For people like us, it matters and we're probably likely to purposely not do business with someone who uses an aol.com e-mail address.
But there are many people out there who don't see it as unprofessional, they see it as a brand name. Maybe AOL is a bad example because now they are old, but if its a gmail.com account, that might get more respect than if it were a some local ISP domain or even your own domain believe it or not. When it comes down to it, a lot of people just don't care about the things we care about or think are important.
Yes, I did read that part, it makes it even more scary. I mean talking about recreating your friend who you lost in a tragedy as a sex doll? There are mental hospitals (and newsgroups) for this kind of behavior.
Wrong, the real ad is that the site links most of the ads to where you can buy the real ad on his ebay site. My boss at my day job bought a bunch of these and posted them around the room. Interesting, but at the same time, embarrassing to have posted around.
Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania.
Uh... I don't know what to say. I mean I really don't.
p>You do realize that the majority of/. readers are in the UTC-8, UTC-7 and UTC-6 time zones, don't you?
And did you realize that Slashdot itself is more or less in UTC-5 (Dexter, Michigan). And please, can you tell me where you got the statistics for where all the slashdot readers are coming from? I'm sure Rob Malda would like to know how you were reading his log files too.
I think these types of myths come about when marketing people have lunch with people who write articles in science magazines or whatever. I remember back in the 90s reading some article that was not talking about computer graphics, but stated that the human eye can perceive only a little over 16 million colors. Gee, isn't that conveniently close to 24-bit colorspace. The whole 30fps thing probably comes from NTSC specs.
Recently, I did see a car wheel do the wagon wheel effect with my own eyes and thought for a second that I was seeing things, but it was at night and I think this has something to do with the 60hz light sources or maybe the vibration of my own car. And no it didn't have spinners on it. The wagon wheel effect article on wikipedia says that indeed this can be seen in real life under certain conditions. But of course it doesn't mean that your eyes can only see at a limited frame rate.
The earth is round and not all people live in the same place on it. As the earth rotates, the sun illuminates a little over half of it and generally people like to work and shop during this time. Society has quite simply divided this time up this into time zones so that 8am for one part of the planet is at a different actual instance as 8am for another part. So while it might be 5:37 where you are, it is working hours for someone else. Next time we meet, we can go over the metric system.
And inside they found a pipe in a keg of gun powder that had a pipe with clues that mean that there is a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence.
But of course as most people here are tech people, we expect to be able to link back to an identity when someone does something wrong. You can't have your cake........
When I say rules, I'm talking about counterpoint and other accepted procedures for creating formal music prior to the 20th century. Bach wasn't really following rules so much as creating them for others to follow. He knew how to make music that worked well. There is a centuries old book called The Study of Counterpoint which some of the great composers learned from which lays out a lot of these rules so others can study them. You know, stuff like don't use parallel fifths and octaves. Music of the modern age is different though. Sure there are rules to follow, but at the same time, there basically are none and if you are a well practiced performer or composer, you can make music of any kind that gets some listeners.
And what about Glass? I've actually met him a couple times and studied his music quite a bit. I also was into many other avant-garde composers of the 20th century so don't worry, I'm not forgetting about the many significant people from the last 100 years. What you are missing is that minimalism came about after people had given up on the classical world and started looking looking at new ways to approach music. When Glass and Reich arrived on the scene, Rock was already in full swing (sorry) and most of the population thought that the classical era was over. But they came back and gave it new life with ideas that fused their classically trained roots with fresh ideas from mainstream music and music from other parts of the world. And in turn their music influenced a lot of popular musicians from the 70s on. However classical music still is what it is and I feel sorry for all the music theorists still sitting in their conservatories trying to write atonal or 12 tone music when that era is decades over.
Sure, I simplified 400 years of music into a paragraph for the purposes of a Slashdot comment and I'm not going to say I know it all, but I was a music ed. major a long time ago, so I do know something.
