I may want to watch the boob tube and have it serve up content I may actually want to watch (i.e., from my collection), but maybe not something I want to bother to choose specifically (how often do you really set out to watch something like first season TNG, but one cannot help entranced by it when it comes on, if only for the mockery factor). Its just plain un-American to not enjoy flipping channels.
Regarding not having a life, think about how much less of a life I have than you, seeing as you're going around pointing fingers at all the people who supposedly don't have a life. On a slashdot article. Regarding Star Trek. Anonymously.
Yeah, I may be a geek, but at least I realize it.:)
You know, when I have the time and resources (yeah, right) I think bringing the feel of channel surfing to a video collection would be a great idea! You just dump all your DVDs to hard disc, and have a button on the remote that just randomly pulls up the middle of one of the files you have on the drive. If you see something "on" that you like, you just hit a button to go back to the beginning of the file.
I'd much rather have a wireless network connected device capable of streaming the music off of my home machine and various other places on the net based off of my listening preferences. The thing I like about the radio is its ability to introduce me to new music. The thing I hate about the radio is its complete inability to know my preferences. Freeamp is a step in the right direction, but I still haven't managed to get any decent recommendations from it. Music Match makes an attempt as well, but their interface is practically unusable to me. And neither recommendation system is in the form of a net-enabled portable unit yet. *sigh*
And when the consoles explode because of the EPS conduits, why does it look like it was full of rocks? You know why? Because they only used standard stem bolts, not the self-sealing variety.
After having been a former Amiga devotee, I have second thoughts about any computer platform that requires "coming out". Status quo may be boring, but I know I can replace it on the cheap, buy parts for it at Wal-Mart in the middle of the night, and share software with my friends. And I have little interest in "converting" my friends. I don't want my choice in computer platform to be ascribed the same attributes as a choice in religion or sexual preferece.
I really doubt this is is something we'll see any time soon. I mean, we don't have inertial dampeners. Or structural integrity fields. What about the ODN lines or EPS taps? Can NASA vent drive plasma yet? I don't want anything leaving the ground until we can reroute warp power through the main deflector, recalibrate the phase discriminator, and backflush the bussard collectors. Do we have deuterium purge vents, final stage magnatomic flux contrictors, impulse syncrotron units, impulse-deflection crystals, isolinear chips, Jeffries tubes, LCARS displays, matter/antimatter mix chambers, navigational deflector grids, power transfer conduits, RCS thrusters, tractor beam emitters, biomatter resequencers, duotronics, interphase generators, isomagnetic disintegrators, replicators, or SELF SEALING STEM BOLTS? My god, how could we get by without the SELF SEALING STEM BOLTS? Do we have doppler and heisenberg compensators or pattern enhancers and buffers? Do we have phaserbanks or photorps do defend ourselves? Do we have ablative armor or regenerative and metaphasic shielding? If we had shielding, could we rotate the frequency? Do we have PADDs, tricorders, hyperspanners, hyposprays and multispatial probes as tools? NO! We are NOT ready for this.
I had a bad experience once trying to hit the reset button on the trip-o-meter while turning once. The steering wheel tends to want to remove your hand. Steering wheel mounted controls is a much better idea than in-dash touchscreen. Also, I think what he was getting at regaridng the "driver" was something that compensated for the distortion of the windshield in software.
Can you gear the chips to explode only after going through a certain set of logic gates? I mean, how useful is a self-destructing chip if it self destructs before its even used?
At any rate, I can definitely see this as incentive for me to get my password right within three tries./p>
I like updates on *new* software occasionally, but does bug fixes to a distro really qualify as "stuff that matters" to the majority of the slashdot readership?
The interface reminds me of my favorite PalmOS "Applications" button (the little home symbol) replacement, Launch 'Em. It is a really nice setup actually. Also, my vote is for "lin-ax" as the pronunciation.:)
Napster-like? Don't you remember that once one of the many court orders was put in place, Napster was filtered clean of all RIAA artists. It wasn't particularly successful. MP3.com also fits this mold.
Speaking from the perspective of also being a PC-based musician [shameless plug], I recommend Using a travel rackmount solution...
Compatibility - Lunchboxes are usually not built with upgradability in mind, and if you upgrade the mainboard you're usually at the mercy of the manufacturer.
Upgradability - Put more PCs in the travel rackmount case. Put hardware synthesizers in the road case. Put rackmount effects boxes in the case. Rackmout is the standard for stage equipment. Many hardware manufacturers produce rackmount versions of their breakout boxes. The possibilities are endless
Maintenance - Its an ATX format PC. There ya go. You can get a replacement mouse at Wal-Mart. If the screen, keyboard or mouse on a lunchbox goes south, you are fscked. On a rackmount PC, you use whatver screen you want (and you can even rackmount the monitor too if you want).
Reliability - A stage environment can get very hot. You have the option to mount as many fans as you can fit in a rackmount PC case, and rackmount cases almost always have better airflow because they're meant for server enviroments where many hot-running machines are clustered together.
