You jest (or at least the mods think so), but actually, you're not so far off the mark.
Not necessarily.
As Windows does not come bundled with support for any file system that isn't patented by Microsoft, lording those patents over people is quite anticompetitive.
Unlikely.
Or, at the very least, more-so than the whole IE thing which started all this monopoly stuff o begin with.
Unlikley.
Then again, the entire point of software patents is to make monopolies, so perhaps this is just what's supposed to be happening.
Only time will tell if it ends up replacing auto-tune in that domain or not, but auto-tune will probably still be used for it's sound artifacts like it is in a lot of current pop music.
While you make an interesting point about how slashdot editors probably wont cover various European elections and their lack of coverage about tech stocks, I would say that the election is News for Nerds. I am only going to offer one piece of evidence for this. This evidence is: the number of comments! At the time of this post there are 1235 user comments. The two 'wrap ups' of the U.S. election before this have over 1700 user comments. I think its pretty obvious that people are interested in this, and if you believe the hype, the people looking at it are nerds, so I would say that its 'news' for them, i.e. News for Nerds.
I apologize in advance if this is a little hard to follow, I've read to many philosophy books, and I've begun to write like they read...
I think the important question here is, does my vote matter, not does my vote count. When I die and fade into oblivion (or the afterlife), will it actually have mattered if I had voted for Bush or Gore? Supposing that there is an afterlife, it could, but probably won't (how much do you know about the afterlife anyways? Bush could be the avatar of some wacked out deity who just created life for his own personal amusement, sure its probably not true, but you do, after all, never know) matter.
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You jest (or at least the mods think so), but actually, you're not so far off the mark.
Not necessarily.
As Windows does not come bundled with support for any file system that isn't patented by Microsoft, lording those patents over people is quite anticompetitive.
Unlikely.
Or, at the very least, more-so than the whole IE thing which started all this monopoly stuff o begin with.
Unlikley.
Then again, the entire point of software patents is to make monopolies, so perhaps this is just what's supposed to be happening.
Perhaps.
Auto-tune will generally jump out at you if you know what to listen for. And there are a lot of acts using it just for this effect (as stated).
Here's a youtube clip of auto-tunes next generation replacement that many people feel provides more seamless transitions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCjv4_jqAY
Only time will tell if it ends up replacing auto-tune in that domain or not, but auto-tune will probably still be used for it's sound artifacts like it is in a lot of current pop music.
Co-op or intern.
. On one hand the US is ultra-religious. But on the other hand helping the poor is totaly unamerican (socialism is baaaaaaaad).
Americans are the ultimate paradox. On the one hand they are ultra religious, but on the other hand, Americans hate helping the poor.
A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
Announcer: Looks like that racer Duke Nukem Forever'ed! Thats gotta hurt!
It's about time!
While you make an interesting point about how slashdot editors probably wont cover various European elections and their lack of coverage about tech stocks, I would say that the election is News for Nerds. I am only going to offer one piece of evidence for this. This evidence is: the number of comments! At the time of this post there are 1235 user comments. The two 'wrap ups' of the U.S. election before this have over 1700 user comments. I think its pretty obvious that people are interested in this, and if you believe the hype, the people looking at it are nerds, so I would say that its 'news' for them, i.e. News for Nerds.
I apologize in advance if this is a little hard to follow, I've read to many philosophy books, and I've begun to write like they read...
I think the important question here is, does my vote matter, not does my vote count. When I die and fade into oblivion (or the afterlife), will it actually have mattered if I had voted for Bush or Gore? Supposing that there is an afterlife, it could, but probably won't (how much do you know about the afterlife anyways? Bush could be the avatar of some wacked out deity who just created life for his own personal amusement, sure its probably not true, but you do, after all, never know) matter.