Precisely my thoughts, why should they all get a fair share if only some of them are actually having their music downloaded as a certain percentage of all music downloaded.
Of course even if they were to somehow track which artists songs were downloaded and distribute based on percentages of total downloads, you'd have some clever artist or fan set up some scripts to download millions of their songs over and over and somehow make it look like actual users downloaded them then you have a whole different issue.
I think they should just keep doing what they're doing now, sans the attempts to extract money from people for getting free music. Some people will still buy CD's and still buy online music, and others will still pirate. It won't get them more money, but it won't likely get them much less money anytime soon.
I'm running Gnome just fine on my eee 701 with 512 MB of RAM. I don't usually keep more than a few windows open but there's really no need to. To be honest even though xfce looks and feels a lot like Gnome, there's just enough different in that I'm so used to Gnome i couldn't justify using xfce in this one case just for what appeared to be an unnoticable performance gain.
Hannity.. you gotta be kidding, what the...
Oh I see you too are playing at being Colbert-esque, ya clever pit dog you! Now I'm actually ROFL I can't even see the screen I'm just pressing letters on the keyboard hoping words will come out!
this is precisely the kind of sentiments these shows make fun of, its too bad some people are too dense to see what kind of douches they are when saying things like what the parent has stated.
And Rush Limbaugh is the best name you can come up with to represent your argument? You've really just provided all the hysterical laughter I need for the day!
I'm sure a lot of things are between those two extremes, however since they're piloting multimillion dollar pieces of hardware I guarantee its closer to the "real thing"
I think it really shows that there really are different kinds of users out there. There's those like us who prefer a cleaner desktop and some sense of organization, perhaps sometimes almost to the point of OCD (i can't stand having a filled trash bin for instance).
However a lot of the people I interact with, some are technical type users, others aren't so much, who have their desktops littered with icons almost filling the entire wallpaper. Granted I can understand that sometimes even in chaos there is some semblance of organization because these people know that when they're looking for a particular thing on their desktop they know its always going to be generally in the same place each time.
My only concern with this new stuff is whether or not they'll make it just as easy to clean stuff up and organize it as they did to make it all cluttered up.
because nintendo decided gameplay was more important than graphics. not necessarily a bad move, but certainly one that prevent certain games from being ported to Wii
I tend to agree, however I do think that somehow the Xbox line has been able to stand on its own, if only because the Dreamcast failed and left an empty spot open in the market as an alternative to Playstation. Of course I guess even there they borrowed a lot of the ideas from existing consoles, and the original console itself was really just a trimmed up and specialized PC. That said love it or hate it Xbox live did manage to bring online gaming to the console.
those actors in the porn movies who must suffer from repetitively moving to and fro, always in and out of their workplace. It must be real hard to not know where you've been or where you're going next when the threat of Repetitive strain injury starts to affect your closest of kin that lives next to the twins.
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today's word is Proprietary
actually thats what we call taxes
Precisely my thoughts, why should they all get a fair share if only some of them are actually having their music downloaded as a certain percentage of all music downloaded.
Of course even if they were to somehow track which artists songs were downloaded and distribute based on percentages of total downloads, you'd have some clever artist or fan set up some scripts to download millions of their songs over and over and somehow make it look like actual users downloaded them then you have a whole different issue.
I think they should just keep doing what they're doing now, sans the attempts to extract money from people for getting free music. Some people will still buy CD's and still buy online music, and others will still pirate. It won't get them more money, but it won't likely get them much less money anytime soon.
I'm running Gnome just fine on my eee 701 with 512 MB of RAM. I don't usually keep more than a few windows open but there's really no need to. To be honest even though xfce looks and feels a lot like Gnome, there's just enough different in that I'm so used to Gnome i couldn't justify using xfce in this one case just for what appeared to be an unnoticable performance gain.
Hannity.. you gotta be kidding, what the... Oh I see you too are playing at being Colbert-esque, ya clever pit dog you! Now I'm actually ROFL I can't even see the screen I'm just pressing letters on the keyboard hoping words will come out!
this is precisely the kind of sentiments these shows make fun of, its too bad some people are too dense to see what kind of douches they are when saying things like what the parent has stated.
And Rush Limbaugh is the best name you can come up with to represent your argument? You've really just provided all the hysterical laughter I need for the day!
I'm sure a lot of things are between those two extremes, however since they're piloting multimillion dollar pieces of hardware I guarantee its closer to the "real thing"
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I think it really shows that there really are different kinds of users out there. There's those like us who prefer a cleaner desktop and some sense of organization, perhaps sometimes almost to the point of OCD (i can't stand having a filled trash bin for instance).
However a lot of the people I interact with, some are technical type users, others aren't so much, who have their desktops littered with icons almost filling the entire wallpaper. Granted I can understand that sometimes even in chaos there is some semblance of organization because these people know that when they're looking for a particular thing on their desktop they know its always going to be generally in the same place each time.
My only concern with this new stuff is whether or not they'll make it just as easy to clean stuff up and organize it as they did to make it all cluttered up.
Balance can also be achieved when the only players left playing are those who don't care about whether they have the most powerful class or not.
Disappearing Pencil Trick!
ahh, but is weed also not the past tense of the verb "wee"?
probably going to weed out the pot smokers too
because nintendo decided gameplay was more important than graphics. not necessarily a bad move, but certainly one that prevent certain games from being ported to Wii
Satan just called, he says he'd rather it stay nice and toasty down there.
there's always the Neo with the OpenMoko OS, not sure when it will be more available in the US stores though
well you could hitchhike your way there naked, but it might be weird
Mantwitter? Sounds like the name of an X-rated flick.
what are you talking about? We found exactly what we were looking for, Texas Tea baby!
I tend to agree, however I do think that somehow the Xbox line has been able to stand on its own, if only because the Dreamcast failed and left an empty spot open in the market as an alternative to Playstation. Of course I guess even there they borrowed a lot of the ideas from existing consoles, and the original console itself was really just a trimmed up and specialized PC. That said love it or hate it Xbox live did manage to bring online gaming to the console.
if their servers keep logs of FTP transactions it might
Alternate FTP non-slashdotted link
ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/
just put on your Red Armor of Fire Retarding +1 and you're good to go
don't mix it up with the Polka Dotted Armor of Mental Retarding -2.
those actors in the porn movies who must suffer from repetitively moving to and fro, always in and out of their workplace. It must be real hard to not know where you've been or where you're going next when the threat of Repetitive strain injury starts to affect your closest of kin that lives next to the twins.
if the real world is what we make it, then concrete is indeed our real world.