I'm not sure when this started, but I've been seeing weblogs for at least a couple of years. And many of them hardly deserve the miniscule bandwidth they require. Some weblogs, though, tend toward community discussion rather than one's personal life (case in point: the site you're looking at right now). Dunno about all the rest, but I only post stuff I'd actually want to share or maybe discuss with others. And if my six hits a day aren't the result I wanted, big deal, it's simply nice to have my very own bathroom wall on which to scribble.
Give your music to a passing dog
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I'm slowly beginning to grasp the Zen of lowercase music:
"Subhuti, can a lowercase music composer have the thought 'I am a lowercase music composer?'" "No, for if he did, he would have the mark of an ear, the mark of a sound, and the mark of a creative life." "Correct. The lowercase music composer is spoken of as no lowercase music composer, therefore he is called a lowercase music composer."
Why screw with the first trilogy (ep. 4-6) at all? These movies are valuable as-are, showing how the state-of-the-art in filmmaking was changed during their initial runs. They have a tougher ambience than episodes I and II, which I think comes from the DIY special effects Lucas & Co. had to devise.
A teacher of mine once said that true creativity manifests when faced with a challenge -- not necessarily when you have all the tools you want at your disposal. The muppet Yoda and other creatures, for instance, require less suspension of belief on my part to watch and enjoy than the CG characters and scenes, quite like the difference between hearing old, bass-drenched vinyl LPs and the tinny sound of compact discs.
I'm wishing the agent who deleted the messages did so out of a creeping awareness of the gross violation of privacy to which this botched evidence-gathering amounted. The story never said exactly why the agent was "so upset," so I can dream...
Microsoft's push is a new front in a long-running company assault on the open-source movement, which company officials have called "a cancer" and un-American.
So sharing something of value is un-American? Now I'll have to rethink *everything* my parents and preschool/kindergarten teachers told me. No more coins from me in the Salvation Army pot this Christmas, no more cookies for my kiddo's class on his birthday, and anyone bugging me with questions like "what's a taskbar" will have to pay up! Lordy, I have seen the light!
Most career newsies I have ever met were Mac people, who loved stability, well-engineered applications that got the job done, and abhorred a command line. Mac has been the standard for newsrooms for a long time, so it's no surprise if the media has been slow to notice how little Windows sometimes delivers.
I find it ironic that many people who make thier living as professional communicators appear oblivious to things that shape the state of communication technology overall. But then I've seen a number of posts on/. from people who say they are journalists, so maybe there's hope.
Where do I put my kid?
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If the Segway is to become commonplace in our urban centers, planners and local lawmakers will have to deal with questions regarding kids, as obstacles, riders and hangers-on. IANAL, although most cities in which I've been allow skateboarding, as long as riders stay in control of the board, follow the flow of pedestrian traffic, and don't pull stunts (protective gear might be required also).
Laws which follow these lines could put to rest much of the inevitable safety debate, but what I really want to know is, can I take my kid along?
Re: 622 since 08/01/01 at 00:00
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except for the Labour party rep's complicity in the gag about pedophiles using keyboards, there's not much, i agree, to warrant it's positng on/. The brasseye shows do, however, make some good points about misuse of the news media, something i think/. has as much of a responsibility to keep in mind as any media outlet.
Besides, i've yet to see anything like it on PBS; exept for maybe a few Python bits (if one was quick enough to catch the entendres, not easy if Amur'kin is your first language). If PBS doesn't do it, then the web will; i don't expect nearly so much from PBS. While they contribute much to television content, note that they still have to operate within the commercial broadcast infrastructure. Not as easy, i'm sure, as sticking the.avi's in a shared folder and firing up LimeWire.
congrats to taco & the rest, too, for/.'s getting profiled on NPR (last month, i think), as one media-type site that has survived and flourished despite odds against it's kind's survival.
bummer; maybe the exposure of getting/.-ed was more than chilled.cream.com needed. Since around 5:30pm cdt the site has replaced content with "Closed for legal reasons." Guess i'll be looking for those episodes on Gnutella;-)
though i wouldn't say trying to start a panic--unless it's a rush to purchase a subscription or visit their advertisers.
i've already commented here on the assertion in/.'s summary that the web as we know it will 'cease to exist,' so what if M$ and people who stake all their data on it have to learn something new!?.
this sounds like the kind of sensationalist teasing for which most cities' local TV news productions are known and despised, and most/.ers i've known can see past it. This problem has an elegantly Darwinian element to it, no? Only the most stable servers and subnets will survive, if worse comes to worst.
if you read one or two related stories about this thing, the people at eEye who first analyzed it named it for a version of Mountain Dew (seems like a test market thing) called "Code Red" Mountain Dew, which they aparrently drank a lot of while back-engineering.
