I think the author is out of touch with today's kids.
I'm trying to remember the last time I burned a CD for music, I think I only did it when a friend came over and asked if I could copy CD xyz for them. For the most part, I've just about allways ripped to MP3. Pop a disk in, click start, wait about 5 minutes and presto, with ID3 tags provided by CDDB i've just added their music to my collection.
Most of the kids I know with some computer skills (ages 12 and up) do the ripping thing more often than the burning thing. From a price standpoint you never have to use media other than a little hard disk space. With CD's you have to pay out 50cents for a blank every time you want to make one. Don't forget canada either, i'm sure with the new tariff's imposed on recordable media, MP3 ripping will get even more popular over there than ever before.
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Also, who's gonna pay?
Would Bill Gate's $40billion dollar personal hord be enough? I could forgive the man for a lot of things if he solved this energy crisis.
Do you really have to nitpick? Does it make you feel smart to nitpick? Why is it every time someone makes a good informative comment some ass has to come along and bitch about the spelling, or the wording. My whole comment was good, to the point, informative and ontopic. You need to get a life my friend.
Out of work sysadmin from san jose willing to donate time for the following.
Airfare to and from Place to sleep Food
In exchange for this, I will help convert and train users, teachers, and students linux. Send inquiries to toqernospam@pacbellnospam.netnospam (remove nospam)
Not just schools, it's a form of retaliation against the.gov by microsoft, in response to the recent trials.
A friend of mine works for an arm of the VA (Veterans Affairs) According to this friend, the VA is being systematically searched by M$ for license compliance, so far with grim results. Supposidly the VA is about 20million out of compliance with M$ products. It doesn't just stop at M$ stuff though.
While M$ is doing their "sweeps" they will make it their business to report any competitors product being out of license as well. This includes everything from an over the limit shareware version of winzip, to "borrowed" installed copies of quicken, and the like.
It's pretty clear what is going on. The states that have fined M$ are owed money, but all M$ has to do is prove they are out of license compliance.
.govM$ you owe us $15million M$ We pay up when you pay us for our software
It's a pretty smart tactic on M$'s part when you think about it. It's not like M$ hasn't known for years everyone pirates their software to hell. It's just kinda funny how they use it as a trump card to save their ass.
Linux has the posix market on x86 machines now. Solaris only runs good on sun hardware, but if you put linux on that same box, it runs better. So again, I reiterate, who cares?
I forget what the original name was but the Ricochet modem was used in NYC so taxi companies could track down stolen taxi's. Later that system was purchased by Metricom and reworked to become the Ricochet wireless system we know today. Even after Metricom purchased it, there were times it was used to track things like stolen customer laptops, cars, basically anything that was attatched to it could be tracked.
Medical test after medical test has shown that people that deprive themselves of sleep go insane and lose their ability to perform even the easiest of tasks.
Lol, I got an insanity story to tell...
When I was 18, I worked construction down in bakersfield. Everyday my boss would give me a little bit of krank to stick in my gums. I honestly didn't know what I was getting into as I had never done it before.
After a week of no sleep, drinking pint's of whiskey like they were soda pops, and various hallucinations. I decided it would be a *Good Thing* to take on my friends 350lb father with my 150lb kranked out self.
Lucky for me, all he did was throw me 30 feet to which, I landed on my feet, ran across the street and started yelling, "C'mon you pussy come on this side of the street i'll kick your ass!" After that episode I went home, slept for 28 hours, and vowed never to do that shit again. Haven't touched the stuff since.
IIRC there was an experiment where a factory secretly "spiked" the water cooler with pure caffiene goodness. It produced a whopping 15% in productivity amongst the workers.
I can see the drugs manufactuer now going through trial test.
Hi we'd like to spike your water coolers with a new drug we've developed
I think it's against the law to put anything other than water in those things
This new drug is *Better* than caffiene. It should increase worker production up to 25%!
What do you mean by "GRANULARITY". I read your sentance over and over again tryin to figure out what context you were using the word in, then I looked it up.
granÂuÂlar Pronunciation Key (grny-lr) adj. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains. Having a grainy texture. Biology. Containing granules: granular cells.
Still doesn't make sense, could you eleborate more please?
TLD's were originally MEANT to separate entities on the internet. Then along came the big bad internic who decided what a great idea it would be to WHORE out TLD's to anyone willing to pay the price. Remember when.