Lanier, being someone involved heavily in the music scene, should know that this isn't the first time music has stalled out. Back in the early 20th century, the classical world of music didn't know where to go, which is what led to atrocities like atonalism and serial music. I love nearly all kinds of music, but 12 tone rows really try my patience. By the late 19th century composers had exausted most of the possibilities with "academic" type of music thinking, forms like Ragtime became popular and it wasn't really until the arrival of early Jazz that it obvious where to go. Thus began an era less rooted in rules. Now we've nearly exhausted all the possibilities of this ruleless era of music and someone (Like Gershwin) will need to show us the way to another era in music. Its interesting that both musical "stallings" have happened around the same time as revolutions in technology. The first one at the height of the industrial era and this one at the height of the information era.
Firefox doesn't already know that CSV should be tied to OO? Shouldn't that have occurred at install time by OO? No, ok, I'll set it up--done.
In OO's defense, It seems that most of the time, CSV is not associated with any app, which is probably a good thing because CSV doesn't always imply "spreadsheet". True, some people want their computer to make all their decisions about which app to use for what. But those people usually also end up with a boatload of adbars in their browser and spyware and viruses on their harddrives. And they wonder why their computer doesn't work.
"Won't that be grand, the computers will start thinking and the people will stop." - Walter, from Tron (1982)
Actually, I more prefer Abiword and Gnumeric over OO.o. They are quick and snappy and suit my needs. Plus, Gnumeric is the backend to editgrid.com, which means that if I upload a spreadsheet there with graphs and stuff, it preserves it.
Dude, it says right in the beginning was send via the telegraph. So obviously it took some time for the 150 baud connection to load the website. I for one think its awesome that Slashdot is searching on all mediums in order to discover news for us nerds.
Because your chosen niche hobby isn't widely held as a "social/physical niche hobby", even when it can be. Cars, guns, and sports on the other hand are supposedly more social when they just have more face to face and are more physical hobbies than being at a keyboard is.
Nope, that's not it, because when you get together in groups for stuff like users groups meetings or for a game fest, you're still ridiculed for it. In fact, even more so. For some reason, people just like to pick on computers as a hobby. Most likely because its new.
During the mid to late 90s, tech enthusiasts enjoyed an elevated social status that they had not had before, but I think that has mostly worn off.
All I'm going to say about this is that it doesn't really help when the media and others continues to fuel the fire. Why am I labeled an "uber geek" and people who are into their cars, guns, whatever else aren't?
Yes, you are probably right about the streaming tech being the future. I made sure that the blu ray player I bought would do netflix and youtube. And I upgraded my netflix account to bluray. So in the end, I will be buying very few bluray discs and dvd discs.
something like 2000 dvds sell for every 1 discounted blu-ray sale
LOOK ITS COOL BUY BLU-RAY
look at sales figures for blu-ray for the whole year in sales not shiped then look at dvd
Give it time. You're probably some kid who hasn't been around for long enough to remember, but nearly every format has this problem. Blu ray has only been around since 2006 and the format war only ended last year. It took audio CDs nearly a decade to really take off, all the while many people still bought cassettes and even LPs. DVDs probably took about 5 years to really take off, people were still buying VHS tapes just a year or two ago. It takes time because people wait to see if a format is going to survive before they invest in a player and a library. The PS3 probably has helped blu ray emmensely because it has double functionality as both a blu ray player and a game console. I thought about buying one even though I doubt I'll play many games.
I just got my first blu ray player yesterday and I generally keep up with things. I think it won't be until 2011 that you start to see sales of blu ray dominate. And even then since many players will up-convert DVDs, a lot of less popular titles will keep DVD sales up.
On the other hand, the mean time in-between formats (MTIF) is getting shorter and that probably means that people are wising up to having to invest in a new library of titles every 5-10 years. I know I'm getting tired of it already.
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I mean I'm not a show vendor and I even know that doing such things is not ok with hotel management.
For people like us, it matters and we're probably likely to purposely not do business with someone who uses an aol.com e-mail address.
But there are many people out there who don't see it as unprofessional, they see it as a brand name. Maybe AOL is a bad example because now they are old, but if its a gmail.com account, that might get more respect than if it were a some local ISP domain or even your own domain believe it or not. When it comes down to it, a lot of people just don't care about the things we care about or think are important.
