I don't remember who said it - Bell? Edison? But the quote is "1% inspiration and 99% perspieation". But the quote is talking about TIME, not importance.
You can slave your ass off for years, but without the idea you're not going to invent anything. You have to think "wow, I bet there's a way to use electricity to make light with" before you can invent the light bulb, even though it may take years of work to make the thing actually happen.
It's kind of like my lame journals. There isn't a new one this week; the muse has to strike. Without inspiration there's no way it's going to happen.
I don't see Google buying a company that makes operating systems and applications.
Playground scenario: Big kid says to smaller big kid "stop pickling on me you big bully".
Is cowardice a necessity when one is running a corporation? It seems bullying and cowardice are in fashion these days and kindness and bravery are out.
If this is our spies, this would seem to be a pretty boneheaded execution of tapping lines
And why are we at war in Iraq again? Didn't it have something to do with intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction that were't actually there?
If yestdrday's post was correct, 26% of.08%. Of course we're talking not just Linux here of course;)
However, as I pointed ot then, it's impossible to measure OSS use. OSS use by businesses would be pretty damned inaccurate, but wouldn't be as "out of my orifice" as desktop Linux use.
Clemons (Twain for those who like pseudonyms) spoke of three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I won't argue with that, I rip CDs to MP3s and let XMMS play them randomly, they take a whole lot less disk space. They're good enough. But I won't burn a CD from an MP3 unless that's all I have.
By the same token, back in the analog days I'd buy an LP and on the first play I'd record it to cassette, and keep the LP as pristine as possible. The cassette's quality wasn't as good as the LP it was recorded from but it was nearly as good, and good enough.
I'm not talking about what you're saying, I'm talking about how you're saying it. For example, here are two ways of saying the same thing. In Springfield, for some reason blacks don't like using the sidewalk. Maybe they've had experiences with dogs, or racists, I don't know. But there would be two ways to discuss it.
Way 1: "I wish black people would use the sidewalk and look before they cross the street, I'm afraid I'll hit someone some day."
Way 2: God damned niggers better get the fuck out of my way beefore I run 'em over.
Both statements say exactly the same thing. One is flamebait (or in this town, bulletbait) and one is not.
That's an internet myth. There was a British fellow named Niel Harriot (although his real name may have been Janet) who ran a site called Yello There, a parody of Blue's News. I ran a site called the Springfield Fragfest, and we were fans of each others' sites (I found out after posting something silly about his site).
He suffered from a terminal disease and I lost track of him, I don't think (s?)he breathes any more. The only reference I can find of Niel or his site is one page of it, in archive.org's "wayback machine", and that's one I posted at my site. Not all of it is there, either; I couldn't find the post where I had Nacho's pet shambler pissing on the carpet.
I wish I'd archived his stuff, it was hilarious. Especially one where he had my grandmother living under his crawlspace... the old Quake crowd was a lot wilder than even my Paxil Diaries or slashdot whore journals.
But stuff on the internet does disappear, especially the stuff you don't want to disappear.
don't people have some idea that they will try to have a future out there?
I have no future, I retire soon, I really don't care what anybody thinks at this point.
-mcgrew
The last two journals aren't my normal reefer, drink, and whore journals, sorry.
Because I've said it many times before here at slashdot, if you Google somebody and Google says they're a terrorist child molesting copyright infringer, you're setting yourself up for a slander/lible suit.
Anyone who's ever managed a database of any size at all knows that a name is an incredibly bad identifier. Especially a name like scuttlemonkey or FuzzyDaddy. There were six people on the internet in 1997 with my name, one of whom is a semi-famous comedian who's been on Comedy central.
I'm not him. Im not the Canadian guy, either. This subject has been brought up at slashdot before, and I challenged people to identify me. Every time, some poor sod in Canada gets his home phone number and address posted at slashdot! And that after the Paxil Diaries, where my city was posted.
Of course, now with the whoremonger journals you would probably guess me, but I'm the exception. You're going to google for John Connor and find out that he's "terminator3000"? Not very damned likely.
You think you're going to find DelRoy Johnson in Chicago? Yeah you'll find him, all thousand of him.
Oh, and if by chance I get fired before I can retire and look for work, I'm a fine upstanding law abiding citizen who doesn't hire whores or smoke pot and my journals are all fiction;)
Mr. Beckerman's blog isn't slashdotted, and for a non-lawyer like me it's far more interesting than some legal stuff that I don't have the training to understand.
