I mean, people go and see some DJ at a club. They use terms like "he's one of the best DJ's in the country". I mean...um...he spins records. How is that a musical talent?
I know that what i am about to say is off-topic, but I had to respond to the first part of your comment...
What exactly does constitute musical talent? Is it holding a piece of wood in your hand that has six strings and plucking the strings? Or is it hitting keys on a piano? Or is it moving your hands closer to and further away from a theremin?
When broken down to its basics, all musical instruments seem ridiculously simple. However, as anyone who has ever picked up a guitar, or a bass, or sat at a pair of drums will know, actually creating something using those instruments is extremely difficult.
The same goes for dj'ing. Putting a record on a turntable is a task anyone with a brain can do. However, creating an hour long composition where music that should not go together flows seemlessly, due to the djs ability to beat match, scratch and countless other things, takes real skill. It is this skill that seperates good djs from the guy who called himself a dj at your bar mitzvah.
There is a ton of music out there if you wish to wet your whistle. If you want to hear kind of music a dj can make, I suggest you listen to one of or all of the following:
Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Amon Tobin - Bricolage
Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
What happens when the bus gets a flat? That does happen every now and again. It seems like the weight of the bus will fall on the engine. Are they planning on putting 2 tires in each wheel well (like a truck) in case this happens. Also, will you need to keep a spare engine in the trunk in case you do get a flat and you need to change the tire.
I guess this might not be a big deal for a city bus company, since they can just radio HQ and get someone to drive out with a new engine. But if this technology were ever used in real cars, that would be a major drawback.
Addiction is commonly accepted to mean being so dependant on something that you just can't give it up. Addiction is normally accepted to mean that an addicted person trying to stop whatever behaviour or substance they are addicted to will suffer severe repurcussions and be unable to function during this period.
Hehe, according to your definition, I am addicted to work. Everytime I try to stop working (quit my job), I find that there are severe reprucussions and I can't function normally (no money for food, rent, etc.). After a few months away from work, I have to give in and start working again. Do you know of anywhere that I can get counseling for this horrible work addiction?
Show me one thread in this article or any of the previous 5 slashdot articles regarding software patents where someone took a stance on the side of software patents. If you do happen to find this needle in the slashdot haystack, let me know what the moderators thought of it.
Slashdot has shown itself time and time again as being a site that is anti-software patents. Do you think more people will learn about this issue if the site is taken down, or if an article is posted on the front page? People will still be able to draw their own conclusions.
Just because slashdot has a US-centric bias, does not mean that slashdot does not have a large foreign readership. I see posts on here all the time from Australia, Germany, England, and Soviet Russia.
If large sites start closing in protest, this story has a large chance of making it into the mainstream media. That will mean that people who don't usually visit sites like slashdot, gimp, wine, freshRPM will start to hear about software patents and why they are bad for everyone. They will see that the software community is not going to sit idly by while politicians take away our ability to develop software.
Slasdot's closing in protest would be a very good thing. It might even cause some people to venture out into the light since they will not have their favorite site to read.
I totally agree with the parent poster. CLOSE SLASHDOT. A majority of people on these forums are always complaining about software patents and how they are going to stop any and all innovation in software development. Well, here is a chance for slashdot to spread this message far and wide.
If slashdot closed down in protest, there is a good chance that some news agencies would pick up that story. This would be good because it get this message out to people who don't normally visit slashdot, gimp, or wine hq.
Grow some balls slashdot. Shut your doors in protest!!
Ummm, did you actually try that search, or are you just trying to spread some FUD? I just searched google for 'Oregon Microsoft Slashdot' and I got 4,230 results.
If you want to find info on slashdot related to oregon and slashdot, then you can search for 'Oregon Microsoft site:slashdot.org'. That returns 244 results.
I am surprised that I haven't seen this one yet. Written by Tarantino, but unfortunately not directed by him. Starring, Chistian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Brad Pitt (in his pre-12 Monkeys performance), Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, and Balkey. You can't ask for a better cast.
Manm, there are so many phenominal scenes in this movie.
Excellent movie!! The other guy is Frank Whaley, AKA the "What?" guy in Pulp Fiction.
Spacey is just phenominal playing an asshole. The only thing I never understood about this movie, is that it gets placed in the comedy section in the movie store.
