This thing is clearly a chick magnet, and if you can't get them on the first pass, you can always crank it up to 88 mph and go back in time to try it again!
Sorry, but if your cup of poison is building a replica of nerd car from a movie from the 80's, then its going to take more than a few trips back in time to score with a chick...
..or others that are not looking at dipping their feet into the Linux desktop
I understand their feelings. If I can't get python running on my slackware machine by this afternoon, I am going to dip my foot so hard into the linux desktop it's going to wish Linus never invented it...
But our freelancer, a skilled sysadmin and coder who runs a small Web hosting service, had so many problems trying to get the software installed that after a day's work he stopped trying
So let me see. He wrote "I am a skilled sysadmin and coder who runs a small Web hosting service." did he? When will you learn to check references...
Dont get me wrong, I love earplugs - I live in a warehouse filled with dudes who love noise music. But Ive tried those bose headphones, and they are amazing. Earplugs DECREASE the noise, the headphones ERASE the noise. That makes a world of difference, especially on airplanes and the like (or offices with heaps of computers) where machine noise can drive you mad.
When you first put those headphones on it freaks you out a bit, because its like being in an anechoic chamber - the noises you use to judge distances (the rooms natural reverb) are cancelled. Its wierd.
I have wondered if it was possible to do this in my house. Where I live there is a lot of people who like to scream at each other alot, and it rather gets on the nerves. It would be cool if you could record your neighbourhood noises, and instantly replay them out of phase into your living room. Presto. The beautiful sounds of silence.
I would LOVE something like that for the CD-R's of my music I sell, and send out as demos. Stick-on labels look like stick-on labels, and are barely better than magic markers.
The most impressive result I have gotten so far is by laying the cd's on the ground and spray painting them all white. Then when that layer dries, lay a stencil of an image over each disk and spray black. Leaves a cool ghosty image that looks like it was pressed. The disks play fine, and it doesn't look like your music is sponsored by TDK.
As the amount of web advertising increases, and as people get used to paying for things on the internet, general web users are getting the message "There's no such thing as a free lunch". Darl believes it, everyone who works in advertising believes it, and everyone who pays those advertisers wants you to believe it.
Google doesn't need to trick people into clicking on Amazon, neither should Yahoo.
I personally am searching around for a good BBS in the area, and getting back to the roots.
Who decided that we should all be using mice to control our computer pointers? I believe (if tv doesnt lie) that it was AT&T or someone-or-rather in the late 60's, but why a mouse?
No, but there is also no hardware support for MP3s with DRM. If you have to make your hardware support MP3 with DRM, you may as well implement OGG Vorbis compatiblity as well - seeing as ogg sounds so good compared to mp3.
Well acording to the "Top 10" lists at the bottom of the article, UUNet IS more spam-friendly. Perhaps UUNet should ask Rackspace if there maybe possibly could be something that they might change to drop a coupla rungs.
Yes, well there are musicians and there are musicians who are artists. You'd have to consider which type of musicians you have encountered in your experience.
Metallica has spoken out about their views of free==piracy, where has Aphex Twin has spoken out and said he couldnt give a shit if you took his whole album and released it under a different name. Not all musicians are artists. (and to be fair, not all artists are any good:)
Spend 10 minutes talking to an artist about OSS ideas and you have a OSS supporter. Art wants to be free. Software wants to be free. What a happy combination.
Now, we need to get those converted artists and get them making linux a little easier on the eyes! Although, you'd want to be careful about which artists helped out....
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The HVAC community is definitely different from Open Source community, and whenever they get close, it gets quite hot
Doesn't seem that hot - fun reading I'd say! The idea is great though (not new, but great) - As open source branches in to more and more area, the people involved with open source software are more likely to adapt OSS principles to non-software aspects of their work.
Although I dont think Ian raises any particularly unique arguments, the article is a susinct introduction to the elements that emphises Linux's strong points.
The thing that aroused my interest in Linux was not its cost, but its ability to be used in projects that were not limited to traditional PC software.
Imbedded linux will (as long as MS doesnt rethink its licensing) rule the non-pc computing world.
It makes perfect sence. Who cares how your C64 watch works, as long as it does.
It seems unlikely that "componentized Linux" is the answer because only imbedded linux realy needs to get down to the "Linux from scratch" kind of level - otherwise, you'll probably be looking for a higher level distro.
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Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
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Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I would like to buy your rock.
