I thought/. was the bastion of anti-IP sentiment. Strange then, that skimming through the +5 comments, I see a string of self-righteous yahoos hollering about how the RIAA is finally doing the right thing because sharing copyrighted material is just plain stealing.
Nevermind the fact that I find it hard to believe that there could be this many prim and perfect law-abiding citizens. Isn't the whole concept behind the FSF and to a certain degree behind linux that we should be allowed to freely copy the fruits of our ideas? It's downright depressing to see lots of people not only buying into this tyrannical, consensual hallucination of artificial scarcity, but to also get modded up for it! A sad day for slashdot, indeed.
I suppose it's pointless to even open these peoples' eyes. They're like spoiled children having a temper tantrum...
Waaaahhhhhh!!! (stomp, stomp, stomp)... you cheated!!! You can't make an effortless, nearly instantaneous, entirely non-rivalrous, infinitely reproducible copy of that!!!! You have to go pay money for a hunk of plastic, aluminum and paper! Those are the rules of my cozy little capitalistic world!!!
What're ya gonna do? Some people also think that oil will last forever, might makes right, and that they've got the absolute corner on reality for all time.
Actually, now that I think about it, there's always been plenty of stupidity on slashdot... at least on the front page stuff. But, I keep coming back, if only once in a while. So, what does that make me?
Um, can I get mine without the SCO code, please? That Darrell McBride is a scary man:
The Linux business model was bound to change, and some people are having a hard time accepting this, McBride says. "The whole concept of getting something for nothing just doesn't hold up," he says. "The notion that you're going to run a Fortune 1,000 company on something that in the end could be more like Napster than an enterprise software system, it's a big question mark."
InformationWeek, today
Holy Shit! I'm in the next county over (Thurston)! I hope they expand. What's weird is that the population of Mason County is about 50,000. Seems like a very limited customer base to go installing fiber service for. It's also a very rural county... lots of space between homes. Seems like a very expensive proposition, stringing all that fiber. I can't wait to tell my girlfriend that I actually want to move to Shelton (if you've been there, you'd get it)!
Just as a point of accuracy: Albini does not run Touch & Go. He put out some records on Touch & Go, and has said "If anyone can show me a better label than Touch & Go, I'll suck their dick." But Corey Rusk is the main man at T&G. Albini's plenty busy recording bands, figuring out new ways to mutilate a guitar, collecting rare russian mics, offering profound and cynical insight into the rock industry and petting his pussy. Oh, and he worked on the first Pigface album, but hasn't had much to do with them since. His main bands have been: Big Black, Rapeman (one of the greatest bands ever) and Shellac.
But every other mobo I own has a BIOS setting to enable SMART and says "HD SMART capable and status ok" when I boot. Why do I have to go track down some SMART monitor app for the most expensive, feature-packed mobo I have?
I have that board... nixed the voice after only a day or two. It's very annoying (and really bad sound quality). And they did it wrong... it shouldn't say anything if the post went fine... it should only talk if there was a problem, saying what the problem was.
Oh, and one major beef I have with this board already: it doesn't have SMART monitoring for the harddrives!!! At least I haven't been able to find any sign of it and my email to tech support went ignored.
I'd like to expand on this question. I've been intrigued by FPGA's since I first read about them. To my (admittedly relatively untrained) mind, they seem like the ultimate platform: an infinitely reconfigurable piece of computer hardware. It would seem like an FPGA, with its gates programmed for optimum efficiency for a given task, should be able to kick the pants off a traditional fixed architecture cpu. If this isn't the case, can someone tell me why? Someone once told me that the distances between various virtual components in a configured FPGA slowed things down; is this true? Why don't we see desktops made with these? (I suppose, if FPGAs are really expensive enough to warrant the price tag on this doo-dad, that'd be one reason.) There actually is a company called Star Bridge Systems who make computers with FPGAs. They even promised a "desktop supercomupter" a few years back. But apparently, they've given up on that (or decided that selling a few multi-million dollar supercomputers is better than selling lots of thousand dollar desktops). And even if FPGAs aren't much faster than regular chips, there's something about compiling your code down to the actual gate layout (rather than for a set gate structure) that just seems really, really cool.
