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OS X Conference DRM Panel Video Available Online
gnat writes "Tucked away on the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference presentations page are links to Quicktime video and mp3 audio recordings of the Digital Rights Management panel featuring Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Cory Doctorow of the EFF, and others. (My apologies for the sometimes shaky video--three Cokes for breakfast is the anti-steadicam)"
76 RULES OF NU METAL
1. Must have spikey hair with frosted tips. 2. Must rap. 3. Must whine when not rapping.
4. Must tell people that you're real metal because you listen to Korn and Limp Bizkit. 5. All your lyrics must be about suicide, how shitty your life is and it must angry. 6. Everyone who has long hair is a hippie and gay. 7. Iron Maiden are not metal, they're "gay 70's/80's @#%$".
8. Korn are the gods metal. 9. Manson rules in your book, even though he's shock rock. 10. Must wear baggy ass pants that cover your feet so you can trip over them on stage. 11. If you don't have spikey hair, but rather dreads instead, you fuckin' rule!
12. Must tell people that not only are you "metal" but you're gothic as well. 13. Must insult your fans everytime you're on stage. 14. Must insult your band members everytime you're on stage. 15. Must think every band not on MTV or K-Rock, suck.
16. Must only be popular in the U.S. any place else would be uncivilized. 17. Must praise MTV for giving your shitty band a chance to rake in the dough. 18. Must buy a full length nu metal album just for the one hit wonder. Disregard all other songs.
19. You are only allowed to play 2 chords. Anything higher then 2 means you're too talented for the band. 20. If you don't hop up and down on stage, you suck. 21. When a new trend breaks in and you don't change, you're band is washed up and has always sucked.
22. If your favorite band is no longer popular, you must turn your back on them and make fun of them every chance you get. 23. Must make fun of every band that was popular in the past because they're no longer cool. 24. If you just recently got into In Flames, you're fuckin' bad ass.
25. Must think you're satanic, even though you don't own a satanic bible. 26. Korn's album "Life is Peachy" is so fuckin' satanic. 27. Must like at least one Britney Spears song, and the only reason you like it is because the music video was "gully".
28. When doing an interview you must talk really low, say "like" a lot, and at the same time, talk as if you were raised in the ghetto, even though you're a white boy who lived in a mansion growing up. 29. Must say you love your fans, but the second they download one of your songs off the internet, you tear them a new @#%$, because even though you have millions of dollars, your money's more important.
30. Only start a band for the money, not for the love of the music. 31. Metallica are your heroes. 32. Fat John Davis from, Korn is hot and sexy. 33. Fred Durst is bad ass because he mentions his band name in every fuckin' song, but if a band like, Manowar does it, it's not cool. 34. Must worship, Slipknot. 35. You must think Slipknot are the greatest "metal" band on the planet, even if they do suck.
36. Static-X are death metal because they toured with, Morbid Angel. You're not allowed to like them anymore. 37. One hit wonders, Drowning Pool are cool and the lead singer isn't really dead. He's just chillin'.
38. Must like at least one emo punk song. If you don't, you're a loser. 39. MTV is the greatest channel ever. 40. Carson Daly is cool. 41. That fat bald guy on MTV is soooooo metal and you worship his fatness. 42. There's no such thing as the underground. 43. Nu metal is the only metal in existence.
44. Korn's "Shoots and Ladder's" makes you cry. 45. "Shoots and Ladder's" is a power ballad that sooooo rules. 46. WWE Forceable Entry is the greatest "metal" comp. in the world. 47. Must only watch the Resident Evil movie for the music, @#%$ the games, @#%$ the story.
48. Life's a bitch. 49. Must like, Rage Against the Machine. 50. Must hate society, the government and the media, but want to be played all over MTV to make a lot of money and play big ass concerts in arena's. 51. Any music before 2001 is old.
52. I Know What You Did Last Summer and all 3 Scream movies are the best "horror" movies out there. 53. Who's Jason Voorhees? 54. You gotta like at least one rap album. 55. You hated, Ozzy Osbourne 5 years ago, but now that the Ozzfest has a band list of nu metal, he's your idol.
56. Must rip off every single "riff" from, Korn and Limp Bizkit, combine them and claim they're yours. 57. If you don't like, Pantera, you're not a bad ass and you're soooo gay. 58. Pantera were never glam, got it? 59. Black metal scares you. 60. Death metal scares you. 61. Power metal makes you fear sharp objects.
