Sorry, but that is more or less rubbish, unless you happen to like hip-hop or punk.
You can still get decent turntables (my own recommendation for a good quality entry-level model is the Pro-Ject Debut III, which seems to be inspired by the Rega Planar models, which are *much* more expensive.
To be accurate, analogue vinyl recordings have the bottom registers compressed in order to minimise distortion at the stylus level, and also to minimise wear on the stylus, and incidentally to increase the play time of an LP. That's why we have phono (pre/)amplifiers - i.e. to reverse that compression algorithm so that what we hear is closer to what the recording engineer intended. It's also why you can't just plug a turntable into a "line-level" socket on an amplifier and expect it to sound OK.
How much modem-time do you get on something like that?
I have something similar at home. I have a little Powerware 700VA UPS which keeps my DSL2 modem, wireless access point, VOIP ATA, ethernet switch and a cordless phone handset alive in the case of an outage. So far, it hasn't given me any downtime at all, even when the power went down for over 6 hours. Obviously, that wouldn't be the case if I were to run anything heftier off it, but it's enough to be useful.
That's why I just ask them to hold on and then put the phone down and walk off. Sometimes it takes them 10 minutes to work out nobody's going to talk to them...
but it really looks a decade old and gray. But then, I don't use Gnome, so...
Well, I guess a lot of themes do look a bit old and grey, especially if that's what is used by default with your distribution. However, you can always select a different theme...
Although I've been a Gnome fan since ~1997, every so often I try KDE when some particular idiocy of the Gnome developers pisses me off, and I discovered it's perfectly possible to make either desktop environment look very much like the other. However, KDE always leaves me feeling irritable after a short time and I abandon it.
The only other point I'd want to add to this discussion is that Metacity was also a huge step backwards from Sawfish, IMHO. This announcement seems akin to "Hey everybody! We're coming real close to getting all the visual capabilities that Sawfish had!"
I'm with you. Sure, there might have been issues with maintenance of the Sawfish code, amongst other things, but metacity still has a couple of glaring holes they refuse to fill in.
My own pet peeve is Metacity's refusal to remember the size or positioning of windows. I know the developers claim it's the application's job to do this, but I don't agree. Seems obvious to me, but who am I to insist that a window manager's job is to manage windows?
I love it. Where are my mod points when I need them...
I think I'll order an Indian Rope - "Self supporting rope for use in situations where access to the top end is restricted. Specially imported, sold by the imperial yard".
And how are they supposed to be able to tell the difference? If I wanted to set up a profile under the name of Ferdinand Elkbottom, for instance (which is not my name, I might add, though I kind of like it;-)) I doubt if they would stop me.
Frankly I think its good that people might (hopefully) think twice about what they share online.
One can live in hope. However, you might have your work cut out to convince all those benighted souls who seem to believe their every bowel movement is utterly fascinating to others. The fact is, most of our lives are only really interesting to ourselves (if that), and the majority of these postings are just banal, redundant claptrap.
Stalking is one thing, but common sense is another.
I fail to see what useful purpose there might be for using one's own name when posting to such a forum. An alias is just as useful and over time, the persona of the alias' owner becomes as "real" as our own, but with a little serving of anonymity for safety.
I'm not saying this is impenetrable, particularly if we post pictures of ourselves, but it's a start.
I would just explain DRM in terms of something to be got around (so long as we're not advocating doing anything stupid like being an idiot on peer-to-peer). If the person is a competent computer user, you're already off to a head start...
While there will be those who see this as flamebait,...
Well, it certainly isn't that. The author minces no words when apportioning some of the blame to himself for causes of NetBSD's stagnation.
It's all a bit sad, really. I have a NetBSD server chugging along in a cabinet here that hasn't been rebooted in ~2 years, but that is largely because the updates I have noticed haven't really made it worth the trouble of upgrading.
Of course, if you get an LG U8120 phone like mine, you can pretty much guarantee the system software is so crappy, nobody will be able to get any information off the machine...
Until you lose your job for not reading it, I guess you could consider it unimportant.
My point was that I have yet to come across a.doc file that OOo can't read. Sure, some of the formatting sometimes gets munged, but I can live with that. I don't work on a cube farm, so I am indeed in a position to insist on open formats. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who doesn't like that can just go jump on his head.
Indeed. This machine I'm using right now is a P4 with only 256MB of RAM, and although I typically have an OpenOffice session, along with Thunderbird, a few xterms, skype and assorted other applications, I never have problems with Firefox blowing out.
Sure, some of those other apps swap out from time to time, but that's what VM is for.
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Sorry, but that is more or less rubbish, unless you happen to like hip-hop or punk.
You can still get decent turntables (my own recommendation for a good quality entry-level model is the Pro-Ject Debut III, which seems to be inspired by the Rega Planar models, which are *much* more expensive.
To be accurate, analogue vinyl recordings have the bottom registers compressed in order to minimise distortion at the stylus level, and also to minimise wear on the stylus, and incidentally to increase the play time of an LP. That's why we have phono (pre/)amplifiers - i.e. to reverse that compression algorithm so that what we hear is closer to what the recording engineer intended. It's also why you can't just plug a turntable into a "line-level" socket on an amplifier and expect it to sound OK.
How much modem-time do you get on something like that?