.org was for non-profit .com was for companies .edu was for schools .net was for network providers
It's not a free speech issue as much as it's a zoning issue. I don't mean DNS zones, i'm referring to the type of zoning cities do that dictate what kind of businesses go where. You have your industrial zones, your retail zones, your suburban zones, and yes, there are even zones for strip clubs. This kind of zoning doesn't infringe on anyone's right.
One more thing, the Internet is like our public roads, their use is a privilege, not a right. Anyone that abuses that right get's reported to their upstream provider and they disappear off the net faster than you can say "goatse.cx" I'm all for regulating these sites because Iâ(TM)m sick and tired of being tricked into a ZILLION popup ads from these fruity porn sites. Their methods have become more sinister over the years and they need to be put in check. Just because I accidentally or purposefully click a link, it's not a license to take over my computer with popup after popup.
My wife works for an arm of the.gov. She told me M$ has been auditing the.gov for license compliance on every level as a form of retaliation against the recent trials.
It's sort of a funny paradox, now the.gov is wanting to say buh bye M$, but the problem is a logistical one, how do you move and train all those employee's who were brought up on M$ over to *nix.
Just a side note to the story I wanted to add, allmost ontopic.
The source for atari800win is freely availiable. You could use kaillera for the netcode and voila instant atari netplay goodness. I've been wanting to play ballblazer 2p across the net for a while now:)
Maybe you should make it a senior project for your students to get it done:P
One of the things that helped me out was a page I found that showed me the unix equivalent of dos commands. It looked sorta like this.
DOS Unix cd cd md mkdir rd rmdir or rm- f -f type cat more more attrib chmod edit vi, pico, emacs
Do this for the filesystem too. initab and rc.d are like autoexec.bat and config.sys. It will be tons easier for them to learn if they already have a foundation to build on.
The entire school was gathered in the auditorium to watch the launch. Normal Jr High stuff, people throwing things, teachers yelling at the kids, complete pandemonium.
Even after the launch, people still kept talking.
Then we saw the shuttle blow up. Silence. Nobody said a word. Everyone just looked around at each other in disbelief. The teachers had just lost one of their own, and we could see the pain in their eyes. Nobody said a word, the principal turned off the TV and ordered everyone back to class. We promptly went back to our homerooms. I can't speak for the other classes, but my usually rowdy class was well behaved on that day. We knew our teacher was hurting.
Not to dig up other bad stuff, but the only other time in my life I felt that much disbelief was on 9/11. These kinds of tragedies stick with you for the rest of your life and become a part of who you are.
I'm going to stop now, Iâ(TM)m getting too deep even for myself.
because it was SO FRICKEN STUPID! The fact it even made it as a submission just really pissed me off.
Let me get to my first beef. The link take's you to a page that describes a cement canoe. BIG WOOT! Out here in California, around Santa Cruz we have a state beach with a HUGE cement boat, not some dinky little canoe.
I wish I had a link to a picture, or something from the state park, but Iâ(TM)ll do my best to tell the story. During the war metal was in short supply (all going to the war effort) so efforts were made to find alternate materials (ala cement)
Now my second point concerns that rocket. I've built quite a few model rockets in my lifetime, mainly Estes kit's. The concrete rocket looks exactly like a Estes model 1818. It sounded like they used a C6-7, i.e. engine size C, 6-second burst, 7 second delay to parachute deployment. Listen to the video yourself you can hear it. The point Iâ(TM)m trying to make is ANY dope can take a Estes model kit, cover the paper tube with some stucco, stick a fat engine in there and it will probably fly. Will Nasa be looking at this anytime soon? Hell No! Model rockets with their solid fuel gunpowder engines are no comparison to a huge steel rocket pressurized with several atmospheres of oxygen as fuel.
Anyways, really stupid article, whoever submitted it THANK YOU for making the slashdot population just a little dumber.
Reason I bring this up is because most "hardware" almost allways uses some type of software, but instead of being stored on a floppy or hard disk it's stored on a ROM.
This is true for everything from routers to motherboards. It's all hardware running software. So why is this a bad thing to have WiFi? We've seen linux drivers surface for winmodems, and certainly they will surface for WiFi as well.
When you're living off of ramen, to quote oddtodd, "You realize that money is important to do stuff" I'm for anything that can take a $200 dollar 802.11 basestation and reduce it's price to $15.
