The Bhopal disaster, which killed 10,000 and permanently poisoned tens of thousands more, is a lot more significant than Windows ME or a high tech toilet. I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet -- it's probably because they don't care about the third world.
The influence of mallcore -- the "nu-metal" genre of detuned guitars with alternating rapped and screamed lyrics -- upon the modern music scene is truly revolutionary; so much so that many of the metalposeurs' (non-mallcore "metal" fans) favorite bands, who keep it real and don't adhere stingily to the bleak past, have become part of the movement. These bands from the past know that the future of music lies in mallcore, and those who deny it are simply denying the future. Anyone who turns their back on the now-mallcore Gods of the past are too soft and weak, closed-minded, and pretentious to join in listening to mallcore, the ultimate form of music.
These bands include but are not limited to:
Danzig - Glenn Danzig, former punk legend of the Misfits and Samhain now lends his Elvis/Morrison-like voice and idiosyncratic style to his own brand of mallcore with 777 I Luiceferi.
Helloween - Borrowed mallcore styles with The Dark Ride, but failed miserably, since they're too soft for the genre.
In Flames - Considered Gods by many metal fans alike, these Swedes have quit playing their "gay" melodies and showed their hard side by turning into an excellent Mallcore band with Reroute to Remain, and are now metal enough to tour with the mighty Slipknot.
Megadeth - Megadeth briefly joined the mallcore scene with their album Risk, then sold out with World Needs A Hero. Karma afflicted Mustaine greatly, and the band soon broke up for turning their backs on mallcore.
Metallica - After some of their earlier garage band releases, they put out the Black Album, their rough first real album. After that, they joined the party and produced some excellent heavy metal with Load and Reload. Metallica now takes the stage with Ja Rule and creates heavy rap-metal.
Ozzy Osbourne - The Alpha and Omega of metal, creating the genesis of all things metal with Black Sabbath, Ozzy has switched his style entirely to detuned, minimalist mallcore with Down to Earth and now tours with only the best at Ozzfest -- bands such as Drowning Pool, Flaw, Adema, and POD.
Sepultura - After abandoning their lackadaisical 80's metal, Brazillians Sepultura went on to put out some excellent mallcore albums in the early days of the mallcore underground. After breaking up, lead singer Max Cavalera went on to form the very talented and tight Soulfly.
Slayer - They have put out their own brand of mallcore with God Hates Us All, abandoned their tired thrash metal sound and acknowledged Slipknot's superiority, and are now touring with Hatebreed.
Steve Vai - What some used to call "The Greatest Guitarist of All Times" before guitarists like Munky, Mick, and Wayne Static took over has bowed before the all-mighty fathers of mallcore, KoRn, when interviewed. In the same interview, Yngwie Malmsteen dared not to put up a rebuttal of any kind, thus submitting to the superior mallcore genius and technical abilities of Korn.
Downloading movies in any decent quality over the internet, simply for viewing it, is a joke.
Even with a very fat pipe, downloading 700mb for an ok-quality divx or 1400mb for a good quality DivX is still a very long wait. Streaming a pixelated mosaic still sucks over broadband, too.
Besides, if you have a broadband connection, chances are you live in a town with a Blockbuster video, and you can afford a $50 DVD player -- it's still by far an easier solution.
The media companies should just give up these crappy pay alternatives to piracy, as the capitalist model does not work in the digital world where there are no laws and the ability to mass-duplicate any form of media, unless the draconian Palladium takes over -- which will be over my dead body.
It'd just be easier to sell cheap DVDs and CDs ($10/DVD, $5/CD) with a business like newegg, where you get everything in 2 days and the prices are rock bottom. More people would actually buy their music and movies at full quality instead of downloading them if their prices weren't exorbitantly fixed.
It's not as good at the latest crazy town album, but in case it's slashdotted -- it sounds very strange, twangy, almost random, and VERY, VERY dissonant. However, it's quite beautiful.
Fractal Music is quite interesting, as well, and oddly it still sounds more orderly than Platonic Dice.
But I also f***ed every single band member of Slipknot in a giant f***n gangbang orgy, so it might not be that n***er's baby... or it could have been 9 homeless guys, for all I know.
Even if the baby is a n***er, we're still going on f***n Maury Povich for some g****n paternity tests!
But Tetris is nearly impossible when they're dropping at breakneck speed -- in fact, it falls so fast that even a computer controlled bot operating in microseconds could not rotate it to keep it perpetuating, even if the speed weren't increasing after 20 (or even 15).
I didn't think the non-speed aspect would be so difficult: Pazhatiniov (sp?) is truly a genius.
