There is, presumably, a difference between the artists website and the website of the record label: for example, http://fischerspooner.com is different from http://www.hollywoodandvine.com.
The meeting was between apple and independent record labels, in case you missed it.
First, what do you mean by large ads? Those big square ones? Interstitials? Columnar? All of the above?
Personally, I like receiving the little banner ads; people that advertise on slashdot are much more likely to be selling something I want.
But can I use this system to just suppress the big ads? Is that what "only view ads on comment pages" means?
Also, can I still view ads and have the money go to paying original content authors? I like the reviews and whatnot and would like to pay for more of 'em.
I switched a production server to 2.4.x very early on (I think it was one of the pre's, even) for the improved software raid support.
The server would become unresponsive as memory utilization crept up near 100%. The OOM killer would axe the ssh processes - and often even getty - to "free up" memory.
Hard lockups on a colocated, headless server are *not* acceptable. After about 6 kernel upgrades, we gave up and switched to FreeBSD.
A year later and they finally anounce the new VMM. Great. Glad I don't have to live with that anymore.
How about a nice, simple 404 page that tries to do something reasonable with the input request, and see what pages in the site might actually be what the user was looking for? It's neat to do, and much more user friendly than the "404 not found" you suggest, but means you have to do some dynamic work with each 404.
More likely (and the case with a number of sites I've worked on) you've moved a lot of things around, and so (in one implemenation) you trap the 404 responses and sniff around to see where the new things are.
I, like many out there, have somewhat expensive 404 pages that tries to do smart things, and takes up 20-30k in size. This is causing way too much utilization for me.
Since I do a lot of virtualhosting, I noticed that this thing always asks for the host "www"
So here is what I added to my httpd.conf to just serve a 0 length file from apache instead of doing the expensive 404:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www
SetEnvIf Host "www" dontlog=1
CustomLog foo common env=!dontlog
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLogLevel 0
DocumentRoot/var/log/imeme/
RewriteRule ^(.*)/empty.file
</VirtualHost>
If someone knows a more elegant way to disable logging, let me know.
You must use a *licensed* player for DVDs.
The use of DeCSS is illegal, even if the action for which it is used is legal.
umm... no. DeCSS is presented as an access control mechanism, whose circumvention is prohibited.
This only applies to copying. You may use DeCSS and any other descrambling technology (under this law, at least) as long as you do not make non-technical copies.
The only thing that really counts, in the end, is what is your overall performance, and what do you have to pay to get that performance.
Reviews on anandtech, tom's hardware, and hardocp all indicate that the 1.5 GHZ P4 is essentially equivalent to a 1.0-1.2 GHZ Athlon. A 1GHZ Athlon can be had for under $300 : a 1.5 GHZ P4 is running at a touch over $1000.
The socket 423 that the P4 fits in is going out by early next year: OTOH, there don't appear to be any plans to phase out socket A any time soon. This leads me to think that the Athlon will be more upgradeable.
At the very least, you can start with a Duron now and get an Athlon later- the same cannot be said for the celeron/p4 scenario.
RDRAM is more expensive than SDRAM and has marginal performance benefit. DDR-SDRAM will reduce this benefit to nothing in real world tasks.
For those of you that buy on brand, buy Intel: if you buy based on real numbers, buy AMD.
As I understand it, the Indrema certification process (for open source games) determines whether you can download the game from the certified site.
It doesn't seem to make sense that software without certification would refuse to run on the Indrema- otherwise, what good does that lovely free sdk do you?
I think the bottom line is that if people can obtain your game for free, then you are entitled to the free certification, even if you allow someone else to sell it.
I talked to these folks at the LWE... and the main thing is that if you want to make your software availiable for the Indrema, you have to pass a technical certification. The technical certification does things like make sure that the software is stable, etc.
If you're releasing your software for money, that technical certification costs something. Otherwise, it doesn't.
Because I figured, hey, if it was broken anyway, we might as well get some dialog out of it, right?
