Okay. I hope I'll find the USABLE.iso when it will come out, the one that Just Works, OOTB, Zero Conf', includes the nVidia driver, mp3 player (MAD, please, lest I burn mine ears), support for all video formats in all the players, configured right - that is, no "-vo not valid" in mplayer or "can't load wmdmod.dll" in xine.
The day when Ubuntu will be THAT easy then it will be ready for the desktop.
Then you have pushed the resolutions to what, 10% above or under the norm? Oh. You use Windows in English. All software is written in English, so the sizes of dialog boxes and other GUI elements are calculated on English lengths. French uses 50-75% more chars to store the same meaning, so GUI elements are out of proportions when you change font sizes.
"give"... it costs maybe 150 million bucks to make a Hollywood movie. I see no reason why Hollywood should "give" the movie to anyone. It is, after all, a business. How would *you* make a crust if you could not charge for your services? Because it's an investment that's been returned three times over in the course of the first weekend the movie comes out. It should be Public Domain right after that.
If I ever get employed in such a place they WILL fire me in under a week. I will NEVER, EVER document what I did to a computer in any way more extended than "I had to buy this part. Here is a receipt for accounting and warranty." I will always keep each and every computer running and tweaked Just Right though.
And what is that if not a school dictator? He had the IT team spend time tracking a prank? Please PLEASE tell me that clinical signs of megalomania are an impeachment clause for school staff in the US.
As for filtering... anyone with half a brain can type "SSL tunnel" or something in google.
It's designed that way. The USPTO delivers as many patents as possible because invention is slow in the Real World. That obviously does not work when you're building to and from abstracting ideas pretty much exclusively. You should go read up rms' papers some time.
No, but Rachmaninoff's 3rd Concerto for Piano and Orchstra does. You WANT the version by Martha Argerich from 1982. (I'm listening to it now. put the 1st movement at 6'30" and wait just a little...)
I almost did the same to an ex-gf's PC, but I first put an Ubuntu 6.10 CD in it, to see if it was compatible, what there exactly is in the computer, and such. Then I wiped the preloaded Vista and installed Ubuntu "for a try" and after 24hrs she told me she was not going back.
That's the woman who hated to have to use a computer for chatting and browsing. Since her first computer in 2002, she hasn't learnt one thing about how computers work, or even how to use them!
I'm not the first to point out that Vista is so confusing that switching to Linux or OSX is easier than learning to use it. But I've seen that it is true.
I have to inform you that you have a very poor opinion of the easiest "natural" (vs. artificial such as Esperanto and Quenya) language on earth. I learned to speak English in six weeks!
English IS easy. Dead easy. If you find it difficult, come try French sometime : we have seven forms for every verb, and that's the first example only out of our ridiculously complex conjugation system. We have around 120 possible forms for every verb. English speakers get what, three, four? And that's for the irregular verbs, which happen to be... twenty at most. Irregular means they don't follow the rule, right? Okay, here is the other rule : English monosyllabic verbs use the other vowels, but not the E. Drink, drank, drunk. No E. (Y doesn't count.) When in doubt, use euphony and talk fast enough to cover your possible mistake. (I can't remember the rule, have no English grammar on hand, don't want to search for one online, and never need it anyway, since I write without any fault in English. And French, which is my primary language.)
If that seems too anecdotal for evidence, let me just point out that I wrote an English grammar and it was 30 handwritten A5 pages. Now go look at the hulky monster in three volumes that's French grammar.
Be an ID3 tag-nazi - No player can compensate for 750 GB of badly named media. MP3Tag [mp3tag.de] is your friend for batch editing ID3 tags.
Sort all your files using a reasonable naming system. I use '/path/to/archive/%Artist%/%Year %Album%/%02Track% - %Title%.%Ext%'. This comes in real handy for writing scripts to deal with an archive to large to manage by hand.
When did WinAMP ever stop being useful? No, really, I'd like to read up on what you reproach the definitively ultimate best media player ever...
Maybe you didn't use it like I did? I had the MMD3 skin, activated only the iPod and Local Files support, didn't install anything else at first (then I needed input plugins, found them all easy on the official site). So I had an iTunes-like browser, a window-shade line with the player and the playlist - mmd3 in horizontal winshade mode has a drawer for the EQ - and the "search library" option is faster than my iPod's when it holds over 10G.
I use it with an already huge collection, 20000+ files, no problem whatsoever.
