My father wants me to attend the local vo-tech school for fibre optics training. I would rather go to the state college, but it's more expensive. My grades in high school were pretty good, though nobody is mailing me scholarship offers. Dad is willing to pay for the vo-tech and said he is not going to give me any $ if I choose college over vo-tech. I have to choose soon. Can you help me change his mind?
Thanks in advance,
SoonToBeSchoolboy
....
Dear STBS,
dude! i just got the latest N'SYNC song just now, and it ROCKS!! it's awesome! and i didn't have to even pay no $ for it! yeah it gots some skips in it and cuts off 8 seconds before the end, but i LOVE that band! and even though i spent 3 hrs dl'ing it through my 56k modem, it was worth every minute! i'm currently downloading 83 other songs, from 4 other users. woo hoo! i never have to pay for my music again! napster OWNZ! screw the RIAA! ME11A11CA is a bunch of crybabies!
Typical Napster User
kudos to slackers everywhere:)
why buy what you can get for free? ever?
what motivates us to exchange $ for stuff?
www is going to rock dinosaur houses and labels, and they know it. old school (>10 yrs ago!) writers and musicians *needed* the publishers to print/distribute books and records on a large scale. in mr ellison's case, his publisher gave him $ in exchange for content. today, mr ellison could just as easily publish his original works on the web. folks could buy access to new pages at his website, supporting future works by the author. if they were interested enough to exchange $ for content.
as for slacker, information access through public libraries was an extension of the belief that information wants to be free. www is an approximation of the ideal.
Re:the charming gumption of Americans...
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OK then. Firstly, the article was another whine "I believe that high-speed access is the future, but I don't believe that future is now." well there you go. Make it happen. After pestering my cable company for access *every day* from xmas '97 to xmas '98, they made it available. I feel like my campaign made a difference, even if it didn't. Squeaky wheels get greased. My UT cable connection now rulez. (gimme less than 50ping, and i'll take you down on your own box:)
eventually, market forces will drive better connections throughout USA. a lot of effort was expended here in creating a networking telecoms infrastructure now called the web. and before that, there was the federally mandated dial tone 24/7/365 to all phones paying for the service. at a time when european connections were sometimes spotty.
but why instigate? xnuandax made one of the funniest, most insightful comments on Jim Allchin's speech just a few days ago. are you just sniping the easy ones?
fred
Blessed is he who expects the worst, for he shall not be disappointed.
"Then what exactly am I getting when I purchase music?" is a good question. there is no license involved. you don't license a book. what's different for an album? the music industry's implied claim of license is bogus, and we should all call shenannigans on the studios/labels. they're not happy about the fair-use thing. they imply that any copying of content is in violation of copyright. it's incredible. from the site:
http://www.riaa.com/Protect-Campaign-1.cfm
""Piracy" generally refers to the illegal duplication and distribution of sound recordings and includes four specific forms:
1)Pirate recordings are the unauthorized duplication of only the sound of legitimate recordings, as opposed to all the packaging, i.e. the original art, label, title, sequencing, combination of titles etc."
there is no free lunch. when you express unpopular ideas in public, it costs you. sometimes your reputation, sometimes it can cost you your life. it's not a theoretical universe.
why would heinen disallow a paper called "the holocaust conspiracy"? there is an opportunity here for the class to learn something, which is the point of school in the first place. refute the thing, point by point, and have an open dialogue with students. it wouldn't have to degenerate into ridiculing the writer. elementary and high-school classes are probly the *best* place to explore diatribes and claptrap. where else will kids be able to see this stuff? with the help of a good teacher, light of reason should illuminate classroom discussion at any level. but it's not a theoretical universe.
the science project shouldn't have been pulled, of course. mebbe it hit a little too close to the bone. mebbe there is a problem with race relations around here. what are they going to do, hide the symptoms and hope the disease clears up on its own? sometimes that works.
the FPS is an underrated art form, i've been saying it for years. back in the "block" days, we called it "blowing shit up" and it was fun then. now i "shoot shit" in UT, and it's still fun, and the crate levels are especially fun;j
I'm replying to agree with bbcat, and to possibly engage in a public discussion on why the subscription service is dead in the water.
