I think it's great that they recognize talented individuals and reward them well.
... and steal their souls. The Nazis hired some talented individuals as well. Speaking of which, I'm looking for a talented aluminum engineer to build a better protective cap... anyone?
and I don't mean one that was 'just pretty' or just efficiently spartan was Adobe Album. I was quite impressed with the date slider at the top, the speed it was able to filter and process the images, and, of course, the incredible spit and polish that went into it.
Funnily enough, it's Qt...
I don't think anyone pities some jerk who goes insanely fast, kills someone, and then gets caught because he didn't know his car was watching; and I think very few people would have a problem with the last 5 seconds being 'caught on tape.' This seems like a very good deterrent without grossly invading personal privacy.
What we have to fear, though, is that big brother is rarely satisfied with 'good enough' and that 5 seconds will probably grow quickly as well as the number of items monitored and the ease of extraction (it seems fatal accidents are the only times that data has been used so far). I don't mind them knowing I slammed on my brakes and spun the car around before plummeting to my death however I would rather they not know I visited the bank, church, and grandma before doing so.
It's 'just as smart' as aptitude or portage. Still rpm-land. I can't speak for portage but urpmi, yum, apt for rpm, and apt "testing" for deb all seem to be on just about equal footing as far as available software... all are good but none are perfect.
For instance, atrpms apt on Fedora had the full MythTV suite all packaged and ready. apt testing under deb had most of the suite but not all (although methinks that's fixed). urpmi actually had mixed versions of things floating around out there. They seemed to work together but it was just odd. However, Deb had gimp2 ready just a couple days after it went up while I think atrpms is still at 1.2 today.
You meant to say, "new artists that interest me aren't making music," I'm sure, because the way you have it phrased sounds like the RIAA controls all music distribution.
No more than MS controls all OS distribution... just because it's not an absolute monopoly doesn't mean it doesn't adversely affect consumers in a serious way.
On a seperate note, I beg you for resources. I used to visit mp3.com at least a couple times a week looking for something new and original. Now that the biggest independent archive is gone I'd like another place to troll.
From the article: "One option under consideration is bundling hit songs with less-desirable tracks"... differs from 'just buying the CD' how? Apart from price... which will be far more than a CD if they raise prices.
KDE imitates Windows because of wanks who seem to thing 'easy' means 'pretty, easy to use, and familiar' which pretty much equates to 'Windows.' Luckily, you can toss panels just about anywhere in KDE/Gnome and make it look however the hell you want.
However, this post looks like another random mouth-fart from an uninformed pretentious Mac zealot who may have 'used Linux once and didn't like it'. Even the Linux zealots can appreciate the 'appeals to different audiences' argument but some of these Mac people seem to think that if we don't like the pretty pictures were just not 1337. KDE 3.2 is FAR from shoddy and does what it intends to do quite well.
And hey, sit gramdma down (as that seems to be the contol case for 'easy to use') in front of KDE after she's been using Windows for the past couple years and she'll have little problem. Toss OS X at her and you may just kill poor grandma.
That doesn't mean that good UI design is unimportant and more then good code is.
So a pretty button that doesn't work is just as bad as an ugly button that does? I don't think I buy that. I do think that UI design hold more weight than the average UNIX geek would conceed I also think it holds less than the fuzzy warm Mac geeks claim as well.
... on the administration, installation, maintainence, and recovery of the RFID devices then maybe a better idea would be to spend the money to, you know, HELP them... But I guess that's my liberal hippie side talking.
I've heard nothing about video in on the outputs, which sounds rather far fetched TBH, but I do believe the Linux fellas nearly have USB video capture devices working.
I bought an X-Box only for it's modding capabilities. 90% of the time the console is on it's running MythTV, Linux, or XBMC. It's just kind of a happy coincidence that I've bought 6 or 8 games for the thing as well. I garauntee 100% that if the XBox wasn't mod-able, they would not have gotten 1 penny from me...
OK... Dave Matthews: Some Devil is $14 at BB. 14 tracks, about an hour of music. Maybe some cover art and lyrics.
House of Sand and Fog, $20 at BB. 2 hours worth of movie, commentary, a few mins of deleted scenes, cast auditions, behind the scenes, and photo gallery... and some cover arty crap.
