Just because you say you aren't something doesn't make it true. You want someone else to take responsibility for their actions, then you should take responsibility for your words (and what they can get you labeled as).
Ah, c'mon. No need for that. This has been pretty civil conversation. And saying someone is a shill for the music industry? Well, them's fightin' words.;)
.WAV are uncompressed and he probably knew that much from his association with audiophiles, and he might have come across.WMA files that weren't so laden with copyright before that he couldn't convert them. Not every.WMA is licensed and chained down.
I think he explained it pretty well, though. He went over how he called the label o ntwo occasions. The response he got, especially from the second person (the male CSR), was just ridiculous.
I've downloaded albums that I own, because I didn't feel like getting around the DRM, and I want all of my music on my computer, rather than changing CDs and wearing my cupholder out. Yes, I *chose* to "pirate" the music. But I paid for it, too.
He spent $10 on the music. He shouldn't have to check formats and DRM licenses, especially licenses that *would not download* (did you get that far?). He was trying to gain the ability to listen to the music he downloaded legally. And he couldn't do it. From TFA:
In the end, I never was able to get the music to play on anything--my computer, on a CD or on my iPod. I invested $10, several hours of my time, and my reward was, well, nothing.
He *couldn't get it to play* because the license wouldn't download. This was after he passed up getting the music for free in a.zip file in order to support the band. You can't just chalk this up to "he would rather get his music for free." He wanted to pay for it. But he wanted to be able to listen to it, too.
The guy guesstimated having spent $20,000 on music in his life. He's not the type who'd rather get it for free -- sounds like he was happily paying out the nose for music, when it worked. This guy was a model customer for the music industry and he just got pissed off when anti-piracy measures bit him in the ass.
Which is something a lot of people on/. say often: DRM and other protection schemes tend to only annoy legitimate customers. Those who want to pirate will find a way.
This computer is a Linux box (Ubuntu, Dapper Drake) with a lot of emulation (all my old consoles in one, all my old DOS games), with my music collection. I've had no trouble with it, and the quality is great.
Which still kind of surprises me -- the last time I had onboard sound was in 1997, and it was *horrid*.
No, it hasn't. Most chipsets still sound unbelievably crappy, even with cheap speakers.
Um. Even with cheap speakers?
Wouldn't cheap speakers make it worse?
Back in the day when I was young, walking uphill to school in snow... both ways, I remember not having external speakers or a soundcard. We played Wolfenstein 3D with the guards letting out chirps on the PC-Speaker instead of yelling at you, and we liked it!
Seriously though, my first (non-onboard) soundcard was a Creative, SB16 I think. The difference between that and onboard audio was just amazing. Even stupid midis sounded a thousand times better. But the onboard sound in my latest motherboard is Good Enough(tm).
I'm a little surprised Creative hasn't started making integrated sound for motherboard companies -- did I miss some reason they don't?
Gasoline won't explode without being mixed with air. It will burn, but it won't go boom. You can flick a lit cigarette into an open bucket of gas if it has sat a while, and put out the cigarette. It sounds weird, but it's true.
The worst thing I can conceivably see happening with gasoline is the tank being punctured and leaking the gas, which then ignites. Or if you have a nearly empty tank of gas and roll a bunch before an ignition source is exposed to your now well-shook-up gasoline. In both of those cases, though, you'd be really fucked if you were in a fiber-glass car with a glued frame.
Cars don't explode like they do in the movies. Except maybe the Pinto. (A type of car that has an exploding gas tank, named after a bean that gives you gas...)
We? Who is this "we"? I've never bought a $21 CD. You must be shopping at a music store. Don't do that.
The last CD I bought was around $16, and I liked all the tracks. I don't buy crappy books, crappy games, or crappy movies. I'm not going to buy crappy music. I don't listen to the radio often, either.
If a CD just had two good tracks on it, then those two tracks probably aren't really that good, either. They're just getting radio play and stuck in your head.
I don't think changing the tab color is really a "must have" extension. In fact, it strikes me as a pretty useless extension.
