Heck, because of napster I got into some somewhat obscure music (EBM/Dance Industrial) that's nigh impossible to pick up in my area. After going 3 years without even purchasing a CD, I've purchased 3 (@ $15 each) Attended 4 concerts ( 3 @ $15, 1 @ $25) and bought 6 t-shirts at the concerts (let's assume $25 each)
For me alone, that's $265. Quite an increase in expenditure.
Now, consider that I got 6 of my friends into this music and I took at least 3 people to each concert. They each bought at least one t-shirt. This is adding up.
I guess the real catch is that I'm not buying what the RIAA is pushing. I'm buying what I like because for the first time someone can tell me about a band...I can listen to it and then decide if I like it. --
I only post to slashdot when I'm sleep deprived.
I guess it's time to start rot-13'ing the names of my mp3's. Now if I could only convince others to do it. --
I only post to slashdot when I'm sleep deprived.
I want, as it was aptly put in some slashdotter's sig, is for lynx to cost a dollar and be called Weaselicious. --
I only post to slashdot when I'm sleep deprived.
Ummm....Stupid question...
What about traffic lights?
My first guess was that for someone with red-green defect, a traffic light was either top, yellow or bottom instead of green, yellow, red. Then I noticed that many of the newer lights are turned sideways. All of the ones in my city have green on the left and red on the right, but I can't assume that for all cities. There's also complex turn arrows that seem randomly placed in the lights. That's when I decided that a detailed study of traffic lights to discern a pattern would just make me an abject dork, not a chic geek and I gave up. I still wonder whenever I stop at an odd setup. --
I only post to slashdot when I'm sleep deprived.
I'll Bite. (but only because I'm tired of this argument.)
I use linux and am a bigo^H^H^H^H exclusive fan of it. I feel it is the best system available if you have the know how to use it. I reccomend that my roommate use windows, which she does, because the first time she had to spend 4 hours installing an application from a tarball, she would be reduced to tears. Windows does almost everything she could want and is pretty simple (in comparison) to use. That doesn't stop her from looking over my shoulder and saying "I wish I could do X like you're doing." At the same time, if I want to play a windowsmedia stream, I have to go to my windows box and use it. I really wish I could play those files on linux. I don't whine and poo about it, but I will be very glad when a program comes out that allows me to play those files (somebody let me know if there is one and I'm just on crack and can't find it!) Untill then, I'll continue to want to be able to use my linux box to perform the things I now have to go to my windows box to perform. Hopefully someone with more graphics know-how than I have will decide to code the application. Right now it's a choice between windows media and linux. I choose linux because I would lose the ability to do a lot of things if I went back to windows, and that has nothing to do with me wanting or not wanting to play windows media streams.
How is the internet play? This game is the only reason I kept one of my boxes on windows. I waste countless hours on it. Soon I'll be able to turn that box into something more worthwhile, like an mp3 player.
Point taken on the dangers (or lack thereof) of hydrogen. As an aside, it's usefull to note that it was the construction of the Hindenberg (sp?) not the hydrogen within it that made it burst into flames. I have no doubt the hydrogen helped, but apparently the panelling was incredibly flamable to begin with. Hydrogen has gotten a bad rap since then.
One of the problems with moving to fuel-cell based sytem of transportation is getting the hydrogen where it needs to go. We have no hydrogen infrastructure, while we already have an infrastructure for electricity, gasoline, natural gas, etc., but no infrastructure for hydrogen. Infrastructures cost money to build, so who's gonna pay for it? And on top of that, hydrogen isn't exactly the easiest thing to transport. I, myself, want hydrogen bad...fuel efficiency with zero emission, a good, simple solid engine (instead of these complicated monsters that break down every week...at least mine does)
I was expecting to just get an article on cracking, instead I find it was written by someone I know about the system I cut my teeth on. The community network he referrs to was the network that first gave me internet access. I even used the same mail program exploit the cracker used to bypass the menu system. It was my first exposure to a *nix system. I remember the "service outages" and the whole process, but hadn't been paying attention so never realized that they were to recover. Noel is a good sysadmin. He works his ass off for little pay (I actually believe he gets *NO* pay, though don't quote me on this.) I'm glad he was there during the whole set of incidents because I doubt many people would have put as much effort into it as he did.
