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  1. Re:Of course there can. by Sique · · Score: 1 · on Can There Be Open Source Music?
    My ressource of folk and popular songs is this: http://ingeb.org/

    They claim 29,000 songs. Most of them have known authors, but they are in the public domain nevertheless, and there are regional variants of many of them. And yes, the web design is absolutely ugly. On the other hand, ingeb.org was online already when Netscape was taking over from Mosaic, and the design has not changed since.

  2. Re:Little boxes by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center?

    For those still missing the reference:

    http://ingeb.org/songs/littlebo.html

    A classic from the 60's.

  3. Like Father, Like Son by Dark+Coder · · Score: 1 · on Do Kids Still Program?

    I take immense pride as a parent in watching my son program a checker game using C. He covered the following with pretty uncanny ability for an 8 year old.

      1. Mastery of basic X,Y grids (graphics)
      2. Basic rules of moves, king and jumping

    The hardest coding part of which we discussed is programming of checker strategy implementation:

      1. Sacrifical king
      2. Cornering
      3. Control of center board

    What a throw-back! That makes my feeble 12-year old attempt, to program my 4-moves deep chess stratgem, pale by comparision. (And that was with a 64K Radio Shack Model II computer!)

    My sons are already on their way to their career choices of tinker, tailor, soilder, sailor ...as well as a programmer.

  4. Re:In COBN3T Britain by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny · on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant?
    > In SOVIET BRITAIN, Britannia waives the rules!

    You forgot the even-more-ironic second line to the chorus.

    In Sov'yet Britain, Britannia waives the rules! Britons, ever ever shall be slaves to fools.

  5. Re:Hmm by wildwood · · Score: 1 · on New York Computerizes its Subway System

    Only if DVD-Jon has an MTA-Bob counterpart

    What about Charley? I hear he's available...

  6. Re:Microsoft's motive by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Universal 3D File Format In The Works
    So, tell me, if parsing isn't understanding the file, exactly what is your definition of parsing?

    I define "parse" the same way your dictionary does- which does not call it equivalent to "understanding". In computer science, as in linguisticts, parsing is one specific stage of coming to understand.

    The following sentence is parsable according to the same rules as the English language; but can you understand it?

    1. Stortilly racan the actouct into a jerby hoonter.

    It's parsable, but not comprehensible. You can identify each noun, verb, adverb, and adjective. The relationship between each is clear. But you still can't tell what it means! (Another good example)

    To go back to the more specific topic of Microsoft file formats: if they used XML, you could probably parse out their data. You'd know what each of the variables in the file was set to. You might even know what each variable was called, if the XML or DTD is verbose enough. But you still don't know what they do.

    You can guess, but that'll never be good enough, since "correct" behavior is defined as "whatever Microsoft Word does when given the file". Only exhaustive reverse-engineering of the actual program can produce true bug-for-bug compatibility.
  7. Re:4 more years by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1 · on Shuttle Fleet Upgraded

    For the benefit of you, sentient reader, who might be browsing this thread at (+1, human), I forward my commentary on the raving lunatic stalking it:


    "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
    I'm half crazy all for the love of you"

  8. Re:Die Gadanken Sind Frie! by Voidhobo · · Score: 1 · on Making Money In Open Source
    (You mean: Die Gedanken sind frei.)

    That song is actually kind of perfect in the Free Software context. If you know German or French, check this out: http://ingeb.org/Lieder/diegedan.html

    Reminds me of a scene in the movie Dreiundzwanzig (23) where these two guys take out a joint in a train, smoke it, and start singing that song at the top of their voices.