Can someone please tell me why in the hell radio ads always use the same crappy sound effects. You know, the electronic increase of frequency/fadeout of a guy's voice, shitty techno in the background (even for classic rock stations), fast switching of voices between right and left channel, and so on and so forth.
Why are those even used? When I hear that sort of ad I don't want to buy a product. "Holy crap! Some guy has a mixer. I guess I'll buy that shitty mix tape they're pushing on me!"
If radio is so concerned about about losing listeners why continualy annoy us with ads? It's bad enough that the general radio format is song, ad, ad, ad, ad, song, song, ad so why make those ads sound like some kid got his hands on audacity?
I made the switch to Linux probably about 3 years ago, and I've used it ever since. (I would use it exclusivly, but the damned airport extreme specs are closed.) The distro I setteled on way back then was Slackware and, you know, then I would have said pretty much exactly what cRaig Forrester(sic?) did: Slackware IS Linux.
(For the sake of the argumentation let's assume that he means the whole philosophy of choice thing surrounding Linux. Of course the assertion is wrong from a technical standpoint, but who cares?)
Now, this is a curious assertion, at least to my mind. I've since used multiple distros and, you know, once I've understood how they work the differences don't really seem to be that much. So why that statement, and why would I have said it? What is it about Slackware that, in the minds of some of its more impressionable users, makes it Linux?
It's a part of the culture, mixed with a bit of naivety. Slackware is old and it's got a good reputation as a distro to cut your teeth on, so it attracts a lot of new users. But new users have a tendancy to edge toward fan boy. Hence the assertion that Slackware is Linux.
The author happily points out you have a choice of several pre-packaged package managers to choose from. Is this a good or a bad thing? Who knows. Technically, every distro has a choice of package managers. I used both portage(Gentoo) and pkgsrc(Netbsd) on my Linux From Scratch playtoy for a while. Sure, you've got a lot of choices. It's just tha the choices you get to make sometimes seem a bit dubious. It certainly is flexible and you certainly do have a lot of choice, but the question still stands. Is Slackware still relevant?
I'd planned to submit an Ask Slashdot about the article this one rebutts, but decided that it was really too childish to spend any time one. I suppose that since it's come up now I can go ahead and ask.
Does Slackware really still matter? The author of this article seems to think so, but he also doesn't seem to be the most partial. So, what do you guys think? (No need to be partial, but it sure would help.)
Not knowing too much about the cell processor I read the wikipedia article. I came across this: "In other ways the Cell resembles a modern desktop computer on a single chip."
Obviously this isn't a normal geek toy, mostly because of the price tag, but what sort of nifty things could someone do with a satelite like this? I imagine that it's mainly geared toward University researchers, but that's just wild conjecture.
Also, why is it so special that the satelite runs linux?
It's interesting that you use the phrase superior architecture. Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. I don't know; I'm not a GUI coder. However, it sure as hell doesn't feel that way to the end user. Do most of the above applications have really great ideas? Yes! Do they work? Well, not all of the time. Amarok* continually loses its database and sometimes goes nuts and eats all of my cycles, K3B crashes like nobody's business, konqueror dumps core if I squint the wrong way at it, Kaffiene eats it when doing streaming video, and Kdevelop has a splendid habit of freezing when saving.
Are there some really great ideas wrapped up in KDE? Certainly. But of what use are they if the applications are flakey? Who cares about transparent SMB if Konqueror dies everytime you connect to some poor bastard that's got his music collection wide open? The architecture might be superior (I assume you're talking about as compared to Gnome) but it's certainly not more stable.
Note: All of the KDE applications mentioned above were used on the second most recent Kubuntu, with no real extra configuration. In addition, the applications were used on varied hardware.
*If Amarok is the biggest threat to iTunes around then Steve Jobs must sleep very well at night indeed. It's the integration with ITMS that makes iTunes useful as a player. Standing on its technical abilities it's only so so, but as a platform it's amazing. Assuming Amarok actually worked it's technical marvels still wouldn't interest most people. "How do I connect to the music store?" "Er..."
At first I was a bit confused as to why this was posted in the your rights online section, until I considered this case from the point of view of the poor bastard that got blasted by the former employee. Denial of service attacks have been around quite some time before 1990. If UK law doesn't considered this sort of computer act to be illegal what else isn't? What is illegal?
Your post seems to boil down to this: "I do a convenient thing with the internet. I do another convenient thing with the internet. I do yet another convenient thing with the internet. Therefore, it makes people stupid." I don't get it.
Please elaborate a bit. How does having to walk across campus in the freezing rain to turn in homework make one smarter, or at least maintains your current level of intelligence? How does calling a pizza place and ordering pizza for delivery do the same thing?
The problem with the proffitability is that the average consumer IQ is 100, and that means 1/2 of them are below 100...