Very pointless, but yet somewhat entertaining. Someone set up a site where you can quickly perform a
googleshare calculation
on terms. Here are some of the results that I found kind of intersting.
'microsoft' has a 24.44% googleshare of 'anti-trust'
Actually, the only reason that I posted this as a reply to that post is so I could get my post higher up on the screen. I actually liked the post I replied to. It should have been modded funny rather than insightful, but hey, this is slashDot.
I would like to suggest that from now on Slashdot.org only use the colors black and white for this web site. Since this is obviously the only colors that any of the users can see.
Seriously people, please start thinking for yourselves:
Just because the patent office is screwed up, does not mean that every patent is bad.
Just because microsoft is a monopolistic empire, does not mean that every action of their's is bad.
Just because linux is open-source, does not mean that it should be the only os used by anyone.
Actually, I don't believe they did invent it. They have stated themselves that they accidentally found their useful search algorythm while trying to devise something else
Not to harp on the obvious here, but they did invent it. To say they discovered their search algorith is to say that it existed before Google came up with it. The way you say that conjures up an image of Larry Page wondering through the desert and one day stumbling upon a great search algorithm.
Regardless of whether it was created by accident or not, it was still invented by Google.
On a different note, are the search methods (e.g., how pages are ranked) described in detail in the patent. Or does the patent not go into any more detail than is common understanding. Sorry, for being lazy, but I hate trying to read through a patent.
Lots of bands sound "crappy" live compared to the polished studio music
I can't believe this got modded up as Informative.
What you said is true, but Phish is definitely NOT one of these bands. Phish has gotten its reputation by performing excellent live shows. I understand that you are saying that here is more to a Phish show than the music (the people, the parking lot scene, the drugs, etc.) and you are right. But the music is what holds the entire scene together.
Phish has a free live show available for download on phishlive.com. Go and listen to it and get a taste of what Phish really sounds like.
I would venture to say that these same Phish shows will be available on Etree sites, so why does livephish think people will pay for what they A) can get free already from Etree or B) will almost certainly end up on Etree anyway?
Besides, doesn't charging for taped concerts kind of go against the concert-tapes-as-promotion philosophy?
It's not like Phish is now saying that people can no longer tape (or trade) recordings of Phish shows freely. What they are doing is providing a place where people can easily go and get soundboard quality recordings of there shows (w/ cover art and inlays) for $10. That's very cool! How many soundboard quality, 1st generation phish shows can you download off of etree.org?
On top of that, they are not placing any types of DRM on these files. If you want to buy them and distribute them on Kazaa or Morpheus, more power to ya. Personally, I hope other bands learn from this. Money does not need to be made through the recording industry. Every band that tours can make a few extra bucks offering a service that all their fans can enjoy.
This is kind of off-topic, but your mentioning of the BK Whopper reminded of something I heard on NPR.
On one of their programs, they talked about using the "Big Mac Index" as a means for analyzing a country's economy. Instead of using the value of gold or silver, they use the value of a Big Mac in a country as a determination of a country's economic status. They were able to predict pretty accurately. If I knew anything about economics, I would give you an example.
But like you stated, because there are too many factors that can go into the pricing of a Big Mac (e.g., cost of cattle, cost of shipping, cost of lettuce,...) this model will never be taken seriously.
...to get the dirt of the window, then these will be pretty much useless in places like London and Amsterdam where the sun shines about three days a year.
The first person ever to receive this [technology] was Patient Alpha. His given name is Jens -- pronounced "Yens." Twenty-two years ago, at age 17, while nailing down railroad ties, an errant splinter took his left eye. Then, three years later, this time fixing a snowmobile, a shiv of clutch metal broke free and took out his right.
Man, what terrible luck!! On two seperate occasions this guy managed to gauge out one of his eyes. You would have thought that he would of learned his lesson after the first instance.
Good thing his mother didn't by him a Red Rider BB Gun when he was little.
Take a look at the picture in the article. The machine that Mike Moon is playing on is Black Knight 2000. I thought that added a nice touch to the article, since Black Knight 2000 is far and away the best pinball game made to date.
The last film with any substantial comedic element was The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
What about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? It has a different kind of comedic style than Baron Munchausen and Flying Circus, but none the less it was definitely a comedy.
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What exactly does constitute musical talent? Is it holding a piece of wood in your hand that has six strings and plucking the strings? Or is it hitting keys on a piano? Or is it moving your hands closer to and further away from a theremin?
