If you're gonna pay all that money to "legally" download/buy your music, you should probably do it with a service that's ACTUALLY LEGAL, which AllOfMP3 is not.
AllOfMP3 customers should just stick to downloading music they don't own since it's no more breaking the law than using their illegal Russian service.
I don't have money for some $100/hr consultant to "set up a music server" for me either.
And to be honest I don't get paid all that well and often times the overtime is on me and I'm not compensated for it.
The typical computer user doesn't either and they blew their extra ca$h on a big hard drive for iTunes and for the $50 a month they spend there downloading new music. We the average consumer can't afford it it seems when it comes to "buying" music that disappears if your hard drive happens to die.
And if you read any of the other replies you'd see I already answered your "JUST BACK IT UP JACKASS" response.
I'm so sick of the arrogant attitudes of those Slashdotters who think they're the tech elite and that everyone knows how to program in 5 languages and script in 2 and has 14 computers sitting at home in some big dark room with ThinkGeek crap strewn all over the place.
Bro, some of us are just guys who are really good at technology and enjoy reading about it but we have other parts of our lives that we enjoy too, such as wife kids family outdoors cars guns etc. I ask that you don't judge me and also don't call me a "troll" just because I don't get on my knees at every new Apple product and think our Lord God for it.
So next time, avoid the name calling, read replies first before duplicating what others have said, and avoid the bad sarcasm.
I have a nice 2 yr old laptop and a decent 4 yr old PC both which actually have some hard drive space, but for the most part that's about it. And shit man, I'm a Slashdotter. Most "normal";-) people only have 1 computer and they can barely function with it yet alone run automated weekly backups.
The iTunes service is overpriced and doing INCREDIBLY well. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason why they cannot use 16 bytes per download to store the uniqueID for the song and then associate it to your userID. NO reason why this should not be done. These are the Internet days, the Google-SUN Office days, the WebApp days, we all want our data to be available from EVERY machine at ANY time!!
Sorry but I simply DON'T have time to "just back it up".
I paid for the damn thing it should be around forever even if some craptastic BestBuy red tag special PC stops working and all the music my parents and grandparents bought is gone. They don't know how to back up large amounts of data and don't have the equipment for it either.
There's no reason iTunes can't let you re-download your music.
If I'm paying $1.00 for 3 minutes of music, it's not too much to ask Apple to keep track of each 16 character array/string/uniqueID of all the music I download.
If you connect to iTunes after, say, a fresh install of iTunes and there are no music files, it should prompt you to login and then re-download everything you've ever bought based on matching your userID up to each uniqueSongID you downloaded.
Not that difficult, and it'd go a long way toward customer satisfaction.
I loved iTunes too until my disk drive stopped working and I had to buy a new one.
I thought, well, I'll just download iTunes again, log in as me, and it'll start re-downloading the $1,500.00 worth of digital songs I bought from Apple.
Well, I was wrong, and haven't "bought" a song online since.
Aside from gasoline and water, data is the most valuable thing in the world.
Walmart's most prized possesion is their billion-billion-billion transaction customer sales database. They use it to find things like, among other things, men tend to buy beer and diapers at the time.
With disks costing $1.00/GB or less these days, many people including myself simply DON'T delete data anymore. I keep all my original digital photos (in.tiff format) along with full-quality movies and all the games I've ever played back to Duke Nukem on 80x386 on a RAID array that's grown to nearly 2 terabytes.
So yes, for many people, disk space is just something you keep adding to, like you'd move from a coupe to a sedan when you have kids and when you have that 6th kid you move to a minivan and if you happen to have 2 more, you get a cargo van when #8 comes along:) Same for HDDs
NILFS is a log-structured file system developed for the Linux kernel 2.6. NILFS is an abbreviation of the New Implementation of a Log-structured File System. A log-structured file system has the characteristic that all file system data including metadata is written in a log-like format. Data is never overwritten, only appended in this file system. This greatly improves performance because there is little overhead regarding disk seeks. NILFS also has the following specific features:
* Slick snapshots.
* B-tree based file and inode management.
* Immediate recovery after system crash.
* 64-bit data structures; support many files, large files and disks.
* Loadable kernel module; no recompilation of the kernel is required.
A few years back Nokia ignored the flip phone trend and as such I can't even buy a Nokia from Cingular, the largest retailer of phones in North America.
Then Nokia tried making a gaming system (NGAGE) and that failed miserably.
Now they're trying to make a Linux-based tablet computer. It will fail.
What's the deal? Are they TRYING to self-destruct?
Cassini was helped to more funding because WE the geeks of Web/Net WANT TO KNOW. We want to see our world, our Universe. We join advocacy groups and science foundations.
