If it were multigigabyte drives dedicated purely to Mp3's... that's actually a fair bit of music. 1 person with about 3GB can be near a thousand songs... multiply that by a few people and that's a lotta music.
Mind you, I'm not sure how anyone gets over 1000 proprietary songs in Mp3. I've got a lot of *free* music (legal), but there's not enough RIAA-owned/popular music out there for me to pirate 3Gb worth.
5,000 sober guys all trying to impress each other with the size of their equipment. It's like Hell.
And you think 5,000 drunk guys would be better? At least this way the few females attending the event don't have to worry about being drooled on too much.
Residents more local to the event would find this more interesting, as they might want to join in if they have time, or sign up for the next event - unless you feel like a flight to Norway in order to participate?
but it does give rise to childish comments.
I think you just explained yourself readily enough. The explanation of the . is fine, no need to make a big issue of it.
Kill off all the less greedy stores selling the product online at a lesser rate, and suddenly anyone who doesn't live near a GW store can only shop at their website.
It's all about money, none of us will kid ourselves that it is otherwise.
I just wonder how anyone can actually come out with such an idea. I mean, somebody has to think it, present it, and get it accepted. Do they just blindly put such things into affect, or mull the PR cost of evil Vs profit?
The only one who hates us more than Ralsky
Is his postman. Can you imagine all the huge stacks of spam he has to haul up to the mailbox? Geeze, I bet by now he almost has a seperate bag...
At least sign the guy up to Playboy so that the postman has something interesting to "obtain" from the sack 'o' mail he must have to deliver on a regular basis.
From what I remember about these:
It's been mentioned that Flash cards have write-limitations? If you had a device using a swap partition, I could see you eating away at these quite quickly.
This is based on the assumption that it functions differently than flash in this aspect, but right now the article just shows up as blank for me so I can't verify. My other concern would be reliability, especially in "impact" situations. For an Mp3 player, this might be a no-go, considering that many play their music while engaging in exercise which might involve jarring (slashdotters exempt from the exercise clause).
A lot of people state that you should use google, but the problem is not in using google, but using it correctly.
Firstly... I'd recommend linux google for linux specific questions.
Next, what are searching for? For example, if it's a samba-related error message: +Samba +"snippet of error message"
will usually get you along the right track. If you find a discussion thread, note the name of the thread, back out to the main discussion, and follow the thread from the beginning.
If it's a more generalized question, try searching for a faq or howto: +Samba +smbmount +howto
FAQ's will cover most of your common problems, and if it's a widely-used package and not a really odd or specific issue, the problem is quite often in a FAQ
I'm sure there are some guides to googling around, but I can't think of any links off the top of my head (perhaps I could google it).
Also, much as I hate to say it, you can find a lot of people who are "in the know" in various language/package/etc specific sites... but some get annoyed if you ask a bunch of OT questions. For perl and related, try perlmonks - sometimes I've gotten away with semi-related questions as well (webserver, etc).
Somebody "in-the-know" persues actions involving music that invite RIAA lawsuits of an idiotic nature (that, or just hook up with one of the already-idiotic lawsuits).
We push the cash from the fund out, covering legal expense, until the RIAA lawsuit is shown as frivolous, idiotic, and wrong. At the least, we can get precedent, at best... dropping all or part of the DCMA,etc
See, the problem is that the RIAA is at the moment only jumping on those who cannot defend themselves, usually due to lack of money. Even with an idiotic lawsuit, defending oneself costs money, particularly with a large entity that can drag it out, long and painfully.
If we can fund an organized resistance, then that will show the RIAA that we, as well, have teeth - and hopefully get the courts to the point where the idiocy of these suits is recognised, rather than having somebody plea down to a minimal legal @ssraping, as opposed to a $9billion bill.
No worries, at least you've got slashdot to cover the latests, up-to-date, news - with little bias and a strong centering on fact.
Ok, ok, so the above needed a <sarcasm> tag, but really despite the occasional oddball article,/. science and some other good online sites contain some damn interesting stuff. Less advertisements, searchable, and one can leave feedback. I think that such things must have an impact on the sales of the ol' dead-tree medium.
Nah, always start on the bottom and work my way up. Sometimes it just depends on whom the idiot on the lower-end I get is... if I get a good one, I get bumped. Last time it was an anal know-it-all who refused to bump me on the issue.
