I remember when I had Gentoo installed (reverted to Debian now), and first installing X and KDE after a Stage 1 install. I set it going about 0100 and went to bed. The next morning, I got up at 0700, (naively) hoping it'd finished. I then went to work, came home and it still hadn't finished. I went to bed early that night, and the next morning, I had X and lovely shiny KDE 3.1 ready to go!
Gentoo isn't a distro for people without patience!
Whilst Kate is a very nice text editor, you should definitely have a look at Quanta if you're developing PHP applications on KDE. I believe it has the same text-highlighting functionality as Kate, but with extra bells and whistles that you tend to get with an IDE.
Yes, I do believe you have missed something. Like, the other side of the economics of supply and demand. Once the market becomes saturated with copies of the latest album from A. N. Other, the relative demand (per provider) will drop.
The type of item that may experience this type of surge (e.g. a pop record) is also likely to experience the same effect in the opposite direction after a period of time. Now, if a CD is $15.00, you'll need at least 1500 requests before you even start to make a profit.
The same rules apply -- the first to market will experience the greatest profits (if at all), but the (vast) majority will not.
What happens when the demand for the item disipates? You are left with a CD that perhaps you are not even interested in (in fact, this is highly probable, because you are likely to follow the same trend as the rest of the population in respect of popular music). If I want to listen to a popular song, I use a radio and tune to a commercial station (but this is very rare).
Are you sure they're legally within their rights to download the MP3s? I thought the whole argument was based on the illegality of possessing music in a format for which you have not purchased.
You may present the 10% of sales cost as consideration for the downloaded MP3s, but I doubt you'd get your argument to stand up in any court with a (so-called) modern approach to copyright. The 10% is attributed to restocking, not the actual music, so the customer is still in breach, are they not?
50 songs at 5 min each, that is 250 minutes. That is 8+ hours a day. In other words for less than $100 a month you can listen to music for all your waken hours.
Eh? 250 minutes is 4 hours and 10 minutes, not 8+ hours. If you scale correctly, you should get the following:
At $0.05 per song (assuming an average length of 5 minutes -- which is probably too long) you get one minute of music for $0.01. Average sleeping time per day is approximately 8 hours, which leaves 16 hours of in a state of full conciousness. 16 hours is 960 minutes. From the previous calculation, this works out at $9.60 per day. Multiply that by 30 (average day in a month) and you get $288.00 per month. Now, if we change the assumption that the average song is 4 minutes, we must divide that total by 4/5, which gives us a total of $360.00 per month.
The thread-starting post had a good point -- constant repetition of a song (or album) is a obstacle. I believe I could happily spend less than $4320.00 ($360.00 * 12) on hard media music (e.g. CDs) in one year and still play music I enjoy constantly. Obviously this argument does not inversely scale, but I just wanted to point out that this model is far from perfect.
I believe it just offers a wider variety of form controls (as well as other features -- can't be arsed to RTFA as it's 0130 here), such as sliders etc... This might enable the deployment of more applications that currently cannot take advantage of the web's benefits...
How is unstable any different from testing or stable in terms of mixing things up in the sources? If something needs GCC 3.3, it simple isn't going to work in stable, simple as that.
But then, that's the beauty of Debian -- if you want to run the unstable branch, you can, but the safety and relative safety of stable and testing are there if you want to chicken out.:P
There was I thinking you meant something like Dragon Racing, or Magic Potion Creating...
Can anyone think of a really bizarre made-up sport that might occur in a fantasy world?
I believe the project you're talking about is now a recommendation from the W3C called P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences), which IIRC, has a detailed section relating to the use of cookies. Microsoft implemented this recommendation partially in MSIE 6 before it became a standard.
The display may be much better on a monitor, but the price to dimension ratio is also a lot greater for a monitor.
I have a 17" monitor at home, and occasionally use it to view DVDs (thanks MPlayer), but I'd much rather watch a DVD using a larger (e.g. 24") television screen, despite the obvious quality different. Is it just me that does that?
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Screw the mud wrestling, I vote for celebrity deathmatch...
I remember when I had Gentoo installed (reverted to Debian now), and first installing X and KDE after a Stage 1 install. I set it going about 0100 and went to bed. The next morning, I got up at 0700, (naively) hoping it'd finished. I then went to work, came home and it still hadn't finished. I went to bed early that night, and the next morning, I had X and lovely shiny KDE 3.1 ready to go!
Gentoo isn't a distro for people without patience!
"They invented the game and probably patented it as well."
Yeah? Well, Amazon patented Patenting...
