I would suggest that if you think it takes a bodybuilder to hold a 10 lb box, then perhaps you should visit both a doctor and a gym. That's pretty sad.
As a long time user of Yahoo's "Launch" subscription music service, I think that sucks. Launch isn't perfect, but it's pretty darn good, and I've been happy to pay the $36/year for no ads and better sound quality. That being said, I won't install anything from Real Networks onto any of our machines, so it looks like I'm on the lookout for a replacement that's as good and as cheap as Launchcast. Shit.
Running the physical data centers is not really relevant. Any costs involved are really just a drop in the bucket compared to revenue from something like this. Besides, there are plenty of people and companies who can run data centers as large as or larger than Yahoo. If there's a technical glitch, somebody can always be called. I really doubt that small technical concerns like this have any bearing on high level decisions.
Again, another "Standards format war" that means nothing to consumers. In a year or so, every DVD player will support both of the high-def formats, along with all older formats. It always happens. Snore.
If he is truly that worried about society, the answer is simple, PAY MORE TAXES. MS has made it an art to find way to dodge paying taxes over its gigantic earnings. But that offcourse won't happen, wether tax money is wasted or not is not the issue, Bill Gates has little to say on how taxes are spend, why it might even go to the NSA on projects to improve Linux.
Kid, here's a little secret: MS pays more in taxes in a single day than all of your precious Linux companies do in an entire year. You have no clue as to what you're talking about.
P.S. Your English language skills need some serious work.
FreeNas doesn't need a box nearly this powerful. I've got FreeNas running on a Pentium 2 something with 256 MB RAM. If you want a FreeNas box, pick something out of the garbage or at the local thrift store.
They don't have to use Windows if they don't want to. It's called *choice*. OSS zealots are always screaming about choice, but when it comes to choosing between Windows and *nix, then *nix needs to be shoved down everybody's throat whether they like it or not, huh? And people wonder why Linux has never gained any kind of traction on desktops...
It won't cost them a single dime in bad PR. Why? Best Buy sucks. Always has. Most big box stores are equally sucky. Everybody knows this. The people who still shop at those places are looking for what every other red-blooded American wants: CHEAP! Those people don't care about service, quality, reputation, where their money is going, etc. If they can get it cheap, they're going to continue to buy as cheap as they can, damn the consequences.
Anybody know if it's IDE or SATA? There was an article a while back about Seagate dropping IDE by the end of this year. At least for me, it's a brick if it's not IDE.
Sure, some ISP's may have tried it, but the exact same network is available in the US. I've used it several times, each time as a paying customer. Loved it. If I lived in an urban area, I'd share my connection, as well.
That's lots of good "theoretically, THIS could happen, and you'd be screwed!" FUD. I'm scared! Do you wear a helmet 24/7? You should. You could fall down and hit your head!
In all honesty, does anybody outside of a tiny geek community really care, anymore? Windows XP is pretty darn good. OS X is apparently pretty good. Linux doesn't really offer anything to get all that excited about. Hell, even the Linux fanboys seem fewer and further between these days. Linux is nice, and has it's place, but it's just not a big deal any more.
People who care about how their stereo system sounds aren't going to be shopping at Best Buy. Last time I went in there (a loooong time ago), I found out that at least at the store I went to, they didn't even sell stereo speakers any more. All they sell are these crazy 7 speaker setups (which I tend to think sound like utter crap). Suffice to say, I bought a pair of fantastic stereo speakers at a store where the staff don't wear uniforms.
All the major distributions are all basically of the same quality and use almost the exact same software.
Really? That's news to me! So then Red Hat Enterprise Edition is the same as Linspire? Gentoo and Ubuntu are the same? SUSE and Fedora? Wow. Well, what's the point of having lots of different groups of people make their own distributions, then?
Somebody please explain the appeal of Halo. I've played Halo 2, and I thought that it was so bad, that I actually returned it to the store. Terrible graphics, pathetic sound, gameplay physics that make no sense, and the exact same story as Doom. In my opinion, it's actually one of the worst first person shooters ever made, (yes, even compared to Wolf 3D, which was at least entertaining). Could somebody please explain why people like this game? Is it just that the people who like Halo have never played another first person shooter, so they simply don't realize how bad the Halo series really is? What's the deal, here? What am I missing?
