Honestly, this is a _NEWS_ site, not a list of programs you're supposed to use. So, there's some _good_ stuff out there about Mozilla, there's also some bad stuff.
Just be thankful it's open-source, because that means that there's a couple million people who can help fix it.
Once again someone misses the point in its entirety of high-level languages.
If you decide that you're going to stick only to assembly and nothing else, you're going to find little love in the computer industry.
High-level languages are designed so that you don't have to go through a couple billion lines of extraneous code to do something. Sure, if you program in assembler, your code will be cleaner, faster and has a greater potential for looking brilliant to other hackers, but I dare you to try coding around in assembler making a couple of graphics engines and tell me how simple it is in x86 against C++.
I mean, christ, I love assembler. You can do whatever you want with the memory, write self-modifying code, know at all times what is going on with the processor and everything else in the system, but fer crying out loud, if I want to make something as simple as a function call in Motorola HC11 that requires about 6 lines of code per call. A simple 4-line if block can result in a 20-line assembly instruction that would just be bloody easier to do if you just let a compiler automagically run it for you.
While Assembly is pretty, and I encourage that if you want to be a programmer, learn it and use it well, but for crying out loud, don't stop there.
It was something about being naturally-occuring caffeine... or some process of adding caffeine.
Most "energy" caffeine drinks that aren't Sobe in Canada tend to be derived from Guarana, which is a natural source of caffeine. Hence Rev, Whoopass, E=MC^2, Go-Go, Grape Jolt (which is clear, btw) are all allowed to have caffeine in it....
However, I usually have to go on Case-runs down to Blaine, WA to get my stock of decent Mountain Dew...
Alcohol as a diuretic isn't really the main "raver" concern when it's combined with caffeine, because with alcohol, if you end up with too much of it, rather than die of dehydration, you tend to puke out the alcohol...
MDMA, however, is a FAR worse diuretic than caffeine and alcohol combined...
Revs give you hangovers. E gives you overheating...
And the reason, as stated in the subject header, that Rev hasn't caught on is because it's only available in Canada...
Not only can you stay up all night, but you can feel like you took too many painkillers too!
Essentially, this stuff is Red bull & Vodka, and its notorious taste is that of cough syrup. But a rank-ass disgusting taste didn't turn the rest of north america off coffee...
They should seriously market this stuff to geek culture a bit better... so far the only culture that seems to have grasped it is rave culture, but they've already got their excruciatingly-uber-powerful wake-up drugs to cope with...
I used to use windows for relatively simple things: Word processing, Web browsing (Opera), e-mail/usenet (Netscape), Music listening (WinAmp), and Music writing (Impulse Tracker under DOS).
If my computer was on for more than about 30 hours, it would crash the second I would try to do something. If I was using my computer for a period of more than 10 hours, its lack of memory management would grind my entire system to a halt, to the point that the next time I would open up Opera, it would take approximately 4 minutes to load up.
Granted, it wasn't a state-of-the-art computer, but it sucks that my processor efficiency was inversely proportional to the length of time that my computer had been up and running, and that usually around a day or so after I had turned on my computer, the computer would decide that it can't do anymore and crash.
Now, I use Linux for pretty much everything that I used windows for. Word Processing, Web browsing (Opera), Mail/News (Mozilla), Playing music (XMMS) and Writing Music (Impulse Tracker 3). Furthermore, I'm hosting a webserver, ftp server and I'm looking to get an ssh server up and running soon. My box has not been rebooted for the last 15 days, and not a single thing has crashed, slowed down or showed any slight problem to do with doing the things I want it to.
Just because your experience with Windows products has been relatively positive doesn't make your case the rule rather than the exception. I've heard plenty of similar problems with many different people. My example is just one of many stories I've heard of people who have tried Windows and can't keep their boxes on long enough despite the things they do being simply mundane every-day things, nothing really resource-draining at all...
Ads have been on public transit for years. God knows how many time's I've been inundated with the annoying "Kick the Nick" guy that the BC Health Board has for anti-smoking commercials (Christ, that ad almost makes me want to start smoking).
This is just a revamp of an old advertising system. I personally think it's cool. At least it's not like the intrusive annoying "planted advertisers" that Sony is putting around city streets with their cameras posing as tourists.
Driving a car won't help that.
Personally, I enjoy a good book on transit, so I never really pay attention to transit ads anymore anyways. I can't do that if I'm driving a car...
Damn... I'm gonna have to sue his ass then for breaching my Clothing EULA with destructive intent... because, well, he's outright violating and distributing encouragement of violation of my license. That's harsh abuse of my signed EULA...
Either that or I'll just install the superman III virus on their computer systems....
