1) anyone know where i can get a copy of the list of filtered songs? prolly not as it would then make it easy to get around i'm assuming... but thought i'd ask anyway
2) also, What about covers, remixes etc? if i want the southpark version of Mortal Kombat theme, would it get filtered to?
reminds me of a quote i like:
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
(oh, i looked it up btw... don't have it memorized.)
according to this article:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/487574.asp
there is a FL law stating that the "bubble" to fill in/punch whatever is to be to the right of the canadate your voteing for, not in the center of two. So the complaint would have some legal merit, i assume.
A typical Slashdot attitude is "Oooh, look how underground I am because I like The Simpsons and X-Files and read Neal Stephenson." That's exactly the same as wearing Tommy T-shirts, but for geeks. Not really... I see your point, but if someone happens to like something that other happen to like it doesn't mean they're just going with the crowd. Likeing somehting like X-Files or The Simpsons (and i'd hardly see how these two can still be considered "underground") is genereally because the person came to this opinion on their own. Unlike Tommy where the only difference between it and another t-shirt is the price. I agree that if somone only likes something to fit in weather it's "undergound" or "in" they are, it's just as bad. But just because it's not underground doesn't mean it's not good.
I remember being 8or9ish (about 10-11 yrs ago) and sitting at our old IBM P.O.S. doing simple things in BASIC. Just printing things on the screen in diffrent colors was enough for me. and counting programs ( x=x+1 ) were always fun. These were a main reason i stayed interested in computers. So it's not really what all they can do, but just the fun of making the computer do what they tell it to.
There was also some science magazine that had a "game of the month" or something like that it had the code for... does anyone remember what this was? The one i remember most is a "find bigfoot" program. Something like that might help.
Acutally there's currently a running frymaking robot at "the largest mcdonalds in the wolrd" in Orlando FL. It would hold the basket under a shoot that would spit out the right amount of raw fries, then dip them, take them out, shake the basket, and dump in the tray. It did everything except box 'em and serve 'em. It seems to be very similar to the one in this article except that all it does is fries. This one can multi-task, but that's hardly enough to call it "new" maybe and upgrade though.
I learned (or rather had lots of practice) programming on my TI. As someone forced into a math class below me, i spent the class time programming it to do what we were "learning." Your right, people should learn how to do math, but once you have, isn't nice to have a shortcut?
true. i'm having the same problems. Deffenately a cool concept though. think of the porn! but seriously. touch screen 3-d gaming! now that's a game i'd pay $50 for. especially an RTS where you can physically move your guys. or a FPS where you can look around the corners.
And this would help in more ways then just the games your company develops. Once a "big name game" comes out for linux first and makes a big hit with the linux comunity it'll be hard for the main stream to ignore it. like it said in the article unfortuantely "most linux users also have windows" if we have it for linux we wont need it for windows, not the other way around.
why not allow us to be REAL lazy. it could not only decide which links we'd click, but also read the pages for us, follow any links on that page, etc. and dont forget it would receck any pages we constantly reload, email, comics, slashdot and even post on slashdot witty comments and first post claims. We could just sit there and have it surf for us, hell, it could even read the pages out loud. no, then we'd have to listen to it... it could just go through the whole web and sum all the information up for us.... would it say 42?
I have my computer hooked up to my stereo in my bedroom. (i just went to Radio Shack and got a converter with a headphone jack on one side for my computer, and the red,white,yellow on the other side) the big advantage of this (from the sound of it) is the fact that you can run multiple ones in different rooms from the same computer.
how do we get the songs ON/IN the player?? not everyone has a CD burner, or some standard large capacity disk drive ( i guess you could have a different version for each disk, but that'd get kinda expencive ) I dont think bringing the car into the house and using some type of cables is that pracctacal. nor is bringing out the computer, granted it's not THAT difficult (i've done it many a times for networking) but it'd get annoying haveing to do this every time you wanted to update you playlist there was some mention about a celular modem, but it was also said that they're pretty slow, and i can see a few other problems (cost being one, people are already complaining about $600) any other ideas? or am i wrong with trashing these?
I agree, but the article sounds like they're caught, it won't come down 'till it's more popular, and it won't be more popular till the price comes down.
It looks like there's a simialr effect with the service too (the won't offer more programing till more people have it, more people wont have it till more programming is offered).