How does this get to be front page news? Seriously, is this just a slashdot DDoS attack on some guy's page? Old games have been created in Flash since its genesis, and this is nothing special.
If someone actually managed to write an actual emulator with Flash -- believe me, it could be done, as one was even written in QBasic a few years back -- then that would definitely be qualified for front page news. In fact, I'd hope it would be in the running for story of the year.
It's probably nice work, but c'mon, editors -- it's not worth slashdotting some guy's homepage.
I'm f***in pregnant, Daddy, and what are you gonna
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do about it?
And the baby ain't f***n white, either! I f***ed the lead singer of POD's huge black c**k till my c**t nearly fell out, and he c***ed inside me with no f***in' condom!
... itturns out that the attack on the free software movement was attached to the end of the letter in question by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash, who happens to have Microsoft as his biggest beneficiary.
No surprise -- Microsoft is a huge contributor to both parties, including the Democrats -- whom some believe are supposed to be our saviors from the "evil, corporate Republicans." They're not -- they're on the inside what Republicans are on the outside.
If you really want a change, don't vote for either party -- vote Libertarian if you're on the right, Green Party if you're on the left, and independant otherwise. Both parties are in the pockets of big business, and that's bad both for those who advocate freedom from the government as well as those who despise deregulation.
The more we have third party, the closer we get to fairer, European-style representation.
I used to use a cell phone exclusively, too, until a certain indicent happened about 6 months ago.
What happened is that some drunk redneck or gangbanger or something blew apart the local McDonalds sign with a shotgun.
However, what you didn't know is that cell phone towers are hidden in places like that -- the only indicator is a little notch or a light in the sign.
I spent hours talking on my phone during the time, which I thought was free, but since the McDonalds sign was destroyed, it went ROAMING. I had a $600 phone bill that month, which I tried to explain and still refused to pay, so they disconnected me.
I am now currently phoneless, but with GAIM and email, I'm ok.
According to their website, these guys are distributing music from.MP3 format -- they use lossy compression, which devastates the quality of the audio.
If you want to see how bad the loss is, load up CoolEdit or Audacity and view your mp3s under "Spectrum View" with a range up to 22050 -- I promise that just everything above 16000 will be missing and black, though the original CD audio will have all that quality intact. It's what gives MP3s their "flat" sound on any decent equipment.
I know CDNow uses the original data for their custom CDs, so just buy it from them.
I peed in one of those Tardis boxes when I went to the UK, as I seriously thought it was a public urinal (I was very drunk):D
But anyways, it's not like the police were going to win against the BBC's high-priced lawyers -- and now that this lawsuit's over, the police (read: taxpayers) also have to pay the BBC's mega legal fees, too, even if the rest of it is just 850 pounds.
If I were a UK taxpayer, I'd be quite angry at them for it.
There's no denying the pernicious influence of spam, which is so terrible that it seems plausible that even the DMA wants to put an end to it.
However, if you read the article, all they're trying to do is water down the existing bills in Congress!
But, Cerasale said, a federal requirement that consumers "opt in" instead of "opt out" of bulk e-mail is unacceptable. "We think the opt-in creates a true noneconomic model," Cerasale said. "We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in."
Hell hasn't frozen over, and enemies of spam should still be enemies of the DMA!
In what other countries that are supposedly better than us are the press free to walk out into public with a Swastika armband, yell "HEIL HITLER" at the top of your lungs, and give the Roman salute?
Going to a more serious matter, which of those European countries would allow a true report on the pernicious effects of uncontrolled illegal immigration? Most of their presses are so controlled by political correctness that you cannot offend anyone or anything.
These are seriously just more leftist lies that try to paint the US as some kind of dictatorship just because the media isn't slanted to the far left like theirs.
Media concentration may be a problem, but we at least have a constitutional amendment protecting our rights.
Logitech has made some really cool stuff lately -- their speakers are an absolute steal and are better at half the price than anything put out by Creative or Klipsch.
Too bad this pen reports in a proprietary.PEN format, however -- and even exported to JPGs, the files are probably too big to be used on PDAs, in emails, and other things.
But worst of all, the software that decodes it REQUIRES the.NET framework to run -- so much for Linux!
We should write Logitech and request free file formats (like an export to PNG) and free software with open drivers, not some program that forces.NET upon you!
What a joke -- Microsoft could never stop piracy, as the devilsown copy of XP was out months before the release, and service pack 1 for it, fully cracked, was out in an integrated ISO weeks before the release of SP1.
