the original mash-ups
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Mashed-Up Music
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· Score: 2, Interesting
John Oswald's entire "Plunderphonics" album, which was as far as I remember is also not able to be legally sold, is available for download in wav and mp3 format here. Fascinating stuff -- also check out Oswald's "Plexure" album on John Zorn's Tzadik label if you're interested in this kind of music.
i can understand cookies issues and abusive ads, but not ALL ads
All ads, by my argument, are abusive. Just think how wonderful television could have been if they figured out some other way to fund it back in the day -- but they didn't, so now we have such an abundance of wonderful advertainment(TM).
This reminds me of the two limited series that both Marvel and DC put out, called "Marvel Universe" & "Who's Who" respectively -- remember them? I used to love those -- they were alphabetically organized compendiums of every character, ship, and base in both of the comic book universes.
The best part was when they used clever but blatant pseudo-science to try to explain away the smaller inconsistencies of the characters (i.e. Q: "How does Superman shave -- his beard must be super strong!" A: "He shaves using a small shard of super hard metal from the rocket he traveled on as an infant from Krypton"). You really got the sense that the writers were having a lot of fun with the characters. I'd love if these series were collected up in a bound/graphic novel format, as they contain a big chunk of my childhood.
Steve Jobs has announced that he himself will be personally doing most of the end user desktop tech-support. This move alone is expected to lower the number of internal Pixar reported trouble reports to near 0.0%.
As a point of reference, Apple's official pixel tolerance count for the new 15" LCD iMac screen is six -- you need to have six (6) dead pixels before Apple will replace the screen. That's why I always suggest to my friends who are interested in LCD monitors (or new iMacs) that they go to a store and check one out before purchase. LCD monitors are expensive enough that any decent salesperson wouldn't blink an eye if you said you wanted to unpack the merchandise and hook up the screen before plunking down your hard earned cash. If it were me, I'd even bring a burned CD with one of those LCD checking utilities that cycle through the RGB colors (then white and black) to give it the once over. Dead pixels are annoying.
I completely disagree. To me, bad grammar and poor spelling simply denote a lack of editorial dedication and generalized laziness on the part of the editorial staff. I regularly spell check the messages I submit for the viewing of my friends and family, or if I post to a mailing list where my message might be viewed by a hundred people or so, because I respect the people who read my words and I want my message to be as clear as possible.
When your audience is in the hundreds of thousands, however, it's unthinkable to me that someone who calls themself an editor wouldn't take 30 seconds to throw their text through a spell checker.
And not to mention it just simply looks bad for "the cause" -- there are plenty of linux spell check options, but every time I see a spelling error on slashdot, I think, "poor linux, can't even spell check," and I know I must not be alone in that peception.
Look, the content industry is doing some disasterous things to copyright, granted, but it really isn't something that should be front and center right now. In case you forget, we're fighting a war in Afghanistan because we believe that the coordinators of some Kamikaze attacks on us happened there.
It's precisely because of that fact that we should be paying attention to this kind of stuff... it's my opinion that our government is now *deep* into the "opportunism" phase of post September 11, where our government can get all sorts of crap laws they wanted to get passed anyway, all in the name of "fighting terrorists". From oil drilling in "ANWAR" to funding Columbian shadow governments to new provisions in attorney/client privileges, it's all shady fucking bullshit and I'm kinda ashamed to be an American right now.
~jeff
Re:Umm Where is the source?
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Revolution OS
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In other news, PsPrEditor writes: "Yahoo announced that Slashdot Released an API last Monday. "The service, launched Monday, is called SlashPI. It will allow users to remove duplicate stories that have been plaguing/. for the past year. ""
I guess you didn't even look at the links. Sign of a true professional.
A "true professional" wouldn't trust a list of supposed fixes -- a "true professional" would reserve judgement until after actually downloading and personally using the software...
...and I remain sustainability-convinced negative. They've got a great product, but Mandrake needs to get out there and convince businesses that they can safely and profitably dump Windows. They need live demonstrations -- streaming keynotes -- they need hype. "Dude, you're getting a Mandrake", that sort of bull... As much as I hate to admit it, they need marketing, as hand-outs from geeks will only take them so far.
