I am annoyed by this anonymous post. I am going to persue it to the fullest extent of the new law that our great leader has empowered me with! I intend to call the FBI and CIA later today to try and have this AC unmasked and prove that the foresight of George W. Bush will prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future!! Who's with me!!??;P
Sorry there bud. I have to disagree. Whenever I've gotten mod points, I've modded up comments like that because they need to be seen. However, as I've been saying in this thread... if you take away monetary incentive (which people like Roland and Beatles Beatles post for) then you eliminate the problem. NO ONE should be able to profit from submitting and getting a story accepted. The only thing you should get in return is the knowledge that you've shared valuable information with your fellow reader. Fame, money, girls, etc... should all be left to REAL work: building or designing stuff, cooking, or cleaning for example.
There's nothing wrong with a submitter becoming well known. That's not the issue. The issue is that they stand to make money by getting their submissions accepted. Take that away, and you get rid of the problem. If the person is still willing to post without the monetary incentive, then they belong in the community. If not, they can leave.
Personal benefit is the problem. No one should benefit personally in a community driven environment. The only reasons to submit stories are to share information with other people. I should get NOTHING in return other than knowing that others of a like mind enjoyed the submission if it was accepted. As soon as an individual stands to gain something (especially if it can translate to money) the system becomes vulnerable to abuse. If you can't contribute something with nothing in return, then you don't belong in a community.
...just a few days ago. I remember the promise of the virtual world back in the late 80s and early 90s. Whatever happened to the neo-hippy, VR enhanced, smart drug world that I was promised almost 20 years ago???
'so long as you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to fear'
That only applies at times when the government is run by reasonable and trustworthy people. The government is currently broken and can't be fixed without major upheaval.
Based on my old account's JEs, I'm sure that a lot of neocons would find me "annoying". Hell, even my new account is rife with JEs and comments that are calculated to annoy. (Too bad today's not Tuesday). What about things like this? What about my freedom of speech that I am supposed to be guaranteed? You know what? Dubya can lick me from crack to sack. And you can quote me on that. I hate that fucking little imbecile.
...boxing gloves and protective CPU case padding. This suggestion based on the way one of my friends treats her machine when she gets drunk AND angry. I remember her once "teaching the CD-ROM drive a lesson" by repeatedly powering the machine up and down and pressing the eject button to rip the tray out and shove it back in. She also took an Amiga 500 back in the 80s that kept crashing and threw it out of her apartment window into the back yard, then went out and poured gasoline all over it, lit it and then jumped up and down on it once it was smouldering. From what I can tell this is typical of her treatment of machines. All true too. She has a bit of an anger management problem.
FM audio is pretty low quality to begin with. The compression that stations use (audio engineering compression, not data) tends to bollocks up the sound compared to what you hear from a CD. So I don't see how web radio is much different. The streams online are the equivalent of FM in most cases with the exception of talk radio where you don't need quality (in either content or audio integrity;P ). But in answer to your question, I would say look for a tuner that is supported by the ALSA project. As long as that tuner's radio signal can be read from/dev, you should be fine. Then use the Xine media player with its --broadcast option to broadcast the audio stream to any other Xine player on your network.
...I saw that someone thought it was a waste of money to get Fripp. I guess that shows you that some people have no respect for art. There is a HUGE difference between some hack sitting in a production house cranking out quick riffs and on-hold music and someone who has real talent (like Fripp) making good sounds. Keep in mind that talent != fame. There are some true artists that you will never hear of because they don't have a way for their music to be heard. Fripp, however is a talented guy. So Microsoft did something right with this. System sounds are an essential part of the user experience and people who turn them off only do so because the sounds were poorly produced and are therefore unpleasant, or they don't know any better.
With that out of the way. The only thing I have to say is "to-mae-to"/"to-mah-to". Personally I think LILO sucks. It's too simple. It doesn't do enough. And I think it's STUPID to execute a command at shutdown to reload your boot loader. You SHOULD have to do that. It should just know when you've made a change and do it. Finally, going into single user mode is EASIER with GRUB than LILO. Just do this:
e down arrow to the kernel line right arrow to the end and type '1' enter b
Simple as pie. None of that idiotic mucking about booting with a boot floppy to edit the/etc/lilo.conf file and rebooting as it says to do in the man pages. I shouldn't have to boot to change my boot configuration! It should be done IN the boot loader itself!!
And Tuesday is about one hour and thirteen minutes from ending where I am so I'll likely have a different point of view tomorrow. But, I truly like GRUB and despise LILO. Not to mention GRUB is prettier than LILO since it can actually do framebuffer graphics rather than the lame ass VGA. Remember, the thing that sells people on OSes is "ooh shiny" and not technical excellence.;p Get my point?
