When Arthur is pulling out Scrabble tiles, and he spells out the Ultimate Question... doesn't six times nine equal 54? Was this a typo the the editors never caught? Ahh, my head hurts!:P
Most people choose Pop music. It's that simple. <RANT>
No, it's not that simple. The problem is that most people do _not_ listen to this kind of music, nor do most people buy this kind of music. Instead, most people (read: anyone over 25) just don't bother buying much new music, because there's nothing out there that appeals to them. Although our culture calls it "popular" music, it's only popular among its target audience, which is pubescent children. Because these children are an incredibly massive, easily manipulated source of disposable income, the record companies go for the jugular, saturate youth culture with marketing for pop music, and watch the money roll in. As a side effect, they get to claim that this kind of music is the most popular in our society.
Another interesting point: as I mentioned earlier, people out of the Backstreet Boys' target audience don't buy as much music. They don't have as much disposable income. But another important factor to consider is that these people also have much wider and diverse tastes in music, owing to many of them having developed their own tastes and preferences before the pop marketing machine came along and said that Britney was the Best. Because there is no unifying genre that encompasses all of these different kinds of music, it winds up being pop against the world. Is it any surprise that no other genre sells more than pop?
</RANT>
Sorry to get all bothered, but this topic really bugs me. I had a huge argument with a professor (of Ethnomusicology at University of California, Irvine) who believed that pop music defined American culture solely because it sold the best.:P
I went with a group of friends, one of whom tagged along only to see the trailer. Afterwards, breaking through the dead silence, I turned around and said to him, "You came to Monsters, Inc. to see that, Matt? What the hell is wrong with you?"
I wouldn't.. they wouldn't be able to follow it, and I've been hearing that the battle scenes are slightly graphic. MI, on the other hand, was a blast for me (I'm 19), and I could easily see my 5-year-old cousin loving it. Especially Sully's trademarked yell.. I can just imagine him spending weeks perfecting his version. =)
I believe that was the point of the original sig. I think it was supposed to point out the nonsensicality of the occasionally-voiced viewpoint that anything which disagrees with the Bible is wrong. That the same comment could apply to the Bible is implied, I think. Of course, I could be wrong.
LEARN TO SPELL.
Normally I don't bother with nitpicking Slashdot posts; I understand full well that not everybody speaks English as a first language. That's all right. But when you misspell words (such as Bin Laden, Iraq, and Afghanistan) that are consistent in most Latin lanugages, it makes you seem much less knowledgable and that much less worthy to be a source of information for me. Sorry, but I just had to gripe about that.
P.S.- Also, back up your stats with links in the future, please.
Please, look before you (logically) leap. If you would condemn him to death for wishing the death of others, wouldn't you expect somebody to sentence you to the same? I don't think killing anybody is the answer. I don't know what the answer is, but I am fairly certain even more death isn't it.:(
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A friend of mine who lived in my dorm here was a really big sitcom-episode-trader kind of person. Simpsons, Seinfeld, Titus, Family Guy, etc. He was running some form of Gnutella clone, and he somehow managed to exceed 87 gb uploaded in one month. The network folks sent him an email kindly asking him to quit it... and he taped it to his door, with the big numbers circled. =)
And btw, I'm a versed FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux/Win NT 4.0/Win2k administrator and have rouhly 600 servers under my belt and in working order even as we speak.
And yet he cannot spell... =)
On what grounds? I've seen lots of people say this, but never seen anybody explain how when somebody pays $x for a product or service, which is the full extent of the transaction they are aware of at the time, that magically translates into "$x + permission to spam me".
When I buy a product, I also buy the brand name of the product. This is why people purchase branded computers from Dell, Gateway, etc.-- not because the computers themselves are better, but because the company provides useful and worthwhile services. If I were to buy a PDA and send in my email address as part of the warranty confirmation, then I would expect to recieve useful and pertinent information. I would not want my email address sold or abused, and I would not want any sorts of advertisements. What does that leave, you ask? Plenty. User's guides, software/hardware updates, usability recommendations (i.e. product recalls), etc. There's lots of things I wouldn't mind receiving at all from a company I bought something from. As long as it's reasonable and helpful, I'd like to see it. If there was something on the warranty card that said "When you sign this, you are authorizing us to send product updates, etc. etc., to your email address," I would be quite willing to sign it. My very humorous sig has been
http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/remote/
This is a good solution.. USB, works with PC and Mac, prolly Linux too if you wanted to hack together drivers. The beauty of this remote is that it works via sending keyboard commands to the application with focus, even in full screen. Thus, it can be completely reprogrammed, and made to work with any application. I suppose you could even run a macro program, and map keystrokes to mouse-movement macros if you were so inclined. I have one of these, and it works well.. the range is awesome, too.:) Retails for about $50.
