Yes, but in order to skip to the next song you had to get off the couch, walk to the turntable, and physically move the tone arm. With eight tracks you didn't skip to the next song, you skipped to the next of the four stereo tracks. I know of no ACDC albums with only four songs of identical length.
Indeed it is, it's simply ignorance and aliteracy. "Alot" for a lot is more like "loose" instead of "lose" in that it can completely change the meaning of what the writer was trying to convey.
It shows one's ignorance and lack of reading and lack of education. When the uneducated aliterate comes to a site for nerds, they should be made fun of.
The ones proven to be innocent (or rather, who have had their convictions quashed, which doesn't necessarily mean they are innocent) should have been released by now
Almost all if not all of those who wre released were proven innocent by DNA. Most were victims of prosecutorial misconduct. Some were tortured into confessing.
The predators were all killed because they were incredibly dangerous. I, for one, am damned glad I can walk through the woods without encountering a bear or a wolf or a cougar. If those animals were in the woods I'd have to buy a gun; I don't own one. And again, I never met a single hunter that didn't either eat his prey or give it away. I love veneson, and even though I don't hunt I'm glad people I know do, or I'd never get any.
Christianity is defined more by belief than behaviour.
That's true, a Christian is someone who believes that Jesus is the Christ, son of the living God, their lord and savior who died for their sins. However, you know what Paul told the Corinthians.
Do not judge" is referring to the absolute sense (of salvation).
The exact phrase is "judge not, lest you be judged yourself."
And yeah, I understand why the True Scotsman was brought up, but it doesn't apply, as you point out.
The TEA Party doesn't want zero taxes, it wants less spending and less taxation
Federal taxes are lower than they've been since Truman, so what are you guys bitching about? Spending -- yes, we shouldn't have spent those trillions on two wars, one of which was inarguably based on lies and misinformation. Alaskan and Floridian bridges to nowhere? No, that shouldn't have been built. Note the Governors of both states are Republicans. Kinda hyopcritical, if you aske me.
Universal health care. Yes, Christ did do it for free. He could also make an olive tree grow and give him fruit. He also wasn't forced to do it.
If you're not offering health insurance to your employees, you're no Christian. If you're OK with people like my late friend dying from inability to afford health care, you're no Christian. If you think Christ would be against universal health care, you don't understand the first thing about his message. You can't possibly be compassionate and against universal health care.
Welfare? Again, it's the whole being forced by the government under penalty of jail time that we're against.
Jail time? You mean for not paying your taxes? Again, compassion for the poor -- there's none whatever in your post, and none whatever in the tea party.
We have millions of people making "welfare" a lifestyle.
Not since 1996 when PWORA was enacted.
I don't mind helping a guy, gal, or family down on their luck, helping them get on their feet and be productive again. I don't mind giving money to organizations that teach a man to fish, while giving them a fish for awhile, as long as they go and fish on their own at the end of some period of time.
Which is what PWORA did. So why do tea partiers still bitch about welfare?
Abortion? Only rarely is it ever used to save the life of the mother. Most of the time it is a convenience killing.
Christians are against abortion, but your sins are not my business. I have enough trouble with my own sins. I'm against abortion, but I'm more against meddling in others' lives. Odd that right wingers are against government meddling in their own lives but have no trouble with government meddling in others' lives.
Homosexuality. I was able to keep it in my pants until I was married.
You committed no sins whatever? AFAIK there has only been one person who ever did that, and he was executed by torture for your and my sins. Make no mistake, we're all sinners; me, you, the Pope.
And why do right wingers condone all the sin Gingrich has done? Why do you tolerate Gingrich but not Barney Frank?
I won't cast any stones, but I won't condone sexual deviancy either, whether it be between a man-man, woman-woman, man-woman, or whatever.
Nobody's asking anyone to condone it, just to tolerate it. Again, it's none of my business what other people do, their judgement is up to God, not me.
Finally, I think it's funny that a person will say they don't mind the religion, but can't stand the hypocrisy of the members. Look, we're all hypocrites. A Christian believes in being perfect, but knows that none of us are perfect. We strive for perfection, but fall short daily. And our sins are many, from sins of commission to sins of omission.
