They have a project, I think they were considering 'mubuntu' at some point or it was a popular recommendation on the forums (I forget(maybe it was remarkable because it wasn't popular)). Now they have a front page with the graphics, video,... they must be sticking with the more generic studio extended-moniker to cater to a wider audience. Possibly the 'mu' & emphasis on preemption was attracting too many of the lynx fanatics.:p
For the basic recording that I like to do, all that extra preemption seems like overkill. I happen to be running 2.6.18 on dapper with 'desktop' grade preemption and a sluggish 250Hz timer frequency and it records fine, I didn't really need the new kernel though - and those kernel options have existed for a while. If it helps for bigger recording projects then surely there could be DVB applications that benefit, and stuff like that. The more the merrier.
There should still be a place for the projects like agnula and planetccrma distros, dedicated machines aren't going to need any cinelerra or mythtv, etc. Specialisation is sort of the point of preempting your kernel to death.
I wonder if a touchpad could be hacked enough to make a crude fingerprint scanner for, at least, the pesky admin password. I get prompted enough that *everyone* would see me authenticating updates, unlocking the screensaver.. and they would hear the eerie, "Thank you for disabling the countdown. Welcome back." robotic voice.
With all the exploding laptops out there, and such a suggestive security through intimidation policy you would be safe from potential intruders so long as they have a sufficiently overactive imagination.
With a tax it would be illegal to block paid for mail, a federal offense probably. Then we would just get/different/ spam, like for chevy trucks and pepsi-cola.
I was watching this ETV thing about the Badlands that was saying that they were formed by a torrental flow that happened over a (relatively)short period of time. Their guess was that an ice dam melted and allowed a pent up ocean of water to suddenly equalise back all over the rest of the ocean. So what are the chances of a glacier melting and a couple of feet of sea from the top of the globe flushing Canada again?
They seemed awfully convinced about the possibility, but I guess maybe sea level is sea level everywhere? I'd look it up, but I don't live anywhere near the beach or canada. Isn't there some kind of bulge at the equator form all the spinning, is that still there? I'm just not convinced that a flat pan of water and a few ice cubes & density measurements necessarily represents all of the variables of a big gravity making ball of spinning earth...
With the big record label's monopoly on exposure the only way an artist can ever gain the kind of momentum needed for mainstream success is to sign one-sided contracts with them. This Zune policy sounds like an extension of their current philosophy.
It's no big secret that you don't even need any talent to become a household name in the music biz, all you need is a desire to be idolised that outweighs your artistic integrity and there is no shortage of hacks willing to fill those shoes. Take a pretty face and get on your phone to a handful of professional studio musicians and anyone can be a star.
When a million ppl 'steal' your work, regardless of howevermany nickels*10e6 you are deprived of if a million ppl steal from you that lost revenue pales in comparison to the fact that you now are a brand, just like Coca-Cola and now you can even sell t-shirts or demand a lot more than a few hundred bucks a gig for performances/remixes/collaborations, etc and what happens is you get it with no strings attached. This Zune DRM favor is going to limit the effectiveness of guerilla marketing for those who choose to liscense CC and attempt to compete based on their actual merit or talent.
It won't be long before MS buys Sony/BMG or vise versa, looks like.
I couldn't find a link to the video, but I did find some liberal commie's blog coverage. I wonder what this kid's parents were thinking when they named him 'carrion'.
Not too long ago the local news got their hands on a videotape made at an arrest scene. This guy comes back from Iraq and he's tooling around with his friend in this Corvette, apparantly they were speeding or something and the driver thought he could outrun the cops.... short chase that ends with the Corvette hitting a telephone pole near the residence of this guy with a camcorder.
When the cop tells the guy, the passenger, to get out of the car he gets out with his hands visible and says clearly, "We're on your side. We mean you no harm." - a phrase he picked up doing MP work in the middle east. The cop responds by shooting him three times.
It was like the 3rd time in as many months I had heard reports of police shooting ppl, one of the times, they shot an off-duty cop that was a little drunk - so it's not like their actions don't affect them too.
