The program that I'm currently using, which I mentioned above, does use ID3 metadata to organize the music. and has for at least the last four years. And IMO it does it in a much better way that itunes.
Troll. How's that? Incidentally, I love how anytime someone says something against the/. group-think, insightful or not, they are a troll.
But what the hell, I'll try to appease you and detail my problems. One thing about itunes that bugged the shit out of me is the way it had of only letting me play songs from one album at a time in album order, unless I built a custom playlist. I admit that I only spent a week with it, and there may have been a way to get it to do what I wanted, but apple supposedly has a rep for making things easy. And I didn't like the way the training wheels strapped to itunes were steering me. The way zinf is organized lends itself to just grabbing the music you want and from the left pane and just playing it. I have yet to find another player with a music browser this suited to me, commercial or not. Another thing that bugged me about itunes was that it took almost twenty seconds from launching the app to it being ready to play a song. And that's on an Athlonxp 2400(2ghz) computer with a gig of ram and a fresh install of winxp. Zinf takes less than a second.
A landslide of credit goes to him for bringing iTunes to where it is today in a variety of categories (the most obvious being the UI).
I tried using itunes for windows a few weeks ago. My motivation was to try downloading the free songs I had won from my mass comsumption of pepsi products. After about a week of use I switched back to what I've been using for over four years, an open source project that used to be called freeamp, but because of a trademark issue is now called zinf (Zinf Is Not Freeamp). Zinf is open source and cross-platform, I use it in windows and in Linux.
Sure itunes looks nice, but I found the way it handled my music library annoying at best. I wouldn't use it even for the free music that I won. I really don't understand the fawning, sycophantic praise for anything apple generates.
I think you are wrong. When I went to boot camp at Parris Island, SC in 1992 we slept in three story buildings that housed six, sixty-man platoons per floor. When a friend of mine went to Parris Island in the late 1960's (right after the draft was instituted he slept in tents. The infrastructure is there, were a draft to be instituted tomorrow, our militart would have no problems handline the added influx of recruits.
Safety laws are fine when they're meant to protect people on the road from other people. Examples of this are: drunk driving laws, vehicle safetly inspections, not using a computer while driving. But laws like this, that say a computer can't even be used by a passenger are overly broad.
I recenly moved from california back to New Hampshire, where I grew up. New Hampshire has no mandatory seat belt laws, or mandatory helmet laws (except for children), but they do have yeary vehicle inspections. I wear my seatbelt when I am in a car, but I like that I'm not forced to. I can unhitch my seatbelt to get my wallet out of my pocket without having to worry about some over-zealous police man giving me a ticket.
Do you feel safer because the government has told you to wear your seatbelt? Are you too stupid to wear it on your own?
I completely agree with you on the driving while intoxicated stuff. I don't think we're hard enough. I think vehicles shoule be siezed and auctioned off for DUI offenses.
This is an especially poignant possibility at a time when we can all still smell the smoke from the wreckage of The Matrix"
I love it when the cool thing to do is bash popular movies, this dude will probably be the first person in line to say RotK sucks, whether it does or not.
"One clue is that they are not in perfect English, as interview responses or articles that are 'laundered' by PR or media relations departments almost always are"
And how would the editors at slashdot know what perfect english looks like?
I don't know what you were doing wrong, but i've build HUNDREDS of machines based on AMD products, from Duron 700's to current generation Athlon XP/MP's. I have NEVER had a problem with one of their chips. If your fan is locking up you might want to look into your environment. Where do you have the damn servers, in a woodworking shop or something?
I was a big fan of Rendition back in those days, having purchased on of their cards and found it to be ahead of it's time. They were working on another card but were bought by micron shortly afterward and never released another video card or chipset, not even under micron's name. Pretty Sad really.
I had on of those Verite-based cards. It was a Diamond Stealth s220, based on the verite 2100. It had performance almost equal to the Voodoo1 card that my friend had, but much better image quality. I remember when I finally got quake2 working in hardware mode. I was completely blown away.
I think the best reason to read ebooks on a PDA is that while at work you can sometimes manage to look busy while reading an ebook. However, you won't fool anyone with one of those big archaic dead tree things.
What exactly makes WC3 bloated? Even with the expansion beta installed the whole thing only takes up ~750mb. Which is about the average a game takes up. And I have never, not even once, had WC3 crash on me, not even during 3 months of beta testing the expansion. I have installed the game on numerous machines and never had a problem. The game works under wine for fucks sake, and has since wine version 2.