Holy crap, never have so many slashdotter been wooshed over a silly misspelling. Fruit flies like a bananna is false, fruit flys like a bananna is true.
...while it's nice that Linux has gained a reputation as a secure alternative to Windows, the fact of the matter is that no one has really given a shit until now enough to really poke a hole in it.
Frothing at the mouth, Mr. Ballmer? Linux isn't a "a secure alternative to Windows for most folks using it, it runs on everything from wristwatches to the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Most web servers are running Linux. If Linux were easy to exploit, you'd have heard of a LOT of exploits.
That's way more data than the old radio model with snail mail surveys.
No, the data they got in the old days was "how many stations are playing this song, and how often" and "how many people are buying this record, and where."
The surveys (Nielson, etc) came up with metrics for the stations, not the labels.
Reading the comments, it seems I'm the only one here who thinks this is awesome.
Well, it would be awesome of the Israilis, protected by their dome, weren't lobbing missles back over to the Palestineans. Lots of dead children over there...
It would be remiss to ignore the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (1942).
I wouldn't call a calculating machine that couldn't be programmed a "computer." Yes, it was a forerunner to computers, and technical developments for it were used in computers, but I wouldn't call a non-programmable device a computer.
If your ancestors hadn't been kidnapped from Africa, then you might be considered property in 2012 considering slavery is alive and well in many regions of Africa right now
And unless he's done some geneology research, his anscestors may have quite possibly been free people. Not all American blacks were slaves.
Slashdot, please stop giving mod points to non-nerds! Facebook is NOT a nerd site, and trashing it isn't trolling. The GP is the fucking troll and can't possibly be a nerd. "Restoring computing machinery for a show in a museum is one thing, making it working again is a real waste of resources!" should have been modded to oblivion. It's incredibly inflammatory to we nerds, unlike "facebook is a waste of resources." That's only inflammatory to teenagers and middle aged mothers. Sheesh...
That's not how it worked. When this music was new, we had vinyl records. No remote control, no "skip" button. You put the record on the turntable, pit the needle in the groove, and listened. No way to mix up the tracks short of making a mix tape.
Dark Side of the Moon was one of these, and it wasn't designed to be listened to like you listen to a CD; when side 1 was over, you walked to the turntable, turned the record over, and played side two. DSOM doesn't really work well as a single track, but as two tracks.
However, ACDC is full of shit on this one. Their songs were never meant to be listened to in any particular order, and in fact that cassettes often had the songs in a different order than the LP, unlike DSOM, Magical Mystery Tour, Tommie, etc.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." We need to expand on this to account not just for papers, but to digital documentation.
From the dictionary: "6plural : movable property : goods <personal effects>"
I think that covers digital goods, or a digitally encoded song couldn't be copyrighted.
I don't understand how artists did it before the internet.
They didn't. The internet changed everything. Before the internet, either a record label signed you (and usually ripped you off) or you played in bars. The record companies had all the data; they knew how many copies of whom was selling where, and who was playing whom on the radio and where.
If your label liked you they might illegally pay radio stations to play your stuff. If they didn't, they either didn't renew your contract or simply didn't ship much product.
Before the internet, musicians were dependant on the labels. When Roger McGuinn, front man for the hit record selling band The Byrds got too old (in the eyes of the label) his career crashed hard. He played in bars and other low-paying places... until Napster came along with P2P, when a new generation of listeners revived his dead career. Now it's the labels who are floundering; nobody needs them any more.
"To everything there is a season... a time to live, a time to die."
The smartphone market already has a ton of operating systems
Lets see... Windows, Apple, Android... uh, hmm... RIM which is dying. Three and a half is a "ton?" The more OSes there are, the better. The farther away from a monoculture the harder it is to write malware.
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Yes, but in order to skip to the next song you had to get off the couch, walk to the turntable, and physically move the tone arm. With eight tracks you didn't skip to the next song, you skipped to the next of the four stereo tracks. I know of no ACDC albums with only four songs of identical length.
Funny, that picture looks just fine to me on my non-"retina" display
To me as well, but I'd bet that if there were two computers side by side with one retina and one not, either one of us would see the difference.
But on the vast majority of webpages, all you're going to get is a standard-res image. Making "retina" basically useless.
Yes, for now.