62. Glam Rock makes you cream your pants because they sing about parties and sex, but is still "gay 80's @#%$". 63. Must get into, Quiet Riot because, Manson let them play at a party of his. 64. "Faith" was written by, Fred Durst. 65. You're gay. 66. Anything loud is metal. 67. Must think people fear you, yet in reality, they are laughing at you.
68. Must drink beer just too look cool and then cry when you throw up. 69. Heh, heh, 69. 70. Must wanna @#%$, Britney Spears and then steal one of "her" songs. 71. The more you curse, the more bad ass you are. 72. The more you talk about how shitty life is, the cooler you are.
73. Linkin Park are so talented. 74. Staind are cool because they bitch about things. Bitching is cool. 75. Manowar are not the loudest band in the world, Korn are because they're popular and cool. 76. And last but not least, you must be voted the #1 greatest "metal" band of all time in Hit Parader magazine because you had one, ONE, hit and you're extremely bad ass and heavy
Shit, 3 bottles of Bawls doesn't even get me buzzed anymore. What can a mere mortal do to wake up when caffeine doesn't do the trick anymore?
On second thought, maybe I'll make that an Ask Slashdot question. It can't be worse than any of the others.
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Yes! Good luck chrisd, the only Slashdot editor other than Jamie who doesn't come off as a whiny bitch!
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anybody?
True capitalism = lots of similar companies = jobs for everyone who wants one.
20 something comments already, and I'm still able to pull down the 49MB movie at like 200KB/sec. Cmon slackers, you all asleep?
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
Not half as old as 1) blah blah 2) ??? 3) profit!
..as if: "All You Step-3-Profit! Are Belong To Us" was suddenly cried out in great pain, and then... silence...
I feel a great disturbance in the force...
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
the gnomes are coming!!! gah!!!
Apple laptops are effectively unusable for unix users.
I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.
Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.
Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.
There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.
Apple is (currently) ignoring Unix users! This is not merely speculation on my part. In an on-going email exchange I am having with an Apple employee (whom I won't name) in their marketing department, the Apple marketing person directly stated to me that Apple was catering to their historic Mac customers, and is purposely ignoring the Unix market. He also claimed that Apple would soon start paying more attention to the Unix market. I won't hold my breath. Apple has been ignoring Unix users for more than 12 years. I expect that trend to continue. (Also note that my Apple contact indicated that Macs would never ship with a 3-button mouse, even though Apple intended to port almost all X-window software and deliver it either on a CD/DVD or installed directly on each Mac's hard drive. How Unix friendly is a 1-button mouse with X programs that often require 3 buttons?)
Apple has now lost two opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.
May the one disturbed beoweolf cluster crying out in pain from 'Step 3Profit!' to rule them all be with you and yours this holiday season well and bake that cake Momma!
It's still better than:
1. Post lame formulaic joke.
2. ???
3. PROFIT! OMG I AM SO WITTY
first post worth reading though ....everything above was a yawner
I'm Brian Fellows!
MS gives this low-level crap away for free, and apple is trying to charge $20 for stuff that should be included when I paid all that money to apple.
So to sum up:
QuickTime (minus the ability to play MPEG2): $30
Add-on to Quicktime for MPEG2: $20
Total: $50
Not to mention paying $130 for the same OS 3 times now.
I feel like a fucking moron for using their stuff. I hate MS, but they don't charge you up the yin-yan for stuff that should be thrown in for free.
Quicktime - should be free.
MPEG2 - Should be free, particularly if I just was stupid enough to fork over $30 for it in the first place.
Blockquoth the poster:
Well, okay, technically the keyboard still uses ADB "under the hood," but that doesn't matter to anyone except a kernel hacker. Thus the paradox: if the original poster is such a l33t Unix hacker, then he should be able to directly hack the drivers to make the keys do whatever he wants. If not, then it's irrelevant what bus the keyboard is on.
Furthermore, the Ctrl key on an Apple keyboard is in exactly the same place as on any other standard PC keyboard, desktop or laptop. If there is a special Unix laptop with a special Unix keyboard like he describes, I'd love to see it...
1 Mbps. For a keyboard...I hardly think the difference matters
Heay, just because YOU'RE a slow typer doesn't mean everyone else should suffer.
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Out of context (the parent was modded down) your comment seems a little odd. One lousy key is a pretty huge item. There are 104 (2?) keys on your average PC keyboard, and there are very few of those that I'd be willing to part with (scroll lock I can do without). If a keyboard didn't have an enter key or a control key, I wouldn't buy it....
Would you?