If you release a piece of music 40/50 mins long, only about 10% are going to make it 100% through. The best thing to do is have the tracks about 5 mins max, then you're keeping the audience interested.
Tell you what, listen to No Computer by Radiohead, just one track like Exit Music (For a Film). It's boring. Listen to the album, stopping when you need. It's a much better track as a result. Try it!
If it works, and the artists use the label, then good luck to them. Personally, I'll buy music if I like it, and the only place I can hear it (and therefore form an opinion on whether I like it or not) is on the radio. A try before you buy is good, but without a radio station, it's useless. Thankfully, they've realised this, and it should be a great success! Maybe we'll see some non-evil bands (like Radiohead) join the label as well! Who knows! Anything can happen in the next half hour!
You Americans, with your ignorance of international standards! 1kb is 1000 bits. 1kB is 1000 bytes. Kilo meaning 1000. You mean Kibibytes. A kibibyte is 1024. Hence KiB. That's why they say KiB, MiB, GiB when they mean YOUR definition of kilobyte. There is even an ISO standard on it!
We've had Windows running on ATM's for a LONG time in the UK. And they certainly do not do "error message, shut down". The amount of times I have been into Victoria Centre, Nottingham and seen ATM's with error dialogues is horrendous! Not only that, but although they do cover 75% of the screen, you can still put a card in! Why do we NEED colour screens and Windows anyway? Ever heard of the phrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?"
If only this would come out sooner... IMagine being able to turn on your computer and not having to wait to see it load!!! Not even come out of hibernation! Amazing! Bring to the UK now!
Ah. Still, might have been nice to have a little banner. Doesn't give Europeans a very nice view of America now does it? What's that, Channel 4 reports that in a huge poll in Britain, the USA is perceived as the greatest threat to peace, bigger than North Korea? No... Surely not, that would make America... Self-centered? Nah, just really unsympathetic to other nations.
Put simply, Mac users are going to naturally prefer Gnome due to its styling, and Windows users are going to prefer KDE due to it's Redmond styling. New users are going to be at a loose end, but in this day and age, that doesn't really matter, especially when I outline my point - it doesn't matter if we have 5 different desktop environments/window managers. Why not have an interface that shows a "preview" of the WM's, just a screenshot, and a few bulletpoints outlining the pro's and con's of each interface. You can do it in KDE with the styles, why not with WM's themselves? Then when you first login, not only due you input information about name, location etc, but you quickly browse through which WM you want, and are reminded that you can change at any point by double clicking something like "Change WM" on the desktop. Does that sound ridiculous or sensible? I go for the latter.
UK urban speeds in consumer districts (ie/ not on most roads, but on high streets and the like) should have a new limit of 20 imposed. Meanwhile, we should have a new 80 limit put on the motorways, as so many people break the limit, and the only people who have accidents due to their speed, are the people who don't observe "the two second rule" and those doing speeds approaching 100 (and indeed, exceeding). A limit is just that, a limit, not a recommendation.
However, policing with computers monitoring all the time is not a good idea - having road tax monitors in locations would be nice, as well as only having speed cameras in accident "blackspots" rather than places that will generate the most money. Put simply, the UK should look at statistics for certain roads, see how many injuries/deaths are occuring, and why, and take action, rather than just placing things to prevent illegal driving. What's better, to stop 10 cars for speeding at 45 in a 40 zone (ala the Ring Road in Nottingham) or to stop one person from getting killed on the local high street? I'd plump for the second.
I don't think you should say "present a non-piracy method to the public". For a start, mentioning piracy gets corporate types jumpy. And BitTorrent will not be a great solution - because they don't want to give their programmes away "free". They mean "free to BBC Viewers", and by this they mean licence fee payers. You'll probably have to type in your licence number of something. I can't see them giving it away to America. Not at first at least. They need a secure broadcast method - so something like a user/pass system for BitTorrent would come in handy I think.
