Amnesiac and Kid A are albums greater than the sum of their parts. I find I listen to Radiohead's "experimental" stuff a lot more now than OK Computer or The Bends, but I don't agree with you on this. Not all the "mood pieces" work for me; if I wasn't a completist where Radiohead are concerned I would be tempted to cherry-pick the two albums you mentioned. But then I have already listened to Pulk-Pull Revolving Doors enough times to know that I will never come to love it. New listeners should be given the chance to decide for themselves (and isn't that what p2p excels at?)
I'm not sure which version draws more attention to the fact that Linux doesn't really have a well-known, must-have piece of software that might persuade people to switch. Amarok may indeed be the closest, but most people's perceptions of Linux are that it's at best playing catch up with Windows (OOO vs MS Office, GIMP vs Photoshop, etc).
However, the more people see the Ubuntu(Debian) package manager, the better, I think. There should be big ads with slogans like "Imagine if Add/Remove Programs offered you every tool you could possibly want... for free"
The point being: it is possible to solve a cube from any arbitrary configuration in N moves, where N is 21, 22 or 23 (it's not yet known which).
On third reading, I get it. I thought, as presumably did the AC above, that Rokicki had shown that from an arbitrary start position it can always be solved in either 21, 22 or 23 moves.
But I think you mean "it is possible to solve a cube from any arbitrary configuration in no more than N moves, where N is 21, 22 or 23". If it starts out only 1 move away from completion, I don't really just have twiddle it round an extra 20 moves, do I?
My final secret little dream addon is a grammar addon, oh how the net could be a better place;) Nice idea. It could work like AdBlock and unobtrusively remove all ungrammatical content from every page.
Although Firefox 3 is without a doubt more.. argh, I'm actually going to write it... performant than FF2, I'm seeing high memory usage too. I strongly suspect the TabMixPlus extension, without which life would scarcely be worth living. Are you another TMP adict, Lumpy?
properly chosen name Irrelevant. If the name is sufficiently distinctive that developers know what they're talking about, then it's good enough for public consumption. What's in a name? Not much - it's recognisability that counts. Whatever you call your product/invention, if it gains any traction it will soon become bound to its name more tightly than any other associations the name has. There's a dice game called "craps" for goodness' sake!
I bet there really is a type of fish called a "squirrelfish"; there are fish named after every other type of animal. Whenever I go the aquarium, I always want to see the Fishfish.
So Silverlight - a client-side technology - can talk to Rails (a backend technology)? Well, whoop-e-doo.
All this tells us is that Silverlight can speak HTTP, which I should bloody well hope it can if it's going to be any use for making RIAs.
This being so, *any* server-side technology can communicate with Silverlight: 1) client-side app makes a request over HTTP; 2) server-side-tech-of-your-choice responds to request; 3) oh-so-smart client side app recieves response from server and displays result to user.
Where, pray, is the news in this? It's just a lot of buzzwords to make Silverlight - that decade-late Flash-killa - seem more up-to-the-minute. That you can write your client-side code in IronRuby is a completely separate, but handily blurry, issue.
I have an Archos 605 with the "Cinema Plugin" which supposedly enables DVD content to be played back. However, if you copy the raw VOB files from the average DVD onto the player you'll be lucky if it works. A quick run through DVDDecrypter will sort it out. Fortunately I don't live in Finland.
If you weren't aware of the divide, you haven't been paying attention. We may all be "in this together" but the production of truly unique creations is not federated throughout the population - there is a relatively tiny percentage of people actually supplying, while everyone is a potential consumer. "The production of truly unique creations" basically does not happen, because all creativity adds just a little to what has gone before. But, while I take your basic point that not everyone is involved in creative work, those that aren't are in myriad ways supporting those of us who are, from producing our food to collecting our garbage, and all points between. Why are those people somehow less deserving?