I think it may be obvious only depending on the focus of your education. I realized it when I studied Daisy World several years ago (and was pleased to see it mentioned in the Ender's Game series, by my nick, obviously one of my fav. series of books...I digress)
Daisy world is a thought experiment where a planet is covered only with two types of daisies: black and white. Black absorb heat (like asphault) and white daisies reflect heat (like water as I understand it). So, if you set the temperature sensitivities of the black and right species just right, you can create a stable system. When the temperatures are colder, black daisies thrive and raise the ambient temperature of the world. When temperatures are hot, the white daisies reflect sunlight away and cool the system.
I read about this when I was pretty young, I'd say around 11, if memory serves, and then realized that all the asphault in a large city raised temperatures. I was exposed to it early on, so it was "obvious" to me. However, it doesn't surprise me that it wasn't for others.
Sorry if this post is redundant or a bit muddled, as I am dead tired and skimmed everything.
Well, actualy, yes they could....but I doubt many people would want to go to that theater. Now, if they gagged only you, or say, only Democrats, that would be illegal. They could, however, have a dress code requiring a gag.
So, you're saying that if you walked into a movie theater and started screaming about how Natalie Portman should be the next president because aliens kidnapped you and told you so, then the movie theater should not have the right to throw you out if you don't quiet down? A movie theater is private property, which means they have the right to decide (within reason) what you can and can't say on those premises. Granted, most don't do anything unless someone complains (they wouldn't get any business if they did) but they can still do that. Free Speech applies to the government, public places and your own private property. If I purchase some ink, paper and a printing press, I (ideally) have the right to print anything I want. The alternative to a bluetooth type of system is to have people check their cell phones at the door.
I personally don't think that clothing was a good invention. I would much prefer it if we all went naked. Naked feels good. I am naked right now. (and I'm not in the slightest kidding about any of this)
Wow, I'm glad to see something like this might make it mainstream soon. I tutored math at a university for several years, and one of my students had cerebral palsy. (imagine Stephen Hawking with slightly more mobility) Because he had greatly reduced mobility, doing something as simple as typing up a simple email would often require an hour or more. It was so time and energy consuming for him that even *I* felt tired after watching him. We often mused about an optimized one finger keyboard.
BTW, does anyone have the specs for a chord based keyboard or at least the frequency of letters and letter combinations for english? I've been playing with the idea of implimenting a simple chord keyboard for some time now.
This is because you have not explored the configuration options of napster. Simply set the download directory to be different from your upload directory and you will no longer have this problem. In fact, you can set the number of simultaneous uploads to zero and you won't have to worry about people downloading from you at all. Use your brain.
Turns out cockroaches are more complex than you might think. For instance, they run on two legs when they get fast enough and use their bodies for aerofoils. Probably the most bizzare experiment I ever heard about for roaches involved putting two roaches on opposite day/night schedules and then removing their exoskeloton on their backsand splicing them together (back to back) to study how the hormones interacted. I've also heard rumors of "remote control roaches," being engineered. Does anyone know about this?
I go through Sprint (my telco) for my DSL. Service with them is wonderful. There's never been more than 3 days turnaround on any work order. "Let me put the phone down while I go over to the multiplexor." is a direct quote from my last tech support call. They don't support linux, but as long as you let them come in and install on a windows box, they don't care what you do from there. Just be sure to ask them for the DSL to Ethernet modem rather than the internal WinDevice solution.