The monitors on the Portland bus mall just display the published bus schedule... they are not updated to reflect the correct time if the bus is running late. On the other hand, what this guys seems to have done is the same thing, since it just gets the bus schedule from the local transit company's website... doubt they update it in real time. I wonder if any transit authority actually posts real time info.
I always thought those monitors were kind of silly... though I guess it saves you the trouble of looking through the whole schedule: it updates itself after each bus goes by and only shows the next couple buses.
How, exactly, do you expect that to happen? People learn about artists because the members of the RIAA PAY A SHITLOAD OF MONEY to get their names and faces in front of you. You don't know about artists unless they're supported by the RIAA. Aritsts usually aren't known unless they're advertised by the RIAA. The RIAA needs money for advertising, and that money has to come from proceeds made off of the artists.
This is only true if you are only interested in mainstream acts (and even then, it doesn't need to be true). None of the music I listen to has anything to do with the RIAA. In fact, I don't think I've listened to an act on an RIAA-backed label in years. I don't need the RIAA to tell me what to listen to; especially considering that they and their lackey labels are complete morons and wouldn't know interesting and artistic music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Ultimately, that's what the RIAA cares about much more than people copying CDs. They've enjoyed decades of dictating what people get to listen to. Now, their uselessness is becoming clear. There are plenty of ways to find music that you like (All Music, Ptichfork, mp3.com, etc.) and you don't need the RIAA for any of them. In fact, you just might find that your musical interests are invigorated by getting away from all that mind-numbing, mainstream crack.
The internet, and particularly p2p, has irrevocably changed the way I listened to music and exponentially expanded my musical options. If the establishment wants to brand me a criminal for that, so be it. Just look out, cuz once I'm already a criminal, who knows what I might do.;o)
Very good. Bravo. You noticed that peoples' words were taken out of context. What gave it away? The stuttering? The jerky motions? The funky beats? It's not edited together to try to change what these people were specifically saying in the clips. The piece is using familiar faces and voices to make a point. It's the overall message that matters. Now, along the way, truncated statements might tweak an eyebrow. But I don't see much misconstruing going on.
And whether or not the viewers get lazy on their research, GNN certainly is not. They've had some great writing. Hell, there's some on their home page right now: check out Heather Wokusch's razor sharp analysis of Turkey's role in the upcoming Gulf War II or the bit about the adminstration's plan for the internet.
I mean, c'mon... Anyone who buys all this "war on terror" and "we gotta take out the madman" stuff is a grade A moron. But hell, don't take my word for it, get it straight from the horses mouth: here is the report in which all our current cronies, er, illustrious leaders, lay out their master plan for controlling the world's resources and "preserving American interests".... from Sept 2000. Be sure to browse the site and check out the roster: Wolfowitz, Cheney, etc.
Ya know, the GNN piece is entertaining, but it actually falls short. It was made right after 911 and was responding to a well founded concern that the war on terror would become the holy war to end all holy wars (and the human race too). But, ultimately, the guys running the show don't give a shit about religion or terrorism. It's all about the money and power.
Yep... we got Netlibrary in Olympia, WA as well (actually Timberland Regional Library, which covers a couple counties). What's weird is their programming book selection seems pretty crappy. So, considering that another post talked about the selection of C++, perl, and PHP books at his Netlibrary, it would seem that each one has a different selection. Talk about insanity. They could make the same books available everywhere without any trouble, but nooooo. And someone else mentioned the King County Library, which is near me. So I went and checked it out... did a quick search for PHP and all the results had about 5 "copies" with about 15 holds! This is totally stupid. If I want to buy a book, I'll buy it. If I just want to browse it, I'm gonna borrow it somehow or just look for a different book. Cripes. All this stupidity makes me wanna find an island somewhere, set up some megaservers with a megafast connection and offer every book, record, movie, picture, thought, idea, attitude, and rude gesture ever conceived of for fast download, 24-7. Oh, wait, I don't need to do that, that's what p2p is for (eventually).
It's a good thing food isn't like ideas, we'd have to tell all the starving people that they can't eat without paying or they're thieves.