Maybe read the rest:
Yes, I did read that part, it makes it even more scary. I mean talking about recreating your friend who you lost in a tragedy as a sex doll? There are mental hospitals (and newsgroups) for this kind of behavior.
Wrong, the real ad is that the site links most of the ads to where you can buy the real ad on his ebay site. My boss at my day job bought a bunch of these and posted them around the room. Interesting, but at the same time, embarrassing to have posted around.
From one of the articles:
Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania.
Uh... I don't know what to say. I mean I really don't.
And how is the parent post off topic?
p>You do realize that the majority of /. readers are in the UTC-8, UTC-7 and UTC-6 time zones, don't you?
And did you realize that Slashdot itself is more or less in UTC-5 (Dexter, Michigan). And please, can you tell me where you got the statistics for where all the slashdot readers are coming from? I'm sure Rob Malda would like to know how you were reading his log files too.
I think these types of myths come about when marketing people have lunch with people who write articles in science magazines or whatever. I remember back in the 90s reading some article that was not talking about computer graphics, but stated that the human eye can perceive only a little over 16 million colors. Gee, isn't that conveniently close to 24-bit colorspace. The whole 30fps thing probably comes from NTSC specs.
Recently, I did see a car wheel do the wagon wheel effect with my own eyes and thought for a second that I was seeing things, but it was at night and I think this has something to do with the 60hz light sources or maybe the vibration of my own car. And no it didn't have spinners on it. The wagon wheel effect article on wikipedia says that indeed this can be seen in real life under certain conditions. But of course it doesn't mean that your eyes can only see at a limited frame rate.
At "05:37AM"??
FAIL.
The earth is round and not all people live in the same place on it. As the earth rotates, the sun illuminates a little over half of it and generally people like to work and shop during this time. Society has quite simply divided this time up this into time zones so that 8am for one part of the planet is at a different actual instance as 8am for another part. So while it might be 5:37 where you are, it is working hours for someone else. Next time we meet, we can go over the metric system.
And inside they found a pipe in a keg of gun powder that had a pipe with clues that mean that there is a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence.
But of course as most people here are tech people, we expect to be able to link back to an identity when someone does something wrong. You can't have your cake........
When I say rules, I'm talking about counterpoint and other accepted procedures for creating formal music prior to the 20th century. Bach wasn't really following rules so much as creating them for others to follow. He knew how to make music that worked well. There is a centuries old book called The Study of Counterpoint which some of the great composers learned from which lays out a lot of these rules so others can study them. You know, stuff like don't use parallel fifths and octaves. Music of the modern age is different though. Sure there are rules to follow, but at the same time, there basically are none and if you are a well practiced performer or composer, you can make music of any kind that gets some listeners.
And what about Glass? I've actually met him a couple times and studied his music quite a bit. I also was into many other avant-garde composers of the 20th century so don't worry, I'm not forgetting about the many significant people from the last 100 years. What you are missing is that minimalism came about after people had given up on the classical world and started looking looking at new ways to approach music. When Glass and Reich arrived on the scene, Rock was already in full swing (sorry) and most of the population thought that the classical era was over. But they came back and gave it new life with ideas that fused their classically trained roots with fresh ideas from mainstream music and music from other parts of the world. And in turn their music influenced a lot of popular musicians from the 70s on. However classical music still is what it is and I feel sorry for all the music theorists still sitting in their conservatories trying to write atonal or 12 tone music when that era is decades over.
Sure, I simplified 400 years of music into a paragraph for the purposes of a Slashdot comment and I'm not going to say I know it all, but I was a music ed. major a long time ago, so I do know something.
Lanier, being someone involved heavily in the music scene, should know that this isn't the first time music has stalled out. Back in the early 20th century, the classical world of music didn't know where to go, which is what led to atrocities like atonalism and serial music. I love nearly all kinds of music, but 12 tone rows really try my patience. By the late 19th century composers had exausted most of the possibilities with "academic" type of music thinking, forms like Ragtime became popular and it wasn't really until the arrival of early Jazz that it obvious where to go. Thus began an era less rooted in rules. Now we've nearly exhausted all the possibilities of this ruleless era of music and someone (Like Gershwin) will need to show us the way to another era in music. Its interesting that both musical "stallings" have happened around the same time as revolutions in technology. The first one at the height of the industrial era and this one at the height of the information era.
