I usually recommended HP for laptops to family and friends (my brother and father have one each one because of that... for that I am sorry now), and I also own a ZV5000LA.
My problems started when the hard disk crashed in the UK and I talked with the service guys in order to *BUY* (because you must buy them, the mother fuckers wont send them for free) a copy of the "rescue" disks with a Windows XP professional installation which license I've got in a sticker under the Laptop, they said that they can not send me the UK version and that HP does not ship internationally... I asked the technician, what should I do then? and his answer was that I would need to buy a RETAIL version of windows XP, I asked him what about the license in my HP and he pretty much told me it was useless.
So yeah, HPs are not fine computers, they aren't also Open Source friendly (shitty boradcom Wireless hardware which just do not want to work under any linux distro... after trying everything [including THAT ubuntuforums link which you are about to reply with]) ATI graphics card WITHOUT ATI propietary drivers (unlucky 9100 mobile graphics chip owner).
So, to the hell with HP, and Toshiba... and Dell... fuck, we need a good Notebook/Laptop manufacturer (with worldwide distribution of course... and not costing an arm and a leg).
Yeah, I hate mergers too. I just made a contract with NTL internet cable provider, which was merging with Telewest, and after two months it became Virgin Media after being bought by the Virgin group... geez, it seems UK will soon be Virgin Islands or something alike.
The problem with mergers is that they often lead to less competition (less companies, or the same number of companies both all owned by the same few groups). I hope that at least speakeasy does not stop offering they cool bandwidth service:)
Well, I do not know in the USA but here in the UK the Wii is not really as strong as it could. If you go to a Virgin store or an HMV (or a GAME or gamestation) you will likely see just a small bunchof different Wii titles, Zelda, RedSteel Monkey Ball and some of the racing ones, anything *really* interesting while the PS3 and the XBOX360 are completely overhyped and last time I went to the Virgin (to buy a Wii game =o) proud Wii owner) there was a demo unit of the PS3 with *lots* (about 20) of people looking at, wheareas when the Wii was about to launch, I went to the same store which had a Wii demo unit, also no a saturday afternoon and there were only 2 or three people looking at.
Also, from what I have seen on the buses, plenty of people have PSP, I have seen lots of kids with their PSP whereas I have never seen any person with a NDS. I think Sony is the leader over here.
It is sad for me as I like the Wii, and I can not get lots of games I would like to (they do not arrive here). I have realized that Europe is *the worst* place to be a console gamer, just a few games are released here (and Britons like really horrible kind of games like Who wants to be a millionary, Monopoly, Football *Manager*, and thinks like that). Whereas in Mexico (my beautiful third world country w00t!) we get all the titles from USA and some titles from Europe (even if they are in PAL it is possible to play them.... some times via pirated game). Oh, and lets no talk about prices.
Anyway, I saw the PS3 in this Virgin last weekend and I couldn't help thinking that it is a really very expensive piece of hardware... and then the games gosh, £50 ($98.2479 USD)for a game... and they do not want people to pirate it?
Kick ass laptop to be the envy of your friends.... $1,000,000 Coffee to show off your laptop in the cafeteria... $ 100 "Sorry, we're currently experiencing heavy server loads. Please try again in a few minutes."... priceless
And here is where you think that if people would not take care of their own bodies how could you expect for them to care about a darn computer...
As you said, the main issue is the "immediate benefits." whereas it is a nice orgasm, or winning the Nigerian lottery or anything else, lots of people do not know the risks, and lots of people do not care about the risks even if they know them.
OpenOffice Calc is a POS in my opinion. Specifically charting is really fugly, I ended using Gnumeric for charting (which is quite nice). Of course Not everyone can use Gnumeric as it is only for windows (and it does not have *all* the functions Excel has).
In my opinion, I would not migrate from Microsoft Office to X, W or Z anytime. It is a very complete office suite and invariably, when you start using some other office suite you will find there is something which X does but Y does not do and you might need to install Koffice, Gnumeric, OpenOffice and gnuplot in order to do something which can be achieved with MSOffice.
That of course without considering databases. I still have to see a mature replacement for Access which allows people (normal people, no TSQL freaks) to read and modify MDB databases. Of course people here will bitch that access is not a real DB and whatnot. But it is one of the easiest ways to exchange database data with non-experts users (i.e. people that focus on doing their work *with* their computer), instead of having to install a bloody database engine (MYSQL, POSTGRE, ETC)... of course you could use sqlite BUT as I said before I am thinking about the non-TSQL freaks hence the need of a nice GUI:)
Cons: Didn't we play this last year? (And every year for the past 8 years?)