But, that considered: how much should one pay for a business-style DSL connection with a good package (up/down ratio, bandwidth, service)?
I think it's more the ability for the disease to spread so rapidly that is a concern than (currently) the possibility of death. For most people, SARS can now be dealt with and recovered from. But when your doctor won't even visit you because (s)he might contract the virus... not good.
SARS can kill, but the more immediate threat is the epidemic-like spreading, especially during the early period before it became widely known.
Have you ever had a IP address that you just couldn't get to, though you were positive that it was up and online?
So... you go over to a friend's (or for those who can , SSH to an alternate machine) and the IP is accessible. You know the site is available, so you spend a lot of time in the firewall settings, even opening the firewall entirely... but still no luck.
I had this problem with my ISP, and finally traced it to that 66.xx.xx.xx IP addresses were unreachable (including redhat.com, very annoying), but only when I was on a certain bank of dynamically assigned IP's. Releasing my IP and leaving the PC off overnight used to solve the problem.
For awhile, it was occuring after I got a dedicated IP as well. When I called my ISP on this, they told me to reboot my modem, let it sit off for about 15, and then restart. Try explaining to low-tier tech support about how downtime is bad when you run a server.
Luckily, all is fixed now, since I've moved to another city (same ISP, but no problems), but I wonder if this problem is related to base ISP-side filtering, or if anyone else has experienced it. At one time, I had a box with a non 66.xx.xx.xx IP and a box with a 66.xx.xx.xx IP and they couldn't even talk to each other properly, though both could get online without a problem!
Which is why it would be nice if most domain handlers had a passworded system. If you gibberize your whois info to avoid spamming, hackers, harassment, etc - but you know the password and the hijacking party doesn't - it should prove fairly well who has ownership.
Of course, if there's large money involved, your registrar might just hand it over anyways.
Yes, and considering all the articles/remarks/etc by Carmack about "how well it will work on X system", specifically with certain video drives, one should probably clue in that the game is being developed for PC, regardless of what happens in the console arena.
This would be nice ass-kickin' for X-box arsenal though. My hopes would be that MS/ID find a nice way to all X-box players to join into deathmatch with PC players (assumptions being made that this game will have sweet deathmatch capabilities when at the final release stage).
That's a problem with big sites. I think it probably has something to do with companies knowing what the sites are and thus being able to submit their own "responses" or "reviews." Watch for canned answers, and checked for more descriptive reviews (it's awesome, is not as good as it's awesome because XYZ) and you'll often do fine.
I wish more games used shareware techniques, although I've still seen some good ones (I bought ORB based on the demo I played)
Seriously, if the RIAA weren't into heavy handed tactics, sueing students, making virtually-unusable copy-protected CD's, and charging unreasonable amounts for music... how would Indie music be doing?
Hell, I think that the RIAA is helping Indie music. People don't want to pay for overpriced music anymore, they're looking at alternatives... copying is free but becoming less attractive due to lawsuit... so the next cheapest route is indie and others (not to mention some often damn good tunes).
If you are in Canada, and you are already paying for the cost of piracy on every pack of recordable CD's, I'd say piracy has already been assumed, and already been paid for.
If the RIAA wants to stop assuming our guilt, I'll be a bit more pissy on piracy. As it stands, I avoid it but still pay tax on CD's - so why should I also have to worry about lawsuits?
Of course, that being said, I've heard of a lot of RIAA against organization/user action in the US and other countries (Australia, etc)... anyone know of anything happening in Canada, or are our CD levies actually covering us (if so... time to heat up my burner and kazaa!).
True. I can't really see somebody paying for broadband without having a computer, and thus - why not just use the computer? Some will argue convenience, you can't be in the computer room all the time, but realistically where else will you sit down, aim video camera at face, adjust microphone, etc?
I think that video cellphones would be a better idea than landlines. There are a few out already. Throw in a decent resolution colour screen, decent camera, and video conferencing could be really cool.
The novelty of a video-phone at home would quickly wear thin. Being able to broadcast on the go (say, on a trip or whatnot) would be a nicer feature.
That being said, I'll wait until I can get one that pops up a miniature hologram of the caller...
The problem is, that knowledge is quite seperate from experience. And experience not only influences what we know, but what we do with our knowledge, and how we grow. If we copied actual memories, then we're left with a bunch of clones with less personal development.