Durability - A PC in a shock-resistant rackmount travel case is going to be comparably durable to a lunchbox. And if you can trust that it won't get dropped, you can get a cheaper non-shock resistant travel case.
Cost - You can have the functional equivalent of a lunchbox's durability using commodity hardware. I've seen military surplus rack travel cases selling on ebay for cheapo.
Portability - With a travel rack you can still lug it around without too much trouble. Not as portable as a lunchbox, but all of the above factors are much more important than moving the box.
Geekiness - When at home you can mount the PC and music hardware on the same rack as a bunch of network equiment. Can you really put a price on that?
Do *not* use a laptop. Period. Take all of the disadvantages of a lunchbox and add the fact that it isn't ruggedized. Bad idea.
Well, all things considered, I'd hang out with Steve before I'd hang out with Bruce. I've heard some uncomplimentary things about Mr. Willis' demeanor, especially when dealing with people working for him. I wonder, would Steve still get jobs if he prettied up his maw? I mean, he's *the* bad teeth guy. Well, other than Mike Meyers as Austin, but Steve's are REAL, or at least it appears so, since I've never seen him with good teeth. Ponderable... Trivia: he's the guy in one of the very first "got milk?" commercials. Awwon buwwwwr! I guess I just feel like shooting people with bad teeth (other than myself) into space.
You make a good point about artist responsibility, but you sidestep the real problem. We have a cultural shift towards not rewarding the artist at all, using the fact that they get so little through the record industry as an excuse. We need to find a social and technological solution that will allow the Mariah Careys of the world to actually be able to make money and reach customers without the RIAA cartel. But right now the majority of music marketing tools are owned by other monopolies (clearchannel,MTV Networks).
We lost our chance to launch Bruce Willis and a plucky band of blue-collar heroes on twin space shuttles, set to the rock stylings of Aerosmith? Really, the only thing I'm concerned about is that we missed a chance to shoot him into space. And that other guy with the really bad teeth. I s'pose you can't have it all.
The Future of Music Coalition, some of the folks helping to organize this, is one of the few organizations that really "get it". Basically, they've taken the stance that creators of music should be rewarded, and that the practical implications aren't as black and white as "file sharing bad" or "record industry bad". So, what they're trying to do is figure out what technological and social solutions can be used to address the problem of artist compensation. The FOMC Manifesto is recommended reading.
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I may want to watch the boob tube and have it serve up content I may actually want to watch (i.e., from my collection), but maybe not something I want to bother to choose specifically (how often do you really set out to watch something like first season TNG, but one cannot help entranced by it when it comes on, if only for the mockery factor). Its just plain un-American to not enjoy flipping channels.
Regarding not having a life, think about how much less of a life I have than you, seeing as you're going around pointing fingers at all the people who supposedly don't have a life. On a slashdot article. Regarding Star Trek. Anonymously.
Yeah, I may be a geek, but at least I realize it. :)
A girlfriend would be great, but I think my wife would object.
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You know, when I have the time and resources (yeah, right) I think bringing the feel of channel surfing to a video collection would be a great idea! You just dump all your DVDs to hard disc, and have a button on the remote that just randomly pulls up the middle of one of the files you have on the drive. If you see something "on" that you like, you just hit a button to go back to the beginning of the file.
I'd much rather have a wireless network connected device capable of streaming the music off of my home machine and various other places on the net based off of my listening preferences. The thing I like about the radio is its ability to introduce me to new music. The thing I hate about the radio is its complete inability to know my preferences. Freeamp is a step in the right direction, but I still haven't managed to get any decent recommendations from it. Music Match makes an attempt as well, but their interface is practically unusable to me. And neither recommendation system is in the form of a net-enabled portable unit yet. *sigh*
And when the consoles explode because of the EPS conduits, why does it look like it was full of rocks? You know why? Because they only used standard stem bolts, not the self-sealing variety.
After having been a former Amiga devotee, I have second thoughts about any computer platform that requires "coming out". Status quo may be boring, but I know I can replace it on the cheap, buy parts for it at Wal-Mart in the middle of the night, and share software with my friends. And I have little interest in "converting" my friends. I don't want my choice in computer platform to be ascribed the same attributes as a choice in religion or sexual preferece.
Oh, yes! Reversing the phase of the field coils wouldn't hurt, either.
I really doubt this is is something we'll see any time soon. I mean, we don't have inertial dampeners. Or structural integrity fields. What about the ODN lines or EPS taps? Can NASA vent drive plasma yet? I don't want anything leaving the ground until we can reroute warp power through the main deflector, recalibrate the phase discriminator, and backflush the bussard collectors. Do we have deuterium purge vents, final stage magnatomic flux contrictors, impulse syncrotron units, impulse-deflection crystals, isolinear chips, Jeffries tubes, LCARS displays, matter/antimatter mix chambers, navigational deflector grids, power transfer conduits, RCS thrusters, tractor beam emitters, biomatter resequencers, duotronics, interphase generators, isomagnetic disintegrators, replicators, or SELF SEALING STEM BOLTS? My god, how could we get by without the SELF SEALING STEM BOLTS? Do we have doppler and heisenberg compensators or pattern enhancers and buffers? Do we have phaserbanks or photorps do defend ourselves? Do we have ablative armor or regenerative and metaphasic shielding? If we had shielding, could we rotate the frequency? Do we have PADDs, tricorders, hyperspanners, hyposprays and multispatial probes as tools? NO! We are NOT ready for this.