Uh... yeah, similarly to how we played The Legend of Zelda, The Adventures of Link, A Link to the Past, Links Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Oracle Ages, Oracle Seasons, Four Swords and The Minish Cap before Twilight Princess...
Or what about Mario Party 1 trough 8
Or Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, , Super Mario Bros. 3 , Super Mario Bros. Deluxe , New Super Mario Bros. Super Mario World, Super Mario world 2, Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2.
But when you now ship you call-center to india, you have now created a corporate entity that has no interest in minimizing call volumne. To the contrary - they get paid by the number of calls or the number of minutes spent on calls and thus it is in their best interest to have as many calls as possible. The survival of the call-center rests on there being as many service calls as possible.
My girlfriend used to work in a call centre (not in India of course). There are several points you ignore:
1. Some calls are recorded and workers are examined each week or two weeks. 2. You do not want to spend much time on each call, there is an average call time and if you more than the average it means you are being inefficient (or sometimes that the caller is a dick, but that is checked in the weekly tests). 3. You do not get paid by the number of calls (you work from 9 to 5 and get paid a specific salary). Usually you want *less* calls. 4. The survival of the call center only rests on the company wanting to provide that service. 5. The people working there are humans, lots of the time there *are* software problems and whatnot.
Of course it all depends on the company policy. My girlfriend worked in an outsourced insurance policy call center. It is not until you know somewhere on the *other* side of the phone that you realize what kind of job is that.
Nowadays, if I need to call to some call centre I am more polite and calm with the guy/girl at the other side. If you do not like something about the company ask for the manager and tell her, or write a letter. You will not achieve anything by yelling to the girl who answers the phone, she does not have the power to do *anything*, youd better talk to a manager or someone else.
1A. it can detect the problem well enough to tell the user what needs to be done... so why doesn't it just ask if it is ok to do that and then do it itself so the user doesn't have to figure out how to type in a command
That is something I have always wondered about Synaptic and the dpkg -i ??'xxasdf issue, he tells *me* to do it, and it is the first thing to try... why dont it just *do it*... it is not for security reasons (it already has the gksudo credentials)! just fucking do it!, if it does not fix the problem then throw the error message and be done with it.
Oh, and the other think I do not like is that the error messages are usually "hidden" in some text file. It would be better if there was some kind of big red screen telling the user there was an error and not die silently (and write something the logfile, or worst yet, coredump).
I like Ubuntu, I use it in a secondary machine I got from the thrash... granted I almost dont use it (I tried installing in my notebook but not all the hardware worked), I will give version 7 a try but I am sure there will be some issue (with Linux there is always an issue).
By the way, why is it 7.04 ? why not just 7? that, and as other people already said, what with the gay naming? it is okay if developers want to name it as they want while they are doing it, but I hard a hard time remembering the name of the 6 release, and then it was not 6 but 6.06 !!!! it is difficult to find help to some specific issues (specially for newbies) if you have such weird and inconsistent names...
quite the opposite (e.g. given the speed he apparently designed MS BASIC with, he clearly has skill). However, he didn't actually invent BASIC (as a language) or even write MS-DOS originally
But, how/many/ people do you know that have "invented" or wrote original software?, I know I wont be very popular saying this over here but *even* Linus Trovalds took Minix as the basis for Linux, and he didnt *wrote* all of the Linux kernel you know. Technical people should not only be judged by the number of lines they write but by the *overall* influence they have to their field.
Bill Gates has had a really HUGE influence to the field (some good, some bad, but in my opinion, more good than bad). I would think that he deserves more like a Master degree... maybe *even* a PhD (although maybe he is not familiar with research methodologies).
I know here in slashdot more than 50% of people do not like him but I think overall, after he dies he will be nicely remembered as the guy who introduced computers to the masses.
I think that a lot of metal fans are into this as well. Some classical compositions would actually translate to metal pretty nicely. You might want to listen to Uli Jon Roth "Metamorphosis" CD, nice Vivaldi's four seasons interpretation. I love Yngwie Malmsteen's music until the "Inspiration" album. The first albums with "Rising Force" (which featured the formidable Jens Johansson on keyboards) where awesome. I do not like what he plays nowadays (and that he became such a jerk).
