Hi, I've been downloading loops from these guys for years. I've been bugging them to port Acid to the Mac since, oh, 1999? Recently, Mike told me they weren't gonna port it -- because their lead programmer moved over to Apple to write SoundTrack and GarageBand.
They put out an 8pack of loops every two weeks usually. I've got like 1000 loops now, and I've been thinking of writing a Konfabulator widget to automate the downloading, organizing, etc. of my loops.
Cory has made the whole text of the novel available as a free download "in a variety of open, standards-defined formats, under the terms of a Creative Commons license." Cory also has a writeup "explaining why I've done it: in a nutshell, this worked really well for my first book, and I'd be crazy not to repeat the experiment with my second novel.""
Actually, Cory, you'd be crazy to think the Slashdot Effect would skip you this time over. We never did before...
Basically, unless you write a book about "Ancient Roman Carpet Installation Techniques", we're gonna take you down. And even then, if you put it under the Creative Commons license.....
Unfortunately, *not at all likely*. Valve is in bed with Microsoft to a very sick degree.
It's unfortunate for me -- I loved the first Vampire game, and would happily shell out for the second, but they made a BAD MOVE by choosing a notoriously MS-centric engine to run their game. So they won't get a cent of my cash. Bummer.
I can't handle the crazy pace of change anymore, it's stuff like this that made the UnaBomber snap.
We're heading down a long dark spiral of doom, and this is just one example of the madness. From now on, just call me AmishMan. I'm done with all this technology crap.(*)
This virus attack was prophesied in the Book of Revelation! Here's my inspired and holy proof:
Andy's last name is Christ. He doesn't mention that, but it's true. Trust me on that one. Andy Christ = AntiChrist. Obviously not a good sign. And he's up to no good, which is also prophesied.
MyDoom = Armageddon. That's bad too.
Fellow believers, the Book of Revelation is coming to pass before our very eyes! The only solution is either to get saved or to vote Republican (your choice -- either one will get you into Heaven). This is just the beginning. Add Utah's MATRIX system into the mix, throw in the Mark of the Beast implantable VeriChips, and you have all the marks of the end of days! The end is near! Act now! Send me a love gift of $49.99, and I'll warn you of the next virus attack before it happens.
Okay, so I'm officially a troll now. I merely thought that Peter Jackson choosing iPods as a way to store his uber-valuable dailies from LoTR was a bad decision. The unthinking Mac users (myself not included) thought I deserved the death penalty and flamed me like I was a heretical witch. Funny thing is, I asked my friend John, who is a big-time tech guru, about using an iPod for backup or carrying important data like the LoTR dailies around, to which his response was a quizzical look and a curt "That's f**king retarded."
I agree with John's in-depth assessment. The article smelled like ass-troturf, just like the one about iPod-using strangers plugging in to each others' iPods as if it were some sort of hippie love-in in 1960's San Francisco. The thing that makes it astroturf is the heavy emphasis not on the phenomenon, but on the actual product itself. The article wasn't "Famed director uses MP3 player to transport videos", it was "Famed director uses his 30 gig iPod to transport videos, then plugs it into his G4 PowerBook laptop with external cinema display". Hopefully, some of you will note the subtle difference in tone and intent. Similarly, "Strangers meeting up in a park listen to each other's music out of interest" never happened; the emphasis in that article was directly on the actual brand name as well, thereby excluding the competitor's products as being inherently unworthy of such a cool greeting, and likewise driving sales for the iPod.
And this is like my 10th nym, I've been here for years. I remember when/. was anti-Mac, but if you haven't noticed a *massive* attitude swing, you haven't been watching. Mac OS X is great, don't get me wrong. But many of the posts here are UNFAIRLY pro-Mac. I'm not out to attack Apple, I'm out to attack lies and astroturfing. And if you don't believe Apple astroturfs, you probably also believe Microsoft doesn't sponsor "independent research".
Of course, seein' the usual "even a fart smells sweet if it's got the Apple logo" crowd on Slashdot
LOL! You really hit the nail on the head there. I'm amazed that a Linux company owns Slashdot and not Apple themselves, there's so much pro-Mac / anti-Linux propaganda here. What kind of business plan does Taco and friends *have*? The entire "resurgence" of Apple lately is due to word-of-mouth and sales pitches from "the hardcore Linux geeks" of Slashdot.
