Technically, selling "promo copies" is illegal, as they have been "on permanent loan", rather than given, to radio stations. Been that way since the 70's. Printed on them in tiny little letters.
Have you gotten and exercised moderator privileges recently? You could be getting chewed up in meta-moderation. If not, you still aren't the only one suffering from unexplained karma evaporation lately. I think the new system calls for treating trolls and flamebaiters *better* than everybody else : )
The point being that rather than educate the general public you'd prefer to alienate them instead and convince them that they need stuff like the DMCA to protect them from the likes of you? If you forgot the smiley face at the end of what was intended as sarcasm, then, as Emily L. used to say on SNL, "nevermind".
"And I should care... why?" If you honestly don't know or understand why you shouldn't be totally indifferent to someone else's suffering and misfortune, I fear that any attempts to explain it to you would be in vain. If you don't already understand, you probably will never be capable of understanding.
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Must be nice to have free i-Macs lying around : ) Seriously though, the article says "Total price: the rack case and about 50 bucks in parts." No mention of what the rack case cost him, but there ain't no such thing as inexpensive rack mount stuff. (exclude the obvious stolen, surplus found in dumpster, etc). That $349 may be more reasonable than you imply once you consider all factors.
"I hate commenting until I read the article text so that I don't sound like an idiot for repeating something already in the article (maybe that's just me)." Yes, that is just you. After all, this *is* Slashdot : )
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"Steve Wozniak has the world's biggest ego" Has Steve Jobs left the world? : )
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"i don't know why people get so het up about it, if someone makes a bad remark about your computer it not exactly going to stop it working issit?" Of course not, but they can't help considering it as a statement that their male appendage is insufficiently large.
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I can see how others could easily misinterpret your post as sarcasm, but after a year and a half of reading Slashdot I am all too well aware of the inability or disinclination of so many of its readers to read the articles before commenting on them, not to mention the regularity with which mentioned sites do indeed get slashdotted.
In the latest episode of "As the karma burns", some 12 or more hours after "Hurrying to post this...." was posted someone apparently couldn't find anything worth moderating up anywhere and went after it instead.
The first couple of posts after I hit 25 today, that box wasn't there, so I've got a couple of unexplained 2's floating around out there, but Slashdot's been a little flakey overall today (the GUADEC Reports story and the paying bills online story didn't have the i-opener story between them, and then later they did, internal server error messages an hour later, all that fun stuff). It's there now and I'm a-usin' it. : )
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I don't care for much of the new stuff, either, but your first sentence could have been (and probably was)written anytime in the past 40+ years. The same thing for the second if you change "cds" to "records". You are correct about teenagers being the target demographic, but that's because they have disposable income, whereas older folk have "real world" expenses--especially if they are the parents of teenagers--and are less likely to spend highly on "records", partly because the money has to go elsewhere (food, clothing, shelter, medical, dental, etc) and partly because the new stuff is aimed at the current crop of teenagers and not at them. Yes, there are exceptions to all of that, but not that many percentage-wise, and if you aren't careful how you talk and think about the music preferred by those younger than you, one day soon you'll find that you have turned into your parents. : )
I was wondering when someone else was going to realize that all that cross-wiring of the cable was unnecessary : ) They probably are old laptop motherboards with the socket soldered to the "wrong" side at the factory for easier access.
Apparently 25 is currently the magic number. Now I've got to find the way to keep *all* my posts from starting at 2 so I don't look like a jerk and attract trolls with mod points.
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Technically, selling "promo copies" is illegal, as they have been "on permanent loan", rather than given, to radio stations. Been that way since the 70's. Printed on them in tiny little letters.
I remember when I could download songs from the jukebox into my ears for a quarter : )
Have you gotten and exercised moderator privileges recently? You could be getting chewed up in meta-moderation. If not, you still aren't the only one suffering from unexplained karma evaporation lately.
I think the new system calls for treating trolls and flamebaiters *better* than everybody else : )
The point being that rather than educate the general public you'd prefer to alienate them instead and convince them that they need stuff like the DMCA to protect them from the likes of you?
If you forgot the smiley face at the end of what was intended as sarcasm, then, as Emily L. used to say on SNL, "nevermind".
Government grinds to a standstill : )
Who took all my gruntles? : )
"And I should care... why?"
If you honestly don't know or understand why you shouldn't be totally indifferent to someone else's suffering and misfortune, I fear that any attempts to explain it to you would be in vain. If you don't already understand, you probably will never be capable of understanding.
Must be nice to have free i-Macs lying around : )
Seriously though, the article says "Total price: the rack case and about 50 bucks in parts." No mention of what the rack case cost him, but there ain't no such thing as inexpensive rack mount stuff. (exclude the obvious stolen, surplus found in dumpster, etc). That $349 may be more reasonable than you imply once you consider all factors.
"I hate commenting until I read the article text so that I don't sound like an idiot for repeating something already in the article (maybe that's just me)."
Yes, that is just you. After all, this *is* Slashdot : )
"Steve Wozniak has the world's biggest ego"
Has Steve Jobs left the world? : )
"i don't know why people get so het up about it, if someone makes a bad remark about your computer it not exactly going to stop it working issit?"
Of course not, but they can't help considering it as a statement that their male appendage is insufficiently large.
I can see how others could easily misinterpret your post as sarcasm, but after a year and a half of reading Slashdot I am all too well aware of the inability or disinclination of so many of its readers to read the articles before commenting on them, not to mention the regularity with which mentioned sites do indeed get slashdotted.
In the latest episode of "As the karma burns", some 12 or more hours after "Hurrying to post this...." was posted someone apparently couldn't find anything worth moderating up anywhere and went after it instead.
I thought they meant they wanted alpha testers : (
Really, I did. And I'd certainly be the perfect "clueless newbie" test bed : )
Go back to that university and ask them about The Gnostic Gospels.
"Most people do not associate god with getting a million dollars."
Announcer: You've just won a *million dollars*!
Recipient: Thank you Jesus!
: )
Review what Christopher Hitchens has to say about Mother Teresa and you may decide they aren't so miscatagorized after all : )
Oh, cute. *Now* it works :|
I'm a-usin' it...and it ain't workin'
Probably a million of some other (ie, not the USA) country's currency that exchanges at 94 cents to the whatever.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that it degenerates into an Esther Dyson bashing thread. : )
The first couple of posts after I hit 25 today, that box wasn't there, so I've got a couple of unexplained 2's floating around out there, but Slashdot's been a little flakey overall today (the GUADEC Reports story and the paying bills online story didn't have the i-opener story between them, and then later they did, internal server error messages an hour later, all that fun stuff). It's there now and I'm a-usin' it. : )
I don't care for much of the new stuff, either, but your first sentence could have been (and probably was)written anytime in the past 40+ years. The same thing for the second if you change "cds" to "records".
You are correct about teenagers being the target demographic, but that's because they have disposable income, whereas older folk have "real world" expenses--especially if they are the parents of teenagers--and are less likely to spend highly on "records", partly because the money has to go elsewhere (food, clothing, shelter, medical, dental, etc) and partly because the new stuff is aimed at the current crop of teenagers and not at them.
Yes, there are exceptions to all of that, but not that many percentage-wise, and if you aren't careful how you talk and think about the music preferred by those younger than you, one day soon you'll find that you have turned into your parents. : )
I was wondering when someone else was going to realize that all that cross-wiring of the cable was unnecessary : )
They probably are old laptop motherboards with the socket soldered to the "wrong" side at the factory for easier access.
Apparently 25 is currently the magic number. Now I've got to find the way to keep *all* my posts from starting at 2 so I don't look like a jerk and attract trolls with mod points.