I have something similar at home. I have a little Powerware 700VA UPS which keeps my DSL2 modem, wireless access point, VOIP ATA, ethernet switch and a cordless phone handset alive in the case of an outage. So far, it hasn't given me any downtime at all, even when the power went down for over 6 hours. Obviously, that wouldn't be the case if I were to run anything heftier off it, but it's enough to be useful.
their time is now mine...
That's why I just ask them to hold on and then put the phone down and walk off. Sometimes it takes them 10 minutes to work out nobody's going to talk to them...
All work and no play makes Paris a dull girl.
:-)
I don't think she needs any help.
but it really looks a decade old and gray. But then, I don't use Gnome, so...
Well, I guess a lot of themes do look a bit old and grey, especially if that's what is used by default with your distribution. However, you can always select a different theme...
Although I've been a Gnome fan since ~1997, every so often I try KDE when some particular idiocy of the Gnome developers pisses me off, and I discovered it's perfectly possible to make either desktop environment look very much like the other. However, KDE always leaves me feeling irritable after a short time and I abandon it.
The only other point I'd want to add to this discussion is that Metacity was also a huge step backwards from Sawfish, IMHO. This announcement seems akin to "Hey everybody! We're coming real close to getting all the visual capabilities that Sawfish had!"
I'm with you. Sure, there might have been issues with maintenance of the Sawfish code, amongst other things, but metacity still has a couple of glaring holes they refuse to fill in.
My own pet peeve is Metacity's refusal to remember the size or positioning of windows. I know the developers claim it's the application's job to do this, but I don't agree. Seems obvious to me, but who am I to insist that a window manager's job is to manage windows?
I love it. Where are my mod points when I need them...
I think I'll order an Indian Rope - "Self supporting rope for use in situations where access to the top end is restricted. Specially imported, sold by the imperial yard".
Hasn't he had like three wives?
;-)
Which just goes to show he's not as smart as we thought...
*ducks flying crockery*
If they're not experts on anything, and don't know how to listen to people who are, what are they for?
Do you really need to be told? I thought everybody knew managers were unskilled workers, employed out of charity...
I don't care, so long as you don't confuse it with Viola.
;-)
Players of that instrument have enough problems...
(For the uninitiated, I'm too lazy to link viola-player jokes, a close second to lawyer jokes in number.)
Seasoned Slashdot readers would call it "a-not-so-hard-to-crack-password".
I would have thought a snotty-nosed 11-year-old would regard that password as not-so-hard-to-crack. Oh well, nothing to see here, move on please...
Well, don't tell us. Tell the US Patent office. ;-)
nicknames, and other fake names are not allowed
;-)) I doubt if they would stop me.
And how are they supposed to be able to tell the difference? If I wanted to set up a profile under the name of Ferdinand Elkbottom, for instance (which is not my name, I might add, though I kind of like it
Frankly I think its good that people might (hopefully) think twice about what they share online.
One can live in hope. However, you might have your work cut out to convince all those benighted souls who seem to believe their every bowel movement is utterly fascinating to others. The fact is, most of our lives are only really interesting to ourselves (if that), and the majority of these postings are just banal, redundant claptrap.
Stalking is one thing, but common sense is another.
I fail to see what useful purpose there might be for using one's own name when posting to such a forum. An alias is just as useful and over time, the persona of the alias' owner becomes as "real" as our own, but with a little serving of anonymity for safety.
I'm not saying this is impenetrable, particularly if we post pictures of ourselves, but it's a start.
Why not simply go in and delete all those stupid .wav files? Mandatory or not, Winbloze can't play it if it's not there.
;-) Well, in that case maybe replace it with a zero-length null.wav file...
Oh wait, I suppose that would be enough to make it bluescreen.
I would just explain DRM in terms of something to be got around (so long as we're not advocating doing anything stupid like being an idiot on peer-to-peer). If the person is a competent computer user, you're already off to a head start...
While there will be those who see this as flamebait,...
Well, it certainly isn't that. The author minces no words when apportioning some of the blame to himself for causes of NetBSD's stagnation.
It's all a bit sad, really. I have a NetBSD server chugging along in a cabinet here that hasn't been rebooted in ~2 years, but that is largely because the updates I have noticed haven't really made it worth the trouble of upgrading.
Of course, if you get an LG U8120 phone like mine, you can pretty much guarantee the system software is so crappy, nobody will be able to get any information off the machine...
Until you lose your job for not reading it, I guess you could consider it unimportant.
.doc file that OOo can't read. Sure, some of the formatting sometimes gets munged, but I can live with that. I don't work on a cube farm, so I am indeed in a position to insist on open formats. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who doesn't like that can just go jump on his head.
My point was that I have yet to come across a
And don't all Flash presentations suck anyway? That's what Flashblock is for...
.. and then what do you do when they start sending you .DOC files that will only work in MS Office 8?
Same as always. I'll use OOo. If that won't read the document, it probably isn't worth reading anyway.
Having said that, if MS did in fact produce a version of MSOrifice for Linux, a great many people would be very happy, and it might even sell.
Of course, that might be the final nail in the coffin for Windows, but I think I can live with that.
Indeed. This machine I'm using right now is a P4 with only 256MB of RAM, and although I typically have an OpenOffice session, along with Thunderbird, a few xterms, skype and assorted other applications, I never have problems with Firefox blowing out.
Sure, some of those other apps swap out from time to time, but that's what VM is for.