About the complaint on the squeezed balls, I always tease with my brother stating that in the music he likes (alternative, grunge??? i am not sure of what styles are those like Pearl Jam, smashing pumpkins, silverchair, etc etc) they always talk about people killing theirself and deppression and how really bad they are feeling (as Bart said "Eh, making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel"). Funny enough, if you listen to the lyrics of songs from say stratovarius, manowar and other metal bands, they tend to send the message more like "cheer up, hold on and fight"
Hi, I went to your site and I am seriously interested in listening to your music to see if I liked some of it and buy a record, however I could not listen to the MP3 as I am using FC6 which does not support MP3... it would be nice if you could upload at least one OGG file:). I also went to your "myspace" webpage in order to try to listen your music there but alas, for some reason the flash player would just not play the music...
I was very interested in listening to this which you call geek rock:). I would love to buy "from you" but personally I preffer.OGG format (v7) or MP3 at 320 kbps... I know the £10 I could give you might not be worth the hassle of doing all that but I just wanted to let you know.
Well, for starters you are on slashdot. Which means there is a *very high* probability that you are a geek. This by itself could mean that you are not "confident" to have relationships with women. You might be afraid of them or think they are X, Y or Z. You might see woman as an object and think of them only as "bitches", etc.
The problem is not on looking nude people. The problem is *what* kind of porn would you see. I also watch porn, I have watched *almost* every kind of porn you can think of (I never could get child porn in my crazy university days... I am glad of that now:) ). I have watched softcore, hardcore, lesbian, gay, zoophilic, necrophilic, and those disgusting sheisse videos... I watched all that during some of my years during the University, Me, as you, started watching playboy magazines looking at the nice naked women. But if you are not careful you could end with a *very* bad mental health problem.
Fortunately my parents guided me quite well, I now have a girlfriend and I am very happy with her. I continue to look at porn sometime and she knows it but I never see those kind of "unnatural" pornographic things and limit to see the male/women (and lesbo =oP).
But even the "natural" man/woman can teach bad messages to your kid as lots of them focus on the domination of the female. And sex is *not* about that. At least not the reality, unless you and your loved one consent mutually to play those roles.
The only problem I see with your issue is that when you "pirated" those music files (through edonkey or bittorrent network I assume) you were not only downloading them but, as you downloaded them you were *providing* them to other people (hence *distributing* them).
I believe that, if you downloaded those tracks from a service like say, allofmp3 where you only perform the *download* but do not make available for distribution while downloading, then you would not be guilty.
You see, if lawyers starting realising that it is possible to get fees from RIAA lawsuits they are more likely to accept defending the normal people without asking for payment (what is the term for that?). Lawyers are like sharks and if they see that RIAA (that huge a$$ociation with $hitload$ of ca$h) starts bleeding some cash for lawyers they will be very attracted to defend this people.
Every new sued person is a potential new job for a lawyer.
The "problem" with Metal is that nowadays it encompasses a huge diversity of stiles. And it is possible to find people who like *certain* kind of metal but dislike another. Also, in your list you name one or two of the "classical" metal bands (Judas Priest for example) which some metal fans like and respect but some other metal fans just do not like.
As an example, I love Epic metal (Kamelot, Rhapsody... etc) and Gothic metal (Therion, Epica, Theatre of Tragedy, etc...) and Speed Metal (Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Dragon Force), but my brother who is more into alternative likes Gothic Metal and Death Metal but *really* hates Speed Metal (he does not find attractive to listen to people who seems to song as if their nuts are being squeezed... or so he said hehe).
I was discussing with a friend (who has never been into metal, he is more into classical and other styles) that Heavy Metal is the *evolution* of classical music. One question is asked him for example is, what NEW recent classical compositions have appeared recently? you see hundreds of orchestrations and interpretations of Paganini's capriccios or Mozart's odes and other compisitions but there are *no* new classical composition in the mainstream. The "music" which is in the mainstream now is Pop, which musically speaking is shit, but if you listen to compositions like those by Haggard, Therion, Judas Priest, Kamelot, and lot of other metal music they *are* musically demanding and they take elements of classical music and adapt them.
I like heavy metal too, I also liked Metallica until the black album which in my opinion was when they became pop-metal.. from there they became RIAA-bitches metal. And I always liked Megadeth more than Metallica...
Currently I listen to Children of Bodom, Kamelot, Axxis, Symphony X, Stratovarius, Megadeth, Judast Priest, Yngwie Malmsteen, Rata Blanca, Avalanch, Lacrimosa, Theatre Of Tragedy (before they became a techno dance band), Epica, In Flames, Iced Earth, Ayreon, Rhapsody, Haggaard, Iron Maiden, etc.