I'm even thinking it could run in Wine, so that I'd finally have a usable music player and manager on Linux : I tried Rhytmbox, it sucks (scans my whole library EVERY startup. Can't deactivate that) so does Banshee (same problems, almost-same interface), and I'd rather run Windows programs than install anything KDE on a GNOME desktop.
There is that song I discovered some day, listening to My Dying Bride, I heard a cover of a Nancy Sinatra song (Some Velvet Morning). I found it beautiful, downloaded the original, listened to it and promptly deleted it.
The MDB version is so much better! The voice of the singer easily replaces the two original voices and outperforms themm on every level: energy, emotion, musicality... and the other musicians, you perceptibly hear them love their music.
But then they also covered Roads (Portishead), and it sounds almost like karaoke: they wanted to sound like the original and that's well done.
(I happened to read some blurb glorifying some musician's ability to copy everything when he covers songs, including overdubs, exact tempo and such. I never found that very impressive, but I mention it because it seems to be considered a good thing)
Real windows CD? What for? You have a license to use some Windows version, just download 'n burn that same version. "What pirated software? I do have a license."
"Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies (B.A.), Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.), Doctorate of Philosophy in Theology (Ph.D.), Doctorate in Canon Law (JCD)"
Nothing to see here. Nope, nothing at all.
Doctorate in Canon Law? Yeah, he is supposed to know everything about the Laws handed down by God - who does not exist.
"X11 is as slow as a hemiplegiac dehydrated slug in Hell with terminal generalized arthritis."
In X11, you click'n drag a window just to see the window below. Goes something along the lines of "click window, do not release button, drag window, (don't worry, it will move... at some point...), release button, go make coffee, come back. Now it is where you wanted it (hopefully, i.e. if your binary-blob drivers can get right at least x,y positions)
If you want to experience the full excitement of Windows/286 in 1992, try XFree86 (oh, yes, right, Xorg) in 2006.
I used it on a Mac and it was as slow as (see above). I tried it on a Real Good PC (new as of now) with XP, it sucked as much. And on Linux... well... not like you DO have a choice do you? (Yes you do. XFree which sucks and will never be updated ever again, or Xorg which sucks because it is X11, thus slow as (see above).)
I'm not trolling! Those ARE my experiences. Maybe you can spend 40+ unpaid hours to make it just fast enough for it to feel as responsive as, say, an Amiga. Maybe I want it to Just Work.
By the way. How comes that no matter how new a computer is, it still takes ages to launch ? Come on, I want to browse images, I launch Bridge (since I'm using AdobeCS2 and I totally refuse to install any software that duplicates another's functions)... Bridge takes an hour to launch... then I browse my images, see one I want to edit, double-click... wait an hour... photoshop is launched. Oh, I'd like to add things in that that I can only do with Illustrator! Click icon "Illustrator"... wait an hour...
WHY can't I just Click, it's launched. I know the technical reasons and they're all bull. "tons of features... backwards compatibility... lots of code... bloated OS..." Okay, stop it. Now. It took under 1s to launch a spreadsheet on the Spectrum ZX-81. Now I'm talking about a computer with 2x3GHz and 2x2MB cache. It will never, ever launch a spreadsheet program in under 1s. Even Excel '97. (And don't even think about handing me the OpenOffice conversational bazooka. I'd talk about a DEAD hemiplegiac dehydrated slug in Hell with terminal generalized arthritis.)
Oh. And. How comes that with speed and access times orders of magnitude shorter as of now than in 1995, the optical drives still take several seconds to just make the contents of a disk accessible?
We're all gonna use pirated Ultimate versions anyway. At least at home. The ones that pass WGA, are pre-activated and won't even ask for a serial when self-installing.
That is, every year, just past the warranty period. (Three-year warranty? Yeah, right. Like anyone does buy HDs at that kind of premium. Unless they're Raptors, but then you don't even need a warranty.)
Hard drives are now the cheapest way to store data, but they also seem to break even faster than optical supports get scratched to unreadable.
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Okay. I hope I'll find the USABLE .iso when it will come out, the one that Just Works, OOTB, Zero Conf', includes the nVidia driver, mp3 player (MAD, please, lest I burn mine ears), support for all video formats in all the players, configured right - that is, no "-vo not valid" in mplayer or "can't load wmdmod.dll" in xine.
