I believe law has nothing to do with it:) We're all for what makes sense. Therefore, we're against laws that don't make sense, and for laws that do. Antitrust laws are good in that they would prevent what Microsoft does... but copyright laws are bad when they are used against what they were origionally made for: to get things in public domain.
We make the laws... so why should the laws control us?
> the cost of producing an album is quite high -- in the millions of dollars (think: production cost, music video, marketing, distribution, etc., etc.).
Think mp3: production cost for actual CDs goes to 0, production costs for recording and distribution to radio stations are payed by radio stations, production costs for music videos are paid by MTV, the radio stations and MTV thus end up doing the marketing by exposing it to the public....
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That doesn't make sense...
First of all, for many people mp3s is the only way they'll get the music. I'm too poor to buy any CDs, so if I'm not going to pay for it either way, why not not pay for it and hear it anyway? Noone looses, and I gain.
More importantly, I would think that airtime is more determined by people calling in and requesting music, plus the personal likes of the DJ, how do record sales fit into it at all?
In fact, if music gets less airtime, then it means other music will take its place, meaning more bands will get exposure or at least more music will, and isn't this a good thing? You might never hear some really good music from a little band because the well known stuff is hogging the airwaves.
It's only in the going on tour part that you may have a point. Of course, I don't think sales are really all that affected by mp3s anyway.
I'm here in the US, but I keep getting the feeling that perhaps we should keep the US low on number of representatives.
Perhaps then the US government will see that they can't control the whole of the net, and they will stop passing laws like they're the owners of the whole thing. Plus, more foreign reps would perhaps help keep the net growing internationally....
:) I WAS there. In fact, I was there just last year where I was repeatedly told to butt out of everything having to do with the school's network even though I DESIGNED THE THING:)
And the guy they paid to work on it screwed it up with some really stupid misconfigurations....
But he's right. As schools discover the Internet, they get more and more frightened of it and give students less and less room to learn things like UNIX and networking./
I remember about the time the RIO was going to be released a bunch of people were talking about designs that would build a portable mp3 player based on CDRs for less than $70. Where'd they go?
I just think $100 (cheep-o Rio) is too much to pay for a mp3 player when it seems that the parts involved should cost significantly less, and when the $100 model sucks.
I'm currently a freshman in college persuing a degree in computer engineering. Should I shell out $24 for a student membership in the IEEE now? The engineering organizations on campus here (TAMU) have been hinting that being a member of the IEEE will look good on a resume, even though it's purely a bought title.
The move toward networked PCs is completely different from a move back toward dumb terminals. Terminals had their data pushed to them from a server with complete control, and PCs pull their data from whatever servers they want, and this is the key. Networking PCs therefore adds MORE power instead of taking it away.
However, I agree strongly that encryption is very necessary here. It shouldn't matter that the servers were breached because noone should be able to read the mail anyway! As long as my data is on a computer I have no control over, I should never trust it completely, and I should have the power to encrypt the smack out of it. This move would do more to put power to the users than anything else.
First of all, Please keep it on the homepage. Or at least in a slashbox. I mean it really doesn't take up much space and if you give it its own category people can block it out through preferances.
Also, I can never play the ra stream until about two days after the release (over my modem). Is there any way you guys can try to work against slashdotting?
I've always understood that the purpose of Jabber was to be cross platform and cross system, meaning that it will communicate with other protocols such as ICQ and AIM.
I believe it is being developed with the possibility of adding additional modules for other communication systems as they become available.
As far as IRC vs AIM, I believe IRC could easily alienate the average computer user. Sure the network of servers is better than all of the servers being concentrated in AOL, but they don't care about that; what they care about is the simpler interface. And to some extent I have to agree with them. Look and feel is very important.
The government is currently demanding that ICANN explain how it has the authority to put a $1 tax on all domain names.
Now weather or not you agree with the ICANN tax, who is there to ask the US Government where it gets its authority to tax the Internet?
I for one view the Internet as basically a seperate country free of government interfereance AND taxes. It's kind of like a place of refuge from politics in my mind.
This is bordering on completely off topic, but does anyone know where the Star Wars ASCII-mation page went? It was from an article posted a while back on/. but the page is now gone.
There were over 10,000 frames so I'm guessing the guy didn't just let that go to/dev/null....
I didn't expect it to be that great because I figured they'd just recycle all the same jokes from the last movie, and they did, but it beat my expectations. But still, I thought it was only okay.
I guess his brand of low brow humor just isn't my bag, baby.
Then again Kids in the Hall... now THAT's commedy.
First of all, many threads here have been talking about writing drivers for it for Linux, etc, and second, many threads have talked about makeing it software upgradable to fix security holes.
Consider that BECAUSE it was posted to Slashdot the makers of this card could be slashdotted with email and offers of help for making drivers for alternative OSs. Plus, if slashdotters show enough intrest they'll make OS drivers because they can see that it will increase their sales.
I think this kind of thing is EXACTLY what should be posted to Slashdot because we'd be able to make a difference.
Yes, I did all of this before and got that error. Now is there another way of finding out if X loaded the module? I don't want to download and compile all that stuff just to test it.
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I believe law has nothing to do with it :)
We're all for what makes sense. Therefore, we're against laws that don't make sense, and for laws that do.
Antitrust laws are good in that they would prevent what Microsoft does... but copyright laws are bad when they are used against what they were origionally made for: to get things in public domain.
We make the laws... so why should the laws control us?
