If you sell an album to every tech-savvy american, your sales will be lower than if you sell to every non-techie american. Ergo, techie-friendly artists (if that tech-friendliness comes at the expense of generic popularity) will not sell as much as britney $pear$
"A supertanker has crashed off the shores of San Francisco, producing the largest oil spill in history. Desperate to avert an ecological--and public relations--disaster, a multinational oil company releases an untested virus designed to break up the spill. A virus that spreads like wildfire on the wind, destroying anything made of petroleum-destroying gasoline in automobile tanks, plastic, nylon, the very fabric of modern civilization itself."
-Summary of Ill Wind, by Kevin J Anderson. One of my favorite post apocalyptic science fiction novels. Awesome read. Coolest part is that most guns can now fire exactly once, if they were already loaded, because the lubricant inside has turned to glue.
When did it jump? I think I know, but everyone agrees it's happened already.
As soon as I saw the episode where Marge is kidnapped by a biker gang, I said "This is so incredibly forced and predictable. They're not trying any more. I bet this show ends soon." I got 2 out of 3.
I have a friend named "Annie" who got an e-mail from an old friend "Johnathan Archer" which was actually sent by my friend "Tiffany"'s Klez-infected computer. Annie and Tiffany are from different towns, and Johnathan doesn't live near either of them. It's just a random example of the six-degrees rule of thumb. Neat, huh? We checked, it really is the same guy.
DeCSS *IS* used for lots of DVD pirating. Just not through garages full of burners. And the article says that lots of the DVDs weren't released on DVD yet anyway, which means they were just a bunch of guys using Cams or Screeners from the 'net and burning them onto DVD. Lets face it, DVDs are incredibly easy to rip, and movies are even easier to rip without ever even touching the DVD format, thanks to the internet. What the MPAA needs to do is... Well, I don't know. There aren't any simple answers!
that once you get your doctorate, nobody much cares about how you do things. This woman with a PHD (for cryin' out loud!) just watched several kids play gameboy and use the AOL messenger feature on their phones! "In her research, Plant noticed that while those less used to mobile phones used one or several fingers to access the keypad, younger people used both thumbs ambidextrously, barely looking at the keys as they made rapid entries. "
Right, people in her "random sample" made rapid entries. She just grabbed a bunch of teens from the mall and said "wanna co-author a major government funded research project?"
Then she said "um... looks like the generation born in frickin' 1980 is mutating, ala X-men. I wanna be the one with laser eyes! I wanna be the one with laser eyes! Wheee!!!!"
http://remix.overclocked.org/ They have some non-traditional remixes, too. Check out "Zelda, Music of My Groin". "Samba de Agua" is pretty awesome too.
I once made a series of posters like what this is discussing. Trademarked images from dead companies, thrown together in as morbid a way as possible.... Not an original idea, but definitely one with a rich pool to draw from right now. I wish I'd started a failed dot.com, just so I'd have something to contribute when the conversation started turning inevitably towards the topic.
I live in Dallas Texas. I was the team leader at our high school in the '97 competition. The robot is now parked in my garage, sans thousand dollar remote control. We rigged up some controls on a tether, and it wouldn't take much imagination to make it remote controlled again. This was the "Toroid Terror" year, so the 'bot has a claw on an extension pole, extends to be about ten feet high, collapses to be about three feet high. Ours was the "General Lee, team 183". Decorations and plexi-panels are all still there, looks great except for the dust. The best offer will be accepted. Email cknox at tamu dot edu if interested.
Am I the only one who thinks Bush deserves to win? He may form sentences poorly from time to time, but he really is a good person. Yeah, he has a few silly mistakes in his past, but he's always been up front about them, even if he didn't enumerate them like Gore apparently wants.
The thing is, Gore is a blatant liar. I don't even mind the fact that a candidate lies so much, but Gore doesn't even do it cleverly! I think we can all just let that "I invented the Internet" line slip by, but it's not even close to being his only fib.
Nader is semi-cool, but if you don't believe in every single one of his ultra radical opinions, it's your duty to vote for bush.
You people make it sound like this whole election is a massive heroic effort to keep Satan from coming to office. I wonder how many posters to slashdot have directly received funds from Gore's campaign?
Actually, I have a friend in Hollywood whotold me that the original title of the movie was going to be "Uh oh", after the common ICQ sound effect, except that AOL offered 5.7 million if they would help give them some GOOD press for a change.
