I believe the American's UN debt stands a billion dollars. For the booming US economy, that's chump change. Heck, Canada could come up with that money if we really had to (It would be about 1% of our budget, and yea, 1.5bln CDN is a big chunk but it's a one time payment!)
Would that it were, it is in fact 3-5 trillion if I remember correctly. Our yearly deficits may have been measured in billions. This year, we apparently hae a surplus that we NEED to squander instead of getting out of debt.
Matador has - http://www.matador.recs.com/mp3 is the address if I remember correctly. It's not big or anything, but they're throwing the "gimme free music now or else I'll pout" crowd a bone.:)
and if it weren't for Microsoft, we wouldn't NEED them. It's like how the fellow with Claris on a floppy said:
I don't think that guy had Clarisworks on a floppy... I think he had AppleWorks. As in, for the Apple II. One of the greatest programs ever written. Iit lacks functionality that I would want, but it's so simple and quick and dirty...
Like, if I wanted to catalog all my comic books or records or something, or keep a mailing list or something, it would be so good for that. Now, for making a resume, it'd look like crap by today's standards. Maybe I should go buy a dman Apple IIe and be done with it and get Appleworks and get organized. It seems like it'd be even easier than learning EZbase and the other stuff I downloaded.
Gosh, who buys all the software? Linux still doesn't have a majority market share by any stretch of the imagination. Not to mention when anyone proposes you guys pay for software, you act like it's a crime and break out Molotov cocktails...
I of course don't mean you in particular, but I still mean to make a point. Slashdot is not the real world.
For a better idea of whatr ASCAP is and how it came to be, there's a book I suggest you read: Rockonomics. (Or maybe Rocknomics?) It goes into a lot of the legalities of the music business in an enduser friendly way (and a lot of you guys seem to be endusers of music, especially asking why ASCAP can do this).
It's not the best book on the subject, and it's not great on its own, but it'll get you in that direction.
Moreover, five new DSP extensions were added, allowing the K7 to more efficiently decode multimedia files like MP3 audio files, or do software processing of communications algorithms like ADSL, Meyer said."
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Um yeah, what special thing do you need to do for ADSL, unless you have some really bogus implementation? Most of them go with just a straight Ethernet connection, so the processor has nothing to do with it, save for interpreting the data that comes in over the NIC.
Maybe it's just because it's the weekend, but I didn't feel like kicking everyone's teeth in. Things I wanna say:
I think the article has valid points (at least what I've read so far) in that a lot of the music on MP3.com is substandard, the place is something like a dumping ground.
That's not to say it's all bad, I've run across a few bands that I knew locally who host some MP3s on mp3.com. Good examples are Euphorius and Centromatic, whose pages can be found by mp3.com/bandname, of course.
I found these pages by hearing about them either by the bands themselves or fans telling me about them. I've never actually casually browsed around on MP3.com looking for new music (I don't have the time, and I still buy plenty of CDs - Moby's newest is great).
I dunno, people who make art want to have people exposed to their art, but they also wouldn't mind making money off what they do. So DAM is good inthat you get a big chunk up front, but it's also bad because they do nothing for you, you have to do all the legwork and they aren't exactly trying to make you stand out from the other 10,999 bands.
In full disclosure, I run a record label, Sonic Therapy, at http://www.sonictherapy.com, with an MP3 page at http://www.sonictherapy.com/mp3 and other MP3s scattered around (One Piece took his down, but I've been nagging him to put them back up.) - I haven't seen much out of the MP3 bonanza so far. Perhaps because the released works are only featured as MP3 snippits. Then again, it could just be like what another Slashdot poster said last time, "Your music sucks."
Anyway, go download, and let us know if you like, I guess.
Okay, started out by having IE on the 24 meg LAN machine draw up the article at top that had 22ish comments (TCO/NT/2000/yay Linux, etc).
It drew the pulldowns and I was able to open another session of IE fine. Now I'm trying yesterday's DSL article with 200+ comments...
Bingo, that's the problem. So it's not necessarily a problem with Slashdot as a whole, just heavy pages on Slashdot. I'm sure this won't prompt any sort of response (though tightening code is always a good thing and should always be done).
Yeehaw. Tech support is fun, you learn things like troubleshooting. Glad I narrowed it down. So, who knows, maybe it is memory, I'm sure it'll draw on the 350 at home without trying, but it won't load on the 166 here at work.
Like I always say, accessibility is the goal. Rob should want Slashdot to work on as many machines as possible. And no, it's not my job to convert my workplace's machine over to Linux.
Oh come on, that answer's too easy. It's not RAM, I've moderated on one of the two Windows boxes a few days ago.
I'm scanning the systems for viruses here son (gonna take lunch first, I think). The 24 megger on the LAN is going to reboot, not load anything, and try again.
I'm thinking the change in the code is doing something sloppy to IE specifically, since Opera does draw the box. Interestingly, the machine complained about memory there too.
Opera on the 16 meg machine will draw the dropdowns. But I left it open and tried to open AIM (hey, I got a friend I wanna talk to, ok?) and it complained of not enough memory again.
