I liked this unintentionally honest quote from the article:
On free P2P services, "You go for Britney Spears, you get porn. You go for Pokemon, you get porn," [Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) President Cary] Sherman said. "When people are presented with a really good user experience at a reasonable price, they're going to use that."
I agree. A really good user experience is one that replaces Britney Spears with anything.
Oh dear lord in heaven, the "pr0n" reference with an obligatory +3 to +5 Funny rating! I tell you, I never get tired of seeing that one, no sir.
Back in the '70s and '80s, before the World Wide Web had made porn ubiquitous, and before Hustler and Penthouse had made hard core porn at least tolerated by "community standard" across the U.S., a lot of porn was advertised as "Swedish", the implication being that more liberal European attitudes towards it made for harder, more prurient porn.
(Given the tendency to think that cultures we don't know as much about as our own are more exotic, and possibly more erotic -- witness the European fascination with Polynesia, as typified by Paul Gauguin, or Margret Mead's willingness to be deceived in Samoa -- I wouldn't be surprised if porn advertised during the same period in Europe featured "hot American cheerleaders" or some such.)
So "Swedish porn" isn't just another porn comment, but a (somewhat sly) historical allusion to a time when porn was harder to come by, and the hardest was, if not actually Swedish, often labelled as such. I think the original poster may also have been suggesting, that given explosion of porn now available at the click of a mouse, we'd actually not nowadays miss the (putatively) Swedish contribution were it to, ah, um dry up or go soft.
It's simply not an option having millions of people breaking the law each and every day.
You're absolutely right. Not only is the particular law broken, but Law in general is undermined, as it the citizenry's respect for it and their government.
If "millions" are breaking some law "each and every day", it's a good indication the law is a bad idea, and probably is a law that attempts to contravene human nature.
Better to repeal it, rather than teach "millions" that they are comfortable being causual criminals "each and every day", don't you think?
Can you give me a link about the origin of "top-notch"?
Yeah, I did some serious googling for it too, and couldn't find it.
As I recall, the "top-notcher" was one of two guys on either end of a long, two handled saw. He stood at the top of a pit, and the other fellow stood in the pit, to facilitate cutting logs. Working together, they'd saw the logs.
Of course the guy down in the pit -- the top-notcher's opposite numbre -- had all the sawdust floating down on him, and inevitably he inhaled it. Over the course of about 10 years, he'd inhale enough sawdust to cause lung disease and premature death, disease and death the top-knotcher, by virtue of his position (literally, his position) avoided.
If I created a device that flips burgers, and cost less then maintaining a staff, people will buy it, and it will replaces millions of workes, far more then it would take to build the things. I'm not saying we shouldn't automate, I'm just asking what do we do as our jobs per person keeps declining?
Yes, I remember how gramps lost his job making buggy whips when, 100 years ago today, Ford Motor Company incorporated.
Fortunately, by 1904 he was able to get a job writing C.
What, you say C wasn't invented until the 1970s?
Oh, yeah, he got a job running an MRI.
Oh, wait, I mean, in a genetics lab.
No, that's not right....
Getting rid of laborious, boring, physically punishing jobs that put people in early graves -- look up the etymology of "top-notch" for a real horror, and be glad we've forgotten how that phrase came to be --, and which can be done better, cheap, and faster by machine, is one of the great triumphs, along with medicine and leisure time, of technology.
The call, intercepted by an unnamed source, went like this:
Operator: Thank you for calling IBM. How may I direct your call?
I saw this and assumed it would go more like this:
Operator: We get signal. Captain: What! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's You!! SCats: How are you gentlemen!! SCats: All your AIX are belong to us.
it lacks in good USB support and other demanding areas of our modern times.
English isn't taught in the schools anymore, is it?
Yeah, just yesterday -- a very modern time as times go -- I had trouble with several demanding areas, one of which was writing superficial filler that managed to communicate absolutely nothing but a a tired cliche.
The hardware is ruggedly built, and I'm pleased with it.
But the Archos firmware is wholly disappointing. Even the Archos font is lacking -- it's got no true descenders ("g", "y", "p").
There's an excellent GLP'd replacement, Rockbox (rockbox.haxx.se). It's literally an order of magnitude faster in displaying directories, and has a plethora of additional features.
The only "problem" with the GPL'd replacement is that, due to Archos's paranoia over its IP, the replacemnt had to be built up by labourious reverse engineering.
I'll buy new products from Archos when they release their specifications and sample code. Not before.
Presumably I'd have to use that ugly, bloated piece of spy-ware called Real Player...