Since everybody seems to be jumping in on the trend, I'm going to start up a business. It's going to be a clothing store. However, before the customer buys the clothing, they have to sign a licensing agreement, saying that they will not wear the clothing every day of the week. Slowly but surely all other clothing lines will follow suit (pun unintended) so that eventually, the clothing industry will have the entire planet color-coordinated. Tuesday will be Green Day, and Thursday is to be Hawaiian Shirt Day.
Naturally, Mondays will be black.
Anybody caught wearing their clothing on the wrong day of the week will be reported to the Thought Pol^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAuthorities and be detained for breaking copywrite violations.
And everybody says that corporations aren't taking away our freedoms.
Once again, this is another case of "You want ice cream. You need ice cream. Your existence is meaningless without ice cream."
Sure, for you and for me (Running Gnome right now, btw...) but honestly, J. Random Luser will have significant problems trying to do some relatively simple stuff...
(See why the open source community can't provide a good user-friendly OS? Cuz all the people who complain about it refuse to actually fix it... the point of Open Source is to give you a chance to shit or get off the pot.)
Wow... you know, I'm not usually one for feeding trolls, but at least Taco's web page doesn't replace fucted-up characters for punctuation in my browser...
Just because someone's getting paid for you to come here doesn't mean that you're the one who's paying them. Have you taken money out of your pocket and given it to the slashdot folk?
You're saying that because someone else is paying for something that it should do what you want it to. That makes a LOT of sense.
Exactly, but Kraftwerk (moreso than Jarre) was really the first band to be solely devoted to Electronic Music... they had a complete lack of non-synthesizer instruments, which nobody had done before. Some had _used_ it, which was what I said... Christ, my girlfriend's Dad has a Vinyl from the 50's of Moog Synth recordings.
Pink Floyd was throwing in synthesizers in otherwise non-electronic music. That's been going on since the 20's. They didn't really do much except make really good synthesizer-involved music.
The first people to really use exclusively synthesizers are Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre.
I made it a specific point not to go too far into subgenres, because, quite frankly, there's FAR too many.
Chicago House, Disco House, French House, Deep House, Acid House, Ambient House, Booty House, Ghetto House, Top 40, UK Hard House, Progressive House, Stadium House, Garage, Speed Garage (Which I happen to be listening to at this moment, interestingly enough... Yay for 187 Lockdown) are ALL subgenres within House alone... and that's just borrowing from Ishkur's Music Guide... there's a crapload more.
Besides, I don't really like NuSkool Breaks that much...
2step: NOT HOUSE Why? Because house is definitively a four-on-the-floor beat. (Boom-tik-Pah-tik-Boom-tik-Pah-tik) and 2-step is definitively not (Boom-rest-tah-rest-rest-boom-tah-rest). 2-step garage or "garij" (the stuff popular in the UK now) is NOT house in any way shape or form, it simply implements a 2-step with the speed-garage hoovers, which came from Speed Garage and not Garage, which is a close cousin of house, having evolved from The Paradise Garage in NY around the same time Chicago House was coming out of The Warehouse in Chicago.
Age of Love - Age of Love (Watch out for Stella Mix) LA Style - James Brown Is Dead KLF - Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the lost Continent) KLF - 3am Eternal KLF - What Time Is Love KLF yeah you get the idea Messiah - Thunderdome Prodigy - Out of Space Orbital - Halcyon & On & On Misjah & Tim - Access (Original Vocal Mix) Phuture - Acid Traxx Frankie Knuckles - The Whistle Song Jeff Mills - The Bells Herbie Hancock - Rockit Hardfloor - Acperience (sp?) Timelords - Dr Who Apotheosis - Oh Fortuna Project One - Roughneck Atari Teenage Riot - Speed Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - Into Another Galaxy The Shamen - Destination Eschaton (Hardfloor Vocal Mix) Cybernaut - Hydrophonix Opus iii - It's A Fine Day Sunscream - Love U More
And of course, the synthpop craze delivered some awesome electronic tracks: Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence Erasure - Ship of Fools (The Orb's remix) New Order - Touched By The Hand of God (Biff & Memphis Mix)
And for UBER-classic mode, check out Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre, together undisputedly form the parents of Electronic Music.
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Honestly, this is a _NEWS_ site, not a list of programs you're supposed to use. So, there's some _good_ stuff out there about Mozilla, there's also some bad stuff.
Just be thankful it's open-source, because that means that there's a couple million people who can help fix it.
Is like fucking for virginity.
"If we're going to get content on the 'Net, somehow we're going to have to reward the people who put it on there"
Interesting, I thought that the CIC handled that...
Once again someone misses the point in its entirety of high-level languages.