It's a lot like an alot
Indeed it is, it's simply ignorance and aliteracy. "Alot" for a lot is more like "loose" instead of "lose" in that it can completely change the meaning of what the writer was trying to convey.
It shows one's ignorance and lack of reading and lack of education. When the uneducated aliterate comes to a site for nerds, they should be made fun of.
That's why I'll never buy a Sony product. I would expect a Sony TV to be pre-rooted.
The ones proven to be innocent (or rather, who have had their convictions quashed, which doesn't necessarily mean they are innocent) should have been released by now
Almost all if not all of those who wre released were proven innocent by DNA. Most were victims of prosecutorial misconduct. Some were tortured into confessing.
I'm not sure who the GP was...
The predators were all killed because they were incredibly dangerous. I, for one, am damned glad I can walk through the woods without encountering a bear or a wolf or a cougar. If those animals were in the woods I'd have to buy a gun; I don't own one. And again, I never met a single hunter that didn't either eat his prey or give it away. I love veneson, and even though I don't hunt I'm glad people I know do, or I'd never get any.
Christianity is defined more by belief than behaviour.
That's true, a Christian is someone who believes that Jesus is the Christ, son of the living God, their lord and savior who died for their sins. However, you know what Paul told the Corinthians.
Do not judge" is referring to the absolute sense (of salvation).
The exact phrase is "judge not, lest you be judged yourself."
And yeah, I understand why the True Scotsman was brought up, but it doesn't apply, as you point out.
The TEA Party doesn't want zero taxes, it wants less spending and less taxation
Federal taxes are lower than they've been since Truman, so what are you guys bitching about? Spending -- yes, we shouldn't have spent those trillions on two wars, one of which was inarguably based on lies and misinformation. Alaskan and Floridian bridges to nowhere? No, that shouldn't have been built. Note the Governors of both states are Republicans. Kinda hyopcritical, if you aske me.
Universal health care. Yes, Christ did do it for free. He could also make an olive tree grow and give him fruit. He also wasn't forced to do it.
If you're not offering health insurance to your employees, you're no Christian. If you're OK with people like my late friend dying from inability to afford health care, you're no Christian. If you think Christ would be against universal health care, you don't understand the first thing about his message. You can't possibly be compassionate and against universal health care.
Welfare? Again, it's the whole being forced by the government under penalty of jail time that we're against.
Jail time? You mean for not paying your taxes? Again, compassion for the poor -- there's none whatever in your post, and none whatever in the tea party.
We have millions of people making "welfare" a lifestyle.
Not since 1996 when PWORA was enacted.
I don't mind helping a guy, gal, or family down on their luck, helping them get on their feet and be productive again. I don't mind giving money to organizations that teach a man to fish, while giving them a fish for awhile, as long as they go and fish on their own at the end of some period of time.
Which is what PWORA did. So why do tea partiers still bitch about welfare?
Abortion? Only rarely is it ever used to save the life of the mother. Most of the time it is a convenience killing.
Christians are against abortion, but your sins are not my business. I have enough trouble with my own sins. I'm against abortion, but I'm more against meddling in others' lives. Odd that right wingers are against government meddling in their own lives but have no trouble with government meddling in others' lives.
Homosexuality. I was able to keep it in my pants until I was married.
You committed no sins whatever? AFAIK there has only been one person who ever did that, and he was executed by torture for your and my sins. Make no mistake, we're all sinners; me, you, the Pope.
And why do right wingers condone all the sin Gingrich has done? Why do you tolerate Gingrich but not Barney Frank?
I won't cast any stones, but I won't condone sexual deviancy either, whether it be between a man-man, woman-woman, man-woman, or whatever.
Nobody's asking anyone to condone it, just to tolerate it. Again, it's none of my business what other people do, their judgement is up to God, not me.
Finally, I think it's funny that a person will say they don't mind the religion, but can't stand the hypocrisy of the members. Look, we're all hypocrites. A Christian believes in being perfect, but knows that none of us are perfect. We strive for perfection, but fall short daily. And our sins are many, from sins of commission to sins of omission.
I couldn't agree more.
Holy crap, never have so many slashdotter been wooshed over a silly misspelling. Fruit flies like a bananna is false, fruit flys like a bananna is true.
