Would I still be spending ~$20 a month on music if each song were ten cents? No, I'd probably go nuts and be spending $50 a month and I bet people that spend no money on music would start to slowly $5 or $10 for some popular albums
Funny you say that. I have never spent a penny in online music until Allofmp3 came along (it seems so long ago...). It was just so easy to put like 10 dollars and then download a lot of music at really good quality... at BETTER quality than illegal p2p releases.
Unfortunately, the RIAA shoot off that option, in my country it was not illegal to download from allofmp3... since then, I have not bought any music online (in fact, I have not bought any album for about 2 years =oO) [until a couple of days ago that I bought Spencley's album] in FLAC for a very good price.
The lesson? I am the living proof that what you said is completely true. I would never buy from iTunes (I do not know if it is possible in my country) because of the DRM's music and because of the price... sorry $1 a 128kbps mp3 song is still too much for me, give a FLAC at $1 and I will consider it:).
From Amazon?, well I can't wait for them to provide the music internationally (which I guess won't happen soon), I might give it a try for uncrippled mp3s, of course depending on the price.
The good thing is that now that music creators are seeing that electronic distribution is one of the main channels for distributing their material, I assume we will start to see more competition between electronic distributors and the price will go down.
This I believe is similar to what happened to airlines. You can now buy very cheap flights via internet, while the "standard" airline companies struggle to sell you their overpriced flights. How did the online companies achieved that? using technology to streamline their process and reduce their costs.
Music creators will have to do the same, as a music creator you have to streamline your distribution process, skip the chaotic "record industry" and go directly to your customers using electronic distribution.
Shit, nice troll there asshole. Unfortunately for your troll attempt, there are people here in slashdot who know what they are talking about. I, for example share office with a girl from Syria who is doing her PhD in Comp. Sci. I am certain that there are not such kind of things in Syria, while it is true that things like Pepsi or Coke just entered the country a couple of years ago, such stuff you made up is a blatant lie. Here, let me ask her (who is in the MSN right now)...... No, deffinitely, there are no public gay hangings in Syria.... or not public enough for her to know.
Fucking asshole, you and your American "lets save the world by fucking them" pride. No, you are not helping people by killing them and their puppy dogs (your oh so proud navy soldiers killing dogs... oh yeah so proud of you asshole).
Now go back to drink your governments kool aid and watching at your TV. Do not try to think, you just can't do it.
I just saw the video (downloaded from Wikileaks), and I can tell you that from what I saw there, and from what I have read, it seems to me that Islam is a really fucked up religion. And this time I mean the religion, not the church. The religion is what? 300 hundred years old? still thinking in stoning women for prostitution or whatnot?
As you said, you just can not "solve" the differences between Islam believers and the western society. Because for them, solving means that all of us convert to Islam. Some people (in Europe mainly) believe that the solution is to "integrate" Islamist better in the society, but shit, then you have the killer of Theo van Gogh, who was Islamist and comnplete Netherlands citizen (and it seems he was very succesful).
I say we take all the Scientologists, put them in their ship and take them to a trip through West Asia so they can confront to the equally crazy Islamist haha.
Firefox starts to sound like the next big brother.
At the risk of being unpopular and stoned to death by this crowd that is looking me funny, I think "the next big-brother" is no one else than your friend Google. You can't guess the quantity of information they OWN. Yes, they OWN information about you, it is theirs and they can use it for whatever they might.
Yeah, I know currently they have this "do no evil" motto, which can be modified in the non too distant future. Although IMHO such thing has no real value.
And why does it relate to firefox? because indeed there is a small text field in firefox which directs you to Google search by default. There is great money to be done from that from what I have read, and a great amount of information for Google.
