No way. Epis 1 and 2 must have been invented during a moonshine binge at the mildest, although I think it was more like a turpentine/diesel mixture. Throw in some soda candy. Yay JAR JAR!
I wonder how sudden are the tuning changes. For basses there are this funny contraptions called "d-tuners" or "xtenders" (there are guitar ones too) that permit you to have two different tunings for a string at the flick of a switch. Used mostly to provide a little more range (the usual is dropping your E string to D), some people use it with amazing results. That guy flicks tunings like it's nothing, some songs containing over five or six different tunings.
(No, it's not a gay porn page. It's Michael Manring's, bassist extraordinarie, homepage:)
I had heard about string strectching, but my string manufacturer discouraged it, and, since I play bass, and in South America, a set of bass strings cost the earth! I figured, if I had to spend such a quantity of money, I should take good care of strings, wich included not stretching. Fortunately, bass strings are less prone to this detuning than guitar strings (it seems like the "smooth" strings, the first three ones are more prone to this than the roundwound ones)
If they are to affect the tuning, they should be more like "lengthening or shortening the string" that "raising or lowering the string". The effects on string action(*) should be negligible... of course, this assumes you have your guitar mostly in tune, as if you are grossly out of tune you will need BIG bridge movements to compensate.
(*)action: Shortest distance from the strings to the fingerboard.
I saddled them with macs just before I left because I wouldn't be there to do tech support. I just can't imagine the mayhem that would happen if I had left them with Windows PCs:D
If found true, this tidbit of information goes to show that market share isn't everything... unless you do business in commodity goods. Apple computers have been always marketed at a niche of people who are aware of the fact that quality & luxury costs a little more. You can be a successful company with only 5% of the market.
Who needs the market share when you've got a cool 4 billion bucks in the bank, and the mind share - apple equals style and coolness, like it or not.
I don't mind the new license, mainly because I don't care about the GPL and the FSF in general.
Of course. No end user gives a flying fuck about it. Distributors of said software (as in, for example, Redhat, debian, et al), however, have a job description that includes caring about licensing issues. Running a distro is chore enough that you don't need to willingly open up to lawsuits and such.
I wish Darl was shipped here (Chile) to serve some nice hard time. Last night in the news, there was this piece about the prisons, wich are grossly overpopulated (facilities for 250 inmates used by 900 was one example). Darly-baby would fit right in:)
Of course, being a CEO and all that, he probably would go to Capuchinos, wich is the luxury prison for nice famous delinquents (politicians charged with corruption go there, economic crimes, that kind of stuff... it has cable TV, pool table, you name it. Of course, they charge you if you get your ass in the clink. Kinda like a hotel with bars on the windows:)
But if MS piggybacks OO.o, they can't add support for correct MSWord unless they open up the source to that... they can't pull their favorite strongarm tactics, IIRC the Sun License and the GPL forbid them of playing MSOffice with OpenOffice. Besides, if MS decides to cut support for OpenOffice, you still can get it elsewhere, unlike win96 users who are told to go screw.
And what's wrong with that? If M$ enters the GPL arena, they are most welcome. Free Software isn't about destroying the competition. It's about making the best software. I, for one, wouldn't mind using a free OS coded by satan himself, if it met my requirements.
Upgrading isn't always an option. For example, at work we have a system that relies heavily on specific versions of Apache and Perl. But, the Apache and Perl teams still patch bugs in my "old" versions of the software.
Note that there are two differnet standards - PCI-X is different than "PCI Express".
oops! Saw "express" and my brain immediately turned it into X like all the marketing hype (X-treme toilet paper! Now whiter and paperier!)
But the point still stands. I think it hurts AGP-motherboard owners than AGP-card owners. Its kind of usual to replace your vidcard, not to usual to replace your mobo.
Nopes, if all the new products are PCI-X...
it doesn't bode well for people who bought high-end AGP-supporting MOTHERBOARDS. Bought it thinking upgrading the vidcard awhile down the road? Think again:/
People who have the last-gen AGP cards will continue to use them...
Yes it is. If you just breeze through all the installation clicking "OK" linuxconf daemon will come up every time you power on and replace all the changes you did to the config files with your favorite editor with the sensible choices made at installation time or through a nice GUI configuration tool.
Of course, you DO have the option of not installing it, or turing it off when you decide wich daemons go up (first time I installed mandrake I didn't see it).
I didn't say it was easy to break. In fact, all that hand-holding make it hard to break - but it also makes it hard to fine tune to your tastes. Just turn off the hand-holding, and you are left with one of the best distros in town.
And yes oh yes, linuxconf IS the spawn of satan. Although satan might take offense at that.
When messing around with mandrake, one must be extra-careful. More careful than, say, mucking around with debian. That's because Mandrake holds your hand... so you must disable all the hand-holding stuff before you want to get down n' dirty (linuxconf daemon comes on by default... good luck editing your config files:)
Once you disable the moron-proofing, you are left with a distro that is as easy to use as you want it to. Great stuff, mandrake.
Yup, my previous VCR did that. In fact, it started playing IF the tape had the write-protection tab broken, meaning it was an "original" or "finished" tape, so it could assume you wanted to watch the damn thing. If you inserted a tape with the tab intact (or scotch-taped over:) it did nothing, as it couldn't assume you wanted to play or maybe you wanted to record.