I mean, the whole problem with the ICANN, as far as I can tell, is that they haven't been interacting with those of us that care about what's going on with domain name registration.
I too received nada from ICANN after I sent off my original request, and I assumed they had just dropped the ball on it.
Then some wit replied to the at-large posting, and so I figured that the cat was out of the bag, might be worth salvaging something.
What *should* have happened is that the announcement message could have linked to an opt-in list, so those of us "at-large" members could interact.
(Is it just me or does "at-large members" sound like a herd of phalli gone awol?)
One can bag on "skins" all you like, but when it comes to Mozilla, It's totally off base. Let's take a look at *why* mozilla does the things the way they do:
CSS Support: The CSS standard requires behavior that you *cannot* implement using the native wiget sets of windows & macintosh (dunno about linux.) For example, a button can enclose arbitrary content- from an image to a table.
Uniformity of experience: When you go to a web site with mozilla, whether you be in macland, windowsland, or linuxland, the page will look the same instead of having differing widget sets messing up your page design.
Extensible interface: With mozilla, I can redesign the interface as I need to to support, for example, intranet applications. It's a fantastic platform for doing the front end on a distributed program far more effectively and consistently than before.
In Mozilla, "skins" aren't skin deep, and really allow a lot of neccessary and usefull functionality. It is the Right(tm) design decision.
Ok, here's how we intend to take off as audio artists that explicitly allow replication of our audio:
Mass customization. When you buy a CD from us, you get one that has tracks on it that were resequenced, or have an extra sample, or a track of us talking, or whatever.
The point is that every fan I've ever known would flip over getting something that showed personal attention.
We're never going to be multiple platinum artists, but so what? I think this is a survivable strategy.
People that are agitated over the skinning thing have No Clue(tm).
It's not a skin. You can do a completely different UI with XUL. The age of applications over the web has finally arrived.
The point of having their own wiget set is that I, the web developer, can finally have my web site look the same no matter where it runs. If you're tired of motif/Win widgets messing with your careful layout, you know what I mean.
One example of how it's not a skin is the Zope Mozilla Initiative, a project to turn Mozilla into an IDE for zope. Let's see you turn WinAmp into a mp3 editor!
With mozilla, you can develop an application, implement the UI in mozilla, and poof! You've got a web application that can run on almost every OS out there!
This IS revolutionary, certainly moreso than anything from Redmond.
If a company is sitting on a huge pile of it's own cash
The problem here is that lately many companies are not sitting on a huge pile of cash.
They issue debt to buy the stock.
This causes a short-term rise in the price of the stock (as any purchase of a significant quantity of stock does) but impacts the long-term viability- and value- of a company.
Most executives, these days, are sitting on huge option plans. It is absolutely in their interest to increase the short-term value of the stock so that they can excersize and sell those options.
The August 07th issue of The Economist has a good few articles on the subject- I believe it's the issue that this gentleman referrs to.
I bought it here in Lisbon, and was reading along avidly. The ex-cop was about to pick up some cables for something he got from GlobEx, when suddenly he was picking up the package from GlobEx?
after half a page of massive confusion, I looked at the page numbers and discovered that 123-155 were replaced by 91-122.
Aaarg. I went back to the store the next day, and found that all their other copies had the same problem! I wanted to scream.
Sigh. So I'll probably finish the book some months from now...
on the page where you downloaded mozilla, it tells you to check a bug report about proxies.
Add the following to your prefs.js file (created after you launch mozilla for the first time) user_pref("network.proxy.http", "servername"); user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", port#);
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There is, presumably, a difference between the artists website and the website of the record label: for example, http://fischerspooner.com is different from http://www.hollywoodandvine.com .
The meeting was between apple and independent record labels, in case you missed it.
So sorry, no conspiracy for you today.
Is there any OS X book out there that is a must read for someone coming from a linux background?
