Yeah well those are the same people who then wonder why they live in a state where KGB/stasi/DHS-like organizations stuffed them into a no-rights prison for eternity They deserve their tyranny for their laziness and entitlement attitudes. if they want freedom, they must fight for it, every day.
Your whole argument is based on popularity. I say fuck that. If you can't handle the real world, get out.. go back to the 'cities' where everything is locked down and controlled and 'safe.' In the case of the internet, just quit using it if you can't figure out the braindead simplicity of security 101.
wat? it is a prime example of that.. there are plenty of reasons someone might have multiple tabs open in a browser, skip through multiple tracks on his music player, or flip through channels on the tv tracking multiple shows.. It doesn't mean they are depressed.
The first is a myth. Humans suck at multitasking, period.
The second might be true. Insecure egos are often the ones making the loudest complaints of others being responsible for their 'plights'. Feminism has morphed into one giant example of this. Truly secure, empowered people don't need bailing out by the state or anyone else.
The third is probably true, but it is also true that men need women around. The problem is that this culture has thrown that symbiosis out of balance, making both genders miserable.
because it doesn't follow.. There are many reasons why someone might have multiple tabs open, flip through tv channels, or tracks on his music player.. It'st he old correlation without causation routine.
correlation without causation.. So I guess researchers with multiple books open were also depressed too? How about people who skip around tracks on their music players? How about people who flip between tv channels to watch multiple shows at once? seriously?
This and the article represent horrible reasoning.
while I agree that modern psychology is abused to label and dismiss people/behaviors society doesn't like, I don't think counseling based on 'reading' chicken entrails or praying to sky daddies is any better.
To be blunt, the people who've 'majored' their lives in philosophy, ethics, history, and politics, are the majority who've ruined just about everything good there is about life for the rest of us. This society of ever growing artificial restrictions conforming the rest of us to some crazy set of counterproductive/incompatible ideals is their fault. Unfortunately most of them are rich enough to insulate themselves from it, but I'd still like to turn their creation loose on them so they can burn in their own shit.
No fuck this.. Encouraging 'soft' (another buzzword for sociability) skills to the deficit of actual job skillsets and their objective measurement is nuts. While being able to communicate is important, there's already too much of this slimy 'shmoozing' bullshit in corporate politics that does little but obfuscate uncomfortable truth for the sake of insecure employees/management. We shouldn't put carrots on sticks that lead students towards this counterproductive behavior. School should be as close to a meritocracy as possible and not reward students for winning popularity contests.
People who don't just want to listen to badly encoded 'web mastered' (yeah that's what some idiots call it now) mpeg files on their beats by dre headphones. screeching caused by file corruption is fucking irritating and when you rip 500 cds, you don't want to have to check each track by ear.
accuraterip grabs hashes of track data.. as long as you get the right number, you know (reasonably) that you have a good copy. The drive db is outdated, but all that's needed is to configure the read offset in the software for your drive. each is different.
It's quite relevant.. if one drive takes 3x the time the other does, that means the whole job takes 3x longer. If he has 20 cds, you're right, who cares. If he has 300 or 3000, that's a big deal.
That's if the digital 'locker' doesn't decide to change its policies and then wipe your files, or your internet connection goes down, or you run out of bandwidth for the month... It's still better to have a local copy and pressed cds are about the most reliable backup option there is. They'll outlive any human for sure if well taken care of. hard drives require IO ports that are constantly changing and take the media with them when they die. when the cdrom reader dies, just throw it away and get another. your data is still safe.
what? the grandparent has a point.. pressed cds theoretically could last centuries if reasonably cared for. It's CD-Rs that decay...and even quality CD-Rs can outlive most humans if well cared for. I can see the convenience of having them on a hd but the pressed disc is still going to last longer than a complicated 'active' device that depends on the existence of complex protocols and interfaces to function. It's not just the media, it's the support electronics as well. In contrast, a cd reader is very simple and well understood. We will still be reading cds 100 years from now in some form or other, just not like we do today nor with as much ubiquity (historians perhaps, or music collectors).
Keep your cds in a box somewhere as a catastrophic recovery, and have one duplicate of your ripped files offline somewhere.
except that won't solve anything.. Even the people who know nothing about secureboot benefit from the actions of those that do, so it DOES matter. This shouldn't be treated as a popularity contest.
While what the parent said might be true, how long do you think it will last? How long before they're all like the RT platform? That's what BMO is really talking about..
is the exception to the rule. Most arm devices are locked.
Do you feel entitled to put Linux on, say, a Nintendo DS family product?
It's not about feelings of entitlement. It's about ownership rights. Once the hardware is purchased, then, by definition, he should have the right to run what he wants on it.
If you don't want money going to Microsoft, don't buy a Surface RT, Xbox 360, Lumia, or any of its other locked down hardware.
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Yeah well those are the same people who then wonder why they live in a state where KGB/stasi/DHS-like organizations stuffed them into a no-rights prison for eternity They deserve their tyranny for their laziness and entitlement attitudes. if they want freedom, they must fight for it, every day.
