What used to be a 4-6 CD a month habit is now reduced to zero. Going on 3 years now. And no, I don't p2p anything. I simply stopped acquiring new music. I listen to the radio and see live stuff, thats it.
RIAA music may be nearly everywhere, but not all labels are aligned with them. You can still buy music from non-RIAA labels with a clean conscience. It's what I do.
I don't know why everyone's taking this seriously... it's a joke. It has to be a joke. Someone's sense of humor is too subtle for the slashdot crowd, maybe?
Yeah, maybe this is trolling, but it annoys me: Can the editors at least make sure the stories they post are written by someone who understands English grammar? Yes, this time it's just one missing apostrophe, which is certainly subtle... but it doesn't take genius to get this stuff right, people. It's simple. Errors that a reader can spot on the first pass -- without even specifically looking for errors -- shouldn't be let through. [/rant]
We need massive educational system reform. Teacher salaries should be considerably higher. There should be a better review process for the continued employment of teachers, and this process should be controlled by employed adults from a variety of areas. It shouldn't be controlled by students, as we would most definitely abuse that power, and it shouldn't be controlled by school administration, as they have already demonstrated incompetence in the process.
Amen!
I will point out, however, that people from the outside should be distrusted just as much as incompetent school administration -- especially business-people, who are incredibly inept at anything relating to edumahcation. (See San Diego Unified School District for an example of this. Hello, Alan Bersin.)
My point, I guess, is just that most of the people who promise reform are worse than the people already in power. In my opinion, the only people qualified to run schools are the teachers who are actually in the trenches, teaching. Parents are idiots, administrators are isolated and have forgotten whatever they knew about teaching, and business people never knew anything about education anyway.
In either case, the teachers who are actually doing the work here get caught between parents who are idiots, administrators who don't know what they're doing, and people from business who think schools can be run like businesses.
(I'm not a teacher, just a college freshman who has known enough good teachers to be angry that they're being stifled.)
There's an mplayer plugin you can get for Firefox (or any Mozilla browser). I viewed the Quicktime WotW trailer in-browser with that just fine. I didn't try the Yahoo! link.
>> This can easily confuse a non-native German speaker like myself.
In the spirit of grammar-nazism, which seems almost on-topic here: Why on earth must people (I'm not picking on you, specifically) use "myself" all the time instead of "me"? "Myself" as a pronoun is reflexive.
It's gotten worse in the last few years. At this rate, "me" won't even be used in another 50 years.
I agree with your sentiment, but I have to point out one thing:
The fact that "hell" doesn't properly convey the emphasis you want is probably a result of its becoming more accepted. Since "hell" is used regularly, we have to resort to a stronger word to have the same impact.
I don't think any word should really be considered "obscene" (if you bleep out "fuck", everyone still knows it was was "fuck" that was bleeped out, so what does that accomplish? It's a superstitious holdover), but people should still try to use discretion, if only to avoid diluting the heavy hitters, so they're there when we really want them...
If Matrix Reloaded had a good screenwriter, it could've really mastered the topic (and been an entirely different movie- but the setting of a global VR network is the perfect backdrop to explore predestination)
Unfortunately, every popular movie ends up dumbing itself down to try to appeal to everyone.
I personally loved Ros & Guil, but people who hadn't read the play beforehand were royally confused.
How many people have heard of and seen The Matrix? How many have heard of and seen Ros & Guil? I agree with the parent, but I'm just pointing out that the original Matrix wold have to have been virtually unknown for the sequel to be that smart. Popularity just breeds stupidity in movies.
Users who care enough about their data should make sure they can back it up -- and if not, move on to a different service. It's as simple as that. If, as others have mentioned, LJ offers XML backups of posts, users should either take advantage of this or not be surprised when it all goes kaput someday.
I wrote the software I use to blog, have shell access to the server it runs on, etc. I won't lose posts or comments because I back up both regularly. I won't ever find my backups in an unreadable format, because I wrote the software that parses that format.
(I obviously didn't do this for practicality -- there are more efficient ways to achieve the same thing, but I wanted the learning experience of writing the stuff myself. And the effect is still the same -- I'm taking care of my data.)
I'm a bit of an extreme example, but the point is that people need to take the initiative, and make sure their data is safe, if they care that much about it.
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That may depend on what the young brilliant minds come up with, yeah?
RIAA music may be nearly everywhere, but not all labels are aligned with them. You can still buy music from non-RIAA labels with a clean conscience. It's what I do.
Because it was a debt, they're obligated to accept US currency (see other posts in this thread).