No wonder French exchange students that come here start chain-smoking right away. The highest-priced pack of cigarrettes you can get goes for like four dollars. And that price is for CUBAN, BLACK TOBACCO CIGARRETTES! (that means "luxury smokes" for you non-smokers:) You can get decent smokes for two bucks a 20-pack.
In Chile, clauses like that (clauses that modify the present contract in an unilateral and arbitrary way) are ilegal, but everybody puts them in. Only the ones who know the law (such as, geeks married to a hot lawyer chick like me:) know that we can send them to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
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No way. Epis 1 and 2 must have been invented during a moonshine binge at the mildest, although I think it was more like a turpentine/diesel mixture. Throw in some soda candy. Yay JAR JAR!
(lifted shamelessly from Tom Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger")
It's idiocy to punish all for the idiocy of few. Why do I have to pay more and be subject to this if I don't drink and drive?
(No, it's not a gay porn page. It's Michael Manring's, bassist extraordinarie, homepage :)
I had heard about string strectching, but my string manufacturer discouraged it, and, since I play bass, and in South America, a set of bass strings cost the earth! I figured, if I had to spend such a quantity of money, I should take good care of strings, wich included not stretching. Fortunately, bass strings are less prone to this detuning than guitar strings (it seems like the "smooth" strings, the first three ones are more prone to this than the roundwound ones)
(*)action: Shortest distance from the strings to the fingerboard.
After a day or two, the strings have already settled and can stay in tune for a little while longer.
I saddled them with macs just before I left because I wouldn't be there to do tech support. I just can't imagine the mayhem that would happen if I had left them with Windows PCs :D
Who needs the market share when you've got a cool 4 billion bucks in the bank, and the mind share - apple equals style and coolness, like it or not.
Now back to my beige box... :(
Of course. No end user gives a flying fuck about it. Distributors of said software (as in, for example, Redhat, debian, et al), however, have a job description that includes caring about licensing issues. Running a distro is chore enough that you don't need to willingly open up to lawsuits and such.
Of course, being a CEO and all that, he probably would go to Capuchinos, wich is the luxury prison for nice famous delinquents (politicians charged with corruption go there, economic crimes, that kind of stuff... it has cable TV, pool table, you name it. Of course, they charge you if you get your ass in the clink. Kinda like a hotel with bars on the windows :)
And what's wrong with that? If M$ enters the GPL arena, they are most welcome. Free Software isn't about destroying the competition. It's about making the best software. I, for one, wouldn't mind using a free OS coded by satan himself, if it met my requirements.
oops, my bad. Since the official release packages of kde.org are packaged for debian woody, I thought it already was _in_ woody.
Well, since KDE 3.2 is in woody already, I don't see how they could not include it in the official release of sarge as "stable".
Funny, I did that with my debian box and my fedora box at work. Guess what? With ANY distro that has the tools, you can just go ahead and compile it!
The only major problem left is that since the new xserver is a redesign it will need new binary drivers from ati/nvidia.
But does it implement the open nv driver? (that is, do we get a desktop with a nvidia card, albeit a non-accelerated one?)
Upgrading isn't always an option. For example, at work we have a system that relies heavily on specific versions of Apache and Perl. But, the Apache and Perl teams still patch bugs in my "old" versions of the software.
I don't have this option with MS.
oops! Saw "express" and my brain immediately turned it into X like all the marketing hype (X-treme toilet paper! Now whiter and paperier!)
But the point still stands. I think it hurts AGP-motherboard owners than AGP-card owners. Its kind of usual to replace your vidcard, not to usual to replace your mobo.
People who have the last-gen AGP cards will continue to use them...
Yes it is. If you just breeze through all the installation clicking "OK" linuxconf daemon will come up every time you power on and replace all the changes you did to the config files with your favorite editor with the sensible choices made at installation time or through a nice GUI configuration tool.
Of course, you DO have the option of not installing it, or turing it off when you decide wich daemons go up (first time I installed mandrake I didn't see it).
I didn't say it was easy to break. In fact, all that hand-holding make it hard to break - but it also makes it hard to fine tune to your tastes. Just turn off the hand-holding, and you are left with one of the best distros in town.
And yes oh yes, linuxconf IS the spawn of satan. Although satan might take offense at that.
Once you disable the moron-proofing, you are left with a distro that is as easy to use as you want it to. Great stuff, mandrake.
Yup, my previous VCR did that. In fact, it started playing IF the tape had the write-protection tab broken, meaning it was an "original" or "finished" tape, so it could assume you wanted to watch the damn thing. If you inserted a tape with the tab intact (or scotch-taped over :) it did nothing, as it couldn't assume you wanted to play or maybe you wanted to record.
No wonder French exchange students that come here start chain-smoking right away. The highest-priced pack of cigarrettes you can get goes for like four dollars. And that price is for CUBAN, BLACK TOBACCO CIGARRETTES! (that means "luxury smokes" for you non-smokers :) You can get decent smokes for two bucks a 20-pack.
In Chile, clauses like that (clauses that modify the present contract in an unilateral and arbitrary way) are ilegal, but everybody puts them in. Only the ones who know the law (such as, geeks married to a hot lawyer chick like me :) know that we can send them to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.