I was going to get OS X for unix geeks but everyone is saying it's lame. Any suggestions?
You are incorrect. Subtitling can be provided by a simple scrolling LED marquee that displays text in reverse.
The person needing subtitling gets a mirror that they attach to their chair that inverts the text.
Viola! subtitling provided to the person who needed it, without affecting the other's experience.
Well... the "no indication of interbreeding" is a bit much; there was at least one find in 1999 that suggests otherwise.
The Lapedo Child was discovered in the Lapedo valley in Portugal. The child had anotomical features of Neandertal and Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
They have pass-through insurance. i.e. they deposit your money in an actual bank account.
The money market accounts are explicitly not covered by FDIC insurance, the same as anywhere.
Money market accounts can be offered by anyone.
They are not a bank.
This is a fantastic idea! That way, the US Government will have the major producers of coca and opium as client states at the same time!
Two things;
First, what do you mean by large ads? Those big square ones? Interstitials? Columnar? All of the above?
Personally, I like receiving the little banner ads; people that advertise on slashdot are much more likely to be selling something I want.
But can I use this system to just suppress the big ads? Is that what "only view ads on comment pages" means?
Also, can I still view ads and have the money go to paying original content authors? I like the reviews and whatnot and would like to pay for more of 'em.
I switched a production server to 2.4.x very early on (I think it was one of the pre's, even) for the improved software raid support.
The server would become unresponsive as memory utilization crept up near 100%. The OOM killer would axe the ssh processes - and often even getty - to "free up" memory.
Hard lockups on a colocated, headless server are *not* acceptable. After about 6 kernel upgrades, we gave up and switched to FreeBSD.
A year later and they finally anounce the new VMM. Great. Glad I don't have to live with that anymore.
Don't forget to put this as the *last* VirtualHost.
How about a nice, simple 404 page that tries to do something reasonable with the input request, and see what pages in the site might actually be what the user was looking for? It's neat to do, and much more user friendly than the "404 not found" you suggest, but means you have to do some dynamic work with each 404.
More likely (and the case with a number of sites I've worked on) you've moved a lot of things around, and so (in one implemenation) you trap the 404 responses and sniff around to see where the new things are.
I, like many out there, have somewhat expensive 404 pages that tries to do smart things, and takes up 20-30k in size. This is causing way too much utilization for me.
/var/log/imeme/
/empty.file
Since I do a lot of virtualhosting, I noticed that this thing always asks for the host "www"
So here is what I added to my httpd.conf to just serve a 0 length file from apache instead of doing the expensive 404:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www
SetEnvIf Host "www" dontlog=1
CustomLog foo common env=!dontlog
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLogLevel 0
DocumentRoot
RewriteRule ^(.*)
</VirtualHost>
If someone knows a more elegant way to disable logging, let me know.
umm... no. DeCSS is presented as an access control mechanism, whose circumvention is prohibited.
This only applies to copying. You may use DeCSS and any other descrambling technology (under this law, at least) as long as you do not make non-technical copies.
The only thing that really counts, in the end, is what is your overall performance, and what do you have to pay to get that performance.
Reviews on anandtech, tom's hardware, and hardocp all indicate that the 1.5 GHZ P4 is essentially equivalent to a 1.0-1.2 GHZ Athlon. A 1GHZ Athlon can be had for under $300 : a 1.5 GHZ P4 is running at a touch over $1000.
The socket 423 that the P4 fits in is going out by early next year: OTOH, there don't appear to be any plans to phase out socket A any time soon. This leads me to think that the Athlon will be more upgradeable.
At the very least, you can start with a Duron now and get an Athlon later- the same cannot be said for the celeron/p4 scenario.
RDRAM is more expensive than SDRAM and has marginal performance benefit. DDR-SDRAM will reduce this benefit to nothing in real world tasks.
For those of you that buy on brand, buy Intel: if you buy based on real numbers, buy AMD.