Not only that, but I'd like to think that only older material was released first (things like Sky At Night) rather than the things that they can sell on DVD's. After all, if I can get it for free, why should I buy the DVD set? The BBC is only where it is today through its merchandising programme and the clever licence fee. I can honestly say that I would be disappointed if BBC things such as "Red Dwarf" are released. Sure, we all like it, but imagine the loss of income! The BBC would become shoddy overnight!
Ideally, they could use MP3's, but I suspect that you're probably talking more along the lines of Ogg, which, let's be honest, doesn't even appear on the radar for these guys (nor most of their audience).
I'm sorry, which planet are you from? The BBC used to stream OGG alongside their RealMedia streams for their radio shows! They had to take it down because of licensing issues, which have now been fixed. So, when they get some spare hardware again, I'm guessing the streams will go back up!
Debian is not only better than Redhat Linux due to its free status, massive use in industry and damned good utility - apt-get, but it's also got the benefit of being 10 years old today. And that's the only way uI could fit that in;)
Americans often get "scared" by things like this, as they're unconstitutional and whatever, but is it really worth getting worried about? Check your email with telnet next time you are expecting mail. You notice there will be a recipient address, a postors address, and all the servers is has passed through... Sound familiar?
And yes, British post is registered to the point that you can track a piece of mail as it gets lost (sorry... gets delivered). Well, business/franked mail anyway. Obviously most mail can't be traced to the source, just the first Post Office it passes through...
Just want to say - well done! Been on the list since I found the v0903 driver and before Ivor released his first driver. Well done - it works beautifully. Just shows the Linux community is a community after all. Thanks a lot!
make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
Why??? I never understood this method. My favourite line is (in Debian):
make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install install
I never understood the need for (&& make). Why not just put it all in one statement? And why does no-one do make install? copying the bzImage and altering LILO etc, stupid! make install does it for you, and is sooooo much better! HAve you seriously not done that?
This quote may sound quite arrogant and that Linux isn't suited to the business world - but think about it for a minute - what he said was "We're going to do it our way, making sure it all works, rather than release it before testing properly". I'm glad someone has the sense to do this. How long was it before Microsoft Apps get patched? Something like hours after release? I'd prefer something stable (or as stable as possible) on release, and I thank Linus (and Alan, and Dave) for taking their time. I'm pretty sure we all can't wait until these new features come out - but I'd rather wait for them to become stable instead of risk my precious collection of... well... you catch my drift. =)
I don't even see "grep" for winshit, much less the pipes required to make it useful. I don't see a decent commandline, or any semblence thereof.
YOU WHAT? Ok, there's no grep, which I admit is a hindrance, but I bet there's a third party tool, if not a "feature" of windows that can do it, but probably not in the way UNIX/Linux does it, but there's a reason for that - it's NOT UNIX/Linux.
And it sooooo can pipe. You can write to a file with >>, overwrite it with >, pipe the contents of the output to something with |... At least with cmd you can... Sure command.com isn't great, but cmd is! It even has history functions. command.com was a DOS Lite (tm) but cmd is just like a shell - in fact if I didn't have bash, I'd want cmd. (I've only every tried bash, sh, and zsh so I'm not speaking form experience!)
Oh, and Linux is Linux, not GNU/Linux Mr. Stallman! (Just had to get that in!)
[raging fury] You yanks are sooooo annoying! With your GSM 1900... Why can't you be on 900 and 1800 Mhz like the rest of the world???? 900MHz is what most GSM providers use... It's not a good idea I tell you, not a good idea! When we invade, we're gonna thrust all this technology upon you and force you to all play REAL football!
And what's wrong with ISDN? With ISDN you can keep bundling lines as and when they are needed - and you can single handedly resurrect the failing economy!
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I really suck at this memory lark... It's No Alarms and No Suprises... Got the wrong bit of the line. [tuts]
Yeah, it's OK Computer. I was confusing it with No Alarms ;) Which is a great track ON OK Computer! Thx.
If you release a piece of music 40/50 mins long, only about 10% are going to make it 100% through. The best thing to do is have the tracks about 5 mins max, then you're keeping the audience interested.