The whole, " . . I don't beleive I did anything wrong." is pathetic. What - is he asking for permission from his mother? I don't particularly care for the way MS, DRM, CD-KEYs, etc. wanna be telling me what to do. Thats not how he man/computer relationship works.:)
That was pretty funny whe they were talking about running dropcords across the street, I had to check and make sure I wasn't at theonion. I wonder if they ran to wal-mart and got a bunch of cheap cords that were so long and slender they'd only be able to efficiently power a lightbulb and maybe they grabbed a few of those powerblock/outlet expanders.
I guess NASA set the example with the caulk and duct tape repairs.
What don't ppl get about having their os on a ramdrive that can survive a reboot. Mine is on a 15k disk, thanks to this attitude that hard drives need to be at least a terabyte I was able to pick up a 15k disk brand new for 75$. suckahs.
I broke down and put the acroread application on my computer because the xpdf and stuff never seem to work right and it was great and all.. Well... I was over at a friends, an XP guy that didn't have the viewer on his XP box kind of in the fasion that I refuse to run the flash plugin. I was showing his kid (12 yrs old) a pdf, but I needed to install their reader and I says, "OK, check this out..." while it's installing. The goddamned thing installs and then starts hijacking the media/image viewing defaults on his maching and to impress me or something the installer opens these windows with all of his porn - thumbnail style. I don't even have a virtual desktop or console to flee to, & hafta frantically make her get the hell out while trying to close all this stuff with installer status indicators and porn everywhere. What in the....?
That was totally lame.
I gots a myspace account, it's great. Twice a month I get together with in meatspace with internet ppl for coffee. Most of us are in out 30s and so far I've met about 15 ppl in the area that I wouldn't know otherwise.
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It didn't really work out that way with the TV. There is ad sponsored free TV and cable TV where you pay for the advertisements. There is no escape for the consumer.
Everybody wants to use/their/ secret, of course. If it can't have code that all parties can audit.... ? I mean for real. OpenWhatever then, or is it just play-encryption.
We've all met ppl that suck up to the boss just for the warm fuzzy feeling of it. Probably don't have to threaten anybody even slightly.. that's just what social climbers do. I wonder how often ppl 'betray' their fellow citizens or if they sincerely think they are helping to keep them out of even worse trouble. I don't agree, but I don't believe that ppl go around being dirtbags so much as opposed to rationalise being dirtbags or avoid becoming an accomplice.
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I believe they're recompiling everything with a slightly newer gcc.
For the basic recording that I like to do, all that extra preemption seems like overkill. I happen to be running 2.6.18 on dapper with 'desktop' grade preemption and a sluggish 250Hz timer frequency and it records fine, I didn't really need the new kernel though - and those kernel options have existed for a while. If it helps for bigger recording projects then surely there could be DVB applications that benefit, and stuff like that. The more the merrier.
There should still be a place for the projects like agnula and planetccrma distros, dedicated machines aren't going to need any cinelerra or mythtv, etc. Specialisation is sort of the point of preempting your kernel to death.
because human newscasters are so realistic looking and acting...
I wonder if a touchpad could be hacked enough to make a crude fingerprint scanner for, at least, the pesky admin password. I get prompted enough that *everyone* would see me authenticating updates, unlocking the screensaver.. and they would hear the eerie, "Thank you for disabling the countdown. Welcome back." robotic voice. With all the exploding laptops out there, and such a suggestive security through intimidation policy you would be safe from potential intruders so long as they have a sufficiently overactive imagination.
How long will it take us to burn through all our topsoil?
With a tax it would be illegal to block paid for mail, a federal offense probably. Then we would just get /different/ spam, like for chevy trucks and pepsi-cola.
For real, they can't even spell p3wn.
I was watching this ETV thing about the Badlands that was saying that they were formed by a torrental flow that happened over a (relatively)short period of time. Their guess was that an ice dam melted and allowed a pent up ocean of water to suddenly equalise back all over the rest of the ocean. So what are the chances of a glacier melting and a couple of feet of sea from the top of the globe flushing Canada again? They seemed awfully convinced about the possibility, but I guess maybe sea level is sea level everywhere? I'd look it up, but I don't live anywhere near the beach or canada. Isn't there some kind of bulge at the equator form all the spinning, is that still there? I'm just not convinced that a flat pan of water and a few ice cubes & density measurements necessarily represents all of the variables of a big gravity making ball of spinning earth...