If you isten to the KISS vinyl album with the song "Mister Speed" on it (the album cover just says "kiss") you can hear bleedthrough on the master tape on one tune, and if you listen to the first Aerosmith album on vinyl you can hear tape hiss. Pink Floyd fired their first label for that kind of crap!
But if you make a CD of Led Zeppelin's "Presence" or Boston's first vinyl albums with a good enough turntable, your home made CD will have more dynamic range and better frequency response than the store-bought CD.
Isn't the Music And Film Association of America originally from Italy? Wasn't it spun off from the Los Angeles Cinema Organization Screen Association / National Orginization Screening Reserve Association?
No audiophile needed, nor any rediculously priced cables.
I've made mix CDs for my car. Some of the tunes are 320 bit rate MP3s my daughter got somewhere (don't ask, don't tell) and some are straight bit for bit copies from the CD. It's a good six speaker system, but far from audiophile. And at 55 years old I hardly have "golden ears". But I can hear the difference between the MP3s and the straight CD rips.
Now with your typical two little speakers and a "subwoofer" (we used to have bigger woofers, in fact my old non-audiophile JBLs have bigger woofers than what they now call "subs") you kids are using now, you may well not hear the difference.
If you have a good car stereo, try this: Take your best factory CD and rip every other song to wav and every other song to MP3. Then burn a copy from those rips. You'll hear what I mean, especially since your ears are probably a lot better than mine.
In related news, last decade the US Congress mistakenly passed the DMCA.
In other related news, Springfield's paper is reporting (DOH!) that "Two men were caught Wednesday night with hundreds of DVDs and compact discs, packaged for illegal resale, inside their car... A police report indicated one of the men was arrested; however, a check of jail records showed he was not booked in."
Good thing those guys were just selling 500 bootleg DVDs and 500 bootleg CDs. If they'd ripped them to (degraded) MP3 and posted them for free on the internet, lets do the math here at $100,000.00 per track...
You do realise that most Linux users have their browsers set to report that they're IE on Windows for the idiots who redirect any other combo to a "upgrade to internet explorer".
You're only counting those few who don't have your browser lie. Right now Firefox is reporting that I'm using IE6 on XP. Your stats are meaningless.
I would imagine that if I've given away/installed half dozen copies that every other nerd has as well. Multiply my half dozen by 3/4th os slashdotters and you have serious numbers.
Bit the point of the comment was that there is no way whatever to measure Lunix penetration.
Excellent point. Ten years ago networking speeds were only 1/10th what they are now. Internet speeds have gotten to the point that the bottleneck is server load rather than the connection speed.
Plus, you're already dependant on your LAN server, would you want your business dependant on your ISP if it's not absolutely necessary? You can swap a dead server out pretty quickly, but with your ISP you're powerless, except to find another. Much slower than swapping a server out.
Nothing illustrates the fact that a comment is flamebait like a good hearty "fuck off, asshole". It worked, the comment I responded to was eventually modded flamebait, as it should have been originally.
If you disagree with my views or beliefs, you should respond intelligently, as you just did, rather than hurl insults like some seventh grade jock picking on a nerd for his taped glasses.
Of course, my own comment was modded "troll" but no big deal. My karma can take a downmodding. How's yours?
The "percentage of website users that are running Linux" is meaningless too, as many or maybe even most are having Firefox or Konqueror report to the server that it's IE on Windows, jusr for the websites written by idiots that redirect to a page that says "you must use IE", or are using WINE.
It's foolish to have your browser report that you're running Linux, and few GNU users are fools.
Annoying to be called out as the credulous fool that you are, isn't it.
I take it you haven't read my journals, Mr. Coward. I know I'm a fool. I'm not very credulous, even though if there's a doubt to give someone the benefit of they get it.
Don't worry, you can't still cry on you invisible friend's shoulder.
First, there's no crying, there's only scolding you children. Where do you get this "invisible" nonsense? Arguing with you athiests about the existance of God is like arguing with a man blind from birth about the existance of the color red.
Meanwhile, us grownups who no longer need invisible friends will be over here having a grown-up conversation.
What grown up conversation? Taunts like I responded to are the domain of the fifth grader, son. Before you try to remove the speck from my eye, you might want to remove the log from your own.
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I don't remember who said it - Bell? Edison? But the quote is "1% inspiration and 99% perspieation". But the quote is talking about TIME, not importance.
You can slave your ass off for years, but without the idea you're not going to invent anything. You have to think "wow, I bet there's a way to use electricity to make light with" before you can invent the light bulb, even though it may take years of work to make the thing actually happen.
It's kind of like my lame journals. There isn't a new one this week; the muse has to strike. Without inspiration there's no way it's going to happen.
