The state department realized it was going to cost a lot more than originally expected since they'll have to pay sales tax by the time the shipment is ready.
Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."
Reading the criticisms levied against the site is like listening to those two elderly women who just like to complain: "Boy, the music at this place is really terrible." "Yeah, I know; and there isn't nearly enough of it!"
I think quantity needed to be more important than quality for this project. Sure, they need to have a minimum standard of quality, but the idea was to free as much music as possible. Some kid somewhere in the world would never have heard this music because he's not going to pay $1.29 for some music he's never heard (that they're not playing on the radio) and the sheet music isn't exactly jumping off the page to ensnare his imagination. However, something that's well-written and decently-performed on this site may get his attention and maybe someday he'll perform a better version and give back to us all. But that won't ever happen if he never hears it. That first exposure is key.
The first time I heard Scheherazade it was in a movie (The Man With One Red Shoe). I didn't know what it was, but it got my attention. I was about seven. Years later I came across it again as a track that was tacked onto a $3 budget classical CD, and it got my attention again. I suggested it to the orchestra director in my high school and hundreds of people got to hear it. It's all about the exposure.
If you want to be a snob about the quality, go pay for a performance and share it with the rest of us so we won't have to live our lives not knowing what good music sounds like. Frankly, I prefer the Scheherazade recording on that budget CD to any I've found on iTunes. The first performance of a piece is often the one you like best, because it's the one you fell in love with. I have a very old recording of Stokowski and the NY Philharmonic performing Stravinsky's Firebird suite that is full of hiss and crackle, but I prefer it over a clean-sounding recording of Bernstein and the Israel Philharmonic performing the same piece. Bernstein's performance, which is well-done, just doesn't sound urgent enough to me because I heard Stokowski's first. Perhaps what you're really concerned about is the possibility that the masses may come to prefer a version other than what you like.
There's still a lot to be added, so go ahead and donate. Sure, they've got Stravinsky's Firebird, but not The Rite of Spring. The Rite of Spring was so radical and jarring to the ears of the "more cultured representatives of society" at its 1913 premiere in Paris that the audience began yelling so loudly no one could hear the music. Eventually the scene devolved into chairs being thrown and fires set. So go ahead, throw your chairs at this new site in disgust because it doesn't agree with your notion of how the music should sound. The music that stripped away the cultured veneer of those Parisans is worth hearing, and a public domain music site that so-ruffled the feathers of the "free-as-in-beer" and "information wants to be free" slashdot crowd is worth visiting.
If you browse the music by composer, the list starts with Dvorak, Antonin... then Albaniz, Isaac and all the composers whose last names start with A... then Bach and the Bs... Chaliapin and the Cs... It looks familiar but not quite what we're accustomed to... like something is slightly off. Whoever created the list must have been using a Dvorak keyboard!
...its just a collection of EVERY finance app available on all platforms, I mean, they could have weened it down to maybe the top 10 apps, instead of a huge collection of crapware.
[extreme sarcasm]That's why it's important that everyone vote for the apps that feature pictures of the toughest looking padlocks! That way you know you're voting for the most secure software. Direct democracy triumphs again![/extreme sarcasm]
(I'm going to go find some Tylenol and hope the next 27 days are Canada's version of the U.S. holiday called "April Fool's Day")
India claims it can send something to orbit the Mars for $100 millions.
Can anyone believe that?
You need to read between the lines here. They're going to build a $10 million communications satellite and hitchhike on a Russian rocket (which, based on Russia's Mars exploration history, means the rocket will die somewhere on the way to Mars... just ask China how that deal worked out for them) by offering to put $90 million toward fuel. Then they will route all call center traffic through this satellite, introducing a latency of several minutes between the caller and the call center rep, causing most callers to give up without costing the companies they called any money. So yes, I believe they will attempt it, but no, they will not succeed because all of Russia's attempts (Russia, not the USSR) have failed so far.
Sorry, somehow I thought they were talking about successful launches. In that case, you've got (1) US, (2) USSR, (3) ESA, (4) Russia, (5) China, and (6) My Little Brother, who tried to launch himself to Mars by jumping high enough on his bed. I classified it a failure when he hit his head on the ceiling and passed out, but if the criteria is "launches," then he absolutely has to be on the list, which would make India lucky number 7. Good luck India, and if I may humbly suggest, pillows duct taped to the ceiling will save you lots of headaches in the event that you do not achieve escape velocity.