The ones I use that I consider "must have": Adblock (of course) and the filterset.g updater, forecastfox and target alert. And I'm not even sure about Forecast Fox. It just saves me having to open a weather webpage. I also like StopAutoPlay, Download Embedded, and the Download Manager Tweak so I can make it load in a tab.
Not everything has to be some sort of civil liberties violation or against the law for it to be the Wrong Thing to Do.
And that's something 90% of the people responding to this are missing.
It might be legal to expose an anonymous blogger, but that doesn't necessarily make it right. Some anonymous bloggers may need to be exposed. I sure as hell don't think we need a law against exposing them. Newspapers should be responsible, not act like a bunch of children.
I've come across some pretty shitty GUIs in Windows programs. Not Microsoft programs, though they have their flaws, because as much geek cred as I'll lose for saying this, the Office interface is pretty damn spiffy.
As it stands, the UIs in Ubuntu are fairly nice. Things have come a long way.
My major problem has always been dependency hell. I've not come across much of that in Ubuntu, but having to chase down dependencies is one of the most annoying things I've ever had to do. I can't remember which programs they were, but I've even come across what seemed to be circular dependencies.
Why is there no mention that Patrick Leahy is the leading Democrat and, more importantly, head of the Judiciary Committee, but the party and "rank" of Arlen Specter is mentioned?
Not that I have any particular respect or admiration for either guy; they're both blowhards who are somewhat guaranteed their seats as long as they choose to run. (Like most of the more irritating Senators, including that douche Hollings who basically had his nose up the RIAA/MPAA's collective asses, and that toady Orrin Hatch.)
Well, yes. I've seen plastic containers of what appears to be sawdust designed to be flushed down the toilet in order to help speed up (or jumpstart) the process.
If someone doesn't want to pay for sewage, they don't get that option because of the health risks it imposes on those around them.
Yep. Even where there is no sewer, you have to have a septic tank (basically, for anyone unaware, an underground tank that holds turds and every few years must be pumped out -- what must be an awful shitty job, pardon the pun -- by a guy with a truck carrying a bigger tank for turds), else the health department will crawl up your ass.
For the curious, it costs somewhere in the range of $100 to get one pumped out, probably more or less depending on region and the size of the tank. The size also determines how long before you have to get it pumped out. Some tanks treat the liquid portion and can spray the cleaned water on your lawn (treated or not -- ew), thus extending the life of a load.
But I just wanted to see how many times I could use the word "turd" in a/. post.
As for the topic: I agree with parent.
If there were enough demand for WiFi, companies would offer it. Period. But there's not as much demand. We're lucky broadband is as widespread in the United States as it is -- I wager there is a significant number of people with broadband connections now that don't really need them. We need to keep in mind that/. users and the elite of the computing world are a minority. I spend an amount of time around computer illiterate people. You know how we geeks like to complain about being used as tech support? Yeah, well, it's a lot more widespread than people think. I'd like to think people are becoming more comfortable with and knolwedgable about computers... but then, I'd like high-speed Wifi, too.
Government isn't going to mandate computer classes for all.
Cellphone companies may or may not have a reason to stand in the way of wifi, but where there is a demand... Costs may start out high, but broadband used to be high, too. It's just a matter of time.
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Why is it that only Europe is standing up to them?
Just because you say you aren't something doesn't make it true. You want someone else to take responsibility for their actions, then you should take responsibility for your words (and what they can get you labeled as).
;)
Ah, c'mon. No need for that. This has been pretty civil conversation. And saying someone is a shill for the music industry? Well, them's fightin' words.
I guess that's sort of given. No one has to have music to survive. But that's really just a semantics thing.
.WAV are uncompressed and he probably knew that much from his association with audiophiles, and he might have come across .WMA files that weren't so laden with copyright before that he couldn't convert them. Not every .WMA is licensed and chained down.
I think he explained it pretty well, though. He went over how he called the label o ntwo occasions. The response he got, especially from the second person (the male CSR), was just ridiculous.