Interestingly, I also like to listen to guitar players like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, Eric Johnson, etc.
And about punk... I hate it, I once read that Punk was born from the frustration of the fans that could not play the songs their idols played (i.e. try to play something by Malmsteen or Maiden) and thus a new wave started with music easy to replicate (just chords) and no technique.
By the way, I would *really* recommend a DVD called Metal:A Headbangers journey, which is a really nice documentary about heavy metal (I LOL when they asked Alice Cooper when was "Heavy Metal" born and he answered that it was born when someone referred at his music as heavy metal... suuuuure duuude). If you are into metal you will like it (it has part of an interview with Bruce Dickinson) and if you are not you might find interesting what the heck is this metal thing:).
use the exact thing you're complaining about to complain about the very same thing.
Uh?
That was a difficult one to dissect. But the difference is that I am not writing about it on the, say, "Closed source for profit greed group mailing list". Do you see the difference?
There is one feature that I find neat, and it is not available in any major linux distribution out of the box (yeah, theres something called polyaudio or whatnot which is in beta and has to be installed manually, that does not count) which is independent audio volume control for each application.
I know there are third party applications that work on Windows (indievolume I think one is named). But there is no easy to use solution for windows (of course I dont expect too much since there are still issues with *playing* audio in some linux distributions now... and applications that still use the $!"£$@ OSS driver).
Aside of that I like the idea of superfetch and other small nice tools. Personally the eye candy is in no way beneficial for me as I *always* turn off any kind of theme and use winduglys with the "classic" performance friendly skin.
But I could give it a long shot and say that there is one specific feature that is relevant to everyone and that is security. Even though we all laugh at the stupid and annoying YOU ARE TRYING TO BASH WINDOWS VISTA SECURITY MODEL (ALLOW OR DENY) security model of Windows Vista, I am sure there is a bit *more* than the annoying questions. Why is this relevant to everyone? well, as this new operating system is the one that everyone who uses Microsoft Windows will sooner or later migrate, there is hope that the number of zombie computers will decrease. That is nice a nice thing for me and for you Linux system administrators who need to admin Windows boxes.
Anyway, I wont buy it any time soon (the last time I bought a windows OS was when I bought my HP laptop and I payed for WinXP as the MS tax...) as I do not have a machine powerful enough to use it (in the end, I am a third world country poor student with a scolarship...) and FC6 and Windows XP are enough for all of my needs (Skype VideoConf., Latex, Java programming, video watching, OpenGL-SDL/DirectX programming, statistical analysis, etc).
I do agree with his opinion, but I do not have my head so deep inside my ass to avoid seeing that in reality with hardware manufacturers need to protect certain parts of their code, be it because it is a trade secret or because it is part of a NDA signed against another company to use their technology.
And what I was referring to was exactly this, it is like me going to the comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroup and whine that Windows is shit and it does not do X and it is crap and whatever, knowing that people there will OF COURSE agree with me. That is just plain stupid. And yet, you are caught into his game when you "defend" him.
Have you thought of adding "user" to the mount options in fstab?
Yes I have, but first I will need to find an exploit to get root privileges in such machine in order to be able to MODIFY fstab... AND if I had root privileges I wont need to change the mount options
You hit the spot. At the end, that constant whining gets frustrating. Those stupid kids who does not get out of their mom basements think they are a majority... Of course this is slashdot and this is where all of them come to whine and cheer up each other. Groupthinking or Sheepthinking as I like to call it.
If these companies do not want or cant release they open source drivers then great, it is up to you to buy or not to buy their products, but whining is not going to solve anything.
And in Linux it is NOT possible to use it in any computer unless you have ROOT access (to install it). I have a 2GB USB stick and I wanted to use half of it as an encrypted drive. In Windows environments I could use it without problems but there is *no* way to access the drive in Linux unless you have root access to mount the device, or unless the computer you are using has got FUSE *AND* you are allowed to mount this file system (sheesh in FC6 I am not allowed to mount a simple USB device unless I've got root access!!).
I love truecrypt for what it is, I have used it but it does not works for what I need it (protect sensitive information in my thumb drive, making it available whenever/wherever I need it). And I *require* Linux support as my work computer is Linux and my home computer is Windows (and I do not have admin access to my work computer as University Policy does not allow it.
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I usually recommended HP for laptops to family and friends (my brother and father have one each one because of that... for that I am sorry now), and I also own a ZV5000LA.
