Being a Gentoo user, I already have quite a bit of flexibility rergarding stability vs. experimental packages. Still, Bedrock appeals to me. In my case, for the abillity to get other-distro-specific candy.
I have a question that's not handled by the FAQ, so I'll ask it here before I dive into the docs (though I probably will dive in anyway). On my machines, I already keep multple "/" partitions around with different distros installed (rarely used, but just in case). Could I just put Bedrock on one of these "/" partitions and have it "combine" the others that are already installed? Or does it want me to install the distros it "manages" from scratch? Combining what I've already built into one streamlined meta-distro is attractive, and just might be worth the effort.
When I say "have it combine", I of course wouldn't expect anything automagic (i.e. extra configuration is acceptable). But is this even possible?
Agreed. It's offers like this where we Linux users can show we're a growing market, and we deserve games, too. I bought WoG during its previous name-your-price sale. It was good enough that I took the Humble Bundle plunge based on its inclusion, despite me knowing nothing about the other games offered here. I just figure they have to be good if they're next to WoG. The charity options really sweetened the deal. What's not to love here?
Yeah... I remember a video a few years ago of some people dragged their Gamecube from their car for a short while on pavement and dirt road and it still worked afterward.
Ah, found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEvlWQ5ULCg
Thirded and Fourthed. I had my DS's hinge crack despite taking very good care of it (padded carry case and all). After sending an email to Nintendo, they offered free repairs + free shipping both ways. Also, my first gen Wii had the common faulty GPU issue that caused minor graphical glitches/random "snow" effects. Same deal with the free repair & both-ways-shipping. Both repairs were quick, reuniting me with my goods within about a week per go. I was really impressed and it definitely made me feel like a valued customer. Although my story makes it seem like Nintendo makes crappy stuff, I can't really blame them for either defect. The hinge issue seems like something that could happen to any company, even one with a good QA department because it only happens after a LOT of use. And I the GPU issue falls more on AMD's shoulders.
Heck, when a control pod for my Logitech speakers broke recently, Logitech wanted me to pay shipping to/from their repair center. I stood firmly against this (my unit was well within warranty). I brought up Nintendo as an example of a company that did customer service right, and then they agreed to cover all costs. For setting the bar high enough to convince other companies to up their game, Nintendo deserves praise.
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As a windows user for my entire life making the switch to Linux over the summer of 2007, I was nothing but thrilled with the looks, functionality, and personalization (through customization) KDE 3.5 had to offer. At the time, I wrote off Gnome as too different from what I was used to. After several months of falling completely in love with my OS/KDE, I began to strongly evangelize the use of Linux on the desktop, convincing a small handful of friends (doing my part for the whole "Year Of.." thing).
I went with the flow when KDE 4 took over. Although I was pretty disappointed with a lot of things (removal of a ton of Konqueror functionality that Dolphin sure as heck didn't replace/replace well, plasma crashing all the time, list could go on but I'm not trying to bash KDE or anything here), I kept patiently waiting for the promise of a stable, beautiful, better-than-3.5 desktop. When even 4.2 didn't fix a lot of the things wrong with my system, I finally decided to switch desktops until they got their act together.
KDE's problem is that my original plan has changed. I've gotten so acquainted to my new environment, that I can't see myself switching back to KDE anymore. It's not just inertial that's a factor here, I genuinely like my current setup. I used the word problem there not because I believe a single user matters to KDE, or any other F/OSS project for that matter, but because I wonder how many people are just like me: Hopped off the KDE bus, originally planning to get back on a few stops down the road, but have now opted for a different mode of transportation altogether (do I get points for bad car analogy here??). To boot, I am relatively young, and a sworn lifelong Linux user; there are many years of my life of Desktop Environment usage left.
At any rate, when Linus slammed KDE months ago, I was still on the fence. Now I'm pretty much in full agreement with him, minus the whole flamewar thing.
Here's the part where I'm pouring out champagne on my floor. "Thanks for the memories, KDE". I loved you, and I'll miss you.
Given that criterion, Chuck Baldwin is also candidate you should consider. He also strongly opposes amnesty for Wall Street. You might, as I plan on, look down the list of Barr vs. Baldwin's other views and policies in order to determine the candidate you more closely agree with. I haven't decided quite yet-- all I know is how bad the main options are.
This is assuming both are on the ballot in your state!
It's actually around 20% abv. Way to go on downing four, champ! That's the rough equivalent of sixteen light beers.