Imagine if, 20 years ago, the Atari company had access to StarOffice on 600Mhz Pentium3's. How many more 2600's would've shipped? Would 900Mhz Athlons/Office2000 have been better? Should they have upgraded? Has the business model changed so much that they would've been unable to integrate the "productivity machines"? Or maybe it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference either way.
There is now an communications infrastructure only *dreamed* of since the dawn of civilization. As a species we've made a quantum leap from where we started. I think that, given the tools we currently hold, there's nothing stopping us from....
#The thing is, subscriptions are just being realistic - if you pretend that you're still going to be using those P3's running Office xxxx in 5 years time, you're wrong#
let's see who's pretending and who's being realistic. It's my opinion the subscriptions are pretending to give us continous improvement value for our $$$. At this point, what more could They give us? More bells, whistles, and another monthly bill. Boooo.
Is this the new luddite voice? Are the winds of change starting to chill me in the autumn of my life? Or is good-enough-5-year-old software/hardware going to become the standard instead of the butt of wiseass cracks from punkass kids?
As for how subscriptions will affect OEM, i thought "junk culture" was a fantastic album;j
any idiot bastard who makes 50 accounts is sending slashdot into the ditch. what the hell are you doing with 50 UIDs? that seems assinine in and of itself. mebbe i am missing something though. there may be a good reason for your near-obsessive creation of accounts. if you can enlighten me, please do so. but from here it looks like you're doing as much good for slashdot as the meta-moderators who score legitimate moderations as "unfair". which is to say, none.
are you trying to bullshit us by insinuating that you're a RESPONSIBLE slashdot citizen who doesn't like to speak about topics you know nothing about? that's the funniest thing i've heard all day. thanks for the laughs, ignorantboy:)
the "deathmatch don't matter, though it would help" part?
the "enough people and good performance" bit?
the "3D sites dedicated to non-game 3D engines" idle question?
the "Autocad file converted to Q map" query?
to paraphrase DDS, they should just put it out as a DeerHunter level. it would make more sense that way.
my old drummer smoked a LOT of dope, but kept it discrete. his motto was "why advertise?" which makes a lot of sense. on the one hand it shouldn't be a crime to inhale burnt weed, but as long as it's illegal, the smart thing is to have some common sense.
you pick your battles, and not everybody is up for fighting city hall on all fronts. my personal feeling is that the question is moot.
peace, love, understanding, and a big stick to smite your enemies
fred
It's about time that UT starts getting the respect and attention it deserves. Unreal Tournament is one of the best games out there, but almost every benchmark site I see uses a variant of a Quake demo to compare frame rates. Loki has done an incredible job of porting UT- there won't be too many tears shed over Q3A's linux demise if that means more UT servers in the long run.
peace, love, understanding, and a big stick to smite your enemies;j
This deserves to be said again, i'm only sorry i didn't find it first.
"The goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play."
There is no mention of the politics played with the Games, of the bribes paid to IOC members, of corporate sponsership deals. The "Olympic spirit"?? What about the USA basketball Dream Team? What the hell happened to "for the love of the sport"?
my wife made fun of me for watching "battlebots", and after seeing "junkyard wars", i figured out why. we BOTH watched the scrapheap challenge for several hours. one of the best ideas for a tv show in a long time. it's natural for 10hrs of construction time to be edited down to an hour. the show flows very well, all the participants are interesting in some way, and it's not dumbed down or turned into mechanical porn the way battlebots is being presented. i mean, i love bill nye, but he can't pull the show up from the sensationalistic gutter the announcers have fallen into. MORE SHOWS SHOULD TREAT THE VIEWER THIS WELL!
there's always a chemist inside any good hacker....
Jim, your resume should include "knower of stuff". i will remember the name Richard Powers now, just finished _3_Farmers_on_Their_Way_to_a Dance_ and must say Powers is one of the best writers of our time. Up there. No kidding.
HEY! Where's the "insightful" part of this post? Seichert is a person who thinks M$ has invented a software distribution model that "could work well for smaller software companies", and it "should make the industry much more competitive." This is _not_ insightful.
hey seichert, we realise "that many people are willing to pay for software and pay for its continued development." This is _not_ insightful.