*begin quote* Recall that OS/2 was originally developed as an attempt by IBM to take the system proprietary again. They were facing severe profit pressures from all those clone makers that MS was selling DOS to. So they contracted MS to write OS/2 for IBM and IBM alone, hoping to leverage their still-dominant brand name to allow higher profits. It's hard to imagine now, but in the context of 1990, DOS and Windows were relatively "open" systems, at least in the sense that they could run on generic hardware. *end quote*
Interesting theory, but my Tandy OEM copy of OS/2 1.1 (1.0? don't remember) kinda blows it right out of the water. So does history. But hey...
Well, you're welcome to download it, but the initial reactions have been pretty negative. Apparently it's rather large, requiring around 20 megs of RAM to run, and the amount of data it has to transfer is also quite large. I don't run Linux, so I haven't had the chance to play with it.
SETI@home in the past rejected an offer of help from distributed.net - they were offering to make a core for SETI so that DNET supporters could participate. SETI was not interested for whatever reason, so somehow I kind of doubt that SETI will be interested in Cosm.
Besides, it seems to me SETI's more interested in riding the Paramount/Sun/etc money train so they can keep their funding. Kinda sad, really.
But it doesn't really tell you much at all. "It's just that how we aim to do that is different." Okay... how? Why is it that he has to leave? Is it because he's going to do it for commercial purposes? Yes, we understand that the goals are different now, but why?
Anything's better than the letters, which were written in the distributed.net "lengthy but tell you nothing" style. I like the guys, I crack a lot of blocks, but sometimes they frustrate the hell out of me...
Artists don't make money off tours. Most of them, anyway. Someone like Hole can, but most bands can't. I agree giving artists money is a good thing, but artists do make money off albums. Just not a lot, and then there's always the recoup.
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I believe the American's UN debt stands a billion dollars. For the booming US economy, that's chump change. Heck, Canada could come up with that money if we really had to (It would be about 1% of our budget, and yea, 1.5bln CDN is a big chunk but it's a one time payment!)
Would that it were, it is in fact 3-5 trillion if I remember correctly. Our yearly deficits may have been measured in billions. This year, we apparently hae a surplus that we NEED to squander instead of getting out of debt.
Now if Matador and Merge
:)
Matador has - http://www.matador.recs.com/mp3 is the address if I remember correctly. It's not big or anything, but they're throwing the "gimme free music now or else I'll pout" crowd a bone.
and if it weren't for Microsoft, we wouldn't NEED them. It's like how the fellow with Claris on a floppy said:
I don't think that guy had Clarisworks on a floppy... I think he had AppleWorks. As in, for the Apple II. One of the greatest programs ever written. Iit lacks functionality that I would want, but it's so simple and quick and dirty...
Like, if I wanted to catalog all my comic books or records or something, or keep a mailing list or something, it would be so good for that. Now, for making a resume, it'd look like crap by today's standards. Maybe I should go buy a dman Apple IIe and be done with it and get Appleworks and get organized. It seems like it'd be even easier than learning EZbase and the other stuff I downloaded.
>Stupid features for stupid people I guess.
Gosh, who buys all the software? Linux still doesn't have a majority market share by any stretch of the imagination. Not to mention when anyone proposes you guys pay for software, you act like it's a crime and break out Molotov cocktails...
I of course don't mean you in particular, but I still mean to make a point. Slashdot is not the real world.
For a better idea of whatr ASCAP is and how it came to be, there's a book I suggest you read: Rockonomics. (Or maybe Rocknomics?) It goes into a lot of the legalities of the music business in an enduser friendly way (and a lot of you guys seem to be endusers of music, especially asking why ASCAP can do this).
It's not the best book on the subject, and it's not great on its own, but it'll get you in that direction.
CowboyNeal must be why everything seems to be spelled correctly today. Let CowboyNeal do this more often...
>Where do most of the child molestors come from ?
Both in terms of raw numbers, and if I remember correctly, percentages - heterosexuals.
>I think RMS was Lenin in a past life.
And in the current one, an asshole? I've had friends who've had to deal with him over code recently...
Linux may be great kids, but Communism is tired. To say the least.
>Other than that, help me understand why everyone
>within a few hundred feet should have to listen
>to your car stereo, anyway.
Squarepusher. And that's the only reason. The rest of that stuff... yeesh.
Where is this announcement? All I see is one line mentioning that new works is being done continuously. Some announcement.
Moreover, five new DSP extensions were added, allowing the K7 to more efficiently decode multimedia files like MP3 audio files, or do software processing of communications algorithms like ADSL, Meyer said."
***
Um yeah, what special thing do you need to do for ADSL, unless you have some really bogus implementation? Most of them go with just a straight Ethernet connection, so the processor has nothing to do with it, save for interpreting the data that comes in over the NIC.
Maybe it's just because it's the weekend, but I didn't feel like kicking everyone's teeth in. Things I wanna say:
I think the article has valid points (at least what I've read so far) in that a lot of the music on MP3.com is substandard, the place is something like a dumping ground.
