I knew I should have taken the day off from reading Slashdot. Worst April Fools' Day prank ever, anywhere. Not funny, just very annoying. Good job whomever came up with it, and whomever allowed it. Congrats, you have erased any shred of a doubt that you are humorless nerds, and not intelligent geeks.
(Can you give an example of music without a scene? One of my colleagues likes going to see operas, but he obviously has other friends who do the same, and they swap recommendations and go to concerts together. That's a 'scene'.)
Hmm, maybe hobo music? I suppose there may still be a hobo scene, unless no one rides boxcars anymore due to the litigious nature of contemporary society. Any other type of music has its own scene, if said music currently exists.
Real country doesn't have much of a scene anymore. It has been supplanted by country-pop wannabe cowboys who seem to be contractually obligated to include one song about a tractor on every album, regardless of whether they have ever lived or worked on a farm.
So if your music really has no scene of its own, it must be one of two things: swing music, since the fad revival it enjoyed briefly 10-15 years ago has mercifully ended and no one listens to it again, or harpsichord music, which has been dead for a long time, thankfully. You must be too underground and cool for anything else. Or perhaps you just don't do music?
Even opera has a definite "scene," though I have never been exposed to it, which is okay.
Grindcore is a term for the hybrid between death metal and extreme punk hardcore.
Yes! But grindcore is easily differentiated from both death metal and hardcore punk in that to play grindcore you neither need to understand more than one tempo, nor know how to play your instruments nor give a fuck. True death metal practitioners practice incessantly to perfect their craft, odd as it may be, and hardcore musicisans, while generally not giving a fuck, do (somewhat ironically) conform to a particular sound and style. Grindcore is, well, more like noise created by non-musicians who think simply holding a guitar, drumsticks, or a microphone automatically makes one a musician. To each his own I say, but grindcore just sucks.
Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.
As a regular concert goer of a couple of decades now, I feel I am qualified to throw in my two cents. I can say that music sounds best on a blistering hot summer day, in the middle of a field, in Tennessee, with a healthy helping of booze, a mean case of swampass, and about 80,000 close friends. Not what you were looking for, but that's what I like. Screw museums, anyway. They're for winter time, and nerds.
I think you mean MUST buy lots of laser pointers, while you still can! We already know Obama is going to take our guns away, which will be a prelude to getting our laser pointers, of course. Let him try to pry it fro--, oh nevermind, laser pointer owners aren't Charlton Heston types. Mostly.
my younger friends (in their 20's) not only don't have POTS phone service anymore (its all cell phones) but they don't subscribe to tv packages, either. they get a data connection, they download what they want and that's that.
It isn't just people in their 20's who do this. I'm closer to 40 but I do things similarly. No POTS, no cable, no satellite. I have a cell phone, 12 Mbps DSL, a WDTV streaming media box for Netflix and whatever I download, and a DB4 antenna I built to get local OTA TV. Its been about two and a half years since I kicked the cable habit. It was tough for a couple of months, but I don't miss it one bit anymore. I would have to have a lot more disposable income or they'd have to seriously cut their prices (and be up front about them) before I'd even consider subscribing to cable again.
The only people under 40 I know who have land lines at home have them just for a feeling of security in case of emergency because they have young kids at home, since corded phones don't have batteries to die and still work in power outages. They don't really use their $15/month land lines.
Time Warner has offered internet service without a TV package in my area for at least ten years. Is this really not the norm? AT&T was reluctant to offer "naked" DSL, first telling customers it wasn't possible, then charging higher prices, but it has been a while since they started selling it. I have the fake version of AT&T's Uverse at home now (12 Mbps DSL, no TV or anything much faster available), and they no longer charge a higher price to non-phone customers.
I'm not sure which is worse here and now: the lack of truly high speed internet or the fact that there are exactly two providers to choose from. But I think the latter problem might be a cause of the former.
Laying off people is expensive - However, if they quit, well that's much cheaper.