In any case, what I find "immoral and indefensible" is the position that you (or anybody else) gets to decide what I need and get to keep. It seems obvious to me that denying someone access to something they need at no cost to yourself is wrong. But only you know what you actually need; I wouldn't presume to tell you. At some point, though, it becomes kind of obvious when people are being greedy.
Most people feel fine about helping themselves to digital goods because they are doing no harm. Only in the bizarro world of Intellectual Property are you depriving someone of something by making an exact replica of it and leaving the original with them.
Hm, I wasn't aware the world was divided into the two groups you describe: on one side, talentless, incompetent people who do nothing towards society but just want things; and nice, intelligent people on the other who only make things and never share in the riches created by others.
We are all in this together. Different people have different skills and interests; and new ideas do not occur in a vacuum, but build on what has gone before. We all want pretty much the same things: housing, food, joy, wealth... a share in the success of the human race. Because someone once had a flash of inspiration, or was ruthless enough or powerful enough to crush competing ideas does not, in my book, entitle them to a greater share than anyone else. In fact, I believe this is a dangerous and pernicious idea that should be stopped in its tracks.
Property is anti-people: if you've got something, and you need it, fine; if you don't need it, let someone else get the benefit. With ideas, and digital information, you can let someone else have the benefit and still enjoy all the benefit yourself. Not doing this is immoral and indefensible.
However, although I don't find XP's search function particularly hard to use, not after seven years or whatever it is anyway;-), it is definitely slower. I really do miss Vista's "type the name of the app you want in the start menu" feature.
- Finds files and applications.
- Auto-detects wireless networks and extra monitors.
- Multiple desktops for a single user.
- Keeps video RAM for games properly sandboxed. eg if you accidentally press the windows key and get sent back to the desktop your game will probably still be running ok. In XP I find this can kill some games.
- Control sound levels of different apps independently.
I'm afraid I can't think of any more. As it is I have had to seriously bite my tongue over in order to produce a list that *only* lists Vista's plus points over XP without being snippy. I speak as someone who persevered with Vista for 3 months on a new laptop before "downgrading" to XP.
Fascinating stuff; I've often wondered how it's possible to map memory outside what would appear to be the limit of address space. So it seems - unless I missed something in your post - that Planesdragon was wrong; there is no difference between 32-bit XP and 32-bit Vista in terms of memory addressability?
I did this; basically don't want to live without Google Toolbar. But the current version makes FF3 unstartable. I had to manually rip it out my extensions folder.
In any case, there' no need to hacking around in about:config; just use the Nightly Tester Toolds.
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Maybe it's only settable on a per-artist basis (eg "Various") and EMI - who, let's face it, control most of the catalogue - don't want to set it?
I'm not sure which version draws more attention to the fact that Linux doesn't really have a well-known, must-have piece of software that might persuade people to switch. Amarok may indeed be the closest, but most people's perceptions of Linux are that it's at best playing catch up with Windows (OOO vs MS Office, GIMP vs Photoshop, etc).
However, the more people see the Ubuntu(Debian) package manager, the better, I think. There should be big ads with slogans like "Imagine if Add/Remove Programs offered you every tool you could possibly want... for free"
The point being: it is possible to solve a cube from any arbitrary configuration in N moves, where N is 21, 22 or 23 (it's not yet known which).
On third reading, I get it. I thought, as presumably did the AC above, that Rokicki had shown that from an arbitrary start position it can always be solved in either 21, 22 or 23 moves.But I think you mean "it is possible to solve a cube from any arbitrary configuration in no more than N moves, where N is 21, 22 or 23". If it starts out only 1 move away from completion, I don't really just have twiddle it round an extra 20 moves, do I?
w00t! Let's release a new version of one of the most widely-used pieces of open source software without thoroughly testing it!
Although Firefox 3 is without a doubt more.. argh, I'm actually going to write it... performant than FF2, I'm seeing high memory usage too. I strongly suspect the TabMixPlus extension, without which life would scarcely be worth living. Are you another TMP adict, Lumpy?
