessarily tomorrow.
Mindul, like, see?
I think it really depends on who they want to be signed by(or is it to?). If someone "suddenly" petitions to be picked up by a label that wholeheartedly supports the RIAA and everything they're doing right now, then that artist was a sham to begin with. If they're looking to get picked up by people like Ninjatune, or to go along with Chuck D's idea ... well, one of these somebodys is an artist, looking to further and better the art, and the other is looking to make money off of it.
Chuck has suggested that in the future, artists are going to have to give music away. He's even gone so far as to predict that within two years, 85% of all music will be free. Artists seeking the revenue stream under such a scenario will have to approach a recording as a purely promotional enterprise and make their money by performing. "As far as file sharing is concerned, you're going to have to develop your business model by getting people music. 'Cause people's first goals are to get music, not to buy music. And my whole thing is that, okay, if buying music is out of the equation, maybe I can just develop artists and give people the art and make people just be a fanatic for the artist instead of a fanatic for the art, because when you're a fanatic for the art, then, of course you would just download because the artist don't mean nothing to you; but if I can actually deliver a million songs to a million people online, I can build a fan base somewhere there and develop my business model on the back end. But you can't do it unless you develop an artist that people have a connection to. So it ain't going to be like, 'one, two, three, we're going to be gettin' money by being in the music business.' Them days are over."
The fact is, people can make music in their own homes now. People can make albums in their own homes. In previous years, you couldn't do that, you had to go to a record company for "the big break" (the chance to make an album).
Take a glimpse at what would be possible without the RIAA getting in the way (and yes, with the technology of today, at everyone's fingertips, they are getting in the way):
90.1 FM WRUV Burlington
Bring The Noise! (note Sat. Oct 26th show)
Ninjatune
Anyone else have links to share with this fellow on how unsigned, unbig-business music can work? ((on a side note I just realized how silly it is for people using linux, a fairly (some might say very) non-big-business thing, to say that non-big-business models can't be adapted in other places))
90.1 WRUV Burlington (Vermont) is a good model to follow. I believe there's a webcast as well, if you'd like to tune in some time. Basically, they only play music that does not fall in any of these categories:
Any artist that has ever been in regular rotation on commercial radio stations in the state of Vermont (excluding Vermont Public Radio).
Any artist that has ever been on the Billboard Top 40 Album or Singles charts.
Any artist who has ever been in regular rotation on MTV. This excludes specialty programs such as 120 Minutes and Direct Effect.
Any artist that breaks any one of the above criteria and is in a new band.
Heh, I've never programmed in Lisp. It's just that I've read a lot of posts (and conversations within these posts), and I've noticed that most of the slashdot community is picky about how something is said/which words are used. I don't post that often, but when I do I'm very careful about how I say what I do (not to mention my amusement of parenthesis). I used them so much in that first post because I wanted to make it very clear that, in reality, I don't know what we're sitting on.
It figures, the longest post I've made is about parenthesis...