I've been playing with my friend's nForce2 rig for awhile now, and nVidia knows their stuff. The sound quality isn't quite as good as, say, an Audigy or a Hercules Game Theater XP, but for onboard sound it's pretty damn good, and for the record sounds a ton better than the Bose system in my brother's car.
10-15 minutes? Is that all? On Long Island, the average wait time for Verizon or Cablevision customer support is at least half an hour. If that's the worst of your worries, you lucked out big time.
You don't necessarily need to run one off of your cable/DSL connection. I work for a web hosting company, and have pretty much free reign of the servers there. It helps a LOT.
Alternatively, many people also have dedicated or colocated servers (okay, maybe not many, but I assume there's a whole lot more in the Slashdot crowd than elsewhere) and it's not too difficult to run a mail server on one.
That aside, there are also services such as MyDomain.com, which will forward all mail to your domain to a given email address, where it's not very difficult to filter it by the To: address. It's almost as good as having all those email addresses, without actually needing to pay for them. I did this for years before I started working at this web host.
Does the defragging have something to do with dynamic partition resizing? I wasn't even thinking about partition resizing, but I suppose it would make sense. I always just repartitioned my entire drive, clearing away all the contents, when moving to a dual-boot configuration.
To my knowledge, the average Joe Blow home user doesn't give half a damn about the cost of Office -- to this day, I have only seen one legitimate copy of Office among all of my friends and relatives combined, and it was Office 97.
Could it, then, be said that software piracy is preventing Linux from becoming more prevalent?
Maybe if more people actually paid for the majority of their software in the first place Linux would become more popular.
"Fine," they said. "Just defrag your disk." (If you don't know how to defrag, you're probably not ready for the Linux experience.) What the hell does defragging have to do with anything?
Here, software is not made by armies of "Microserfs" employed by a giant corporation, but by armies of volunteer programmers who "donate" their code to the public domain. No, the code is not public domain. Most all programmers I know retain the copyrights on their software. This is why software licenses like the GPL exist in the first place.
Roger and David can give away this software with no fear of breaking copyright law because that's how the licence for Linux software works. Unlike Windows, you're free to make and give away as many copies as you like. No, not all distributions are free. Some companies may choose not to GPL their proprietary bells-and-whistles, such as installers and configuration utilities. I also dislike this article's erroneous insinuation that all Linux software is free.
I don't really see how that would be any more convenient than picking the movie theater from a map on GPS. This just involves me needing to figure out which way the movie theater is, which isn't hard, but compared to the alternative seems rather needless.
To me, this just sounds like another gimmick. Remember when GPS was the "big thing" a few years ago? I think they want it so badly to come back that they need a technology refresh.
I was thinking of putting Hatebreeder, since I do like that album better, but the criteria were albums that were perfect all the way through. Hatebreeder has a handful that just sorta chug along, like Black Widow.
Dissection is a plus too, that should've been in there. Where Dead Angels Lie.
Note: When you say "hard rock and heavy metal" you probably don't mean progressive, thrash, black and death metal. These are listed here. Listen if you want, but it's an acquired taste.:)
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done Dream Theater - Images and Words Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory Evergrey - Recreation Day Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes In Flames - The Jester Race In Flames - Whoracle In Flames - Colony Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music Nightwish - Oceanborn Opeth - Blackwater Park Slayer - Reign in Blood Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait Symphony X - V Witchery - Restless & Dead
And those are just the perfect albums in my collection.
"06/19/03: The ChewPlastic Campus Search Engine is currently available to the public as a demonstration of the site as it was. NOTE: The files listed through the results on this site are fictitious - they DO NOT EXIST. This means that you cannot download them because they are fake computers on a fake network. While there is a small assortment of files listed in the search engine, they are not meant to represent the actual assortment of files available during the Search Engine's operation."
Hey now, the RIAA is just the Recording Industry Association of America. There are plenty of foreign labels like Century Media, Spinefarm, and Nuclear Blast that have plenty of artists to offer.
Right, but because you CAN download individual songs at $0.99 a pop doesn't mean you're going to stop buying albums. This is mostly for the people who love one-hit-wonders, or artists who push crap album after crap album with one or two good songs (I do not happen to think artists who do this are capable of actually producing good songs, but others may).
Certainly if someone likes the entire album it may be well worth their while to just go out and buy the CD.
This also begs the question: If someone doesn't like your "art" enough to buy the album and view it as a whole, why even bother trying to force it upon them?
