I agree with this essay pretty much. I personally download mp3s to hear new artists that I haven't heard before. If i like them, I download a few more mp3s. If i still really like the artist, I don't download any more mp3s, and buy the CD instead. I make a point of *not* downloading the mp3s, so as not to ruin the CD when I purchase it (there's much less fun in purchasing a CD that you've already heard in its entirety). However, since I can't buy every CD I like, I do download entire CDs in mp3 formats from artists who are good, but not so good that I'd want the CD.
As for why I want the actual CD, there are several reasons. One is that portable mp3s players pretty much suck and are limited in capacity, while portable CD players work quite nicely. Another is the nifty booklet that comes with the CDs, often with artwork, lyrics, commentary/interviews, or other stuff that is interesting. Then there's the "show my friends what type of music I listen to" factor. I carry around my CDs in a portable CD carrying case (minus the jewel boxes), and that's what I show people when they ask what I listen to. I don't carry around a printout of my mp3s.
As for why I don't download music onto CD-Rs, you don't get the booklet with the CD-Rs, and CD-Rs suck in quality compared to real CDs (especially in portable CD players - they skip a lot more).
Perhaps this is a matter of personal taste in music, but I'm the complete opposite. There are very few songs that I'd really want to listen to more than 10-15 times each. However, there are quite a few albums that have many good songs on them, and I wouldn't mind listening to the whole album 25+ times. Plus, many albums have a coherent theme or progression throughout the album that you miss by just downloading one song. For example, "The Downward Spiral" by Nine Inch Nails has some individually good songs, but you miss nearly half the purpose of the album if you just listen to a few songs individually, rather than in order as part of the downward spiral.
I was thinking along the lines of replacing the whole bloated mess, not incremental revisions to it. Something like the Berlin project looks promising, but nowhere near completion...
The problem is that in the zeal to post a story, the poster failed to notice that this computer does not run Linux. It runs some "Linux and BeOS hybrid," whatever that is supposed to mean.
So are any replacements for X close to completion? Even in 1984 the author knew that X was not the ultimate windowing system as was only a start. So why are we still using it today? IMO, it should've been replaced 5-10 years ago, rather than patching more bugs and strange behavior into it.
Fine, ban the porn. But do not do it by installing filtering software. What if my kid wants to read alt.atheism in the library or visit an atheist website? These are banned by most filters, while Christian websites are not.
Why should a right-wing Christian agenda be forced upon everyone's children?
Well, if you don't block slashdot, then if I post a list of porno sites and some dirty jokes in the comments section, kids will be able to see it. Isn't that a failure on the part of your software?
Nope, that's wrong. The local communities can show discretion on their own without any help from the Feds. The whole point in laws like this is to force the local communities to adopt whatever standards Washington considers appropriate. Look at the legal min drinking age. The Feds cannot legislate it, but they shoved it down the throat of every state (do you really want federal highway funds? Here is how...)
Exactly. Louisiana had a drinking age of 18 until several years ago, when they were threatened with the complete loss of funding if they refused to raise the drinking age to 21. Needless to say, Louisianans were not happy about this.
I discussed some of this with the guy that works at a local computer store, and he got the motherboard to run by connecting a battery (via wires) to the outside of the Real Time Clock. The problem is that you can't cut away the plastic case to get to the battery, because you'd be cutting away the RTC, since the battery is inside the RTC. As for leaving it permanently connected to the outside of the RTC, he said that it would be possible for the battery to explode.
Well, if you're running ethernet, the more nodes you have, the more collisions you have. Eventually the network slows to a crawl. If you're using token ring...well nobody does anymore =)
Actually, the Linpack benchmark pretty much sucks. If you read the webpages of the Top 500 people, they mention that they only use it because it's the only benchmark that will run on such a variety of hardware and software.
The Mac is not the same thing. The Apple I and Apple II were computers almost completely designed by Steve Wozniak, and are both quite excellent. My 1984 Apple//c still works perfectly (and fits inside a briefcase if you buy the optional LCD version of the monitor). Apple started to go downhill when they started all sorts of stupid projects such as the Mac, the Lisa, and the Apple///. The Apple IIgs, by the time it came out, was almost ignored by Apple's marketing department, despite being an overall excellent computer (and being compatible with the huge libraries of Apple II software people and schools had amassed). Apple without Steve Wozniak is not the same.
Are you sure you want to use "X," "fast," and "standard" all in the same sentence? You might as well go ahead and say "Windows never crashes" as say "X is fast."
First of all, that's the Declaration of Independence you're (mis)quoting. Learn some history.
Secondly, Free Quality Television Programming is not a constitutionally guaranteed right. Nobody is claiming that it is. Either are national parks, interstate highways, or schools, but nobody is suggesting abolishing those. It's merely a good idea that receives less than $10/year of your money.
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I agree with this essay pretty much. I personally download mp3s to hear new artists that I haven't heard before. If i like them, I download a few more mp3s. If i still really like the artist, I don't download any more mp3s, and buy the CD instead. I make a point of *not* downloading the mp3s, so as not to ruin the CD when I purchase it (there's much less fun in purchasing a CD that you've already heard in its entirety). However, since I can't buy every CD I like, I do download entire CDs in mp3 formats from artists who are good, but not so good that I'd want the CD.
