You're falling into the trap that the people who own the handful of big servers who sponsor and control virtually ALL of the 'social networking' want you to fall into.
Not that a comment here will matter. So many people here on Slashdot are either henchmen for said server operators, or duped True Believers of the 'social networking' ideology that it won't matter.
A full 24-bit digital recording studio that beats anything that was available to Pink Floyd, The Beatles, or Zeppelin will cost you only a few hundred dollars these days.
That is an incredibly deluded techie way of looking at it. You are talking about the software and the bit of A/D conversion hardware needed, correct?
Good microphones still cost many thousands. And a well designed sound proof facility to use all of the above in costs much, much more.
You sound like my friend with his midi gear. He used to carry on about 'dispensing with all the musicians' because they were obsolete.
The thing is, you have to acknowledge the value that marketers find in lists of said people.
You know, those late night infomercials that present ludicrous offers of health cures and financial 'fixes' that could never really exist? The purpose of them is for building lists of gullible suckers. Once a shyster has a good long list of the people who actually believe they need to 'phone within the next 30 minutes to get this incredible deal' they have a goldmine of suckers to rip off.
The Facebook demographic is a goldmine for the kind of rip-off artists who are it's customers (the rip-off operators who advertise and sell on it.)
All I know is that real mortar-and-brick stores in my area, and I am way out in the sticks, have 'See Us On Facebook' stickers on their windows. Trashy women's clothing stores, etc. And the former AOL crowd has moved to FB as well.
They didn't even used to display the UID number after our names on comments. That only happened after people started fake Bruce Perens accounts to stir up trouble.
Some of us lose interest and throw away our Slashdot accounts from time to time. Then have to sign up again. I worry about anybody who has clung to their old, old UID and wears it like a badge of honor.
Windows NT ran on the cross-platform PowerPC Reference Platform, or PREP. So it ran well on various IBM Power PC boxes. Apple at that time was still dancing their proprietary dance. Some of the Mac clones were more hopeful.
I ran Windows NT 4.0 on an IBM PowerPC box. But it was an exercise in 'just because.' There were zero third party apps for it. It made a nice solitare desktop box, or you could use it as a Server.
Trains and planes are often kept going for 30+ years, for example.
In the case of the planes (and probably the trains as well) the airframe may be 30+ years old, but there is a constant process of renewal and update. This is necessary in long term technical infrastructure. I'm sure that occurs to a degree with Nuclear Power Plants as well. But it's not done in as nearly reasonable a manner as is necessary, or some plants would be shut down, others upgraded, etc.
Instead, we have shriek fests, with the flames fanned by ignorant scaremongers on one side, and profit-driven industry shills on the opposing side.
You want people to trust nuclear power. You want people to believe nuclear power is a safe energy source. Then offer constructive suggestions to fix the problem. Admit there were problems with oversight, safety and design and work to fix those issues.
Acknowledging that we probably won't be building further nuclear plants based on the old 1970's designs would be honest of you.
Internet Explorer was a retail box purchase as an add-on to Windows 95 for quite a while. IE 4.0 was sort of an 'upgrade' of Windows 95 and added the Active Desktop stuff like the quick launch area on the toolbar. Installing IE 4.0 is still the only way to get those enhancements to stock Windows 95, because IE 5.0 doesn't bundle that stuff.
Actually, they started out copying what AOL was doing. That was their intent from the beginning.
It was far from a certainty that the Internet and the World Wide Web would blow widely open as it did, back in 1994 and 1995 when Microsoft was developing the Microsoft Network (MSN). A large customer base continued to use AOL and similar 'online services' up until the turn of the century, actually.
With the advent of OSX, the Enter key has become less important, and has almost become a second Return, but it used to function as a kind of "accept data" command under classic MacOS.
Is there a key sequence to tell OSX to shut down all processes except the one you are presently running? So it can act more like classic MacOS?
LabView is like the 555 timer chip. Anybody who can do intelligent electronic design knows you don't use a fricking 555 timer chip. It's a 50 cent part that has 'issues', and you can use a 2 cent dual op-amp to accomplish as much, or more if you know anything at all about linear circuit design.
But people whose expertise is not analog circuit design who are familair with the 555 timer chip can whip something up and make it work easily using it.
LabView is like that, too. It's a popular turnkey system, and you can send your flunkey lab tech to a course for it and have them come back and use it to do data acqusition.
I remember always picking one of the useless fucks from the back of the classroom to be my lab partner, because they would then stay the hell out of the way.
You do the equivalent of 'creating a transistor' in your physics labs. Then you progress to the course where you build a flip-flop circuit. After that you might start to be taught design at the level of logic modules, TTL gates, etc.
It doesn't really even have to be a linear progression. But your understanding does need to 'flesh out' so that you eventually can grasp the issue all the way down to the electrons.
Well, no, it doesn't. There is a huge need for Telephone Sanitizers and always will be. Just not on my space ship, please.
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Social networking is all the promotion you need.
You're falling into the trap that the people who own the handful of big servers who sponsor and control virtually ALL of the 'social networking' want you to fall into.
Not that a comment here will matter. So many people here on Slashdot are either henchmen for said server operators, or duped True Believers of the 'social networking' ideology that it won't matter.
When the lead-in into every paragraph in a comment is 'wrong' or 'correct' it means somebody is not participating in a discussion.
Don't blather on about shills, dude. GP had a point and you just papered it over with the usual cliches.
No.
What's making real music suffer is assumptions by people like you that it comes from storefront operations. Of any size or scale.
People make music. Full stop.
A full 24-bit digital recording studio that beats anything that was available to Pink Floyd, The Beatles, or Zeppelin will cost you only a few hundred dollars these days.