My problems started when the hard disk crashed in the UK and I talked with the service guys in order to *BUY* (because you must buy them, the mother fuckers wont send them for free) a copy of the "rescue" disks with a Windows XP professional installation which license I've got in a sticker under the Laptop, they said that they can not send me the UK version and that HP does not ship internationally... I asked the technician, what should I do then? and his answer was that I would need to buy a RETAIL version of windows XP, I asked him what about the license in my HP and he pretty much told me it was useless.
So yeah, HPs are not fine computers, they aren't also Open Source friendly (shitty boradcom Wireless hardware which just do not want to work under any linux distro... after trying everything [including THAT ubuntuforums link which you are about to reply with]) ATI graphics card WITHOUT ATI propietary drivers (unlucky 9100 mobile graphics chip owner).
So, to the hell with HP, and Toshiba... and Dell... fuck, we need a good Notebook/Laptop manufacturer (with worldwide distribution of course... and not costing an arm and a leg).
Yeah, I hate mergers too. I just made a contract with NTL internet cable provider, which was merging with Telewest, and after two months it became Virgin Media after being bought by the Virgin group... geez, it seems UK will soon be Virgin Islands or something alike.
:)
The problem with mergers is that they often lead to less competition (less companies, or the same number of companies both all owned by the same few groups). I hope that at least speakeasy does not stop offering they cool bandwidth service
Well, I do not know in the USA but here in the UK the Wii is not really as strong as it could. If you go to a Virgin store or an HMV (or a GAME or gamestation) you will likely see just a small bunchof different Wii titles, Zelda, RedSteel Monkey Ball and some of the racing ones, anything *really* interesting while the PS3 and the XBOX360 are completely overhyped and last time I went to the Virgin (to buy a Wii game =o) proud Wii owner) there was a demo unit of the PS3 with *lots* (about 20) of people looking at, wheareas when the Wii was about to launch, I went to the same store which had a Wii demo unit, also no a saturday afternoon and there were only 2 or three people looking at.
Also, from what I have seen on the buses, plenty of people have PSP, I have seen lots of kids with their PSP whereas I have never seen any person with a NDS. I think Sony is the leader over here.
It is sad for me as I like the Wii, and I can not get lots of games I would like to (they do not arrive here). I have realized that Europe is *the worst* place to be a console gamer, just a few games are released here (and Britons like really horrible kind of games like Who wants to be a millionary, Monopoly, Football *Manager*, and thinks like that). Whereas in Mexico (my beautiful third world country w00t!) we get all the titles from USA and some titles from Europe (even if they are in PAL it is possible to play them.... some times via pirated game). Oh, and lets no talk about prices.
Anyway, I saw the PS3 in this Virgin last weekend and I couldn't help thinking that it is a really very expensive piece of hardware... and then the games gosh, £50 ($98.2479 USD)for a game... and they do not want people to pirate it?
extensible text editor that looks and behaves like a mashup of GNU Emacs ("Emacs")
Is it in some way similar to OpenOffice.org's ("OpenOffice.org")?
Kick ass laptop to be the envy of your friends .... $1,000,000 ... $ 100
Coffee to show off your laptop in the cafeteria
"Sorry, we're currently experiencing heavy
server loads. Please try again in a few minutes."... priceless
Wait!
Le'me get the popcorn!
And here is where you think that if people would not take care of their own bodies how could you expect for them to care about a darn computer...
As you said, the main issue is the "immediate benefits." whereas it is a nice orgasm, or winning the Nigerian lottery or anything else, lots of people do not know the risks, and lots of people do not care about the risks even if they know them.
I want to second this.
:)
OpenOffice Calc is a POS in my opinion. Specifically charting is really fugly, I ended using Gnumeric for charting (which is quite nice). Of course Not everyone can use Gnumeric as it is only for windows (and it does not have *all* the functions Excel has).
In my opinion, I would not migrate from Microsoft Office to X, W or Z anytime. It is a very complete office suite and invariably, when you start using some other office suite you will find there is something which X does but Y does not do and you might need to install Koffice, Gnumeric, OpenOffice and gnuplot in order to do something which can be achieved with MSOffice.
That of course without considering databases. I still have to see a mature replacement for Access which allows people (normal people, no TSQL freaks) to read and modify MDB databases. Of course people here will bitch that access is not a real DB and whatnot. But it is one of the easiest ways to exchange database data with non-experts users (i.e. people that focus on doing their work *with* their computer), instead of having to install a bloody database engine (MYSQL, POSTGRE, ETC)... of course you could use sqlite BUT as I said before I am thinking about the non-TSQL freaks hence the need of a nice GUI
Cons: Didn't we play this last year? (And every year for the past 8 years?)