As for why I want the actual CD, there are several reasons. One is that portable mp3s players pretty much suck and are limited in capacity, while portable CD players work quite nicely. Another is the nifty booklet that comes with the CDs, often with artwork, lyrics, commentary/interviews, or other stuff that is interesting. Then there's the "show my friends what type of music I listen to" factor. I carry around my CDs in a portable CD carrying case (minus the jewel boxes), and that's what I show people when they ask what I listen to. I don't carry around a printout of my mp3s.
As for why I don't download music onto CD-Rs, you don't get the booklet with the CD-Rs, and CD-Rs suck in quality compared to real CDs (especially in portable CD players - they skip a lot more).
Perhaps this is a matter of personal taste in music, but I'm the complete opposite. There are very few songs that I'd really want to listen to more than 10-15 times each. However, there are quite a few albums that have many good songs on them, and I wouldn't mind listening to the whole album 25+ times. Plus, many albums have a coherent theme or progression throughout the album that you miss by just downloading one song. For example, "The Downward Spiral" by Nine Inch Nails has some individually good songs, but you miss nearly half the purpose of the album if you just listen to a few songs individually, rather than in order as part of the downward spiral.
I was thinking along the lines of replacing the whole bloated mess, not incremental revisions to it. Something like the Berlin project looks promising, but nowhere near completion...
Note that this computer doesn't run Linux (regardless of the misleading /. title). It runs a "hybrid operating system."
The problem is that in the zeal to post a story, the poster failed to notice that this computer does not run Linux. It runs some "Linux and BeOS hybrid," whatever that is supposed to mean.
He said new games, not Linux ports of old games.
So are any replacements for X close to completion? Even in 1984 the author knew that X was not the ultimate windowing system as was only a start. So why are we still using it today? IMO, it should've been replaced 5-10 years ago, rather than patching more bugs and strange behavior into it.
It would also have to crash at least once a week.
Yay, The Glorious MEEPT!! is back! *cheers*
/. would give him his account back. *grumble*grumble*
Now if only
Fine, ban the porn. But do not do it by installing filtering software. What if my kid wants to read alt.atheism in the library or visit an atheist website? These are banned by most filters, while Christian websites are not.
Why should a right-wing Christian agenda be forced upon everyone's children?
Well, if you don't block slashdot, then if I post a list of porno sites and some dirty jokes in the comments section, kids will be able to see it. Isn't that a failure on the part of your software?
Nope, that's wrong. The local communities can show discretion on their own without any help from the Feds. The whole point in laws like this is to force the local communities to adopt whatever standards Washington considers appropriate. Look at the legal min drinking age. The Feds cannot legislate it, but they shoved it down the throat of every state (do you really want federal highway funds? Here is how...)
Exactly. Louisiana had a drinking age of 18 until several years ago, when they were threatened with the complete loss of funding if they refused to raise the drinking age to 21. Needless to say, Louisianans were not happy about this.
I discussed some of this with the guy that works at a local computer store, and he got the motherboard to run by connecting a battery (via wires) to the outside of the Real Time Clock. The problem is that you can't cut away the plastic case to get to the battery, because you'd be cutting away the RTC, since the battery is inside the RTC. As for leaving it permanently connected to the outside of the RTC, he said that it would be possible for the battery to explode.
H.R.515: A bill to prevent children from injuring themselves with handguns. (Great title, totally misleading)
Haha. Maybe they'll start jailing kids who injure themselves with handguns.
Yay, MEEPT!! is back!
/. account, relegating him to Anonymous Coward status?
...and there was much rejoicing.
BTW, what evil being took away the Glorious MEEPT!!'s
Well, if you're running ethernet, the more nodes you have, the more collisions you have. Eventually the network slows to a crawl. If you're using token ring...well nobody does anymore =)
Actually, the Linpack benchmark pretty much sucks. If you read the webpages of the Top 500 people, they mention that they only use it because it's the only benchmark that will run on such a variety of hardware and software.
Wasn't ICANN set up as a successor to IANA after Jon Postel died?
Bah, I'd feel a lot better having Jon in charge of this mess than whoever's currently handling it =\
haha, yeah right. I bet you couldn't even fit Linux into an Apple //c's 128kB of RAM, let alone the Apple I's tiny amount.
The Mac is not the same thing. The Apple I and Apple II were computers almost completely designed by Steve Wozniak, and are both quite excellent. My 1984 Apple //c still works perfectly (and fits inside a briefcase if you buy the optional LCD version of the monitor). Apple started to go downhill when they started all sorts of stupid projects such as the Mac, the Lisa, and the Apple ///. The Apple IIgs, by the time it came out, was almost ignored by Apple's marketing department, despite being an overall excellent computer (and being compatible with the huge libraries of Apple II software people and schools had amassed). Apple without Steve Wozniak is not the same.
Are you sure you want to use "X," "fast," and "standard" all in the same sentence? You might as well go ahead and say "Windows never crashes" as say "X is fast."
You can read a long rant about it here. Segfault is supposed to be a humor/parody site, but somehow this crap ended up there. I have no idea why.
Note the subject says "Examples today."
Digital enhanced intelicast (teletext) stuff is old shit)
And we still don't get teletext here in the U.S. Bah.
First of all, that's the Declaration of Independence you're (mis)quoting. Learn some history.
Secondly, Free Quality Television Programming is not a constitutionally guaranteed right. Nobody is claiming that it is. Either are national parks, interstate highways, or schools, but nobody is suggesting abolishing those. It's merely a good idea that receives less than $10/year of your money.