I'm on the verge of moving to the US from the UK, to work in silicon valley.
I wish you luck and hope they're paying you an absolute boatload of money, because you're going to need it when you try to buy a house. (Hint: Google 'silicon valley housing costs'.)
Ah, gotcha. And may I say you have the most frightening web site I've seen in quite some time. I'm going to curl up into a ball now. The 80s are not a nice thing to inflict on the innocent, don't you know?
Here we have someone who plunders the public domain, adapts and creates something new from what they found there and then complains when others do the same to their own creations.
"Fahrenheit 451" is public domain? Does Bradbury know? It doesn't seem to be on gutenberg.net, imagine that.
(Politicians can relate to business men because they wear the same suits and ties, and many of them were business men themselves at one point or another)
Not to mention the bribe^Hpolitical contributions you're more likely to get, and in larger amounts, from businessmen than from smart people with piercings.
The practice of paying for play insures that only songs with cash behind them ever get onto a radio playlist. If you've ever been to a club and had a band blast you off your feet with a great song, and they don't have a Sony behind them with wads of cash, you can forget about ever hearing them on the radio.
Now, this wouldn't be too horrible if the well-financed record companies showed a bit more skill with regards to A&R. They don't. You're going to get Velvet Revolver's "Slither" shoved into your earholes over and over until you decide to go out and buy 'Contraband'; you will then find that "Slither" is the only good song on the CD and you just paid $14 for a single and a bunch of B-sides.
(I made this mistake when Jane's Addiction released "Strays" and told myself that there'd be a lot of songs like 'Just Because' on the CD. Bye bye $14.)
I understand where you're going with regards to open competition. But in the music industry there is no real competition beyond the megacorp labels. I'm sure there are A&R people who "get it" but can't get certain bands into a given label's fold no matter how hard they try.
"Jack, since you're off today, you can get to work on this to-do list I've written."
"Did you get permission to make this list?"
"WHAT-DID-YOU-SAY?"
"Bill Gates owns the patent on to-do lists now. Tell you what, here's the number to Microsoft's licensing department. I'll be on the golf course. Later."
Heh. She'd say "hey baby, you want me to slip out of this shirt" and the typical gamer geek would be roaring "Hell No! I'm almost done with this level! Stop squirming!"
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I wish you luck and hope they're paying you an absolute boatload of money, because you're going to need it when you try to buy a house. (Hint: Google 'silicon valley housing costs'.)
Now someone needs to liberate their poor webserver from the /. effect. /twenty posts in and it's baked.
Ah, gotcha. And may I say you have the most frightening web site I've seen in quite some time. I'm going to curl up into a ball now. The 80s are not a nice thing to inflict on the innocent, don't you know?
Just set it up as a web server and post something on it that gets noticed on /. Instant boxen toast.
"Fahrenheit 451" is public domain? Does Bradbury know? It doesn't seem to be on gutenberg.net, imagine that.
Not to mention the bribe^Hpolitical contributions you're more likely to get, and in larger amounts, from businessmen than from smart people with piercings.
Not every computer has a voice interface. In ten years, maybe. But for now being able to do an accurate 60+ WPM is a useful skill.
The first way we'll know if contact has been made is when all the grown-ups disappear. No parents!
Hey ladies, Make Money Fa$T!!! Ask me how.
Only one reason to watch CNN-HN: Robin Meade.
Why not try voting the son of a bitch out of office?
Crow and Tom Servo?
Yahoo's mail site appears to be slashdotted. Kind of hard to take advantage of all that storage space if you can't log in. Nice planning, Yahoo.
You mean STFW, don't you?
Nonetheless, there are people out there who will sell you FreeBSD or the Brooklyn Bridge.
Now, this wouldn't be too horrible if the well-financed record companies showed a bit more skill with regards to A&R. They don't. You're going to get Velvet Revolver's "Slither" shoved into your earholes over and over until you decide to go out and buy 'Contraband'; you will then find that "Slither" is the only good song on the CD and you just paid $14 for a single and a bunch of B-sides.
(I made this mistake when Jane's Addiction released "Strays" and told myself that there'd be a lot of songs like 'Just Because' on the CD. Bye bye $14.)
I understand where you're going with regards to open competition. But in the music industry there is no real competition beyond the megacorp labels. I'm sure there are A&R people who "get it" but can't get certain bands into a given label's fold no matter how hard they try.
Then again, it's not as though God would find a music industry lawyer in heaven, right?
"Did you get permission to make this list?"
"WHAT-DID-YOU-SAY?"
"Bill Gates owns the patent on to-do lists now. Tell you what, here's the number to Microsoft's licensing department. I'll be on the golf course. Later."
Maybe it was running on a Mini.
why didn't they calculate the /. effect on their servers beforehand and load-balance appropriately?
William Gibson isn't exactly Linus when it comes to technology, but he's managed to put out some pretty good stuff.
You'll have to define mainstream America a little, since you can get grocery delivery in Lexington KY.
Heh. She'd say "hey baby, you want me to slip out of this shirt" and the typical gamer geek would be roaring "Hell No! I'm almost done with this level! Stop squirming!"
I for one welcome our new Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus overlords...
Um, so's the occasional Paragraph tag. Line spacing is your friend.