That's bad math. The average of a collection of numbers doesn't alway sit in the middle. Take, for example, the list: [1, 0, 1, 3, 8, 48, 383, 6196, 177083]. The average of which is: 20413. All of the numbers in the list, save for 177083 sit below the average.
Hmm... an interesting question would be: Given n numbers with an averge q what is the probablity that q will be less than n/2 of the numbers?
Thanks for the math error, it generated an interesting question!
The article was dead on when it compared this silly bickering and name calling to the Ford versus Chevy battle. Nothing comes of it, and people looking from the outside just see two drunk white trash slobs driving rust buckets with superficial differences.
While reading this article I was reminded of a guy I met in ##freebsd on freenode. Somebody new to the *nix way of life hoped on channel and asked how to tar and compress a directory. This guy shot off "RTFM" which only alienates new users ( Have you seen the tar man page? Jesus. ) So I shot off a quick "tar cfz foo.tar.gz foo/ but read the man page;)" The RTFM guy berated me for putting f in the middle and not as its own swithc. The reason for this is that GNU tar is a bit more lax in its parsing than other tars, and to tell this guy to tar in this manner is to spread bad practices.
Was the RTFM guy right or wrong? Who cares? Both ways work, its just that the if the new guy used a non-GNU tar he'd have to RTFM. The difference is superficial and RTFM guy was just one half of the white trash pair arguing about his truck.
Question: Linux or *BSD, which is better? Answer: For what? --or-- Grow up you stupid asshat.
The last time grafedia was mentioned I got curious as to how quickly a wikipedia article could come to shape. I started this article.
Obviously I should have thought a bit more, because no one knew anything and so the text written was little more than lifted from grafedia.net. But now I've got another chance to whore out my little article.
If you know anything about grafedia, how about contributing?
I was kind of curious about how quickly a wikipedia article could be taken from nothing up to something interesting, so please pop on over to the Grafedia Wikipedia article and contribute if you have anthing.
I just started the crazy thing. I wonder how this will go.
You wouldn't still happen to have that image around, would you? I'd very much like to see that. I'd make one myself, but I don't have Word around.
/* Begining of shameless pimping */
By the way, any other *nix users out there that are tired of document editors like Word, Abiword, or OpenOffice but still need formating ( vim's not cutting it ) have you seen lyx?
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Can someone please tell me why in the hell radio ads always use the same crappy sound effects. You know, the electronic increase of frequency/fadeout of a guy's voice, shitty techno in the background (even for classic rock stations), fast switching of voices between right and left channel, and so on and so forth.
Why are those even used? When I hear that sort of ad I don't want to buy a product. "Holy crap! Some guy has a mixer. I guess I'll buy that shitty mix tape they're pushing on me!"
If radio is so concerned about about losing listeners why continualy annoy us with ads? It's bad enough that the general radio format is song, ad, ad, ad, ad, song, song, ad so why make those ads sound like some kid got his hands on audacity?
I made the switch to Linux probably about 3 years ago, and I've used it ever since. (I would use it exclusivly, but the damned airport extreme specs are closed.) The distro I setteled on way back then was Slackware and, you know, then I would have said pretty much exactly what cRaig Forrester(sic?) did: Slackware IS Linux.
(For the sake of the argumentation let's assume that he means the whole philosophy of choice thing surrounding Linux. Of course the assertion is wrong from a technical standpoint, but who cares?)
Now, this is a curious assertion, at least to my mind. I've since used multiple distros and, you know, once I've understood how they work the differences don't really seem to be that much. So why that statement, and why would I have said it? What is it about Slackware that, in the minds of some of its more impressionable users, makes it Linux?
It's a part of the culture, mixed with a bit of naivety. Slackware is old and it's got a good reputation as a distro to cut your teeth on, so it attracts a lot of new users. But new users have a tendancy to edge toward fan boy. Hence the assertion that Slackware is Linux.
The author happily points out you have a choice of several pre-packaged package managers to choose from. Is this a good or a bad thing? Who knows. Technically, every distro has a choice of package managers. I used both portage(Gentoo) and pkgsrc(Netbsd) on my Linux From Scratch playtoy for a while. Sure, you've got a lot of choices. It's just tha the choices you get to make sometimes seem a bit dubious. It certainly is flexible and you certainly do have a lot of choice, but the question still stands. Is Slackware still relevant?
I'd planned to submit an Ask Slashdot about the article this one rebutts, but decided that it was really too childish to spend any time one. I suppose that since it's come up now I can go ahead and ask.
Does Slackware really still matter? The author of this article seems to think so, but he also doesn't seem to be the most partial. So, what do you guys think? (No need to be partial, but it sure would help.)
Would someone mind explaining the removal/disabling of SSLv2? More importantly, what's slated to be used in place of it?
Remember when the internet used to be about standards and used for communication, instead of lock-ins and sending you ads?
No, sorry.
Thanks.
Not knowing too much about the cell processor I read the wikipedia article. I came across this: "In other ways the Cell resembles a modern desktop computer on a single chip."