Dont get me wrong, I love earplugs - I live in a warehouse filled with dudes who love noise music. But Ive tried those bose headphones, and they are amazing. Earplugs DECREASE the noise, the headphones ERASE the noise. That makes a world of difference, especially on airplanes and the like (or offices with heaps of computers) where machine noise can drive you mad.
When you first put those headphones on it freaks you out a bit, because its like being in an anechoic chamber - the noises you use to judge distances (the rooms natural reverb) are cancelled. Its wierd.
Thats really cool. Its like those amazing bose noise cancelling headphones.
I have wondered if it was possible to do this in my house. Where I live there is a lot of people who like to scream at each other alot, and it rather gets on the nerves. It would be cool if you could record your neighbourhood noises, and instantly replay them out of phase into your living room. Presto. The beautiful sounds of silence.
I would LOVE something like that for the CD-R's of my music I sell, and send out as demos. Stick-on labels look like stick-on labels, and are barely better than magic markers.
The most impressive result I have gotten so far is by laying the cd's on the ground and spray painting them all white. Then when that layer dries, lay a stencil of an image over each disk and spray black. Leaves a cool ghosty image that looks like it was pressed. The disks play fine, and it doesn't look like your music is sponsored by TDK.
Now I can use my disposable cell phone to dial up and post my photos from my disposable digital camera and ask disney why I cant find anymore disposable dvds.
Oops. Better get back to work. Else no disposable income.
As the amount of web advertising increases, and as people get used to paying for things on the internet, general web users are getting the message "There's no such thing as a free lunch". Darl believes it, everyone who works in advertising believes it, and everyone who pays those advertisers wants you to believe it.
Google doesn't need to trick people into clicking on Amazon, neither should Yahoo.
I personally am searching around for a good BBS in the area, and getting back to the roots.
You must be drunk to thinks we caring about grammar on slashdot.
Who decided that we should all be using mice to control our computer pointers? I believe (if tv doesnt lie) that it was AT&T or someone-or-rather in the late 60's, but why a mouse?
HowStuffWorks says Mice first broke onto the public stage with the introduction of the Apple Macintosh in 1984, but there were heaps of video game consoles out before that, I would have thought that a joystick style controller would have been a logical choice. Mouses are really odd.
No, but there is also no hardware support for MP3s with DRM. If you have to make your hardware support MP3 with DRM, you may as well implement OGG Vorbis compatiblity as well - seeing as ogg sounds so good compared to mp3.
Well acording to the "Top 10" lists at the bottom of the article, UUNet IS more spam-friendly. Perhaps UUNet should ask Rackspace if there maybe possibly could be something that they might change to drop a coupla rungs.
Yes, well there are musicians and there are musicians who are artists. You'd have to consider which type of musicians you have encountered in your experience.
:)
Metallica has spoken out about their views of free==piracy, where has Aphex Twin has spoken out and said he couldnt give a shit if you took his whole album and released it under a different name. Not all musicians are artists. (and to be fair, not all artists are any good
Spend 10 minutes talking to an artist about OSS ideas and you have a OSS supporter. Art wants to be free. Software wants to be free. What a happy combination.
Now, we need to get those converted artists and get them making linux a little easier on the eyes! Although, you'd want to be careful about which artists helped out....
Seems like an idea that, like and internet refrigerator before it, exists purely because it can. Which is why this is pretty cool.
Here it is from the philips site - with a massive jpg too.
The HVAC community is definitely different from Open Source community, and whenever they get close, it gets quite hot
Doesn't seem that hot - fun reading I'd say! The idea is great though (not new, but great) - As open source branches in to more and more area, the people involved with open source software are more likely to adapt OSS principles to non-software aspects of their work.
"An open-source future is one in which we realize that reality itself is open source" to quote an unknown guy on the internet. Hope it happens this year!
Although I dont think Ian raises any particularly unique arguments, the article is a susinct introduction to the elements that emphises Linux's strong points.
The thing that aroused my interest in Linux was not its cost, but its ability to be used in projects that were not limited to traditional PC software.
Imbedded linux will (as long as MS doesnt rethink its licensing) rule the non-pc computing world.
It makes perfect sence. Who cares how your C64 watch works, as long as it does.
It seems unlikely that "componentized Linux" is the answer because only imbedded linux realy needs to get down to the "Linux from scratch" kind of level - otherwise, you'll probably be looking for a higher level distro.
They basically announced that they now own the Internet market
Couple this patent with the Eolas patent and you pretty much own the whole shebang.
What a rant! Im going to send mod points to Eric Raymond's house by mail.