An indie band is a band that's independant of the RIAA labels. Reel Big Fish was once a reputable indie band and made some really good CDs (I love the song "Maggie Mae"). Sadly, they sold out to Britney Spear's label. I only heard the first of their non-indies CDs, and it really sucked. The life was gone from the music. Under the label, the artistry was sucked out of it, the humanity was sucked out of it, it was bland, uninspired, formulaic.
As soon as a band becomes really reputable it inherently looses [sic?] its "indie" nature.
It only loses its indie nature when it signs an RIAA label contract and is no longer independant. Although it does loose its indie nature when it becomes popular, because it's freer to do what it wants.
They didn't say Honeywell was a patent troll, they said they were worse. And I'd tend to agree that anticompetetive behavior of a giant against a pigmy IS being worse than a patent troll. Look at the trouble it got Microsoft into back in the '90s.
Sad that your comment was so highly rated. Do you really think that any Judas that turns his pot smoking customers in when he gets busted or bribed has any self-respect? The police are mostly polite, but I have yet to see very many who are respectful of anyone, period. Cops are just people diong their jobs, and on the whole, people suck. People who suck and also have power are not going to respect anyone at all.
I found it interesting that the submission's title was the same as a creepy Asimov story. Surely that was deliberate.
India wasn't the cradle of civilization, the middle east was. And Indians are Hindu, not Muslim. Islam has the same roots as Judism and Christianity, but is nothing like the Hindu religion. Bhuddism is to Hinduism what Christianity is to Judism.
This brings a STNG episode to mind, the one where Kaless comes back from the dead and Worf discovers he's a clone cooked up by the Klingon High Priests.
When I look back over rock 'n' roll, I'm embarrassed by how much of my life I spent liking what our society (read: big media) tells us is "culture." It's not culture, it's culture product.
Yes, for 90% of it. But just because the evil bastards at the RIAA labels bankrolled it doesn't mean it's worthless. I will agree that almost all "pop" music is crap, and I, too, prefer indie offerings. But before CD burners, cheap electronics, and the internet, nobody could record music well without a huge pile of cash.
TFS isn't entirely correct. Rock and Roll wasn't started at Sun Studios, it was a gradual merging of black music (the blues) and white music (country and pop). It didn't just spring into being with Elvis and Chuck Berry. The late '50s rock song "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" was a direct ripoff of John Lee Hooker's blues song Shake, Holler, and Run; same tune, most of the same words. George Thorogood's One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer was a cover of two Hooker tunes played together, House Rent Boogie and the song One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (which Hooker covered from an earlier Blues guy).
Rock and Roll was born in Cleveland in 1952 (the same year I was born) when Alan Freed coined the term. From Wikipedia:
Albert James "Alan" Freed (December 15, 1921 â" January 20, 1965), also known as Moondog, was an American disc jockey.[1] He became internationally known for promoting the mix of blues, country and rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll. His career was destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry in the early 1960s.
It wasn't a misspelling. An aliterate (and you defined it yourself in your answer) is someone who knows how to read, but doesn't. To misquore Twain (or perhaps paraphrase), an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate. If you read enough edited material you'll know (as I think you do) when and when not to use an apostrophe. When I see someone write "she ate all her carrot's" that indicates to me that the writer doesn't read much more than twitter tweets, facebook pages, and the like.
My grammer's far from perfect in English, my native tongue, and I only know a smattering of Thai (I could speak well eneough to get by there, but barely). I think my Spanish was pretty damned good, but that's only because Spanish grammar and spelling are easy. Far easier than English. But one should not expect to see grammatical or spelling errors in a newspaper article.
I have about ten short time travel stories involving our descendants ten million years into the future as well, it's going to be a book titled Everything You Know Is Wrong. This one,Little Green Men, has to do with Area 51.
One of the biggest expenses for corporate IT departments is management of user computers.
Without users you have no need for an IT department, so I'd say 100% of the expense of the IT department is is management of user computers.
But for businesses, under some circumstances they're a good choice.