When broken down to its basics, all musical instruments seem ridiculously simple. However, as anyone who has ever picked up a guitar, or a bass, or sat at a pair of drums will know, actually creating something using those instruments is extremely difficult.
The same goes for dj'ing. Putting a record on a turntable is a task anyone with a brain can do. However, creating an hour long composition where music that should not go together flows seemlessly, due to the djs ability to beat match, scratch and countless other things, takes real skill. It is this skill that seperates good djs from the guy who called himself a dj at your bar mitzvah.
There is a ton of music out there if you wish to wet your whistle. If you want to hear kind of music a dj can make, I suggest you listen to one of or all of the following:
Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Amon Tobin - Bricolage
Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
Go see the movie Scratch.
What happens when the bus gets a flat? That does happen every now and again. It seems like the weight of the bus will fall on the engine. Are they planning on putting 2 tires in each wheel well (like a truck) in case this happens. Also, will you need to keep a spare engine in the trunk in case you do get a flat and you need to change the tire.
I guess this might not be a big deal for a city bus company, since they can just radio HQ and get someone to drive out with a new engine. But if this technology were ever used in real cars, that would be a major drawback.
Addiction is commonly accepted to mean being so dependant on something that you just can't give it up. Addiction is normally accepted to mean that an addicted person trying to stop whatever behaviour or substance they are addicted to will suffer severe repurcussions and be unable to function during this period.
Hehe, according to your definition, I am addicted to work. Everytime I try to stop working (quit my job), I find that there are severe reprucussions and I can't function normally (no money for food, rent, etc.). After a few months away from work, I have to give in and start working again. Do you know of anywhere that I can get counseling for this horrible work addiction?
Show me one thread in this article or any of the previous 5 slashdot articles regarding software patents where someone took a stance on the side of software patents. If you do happen to find this needle in the slashdot haystack, let me know what the moderators thought of it.
Slashdot has shown itself time and time again as being a site that is anti-software patents. Do you think more people will learn about this issue if the site is taken down, or if an article is posted on the front page? People will still be able to draw their own conclusions.
Just because slashdot has a US-centric bias, does not mean that slashdot does not have a large foreign readership. I see posts on here all the time from Australia, Germany, England, and Soviet Russia.
If large sites start closing in protest, this story has a large chance of making it into the mainstream media. That will mean that people who don't usually visit sites like slashdot, gimp, wine, freshRPM will start to hear about software patents and why they are bad for everyone. They will see that the software community is not going to sit idly by while politicians take away our ability to develop software.
Slasdot's closing in protest would be a very good thing. It might even cause some people to venture out into the light since they will not have their favorite site to read.
Come on, say it with me. CLOSE SLASHDOT!!
I totally agree with the parent poster. CLOSE SLASHDOT. A majority of people on these forums are always complaining about software patents and how they are going to stop any and all innovation in software development. Well, here is a chance for slashdot to spread this message far and wide.
If slashdot closed down in protest, there is a good chance that some news agencies would pick up that story. This would be good because it get this message out to people who don't normally visit slashdot, gimp, or wine hq.
Grow some balls slashdot. Shut your doors in protest!!
Ummm, did you actually try that search, or are you just trying to spread some FUD? I just searched google for 'Oregon Microsoft Slashdot' and I got 4,230 results.
If you want to find info on slashdot related to oregon and slashdot, then you can search for 'Oregon Microsoft site:slashdot.org'. That returns 244 results.
Iron Monkey... that movie's choreography made Crouching Tiger look like the Power Rangers.
I'm surprised you say that since the choreography for both movies was done by the same guy, Yuen Wo Ping. He is basically the master of wire-fu.
Other greats where he did the choreography:
Drunken Masters (jackie chan)
Drunken Masters 2 (jackie chan)
Fist Of Legend (jet li)
The Matrix
Grrr, i can't think of any others right now.
I am surprised that I haven't seen this one yet. Written by Tarantino, but unfortunately not directed by him. Starring, Chistian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Brad Pitt (in his pre-12 Monkeys performance), Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, and Balkey. You can't ask for a better cast.
Manm, there are so many phenominal scenes in this movie.
Excellent movie!! The other guy is Frank Whaley, AKA the "What?" guy in Pulp Fiction. Spacey is just phenominal playing an asshole. The only thing I never understood about this movie, is that it gets placed in the comedy section in the movie store.
