The ending was borrowed from the Cannes Film Festival version of Apocalypse Now, where after killing Kurtz, Willard isn't sure whether to destroy the compound, or take over.
Try to pick up the other episodes elsewhere - at least the miniseries and the first two episodes (33 and Water), the first episode with Zarek (Bastille Day), and the last two (Kobol's Last Gleaming).
Ask the people of Darfur how the UN has failed to even try to protect them
Remember that it took ~3 years for the Bush Amdinistration to decide that "Hey, it is a genocide after all" - and they're not exactly jumping up to do anything about it.
Yes, WorldWideWeb displayed graphics in separate windows; Mosaic made the images inline (thus the name, "Mosaic"). Anybody know if 1. the code to WorldWideWeb is still around, 2. if it works on OS X? (Which is based upon NeXTStep.)
You realize, of course, that Netscape was the commercialization of Mosaic? And that the reason Fortune is focusing upon Netscape and not Mosaic is because they're, well, a business publication?
Penguin suing the University of Virginia because its e-text archive is wrongful government competition? Microsoft suing a company or university that receives government grants or contracts because its students contribute to the Linux kernel?
2% of IBM's CHIP business. Certainly the POWER chips are in there as well as PowerPC, and there are perhaps other chip architectures that IBM fabs that I don't know about.
Your second link, to the Apple/Intel FAQ, actually got its information from the same USAToday article, and (frankly, wrongly) characterized it the same way you did.
A lot of graphic arts, music production, and film production folks use them. Some folks who have serious security concerns also use them because of FileVault.
There's a significant difference here. The record companies are selling CDs, hopefully carefully tracked, of different performances. If they are arguing that the BBC MP3 downloads (which look like one file per symphony, are performed I assume by a different symphony, and are no doubt produced differently, mixed differently, etc.) are competing with them, that suggests that it doesn't matter which performance one sells or how one produces it or mixes it or whether or not it's on a physical medium. If that's true, then the record companies have no viable business model for classical music, and they never have.
A lot of people with degrees in English Lit tend to use Brit spellings - it's a side effect of our having read so many books published in Brit orthography.
Note, too, that while the original works are not in copyright for many of the Penguin classics, the translations ARE. And if you've ever seen a 19th century translation, you'll understand why someone would prefer the Penguin to the Gutenberg.
/. isn't just a blog, it's the Death Star of blogs.
Indeed. If one were to say that most blogs have an xacto knife and a 9V battery, Slashdot is a blog with a fusion reactor and friggin' laser beams on its... well, you get the idea.
I was responding specifically to what the grandparent poster was saying (about how much easier it is to get small gigs if you do covers). On your own point, well, I'll give you this: I've got songs by The Ataris, Tori Amos, Mitch Allan, Kittie, and Godhead that I bought entirely because they were interpretations of songs I like. I may buy other stuff from these bands in the future.
But then . . . how many people can name a song by The Ataris other than Boys of Summer? Maybe a third to a quarter of the people who know the cover? I think you need to have something compelling of your OWN work available for folks to try out, too, if they decide they like your interpretation of one of their favorite songs enough to look to your other work. If you put too much focus into a cover version, and the cover doesn't highlight something unique and artistically satisfying about your band, something that connects to your influences and can serve as a bridge for new listeners, but simply is an interesting new take on an old standard, it's not going to help.
Jazz is a different genre; it's a repertory genre whose listeners are used to the idea of looking for creative new variations of old favorites.
Don't get too hopeful just yet - the current Smart Folders (saved searches) UI is kludgy beyond belief - you can't save a spotlight search as a smart folder, you have to create the smart folder independently; boolean searches are undocumented, unreliable, and don't work across the feature; and the Smart Folders by default are kept in a separate folder in your profile (they don't just appear where you want them; you have to drag and drop them there).
And the second lesson a band learns is that it is very, very hard to get the A&R folks to look at you seriously if you have a reputation as too much of a cover band, no?
Does that mean I get to grow a beard and have sadistic bodyguards willing to kill to avenge me? (Or at least avenge my PowerMac G5, which just went from "latest and greatest" to "yesterday's news" in a blink of an eye.)
Seriously, the RDF must be on the blink, because I think this is a BAD idea.
Exactly. Rather like the icon showing a G4 iMac in the Finder window on OS X 10.4, the one named whatever your computer is named. "My Computer" is not the worst sin that Microsoft ever committed (though I think "Computer", "Documents", "Pictures", and "Music" made more sense - as, apparently, Apple did, since those are the names they adopted in OS X 10.0).
My friend, I find your faith in the ability of an intelligent being to apply that intelligence in equal helpings to all areas of knowledge and belief touching, but mistaken. People apply different standards of proof to different fields of knowledge, depending upon the emotional hold they have on them. I have few doubts that there will be religions among those who might visit Earth (or those whose planets we might visit), and am not entirely sure that some of those religions will not have violent sects.
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The ending was borrowed from the Cannes Film Festival version of Apocalypse Now, where after killing Kurtz, Willard isn't sure whether to destroy the compound, or take over.
Try to pick up the other episodes elsewhere - at least the miniseries and the first two episodes (33 and Water), the first episode with Zarek (Bastille Day), and the last two (Kobol's Last Gleaming).
Two more movies WERE planned; Chronicles did not meet expectations, so I wouldn't count on those two movies.