Under some (perhaps limited) circumstances, yes. If a user's job is only entering data into a mainframe, then a thin client would make sense. But if spreadsheets, small databases, word processors, and other typical office apps are needed, thin clients make the users' jobs harder -- and the whole point of computers and IT staff is making users' jobs easier.
I'd really like to know how many offices in the year 2012 can "still get work done" without a network connection.
With a thin client your computer is down when the network is down. With a fat client your office apps all still work as long as you have your data saved on the local hard drive. And there's always sneakernet. PCs were in offices for years before they started getting connected to networks.
And what's wrong with IT people liking it?
Nothing, so long as it doesn't make users' jobs harder. After all, the users are the reason the IT staff are there in the first place.
It wasn't an analogy, it was a comparison showing that they aren't analogous but should be. If Microsoft had any real competetion in the preinstalled OS market, they wouldn't be EOLing XP.
I doubt many XP machines will still be working two years from now.
You'd be surprised. In thirty years of computer use I've seen few hardare failures. Usually before a hard drive goes south I've replaced it because it's full and can buy one ten times as big for half the price I paid for it. Hell, I have three drives sitting on a shelf right now, I think one's only 500 mb. In all that time I've had 3 hard drive failures, two CPU failures and one power supply gone bad. But I've gone through three MS OSes (95, 98, XP) and several Linux distros (Manrdake, Mandriva, kubuntu, plus several flavors I tried and didn't like).
My laptop might still be operational but with only a Pentium 3 I doubt I'll want to continue using it.
It'll still be useful for serving files, playing MP3s, surfing most web sites, running OpenOffice or the like, playing classic PC games... Software on it when new will still run, and may not run on a new one.
Time to jump from XP to 7 which, now that they removed the bugs, is a decent OS.
Well, it's certainly a far better OS than their previous offerings, I have it on my notebook and though I plan on putting Linux on it, it still hasn't pissed me off enough to make the effort... yet.
BTW: I doubt your Linux would fit inside my desktop or laptop: They're only 1/2 and 1/3rd gig respectively
If you're talking about memory, they will. I'm running kubuntu 11.10 (the latest release, just came out a few months ago) with 2/3ds of a gig and it plays videos flawlessly. But even then, you can install an old version of Linux; I have a box someone gave me that won't run kubuntu (250meg memory), so I just installed Mandriva 2007 on it. It works fine now.
Well, these days it's a very large part of my computer use as well; I use my Linux PC mostly for radio stations (man I was glad when KSHE started streaming) and TV (Hulu and the networks' own sites, it's the only way for me to watch Big Bang Theory). But if the internet goes down I still have plenty of oggs, mp3, and movies and other shows on it. And I may not be able to surf slashdot when the internet's down, but at least I can compose a journal for when it comes back up.
Exactly the opposite of 1983 when I got on CompuServe. Very little there, most of my computing until this century (including BBSes and when I got on the net in the nineties) has been offline. Most of my data sharing until maybe 2003 or so was posting to my web sites and getting fragged playing Quake.
Almost everything I do at work is offline except for email.
You miss my point entirely. XP is an 11 year old operating system that runs on 11 year old computers. You're not going to get Win 7 or Ubuntu 11.10 to run on an 11 year old computer. So Grandma has her 11 year old computer that she only uses for email and checking the weather and stuff like that, which is still perfectly useable, except that FLAWS in its OS won't be fixed.
If there's a design defect found in a '98 Chevy, Chevy will recall the car and fix the problem. For Microsoft to not add featres to XP is fine, for them to not repair software errors is certainly NOT fine.
It's likely that the vast majority of people still running XP are corporate customers
I'm not sure about that, most people I know who have computers (and I know a lot who don't) are running XP and even 98. Hell, a guy I know just replaced his old computer with a newer one, and gave me the old one to use for parts. It's running Win 95 and has most likely been rooted and sending spam for years, thanks to Microsoft's refusal to issue updates.
I find that the strangest soiunding Americans live on the northeastern seaboard. They sound like they have speech impediments, unable to say the letter "R". Why is "Boston" pronounced "bwastin" by Bostonians?
