I've had two CDR/CDRW drives so far which have decided that they won't let me burn above 8x and then died completely. The ones burned at 8x usually can't be read above 8x either. It's really annoying.
Here on Slashdot, every time some mention of new commercial software being released for Linux hits the front page, the zealots start up whining that, in true RMS style, it's "not free enough". Even if it's being given away as freeware.
Which is the problem, since it's "not free enough", the zealots simply dismiss it, and lets face it, the zealots are the ones helping spread Linux usage. It's stupid and it needs to stop.
Given that Microsoft is firmly entrenched in the media and content industries, as are Apple, Dolby, Fraunhofer and others, is it really any surprise these days that a lot of patents are being trodden on these days? Hell, even foobar2000 must be stepping on a few peoples' toes.
Not as weird as Windows XP. It doesn't even stand for anything. I'd probably have an easier time explaining that GNOME stands for the GNU Network Object Model Environment than I would trying to pull something out of my ass to explain Windows XP...
I think there is some truth to that phrase. I really don't like it when software tries to be everything for everyone.
Well, that's Debian out...aaaand Gentoo, can use it as so many things...don't forget Red Hat in all its forms (Fedora, RHEL), boy, that must be awful for you...hell, let's go for -1 Troll here, Windows, quite damn flexible, used by a lot of people for everything, even Mac OS fucking X has a server version.
You are not going to find an operating system, and certainly not a distro, which isn't going to try to be everything for everyone. There probably is one somewhere, but I haven't seen it.
Funny you say that...my ex girlfriend's reaction to any computing problem was to press F5. Her logic was that if it fixed IE, surely it would work for Word and Excel and everything else as well...
And when I challenged her on this her response was "No, I know more about computers than you do, F5 is the key to refresh the page and I know it is and it always works for me."
Yes, and imagine how high the sales would have been WITHOUT the loss incurred by P2P. The sales went through the roof even with P2P, which speaks for a good album, but there must have been a significant number of people who downloaded the CD but never bought it. Without P2P some of those people would have bought the album.
Well, yeah, of course there were probably some who just downloaded the album but didn't buy the CD, but my point is that Kid A was released with no marketing whatsoever. Radiohead had never been in the US top 20 before and Kid A went directly to number 1 within a week of its release. This with no marketing whatsoever. Given the lack of advertising, the sales could have been vastly worse.
(I actually bought Pablo Honey and it's the worst album I've ever heard in the entirety of my lifetime, my love of Radiohead notwithstanding, but anyway...)
The point is that the band did NO advertising for the album besides it being leaked on P2P. There were no singles, no music videos, no posters, no TV ads, nothing besides maybe a few displays in record stores. Precisely dick.
I also point you to this quote from Wikipedia:
The record industry assumed the album was now doomed to failure since fans already had the music for free. Instead the opposite happened and the band, which had never hit the US top 20 before, captured the number one spot in Kid A's debut week. With the record's absence of radio airplay, big time marketing, and any other factor that may have explained this stunning success, [a journalist] declared this was proof of the promotional powers of file trading and of word-of-mouth generated by the Net.
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Silly commie! Linux is for 14/\/\0rz! ;)
Note also that on his portfolio, he spelt "design" wrong.
I've had two CDR/CDRW drives so far which have decided that they won't let me burn above 8x and then died completely. The ones burned at 8x usually can't be read above 8x either. It's really annoying.
You went out with my ex too, huh?
(cue resentment after downloading MSN Messenger 7 last night and being shocked by now ad-packed it was)
Get the Mess patch from http://www.mess.be. You'll thank me afterwards. It removes the ads and lots of other annoyances.
3. g.mail (nuff said)
:)
As far as I'm aware, single character domain names aren't allowed any more. Sorry.
Here on Slashdot, every time some mention of new commercial software being released for Linux hits the front page, the zealots start up whining that, in true RMS style, it's "not free enough". Even if it's being given away as freeware.
Which is the problem, since it's "not free enough", the zealots simply dismiss it, and lets face it, the zealots are the ones helping spread Linux usage. It's stupid and it needs to stop.
Does that mean you can't buy a console without games?
Cos I'd swear you needed games to use a console.
We really should have patented busting child pornographers, UNIX permissions and Wikis a long time ago... ...we'd be ROLLING in it, for fucks sake.
IIRC, there is an rsync feed here which should do you quite nicely.
Given that Microsoft is firmly entrenched in the media and content industries, as are Apple, Dolby, Fraunhofer and others, is it really any surprise these days that a lot of patents are being trodden on these days? Hell, even foobar2000 must be stepping on a few peoples' toes.
Oh my christing fuck.
I was banking on Mandows.
At least with sound they don't have to stick a heavily wired icepick into my brain.
:}
See technology is already passing Sci-Fi up.
And, apparently, Leon Trotsky.
Hence why 'selling' a 100% GPL product is never going to be a wise business move.
Which is why Red Hat crashed and burned all those years ago.
Obviously.
You mean like Adblock?
Gnome isn't such a weird name, is it?
Not as weird as Windows XP. It doesn't even stand for anything. I'd probably have an easier time explaining that GNOME stands for the GNU Network Object Model Environment than I would trying to pull something out of my ass to explain Windows XP...
I think there is some truth to that phrase. I really don't like it when software tries to be everything for everyone.
Well, that's Debian out...aaaand Gentoo, can use it as so many things...don't forget Red Hat in all its forms (Fedora, RHEL), boy, that must be awful for you...hell, let's go for -1 Troll here, Windows, quite damn flexible, used by a lot of people for everything, even Mac OS fucking X has a server version.
You are not going to find an operating system, and certainly not a distro, which isn't going to try to be everything for everyone. There probably is one somewhere, but I haven't seen it.
Everything2 has apparently been taken over by Google as well.
Why is it automatically assumed that the US should have .com? Why is that considered fair?
Quite the opposite...the problem was part of that though-she was a dumbass.
Funny you say that...my ex girlfriend's reaction to any computing problem was to press F5. Her logic was that if it fixed IE, surely it would work for Word and Excel and everything else as well...
:D
And when I challenged her on this her response was "No, I know more about computers than you do, F5 is the key to refresh the page and I know it is and it always works for me."
Can you guess why she's an ex?
You know what? In context, that's just fucking creepy.
Yes, and imagine how high the sales would have been WITHOUT the loss incurred by P2P. The sales went through the roof even with P2P, which speaks for a good album, but there must have been a significant number of people who downloaded the CD but never bought it. Without P2P some of those people would have bought the album.
Well, yeah, of course there were probably some who just downloaded the album but didn't buy the CD, but my point is that Kid A was released with no marketing whatsoever. Radiohead had never been in the US top 20 before and Kid A went directly to number 1 within a week of its release. This with no marketing whatsoever. Given the lack of advertising, the sales could have been vastly worse.
(I actually bought Pablo Honey and it's the worst album I've ever heard in the entirety of my lifetime, my love of Radiohead notwithstanding, but anyway...)
The point is that the band did NO advertising for the album besides it being leaked on P2P. There were no singles, no music videos, no posters, no TV ads, nothing besides maybe a few displays in record stores. Precisely dick.
I also point you to this quote from Wikipedia:
The record industry assumed the album was now doomed to failure since fans already had the music for free. Instead the opposite happened and the band, which had never hit the US top 20 before, captured the number one spot in Kid A's debut week. With the record's absence of radio airplay, big time marketing, and any other factor that may have explained this stunning success, [a journalist] declared this was proof of the promotional powers of file trading and of word-of-mouth generated by the Net.
There you have it.