With the big record label's monopoly on exposure the only way an artist can ever gain the kind of momentum needed for mainstream success is to sign one-sided contracts with them. This Zune policy sounds like an extension of their current philosophy. It's no big secret that you don't even need any talent to become a household name in the music biz, all you need is a desire to be idolised that outweighs your artistic integrity and there is no shortage of hacks willing to fill those shoes. Take a pretty face and get on your phone to a handful of professional studio musicians and anyone can be a star. When a million ppl 'steal' your work, regardless of howevermany nickels*10e6 you are deprived of if a million ppl steal from you that lost revenue pales in comparison to the fact that you now are a brand, just like Coca-Cola and now you can even sell t-shirts or demand a lot more than a few hundred bucks a gig for performances/remixes/collaborations, etc and what happens is you get it with no strings attached. This Zune DRM favor is going to limit the effectiveness of guerilla marketing for those who choose to liscense CC and attempt to compete based on their actual merit or talent. It won't be long before MS buys Sony/BMG or vise versa, looks like.
I couldn't find a link to the video, but I did find some liberal commie's blog coverage. I wonder what this kid's parents were thinking when they named him 'carrion'.
Not too long ago the local news got their hands on a videotape made at an arrest scene. This guy comes back from Iraq and he's tooling around with his friend in this Corvette, apparantly they were speeding or something and the driver thought he could outrun the cops.... short chase that ends with the Corvette hitting a telephone pole near the residence of this guy with a camcorder. When the cop tells the guy, the passenger, to get out of the car he gets out with his hands visible and says clearly, "We're on your side. We mean you no harm." - a phrase he picked up doing MP work in the middle east. The cop responds by shooting him three times. It was like the 3rd time in as many months I had heard reports of police shooting ppl, one of the times, they shot an off-duty cop that was a little drunk - so it's not like their actions don't affect them too.
The whole, " . . I don't beleive I did anything wrong." is pathetic. What - is he asking for permission from his mother? I don't particularly care for the way MS, DRM, CD-KEYs, etc. wanna be telling me what to do. Thats not how he man/computer relationship works. :)
That was pretty funny whe they were talking about running dropcords across the street, I had to check and make sure I wasn't at theonion. I wonder if they ran to wal-mart and got a bunch of cheap cords that were so long and slender they'd only be able to efficiently power a lightbulb and maybe they grabbed a few of those powerblock/outlet expanders. I guess NASA set the example with the caulk and duct tape repairs.
It prolly has a lot to do with the vacuum.
I think he is referring to their other book, "How to Make Something Bolder than Everything Else."
What don't ppl get about having their os on a ramdrive that can survive a reboot. Mine is on a 15k disk, thanks to this attitude that hard drives need to be at least a terabyte I was able to pick up a 15k disk brand new for 75$. suckahs.
I broke down and put the acroread application on my computer because the xpdf and stuff never seem to work right and it was great and all.. Well... I was over at a friends, an XP guy that didn't have the viewer on his XP box kind of in the fasion that I refuse to run the flash plugin. I was showing his kid (12 yrs old) a pdf, but I needed to install their reader and I says, "OK, check this out..." while it's installing. The goddamned thing installs and then starts hijacking the media/image viewing defaults on his maching and to impress me or something the installer opens these windows with all of his porn - thumbnail style. I don't even have a virtual desktop or console to flee to, & hafta frantically make her get the hell out while trying to close all this stuff with installer status indicators and porn everywhere. What in the....? That was totally lame.
Well, there is this Oreilly Windows XP Hacks book...
Uh.... I'm pretty sure they knew what the moon was.
It didn't really work out that way with the TV. There is ad sponsored free TV and cable TV where you pay for the advertisements. There is no escape for the consumer.
Everybody wants to use /their/ secret, of course. If it can't have code that all parties can audit.... ? I mean for real. OpenWhatever then, or is it just play-encryption.
Will they also have to filter :crax [r4x0rz keygenerator keybusta serialz....?
I just want my 'turbo' button back. What if I want to play a video game that was designed to run @ 4.77Mhz?
We've all met ppl that suck up to the boss just for the warm fuzzy feeling of it. Probably don't have to threaten anybody even slightly .. that's just what social climbers do. I wonder how often ppl 'betray' their fellow citizens or if they sincerely think they are helping to keep them out of even worse trouble. I don't agree, but I don't believe that ppl go around being dirtbags so much as opposed to rationalise being dirtbags or avoid becoming an accomplice.