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Heck, because of napster I got into some somewhat obscure music (EBM/Dance Industrial) that's nigh impossible to pick up in my area. After going 3 years without even purchasing a CD, I've purchased 3 (@ $15 each) Attended 4 concerts ( 3 @ $15, 1 @ $25) and bought 6 t-shirts at the concerts (let's assume $25 each)
For me alone, that's $265. Quite an increase in expenditure.
Now, consider that I got 6 of my friends into this music and I took at least 3 people to each concert. They each bought at least one t-shirt. This is adding up.
I guess the real catch is that I'm not buying what the RIAA is pushing. I'm buying what I like because for the first time someone can tell me about a band...I can listen to it and then decide if I like it.
--
I only post to slashdot when I'm sleep deprived.
I guess it's time to start rot-13'ing the names of my mp3's. Now if I could only convince others to do it.
--
I only post to slashdot when I'm sleep deprived.
I want, as it was aptly put in some slashdotter's sig, is for lynx to cost a dollar and be called Weaselicious.
--
I only post to slashdot when I'm sleep deprived.
Ummm....Stupid question... What about traffic lights? My first guess was that for someone with red-green defect, a traffic light was either top, yellow or bottom instead of green, yellow, red. Then I noticed that many of the newer lights are turned sideways. All of the ones in my city have green on the left and red on the right, but I can't assume that for all cities. There's also complex turn arrows that seem randomly placed in the lights. That's when I decided that a detailed study of traffic lights to discern a pattern would just make me an abject dork, not a chic geek and I gave up. I still wonder whenever I stop at an odd setup.
--
I only post to slashdot when I'm sleep deprived.
I'll Bite. (but only because I'm tired of this argument.)
I use linux and am a bigo^H^H^H^H exclusive fan of it. I feel it is the best system available if you have the know how to use it. I reccomend that my roommate use windows, which she does, because the first time she had to spend 4 hours installing an application from a tarball, she would be reduced to tears. Windows does almost everything she could want and is pretty simple (in comparison) to use. That doesn't stop her from looking over my shoulder and saying "I wish I could do X like you're doing." At the same time, if I want to play a windowsmedia stream, I have to go to my windows box and use it. I really wish I could play those files on linux. I don't whine and poo about it, but I will be very glad when a program comes out that allows me to play those files (somebody let me know if there is one and I'm just on crack and can't find it!) Untill then, I'll continue to want to be able to use my linux box to perform the things I now have to go to my windows box to perform. Hopefully someone with more graphics know-how than I have will decide to code the application. Right now it's a choice between windows media and linux. I choose linux because I would lose the ability to do a lot of things if I went back to windows, and that has nothing to do with me wanting or not wanting to play windows media streams.
How is the internet play? This game is the only reason I kept one of my boxes on windows. I waste countless hours on it. Soon I'll be able to turn that box into something more worthwhile, like an mp3 player.
Nah, He's way too skeptical...his entire dialogue for each show would consist of "I can't believe it's not a conspiracy!"
I hold in my hand a list of the i.p.'s of known communists. Ergh...wait...There's something feeling a bit redundant about all this.
Point taken on the dangers (or lack thereof) of hydrogen. As an aside, it's usefull to note that it was the construction of the Hindenberg (sp?) not the hydrogen within it that made it burst into flames. I have no doubt the hydrogen helped, but apparently the panelling was incredibly flamable to begin with. Hydrogen has gotten a bad rap since then.
One of the problems with moving to fuel-cell based sytem of transportation is getting the hydrogen where it needs to go. We have no hydrogen infrastructure, while we already have an infrastructure for electricity, gasoline, natural gas, etc., but no infrastructure for hydrogen. Infrastructures cost money to build, so who's gonna pay for it? And on top of that, hydrogen isn't exactly the easiest thing to transport. I, myself, want hydrogen bad...fuel efficiency with zero emission, a good, simple solid engine (instead of these complicated monsters that break down every week...at least mine does)
Geez....we just got done freeing Mitnick and now we gotta free Pascal? When will this end!?