Think about when Einstein's theories led to the creation of atomic energy sources. Think about what others did with it (nukes). Einstein lacked the comprehension of the sheer evil this knowledge could impart, while others lacked the caution of experience and upbringing.
How about giving a 12-year-old knowledge which would let him build a death-ray? How about giving a 6-year-old knowledge of sex? Even with useful things, like math/english/physics, knowledge would be more useful to some than others.
Seriously. How many of us could read a book, understand the concepts, but completely screw up on the implentation? Knowledge is one thing: skill, ability, and experience are completely different.
What counts as an overclocking device? A water-cooling kit, liquid nitrogen, perhaps a really good fan/heatsink?
Seriously, I haven't overclocked since back in the old days when it was useful (clocking up a chip already equiv to 1.8Ghz isn't really useful) - but back then all it required was some knowledge of the hardware, good cooling, and a few selective jumper changes. What else do you need nowadays? If I have to buy special stuff to overclock, why not just spend the cash on a better CPU anyhow?
You know what? If a company makes a product that is good... makes it affordable... makes it friendly and non-restrictive as possible... and makes licensing/support/etc sane.
Why the hell not use it? The only thing I would find makes WMP scary to me is the bloat, and the DRM. If it comes to open source, then DRM can be dealt with, bloat possibly trimmed.
Just because it is MS, doesn't make it bad. They're a big company, but linux et al are growing too, so I'd rather they learn some lessons and reform - keep the good ideas and dump the bad - than go down the toilet entirely.
No kidding. Can you believe they still taught this to us in college. Why? Because some businesses are still using COBOL, and because coders hate it... and thus jobs still pop up from time-to-time when another COBOL programmer jumps off a building etc.
If we stopped teaching COBOL in school,and programmers stopped emerging just asking for torture - then perhaps businesses would get it into their heads that it is about time to switch.
You'd be quite amazed what can be accomplished by necessity. Having a crutch usually slows things down.
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If it were multigigabyte drives dedicated purely to Mp3's... that's actually a fair bit of music. 1 person with about 3GB can be near a thousand songs... multiply that by a few people and that's a lotta music.
Mind you, I'm not sure how anyone gets over 1000 proprietary songs in Mp3. I've got a lot of *free* music (legal), but there's not enough RIAA-owned/popular music out there for me to pirate 3Gb worth.
5,000 sober guys all trying to impress each other with the size of their equipment. It's like Hell.
And you think 5,000 drunk guys would be better? At least this way the few females attending the event don't have to worry about being drooled on too much.
but it does give rise to childish comments.
I think you just explained yourself readily enough. The explanation of the . is fine, no need to make a big issue of it.
Kill off all the less greedy stores selling the product online at a lesser rate, and suddenly anyone who doesn't live near a GW store can only shop at their website.
It's all about money, none of us will kid ourselves that it is otherwise.
I just wonder how anyone can actually come out with such an idea. I mean, somebody has to think it, present it, and get it accepted. Do they just blindly put such things into affect, or mull the PR cost of evil Vs profit?
The only one who hates us more than Ralsky
Is his postman. Can you imagine all the huge stacks of spam he has to haul up to the mailbox? Geeze, I bet by now he almost has a seperate bag...
At least sign the guy up to Playboy so that the postman has something interesting to "obtain" from the sack 'o' mail he must have to deliver on a regular basis.
From what I remember about these:
It's been mentioned that Flash cards have write-limitations? If you had a device using a swap partition, I could see you eating away at these quite quickly.
This is based on the assumption that it functions differently than flash in this aspect, but right now the article just shows up as blank for me so I can't verify. My other concern would be reliability, especially in "impact" situations. For an Mp3 player, this might be a no-go, considering that many play their music while engaging in exercise which might involve jarring (slashdotters exempt from the exercise clause).
A lot of people state that you should use google, but the problem is not in using google, but using it correctly.
Firstly... I'd recommend linux google for linux specific questions.
Next, what are searching for? For example, if it's a samba-related error message:
+Samba +"snippet of error message"
will usually get you along the right track. If you find a discussion thread, note the name of the thread, back out to the main discussion, and follow the thread from the beginning.