That's completely unrealistic. You can pretend that most of the world is enlightened and physical violence is unnecessary, but you've got your head in the sand. Kids are cruel to each other, and a lot of them are little bastards that only understand a sock in the nose. Society can be a bitch, but part of it is standing up for yourself against those kinds of people. I've never heard of bullying stopped by any kind of authority figure. Kids who are bullied have a few choices: run to the authorities, which may help them in the short run, but ultimately makes their lives tougher in the long term, or fight back. I'm not saying it's nice, but that's the way it is. But then again, kids don't really understand that the world doesn't revolve around them, so they might think that they can change society for the better by, oh, I dunno, switching schools like this kid did. Even he said that the only thing that worked was a broken nose. Most people on this planet aren't much smarter than your average house pet. Reasoning doesn't work with most people.
Here it is, Simon. You're a dork. That's obvious from your first paragraph. Kids pick on dorks. That's the way it always has been, and that's the way it always will be. Are you so utterly disconnected from reality that you're suggesting criminal courts and jail time for bullying? Jesus, kid, didn't you learn anything? You just said that the only thing to work was to punch the kid in the nose. People have understood that forever. Want somebody to stop bullying you? Kick 'em in the nuts. Be done with it. I see why you were picked on. Anybody who says that bullies should be thrown into jail is just asking for, well, one hell of a wedgie.
I thought that the point of XML was to embed the documentation in with the data, so that it was human-readable? This doesn't make any sense. If XML has to be documented anyway, then what's the point? To increase network traffic? To fill up "extra" hard drive space? Old fashioned character-delimited is a better way to go if you have to document the thing, anyway.
Forget the courts. If somebody is smart enough to be working in IT, shouldn't they be smart enough to read, or even discuss an employment contract? It's not rocket science.
It's simple. Don't rent music. It's so cheap and easy, that even a minor geek can keep a permanent music collection. It's simple:
1. Throw two or three (or more for the paranoid) cheap 500 GB hard drives in an old thrift store quality PC. Install FreeNas.
2. Buy CD's used and cheap.
3. Rip to FLAC.
4. Set up Freenas to mirror, or backup occasionally.
Bammo! Dirt cheap, very permanent, perfect music library! Because you're smart and used FLAC, you can always burn a perfect copy of any CD you'd like from your own collection. The chances of multiple hard drives failing at the same time is slim, so as long as you replace hard drives when they fail, there's very little chance of losing any of your collection.
My point is that it's cheap and easy. There's very little reason to rent music these days.
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I would suggest that if you think it takes a bodybuilder to hold a 10 lb box, then perhaps you should visit both a doctor and a gym. That's pretty sad.
As a long time user of Yahoo's "Launch" subscription music service, I think that sucks. Launch isn't perfect, but it's pretty darn good, and I've been happy to pay the $36/year for no ads and better sound quality. That being said, I won't install anything from Real Networks onto any of our machines, so it looks like I'm on the lookout for a replacement that's as good and as cheap as Launchcast. Shit.
Running the physical data centers is not really relevant. Any costs involved are really just a drop in the bucket compared to revenue from something like this. Besides, there are plenty of people and companies who can run data centers as large as or larger than Yahoo. If there's a technical glitch, somebody can always be called. I really doubt that small technical concerns like this have any bearing on high level decisions.
Again, another "Standards format war" that means nothing to consumers. In a year or so, every DVD player will support both of the high-def formats, along with all older formats. It always happens. Snore.
If he is truly that worried about society, the answer is simple, PAY MORE TAXES. MS has made it an art to find way to dodge paying taxes over its gigantic earnings. But that offcourse won't happen, wether tax money is wasted or not is not the issue, Bill Gates has little to say on how taxes are spend, why it might even go to the NSA on projects to improve Linux.
Kid, here's a little secret: MS pays more in taxes in a single day than all of your precious Linux companies do in an entire year. You have no clue as to what you're talking about.
P.S. Your English language skills need some serious work.
FreeNas doesn't need a box nearly this powerful. I've got FreeNas running on a Pentium 2 something with 256 MB RAM. If you want a FreeNas box, pick something out of the garbage or at the local thrift store.
They don't have to use Windows if they don't want to. It's called *choice*. OSS zealots are always screaming about choice, but when it comes to choosing between Windows and *nix, then *nix needs to be shoved down everybody's throat whether they like it or not, huh? And people wonder why Linux has never gained any kind of traction on desktops...
I can see where your priorities lie. Be proud of it!
I'd bet good money that that guy will go right back to Best Buy next week, because, hey, shit is cheap!
It won't cost them a single dime in bad PR. Why? Best Buy sucks. Always has. Most big box stores are equally sucky. Everybody knows this. The people who still shop at those places are looking for what every other red-blooded American wants: CHEAP! Those people don't care about service, quality, reputation, where their money is going, etc. If they can get it cheap, they're going to continue to buy as cheap as they can, damn the consequences.
Storage is cheap. There's no reason to use MP3's any more. They're about as dated as "Stacker". This music should be distributed as FLAC.
