My best friend is a DJ (radio and mixing), and he's a total geek. He even made me a "Geek Athletic Department" t-shirt with his computer. So yeah, I guess djs are geeks.
I personally use Movable Type for my web sites. My job site also uses it for project management. I've trained several computer illiterate users on how to use it, and they love it! It includes picture uploading, no HTML entry writing, and extremely powerful layout tools. Heck, if you don't like the way it comes out of the box, the MT web site has some spiffy templates, and more are available on the 'Net.
It may require some work on your end, but almost no work on your parents' end. All you have to do is setup a bookmarklet or a shortcut, and your parents can happily blog all day long.
Now that you've made slashdot standards compliant, why not make it look good? CSS has powerful leading, word spacing and font tools (all of them with relative measurements to look good across most browsers). If a browser doesn't like a text attribute, it won't display it, so you won't have to worry about the same unpredictability as you would with layers and div boxes. The one thing that sucks the most on slashdot is its typesetting. Type is the one thing web designers forget about, but doing it right drastically improves the appearance and readability of a site.
William Gibson's "Idoru" and Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" both discussed how what people write should inalienable. I wish corporations saw it that way.../swears to never write for miserable pay again
I work for the U.S. Forest Service, and guess what? Our DNS servers don't redirect us to the VeriSign crap. We still get a good old-fashioned error message. Yippee!
However, to a greedy corporation, the code you have written is more valuable than the code you will write because written code is already money in the bag that can be sold again and again.
That's why the RIAA is so angry. They're not able to sell what their artists have already produced because of P2P, so they're not making any money on them. And they're not about to pay their singers based on potential like big businesses pay their programmers.
Also, in regular (non-media) business, the value content producers (tech writers, programmers) bring into the company is not tangible. A techwriter or programmer isn't going to directly generate $100 million in sales (although they may help influence that).
However, the value content producers (singers, writers, producers) bring into the media business is very tangible. Hence this big fiasco. A content producer can bring in $100 million in sales because he is what is sold. His product (songs) is the proprety that generates value for the RIAA. That's why they want to defend their intellectual property so bad.
He stands for property rights, but he also respects consumer rights. I think he's got a balanced view. Sue the big pirates, but do it in such a way that innocent people don't get hurt (like 12-year-old girls).
Also of note is a press release from Sen. Brownback's own office. The press release also discusses the senator's plans for the digital TV broadcast flag.
Compulsory Licesning is making the government the world's cashier. That should not be. Rather, artists need to market themselves in such a way that people want to pay them, not be forced to pay them.
For example, there's a saxophone player that plays every night by the library. He usually has his sax case opened in front of him, and passersby often give him money.
If he plays what I like, I'll often slip him a dollar. But if he doesn't, then I don't. He's not sitting there on the corner cutting my pockets open and stealing my money.
That's what this compulsory license thing does. It cuts my pockets open and steals my money. I think the record companies need follow the example of Apple. Then maybe they wouldn't lose much money.
They also need to quit gouging their own artists. Pay a man well to do a good job and he'll treat you well (most of the time).
Spam and rice is what my Hawaiian college buddies called it. You could smell it all the way down the drom hall. And it tastes really good. Really.;) Kind of reminds me of sushi, only saltier.
I just wish someone would compete with AT&T in my area (Pueblo, CO). That way, prices could go down. I'm tired of their crappy customer service. I don't mind the new bandwidth, though.
That's what they said about cell phones until someone discovered they had cancer. I'll bet the power station workers will be walking around with thumbs sticking out of their foreheads or something.
Where can I get an auto-surfing app? Sounds like something out of the Matrix. (You know the scene where Neo is sleeping and his computer is doing searches on Morpheus?)
Slashdot Mirror
Scientific progress goes BOINC!
/a donut to whoever knows that reference. :)
My best friend is a DJ (radio and mixing), and he's a total geek. He even made me a "Geek Athletic Department" t-shirt with his computer. So yeah, I guess djs are geeks.
I personally use Movable Type for my web sites. My job site also uses it for project management. I've trained several computer illiterate users on how to use it, and they love it! It includes picture uploading, no HTML entry writing, and extremely powerful layout tools. Heck, if you don't like the way it comes out of the box, the MT web site has some spiffy templates, and more are available on the 'Net.