Maybe it's because the southerners stole all the Neoo Yawkuh's Rs. "Roll down the winder, Billy Bob!"
Always felt like other fast food chains make unhealthy food their "thing," meanwhile, McDonalds gets stuck putting pictures of people doing healthy lifestyle things on all their bags.
Putting pictures of people doing healthy things on bags of unhealthy food seems more than a little hypocritical to me. I'd respect it a lot more if the pictures on the bag were of fat people watching TV and eating Big Macs.
FTFY, unless you live in Saudi Arabia. I was married for 27 years and have two now-grown daughters, most of my friends are parents with children, and with few exceptions the GP is right and only a woman would debate him about it.
Redundant and offtopic. What's annoying me is this is the only place I know where one can have an intelligent conversation (sometimes), so there's a topic that concerns everyone, nerd and non-nerd alike, and the first of six screens contains no on-topic posts AT ALL. None. Every single comment is about whether or not the story should have been posted.
That's what has me annoyed. I wanted to discuss the damned story, not whether or not it shoule be posted. Save that crap for your journal.
It's a childish term for "American" that's used by bigoted morons who think they're smart. Morons, because there are TWO countries named the "United States." There is the United States of America, and the United States of Mexico. The American nation is on one of the two American continents, and two of the three North American countries are America and Mexico.
But it IS Nokia's fault. They should have chosen a better company to buy the OS from. Same with a computer -- I'm not Microsoft's customer, Acer is. If there's a software bug, Acer's at fault. Just like if you buy a new Ford with faulty Firestones, it's Ford's fault for choosing that brand of tyre.
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why don't the "nice, sane, civilised" rise up and kick out the nut jobs?
Matthew 5:5 and Luke 6:37 are why.
An indie band is a band that's independant of the RIAA labels. Reel Big Fish was once a reputable indie band and made some really good CDs (I love the song "Maggie Mae"). Sadly, they sold out to Britney Spear's label. I only heard the first of their non-indies CDs, and it really sucked. The life was gone from the music. Under the label, the artistry was sucked out of it, the humanity was sucked out of it, it was bland, uninspired, formulaic.
As soon as a band becomes really reputable it inherently looses [sic?] its "indie" nature.
It only loses its indie nature when it signs an RIAA label contract and is no longer independant. Although it does loose its indie nature when it becomes popular, because it's freer to do what it wants.
They didn't say Honeywell was a patent troll, they said they were worse. And I'd tend to agree that anticompetetive behavior of a giant against a pigmy IS being worse than a patent troll. Look at the trouble it got Microsoft into back in the '90s.
Sad that your comment was so highly rated. Do you really think that any Judas that turns his pot smoking customers in when he gets busted or bribed has any self-respect? The police are mostly polite, but I have yet to see very many who are respectful of anyone, period. Cops are just people diong their jobs, and on the whole, people suck. People who suck and also have power are not going to respect anyone at all.
I found it interesting that the submission's title was the same as a creepy Asimov story. Surely that was deliberate.
India wasn't the cradle of civilization, the middle east was. And Indians are Hindu, not Muslim. Islam has the same roots as Judism and Christianity, but is nothing like the Hindu religion. Bhuddism is to Hinduism what Christianity is to Judism.
This brings a STNG episode to mind, the one where Kaless comes back from the dead and Worf discovers he's a clone cooked up by the Klingon High Priests.
When I look back over rock 'n' roll, I'm embarrassed by how much of my life I spent liking what our society (read: big media) tells us is "culture." It's not culture, it's culture product.
Yes, for 90% of it. But just because the evil bastards at the RIAA labels bankrolled it doesn't mean it's worthless. I will agree that almost all "pop" music is crap, and I, too, prefer indie offerings. But before CD burners, cheap electronics, and the internet, nobody could record music well without a huge pile of cash.
