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Slashback: Sorveteria, Rockets, Anger
How is this sanguine? peterb writes "Slashdot has previously reported on Eve Andersson's whitewash of Ars Digita. Her screed placed responsibility for all the problems fully on the shoulders of the Venture Capitalists, while ignoring the role of those that asked the VCs for money. Ars Digita's Michael Yoon has a somewhat more sanguine and less hysterical version of the same story."
I wonder if shoulder chips can be recycled as fuel ...
All them perls don't come cheap. dogma01 writes "It's been almost a year since I submitted this story on Slashdot about the Perl Foundation Fund Drive. With a new year there has been a new round of grants. Every dime helps improve the community and bring us one step closer to Perl6. Please donate here."
The largest model is actually the one that's currently in use. joshamania writes "I knew when I saw the first post about the 'largest scale model of the solar system' I should have piped up. The second post has driven me over the edge. I call shenanigans! The Maine model is not the largest, and Peoria, IL, my hometown, has had the largest model for many years now, the Pluto model (in Kewanee, IL) being over 60 miles away from the sun model. In fact, a bicycle tour of the model is organized every summer and reoccurs in August."
Still at maximum. Danta writes "As the QNX site seems to have received an indirect slashdotting, here is a BitTorrent link to the free version of the QNX OS."
And what's in your makefile? JediTrainer writes "Community backlash begins! The author of Nmap has decided to remove all support of the SCO operating system as of version 3.28. Quoting the changelog, 'SCO operating systems are no longer supported due to their recent (and absurd) attacks against Linux and IBM. Bug reports relating to UnixWare will be ignored, or possibly even laughed at derisively. Note that I have no reason to believe anyone has ever used Nmap on SCO systems. Unixware sucks.'"
Speaking of backlash ... Ransak writes "Speak out! Space-Rockets.com has started a letter/fax campaign to sway political opinion, but needs your help! This hobby enjoyed by thousands of future scientists and astronaunts has been put in serious jeopardy by bad legislation. Senator Herb Kohl was one of the coauthors of the Safe Explosives Act, who not surprisingly, is blocking an amendment to ease restrictions on model rocketry. Wisconson geeks, take note of your Senators actions!"
... and speaking of rockets: BuR4N writes "The x-prize foundation has decided not to accept an application from a Budapest based team called GCT (Gravity Control Technologies) due to their highly questionable proposal. GCT pitched a "propellantless propulsion technology" that quote "is capable of controlling gravity for flight". Here is the full story. It would be very interesting to hear from the scientific community if this is just silliness or something that eventually could lead anywhere.."
I hope these guys don't take up making ham sandwiches. acidblood writes "Following up on yesterday's story concerning ice cream and liquid nitrogen, it appears someone was keen to try it out, and this is the result."
I can't tell from the page when exactly this was made. Whether it was truly in response to Gray's recipe or not, this site certainly provides more amusing visual aids.
The medium is the message, or something like that. LineNoiz writes "There is an interesting article over at MSNBC outlining Metallica's attempt to take advantage of the internet as a music distribution medium. It seems their newest album 'St. Anger' has a code on it which can be used to access their "Audio Vault" where users can download MP3 recordings of live concerts. The site's motto? 'Download. Burn. Share. Kick Ass.' Is this just a flagrant attempt to recapture the interest of the thousands of fans they lost in their battle with Napster, or a genuine good idea?"
Readers may recall this interview with Metallica's Lars Ulrich.
on Dan Sugalski. It's been 2 years and Parrot still does not have thread support, an object model nor does it have a stable calling convention. All the grant money should go to Leopold TÃtsch who is doing 80% of the work trying to salvage this pig of a "design". And for all Leo's hard work he gets a piddly $1000?!! Come on! Dan got over $50K in grant money. The Perl6 debacle is not all Dan's fault though: Larry and Damian have yet to produce a final Perl6 language specification after 2 years as well. Compare Parrot to Mono to see how far they've come in the same amount of time.
Parrot guys - just worry about Perl6 - the reason behind the grant money. Forget about this misplaced/misguided dreams of running Python, C# and Java on the Parrot VM efficiently.
Basically what the Nmap people are showing me is that if I implement an OSS product in my company, I have to worry about the developers dropping support for the platform I'm running it on if they have a personal grudge against the company that makes it. I'll be sure to take that into account next time I'm evaluating software.
so the situation as i understand it is that previously, metallica members spoke out very strongly against people downloading copies of their copyrighted materials without their permission. they feel that the copyrights that they have on the music that they made should be honoured and respected. flash forward to present time, and now they (like so many other artists) are offering free copies of some of their material, such as live recordings, to people who purchase their album... am i the only one who doesn't see how this is hypocritical in any way, shape, or form? they don't like copyright infringement, but at the same time they offer some of their music for free...how are these in any way related. how can this be hypocritical. the problem is you losers don't really have a clue what's going on, you just seem to enjoy picking people and demonizing everything they do... face it, lars had every right to say whatever he wants about his copyrighted material. he and his bandmates have dedicated their entire lives to creating these songs. their entire lives. you will never understand what that means, because 99.999% of you will never dedicate your lives to anything. you'll never pick something you love, and do it, through good times and bad, and come out on top...but these guys have. they've given up the whole possibility of living a normal life to make these songs. and you're stealing them, and claiming to be morally and ethically right in doing so...i'd be pretty pissed if i were him. you just don't understand. to you, music is a hobby, it's a fun thing to listen to. you have these flipant uninformed views on music because you think you're a music lover, you use words such as passionate to describe how you feel about music, but you have no idea what you're talking about. you read what are essentially attention-grabbing pressreleases from artists saying that record labels are bad, and you believe it. if someone posted an article about some revolutionary one-time pad cryptosystem, you'd make so much fun of them for falling for that crap, but then the offspring claim that they love napster, or band x speaks out about the evils of the music industry and you totally fall for it. so i'm basically making fun of you for that. the offspring is not pronapster, no professional band is. professional bands don't make music for fun, they make it to sell. no one gets a big fat record deal by accident. bands are only anti-music industry because you people love it when the little guys stick it to the man, and you buy more of their albums that the music industry allowed them to create. and the riaa, who they also claim to hate, writes them a big fat check for the albums they sell. and the people who write songs about being poor drive BMW's, and it's all one big scam that you're all falling for...you bring up examples like incubus suing their label because they are so hard done by, but the label is rolling in dough...but didn't they get like a million a piece for like one or two albums...and didn't sony just lay off like 1,000 people from their music division...but the poor starving artists are being screwed by the big rich record labels... wake up.
Last summer Counting Crows Hard Candy album had a 'secret' website that used a code from the CD. They had a lot of live tracks for downloading on the site.
Counting who? Aren't they that one-hit wonder whining band with the singer in dredds?
Like what I said? You might like my music
[1] The band puts an "a" in the word "Pearl". Weirdos :-)
Not that weird. Considering that the phrase they actually took their name from is "Pearl Necklace", as in "Eddie Vedder's got a pearl necklace".
Like what I said? You might like my music