That, plus it makes an appropo reference to the worm's Chinese origin (according to the defacement it leaves on an infected server).
Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine is a great look at the lives and challenges facing a small army of engineers in the late '70's, in their building an early 32-bit microcomputer. Maybe not a computer book per se, but a must for the history of computer development.
Duh, and wasn't refusing to pay outrageous taxes in the American colonies back in the late 1700's illegal? And wasn't helping runaway slaves in the US prior to the mid-1860's illegal? And for a while, wasn't making, posessing or drinking alcohol in the US illegal?
People have often responded to misguided legislation by resisting, even disobeying, it. Yes, this can make it ok, if you're convinced of an action's morality, despite it's illegality. And if you happen to be in the majority, government eventually gets the message.
By Anomaly's reasoning, we should trust that laws always equate with the most morally desirable course of action, and that our legistature and system of making laws is infallible. But we value a "free" society precisely so we will have the ability to question and possibly change laws. Good point about lobbying... but just try to get a little face time with your local US representative. Or, better yet, figure what your chances might be of convincing 278 legislators, all backed and pressured by business lobbies whose interests they have a stake in protecting, that your way might be a little more sensible.
Correction: direct ripping is the only option for anal-retntives sold on the idea that only music recorded as a series of bytes is pure and unadultered enough for their polyanna eardrums.
When using software to record an analog audio signal, pay attention to those VU or audio-level meters. You want to set them so that the indicator spends as much time as possible near the red-end, but does not go into the read (this gives a distorted, overmodulated signal.
Radio stations and audio engineers use this method to maintain consistent modualtion. This would alleviate any need to adjust the volume while listening to the encoded mp3.
As to their inferiority, I'm guessing the previous poster is too young to remember recording CDs exactly this way onto analog tape, with it's hiss and tendency to decay. If a well-produced analog isn't good enough, just have your mommy buy you the dang CD.
Suppose an online publisher purges all copies of a article or collection by author(s) they failed to pay or disagree with.
What you mean, authors they disagree with?
Yes, that's one of the things that makes the internet great--the fact that Joe Blow can have a voice when the ability to censor has for so long been wielded by those who possess the corporate machinery by which to promote or not promote a point of view.
Of course a publisher can promote an agenda; but any publication that wants to retain some amount of trust and cogency in the eyes of consumers will give recognition to--and rebuff, rather than suppress--an opposing point of view.
What scares me more is the means by which online services try to guide users to content... it takes some initiative sometimes, or a kick in the face by reality, to see common hype for what it is. I'll be responsible for my own mind, thanks.
Napster, in it's present state, could have some redeeming value if users were not left to 'blindly' search for their desired tunes. If users had the ability to browse the database of material, rather than just their own search results, we might stand a chance of finding some satisfying--albeit unfamiliar--music.
Last time i logged on, there were still some 70-80Gb of data available, but 70-80Gb of what? Stuff i can never find unless i know precisely what to look for, or stuff i can find if i get really creative with the name, and hope some user out there has successfully done the same?
Doubtful we'll enjoy the thrill again, of accessing the massive data free-for-all that napster once was, but napster is tossing out the 'baby' of a gargantuan selection along with the 'bathwater' of it's legal troubles.
Given the ability to browse the database, we might still be able to find some musical gems among the Irish traditionals (maybe), religious music (don't look at me), or show tunes (as if) still available on the network. I suppose they'd rather take us for AOLers or MSNers and lead us by the nose to the highest-promoted-artist-of-the-week.
Use of this.sig is protected by international copyright laws.
Slashdot Mirror
Their site is getting slooowww, here's a mirror of the report itself (not the movies).