If it's a more generalized question, try searching for a faq or howto:
+Samba +smbmount +howto
FAQ's will cover most of your common problems, and if it's a widely-used package and not a really odd or specific issue, the problem is quite often in a FAQ
I'm sure there are some guides to googling around, but I can't think of any links off the top of my head (perhaps I could google it).
Also, much as I hate to say it, you can find a lot of people who are "in the know" in various language/package/etc specific sites... but some get annoyed if you ask a bunch of OT questions. For perl and related, try perlmonks - sometimes I've gotten away with semi-related questions as well (webserver, etc).
- We all slap down $5/month to a trusted source
- Somebody "in-the-know" persues actions involving music that invite RIAA lawsuits of an idiotic nature (that, or just hook up with one of the already-idiotic lawsuits).
- We push the cash from the fund out, covering legal expense, until the RIAA lawsuit is shown as frivolous, idiotic, and wrong. At the least, we can get precedent, at best... dropping all or part of the DCMA,etc
See, the problem is that the RIAA is at the moment only jumping on those who cannot defend themselves, usually due to lack of money. Even with an idiotic lawsuit, defending oneself costs money, particularly with a large entity that can drag it out, long and painfully.If we can fund an organized resistance, then that will show the RIAA that we, as well, have teeth - and hopefully get the courts to the point where the idiocy of these suits is recognised, rather than having somebody plea down to a minimal legal @ssraping, as opposed to a $9billion bill.
No worries, at least you've got slashdot to cover the latests, up-to-date, news - with little bias and a strong centering on fact.
/. science and some other good online sites contain some damn interesting stuff. Less advertisements, searchable, and one can leave feedback. I think that such things must have an impact on the sales of the ol' dead-tree medium.
Ok, ok, so the above needed a <sarcasm> tag, but really despite the occasional oddball article,
Nah, always start on the bottom and work my way up. Sometimes it just depends on whom the idiot on the lower-end I get is... if I get a good one, I get bumped. Last time it was an anal know-it-all who refused to bump me on the issue.
But, that considered: how much should one pay for a business-style DSL connection with a good package (up/down ratio, bandwidth, service)?
I think it's more the ability for the disease to spread so rapidly that is a concern than (currently) the possibility of death. For most people, SARS can now be dealt with and recovered from. But when your doctor won't even visit you because (s)he might contract the virus... not good.
SARS can kill, but the more immediate threat is the epidemic-like spreading, especially during the early period before it became widely known.
Have you ever had a IP address that you just couldn't get to, though you were positive that it was up and online?
So... you go over to a friend's (or for those who can , SSH to an alternate machine) and the IP is accessible. You know the site is available, so you spend a lot of time in the firewall settings, even opening the firewall entirely... but still no luck.
I had this problem with my ISP, and finally traced it to that 66.xx.xx.xx IP addresses were unreachable (including redhat.com, very annoying), but only when I was on a certain bank of dynamically assigned IP's. Releasing my IP and leaving the PC off overnight used to solve the problem.
For awhile, it was occuring after I got a dedicated IP as well. When I called my ISP on this, they told me to reboot my modem, let it sit off for about 15, and then restart. Try explaining to low-tier tech support about how downtime is bad when you run a server.
Luckily, all is fixed now, since I've moved to another city (same ISP, but no problems), but I wonder if this problem is related to base ISP-side filtering, or if anyone else has experienced it. At one time, I had a box with a non 66.xx.xx.xx IP and a box with a 66.xx.xx.xx IP and they couldn't even talk to each other properly, though both could get online without a problem!
Which is why it would be nice if most domain handlers had a passworded system. If you gibberize your whois info to avoid spamming, hackers, harassment, etc - but you know the password and the hijacking party doesn't - it should prove fairly well who has ownership.
Of course, if there's large money involved, your registrar might just hand it over anyways.
On a much great encompassing scale. I don't mind the increased taxation on CD's... I can just bulk-buy from the US through various "channels."
However, the idea of taxing hard-drive enabled devices on a per-MB scale... insane!
Yes, and considering all the articles/remarks/etc by Carmack about "how well it will work on X system", specifically with certain video drives, one should probably clue in that the game is being developed for PC, regardless of what happens in the console arena.
This would be nice ass-kickin' for X-box arsenal though. My hopes would be that MS/ID find a nice way to all X-box players to join into deathmatch with PC players (assumptions being made that this game will have sweet deathmatch capabilities when at the final release stage).