** DING DING DING** We have a winner! That's EXACTLY what is going on. Now it will be interesting to see if anyone fights the changes to their terms of employment, and whether they are successful. Yahoo!: so much success, and such determination to fail. Why not cull the lamest or least productive employees, rather than the ones who are simply the easiest to convince to quit? Very shortsighted, though not surprising, as this is Yahoo!, after all.
Hundreds of workers have been given the choice: start showing up for work at HQ (which would require relocation in many cases), or resign.
What this is is a way to cut staff without actually having to fire anyone, reducing liability and severance costs. Sounds like a company (still) in trouble.
Yep, faster = faster, even on Raspberry Pi. Maybe not 2.5x or 7.5x faster, but a slow card will definitely be a bottleneck that limits overall performance.
I always buy Class 6 SD cards, why because there slightly cheaper then Class 10 nearly always a smiler or identical card when from the same brand. Do I sound illogical?
Yes, you do sound illogical, and a bit incoherent. You buy one class of cards because they are cheaper and smile at you? Class 10 cards are faster, which is what makes them Class 10 and not Class 6, though I've never seen one smile, so maybe you're onto something. Personally, I like frowner and scowler cards better than smiler cards - that tough look means business.
Heads up gamers, nobody wants to watch videos of you playing games, especially not your family or coworkers who are not 60-hour-a-week gamers, so please stop sending us Youtube links, okay? I'm never going to play in the NFL and you are never going to make a living playing games in your mom's basement, deal with it.
I'm with you. I've only had one HTC device (G1/Dream), but Cyanogenmod was the best thing I could have possibly done to it. I don't know how long HTC supported the Dream, but Cyanogenmod allowed me to use it way longer than the hardware should have allowed. I've since upgraded (newer phone, another brand) and the first day I had the new phone I flashed a Cyanogenmod-based ROM. No crapware, better battery life, smoother performance, more up to date.
Sometimes I notice a lot of people here bitching about how slashdot has lost its way, or whining about other people's stupid questions, and I usually ignore them and move on, thinking they are getting old and cranky. But what the hell? Somebody asks how to kill ten minutes because he can think of NOTHING to do with that time, and the post gets approved? Seriously? For fuck's sake, come on... Take up crossword puzzles, or try walking, or just play Angry Birds like everybody else. Or is that too many choices? Need to know where to go for lunch, too?
The Rebels had a poorly-laid-out ground defense, and a planetary shield that can't keep an invader out while complicating their own escape.
But they didn't really have a planetary shield. It was merely a shield over Echo Base. With highly limited resources and a shoestring budget, it was better than nothing. Don't forget, this was not a well funded, professional army, it was a ragtag group of rebels on the run.
...they'd rather see Home users use a different licensing model... something with more long term revenue for the company. One way to help such a new model would be to make the current purchase model less attractive.
nahh. That couldn't be.
And as a result of their greed, they have chosen to accept the alternative of precisely zero ($0) revenue from more and more of us. This new Office crap, along with their pathetic release of WIndows 8, has settled things for me: I will no longer bend over backwards to be a customer. Coming soon to all computers near me: all linux, all the time. Thanks for making my decisions easier and easier, MS.
So I need permission to upgrade/fix/replace my hardware? Ridiculous. I have already been using Libre Office at home, and I promise to transition to it at work as soon as a new install/upgrade/hardware repair becomes necessary.
You keep trying pretty hard to alienate your customer base, Microsoft, and I don't understand why. You can STILL easily pirate MS software if you want, even with all of their "convenience" features that attempt to prevent you from doing so.
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I knew I should have taken the day off from reading Slashdot. Worst April Fools' Day prank ever, anywhere. Not funny, just very annoying. Good job whomever came up with it, and whomever allowed it. Congrats, you have erased any shred of a doubt that you are humorless nerds, and not intelligent geeks.
Was this supposed to be funny? I thought it was April Fools' Day, not April Annoying Stupid Shit Day (AASS Day).