Microsoft doesn't have a chance at stopping piracy, and it's just another lame excuse for Microsoft to follow the logical course of big business and try to control everything.
If Microsoft turns a deaf ear to angry consumers on the issue of collecting data, the federal government has every right to nail them to the wall for it, especially if it interferes with our health and banking privacy.
I mostly do programming for medical equipment -- much of which, unfortunately, must run on ancient PCs running Windows 95, and when you're doing all kinds of graphics and calculating all kinds of statistics, ASM counts.
Nowadays, ASM isn't nearly as bad as it was years ago -- you at least know the code you've written when you see it in a debugger like SoftIce, and there's plenty of other macros and such that keep the writing fast.
Most code has incompatibilities and requires hacking to get to work on other systems, and it's not as good as it wishes it were. If you have to port ASM, use it for inner loops and abstract everything else in C -- not bloated C++.
It's more the technique that's being lost with all the new coding techniques that troubles me: no inner-loop unwrapping, no self-modifying code, no 10/90 rules for things like cache hits, et cetera.
This isn't quite revolutionary -- this is just a call for more "steps forward" to let newbie, undertrained, and/or fake H1B programmers code at the expense of resource usage due to not only the language itself, but bad programming practices that rely on the "optimizer" to make it run halfway decent?
What Andy giveth, Bill taketh... along with all the computer science "experts" who support them.
I still code in nothing but raw ASM, with C for a few things -- C++ is way too bloated for me, and don't even get me started on Java...
In the United States, people currently can sue each other for any reason and any thing, and usually win, thanks to the corrupting influence of trial lawyers in Washington, DC.
There is hope, however; tort reform is taking storm in many states, and it's preventing such frivolous lawsuits from taking place.
If you don't want these small businesses to be persecuted, then drop the keyboard and write your state and federal Congressmen by snail-mail and demand that he or she fight in the Capitol for real, meaningful tort reform.
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The Bhopal disaster, which killed 10,000 and permanently poisoned tens of thousands more, is a lot more significant than Windows ME or a high tech toilet. I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet -- it's probably because they don't care about the third world.
http://www.ucaqld.com.au/community/bhopal/
by SexyKellyOsbourne
The influence of mallcore -- the "nu-metal" genre of detuned guitars with alternating rapped and screamed lyrics -- upon the modern music scene is truly revolutionary; so much so that many of the metalposeurs' (non-mallcore "metal" fans) favorite bands, who keep it real and don't adhere stingily to the bleak past, have become part of the movement. These bands from the past know that the future of music lies in mallcore, and those who deny it are simply denying the future. Anyone who turns their back on the now-mallcore Gods of the past are too soft and weak, closed-minded, and pretentious to join in listening to mallcore, the ultimate form of music.
These bands include but are not limited to:
Danzig - Glenn Danzig, former punk legend of the Misfits and Samhain now lends his Elvis/Morrison-like voice and idiosyncratic style to his own brand of mallcore with 777 I Luiceferi.
Helloween - Borrowed mallcore styles with The Dark Ride, but failed miserably, since they're too soft for the genre.
In Flames - Considered Gods by many metal fans alike, these Swedes have quit playing their "gay" melodies and showed their hard side by turning into an excellent Mallcore band with Reroute to Remain, and are now metal enough to tour with the mighty Slipknot.
Megadeth - Megadeth briefly joined the mallcore scene with their album Risk, then sold out with World Needs A Hero. Karma afflicted Mustaine greatly, and the band soon broke up for turning their backs on mallcore.
Metallica - After some of their earlier garage band releases, they put out the Black Album, their rough first real album. After that, they joined the party and produced some excellent heavy metal with Load and Reload. Metallica now takes the stage with Ja Rule and creates heavy rap-metal.
Ozzy Osbourne - The Alpha and Omega of metal, creating the genesis of all things metal with Black Sabbath, Ozzy has switched his style entirely to detuned, minimalist mallcore with Down to Earth and now tours with only the best at Ozzfest -- bands such as Drowning Pool, Flaw, Adema, and POD.
Sepultura - After abandoning their lackadaisical 80's metal, Brazillians Sepultura went on to put out some excellent mallcore albums in the early days of the mallcore underground. After breaking up, lead singer Max Cavalera went on to form the very talented and tight Soulfly.
Slayer - They have put out their own brand of mallcore with God Hates Us All, abandoned their tired thrash metal sound and acknowledged Slipknot's superiority, and are now touring with Hatebreed.