That's a problem with big sites. I think it probably has something to do with companies knowing what the sites are and thus being able to submit their own "responses" or "reviews." Watch for canned answers, and checked for more descriptive reviews (it's awesome, is not as good as it's awesome because XYZ) and you'll often do fine.
I wish more games used shareware techniques, although I've still seen some good ones (I bought ORB based on the demo I played)
Being able to detact the screen portion from the microphone portion, perhaps?
Indies Blossoming Despite RIAA
Seriously, if the RIAA weren't into heavy handed tactics, sueing students, making virtually-unusable copy-protected CD's, and charging unreasonable amounts for music... how would Indie music be doing?
Hell, I think that the RIAA is helping Indie music. People don't want to pay for overpriced music anymore, they're looking at alternatives... copying is free but becoming less attractive due to lawsuit... so the next cheapest route is indie and others (not to mention some often damn good tunes).
If you are in Canada, and you are already paying for the cost of piracy on every pack of recordable CD's, I'd say piracy has already been assumed, and already been paid for.
If the RIAA wants to stop assuming our guilt, I'll be a bit more pissy on piracy. As it stands, I avoid it but still pay tax on CD's - so why should I also have to worry about lawsuits?
Of course, that being said, I've heard of a lot of RIAA against organization/user action in the US and other countries (Australia, etc)... anyone know of anything happening in Canada, or are our CD levies actually covering us (if so... time to heat up my burner and kazaa!).
True. I can't really see somebody paying for broadband without having a computer, and thus - why not just use the computer? Some will argue convenience, you can't be in the computer room all the time, but realistically where else will you sit down, aim video camera at face, adjust microphone, etc?
I think that video cellphones would be a better idea than landlines. There are a few out already. Throw in a decent resolution colour screen, decent camera, and video conferencing could be really cool.
The novelty of a video-phone at home would quickly wear thin. Being able to broadcast on the go (say, on a trip or whatnot) would be a nicer feature.
That being said, I'll wait until I can get one that pops up a miniature hologram of the caller...
The problem is, that knowledge is quite seperate from experience. And experience not only influences what we know, but what we do with our knowledge, and how we grow. If we copied actual memories, then we're left with a bunch of clones with less personal development.
Think about when Einstein's theories led to the creation of atomic energy sources. Think about what others did with it (nukes). Einstein lacked the comprehension of the sheer evil this knowledge could impart, while others lacked the caution of experience and upbringing.
How about giving a 12-year-old knowledge which would let him build a death-ray? How about giving a 6-year-old knowledge of sex? Even with useful things, like math/english/physics, knowledge would be more useful to some than others.
Seriously. How many of us could read a book, understand the concepts, but completely screw up on the implentation? Knowledge is one thing: skill, ability, and experience are completely different.
See how fast they got slashdotted? With all the heat from their burning CPU's, I'd bet that there's lots of liquid silicon on the ground by now...
What counts as an overclocking device? A water-cooling kit, liquid nitrogen, perhaps a really good fan/heatsink?
Seriously, I haven't overclocked since back in the old days when it was useful (clocking up a chip already equiv to 1.8Ghz isn't really useful) - but back then all it required was some knowledge of the hardware, good cooling, and a few selective jumper changes. What else do you need nowadays? If I have to buy special stuff to overclock, why not just spend the cash on a better CPU anyhow?
You know what? If a company makes a product that is good... makes it affordable... makes it friendly and non-restrictive as possible... and makes licensing/support/etc sane.
Why the hell not use it? The only thing I would find makes WMP scary to me is the bloat, and the DRM. If it comes to open source, then DRM can be dealt with, bloat possibly trimmed.
Just because it is MS, doesn't make it bad. They're a big company, but linux et al are growing too, so I'd rather they learn some lessons and reform - keep the good ideas and dump the bad - than go down the toilet entirely.
No kidding. Can you believe they still taught this to us in college. Why? Because some businesses are still using COBOL, and because coders hate it... and thus jobs still pop up from time-to-time when another COBOL programmer jumps off a building etc.
If we stopped teaching COBOL in school,and programmers stopped emerging just asking for torture - then perhaps businesses would get it into their heads that it is about time to switch.
You'd be quite amazed what can be accomplished by necessity. Having a crutch usually slows things down.