I AM an average metrosexual unemployed barista, who sits with his Macbook in the coffee shop even after he lost the job because that's where all of his friends are
A friend of mine who's worked in China over the past few years told me the story of the Wu Mao Tang. This translates, roughly, to the "50¢ party"; it's the name of the army of internet users that the government pays to surf the net, looking for "subversives". This is where poverty, and a lack of culture that values freedom collide: 50¢ is enough to buy the selling out of your wrong-thinking peer. We should remember that Google isn't arguing just against the government, but millions of Chinese that support it. And that this isn't so much a technical matter (we're used to fearing automatic filtering) as much as a social and cultural one.
campbell, whose work unites the studies of mythology and psychology, wrote "Hero With a Thousand Faces", an excellent study of myths and archetypes. lucas used many of his ideas in the star wars films,
http://www.moongadget.com/origins/myth.html
and campbell has some interesting things to say about the movies.
my favorite quote is from an interview with bill moyers, when campbell calls vader a bureaucrat:
CAMPBELL: Darth Vader has not developed his own humanity. He's a robot. He's a bureaucrat, living not in terms of himself but in terms of an imposed system. This is the threat to our lives that we all face today. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? How do you relate to the system so that you are not compulsively serving it? It doesn't help to try to change it to accord with your system of thought. The momentum of history behind it is too great for anything really significant to evolve from that kind of action. The thing to do is learn to live in your period of history as a human being. That's something else, and it can be done.
MOYERS: By doing what?
CAMPBELL: By holding to your own ideals for yourself and, like Luke Skywalker, rejecting the system's impersonal claims upon you....When Ben Kenobi says, "May the Force be with you," he's speaking of the power and energy of life, not of programmed political intentions."
one aspect of the early metroid games the article didn't mention was how brilliant the music was, given the standards of the time. the tunes on the original nes version blow just about anything else produced on that console away, and the super-metroid ambient backgrounds were downright chilling. there's a band called the minibosses that did a cover of the 'kraid' level that's frickin' awesome. www.minibosses.com
the pixies' last album, trompe le monde, had two songs written specifically about mars:
bird dream of the olympus mons : "Sun shines in the rusty morning - Skyline of the olympus mons
- I think about it sometimes"
and lovely day:"Got my feet in the stirrup - It can be kind of banal - But i dream of your red dress - Riding down these dry canals - Oh baby it's not europe"
look up the lyrics, and buy the album, the (recently reunited!) pixies rule.
the trouble is that you're looking at statistics on personal income. you're right, they're graduated, and extremely progressive. what you don't have statistics on is taxes assessed on corporate entities, or the amount of subsidies that they receive. the airline industry is bailed out to the tune of billions of dollars, while fares for public transportation increase. is that fair?
how lucky are these people, to have someone actually demonstrate using linux for them. correct me if i'm wrong, but most linux fans are self-starters, willing to spend the time alone in their rooms, banging away at their computers. social interaction picks up where solitary geekyness ends. the fact that the linux community has a reputation (perhaps unearned) for being an clique, does not help extend use to the masses. linux geeks work alone or in small groups, lusers move in herds.
where do the netadmins that troll, pardon me, read, this site get their security alert emails from anyways? are their people doing a great job of this, that we can benchmark homeland security against?
or is the whole concept of having an outside entity alert you worthless, are you better off just checking your servers your darn self, investigating any problems that may arrive?
I'm very surprised I have read so many Ipod articles on Slashdot, with so few references to porting Linux to it.
This is how to get Vorbis & FLACC support, plus make the device do any number of cool things, like say, back up your hard drive, or upload music to another computer/device, or make cole-slaw, and what have you.
I'm not talented enough to do it myself, all I can do is demand, so here goes: PORT LINUX TO THE IPOD. Thanks in advance.
It is official; Nintendo confirms: GAMECUBE is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered GAMECUBE community when Nintendo confirmed that GAMECUBE market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all gaming consoles. Coming on the heels of a recent Nintendo Power survey which plainly states Your Princess Is In Another Castle, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. GAMECUBE is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent attempt to beat a miniboss.