The Mayan's are up to something sinister
The Mayan's WHAT are up to something similar? Their goats? Their sheep? Their calendars? Don't keep us in suspense, man!
...while it's nice that Linux has gained a reputation as a secure alternative to Windows, the fact of the matter is that no one has really given a shit until now enough to really poke a hole in it.
Frothing at the mouth, Mr. Ballmer? Linux isn't a "a secure alternative to Windows for most folks using it, it runs on everything from wristwatches to the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Most web servers are running Linux. If Linux were easy to exploit, you'd have heard of a LOT of exploits.
That's way more data than the old radio model with snail mail surveys.
No, the data they got in the old days was "how many stations are playing this song, and how often" and "how many people are buying this record, and where."
The surveys (Nielson, etc) came up with metrics for the stations, not the labels.
Go fuck yourself.
Your comment fits your sig quite well.
It must have been running Windows 95.
Reading the comments, it seems I'm the only one here who thinks this is awesome.
Well, it would be awesome of the Israilis, protected by their dome, weren't lobbing missles back over to the Palestineans. Lots of dead children over there...
It would be remiss to ignore the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (1942).
I wouldn't call a calculating machine that couldn't be programmed a "computer." Yes, it was a forerunner to computers, and technical developments for it were used in computers, but I wouldn't call a non-programmable device a computer.
I hate to point out the obvious, but no web site in existence does "retina" anyway
On the contrary, there are quite a few very large pictures on the internet. Even on wikipedia.
If your ancestors hadn't been kidnapped from Africa, then you might be considered property in 2012 considering slavery is alive and well in many regions of Africa right now
And unless he's done some geneology research, his anscestors may have quite possibly been free people. Not all American blacks were slaves.
Anatomy of an enemy (How to start a war)
Slashdot, please stop giving mod points to non-nerds! Facebook is NOT a nerd site, and trashing it isn't trolling. The GP is the fucking troll and can't possibly be a nerd. "Restoring computing machinery for a show in a museum is one thing, making it working again is a real waste of resources!" should have been modded to oblivion. It's incredibly inflammatory to we nerds, unlike "facebook is a waste of resources." That's only inflammatory to teenagers and middle aged mothers. Sheesh...
Time flies like an arrow, but Drosophilia Melanogastera like a banana.
Sorry, Sheldon, but your joke just doesn't work. The key is "flies" and the original only works spoken, or with "flys" misspelled.
How about "they say time flies when you're having fun, but why would I want to time flies?"
That's not how it worked. When this music was new, we had vinyl records. No remote control, no "skip" button. You put the record on the turntable, pit the needle in the groove, and listened. No way to mix up the tracks short of making a mix tape.
Dark Side of the Moon was one of these, and it wasn't designed to be listened to like you listen to a CD; when side 1 was over, you walked to the turntable, turned the record over, and played side two. DSOM doesn't really work well as a single track, but as two tracks.
However, ACDC is full of shit on this one. Their songs were never meant to be listened to in any particular order, and in fact that cassettes often had the songs in a different order than the LP, unlike DSOM, Magical Mystery Tour, Tommie, etc.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." We need to expand on this to account not just for papers, but to digital documentation.
From the dictionary: "6plural : movable property : goods <personal effects>"
I think that covers digital goods, or a digitally encoded song couldn't be copyrighted.
I don't understand how artists did it before the internet.
They didn't. The internet changed everything. Before the internet, either a record label signed you (and usually ripped you off) or you played in bars. The record companies had all the data; they knew how many copies of whom was selling where, and who was playing whom on the radio and where.
If your label liked you they might illegally pay radio stations to play your stuff. If they didn't, they either didn't renew your contract or simply didn't ship much product.
Before the internet, musicians were dependant on the labels. When Roger McGuinn, front man for the hit record selling band The Byrds got too old (in the eyes of the label) his career crashed hard. He played in bars and other low-paying places... until Napster came along with P2P, when a new generation of listeners revived his dead career. Now it's the labels who are floundering; nobody needs them any more.
"To everything there is a season... a time to live, a time to die."
The smartphone market already has a ton of operating systems
Lets see... Windows, Apple, Android... uh, hmm... RIM which is dying. Three and a half is a "ton?" The more OSes there are, the better. The farther away from a monoculture the harder it is to write malware.