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Prince Says Internet Is Over
the_arrow writes "According to the artist currently known as Prince, 'The internet's completely over.' At least that what he says in an interview with the British newspaper Mirror. Quoting Prince: 'The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.'"
I was wondering what he felt. I wonder if he has any ideas on how to stop the Gulf Oil Disaster?
Sorry, what was that?
I couldn't hear you with my iPod earbuds in, pumping numbers in my head and all.
Is to be renamed Prince.
And the artist formerly known as Prince will be renamed ColecoVision.
The internet says Prince is over.
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The Internet says Prince is over.
Who's right?
Do you really want to mess with a guy who owns ass-less pants and who invented the bat-dance? I say just nod politely and walk away.
Well, I won't believe the internet is over until Netcraft confirms it.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
He has no standing
On the Internet, he's cold (so cold)
He's not going to stop piracy, he's being too demanding
Maybe he's being too bold
Maybe he's never satisfied (never satisfied)
But we shouldn't scream at each other
That's what it sounds like
When a short 50 year old purple has been Jehovah's Witness
Makes trolls cry
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Or the story Charlie Murphy tells about Prince's basketball game.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
3!
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77! Twelve!
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
he can't type his name on a computer. He's jealous of the numbers.
Dude, I read it on the Internet, so it must be true.
Check out Unsealed: Whispers of Wisdom! http://unsealed.k3rnel.net It's an action-RPG about Open Sourcerers.
You must be using a different Internet than I am. There's a ton of amazing stuff out there.
Fact is that the number of users really hasn't changed. I mean, real actual users as in people who contribute something to the discussion.
Formerly, all the twits were collected by AOL. Today, all the twits are collected by Twitter and Facebook.
It's a great service, really. Keeps the rest of the Internet clean for actual use. And it's free because the twits pay for it!
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
... will be using the symbol ¥ from now on. After 7 years or so, we'll switch back to calling it "Internet" because, quite frankly, using a symbol is a bit silly.
"I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
How can (80) he say (114) that being (105) on computers or the (110) Internet fills your head (99) with numbers (101)? After all (32), I'm online quite a lot (99) during the day (97) and night (110) and my head's (32) not filled up (98) with numbers (105). I think (116) I'd notice (101) such a (32) thing (109). It's quite (121) silly when (32) you think of it. What (115) would computers (104) be doing (105) filling our heads (110) with numbers (121) anyway (32)? It's not (109) like they try (101) to insert (116) subliminal (97) messages (108) into comments (32) that we type (97) out on online (115) forums (115) or anything (33).
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
The guy is a genius! Who would have ever imagined using a dying news media as a promotional venue for music? I'm assuming the free music was distributed on cassette tape, rubber-banded to the paper.
Let's just change the internet's name to "The Global Data Transfer Protocol Formerly Known as The World Wide Web".
In all fairness, Prince is touring and performing in Europe atm. This last Sunday he was the final act @ the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, played competently and honestly but imo there was no greatness or star quality to the performance.
The best thing about Prince coming to the festival was Lemmy's remark at the end of the Motörhead performance earlier that day: "I don't know if you know us...well if you're here for Prince, you probably don't". :P
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Poor Prince... he must not have discovered internet porn yet.
"MTV and VH1 have not died."
It's dead, Jim.
Dinosaurs evolved into birds, Derp. Alligators evolved largely alongside dinosaurs. They are living fossils. In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrast.
This is a blatant misquote by the media. Prince was merely saying that IPv4 is over. Prince recently dropped all IPv4 support in his home network, and is excited to be making the switch from unhealthy decimal "numbers" (actually he said "octets") to long 128bit hexadecimal strings. WTF is wrong with the media.
The Internets are not deadz.
Internet: Prince is over.