The day when Ubuntu will be THAT easy then it will be ready for the desktop.
Then you have pushed the resolutions to what, 10% above or under the norm? Oh. You use Windows in English. All software is written in English, so the sizes of dialog boxes and other GUI elements are calculated on English lengths. French uses 50-75% more chars to store the same meaning, so GUI elements are out of proportions when you change font sizes.
Managed by the "school senior management team"?
What?
If I ever get employed in such a place they WILL fire me in under a week.
I will NEVER, EVER document what I did to a computer in any way more extended than "I had to buy this part. Here is a receipt for accounting and warranty." I will always keep each and every computer running and tweaked Just Right though.
And what is that if not a school dictator? He had the IT team spend time tracking a prank? Please PLEASE tell me that clinical signs of megalomania are an impeachment clause for school staff in the US.
As for filtering... anyone with half a brain can type "SSL tunnel" or something in google.
It's designed that way. The USPTO delivers as many patents as possible because invention is slow in the Real World. That obviously does not work when you're building to and from abstracting ideas pretty much exclusively.
You should go read up rms' papers some time.
No, but Rachmaninoff's 3rd Concerto for Piano and Orchstra does.
You WANT the version by Martha Argerich from 1982. (I'm listening to it now. put the 1st movement at 6'30" and wait just a little...)
Restraining order, you mean her new boyfriend? If I wanted her to ditch him and come back it would take all of 15 minutes. :p
You ARE right.
I almost did the same to an ex-gf's PC, but I first put an Ubuntu 6.10 CD in it, to see if it was compatible, what there exactly is in the computer, and such. Then I wiped the preloaded Vista and installed Ubuntu "for a try" and after 24hrs she told me she was not going back.
That's the woman who hated to have to use a computer for chatting and browsing. Since her first computer in 2002, she hasn't learnt one thing about how computers work, or even how to use them!
I'm not the first to point out that Vista is so confusing that switching to Linux or OSX is easier than learning to use it. But I've seen that it is true.
I have to inform you that you have a very poor opinion of the easiest "natural" (vs. artificial such as Esperanto and Quenya) language on earth. I learned to speak English in six weeks!
English IS easy. Dead easy. If you find it difficult, come try French sometime : we have seven forms for every verb, and that's the first example only out of our ridiculously complex conjugation system. We have around 120 possible forms for every verb. English speakers get what, three, four? And that's for the irregular verbs, which happen to be ... twenty at most. Irregular means they don't follow the rule, right? Okay, here is the other rule : English monosyllabic verbs use the other vowels, but not the E. Drink, drank, drunk. No E. (Y doesn't count.) When in doubt, use euphony and talk fast enough to cover your possible mistake. (I can't remember the rule, have no English grammar on hand, don't want to search for one online, and never need it anyway, since I write without any fault in English. And French, which is my primary language.)
If that seems too anecdotal for evidence, let me just point out that I wrote an English grammar and it was 30 handwritten A5 pages. Now go look at the hulky monster in three volumes that's French grammar.
What's wrong is that, in the case you don't know SQL and bash already, you need to learn both just to listen to music.
I see drawbacks to that approach:
- limited search capabilities
- madplay sounds better
- the player interface is ugly
- the player can not be controlled from everywhere (within browser, gkrellm, other gadget)
- jump-to-time is VERY limited (try going to 12:35 "just because that's the good part of that set")
- no playlist management
- no ipod support (import and export) (unless you write that in bash, but if you do that, you are very crazy.)
I have used mpg123 (well, madplay) and found it so impractical that I ended up installing XMMS to use with 20-song-ish playlists.When did WinAMP ever stop being useful?
No, really, I'd like to read up on what you reproach the definitively ultimate best media player ever...
Maybe you didn't use it like I did? I had the MMD3 skin, activated only the iPod and Local Files support, didn't install anything else at first (then I needed input plugins, found them all easy on the official site).
So I had an iTunes-like browser, a window-shade line with the player and the playlist - mmd3 in horizontal winshade mode has a drawer for the EQ - and the "search library" option is faster than my iPod's when it holds over 10G.
Wrong! :D
ID3 version 2 : http://www.id3.org/ID3v2Easy
I use it with an already huge collection, 20000+ files, no problem whatsoever.
