No, it is not. Neither is intuitive - a complete newcomer would have no chance of guessing either command. Both must be learned. Given that, I'll take the 2-character command over the 11-character command any day.
amarok, a KDE media player, can use MusicBrainz to tag songs. Home Page. So far I've had good results with it, although I haven't needed to re-tag very many songs yet...
Actually, my wife is at least somewhat relevant to this. I set up a Linux box for her, and she quite liked the interface, at least until she tried to get stuff done, like attaching a printer. We got it working but only because I had the knowledge to figure out what the hell CUPS actually wanted. (In the end, she went back to Windows, and I don't particularly blame her. Much as I like Linux and use it every day, it is plain that it's still not "there" for novice or casual PC users, even with in-house technical support).
The problem here isn't just the CUPS is difficult or unsuited for novice users, it's also a real pain for experienced users. I managed to work it out, at least for the print server I set up at home, but that was time I'd rather not have spent puzzling over some rather dense documentation.
That's incredibly stupid of you.
And that's a little offensive of you. I don't call people I disagree with stupid (well, unless they really deserve it, which I don't think you do)
Every JetDirect I've *ever* setup has been ip.address:9100 (for the first port, 9101 for the second, 9102 for the third, etc).
Well done. You know how to set up a JetDirect printer.
But the original poster's point is very valid: how the hell is Joe Random User supposed to know that a) JetDirect uses port 9100, b) you need to specify remote printers with a URL (or for that matter what a URL is), or c) that the protocol (what's a protocol?) is "socket".
My wife, for example, wouldn't have the slightest idea where to start. Not a slight on her intelligence (I hasten to add:-) - she doesn't "do" computing. Which is fine - I don't "do" property law.
See, CUPS is all well and good when it works. Clearly the backend is well-written and solid and does what it says on the tin. But the frontend still clearly leaves a lot to be desired. It's fine for users like you or me, but it's totally unsuited to a novice user (or indeed any user who just wants to use their PC as a tool to print stuff).
If you search HP's forums, there are many threads that deal with this. Hell, if it was under warranty, you could even have called HP's support.
If someone needs to call HP support to learn how to do routine installation of a piece of HP hardware, then there's something wrong with the setup process.
I suppose you also think bluetooth has something to do with blue teeth?
Well, actually it does. Bluetooth is named for the 10th centrury Dane, King Harald Blatand (literal translation: Blue Tooth). Possibly because of a reputed fondness for blueberries, though that's as likely apocryphal as not.
About the etymology of Greenland: the OP is wrong, just as he's wrong in attempting to defend the frankly indefensible US stand on Kyoto. It was named Greenland in the hopes that a good name would induce settlers to go there, not because it was green. Greenland is warming up, not cooling down: reference.
Or if you're in Europe, buy yourself a DVB card. Most DVB cards are well-supported under Linux & MythTV and no CPU cycles are needed for MPEG-encoding, since DVB is basically an MPEG2 stream.
See/usr/src/linux/Documentation/dvb/cards.txt for a list of what works.
5 The pretext was to invade BEFORE Iraq was a direct danger. as in don't wait till it's too late. As well as that he had wmd's and other banned weapons (he did have banned weapons, just not much in the way of nbc/wmd weapons).
That's a rather dangerous argument. By the same token, Iran has a valid pretext to attack US troops in Iraq right now. The US has been making using some threatening language toward Iran recently, has over 100,000 troops in a neighbouring country, and definitely does possess WMD's.
Not that I'm any kind of fan of Iran's fundamentalist dictatorship, but the US's current "pre-emptive retataliation" strategy is making a lot of the world pretty nervous right now... if one country can invade who it pleases, why can't everyone else do the same?
No, it was not fine. It was a half-arsed JavaScript clone with all of the disadvantages and none of the advantages. Scripting the simplest tasks was a major pain. Building in a "proper" scripting language like Python, Ruby or even Perl would be a huge godsend.
... that may not be an option, for example on a small form-factor PC with only one available PCI slot. Like the Mini-ITX PC currently sitting beside my TV. It already has a PCI card installed (wireless ethernet, though at some point I'll run some wired ethernet in and get a second internal tuner card).
So for me, an external DVB tuner was the only option, and I purchased a Hauppage DEC 2000-T box. This box also has the advantage of also functioning as a standalone DVB-T tuner if desired, which may be handy if & when I retire this PC.