And what of "many offices that type up documents and do spreadsheets they have a vested interest in the continued development of Office." _NOT_ insightful, to the point of deluded. The ONLY office that has a vested interest in the continued development of Office is the M$ Finance Office.
seichert, you've made poorly modded chickenscratch. but i would expect that from the Slashdot/UPenn crowd....
there's another wonderful book called _The_Goldbug_Variations_ , though i forget the author. it intertwines a great fictional story around the real life search for the genetic code. the title is a play on bach's "goldberg variations" and poe's "goldbug". very well done.
i just emailed the folks (Tony Lucich [webmaster@manhattan.k12.ca.us]) and got a nice reply-
my message:
"i was wondering about mssr griffith's suspension status. will they take corrective action ande xpunge his records of any "wrongdoing" as a result of his homecoming demonstration? i am keenly interested in this case. thx in advance for any information."
the reply:
"Thank-you for your comments.... I'll get the team together to review and
respond to your idea. Thanks again -Tony"
it's kind of canned, but at least it's nice to get some feedback, eh card?....
The *really* cool kids understand that the cliques don't stop after high school. The *really* cool kids are able to make their own way in the world without hoping to fit in for just 5 minutes. The *really* cool kids are able to think for themselves.
It sounds like somebody took mssr griffith's action personally and allowed their emotions to get the best of them, causing them to over-react. No way should the kid have been suspended for this nonviolent demonstration. It was a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark:)
But seriously, this needs more exposure. Griffith is guilty only of thoughtcrime, which is NOT punishable in the United States. Had the school admins not suspended him, there would be nothing to talk about (Some random kid refused to take the title of "Homecoming King"- Big Fat Hairy Deal). It is the inane system that is the real story here.
Slashdot Mirror
option8 set this up like a bowling pin :)
ASK A TYPICAL NAPSTER USER
Dear Typical Napster User,
My father wants me to attend the local vo-tech school for fibre optics training. I would rather go to the state college, but it's more expensive. My grades in high school were pretty good, though nobody is mailing me scholarship offers. Dad is willing to pay for the vo-tech and said he is not going to give me any $ if I choose college over vo-tech. I have to choose soon. Can you help me change his mind?
Thanks in advance,
SoonToBeSchoolboy
....
Dear STBS,
dude! i just got the latest N'SYNC song just now, and it ROCKS!! it's awesome! and i didn't have to even pay no $ for it! yeah it gots some skips in it and cuts off 8 seconds before the end, but i LOVE that band! and even though i spent 3 hrs dl'ing it through my 56k modem, it was worth every minute! i'm currently downloading 83 other songs, from 4 other users. woo hoo! i never have to pay for my music again! napster OWNZ! screw the RIAA! ME11A11CA is a bunch of crybabies!
Typical Napster User
kudos to slackers everywhere :)
why buy what you can get for free? ever?
what motivates us to exchange $ for stuff?
www is going to rock dinosaur houses and labels, and they know it. old school (>10 yrs ago!) writers and musicians *needed* the publishers to print/distribute books and records on a large scale. in mr ellison's case, his publisher gave him $ in exchange for content. today, mr ellison could just as easily publish his original works on the web. folks could buy access to new pages at his website, supporting future works by the author. if they were interested enough to exchange $ for content.
as for slacker, information access through public libraries was an extension of the belief that information wants to be free. www is an approximation of the ideal.
OK then. Firstly, the article was another whine "I believe that high-speed access is the future, but I don't believe that future is now." well there you go. Make it happen. After pestering my cable company for access *every day* from xmas '97 to xmas '98, they made it available. I feel like my campaign made a difference, even if it didn't. Squeaky wheels get greased. My UT cable connection now rulez. (gimme less than 50ping, and i'll take you down on your own box :)
eventually, market forces will drive better connections throughout USA. a lot of effort was expended here in creating a networking telecoms infrastructure now called the web. and before that, there was the federally mandated dial tone 24/7/365 to all phones paying for the service. at a time when european connections were sometimes spotty.
but why instigate? xnuandax made one of the funniest, most insightful comments on Jim Allchin's speech just a few days ago. are you just sniping the easy ones?
fred
Blessed is he who expects the worst, for he shall not be disappointed.