That would be cool. I could be a Google Chrome commercial: "Fanboi for PC, Linux, and Mac."
Pay up GOOG.
Actually, Fanboi runs on all operating systems and even embedded devices.
Firefox doesn't already know that CSV should be tied to OO? Shouldn't that have occurred at install time by OO? No, ok, I'll set it up--done.
In OO's defense, It seems that most of the time, CSV is not associated with any app, which is probably a good thing because CSV doesn't always imply "spreadsheet". True, some people want their computer to make all their decisions about which app to use for what. But those people usually also end up with a boatload of adbars in their browser and spyware and viruses on their harddrives. And they wonder why their computer doesn't work.
"Won't that be grand, the computers will start thinking and the people will stop." - Walter, from Tron (1982)
Actually, I more prefer Abiword and Gnumeric over OO.o. They are quick and snappy and suit my needs. Plus, Gnumeric is the backend to editgrid.com, which means that if I upload a spreadsheet there with graphs and stuff, it preserves it.
Dude, it says right in the beginning was send via the telegraph. So obviously it took some time for the 150 baud connection to load the website. I for one think its awesome that Slashdot is searching on all mediums in order to discover news for us nerds.
How would the world look different? It would be a whole GNU world.
BTW, Linus is 40 today, there seems to be no mention of that anywhere.
Why not just move it to 1000 byte sectors, then we could minimize the space lost to advertising.
(Note to accuracy nazis, this is meant to be funny)
Because your chosen niche hobby isn't widely held as a "social/physical niche hobby", even when it can be. Cars, guns, and sports on the other hand are supposedly more social when they just have more face to face and are more physical hobbies than being at a keyboard is.
Nope, that's not it, because when you get together in groups for stuff like users groups meetings or for a game fest, you're still ridiculed for it. In fact, even more so. For some reason, people just like to pick on computers as a hobby. Most likely because its new.
During the mid to late 90s, tech enthusiasts enjoyed an elevated social status that they had not had before, but I think that has mostly worn off.
All I'm going to say about this is that it doesn't really help when the media and others continues to fuel the fire. Why am I labeled an "uber geek" and people who are into their cars, guns, whatever else aren't?
Or do you think the year 2000 was in the 90s?
It sure did feel like it. (reference to pre-911 life)
Yes, you are probably right about the streaming tech being the future. I made sure that the blu ray player I bought would do netflix and youtube. And I upgraded my netflix account to bluray. So in the end, I will be buying very few bluray discs and dvd discs.
blu ray is tanking
something like 2000 dvds sell for every 1 discounted blu-ray sale
LOOK ITS COOL BUY BLU-RAY
look at sales figures for blu-ray for the whole year in sales not shiped then look at dvd
Give it time. You're probably some kid who hasn't been around for long enough to remember, but nearly every format has this problem. Blu ray has only been around since 2006 and the format war only ended last year. It took audio CDs nearly a decade to really take off, all the while many people still bought cassettes and even LPs. DVDs probably took about 5 years to really take off, people were still buying VHS tapes just a year or two ago. It takes time because people wait to see if a format is going to survive before they invest in a player and a library. The PS3 probably has helped blu ray emmensely because it has double functionality as both a blu ray player and a game console. I thought about buying one even though I doubt I'll play many games.
I just got my first blu ray player yesterday and I generally keep up with things. I think it won't be until 2011 that you start to see sales of blu ray dominate. And even then since many players will up-convert DVDs, a lot of less popular titles will keep DVD sales up.
On the other hand, the mean time in-between formats (MTIF) is getting shorter and that probably means that people are wising up to having to invest in a new library of titles every 5-10 years. I know I'm getting tired of it already.
Cool, just in time for 2010