The DEC2000-T was pretty unstable when I first installed it, but it looks like that was down to Linux driver problems - the 2.6.7 kernel I'm running now is working just great with this & MythTV, and the driver author has been pretty responsive to bug reports. I haven't needed to reset the tuner in months and I haven't had a bad recording from it in months either.
It's only a USB 1.1 device, but I haven't had any problems there either. It has no problems in transferring a live TV signal. Granted, the only other USB devices I'm using are a keyboard and mouse...
But yeah, I can recommend a DEC 2000-T. Works for me.
Maybe you should have gone with a different mortgage company, then.
Your signature doesn't have to look like your name. What it does need to be is consistent and distinctive. I'd steer well clear of any official body who required me to use a "fake" signature.
No - in the context of SSH, a passphrase is the key which encrypts your private SSH key with some symmetric cipher. So it's used quite differently from a standard Unix password, which is just a one way hash (crypt, or MD5 on more modern systems) of your plaintext password.
You're free to put whatever you like in a passphrase or password - but using plain dictionary words is a bad idea in either case. Longish sentences of words are much better.
I still don't know what you mean by artificial scarcity. Probably because you don't mean anything by it
What I mean is this: copies of "album X" are not scarce. The digital medium can be copied any number of times, and each copy is just as good as the original. The number of items of this product that can be produced is virtually infinite. This is completely unlike any physical commodity (say, computers, hi-fi equipment) where the quantity is strictly limited by production capacity.
"Artifical scarcity" in this context is the attempt to limit a basically unlimited resource in order to raise the prices (generally via DRM implementations of varying levels of ineptitude). This is what's unworkable. Sure, it's unlikely to kill the music industry, though to listen to the RIAA you wouldn't think so. But it's not really a long-term sustainable business model either.
But music and art are not commodities.
The RIAA treat music as a commodity. Which is exactly the problem.
You can not trade one piece of music for another.
So? You can trade recordings of music, which is what we're talking about here. At least it's what I was talking about, I've no idea where the thread of your argument is going.
If somebody charges "too much" for something you need, you're gonna buy it, end of story, and all your bullshit cries of "hey this scarcity is artifically produced and your model is unsustainable" will fall on deaf ears.
Except that's not the case today, is it? If someone charges "too much" for an album, people just go and pirate it.
By the way, where did you get the impression that I was whining? I'm just expressing my opinions; you're the one who seems to need to resort to swearing. So take your superior attitude and shove it. "Wasting everyone's time", indeed. This is a discussion forum, in case you hadn't noticed. If you don't feel up to "discussing", may I suggest you stop wasting everyone's time?
After all, it's not like albums are "scarce," as you're claiming
Er, I didn't claim that at all. I said that the record labels are attempting to create artificial scarcity. And not doing a very good job of it.
I also wasn't trying to argue that copyright violation isn't wrong; more that the current economic model (of artifical scarcity) isn't really sustainable. It's a classic emperor's new clothes scenario, and some people are beginning to catch on to the fact that some corporations are butt naked.
See, the thing is this: the concept the artists must be paid for everything they do isn't some golden rule - the idea is only about 100 years old. Before then, for the entire history of humanity, artists managed quite well (or quite badly, just as today) without reaping royalties from a million album sales. If, as some people argue, piracy will kill the music industry, how did music ever get written before record labels existed, hmm?
Today's situation is the exception in human history, not the rule. Copyrights only exist because it's so easy to copy things, not because artists have some fundamental entitlement to be paid for each copy of their work that gets sold.
The options shouldn't be 'buy at a low price' or 'steal'. They should be 'buy at a low price' or 'don't buy at all'.
Following your analogy: if I don't buy at all, the record label gets... nothing. If I steal, the record label gets... nothing! So what's the difference?
Your argument is flawed because copyright violation is not analogous to stealing physical property. You're assuming a zero-sum game, but when information can easily be replicated, that no longer holds true. Record labels inflate album prices by attempting to enforce artificial scarcity. This doesn't work. The whole multi-billion dollar entertainment industry is built an a foundation made of thin air.
you should pay for your codecs like everyone else does
Rubbish. I paid for my DVD's, and I paid for my DVD-ROM drive. Why the hell should I have to pay yet again for the privilege of viewing my DVD's on my DVD-ROM drive? Oh wait, I don't have to.
