Sounds like Buckaroo Banzai & crew were really on to something when they fired up their oscillation overthruster and drove through that mountain in the desert. I suppose the Fifth Dimension is full of Red Lectroids, too?
In addition to this, what the market needs is a chip that will block out:
Televangelists
MTV (useless anyway for last 10 years, as we all know)
VH1 Behind the Music (Leif Garrett episode)
Old episodes of Three's Company (except episode with John Ritter's scrotum)
Survivor
When Animals Attack! (oops, we like that one)
WWF Smackdown
Home Shopping Club
HGTV
Barney (but not the Teletubbies)
Everything shown on the Lifetime (for women) channel
In fact, forget everything else, I want the Lifetime (for women) channel off my TV set.
BellSouth is doing this in some new subdivisions. The crappy part about it is they cap you at about 1.5megabit/sec d/l and 128k u/l, and force you to use PPPoE.
Do we have an epidemic in this country of children viewing "every piece of filth available" in our public libraries? Have our public libraries sunk so low that they are now a cesspool of gore and pornography? Have you even been to a library lately?
The First Amendment is one of the cornerstones on which our country was founded. It is a part of the Constitution for a reason, and you trivialize it at your peril. Perhaps you should leave the country and live somewhere where people do not care about such silly things.
Agreed. Genetic engineering has the potential to do great things, and those who are scared of it should realize that there are other factors which have a far more significant effect on the environment. (I say this, having just purchased a brand new 2001 Dodge Durango sport-utility vehicle.)
Remember the fuss a number of years ago regarding recombinant DNA, which was supposed to cause all kinds of havoc? Nothing bad came of that.
Luddites are bad. When it comes to technology or biotechnology.
This sounds like you have parents who are unwilling/unable to take the steps necessary to establish and maintain parental checks and balances over you. This does not render the idea pointless in general; rather, it makes it pointless in your specific case.
Hopefully, you will not turn out like Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold.
It would never have occurred to me that someone would -want- to browse Slashdot commentary at -1, let alone codify a technique for evaluating the "troll" phenomenon. Unless, of course, your post is a troll in and of itself, in which case I salute you.
I have better things to do with my time, such as browsing through gigs of free pr0n.
My concern is that a subscription-based Napster model will tend to promote "artists" like Britney Spears and N'Sync, and detract from the true value of the service.
What makes it worthwhile is finding music that you like which is not available anywhere else. Many remixes, songs "combined" with other songs, and obscure songs from the 80's which are no longer played on the radio (even 80's format stations) can be found through Napster. Say you wanted to find a techno remix of Pachelbel's "Canon in D Major". Until Napster came along, I didn't know this existed.
In a subscription model, it's easy to imagine record companies making only part of their catalogs available, the part that will give them the highest possible future sales.
A couple of years ago I bought my girlfriend a used Atari 2600 off the internet because she wanted to play PacMan and Frogger. She used to like those when she was a kid.
I have to say that the Atari 2600 is a true testament to the design philosophy of the late 1970's. It's ugly, it's "plasticky", and has a very cheesy feel to it. However, I used to love it when I was young...
My home connection to the internet is through Flashcom, who in my area was using Above.net. Since Flashcom is currently in Chapter 11 and have chosen to neither answer their phone nor provide any functionality on their webpage, it is difficult to discern exactly to whom to complain. They certainly could care less now.
The really odd thing is that my internet access has been otherwise flawless over the last year and a half. I will definitely have to pay more attention to this.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like Buckaroo Banzai & crew were really on to something when they fired up their oscillation overthruster and drove through that mountain in the desert. I suppose the Fifth Dimension is full of Red Lectroids, too?
In addition to this, what the market needs is a chip that will block out:
Televangelists
MTV (useless anyway for last 10 years, as we all know)
VH1 Behind the Music (Leif Garrett episode)
Old episodes of Three's Company (except episode with John Ritter's scrotum)
Survivor
When Animals Attack! (oops, we like that one)
WWF Smackdown
Home Shopping Club
HGTV
Barney (but not the Teletubbies)
Everything shown on the Lifetime (for women) channel
In fact, forget everything else, I want the Lifetime (for women) channel off my TV set.
Easy there, turbo... he was just making a funny. I can just see it though, on a call to tech support:
"I'm a little confused about configuring my 'modem', am I supposed to set it up as an ABR or an ASBR? And what is an LSA, anyway?"
OSPF For Dummies, I love it!
BellSouth is doing this in some new subdivisions. The crappy part about it is they cap you at about 1.5megabit/sec d/l and 128k u/l, and force you to use PPPoE.
Useless.
Do we have an epidemic in this country of children viewing "every piece of filth available" in our public libraries? Have our public libraries sunk so low that they are now a cesspool of gore and pornography? Have you even been to a library lately?
The First Amendment is one of the cornerstones on which our country was founded. It is a part of the Constitution for a reason, and you trivialize it at your peril. Perhaps you should leave the country and live somewhere where people do not care about such silly things.
Agreed. Genetic engineering has the potential to do great things, and those who are scared of it should realize that there are other factors which have a far more significant effect on the environment. (I say this, having just purchased a brand new 2001 Dodge Durango sport-utility vehicle.)
Remember the fuss a number of years ago regarding recombinant DNA, which was supposed to cause all kinds of havoc? Nothing bad came of that.
Luddites are bad. When it comes to technology or biotechnology.
Nuff said. She has no respect for you or others around her.
This sounds like you have parents who are unwilling/unable to take the steps necessary to establish and maintain parental checks and balances over you. This does not render the idea pointless in general; rather, it makes it pointless in your specific case.
Hopefully, you will not turn out like Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold.
Perception of expertise and deep understanding by those same CEOs who just don't worry about that stuff.
Does not matter whether you are technically correct, it's how well you can sling the buzzwords.
We already have a stupid society. Just look at our Presidential poster-child.
Unbelievable.
It would never have occurred to me that someone would -want- to browse Slashdot commentary at -1, let alone codify a technique for evaluating the "troll" phenomenon. Unless, of course, your post is a troll in and of itself, in which case I salute you.
I have better things to do with my time, such as browsing through gigs of free pr0n.
My concern is that a subscription-based Napster model will tend to promote "artists" like Britney Spears and N'Sync, and detract from the true value of the service.
What makes it worthwhile is finding music that you like which is not available anywhere else. Many remixes, songs "combined" with other songs, and obscure songs from the 80's which are no longer played on the radio (even 80's format stations) can be found through Napster. Say you wanted to find a techno remix of Pachelbel's "Canon in D Major". Until Napster came along, I didn't know this existed.
In a subscription model, it's easy to imagine record companies making only part of their catalogs available, the part that will give them the highest possible future sales.
A couple of years ago I bought my girlfriend a used Atari 2600 off the internet because she wanted to play PacMan and Frogger. She used to like those when she was a kid.
I have to say that the Atari 2600 is a true testament to the design philosophy of the late 1970's. It's ugly, it's "plasticky", and has a very cheesy feel to it. However, I used to love it when I was young...
My home connection to the internet is through Flashcom, who in my area was using Above.net. Since Flashcom is currently in Chapter 11 and have chosen to neither answer their phone nor provide any functionality on their webpage, it is difficult to discern exactly to whom to complain. They certainly could care less now.
The really odd thing is that my internet access has been otherwise flawless over the last year and a half. I will definitely have to pay more attention to this.
John