Yes, I know, but remember I'm speaking to an American. It's important not to give them too much information at once or they tend to stop listening. We can get onto such advanced matters once the basics have been digested.
Even more important: wash your goddamned hands. Scrub your hands properly numerous times a day, using a nailbrush, and you will significantly improve your chances of avoiding picking up anything. Don't touch your face if you can avoid it. Yes, this is an airborne strain we're talking about, but even airborne viruses are usually transmitted by touch.
Strictly speaking, it's not an over-reaction per se - it's just that when the immune system does adapt to the virus, it kills the entire viral load very quickly, leading to blood poisoning.
It's good old-fashioned supply and demand economics. Expect to see more and more flexible and interesting deals going on, and, yes, an overall increase in prices to pay for the infrastructure costs. But what's the alternative? Do we really just hold up a stop sign to a ubiquitous network just because we don't want to pay a fair price for it?
Hello, hello, this is your friendly neighbourhood grammar Nazi! Achtung, etc. The word is digitize, or digitise if you are an evil Brit like myself. Thank you so much:)
The irritating thing is, they could have done it. How hard would it have been, the day after XP was released to say, "Right! This will be the last backwards compatible release of Windows! The new APIs will be on our website shortly, we will support this release for an extra three years, so get ready." If they had done that, we wouldn't be in this mess now. Now we're stuck, realistically speaking with widespread XP for four or five years, and probably another fifteen to twenty of it turning up in inexplicably crucial places, all because Microsoft were too busy throwing chairs at each other and enjoying burning their cash.
Yeah - to be honest I'm often baffled at people who say installation is much easier than it used to be. My first install was SuSE 7.0, I think, and I installed it because I was broke and couldn't afford Windows at retail. It was extremely easy; I didn't change a single option, the monitor more or less sorted itself out (all I had to do was hit the magical "auto" button on the monitor to perfect it), and sound worked just fine. Dial-up configured itself, and I was on the net minutes after first booting up. I didn't install a new distro from scratch for some years, though I installed KDE 3.0 from source, rolled my own kernel, and generally upgraded bits and pieces along the way. I even got a broadband USB modem working with very little effort. Frankly, Ubuntu is more work than that install was.
That's true that a trademark can be used in those circumstances. The interpretation, however, is down to a court, and one can easily see this sort of example being used in future, more egregious violations. And lastly, the guys behind it do seem to be acting like asshats at every juncture. I don't have much sympathy for them.
I don't think that's fair. A trademark, as we should all know, must be defended where it's use could be considered infringing. Use of the trademark to identify the service in question is perfectly acceptable, as in wikipediasucks.com. However, the cited domain, wikipediaart.org could quite easily be taken to be affiliated to Wikipedia, particularly since the site is running a Mediawiki install. I can't say I blame them for going after this, though I hope they don't overkill it.
Lordy. This is some pretty fundamental biochemistry - frankly, it's the sort of thing I would really expect most/.ers to have heard of at some point in their life. Even if you hadn't, it should be fairly obvious with a few moment's thought that certain molecules are going to exist in various transformed versions of themselves, and that selective pressures would inevitably lead to the dominance of one particular type.
However, I'm surprised to learn we collect enough light from a planet to be able to authoritatively assess chirality.
I am sure there are a few people out there who believe that the pirates are simply in need of some milk and flowers and that they only do what they do because their mothers don't love them, or something. I suspect, though, that the reason many people are reticent to advocate force is that they think (rightly or wrongly) that it won't work. Personally, I have my doubts - I think the economic incentive means that an arms race is inevitably futile, and that a better approach is to simply ensure that the pirates never, ever get rewarded for piracy.
I wish it were so simple. The sheer quantity of shipping in that part of the world makes their collective defence extremely difficult - do you realise how much money outfitting every single merchant vessel with the kind of hardware you are talking about would be?. In addition, the pirates can and do match whatever levels of defensive force the ships can provide. These are people that routinely think they can go toe-to-toe with naval vessels - an untrained sailor with a light machine gun is going to be of little use. Bear in mind that nine times out of ten, the first the ship's crew knows of the pirates is their smiley, happy faces clambering over the rail.
All that said, I do agree with you in general. The kind of measures TFA talks about are band-aids - what is needed (easier said than done, perhaps) is to stop the profitability of the pirating business. The first and most important thing that has to happen is companies *must* stop paying ransoms for their ships and crews. If necessary, sink the damned ships. But the flow of money has to be stopped and stopped for good. A more co-ordinated and effective naval mission would be an ideal adjunct in the mean time, but again the size and number of vessels to be protected make effective policing a hard problem. The most effective solution is stopping the money.