> the cost of producing an album is quite high -- in the millions of dollars (think: production cost, music video, marketing, distribution, etc., etc.).
Think mp3: production cost for actual CDs goes to 0, production costs for recording and distribution to radio stations are payed by radio stations, production costs for music videos are paid by MTV, the radio stations and MTV thus end up doing the marketing by exposing it to the public....
First of all, for many people mp3s is the only way they'll get the music. I'm too poor to buy any CDs, so if I'm not going to pay for it either way, why not not pay for it and hear it anyway? Noone looses, and I gain.
More importantly, I would think that airtime is more determined by people calling in and requesting music, plus the personal likes of the DJ, how do record sales fit into it at all?
In fact, if music gets less airtime, then it means other music will take its place, meaning more bands will get exposure or at least more music will, and isn't this a good thing? You might never hear some really good music from a little band because the well known stuff is hogging the airwaves.
It's only in the going on tour part that you may have a point. Of course, I don't think sales are really all that affected by mp3s anyway.
Chris Carlin
A little wire comes out of the player and connects to the cig lighter, just as a wire comes out of the player to connect to a CD player.
Any power conditioning should be done at the plug for the cig lighter so as to reduce bulk on the player itself.
I'm here in the US, but I keep getting the feeling that perhaps we should keep the US low on number of representatives.
Perhaps then the US government will see that they can't control the whole of the net, and they will stop passing laws like they're the owners of the whole thing. Plus, more foreign reps would perhaps help keep the net growing internationally....
~Chris Carlin
Are YOU being sarcastic?
And the guy they paid to work on it screwed it up with some really stupid misconfigurations....
But he's right. As schools discover the Internet, they get more and more frightened of it and give students less and less room to learn things like UNIX and networking./
I remember about the time the RIO was going to be released a bunch of people were talking about designs that would build a portable mp3 player based on CDRs for less than $70. Where'd they go?
I just think $100 (cheep-o Rio) is too much to pay for a mp3 player when it seems that the parts involved should cost significantly less, and when the $100 model sucks.
~Chris
~Chris
The move toward networked PCs is completely different from a move back toward dumb terminals. Terminals had their data pushed to them from a server with complete control, and PCs pull their data from whatever servers they want, and this is the key. Networking PCs therefore adds MORE power instead of taking it away.
However, I agree strongly that encryption is very necessary here. It shouldn't matter that the servers were breached because noone should be able to read the mail anyway! As long as my data is on a computer I have no control over, I should never trust it completely, and I should have the power to encrypt the smack out of it. This move would do more to put power to the users than anything else.
~Chris
Pleeeeaase???
Ok, well thanks
Chris Carlin,
volkris@cryogen.com
Watching the statistics graph it never remains at 8.5 or above for more than half a second before dipping waaaay down and back up again.
Usually, as soon as it was released I always had much too much time spent in dips to play well.
~Chris
Also, I can never play the ra stream until about two days after the release (over my modem). Is there any way you guys can try to work against slashdotting?
~Chris Carlin
I believe it is being developed with the possibility of adding additional modules for other communication systems as they become available.
As far as IRC vs AIM, I believe IRC could easily alienate the average computer user. Sure the network of servers is better than all of the servers being concentrated in AOL, but they don't care about that; what they care about is the simpler interface. And to some extent I have to agree with them. Look and feel is very important.
I'm surprised noone seems to talk about Transmetta anymore....
I havn't heard a good Transmetta gonna whoop Intel rumor in months.
Now weather or not you agree with the ICANN tax, who is there to ask the US Government where it gets its authority to tax the Internet?
I for one view the Internet as basically a seperate country free of government interfereance AND taxes. It's kind of like a place of refuge from politics in my mind.
This is bordering on completely off topic, but does anyone know where the Star Wars ASCII-mation page went? It was from an article posted a while back on /. but the page is now gone.
/dev/null....
There were over 10,000 frames so I'm guessing the guy didn't just let that go to
Anyone have the email address of AMD's marketing?
:) because Athlon is baaaad.
I think time to voice these oppinions to AMD through email and newsgroups
BTW, notice on the AMD website that MS chose a K6-3 machine as the ultimate gaming machine. I guess the Wintel alliance is definately crumbling.
I'm pretty sure the MX300 does not work under Linux but the SBLive does.
Correct me if I'm wrong, because I would love to use an MX300 in this computer.
I didn't expect it to be that great because I figured they'd just recycle all the same jokes from the last movie, and they did, but it beat my expectations. But still, I thought it was only okay.
I guess his brand of low brow humor just isn't my bag, baby.
Then again Kids in the Hall... now THAT's commedy.
Are you smoking cra-- oh... nevermind...
:)
First of all, many threads here have been talking about writing drivers for it for Linux, etc, and second, many threads have talked about makeing it software upgradable to fix security holes.
Consider that BECAUSE it was posted to Slashdot the makers of this card could be slashdotted with email and offers of help for making drivers for alternative OSs. Plus, if slashdotters show enough intrest they'll make OS drivers because they can see that it will increase their sales.
I think this kind of thing is EXACTLY what should be posted to Slashdot because we'd be able to make a difference.
It says it is bundled with the software.
I interpret that to mean that the software comes free with the unit.
The solution was that X was loading a different XF86Config file than I thought, so I just had to edit the new one.
Yes, I did all of this before and got that error.
Now is there another way of finding out if X loaded the module? I don't want to download and compile all that stuff just to test it.