"You could, however, buy a top selling CD, like the soundtrack to Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? which boosted bluegrass music to the top of the charts. You won't find the "Bluegrass" station on the radio, however."
Thats because people dont want to hear bluegrass, they want to hear the soundtrack to "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou". If the soundtrack had been cajun music, the same people would probably have bought that.
"How could you know what everybody wants when the RIAA et al are telling us what we want"
They`re not telling you what you want, they`re selling you what you buy. I`m a big music lover - listen to it all the time. I must listen to a music-playing radio station for about 5 hours a year. Bugger all on that I like. (This is in the UK). Same with films (movies) - the stuff I like isnt on at the cinema (theater), I have to get it on video.
Janis Ian is a musician, so of course they arent going to play stuff she finds interesting on the radio, as professional musicians must make up 0.00001% of the market in wherever shes talking about. Just like there are no tv/radio programs about the sort of stuff that gets discussed here.
"You can't hear new music on radio these days; I live in Nashville, "Music City USA", and we have exactly one station willing to play a non-top-40 format"
I know how she feels. I went into my local shopping centre the other day, trying to locate some blank betamax tapes - nothing. I also tried to get a commodore 64 so I could check out some prehistoric games - zilch. And could I find an 8-track machine to play the tapes I got cheap in a jumble sale? Could I fuck!
So much for the so-called free-market. They`re quite clearly just trying to make a profit by selling what most people want to buy. Its a bloody outrage!
another yamaha? Whats the saying again? "Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me". There are too many manufacturers out there for me to want to risk them again. I used it to write about a disk or 2 a week, i guess. At that rate i expect it to last 3 or 4 years. You know, like other stuff which cost that amount of money does (£150, so same price as my monitor, cpu, hard disk - all have which are working perfectly).
I think i`ll get a plextor then, or at least check them out, and may i humbly suggest you do the same! (the speed of the writer is completely meaningless to me - i dont mind waiting an hour per disk if it means it writes (nearly) every time).
Or just get a motherboard which doesnt have this nonsense, given that the DMCA only applies in the States, and motherboards are generally made outside the states. I`m not sure big computer manufacturers are going to be that keen on charging Linux users more for hardware they`ll never use.
Red Dwarf went from episodes about time travel where the characters meet themselves and give them warnings from the future, and monsters that can change shape into the shape of the characters, to, uh, episodes about time travel where the characters meet themselves and give them warnings from the future, and monsters that can change shape into the shape of the characters. Theres no point in watching more than 3 episodes.
Sure, i`m not saying its a good thing, and what you posted sounds ok, but its a far cry from `linux wont run on my pc any more` and `microsoft has to approve all software`. Sounds like 2 cases here : secure shopping and content protection. In the former, the online retailers would have to allow another method of safe trading online, the latter wouldnt be a problem for people who dont want to buy music/films etc to run on their pc.
That sucks. I agree with you - i`m not going to get a DVD writer for years. I held off getting a CD writer for ages, as i thought `theres no way thats going to work for more than a few months`. Not just moving parts, but something thats uses lasers, susceptible to movement etc. Mine lasted 14 months. Yamaha drive, for the record. I think i`ll be getting a Lacie or some other more-expensive one next time. Either that or the exact opposite - the cheapest one i can find!
Well,exactly - isnt this precisely why all this `ooh, we cant run Linux on it` is just nonsense? Why cant you run Linux on it? No-one ever explains that bit.
It would be fairly easy to knock up a Philip Glass simulator. All you`d need is a major/minor key selector, BPM and length of output. I dunno, perhaps thats what he`s been using for the last 30 years?
Yep, that sounds like the sort of side-achinging amusing thing Pratt-shit would say. What a comedic genius! What I want to know is: Why do all Pratchet fans have leather jackets with badges on, have silly beards, live at home and smoke roll ups? It must be more than mere coincidence.
"Then, Windows tells me that QuickTime has caused a fatal error and must close."