Keep up the good work NASA. Let private groups continue as well.
GOOGLE/NASA TEAM UP SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, USA AP NEWS WIRE One of the first fruits of the Google/NASA pairing will be the gShuttle. The existing space shuttle will be modified to store 10x the amount the previous shuttle could (though no details yet from NASA as to why they need that much space and if they'd actually use it). The new shuttle would also bring up paid advertisments based on various criteria, the formula for which Google has not made public. Another gShuttle innovation would be a radically simplier control and navigation system. The pilots will not simply type in their commands to the shuttle (e.g. "rearThrusters:fire burntime:10"). One particularly interesting feature is the "I feel lucky" button on the navigation console, no specifics as to the exact function of this button was put forth by the Google spokesdrone.
I have one at home so thanks a lot for the warning. Is the "Remove Drive" thing some software thing I activate thru my XP laptop or is it a button on the drive itself? I currently have my USB2.0 external drive connected directly into my router thru USB and then I map it as a network drive on my Centrino wireless laptop.
I thought with $849,000 worth of the best computers we'd be able to on a rare instance when needed use one of the idle ones to run something a 486 with Netscape 3.0 could run.
Guess not. We'll have to get a computer from 1994 to do that.
You could be the best programmer in the world in FORTRAN or C but don't think that because of that you understand Java. The vast majority of complainers and those who knock Java haven't written a line of code in Java ever in their life. Their experience may be with an applet or two in the browser, if that.
That being said, go read this article and then report back. I doubt you'll post because it's hard to dispute raw facts from an unbiased research team:)
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Performance of Java versus C++ J.P.Lewis and Ulrich Neumann Computer Graphics and Immersive Technology Lab University of Southern California Jan. 2003 updated 2004
This article surveys a number of benchmarks and finds that Java performance on numerical code is comparable to that of C++, with hints that Java's relative performance is continuing to improve. We then describe clear theoretical reasons why these benchmark results should be expected.
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If you're gonna pay all that money to "legally" download/buy your music, you should probably do it with a service that's ACTUALLY LEGAL, which AllOfMP3 is not.
AllOfMP3 customers should just stick to downloading music they don't own since it's no more breaking the law than using their illegal Russian service.
I don't have money for some $100/hr consultant to "set up a music server" for me either.
And to be honest I don't get paid all that well and often times the overtime is on me and I'm not compensated for it.
The typical computer user doesn't either and they blew their extra ca$h on a big hard drive for iTunes and for the $50 a month they spend there downloading new music. We the average consumer can't afford it it seems when it comes to "buying" music that disappears if your hard drive happens to die.
And if you read any of the other replies you'd see I already answered your "JUST BACK IT UP JACKASS" response.
I'm so sick of the arrogant attitudes of those Slashdotters who think they're the tech elite and that everyone knows how to program in 5 languages and script in 2 and has 14 computers sitting at home in some big dark room with ThinkGeek crap strewn all over the place.
Bro, some of us are just guys who are really good at technology and enjoy reading about it but we have other parts of our lives that we enjoy too, such as wife kids family outdoors cars guns etc. I ask that you don't judge me and also don't call me a "troll" just because I don't get on my knees at every new Apple product and think our Lord God for it.
So next time, avoid the name calling, read replies first before duplicating what others have said, and avoid the bad sarcasm.
I have a nice 2 yr old laptop and a decent 4 yr old PC both which actually have some hard drive space, but for the most part that's about it. And shit man, I'm a Slashdotter. Most "normal" ;-) people only have 1 computer and they can barely function with it yet alone run automated weekly backups.
The iTunes service is overpriced and doing INCREDIBLY well. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason why they cannot use 16 bytes per download to store the uniqueID for the song and then associate it to your userID. NO reason why this should not be done. These are the Internet days, the Google-SUN Office days, the WebApp days, we all want our data to be available from EVERY machine at ANY time!!
Sorry but I simply DON'T have time to "just back it up".
I paid for the damn thing it should be around forever even if some craptastic BestBuy red tag special PC stops working and all the music my parents and grandparents bought is gone. They don't know how to back up large amounts of data and don't have the equipment for it either.
There's no reason iTunes can't let you re-download your music.
If I'm paying $1.00 for 3 minutes of music, it's not too much to ask Apple to keep track of each 16 character array/string/uniqueID of all the music I download.
If you connect to iTunes after, say, a fresh install of iTunes and there are no music files, it should prompt you to login and then re-download everything you've ever bought based on matching your userID up to each uniqueSongID you downloaded.
Not that difficult, and it'd go a long way toward customer satisfaction.
I loved iTunes too until my disk drive stopped working and I had to buy a new one.