I'd prefer a refund - it's the only moral thing for Mandrake to do.
Dear CheapSkate Pro,
What are you out, $5.00? Like you were really planning to use StarOffice anyhow. I've had shitty meals at McDonalds, but the stakes are so low, I don't expect a refund there. Get over it; maybe you can write it off on your taxes next year as a charitable donation.
~jeff Like you were really planning to use StarOffice anyhow.
Re:Wow, I remember way back when
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Nethack 3.4.0
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As far as spelling is concerned, I'm a looser.
That's "speling".
~jeff
Re:I bought one for my sister
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Dior iPod case
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Well la-dee-freakin' da.
There's no way you're a "geek" -- a geek would have spent that $1500-2000 on extra CPUs, GBs of RAM and TBs of hard drive space.
However, ease-of-use almost always requires a sacrifice of power and complexity.
Wrong. Ease-of-use has nothing whatsoever to do with power, and complexity by itself is hardly a virtue. Some of the most fastest and powerful race cars in the world have a control panel simpler than your average low-end Toyota.
What Apple has done with iMovie is remove elements of video editing that are unnecessary for the average user, yet keep the ability to do 90% of what complicated high-end packages are able to do; and finally wrap the whole thing in an intuitive, graphically oriented interface. It's brilliant, high quality software.
Maybe the installer should have a small built-in version of Solitaire embedded in it, so the prospective linux user has his or her transition eased by the Windows app they know best. The computer could even scale the complexity of the Solitaire game to the length of the install, so the game would be concluding just as the game finishes...
Slashdot Mirror
John Oswald's entire "Plunderphonics" album, which was as far as I remember is also not able to be legally sold, is available for download in wav and mp3 format here. Fascinating stuff -- also check out Oswald's "Plexure" album on John Zorn's Tzadik label if you're interested in this kind of music.
~jeff
i can understand cookies issues and abusive ads, but not ALL ads
All ads, by my argument, are abusive. Just think how wonderful television could have been if they figured out some other way to fund it back in the day -- but they didn't, so now we have such an abundance of wonderful advertainment(TM).
~jeff
This reminds me of the two limited series that both Marvel and DC put out, called "Marvel Universe" & "Who's Who" respectively -- remember them? I used to love those -- they were alphabetically organized compendiums of every character, ship, and base in both of the comic book universes.
The best part was when they used clever but blatant pseudo-science to try to explain away the smaller inconsistencies of the characters (i.e. Q: "How does Superman shave -- his beard must be super strong!" A: "He shaves using a small shard of super hard metal from the rocket he traveled on as an infant from Krypton"). You really got the sense that the writers were having a lot of fun with the characters. I'd love if these series were collected up in a bound/graphic novel format, as they contain a big chunk of my childhood.
~jeff
Steve Jobs has announced that he himself will be personally doing most of the end user desktop tech-support. This move alone is expected to lower the number of internal Pixar reported trouble reports to near 0.0%.
~jeff
As a point of reference, Apple's official pixel tolerance count for the new 15" LCD iMac screen is six -- you need to have six (6) dead pixels before Apple will replace the screen. That's why I always suggest to my friends who are interested in LCD monitors (or new iMacs) that they go to a store and check one out before purchase. LCD monitors are expensive enough that any decent salesperson wouldn't blink an eye if you said you wanted to unpack the merchandise and hook up the screen before plunking down your hard earned cash. If it were me, I'd even bring a burned CD with one of those LCD checking utilities that cycle through the RGB colors (then white and black) to give it the once over. Dead pixels are annoying.
~jeff
wicked funny stuff!
~jeff
Personally, I'd wait two weeks (until WWDC) and see what shows up here.
~jeff
Yeah, I know, I know -- but then again, I'm not expecting anyone to pony up any money for my grammer or lack thereof.
*poink*.
~jeff
I'd stand outside and sell these.
(Not in any way affiliated with the seller; I just love the shirt)
~jeff
um, perception .
Heh.
eh, never mind.