You're missing my point though. These people were declared to be enemy combatants, and locked up with no recourse. They have not been proven guilty, or even charged, of any crime. Some of these men are US citizens, by the way, but all have basic human rights, which have been abrogated by the US government.
Your government (I'm assuming you're American here; if not, my apologies) has taken up on itself the role of judge, jury and executioner, and in doing so has discarded a 200-year tradition of freedom and respect for the individual. In this ill-conceived "war on terror", it is in very real danger of losing sight of what America has always stood for in the eyes of the rest of the world.
And these prisoners were decreed to be "Enemy Combatants" by whom, exactly? Which court of law has found them guilty, and of what? What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
Look, many or most of these people may well be terrorists, but they've had no access to a lawyer, and not a single opportunity to protest their innocence. If the US government believes them to be criminals, why haven't they been charged with a crime?
They've even been able to swing an election in a Western European nation, and have won over most of that continent to agreeing with their major policy positions.
Pardon my language, but: what a load of fucking bullshit.
Just because most European people don't like current White House policy, and don't like Ariel Sharon doesn't mean for one moment that we believe Al Qaeda is anything but a bunch of murderous terrorists. It didn't take Al Qaeda to make Europe dislike the Neo-conservative/Zionists alliance.
What really lost the election for the conservatives in Spain was not the Madrid bombing itself, but the incumbents botched efforts at blaming the attack on ETA. Their lies were shown for what they were, and they lost the election. Maybe this should be a lesson to governments in other nations.
Look at what happened to Apollo... Apollo 11? Everyone was watching. By Apollo 14 the public was disinterested.
I do not think that means what you think it means. Go look up "disinterested" in a dictionary. Compare & contrast with "uninterested". If you use the first definition from dictionary.com, be sure also to check the comment attached to it.
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"get-process" is far more intuitive than "ps"
No, it is not. Neither is intuitive - a complete newcomer would have no chance of guessing either command. Both must be learned. Given that, I'll take the 2-character command over the 11-character command any day.
and deal with violet criminals promptly
What would you do with them? Maroon them?
amarok, a KDE media player, can use MusicBrainz to tag songs. Home Page. So far I've had good results with it, although I haven't needed to re-tag very many songs yet...
That'd be an achievement, given that a 6500 is a switch.
Actually, my wife is at least somewhat relevant to this. I set up a Linux box for her, and she quite liked the interface, at least until she tried to get stuff done, like attaching a printer. We got it working but only because I had the knowledge to figure out what the hell CUPS actually wanted. (In the end, she went back to Windows, and I don't particularly blame her. Much as I like Linux and use it every day, it is plain that it's still not "there" for novice or casual PC users, even with in-house technical support).
The problem here isn't just the CUPS is difficult or unsuited for novice users, it's also a real pain for experienced users. I managed to work it out, at least for the print server I set up at home, but that was time I'd rather not have spent puzzling over some rather dense documentation.
That's incredibly stupid of you.
And that's a little offensive of you. I don't call people I disagree with stupid (well, unless they really deserve it, which I don't think you do)
Every JetDirect I've *ever* setup has been ip.address:9100 (for the first port, 9101 for the second, 9102 for the third, etc).
:-) - she doesn't "do" computing. Which is fine - I don't "do" property law.
Well done. You know how to set up a JetDirect printer.
But the original poster's point is very valid: how the hell is Joe Random User supposed to know that a) JetDirect uses port 9100, b) you need to specify remote printers with a URL (or for that matter what a URL is), or c) that the protocol (what's a protocol?) is "socket".
My wife, for example, wouldn't have the slightest idea where to start. Not a slight on her intelligence (I hasten to add
See, CUPS is all well and good when it works. Clearly the backend is well-written and solid and does what it says on the tin. But the frontend still clearly leaves a lot to be desired. It's fine for users like you or me, but it's totally unsuited to a novice user (or indeed any user who just wants to use their PC as a tool to print stuff).
If you search HP's forums, there are many threads that deal with this. Hell, if it was under warranty, you could even have called HP's support.
If someone needs to call HP support to learn how to do routine installation of a piece of HP hardware, then there's something wrong with the setup process.