I thought, well, I'll just download iTunes again, log in as me, and it'll start re-downloading the $1,500.00 worth of digital songs I bought from Apple.
Well, I was wrong, and haven't "bought" a song online since.
After your 250GB BestBuy hard disk becomes little more than a metronome (click, click, click!).
I buy all my music via used compact discs (CDs) or directly from the artist.
No way am I paying $1.00 per song to Apple then having to re-buy everything after my hard drive dies and I lose the songs I downloaded.
I think I may know the answer but why do film houses insist on making poor to average movies out of great books?
I'm happy with the books, no need for films, comics, plastic toys, etc.
In my opinion it's selling out, and those of you paying $8 to see these average movies aren't helping matters.
Biography at Wikipedia
Personality critique at Kuro Five Hin
I'm sure CmdrTaco will provide a better headline when he posts the dupe later tonight [-;
Aside from gasoline and water, data is the most valuable thing in the world.
.tiff format) along with full-quality movies and all the games I've ever played back to Duke Nukem on 80x386 on a RAID array that's grown to nearly 2 terabytes.
:) Same for HDDs
Walmart's most prized possesion is their billion-billion-billion transaction customer sales database. They use it to find things like, among other things, men tend to buy beer and diapers at the time.
With disks costing $1.00/GB or less these days, many people including myself simply DON'T delete data anymore. I keep all my original digital photos (in
So yes, for many people, disk space is just something you keep adding to, like you'd move from a coupe to a sedan when you have kids and when you have that 6th kid you move to a minivan and if you happen to have 2 more, you get a cargo van when #8 comes along
NILFS is a log-structured file system developed for the Linux kernel 2.6. NILFS is an abbreviation of the New Implementation of a Log-structured File System. A log-structured file system has the characteristic that all file system data including metadata is written in a log-like format. Data is never overwritten, only appended in this file system. This greatly improves performance because there is little overhead regarding disk seeks. NILFS also has the following specific features:
* Slick snapshots.
* B-tree based file and inode management.
* Immediate recovery after system crash.
* 64-bit data structures; support many files, large files and disks.
* Loadable kernel module; no recompilation of the kernel is required.
A few years back Nokia ignored the flip phone trend and as such I can't even buy a Nokia from Cingular, the largest retailer of phones in North America.
Then Nokia tried making a gaming system (NGAGE) and that failed miserably.
Now they're trying to make a Linux-based tablet computer. It will fail.
What's the deal? Are they TRYING to self-destruct?
And it's a good thing!
Cassini was helped to more funding because WE the geeks of Web/Net WANT TO KNOW. We want to see our world, our Universe. We join advocacy groups and science foundations.
Keep up the good work NASA. Let private groups continue as well.
I see a 2nd space renaissance soon!
People always try to blame the software right away but usually it's poor administration.
Linux is near-flawless in terms of security.
- jumper cables
- 4000 lb come along winch
- road flares
- fuel siphon
- 5 gallon jerry can
- XM radio
- Garmin GPS
- detailed area maps
- ice scraper
- collapsable Glock e-tool/shovel
- full spare
(en tea)
I have one at home so thanks a lot for the warning. Is the "Remove Drive" thing some software thing I activate thru my XP laptop or is it a button on the drive itself? I currently have my USB2.0 external drive connected directly into my router thru USB and then I map it as a network drive on my Centrino wireless laptop.
I thought with $849,000 worth of the best computers we'd be able to on a rare instance when needed use one of the idle ones to run something a 486 with Netscape 3.0 could run.
Guess not. We'll have to get a computer from 1994 to do that.
The bigger Google gets the closer this world gets to becoming a better place.
3 cheers for Sergey and Larry!
"Do no evil!"
"Do no evil!"
"Do no evil!"
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Antec+Phantom+ 500+(PHANTOM+500)+500-Watt+Power+Supply&btnG=Searc h+Froogle&scoring=p
You could be the best programmer in the world in FORTRAN or C but don't think that because of that you understand Java. The vast majority of complainers and those who knock Java haven't written a line of code in Java ever in their life. Their experience may be with an applet or two in the browser, if that.
:)
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That being said, go read this article and then report back. I doubt you'll post because it's hard to dispute raw facts from an unbiased research team
---------------
Performance of Java versus C++
J.P.Lewis and Ulrich Neumann
Computer Graphics and Immersive Technology Lab
University of Southern California
Jan. 2003
updated 2004
This article surveys a number of benchmarks and finds that Java performance on numerical code is comparable to that of C++, with hints that Java's relative performance is continuing to improve. We then describe clear theoretical reasons why these benchmark results should be expected.
http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Computer/javaCbenchma