Hmm. I wouldn't bother with experimenting with alternative desktop environments - what you gain with XFCE you lose as soon as you fire up a GTK+ app anyway. Are you sure your laptop has a 512MB max limit? Specs do lie. You could try looking into a RAM-backed hybrid hard disk - I've never used one but I can't imagine it would slow you down! Alternatively, find a six year old laptop with a comparable screen and pimp it out with as much memory as you like. On the other hand, $500 buys you a pretty decent laptop in a 15.4" form factor these days. Mind you, I'm still going strong on my Athlon XP 1200 from 2002 which with a decent graphics card and plenty memory runs just fine with 8.10.
Well, just compare the number of countries invaded due to plane-crashing and due to cable-cutting in recent years, and you will probably see why the terrorists prefer the former. Really, terrorists are just trolls on the grand scale (kinda 4chan without the cats) and we should treat them just like we do on/. - mod them out of sight.
Indeed. Next question: I wouldn't touch BT with a bargepole for internet access, but unfortunately most ADSL companies require that you have a BT phone line to get their service. How do I stop giving them all my money altogether?
This is the only case I know of off the top of my head, but it's a fairly well known one. Though reading that, I had never realised that it ended up becoming a federal matter.
And I suppose the National Guard escoring black kids to high school was petty interference too? I don't wish to equate the situations but the idea that government should take no role in policy at all is atrocious. Americans of all people should know just how nasty, cruel, and mean-spirited a small community can be.
I was really making a point about indie artists and production. Of course, if you are Amy Winehouse then it's reasonable to book out a studio for a fortnight, fly in all the musicians you want and hire a cute engineer. For the rest of us, if you can't beg, borrow, or steal a cellist, then get your dreams in line with your means. And if you are marketing yourself from the grassroots up, studio time isn't exactly the biggest factor behind your success.
The longer I spend listening to music and spending time with other people, the more I come to the conclusion that we (as a species) will only ever want, as a rule, to hear a limited subset of all available music. Regardless of the marketing and distribution opportunities out there for new music, I can't ever see the major labels going away, because they are very, very good at being the major labels. People want their music to be a shared experience and whatever else it might be, you get that from "Sweet Home Alabama", but not from the latest indier-than-thou release.
It can do, but you can also produce stunning music with some $50 microphones, a soundcard, and Ardour. If you need weeks in the studio to produce something of acceptable quality, maybe you need to take a step back and think whether you're doing things in the right way.
I suspect the answer is simply that as soon as any band gets some buzz behind it on a local or regional level, they get swept up by the machine and become part of the musical-industrial complex. I don't think it's that the zero-cost distribution model doesn't work for marketing purposes.
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Yes, I know, but remember I'm speaking to an American. It's important not to give them too much information at once or they tend to stop listening. We can get onto such advanced matters once the basics have been digested.
Even more important: wash your goddamned hands. Scrub your hands properly numerous times a day, using a nailbrush, and you will significantly improve your chances of avoiding picking up anything. Don't touch your face if you can avoid it. Yes, this is an airborne strain we're talking about, but even airborne viruses are usually transmitted by touch.
Strictly speaking, it's not an over-reaction per se - it's just that when the immune system does adapt to the virus, it kills the entire viral load very quickly, leading to blood poisoning.
It's good old-fashioned supply and demand economics. Expect to see more and more flexible and interesting deals going on, and, yes, an overall increase in prices to pay for the infrastructure costs. But what's the alternative? Do we really just hold up a stop sign to a ubiquitous network just because we don't want to pay a fair price for it?
Hello, hello, this is your friendly neighbourhood grammar Nazi! Achtung, etc. The word is digitize, or digitise if you are an evil Brit like myself. Thank you so much :)
The irritating thing is, they could have done it. How hard would it have been, the day after XP was released to say, "Right! This will be the last backwards compatible release of Windows! The new APIs will be on our website shortly, we will support this release for an extra three years, so get ready." If they had done that, we wouldn't be in this mess now. Now we're stuck, realistically speaking with widespread XP for four or five years, and probably another fifteen to twenty of it turning up in inexplicably crucial places, all because Microsoft were too busy throwing chairs at each other and enjoying burning their cash.
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H:\>ping 138.253.85.33
Pinging 138.253.85.33 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 138.253.85.33:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
H:\>
Yeah - to be honest I'm often baffled at people who say installation is much easier than it used to be. My first install was SuSE 7.0, I think, and I installed it because I was broke and couldn't afford Windows at retail. It was extremely easy; I didn't change a single option, the monitor more or less sorted itself out (all I had to do was hit the magical "auto" button on the monitor to perfect it), and sound worked just fine. Dial-up configured itself, and I was on the net minutes after first booting up. I didn't install a new distro from scratch for some years, though I installed KDE 3.0 from source, rolled my own kernel, and generally upgraded bits and pieces along the way. I even got a broadband USB modem working with very little effort. Frankly, Ubuntu is more work than that install was.