Very pointless, but yet somewhat entertaining. Someone set up a site where you can quickly perform a googleshare calculation on terms. Here are some of the results that I found kind of intersting.
'microsoft' has a 24.44% googleshare of 'anti-trust'
'linux' has a 62.64% googleshare of 'open source'
Actually, the only reason that I posted this as a reply to that post is so I could get my post higher up on the screen. I actually liked the post I replied to. It should have been modded funny rather than insightful, but hey, this is slashDot.
Seriously people, please start thinking for yourselves:
Just because the patent office is screwed up, does not mean that every patent is bad.
Just because microsoft is a monopolistic empire, does not mean that every action of their's is bad.
Just because linux is open-source, does not mean that it should be the only os used by anyone.
Actually, I don't believe they did invent it. They have stated themselves that they accidentally found their useful search algorythm while trying to devise something else
Not to harp on the obvious here, but they did invent it. To say they discovered their search algorith is to say that it existed before Google came up with it. The way you say that conjures up an image of Larry Page wondering through the desert and one day stumbling upon a great search algorithm.
Regardless of whether it was created by accident or not, it was still invented by Google.
On a different note, are the search methods (e.g., how pages are ranked) described in detail in the patent. Or does the patent not go into any more detail than is common understanding. Sorry, for being lazy, but I hate trying to read through a patent.
I can't believe this got modded up as Informative. What you said is true, but Phish is definitely NOT one of these bands. Phish has gotten its reputation by performing excellent live shows. I understand that you are saying that here is more to a Phish show than the music (the people, the parking lot scene, the drugs, etc.) and you are right. But the music is what holds the entire scene together.
Phish has a free live show available for download on phishlive.com. Go and listen to it and get a taste of what Phish really sounds like.
It's not like Phish is now saying that people can no longer tape (or trade) recordings of Phish shows freely. What they are doing is providing a place where people can easily go and get soundboard quality recordings of there shows (w/ cover art and inlays) for $10. That's very cool! How many soundboard quality, 1st generation phish shows can you download off of etree.org?
On top of that, they are not placing any types of DRM on these files. If you want to buy them and distribute them on Kazaa or Morpheus, more power to ya. Personally, I hope other bands learn from this. Money does not need to be made through the recording industry. Every band that tours can make a few extra bucks offering a service that all their fans can enjoy.
I haven't been able to find any more current numbers or how many states have secondary laws
In the US, every state has a secondary law requiring drivers to wear seat belts, with the exception of New Hampshire (the Live Free or Die state).
This is kind of off-topic, but your mentioning of the BK Whopper reminded of something I heard on NPR.
...) this model will never be taken seriously.
On one of their programs, they talked about using the "Big Mac Index" as a means for analyzing a country's economy. Instead of using the value of gold or silver, they use the value of a Big Mac in a country as a determination of a country's economic status. They were able to predict pretty accurately. If I knew anything about economics, I would give you an example.
But like you stated, because there are too many factors that can go into the pricing of a Big Mac (e.g., cost of cattle, cost of shipping, cost of lettuce,
The Economist has an article about this.
...to get the dirt of the window, then these will be pretty much useless in places like London and Amsterdam where the sun shines about three days a year.
Perhaps their appearance in Don't Link to Us! will help encourage some of these sites to move forward into the 20th century.
He really should try to help companies move toward the 21st century.
The first person ever to receive this [technology] was Patient Alpha. His given name is Jens -- pronounced "Yens." Twenty-two years ago, at age 17, while nailing down railroad ties, an errant splinter took his left eye. Then, three years later, this time fixing a snowmobile, a shiv of clutch metal broke free and took out his right.
Man, what terrible luck!! On two seperate occasions this guy managed to gauge out one of his eyes. You would have thought that he would of learned his lesson after the first instance.
Good thing his mother didn't by him a Red Rider BB Gun when he was little.
Take a look at the picture in the article. The machine that Mike Moon is playing on is Black Knight 2000. I thought that added a nice touch to the article, since Black Knight 2000 is far and away the best pinball game made to date.
The last film with any substantial comedic element was The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
What about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? It has a different kind of comedic style than Baron Munchausen and Flying Circus, but none the less it was definitely a comedy.
There is a pretty nice article over at How Stuff Works with a breif explanation of the history and workings of Holographic Storage Devices