-mcgrew
I don't see Google buying a company that makes operating systems and applications.
Playground scenario: Big kid says to smaller big kid "stop pickling on me you big bully".
Is cowardice a necessity when one is running a corporation? It seems bullying and cowardice are in fashion these days and kindness and bravery are out.
-mcgrew
PS- sorry guys, I'm in a bad mood today
If this is our spies, this would seem to be a pretty boneheaded execution of tapping lines
And why are we at war in Iraq again? Didn't it have something to do with intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction that were't actually there?
Incompetence, like competence, starts at the top.
If yestdrday's post was correct, 26% of .08%. Of course we're talking not just Linux here of course ;)
However, as I pointed ot then, it's impossible to measure OSS use. OSS use by businesses would be pretty damned inaccurate, but wouldn't be as "out of my orifice" as desktop Linux use.
Clemons (Twain for those who like pseudonyms) spoke of three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
That's a good point. I do know where one of them came from; it was ripped straight from the CD before the CD got ruined.
tastes like a rainbow, stings like a bee
I won't argue with that, I rip CDs to MP3s and let XMMS play them randomly, they take a whole lot less disk space. They're good enough. But I won't burn a CD from an MP3 unless that's all I have.
By the same token, back in the analog days I'd buy an LP and on the first play I'd record it to cassette, and keep the LP as pristine as possible. The cassette's quality wasn't as good as the LP it was recorded from but it was nearly as good, and good enough.
I'm not talking about what you're saying, I'm talking about how you're saying it. For example, here are two ways of saying the same thing. In Springfield, for some reason blacks don't like using the sidewalk. Maybe they've had experiences with dogs, or racists, I don't know. But there would be two ways to discuss it.
Way 1: "I wish black people would use the sidewalk and look before they cross the street, I'm afraid I'll hit someone some day."
Way 2: God damned niggers better get the fuck out of my way beefore I run 'em over.
Both statements say exactly the same thing. One is flamebait (or in this town, bulletbait) and one is not.
Where are mod points when I need them? The parent was informative. Now THIS comment is offtopic.
Modding myself down by leaving the "no karma bonus" box checked
publishing it for eternity?
That's an internet myth. There was a British fellow named Niel Harriot (although his real name may have been Janet) who ran a site called Yello There, a parody of Blue's News. I ran a site called the Springfield Fragfest, and we were fans of each others' sites (I found out after posting something silly about his site).
He suffered from a terminal disease and I lost track of him, I don't think (s?)he breathes any more. The only reference I can find of Niel or his site is one page of it, in archive.org's "wayback machine", and that's one I posted at my site. Not all of it is there, either; I couldn't find the post where I had Nacho's pet shambler pissing on the carpet.
I wish I'd archived his stuff, it was hilarious. Especially one where he had my grandmother living under his crawlspace... the old Quake crowd was a lot wilder than even my Paxil Diaries or slashdot whore journals.
But stuff on the internet does disappear, especially the stuff you don't want to disappear.
don't people have some idea that they will try to have a future out there?
I have no future, I retire soon, I really don't care what anybody thinks at this point.
-mcgrew
The last two journals aren't my normal reefer, drink, and whore journals, sorry.
Because I've said it many times before here at slashdot, if you Google somebody and Google says they're a terrorist child molesting copyright infringer, you're setting yourself up for a slander/lible suit.
;)
Anyone who's ever managed a database of any size at all knows that a name is an incredibly bad identifier. Especially a name like scuttlemonkey or FuzzyDaddy. There were six people on the internet in 1997 with my name, one of whom is a semi-famous comedian who's been on Comedy central.
I'm not him. Im not the Canadian guy, either. This subject has been brought up at slashdot before, and I challenged people to identify me. Every time, some poor sod in Canada gets his home phone number and address posted at slashdot! And that after the Paxil Diaries, where my city was posted.
Of course, now with the whoremonger journals you would probably guess me, but I'm the exception. You're going to google for John Connor and find out that he's "terminator3000"? Not very damned likely.
You think you're going to find DelRoy Johnson in Chicago? Yeah you'll find him, all thousand of him.
Oh, and if by chance I get fired before I can retire and look for work, I'm a fine upstanding law abiding citizen who doesn't hire whores or smoke pot and my journals are all fiction
-anonymous coward
(ok not really, you know who I am)
Mr. Beckerman's blog isn't slashdotted, and for a non-lawyer like me it's far more interesting than some legal stuff that I don't have the training to understand.
"This is very similar to the way that butterflies get the color in their wings."
