Moby explains the recent slide in sales for his newest album, "18", by describing what he calls the 'Pearl Jam Effect': bands and artists with more tech-savvy fans sell fewer albums than those with less tech-savvy fans, as the techies will disproportionately get their copies of the album from friends with CD burners or P2P services rather than from record stores.
I have a better explanation: his new CD is crap. What amazes me is the accurate correlation he makes to Pearl Jam. I stopped buying Pearl Jam albums after the first two because they went dramatically downhill after that point, and am most definitely not buying the new Moby album for the same reason. I guess he's halfway there, at least.;-)
"International visitors complain 'We can't tell your denominations apart,'" said the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which will release new versions of the $20, $50 and $100 bills next year.
What you mean besides having different pictures and a HUGE FUCKING NUMBER on them? This just seems silly to me.
After being a long-time Mplayer advocate, I decided to give Xine a try today when I saw this news. Everything works well, and it even sees my dxr3 support, but what's up with this awful skin that looks like the front of a DVD deck? It's completely unusable. The site claims it's skinnable, so where are the other skins?. They're not listed for seperate download anywhere, any ideas?
You expect iTanium to be on every desktop? I tend to doubt that. When it comes to 64-bit market share, Intel is going to hit a brick wall with Sparc and Alpha.
You are most definitely a troll. RedHat has had offerings on the Alpha for years, and any number of UNIXes have run on 64-bit platforms of their own hardware for even longer.
Not surprising, all of the new phones have a mouthpiece, a speaker, and numbers inbetween with which to dial. I feel that the phone industry needs to be revolutionized, and I think that a phone inserted in the rectum would do just that.
What are you talking about (or should I say aboot)? A usable (not excellent, but decent) DVD player is under $100 US. What exactly is it that you're waiting for?
In this discussion thread members of PLUG (Phoenix Linux Users Group) may have come up with a way to pressure governmental agencies to switch to software other than that from Microsoft.
How about based on technical merits, does that count anymore? Does anyone still choose the right tool for the job or is everyone a zealot these days? Not that I really need to ask after the uprising over the use of BitKeeper by Linus...
Impossible for any one individual or company to replicate? I find that hard to believe. There isn't a single open source product out there that doesn't exist a better commercial version of. Most people today tend to throw together crap and when they run out of the interest in working on it, release it as open source and pat themselves on the back as doing things for the community. Time equals money, and you most definitely do get what you pay for.
You realize all Debian packages are built for i386's, right? Using packages optimized for Pentium and higher class CPUs yield up to 50% increase in speed, and this is very noticeable in a distro that compiles all their packages in such a manner. It's a shame Debian doesn't get with the times, if you want speed you're left to rebuild the source package, which doesn't put Debian far above Gentoo at all in this case.
That's a shame, FreeBSD's ports have done this for a long time. It's very nice to know that I can run 'portupgrade -rRi packagename' and update all forward and reverse dependencies quickly and easily. That's definitely a feature to look forward to.
If you like Debian, I would heartily recommend Gentoo. It doesn't sound like you've given it a try, and you probably should. I used to use Debian, but the ridiculous politics and crippled-on-ideology packages really got to me, and Gentoo was a huge relief after moving to it. The packaging system is truly excellent.
Wow, that sounds like Nintendo using their power as a market leader of Nintendo game sales and distribution in an anti-competitive manner against their competition. Perhaps we should take them to court over it, because it certainly seems like it's stifling competition in the Nintendo game arena. Thoughts?
I'd suggest Speakeasy.net. They have excellent prices and speeds, encourage running "servers," good customer support, and unlimited usage. They also don't use the broken-by-design PPPoE protocol, and really stick it to Verizon.
They thought it was unseemly and undignified for Yoda to bounce through the fight like a Superball loose in a toy store.
That's because it was. This part of the movie really sickened me and should never have been in there. Yoda was a wise, old master. He didn't need to fight, and yet still retained qualities of power and intimidation as a Jedi Master. This movie was nothing but cheap effects and this was the worst of them by far.
To be entrapment, they would have to be law enforcement officials doing something illegal. In this case, neither applies. I'm sure someone could come up with something, though.
As mentioned previously, TVs and VCRs don't descramble signals, only cable boxes do. In the event that a newer tv did contain this functionality, I'm sure they'd but decent bounds checking in the signal hardware so as to not blow it out, the same way that after-market cable boxes work now. If only I could get a tv with a blackbox built in...;-)
For someone that claims to be an EE with a masters in Computer Engineering, you certainly seem to be lacking in common sense. You are familiar with the concept known as "error checking," right? In this case, a lack of it caused the bullet signal to send the descrambler overboard and break it. It's not really a difficult concept, but these days most nonaddressable boxes are bullet-proof.
Same performance? I'm not sure where you're getting your info. Sure, Apple's chips run Altivec-optimized Photoshop routines quickly, but for things that actually matter to me like kernel compiles, mp3 encoding, or gaming, a P4 1.5 Ghz laptop is going to run 3 times as fast as your 500 Mhz G4. I'd really like to play around with OS X, but not if it's going to cost double that of a PC with less performance.
What's the problem with registering an account? They don't ask for any personal information that you need to enter truthfully, and there's no less than 5 posts in every NY Times story with slashdot/slashdot logins and the like. I really don't see the need for this.
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Moby explains the recent slide in sales for his newest album, "18", by describing what he calls the 'Pearl Jam Effect': bands and artists with more tech-savvy fans sell fewer albums than those with less tech-savvy fans, as the techies will disproportionately get their copies of the album from friends with CD burners or P2P services rather than from record stores.