Yes, but you need to be careful to only weigh it with scale made of antimatter. Or at least indifferentmatter.
I had a bad experience once trying to hit the reset button on the trip-o-meter while turning once. The steering wheel tends to want to remove your hand. Steering wheel mounted controls is a much better idea than in-dash touchscreen. Also, I think what he was getting at regaridng the "driver" was something that compensated for the distortion of the windshield in software.
Can you gear the chips to explode only after going through a certain set of logic gates? I mean, how useful is a self-destructing chip if it self destructs before its even used?
At any rate, I can definitely see this as incentive for me to get my password right within three tries./p>
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I like updates on *new* software occasionally, but does bug fixes to a distro really qualify as "stuff that matters" to the majority of the slashdot readership?
Yo@ didn't seem to notice the h@moro@s fact of which letter of the alphabet they @sed.
The interface reminds me of my favorite PalmOS "Applications" button (the little home symbol) replacement, Launch 'Em. It is a really nice setup actually. Also, my vote is for "lin-ax" as the pronunciation. :)
Napster-like? Don't you remember that once one of the many court orders was put in place, Napster was filtered clean of all RIAA artists. It wasn't particularly successful. MP3.com also fits this mold.
Speaking from the perspective of also being a PC-based musician [shameless plug], I recommend Using a travel rackmount solution...
Compatibility - Lunchboxes are usually not built with upgradability in mind, and if you upgrade the mainboard you're usually at the mercy of the manufacturer.
Upgradability - Put more PCs in the travel rackmount case. Put hardware synthesizers in the road case. Put rackmount effects boxes in the case. Rackmout is the standard for stage equipment. Many hardware manufacturers produce rackmount versions of their breakout boxes. The possibilities are endless
Maintenance - Its an ATX format PC. There ya go. You can get a replacement mouse at Wal-Mart. If the screen, keyboard or mouse on a lunchbox goes south, you are fscked. On a rackmount PC, you use whatver screen you want (and you can even rackmount the monitor too if you want).
Reliability - A stage environment can get very hot. You have the option to mount as many fans as you can fit in a rackmount PC case, and rackmount cases almost always have better airflow because they're meant for server enviroments where many hot-running machines are clustered together.
Durability - A PC in a shock-resistant rackmount travel case is going to be comparably durable to a lunchbox. And if you can trust that it won't get dropped, you can get a cheaper non-shock resistant travel case.
Cost - You can have the functional equivalent of a lunchbox's durability using commodity hardware. I've seen military surplus rack travel cases selling on ebay for cheapo.
Portability - With a travel rack you can still lug it around without too much trouble. Not as portable as a lunchbox, but all of the above factors are much more important than moving the box.
Geekiness - When at home you can mount the PC and music hardware on the same rack as a bunch of network equiment. Can you really put a price on that?
Do *not* use a laptop. Period. Take all of the disadvantages of a lunchbox and add the fact that it isn't ruggedized. Bad idea.
Well, all things considered, I'd hang out with Steve before I'd hang out with Bruce. I've heard some uncomplimentary things about Mr. Willis' demeanor, especially when dealing with people working for him. I wonder, would Steve still get jobs if he prettied up his maw? I mean, he's *the* bad teeth guy. Well, other than Mike Meyers as Austin, but Steve's are REAL, or at least it appears so, since I've never seen him with good teeth. Ponderable... Trivia: he's the guy in one of the very first "got milk?" commercials. Awwon buwwwwr! I guess I just feel like shooting people with bad teeth (other than myself) into space.
You make a good point about artist responsibility, but you sidestep the real problem. We have a cultural shift towards not rewarding the artist at all, using the fact that they get so little through the record industry as an excuse. We need to find a social and technological solution that will allow the Mariah Careys of the world to actually be able to make money and reach customers without the RIAA cartel. But right now the majority of music marketing tools are owned by other monopolies (clearchannel,MTV Networks).
We lost our chance to launch Bruce Willis and a plucky band of blue-collar heroes on twin space shuttles, set to the rock stylings of Aerosmith? Really, the only thing I'm concerned about is that we missed a chance to shoot him into space. And that other guy with the really bad teeth. I s'pose you can't have it all.
The Future of Music Coalition, some of the folks helping to organize this, is one of the few organizations that really "get it". Basically, they've taken the stance that creators of music should be rewarded, and that the practical implications aren't as black and white as "file sharing bad" or "record industry bad". So, what they're trying to do is figure out what technological and social solutions can be used to address the problem of artist compensation. The FOMC Manifesto is recommended reading.
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Its been done before (without the level of detail of this endeavor)... Did you know that the London Bridge is now located in Arizona?
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