Tell you what, listen to No Computer by Radiohead, just one track like Exit Music (For a Film). It's boring. Listen to the album, stopping when you need. It's a much better track as a result. Try it!
If it works, and the artists use the label, then good luck to them. Personally, I'll buy music if I like it, and the only place I can hear it (and therefore form an opinion on whether I like it or not) is on the radio. A try before you buy is good, but without a radio station, it's useless. Thankfully, they've realised this, and it should be a great success! Maybe we'll see some non-evil bands (like Radiohead) join the label as well! Who knows! Anything can happen in the next half hour!
beats me, but I still see loads of people do it, trying to beat the 10 people long queue...
You Americans, with your ignorance of international standards! 1kb is 1000 bits. 1kB is 1000 bytes. Kilo meaning 1000. You mean Kibibytes. A kibibyte is 1024. Hence KiB. That's why they say KiB, MiB, GiB when they mean YOUR definition of kilobyte. There is even an ISO standard on it!
We've had Windows running on ATM's for a LONG time in the UK. And they certainly do not do "error message, shut down". The amount of times I have been into Victoria Centre, Nottingham and seen ATM's with error dialogues is horrendous! Not only that, but although they do cover 75% of the screen, you can still put a card in! Why do we NEED colour screens and Windows anyway? Ever heard of the phrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?"
If only this would come out sooner... IMagine being able to turn on your computer and not having to wait to see it load!!! Not even come out of hibernation! Amazing! Bring to the UK now!
Slashdot doesn't give a toss.
Ah. Still, might have been nice to have a little banner. Doesn't give Europeans a very nice view of America now does it? What's that, Channel 4 reports that in a huge poll in Britain, the USA is perceived as the greatest threat to peace, bigger than North Korea? No... Surely not, that would make America... Self-centered? Nah, just really unsympathetic to other nations.
Honestly, grow up...
Slashdot is not, however, even though some have requested it be taken down for the day...
Put simply, Mac users are going to naturally prefer Gnome due to its styling, and Windows users are going to prefer KDE due to it's Redmond styling. New users are going to be at a loose end, but in this day and age, that doesn't really matter, especially when I outline my point - it doesn't matter if we have 5 different desktop environments/window managers. Why not have an interface that shows a "preview" of the WM's, just a screenshot, and a few bulletpoints outlining the pro's and con's of each interface. You can do it in KDE with the styles, why not with WM's themselves? Then when you first login, not only due you input information about name, location etc, but you quickly browse through which WM you want, and are reminded that you can change at any point by double clicking something like "Change WM" on the desktop. Does that sound ridiculous or sensible? I go for the latter.
UK urban speeds in consumer districts (ie/ not on most roads, but on high streets and the like) should have a new limit of 20 imposed. Meanwhile, we should have a new 80 limit put on the motorways, as so many people break the limit, and the only people who have accidents due to their speed, are the people who don't observe "the two second rule" and those doing speeds approaching 100 (and indeed, exceeding). A limit is just that, a limit, not a recommendation.
However, policing with computers monitoring all the time is not a good idea - having road tax monitors in locations would be nice, as well as only having speed cameras in accident "blackspots" rather than places that will generate the most money. Put simply, the UK should look at statistics for certain roads, see how many injuries/deaths are occuring, and why, and take action, rather than just placing things to prevent illegal driving. What's better, to stop 10 cars for speeding at 45 in a 40 zone (ala the Ring Road in Nottingham) or to stop one person from getting killed on the local high street? I'd plump for the second.
I don't think you should say "present a non-piracy method to the public". For a start, mentioning piracy gets corporate types jumpy. And BitTorrent will not be a great solution - because they don't want to give their programmes away "free". They mean "free to BBC Viewers", and by this they mean licence fee payers. You'll probably have to type in your licence number of something. I can't see them giving it away to America. Not at first at least. They need a secure broadcast method - so something like a user/pass system for BitTorrent would come in handy I think. Not only that, but I'd like to think that only older material was released first (things like Sky At Night) rather than the things that they can sell on DVD's. After all, if I can get it for free, why should I buy the DVD set? The BBC is only where it is today through its merchandising programme and the clever licence fee. I can honestly say that I would be disappointed if BBC things such as "Red Dwarf" are released. Sure, we all like it, but imagine the loss of income! The BBC would become shoddy overnight!
