"...Back in the tape to tape or CD to tape days...The music industry turned a bit of a blind eye to the whole affair..."
Except perhaps for that whole "we deserve a cut from every sale of blank tape" thing?
Well, actually it was more like in the phonograph record (or FM radio) to tape days, but they were still looking for the government to help them screw everybody.
I can usually tell by the subject line that it is spam and I just delete it.
I could tell from "Seeking Drivers for Unknown Apple Ethernet Card?" that this particular "Ask Slashdot" was probably about somebody with an old Apple ethernet card. The only Apple hardware I've got is an old IIe with no software but I still thought I might learn something from the replies, and I did.
Unfortunately part of what I learned (or re-learned, 'cause it seems every "Ask Slashdot" includes people complaining about the topic) is that a lot of people seem to have enough spare time that they can spare some to go into a thread in which they have no interest and complain about the topic.
I don't have time to read each and every last word posted to Slashdot in all the different categories so I generally only read the stuff in which I'm interested and leave the rest for those who care about that. If an "Ask Slashdot" about where to find great rap and hip-hop MP3s showed up in the list I probably wouldn't bother to click on the link, but if someone else gets some benefit out of it then good for them. I certainly wouldn't go into the thread just to post a bitch about the fact of its existence. I don't understand why that's such a difficult concept for others to grasp, and I really don't understand why there are so many people going through their lives desperately worried that someone, somewhere, is thinking about submitting an "Ask Slashdot" to which they might have found the answer elsewhere. Are there other, much more fascinating "Ask Slashdot" submissions going ignored by the editors in favor of the ones which are accepted?
I click on the "Ask Slashdot"s that I think might interest me and ignore the other ones. No one forces me to open the ones about which I don't care. I'm sorry to hear that the little green or gray men are holding a gun to your head and forcing you to waste your precious time on topics in which you have no interest.
The best universal remote? That's easy! An intelligent and energetic young person who's highly motivated by realizing that a failure to respond to commands will result in a forfiture of allowance!
"But the idea that musicians (or writers, or whatever) can keep pumping out stuff exactly like What's Hot Now and be guaranteed a blockbuster is just stupid."
Perhaps, but the notion that putting out something that isn't very similar to "What's Hot Now" will likely be commercially unsuccessful is probably a safe bet more often than not.
"Judging from opinions on slashdot, Microsoft shouldn't have called their OS "Windows," they should have called it "Pane."
Actually they should have called it peepholes (consider all those non-scrollable, non-enlargeable dialog boxes), or, for the scrollable stuff, "elevators", where you can move the door opening up, down, or sideways in relation to the fixed in place "document". Considering that one turns the top handle of a real scroll in order to expose the bottom of a document and the bottom handle in order to expose the top (or the left handle to expose the right hand side...), those things really shouldn't be called scroll bars at all.
And shouldn't the United Kingdom be suing, on the basis of prior art, over the use of the name Camelot?
' Ah, for the days when 'security' meant telling people "don't do this (oops)". '
You mean back before the big guy said they could eat from any tree in the garden except that particular one? 'Cause I don't think that just telling them has ever worked since.
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The poem about the Jabberwock isn't "The Jabberwocky", it's just "Jabberwocky" and it's a vorpal sword/blade.
Except perhaps for that whole "we deserve a cut from every sale of blank tape" thing?
Well, actually it was more like in the phonograph record (or FM radio) to tape days, but they were still looking for the government to help them screw everybody.
Too bad we can't fire Tom Ridge and hire Tom Clancy.
Maybe he's worried that you're wearing someone else's underwear.
No, just his big contributors.
Yeah, 'cause everybody knows eBay never had any reputation issues.
Kitchen
Full Bath
Bedroom
Of course they're single. You think married people can afford that stuff?
Spare cat, or spare vac?
Yeah, but if you had one of those with a computer built in she'd say "Not tonight, dear, I've got to re-compile my kernel."
Perhpas what the poster meant was that he or she rents their TV, stereo, etc.
Best Star Trek captain in just the television shows/movies, or are the ones in the books eligible as well?
"Nadir--where the quality comes out before the name goes on."
I can usually tell by the subject line that it is spam and I just delete it.
I could tell from "Seeking Drivers for Unknown Apple Ethernet Card?" that this particular "Ask Slashdot" was probably about somebody with an old Apple ethernet card. The only Apple hardware I've got is an old IIe with no software but I still thought I might learn something from the replies, and I did.
Unfortunately part of what I learned (or re-learned, 'cause it seems every "Ask Slashdot" includes people complaining about the topic) is that a lot of people seem to have enough spare time that they can spare some to go into a thread in which they have no interest and complain about the topic.
I don't have time to read each and every last word posted to Slashdot in all the different categories so I generally only read the stuff in which I'm interested and leave the rest for those who care about that. If an "Ask Slashdot" about where to find great rap and hip-hop MP3s showed up in the list I probably wouldn't bother to click on the link, but if someone else gets some benefit out of it then good for them. I certainly wouldn't go into the thread just to post a bitch about the fact of its existence. I don't understand why that's such a difficult concept for others to grasp, and I really don't understand why there are so many people going through their lives desperately worried that someone, somewhere, is thinking about submitting an "Ask Slashdot" to which they might have found the answer elsewhere. Are there other, much more fascinating "Ask Slashdot" submissions going ignored by the editors in favor of the ones which are accepted?
I click on the "Ask Slashdot"s that I think might interest me and ignore the other ones. No one forces me to open the ones about which I don't care. I'm sorry to hear that the little green or gray men are holding a gun to your head and forcing you to waste your precious time on topics in which you have no interest.
Aren't those called viruses?
The best universal remote? That's easy! An intelligent and energetic young person who's highly motivated by realizing that a failure to respond to commands will result in a forfiture of allowance!
Perhaps, but the notion that putting out something that isn't very similar to "What's Hot Now" will likely be commercially unsuccessful is probably a safe bet more often than not.
Conspicuously absent from your list of bills seems to be any kind of insurance (life, renter's, automobile, medical, et cetera).
But even worse that those idiot children gave the media that excuse to chase the sensational and avoid covering the real issues.
And of course the latter will do a more than adequate job of inhibiting any embarrassing physical reactions to the former.
You mean the same thing "Prince Valiant" has been doing in the Sunday funnies for over 50 years now?
Actually they should have called it peepholes (consider all those non-scrollable, non-enlargeable dialog boxes), or, for the scrollable stuff, "elevators", where you can move the door opening up, down, or sideways in relation to the fixed in place "document". Considering that one turns the top handle of a real scroll in order to expose the bottom of a document and the bottom handle in order to expose the top (or the left handle to expose the right hand side...), those things really shouldn't be called scroll bars at all.
And shouldn't the United Kingdom be suing, on the basis of prior art, over the use of the name Camelot?
I thought it was pregnancy that was the result of some 'affection'.
You mean back before the big guy said they could eat from any tree in the garden except that particular one? 'Cause I don't think that just telling them has ever worked since.