The funny thing is, that Firefox was supposed to be the lite version of the "bloated" Mozilla suite, and extensions were supposed to be used sepparately by peple who wanted to add some functionality. In theory very good, in practice, the functionality and efficiency of loosely coupled extensions can not compare to the efficiency of a "total" well engineered software such as Opera or (please don't kill me) IE 7 (by the way, I *hate* the darn IE7 and its non-compliance to CSS... why is it that all the stylesheets I use *must* have some patch to be used in IE7 while Opera, Firefox and others render them beautifuly?).
Am I the only one that finds the awesome bar very counter-productive?
In firefox 2, opera and others I just type the first two or three letters of the site I want to visit (like sl for slashdot or gm for gmail) and firefox would show me sites that start with such names, generally taking me to slashdot homepage. However, with this new "awesome" address bar, it tries (and fails) to guess which site am I looking for, therefore I have to type more than three letters and often browse through the list of suggested web sites (usually, it tries to take me to my slashdot user page, instead of the homepage).
Is there a way to turn of that "awesomeness" and leave it as it was before?
. Sit kids in front of a Mac and they'll start messing with it; sit kids in front of a Windows box and they'll start messing with that. They don't "see" the operating system You tangentialy addresssed something which I think is an important issue affecting these kind of studies. Microsoft is not more recognized than say, IBM, because most people does not buy Microsoft stuff. For each Microsoft product they buy, they have bought an IBM or HP or Toshiba or Dell product. The "clients" of Microsoft are the hardware vendors and not the general public. The other clients are the I.T. admins in charge of setting up the infrastructure in the companies that use Microsoft solutions. And those could be counted as a minority (i.e., for each 1 I.T. admin who decies to go MS for some thing there are maybe 100 workers who bought their Dell PC for home).
I believe that is the reason why the general population does not recognize Microsoft as much as say, IBM. As you said, for people, Microsoft sells the XBOX game. Whereas for example Sony sells computers, Playstation, stereos, TVs and whatnot. Even though those have components from matushita or any other unknown brand. So, who provides McDonalds with their bread? and why are they not in the list? All of you eat that shit after all no?
Transitions have a specific use and is to "inform" your audience that you have changed the slide. Even a very discrete fade out transition is sometimes useful. When you give a presentation people are usually looking at you and hear you talking. They just refer to the slide when it is shown at first *or* when you point at a specific feature of the slide.
Up here in space Im looking down on you My lasers trace Everything you do
You think youve private lives Think nothing of the kind There is no true escape Im watching all the time
Im made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy Im protected electric eye
Always in focus You cant feel my stare I zoom into you You dont know Im there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
Im made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy Im protected electric eye
Electric eye, in the sky Feel my stare, always there Theres nothing you can do about it Develop and expose I feed upon your every thought And so my power grows
Im made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean
and really, truth be told, we are all probably racist on some level
That is so true... I do not consider myself racist at all, however just a week ago I took the bus home and at some stop 3 black guys who I thought were about 20 got on the bus. I can't deny my first reaction was to get nervous.
And I am not even white, in fact, I am one of those bastard Latinos who just assault, murder and steal white's people jobs.
Unfortunately, society (the media?) has trained us to be affraid of each other [race].
The reason why MySQL wins over PostgreSQL for me is because my el-cheapo web host provides me only with MySQL database backend.
Really, show me a host which is competitive to ICDSoft (which have very nice support service) for $6 a month for 1000 MB / 20 GB-traffic with php-perl-python-ruby-tcl and whatnot.
Yeah, for all the people that still think it might be true, the fact is that all the Sir Arthur C. Clarke paeophilia issue was brought forward by no less than The Sunday Mirror (or dailiy mirror) which is just a tabloid "news" paper in the UK. They even printed an apology and retraction.
Hey, being a Satriani/Vai/Vinnie Moore and the like fan I gave a try to your album and I find it very nice. Unfortunately the CD seems to be shipped from the USA at $5 minimum. Is there any way to get the FLAC or something else than MP3? (even ogg v7 would be nice). If you are still the owner of your music and you can sell me such thing directly using paypal or the like I would be very glad to pay you (I prefer to pay you the $12 + 5 instead of wasting them on the shipment...