I'm not sure when this started, but I've been seeing weblogs for at least a couple of years. And many of them hardly deserve the miniscule bandwidth they require. Some weblogs, though, tend toward community discussion rather than one's personal life (case in point: the site you're looking at right now). Dunno about all the rest, but I only post stuff I'd actually want to share or maybe discuss with others. And if my six hits a day aren't the result I wanted, big deal, it's simply nice to have my very own bathroom wall on which to scribble.
I'm slowly beginning to grasp the Zen of lowercase music:
"Subhuti, can a lowercase music composer have the thought 'I am a lowercase music composer?'"
"No, for if he did, he would have the mark of an ear, the mark of a sound, and the mark of a creative life."
"Correct. The lowercase music composer is spoken of as no lowercase music composer, therefore he is called a lowercase music composer."
Need more? Dog chases bone.
Why screw with the first trilogy (ep. 4-6) at all? These movies are valuable as-are, showing how the state-of-the-art in filmmaking was changed during their initial runs. They have a tougher ambience than episodes I and II, which I think comes from the DIY special effects Lucas & Co. had to devise.
A teacher of mine once said that true creativity manifests when faced with a challenge -- not necessarily when you have all the tools you want at your disposal. The muppet Yoda and other creatures, for instance, require less suspension of belief on my part to watch and enjoy than the CG characters and scenes, quite like the difference between hearing old, bass-drenched vinyl LPs and the tinny sound of compact discs.
I'm wishing the agent who deleted the messages did so out of a creeping awareness of the gross violation of privacy to which this botched evidence-gathering amounted. The story never said exactly why the agent was "so upset," so I can dream...
Microsoft's push is a new front in a long-running company assault on the open-source movement, which company officials have called "a cancer" and un-American.
So sharing something of value is un-American? Now I'll have to rethink *everything* my parents and preschool/kindergarten teachers told me. No more coins from me in the Salvation Army pot this Christmas, no more cookies for my kiddo's class on his birthday, and anyone bugging me with questions like "what's a taskbar" will have to pay up! Lordy, I have seen the light!
Most career newsies I have ever met were Mac people, who loved stability, well-engineered applications that got the job done, and abhorred a command line. Mac has been the standard for newsrooms for a long time, so it's no surprise if the media has been slow to notice how little Windows sometimes delivers.
/. from people who say they are journalists, so maybe there's hope.
I find it ironic that many people who make thier living as professional communicators appear oblivious to things that shape the state of communication technology overall. But then I've seen a number of posts on
If the Segway is to become commonplace in our urban centers, planners and local lawmakers will have to deal with questions regarding kids, as obstacles, riders and hangers-on. IANAL, although most cities in which I've been allow skateboarding, as long as riders stay in control of the board, follow the flow of pedestrian traffic, and don't pull stunts (protective gear might be required also).
Laws which follow these lines could put to rest much of the inevitable safety debate, but what I really want to know is, can I take my kid along?
Re: 622 since 08/01/01 at 00:00
except for the Labour party rep's complicity in the gag about pedophiles using keyboards, there's not much, i agree, to warrant it's positng on /. The brasseye shows do, however, make some good points about misuse of the news media, something i think /. has as much of a responsibility to keep in mind as any media outlet.
.avi's in a shared folder and firing up LimeWire.
/.'s getting profiled on NPR (last month, i think), as one media-type site that has survived and flourished despite odds against it's kind's survival.
Besides, i've yet to see anything like it on PBS; exept for maybe a few Python bits (if one was quick enough to catch the entendres, not easy if Amur'kin is your first language). If PBS doesn't do it, then the web will; i don't expect nearly so much from PBS. While they contribute much to television content, note that they still have to operate within the commercial broadcast infrastructure. Not as easy, i'm sure, as sticking the
congrats to taco & the rest, too, for
bummer; maybe the exposure of getting /.-ed was more than chilled.cream.com needed. Since around 5:30pm cdt the site has replaced content with "Closed for legal reasons." Guess i'll be looking for those episodes on Gnutella ;-)
though i wouldn't say trying to start a panic--unless it's a rush to purchase a subscription or visit their advertisers.
/.'s summary that the web as we know it will 'cease to exist,' so what if M$ and people who stake all their data on it have to learn something new!?.
i've already commented here on the assertion in
Cease to exist?