You don't need to be Dr. Wily to predict GAMECUBE's future. The hand writing is on the wall: GAMECUBE faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for GAMECUBE because GAMECUBE is dying. Things are looking very bad for GAMECUBE. As many of us are already aware, GAMECUBE continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
GAMECUBE is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core characters. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time GAMECUBE characters Wario , Yoshi and Samus Aran only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: GAMECUBE is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
GAMECUBE leader Link states that there are 7000 users of Legend of Zelda for GAMECUBE. How many users of Super Mario Sunshine are there? Let's see. The number of Power-Up Mushrooms, versus red diamonds is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 GAMECUBE users. GAMECUBE console posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Playstation2 posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of GAMECUBE console. A recent article put aging, socially retarded virgins at about 80 percent of the GAMECUBE market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 GAMECUBE users. This is consistent with the number of GAMECUBE Usenet posts.
Due to your princess being in another castle, abysmal sales and so on, GAMECUBE prices have been slashed, as have profits; GAMECUBE has become a deeply troubled console. Now Donkey Kong is also dead, his hairy corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that GAMECUBE has steadily declined in market share. GAMECUBE is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If GAMECUBE is to survive at all it will be among console dilettante dabblers. GAMECUBE continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GAMECUBE is dead.
i can't believe it's been thirtysome comments, and nobody's trolled about how Black Panther is a member of the GNAA. come on troll, get it together. i know it's friday, but geez, you're really slipping.
i work for a small (25-30 person) ms-based (sorry) software company.
when i arrived 3 years ago, it was as a temp. i was given a phonebook-sized list of banks, spent a couple weeks doing nothing but confirming their fax numbers.
in the years since, i've helped out with database administration, research, data entry, mass mailing, installation of OSs and software on new PCs, and other miscellaneous networking tasks.
these days i spend most of my time helping our luser customers work around bugs in our softare, which is based on access runtimes (i know i know and i'm sorry).
keeping up with the changing demands, having a job description that's full of loose ends, has been a real pain in the ass. on the other hand, it's let me start from scratch at this company, and get my hands on many different aspects of IT, that are distinct departments in larger businesses. everything i know about computers has been self-taught, and i've gotten raises commensurate with my increasing knowledge.
by the way, i'm the only geek i know who's at the same place 3 years in a row, without even the threat of mass layoffs. not too shabby.
Sony was responsible for booting the Napster users. it was right after the Renegades album came out, I know because I was one of the users banned. When RATM found out about it (right away) they immediately wrote a lengthy apology on their website, and posted over an album's worth of mp3s, instrumental and live tracks available nowhere else. so in fact they're not the jerks you seem to think they are, in fact, they're pretty cool.
the naming convention of these files could use a little work, they're all named argument.mp3;
would there be a problem with a naming convention that would not only make a list of them instantly recognizable, but sort them in chronological order?
for example: 1967_Walker v Birmingham.mp3
thanks for your hard work on this exceedingly worthwhile project.
did you also know that these can be heard on sundays, on C-Span radio, 90.1 FM for those close to washington DC, and on XM satellite. a nice way to spend a sunday afternoon when there are no Redskins games to watch.
this is the same lawyer that was trying to blame society's woes on 2 Live Crew in the 80's, Howard Stern and Ice-T in the 90's... guess now it's video games that are the root of all evil.
let this be a lesson to those of us who value our freedom to think for ourselves: we can't afford to let the freedoms of others slide, we need to find common cause every time anyone's tastes are threatened by the fascists.
once you're done reading up on jack, try googling this phrase: "First they came for the Communists;"
correct me if i'm wrong, but this only tracks the distribution of tracks online, i.e. from "the Man",
the same folks who still can't develop a business model that allows for quick and easy digital delivery of songs.
the mp3s i make from discs i buy, on the other hand, will have no Grid tags,
so this really isn't a threat to p2p music sharing as we know it; it means that we (theoretically) won't be able to trade tracks we've downloaded from sony.com.
well, who needs them anyway?
besides, this stuff is pointless, they'll never be able to close the anolog hole.
Slashdot Mirror
hey.
I AM an average metrosexual unemployed barista,
who sits with his Macbook in the coffee shop even after he lost
the job because that's where all of his friends are
you insensitive clod
meanwhile you are
an anonymous coward.
p.s. barista only has one r, dumbass.
