Ditto. After just two weeks of Emusic, I kinda feel like I just ate two Queen Mary burgers from Hamburger Mary's while downing a sixer of Sierra Nevada. If Emusic had cholesterol, I'd be fucking dead right now.
Hell, they even support Linux, kinda. Their download manager uses an old glibc, but there are several hacks that'll get it working. On my SuSE 8.2 box, I had to set up a local proxy and point the DLM there...
The ideal system would be a free-text search of all the books in the catalogue. But until we can do that, keywords and searchable abstracts are more useful than categories. Just put the damn books on the shelf in order of author.
I worked as a reference assistant at a large urban public library for 5+ years, and in my experience, less than half of the people who came in were doing research via the catalog. Most of them were simply browsing by subject. 99% of the time, it was faster and easier to simply point them to the spot on the shelves where a particular subject number was.
I mean, we were five floors covering an entire city block... would you really want to have to walk from one extreme of the building to grab Linux Apache Web Server Administration by Charles Aulds to the other end to get Matt Welsh's Running Linux? In my library, I could just point to to a single shelf with the 005's.
Shelving by author is fine, barely, for fiction, where a lot people tend to read every book by a particular author. Even then, a lot of large libraries tend to split stuff up by genre much like your local bookstore. But for nonfiction, organizing by subject for browsing and casual research is the only way to go.
As for Dewey vs. LC, well, that's up there with vi and Emacs. LC works well for academic libraries where there's a hell of a lot more in-depth research going on, while Dewey works best for public libraries. I find Dewey more intuitive, but that's probably because I know it best. In research institutions, where most patrons have the time to spend a half hour in front of a catalog session, LC seems to fit the bill. YMMV, natch.
I am not suggesting to repeal copyright laws. I am merely pointing out that they enable the MS monopoly, and that they pretty clearly deviate from laissez faire capitalism.
Not to troll or anything, but how does this jibe with personal property rights? I mean, most libertarians will tell you that one of the few powers of the state should be the ability to enable the protection of property, which is what copyright laws, at least in theory, are supposed to do.
Maybe I don't read enough Eric Raymond or something, but it seems like a fundamental contradiction to me...
You're perfectly welcome to pick grapes for less than minimum wage, or change my godson's diapers for six bucks an hour, if you're really that concerned about the furriners coming over and "taking" "our" jobs.
As a lifetime resident of Cincinnati, all I've got to say is:
Don't you realize that some people could be looking at pornography on their laptops now???!!! And they might even be Democrats!!! Somebody oughta be arrested!!!
:sighs:
Yet another score for Cleveland in the ongoing struggle. Better bars, better bands, better baseball, better weather, and a significantly smaller proportion of troglodytes among the population. At least we've got race riots, and, uh... Larry Flynt. Though we're trying to put him in jail. Again.
My burg recently tried a similar concept: licensing panhandlers.
Oddly enough, less than half of the people who actually registered on the first day of licensing were actually homeless. There were more than a few doctors and lawyers turning up for a license to hustle.
Anyway, what the hell happened to the land of the free? You'd think with all the Republican bleating about national ID cards and histronics over the supposed Orwellian aspects of nationalized health care, any conservative worth his capital gains would be jumping all over this. Then again, given the fact that much of the GOP just loves to legislate what can go on in our homes and bedrooms, I suspect that I should resign myself that any claims from the 'pubs at social liberalism are complete bullshit.
What, is there a special Rape Jail they haven't told anybody about? If you'd had bothered to read my link, you might have noticed that Donny was, in fact a peace protester, and did, in fact, get raped. In jail. Not prison.
What about nonviolent peace protesters or drug offenders? It sure as hell isn't the badass muthas who get to be the bitch. Read the obit above, if you think you've got the stomach. I know people who knew the guy, and he was no fucking punch line.
If you've got a younger brother or cousin or son who ever happens to spend time locked up, I'm sure you'll laugh your ass off when he gets brutalized.
Really, would you chuckle at the thought of, say, Susan Smith being gang raped?
Sorry for the disjointedness... longest post ever from my Zaurus...
Not sure if it binds the K menu, but you can map the keyboard to a Windows configuration through the Control Center. I'm at work, otherwise I'd tell you for sure.
So, the whole digicam-slash-mp3 player-slash-internet-enabled toaster thing didn't work out, so they're trying to hustle more convergence crap?
I mean, what's the point of having the WiFi access? I know that when I'm on vacation, I spend 99% of my time in areas where an AP isn't available.
If you can find a use for something like this, congratulations. By all means, buy one. I just want camera that takes reasonably good shots, has excellent battery life, and works as a USB mass storage device in Linux. The rest is just fluff.
Not really. Something like 13% of the land in China is actually arable, a much lower proportion than in the US. And arable land is the most important natural resource of all; you can't really become globe-dominating power without the ability to feed yourself. Hence the freakishly intensive nature of Chinese agrigculture. Most farmers still have to plant thousands upon thousands of rice seedlings by hand.