There have been times in the past where the young generation has wished to overthrow the domineering older generation of the time. In fact, it was once said that every generation has wanted to tear down the institutions of the one before it.
However, only a few generations in history have had the right mix of opportunity and personality to effect real, lasting change. Revolutions take a long time to build up steam, even in Internet Time. There will come a day when an individual or a group of individuals will come forward before the tech-savvy and show them what needs to be done and where their revolution needs to go to be successful. The problem is, these people likely have no idea who they are or what their responsibility will be.
The solution to this problem is education, and not the.gov-sanctioned education of the masses. I'm talking about each and every Slashdotter and l33t hax0r and Linux Guru going out and teaching one other person about the issues facing our entire society. It should not be assumed that people are too stupid to care if nobody has bothered to inform them. To make a broad generalization, how many of the folks reading this understand all the issues facing the metalworking industry in America today? Unless that happens to be your particular job or forte, the number is likely low. The same follows for most all people; they learn about the things they need to know to do their jobs and live their lives.
In order to reinforce my point, I repeat: educate everyone you can about the DMCA, and Carnivore, and anything else you can explain truthfully and calmly. Once everybody knows what problems exist, then the search for solutions can begin, and the people who will indubitably be the leaders of our Technological Revolution will have a whole world worth of knowledge to draw from for the battle.
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I have never, ever understood this part.
:P
When Arthur is pulling out Scrabble tiles, and he spells out the Ultimate Question... doesn't six times nine equal 54? Was this a typo the the editors never caught? Ahh, my head hurts!
Most people choose Pop music. It's that simple. :P
<RANT>
No, it's not that simple. The problem is that most people do _not_ listen to this kind of music, nor do most people buy this kind of music. Instead, most people (read: anyone over 25) just don't bother buying much new music, because there's nothing out there that appeals to them. Although our culture calls it "popular" music, it's only popular among its target audience, which is pubescent children. Because these children are an incredibly massive, easily manipulated source of disposable income, the record companies go for the jugular, saturate youth culture with marketing for pop music, and watch the money roll in. As a side effect, they get to claim that this kind of music is the most popular in our society.
Another interesting point: as I mentioned earlier, people out of the Backstreet Boys' target audience don't buy as much music. They don't have as much disposable income. But another important factor to consider is that these people also have much wider and diverse tastes in music, owing to many of them having developed their own tastes and preferences before the pop marketing machine came along and said that Britney was the Best. Because there is no unifying genre that encompasses all of these different kinds of music, it winds up being pop against the world. Is it any surprise that no other genre sells more than pop?
</RANT>
Sorry to get all bothered, but this topic really bugs me. I had a huge argument with a professor (of Ethnomusicology at University of California, Irvine) who believed that pop music defined American culture solely because it sold the best.
I went with a group of friends, one of whom tagged along only to see the trailer. Afterwards, breaking through the dead silence, I turned around and said to him, "You came to Monsters, Inc. to see that, Matt? What the hell is wrong with you?"
The entire theater busted up.. I was so proud. =)
James M. Sullivan.. "Call me Sully."
And Billy Crystal's character was named Mike Wachowski (if I can speel today).
Would you take a youngster (age = 6) to see LOTR?
I wouldn't.. they wouldn't be able to follow it, and I've been hearing that the battle scenes are slightly graphic. MI, on the other hand, was a blast for me (I'm 19), and I could easily see my 5-year-old cousin loving it. Especially Sully's trademarked yell.. I can just imagine him spending weeks perfecting his version. =)
I believe that was the point of the original sig. I think it was supposed to point out the nonsensicality of the occasionally-voiced viewpoint that anything which disagrees with the Bible is wrong. That the same comment could apply to the Bible is implied, I think. Of course, I could be wrong.