A friend of mine who's worked in China over the past few years told me the story of the Wu Mao Tang. This translates, roughly, to the "50¢ party"; it's the name of the army of internet users that the government pays to surf the net, looking for "subversives". This is where poverty, and a lack of culture that values freedom collide: 50¢ is enough to buy the selling out of your wrong-thinking peer. We should remember that Google isn't arguing just against the government, but millions of Chinese that support it. And that this isn't so much a technical matter (we're used to fearing automatic filtering) as much as a social and cultural one.
my favorite quote is from an interview with bill moyers, when campbell calls vader a bureaucrat:
CAMPBELL: Darth Vader has not developed his own humanity. He's a robot. He's a bureaucrat, living not in terms of himself but in terms of an imposed system. This is the threat to our lives that we all face today. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? How do you relate to the system so that you are not compulsively serving it? It doesn't help to try to change it to accord with your system of thought. The momentum of history behind it is too great for anything really significant to evolve from that kind of action. The thing to do is learn to live in your period of history as a human being. That's something else, and it can be done. MOYERS: By doing what? CAMPBELL: By holding to your own ideals for yourself and, like Luke Skywalker, rejecting the system's impersonal claims upon you. ...When Ben Kenobi says, "May the Force be with you," he's speaking of the power and energy of life, not of programmed political intentions."
one aspect of the early metroid games the article didn't mention was how brilliant the music was, given the standards of the time. the tunes on the original nes version blow just about anything else produced on that console away, and the super-metroid ambient backgrounds were downright chilling.
there's a band called the minibosses that did a cover of the 'kraid' level that's frickin' awesome.
www.minibosses.com
where's the *BSD is dying troll when you need him? the possibilities here are endless...
bird dream of the olympus mons : "Sun shines in the rusty morning - Skyline of the olympus mons - I think about it sometimes"
and lovely day :"Got my feet in the stirrup - It can be kind of banal - But i dream of your red dress - Riding down these dry canals - Oh baby it's not europe"
look up the lyrics, and buy the album, the (recently reunited!) pixies rule.
the trouble is that you're looking at statistics on personal income. you're right, they're graduated, and extremely progressive. what you don't have statistics on is taxes assessed on corporate entities, or the amount of subsidies that they receive. the airline industry is bailed out to the tune of billions of dollars, while fares for public transportation increase. is that fair?
how lucky are these people, to have someone actually demonstrate using linux for them. correct me if i'm wrong, but most linux fans are self-starters, willing to spend the time alone in their rooms, banging away at their computers. social interaction picks up where solitary geekyness ends. the fact that the linux community has a reputation (perhaps unearned) for being an clique, does not help extend use to the masses. linux geeks work alone or in small groups, lusers move in herds.
where do the netadmins that troll, pardon me, read, this site get their security alert emails from anyways? are their people doing a great job of this, that we can benchmark homeland security against?
or is the whole concept of having an outside entity alert you worthless, are you better off just checking your servers your darn self, investigating any problems that may arrive?
This is how to get Vorbis & FLACC support, plus make the device do any number of cool things, like say, back up your hard drive, or upload music to another computer/device, or make cole-slaw, and what have you.
I'm not talented enough to do it myself, all I can do is demand, so here goes: PORT LINUX TO THE IPOD. Thanks in advance.
http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered GAMECUBE community when Nintendo confirmed that GAMECUBE market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all gaming consoles. Coming on the heels of a recent Nintendo Power survey which plainly states Your Princess Is In Another Castle, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. GAMECUBE is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent attempt to beat a miniboss.
You don't need to be Dr. Wily to predict GAMECUBE's future. The hand writing is on the wall: GAMECUBE faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for GAMECUBE because GAMECUBE is dying. Things are looking very bad for GAMECUBE. As many of us are already aware, GAMECUBE continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
GAMECUBE is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core characters. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time GAMECUBE characters Wario , Yoshi and Samus Aran only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: GAMECUBE is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
GAMECUBE leader Link states that there are 7000 users of Legend of Zelda for GAMECUBE. How many users of Super Mario Sunshine are there? Let's see. The number of Power-Up Mushrooms, versus red diamonds is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 GAMECUBE users. GAMECUBE console posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Playstation2 posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of GAMECUBE console. A recent article put aging, socially retarded virgins at about 80 percent of the GAMECUBE market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 GAMECUBE users. This is consistent with the number of GAMECUBE Usenet posts.