/.ers i've known can see past it. This problem has an elegantly Darwinian element to it, no? Only the most stable servers and subnets will survive, if worse comes to worst.
this sounds like the kind of sensationalist teasing for which most cities' local TV news productions are known and despised, and most
if you read one or two related stories about this thing, the people at eEye who first analyzed it named it for a version of Mountain Dew (seems like a test market thing) called "Code Red" Mountain Dew, which they aparrently drank a lot of while back-engineering.
That, plus it makes an appropo reference to the worm's Chinese origin (according to the defacement it leaves on an infected server).
Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine is a great look at the lives and challenges facing a small army of engineers in the late '70's, in their building an early 32-bit microcomputer. Maybe not a computer book per se, but a must for the history of computer development.
Sounds like good intellectual fuel for a new RPG, if anyone hasn't thought of it yet.
And just what pharmeceutical lobby or lobbies were associated with this exercise (I'm guessing).
Duh, and wasn't refusing to pay outrageous taxes in the American colonies back in the late 1700's illegal? And wasn't helping runaway slaves in the US prior to the mid-1860's illegal? And for a while, wasn't making, posessing or drinking alcohol in the US illegal?
People have often responded to misguided legislation by resisting, even disobeying, it. Yes, this can make it ok, if you're convinced of an action's morality, despite it's illegality. And if you happen to be in the majority, government eventually gets the message.
By Anomaly's reasoning, we should trust that laws always equate with the most morally desirable course of action, and that our legistature and system of making laws is infallible. But we value a "free" society precisely so we will have the ability to question and possibly change laws. Good point about lobbying... but just try to get a little face time with your local US representative. Or, better yet, figure what your chances might be of convincing 278 legislators, all backed and pressured by business lobbies whose interests they have a stake in protecting, that your way might be a little more sensible.
Correction: direct ripping is the only option for anal-retntives sold on the idea that only music recorded as a series of bytes is pure and unadultered enough for their polyanna eardrums.
When using software to record an analog audio signal, pay attention to those VU or audio-level meters. You want to set them so that the indicator spends as much time as possible near the red-end, but does not go into the read (this gives a distorted, overmodulated signal.
Radio stations and audio engineers use this method to maintain consistent modualtion. This would alleviate any need to adjust the volume while listening to the encoded mp3.
As to their inferiority, I'm guessing the previous poster is too young to remember recording CDs exactly this way onto analog tape, with it's hiss and tendency to decay. If a well-produced analog isn't good enough, just have your mommy buy you the dang CD.
Suppose an online publisher purges all copies of a article or collection by author(s) they failed to pay or disagree with.
What you mean, authors they disagree with?
Yes, that's one of the things that makes the internet great--the fact that Joe Blow can have a voice when the ability to censor has for so long been wielded by those who possess the corporate machinery by which to promote or not promote a point of view.
Of course a publisher can promote an agenda; but any publication that wants to retain some amount of trust and cogency in the eyes of consumers will give recognition to--and rebuff, rather than suppress--an opposing point of view.
What scares me more is the means by which online services try to guide users to content... it takes some initiative sometimes, or a kick in the face by reality, to see common hype for what it is. I'll be responsible for my own mind, thanks.
Napster, in it's present state, could have some redeeming value if users were not left to 'blindly' search for their desired tunes. If users had the ability to browse the database of material, rather than just their own search results, we might stand a chance of finding some satisfying--albeit unfamiliar--music.
.sig is protected by international copyright laws.
Last time i logged on, there were still some 70-80Gb of data available, but 70-80Gb of what? Stuff i can never find unless i know precisely what to look for, or stuff i can find if i get really creative with the name, and hope some user out there has successfully done the same?
Doubtful we'll enjoy the thrill again, of accessing the massive data free-for-all that napster once was, but napster is tossing out the 'baby' of a gargantuan selection along with the 'bathwater' of it's legal troubles. Given the ability to browse the database, we might still be able to find some musical gems among the Irish traditionals (maybe), religious music (don't look at me), or show tunes (as if) still available on the network. I suppose they'd rather take us for AOLers or MSNers and lead us by the nose to the highest-promoted-artist-of-the-week.
Use of this