It's even more similar to the way CDs have rainbows on them.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but this will last about as long as the shenanigans in France a few years ago.
I thought the Irish had a monopoly on shenanigans? Don't the French have their own silly word?
I already have CDs like that. And oddly (ok not that odd), the MP3s actually make the pops louder.
If you isten to the KISS vinyl album with the song "Mister Speed" on it (the album cover just says "kiss") you can hear bleedthrough on the master tape on one tune, and if you listen to the first Aerosmith album on vinyl you can hear tape hiss. Pink Floyd fired their first label for that kind of crap!
But if you make a CD of Led Zeppelin's "Presence" or Boston's first vinyl albums with a good enough turntable, your home made CD will have more dynamic range and better frequency response than the store-bought CD.
-mcgrew
Isn't the Music And Film Association of America originally from Italy? Wasn't it spun off from the Los Angeles Cinema Organization Screen Association / National Orginization Screening Reserve Association?
No audiophile needed, nor any rediculously priced cables.
I've made mix CDs for my car. Some of the tunes are 320 bit rate MP3s my daughter got somewhere (don't ask, don't tell) and some are straight bit for bit copies from the CD. It's a good six speaker system, but far from audiophile. And at 55 years old I hardly have "golden ears". But I can hear the difference between the MP3s and the straight CD rips.
Now with your typical two little speakers and a "subwoofer" (we used to have bigger woofers, in fact my old non-audiophile JBLs have bigger woofers than what they now call "subs") you kids are using now, you may well not hear the difference.
If you have a good car stereo, try this: Take your best factory CD and rip every other song to wav and every other song to MP3. Then burn a copy from those rips. You'll hear what I mean, especially since your ears are probably a lot better than mine.
In related news, last decade the US Congress mistakenly passed the DMCA.
In other related news, Springfield's paper is reporting (DOH!) that "Two men were caught Wednesday night with hundreds of DVDs and compact discs, packaged for illegal resale, inside their car... A police report indicated one of the men was arrested; however, a check of jail records showed he was not booked in."
Good thing those guys were just selling 500 bootleg DVDs and 500 bootleg CDs. If they'd ripped them to (degraded) MP3 and posted them for free on the internet, lets do the math here at $100,000.00 per track...
Glad to see that your unfortunate flamebait was a fluke.
You do realise that most Linux users have their browsers set to report that they're IE on Windows for the idiots who redirect any other combo to a "upgrade to internet explorer".
You're only counting those few who don't have your browser lie. Right now Firefox is reporting that I'm using IE6 on XP. Your stats are meaningless.
I would imagine that if I've given away/installed half dozen copies that every other nerd has as well. Multiply my half dozen by 3/4th os slashdotters and you have serious numbers.
Bit the point of the comment was that there is no way whatever to measure Lunix penetration.
Excellent point. Ten years ago networking speeds were only 1/10th what they are now. Internet speeds have gotten to the point that the bottleneck is server load rather than the connection speed.
Plus, you're already dependant on your LAN server, would you want your business dependant on your ISP if it's not absolutely necessary? You can swap a dead server out pretty quickly, but with your ISP you're powerless, except to find another. Much slower than swapping a server out.
Nothing illustrates the fact that a comment is flamebait like a good hearty "fuck off, asshole". It worked, the comment I responded to was eventually modded flamebait, as it should have been originally.
If you disagree with my views or beliefs, you should respond intelligently, as you just did, rather than hurl insults like some seventh grade jock picking on a nerd for his taped glasses.
Of course, my own comment was modded "troll" but no big deal. My karma can take a downmodding. How's yours?
The "percentage of website users that are running Linux" is meaningless too, as many or maybe even most are having Firefox or Konqueror report to the server that it's IE on Windows, jusr for the websites written by idiots that redirect to a page that says "you must use IE", or are using WINE.
It's foolish to have your browser report that you're running Linux, and few GNU users are fools.
Annoying to be called out as the credulous fool that you are, isn't it.
I take it you haven't read my journals, Mr. Coward. I know I'm a fool. I'm not very credulous, even though if there's a doubt to give someone the benefit of they get it.
Don't worry, you can't still cry on you invisible friend's shoulder.
First, there's no crying, there's only scolding you children. Where do you get this "invisible" nonsense? Arguing with you athiests about the existance of God is like arguing with a man blind from birth about the existance of the color red.
Meanwhile, us grownups who no longer need invisible friends will be over here having a grown-up conversation.
What grown up conversation? Taunts like I responded to are the domain of the fifth grader, son. Before you try to remove the speck from my eye, you might want to remove the log from your own.