Due to your princess being in another castle, abysmal sales and so on, GAMECUBE prices have been slashed, as have profits; GAMECUBE has become a deeply troubled console. Now Donkey Kong is also dead, his hairy corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that GAMECUBE has steadily declined in market share. GAMECUBE is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If GAMECUBE is to survive at all it will be among console dilettante dabblers. GAMECUBE continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GAMECUBE is dead.
Fact: GAMECUBE is dying
i can't believe it's been thirtysome comments, and nobody's trolled about how Black Panther is a member of the GNAA.
come on troll, get it together. i know it's friday, but geez, you're really slipping.
actually, i haven't seen the post-mortem tolltag tracking story. where can i find it? thanks in advance.
when i arrived 3 years ago, it was as a temp. i was given a phonebook-sized list of banks, spent a couple weeks doing nothing but confirming their fax numbers.
in the years since, i've helped out with database administration, research, data entry, mass mailing, installation of OSs and software on new PCs, and other miscellaneous networking tasks.
these days i spend most of my time helping our luser customers work around bugs in our softare, which is based on access runtimes (i know i know and i'm sorry).
keeping up with the changing demands, having a job description that's full of loose ends, has been a real pain in the ass. on the other hand, it's let me start from scratch at this company, and get my hands on many different aspects of IT, that are distinct departments in larger businesses. everything i know about computers has been self-taught, and i've gotten raises commensurate with my increasing knowledge.
by the way, i'm the only geek i know who's at the same place 3 years in a row, without even the threat of mass layoffs. not too shabby.
oops no i didn't
i guess I FAIL IT!!!
ah well
happy friday everybody
no one cares
doo-dah
doo-dah
Sony was responsible for booting the Napster users. it was right after the Renegades album came out, I know because I was one of the users banned. When RATM found out about it (right away) they immediately wrote a lengthy apology on their website, and posted over an album's worth of mp3s, instrumental and live tracks available nowhere else. so in fact they're not the jerks you seem to think they are, in fact, they're pretty cool.
would there be a problem with a naming convention that would not only make a list of them instantly recognizable, but sort them in chronological order?
for example: 1967_Walker v Birmingham.mp3
thanks for your hard work on this exceedingly worthwhile project.
did you also know that these can be heard on sundays, on C-Span radio, 90.1 FM for those close to washington DC, and on XM satellite. a nice way to spend a sunday afternoon when there are no Redskins games to watch.
Google ["Jack Thompson" miami] -
this is the same lawyer that was trying to blame society's woes on 2 Live Crew in the 80's, Howard Stern and Ice-T in the 90's... guess now it's video games that are the root of all evil.
let this be a lesson to those of us who value our freedom to think for ourselves: we can't afford to let the freedoms of others slide, we need to find common cause every time anyone's tastes are threatened by the fascists.
once you're done reading up on jack, try googling this phrase: "First they came for the Communists;"
then join the american civil liberties union.
have a nice day.
come on, are you trolls asleep or what?!?
even though it's like the fifth.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, wooly mammoth splices YOU!
put one condom on when you get up in the morning.
if you get into an "intimate" situation, add another.
stay away from powders, pills, and alchohol.
weed is not a problem.
the same folks who still can't develop a business model that allows for quick and easy digital delivery of songs.
the mp3s i make from discs i buy, on the other hand, will have no Grid tags, so this really isn't a threat to p2p music sharing as we know it; it means that we (theoretically) won't be able to trade tracks we've downloaded from sony.com.
well, who needs them anyway?
besides, this stuff is pointless, they'll never be able to close the anolog hole.
so what if it's unfair. at least you know where you stand.
hope you enjoyed your free speech.
who told you life was fair? it s not even a little bit fair. but it will occasionally be unfair in your favor.
really though dude, if you've got this kind of energy, you should be doing it to write your elected representatives and stuff.
how much were your membership dues? slashdot is free as in speech. you get what you pay for.
take a deep breath and move on.
sorry, too much scrabble.