Thanks for the shameless plug:)
BTW, my brother's band also released a 1,000 CDs album (more like a single with 5 songs) and the costs of printing was nowhere near what these RIAA guys say.
: 'baca' and 'vaca' sound exactly the same as would
Well, maybe they sound the same to you, but the first thing they teach us in schools in Mexico is that B is called "B-labial" (lip-based B) while V is the "V-laviodental" (lip+teeth based V). As such, the difference between the B and the V is that when pronouoncing the later you put your lower lip slightly between your teeth (as with doing the sound of an F).
Now, in the case of Spanish from Spain (as oposed to Spanish from Mexico and other Latin countries) you do have a specific difference in the S, C and Z sound. For us, that difference is what makes your accent sound funny. However, in Spanish from Mexico, is difficult to know if a word has S or C, like "Hacer", you in Spain pronounce something like "Hafer", which is the root of the word, but in Mexico, the pronunciation would be similar to "haser".
Hibernation and suspend to RAM in Ubuntu is a complete joke. When resuming from suspend to ram the video is never brought back correctly, the USB devices (keyboard and mouse) are not powered up (that bug is documented in launchpad), when hibernating you get "insufficient swap" error messages and when it decides to hibernate and you try to restore it fails to find the hibernation image and restarts from 0.
On the other hand, I have never had a problem hibernating or suspendingn to RAM on Windows. And I have stopped using my home Linux partition after installing andLinux. But I won't tell this to slashdotters because the zealots will mod me down.
Slashdot Mirror
Or what about the guy with the signature stating that you should a write some sort of generalization about Americans...
Although I have never seen that work... lets see
All Americans come from the worst part of the continent.
Showing the best of open source aren't you?
Would I still be spending ~$20 a month on music if each song were ten cents? No, I'd probably go nuts and be spending $50 a month and I bet people that spend no money on music would start to slowly $5 or $10 for some popular albums
:).
Funny you say that. I have never spent a penny in online music until Allofmp3 came along (it seems so long ago...). It was just so easy to put like 10 dollars and then download a lot of music at really good quality... at BETTER quality than illegal p2p releases.
Unfortunately, the RIAA shoot off that option, in my country it was not illegal to download from allofmp3... since then, I have not bought any music online (in fact, I have not bought any album for about 2 years =oO) [until a couple of days ago that I bought Spencley's album] in FLAC for a very good price.
The lesson? I am the living proof that what you said is completely true. I would never buy from iTunes (I do not know if it is possible in my country) because of the DRM's music and because of the price... sorry $1 a 128kbps mp3 song is still too much for me, give a FLAC at $1 and I will consider it
From Amazon?, well I can't wait for them to provide the music internationally (which I guess won't happen soon), I might give it a try for uncrippled mp3s, of course depending on the price.
The good thing is that now that music creators are seeing that electronic distribution is one of the main channels for distributing their material, I assume we will start to see more competition between electronic distributors and the price will go down.
This I believe is similar to what happened to airlines. You can now buy very cheap flights via internet, while the "standard" airline companies struggle to sell you their overpriced flights. How did the online companies achieved that? using technology to streamline their process and reduce their costs.
Music creators will have to do the same, as a music creator you have to streamline your distribution process, skip the chaotic "record industry" and go directly to your customers using electronic distribution.
You killed slashdot!
You bastard!
Shit, that stuff has happy music sounds man!! And I am supposed to be working...
where they hang gays in public square and Syria
... No, deffinitely, there are no public gay hangings in Syria.... or not public enough for her to know.
Shit, nice troll there asshole. Unfortunately for your troll attempt, there are people here in slashdot who know what they are talking about. I, for example share office with a girl from Syria who is doing her PhD in Comp. Sci. I am certain that there are not such kind of things in Syria, while it is true that things like Pepsi or Coke just entered the country a couple of years ago, such stuff you made up is a blatant lie. Here, let me ask her (who is in the MSN right now)...