As a music writer, I find the All Music Guide to be indispensable. Ignore the "similar/related" albums section (on pages about albums, not about bands); it appears to be randomly generated. However, a lot of artist pages (the better known ones at least) have a "related artists" section and those are often at least in the ballpark. Search for someone you like at AMG, get yourself a good p2p client, and then download a song by each of the "related artists" from your AMG search.
If you're into obscure stuff and have a hard time finding it on a p2p, try to figure out what label they're on and then check the label's site... a lot of labels have sample mp3s by their artists these days. There are also scads of mailing lists out there devoted to specific genres. Oh, and Pitchfork is another good music site.
Though i wish all those boneheads out there would start checking their sites in mozilla before they put them up. Maybe someday more people wil use Mozilla than explorer... ha ha ha...
Yeah, but shouldn't one drive be able to use the full bandwidth of the bus if it's the only device moving data? And, I have two UDMA100 drives on an ATA133 channel: so they should be able to each move 50 MB/s... but I got 30-something on one of them... and that was on only on reads; writing was a lot slower.
Basically, I just think that the ide numbers are a crock... I doubt we'll ever really see data move from a disc as fast as is promised. They're talking about pushing SATA to 600 MB/s in the next few years, but what drive is gonna be able to serve up (or write) the data that fast?
While we're on the subject, these guys are putting together a decent bootable distro. I have their 0.5.2 and it boots and finds all devices on all four of my x86 boxes. No KDE or Gnome mind-you, though it uses blackbox with a choice of themes, so I'm happy (though I prefer enlightenment). It also has mozilla and found the NIC on all the boxes. And it has their MuSE software for streaming audio, which is what the whole thing is about, I think.
I heard that they're getting close on a vers. 1.0. I'll definitely be checking that out. It'd be cool if eventually you could put it on a CD-RW and be able to save your settings and work on the same disk. That and I'd like to figure out some way of cracking hard-drive permissions so it would actually be useful for maintenance on a errant machine.
Note that the reviewer says this 80 gig SATA Seagate drive is expected to cost about 111 pounds, which is about $180. But a quick jaunt over to pricewatch.com shows one place (PC Nation) selling it for just under $140 (including shipping). They actually have the 120 gig version for about $180. Anyway, $140 isn't too out of line for an 80 gig Seagate with an 8MB buffer!
I just rebuilt my main box with the Asus A7N8X-DX, which has 2 SATA channels. I'm itchin' to try out the SATA, but can't afford to buy anything else for awhile (and the next thing I get will likely be another stick of RAM, so I can take advantage of the NForce dual memory bus). I do wonder about the usefulness of a faster IDE bus, though... The most I can get out of my ATA 100 drives is about 36 MB read time. Write time is only about 10 MB!!! Where's the fuggin 100 MB transfer speeds?
Well, I still plan on going SATA eventually (hate those damn ribbon cables). But I really hope we start to see some higher drive transfer times. What's the point of having a 3 ghz processor when the data is trickling off the drive?
(Oh, and while we're on the topic, anyone know were I can get a good, free hard drive bench prog?)
Say all you wise wi-fi-ers, can someone help me with some advice? My sister has an 802.11b router at one end of her house and a desktop with a wireless card at the other end (it's a long, skinny ranch style). She couldn't get any signal on the computer with the card. She went out and got an access point to set up in the middle of the house, but had trouble getting it to work. She finally got the two boxes talking by putting the AP at the end of 50 ft of cat-5... just inside the room with the desktop. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a wireless setup. She's been planning on figuring out how to make it all work better, but is probably still stepping over the cable on the floor everyday.
So, how can she boost the signal? Will an AP between the two work as a repeater? What's the simplest and cheapest way to get this to work? Any sites I can check out that'll help answer these questions (without making my head spin)?
No. For the industry to get with the times they need to find a new industry. There's no need for A&R reps, record execs, or any of that now. Musicians can still make money playing shows and selling swag. But for the rest of "the industry" it's not a matter of playing nice or finding a new business model... it's a matter of figuring out that it's time to shove off.
Actually, he's right... at least in the original sense of the term. Here's an Ars Technica page on the subject. Basically, back when the concept of RAID was developed, it was the alternative to a SLED, or Single Large Expensive Disk. Thus, a RAID was, most assuredly, a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It's been gradually bastardized into "independent."