The total land area in China ranks the third in the world and the per capita land area is 0.777 hectare, about one third of the world average figure. The per capita arable land is 0.106 hectare, being 43% of the world average figure. The quality of the arable land in our country is not good on the whole. There are almost six million hectares of steep slope land over 25 degrees in the whole country. The arable land with water sources and irrigation facilities only accounts for 40% and the medium and low yield arable land accounts for 79% of the arable land.
This'll probably be at least tangentally addressed later, but what chipsets actually work in Linux? Understand I don't know nuthin about WiFi, other than some vague idea that I should get an Orinco-based card.
Only reason I'm asking is that the salesdrone at OfficeDepot didn't know what the integrated wireless on the Averatec 3150P was based on yesterday, and I'm not keen on paying an extra hundred bucks for the feature if it won't work in my OS of choice. Then again, I could save myself the dough and get the model w/o the integrated 802.11b, but still...
it might not make sense for printers, but i'm not sure that i agree with your comment about the ink cartridges, b/c why couldn't you buy generic cartridges and circumvent giving the manufacturer any money back????
Because the printer manufacturer puts a chip in the cartridge that makes sure you can only use the manufacturer's ink, and then invokes the DMCA when a generic manufacturer attempts to circumvent that "feature." Pay attention.
Generic cartridges are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
I'm not talking about Miles or John. I'm talking about current music that isn't exactly commercial. For every Strokes or Hives or White Stripes, there are hundreds of bands who rock it a helluva lot harder.
Witness: Turbonegro on Sympathy/Man's Ruin vs. Epitaph. They're watered the hell down, and Epitaph ain't exactly a major.
I'm not saying there aren't exceptions (the New Bomb Turks come to mind, and SubPop has actually gotten better in the past few years) but the Big 5 or the indies with major label distribution channels generally care about one thing and one thing only: getting their discs in the racks at WalMart and Target.
You might want to talk to Hillary Rosen about art not being a commodity...
But I'm guessing you aren't really that into music if you have shut yourself off from so many wonderful artists.
This is why I generally stick to independant music. When I was a teenager, it was a political decision: stick to the punkest of the punk, fuck the corporations, etc. As I aged, I kept buying indie for a different reason: the music was simply better. Now I've got another one: the indy labels aren't actively trying to fuck me over.
Oh well. All the good shit still gets released on vinyl, anyway.
I could easily see buying one of the desktops to replace my girlfriend's Celeron 450 system. She just browses the web and plays Mah Jong.
I'm looking for an under-$1000, four or five pound notebook with relatively decent specs to run SuSE on. The Lindows Moblie PC is out... I don't want no steenking Via. I leaning toward a 12" iBook, but then I stumbled across Averatec 3150 series. 12", Athlon Mobile 1600, 30GB, 256MB, CD-RW/DVD, 4.3 pounds, 3 USB 2.0, & PCMCIA for less than a grand, or with integrated 802.11b for just over.
Has anybody else come across anything similar at the same price? I've still gotta haul my ass to Best Buy to play with one of the Averatecs, and it's gonna be a couple of months before I've got a thousand bucks to drop.
Microsoft Corp. is starting to react more aggressively to the Linux and open-source threat, last week slashing the price of its SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition by $450, to $49.
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For the first time, Microsoft officials are admitting that Linux is affecting the way the company prices products. Paul Flessner, senior vice president of the Server Platform Division, told eWEEK at the Tech Ed conference here last week that Linux factored into Microsoft's decision to cut the price of its SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition, effective Aug. 1.
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Hell, they even support Linux, kinda. Their download manager uses an old glibc, but there are several hacks that'll get it working. On my SuSE 8.2 box, I had to set up a local proxy and point the DLM there...
I worked as a reference assistant at a large urban public library for 5+ years, and in my experience, less than half of the people who came in were doing research via the catalog. Most of them were simply browsing by subject. 99% of the time, it was faster and easier to simply point them to the spot on the shelves where a particular subject number was.
I mean, we were five floors covering an entire city block... would you really want to have to walk from one extreme of the building to grab Linux Apache Web Server Administration by Charles Aulds to the other end to get Matt Welsh's Running Linux? In my library, I could just point to to a single shelf with the 005's.
Shelving by author is fine, barely, for fiction, where a lot people tend to read every book by a particular author. Even then, a lot of large libraries tend to split stuff up by genre much like your local bookstore. But for nonfiction, organizing by subject for browsing and casual research is the only way to go.
As for Dewey vs. LC, well, that's up there with vi and Emacs. LC works well for academic libraries where there's a hell of a lot more in-depth research going on, while Dewey works best for public libraries. I find Dewey more intuitive, but that's probably because I know it best. In research institutions, where most patrons have the time to spend a half hour in front of a catalog session, LC seems to fit the bill. YMMV, natch.