Also, I would love to get it for 3$ a bottle. The single bottle on my desk that I've been aging for almost a year now still taunts me with its $8.99 price tag! And that was purchased IN Delaware, where I live. Perhaps you were drinking the 90? Certainly a tenable theory considering you had four in a row!
Yeah, not only all those things, but also don't forget that listening to vinyl also makes you part of the experience. You can't just put on a vinyl record and forget about it if your aim is to hear it through. Halfway through (or 1/3, 1/4, what have you), you need to actually get up and flip the record over. It may not sound like much (or it may even sound like a detraction for those unfortunately spoiled lazy by the digital age), but it's that type of interaction that can, to me, help make an album special and immersive. BTW, I'm twenty-two, in case I sounded like a bitter ancient fossil with my laziness comment just now.
I have a large collection of digital music, which I love. I just know that when I want something physical to display in my home, when I want to go above and beyond double clicking a file, vinyl it is!
He actually addresses the video codec of the piece in his blog (linked in a post above) after mentioning that he doesn't feel he deserves to win over gorilla guy:
On the other hand there is nothing saying we can't get anything out of this. You could ask cnn to put all the other heroes videos into an open/at least not so closed codec so that everyone could see them. Being the guy who got a major media outlet to guit supporting a monopoly would be a more than adequate consolation prize. Anyway, It's playing fine on Kubuntu/Firefox for me. I wish I could be more helpful in getting yours to work, but I've made so many modifications to this baby (I'm obsessed) over the months that I couldn't tell you exactly which one did the trick for this video. There is a way, as others above have also confirmed.
I'm not sure if your question was rhetorical or not, but your point about Cryptomnesia is valid in that I can envision it becoming a standard for RIAA-represented labels making outrageous claims about stolen property (I mean, that's WHAT they DO). Also from what I can tell, this phenomenon doesn't seem to happen too often. If it does happen, I reckon it would be pretty hard for the big labels to go ahead and listen to every piece of independent music out there and judge for itself if a lawsuit would be prudent (from their point of view).
Invitations by association only. No "earning" involved, just asking someone who has one. Certainly you don't have to be an artist or anything.
What is its gist before I apply for an invitation...
What you read is very aggressively worded to kind of prompt the average user (who initially might be unknowledgeable about torrent technology) into being a contributing member (in the very least keeping a decent share ratio). Actual policies aren't nearly that strict. You're given a bunch of time to actually get your ratio respectable, on the order of gigabytes downloaded. Basically try to take a penny, leave a penny and you'll be fine. You get a "warning" followed by a "banning" for breaking certain rules, but it is pretty hard to get a warning for low ratio, unless your ratio is.1 after 10 GBs downloaded or something. As a starter, try to stick to grabbing things from the first few pages of torrents (newest), and your ratio will be good enough to then allow you into the whole catalog. Really easy.
How do the artists on this tracker avoid being sued for subconsciously copying an existing copyrighted work that they may have heard on the radio a decade ago?
They are very keen on insta-deleting anything that might be unsafe in this way or in other non-intuitive ways (i.e. unsafe work is sampled by safe artist, a single song on an indie compilation ends up getting sold to a major label along with the band's services, etc.) Just take the invite, I have plenty. The rules are easy to follow, and it's a successful community.
Speaking of searching for new indie music, anybody interested in a [to be clear: free] invitation to the members-only indietorrents.com? I've earned quite a few (through keeping a good ratio there, being nice, etc.) I just have stockpiled. It's a tracker dedicated to beautiful music made by hardworking, (mainly) DIY musicians keeping themselves far and away from the RIAA Radar's pulsewaves. The added benefit of never having to worry about a lawsuit for anything grabbed or upped on the tracker is very nice. Also of note is that the admins of the site are respectful to any indie label requesting their material not be allowed... it's a win/win/win situation any way you slice it. My email is temporarily "displayed" in my "bio", shoot me one and I'll respond with an invite.
Since I've been a member of the site, I've been able to eliminate 95% of my listening to RIAA-represented label material... and stop my monetary support for anything of that sort altogether. I'm not suggesting this will happen for everyone, but honestly, there is enough good independent stuff out there to render mainstream stuff a thing of the past. Unite!
I got "pseudo-busted" by my college/RIAA back in the sweet, sweet ol' days of i2hub. That program ruled. Anyways, I was caught uploading U2 randomly. My reaction: "I have U2 on my computer? Hmm!" To this day, I have neither listened to any of the U2 on my computer nor deleted the folder. Weird.
