Took off the doors, ripped out the seats and the windscreens, removed the exhaust and the air filter and then drained all the fluid from the steering... still works!
And how would my not being able to buy a copy, or buying one second-hand from a dealer, pay their bills?
Maybe if these backwards-looking artists realised that getting hold of such material encouraged people to buy their newer releases and attend their concerts the whole dynamic could finally change... After all, do they also have a sticker: 'Please don't broadcast on the radio'?
Who said major labels? OK, there are some great artist-run labels (Planet Mu, Rephlex, Tigerbeat6 etc.), but fundamentally labels', and even moreso distributors', motivations are quite different from artists'.
Even these days you can get your music out there without dealing with a distributor, and you can't bargain with a distributor without a label behind you (even if you can stump up for studio time, pressing and design).
I don't know about enthusiasm for paid services (sounds a touch rude... though seriously, I used to use eMusic in the days before it became a nightmare, and have never used iTunes or similar), but I am a downloader who's very enthusiastic about music...
I spend as much money as I can afford on CD and vinyl and am completely unapologetic about downloading leaked pre-releases, deleted releases, music I'd consider buying but only after hearing (RIP John Peel, there are fewer and fewer places to do so), and sometimes just music I've not yet the money or time to buy...
Alot of these professors started their career roots with C and old school languages from th 80s
From the 80s? It's a shame these 'schools' aren't teaching languages with features worked on since the 1970s so students could realise that imperative is very often not a sensible choice, and that the type system can be an ally not something to fight against or abandon...
Remember back in the late 90's, when an IRA bomb that was being transported on a bus accidently detonated? It did more damage to the bus than that, and even then people walked away from it.
True, here's an image of that - in fact, even that only killed three people. I believe two died on the bus yesterday. Tragic and horrible, but I'd speculate that the primary objective was to disrupt, not to kill...
Apologies for any overreaction, no real work done here today as I'm still waiting for news from one friend 6 hours on
Know how you're feeling - I texted a very good friend who lives near Kings Cross shortly after 09h30 and then called his home every quarter of an hour until 14h30 when I finally heard he's ok. Best of luck...
The bus in Russel Square was a double decker, packed with people leaving the tube and it was completely destroyed
No it wasn't - the BBC were showing pictures from behind before lunch, and were allowed closer soon after. The roof was blown off and the handrails bent out (which I'm told you can bend by hand), but the seats were in place and the whole bottom deck intact.
Don't 'clarify' from the rubbish summary, but at least from the rubbish article (which says "music consumers" not "music listeners").
There are very few people who are not music listeners (via the radio, at the mall etc.), so this would effectively mean that 35% of the entire population is using legal music downloads - I really doubt that.
Of course this is still imprecise - is 'consumption' a purely commercial activity? Is a downloader who doesn't also buy CDs or downloads not a consumer? Doubt it. Is someone who listens to downloads, without ever buying anything, a consumer, while someone who listens only to streaming music not?
"Statistics can be used to prove anything that's remotely true!"
Which again raises the question of why Slashdot accepts these non-expert reviews.
I'm not putting you down for writing it - and I think it would be a useful thing to read on a blog, or besides other reviews on a site like Amazon - but that this will be the only review of the book on Slashdot makes it a very bad decision to list it, in my opinion.
Unqualified? Interesting. Which part of 16 years earning my employment as a programmer and then a technical lead would disqualify me to comment on technical matters?
Exactly the same part that would make me unqualified to review a book on object-relational DBMSs (stab in the dark - I don't know what your specialism is beyond OOP about which I also have quite a bit of experience, both as a practitioner - I've also been a technical lead in the industry, myself on C++ projects - and a researcher), or that would make you unqualified to lecture on process algebra.
These are all 'technical matters', but we all have our specialisms, and areas where we just hack. I meant no disrespect to you, only to the editorial policy here; a review by a non-expert is not news, it's blog-worthy (and I quoted your homepage because you admit there that you're just learning to hack CSS right now - my apologies for calling it a blog just because it looks like one!)
