The parent of this post is not Flamebait, it's fact.
The RIAA lawyers shut down OLGA's own archives, and the OLGA page has the entire sad story posted. However, you can use their search tool to find songs off a handfull of rogue mirror sites. Try it, and you will see what I mean.
Now-a-days, you can still find the lyrics you want, if you search for them, but I am not aware of such a centralized repository for them.
First place I always check for my favorite copyright violations is The On-Line Guitar Archive. Not only do they post lyrics, but (as the name implies) you get the bare bones of what you need to cover the guitar part, too.:)
Over the last few months, we have been back and forth on this Napster issue so many times on/. that I can only express my feelings by stealing a lyric from The Beatles:
Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy C'mon, everybody sing it with me now! All you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you need.
That about covers it. There is indeed nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game.
My point was that she was criticizing the "tech culture". Katz may be many things, but his columns at/. have more than fully demonstrated that he is not a techie, just somebody who writes about geeks from an outsider's perspective. That puts him clearly outside the scope of her comments.
Borsook takes aim at the Social Darwinism of the tech culture... In this world she finds much hostility and paranoia, a world of "testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands." Ouch.
Don't worry, Jon. She didn't mean you.:)
We have no common agenda. We stand for nothing. We take actions based on tiny nodes of specialized information.
I feel very strongly that this is a Good Thing.
Liberalism and conservatism have been discredited, Libertarianism seems rigid and stagnant.
It has not been demonstrated that either liberalism nor conservatism have been discredited, both thrive in modern culture. Also, Libertarianism does indeed seem rigid and stagnant, but it only seems so. Argue with somebody about Libertarianism in a coffee shop sometime and see how many people start getting interested and evesdropping.
Technology has become the world's most interesting and ascending social force.
After Sarah Michelle Gellar, yes.
No ideology -- with the possible exception of corporatism -- is stronger or spreading more rapidly.
Didn't you just get done explaining that technology is not an ideology? You were correct about that, why go back on it now? This is the paragraph where your column seems to have left the rails.
This techno-elite, taking sophisticated knowledge of technology for granted
Is the generation that grew up with all these toys in place really the techno-elite? Or is it the twentysomethings and thritysomethings that were hacking on 300-baud modems back in the 80's? I don't see a lot of geek culture among the set that grew up with Windows 95... but I could be wrong about that.
Technology can either be the vehicle through which those voices are re-democratized, or it can provide the tools through which corporatism can generate even more money.
Hmmm... Money or freedom, eh? I'd rather have both.
There is no question that you are basically right, as far as I am concerned. A bureaucracy does not ever die of natural causes... it has to be killed, or it will continue to try to grow. A good example that government policy wonks like to drag out is the United States Helium Reserve, which still exists, IIRC. It was established to ensure that we would have enough Helium supplies for airships in times of war.
The "bulk rate" stuff funds them a lot too. Those offers for VISA cards you don't want generate a lot of income for the postal service.
Does anybody else recall the Seinfeld episode when Kramer, angry about junk-mail catalogs, wanted to discontinue his mail completely? I've come awful close to trying the same thing myself on several occations.:)
To be fair, I can totally believe his Mac apps are crashing every hour, if he is using Mac-on-Linux to run them.
I dared to suggest that a better solution is to keep running MacOS on the Mac, and pick up an x86 box to run Linux separately, and oh how the flames have poured in (not to mention getting spanked down to -1 by the zealots). If you think people on/. have short fuses, you should check it out and see what I mean.:)
the hardware is different from flavor to flavor, right?
No.
When an Apple user says "Beige G3", they mean the pre-Jobs model, which had an older motherboard design and was installed in the same towers as the old 604-PPC Macs. The term is used to differentiate them from the "Blue and White" (or just "B&W") G3 towers, which are the spiffy ones that open like a drawbridge, have a rippin' fast mobo, and use PC100 memory. You can check here for a list of the various models.
The iMacs that shipped in multiple "flavors" were identical, except for the casing. Every model that came out during that time period was available in all colors, except for the bottom-of-the-line cheapie, which was blue only.
Being from Minnesota, I kind of would have liked to have had a purple iMac, so I could sitck Vikings horns on the side to make it look like a big football helmet, but I never really had any need for an iMac. I need the PCI slots, so I bought a B&W G3 tower instead.
Both of these posters are right on target. The consistant keyboard shortcutting on the MacOS is a huge edge (for those that use the Mac enough to learn them...)
It always amazes me how many people are willing to learn awk or master the Windows registry, but suddenly balk at the idea of learning command-key shortcuts and AppleScript features. Sure, the MacOS is easy enough that a 5-year-old can skim along and perform the basic tasks like launching apps, but it's still a computer operating system, and like all operating systems, you get a lot more out of it if you put a little effort into learning it.
Thanks, AC. I could not have said it better myself. If you can't find the Ctrl key right away by feel, a three-button mouse is probably too hard for you anyway.
meta-clicking is easy and intuitive, and allows you to operate the mouse without locking your hand into the three-fingered-claw position over it that you gotta stay in to make sure you are using the correct button each time you click on something.