Uh... yeah, similarly to how we played The Legend of Zelda, The Adventures of Link, A Link to the Past, Links Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Oracle Ages, Oracle Seasons, Four Swords and The Minish Cap before Twilight Princess...
Or what about Mario Party 1 trough 8
Or Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, , Super Mario Bros. 3 , Super Mario Bros. Deluxe , New Super Mario Bros. Super Mario World, Super Mario world 2, Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2.
But when you now ship you call-center to india, you have now created a corporate entity that has no interest in minimizing call volumne. To the contrary - they get paid by the number of calls or the number of minutes spent on calls and thus it is in their best interest to have as many calls as possible. The survival of the call-center rests on there being as many service calls as possible.
My girlfriend used to work in a call centre (not in India of course). There are several points you ignore:
1. Some calls are recorded and workers are examined each week or two weeks.
2. You do not want to spend much time on each call, there is an average call time and if you more than the average it means you are being inefficient (or sometimes that the caller is a dick, but that is checked in the weekly tests).
3. You do not get paid by the number of calls (you work from 9 to 5 and get paid a specific salary). Usually you want *less* calls.
4. The survival of the call center only rests on the company wanting to provide that service.
5. The people working there are humans, lots of the time there *are* software problems and whatnot.
Of course it all depends on the company policy. My girlfriend worked in an outsourced insurance policy call center. It is not until you know somewhere on the *other* side of the phone that you realize what kind of job is that.
Nowadays, if I need to call to some call centre I am more polite and calm with the guy/girl at the other side. If you do not like something about the company ask for the manager and tell her, or write a letter. You will not achieve anything by yelling to the girl who answers the phone, she does not have the power to do *anything*, youd better talk to a manager or someone else.
1A. it can detect the problem well enough to tell the user what needs to be done... so why doesn't it just ask if it is ok to do that and then do it itself so the user doesn't have to figure out how to type in a command
That is something I have always wondered about Synaptic and the dpkg -i ??'xxasdf issue, he tells *me* to do it, and it is the first thing to try... why dont it just *do it*... it is not for security reasons (it already has the gksudo credentials)! just fucking do it!, if it does not fix the problem then throw the error message and be done with it.
Oh, and the other think I do not like is that the error messages are usually "hidden" in some text file. It would be better if there was some kind of big red screen telling the user there was an error and not die silently (and write something the logfile, or worst yet, coredump).
I like Ubuntu, I use it in a secondary machine I got from the thrash... granted I almost dont use it (I tried installing in my notebook but not all the hardware worked), I will give version 7 a try but I am sure there will be some issue (with Linux there is always an issue).
By the way, why is it 7.04 ? why not just 7? that, and as other people already said, what with the gay naming? it is okay if developers want to name it as they want while they are doing it, but I hard a hard time remembering the name of the 6 release, and then it was not 6 but 6.06 !!!! it is difficult to find help to some specific issues (specially for newbies) if you have such weird and inconsistent names...
quite the opposite (e.g. given the speed he apparently designed MS BASIC with, he clearly has skill). However, he didn't actually invent BASIC (as a language) or even write MS-DOS originally
/many/ people do you know that have "invented" or wrote original software?, I know I wont be very popular saying this over here but *even* Linus Trovalds took Minix as the basis for Linux, and he didnt *wrote* all of the Linux kernel you know. Technical people should not only be judged by the number of lines they write but by the *overall* influence they have to their field.
But, how
Bill Gates has had a really HUGE influence to the field (some good, some bad, but in my opinion, more good than bad). I would think that he deserves more like a Master degree... maybe *even* a PhD (although maybe he is not familiar with research methodologies).
I know here in slashdot more than 50% of people do not like him but I think overall, after he dies he will be nicely remembered as the guy who introduced computers to the masses.
I think that a lot of metal fans are into this as well. Some classical compositions would actually translate to metal pretty nicely.
You might want to listen to Uli Jon Roth "Metamorphosis" CD, nice Vivaldi's four seasons interpretation. I love Yngwie Malmsteen's music until the "Inspiration" album. The first albums with "Rising Force" (which featured the formidable Jens Johansson on keyboards) where awesome. I do not like what he plays nowadays (and that he became such a jerk).