I am definitely a Macintosh lover, but a lot of what I read on/. is pure crap intended to move units. No kidding. There's a LOT of outright lies, white lies, halftruths, propaganda, deceit, sales pitches, and astroturfing here. Caveat emptor. Macs are very cool, but I'm sorry, you won't plug into GarageBand and a week later find yourself getting job offers from Eric Clapton. Remember, Apple is an advertising company who also makes computers.
They're not selling computers, they're selling image. That's why people plugging into each other's Rio's doesn't make the/. front page, but people plugging into each other's iPods does. Jackson uses an iPod to carry data, that's COOL. I use a 320 Gig external harddrive, I'm apparently NOT cool. But I got the better deal price/performance-wise, one that every real computer expert would agree on the utility and wisdom of.
I'm sorry, I think Macs make cool hardware and software, but this smells like astroturfing at the highest level.
So, how do we know that our current chips don't have something like this in them, in case the CIA wants to shut us down for whatever reason?
I'm just asking. I don't know. Do any of you? Or am I at risk of being in the middle of a massive nefarious plot and have the government smirkingly pull the plug on me, leaving me screaming "Damn You iBook motherboard!!!"
"emerge sync && emerge -Up world" is like a few minutes out of my life. No wasted time.
I don't even do THAT anymore -- I just make a little shell script and put an icon on the desktop or stick it in a Cron job. EVERYTHING's automated now... such is the power of Linux. I have COMPLETE control. Proprietary OS users can *never* say that (although most don't care).
I'm still laughing at SCO's offer to pay a $250,000 reward to whoever can catch the MyDoom author. It's a bit like OJ offering $250,000 for the arrest of his wife's killer....
Not that it matters, but I've run Gnu/Linux with the command prompt only, no X, and I was amazed that 5 or 6 hours of emacs later, my battery was still going strong! Apparently, the windowing and graphics is what drains your batteries so much... Off topic, but just a tidbit for you. If you don't *need* X, don't use it. Made me feel like a kickass hacker, anyway.
I don't want to attract flames en masse, but I am about to. Flame accordingly.
A large part of leadership is doing what's best for the project, and that includes a) giving up control when required, and b) reorganizing where required in order to best utilize resources. This discussion of Ark Linux (which I've heard of but is basically a small player) has helped me to realize that we're being held back by our disunity as a community and our insistence on doing everything by ourselves individually instead of focusing on more communal efforts in which resources are shared for the common good.
I think that the Linux distro leaders (not just Ark, I don't mean to single them out) should begin looking into the possibility of friendly mergers, a la the "mostly failed United Linux". There's a massive duplication of effort in the Open-Source and Free Software communities, and it is literally draining the already limited resources of the community. We have easily 100 different distros, 90% of them are clones of other distros or are so similar as to make themselves irrelevent, and they are all hard at work adding the new Gnome, the new KDE, the new *whatever* into their newest version instead of actually doing something innovative with their time. Linux still has useability issues that existed at the beginning, but everybody's too engrossed in dividing the miniscule Linux market share a hundred ways rather than working together to create a single magnificent system that would dwarf the proprietary competition and create massive acceptance and use of open software and operating systems.
I understand that the guys who have their own distros love their distros and think that they are the best distros out there, but really, is that as important or worthwhile as working together on creating something totally new, rather than just duplicating other people's distributions and putting your own name on it? There are some great hackers out there putting out distros, but they'll never make a name for themselves compiling a distro that less than 20 people will use regularly. They should focus on doing something new, filling a niche that hasn't been filled yet.
As Tina Turner sang, "We don't need another distro". But there are lots of things we DO need, and reaching out to others to propose joining forces would free valuable and talented people up to to valuable and talented things. I'm not questioning the motives of the distro leaders, and I don't mean to offend anybody or come off as bossy and demanding. I'm just saying that if we want Linux to succeed, we have to work together and make sacrifices. We should strive for unity and cooperation where possible, because we are currently NOT using our resources effectively.