Anyway, had to pay my Uni a $70 "cleaning fee", since p2p programs "can usher in viruses to the network". This involved some silly IT hack installing some worthless anti-spyware program on my comp (I already had Spybot and Ad-aware at the time). Other than that, I just had to sign some agreement to stop using p2p illegally... Thank God this all happened before all this BS.
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Being a Gentoo user, I already have quite a bit of flexibility rergarding stability vs. experimental packages. Still, Bedrock appeals to me. In my case, for the abillity to get other-distro-specific candy.
I have a question that's not handled by the FAQ, so I'll ask it here before I dive into the docs (though I probably will dive in anyway). On my machines, I already keep multple "/" partitions around with different distros installed (rarely used, but just in case). Could I just put Bedrock on one of these "/" partitions and have it "combine" the others that are already installed? Or does it want me to install the distros it "manages" from scratch? Combining what I've already built into one streamlined meta-distro is attractive, and just might be worth the effort.
When I say "have it combine", I of course wouldn't expect anything automagic (i.e. extra configuration is acceptable). But is this even possible?
Anybody else read the headline and start reading the summary as "Matt Mullenweg ... is sticking to his gnus ..." ?
It does work, after all.
WoG is actually available as tgz, deb, and rpm.
Still, fair point.
Agreed. It's offers like this where we Linux users can show we're a growing market, and we deserve games, too. I bought WoG during its previous name-your-price sale. It was good enough that I took the Humble Bundle plunge based on its inclusion, despite me knowing nothing about the other games offered here. I just figure they have to be good if they're next to WoG. The charity options really sweetened the deal. What's not to love here?
feed that omelet to a chicken, and then take the resulting egg.
I'm no biologist, but your understanding of chicken reproduction seems flawed!
Yeah... I remember a video a few years ago of some people dragged their Gamecube from their car for a short while on pavement and dirt road and it still worked afterward. Ah, found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEvlWQ5ULCg
Thirded and Fourthed. I had my DS's hinge crack despite taking very good care of it (padded carry case and all). After sending an email to Nintendo, they offered free repairs + free shipping both ways. Also, my first gen Wii had the common faulty GPU issue that caused minor graphical glitches/random "snow" effects. Same deal with the free repair & both-ways-shipping. Both repairs were quick, reuniting me with my goods within about a week per go. I was really impressed and it definitely made me feel like a valued customer. Although my story makes it seem like Nintendo makes crappy stuff, I can't really blame them for either defect. The hinge issue seems like something that could happen to any company, even one with a good QA department because it only happens after a LOT of use. And I the GPU issue falls more on AMD's shoulders.
Heck, when a control pod for my Logitech speakers broke recently, Logitech wanted me to pay shipping to/from their repair center. I stood firmly against this (my unit was well within warranty). I brought up Nintendo as an example of a company that did customer service right, and then they agreed to cover all costs. For setting the bar high enough to convince other companies to up their game, Nintendo deserves praise.
As a windows user for my entire life making the switch to Linux over the summer of 2007, I was nothing but thrilled with the looks, functionality, and personalization (through customization) KDE 3.5 had to offer. At the time, I wrote off Gnome as too different from what I was used to. After several months of falling completely in love with my OS/KDE, I began to strongly evangelize the use of Linux on the desktop, convincing a small handful of friends (doing my part for the whole "Year Of.." thing).
I went with the flow when KDE 4 took over. Although I was pretty disappointed with a lot of things (removal of a ton of Konqueror functionality that Dolphin sure as heck didn't replace/replace well, plasma crashing all the time, list could go on but I'm not trying to bash KDE or anything here), I kept patiently waiting for the promise of a stable, beautiful, better-than-3.5 desktop. When even 4.2 didn't fix a lot of the things wrong with my system, I finally decided to switch desktops until they got their act together.
KDE's problem is that my original plan has changed. I've gotten so acquainted to my new environment, that I can't see myself switching back to KDE anymore. It's not just inertial that's a factor here, I genuinely like my current setup. I used the word problem there not because I believe a single user matters to KDE, or any other F/OSS project for that matter, but because I wonder how many people are just like me: Hopped off the KDE bus, originally planning to get back on a few stops down the road, but have now opted for a different mode of transportation altogether (do I get points for bad car analogy here??). To boot, I am relatively young, and a sworn lifelong Linux user; there are many years of my life of Desktop Environment usage left.
At any rate, when Linus slammed KDE months ago, I was still on the fence. Now I'm pretty much in full agreement with him, minus the whole flamewar thing.
Here's the part where I'm pouring out champagne on my floor. "Thanks for the memories, KDE". I loved you, and I'll miss you.
