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Apple, RIM, Google All Bid On Palm 117
Comment Re:I think Google is being reactionary here (Score 2, Informative) 272
I know why there are so many businesses that won't upgrade from IE6, with their legacy web apps that they refuse to upgrade, but for God's sake, IE8 has compatibility mode. For the good of humanity, upgrade!
If by compatibibility mode, you mean compatibility view, according to Microsoft it will "display the website as viewed in Internet Explorer 7", not ie6.
Comment Re:iGoogle support? (Score 1) 275
Comment Re:Meanwhile... (Score 1) 335
New PHP Interpreter Finds XSS, Injection Holes 66
Comment Re:Well (Score 5, Interesting) 413
TFA: "Ligesh [from LxLabs] was also still coming to terms with the suicides by hanging of his sister and mother five years ago."
I suspect that this was the result of a lot of bad things going on in his life, and not just because of the software issues.
And very likely a genetic predisposition to suicide as well.
Comment Re:You know... (Score 1) 254
I've also found and bought some vinyls in gemm, ebay, musicstack, cdandlp, at record fairs, music stores... I buy new music on a weekly basis, mainly at cdbaby, interpunk and straight from the labels/artists. And, finally, I dl on average 4500 mp3s per month.
To keep track of this huge amount of music I've made an application to rate, query and organize my own music.
All in all, there's still music I cannot obtain. But not only me: every person passionate about music I know has his own wanted list. As a slsk user, you should know it. And the records exists, and we have the technical means to make them available to everybody. If it's not happening it's because an obsolete industry it's keeping us from achieving it. They are not stopping people to share music, this is a fact. Instead, as a collateral damage, they are preventing the possibility to preserve and organize forever our musical heritage. The scene is doing an excellent job in that way, but, as long as it remains in the clandestine underground, very few people have access to it and, at the end, the rarest music get poorly disseminated and is not taking in any hard drive connected to a given network.
Maybe it's about time to start talking about the quality (tags, encoding...) of the music is circulating in the p2p networks, and not about the cds the major labels are not supposedly selling because of them. By the way, you don't measure the health of the actual music panorama on cds sales. Perhaps you could do it on musical instruments sales, but on cds sales? It's plain ridiculous.
Anyway... thanks for your reply, mate.
Comment Re:You know... (Score 4, Insightful) 254
Obtaining and storing the data is trivial.
Not for me. Despite the 210k mp3s I have in my hard drives, the p2p networks, music streaming sites and online and traditional music stores, I have lists of hundreds of albums I cannot find anywhere.
Not only that, part of the music I own* doesn't meet what I consider a minimum of quality. But I cannot obtain it with a better encoding.
Music is a form of art and, as such, it should be considered, if not a patrimony of the humanity, at least something culturally valuable.
So it is significant how you store the data, how you rip, encode, tag and sort the music, in order to make it accessible and preserve its quality.
* I can manipulate it, delete it and listen to it whenever and wherever I want.
Comment you don't have to log out (Score 1) 757
On pre-Vista Windows boxes, most people ran their default account with godlike administrator privileges. It's either that or:
Run a restricted account
Any time you want to install software
DO:
log out of your restricted account
log into the admin account
install the software
then go back to your restricted account.
REPEAT
At least in w2k and xp, you have a run as... in your context menue
Comment Re:slashdot topics these days (Score 2, Informative) 137
Comment from John Kenneth Galbraith (Score 1) 753