...which means I can't play it on my MP3 player,
and thay want 79 cents per?
Look, I'm not very happy with emusic.com deciding to limit my unlimited subscription to 35 tracks at a time -- I don't want to baby-sit the track queue, I want to queue six albums at a time and go to bed -- but emusic gives me unlimited tracks at $10.00/month, and now ripped with lame 3.92 variable bit rate, so that the quality's about the same as when I rip my own CDs.
And I'd want to use Real.rms with Digital Restrictons Management? What, to pre-pay my time in hell?
Through the use of Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) and Frequency Altered Feedback (FAF), SpeechEasy(TM) effectively creates the illusion of another person speaking in unison with the user. By emulating this 'choral speech' pattern, a SpeechEasy(TM) user can become 50 - 95% more fluent.
I don't stutter, but I want one.
So it sounds like (whisper it with me!) Darth Vader is speaking in unison with me!
<style="intimidating">"You'll get the code when it meets my standards, and not before."</style>
While I'm at it, I want a soundtrack -- say a marching band playing "Stars anbnd Stripes Forever", whenever I open my mouth.
Slashdot Mirror
If you understand this, send a fax to 1 (212) XXX-XXXX
That fax number's in a strange code too. And it's really resistant to the character frequency analyses I've been trying.
I think it might be 555-5555 though, I heard that number in some movie.
Primarily targeted towards Japanese families living in France
Yeah, reading and following the setup and assembly instructions is gonna be no problem.
It looks too small to be comfortable.
It looks like you meant this to be a reply to the first post's: My ass is a better input device then most of these devices.
Is there a subtle homoerotic subtext (that I'd prefer to be missing) going on here?
I liked this unintentionally honest quote from the article:
On free P2P services, "You go for Britney Spears, you get porn. You go for Pokemon, you get porn," [Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) President Cary] Sherman said. "When people are presented with a really good user experience at a reasonable price, they're going to use that."
I agree. A really good user experience is one that replaces Britney Spears with anything.
The value I'm speaking of refered to the employees. I should know we read them at the start of every meeting.
Not trolling, serious question here: you read the company's statement of values at the start of every meeting??
To me this sounds like it should be accompanied by drinking the Kool-Aid -- i.e cult-like.
But since your were escorted out on leaving your employ, I'm guessing you did not work for a Japanese company.
So what's the deal? What company has you read a catechism?
Cat's what?
g:/Cat's/s//Cats/
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Oh dear lord in heaven, the "pr0n" reference with an obligatory +3 to +5 Funny rating! I tell you, I never get tired of seeing that one, no sir.
Back in the '70s and '80s, before the World Wide Web had made porn ubiquitous, and before Hustler and Penthouse had made hard core porn at least tolerated by "community standard" across the U.S., a lot of porn was advertised as "Swedish", the implication being that more liberal European attitudes towards it made for harder, more prurient porn.
(Given the tendency to think that cultures we don't know as much about as our own are more exotic, and possibly more erotic -- witness the European fascination with Polynesia, as typified by Paul Gauguin, or Margret Mead's willingness to be deceived in Samoa -- I wouldn't be surprised if porn advertised during the same period in Europe featured "hot American cheerleaders" or some such.)
So "Swedish porn" isn't just another porn comment, but a (somewhat sly) historical allusion to a time when porn was harder to come by, and the hardest was, if not actually Swedish, often labelled as such. I think the original poster may also have been suggesting, that given explosion of porn now available at the click of a mouse, we'd actually not nowadays miss the (putatively) Swedish contribution were it to, ah, um dry up or go soft.
It's simply not an option having millions of people breaking the law each and every day.
You're absolutely right. Not only is the particular law broken, but Law in general is undermined, as it the citizenry's respect for it and their government.
If "millions" are breaking some law "each and every day", it's a good indication the law is a bad idea, and probably is a law that attempts to contravene human nature.
Better to repeal it, rather than teach "millions" that they are comfortable being causual criminals "each and every day", don't you think?
Mom made you take a break from your Xbox, clean out the basement, and take a shower, and now you're all pouty, huh?
Now, that was a post.
Mod parent up, please.
I think we know that nobody on slashdot cares about the price of the games. We only care about hardware costs.
There's no need to buy games, because we're all modding game consoles to run linux to record from the webcams hidden in our mothers' basements.
You should see my hidden video bytetage -- I'm way too 1337 to write the antiquated "footage" -- of last week's D&D game!
Can you give me a link about the origin of "top-notch"?
Yeah, I did some serious googling for it too, and couldn't find it.