Why?
Anyone know of a nifty one for OSX? I, for the life of me, cannot find a decent one.
Obviously this isn't a normal geek toy, mostly because of the price tag, but what sort of nifty things could someone do with a satelite like this? I imagine that it's mainly geared toward University researchers, but that's just wild conjecture.
Also, why is it so special that the satelite runs linux?
It's interesting that you use the phrase superior architecture. Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. I don't know; I'm not a GUI coder. However, it sure as hell doesn't feel that way to the end user. Do most of the above applications have really great ideas? Yes! Do they work? Well, not all of the time. Amarok* continually loses its database and sometimes goes nuts and eats all of my cycles, K3B crashes like nobody's business, konqueror dumps core if I squint the wrong way at it, Kaffiene eats it when doing streaming video, and Kdevelop has a splendid habit of freezing when saving.
Are there some really great ideas wrapped up in KDE? Certainly. But of what use are they if the applications are flakey? Who cares about transparent SMB if Konqueror dies everytime you connect to some poor bastard that's got his music collection wide open? The architecture might be superior (I assume you're talking about as compared to Gnome) but it's certainly not more stable.
Note: All of the KDE applications mentioned above were used on the second most recent Kubuntu, with no real extra configuration. In addition, the applications were used on varied hardware.
*If Amarok is the biggest threat to iTunes around then Steve Jobs must sleep very well at night indeed. It's the integration with ITMS that makes iTunes useful as a player. Standing on its technical abilities it's only so so, but as a platform it's amazing. Assuming Amarok actually worked it's technical marvels still wouldn't interest most people. "How do I connect to the music store?" "Er..."
At first I was a bit confused as to why this was posted in the your rights online section, until I considered this case from the point of view of the poor bastard that got blasted by the former employee. Denial of service attacks have been around quite some time before 1990. If UK law doesn't considered this sort of computer act to be illegal what else isn't? What is illegal?
If the FairTax is so great why haven't we adopted it?
Anyone else think it looks like a pokemon ball with horns?
Your post seems to boil down to this: "I do a convenient thing with the internet. I do another convenient thing with the internet. I do yet another convenient thing with the internet. Therefore, it makes people stupid." I don't get it.
Please elaborate a bit. How does having to walk across campus in the freezing rain to turn in homework make one smarter, or at least maintains your current level of intelligence? How does calling a pizza place and ordering pizza for delivery do the same thing?
I've got mod points now, and I can't help but wish for an "Ouch! Burned him good, that dumb bastard!" mod.
:(
I'm so terribly disappointed.
Hmm... an interesting question would be: Given n numbers with an averge q what is the probablity that q will be less than n/2 of the numbers?
Thanks for the math error, it generated an interesting question!
Osama Bin Laden should be added to Godwin's Law.
If you actually have to tell us it's funny, is it really?
The article was dead on when it compared this silly bickering and name calling to the Ford versus Chevy battle. Nothing comes of it, and people looking from the outside just see two drunk white trash slobs driving rust buckets with superficial differences.
;)" The RTFM guy berated me for putting f in the middle and not as its own swithc. The reason for this is that GNU tar is a bit more lax in its parsing than other tars, and to tell this guy to tar in this manner is to spread bad practices.
While reading this article I was reminded of a guy I met in ##freebsd on freenode. Somebody new to the *nix way of life hoped on channel and asked how to tar and compress a directory. This guy shot off "RTFM" which only alienates new users ( Have you seen the tar man page? Jesus. ) So I shot off a quick "tar cfz foo.tar.gz foo/ but read the man page
Was the RTFM guy right or wrong? Who cares? Both ways work, its just that the if the new guy used a non-GNU tar he'd have to RTFM. The difference is superficial and RTFM guy was just one half of the white trash pair arguing about his truck.
Question: Linux or *BSD, which is better?
Answer: For what? --or-- Grow up you stupid asshat.
The last time grafedia was mentioned I got curious as to how quickly a wikipedia article could come to shape. I started this article.
Obviously I should have thought a bit more, because no one knew anything and so the text written was little more than lifted from grafedia.net. But now I've got another chance to whore out my little article.
If you know anything about grafedia, how about contributing?
How so?
I was kind of curious about how quickly a wikipedia article could be taken from nothing up to something interesting, so please pop on over to the Grafedia Wikipedia article and contribute if you have anthing.
I just started the crazy thing. I wonder how this will go.
You wouldn't still happen to have that image around, would you? I'd very much like to see that. I'd make one myself, but I don't have Word around.
/* Begining of shameless pimping */
/* End of shamless pimping */
By the way, any other *nix users out there that are tired of document editors like Word, Abiword, or OpenOffice but still need formating ( vim's not cutting it ) have you seen lyx?
Slashdot: "News for twelve year olds. Stuff you should have googled."
On the off chance that we /. that site your forgot:
10. Was their server running on a hobbit?
God I hate that joke.