...were talking one day about whose impact on the computerized world was greatest...
rms: God told me that I programmed the best editor in the world!
Torvalds: Well, God told me that I programmed the best Operating System in the world.
Knuth: Wait, wait... I never said that.
--Eric Meltzer, rec.humor.funny
This is late in the post and no one may ever read it, but, what the heck. It may be more of a geek joke than a tech joke, if there's a difference.
...may be both short and stout.
This should be funny:5. That's my favorite rfc. Maybe a link to rfc 2324, the HyperText Coffee Pot Control Protocol, would be nice....
Albini is clearly not an accountant, and when I ran his figures on paper (which for some things is still quicker than a spreadsheet -- remember pencils?) I didn't get the same result he did. Presuming (I don't think Albini specified) that the band has 4 members, I came out to them making 11,531.25 each, which is still less than you'd make at $7/hr full-time for a year. I may have missed something, but the math of this particular hypothetical band's career isn't really all that fascinating to me, so you can do your own calculations on it. Flame Albini if you have a problem with his article.
"Jimmy Paige didn't need them, nor did B.B. or Eric Clapton."
A reasonable overview of Jimmy's career, in particular, shows him to have used or abused almost every studio trick and technology available to him at the time. The guy played guitar with a violin bow, for crying out loud; he coaxed every different sound out of his guitar that he possibly could.
It makes more sense to think the only reason Jimmy wasn't experimenting with this, was because it didn't exist.
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This is late in the post and no one may ever read it, but, what the heck. It may be more of a geek joke than a tech joke, if there's a difference.
...may be both short and stout. This should be funny:5. That's my favorite rfc. Maybe a link to rfc 2324, the HyperText Coffee Pot Control Protocol, would be nice....
Albini is clearly not an accountant, and when I ran his figures on paper (which for some things is still quicker than a spreadsheet -- remember pencils?) I didn't get the same result he did. Presuming (I don't think Albini specified) that the band has 4 members, I came out to them making 11,531.25 each, which is still less than you'd make at $7/hr full-time for a year. I may have missed something, but the math of this particular hypothetical band's career isn't really all that fascinating to me, so you can do your own calculations on it. Flame Albini if you have a problem with his article.
This is the first time I've taken flak for not swearing. I had no idea it would be offensive.
"Jimmy Paige didn't need them, nor did B.B. or Eric Clapton." A reasonable overview of Jimmy's career, in particular, shows him to have used or abused almost every studio trick and technology available to him at the time. The guy played guitar with a violin bow, for crying out loud; he coaxed every different sound out of his guitar that he possibly could. It makes more sense to think the only reason Jimmy wasn't experimenting with this, was because it didn't exist.
That's right, I was hoping somebody would point that out. A good description of this process has been made by Steve Albini, in Some of your friends are already this fscked.