It seems a lot of people are saying how terrible the albums are... maybe you are looking in the wrong places? If you found music you liked then, by the definition, you would like it!
Music for Nations and Nuclear Blast, for example, have some albums were I thought the songs were consistently great. So I didn't mind paying 16 for them. Of course, when I buy expensive albums then I feel cheated.
In England, at least, Music shops often let you sample songs (HMV have CD Players with headphone with selected tracks playing) and some magazines often come with sample CDs, so there are ways of sampling music without downloading from your favourite P2P network.
It is a shame prices have to go up on this new model, but don't let it make you think all albums are bad!
I can't see any point, but people keep telling me it is of great political importants. I can't see why, so I suppose that is why I'm not a politician.
The article is talking about using the Moon as a base for travelling to Mars. If this would help efforts to go to Mars (Which is a Good Thing), then, yes, sure, using the Moon like that would be great.
Other points it raise show that some scientists think it is useless (Quote: "In short, we should ask whether dirt and gravity offer any general value to astronomy. The answer, I believe, is no."). This is countered, in the article by saying that we will to do tests on The Moon without interference from things from the earth.
Well, I think I've been converted. There is a point!
Real is a bit of a bitch to download and use, even if you ignore all the adverts. I hate how it used to just randomly pop up and tell me about something.
I've just done a search for free Real Audio players (Open Source kind of free), and found none. Does anyone know any? Wouldn't this be exactly the sort of thing where OSS can shine?
Things do go wrong, and when things go wrong, they normally are preventable. People accept this, and understand it might happen. This is, for example, why there is so much opposition to Nuclear Power.
However, according to the article, there were rules in place to stop this happened, which were not followed (Quote: "Many reliability rules were ignored during the outages, the task force said.").
Also, it says:
"As it did in its interim report, the task force largely blamed FirstEnergy Corp., [...] faulting the company's lack of communication, faulty equipment and inadequate training"
These two points draw the line on acceptable accidents. This not only should have been prevented, but also it is due to neglect of rules and short-sightedness which caused it to happen.
It seems there are two IO modes you can choose from, at boot time.
"The anticipatory scheduling is so named because it anticipates processes doing several dependent reads. In theory, this should minimize the disk head movement. Without anticipation, the heads may have to seek back and forth under several loads, and there is a small delay before the head returns for a seek to see if the process requests another read. "
"The deadline scheduler has two additional scheduling queues that were not available to the 2.4 IO scheduler. The two new queues are a FIFO read queue and a FIFO write queue. This new multi-queue method allows for greater interactivity by giving the read requests a better deadline than write requests, thus ensuring that applications rarely will be delayed by read requests."
Nice, but this is making things more complex. I admit I'll just keep all kernel settings at wherever Mandrake sets them as. Will other people play about and specialise their system for the task that it does?
"Is WinAmp the free multimedia player of choice for Windows users?"
For many people, it used to be. However, now, WMP is much better. Newer versions can tuck into the Taskbar and so on, which makes up for Winamps superior (In many peoples opinion) UI.
"I know we've always talked about how Windows Media Player is eeeevil"
Yes, but it is quite nice.
"RealPlayer is spyware"
I've seen quite a few of my friends use this. I've no idea if they *choose* to use it, or if it cruelly tricked them, but they use it. They seem to think it is quite pretty.
"Does it do video or is it just a music thing?" It does do Video, but I find not very well (Sometimes my videos get tinted blue. Don't know why. Maybe they aren't very well encoded). It has great support for a load of formats, too (Most of which I never use). "MusicMatch Jukebox" I know one of my friends has this, but doesn't like the interface (WMP is the tool of choice for many).
"as a Linuxer I go between noatun and xmms"
Yes, Noatun is brilliant:) The simpler, to the point Playlist thing that I've always wanted. I've got to install XMMS some day!
"What winning argument do I use to say "use WinAmp instead of..." to Windows users who ask?"
To be honest, I don't think there is a good reason anymore. When I use Windows (Which I confess, I am right now because I had to do some Windows programming) I use WMP, because it tucks into the Task Bar, which is nicer than the System Tray. The User Interface is better in WMP, so I wouldn't bother recommending it. WMP is just plain easier to use.
However, how Winamp sticks to the sides (Like everything does in KDE) and how the bits stick to each other is a great feature. Maybe you could tell them about that?
"Is WinAmp the free multimedia player of choice for Windows users?"
For many people, it used to be. However, now, WMP is much better. Newer versions can tuck into the Taskbar and so on, which makes up for Winamps superior (In many peoples opinion) UI.
"I know we've always talked about how Windows Media Player is eeeevil"
Yes, but it is quite nice.
"RealPlayer is spyware"
I've seen quite a few of my friends use this. I've no idea if they *choose* to use it, or if it cruelly tricked them, but they use it. They seem to think it is quite pretty.
