My only worry about this is that some people might just be feeling shitty, and wouldn't want to submit to a blood test. What if a person says they're anxious/depressed, but the blood test says otherwise? What do doctors believe?
In any event, it'd probably be better if doctors got to work on making some antidepressants with less overt side effects before they learn to diagnose it...I mean I've just started taking Prozac, and already I'm getting headaches, and the leaflet with the pills has a whole lot more side effects to watch out for.
I can beat that. At a convenience store near my college, they had an ATM running Windows, that prompted you to remove the card by repeatedly playing the Win2k new mail sound. Scared me a little, that...
Indeed, how is it relevant at all to this discussion? I suppose maybe, just possibly, the electricity on government owned grids could possibly be used to power a computer which could possibly have a government keylogger which could possibly be infringing on privacy, but come on...
What about UI? Will it have a proprietary UI? Will it be as easy to use as iTunes?
Most likely copying music will be the same as for every other flash player; stick it in, mount as USB Mass Storage, copy music over. Anyway, isn't iTunes proprietary?
requires encoding songs as 64 kbps WMA, which bit rate is half that of Apple's default of 128 kbps AAC, and roughly equivalent in fidelity to that of transmissions carried over tin cans and string
It's Windows Media Player's default ripping rate, and for most people it doesn't sound half bad. 64kb MP3 would be unbearable, it's listenable on WMA though.
Coffee, meet screen. And I'm not even drinking some coffee. Probably future coffee, and in a month or so I'll have to pour the coffee into a wormhole so the coffee can come out of my nose today.
I prefer Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's LiveJournallers taking the piss out of LiveJournallers/The Internet, and a whole load of other stuff besides. It's great.
They simply don't work as well as books. Books don't have screen glare. Books don't have DRM. Books can last hundreds of years in the same piece, whereas formats come and go. Books don't need batteries or recharging. If you drop a book it'll be more or less fine, unless you drop it in a puddle or something. Ebooks just seem like a pain in the ass.
The BBC has a Have Your Say section where people can talk about news stories. This is a comment on this one:
"Western countries' obsession with individual rights has often been seen as a strength, but in the modern world it has become a weakness. When these rights were developed over the preceding centuries it was never envisaged that they would be exploited to shield those who wish to annihilate those very rights and the society that gave them birth. We should wake up and curtail some of the more excessive freedoms, in order to preserve those that are more fundamental."
I have 7-zip...it handles almost all archives I come across quickly and well, and to boot it just works. Why the hell would I want to go back to WinZip, which from the sounds of it is even more bloated than it was before?
FFS, people are dying and losing their homes and livelihoods, and you're still worried about the big bad ol' federal gubbinment coming and turning the US red? For fucks sake, are you really so stupid as to place ideology above helping people?
brings about visions of some sterile, Spandex-jumpsuit future where food production is controlled by some central authority, and real, hoof-grown meat is a rare delicacy. Remember, Soylent Green is people!
And I thought Slashdot's unlimited, completely baseless paranoia had reached its pinnacle:\
However, if you wish to buy their CDs, you would have to pay the RIAA. Which is my point. You can't go out and say "Boycott RIAA CDs" and then make exceptions...
The difference is however that your complaint over 12 dollar CDs is motivated by your want for cheaper luxury goods. The slaves complaint over slavery was that they were being made to work against their will, in a gross violation of human rights.
Nice of you to say that we shouldn't purchase RIAA backed music...but you see, the problem is that some of us happen to like RIAA backed music. Not artists that sound like RIAA backed music, actual bands like Radiohead, the Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Pink Floyd, Four Tet etc who we like the music of, who happen to be backed by the RIAA.
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You may not use it, but lots of people do. This is the point.
I'd love to see how you can get headaches, earache or worsened depression from a placebo. Really.
I don't know of many placebos with side effects.
My only worry about this is that some people might just be feeling shitty, and wouldn't want to submit to a blood test. What if a person says they're anxious/depressed, but the blood test says otherwise? What do doctors believe?
In any event, it'd probably be better if doctors got to work on making some antidepressants with less overt side effects before they learn to diagnose it...I mean I've just started taking Prozac, and already I'm getting headaches, and the leaflet with the pills has a whole lot more side effects to watch out for.