A few years back, my CEO's wife said, "We should replace all our monitors with LCD flatscreens to make the whole company look high tech to investors" Eventually that kind of free spending drove the company into the ground.
LCD's are pretty to look at, that's about it. None of them can match the refresh rate of a CRT. (Yes I know LCD's don't really do vertical scan like CRT's do, but most LCD's sample the analog verticle refresh at 60hz then coverts it to digital unless it has a digital interface to begin with)
If you really want to reduce eye strain, or just simply get work done, a bigger monitor with a high refresh rate (120HZ+)
Size and refresh rate are the two most important things for me when I purchase a monitor. I don't care if I can hang it on a wall or off my ass. Unless you absolutely need it to be portable, you're better off using a CRT.
If the programs that run this thing are open source isn't he supposed to provide a copy? I'm curious what this thing is running and why I couldn't download a copy from his site.
His company sold a product that broke e-books encryption, his defense site says.
His program was used to help blind people read
Bullshit, the blind have so many alternatives to e-books it's silly to claim that.
Ever hear of the Americans with disabilities act? If a blind person couldn't read a book because it was ONLY published in e-book format, they could have sued the publisher for not giving them fair access.
The greatest books in the world are available in pure ASCII text format. You don't need an e-book for them, just a simple text reader like "more" or cat *.txt | more. It's absurd for his defense to even try and take the bleeding heart approach to this case.
I think Sklyarov did something bad, I'm sorry if people disagree with me. It wasn't up to him to mess with adobe's IP. If e-books were really that bad then the marketplace would have decided to NOT BUY THEM. Thus e-books would have become yet another page in the book of really shitty idea's by really stupid marketing people.
On the publisher side of the coin, it was a bad decision to publish their books in a format that could not cater to all potential customers.
Let me ask slashdotters this question, have you ever in you job been asked to do something you felt was morally wrong, or on the gray side of the law? Did you do it? Once I was asked by a CEO to scan his concubines e-mail to see if she was dating some other exec at the company. Did I do it? No because I felt that was wrong, had nothing to do with the work I did.
Citing another example, a few months back I was asked by a friends father to help him streamline his spamming operations. Did I do it for the money like a good little whore? No because I knew my actions would have further reaching implications than the money would have ever lasted.
So fuck you and your sissybaby case Sklyarov. Before you sat down and did anything, you should have asked yourself "Is helping people pirate copyrighted material right?" You shit your own nest, now sleep in it motherfucker! Maybe you'll think next time instead of blindly whoring yourself out for your boss.
There was a spell in my life about 2 years ago where I spent 6 months straight, 7 days a week, 7 martini's a night at what has been named the best karaoke bar in san jose by the san jose metro.
I popularized such forgotten hit's as Yes we have no Banana's by Spike Jones, To dream the impossible dream from Man of La Mancha, and brought new flair to Baby Got Back by Sir Mix Alot. In the beginning I was a scared lone singer up on stage, my voice was terrible and I was afraid.
I began to conquer my songs, one at a time. I would come in before any of the other singers and start around 6:00. Each song I conquered represented a fear, so in essence, I was conquering my fears.
I had a buddy that taught me the ways. Our whole thing was we were "The Rat Pack" We got other singers into this clique and sort of set the place on fire not only with our alcohol finely tuned voices, but with our stage presence and showmanship as well.
The rat pack ended when Frank Sinatra had a kid. I miss those harmonic days of bliss long since past.
So drawing from what I know makes or breaks a karaoke superstar, and applying it to this comment, I honestly have to say that I don't think this will totally help all people. You still have issue's with stage fright, crowd response, the singers harmonic vocalizations and how well they dance around and put on a show.
There is also somewhat of a joke in karaoke. Sometimes people TRY and sing off key or tempo. It's what you do with a song that makes people laugh or clap. Not just how well you sing.
I spend about %90 of my waking hours in front of my PC. My kitty has found herself a nice warm spot on top of my monitor. The only time she gets annoying is when it's 3:00am and she wan't me to go to bed. Then she will step off her perch and walk on my k/b mouse, whatever. She's just telling me, "Toqer ROWR it's time for bed you've been here much too long ROWR" I then gently scoop her into my arms and we join the wife and dog for some slumber.
Slashdot Mirror
Your part plus mine
would be even better!
I think the author is out of touch with today's kids.