(Can you give an example of music without a scene? One of my colleagues likes going to see operas, but he obviously has other friends who do the same, and they swap recommendations and go to concerts together. That's a 'scene'.)
Hmm, maybe hobo music? I suppose there may still be a hobo scene, unless no one rides boxcars anymore due to the litigious nature of contemporary society. Any other type of music has its own scene, if said music currently exists.
Real country doesn't have much of a scene anymore. It has been supplanted by country-pop wannabe cowboys who seem to be contractually obligated to include one song about a tractor on every album, regardless of whether they have ever lived or worked on a farm.
So if your music really has no scene of its own, it must be one of two things: swing music, since the fad revival it enjoyed briefly 10-15 years ago has mercifully ended and no one listens to it again, or harpsichord music, which has been dead for a long time, thankfully. You must be too underground and cool for anything else. Or perhaps you just don't do music?
Even opera has a definite "scene," though I have never been exposed to it, which is okay.
Fellas,
Grindcore is a term for the hybrid between death metal and extreme punk hardcore.
Yes! But grindcore is easily differentiated from both death metal and hardcore punk in that to play grindcore you neither need to understand more than one tempo, nor know how to play your instruments nor give a fuck. True death metal practitioners practice incessantly to perfect their craft, odd as it may be, and hardcore musicisans, while generally not giving a fuck, do (somewhat ironically) conform to a particular sound and style. Grindcore is, well, more like noise created by non-musicians who think simply holding a guitar, drumsticks, or a microphone automatically makes one a musician. To each his own I say, but grindcore just sucks.
Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.
As a regular concert goer of a couple of decades now, I feel I am qualified to throw in my two cents. I can say that music sounds best on a blistering hot summer day, in the middle of a field, in Tennessee, with a healthy helping of booze, a mean case of swampass, and about 80,000 close friends. Not what you were looking for, but that's what I like. Screw museums, anyway. They're for winter time, and nerds.
...buy lots of laser pointers.
I think you mean MUST buy lots of laser pointers, while you still can! We already know Obama is going to take our guns away, which will be a prelude to getting our laser pointers, of course. Let him try to pry it fro--, oh nevermind, laser pointer owners aren't Charlton Heston types. Mostly.
Add one fucking Ford Mustang GT when you turn 13, one case of Busch Light, and vials of smallpox, and I'm so fucking in on this plan.
Is this where we use the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag?
Dangerously powerful lasers are the next step in the evolution of... LASER CATS!
my younger friends (in their 20's) not only don't have POTS phone service anymore (its all cell phones) but they don't subscribe to tv packages, either. they get a data connection, they download what they want and that's that.
It isn't just people in their 20's who do this. I'm closer to 40 but I do things similarly. No POTS, no cable, no satellite. I have a cell phone, 12 Mbps DSL, a WDTV streaming media box for Netflix and whatever I download, and a DB4 antenna I built to get local OTA TV. Its been about two and a half years since I kicked the cable habit. It was tough for a couple of months, but I don't miss it one bit anymore. I would have to have a lot more disposable income or they'd have to seriously cut their prices (and be up front about them) before I'd even consider subscribing to cable again.
The only people under 40 I know who have land lines at home have them just for a feeling of security in case of emergency because they have young kids at home, since corded phones don't have batteries to die and still work in power outages. They don't really use their $15/month land lines.
Time Warner has offered internet service without a TV package in my area for at least ten years. Is this really not the norm? AT&T was reluctant to offer "naked" DSL, first telling customers it wasn't possible, then charging higher prices, but it has been a while since they started selling it. I have the fake version of AT&T's Uverse at home now (12 Mbps DSL, no TV or anything much faster available), and they no longer charge a higher price to non-phone customers.
I'm not sure which is worse here and now: the lack of truly high speed internet or the fact that there are exactly two providers to choose from. But I think the latter problem might be a cause of the former.
Laying off people is expensive - However, if they quit, well that's much cheaper.