Oh, but there's a way around most of the laws (and some of the lists)... They only pertain to Telemarketers, not marketing research. All they have to do is make a survey (of cource adding in a section sounding a lot like a commercial) give it to a marketing research company, and WHALA! a legal tele-commercial made just to promote YOUR good!
don't ask how i know all this... let's just say that was the worst month of my life, please don't hold it against me.. I NEEDED THE $$$. and i have changed my ways.
There are also laws about the time that they call. Although this doesn't nesacarlly cut down on the # of calls, it does cut down on inaproprate times. (right now it only applies to how late/early they can call, yes, unfortuantely they can still call during dinner)
If we just banned it all together then it'd be pretty easy to enforce, it's not like we can't tell who it is selling us the stuff.....
I disagree... What you call "Enviro-wackos" are mostly saying that if we continue the polluting and usage the way that we are we will ruin the Earth and make it unlivable... If they can in fact "perform all sorts of atomic-level rendering of pollutants into safe materials" this would do the opposite. Instead of being bad news, it'd be the great news they're hopeing for, a way to reverse the damage already caused
... and the worst part?? they could do this at ANY time!! toss in some type of location device, a microphone and video camera... they could do WHATEVER they wanted. this person is about to commit a crime.. kill 'em... this person is saying bad things... kill 'em... and if no one knew the capabilities of the nanobots then the deaths would be ruled as natural causes... isn't being paraniod fun?
yeah i did... an episode of "Outer Limits" is the one I remember, although I think it's been the topic of a few shows.
the nanobots thought that not having eyes in the back of his head was a "problem"... then that he needed gills... if i remember correctly it ended when they gave him a protective covering kinda like a jelly fish and he killed himself....
Although this seems kinda unrealistic to me, it brings up a good point: What do we classify as "things to change?" I mean, call me paraniod, but i could see this as a new way of genocide (or something similar) by eliminating what someone calls a "problem."
so? I mean, I understand that we wont be able to take full advantage of it's capabilites in the computer market right away, but first of all the article stated many other projected uses... and second of all with a surplus in this area it will force more time $$ and effort in improving other areas to catch up.
"The "Holy Grail", eh? It's typical of the media to inject subtle anti-Christian symbolism..."
um.. ANTI-christian?? how that anti-christian?? if anything it just goes to prove how prevalent Christianity is in our society. It would make not sence to compare it to something no one's heard of. maybe i just misunderstood the comment... but either way boy did we get off topic.
If anyone can do this song by themself it's him (or maybe jim carrey) he's got the voices, the actions, etc.
As for why there are stories like this on/.? I cant really answer that, but 1- if you dont like it dont read it (let alone respond to it... ) and 2- Southpark is funny.. them being awarded by the acadamy is even funnier.
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LOL.. this already happens (kinda) look up "house of the rising sun" i got 10 different bands, 2 different songs....
2) also, What about covers, remixes etc? if i want the southpark version of Mortal Kombat theme, would it get filtered to?
How else are they going to pay Mr. Jordan???
ironic that the only reason they're remembered now is because they were written down? :)
reminds me of a quote i like:
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -Carl Sagan (1934-1996) (oh, i looked it up btw... don't have it memorized.)
there is a FL law stating that the "bubble" to fill in/punch whatever is to be to the right of the canadate your voteing for, not in the center of two. So the complaint would have some legal merit, i assume.
A typical Slashdot attitude is "Oooh, look how underground I am because I like The Simpsons and X-Files and read Neal Stephenson." That's exactly the same as wearing Tommy T-shirts, but for geeks. Not really... I see your point, but if someone happens to like something that other happen to like it doesn't mean they're just going with the crowd. Likeing somehting like X-Files or The Simpsons (and i'd hardly see how these two can still be considered "underground") is genereally because the person came to this opinion on their own. Unlike Tommy where the only difference between it and another t-shirt is the price. I agree that if somone only likes something to fit in weather it's "undergound" or "in" they are, it's just as bad. But just because it's not underground doesn't mean it's not good.
And don't forget the Martins... how do they feel about this? huh? did anyone even ask them? can they breath oxygen?
There was also some science magazine that had a "game of the month" or something like that it had the code for... does anyone remember what this was? The one i remember most is a "find bigfoot" program. Something like that might help.