I've downloaded albums that I own, because I didn't feel like getting around the DRM, and I want all of my music on my computer, rather than changing CDs and wearing my cupholder out. Yes, I *chose* to "pirate" the music. But I paid for it, too.
.zip file in order to support the band. You can't just chalk this up to "he would rather get his music for free." He wanted to pay for it. But he wanted to be able to listen to it, too.
/. say often: DRM and other protection schemes tend to only annoy legitimate customers. Those who want to pirate will find a way.
He spent $10 on the music. He shouldn't have to check formats and DRM licenses, especially licenses that *would not download* (did you get that far?). He was trying to gain the ability to listen to the music he downloaded legally. And he couldn't do it. From TFA:
In the end, I never was able to get the music to play on anything--my computer, on a CD or on my iPod. I invested $10, several hours of my time, and my reward was, well, nothing.
He *couldn't get it to play* because the license wouldn't download. This was after he passed up getting the music for free in a
The guy guesstimated having spent $20,000 on music in his life. He's not the type who'd rather get it for free -- sounds like he was happily paying out the nose for music, when it worked. This guy was a model customer for the music industry and he just got pissed off when anti-piracy measures bit him in the ass.
Which is something a lot of people on
If they were going to finish with "...Slim Shady," Wolfenstein 3D would be the most popular game ever made.
There's also a list of the translations here, though I'm not sure "achtung" is correct. I'm pretty sure that one means "Attention."
Same here.
This computer is a Linux box (Ubuntu, Dapper Drake) with a lot of emulation (all my old consoles in one, all my old DOS games), with my music collection. I've had no trouble with it, and the quality is great.
Which still kind of surprises me -- the last time I had onboard sound was in 1997, and it was *horrid*.
No, it hasn't. Most chipsets still sound unbelievably crappy, even with cheap speakers.
Um. Even with cheap speakers?
Wouldn't cheap speakers make it worse?
Back in the day when I was young, walking uphill to school in snow... both ways, I remember not having external speakers or a soundcard. We played Wolfenstein 3D with the guards letting out chirps on the PC-Speaker instead of yelling at you, and we liked it!
Seriously though, my first (non-onboard) soundcard was a Creative, SB16 I think. The difference between that and onboard audio was just amazing. Even stupid midis sounded a thousand times better. But the onboard sound in my latest motherboard is Good Enough(tm).
I'm a little surprised Creative hasn't started making integrated sound for motherboard companies -- did I miss some reason they don't?
Welcome to slashdot summaries.
Okay, let me ammend my statement:
Most of the time, cars won't explode like they do in the movies.
Crazy people do it all the time.
S'how I know. I don't smoke, or keep gasoline sitting around in open containers, so it's not something I do.
They did something similar on Mythbusters IIRC. It was most amusing how much trouble they had getting a toilet to explode.
Gasoline won't explode without being mixed with air. It will burn, but it won't go boom. You can flick a lit cigarette into an open bucket of gas if it has sat a while, and put out the cigarette. It sounds weird, but it's true.
The worst thing I can conceivably see happening with gasoline is the tank being punctured and leaking the gas, which then ignites. Or if you have a nearly empty tank of gas and roll a bunch before an ignition source is exposed to your now well-shook-up gasoline. In both of those cases, though, you'd be really fucked if you were in a fiber-glass car with a glued frame.
Cars don't explode like they do in the movies. Except maybe the Pinto. (A type of car that has an exploding gas tank, named after a bean that gives you gas...)
If you're driving a Pinto, my condolences.
I'm fairly sure 100% oxygen concentration would be very bad for you. Aren't there issues with rebreathers having too high a percent of oxygen?
Or am I misunderstanding why that's a problem?
Probably me. I'm really boring. No speeding tickets, no trouble in school, no arrest record.
I've yet to even piss off an elected official or go to any protests.
Sigh. How can I change the world yet still be lazy?
We? Who is this "we"? I've never bought a $21 CD. You must be shopping at a music store. Don't do that.