And as far as accounts go, they get deleted after 90 days of inactivity.
I guess I just have to conclude from your comments that you're a congenital idiot, and therefore too stupid to install and use the game correctly.
You see, I've planned ahead, by the time all the movies are all released in their extended editions, my son will be 10 years old. He'll be the one that changes the discs. I'll just install a fridge next to the easy chair, get a colostomy bag or catheter installed (on second thought, adult diapers would probably be the less painful way to go) and I won't have move my ass from the couch at all.
If you don't like your ISP's policies then change your ISP.
I get my DSL through speakeasy.net, and so far they seem to be about the coolest provider I've heard of. They don't care how many machines you have hooked up to your connection, they don't care if you run servers, they actually encourage you to share your connection via wireless networking. I read in one of their recent newsletters that if you set up an AP they'd like to know so they can tell the other speakeasy customers about it. I'm pretty sure they're available in most large cities (i'm in seattle).
If you want to sign up and don't mind sending $50 my way use this referral link.
Also rest assured that there are plenty of people who want to believe the "coalition" is doing the right thing for the right reasons, and like the parent poster, will swallow any b.s. rumors which support that idea without bothering to verify them.
Yeah, and there are people like you that want to believe the "coalition" is doing the wrong thing and will ignore any evidence put in front of them. You might want to have yourself fitted for a tin-foil hat sometime in the near future.
I think the distinction between a scripted and a compiled program is made at runtime. C is compiled and at runtime is composed of assembly code/machine language. Scripted languages are not compiled into machine language, they are interpreted at runtime from their original source files.
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"I have attempted to do similar limitations for the Windows XP computers in the adult section of the library"
Wow, you have an adult section in your library? Is is blocked by a curtain so under-aged people can't see what's inside?
Oh and what town do you live in again?
Those who would ditch their white headphones for a little temporary security deserve neither security or white headphones.
The program that I'm currently using, which I mentioned above, does use ID3 metadata to organize the music. and has for at least the last four years. And IMO it does it in a much better way that itunes.
Can you say troll?
/. group-think, insightful or not, they are a troll.
Troll. How's that? Incidentally, I love how anytime someone says something against the
But what the hell, I'll try to appease you and detail my problems. One thing about itunes that bugged the shit out of me is the way it had of only letting me play songs from one album at a time in album order, unless I built a custom playlist. I admit that I only spent a week with it, and there may have been a way to get it to do what I wanted, but apple supposedly has a rep for making things easy. And I didn't like the way the training wheels strapped to itunes were steering me. The way zinf is organized lends itself to just grabbing the music you want and from the left pane and just playing it. I have yet to find another player with a music browser this suited to me, commercial or not. Another thing that bugged me about itunes was that it took almost twenty seconds from launching the app to it being ready to play a song. And that's on an Athlonxp 2400(2ghz) computer with a gig of ram and a fresh install of winxp. Zinf takes less than a second.
A landslide of credit goes to him for bringing iTunes to where it is today in a variety of categories (the most obvious being the UI).
I tried using itunes for windows a few weeks ago. My motivation was to try downloading the free songs I had won from my mass comsumption of pepsi products. After about a week of use I switched back to what I've been using for over four years, an open source project that used to be called freeamp, but because of a trademark issue is now called zinf (Zinf Is Not Freeamp). Zinf is open source and cross-platform, I use it in windows and in Linux.
Sure itunes looks nice, but I found the way it handled my music library annoying at best. I wouldn't use it even for the free music that I won. I really don't understand the fawning, sycophantic praise for anything apple generates.
I think that you may be thinking of 'Naughtius Maxiumus', the guy with the severe lisp.
I think you are wrong. When I went to boot camp at Parris Island, SC in 1992 we slept in three story buildings that housed six, sixty-man platoons per floor. When a friend of mine went to Parris Island in the late 1960's (right after the draft was instituted he slept in tents. The infrastructure is there, were a draft to be instituted tomorrow, our militart would have no problems handline the added influx of recruits.
Safety laws are fine when they're meant to protect people on the road from other people. Examples of this are: drunk driving laws, vehicle safetly inspections, not using a computer while driving. But laws like this, that say a computer can't even be used by a passenger are overly broad.
