I've been thinking along those lines. I really hope that Google implements the facility to retrieve mail from other pop3 accounts, so I can access all my mail from the one interface no matter where I am.
That and ATI's drivers suck, but that's not our fault, right?;)
Yes, they do:)
But! The open source "radeon" driver has been vastly improved in xorg 6.8.1, and seems to work at least as well as the ATI binary drivers on my Radeon 9200.
It's definitely worth checking out if you're having no luck with ATI's releases.
I've met a few people in the music industry, including the owner of a small indie label. They most certainly did not fit into the "nice house and car" category.
I suppose I was really generalising about the Big Label record companies. Most of the people I've met have been involved with independant music, and the independant labels are a diferent kind of creature, really. Hopefully they are more likely to adapt to the new conditions because of this.
While it's true that the president or CEO of any sufficiently large company makes much more money than most people, the music industry doesn't strike me as any more top-heavy than any other industry. Do you disagree?
I agree with what you're saying here, but it seems to me that, with the big labels at least, the share of the profits is disproportionately biased towards the top. Considering how little the actual artists receive. It would be interesting to see how this compares to other "authorship" industries, such as book publishing.
The Internet is a new medium that record companies are starting to use (too slowly for many people's tastes), but the Internet is not a record company and won't replace record companies.
True. But what I'm hoping for, is that the artists can replace the record companies, now that it is theoretically possible for them to do their own promotion via the internet. This will obviously get easier and more widespread as the internet proliferates.
There are new record labels popping up that embrace the business model that many Slashdotters think is the right way to do it: online distribution, payment optional, and no DRM. I speak specifically of Magnatune. As successful as they might eventually be, they are still a record label. Here, the difference is the business model, not the industry.
This is fantastic, and glad to see that people are taking advantage of newer, better distribution methods. I just hope that people really will support the artists when they're finally given a chance to. I fear that it's got to a point where people will consider any charge to be too much.
Thanks for making me think so soon after breakfast.:)
That the real problem, it's not getting stuff to work, is getting rid of it when it's not needed anymore.
Then use Checkinstall to build packages from source for your distribution.
I know it can build.deb,.rpm, and.tgz files. The process is simple on slackware:
./configure
make
checkinstall --newslack
I imagine the process is almost identical on other systems. Afterwards, you can just use your package manager to remove unwanted packages. No one has to chuck files all over their systems anymore.;)
If that makes your blood boil, believe me, you don't even want to think about the money-grubbing bastardship (I love that phrase!) behind the retail sales of food at your supermarket or clothes at the department store. Record companies would love to get those kinds of margins. I work in the computer peripheral industry and our margins when we sell into the channel start at 30% and go up from there.
That's interesting, and I think it raises an equally interesting point. If people don't seem to mind paying inflated prices for clothes, food, computer parts, etc, then the perceived value of those products must be quite high. But if people aren't willing to pay inflated prices for CDs, then the product must be worth a lot less to the public than the record industries think.
With food, you're paying for the service that the farmers have provided you. Most people don't happen to have a few acres of land available to them, or the time to utilise it. With clothing, you're paying for the manufacturing process. If I made my own clothes, I don't think I'd really want to go outside ever again.
With CDs, you're (mostly) paying for the nice cars and houses of a bunch of executives. Music is everywhere! It's on TV. It's in the library. It's pumped through the air via radio waves everywhere you go. You can even get music in books if you know how to interpret it. And now you can download pretty much any song you can think of in the entire history of recorded music. Their product is now, suddenly, worth a hell of a lot less than it used to be.
The record companies originally existed as pretty much the only method of advertising and distributing music. We have better ways now.
VisaBlock: Keep your credit card information off of the Internet
NoShare: Safeguard your banking details and MP3s from prying eyes
PackAway: If you're deemed to be too stupid to own a computer, Norton DumbWall 2004 will format your hard drive and arrange for one of our qualified technicians to come over to your house and take your computer away. It's for your own good.
Hmm, it seems that the way to fix it is to just remove the leading subdomain from the slashdot url. For example "it.", "games.", or "apple."
It seems to work in reverse too. So you can replace the "it." in this thread with "apple." to display it in the Apple colour scheme. (If you really, really wanted to)
It should be extremely easy to have an "Only use the default Slashdot colours" option in the user preferences. HINT HINT
Slashdot Mirror
Ah OK. I haven't used SLES. I suppose it makes more sense that way, with the longer lifecycle.