Your whole argument is based on popularity. I say fuck that. If you can't handle the real world, get out.. go back to the 'cities' where everything is locked down and controlled and 'safe.' In the case of the internet, just quit using it if you can't figure out the braindead simplicity of security 101.
You could always watch foxnews to offset CNN's misery.. The two together cancel each other out leaving you numb and stupid..
wat? it is a prime example of that.. there are plenty of reasons someone might have multiple tabs open in a browser, skip through multiple tracks on his music player, or flip through channels on the tv tracking multiple shows.. It doesn't mean they are depressed.
The first is a myth. Humans suck at multitasking, period.
The second might be true. Insecure egos are often the ones making the loudest complaints of others being responsible for their 'plights'. Feminism has morphed into one giant example of this. Truly secure, empowered people don't need bailing out by the state or anyone else.
The third is probably true, but it is also true that men need women around. The problem is that this culture has thrown that symbiosis out of balance, making both genders miserable.
because it doesn't follow.. There are many reasons why someone might have multiple tabs open, flip through tv channels, or tracks on his music player.. It'st he old correlation without causation routine.
correlation without causation.. So I guess researchers with multiple books open were also depressed too? How about people who skip around tracks on their music players? How about people who flip between tv channels to watch multiple shows at once? seriously?
This and the article represent horrible reasoning.
while I agree that modern psychology is abused to label and dismiss people/behaviors society doesn't like, I don't think counseling based on 'reading' chicken entrails or praying to sky daddies is any better.
To be blunt, the people who've 'majored' their lives in philosophy, ethics, history, and politics, are the majority who've ruined just about everything good there is about life for the rest of us. This society of ever growing artificial restrictions conforming the rest of us to some crazy set of counterproductive/incompatible ideals is their fault. Unfortunately most of them are rich enough to insulate themselves from it, but I'd still like to turn their creation loose on them so they can burn in their own shit.
No fuck this.. Encouraging 'soft' (another buzzword for sociability) skills to the deficit of actual job skillsets and their objective measurement is nuts. While being able to communicate is important, there's already too much of this slimy 'shmoozing' bullshit in corporate politics that does little but obfuscate uncomfortable truth for the sake of insecure employees/management. We shouldn't put carrots on sticks that lead students towards this counterproductive behavior. School should be as close to a meritocracy as possible and not reward students for winning popularity contests.
It's not 'abuse' when the ISP refuses to set hard limits as part of the contract.. go fuck yourself.
sending the data again unecrypted defeats the purpose..
That may be how it is but that's not how it should be.
flac is lossless, like zip files are lossless. The original data is recovered on decode.
People who don't just want to listen to badly encoded 'web mastered' (yeah that's what some idiots call it now) mpeg files on their beats by dre headphones. screeching caused by file corruption is fucking irritating and when you rip 500 cds, you don't want to have to check each track by ear.
every usb drive I"ve seen has a power brick..
accuraterip grabs hashes of track data.. as long as you get the right number, you know (reasonably) that you have a good copy. The drive db is outdated, but all that's needed is to configure the read offset in the software for your drive. each is different.
or a repress/remaster, or a bad reader, or a misconfigured offset in the software, etc..
It's quite relevant.. if one drive takes 3x the time the other does, that means the whole job takes 3x longer. If he has 20 cds, you're right, who cares. If he has 300 or 3000, that's a big deal.
That's if the digital 'locker' doesn't decide to change its policies and then wipe your files, or your internet connection goes down, or you run out of bandwidth for the month... It's still better to have a local copy and pressed cds are about the most reliable backup option there is. They'll outlive any human for sure if well taken care of. hard drives require IO ports that are constantly changing and take the media with them when they die. when the cdrom reader dies, just throw it away and get another. your data is still safe.
what? the grandparent has a point.. pressed cds theoretically could last centuries if reasonably cared for. It's CD-Rs that decay...and even quality CD-Rs can outlive most humans if well cared for. I can see the convenience of having them on a hd but the pressed disc is still going to last longer than a complicated 'active' device that depends on the existence of complex protocols and interfaces to function. It's not just the media, it's the support electronics as well. In contrast, a cd reader is very simple and well understood. We will still be reading cds 100 years from now in some form or other, just not like we do today nor with as much ubiquity (historians perhaps, or music collectors).
Keep your cds in a box somewhere as a catastrophic recovery, and have one duplicate of your ripped files offline somewhere.
yah the same way freedom 'is still there' in current US domestic policy!
except that won't solve anything.. Even the people who know nothing about secureboot benefit from the actions of those that do, so it DOES matter. This shouldn't be treated as a popularity contest.
...aaaaannd people should be able to boot whatever os they want on hardware shipped with RT as well.
While what the parent said might be true, how long do you think it will last? How long before they're all like the RT platform? That's what BMO is really talking about..
An ARM laptop running Linux
is the exception to the rule. Most arm devices are locked.
Do you feel entitled to put Linux on, say, a Nintendo DS family product?
It's not about feelings of entitlement. It's about ownership rights. Once the hardware is purchased, then, by definition, he should have the right to run what he wants on it.
If you don't want money going to Microsoft, don't buy a Surface RT, Xbox 360, Lumia, or any of its other locked down hardware.
It's not that simple, and you know it.