I'm trying to remember the last time I burned a CD for music, I think I only did it when a friend came over and asked if I could copy CD xyz for them. For the most part, I've just about allways ripped to MP3. Pop a disk in, click start, wait about 5 minutes and presto, with ID3 tags provided by CDDB i've just added their music to my collection.
Most of the kids I know with some computer skills (ages 12 and up) do the ripping thing more often than the burning thing. From a price standpoint you never have to use media other than a little hard disk space. With CD's you have to pay out 50cents for a blank every time you want to make one. Don't forget canada either, i'm sure with the new tariff's imposed on recordable media, MP3 ripping will get even more popular over there than ever before.
Would Bill Gate's $40billion dollar personal hord be enough? I could forgive the man for a lot of things if he solved this energy crisis.
Do you really have to nitpick? Does it make you feel smart to nitpick? Why is it every time someone makes a good informative comment some ass has to come along and bitch about the spelling, or the wording. My whole comment was good, to the point, informative and ontopic. You need to get a life my friend.
Out of work sysadmin from san jose willing to donate time for the following.
Airfare to and from
Place to sleep
Food
In exchange for this, I will help convert and train users, teachers, and students linux. Send inquiries to toqernospam@pacbellnospam.netnospam (remove nospam)
Not just schools, it's a form of retaliation against the .gov by microsoft, in response to the recent trials.
.gov M$ you owe us $15million
A friend of mine works for an arm of the VA (Veterans Affairs) According to this friend, the VA is being systematically searched by M$ for license compliance, so far with grim results. Supposidly the VA is about 20million out of compliance with M$ products. It doesn't just stop at M$ stuff though.
While M$ is doing their "sweeps" they will make it their business to report any competitors product being out of license as well. This includes everything from an over the limit shareware version of winzip, to "borrowed" installed copies of quicken, and the like.
It's pretty clear what is going on. The states that have fined M$ are owed money, but all M$ has to do is prove they are out of license compliance.
M$ We pay up when you pay us for our software
It's a pretty smart tactic on M$'s part when you think about it. It's not like M$ hasn't known for years everyone pirates their software to hell. It's just kinda funny how they use it as a trump card to save their ass.
Linux has the posix market on x86 machines now. Solaris only runs good on sun hardware, but if you put linux on that same box, it runs better. So again, I reiterate, who cares?
I forget what the original name was but the Ricochet modem was used in NYC so taxi companies could track down stolen taxi's. Later that system was purchased by Metricom and reworked to become the Ricochet wireless system we know today. Even after Metricom purchased it, there were times it was used to track things like stolen customer laptops, cars, basically anything that was attatched to it could be tracked.
Medical test after medical test has shown that people that deprive themselves of sleep go insane and lose their ability to perform even the easiest of tasks.
Lol, I got an insanity story to tell...
When I was 18, I worked construction down in bakersfield. Everyday my boss would give me a little bit of krank to stick in my gums. I honestly didn't know what I was getting into as I had never done it before.
After a week of no sleep, drinking pint's of whiskey like they were soda pops, and various hallucinations. I decided it would be a *Good Thing* to take on my friends 350lb father with my 150lb kranked out self.
Lucky for me, all he did was throw me 30 feet to which, I landed on my feet, ran across the street and started yelling, "C'mon you pussy come on this side of the street i'll kick your ass!" After that episode I went home, slept for 28 hours, and vowed never to do that shit again. Haven't touched the stuff since.
IIRC there was an experiment where a factory secretly "spiked" the water cooler with pure caffiene goodness. It produced a whopping 15% in productivity amongst the workers.
I can see the drugs manufactuer now going through trial test.
Hi we'd like to spike your water coolers with a new drug we've developed
I think it's against the law to put anything other than water in those things
This new drug is *Better* than caffiene. It should increase worker production up to 25%!
That sounds great! Where do we sign up?
What do you mean by "GRANULARITY". I read your sentance over and over again tryin to figure out what context you were using the word in, then I looked it up.
granÂuÂlar Pronunciation Key (grny-lr)
adj.
Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains.
Having a grainy texture.
Biology. Containing granules: granular cells.
Still doesn't make sense, could you eleborate more please?
A long long time ago, in a internet far away..
TLD's were originally MEANT to separate entities on the internet. Then along came the big bad internic who decided what a great idea it would be to WHORE out TLD's to anyone willing to pay the price. Remember when.