Fucking asshole, you and your American "lets save the world by fucking them" pride. No, you are not helping people by killing them and their puppy dogs (your oh so proud navy soldiers killing dogs... oh yeah so proud of you asshole).
Now go back to drink your governments kool aid and watching at your TV. Do not try to think, you just can't do it.
You should have made a test by giving him beer. I am positive he would have changed his "convictions".
Well i have seen 13 year olds working in malls before.
Shit... the first time I read it as "balls"... I think I need help.
BTW, for you and GP, pictures of it didn't happen.
Screw creative, Torrent FTW!.
I just saw the video (downloaded from Wikileaks), and I can tell you that from what I saw there, and from what I have read, it seems to me that Islam is a really fucked up religion. And this time I mean the religion, not the church. The religion is what? 300 hundred years old? still thinking in stoning women for prostitution or whatnot?
As you said, you just can not "solve" the differences between Islam believers and the western society. Because for them, solving means that all of us convert to Islam. Some people (in Europe mainly) believe that the solution is to "integrate" Islamist better in the society, but shit, then you have the killer of Theo van Gogh, who was Islamist and comnplete Netherlands citizen (and it seems he was very succesful).
I say we take all the Scientologists, put them in their ship and take them to a trip through West Asia so they can confront to the equally crazy Islamist haha.
Firefox starts to sound like the next big brother.
At the risk of being unpopular and stoned to death by this crowd that is looking me funny, I think "the next big-brother" is no one else than your friend Google. You can't guess the quantity of information they OWN. Yes, they OWN information about you, it is theirs and they can use it for whatever they might.
Yeah, I know currently they have this "do no evil" motto, which can be modified in the non too distant future. Although IMHO such thing has no real value.
And why does it relate to firefox? because indeed there is a small text field in firefox which directs you to Google search by default. There is great money to be done from that from what I have read, and a great amount of information for Google.
Maybe FireFox needs a "lite" version.
The funny thing is, that Firefox was supposed to be the lite version of the "bloated" Mozilla suite, and extensions were supposed to be used sepparately by peple who wanted to add some functionality. In theory very good, in practice, the functionality and efficiency of loosely coupled extensions can not compare to the efficiency of a "total" well engineered software such as Opera or (please don't kill me) IE 7 (by the way, I *hate* the darn IE7 and its non-compliance to CSS... why is it that all the stylesheets I use *must* have some patch to be used in IE7 while Opera, Firefox and others render them beautifuly?).
Am I the only one that finds the awesome bar very counter-productive?
In firefox 2, opera and others I just type the first two or three letters of the site I want to visit (like sl for slashdot or gm for gmail) and firefox would show me sites that start with such names, generally taking me to slashdot homepage. However, with this new "awesome" address bar, it tries (and fails) to guess which site am I looking for, therefore I have to type more than three letters and often browse through the list of suggested web sites (usually, it tries to take me to my slashdot user page, instead of the homepage).
Is there a way to turn of that "awesomeness" and leave it as it was before?
TROLL, wow sorry
Mods should learn that he could also use (and indeed would be cool) one hand Dvorak keyboard distribution no?
sheesh
. Sit kids in front of a Mac and they'll start messing with it; sit kids in front of a Windows box and they'll start messing with that. They don't "see" the operating system
You tangentialy addresssed something which I think is an important issue affecting these kind of studies. Microsoft is not more recognized than say, IBM, because most people does not buy Microsoft stuff. For each Microsoft product they buy, they have bought an IBM or HP or Toshiba or Dell product. The "clients" of Microsoft are the hardware vendors and not the general public. The other clients are the I.T. admins in charge of setting up the infrastructure in the companies that use Microsoft solutions. And those could be counted as a minority (i.e., for each 1 I.T. admin who decies to go MS for some thing there are maybe 100 workers who bought their Dell PC for home).