I was very struck by how similar the desktop environments are though.
I tried out SuSE 9.2, and its implementation of Gnome 2.6 is almost identical to the Novell Desktop. Complete with red N in the top corner.
I think the Novell Linux Desktop is basically a cut down version of SuSE 9.2 which will appeal greatly to PHBs.
I've been thinking along those lines. I really hope that Google implements the facility to retrieve mail from other pop3 accounts, so I can access all my mail from the one interface no matter where I am.
I might send them some feedback...
Yes, they do :)
But! The open source "radeon" driver has been vastly improved in xorg 6.8.1, and seems to work at least as well as the ATI binary drivers on my Radeon 9200.
It's definitely worth checking out if you're having no luck with ATI's releases.
From TFA:
I suppose I was really generalising about the Big Label record companies. Most of the people I've met have been involved with independant music, and the independant labels are a diferent kind of creature, really. Hopefully they are more likely to adapt to the new conditions because of this.
I agree with what you're saying here, but it seems to me that, with the big labels at least, the share of the profits is disproportionately biased towards the top. Considering how little the actual artists receive. It would be interesting to see how this compares to other "authorship" industries, such as book publishing.
True. But what I'm hoping for, is that the artists can replace the record companies, now that it is theoretically possible for them to do their own promotion via the internet. This will obviously get easier and more widespread as the internet proliferates.
This is fantastic, and glad to see that people are taking advantage of newer, better distribution methods. I just hope that people really will support the artists when they're finally given a chance to. I fear that it's got to a point where people will consider any charge to be too much.
Thanks for making me think so soon after breakfast. :)
Then use Checkinstall to build packages from source for your distribution.
I know it can build .deb, .rpm, and .tgz files. The process is simple on slackware:
I imagine the process is almost identical on other systems. Afterwards, you can just use your package manager to remove unwanted packages. No one has to chuck files all over their systems anymore. ;)
That's interesting, and I think it raises an equally interesting point. If people don't seem to mind paying inflated prices for clothes, food, computer parts, etc, then the perceived value of those products must be quite high. But if people aren't willing to pay inflated prices for CDs, then the product must be worth a lot less to the public than the record industries think.
With food, you're paying for the service that the farmers have provided you. Most people don't happen to have a few acres of land available to them, or the time to utilise it. With clothing, you're paying for the manufacturing process. If I made my own clothes, I don't think I'd really want to go outside ever again.
With CDs, you're (mostly) paying for the nice cars and houses of a bunch of executives. Music is everywhere! It's on TV. It's in the library. It's pumped through the air via radio waves everywhere you go. You can even get music in books if you know how to interpret it. And now you can download pretty much any song you can think of in the entire history of recorded music. Their product is now, suddenly, worth a hell of a lot less than it used to be.
The record companies originally existed as pretty much the only method of advertising and distributing music. We have better ways now.
"Oop! Someone wants to copy a file!"
*clicketty clicketty clack click clicketty clicketty*
Yes, but this time, it purchased me first.
Here's one. And another.
I always thought it would be a nice idea to have the mouse pointer as the light source.
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Ah, so it's a story of economic difficulties in the fledgling New Republic?
Ambient is the desktop environment for MorphOS, which is the operating system for the Pegasos powerpc based computer.
We're going to get a beowulf cluster of /. beowulf cluster jokes.
I thought that said "Cornhole Reshaping" for a moment. Damn glasses!
When it has more than one page worth of information. :)
Oh wait, this is *Slashdot Hacks* we're talking about. I can just duplicate the same page of information over and over again.
Hmm, it seems that the way to fix it is to just remove the leading subdomain from the slashdot url. For example "it.", "games.", or "apple."
It seems to work in reverse too. So you can replace the "it." in this thread with "apple." to display it in the Apple colour scheme. (If you really, really wanted to)
It should be extremely easy to have an "Only use the default Slashdot colours" option in the user preferences. HINT HINT
Thanks, on behalf of everyone, for the explanation. I'm sure that no one who visits this site knows how the Death Star works.
At least you still have "Reggie Wilson plays the Lift Music Classics", "Pop goes Delius", and "Funking up Wagner".
Yes. Yes, they are.
This is the main problem I have with Clippy/Dog/Whatever, they're a shining beacon of everything I hate about the Windows "experience".
Although, I have forgetten to spell correctly.
Hmm, quite possibly.
United Kingdom = Great Britain + Northern Ireland
I hadn't forgetten ;)