An entire thread of flamebait, and yours (Chris Mattern's) is one of the few rational postings. Thanks.
Ask the people of Darfur how the UN has failed to even try to protect them
Remember that it took ~3 years for the Bush Amdinistration to decide that "Hey, it is a genocide after all" - and they're not exactly jumping up to do anything about it.
Yes, WorldWideWeb displayed graphics in separate windows; Mosaic made the images inline (thus the name, "Mosaic"). Anybody know if 1. the code to WorldWideWeb is still around, 2. if it works on OS X? (Which is based upon NeXTStep.)
You realize, of course, that Netscape was the commercialization of Mosaic? And that the reason Fortune is focusing upon Netscape and not Mosaic is because they're, well, a business publication?
Penguin suing the University of Virginia because its e-text archive is wrongful government competition? Microsoft suing a company or university that receives government grants or contracts because its students contribute to the Linux kernel?
2% of IBM's CHIP business. Certainly the POWER chips are in there as well as PowerPC, and there are perhaps other chip architectures that IBM fabs that I don't know about. Your second link, to the Apple/Intel FAQ, actually got its information from the same USAToday article, and (frankly, wrongly) characterized it the same way you did.
A lot of graphic arts, music production, and film production folks use them. Some folks who have serious security concerns also use them because of FileVault.
There's a significant difference here. The record companies are selling CDs, hopefully carefully tracked, of different performances. If they are arguing that the BBC MP3 downloads (which look like one file per symphony, are performed I assume by a different symphony, and are no doubt produced differently, mixed differently, etc.) are competing with them, that suggests that it doesn't matter which performance one sells or how one produces it or mixes it or whether or not it's on a physical medium. If that's true, then the record companies have no viable business model for classical music, and they never have.
Always two there are: a master, and an apprentice.
A lot of people with degrees in English Lit tend to use Brit spellings - it's a side effect of our having read so many books published in Brit orthography.
Note, too, that while the original works are not in copyright for many of the Penguin classics, the translations ARE. And if you've ever seen a 19th century translation, you'll understand why someone would prefer the Penguin to the Gutenberg.
Doesn't "enormity" mean, horrible crime? Perhaps the author meant "enormousness".
Obviously the author was too impatient with the fuzziness of liberal arts.
This sentence from the posting:
yet abhor wasting time intellectually and can't hide their impatience with the fuzziness of liberal arts,
was written by an idiot.
And why the hell would anyone go to the trouble of using someone else's registration key to avoid the ads in Opera, which are not exactly obtrusive?
You mean like this? (Filemaker is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc.; but frankly, I don't think iWork is intended to be an Office replacement; it's a Microsoft Works replacement.)
Indeed. If one were to say that most blogs have an xacto knife and a 9V battery, Slashdot is a blog with a fusion reactor and friggin' laser beams on its ... well, you get the idea.
I was responding specifically to what the grandparent poster was saying (about how much easier it is to get small gigs if you do covers). On your own point, well, I'll give you this: I've got songs by The Ataris, Tori Amos, Mitch Allan, Kittie, and Godhead that I bought entirely because they were interpretations of songs I like. I may buy other stuff from these bands in the future.
But then . . . how many people can name a song by The Ataris other than Boys of Summer? Maybe a third to a quarter of the people who know the cover? I think you need to have something compelling of your OWN work available for folks to try out, too, if they decide they like your interpretation of one of their favorite songs enough to look to your other work. If you put too much focus into a cover version, and the cover doesn't highlight something unique and artistically satisfying about your band, something that connects to your influences and can serve as a bridge for new listeners, but simply is an interesting new take on an old standard, it's not going to help.
Jazz is a different genre; it's a repertory genre whose listeners are used to the idea of looking for creative new variations of old favorites.
Don't get too hopeful just yet - the current Smart Folders (saved searches) UI is kludgy beyond belief - you can't save a spotlight search as a smart folder, you have to create the smart folder independently; boolean searches are undocumented, unreliable, and don't work across the feature; and the Smart Folders by default are kept in a separate folder in your profile (they don't just appear where you want them; you have to drag and drop them there).
And the second lesson a band learns is that it is very, very hard to get the A&R folks to look at you seriously if you have a reputation as too much of a cover band, no?
Does that mean I get to grow a beard and have sadistic bodyguards willing to kill to avenge me? (Or at least avenge my PowerMac G5, which just went from "latest and greatest" to "yesterday's news" in a blink of an eye.)
Seriously, the RDF must be on the blink, because I think this is a BAD idea.
Exactly. Rather like the icon showing a G4 iMac in the Finder window on OS X 10.4, the one named whatever your computer is named. "My Computer" is not the worst sin that Microsoft ever committed (though I think "Computer", "Documents", "Pictures", and "Music" made more sense - as, apparently, Apple did, since those are the names they adopted in OS X 10.0).
You should zoom in enough to see Slartibartfast's handiwork.
My friend, I find your faith in the ability of an intelligent being to apply that intelligence in equal helpings to all areas of knowledge and belief touching, but mistaken. People apply different standards of proof to different fields of knowledge, depending upon the emotional hold they have on them. I have few doubts that there will be religions among those who might visit Earth (or those whose planets we might visit), and am not entirely sure that some of those religions will not have violent sects.