My browser crashed too. Cool. I`m running Windows 2000, service packed, and v5.5 of a browser. We`re told that the os is designed for multimedia and all the other buzzwords..yet i have to download software to handle audio and graphics...and even then it crashes!! Superb!
Or commodore pet. Things didnt change fast in Commdores world. Brought out a 500 in 1997. Updated the processor in the 1200 in about 1992. Went bust shortly after. Cant think why!
if you start playing Gong, people are going to turn up tripping, smoke hash in the office etc?!
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"I've lost track of the humber of technologies that were initially driven by porn."
Tissue paper?
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I`m pretty sure that viruses perform better on Windows. Doesnt Linux make better use of cpu power? For the £250 odd that XP costs, you could upgrade your CPU or get more memory, so in that sense it performs better!
No moving parts, smaller, use less power (possibly, thats what i was asking!), and cheaper!
$500 for 1 gig of ram? www.pricewatch.com is saying around $300 for 1 gig of ram. But you might be right - I dont know what sort of ram you`d want (to implement a solid state mp3 player)
(I`m in the UK. An 10gig iPod is £429.00!)
But I dont know. Yes, 10gig is loads more space, but i was just thinking it`d be cheaper. I could live with having `just` 1 gig of mp3s on me at any one time if it meant it was cheaper and smaller!
Whats the problem with a solid state solution? Would it be expensive/hard to have a little box with a firewire/usb socket on the side, and 256/512/1024 mb of standard pc ram inside? With the speed of firewire, it wouldnt matter if turning it off made you lose all the data - you`d just download what you wanted again. What sort of battery would you need to keep that much ram refreshed for, say, 12 hours?
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>What's the point of borders
Voters like `em. When voters dont like `em they`ll go away.
"You could, however, buy a top selling CD, like the soundtrack to Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? which boosted bluegrass music to the top of the charts. You won't find the "Bluegrass" station on the radio, however."
Thats because people dont want to hear bluegrass, they want to hear the soundtrack to "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou". If the soundtrack had been cajun music, the same people would probably have bought that.
"How could you know what everybody wants when the RIAA et al are telling us what we want"
They`re not telling you what you want, they`re selling you what you buy. I`m a big music lover - listen to it all the time. I must listen to a music-playing radio station for about 5 hours a year. Bugger all on that I like. (This is in the UK). Same with films (movies) - the stuff I like isnt on at the cinema (theater), I have to get it on video.
Janis Ian is a musician, so of course they arent going to play stuff she finds interesting on the radio, as professional musicians must make up 0.00001% of the market in wherever shes talking about. Just like there are no tv/radio programs about the sort of stuff that gets discussed here.
"You can't hear new music on radio these days; I live in Nashville, "Music City USA", and we have exactly one station willing to play a non-top-40 format"
I know how she feels. I went into my local shopping centre the other day, trying to locate some blank betamax tapes - nothing. I also tried to get a commodore 64 so I could check out some prehistoric games - zilch. And could I find an 8-track machine to play the tapes I got cheap in a jumble sale? Could I fuck!
So much for the so-called free-market. They`re quite clearly just trying to make a profit by selling what most people want to buy. Its a bloody outrage!
Yeah, I know, it's for the UK only. But I only live in the UK...
>My $0.02 will always be worth more than your 0.02, so :P
What...even when most of what was Russia is part of the Eurozone? How about when you add bits of Africa? Asia? Still convinced?
another yamaha? Whats the saying again? "Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me". There are too many manufacturers out there for me to want to risk them again. I used it to write about a disk or 2 a week, i guess. At that rate i expect it to last 3 or 4 years. You know, like other stuff which cost that amount of money does (£150, so same price as my monitor, cpu, hard disk - all have which are working perfectly).
I think i`ll get a plextor then, or at least check them out, and may i humbly suggest you do the same! (the speed of the writer is completely meaningless to me - i dont mind waiting an hour per disk if it means it writes (nearly) every time).
Or just get a motherboard which doesnt have this nonsense, given that the DMCA only applies in the States, and motherboards are generally made outside the states. I`m not sure big computer manufacturers are going to be that keen on charging Linux users more for hardware they`ll never use.