1. I prefer GNU GPL m'self 2. You wouldn't believe how much of a pain in the ass it is to reboot your box only to have it default to the wrong kernel or OS and boot up in it. (I hate timeouts so I alwasy set them to 0) I prefer my boot loader to just automatically re-read it's config file without me having to tell it to update. So until LILO fixes that, puts in a much nicer menu system a la GRUB and generally becomes a lot more developed, I'm sticking with GRUB. GRUB really isn't that hard. It's kind of like making the jump from Linux to VMS. Your personal problems with GRUB don't invalidate it. I just think LILO is a steaming pile in comparison. That's all.
It's all about what you're familiar with. I used to be a LILO affectionado and moaned when Redhat moved to GRUB. But once I learned GRUB, I found it to be much more powerful and easier to use than LILO. That's just me though. I'm the same guy who tells everyone I know, "If there's a hard way to do something, I'm there before anyone else".;P
When will the Google paranoia stop? So far, what sorts of predatory business practices have they been involved in? None that I can tell. They created the online search related ad market, so good on them for that. They have the best search engine online. Kudos there too. The only thing I'm hearing from anti-Google assholes is whining because their favorite companies (probably due to some lame investments) can't compete. READ MY LIPS: I don't give a flying FUCK about your investments. I have NO investments and I'm damn proud of that. If you're so worried about the market, you need to get a life. The only reason to do anything with technology is to make life better and easier with money making as a VERY SMALL part of the process. This is what Google has done. They make a great search engine, provide really good free e-mail with loads of space, and now they might provide decent competition to Microsoft and Dell. Sounds like they're doing things the right way, to me...
...GRUB is the ultimate choice. It understands multiple OSes (including Windows XP), is very flexible and easy to use and uses a highly ethical license. Oh... and it doesn't require you to reinstall it after you make a change to it's config file like LILO does. No need to read any further. I have spoken.
...that flat screen TVs (LCD and Plasma) made the largest jump as the prices are coming down. I bought one this year and I tend to reflect the buying habits of most low to middle income tech obsessed Americans. So if I got one, then it's probably very likely that most of you did too. And since we make up about 95% of the people who do shopping online (just so you know I buy about 5% of my stuff online, I still trust brick and mortar over online) it's very likely that we dictate the numbers. So a show of hands... who bought a flat screen TV this Xmas? Any size. 7" - 80".
You actually have the most correct view. Being that my interest in computers started off as purely an artist's tool (originally a Mac user) and developed into a sort of techie obesession (now a hardcore *nix user) which branched into IT work, I have a strange view. Not to mention, I like to piss off suits who think computers are only for IT and business.;P My real view is actually a lot closer to yours than I let on.
Once there was a village in the country. The people were happy. The village was nice. In general things were pretty good. Then one day a man in the village discovered a deep dark hole just outside of the village. He yelled into it and was surprised that his voice did not echo back. He called a few others who also wondered at the discovery. Soon it was decided that the hole should be inspected further and people gathered the tools to do so. The first test was to yell "hello" as lous as possible and listen for an echo carefully. This failed. The next test was to throw a stone into the hole and listen for it to hit the bottom. This was done, but no sound was ever heard. The next test was to drop something more substantial into the hole and listen for it to hit bottom. Again, nothing was heard. More tests followed until...
It was decided that the hole was the perfect place for the village's rubbish to be disposed of. Day after day, week after week and year after year, they continued to throw their litter into the hole. Until one day many many years later, the man who discovered the hole heard a voice call from above just outside his home, "Hellllo". He was startled but ignored it. The next day he heard another voice calling followed by a small stone hitting the ground near him. It was then that he realized what had happened and wished he'd never found the hole outside of the village.
---
Now, I could simply make some flip statement about him having found Bob Goatse... but instead I'll make the point that perhaps the endless flow of lava is coming from the Earth's future where all of our waste is miraculously disposed of through some kind of wormhole...;P Happy New Year you sods!