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If you sell an album to every tech-savvy american, your sales will be lower than if you sell to every non-techie american. Ergo, techie-friendly artists (if that tech-friendliness comes at the expense of generic popularity) will not sell as much as britney $pear$
"A supertanker has crashed off the shores of San Francisco, producing the largest oil spill in history. Desperate to avert an ecological--and public relations--disaster, a multinational oil company releases an untested virus designed to break up the spill. A virus that spreads like wildfire on the wind, destroying anything made of petroleum-destroying gasoline in automobile tanks, plastic, nylon, the very fabric of modern civilization itself."
-Summary of Ill Wind, by Kevin J Anderson.
One of my favorite post apocalyptic science fiction novels. Awesome read. Coolest part is that most guns can now fire exactly once, if they were already loaded, because the lubricant inside has turned to glue.
When did it jump? I think I know, but everyone agrees it's happened already.
As soon as I saw the episode where Marge is
kidnapped by a biker gang, I said "This is so
incredibly forced and predictable. They're not
trying any more. I bet this show ends soon."
I got 2 out of 3.
I have a friend named "Annie" who got an e-mail from an old friend "Johnathan Archer" which was actually sent by my friend "Tiffany"'s Klez-infected computer. Annie and Tiffany are from different towns, and Johnathan doesn't live near either of them. It's just a random example of the six-degrees rule of thumb. Neat, huh? We checked, it really is the same guy.
DeCSS *IS* used for lots of DVD pirating. Just not through garages full of burners. And the article says that lots of the DVDs weren't released on DVD yet anyway, which means they were just a bunch of guys using Cams or Screeners from the 'net and burning them onto DVD. Lets face it, DVDs are incredibly easy to rip, and movies are even easier to rip without ever even touching the DVD format, thanks to the internet. What the MPAA needs to do is... Well, I don't know. There aren't any simple answers!
that once you get your doctorate, nobody much cares about how you do things. This woman with a PHD (for cryin' out loud!) just watched several kids play gameboy and use the AOL messenger feature on their phones!
"In her research, Plant noticed that while those less used to mobile phones used one or several fingers to access the keypad, younger people used both thumbs ambidextrously, barely looking at the keys as they made rapid entries. "
Right, people in her "random sample" made rapid entries. She just grabbed a bunch of teens from the mall and said "wanna co-author a major government funded research project?"
Then she said "um... looks like the generation born in frickin' 1980 is mutating, ala X-men. I wanna be the one with laser eyes! I wanna be the one with laser eyes! Wheee!!!!"
http://remix.overclocked.org/
They have some non-traditional
remixes, too. Check out
"Zelda, Music of My Groin".
"Samba de Agua" is pretty awesome
too.
I once made a series of posters like what this is discussing. Trademarked images from dead companies, thrown together in as morbid a way as possible....
Not an original idea, but definitely one with a rich pool to draw from right now.
I wish I'd started a failed dot.com, just so I'd have something to contribute when the conversation started turning inevitably towards the topic.
I live in Dallas Texas. I was the team leader at our high school in the '97 competition. The robot is now parked in my garage, sans thousand dollar remote control. We rigged up some controls on a tether, and it wouldn't take much imagination to make it remote controlled again. This was the "Toroid Terror" year, so the 'bot has a claw on an extension pole, extends to be about ten feet high, collapses to be about three feet high. Ours was the "General Lee, team 183". Decorations and plexi-panels are all still there, looks great except for the dust. The best offer will be accepted. Email cknox at tamu dot edu if interested.
Am I the only one who thinks Bush deserves to win? He may form sentences poorly from time to time, but he really is a good person. Yeah, he has a few silly mistakes in his past, but he's always been up front about them, even if he didn't enumerate them like Gore apparently wants.
The thing is, Gore is a blatant liar. I don't even mind the fact that a candidate lies so much, but Gore doesn't even do it cleverly! I think we can all just let that "I invented the Internet" line slip by, but it's not even close to being his only fib.
Nader is semi-cool, but if you don't believe in every single one of his ultra radical opinions, it's your duty to vote for bush.
You people make it sound like this whole election is a massive heroic effort to keep Satan from coming to office. I wonder how many posters to slashdot have directly received funds from Gore's campaign?
Actually, I have a friend in Hollywood whotold me that the original title of the movie was going to be "Uh oh", after the common ICQ sound effect, except that AOL offered 5.7 million if they would help give them some GOOD press for a change.