There is no need to fear CLIT, especially on college campuses.
Four seconds? That's nothing. I booted Windows Vista the very second I got my new machine to make way for Ubuntu.
What's that, you didn't mean literally kick? I see.
Given that criterion, Chuck Baldwin is also candidate you should consider. He also strongly opposes amnesty for Wall Street. You might, as I plan on, look down the list of Barr vs. Baldwin's other views and policies in order to determine the candidate you more closely agree with. I haven't decided quite yet-- all I know is how bad the main options are.
This is assuming both are on the ballot in your state!
http://www.baldwin08.com/
It's actually around 20% abv. Way to go on downing four, champ! That's the rough equivalent of sixteen light beers. Also, I would love to get it for 3$ a bottle. The single bottle on my desk that I've been aging for almost a year now still taunts me with its $8.99 price tag! And that was purchased IN Delaware, where I live. Perhaps you were drinking the 90? Certainly a tenable theory considering you had four in a row!
Yeah, not only all those things, but also don't forget that listening to vinyl also makes you part of the experience. You can't just put on a vinyl record and forget about it if your aim is to hear it through. Halfway through (or 1/3, 1/4, what have you), you need to actually get up and flip the record over. It may not sound like much (or it may even sound like a detraction for those unfortunately spoiled lazy by the digital age), but it's that type of interaction that can, to me, help make an album special and immersive. BTW, I'm twenty-two, in case I sounded like a bitter ancient fossil with my laziness comment just now. I have a large collection of digital music, which I love. I just know that when I want something physical to display in my home, when I want to go above and beyond double clicking a file, vinyl it is!
I'm not sure if your question was rhetorical or not, but your point about Cryptomnesia is valid in that I can envision it becoming a standard for RIAA-represented labels making outrageous claims about stolen property (I mean, that's WHAT they DO). Also from what I can tell, this phenomenon doesn't seem to happen too often. If it does happen, I reckon it would be pretty hard for the big labels to go ahead and listen to every piece of independent music out there and judge for itself if a lawsuit would be prudent (from their point of view).
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What you read is very aggressively worded to kind of prompt the average user (who initially might be unknowledgeable about torrent technology) into being a contributing member (in the very least keeping a decent share ratio). Actual policies aren't nearly that strict. You're given a bunch of time to actually get your ratio respectable, on the order of gigabytes downloaded. Basically try to take a penny, leave a penny and you'll be fine. You get a "warning" followed by a "banning" for breaking certain rules, but it is pretty hard to get a warning for low ratio, unless your ratio is
They are very keen on insta-deleting anything that might be unsafe in this way or in other non-intuitive ways (i.e. unsafe work is sampled by safe artist, a single song on an indie compilation ends up getting sold to a major label along with the band's services, etc.) Just take the invite, I have plenty. The rules are easy to follow, and it's a successful community.
Speaking of searching for new indie music, anybody interested in a [to be clear: free] invitation to the members-only indietorrents.com? I've earned quite a few (through keeping a good ratio there, being nice, etc.) I just have stockpiled. It's a tracker dedicated to beautiful music made by hardworking, (mainly) DIY musicians keeping themselves far and away from the RIAA Radar's pulsewaves. The added benefit of never having to worry about a lawsuit for anything grabbed or upped on the tracker is very nice. Also of note is that the admins of the site are respectful to any indie label requesting their material not be allowed... it's a win/win/win situation any way you slice it. My email is temporarily "displayed" in my "bio", shoot me one and I'll respond with an invite.
Since I've been a member of the site, I've been able to eliminate 95% of my listening to RIAA-represented label material... and stop my monetary support for anything of that sort altogether. I'm not suggesting this will happen for everyone, but honestly, there is enough good independent stuff out there to render mainstream stuff a thing of the past. Unite!
I got "pseudo-busted" by my college/RIAA back in the sweet, sweet ol' days of i2hub. That program ruled. Anyways, I was caught uploading U2 randomly. My reaction: "I have U2 on my computer? Hmm!" To this day, I have neither listened to any of the U2 on my computer nor deleted the folder. Weird.
Anyway, had to pay my Uni a $70 "cleaning fee", since p2p programs "can usher in viruses to the network". This involved some silly IT hack installing some worthless anti-spyware program on my comp (I already had Spybot and Ad-aware at the time). Other than that, I just had to sign some agreement to stop using p2p illegally... Thank God this all happened before all this BS.
You're telling me. I can't wait to become immersed in games like Bomb Squad: Streets of Boston on the Wiidux in 5 or so years.