The DVD medium costs more, the production costs are higher, and you get more bang for your buck from the DVD. The RIAA needs to learn that music just isn't worth that much to Joe Listener. Most people out there just want something playing in the background that kinda sounds like *insert genre here*. Rarely does your average adult sit and really really listen closely to what's going on 'in the music' and when they do, you can bet it's not Britney Timberlake. If enough independent music would get to the ears of everyday people, they'd realize it sounded just like *insert genre here* and stop paying outrageous prices for music. I don't think anyone really believes that piracy is good and happy but it is civil disobedience against the organizations (and increasingly government) that has been screwing us for decades. At least I don't feel like I'm getting screwed when I buy a DVD. Guess which I've bought more of in the last 3 years.
factors such as repitition and subconscious awareness building are more important.
so... TV advertising is pretty much the same as spam. Maybe they'd sell more widgets if they advertised on the merits of their product and in the appropriate places than throwing constant crap at the screen hoping the drooling masses are dumb enough to fall for it. I don't sympathize.
First, I'm lazy and package managers like apt, urpmi, and yum make installing software with multiple complicated dependencies easy. Finding the source for the bazillion requirements and building all of them in the correct order (taking care of their requirements as well) doesn't sound like a productive use of time to me.
Second, removing a package doesn't require keeping the sources around. It may be possible that in whatever version of the source you can find the removal doesn't quite work right with the older version you have installed. I've never run into this problem, but hey, it could happen.
This is the first 100% proof positive evidence that Bill Gates is, in fact, completely nuts. He's stumbled from his rocker. Bag's opened, marbles everywhere. Screw nearly falling from the nut.
Now, as soon as he burns through that 40 bil. MS's demise is emminent... yep... Bill and Rupert Murdoch, completely f'n insane... O'Riely and Ann Coultier too... oh, the Iraqi Information Minister as well... and Pigpen.
The attempt failed miserably. In fact, Bush spent more time training to be a pilot than Kerry spent in Vietnam.
I can't believe you're putting Bush's training time on par with service in Vietnam. Hell, I've logged more hours in a tank in "Desert Combat", I guess I have those fools in Iraq beat...
And sealing documents while releasing blood tests doesn't say anything about Bush's service record. He managed to piss in a cup over the course of a couple months, nice work. And maybe Rice will get up in front of the American people and clarify exactly where 'revenge for trying to kill my daddy' ranks in relation to 'defending America'. I do know that we have in custody a ruthless dictator who (although modest) had an army defending him but offered no threat to America, little threat to his neighbors, and no WMDs (but a damn nice deck of cards) while Osama and crew are God knows where -- although more and more they're in Iraq... funny that is. Only now, as election season is approaching and the popular opinion on Iraq is wanning do we actually, you know, try and find Bin Laden.
You're absolutely right, Clarke is trying to sell a book. That's the only way he can get his message out there without the Bush wolfpack spinning the message into oblivion just as they've gone a dozen times in their term. He may have said he approves Bush's handling of terrorism but he was playing the 'with or against us' ballgame el Pres plays. It's regrettable but people don't seem to last long in the administration if they don't fall in line. Take Powell... Shuned and disregarded while opposing Bush's plans, now that he has 'come around' the man is popping up everywhere. The world lost a great deal of respect for him when he started towing the party line but his career got a bit brighter.
All in all, it's sad to hear people who think this lying, stealing, thuggish group of politicians is out in any way to help you and I. They've sealed up every document that's passed by them and castrated anyone who opposes them. It's easy to make yourself look good and others look bad when you control what information gets released... oddly, they don't even *look* good any more.
when they were ZDTV. I still watch it constantly but they all seem overly commercialized and a good bit dumber now. In the ZDTV days it was pretty much Leo, a TV with a computer, and some wanker answering phones. Them were the days... although Leo wasn't exactly a brain surgeon back then either.
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I think it's great that they recognize talented individuals and reward them well.
... and steal their souls. The Nazis hired some talented individuals as well. Speaking of which, I'm looking for a talented aluminum engineer to build a better protective cap... anyone?
So, is he really a hero?
Yes. He did the right thing. It's the implementors that are the villans.