About the complaint on the squeezed balls, I always tease with my brother stating that in the music he likes (alternative, grunge??? i am not sure of what styles are those like Pearl Jam, smashing pumpkins, silverchair, etc etc) they always talk about people killing theirself and deppression and how really bad they are feeling (as Bart said "Eh, making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel"). Funny enough, if you listen to the lyrics of songs from say stratovarius, manowar and other metal bands, they tend to send the message more like "cheer up, hold on and fight"
Hi, I went to your site and I am seriously interested in listening to your music to see if I liked some of it and buy a record, however I could not listen to the MP3 as I am using FC6 which does not support MP3... it would be nice if you could upload at least one OGG file :). I also went to your "myspace" webpage in order to try to listen your music there but alas, for some reason the flash player would just not play the music...
:). I would love to buy "from you" but personally I preffer .OGG format (v7) or MP3 at 320 kbps... I know the £10 I could give you might not be worth the hassle of doing all that but I just wanted to let you know.
I was very interested in listening to this which you call geek rock
cheers,
me
Well, for starters you are on slashdot. Which means there is a *very high* probability that you are a geek. This by itself could mean that you are not "confident" to have relationships with women. You might be afraid of them or think they are X, Y or Z. You might see woman as an object and think of them only as "bitches", etc.
:) ). I have watched softcore, hardcore, lesbian, gay, zoophilic, necrophilic, and those disgusting sheisse videos... I watched all that during some of my years during the University, Me, as you, started watching playboy magazines looking at the nice naked women. But if you are not careful you could end with a *very* bad mental health problem.
The problem is not on looking nude people. The problem is *what* kind of porn would you see. I also watch porn, I have watched *almost* every kind of porn you can think of (I never could get child porn in my crazy university days... I am glad of that now
Fortunately my parents guided me quite well, I now have a girlfriend and I am very happy with her. I continue to look at porn sometime and she knows it but I never see those kind of "unnatural" pornographic things and limit to see the male/women (and lesbo =oP).
But even the "natural" man/woman can teach bad messages to your kid as lots of them focus on the domination of the female. And sex is *not* about that. At least not the reality, unless you and your loved one consent mutually to play those roles.
The only problem I see with your issue is that when you "pirated" those music files (through edonkey or bittorrent network I assume) you were not only downloading them but, as you downloaded them you were *providing* them to other people (hence *distributing* them).
I believe that, if you downloaded those tracks from a service like say, allofmp3 where you only perform the *download* but do not make available for distribution while downloading, then you would not be guilty.
You see, if lawyers starting realising that it is possible to get fees from RIAA lawsuits they are more likely to accept defending the normal people without asking for payment (what is the term for that?). Lawyers are like sharks and if they see that RIAA (that huge a$$ociation with $hitload$ of ca$h) starts bleeding some cash for lawyers they will be very attracted to defend this people.
Every new sued person is a potential new job for a lawyer.
The "problem" with Metal is that nowadays it encompasses a huge diversity of stiles. And it is possible to find people who like *certain* kind of metal but dislike another. Also, in your list you name one or two of the "classical" metal bands (Judas Priest for example) which some metal fans like and respect but some other metal fans just do not like.
As an example, I love Epic metal (Kamelot, Rhapsody... etc) and Gothic metal (Therion, Epica, Theatre of Tragedy, etc...) and Speed Metal (Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Dragon Force), but my brother who is more into alternative likes Gothic Metal and Death Metal but *really* hates Speed Metal (he does not find attractive to listen to people who seems to song as if their nuts are being squeezed... or so he said hehe).
I was discussing with a friend (who has never been into metal, he is more into classical and other styles) that Heavy Metal is the *evolution* of classical music. One question is asked him for example is, what NEW recent classical compositions have appeared recently? you see hundreds of orchestrations and interpretations of Paganini's capriccios or Mozart's odes and other compisitions but there are *no* new classical composition in the mainstream. The "music" which is in the mainstream now is Pop, which musically speaking is shit, but if you listen to compositions like those by Haggard, Therion, Judas Priest, Kamelot, and lot of other metal music they *are* musically demanding and they take elements of classical music and adapt them.
I like heavy metal too, I also liked Metallica until the black album which in my opinion was when they became pop-metal.. from there they became RIAA-bitches metal. And I always liked Megadeth more than Metallica...
:).
Currently I listen to Children of Bodom, Kamelot, Axxis, Symphony X, Stratovarius, Megadeth, Judast Priest, Yngwie Malmsteen, Rata Blanca, Avalanch, Lacrimosa, Theatre Of Tragedy (before they became a techno dance band), Epica, In Flames, Iced Earth, Ayreon, Rhapsody, Haggaard, Iron Maiden, etc.