As a Canadian, I'm with you! I've already got my gear packed and I'm ready to go as soon as the shuttle picks me up. The weather sounds a lot better on Mars than it currently is in Canada.
Linux *IS* ready for the desktop. It's corporate America who isn't ready for Linux, not the other way around. They're the ones withholding support for Linux....
none of the people I saw going through it seemed to have any problem with it, pretty much everyone seems to accept it...
There's a simple explanation for that. If you make a joke, or say anything against the new fascism, you are detained for HOURS, and everybody knows that. Although I think this is a complete load of sh*t, when I go through it next week (as a Canadian, "the newest enemy of George W"), I'm sure as hell keeping my mouth shut and smiling. DoublePlusGood security ma'am!
Last year, the "nice lady" demanded my father (white, 55 years old, expensively dressed, no criminal record) *remove* his pants -- IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY. He refused, things started to get ugly, and they finally gave in and let him pass. He's now gotten a new attitude, one which is hurting the US economy in a small way, but which, I'm sure, is going to be duplicated by many, until it hurts the economy in a big way. He's stopped buying American. He doesn't travel there. And he speaks his mind without fear (which my American friend Tom tells me he can no longer do in "the freest country on Earth")... I just pray you guys vote the Democrats in next time. I never thought I'd say this, but for Christ's sake, Bush is killing your economy as well as your prospects. Who does he work for, China? I'd rather have the US as a superpower than China or India, but it looks like you guys are ushering yourselves out. Sad.
In addition to the other reasons given, I notice that Apple gets good publicity out of it -- you'll remember that they say "QuickTime has been downloaded over 20 million times this year" quite often. Well, I know at least half of those downloads were me trying to get it to run on my mom's XP box.
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Hi, I've been downloading loops from these guys for years. I've been bugging them to port Acid to the Mac since, oh, 1999? Recently, Mike told me they weren't gonna port it -- because their lead programmer moved over to Apple to write SoundTrack and GarageBand.
They put out an 8pack of loops every two weeks usually. I've got like 1000 loops now, and I've been thinking of writing a Konfabulator widget to automate the downloading, organizing, etc. of my loops.
www.acidplanet.com/loops/8packs/
Cory has made the whole text of the novel available as a free download "in a variety of open, standards-defined formats, under the terms of a Creative Commons license." Cory also has a writeup "explaining why I've done it: in a nutshell, this worked really well for my first book, and I'd be crazy not to repeat the experiment with my second novel.""
Actually, Cory, you'd be crazy to think the Slashdot Effect would skip you this time over. We never did before...
Basically, unless you write a book about "Ancient Roman Carpet Installation Techniques", we're gonna take you down. And even then, if you put it under the Creative Commons license.....
How the hell is this a troll? Mods on the Valve payroll now? That's moronic.
Unfortunately, *not at all likely*. Valve is in bed with Microsoft to a very sick degree.
It's unfortunate for me -- I loved the first Vampire game, and would happily shell out for the second, but they made a BAD MOVE by choosing a notoriously MS-centric engine to run their game. So they won't get a cent of my cash. Bummer.
Jeezus!!! What a freeking scandal!!!
I can't handle the crazy pace of change anymore, it's stuff like this that made the UnaBomber snap.
We're heading down a long dark spiral of doom, and this is just one example of the madness. From now on, just call me AmishMan. I'm done with all this technology crap.(*)
(*) Well, except my iPod. I'm keeping that.
This virus attack was prophesied in the Book of Revelation! Here's my inspired and holy proof:
Andy's last name is Christ. He doesn't mention that, but it's true. Trust me on that one. Andy Christ = AntiChrist. Obviously not a good sign. And he's up to no good, which is also prophesied.
MyDoom = Armageddon. That's bad too.
Fellow believers, the Book of Revelation is coming to pass before our very eyes! The only solution is either to get saved or to vote Republican (your choice -- either one will get you into Heaven). This is just the beginning. Add Utah's MATRIX system into the mix, throw in the Mark of the Beast implantable VeriChips, and you have all the marks of the end of days! The end is near! Act now! Send me a love gift of $49.99, and I'll warn you of the next virus attack before it happens.