TFS isn't entirely correct. Rock and Roll wasn't started at Sun Studios, it was a gradual merging of black music (the blues) and white music (country and pop). It didn't just spring into being with Elvis and Chuck Berry. The late '50s rock song "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" was a direct ripoff of John Lee Hooker's blues song Shake, Holler, and Run; same tune, most of the same words. George Thorogood's One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer was a cover of two Hooker tunes played together, House Rent Boogie and the song One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (which Hooker covered from an earlier Blues guy).
Rock and Roll was born in Cleveland in 1952 (the same year I was born) when Alan Freed coined the term. From Wikipedia:
An auto manufacturer will pay for most design flaws and manufacturug errors after the warrantee is up. A software bug is a programming error.
Hardware wears, software doesn't. There is no excuse to not fix your own errors.
It wasn't a misspelling. An aliterate (and you defined it yourself in your answer) is someone who knows how to read, but doesn't. To misquore Twain (or perhaps paraphrase), an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate. If you read enough edited material you'll know (as I think you do) when and when not to use an apostrophe. When I see someone write "she ate all her carrot's" that indicates to me that the writer doesn't read much more than twitter tweets, facebook pages, and the like.
My grammer's far from perfect in English, my native tongue, and I only know a smattering of Thai (I could speak well eneough to get by there, but barely). I think my Spanish was pretty damned good, but that's only because Spanish grammar and spelling are easy. Far easier than English. But one should not expect to see grammatical or spelling errors in a newspaper article.
Yes, I've been writing and posting SF in my journal for a while.
We still haven't found extraforgostnic life
A strange discovery
I have about ten short time travel stories involving our descendants ten million years into the future as well, it's going to be a book titled Everything You Know Is Wrong. This one, Little Green Men, has to do with Area 51.
I post an index yearly.
One of the biggest expenses for corporate IT departments is management of user computers.
Without users you have no need for an IT department, so I'd say 100% of the expense of the IT department is is management of user computers.
But for businesses, under some circumstances they're a good choice.
Under some (perhaps limited) circumstances, yes. If a user's job is only entering data into a mainframe, then a thin client would make sense. But if spreadsheets, small databases, word processors, and other typical office apps are needed, thin clients make the users' jobs harder -- and the whole point of computers and IT staff is making users' jobs easier.
Not to mention you can buck out a few extra dollars and get a brand new machine versus paying for an upgrade.
I hate wastefulness. Putting a functional device in a landfill is just wrong when it would be useful for years longer.
I'd really like to know how many offices in the year 2012 can "still get work done" without a network connection.
With a thin client your computer is down when the network is down. With a fat client your office apps all still work as long as you have your data saved on the local hard drive. And there's always sneakernet. PCs were in offices for years before they started getting connected to networks.
And what's wrong with IT people liking it?
Nothing, so long as it doesn't make users' jobs harder. After all, the users are the reason the IT staff are there in the first place.
It wasn't an analogy, it was a comparison showing that they aren't analogous but should be. If Microsoft had any real competetion in the preinstalled OS market, they wouldn't be EOLing XP.
I doubt many XP machines will still be working two years from now.
You'd be surprised. In thirty years of computer use I've seen few hardare failures. Usually before a hard drive goes south I've replaced it because it's full and can buy one ten times as big for half the price I paid for it. Hell, I have three drives sitting on a shelf right now, I think one's only 500 mb. In all that time I've had 3 hard drive failures, two CPU failures and one power supply gone bad. But I've gone through three MS OSes (95, 98, XP) and several Linux distros (Manrdake, Mandriva, kubuntu, plus several flavors I tried and didn't like).
My laptop might still be operational but with only a Pentium 3 I doubt I'll want to continue using it.
It'll still be useful for serving files, playing MP3s, surfing most web sites, running OpenOffice or the like, playing classic PC games... Software on it when new will still run, and may not run on a new one.
Time to jump from XP to 7 which, now that they removed the bugs, is a decent OS.
Well, it's certainly a far better OS than their previous offerings, I have it on my notebook and though I plan on putting Linux on it, it still hasn't pissed me off enough to make the effort... yet.