Unusual. In this thread, /.ers compete with each other to try and be the earliest to use Linux. Where's Linus when you need him?
That's true that a trademark can be used in those circumstances. The interpretation, however, is down to a court, and one can easily see this sort of example being used in future, more egregious violations. And lastly, the guys behind it do seem to be acting like asshats at every juncture. I don't have much sympathy for them.
I don't think that's fair. A trademark, as we should all know, must be defended where it's use could be considered infringing. Use of the trademark to identify the service in question is perfectly acceptable, as in wikipediasucks.com. However, the cited domain, wikipediaart.org could quite easily be taken to be affiliated to Wikipedia, particularly since the site is running a Mediawiki install. I can't say I blame them for going after this, though I hope they don't overkill it.
However, I'm surprised to learn we collect enough light from a planet to be able to authoritatively assess chirality.
I am sure there are a few people out there who believe that the pirates are simply in need of some milk and flowers and that they only do what they do because their mothers don't love them, or something. I suspect, though, that the reason many people are reticent to advocate force is that they think (rightly or wrongly) that it won't work. Personally, I have my doubts - I think the economic incentive means that an arms race is inevitably futile, and that a better approach is to simply ensure that the pirates never, ever get rewarded for piracy.
All that said, I do agree with you in general. The kind of measures TFA talks about are band-aids - what is needed (easier said than done, perhaps) is to stop the profitability of the pirating business. The first and most important thing that has to happen is companies *must* stop paying ransoms for their ships and crews. If necessary, sink the damned ships. But the flow of money has to be stopped and stopped for good. A more co-ordinated and effective naval mission would be an ideal adjunct in the mean time, but again the size and number of vessels to be protected make effective policing a hard problem. The most effective solution is stopping the money.
Hmm. I wouldn't bother with experimenting with alternative desktop environments - what you gain with XFCE you lose as soon as you fire up a GTK+ app anyway. Are you sure your laptop has a 512MB max limit? Specs do lie. You could try looking into a RAM-backed hybrid hard disk - I've never used one but I can't imagine it would slow you down! Alternatively, find a six year old laptop with a comparable screen and pimp it out with as much memory as you like. On the other hand, $500 buys you a pretty decent laptop in a 15.4" form factor these days. Mind you, I'm still going strong on my Athlon XP 1200 from 2002 which with a decent graphics card and plenty memory runs just fine with 8.10.
Well, just compare the number of countries invaded due to plane-crashing and due to cable-cutting in recent years, and you will probably see why the terrorists prefer the former. Really, terrorists are just trolls on the grand scale (kinda 4chan without the cats) and we should treat them just like we do on /. - mod them out of sight.
You obviously haven't found the bit where he talks about chanelling Pan in bed, then. *That* put me off my food for a number of days.
Indeed. Next question: I wouldn't touch BT with a bargepole for internet access, but unfortunately most ADSL companies require that you have a BT phone line to get their service. How do I stop giving them all my money altogether?
This is the only case I know of off the top of my head, but it's a fairly well known one. Though reading that, I had never realised that it ended up becoming a federal matter.
And I suppose the National Guard escoring black kids to high school was petty interference too? I don't wish to equate the situations but the idea that government should take no role in policy at all is atrocious. Americans of all people should know just how nasty, cruel, and mean-spirited a small community can be.
I was really making a point about indie artists and production. Of course, if you are Amy Winehouse then it's reasonable to book out a studio for a fortnight, fly in all the musicians you want and hire a cute engineer. For the rest of us, if you can't beg, borrow, or steal a cellist, then get your dreams in line with your means. And if you are marketing yourself from the grassroots up, studio time isn't exactly the biggest factor behind your success.
IAAL, and my wallet is extremely interested in your proposals and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
The longer I spend listening to music and spending time with other people, the more I come to the conclusion that we (as a species) will only ever want, as a rule, to hear a limited subset of all available music. Regardless of the marketing and distribution opportunities out there for new music, I can't ever see the major labels going away, because they are very, very good at being the major labels. People want their music to be a shared experience and whatever else it might be, you get that from "Sweet Home Alabama", but not from the latest indier-than-thou release.
It can do, but you can also produce stunning music with some $50 microphones, a soundcard, and Ardour. If you need weeks in the studio to produce something of acceptable quality, maybe you need to take a step back and think whether you're doing things in the right way.
I suspect the answer is simply that as soon as any band gets some buzz behind it on a local or regional level, they get swept up by the machine and become part of the musical-industrial complex. I don't think it's that the zero-cost distribution model doesn't work for marketing purposes.