Debian does the same with apt. Remember that zlib vuln a while back? One apt-get upgrade and I was clean. Done in about 4 seconds, compare to recompiling every package under the sun (what some of my friends had to do). Debian life is sweet.
Wow, I hadnt thought of that, I'd definitly say that would be better than what we currently have. Someone mod parent up. Basicly what hes saying (If I understand correctly) is that instead of downloading second by second of the song, you start with a horrible quality download, then as the download continues you add more quality and more quality until it matches how high you want it (or is as good as all existing peers have it).
I know, replying to your own posts is bad, but I realised how short I was and thought I'd elaborate on my idea.
Imagine where you subscribe, paying $0.75 per song, and getting $0.05 per song donwloaded from you. All based on a credit-style system so its just bulk transactions via paypal or something. Record company gets payed, you get rewarded for sharing, all shares are 'official' (no crap quality/cut songs/voice tagging/etc).
The record company would of course need to share the songs themselfs to, but could prioritize users over them so that they save a lot of bandwidth.
"Beni Cherniavsky mentioned a very intriguing counterpart to bitrate peeling. If you have a peeler that saves the bits it chopped off, you could reconstitute the higher quality files by adding the missing bits to the lower quality file. This idea could lead to a music download service where you can download a low quality preview version of a song, and if you are interested, download the missing bits to make it a high quality version."
Or, Slightly modified, You could share all your high quality oggs on a P2P network, and have your client peel it down to 'future-legal-to-share' low quality files.
Are they just compensating for all of our spam filtering? Spam Assasin, Moz, etc, all have great anti-spam features, are they just sending more to make up for what we're dropping?
" I hope there's something more significant than just a free ad for proprietary software."
You mean like the fileformat we all know and love finally getting some attention? If this sells than corperations as a whole might take Ogg seriously, Which is undeniably a GoodThing(tm).
Hm, Maybe so. Windows codenames are always confusing since they dont always admit to them. That whole whistler/whisper thing made many-a-warezkidie cry.
I've ran Lognhorn (.net server rc2). OpenGL works fine, but their are no versions of DirectX to be found (Neither by default nor on microsofts directx site).
"example, this image [coolsweetgirls.com] will open properly in MSIE, Netscape 6 and 7, Opera, however it won't open properly in Mozilla. " Worked fine for me (Mozilla 1.2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126).
I had this idea back when I was posting at -1. I'm even willing to make a.patch that does it if the slashdot janitors start taking their job more seriously.
We need to do away with networks. Imagine if content producers got paid directly by the fans. Maybe a pay per view video on demand system wouldnt be so bad.. I was originaly opposed to it, but it would be damned nice if i could just pay a few cents to 'buy' darkangel, watch it as many times as I want, have money go directly to them, and no bad shows are supported? Of course there is a problem with shows with low viewers never getting a chance to catch on, but that could be worked out. I'd love to have some of my old fave shows on, like Dark Angel or The Invisible Man. Both were great shows, Both went over the heads of their viewers a few too many times. (Not to mention the timeslot shift on dark angel)
"Just consider this fine as a generous offer. If you think it is unfair, then let the police investigae exactly what you have shared, and a court decide what you should pay."
What garuntee do you have that they wont just go to the court after they get your money?
"I just scanned through the discussion...every comment is either a dumb joke (sorry, I don't think talking about "Linux 3.11" is very clevar) or flamebait/trolling." Yet you have no problem with the karma joke in your sig?
"What has happened to all of the serious users? " Slashdot has pissed most of them(us?) off. If they dont take their job seriously (look at all the articles they post without reading--the ones that specificly ask not to be slashdotted), why should we act seriously? Slashdot has long since been ruined. The obvious jokes are just made for easy karma.
Because its the new law. You'd look pretty stupid with a drivers license and no car, and if you dont have a drivers license you're obviously terrorist scum.
Offtopic, but VI vs EMACS is a holy war, not an OSS war. For a long time VI was closed source AFAIK. Also, I believe people that use either are happy that their is an alternative. If there was just one definitive editor, what if it wasnt the one you preferred? Alternatives are competition and they force eachother to be better. To swing this post slightly on topic, Its probably best that there are as many.NET implentations as we can shovel out. If MS decieds to try and devour one, we'll still have others. And as i said earlier, Competition is a good thing. They'll have to compete for speed, features, ease of use, etc. (as a sidenote, I prefer vim.)
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Debian does the same with apt.
Remember that zlib vuln a while back?
One apt-get upgrade and I was clean. Done in about 4 seconds, compare to recompiling every package under the sun (what some of my friends had to do). Debian life is sweet.
With all the banners on slashdot, isnt this a bit hypocrytical? Luckily the mozilla plugin bannerblind makes me not have to deal with most of them.
Wow, I hadnt thought of that, I'd definitly say that would be better than what we currently have. Someone mod parent up.