Offtopic: "whiskey" is a valid spelling for the drink in Ireland.
I suppose you also think bluetooth has something to do with blue teeth?
Well, actually it does. Bluetooth is named for the 10th centrury Dane, King Harald Blatand (literal translation: Blue Tooth). Possibly because of a reputed fondness for blueberries, though that's as likely apocryphal as not.
About the etymology of Greenland: the OP is wrong, just as he's wrong in attempting to defend the frankly indefensible US stand on Kyoto. It was named Greenland in the hopes that a good name would induce settlers to go there, not because it was green. Greenland is warming up, not cooling down: reference.
Or if you're in Europe, buy yourself a DVB card. Most DVB cards are well-supported under Linux & MythTV and no CPU cycles are needed for MPEG-encoding, since DVB is basically an MPEG2 stream.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/dvb/cards.txt for a list of what works.
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Not to mention "they all of the sudden" and "loose my mind" (why, was it too tight?)
5 The pretext was to invade BEFORE Iraq was a direct danger. as in don't wait till it's too late. As well as that he had wmd's and other banned weapons (he did have banned weapons, just not much in the way of nbc/wmd weapons).
That's a rather dangerous argument. By the same token, Iran has a valid pretext to attack US troops in Iraq right now. The US has been making using some threatening language toward Iran recently, has over 100,000 troops in a neighbouring country, and definitely does possess WMD's.
Not that I'm any kind of fan of Iran's fundamentalist dictatorship, but the US's current "pre-emptive retataliation" strategy is making a lot of the world pretty nervous right now... if one country can invade who it pleases, why can't everyone else do the same?
I can see that you desperately need one.
:)
Well if you want to nitpick about grammar, the correct syntax is "I can see that you need one desperately".
Are you referring to the UK & USA-backed dictator of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov?
No, it was not fine. It was a half-arsed JavaScript clone with all of the disadvantages and none of the advantages. Scripting the simplest tasks was a major pain. Building in a "proper" scripting language like Python, Ruby or even Perl would be a huge godsend.
... that may not be an option, for example on a small form-factor PC with only one available PCI slot. Like the Mini-ITX PC currently sitting beside my TV. It already has a PCI card installed (wireless ethernet, though at some point I'll run some wired ethernet in and get a second internal tuner card).
So for me, an external DVB tuner was the only option, and I purchased a Hauppage DEC 2000-T box. This box also has the advantage of also functioning as a standalone DVB-T tuner if desired, which may be handy if & when I retire this PC.
The DEC2000-T was pretty unstable when I first installed it, but it looks like that was down to Linux driver problems - the 2.6.7 kernel I'm running now is working just great with this & MythTV, and the driver author has been pretty responsive to bug reports. I haven't needed to reset the tuner in months and I haven't had a bad recording from it in months either.
It's only a USB 1.1 device, but I haven't had any problems there either. It has no problems in transferring a live TV signal. Granted, the only other USB devices I'm using are a keyboard and mouse...
But yeah, I can recommend a DEC 2000-T. Works for me.
Maybe you should have gone with a different mortgage company, then.
Your signature doesn't have to look like your name. What it does need to be is consistent and distinctive. I'd steer well clear of any official body who required me to use a "fake" signature.
No - in the context of SSH, a passphrase is the key which encrypts your private SSH key with some symmetric cipher. So it's used quite differently from a standard Unix password, which is just a one way hash (crypt, or MD5 on more modern systems) of your plaintext password.
You're free to put whatever you like in a passphrase or password - but using plain dictionary words is a bad idea in either case. Longish sentences of words are much better.
I still don't know what you mean by artificial scarcity. Probably because you don't mean anything by it
What I mean is this: copies of "album X" are not scarce. The digital medium can be copied any number of times, and each copy is just as good as the original. The number of items of this product that can be produced is virtually infinite. This is completely unlike any physical commodity (say, computers, hi-fi equipment) where the quantity is strictly limited by production capacity.
"Artifical scarcity" in this context is the attempt to limit a basically unlimited resource in order to raise the prices (generally via DRM implementations of varying levels of ineptitude). This is what's unworkable. Sure, it's unlikely to kill the music industry, though to listen to the RIAA you wouldn't think so. But it's not really a long-term sustainable business model either.
But music and art are not commodities.