I was expecting to just get an article on cracking, instead I find it was written by someone I know about the system I cut my teeth on. The community network he referrs to was the network that first gave me internet access. I even used the same mail program exploit the cracker used to bypass the menu system. It was my first exposure to a *nix system. I remember the "service outages" and the whole process, but hadn't been paying attention so never realized that they were to recover. Noel is a good sysadmin. He works his ass off for little pay (I actually believe he gets *NO* pay, though don't quote me on this.) I'm glad he was there during the whole set of incidents because I doubt many people would have put as much effort into it as he did.
I think it may be obvious only depending on the focus of your education. I realized it when I studied Daisy World several years ago (and was pleased to see it mentioned in the Ender's Game series, by my nick, obviously one of my fav. series of books...I digress)
Daisy world is a thought experiment where a planet is covered only with two types of daisies: black and white. Black absorb heat (like asphault) and white daisies reflect heat (like water as I understand it). So, if you set the temperature sensitivities of the black and right species just right, you can create a stable system. When the temperatures are colder, black daisies thrive and raise the ambient temperature of the world. When temperatures are hot, the white daisies reflect sunlight away and cool the system.
I read about this when I was pretty young, I'd say around 11, if memory serves, and then realized that all the asphault in a large city raised temperatures. I was exposed to it early on, so it was "obvious" to me. However, it doesn't surprise me that it wasn't for others.
Sorry if this post is redundant or a bit muddled, as I am dead tired and skimmed everything.
Well, actualy, yes they could....but I doubt many people would want to go to that theater. Now, if they gagged only you, or say, only Democrats, that would be illegal. They could, however, have a dress code requiring a gag.
So, you're saying that if you walked into a movie theater and started screaming about how Natalie Portman should be the next president because aliens kidnapped you and told you so, then the movie theater should not have the right to throw you out if you don't quiet down? A movie theater is private property, which means they have the right to decide (within reason) what you can and can't say on those premises. Granted, most don't do anything unless someone complains (they wouldn't get any business if they did) but they can still do that. Free Speech applies to the government, public places and your own private property. If I purchase some ink, paper and a printing press, I (ideally) have the right to print anything I want. The alternative to a bluetooth type of system is to have people check their cell phones at the door.
I personally don't think that clothing was a good invention. I would much prefer it if we all went naked. Naked feels good. I am naked right now. (and I'm not in the slightest kidding about any of this)
Wow, I'm glad to see something like this might make it mainstream soon. I tutored math at a university for several years, and one of my students had cerebral palsy. (imagine Stephen Hawking with slightly more mobility) Because he had greatly reduced mobility, doing something as simple as typing up a simple email would often require an hour or more. It was so time and energy consuming for him that even *I* felt tired after watching him. We often mused about an optimized one finger keyboard.
BTW, does anyone have the specs for a chord based keyboard or at least the frequency of letters and letter combinations for english? I've been playing with the idea of implimenting a simple chord keyboard for some time now.
This is because you have not explored the configuration options of napster. Simply set the download directory to be different from your upload directory and you will no longer have this problem. In fact, you can set the number of simultaneous uploads to zero and you won't have to worry about people downloading from you at all. Use your brain.
What a wonderfull incentive for authors to write good articles we're interested in.
Turns out cockroaches are more complex than you might think. For instance, they run on two legs when they get fast enough and use their bodies for aerofoils. Probably the most bizzare experiment I ever heard about for roaches involved putting two roaches on opposite day/night schedules and then removing their exoskeloton on their backsand splicing them together (back to back) to study how the hormones interacted. I've also heard rumors of "remote control roaches," being engineered. Does anyone know about this?
I go through Sprint (my telco) for my DSL. Service with them is wonderful. There's never been more than 3 days turnaround on any work order. "Let me put the phone down while I go over to the multiplexor." is a direct quote from my last tech support call. They don't support linux, but as long as you let them come in and install on a windows box, they don't care what you do from there. Just be sure to ask them for the DSL to Ethernet modem rather than the internal WinDevice solution.