I'm even thinking it could run in Wine, so that I'd finally have a usable music player and manager on Linux : I tried Rhytmbox, it sucks (scans my whole library EVERY startup. Can't deactivate that) so does Banshee (same problems, almost-same interface), and I'd rather run Windows programs than install anything KDE on a GNOME desktop.
That's how I discovered Blind Guardian, for one. And subsequently bought all their albums (8 and counting).
Same for Nick Cave (13 and counting)...
Agreeing.
There is that song I discovered some day, listening to My Dying Bride, I heard a cover of a Nancy Sinatra song (Some Velvet Morning). I found it beautiful, downloaded the original, listened to it and promptly deleted it.
The MDB version is so much better! The voice of the singer easily replaces the two original voices and outperforms themm on every level: energy, emotion, musicality... and the other musicians, you perceptibly hear them love their music.
But then they also covered Roads (Portishead), and it sounds almost like karaoke: they wanted to sound like the original and that's well done.
(I happened to read some blurb glorifying some musician's ability to copy everything when he covers songs, including overdubs, exact tempo and such. I never found that very impressive, but I mention it because it seems to be considered a good thing)
This is SO true!
"concept" concept but just containing uninspired and boring musicI read that sentence and thought "Heavy Metal Opera". (As in Avantasia and Aina).
Real windows CD? What for? You have a license to use some Windows version, just download 'n burn that same version. "What pirated software? I do have a license."
Meaningless degrees?
"Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies (B.A.),
Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.),
Doctorate of Philosophy in Theology (Ph.D.),
Doctorate in Canon Law (JCD)"
Nothing to see here. Nope, nothing at all.
Doctorate in Canon Law? Yeah, he is supposed to know everything about the Laws handed down by God - who does not exist.
I know people who did Just That.
And I can't tell you how many people I've read/heard say that it's impossible.
Repeat after me:
... Bridge takes an hour to launch... then I browse my images, see one I want to edit, double-click... wait an hour... photoshop is launched. Oh, I'd like to add things in that that I can only do with Illustrator! Click icon "Illustrator"... wait an hour...
"X11 is as slow as a hemiplegiac dehydrated slug in Hell with terminal generalized arthritis."
In X11, you click'n drag a window just to see the window below. Goes something along the lines of "click window, do not release button, drag window, (don't worry, it will move... at some point...), release button, go make coffee, come back. Now it is where you wanted it (hopefully, i.e. if your binary-blob drivers can get right at least x,y positions)
If you want to experience the full excitement of Windows/286 in 1992, try XFree86 (oh, yes, right, Xorg) in 2006.
I used it on a Mac and it was as slow as (see above). I tried it on a Real Good PC (new as of now) with XP, it sucked as much. And on Linux... well... not like you DO have a choice do you? (Yes you do. XFree which sucks and will never be updated ever again, or Xorg which sucks because it is X11, thus slow as (see above).)
I'm not trolling! Those ARE my experiences. Maybe you can spend 40+ unpaid hours to make it just fast enough for it to feel as responsive as, say, an Amiga. Maybe I want it to Just Work.
By the way. How comes that no matter how new a computer is, it still takes ages to launch ?
Come on, I want to browse images, I launch Bridge (since I'm using AdobeCS2 and I totally refuse to install any software that duplicates another's functions)
WHY can't I just Click, it's launched. I know the technical reasons and they're all bull. "tons of features... backwards compatibility... lots of code... bloated OS..."
Okay, stop it. Now.
It took under 1s to launch a spreadsheet on the Spectrum ZX-81. Now I'm talking about a computer with 2x3GHz and 2x2MB cache. It will never, ever launch a spreadsheet program in under 1s. Even Excel '97. (And don't even think about handing me the OpenOffice conversational bazooka. I'd talk about a DEAD hemiplegiac dehydrated slug in Hell with terminal generalized arthritis.)
Oh. And. How comes that with speed and access times orders of magnitude shorter as of now than in 1995, the optical drives still take several seconds to just make the contents of a disk accessible?
We're all gonna use pirated Ultimate versions anyway.
At least at home.
The ones that pass WGA, are pre-activated and won't even ask for a serial when self-installing.
someone decided to just try and do exactly that.
That is, every year, just past the warranty period.
(Three-year warranty? Yeah, right. Like anyone does buy HDs at that kind of premium. Unless they're Raptors, but then you don't even need a warranty.)
Hard drives are now the cheapest way to store data, but they also seem to break even faster than optical supports get scratched to unreadable.