As far as I can tell, there are only two countries, plus the European Space Agency, that have achieved Mars orbit (by launch year):
United States 1964
United States 1969
Soviet Union 1973
United States 1975
United States 1996
ESA 2003
United States 2003
United States 2005
United States 2007
United States 2011
And there are only two countries that have successfully landed on Mars (by landing year):
Soviet Union 1971
United States 1976
United States 1997
United States 2003
United States 2008
United States 2012
Japan launched a probe, but it failed to achieve orbit (it "missed the planet") and China had a joint venture with Russia that never left Earth's orbit. Wikipedia has a nice graphic illustrating the history of Mars exploration.
As a result of this rapid expansion of private monitoring, the company recently won a $25,000 contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide a database that would help locate "fugitive aliens."
I don't get it. What does an agency whose primary mandate is to shut down Web sites and seize domain names need LPR data for? Are people driving server farms around in trucks?
The kilt itself doesn't have pockets, it's the "Sporran" (Scottish Gaelic for "purse", it is the progenitor of the "murse," the jockstrap cup and the pocket protector) that is worn in front of the kilt that serves as the pocket. I expect it's only a matter of time before Belkin and Griffin make a $50 piece of plastic you can snap your iPad into to hang in front of your crotch from a cord, making it conveniently placed when sitting down or quickly accessible by simply flipping up when standing... also useful as an electronic billboard in public spaces for featuring paid advertisements or dubious national pride statements, such as: "A true Scotsman wears nothing beneath his kilt."
Waste electrical and electronic equipment, or WEEE, is one the fastest growing waste streams in the EU, but currently only one-third of electrical and electronic waste is separately collected and appropriately treated.
The French had no arguments with this proposal, "Oui! We have been recycling our WEEE for some time now, and selling it to the Americans as 'eau de toilette.' We find this is a very profitable arrangement that also supports our sense of national pride. Now go away or I shall spray it on you a second time!"
They're not Mutant Butterflies, they're just discarded packaging from the MSN installer disks from back when they administrated the plant remotely via dialup connection. You know, before the meltdown. They don't use MSN dialup now... that would be silly.
s--t opens up all kinds of possible clues as to what they're really doing in there (courtesy of the RegEx Dictionary):
"Do Epic Salt" could be religious in nature, if only they had the light to go with it.
"Do Epic Scat" could be, well, crappy.
"Do Epic Scot" could be a hint that Sean Connery will play Ballmer in an upcoming movie about Steve Jobs
"Do Epic Seat" could be a hint that they're working on a special chair to offset the major pain in the ass NotMetro is expected to be
"Do Epic Sect" could be a skunkworks project to recruit fanboys
"Do Epic Shat" could be a retrospective on the history of Windows... uh, narrated by William Shatner
"Do Epic Skit" could be a code for the rehearsal to train people to look excited at their store openings, and hide the fact that hired DJs are using iTunes
"Do Epic Slit" could be... nahhh...
"Do Epic Slut" or "Do Epic Smut" could be an indication that MSFT wants to enter the lucrative smut scene and cut off Heffner's air supply
"Do Epic Snot" or "Do Epic Spit" No. Just no.
Absolutely not. All content posted on Slashdot must be entirely the original work of the poster, unless the linked content is unimportant, not insightful, related to business intelligence or involves videos of remote-control flying taxidermied cats. I would link to the relevant regulations, but then I'd be in violation.
At that level its just a shiny object with no substance.
But then again, with what goes on in the political world these days perhaps it's appropriate.
Actually, what we have here is a perfect model of the beltway (the highway that surrounds Washington DC). A giant traffic jam of conflicting yet semi-exclusively intersecting interests with a whole lot of nothing going on in the middle as a result.
I agree that the 11-Venn is fairly useless as a PowerPoint slide...
Are you inferring -(next slide)- that there are things which -(next slide)- are not -(next slide)- fairly useless as PowerPoint slides? -(next slide)- Many have claimed to invent such a thing, but none have succeeded.