I think this is the first recorded instance of the ship leaving the sinking rats
It's been happening in Soviet Ru...
why even bother.
and I don't mean one that was 'just pretty' or just efficiently spartan was Adobe Album. I was quite impressed with the date slider at the top, the speed it was able to filter and process the images, and, of course, the incredible spit and polish that went into it. Funnily enough, it's Qt...
I don't think anyone pities some jerk who goes insanely fast, kills someone, and then gets caught because he didn't know his car was watching; and I think very few people would have a problem with the last 5 seconds being 'caught on tape.' This seems like a very good deterrent without grossly invading personal privacy.
What we have to fear, though, is that big brother is rarely satisfied with 'good enough' and that 5 seconds will probably grow quickly as well as the number of items monitored and the ease of extraction (it seems fatal accidents are the only times that data has been used so far). I don't mind them knowing I slammed on my brakes and spun the car around before plummeting to my death however I would rather they not know I visited the bank, church, and grandma before doing so.
The mooninites got jealous used their quad laser to blow it up.
It's 'just as smart' as aptitude or portage. Still rpm-land. I can't speak for portage but urpmi, yum, apt for rpm, and apt "testing" for deb all seem to be on just about equal footing as far as available software... all are good but none are perfect.
For instance, atrpms apt on Fedora had the full MythTV suite all packaged and ready. apt testing under deb had most of the suite but not all (although methinks that's fixed). urpmi actually had mixed versions of things floating around out there. They seemed to work together but it was just odd. However, Deb had gimp2 ready just a couple days after it went up while I think atrpms is still at 1.2 today.
You meant to say, "new artists that interest me aren't making music," I'm sure, because the way you have it phrased sounds like the RIAA controls all music distribution.
No more than MS controls all OS distribution... just because it's not an absolute monopoly doesn't mean it doesn't adversely affect consumers in a serious way.
On a seperate note, I beg you for resources. I used to visit mp3.com at least a couple times a week looking for something new and original. Now that the biggest independent archive is gone I'd like another place to troll.
From the article: "One option under consideration is bundling hit songs with less-desirable tracks" ... differs from 'just buying the CD' how? Apart from price... which will be far more than a CD if they raise prices.
my PC's been able to run MythTV twice as well as my XBox for a year.
KDE imitates Windows because of wanks who seem to thing 'easy' means 'pretty, easy to use, and familiar' which pretty much equates to 'Windows.' Luckily, you can toss panels just about anywhere in KDE/Gnome and make it look however the hell you want.
However, this post looks like another random mouth-fart from an uninformed pretentious Mac zealot who may have 'used Linux once and didn't like it'. Even the Linux zealots can appreciate the 'appeals to different audiences' argument but some of these Mac people seem to think that if we don't like the pretty pictures were just not 1337. KDE 3.2 is FAR from shoddy and does what it intends to do quite well.
And hey, sit gramdma down (as that seems to be the contol case for 'easy to use') in front of KDE after she's been using Windows for the past couple years and she'll have little problem. Toss OS X at her and you may just kill poor grandma.
That doesn't mean that good UI design is unimportant and more then good code is.
So a pretty button that doesn't work is just as bad as an ugly button that does? I don't think I buy that. I do think that UI design hold more weight than the average UNIX geek would conceed I also think it holds less than the fuzzy warm Mac geeks claim as well.
... on the administration, installation, maintainence, and recovery of the RFID devices then maybe a better idea would be to spend the money to, you know, HELP them... But I guess that's my liberal hippie side talking.
...stupid isn't illegal yet.
We pay a tax on recording media in exchange for this.
We (Americans) pay the blank media tax as well only we don't get anything in return.
Lest your prez gets any wacky ideas though, I can assure you that we DO NOT have any weapons of mass destruction!
That's what Iraq said...
I've heard nothing about video in on the outputs, which sounds rather far fetched TBH, but I do believe the Linux fellas nearly have USB video capture devices working.
I bought an X-Box only for it's modding capabilities. 90% of the time the console is on it's running MythTV, Linux, or XBMC. It's just kind of a happy coincidence that I've bought 6 or 8 games for the thing as well. I garauntee 100% that if the XBox wasn't mod-able, they would not have gotten 1 penny from me...
OK... Dave Matthews: Some Devil is $14 at BB. 14 tracks, about an hour of music. Maybe some cover art and lyrics.