If you decide that you're going to stick only to assembly and nothing else, you're going to find little love in the computer industry.
High-level languages are designed so that you don't have to go through a couple billion lines of extraneous code to do something. Sure, if you program in assembler, your code will be cleaner, faster and has a greater potential for looking brilliant to other hackers, but I dare you to try coding around in assembler making a couple of graphics engines and tell me how simple it is in x86 against C++.
I mean, christ, I love assembler. You can do whatever you want with the memory, write self-modifying code, know at all times what is going on with the processor and everything else in the system, but fer crying out loud, if I want to make something as simple as a function call in Motorola HC11 that requires about 6 lines of code per call. A simple 4-line if block can result in a 20-line assembly instruction that would just be bloody easier to do if you just let a compiler automagically run it for you.
While Assembly is pretty, and I encourage that if you want to be a programmer, learn it and use it well, but for crying out loud, don't stop there.
Probably the same thing Caffeine-Free Dew is... =) Almost as useful as American Beer. =)
(One of my fav jokes:)
Why is American beer like sex in a canoe?
Because it's FUCKING CLOSE TO WATER!!!!
It was something about being naturally-occuring caffeine... or some process of adding caffeine.
Most "energy" caffeine drinks that aren't Sobe in Canada tend to be derived from Guarana, which is a natural source of caffeine. Hence Rev, Whoopass, E=MC^2, Go-Go, Grape Jolt (which is clear, btw) are all allowed to have caffeine in it....
However, I usually have to go on Case-runs down to Blaine, WA to get my stock of decent Mountain Dew...
Alcohol as a diuretic isn't really the main "raver" concern when it's combined with caffeine, because with alcohol, if you end up with too much of it, rather than die of dehydration, you tend to puke out the alcohol...
MDMA, however, is a FAR worse diuretic than caffeine and alcohol combined...
Revs give you hangovers. E gives you overheating...
And the reason, as stated in the subject header, that Rev hasn't caught on is because it's only available in Canada...
http://www.reverage.com/
Not only can you stay up all night, but you can feel like you took too many painkillers too!
Essentially, this stuff is Red bull & Vodka, and its notorious taste is that of cough syrup. But a rank-ass disgusting taste didn't turn the rest of north america off coffee...
They should seriously market this stuff to geek culture a bit better... so far the only culture that seems to have grasped it is rave culture, but they've already got their excruciatingly-uber-powerful wake-up drugs to cope with...
Guarana + alcohol = one happy me.
I used to use windows for relatively simple things: Word processing, Web browsing (Opera), e-mail/usenet (Netscape), Music listening (WinAmp), and Music writing (Impulse Tracker under DOS).
If my computer was on for more than about 30 hours, it would crash the second I would try to do something. If I was using my computer for a period of more than 10 hours, its lack of memory management would grind my entire system to a halt, to the point that the next time I would open up Opera, it would take approximately 4 minutes to load up.
Granted, it wasn't a state-of-the-art computer, but it sucks that my processor efficiency was inversely proportional to the length of time that my computer had been up and running, and that usually around a day or so after I had turned on my computer, the computer would decide that it can't do anymore and crash.
Now, I use Linux for pretty much everything that I used windows for. Word Processing, Web browsing (Opera), Mail/News (Mozilla), Playing music (XMMS) and Writing Music (Impulse Tracker 3). Furthermore, I'm hosting a webserver, ftp server and I'm looking to get an ssh server up and running soon. My box has not been rebooted for the last 15 days, and not a single thing has crashed, slowed down or showed any slight problem to do with doing the things I want it to.
Just because your experience with Windows products has been relatively positive doesn't make your case the rule rather than the exception. I've heard plenty of similar problems with many different people. My example is just one of many stories I've heard of people who have tried Windows and can't keep their boxes on long enough despite the things they do being simply mundane every-day things, nothing really resource-draining at all...
Ads have been on public transit for years. God knows how many time's I've been inundated with the annoying "Kick the Nick" guy that the BC Health Board has for anti-smoking commercials (Christ, that ad almost makes me want to start smoking).
This is just a revamp of an old advertising system. I personally think it's cool. At least it's not like the intrusive annoying "planted advertisers" that Sony is putting around city streets with their cameras posing as tourists.
Driving a car won't help that.
Personally, I enjoy a good book on transit, so I never really pay attention to transit ads anymore anyways. I can't do that if I'm driving a car...
Damn... I'm gonna have to sue his ass then for breaching my Clothing EULA with destructive intent... because, well, he's outright violating and distributing encouragement of violation of my license. That's harsh abuse of my signed EULA...
Either that or I'll just install the superman III virus on their computer systems....