Acutally there's currently a running frymaking robot at "the largest mcdonalds in the wolrd" in Orlando FL. It would hold the basket under a shoot that would spit out the right amount of raw fries, then dip them, take them out, shake the basket, and dump in the tray. It did everything except box 'em and serve 'em. It seems to be very similar to the one in this article except that all it does is fries. This one can multi-task, but that's hardly enough to call it "new" maybe and upgrade though.
I learned (or rather had lots of practice) programming on my TI. As someone forced into a math class below me, i spent the class time programming it to do what we were "learning."
Your right, people should learn how to do math, but once you have, isn't nice to have a shortcut?
true. i'm having the same problems. Deffenately a cool concept though. think of the porn! but seriously. touch screen 3-d gaming! now that's a game i'd pay $50 for. especially an RTS where you can physically move your guys. or a FPS where you can look around the corners.
And this would help in more ways then just the games your company develops. Once a "big name game" comes out for linux first and makes a big hit with the linux comunity it'll be hard for the main stream to ignore it. like it said in the article unfortuantely "most linux users also have windows" if we have it for linux we wont need it for windows, not the other way around.
why not allow us to be REAL lazy. it could not only decide which links we'd click, but also read the pages for us, follow any links on that page, etc. and dont forget it would receck any pages we constantly reload, email, comics, slashdot and even post on slashdot witty comments and first post claims. We could just sit there and have it surf for us, hell, it could even read the pages out loud. no, then we'd have to listen to it... it could just go through the whole web and sum all the information up for us.... would it say 42?
I have my computer hooked up to my stereo in my bedroom. (i just went to Radio Shack and got a converter with a headphone jack on one side for my computer, and the red,white,yellow on the other side) the big advantage of this (from the sound of it) is the fact that you can run multiple ones in different rooms from the same computer.
how do we get the songs ON/IN the player??
not everyone has a CD burner, or some standard large capacity disk drive ( i guess you could have a different version for each disk, but that'd get kinda expencive )
I dont think bringing the car into the house and using some type of cables is that pracctacal.
nor is bringing out the computer, granted it's not THAT difficult (i've done it many a times for networking) but it'd get annoying haveing to do this every time you wanted to update you playlist
there was some mention about a celular modem, but it was also said that they're pretty slow, and i can see a few other problems (cost being one, people are already complaining about $600)
any other ideas? or am i wrong with trashing these?
It looks like there's a simialr effect with the service too (the won't offer more programing till more people have it, more people wont have it till more programming is offered).
don't ask how i know all this... let's just say that was the worst month of my life, please don't hold it against me .. I NEEDED THE $$$. and i have changed my ways.
If we just banned it all together then it'd be pretty easy to enforce, it's not like we can't tell who it is selling us the stuff.....
I disagree... What you call "Enviro-wackos" are mostly saying that if we continue the polluting and usage the way that we are we will ruin the Earth and make it unlivable... If they can in fact "perform all sorts of atomic-level rendering of pollutants into safe materials" this would do the opposite. Instead of being bad news, it'd be the great news they're hopeing for, a way to reverse the damage already caused
... and the worst part?? they could do this at ANY time!! toss in some type of location device, a microphone and video camera... they could do WHATEVER they wanted. this person is about to commit a crime.. kill 'em... this person is saying bad things... kill 'em... and if no one knew the capabilities of the nanobots then the deaths would be ruled as natural causes... isn't being paraniod fun?
the nanobots thought that not having eyes in the back of his head was a "problem" ... then that he needed gills... if i remember correctly it ended when they gave him a protective covering kinda like a jelly fish and he killed himself....
Although this seems kinda unrealistic to me, it brings up a good point: What do we classify as "things to change?" I mean, call me paraniod, but i could see this as a new way of genocide (or something similar) by eliminating what someone calls a "problem."
so? I mean, I understand that we wont be able to take full advantage of it's capabilites in the computer market right away, but first of all the article stated many other projected uses... and second of all with a surplus in this area it will force more time $$ and effort in improving other areas to catch up.
um.. ANTI-christian?? how that anti-christian?? if anything it just goes to prove how prevalent Christianity is in our society. It would make not sence to compare it to something no one's heard of. maybe i just misunderstood the comment... but either way boy did we get off topic.
As for why there are stories like this on /.? I cant really answer that, but 1- if you dont like it dont read it (let alone respond to it... ) and 2- Southpark is funny.. them being awarded by the acadamy is even funnier.