** DING DING DING** We have a winner! That's EXACTLY what is going on. Now it will be interesting to see if anyone fights the changes to their terms of employment, and whether they are successful. Yahoo!: so much success, and such determination to fail. Why not cull the lamest or least productive employees, rather than the ones who are simply the easiest to convince to quit? Very shortsighted, though not surprising, as this is Yahoo!, after all.
Hundreds of workers have been given the choice: start showing up for work at HQ (which would require relocation in many cases), or resign.
What this is is a way to cut staff without actually having to fire anyone, reducing liability and severance costs. Sounds like a company (still) in trouble.
Naw, it isn't even a good clock. The one I bought at Walmart for $4 keeps time, doesn't crash, and works for months on one AA battery.
And don't forget to bedazzle the shiznit out dat mahfucka, gnome sayin bro? Can't pimp w/o bling yo.
You want to make this into a music listening device. What do you want to protect kids from? The evils of R'n'B?
Well, don't you know about R Kelly?
Yep, faster = faster, even on Raspberry Pi. Maybe not 2.5x or 7.5x faster, but a slow card will definitely be a bottleneck that limits overall performance.
I always buy Class 6 SD cards, why because there slightly cheaper then Class 10 nearly always a smiler or identical card when from the same brand. Do I sound illogical?
Yes, you do sound illogical, and a bit incoherent. You buy one class of cards because they are cheaper and smile at you? Class 10 cards are faster, which is what makes them Class 10 and not Class 6, though I've never seen one smile, so maybe you're onto something. Personally, I like frowner and scowler cards better than smiler cards - that tough look means business.
Heads up gamers, nobody wants to watch videos of you playing games, especially not your family or coworkers who are not 60-hour-a-week gamers, so please stop sending us Youtube links, okay? I'm never going to play in the NFL and you are never going to make a living playing games in your mom's basement, deal with it.
I'm with you. I've only had one HTC device (G1/Dream), but Cyanogenmod was the best thing I could have possibly done to it. I don't know how long HTC supported the Dream, but Cyanogenmod allowed me to use it way longer than the hardware should have allowed. I've since upgraded (newer phone, another brand) and the first day I had the new phone I flashed a Cyanogenmod-based ROM. No crapware, better battery life, smoother performance, more up to date.
Sometimes I notice a lot of people here bitching about how slashdot has lost its way, or whining about other people's stupid questions, and I usually ignore them and move on, thinking they are getting old and cranky. But what the hell? Somebody asks how to kill ten minutes because he can think of NOTHING to do with that time, and the post gets approved? Seriously? For fuck's sake, come on... Take up crossword puzzles, or try walking, or just play Angry Birds like everybody else. Or is that too many choices? Need to know where to go for lunch, too?
The Rebels had a poorly-laid-out ground defense, and a planetary shield that can't keep an invader out while complicating their own escape.
But they didn't really have a planetary shield. It was merely a shield over Echo Base. With highly limited resources and a shoestring budget, it was better than nothing. Don't forget, this was not a well funded, professional army, it was a ragtag group of rebels on the run.
"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
nuff said
But hindsight is 20/20, and Helmuth von Moltke lived a long time after the battle of Hoth.
...they'd rather see Home users use a different licensing model... something with more long term revenue for the company. One way to help such a new model would be to make the current purchase model less attractive.
nahh. That couldn't be.
And as a result of their greed, they have chosen to accept the alternative of precisely zero ($0) revenue from more and more of us. This new Office crap, along with their pathetic release of WIndows 8, has settled things for me: I will no longer bend over backwards to be a customer. Coming soon to all computers near me: all linux, all the time. Thanks for making my decisions easier and easier, MS.
So I need permission to upgrade/fix/replace my hardware? Ridiculous. I have already been using Libre Office at home, and I promise to transition to it at work as soon as a new install/upgrade/hardware repair becomes necessary.
You keep trying pretty hard to alienate your customer base, Microsoft, and I don't understand why. You can STILL easily pirate MS software if you want, even with all of their "convenience" features that attempt to prevent you from doing so.
Dear MS, byeeee.