Hmmm... what if you could use the command line with handwriting? Of course, that might be pretty dangerous if your handwriting as mine! It would be cool if it showed you how it was interpreting your writing as you formed each letter...
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Schools should have Apples and oran.. er, PCs... and the PCs should be dual-boot with windows and linux...
Then again, schools can't afford that... guess havin' edumacated kids ain't important...
I thought /. was the bastion of anti-IP sentiment. Strange then, that skimming through the +5 comments, I see a string of self-righteous yahoos hollering about how the RIAA is finally doing the right thing because sharing copyrighted material is just plain stealing.
Nevermind the fact that I find it hard to believe that there could be this many prim and perfect law-abiding citizens. Isn't the whole concept behind the FSF and to a certain degree behind linux that we should be allowed to freely copy the fruits of our ideas? It's downright depressing to see lots of people not only buying into this tyrannical, consensual hallucination of artificial scarcity, but to also get modded up for it! A sad day for slashdot, indeed.
I suppose it's pointless to even open these peoples' eyes. They're like spoiled children having a temper tantrum...
What're ya gonna do? Some people also think that oil will last forever, might makes right, and that they've got the absolute corner on reality for all time.Actually, now that I think about it, there's always been plenty of stupidity on slashdot... at least on the front page stuff. But, I keep coming back, if only once in a while. So, what does that make me?
Um, can I get mine without the SCO code, please? That Darrell McBride is a scary man:
I think the Opteron (server chip) comes out in May... it's the Athlon64 that's been pushed back to September
Holy Shit! I'm in the next county over (Thurston)! I hope they expand. What's weird is that the population of Mason County is about 50,000. Seems like a very limited customer base to go installing fiber service for. It's also a very rural county... lots of space between homes. Seems like a very expensive proposition, stringing all that fiber. I can't wait to tell my girlfriend that I actually want to move to Shelton (if you've been there, you'd get it)!
Just as a point of accuracy: Albini does not run Touch & Go. He put out some records on Touch & Go, and has said "If anyone can show me a better label than Touch & Go, I'll suck their dick." But Corey Rusk is the main man at T&G. Albini's plenty busy recording bands, figuring out new ways to mutilate a guitar, collecting rare russian mics, offering profound and cynical insight into the rock industry and petting his pussy. Oh, and he worked on the first Pigface album, but hasn't had much to do with them since. His main bands have been: Big Black, Rapeman (one of the greatest bands ever) and Shellac.
But every other mobo I own has a BIOS setting to enable SMART and says "HD SMART capable and status ok" when I boot. Why do I have to go track down some SMART monitor app for the most expensive, feature-packed mobo I have?
I have that board... nixed the voice after only a day or two. It's very annoying (and really bad sound quality). And they did it wrong... it shouldn't say anything if the post went fine... it should only talk if there was a problem, saying what the problem was.
Oh, and one major beef I have with this board already: it doesn't have SMART monitoring for the harddrives!!! At least I haven't been able to find any sign of it and my email to tech support went ignored.
Virii write to boot sector
DRM writes to boot sector
hmmmm...
I'd like to expand on this question. I've been intrigued by FPGA's since I first read about them. To my (admittedly relatively untrained) mind, they seem like the ultimate platform: an infinitely reconfigurable piece of computer hardware. It would seem like an FPGA, with its gates programmed for optimum efficiency for a given task, should be able to kick the pants off a traditional fixed architecture cpu. If this isn't the case, can someone tell me why? Someone once told me that the distances between various virtual components in a configured FPGA slowed things down; is this true? Why don't we see desktops made with these? (I suppose, if FPGAs are really expensive enough to warrant the price tag on this doo-dad, that'd be one reason.) There actually is a company called Star Bridge Systems who make computers with FPGAs. They even promised a "desktop supercomupter" a few years back. But apparently, they've given up on that (or decided that selling a few multi-million dollar supercomputers is better than selling lots of thousand dollar desktops). And even if FPGAs aren't much faster than regular chips, there's something about compiling your code down to the actual gate layout (rather than for a set gate structure) that just seems really, really cool.