I hate Ewoks as much as anyone else, but you saw what happened to the AT-STs on Endor, right?
...You mean you didn't type this message in WordPerfect? ;)
I don't know why everyone's taking this seriously... it's a joke. It has to be a joke. Someone's sense of humor is too subtle for the slashdot crowd, maybe?
If it's not, I'm laughing anyway.
Yeah, maybe this is trolling, but it annoys me: Can the editors at least make sure the stories they post are written by someone who understands English grammar? Yes, this time it's just one missing apostrophe, which is certainly subtle... but it doesn't take genius to get this stuff right, people. It's simple. Errors that a reader can spot on the first pass -- without even specifically looking for errors -- shouldn't be let through. [/rant]
Oh, cool! I'll mark it on my calend... oh, 2029.
Just how am I supposed to remember that? Write it on a stickie and stick it to the side of my monitor?
Yes, but then it's not a once-in-a-millenium event. You can't have both.
Amen!
I will point out, however, that people from the outside should be distrusted just as much as incompetent school administration -- especially business-people, who are incredibly inept at anything relating to edumahcation. (See San Diego Unified School District for an example of this. Hello, Alan Bersin.)
My point, I guess, is just that most of the people who promise reform are worse than the people already in power. In my opinion, the only people qualified to run schools are the teachers who are actually in the trenches, teaching. Parents are idiots, administrators are isolated and have forgotten whatever they knew about teaching, and business people never knew anything about education anyway.
In either case, the teachers who are actually doing the work here get caught between parents who are idiots, administrators who don't know what they're doing, and people from business who think schools can be run like businesses.
(I'm not a teacher, just a college freshman who has known enough good teachers to be angry that they're being stifled.)
Death bed? It was never alive to begin with.
There's an mplayer plugin you can get for Firefox (or any Mozilla browser). I viewed the Quicktime WotW trailer in-browser with that just fine. I didn't try the Yahoo! link.
>> This can easily confuse a non-native German speaker like myself.
:%s/myself/me/g
In the spirit of grammar-nazism, which seems almost on-topic here: Why on earth must people (I'm not picking on you, specifically) use "myself" all the time instead of "me"? "Myself" as a pronoun is reflexive.
It's gotten worse in the last few years. At this rate, "me" won't even be used in another 50 years.
Most people could afford to do:
I agree with your sentiment, but I have to point out one thing:
The fact that "hell" doesn't properly convey the emphasis you want is probably a result of its becoming more accepted. Since "hell" is used regularly, we have to resort to a stronger word to have the same impact.
I don't think any word should really be considered "obscene" (if you bleep out "fuck", everyone still knows it was was "fuck" that was bleeped out, so what does that accomplish? It's a superstitious holdover), but people should still try to use discretion, if only to avoid diluting the heavy hitters, so they're there when we really want them...
If Matrix Reloaded had a good screenwriter, it could've really mastered the topic (and been an entirely different movie- but the setting of a global VR network is the perfect backdrop to explore predestination)
Unfortunately, every popular movie ends up dumbing itself down to try to appeal to everyone.
I personally loved Ros & Guil, but people who hadn't read the play beforehand were royally confused.
How many people have heard of and seen The Matrix? How many have heard of and seen Ros & Guil? I agree with the parent, but I'm just pointing out that the original Matrix wold have to have been virtually unknown for the sequel to be that smart. Popularity just breeds stupidity in movies.
...yeah, I'm grumpy today :P
I agree: this book isn't the answer, it's the question. "Yes" is the answer!
Yeah, that was bad... but I do seriously agree.
I swear I'm not insane: It changes. It's always been "unsecure" on the main page, but on the story page it's been both "insecure" and "unsecure".
Unless there's some kind of absolutely bizarre caching thing going on...
Check it out for yourself. Two (cropped) screenshots here (not that they prove anything, but...):
Users who care enough about their data should make sure they can back it up -- and if not, move on to a different service. It's as simple as that. If, as others have mentioned, LJ offers XML backups of posts, users should either take advantage of this or not be surprised when it all goes kaput someday.
I wrote the software I use to blog, have shell access to the server it runs on, etc. I won't lose posts or comments because I back up both regularly. I won't ever find my backups in an unreadable format, because I wrote the software that parses that format.
(I obviously didn't do this for practicality -- there are more efficient ways to achieve the same thing, but I wanted the learning experience of writing the stuff myself. And the effect is still the same -- I'm taking care of my data.)
I'm a bit of an extreme example, but the point is that people need to take the initiative, and make sure their data is safe, if they care that much about it.