Why do millions of people use AOL for Internet access? Some people don't know any better. People with no computer experience buy the hype and believe that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. The same thing applies to musicians in the record industry.
It's fairly accepted that if you ever want to make it "big", you need to be partnered up with a major label. Whether or not it's actually the case, the popular misconception is certainly pervasive enough to convince many people to screw themselves into shit contracts.
Part of it is also psychological. If a scout from Sony approached you and wanted to sign you, you would probably be more excited than if some mom-and-pop BaBango Records from the other side of town wanted to push your EP. To many people, being signed to a major label gives them a feeling that they, to a degree, have already "made it." Many years later they tend to regret their dealings.
And many artists DO start up their own labels. Some are rather successful at it, such as Steve Vai and his Favored Nations label, but most musicians don't have the business sense to manage a company like that.
I hate to say this, for fear of possibly being modded flamebait, but I would call the people on MTV Cribs neither "artists" nor "musicians." These are people that the record companies have decided are marketable enough to reimburse for their "work" pressing out the same crap cookie-cutter albums we've heard thousands of times before. This, of course, does not apply to everyone featured therein, but certainly would apply to the majority of the rap, pop-punk, and nu-metal superstars polluting the Top 40 charts.
No, you wouldn't. But say instead that your department gets 12% of the cut, which isn't that unrealistic.
Artists don't make money by themselves. Most successful artists are bands with five members (for the sake of argument, even solo artists have touring ensembles, session musicians, etc.), management (which typically will take 15% of your gross earnings), and tour promoters, who will take a further cut.
Don't forget, bands also have to pay back the record companies for all the money that the company spends marketing and promoting their product. So figure that for your first four albums or so, your 12% probably amounts to negative money.
Can't leave out income taxes, either.
So how much does everyone really end up with? Unless you're huge, probably somewhere in the realm of 10 to 15 cents per album sold.
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I couldn't live (or, at least edit images) without Photoshop 7's scripting support.
I've been playing with my friend's nForce2 rig for awhile now, and nVidia knows their stuff. The sound quality isn't quite as good as, say, an Audigy or a Hercules Game Theater XP, but for onboard sound it's pretty damn good, and for the record sounds a ton better than the Bose system in my brother's car.
Does it have menu shadows, though?
KDE's not slow on my 500 MHz Celeron either.
10-15 minutes? Is that all? On Long Island, the average wait time for Verizon or Cablevision customer support is at least half an hour. If that's the worst of your worries, you lucked out big time.
Tabbed browsing isn't exactly new -- they've been in use by NetCaptor since 1999, and Opera 4 since early 2000.
You don't necessarily need to run one off of your cable/DSL connection. I work for a web hosting company, and have pretty much free reign of the servers there. It helps a LOT.
Alternatively, many people also have dedicated or colocated servers (okay, maybe not many, but I assume there's a whole lot more in the Slashdot crowd than elsewhere) and it's not too difficult to run a mail server on one.
That aside, there are also services such as MyDomain.com, which will forward all mail to your domain to a given email address, where it's not very difficult to filter it by the To: address. It's almost as good as having all those email addresses, without actually needing to pay for them. I did this for years before I started working at this web host.
Does the defragging have something to do with dynamic partition resizing? I wasn't even thinking about partition resizing, but I suppose it would make sense. I always just repartitioned my entire drive, clearing away all the contents, when moving to a dual-boot configuration.
To my knowledge, the average Joe Blow home user doesn't give half a damn about the cost of Office -- to this day, I have only seen one legitimate copy of Office among all of my friends and relatives combined, and it was Office 97.
Could it, then, be said that software piracy is preventing Linux from becoming more prevalent?
Maybe if more people actually paid for the majority of their software in the first place Linux would become more popular.
Okay, I've got a few issues with this article:
"Fine," they said. "Just defrag your disk." (If you don't know how to defrag, you're probably not ready for the Linux experience.)
What the hell does defragging have to do with anything?
Here, software is not made by armies of "Microserfs" employed by a giant corporation, but by armies of volunteer programmers who "donate" their code to the public domain.
No, the code is not public domain. Most all programmers I know retain the copyrights on their software. This is why software licenses like the GPL exist in the first place.
Roger and David can give away this software with no fear of breaking copyright law because that's how the licence for Linux software works. Unlike Windows, you're free to make and give away as many copies as you like.
No, not all distributions are free. Some companies may choose not to GPL their proprietary bells-and-whistles, such as installers and configuration utilities. I also dislike this article's erroneous insinuation that all Linux software is free.