There was I thinking that Phoenix, AZ and the Martian North Pole were going to collide. Damn those Martians and their gravity ray!
"HoloTouch already managed to secure the patent on its technology"
Man, Bezos is going to be pissed. How did R & D miss that one?!
Whilst Kate is a very nice text editor, you should definitely have a look at Quanta if you're developing PHP applications on KDE. I believe it has the same text-highlighting functionality as Kate, but with extra bells and whistles that you tend to get with an IDE.
I found that amusing as well. What the hell is wrong with "is twice the size of 1.6.8?"
Eh? Original works for me...
Yes, I do believe you have missed something. Like, the other side of the economics of supply and demand. Once the market becomes saturated with copies of the latest album from A. N. Other, the relative demand (per provider) will drop.
The type of item that may experience this type of surge (e.g. a pop record) is also likely to experience the same effect in the opposite direction after a period of time. Now, if a CD is $15.00, you'll need at least 1500 requests before you even start to make a profit.
The same rules apply -- the first to market will experience the greatest profits (if at all), but the (vast) majority will not.
What happens when the demand for the item disipates? You are left with a CD that perhaps you are not even interested in (in fact, this is highly probable, because you are likely to follow the same trend as the rest of the population in respect of popular music). If I want to listen to a popular song, I use a radio and tune to a commercial station (but this is very rare).
Are you sure they're legally within their rights to download the MP3s? I thought the whole argument was based on the illegality of possessing music in a format for which you have not purchased.
You may present the 10% of sales cost as consideration for the downloaded MP3s, but I doubt you'd get your argument to stand up in any court with a (so-called) modern approach to copyright. The 10% is attributed to restocking, not the actual music, so the customer is still in breach, are they not?
Eh? 250 minutes is 4 hours and 10 minutes, not 8+ hours. If you scale correctly, you should get the following:
At $0.05 per song (assuming an average length of 5 minutes -- which is probably too long) you get one minute of music for $0.01. Average sleeping time per day is approximately 8 hours, which leaves 16 hours of in a state of full conciousness. 16 hours is 960 minutes. From the previous calculation, this works out at $9.60 per day. Multiply that by 30 (average day in a month) and you get $288.00 per month. Now, if we change the assumption that the average song is 4 minutes, we must divide that total by 4/5, which gives us a total of $360.00 per month.
The thread-starting post had a good point -- constant repetition of a song (or album) is a obstacle. I believe I could happily spend less than $4320.00 ($360.00 * 12) on hard media music (e.g. CDs) in one year and still play music I enjoy constantly. Obviously this argument does not inversely scale, but I just wanted to point out that this model is far from perfect.
Can I download that off KaZaA? Eh? You mean music is available on a physical medium? Woah....
I believe it just offers a wider variety of form controls (as well as other features -- can't be arsed to RTFA as it's 0130 here), such as sliders etc... This might enable the deployment of more applications that currently cannot take advantage of the web's benefits...
That reminds me -- Suicide Clippy.
How is unstable any different from testing or stable in terms of mixing things up in the sources? If something needs GCC 3.3, it simple isn't going to work in stable, simple as that.
:P
But then, that's the beauty of Debian -- if you want to run the unstable branch, you can, but the safety and relative safety of stable and testing are there if you want to chicken out.
Perhaps all it needs is a big hug? I know we all call Microsoft a massive anti-competative tool of the Devil, but these comments do HURT.
Hold on, this is Slashdot. You missed:
11. Profit!!
I only know 'cos I check my server logs. :P
MC Hammer? Woah. These people have nothing to worry about -- the judge will definitely accept a plea of insanity.
There was I thinking you meant something like Dragon Racing, or Magic Potion Creating... Can anyone think of a really bizarre made-up sport that might occur in a fantasy world?
...that some companies still have 'Windows 5.0' on their sheets as lists of systems with operating experience
Could the reasoning for this be that Windows 2000 == Windows NT 5.0?I believe the project you're talking about is now a recommendation from the W3C called P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences), which IIRC, has a detailed section relating to the use of cookies. Microsoft implemented this recommendation partially in MSIE 6 before it became a standard.
The display may be much better on a monitor, but the price to dimension ratio is also a lot greater for a monitor.
I have a 17" monitor at home, and occasionally use it to view DVDs (thanks MPlayer), but I'd much rather watch a DVD using a larger (e.g. 24") television screen, despite the obvious quality different. Is it just me that does that?
No, actually the word for this is hypocrisy, but I reckon most people get your point. ;)