That's not to say it's all bad, I've run across a few bands that I knew locally who host some MP3s on mp3.com. Good examples are Euphorius and Centromatic, whose pages can be found by mp3.com/bandname, of course.
I found these pages by hearing about them either by the bands themselves or fans telling me about them. I've never actually casually browsed around on MP3.com looking for new music (I don't have the time, and I still buy plenty of CDs - Moby's newest is great).
I dunno, people who make art want to have people exposed to their art, but they also wouldn't mind making money off what they do. So DAM is good inthat you get a big chunk up front, but it's also bad because they do nothing for you, you have to do all the legwork and they aren't exactly trying to make you stand out from the other 10,999 bands.
In full disclosure, I run a record label, Sonic Therapy, at http://www.sonictherapy.com, with an MP3 page at http://www.sonictherapy.com/mp3 and other MP3s scattered around (One Piece took his down, but I've been nagging him to put them back up.) - I haven't seen much out of the MP3 bonanza so far. Perhaps because the released works are only featured as MP3 snippits. Then again, it could just be like what another Slashdot poster said last time, "Your music sucks."
Anyway, go download, and let us know if you like, I guess.
How is my posting off-topic? The subject is Slashdot and tweaks made to it, my post is about Slashdot and (IMO) tweaks that should be made to it.
Okay, started out by having IE on the 24 meg LAN machine draw up the article at top that had 22ish comments (TCO/NT/2000/yay Linux, etc).
It drew the pulldowns and I was able to open another session of IE fine. Now I'm trying yesterday's DSL article with 200+ comments...
Bingo, that's the problem. So it's not necessarily a problem with Slashdot as a whole, just heavy pages on Slashdot. I'm sure this won't prompt any sort of response (though tightening code is always a good thing and should always be done).
Yeehaw. Tech support is fun, you learn things like troubleshooting. Glad I narrowed it down. So, who knows, maybe it is memory, I'm sure it'll draw on the 350 at home without trying, but it won't load on the 166 here at work.
Like I always say, accessibility is the goal. Rob should want Slashdot to work on as many machines as possible. And no, it's not my job to convert my workplace's machine over to Linux.
Oh come on, that answer's too easy. It's not RAM, I've moderated on one of the two Windows boxes a few days ago.
I'm scanning the systems for viruses here son (gonna take lunch first, I think). The 24 megger on the LAN is going to reboot, not load anything, and try again.
I'm thinking the change in the code is doing something sloppy to IE specifically, since Opera does draw the box. Interestingly, the machine complained about memory there too.
Opera on the 16 meg machine will draw the dropdowns. But I left it open and tried to open AIM (hey, I got a friend I wanna talk to, ok?) and it complained of not enough memory again.
WTF?
Linux is buggy! Yay Microsoft!
Sorry, just had a moment of strangeness.
*begin quote*
Recall that OS/2 was originally developed as an attempt by IBM to take the system proprietary again. They were facing severe profit pressures from all those clone makers that MS was selling DOS to. So they contracted MS to write OS/2 for IBM and IBM alone, hoping to leverage their still-dominant brand name to allow higher profits. It's hard to imagine now, but in the context of 1990, DOS and Windows were relatively "open" systems, at least in the sense that they could run on generic hardware.
*end quote*
Interesting theory, but my Tandy OEM copy of OS/2 1.1 (1.0? don't remember) kinda blows it right out of the water. So does history. But hey...
Last I checked, godhatesfags.com was still active. But fuck.com isn't.
I don't check godhatesfags.com often for obvious reasons. No, I'm not making it up. Yes, it is real.
I wanted to email this privately, but you are a riddle wrapped within an enigma wrapped within some mighty tasty bacon, grrrreg.
Marry me.
Well, you're welcome to download it, but the initial reactions have been pretty negative. Apparently it's rather large, requiring around 20 megs of RAM to run, and the amount of data it has to transfer is also quite large. I don't run Linux, so I haven't had the chance to play with it.
SETI@home in the past rejected an offer of help from distributed.net - they were offering to make a core for SETI so that DNET supporters could participate. SETI was not interested for whatever reason, so somehow I kind of doubt that SETI will be interested in Cosm.
Besides, it seems to me SETI's more interested in riding the Paramount/Sun/etc money train so they can keep their funding. Kinda sad, really.
But it doesn't really tell you much at all. "It's just that how we aim to do that is different." Okay... how? Why is it that he has to leave? Is it because he's going to do it for commercial purposes? Yes, we understand that the goals are different now, but why?
Anything's better than the letters, which were written in the distributed.net "lengthy but tell you nothing" style. I like the guys, I crack a lot of blocks, but sometimes they frustrate the hell out of me...
Artists don't make money off tours. Most of them, anyway. Someone like Hole can, but most bands can't. I agree giving artists money is a good thing, but artists do make money off albums. Just not a lot, and then there's always the recoup.
One answer is better labels.
Um, if it works, then it's up. If it's up, then it works. You're a perfect example of what sysadmins have to deal with.