Like I said, extra mouse buttons are redundant on the Mac. As soon as I get one of these new Mac mice, the M$ mouse is moving to my PC to stay.
3. If it takes you five minutes to move a cursor, you either have a severe musculature or nervous system disorder or maybe something else is very wrong with you... or more likely you are full of crap, and just want to whine about nothing because you can't make the tiny paradigm shift it takes to run a different OS for a couple hours.
I know, let's put and entire QWERTY layout, along with function keys, 10-key number pad, and other special buttons on it. Then we can fix it to the desk and let the user operate it with both hands, like a type-writer.
We'll connect a separate pointing device over on the side... it should only need one button if we design the GUI properly.
The right-click is huge for everyday use in Windows, and the "middle-click" is pretty important to Gnome users.
This mouse is awesome for Macs (because Apple seems to understand the difference between a pointer and a keyboard, unlike the PC world who keeps slapping more buttons and gadgets on the mouse to make up for UI kludges), but I wouldn't bother plugging it into anything else.
I own an M$ mouse, and use it on my Mac. It's pretty darn good, but I plan on buying the Apple mouse and moving the M$ one over to my PC. All those other buttons are kind of redundant on a properly designed OS, and make the mouse a lot bulkier than it needs to be.
Slashdot is Katz' unpaid coterie of technical editors
Wow. You're right, we've all been a bunch of rubes! I shall now endeavor to never again offer Katz any constructive criticism for his work, and instead just mock him endlessly for my idle amusement.
The troll who keeps saying "Yay noise" might be on to something.
I use Mozilla frequently and find that with a few minor exceptions, the latest builds are as good or better than Netscape under Linux
PHTHthththBWAAAAAhahahahaha...
Good one, CT. I needed a laugh this morning!
Saying a browser is as good as Netscape under Linux... that's a lot like telling your girlfriend she is "thinner than Rosanne", or saying that a movie was "better than Waterworld".
he he (snort)... Good thing I wasn't drinking milk when I read that.
BTW, wasn't there an article about "open source" D&D posted not too long ago?
Yes. TSR used to throw their lawyers at anybody who ever did anything creative with their rules. Lots of FTP sites that published software tools relating to the D&D stats and/or ideas were shut down.
WotC seems to be a little cooler about that. They are calling the core statistics model behind D&D3 the "d20 System"... You can do anything you want with the core, even sell your own products based on it, you just can't use the D&D trademarks when you do so. They say they were inspired to do this by the success of the open source movement, and it is scoring them huge brownie points with geeks all over the place.
Now that is one heck of a good piece of advice. All the Napster ventures would vanish in an instant if you could get an artist's music off thier own page. I hope somebody mods you up.
Slashdot Mirror
The RIAA lawyers shut down OLGA's own archives, and the OLGA page has the entire sad story posted. However, you can use their search tool to find songs off a handfull of rogue mirror sites. Try it, and you will see what I mean.
First place I always check for my favorite copyright violations is The On-Line Guitar Archive. Not only do they post lyrics, but (as the name implies) you get the bare bones of what you need to cover the guitar part, too. :)
Thanks. Feel free to steal it.
I gotta rent that one again.
Nothing you can know that isn't known
Nothing you can see that isn't shown
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be
It's easy
C'mon, everybody sing it with me now!
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need.
That about covers it. There is indeed nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game.
My point was that she was criticizing the "tech culture". Katz may be many things, but his columns at /. have more than fully demonstrated that he is not a techie, just somebody who writes about geeks from an outsider's perspective. That puts him clearly outside the scope of her comments.
I have both shirts. The tables are on the other one. :)
I was just speculating, no need to take it personally.
Why, when I was your age, we didn't talk back at our elders like that, sonny. (Kidding! Just kidding!)
In some cases, we've rescued old machines from the trash to get at their guts and get some sense of where our overpowered little toys came from.
It warms my heart to learn that kids are still "trashing" for gear like we did "back in the day". :)
Don't worry, Jon. She didn't mean you. :)
We have no common agenda. We stand for nothing. We take actions based on tiny nodes of specialized information.
I feel very strongly that this is a Good Thing.
Liberalism and conservatism have been discredited, Libertarianism seems rigid and stagnant.
It has not been demonstrated that either liberalism nor conservatism have been discredited, both thrive in modern culture. Also, Libertarianism does indeed seem rigid and stagnant, but it only seems so. Argue with somebody about Libertarianism in a coffee shop sometime and see how many people start getting interested and evesdropping.
Technology has become the world's most interesting and ascending social force.
After Sarah Michelle Gellar, yes.
No ideology -- with the possible exception of corporatism -- is stronger or spreading more rapidly.
Didn't you just get done explaining that technology is not an ideology? You were correct about that, why go back on it now? This is the paragraph where your column seems to have left the rails.
This techno-elite, taking sophisticated knowledge of technology for granted
Is the generation that grew up with all these toys in place really the techno-elite? Or is it the twentysomethings and thritysomethings that were hacking on 300-baud modems back in the 80's? I don't see a lot of geek culture among the set that grew up with Windows 95... but I could be wrong about that.