Not to troll or anything, but how does this jibe with personal property rights? I mean, most libertarians will tell you that one of the few powers of the state should be the ability to enable the protection of property, which is what copyright laws, at least in theory, are supposed to do.
Maybe I don't read enough Eric Raymond or something, but it seems like a fundamental contradiction to me...
You're perfectly welcome to pick grapes for less than minimum wage, or change my godson's diapers for six bucks an hour, if you're really that concerned about the furriners coming over and "taking" "our" jobs.
Oooh boy I hope it does...
As a lifetime resident of Cincinnati, all I've got to say is:
Don't you realize that some people could be looking at pornography on their laptops now???!!! And they might even be Democrats !!! Somebody oughta be arrested!!!
:sighs:
Yet another score for Cleveland in the ongoing struggle. Better bars, better bands, better baseball, better weather, and a significantly smaller proportion of troglodytes among the population. At least we've got race riots, and, uh... Larry Flynt. Though we're trying to put him in jail. Again.
Y'all got any room up there?
Oddly enough, less than half of the people who actually registered on the first day of licensing were actually homeless. There were more than a few doctors and lawyers turning up for a license to hustle.
Anyway, what the hell happened to the land of the free? You'd think with all the Republican bleating about national ID cards and histronics over the supposed Orwellian aspects of nationalized health care, any conservative worth his capital gains would be jumping all over this. Then again, given the fact that much of the GOP just loves to legislate what can go on in our homes and bedrooms, I suspect that I should resign myself that any claims from the 'pubs at social liberalism are complete bullshit.
Not that I didn't do that years ago, natch...
What, is there a special Rape Jail they haven't told anybody about? If you'd had bothered to read my link, you might have noticed that Donny was, in fact a peace protester, and did, in fact, get raped. In jail. Not prison.
If you've got a younger brother or cousin or son who ever happens to spend time locked up, I'm sure you'll laugh your ass off when he gets brutalized.
Really, would you chuckle at the thought of, say, Susan Smith being gang raped?
Sorry for the disjointedness... longest post ever from my Zaurus...
Not sure if it binds the K menu, but you can map the keyboard to a Windows configuration through the Control Center. I'm at work, otherwise I'd tell you for sure.
Too true. When my SO and I tried to take some nekkid pictures, all the naughty bits were blurred out.
I mean, what's the point of having the WiFi access? I know that when I'm on vacation, I spend 99% of my time in areas where an AP isn't available.
If you can find a use for something like this, congratulations. By all means, buy one. I just want camera that takes reasonably good shots, has excellent battery life, and works as a USB mass storage device in Linux. The rest is just fluff.
Cite:
Imagine how fast they can crank out pirate copies of XP with that sumbitch...
10. Burning a spliff out by the dumpsters with your friends and giving them free copies.
Only reason I'm asking is that the salesdrone at OfficeDepot didn't know what the integrated wireless on the Averatec 3150P was based on yesterday, and I'm not keen on paying an extra hundred bucks for the feature if it won't work in my OS of choice. Then again, I could save myself the dough and get the model w/o the integrated 802.11b, but still...
Hmmm...
Me DVD's be jolly swashbucklin' sorts, matey. Arrr...
Nah...
If I were Natalie Portman, and I were naked, I'd be petrified of /.ers, too.
Because the printer manufacturer puts a chip in the cartridge that makes sure you can only use the manufacturer's ink, and then invokes the DMCA when a generic manufacturer attempts to circumvent that "feature." Pay attention.
Generic cartridges are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
Actually, I think Sen. Orrin Hatch, RIAA-Utah is more accurate.
Witness: Turbonegro on Sympathy/Man's Ruin vs. Epitaph. They're watered the hell down, and Epitaph ain't exactly a major.
I'm not saying there aren't exceptions (the New Bomb Turks come to mind, and SubPop has actually gotten better in the past few years) but the Big 5 or the indies with major label distribution channels generally care about one thing and one thing only: getting their discs in the racks at WalMart and Target.
You might want to talk to Hillary Rosen about art not being a commodity...
Check out my homepage, chief.Oh well. All the good shit still gets released on vinyl, anyway.
I'm looking for an under-$1000, four or five pound notebook with relatively decent specs to run SuSE on. The Lindows Moblie PC is out... I don't want no steenking Via. I leaning toward a 12" iBook, but then I stumbled across Averatec 3150 series. 12", Athlon Mobile 1600, 30GB, 256MB, CD-RW/DVD, 4.3 pounds, 3 USB 2.0, & PCMCIA for less than a grand, or with integrated 802.11b for just over.
Has anybody else come across anything similar at the same price? I've still gotta haul my ass to Best Buy to play with one of the Averatecs, and it's gonna be a couple of months before I've got a thousand bucks to drop.
Thanks. I'll be here all week, folks.
eWeek.