;-)
I have a better explanation: his new CD is crap. What amazes me is the accurate correlation he makes to Pearl Jam. I stopped buying Pearl Jam albums after the first two because they went dramatically downhill after that point, and am most definitely not buying the new Moby album for the same reason. I guess he's halfway there, at least.
This is a BETA patch, and therefore won't be in Loki Update. I don't plan on running it until it's released at the end of the summer, personally.
"International visitors complain 'We can't tell your denominations apart,'" said the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which will release new versions of the $20, $50 and $100 bills next year.
What you mean besides having different pictures and a HUGE FUCKING NUMBER on them? This just seems silly to me.
After being a long-time Mplayer advocate, I decided to give Xine a try today when I saw this news. Everything works well, and it even sees my dxr3 support, but what's up with this awful skin that looks like the front of a DVD deck? It's completely unusable. The site claims it's skinnable, so where are the other skins?. They're not listed for seperate download anywhere, any ideas?
You expect iTanium to be on every desktop? I tend to doubt that. When it comes to 64-bit market share, Intel is going to hit a brick wall with Sparc and Alpha.
You are most definitely a troll. RedHat has had offerings on the Alpha for years, and any number of UNIXes have run on 64-bit platforms of their own hardware for even longer.
That's funny, I could swear LinDVD, a fully licensed DVD player for Linux works just great on my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop.
Not surprising, all of the new phones have a mouthpiece, a speaker, and numbers inbetween with which to dial. I feel that the phone industry needs to be revolutionized, and I think that a phone inserted in the rectum would do just that.
What are you talking about (or should I say aboot)? A usable (not excellent, but decent) DVD player is under $100 US. What exactly is it that you're waiting for?
In this discussion thread members of PLUG (Phoenix Linux Users Group) may have come up with a way to pressure governmental agencies to switch to software other than that from Microsoft.
How about based on technical merits, does that count anymore? Does anyone still choose the right tool for the job or is everyone a zealot these days? Not that I really need to ask after the uprising over the use of BitKeeper by Linus...
Impossible for any one individual or company to replicate? I find that hard to believe. There isn't a single open source product out there that doesn't exist a better commercial version of. Most people today tend to throw together crap and when they run out of the interest in working on it, release it as open source and pat themselves on the back as doing things for the community. Time equals money, and you most definitely do get what you pay for.
You realize all Debian packages are built for i386's, right? Using packages optimized for Pentium and higher class CPUs yield up to 50% increase in speed, and this is very noticeable in a distro that compiles all their packages in such a manner. It's a shame Debian doesn't get with the times, if you want speed you're left to rebuild the source package, which doesn't put Debian far above Gentoo at all in this case.
That's a shame, FreeBSD's ports have done this for a long time. It's very nice to know that I can run 'portupgrade -rRi packagename' and update all forward and reverse dependencies quickly and easily. That's definitely a feature to look forward to.
If you like Debian, I would heartily recommend Gentoo. It doesn't sound like you've given it a try, and you probably should. I used to use Debian, but the ridiculous politics and crippled-on-ideology packages really got to me, and Gentoo was a huge relief after moving to it. The packaging system is truly excellent.
Wow, that sounds like Nintendo using their power as a market leader of Nintendo game sales and distribution in an anti-competitive manner against their competition. Perhaps we should take them to court over it, because it certainly seems like it's stifling competition in the Nintendo game arena. Thoughts?
I'd suggest Speakeasy.net. They have excellent prices and speeds, encourage running "servers," good customer support, and unlimited usage. They also don't use the broken-by-design PPPoE protocol, and really stick it to Verizon.
They thought it was unseemly and undignified for Yoda to bounce through the fight like a Superball loose in a toy store.
That's because it was. This part of the movie really sickened me and should never have been in there. Yoda was a wise, old master. He didn't need to fight, and yet still retained qualities of power and intimidation as a Jedi Master. This movie was nothing but cheap effects and this was the worst of them by far.
That's GNU/X11/PRO/Engineer. Please, give credit where credit is due, it's the GNU way!
To be entrapment, they would have to be law enforcement officials doing something illegal. In this case, neither applies. I'm sure someone could come up with something, though.
As mentioned previously, TVs and VCRs don't descramble signals, only cable boxes do. In the event that a newer tv did contain this functionality, I'm sure they'd but decent bounds checking in the signal hardware so as to not blow it out, the same way that after-market cable boxes work now. If only I could get a tv with a blackbox built in... ;-)
For someone that claims to be an EE with a masters in Computer Engineering, you certainly seem to be lacking in common sense. You are familiar with the concept known as "error checking," right? In this case, a lack of it caused the bullet signal to send the descrambler overboard and break it. It's not really a difficult concept, but these days most nonaddressable boxes are bullet-proof.
Same performance? I'm not sure where you're getting your info. Sure, Apple's chips run Altivec-optimized Photoshop routines quickly, but for things that actually matter to me like kernel compiles, mp3 encoding, or gaming, a P4 1.5 Ghz laptop is going to run 3 times as fast as your 500 Mhz G4. I'd really like to play around with OS X, but not if it's going to cost double that of a PC with less performance.
What's the problem with registering an account? They don't ask for any personal information that you need to enter truthfully, and there's no less than 5 posts in every NY Times story with slashdot/slashdot logins and the like. I really don't see the need for this.
You forgot the all-important step:
5.) stand up and should "Let's dance!"
I use slashdot/slashdot, as do half the people here. I really don't think they're making it far. ;-)