The monitors on the Portland bus mall just display the published bus schedule... they are not updated to reflect the correct time if the bus is running late. On the other hand, what this guys seems to have done is the same thing, since it just gets the bus schedule from the local transit company's website... doubt they update it in real time. I wonder if any transit authority actually posts real time info.
I always thought those monitors were kind of silly... though I guess it saves you the trouble of looking through the whole schedule: it updates itself after each bus goes by and only shows the next couple buses.
This is only true if you are only interested in mainstream acts (and even then, it doesn't need to be true). None of the music I listen to has anything to do with the RIAA. In fact, I don't think I've listened to an act on an RIAA-backed label in years. I don't need the RIAA to tell me what to listen to; especially considering that they and their lackey labels are complete morons and wouldn't know interesting and artistic music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Ultimately, that's what the RIAA cares about much more than people copying CDs. They've enjoyed decades of dictating what people get to listen to. Now, their uselessness is becoming clear. There are plenty of ways to find music that you like (All Music, Ptichfork, mp3.com, etc.) and you don't need the RIAA for any of them. In fact, you just might find that your musical interests are invigorated by getting away from all that mind-numbing, mainstream crack.
The internet, and particularly p2p, has irrevocably changed the way I listened to music and exponentially expanded my musical options. If the establishment wants to brand me a criminal for that, so be it. Just look out, cuz once I'm already a criminal, who knows what I might do. ;o)
heh... i think you mean 8mm... or maybe you have your 9mm semiauto aimed at 'em...
Very good. Bravo. You noticed that peoples' words were taken out of context. What gave it away? The stuttering? The jerky motions? The funky beats? It's not edited together to try to change what these people were specifically saying in the clips. The piece is using familiar faces and voices to make a point. It's the overall message that matters. Now, along the way, truncated statements might tweak an eyebrow. But I don't see much misconstruing going on.
And whether or not the viewers get lazy on their research, GNN certainly is not. They've had some great writing. Hell, there's some on their home page right now: check out Heather Wokusch's razor sharp analysis of Turkey's role in the upcoming Gulf War II or the bit about the adminstration's plan for the internet.
I mean, c'mon... Anyone who buys all this "war on terror" and "we gotta take out the madman" stuff is a grade A moron. But hell, don't take my word for it, get it straight from the horses mouth: here is the report in which all our current cronies, er, illustrious leaders, lay out their master plan for controlling the world's resources and "preserving American interests".... from Sept 2000. Be sure to browse the site and check out the roster: Wolfowitz, Cheney, etc.
Ya know, the GNN piece is entertaining, but it actually falls short. It was made right after 911 and was responding to a well founded concern that the war on terror would become the holy war to end all holy wars (and the human race too). But, ultimately, the guys running the show don't give a shit about religion or terrorism. It's all about the money and power.
Yep... we got Netlibrary in Olympia, WA as well (actually Timberland Regional Library, which covers a couple counties). What's weird is their programming book selection seems pretty crappy. So, considering that another post talked about the selection of C++, perl, and PHP books at his Netlibrary, it would seem that each one has a different selection. Talk about insanity. They could make the same books available everywhere without any trouble, but nooooo. And someone else mentioned the King County Library, which is near me. So I went and checked it out... did a quick search for PHP and all the results had about 5 "copies" with about 15 holds! This is totally stupid. If I want to buy a book, I'll buy it. If I just want to browse it, I'm gonna borrow it somehow or just look for a different book. Cripes. All this stupidity makes me wanna find an island somewhere, set up some megaservers with a megafast connection and offer every book, record, movie, picture, thought, idea, attitude, and rude gesture ever conceived of for fast download, 24-7. Oh, wait, I don't need to do that, that's what p2p is for (eventually).
It's a good thing food isn't like ideas, we'd have to tell all the starving people that they can't eat without paying or they're thieves.
As a music writer, I find the All Music Guide to be indispensable. Ignore the "similar/related" albums section (on pages about albums, not about bands); it appears to be randomly generated. However, a lot of artist pages (the better known ones at least) have a "related artists" section and those are often at least in the ballpark. Search for someone you like at AMG, get yourself a good p2p client, and then download a song by each of the "related artists" from your AMG search.