~jeff
I completely disagree. To me, bad grammar and poor spelling simply denote a lack of editorial dedication and generalized laziness on the part of the editorial staff. I regularly spell check the messages I submit for the viewing of my friends and family, or if I post to a mailing list where my message might be viewed by a hundred people or so, because I respect the people who read my words and I want my message to be as clear as possible.
When your audience is in the hundreds of thousands, however, it's unthinkable to me that someone who calls themself an editor wouldn't take 30 seconds to throw their text through a spell checker.
And not to mention it just simply looks bad for "the cause" -- there are plenty of linux spell check options, but every time I see a spelling error on slashdot, I think, "poor linux, can't even spell check," and I know I must not be alone in that peception.
~jeff
You want a job? Start buying some stuff.
President Bush? I would have thought you'd have a higher User ID!
~jeff
Look, the content industry is doing some disasterous things to copyright, granted, but it really isn't something that should be front and center right now. In case you forget, we're fighting a war in Afghanistan because we believe that the coordinators of some Kamikaze attacks on us happened there.
It's precisely because of that fact that we should be paying attention to this kind of stuff... it's my opinion that our government is now *deep* into the "opportunism" phase of post September 11, where our government can get all sorts of crap laws they wanted to get passed anyway, all in the name of "fighting terrorists". From oil drilling in "ANWAR" to funding Columbian shadow governments to new provisions in attorney/client privileges, it's all shady fucking bullshit and I'm kinda ashamed to be an American right now.
~jeff
Personally I am waiting for the ASCII Text terminal animation release.
~jeff
turn off all the PCs for just a few minutes.
Nice try, Dr. Uptime! But I'm on to you!
~jeff
In other news, PsPrEditor writes: "Yahoo announced that Slashdot Released an API last Monday. "The service, launched Monday, is called SlashPI. It will allow users to remove duplicate stories that have been plaguing /. for the past year. ""
I guess you didn't even look at the links. Sign of a true professional.
A "true professional" wouldn't trust a list of supposed fixes -- a "true professional" would reserve judgement until after actually downloading and personally using the software...
~jeff
...and I remain sustainability-convinced negative. They've got a great product, but Mandrake needs to get out there and convince businesses that they can safely and profitably dump Windows. They need live demonstrations -- streaming keynotes -- they need hype. "Dude, you're getting a Mandrake", that sort of bull... As much as I hate to admit it, they need marketing, as hand-outs from geeks will only take them so far.
~jeff
...it's pretty hard to imagine one of the Slashdot "editors" actually "editing" anything. And they want to charge for this?:
It's pretty hard to imagine how great the Newton could have become had it not been abandoned."
Although double-negatives are always a good sign that editing might be called for, because the article has a pro-Newton slant I bet you mean:
It's pretty hard not to imagine how great the Newton could have become had it not been abandoned."
~jeff
and the weird thing is that he was not drinking Mountain Dew at the time
~jeff
I'd prefer a refund - it's the only moral thing for Mandrake to do.
Dear CheapSkate Pro,
What are you out, $5.00? Like you were really planning to use StarOffice anyhow. I've had shitty meals at McDonalds, but the stakes are so low, I don't expect a refund there. Get over it; maybe you can write it off on your taxes next year as a charitable donation.
~jeff
Like you were really planning to use StarOffice anyhow.
As far as spelling is concerned, I'm a looser.
That's "speling".
~jeff
Well la-dee-freakin' da.
There's no way you're a "geek" -- a geek would have spent that $1500-2000 on extra CPUs, GBs of RAM and TBs of hard drive space.
~jeff
Wrong. Ease-of-use has nothing whatsoever to do with power, and complexity by itself is hardly a virtue. Some of the most fastest and powerful race cars in the world have a control panel simpler than your average low-end Toyota.
What Apple has done with iMovie is remove elements of video editing that are unnecessary for the average user, yet keep the ability to do 90% of what complicated high-end packages are able to do; and finally wrap the whole thing in an intuitive, graphically oriented interface. It's brilliant, high quality software.
~jeff
Maybe the installer should have a small built-in version of Solitaire embedded in it, so the prospective linux user has his or her transition eased by the Windows app they know best. The computer could even scale the complexity of the Solitaire game to the length of the install, so the game would be concluding just as the game finishes...
~jeff