.org was for non-profit
.com was for companies
.edu was for schools
.net was for network providers
It's not a free speech issue as much as it's a zoning issue. I don't mean DNS zones, i'm referring to the type of zoning cities do that dictate what kind of businesses go where. You have your industrial zones, your retail zones, your suburban zones, and yes, there are even zones for strip clubs. This kind of zoning doesn't infringe on anyone's right.
One more thing, the Internet is like our public roads, their use is a privilege, not a right. Anyone that abuses that right get's reported to their upstream provider and they disappear off the net faster than you can say "goatse.cx" I'm all for regulating these sites because Iâ(TM)m sick and tired of being tricked into a ZILLION popup ads from these fruity porn sites. Their methods have become more sinister over the years and they need to be put in check. Just because I accidentally or purposefully click a link, it's not a license to take over my computer with popup after popup.
My wife works for an arm of the .gov. She told me M$ has been auditing the .gov for license compliance on every level as a form of retaliation against the recent trials.
.gov is wanting to say buh bye M$, but the problem is a logistical one, how do you move and train all those employee's who were brought up on M$ over to *nix.
It's sort of a funny paradox, now the
Just a side note to the story I wanted to add, allmost ontopic.
Actually,
:)
The source for atari800win is freely availiable. You could use
kaillera for the netcode and voila instant atari netplay goodness. I've been wanting to play ballblazer 2p across the net for a while now
Maybe you should make it a senior project for your students to get it done :P
One of the things that helped me out was a page I found that showed me the unix equivalent of dos commands. It looked sorta like this.
DOS Unix
cd cd
md mkdir
rd rmdir or rm- f -f
type cat
more more
attrib chmod
edit vi, pico, emacs
Do this for the filesystem too. initab and rc.d are like autoexec.bat and config.sys. It will be tons easier for them to learn if they already have a foundation to build on.
What was the last thing to go through the challengers crews minds?
The control panel.
1986, what a hoot I was in 7th grade then.
The entire school was gathered in the auditorium to watch the launch. Normal Jr High stuff, people throwing things, teachers yelling at the kids, complete pandemonium.
Even after the launch, people still kept talking.
Then we saw the shuttle blow up. Silence. Nobody said a word. Everyone just looked around at each other in disbelief. The teachers had just lost one of their own, and we could see the pain in their eyes. Nobody said a word, the principal turned off the TV and ordered everyone back to class. We promptly went back to our homerooms. I can't speak for the other classes, but my usually rowdy class was well behaved on that day. We knew our teacher was hurting.
Not to dig up other bad stuff, but the only other time in my life I felt that much disbelief was on 9/11. These kinds of tragedies stick with you for the rest of your life and become a part of who you are.
I'm going to stop now, Iâ(TM)m getting too deep even for myself.
because it was SO FRICKEN STUPID! The fact it even made it as a submission just really pissed me off.
Let me get to my first beef. The link take's you to a page that describes a cement canoe. BIG WOOT! Out here in California, around Santa Cruz we have a state beach with a HUGE cement boat, not some dinky little canoe.
I wish I had a link to a picture, or something from the state park, but Iâ(TM)ll do my best to tell the story. During the war metal was in short supply (all going to the war effort) so efforts were made to find alternate materials (ala cement)
Now my second point concerns that rocket. I've built quite a few model rockets in my lifetime, mainly Estes kit's. The concrete rocket looks exactly like a Estes model 1818. It sounded like they used a C6-7, i.e. engine size C, 6-second burst, 7 second delay to parachute deployment. Listen to the video yourself you can hear it. The point Iâ(TM)m trying to make is ANY dope can take a Estes model kit, cover the paper tube with some stucco, stick a fat engine in there and it will probably fly. Will Nasa be looking at this anytime soon? Hell No! Model rockets with their solid fuel gunpowder engines are no comparison to a huge steel rocket pressurized with several atmospheres of oxygen as fuel.
Anyways, really stupid article, whoever submitted it THANK YOU for making the slashdot population just a little dumber.
It's SOOO much faster to have it in the hardware.
Ok what is the exact definition of "hardware"?
Reason I bring this up is because most "hardware" almost allways uses some type of software, but instead of being stored on a floppy or hard disk it's stored on a ROM.
This is true for everything from routers to motherboards. It's all hardware running software. So why is this a bad thing to have WiFi? We've seen linux drivers surface for winmodems, and certainly they will surface for WiFi as well.
When you're living off of ramen, to quote oddtodd, "You realize that money is important to do stuff" I'm for anything that can take a $200 dollar 802.11 basestation and reduce it's price to $15.