...if you use computers to make money, you're in the minority. Just check out my profile for more on that wisdom. The people who really make proper use of computers are people at home using them for creative endeavours that will never see a dime. People who use them to make music, print artistic photos, or even write their own *FREE* (in both senses) software are the people who make proper use of a computer. Anyone using it to try and turn a profit is just a talentless hack who thinks of a PC as a money making machine. If, and only if, you HAPPEN to make a profit doing something creative with a PC whilst actually doing the creative part out of love rather than avarice, then you are properly using your computer. This means that if you are a web designer who creates web sites because you like to and you would do it for free, then you're doing it right. The fact that people might pay you is incidental and vastly unimportant. That's the way I work with audio and music production on my computers. I love doing that work, so I do it for people at no cost. However, 99% of the time they demand that I charge them something and my asking prices tend to be low. So even there, they might force me to charge more. Case in point. I did some very simple photo editing for a friend of a friend recently. It took me about an hour and a half to do the actual work and my computer about 15 minutes to save out a postscript print file for large format printing. I told the guy I would only charge $10 an hour because that's all that photo editing work is worth. He disagreed and when he saw the results he paid me $50 an hour. I told him he didn't need to, but he insisted and thus I got a little over $50 when all was said a done. A nice surprise but completely unwarranted. Digital photo editing is not hard, it's not a skill and certainly doesn't call for that kind of pay.
All those businesses with their IT departments are doing a disservice to computers. The industry seems to have largely forgotten that computers are simply a tool and only useful when in skilled hands. And skilled hands do not equate to profit, they equate to talent and a love of the craft. That is the ONLY reason to work with computers. Making money is simply a side benefit and a highly overrated one at that.
The Q: Au contraire mon capitan. Mr. Miller is a human being, no? Therefore he has free will, correct? So he is free to tell his clients to... oh let's not mince words... I believe the phrase is, "take a hike". He is as much a party to this as K'loj Pheth of the Xynerian War Tribes was the leader of the bloody purification siege on Golset 9 in the 22nd century. Your lordships, I rest my case.
Its the RIAA that is suing, not the lawyers. The lawyer's are just doing their job as EMPL0YEES of the RIAA.
But you forget Papasan... The lawyer chose to accept the invalid case to begin with meaning that he's not concerned with his social responsbility. He's only interested in making money. A lot of moronic dorks would say that making money is all he should be concerned with. But they'd be wrong and immoral to believe that. Therefore he deserves to go down with the ship (the RIAA). Like I said in my earlier post in this story, he should be one of those floating down the river with a knife in his back since he failed to do what is right for society. Choosing what's good for one's own individual situation is not moral or good. It's simply selfish and wrong.
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I am annoyed by this anonymous post. I am going to persue it to the fullest extent of the new law that our great leader has empowered me with! I intend to call the FBI and CIA later today to try and have this AC unmasked and prove that the foresight of George W. Bush will prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future!! Who's with me!!?? ;P
Sorry there bud. I have to disagree. Whenever I've gotten mod points, I've modded up comments like that because they need to be seen. However, as I've been saying in this thread... if you take away monetary incentive (which people like Roland and Beatles Beatles post for) then you eliminate the problem. NO ONE should be able to profit from submitting and getting a story accepted. The only thing you should get in return is the knowledge that you've shared valuable information with your fellow reader. Fame, money, girls, etc... should all be left to REAL work: building or designing stuff, cooking, or cleaning for example.
There's nothing wrong with a submitter becoming well known. That's not the issue. The issue is that they stand to make money by getting their submissions accepted. Take that away, and you get rid of the problem. If the person is still willing to post without the monetary incentive, then they belong in the community. If not, they can leave.
Personal benefit is the problem. No one should benefit personally in a community driven environment. The only reasons to submit stories are to share information with other people. I should get NOTHING in return other than knowing that others of a like mind enjoyed the submission if it was accepted. As soon as an individual stands to gain something (especially if it can translate to money) the system becomes vulnerable to abuse. If you can't contribute something with nothing in return, then you don't belong in a community.
...just a few days ago. I remember the promise of the virtual world back in the late 80s and early 90s. Whatever happened to the neo-hippy, VR enhanced, smart drug world that I was promised almost 20 years ago???
That only applies at times when the government is run by reasonable and trustworthy people. The government is currently broken and can't be fixed without major upheaval.
Based on my old account's JEs, I'm sure that a lot of neocons would find me "annoying". Hell, even my new account is rife with JEs and comments that are calculated to annoy. (Too bad today's not Tuesday). What about things like this? What about my freedom of speech that I am supposed to be guaranteed? You know what? Dubya can lick me from crack to sack. And you can quote me on that. I hate that fucking little imbecile.
...boxing gloves and protective CPU case padding. This suggestion based on the way one of my friends treats her machine when she gets drunk AND angry. I remember her once "teaching the CD-ROM drive a lesson" by repeatedly powering the machine up and down and pressing the eject button to rip the tray out and shove it back in. She also took an Amiga 500 back in the 80s that kept crashing and threw it out of her apartment window into the back yard, then went out and poured gasoline all over it, lit it and then jumped up and down on it once it was smouldering. From what I can tell this is typical of her treatment of machines. All true too. She has a bit of an anger management problem.