House of Sand and Fog, $20 at BB. 2 hours worth of movie, commentary, a few mins of deleted scenes, cast auditions, behind the scenes, and photo gallery... and some cover arty crap.
The DVD medium costs more, the production costs are higher, and you get more bang for your buck from the DVD. The RIAA needs to learn that music just isn't worth that much to Joe Listener. Most people out there just want something playing in the background that kinda sounds like *insert genre here*. Rarely does your average adult sit and really really listen closely to what's going on 'in the music' and when they do, you can bet it's not Britney Timberlake. If enough independent music would get to the ears of everyday people, they'd realize it sounded just like *insert genre here* and stop paying outrageous prices for music. I don't think anyone really believes that piracy is good and happy but it is civil disobedience against the organizations (and increasingly government) that has been screwing us for decades. At least I don't feel like I'm getting screwed when I buy a DVD. Guess which I've bought more of in the last 3 years.
But don't blame me... I only listen to NPR.
Hey damnit... Britney knew who the Stones where. I mean, hell, they lived in a Yellow Submarine!
factors such as repitition and subconscious awareness building are more important.
so... TV advertising is pretty much the same as spam. Maybe they'd sell more widgets if they advertised on the merits of their product and in the appropriate places than throwing constant crap at the screen hoping the drooling masses are dumb enough to fall for it. I don't sympathize.
I prefer packages when available for 2 reasons...
First, I'm lazy and package managers like apt, urpmi, and yum make installing software with multiple complicated dependencies easy. Finding the source for the bazillion requirements and building all of them in the correct order (taking care of their requirements as well) doesn't sound like a productive use of time to me.
Second, removing a package doesn't require keeping the sources around. It may be possible that in whatever version of the source you can find the removal doesn't quite work right with the older version you have installed. I've never run into this problem, but hey, it could happen.
This is the first 100% proof positive evidence that Bill Gates is, in fact, completely nuts. He's stumbled from his rocker. Bag's opened, marbles everywhere. Screw nearly falling from the nut.
Now, as soon as he burns through that 40 bil. MS's demise is emminent... yep... Bill and Rupert Murdoch, completely f'n insane... O'Riely and Ann Coultier too... oh, the Iraqi Information Minister as well... and Pigpen.
The attempt failed miserably. In fact, Bush spent more time training to be a pilot than Kerry spent in Vietnam.
I can't believe you're putting Bush's training time on par with service in Vietnam. Hell, I've logged more hours in a tank in "Desert Combat", I guess I have those fools in Iraq beat...
And sealing documents while releasing blood tests doesn't say anything about Bush's service record. He managed to piss in a cup over the course of a couple months, nice work. And maybe Rice will get up in front of the American people and clarify exactly where 'revenge for trying to kill my daddy' ranks in relation to 'defending America'. I do know that we have in custody a ruthless dictator who (although modest) had an army defending him but offered no threat to America, little threat to his neighbors, and no WMDs (but a damn nice deck of cards) while Osama and crew are God knows where -- although more and more they're in Iraq... funny that is. Only now, as election season is approaching and the popular opinion on Iraq is wanning do we actually, you know, try and find Bin Laden.
You're absolutely right, Clarke is trying to sell a book. That's the only way he can get his message out there without the Bush wolfpack spinning the message into oblivion just as they've gone a dozen times in their term. He may have said he approves Bush's handling of terrorism but he was playing the 'with or against us' ballgame el Pres plays. It's regrettable but people don't seem to last long in the administration if they don't fall in line. Take Powell... Shuned and disregarded while opposing Bush's plans, now that he has 'come around' the man is popping up everywhere. The world lost a great deal of respect for him when he started towing the party line but his career got a bit brighter.
All in all, it's sad to hear people who think this lying, stealing, thuggish group of politicians is out in any way to help you and I. They've sealed up every document that's passed by them and castrated anyone who opposes them. It's easy to make yourself look good and others look bad when you control what information gets released... oddly, they don't even *look* good any more.
when they were ZDTV. I still watch it constantly but they all seem overly commercialized and a good bit dumber now. In the ZDTV days it was pretty much Leo, a TV with a computer, and some wanker answering phones. Them were the days... although Leo wasn't exactly a brain surgeon back then either.