Interestingly, I also like to listen to guitar players like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, Eric Johnson, etc.
And about punk... I hate it, I once read that Punk was born from the frustration of the fans that could not play the songs their idols played (i.e. try to play something by Malmsteen or Maiden) and thus a new wave started with music easy to replicate (just chords) and no technique.
By the way, I would *really* recommend a DVD called Metal:A Headbangers journey, which is a really nice documentary about heavy metal (I LOL when they asked Alice Cooper when was "Heavy Metal" born and he answered that it was born when someone referred at his music as heavy metal... suuuuure duuude). If you are into metal you will like it (it has part of an interview with Bruce Dickinson) and if you are not you might find interesting what the heck is this metal thing
use the exact thing you're complaining about to complain about the very same thing.
Uh?
That was a difficult one to dissect.
But the difference is that I am not writing about it on the, say, "Closed source for profit greed group mailing list". Do you see the difference?
There is one feature that I find neat, and it is not available in any major linux distribution out of the box (yeah, theres something called polyaudio or whatnot which is in beta and has to be installed manually, that does not count) which is independent audio volume control for each application.
I know there are third party applications that work on Windows (indievolume I think one is named). But there is no easy to use solution for windows (of course I dont expect too much since there are still issues with *playing* audio in some linux distributions now... and applications that still use the $!"£$@ OSS driver).
Aside of that I like the idea of superfetch and other small nice tools. Personally the eye candy is in no way beneficial for me as I *always* turn off any kind of theme and use winduglys with the "classic" performance friendly skin.
But I could give it a long shot and say that there is one specific feature that is relevant to everyone and that is security. Even though we all laugh at the stupid and annoying YOU ARE TRYING TO BASH WINDOWS VISTA SECURITY MODEL (ALLOW OR DENY) security model of Windows Vista, I am sure there is a bit *more* than the annoying questions. Why is this relevant to everyone? well, as this new operating system is the one that everyone who uses Microsoft Windows will sooner or later migrate, there is hope that the number of zombie computers will decrease. That is nice a nice thing for me and for you Linux system administrators who need to admin Windows boxes.
Anyway, I wont buy it any time soon (the last time I bought a windows OS was when I bought my HP laptop and I payed for WinXP as the MS tax...) as I do not have a machine powerful enough to use it (in the end, I am a third world country poor student with a scolarship...) and FC6 and Windows XP are enough for all of my needs (Skype VideoConf., Latex, Java programming, video watching, OpenGL-SDL/DirectX programming, statistical analysis, etc).
I do agree with his opinion, but I do not have my head so deep inside my ass to avoid seeing that in reality with hardware manufacturers need to protect certain parts of their code, be it because it is a trade secret or because it is part of a NDA signed against another company to use their technology.
And what I was referring to was exactly this, it is like me going to the comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroup and whine that Windows is shit and it does not do X and it is crap and whatever, knowing that people there will OF COURSE agree with me. That is just plain stupid. And yet, you are caught into his game when you "defend" him.
WTF?
Have you thought of adding "user" to the mount options in fstab?
Yes I have, but first I will need to find an exploit to get root privileges in such machine in order to be able to MODIFY fstab...
AND if I had root privileges I wont need to change the mount options
DOH!
You hit the spot. At the end, that constant whining gets frustrating. Those stupid kids who does not get out of their mom basements think they are a majority... Of course this is slashdot and this is where all of them come to whine and cheer up each other. Groupthinking or Sheepthinking as I like to call it.
If these companies do not want or cant release they open source drivers then great, it is up to you to buy or not to buy their products, but whining is not going to solve anything.
And in Linux it is NOT possible to use it in any computer unless you have ROOT access (to install it). I have a 2GB USB stick and I wanted to use half of it as an encrypted drive. In Windows environments I could use it without problems but there is *no* way to access the drive in Linux unless you have root access to mount the device, or unless the computer you are using has got FUSE *AND* you are allowed to mount this file system (sheesh in FC6 I am not allowed to mount a simple USB device unless I've got root access!!).
I love truecrypt for what it is, I have used it but it does not works for what I need it (protect sensitive information in my thumb drive, making it available whenever/wherever I need it). And I *require* Linux support as my work computer is Linux and my home computer is Windows (and I do not have admin access to my work computer as University Policy does not allow it.