"Does it do video or is it just a music thing?"
It does do Video, but I find not very well (Sometimes my videos get tinted blue. Don't know why. Maybe they aren't very well encoded). It has great support for a load of formats, too (Most of which I never use).
"MusicMatch Jukebox"
I know one of my friends has this, but doesn't like the interface (WMP is the tool of choice for many).
"as a Linuxer I go between noatun and xmms"
Yes, Noatun is brilliant:) The simpler, to the point Playlist thing that I've always wanted. I've got to install XMMS some day!
"What winning argument do I use to say "use WinAmp instead of..." to Windows users who ask?"
To be honest, I don't think there is a good reason anymore. When I use Windows (Which I confess, I am right now because I had to do some Windows programming) I use WMP, because it tucks into the Task Bar, which is nicer than the System Tray. The User Interface is better in WMP, so I wouldn't bother recommending it. WMP is just plain easier to use.
However, how Winamp sticks to the sides (Like everything does in KDE) and how the bits stick to each other is a great feature. Maybe you could tell them about that?
Either I cannot pick up sarcasm, or the poster seems to think this is something we all indeed do want. Why exactly?
I mean, yes, it sounds nice. The spec's aren't bad. For those too lazy to look, the most interesting general point was:
"Specification wise, there are two flavours of the Recon available, the first running a 200MHz Intel XScale processor with 64MB of internal non-volatile Flash storage, the second an upgraded 400MHz version with 128MB of storage available"
Right, not bad, but Waterproof? I very rarely come across more water than that which comes out of my tap, and even then I don't put anything electric under it! Who, exactly, is the target audience? Or is just one of those "Cool" things?
It always scares me when Scientists want to do this sort of thing. Not because they are particular destructive people, but we all make mistakes, and we don't want this ruined.
At least, this time, we're going to drill in a fragile area in this name of Science, not Capitalism (As in for oil)
I think all software patents are wrong. I do not allow exceptions.
Apple is, potentially, as bad as Microsoft. That doesn't even really matter.
It annoys me that some people here think this is okay because 'it is Apple'.
On the other hand, I suppose you cannot really blame a company from doing it. The system should not allow Software Patents straight off. It would be unrealistic to expect companies to stop filing for patents on "moral ground".
I hope you know not every Windows user is stupid, and not every person who doesn't care about computers is stupid either.
Sometimes worth reminding people that here at/.
I use Mandrake 9.2 and Windows XP. Whilst using KDE, I find that non-KDE programs do quite often crash (The KDE ones are all fine though, as is OpenOffice, and of course all the console stuff), but these crashes do not effect the computer at all. On Windows XP, I do also quite often get crashed (Quite often from Windows Explorer). This often screws up my computer for a while, and requires me to use the Task Manager to fix.
Overall, I get just as many crashes on both, but my Linux install can handle it, whilst Windows cannot (Although it does a much better job than Windows 98 did).
Mozilla 1.5 displays it correctly on the address bar, however try hovering your cursor over the link and read the status bar... it terminates the string at the %00 then.
Wouldn't we prefer to think that the people who can solve these problems will be the same people who wouldn't want money for it? The rules about the User Interface are good though, and it something that future developments really need (A logical, clear UI)
Where was the money from, anyway?
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Bluetooth is the best way I have found for data transfer between my phone (Sony T610) and my computer, and phone to phone.
File Transfer is fast enough (Not lightening, but as fast as I need it. The phone is problem slowing it down more than anything else). I don't need to point it in the right direction, and I can use it up to 100m away. I can control my Computers Cursor via my mobile phone, which is cool. It can do some much which can't be done with the 1m 30 IR limitation. Bluetooth is great! Infact, I've never got an IR to IR connection working with another mobile phone except when great care was taken. Bluetooth lets me just turn it on and it finds the other phone right away.
I don't think any of the reasons it gave where very valid, but it doesn't seem to have taken off as much as it seems it should have, though.
Now I've just spoken about how I use Bluetooth a lot with my phone, but I never use it anywhere else. Printers can have it, but I don't really see them with it. I agree Wireless Headsets are pretty pointless. So... I think Bluetooth isn't dead, it just has a more limited scope than we imagined.
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Who uses UML? The designers or the programmers?
/.'ed.
I should imagine the designers wouldn't be very good at it, and I should imagine that programmers would have better ways to express themselves.
Sorry, this has just been a question I've wanted to know the answer to. And the story has been
Isn't in generally obvious what file is a virus and what isn't, however?
I had AVG, and updated it quite a bit, but I generally noticed something was a virus before it did, so it was worthless for that.
The only thing I worry about is infected executable downloads. A virus checker is useful then. But I still don't trust it to know.