Red Dwarf went from episodes about time travel where the characters meet themselves and give them warnings from the future, and monsters that can change shape into the shape of the characters, to, uh, episodes about time travel where the characters meet themselves and give them warnings from the future, and monsters that can change shape into the shape of the characters. Theres no point in watching more than 3 episodes.
Sure, i`m not saying its a good thing, and what you posted sounds ok, but its a far cry from `linux wont run on my pc any more` and `microsoft has to approve all software`. Sounds like 2 cases here : secure shopping and content protection. In the former, the online retailers would have to allow another method of safe trading online, the latter wouldnt be a problem for people who dont want to buy music/films etc to run on their pc.
I mean, it sucks, but it wont kill linux!
That sucks. I agree with you - i`m not going to get a DVD writer for years. I held off getting a CD writer for ages, as i thought `theres no way thats going to work for more than a few months`. Not just moving parts, but something thats uses lasers, susceptible to movement etc. Mine lasted 14 months. Yamaha drive, for the record. I think i`ll be getting a Lacie or some other more-expensive one next time. Either that or the exact opposite - the cheapest one i can find!
Well,exactly - isnt this precisely why all this `ooh, we cant run Linux on it` is just nonsense? Why cant you run Linux on it? No-one ever explains that bit.
>I've lost count of the drives that have died at my hands.
What are you doing wrong?
>20gb tape drives cost a fortune
Use a Cd burner? Just back up the stuff thats changed since last backup?
>my DVD burner died 3 weeks after purchase
When will your replacement, under guarantee, be turning up?
It would be fairly easy to knock up a Philip Glass simulator. All you`d need is a major/minor key selector, BPM and length of output. I dunno, perhaps thats what he`s been using for the last 30 years?
Yep, that sounds like the sort of side-achinging amusing thing Pratt-shit would say. What a comedic genius!
What I want to know is: Why do all Pratchet fans have leather jackets with badges on, have silly beards, live at home and smoke roll ups? It must be more than mere coincidence.
"Then, Windows tells me that QuickTime has caused a fatal error and must close."
My browser crashed too. Cool. I`m running Windows 2000, service packed, and v5.5 of a browser. We`re told that the os is designed for multimedia and all the other buzzwords..yet i have to download software to handle audio and graphics...and even then it crashes!! Superb!
Usually when you moved from a tape to a disk drive, your loading time was decreased...
You`ll have to set the paper colour to black too - i can still see the cursor!
Or commodore pet. Things didnt change fast in Commdores world. Brought out a 500 in 1997. Updated the processor in the 1200 in about 1992. Went bust shortly after. Cant think why!
"too big to fit completely in the water, unable to swim and flopping slowly through the murk"
They`ll find their way into Usenet eventually...
if you start playing Gong, people are going to turn up tripping, smoke hash in the office etc?!
"I've lost track of the humber of technologies that were initially driven by porn."
Tissue paper?
I`m pretty sure that viruses perform better on Windows. Doesnt Linux make better use of cpu power? For the £250 odd that XP costs, you could upgrade your CPU or get more memory, so in that sense it performs better!
No moving parts, smaller, use less power (possibly, thats what i was asking!), and cheaper!
$500 for 1 gig of ram? www.pricewatch.com is saying around $300 for 1 gig of ram. But you might be right - I dont know what sort of ram you`d want (to implement a solid state mp3 player)
(I`m in the UK. An 10gig iPod is £429.00!)
But I dont know. Yes, 10gig is loads more space, but i was just thinking it`d be cheaper. I could live with having `just` 1 gig of mp3s on me at any one time if it meant it was cheaper and smaller!
Whats the problem with a solid state solution? Would it be expensive/hard to have a little box with a firewire/usb socket on the side, and 256/512/1024 mb of standard pc ram inside? With the speed of firewire, it wouldnt matter if turning it off made you lose all the data - you`d just download what you wanted again. What sort of battery would you need to keep that much ram refreshed for, say, 12 hours?