Basicly what hes saying (If I understand correctly) is that instead of downloading second by second of the song, you start with a horrible quality download, then as the download continues you add more quality and more quality until it matches how high you want it (or is as good as all existing peers have it).
I know, replying to your own posts is bad, but I realised how short I was and thought I'd elaborate on my idea.
Imagine where you subscribe, paying $0.75 per song, and getting $0.05 per song donwloaded from you. All based on a credit-style system so its just bulk transactions via paypal or something.
Record company gets payed, you get rewarded for sharing, all shares are 'official' (no crap quality/cut songs/voice tagging/etc).
The record company would of course need to share the songs themselfs to, but could prioritize users over them so that they save a lot of bandwidth.
"Beni Cherniavsky mentioned a very intriguing counterpart to bitrate peeling. If you have a peeler that saves the bits it chopped off, you could reconstitute the higher quality files by adding the missing bits to the lower quality file. This idea could lead to a music download service where you can download a low quality preview version of a song, and if you are interested, download the missing bits to make it a high quality version."
Or, Slightly modified, You could share all your high quality oggs on a P2P network, and have your client peel it down to 'future-legal-to-share' low quality files.
Are they just compensating for all of our spam filtering?
Spam Assasin, Moz, etc, all have great anti-spam features, are they just sending more to make up for what we're dropping?
" I hope there's something more significant than just a free ad for proprietary software."
You mean like the fileformat we all know and love finally getting some attention?
If this sells than corperations as a whole might take Ogg seriously, Which is undeniably a GoodThing(tm).
Hm, Maybe so. Windows codenames are always confusing since they dont always admit to them. That whole whistler/whisper thing made many-a-warezkidie cry.
In fairness, we all know about it because of the old vibro link everyones been using every time its even inderectly associated to the story.
I've ran Lognhorn (.net server rc2). OpenGL works fine, but their are no versions of DirectX to be found (Neither by default nor on microsofts directx site).
"example, this image [coolsweetgirls.com] will open properly in MSIE, Netscape 6 and 7, Opera, however it won't open properly in Mozilla.
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Worked fine for me (Mozilla 1.2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126).
I had this idea back when I was posting at -1. I'm even willing to make a .patch that does it if the slashdot janitors start taking their job more seriously.
They can do that now, but they dont, as by the time its noticed theres already active discussion on the story and it would be bad to just end it all.
here, and remind me to hit preview next time:(
here, but dont call me tank.
Is it still civil disobedience if the law is in another country and in no way applies to you?
We need to do away with networks.
Imagine if content producers got paid directly by the fans.
Maybe a pay per view video on demand system wouldnt be so bad.. I was originaly opposed to it, but it would be damned nice if i could just pay a few cents to 'buy' darkangel, watch it as many times as I want, have money go directly to them, and no bad shows are supported?
Of course there is a problem with shows with low viewers never getting a chance to catch on, but that could be worked out.
I'd love to have some of my old fave shows on, like Dark Angel or The Invisible Man. Both were great shows, Both went over the heads of their viewers a few too many times. (Not to mention the timeslot shift on dark angel)
"Just consider this fine as a generous offer. If you think it is unfair, then let the police investigae exactly what you have shared, and a court decide what you should pay."
What garuntee do you have that they wont just go to the court after they get your money?
"Please tell me where I can get a US robotics V.everything modem that is USB"
here (that merchant code is for google, btw.)
Does anyone else find it a bit ironic that the smaller (.13 micron) video cards require the much larger heatsync/cooling systems?
"I just scanned through the discussion...every comment is either a dumb joke (sorry, I don't think talking about "Linux 3.11" is very clevar) or flamebait/trolling."
Yet you have no problem with the karma joke in your sig?
"What has happened to all of the serious users? "
Slashdot has pissed most of them(us?) off. If they dont take their job seriously (look at all the articles they post without reading--the ones that specificly ask not to be slashdotted), why should we act seriously?
Slashdot has long since been ruined. The obvious jokes are just made for easy karma.
Because its the new law. You'd look pretty stupid with a drivers license and no car, and if you dont have a drivers license you're obviously terrorist scum.
Offtopic, but VI vs EMACS is a holy war, not an OSS war. .NET implentations as we can shovel out. If MS decieds to try and devour one, we'll still have others. And as i said earlier, Competition is a good thing. They'll have to compete for speed, features, ease of use, etc.
For a long time VI was closed source AFAIK. Also, I believe people that use either are happy that their is an alternative. If there was just one definitive editor, what if it wasnt the one you preferred?
Alternatives are competition and they force eachother to be better.
To swing this post slightly on topic, Its probably best that there are as many
(as a sidenote, I prefer vim.)
You forget, They dont actually read the stories, they just post them. I doubt the submitter even read it, just relayed it from another source.
Why a Dell Inspiron? Wouldnt they be better off with something more targeted towards gamers, such as the Alienware 51m Laptop?