It seems a lot of people are saying how terrible the albums are... maybe you are looking in the wrong places? If you found music you liked then, by the definition, you would like it!
Music for Nations and Nuclear Blast, for example, have some albums were I thought the songs were consistently great. So I didn't mind paying 16 for them. Of course, when I buy expensive albums then I feel cheated.
In England, at least, Music shops often let you sample songs (HMV have CD Players with headphone with selected tracks playing) and some magazines often come with sample CDs, so there are ways of sampling music without downloading from your favourite P2P network.
It is a shame prices have to go up on this new model, but don't let it make you think all albums are bad!
I can't see any point, but people keep telling me it is of great political importants. I can't see why, so I suppose that is why I'm not a politician.
The article is talking about using the Moon as a base for travelling to Mars. If this would help efforts to go to Mars (Which is a Good Thing), then, yes, sure, using the Moon like that would be great.
Other points it raise show that some scientists think it is useless (Quote: "In short, we should ask whether dirt and gravity offer any general value to astronomy. The answer, I believe, is no."). This is countered, in the article by saying that we will to do tests on The Moon without interference from things from the earth.
Well, I think I've been converted. There is a point!
Real is a bit of a bitch to download and use, even if you ignore all the adverts. I hate how it used to just randomly pop up and tell me about something.
I've just done a search for free Real Audio players (Open Source kind of free), and found none. Does anyone know any? Wouldn't this be exactly the sort of thing where OSS can shine?
Things do go wrong, and when things go wrong, they normally are preventable. People accept this, and understand it might happen. This is, for example, why there is so much opposition to Nuclear Power.
However, according to the article, there were rules in place to stop this happened, which were not followed (Quote: "Many reliability rules were ignored during the outages, the task force said.").
Also, it says:
"As it did in its interim report, the task force largely blamed FirstEnergy Corp., [...] faulting the company's lack of communication, faulty equipment and inadequate training"
These two points draw the line on acceptable accidents. This not only should have been prevented, but also it is due to neglect of rules and short-sightedness which caused it to happen.
It's good to see Microsoft supporting free file formats! Along with using PNG, I predict that future versions of Microsoft Windows will use OGG .
It seems there are two IO modes you can choose from, at boot time.
"The anticipatory scheduling is so named because it anticipates processes doing several dependent reads. In theory, this should minimize the disk head movement. Without anticipation, the heads may have to seek back and forth under several loads, and there is a small delay before the head returns for a seek to see if the process requests another read. "
"The deadline scheduler has two additional scheduling queues that were not available to the 2.4 IO scheduler. The two new queues are a FIFO read queue and a FIFO write queue. This new multi-queue method allows for greater interactivity by giving the read requests a better deadline than write requests, thus ensuring that applications rarely will be delayed by read requests."
Nice, but this is making things more complex. I admit I'll just keep all kernel settings at wherever Mandrake sets them as. Will other people play about and specialise their system for the task that it does?
"Is WinAmp the free multimedia player of choice for Windows users?"
:) The simpler, to the point Playlist thing that I've always wanted. I've got to install XMMS some day!
;) )
For many people, it used to be. However, now, WMP is much better. Newer versions can tuck into the Taskbar and so on, which makes up for Winamps superior (In many peoples opinion) UI.
"I know we've always talked about how Windows Media Player is eeeevil"
Yes, but it is quite nice.
"RealPlayer is spyware"
I've seen quite a few of my friends use this. I've no idea if they *choose* to use it, or if it cruelly tricked them, but they use it. They seem to think it is quite pretty.
"Does it do video or is it just a music thing?" It does do Video, but I find not very well (Sometimes my videos get tinted blue. Don't know why. Maybe they aren't very well encoded). It has great support for a load of formats, too (Most of which I never use). "MusicMatch Jukebox" I know one of my friends has this, but doesn't like the interface (WMP is the tool of choice for many).
"as a Linuxer I go between noatun and xmms"
Yes, Noatun is brilliant
"What winning argument do I use to say "use WinAmp instead of..." to Windows users who ask?"
To be honest, I don't think there is a good reason anymore. When I use Windows (Which I confess, I am right now because I had to do some Windows programming) I use WMP, because it tucks into the Task Bar, which is nicer than the System Tray. The User Interface is better in WMP, so I wouldn't bother recommending it. WMP is just plain easier to use.
However, how Winamp sticks to the sides (Like everything does in KDE) and how the bits stick to each other is a great feature. Maybe you could tell them about that?