Steve Vai - What some used to call "The Greatest Guitarist of All Times" before guitarists like Munky, Mick, and Wayne Static took over has bowed before the all-mighty fathers of mallcore, KoRn, when interviewed. In the same interview, Yngwie Malmsteen dared not to put up a rebuttal of any kind, thus submitting to the superior mallcore genius and technical abilities of Korn.
The usage of Pentium IIIs for these monsters of serious computing only goes to show how much of a badly designed marketing ploy the Pentium IV is.
Downloading movies in any decent quality over the internet, simply for viewing it, is a joke.
Even with a very fat pipe, downloading 700mb for an ok-quality divx or 1400mb for a good quality DivX is still a very long wait. Streaming a pixelated mosaic still sucks over broadband, too.
Besides, if you have a broadband connection, chances are you live in a town with a Blockbuster video, and you can afford a $50 DVD player -- it's still by far an easier solution.
The media companies should just give up these crappy pay alternatives to piracy, as the capitalist model does not work in the digital world where there are no laws and the ability to mass-duplicate any form of media, unless the draconian Palladium takes over -- which will be over my dead body.
It'd just be easier to sell cheap DVDs and CDs ($10/DVD, $5/CD) with a business like newegg, where you get everything in 2 days and the prices are rock bottom. More people would actually buy their music and movies at full quality instead of downloading them if their prices weren't exorbitantly fixed.
It's not as good at the latest crazy town album, but in case it's slashdotted -- it sounds very strange, twangy, almost random, and VERY, VERY dissonant. However, it's quite beautiful.
Fractal Music is quite interesting, as well, and oddly it still sounds more orderly than Platonic Dice.
http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=corruptcd
But I also f***ed every single band member of Slipknot in a giant f***n gangbang orgy, so it might not be that n***er's baby... or it could have been 9 homeless guys, for all I know.
Even if the baby is a n***er, we're still going on f***n Maury Povich for some g****n paternity tests!
Papa don't preach, cause I'm keepin my baby!
The highest level you got on Tetris?
23 for me, on the SNES version.
I used to be really, really good at it.
But Tetris is nearly impossible when they're dropping at breakneck speed -- in fact, it falls so fast that even a computer controlled bot operating in microseconds could not rotate it to keep it perpetuating, even if the speed weren't increasing after 20 (or even 15).
I didn't think the non-speed aspect would be so difficult: Pazhatiniov (sp?) is truly a genius.
How does this get to be front page news? Seriously, is this just a slashdot DDoS attack on some guy's page? Old games have been created in Flash since its genesis, and this is nothing special.
If someone actually managed to write an actual emulator with Flash -- believe me, it could be done, as one was even written in QBasic a few years back -- then that would definitely be qualified for front page news. In fact, I'd hope it would be in the running for story of the year.
It's probably nice work, but c'mon, editors -- it's not worth slashdotting some guy's homepage.
do about it?
And the baby ain't f***n white, either! I f***ed the lead singer of POD's huge black c**k till my c**t nearly fell out, and he c***ed inside me with no f***in' condom!
Papa don't preach, cause I'm keeping my baby!
... itturns out that the attack on the free software movement was attached to the end of the letter in question by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash, who happens to have Microsoft as his biggest beneficiary.
No surprise -- Microsoft is a huge contributor to both parties, including the Democrats -- whom some believe are supposed to be our saviors from the "evil, corporate Republicans." They're not -- they're on the inside what Republicans are on the outside.
If you really want a change, don't vote for either party -- vote Libertarian if you're on the right, Green Party if you're on the left, and independant otherwise. Both parties are in the pockets of big business, and that's bad both for those who advocate freedom from the government as well as those who despise deregulation.
The more we have third party, the closer we get to fairer, European-style representation.
I used to use a cell phone exclusively, too, until a certain indicent happened about 6 months ago.
What happened is that some drunk redneck or gangbanger or something blew apart the local McDonalds sign with a shotgun.
However, what you didn't know is that cell phone towers are hidden in places like that -- the only indicator is a little notch or a light in the sign.
I spent hours talking on my phone during the time, which I thought was free, but since the McDonalds sign was destroyed, it went ROAMING. I had a $600 phone bill that month, which I tried to explain and still refused to pay, so they disconnected me.
I am now currently phoneless, but with GAIM and email, I'm ok.
According to their website, these guys are distributing music from .MP3 format -- they use lossy compression, which devastates the quality of the audio.
If you want to see how bad the loss is, load up CoolEdit or Audacity and view your mp3s under "Spectrum View" with a range up to 22050 -- I promise that just everything above 16000 will be missing and black, though the original CD audio will have all that quality intact. It's what gives MP3s their "flat" sound on any decent equipment.