It may require some work on your end, but almost no work on your parents' end. All you have to do is setup a bookmarklet or a shortcut, and your parents can happily blog all day long.
It does when the error messages come back as gibberish.
"Tus zapatos esta en tu cabeza."
Now that you've made slashdot standards compliant, why not make it look good? CSS has powerful leading, word spacing and font tools (all of them with relative measurements to look good across most browsers). If a browser doesn't like a text attribute, it won't display it, so you won't have to worry about the same unpredictability as you would with layers and div boxes. The one thing that sucks the most on slashdot is its typesetting. Type is the one thing web designers forget about, but doing it right drastically improves the appearance and readability of a site.
Colorado State University-Pueblo still runs their auction graphics off of one. Looks almost like a Commodore 128, too. [/scary]
I guess HP won't be raping me for cartridges anymore. But I think this will raise the price of printers.
It was very simple.
"We don't have any money to pay you."
The IT department was pared down 75% three months later.
Fortunately, someone else offered me a job the day before.
William Gibson's "Idoru" and Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" both discussed how what people write should inalienable. I wish corporations saw it that way... /swears to never write for miserable pay again
I work for the U.S. Forest Service, and guess what? Our DNS servers don't redirect us to the VeriSign crap. We still get a good old-fashioned error message. Yippee!
However, to a greedy corporation, the code you have written is more valuable than the code you will write because written code is already money in the bag that can be sold again and again.
That's why the RIAA is so angry. They're not able to sell what their artists have already produced because of P2P, so they're not making any money on them. And they're not about to pay their singers based on potential like big businesses pay their programmers.
Also, in regular (non-media) business, the value content producers (tech writers, programmers) bring into the company is not tangible. A techwriter or programmer isn't going to directly generate $100 million in sales (although they may help influence that).
However, the value content producers (singers, writers, producers) bring into the media business is very tangible. Hence this big fiasco. A content producer can bring in $100 million in sales because he is what is sold. His product (songs) is the proprety that generates value for the RIAA. That's why they want to defend their intellectual property so bad.
He stands for property rights, but he also respects consumer rights. I think he's got a balanced view. Sue the big pirates, but do it in such a way that innocent people don't get hurt (like 12-year-old girls).
Also of note is a press release from Sen. Brownback's own office. The press release also discusses the senator's plans for the digital TV broadcast flag.
Compulsory Licesning is making the government the world's cashier. That should not be. Rather, artists need to market themselves in such a way that people want to pay them, not be forced to pay them.
For example, there's a saxophone player that plays every night by the library. He usually has his sax case opened in front of him, and passersby often give him money.
If he plays what I like, I'll often slip him a dollar. But if he doesn't, then I don't. He's not sitting there on the corner cutting my pockets open and stealing my money.
That's what this compulsory license thing does. It cuts my pockets open and steals my money. I think the record companies need follow the example of Apple. Then maybe they wouldn't lose much money.
They also need to quit gouging their own artists. Pay a man well to do a good job and he'll treat you well (most of the time).
I think I'll marry an Indian. Then I'll get that job in Bangalore.
Also popular in my dorm ... spam quesadillas.
Grill some spam, melt some cheese, wrap in a flower tortilla.
I invented these when the Hawaiian guys wouldn't share their rice. :(
Spam and rice is what my Hawaiian college buddies called it. You could smell it all the way down the drom hall. And it tastes really good. Really. ;) Kind of reminds me of sushi, only saltier.
Microsoft high schools may become the Wal-Mart of education if enough of them get started.
Ricochet would have been an excellent competitor. Same with Sprint Broadband. Both went belly up. Sprint even had their antenna installed.
I just wish someone would compete with AT&T in my area (Pueblo, CO). That way, prices could go down. I'm tired of their crappy customer service. I don't mind the new bandwidth, though.
It's like Neuromancer. Mail order body parts.
It's like the New York Times saying you can't hand your buddy page 10 of the sports section without giving him the front page first.
That's what they said about cell phones until someone discovered they had cancer. I'll bet the power station workers will be walking around with thumbs sticking out of their foreheads or something.
Where can I get an auto-surfing app? Sounds like something out of the Matrix. (You know the scene where Neo is sleeping and his computer is doing searches on Morpheus?)