As I recall, the "top-notcher" was one of two guys on either end of a long, two handled saw. He stood at the top of a pit, and the other fellow stood in the pit, to facilitate cutting logs. Working together, they'd saw the logs.
Of course the guy down in the pit -- the top-notcher's opposite numbre -- had all the sawdust floating down on him, and inevitably he inhaled it. Over the course of about 10 years, he'd inhale enough sawdust to cause lung disease and premature death, disease and death the top-knotcher, by virtue of his position (literally, his position) avoided.
If I created a device that flips burgers, and cost less then maintaining a staff, people will buy it, and it will replaces millions of workes, far more then it would take to build the things.
I'm not saying we shouldn't automate, I'm just asking what do we do as our jobs per person keeps declining?
Yes, I remember how gramps lost his job making buggy whips when, 100 years ago today, Ford Motor Company incorporated.
Fortunately, by 1904 he was able to get a job writing C.
What, you say C wasn't invented until the 1970s?
Oh, yeah, he got a job running an MRI.
Oh, wait, I mean, in a genetics lab.
No, that's not right....
Getting rid of laborious, boring, physically punishing jobs that put people in early graves -- look up the etymology of "top-notch" for a real horror, and be glad we've forgotten how that phrase came to be --, and which can be done better, cheap, and faster by machine, is one of the great triumphs, along with medicine and leisure time, of technology.
The call, intercepted by an unnamed source, went like this:
Operator: Thank you for calling IBM. How may I direct your call?
I saw this and assumed it would go more like this:
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You!!
SCats: How are you gentlemen!!
SCats: All your AIX are belong to us.
it lacks in good USB support and other demanding areas of our modern times.
English isn't taught in the schools anymore, is it?
Yeah, just yesterday -- a very modern time as times go -- I had trouble with several demanding areas, one of which was writing superficial filler that managed to communicate absolutely nothing but a a tired cliche.
No, IBM's response will be:
....
Take off every 'zig' !!
For great justice.
I've been using various Wine based products lately
I''''ve been using wine bast pruducts too1 And don't tell me I got uh prublem, cause I don't, see.
I kin handle it. So whayt if sometime I wake up onna sidewalk an don remember goin ta sleep? I kin sttop any time I wan.
Hell, I didnt start drinkin cept to take up the time tween the blue screen od death anfd the three fingger salute.
You wanna make sometin ov it? Alla shoqw you whooze boss1
I put 240V AC across my chest
Never, never, put an Anonymous Coward across your chest.
Very sweet screen saver at parent's link.
What's an alternative to land mines? Punji sticks?... why not invest in making smart mines?
....
"Hey, up above! I am a smart mine! You should get at least 50 feet away! I will explode in thirty seconds!"
"Twenty-nine!"
"Twenty-eight!"
The hardware is ruggedly built, and I'm pleased with it.
But the Archos firmware is wholly disappointing. Even the Archos font is lacking -- it's got no true descenders ("g", "y", "p").
There's an excellent GLP'd replacement, Rockbox (rockbox.haxx.se). It's literally an order of magnitude faster in displaying directories, and has a plethora of additional features.
The only "problem" with the GPL'd replacement is that, due to Archos's paranoia over its IP, the replacemnt had to be built up by labourious reverse engineering.
I'll buy new products from Archos when they release their specifications and sample code. Not before.
Look, I'm not very happy with emusic.com deciding to limit my unlimited subscription to 35 tracks at a time -- I don't want to baby-sit the track queue, I want to queue six albums at a time and go to bed -- but emusic gives me unlimited tracks at $10.00/month, and now ripped with lame 3.92 variable bit rate, so that the quality's about the same as when I rip my own CDs.
And I'd want to use Real
Through the use of Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) and Frequency Altered Feedback (FAF), SpeechEasy(TM) effectively creates the illusion of another person speaking in unison with the user. By emulating this 'choral speech' pattern, a SpeechEasy(TM) user can become 50 - 95% more fluent.
I don't stutter, but I want one.
So it sounds like (whisper it with me!) Darth Vader is speaking in unison with me!
<style="intimidating">"You'll get the code when it meets my standards, and not before."</style>
While I'm at it, I want a soundtrack -- say a marching band playing "Stars anbnd Stripes Forever", whenever I open my mouth.
And standardized nutrition information has been a godsend to people who have to control their diet.
So it's worthless to all slashdotters?
official Men of Valor:Vietnam page on their site. It deals with the upcoming Vietnam- themed PC and Xbox FPS
How soon until the Lieutenant Calley or Hanoi Jane mods?