That is an incredibly deluded techie way of looking at it. You are talking about the software and the bit of A/D conversion hardware needed, correct?
Good microphones still cost many thousands. And a well designed sound proof facility to use all of the above in costs much, much more.
You sound like my friend with his midi gear. He used to carry on about 'dispensing with all the musicians' because they were obsolete.
Uh, wrong.
The thing is, you have to acknowledge the value that marketers find in lists of said people.
You know, those late night infomercials that present ludicrous offers of health cures and financial 'fixes' that could never really exist? The purpose of them is for building lists of gullible suckers. Once a shyster has a good long list of the people who actually believe they need to 'phone within the next 30 minutes to get this incredible deal' they have a goldmine of suckers to rip off.
The Facebook demographic is a goldmine for the kind of rip-off artists who are it's customers (the rip-off operators who advertise and sell on it.)
All I know is that real mortar-and-brick stores in my area, and I am way out in the sticks, have 'See Us On Facebook' stickers on their windows. Trashy women's clothing stores, etc. And the former AOL crowd has moved to FB as well.
There's a lot of money to be made herding sheep.
They didn't even used to display the UID number after our names on comments. That only happened after people started fake Bruce Perens accounts to stir up trouble.
Some of us lose interest and throw away our Slashdot accounts from time to time. Then have to sign up again. I worry about anybody who has clung to their old, old UID and wears it like a badge of honor.
Slashdot used to be for the nerds.
They've been crowded out by the IT crowd.
I've seen threads where people ASSUME you're part of the IT profession if you have any presence here on Slashdot.
I consider 'IT' people as data janitors. Electronic File clerks.
Now go change the fucking toner in the LJet4 over in accounting.
Windows NT ran on the cross-platform PowerPC Reference Platform, or PREP. So it ran well on various IBM Power PC boxes. Apple at that time was still dancing their proprietary dance. Some of the Mac clones were more hopeful.
I ran Windows NT 4.0 on an IBM PowerPC box. But it was an exercise in 'just because.' There were zero third party apps for it. It made a nice solitare desktop box, or you could use it as a Server.
I'd hardly call 'online access' the sum of human knowledge.
It's just a big hodge-podge collection of part of the data.
Trains and planes are often kept going for 30+ years, for example.
In the case of the planes (and probably the trains as well) the airframe may be 30+ years old, but there is a constant process of renewal and update. This is necessary in long term technical infrastructure. I'm sure that occurs to a degree with Nuclear Power Plants as well. But it's not done in as nearly reasonable a manner as is necessary, or some plants would be shut down, others upgraded, etc.
Instead, we have shriek fests, with the flames fanned by ignorant scaremongers on one side, and profit-driven industry shills on the opposing side.
It's a political problem, not a technical one.
It's politically toxic to allow fuel reprocessing. Without fuel reprocessing, the spent fuel rods just sit there waiting in a queue in their pools.
Acknowledging that we probably won't be building further nuclear plants based on the old 1970's designs would be honest of you.
I know, I know....
Linus at the time was a native Swedish speaker. Part of a sizable minority of Swedish speakers in Finland.
So to answer your question, it would have been a pretty awkwardly commented tarball.
Google is, fundamentally, an advertising company.
They get their revenue from advertising. And from 'advanced demographic analysis services' that they sell to advertisers.
It's weird, because we used to despise that crap in the nerd/geek scene. Seems like a new crowd has arrived.
You said you like it when whom sticks their nose in your 'business'?? I am now confused.
What these 'gay parts of town' usually are without is families and children. An all-adult environment is, well... kinda sterile.
Does it have a touch screen?
Internet Explorer was a retail box purchase as an add-on to Windows 95 for quite a while. IE 4.0 was sort of an 'upgrade' of Windows 95 and added the Active Desktop stuff like the quick launch area on the toolbar. Installing IE 4.0 is still the only way to get those enhancements to stock Windows 95, because IE 5.0 doesn't bundle that stuff.
Actually, they started out copying what AOL was doing. That was their intent from the beginning.
It was far from a certainty that the Internet and the World Wide Web would blow widely open as it did, back in 1994 and 1995 when Microsoft was developing the Microsoft Network (MSN). A large customer base continued to use AOL and similar 'online services' up until the turn of the century, actually.
With the advent of OSX, the Enter key has become less important, and has almost become a second Return, but it used to function as a kind of "accept data" command under classic MacOS.
Is there a key sequence to tell OSX to shut down all processes except the one you are presently running? So it can act more like classic MacOS?
Real languages aren't single-sourced.
LabView is like the 555 timer chip. Anybody who can do intelligent electronic design knows you don't use a fricking 555 timer chip. It's a 50 cent part that has 'issues', and you can use a 2 cent dual op-amp to accomplish as much, or more if you know anything at all about linear circuit design.
But people whose expertise is not analog circuit design who are familair with the 555 timer chip can whip something up and make it work easily using it.
LabView is like that, too. It's a popular turnkey system, and you can send your flunkey lab tech to a course for it and have them come back and use it to do data acqusition.
I remember always picking one of the useless fucks from the back of the classroom to be my lab partner, because they would then stay the hell out of the way.
You do the equivalent of 'creating a transistor' in your physics labs. Then you progress to the course where you build a flip-flop circuit. After that you might start to be taught design at the level of logic modules, TTL gates, etc.
It doesn't really even have to be a linear progression. But your understanding does need to 'flesh out' so that you eventually can grasp the issue all the way down to the electrons.
Well, no, it doesn't. There is a huge need for Telephone Sanitizers and always will be. Just not on my space ship, please.
Definitely. There is always a need for more worker ants. More people in production than in design.
If that's what you choose as your role, all power to you.