Ideally, they could use MP3's, but I suspect that you're probably talking more along the lines of Ogg, which, let's be honest, doesn't even appear on the radar for these guys (nor most of their audience). I'm sorry, which planet are you from? The BBC used to stream OGG alongside their RealMedia streams for their radio shows! They had to take it down because of licensing issues, which have now been fixed. So, when they get some spare hardware again, I'm guessing the streams will go back up!
Debian is not only better than Redhat Linux due to its free status, massive use in industry and damned good utility - apt-get, but it's also got the benefit of being 10 years old today. And that's the only way uI could fit that in ;)
Americans often get "scared" by things like this, as they're unconstitutional and whatever, but is it really worth getting worried about? Check your email with telnet next time you are expecting mail. You notice there will be a recipient address, a postors address, and all the servers is has passed through... Sound familiar? And yes, British post is registered to the point that you can track a piece of mail as it gets lost (sorry... gets delivered). Well, business/franked mail anyway. Obviously most mail can't be traced to the source, just the first Post Office it passes through...
Yeah, we did make it to /.
Just want to say - well done! Been on the list since I found the v0903 driver and before Ivor released his first driver. Well done - it works beautifully. Just shows the Linux community is a community after all. Thanks a lot!
Grub sucks... Well, I've never tried it... But I've always used LILO and anything else is tantamount to blasphemy!
make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install Why??? I never understood this method. My favourite line is (in Debian): make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install install I never understood the need for (&& make). Why not just put it all in one statement? And why does no-one do make install? copying the bzImage and altering LILO etc, stupid! make install does it for you, and is sooooo much better! HAve you seriously not done that?
This quote may sound quite arrogant and that Linux isn't suited to the business world - but think about it for a minute - what he said was "We're going to do it our way, making sure it all works, rather than release it before testing properly". I'm glad someone has the sense to do this. How long was it before Microsoft Apps get patched? Something like hours after release? I'd prefer something stable (or as stable as possible) on release, and I thank Linus (and Alan, and Dave) for taking their time. I'm pretty sure we all can't wait until these new features come out - but I'd rather wait for them to become stable instead of risk my precious collection of... well... you catch my drift. =)
I don't even see "grep" for winshit, much less the pipes required to make it useful. I don't see a decent commandline, or any semblence thereof. YOU WHAT? Ok, there's no grep, which I admit is a hindrance, but I bet there's a third party tool, if not a "feature" of windows that can do it, but probably not in the way UNIX/Linux does it, but there's a reason for that - it's NOT UNIX/Linux. And it sooooo can pipe. You can write to a file with >>, overwrite it with >, pipe the contents of the output to something with |... At least with cmd you can... Sure command.com isn't great, but cmd is! It even has history functions. command.com was a DOS Lite (tm) but cmd is just like a shell - in fact if I didn't have bash, I'd want cmd. (I've only every tried bash, sh, and zsh so I'm not speaking form experience!) Oh, and Linux is Linux, not GNU/Linux Mr. Stallman! (Just had to get that in!)
Am I really the only guy in history to ever get laid at a LAN party? Ah... Assembly will never be the same again... www.assembly.org
[raging fury] You yanks are sooooo annoying! With your GSM 1900... Why can't you be on 900 and 1800 Mhz like the rest of the world???? 900MHz is what most GSM providers use... It's not a good idea I tell you, not a good idea! When we invade, we're gonna thrust all this technology upon you and force you to all play REAL football!
And what's wrong with ISDN? With ISDN you can keep bundling lines as and when they are needed - and you can single handedly resurrect the failing economy!