I recenly moved from california back to New Hampshire, where I grew up. New Hampshire has no mandatory seat belt laws, or mandatory helmet laws (except for children), but they do have yeary vehicle inspections. I wear my seatbelt when I am in a car, but I like that I'm not forced to. I can unhitch my seatbelt to get my wallet out of my pocket without having to worry about some over-zealous police man giving me a ticket.
Do you feel safer because the government has told you to wear your seatbelt? Are you too stupid to wear it on your own?
I completely agree with you on the driving while intoxicated stuff. I don't think we're hard enough. I think vehicles shoule be siezed and auctioned off for DUI offenses.
This man Understands.
I don't think that he does. If he did he wouldn't be using terms like 'thieves' to describe copyright violation.
"I'll not even mention the emergence of the Borg in 2040."
Isn't that what you just did?
This is an especially poignant possibility at a time when we can all still smell the smoke from the wreckage of The Matrix"
I love it when the cool thing to do is bash popular movies, this dude will probably be the first person in line to say RotK sucks, whether it does or not.
"One clue is that they are not in perfect English, as interview responses or articles that are 'laundered' by PR or media relations departments almost always are"
And how would the editors at slashdot know what perfect english looks like?
I don't know what you were doing wrong, but i've build HUNDREDS of machines based on AMD products, from Duron 700's to current generation Athlon XP/MP's. I have NEVER had a problem with one of their chips. If your fan is locking up you might want to look into your environment. Where do you have the damn servers, in a woodworking shop or something?
It'll be interesting to see how Nokia handles this."
I assume it will be with lawyers?
I was a big fan of Rendition back in those days, having purchased on of their cards and found it to be ahead of it's time. They were working on another card but were bought by micron shortly afterward and never released another video card or chipset, not even under micron's name. Pretty Sad really.
I had on of those Verite-based cards. It was a Diamond Stealth s220, based on the verite 2100. It had performance almost equal to the Voodoo1 card that my friend had, but much better image quality. I remember when I finally got quake2 working in hardware mode. I was completely blown away.
Hey, it's Halloween, Not April Fools.
I think the best reason to read ebooks on a PDA is that while at work you can sometimes manage to look busy while reading an ebook. However, you won't fool anyone with one of those big archaic dead tree things.
WC3 was a piece of bloated buggy crap
What exactly makes WC3 bloated? Even with the expansion beta installed the whole thing only takes up ~750mb. Which is about the average a game takes up. And I have never, not even once, had WC3 crash on me, not even during 3 months of beta testing the expansion. I have installed the game on numerous machines and never had a problem. The game works under wine for fucks sake, and has since wine version 2.
And as far as accounts go, they get deleted after 90 days of inactivity.
I guess I just have to conclude from your comments that you're a congenital idiot, and therefore too stupid to install and use the game correctly.
You see, I've planned ahead, by the time all the movies are all released in their extended editions, my son will be 10 years old. He'll be the one that changes the discs. I'll just install a fridge next to the easy chair, get a colostomy bag or catheter installed (on second thought, adult diapers would probably be the less painful way to go) and I won't have move my ass from the couch at all.
If you don't like your ISP's policies then change your ISP.
I get my DSL through speakeasy.net, and so far they seem to be about the coolest provider I've heard of. They don't care how many machines you have hooked up to your connection, they don't care if you run servers, they actually encourage you to share your connection via wireless networking. I read in one of their recent newsletters that if you set up an AP they'd like to know so they can tell the other speakeasy customers about it. I'm pretty sure they're available in most large cities (i'm in seattle).
If you want to sign up and don't mind sending $50 my way use this referral link.
Anytime now we should be seeing some boobies posts.
Also rest assured that there are plenty of people who want to believe the "coalition" is doing the right thing for the right reasons, and like the parent poster, will swallow any b.s. rumors which support that idea without bothering to verify them.
Yeah, and there are people like you that want to believe the "coalition" is doing the wrong thing and will ignore any evidence put in front of them. You might want to have yourself fitted for a tin-foil hat sometime in the near future.
I think the distinction between a scripted and a compiled program is made at runtime. C is compiled and at runtime is composed of assembly code/machine language. Scripted languages are not compiled into machine language, they are interpreted at runtime from their original source files.
So, is a windows 2000 install disk now illegal under the DMCA as a circumvention device?