Have you ever considered doing something as exotic as uninstalling WMP?
RSI which is the real problem, and a really painful and dangerous thing
Dangerous? Really? How many people a year die from this terrible, terrible affliction, exactly?
Anybody know if it's IDE or SATA? There was an article a while back about Seagate dropping IDE by the end of this year. At least for me, it's a brick if it's not IDE.
Sure, some ISP's may have tried it, but the exact same network is available in the US. I've used it several times, each time as a paying customer. Loved it. If I lived in an urban area, I'd share my connection, as well.
That's lots of good "theoretically, THIS could happen, and you'd be screwed!" FUD. I'm scared! Do you wear a helmet 24/7? You should. You could fall down and hit your head!
In all honesty, does anybody outside of a tiny geek community really care, anymore? Windows XP is pretty darn good. OS X is apparently pretty good. Linux doesn't really offer anything to get all that excited about. Hell, even the Linux fanboys seem fewer and further between these days. Linux is nice, and has it's place, but it's just not a big deal any more.
People who care about how their stereo system sounds aren't going to be shopping at Best Buy. Last time I went in there (a loooong time ago), I found out that at least at the store I went to, they didn't even sell stereo speakers any more. All they sell are these crazy 7 speaker setups (which I tend to think sound like utter crap). Suffice to say, I bought a pair of fantastic stereo speakers at a store where the staff don't wear uniforms.
All the major distributions are all basically of the same quality and use almost the exact same software.
Really? That's news to me! So then Red Hat Enterprise Edition is the same as Linspire? Gentoo and Ubuntu are the same? SUSE and Fedora? Wow. Well, what's the point of having lots of different groups of people make their own distributions, then?
Somebody please explain the appeal of Halo. I've played Halo 2, and I thought that it was so bad, that I actually returned it to the store. Terrible graphics, pathetic sound, gameplay physics that make no sense, and the exact same story as Doom. In my opinion, it's actually one of the worst first person shooters ever made, (yes, even compared to Wolf 3D, which was at least entertaining). Could somebody please explain why people like this game? Is it just that the people who like Halo have never played another first person shooter, so they simply don't realize how bad the Halo series really is? What's the deal, here? What am I missing?
That's completely unrealistic. You can pretend that most of the world is enlightened and physical violence is unnecessary, but you've got your head in the sand. Kids are cruel to each other, and a lot of them are little bastards that only understand a sock in the nose. Society can be a bitch, but part of it is standing up for yourself against those kinds of people. I've never heard of bullying stopped by any kind of authority figure. Kids who are bullied have a few choices: run to the authorities, which may help them in the short run, but ultimately makes their lives tougher in the long term, or fight back. I'm not saying it's nice, but that's the way it is. But then again, kids don't really understand that the world doesn't revolve around them, so they might think that they can change society for the better by, oh, I dunno, switching schools like this kid did. Even he said that the only thing that worked was a broken nose. Most people on this planet aren't much smarter than your average house pet. Reasoning doesn't work with most people.
Here it is, Simon. You're a dork. That's obvious from your first paragraph. Kids pick on dorks. That's the way it always has been, and that's the way it always will be. Are you so utterly disconnected from reality that you're suggesting criminal courts and jail time for bullying? Jesus, kid, didn't you learn anything? You just said that the only thing to work was to punch the kid in the nose. People have understood that forever. Want somebody to stop bullying you? Kick 'em in the nuts. Be done with it. I see why you were picked on. Anybody who says that bullies should be thrown into jail is just asking for, well, one hell of a wedgie.
I thought that the point of XML was to embed the documentation in with the data, so that it was human-readable? This doesn't make any sense. If XML has to be documented anyway, then what's the point? To increase network traffic? To fill up "extra" hard drive space? Old fashioned character-delimited is a better way to go if you have to document the thing, anyway.
Forget the courts. If somebody is smart enough to be working in IT, shouldn't they be smart enough to read, or even discuss an employment contract? It's not rocket science.
It's simple. Don't rent music. It's so cheap and easy, that even a minor geek can keep a permanent music collection. It's simple:
1. Throw two or three (or more for the paranoid) cheap 500 GB hard drives in an old thrift store quality PC. Install FreeNas.
2. Buy CD's used and cheap.
3. Rip to FLAC.
4. Set up Freenas to mirror, or backup occasionally.
Bammo! Dirt cheap, very permanent, perfect music library! Because you're smart and used FLAC, you can always burn a perfect copy of any CD you'd like from your own collection. The chances of multiple hard drives failing at the same time is slim, so as long as you replace hard drives when they fail, there's very little chance of losing any of your collection.
My point is that it's cheap and easy. There's very little reason to rent music these days.