Okay, so I'm officially a troll now. I merely thought that Peter Jackson choosing iPods as a way to store his uber-valuable dailies from LoTR was a bad decision. The unthinking Mac users (myself not included) thought I deserved the death penalty and flamed me like I was a heretical witch. Funny thing is, I asked my friend John, who is a big-time tech guru, about using an iPod for backup or carrying important data like the LoTR dailies around, to which his response was a quizzical look and a curt "That's f**king retarded."
/. was anti-Mac, but if you haven't noticed a *massive* attitude swing, you haven't been watching. Mac OS X is great, don't get me wrong. But many of the posts here are UNFAIRLY pro-Mac. I'm not out to attack Apple, I'm out to attack lies and astroturfing. And if you don't believe Apple astroturfs, you probably also believe Microsoft doesn't sponsor "independent research".
I agree with John's in-depth assessment. The article smelled like ass-troturf, just like the one about iPod-using strangers plugging in to each others' iPods as if it were some sort of hippie love-in in 1960's San Francisco. The thing that makes it astroturf is the heavy emphasis not on the phenomenon, but on the actual product itself . The article wasn't "Famed director uses MP3 player to transport videos", it was "Famed director uses his 30 gig iPod to transport videos, then plugs it into his G4 PowerBook laptop with external cinema display". Hopefully, some of you will note the subtle difference in tone and intent. Similarly, "Strangers meeting up in a park listen to each other's music out of interest" never happened; the emphasis in that article was directly on the actual brand name as well, thereby excluding the competitor's products as being inherently unworthy of such a cool greeting, and likewise driving sales for the iPod.
And this is like my 10th nym, I've been here for years. I remember when
Note to Moderators: Intelligent posts being modded "troll" just prove our suspicions of pro-mac astroturfing.
"Kalam, Stallman discuss open source software"....
I'm pretty sure Stallman was talking about Free Software rather than Open Source Software....
LOL! You really hit the nail on the head there. I'm amazed that a Linux company owns Slashdot and not Apple themselves, there's so much pro-Mac / anti-Linux propaganda here. What kind of business plan does Taco and friends *have*? The entire "resurgence" of Apple lately is due to word-of-mouth and sales pitches from "the hardcore Linux geeks" of Slashdot.
I am definitely a Macintosh lover, but a lot of what I read on /. is pure crap intended to move units. No kidding. There's a LOT of outright lies, white lies, halftruths, propaganda, deceit, sales pitches, and astroturfing here. Caveat emptor. Macs are very cool, but I'm sorry, you won't plug into GarageBand and a week later find yourself getting job offers from Eric Clapton. Remember, Apple is an advertising company who also makes computers.
They're not selling computers, they're selling image. That's why people plugging into each other's Rio's doesn't make the /. front page, but people plugging into each other's iPods does. Jackson uses an iPod to carry data, that's COOL. I use a 320 Gig external harddrive, I'm apparently NOT cool. But I got the better deal price/performance-wise, one that every real computer expert would agree on the utility and wisdom of.
I'm sorry, I think Macs make cool hardware and software, but this smells like astroturfing at the highest level.
So, how do we know that our current chips don't have something like this in them, in case the CIA wants to shut us down for whatever reason?
I'm just asking. I don't know. Do any of you? Or am I at risk of being in the middle of a massive nefarious plot and have the government smirkingly pull the plug on me, leaving me screaming "Damn You iBook motherboard!!!"
"emerge sync && emerge -Up world" is like a few minutes out of my life. No wasted time.
I don't even do THAT anymore -- I just make a little shell script and put an icon on the desktop or stick it in a Cron job. EVERYTHING's automated now... such is the power of Linux. I have COMPLETE control. Proprietary OS users can *never* say that (although most don't care).
I'm still laughing at SCO's offer to pay a $250,000 reward to whoever can catch the MyDoom author. It's a bit like OJ offering $250,000 for the arrest of his wife's killer....
I'm your private distro
A distro for money
I'll crash when you least want me to
I'm your private distro
A distro for money
And any old lawsuit will do
Sounds like SCO.
-have you ever felt guilty over using Mac OS X instead of Linux? :(
-You'll have to ask my ex-wife; she took the Mac.
I was lucky. Mine got stuck with my Windows 98 box. They deserve each other.