At that level its just a shiny object with no substance.
Which means there will be a function built into the next version of Flash to allow people to quickly build these. That way Flash can stay at the forefront of the SONS (Shiny Object No Substance) niche market.
There are legitimate medical reasons why some patients shouldn't have access to all raw medical data.
You never know, he could get stuck in a feedback loop. He sees that his heart is beating a little fast because he's anxious about what his heart rate is. This causes more anxiety which causes his heart to beat faster. Seeing that it is out of control sends him into a panic and pushes the rate even higher, etc. Eventually he has a heart attack and sues the company.
"Like the look of the Metro Interface? Well it's right here in one of these shiny boxes! That's right, ooh shiny. Sick and tired of the Metro Interface? Well one of these boxes here has the NotMetro Interface! That's right, just what you asked for. No, no sir, no shell game here, just good fun. What's that? Oh, you wanted an actual shell? That's right here inside one of these boxes, inside the NotMetro Interface, inside the NotDOS prompt! Something for everyone! Step right up!"
Sucks, but I guess that's how the cookie crumbles.
Blizzard's cookies don't crumble. They persist until Blizzard no longer has a use for them, and then simply blink out of existence when they expire. It's rather cleaner than the old crumble method in which bits of data would slowly break off and go all over the place.
It's more likely that Starbucks set up a Spy-Who-Loved-Me-esque secret under-sea base that serves as a combination processing plant where Jaws grinds beans for less than minimum wage and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos resides in a luxury suite off-shore tax haven.
TFA goes on to note that high levels of caffeine have been detected in Boston Harbor, but they're not suggesting any link between the levels and the tea party.The whole article is dubious, given that it consists of four whopping paragraphs and two stock photos (one of some plastic bags underwater someplace that sure doesn't look like the Oregon coast to me, and the other a closeup of someone's coffee) that take up more of the page than the actual body of the "article," which has no journalistic merit whatsoever. The actual paper that this all comes from is behind a paywall that wants $40. Nothing to see here... move along...
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The state department realized it was going to cost a lot more than originally expected since they'll have to pay sales tax by the time the shipment is ready.
I bet if you hook it up to a speaker and say, "Bring out your dead!" it will reply, "I'm not dead!"
Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."
Reading the criticisms levied against the site is like listening to those two elderly women who just like to complain: "Boy, the music at this place is really terrible." "Yeah, I know; and there isn't nearly enough of it!"
I think quantity needed to be more important than quality for this project. Sure, they need to have a minimum standard of quality, but the idea was to free as much music as possible. Some kid somewhere in the world would never have heard this music because he's not going to pay $1.29 for some music he's never heard (that they're not playing on the radio) and the sheet music isn't exactly jumping off the page to ensnare his imagination. However, something that's well-written and decently-performed on this site may get his attention and maybe someday he'll perform a better version and give back to us all. But that won't ever happen if he never hears it. That first exposure is key.
The first time I heard Scheherazade it was in a movie (The Man With One Red Shoe). I didn't know what it was, but it got my attention. I was about seven. Years later I came across it again as a track that was tacked onto a $3 budget classical CD, and it got my attention again. I suggested it to the orchestra director in my high school and hundreds of people got to hear it. It's all about the exposure.
If you want to be a snob about the quality, go pay for a performance and share it with the rest of us so we won't have to live our lives not knowing what good music sounds like. Frankly, I prefer the Scheherazade recording on that budget CD to any I've found on iTunes. The first performance of a piece is often the one you like best, because it's the one you fell in love with. I have a very old recording of Stokowski and the NY Philharmonic performing Stravinsky's Firebird suite that is full of hiss and crackle, but I prefer it over a clean-sounding recording of Bernstein and the Israel Philharmonic performing the same piece. Bernstein's performance, which is well-done, just doesn't sound urgent enough to me because I heard Stokowski's first. Perhaps what you're really concerned about is the possibility that the masses may come to prefer a version other than what you like.
