>> Why didn't you just post the contents of the entry as the story?
Simple. I had no way of knowing whether Slashdot was going to pick it up or not. As I said in the post, my intent was to summarize the issue, submit the link to some relevant high-readership sites, and hope one or more would consider it.
By the way, thanks, folks. There's been some good ideas in some of your responses.
Mine's a similar tale. I'm 48 now and still coding, and making a decent living at it. I started in 1979, doing COBOL for an insurance company, still in transition from punched cards to 3270 terminals. I did it all -- mainframes, Honeywell DPS-6's, VAX, Novell Netware, 6502 assembler, BASIC, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python... I guess the trick was that I'm always exploring new languages and technologies on my own time (well, maybe *sometimes* on company time), so I've been ready for each new disruptive shift. The company I work for now is starting a big telecommuting push, and I jumped at that as well. Now, I'm coding in my basement, still learning new things, and the mortgage is still getting paid.
Except, of course, when Cakewalk freezes up the entire system, or forgets to send MIDI signals like "key off", or any of a million other things this all-in-one app might do wrong. And you'll NEVER KNOW WHY. You'll just reboot and try again.
If you don't know how something works, you're up the creek when it doesn't. That's why I do all my music tasks with Linux.
Michael Jackson owns the songs (the publishing catalog), not the recordings. He would make money on it, but it's not his decision whether to place the recordings on iTunes.
Well, even better, someone *has* converted the laserdisc versions of IV, V, and VII (pre-SD) into a DVD-R ready format, and they *are* being distributed over the usual underground channels.
Never mind the Pythons (for the moment, anyway). The BBC have held hostage for far too long the only live performances of Harry Nilsson ever filmed.
Oh, how I long for the day these two BBC specials are released. And I wouldn't balk at paying for them, either. But couldn't there be some clause in all this that says if the commercial arm determines some content is not worth releasing, the Creative Commons-esque release automatically kicks in?
Doesn't *anyone* recognize Don Novello when they hear him? I mean, he made no attempt to change his "Father Guido Sarducci" character when he voiced this part. So my guess is that he was supposed to be Italian.
Well, *this* US resident easily understood the poster's allusion to the two types of skiing - Alpine, where you need a slope, and Nordic, where you can use flat terrian. In your blinding rush to paint us as geographically-challenged, perhaps you missed this.
Okay, Bob, let's deal with this issue, then. You say that those of us that disagree with the shipment of gcc 2.96 "would be wrong". Even though the GCC Steering Committee was strongly opposed to this, and that its existance in Red Hat 7 may cause all sorts of compatibility problems.
Don't any of you remember AstroTit? (Think Space Invaders, only the invaders were pendulous and squirted milk, and the defender was, well, erm, ah, a spurting penis - there, I've said it.)
Ran on MS-DOS -- every bulletin board on the planet had a copy...
Believe it or not, I had one of those Sonic Blasters when I was a kid. It was, indeed, incredibly loud. The best use I remember is to pump it up (way past the recommended 10 pumps) and then shoot it from close range at a tent containing a sleeping camper.
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>> Why didn't you just post the contents of the entry as the story?
Simple. I had no way of knowing whether Slashdot was going to pick it up or not. As I said in the post, my intent was to summarize the issue, submit the link to some relevant high-readership sites, and hope one or more would consider it.
By the way, thanks, folks. There's been some good ideas in some of your responses.
Mine's a similar tale. I'm 48 now and still coding, and making a decent living at it. I started in 1979, doing COBOL for an insurance company, still in transition from punched cards to 3270 terminals. I did it all -- mainframes, Honeywell DPS-6's, VAX, Novell Netware, 6502 assembler, BASIC, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python... I guess the trick was that I'm always exploring new languages and technologies on my own time (well, maybe *sometimes* on company time), so I've been ready for each new disruptive shift. The company I work for now is starting a big telecommuting push, and I jumped at that as well. Now, I'm coding in my basement, still learning new things, and the mortgage is still getting paid.
Except, of course, when Cakewalk freezes up the entire system, or forgets to send MIDI signals like "key off", or any of a million other things this all-in-one app might do wrong. And you'll NEVER KNOW WHY. You'll just reboot and try again.
If you don't know how something works, you're up the creek when it doesn't. That's why I do all my music tasks with Linux.
YES! Please, please, please make restoration of light mode a priority!
As a tribute, I'm queueing up one of the first mainstream albums to use a Moog: The Beatles' "Abbey Road".
So long, and thanks for all the samples!
C'mon, Kurt, you get a Slashdot link to your blog out of it, which should do wonders for your Google ads.
That was a National Lampoon cover, not a Mad cover.
Michael Jackson owns the songs (the publishing catalog), not the recordings. He would make money on it, but it's not his decision whether to place the recordings on iTunes.
Well, even better, someone *has* converted the laserdisc versions of IV, V, and VII (pre-SD) into a DVD-R ready format, and they *are* being distributed over the usual underground channels.
You know where to go.
Never mind the Pythons (for the moment, anyway). The BBC have held hostage for far too long the only live performances of Harry Nilsson ever filmed.
Oh, how I long for the day these two BBC specials are released. And I wouldn't balk at paying for them, either. But couldn't there be some clause in all this that says if the commercial arm determines some content is not worth releasing, the Creative Commons-esque release automatically kicks in?
Free Harry now!
Two L's in Russell, heathen.
When you're a 1337, you're a l33t all the way,
From your first kiddie script, till you r00t DEA
Doesn't *anyone* recognize Don Novello when they hear him? I mean, he made no attempt to change his "Father Guido Sarducci" character when he voiced this part. So my guess is that he was supposed to be Italian.
Well, *this* US resident easily understood the poster's allusion to the two types of skiing - Alpine, where you need a slope, and Nordic, where you can use flat terrian. In your blinding rush to paint us as geographically-challenged, perhaps you missed this.
Okay, Bob, let's deal with this issue, then. You say that those of us that disagree with the shipment of gcc 2.96 "would be wrong". Even though the GCC Steering Committee was strongly opposed to this, and that its existance in Red Hat 7 may cause all sorts of compatibility problems.
// optimized Hamlet
I want to know -- what's the upside of 2.96?
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question = '\FF';
Don't any of you remember AstroTit? (Think Space Invaders, only the invaders were pendulous and squirted milk, and the defender was, well, erm, ah, a spurting penis - there, I've said it.)
Ran on MS-DOS -- every bulletin board on the planet had a copy...
Believe it or not, I had one of those Sonic Blasters when I was a kid. It was, indeed, incredibly loud. The best use I remember is to pump it up (way past the recommended 10 pumps) and then shoot it from close range at a tent containing a sleeping camper.