I bet there really is a type of fish called a "squirrelfish"; there are fish named after every other type of animal. Whenever I go the aquarium, I always want to see the Fishfish.
Do you think we'll be Pak-d off there?
So Silverlight - a client-side technology - can talk to Rails (a backend technology)? Well, whoop-e-doo.
All this tells us is that Silverlight can speak HTTP, which I should bloody well hope it can if it's going to be any use for making RIAs.
This being so, *any* server-side technology can communicate with Silverlight: 1) client-side app makes a request over HTTP; 2) server-side-tech-of-your-choice responds to request; 3) oh-so-smart client side app recieves response from server and displays result to user.
Where, pray, is the news in this? It's just a lot of buzzwords to make Silverlight - that decade-late Flash-killa - seem more up-to-the-minute. That you can write your client-side code in IronRuby is a completely separate, but handily blurry, issue.
I have an Archos 605 with the "Cinema Plugin" which supposedly enables DVD content to be played back. However, if you copy the raw VOB files from the average DVD onto the player you'll be lucky if it works. A quick run through DVDDecrypter will sort it out. Fortunately I don't live in Finland.
Egg-on-face.
I discovered that Googlebar Lite has been updated to work on FF3. Does everything I want from the Google Toolbar.
Most people feel fine about helping themselves to digital goods because they are doing no harm. Only in the bizarro world of Intellectual Property are you depriving someone of something by making an exact replica of it and leaving the original with them.
Hm, I wasn't aware the world was divided into the two groups you describe: on one side, talentless, incompetent people who do nothing towards society but just want things; and nice, intelligent people on the other who only make things and never share in the riches created by others.
We are all in this together. Different people have different skills and interests; and new ideas do not occur in a vacuum, but build on what has gone before. We all want pretty much the same things: housing, food, joy, wealth... a share in the success of the human race. Because someone once had a flash of inspiration, or was ruthless enough or powerful enough to crush competing ideas does not, in my book, entitle them to a greater share than anyone else. In fact, I believe this is a dangerous and pernicious idea that should be stopped in its tracks.
Property is anti-people: if you've got something, and you need it, fine; if you don't need it, let someone else get the benefit. With ideas, and digital information, you can let someone else have the benefit and still enjoy all the benefit yourself. Not doing this is immoral and indefensible.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
;-), it is definitely slower. I really do miss Vista's "type the name of the app you want in the start menu" feature.
However, although I don't find XP's search function particularly hard to use, not after seven years or whatever it is anyway
Could it be simply because Apple computers are more expensive? I've heard that the Bugatti Veyron is dominating the $1,000,000+ car market as well.
- Finds files and applications.
- Auto-detects wireless networks and extra monitors.
- Multiple desktops for a single user.
- Keeps video RAM for games properly sandboxed. eg if you accidentally press the windows key and get sent back to the desktop your game will probably still be running ok. In XP I find this can kill some games.
- Control sound levels of different apps independently.
I'm afraid I can't think of any more. As it is I have had to seriously bite my tongue over in order to produce a list that *only* lists Vista's plus points over XP without being snippy. I speak as someone who persevered with Vista for 3 months on a new laptop before "downgrading" to XP.
Fascinating stuff; I've often wondered how it's possible to map memory outside what would appear to be the limit of address space. So it seems - unless I missed something in your post - that Planesdragon was wrong; there is no difference between 32-bit XP and 32-bit Vista in terms of memory addressability?
It's not just a verb, it's an imperative.
I'm running 1.1.0b12, which is considered a stable release, on FF3 RC1.
There is a beta (1.1) on the Firebug page which works just fine in FF3.
No thanks, they tasts kind of tangy.
I did this; basically don't want to live without Google Toolbar. But the current version makes FF3 unstartable. I had to manually rip it out my extensions folder.
In any case, there' no need to hacking around in about:config; just use the Nightly Tester Toolds.