I don't really see how that would be any more convenient than picking the movie theater from a map on GPS. This just involves me needing to figure out which way the movie theater is, which isn't hard, but compared to the alternative seems rather needless.
To me, this just sounds like another gimmick. Remember when GPS was the "big thing" a few years ago? I think they want it so badly to come back that they need a technology refresh.
Haven't a lot of GPS devices been able to essentially do this for years, without all the pointing?
But you can already become super-thin and embarass yourself at the same time by playing Dance Dance Revolution in public.
It would be better if you could point it at hot girls and it would search the Internet for pictures of them without any clothes on.
I was thinking of putting Hatebreeder, since I do like that album better, but the criteria were albums that were perfect all the way through. Hatebreeder has a handful that just sorta chug along, like Black Widow. Dissection is a plus too, that should've been in there. Where Dead Angels Lie.
Perl Jam?
The geek-rock Pearl Jam cover band?
Note: When you say "hard rock and heavy metal" you probably don't mean progressive, thrash, black and death metal. These are listed here. Listen if you want, but it's an acquired taste. :)
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Evergrey - Recreation Day
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Whoracle
In Flames - Colony
Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Symphony X - V
Witchery - Restless & Dead
And those are just the perfect albums in my collection.
I'm not so sure on that. I think had he given this the time to take this to court, the EFF would've almost certainly stepped in to help this guy.
No, like in Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
Man, that Gremlin was the coolest dentist ever.
"06/19/03: The ChewPlastic Campus Search Engine is currently available to the public as a demonstration of the site as it was. NOTE: The files listed through the results on this site are fictitious - they DO NOT EXIST. This means that you cannot download them because they are fake computers on a fake network. While there is a small assortment of files listed in the search engine, they are not meant to represent the actual assortment of files available during the Search Engine's operation."
Oh, how useful.
Hey now, the RIAA is just the Recording Industry Association of America. There are plenty of foreign labels like Century Media, Spinefarm, and Nuclear Blast that have plenty of artists to offer.
Stick it to the man!
...so you can lose all your money again.
Right, but because you CAN download individual songs at $0.99 a pop doesn't mean you're going to stop buying albums. This is mostly for the people who love one-hit-wonders, or artists who push crap album after crap album with one or two good songs (I do not happen to think artists who do this are capable of actually producing good songs, but others may).
Certainly if someone likes the entire album it may be well worth their while to just go out and buy the CD.
This also begs the question: If someone doesn't like your "art" enough to buy the album and view it as a whole, why even bother trying to force it upon them?
Why do millions of people use AOL for Internet access? Some people don't know any better. People with no computer experience buy the hype and believe that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. The same thing applies to musicians in the record industry.
It's fairly accepted that if you ever want to make it "big", you need to be partnered up with a major label. Whether or not it's actually the case, the popular misconception is certainly pervasive enough to convince many people to screw themselves into shit contracts.
Part of it is also psychological. If a scout from Sony approached you and wanted to sign you, you would probably be more excited than if some mom-and-pop BaBango Records from the other side of town wanted to push your EP. To many people, being signed to a major label gives them a feeling that they, to a degree, have already "made it." Many years later they tend to regret their dealings.
And many artists DO start up their own labels. Some are rather successful at it, such as Steve Vai and his Favored Nations label, but most musicians don't have the business sense to manage a company like that.
I hate to say this, for fear of possibly being modded flamebait, but I would call the people on MTV Cribs neither "artists" nor "musicians." These are people that the record companies have decided are marketable enough to reimburse for their "work" pressing out the same crap cookie-cutter albums we've heard thousands of times before. This, of course, does not apply to everyone featured therein, but certainly would apply to the majority of the rap, pop-punk, and nu-metal superstars polluting the Top 40 charts.
No, you wouldn't. But say instead that your department gets 12% of the cut, which isn't that unrealistic.
Artists don't make money by themselves. Most successful artists are bands with five members (for the sake of argument, even solo artists have touring ensembles, session musicians, etc.), management (which typically will take 15% of your gross earnings), and tour promoters, who will take a further cut.
Don't forget, bands also have to pay back the record companies for all the money that the company spends marketing and promoting their product. So figure that for your first four albums or so, your 12% probably amounts to negative money.
Can't leave out income taxes, either.
So how much does everyone really end up with? Unless you're huge, probably somewhere in the realm of 10 to 15 cents per album sold.