There's still a lot to be added, so go ahead and donate. Sure, they've got Stravinsky's Firebird, but not The Rite of Spring. The Rite of Spring was so radical and jarring to the ears of the "more cultured representatives of society" at its 1913 premiere in Paris that the audience began yelling so loudly no one could hear the music. Eventually the scene devolved into chairs being thrown and fires set. So go ahead, throw your chairs at this new site in disgust because it doesn't agree with your notion of how the music should sound. The music that stripped away the cultured veneer of those Parisans is worth hearing, and a public domain music site that so-ruffled the feathers of the "free-as-in-beer" and "information wants to be free" slashdot crowd is worth visiting.
If you browse the music by composer, the list starts with Dvorak, Antonin... then Albaniz, Isaac and all the composers whose last names start with A... then Bach and the Bs... Chaliapin and the Cs... It looks familiar but not quite what we're accustomed to... like something is slightly off. Whoever created the list must have been using a Dvorak keyboard!
...its just a collection of EVERY finance app available on all platforms, I mean, they could have weened it down to maybe the top 10 apps, instead of a huge collection of crapware.
[extreme sarcasm]That's why it's important that everyone vote for the apps that feature pictures of the toughest looking padlocks! That way you know you're voting for the most secure software. Direct democracy triumphs again![/extreme sarcasm]
(I'm going to go find some Tylenol and hope the next 27 days are Canada's version of the U.S. holiday called "April Fool's Day")
India claims it can send something to orbit the Mars for $100 millions. Can anyone believe that?
You need to read between the lines here. They're going to build a $10 million communications satellite and hitchhike on a Russian rocket (which, based on Russia's Mars exploration history, means the rocket will die somewhere on the way to Mars... just ask China how that deal worked out for them) by offering to put $90 million toward fuel. Then they will route all call center traffic through this satellite, introducing a latency of several minutes between the caller and the call center rep, causing most callers to give up without costing the companies they called any money. So yes, I believe they will attempt it, but no, they will not succeed because all of Russia's attempts (Russia, not the USSR) have failed so far.
Sorry, somehow I thought they were talking about successful launches. In that case, you've got (1) US, (2) USSR, (3) ESA, (4) Russia, (5) China, and (6) My Little Brother, who tried to launch himself to Mars by jumping high enough on his bed. I classified it a failure when he hit his head on the ceiling and passed out, but if the criteria is "launches," then he absolutely has to be on the list, which would make India lucky number 7. Good luck India, and if I may humbly suggest, pillows duct taped to the ceiling will save you lots of headaches in the event that you do not achieve escape velocity.
and their cars catch fire
At least they weren't big fires. They were Nano fires.
And there are only two countries that have successfully landed on Mars (by landing year):
Japan launched a probe, but it failed to achieve orbit (it "missed the planet") and China had a joint venture with Russia that never left Earth's orbit. Wikipedia has a nice graphic illustrating the history of Mars exploration.
As a result of this rapid expansion of private monitoring, the company recently won a $25,000 contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide a database that would help locate "fugitive aliens."
I don't get it. What does an agency whose primary mandate is to shut down Web sites and seize domain names need LPR data for? Are people driving server farms around in trucks?
The kilt itself doesn't have pockets, it's the "Sporran" (Scottish Gaelic for "purse", it is the progenitor of the "murse," the jockstrap cup and the pocket protector) that is worn in front of the kilt that serves as the pocket. I expect it's only a matter of time before Belkin and Griffin make a $50 piece of plastic you can snap your iPad into to hang in front of your crotch from a cord, making it conveniently placed when sitting down or quickly accessible by simply flipping up when standing... also useful as an electronic billboard in public spaces for featuring paid advertisements or dubious national pride statements, such as: "A true Scotsman wears nothing beneath his kilt."
It's a smaller iPad.
My god that's innovative! They should totally patent that idea!
It's not smaller, they just made the corners more roundier.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment, or WEEE, is one the fastest growing waste streams in the EU, but currently only one-third of electrical and electronic waste is separately collected and appropriately treated.
The French had no arguments with this proposal, "Oui! We have been recycling our WEEE for some time now, and selling it to the Americans as 'eau de toilette.' We find this is a very profitable arrangement that also supports our sense of national pride. Now go away or I shall spray it on you a second time!"