FM audio is pretty low quality to begin with. The compression that stations use (audio engineering compression, not data) tends to bollocks up the sound compared to what you hear from a CD. So I don't see how web radio is much different. The streams online are the equivalent of FM in most cases with the exception of talk radio where you don't need quality (in either content or audio integrity ;P ). But in answer to your question, I would say look for a tuner that is supported by the ALSA project. As long as that tuner's radio signal can be read from /dev, you should be fine. Then use the Xine media player with its --broadcast option to broadcast the audio stream to any other Xine player on your network.
So THAT'S why I've always sucked at first person shooters! I always aim for the fingertips to try and hurt them where it counts: the trigger finger.
...I saw that someone thought it was a waste of money to get Fripp. I guess that shows you that some people have no respect for art. There is a HUGE difference between some hack sitting in a production house cranking out quick riffs and on-hold music and someone who has real talent (like Fripp) making good sounds. Keep in mind that talent != fame. There are some true artists that you will never hear of because they don't have a way for their music to be heard. Fripp, however is a talented guy. So Microsoft did something right with this. System sounds are an essential part of the user experience and people who turn them off only do so because the sounds were poorly produced and are therefore unpleasant, or they don't know any better.
What happened to Saturday in Liverpool you right yob? ;P
I am MANIMAL!!!! Respect that!
/etc/lilo.conf file and rebooting as it says to do in the man pages. I shouldn't have to boot to change my boot configuration! It should be done IN the boot loader itself!!
;p Get my point?
With that out of the way. The only thing I have to say is "to-mae-to"/"to-mah-to". Personally I think LILO sucks. It's too simple. It doesn't do enough. And I think it's STUPID to execute a command at shutdown to reload your boot loader. You SHOULD have to do that. It should just know when you've made a change and do it. Finally, going into single user mode is EASIER with GRUB than LILO. Just do this:
e
down arrow to the kernel line
right arrow to the end and type '1'
enter
b
Simple as pie. None of that idiotic mucking about booting with a boot floppy to edit the
And Tuesday is about one hour and thirteen minutes from ending where I am so I'll likely have a different point of view tomorrow. But, I truly like GRUB and despise LILO. Not to mention GRUB is prettier than LILO since it can actually do framebuffer graphics rather than the lame ass VGA. Remember, the thing that sells people on OSes is "ooh shiny" and not technical excellence.
1. I prefer GNU GPL m'self
2. You wouldn't believe how much of a pain in the ass it is to reboot your box only to have it default to the wrong kernel or OS and boot up in it. (I hate timeouts so I alwasy set them to 0) I prefer my boot loader to just automatically re-read it's config file without me having to tell it to update. So until LILO fixes that, puts in a much nicer menu system a la GRUB and generally becomes a lot more developed, I'm sticking with GRUB. GRUB really isn't that hard. It's kind of like making the jump from Linux to VMS. Your personal problems with GRUB don't invalidate it. I just think LILO is a steaming pile in comparison. That's all.
Heheheh... The "B Ark" so to speak. Hehehehehe... explains a lot. (And yes, I AM Canadian)
He's done more than record a few lame "new age" albums?
It's all about what you're familiar with. I used to be a LILO affectionado and moaned when Redhat moved to GRUB. But once I learned GRUB, I found it to be much more powerful and easier to use than LILO. That's just me though. I'm the same guy who tells everyone I know, "If there's a hard way to do something, I'm there before anyone else". ;P
When will the Google paranoia stop? So far, what sorts of predatory business practices have they been involved in? None that I can tell. They created the online search related ad market, so good on them for that. They have the best search engine online. Kudos there too. The only thing I'm hearing from anti-Google assholes is whining because their favorite companies (probably due to some lame investments) can't compete. READ MY LIPS: I don't give a flying FUCK about your investments. I have NO investments and I'm damn proud of that. If you're so worried about the market, you need to get a life. The only reason to do anything with technology is to make life better and easier with money making as a VERY SMALL part of the process. This is what Google has done. They make a great search engine, provide really good free e-mail with loads of space, and now they might provide decent competition to Microsoft and Dell. Sounds like they're doing things the right way, to me...
...GRUB is the ultimate choice. It understands multiple OSes (including Windows XP), is very flexible and easy to use and uses a highly ethical license. Oh... and it doesn't require you to reinstall it after you make a change to it's config file like LILO does. No need to read any further. I have spoken.