A few years back, my CEO's wife said, "We should replace all our monitors with LCD flatscreens to make the whole company look high tech to investors" Eventually that kind of free spending drove the company into the ground.
LCD's are pretty to look at, that's about it. None of them can match the refresh rate of a CRT. (Yes I know LCD's don't really do vertical scan like CRT's do, but most LCD's sample the analog verticle refresh at 60hz then coverts it to digital unless it has a digital interface to begin with)
If you really want to reduce eye strain, or just simply get work done, a bigger monitor with a high refresh rate (120HZ+)
Size and refresh rate are the two most important things for me when I purchase a monitor. I don't care if I can hang it on a wall or off my ass. Unless you absolutely need it to be portable, you're better off using a CRT.
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If the programs that run this thing are open source isn't he supposed to provide a copy? I'm curious what this thing is running and why I couldn't download a copy from his site.
His company sold a product that broke e-books encryption, his defense site says.
His program was used to help blind people read
Bullshit, the blind have so many alternatives to e-books it's silly to claim that.
Ever hear of the Americans with disabilities act? If a blind person couldn't read a book because it was ONLY published in e-book format, they could have sued the publisher for not giving them fair access.
The greatest books in the world are available in pure ASCII text format. You don't need an e-book for them, just a simple text reader like "more" or cat *.txt | more. It's absurd for his defense to even try and take the bleeding heart approach to this case.
I think Sklyarov did something bad, I'm sorry if people disagree with me. It wasn't up to him to mess with adobe's IP. If e-books were really that bad then the marketplace would have decided to NOT BUY THEM. Thus e-books would have become yet another page in the book of really shitty idea's by really stupid marketing people.
On the publisher side of the coin, it was a bad decision to publish their books in a format that could not cater to all potential customers.
Let me ask slashdotters this question, have you ever in you job been asked to do something you felt was morally wrong, or on the
gray side of the law? Did you do it? Once I was asked by a CEO to scan his concubines e-mail to see if she was dating some other exec at the company. Did I do it? No because I felt that was wrong, had nothing to do with the work I did.
Citing another example, a few months back I was asked by a friends father to help him streamline his spamming operations. Did I do it for the money like a good little whore? No because I knew my actions would have further reaching
implications than the money would have ever lasted.
So fuck you and your sissybaby case Sklyarov. Before you sat down and did anything, you should have asked yourself "Is helping people pirate copyrighted
material right?" You shit your own nest, now sleep in it motherfucker! Maybe you'll think next time instead of blindly whoring yourself out for your boss.
I have a karaoke story to tell,
There was a spell in my life about 2 years ago where I spent 6 months straight, 7 days a week, 7 martini's a night at what has been named the best karaoke bar in san jose by the san jose metro.
I popularized such forgotten hit's as Yes we have no Banana's by Spike Jones, To dream the impossible dream from
Man of La
Mancha, and brought new flair to Baby Got Back by Sir Mix Alot. In the
beginning I was a scared lone singer up on stage, my voice was terrible and I
was afraid.
I began to conquer my songs, one at a time. I would come in before any of the
other singers and start around 6:00. Each song I conquered represented a fear,
so in essence, I was conquering my fears.
I had a buddy that taught me the ways. Our whole thing was we were
"The Rat Pack" We got other singers into this clique and sort of set
the place on fire not only with our alcohol finely tuned voices, but with our
stage presence and showmanship as well.
The rat pack ended when Frank Sinatra had a kid. I miss those harmonic
days of bliss long since past.
So drawing from what I know makes or breaks a karaoke superstar, and applying
it to this comment, I honestly have to say that I don't think this will totally
help all people. You still have issue's with stage fright, crowd response,
the singers harmonic vocalizations and how well they dance around and put on a
show.
There is also somewhat of a joke in karaoke. Sometimes people TRY
and sing off key or tempo. It's what you do with a song that makes people laugh
or clap. Not just how well you sing.
I spend about %90 of my waking hours in front of my PC. My kitty has found herself a nice warm spot on top of my monitor. The only time she gets annoying is when it's 3:00am and she wan't me to go to bed. Then she will step off her perch and walk on my k/b mouse, whatever. She's just telling me, "Toqer ROWR it's time for bed you've been here much too long ROWR" I then gently scoop her into my arms and we join the wife and dog for some slumber.