The author is not qualified to review this book, especially not for a savvy audience like that of Slashdot. A 'don't worry I'm only a beginner too' review (check his blog) can seem very comforting and empathic, but Simon Chappell clearly cannot even speculate on the completeness of this work, nor it's adherence to, and promotion of, best practices.
Are you kidding? As has been pointed out above, this author doesn't even seem to have heard of UCLA, is calling something 'cold fusion' that isn't room temperature and has no idea of writing in a formal style. Bad article, you can keep it and I'll read Nature...
Know what you mean, but you could put it into perspective by visiting the Milton Keynes Hilton! After that shock you'll see why Park Lane is their 'flagship'...
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Omg, Mark Shuttleworth as in the "Mark Shuttleworth Foundation"?
You come off really well in this story...
Yup, after moving to a new university and re-visiting UML diagrams with Dia (appalling), I'm ordering a copy.
(Though I'm upset at Microsoft's pricing policy, since taking it over, and making UML available only in an expensive 'technical edition'...)
Doesn't even have a supported cygwin build, let alone native win32, so if you do leave home it must be with a linux notebook...
This guy wouldn't recognise insight if it spontaneously occurred to him!
Took off the doors, ripped out the seats and the windscreens, removed the exhaust and the air filter and then drained all the fluid from the steering... still works!
Maybe if these backwards-looking artists realised that getting hold of such material encouraged people to buy their newer releases and attend their concerts the whole dynamic could finally change... After all, do they also have a sticker: 'Please don't broadcast on the radio'?
Even these days you can get your music out there without dealing with a distributor, and you can't bargain with a distributor without a label behind you (even if you can stump up for studio time, pressing and design).
But who do you think would call it stealing - the artist, or the music companies they're forced to deal with?
I've yet to meet a musician who disagreed with my stance...
I spend as much money as I can afford on CD and vinyl and am completely unapologetic about downloading leaked pre-releases, deleted releases, music I'd consider buying but only after hearing (RIP John Peel, there are fewer and fewer places to do so), and sometimes just music I've not yet the money or time to buy...
One might assume that this isn't normal - since the background to the buttons on the left are dissimilar - but this is just an assumption...
I'd not want to have been on that bus, but things are bad enough without hyperbole...
No it wasn't - the BBC were showing pictures from behind before lunch, and were allowed closer soon after. The roof was blown off and the handrails bent out (which I'm told you can bend by hand), but the seats were in place and the whole bottom deck intact.
Don't 'clarify' from the rubbish summary, but at least from the rubbish article (which says "music consumers" not "music listeners").
There are very few people who are not music listeners (via the radio, at the mall etc.), so this would effectively mean that 35% of the entire population is using legal music downloads - I really doubt that.
Of course this is still imprecise - is 'consumption' a purely commercial activity? Is a downloader who doesn't also buy CDs or downloads not a consumer? Doubt it. Is someone who listens to downloads, without ever buying anything, a consumer, while someone who listens only to streaming music not?
"Statistics can be used to prove anything that's remotely true!"
I'm not putting you down for writing it - and I think it would be a useful thing to read on a blog, or besides other reviews on a site like Amazon - but that this will be the only review of the book on Slashdot makes it a very bad decision to list it, in my opinion.
These are all 'technical matters', but we all have our specialisms, and areas where we just hack. I meant no disrespect to you, only to the editorial policy here; a review by a non-expert is not news, it's blog-worthy (and I quoted your homepage because you admit there that you're just learning to hack CSS right now - my apologies for calling it a blog just because it looks like one!)
The author is not qualified to review this book, especially not for a savvy audience like that of Slashdot. A 'don't worry I'm only a beginner too' review (check his blog) can seem very comforting and empathic, but Simon Chappell clearly cannot even speculate on the completeness of this work, nor it's adherence to, and promotion of, best practices.
To the author: If you're going to attempt a polemic, at least learn to speak English!
To the editors: Is this news?..
Are you kidding? As has been pointed out above, this author doesn't even seem to have heard of UCLA, is calling something 'cold fusion' that isn't room temperature and has no idea of writing in a formal style. Bad article, you can keep it and I'll read Nature...
Know what you mean, but you could put it into perspective by visiting the Milton Keynes Hilton! After that shock you'll see why Park Lane is their 'flagship'...