As I understand it, the Indrema certification process (for open source games) determines whether you can download the game from the certified site.
It doesn't seem to make sense that software without certification would refuse to run on the Indrema- otherwise, what good does that lovely free sdk do you?
I think the bottom line is that if people can obtain your game for free, then you are entitled to the free certification, even if you allow someone else to sell it.
I talked to these folks at the LWE ... and the main thing is that if you want to make your software availiable for the Indrema, you have to pass a technical certification. The technical certification does things like make sure that the software is stable, etc.
If you're releasing your software for money, that technical certification costs something. Otherwise, it doesn't.
Because I figured, hey, if it was broken anyway, we might as well get some dialog out of it, right?
I mean, the whole problem with the ICANN, as far as I can tell, is that they haven't been interacting with those of us that care about what's going on with domain name registration.
I too received nada from ICANN after I sent off my original request, and I assumed they had just dropped the ball on it.
Then some wit replied to the at-large posting, and so I figured that the cat was out of the bag, might be worth salvaging something.
What *should* have happened is that the announcement message could have linked to an opt-in list, so those of us "at-large" members could interact.
(Is it just me or does "at-large members" sound like a herd of phalli gone awol?)
One can bag on "skins" all you like, but when it comes to Mozilla, It's totally off base. Let's take a look at *why* mozilla does the things the way they do:
In Mozilla, "skins" aren't skin deep, and really allow a lot of neccessary and usefull functionality. It is the Right(tm) design decision.
Digital Creations is doing smashing as consultants with their open-source package, Zope.
In fact, opensource is working well enough for them, they just announced that they will open-source the Zope Enterprise Option, a package they used to charge a minimum of $25,000 for.
Ok, here's how we intend to take off as audio artists that explicitly allow replication of our audio:
Mass customization. When you buy a CD from us, you get one that has tracks on it that were resequenced, or have an extra sample, or a track of us talking, or whatever.
The point is that every fan I've ever known would flip over getting something that showed personal attention.
We're never going to be multiple platinum artists, but so what? I think this is a survivable strategy.
People that are agitated over the skinning thing have No Clue(tm).
It's not a skin. You can do a completely different UI with XUL. The age of applications over the web has finally arrived.
The point of having their own wiget set is that I, the web developer, can finally have my web site look the same no matter where it runs. If you're tired of motif/Win widgets messing with your careful layout, you know what I mean.
One example of how it's not a skin is the Zope Mozilla Initiative, a project to turn Mozilla into an IDE for zope. Let's see you turn WinAmp into a mp3 editor!
With mozilla, you can develop an application, implement the UI in mozilla, and poof! You've got a web application that can run on almost every OS out there!
This IS revolutionary, certainly moreso than anything from Redmond.
Umm... for $500 you can get a certificate from Thawte that is *.yourname.dom, which would work fine. Or, you can be your own CA and do the same.
The problem here is that lately many companies are not sitting on a huge pile of cash.
They issue debt to buy the stock.
This causes a short-term rise in the price of the stock (as any purchase of a significant quantity of stock does) but impacts the long-term viability- and value- of a company.
Most executives, these days, are sitting on huge option plans. It is absolutely in their interest to increase the short-term value of the stock so that they can excersize and sell those options.
The August 07th issue of The Economist has a good few articles on the subject- I believe it's the issue that this gentleman referrs to.
after half a page of massive confusion, I looked at the page numbers and discovered that 123-155 were replaced by 91-122.
Aaarg. I went back to the store the next day, and found that all their other copies had the same problem! I wanted to scream.
Sigh. So I'll probably finish the book some months from now...
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Did you run mozilla-apprunner.sh or mozilla-viewer.sh?
the first is the full browser, the second is just the rendering engine (raptor)
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on the page where you downloaded mozilla, it tells you to check a bug report about proxies.
Add the following to your prefs.js file (created after you launch mozilla for the first time) user_pref("network.proxy.http", "servername"); user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", port#);
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