I believe that is the reason why the general population does not recognize Microsoft as much as say, IBM. As you said, for people, Microsoft sells the XBOX game. Whereas for example Sony sells computers, Playstation, stereos, TVs and whatnot. Even though those have components from matushita or any other unknown brand. So, who provides McDonalds with their bread? and why are they not in the list? All of you eat that shit after all no?
Do you use Dragon Naturally Speaking?
just curious...
in the internet age, only one thing comes to mind when you come across a title like "Barbie's Horse Adventures."
But... horses can not use a keyboard can they?
Transitions have a specific use and is to "inform" your audience that you have changed the slide. Even a very discrete fade out transition is sometimes useful. When you give a presentation people are usually looking at you and hear you talking. They just refer to the slide when it is shown at first *or* when you point at a specific feature of the slide.
Up here in space
Im looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think youve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
Im watching all the time
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
Always in focus
You cant feel my stare
I zoom into you
You dont know Im there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
Theres nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
Protected. detective. electric eye
and really, truth be told, we are all probably racist on some level
That is so true... I do not consider myself racist at all, however just a week ago I took the bus home and at some stop 3 black guys who I thought were about 20 got on the bus. I can't deny my first reaction was to get nervous.
And I am not even white, in fact, I am one of those bastard Latinos who just assault, murder and steal white's people jobs.
Unfortunately, society (the media?) has trained us to be affraid of each other [race].
The reason why MySQL wins over PostgreSQL for me is because my el-cheapo web host provides me only with MySQL database backend.
Really, show me a host which is competitive to ICDSoft (which have very nice support service) for $6 a month for 1000 MB / 20 GB-traffic with php-perl-python-ruby-tcl and whatnot.
Yeah, for all the people that still think it might be true, the fact is that all the Sir Arthur C. Clarke paeophilia issue was brought forward by no less than The Sunday Mirror (or dailiy mirror) which is just a tabloid "news" paper in the UK. They even printed an apology and retraction.
Hey, being a Satriani/Vai/Vinnie Moore and the like fan I gave a try to your album and I find it very nice. Unfortunately the CD seems to be shipped from the USA at $5 minimum. Is there any way to get the FLAC or something else than MP3? (even ogg v7 would be nice). If you are still the owner of your music and you can sell me such thing directly using paypal or the like I would be very glad to pay you (I prefer to pay you the $12 + 5 instead of wasting them on the shipment...
:)
Thanks for the shameless plug
BTW, my brother's band also released a 1,000 CDs album (more like a single with 5 songs) and the costs of printing was nowhere near what these RIAA guys say.
: 'baca' and 'vaca' sound exactly the same as would
Well, maybe they sound the same to you, but the first thing they teach us in schools in Mexico is that B is called "B-labial" (lip-based B) while V is the "V-laviodental" (lip+teeth based V). As such, the difference between the B and the V is that when pronouoncing the later you put your lower lip slightly between your teeth (as with doing the sound of an F).
Now, in the case of Spanish from Spain (as oposed to Spanish from Mexico and other Latin countries) you do have a specific difference in the S, C and Z sound. For us, that difference is what makes your accent sound funny. However, in Spanish from Mexico, is difficult to know if a word has S or C, like "Hacer", you in Spain pronounce something like "Hafer", which is the root of the word, but in Mexico, the pronunciation would be similar to "haser".
Hibernation and suspend to RAM in Ubuntu is a complete joke. When resuming from suspend to ram the video is never brought back correctly, the USB devices (keyboard and mouse) are not powered up (that bug is documented in launchpad), when hibernating you get "insufficient swap" error messages and when it decides to hibernate and you try to restore it fails to find the hibernation image and restarts from 0.
On the other hand, I have never had a problem hibernating or suspendingn to RAM on Windows. And I have stopped using my home Linux partition after installing andLinux. But I won't tell this to slashdotters because the zealots will mod me down.