Since everybody seems to be jumping in on the trend, I'm going to start up a business. It's going to be a clothing store. However, before the customer buys the clothing, they have to sign a licensing agreement, saying that they will not wear the clothing every day of the week. Slowly but surely all other clothing lines will follow suit (pun unintended) so that eventually, the clothing industry will have the entire planet color-coordinated. Tuesday will be Green Day, and Thursday is to be Hawaiian Shirt Day.
Naturally, Mondays will be black.
Anybody caught wearing their clothing on the wrong day of the week will be reported to the Thought Pol^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAuthorities and be detained for breaking copywrite violations.
And everybody says that corporations aren't taking away our freedoms.
Once again, this is another case of "You want ice cream. You need ice cream. Your existence is meaningless without ice cream."
All your funny are belong to a year and a half ago!
Someone set up us the dead horse!
You have no chance to be funny make your time!
Sure, for you and for me (Running Gnome right now, btw...) but honestly, J. Random Luser will have significant problems trying to do some relatively simple stuff...
Ah well, we're meandering harshly offtopic.
Why don't you do that yourself?
(See why the open source community can't provide a good user-friendly OS? Cuz all the people who complain about it refuse to actually fix it... the point of Open Source is to give you a chance to shit or get off the pot.)
That recipe is downright inconceivable!
Wow... you know, I'm not usually one for feeding trolls, but at least Taco's web page doesn't replace fucted-up characters for punctuation in my browser...
All your funny are belong to a year and a half ago!
Someone set up us the dead horse!
You have no chance to be funny make your time!
Jesus Christ.
Just because someone's getting paid for you to come here doesn't mean that you're the one who's paying them. Have you taken money out of your pocket and given it to the slashdot folk?
You're saying that because someone else is paying for something that it should do what you want it to. That makes a LOT of sense.
If you can't use Slashdot for everything you want to, you should march up to the office and demand your $0 back!!!!!!
Exactly, but Kraftwerk (moreso than Jarre) was really the first band to be solely devoted to Electronic Music... they had a complete lack of non-synthesizer instruments, which nobody had done before. Some had _used_ it, which was what I said... Christ, my girlfriend's Dad has a Vinyl from the 50's of Moog Synth recordings.
??
Um... no....
Pink Floyd was throwing in synthesizers in otherwise non-electronic music. That's been going on since the 20's. They didn't really do much except make really good synthesizer-involved music.
The first people to really use exclusively synthesizers are Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre.
I made it a specific point not to go too far into subgenres, because, quite frankly, there's FAR too many.
Chicago House, Disco House, French House, Deep House, Acid House, Ambient House, Booty House, Ghetto House, Top 40, UK Hard House, Progressive House, Stadium House, Garage, Speed Garage (Which I happen to be listening to at this moment, interestingly enough... Yay for 187 Lockdown) are ALL subgenres within House alone... and that's just borrowing from Ishkur's Music Guide... there's a crapload more.
Besides, I don't really like NuSkool Breaks that much...
2step: NOT HOUSE
Why? Because house is definitively a four-on-the-floor beat. (Boom-tik-Pah-tik-Boom-tik-Pah-tik) and 2-step is definitively not (Boom-rest-tah-rest-rest-boom-tah-rest). 2-step garage or "garij" (the stuff popular in the UK now) is NOT house in any way shape or form, it simply implements a 2-step with the speed-garage hoovers, which came from Speed Garage and not Garage, which is a close cousin of house, having evolved from The Paradise Garage in NY around the same time Chicago House was coming out of The Warehouse in Chicago.
Age of Love - Age of Love (Watch out for Stella Mix)
LA Style - James Brown Is Dead
KLF - Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the lost Continent)
KLF - 3am Eternal
KLF - What Time Is Love
KLF yeah you get the idea
Messiah - Thunderdome
Prodigy - Out of Space
Orbital - Halcyon & On & On
Misjah & Tim - Access (Original Vocal Mix)
Phuture - Acid Traxx
Frankie Knuckles - The Whistle Song
Jeff Mills - The Bells
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Hardfloor - Acperience (sp?)
Timelords - Dr Who
Apotheosis - Oh Fortuna
Project One - Roughneck
Atari Teenage Riot - Speed
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - Into Another Galaxy
The Shamen - Destination Eschaton (Hardfloor Vocal Mix)
Cybernaut - Hydrophonix
Opus iii - It's A Fine Day
Sunscream - Love U More
And of course, the synthpop craze delivered some awesome electronic tracks:
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Erasure - Ship of Fools (The Orb's remix)
New Order - Touched By The Hand of God (Biff & Memphis Mix)
And for UBER-classic mode, check out Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre, together undisputedly form the parents of Electronic Music.