If you're into obscure stuff and have a hard time finding it on a p2p, try to figure out what label they're on and then check the label's site... a lot of labels have sample mp3s by their artists these days. There are also scads of mailing lists out there devoted to specific genres. Oh, and Pitchfork is another good music site.
Though i wish all those boneheads out there would start checking their sites in mozilla before they put them up. Maybe someday more people wil use Mozilla than explorer... ha ha ha...
Yeah, but shouldn't one drive be able to use the full bandwidth of the bus if it's the only device moving data? And, I have two UDMA100 drives on an ATA133 channel: so they should be able to each move 50 MB/s... but I got 30-something on one of them... and that was on only on reads; writing was a lot slower.
Basically, I just think that the ide numbers are a crock... I doubt we'll ever really see data move from a disc as fast as is promised. They're talking about pushing SATA to 600 MB/s in the next few years, but what drive is gonna be able to serve up (or write) the data that fast?
While we're on the subject, these guys are putting together a decent bootable distro. I have their 0.5.2 and it boots and finds all devices on all four of my x86 boxes. No KDE or Gnome mind-you, though it uses blackbox with a choice of themes, so I'm happy (though I prefer enlightenment). It also has mozilla and found the NIC on all the boxes. And it has their MuSE software for streaming audio, which is what the whole thing is about, I think.
I heard that they're getting close on a vers. 1.0. I'll definitely be checking that out. It'd be cool if eventually you could put it on a CD-RW and be able to save your settings and work on the same disk. That and I'd like to figure out some way of cracking hard-drive permissions so it would actually be useful for maintenance on a errant machine.
Note that the reviewer says this 80 gig SATA Seagate drive is expected to cost about 111 pounds, which is about $180. But a quick jaunt over to pricewatch.com shows one place (PC Nation) selling it for just under $140 (including shipping). They actually have the 120 gig version for about $180. Anyway, $140 isn't too out of line for an 80 gig Seagate with an 8MB buffer!
I just rebuilt my main box with the Asus A7N8X-DX, which has 2 SATA channels. I'm itchin' to try out the SATA, but can't afford to buy anything else for awhile (and the next thing I get will likely be another stick of RAM, so I can take advantage of the NForce dual memory bus). I do wonder about the usefulness of a faster IDE bus, though... The most I can get out of my ATA 100 drives is about 36 MB read time. Write time is only about 10 MB!!! Where's the fuggin 100 MB transfer speeds?
Well, I still plan on going SATA eventually (hate those damn ribbon cables). But I really hope we start to see some higher drive transfer times. What's the point of having a 3 ghz processor when the data is trickling off the drive?
(Oh, and while we're on the topic, anyone know were I can get a good, free hard drive bench prog?)
Say all you wise wi-fi-ers, can someone help me with some advice? My sister has an 802.11b router at one end of her house and a desktop with a wireless card at the other end (it's a long, skinny ranch style). She couldn't get any signal on the computer with the card. She went out and got an access point to set up in the middle of the house, but had trouble getting it to work. She finally got the two boxes talking by putting the AP at the end of 50 ft of cat-5... just inside the room with the desktop. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a wireless setup. She's been planning on figuring out how to make it all work better, but is probably still stepping over the cable on the floor everyday. So, how can she boost the signal? Will an AP between the two work as a repeater? What's the simplest and cheapest way to get this to work? Any sites I can check out that'll help answer these questions (without making my head spin)?
No. For the industry to get with the times they need to find a new industry. There's no need for A&R reps, record execs, or any of that now. Musicians can still make money playing shows and selling swag. But for the rest of "the industry" it's not a matter of playing nice or finding a new business model... it's a matter of figuring out that it's time to shove off.
Actually, he's right... at least in the original sense of the term. Here's an Ars Technica page on the subject. Basically, back when the concept of RAID was developed, it was the alternative to a SLED, or Single Large Expensive Disk. Thus, a RAID was, most assuredly, a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It's been gradually bastardized into "independent."
Hmmm... what if you could use the command line with handwriting? Of course, that might be pretty dangerous if your handwriting as mine! It would be cool if it showed you how it was interpreting your writing as you formed each letter...
Wow! Who is your ISP? That rocks!