Not that it matters, but I've run Gnu/Linux with the command prompt only, no X, and I was amazed that 5 or 6 hours of emacs later, my battery was still going strong! Apparently, the windowing and graphics is what drains your batteries so much... Off topic, but just a tidbit for you. If you don't *need* X, don't use it. Made me feel like a kickass hacker, anyway.
I don't want to attract flames en masse, but I am about to. Flame accordingly.
A large part of leadership is doing what's best for the project, and that includes a) giving up control when required, and b) reorganizing where required in order to best utilize resources. This discussion of Ark Linux (which I've heard of but is basically a small player) has helped me to realize that we're being held back by our disunity as a community and our insistence on doing everything by ourselves individually instead of focusing on more communal efforts in which resources are shared for the common good.
I think that the Linux distro leaders (not just Ark, I don't mean to single them out) should begin looking into the possibility of friendly mergers, a la the "mostly failed United Linux". There's a massive duplication of effort in the Open-Source and Free Software communities, and it is literally draining the already limited resources of the community. We have easily 100 different distros, 90% of them are clones of other distros or are so similar as to make themselves irrelevent, and they are all hard at work adding the new Gnome, the new KDE, the new *whatever* into their newest version instead of actually doing something innovative with their time. Linux still has useability issues that existed at the beginning, but everybody's too engrossed in dividing the miniscule Linux market share a hundred ways rather than working together to create a single magnificent system that would dwarf the proprietary competition and create massive acceptance and use of open software and operating systems.
I understand that the guys who have their own distros love their distros and think that they are the best distros out there, but really, is that as important or worthwhile as working together on creating something totally new, rather than just duplicating other people's distributions and putting your own name on it? There are some great hackers out there putting out distros, but they'll never make a name for themselves compiling a distro that less than 20 people will use regularly. They should focus on doing something new, filling a niche that hasn't been filled yet.
As Tina Turner sang, "We don't need another distro". But there are lots of things we DO need, and reaching out to others to propose joining forces would free valuable and talented people up to to valuable and talented things. I'm not questioning the motives of the distro leaders, and I don't mean to offend anybody or come off as bossy and demanding. I'm just saying that if we want Linux to succeed, we have to work together and make sacrifices. We should strive for unity and cooperation where possible, because we are currently NOT using our resources effectively.
As a Canadian, I'm with you! I've already got my gear packed and I'm ready to go as soon as the shuttle picks me up. The weather sounds a lot better on Mars than it currently is in Canada.
...the way to show support for our mplayer friends is to slashdot them into infinity!
Linux *IS* ready for the desktop. It's corporate America who isn't ready for Linux, not the other way around. They're the ones withholding support for Linux....
none of the people I saw going through it seemed to have any problem with it, pretty much everyone seems to accept it...
There's a simple explanation for that. If you make a joke, or say anything against the new fascism, you are detained for HOURS, and everybody knows that. Although I think this is a complete load of sh*t, when I go through it next week (as a Canadian, "the newest enemy of George W"), I'm sure as hell keeping my mouth shut and smiling. DoublePlusGood security ma'am!
Last year, the "nice lady" demanded my father (white, 55 years old, expensively dressed, no criminal record) *remove* his pants -- IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY. He refused, things started to get ugly, and they finally gave in and let him pass. He's now gotten a new attitude, one which is hurting the US economy in a small way, but which, I'm sure, is going to be duplicated by many, until it hurts the economy in a big way. He's stopped buying American. He doesn't travel there. And he speaks his mind without fear (which my American friend Tom tells me he can no longer do in "the freest country on Earth")... I just pray you guys vote the Democrats in next time. I never thought I'd say this, but for Christ's sake, Bush is killing your economy as well as your prospects. Who does he work for, China? I'd rather have the US as a superpower than China or India, but it looks like you guys are ushering yourselves out. Sad.
I think they're all cool and stuff, then they go threatening us with something like this!
If there's ONE thing I DON'T want, it's that.
Bogus.
In addition to the other reasons given, I notice that Apple gets good publicity out of it -- you'll remember that they say "QuickTime has been downloaded over 20 million times this year" quite often. Well, I know at least half of those downloads were me trying to get it to run on my mom's XP box.