Technology can either be the vehicle through which those voices are re-democratized, or it can provide the tools through which corporatism can generate even more money.
Hmmm... Money or freedom, eh? I'd rather have both.
There is no question that you are basically right, as far as I am concerned. A bureaucracy does not ever die of natural causes... it has to be killed, or it will continue to try to grow. A good example that government policy wonks like to drag out is the United States Helium Reserve, which still exists, IIRC. It was established to ensure that we would have enough Helium supplies for airships in times of war.
Does anybody else recall the Seinfeld episode when Kramer, angry about junk-mail catalogs, wanted to discontinue his mail completely? I've come awful close to trying the same thing myself on several occations. :)
Those who have an ISP already got an e-mail address with their account, and can get other free ones from yahoo or hotmail.
Those who don't have and ISP don't really need an account they can't reach set up for them by the Post Office.
So basically, this seems to meet the needs of excactly nobody.
Or maybe I'm missing something here...
I dared to suggest that a better solution is to keep running MacOS on the Mac, and pick up an x86 box to run Linux separately, and oh how the flames have poured in (not to mention getting spanked down to -1 by the zealots). If you think people on /. have short fuses, you should check it out and see what I mean. :)
No.
When an Apple user says "Beige G3", they mean the pre-Jobs model, which had an older motherboard design and was installed in the same towers as the old 604-PPC Macs. The term is used to differentiate them from the "Blue and White" (or just "B&W") G3 towers, which are the spiffy ones that open like a drawbridge, have a rippin' fast mobo, and use PC100 memory. You can check here for a list of the various models.
The iMacs that shipped in multiple "flavors" were identical, except for the casing. Every model that came out during that time period was available in all colors, except for the bottom-of-the-line cheapie, which was blue only.
Being from Minnesota, I kind of would have liked to have had a purple iMac, so I could sitck Vikings horns on the side to make it look like a big football helmet, but I never really had any need for an iMac. I need the PCI slots, so I bought a B&W G3 tower instead.
It always amazes me how many people are willing to learn awk or master the Windows registry, but suddenly balk at the idea of learning command-key shortcuts and AppleScript features. Sure, the MacOS is easy enough that a 5-year-old can skim along and perform the basic tasks like launching apps, but it's still a computer operating system, and like all operating systems, you get a lot more out of it if you put a little effort into learning it.
Thanks, AC. I could not have said it better myself. If you can't find the Ctrl key right away by feel, a three-button mouse is probably too hard for you anyway.
Like I said, extra mouse buttons are redundant on the Mac. As soon as I get one of these new Mac mice, the M$ mouse is moving to my PC to stay.
2. The MacOS has contextual menus (Ctrl-click).
3. If it takes you five minutes to move a cursor, you either have a severe musculature or nervous system disorder or maybe something else is very wrong with you... or more likely you are full of crap, and just want to whine about nothing because you can't make the tiny paradigm shift it takes to run a different OS for a couple hours.
I know, let's put and entire QWERTY layout, along with function keys, 10-key number pad, and other special buttons on it. Then we can fix it to the desk and let the user operate it with both hands, like a type-writer.
We'll connect a separate pointing device over on the side... it should only need one button if we design the GUI properly.
That would be perfect.
This mouse is awesome for Macs (because Apple seems to understand the difference between a pointer and a keyboard, unlike the PC world who keeps slapping more buttons and gadgets on the mouse to make up for UI kludges), but I wouldn't bother plugging it into anything else.
I own an M$ mouse, and use it on my Mac. It's pretty darn good, but I plan on buying the Apple mouse and moving the M$ one over to my PC. All those other buttons are kind of redundant on a properly designed OS, and make the mouse a lot bulkier than it needs to be.
Wow. You're right, we've all been a bunch of rubes! I shall now endeavor to never again offer Katz any constructive criticism for his work, and instead just mock him endlessly for my idle amusement.
The troll who keeps saying "Yay noise" might be on to something.
PHTHthththBWAAAAAhahahahaha...
Good one, CT. I needed a laugh this morning!
Saying a browser is as good as Netscape under Linux... that's a lot like telling your girlfriend she is "thinner than Rosanne", or saying that a movie was "better than Waterworld".
he he (snort)... Good thing I wasn't drinking milk when I read that.
Yes. TSR used to throw their lawyers at anybody who ever did anything creative with their rules. Lots of FTP sites that published software tools relating to the D&D stats and/or ideas were shut down.
WotC seems to be a little cooler about that. They are calling the core statistics model behind D&D3 the "d20 System"... You can do anything you want with the core, even sell your own products based on it, you just can't use the D&D trademarks when you do so. They say they were inspired to do this by the success of the open source movement, and it is scoring them huge brownie points with geeks all over the place.
Now that is one heck of a good piece of advice. All the Napster ventures would vanish in an instant if you could get an artist's music off thier own page. I hope somebody mods you up.