I know CDNow uses the original data for their custom CDs, so just buy it from them.
I peed in one of those Tardis boxes when I went to the UK, as I seriously thought it was a public urinal (I was very drunk) :D
But anyways, it's not like the police were going to win against the BBC's high-priced lawyers -- and now that this lawsuit's over, the police (read: taxpayers) also have to pay the BBC's mega legal fees, too, even if the rest of it is just 850 pounds.
If I were a UK taxpayer, I'd be quite angry at them for it.
However, if you read the article, all they're trying to do is water down the existing bills in Congress!
Hell hasn't frozen over, and enemies of spam should still be enemies of the DMA!
No infinite popups, no Nimda attacks, no -blasting- WAV file, nothing.
Try this instead:
http://dms100.org/worksucks/
That was fast...
: articles.linuxguru.net/view/198+&hl=en&ie=UTF- 8
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:rlPIVlLKgJQC
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=products/fe atures/digitalwritingtopics&CRID=1546&countryid=19 &languageid=1
.PEN format at the top, .NET at the bottom.
Read the FAQ: proprietary
Get your facts straight before you accuse someone of being a troll, you moron.
In what other countries that are supposedly better than us are the press free to walk out into public with a Swastika armband, yell "HEIL HITLER" at the top of your lungs, and give the Roman salute?
Going to a more serious matter, which of those European countries would allow a true report on the pernicious effects of uncontrolled illegal immigration? Most of their presses are so controlled by political correctness that you cannot offend anyone or anything.
These are seriously just more leftist lies that try to paint the US as some kind of dictatorship just because the media isn't slanted to the far left like theirs.
Media concentration may be a problem, but we at least have a constitutional amendment protecting our rights.
Logitech has made some really cool stuff lately -- their speakers are an absolute steal and are better at half the price than anything put out by Creative or Klipsch.
.PEN format, however -- and even exported to JPGs, the files are probably too big to be used on PDAs, in emails, and other things.
.NET framework to run -- so much for Linux!
.NET upon you!
Too bad this pen reports in a proprietary
But worst of all, the software that decodes it REQUIRES the
We should write Logitech and request free file formats (like an export to PNG) and free software with open drivers, not some program that forces
Solely to prevent piracy?
What a joke -- Microsoft could never stop piracy, as the devilsown copy of XP was out months before the release, and service pack 1 for it, fully cracked, was out in an integrated ISO weeks before the release of SP1.
Microsoft doesn't have a chance at stopping piracy, and it's just another lame excuse for Microsoft to follow the logical course of big business and try to control everything.
If Microsoft turns a deaf ear to angry consumers on the issue of collecting data, the federal government has every right to nail them to the wall for it, especially if it interferes with our health and banking privacy.
I mostly do programming for medical equipment -- much of which, unfortunately, must run on ancient PCs running Windows 95, and when you're doing all kinds of graphics and calculating all kinds of statistics, ASM counts.
Nowadays, ASM isn't nearly as bad as it was years ago -- you at least know the code you've written when you see it in a debugger like SoftIce, and there's plenty of other macros and such that keep the writing fast.
Most code has incompatibilities and requires hacking to get to work on other systems, and it's not as good as it wishes it were. If you have to port ASM, use it for inner loops and abstract everything else in C -- not bloated C++.
It's more the technique that's being lost with all the new coding techniques that troubles me: no inner-loop unwrapping, no self-modifying code, no 10/90 rules for things like cache hits, et cetera.
This isn't quite revolutionary -- this is just a call for more "steps forward" to let newbie, undertrained, and/or fake H1B programmers code at the expense of resource usage due to not only the language itself, but bad programming practices that rely on the "optimizer" to make it run halfway decent?
What Andy giveth, Bill taketh... along with all the computer science "experts" who support them.
I still code in nothing but raw ASM, with C for a few things -- C++ is way too bloated for me, and don't even get me started on Java...
the Goatse Movie and tons of other things at places like stileproject that most humans would find beyond revolting -- but hey, I'm desensitized!
Yes, I do usually check my links, even the browser crashers, before I troll them.
In the United States, people currently can sue each other for any reason and any thing, and usually win, thanks to the corrupting influence of trial lawyers in Washington, DC.
There is hope, however; tort reform is taking storm in many states, and it's preventing such frivolous lawsuits from taking place.
If you don't want these small businesses to be persecuted, then drop the keyboard and write your state and federal Congressmen by snail-mail and demand that he or she fight in the Capitol for real, meaningful tort reform.
Don't wait until tomorrow -- do it now!