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"Is WinAmp the free multimedia player of choice for Windows users?" For many people, it used to be. However, now, WMP is much better. Newer versions can tuck into the Taskbar and so on, which makes up for Winamps superior (In many peoples opinion) UI. "I know we've always talked about how Windows Media Player is eeeevil" Yes, but it is quite nice. "RealPlayer is spyware" I've seen quite a few of my friends use this. I've no idea if they *choose* to use it, or if it cruelly tricked them, but they use it. They seem to think it is quite pretty. "Does it do video or is it just a music thing?" It does do Video, but I find not very well (Sometimes my videos get tinted blue. Don't know why. Maybe they aren't very well encoded). It has great support for a load of formats, too (Most of which I never use). "MusicMatch Jukebox" I know one of my friends has this, but doesn't like the interface (WMP is the tool of choice for many). "as a Linuxer I go between noatun and xmms" Yes, Noatun is brilliant :) The simpler, to the point Playlist thing that I've always wanted. I've got to install XMMS some day!
"What winning argument do I use to say "use WinAmp instead of..." to Windows users who ask?"
To be honest, I don't think there is a good reason anymore. When I use Windows (Which I confess, I am right now because I had to do some Windows programming) I use WMP, because it tucks into the Task Bar, which is nicer than the System Tray. The User Interface is better in WMP, so I wouldn't bother recommending it. WMP is just plain easier to use.
However, how Winamp sticks to the sides (Like everything does in KDE) and how the bits stick to each other is a great feature. Maybe you could tell them about that?
I've never used a Fastrack XM file in my life. Is this a widely used format?
Either I cannot pick up sarcasm, or the poster seems to think this is something we all indeed do want. Why exactly?
I mean, yes, it sounds nice. The spec's aren't bad. For those too lazy to look, the most interesting general point was:
"Specification wise, there are two flavours of the Recon available, the first running a 200MHz Intel XScale processor with 64MB of internal non-volatile Flash storage, the second an upgraded 400MHz version with 128MB of storage available"
Right, not bad, but Waterproof? I very rarely come across more water than that which comes out of my tap, and even then I don't put anything electric under it! Who, exactly, is the target audience? Or is just one of those "Cool" things?
It always scares me when Scientists want to do this sort of thing. Not because they are particular destructive people, but we all make mistakes, and we don't want this ruined.
At least, this time, we're going to drill in a fragile area in this name of Science, not Capitalism (As in for oil)
I'm confused. Only the other day a reliable source told me that Open Source didn't have roadmaps....
I think all software patents are wrong. I do not allow exceptions.
Apple is, potentially, as bad as Microsoft. That doesn't even really matter.
It annoys me that some people here think this is okay because 'it is Apple'.
On the other hand, I suppose you cannot really blame a company from doing it. The system should not allow Software Patents straight off. It would be unrealistic to expect companies to stop filing for patents on "moral ground".
I hope you know not every Windows user is stupid, and not every person who doesn't care about computers is stupid either. Sometimes worth reminding people that here at /.
But there would had been a Netscape!
I use Mandrake 9.2 and Windows XP. Whilst using KDE, I find that non-KDE programs do quite often crash (The KDE ones are all fine though, as is OpenOffice, and of course all the console stuff), but these crashes do not effect the computer at all. On Windows XP, I do also quite often get crashed (Quite often from Windows Explorer). This often screws up my computer for a while, and requires me to use the Task Manager to fix.
Overall, I get just as many crashes on both, but my Linux install can handle it, whilst Windows cannot (Although it does a much better job than Windows 98 did).
I think everyone else is missing the key point: Lindows was a stupid name anyway! Maybe now they'll rename it so something presentable.
Mozilla 1.5 displays it correctly on the address bar, however try hovering your cursor over the link and read the status bar... it terminates the string at the %00 then.
Wouldn't we prefer to think that the people who can solve these problems will be the same people who wouldn't want money for it? The rules about the User Interface are good though, and it something that future developments really need (A logical, clear UI)
Where was the money from, anyway?
(For the mouse thing)
Also worth looking at is:
FMA (For sending text messages to your computer)
Bluetooth is the best way I have found for data transfer between my phone (Sony T610) and my computer, and phone to phone. File Transfer is fast enough (Not lightening, but as fast as I need it. The phone is problem slowing it down more than anything else). I don't need to point it in the right direction, and I can use it up to 100m away. I can control my Computers Cursor via my mobile phone, which is cool. It can do some much which can't be done with the 1m 30 IR limitation. Bluetooth is great! Infact, I've never got an IR to IR connection working with another mobile phone except when great care was taken. Bluetooth lets me just turn it on and it finds the other phone right away. I don't think any of the reasons it gave where very valid, but it doesn't seem to have taken off as much as it seems it should have, though. Now I've just spoken about how I use Bluetooth a lot with my phone, but I never use it anywhere else. Printers can have it, but I don't really see them with it. I agree Wireless Headsets are pretty pointless. So... I think Bluetooth isn't dead, it just has a more limited scope than we imagined.