"Then what exactly am I getting when I purchase music?" is a good question. there is no license involved. you don't license a book. what's different for an album? the music industry's implied claim of license is bogus, and we should all call shenannigans on the studios/labels. they're not happy about the fair-use thing. they imply that any copying of content is in violation of copyright. it's incredible. from the site:
http://www.riaa.com/Protect-Campaign-1.cfm
""Piracy" generally refers to the illegal duplication and distribution of sound recordings and includes four specific forms:
1)Pirate recordings are the unauthorized duplication of only the sound of legitimate recordings, as opposed to all the packaging, i.e. the original art, label, title, sequencing, combination of titles etc."
would that be an mp3? unreal.
a rose in the thorns :)
good to see english/logic mangled so badly so well encapsulated. kudos. this makes my day.
fred
there is no free lunch. when you express unpopular ideas in public, it costs you. sometimes your reputation, sometimes it can cost you your life. it's not a theoretical universe.
;j
why would heinen disallow a paper called "the holocaust conspiracy"? there is an opportunity here for the class to learn something, which is the point of school in the first place. refute the thing, point by point, and have an open dialogue with students. it wouldn't have to degenerate into ridiculing the writer. elementary and high-school classes are probly the *best* place to explore diatribes and claptrap. where else will kids be able to see this stuff? with the help of a good teacher, light of reason should illuminate classroom discussion at any level. but it's not a theoretical universe.
the science project shouldn't have been pulled, of course. mebbe it hit a little too close to the bone. mebbe there is a problem with race relations around here. what are they going to do, hide the symptoms and hope the disease clears up on its own? sometimes that works.
i'm getting vertigo
the FPS is an underrated art form, i've been saying it for years. back in the "block" days, we called it "blowing shit up" and it was fun then. now i "shoot shit" in UT, and it's still fun, and the crate levels are especially fun ;j
fred
I'm replying to agree with bbcat, and to possibly engage in a public discussion on why the subscription service is dead in the water.
;j
Imagine if, 20 years ago, the Atari company had access to StarOffice on 600Mhz Pentium3's. How many more 2600's would've shipped? Would 900Mhz Athlons/Office2000 have been better? Should they have upgraded? Has the business model changed so much that they would've been unable to integrate the "productivity machines"? Or maybe it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference either way.
There is now an communications infrastructure only *dreamed* of since the dawn of civilization. As a species we've made a quantum leap from where we started. I think that, given the tools we currently hold, there's nothing stopping us from....
#The thing is, subscriptions are just being realistic - if you pretend that you're still going to be using those P3's running Office xxxx in 5 years time, you're wrong#
let's see who's pretending and who's being realistic. It's my opinion the subscriptions are pretending to give us continous improvement value for our $$$. At this point, what more could They give us? More bells, whistles, and another monthly bill. Boooo.
Is this the new luddite voice? Are the winds of change starting to chill me in the autumn of my life? Or is good-enough-5-year-old software/hardware going to become the standard instead of the butt of wiseass cracks from punkass kids?
As for how subscriptions will affect OEM, i thought "junk culture" was a fantastic album
any idiot bastard who makes 50 accounts is sending slashdot into the ditch. what the hell are you doing with 50 UIDs? that seems assinine in and of itself. mebbe i am missing something though. there may be a good reason for your near-obsessive creation of accounts. if you can enlighten me, please do so. but from here it looks like you're doing as much good for slashdot as the meta-moderators who score legitimate moderations as "unfair". which is to say, none.
p.s. nothing personal, but your songs blow goats.
there is a debilitating habit called "diarrhea of the mouth"....
are you trying to bullshit us by insinuating that you're a RESPONSIBLE slashdot citizen who doesn't like to speak about topics you know nothing about? that's the funniest thing i've heard all day. thanks for the laughs, ignorantboy :)
pax out
well spoken. i couldn't help but notice that ignorantboy has run out of steam.