The RIAA treat music as a commodity. Which is exactly the problem.
You can not trade one piece of music for another.
So? You can trade recordings of music, which is what we're talking about here. At least it's what I was talking about, I've no idea where the thread of your argument is going.
If somebody charges "too much" for something you need, you're gonna buy it, end of story, and all your bullshit cries of "hey this scarcity is artifically produced and your model is unsustainable" will fall on deaf ears.
Except that's not the case today, is it? If someone charges "too much" for an album, people just go and pirate it.
By the way, where did you get the impression that I was whining? I'm just expressing my opinions; you're the one who seems to need to resort to swearing. So take your superior attitude and shove it. "Wasting everyone's time", indeed. This is a discussion forum, in case you hadn't noticed. If you don't feel up to "discussing", may I suggest you stop wasting everyone's time?
After all, it's not like albums are "scarce," as you're claiming
Er, I didn't claim that at all. I said that the record labels are attempting to create artificial scarcity. And not doing a very good job of it.
I also wasn't trying to argue that copyright violation isn't wrong; more that the current economic model (of artifical scarcity) isn't really sustainable. It's a classic emperor's new clothes scenario, and some people are beginning to catch on to the fact that some corporations are butt naked.
See, the thing is this: the concept the artists must be paid for everything they do isn't some golden rule - the idea is only about 100 years old. Before then, for the entire history of humanity, artists managed quite well (or quite badly, just as today) without reaping royalties from a million album sales. If, as some people argue, piracy will kill the music industry, how did music ever get written before record labels existed, hmm?
Today's situation is the exception in human history, not the rule. Copyrights only exist because it's so easy to copy things, not because artists have some fundamental entitlement to be paid for each copy of their work that gets sold.
The options shouldn't be 'buy at a low price' or 'steal'. They should be 'buy at a low price' or 'don't buy at all'.
Following your analogy: if I don't buy at all, the record label gets... nothing. If I steal, the record label gets... nothing! So what's the difference?
Your argument is flawed because copyright violation is not analogous to stealing physical property. You're assuming a zero-sum game, but when information can easily be replicated, that no longer holds true. Record labels inflate album prices by attempting to enforce artificial scarcity. This doesn't work. The whole multi-billion dollar entertainment industry is built an a foundation made of thin air.
you should pay for your codecs like everyone else does
Rubbish. I paid for my DVD's, and I paid for my DVD-ROM drive. Why the hell should I have to pay yet again for the privilege of viewing my DVD's on my DVD-ROM drive? Oh wait, I don't have to.
You're missing my point though. These people were declared to be enemy combatants, and locked up with no recourse. They have not been proven guilty, or even charged, of any crime. Some of these men are US citizens, by the way, but all have basic human rights, which have been abrogated by the US government.
Your government (I'm assuming you're American here; if not, my apologies) has taken up on itself the role of judge, jury and executioner, and in doing so has discarded a 200-year tradition of freedom and respect for the individual. In this ill-conceived "war on terror", it is in very real danger of losing sight of what America has always stood for in the eyes of the rest of the world.
And these prisoners were decreed to be "Enemy Combatants" by whom, exactly? Which court of law has found them guilty, and of what? What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
Look, many or most of these people may well be terrorists, but they've had no access to a lawyer, and not a single opportunity to protest their innocence. If the US government believes them to be criminals, why haven't they been charged with a crime?
They've even been able to swing an election in a Western European nation, and have won over most of that continent to agreeing with their major policy positions.
Pardon my language, but: what a load of fucking bullshit.
Just because most European people don't like current White House policy, and don't like Ariel Sharon doesn't mean for one moment that we believe Al Qaeda is anything but a bunch of murderous terrorists. It didn't take Al Qaeda to make Europe dislike the Neo-conservative/Zionists alliance.
What really lost the election for the conservatives in Spain was not the Madrid bombing itself, but the incumbents botched efforts at blaming the attack on ETA. Their lies were shown for what they were, and they lost the election. Maybe this should be a lesson to governments in other nations.
Look at what happened to Apollo ... Apollo 11? Everyone was watching. By Apollo 14 the public was disinterested.
I do not think that means what you think it means. Go look up "disinterested" in a dictionary. Compare & contrast with "uninterested". If you use the first definition from dictionary.com, be sure also to check the comment attached to it.