The last CD I bought was around $16, and I liked all the tracks. I don't buy crappy books, crappy games, or crappy movies. I'm not going to buy crappy music. I don't listen to the radio often, either.
If a CD just had two good tracks on it, then those two tracks probably aren't really that good, either. They're just getting radio play and stuck in your head.
I don't think changing the tab color is really a "must have" extension. In fact, it strikes me as a pretty useless extension.
The ones I use that I consider "must have": Adblock (of course) and the filterset.g updater, forecastfox and target alert. And I'm not even sure about Forecast Fox. It just saves me having to open a weather webpage. I also like StopAutoPlay, Download Embedded, and the Download Manager Tweak so I can make it load in a tab.
Not everything has to be some sort of civil liberties violation or against the law for it to be the Wrong Thing to Do.
And that's something 90% of the people responding to this are missing.
It might be legal to expose an anonymous blogger, but that doesn't necessarily make it right. Some anonymous bloggers may need to be exposed. I sure as hell don't think we need a law against exposing them. Newspapers should be responsible, not act like a bunch of children.
I've come across some pretty shitty GUIs in Windows programs. Not Microsoft programs, though they have their flaws, because as much geek cred as I'll lose for saying this, the Office interface is pretty damn spiffy.
As it stands, the UIs in Ubuntu are fairly nice. Things have come a long way.
My major problem has always been dependency hell. I've not come across much of that in Ubuntu, but having to chase down dependencies is one of the most annoying things I've ever had to do. I can't remember which programs they were, but I've even come across what seemed to be circular dependencies.
My bad, I'm a moron and apparently missed the "chairman of..." part o the summary.
I wonder if I can smack myself in the face with a clue stick and still manage to yell "RTF Summary!" five or six times...
Why is there no mention that Patrick Leahy is the leading Democrat and, more importantly, head of the Judiciary Committee, but the party and "rank" of Arlen Specter is mentioned?
Not that I have any particular respect or admiration for either guy; they're both blowhards who are somewhat guaranteed their seats as long as they choose to run. (Like most of the more irritating Senators, including that douche Hollings who basically had his nose up the RIAA/MPAA's collective asses, and that toady Orrin Hatch.)
I'm sorry I posted without updating my knowledge on septic tanks.
Most of that was from memory.
Well, yes. I've seen plastic containers of what appears to be sawdust designed to be flushed down the toilet in order to help speed up (or jumpstart) the process.
Insert porno music as we go down on Mother Earth and "inspect" and "explore" her gash.
If someone doesn't want to pay for sewage, they don't get that option because of the health risks it imposes on those around them.
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/. users and the elite of the computing world are a minority. I spend an amount of time around computer illiterate people. You know how we geeks like to complain about being used as tech support? Yeah, well, it's a lot more widespread than people think. I'd like to think people are becoming more comfortable with and knolwedgable about computers... but then, I'd like high-speed Wifi, too.
Yep. Even where there is no sewer, you have to have a septic tank (basically, for anyone unaware, an underground tank that holds turds and every few years must be pumped out -- what must be an awful shitty job, pardon the pun -- by a guy with a truck carrying a bigger tank for turds), else the health department will crawl up your ass.
For the curious, it costs somewhere in the range of $100 to get one pumped out, probably more or less depending on region and the size of the tank. The size also determines how long before you have to get it pumped out. Some tanks treat the liquid portion and can spray the cleaned water on your lawn (treated or not -- ew), thus extending the life of a load.
But I just wanted to see how many times I could use the word "turd" in a
As for the topic: I agree with parent.
If there were enough demand for WiFi, companies would offer it. Period. But there's not as much demand. We're lucky broadband is as widespread in the United States as it is -- I wager there is a significant number of people with broadband connections now that don't really need them. We need to keep in mind that
Government isn't going to mandate computer classes for all.
Cellphone companies may or may not have a reason to stand in the way of wifi, but where there is a demand... Costs may start out high, but broadband used to be high, too. It's just a matter of time.