LEARN TO SPELL. Normally I don't bother with nitpicking Slashdot posts; I understand full well that not everybody speaks English as a first language. That's all right. But when you misspell words (such as Bin Laden, Iraq, and Afghanistan) that are consistent in most Latin lanugages, it makes you seem much less knowledgable and that much less worthy to be a source of information for me. Sorry, but I just had to gripe about that. P.S.- Also, back up your stats with links in the future, please.
Perhaps more killing is not the answer at all?
:(
Please, look before you (logically) leap. If you would condemn him to death for wishing the death of others, wouldn't you expect somebody to sentence you to the same? I don't think killing anybody is the answer. I don't know what the answer is, but I am fairly certain even more death isn't it.
Approx. 4.1 cents.
:)
I read it in a book.
A friend of mine who lived in my dorm here was a really big sitcom-episode-trader kind of person. Simpsons, Seinfeld, Titus, Family Guy, etc. He was running some form of Gnutella clone, and he somehow managed to exceed 87 gb uploaded in one month. The network folks sent him an email kindly asking him to quit it... and he taped it to his door, with the big numbers circled. =)
We need Marcus.
You could have a: or d: use pushd, and then c: use popd. Just an idea.
Only if you post in the interview title:
"Score: 5 Funny"
=)
My sig is so long that it will not fit unless
And btw, I'm a versed FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux/Win NT 4.0/Win2k administrator and have rouhly 600 servers under my belt and in working order even as we speak. And yet he cannot spell... =)
Give them fvwm95 and don't say anything. >=)
On what grounds? I've seen lots of people say this, but never seen anybody explain how when somebody pays $x for a product or service, which is the full extent of the transaction they are aware of at the time, that magically translates into "$x + permission to spam me". When I buy a product, I also buy the brand name of the product. This is why people purchase branded computers from Dell, Gateway, etc.-- not because the computers themselves are better, but because the company provides useful and worthwhile services. If I were to buy a PDA and send in my email address as part of the warranty confirmation, then I would expect to recieve useful and pertinent information. I would not want my email address sold or abused, and I would not want any sorts of advertisements. What does that leave, you ask? Plenty. User's guides, software/hardware updates, usability recommendations (i.e. product recalls), etc. There's lots of things I wouldn't mind receiving at all from a company I bought something from. As long as it's reasonable and helpful, I'd like to see it. If there was something on the warranty card that said "When you sign this, you are authorizing us to send product updates, etc. etc., to your email address," I would be quite willing to sign it. My very humorous sig has been
http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/remote/ This is a good solution.. USB, works with PC and Mac, prolly Linux too if you wanted to hack together drivers. The beauty of this remote is that it works via sending keyboard commands to the application with focus, even in full screen. Thus, it can be completely reprogrammed, and made to work with any application. I suppose you could even run a macro program, and map keystrokes to mouse-movement macros if you were so inclined. I have one of these, and it works well.. the range is awesome, too.
There have been times in the past where the young generation has wished to overthrow the domineering older generation of the time. In fact, it was once said that every generation has wanted to tear down the institutions of the one before it.
.gov-sanctioned education of the masses. I'm talking about each and every Slashdotter and l33t hax0r and Linux Guru going out and teaching one other person about the issues facing our entire society. It should not be assumed that people are too stupid to care if nobody has bothered to inform them. To make a broad generalization, how many of the folks reading this understand all the issues facing the metalworking industry in America today? Unless that happens to be your particular job or forte, the number is likely low. The same follows for most all people; they learn about the things they need to know to do their jobs and live their lives.
However, only a few generations in history have had the right mix of opportunity and personality to effect real, lasting change. Revolutions take a long time to build up steam, even in Internet Time. There will come a day when an individual or a group of individuals will come forward before the tech-savvy and show them what needs to be done and where their revolution needs to go to be successful. The problem is, these people likely have no idea who they are or what their responsibility will be.
The solution to this problem is education, and not the
In order to reinforce my point, I repeat: educate everyone you can about the DMCA, and Carnivore, and anything else you can explain truthfully and calmly. Once everybody knows what problems exist, then the search for solutions can begin, and the people who will indubitably be the leaders of our Technological Revolution will have a whole world worth of knowledge to draw from for the battle.