Well, it's not like there's anything else in this thread to moderate...
I've been wondering for ages why SIOX or something like it hasn't been implemented sooner. Now it is.
:)
Nice one, GIMP team! I already love the GIMP, now it gets better
I can beat that. At a convenience store near my college, they had an ATM running Windows, that prompted you to remove the card by repeatedly playing the Win2k new mail sound. Scared me a little, that...
abcde, a better cd encoder. So great it's untrue. Try it, you might love it.
Ballmer just striped his shorts.
Then threw them around a little bit for good measure.
Indeed, how is it relevant at all to this discussion? I suppose maybe, just possibly, the electricity on government owned grids could possibly be used to power a computer which could possibly have a government keylogger which could possibly be infringing on privacy, but come on...
Does it also tell you when the world is going to end?
What about UI? Will it have a proprietary UI? Will it be as easy to use as iTunes?
Most likely copying music will be the same as for every other flash player; stick it in, mount as USB Mass Storage, copy music over. Anyway, isn't iTunes proprietary?
requires encoding songs as 64 kbps WMA, which bit rate is half that of Apple's default of 128 kbps AAC, and roughly equivalent in fidelity to that of transmissions carried over tin cans and string
It's Windows Media Player's default ripping rate, and for most people it doesn't sound half bad. 64kb MP3 would be unbearable, it's listenable on WMA though.
Coffee, meet screen. And I'm not even drinking some coffee. Probably future coffee, and in a month or so I'll have to pour the coffee into a wormhole so the coffee can come out of my nose today.
;)
I really need to stop rewatching that film
I prefer Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's LiveJournallers taking the piss out of LiveJournallers/The Internet, and a whole load of other stuff besides. It's great.
They simply don't work as well as books. Books don't have screen glare. Books don't have DRM. Books can last hundreds of years in the same piece, whereas formats come and go. Books don't need batteries or recharging. If you drop a book it'll be more or less fine, unless you drop it in a puddle or something. Ebooks just seem like a pain in the ass.
Your mileage may, as always, vary.
March 31st.
FUCKING LUDICROUS. This was top of a Google search for "site:slashdot.org gimp photoshop". not hard, is it?
I'm a Brit, dude. I don't *have* a beloved Constitution, or any founding fathers.
The BBC has a Have Your Say section where people can talk about news stories. This is a comment on this one:
"Western countries' obsession with individual rights has often been seen as a strength, but in the modern world it has become a weakness. When these rights were developed over the preceding centuries it was never envisaged that they would be exploited to shield those who wish to annihilate those very rights and the society that gave them birth. We should wake up and curtail some of the more excessive freedoms, in order to preserve those that are more fundamental."
What a complete idiot.
I have 7-zip...it handles almost all archives I come across quickly and well, and to boot it just works. Why the hell would I want to go back to WinZip, which from the sounds of it is even more bloated than it was before?
more socialism isn't the answer here.
FFS, people are dying and losing their homes and livelihoods, and you're still worried about the big bad ol' federal gubbinment coming and turning the US red? For fucks sake, are you really so stupid as to place ideology above helping people?
brings about visions of some sterile, Spandex-jumpsuit future where food production is controlled by some central authority, and real, hoof-grown meat is a rare delicacy. Remember, Soylent Green is people!
:\
And I thought Slashdot's unlimited, completely baseless paranoia had reached its pinnacle
However, if you wish to buy their CDs, you would have to pay the RIAA. Which is my point. You can't go out and say "Boycott RIAA CDs" and then make exceptions...
The difference is however that your complaint over 12 dollar CDs is motivated by your want for cheaper luxury goods. The slaves complaint over slavery was that they were being made to work against their will, in a gross violation of human rights.
Ant attempt to conflate the two is repugnant.
Nice of you to say that we shouldn't purchase RIAA backed music...but you see, the problem is that some of us happen to like RIAA backed music. Not artists that sound like RIAA backed music, actual bands like Radiohead, the Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Pink Floyd, Four Tet etc who we like the music of, who happen to be backed by the RIAA.