They're not Mutant Butterflies, they're just discarded packaging from the MSN installer disks from back when they administrated the plant remotely via dialup connection. You know, before the meltdown. They don't use MSN dialup now... that would be silly.
s--t opens up all kinds of possible clues as to what they're really doing in there (courtesy of the RegEx Dictionary):
"Do Epic Salt" could be religious in nature, if only they had the light to go with it.
"Do Epic Scat" could be, well, crappy.
"Do Epic Scot" could be a hint that Sean Connery will play Ballmer in an upcoming movie about Steve Jobs
"Do Epic Seat" could be a hint that they're working on a special chair to offset the major pain in the ass NotMetro is expected to be
"Do Epic Sect" could be a skunkworks project to recruit fanboys
"Do Epic Shat" could be a retrospective on the history of Windows... uh, narrated by William Shatner
"Do Epic Skit" could be a code for the rehearsal to train people to look excited at their store openings, and hide the fact that hired DJs are using iTunes
"Do Epic Slit" could be... nahhh...
"Do Epic Slut" or "Do Epic Smut" could be an indication that MSFT wants to enter the lucrative smut scene and cut off Heffner's air supply
"Do Epic Snot" or "Do Epic Spit" No. Just no.
Personally, I think what they're really saying is they plan to "do shit" to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Here is the reddit thread.
Are you allowed to do that here?
Absolutely not. All content posted on Slashdot must be entirely the original work of the poster, unless the linked content is unimportant, not insightful, related to business intelligence or involves videos of remote-control flying taxidermied cats. I would link to the relevant regulations, but then I'd be in violation.
At that level its just a shiny object with no substance.
But then again, with what goes on in the political world these days perhaps it's appropriate.
Actually, what we have here is a perfect model of the beltway (the highway that surrounds Washington DC). A giant traffic jam of conflicting yet semi-exclusively intersecting interests with a whole lot of nothing going on in the middle as a result.
I agree that the 11-Venn is fairly useless as a PowerPoint slide...
Are you inferring
-(next slide)-
that there are things which
-(next slide)-
are not
-(next slide)-
fairly useless as PowerPoint slides?
-(next slide)-
Many have claimed to invent such a thing, but none have succeeded.
At that level its just a shiny object with no substance.
Which means there will be a function built into the next version of Flash to allow people to quickly build these. That way Flash can stay at the forefront of the SONS (Shiny Object No Substance) niche market.
There are legitimate medical reasons why some patients shouldn't have access to all raw medical data.
You never know, he could get stuck in a feedback loop. He sees that his heart is beating a little fast because he's anxious about what his heart rate is. This causes more anxiety which causes his heart to beat faster. Seeing that it is out of control sends him into a panic and pushes the rate even higher, etc. Eventually he has a heart attack and sues the company.
It's a shell game.
"Like the look of the Metro Interface? Well it's right here in one of these shiny boxes! That's right, ooh shiny. Sick and tired of the Metro Interface? Well one of these boxes here has the NotMetro Interface! That's right, just what you asked for. No, no sir, no shell game here, just good fun. What's that? Oh, you wanted an actual shell? That's right here inside one of these boxes, inside the NotMetro Interface, inside the NotDOS prompt! Something for everyone! Step right up!"
Sucks, but I guess that's how the cookie crumbles.
Blizzard's cookies don't crumble. They persist until Blizzard no longer has a use for them, and then simply blink out of existence when they expire. It's rather cleaner than the old crumble method in which bits of data would slowly break off and go all over the place.
"66 Million Chickens Vaccinated in Los Altos" sounds like the headline to a story about a Steve Wozniak prank. (The famous garage was in Los Altos)
It's more likely that Starbucks set up a Spy-Who-Loved-Me-esque secret under-sea base that serves as a combination processing plant where Jaws grinds beans for less than minimum wage and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos resides in a luxury suite off-shore tax haven.
TFA goes on to note that high levels of caffeine have been detected in Boston Harbor, but they're not suggesting any link between the levels and the tea party.The whole article is dubious, given that it consists of four whopping paragraphs and two stock photos (one of some plastic bags underwater someplace that sure doesn't look like the Oregon coast to me, and the other a closeup of someone's coffee) that take up more of the page than the actual body of the "article," which has no journalistic merit whatsoever. The actual paper that this all comes from is behind a paywall that wants $40. Nothing to see here... move along...
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