...that flat screen TVs (LCD and Plasma) made the largest jump as the prices are coming down. I bought one this year and I tend to reflect the buying habits of most low to middle income tech obsessed Americans. So if I got one, then it's probably very likely that most of you did too. And since we make up about 95% of the people who do shopping online (just so you know I buy about 5% of my stuff online, I still trust brick and mortar over online) it's very likely that we dictate the numbers. So a show of hands... who bought a flat screen TV this Xmas? Any size. 7" - 80".
You actually have the most correct view. Being that my interest in computers started off as purely an artist's tool (originally a Mac user) and developed into a sort of techie obesession (now a hardcore *nix user) which branched into IT work, I have a strange view. Not to mention, I like to piss off suits who think computers are only for IT and business. ;P My real view is actually a lot closer to yours than I let on.
It went a little something like this:
;P Happy New Year you sods!
Once there was a village in the country. The people were happy. The village was nice. In general things were pretty good. Then one day a man in the village discovered a deep dark hole just outside of the village. He yelled into it and was surprised that his voice did not echo back. He called a few others who also wondered at the discovery. Soon it was decided that the hole should be inspected further and people gathered the tools to do so. The first test was to yell "hello" as lous as possible and listen for an echo carefully. This failed. The next test was to throw a stone into the hole and listen for it to hit the bottom. This was done, but no sound was ever heard. The next test was to drop something more substantial into the hole and listen for it to hit bottom. Again, nothing was heard. More tests followed until...
It was decided that the hole was the perfect place for the village's rubbish to be disposed of. Day after day, week after week and year after year, they continued to throw their litter into the hole. Until one day many many years later, the man who discovered the hole heard a voice call from above just outside his home, "Hellllo". He was startled but ignored it. The next day he heard another voice calling followed by a small stone hitting the ground near him. It was then that he realized what had happened and wished he'd never found the hole outside of the village.
---
Now, I could simply make some flip statement about him having found Bob Goatse... but instead I'll make the point that perhaps the endless flow of lava is coming from the Earth's future where all of our waste is miraculously disposed of through some kind of wormhole...
...if you use computers to make money, you're in the minority. Just check out my profile for more on that wisdom. The people who really make proper use of computers are people at home using them for creative endeavours that will never see a dime. People who use them to make music, print artistic photos, or even write their own *FREE* (in both senses) software are the people who make proper use of a computer. Anyone using it to try and turn a profit is just a talentless hack who thinks of a PC as a money making machine. If, and only if, you HAPPEN to make a profit doing something creative with a PC whilst actually doing the creative part out of love rather than avarice, then you are properly using your computer. This means that if you are a web designer who creates web sites because you like to and you would do it for free, then you're doing it right. The fact that people might pay you is incidental and vastly unimportant. That's the way I work with audio and music production on my computers. I love doing that work, so I do it for people at no cost. However, 99% of the time they demand that I charge them something and my asking prices tend to be low. So even there, they might force me to charge more. Case in point. I did some very simple photo editing for a friend of a friend recently. It took me about an hour and a half to do the actual work and my computer about 15 minutes to save out a postscript print file for large format printing. I told the guy I would only charge $10 an hour because that's all that photo editing work is worth. He disagreed and when he saw the results he paid me $50 an hour. I told him he didn't need to, but he insisted and thus I got a little over $50 when all was said a done. A nice surprise but completely unwarranted. Digital photo editing is not hard, it's not a skill and certainly doesn't call for that kind of pay.
All those businesses with their IT departments are doing a disservice to computers. The industry seems to have largely forgotten that computers are simply a tool and only useful when in skilled hands. And skilled hands do not equate to profit, they equate to talent and a love of the craft. That is the ONLY reason to work with computers. Making money is simply a side benefit and a highly overrated one at that.
The Q: Au contraire mon capitan. Mr. Miller is a human being, no? Therefore he has free will, correct? So he is free to tell his clients to... oh let's not mince words... I believe the phrase is, "take a hike". He is as much a party to this as K'loj Pheth of the Xynerian War Tribes was the leader of the bloody purification siege on Golset 9 in the 22nd century. Your lordships, I rest my case.
But you forget Papasan... The lawyer chose to accept the invalid case to begin with meaning that he's not concerned with his social responsbility. He's only interested in making money. A lot of moronic dorks would say that making money is all he should be concerned with. But they'd be wrong and immoral to believe that. Therefore he deserves to go down with the ship (the RIAA). Like I said in my earlier post in this story, he should be one of those floating down the river with a knife in his back since he failed to do what is right for society. Choosing what's good for one's own individual situation is not moral or good. It's simply selfish and wrong.