BTW: I doubt your Linux would fit inside my desktop or laptop: They're only 1/2 and 1/3rd gig respectively
If you're talking about memory, they will. I'm running kubuntu 11.10 (the latest release, just came out a few months ago) with 2/3ds of a gig and it plays videos flawlessly. But even then, you can install an old version of Linux; I have a box someone gave me that won't run kubuntu (250meg memory), so I just installed Mandriva 2007 on it. It works fine now.
Well, these days it's a very large part of my computer use as well; I use my Linux PC mostly for radio stations (man I was glad when KSHE started streaming) and TV (Hulu and the networks' own sites, it's the only way for me to watch Big Bang Theory). But if the internet goes down I still have plenty of oggs, mp3, and movies and other shows on it. And I may not be able to surf slashdot when the internet's down, but at least I can compose a journal for when it comes back up.
Exactly the opposite of 1983 when I got on CompuServe. Very little there, most of my computing until this century (including BBSes and when I got on the net in the nineties) has been offline. Most of my data sharing until maybe 2003 or so was posting to my web sites and getting fragged playing Quake.
Almost everything I do at work is offline except for email.
You miss my point entirely. XP is an 11 year old operating system that runs on 11 year old computers. You're not going to get Win 7 or Ubuntu 11.10 to run on an 11 year old computer. So Grandma has her 11 year old computer that she only uses for email and checking the weather and stuff like that, which is still perfectly useable, except that FLAWS in its OS won't be fixed.
If there's a design defect found in a '98 Chevy, Chevy will recall the car and fix the problem. For Microsoft to not add featres to XP is fine, for them to not repair software errors is certainly NOT fine.
It's likely that the vast majority of people still running XP are corporate customers
I'm not sure about that, most people I know who have computers (and I know a lot who don't) are running XP and even 98. Hell, a guy I know just replaced his old computer with a newer one, and gave me the old one to use for parts. It's running Win 95 and has most likely been rooted and sending spam for years, thanks to Microsoft's refusal to issue updates.
I find that the strangest soiunding Americans live on the northeastern seaboard. They sound like they have speech impediments, unable to say the letter "R". Why is "Boston" pronounced "bwastin" by Bostonians?
Maybe it's because the southerners stole all the Neoo Yawkuh's Rs. "Roll down the winder, Billy Bob!"
Always felt like other fast food chains make unhealthy food their "thing," meanwhile, McDonalds gets stuck putting pictures of people doing healthy lifestyle things on all their bags.
Putting pictures of people doing healthy things on bags of unhealthy food seems more than a little hypocritical to me. I'd respect it a lot more if the pictures on the bag were of fat people watching TV and eating Big Macs.
As a mother I have but one word to say: Bullshit
FTFY, unless you live in Saudi Arabia. I was married for 27 years and have two now-grown daughters, most of my friends are parents with children, and with few exceptions the GP is right and only a woman would debate him about it.
The wife always wins the argument.
Redundant and offtopic. What's annoying me is this is the only place I know where one can have an intelligent conversation (sometimes), so there's a topic that concerns everyone, nerd and non-nerd alike, and the first of six screens contains no on-topic posts AT ALL. None. Every single comment is about whether or not the story should have been posted.
That's what has me annoyed. I wanted to discuss the damned story, not whether or not it shoule be posted. Save that crap for your journal.
Guess I just got here too late.
There may be some logic to that hypothesis, but I doubt that it's true. Can you point to a study?
AFAIK you couldn't transmit without tubes untl transistors were invented.
A "USian?" WTF is a (an?) "USian?"
It's a childish term for "American" that's used by bigoted morons who think they're smart. Morons, because there are TWO countries named the "United States." There is the United States of America, and the United States of Mexico. The American nation is on one of the two American continents, and two of the three North American countries are America and Mexico.
But it IS Nokia's fault. They should have chosen a better company to buy the OS from. Same with a computer -- I'm not Microsoft's customer, Acer is. If there's a software bug, Acer's at fault. Just like if you buy a new Ford with faulty Firestones, it's Ford's fault for choosing that brand of tyre.
We still haven't found extraforgostic life.