:)
"Don't try to corner *me* with logic!"
so how many /. accounts do you have, mr "talk_is_cheap@verizoneatspoop.com"?
i'd like to see you be brave enough to identify yer own ignorant self.
dude, seriously, shut up once in a while.
you, sir, are an ignorant ass, with more words than things to say.
um, what part of this post was "interesting"?
the "deathmatch don't matter, though it would help" part?
the "enough people and good performance" bit?
the "3D sites dedicated to non-game 3D engines" idle question?
the "Autocad file converted to Q map" query?
to paraphrase DDS, they should just put it out as a DeerHunter level. it would make more sense that way.
i feel dumber for having read this post.
my old drummer smoked a LOT of dope, but kept it discrete. his motto was "why advertise?" which makes a lot of sense. on the one hand it shouldn't be a crime to inhale burnt weed, but as long as it's illegal, the smart thing is to have some common sense.
you pick your battles, and not everybody is up for fighting city hall on all fronts. my personal feeling is that the question is moot.
peace, love, understanding, and a big stick to smite your enemies
fred
It's about time that UT starts getting the respect and attention it deserves. Unreal Tournament is one of the best games out there, but almost every benchmark site I see uses a variant of a Quake demo to compare frame rates. Loki has done an incredible job of porting UT- there won't be too many tears shed over Q3A's linux demise if that means more UT servers in the long run.
;j
peace, love, understanding, and a big stick to smite your enemies
This deserves to be said again, i'm only sorry i didn't find it first.
"The goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play."
There is no mention of the politics played with the Games, of the bribes paid to IOC members, of corporate sponsership deals. The "Olympic spirit"?? What about the USA basketball Dream Team? What the hell happened to "for the love of the sport"?
disillusioned and disgruntled, more every day
my wife made fun of me for watching "battlebots", and after seeing "junkyard wars", i figured out why. we BOTH watched the scrapheap challenge for several hours. one of the best ideas for a tv show in a long time. it's natural for 10hrs of construction time to be edited down to an hour. the show flows very well, all the participants are interesting in some way, and it's not dumbed down or turned into mechanical porn the way battlebots is being presented. i mean, i love bill nye, but he can't pull the show up from the sensationalistic gutter the announcers have fallen into. MORE SHOWS SHOULD TREAT THE VIEWER THIS WELL!
there's always a chemist inside any good hacker....
Jim, your resume should include "knower of stuff". i will remember the name Richard Powers now, just finished _3_Farmers_on_Their_Way_to_a Dance_ and must say Powers is one of the best writers of our time. Up there. No kidding.
C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN DOS.RUN
HEY! Where's the "insightful" part of this post? Seichert is a person who thinks M$ has invented a software distribution model that "could work well for smaller software companies", and it "should make the industry much more competitive." This is _not_ insightful.
hey seichert, we realise "that many people are willing to pay for software and pay for its continued development." This is _not_ insightful.
And what of "many offices that type up documents and do spreadsheets they have a vested interest in the continued development of Office." _NOT_ insightful, to the point of deluded. The ONLY office that has a vested interest in the continued development of Office is the M$ Finance Office.
seichert, you've made poorly modded chickenscratch. but i would expect that from the Slashdot/UPenn crowd....
there's another wonderful book called _The_Goldbug_Variations_ , though i forget the author. it intertwines a great fictional story around the real life search for the genetic code. the title is a play on bach's "goldberg variations" and poe's "goldbug". very well done.
meme, you're a donut short of a dozen
"If you can't be knowledgeable, be funny"
Be more funny! (turbosk bangs on meme)
pax
i just emailed the folks (Tony Lucich [webmaster@manhattan.k12.ca.us]) and got a nice reply-
my message:
"i was wondering about mssr griffith's suspension status. will they take corrective action ande xpunge his records of any "wrongdoing" as a result of his homecoming demonstration? i am keenly interested in this case. thx in advance for any information."
the reply:
"Thank-you for your comments.... I'll get the team together to review and
respond to your idea. Thanks again -Tony"
it's kind of canned, but at least it's nice to get some feedback, eh card?....
The *really* cool kids understand that the cliques don't stop after high school. The *really* cool kids are able to make their own way in the world without hoping to fit in for just 5 minutes. The *really* cool kids are able to think for themselves. :)
It sounds like somebody took mssr griffith's action personally and allowed their emotions to get the best of them, causing them to over-react. No way should the kid have been suspended for this nonviolent demonstration. It was a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark
But seriously, this needs more exposure. Griffith is guilty only of thoughtcrime, which is NOT punishable in the United States. Had the school admins not suspended him, there would be nothing to talk about (Some random kid refused to take the title of "Homecoming King"- Big Fat Hairy Deal). It is the inane system that is the real story here.